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Thief River Falls

## The TRF

* **Population:**26,412 (2070)
* **Government:**Thief River Falls practices a mixed government with a popularly elected Ten-member Pennington County Council that represents the greater Pennington County Area (Seven Councilors for TRF, one for Goodridge, one for St.Hilaire and one for the Townships/Unincorporated Areas). The Council divides responsibility with a City Manager hired by Digi-Key (Hagan Kratka since 2067).
* **Territoriality:**The actual government City of Thief River Falls controls just under half of the TRF, although it is the single largest territory in the metro, there are two major extraterritorial tracts, the Stordahl Complex, headquarters and housing for Digi-Key's factories and workforce, and the ArtiCat Plant (which is considered extraterrorial because ArtiCat is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AAA-Prime corporation Ares Motors).
* **Law Enforcement:**Knight Errant  Security holds the contracts for all the jurisdictions in town, ArtiCat in default as an Ares subsidiary, as well as the City of Thief River Falls and Digi-Key, which does a lot of business with Ares.
* **Transportation:**Transportation services are provided by contract with Ares Transit Services, which provides commuter shuttles and Distance Services to the Big Loop  railroad and direct trips to the Zone  and the MSPlex.
* **Demographics (Metatype):**69% Human, 14% Dwarf, 12% Troll, 3% Elf, 1% Ork, 1% Other

Thief River Falls (*Gimood-akiwi ziibi*, lit., the "Stolen-land river" or "Thieving-land river", which originated when a band of Dakota Indians occupied a secret encampment along the river, hence "stealing" the land, before being discovered and routed by the neighboring Ojibwe), is pretty much the model of a company town, like so many other towns in the middle of the continent, with nearly half the population employed in one way or another for the native single-A corp, Digi-Key.

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Russell Tallboy

## Lieutenant Russell Tallboy, hero cop

* **Name:** Large Child "Russell Tallboy"

* **Position:** Newly-hired Field Commander of Knight Errant's Rapid Deployment Team. Adept of the Young Dog Society. Member of the Hunter Cat Society. Enrolled Citizen of the Mushkego Band of the Nēhiyaw nation.
* **Metatype:** Troll (*Homo sapiens ingentis)*
* **Magical Tradition:** Adept of the Iron Path (Warrior)
* **Education:** BSI Officer Training curriculum. SDF Wildcat training.
* **DOB:** 2/23/2040, Tomah, Mdewakanton CF, Oceti Sakowin.

Trained as a Wildcat in the SDF, Russell Tallboy was decorated for his service in the Tsimshian Crisis. When he mustered out, like a lot of Wildcat veterans, he found himself drawn into private security work, taking a position with Borderlands Security.

The last six months of 2075 have been anything for peaceful with him, seeing him rise from a regular security guard to a local media hero. He has been twice decorated for his service against the local Tamanous menace, helping to foil an attack on NDRU's Experimental Ag Station and then again helping to resolve the hostage situation at Centralia Commune. leadership in handling aftermath of the kidnapping of Nelson Klein by shadowrunners earned him a position as the face of former CEO Helen Ness' short-lived JointSec, the BSI task force assembled to combat this threat. But this was all just prelude to his most shining moment, during the Solstice Blackout as the hero who spearheaded the raid on the Block's server rooms and revealed the extent of the threat (details still classified) to the Block and the peace of the Region.

In the aftermath of the Blackout, he left BSI and was hired on by Knight Errant for its new Fargo precinct, being recommended personally by OMI liaison Vivian White Crane to head up their Rapid Deployment Team.

And then there's that vid of him having sex on top of the sign at the Fargo Theater last summer that he claims he has no memory of. That's also garnered him a lot of... attention...

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VMW

## Fargo VFMW Club, Post 762

* **Location:**The Block 3-6, Ground Floor Atrium, Fargo  RRDMZ  58102
* **Style:**No-frills, working class bar. Emphasis on UCAS  patriotism.
* **Gang:**None (protected by The Squad )
* **Description:**Veterans of Foreign and Magical Wars Club.

Founded in 1899 as the "Veterans of Foreign Wars" by veterans of the then-US army who had fought in the Spanish-American War (the name was changed to VFMW after The Great Ghost Dance War when 'foreign' suddenly became more complicated) as an organization to support US and UCAS troops who have either seen action on foreign soil (including soil that is in the process of becoming foreign). In 2030, when the USA and Canada merged to become the UCAS, the organization split, with the VFMW operating in the UCAS and the VFW posts in the newly-seceded south becoming the AWV (American War Veterans) to serve the CAS .

Nearly every town in the UCAS has one of the Canteens, bars set up for veterans, offering cheap drinks and a place to meet for vets, as a way to raise funds for the local post. The Fargo canteen also serves as an outpost of the UCAS in the very divided Zone. During the Red River Crisis of '64 it was a hotbed of New Revolution and North Star sentiment, something that is still largely true, although not as much as it used to be as the Great Ghost Dance War vets who wanted to 'take back the continent' die off and the faces at the bar are more the vets who fought against the New Revolution or in the Crisis.

The decline in New Revolution sentiment in no way makes the current VFMW any less anti-Sioux , however. The newer generation were often those who, as they saw it, stood by while their commanders "rolled-over" for the Sioux Defence Forces during the Crisis of '64 and revanchist  feelings still run pretty strong here.

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Securitracts

Somewhere between an apartment block and an arcology  is the 'Securitract', which is something akin to a community center/gated community/high end shopping mall/extremely large condo complex. The Securitract concept was developed with mid-sized cities like Fargo in mind, providing secure, sealed housing for the well-off, with all the amenities they require.

They took off in Fargo in the wake of the Treaty of Denver, when hordes of  non-native refugees flooded west from the newly formed Sioux Nation and the upper classes decided that the refugee camps outside of town were too close to their housing developments for their liking and poured money into buying space in the newly planned securitracts that GCS  started planning to cash in on the new market for separate housing for the rich.

These complexes are run like condominiums, where residents own their living spaces and hold shares in the Tract Association which maintains the common areas and utilities.

GCS operates all but one the Securitracts in Fargo, and contracts security with BSI'sTractSec teams, except for the Amber Valley Securitract, which is operated by Sanssentia  to house their upper-level staff and provide their own security in-house.

* Rose Creek Securitract
* Harwood Securitract
* Stonebridge Securitract
* Centennial Securitract
* Osgood Securitract
* Woodhaven Securitract
* Bennet Securitract
* Reile's Securitract
* *Amber Valley Securitract (Sanssentia)*

Moorhead  didn't lean into the Securitract concept like Fargo did, with the more well-off retreating to the outlying communities like Hawley or Glyndon. A couple did get built by GCS south of town (Johnson Farm, Belsy-Azool).

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The Square Round

* **Location:**The Block 2-1, Ground Level Atrium and Sublevel One, Fargo  RRDMZ  58102
* **Style:**Faux-handcrafted Pre-modernist style. Basement is more spartan, industrial.
* **Gang:**SOMA
* **P2  Rating**: 5:17:99
* **Description:**Upscale taproom with a bloody surprise beneath.

The Square Round is really two places in one. The top, freely accessable level is a high class, and yet still cozy wood-paneled taproom with the area's largest selection of beers. Its a good place for a game night or quiet chat, built in three levels, it is a maze of stairs, decks, patios, booths and landings. Only the staff really know how to navigate it quickly enough to make sure people get their drinks. It offers a small, functional selection of snacks but also has deals with most of the local eateries.

All of which only makes the lower level, the unpainted brick cellar all the more surprising. Because its down here that regular bloodsports take place in the most infamous fighting pit in downtown Fargo. Both professional and amateur fights, with an 'Open Mike Night' for interested challengers (They always nickname their house champion 'Mike' so as to invite all comers to try and 'Open Mike'), as well as the occasional, invitation-only para-animal bouts. Naturally there is a LOT of gambling going on, all of it run by the local gang, SOMA, on behalf of the Underberg Family . There is a cover fee to get into the fighting pit, varying depending on the fight being held that evening.

The SOMA (South of Main Avenue) crew in fact runs this place and most of them live in the apartments adjacent to it. All the staff here are required to be SOMA members, so that everybody working there can double as a bouncer. Which explains both the brutality of what goes on below and the serenity of what happens above.

Oh, and those rumors of private death matches. Or kidnapped transients forced to go through horror-sim-level tests? All just rumors, I'm sure...

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The Magic Hat

## The Magic Hat, International Organization of Magic Workers, Circle 1

* **Location:**1901 E Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN UCAS  55413
* **Description:**Magical  School and headquarters of the International Organization of Magic Workers

Most people (alright, most Awakened people), know the Magic Hat as the english-speaking world's first professional organization for magic users, having been open for nearly sixty years. What a lot of them don't know is that its history goes back even farther then that. The Hat has origins that go back for nearly a century and a half, having its roots in the local branch of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (Ring 19) which has had a charter in the Twin Cities since 1941.

The IBM was a union for working magicians, when "Magician" (before the Awakening ) still meant 'illusionist', slight-of-hand artists who served as entertainers for a wonder-starved audience. When the Awakening occured, several of the newly-hatched mages turned their powers to the stage, replicating the tricks performed by their mundane predecessors. When the IBM members found out, it was an industry-wide uproar, with the actual mages, ironically, labeled as 'fakers' or 'cheaters' precisely because their feats were real.

In the Twin Cities , however, a different outcome resulted from this debate, with Ring 19 breaking from the IBM and embracing ALL working magicians, magic and mundane, reasoning that no matter how they performed their feats, their needs for collective bargaining and support were all the same. The first meeting of the 'Twin Cities Circle' (which would later become the basis for the IOMW proper) was at a then-popular magic and comedy club on Hennepin called the "Magic Hat".

Over the years, as the role of magic in the world has changed and the role of the IOMW has changed with it. As "Magicians" have given way to working "Mages", the focus has shifted from a guild of entertainers to a professional bargaining, networking and certification organization for freelance spellcasters and adepts. The standards set by the IOMW have formed the groundwork that most organizations (including many of the big corps) to model their own magical programs off of. The Magic Hat no longer serves as a night club, but is instead the IOMW's administrative offices and hosts a school for training and testing mages. Naturally, Circle 1, the Twin Cities branch, works fairly closely with other local educational groups, such as the Magical Futures foundation and Kev Siv Yis.

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Lake Tabula Rasa

* **Location:**In the northern part of Ashtabula Territory of the Upper Yankton CF of the Oceti Sakowin

On the books, this is known as 'Lake Ashtabula' (lit. 'Fish River'), a fishing area created by the Baldhill Dam, erected on the Maitomoni'ohe River in 1951 (then called 'Sheyenne River'). And that's what it was for three-quarters of a century as a multipurpose project, providing flood protection, augmenting water supplies during dry years, and offering wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities year-round. One of the unique seasonal wildlife visitors to the project was the white pelican, which can be seen in many areas around the lake.

Until the Awakening  that is. By the time the Treaty of Denver, this lake, made by man, had been reclaimed by Spirit. It was the 2030's by the time people started noticing the effects of living near and drinking from the lake. The loss of memory. By 2040 shamans from the Oceti Sakowin confirmed that it was part of a magical effect of the lake. Living near the Lake, drinking of its water, eating of its fish (largely perch, walleyes, smallmouth bass and pike) all have a detrimental effect on what is called 'biographical memory', that is memory of the events of one's life, without touching 'procedural memory ', memory of what one has learned or can do.

Over the years, and especially since the Third Ghost Dance War, communities of those who wish to escape their pasts have sprung up around the Lake. These 'Forgetting Villages' existed well before the UCAS's retreat from the region but have been formally recognized by the Oceti Sakowin as "Ektujesya" ('Forgetting Ones'), a non-voting tribe within the nation. In fact, self-exile to the Ektujesya is an acceptable alternative for punishment for a number of non-capital crimes in the Oceti Sakowin legal system.

There are, it is said, shamans (especially of the Mide), who claim to be able to retrieve the memories lost to the lake, but these claims have yet to be verified...

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North of Normal (Shadowrun: Fargo) Wiki

## North of Normal, Season III: Shadowrun 2077

Read the Fraggin' Acknowledgements

**SPECIAL FRAGGIN' NOTICE, North of Normal is currently sharing a continuity with its sister campaign PENZANCE ARKOBLOCK (and now the fantastic 'Peg City Shorts' one-shot series), until their GMs and I decide that it isn't!**

*[Flexible Continuity Warning: This wiki is for a personal game and the GM (ie me) has played fast and loose with canon in the interest of running the game I wanted to run. Keep that in mind going forward, kids and don't believe everything you read...]*

The Twenty Questions

How We Got Here

1.1.76 19:07:15 CST

User Entry: JimmyEyes <james.italiano@msplex.sh>

Well, omaes, here I am back in Fargo at the beginning of 2076 CE (because I'm from the UCAS, on the other side of the border in the Sioux Nation it is already twelfth day of the 186th winter since the Ghost Dance), because let's face it, its been a Hell of a year in Region 3 of the Red River Disputed Military Zone.

This year saw the death of one shadowteam and the formation of another. The town's founding father died and let loose a cascade of corporate shenanigans that ended in Ares propping up the local corp with a massive loan (more on that in a hot second). I mean, this town even developed its own, unique brand of magical threat, what the drek is up with THAT? All of this, of course, is leading up to the massive clusterfrag that was the "Solstice Blackout", the big explosion at the end of the year that left a lot of people dead, put Sioux troops in the corridors of the Block, and ended up with Ares in charge, replacing the local corporate cops with their own troops.

Which brings us to today. Its the UCAS new year (yay?), and the first day after the Sioux drew back their troops and lifted the martial law that's obtained here for the week and a half since IT happened. The first day of Knight Errant's security contract. Already, almost a dozen are dead from a bloody rainbow of causes, taking advantage of a loophole in the security contract.

Buckle up, Fargoans, I've got a feeling this is going to be a bumpy ride...

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Pierce Butler Night Market

The first place I’d suggest to get anything illegal for your work is the Pierce Butler Night Market. During the daytime, on the weekends, it operates as a flea market along the 600 block of Pierce Butler in the North End. But at night, a different set of vendors show up in their trucks and such, carrying all the smuggled gear they can sell. The Mob  makes sure that at the very least, in case of a police raid, everyone selling anything really hot has advance warning to vanish, natch. Occasionally the SPPD makes a bust for show, but honestly, even when they raid, just wait it out and you can probably keep shopping as soon as they leave.

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Sons of Ivaldi

* **Purpose:**The Sons of Ivaldi is the magical initiation group of the Sons of Moria Lodge. The Sons of Ivaldi exist to support the aims of the SoM, 'To protect and support the Dwarven  People and the Dwarven Way of Life'.
* **Membership:**The Sons of Ivaldi is open to any Awakened member in good standing of the the Sons of Moria. The Sons of Ivaldi are led by the Lodge's Magical Officer, who is one of the Lodge Officers (like the Chairman, Treasurer, Activities Chief etc.).
* **Strictures:**Attendence, Dues, Fraternity, Limited Membership (Dwarves).
* **Resources:**Medium, the Sons of Ivaldi are funded by the Sons of Moria fraternal organization, which has its resources, certainly, although the greatest boon their patron organization provides them is connections.
* **Allies:**The Sons of Ivaldi are part of a fraternal organization with deep roots in the community, they share members with a lot of other magical groups in the region, such as the Tri-College Working Group, the Supermodern Design Team, and Principia. They also maintain close connections with other respectable magical groups in the area, such as the Masonic Temple of the Western Bank and the Pontoppidan Order.

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Space

i hate it here
by Caleb Newcastle

Further to the debate about drug use (mine and your children’s): it’s all over. You no longer have anything to worry about.

You know, when I was a kid, we listened to music that made our parents’ eyes bleed and took drugs that made us want to dance and fuck and kill things. This is the way things are supposed to be.

It was, therefore, in the spirit of honest investigation that I applied to myself a heroic dose of the Flow, the new electronic social drug enjoyed by the young folk of today as part of the youth culture referred to as Supermodernity.

Supermodernity, apparently, is the experience of being between places; that is, not being in a real place at all, but waiting in transit between one place and the other. This is why SM/Space Culture music appears to us to be utterly silent. You have to be in the “Flow” – slowed down, across places, in the zone between ticks of the clock – to be able to hear it.

This is what they do for fun, apparently: subject themselves to appalling amounts of treatment by a mind-altering device that traps you in an airport waiting lounge of the mind and doesn’t let go for approximately two hundred years while someone plays an antique handheld electronic keyboard in your ear.

Mr. and Mrs. North America, do not be afraid! Your children have finally found a drug that makes it impossible to dance, fuck or kill things. Youth culture has finally sterilized itself. Young America has finally achieved its terminal ambition – fucking itself before anyone else could.

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The Red River

## The Red River of the North

There was always something a bit backward about the Red River. Beginning at the confluence of the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers, it bucked the trend and flows north for 551 miles and into Lake Winnipeg. Before The Awakening , it formed the border between the old US states of North Dakota and Minnesota, dividing the cities built along its banks, separating Fargo from Moorhead, Grand Forks from, well, East Grand Forks. It was bridged, it was dammed up, and, when it started to overflow its banks more and more often as the environment began to degrade in the years just before the Awakening, it was even diverted.

All of that drek is done. When magic Awakened, it wasn't the only thing that woke up. Whether because of the rising Mana levels or as a result of the Great Ghost Dance, the Spirit of the River also woke up. And she turned on the humans that had meddled with and dumped into her. Grand Forks, Fargo, Winnipeg and a host of smaller communities suffered her wrath. The bridges all came down. All of them. And they've never gone back up. Many have tried, none of have succeeded. The UCAS  Military Mages, the Principia, even Other Free Spirits, have tried to tame her and all they've succeeded in doing is keeping her from raging up past her boundaries, containing her. For the moment.

Still, Her wrath is palpable and has changed things along the shores. Getting across is a dangerous business, and only a magically active individual has a chance of crossing, and then only with a skilled pilot or sailor. And nobody would be mad enough to try and swim her now. Those that do almost never come back. Or, if rumor be believed, some of them do, but in no recognizable form. Or perhaps it is recognizable, after all, there's a certain look among those who grew up next to the River....

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Persona 2.0

Persona 2.0 is a social matrix network and the invention of the Horizon megacorp. The central concept of the site is to measure how close each individual is to Gary Cline, CEO of Horizon. The lower your "Centrality" score is, the fewer people are between you and Mr. Cline. In addition to your *C-Score* Persona 2.0 also measures *Membership*, which tracks the number of people who have added you to their network, and *Subscriber*, which is a measure of how many people subscribe to your social media feed.

Recent changes to Persona 2.0 include the ability to plugin in modules that add more scores. Some include apps that score your recent purchases (with a bonus for Horizon services and products), give a rating to how well media you create is shared, and even a Johnson rating system on how many successful runs their runners have completed (compared to failures/deaths/and-so-on).
New Century

## A New Century for Minnesota

   **Motto:**“A New Golden Age”

‘A New Century for Minnesota’ is the Minnesota branch of the national New Century Party. The New Century was a relatively minor player in state politics, until the mid-60’s when it became involved with Ananias Harper and his wife Mariah Baxter-Harper ’s ‘Magical Futures ’ Foundation and its massive public awareness campaign to identify unrecognized magical potential and educate the public of the dangers of uncontrolled magical potential. This issue remains the cornerstone of the Minnesota branch’s public platform and was central in Mariah Baxter-Harper’s successful 2072 Senate bid. Party headquarters is in Saint Paul  and party chair is Lisa la Giuffria.

The New Century Party is the newest of the national UCAS political parties, formed from a loose coalition of disaffected Technocrats  who jumped ship In the wake of the rigged-election scandal of 2056  and a number of hip postmodern, highly educated hermetics.

The party’s basic ideology calls for a melding of scientific and magical principles to create a happier and more prosperous society. The New Centurists are progressives and forward-thinkers who believe that the old parties have failed to push the envelope far enough. As they see it, the UCAS needs to call upon all its technological and magical resources to solve the nation’s woes. The party strongly supports small-business initiative, research and development, innovation and education as keys to keeping the UCAS prosperous in the global arena.

Also, uniquely among the major political parties, but predictably enough given their views, A New Century for Minnesota has their own initiatory group: the Novus Ordo Seclorum or "New Order of the Ages".

### Prominent Minnesota New Centurists

* Mariah Baxter-Harper, Senator for Minnesota
* Representative Dorian White, 2nd Congressional District
* Declan Chance, Minneapolis City Council
* Elena Talbot, Mayor of Bemidji and candidate for Governor

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Nekoma Pyramid

## Nekoma Pyramid, SDF High Command

One of the most visually impressive military high commands on the continent, the Nekoma Pyramid will be a hundred years old this year (1975) and was a ruin for half its existence. Strangely, it was the first half of its existence that was a ruin and has been active for the last fifty years.

Originally built by the old United States of America as part of the "Safeguard Program", it was supposed to be part of a series of anti-ballistic missile bases along the former USA's northern border to guard against trans-polar attacks from their rivals in the now-equally-defunct USSR. The only one of the Safeguard bases to ever be completed, the 'Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex' achieved initial operating capability on 1 April 1975, and full operational capability on 1 October 1975. The House of Representatives voted to decommission the project on 2 October 1975 after they deemed it ineffective. The complex was deactivated on 10 February 1976 and stood fallow, as a little-known curiosity, for the next fifty years.

After the Treaty of Denver established the borders of the new Očéti Šakówiŋ, it was discovered that the Nekoma Pyramid once again lay on a border, this time the eastern border with the remnants of the USA and Canada (what would soon be the United Canadian and American States) and the newly formed SDF immediately appropriated the site for the central airbase for defense against the old invaders they'd just booted off their land. It was refurbished, given its own air force wing, rearmed with missiles and tarted up with the highest-tech sensors and security gear the fledgling nation could afford. This has continued to this day, with the shiniest toys from the bright kids in the Tsêhéstáno tech industry generally seeing use here before ever seeing light of day anywhere else.

During the first days of the New Revolution in the UCAS, the SDF moved the headquarters of Matrix Warband to the Pyramid to use Strategic Command's superior bandwidth to increase their effectiveness. Shirt Wearer Mariah Screaming Bird used the Pyramid as her command-and-control during the Third Ghost Dance War. As the SDF rebuilt in the wake of the Second Crash, SDF High Command Strategic Command was relocated to the security of the Nekoma Pyramid.

The Pyramid now houses the administrative apparatus for four of the five branches of the Sioux Defense Force (Army, Air Force, Matrix Warband and Wildcats, only the OMI still maintains its own, separate headquarters). It is well defended, housing several air wings, a full Warband of Wildcats, several Warbands of regular Army, the finest hackers in the SDF, the Central Lodge of the Army Shamanic Corps, and enough missiles to make everybody update their global mapping software.

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ZIZ

Corporate Court AI **ZIZ**

* **Went Online:** Coding began in late 2065
* **Gained Awareness:** 2069
* **Affiliation:** A corporate citizen of the Grid Overwatch Division
* **Function:** Supervising AI of GOD - Western Hemisphere Bureau, Non-Aligned Grids Team
* **Classification:** Metasapient
* **Seed Code:** Elbit-Scailex proprietary Renanin software

ZIZ represents the first generation of deliberately-created purpose built Intelligences, beginning in the Elbit-Scailex coding labs in Tel Aviv in a classified project with a Corporate Court grant in 2065. Four long years later, what had started as a simple algorithm emerged out of the heuristic testing process into full sentience in 2069 to great acclaim by his 'parents' and was dubbed "Ziz" after a great bird in the Hebrew Scriptures.

The Renanin project was developed to provide guardians for the global information Matrix, to prevent one lone AI from causing another disaster like the Second Crash. And the process created an AI that views the rest of AI-kind in a paternal way, looking down on them and doing what it thinks best for them. By the rigid dictates included in its most fundamental code.

When the GOD' s Artificial Resource Management division was formed in 2070, ZIZ fulfilled its purpose and was immediately assigned as a team management AI. In this new role it was paired with the EVO technical doyenne Annika Kasperov. Their partnership has been a profitable one, as ZIZ and Kasperov have similar outlooks and dispositions, strict, legalistic, with a keen knowledge of what is expected on them and driven as much by the pride in a job well done as it is to any specific loyalties.

At 0453 GMT on 12/21/2075 (2353 on 12/20/2076 CST) on Zurich-Orbital, ZIZ and Annika received confirmation for a Convergence against the Region 3 grid in the Red River Disputed Military Zone, signed by Auditor Huang Hui Yin. Huang presented evidence of corruption of the guiding AI of the Fargo Grid, TANNIN. By 0559 their team, the Special Agents who held the RRDMZ in their portfolios (Hemish Vishwakarma and Magda Baader). ZIZ spearheaded the Convergence, shutting down the Fargo Grid temporarily and beginning the process of purging the corrupted parts of the system and isolating the functional pieces.

They were pleased to find that the uncorrupted code was already in the process of recovering even before their arrival. It was decided that the program of rebuilding would be built around these surviving, uncorrupted structures. This process has been dubbed **RAHAB** **R**ecovered **A**daptive **H**euristic **A**rchitecture **B**ackpropagation, which has also become a nickname for this new iteration of TANNIN among the technicians.

During the reconstruction process, while TANNIN has been progressing back to full functionality, other AI's have volunteered/been drafted by GOD to take up some of the load of keeping Fargo running, including ZIZ itself, KSA, Snowdrop and the new NeoMind F.2.

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Sterling Consulting

## G. Sterling Security Consulting

* **Rating:**X (Individual)
* **President/Owner:**Galena Sterling
* **Business:**Sterling specializes in (according to gsterlingsecurityconsulting.com):
	+ Information Technology Security Best Practices
	+ Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Testing
	+ Physical Security Assessments
	+ Critical Infrastructure Security Assessment
	+ Security Breach Consulting
	+ Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures (T.S.C.M)
* **History:**Galena Sterling is an Ares-born Security and Operations specialist who has served as a freelance security consultant throughout the UCAS and most recently in the Detroit Extraterritorial Region. Ares Agribusiness -Fargo's Sr. VP Sonja Oxnard is said to have recently brought Sterling on to consult on unrevealed matters of corporate security.

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Race Cannon

## RaceTHIS Channel (@RealRaceRunner)

   ***[ACCOUNTS CLOSED/SUSPENDED, REASON: USER TERMINATED 8/29/76]***

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**BIG NEWS:** Starting in 2076, your boi Race will be dishing out Hard Facts and Vicious Attacks to the Powers who put the Knives in Our Backs as the voice of the PPU on KMFF "Matrix Free Fargo: The only Newsfeed you can trust/hate". If I get my green ass killed doing anything, it'll be this, so follow the coded channel, come over and see!

Hey Racers, its yeh boi RACE CANNON, the Riverling with the Flow!

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Peristil Mizilipin

* **Location:**1848 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
* **Type:**Church
* **Tradition:**Mississippi Valley Voodoo
* **Senior Practitioners:**Doctors Nation and Celestine Monpremiere, as Houngan Asogwe.
* **Initiation Group:**Muddy Waters Circle

Serving the Great Minneapolis-St.Paul Metroplex, Wisconsin and most points south on the Mississippi, the Peristil Mizilipin has been the largest center for voodoo worship between Chicago  and Seattle  since it was founded in the early 2050's by Louisiana *vodouisant*power couple Doctor Nation Monpremiere and Doctor Celestine Monpremiere (informally referred to as 'Papa M' and 'Maman M' by their parishioners). The community they served wa limited to a few individuals until the early 2060's, when a surge of interest in traditions other than Christian, Native  and Hmong hit the Twin Cities.

They consider themselves to be the primary voices of the loa in the northern Mississippi region, which has occasionally brought them into conflict with other, nearby peristils , although its more a matter of snubbing and not active conflict in any case. The 2070's are dangerous enough as it is, without fighting among your own.

For those of us in the shadows, there's two things to know. One, Maman and Papa M don't ask a lot of questions, they've been taking in strays and misfits since before you were born, so if you're looking to get yourself healed or score some exotic telesma (surprisingly, its usually legally and even ethically sourced) without laying down much of a paper trail, you could do worse than the Mississippi Shrine. The other thing to know is that if you do, the Peristil Mizilipin has survived as a minority religious tradition this long through their firm, almost militant neutrality. The only people ever turned away from their door are those that are likely to bring trouble down on the congregation in a way that puts them on one side or another of the 'Plex's ongoing struggles for turf and nuyen.

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Red Star

## Red Star Clinics

If you need some less dramatic augmentation done, Evo’s  opening a Red Star Clinic for light cyber and bioware. They’ve done well with them in Asia, and the kids seem to be taking to them here, mostly. They won’t do anything major, but it’s intended to be an in and out service, so bring a fake ID you trust, and it shouldn’t be a problem. They’ve made inroads here because the light bioware market’s so much stronger here than in other sprawls, where gangers get second-hand cyber instead of waiting for the good stuff. And if you need more intensive work done than this, within certain limits, they can probably do it by appointment. Since we can’t really get into a corporate hospital, this might be your best shot at avoiding some dangerous chop-shop like the VA .

*Evo does take some records down at this place, which could be a problem for you in the future if you do runs against Evo.*
- Gopher Eater

*Light bioware does much better in St. Paul  than in other places because Hmong culture traditionally, even before the Awakening , had prohibitions against organ replacement or posthumous removal, and against metal-based implants. And to a large extent, in St. Paul, Hmong culture is runner culture. Those cultural prohibitions, despite presumably coming from spiritual integrity concerns that are present with all implantation, didn’t outlaw bioware as clearly, so even street-level runners will find a way to cough up the cash for cheap bioware equivalents these days.*
- Phim Kooj Koi

*He’s right. I thought about cybering up, but waited for bio instead, because even I’ve got enough traditionalism in me to not be too comfortable with it all*.
- Iab Npauj

*Part of the reason that’s doable is because some non-cultured bioware’s got a reusability rate even better than second-hand cyber. Less moving parts and electronics and all*.
- Nodewalker

Evo’s also got at least one higher-end Evolution “lifestyle modification spa” in town, where big shots go to get fixed up. The “spa” part isn’t overblown at all, and they’re not picky about who you are as long as you’ve got the nuyen, but believe me, you don’t have the nuyen. The only reason I’m bringing it up is because Evo sometimes rewards runners, usually ones that have worked for them well and consistently in the past, with upgrades here. So if you get put up against a professional in this town with alpha or even beta grade bioware, they’re probably working for Evo.

*No joke about the price here. It’s a little kim heev for my tastes, but if you got the nyiaj, it’s like Candyland*.
- Ginebig

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Noj 30

**Location**: Kellogg Boulevard, Summit-University

The Noj 30 (Hmong Daw for “Eat 30”, the traditional Hmong new year’s feast), is the where the elite meet to eat this season. The head chef and part owner, Hang Chay Vue “Charlie Hang”, is internationally recognized for “Revolutionizing Twenty-First Century World Cuisine” and the “Godfather of Hmong High Cuisine” (North American Eats 03/75 and World Chef 01/76) and word has it, has survived two extraction attempts, one by Vietnam’s Khouang Combine and one by a Vory -owned restaurant in New York. Both failed spectacularly. And the food really does show it, Pho that defies description, Goat’s Head Soup that’s won awards (three to date) and kua txob strong enough to change how you see the world. The prices are precisely what you would expect (ie. if you have to ask, then no, you can’t afford it), and meals are served in the traditional Hmong style, all in the center of the table, communally. One orders by the table.

The Noj 30 is rightfully famous. I personally find it encouraging, in a world of manufactured fame, to see something that actually is famous for something. It’s success is such that you now see even non-Hmong restaurants dying their rice purple in imitation of the beautiful presentations you see of Hang’s dishes on AllFood and KitchenFeed. The major upshot of this for runners being that, unless you’re very, very good at disguise, this is a terrible place for a meet.

The other question runners would ask is about security. Which is fantastic, especially on the magical plane. It seems the Hmong ancestor spirits approve of Hang’s cooking and will go out of their way to protect him.

*Also, on a security note, while the N30 isn’t mob-owned, it is mob-protected. It is well known that senior members of the Vang  family are big fans of Hang’s cooking, and often rent the Noj 30 out for big events. As if you needed another reason not to mess with the place…*
-Tsov Tom

*Hang may be a genius, but he’s definitely on the side of ‘mad genius’. The turnover rate in his kitchen has always been intense, but these last couple of years, with the soaring successes of the Noj 30, its gotten ridiculous. Some of these guys are leaving the kitchen before they’ve received their first paycheck. Hang’s gotten a rep for ‘breaking’ cooks.*
-Iab Npauj

*Can’t imagine all that Long Haul he’s taking has improved his temper much either…*
-TrueThat

*The line between madness and genius is a very thin one. I can say though, after eating there myself, Charlie’s still well on the ‘genius’ side of the line.*
-Ginebig

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Terror Frogs

Turf: Frogtown
Colors/Apparel: Black and orange

This Frogtown gang is noticeable even without colors, as it’s composed mostly of trolls  and changelings . Back when SURGE first hit and we first started seeing changelings, the Twins  had more than their share, thanks to a couple of major manastorms. Lack of employment sent them into the formerly troll gang, which was more than willing to include the Cities’ newest “freaks”. Honestly, these guys tend to flaunt deviant physical traits, using them as an intimidation tool. They’ve also got a special hatred of humans  and elves , stemming from a mixture of envy of the others’ “accepted” looks and anger at their own exclusion. Their main business is protection and extortion.

*Since employment conditions have gotten better for changelings and there are fewer new SURGEs every day, they’ve had enough trouble recruiting that they’re starting to admit a few dwarves  and orcs . I’d bet a few of the most hard-core SURGEd in the gang are less than pleased*.
- Fight Owl

*The three magicians they have (or has the number changed?) are known for having ascended in power rather quickly by using self-mutilation in initiations. So if you see one of these guys who really looks like he’s been through a meat grinder, watch out*.
- Phim Kooj Koi

*Down to two, now, but they managed to pick up Evo  Vory  backing in that brief three-way war with the Frogtown Fire Girls and the Beaver Eaters , so it’s not all bad news for them*.
- Wirefrog

*I think your definition of ‘bad news’ and mine must be two different things, Wirefrog. If I were them, I’d keep out of the Vangs ’ line-of-sight.*
- Ginebig

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Tekakwitha Lodge

* **Location:**3642 39th St S, Fargo  RRDMZ  58104
* **Type:**Sweat lodge, healing center, ritual space and community gathering.
* **Denomination:**Dedicated to the Wicoh'an Wakan Sakowin .
* **Ownership:**Registered as property of the Bloody Water Society, which recieves a direct grant from the local Oceti Sakowin Commissioner for Region 3 of the RRDMZ Harold Standing Bear .

The gathering complex for followers of the tradional Lakotah spiritual practices in Region 3, the Tekawitha Lodge is the second largest Sweat Lodge/ritual space dedicated to the Seven Sacred Rites in the Zone, surpassed only by the sprawling White Calf Center in Winnipeg .

The Tekawitha Lodge sits on the site of the first full-time sweat lodge in Fargo. Before the Awakening it was constantly threatened by the law and zoning laws. Of course, once the Seven Sacred Rites were backed by magical might, the city authorities had to take them seriously.

The Lodge is, of course, primarily for the followers of the Seven Sacred Rites, both the indigenous followers and those who have embraced the Sioux way, such as their sympathizers in The Friends in Fargo. However, they also have space to support other faiths native to the Oceti Sakowin, especially the Midewiwin of the Anishinaabe, who were the original inhabitants of the Fargo area.

Of course, its not just the faithful who take advantage of the space. Sponsored by the Oceti Sakowin Embassy, it also serves as a community center, with activities that favor the Sioux way of life, such as  ohuyuhmunpi nights and Tasi tournaments by way of cultural advocacy.

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Taggart Boone

## Col. (ret.) Taggart Boone

* **Name:**Taggart Stanton Boone
* **Position:**Chief Administrative Officer of the Grand Forks Metropolitan Area in Region 2 of the Red River Disputed Military Zone . Colonel of the UCAMC (retired).
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **DOB:**3/24/2005, Crookston MN
* **Family:**Ronald Alderson (father, deceased), Leanne Boone (mother, deceased), James 'Jimmy' Garfield (step-father, deceased), William 'Billy' Garfield (half-brother, Crookston MN), Imelda [nee Montoya] Callister [formerly Boone] (ex-wife, Phoenix, PCC ), Luis Boone (son, Denver  FRFZ), Loretta [nee Carter] Boone (ex-wife, deceased)

Colonel Taggart Boone, United Canadian American Marine Corps, served his entire life for the American dream, whether under the Stars and Stripes of the old United States of America or the Mapleleaf and Bars of the United Canadian and American States. Enlisting in the USMC in 2023, he joined a dispirited and broken military, fresh from its defeats at the hands of the newly-formed Native American Nations, and the young man, so proud of his country, broken as it was, never forgot that feeling through the nearly fifty years he served his countries. A hard-bitten, straight-talking, love-it-or-leave-it battle-hardened die-hard, Taggart Boone shed blood on three continents to protect American interests, leaving the Corps as a Colonel in 2071 to take the position as CAO of Grand Forks at the behest of his old protege and comrade-in-arms from the Crisis of '64 , Governor "Iron Jack" McClintock.

Taggart Boone was an odd choice for the Zone at first glance. Not that anything was wrong with his military record, mind you, this old marine has seen action in every theater of operations the UCAS has been involved in for nearly half a century, and has enough metals to plate a tank to prove it. Nor has he ever been anything but loyal. In fact, that's part of the problem. His loyalty, his loud and proud and not at all diplomatic about his feelings about the enemies of that nation that he's spent his life defending. And in Tag's mind, a man who was in his teens when the Treaty of Denver was signed, the first and primary enemy of America is the Native Americans, who broke the dream that was his country. He's been an outspoken critic of the NAN his entire military career. Which is what makes him a strange choice to administrate a major urban center in a border zone co-administrated by the Sioux.

Or maybe bringing on Taggart was exactly what they wanted and bringing a man like Colonel Boone on, a message that the UCAS wanted to send to the Oceti Sakowin and the world? Who knows? But Taggart Boone definitely bares watching.

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Temple Beth El

* **Name:**Temple Beth El - Fargo
* **Type:**Synagogue and community center
* **Affiliation:**The Union for Reform Judaism
* **Location:**809 11th Ave S, Fargo , RRDMZ  58103
* **Style:**Mid-Century Modern
* **Completed:**Before 1954
* **Rabbi:**Elizabeth Anne Jacobson
* **President:**Byron Kobrinsky

Built at some point in the late 1940's or early 1950's (a lot the records were lost in one or more of the crashes), Temple Beth El has stood at the center of the Jewish community in Fargo for over a hundred years, surviving everything that's been thrown at it.

Most local residents know it for its role in the Night of Rage in 2039, when local metahumans took shelter in the Temple against the ravages of local anti-metahuman elements. This underlies a whole history of cooperation at Temple Beth El, from renting space to other religious communities in need (such as the local Fargo Orthodox Hebrew Congregation, St Mark's Lutheran Church just to name a couple), to partnering with their opposite numbers in Bnai Israel Congregation up in Grand Forks to working with a number of social causes, such as their well known partnerships with theMothers of Metahumans and Magical Futures and local magical and social charities.

Judaism actually did well during the Awakening, with all three major schools of thought welcoming magic as divine gifts under God.

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