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xxxxxLocated not far from Jamaica Bay in a predominantly Latinx sector of East New York, this garage doesn't look like much from the outside. A low-slung squat dingy brick building with a hand-painted sign over front proclaiming it to be HELLHOUND CUSTOM CYCLES, this garage has a small office area with its own pedestrian entrance from the street at the front, containing a minifridge usually full of beer and beaten down old desk with a ledger and an antique cash register that no one ever seems to use. The rest of the space is roughly L-shaped, its walls lined with racks of tools and heavy workbenches with built-in steel drawers full of hardware and spare parts. There's a raised platform in the wider leg of the space for working on one motorcycle, and there's space in the narrower leg for parking at least three more.
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| Notes & Trivia
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- The garage is a fully-functioning motorcycle garage, specializing in building custom choppers.
- The garage is also the home base of the New York City chapter of the Mutant Mongrels MC, a 1%er motorcycle club that operates out of a few different cities nationwide.
- Around New York, the Mongrels are very active in weapons dealing and selling drugs.
- Not strictly illicit drugs, though. Some years back, before the Mendel Clinic opened and while some mutant friends were struggling desperately with finding everyday things like insulin and inhalers, the Mongrels got into the business of acquiring necessary medications and selling it on the cheap to communities that struggled with access to legitimate medical care (i.e. the poor, uninsured, undocumented, mutants, etc.)
- From there they branched out into providing medication & medical supplies more widely to communities in need, and in recent years have become quite well-known locally in underserved communities (most especially but not limited to mutants and immigrant communities) as people to go to if you need medical care you can't afford (or for whatever reason, just are wary of/unable to visit more established medical settings.) Several days a week they run a pop-up clinic out of various locations around the city, usually volunteered to them by sympathetic community members -- bodega basements, people's houses, people's stores after-hours.
- Past this, they're also well-known in the mutant community for putting the smackdown on people who try messing with mutants on their turf. This largely means people get very wary of starting any anti-mutant violence in the neighborhood of East New York, but on a larger level the Mongrels' insignia tends to make people think twice about picking on mutants nearby.
- The Mongrels' emblem is a Jolly Roger, though each one is personalized to the rider. It is universal that the MC logo contains a skull and crossbones, with the skull always altered in some way to look other-than-human (horns, fangs, etc.) but the particular manner of freakishness as well as the crossbones below vary heavily from member to member.
- Their name and insignia is quite well-known in both mutant and latinx community in the city, and people tend to be very well aware of their business. While opinions of them are extremely varied, there is often a reluctance in community to outright turn them in to the cops -- whether this comes from fear or the fact that everyone and their mother has a family member who has been helped by the Mongrels at some time or other, whether it was turning up with medicine when their grandmother was sick or Christmas presents when they couldn't afford toys for their kids or weekly dinners after their father was laid off.
- In the neighborhood of the garage itself, it's extremely common for dinnertime to become a block-party event. Anyone who turns up (not looking for a fight) is likely to get fed.
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| Mutant Mongrels NYC members
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- Ion - President. Insignia - a fanged and horned skull over a pair of crossed lightning bolts
- Shane - Treasurer. Insignia - a sharktoothed skull over a pair of crossed violin bows
- B - Pack Member. Insignia - a sharktoothed skull over a pair of crossed fencing foils
- Natalie - Pack member. Insignia - a fanged and horned skull over a pair of crossbones; the skull has a slightly askew halo perched over it
- Scramble - Pack member. Insignia - a fanged and horned skull over a pair of crossbones; the skull has hypnotic swirling eyesockets and brightly colored birds circling it
- J.C. - Pack member. Insignia - a skull with long curved fangs and two short rounded horns over a pair of crossbones
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| Important Events
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xxxxxAnything particularly noteworthy happen in this spot? Note it here!
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| Hellhound Bikes
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| Neighborhood
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East New York, Brooklyn
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| Type
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Motorcycle Repair & Customization
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| Hours of Operation
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By Appointment
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| Mutant-friendliness
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A+
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| Date
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Title
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Cast
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Mentions
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Worry lifters both: the surf-of-malt and the counsel-sharers we ride it with.
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Ion, Kadar, Kamil
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Khalil, Joshua, Scramble
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Hear Those Church Bells Ringing
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Tian-shin, Wolfcub, Crazy Train, Thing ∅, Ion
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Thing 2
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Last Ride
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Ion, Scramble
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Scott, Shane
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Homegoing/Homecoming
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Egg, Ion
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Shane, B, Dusk
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Bike Lives in the Heart
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Damien, Ion, Rocket, Tian-shin
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Polaris, Taylor
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In Which Some Mongrels Make Plans for Strengthening Their Team Spirit
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Shane, Taylor
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Isra, B, Dusk, Nick, Ion, Erik
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Business Prospects
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Shane, Tian-shin
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Ion, B
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No Way Home
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Dawson, Scramble
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In Which The Prospies Get A Hand With Their Chores
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Nick, Shane, Taylor
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New In Town
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Ion, Pietro, Scramble, Wanda
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In Which Matters Of The Heart Are Discussed And Advice (As Well As Hugs) Is Sought (And Given)
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Scramble, Taylor
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Respect for Authority
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Ion, Jax, Mercury, Steve
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Let thy face shine on thy servant; save me in thy steadfast love!
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Blink, Jax, Leo, Nick
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(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
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Alice, Blink, Jax, Leo
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Recharging
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Ion, Skye
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Kindling
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Ion, Steve
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