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Know Your Leaders

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Lucian Teixeira SAMPLE
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Ryland Avery
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This is where you'll find people who've completed the applications and introductory missions.
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Applicant Hayden Clarke
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The Story Thus Far...

Journal Entry: Tue Sep 22, 2009, 3:08 PM
The drug world is a dangerous one, with every day being a new battle. A battle for territory, for connections, for workers, for dock space, and of course, for the drugs themselves. For a new, up-and-coming cartel, the battles can be fierce, the body count high, and betrayal is always on the menu. That’s the predicament we’ve been finding ourselves in. Pueblo is a pre-existing cartel, and they’ve been ruling these streets for the last 30 odd some years. They have connections, they know the inner workings, they’ve bought off the police men and they’ve bought off the doctors and medical examiners and whoever else is willing to be theirs for the right price. They’re a strong cartel, a proud cartel, with a strong history dating back to a small Mayan village nestled in the hills of the Yucatan Peninsula. But there’s one weakness they have; one weakness we’re here to exploit. The old head of Pueblo has recently passed on, the man who took the city by storm back in the 1970s, one Itzamna Coyoc.

After his untimely death, his son Acan Coyoc has taken over in his father’s stead. But he is not his father, and people are aware of that. With the man they were allied to gone, they’re starting to look out only for themselves, to jump ship, to betray and turn renegade against a cartel they had been allied to for years. Higher ups are disappearing, ones that look like they might leave, like they might betray Acan and move to greener pastures. While still strong, the paranoia is making them weak, is leaving them exposed and in the perfect position to be overthrown. And that’s where we come in.

In January, 2009, we began to make our mark on the sprawling, expansive city of Ashkelon. A new, covert, ever-growing cartel, we’ve been starting small and working our way up. It’s stupid to move fast, to not prepare, to go balls to the walls and think that violence is the only way to make your mark on the city. No, we go slow, think our next moves through. The drug world is like a game of chess; you have to make your moves wisely but speedily, rationally but impromptu as well. And just because you lose your queen doesn’t mean you’re going to lose the game. If you play smart, you can win with only your king left standing. You just have to catch them unaware, surprise them, sneak attack when they least expect it. It’s not the amount of pieces you have, but whether you can use them wisely that determines if you win or lose.

Immediately after the foundation of our organization was crafted, we began to seek the best and brightest in their fields. Doctors, lawyers, pushers, cops and hackers, we gathered an elite team, using our influence, money and power, to give ourselves the best chance of success in Ashkelon’s drug world. Starting in July we opened up our organization to other members. We’d set the groundwork for the cartel, but then we needed to fill it out. Enlisting pushers, hackers, hatchetmen, spooks and whatever else we needed, we began the process of rounding out our cartel with some promising new individuals, each with their own unique experiences and expertise.

Currently, we are building up our monetary power, extending our reach into new territories, and decoding the riddle that is Pueblo. Money laundering may not be glorious, but it’s necessary, and we’re doing our best to expand our endeavors. We have an IT company we run down at Kingsway, the newly opened Mt. Olympus casino in the heart of Victoria, the refurbished cruiseline we recently acquired and renamed Olympus Cruises, and of course, many other overseas companies we have staked a claim in. However, even with all of these properties our eyes are constantly open as we look for more and more ways to expand our income as well as our power.

Most recently, during the grand opening of the refurbished cruiseliner, The Hyperion, we came into a small-scale conflict with Pueblo. With all our major members and leading staff on board, the ship's security was breeched by a handful of Pueblo hitmen. Though the security was hired help, they were hired from a company (Lowry’s Security) that we have used many times before for other major events. Their standards of service have consistently been top quality, however it appears that someone in the corporation was paid off by Pueblo prior to the assignment of security guards to the ship. Unbeknownst to us, certain members of the staff had been replaced with Pueblo workers. Biding their time, they located and sought out our resident hacker, Zakhar Matsukovich. Intent on taking his laptop’s harddrive and interrogating him for the vast array of information he has stored in his own mental harddrive, he was dragged down to the boiler room of the ship and subsequently tortured. Once it came to our attention that there was Pueblo on board, we launched a search and recovery mission. All members were sent to search the boat. Once he was located, all hatchetmen were sent on a search, destroy and then rescue mission. After the Pueblo were terminated, the ship was turned around and Zakhar, as well as one of our members, was taken to Mt. Ararat for treatment.

Currently, Pueblo has the harddrive from Zakhar’s computer. How much of the code they’ve cracked we’re unsure of, but with the knowledge of what’s on that computer, we have to take extreme precautions from now on. At the moment, we’re readying ourselves for our next course of action. Plans are in the works, and hopefully we’ll be able to, within the upcoming week or two, get our plan of attack in motion.

In the drug world it’s not about winning the battles, it’s about winning the war. And this war is ours.

OOC:

This page will be updated on a rolling basis as events and missions play out. We thought it would be best to keep an ongoing journal to help new members understand what has happened so far and what the plot is progressing towards, as well as to keep long time members in the know as well.

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Mission Slots

As you know, our missions are done on a rolling basis; as we get them written and sent, the slots become open for others to fill that space. Here are the current slots for the requested missions:

1. Tetsuo
2. Leilani and Ryland
3. Dorian and Jamison

We aim to get missions at latest a week after assignment, and from the time you get your assignment you will have three weeks to your due date. Bear with us, and check back if you’d like to hear the status of your mission as far as writing goes. For further journal resources, see:
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Simply note us with an easy “SIGN ME UP SCOTTY” (perhaps not literally) and if you have any partners, state them. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. If you didn’t get in right away, you’re next on the list.

Thanks, guys!

Your name is Ryland Avery and you just got caught peeing on a building. Rather than taking the fine like a man, you run like a jackass. Where do you run to? 

29%
10 deviants said Dmitri's underwear; they're big enough to hide an entire person in.
26%
9 deviants said AUF DEUTSCHLAND.
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5 deviants said Yo Mama's.
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4 deviants said Your bed, bby ;D
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3 deviants said OMG YOU SILLY BILLY. AKA, Salve's Haven for the Cute and Loveable.
9%
3 deviants said Timbuktu. If no one knows where it is there's no way in hell they can find me.
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No deviants said India, clearly. It's easy to blend in with a billion of your closest friends.
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No deviants said The land of the monkeys.
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No deviants said OTHHERRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr because your suggestions are stupid you lousy whore!!
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:icongulstab:
~Gulstab Aug 24, 2009, 3:16:24 PM
PFF a watch? whaat be this

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//Aw yeah nuts.
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*TheDevilsPlayground Aug 24, 2009, 4:33:08 PM
MY MISTAKE. DON'T GET YOUR HOPES UP LOSER.

...*Touches with love and affection and a hint of rape*

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“Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever” ---Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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~Geni-Tamerlaine Aug 21, 2009, 8:59:28 AM
Do you roleplay one-on-one?
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*TheDevilsPlayground Aug 23, 2009, 8:27:03 AM
We do a lot of group roleplays in the chat, but yes, one-on-one RPs happen too - really, it's up to you how you want to roleplay 8)

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“Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever” ---Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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~Geni-Tamerlaine Aug 23, 2009, 10:15:38 PM
I'm talking about one-on-one. What about cowboys?
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*TheDevilsPlayground Aug 24, 2009, 4:33:28 PM
Cocaine cowboys, sure. ;D

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“Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever” ---Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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~Polkadottedfezes Aug 11, 2009, 8:11:04 AM
Just found this place and it looks like a lot of info, but damn am I interested. And hey -the more information, the more thought-out it is, right? ;D

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~Silverleaf14 Aug 11, 2009, 9:07:18 PM
Well, if you're interested we'd absolutely love to have you!

And yeah, sorry for the massive read, we wanted to be as thorough as possible to let potential members know everything from the get go, lol.

Anyways, Hope to see you around some more!
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~Polkadottedfezes Aug 12, 2009, 1:29:58 PM
Ahahaha, no I am impressed no need to apologize! I'll check out more of the info and perhaps apply! :>

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*LuckySquid Jul 10, 2009, 8:40:23 AM
Damn, that was one hell of a read, but I finally got through the whole thing. |D At least it was interesting though, not like most clubs I've ventured to that just spit information at you in a textbook fashion. That always sucks.

Anyway, I'm definitely interested (but y'all knew that, of course, right?), and hope to apply when I have the time. (AFTER I QUIT MY JOB, WHOO.) Everything looks fantastic, you two. |D Brilliant work, if I say so myself, and, even if I don't join, I wish you good luck success with this! ;D :heart:

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Long live *Fine-Primo! >8C -shakes fist-
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