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Boko Haram

* **Turf:**In and around Marshall Terrace Park, Northeast Minneapolis
* **Colors:**Insomuch as they have colors, the Boko Haram favor Black and White. Usually they wear cast-off military gear and urban camouflage combined with face-concealing black head-scarves.

The Nigerian Boko Haram gang are one of a number of small African immigrant groups that operate under the protective umbrella of the Riverside Jihad. Despite religious differences (Salafi Sunni vs Nation of Islam) the much larger Riverside Jihad tolerates them because they are expendable and reliable muscle.

Founded in Nigeria in the early 21st century as a Salafi  organization for the promulgation of Sharia Law and a rejection of Western Education ("Boko Haram" means "Forbidding Western/Fake Education" in the local languages), they had become a full paramilitary outfit by 2009 and spent the better part of the next twenty years fighting increasingly brutal wars against the African (especially Nigerian) governments and the secular world in general, burning villages, kidnapping "Brides", setting off suicide bombers and general straddling the line between terrorist and modern total war, despite numerous claims by West African governments of their defeat. They even aligned themselves with the Daesh Caliphate (a precursor to the New Islamic Jihad), becoming their westermost "province".

Where the armies of the industrial world failed, the Awakening finally succeeded. Their territory in Northern Nigeria were right up against the border of the Awakened Congo and their hard-line Islamic opposition to magic or awakened creatures put them in direct conflict with the new powers emerging from the dark heart of the Congo and even the brutal, battle-hardened fighters of the Boko Haram were no match for Shapeshifters, Sasabonsam , Shamans and Naga.

The only survivors of these series of massacres were the few who fled overseas, hidden in groups of honest immigrants to the Twin Cities and other enclaves, where they reformed and got right back to their old ways.

Holding to their full rejection of the West, Boko Haram lives in camps down by the river or in Marshall Terrace Park, living by extortion, armed robbery, gun running, kidnapping and thinly-veiled prostitution (Kidnapping and selling 'brides'). They are known to be violently opposed to drugs, BTL's, open prostitution, secular media, magic and metahumans. They almost wiped the Al-Shabaab out for selling opiates on their turf and have an ongoing, violent war going on with the shapeshifters in the Leopard Society for no other reason then that each gang hates the fact that the other exists.

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Five by Five

Location: Cedar-Riverside

I remember when this was still the Triple Rock, just barely, circa 2025. It’s been a revolving door for club owners ever since Crash 1.0 in 2029, but after spending a couple years closed after Crash 2.0 , Ares  bought it out and remade it as the Five by Five, along the lines of the club of the same name in Detroit. It was at the forefront of the beginnings of the Afroflash  phenomenon, even when everyone was still wetting themselves over CrimeTime and the other Goblin Rockers. As a result, the local African crowd loves it, as well as trendy students and such from all over town. It’s the main hangout for the Riverside Jihad , so keep that in mind before you go in there and piss all over their Quran, or whatever it is you guys manage to do that keeps setting them off.

*They’re just angry dudes, Rose. I don’t know what they’re mixing their khat with these days.*
- Vision Fist

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Ivory

### **Shadowsona: IVORY**

**Shadowsona Profiles: Supplemental Asset Management Solutions (a Horizon Product)**

**Last Updated 2/20/2076**

* **Identity:**Available\* (want more? click here to upgrade to Shadowsona Ultimate)
* **Description (Metatype):**Elf (*Homo sapiens nobilis)*
* **Description (Gender):** Male (he/they)
* **Description (Magic):**Active Spellcaster
* **Magical Tradition:**Shaman: Trickster Archetype
* **Skillset:**Spellcasting, Healing, Illusions, Fraud
* **Affiliation:** 'Caithness Lodge' (member), *Crithos Glennahaeron Emain Ablach (former)*
* **Area of Operations:** *Ynys Derwyn, Lake of the Woods (former), Denver FRFZ (former),* Fargo and Argusville,Red River Disputed Military Zone
* **Available:**High
* **Reliability:**Medium to High (provisional)

**Notes:**Subject is a long-standing Denver-area asset and can be confirmed through multiple FRFZ sources, but as of late 2075 has relocated to Region 3 (Fargo) and has no engaged in any major operations there to date.

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Gild

### **Shadowsona: GILD**

**Shadowsona Profiles: Supplemental Asset Management Solutions (a Horizon  Product)**

**Last Updated 7/29/2075**

* **Identity:**[Withheld by request of customer OS423084234-F, to contact customer, reference ID number OS-610934]
* **Description (Metatype):**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Description (Gender):**Male (he/him)
* **Skillset:**Social Engineering, Persuasion, Information Gathering, Planning. "Face (Suit)" type
* **Affiliation:***Ares Macrotechnology (former),*Misko-ziibi tiwahe Tiospaye (associate), The Fargo Team 3.0 (auxiliary), The Fargo Team 4.0 (core)
* **Area of Operations:**Fargo , RRDMZ
* **Availability:**Moderate-to-High
* **Reliability:**High

**Notes:**Has been active in Supplemental operations for the last year, both independently and on contract for the Fargo Team (3.0).

Unspecified operational limitations (tag:i241). Contact user Gurkha for details.

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Huang Hui Yin

## Huang Hui Yin, Corporate Court Auditor

* **Name:** Huang Hui Yin
* **Position:** Special Consultant for the Corporate Court's External Audit Committee
* **Metatype:** Taotie (*Homo sapiens robustus*)
* **Education:** Doctorates in Law and Forensic Accounting from the City University of Hong Kong
* **Citizenship:** Corporate Citizen of Wuxing Incorporated.
* **DOB:** 10/22/2012, Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China (now part of the Canton Confederation)
* **Family:** Huang Tao "Tom Wong" (father, deceased), Liang Fa Ye "Fay Wong" (mother, deceased)

A respected contract lawyer and risk analyst with Wuxing Inc for nearly thirty years, Huang Hui Yin formerly served as Sr Vice President for Compliance under Wuxing's CFO until her retirement in 2068 to work directly for the External Audit Commission of the Corporate Court. Currently splits her time between her homes in Hong Kong and on Zurich Orbital, she is a respected authority in the matter of ownership and inheritance law.

She is in Fargo at the request of the Group to help prepare for the transfer of much of the corporate property left behind by the Old Man. On 8/15/75 she submitted the report to the Corporate Court that recommended that the Group maintain its status as a single-A Corporation on the strength of a loan agreement with AAA Ares Macrotechnology.

It is also on her recommendation that the Corporate Court initiated the 12/21 intervention by GOD in the Fargo Grid, on the basis of anonymously-delivered information of corruption of the Group's primary AI TANNIN.

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Ether

**NOTICE: THIS FILE HAS BEEN MARKED DORMANT, SUBJECT REMOVED FROM 'AVAILABLE' STATUS BY REQUEST OF USER RZ094736275-F 12/25/2075**

### **Shadowsona: ETHER**

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**Last Updated 12/25/2075**

* ~~**Identity:**[Withheld by request of customer RZ094736275-F, to contact customer, reference ID number UC-329457]~~
* ~~**Description (Metatype):**Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)\*~~
* ~~**Description (Gender):**Female (she/her)~~
* ~~**Description (Magic):**Adept (Physical)~~
* ~~**Magical Tradition:**Path of the Warrior (Adept)~~
* ~~**Skillset:**Protection, Hand-to-Hand Combat~~
* ~~**Affiliation**: The Underberg Family (member) , The Fargo Team 3.0 (auxiliary), The Fargo Team 4.0 (core)~~
* ~~**Area of Operations:** Fargo , Red River Disputed Military Zone, Moorhead UCAS~~
* ~~**Available:**Low-to-Moderate (Underberg Family)~~
* ~~**Reliability:**High~~

~~**Notes:**The subject known as Ether was active in the early 2060's as an Underberg enforcer, Blood sport fighter and occasional supplement to the The Fargo Team (3.0). Has not been active for the last decade. Has only reemerged to resume her previous role during summer 2075.~~

* ~~Sources vary on metatype. "Human" represents best consensus, upvotes on "Human" outnumber next best guess (Ork, *Homo sapiens robustus*) three to one.~~

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American Space Force

## American Space Force, Inc.

* **Status:** Would count as 'BBB'-rated corporation if independent, but is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ares Macrotechnology
* **Headquarters:** Vanderburg Center, 747 Nebraska Ave, Vandenburg, CFB
* **Leadership:** Commanding Officer Samira Lavrova, a former member of EVO-Roskosmos's first Gagarin Mission to Mars in 2070
* **Business Type:** American Space Force Inc provides a variety of space-based security services for Ares' various orbital and deep space operations. They organize, train, and equip space forces in order to protect corporate and client interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force.

After buying NASA from a bankrupt USA government, Ares Macrotechology went on and bought the newest and smallest branch of the US Military, the United States Space Force, as their next step in their (successful) militarization of space, which has been a core part of the brand for the last half-century. Rebranded as the 'American Space Force Inc.' after the break-up of the United States, the AFS still stands apart from the rest of the Ares hierarchy, taking their orders directly from Detroit and standing apart from most intracompany politics. Even now, with other competitors (EVO-Roskosmos, Saeder-Krupp's Arienespace, NeoNET's Fuchi Orbital, Proteus AG, etc), the AFS still represents the largest single aerospace security agency in the world and still forms a keystone of Ares' dominance in Earth Orbit.

**Return to: Ares**
Daniel Tranh

* **Name:**Daniel Tranh (Tranh Huu Danh)
* **Position:**Information and Matrix Technologies Manager, Bank of the Red .
* **Metatype:**Human(*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:**Masters in Systems Analysis from the University of Tsêhéstáno
* **DOB:**4/4/2038, Philadelphia, UCAS
* **Family:**Howard Tranh (father, Philadelphia PA, UCAS), Cynthia Tranh (mother, Philadelphia PA, UCAS), Vernon Stalking Deer (husband, Fargo  RRDMZ )

A direct answer to the Bank of the Red's CIO, Hirem Mason, Daniel Tranh has been with the bank for five years, after a three year stint with NeoNET  and two with contractor Foxtrot Communications. In his off time, Daniel is also a well known figure in the Martyr Scholar Guild on the Khistova Server .

His high levels of performance and teamwork have earned him a place on the liaison team for Bank of the Red, working for Special Auditor Huang Hui Yin , under Operations manager Jessica Schafer.

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Linc-Up

* **Address:** 3921 10th St. N, Fargo, Region 3, RRDMZ 58102
* **Description:** Safehouse and (very) informal school of Magic

Opened by former Shadowrunner, current Vodouisant and local folk hero Linc Yellowjacket in mid-January 2076, the place that its sometimes residents now call "the Linc-Up" is a shabby, refurbished bungalow, off the grid and adjacent to the pepper-patches worked by Campeche Rouge Hounfort. In years past, it was occasionally used as a ritual site; however, a stubborn haunting made it largely uninhabitable. With Linc as its custodian, it has re-opened as a safehouse for Awakened youth and a school to teach amateur exorcists, adorcists, chevaux, and banishers of any tradition.

Like the pepper fields it abuts, the Linc-up lies in a mostly-abandoned residential area, on marshy ground half-reclaimed by the River and careful adherence to ritual is required to keep it from being reclaimed all the way. The growing list of rituals on a whiteboard near the kitchen door is certainly the most extensive (perhaps the only) written record of Riverwalking practices known to exist.

Residents are asked to earn their keep by cleaning, carpentry, and, once the ground thaws, gardening, "because I can cook you anything, but I 'unno how to grow *shit*."

House Rules

1. Guns, Drugs, Telesma, and Foci in the safe.
2. No unsupervised conjuration.
3. No casting on residents; no theft or vandalism from residents; no threatening or restraining residents. No means no.
4. No fighting, no dealing, no first tastes, no hooking, no preaching, no informing, no slurs, and no holding or fencing on the property.
5. Show up when you sign up.
6. Call if you'll be out past midnight.
7. If there's paper out on you, let Linc know.
8. Showers daily; laundry weekly.
9. It's not who you were, it's what you do now.

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Grendel Society

## The Grendel Society

* **Home Base:**"Grendel's Lair", an abandoned machine shed under the railroad  near Romkey Park, Moorhead  MN UCAS
* **Colors/Signs:**The Grendels are pretty obvious. Big Trolls with runic tattoos and the picture of a detached arm in metal studs on the back of their jackets are hard to miss.
* **Rackets:**Armed robbery, hi-jacking, drugs, muscle for hire.
* **Description:**Big, tough Troll fighting gang.
* **Allies:**The Grendels pride themselves on being at war with everybody, standing alone with any allies. That isn't, of course, entirely true. A lot of the Grendels are, as might be expected, serious Crystal-Raider Ascomanni and through the various Ascomanni events they attend a lot of individual Grendels have made friends with individual Brawlhallans, they also do business, secretly, with the Snipe Hunt, as both work so near to the rails. Then there's the thing with the Heathens MC, who the Grendels idolize, even though the Heathens consider the Grendels small-timers and posers.
* **Enemies:**As might be expected for a gang that considers itself at war with everyone else, the Grendels have proudly collected a long list of enemies. They are currently in a very-well-armed truce with the other Romkey Park gangs, the Nibs  and the Locksmiths, although that could change at any time. The only time the three gangs agree are when they're fighting off a raid from The Squad. They have active and violent beefs with most of the rest of the gangs on this side of the River, especially the Ralphs, Swing Blades and Icehousers.

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Hector Belasco

## Hector Belasco, Kilbourne Group Mage

* **Name:**Hector Giuseppe Belasco
* **Position:**Director of Astral Planning for Kilbourne Urban Design and Ritual Coordinator of the Supermodern Design Team.
* **Metatype:**Elf  (*Homo sapiens nobilis*)
* **Magical Tradition:**Hermetic  (Stella Matutina)
* **DOB:**11/1/2043, St Paul MN, UCAS
* **DOD:** 12/19/2075, 32 Harwood Securitract, Region 3, RRDMZ
* **Education:**Master of Theoretical Thaumaturgy from Clonliffe College, Dublin, Tir Na nOg.
* **Family:**Giovanni 'Johnny Points' Belasco (father, Lake Geneva WI), Mariko [nee Yamano] Belasco (mother, Lake Geneva), Ally Bell [born 'Aleister Belasco'] (sibling, Moorhead  MN)

A second generation elf, and a first generation mage, Hector Belasco is a classic 'rich boy makes good', a real 'riches-to-riches' story. Hector's father was a gangster in the twin cities, one of Leo Caterone's closest associates before his retirement in a few years ago and his mother was the shameful secret (as an elf) child of a Yakuza from the West Coast that Johnny met while doing some business out in Seattle. While neither Mariko or Johnny was magically active, both their children (originally both sons) manifested very different styles of magic. Originally Ally was supposed to be the golden child, but ethical and religious differences caused the Belascos to change their focus to their younger, and more conventionally ambitious, son, Hector.

Hector was trained in his gift from early on and the Family sponsored him to attend some of the finest schools of magic in Europe. Since an early age he ate, drank and bathed in magic and breathed and dreamed ambition. He has been forged into exactly the kind of keen-eyed opportunist he was meant to be. After two years interning with EVO, and a year aboard, studying in different magical lodges across the world, in 2070 he accepted the offer extended by Helen Ness to serve as a Consulting Mage for Kilbourne Urban Design, being promoted to Director of Astral Planning in 2073 to sit at Helen Ness' right hand.

Now that Ness has become chair ofthe Group, Belasco has become Ritual Coordinator of the Group's initiation group, the 'Supermodern Design Team' and effectively the most powerful mage in the Group under Ness herself. And if you asked Hector and he was feeling like being honest, for him, this is just the beginning...

*[Edit: It was not, it turns out, just the beginning for Hector Belasco. After a crippling blow was dealt to him 12/17 "Punched in the dick by a Hoodlum", he was killed in a 12/19 attack on his Harwood condo by 'unknown assailants' when he took four HighEx grenades to the back]*

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404

No runner haven’s complete without its own hacker bar. The best one in this plex is the 404, a dwarven-run bar up in Northeast. The walls are lined solid with old, working computer tech, some of it even Rose may not remember, and you’ll be served drinks by the drone likenesses of all sorts of famous robot personalities, from new ones like DW525 from the EuroWar Live sims to the HK droids from classic Star Wars. The owner’s a dwarf  with the handle D-Icer , and a damn decent hacker in his own right. He holds hacking competitions of various sorts now and then. In any case, this is a great place to network with other hackers, if nothing else. Just try not to spill your drink on the tech here; a newbie runner can’t afford to replace this stuff.

*“Even Rose”? Thanks, phoojywg, I really appreciate that tag.*
- Wired Rose

*Great place to hang out and talk biz. Although, their standards must be dropping: I even saw CM  in there once*.
-Ginebig

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Bohemians

* **Turf**: Uptown
* **Colors/Apparel**: Purple color markings, somewhere on very avant-garde clothes

These guys are a weird bunch. I feel I can say that here without being accused of partiality, because frankly, I think that’s their point. Some are disgruntled khwv khwv who go wild in Uptown on their nights off from Mother Corp, while others are full-time artistic neerdowells. They wear garish clothes, differing wildly from individual to individual, with the only thing in common besides a tendency towards purple markings being an abhorrence of current trends. The gang’s surprisingly serious, being involved in all sorts of odd trades, from software piracy to male prostitution, but their avant-garde culture keeps it from becoming too much about the money. They do call themselves Bohemians for a reason. This also means some of them have ties to anti-corporate rad groups. They’re not too hip to fight when they’re fucked with, though, so don’t underestimate them. And unlike most gangs, they’re largely poor as a lifestyle choice, which means the money does tend to materialize when they feel a need to buy, say, weapons.

*At least one of their software pirates is a virtuakinetic, a “technomancer”.*
- Red Hawk

*Not this drek again. Can we at least wait until we have some confirmation that they even exist before we start claiming to see VKs around every corner*?
- Fight Owl

*I’d sure be interested to meet him if he is, RH. The idea of being able to hack without a link or progs…fucking wiz, don’t you think?*
- Nodewalker

*They’ve trashed a couple of Horizon  properties in Uptown over this last month or two. I imagine Horizon might start getting serious soon*.
- Vision Fist

*A lot of these guys live over in Lowry East or Whittier. Wonder what the new Triad  forces think about em, eh?*
- Brynhild

*Their boys are zoo nraug to look at, but it seems like they’re marketing them more to the gay crowd than to girls like me. Pity, that*.
- Iab Npauj

*Great Ghost, leej muam, you are somethin’ else.*
- Phim Kooj Koi

*I thought the “dapper” boys working out of the Wabasha Caves would be more to your ua si style, Iab.*
- Ginebig

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Dientes Largos

* **Turf**: West Side.
* **Colors/Apparel**: white, eagle and snake tattoos.

This Aztlaner  ork  gang has several cells spread across the West Side. They get a lot of employment as urban mercenaries and offer ‘protection services’, but they’ve also got their hands in the stolen goods and BTL markets. They clash constantly with the Mara Amatiitlan .

*How are they getting BTLs to sell without going through the Mafia ?*
- Brynhild

*Let’s see here, I wonder what corporation  might have ties to a Mexican ork gang on the West Side.*.
-Wirefrog

*Oh. Soo ka.*
- Brynhild

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Camp Coldwater Spring

A third Indian site defining the astral landscape is Camp Coldwater Spring. Despite being located not too far southeast along the river banks from Minnehaha Park , it’s a bit of a serene oasis from the astral chaos. The spring water has medicinal properties when administered by a trained shaman. In fact, during the Ghost Dance War the water was used to heal the wounded of both sides, which is part of why the astral background stayed positive here.

*Doesn’t need to be a Native shaman, necessarily. I’d know how to do it as a Hmong shaman, and I’d be willing to bet even a hermetic mage could do it.*
- Phim Kooj Koi

*Would you really want to make that bet with a perforated teammate’s life at stake?*
- Red Hawk

After the war, the addenda to the Treaty of Denver gave the Sioux Nation exclusive rights touse of the spring, despite its location this deep in the UCAS . We’ve subcontracted monitoring and collection duties to Dakota Financial , since they’re big in town anyways. They run a small monitoring post and shop nearby where you can buy the water. Note that it loses its potency in about a week, so they don’t try to collect it for large-scale resale elsewhere, but if you special order it or just drive down here and get some, it can at least help recovery from all sorts of things.

*You could try to take some yourself and dodge Knight Errant  and the spring’s bound spirit guardians, to cut out the middleman, but really, it’s not worth it. A standard vial goes for about $40, and there’s really no attempt to verify ID or anything. Don’t be a cheapskate, just buy the damn vial.*
- Iab Npauj

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Coyote Lounge

## Koo'oh Benoheino'oowu' ("Coyote Lounge")

* **Location:** Covered Wagon Rd and 180 Service Rd
* **Bias:** Hinono'eiteen tribal members only.

The Coyote Lounge is one of several establishments that require a specific tribal affiliation to patronize the establishment. This bar, run by a member of the Hinono'eiteen tribe named Niteesh, caters to members of the Hinono'eiteen (Arapaho) tribe.

Some would think that restricting a business only a small percentage of the population is bad business, but the tribal identification works for Coyote Lounge. Its patrons are loyal and want to support their Hinono'eiteen tribe. This translates into high levels of repeat business. The bar is, naturally, decorated with art styles identified with the Hinono'eiteen tribe. Most of the food is soy-based, but the few items on the list are traditional Hinono'eiteen food and drink, including hokok, a traditional Hinono'eiteen soup made out of roasted corn and fried bread.

What is good about these types of establishments is that if you need to find out information about someone from a specific tribe, runners can hit up people for information, particularly with smaller tribes and bands. If you can get someone to talk to you, chances are they’ll know something about your subject. The Coyote Lounge is a small bar, only able to serve fifty people at the same time.

There is one back room at Coyote’s Lounge that can be used for meetings, but it can only be used if both the Johnson and the runners are from the Hinono'eiteen tribe.

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Chop

* **Metatype:**Ork  (*Homo sapiens robustus*)
* **Descriptions:**One of the Twin Cities' top outlaw mechanics
* **DOB:**6/8/2029, Joliet IL

*Hey, where’s an ork go to get his bike modded in this town? I mean, ‘professionally’?*
-Winneduck

*There’s plenty of places you can go in the Cities, but for my money, if you wanna get really top-notch work done, the ork to see is a cerri goes by the handle of ‘Chop’. Don’t laugh, may favor the direct approach, but he’s as cara as they come. Made his bones with the Menace before most of us were riding. He’s retired from the road these days (barring the occasional charity ride with his old buddies in SPACE) but he still does some of the best custom work in the area, and he’s been part of the djoto  long enough not to ask any questions you don’t want to answer. The garage says ‘Von Holland Quality Custom and Repair’ on the sign but everyone in the know just calls it “Chop’s Shop”. Of course, you’ll have to have some referrals to get into the ‘auxiliary garage’ but if you’re pro enough to be here, you can probably manage that. It’s worth it, old Chop is a decent guy to do business with. Even manages financing if your ‘professional’ life occasionally needs more out of a bike than your current cashflow would allow. Like I said, he’s been on this side of the shadows, remembers what it’s like to run ’em.*
-Road Hog

*Just don’t think about stiffing him on the bill. He’s patient but he’s no pushover. Chop can afford to be reasonable on account of he used to ride in the Menace with ‘Jack the Cat’, who went on to become Sonny Catarone . So his collection department’s got a pretty long arm, if you get my drift.*
-Fight Owl

*Also not a bad place to get rid of hot motorcycle gear and parts. Only bike stuff, mind you, but he has a couple phooj ywg who can handle the other stuff.*
-Tsov Tom

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Carl Anschutz

## City Manager Carl Anschutz

From 'Official Bios' at moorheadcity.gov

* Name: Carl Matthew Anschutz
* Position: City Manager, Moorhead MN
* DOB: 10/2/2020, Bemidji MN
* Height: 4'11"
* Metatype: *pumilionis*(Dwarf)
* Education: University of Minnesota (Masters of Business Administration); Ohio State University (Doctorate in International Business)
* Family: Marissa Connover (wife, m.2049), Ivan Nicholas Anschutz (father, d.2069), Rebecca Deitrich-Anschutz (mother)

Carl Anschutz was born in Bemidji MN in 2020 to Ivan and Becky Anschutz, part of the first generation of UGE births. His parents, concerned about possible health risks (a concern still current at that time) moved the family to Moorhead the following year. Carl attended Moorhead High School and was active in the wrestling program, taking second in the state his junior year 2036. He left Moorhead to attended the Business program at the University of Minnesota, originally on a wrestling scholarship and later a 'Sixth World Enrichment' endowment from 4M, graduating with an MBA in 2038. 4M recruited him out of college to work as a Regional Liaison for the Twin Cities Transit Authority .

After five years with the TCTA, he attended Ohio State University to receive his degree in International Business, graduating with a Doctorate in 2046. He accepted an offer from Cross Applied Technologies to manage its Ottowa Sales Branch and accepted a Regional Vice President position when CATco went Extraterritorial in 2053, helping see his department through CATco's rocky early AAA days. His experience in Ottowa led to him being sought out in 2059 by Yamatetsu as part of its North American transition team when it became the Vladivostok based EVO .  As part of the Transition Team, and later its Corporate Compliance Group, Carl traveled the continent, seeing all kinds of communities and working with them to help partner with EVO during the tumultuous comet years.

When, in 2065, in the wake of the Red River Crisis of '64, a new city government for Moorhead was formed and the new City Commission sought out the Moorhead-raised businessman to take up the position of City Manager, a position he's filled for the last ten years.

Carl has been married to Marissa Connover for 26 years.  Marissa is the senior partner in charge of the Moorhead office of the Minneapolis law firm Dorsey, Faegre and Connover.

Carl is passionate about building community.  He is active in the Moorhead community, having volunteered in many capacities.  Carl has served on several non-profit boards, such as the Dorothy Day House of Hospitality, Cultural Diversity Resources, Moorhead Security Activities League, (S.A.L.) Moorhead Youth Hockey Association and the Scott Tobolt Foundation.

Carl has been very involved with youth sports activities by coaching Moorhead Babe Ruth and Little League Baseball, F-M Athletics wrestling, along with Moorhead Parks and Recreation Baseball and Football.  He is also a certified Minnesota State High School League wrestling official.

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D-Icer

### **Shadowsona: D-ICER**

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**Last Updated 1/31/2068**

* **Identity:**[Witheld by request of customer DI474662329-MS, to contact customer, reference ID number UC-213593]
* **Description (Metatype):**Dwarf  (*Homo sapiens pumilionis*)
* **Description (Gender):**Male (He/Him)
* **Skillset:**Matrix Intrusion, Physical Intrusion, Hacking, Information Gathering, Social Engineering, Matrix Security, Hardware Modification
* **Affiliation:**Shadowteam Loose Wires (*inactive*), 404 LLC (business), Minneapolis Shadownet (SysAd), Twin Cities Matrix Alliance (*inactive*)
* **Area of Operations:**Matrix - Minneapolis Saint Paul Metroplex, UCAS
* **Available:**Low (status: retired)
* **Reliability:**High

**Notes:**D-Icer has been a fixture of the Criminal Matrix since the mid 2040's, an active contributer to the first Shadowland Node  set up in the MSPlex and a member of the 'Loose Wires' team (which included Wirefrog, Wirerose and other prominant figures in the MSPlex underworld). An active Matrix asset (see 'Decker') from 2047 to 2064.
D-Icer has not been an actively-available asset since his participation in the MSP Matrix Fracture of 2064, a localized aftershock from the Matrix Crash 2.0  (Shadowsona Ultimate users can access Codename: Shekinah). Since that time, D-Icer's primary interests have been as a dealer in software and hardware for active Matrix Assets, an active member of the Jackpoint  online community and as the owner and propriator of the 404, a professional establishment for active Matrix Assets and a favorite neutral area for local Supplemental Resource Managers looking to connect with Matrix-oriented talent.

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Astroturf

## The Astroturf

* **Location:**1211 N University Dr #2524, Fargo , RRDMZ  58102
* **Style:**Sports Bar
* **Gang:**The Herd
* **P2 Rating:**8:3:99
* **Description:**Home base of the NDRU  Bison fans

The Astroturf (founded as the 'Bison Turf' in the 1930's) has remained largely unchanged through a century and a half of tornado, fire, floods, an angry river, legal issues, two wars, blizzards and, most terrifying, decades of college students and Bison Fans. Its been rebuilt twice over the years and yet its still pretty much the same place its always been.

You can tell everything you need to know about the Astroturf from the outside, painted in NDRU's team colors, the green and gold of the Thundering Herd (as the NDRU teams are called). Its done up about the same inside, with plenty of Bison merch on the walls framing the wall to wall screens and trid projectors to broadcast sports (especially Bison games). The food is simple, mostly bar fare, burgers, wings, sandwiches. The beer selection is not particularly varied, but it is some of the cheapest in town. They do signature shots and happy hour specials.

It has been rebuilt twice, once after a fire burned it down in 2016 and again after it was ravaged by the Great Manastorm of 43 .  It was after this second rebuilding that it was redubbed the 'Astroturf' as a nod to its new, upgraded Matrix services to get more sports and even a primitive AI to cirumvent local blackouts, which NDRU turns a blind eye to.

The most noable thing about the 'Turf is its clientele. The devotion of Fargoites to their beloved Bison is so intense that it almost got included on the 'Religion ' page and when they congregate in places like this, given over that devotion, it really takes them off the leash. Screaming, painted gold and green, big foam hands and plastic horned helmets, standing on furniture, spilling drinks and breaking glasses with every goal and foul. Combine that with the famously (or infamously) affordable drinks and NDRU's well-deserved reputation for hard drinking, the atmosphere can get pretty intense. The 'Turf has been in legal trouble more than once as it is one of the traditional venues for NDRU students' Power Hour , a practice that has produced casualties more than once.

Fargo's top Street Samurai, former sports hero The Thunder, comes here often and drinks for free when he does, lauded as a hero of the sports field and of the Shadows, king of the land of the gold and green.

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Campeche Rouge Hounfort

* **Location:**3699 Broadway N, Fargo  RRDMZ 58102
* **Type:**Church
* **Tradition:**Mississippi Valley Voodoo
* **Congregation:** ca.530
* **Senior Practitioner: "**JL", Houngan Asogwe (senior priest)
* **Initiation Group:** Sèvis nan Eksil "The Servants in Exile"

Campeche Rouge holds the dubious honor of being the northernmost voodoo temple or hounfort in the UCAS. Campeche Rouge supports itself by the production of Campeche Blanc Rum and Pirate Red Hot Sauce for sale. The sugarcane and peppers are both grown locally, between the hounfort and the river, and tended to by the congregation, roughly one third of whom are Riverlings . While most of its congregation are centered around the Red River from which it takes its name, the Campeche Rouge has congregants who attend from as far away as Boise in the west to Bemidji in the east.

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Bison Wild Wings

* **Location:**1515 19th Ave N, Fargo, RRDMZ 58102
* **Style:**Brightly colored sports-bar/casual dining
* **Gang:**The Squad
* **P2 Rating:**3:8:124
* **Description:**Sports Bar and Grill specializing in 'buffalo wings'

The descendent of the old, and wildly popular, sports restaurant 'Buffalo Wild Wings'. Before the Awakening, there were two locations in town, one out by the West Acres mall, one up north by the old Fargodome (on the site of the BisonDome). However when West Acres became Wasted Acres , the mall location was destroyed and the BWW franchise's new owners (the Aztlan-based fast food giant TacoTemple) decided to cut their losses and pull out of the area, however some local entrepreneurs bought the name and the profitable North Fargo location and opened it as 'Bison Wild Wings' to take advantage of the airport traveler, university and Fargodome crowds.

After the Red River Crisis of '64, Bison WW discovered a new customer base, the nearby Hector AFB, with the reinforcements, and the sports and wings place quickly has became the major off-base hangout for the UCAAF personnel and you are as likely to see 'prop-heads' hanging out at the Bison as Bison fans or commercial travelers.

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Jack McClintock

## Iron Jack McClintock

* **Name:**James Malcolm McClintock
* **Position:** Head of Operations for Blue Thunder Security. Former UCAS Governor of the Red River Disputed Military Zone.
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**9/7/2012, Decatur IL USA (now UCAS )
* **Rank:**None (resigned as a Brigadier General, O-7, UCAS Army)
* **Decorations:**[Classified]

Everybody was surprised when forty-four year veteran and career officer Jack McClintock suddenly resigned his post last year.

James 'Jack' McClintock was an overachieving academic and athlete from the industrial city of Decatur IL, born in the early part of the twenty first century. The Awakening , for him, was something that happened in his childhood and he was still a young officer when the USA merged with Canada to become the UCAS. He began his service as an infantry officer, applied for and achieved a position in the UCAS Army Rangers, where he earned the nickname 'Iron Jack' for his physical and mental endurance, and saw service overseas during the Euro-Wars . It was his service in Europe that caught the attention of Army Intelligence and set him down the path that would define the rest of his career.

Stationed in St. Paul during the New Revolution, then-Colonel McClintock was part of the effort to stop the attempted take-over by the North Star Republic and served immediately after that as the head of security for the UCAS diplomatic team during the negotiations of the Alexandria Accords, which ended the Third Ghost Dance War. It was in this position, where he was one of the cool heads that helped de-escalate the situation and keep the Accords from collapsing into war.

It was his service during the Alexandria Talks that earned him the position of the first UCAS Military Governor (along with a promotion to Brigadier General) when the Red River Disputed Military Zone was formed. During his decade-long tenure as Governor, a job he took very seriously, he was known as a conservative and a level-head, maintaining stability over all else.

Which is why it took everybody by surprise when, in October of 2073 he announced, without any kind of explanation, that he was taking an early retirement at the beginning of the next year and left his post to take up a private security contractor's position in the Front Range Free Zone of Denver.

McClintock has refused to comment and has not answered any attempts to contact him since then.

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Downtown Renaissance

Alright, so I know that I said that I wasn’t going to go into the history of the region before the Awakening, but given the current shape of the town, there is something that we do need to address and it involves the the influence of the most powerful force in the world.

No, this is still before Magic. I’m talking about money. So, flash back about seventy-five years. Downtown Fargo was a drekhole. All the business had moved out to the mall (‘West Acres’ we’ll deal with the fate of THAT in another article), and all the housing had moved either north or south to the new housing projects. The downtown was mostly flop-houses and failing businesses, like a small-town Barrens. You’ve seen this all across the UCAS, anywhere between ’Plexes is like this now. And downtown Fargo was no exception.

But in 1999, an enterprising real estate developer  who had just cashed out of the IT game, convinced the then-state North Dakota legislature to set up what they called a ‘Renaissance Zone’ in the downtown, which included a combination of new construction, rehabilitation, tenant leases and residential purchases (condominiums) projects. This developer founded the real estate company that would eventually grow to become The Fargo Group  and even leveraged this money and influence into becoming one of the last governors of North Dakota before the Awakening. But more importantly, it began the building boom that turned downtown into what it is now.

And by ‘what it is now’ I mean is The Block . Yeah. The not-arcology at the heart of Fargo now. Granted, at the time it was still separate buildings, if under constant construction, but it gives you context for the growing, commercial Fargo that existed at the time of the Awakening.

After all, its not much of a fall without a rise beforehand, right?

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Cutter

* **Name:** Cadence “Cutter” Bowen
* **Position:** Member of the Ancients chapter in Chicago, Southside, captain of the Calumet Crushers Combat Biking team.
* **Metatype:** Elf (*Homo sapiens nobilis*)
* **DOB:** 4/21/2051, Hyde Park, Chicago IL, UCAS
* **Family:** Adelaide Bowen (mother, deceased), Nia Bowen (sister, deceased), Rakim 9 Shakur (father of Miracle, Wrigleyville), Miracle Bowen (niece, Wrigleyville)

Even by the standards of the Ancients, an actual go-gang, Cutter Bowen is pretty good with a motorcycle. She’s been mobile pretty much most of her life, moving ahead of Ares and the Bugs from one safe haven to another with her family, then with the Ancients, when she ran out of family. Good with a motorcycle, good with a monowhip, and, it’s said, not too shabby with any other weapon you care to name.

Her skill with mounted combat, aboard her customized Yamaha Rapier III, has made her a star in the world of Chicago’s semi-pro combat biker leagues and also the head of Ancients Lieutenant Chele’s scouts, leading daring raids into Horde and Human Brigade territories. She’s become Chele’s de facto third-in-command, right behind, Eöl  their mage, and those who survive one of the signature lightning raids of her crew, know her chief, Chele, won’t be far behind with the power of the Ancients at hand.

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Lipht

* **Rating:** D (local)
* **Headquarters:** 4665A Paris St, Denver, UCAS Sector, FRFZ 80239
* **Leadership:** CEO Tasha Walks-Well
* **Business:** Specialized ride-share app

In the post-Second Crash wireless world, ride-sharing, like most other service exchanges, is a thing largely done under the umbrella of major social media providers (P2, Shadowtap, Fundeon, Darkmovers etc). Only very specialized services need their own (such as 'Killstarter' for crowdfunded assassinations).

Enter Lipht (a tongue-in-cheek reference to a pre-First Crash ridesharing service). Somewhere between standard ride-sharing and DocWagon, Lipht is a bit of a play on words, as not only will Lipht drivers give you a lift, they will actually lift you up when otherwise unable to. Employing largely trolls, orks and the cyber-enhanced, Lipht is the only taxi service with a strength test to become a driver. Lipht promises that their drivers will retrieve a customer from pretty much any location within their range, in any condition (that doesn't involve the driver being actively shot at). Usually what this means, of course, is picking up and retrieving the desperately drunk, the debilitatingly chipped and otherwise impaired, although it also includes those who need hospital or have medical conditions, older people and others. The fee is a little above industry standard, but probably far less than is deserved for the sorts of things the drivers are required to do.

At the moment, Lipht is doing a test roll-out in the Front Range Free Zone, reasoning that if they can make the concept work here, it would prove it robust enough to survive in nearly any other market.

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Chi Psi

## Chi Psi Fraternity

* **Turf**: Marcy-Holmes
* **Colors/Apparel**: Royal purple and gold

I’m not sure whether to call this a gang or not, but it is real interesting, so I’ll err on the side of posting it. The U of M banned this coed frat about ten years ago and expelled several students for harsh hazing practices and its involvement in starting a riot after a hockey game that killed three people. In response, it went underground and continued to operate, throwing parties with their own moonshine and picking fights with Wisconsin fans at sporting events like a European-style football (soccer) hooligan firm. Some of the people involved now are dropouts, not actually students, so they’ve been devoting themselves full time to making their own moonshine to sell to underage students, and if rumors are right, cheap designer drugs. They’re no physical threat to a competent runner, but they’re a dynamic part of the social scene in the University area; most students are aware of them. It’ll be interesting to see what happens if they continue to get more serious with their illegal activities.

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Henequen Enterprises

* **Headquarters:** E. 19th St and Dunn Ave, to E. 17th St (2 City Bocks), Tsêhéstáno, Tetonwan CF, 82001, Očéti Šakówiŋ .
* **CEO:**Henequen

Owned by a dragon, watched by a fox, and employing the most dangerous vipers this side of the Mississippi. The feathered serpent Henequen got his scaly ass booted out of Denver  by Ghostwalker  back in '61, but he found a second home in Tsêhéstáno and didn’t waste any time sinking his claws into the underworld. Though based in the Očéti Šakówiŋ, as far as anyone can tell the dragon’s real interests lie in reclaiming his lair in Denver and attacking Aztlan  interests whenever possible. Considering the low opinion that most Sioux have of both Ghostwalker and Aztlan, even OMI  didn’t seem to mind him taking up residence.

Legally speaking, Henequen Enterprises is a diversified minor corporation that specializes in import/export and temporary staffing and organizing internships for Sioux citizens looking to work outside the country. They also work placement services for Anglo 'Official Residents' who often have trouble finding well-paying jobs in the Očéti Šakówiŋ. Pretty milquetoast stuff, and boring enough that it’s hard to get the media interested in taking a closer look.

Henequen Enterprises
takes up two city blocks, including a strip mall that contains many
administrative offices. Other residential buildings have been
modified to serve as storage units, going so far as replacing the
original clay and wood with ferrocrete. In addition to the offices for Henequen Enterprises and the storage buildings, Henequen Enterprises also has four helipads at its disposal for transporting freight. Almost all the buildings belonging to Henequen Enterprises are heavily warded and under observation by watcher spirits.

In the shadows however, the dragon operates a brokerage service matching shadowrunners  with Johnsons , maintains a payment escrow system, and runs the largest fencing ring in the region for stolen goods and paydata. Everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows Henequen is using both his legal and illegal operations in the country as some sort of front to plot against Ghostwalker and continue his one-dragon crusade against Aztlan, but I doubt anyone knows how far down the rabbit hole he can reach.

Henequen doesn’t directly control the various Matrix shadownets, but he makes it his business to know everything that’s going on in them, including Jackpoint . It’s no secret he’s interested in acquiring contacts and informants in the foreign nets, particularly Amazonia  and the PCC . Those with Aztlan connections need not apply. Or, well, they CAN apply, but nobody's placing bets on them surviving the interview process...

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Lance High Cloud

## Lance High Cloud, ZATS

* **Name:**High Cloud "Lance"
* **Position:**Chief Accountant for Zone Area Transit Solutions ,  member of the Rock Sturgeon Akichita Society.
* **Metatype:**Waziya (*Homo sapiens ingentis*)
* **Education:**Masters in Business Accounting, Ituhtaáwe Training Lodge
* **DOB:**5/12/2041, Makosica, Tetonawan CF, Oceti Sakowin
* **Family:**Hides the Sun (father Makosica, Tetonawan CF), Stone Cutter (mother, deceased), Eileen Fox (wife, Ituhtaáwe, Upper Yankton CF)

Second highest ranking executive for Zone Area Transit solutions, answering directly to Chairwoman Elizabeth Running Hare. Was a natural choice to lead up the team from ZATS to assist Corporate Court Auditor Huang Hui Yin .

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