Questions tagged [criminal-underworld]
For questions about organizations that exist in opposition to the recognized or dominant power structure. Their ethics may range from Robin Hood to Clockwork Orange. Membership consists of thieves, bandits, or rebels.
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What are the best blackmail and extortion paths for haberdashers in post-apocalyptic Victorian cities? [closed]
In a Victorian city on an apocalyptic world, a haberdasher has gained social power. All things pertaining to the Victorian life circa 1880 would be proper here, save for the equine industry. He has ...
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What industrial exoplanet machine would serve as the best escape vehicle from a remote secure stronghold?
My world has 18th century society norms with steampunk tech. I have added a scene from the story to the end of this question, just fill in the blank. Some characters become impressed into service with ...
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Why wouldn't a crime czar control drugs, but a pet cartel? [closed]
The year is 2058 of the Gregorian Calendar. The villain of my story is a crime czar. He does not want to control drugs: he prefers to rule a pet cartel.
The pets that are on the list of this cartel ...
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How could a tobacco/nicotine prohibition be efficient?
In The Dictatrix and the Navigator (a live-action feature film I am writing, I want to direct myself, and I would like to play some characters within it) (I want to play both the Dictatrix and the ...
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How can this prison induce Stockholm syndrome?
(please see note re: name controversy at the end)
My world needs a captivity environment that convincingly tends to cause Stockholm syndrome in its captives, leading them to willfully serve their ...
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Illegal Steampunk horse racing after the apocalypse: What format is most profitable?
My pirates need to maximize profit from their illegal horse racing activities
But the horses are not normal, they are machines. You can ride on top with difficulty, and it may slow them down. So ...
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Cyberpunk Loan Shark
A central component of the cyberpunk genre is the idea of corporations rising to be the dominant power in the world.
I'm working with a setting where urban centers are safe because the corps police ...
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How could my fruit cartel become a national problem?
In a dramedy science-fantasy children's videogame I want to create (by children's, I mean for 8 to 15 years old), Salade de Fruits (which means Fruit Salad) (my first language is French), there is a ...
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How many rival criminal gangs can this fairly small fantasy city support?
The following is the map I am using for a D&D city I've named "Braedon". (It's just a map I found on google image search that I colored in.)
I have established that this is a city with ...
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How can an armed group travel to and attack a rival group in another country?
I have a world where the different countries feature various types of organized groups, some are criminal groups (mafia type organizations) and others are non-criminal but they are both armed and ...
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How can I pivot my goon creation factory to a subscription based model?
I am a rising entrepreneur who has plans of cornering a lucrative niche market for myself. Whether you are a rising super villian in battle with heroes, or a criminal mastermind bent on taking over ...
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Underground fight club realism
My story revolves around illegal fight club, one where opponents get serious and fights sometimes end in fatality. There is one problem though, I want to make more or less inclusive and appealing to ...
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How can two mermaids (one paralyzed), escape underwater prison built to capture their kind? Also, what kind of prison will that be? [closed]
The situation on which my question is based, two mermaids are imprisoned in an underwater prison unit. This city is on top of a plateau. Hence, mers mostly move horizontally like humans and often ...
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How can the underworld nurture a relationship with the political elite? [closed]
I, John Gotti, am remembered as the greatest criminal Mastermind in American history. I became the head of La Costra Nostra, an underworld group of Italian businessmen who were unjustly prosecuted by ...
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How many gangs (criminal and non-criminal) can fit in a fictional crime-ridden New York City?
So, I'm writing a fictional story about gangs and the city I'm using as the setting is loosely based on New York. More specifically, the size of New York City, and the population. I checked on Google ...
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