You are one of the "Children of the Night" 2027-style. You know that the future holds only emptiness, and your only fear is that of The End of All Things. Unlike most, however, you embrace this fear wholeheartedly, and live you lives through the glorification of death. If it can be said that the Goths are fearless, then yours is a casual fearlessness, the result not of bravery but of a reconciliation with the final end. Threats don't work against a Goth.

As a Goth, you own the city streets after dark, simply because your breed is the most numerous at night, far more than the rest of the mere "mortals". Perhaps at certain times or places other yogangs might dominate the Street, but when they leave, you will still be there. You are there because you are the Dead. And the Dead never sleep.

What You Look Like

There are only three colors visible at night: gray, black, and white. You always dress in the latter two. Your clothing is severe, and almost all of it is black. Many of your clothes are hand-made, because retail outlets generally don't carry such old-fashioned styles.

Subculture

There is no formal organization in Goth yogangs, and in fact the gangs themselves are little more than groups of friends who hang out together. Goth groups intermix a lot. You and your fellow Goths are a strange mixture of gothic party animals and vampire poseurs. Although you typically use alcohol and lightweight drugs, you're also fairly athletic, a result of a lot of frenetic dancing in cellars and climbing up fire escapes under the full moon. Constantly telling yourself that you can't feel pain or fear also makes Goths frighteningly resistant to damage; most of the time, a Goth doesn't stop moving until he's really, totally, absolutely dead. And even then, he doesn't look like he's suffered much. While other yogangs flirt with murder, Goths flirt with suicide, vampirism and canabalism, although, since they consider themselves already to be dead, they rarely go looking for death too hard. Most Goths play Russian Roulette if they're really bored.

Belonging

You found it was easy to join with the Goths; all you had to do was dress in black, slap in some white makeup and go hang out after dark. But to really be considered one of the "in" crowd, you had to either demonstrate a complete acceptance of the pointlessness if life (mutilation, suicide attempts), or do something which benefitted the group as a whole. Dump truck diving is a way for any initiate to prove his recklessness.

Your Allies and Enemies

The Goths don't interact much with the other yogangs. They either consider the other yogangs to be prey, or something to be used.

Slang

Fly: dump truck dive, other dangerous acrobatic activity.

Hot Lunch: a victim.

Inks: the night.

Pain: the daylight, the sun.

Queef: as a noun, a wannabe; as a verb, to be foolish.

Woofer: hard-core Goth of dubious sanity.

Yogang Skill: Deathwalk (COOL)

As a Creature of the Night, you know you're already dead. So what's the point of pain and fear? Death holds no fear for you; you embrace it as a lover (Goths never back down from a fight, facedown or threat; add you Deathwalk Skill to your COOL). You also project that scary sensation of undead, creepy calm, which you can use to intimidate others (requires a COOL roll vs. your combined Deathwalk+COOL+1d10, or the victim of your gaze either runs or is reduced to helpless terror).

If You're a Goth

1) Tell me your name, age and sex.

2) Describe what you look like.

3) Besides your V-Trodes, pick four different things from the list below that you are currently carrying:

White face paint and red lipstick

Vampire Teeth inserts (DC3 bite)

Ornate dagger

Garotte (strangulation damage)

Long black armored (AR5) Victorian coat or duster

Obscure symbol on long chain (DC3 as a club)

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