Drazden
26-10-2004, 00:58
The lights of Platinumberg where world-famous, a painfully bright silver glow visible for miles. It was a sprawling metrapolis, with a maze-like network of aspahlt streets zigzagging in the shadows of the towering skyscrapers that made up the vast majority of the city...
Platinumberg was once a small, humble mining town, where loads of the namesake metal where brought up out of the ground. Such an influx of the precious material made Platinumberg a very wealthy settlement, surpassing even the capitol of Gregsburg, some hundred miles to the north. As with any major city, there where individuals who wished to make a large amount of money without slaving away at a job in one of the city's many posh office buildings... In other words, organized criminals. Gambling, prostitiution, robbery, and murder where everyday reminders of the need for a solution, but the biggest & most profitable venue was an illegal streetfighting circuit operating within Platinumberg's more upscale nightclubs & the basements of privately-owned buildings.
The police force, the 'Pigs of P-Berg', as the gangbangers called them, where a well-funded but somewhat corrupt agency. Military-grade weaponry & the latest in 'Less Than Lethal' firearms filled the armories, and where frequently employed by P-Berg's patrol cops. If nothing was done, Platinumberg would devolve into an urban warzone of shootouts & drive-bys. Something was needed to clean up the streets & restore a higher degree of order. That something was a former Drazden military special operative with a hefty price-tag...
CT Turner...
Drazden's Enforcement branch had sent him down with a fifth freedom & a seven digits in cash to accomplish his mission however he saw fit...
Phase one for Turner was to hire some help... The whole 'man-against-the-world' thing had never worked too well for him, it usually got him hurt... He'd sent out some letters, emails, telegrams, anything he could think of, to some of the better-known gangsters, mercenaries, and all-around badasses in Drazden & beyond...
After renting a small duplex on a rougher end of town, Turner stopped into a local roadhouse bar, seating himself in the back, away from the chaos of drunken bikers & out-of-place gangbanger footsoldiers...
"Scotch... Make it a double..."
CT muttered to the bartender, taking a quick scan of the crowd... This place was rough, no doubt, as a fight broke out on the dance floor. Two rival gangsters where duking it out to some funky hip-hop beat CT'd never heard before...
OOC: Open roleplay for those who've got some skill. Join as anything from one of CT's hired hands to a crime boss to any sort of low-level cop or thug you wish. For purposes of my own sanity & the realisum of the RP, no ninjas, magic, future-tech weaponry, swords, Matrix-esque 'Bullet-Time', etc. Just modern-tech guns & tactics, okay? It's pretty open-ended, so take it where you want. The organized crime is centered more around the modern gangster, with less of the 20's style mafia & more of today's organized gangs.
-Draz
Platinumberg was once a small, humble mining town, where loads of the namesake metal where brought up out of the ground. Such an influx of the precious material made Platinumberg a very wealthy settlement, surpassing even the capitol of Gregsburg, some hundred miles to the north. As with any major city, there where individuals who wished to make a large amount of money without slaving away at a job in one of the city's many posh office buildings... In other words, organized criminals. Gambling, prostitiution, robbery, and murder where everyday reminders of the need for a solution, but the biggest & most profitable venue was an illegal streetfighting circuit operating within Platinumberg's more upscale nightclubs & the basements of privately-owned buildings.
The police force, the 'Pigs of P-Berg', as the gangbangers called them, where a well-funded but somewhat corrupt agency. Military-grade weaponry & the latest in 'Less Than Lethal' firearms filled the armories, and where frequently employed by P-Berg's patrol cops. If nothing was done, Platinumberg would devolve into an urban warzone of shootouts & drive-bys. Something was needed to clean up the streets & restore a higher degree of order. That something was a former Drazden military special operative with a hefty price-tag...
CT Turner...
Drazden's Enforcement branch had sent him down with a fifth freedom & a seven digits in cash to accomplish his mission however he saw fit...
Phase one for Turner was to hire some help... The whole 'man-against-the-world' thing had never worked too well for him, it usually got him hurt... He'd sent out some letters, emails, telegrams, anything he could think of, to some of the better-known gangsters, mercenaries, and all-around badasses in Drazden & beyond...
After renting a small duplex on a rougher end of town, Turner stopped into a local roadhouse bar, seating himself in the back, away from the chaos of drunken bikers & out-of-place gangbanger footsoldiers...
"Scotch... Make it a double..."
CT muttered to the bartender, taking a quick scan of the crowd... This place was rough, no doubt, as a fight broke out on the dance floor. Two rival gangsters where duking it out to some funky hip-hop beat CT'd never heard before...
OOC: Open roleplay for those who've got some skill. Join as anything from one of CT's hired hands to a crime boss to any sort of low-level cop or thug you wish. For purposes of my own sanity & the realisum of the RP, no ninjas, magic, future-tech weaponry, swords, Matrix-esque 'Bullet-Time', etc. Just modern-tech guns & tactics, okay? It's pretty open-ended, so take it where you want. The organized crime is centered more around the modern gangster, with less of the 20's style mafia & more of today's organized gangs.
-Draz