"I am Uncle Six, and I have a friend. See if you can work something out"

UNLIKELY ALLIES

SAN FRANSISCO TONGS

 The State of California was at one time called Gow Kum Shain, or Old Gold Mill. Sacramento was known as the second city, or Yee Fow, and San Francisco had the Chinese name of Tie Fow, or the big city. America, that is the United States of America, was known as May Yee Kwock, or Ah May Yee Kah, also Fah Kay Kwock, meaning the flower flag country. Americans were known as Fah Kay Yen, or flower flag men."

"In ending there is nothing in the world that will make a Chinaman madder than for anyone to say to him Sock Nika Tow, which translated means 'Chop your head off'."

-- modified from the Museum of San fransisco site


HISTORY

[Real]
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Wah Ching, a Chinese street gang organized in 1966, came to control most of the criminal vices in the Chinatowns of Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Their extortion and protection rackets are reminiscent of decades-old Mafia activity. The power of the Wah Ching on the West Coast was never seriously threatened until 1989 when a new criminal organization, the Wo Hop To triad of Hong Kong began moving into the San Francisco Bay Area. In recent years, there has been a consolidation of power between these two groups and the evolution of an Asian super gang.

[fiction starts here]
In the years before Emerald Hammer was first picked up by Stefan Alzis, there were two triads operating in the San Francisco bay area; The Wah Ching was involved in murder, extortion, prostitution, robbery, gambling, loan sharking and perhaps drug-trafficking. The Wo Hop To Triad was a long-standing Hong Kong Triad, that began immigrating to California during the mid-1980s. They have a long history of involvement in illegal gambling, prostitution, narcotics trafficking, and extortion.
Both of these traids made extensive use of the Vietnamese street gangs in their operations, using them as soldiers, mules and cut-outs to protect their own operations.

Some years ago, they entered into their most serious gang war yet, culminating in several drawn-out gun battles that soon involved the SFPD's patrol and SWAT officers, this resulted in the arrest and/or death of many Tong members.

Shan Chu [489] - Triad Head - UNCLE SIX

 [Loosely based on Benny Ong, 'Godfather' of the Chinese organised crime community in New york who died aged 87, August 1994.]

"I am Uncle Six, and I have a friend. See if you can work something out"

They call him grandfather when they obey him, they call him Uncle Six when they come to him asking for favours, bearing elaborate gifts. They call him Benny Ong when the outsiders come, he is the head of Kung Lok Triad in San Fransisco.

He is 80 now, but is spritely for his age; "Feel good, eighty years old, feel good.", he syas when complete strangers walk up to his favourite restaraunt table to pay respect, and ask him how he is. He sits beneath a golden pheonix, symbol of strength and good fortune, back to the wall.

Uncle Six "He'd rather be known as Benny Ong; U.S. adviser. Chinese Consolidated Benevolent association; worldwide adviser, Chinese Freemasons. Grand old man, Chinatown." says his Lawyer bruce McKitrik.

To the people of China-town who come to visit him and ask for favours, he is just plain "Uncle Six," a peasant farmer's seventh son, who left China when a boy and became, to use one of his expressions, a big shot in the mountain of gold - which is how poor boys like him imagined the City by the Bay

THE LUNCHEON SET

On a good day in Chinatown, Uncle Six eats lunch at the Hong Shoon restaurant on _________. Naturally, a picture of him hangs by the cash register. He sits at the same round table, his back to the wall, directly beneath a gold phoenix symbolizing strength and good fortune.

He's always accompanied by deferential men, and after his rice noodles and soup, he holds court for awhile, fighting off time, chewing on an unlit cigar, telling stories, soaking up Face.

Then he returns to his office, giving instructions to his followers, choosing who lives and who dies, where to sell drugs, and for how much. Which pimps should be squeezed, and which should be rewarded.

In the evening he will retire to a private club in Chinatown where the prettiest women that his snake-head organizations bring in from China will perform in anyway his men want them, because they have no escape.

Last thing at night, he will go to consult his spiritual advisor, the Heng Chu, who will read the bones for him, and provide advice based on the will of his ancestors.

OTHER IMPORTANT PERSONS

Fu Shan Chu [438] - Sub-Boss

With the head of the triad, this man shares the power to call death sentences on members of the gang, and outsiders.

Also of equal rank to the sub-boss.

Heng Chu [438] - Incense Master

The Heng Chu is the spiritual master, watching over rituals, oaths, and new membership.

Sing Fun - Vanguard

The Sing Fung helps with the above, but also establishes new sub-groups of the Triad, almost like a franchise officer.

Hung Kwan [426] - 'Red Pole'

The military commander for the "soldiers", he must organize protection of gang territory, or taking over new turf from other gangs.

Pak Tsz Sin [415] White Paper Fan

The gang's financial and business advisor, . He keeps the books.

Grass Sandal [432]

The liasons head is the Grass Sandal, he works with pay-off victims, with other branches of the triad, and other gangs.

Below these dignitaries, are several departments:
 accounting         finances, money laundering
 recruiting         new members (some forced in); finding spies; social
                    events
 operations         profitable activities (e.g. drugs, prostitution,
                    extortion, gambling); punishments and revenge
 communications     liason between other branches of triad, other crime
                    groups, and to Hong Hong lodge
 training and       martial arts and weapons training; benefits to widows
 welfare            and wives of jailed members; medical coverage

Poo Tow Choy - Tong Enforcers

 "During the last years of the 19th century, the Chinese did not use revolvers in their tong wars, believing they made too much noise. A lather’s hatchet sharpened to a razor edge was their chief weapon. With this they could chop a man all to pieces and generally, when they did leave him, would drive the hatchet into his skull and leave it there. The men using these weapons were known as Poo Tow Choy, or little hatchet men."

-- modified from the Museum of San fransisco site


These guys are trained up from the most promising Street Gang members in the tong's turf. their methods are brutal and direct, and usually involve beatings, or message sent by the removal of body parts.
These men are in the direct control of the Red Pole, although both the boss and the sub-boss may issue them orders. Other ranking members of the may order them, but they will always follow the orders of the Red Pole or Uncle Six first.

SIMULATION STATISTICS

STR: 15  CON: 15:  SIZ: 10  INT: 10  POW:  9
DEX: 13  APP: 10:  EDU: 15  SAN: 45  HP:  13
Skills: Spot Hidden 30%, Sneak 50%, Listen 40%
Combat: Fist 75%, Kick 75%, Martial Arts 60% (Tai Chi/Kung Fu), Pistol 60%, SMG 60%, Lather's Hatchet 40%
Languages: Chinese 50%, English 35%
Gear: 9mm Pistol + 3x 15 rounds magazines, TEC-9 or Mini-Uzi +2 magazines, Mobile Phone, Mirror-shades, snazzy suits or urban combat fatigues, large knife, small hatchet.

Sze Kau [49] - Common gang member


Allied Street-gangs
Born to Kill This Vietnamese street gang are known as Bui Doi (Dust of Life) in their own tongue, and they control much of the drugs trade in _______ AREA, they also specialise in violent car-jackings, and home-invasions. They are brutal and violent, preferring machete's and machine-pistols to do their dirty work.


Hueng Chu [438] - Incense Master

 Sorcerer The Heng Chu is traditionally the spiritual master, watching over rituals, oaths, and overseeing the testing of the new membership. In the Kung Lok Triad, he is also a powerful mythos sorcerer, steeped in the traditions of his country, and learned in their magicks. It was he who counseled the leaders of both triads in San Francisco's Tong war, and it is he who will be most interested to find that a copy of the Kitab Al-Azif Necronomicon exists within his grasp.

He will also be most interested to find that one of his Tong has kept it from him....

He has another reason beyond his own knowledge and power to seek the book, many years ago, when he was a young boy, about to be accepted as an apprentice to a sorcerer in the old country, a man came to him. A foreigner, a man of apparently arabian descent. He called himself Steven.
He told the young boy that in the future, his master would attempt to murder him, to steal his body and keep it for himself, guaranteeing himself another hundred years of life. The man showed him how to turn the old man's spell back on him and steal the old man's life energies to extend his own life.
In return he wanted nothing.
At least not then.

Last year, the Heng Chu was visited again, by the same man, even though he had not seen him for nearly one hundred years, the man was unchanged. He told the Heng Chu that his debt was ripe to be repaid, and that soon a book would come into his possession. He would know it when he saw it. When it did, he could keep it for a while, even copy it, but the original was to be sent to a particular address in New York City, ostensibly as a peace offering to the NY Ghost Shadows Triad, a triad thought to have been effectively wiped out by the NYPD several years previously.
Then the debt would be paid, and the old man's life force would be safe. Stefan laughed as he shrugged off the Hen Chu's most powerful curse, one he had used to turn a mugger into a dried husk for failing him some weeks ago.

Occupation: Heng Chu of the Kung Lok Triad
Birthplace/Education: Mainland China / Self-taught
Sex/Age: Male (Eunuch) / 112
Likenesses: Kung Po (?) from Big Trouble in Little China
SIZ  6   CON  6   STR  6    DEX  5  SAN  0?  MAG 18
APP  7   INT 18   EDU 17    POW 18  HP   6
Non Combat Skills: Occult 75%, Botany 75%, Cthulhu Mythos 50%
Combat Skills: Dodge 10%
Languages (S/R/W): Cantonese 95%, Mandarin 90%, English 40%
Gear: sil Robes, the ghosts of a thousand ancestors
Spells: Shrivelling
Notes:

HERB SHOP

 The Heng Chu's shop is a combination of little specialist market, flea-shop and meeting place, on a small table outside, several men play mah-jong, the click of their tiles on the table providing accompaniment to their nasal conversation.

The small door leads into a long thing room full of shelves covered with strange packets and tins. Most of the packets are covered in dense Chinese glyphs, and the stars cut out of brightly coloured card advertising the special offers are equally as unintelligible. There is a strange smell in the shop, equally musty and full of life at the same time, like dead, dried plants.

The men out the front are most likely to be Tong guards for the sorcerer up front, he doesn't need the protection, but Uncle Six likes to make sure he is not disturbed unnecessarily. The men have Tec-9's or micro-uzi's under within reach under their table/chairs, and are good martial artists if it comes to it.

At the back of the shop a small Chinese woman waits behind an antique cash register. this place takes cash only, dollars or Chinese yen, it makes no odds to her. She speaks only Chinese, and is generally uncommunicative. Her face is wrinkled and puckered, like a badly-healed wound.

Continuing past her, a small door leads to twisted and winding steps. At the top of these steps waits a man, large an imposing with his body armour festooned with spare ammunition and even a pair of grenades.

THE LOFT

The loft that the sorcerer actually lives in is spacious and open, covering more floor-space than the shop beneath it. It is completely floored with wood apart from a few small ornamental carpets where furniture might marr the finish.

DECORATIONS

Certain ancient vases, a couple of Chinese martial arts weapons, antique acupuncture needles, some joss sticks, Flowers and a small ornamental fountain, which provides cooling water that drops down through several levels of gravel.


TONG CHEMIST - Arthur Choy

 A brilliant chemistry student blighted by his induction into the twilight world of Drugs, he enjoys his work a little too much, and has been known to partake of some of the results. Arthur is a slight young man with glasses and an addiction to hard-core manga.
The Mysticism of the Tong and the Hen Chu impressed him enough to make study the dark arts himself, and the Kitab Al-Azif was to be the crowning achievement of his career when he summoned his own tentacle beast and partook of a little recreational orgy with a few of the Tong's street- walkers.
He has been secluded and is working extremely hard to remanufacture the drugs that burnt down in his house.
He's extremely unlikely to be seen again in Emerald Shell, but the Heng Shu might shrivel him and leave him in public as an example to the rest of the tong.

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