Max Lou Crew

## The Max Lou Crew

* **Home Base:**Mobile, but generally believed to be beyond the Riverwall on both sides of the Red River, in the shadow of the Block's sewer system in Fargo  and near the Mallsoleum  in Moorhead. There's usually at one member of the Crew somewhere in or around the Final Pan  diner.
* **Leadership:**Max Lou is chief of the Max Lou Crew. Max Lou practically IS the Max Lou Crew. She rules her small crew with an iron claw, (rumor has her as a former member of the Dirty E's).
* **Membership:**Lou keeps her core crew small on purpose to keep from attracting too much attention. Small, loyal and possessing some form of scam. Generally around 3-6 chosen from a local pool of around a dozen semi-regulars. They maintain contact with a couple dozen pickpockets, beggars, scavengers and squatters around their turf.

A small, but well-known Riverling  crew that haunts the downtowns on both sides of the River. Most members of the core and semi-regulars are frequent mentionees on both BSI's  and Knight Errant's reports. These are the Riverlings that give Riverlings a bad name. Max Lou constantly has her people running scams, petty theft and smuggling contraband that even Cap'n Krell  won't touch across the River.

They consider the downtown areas of both Fargo and Moorhead to be their turf and get involved in the gang politics that entails. They pay off the Drummers with information and The Pain with scavenged supplies to gain protection from their rivals in the Ralphs, Dirty E's and SOMA. And they are definitely part of the chain of supply for the Moorlocks, who let them use the Center Mallsoleum for a hide-out. As far as other Riverlings go, they have an ongoing rivalry with Franky's Freaks (a part of the 94 Crew) with each side trying to outdo the other with the daring of their thefts and pranks. Max Lou has a good working relationship with "Doc Guana" as both the Max Lou and Highland crews share custody of the "Grove", a place valued by all the Riverlings. Max Lou has a complicated relationship with Cap'n Krell of the Tin Box. Both are Riverwalkers  and both respect the River they rely on for their livelihoods but they are so separate in personality and methods that they as often find themselves working together against the River as they do working against each other.

### Notable Members

* **Max Lou**, leader of the crew, she has been around, as a Riverling at least, for the last decade or so. Already a skilled thief with criminal connections, there's a good indication that she had some kind of professional criminal background before she changed (most money being on a member of the Dirty E's, Ralphs or some other Underberg-connected gang). Since her change, she has thrown herself into studying the River that changed her, becoming known as a master Riverwalker, who uses her knowledge to escape trouble on one or the other side of the river and smuggle contraband in and out of the Zone.
* **Sundown**, Lou's strong right claw, second in command of the crew, she runs things on the Fargo side of the river while Lou is on the Minnesota side. She takes the thrill-seeking tendencies of Riverlings and cranks them up to 11. A former athlete at NDRU, who ended up taking one dare too many and in the River. It wasn't an easy change and her memory is patchy at best. Upon realizing that she was even faster and more flexible than before, she has remade herself into a parkour master and is often the point girl on Lou's more ambitious burglaries. She's famous on seedier side of downtown for her expeditions in to, on to and even off of the Block.
* **Bridge**, Lou's contact on the Moorhead side of the river. "Bridge" was a Troll  before Bridge was a Riverling and is a well-known figure in downtown, a charming beggar to some, a public nuisance to others. Bridge is a talented DIY builder and lives largely by scavenging and begging and maintains the crew's lair on the Moorhead side, which often serves as a crash pad for Riverling beggars, transients and petty criminals on the run.

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