Philharmonic Vampyres

The Philharmonic Vampyres are one of the many gangs in Night City.

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The Vamps are a prankster gang who were dubbed the "Philharmonic Vampyres" a few years ago when five members clad in tuxedos, capes and vampire teeth flew up on wires behind the Night City Symphony on Halloween night.

These are the people who climb corporate headquarters to leave giant signs, plant gardens in convertibles left on the street and release giant, naked, inflatable dolls of the governor over City Hall during his tours of Night City. Notable rockerboys, fixers and corporates have all been known to take part in Vampyre extravaganzas.

Are they artists, hoodlums or social commentators? Are those teeth part of the costume or not? Who knows? It is believed that the Vamps meet (or perhaps live) in the uncharted maze of access tunnels, storage rooms and sound baffles below the Bodakkan. As a result, they spend a lot of time dodging humorless Arasaka elite security.

The Vamps defend no turf, although they exhibit an odd intolerance for street mimes, which pits them against the Juillard on occasion. Drive-by shootings with paint guns and shaving cream launchers are not unusual.

While the Vamps are considered to be far more witty than dangerous, it is rumored that their membership overlaps with a more serious gang-The Werewolves of London. As much urban myth as reality, "everyone" knows that for the last two years, on nights of the full moon, at least one victim is found literally torn apart as though with tooth and claw. Witnesses have reported seeing elegant gentlemen with tuxedos and black masks in the area and occasionally there is the report of wolves howling.

Of course, the NCPD will tell you that's ridiculous....