While it once was known as the city of angels, it would seem God has abandoned Los Angeles and let the Devil run the show for the last few decades. The suits will tell you that the Pueblo council made the place safer and improved the quality of life but the people on the street know better. The Azzies have been dragging their feet for 13 years despite being ordered by the PCC to leave, the gangs are bolder than ever and the shares are getting scarcer by the day.

If you don't know the right people and the lay of the land LA is just as dangerous as the trids would lead you to believe.

The core of Downtown is Arcology Mile which runs from the partially submerged skyscraping arcoblocks beyond the waterline to Horizon's arcologies at the intersection of Highland and Hollywood. A lot of the abandoned real estate is been bought by Horizon. Presently most of the shining glass and steel arcologies either are still standing or are being renovated.

Surrounding Downtown are the shantytowns where the destitute live, surviving on the whims and scraps of the rich. It's no man's land by sunset, as the city police and most corps stop policing it after dark

Player lifestyles in this district range from Street to Low.

Originally East L.A. was populated by the well-behaved poor and working class who migrated to East L.A. from El Infierno. The area was destroyed by the "Twins" earthquakes and flood that devastated most of the Los Angeles basin.

Today it's mostly under-populated, though that is starting to change with reclamation projects run by ecological and construction corporations. Scattered throughout the area are small islands with shattered buildings which harbor scavengers and water-gangs, and the occasional dangerous paracritter or shedim.

Player lifestyles in this district range from Street to Low. Island-based housing also receives the W Zone quality at no LP cost/benefit.

This district includes Hollywood and West Hollywood. It is where you find the hangouts and fancy nightclubs of the rich and famous. The streets are lined with cascades of flowers and towering palm trees. In the daytime it's full of shoppers and tourists. During the night, it's celebrities and their fans. Security is extremely tight but at the same time unobtrusive

Player's won't have lifestyles in this disctrict for a while. Put an A rank in resources, it won't change the fact that you're still poor to these clowns.

The airport is still standing despite the earthquakes and flooding due to it being fortified before the "Twins" earthquake. Huge freeways were built over the seawalls and stretch toward the city's core. The seawalls themselves are heavily armed and on the island are steel high rises, industrial port complexes, and of course an extremely busy sea port.

Player lifestyles in this district range from Street to Squatter and may only exist on perimeter islands. Island-based housing also receives the W Zone quality at no LP cost/benefit.

Pomona is divided from the rest of Los Angeles by the Covina Floodwall. During the flooding brought about by the "Twins" earthquake, the city of Covina acted like a breakwater for the debris that the flood was carrying. West Covina become a massive floodwall.

Pomona is currently populated by those too poor to leave. It's full of huge refugee camps made of pre-fab structures. A giant shantytown where the people are bitter and have no hope.

Player lifestyles in this district range from Street to Squatter and gain the Not a Home quality with no LP benefit/cost.

The area provides many of the faculty and students at UC Irvine with their off-campus housing. It also hosts a sizable number of bio-tech research facilities and firms. Riverside also has many facilities that cater to those who are dissatisfied with a physical, emotional, or mental part of themselves and want it changed.

Player lifestyles in this district range from Low to Medium.

San Fernando Valley is the home of smaller entertainment corps and independent media. The earthquakes heavily damaged the area but the flood inflicted less damage here than in the rest of LA. Due to reconstruction there are small pristine hubs of high rises which are surrounded by rougher communities.

In Los Angeles, people who aren't rich and still live west of the Covina Floodwall, live in the SFV. They inhabit densely populated housing enclaves consisting of sprawling, low-rent apartments and closely-packed high-rises.

Player lifestyles in this district range from Low to High.

The city of San Bernardino is in the eastern part of the LA sprawl, in what used to be the San Bernardino county. Since the "Twins" earthquakes, a lot of the city is in ruins. It is a city with little corporate investment, a population that is mostly low-class, and whose SINless percentage is high. Neither the government of Los Angeles or the PCC have done any real rebuilding, focusing on areas that are more economically valuable.

The city has crumbling buildings and a decreasing power, water, and social services. Water is strictly rationed, police services are lacking or non-existent, and wireless networks are forced to rely on mesh networks. The residents out of anger have been increasingly turning to the criminal underworld and gangs, which results in the government decreasing the resources allocated to the city, which makes the citizens rely on the gangs more in a vicious cycle. Which has increased tensions and rumors that San Bernardino is going to become second El Infierno. The most powerful gang here are Los Verdugos who dominate East San Bernardino.

Player lifestyles in San Bernardino range from Street to Low and come with the Rough Neighborhood quality at no LP cost/benefit.
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Suits are the enemy. Sometimes working with them can get you more than soypaste and a coffin for the night, but making deals with Dragons isn't exclusive to Dragons...ya know?

As part of the Pueblo Corporate Council, LA is ruled over by the Board of Directors of the PCC. Each member votes to elect a Chairman of the Board as well as various director positions and high level administration seats. The current Chairman of the board is Miguel Lusie’dzil, tho he is relatively hands off with Los Angeles as a whole.

The member of the Board of Directors most involved with Los Angeles is Rikki Tokotsi, who also runs the Los Angeles security council and oversaw post-occupation logistics of the Los Angeles reclamation by the PCC.

These are the people that you're most likely to run into, hopefully while going the same direction and not headlong.

While a bit on the nose, The Undertaker is a title given to the current leader of the Gravediggers. A ghoul gang based out of the Mountain View Cemetery in San Bernardino, the Gravediggers support a trio of black clinics for the poor, the undesirables, the SINless and people who tend exist in the shadows. While they do ensure the clinics provide adequate care to their patients, it is well known that crossing them or refusing to pay your debts is a good way to end up missing in the middle of the night.

The Undertaker

• Ghoul, male, age unknown
• No hair, red eyes
• Tyical ghoulish pallor
• Smells of formaldehyde at all times
• Gang leader
• Offers bounty for Iron Cross bodies.

When you need your latest run captured, you call KG. When you want that trid printed in a beetle before you make it halfway home, you call KG. KG is actually three men and three women, all of which answer to one of the KG (tho nobody outside of KG knows which). You see, the Panopticans are a thrill gang that gets their rocks off by showing what LA really looks like beneath the corporate illusions. They can, for a price, shadow you and record your every move then print and ship BTLs of the job to every runner, Mr Johnson and Fixer in the area. Without branding it's hard to get ahead in LA.

The Panopticans are a Matrix thrill gang, so their "territory" isn't known to anyone outside of the gang. They accept members from any metatype, gender, etc. so long as they are proficient in matrix operations or field reporting.

KG

• Human, male, early 20's?
• Dwarf, female, age unknown?
• Elf, male, late 20's?
• Troll, female, late 20's?
• Human, male, mid 20's?
• Ork, female, mid 20's?
• Usually dressed in courier's attire with local postal branding.
• No identifying marks such as tattoos or piercings.
• Even the other Panoptican leaders have no idea which KG is THE KG.

Uhepono is a name he had not given himself, but instead chose as it was often the last thing his Zuni victims would scream before he tore them limb-from-limb. Uhepono is a Sasquatch that would be massive by any standard, standing 3.4 meters tall and weighing close to 345 kg. Tho Sasquatch are incapable of speech, Uhepono is also a mystic and amplifies his mimicry abilities with the lexicon of bound and adjacent spirits.

His gang, the Dark Ones, operates out of Pomona and mostly focuses on repelling any Gravediggers or Verdugos who enter their turf. They permit metahumans and metasapients of any gender(s) within their ranks.

Uhepono

• Sasquatch, male, late 30's.
• Massive in bulk and height
• Often wears Zuni-inspired attire with NAN totemic iconography.
• Known mystic powers include spirit bonding and enhanced physical abilities.
• Rumored mystic powers range from telepathy to shadow teleportation.
• Once killed a Troll by beating them to death with their own Trollhammer.

The Red Queen, leader of Cocotona's Los Caníbales chapter. At sixteen she killed and ate the heart of the former leader of Cocotona's Los Cazadores chapter and had every man who refused to turn their businesses over to her castrated. She is silent and contemplative, but when driven to action her people call her the Red Devil.

Her gang operates out of East L.A. and recently made headway into San Bernardino. It consists of human, metahuman and metasapient women only.

Red Queen

• Human, female, Mid 20's
• Black hair, brown eyes
• Adorns herself in red and black leathers w/ spikes and Aztlan/Latine imagery
• Has anywhere from 10-15 black thorn piercings in each ear.
• Gang leader
• Cannibal
• Loyal until her trust is betrayed

The community that exists in the shadows is always smaller than it seems. Grudges last lifetimes and you'll always run into old problems again. Best to make connections you can maintain and not try and keep too many opposing elements on your side.

Your Fixer, the reason you all know each other and the reason you end up on more chickenshit runs than you can imagine. Still, he knows his shit and he's got the scars (and ancient cyber) to prove it. Calls himself Jude as a crack at how hopeless you all are.

Jude

• Ork, male, early 50's.
• Greyed hair, often in a ponytail. Blue eyes.
• Rocks a Club Penumbra 2049 jacket and jeans combo.
• Has a tendency to blast Concrete Dreams to drown out bugs.
• Is remarkably patient for such an asshole.
• Might actually make sure you get paid.