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Street Gangs of MANCHESTER NH
Street Gangs of Manchester, New Hampshire
Street Gangs of Manchester, New Hampshire
Street Gangs of Manchester, New Hampshire
Street Gangs of Manchester, New Hampshire
In Manchester, New Hampshire in the MDU, there are a handful of townships which street gangs operate from. A street gang is a gang made up of children, teenagers and/or young adults not to exceed 50 gang members; more than 50 members constitutes its own entry under "Gangs".
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The following is a list of known street gangs in Manchester, NH in the MDU (and are not reflective, representative, nor associative of any existing or defunct gangs in the real world in any respective manner)
93 Outrunners
Leader: Colin “Southpaw” Tierney
Members: Approximately 28
Territory: I-93 and I-293 approaches, southern Manchester, highway commercial corridors, hotels, parking areas, storage properties, roadside businesses, and routes extending toward the Massachusetts border
Allies: Millyard Ghosts; selected out-of-state fences, criminal couriers
Enemies: Queen City Reapers
Weapons of Choice: Compact handguns, tire irons, breaker bars, heavy flashlights, folding knives
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Brief Description
The 93 Outrunners specialize in exploiting the criminal traffic flowing between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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They are not primarily car thieves or truckers. Their specialty is understanding how goods, cash, contraband, stolen merchandise, and criminal couriers move through the I-93 corridor—and determining when that movement can be exploited. The Outrunners engage in contraband transport, stolen-property movement, interstate fencing, vehicle-assisted theft, illegal merchandise distribution, and courier robbery.
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One of their signature practices is known as an “Up-and-Back.”
A crew leaves Manchester, conducts a theft, pickup, robbery, or illegal exchange farther south, then returns north before law enforcement in the original jurisdiction fully coordinates its response.
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The Outrunners also prey on other criminals. If they learn that a courier regularly transports cash or contraband along a predictable route, they may simply steal the shipment rather than conduct the underlying criminal transaction themselves.
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Colin “Southpaw” Tierney encourages mobility, route knowledge, and flexibility. Members are expected to know highway interchanges, frontage roads, alternative routes, staging locations, and where jurisdictional boundaries create delay or confusion.
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Their colors are asphalt black, highway green, and reflective white or silver. ​Their primary symbol is a white upward highway arrow cutting through the number 93. The simplified graffiti mark 93↑ has become closely associated with the gang.
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Their strongest rivalry is with the Queen City Reapers, who view the Outrunners as outsiders exploiting Manchester without recognizing local authority. ​The Outrunners see things differently: Roads belong to whoever can use them.
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The Briar Rats
Leader: Rowan “Thorn” Vey
Members: Approximately 16 core members, plus several associates and buyers
Territory: Overgrown Merrimack River edges, neglected mill properties, wooded lots, drainage corridors, abandoned rail spurs, vacant industrial land, park margins, and hidden urban-wilderness spaces around Manchester
Allies: Transactional relationships with the 93 Outrunners and Queen City Reapers
Enemies: Millyard Ghosts; Queen City Reapers when unstable magic creates unwanted problems
Weapons of Choice: Hedge Relics, Hookbriars, Wardbrellas, Thorncanes, Bottle Fetishes, Rootspikes, Bramble Chains, Hollow Lanterns, unstable Natural and Druidic magic
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Brief Description
The Briar Rats are Manchester’s most unpredictable street gang.
Unlike the city’s other criminal organizations, the Rats possess genuine magical ability—but almost none of it was learned properly.
The gang acquired stolen magical books, damaged grimoires, apprentice notes, potion journals, incomplete ritual texts, and discarded magical materials through burglary, black-market trading, estate theft, fencing networks, and opportunistic crime.
They then taught themselves.
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Most Briar Rats barely reach apprentice or low-adept ability. Their magic is concentrated primarily in Natural and Druidic disciplines, supplemented by crude warding, potioncraft, talisman-making, and improvised magical-item creation.
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​Their typical effects include root binding, thorn growth, concealment, irritant spores, sleep mixtures, crude protection wards, tracking charms, temporary enhancement brews, sabotage charms, and improvised magical barriers.
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Approximately 10% of their magical use produces an unintended result.
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A concealment charm may obscure an entire street. A root spell may tear through pavement. A defensive ward may explode outward.
A potion may produce the wrong biological effect entirely.
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The Rats have learned to exploit these failures. If a spell creates enough confusion, they use the chaos as cover to escape with whatever they came to steal.
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Their signature equipment is known collectively as Hedge Relics—ordinary objects converted into crude magical weapons and foci.
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Common examples include:
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Hookbriars: warped pole saws or pruning tools used as thorn-bound magical reach weapons
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Wardbrellas: enchanted umbrellas that project short-lived shields or concealment
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Thorncanes: altered walking sticks and canes used as crude magical foci
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Bottle Fetishes: unstable thrown potion devices producing fog, irritation, fear, sleep, or other disruptive effects
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Rootspikes: enchanted railroad spikes and scrap-metal stakes used for wards and entanglement
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Bramble Chains: thorn-wrapped chains with unstable binding effects
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Hollow Lanterns: repurposed lanterns used for concealment, strange light, or magical distortion
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Their colors are moss green, bark brown, dirty cream, black, and oxidized copper. Members commonly wear patched hoodies, battered coats, flannel, cargo trousers, work boots, gloves, leather wraps, charm pouches, copper wire, carved wooden tokens, herb bundles, bones, feathers, and other scavenged magical materials.
Their symbol is a rat skull wrapped in thorn vines. The simplified tag BR is common, with the “R” frequently shaped like a hooked thorn.
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Rowan “Thorn” Vey leads the gang because he is the member most willing to experiment.
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His guiding philosophy is: If it worked once, it works.
The rest of Manchester’s underworld has developed a simpler rule: Buy from the Rats. Never bring the Rats.
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Millyard Ghosts
Leader: Gavin “Latch” Dyer
Members: Approximately 23
Territory: Historic Millyard, Merrimack riverfront, converted mill complexes, commercial buildings, parking structures, service corridors, loading areas, and nearby industrial properties
Allies: 93 Outrunners; limited business arrangements with the Queen City Reapers
Enemies: Briar Rats
Weapons of Choice: Compact handguns, pry bars, heavy flashlights, utility knives, lock-entry tools, improvised worksite weapons
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Brief Description
The Millyard Ghosts are Manchester’s premier commercial infiltration and high-value burglary gang.
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Operating throughout the historic Millyard and its surrounding industrial-commercial properties, the Ghosts specialize in entering places without appearing to have broken into them. Members study loading docks, contractor entrances, service corridors, mechanical spaces, freight elevators, roof access points, utility routes, security schedules, and building-maintenance patterns.
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Many Ghosts possess legitimate experience in construction, custodial work, deliveries, maintenance, building services, or warehouse operations. That knowledge allows them to blend into environments where a conventional street criminal would immediately attract attention.
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The gang targets commercial electronics, contractor equipment, technical devices, office inventory, stored merchandise, high-value fixtures, and other property that can be removed quietly and fenced through established contacts.
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Gavin “Latch” Dyer built the Ghosts around patience and preparation. He expects every job to have a known entry point, target, exit route, and buyer before anyone moves.
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Their colors are charcoal, faded brick red, and dull silver. Their symbol is a pale ghost-like figure emerging through three vertical brick columns, while a simplified MG mark is commonly used in graffiti and gang shorthand.
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The Millyard Ghosts dislike unnecessary attention and consider themselves professionals rather than street thugs. Their strongest advantage is simple: They know the buildings better than the people who own them.
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Queen City Reapers
Leader: Andre “Crown” Baptiste
Members: Approximately 36
Territory: Downtown Manchester, Elm Street, surrounding residential-commercial blocks, nightlife areas, parking structures, apartment corridors, and central-city streets
Allies: Limited business arrangements with the Millyard Ghosts; occasional transactional use of Briar Rats
Enemies: 93 Outrunners; periodic conflict with Briar Rats
Weapons of Choice: Semiautomatic handguns, knives, baseball bats, expandable batons, heavy flashlights
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Brief Description
The Queen City Reapers are Manchester’s largest and most entrenched traditional street gang. ​Centered around downtown Manchester and the Elm Street corridor, the Reapers control a broad range of street-level criminal activity, including drug distribution, robbery, illegal gambling, protection, debt collection, fencing, and neighborhood extortion.
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Unlike Manchester’s more specialized gangs, the Reapers operate through sheer presence and territorial influence. Smaller dealers and independent criminals working inside their territory are often expected to pay for the privilege or risk being forced out.
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Andre “Crown” Baptiste leads the organization with a more controlled approach than the Reapers’ reputation suggests. He understands that violence can establish fear, but uncontrolled violence damages business. ​His philosophy is simple: Fear is useful. Chaos isn’t.
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The gang uses black, deep purple, and tarnished silver as its identifying colors. Its principal symbol is a broken silver crown above a downward-curving scythe blade. Simpler tags often use QCR or the broken crown alone.
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The Reapers’ visual style combines ordinary street clothing with restrained MDU villain flair: dark jackets, hoodies, deep-purple layers, silver hardware, broken-crown patches, and occasional reinforced or armored-looking outerwear.
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The Queen City Reapers see themselves as the gang that keeps Manchester’s criminal economy under local control. ​That belief places them in direct conflict with the 93 Outrunners, who routinely move outside criminals, stolen goods, and contraband through the city without respecting Reaper territory.
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