Tribes of New Pork

[Seraphim]

Tribes of New Pork

Cigarettes
Vampires
Wharf Rats
Wildcats
Outsiders


Key:
[NPC] = Non-Playing Characters
= Characters up for adoption

[Mina Crow]

Cigarettes [24 members: 13 male, 11 female; 10 NPCs]

Alpha:
Seraphim Raphael “Lucifer” Ashadar

Beta:
Reason Frankie “Impulse” Harrison-Aida

Hunters:
George “Snake” Rattlesnake
Axel “Razor” Dowman
Kael “Judas” Iscariot
John “Commando” Hagen
Hail “Stalker” Lewis Briggs
Edward Jose “Marksman” Sumulang
Elijah “November” Vase
Jonathan Richard “Deadeye” Remington [NPC]
Daisuke “Qwerty” Velmaras [NPC]
Suzie “Shooter” Phillips [NPC]
Alexander “Bob the Builder” Rasputin [NPC]
Aphrodite Athenae “Goddess” Olympus [NPC]

Commoners:
Mary Jane “Vox” Davis
Bradley Shawfield
Heiko “Zenzi Miller” Schneider
Quinn “Shrapnel” Richardson
Ri Taylor
Caesar “Solitude” Rightingway [NPC]
Rose “Velvette” Parker [NPC]
Mary “Nyx” Perkins [NPC]
Kalanie Strye [NPC]
Rose “Nova” Nightwood [NPC]

Omega:


Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

The Cigarettes, one of the Advent tribes of the city, were born from ten children who moved into the city together under the leadership of the late Serenity Kamaru. Before they and the other tribes were large enough to start killing each other, Serenity had already decided on one thing – her tribe wouldn’t kill. This wasn’t out of the goodness of her heart but rather the instance that if they ever got out of the city they’d have murder on their names if they killed, even in self defense – and she knew she didn’t want that for herself or any of her tribe. As the tribes grew, she began to realize that living without killing in a place like New Pork was near impossible, and the rule slackened – no torture, no cruelty, and no killing unless it’s strictly necessary.

When Serenity died, all traces of that rule were abandoned for a while as Seraphim, her Beta, set out to avenge her death with most of the tribe behind him. Eventually realizing there wasn’t much to be done, the tribe settled down again with their pacifist rules, but they never really got over her loss and their no torture rule sometimes falls away when Vampires are concerned, especially amongst those who knew Serenity best.

The Cigarettes have made a base in what used to be the ghetto; converting a largely hale whitewashed flat into their stronghold. Daisuke and Kazuko, with the help of Alexander, built two miniature wind-turbines that now power lights in the refurbished building, although water is still mostly coming from rain basins on the roof. There is a vegetable patch in the torn-up tarmac near the wind turbines, where a single scrawny apple tree casts a weak shadow over small carrots, cabbages, tomatoes and other assorted vegetables.

[Mina Crow]

Vampires [22 members: 12 male, 10 female; 6 NPCs]

Alpha:
Mina “Crow” Yrjö

Beta:
Sven “Rooster” Håkansson

Hunters:
Cain “Tinker” Blackshire
Françoise “Le Serpent” Neville
Jason “Varyl” Briquel
Ruth “Princess” Cousins [NPC]
Vincent “Draco” Morrison [NPC]
Mara “Snow White” Fredholm [NPC]
Jim “Grim” Stevens [NPC]
Matthew “Red” Peterson [NPC]

Commoners:
Ellery “Geist” Hastings
Elwood “Doctor” Flint
Rakugaki “Maverick” Jones
Dustin “Onyx” Klinger
Petyr “Slinky” Sands [NPC]
Lillith “Pagan” Alcina [NPC]

Omegas:
Anne “Dancer” White
Altair “Aquila” L'Amarr
Coraline Brown
Trevor “Sinclaw”
Maria “Diabla” Alexandra de Pedro [NPC]

Blood is our power.
Hope is our doom.

The Crow protects her own.

The founder and actual leader of the Vampires is a Finnish girl named Mina Yrjö, commonly known as the Crow. Fear and respect of her vulture, as well of her Beta, Sven “Rooster” Håkansson, are visible in every member of the tribe. Among themselves, they sometimes refer to their group as “the Blood”.

The society of the Vampires is not well known outside their selective group. For an outsider, they may seem a close-knit community, united by their rituals, but in fact there is a huge gap between a Hunter and a Commoner. Only the Elite can truly declare they belong to the Vampires; the others are nothing more than tolerated, sheltering under the Crow’s protective wings.

The Vampires show a tendency to be morbid and cruel; they delight on the subtle suffering of others, on the cold boiling of the blood that guides them to their target. As their mythological ancestors, they prefer to act in the shadows, keeping their secrets and actions well hidden and maintaining plots to blame other tribes. However, they’ll never hide a maiming or killing; instead, they proclaim it out loud, visibly marking the place as a warning for the ones who defy the Children of the Night.

Their symbol is a bloody hand; if one examines it closely, he might realize it is printed with real blood, the blood of the maker. Few are those who watch the creation of one of this marks and live to tell the story, for the tribe members slash open their own palm before a killing.

The Crow’s quarters’ door, on the Gargoyle Tower, is marked with a pentagram mixed with a Christian cross, reflecting the leader’s necklace, drawn with human blood as well. Mina demands absolute obedience and reverence, and in return she gives her protection to the dedicated. She has complete faith in her tribe; therefore, any treason will be dearly punished, usually stripping the trespasser of his/her rank and torturing him in the depths of the Vampires’ lair.

[Mina Crow]

Wharf Rats [18 members: 11 male, 7 female; 5 NPCs]

Alpha:
“The Berserker”

Beta:
William “Havoc” Norton

Hunters:
Tom “Boyscout” Bishop
Theodore “Mask” Allorque
Cyril “Grey” L’Amarr
Samuel “Eagle Eye” MacAllister
Anala “Dagger” Chandi [NPC]

Commoners:
Reynard “Fox” Rossay
Kuro “Seagull” Zensawa
Reji “Lightning” Ellinger
“Nemo”
Matt “Seafarer” Wilkinson
James “Dip” Lornwith [NPC]
Ophilea “Oppie Binx” Ash [NPC]
Christopher “Sharky” Oaks [NPC]
Katrina “Media” Anon [NPC]

Omegas:
Aderyn “Bird” Cyncad
Noah Allorque


The best way to describe the intertwining of the Wharf Rats would be to say that they are the most like a court of nobles. From the outside, they are kind and cooperative. But, once you become one of them, you see they are all scheming for personal gain. The Wharf Rats do act as a collective tribe just as nobles would follow a King or Queens orders. They only question orders behind many closed doors.

The Wharf Rats are plotters, spies, back-stabbers and black-mailers. They’d do anything to get to their ends, and they constantly weigh the good and bad of one action. Really, only the smartest, the strongest and the ruthless get anywhere on the Wharf Rats’ tribe.

The Wharf Rats usually accept any newcomer they meet. These newcomers are trained in the ways of combat – and sometimes in the ways of the Wharf Rats’ social battle.

Killing another person – as long as they aren’t a Wharf Rat – is quite fine to a Wharf Rat. But, as they are plotters and such folk, they don’t always mark a kill as their own. Sometimes they use the handprint of a Vampire, the slashes of a Wildcat, or they may just mark it as a Cigarettes’ kill – though as Cigarettes don’t kill much, they don’t use their mark much. When they want to take the credit for the kill, they leave a simple blue mark somewhere. Usually it is hard to find.

The only way the Wharf Rats turn on their own is quite simple. If it is discovered you are plotting, they turn on you and kill you. It is a way to eliminate the weakest, and make sure that the plot will never succeed. If a Wharf Rat runs across another tribe in their borders, the Wharf Rat will usually take them prisoner.

As the Wharf Rats are plotters and spies, they have a total of three places that they flee in a crisis. The first – the sewers. The second – the boats. The third – the sewage plant.

[Mina Crow]

Wildcats [23 members: 12 male, 11 female; 8 NPCs]

Alpha:
Dusanek “Azrael” Latal

Beta:
Reza Blackwell

Hunters:
Lurlina “Siren” von Schmerz
Käthe “Shadow” Moon
Milo “Vince” Toll
Saul “Bishop” Montgomery
Tacey “Knuckle” Hase
Deidre “Fetch” Stevens [NPC]
Corey “Panix” Senko [NPC]
Arn “Fenrir” Valdemar [NPC]
Nathaniel “Condor” O’Conner [NPC]
Rico “Nails” Brooks [NPC]
Elizabeth “Liz” Nickleson [NPC]

Commoners:
Virginia “Pocahontas” Dunne
Ian “Denim” Weils
Marco Kapolei
Rage “Pirate” Falconer
Jack “Jack-in-the-Box” Dryden
Riley “Clover” O’Haven [NPC]

Omegas:
Guinevere “She-Wolf” Russell
Ernest “Ike” Sawyer
Sara “Serefly” O’Sullivan
“Haeris” [NPC]


The Wildcats, commonly known as ‘The Cats’. They take in anyone who can fight after a night or three in a Pit - of course, with a guard.

Knife fighting is their preferred style, but many also favor kicks and hand attacks. You either make up your own moves, or find someone who will teach you. If members cannot fight savagely and act in a feral manner, they are normally thrown to the Vampires, taught, or dumped into a Pit.

Wildcats are savage to the bone, killing machines that prefer long painful deaths of their victims. There is also a touch of cunningness to most members of this tribe.

One of the most important things to remember is that the Cats are bound by a blood ceremony held when new members join the Wildcats. If you turn on the tribe, the tribe turns on you. It is unwise to provoke the clan and betray them – chances are you’ll die. Wildcats also have the tendency to travel in ‘packs’. So, if one catches you alone, you’re in risk of being taken prisoner. The Cats enjoy nothing better than torturing a prisoner.

The Cats inhabit what remains of Central Park. The main head quarter is the Restaurant, which is half their food supply. They are constantly trying to take more land for themselves and making trouble amongst everything.

The mark of the Cats is three diagonal, slightly curved lines across the victim’s face. It is said to be the mark of a Wildcat’s claw; it certainly suits them well enough. They make sure their murders are known; they like to be known. The mark tends to distort the victim’s face slightly.

[Mina Crow]

Outsiders

Loners [5 members: 4 male, 1 female; 1 NPC]
Beatriz “Poet” Pessoa
Jernej “Violin” Zgonc
Gabriel “Dust” MacOwen
Guilherme “Bolt” Baltazar
Sigurd “Siggy” Argenfors [NPC]

Outcasts [2 members: 1 male, 1 female; 1 NPC]
Lucas “Painter” Dumahn
Katrine “Freak” Minosa [NPC]

Unaligned [6 members: 4 male, 2 female; 2 NPCs]
Jane “Pixie” Garnet
Jibril “Inquisitor” Tahir
Swart “Wings” Alleyne
Dante “Casanova” Zwick
Kent Carter [NPC]
Olette “Nymph” Marie Davis [NPC]


A mix of any sort of riff-raff, the loners and outcasts of New Pork would easily be picked up and integrated into a tribe if it was not for their speed, strength, size or skill. Many of them are former members of one of the tribes cast out for some reason or another. Others are freelancers, offering their services to the highest bidder. These bounty-hunters, freelance hackers and unaligned builders all have to keep themselves out of reach of the greedy tribes by sheltering with other tribes – but they have it easier than the myriad of loners and outcasts. These children run alone, generally because they have no choice, and are hunted down for the crime of being without a tribe.