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Jonas Ciad - Before the Turmoil
Jonas Ciad is in many ways Jack Riel's counterpart, or some kind of mix between Riel and the Batman. He was orphaned at a young age (nothing sinister - just a boating accident), and a large fortune fell on his shoulders. His father was sole owner, CEO, and President of the fast food chain, "Kung Fu Chicken". After his parents death the chain slipped into disrepair and fell out of favor, but Jonas hired a new board to handle things, and with him at the helm the chain was revamped and became very successful again. Jonas completed his MBA by age 20, and was on the cover of BusinessWeek several times.
Then Jonas handed the reigns of the company to the board, and withdrew into the shadows; he had become a regular in the club scenes along the Eastern Seaboard, and he essentially retired to party full time.
That was Jonas' introduction to the numinal. It was a movie cliche, but vampires' main business affair were clubs, raves, and e-rings - a lot could go unnoticed. Vampires would typically be the most normal-seeming in the group. Jonas took notice after the death of a friend that no-one cared about (it was written off as an overdose), and he exacted some revenge. In his words to Riel, "I single-handedly made the DC club scene boring."
Jonas now has mini-bases around the world in the basements of various Kung Fu Chickens. Each site has an all-black supercharged Police Interceptor (police lights are hidden behind the tint in the windows), and a magnetic decal with a very federal-looking PNI (Parnormal/Numinal Intelligence) shield. Sitting next to each interceptor is a Crown Vic taxi, for when he wants to "blend". He has built up relationships with a number of law enforcement officials around the country, who all think he is a black-ops fed and assist him as such. He has even had a several million-dollar PNI line item added to the Justice Department budget, though the money is apparently going to the pet projects of the senators he bribed.
Jonas maintains a professional appearance, but is no starched-collar crime hunter. He still runs with the same crowd, has the same vices, and several of his friends are vampire stooges that either he saved from their evil ways, or they seduced him into not caring (it depends on who you ask).
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Though Jonas has remained outside the day-to-day operations of Kung-Fu Chicken, he has parlayed his wealth into other ventures - he owns rental property around the country, mostly in the form of multi-unit apart complexes, and he has started a production company called SilveRay that to date has only produced porn (he's trying to take it more mainstream and win the option for "The Hero of Ohio" license). Both of these ventures allow aid him in his vampire control efforts - those vampires he manages to covert/save/have duped him, he can put up in empty units to get them back on their feet/use as safe houses/keep them under house arrest. His production company/strip bars have a talent base almost exclusively of the same group of vampires, which keeps them busy and paid, and can also introduce them to acceptable channels of bloodletting.
Then Jonas handed the reigns of the company to the board, and withdrew into the shadows; he had become a regular in the club scenes along the Eastern Seaboard, and he essentially retired to party full time.
That was Jonas' introduction to the numinal. It was a movie cliche, but vampires' main business affair were clubs, raves, and e-rings - a lot could go unnoticed. Vampires would typically be the most normal-seeming in the group. Jonas took notice after the death of a friend that no-one cared about (it was written off as an overdose), and he exacted some revenge. In his words to Riel, "I single-handedly made the DC club scene boring."
Jonas now has mini-bases around the world in the basements of various Kung Fu Chickens. Each site has an all-black supercharged Police Interceptor (police lights are hidden behind the tint in the windows), and a magnetic decal with a very federal-looking PNI (Parnormal/Numinal Intelligence) shield. Sitting next to each interceptor is a Crown Vic taxi, for when he wants to "blend". He has built up relationships with a number of law enforcement officials around the country, who all think he is a black-ops fed and assist him as such. He has even had a several million-dollar PNI line item added to the Justice Department budget, though the money is apparently going to the pet projects of the senators he bribed.
Jonas maintains a professional appearance, but is no starched-collar crime hunter. He still runs with the same crowd, has the same vices, and several of his friends are vampire stooges that either he saved from their evil ways, or they seduced him into not caring (it depends on who you ask).
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Though Jonas has remained outside the day-to-day operations of Kung-Fu Chicken, he has parlayed his wealth into other ventures - he owns rental property around the country, mostly in the form of multi-unit apart complexes, and he has started a production company called SilveRay that to date has only produced porn (he's trying to take it more mainstream and win the option for "The Hero of Ohio" license). Both of these ventures allow aid him in his vampire control efforts - those vampires he manages to covert/save/have duped him, he can put up in empty units to get them back on their feet/use as safe houses/keep them under house arrest. His production company/strip bars have a talent base almost exclusively of the same group of vampires, which keeps them busy and paid, and can also introduce them to acceptable channels of bloodletting.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 11:10 AM 
