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Please note: The Hoppers are already an approved faction and the leadership is reverting back to Ain. 

 

 

The Hoppers

By slowlywerot resident

 

TYPE: Faction

 

MEMBERS: simpkin resident, kariganknight resident

 

BACKGROUND: The Hoppers as a family has been a known staple of Crack Den for three years. Some people might not know who the Hoppers are but most people have at least heard of them. Their family has been around lurking in the swamps of Louisiana for generations before deciding to step out into the public light for their own entertainment. Hoppers come in two sorts, blood Hoppers who are all related and those they adopt into the clan after testing their dedication to the family. There is no distinction between the two, all equal. A Hopper's first loyalty is to family, they are no real gang, not interested in drugs or money or whores, but anything that catches their interest possibly. The Hoppers just take what they like or need while believing in the law of nature and the idea of survival of the fittest. And in their simple mindset, the world is divided in black or white. Anyone is either a Hopper(friend) or prey/rival predator.

 

UNIQUE: Thanks to Karigan, we now have a business, Geins is the public face of the Hoppers where most at least try to behave 🙂 So it is easy to meet Hoppers and get in touch with the family. Their hideout is the Canery Cove with the chapel.

 

FLAW: All members are flawed by character, we have no cunning perfectly trained, computer experts with Spec Ops background, but all are balanced and have more flaws than feats. Adding to that the family code, first of all, the Hoppers respect no law but law of nature, a certain recipe to crash with police. Further they have no interest in money, at least not as family, some members may have, so they have no large resources of any kind. They are rather low tech, Ain can barely use a phone. Hoppers should not buy either, a good Hopper just takes what she or he wants. Oh yes and Hopper girls should skip underwear, I think Grandpa said that with his last breath.

 

POTENTIAL ENEMY: The Hoppers are a family, they are not a gang, they are not really a cult though one might think of them as such with the way they recruit. The Hoppers are not competing with any gangs for territory or money or drugs or whores. But as they disrespect both laws and turf, they might get in trouble with anyone, only expection is Haven who is led by a blood family member, Eva. As the Hoppers respect no law but law of nature, they naturally get in conflict with the HPD too.

 

EXPERIENCE: Lucas took over leadership when my life got really busy and as I know he never wanted to lead I am thankful he helped(!), now he asked me to step in again and I hope to take over again, so there is not much changes planned, it is a friendly swapping of leadership with no trouble attached. For experience I can only say, we had 3 faction admins, Peri, Piper and Blue, and we never heard a negative comment by any of those three, so I guess we as group and I as lead operate drama free enough to make no unnecessary trouble. But as Piper, Peri and Blue all stepped down from their Admin role, I want to take this chance to say THANK YOU to all three for the massive contribution they gave to the community over such a long time. You played a large part in making CD what it is!

 

IDEAS: Our focus is catering fun to the small people,- when gangs battle the HPD the hooker under the bridge, the damsel on the corner, the escort at the motel,... are often left bored, we want to include those too if we can. We often offer easy scene hooks, but we also have some bigger things in store which might lead to some little SIM plots which would be checked with administration prior, some yet even approved, though we like to keep things easy and avoid having expectations.