Crown City - current state: Plagued with criminal Kingpins who have devoured the majority. Politics have become corrupt in addition to the law enforcement that abides by it. Fear expands through the suburbs, even the wealthy unable to pay off their local thugs. The city looks broken, no longer a prospect in the run to perfection. Citizens still have their jobs though and live their daily lives. A lot of the major crimes are done underground - meaning outside of people's 'line of sight'. Overall, the crime rate has increased by about twenty percent. The city looks in shambles, but can still be brought back to its prime.
[center][i]Crown City had always had a large criminal population. After leaving State View Prison, free men would return to their facilities in the ghettos of the city. These ghetto's were usually stationed in the lower class sectors of the Crown City. The wealthier people would remain in the suburbs and never dare to step foot in such criminally based locations. Even cops feared these ghettos for it was where many bigger criminal names sprouted from. Names such as
Jimmy Clain - a never convicted trafficker of women who originated near the border of Crown. He's a very intelligent man, keeping his business as 'legit' as possible under the circumstances. Everyone knows what he does, but nobody is ever man enough to do anything about it. The guy is always escorted by big tough guys with guns under their coats - guarded twenty four seven. There's also that lunatic known as
Cinco or Fives. He's a crazy Mexican thug who came out of nowhere and has been known for kidnapping wealthy folk and torturing them - all while taking video's and posting them on his website. His current status is unknown.
Anyhow, these guys are not the biggest names out there, but some just to show how bad Crown City has gotten. It wasn't THIS bad before. Before, there were actual people who fought against these criminals and made their lives hell. They were known as vigilantes by some, but heroes by others. They did their job right. Stopped the bad guys and put them in State View Prison. Problem was, vigilantes didn't have the numbers - the criminals did. It came to a point where masked heroes were being put down quicker than they could rise. Because the same criminals that they put in would get out and get revenge, it was getting uncontrollable. That's where we are now.
Since the vigilantes/heroes who did their job right and under the law kept failing, another side to heroism was established. These very few 'heroes' disregarded the laws and understood that to take back their city, they needed to do the thing others failed to do - put the criminals down and don't give them a chance to get back up.
SO! The plan is to have our characters be these dark vigilantes/heroes who take down the bad guys. OOOOOOORRRRRRRR, if you want, you could be one of the remaining 'good heroes' - even a new 'good hero' who still believes in the system. As for the dark heroes, they are not afraid to kill or go beyond the necessary to put these criminals down. Of course, with such a history, these dark heroes will be controversial in the streets. People will see them as villains, other will believe they are heroes. Even the cops will have that same decision to make. I'm not looking to create a dark hero team - that's not the point of this. The main goal is to have our heroes take the city back from the Kingpins that own it. If they come together, great. If not, I think it could still work.
If you have any questions or wish to share your own ideas feel free!! And OH! There are no powers! These are powerless/magicless humans who just decide it's time to fight back.
