Levels Family
When a building needs to come down and everyone inside needs to stop breathing, Murder Inc calls the Levels family. They are the loudest operators in an organization built on silence, and they have never once apologized for it.
Blunt, brash, and crass, the Levels specialize in explosives, demolitions charges, and high-powered gunfire. They handle jobs too large for a blade or a vial of poison: entire compounds reduced to rubble, fortified positions cracked open, mass-casualty operations executed with professional indifference. Their snipers provide precision where the explosives provide scale. Between the two, very little survives a Levels contract.
What makes them dangerous beyond the blast radius is their ability to disappear afterward. The family is rumored to construct completely alternate identities, fabricated lives so thorough that the person who detonated a compound last week genuinely does not seem to exist. No name, no history, no trail. The explosion happened. The person responsible never did.
Their personality matches their methods. Levels members do not deal in subtlety or social maneuvering. They accept any cost to finish the job, and they view the directness of their approach as a virtue rather than a limitation. Other families whisper and scheme. The Levels bring the building down.
Initiation is the Bonfire Brand. After completing their first kill, the new member joins a massive bonfire celebration and places one hand into the flames. Holding it there as long as possible is a point of pride. Most Levels members carry severe burn scarring on one hand, a permanent mark of what they were willing to endure to join the family.
Blunt, brash, and crass, the Levels specialize in explosives, demolitions charges, and high-powered gunfire. They handle jobs too large for a blade or a vial of poison: entire compounds reduced to rubble, fortified positions cracked open, mass-casualty operations executed with professional indifference. Their snipers provide precision where the explosives provide scale. Between the two, very little survives a Levels contract.
What makes them dangerous beyond the blast radius is their ability to disappear afterward. The family is rumored to construct completely alternate identities, fabricated lives so thorough that the person who detonated a compound last week genuinely does not seem to exist. No name, no history, no trail. The explosion happened. The person responsible never did.
Their personality matches their methods. Levels members do not deal in subtlety or social maneuvering. They accept any cost to finish the job, and they view the directness of their approach as a virtue rather than a limitation. Other families whisper and scheme. The Levels bring the building down.
Initiation is the Bonfire Brand. After completing their first kill, the new member joins a massive bonfire celebration and places one hand into the flames. Holding it there as long as possible is a point of pride. Most Levels members carry severe burn scarring on one hand, a permanent mark of what they were willing to endure to join the family.
Structure
The Levels Family operates within the Silenced Knell faction of Murder Inc as demolitions and sniping specialists. Members are blunt, brash, and crass in demeanor but ruthlessly effective in execution. The family is rumored to maintain the capability to create completely alternate identities, allowing operatives to vanish without a trace after leveling a target site. New members undergo The Bonfire Brand: after completing a first kill, they participate in a massive bonfire celebration and must hold one hand in the flames as long as possible. The resulting burn scars serve as a permanent badge of initiation pride.
Public Agenda
The Levels Family exists to destroy things on a scale beyond what conventional assassination can achieve. Their mission is to level entire compounds, buildings, and fortified positions through explosives and demolitions, supplemented by long-range sniping for precision targets. When the job requires not a knife in the dark but a crater where a building used to stand, the Levels are the family that gets the call. They accept any cost to finish the work and disappear behind fabricated identities as though they were never there.
History
The Levels Family carved out a niche within Murder Inc as the organization's answer to large-scale destruction. When an entire compound or building needed to be eliminated rather than a single target, the Levels were called. They developed expertise in explosives, demolitions charges, and high-powered sniping, combining these skills to level targets with devastating efficiency.
The family's reputation was built on two pillars: total destruction and total disappearance. After detonating explosives in an area, operatives are rumored to construct entirely new identities and vanish, leaving no connection between themselves and the rubble. This capability made the Levels the loudest family in an organization built on silence, known across Murder Inc for accepting any cost to finish the job and for the burn-scarred hands that mark every member who has survived their initiation.
The family's reputation was built on two pillars: total destruction and total disappearance. After detonating explosives in an area, operatives are rumored to construct entirely new identities and vanish, leaving no connection between themselves and the rubble. This capability made the Levels the loudest family in an organization built on silence, known across Murder Inc for accepting any cost to finish the job and for the burn-scarred hands that mark every member who has survived their initiation.
Demolitions experts and snipers who level entire compounds and vanish behind fabricated identities.
