The Association

## Bluemont Lakes Homeowner's Association

* **Location:**Along 25th Ave S, Fargo , Region 3, RRDMZ
* **Status:**Incorporated as a Homeowner's Association within Region 3, RRDMZ, affiliated with the Red River Development Group.
* **Security:**Has a AA Security Rating. Security services contracted from Knight Errant Security.

When the rest of the continent thinks of Fargo, there’s always a certain idealized image that comes up in people’s mind. Of a place untouched by history, where the old values of small town living and idyllic family homes, financially secure, peaceful, with a kind of naïve niceness. A place where the messiness of VITAS, the Awakeningand the Crashes never happened.

Of course, anybody who’s seen a running gun battle between Ralphs and Saturdayers along University Drive, scavengers and wild animals prowling the ruined strip malls of Wasted Acres or CorpSec rousting the Riverlings and SINless from near the Block knows that an 'image' is all that it is. Fargo is as much a part of and subject to the forces of the Sixth World as anywhere else.

Except in one place.

In a neighborhood west of 25th Street South, bounded by I-29 in the east, I-94 in the north and 30th Ave in the south, there is the perfect small town neighborhood with large, picturesque yards protected by nothing more fierce then a good sturdy fence or a territorial dog. This is the Bluemont neighborhood, extraterritorial in the name of the Bluemont Homeowners Association, sometimes called Associationville or simply ‘The Association’.

   It is a neighborhood of large well-appointed houses (and the sprawling Sterling Securitract at the southeast corner), all constructed the same. Everybody smiles, everybody has a good job (the Homeowner’s Association has stringent income and credit requirements for joining), their own car and works to maintain their yards and their share of the trees. In the summer they fish in the artificial water features that bound the neighborhood and pitches in to clear the driveways. There are no SINless, there has not been a reported incident of violent crime in thirty years and somehow the worst of the big manastorms always seem to miss the neighborhood.

This is more than just the usual racism and exclusion. It isn't just that there aren't more than a couple of Trolls or Orks in the Association, but it is that nobody in the Association has ever Expressed as a Troll or Ork. Or been changed by SURGE. Or that anybody trying to summon on the grounds of Bluemont has met seemingly undirected opposition from the Water Spirits common in this area. Or that Astral Space here never has a background count, a rarity in the Valley.

When asked, the Association always cites its right as an extraterritorial property to not answer. And no member, ever, has spilled its secrets. Which yes, should strike you as odd. It has been decades since a violent crime has been reported here and certain groups, such as Riverlings and the Infected, have reported simply not being able to enter the area, although given Riverling tendencies to sacrifice fact for a good story and the documented high rates of mental issues among HMHVV victims, its not known if this is an actual effect or just a result of the efforts to make their kind unwelcome.

Of note, the northwestern corner of the Bluemont Lakes neighborhood is the only area effected by the Wasted Acres disaster during the Awakening to have been reclaimed at this point. 'How' is confidential information within the Association.

Naturally there are stories. You know the sort. Blood pacts, ritual orgies in suburban living rooms, people being replaced with shinier, healthier, more compliant versions. All the usual creepypasta about suburbs and residential areas. Which, sure, is possible, its 2075 and ANYthing is possible if not probable or maybe they just have the money to pay for the really, REALLY good magical security.

Still, there is something creepy about the place. Well, as creepy as any midwestern gated community....

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