Stinger Bell – Stringer Bell from The Wire
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Stinger_Bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringer_Bell
Stinger Bell, located in Bumbler Town is a trader and Benzzi’s Uncle. He has information your wizard needs to complete some quests and he needs your help protecting his nephew Benzzi.
James S. pointed this one out. He asked if I had written about the NPC inspired by a villain from The Wire. James, now I have.
The Wire is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon. The series was broadcast by the cable network HBO in the United States. The Wire premiered on June 2, 2002, and ended on March 9, 2008, comprising 60 episodes over five seasons. The idea for the show started out as a police drama loosely based on the experiences of his writing partner Ed Burns, a former homicide detective and public school teacher.
Russell “Stringer” Bell, played by Idris Elba, is a fictional character in The Wire. In the criminal world of early 2000s Baltimore, Bell serves as drug kingpin Avon Barksdale’s second-in-command and assumes direct control of the Barksdale Organization during Avon’s imprisonment. Bell is an intelligent and charismatic leader, but shuns the flamboyance of the likes of Avon for ruthless pragmatism and terse professionalism.
He attends macroeconomics classes at Baltimore City Community College and maintains a personal library, including a copy of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. He attempts to legitimize the Barksdale Organization and insulates himself from direct criminality through money laundering and investments in housing development, aided through his buying of influence from politicians.
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