Red Vory

Red Vory

"The Thieves of the Code"
Connection	3
Type	Organized Crime Syndicate
Player May Join	Yes
Health	Maintaining
Area of Operation	Russia, Former Soviet States

Faction Information

Summary

The Vory V Zakone are a criminal syndicate, which originally arose out of Russian prison culture during the fifth world. Outside of Russia they are mostly seen as a group of violent thugs, but they are nonetheless a sophisticated criminal syndicate with notable and far reaching influence. There was once a distinction within the organization between the Vory (ruthless career criminals who worked their way up to positions of leadership through hands-on experience) and the Avtoritet (who were frequently connected ambassadors or appointed ministers who gave orders to trusted lieutenants to carry out), but this is mostly now a point of historical trivia; the two terms are essentially synonymous in the present day.

The "Red" Vory mostly operates out of Russia and the former Soviet states, and is deeply entangled with the government of the Russian Federation. Their criminal specialties usually consist of data brokerage, loan-sharking, matrix crime, prison economics, prostitution, protection, smuggling and white collar crime. There is also a strong element of racial loyalty within the Red Vory, however this to do with ethnicity rather than metahuman bigotry; a Red Vor will typically trust a Muscovite Ork over a Tartar human. There is also a notable distrust of the Awakened amongst their ranks; in Russia, strong mystical traditions have usually been associated with foreign ethnic groups and therefore considered untrustworthy. Awakened members of the Vory are extremely rare and almost always members of the hermetic tradition.

They are not to be confused with the White Vory, one of their primary rival organizations, which is mostly active in Western Europe and North America. The White Vory had a former presence in Seattle, but were entirely eradicated or converted in the local area by members of the Red Vory who took over.

Major Locations

Name	Archetype	Owner	Metroplex	Neighborhood	Background Count	Noise
Volga Bath House and Spa	Bath House & Spa	Mikhail Antonov	Seattle	Downtown, Capitol Hill	1	2

• Moscow, Russia

• Seattle, UCAS

Background

Enemies

• The White Vory

Members

Contacts

Name	Connection	Archetype	Profession
Alexey Dorosov	5	Fixer	Vory Fixer
Bloodstains	4	Fixer	Vory Fixer
Dane	1	Fixer	Fixer
Daylight	6	Networking	Infobroker
Djinn	5	Fixer	Red Vory Fixer
Liudmila	5	gear	Resort Owner & SIN Forger
Mikhail Antonov	2	Networking	Bathhouse & Spa Owner
Red Sonya	5	Custom(A,K,N,G)	Assassin

PCs

Name	Position	Faction Rep
Nicolas	Bojevik	4

Narrative Significant Runs

Name	GM	Metaplot	Date of Run
Reviving a Goddess	lov.euphoria		14 November 2085
Pawn Takes Bishop	Anumati	Portrait of Ruin	23 June 2085
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Bear	Sleevey	Compound Interest	23 February 2085
Everybody Wants To Be A Co-Author	Kirk		17 September 2084
Remnants of an Omen	Zerre	Contre-Révolution	22 January 2084
Reconnaissance Step 1: Seattle	KaterSalem	Enemy within	29 September 2083
Irish Wolfhound has fallen	KaterSalem	Enemy within	19 July 2083
Six Gets Headhunted	Aurora		14 September 2082
You Found Me	Ghostlin		22 August 2081
Like Taking Candy From A Baby	Gravity	Sweet Sweet Revenge	17 August 2081
Heaven is a Place on Earth	Ghostlin		1 August 2081
Back With A Vengeance	Gravity	Sweet Sweet Revenge	18 June 2081
Hotline Seattle 1 - No Good Deed Goes Unmurdered	Torq	24 Karat Magic	20 April 2081