the Mahri crime family

[S0dak1]

(COMPLETE Revamp of my application, thank you for the feedback!)

Name of Faction:
The Mahri Crime Family

Number of Members (Minimum of 5):
5 (and still growing)

Type Of Faction (Family, Triad, Street Gang, etc):
Crime Family / Syndicate

Ethnic Background:
Palestinian

Name of Character running the faction:
Merikh Mahri

Your Discord #:
S0dak1

Your SteamID:
STEAM_0:1:216184681

Your Server playtime:
2 days, 5 hours (I know its practically nothing, but I have experience running factions on other servers)

Do you acknowledge and agree to all faction rules as detailed on the server rules page?
Yes

Do you acknowledge that your faction discord will be owned by us?
Yes

What kind of roleplay will your faction bring to the server?
The Mahri family brings a different type of RP. It’s not just a bunch of guys shooting for turf or trying to look flashy. This is a group rooted in culture and quiet control. On the surface, they run a small Palestinian café. You’ve got food, music, tea, prayer, and community. But behind that, they’re moving serious product. Cocaine shipments come in through family connections overseas and are moved through the city without making a mess.

We’re aiming for deep, immersive RP. Cultural events, coded drop-offs, loyalty trials, and in-character consequences. There’s tension between the life they came from and the one they’re building now. They’re not loud about their business, but when the Mahri name comes up, people know it means something.

How will your faction stay active and engaging?

• Regular café nights with real service, used as cover for deals and conversations

• Cultural events like street festivals to bring new people in and keep RP alive

• Shipment runs with ambush potential or police heat

• Loyalty missions for new members to prove themselves

• Storylines involving betrayal, loyalty, and internal family drama

• Sit-downs and no-gun meetings with other factions to build power through presence, not just violence

There’s roles for everyone. Enforcers, fixers, frontmen, café staff, smugglers. We want it to feel alive, and like it actually functions.

Organization Backstory:

The Mahri family didn’t come to America to run drugs. They came because their home was taken from them. Their village in Palestine was leveled overnight with no warning and no mercy. Haroun Mahri packed up his family and fled. They landed in a beat-up neighborhood on the East Coast in 1979 with nothing but a prayer book, a family name, and the will to survive.

They opened a café. It wasn’t much, just taboon bread, lentil soup, and strong mint tea served in chipped glasses. But it gave them purpose. It gave the neighborhood a place to gather. For a while, that was enough. Haroun worked sunrise to sunset, and his sons took whatever jobs they could get. Dock work, dishwashing, hauling crates at the market. Anything to keep the lights on.

Then came the threats. Local gangs saw the café bringing in steady business and wanted a cut. Haroun refused. He didn’t run from tanks just to start paying street punks. That decision nearly killed him. One morning in 1985, he opened the back door and lost his leg to a pipe bomb.

After that, his sons changed. They weren’t just boys helping their father anymore. They became something else.

Merikh, the oldest, stepped up as the planner. Quiet and calculating, the kind of man who watches everything before making a move. Najim, his younger brother, was different. Louder, more emotional, but loyal as they come. He had no problem getting his hands dirty. They pushed back hard, and word spread fast that the Mahri family didn’t play around.

They started protecting other immigrant businesses. First for free, then for a fee. Respect turned into power. Through cousins back in Jordan and Turkey, shipments started coming in. It started with cigarettes, then hash, then cocaine. The café stayed open, always clean and sacred, but the back room told a different story.

They had rules. No drugs in their own community. No violence near the café. Loyalty over everything. You break those, you're gone.

By 1989, the Mahri name meant more than just food and family. It meant protection. Power. Presence. Now they're in Liberty City.

Not to start over.

To take what’s theirs.

"We don’t forgive. We preserve."

Edited 3 hours ago by S0dak1
original application felt rushed and didnt give off a "proper" feel.

[MrlogicNova]

-1 this was not promised to us 3000 years ago 

[DaddyD15]

Plus One. i would to see how yalls relationship would look with the jews

 

[anzati1]

224 word count for your back story, while yes the question does say 250+ minimum, read some of the other accepted applications to understand what the expectations are. you dont need to do 500 or 250 or 800 words, but a large majority of the other apps are more in depth about their backstories.

also !time ingame to see your playtime.

[Lucid Mangos]

This backstory doesn't really put much thought into what the faction really is. Kinda just feels like you put it together just to get it done. 

 

A humble group of people regardless of ethnicity don't just move to America become bullied and decide fuck it let's smuggle drugs. There is a progressive history that leads to becoming an organized crime family. Some are bullied by local mobs and and try their hardest to survive the exploitation and extortion, others will work with them and eventually break off and do their own organized crime.

 

Your backstory basically says "we moved, had a hard time, decided you know what let's smuggle drugs." There's no real rhyme or reason to why just that they figured hey were having a tough time living let's do it. Humble people don't make that jump like that. 

[handsome]

8 minutes ago, Lucid Mangos said:

This backstory doesn't really put much thought into what the faction really is. Kinda just feels like you put it together just to get it done. 

 

A humble group of people regardless of ethnicity don't just move to America become bullied and decide fuck it let's smuggle drugs. There is a progressive history that leads to becoming an organized crime family. Some are bullied by local mobs and and try their hardest to survive the exploitation and extortion, others will work with them and eventually break off and do their own organized crime.

 

Your backstory basically says "we moved, had a hard time, decided you know what let's smuggle drugs." There's no real rhyme or reason to why just that they figured hey were having a tough time living let's do it. Humble people don't make that jump like that. 

ngl ur kinda dick riding thats a fair jump

[Arza]

Nah

[Lucid Mangos]

9 minutes ago, handsome said:

ngl ur kinda dick riding thats a fair jump

From this "For years, they lived humbly. They worked long hours doing honest labor, stayed low-key, and tried to find their place." to this "warm hospitality on the outside, cold calculation behind the scenes. With connections back home and a knack for moving quietly, they started importing cocaine, using the café as a front."

again humble people dont just get up and decide to sell drugs, in fact it goes against what they said in the first paragraph. They left their home country to escape instability and war. Why they hell would a humble family trying to leave that oppressing lifestyle move to America and decide to get involved in organized crime? It doesnt make sense. 

Im not dick riding, just giving constructive criticism. If I was dick riding Id be showering this application with gold.  

Edited 20 hours ago by Lucid Mangos

[Jæcob ッ]

what arza said.

[handsome]

4 hours ago, Lucid Mangos said:

Im not dick riding, just giving constructive criticism. If I was dick riding Id be showering this application with gold.  

ngl bro u didnt even give them a way to better it you just said this fucking sucks also i think thats fair for them

[S0dak1]

6 hours ago, Lucid Mangos said:

From this "For years, they lived humbly. They worked long hours doing honest labor, stayed low-key, and tried to find their place." to this "warm hospitality on the outside, cold calculation behind the scenes. With connections back home and a knack for moving quietly, they started importing cocaine, using the café as a front."

again humble people dont just get up and decide to sell drugs, in fact it goes against what they said in the first paragraph. They left their home country to escape instability and war. Why they hell would a humble family trying to leave that oppressing lifestyle move to America and decide to get involved in organized crime? It doesnt make sense. 

Im not dick riding, just giving constructive criticism. If I was dick riding Id be showering this application with gold.  

Thanks for the feedback, ill change it up a little!

 

6 hours ago, Lucid Mangos said:

This backstory doesn't really put much thought into what the faction really is. Kinda just feels like you put it together just to get it done. 

 

A humble group of people regardless of ethnicity don't just move to America become bullied and decide fuck it let's smuggle drugs. There is a progressive history that leads to becoming an organized crime family. Some are bullied by local mobs and and try their hardest to survive the exploitation and extortion, others will work with them and eventually break off and do their own organized crime.

 

Your backstory basically says "we moved, had a hard time, decided you know what let's smuggle drugs." There's no real rhyme or reason to why just that they figured hey were having a tough time living let's do it. Humble people don't make that jump like that. 

Understood, thanks for the feedback I'll fix it up!

 

7 hours ago, DaddyD15 said:

Plus One. i would to see how yalls relationship would look with the jews

 

Something may happen

Edited 14 hours ago by S0dak1

[S0dak1]

5 hours ago, handsome said:

ngl bro u didnt even give them a way to better it you just said this fucking sucks also i think thats fair for them

They are giving me ways to make it better, your just extremely stupid or just looking to argue.

[handsome]

1 hour ago, S0dak1 said:

They are giving me ways to make it better, your just extremely stupid or just looking to argue.

NGL ur dick riding -1

Edited 8 hours ago by handsome

[S0dak1]

Bruh, your just a rage baiter lmao

[alfe]

no

[S0dak1]

15 hours ago, Arza said:

Nah

Anything I could've changed or improved?