Realistic or Modern Dead River MC Lore

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World building and faction information for the world of Dead River will be in this thread. Links below to take you to the specific posts:

History
Dead River Locations & Landmarks
Other Factions & NPCs

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History

• History of Mutation
• History of the MC
• NEGS

• You can find hints of humans with useful mutations through out antiquity but the rate at which mutants were born increased exponentially in the early 50's. And with it came an intense world wide paranoia: What was causing it? Nuclear weapon, pesticides? No real answers have been found. And more importantly what would become of the world if these powers were weaponized?
  
  In the mid 70's after some nasty international conflicts where mutant soldiers were deployed to devastating effect the UN declared mutant servicemen a war crime in and of itself. That’s where the Human Mutation Detection Device comes in. Originally, it was designed to filter and screen servicemen internationally. This categorization of mutants as living weapons and the ability to screen for it had varying cultural effects through out the world. The technology was invented and patented by a small American company call GrayCris.
  
  For a short time in the 80’s America became a hot spot for mutant immigration, as they were leading in research and medical care in the field. There was no restriction on Mutants until this wave of immigration kicked off America's xenophobia--if mutants were weapons why were inviting dangerous foreigners with unknown powers to live among us? The first set of restrictions in the mid 80’s claimed a focus on public safety, banning mutants from public space where guns and other weapons were also restricted such as concerts, sports games, and theaters. Later came airports, schools, and after a landmark case individual stores earned the right to screen with HMDD at the doors at their choosing. As a mutant there are many places you may find yourself restricted from, sometimes at random when its comes to private business.
  
  This has lead to vacillating societal outlooks on mutants, ranging from various political factions and religions shunning them or embracing them, the state itself constantly trying to prove it's not trying to build an apartheid state by creating various programs, business loans, and funding various medical research labs for a cure. Its been an up and down struggle for the last thirty years but mostly being a mutant is still a bad hand to dealt.
  
  While a person's mutant status Is protected under HIPPA, there is a whisper network of doctors who are willing and capable of helping with the less glamorous mutations that cause serious health problems. Some of these doctors have recently begun quietly offering patients a drug that suppress their powers for ~24 hours at a time.
• DRMC was founded about 20 years ago in the early 00’s by a group of squirrelly queer kids who were really into dirt bikes, mopeds, and bicycles. It grew with the original clubs members into a real moped and low cc motorcycle club. In the early 10’s the community came under the influence of an outlaw biker gang called the Crusaders, who were very much of the white supremacist variety. The DRMC worked closely with the Sons of Ragnarok to sabotage and destroy this gang. This is where DRMC got its legs in the criminal world as a faction that was capable and worth notice. In the fall out of their victory DRMC went through a carousel of leadership until Charlie return from college five years ago. The DRMC has maintained its standing as an immovable but small time gang interested in only its home turf and making a living. It is only recently that other factions have begun to take notice of the little motorcycle gang and its connections to a new and useful pharmaceutical known on the street as Negs.
• This is an underground pharmaceutical created by a now defunct laboratory known as the Cisnet BioClinic. Both Charlie and her partner in crime Thomas Finch briefly worked for the company and know the true horror story that it did not go bankrupt--it was assaulted with armed men and torched to the ground. Tom and Charlie were able to take what they had...stolen? saved? from the lab and developed their own prototypes, which they have been selling for the last three years.
  
  NEGs themselves have no recreational effects. They simply negate a mutation. For people with physical mutations the first dose can be quiet painful and have a profound trans formative effect. The same is true as the drug begins to wear off, though as the drug naturally abates from the system the detransformative affects tend to be slower, less intense, and less painful than a new or initial dose. Most mutants describe a first does of NEGs as deeply unpleasant. Side effects can include insomnia, agitation and mood swing, dry mouth, headache, nose bleed, nerve pain, tinnitus, and upset stomach and nausea. This medicine is not FDA approved and there have been no study on the long term health effects.

 

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Landmarks

• Dead River
• Other Towns

• GrayCris Central Factory: Built in the late 70’s this factory is where HMDDs are assembled and shipped. As a PR Campaign in the 90's the company began employing mostly Mutants during a downturn of mutant employment. It is the main employer of Dead River.
  
  The old mill: The mill went under in the 90’s and most of the old mill workers began to work for the GrayCris Factory, bringing their union with them. There was some friction for a time between the locals and the influx of Mutant employees who had come to work for the factory, but the much needed union effort was a galvanizing force. The old mill was never demolished and it still stands. The local kids like to say its haunted. It's a great place to meet up in the middle of the night.
  
  Dead River Haunted House: Dead River's one and only tourist claim to fame. The Halloween season goes hard, with numerous town festivities. But the big fake haunted mansion up on the hill is the reason for the season. Year round it doubles as restaurant and escape room. In the fall they employ a couple dozen full time scarers, with a corn maze and 21+ haunted trails. It's what the rest of New Hampshire knows Dead River for.
  
  State Liquor Store: A staple of any small town just off the highway.
  
  Fireworks store: Across the way from the state liquor store there is a year round fireworks store.
  
  St Bridget's Hospice: Run by Airn McKay, an Irish immigrant with a mutant son. She is a licensed death doula and specializes in end of life care for mutants. She also more quietly helps runaways, young mothers, and those with difficult powers.
  
  Resting Waters Funeral Home: Run by Feliks Alkaev, who is also the coroner for Dead River and some of the surrounding smaller townships.
  
  Dead River Elementary School: A small school for the local children. It has a sad fenced in playground and serves k-6. 7-12 are bused out to a larger school in the area.
  
  GrayCris Clinic: Employees of GrayCris get free treatment here but they also serve the rest of the community. The mutant whisper network about the quality of care received here by mutants is not good.
  
  General Store: The only gas station and grocery store in town.
  
  Dunks: When this Dunkin Donuts was built three years ago it was a big deal! The coffee there sucks, but hey thats our dunks! Almost entirely staffed by a rotating cast of high schoolers.
  
  Shelly’s Leg Auto Body: Legend tells that Shelly was the DRMC’s first president and she opened the mechanic shop with the settlement money from losing her leg at GrayCris factory. It is staffed by a rotating cast of probies and patched members. It is functionally their clubhouse. They service bikes and cars.
  
  The Cabin: This is Charlies little house out on the edge of Dead River. It may technically be in the Township. It's up out of the way and it's not uncommon for her to call chairs and patched members out to the cabin to have a serious conversation. At any given time she’s probably got two or three probies couch surfing cause she has a bleeding heart.
  
  Police Station: This little police station employs three whole policemen and exists because GrayCris gave the town the money for it when it incorporated in the 70's. It has not be updated since.
  
  Ian’s Pizza: The only pizza joint in town.
  
  The Montana: A bar just off the highway, frequented by truckers, DRMC, and the rougher sorts you might find in town.
  
  Betsy’s Diner: A small diner. The food is terrible. Its the only diner tho, across the street from the Montana and the gas station.
  
  Half Bottle Pub: Another bar, this one closer to the factory. Low key. Watch the game. Beers after work. We don’t want trouble here. Better food than Betsy’s but they don’t advertise.
  
• Boston: This is Boston but to the left. Has everything you’d expect real Boston to have and more.
  
  Manchester: also referred to as Manchvegas (derogatory). A small city and much closer to Dead River than Boston. This is where the big box stores are like Walmart and TJ Maxx.
  
  Up north/The townships: north of Dead river are six or seven smaller townships. Each with a population under 200.
  
  I-95: More commonly known as the Highway. You can ride it all the way south to Boston or all the way north to Quebec.
  

 

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Other Factions & NPCs

• The Aurora Syndicate
• The Family
• The Saints of Ragnarok
• Cops
• GrayCris Industries
• Dead River Factory Worker’s Union
• the Locals

• The local mob, made up of various superpowered entities. Wants the superpowered members of the DRMC to work for them. Allies, but like. Nervously. Bigger fish on the crime hierarchy. Based out of Boston proper.
  
  *Naiysu Quill: head of the Aurora Syndicate. Tiny, albino, unfailingly polite.
  *Devin Murphy: Quill's second in command and protégé. Tiny, freckled, eminently punchable.
  *Seph: small time Syndicate contact in Manchester. The guy your DARE class warned you about.
• Strong Brotherhood of Evil vibes. Mutant rights/mutant supremacy is one of their main goals. A sort of mutual aid activist group with hidden extremist tendencies trying to recruit and influence in any direction. They’re a new force in the world and the wild card. Base location uncertain.
  
  *Insomnia: You're not sure exactly what her role in the Family is, but she's the one you bump into the most. Not to be fucked with.
• Want the DRMC to patch in under them. Don’t like competition and don’t play nice. Rivals, despite that they are also bigger fish. Some 10 years ago they did team up with the Dead River MC to obliterate the local Nazi biker group, but the alliance didn't outlast the mutual enemy.
  
  *Wolf: the president of the Saints. Reasonable, responsible, and ruthless.
  *Bam Bam: Wolfs young, high strung, hot blooded second.
• The Law. Deliciously, the various law enforcement offices don't always get along.
  
  *Finn Dolan: US Marshall. Proves that being lawful good is not the same as being nice.
  *Christopher Faulkner: Dead River's sheriff. Thinks that having the DRMC around keeps worse criminals away.
• The corporation producing HMDD. Their central factory is in Dead River. They are an average greedy corporation.
  
  *Dr. Druthers: The Clinic doctor. Charming and snakelike, rumor has it he makes a list of mutant patients available to GrayCris and the authorities.
  
  *Elliot Cusp: Director of the GrayCris Central Factory. Awful. Slick. Techbro minimalist.
  
• The DRFWU was originally started at the long dead paper mill and took up root among the workers of the GrayCris HMDD factory. Dead River is a union town, and the locals put a lot of respect and pride into those in leadership positions in the union.
  
  *George Mayhorn: Union rep & selectman. Old man strength. Personality is mostly beard. Not a mutant. Old enough to retire. Started working at the Mill in his teens.
  *Mina Perry: Union rep. She moved here with her kids when she couldn't get work elsewhere. Mutant status unknown. Works in the tech end of the factory.
  *Camden Mayers: Union rep and life time local. A mutant. In his mid twenties. Does forklift things.
• It's a small town, everyone knows everyone, for better or worse.
  
  *Feliks Alkaev: The undertaker, and our friend in the morgue. He is soft spoken, incredibly tidy, and has a thick Slavic accent.
  *Tom Finch: A med school drop out like Charlie, the two of them have invented a drug that suppresses powers. NBD
  *Kitty McKay: Cathal's little sister. She hangs out with the gang often, but her crew is the local roller derby team. Pigtails and a baseball bat.
  *Airn Mckay: Cathal's mom. The death doula at the St. Bridget's Hospice. Known for also helping woman and girls trying to start themselves over.