Some of you grew up near the tracks. Some of you had to ride the subway to get to school. Some of you have parents who work for the system. No matter how you came in contact with them, you fell in love with the rails. The roar of the train and the whistle of a railboard are better than music. Some call you obsessed, some call you nostalgic, your friends call you a RailRider

What you look like
        You try for a safety conscious, yet tunnel chic look. This means all of your outfits are on the dark end of the spectrum with a large reflective section. Often, you wear the reflective strip as a diagonal stripe with an attached flap. The flap lets you cover the stripe when you need to hide. Also, as Trogs worry about water, you worry about electricity; therefore, all of your clothing is insulated. Admittedly, you have to put up with a lot of rubber pants jokes, but it's better than getting a million volts shot through your body.

Subculture
        Your yogang is a mixture of nostalgia and speed. Some say you're just Trogs who live in subway tunnels. Others think you're just specialized BoardPunks. They just don't understand. The rails have their own language. The best you can tell them is to listen to a pilot talking about planes. It's the connection to the past, the power, the sense of order, the mystical aura, the smell, the sound, and the touch. You spend most of your time exploring the system on the trains or railboards. You use the thunder of the rails as a lullaby. Some of you even make your beds in hollows between rails. The rest of you make your homes in abandoned stations, deserted sidings, or if outside, by the tracks.
        A railboard is probably the most distinctive part of RailRider culture. A railboard lets you follow the rails, monorails and the rare birail, while being towed or using the electric current. All railboards are homemade and highly illegal. Many can easily be converted to ride birails as well as monorails.
You supplement your income with picking passengers pockets and smuggling. Arrests are rare, since most cops are afraid to follow you into the tunnels, but deaths are commonplace. BoardPunks and GoGangers think they're daring because a car could hit them; when one of you messes up, you bounce of the wall at 200 miles per hour or get cut in half by a seven-ton train. Now, that's daring.
        On the whole, you try to respect each other's privacy, but you recognized that you had to have some organization in order to avoid collisions. Your solution was simple; every rail system has a number of stationmasters. You choose these members on the basis of character and skill. These juves are in charge of a portion of the system. Their job is to keep track of who is in their section, where they tend to cruise, and to settle disputes. Their power is far from absolute, but most abide because it's efficient. Anyone entering a new area is expected to report to the station manager to alert them of their presence. All stationmasters have a splice into the phone lines in order to keep on top of schedules, news, and new members.

Belonging
        You weren't born in them, but somehow you made it into the tunnels. They enthralled you. Other RailRiders saw you crawling around the rails and catching illegal rides. Eventually, one of the members decided to take you under their wing. They taught you the rhythm of the rails and the skills for tunnel life. You received your first railboard from them as well. When you were ready, your mentor presented you to the stationmaster. Now that you were known and recognized, they left you alone. It's rare for the yogang to try to remove a member, but on occasion it has happened. Usually, they give the individual a choice: banishment or a deadly game of chicken with a freight train. Most choose banishment; only one person has ever survived the game of chicken.

Allies and Enemies
        Your closest allies are the Trogs and ArcoRunners, since both understand your mentality. The MallBrats will use your knowledge for smuggling, and the GoGangers and BoardPunks respect your recklessness. The Guardians dislike the hazards you create. All the territorial groups, MegaViolents, Goths, and Tribals, hate your excursions into their territory, but can do very little about it. However, your biggest enemies are the corps, who are furious at your misuse of their systems, but the police would enjoy the opportunity to reign you in as well.

Slang
Station Master: yogang leader
Sardines: passengers
Bulleted: amazing, wonderful
Paid his ticket: died
Hit the Switch: stop, wait a minute
Boxing: moving to a new system

Yogang Skill: Train Magic (Int)
        Trains have their own language, and you speak it fluently. For example, you can ride a railboard (Average). Also, you wear the train schedule and system like a comfortable pair of jeans. You can tell when a commuter is arriving (Easy), exactly where it will be at any point (Average), and who is probably on it (Vry. Difficult). You can even find special runs (Difficult) or runs that aren't even supposed to exist (Nr. Impossible). You even have developed your senses of distance, time (You know, to the minute, what time it is and how much time has passed) and speed (You know the speed of anything you can see).

If you're a RailRider,
1) Tell me you name, age, and sex.
2) Describe yourself.
3) Besides your v-trodes tell me five things you are carrying

• Railboard
• Pocket watch
• RoadRasher (Insulated)
• Walkie Talkie
• Miner's helmet
• Envirogloves (Insulated)
• Grapple and 50m line
• 12 pocket flares