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Our story starts in New York City, in the year 1943. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" has topped the charts for three months following its December release, repeated showings of "Casablanca" are practically painted onto the projection screens of cinemas, and "Fantasia" has solidified Mickey Mouse as America's favorite rodent. For the past year, Italian-Americans have been shipped back to their mother country with rifles and bayonets, where they are either killed or return home injured and scarred, facing the same discrimination as before their deployment. Now, more than ever, there is a cultural divide between Italians and Americans. Us and Them. The United States Constitution protects Americans, but there is no such document to protect the dagos. There is only a group so secretive, it is known to Italians simply as "Our Thing" with a wink and nod. To the rest of the world, this organization is known by a much more black-and-white term: The Sicilian Mafia.








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It's a link. Click it or you'll fall behind in OOC bants plot/worldbuilding discussion.

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@Ekreture@6slyboy6@BingTheWing@The Whacko@Fisticuffs@Grimhildr@Bazmund@Inkarnate@Sleater@Afro Samurai@Dynamo Frokane

Here's the OOC! It sucks because I had to remake it after losing it, so I'll probably make it prettier within the coming days. Please submit any character sheets on the OOC, as well as any questions, comments, or concerns.
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@DeadBeatWalking I don't know if I am really qualified for Advanced writing style, but I also don't think that I am "filthy casual". If you don't mind I want to linger around for some time until I decide if I want to commit to the RP or not.
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No idea why Dead wanted me to post my WIP, but okay.






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it'll probably take me a week (pfffrt, who am i kidding, most likely three) to finish my cs, but i'm here.
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“Hey, listen; I forgive you. I ain't so sure about the big fella though, you know what I mean?”


Name
Dominick "Uncle" Pappallo.

Ethnicity

Italian American

Age: 41.

Loyalty

Lombardi.

Rank

Caporegime.

Personality Traits
Extremely loyal.
Quiet and strict.
Authoritative.
Respectful of even his enemies.
Formulaic.

Skills & Talents
Efficient at reading and understanding others.
Patient.
Merciful, perhaps to a fault.
Kind.

Weaknesses
Not the most aggressive person in this brutal line of work.
His softness his often mistaken for submission.
May be easily decieved by someone more cunning than himself.
Sometimes he can be a push-over.

Background Information

Born to Michael and Antoinette Pappallo in the southside of New Jersey in 1900, his father packed his family up and hauled them off to Queens after receiving a new job. It is on the streets of Queens that young Dominick found his way into the unsavory: stealing stereos, boosting cigarettes, stealing from fruit stands. He spent young adult years (21-30) making a name for himself as a local tough guy who worked well with his fists and his mouth.

Eventually he caught the eye of some of the wisemen around Queens and soon was a respected associate of the Lombardi. Pappallo didn't "make his bones" in the same vein as other mobsters--he didn't commit a murder. Pappallo made his bones by earning: he ran bookie and loan shark operations, white collar crimes, money laundering, embezzlement, buying off judges, doctors, and politicians. He established relationships within and outside of the underworld and was soon a rising star in the underworld and within his own respective crime family.

And while Pappallo himself has avoided pulling triggers for most of his criminal career, he is not averse to calling hits when necessary. Even when ordering an execution, he is selective and careful; he does not bring death to those who do not deserve it, or those who have no involvement with the underworld. He also tends to avoid harming insignificant street hoods (petty drug dealers/users, petty thieves, etc.) His good nature, calm demeanor, and intuitive knowledge of humans serve to make him one of the most respected and beloved characters in all of the underworld; it is also the reason he runs a large cell of soldiers underneath Don Lombardi--Uncle Pappallo's legitimate connections in combination with the sheer number of made men and associates under his command make his reach seemingly endless.
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What kind of illegal drugs would have been popular in the WW2 US Army?
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@Ekreture All don positions are open, it just means I'll scrutinize your sheet more closely. Vacant positions will be played by me.
@BingTheWing There have always been soldiers who loot seized contraband, but Vietnam was the first war with popular drug use because drugs were already popular by then. For WW2, I'd say cigarettes and alcohol.
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Hey, you still open for more players?
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@Binary Reign Yes! We'll need a lot of people to fill all three families.
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@DeadBeatWalking What about marijuana, opium and cocaine? Weed was clearly cracked down upon due to the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, opium and heroin were already seen as vices, and cocaine was legal but I don't think its excessive use would be tolerated.

Also, I'm gonna go ahead and post a WIP, not because I'm lazy but because I genuinely need feedback on my character's history. I'm not really sure how to bullet-format it, because there's so much emotion and detail behind it.

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@BingTheWing Opium, and particularly heroin, was already a popular drug of choice in the 40s. Its popularity on the street doesn't see a massive decline until the early eighties when crack cocaine comes on the scene. Heroin in particular even survives the wave powdered cocaine made throughout the sixties and seventies. All the stories about the mob never dealing with opium/heroin and sticking to alcohol and cigarettes are incredulous at best: how do you think heroin and opium found their way into African-American and Latino neighborhoods with such ferocity? the mob. Sure, some old school dons didn't particularly like their guys getting involved because of the potential heat, but its use on the street was such a new phenomena that it had twice as much street value as cigarettes and alcohol--and what the mob cares about over all else is money. So, yeah it was frowned upon but the leadership doesn't necessarily care so long as they get their cut every week.

Pertaining to the WWII, opium was used as a painkiller (and was used as the painkiller of choice in the nineteenth century as well; opium isn't novel in its use for wounded soldiers on the frontlines). Droves of U.S. soldiers quickly became addicted to the morphine inside it. So yes, opium was a well known and well abused drug by American troops.
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If anyone wants to shoot the shit while I review sheets/fix up the OOC/so other GM stuff, this RP has a Discord now.
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Why not post a WIP? Everyone's doing it. And Deadbeat told me to.

It'll be all fancied up in the coming days. Probably the weekend.





Changelog:
May 15th, 2017: Ask and ye shall receive, Mad Dog Moretti as a player character W.I.P. sheet.
May 16th, 2017: Gave Mad Dog a temporary history summary.
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Oh, are we doing WIP's now? I can work with that.
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Alright, I was gonna have a long list of reviews, and then my screen broke. Seeing as this post is being typed with half an available screen like I'm fucking Macgyver, this will be brief. If I liked your sheet, you can put it in the Characters tab, if I didn't I'm gonna message you with what you should change before moving them to the Characters tab. That being said, I encourage everyone to tweak their sheets, add relations, and submit additional side charactes if you're up for it. Doing all of this would be easier using the Discord, so I encourage all of you to hop on it every once and a while.

The first IC post will be (probably) up by the end of the week. For those of you looking to get a headstart on your posts, it's a Feast of San Gennaro-esque street festival, where high-ranking members of different families are attending a church benefit/doing festival stuff.
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