War for Minneapolis

Skirmish in the Crown Hotel

Battle of Calhoun

Battle of the Near North

Battle of Camden

Invasion of Central

Invasion of Longfellow

Battle of the Near North

Nokomis Offensive

Battle of Phillips

Battle of the Crown Hotel

Operation Sledgehammer

Kidnapping of Kristyn Pagel

Ambush on Charlotte Chapman

Murder of Antoinette Chapman

Crescent Genesis

Chapter X

The Integration Accord (2025-2029):

* Babylon Coalition
* Poltergeist
* Indonesian Premans
* Seven Dragons

The Integration Accord:

* Babylon Coalition (2029-Present)
* Poltergeist (2029-Present)

Bradley Houghton (2024-2029)

Danko Savic (2024-2029)

Kyle Bates

Ryleigh Langley

Jeffrey P. Hoyt

Gary B. Harbor

Guillermo Hurtado

Bobby S. Sperling (Deceased)

Albin Guerrero Bernal (Deceased)

Lucas Ward

Toby Black

Mafia Don

Boss of the Russian Mafia

Boss of the Ukrainian Mafia

Boss of the Albanian Mafia

Oyabun of the Japanese Yakuza

Minnesota National Guard soldiers

Crescent Genesis hackers

Poltergeist hackers

White Union gangsters

Los Eternos sicarios

Royal Sharks gangsters

Chinese Triads

Japanese Yakuza

Russian mobsters

Ukrainian mobsters

Turkish mobsters

Albanian mobsters

Italian mobsters

The **War for Minneapolis**refers to both a series of violent gang wars and an armed conflict between criminal gangs and Minnesota militia groups in a desperate war to retake the city of Minneapolis from criminals.

## Background

With the abolition of the police force in 2023 and the indroduction of the unarmed Civilian Public Safety Bureau weeks later, the violent crime suddenly spiked within six months; the Babylon Coalition, a network of international assassins masquerading as a hotel chain began making illicit dealings with various other criminal gangs in Minneapolis, most notably a hacker gang known as Poltergeist. In 2023, Los Eternos began making its own business deals with various criminal gangs like the Royal Sharks, the Aryan Brotherhood, and an Anarchist group called The Disciples, eventually forming a partnership called The Inquisition Ascendancy. The Babylon Coalition, along with its allies in Poltergeist, formed an alliance of its own called The Integration Accord.

By 2025, the Babylon Coalition literally ran the neighborhood of Camden where the Minnesota branch of the Crown Hotel was located. Though interactions with gang members and the CPSB were mostly peaceful, there were occasional acts of violence involving Babylon Coalition assassins, though these were rather isolated incidents. After a particularly violent incident in the downtown Minneapolis area involving the Babylon Coalition and Los Eternos, the Integration Accord and the Inquisition Ascendancy got together and reached a truce; the Inquisitional Ascendancy would be allowed to operate if their activities didn't cause any more Babylon Coalition casualties, or civilian deaths.

To ensure that the members of the Inquisition Ascendancy kept their end of the bargain, the Babylon Coalition tasked one of their most prominent assassins, Anna Springs, with putting the Inquisition Ascendancy members under surveillance. Posing as a journalist, Anna was able to gather intelligence on the Iniquisition Ascendancy for years without incident.

Despite the relative peaceful atmosphere, tensions between the Integration Accord and the Inquisition Ascendancy ran high. Then the End of Death happened, but news of it went unnoticed by both sides.

​​​​The fragile peace was finally shattered in 2026 with a series of acts of violence; the first was when the Royal Sharks and the White Union kidnapped a young woman named Evelyn E. Poindexter from the Crown Hotel.

Exactly one day later, another young woman, Kayleigh Hughes, was kidnapped by the White Union. Unlike Evelyn's kidnapping, hours after the kidnapping had taken place, the White Union posted a video of themselves torturing Kayleigh in their lair, located in the tunnels underneath the city.

One day later, another young woman was kidnapped from the hotel by the Royal Sharks; Kristyn W. Pagel, an 18-year old native of Hibbing, Minnesota, was last seen leaving the hotel to meet with friends before being kidnapped by the Royal Sharks.

Unlike the kidnapping of Evelyn Poindexter, Kristyn's kidnapping was accidentally witnessed by domestic violence survivors and teen runaways Charlotte Chapman and her sister Antoinette, who decided to pursue the kidnappers. Because the Crown Hotel forbids carrying out assassinations on hotel premises, the kidnappers were unable to kill the sisters and were instead forced to make a hasty escape from the hotel grounds. Pursuing the kidnappers on bicycles, Charlotte and Antoinette tracked the kidnappers to a network of underground tunnels beneath the city, where they happened upon the Royal Sharks and their allies in the White Union torturing both Kristyn and Evelyn, intending to make a snuff film of themselves murdering the two women and posting it on the Internet. However, he was unaware that death had stopped.

Deciding to help the damsels in distress, the two sisters formed a plan to rescue Evelyn and Kristyn from their captors, a plan that was suddenly derailed when Babylon Coalition assassins led by Bradley Houghton broke into the hideout and massacred the Royal Sharks and the White Union members themselves.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the Chapman sisters rescued Evelyn and Kristyn made their escape from the kidnappers' lair. Intending to escape to the Crown Hotel, the two women made an abrupt detour to the Minneapolis Central Library.

Once word of the rescue reached the heads of the White Union and the Royal Sharks, the leaders of their respective organizations placed a bounty on the Chapman sisters' heads. The first assassin to try to kill the Chapman sisters, Kristyn and Evelyn, was Bradyn Church, who attempted to corner the girls in the library, but was ultimately thwarted by Serbian assassin Danko Savić and former Greek Army sniper turned Babylon Coalition hitman Thanos Tavoularis, who "killed" Bradyn following a brutal knife fight/fistfight while the girls made their escape to the Crown Hotel; because of the End of Death, Bradyn was so severely injured that he was left paralyzed, though he was mistakenly thought to have been killed by Thanos and Danko.

After discovering that Charlotte and Antoinette had taken Evelyn and Anna to the Crown Hotel, despite knowing that the Babylon Coalition strictly forbids any killing on its premises, Lucas Ward, a kingpin in the black market and head of the White Union, personally doubled the bounty on the Chapman sisters if anyone from the Inquisition Ascendancy could successfully kill the Chapman sisters, Evelyn or Kristyn on hotel grounds and escape undetected.

The first assassin to attempt to claim the bounty was Osvaldo Sharpe, a member of the White Union. He infiltrated the hotel, intending to kill the Chapmans and claim the bounty, but was saved by Babylon Coalition member Aria Moon, the assassin himself being incapacitated following a brtual gunfight/fistfight.

When questioned about her actions, Aria was able to prove that the White Union assassin had attacked Charlotte first, pointing out that the rule forbidding assassinations on hotel grounds only applied to *offensive*attacks and not *defensive*ones like in Aria's case. Thus, Aria was able to avoid repercussions. It was only after the incident that the Babylon Coalition learned that death had abruptly stopped across the globe.

Meanwhile, after having decided that Charlotte and her sister Antoinette were loose ends that needed to be disposed of, the Inquisition Ascendancy, still unaware of the end of death, sent numerous assassins to kill the two Chapman sisters, Kristyn and Evelyn, all of whom were foiled by assassins loyal to the Babylon Coalition, who were sent by the manager of the Crown Hotel to personally oversee and protect the Chapmans, as well as Kristyn and Evelyn.

### Declaration of war

The last straw that led to war occurred three years later, in 2029. Now obsessed with killing the Chapman sisters, the Inquisitional Ascendancy formed a plan to kill the Chapman sisters that involved the kidnapping of Charlotte's sister Antoinette, intending to use her to lure Charlotte into a trap that was intended to kill both of the Chapman sisters, but this backfired when Antoinette was rescued by Bradley Houghton and Charlotte Chapman, both of whom once again fled to the Crown Hotel, having been told by the manager of the Crown Hotel that the two sisters are to remain in the hotel until further notice.

Los Eternos, unwilling to lure the two out, again brazenly sent two assassins to kill the two sisters. Supported by the White Union, a team of Los Eternos assassins infiltrated the hotel, under the guise of "meeting some friends", before attempting to corner the two sisters in the lounge of the hotel.

To their surprise and frustration, only Antoinette was present in the lounge, as Charlotte had gone to use the bathroom prior to the break-in Los Eternos assassin La Cabra brazenly attacked Antoinette just as Bradley Houghton, John Gray and Charlotte herself walked in on them, resulting in a standoff; Albin Bernal attempted to goad Charlotte and Bradley into attacking him on Crown Hotel premises, intending to get them all excommunicated and therefore easier to kill. In an attempt to de-escalate the situation, John Gray told Charlotte and Bradley to stand down and walk away, provoking Albin into stabbing Antoinette with a knife. John Gray and Bradley reacted by shooting and Albin. Thanks to the absence of death, Albin did not die. When he saw that he didn't die of his injuries, Albin finally realized that the End of Death was indeed real.

Similarly, due to the End of Death, Antoinette did not die of her injuries either, but nonetheless asked the Babylon Coalition to look after Charlotte.

For the Inquisition Ascendancy, the brutal assault of a hotel guest, let alone a civilian, on Crown Hotel premises, was the last straw. Immediately following the attack, the Babylon Coalition arranged for all members of the Inquisitional Ascendancy to be labeled "excommunicated" from the hotel and officially designated as an enemy of the Integration Accord.

To protect them from any further harm, the head of the Babylon Coalition made arrangements to formally recruit Charlotte, Evelyn, and Kristyn into the Babylon Coalition. Kayleigh, though offered a postion, politely declined, instead choosing to remain with her sorority sisters instead.

## Events of the war

### Attack on Charlotte Chapman

Now an active member of the Babylon Coalition, Charlotte made a career out of cyberwarfare, using her computer hacking skills to bring down rival crime gangs, although she now began to exhibit paranoia when not inside the hotel, due to the attempted murder of her sister and previous run-ins with the Inquisition Ascendancy.

Her fears turned out to be well justified when an Inquisition Ascendancy member attempted to attack her at the Minneapolis Public Library, intending to incapacitate her severely enough to force her out of action. Thankfully, Charlotte was able to thwart the attack and the man was incapacitated following a brief fight.