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Beaver Eaters

## The Beaver Eaters

* **Turf**: Frogtown
* **Colors**: Old US iconography on black backgrounds, image of a Native war drum smashed with a German iron cross protruding from it

These guys are one of the more serious gangs around. They’re Anglo-Utes  with a deep hatred of Natives . Some are Ute Civil War vets, while others have some UCAS Army experience, so they’re experienced fighters, which makes up for their lack of numbers. They’re also well equipped with milspec gear for such a small outfit. They make enough money off of protection and periodic BTL sales to skate by, but are mostly in it to hurt AmerInds whenever they get the chance.

I*’m pretty sure the leader, a guy known for pretty apparent reasons as Ironskull, still has a war crimes warrant out for him in Pueblo . Extracting him for the reward would be tough, but with luck it might be profitable.*
- Red Hawk

*I think you just want him out of the picture*.
- Wired Rose

*These guys used to have Evo  Vory  backing, but flipped over to the Triads  when they had a nasty breakup with the Terror Frogs . As a result, the Fire Girls dealt both of them some serious damage, and the Beaver Eaters’ rep as far as reliability is concerned went in the toilet.*
- Wirefrog

*The name is making me laugh so hard. Why in the name of the spirits would you name your fucking gang the Beaver Eaters?*
- Briarpatch

*Actually, it’s a double meaning. It’s what you’re thinking, but it’s also that “beaver eater” was an old Paiute expression for an Anglo, in the nineteenth century. Seriously.*
- Red Hawk

*I’m surprised the Beaver Eaters are still around, to be honest. I figured one side or the other would have been irked off enough by them to finish the job the Girls started.*
-Ginebig

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FlagWar

An organized team sport with its origins in the Ares Macrotechnology educational system and is familiar to all Ares-raised children. In essence it is a combination of paintball and capture-the-flag and can be played outdoors or indoors. In the Ares educational system it is used to impart the values of team loyalty and competitiveness so valued by Ares culture. In line with Ares' martial ethos, versions of the game often involve the kids dressing in para-military garb and accessories and the game itself stresses military terminology and imagery.

While it remains largely associated with Ares, the game has spread with Ares' cultural influence in North America and FlagWar is now played throughout both Ares and non-Ares schools throughout the UCAS  and CAS and is often considered a fertile recruiting ground for professional 'Urban Brawl' players as FlagWar is pretty much just a simplified, childrens' version of Urban Brawl.

However, at its center it is still an essentially Ares game and not only does Ares hold a monopoly on FlagWar gear, but many of the people outside the corporation encountered the game during Ares-sponsored outreach events (such as Angels Night)

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JL

## J.L., chief voodoo priest of the North

* **Name:**"J.L.", whatever that stands for it is certainly not Jermaine Louverture, Jack Boy Long, Jesus Legende or any of the other names on SINs  he's been associated with.
* **Position:**Chairman of Campeche Gwo LLC, Houngan Asogwe of the Campeche Rouge Hounfort, Bokor Ashe of the Sèvis nan Eksil, *cheval*of Papa Legba.
* **Metatype:**Troll  (*Homo sapiens ingentis*)
* **Magical Tradition:**Shamanic - Possession (Mississippi Voodoo)
* **DOB:**? (thought to be sometime in the mid-to-late 2030's)

The Vodouisant known as 'J.L.' first came up the Mississippi from N'Orleans, and his accent points evern farther south than that. He first washes up in the MSPlex  during the explosion of magical experimentation and introduction of new traditions into the Twin Cities following the Year of the Comet, where he set himself up as a magical worker and *bokor* in Frogtown  among the first Changelings  in the Twin Cities. Whatever his ultimate plans were, if they included staying in the Cities, they were not to be. Or as J.L. himself always says 'There's your plan and then there are the plans of *les Invisibles ,*yeah?' He was driven out of the Cities by a beef with the local Vodou temple, the Peristil Mizilipin, the cause of which was lost in the Second Crash which happened soon after (and neither party is speaking).

   When he first hung his shingle in Fargo, which is the next place he shows up, he supported himself by running a hot sauce stand at the Night Bazaar, and by the side of the road, and keeping a shrine to Papa Legba out back of it. Saving up his nuyen and taking donations from vodouisants across the northern part of the continent, he finally was able to set up the hot sauce factory/rum distillery/voodoo temple up at the Campeche Rouge Hounfort, as Houngan Asogwe of the Red River of the North.

As befits a *cheval*of Papa Legba, the Lord of Crossroads, J.L. is a Troll of many contradictions, an authority figure in a religion devoted to individual relationships with the divine, a businessman trying to build sharing communities, a stern father figure who seems to favor the most troublesome and rebellious of his 'children'. But he is a giant in the fringe communities, known as the last resort for the desperate, because while J.L. is more than willing to help, Papa Legba will always have his price.

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Chele

* **Name:** Unknown (police records tentatively connect 'La Chele' with an 'Angel Del Rosario')
* **Position:** Lieutenant in the Ancients go-gang chapter in Chicago
* **Metatype:** Dalakitnon (*Homo Sapiens nb. alborum*)
* **DOB:** 2043, Edgewater IL, UCAS
* **Family:** Family unknown, although searches indicate they no longer reside in Skokie.

Whoever coined the popular stereotype that 'elves aren't tough', has never met La Chele, and if they did, they'd probably have their jaw broken. Chele has been fighting the fight on the mean streets of Bug City for twenty years now. And Chele ain't that old.

While all kinds of rumors swirl around her childhood in Edgewater (itself a rumor, but a fairly plausible one, given the large Filipino population there), but the first verifiable information on her comes from a Knight Errant list of possible members of the Lincoln Park Rangers gang back in 2057, listing a 'La Chele', among such legendary figures as Nancy Boy, Rakim 6, 'Icky' Ichneumon and Yolo. Presumably the handle 'Chele' comes from the nickname 'La Chele' for somebody blond or pale-colored, a reference to the almost-albino paleness of the Dalakitnon elf metatype. There’s a legend that before joining the Rangers, she may have done some time in a Universal Brotherhood orphanage, but nobody who’s asked her about that has remained conscious to hear her answer.

In her teens, she would have fought alongside the rest of the Rangers against both the Bug Spirits and the Ares authorities. These are kids, largely in their teens, who survived the Bug Spirit invasion, the Cermak Explosion and Ares' Operation: Extermination. They learned to fight or they didn't survive. And for ones like Chele, the fighting never stopped.

The Rangers were almost wiped out by KE and regular UCAS army during the sweeps and purges in 2065 in the wake of the Second Crash and New Revolution. With the capture of the legendary Rakim 6, the rest of the surviving members of the gang either went to ground (like Paul Nanci-Boi), or fled, as Chele did, patching over into the Ranger's old rivals, the Ancients. Paul Nanci-Boi and some other survivors would later reform the Rangers, but by that time, Chele had established herself in the Ancients' hierarchy in Chicago.

Over the last ten years, Chele has risen from a regular fighter to a squad leader to a full Lieutenant, largely on the strength of her solid fighting skills and utter fearlessness. As a Lieutenant, she is responsible for leading most of their combat operations in the Southside of Chicago. She is especially famous for waging a war against the McCaskill Family’s operations, due to the McCaskill alliance with the Human Brigade.

She has solidified her position by gathering around her a team of hardened fighters, including her right hand, the mage Eöl, the champion Combat Biker Cutter and the mystical Mote (former head of the Goodfellows gang).

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Heather Evanston

## Heather Evanston, COO, Ares - Cheyenne

* **Name:**Heather Marie Evanston/Hears More Woman
* **Position:**Head of the Transition Team for Ares Agribusiness in Fargo (on temporary leave from her duties as Chief Operations Officer for Ares Cheyenne)
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**11/9/2046, Caspar, Tetonwan CF, Oceti Sakowin
* **Education:**Bachelors of Business Administration, Oyate Owa Yawa ("University of Cheyenne")
* **Family:**Alan Evanston (father, deceased), Lights-the-Fire (mother, deceased), Cameron Evanston (brother, Seattle  UCAS)

The only thing really interesting about Heather Evanston before a couple of years ago is how little was interesting about her life. Born and raised in an Ares enclave in Caspar, her parents died early in her childhood and she was raised largely by her company and her older brother Cam. She went to an Ares school, lived in Ares housing and got a degree on an Ares scholarship so she could get a job for Ares Cheyenne.

In Cheyenne, she went into the Operations section, where she rose quickly into middle management and then stalled out there for most of her mid-20's.

Until a couple of years ago. Nobody knows what happened then, some say the frustration of her career stalling out and seeing less qualified colleagues promoted over her, while office scuttlebutt blames an affair that ended badly, but something seems to have lit a fire under her. With a new sense of purpose and an unerring sense for office politics (largely built up watching her colleagues) she has risen quickly over the last couple of years to become head of her department and District Manager Selena Redfoot's trusted right hand.

When, at the end of last year, a sudden disaster up in the Red River Disputed Military Zone led to the local Ares branch taking control of a regional Single-A consortium 'The Red River Valley Investment, Holdings and Development Group' (usually just called "The Group"), Heather was hand-picked to head up the transition team, and is currently up in Fargo sorting out their mess, while her well-trained team holds down the fort is Tsehestano.

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Dakota Financial

* **Headquarters:**Canadian Pacific Plaza, 120 South 6th St Suite 200, Minneapolis , MN 55402, UCAS
* **CEO:**Ranjit "Ronny" Chowdhury
* **Status:**A
* **Business:**Lending and Refininaning Bank.

Dakota is the largest independent lender in the upper midwest of the UCAS and into the Oceti Sakowin and Niswi-mishkodewinan. Originally a Los Angeles-based equipment-rental company before the Awakening. For some the Chaos  of the early decades of the One-and-Twenty was a time when they lost all the things they had built up in the Fifth World. But not if you were in the banking industry. The need to preserve businesses under siege, and to rebuild from every sort of disaster imaginable (and some unimagined) meant that businesses needed a lot of credit and banks, freed by the increasing weakness of the governments to regulate them, were more than happy to oblige. And because a lot of the credit was bad, the banks ended up owning a lot more than they did before all the troubles started.

And Dakota Financial was among those that found a way to profit from everybody else's loss, elevated to extraterrorial status (A) when the Corporate Court was formed. Originally based out of LA, they left after California  seceded and relocated to the Minneapolis-St Paul Metroplex, but maintaining branches and defaulted properties in every nation in North America. Dakota financial maintains its status as the third-largest bank that isn't owned by a AAA-Prime corporation in North America.

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Glen Cavendish

## Glen Cavendish, Ares Head - Twin Cities​​​​​​

* **Name:**Glen Scott Michael Cavendish
* **Position:**Senior Executive Vice President in Charge of Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metroplex Operations - Ares Macrotechnology .
* **Metatype:**Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:**Masters of Business Administration from the Booth Business School at the University of Chicago.
* **DOB:**4/26/2003, Glencoe IL, USA (later UCAS )
* **DOD:** 8/1/2076, Rochester, MN, UCAS
* **Family:**Barbara Mullaly (ex-wife, Boston UCAS), Serena Davis (ex-wife, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ), Malcolm Cavendish (father, *deceased*), Amber Cavendish (mother, *deceased*)

Glen Cavendish is about as old-school Ares  as they come. Recruited soon after college by Nicholas Aurelius , he came on board just a few years before the Nanosecond Buyout and immediately jumped ship to back his new boss, Damien Knight .

Ares, especially since Knight's takeover, has always encouraged a culture of what Knight calls "A healthy spirit of competition" and what one disgruntled ex-employee's biography called "A toxic snake-pit" among its executives. And it is in this environment that Glen has thrived in his nearly half-century with the company, rolling with shifts in management and going from strength to strength. Glen Cavendish has thrived as an old-fashioned political street fighter, described as a "hard-charging, results-oriented go-getter" by his former boss Clarence Boddecker and "a paranoid thug in a suit" by former subordinate and current rival Dylan Heppner.

He's worked in nearly every major division of Ares, starting in Auto Sales for Ares Motors, moving to Ares Arms as a Quality Control executive, making a name for himself at Ares-CAS and even a short period at Ares Entertainment as a Project Planner, before climbing to a top position at Ares Agribusiness, headquartered in the MSPlex in '52, which he leveraged into his current job, head of all Ares enterprises in the MSPlex in late '54, which he has held on to tooth and claw ever since. He gets results and thus Ares HQ in Detroit gives him a free hand.

Not that he hasn't made enemies. His combative style of leadership has fostered a lot of grudges within the Ares hierarchy. For some, like Commandant Georgina Margrave, head of Knight Errant 's Academy in Green Bay who has criticized his proactive stance towards local rival EVO-4M , its a purely professional rivalry, but for others, such as his former protégé Dylan Heppner, its more personal than that.

And the old man is getting old. Observers have noted him relying more and more on his advisers, both within the company, such as Captain Azog Kortgaard , head of the KE franchise in the MSPlex and without, such as his 'spiritual adviser', the enigmatic former Horizon operatorDietrich Sibich . And his rivals have noticed as well, most recently Heppner has managed to oust Cavendish's old crony Drew McNally from his post in charge of Ares Agribusiness - Fargo and replace him with his protege, Sonja Oxnard , a move calculated to provoke the old man...

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High Steel Tribe

## The High Steel Bands

As far back as 1886, members of the Caughnawaga, a mixed band of Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) Indians began working as day laborers on the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge being built across the St. Lawrence River from Kahnawake to Montreal. These local workers soon proved adept at the dangerous work and later found themselves in demand elsewhere.

The border was no concern, thanks to Paul K. Diabo, who was arrested while working in Philadelphia during the 1920s for violating immigration laws. Deportation loomed, but the courts upheld the right of the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) under the Jay Treaty of 1794 to enter the United States freely. As a result, the Kahnawake impact is readily apparent. In the 1930s, hundreds of Caughnawaga worked on the Empire State and Chrysler buildings; in the early 1970s, the big project was the first World Trade Center and then on One World Trade Center, successor to the victim of the infamous 9/11 terror attack.

A steady stream of construction projects in New York, coupled with weak job prospects at home, long ensured that Kahnawake men could introduce their sons and grandsons to the trade. But after the turn of the twenty-first century that formula, undermined by changes on both counts, seemed increasingly obsolete. The passage of Executive Order 17-321 expelling all Native Americans from US soil would seem to be the death knell of the tradition.

But the Twenty-First Century has been nothing if not a century of unexpected changes. Cue the end of the Great Ghost Dance War and the Treaty of Denver. The establishment of the eight new Native American Nations meant new resources and new national capitals. Which meant a lot of new construction in which native american contractors had, for once, an edge. The Caughnawaga, mostly based out of the Niswi-mishkodewinan, saw work in Tsêhéstáno and Oghá P'o'oge, in Bellingham and Sâskwatôn, Inuvik and Omahkoyis, Kitimat, Timpanogas, even down in Aztlan  , Portland  and Denver .

With the Second Treaty of Denver, the Caughnawaga were able to expand east into the UCAS , CAS , CalFree  and Quebec. This established the Caughnawaga as the premier High Steel workers on the continent, providing expert, high-paid experts to construction firms across North America. This has made them one of the (if not THE) most powerful labor organizations on the continent, enforcing regulations about benefits and pay (including the old 2-4-2 provisions for Trolls ).

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Body Work

Posted by: Wirefrog

Sometimes you need some work done, whether that be augmentation or just repairs from your last gunfight. Unless you’re a lucky slot with connections, you probably can’t just go to a regular old hospital or chop shop. Here’s some options you might consider.

If people want to add other places to get healed or get implants that have worked out for them, post here.

* Veteran's Administration
* Red Star Clinic
* Abbott Northwestern
* Public Clinic

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Gopher Bar

## The Gopher Bar

* **Address:** 241 7th St E, St Paul, MN 55101

Not much to say about a place like the Gopher Bar. If you know, you know. The Gopher Bar has been the way it is for over a century and a half, and its not likely to start changing now...

* Cash-only, bring hard currency. Don't know where to get physical bills, I can't help you man.
* Called the "Gopher Bar" for a reason. You got a problem with the UofMN Gophers, you got a problem here.
* It's an armed bar. Assume everybody you meet here is packing heat. This includes (but not limited to) the staff. It's not the Panther Assault Cannon up over the bar that you need to be afraid of, its the shotgun beneath the cash register, and the Ruger Warhawk in the shoulder rig of the guy on the stool next to you, if you decide to make trouble.
* Don't expect fancy drinks. Basic taps. Functional backbar. That's about it.
* Best Coney Dogs in the state. Not for the weak of stomach, but worth the consequences.
* The history of Saint Paul is up on those walls. Deer heads a century old, a bullet-ridden flag captured from the North Star during their uprising in '64, the Panther Assault Cannon that famed street sam 'Big Mac' left behind when he had to run out the back door just head of the Tongs after the infamous State Fair Run, a hockey stick signed by a certain famous (dead) pro hockey player who's name is a little too smudged to make out, pics from the last wrestling match of Mike 'The Moose' Mankowski (who lost out to the "Mississippi River Snake" ten years ago), etc. etc. Spend enough time drinking there and you could probably decipher the whole of the working-class and underworld history of St. Paul. 'Course, you spend enough time drinking here, you probably won't remember it.
* This is a local place. It's a good place to do biz IF (and I emphasize 'if') you or your contact are in good with the locals. Locals stick their noses in and will know everything. The trick is making sure they like you enough not to tell any of it. Keep THAT in mind.

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Elbow Witch

* **Name:**Filcher-of-Meat 'Rebecca Marten'
* **Position:**Sergeant-at-Arms for the Mishibijiw Warriors
* **Metatype:**Pte  (*Homo sapiens robustus*)
* **Education:**Sioux  State Education, Ubisims  Online Academy
* **DOB:**3/2/2051, Winnipeg, MB, UCAS  (now Region 1, Red River Disputed Millitary Zone)
* **Family:** SSgt Leaping Marten (father, possible), Charlotte [Cramer] Rabbit (mother, Wahpeton, Region 4, RRDMZ), Rabbit Standing Tall (step-father, Wahpeton, Region 4, RRDMZ)

Not a lot is known about the background of the Elbow Witch, even her real name is up for debate. Knight Errant criminal records list her as 'Rebecca Marten', although there's no SIN attached to that name, whereas in the Oceti Sakowin, she has a school record under the name Filcher-of-Meat, part of the Anishinaabe *Waabizheshi* (Marten) doodem.

It is known that she was raised, for her early childhood anyway, by her mother in and around Winnipeg (then a border town on the UCAS side of the border) and that her mother used a claim of native parentage to get her a basic education across the border in the Oceti Sakowin. However, police records and her own occasional mentions, indicate it was not an easy or stable childhood and there are a number of records of her running away and getting into trouble. When she was 13, her mom married a man from Wahpeton and she ran away while they were passing through Fargo  and headed back to Winnipeg. The story goes that her mom was stopped from reclaiming her by the timing of the Second Crash, the New Revolution and the subsequent Third Ghost Dance War.

'Filcher' spent her teens on the mean streets of occupied Winnipeg, dodging the Zone Patrol and falling in with one or another of the cadet gangs of the 1323, and getting a rep as a fighter in the streets and the illegal fighting pits. But it wasn't until the Tempo-Drug War that she really made her name. At that time, the head of her own gang within the 1323, the Posse Killers, her acts of violence against crews working for the rival Cowboy Mafia and Heathens  were legendary and it was with cash and inventory seized from their rivals that she bought the famous backwards armblades that gave her her the name Elbow Witch (after a legendary monster). Her most notorious act during the Tempo-Drug war was the wiping out of the Nuyen Knights, a 1323 crew that was selling product for the Cowboy Mafia as well. This is what brought Elbow Witch and her PK's to the attention of the 1323's President, Bobby Water Panther. When his old Sergeant-at-Arms, 'Spirit Cat' Walker, was sent to Sioux prison, he backed the Elbow Witch's election to the position, making the fierce young woman his new chief enforcer, a position she has occupied with terrifying ferocity for the last few years.

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Fargo Brewing

## Fargo Brewing Company

* **Taproom:**610 N University Dr, Fargo , RRDMZ  58102, just north of the Block.
* **Gang:**Woodchippers
* **Style:**Retro-Industrial/Rustic
* **P2 Rating:** 9:12:7

Founded in 2010 by brothers John and Chris Anderson, Fargo Brewing was the first local brewery to open, the beginning of the Craft Beer Revolution in the area. A revolution that the Fargo area embraced. I mean, it was beer. Good beer. And local. It was pretty inevitable that Fargo would get into it hard.

As the first, Fargo Brewing pretty much became the standard for local brewing, a position it has maintained through sixty-five years and three generations of the Anderson family, who still maintain a controlling interest, although none of them actually still reside in the Zone. And Fargo's signature beers, like their Woodchipper IPA, Stone's Throw Scottish Ale and their Original Lager are available in pretty much every bar and restaurant in the Zone, and widely available on both sides of the border, with distribution deals in the UCAS states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and the Upper Yankton and Lower Yankton Council Fires of the Oceti Sakowin.

Locally, the taproom maintains its traditional, no-frills feel, separated only by low barriers from the brewery itself, despite now being at the center of a massive outdoor event space. There was a movement to try and 'rebrand' the taproom back in the 50's, but the backlash from the locals put that idea quietly to sleep. The location, which lies in the shadow of the Block and just a few blocks south of NDRU, ensures that it remains busy. Its so much of a local institution that nobody can really remember it not being there, a fact that probably saved it from being swallowed up into the growth of the Block.

The event space, which started off as just a vacant lot, has only grown so that now the stage area dwarfs the tap room itself, making it the third largest music venue in the region (after the Scheels Complex and the new BisonDome).

Still there remains something homey about the taproom, and the crowd is often made up of a combination of workers from the Block, college students and lifelong regulars.

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Drumconrath

## Drumconrath Brewing

* **Location:**The Block 2-3, Ground Floor Atrium, Fargo  RRDMZ  58102
* **Style:**Old-world Irish pub.
* **Gang:**The Drummers
* **Description:**A bit of Ireland in the middle of the Block.

Another of the venerable Fargo breweries to come out of the craft brewing boom of the 'teens (like Fargo, Junkyard and Drekker ), it was original founded in Mapleton by a local of irish descent and there's always been an irish pub feel to the place. The first version of was forced to close during the initial stages of rebuilding during the '20's and it wasn't until fifteen years later (in the late 2030's) that the founder's descendants reopened it during the building of the Block.

Not as big as Fargo Brewing or flashy as Drekker, Drumconrath has focused on cultivating a hard core of regulars, a tight community that is often made up of small business owners and day-jobbers and tech guys from the Block and outside.

The irish heritage has only intensified with the years, as the regulars have drawn a parallel between the loss of Ireland to the Elves of Tír na nÓg and the loss of the original home of Drumconrath, a town called Mapleton, during the chaos of the Great Ghost Dance . There's a sort of tension between the open arms, welcoming pub ethos and the strain of resentment against the Sioux  that exists in some of the old-timers here.

Word has it that the Knights of the Red Branch has a foothold here and their agents use this as a contact point when they pass through the Zone. Which is always uncomfortable for the elven patrons (of which there are some) when they do.

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2076 MSPlex Elections

*This sprawl on the river has a fight coming up because every candidate sees the value in controlling smuggling through this part of the country in the coming years. This place has had such a brutal mayoral election the candidates are banned from making speeches and their supporters cannot hold rallies due to potential for violence and collateral damage. When the election season kicked off there were eleven potential challengers to the insanely popular mayor of Minneapolis. Of those eleven, four are still in the running, four are in the morgue, and the last three have either been hospitalized, stepped out of the race, or both. The issues dividing the candidates aren’t whether they are for or against smuggling, but which smuggling operation is backing their campaign.*

-Proud UCASian

2076 is an election year for the Mayor of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metroplex

The following list of registered candidates is current as of 12/1/2075

* **Incumbent: Carol Bergen, Mayor of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metroplex (Technocrat)**
* Carly Hughes, District Attorney - Hennepin County (running as a Democrat)
* Marianne Hanfield, Judge of the 8th Circuit Court (running as a Republican)
* Declan Chance, Metroplex Council representative for Ward SP7 (running on the New Century ticket)
* Sebastian Hantous, State Senator for the Minnesota 31st (running as an Archconservative)
* The Right Reverend Arthur Hemmings, of the Light of Life Church, host of 'One Truth' call-in show (challenging Hantous as an Archconservative)
* Jesse Ventura III, public figure (running as an independent)
* Marcus Finch, Metroplex Council representative for Ward M4 (running on the Farmer-Labor ticket)
* Jackie Topp, star Skirmisher of the Minneapolis River Snakes Urban Brawl team (running as a Sovereign Citizen)
* 'Captain' Lyle Magnus, former Knight Errant officer, dismissed 2072 (independent running for the "North Star Republic")
* Renata 'Razor' Cole, community activist, known supporter of the People's Builder's Union (running on the Greenroots ticket)

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Little Mica

* **Name:**Laughing Coyote Woman (born: Arrives-in-Spring) "Verna Laughing Coyote"
* **Position:**"Elder" (*tuŋwiŋ*) in the Misko-ziibitiwahe of the Tiošpaye. Founder of Speaking Winds Consulting.
* **Affiliation:**Enrolled as a member of the Numakaki tribe of the *Miiti Naamni*(or "Three Affiliated Tribes) of the Oceti Sakowin . Member of the Lone Man Society and the Rock Sturgeon Society. Former Member of the Fox's Den Society.
* **Metatype:**Canoti  (*Homo sapiens pumilionis)*
* **DOB:**12/18/2027 Neetuhčipiriínu, Tetonwan CF (formerly New Town ND)

The Coyote is a complex figure in Siouan-speaking cultures. To the Dakota, Coyote (*Maca* or *Mica*) is a humorous trickster spirit, with a strong sexual overtone. However, to the neighboring Mandan (Numakaki) people, Coyote (Ki-numakshi) is so much more of a creator deity and culture hero. And ALSO a trickster figure.

So, the revered Coyote that the future 'Little Mica' learned about as a child among the Numakaki was very different from the comic and dirty cartoon Coyote of the pop culture of the larger Oceti Sakowin. And this started her fascination with the internal workings of the complex mixing of dozens of different cultures in the Oceti Sakowin. This fascination with how people work and a talent for computers served her when her time for National Service, talent hunters from the Office of Military Intelligence recruited her for the OMI's cyberwarfare division, where she served from 2044 to 2048. From the cyberwarfare division she was recruited as a securities expert by FTL Technologies, the Oceti Sakowin's largest tech company. She did well, rising out of Information Security and into Business Analysis and then as a chief analyst in the Business Architecture team. She opposed the 2054 buyout of FTL by Fuchi Industrial Electronics and took her golden parachute out of the country to Fargo to set up a rival electronic infrastructure firm, the short lived Laughing Coyote Enterprises, to cut into Fuchi's markets. However Fuchi was strong in Fargo and she was quickly driven out of business by Fuchi's partnership with the local Group and was forced to sell out to Sundog Renaissance in 2057, after only two years in operation.

Which is where Whiskey Jack came in. Talented, technically-skilled, with a head for business and organization, as well as a weakness for revenge and competition, she was a perfect addition to his organization. And in the Tiošpaye she found an environment where she could really thrive, both as an organizer, a cyberwar expert and as a woman with a bit of a temper.

These days she's something like the business manager of the *Misko-ziibi* , managing their information security and their finances, both the legit business and the less legitimate, like the money laundering and the loan sharking. Its work she enjoys. It lets her use her knowledge of computers and her knowledge of people, lets her exercise her will for order and her occasionally irrational temper. Lets her be a successful businesswoman and a successful gangster. Little Mica does the things that Verna Laughing Coyote could not.

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Leopard Society

* **Turf**: Como Park
* **Colors/Apparel**: Leopard skin patterns

This Como Park gang is run by a leopard shapeshifter and patterned after the West African society of the same name (The Anioto ) from the early 1900s. That society was known for ritual cannibalism of waylaid travelers, purportedly to gain their strength, and for attacking with leopard-styled artificial fangs and claws. This gang brings the fangs and claws up to date, with nail razors and handblades nearly coming standard, and fang implants are common. Different sources have given me different opinions on the validity of the many rumors surrounding the Leopard Society, such as their ties to organlegging or HMHVV infection in the ranks.

*Those rumors are vastly overblown; the leader, a mean male cat going by Kibambangwe, encourages them to scare people.*
- Fight Owl

*I’m not so sure. I’ve met Kibambangwe once, and I wish I hadn’t. The critter cares absolutely nothingabout human life, aside from his “leopard” followers. And what’s he got to be afraid of from organleggers or the Infected?*
- Vision Fist

*Nothing, but I imagine his followers, as much as they love their leopard and cannibal motif, might get spooked by the real thing.*
- Fight Owl

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Democrat

## New Democratic Party of Minnesota

   **Motto:**“Saving America, by Saving the Earth”

The New Democratic Party of Minnesota is a major political party in Minnesota and an affiliate of the national Democratic One World party. The Democratic party has a long and complex history in Minnesota. For just under a century, from 1944 the Democratic Party in Minnesota was known as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party or DFL, in union with the left-leaning populist Farmer-Labor Party. A split between the Progressive and Moderate factions in the late 30’s left the Democratic Party in Minnesota a weakened and gutted entity, largely overshadowed by the newer parties. With the Democratic Party’s redefinition as the environmental party in the late ’50’s, it gained a base in the rural parts of the state although it’s still weak in the Twin Cities . The headquarters is in Saint Paul, the party Chair is Clara White Crane.

The national Democratic One World Party is the oldest major political party in north America, dating back nearly to the beginning of the old USA. It has been a lot of things over the centuries, adapting to the times, from the party of slavery to the party of civil rights. Neither of the old US parties survived the Awakening and the creation of the UCAS entirely intact and the Democrats drifted for a couple decades before being reinvigorated again by the 2057 campaign of environmentalist Arthur Vogel . He lost the race but his One World Party provided the ideological foundation for yet another reinvention, built around the idea that the UCAS can only be saved if its citizens first heal the Earth, and that people can only make peace with themselves when they have made peace with the planet. The corporations  oppose them because they favors higher corporate taxes and greater corporate accountability.

*Also, they are entirely too stingy with the nyiaj for their ’runners.*
-Ginebig

### Prominent Minnesota Democrats

* Melanie Patel, State Representative for Mankato, has announced a run for the Senate 2076
* Brian Telstad, State Tax Commissioner, has announced a run for Governor in 2076
* Carly Hughes, Hennepin County District Attorney
* Fatima Jumaili , Mayor of Fargo  in the RRDMZ

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JointSec

Helen Ness, COO of Kilbourne Urban Design :

"Shadowrunning is a persistent problem in our modern society and it is only working together, all of us, that we can prevent and punish this kind of behavior. Together, with our partners in BlockSec, and with the assistance of the Corporate Court, we plan to be proactive in combating this threat. That's the midwestern way. When we see a problem we roll up our sleeves and we get to work fixing it.

Which is why, speaking on behalf of all the Group member companies, I am proud to announce the formation of the Joint Security Task Force, a collaboration between our partners in Borderlands Security's already spectacular CrosSec initiative and the Red River Joint Enforcement Group to better coordinate corporate and military efforts to protect our community from these violent elements and put them back in the past, where they belong!

The Task force will be answerable to the Region 3 Commissioners, Borderlands Security's Tactical Office and, of course, the Group Board, who will be financing the initiative, all coordinated through the Operations office right here at Kilbourne Urban Design, taking advantage of our experience in bringing disparate elements together to work in synergy. I am proud to announce that the Field Operations will be in the capable hands of Operations Officer Russell Tallboy !"

[Pause for applause]

"Our officers will be backed with extraordinary powers granted by the military and corporate authorities to do whatever they must to keep us, you and me, safe. This really is what its all about. Neighbors coming together to do what needs to be done. All of us working together for all you."

-This new "JointSec" was announced the day after the kidnapping of GCS  exec Nelson Klein by a new group of shadowrunners, seemingly unrelated to the team who's bodies washed up on the shores of the Red River last month, in broad daylight from Last Lutheran Church during the Old Man 's funeral. What the resources and capabilities of this new security force will be have yet to be seen...

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Elizabeth Running Hare

* **Name:** Hare Running Through Grass "Elizabeth Running Hare"
* **Position:** Chairwoman of Zone Area Transit Solutions
* **Metatype:** Oyate (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:** 1/15/2035, *Íŋyaŋwakağapi Wakpá,* Upper Yankton CF, Očéti Šakówiŋ
* **Education:** Upper Level Certification in Civil Engineering (Doctorate Equivalent) from Oyate Owa Yawa

The upper levels of the business and government worlds of the Red River Valley often seem like as much of a big dysfunctional family as a series of companies, full of almost-incestuous interrelationships, decades of history, small town grudges and gossip. A lot of drama simmering below the surface.

And then there's Elizabeth Running Hare. She's actually just what she looks like, a competent civil engineer who takes her job to run Region 3's public transit system very seriously. While technically ZATS is a full, voting member of the Red River Investment, Holdings and Development, and that makes Running Hare a full voting member of its Board. However since all the stock in ZATS is held privately by the other Group companies, which makes ZATS a shared subsidiary of the Group members, so Running Hare is expected to vote with Kilbourne and Group Majority, as her responsibility is to serve the interests of their shareholders. Which suits Running Hare just fine, the less she's involved in politics the more she can devote her energies to making sure the buses run on time.

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Hunting Cat Society

## *Igmú Tȟátȟe* Akicita Society

* **Purpose:**The Hunting Cat Akicita Society is the official initiation circle for the 13th Wildcat Band, 'To Defend the Sioux  People, Protect the Integrity of the Land and Honor the Spirits and Uphold the Seven Sacred Rites'.
* **Headquarters:**The Hunting Cat Society is based out of Hunting Cat Lodge in the Wildcat Camp in the Garrison of the 9th Warband of the SDF  at 1805 Main Ave W, Maitomoni'ohe , Upper Yankton CF, 58078, Oceti Sakowin.
* **Membership:**Active membership is restricted to members of the 13WCB active casters. Led by Walks-in-Silence, the CO of the 9th Warband. As an Akicita society, the Hunting Cat society also plays a political as well as a military and magical role and includes a number of honorary Elders, including non-Awakened officers and respected community figures, including Pipe Holder Harold Standing Bear, who is Commissioner of Region 3 RRDMZ.
* **Strictures:**Belief (Oceti Sakowin), Obedience, Service, Fraternity, Exclusive Membership, Attendance, Oath (Group)
* **Resources:**High. The Wildcats are the most popular branch of the Sioux Defense Force and the most prestigious special forces units not just in the Oceti Sakowin, but on the continent. This is what makes them the second-best funded branch of the SDF (after the OMI) and their initiation societies share in that bounty. For their part, the Hunting Cats have pretty much everything they need or even want. They never want for supplies or support. The Wildcats honor their shamans and adepts and give them everything they want.
* **Allies:**As the official defenders of Truth, Justice and the Lakota Way of Life, the Hunting Cat Society is plugged into the SDF and into the local Oceti Sakowin-side magical societies, such as the Wild Rice Lodge, and even have contacts with the vigilantes in the Hanging Cloud Society, none official but they have them. After all, as a special forces unit.

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Harvest Hope Farm

* **Location:** 9695 10th St NW, Moorhead, MN, UCAS 56560
* **Ownership:** Harvest Hope Farm remains in hands the Kotrba Family

Coming up on its 60th anniversary, the Harvest Hope farm was founded in 2017 by Jason and Lynn Kotrba as one part experimental farm, one part Catholic church camp for kids with Huntington's Disease. And while the role of the farm has changed with shifts in science and the economy, it remains in the hands of the Kotrbas.

Although genetic engineering has long since cured HD (although said cure is far from available below a certain income bracket) and the economic realities of the Sixth World mean that 'non-profit' is no longer a viable thing, the farm remains in the Kotrba family, now on its third generation. These days, the farm, an active part of the local Biodynamics movement, lives by providing organic and exotic crops to local markets and buyers and through grants from the Red River Diocese, who still use the farm as a camp for ill and disadvantaged kids.

But even with help from the Diocese, the realities of farming in the One-and-Twenty continue to hound the farm. With increasing amounts of prime farmland becoming extraterritorial (as Ares and Crystal Ag continue their acquisitions), the county government has had to raise taxes on what's left to make up the shortfall, which, not unintentionally on the part of the Powers That Be, puts extra pressure on the independent producers. So, to supplement their income, Harvest Hope, like a lot of the small Biodynamic farms, has to participate in the gray economy. It is known that they do illegal electronics repairs (*technically pretty much every piece of major brand electronics has a service contract that it cannot be worked on except by licensed corporate technicians*) to make up the shortfall between growing seasons, and there are rumors, denied and unsubstantiated, of some light smuggling.

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MALSIN

### Mid-west America Local Shadow Information Network

* **Description:**A private, Shadowland-style channel for Shadowrunners in the upper Midwest, including northwestern UCAS, eastern Očéti Šakówiŋ, Niswi-mishkodewinan and the Zone.
* **Sysadmins**: Malsin was founded by the shadowrunner Gild  and is administrated by the retired decker Gurkha.

From the channel description by Gild:

"This is a P2P shadow matrix focused on the areas between Chicago and Denver. You want to put up something about the Verontesse family's latest issues with the Koshari in Las Vegas or appalachian talislegging opportunities write it up where it belongs (don't cha know) and we'll link it. The data here is meant to save lives, yours and Frank the front desk guard who you were able to bluff your way around because you got the names of a project director off here... if it helps throw a tip to the poster (and another to site management for upkeep). Invitation is open to all that you think have something to offer but know that their actions will reflect on you let's shoot straight, run fast, make some cred and keep G.O.D. out of this. Remember the old saying snitches get... a bounty  put on there heads that I'm sure plenty would be willing to take up."

Notable MALSINners include

* Gild
* Gurkha
* Linc Yellowjacket
* Techno
* Kirin
* Max Lou
* Race Cannon
* Iktomi
* Doc-Guana
* Saint from Saint, Mink and Tachi
* The Source
* Stands Alone Billy
* JL
* Golden Boy
* Members of the Broken Chain Guild
* Brady Underberg
* Ivory
* Little Mica
* Carla Myhre

And other notable lowlifes in the upper midwest...

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Wilder Terra

* **Location:** The Block, 7-2, Bar on Ground Floor Atrium with Cidery on sublevel 1 beneath, Fargo, Region 3, RRDMZ 58102
* **Style:** Neo-Third-Stage R/V/S/W (Retro-vapor-synth-wave)
* **Description:** High-end cider bar and cidery
* **P2 Rating:** 6:12:15

Once known as 'Wild Terra', this has been the premier manufacturer of high-end ciders in the Fargo-Moorhead since before The Awakening, for commercial sale through Upper Yankton CF, the RRMDZ and Minnesota in the UCAS as well as through their cider bars in Fargo and Grand Forks.

When Malic 'Mal' Henning, grandson of the founders, took over the family business on his mother's retirement a couple of years ago, he embarked on a massive rebranding, changing the name of the cidery to 'Wilder Terra' and put the home cider bar through a complete remodeling, redecorating it in full Retro-vapor-synth-wave style, complete with 8-bit holograms and an elaborate interactive AR setup.

Wilder Terra provides ciders from the simple and drinkable, such as seen in local liquor stores (things like the classic Retro Grouch and the new Tusk-an Raider Hurlg-infused cider) to exotic special orders with names like 'Hesperides Gold' and 'Midday Demon' the sort that only the Sixth World gives opportunity for...

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Fargo Islam

## Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead

* **Description:**A mutual aid society for the followers of Islam  in Region 3 of the Zone. The ISFM is mostly a financial and service organization, with individual congregations and followers handling interpretation and doctrine.
* **Locations:**There are about a half-dozen masjeds and mosques in the Region, with the largest at the Islamic Center, 601 28th St S, Fargo, RRDMZ  58103.

Fargo has always been a community of immigrants and for nearly a hundred years, those immigrants have included more than just northern european protestant christians. Starting in the 1990's new Fargoans included those from Islamic nations, Kurds, Iraqis, Somalis, Sudanese and others.

Islam developed into a group of different household congregations and collectives depending on the specific beliefs and practices that they brought with them. The Muslim population in Fargo is largely Sunni (with Shia and Sufi minorities among them), representing Maliki, Ash'ariyah, Salafi and Shafi schools of interpretation. However, over the generations certain consensuses have grown up in the tight-knit community of Believers. Generally speaking (and there are exceptions to all of this) Fargo Muslims tend to be pretty accepting of metahumans (with the exception of Hobgoblins, who they mainly have a problem with because the first Hobgoblins that came over were Iranian Shi'ites) and a distaste for magic, more from bad memories of the local Awakening than any doctrinal concerns.

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