Keep your heads down streetside chummers, we might have a mob war brewing.
Tensions are flaring again in Seattle's underworld. Looks like six young yak soldiers, got fairly toxxed at a yak bar downtown, and headed up to Casino Corner in Everett, which is of course one of Don James O'Malley's best little money makers and a hot target for rival syndicates. The kobun started throwing their weight around, knocking employees and customers about at the Lucky 7, and generally acting like they owned the place. As you can imagine, that didn't sit well with the local familia. About a dozen soldati escorted them outside when three black sedans pulled up, and hosed the mafiosi down with automatic weapons fire. Then things really went Yucatan. Somebody, probably a mafioso, started throwing grenades and the whole place turned into a war zone for about ten minutes before the authorities got involved. Just about the time the Star showed up, a DocWagon HTR team was rotoring in, seems some sindicate boys had coverage. Some wendigo-humping slot opened fire on their whirrly-girly and it crashed head on into the Lucky 7, the resulting fuel explosion set most everyone on fire. The final body count? Sources say ten dead family men, our six drunk yaks, fifteen to twenty civilians and the DocWagon HTR team. Plus the Finnigan family is going to have to spin some pretty fine PR to get the folks back up Casino Corner for a while, not to mention rebuilding half of the Lucky 7. All the rattle that Shadowland is getting puts the players at the following scores:
The Finnigan Family:
Don James "The Hammer" O'Malley: Is doing things quiet, which is, frighteningly, not his usual style. Considering how the Commissione pulled him from forced retirement and inserted him as capo of the Finnigan Family fourteen years ago purely to take Seattle back from the Yaks, and that they forced him to retire in the first place (he was Capo of Milwaukee until '31) was because he badly neglected business in order to make war on the yaks for killing his brother (Brian O'Malley, you will recall, was Capo of Seattle from '26-'30), everyone expects the Hammer to start another war. His standing policy over turf wars with the Yakuza is summed up as "every inch of territory costs a gallon of yak blood". He transformed Seattle's mob from a Yakuza victim to violent and bitter rival. They may be behind the yak as far as biz is concerned, (hell, they have been since the teens) but the Japanese know they can't expand anywhere without paying a horrible price in blood and profits. Since the running mob war of '43, there's been a nice comfortable stalemate between the two syndicates, with the Shotozumi Gumi on top, and the Finnigans snarling at their heels.
The Shotozumi Gumi:
Hanzo Shotozumi, Oyabun of the most powerful Seattle Gumi, is also keeping quiet regarding the mess at Casino Corner. Hanzo is an old-school yak who came in from Chiba and cleaned up after the Schism of '43 that ousted the Koreans and birthed the Seoulpa Rings. The word "inscrutable" may well have been coined to describe this man. He never gives anything away that he doesn't want to. Of course it's a well known fact that gambling and prostitution, two of Casino Corner's main attractions, are the most contested spheres of business between the Yaks and the Mob, and that Hanzo would love to get his hands on that little piece of land. However, reports to Shadowland say that the toxxed kobun who started the whole thing were neophytes fromt he Shigeda Gumi, which owes alliegience to Shotozumi. Whether Hanzo authorized this attack, or Takeo Shigeda is trying to push things into a full blown war is yet to be seen. The Yaks might be cleaning house, or gearing for war in the near future.
The Seoulpa Rings:
Nobody wants trouble for the yak as badly as the remnants of the former Korean lead Gumi that got wiped away in the Schism. These fanatics will do just about anything to cause harm to Shotozumi's operation, and since all of the yak neophytes died in the gun battle, a lot of people are wondering just who was driving those black sedans.
17 comments:
Wait, I'm sorry, someone shot down a Docwagon chopper? Those things are armored up the yin-yang.
It wouldn't be just a matter of some crazy yak taking potshots at the incoming chopper. My guess is someone planned that particular shot, and resulting explosion well in advance.
They are armoured well, it's true. However, it's impossible to properly armour the blades if you actually want them to work well. It wouldn't be easy, but it would be quite possible for it to have been merely a lucky shot, if the shooter were carrying some sort of explosive ammunition.
However, that begs the question of what sort of ammunition he had, and why he would have been carrying it for a "simple" assasination.
Even if your work keeps you as far as possible from the Mob or the Yaks, this is something that's going to reverberate through the whole shadow world, boys and girls. Lone Star's gonna be real twitchy with the threat of mob war going around, and I imagine the same will be going for corpsec. Still, with conflict comes opportunity, and there will be plenty of extra ways to pay off those Christmas bills in the next few months.
Drek! Where am I supposed to waste money and pick up hookers now that Casnio Corner is Caput?
I, personally, see no problem with a bunch of mobsters killing each other. Keeps the Yaks from trying to kill me and means a lot of nice runs for the all of us.
As for the vast conspiracy, I'm firmly convinced that it's more conspiratorial than you all think. To that end I hacked the StufferShak security camera across the street from Casino Corner. Last of the three sedans had a license plate of 387-WFAM which traces back to a car 'reported stolen' from a rental lot owned by one Bi Meng Tian. Another Bi Meng Tian in this very same city draws a considerable stipend from a certain Chinese company called Wuxing for providing sedan services to corporate executives.
Gotta love public records . . . well StufferShack isn't really public but with such drek-y ice it might as well be.
Scan this, slots, but Bi Meng Tian also goes by the name of Gao Su, who is a big-time player in the Seattle Triads. My guess is that sedans are not the only thing he provides.
Wuxing? What the frag would a AA mega from Hong Kong want to kill some mobsters for? Drek, I had to look their corporate profile up on the friggin' megawatch sig just to know who the frag they are. They own like eleven offices in Seattle, my doge, they are minor minor players at best. I lean on the whole Triad answer. They'd love to see a yak-mob war as much as the Rings.
Don't forget the Vory!
I got an urgent call from "Fancy Dan" Grizzetti the other day... Something about the Denver mob and his nephew's cousin and the FBI and a vampire, and potentially some werewolves.... I don't know, weird drek. Think there's a connection, or is someone hacking my friggin' P-Sec?
I think someone's been watching too much trid.
One, that slot was no vampire. Just some crazy coked-up capo. I was there when he was taken down, and believe me, a single bullet to the head was plenty. Do you think an actual vampire would have gone down that easy?
Sure, sure...
Chinks, Gooks, Japs, Micks... they's all got blood that's red, and as long as it flows down a neck or out a gut, someone's doin' right.
Someone's gotta be makin' money offa these Triad, Mafia, Seoulpa, and Yak bodies, and if that leaves the bodies cold, so be it.
We already lost enough of these GREAT United States to savages and rednecks, so much that we had to take onboard Nanook and his mountie buddies. So, we gotta drive some out, back across both seas, before we turn in on the enemy within.
This was a first shot back at the invaders. Manifest Destiny II. This time, it's personal.
Actually, Nanook got his own nation. All y'all got were the Mounties.
So who was in those goddamn sedans is the real question. I notice they weren't mentioned in the list of casualties.
If any sedan drivers need a few bullet holes patched, I run a shop in north Seattle. All dealings confidential.
Yeah, flapper will get your holes bondo'd, if you get to him before 4:30 pm. Feeding time at the old folks home!
Aw, fnap!
We're open from Noon 'til 8 no matter what this mendicant tells ya'.
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