Party Animals

"They're not mindless, but at the same time they are. They are taken into these... Party Centers, as they're called. Normal people are taken into these factories and they are warped. Twisted. Changed. The go in normal and come out as one of these. I don't know what all is done but what I have been able to find out is that they change their brains somehow. It's so far been proven impossible to capture them as when they lose connection to ... whatever it is that controls them their heads explode or their brains melt through their nose. We've never been able to gather either a live Party Animal and if we did, they didn't stay alive long enough to have a look inside." - Casina explaining to Angela about what Party Animals wereParty Animals are a special type of shock trooper used by The Party God. They are as varied in their size, gender and make up as would any normal human be making it so that they fit in with crowds and are frequently on the party scene. That's where the similarities end though. Party Animals are used as enforcers, shock troopers, bouncers or any other number of tasks involving manpower. The Party Animals do not think, they do not have wills of their own. They exist to serve the Party God's commands through his enforcers, the Paradene.
The Party Animals, while almost impossible to tell apart from regular people at first glance can be spotted if one knows what to look for. Typical signs of someone being a party animal are the thousand-yard stare, lackadaisical facial expressions, statuesque stance, inability to communicate or understand what someone is saying to them, calculated movements, hyper aggression and perfectly uniform reactions. While this normally wouldn't pose an issue, it's what happens when the Paradene "flip the switch" so to speak that makes them truly dangerous.
At any time, the Party Coordinators, which are the main Paradene operatives, can setup a portable music hub from the rigs on their chest which links into all nearby PA speaker systems to pump out music that activates cyberware receptors in the brains of Party Animals which releases hormones such as those that control pleasure, and aggression. After flooding their brains with these hormones they become addicted to the anticipation and thrill of combat and the more they perform the more dopamine they're given. The Party Coordinators can change the treble, bass and other aspects of the music they play in order to get different responses from the Party Animals. While it's borderline impossible to talk to a Party Animal they can be controlled with music and specific waves of sound. What little that could be gathered about it so far seems to indicate the heavy bass releases hormones that cause Party Animals to go berserk.
While the heads can't be examined, the bodies of Party Animals can be examined. What this means is that ripperdocs like Casina were able to get an insight into what all is done to them. Their whole body is cybernetically augmented. They have augmented joints that allow for far superior ranges of motion and stress resistance, they have augmented circulator systems with artificial pumps added in order to speed up blood flow through the body without causing the heart to kill itself trying to pump blood where it's needed during frenzies. Their skeletons are highly augmented with titanium which greatly increases not only their resistance to bullets but makes them almost invulnerable to physical damage. These augmented skeletons also allow them to carry much greater weight than normal people. They also have added pain dampeners that release nociceptor blockers to basically allow Party Animals to absorb tremendous amounts of punishment without succumbing to shock or without retreating. Party Animals also have other arrays of cyberware, these are just the most common.
Party Animals fear nothing. They do not run from combat or disobey orders. Their presence alone is enough to deter most people from acting out of turn because normally when there are Party Animals around, there are Paradene around and Paradene are the ones who also create the Party Animals. Give the Paradene a reason and anyone can be snatched and changed into a Party Animal.
The Cyberware used in Party Animals is not cheap. It isn't uncommon for ripperdocs to hire out mercs to go to recent battlezones to see if bodies of Party Animals can be found so that they can extract the cyberware pieces that are still intact. While Casina is studying the bodies for other purposes, she too also employs this practice and a number of the cyberware pieces she retrieved from Party Animals are in use with the Party Crashers.
== Reverse The Change ==
Until Casina took up the task, no one really knew how to tackle the Party Animal issue. A vast majority of ripperdocs tend to stay neutral in fear of having their businesses raided and shut down with perhaps them too being turned into Party Animals or forced to work for the Paradene but Casina, having already been on the wrong side of the law more than once doesn't have those qualms. She is aligned with the Party Crashers although she isn't apart of them. They keep her funded and she can do her work. 
At first, like others, Casina didn't want to do anything with the Party Animals but that all changed during a raid on one of her business locations. When the Party Animals were sent in to destroy her shop, capture her and kill her associates she was cornered by one before she could escape out a window. This Party Animal didn't move nearly as snappy, purposefully or violently as the others and Casina noticed, when he pinned her to the ground the his eyes looked "human". They didn't have the characteristically blank expression or thousand-yard stare. His eyes were looking her up and down, moving around, almost as if he was trying to say something to her but couldn't do to whatever was done to him. Casina tried talking to him, pleading he let her go and she could tell he was fighting something. She gave him a simple command, if he could understand her to blink twice. He did, quickly. She didn't have much time but asked three simple questions: Are you in pain? He blinked twice. Are you being controlled by someone? He blinked twice. Can you remember anything about your past? He blinked twice. It was at that point the noise outside indicated they were closing on her and she begged to be let go again. He slightly shook his head, let out of scream and clutched his head. Casina slid out from under him and ran to a window just as she heard heavy bass coming from the next room from the Party Coordinator which caused him to jerk and lose control as Party Animals do. She escaped but it was at this point she realized that it may be possible to undo the damage done to these unfortunate souls.