Halloweeners

Turf: Downtown
Colors: Black and Orange

The Halloweeners are a gang that scares even some gangs, especially lately, when their fascination with macabre, over-the-top Halloween imagry seems to have gone to some pretty nasty places. The current leader of the gang is a mysterious figure called Nightmare, dressed up like a slasher out of some hundred-year-old horror flick, complete with glow-in-the-dark plastic skull mask and black leathers covered with straps and buckles and an orange bandana tied around each arm. The look has caught on with the gang, which apes it, often with different masks ranging from hockey masks to cheap rubber Halloween masks. The gang makes its living with a mixture of dealing, arson, petty theft, and violence-for-hire.

The gang is responsible for a terrorist attack on Seattle's Space Needle, which was ultimately foiled by the runners, as well as nearly a month of brutal street warfare against Knight Errant. Showing aggressiveness far beyond what they have in the past, the gang has been encroaching upon other gangs' turfs, often resulting in heavy casualties on all sides (both gangs and innocent bystanders).

Despite Knight Errant's claims that the gang has been mostly pacified, with most of their Downtown safehouses raided and a large number of its members either killed or arrested, the Halloweener presence on the streets is higher than ever.

Nightmare



Little is known of Nightmare, not even their gender, beyond the fact that they are the de-facto leader of the Halloweeners gang. During the Space Needle terrorist attack, Nightmare made an appearance using the Eye of the Needle's array of displays. Though Knight Errant claims to have put a good number of members of the Halloweeners gang behind bars or six feet under, no statements have been released concerning the gang's mysterious leader figure.

Whatever Nightmare is—and nobody can even tell if that is male or female—it’s
bad news. Stories of supernatural powers from a flaming aura to sucking the
life out of victims or literally scaring them to death abound. The only thing I
can say for certain about it is a source I trust has looked at Nightmare’s aura
and it is tightly masked. That’s no mean feat considering my source’s abilities,
and means Nightmare is hiding something and probably knows full well what
it is doing.
> Ethernaut