Celium gang

The celium gang is a criminal organization of sneak thieves and pickpockets operating in the kurat of Chubbon as well as its underworld. They pose as a roving band of musicians, traveling from village to village selling their wares. They target exclusively domecaps, going so far as to make clothes out of their hats.

## Organization

The celium gang is fashionable, they wear designer clothes that reflect their mushroom motif. It is thought that they answer to a tailor in the formerly Dalmer city of Osmupid. When in the villages, they play music and spend considerable amounts of cash in clothing articles, making them rather popular. They are careful to not commit crimes or attract attention when in villages, their modus operandi is to only target domecap settlements, although several crimes unrelated to the domecaps have been linked to the gang.

## Activities

### Weapons trade

The celium gang is first and foremost a gang of weapon enthusiasts. The gang steals weapons and resells them to their various contacts as a source of income. Despite this specialty, there are no recorded murders attributed to the gang, and the gang is well known for their choice in weapons that emphasize temporary incapacitation over lethality.

The gang runs a chop shop to disassemble the stolen weapons in order to sell the most valuable parts for profit.

### Illegal mining

Celium gangs are well known for infiltrating mines disguised as domecaps and using wheel drills to stripmine before escaping before suspicions are raised.

### Robbery

Celium gang crimes seem to be racially motivated, as they routinely rob domecap camps to steal.

### Soul trade

The celium gang are known to trade souls they gather in the chubbon underworld for unknown purposes.

## Tricks and tactics

The gang is well known for their many tricks specifically against domecaps.

### Pearled puffballs

The gang is mostly known for using pearled puffball, a mushroom that naturally detonates in a dense cloud of spores, to pickpocket unsuspecting victims.

They also do this in extraction encampments to steal ores while the workers are confused.

### Parry

Celium gang members are masters at parrying strikes in order to disarm their opponent.

### Goading

A trick where the gang member will goad the target into striking a specially prepared shield. The shield is powerful enough to rip the weapon from the target's hands, which they then steal to break down and fence.

### Disguise

They disguise themselves as domecaps to fool them into thinking they are friendly, only to steal from foraging baskets. They frequently use dummy devices as distractions in order to infiltrate and steal from domecaps.

### Dipping

They are known to steal weapon hoards from hilltoppers and mothanths alike.

### Well armed grift

The gang spreads rumors of ghosts living in wells that can only be appeased by throwing weapons inside. The weapons are then collected and sold, and the gullible citizens much easier to rob.

### Grift monster

The gang uses a decoy to distract monsters into attacking it, while they infiltrate their camps to steal things.

## Equipment

Celium gangs often disguise themselves as domecaps in order to infiltrate their patrols, camps and mines to steal. This is achieved using advanced costumes that perfectly reflect their appearance, smell and movements, but also thanks to the usually accepting nature of domecaps that the gang capitalizes on.

The celium gang employs a wide array of tools in order to steal weapons from their targets, shock projectiles, disarming shields, and conductive gels are commonly used by the thieves in order to steal the weapon they covet before leaving in a puff of smoke left behind by a pearled puffball.

When fighting is unavoidable they use freezing weapons, testy comb leaves and deflection shields to keep their enemies at bay.

## Clincher mob

The gang is in conflict with the Clinchers a group of assassins. They are at war over control of pearled puffball production, as both use the mushroom liberally though not for the same reasons.