Chinatown & The Haze

Description

When you drive east on Burghardt Du Bois Drive or get off on the CTA's Red Line stop, Burghardt Du Bois Drive/Chinatown, you will be greeted by rising pagodas in the sky, Chinese kanji (the written characters that make up the Chinese language), Asian-influenced architecture, and an array of Asian restaurants. You have entered Gotham's Chinatown. It seems like a nice safe neighbourhood to shop in its various shops selling everything from martial arts weapons to ginseng and shark's fin to Asian food items including the well known soy sauce to eating various Asian cuisines ranging from Cantonese to Vietnamese to Japanese to even Korean food. However, you should be aware of the unfamiliar especially in this neighbourhood. This is not due to heavy areas of violence, but rather to the unseen. Beyond the pleasing facade of gift shops, bakeries, herbal medicine shops, grocery stores, restaurants, and fresh markets pandering to locals and tourists alike, Chinatown has a dark side to it.

What does this dark side compose of? This dark side composes of the presence of a major Asian criminal enterprise- the tong. The dozens of tongs that once make up Gotham's Chinatown have been reduced to one major gang and a few, deteriorating, remains of its enemies. The names of the old Gangs are not lost, they are simply now elements within the uber-Tong known as the 10,000 Mortals. In recent years this organization has been the major player in heroin trafficking and operating illegal gambling dens. Unfortunately, this activity is not new for these groups. You can trace the illegal criminal activities of these organizations to the late 1800's. From that time to the present, the tongs have been involved in the following crimes: murder, prostitution, illegal gambling, drug trafficking, extortion, alien smuggling, blackmail, money laundering, RICO violations, and bribery.

Atmosphere
One of the oldest districts in Gotham, China town has never once been refurbished or improved, having instead been simply built up and up since the cities earliest days. Nothing demonstrates this better than the claustrophobic alleyways and tenements of the hive, an unnavigable maze of illegal sweatshops, overcrowded flats, laundries, restaurants and strange emporiums whose layout is as inscrutable as the natives themselves.

Story

Notaries

Title	Character	Splat
Tong Boss	Khan Akril	Sorcerer
Geisha	Exquisite Woo	Keui-Jin
Leader of the Perfect Thunder Tong	Short and Stocky	Mortal
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