Nail, Elf Gang Scout

Spirit: The life is one of the hardest one, and he doesnt care much about what others say, the most important thing is to get to the next day. Alive. The second most important thing is the gang. His whole loyalty is going to it. He is the scout, he is important, and he knows that. He is totally overcome by megalomania. Nevertheless he would never fight against the gang boss. He is the perfect second chief. Rather introverted and suspicious. Doesnt care about killing. Hates the corps (brought only evil). The bad guy and doesnt care about it.

Weaknesses: Cannot communicate, cannot trust, megalomania, cannot work well in corp environment.

Heavy cybered for a gang member. Chrome eye protective shields and optic magnification 3. The right hand is a cyberhand with retractable razors and internal smart link. Muscle replacement 1 over the whole body. Especially the muscle replacement (a one-time gift from a street doc whose life he saved) make him a kick ass fighter. As Nail is a gang member he cannot afford real goodies.

Black armored underwear of the strongest type. Brown synthetic leather trousers with the "corellian blood stripe" on the left side. A dirty grey t-shirt with the gang sign drawn manually on the front and on the rear side. Black army boots with iron caps. Above that all a long duster, dark grey, with heavy visible armor and the gang sign painted on the back. This look supports the appearance of the tall lean scout. He never wears anything other than this. In fact, he has no other clothes.

The gang sign of the Silver Talons is a hand that emits a strange light. It symbolizes that everyone that interferes with the gang gets the experience of a hand strong and miraculous like nothing he has ever seen. Also symbolizes the darkness of the gang members hands. They all have at least one cyber hand which may look that dark way in the astral space.

The Silver Talons are an elven and trolls only gang that sees only elves and trolls as the "true" races, elves for superior intelligence and trolls for superior strength. The do not hate human, dwarfs, nor orcs, though. What they do hate are all corporations, the yakuza (these japanese businessmen destroy our streets along with the corps !), and the mafia (same as yakuza). All gang members wear gray long dusters with visible armor and the gang sign on their back, and they all wear black army boots with iron caps. All members have at least one cyberhand with retractable razors. They also use only knives with red blades (first red color, then the blood of the enemies). The territory is marked by a hand, painted with the blood of an enemy (or a squatter) onto a housewall. It is usually only a small part of the puyallup barrens. The number of gang members varies between 10 and 15 (small).

The Silver Talons earn money by theft. They steal everything from the corps they can get. More detailed, the use a stolen vehicle to drive into Renraku arcology suburbs and to both rob the people, the shops and to steal additional vehicles that they then sell to the local dealer. They also trade with BTLs (from the mafia) and control local prostitution in their area. Consistently they only allow elven and troll women to do their occupation in this area.

The gang eveloped 10 years ago, when Mitsuhama forces thought a special area in the barrens would cover some magical criminals, and completely destroyed that area. The neighboorhood kids, 30 in numbers, were reduced to 5, three elves and two trolls. They got away, got another piece of the puyallup and fought their fight for a new area. With success. Elven intelligence and troll strength combined to great success, and they soon developed their own signs and colors and then began to hire new members. Every new member must attack a mitsuhama salaryman and dye his knife red with his blood. After that, conservation sheets preserve the blood on that knife so it stays red. If a gang member loses his knife, he must attack another mitsuhama guy. Nail was one of the first new members of the Silver Talons.

Nail was born by a italian prostitute in the puyallup barrens, the father is unknown but is rumored to be a shadowrunner magician. The mother didnt care very well about her baby. Nail didnt always have enough food, the result is that he now eats very much. Nail was often sick, but no one cared.

Nail got on the wrong way as soon as he could. He began to walk with 1 year and to speak with 4, a sheer survival need. As he was 5, he could already run and handle a knife. With 5 years, he was caught for shoplifting for the first time. Since then, the cops took notice from him.

With 6 years the magical gift appeared. Nail instinctively "knew" when he could steal and when not. He also "noticed" the cops long before they were there, so his previous conviction register kept quite short although he stole a lot. Nail wasnt brutal, though. The sheer kick of stealing sufficed. He avoided almost all fights by "sensing" something bad coming.

With 8 years Nail began to smoke crack. His mother was already old and worn, and as she dared to try to slag him, Nail killed her with his beloved knife. He shed no tears since this prostitute had never been a real mother to him. After doing this, he went away into another part of the puyallup barrens.

Nail celebrated his 9th birthday by becoming a member of the Silver Talons. He went to the mitsuhama arcology by foot and killed a shajkujin by spotting for the moment of maximum distraction. Then he struck with his knife into the throat. He was the first and the youngest new member of the gang that actually not just hurt, but killed the initation victim. Nail enjoyed his life for the gang, as there was plenty of action, and the gang delivered him girls and drugs, and protected him from the police.

With 11, he also began to realize what he could do with his magic, and he devoloped spells consistently. They helped greatly in avoiding the cops, and Nail was soon indispensable for the Silver Talons. His contempt for prostitutes continued as he got an overview over the gangs activites. He still smoked crack, and slowly turned crazy. But the combination of magic and drugs was too successful to try without.

On his 12th birthday Nail summoned his first air spirit. He suddenly went out of control, but Nail killed him in an instance before the spirit could attack anyone. But in this moment he realized how dangerous magic was, and he wanted at least to be clean. In this time he became miraculously help from some unknown. Nail was raided by an unknown gang of mafia assasins and got a special chemical injected. He couldnt smoke crack afterwards without great pain, so he was clean very quickly. Nail supposed that his father was behind that, and from this time his thoughts to his unknown father are always thankful.

Luckily, there was also a local retired hermetic mage named Mr. Hood in the neighbourhood, and he agreed to teach magic to Nail (an influence from his father, too ?). Nail learned quickly, and with 15 he had already reached full magical capabilities.

In the meantime Nail had learned to ride cars and motorbikes, and he learned street fight and firearm handling from the other gang members. Unluckily Nail showed severe flaws in using computers, but his magical talents made that acceptable. He continued to raid everything that looked like corp with the other gang members, and with 14 he began to work as a scout for the Silver Talons.

Internal fights ended in having the black american troll Degde as the first troll gangboss ever. Nail used his chance by supporting him, and with 15, as he had finished his basic magical training, he became the right hand of Degde.

From now on life was much better. Degde was a very abled fighter, and he taught Nail much about street fight. Nail, on the other hand, thaught Dedge to think as a strategic intelligent leader, and so a very close friendship developed.

With 15 Nail began to work partly for the mafia as a runner for small packages and other things. His reliability earned him high rankings, and soon he could afford to cyber a little bit. He only got better through this, and he ignored the loss of magic because cyber was worth much more.

As he was 16 years old a war between yakuza and mafia broke out in that area. No one dared to touch the area of the Silver Talons, as the criminal orgs needed all power for the battle against the other. In a fight near the Silver Talon area, Nail detected the shadowdoc that had him his cyber implanted, in a hopeless battle against two yakuza guys. Nail fought alone against the two yakuza guys, and eventually he won by using his combat sense spell and the last service of his only air elemental. The doctor was very grateful, and with time, he became one of the best connections of Nail. He also donated a brand new artificial muscles set to Nail, and so Nail became one of the strongest elves of the Silver Talons.

Now, with 18, Nail is clean, has much magical knowledge, and he is a fierce fighter on the street. He still learns from Mr. Hood, and Degde and Nail are the perfect team, the duo infernale, the symphony of destruction. Since 4 years no one has dared to announce a fight against the gangboss and his right hand.