In the chaos, true friends become apparent. When you’re on your last finger holding yourself up from the edge of the cliff, who is going to grab you? Well, it’s not going to be Aizen.

For some background, we all saw what happened in Chicago this past weekend. There were some terrible and vile rogues. So damn terrible. Nick Valentine rogued. His reasons or whatever were that of revenge from what I understand. That’s valid. His target, Dixxon, died. But Nick had friends in Chicago, and somebody made a very poor decision. Some mentally deficient person decided to shoot Nocap_. I do not know who did this shot. It was initially blamed on someone in the West, but has since been denied repeatedly. Either way, whoever did this dummy move caused a major problem. Disciple then shot the Emo Poodle Makima, who was the Right Hand to BellaBrusca, and the Nocap_ shot caused another dummy to rogue, likely on the wrong target for his intentions or by some odd influence…

This created a clusterfuck. We all know or should know if Nick Valentine rogued on me or mine, I would shoot his friends too. But I wouldn’t shoot them in the middle of dealing with him. He had a limited amount of proers… They did not have the capacity to have multiple guns go off… etc. I would have shot them all AFTER Valentine was dead. But there was some reactionary pissy boy who decided to create a two front war by killing Nocap_ in Chicago, and then had to use more guns to kill additional friends of Nick whose resources should’ve been devoted to clearing just Nick himself for that moment. Durp. I would love to know who that numbskull was. There was one additional rogue who was not executed fast enough, and he was at least able to kill one or two before dying, relatively quickly.

So then, everything wrapped up. The wounds were being licked. BellaBrusca’s crew was nearly fully decimated. Succulent’s crew was also getting ravaged. At some point, while Nick was still alive, BellaBrusca was being targeted, but then it was called off by NY. BellaBrusca shot Cyclone at some point before then. Somehow, BellaBrusca was expected to live with the shame of allowing his crew to be killed off without retaliation. Then that Jeffrey guy shot at him the next morning… and missed, maybe because of the Cyclone thing. BellaBrusca decided to retaliate, as anyone would generally do, who was shot at. At least, he wasn’t a pussy at that point. He beautifully killed some people, namely Disciple the Poodle killer, and Compulsive Kristoff. He died too. Then Succulent, another leader in Chicago retired, seemingly out of some loyalty to Chicago, and his friends who were killed. In my opinion, he should’ve shot something too instead of just retiring, but for what it’s worth, he clearly was sending a message to NY or just done with the situation given the bad look of it all.

Speaking of bad looks, here’s where Aizen comes in. Aizen has always been very close to Succulent, but even more close to BellaBrusca’s line. He was Succulent’s RH. I noticed he left Chicago sometime during Nick’s performance. He did not return. And in whatever happened in Chicago, it seems he let his friends take the brunt of it, BellaBrusca having his crew torn apart as well as Succulent. Aizen also had several other supposed friends in Chicago, many in Brusca’s crew. But Aizen just fucked off from a war within a war on his own city, a bit of a fuck you to people who supported him. So now he’s back in New York with the remnants of the Numbers People. This is not the first or even second time that he has let those people hurt BellaBrusca’s line, but it’s clear where his real loyalty lies, always had, and it’s not with his crew, or even some of his friends. It lies with a higher power, a secret organization for which I can spot several clustered still in New York. They look tasty. 

So now things are a bit wonky. What’ll happen next. Where’s the paranoia? What’s Buu gonna do? Has anyone learned a lesson? Or are they ready to apologize?

Remember

Time destroys everything.

As always, mediocre critiques made in hindsight, a half assed attention to detail, a few snide remarks in reference to people's behaviours and a sprinkling of paranoia inducing propaganda.

The way you judge people by constantly dragging up their past while repeating the same routine yourself over and over again never fails to tickle my sense of irony.

Spike, you still seem a little obsessed with Buu. Have you told them how you feel? Maybe you can work out your unresolved issues.

Best of luck!

That was quite the speech SpikeyTongue, I'm quite surprised I managed to make it all the way to the end. I'm quite proud of myself that I did. 

After that very informative speech, I guess all that is left is to thank you.

Thank you for reminding us you have absolutely no idea what actually happened. 

Rolls by the newspaper stand where Aizen see's his name yet again from the same reporter.

Looking to his chauffeur he laughed and said "Someday I hope to be as interesting and unforgettable as my stalker seems to think I already am."

"Ehh, we'll chalk it up as another paper I won't bother to read past the title, and another rant going unviewed" 

"Take me to Philadelphia, I'd like to get a cheese steak sandwich."

Aizen and his chauffer went about their day.

Interesting chain of events from an outsiders perspective. You have missed out many crucial parts though.

Minaxi wanders off to find a pretzel stand.

Matty, it’s called political commentary. I don’t see any leaders stepping up to say anything. Where’s the street speech? As for bringing up people’s past, it defines most things here, like Aizen’s defection back with his generational buddies in NY. Some would even argue… like Nick’s roguing. Your prior city’s captain was very aware of bloodlines, and tried to push other cities to comply with purges. Maybe this was done under your nose or you’re just oblivious or intentionally covering it up.

Minaxi, please fill us in. In your new role of Godmother Chairwoman, it would be nice to hear things from a different perspective. I'd say Dixxon had big shoes to fill… but no.... He was no Drieza. So prove me wrong or fill in the gaps with these “crucial” parts. Or is Yankee just going to do all the work for you maybe? One of you, enlighten us with a speech about what happened, otherwise your words are useless, as are your lil follower TT’s  

But I’ll ask you, do you know who shot Nocap_? Why did they start shooting Nocap_ and Makima? We already know it was Disciple who shot Makima... So was it Kristoff or some other person in his camp that shot Nocap_? I see Kristoff and Disciple are dead now. That’s pretty cool.

Aizen, from what I understand, you've been pretty busy trying to blame people for “manipulation” involving Chicago's reaction. Just because they’re not in your secret group doesn’t mean they have to accept getting fucked. Beyond that, clearly BellaBrusca wasn’t manipulated. He got fucking shot at by Jeffrey and returned fire, albeit in a different direction. You expect him to build for you and comply despite abuse? He’s not your pet, is he? You sure treat him like one though… But still, even after you fucking left the puppy alone in a locked house, while you fucked off to New York from Chicago… Not even a water bowl… Not even some kibble… You get mad?  

Manipulation? Blaming Makima? Blaming a victim? Disappointed in you, bruh. You been mad heated. Cry more.

P.S.

11:21:53 <SpikeyTongue[MR]> Warfinn[MR] 4 cake

11:22:11 <Aizen[MR]> Don't even try, he's still mine.

Is he still a pet of yours too? I’m guessing you’re not gonna vote him into your not-so-secret group. He'd likely get treated like KP anyway. 

Minaxi, please fill us in. In your new role of Godmother Chairwoman, it would be nice to hear things from a different perspective. I'd say Dixxon had big shoes to fill… but no.... He was no Drieza. So prove me wrong or fill in the gaps with these “crucial” parts. Or is Yankee just going to do all the work for you maybe? One of you, enlighten us with a speech about what happened, otherwise your words are useless, as are your lil follower TT’s  

But I’ll ask you, do you know who shot Nocap_? Why did they start shooting Nocap_ and Makima? We already know it was Disciple who shot Makima... So was it Kristoff or some other person in his camp that shot Nocap_? I see Kristoff and Disciple are dead now. That’s pretty cool.

What really baffles me is the level of self importance a 4 day old pube has. Is it the duty of the leaders of this world to fill you in? Because you are so important or so you can update your wank bank of sad little logs? 

As for TT being useless - Quite fucking right, son.

Yes, TinyTim. That's something Drieza was trying to do right. He was attempting at keep the people informed, for the sake of the community. Without community, what's the point of all of this? There needs to be a narrative. There needs to be in-person communication. It can't be all phone calls and private letters in your small groups. A lot of the leaders are mute.

You have no sense of what standards are and what they used to be. 

I said your words were useless, just as they are now. 

You don’t know what actually happened, you weren’t involved and as per usual, it shows. You’re guessing, filling gaps with bullshit, then acting like you’ve cracked some big conspiracy.

You're coming up with low budget fan fiction at best.

Also no one owes anyone answers and silence doesn’t mean you’re right, you say there NEEDS to be this and there NEEDS to be that but that's entirely YOUR opinion and you’re so wrapped up in your own ego that you think everyone else should fall in line.

On that note, don't expect any further replies from me because I'm sick of your constant backhanded insults and generally shitty attitude toward everyone.

I'm all for Dons explaining their actions so that people know what is going on. I wouldn't have even hated you having a go at educating the rest of us if it wasn't served upon a plate laden with your obsessions and pseudo-offensive personal insults. I don't get them, I don't want to get them and I'm guessing they probably wouldn't be very funny even if I did get them. They put me off and make me pull a squiggly face. Please stop. 

From my perspective with my face de-squiggled, most of these shenanigans have little basis in the daily lives of the people involved. This was Nick-Valentine killing Dixxon, kingpin of New Skorp City, presumably due to his role in the death of DeanWinchester et al. That happened months prior so I could do without that being regurgitated. Then there was a lot of finger-pointing, he-said-she-said, cause and effect, coffeeshop numbskullery, which fails to distract us from the moral of the story, which was again people disregarding their family for their coffeeshop friends. A tale as old as time, which I personally find boring and don't want to hear anymore about. I certainly wasn't going to be the one to dredge it up, anyway. 

After that we have....whatever it was BellaBrusca chose to do. Yeah. Their own thoughts on the matter have been shared elsewhere and I would strongly encourage everyone to stroll right on past that conversation and get on with their day. How you get from there to Buu and Aizen, and bloodline line this and that etc., are the type of mental gymnastics that leave my 10,000 steps looking amateur by comparison. Trying to follow it all leaves me kinda tired, so I'm going to go and visit the NY Embassy in Las Vegas and possibly burn it to the ground. 

If you have enemies it means at one time you probably stood up for something you believe in.

Wanton destruction or revenge is not always the answer an eye for an eye makes the word bind but some people just want to watch the world burn. 

Well said Simon.

Truthfully, it is quite funny how this man tries to downplay Chairman Minaxi.

Drieza this, Drieza that. Drieza is very much dead. We keep his body in my castle in Queens in hopes that one day we recruit a dark wizard or a necromancer to revive him so he can fight one last battle against the morons of this world in the field that he loved the most.

As for Aizen, or anyone else from Chicago, I personally invited them, as I personally trusted all of them. Vroku, Aizen, Lydia, SSS and even our very own Dustin. 

Some in Chicago were somehow unaware of the rogues, believe it or not. Apparently a small percent didn't know about the attacks to happen. Those who didn't perish were, I'd say, either blissfully asleep during such a time, or were active in helping contain a rogue, or even help protect others.

It is actually quite sad. The events of what happened are very murky for some, but for someone who was there and talking to nearly every party involved, you are quite a moron Spike.

I'm not even here to be rude, or throw shit, but it's very clear you're just trying to cause drama and stir shit.

I don't know who killed Nocap_, nor do I care anymore. Makima was shot by Disciple after Thorkell setup and shot Kiel. After hearing from several children of the dead that well over a dozen of Chicago's finest, most loyal soldiers, all knew about the rogue actions and several were, in one words, "Itching to jump in".

There is no mistake, there was a loss of judgement for many people I very much consider friends. I lost dozens of friends over the past few days and truth be told, some days it is hard to keep on the right path when everything around one begins to fall apart. I can only carry on for my Dukedom and our Queen.

Thank you Matty. I still see no corrections to what I said. We NEED you to do better.

Thank you Simon. Your take is pretty accurate, but also, I don’t see any corrections to what I said. I do agree that this was all about coffeeshop friendships though, but as we know, I believe in those. That said, it was likely Disciple and whatever that made it about coffeeshop friendships by targeting them, while there was a rogue going off. They attacked Nick’s friends.

We can only hope that Minaxi rises up to the Quality of Drieza, Yankee.

But Aizen’s crewleader didn’t die when you got him, Yankee. You didn’t pick him up crewless. Are you in the habit of snatching RHMs and members of living crewleaders? His CL didn’t die for like a whole day, until he suicided. Aizen just left Chicago without even a dead CL. He did not return. He abandoned them. Then he berated someone for being manipulative because BellaBrusca went shooting. He got heated. He lost his cool. He should apologize.

I believe you that some people in Chicago didn’t know about the Rogues. The "plural" rogues, which were caused by some idiot shooting Nocap_. That is why people jumped in, and then it turned into some weird Chicago war and started another front on the West. Before that, it was one singular rogue.

Again, I see no actual corrections from you or major or “crucial” gaps you filled in particularly, just criticism (but not of fact), but the questions were to Minaxi and you replied just as I said you might, instead of her doing the work. Funny.

I don't know why everyone is surprised I shot Dixxon. My last 2 times being a crew leader have ended because of him, the first being when he was hiding incog in my crew and I hid him until he was purged by Spikes regime. Him dying caused a huge argument that ended up with Petah's LV being removed because I was a CL under MaddyPerez's late mother. The whole city was killed over Dixxons father being killed. Then fast forward to Dixxon and Deans time, Dean was under the impression that he and Dixxon would be life long friends who would fight and die together. Dean was under this impression until Dixxon and his friends shot Deans whole city. Which turned into a near 24 hour war. Anyone who knows that situation knows it went down the way it did because of Disciple (or Remus the Rat), he brought war plans to Dean, planned a war with him, then had Dean killed roughly 3 hours before their war was planned.

The moment Dean died he told Dixxon, Bella, Yankee, Aizen, hell he really told anyone who would listen he was going to shoot Dixxon and Disciple when he could. Not only did I say it at the start of the run, I said it the entire duration of the run, anyone who wants to act like they didn't know it was going to happen is simply lying, I was even told I could come to Chicago build and do whatever I wanted to do. Fast forward to near the end of Nicks days, he had the gun to do it but was holding off because Bella had a war of her own she wanted to do, Nick said he'd wait and help in this war. Until late one night Bella while playing dinosaurs with Disciple, Easy, and Nick mentioned her war she was wanting to do to Disciple. Nick knew in this very moment the likelyhood of Disciple not running and telling his friends about Bellas plans were very low. So I decided I'd go ahead and shoot Dixxon the next day. Had NoCap not been shot, it really would've ended with Dixxon and his RH (I wanted Disciple but he was smart enough to sleep on the west coast most of his charcters life.) NoCap dying opened the flood gates. When you shoot one of my friends who aren't involved, don't you expect the rest of my friends to assume a bullet is coming? 

We call all pretend to take the high road and pretend we don't take 90% of the actions we do because of coffee shop relationships but I know the majority of you well enough to know, you do. Hell we all do and honestly there isn't anything wrong with that in my eyes. I know for a fact I trust my coffee shop relationships I've had for 5-10-15+ years far more than I do anyone I randomly join simply because they're a CL at the time. I've made it clear the beef died when Dixxon and Disciple were dead. Anyone who wants to have an issue at this point, is just perpetuating the cycle, that's fine if we want to shoot each other until the end of time, I'm really not that hard to find. I'm gonna go take a much needed break, but you know I'll be back. Yall be easy now, and don't blow a gasket over a browser mafia game.

Much Love,

Dean/Nick/The Vibe Guy 

Well, I guess we can move this to OOC now.  It's sad how difficult it seems to be to understand the concept of a role playing game. Not only does in-character roleplay matter in terms of how we speak in the streets, but also in how we act and conduct ourselves (like a mobster who is subjected to and living in their specific environment). It's the main reason why these coffee shop friendships are not supposed to be considered when taking in-game actions. It destroys the role-playing dynamic. Without the roleplaying aspect, what is this? Answer: Just a social media platform where you click a lot of shit and compete to have the biggest dick. That sounds really boring and it is, but it's what most of you have turned this into.

There's no legitimate justification as to why a mobster who has lived in one city their entire life, worked for one family their entire lives, would somehow, suddenly, feel superior loyalty to others in another city they have never lived in. Here's a shocker for some of you: There's no requirement, in a roleplaying sense, that my character has to be the son/daughter/whatever of my previous character, so the entire "bloodline" concept is defective from the outset.

The Dude adjusts his cardigan, takes a slow sip, and eyes the crowd like they just argued over who owns the last bowling shoe.

"I don't normally respond to Spikes lineage but, man, folks keep sayin’ “Chicago” like it was one big hive mind, man. It wasn’t Chicago. It was people, Different people, different lanes and different agendas. Don’t pin every bowling ball on the whole alley.
As for me and mine? The Dude saw rogues were rollin’, sure. That much was plain as a gutter ball. So priority one was simple: protect South Side, protect the Saints, keep my people breathin’. That’s the whole song right there.

Now Bella… people keep paintin’ murals where a doodle would do. Cyclone- got dropped and the WS said Bella. Dude asked direct; got smoke instead of truth, then later the rug gets pulled and somehow I’m the mystery villain? Nah.

There weren’t grand plans on my desk, no secret maps, no Loop bedtime stories being read to me by candlelight. I knew what was in front of me: rogues had happened, my RHM was dead, and my crew needed lookin’ after.
Sometimes it ain’t conspiracy, man. Sometimes it’s just chaos in a cheap suit.

As always The Dude abides

Interesting.

Disciple a rat for protecting his family interests,

Valentine a hero for going rogue.

Is this opposite land?

Don wanders down the street aimlessly, mind occupied about the diamond score he is trying to get set up, "they lock the store up at 6 every evening..." he mutters to himself. but mid sentence he is distracted by a quarrel across the street. something about the recent events and the bloodshed, he wanders over closer, listening to whats being said. 

Sorry to interject here, and I know I have no real skin in the game, but i did lose my father in the recent bloodshed. for what? I have no idea, he too was in the jewel business, just trying to earn a crust to provide for the family. kept himself to himself, and lived by omerta.

You all remember that idea right? you know, omerta, respect, loyalty, honour. And where is that respect, loyalty and honour most scared? When we speak of our fallen forebearers. They all chose paths, right or wrong. and their paths eventually lead to their demise. sometimes justified, and the vast majority of the time unjustified. My father's demise was most certainly unjustified. But sometimes simple association is justification enough, and if no one here can handle that fact, then this is not the life for you.

Talk of lineage and ancestry and past wrongs does not fix the here and now. And prejudices each and every one of us here and now. Can't trust that guy because his great grandfather did this....Cant trust that lady because her mother did that. If your mother had balls she would be your father. Its all should of, would of, could of bullshit.

I will lead my life here as my father taught me, the old ways, the omerta ways. The old stories are great and interesting, but thats what they are to me, stories, of times I did not live. I am here to make my own story. It might not be the biggest or best story to be told, but its mine, and it will be told with omerta in mind.

Now if you all don't mind, I have the back of a jewellery shop door to fix.

Don ends his last words with a wink to the crowd and continues on his walk

Lorenzo leans on a pole listening before speaking up himself.

Im not here to speak about what happened past what my mother did. She did shoot Cyclone, ill admit that was dumb of her to do. He was an innocent bystander. She then lied about it, to several people. 

He take a long drag of his cigar.

As for the shots she took after that. One being Kristoff, that was more of a power shot to show he wasnt untouchable as many like to think. Disciple though, that shot was taken with malice. See my mother prides herself on loyalty. Loyalty to her family and district. Nick rogued and shot Dixxon. At which point Bella has some plans that required her to be out of town the next day. Plans that couldnt be canceled easily.

Lorenzo takes another puff of his cigar.

Bella woke up the next morning with multiple members dead and quickly asked what had happened. Learned that Volk had left and helped Nick. One thing she never found out. Who shot Nocap? She heard muliple names, many came from the west. No actual evidence though. The one piece of evidence that she did have was a witness statement of Disciple killing her RHM Makima. She even asked if it was true and got crickets for hours. 

Lorenzo stops leaning on the pole and steps on a nearby milk crate.

So what was she suppose to do? She was asked to lose her HQ and step down and go to NY. She has never been that type. She has always said she will go down with the ship. So she waited until the rogues were dead, went to sleep and in the middle of the night while sleeping in a safe house in LV, someone attempted on her life. Understandable that Jeffery_Lebowski wanted his revenge. She did not blame him, she wanted her own revenge. Disciple and Kristoff had bith went to sleep on the west coast. Bella heard the next morning that Kristoff had taken GFC in Philadelphia. She saw her shot and took it and flew back out west. Only to hear that Disciple had also few into Philadelphia, so she went and shot him as well. Her shot seemed to have perked on Kristoff allowing her enough energy to take said shot on Disciple as well. 

Lorenzo looks around 

Any sane Leader would do what she did. In fact many have. Bella catches alot of heat for the shot though, saying she was manipulated into shooting. Which is far from the truth, but as we see the victors write the history.

OOC: Sorry for any typos.