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Knight Erik

Introduced in the 2056 "Your home is YOUR Castle" campaign, Knight Erik is the animated mascot of Knight Errant Security [a subsidiary of Ares Macrotechnology (tm)] and a registered trademark of Ares Marketing.

In the ads, Knight Erik is generally seen to be fighting off magical monsters and leering parodies of shadowrunners from the homes of Knight Errant customers, usually ending with some one-liner like "Giving your a Good Knight's rest" or "Joust Doing Our Jobs".

Earlier ads often had Knight Erik slaying dragons or fighting off 'savage orks', but those ads were pulled in the early 60's for racially insensitive content. The popularity of the character peaked just after the Second Crash, with a series of campaigns centered around Knight Erik and even including an educational game "Erik's Kwest", that was distributed freely with new 'Wireless Matrix' systems in the late '60's and is still part of the software package in Ares Educational centers, teaching tactics and the value of strong law enforcement.

While the cartoony little underdog is just another advertising mascot (albeit a fairly common one) to most of the Sixth World, he has become iconic in Ares enclaves and one of the most common costumes for company holidays like Angels Night.

The brave little guy hasn't been seen as much in common media in the last few years, after his extensive use in the marketing blitz for the disastrous Ares Excalibur, a failed attempt at a manatech assault rifle that nearly sunk Ares' massive arms market. But within the company the character continues to live on through educational videos and internal marketing materials.

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Katherine Grace

## Rev. Katherine Grace, Bishop of Minneapolis

* **Name:**Katherine Marie Grace
* **Position:**Bishop of the Minneapolis  Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America. Board member of the Draco Foundation's Twin Cities Branch.
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Magical Tradition:**Hermetic  - Christian (Laestadian  Tradition)
* **DOB:**9/4/2026, Denver FRFZ
* **Education:**Holds a Bachelor's in Communications from the United Canadian and American University - Denver, Officer Training Course UCArmy, Masters of Divinity from Wartburg Seminary. Also certified as a *Disken-häxa*from the Laestadian School.
* **Family:** Anthony Grace (father, deceased), Lilliana Grace (mother, deceased), Alice Grace (sister, deceased), Caroline [nee Grace] Raille (aunt, Omaha NE), Thomas Raille (uncle, Omaha NE), Carl Wallender (husband, St Paul MN), Judith Wallender (daughter, St.Paul MN), Henry Wallender (son, St.Paul MN)

Katherine Grace has fought evil her whole life. The daughter of minor UCAS diplomats in Denver, she discovered her latent magical abilities in the mid-30's during an attempted assassination attempt on her parents' boss by the Aztlan  intelligence services. She managed to save her sister Alice from the Blood Spirit sent to kill the ambassador, but was unable to save her parents.

This set the tone for the rest of her life. She fought against blood mages as a juvenile deliquent in the streets of Denver, fought Bug Spirits in Chicago  as a part of the UCArmy, fought North Star radicals and a rogue magically-active AI as a community Pastor in St.Paul. This last was what earned her the invitation to join the local Draco Foundation. And that connection, and the deeds that brought her to their attention, were a long part of what got her elected as Bishop of her Synod. Today, she stands as one of the pillars of the Metroplex, placing herself, as she always has, between the people in her care and danger.

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Killstarter

## Killstarter, crowd-funded murder

In the harsh world of the One-and-Twenty there is only one true set of international laws, that of the marketplace. Supply and Demand. The Allmighty Nuyen. So if you want something done, its got to be paid for.

Which is why things like Killstarter exist “A Mr. Johnson for the Rest of Us” as it says. For those who know it exists Killstarter is a crowd-funding site for bounties and assassinations. They make it easy to start a “Project”, that is to say open an account to which people can pledge towards a bounty on the head of the target until the bounty is high enough to attract an assassin, bounty hunter or shadowrunner to make the hit. Funds are not removed from pledged accounts until proof of kill has been presented to Killstarter by the “Justice Agent” as they are referred to on the matrix site. With the site itself taking a percentage cut.

Obviously, Killstarter has fairly rigid verification standards on proof of death before making a payout. Their reputation for delivering on their campaigns is sterling and the basis of their business model, so it is guarded jealously. There are even rumors that ‘Matching Funds’ campaigns are started for those who have tried to make false claims on the site.

Killstarter is an entirely online operation, nobody knows who runs and administers it and for good reason. They handle a lot of complicated financial transactions and deal in the economics of life and death and would be (and have been) a tempting target. However, to date, Jackpointers and other shadow nets have heard of no successful attempts to hit or defraud the shadowy service.

Analytics indicate that those who donate to Killstarter tend to be in the middle ranks of the corporate hierarchy, those with enough disposable income to donate towards a campaign but not enough to hire their own shadowrunners or assassins. Second most common are Policlubs, who generally can mobilize a lot of smaller donations towards a larger cause.

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Izzy Blumenfeld

* **Name:**Isidore Avisha Blumenfeld
* **Position:**Senior Partner of Blumenfeld Law Office.
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**6/20/2024, Chicago IL, USA (later UCAS )
* **Education/Certification:**Juris Doctorate from University of Chicago Law School. Certified by the Bar Associations of Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as Advocate Consultant in Ares  Law.

Isidore "Izzy" Blumenfeld is the founding partner of Blumenfeld Law (4527 Allendale Drive St. Paul, MN 55127), a high-profile criminal defense firm that has been operating out of the Twin Cities for over twenty years.

The success rate of Blumenfeld law is as high as its clients are high-profile. Blumenfeld serves an exclusive, if ecclectic, list of corporate clients, including Lucky Clover Promotions , Xim Kaab Management, NowYen Payday Loans, Catanio Investments, North West Cooperative, First North Star Credit Union, Russo Properties LLC  and others.

*No prizes for guessing what all of those clients have in common. Yeah, you guessed it, they're all fronts for the Combination. Izzy is a Mob Lawyer in the finest old tradition. But he's damn good at his job and is probably the only reason Cave hasn't done time for some of the stunts he's pulled.*-3yearsleft

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A surprisingly small firm, Blumenfeld law is composed of junior partners and assistants that have to gain Izzy's personal trust, given the sensitive nature of some of their clients, which is notoriously hard to obtain. Given the selective nature of his employee pool, he utilizes a fair number of independent contractors, including private investigator James Italiano .

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Felicity Gilmartin

* **Name:** Felicity Noelle Gilmartin
* **Position:** Matrix Security consultant, head and sole employee of FNG Information Services
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:** 4/10/2047, Deerborn MI, UCAS
* **Education:** Bachelors in Computer Science and Masters in Matrix Architecture from the Gavilan School of Matrix Sciences at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
* **Family:** Armistead Farnsworth (father, Boston, MA), Clarice Gilmartin (mother, Detroit, MI), Bruno Cardinal (step-father, Boston, MA), Prudence Gilmartin-Rogers (sister, Toronto, ON) , Phillip Rogers (brother-in-law, Toronto, ON), Keisha Rogers (niece, Toronto, ON)

While not technically listed on the employee rolls, computer security consultant Felicity Gilmartin is one of the rising stars of Oxnard’s new administration at Ares Fargo. During the transitions of the last couple of years, along the continuing task of clearing out her predecessor’s cronies and training in her own people, Sonja Oxnard has come to rely on an a small group of trusted outside consultants to supplement her loyal team and achieve her goals, especially now that Ares has taken control of local Single-A corp The Group’s assets. And none of those consultants has been closer to that inner circle than computer security specialist Felicity Gilmartin.

This is familiar territory for Felicity, not Fargo per se, but working at the edges of the Ares corporate world. Born with dual Ares/UCAS citizenship, the younger daughter of an Ares marketing strategist and an outside social media consultant who met during the release campaign for the first Ares Predator pistol, Felicity’s own tendencies turned early from the glitz of marketing to the puzzle-solving of Matrix Security, finishing her Masters by the time she was 24. After doing a year in NeoNET’s prestigious Compuforce labs, Felicity bought out her own contract and using both corporate and family contacts, began to hire herself out as a Matrix Security consultant, often for Ares or Ares-affiliated clients due to her mother’s family connections. FNG Information Services quickly gained a reputation for out-of-the-box thinking and an ability to work well with other contractors (FNG has worked several times on successful projects with Sterling Consulting, among others) and was a natural pick for Oxnard when the events of late 2075 in the RRDMZ began to imperil Ares’ information integrity.

Quickly proving herself able to find solutions where others can’t, Oxnard has kept Gilmartin on semi-permanent retainer and Felicity has been made a key member of Heather Evanston’s transition team as Ares takes control of the damaged Group grid under a rehabilitated RAHAB.

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Jessica Schafer

## Jessica Schafer, Bank of the Red

* **Name:**Jessica Nicole Schafer (née Tharaldson)
* **Position:**Manager of Operations, oversees on-site back office positions at the primary location of Bank of the Red .
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:**Bachelors in Business Administration, North Dakota Regional University .
* **DOB:**9/16/2040, Fargo  ND (now RRDMZ )
* **Family:**Calvin Tharaldson (father, Fargo RRDMZ), Karen [Gardiner] Tharaldson (mother, Fargo RRDMZ), Hunter Tharaldson (brother, Grand Forks , Region 2, RRDMZ), Kent Schafer (husband, Fargo RRDMZ), Florence [Gardiner] Underberg (aunt, Fargo RRDMZ), Floyd Gardiner (uncle, deceased), Margaret [Perleberg] Anderson (cousin, Hawley, MN, UCAS), Todd Anderson (cousin by marriage, Hawley, MN, UCAS).

Well-connected, daughter of Cal Tharaldson, the number two guy at Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman, married to Kent Schafer, the head of Marketing at Kilbourne and related indirectly to the Underberg Family, very little happens at the Bank of the Red Pylon that Jessica doesn't have at least a hand in.

Has been picked to run point on the team from The Bank of the Red assigned to assist Corporate Court auditor Huang Hui Yin, a team including colleagues such as Todd Anderson and Daniel Tranh.

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History

Alright, I’m gonna shoot straight with you here, phooj ywg. I couldn’t give a flying slot about Fargo’s history before the Awakening. Those that care, mostly locals, already know and those that don’t know generally don’t care. I mean, there’s a bit of important business before the main action, but if you’re into old railroad guys and people buildings were named after, you don’t need me to show you the way.

Seriously, Orb is your friend, do your own research. What’s below is what you need to know before you try to run the RRDMZ.

Downtown Renaissance  – 1999 to the Awakening

The Awakening – Magic Comes Back. Hard.

Third Ghost Dance War – The New Revolution almost ended this place.

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Knight Errant

* **Headquarters:** 807 11th St N, Moorhead, MN, UCAS 56560 and The Block, 1-3, Fargo, Region 3, RRMDZ
* **Status:** A fully owned subsidiary of the AAA-Prime corporation Ares Macrotechnology
* **Leadership:** Commander Miles Jungroth, answers directly to Sr VP Sonja Oxnard
* **Business:** Security Provider for Fargo and Moorhead

The brainchild and pet project of Ares CEO Damien Knight, Knight Errant currently provides public security for both Moorhead, UCAS and Fargo in the RRDMZ. Personnel in the Red River Valley are trained in the KE Academy in Brooklyn Park in the MSPlex. Knight Errant personnel are given the best equipment from other Ares subsidiaries. Ares Arms uses KE to test some of its newest prototypes, particularly non-lethal weapons. Sleek and stylish in their black uniforms, Knight Errant security agents have a better media profile than BSI. BSI officers are still regarded as rent-a-cops, while KE personnel are considered elite.

Knight Errant has held the security contract for Moorhead for nearly forty years. Up until this last year, BSI had traditionally held the Fargo side of the river, but when the local Ares branch took over the Group, they broke the contract with BSI and bringing in Knight Errant, more than doubling the range of the KE branch. Miles Jungroth went from being Captain of the Moorhead Precinct to being Commander of the Fargo and Moorhead precincts (leaving his number two, John Michael Mikarlson as actng head of the Moorhead Precinct).

Coming out of Ares culture, which prizes the militant machismo of pre-Awakening America, KE often acts more like an occupying army than a police force on occasion and this can both solve some and cause other problems in relations with the customer base they are hypothetically supposed to protect....

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Magic

### Places

* The Red River of the North , running through the very heart of Fargo, and still pretty angry.
* Wasted Acres , the devastated border between the Zone and Oceti Sakowin.
* Park Island , a reminder of what happens when the Red really lashes out.
* Concordia , a center of magical research, university as ritual space.
* Prairie Home Cemetery , haunted since before the Awakening.
* The Hjemkomst , the power of this viking ship is not totally understood.
* Trollwood , this park has a life of its own.
* The Linc-Up, a magic safehouse run by Voudouniste and former shadowrunner Linc Yellowjacket.
* Moorhead Center Mallsoleum, what the River takes, She doesn't give back...

### Groups

Fargo

* Tri-College Working Group , primary academic initiatory group, run out of the NDRU Advanced Thaumatology Program.
* Sèvis nan Eksil, the only Voodoo group between Seattle and the MSPlex.
* Pontoppidan Order, old-timey Lutheran paladins.
* Masonic Temple of the Western Bank, business mages without a temple.
* Baba Yaga Society
* Sons of Ivaldi, the Sons of Moria's magical branch
* The Flying 14th, the UCAAF's own 14th Magical Support Squadron, Bravo Flight.
* Riverwalkers  want to cross the river without crossing the River? These are your guys.
* Norse Warriors Club, big Vikings fans, not *THOSE* vikings, **these** Vikings, the Purple People Eaters, the Vikes...
* Friday Night Club, its not an Initiation Group, although it is a group and does have an initiation...

*Former Groups*

* *Supermodern Design Team, The Group's own pet wage mages, wiped out in the Solstice Blackout*

Moorhead

* Principia , Concordia's own.

Out of Town

* I-29ers , creepy ork hitchhikers
* The Crop Circle , hippy farmers.
* Wild Rice Lodge , another farming society.
* Diodati, a loose 'tradition' of gothy horror-movie fanatics that has taken hold up in Winnipeg

Regional

* Hunting Cat Society, the Maitomoni'ohe-based Sioux Wildcat training lodge
* Hanging Cloud Society, Upper Yankton, wide-spread vigilante lodge
* Scol Moot, the warrior circle of the Heathen go-gang.

### People

* JL, chief priest of the Campeche Rouge Hounfort
* Linc Yellowjacket, former shadowrunner, turned community organizer
* Whiskey Jack, head of the local Tiospaye, a powerful spellcaster
* Kensington, mob wizard for the Underbergs
* Nanabush, prominent local talismonger
* Perfection Madhier, a Roamer , a powerful witch and head of the Kakuma Families
* Mage-Lieutenant Harukor, Chief Astral Security Officer, Knight Errant
* "Bleach", a telesma thief and vandal, thought dead.

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Antônia Nairasta

## Tônia Nairasta

* **Name:** Antônia Maria Camila Nairasta
* **Position:**Practicing lawyer of Amazonian  Law, Chairwoman of the APM (A*ssociação para Participação do Mundano*), member of the Board of the IOPOS  Group.
* **Metatype:**Humano (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**4/8/2020, Sao Paulo, then-Brazil (now Metrópole , Amazonia)
* **Family:**Felix De Naira (ex-husband, Metrópole), Ana De Naira (daughter, Metrópole).

Born to a wealthy but obscure family distantly related to the powerful De Naira clan, Antônia married young to Felix De Naira in a match arranged by Felix's brother, the head of the family Ramon. Always a fighter (she passed that trait on to her daughter Ana), she later divorced from Felix in the late 2050's and took her personal wealth and her settlement from the divorce and set up an association to advocate for rights for Mundanes, as the non-Awakened have no say in the running of Amazonian. Since the end of the War , she's been in the north of the country assisting with the relocation of populations displaced by the fighting.

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Final Pan

## The Final Pan

* **Location:**300 Main Ave Suite 300, Fargo , RRDMZ  58103
* **Type:**All-night diner
* **P2 Rating:**[Merchant Account Suspended]
* **Description:**No-frills, all-hours dining.

It seems like there's always been one of these. For as long as anyone can remember there's been one of these. Open twenty-four hours, basic fare. The waiters are rude, the cooks are entertainingly corrupt, the food is made of equal parts of lethal levels of grease and potatoes and hate. The coffee resembles battery acid more than anything that's ever seen a bean, but it comes in bottomless pots and the pie is better than it has any right to be. At some point in the distant past it was a 'Country Kitchen' (two lies for the price of one!), then it was a 'Fryin' Pan' and now, after the devastation of the Awakening, and the dissolution of the Fryin' Pan franchise, sold to the big family restaurant chain 'Friendship Family Restaurants' (a subsidiary of the Quebec-based A-rated corporation Cross Applied Technologies), which involved acquisition of their Wahpeton, Yankton (modern day Ihankton*)* , Moorhead and their three Sioux Falls (modern day Íŋyaŋ Okábleča Otȟúŋwahe) locations. However, since it had been flooded out and almost destroyed, the Fargo location wasn't included in the the takeover, assumed to be abandoned.

However, nobody told the staff at the Fargo location. The rest of the strip mall plaza it was in was ripped apart by the angry river, and certainly the Fargo location was flooded out. But when they returned to start cleaning it out, they discovered that the Fryin' Pan didn't actually exist anymore but that they weren't owned by FFR either. The Fryin' Pan was over, but the "Final Pan" was born.

The Final Pan is employee-run, but the employees don't really give a shit. The waitstaff are selling dreamweed with the cheesy fries, the prep crew do deals with Riverling thieves to get supplies without paying retail, and there's a rumor, and your cousin's roommate told you this so you know it must be true, that the cooks killed a guy once. No, really.

Its a filthy place, the cleaning doesn't get done a lot, the lights are dim, and there's a guy passed out in that back booth and he smells of longhall and vomit. But it is always open and the coffee, as bad as it is, is bottomless, the cheesy fries are cheap and the waitstaff doesn't care that you're smoking or packing heat or bleeding and they certainly won't call the Zone Patrol or BlockSec on you. Because they want the law on site less than you. Trust me on that one.

This is where you end up when you fucked up everywhere else and need like a grilled cheese or onion rings or something.

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Harukor

## Mage-Lieutenant Harukor

* **Name:**Harukor (birth name), "Nibutani Haruto" (legal name: Japanese Imperial State)
* **Position:**Chief Astral Security Officer, Knight Errant Security- Fargo
* **Metatype:**Koropokkuro  (*Homo sapiens pm. hirsutus*)
* **Magical Tradition:** Sama [Ainu, Shamanistic  tradition, Bear Mentor Spirit]
* **DOB:**11/10/2047, Biratori, Hokkaido, Japanese Imperial State
* **Education:**Biratori Special Magical School, Ares Military Officer Training School (Astral Security).

Harukor was born with two strikes against him on the island of Hokkaido in the Japanese Imperial State. He was born to an ethnic minority, the Ainu, and he was born a metahuman in the still-very-racist JIS, part of the local Koropokkuru population of Dwarves.

Orphaned at an early age when his father (Kotanekashi "Nibutani Katsuo") was killed in a raid on an Ainu nationalist meeting by JIA troops and young Harukor (now 'Nibutani Haruto') was sent to an Imperial orphanage with an eye to training his natural talent for magic for the Army or the magical forces of a Zaibatsu.

However, much to his tutors' consternation, young Haruto had already been given the basics of an education on the ways of the Kamuy by his father and when he manifested as a mage, it was as a shaman of the Ainu bear god Kim-un-kamuy.

Immediately out of school, Haruto, now calling himself by his true name Harukor again, took the first job offer that he could find that took him out of the JIS, which turned out to be an opening in North America  with Knight Errant Security, a subsidiary of the very non-Japanese Ares Macrotech. Which suited Harukor down to the ground.

Distinguished in his first tour of duty guarding an Ares oil rig in the Arctic from native spirits, he was headhunted by Captain Miles Jungroth (head of the KE precinct in Moorhead  MN, UCAS) to be Jungroth's new CASO in 2069, an opportunity he's jumped at. Grateful for the opportunity to advance, he's been Jungroth's loyal right hand pretty much since he arrived, protecting the people of Moorhead from magical threats and cheering from the sidelines as local Ares management has gone from negligant  to proactive, a change he is entirely in favor of.

Mage-Lieutenant Harukor was been listed as 'Missing' after he disappeared in the field on 9/14/75 while investigating disturbances out in the sugar beet fields near Hillsboro, and reappeared during the events of the Solstice Blackout, the details of which have been deemed 'classified' by KE. He is reported to have been key in rounding up those responsible within Group management and has followed Jungroth into Fargo to become the top magical cop on that side of the river.

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Coriander Rabson

* **Name:** Coriander Anne Rabson
* **Position:** SME Magical Operations I, Ares – Denver
* **Metatype:** Human (Homo sapiens sapiens)
* **Magical Tradition:** The Technical Hermetica (Full Mage)
* **DOB:** 12/1/2047, Pontiac MI, UCAS
* **Education:** Damien Knight Advanced School (class of ‘65), Soaring Owl Academy at Ann Arbor – Astral Security Certification
* **Family:** Jasmine Rabson (mother, Rivertown, Detroit), Tanner Park (father, Dearborn MI), Charity Hamilton-Park (step-mother, Dearborn MI), Bruce ‘Bro’ Rabson (uncle, Pontiac MI), Saffron Rabson (Sister, Ann Arbor MI), Caleb Park (half-brother, Dearborn MI)

From here in the Shadows, it can be hard to remember that for every Wage Mage that went rogue to escape the Corporate Life, there are a dozen young mages who look up at the chromed towers of the Megas and want nothing more than to get in.

Coriander ‘Cori’ Rabson is one of those mages. From the ravaged suburb of Pontiac (outside the Wall), she grew up with a single mother and a little sister who she had to help support, working every night after school. When she Awakened, it was her family’s shot, maybe her family’s only shot, at getting inside the wall around the Ares part of Detroit. She worked hard and honed her skills and applied for an Ares scholarship to a leadership program for talented outside-the-wall youths, accepting tuition from Ares Macrotechnology in return for an equal number of years of service to the company. During her last year, in ‘64-’65, the Second Crash hit and hit hard, swallowing up all her meticulously-done and carefully submitted college applications in a single stroke.

Determined to not let this deter her, she began redoing all her applications, while accepting a spot with a Knight Errant training program while she waited. However, while at the Soaring Owl Academy she discovered a real flair for security work and decided to go career. While taking advanced training courses, she mixed with students from university for the first time (specifically future security consultants Felicity Gilmartin and Galena Sterling), and got a sense for the larger security picture at Ares. After university, she did her five years with Knight Errant paying off her education, working first as a security summoner and then moving up into Astral Design. After KE, she moved into working as a magical safety officer for the parent company, working first in Detroit at Company HQ. After the Siege of Denver, she took a transfer to Ares – Denver to, and this is a quote from Ares Central boss Dylan Heppner, “Unfrag their magical security”.

She took over an office in shambles, with mostly a new staff who, like her, were replacing the victims of a mass firing, a corporate reputation in tatters and surrounded by corporate enemies. And Cori couldn’t be happier about it.

Which tells you a lot about Coriander Rabson right there.

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Sèvis nan Eksil

## Sèvis nan Eksil "Servants in Exile"

* **Purpose:**The Servants in Exile serve as the initiatory group for the Houngans that serve the scattered congregation of the Campeche Rouge  hounfort. While located in Fargo, the Campeche Rouge serves adherents scattered through a thousand mile radius. The Servants in Exile exist to "serve and protect all the sons and daughters of the Loa who practice the faith in the exile of the Pale North and serve the spirits who live around us. To achieve the harmony of Both Worlds".
* **Membership:**The Sèvis nan Eksil is fairly inclusive, welcoming all houngans, native and visiting who do no harm to their fellow vodouisants. Given the rarity of the religion in this region, this is a fairly small group, ranging from 5-7 at any given time. "JL", who maintains the primary Hounfor at the Campeche Rouge, is acknowledged as the Houngan Asogwe or "Chief Priest" of the Servants and other Houngans hold the rank of Houngan sur pwen, junior to him. These ranks are not much used, as most of the other members maintain their own regional congregations in their home locals.
* **Strictures:**Fraternity, Belief (les invisibles), Dues/Deed, Material Link (group)
* **Resources:**Medium. The Servants in Exile have a fund they pay into for emergency use. This fund is also supplemented by shares in the Campeche Gwo LLC, which produces Campeche Blanc Rum and Pirate Red Hot Sauce.
* **Allies:**The whole reason the Servants were formed was the difficulty Vodouisants had in finding support in the regions served by the Campeche Rouge. They receive very little support from other Hounforts, largely, it is said when JL isn't listening, because of JL's ongoing beef with the next nearest hounfort, the Peristil Mizilipin in the Twin Cities. However, the sorts of characters who are able to make it as houngans this far from the homelands of their faith are both eccentric and self-reliant types and each of them has a unique set of allies and enemies in their own right.

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BisonDome

## The BisonDome

* **Location:**1800 N University Dr, Fargo, RRDMZ  58102
* **Description:** Major indoor sports arena, concert venue and convention center.
* **Status:** Wholly-owned asset of North Dakota Regional University.

Fargodome is an indoor athletic stadium located in Fargo, Region 3, Red River Disputed Military Zone, on the campus of North Dakota Regional University (NDRU). Opened in late 2045, the facility is built on university land and is included in NDRU’s extraterritoriality. The arena's seating capacity is 30,700 for sports events and over 35,000 for full arena concerts.

The BisonDome is the home arena of the NDRU Bison sports programs, which participate in NACAA Division I in all sports include championship-winning basketball, football (North American), football (International), wrestling, hockey, urban brawl, combat biking and unkcela pte. In 2066, the BisonDome was listed on HorizonSport’s list of “50 Best College Stadiums in North America”. The article cites, "There aren't many indoor venues in college sports, but the few that do exist are very unfriendly to any visiting team. That effect is only amplified in a playoff atmosphere." The BisonDome is routinely ranked as one of the loudest college sports stadiums in the country. In a 2069 playoff game against the University of Northern Iowa Panthers the readings showed a high of 115 decibels following a late touchdown by quarterback Jacob Olafsson. The decibel meter consistently read 107–111 throughout that game, according TransForum SportsFeed. During the 2073 Youngtown playoff game, the crowd noise was measured at 120 decibels.

Before the construction of the BisonDome, the previous home of the Bison sports program for nearly fifty years had been the Fargodome, which sat on the site that the BisonDome does now. The Fargodome was finished in 1992 and the Bison began playing in the 1993-1994 served. The Fargodome served as their home through dozens of championships and several renovations until the Great Manastorm of ‘43.

The Great Manstorm caused untold millions in damages and displaced thousands of Fargo/Moorhead residents. Thousands took refuge in a shelter set up in the Fargodome by emergency services. The ‘dome did managed to protect those within but the battering it took left the Fargodome needing massive renovations. After working the numbers it was decided that tearing the crippled building down and rebuilding it would be cheaper than repairing the structural damage the magic of the manastorm had wrecked upon it. NDRU bought what was left from the City of Fargo and begin construction on a newer, bigger, more technologically advanced indoor arena and convention center. Construction began in late 2043, continued through 2043 and opened fall of 2045 and has served as the iconic home to the Bison for the last thirty years.

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GCS

## Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman Property Management Company

* **Rating:**CC
* **Headquarters:**The Goldmark Complex at 1711 Gold Dr. S Ste 130, Fargo , RRDMZ  58103; also maintains offices at Block Central, 15th Floor, The Block 2-6, Fargo RRDMZ 58103
* **CEO:**Rachael Schlossman-Martin
* **Partnerships:**GCS has been a proud member of the Red River Valley Investment, Holdings and Development Group for nearly forty years. A large minority of stock is owned by The Association, which works closely with GCS on determining zoning policy for Region 3 (Fargo). GCS works in partnership with other major property management companies in other parts of the RRDMZ, (such as PORYBA in Region 4, TruHome in Region 2 and Andjelic-Upper Edge Properties Lmt in Region 1) who partner with GCS in order to gain the advantage of the Group's extraterritoriality.
* **Description:**A property development, management and rental company with properties throughout the Red River Valley.

GCS Management's official corporate motto is "A Place for Your Tomorrows, Today". However, a better tagline for the company might be "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em". Founded in 1982 as Midwest Management Company, changing the name to Goldmark in 1996, later becoming Goldmark-Schlossman. After the destruction wrought by the Awakening in the area, they merged with Craig Properties to become Goldmark Craig-Schlossman to better position themselves to take advantage of the depressed land market and as a possible competitor to the nascent consortium that would rise to become the Group . Its said that the Old Man , not wanting a competitor, personally negotiated their entry into the Group. In partnership with other local business giants and with their support, GCS went on to absorb a great many of their competitors, including Skaff, Prairie Property Management, Tharaldson Management Inc, RKAK and others, until they became, as they are today, the largest renter and property management company in Region 3 of the Zone outside of the Block itself.

Functionally, they are responsible for territory outside of the tightly-packed downtown area and are one of the few Group companies who do not retain BSI for security, instead preferring to maintain their own private security units (usually recruited from their own renters and given discounts on rent), which are officially called 'Residential Responsibility Groups' RRG's (more commonly known as 'Tenant Militia' or 'TenMils '), these RRG's, which are lightly armed and trained, deal with everyday security concerns on their property, only calling in Zone Patrol when things escalate beyond their ability to handle it.

Notable Leadership:

Rachael Schlossman-Martin, President

-Calvin 'Cal' Tharaldson, Sr. VP for Development

-Kendra Westby, Sr. VP for Finance

-Jane Moore, Sr VP for Security

* Edgar Harrison, Chief Responsibility Officer

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Ghost Cartels

## The Ghost Cartels

Another faction that seems to be looking to profit from the Cities  is the Ghost Cartels . BADs  are cropping up amongst Maya immigrant gangs on the West Side. None of the other factions have access to that, it seems, so that might explain why the Family seems more focused on the West Side right now than on the new Vory  or the Triads . Fortunately for the Don , the Aztlaner gangs on the West Side, especially the ones with Aztechnology  connections, have never really liked the Maya or the Cartels, either.

*Lemme tell you right now, some of these drugs are bad news. That Red Orchid they’re selling? Sends you on a real astral ride; even mundanes are forced to astrally project on the stuff. Sounds great, but astral travel isn’t always safe even for pros like me, let alone mundanes. Just stick with your tripchips, phoojywg.*
- Phim Kooj Koi

*And how much is the Don paying you for that little advertisement, omae? Drek’s better than any chip I ever slotted.*
- Fight Owl

*Play nice, you guys. And as far as the West Side factions are concerned, I think Don Catarone’s just hoping they all geek each other. From the times I’ve been on the West Side, seems like a pretty reasonable possibility.*
- Wirefrog

*Better that than the Callahans  coming in.*
- Ginebig

*Hey, if you're coming into the Cities from the west, a word of advice. If you've been doing business with the Invierno Cartel  "The Cowboy Mafia" out in the Zone , maybe don't mention it to the Cartels in the cities, word is that the Olaya Cartel , who are the biggest backer of their operations in the Twin Cities, and the Invierno Cartel have had exchanged some hard words (and bullets) over the routes between the growing fields in the Sioux  and the Cities. -*Thief River Thief

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Irena Volkova

## Irena Volkova, head of EVO-4M

* **Name:**Irena Ilyinichna Volkova
* **Position:**Senior Vice President in charge of Evo-4M.
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:**Masters of International Trade Relations from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
* **DOB:**[Not on record, lost in the Second Crash], presumed to be in early 2030's, somewhere in the Russian Republic or Siberia.

As with so many high-level corporate operators with heavy Matrix  presences in the 2050's, a lot of the records of Irena Volkova's past were lost in the Second Crash. A few fragmentary records exist in Evo 's system of her employment with them going back to at least 2061. During the 2060's she traveled largely through central Eurasia and the Pacific Rim acting as floating trouble-shooter and organizational and efficiency expert, helping to integrate old Yamatetsu assets into the new Evo structure.

When Evo bought out Minneapolis' own local giant Harris-4M in 2069, she was tapped to lead the newly-acquired subsidiary, cleaning house of a lot of the organizational deadwood and bringing the local divisions more closely under central control. She's known as a hard boss, but an effective one, and while it is true that those subordinates who fail to live up to her exacting standards end up clearing out their desks with zero warning, those who do meet her approval end up getting very, very rich. And she can afford to reward them like that. Under her management, Evo-4M has experianced unprecedented growth, building on the already-impressive business of Harris-4M.

Irena Volkova's standards can be summed up in one word: Results. She doesn't much care how they got achieved, only that they did. Which means using every means at her disposal. Which includes, for those on our side of the fence, means like you. Just do your homework when taking an Evo job, Evo-4M is pretty plugged-in to the local branch of the Kirilov Family of the Vory, and you don't want to end up taking a job that puts you in the middle of a gang war. Unless you're into that kind of thing, hey, I'm not here to judge.

Volkova perfers to be a force that's more felt than seen and for the head of a major subsidiary, doesn't do much public appearances. Sure, she shows the flag at the occasional cultural event or official announcement, but generally isn't seen outside of her office, especially during the working day, a testiment, her PR people say, to her work ethic.

There is, of course, another version of what keeps her indoors during the day. A vanilla, non-Awakened Human in a position of visibility in Evo these days is something worth commenting on. Unless, some whisper, she's not a vanilla human and there's something a little stronger than being a workaholic with adelicate complexion  keeping her inside when the sun is out...

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The Minotaur

* **Location:** 1865 Sargent Ave, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ R3H 0E4
* **Ownership:** Legally, its owned by Cargill-Monsanto, a subsidiary of Aztechnology.
* **Description:** Automated Meat Packing Plant, used as a hide-out by a local gang.

The place the locals call ‘The Minotaur’ fulfills a lot of functions. It is first and foremost a fully-functional, entirely-automated meat packing facility for Cargill-Monsanto (most of the beef and beef by-products in the RRDMZ are processed through one of C-M’s several Winnipeg-area plants). No actual metahumans work at the plant itself, which is in the St. James Industrial Park in Winnipeg, but is controlled remotely from the Prosperity Spire outside of town.

The locals call it ‘The Minotaur’ because of the half-eroded ‘dancing cow’ logo of its previous owners (Plains Processing Ltd, a part of True North Foods, which was bought out by Cargill-Monsanto in the mid-60’s). The new ownership never bothered to remove it entirely and it’s now only visible as a half-cow outline from a certain angle, which somebody started calling ‘the Minotaur’ at some point and the name just kind of stuck. A local landmark for the people who work or squat in the St. James Industrial Park.

What it also is, at the moment, is a headquarters, storage space and sometimes living quarters of a sub-crew of the ABC (All ‘Bout Cash) crew of the 1323, led by the a big troll named Meat, who takes his nickname from the hideout, and made possible by Meat’s number two guy, a dwarf decker they call ‘Tommy-boy’, who has hacked the security and surveillance system too keep the plant (and its corporate masters) from knowing they’re there. Meat’s crew does all the usual scams of the ABC, dealing chips and drugs and prostitutes from their cabs, although Meat and his people often prefer to simply rob the chip-heads and do the chips themselves.

Its a great place to hide out in plain sight, but its only a matter of time before somebody from C-M notices and Meat and his crew will have to give it up. But that day might not be in the immediate future. People who’ve tried to break in report that Tommy-boy may have gotten control of some of the machinery of the plant itself, deepening their control.

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HPC

## High Plains Coding

* **Headquarters:**Tsêhéstáno, Tetonwan CF, Oceti Sakowin
* **CEO:**Daniel O'Malley
* **Rating:**A

Jokingly referred to as “Cronus Inc” due their penchant for devouring other software development firms in the country on the way to becoming an A-level corp, High Plains Coding (HPC) is a recognized leader in several fields, most notably embedded operating systems for a range of consumer goods—most kitchenware runs their code—and pilot programs. Most of their work is under contract for other companies, but in recent years they have expanded their high-profile offerings, particularly with their proprietary NanTek suite having become the de-facto standard for generating nanoforge templates. Although the company is a high-profile acquisition target, HPC has fought off every attempted takeover attempt, from NeoNET, MCT and even the PCC, through convoluted legal machinations, shadowruns, and well-timed financial strategies. Being able to hide behind the armed might of the Sioux Nation doesn’t hurt, either.

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Riverside Jihad

## The Riverside Jihad

* Turf: Cedar-Riverside
* Colors/Apparel: Orange and white stripes, various Islamic symbols.

You can find this black Islamic gang partying most nights at the Five by Five . All humans , they’re not fond of metahumans, not even a little. These guys sell BTLs for money, but reject other trades such as drugs, loansharking and prostitution as “un-Islamic”.

*Interesting moral values there.*
- Phim Kooj Koi

*They take those values quite seriously. They’ve started to get into some serious scuffles with the local group of Fire Girls . Harlots and heathens, in their eyes*.
- Juba

*It’s also notable that, as an Islamic group, they’re somewhat distrustful of magic, and as such, if you’re gonna fuck with em…you see where I’m going?*
- Vision Fist

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Navalha

### **Shadowsona: NAVALHA**

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**Last Updated 8/6/2075**

* **Identity:** Available\*  (want more? click here  to upgrade to Shadowsona Ultimate)
* **Description (Metatype):**Humana  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Description (Gender):**Female (she/her)
* **Description (Magic):**Adept (Physical)
* **Magical Tradition:**Way of the Hunter
* **Skillset:**Hand-to-Hand Combat, Firearm Skills, Small Group Tactics, Magical Tactics, Infiltration, Reconaissance
* **Affiliation:** Família do Naira (member), The Inner Garden (associate)
* **Area of Operations:**Metrópole
* **Available:**Medium
* **Reliability:**High
Ubisims Tower

* **Location:** 201 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Region 1, RRDMZ R3C 0B9
* **Description:** The tallest building in Winnipeg, and headquarters of Ubisims' North American operations
* **Territoriality:** Extraterritorial possession of the Single A-rated entertainment corporation UbiSims
* **Security:** Site Security is provided under contact by ESSI
* **Height:** 235 m (770 ft)
* **Architects:** Ateliers Nouvel-Perrault of Paris

The tallest building in Winnipeg, and by extension, the tallest in the RRDMZ (or anywhere between the MSPlex and Tsehestano for that matter) is the 235 m tall North American headquarters of game giant UbiSims. Commissioned in early 2065 and completed in time for Christmas 2067 (timed to coincide with UbiSims' first all-AI designed game, 'Farther Cry: Next Revolution'). It is built on the site of the previous tallest building in Winnipeg, 201 Portage.

The Tower was built to accommodate the move of UbiSims' North American headquarters to their Winnipeg location after the Second Crash. Today it is the largest single UbiSims complex operating outside of France, housing both the offices of UbiSims NA head Yves Gauthier and the home node of UbiSims creative director and AI Snowdrop, as well as extensive internal creative studios as well as some manufacturing and distribution facilities.

The looming Ivory Tower facility has become an unmissable part of the Winnipeg skyline, a fact that is the cause of some divided opinions among native Winnipegers.

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Ohuyuhmunpi

"The Bone Game" "The Bones"

Ohuyuhmunpi was originally a kids' game played with carved bone spinners. In the modern era, it has become a major form of gambling throughout theOceti Sakowin  and the Seliš-Bukwus Chíchelh Sq'èp, especially popular in the SDF  and from the SDF it has taken root in the border regions of the Oceti Sakowin, such as the Zone , where its become the major form of serious gambling, run by the Misko-ziibi tiwahe of the Tiošpaye, who has a corner on gambling in the Red River Valley.

Since it caught on popularly, most Ohuyuhmunpi sets are mass-produced plastic, but traditionalists and serious gamblers still use real bone sets, carved in the Oceti Sakowin if they can get them. In the Zone, its played in basement dens and gambling pits, while in Tsêhéstáno, its  a big money in major casinos.

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Twin Cities Subcultures

## Subcultures

Posted by: Nu Vu

As the eternally fabulous Oscar Wilde once said “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” And the Twinned City (Two Cities for the price the one, double your snowfall, double your fun…) is certainly nothing if not seasonal. Just because this isn’t Tokyo  or Hamburg  doesn’t mean we don’t have fads and fashions, movements and scenes, if anything, out here in the GWN (Great White North), because the eyes of the world aren’t on us, people are freer to really be themselves, just like everybody else like them. The proud (and chilly) denizens of the Gemini Metropolii have a long and proud tradition of marching to their own drum (or drumline if that’s how your tastes run), so the scene here might be just the slightest titch confusing to the newcomer.

Well don’t you worry your pretty little heads over it kids and kittens because Wirefrog  has sweet-talked your old auntie/uncle Vu into explaining it all to you, with short words and everything. Everybody has a culture, and by definition every little naughty cubbin of a culture is a subculture. However don’t go thinking that these subcultures are cut and dried categories. Oh, heaven forfend! As anyone who knows the Vu knows, the Vu hates cut and dried categories. No, no, no my darlings, like fashion accessories people like to mix and match and not everybody wears the whole outfit. You might be shocked to find out that your MainScene  uncle has a secret little Ergi  outfit he only brings out when the family’s not around or that wild, free-spirited young thing you picked up at the club has a shrine to the Jack  behind their shoerack (in which case, take your lovely friend Vu’s advice and run, run now..).

Now while the list below has the Nu Vu guarantee of freshness as I write this, because nobody but nobody (and the Vu is certainly not nobody) knows the Cities’ scenes like little old kuv, but check the posting date because like old Oscar said above, the only certain thing about this list is that it will change…

* Ascomanni  - Big burly troll pirates in fur (who can sing!) What’s not to love!
* Co-op - Extreme Gardeners, marvelously strange and mind-numbingly earnest
* Ergi  -  Blissed-out Transsexual shamans.
* Heemaal  - Afroflash with a Somali accent
* The Jacks - No, I swear to the Spirits, they really do exist!
* MainScene  -  The Vu is soooo done with the MainScene.
* Montagnard  - Do you have a little Hmong in you? Would you like to?
* PvR  - Player v. Reality, the ultimate one-sided fight.
* Craftpunk  - When hobbies turn political.
* Spacemen  - Ground Control to Major Tom, your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong…

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