TheNexusProject/LandslideGang
The Landslide Gang
by Han'ya
- "Seven Stone Landslide is wanted for several hundred offenses of larceny, burglary, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, breach of contract, illegal distribution of controlled substances, public rudeness, being Anathema, and having horrible fashion sense."
- -Lisara Myojin, Captain of the Blood Crows mercenary company
- "Not again..."
- - Drowning In Viscera
The Landslide Gang is a group of individuals with several shared goals, these being surviving in Firewander, actually enjoying life as opposed to merely subsisting, and doing so without honest labor. The core membership of the gang arrived in Nexus five years ago, and proceeded to be shunted out of every district but Firewander due to lack of funds. For the past five years, they've been saving up enough to buy their way out, maybe into Nexus proper or even Cinnabar if they can get away with it.
The gang colors are orange and blue or hot pink and neon green. The two pairs are always used seperately. What color is worn is representative of one's rank. If one's dress is unicolored, one is a grunt. If one's dress is bicolored, one is a minor functionary, perhaps a well-trained grunt or a minor dealer. Wearing three colors identifies you as a Big Shot, probably in charge of activities for an entire neighbourhood. Only the 5 senior members of the gang, its de facto ruling body, are permitted to wear all 4. Only Seven Stone Landslide, his right-hand man Dog Of The Blue Sky Kingdom, and their primary apothecary and drug maker, Dreams Of The Gilded Lily, actually wear it though. Seven Stone Landslide is notorious for his horrible fashion sense and bad taste. Dog wears it out of slavelike loyalty. Lily wears it because...well, he's a druggie, who knows why he does anything?
The gang has an apparent vendetta against the nightclub Malfeas, crashing it on an almost nightly basis and being particularly rowdy whenever My Prodigal Sun is playing, usually resulting in no fatalities, surprisingly enough. Except for the boneheads who think they can take a Landslide on. They die like cockroaches. This vendetta is almost a sport among the gang, and its source is unknown.
The original five members of the gang are Seven Stone Landslide, Dog Of The Blue Sky Kingdom, his half-bother Black Iron Swallow King, Dreams of the Gilded Lily, and the leader's girlfriend-slash-business associate, who directs their semi-legitimate business activities, Crimson Sunrise.
The Landslide Gang primarily runs protection rackets, but they also operate a handful of small brothels scattered throughout Firewander, and have a trade in some truly spectacular hallucinogens, produced and distributed exclusively by the gang, which sells them mostly outside of Firewander, due to the rather hefty price tag attached. The high quality of the substances and the commensurate cost of materials means that they would be better off dealing to the upper-class citizens of Nexus rather than peddling it on street corners. This fairly obvious business move has been tossed around for a few months now, but is objected to by reason of the gang's profound dislike of the upper class, as virtually all of it comes from the lower. They are also not the subtlest of people, and found distasteful by everybody outside of Firewander, and downright scary by everyone within.
Rumours
- The entire gang is devoted to Anathema-worship and the destruction of Nexus as a whole.
- The entire gang was driven insane by exposure to the Wyld Zone and are now...well, insane.
- The gang has a no-female admission policy. (They don't, it's just they're all womanizers.)
Secrets
- The core membership of the gang (the original 4 male members) are all Solar Exalts charged with "getting their worthless asses over to Nexus and laying down the law" by the Unconquered Sun. This basically, to them, means doing whatever the heck they want. So far it's working.
- Seven Stone Landslide knows that My Prodigal Sun are really Abyssals, but he was forced to swear a Moonshadow-enforced oath not to fight against them in a diabolical plot concocted by the band. So he and his gang just f*** with their concerts.
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