Contributions:
Suzanne (Koumei): .5 point
Max (Whipstitch): 1 point
Ia (Shady314): 3 points
Kel (Prak): 6 points
Verge (hyzmarca): 8 points
Stan (Neb): 10.5 points
Seth (radthemad4): 15 points
Resources 7 Herd 10 Military Force 6
Influence 3 Holdings 2 Contacts 7 Ally 5
Supernatural Companion?
Resources: Reappropriated federal subsidies and ANCSA graft helped the cabal acquire interest in a variety of holdings held under proxy via shell corporations, as well as direct attention away from the group's clandestine smuggling operations.
Privately and wholly owned:
TrueAlaska Tours, mostly involved with online reselling of bulk-purchased cruise tickets, but keeps two seaplanes in service for the occasional tour/corpse disposal/drug pickup.
Panhandle Dairy: Located in north Douglas Island, PhD is one of the three last dairies still solvent in Alaska, and runs a small scale adjacent cut-and-wrap facility. With 125 head, the dairy is known for the loyalty of its employees, attributed to their excellent benefits package. In addition, the dairy owns a customized mobile slaughter unit, normally used for preparing both dairy cattle at the end of their viable milking life as well as the veal necessary to keep the milk flowing, but is capable of being transported via semi to regional farms. When installed at a farm, a canopy is erected to conceal the actual slaughter, as well as discreetly collect from the livestock's bleeding out.
Mendenhall Tower: See entry in Holdings
Thunder: A heavily modified Hatteras 100 Raised Pilothouse Motor Yacht, Thunder's pilothouse and interior decks are fully enclosed. Windows have been replaced by LCD screens and camera feeds from the outside. It can be piloted without the slightest risk of sun exposure.
Vampire Mobile: A small cell phone company that owns a number of cell phone towers in State of Alaska area and surrounding wilderness. Vampire Mobile builds towers in underserved areas at a loss, taking advantage of state and federal subsidies and various tax deductions to make a profit while at the same time providing affordable smartphones phones through exclusive deals with Nokia. Vampire Mobile offers both contract plans and pay as you go prepaid cards.
It might also, hypothetically, have the ability to intercept and listen to any cell phone call in its coverage area.
Vampire Mobile doesn't have complete control of Juneau's cell phone coverage. There is still some competition from AT&T and Verzion. Still, Vampire has reciprocity agreements with both companies, and Verizon, as part of its 4G upgrades, has opted to enter an agreement with Vampire instead of spending the money to convert all of its towers in the area to GSM.
In addition, it provides free cell phone service to low income households under the federal lifeline phone service program, with an optional upgrade to an ad-supported smartphone.
Any cell phone conversation in Juneau has an 80% chance of going through at least one of Vampires towers, and this increases to 100% as one gets away from the city and into the wilderness.
Sex on a Banana: Sex on a Banana is an Indie Metal band formed by Verge during a short and ill-fated attempt to "do the Lestat thing." It turns out that he's a terrible singer. Verge pulled out of the band to the fact that he was holding him back, but he maintains a trademark on the band's name
Herd: A mix of church-goers, at-risk teenagers, lilithian blood cultists, clinic patients, dairy employees, and dairy cattle.
Military Force: Modified animals and townies with hunting rifles/bats, limited access to police.
Influence: Unnatural charm, technomantic intelligence gathering, and sponsoring the occasional Departmental Appreciation Day allow the group's agents to get things pushed through state and local government efficiently, including documenting fake identities.
Holdings:
Elysium: Juneau Arts & Humanities Council @ 350 Whittier. A decommissioned National Guard Armory, most of the space is open to the public during the day, with the exception of the back entrance concealed behind superfluous utility meters, which opens upon a panic room/foyer.
Holding: Kel's manor, garden, and overgrown environs outside Juneau
Holding: An unassuming house in the 2200 block of Jordan Avenue, near the airport and UAS-Juneau. Subterranean levels designed for vampiric extended-stay, with sleeping chambers both buried and otherwise secured, fresh blood supplies, anti-supernatural ordinance, and bug-out bags consisting of a heavy-duty bivy sack containing $5000, set of nondescript clothing, handgun with 2 clips each conventional and silver ammunition, ID and passport for a cover identity, burner phone, flashlight, duct tape, heavy duty trash bag, twine, hand sanitizer, map, compass, multi-tool, and 10 square meters metalized PET film.
Holding: The majority of the apartments in the Mendenhall Tower are leased normally. The top floor has been partially converted into a large conference chamber used for meetings with larger delegations, with the remaining space reserved for as-needed quarters for the city's vampires.
Supernatural Companion?
Contacts:
Major Contact: Rita Stanhope,
Web Coordinator, UAS-Juneau, helps keep tabs on events at the local University. Her contact people are Seth and Kel, whom appeal to Rita's interest in the occult with the occasional scrap from their libraries.
Major Contact: Charles Douglas, Corrections Officer, Lemon Creek Correctional Center. Is paid to gather information about the incarcerated around the state from intake/pre-trial prisoners. He also sells small amounts of drugs to long-term inmates.
Major Contact: Tricia Alpert, MD, State Medical Examiner Office. Unrepentant alcoholic and fan of the occasional bar fight, Dr. Alpert once beat a man to death late one night at the Viking Lounge. After accepting an offer to have the body removed on her behalf, she has proven receptive to taking payment for occasionally pronouncing a death to be suicide.
Major Contact: Constance Dawson, News Desk, KATH. Her gambling debt providing a handy method of extortion, she is able to get the occasional planted story on the local news. She incidentally despises one of the show's co-anchors due to his considering her a production assistant, and has been poisoning his coffee for the last 6 months.
Major Contract: Joe Juneau: Founder and namesake of the City of Juneau, Joe is currently dead and has been since 1899. He still hangs around the city, though, and is prominent amongst its bodily challenged residents. If you need to know what's going down in the Twilight, he's the ghost you should ask. And he's fairly knowledgeable on the affairs of the city's living residents, as well.
Major Contact: Anthony Giorlando, Professional Skeptic: Working as "Tony the Truth-teller", Anthony supplements his income as occasional stage magician with modest ad revenue from his web series "Skeptics Stopping Scammers". He is most infamously known for lambasting the cable television show "Ghost Watchers", after an anonymous tip about a Canadian farmhouse featured on the show allowed him to reveal how the family living there were performing human sacrifices. Tony strongly implied the show's producers were well aware of the family's attempts to "give focus to the unfettered", and the show was cancelled shortly thereafter. He is currently working the cruise circuit while casually investigating rumors that a man living on the western shore of Berners Bay claims to be a
Kooshdakhaa.
Major Contact: Harold Dunbar, auteur of "Turning Every Stone": After languishing for years on local cable access, Harold considers his receipt of anonymously given capital vindication that "the powers that be are starting to take notice" of his conspiracy theories. The funding allowed him to lavish even more emphasis on production values, already considerable for a one-man show. A social media campaign orchestrated by the cabal's agents ended getting Dunbar an appearance on a late-night network talk show, vastly increasing the fanbase whom enjoy Turning Every Stone ironically.
Minor Contact: Scott James Lee, Guitarist: 23 year old Lead guitarist of Sex on a Banana, not quite a friend. Scott always wanted to be a rock and roll legend. He started his first garage band with he was 10. The guy eats and breaths rock and metal, but hasn't yet hit it big. He and his band are currently relegated to playing at nightclubs fill of cocaine addicts, but he's building a strong internet presence and hopes to get a record deal soon.
Allies:
Ally: Llewellyn Diaz, the proprietor of Glacier Distribution, runs a profitable fishing concern. In addition to purchasing hauls from individual ships, the company maintains a freezer trawler,
Thorton's Misfortune, with one refrigerated tank perpetually "out of order". The smuggling container has been used not only to make exchanges of contraband with other vessels, but to smuggle the occasional person as well. Mr. Diaz is well-paid, and knows better than to ask questions.
Ally: Peter Washington, Senior Internal Revenu Agent: Peter Washington is a 43 year old IRS agent stationed in Fairbanks Alaska. He was born and raised in Boston, and spent half of his career there, but found himself in the Fairbanks office due to a faux-pas involving his supervisor's adult daughter and a broken condom. In 2010 Peter's stalled career got a significant boost when he suddenly found himself in possession of documents that Juneau-area land developer Theodore Williams had undereported his income by 5 million dollars. The subsequent investigation had resulted in Williams's imprisonment for tax fraud and Washington's promotion to Senior agent.
Since then Washington's mysterious benefactors have delivered him information on two other occasions. The first occasion greatly damaged one of Vampire mobile's competitors. The second occasion destroyed one of Verge Caldwell's personal enemies.
Washington is vaguely aware that he's being fed information by a cabal that secretly controls Juneau and that has been tightening its grip recently. He does not care. It means more prestige and less work for him. If these people are using the IRS as a weapon against their enemies, then so be it. In his mind, tax cheats deserve to get caught. He doesn't particularly dwell on the possibility that some of this evidence might be fabricated.
Ally: Thomas Borecki, Psychiatrist, Bartlett Outpatient Psychiatric Services: Kept compliant through his younger brother, David's terminal illness being held at bay via ghouling, Dr. Borecki will section others upon command to Bartlett's Mental Health Unit (where Discipline use can quickly lend credence to a diagnosis), and has begun referring patients with substance issues to New Lodge over the adjoining Rainforest Recovery Center.
Ally: Maggie Lambert, AP Juneau Bureau and contributor, Juneau Empire: Maggie's career took an upswing after the publishing of her expos� on corporate malfeasance in the lumber industry following her predecessor being found dead of exposure, and she has come to believe her informant is high-ranking in state government. Invocations of National Security, not to mention the occasion Domination, have shifted her professional ethical compass such that she will spin regional news in whatever manner she is told.
Ally: Guy Locklear, President, Juneau Rotary Club: An avid hunter and supporter of gun ownership (not exactly a contentious view in AK), it was after his son Steven was found partially eaten in Cope Park that community safety became the sole focus of his charity fundraising. Helped considerably by a grant from Citizens for a Safer Juneau, Guy has established JuneauGuardian.com, a site displaying feeds from cameras local businesses and homeowners opted to have installed on their property. Initial reticence to being under surveillance was largely dispelled after an almost inexplicable bear attack on a local daycare, when the local response being faster than the official one led to saving the lives of a state Senator's twin daughters.
Needless to say, any of the feeds can be placed on a delay or replaced with stock footage if deemed useful.
