#i freaking love them so damn much

[saltyreina]

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[luxurystark-jackson]

sam is like his father. was innocent to the reality of what was going on until something bad happened and he was forced to become a monster he shouldn’t have been, all for the greater good.

dean is like his mother. cursed with the knowledge of their reality, forced to grow up in it and ready to do anything to save their counterpart from anything that tries to kill them, even at the expense of the greater good.

[waterkangaroo]

Carl/AI as text posts (but mostly AI @ Carl)

[missionel]

assorted screenshots from s2e1

[mars-ipan]

obligatory "getting used to drawing again" komaeda doodles

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

HE TROLLED THEM SO HARD WITH HIS T-SHIRT THAT THEY GOT SUPER ANGRY I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[seastarryclouds]

A long yap session about the Maelstrom in the Danger gal Dossier

Ok finals are finally over and I have a chance to sit down and write this all out, I’ll go over the first page of Maelstrom info that details: Base of operations, recent history, resources, goals, and a little intro prepared Linda “Overpass” Lucastra who is undercover at the Totentanz… oh to run around undercover at the Totentanz… don’t get caught!

In the nice little intro we get, “Maelstrom clawed their way through the 4th Corporate war and reconstruction much as night city did: scarred, battered, but fiercely alive.” The DgD takes place in cyberpunk red, which takes place in 2045. Most of the city is recovering from the Arasaka tower nuke. Funny enough, before the nuke Maelstrom was considered a middle grade booster gang, but here it states that this is when they start to get major power and become a big deal with their drug and cybernetic trade. Something that I find pretty interesting, is how they manage to bounce back considering what happens to their base. But before I cover that, one of the reasons that they pull forward so well is due to the fact that they are one of leading gangs that is salvaging valuable gear from the hot zone, “Maelstrom also leads the other gangs in salvaging valuable gear from the hot zone using hoards of scavvers willing to get cancer for a shot at a membership and some shiny metal.” I suppose you do what you must do to survive in night city, even if it means possibly getting radiation poisoning in order to join one of scarier gangs in night city.

Now, base of operations… in 2023 they lost their entire territory in the arasaka nuke… I’m not joking, its stated in the book and is one of the reasons I’m so shocked that maelstrom manages to become such a bigger threat in 2045-2077. “In 2023, Maelstrom lost their entire territory to the Araska Tower nuke. The neighborhood around the abandoned department store they called home survived the blast, but raging fire swept through the area and brought it all down. Totentanz…(which the maelstrommers called their second home) was also badly damaged.” Completely insane and awesome to me that these guys got their shit rocked and managed to bounce back. They stabilized the Totentanz and re-opened the bar, and moved their base of operations to the middle floors of the hotel. Makes me wonder if some of the maelstroms are allowed to crash at the Totentanz as a kind of home. Like if they don’t have apartments or homes they can stay there, or perhaps have to stay there? The coolest bit of lore here that I’m pretty sure didn’t make it into 2077 is that in the ballroom of the Totentanz there is burned out chrome from fallen maelstrom members that cover the wall INCLUDING A MUMMIFIED CORPSE OF THEIR FORMER LEADER HAMMER WHO WAS KILLED IN THE NUKE! Insane, I love it. The book also states that it’s considered a mark of honor among members to have old chrome that has visible nuke scars. Details that can be used when drawing/making maelstrom ocs me thinks!

Moving onto recent history (as of 2045 of course) the Dgd states that maelstrom started and continues to build itself on castoff and survivors of other gangs. I honestly think this might still be true in 2077, some of the gang members can be seen wearing belt buckles of other gangs. My brain is a bit foggy right now as I’m writing this but I believe they will snatch members of other gangs and convert them for fun too. In this section it also states that it was an old condo that shielded the maelstroms old headquarters from the worst of the nuke. However, most of the cybered up members (ones that were heavily chromed) died in a frenzy of extreme violence frenzy that happened after the explosion. Survivors claim that it was EMP induced. This frenzy happened between gangs and possibly within maelstrom itself? “ the survivors fought on, absorbing Remnants of other high chrome gangs during the recovery.” It was Warlock, the gangs current leader who started to gather maelstroms best members and shape it into a business.

Speaking of business, during this time Maelstrom controls a drug trafficking network and also move reclaimed weapons and tech. They take wannabe (and disposable) gangsters into the hot zone to scavage for valuable equipment of all kinds, but they really want cyberware. They have deals with rippers all across the city. I find this really interesting, because in 2077, I’d say the ones shipping cyberware parts to shady rippers are mostly scavengers, (the gang). However, I do think in 2077 Maelstrom still has a bunch of cyberware lying around that they might sell? But my bets is that they keep it to over chip people for fun, (see metal monk mission). The final part in resources mentions the Totentanz, and that the headquarters and garage are in the same building.

Finally we have their goals, dgd states “Maelstroms rank and file members work the gangs drug or cyberware trade to advance and earn drinking money or credit with allied ripperdocs.” Warlock however, the gangs current leader, has longer term goals to get a permanent home for the Totentanz and the gang. (My goofy ass ‘awwwwwing’ at this) between the drive of the gangs leader and the trade network, it makes since that they had the strength to pull through and stick around. Maelstrom, being a gang and all, also enjoys a, and I quote “‘Chrome, Smash, Dance, and Bash’” attitude. Oh our little party freaks :)

The final detail here is something I think might be missed or never brought up in 2077. The dgd mentions the Inquisitors and that if any Maelstrom members come across them, they will set aside all other business to curb stomp them. Inquisitors are very anti cyberware and consider it blasphemous. The inquisitors were more of a cult than a gang and it goes without saying that maelstroms hate them. There is about 20 years of bad blood between them.

And that’s all for the first page that holds the intro of the maelstrom gang in the Danger gal Dossier. I will yap about the maelstrom members in this book and interesting details about them, but for now I’ll leave it here cause it’s sooooo late and this was a lot to type out, see you next time chooms!

[softshuji]

Any men out there wanna pretend to be my bf to get my parents off my case about marriage? I am so so serious right now.

[jrueships]

Admin: which teammate do you pick to cook your Thanksgiving dinner?

Alpey, who has brought his own baked goods for the team before; therefore, should have the most credibility and trust to be skilled in the kitchen: *happily suggests himself as the best option for jabari*

Jabari:

[loverboybrightsideghost]

"reblog for something lgbt to happen to you" at this point i'd be grateful if something straight happened to me

[dootznbootz]

I fucking hate those colds where you just have fucking fog for brains >:(

[queenlua]

i have this friend who’s a bird photographer, right

which means i live in fear & awe of him, because, like all bird photographers, he has this unfathomable well of patience where he’s willing to just camp out in front of a heron for 7hrs waiting for that one singular moment when it finally lunges & catches something & the other 6.99hrs are just Sitting Around Doing Literally Nothing

and he’s fine with that.  totally fine.  i’ve seen him in that Zen State before, for maybe 30min at a time, because after 30min i get impatient and i’m like ok this is cool dude but i have to move now, have fun meditating or whatever

but

unlike the other bird photographers i know, he also has zero sense of competitiveness.  he has no burning need to get The Latest Shot of The Newest Hot Thing, he’s just like... if i’m there i’ll hang out forever, sure.  but if i’m not like.  whatever

i just messaged him asking if he’d gotten a photo of [local natural phenomenon that literally all the other photographers in my area were freaking out over] and he was like “well my diablo game was going pretty well sooo....”

[tarpitbell]

11:23

I'm a damn leech. That's all I am

[solcarow]

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[punk-pins]

louis du pointe du lac what happens when you give a vampire catholicism. look at it. he’s got anxiety