Bozos

The Bozos are one of the many gangs in Night City.

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When they first appeared three years ago, the Bozos were a prankster gang living in the artist's colony, between elegant restaurants and hotels to the north and the University to the south.

Dressed, well, actually biosculpted look like circus clowns with red bulbous noses, wild red hair and long flat feet and costumed to the part, the Bozos became impromptu slapstick theater in this already colorful area. They splashed paint on street painters; they dropped water balloons on parked cars from several stories above; they snuck up behind well-dressed women from the Corporate Zone and slapped velcro on their stockings. It was irritating if it happened to you; it was funny if it happened to somebody else, but it wasn't really dangerous.

Then things changed. The population of Night City should have known that anybody who would voluntarily have white skin grafted onto his or her face to form a perpetual frown shouldn't be allowed to walk around loose.

Rumor has it that their leader is an Arasaka research tech who went cyberpsycho and now creates "devices" for the Bozos. People living on Bozo turf have learned the hard way that if you see a pack of Bozos —just run. Bozos enjoy playing on people's greatest fears: lurking in apartments in the dark, locking victims in small spaces filled with rats, stopping elevators in skyscrapers and filling them with water. Some are cyberpsychos, some a re naturally crazy, all are the sort of people who like to watch horror movies just before going to sleep.

The Bozos don't systematically terrorize the artist's colony where they live (unlike the Voodoo Boys), but are more random. Sometimes they become obsessed with one victim, littering his life with "pranks" at unexpected times until he has a nervous breakdown. If the police are called in, the Bozos will fade ... until the police leave.

Incidentally, Bozos are occasionally seen in the Net. Think about it.

Unlike the Julliard, Bozos are malevolent and predatory.