recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Arthur Jensen

* **Name:** Arthur Edward Jensen
* **Position:** President and CEO of TransForum InfoMedia
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:** Honorary Doctorate in Economics from NDRU

**Jensen**: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immanent, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life
on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

**Beale**: But why me?

**Jensen**:Because you're on television,dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

**Beale**:I have seen the face of God.

**Jensen**: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.

Return to: TransForum
Linc Yellowjacket

### **Shadowsona: LINC YELLOWJACKET**

**Shadowsona Profiles: Supplemental Asset Management Solutions (a HorizonProduct)**

**Last Updated 7/29/2075**

* **Identity:**Available\* (want more? click here to upgrade to Shadowsona Ultimate)
* **Description (Metatype):**Elf(*Homo sapiens nobilis) -*Possible Wakyambi  metatype [unconfirmed]
* **Description (Gender):** Male (he/him)
* **Description (Magic):**Active Spellcaster
* **Magical Tradition:**Ghede Voudou [See: Possession Traditions]
* **Skillset:**Medical Skills, Spellcasting, Healing, Summoning Specialty, Fraud
* Affiliation: *Sanssentia Health Solutions  (former)* The Fargo Team 4.0 (former)
* **Area of Operations:** *Chicago Quarentine (former),*Fargo ,Red River Disputed Military Zone
* **Available:***Very Low\* (see Notes)*
* **Reliability:**High

**Notes:**New Entry. Subject has indicated an intent to reduce involving in Supplemental Operations to focus on new endeavors (See: "Linc-Up")

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Kooba

*[EDIT 6/28/76: Turns out we didn't have to wait until the 3rd after all. As of midnight last night we all found out. Kooba was... well... Nothing. Total Vaporware. Apparently Glen Cavendish whipped up this whole marketing scheme without an actual product in mind. What his actual scam was is, at this time unclear. Details to follow...]*

So, first question first. "What. In the Frag. Is KOOBA (tm), an Ares Commercial Product?" Well, that, omae, is the 64K nuyen question, isn't it? For the last couple of months now (if you're in the 'Plex, almost a year in the test markets) Ares Commercial Products has been flooding our media feeds and spamming public AR with ads for this piece of drek. You can't turn around on the Matrix or open up a news or entertainment feed or even go shopping with your damn AR on without being dogpiled by ad massages. Sure, you know what I'm talking about *"Kooba is as Kooba Does!", "Just Kooba It!", "There's Nothing Else Like Kooba!"* etc.

What all that drek doesn't seem to do is actually tell you what the frag Kooba IS. And nobody I've talked to, even inside Ares, seems to know, either. About all that's known is that the word 'Kooba' doesn't seem to show up in Ares internal docs until early last year, about the time that Ares' top dog in the 'Plex Glen Cavendish took on self-help guru Dietrich Sibich as his permanent life coach and advisor. Apparently, he just showed up in Marketing some day and started outlining the ad campaign and Ares being Ares, they didn't ask a lot of questions...

So, hate to say it, but I think we're all going to have to wait until the reveal on 7/3/76. Unless one of you slippery shadow-types has better info (DM me)...

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Gear

I’m sure you think that this being the Midwest’s smuggling hub, you should be able to procure anything you need. And you’d be right. But you have to know where to go, and who to talk to. I’ll provide a few basic hints here, but if you’re competent it should be plenty.

If you really are stuck, ask a local runner you trust to point you in the right direction. But it really shouldn’t be too hard to get stuff here.

* Pierce Butler Night Market
* The Quarry
* Malls
* Body Work

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Sanssentia

## Sanssentia Health Systems

* **Rating**: A (aggregate)
* **Headquarters:** Duluth MN (UCAS )
* **CEO:**Doctor Arnold Richard Mellig
* **Chairman of the Board:**Karen Drumheller
* **Status:**An integrated healthcare provider system, privately owned by a registered consortium of interests including the Denny Sanford Foundation, The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, the Benedictine Health System, the Yuwipi Trust and others.
* **Partnerships:**Sanssentia is a DocWagon  Certified Service Provider, which means that the company provides the medical facilities and personnel for end-patient care for all DocWagon franchises within its area. In Fargo, and several other markets, Sanssentia also owns the actual DocWagon regional franchise in order to guarantee unity of quality of care for its clients, although actual DocWagon responders must still be DocWagon trained and certified and all Crisis and High Threat responders must be DocWagon+ trained and certified as stipulated in the terms of the franchise contract. Sanssentia has also partnered with, and is a participating member in the Red River Valley Investment Holdings and Development Group . The Fargo research wing also works closely with the medical researchers at North Dakota Regional University .
* **Territories:**Sanssentia owns over five hundred different facilities, including hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, assisted living facilities and research institutions. Of these, 18 are classed as Single-A Extraterritorial facilities, including the Fargo Level I Trauma Center , known locally simply as 'The Center', the area's premier hospital and the headquarters of the local DocWagon franchise, and the surrounding areas, the Sanssentian Reclamation Area, often misnamed 'The Medical Reservation', which contains housing and long-term care facilities attached to the Center.

Sanssentia Health Systems is a major rural health care network specializing in providing care to markets outside the major metroplexes. Formed from the merger of the Lutheran Good Samaritan Society-run Sanford Health and the Benedictine-run Essentia several decades ago, it operates in the UCAS (all of Minnesota outside the MSPlex, Nebraska, Iowa), Oceti Sakowin (Upper and Lower Yankton Council Fires) and the Niswi-mishkodewinan.
Lindenwood Elven School

## Ranelles ke Telene Lindenshay

* **Name:** Ranelles ke Telene Lindenshay (lit. "Community of Scholars of Linden forest")
* **Location:**1710 5th St S, Fargo , RRDMZ  58103
* **Management:** Since the passing of the late "*telegitish* Delara Perritaesa" (Doctor Danielle Linden-Sinner) in the Solstice Blackout, the position of *telegitish* has remained empty and the staff is currently accepting applications for a replacement. The acting *telegitish* for the 2076-2077 school year is the assistant Sperethiel Master, Dean McCade ***'**Draesis Cirolle'*.
* **Description**: Elven Cultural Center and School
* **Style:**Classical, pre-Awakening Church exterior and *Imladris-*style Elven Architecture interior
* **Gang:**Technically lies in the territory of the 94 Crew of Riverlings, although they usually leave it alone

One of the quirks about how the Awakening  worked in the upper midwest means that while by 2075 there are nearly twice as many Elves  as Dwarves  worldwide, in the midwest quite the reverse was the case. In the north of North America, an unusual number of UGEbirths ended up as *pumiliionis*, instead of *nobilis*. And what Elves were born in the area largely ended up migrating north into the Manitou Council , leading to those Elves who remained clustering together, finding community in their own rarity and the fact that, until '57, they were the only ones who had a unified culture.

The small Elven community between the Lake of the Woods and Tsêhéstáno gathers at an old church on the fringes of Lindenwood park, just on the very edge of the flooded river . The Lindenwood center serves as a gathering place, a community center for elven festivals, offers classes in carromeleg, elven culture and language, a worship space for the few local followers of the Path of the Wheel and an expensive private school for elven children, which funds much of the rest of their activities.

The Lindenwood School maintains close ties with other elven enclaves, such as the *Raén Tesrae ke Shayailin* (The Lake of the Woods Enclave) and also has a tightly knit network of alumni throughout the region, including some rather highly-placed in local business and politics (such as Rachael Schlossman-Martin) who serve as patrons to the School. Beyond their patrons they maintain an eclectic variety of friendly connections with groups as diverse as Concordia, local Biodynamicists and even the Riverlings, who as "Children of Magic" occupy a special place in their cosmology. There are even rumors that the School has contacts with the revolutionary Manitou Council up north, although publicly the school maintains political neutrality and avoids attention.

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MSPlex

## Minneapolis-St. Paul Metroplex

* **Population:**6,559,677 (2070 Census)
* **Government:**Elected Mayor, currently Carol Bergen (Technocrat ) with Deputy Mayor David Olson (T). Legislative branch is an elected City Council .
* **Territoriality:**The Minneapolis-St. Paul Metroplex is the capitol city of the State of Minnesota in the United Canadian and American States . Since the UCAS is a signee of the Business Recognition Accords , there are a great number of extraterritorial properties in the great MSPlex area. The largest extraterritorial holdings belong to Ares Macrotechnology, Evo-4M , Aztechnology , Horizon  and Ecolab .
* **Law Enforcement:**The city security contract for Minneapolis is held by Knight Errant (an Ares subsidiary), currently led by Captain Azog Kortgaard . Saint Paul still maintains its own civil police force, the Saint Paul Police Department, currently led by Police Chief Ana Ng .
* **Transportation:** Mass Transit and road maintenance for the Metroplex is all handled by the Twin Cities Transit Authority , a private corporation owned by Evo-4M.
* **Demographics (Metatypes):**Human : 87% (5,706,918), Elf : 1% (21,865), Dwarf : 2% (131,193), Ork : 4% (262,387), Troll : 6% (393,580), Other: 1% (43,730)
* **Demographics (Ethnic):**White: 79%, Jewish: 8%, Irish: 5%, English: 2%, German: 15%, Polish: 2%, Norwegian: 5%, Swedish: 4%, Black: 11%, Hispanic: 3%, Puerto Rican: 7%, Aztlaner: 73%, Cuban: 4%, Colombian: 5%, Asian: 5%, Chinese: 7%, Vietnamese: 9%, Asian Indian: 7%, Japanese: 3%, Filipino: 4%, Korean: 6%, Laotian: 9%, Hmong: 48%, Amerindian: 2%

So, like with the rest of the stats for cities I've been listing, the above is what the Corporate Court can tell you about my hometown. And like with the rest, there's a hell of a lot more to know. And the best source to know about the shadow-side of the MSPlex is veteran 'runner Wirefrog , who's pretty much been everywhere, done everything and met everyone you'd want to know (and a pretty good number of ones who you'd never want to meet).

And if you've got questions about the 'Plex, you'll find the answers to them in here:

Wirefrog's Guide to the MSPlex.

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Deer Woman

Deer Woman (not to be confused with the Totem of the same name) is a particularly mysterious Free Spirit that has roamed the forests of the Na-Dené Nén, Niswi-mishkodewinan and Oceti Ŝakowiŋ since at least the Awakening.

In the lore of many of the peoples of central North America, Deer Woman is a spirit of love and fertility, but also an avenger, who lures the promiscuous or corrupt to their deaths. Other stories and traditions describe the sighting of Deer Woman as a sign of personal transformation or as a warning. Deer Woman is also said to be fond of dancing and will sometimes join a communal dance unnoticed, leaving only when the drum beating ceases.

Appearing in the form of a white-tailed deer or a woman with deer-like traits, Deer Woman has been sighted all across the wooded parts of central and northern North America. There are tales of her benevolence to lost travelers as well as her luring the unworthy to their deaths in the darkness.

She has been connected by official shamans with the mana aspect of "YUTHOKECA" or 'Change', being associated with places and events (such as Mana Storms ) with that aspect. During her appearances, she has demonstrated power over weather and animals (especially deer), as well as extensive healing abilities and, most infamously, the power to control the thoughts and perceptions of metahumans.

While never formally classified, Deer Woman is known to be an exceptionally powerful Free Spirit and has resisted known attempts to Summon, Bind or Banish her. However, drawing on their own research, Mide  practitioners have claimed that she can be banished through the use of chanting and tobacco. Others claim that the spell she casts can be broken if one notices her cloven hooves, although they caution that such a feat can only be achieved through a monumental act of will.

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Kilbourne’s in the Block

* **Location:**The Block 2-4, Fourth Floor, Fargo  RRDMZ  58102.
* **Style:**High end neo-Deco.
* **Description:**Fargo's top end elite restaurant and bar.
* **P2 Rating:** 2:25:80

The just above the open-air mall at of the Block. Fourth Floor of the Block is reserved for more private establishments, literally sitting above the teeming masses in the preserved downtown. The gilded deco construction is what was once the roof of the Hotel Donaldson. The 'HoDo' was the first building restored during the Downtown Renaissance , opening in 2003 as a high-end hotel and restaurant with an exclusive rooftop venue.

In the rebuilding after the Awakening, one of the first places that underwent renovation with the Hotel Donaldson, which the companies that were in the process of becoming The Group acquired the hotel and used it as a test case for the accelerated rate of construction, enclosing the roof and upgrading it into the highest-end restaurant in Fargo.

Nowadays it serves as the gathering place of the elites, the movers and shakers in Fargo, the heads of the Group Companies. Often called 'Fargo's Boardroom', its said that more of the business of the city gets done over designer cocktails at KnB (as its patrons call it), than in the board's meeting room. And The Old Man has a permanent table in the corner where he still holds court with his favorites, although not as often in the last decade or so. Apparently once you turn 110 your social life tends to slow down a bit.

The food itself, as a side note, is exquisite, what the place is pleased to call 'Sixth World Fusion Cuisine' which roughly translated means a little bit of everything. Once or twice a year the place imports some big name from out of town to do a short guest stint as head chef, inventing dishes and creating specials that are only there as long as they are. These are, I am told, more than worth the wait. Not that I would know. The current permanent head chef is Ly Xia Tougeu 'Toby Lee', an expert in Hmong high cuisine who trained at Noj 30 under top chef Charlie Hang in the Twin Cities.

While technically open to the public, the high prices and the long waiting list means that to actually get in you need a connection on the inside, which limits it to the oligarchs of the Zone's second-largest city. And the security that surrounds it, both Group corporate and BSI  contractors means that if you aren't supposed to get in, you don't get in. Period.

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Alvie Kelp

### **Shadowsona: ALVIE KELP**

**Shadowsona Profiles: Supplemental Asset Management Solutions (a HorizonProduct)**

**Last Updated 7/29/2075**

* **Identity:**[Withheld by request of Corporate Partners. Refer to identity number AR382930 for more information]
* **Description (Metatype):**Dwarf (*Homo sapiens pumilionis)*
* **Description (Gender):**Female (she/her)
* **Skillset:**Infiltration, Tactical Analysis, Assassination, Theft
* **Affiliation:**The Fargo Team 4.0 (core)
* **Area of Operations:** Throughout the United Canadian American States  and Red River Disputed Military Zone
* **Available:**High
* **Reliability:**Very High

**Notes:**A known operative, generally available from the Great Lakes region of the UCAS, although known for being open to travel. As with many operatives working out of this area, has done extensive work for Ares Macrotech . Until recently has always worked alone, until joining the newest incarnation of the Fargo Team.

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Anjo Mici

## Miciela "Anjo Mici" De Naira

* **Name:**Miciela Maria De Naira
* **Position:**Member of the Board of the IOPOS Group . Chairwoman of the Fundação do Maria Magdalena.
* **Metatype:**Humana  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**10/9/2040, Metrópole , Amazonia
* **Magical Tradition:**Atlantean Hermeticism  (full mage)
* **Family:**Ramon De Naira (father, Metrópole, Amazonia), Constancta De Naira (mother, deceased), Sofia [Carvalho] De Naira  (step-mother, Metrópole, Amazonia), Adriana [De Naira] De Rastas (sister, Metrópole, Amazonia), Carlo De Rastas (brother-in-law, Metrópole, Amazo), Juliana De Naira  (sister, Metrópole, Amazonia), Paolo De Naira  (half-brother, Metrópole, Amazonia), Felix De Naira (uncle, Metrópole, Amazonia), Ana De Naira  (cousin, Metrópole, Amazonia).

Healer, Philathropist and Full Mage. Beloved public figure called "*Anjo Mici*" or "Angel Mickie'.

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Ecolab

## Ecolab Inc

* **Headquarters:**1 Ecolab Pl, St Paul , MN 55102
* **Leadership:**Debra Durant, Chief Executive Officer, Gavin Jansen, Chief Operations Office

A notable local AA corp is Ecolab, with its headquarters in downtown St. Paul. It provides sanitary equipment and services to restaurants and other businesses, as well as handling the city’s own water treatment plant. Both Evo  and Saeder-Krupp own significant chunks of the corp, but a quarter of shares are owned by other parties. Both megas would presumably like to have sole control.

*I wouldn’t count out those third parties if I were you, not just yet*.
- Nodewalker

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Jimmy Eyes

Knight Errant Security - Records: Persons of Interest [last updated 12.11.74]

* **Name:**James Leonard Joshua Italiano
* **Date of Birth:**7/20/2043 (32)
* **Place of Birth:**Minneapolis , MN, UCAS
* **Citizenship:**United Canadian American States (born)
* **Metatype**: Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Sex**: Male
* **Gender**: Male
* **Height**: 180cm
* **Weight**: 67kg
* **Build**: Slim
* **Hair**: Brown (usually dyed Black)
* **Eyes**: Green-Hazel (usually wearing color-changing contact lenses)
* **Complexion**: Pale
* **Occupation**: Listed officially as a Private Investigator on permanent retainer to Blumenfeld Law Offices .
* **Education**: Bachelor's of Science in Statistics (Anthropology minor), University of Minnesota
* **Enhancements (suspected):**Cyberware and Bioware, including cognitive and extensive sensory upgrades.
* **Known Relations**: Marco 'Fat Cat' Italiano (Father, 68, Lake Shore, MN), Beatrice Hogan (Mother, deceased 2072), Sophia Hogan (half-sister, Minneapolis MN)
* **Marital Status:** Single
* **Known Associations**: Isadore Blumenfeld (business partner/employer), Hunter Tharaldson (business contact) Michael Callahan , Paul Walshowski , Taylor West , Madeline Reinhardt  (regular associates)
* **Current Place of Residence**: Edina, MN, UCAS

James "Jimmy Eyes" Italiano is highly suspected to be a member of the "Callahan Family ", which is part of the Minneapolis Combination , the largest organized crime syndicate in the state, KESID classifies this identification as a "HIGH RED" (Almost Certain) classification.

Mister Italiano's associations with organized crime cover his entire history. His father, Marco Italiano, is a known associate of Leonard Catarone , suspected head of the Minneapolis Combination, enjoying a decades-long friendship with Catarone and himself having been up several times on racketeering charges in relation to the activies of the 'Catarone Family', having only escaped imprisonment through a plea deal in 2056, after which he retired to his lake house. Marco's wife, and James' mother, Beatrice Hogan, also comes from a family containing several members either suspected or convicted of organized-crime related charges, almost all of whom were known associates of the Callahan Family. James' godfather, for whom he's named, James Callahan, was known as "Jimmy Bricks" and was head of the Callahans for many years. James Italiano grew up as a close childhood friend of the oldest son of Callahan, the notorious Michael "Cave" Callahan.

James Italiano is currently employed almost exclusively for either Michael Callahan directly or the law firm that represents Mister Callahan, Blumenfeld Law Offices. From the best information that KESID can assemble, "Jimmy Eyes" as he known to the other Callahan associates, serves primarily as a gatherer of information and a trusted courier for the Callahans, often used as a 'Stringer' to scout out new territory for Callahan smuggling operations.

James Italiano does not possess an arrest record at this time.

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Lost Boys

* **Turf**: Lind-Bohanan
* **Colors/Apparel**: The Hmong Circle sewn onto their clothes, often dress in green

This gang is actually a loose alliance of independent primarily-Hmong gangs that dominates the Bohanan Park region. They generally are engaged in the traditional businesses like carjacking, gambling and protection. They are tolerated by the Kirillovs  as long as they don’t cut into the Vory’s own rackets. Notable for the frequency with which they send out “parties” to make trouble in other parts of the Cities, especially across the river in Saint Paul. Even if the repercussions ruin the perpetrators, there’s always another gang looking to prove itself.

*WTF? Hmong independents working with the Vory? Thought they all batted for the Family ?*
-Bugkiller

*New in town, khwv khwv? You’re thinking the normal Hmong, Hmong Der or White Hmong. That’s most of us. These guys are Mong Leng, Green Hmong. They’re kinda like what the CAS is to the UCAS, our ignorant red-neck cousins who talk funny. Ignore them and they usually go away.*
-Phim Kooj Koi

*Dlaab ntaus, keep talking, but your keep your txiv dev ass on your side of the river and maybe we won’t take it from you. Maybe I don’t run with the boys anymore, but I remember where I’m from. Once Lost, Always Lost!*
-Tsov Tom

*Enough! If you don’t have something constructive to say, save it for the street. Same language, same customs, same cooking even. We got more in common than we have differences. Killing each other over an accent, such a pair of ruam tsiaj nyaum…*
-Iab Npauj

*Hey, deys a’right, dey’re good fer fightin’ the damn ghoulies, the Tama-whatsits . Love killin’ ghoulies, dose guys!*
-Nortzide

*So long as they keep sending ‘parties’ after the ghouls, they’re barely tolerated by the powers-that-be. The moment they get serious about business, or they do too much puas tsuaj on the wrong side of Ziibi, I see some nasty retribution coming their way*.
- Ginebig

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Fire Girls

* **Turf**: Lilydale refugee camp, scattered elsewhere around the plex
* **Colors/Apparel**: Red, orange, fire imagery.

This relatively archetypical gillette gang started up among desperate Chicagoan  girls in the Lilydale refugee camp. Some of the tougher girls grouped up to protect themselves from rapists, pimps and thugs. Since then, as the Chicagoites moved out of the camp to the other parts of the sprawl, other cells of the gang have started up, and in the camp itself, Maya and Angelito girls each in turn have gotten involved, and now in fact run security for the camp. The Fire Girls largely derive their income from prostitution, and with no pimps skimming the cut, and many of the girls themselves doubling as their own security, the ratio of income to overhead’s supposed to be pretty high. They’re rapidly cornering the local market for the vanilla stuff.

*You go, girls!*
- Brynhild

*A lot of the SINners  in this town share Bryn’s approval of the group, so the Fire Girls often can move around in middle-income neighborhoods where gang colors might otherwise result in a police visit.*
- Wired Rose

*They’re another outfit, besides the Mob , that enforces as well as defies the law in St. Paul. Last time somebody committed a violent rape in Frogtown, the police didn’t manage to find him until after the Girls did, and it wasn’t pretty. I’m pretty sure they’ve got a sympathizer or two on the inside of the SPPD’s sex crimes unit that helps them get away with this sort of thing. I gotta say, though, it’d be hard to condemn them for it, even if I wasn’t shooting people for money on a weekly basis.*
- Wirefrog

*I make sure to send a little love their way when I can. Not business, mind you, but a little help on the enforcement end goes a long ways.*
- Ginebig

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HashFunk

## #Funk, *Social Media to Blow Your Mind*

* **Headquarters:**88, 8 Barbican Rd, Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean League
* **Leadership:**CEO Enrique Calendar
* **Status:**A majority-owned subsidiary of Aztechnology

"#Funk" (a play on 'Hash Function ') is a Jamaican cryptocloud service and social network on the Matrix.  Users set their public keys with a special wifi-enabled proprietary mouthpiece that generates a hash function based on the sweetest bong rip it records from that mouthpiece. Founded by eccentric genius LifeMeTree Constant-In, known for his fascination with analog computer systems and disdain for binary (or as he put it, "Die-nary") code.

The stock crash that resulted from LifeMeTree's death in 2072 had less to do with his absence, and more to do with his bequests, which subdivided numerous former company assets to various benefactors, proteges, mistresses, and assorted acquaintances.  Contrary to current Matrix speculation, the memes about haunted server backups did not begin until after #Funk’s stock buyback and its acquisition by Aztechnology subsidiaries were complete, and the rumors are both contradictory and unsubstantiated.

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Indian Mounds Park

The flip side of this is the Indian Mounds Park in Dayton’s Bluff. The mounds here are not Dakota, but actually much more ancient, so it didn’t draw protest in the same way during the war . The city and the corps, though, wanted to head off the possibility of another Minnehaha , right next to downtown. They also recognized, once they had their own magicians, an astral ley line nexus centered on the mounds. With both those things in mind, the various factions came together to un-develop the area and return it to the state in which it was first settled by the Anglos. That meant uncovering and rebuilding 19 mounds on top of the surviving six, and even recreating Carver’s Cave to the best of their ability below. It was as expensive as it sounds, but it’s been an amazing success. The area’s now a beautiful, sacred park, where magic is amplified by the high mana flow. It makes a great neutral meetup place for everyone from magical practitioners to Mr. Johnson to mundane lovebirds and picnickers. Try not to throw any fireballs, though; violence of any sort is said to upset the spirits and the aura of the place, and it’s just bad form.

*Not to mention the police aggro involved.*
- Iab Npauj

The corps certainly made their money back on the investment. Due to the aid it gives to magic, alchemical production facilities and thaumaturgical whitelabs surround the park.Wuxing , Aztechnology , Mitsuhama  and Saeder-Krupp have assets here. Also, many wagemages and independent magicians live in the area.

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Maccabees

* **Turf**: Highland Park
* **Colors/Apparel**: White/Blue stripes on heavily modded IDF jackets, khakis.

Jewish gang, tending towards the human, centered in the southern end of Highland Park. They have connections to the Vory , which often uses them as enforcers and street-level BTL distributors. They’re more hellraisers than professional criminals, if you ask me, but they manage to make some decent nuyen off of it.

*This is a joke, right? Right?*
- Gopher Eater

*If it’s a joke, the Callahans  aren’t laughing.*
-Ginebig

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Abbott Northwestern

## Abbott Northwestern Health Complex

* **Facility Type:** Hospital/Training
* **Location:** 800 E 28th Street, Minneapolis MN 55407, UCAS
* **Status:** Extraterritorial Holding of the AAA Prime corporation Ares Macrotechnology
* **Management:** Hospital Director, Doctor Victor Tranh

For nearly two centuries, Abbot Northwestern has served as one of the MSPlex’s premier medical facilities. Founded by Harriet G. Walker in 1882, and originally operating out of a small rented house, it has grown over the years to include the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Children’s Minnesota Hospital, the Andrew Pilsch School for Metahuman Enhancement (built right after Ares bought the complex along with its previous owner Allina Medical Group) and most recently the local base of operations for the Ares-owned High Threat Response provider InfoSanté.

While open to all (with compatible insurance or care plans), Abbott Northwestern prioritizes InfoSanté clients, Knight Errant Officers and MSPlex-based Ares corporate citizens and Ares citizens are the only ones who can take advantage of the Advanced Enhancement Services of the Pilsch school (minor alterations are, of course, available to any paying member of the public).

*All of the above means that while the facilities for cyber- and bio- ware are impressive and extensive, all the shinies are for Ares citizens only. And more importantly, go on Ares records. So if you absolutely have to have something only offered here, make sure your fake Ares SIN is absolutely watertight and maybe have a decker do some clean-up work after you’ve been. Won’t stop some of you, but consider yourselves warned.* -Wirefrog

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Breweries

## Breweries

### Fargo

* Fargo Brewing Company
* Drekkers
* Drumconrath
* (Cidery) Wilder Terra

### Moorhead

* Junkyard Brewing
* Swing Barrel

### Out of Town

* Mni Wakan: Lake Devil Brewing
* Hallock: New Revelations Ale Works

### Duluth

* Suspension Brewing
* Big D Duluth Brewing Company
* Twinports Brewing
* Whaleback Brewing Co.
* Missabe Brewing

### Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metroplex

* Father Hennepin Brewing
* Peak Beer Brewery
* End Note Brewing
* Dancing Cat Brewing and Distilling
* Minnesota Academy of Brewing Sciences
* Ghost Dance Brewing
* Brutalist Brewing

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Bulgasari

* **Taxonomy:***Homo sapiens ingentis metallicus*
* **Location:**The Korean Peninsula

Troll metavariant indigenous primarily in the Korean Peninsula. All known Bulgasari have been born or expressed  while in Korea. Bulgasari account for 8% of the estimated 4,906,800 Trolls in Korea, making for a world population of 392,544.

Physically the Bulgasari manifest traits within the normal spectrum of *ingentis* phenotypes with a few exceptions. Noses tend to be longer and more hooked than a normal troll's and a proportion (12% among females, 26% among males) of Bulgasari born after 2061  have small prehensile trunks instead of noses. Bulgasari are known for pronounced tusks and for having sparse, if any head and body hair. Those that do have hair grow a short, almost spiky growths that resemble procupine quills more than normal hair. Their horns tend to grow up or out instead of down, and almost always grow branching structures, closer to an antler visually. The most striking physiological difference between *metallicus* and other *ingentis* variants is the increased need for iron in their diet, which they use to grow the metallic deposits on their skin, which take the place of normal dermal deposits and appear to provide better protection from physical harm.

Bulgasari are a common and accepted part of Korean culture, which has traditionally been very open to metahumans. Special iron-rich dishes are often featured on Korean menus and the Bulgasari have a reputation for being Good Luck, a stereotype that engenders both respect and resentment from their fellow citizens. Due to their status in Korean society, and the traditional hostility shown towards them by Korea's neighbor, the Empire of Japan, Bulgasari are rarely seen outside their home country.
Hallock

## Hallock, MN

* **Population:** 996 (2070)
* **Government:** Hallock is run as it has been for nearly two hundred years. A Mayor who is elected every four years, and a four-seat City Council, originally elected, but now representing the four largest employers in Hallock: Johnson Oil Co, Ottertail Power (a Gaeatronics  company), New Revelations Ale Works and Ares Agribusiness.
* **Territoriality:** The town is largely under the jurisdiction of the County of Kittson, State of Minnesota, UCAS. The town boundaries abut the extraterritorial facilities of Ottertail Power (which is owned by the Single A corporation Gaeatronics) and Ares Agribusiness.
* **Law Enforcement:** Law Enforcement services are provided by Knight Errant security, all costs covered by Ares Agribusiness as part of their agreement with the city of Hallock.
* **Transportation:** Hallock has contracted with North Central Roads for all their long-distant transit needs.
* **Demographics (by Metatype):** 65% Human, 14% Dwarf, 11% Troll, 6% Elf, 3% Ork, 1% Other

The town of Hallock was founded in 1879 (the Chamber of Commerce is planning a bicentennial for 2079), and named after one of the founders, sportsman and outdoor writer Charles Hallock. Hallock serves as the seat of Kittson County, which sits right on the Minnesota-Manitoba state line, and occupies part of the border of the Red River Disputed Military Zone to the west.

Hallock is located in the Red River Valley, home of some of the best soil for farming in the world. Therefore the agricultural industry is a major influence in the area. However, within one-half hour's drive are the northern tall-grass prairie, aspen park-land, and northern Minnesota forested areas. Because of its location, Hallock is a diverse community with many different opportunities and activities. Hallock is probably best known outside Kittson County for being the home of the popular New Revelations Ale Works, a brewery and distillery that ships as far as the Upper Yankton CF and the Twin Cities.

Hallock almost didn't make it, though. Already declining in population before the Awakening, Hallock was hit hard by the disasters (magical, military and natural) of the Awakening and only a few die-hards hung on as most people fled deeper into the UCAS to avoid the wrath of the River and fear of the Sioux. It wasn't until things settled down in the 2040's that settlers, largely refugees who had lost their lands in eastern North Dakota during the Awakening, begin to repopulate the area. Its only recently that population figures have even gotten back up to where they were just before the Awakening.

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Wechuge

## Wechuge, King of Wendigos

   *Wechuge* is the colloquial name for an ice-aspected Free Spirit (or possibly a class of spirits) that is known to possess metahumans, especially the Infected , make changes to their host and go on destructive rampages.

The host/victim of a Wechuge possession is easy to spot. Wechuge changes its host, adding to mass and height, manifesting claws, long fangs and branching, spiked horns. Body hair becomes sharp and ice-coated, and the flesh grows cold and hard, and more resistant to physical damage. Interestedly, the eyes glow red, a trait in common with the more northern Tariaksuq.

While technically any metahuman can fall victim to Wechuge possession, there does seem to be a marked preference to target those infected by HMHVV virus, so-called 'vampires' and 'ghouls', and especially those orks infected with HMHVV I  "Wendigos", hence the nickname 'King of Wendigos'. It has been theorized because the Wechuge transformation has been observed to also enhance the traits inherent in HMHVV, making Infected Wechuge victims more powerful than non-infected.

According to the Dane-zaa people of Na-Dené Nén, it is said to be a person who has been possessed or overwhelmed by the power of one of the ancient giant spirit animals—related to becoming "too strong". These giant animals were crafty, intelligent, powerful and somehow retained their power despite being transformed into the normal-sized animals of the present day. The Dane-zaa believed that one could become wechuge by breaking a taboo and becoming "too strong".

An aggressive and cunning predator of metahumans, devouring the flesh (and Essence when possessing the Infected), the Wechuge retains its full mental faculties, and if it doesn't think it can succeed in a direct attack, or by its impressive stealth abilities, it is perfectly capable of using communicating or using other cunning to lure victims away from their groups.

Wechuge possession is most often reported in the Na-Dené Nén and Tsimshian Nation but there are reports across all of the northern half of North America. Wechuge is known to be attracted to Aspected Mana of the aspects of Ice and Death and most generally occurs in places of intense cold, great death or, more likely, both.

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Declan Chance

* **Name:** Declan Sean Christopher Chance Jr.
* **Position:** City Councilman for the Saint Paul 7th Ward, Board Member of the MSPlex branch of the Draco Foundation, Magical Consultant for Knight Errant-Minneapolis.
* **Metatype:** Human (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Magical Tradition:** Hermetic (Kybalion)
* **DOB:** 3/27/2027, Saint Paul, MN, UCAS
* **Education:** Masters in Astral Architecture, University of St Thomas, Bachelors in Accounting
* **Family:** Conchobar Seans (great-grandfather, *deceased*), Declan 'Lucky' Chance Sr (father, St Paul), Margaret [Thompson] Chance [mother, *deceased*], Rory Chance [brother, Alexandria MN]

Declan Chance Jr isn't just a politician because he looks the part. Although, to be fair, he does look the part: he keeps his silvering hair carefully coiffed. He has handsome (but not too handsome) features, friendly brown eyes and a perfect smile.

Declan originally comes out of the business world, his old man "Lucky" (so called because of the number of construction site accidents he survived) was a McNamara Construction site supervisor back in the 30's and 40's and helped McNamara get rich helping to reconstruct the Twin Cities after the Awakening. During the '50's and early 60's he worked first at his father's company as an account executive before getting his CPA and moving into the financial sector. After the New Revolution, a business associate from McNamara, Michael Callahan, encouraged him to get into politics and he won a seat on the Metroplex Council, representing Saint Paul's 7th Ward in 2068. Before this, DJ (as he's known to his family and childhood friends) had shown very little interest in politics aside from a youthful flirtation with radical politics while he was in college.

[Declan has just announced that he's running on the New Century ticket for Mayor of MSPlex during the 2076 Election. Of course, all of us in the shadows know that this election is all about who controls the smuggling of arms, BTL's and telesma through the 'Plex. While others are getting funds from smaller smuggling groups, Chance is the most well funded of the candidates. His backers have much deeper pockets than the others and a wide smuggling network that has been in operation since the 19th century. Yes, you guessed it: the Mob. Declan is a long-time employee of the criminal network. He started out as a small-time money launderer at a bank in St. Paul but quickly worked his way up the ladder as a skilled accountant. When the Mob needed some more pull with the City Council they backed Chance, and politics has been his life ever since. He’s pretty clean these days but still does favors for the Mafia and votes whatever way they tell him.]

*Chance runs on the New Century ticket since he’s a highly skilled Hermetic. This also helps him from bumping heads with any other Mob politicians by overlapping political affiliations. It causes the occasional issue with his own party when he doesn’t toe the party line. I’m sure some of those folks are beginning to wonder what’s up.*

-Kay St. Irregular

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Felix De Naira

## Felix De Naira, head of UHL Pharmaceuticals

* **Name:**Felix Gabriel De Naira
* **Position:**President of UHL Farmacêuticos, sits on the board of IOPOS Group
* **Metatype:**Humano (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**Date Unknown, 2015
* **Family:**Antônia Nairasta (ex-wife, Manaus, Amazonia ), Ana De Naira  (daughter, Metrópole , Amazonia), Ramon De Naira (brother, Metrópole, Amazonia), Constancta De Naira (sister-in-law, deceased), Sofia [Carvalho] De Naira (sister-in-law, Metrópole, Amazonia), Adriana [De Naira] De Rastas (niece, Metrópole, Amazonia), Carlo De Rastas (nephew-in-law, Metrópole, Amazonia), Miciela De Naira (niece, Metrópole, Amazonia), Juliana De Naira (niece, Metrópole, Amazonia).

The head of the Family's extensive pharmaceutical and telesma  interests. Rumor hints that he may have ties to organized crime, specifically the Comando Verde syndicate.

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Courthouse

## Cass County Courthouse - Fargo/Region 3 Administration Complex

* **Function:**Central Court and Administrative center for Statistical Region 3 of the Red River Disputed Military Zone . While technically the center of administration for Zone 3, only the Mayor of Fargo and the regional civic government actually operate out of the courthouse, although offices are maintained for both of the Region 3 Commissioners.  The UCAS Commissioner usually works out of the CO's office in the UCAS air base at Hector AFB and the Oceti Sakowin Commissioner works out of the offices maintained for him across the border in Maitomoni'ohe (West Fargo )
* **Location:**211 9th St S, Fargo, ND 58103, just south of The Block .
* **History:**Actually the third Courthouse built for Cass County, it was built to replace the previous Courthouse, which burned down in 1903. This Courthouse was opened for business in 1906 and has operated continually since then. The building was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. When the RRDMZ was formed and Cass County was replaced with Statistical Region 3, the Alexandria Accords included provisions for the preservation of places of cultural significance for both sides. Then-Mayor Roger Denny chose to move city administration out of the former City Hall, which had become part of the Block, and into the historic Courthouse in a purely symbolic show of independence.

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2-4-2

If you lived through the 40’s anywhere in the Midwest, you would have seen it. Two-for-Two (“2-4-2”) was the slogan of the Troll Labor movement, it meant ‘Two Days Pay for Two Days Work’, because manual labor jobs were replacing two, sometimes three, non-troll workers with one troll, while still paying them the same as one. After all, it takes more to feed a troll as well. A lot of construction sites, especially those run by the High Steel Bands, still work by the Union Standards pioneered by the 2-4-2. It also helps account for the higher-than-expected rates of labor and protest involvement from the troll community in the area, many of them having been raised by parents or grandparents who were veterans of the 2-4-2.

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Khistova Server

## Khistova Server (Neil's 'Fourth World Online')

* **Description:**A server for Pathfinder Multimedia's (a Horizon  company) 'Fourth World Online' ARRPG.

Its not exactly a secret that the biggest shared-player ARRPG (Augmented Reality Roleplaying Game) at the moment is Pathfinder Multimedia's 'Fourth World Online', based on the massively popular "Neil the Ork Barbarian" franchise. And certainly there's a lot of reasons for that, with a level of drama and worldbuilding that many critics maintain surpasses any of the previous incarnations of the franchise (just go back and watch the schlocky gorn of the original sims from the 2040's if you don't believe me).

The biggest server locally is the Khistova Server, which is named after a city in the game world (Khistova is one of the three possible starting cities for characters, the others being Throal and Atlantis), and the most common place for Fargo -based players to play from. In fact, Fargo is the single most common home area for Khistova players to have, with Copenhagen in the Scandinavian Union coming a close second, making English and Danish the predominant languages spoken in the game.

Khistova Server is is famous throughout the game for its high-level of players, assistance its guilds give for rapid advancement and truly epic mass raids, the recordings from which often go viral. Naturally it is also a center for Fargo's PvR  community, with many players walking Fargo, but overlaying the city of Khistova over it. Its chat rooms also serve not only as a place for PvR players to communicate but as a semi-secure meeting places for any number of movements and people to communicate with minimal supervision or surveillance. A fair number of Shadow deals between deckers have happened in 'Other Topics', 'IRL Speak' and 'Misc Channel' chats.

Notable Guilds

* Broken Chain Guild - A Free (Factionless) Guild. Has some of the most famous viral raid recordings.
* Guild of Erendis - An Atlantean Guild. Membership restricted to members of the SOMA Crew. Rivals of the Broken Chain.
* Martyr Scholar Guild - An Atlantean Guild. Loosely organized. The largest guild on the server.
* Aropagoi Guild - A Barsaive Guild, known mostly for epic and convoluted RP. Has a largely Riverling membership.
* Spellsinger Guild - A Barsaive Guild, small, very specialized, characters are all Troubadour class (except the Admin *Pointypoint* is a Blade Dancer. Ghost, Terry, be more of a drama queen...), membership is by invitation only through the Vee app and the Admins there are also the Guild Admins.

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Dive Bars

A short (and TOTALLY incomplete) list of proper fraggin' dive bars in the MSPlex, I'm gonna leave this section open, so you can add to the list when you find something that fits.

*[INVITATION TO EDIT]*

* Arm and Hammer
* Gopher Bar
* Matt's Bar
* Pig's Eye
* Shorty's

*etc.*

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