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[Season 2] Person Information – Gray Hand

[h3]Person Information – Gray Hand[/h3]


[ Character Introduction ]
  • Code Name: Gray Hand (Affiliation: A.B. Gray Crows)
  • Role within the organization: Real head of Gray Crows
  • Real name: Руслан Руслан (Ruslan) [Like a lion] , Japanese name ルスラン

A young man in his 20s, but he is the spiritual pillar for the Crows in Europe. He keeps his identity a secret from the public, and shortly after A.B. organization was founded, he was made the de facto leader of the Crows.

Hand was born to a mixed-race family with a Japanese father and Russian mother. He grew up in Japan as a child, and has been wandering around Russia and Eastern European countries since his teen age years. Due to his thin build and mixed race appearance, he has faced racism and bullying in both Japan and Russia.

As he became an adult, he developed a strong concern for the poor and the alienated and consistently advocated an ideology of equality and hope on the Internet. He collected tons of data on the political/business and military/police systems of various countries with his excellent hacking skills, which he used to call for a more ideal world. The nickname he used as an Internet polemicist, 'The Visible Hand' [active moderator], was called the 'Hand' by many low-income people, and he gained idol-like support.

But after sitting down with Zero to discuss the formation of the coalition and the grand plans for the future, he was stance has turned over 180 degrees, as if he became a different person. No longer did he call for justice and fairness with a warm heart. For more than a year now, he has been working with terrifying intensity to create the weapons and equipment needed for a fighting organization. At night, he walks around in a bizarre mask and an assortment of weapons, ruthlessly terrorizing anyone who doesn't fit into A.B.'s idealized world.


[ Position ]

- Disruptor
  • After hacking into the classified information of military contractors and learning the key manufacturing processes, Hand uses these information to create and utilize a variety of specialized weapons. Hand's hobbies include throwing flash grenades to wreak havoc in an area or using personal time bombs. He also has a sickening hobby where he takes pleasure in watching his targets freak out at the sight of a ticking time bomb attached to their bodies.
  • One of his strategic weapons is white phosphorus ammunition, which has been modified to reduce its power and make it easier to handle. He predicts the enemy's path of travel and restricts their movement with the flame zone of the white phosphorus ammunition. While some have braved the burning zone, the price of ignoring the flaming white phosphorus at room temperature only led to incapacitation.


[ Specs ]
  • Age : 23
  • Height : 176cm
  • Weight : 75kg
  • Physique : Lean and thin
  • Trained Sport : None
  • Rival : Ms. One
  • Buddy : HARDWORKER Crush
  • Likes : Computer programming, weapons/equipment development, mechanical materials such as carbon/metal, etc.
  • Dislikes : Unfounded Justice and principles, stupidity, inefficient iteration/effort


[ Character Attributes ]

"I...I want you to try this new g...gun I made for you. Everything the megacorps make is g...ga...garbage!"
  • A bomber, that hides his face by a mask and hood and commits acts of terror with his bombs. People, including the media, call him B.I.N. (the Bomber In the Night). It's not known what drove Hand to this behavior, but what's even more bizarre is that his current appearance was created in just over a year.
  • He was placed in an incubator as soon as he was born. Born sickly, his parents gave him the name 'Ruslan' in hopes that he would grow up to be healthy. Despite this desperate hope, Hand's slow physical growth only led to his childhood being looked down upon and bullied by those around him.
  • Since becoming the leader of the Gray Crows, he has been building the weapons and information/communications infrastructure necessary for the organization's missions. The organization gains vital intelligence from Hand's CCTV and eavesdropping equipment, and each member is outfitted with a customized weapon that suits them.


[ Personality ]
  • A man of few words, he's hard to get to know and usually wears a special carbon fiber mask and a hooded poncho made of flame-resistant material.
  • On the rare occasions when the words do come out of his mouth, he is not good with words which makes it quite frustrating for those trying to have a conversation with him. His conversations are also centered around the weapons and machines he's researching. Rumor has it that those who remember Hand's breadth and depth of knowledge and brilliant writings that once set the Internet ablaze were shocked to meet him in person.
  • He is generally not interested in other people, but when he gets interested in someone, he obsessively observes and analyzes them. He is often seen watching the person he is interested in and smiling crookedly.
  • When he's not working, he can be found immersed in comic books and anime. Paper once walked in on Hand's rest day and complained, "All he watches are cartoons about little girls with guns.


[ Relationships ]
  • After his talk with Zero since the formation of A.B., Hand's personality has changed dramatically. Originally, he was a member of the Crows, criticizing the absurdity of social structures and advocating for welfare to bring harmony between classes, mainly through the Internet. He would also sponsor young children who had lost their parents and were in need. But after becoming the second head of the Gray Crows, he began to transform into an extremist terrorist, spearheading A.B.'s destructive and radical agenda.
  • HARDWORKER Crush is one of the few people around Hand that he recognizes as a technician. He feels it is hard to get used to her cheerful, sociable voice and her behavior, such as barging into his workspace, but when the topic of conversation turns to mechanical equipment, he's seems quite pleased even through his mask. In his conversation with Crush, Hand sometimes even forgets when to breathe, and his excitement is evident in his spittle splattering talks.
  • Ever since Ms. Twin started working undercover at the local burger joint, he's been there every day with HARDWORKER Grasper. Feeling uncomfortable with the two men staring at her with strange looks in their eyes, Twins give Hand and Grasper a hard time.
  • In a construction site frozen in time with no owner, Hand spots Ms. One. He didn't like the fact that the members of A.S., who were against the A.B., dared to tread on his turf. She was a formidable fighter, but he managed to mortally wound her and send her home. But knowing she was still alive, Hand smiled with excitement, and began to scribble notes about One in his log book.


[ Physical Attributes ]
  • He is a young man with the appearance of a mixture of mainland Japanese and Slavic Russian. He has deep eye sockets, a strong and tall nose, black hair and eyes, and a piercing eye-line, so it's easy to tell at first glance that he is a half-blooded person of East and West.
  • Hand is quite thin, a reflection of his sickly childhood and bullying-ridden adolescence.
  • He wears many layers of clothing to conceal his appearance. He's especially fond of wearing hooded ponchos and baggy pants to make it hard to tell his size.
  • To protect his body from impact and poisons while still covering the face, he wears a gas mask and respirator specially made from carbon fiber.
  • He also wears force-enhancing mechanical gloves to overcome his lack of physical prowess. The fingertips of the gloves have claw-like metal finish that can inflict severe wounds.
  • When not on missions, he wears a tattered and worn T-shirt, jean jacket, or maintenance suits.
  • He doesn't care much about his appearance, other than his wavy hair. When his hair gets to the point where it's quite long, he will go get a curly hair perm done without anyone noticing it.


[ Character Object ]
  • Torches and rising smoke
    - Torch : symbolizes the charm that draws people to follow him, as he was once a leader on the Internet and is now the leader of the Gray Crows.
    - Smoke : expresses his past and present, always hiding his true self and acting behind a mask.


[ Habits ]
  • He has poor vision, so he often rubs his eyes and squints them.
  • When talking to someone, he changes the color of the ambient light attached to the special mask from time to time.


[ Hobbies ]
  • Watching anime and collecting figurines
  • Create observation reports and databases about the surrounding people
  • Crafting/Modifying Personal Weapons and Defense Gear



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[Season.2] Investigation Report – A.B. : GRAY CROWS



[ Overview ]
They are the largest contract murder organization operating in Europe, with the most member count. They disguise themselves as homeless people and part-timers and operate in a wide area, without being tied to a certain time or place. Because the organization operates over a large area, many of its members carry out various types of missions, including espionage, murder-for-hire, and public opinion manipulation.

The GRAY CROWS were growing as an independent faction, but were incorporated into the A.B. (Anybody) organization, which was founded by defectors from the A.S. (Achromatic Servant). While the HARDWORKERS hold the front lines with their great combat powers, The GRAY CROWS support them by gathering intelligence, or by performing disturbance operations for the A.B.


[ Background ]
As Europe's industrial revolution accelerated, income polarization became increasingly extreme. The economic paradigm shift from agriculture to manufacturing led to a significant increase in the number of low-wage workers and unemployed. Some of them began to take on the biddings of the capitalist class to run "dangerous errands" for a living. Among the 'errand runners,' those who belonged to an organized group like A.S. were called 'Masters,' while those who did not belong in the group called themselves the 'CROWS'.

In the 20th century, a few well-meaning CROWS began to assert a sense of identity and ethics for the CROWS. The idea was that the CROWS would not accept work that would harm the common people and the poor and that the income they earned from commissions should be shared with laborers and the poor. The CROWS main work was to settle disputes between the upper classes, and the income they earned was used to fund the activities of labor organizations that sought to improve the status and welfare of the common people.

Toward the end of the 20th century, a fallout within the A.S. organization led to Mr. Anyone and Zero being expelled from the A.S. A few months later, one of A.S.'s internal organizations, HARDWORKERS, came out of the organization to follow these two men. Zero then set out to find the leader of CROWS, and they decided to unite the HARDWORKERS and CROWS under the name of the organization A.B. (Anybody). But the self-proclaimed leader of CROWS showed nothing but greedy and pathetic features, falling far short of Zero's expectations. In the days that followed, the leader of the CROWS was killed in a mysterious falling accident, and Zero set out to find 'Hand', a young man whom many of the CROWS truly admired.

Zero and Hand, who has an age different of a father and son, talked for days in private, and eventually reorganized A.B. and the Crows with Hand as the official head. Hand selected a few hundred trusted individuals from among those who called themselves CROWS and formed an organization called the 'GRAY CROWS'. Gray came from the idea of expressing their identity as an organization (black) and not an organization (white). Each GRAY CROWS member was assigned to a mission with the local crows in their area, as per A.B. and Hand's policy.


[ Characteristics ]
With many people spread across continents, it demonstrates the ability to execute missions quickly and synchronously.

Most Crows operate in top-down hierarchy organizations with one or two GRAY CROWS members leading the rest as point of contact, and their missions are usually information collecting or protest activities. However, when an assassination/political operation is commissioned by the head of an organization, it is broken down into smaller missions, and GRAY CROWS members will instigate their own crows to execute the individual missions simultaneously.

They are far from having a military-like organizational structure and mission capabilities, the GRAY CROWS are more about the diverse talents of the individual members and their ability to unite local crows. While they operate quite differently from the HARDWORKERS, they are similar in that they utilize a wide variety of weapons and equipment.


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[Dev Notes] Part-8: GTT Feedback - Chapter 3. Firearms System Improvement




[h5][ Intro ] [/h5]

Hello, everyone. I am Kwon Dae Ho, the executive producer of Black Stigma.

Since we already introduced ‘shooting balancing’ last time, now it’s a time to continue with sharing about the direction on how we will organize the firearms system.

In the Global Testing Tour held during fall of last year, there were many concerns and requests for improvements regarding the firearms system. Therefore, will we explain what the problem was and what kind of system we will have in place to deal with it.


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[h5][ Firearms placement issues during the Global Testing Tour ] [/h5]

The problems with the firearms themselves which some of you pointed out during the Global Testing Tour were as follows.

ⅰ. The hierarchy of firearms exists, and the utility varies depending on the class.


  • In other words, shooting efficiency is not a matter of individual shooting skills. There is a possibility that it may be determined by factors other than skills such as paying money.
ⅱ. It seems like handguns are mainly used in this worldview, but the diversity of firearms is low.


  • Compared to other shooting games that from pistols to large heavy weapons are appeared, the difference in the usage mechanism or presentation of each gun is not significant.

To sum up, we have heard the opinions saying that the whole firearms settings should have some degree of fairness along with distinctive individuality which should be more clearly apparent.

Our idea of worldview which pistols are the main firearm will not be changed, but we will try to produce a clearer difference in individuality. To achieve that, we’ve decided to (1) establish a firearms customization system and (2) introduce more diverse types of weapons.


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[h5][color][ Introduction to the firearms customizing system ] [/color][/h5]



[color]1) Way to customize firearms[/color]

As you know, firearms modification (customization) is a culture widely seen among gun enthusiasts. That is what we would like to introduce in black stigma as well.

The gun customization system is being developed in two ways:

    A. You can improve your gun’s abilities or decorate it through firearms customization.

    Each customizing accessory has its own unique appearance to be attached to firearms.
    Also, some accessories can change specific capabilities of a gun depending on the type.
    In contrast, there are also types of accessories that simply build up a gun's embellishment without changing its capabilities.

    B. Sacrificing control power to receive gun abilities effects in return.

    Depending on customization, some of the gun's abilities may be improved. However, for this to happen, the character using the gun must have more control power.
    Therefore, players must secure maximum control power and research the customizing combination that best suits them under the limitation.
▲ A laser sight with more bullets in a magazine which is easier to aim is applied, but the character's control power is insufficient, so the accuracy drops.

★ In general, if the character's control power level doesn’t meet the gun's requirement, it will be not allowed to equip. But now we are considering about a rule that would allow it to be equipped despite a penalty level that would make normal use impossible.



[color]2) Introduction to the modified components of firearms[/color]

The components of a firearm are divided into the following parts:


    A. Basic Attachments (Main Parts)



    • In order to use this type of firearm, these attachments must be surely designated.

    • It is divided into frame, slide, and magazine.

    - Depending on the gun model, there may be parts that do not exist.
    ex. Slide doesn’t exist in Revolver style.

    • The basic attachments have various appearances/colors as well as differences in gun performance.

    - Frame: You can change the firing method, such as burst/repeating/bust shot, etc.
    - Slide: (No functional changes are planned for arrangement)
    - Magazine: Slightly increases magazine capacity. (The number of additional bullets is approximately 10%)


    B. Attachments



    • Although this is not a mandatory part of a gun, it can upgrade a gun's abilities when being attached.

    • It is divided into muzzle attachments and optical equipment.

    - Only one muzzle attachment is allowed to be attached to one gun model. Optical equipment is allowed to be attacthed to a gun multiply if the attachment positions are different.

    • Muzzle attachments improve gun recoil or aiming accuracy. Optical equipment provides great convenience in aimed shooting. (Actual impact point shown)


    C. Decoration Accessories

    • This is an element that can decorate the appearance of a gun but does not directly increase the performance of the gun.

    • It is divided into charms and stickers.

    - Two or more charms and stickers can be mixed and applied to one gun model.

    • Some charm items slightly increase the user's control power.



[h5][color][ Elements arrangement diversifying shooting experience addional to firearms ] [/color][/h5]

[color]3) Introduction of warhead replacement function[/color]

Another improvement is that you can now is that choose from a variety of warheads to equip.

Each warhead has two major values: (1) armor destruction ability and (2) bare body killing ability. This system was also present in the previous test version, but each gun had a fixed warhead.

This time, you will need to find out how to choose a warhead based on your opponent's character or tactics. If a character with thick armor often plays in the enemy camp, a warhead that is good at destroying armor or penetrating armor will be advantageous. Otherwise, you should choose a warhead that can inflict more damage to the bare body.




[color]4) Added pistols and skills to provide unique shooting styles[/color]

While maintaining the rule of using only handguns, various gun concepts commonly found in other shooting games are also applied to Black Stigma.

There are three main types of new concept guns that have been implemented up until this moment.

  • Magnum Revolver: Uses high-power bullets to inflict devastating damage at one point.


  • Large-diameter double barrel: Demonstrates lethal power in close combat using shotgun shells


  • High-capacity target pistol: Easy control and large-capacity ammunition magazine provides the fun of continuous shooting


Additionally, new mechanical skills are developed to provide the feeling of ‘long-range sniping’.

  • A new character who uses archery is now being prepared, and the character will be able to use long-range sniping skills by shooting a bow.
  • In addition, as a hero shooting genre, we plan to amplifly the enjoyment of shooting by diversifying more skills.
▲ Like"Hawkeye", a character from Marvel who has a general shooting/carpet ability, but he also has the most outstanding skill with a setting of archery.


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[h5][ Conclusion ] [/h5]

While maintaining the worldview of a secret dark killer in society, it won't let you miss out any joy you've ever experienced before in the other shooter games. As a result, Black Stigma will try to provide a variety of shooting experiences in different angles.

The firearms system reformation which I’ve mentioned above will be ready right away, so see you in the next test service.

Thank you.



Best Regards,
Producer Kwon Dae ho




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Fan Site Kit Info (Ver. 1.0)




Hello everyone, this is BLACK STIGMA.

We have prepared a Fan Site kit with various materials that you can easily use to create your own fan cafe, blog, and more.

The Fan Site kit will be continuously updated with new content, so please stay tuned.





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[h5][color]▶ Fan Site Kit Items (Ver. 1.0)[/color][/h5]

1. Logo: BI/CI

2. Characters: 6 members of AS Organization



 Organization 

 Code Name 



 AS: Masters 

 Mr. Ten 



 AS: Masters 

 Mr. Parabellum 



 AS: Masters 

 Mr. HollowPoint 



 AS: M.A.I.D 

 Ms. One 



 AS: M.A.I.D 

 Ms. Nano 



 AS: M.A.I.D 

 Ms. Twin 




Thank you.


BLACK STIGMA Team