The Red Line

# **About**

The Red Line is a large multinational organized crime organization that operates in multiple countries, including Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia. It was founded by a group of unknown Russian mobsters in the mid-1980s. Initially, the group started small and remained in Russia for the first few years before expanding its criminal activities to the United States, where operations became more frequent.

Criminals from around the world were forced to join the organization, as refusal meant certain death due to their knowledge of the group. The Red Line's main activities revolve around various forms of trafficking, primarily drugs and weapons. Through money laundering and other illicit practices, they gain the ability to bribe police officers and officials who may possess incriminating information, unless they are eliminated.

Currently, the organization is led by an anonymous individual known as "Mr. Red," who exercises control over most operations in the US and other countries. The Russian division of the group is led by an unidentified Russian figure.

# **Timeline**

The group was largely out of Novelia until some time in 2023 when they took interest in the AOD activities they accidentally came across. They espically took interest in AOS-004 which they possibly found via hacking into the database of the AOD or some other method. Fred got a call from an old man about a suspected AOS that being his TV. During Fred's investigation he instead found a note showing that the house did not belong to the man and a letter talking about the old mans son which was signed "Red Line". Fred gets suspicious when he spots the old man on the phone. He then arrests the old man on suspicious on attempting to kidnap him.

At the police station, the man claims he was kidnapped and forced to lure Fred to the house by the Red Line and explains all he knows. Daniel sends him to a maxium security prison and attempts to locate the mentioned son before he is killed off. He heads to Goldencity and finds him in his student apartment. He brings him back to the police station as a black van pulls up. At the station he says he has no idea what is going on. This is the first Red Line related case in modern day Novelia.

A few days later, a russian man with no identification is found dead at an apartment. Daniel ties it back to the red line after finding a deliberately placed line of blood. He then finds files on the computer talking about wanting to "expose" someone (red line). Investigators find the death to be a suicide from a gun. The man is later identified as Seth however the public is not informed about how Seth died.

A few days later, one of the higher ups at the station are replaced with Georg. Daniel finds it strange but pays no attention to it. However he starts getting supicious over time with how Georg acts towards different things. One day Georg calls Daniel and tells him to call off the investigation into Red Line as it has been terminated by higher ups. Daniel refuses. The next day Daniel's ex-wife and current son are both murdered in their home by Georg.

Some time later, an explosion happens on the AOD facility which leads to AOS-004 being stolen. Oswald and Craig who were in the facility at the time stumble around and find the gates to AOS-004 destroyed. They do know of the existence of the Red Line since Lime has warned Oswald of their melon plot.

The Red Line attempts to kill Daniel on a train but it foils. It results in Georg being killed by Daniel.

Months after the last encounter, Craig finds a leaked photo of Philip under capture and tracks the location of the image by using the background and finds it to be taken at a water treatment facility in Feng. Daniel goes out himself, alone, to find what they are doing there. He fights his way through and is almost killed when a container is filled with electrified water. He manages to get out of the facility and takes Philip with him.

Later, Craig finds a vehicle graveyard which is being used by the red line to bury the dead members from Daniel's attack at the water treatment facility. Craig and Daniel attmept to go on a solo spy mission but are caught and a fight breaks out and VLQ flees the scene in a car. Daniel and Craig escape in a stolen van but are later hunted down on the road. Daniel fights them off.

# **Globe cultists relations**

The Red Line is called by a globe cultist who asks for evidence to blackmail Daniel. They send out a member to talk. They give the group around 700k dollars for the evidence of the cover up that took place after the Goldencity june massacre which Daniel was involved in. They want to use it to blackmail Daniel in the future. The Red Line intentionally placed unrelated files on the USB. The globe cultists noticed these files and kept them despite it not being apart of the deal. The Red Line notices the files being copied and VLQ finds the globe cultists no longer trustworthy. VLQ then thinks they may try to give the evidence to police instead which makes him order a raid on a house which some of them were staying at. Lime and VLQ kills everyone in the building.

VLQ later does the same to a smaller house with only 3 of them as some sort of warning to not give the evidence to police. He then takes off to another red line owned house with another member. They both go into the basement where a globe cultist has been kidnapped. They attempt to get information out of him but are unable to. They then execute the cultist with a sledge hammer.

# **Trivia**

The first activity the group did was drug related only.

Russia, Serbia and the United States are where they operate the most.

Eric was a past member but wanted to get out and was helped out by Lime. They still do not know he did this.

Daniel is one of the only people in the police force who knows about the red line and tries to keep it hidden as he knows the danger of knowing about the red line.

It was suggested by Eric that corrupt US officials paid the red line to carry out the 2023 Bestbuy shooting that led to the Novelian-American war.

The lower class parts of Union are a hotspot for red line activity.

Wall scribbles mentioning VLQRed Line members burying the coffins of their dead members