Blake Croyle

Blake Croyle is a high-ranking Animals gang member in.

Biography
Blake Croyle likes to give the impression of a polite, well-spoken man whose job is simply to collect the debts of those he so graciously lent some Eurodollars to out of the kindness of his own heart. The truth of the matter, however, is that he is a predator, barely a step above the brutish thugs from the Animals that he himself pays to do his dirty work. And choom, he puts the "shark" in loanshark.

See, he uses a very simple system: first and foremost, don't let your mark realize what a gonk they are right away. Be their friend, offer your generosity...and then, when the time comes, snap the trap shut around their wallet just as they start to see your true colors. And if they don't pay? Well, no big deal--just give them a good scare, smash their things up a little, give them a few bruises or perhaps a harsh shove and a mild concussion to show you mean business, and throw in some threats to their family if they need some extra "encouragment." And, when they open that fat wallet of theirs to pay out the eddies owed, you know they're yours. This process has worked for Croyle countless times before, and with it, he rakes in a fat stack of eddies from across the city.

Nowadays, Mr. Croyle has recently set his ambitious sights on the store chain of one Roger Wang. Even though he never actually lent Wang any money, Blake believes he is owed simply for the privelige of giving Roger "business advice" regarding his money troubles. So, he takes a payout from Wang--along with one of Wang's shops in Kabuki, as "interest." And he has no intention of stopping there.

Unfortunately, it is here that Blake made an error: unlike his other clients who could be cowed and shaken down, Roger took his concerns to one Regina Jones, a local fixer who just so happens to have no love for Mr. Croyle, or his predatory actions against the people in her neighborhood. Soon enough, Regina gets a hold of V and explains Roger's plight to them, before instructing the Solo to put an end to Blake Croyle's business dealings--permanently.

Should V take the job, they find Blake set up in Roger's former shop, reclining and running his business out of a room in the back while occasionally chatting on the holo or to his Animals bodyguards, which V must either sneak or fight past to reach him. From here, V may offer some "business advice" of their own--the unspoken kind, which may be immediately lethal, ending the life of Mr. Croyle right there, or perhaps nonlethal, allowing the loanshark to be gathered up and stuffed into the trunk of a waiting Archer, for express delivery to the fixer to be dealt with as she sees fit.

And so, the career, and life, of Blake Croyle draws to a close, bringing with it a very valuable lesson: Some debts are paid with blood rather than eddies.

Associated Quests

 * Gig: Shark in the Water

Shards

 * Archived Conversation: Blake Croyle and Tim Autry
 * Archived Conversation: Bart von Ochman and Blake Croyle