Stories by @speedrail78

Red Dead Redemption

The story begins in 1911, where former outlaw John Marston is taken from his family by Bureau of Investigation agents Edgar Ross and his partner, Archer Fordham, and will only be granted amnesty when he brings the remaining members of his old gang to justice. John is escorted to the town of Armadillo and sets off to track down former ally Bill Williamson. He confronts Williamson and his men at their stronghold, Fort Mercer, only to be shot and left for dead. Local rancher Bonnie MacFarlane finds him critically wounded and takes him to her ranch for recovery. Several days later, John begins performing tasks and favors for various allies in exchange for their help with organizing an attack on Fort Mercer. John and his group then breach the fort and defeat Williamson's gang only to find that Williamson has fled to Mexico to seek help from Javier Escuella, another former member of John's gang.

Red Dead Redemption 2

After a botched ferry heist in 1899, the Van der Linde gang is forced to leave their substantial money stash and flee Blackwater. The gang realizes that the progress of civilization is ending the time of outlaws, and so decide to gain enough money to escape the law and retire. They rob a train owned by Leviticus Cornwall, who responds by hiring Andrew Milton and the Pinkertons to apprehend them. Arthur and the gang perform numerous jobs and heists in Valentine, and Dutch continually promises that the next heist will be their last. Arthur becomes bothered by recent recruit Micah's recklessness and willingness to resort to violence.

Batman Arkham Asylum

After the Joker assaults Gotham City Hall, he is caught by Batman and taken to Arkham Asylum, which temporarily houses many members of the Joker's gang, who were transferred after a fire at Blackgate Prison. Believing the Joker allowed himself to be captured, Batman accompanies him into the asylum. The Joker's plan is revealed as Harley Quinn takes control of the security and the Joker escapes into the facility, aided by a corrupt guard who kidnaps Commissioner Gordon. The Joker threatens to detonate bombs hidden around Gotham City if anyone tries to enter Arkham, forcing Batman to work alone.

Max Payne 3

Nine years after the events of the second game, Max Payne has retired from the NYPD and spends his days at a bar in Hoboken, New Jersey, nursing his alcoholism and an addiction to painkillers. One evening, a man named Raul Passos approaches Max, claiming to be a police academy batchmate, and offers him a new job, which Max turns down. But, during a drunk and violent argument, Max shoots the son of local mob boss Anthony DeMarco, who puts a price on his head and orders the entirety of New Jersey's crime underlings to kill Max. After killing most of his gang with Passos' help, Max decides to leave his old life behind, taking Passos' job offer as a private security contractor in South America.

Tales From The Borderlands

Rhys is a Hyperion lackey who idolizes the now-deceased Handsome Jack. Fiona is a con artist who works over anyone she can with the help of Sasha and Felix, her sister and mentor respectively. Tales from the Borderlands begins late in the game’s story, with Rhys and Fiona captured and bound by a mysterious stranger who wants to know their story. The game is told from both characters’ viewpoints as they recount their journey to the stranger, explaining how their paths crossed and how they’ve ended up where they are now.

The Wolf Among Us

Bigby Wolf, formerly the Big Bad Wolf, is the Sheriff of Fabletown, a hidden community of fairytale characters located in 1980s New York City. Receiving a call from Mr. Toad, Bigby manages to save a prostitute from an intoxicated Woodsman. He escorts her to safety and before she departs, she tells him he is not as bad as everyone says he is.

Telltale The Walking Dead The Final Season

Years after the events of A New Frontier, Clementine has continued to raise AJ, recalling the lessons Lee previously taught her. While scavenging for food, the two find a train station full of rations, but are forced to flee from a walker horde, ending with Clementine crashing their car and blacking out. Clementine awakens within the ruins of Ericson's Boarding School for Troubled Youth, where she and AJ meet a group of abandoned teenagers and their leader Marlon, who rescued them from the crash. As Clementine and AJ accommodate to living in the school, they return to the train station for the food where a man named Abel tries to rob them.

Telltale The Walking Dead A New Frontier

Javi is living with his parents and extended family in Baltimore at the onset of the walker epidemic. This includes his brother David, David's second wife Kate, and David's children Gabe and Mariana. When Javi and David's father dies of cancer, he turns and bites their mother. When David takes her to the hospital but does not return, Javi and Kate eventually move on and set off on the road with Gabe and Mariana. Four years later, while scavenging for supplies at a junkyard, the four have a run-in with a group composed of Max, Badger, and Lonnie, who claim the junkyard to be theirs. Javi is separated but is rescued by Clementine, who offers help in exchange for their family truck. Clementine takes Javi to Prescott—a fortified community within an old airfield—where he is introduced to Tripp, Conrad, Francine, and Eleanor. Tripp and Eleanor agree to help rescue Javi's family.

Telltale The Walking Dead Season 2

Several months after the events of the first season, Clementine has regrouped with Omid and Christa. However, during a brief rest stop, Omid is killed by a scavenger attempting to rob Clementine. Sixteen months later, Christa and Clementine are seeking refuge at Wellington, Ohio but are separated by a band of scavengers. Clementine falls into a river and finds an abandoned camp with a dog, which eventually turns violent and bites her. An injured Clementine is almost killed by walkers but is saved by Pete and Luke, who take her to their group's cabin. The group, led by Luke, includes Pete and his nephew Nick, Alvin and his visibly pregnant wife Rebecca, and a doctor named Carlos and his daughter Sarah. They mistake Clementine's bite for that of a walker and lock her in a shed for safety. Clementine steals the group's supplies to treat her wound, after which they begin to accept her. Clementine goes fishing with Pete and Nick the next morning, where Pete is bitten and killed by walkers and Nick is temporarily separated from the others.

Telltale The Walking Dead Season 1

Lee Everett is being taken to prison after his conviction for murder in Atlanta, Georgia. However, the car transporting him runs into a walker and crashes off the road, into the woods. He manages to escape, but he quickly realizes the dire situation he is in. He takes shelter in a nearby suburban home, where he finds a little girl named Clementine, who has been hiding from the zombies after her parents left for Savannah some time before the apocalypse. Lee offers to look after Clementine and help her find her parents. The two meet Kenny, his wife Katjaa, and their son Kenny "Duck" Jr at the farm of Hershel Greene but all five are evicted after Hershel loses his son to a walker, so they travel to Lee's hometown, Macon, and soon meet additional survivors hiding in the pharmacy owned by Lee's parents. Lee discovers his family is dead and starts to become more protective of Clementine.

Grand Theft Auto V

Michael Townley, Trevor Philips, and Brad Snider partake in a botched robbery in Ludendorff, North Yankton. Nine years later, Michael is living under witness protection with his family in Los Santos, under the alias Michael De Santa. Across town, gangbanger Franklin Clinton is working for a corrupt Armenian car salesman and meets Michael while attempting to fraudulently repossess his son's car; the two later become friends. When Michael finds his wife Amanda sleeping with her tennis coach, he and Franklin chase the coach to a mansion, which Michael destroys in anger. The owner turns out to be the girlfriend of Martin Madrazo, a Mexican drug lord who demands compensation to avoid further violence. Michael returns to a life of crime to obtain the money, enlisting Franklin as an accomplice. With the help of Michael's old friend Lester Crest, a disabled hacker, they perform a jewellery shop heist to pay off the debt. Trevor, who now lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Santos, hears of the heist and realises that it was Michael's handiwork; Trevor had believed that Michael was killed in their botched robbery nine years ago. Trevor surprises Michael and reunites with him, after tracking down his home.

Grand Theft Auto The Ballad of Gay Tony

After witnessing the heist of the Bank of Liberty (carried out by Niko Bellic, Packie McReary, and his brothers), Luis Fernando Lopez enters the loft of his employer, owner of clubs Maisonette 9 and Hercules: "Gay" Tony Prince. Tony is in debt, having taken out loans from the Ancelotti crime family and Mori Kibbutz in order to keep his clubs running. He asks Luis to work for Mori (later revealed to be Brucie Kibbutz's older brother) and Rocco Pelosi, an Ancelotti gangster, in order to satisfy his debts. Luis soon becomes acquainted with Yusuf Amir, an Emirati real estate developer who is interested in purchasing and franchising one of Tony's clubs, and Ray Bulgarin, a Russian crime lord he met in the club. Tony also plans to buy $2 million worth of diamonds in order to sell them at a higher price, but members of The Lost Motorcycle Club, led by Johnny Klebitz, intervene the trading and steal them, resulting in the death of Tony's boyfriend Evan Moss. Luis manages to intercept a meeting to trade the diamonds and recovers them. Bulgarin soon reveals that the diamonds are his property, and believes that Luis and Tony colluded to steal them, marking them for death. Giovanni Ancelotti orders that the diamonds are to be used as a ransom payment for his daughter Gracie, who was kidnapped by Niko and Packie.

Grand Theft Auto The Lost and Damned

Billy Grey, club president of the Lost MC in Alderney, is finally released from a court-ordered rehab after being arrested for narcotics possession. His vice-president, Jonathan "Johnny" Klebitz, is not happy about his return, after having spent the past year as the club's acting president all while dealing with its debt, mainly from Billy's leadership, and having a truce with the Lost's rivals, The Angels of Death, in order for the Lost to run their drug and gun running operations more freely throughout Liberty City. Following his release, Billy quickly breaks the truce with the Angels before instigating a war with them, causing tensions between him and Johnny to grow, with the latter more interested in keeping the club's business running smoothly than engaging in fights with the Angels.

Grand Theft Auto IV

Niko Bellic, an Eastern European, arrives in Liberty City aboard a cargo ship, the Platypus, to reunite with his cousin Roman, to pursue the American Dream, and to search for the man who betrayed his unit in a war fifteen years prior. Upon arrival, however, Niko discovers that Roman's tales of riches and luxury were lies concealing struggles with gambling debts and loan sharks, and that Roman lives in a dirty apartment in Broker rather than a mansion. While carrying out some jobs for Roman's taxi company, Niko meets and befriends several residents in Broker, including Little Jacob, an underboss of the Yardies, and Michelle, with whom Niko quickly enters a relationship.

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

In 1992, Carl "CJ" Johnson, a former gangbanger for the Los Santos-based Grove Street Families, returns home to Los Santos from Liberty City after learning about the murder of his mother, Beverly in a drive-by shooting. Upon his arrival, CJ is intercepted by a group of corrupt police officers led by Frank Tenpenny. Tenpenny coerces CJ into working for him by threatening to frame CJ for the murder of an Internal Affairs officer, whose death had been orchestrated by Tenpenny.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City

In 1986, Tommy Vercetti, a loyal former member of the Forelli Family, is released from prison after serving a fifteen-year sentence for several murders he committed in Liberty City previously. His former boss, Sonny Forelli, ostensibly promotes Tommy to a caporegime and sends him to Vice City to act as the Forelli's buyer in a cocaine deal and to also do other ground work for the Forellis with setting up their drug trade in the south. When Tommy and his bodyguards arrive in Vice City, crooked lawyer Ken Rosenberg takes them in his car to the docks, the site of the deal. They are ambushed by several masked men, who kill their bodyguards. Tommy narrowly escapes with Ken from the docks, losing the Forelli's money and the cocaine in the process. After Ken returns to his office, Tommy drives back to his hotel and informs Sonny, promising him under the threat of consequences to get back the drugs and money and kill whoever was responsible for the ambush.

Grand Theft Auto III

While robbing a bank in Liberty City, criminal Claude is shot and betrayed by his girlfriend and accomplice Catalina, who escapes with an unnamed Colombian gangster. Claude survives but is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. While being transported in a prison van, Claude and fellow prisoner 8-Ball are inadvertently freed after an attack on the police convoy by Colombian men to retrieve the elderly third prisoner. 8-Ball later introduces Claude to the Leone Mafia crime family; Sex Club 7 owner Luigi Goterelli, Don Salvatore Leone, his Capo Toni Cipriani, and the Don's son Joey Leone. During work for the family, Claude finds himself fighting the Colombians, led by Catalina and the Colombian man, in proliferating a new drug, SPANK. After destroying the Colombians' ship, Salvatore attempts to have Claude killed with a booby-trapped car, but Salvatore's trophy wife Maria, who Claude was instructed to drive around for one mission and who has taken a liking to him, saves him just in time. She admits that, during a fight with Salvatore, she told him about having an affair with Claude. Together with her friend Asuka Kasen, they flee Portland for Staunton Island.

Mafia III

In 1968, African American Lincoln Clay returns to New Bordeaux after serving a military tour of duty during the Vietnam War. Returning to his old neighbourhood where he grew up as an orphan, Lincoln reunites with his old friends, including his surrogate father Sammy Robinson, head of the "Black Mob", his adopted brother Ellis, and local priest Father James. Although intending to head on west to California, Lincoln decides to stay behind and help Sammy after discovering he is having trouble from the Haitian Mob. Despite eliminating its leader, Lincoln learns that the Haitians' interference have left Sammy in debt to mob boss Sal Marcano. To clear the debt, Lincoln agrees to assist Marcano and his son Giorgi in pulling off a heist at the city's Federal Reserve, working alongside Giorgi, Ellis, and Irish mobster Danny Burke. Although the plan succeeds despite complications, Marcano and Giorgi betray the Black Mob, murdering Sammy, Ellis and Danny, and leaving Lincoln for dead.

Mafia II

In 1943, Sicilian immigrant Vito Scaletta is arrested during a robbery and opts to join the U.S. Army in order to avoid jail. After spending two years as a paratrooper on various World War II allied operations, including Operation Husky in Sicily, Vito is given leave in February 1945 to return home to Empire Bay. Finding that his mother and sister are struggling to repay his late father's debt since the family moved to the city in the 1920s, Vito turns to his best friend Joe Barbaro for help, after he provides him with counterfeit discharge papers that can allow him to leave the army for good. The pair slowly take on jobs for made man Henry Tomasino and caporegime Luca Gurino, members of the Clemente family, that secure Vito the money needed to clear his family's debt. However, his involvement in the theft and sale of federal ration stamps lead to him being arrested for the crime, convicted in court, and sentenced to prison for ten years. While in prison, Vito falls in with a crowd led by Leo Galante, the consigliere of mob boss Frank Vinci, and makes an impression on Galante by demonstrating his fighting skills. Meanwhile, Vito's mother dies one day while his sister is visiting him, and all his money - which have gave to his sister for a doctor and a wedding gift - is used for their mother's funeral instead.

Mafia

In 1930, local taxi driver Thomas "Tommy" Angelo finds himself strong-armed into helping members of the Salieri family - Paulie and Sam - escape an ambush by the Morello family. Upon successfully escaping their attackers and reaching a restaurant owned by their mob boss Don Ennio Salieri, Tommy is compensated for his help and promised a favor. The following day, while on a coffee break, he is attacked by thugs from the Morello family who manage to track him down and attempt to kill him for assisting the Salieri family. Tommy manages to escape from them, and reaches Salieri's restaurant to call in his favor. After the thugs are dealt with, Salieri recruits Tommy to his organisation as an associate, becoming friends with Paulie and Sam, and takes on jobs for him.