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\section{Draco}

{\bf Draco} {\em 7th Century B.C. Athenian statesman and lawmaker,
whoes code of lawd (621) prescribed death for almost every offence.}



Draco is maybe the most powerful human in the game. His influence and
control over mortal crime and his undead allies make him more powerful
than most of the Kindred in \mbm.


\subsection{History}

\subsubsection{Growing up}

Timothy Byron born in London and was always involved in the darker
side of life. He grew up on the streets, involved with the local gang.
Soon a man came to chat to the gang and they were hired to 'break' a few
shops now and then and when Tim became leader of the gang, the man
came to talk to him.

Tim wanted to know just who gave the orders and soon attracted the
attention of the local protection racket after the local gangs started
to cause problems for the Mob. Tim brought them back under the sway of
the Mob and was soon the Mob link to all the gangs.

Tim started working his way up the ladder but found that his lack of
'family' connections limited his rise in power. So, he redoubled his
efforts to get closer to the gangs. He started causing problems
between the gangs and the Mob. Causing the Mob to rely on him more and
more.

Soon, Tim was the power on the streets, not the Mob. He started
expanding from the protection racket into the drug business. Slowly,
at first, just observing and collecting information.

Soon, with the gangs help, he knew the paths the drugs were
distributed over and who to. The Mob started to suspect a trator and
moved against him. Tim united the gangs and took the streets. For a
few days, Tim was lord, and he liked it.

\subsubsection{Becoming Draco}

He took on a new name, Draco, signifying his new positon as leader and
lawmaker.

Soon, the hitmen came. Draco was forced to flee, after being betrayed
by one of his bodyguards. He moved to the US and started a new.

Soon, he realised that his skills lay in bringing and holding people
together and planning large scale operations, not actually running
organisations. Draco could hold people together in one cause, allowing
him to build more powerful empires out of smaller units. He could also
see the 'big picture'.

Soon he ran the city. Not directly, but by holding the 3 previous
organisations together, with him as leader. Profits were up, intergang
killings were almost nil. Everyone was happy. Almost.

Except for the Setites, who had been trying to split the gangs to
allow their own drug operations in. So they decided to kill this new
upstart.

Their attempt failed, but did lead Draco to destroy their temple and
discover the existance of the Undead.

\subsubsection{Setites}

The Setites took him more seriously and the more the looked, the more
they saw someone who they wanted to recruit. They approached him and
offered him the Embrace, although he wanted immortality, he refused it
finding aversion to sunlight too limiting.

Unwilling to lose Draco, the Setites made an agreement with him.
The Settites would provide Draco with information, as much money
he needed (at an acceptable interest rate naturally) and magical
protection for his life. Draco in return provided money laundering,
drug distribution, protection for Setites and the odd job done.

Draco started to really make a name for himself. He started to build
and unify a group of organisations that covered a quater of America
and large parts of the South American countries which supplied the
drugs, uniting the growers and sellers. Drugs really started to take
off, but the larger his operation became, the more it lacked the
challange that Draco yearned for.

Draco started to diversify his investments, investing his massive
earnings in ligitimate business and starting to build influence in
business and politics. This started to attract Kindred attention and
the Setites warned him off, telling him to wait until he was one of
the Kindred.

\subsubsection{For Hire}

Draco's organisation had grown so large that it started to run itself,
without his direct influence, so he put some of his trusted men at
the top and started looking round for more challanges. The Setites
realised his disatisfaction and approached him to work for them full
time.

Draco became a traveling problem solver who would come in and help
them take over a city. They assigned him Setite advisors who then
formed a core of Ghoul bodyguards to protect Draco. The provided him
with magical protection incase his life was threatened and the promice
of Embrace when he wanted it, or his life was ending.

Then they sent him to work, helping them take cities, corrupt mortals
and Kindred and track down their enemies. Helping spread the darkness.







\subsection{Draco's outlook}

Draco builds organisations. Organisations require trust and loyalty and
they are things he requires and respects. Anyone without them is
disposable, his laws are enforced with coldly and efficently.

Draco is willing to make the hard decisions and once they are made, his
mind is very hard to change. As his name suggests, violation of his
laws generally leads to death.

The Setites have been very careful with their dealings with Draco.
They realise that he would be lost to them if they lied to him, so
they have been at pains to be honest and trustworthy with him at all
times. The Setites provide him all the help they can and are educating
him in the ways of the Kindred. He realises they are corruptors, but
knows that they would only betray him if they faced destruction,
which he would expect anyway. He trusts the Setites and they will
honor their dealings with him.

Draco views manipulating Vampires as the most rewarding game in the
world. They are all he wants to be and to best them is the ultimate
high. To beat Ingrid or Frederika would be the ultimate achievement.




\subsection{Draco's plans}

The Setites brought Draco to Australia to help them hunt down
Frederika and smash her influence. 

Draco, like the Setites does not know exactly where she is, but
suspects that the Sydney and Queensland action is a cover to point
attention to Perth or Hobart. That leaves Adelaide or Melbourne. Ingrid
is in Melbourne and the Setites thus think that Frederika is in
Adelaide. Draco suspects that she is in Melbourne.

He has come here to hunt her down (if he is right) or to atleast take
on Ingrid.





\subsection{Draco's Organisation}


\subsubsection{The HQ}

It is highly unlikely that the players will locate the HQ without a
lot of work and great effort and a bit shot of luck.

The HQ seems to be base of operations for Draco's operations, it is
a very heavily defended building where "Draco" (Patrick) and Lucifer
always return to after every outing.

It is infact a trap. The idea is to give Draco's enemies a place to
consentrate their attacks against. Any attack can then be measured
and either destroyed in the trap, or allowed to escape, tacked and
identified.

The HQ is used for meeting leaders of Subgroups and scaring people
who break the law. It's location is known only to Organisation members
and the leaders of the Subgroups.



\subsubsection{The Inner Circle}

Only the most brilliant players will have any chance of finding the
about the existance of the Inner Circle. Locating the Inner Circle is
likely require the help of elders or the most brilliant and inspired
roleplaying.

The real power behind the Organisation is the Inner Circle.
The four members of the Inner Circle are responsible for planning
almost all of the Organisation's moves.

The Inner Circle have a residence away from the central headquaters. 
All members of the Inner Circle use it as a permenent residence and it
is guarded by a handful of the most loyal ghouls and the latest in
electronic protection.

In Melbourne, the Inner Circle has the middle 3 stories of a
skyscraper in the CBD. The upper and lower levels being offices for
business operations and the middle being converted into living quaters
for the Inner Circle and the guards.


\paragraph{Draco}

Draco is the leader of the Inner Circle. The Setites and Megan advise
him, but he makes the final decisions. 

Draco is a physically unassuming man, who you would not look at twice.
He displays no evidence of his immense wealth or brilliance or any
other hint of his true identity.

Draco will never visit the HQ. Any mention of Draco outside this
section refers to Patrick, unless otherwise stated.


\paragraph{Lucifer Deakin}

Lucifer is Draco's advisor and protector, an 8th generation Setite,
sent by the Setites. At first he considered it demeaing and hated
serving Draco. That didn't last long, once he got to know him, he saw
Draco's power and the two became good friends.

Lucifer will do all he can to defend Draco, including risking his
life. Lucifer is probably more loyal to Draco than he is to his clan
at this point. Lucifer looks forward to the day when his friend
becomes one of Set's favored childred, he will be there, by his
friends side.

Lucifer is the only link between the HQ and the Inner Circle. He takes
lots of care to make sure he is not followed to the Inner Circle.


\paragraph{Megan}

Megan was involved with the leader of another gang when Draco was on
the streets. When Draco started to work for the Mob, Megan and Draco
started to see more of each other, behind the back of Slice, the head
of Megan's gang.

When Draco took over, Megan joined him. Slice was furious, but before
the situation came to a head, the hitmen came and Draco had to flee.
Once he became powerful in America, he had all those who knew him when
he was young killed. Unfortunatly, Slice was nowhere to be found.

Megan loves to spend Draco's money. She does this with no
restrictions, spending amounts that would make Vampires sweat.

Megan plays no direct part in Draco's operation, although she is aware
of all the plans that go on, as Draco and Lucifer do all their
planning in at Draco's 'house', which Megan organises.
Draco will do whatever he can for her, although if she
were used in a trap, he would probably abandon her. Probably. 

Her driver is one of Draco's ghoul bodyguards. She spend a lot of time
with Silvia, helping organise the business during the day. She has
a blood stone implanted in her, so if she is ever kidnapped, she can
be tracked down.

Megan will never visit the HQ.


\paragraph{Silvia Denton}

Silvia is a financial wizard that the Setites sent to help Draco deal
with his income and advise him. She controls his legal investments and
educates him on Kindred law.

Silvia did not fit in well with the Setite ideal. She was too
interested in knowledge, and not at all interested in corruption. When
she was sent to help Draco, she found her calling. Draco and Megan
have minds on par with her own and she enjoys educating them and using
her postition to learn more.

She knows that Draco will still need her service when he becomes
undead and hopes to be kept on, but she really cares nothing for
advancing her own positon, she just wants to stay here in this
environment.

Silvia will never visit the HQ.


\subsubsection{Patrick LLoyd}

Patrick was always a slick operator. He was a great actor and had
people in the palm of his hand as a child when he peddled on the
street and scammed tourists.

Life was good until he tried to scam money off one of Draco's
operations. Next thing he knew he was in the dreaded HQ, expecting a
bullet in the back of the head as the best outcome. He awoke in a room
being examined by Lucifer and other people from the shadows. He was
selected and became "Draco".

He has been dominated and blood bonded to Lucifer and will require
long term dominate or torture to reveal that he is not Draco.

Patrick realises that he will probably be killed once he is no more
use, but that won't happen until he gets too old. In the meantime he
can live as one of the world's most powerful men. To Patrick that is a
worth while swap.

Patrick plays the role to the hilt. He dresses in slick cloths and
gets driven round in a bullet proof, black, BMW with everything.


\subsubsection{The Organisation}

The Organisation operates by working out what criminal organisations
(Subgroup) are in the city and mapping out their areas of interest.

It then examines each Subgroup in turn and determines who is best to
lead it. If it is the current leader, then they are approached, if it
is another person, then that person is approached and helped become
the leader.

Usual tactics include: blackmail, increasing tensions with other
Subgroups, solving intergroup problems, bribary.





\subsection{Draco's SubOrganisation}

\subsubsection{Mafia: the BenVenito family}

The BenVenito family is lead by old Don, Vinney 'the knuckles'
BenVenito, and people are looking for new blood. Working hardest to
get the leadership is the oldest son, Santo.

The Syndicate has been trying to crack this family for a long time and
has found and Awakened Maria Fiorelli, soon to be wife of Claudio
BenVenito.

Draco was going to approach Claudio when Maria noticed Lucifers odd
aura and intercepted him. They talked and came to an agreement. Maria
would make Claudio the new boss (under her subtle guiding hand) and
Maria would work with Draco if Draco would get rid of Santo and Landly.

\subsubsection{Maria Fiorelli}

Maria is free spirited for a Technomancer. She knows that something
big happened on Halloween, but she is unsure what it is. She is trying
to find out as much as possible. Maria's secret to sucess is that
she is willing to work with anyone, even keeping it secret from her
Convention, to advance her own ends.

She is interested in Draco's offer and is looking into his operation,
curious why a vampire would work for a human. She has yet to piece
much of it together, but given time, she probably will.

XXXX Draco will dispose of Santo and Landly
XXXX Maria will get rid of Vinney, in the 


\paragraph{Judge Landly}

Landly is a convention mage, a Cult of Ecstacy mage who is also a
judge in the county court. His drug involvement started off small,
using police to supply himself. But his greed soon took over and soon
he was expanding, importing and using his police ties to build a drug
operation. His drug operation is getting too large and has attracted
attention of the Syndicate and Draco's operation.

Maria sees him as a chance to blame Santo's death on someone else.