Orozco

Miguel Orozco remembers poverty too well. He remembers his family’s dilapidated shack in the slums and he recalls hating his father for begging and scavenging for money to feed his alcoholism. When Orozco was 12, he approached a local drug dealer and asked him for work. He became a lookout, then a courier, but his father stole most of whatever money Orozco earned for himself. When his father beat him within an inch of his life for withholding pesos, Miguel ran away. By the time he was in his late teens, Orozco had become an enforcer for a Tijuana Cartel drug dealer of some standing. Orozco, in turn, wasn’t magnificently bright or sharp-witted, but his distaste for the pauper’s life turned him into a brutal and efficient enforcer. He was destined for underworld respectability as someone’s bodyguard. That’s when Los Muertos Alegres Embraced him, and that’s when Orozco met Carlos Dik, another enforcer working for a Tijuana Cartel brothel. The two became fast allies. To Difiz and Orozco, the Sabbat seemed like nothing more than infants playing in the mud. The Sabbat wielded tremendous power and it acted like a lion among men, but it wasn’t investing or using its abilities lucratively. In fact, it dwelledlike apauper inmany instances, relying onpetty theft to bankroll its activities for one more evening of partying. Di& and Orozco wanted more than a hand-to-mouth existence, and they convinced their pack of the same. They ran small prostitution rings, sold drugs, and kidnapped rich locals for cash. They bought expensive clothes and jewelry, and the members enjoyed a standard of existence unknown to them previously. Unfortunately, Orozm and his materialistic agenda was also responsible for driving two members from the pack. The two complained to Bishop Natalio, who secretly investigated Orozco’s activities. Mwco CIIY BY N w 88 Orozco used his contacts within the Tijuana Cartel to help his pack work as enforcers, couriers, and even distributors. The money was good, and the cartel, which was already known for its violent measures, welcomed the brutality of Orozco andhis pack without realizing their curse as Cainites. DiAz and Orozco hoped to rise within the cartel’s echelons, eventually assuming positions of power and importance, but Bishop Natalio exposed them and punished them with combined sanctions from the other bishops, stopping their activities cold. Since the Sabbat’s interdiction, Orozco has been looking for profit he could disguise as beneficial to the Sabbat. Relying on his contacts and underworld connections, he’s hoping to usurp one of the cartel’s distribution pipelines into San Diego or Los Angeles, giving the Sabbat a stronger foothold in the region while netting him profit. Unfortunately, the Tijuana cartel is armed to the teeth. Orozco has yet towinone fight against them. Ifhe assassinates one lieutenant, the Tijuana cartel kills of a handful of his contacts trying to find him. Because of this, Dih and Orozco have decided to switch tactics and go after the beleaguered Gulf Cartel and its cocaine network. Instead of attacking personnel, Orozco now Embraces cartel members to obtain their loyalty through the Vaulderie. Alternatively, he approaches ex-cartel members and young thugs within the Sabbat. This has proved to be a more successful gambit, though Orozco still has much to leam about the fine art of balancing personal self-interest with that of the Sabbat. Orozco and Di6z maintain strong ties to Mexico’s underworld, and their influence grows steadily. With each person they Embrace, turn into a ghoul or torture, they gain more crucial information and more power to create ripples in Mexico City’s criminal counterculture. Unfortunately, their influence also translates as roads leading back to them, and if the major cartels ever discover the would-be drug monarchs trying to claim a kingdom in the heart of established territory, Orozco and the Encapuchados will have a cartel war they cannot win. Unfortunately, whether Orozco understands the risks or not, he’s never been one for patience or prolonged subtlety. Orozco is a contrdudista to the core, and still measures his successes against that of the cartels. He hopes to pick up the pieces of what he believes is the Gulf Cartel’s impending collapse. To facilitate this, Orozco has made ghouls of several dealers working for the Gulf syndicate, and uses their knowledge to feed the Sonora and JuArez Cartels crucial information. He’s hoping to spark a feeding frenzy over Gulf interests, then secure men and contacts in the chaotic fallout. With that, he plans on building an Orozco Cartel.. . for the Sabbat, of course.