THE PTERANO-DON'S MONSTROUS MAFIA.
MOBSTERS MUTATED BY DINO-SERUM.
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GANGSTERS, SOLDIERS, AND UNDERBOSSES.
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CRETACEOUS CRIMINAL CREW
"My boys are the best'a the best. Other Dons, they rely on where you come from. Jews. Ruskies. The Irish. Other Italians like me too. They rely on family because they're blood. Well, I rely on blood too. Blood with dino-serum runnin' tru it. I got the most hungry, most vicious, smartest guys that's out there. They wanna be a damn force. They wanna run this town. And that's what we do. I got Irish. I got Ruskies. They're the best. I don' got my brother in this at all, because he's weak. An idiot. You're my brother? It don' matter. You gotta kill! You gotta steal! You gotta show me you can earn this. Because once you're one of us, you're a dino for life."
-The Pterano-Don, Capo dei Dino Capi
Biography:
The Dino-Mafia is the most powerful criminal syndicate in Union City. Thanks to their mutagen treatments, they are savage, physically imposing, and their organization is absolutely bloodthirsty.
This criminal crew was vying for the top spot among the city’s underworld families before their terrible transformation. One of the Capos was approached by an odd little Professor who had been fired from McCloud University for his radical research and needed money to continue his groundbreaking genetic work. Professor Saurazynski’s technology was developing a serum that could turn people into Dinosaur hybrids. Big Paulie gave the egghead his loan and kept an eye on him.
Professor Saurazynski soon got his serum to work and his criminal connections sprang. The Professor was kidnapped, stashed in a secret lab, and soon administered the very first dose, turning Big Paulie into Big Paulie T-Rex. When the Don saw his monstrous lieutenant he also saw all the possibilities. Thus the Pterano-Don was born and the Dino-Mafia’s bloody underworld takeover began.
The Professor discovered a cheap, effective Raptor Serum for the rank and file gangsters. Special doses were reserved for the more prominent captains and consigliere, turning them into hulking powerhouses. Each of these dino-mobsters is the head of a criminal revenue stream. Shake-downs, protection rackets, drugs, and worse. Raptors move in, crush the competition, and then set up a new dino-run syndicate. Any further resistance is swept aside by the dino-mobster, including any meddling do-gooders who might try to interfere.
The Dino-Mafia has many operations of all sizes running across Union City. Stopping one of them, taking down some gangsters or breaking up one of their watering holes, can be easily managed by a caped hero, but that’s just a single cog in the criminal machinery. The bulk of the gang carries on without missing a beat or a beating. Of course, ongoing interference will usually prompt a response of one of the capos, and they don’t play. While Mobsters have gone in and out of prison, the Dino-Mafia has endured.
Big Paulie T-Rex:
You’ve never met a nastier customer than a T-Rex with a coke habit. Paulie is big, mean, and ruthless, especially after doing some dino-sized lines. He runs drugs and girls for the Dino-Mafia, overseeing an empire of vice. He is also the Don’s preferred hitman. Sometimes he uses his twin pistols and sometimes he just bites his victim’s head off. Either way, that’s another problem that the Dino-Mafia never needs to worry about again.
Jimmy Hornhead:
Jimmy is always dressed in a custom tailored suit and tie. He likes to sound reasonable, wise, level-headed, and considerate. He’s the Don’s unflappable consiglieri, handling the lawyers, giving out bribes, collecting payoffs, and filling out all the paperwork. And of course, his hide is thicker than kevlar
and more than one would-be hero has been skewered on his formidable horns.
Luca Brachio:
Luca is slow. He oversees the books, the gambling, and racketeering of the Dino-Mafia, but personally he tends to just sit in the back of Nunzio’s Pizzeria. All day he eats plate after plate of pasta and drinks gallons of martini, glass by glass. Raptors come and go, bringing him news and then carrying out his orders, but sometimes business requires his personal attention. Then nearby buildings shake with his footsteps and he can stomp a hero to a bloody pulp under his massive bulk.
Carlo the Tail:
Carlo is moody and sullen, a gruff and grumpy waterfront tough with a killer tail. He runs the docks, the smuggling, and hijacking operations from a warehouse by the piers. He doesn’t take any back-talk, doesn’t accept any excuses, and doesn’t give second chances.
Al O'Saurus
Al is an angry drunk with a ferocious temper that boils over at a moment’s notice. He takes care of the Dino-Mafia’s illegal cigarettes and liquor business but mostly the Don uses him to break legs, to kidnap, intimidate, and keep up the scare.