Post by Belinda Richardson on Jul 26, 2008 16:06:37 GMT -6
Sinners and Saints
Now you will receive us.
We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.
We do not want your tired and sick.
It is your corrupt we claim.
It is your evil that will be sought by us.
With every breath, we shall hunt them down.
Each day we will spill their blood, 'til it rains down from the skies.
Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.
For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it.
And we will send you to whatever god you wish.
Those were the words that were spoken at the trial of “Papa Joe” Yakavetta by three men known as “the saints”. Two brothers who believe they are on a mission from God to rid the world of evil, bringing flaming vengeance upon Boston’s corrupt. The McManus twins, Connor and Murphy, along with their father, revealed their existence to the world that day, making them among some of the most infamous men in history. A media frenzy whirled around them as FBI posters flocked every major city, it was no longer safe to be a Saint in Boston.
Justice is never as simple as many would like to believe, so was the lesson learned by Special Agent Paul Smecker. A highly accomplished member of the Organized Crime Task Force, he had been trailing the Saints for months, only to find out that they were the two Irish brothers he had let go in connection with the murder of three members of the Russian mob. Everything that he has ever wanted to do to the nation’s scum, these boys are doing. Torn in the dilemma of dilemmas, Smecker had to make the decision whether to apprehend the Saints, or join them. In the end following the brothers, Smecker smuggled them safely out of the United States and into Ireland, where they were to remain until it was safe to return.
But vacuums inevitably must be filled, and so they were, but in the city of New York. Three young men have taken up The McManus’s cause in their absence, making sure their message lives on. Although their means of salvation are far from those of the Saints. Bloody and heartless, bodies of the various members of the New York crime syndicates turning up all over the city mutilated almost beyond recognition, the index finger on their right hand sliced off. On each body is left a little note:
Relics from a Mytar taken
The blood of the wicked shed
The Evil are being sent to their graves
And sweet Lady Justice shall rejoice.
--Yours Truly—
The Saints
Law enforcement officials haven’t been able to make head nor heel of these murders. Lacking the trademarks of the Boston murders, these copycat homicides have set the city on it’s heels, especially the underworld of New York. The Italian crime families, in an act of self-preservation have banded together under the leadership of Don Vincenzo Moretti, a man so revered by so many in the Italian mafia that not a single Family has ever waged war against him. Putting aside any differences and judgments, all power has been handed over to this one man who now has one goal now in mind: to get rid of the Saints before they bring about the demise of all that everyone has worked so hard to achieve.
Likewise, the Russians have been joining under a common banner, that of Vladimir Petrova, a man who is known for being probably the most ruthless man in the entire city. A bloodlust runs through this man like many couldn’t believe, and it is he who the Russian crime syndicates believe will send the Saints to their holy graves. Bringing together his forces, Vladimir has set off his war with the Moretti crime family until the problem of the saints is resolved, creating a brief calm in the city of New York before the storm.
Back in Ireland, though, news has reached the McManus brothers of the copycat murders that have been taking place under their name. Against everything they had been told, Connor, Murphy, and their father retuned to the United States to complete their mission. Two sets of saints now roam the city, both with the intent of bringing down the corrupt, but each with a price on their heads. With every major crime group in New York along with the police looking for them, the question is not how far the McManus brothers must go;question is do they possess the constitution, the depth of faith to go as far as needed?
[[You don't need to be famaliar with the Boondock Saints to rp]]