The Muerteking Gang
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Zombie roundup!
🔧 Charybdis, 'Chary' [Kah-ree] Bruiser and lieutenant/babysitter.
Medusa, Safe and tech cracker
💉 Malebolg 'Mal' The Surgeon. Backalley medic.
🌹 Rosalie, bruiser and thief
Doug, courier
🐦 The Poet, lookout.
💚 Nuclear, Problem solver.
Chanterelle, Assistant tailor and stylist!
Edit: Now with shiny links!
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Decima isn't technically a Muerteking, but she is the gang's contact back on Subeta. Angel wrote her after joining the gang and made arrangements to recieve shipments of black market cosmetics and fashion for the gang to sell or use as needed.
[Dance=Kiarda] [Tot=Kiarda]
Slixward "Slicks" Sixwood
You tossed your item into the rift and a moment of calm is followed
by a flash of red lightning, before the rift shoots out this frickin' guy!
"Remember me, Chief? You accidentally dropped your Loft Keys... psst, what day is it? in a couple weeks you're gonna accidentally drop it i n t o t h e R i f t I was hanging around (minding my own beeswax), I mean I will be, from your perspective. Or someone just like me will be. It doesn't matter. Anyways, I totally understand if you don't want to pay what you promised, since you haven't actually asked me to jump in after it yet; soooooo... I'll just keep it until you catch up - time paradoxes can get really wild. Besides, I prob'ly got about a skrillex uses for a - Oh you want to pay now? Well why didn't you say so, chief."
Hey fella, tapped your precious sentimental heirloom by mistake?
That sucks. He'd risk jumping in again for... is that a morty card you got there?
So what, don't you look different than yesterday too?
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Does Symanda take over making the Muerteking Jackets?
CC // Mil
CC is an individual of mysterious and indistinct gender, and appearance, and basically everything else, perpetually hidden under at least three layers of holo disguises and tacky plastic jewelry. They’re a bit of a Lower Atebus celebrity - they’re in the crowd at every underground rave in the city worth attending, if not the host and organizer themself. Their chirping electronic voice and recklessly cheery attitude are a welcome distraction from the citizens’ dreary lives. Who else would get most of their torso blown off in a police shootout and just start wearing crop tops to show off their sick new cybernetic enhancements?
Their Feli Invictus affiliations aren’t exactly secret, but they’re good enough at covering their tracks that the police have never been able to even formally prove their existence. There’s an ongoing betting pool as to their true identity; the current popular theory is “rogue AI from some failed Blackmoon project”.
Mil is a Muerteking scrapper with a particular talent for cobbling multiple broken bikes into a single functional one. Due to a quirk of their infection process they’re less of a former human and more of a colony of worms inhabiting a lightly used jelly skeleton, and though they try to be friendly they keep forgetting nobody else can hold five separate trains of thought at once. Despite the undeniable quality of their works, it’s not a good idea to rely on them too heavily; they’re known to disappear for weeks on end and offer no explanation beyond a mysterious skeletal grin.
The two of them are completely separate people with no connection whatsoever, of course. Anything else would be patently ridiculous.
hah yeah i'd say that's a likely possibility! with her knowledge of materials and seamstress skills, she probably evolves each individual creation to suit the various members better - like tough but breathable cloth that somehow stays damp for those of the amphibious type, or soft linings for those with more fragile skin remnants or sores like herself. she likely enforces the jackets for those members who spend their time out on the streets with rougher jobs, and possibly adds a few hidden pockets for those whose jobs are a little more hmm shall we say intricate... she's not opposed to working with some of the other creative types in the gangfamily to work on improvements like stain-resistant compounds to imbue her fabrics with, or technology like communication devices.
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"grey would be the colour if i had a heart" ~nin ❤️
Yeah see I was thinking Medusa would need some tailoring so her poor jellyfish can poke out of there.
Kasey has a similar problem with Bindi Bite and all of the spikes. x3
Go look at Muerteking he was expensive to make.
That's the muertekings all over. "Please declare source of income: FOUND IT"
Hey, some of them have dayjobs!
Question, which mechanic might have been around long enough and been likely to be the one who fixed retooled Kaiju´s bike into Mals when he err, had a little change of identity.
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Danny is the weapon specialist. He will repair anything that comes in his way, provided it doesn't need too much coding, and creates a whole bunch of other things too (such as Angel's wings). He also likes to create very odd weapons that nobody seems to find useful, but Danny likes to claim that the right zombie hasn't seen them yet. If you bring him an odd request, he might not charge you for it.
How to Successfully Bribe Danny
Danny is willing take other forms of payments for his work, and the other members of the Muertekings have compiled a handy list for other zombies who need something done:
- Spare parts or materials.
- Coffee.
- Physics or engineering research papers.
- Cleaning services - do his dishes, clean the rest of the house (NEVER clean his workshop for him).
- Fire extinguishers - preferably full.
He's very much a hermit, and it's very difficult to get him to leave the work room. Because he doesn't leave his work room, Danny has very poor cleaning habits, and he's always covered from head to toe in grease, oil, and soot from some... "accidents". His work room is also very grimy and dirty.
His butterflies don't do much, but Danny likes to talk to them to help him troubleshoot his engineering if he can't get something to work. The butterflies also alert him to any sort of visitor at his door, since he may be too focused on his current project to notice the knocking.
Extra Tidbits
❤️ Danny has 24 butterflies, and they were named after the Greek alphabet. He can tell all of them apart, and could tell you some basic personality traits about them.
❤️ He hasn't explicitly stated so, but he does have a small telepathic link with them. He feels it if they're in pain, or if they're hungry, for example. Danny also gets very anxious if he's been separated from them for too long.
❤️ The butterflies eat blood. He used to cut his finger to get the blood, but now gets it from Mal or goes to Mal to have some blood safely drawn from his arm.
❤️ Danny doesn't eat much himself, but loves fungus-based sushi.
❤️ He's very short (5"5) and will remember it if you say anything about it.
❤️ He lives in his own house a couple of blocks from HQ, and his work shop is in the basement. Other Muerteking members are allowed to chill in the house, and two MK members even live there.
Mossy Clem
Can't stomach another bite of AI-optimized Iku Citrus[sup]TM[/sup] nutrient-enhanced fructose paste?
Public-access extruder terminal fee out of your budget today?
Allergic to BMC's synthetic FauxRophyll dietary supplements ("No charges ever proven in court!")?
Come on down to Mossy Clem's, get you some nutritious and fresh, zombie-grown
🍵 LICHENS MOSSES ALGAE and other diverse EDIBLE BLIGHTS 🍵
Naturally watered and fertilized by runoff from Blackmoonsanto Hydroponics overhead,
Mossy Clem cultivates over two dozen distinct (and delicious!) hanging lichen varietals
on vegan-certified rusty old service catwalks beneath the leaky pipes.
Probably don't drink the water for too long, though, unless you want to look like Mossy Clem.
Lichens are high in fiber! Lichen-flour is gluten free! Lichens are probably zero calories and Low or No in Sugar!
Clem sometimes can't remember, but it's short for "Clementine".
When his Grosseries infection cost him his grant at a Centropolis lab,
he pawned nearly everything he owned for a ticket to Atebus
intending to take work in one of the famous Hydroponics Laboratories.
Needless to say that didn't work out precisely to plan.
He'd really appreciate your custom.
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Here is how Pomona came to live on Clem's farm
Decima got wind of a fully trained therapy pony who was being abused, so she "rescued" her. Of course, that meant the pony needed to go far away, and Angel is as far away from Subeta as you can get. Angel was startled when the pony arrived, but quickly fell in love, and named her Pomona. Red Eyes was...less than pleased. Angel takes Pompom once a week to a local hospital to work, and takes great joy in helping others destress.
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Angel disguised to take Pomona to her job
[Dance=Kiarda] [Tot=Kiarda]
Private Outfit Bryce is the on-call technology specialist. He mostly makes cybernetic limbs/organs for whoever needs it, but he can also work his magic on anything else. Some people call him the technomage for his apparent ability to craft anything and make it work. Most of his own cybernetic parts were engineered by himself, though only the goggles weren't installed himself. Yes, he did install his own cybernetic arms.
He works with Danny to get the parts he needed shaped properly for use.
Extra Tidbits
❤️ He made a lot of the cybernetic parts for the Muerteking members without actually being a member himself for a long time. He was only doing favours for Danny.
❤️ Bryce knows Danny from university - they used to be roommates in the same dorm. Despite following him to the moon, they only communicated through text, and they haven't seen each other face to face until Bryce joined the Muertekings.
❤️ He's rarely see in HQ. He only makes himself known if he has to see something in order to fix it.
❤️ Part of the reason why Bryce make cybernetics is to spite the BMC.
Private Outfit Doug is a contractor who will smuggle things and maybe, if you ask nice, people though the maintenance access paths of Ziara. With some shoes and a mask, he can pass for a rather unattractive human, especially as no one looks to closely at workmen anyway.
Mister Smiley
aka Gumption Sequense; Jacques Knox; Smiles Sterner; The Lightswitch"Mister Smiley" was one of the best, and all the young hoods know it. He never failed, never gave up, and never took 'no' for an answer. That debt you thought would never settle up? Smiley could collect it. Those Sewer Beasts who've been hassling your friends? Smiley can dissuade them. Witnesses not forgetful enough? Shop clerks not respectful enough? Punks pushing drugs on your turf? UZ toffs condemned your house? You bring two briefcases full of sP, and you ask for him by name: Mister Smiley.
"Mister Smiley" was one of the best, and all the young hoods know it. Back in the days before Zone 1 raves; before LZS surveillance drones. In the old days, before he got shot through the head from behind, and had to get a clockwork lobe installed "to keep the old mind ticking". Before his yard became the hangout and informal (grouchy) training dojo for the ever-protean motley of cut-throats, muggers, ruffians, and stick-up kids eager to prove to Mr. Smiley they're worthy to learn his secrets and become the MK's Next Supreme Badass
"Mister Smiley" was one of the best, but I don't know if he exists anymore. He can't even step out his goddamn door in the morning these days (he's got one of those gentrified upcycled condominium units with the double-corrugated stainless walls that never need replacing in one of those swanky Rococo maintenance corridors under the UZ) without tripping over some real hard deader with his skin still smooth. Asking for tips, and best practice, and for Smiley's technique to twist an arm. Hey could he introduce me to 'Red Eyes'. Hey does he know the accounts toff. At least they always listen when he talks about the old times.
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