Shadows of the FDC – Vory v Zakone
There are a lot of Russians and others from the former Soviet Bloc living in the DeeCee Sprawl, and here’s the best part, many of them have lived in the sprawl long enough to have made a significant contribution to the Old Army, with emphasis on Old Army. This created no short of resentment among a community that had previous made itself indispensable to the government and the defense field. The Vory didn’t have much of a presence beyond the Russian and Eastern European communities for a long time, and kept their operations fairly insular. The one exception was their decker crews who would carry out every kind of byzantine fraud and theft one could imagine. Naturally, they were very useful for money laundering, and it was rumored that they got a pass from the government for the business they did by doing contract work for the FBI and military.…
FDC – Den of Sin (Yakuza Chong-Pak-Pa Complex)
The Den of Sin Club – With Old Ellicott City almost permanently flooded out, the Korean Yakuza (the Chong-Pak-Pa) took over the area to include the major warehouse nearby to create a tiny Venice-like community, occupying and refurbishing the upper floors of flooded buildings. The warehouse HQ, now called the Den of Sin has been transformed into a casino\club\brothel office (The nearby refurbished flood zone providing extra private rooms). The DC based Yakuza Branch, Mizugumo-rengo (Water-Spider League) also operate out of the upper office floors and it was their administration of the club that help to give its name. The main dance floors (1st & 2nd Floors) features several bars, multiple dancer platforms and swings, surrounded by AR screens. Music genre and dancer costumes depends on the evening’s theme, and the regular rotation pulls a diverse crowd. The basement (Floors -1 & -2) features traditional gambling facilities, but the main…
Shadows of the FDC – Yakuza Enriched
So I have been working on my map of FDC and got to work trying to figure the lay of the land for Yakuza Activity. Checking the available resources (Guide to North America, Underworld, Vice) I didn’t find much on the groups listed as being the Yakuza in FDC. So I came up with my own descriptions and territories based on the names and my imagination for the 7 groups of Yakuza said to operate of out DC. If you want the original descriptions check Underworld, but with the exception of a little for the Saidoh, Mizguma, and Sheonen, pretty much nothing was described and only one location (the Lantern Bar in Alexandria) was mentioned in Guide, but with no word who runs it. If you want to check the map you find it here (I recommend unselecting the layers you don’t need when you aren’t referencing them. There is…
Shadows of the FDC – Triads Enriched
My work continues on my Shadows of the FDC map and to get current campaign items to line up. To that effect I tried to establish where Triad might operate in the FDC. Most of the info on Triads seem to indicate that there is little to no presence in the FDC, probably due to lack of a Chinese metro center (IRL 2017 DC’s Chinatown has less than 300, again 3 x 100 Chinese left in it). So unless it says cannon elsewhere I’ll say the population resurged, maybe as refugees from the breakdown of a Unified China. With the Yakuza & Mafia mostly controlling the FDC underworld there was little room for the Triads to squeeze back in. So in cannon there are two Triads operating in North America: The 99 Blossoms is a Triad based in North America. The 99 Blossoms are a Triad that has a reputation…