Neil Salvetti
The Boss
Your GM, the boss. He's an auteur, mostly concerned with really trying to make a legit wrestling show, while also keeping your myriad creditors off your ass. He'll be your first Shadowrun contact, and the guys who signs your creditsticks sort of speak. He's not a mafia, though he does have mob family. By all accounts, he's a high energy, cheery, sort of guy, with a bombastic attitude in front of a crowd, and a bad temper in private. He has a film production degree from USC and is very proud of it. Otherwise he's from New Jersey.
Thunder and Wind
Tag Team
The girl is Kaminari (Kammy outside of the ring) and the dude is Kaze (or Kaz outside of the ring). Their name means thunder and wind respectively. They're big on aerial moves and fancy martial arts looking kicks and punches. Her finish "Kaminari ga matto ni ochiru" or "Thunder falling on the mat" involves a a shooting star press from the top rope. Her brother favors a Kaze to chi or wind to blood, where he "heart punches" the opponent, and then uses the one spell he has to teleport himself to the top rope, and do an elbow drop to finish the match with a pin. He's a mage, just a very weak one. Kaminari hasn't shown any particular magical proclivities. Both are in excellent physical shape.
A Heel tagteam, and a pair of human Japanese high flyers. Their masks are carved to look Ryumyo's visage, they wear similar costumes to the rest of the Beourgeoshido.
Why they live down here is a complete mystery, their English is pretty good, but it's clear Japanese is a first language. They both have very technically good commlinks, with high security software, and neither of them like talking about their past.
They will happily make food for the camp, chit chat with people, help with chores, etc. They're just kind of insular and stick to themselves, and Tawny's quick to call out anyone who thinks it's cool to pry. It was her idea to add them to a faction, and she invented the faction to make them feel more comfortable.
Wrestling Style: They both are smaller on the human scale
Kaminari Finisher: Kaminari Ga Matto Ni Ochiru
Kaze Finisher: Kaze to Chi
Rude Boi
Happy Wrestler
The leader of the Rubes, is an orc called, "Rude Boi!". He's Jamaican. Nice enough fellow, scars from the streets of Kingston. He agrees with Bill's mission, and a lot of Rube were gang bangers from other outfits, that Rude Boi saved. Loyalty in that crew is tight. RB does everything possible to keep his posse clean, tidy, and self respecting. NO BTL or drugged out burners amongst the rubes.
He's one of your wrestler too from time to time. Same persona and everything. He's a pretty good grappler, and is athletic enough to pull hi stunts, he's more of a joke baby face. He likes to to get beat by the big heels. Nice dude, team player. Happy to be here.
Finisher: Lion's Drop (Big splash from the top rope)
Bell the Baleful
Barbarella Wrestler
She's barbarian themed, human. We'll name her Galinda Neihart. She comes to the ring dressed in a Barbarella costume, but she occasionally throws down, or scraps on the side with the other faction members. If you tag time, half the time she's your partner.
She claims she's descended from the Neihart family, and has a UCAS Sin, but you guys have no idea if that's true. She's nice, and sweet out of the ring. But she's taking quite a few head hits and a is a little spotty, and prone to bouts of anger. Tawny can usually talk her down when she's drunk or high.
Finisher: Bella Driver (Pile Driver) and the Run from the Hills (splash from the top rope)
Final Sanction
Old Guard Wrestler
A cyberzombie designed by the Global World Council to destroy anyone who dare oppose the corporate machine. He's at SWCW for one thing, and one thing only. To establish the correct corporate order on this shithole of a company. If they can't perform for the AAA masters, then they get their ass kicked by yours truly. He is New Order. His signature is a spinning back breaker he called "Final Sanction".
Out of the ring, he's actually a pretty calm, professional old guard wrestler. He's ended up in the Styx, honestly because he's here as a favor to Neil, and is probably being paid a pretty good clip of money from him directly to be here. That being said, he's also head trainer, and has a wealth of wrestling experience from orgs across North America.
Finisher: Final Sanction
Gaijin
Weeaboo Wrestler
Gaijin, or the weeaboo as he's often called. This is Roger Cores. A caucasion human with rich parents from Renton laying low in this Redmond Park because college, "was a bunch of bullshit man." He tries out new gimmicks and personas every six months or so. This time he's settled on a somewhat racist Shinto priest. Granted the kid actually speaks Japanese relatively well, and isn't making fun of the religion so much as trying to mimic it correctly
His tights are just like the others. No matter his persona his finishing move with the "game over" a clothesline, leg drop combo.
He loses...a lot.
Finisher: Game Over
Smash and Grab
Kitsune Crushers
Role: Wrestlers, tag teams, neither heel nor face. Mysterious.
Real names: Donna and Chastin Redcloud. Humans, Salish ethnically.
As wrestlers, these two often spoil one sided drubbings by one side or the other. They walk out in long matte black trenchcoats that are thrown off to show long sleek red and green tights. Their helmets broadcast messages like, “Play Fair, Fox friends unite!, From nowhere to nowhere.” and so on.
Both tend towards acrobatics and high flying antics. Their team work is pitch perfect, having been trained for the ring since they were young. The reason they are in this org is also somewhat of a mystery to the local folk. The lads are pleasant though, friendly enough, they commonly make themselves available for parties and group meals, they’re not the only coquettish about their past, so nobody hassles them too hard. They based their personas on the Fox Spirit being cunning and mysterious and follow the traditional religion of the Salish
Smash Finisher: A
Grab Finisher: A
Lady Disaster
Evil Witch Wrestler
Desdemona Molly. AKA Lady Disaster. Her Schtick is that of an evil witch. She's a very low level mage, enough to summon a spirit to augment her moves. She runs heel, otherwise she's a pretty sweet lady, clearly has had a rough life, doesn't like to talk about it. She keeps a cat she's calls Pooly. That cat is mean as fuck to everyone, goes by Dessy.
Finsher: D Drop (Flying neckbreaker she can hit from anywhere)
Midnight Outlaw
Technical Shoot Wrestler
The Midnight Outlaw Alger Hiss. A riff on a cowboy go ganger, utterly unconcerned for the little people of Redmond, he's a direct insult to the Ancients, but his wrestler, Ronnie Raymond is dead terrified of actually pissing off the Ancients. So, he does everything possible to never cross colors, and he never tries to pop his ears or anything.The ancients seemed to have not noticed.
He's a a technical shoot wrestler type, always working on making dynamic matches with a lot of verticality, and long form choreographed fight sequences. He's been a title holder multiple times, and his cyber arm, bone lacing, and enhanced metabolism lets him keep up with the bigger guys, this also allows him to do technical stunts that really impress the crowd.
For what it's worth Ronnie is hilarious, part of the way he works the crowd is cracking legitimate stinging jokes at people. He's careful to be very masked up performing though between his believing he's playing with fire, and he's willing to crack a joke at the biggest fan in the room.
Finisher: A
Oghma
Elfposer Heel
This is Rourke Mc'Mann, aka: Oghma, Heel, no affiliation: Persona: Elfposer, rich touristviller, looks down at the local people, slumming, it. Ha ha.
Rourke actually started at the wrestling show in it's very beginning. He had been living in the carnival for decades. rumor has it that he's some special forces guy from the Salish/Tir border wars, he's certainly been seen speaking all of the appropriate languages at a high level. He's not super insular about this past, and a few of you have heard war stories. If you ever wanted to piece it all together, it'd probably run you a dozen bottles of whiskey over a month.
Stylistically, he's actually a very solidly built elf veteran, very practically strong with a high level background in army combatives and krav maga. Pro wrestling wise: he tends towards a lot of technical grappling moves, lariats, pile drivers, back breakers, everything, fast, clean, and mean looking.
Finisher: Finn's Finish (It's a butt drop)
Golden Dawn and Mishasi Gates
Leader of the Beourgeoshido Faction
This is Tawny Matthews, AKA Golden Dawn. She's the leader of the Beourgeoshido faction, and a major heel for the promotion. She wears a full golden rash guard, covered in brand names for the AAA and AA corps and always walks out with a katana (unsharpened) and dramatic pvc shoulder guard and helmet. Her husband Musashi Gates (Alex Matthews) is a big van vader member of the faction, complete with a troll body.
They have an adopted daughter named Lorie (Tawny is trans), and a pair of small pugs called Snowball and Coal (black and white). Tawny sort of serves as a the team mom, and makes sure to check in on everyone. She mediates disputes, and though is an excellent heel, teaches classes here and there on basic self defense.
She's a black belt in BJJ under Rafael Machado VI, and occasionally she'll ask one of the wrestlers to take care of Lorie so they can go on a date night (happens about once a month).
Stylistically, she's a high flyer grappler. Her finishing moves are the Samurai Smackdown (spinning heel kick to elbow drop) and the camel clutch (Ninja rip).
Finisher: Samurai Smackdown and Camel Cluth
Mob Politics
Redmond Branch
So far.
O’Hallaghan is the head of the loca Redmon branch. He’s human, Irish mafia, from New Jersey. O’Shae is a cousin, the uncle of Neil Salvetti. Salvetti’s grandfather was a soldate who shielded his son from the business.
O’Shae respect that and so has generally been on the level with him, and not run business through the theme park where his show is. That being said, the Yakuza has started a Redmond with the Ancients, and the ancient have a chapter house literally a block and a half away from the carnival, not to mention the Yak’s have opened up a tempo lab nearnby.
Bill Hasco
and the Wild West Wonderland
Bill Hasco is a human, the owner of the Wild West Wonderland, a carnival/theme park deep in the heart of post crash 2.0 Redmon, 5 miles south of Touristville off the 202 in Redmond.
The park employs around 40 people not counting the wrestlers, and another 25 in the Rubes, a security and policing force for the 250 acre site. There are about a dozen rides, 10 or so food and gift kiosks, as well as hundreds of games for kids. Ticket fees are low, food prices are kept low, the goal here isn’t profit, it’s public outreach.
But that’s part of the problem too. See the lot abuts a newly expanded Yakuza block, and is technically right across from a Mafia held stronghold in Redmond. The lot itself is technically owned by Neil Salvaetti’s uncle, a cousin of O’Halaghan himself. Oscar O’shea.
Bill’s motivation for this venture are well known. He promised his now deceased wife, an orc it just so happens, who was murdered during the Humanis Policlub riots of the 2040s to establish a refuge and place of joy for the children of Redmon. Hasco’s been doing just that for damn near 30 years, it hasn’t been until very recently with the local real estate problems heating up, that his costs are going up. And Hasco’s worried if he can survive the future.
Owner of the wandering caravan that sells stuff.
