NPC Bios

Staff characters don't get full bios because most of them are not fully developed individuals. Still, a few of them rate a bit of explanation, so here is a quick paragraph on them.


Lorenzo Romano, Senior
The co-founder of the Dallas-based Romano crime syndicate and its undisputed leader. He has always been known for his genial charisma, his Machiavellian scheming, and his ruthless drive to make the Family great. Now, though, he's getting old. He's arranged for a collection of trials to test his three children to decide who among them best deserves to succeed him.

Emilio Romano
Lorenzo's older brother, he helped his sibling found the Family. Not a leader himself, he was content to support and advise his brother. He masterminded the Family's efforts to build an intelligence network throughout the underworld. In his youth, he was also the Family's executioner, but now he leaves most of the field work to his son, Luigi. His role has never been well known, even inside the Family, and he likes that just fine. The great frustration of his waning years has been an inability to unmask the Family's mysterious rival, the Ghost.

Luigi Romano
Emilio's only child, he has been groomed to take over his father's role as spymaster and assassin. He's never been sure if he was as satisfied with an unknown behind the scenes role as his father was.

Tony Podrist
Tony is a small time hood who used to work for the Romano family. Always looking for a quick scheme, he decided that prudish Vittoria Romano would make a good meal ticket. Mustering his oily charms, he seduced her and vowed his undying love. Few others in the Romano family were fooled, though, and he was summarily exiled after her father discovered the affair. He's still seeing her on the sly, though, and he figures they'll get back together once her dad kicks off.

Antonin Cormyr
The leader of the Las Vegas Casino Owner's Association (aka the Vegas Mob), he's a shrewd and powerful man. He and Lorenzo have long had a (mostly) cold war over who would control the underworld throughout the American southwest. He honestly regrets Lorenzo's impending retirement since he loses the opportunity to defeat him once and for all. At least this will give him time to focus on the damned upstart, the Ghost.

Winston Maru
He plays Kobayashi to the Ghost's Söze (for those who've seen The Usual Suspects). To most people, he's a corrupt businessman who handles a shipping business of mixed legality. Actually, he's one of the Ghost's most trusted regional directors and one of the few who is privy to his master's identity.

Angie Aquino
A journalism student from a local university, she's from a sheltered and repressed background. She grew fascinated with the "bad boy" lifestyle of the local hoods and took to hanging around with a poor crowd. Once she found out the Club was a popular hang-out for all levels of mobsters, she practically moved in. She tells herself she's working on a thesis project, but she really just loves basking in the dangerously romantic lifestyle of the mob.

Ghost Traitor
He used to be a third-tier employee in the Ghost's organization reporting to one of Maru's assistants. He did a good job, though, and he was promoted to be an assistant to Maru's counterpart in Louisiana. From here, he helped direct the operations of the New Orleans mob. His new position gave him much broader access to the Ghost's secret files, though, and he saw something that drove him nuts. He decided to destroy the Ghost - and jail wasn't good enough. He decided to rat his master out to his worst rivals, the heads of the Romano and Cormyr families. He was terrified that anyone he contacted might be in the Ghost's employ, though, so he insisted on delivering the files in a face to face meeting with high ranking members of the Families.

Vegas Renegade
A mid-level member of the Vegas mob, he always nursed a secret hatred of the assassin who killed his brother. That assassin worked for the now defunct San Antonio mob and is now retired. Most of the time, she is hidden where the renegade has never found her, but she always visits Dallas on the same date each year. Her protection has always been too good for him to get her. He was bought by Emilio Romano in exchange for a promise of the assassin's death. He stole the FBI code books from Vegas and left useless fakes behind in their place. Once Emilio died, though, he and his counterpart in New Orleans decided to complete their deals on their own.

New Orleans Renegade
His grandfather stole a load of Nazi gold and art. It was hidden in a bank vault until it would "cool off" enough to be marketable. Before he could redeem it, though, the grandfather died. The son sold much of his grandfather's collection of sculpture - not realizing the key to open the vault was hidden inside one of the pieces. After finding his father's journal, he attempted to regain the statue - a grotesque piece depicting a demonic pig - but he never succeeded. The renegade carries on his father's project of trying to regain the family's fortune. He traced the statue to the Romano family, and his price for betraying New Orleans was that Emilio had to give his the statue. He explained it was an old family piece he wanted for sentimental reasons. He stole the NoC reports to give to Emilio, but got stuck when the old man was murdered.

Whistleblower
An aide worked for a Texas state senator, she stumbled onto her boss' dealings with the New Orleans mob. He had taken large bribes to arrange for legalized gambling in Dallas - under New Orleans' control Outraged, she threatened to expose him in the press, and he had a hit placed on her. She realized the people she could most count on being against the deal were the Dallas mob, so she called her brother and asked him to arrange a deal. If they would broker her protection from New Orleans, she'd give them the evidence.

Denver Negotiator
A representative of the Denver mob, he is in Dallas to bid against the Romanos to sell a load of forged documents to the Mexicans. He's also been sleeping with the Mexican negotiator's teenage daughter.


The DarkMage <barkley@cirr.com>

Last modified: Fri May 15 14:43:29 CDT 1998