July 1945: Tyler Joe Pavoni sees the light of day for the first time in Empire City as the son of Sarah Pavoni, a dancer and Salvatore Pavoni, the consigliere for Don Antonelli, head of the Antonelli crime family. Tyler's father, predicts a bright future for his son in the family, while his mother didn't approve of her son becoming a gangster but it's not like she could do anything about it. 

September 1966: A 21 year old Tyler is told that if he wants to have a bright career in the Antonelli crime family then he should start low, with assassinations. Tyler accepted, and was given given his first assignment for the family. To kill Mike Johnson, an investigative journalist for the Empire City Times newspaper who started sticking his nose where it didn't belong. Tyler made short work of the man. One morning he waited for him to come out of the building where he was living in. After he did that, Tyler started following the man discretely and once he had the opening he needed, he pulled out a Smith & Wesson revolver and shot the man two times in the chest and once in the head.

February 1967: Satisfied by the work of the son of his consigliere, Don Antonelli continued to use Tyler for various dirty jobs. On the 21st of February Tyler recieved his biggest job yet. Don Antonelli told him to kill the David DiNetto, a ruthless and arogant man. He was the underboss of the DiNetto crime family, who back then was at war with the Antonelli's. On the next day Tyler entered the same restaurant in which David was having lunch. Since the two families where at war, security for the underboss was tight, but they were all outside, in David's car. Tyler sat at a table close to David and ordered some soup. After finishing half of the soup bowl, Tyler put the spoon down and pulled out a double-barelled sawed off shotgun from the inside of his coat, pointing it at David and unloading both shells in him, one in his chest and the other in his face. After that he took advantage of the chaos that installed to get away safe as David's guards made their way inside, startled by the shootings. The death of their underboss was a heavy blow to the DiNetto's who agreed with the peace treaty that Don Antonelli proposed them. 

May 1969: Tensions started to appear between Tyler's father and the underboss of the Antonelli's. By this time Tyler already became the family's favorite hitman, having killed no more then 12 people so far, all of them enemies of the Antonelli's or people that just didn't knew their place. He also earned the nickname Butcher because of the violent way that his victims ended.

June 1970: Tyler became the enforcer of the Antonelli crime family. Unfortunately his father, the consigliere, was still in conflict with the underboss, but they somehow managed to keep that away from the ears of the Don. Tyler found out and tried to put an end to their conflict but it was a waste of time. The hate between the two was just too big. 

August 1971: Tensions between Tyler's father and the underboss reached a climax as Tyler's father, in an act of rage, killed the underboss. Don Antonelli was shocked by this enormous act of treason and killed the consigliere himself. After learning of this, Tyler's mother comitted suicide out of fear that she will be next. Knowing that he will suffer too for his father's act, Tyler decided to face the situation like a man. Don Antionelli decided not to kill Tyler or send him to prison for life, because of his good and faithful service over the years, but instead he took away his position as enforcer and forced him to leave Empire City, sending him to Sunset Strip with nothing but some clothes and 2000 $ and telling him that if he will ever come back he will be killed imidieatly.

December 1971: After beying banished to Sunset Strip by Don Antonelli Tyler didn't waste no time and continued his life of crime, since it was the fastest way to get out of the mud he was in. In his first four months that he spent here, Tyler did the dirty work of alot of people. He wasn't very proud of it but he was aware that if you wanna get high you gotta start low first. And like that wasn't bad enough he was also arrested and imprisoned for assault and battery on the 11th of December. 

December 1974: Tyler was released from prison. During the time spent there he learned Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee's mixed martial arts style from his cellmate, an african-american by his name, Wesley Jameson with whom he became good friends with. The man also told him about a cuban drug lord called Alejandro Santoro, who is looking for dealers to sell drugs for him. He also told Tyler where he can find Santoro.

January 1975: It didn't take long for Tyler to earn Santoro's trust. After getting rid of some problems for him, Tyler earned the man's respect and Santoro accepted him as one of his dealers.

October 1975: By this time Tyler already became one of Santoro's best drug dealers. Although he was an expert in killing, not dealing, most of the drug money that Santoro was making was now coming from him. Slowly but surely, Tyler earned more and more influence within Santoro's ranks, as Tyler helped Santoro become the most powerful drug dealer in the city. At the same time, Tyler also started having dreams of power. He wanted everything that Alejandro Santoro had. The money, the mansion, the cars, the power, the connections, everything. And he was willing to do whatever for them.

January 1976: Tyler decides to make the first step in getting his hands on Santoro's empire. He killed Santoro's son. On January 23rd, Jesse Santoro was killed by a sniper from atop of a building. He was shot in the head and died instantly. The sniper was nonother then Tyler himself, disguised so he won't be recognised. 

May 1976: Santoro's son has been dead for four months now. Santoro took his son's death really hard. Although he was a bastard, Santoro loved his son and dreamed that one day he would be master over all he has. Things were going exactly in the direction that Tyler wanted. The only person that could stop him from getting his hands on Santoro's drug empire was now dead and Santoro himself, aged 66, had a very bad health situation. Exactly on the last day of the month, the 31st of May, Alejandro Santoro was murdered after Tyler suffocated him with a pillow while he was sleeping. Of course nobody knows that especially since Santoro's health was bad anyway. Everybody thinks he died naturally. After that Tyler had no problem seizing power, since no one stood in his way, as for Santoro's henchmen, Tyler, a charismatic person by nature, had no problem getting them to follow him just as good as they followed the late Alejandro Santoro.

Present day, 1979: It's been eight years since Tyler Pavoni was banished from Empire City as a means of punishment for what his father, Don Antonelli's consigliere did. After getting his hands on the late Alejandro Santoro's empire three years ago, Tyler kept consolidating his power, becoming the most powerful and feared drug lord in Sunset Strip. He also released Wesley Jameson from prison and made him his partner, his 2nd in command. Besides that, the police dosen't dare to interfere in Tyler's business, mostly because many of them are crooked cops following Tyler's orders and recieving handsome money for that. The few honest cops in the city are too afraid for their families sake to do anything against him. While everything is going exactly in the direction that Tyler wanted, he never really forgot what Don Antonelli did to him. He thinks about that alot.