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“This isn’t a run, this is a high school prank,” mumbles Howler from the bushes thirty meters to the left and twelve meters up
from the green of hole six of Dante’s Golf Course.
“Trust me, this is our best option,” says a voice over his commlink. “It’s so subtle, no one will even blink an eye.”
Howler adjusts his position in the landscaping, finding another uncomfortable golf ball. “He’s late.”
“He may be late, but he’s consistent. You’ve seen him play; he’s probably down in the fourth hole’s sand trap.”
“And how is this different than directly hacking in?” Howler grumbles again, swatting away some flying insect, “My memory
is kinda fuzzy on how you talked me into this.”
“If it weren’t for your brother-in-law, I would have partnered up with a less whiny decker.”
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A golf ball whizzes centimeters over Howler’s head—interrupting his complaint—and impacts the cliff wall. The foliage slows
it down enough to be lost in the bushes’ roots with its other lost brethren. Howler gets to work with his deck, hacking the golf
ball’s RFID and copying it to a new ball.
A rotodrone caddy is coming up fast to his position to hit the ball. Howler has to act quickly to avoid the drone’s approach.
“Careful not to touch the ball, Howler.”
“Trying to concentrate here.” Howler mutes his commlink and opens the wooden case with an identical golf ball. There are
imperceptible markings on it as he was told, so he tips the case and dumps the ball into the grass before hiding further into
bushes. Then he works on the next step of hacking the drone caddy.
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golfer below.
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hit the ball and recommends a drop.
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has the roto caddy admit fault to the golfer and provide assurance that there will be no stroke penalty for a retrieval and mulligan.
The golfer sounds satisfied and acknowledges the decision. The roto caddy switches its appendage to that of a hand and
retrieves the ball.
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INTRODUCTION
POSTED BY: FEATHERBONE
Instead of giving you the whole history of Butte, let me just
give you the highlights, starting in 2002. Lots of people have
heard of the Resource Rush. But in Butte, these people felt the
impact of it. Butte was surviving as a little blue-collar town,
but the demand for local materials was high. Over the years,
Consolidated Minerals bought up all the existing mineral rights
in Silver Bow County. By 2007, the ORO Company in South
America had hit it big, maintaining control over the Chilean
copper mines and discovering large deposits of molybdenum off
Panama. This made ORO dominant in the market; the company
could essentially name its price in selling raw materials.
Consolidated Minerals had to expand in order to stay
competitive. While the Berkeley Pit was closed by this time,
the Continental Pit remained open and was dug deeper. Open-
pit mining spread out across the county. Butte’s population
almost reached eighty thousand with localized smelting and
roasting facilities. This was the area’s highest population since
World War II.
Trouble with the nearby Kootenai and the Confederated
Salish tribe started when surveyors from U.S. Rare Earths
found rare earth minerals near Flathead Lake. Consolidated
Minerals legally moved them off the reservation to open new
mines. Besides the gold, copper, and a few other minerals
that Butte was known for, the expansion discovered more
minerals to mine such as cadmium, tungsten, thorium,
tellurium, and molybdenum. Pandora’s box was going to stay
open as Butte’s value to American corporations was realized.
Not everyone was happy with the choices Consolidated
Minerals was making; protests and strikes broke out in Butte
over the relocation of the Kootenai. To keep business going,
Consolidated Minerals brought in more “amicable” contractors
to continue strip mining across Silver Bow County. The smoke
from the smelting facilities continued to color Butte’s skies.
This didn’t win many hearts in Butte County. The revitalized
Order of Hibernians, normally just involved in community
activities, started to organize strikes and protests with the
local miners against Consolidated Minerals. There was some
progress in negotiating with Consolidated Minerals, as no one
wanted a repeat of the Lockout of 1920, but little was actually
done to change the business’s ways.
Politically, no one wanted to rock the boat. Butte was a city
rich with both raw and refined minerals and metals. Now the city
was in conflict with itself. Technically, Consolidated Minerals
wasn’t doing anything illegal, and the money was more than
the town had seen since the original copper mining boom.
Legal challenges either fell on deaf ears or were deferred. Miner
strikes were short-lived, with Consolidated Minerals offering
large incentives for land and lots of employment opportunities.
The Resource Rush literally undermined the town with large
tunnels and chambers. Parts of the town started to look like
Swiss cheese, with sink holes and shifting foundations. Finances
Introduction
FACTS AT A GLANCE
Population: 61,000 as of Jan. 1, 2075
Human: 80 percent
Elf: 6 percent
Dwarf: 2 percent
Ork: 8 percent
Troll: 3 percent
Other: 1 percent
Per Capita Income: 48,000¥
Population Below Poverty Level: 12 percent
Estimated SINless: 2 percent
Education:
Less than twelve years: 4 percent
High school equivalency: 54 percent
College degrees: 32 percent
Advanced degrees: 11 percent
The economy of Butte is based primarily on the price of ores and
minerals. Education is higher due to the presence of Montana Tech
and Geomancy, and the large number of Technical jobs in the area.
went into reinforcement of foundations and the development
of abandoned mines below the town into various commercial
and residential facilities to accommodate the influx of people
seeking employment. It was a risky strategy, but in the long
run worth the investment.
With the passage of the Relocation Act in 2009 came a
greater distrust towards Consolidated Minerals in Butte. Any
remaining Native Americans who didn’t leave their land were
forced into re-education camps. Any Native American currently
employed by Consolidated Minerals was fired and, if found in
Silver Bow County, relocated as well. That was kind of a moot
point since most Native Americans were already pissed off
that few were employed as miners and that the reservations
were pockmarked with mines. But Butte is funny about that
sort of thing. They didn’t agree with the Chinese Exclusion Act
in the 1880s or the corporate lockout of the 1920s, so they
certainly weren’t going to allow anyone to tell them how to
treat their northern neighbors. The nearby Kootenai tribal
members of Pablo and Silver Bow Counties’ miners had a few
disputes with corporate security over what they believed was
an “overreach” of the law over the years, but this was the last
straw. Butte became a hideout for Native Americans avoiding
relocation. A web of tunnels allowed sympathetic miners to
move a few hundred members of the local tribes secretly. The
Order of Hibernians militarized when Consolidated increased
security forces around their assets in Butte. Butte members also
stockpiled food and weapons when rumors that government
forces were going to help Consolidated Minerals materialized,
but bigger events came to pass.
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Introduction 5
 March of 2010 was a really bad month. VITAS came to Butte.
Over five thousand died in the first week. People panicked, many
fled. Mining shut down, with some miners going to the extreme
of hiding in the mines below the city. With filtered air and bottled
water, over two thousand people made themselves at home
until the devastation had ended. Until October, an additional
five thousand people died, leaving many of the mines and
refineries inadequately supported for six months and leading to
industrial accidents. A few hundred additional people died from
poisoning or accidents around the county. By the time VITAS was
managed, Butte’s population had fallen to twenty thousand. A
small footnote: For a while, UGE was thought to stem from living
underground, as approximately ninety percent of the children
born to those survivors were elves.
Then you had Great Ghost Dance in 2017, which made
governments think twice about picking on the little guy; but
there’s also a cost for throwing that much mojo around. I think
extreme weather fluctuations exist throughout the entire
Sioux Nation. For Butte, add about five degrees in the summer
and subtract five degrees in the winter.
The Treaty of Denver in 2018 prompted further
negotiations with the Sioux. Consolidated Minerals could
have pulled out completely, but with corporate competition
on the rise and the Sioux having a brain-drain of those
“Anglos” who could manage the existing mining industry,
there had to be a compromise; otherwise, both parties would
financially lose. There was already an argument between the
Crow and Kootenai tribes about allowing Butte residents to
stay. Kootenai were a minor voice, but money added weight
to the elders’ decision.
Kuroyama Minerals was giving majority of the mining,
refining, and smelting facilities, with upstart company
Inkan Power learning the ropes and developing their own
technologies, and Earth Medicine overseeing all mining
throughout the Silver Bow County. Kuroyama Minerals kept
the mining green and leased the land it used. Most of Butte
became the single largest Anglo reservation in the Sioux
Nation to retain the technological knowledge. Kuroyama
Minerals kept all the previous employees at the mines,
minimizing the need to bring in technical expertise: a win/
win for Butte and Kuroyama.
It took a few years of learning parageology, but knowledge
of background count, mana lines, reagents, and power sites
was gradually incorporated into mining and geological surveys
around Silver Bow County. Speaking of which, one of the first
orders of business was the pollution around Butte. Exhausted
strip mines, chemically treated slag, and garbage dumps had
changed the landscape. Earth Medicine had its work cut out
for itself. It managed to work out recycling and other green
policies, but there was one standing problem: the Berkeley Pit.
After being abandoned before the Resource Rush, the pit had
become filled with water. Over the years, the water became
acidic from perpetually dissolving minerals. Unfortunately for
the Awakened in the town of Butte, the Berkeley Pit was also
at the interception of mana lines. Such a thing emanated an
annoying background count for kilometers. Earth Medicine
Introduction
had an equally hard time as the U.S. Government had trying
to clean up the site. Instead, they decided to take the “fuel
from the fire” and work along the mountain range, erecting
arcane chevals and mana prisms to redirect the mana lines
around the more polluted sites to a mana conflux on top of
a lone mountain near the golf course. A benefit to this was a
power site adapted to the needs of the college. It was a ten-
year investment, but it reduced the background count to mere
tens of meters from the site.
Wards around the site have to be renewed yearly, but it’s
more manageable than before. Inkan Power uses the Berkeley
Pit for power and the extraction of minerals dissolved in the
water, and thus there’s been some friction between Earth
Medicine and Inkan Power over control of the pit.
> Inkan Power is testing to see how far Earth Medicine will bend
in what the power company can do with the Berkeley Pit. Inkan
Power doesn’t want the pit cleaned up because it’s the acidity that
does the work for them.
> Cheyenne Sam
> Dangerous, though. There are still shafts that lead from within
the pit to below Butte. Too much fiddling around could flood the
underground with that stuff.
> Running with Clouds
> A side effect of the mana conflux being built is that the quartz
outcrop dimly glows with dual-natured light, something that
parageologists will be studying for years.
> Henry Wildshadow
With the passing of the comet in 2060, the mountain on
which the mana conflux was constructed starting sparking,
physically shooting pieces of rock up to 200 meters off the
mountain. When parageologists recovered the stone, they
found it was transformed into orichalcum. This news spurred
an orichalcum rush into Silver Bow County. There was an
estimated two to three thousand smugglers working old
mining sites for the magic mineral, competing with both the
locals and existing smugglers who were also mining other
ore. It’s unknown how many died in resulting mine collapses.
In January 2061, there was a minor tremor north of Butte.
It was determined to be a 3.8-magnitude quake—nothing to
worry about. Some speculated unlicensed demolition was
happening in the search for orichalcum, and the Sioux were
going to have someone’s head. After a few weeks, rumors
spread that Thepila, one of the seven cities of gold, had been
uncovered. The explosion was said to have been an avalanche
that exposed ruins near Flume Gulch, a city carved into the
mountainside. After the quake, the orichalcum rush faded as
the orichalcum veins disappeared.
> But that’s it. “Oh, there’s one of the mythical cities of gold, move
along.” It’s kind of weird that there was no follow-up news, or
wildcats blocking off part of Flume Gulch.
> Argos
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> The Matrix has some vague blog posts and pictures of a few clay
pots, but that’s it. It has to have been a hoax, as no one is actively
>
pursuing this.
Running with Clouds
> Someone suggested that ulminite was found up there. It could be
a ruse to keep people guessing.
> Henry Wildshadow
With all the abandoned towns, mines, and smuggler
hideouts, it was no surprise that critters started occupying
them. Bug spirits have been the most dangerous, occupying
older mine shafts. Awakened and mundane animals, such as
stonebinders and sabertooths, made some abandoned towns
their homes. Only the official mines controlled by Kuroyama
Minerals have active onsite and perimeter security. Earth
Medicine has drone patrols and occasionally wires drones for
abandoned mines to check for hazards, but its budget doesn’t
come close to covering the area requiring monitoring. Earth
Medicine peppers areas of interest with disposable, remotely
accessible sensors, but between the environmental factors and
minimizing the trace pollutants from sensors, the efforts don’t
last more than two months before an area needs reseeding.
> People working outside city limits should be careful. With the return
of the wilderness, even shifters are homesteading out there.
> Cheyenne Sam
Neither Wildcats nor the conventional military offer much
protection, as their security patrols target active smugglers,
not some saber-toothed cat roaming around. The only other
protection outside of Butte is Druid’s Wolves and you’ll pay
a hefty price for their help. They play both sides of the fence.
With the historical foundation built, I’ll address the current
state of Butte. It’s still around, and its population has grown
to sixty thousand. Remember all the investment in the
substructure below the town? Nicknamed Butte Below, it slowly
integrated itself into the town. About half of the population
lives down there, which might seem silly to some, but it beats
dealing with Sioux bureaucracy and the various unfriendlies
beyond the city limits. For the poorer class, the advancements
in geological engineering and architecture make living in Butte
Below more comfortable than dealing with extreme weather
conditions above ground.
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LOCAL
SHADOW
SCENE
Butte is on the intersection of Interstates 15 and 90 connect-
ing the town to the Algonkian-Manitou Council (AMC) and Sal-
ish-Shidhe Council (SSC). This allows for brisk trade in grey-mar-
ket items, where Butte’s Anglo reservation legal rights are not
exactly the same as the rest of the Sioux Nation. Tobacco and
alcohol sales, while legal, are still highly priced due to the de-
livery expense. Every month, a marketplace near the Cabbage
Patch opens up for barter or nuyen. Quality may not be the pri-
ority, but there’s always a variety of goods to be found. BTLs are
the most prolific illegal goods on the market here.
Illegal goods, once across the border, can be easily shuttled
through kilometers of tunnels or cached in abandoned open
pits by t-bird runners throughout Silver Bow County. Both the
Cabbage Patch and Butte Below have their own smuggling
routes into their neighborhoods. In addition to moonshining,
you have some chemists out there making high-octane fuel
for the smugglers. Butte has become a hotspot as a fueling
station, with riggers traveling the Rockies trade routes as far
south as Denver and the PCC.
> Some will also roll out old-school Marsden Matting for larger
customers to land and refuel. An insane choice, but the reward
can be high if you’re quick enough to be gone when the Wildcats
arrive. An old troll called Torque has been manufacturing large
quantities of go-juice for years up in the mountains.
> Cheyenne Sam
Smuggling of raw materials is common in this area, with a
dozen minerals in demand for small, high-tech manufacturing.
The trade of knockoff tech items from commlinks to cybereyes
keeps up demand for metals that the corporations have a
monopoly on. Green fingers and the smell of garlic are telltale
traits of smugglers and miners in Butte.
The various organized crime syndicates have taken an
interest in Butte as a smuggling hub, though the city’s relatively
small size acts as a hindrance. That being said, organized
crime funnels money and business through Butte rather than
personnel to pressure people into the organization.
> Don’t have a Russian accent. The Vory have been trying to muscle
in on the smuggling business in Butte. Being an Anglo caught
smuggling is bad enough—add a Russian accent and say goodbye
to any thought of just paying a fine.
> Billy Bob Butte
THE STREET GANGS
It’s a small town; gangs are not like they are in the big city.
There are two main gangs in Butte and Silver Bow County:
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The Lost, who are in the town, and Druid’s Wolves, who roam
outside the city limits. There are occasional skirmishes be-
tween them along the official city limits, but an all-out turf
war has yet to break out.
THE LOST
The Lost are composed of a few generations of elves born in
Silver Bow County. Their current leader is Jaden Falan. He is
a supposed descendant of the Copper King, and his inheri-
tance allowed him and the Lost to purchase the Copper King
Mansion. There are about fifty members in this exclusively elf
gang, all of whom reside and hang out in the Mansion. They
are more like elven gangsters than a street gang. They all talk
and dress in relation to what’s trending in the Tírs. On top of
that, the Lost party as if they are trid stars. Jaden and some
of the others’ accumulated wealth has been questioned as to
its legality, but not openly. Some suggest a connection to Tír
Tairngire princes or terrorist organizations, but there’s noth-
ing that the Lost do that would suggest such ties. They may
act immature, but there is some intelligence keeping them
one step ahead of law enforcement. The Lost’s criminal ac-
tivities focus on the financing of smuggled goods and their
sale. They work through middlemen in the Cabbage Patch to
distance themselves, both for legal purposes and for their su-
periority complex over the other citizens of Butte. Jaden has
a weakness for all things Tír, from Laesal wines to bootleg
music, and he will pay top nuyen for many items to be added
to the Copper King Mansion. The Lost don’t appreciate out-
siders moving into Butte without their permission. They are
not above using muscle and magic to get their point across.
The Lost’s goal is to create an elven tribe within the
Sioux. This desire stems from the gang’s founding, as some
felt cheated out of being citizens of Tír na nÓg, because
their ancestors moved to the new world. The book Walking
the Light has been quoted by Jaden, suggesting an interest
in the Path of the Wheel and traditional magic. Jaden himself
is not Awakened as far as anyone knows, but a few of his
brethren are.
DRUID’S WOLVES
Druid’s Wolves are Crow warriors who have been discharged
from the military for one reason or another. David Long Elk,
a six-year veteran, created the organization after being dis-
honorably discharged. He named it after the pack of wolves
relocated to Yellowstone to reestablish wolf populations.
The Druid’s Wolves number in the few hundred, with many
young who were kicked out during their year of mandatory
service in the Sioux military. David gave them focus. This
paramilitary gang roams the Sioux Nation outside of urban
areas, keeping their distance from Wildcats and the SDF.
They prey on homesteaders and smugglers alike, offering
protection at a price. They have access to a few vehicles
and weapons that would make a t-bird jockey think about
negotiating first. Druid’s Wolves are nomadic and have at
Local shadow scene
least three Bulldog Step Vans that establish a mobile base-
camp for the gang. David has a prejudice against shifters,
and if he finds them, he brings the Wolves down on them.
It’s rumored that he keeps shifter hides on display in his van
as trophies.
ORGANIZED CRIME
LAKOTA MAFIA
In Silver Bow County, the Lakota Mafia utilizes several
Thunderbirds in smuggling operations from Butte across the
border to the Salish-Shidhe Council, specifically the Red Dog
and Open Road bands of the Lakota Mafia. The Red Dog band
consists of over a dozen family members, their leader Hestova,
and associated tribal members. They’ve been working on an
east-west route into Butte for the greater Lakota Mafia. The
Open Road band includes twenty family members, their leader
Wakaje, and associated members. Wakaje operates a north/
south smuggling route through Butte. Their knowledge of the
terrain is unmatched compared to the other syndicates.
Things haven’t been going well for these bands, with the
Vory pushing in from the west. Both Hestova and Wakaje
have requested additional personnel from Charlie Whiteclay
to help deal with them, but so far the Lakota Mafia has not
moved to deal with the Vory. Recently, Wakaje was ambushed
near Helena by soldatos; four members were killed and
Wakaje would have died, had it not been for So’yoki of the
Koshari. It has been rumored that, while recuperating in Butte,
Wakaje started having more than just a business relationship
with So’yoki. The Open Road band has collaborated with the
Ohanzee Circle under So’yoki in protecting smuggling routes
from the likes of the Vory. The Red Dog band isn’t supportive
of Open Road’s partnership, but their hatred of the Vory
trumps other concerns. Hestova has been out for blood ever
since Adrian killed his little brother as an example two years
ago. Adrian hasn’t made a public appearance since. Hestova
has been targeting Vory convoys and burning their cargo in
an attempt to flush Adrian out to fight. All that has come of
this is a bounty on his troll head—a bounty that many have
unsuccessfully tried to cash in on.
> So’yoki is Tahaum’s niece. He’s not too happy she’s, pardon the
expression, “off the reservation” in Sioux Nation. Whiteclay is
not too pleased with the relationship Wakaje has formed with the
Koshari. Hestova is just pissed at everyone.
> Why Sioux Serious
KOSHARI
The Koshari have been working the angles of business that
the Lakota ignore. The Nahimana Circle handles smuggling
drugs, including Awakened drugs, and doing runs to harvest
reagents and Awakened materials. The Ohanzee Circle, lead
by So’yoki, participate in various other rackets, but not enough
to grab Charlie’s attention. Felix, a newcomer from Denver, has
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been watching the grids and has been able to recruit members
of the Lakota Mafia around Silver Bow County, leveraging
the fact that Whiteclay has been losing face with non-family
members in many bands. Whiteclay’s lack of empathy to the
northern bands just makes Felix’s job easier.
> It wasn’t luck that So’yoki was in the area with her reagent
gathering team. They had scouts out there for months keeping
track of the Vory, Lakota Mafia, and anyone else running out there.
> Plains Walker
> Tahum and Hestova have been rivals for years. They try to keep
their distance from each other to lessen the bloodshed of bounty
hunters sent every year.
> Argos
> Tahaum has been vocally opposed to the agreement with the
Open Road tribe. He’s been desperately trying to get anyone to
listen to him. This may be motivated more by So’yoki’s romantic
involvement with the Open Road tribe. It’s definitely the first time
Tahaum and Hestova ever agreed on something.
> Cyclone
VORY
Branching off from Alexei Klavikov, Adrian Simeoff became
tsar over the Vory activities in Sioux Nation. There was a slight
rift between Alexei and Adrian as Adrian felt the need to move
out of Denver; Irina, Alexei’s daughter, toyed with him like all
the other suitors. Adrian made an aggressive push into Silver
Bow County in order to control smuggling routes from the
north and west. He incited fear by bloodily executing members
of the Red Dog band and Druid’s Wolves, and through the ugly
branding of miners who didn’t pay on time. He earned the
nickname Adrian Blood. He also brought unwanted attention
with such bold moves. Tahaum wants his head, badly. Kuroyama
Minerals has hired teams to protect prospectors and mineral
surveyors. Nobody in town likes anyone with a Russian accent.
While Adrian hasn’t been seen in three years, the Vory are still
out there. Sovetnik Michael Witzkow works in Butte Below,
running BTL trades and muscling in on other recreational drug
traffic. Sovetnik Ollie “Smith” runs a storefront selling firearms,
both legal and illegally.
> People assume that all Vory are Russian. Times have changed,
though. Witzkow is technically Lithuanian, but he’s second
generation, grew up in UCAS. He also has no accent. There are
still blood ties from Witzkow to the Klavikov Tsars—just a few
times removed.
> Disorganized Crime
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OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS
ANCIENT ORDER
OF HIBERNIANS
The members of the Hibernians became more organized
when they were protecting the rights and well-being of the
miners of Butte many years ago. They sort of fell off when
miners began choosing corporate life. For a while, the Ancient
Order of Hibernians became content in doing volunteer work
and performing social services. That was, until a few “Anglo”
residents of Butte got into a fight with the Sioux Defense Force.
Yes, the residents were in the wrong, but subsequent beatings
put twenty men in the hospital. None of the Sioux forces were
seriously injured. Ian Macallaster, who suffered four broken
ribs from this incident, used it to get others thinking about how
they have to rely on the Sioux for protection, and about the
social stigma and bullying of Butte residents.
Ian was elected as leader of the Order in 2058 and
organized the Order to practice martial arts in secret. The
secluded halls of the Order in Butte Below echoed with combat
training. Soon, Ian gathered more members under the context
of Butte being helpless no more. It became apparent, with the
organization now three thousand members strong, that Ian was
not going to back down in protecting the rights of the Anglo
reservation’s inhabitants. The Hibernian halls are synonymous
with martial arts. There have been a few fights, but they are not
as one-sided as they once were. The SDF has recognized the
Order of Hibernians as a paramilitary organization, but they
are still undecided if they are a threat.
> It comes down to not allowing Anglos into the draft. On one side,
you have the town trained in some form of combat, ready in case
there comes a time for them to protect their homes. On the other
side, these people have ties to the town, not to the Sioux Nation.
> Why Sioux Serious
> Some believe that Ian is getting support from organized crime;
others think he’s a Tír agent starting trouble for a larger purpose.
No one really knows what’s going on, other than you have self-
defense classes being taught by the Order of Hibernians to anyone
on the reservation who wants to learn.
> Butte In
MIDEWIWIN
This secretive order of Awakened beings has made it their
mission to undo what the Anglos have done and remove the
social ills brought by the white man. They first struck against
the manufacturing and smuggling of BTLs. This has troubled
organized crime. While beneficial to the town, they also began
to target mines and miners. No matter how “green” their
attempts were, the mines and smelting continued to poison
the water and air. This put them at odds with the Ancient
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Order of Hibernians and the corporations alike. No one knows
exactly how many Midewiwin are in Silver Bow County, but
Kuroyama Minerals suspect that there are a few with corporate
SINs providing intel.
> Some of these Midewiwin take this mission to the extreme and
want the land back to how it was before the Anglos came to the
Americas. It’s a little drastic, especially for those already used to
such comforts as trids and cars, but that’s what they say is making
the Sioux soft.
> Why Sioux Serious
> Only a little drastic?
> Slamm-0!
MATRIX
Besides the corporate and Sioux grids, Silver Bow County has
their own local grid, which was established because the vary-
ing terrain and subterranean locations left gaps in the wire-
less network. Butte Below has transmitter cables fed down
all the main arterial tunnels back to main chambers to allow
wireless communication throughout. The cable is kind of like
fiber optics, but with fringe. This same technology has been
used in mining operations throughout Silver Bow County.
Old cellphone towers have also been commissioned for grid
stability around the mountains.
JUST BUSINESS
SUNRISE ELECTRONICS
Solar power manufacturing has been serious business along-
side wind in providing stable power to the region. As a mul-
tinational corporation, Sunrise Electronics moved its head-
quarters here to cut out the middleman for raw materials. The
move has kept them competitive with even a few of the AA
corporations. Sunrise Electronics designed the lightweight
solar sheets that power and regulate temperature in Butte
Below. Nationwide, they have a few contracts for producing
flexible solar sheets used for drones and to power augment-
ed reality advertisements that are off the primary grid. The
company is currently working on creating an efficient solar
furnace to generate hydrogen fuel.
INKAN POWER
Inkan Power is an AA Sioux Corporation that provides renew-
able electrical power. While Gaetronics and its affiliates are
the primary source of power, transmission, and distribution
of electrical and gas needs throughout the Sioux Nation, it’s
not always reliable power in the Northwest. The change to
greener power put a lot of energy fluctuation on the grid,
as the resources are not always consistent or reliable. Power
cables can be damaged through sabotage, magic, or weath-
ering, and there are many kilometers of cable to check after
Local shadow scene
every outage. Energy fluctuations cause increasingly fre-
quent brownouts further out from the power source, even
with Gaetronic’s smart grid. To stabilize it, Inkan Power spe-
cializes in creating molten air batteries, allowing for higher
capacity power on the grid with less-toxic materials and sta-
bilizing power fluctuation. Inkan Power took over the existing
mining and processing plant near the Berkeley Pit for battery
manufacture. Since there were already tests being conducted
at the Berkeley Pit regarding how much power can be gen-
erated, Inkan continued to develop the pit for viable power.
Given the size of the pit, Inkan Power has been able to get
a few megavolts from it—enough to keep the grid stable for
Butte regardless of what Gaetronics delivers. Inkan Power
continues to construct various sizes of batteries, intended for
everything from drones to buildings.
EARTH MEDICINE
Earth Medicine is another AA Sioux Corporation. The com-
pany’s goal is to clean up the mess the Anglos left behind.
From recycling to planting trees, Earth Medicine has been
working with the various tribes to get their people out of the
habit of throwing out so much trash. Just because it’s plastic
and cheap, does not mean its final destination needs to be
a landfill. Earth Medicine is the Sioux version of the UCAS
Environmental Protection Agency. The company has an of-
fice building in Butte with staff to manage and oversee all of
Silver Bow County. The blight on their record is still the Berke-
ley Pit. While they have full-time employees monitoring and
managing problems that have come from the pit, they have
not come up with a solution to clean it up.
> Have they been working on a solution? I’ve heard that they’ve
been playing the Berkeley Pit like a bargaining chip with the likes
of Inkan Power.
> Glowing Sioux
TOLDEEN TECH
Toldeen Tech is one of a handful of Sioux cybernetic manufac-
tures. The company makes several components for other cyber-
netic companies, such as micro optic processers, fiber optics,
and neurostimulators. Like Inkan Power and Sunrise Electronics,
Toldeen Tech has moved part of its business to Butte in order to
avoid tariffs on, and transportation of, raw materials.
KUROYAMA MINERALS
Kuroyama Minerals is a Shiawase-owned corporation that
manages ninety percent of the mining done in Silver Bow
County. There’s not much else to be said other than they
continue to mine under the strict supervision of Earth Medicine
and other organizations. That being said, each mine has its own
lease agreement with the Sioux Nation. Kuroyama Minerals
lucked out with the hasty purchase of all the leases from the
exiting mining corporations. About half of them are coming
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up for renewal. Kuroyama is going to attempt to lowball the
remaining yields in every mine in an attempt to render them
useless for competing corporations. The competition is going
to attempt to sabotage and discredit Kuroyama’s mining
operation so that the Sioux will look for a more efficient and
profitable partner. For shadowrunners, it’s a win-win situation.
GETTING AROUND
ROADS
Butte still maintains many roads through town, but motor
transportation has given way to public transportation,
such as the electric trolley, for most residents. Bike and
horse riding are also becoming more common. Butte’s
infrastructure has been modified to accommodate these
new kinds of traffic. Two main highways, I-90 and I-15,
intersect in Butte, bringing traffic to and from the north and
the west through the Sioux Nation.
Local shadow scene
> There are stables akin to the Old West at some of the places around
Butte where you can park your horse. There are so many ways to
look cool in Butte; from the rugged cowboy, the lone biker, to the
t-bird rigger.
> Why Sioux Serious
RAILROAD
While the Sioux Nation wants to have a light footprint on the
land, there is still the Great Northern railway from Butte to
Helena. Its main use is the shipping of minerals and ore to
Helena, where larger cargo planes take the reins. There are
still other unused train tracks out there, to places like Ana-
conda, where Butte sent their ore for smelting a century ago.
The Butte-to-Helena route still makes the occasional trip, car-
rying goods or tourists.
> The railroad is obsolete. Nostalgic tourists board electric trains
from Butte to see the scenery like those of the Old West trideos,
but Sky High Cargo Services and their zeppelins are eliminating
the need for trains. Pretty soon it will be just another scar on the
face of the Sioux Nation.
> Cheyenne Sam
ELECTRIC TROLLEY
Fourteen headframes dot the landscape of Butte, marking the
remnants of the old mines that honeycombed the town. They
used to have cables to transport miners and their equipment
down into the shafts. In 2032, the transportation infrastruc-
ture had been vastly modified with a raised electric trolley
line, incorporating the historical headframes into its con-
struction. Stairs and elevators then connected the trolley line
to the subterranean landscape. Four stations are in Granite,
six are in Platinum, three are in Emerald, and one lies on the
edge of Cabbage Patch. Of the fourteen, only nine have an
elevator or stair connection to Butte Below: six in Platinum,
two in Granite, and one in Emerald.
SUMMIT VALLEY AIRPORT
This little airport gets quite crowded. Over fifty small carriers
use it for short hops to places as far north as Helena and Cy-
press Hills, east to Billings, south to Idaho Falls, and west to
Missoula. Located in the Emerald district, this airport has its
own connection to fame: Charles Lindbergh refueled there
during his famous trans-Atlantic flight. The Lindbergh Hanger
is now a free respite for those freelance riggers and pilots
who get stuck in Butte due to weather.
Most flights are for passengers, but there is a weekly cargo
zeppelin that transports goods through Butte.
Summit Valley Airport doesn’t have large passenger planes
fly through on a regular basis anymore. This is due in part to
SDF prioritizing the longer runway for military aircraft and
conducting frequent exercises there.
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NEIGHBORHOODS
BUTTE (ABOVE)
On the surface, the town of Butte has not changed appear-
ance very much since the early 21st Century. The style is still
reminiscent of the early days when the mines were first open.
Granted, the terrain is a little more worn now than is was,
with the added spark of occasional AR tagging. The larger
and more modern facilities that stand out from the rest of
the town include: the sprawling Inkan Power facility just south
of the Berkeley Pit on Continental Drive, the Montana Tech
and Geomancy campuses, and Toldeen Tech to the west. The
whole town is considered a part of the Anglo reservation,
with a majority of the “Dirty” businesses operated by non-na-
tive Americans. There are many Natives living in Butte, such
as the Kootenai, who have had an interest in the construction
of Butte Below.
With the building of Butte Below came some compromising
features that had to be taken into account with the town above.
For example, parts of Montana Street and the blocks to the
east were removed. Large skylights and a trolley system were
built, tying the buildings together. Stephen’s Hotel, Hennessey
Neighborhoods
Build, and the Metals Bank and Trust are built with classic
architecture above ground, but they have a sleeker, modern
look below ground, exposed by skylights. Some of the
buildings have an additional five to ten stories below ground.
Water has been at a premium here. Between the Berkeley
Pit, the Montana Pole, and the illegal use of heavy metals in
gold extraction, Silver Bow County’s water has been dangerous
to drink. Unfortunately, all Butte got out of this was a state-
of-the-art water treatment plant, since it was cheaper for the
corporations to build one than clean up the mess. Now, the
options in Butte are to buy bottled water, brave drinking out
of the tap, or be paranoid and re-filter the tap or bottled water.
Butte is divided into four districts: Cabbage Patch, Granite,
Platinum, and Emerald. Each district has some distinct
characteristics.
THE CABBAGE PATCH
The Cabbage Patch, originally referred to as the slums of the
early 20th century, is now the barrens of the 21st century.
Between Farrell and Amherst Street, those who can’t break
into corporate life, afford to live in Butte Below, or leave to
find employment elsewhere have eked out an existence here.
This part of Butte did not do well when mining resumed be-
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neath the town. Micro-fractures and uneven settling made
most of the area unsuitable for large construction. Butte Be-
low had tunnels collapse beneath the area, making under-
ground work dangerous. With the Berkeley Pit so close, many
feared a collapse would poison Butte Below, so further devel-
opment in the area was abandoned.
The old neighborhoods in the Cabbage Patch started tilting
and sagging at odd angles. Gas and sewage lines have fatigued
over the years with the change in the ground. After a few
gas fires and subsequent explosions, many places were just
leveled. Today, you have homes made of cement and quarried
stones with fabric or adobe roofs. Many of the residents are
from the Anglo reservation and have no other options. Some
are SINless and have taken refuge in Butte, while others just
want the freedom to do what they want. Butte occasionally
takes a census of the population to estimate costs to the
medical clinic and law enforcement, but it doesn’t take any
other actions to improve life in the Cabbage Patch. There
have been no real roads through here for fifty years; dirt paths
between houses are often all that exist. No utilities or services
here except what people bring: chemical toilets, generators,
etc. It’s not a big shantytown like the Redmond or Puyallup
barrens, but still, nearly a thousand people live in the Cabbage
Patch. Many are scavengers and survivalists; they’ll travel out
of Butte to the various ghost towns and abandoned mines
searching for scraps or minerals to sell to Butte’s refinery, or
poach rabbit or other wild game for food and profit on the
black market.
Another difference between the Seattle Barrens and the
Cabbage Patch is that the law patrols the Cabbage Patch
and attempts to keep things civil. No one wants a team of
Wildcats imposing their own form of justice. BTL abuse is all
too common among the residents, keeping things dicey. Law
enforcement has been trying to curb the smuggling of BTLs
and other contraband, but it’s all relatively cheap, and the
mines and tunnels throughout Silver Bow County provide a
variety of places for smugglers to hide.
BERKELEY PIT
An ugly pit lake and tourist attraction located in the Cabbage
Patch, the Berkeley Pit is the largest pit lake in the former
United States. It is also the most caustic, containing acidic
waters stronger than the acid rain that falls into it. The lake
is over two kilometers in diameter, and the 500-meter pit is
only filled with 300 meters of water. The water keeps leeching
sulfur and other minerals into the lake in a continuous cycle of
acidification. The air smells of garlic and rotten eggs. Weeds
and scraggily trees have sprouted up around the lake despite
the conditions. The mineral content of the water poses a health
hazard to everyone except the few species of microbes that
thrive there. It’s not directly poisonous, but there are plenty
of chemicals that can make wildlife sick and disoriented if
consumed. Swimming in it is also a problem. Besides the acid,
the various microbes of the Berkeley Pit can feed on almost
anything. A strain of microbes feed on organic materials and
Neighborhoods
deposit copper sulfate or hydrate. The end result is pale blue
“crystalized” remnants of birds and animals that have drowned.
On the astral side, the pit normally generates a stable
background count of 1 in a polluted haze extends several
meters all around the pit. Occasionally, the waters are churned
up for some reason—most blame Inkan Power—and a great
mana ebb forms for weeks at a time, messing with the magical
processes that Earth Medicine has set up. Earth Medicine set
up wards around the lake with a few anchored spells to ward
off wildlife. Nothing nasty has bubbled up from this mess, but
Earth Medicine errs on the side of caution to deter people from
practicing magic in the area until they devise plan to clean it up.
Inkan Power has taken advantage of the site by extracting
copper from the waters of the pit as well as generating power
for the extraction facility, using the pit like a giant battery. It
has been a controversial debate for some time, but the free
and stable power it generates is hard to give up. Great pipes
draw water from the lake nearest the facility, and another set of
pipes return the water back into the lake.
ARIZONA MARKETPLACE
Arizona Street has become synonymous with flea market,
as tents and tables are set up on either side of the street al-
lowing sales and trade monthly. The majority of goods have
been hand crafted or harvested. You’re just as likely to find
small amounts of moonshine and jackalope jerky as you are
Calhots and drone parts here. There’s tourist potential, with
the locals selling a variety of mined minerals, but not in large
enough quantities to worry corporations. Crystals and other
reagents can be easily picked up at the Cabbage Patch. Guys
like Jasper can be found selling refurbished mining drones
and parts. They may be old, but he can jury-rig them to work
with newer models.
MOON RISE TAVERN
A simple open air bar where Whittier Park used to be, Moon
Rise Tavern is surrounded by large stones, somewhat resem-
bling Stonehenge. Fire pits and solar lights provide light and
heat. There’s not much to this bar; you find a rock to sit on and
they serve a variety of alcoholic drinks distilled from anything
that ferments. If you pass out, they just roll you out on the lawn.
> An entrepreneur troll makes a few cred by making sure no
one messes with you while you’re passed out. He’s even got a
makeshift barn in case it rains. Payment for that security must be
made in advance.
> Running with Clouds
MR. TOAD’S WILD RIDE
Toad is a rotund looking human who rides around in a make-
shift scooter because of his bad legs. He owns what’s left of
Bulldog Stadium in the Cabbage Patch, which he has turned
into various racing tracks. In the stadium, he’s got what could
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be considered a zoo as he’s collected animals, both Awak-
ened and non-Awakened. Mr. Toad runs races every day;
from dogs, horses, aardwolves, and eyekillers to road racers.
With his little menagerie, there is the occasional gambling
option available through Mr. Toad.
> It’s all small stuff with Mr. Toad. His clientele are of the Cabbage
Patch, so they don’t have much cash to bet with. He’s fine with it.
The Vory, however, are trying to get ownership of the place and
put it out on the grid for more gamblers. Lucky for Toad, his racers
make a good defense.
> Running with Clouds
> Mr. Toad is working on rebuilding the old racetrack. Since it
partially sunk into the earth, he’s turning it into an aquatic
racetrack. The concern is that Mr. Toad ain’t rich, and the investors
may not be as friendly.
> Why Sioux Serious
Neighborhoods
GRANITE DISTRICT
The Granite District is also known as the Corporate Mining
neighborhood. This district is roughly north of the BA&P Hill
Trail. It comprises mainly of Kuroyama Minerals’ employee
housing, as well as Shiawase-owned medical and emergency
facilities and four restaurants. On the edge of Granite District
are a few houses reserved for the other Sioux corporations. A
few of the communities in the Granite District are gated and
patrolled by security, but for the most part, the perception is
that corporate life is better than anything else.
MONTANA TECH
AND GEOMANCY
Montana Tech has been in Butte for 175 years. Studies em-
phasize engineering and technical degrees including mining,
industrial science, chemistry, and geomancy. Advanced engi-
neering degrees are also available. More than five thousand
students attend Montana Tech and Geomancy, or MTnG. The
school gives students hands on opportunities through in-
ternships with companies such as Kuroyama Minerals. If the
graduates don’t move on to working with Shiawase, there are
plenty of other corporations needing such expertise. Aquat-
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ic mining and construction companies, such as Proteus and
Ares, hire students from MTnG. Normally, schools of thau-
maturgy cause problems in background count from frequent
overuse of magic. MTnG emphasizes the study of the astral
plane and minimizing one’s footprint. Because of this, there’s
less problem with background count.
A little history: In 2021, the northern and southern campuses
consolidated into one large campus in the Granite District after
minor tremors from mining underground did serious structural
damage to the old southern campus. In 2039, Montana Tech
added degrees in Geomancy and changed the school name
to match. In 2064, somebody tried to ship a nuclear device
through the Sioux Nation, but it was intercepted by the SDF
outside Butte.
> MTnG is not a Sioux-operated school. Many Sioux and Salish
do not teach or study in certain fields for philosophical reasons.
Thaumaturgical Sciences are based on hermetic theory and taught
by Doctor Janus and Doctor Megara instead of tribal shamans.
Both are famous magicians in their own right with published
theories in the Digital Grimoire.
> Henry Wildshadow
After 2064, Thaumaturgical Sciences at MTnG got
advancement from the Sioux Nation for Alchemical Runology
and shared in funding with UoC in classes in Advanced
Energies Studies.
SHIAWASE MEDICAL
This hospital specializes in various lung ailments and poisonings
that occur in the mines. While nanite repair is out of the ques-
tion, especially financially for most patients, nanites offer partial
lung regrowth and cybernetic replacements. These and filters
are subsidized for Kuroyama Minerals employees. Burn wards
are state of the art. This is separate from DocWagon, which
serves all residents of Silver Bow County, corporate affiliated or
not. The three-story facility is designed to facilitate the needs of
the miners as a supplement to the DocWagon hospital, which
has contracts with everyone in Butte, including the SDF.
> Eyes, filters, lungs, any cybernetics that can benefit working in the
mines are discounted at Shiawase Medical if you have a corporate
SIN. Ward 5 can offer the same discount and surgery, provided
you get in the good graces of Dr. Gravalti.
> DeepShaft
SHIAWASE SEARCH
AND RESCUE
Also separate from Doc Wagon HTR, the Shiawase Search
and Rescue (SSR) specializes in mountain terrain and the
quick drilling of tunnels when there is a collapse or an explo-
sion. SSR has some specialized drones for drilling one-man
tunnels and fighting fires in the mountains. The company has
several towers built along the mountains for quick response.
Neighborhoods
> Note that they only have a quick response for corporate employees
and assets. They send everything else to SDF or DocWagon HTR.
They even ignore smugglers if they don’t pose a threat.
> Cheyenne Sam
BIG CHEESE
Near the heart of Granite District is a burger joint. What
makes this restaurant stand out from the other available fast
food is the use of local ingredients, mainly hydroponic vege-
tables and goat’s- or cow’s-milk cheese. Granted, the burgers
and flavoring are still soy-based, but the lettuce and cheese
at prices that even a blue-collar corporate miner can afford
makes it a popular hangout.
> It’s a lure to show those not part of the Shiawase family what
they are missing out on. It’s run by a family with Shiawase
corporate SINs.
> Dr. Spin
> Just because you are lactose intolerant does not give you the
right to piss on my burger joint. Big Cheese benefits local growers
by purchasing from them first before importing ingredients. Even
the ketchup is real, and cheap in the summer months.
> Why Sioux Serious
THE MINERAL MUSEUM
This facility is the only museum that displays not only exam-
ples of a thousand minerals, but also samples of Awakened
minerals and true elements. Under security on par with many
corporate laboratories, the Mineral Museum, in partnership
with the Sioux government and Kuroyama Minerals, has ex-
panded to give the public a greater perspective of the phys-
ical marvels of Earth. Many of the crystals and stones dis-
played either come from Silver Bow County mines or are on
loan from Shiawase Corporation. These includes samples of
True Elements (earth, air, fire, and water) ­as well as Awakened
minerals: natural orichalcum, ulmenite, wertamaline, and eli-
chum. AR displays show some of the physical and magical
properties of each, as some of the samples are too small to
present real physical effects.
> Some of the Awakened minerals are of good size, like the Naga
emerald (wertamaline) and the crumbling chalk like ulmenite, but the
orichalcum and True Elements are small—like less than a dram—to
avoid tempting mages to steal them for enchanting purposes.
> Henry Wildshadow
PLATINUM DISTRICT
Between BA&P Hill Trail and Front Street is the historically
preserved part of town. Aside from the sinkholes, many of
the buildings haven’t changed in centuries. This area is main-
ly commercial, with corporations like Sunrise Electronics and
Toldeen Tech establishing their business and offices here. The
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Platinum District is also great a tourist neighborhood with
historical AR tours, museums, a dozen parks, a good view of
Copper Stadium, and various clubs and hangouts.
THE MAI WAH
MUSEUM
The Mai Wah Museum is part of the Mai Wah Society, where
they have collected historical Chinese immigrant artifacts
found in North America. Items range from personal effects
to mercantile merchandise. The building is a small, two-story
structure with AR and trid displays covering Asian influenc-
es and migration into North America. The building itself was
originally the Wah Chong Tai Company and Mai Wah Noodle
Parlor. This museum and the Mai Wah Society have endured
governmental changes, but at a price. The Mai Wah society
has been wholly owned and operated by the Wuxing Corpo-
ration since 2038. Its focus recently has been redirected to
attempt to collect items relating to Chin Chun Hock, a suc-
cessful 19th-Century merchant in the United States.
> Recent news includes the recovery of Wah Chong Tai merchandise
in some small town warehouse near Great Falls.
> Sunshine
> Mai Wah Society is a shell for a Wuxing organization that looks
for artifacts much like the Atlantean and Draco Foundations. They
have the distinct advantage of acquiring an organization that’s
been preserving items and buildings in North America since the
1940s. However, with two crashes, documentation on the contents
within the various storage facilities is almost nonexistent.
> Plan9
COPPER KING
MANSION
This thirty-four-room Victorian mansion, once owned by the
Clarks as one of the founding “Copper Kings” of the Montana
Territory, has been a historical site in Butte since the Awak-
ening. Jaden Falan, originally named Jake Clark, purchased the
mansion and has transformed it into a private residence and
frat house for the Lost gang. Many of the historical aspects of
the mansion have been redesigned in favor of modern con-
veniences and security. Protests against the changes were si-
lenced by bribes and muscle. It has been over thirty years since
Jaden took over the mansion. Other changes to the place have
included an expanded garage for its many tenants.
FINLEN HOTEL
Originally built in 1924, the ten-story Finlen Hotel was the tall-
est building of its time. Now on the edge of an opening to
Butte Below, the hotel has expanded, doubling its capacity as
it has grown into the depths of Butte Below. This hotel has the
additional convenience of a large service elevator and parking
Neighborhoods
garage, allowing for the movement of vehicles or large furni-
ture within the hotel. One floor is dedicated to a restaurant
called The Horizon. It has a large, curved window facing the
opening to Butte Below, just below ground level. A hydroponic
garden balcony beneath the window gives guests an intimate
view of flora, birds, and insects that live around Butte.
TILT
Due to the extensive mining, a whole city block on Mercury
Street is tilted from the ground settling. The buildings now sit
at a sixteen-degree angle from the horizon. Tilt is a two-story
club that messes with the mind, especially with the inebriated
mind, as everything is at odd angles, including the glasses to
counter the shift in the building’s foundation. Other illusions
of perception have been incorporated into the club, includ-
ing size perspective and objects appearing to roll up hill. No
magic is involved in the design—just really smart engineers.
Across the street is the Phantasmagoria—a few hermetics try-
ing to compete with engineers.
PHANTASMAGORIA
This club was a blatant attempt to compete with the Tilt. A
similar VR experience and multiple magical illusions give this
place a vast virtual party room inside an illusionary fantasy
realm. It’s the place for those who really want to get away
from it all. The owner has been in trouble with the law several
times for the sale of BTLs.
EMERALD DISTRICT
Emerald District is home to many tribal members of the Sioux
Nation. The Kootenai, who escaped re-education many decades
ago, have stayed in Butte. There’s also housing and facilities to
support members of the SDF and Wildcats that patrol Silver Bow
County. Because of this, most of the Anglos who had resided
there have moved north into the rest of Butte or Butte Below.
> The Anglos weren’t evicted, but with Amerindians walking around
armed, it was a little intimidating, especially if you were trying to
ask them to turn down their music.
> Why Sioux Serious
On the corporate side, only Earth Medicine is headquartered
in this district and uses the neighborhood to display examples
of their work. The Emerald District is just south of the highway,
but residential and commercial construction is the least Western
compared to the rest of Butte. Nearby highways and the airport
give the Sioux Defense Force flexibility in their response.
WHITE BUFFALO
PROVING GROUNDS
Southwest of the airport is the SDF’s military proving grounds,
where the Sioux Nation can test prototypes and materials
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before they see use in daily operation. The area is strictly
off limits, and the Wildcats are given permission to use any
force necessary against intruders. The White Buffalo Proving
Grounds have been in operation for almost twenty years.

> This is not Area 51 as some would like to think. It’s a testing ground
for less-classified equipment, like bridging vehicles, uniforms
with various hostile environmental protection materials, and yes,
a few weapons.
> Cheyenne Sam

COPPERTOP
Near the golf course is a tall hill. Parageologists took advan-
tage of the natural quartz outcropping to create a mana con-
flux, which diverted mana line away from the Berkeley Pit and
redirected it over to this location. Coppertop’s mana conflux,
once connected, became a power site. It’s since been aspect-
ed toward the geomancer guild at MTnG.

OTHER PLACES
OF INTEREST
OUR LADY OF THE
ROCKIES STATUE
This twenty-seven-meter-tall statue, dedicated to the Bless-
ed Virgin Mary, has been standing on the Rocky Mountains
for almost a hundred years. Tour buses and a tram up the
mountainside facilitate access to the site. During the forma-
tion of the Sioux Nation, there was talk about taking it down
or moving it. There was little objection since they weren’t
going to demolish it. When the construction crew came up
to the site to start the process of moving it, they kept hav-
ing equipment problems, delaying the lifting of the statue’s
five sections. The day that they finally got the first two piec-
es onto the truck, the engine wouldn’t start. The work crew
planned to come back the next day with a replacement trans-
port. The next morning, they found that the statue had been
restored. Whether from spirit mischief or magic, it was de-
cided to leave the statue in place. Since then, parageologists
have noted it being a minor power site. Some local research-
ers think it’s a psycho reaction, while others hypothesize that
it’s the positive balance to the Berkeley Pit.

BUTTE BELOW
Butte Below is the city beneath the city. Connected by a tran-
sit line, elevators, and stairs, Butte Below is home to almost
half the city’s population. It took seventy years to transform
mines, subterranean floors, and storage rooms into a func-
tional cityscape. Large caverns, bridges and natural skylights
are connected by tunnels and dotted with carved-out homes
and stores embedded into the surrounding walls. At a min-
imum depth of one hundred meters, the city keeps a con-

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stant natural temperature, and sunlight is augmented by effi-
cient LED lighting, allowing for a more comfortable lifestyle
for those with low income. Butte Below is not an arcology,
but the evolution of living city architecture. Solar cell fabric
domes hover over various skylights to Butte Below, contract-
ing or expanding to help regulate temperature and light.
Temperature differences between connecting skylights help
circulate the air, keeping it cool and fresh.
Pedestrian transportation is by way of stairs and elevators
that connect to the electric trolley above. Vehicle transportation
within Butte Below is limited to a few service tunnels, which are
for electric vehicles only. Traffic along these service tunnels is
strictly restricted to commerce or maintenance. Lots of drones
and sensors are deployed throughout the city in order to
monitor atmospheric quality, seismic activity, and to maintain
wireless Matrix services. Drones are more popular than pets
in Butte Below, with various flying or crawling types that don’t
worry about confined spaces.
Housing for the lower and middle classes are simply
carved rooms, ranging from 100 to 250 square foot, stacked
up the sides of the caverns in a fashion similar to above-
ground condos. Stairs and elevators run up the exterior,
connecting to each floor. Plumbing is a luxury, so there are
communal restrooms and shower facilities built into each
floor to minimize construction costs. Drinking water also
needs to be brought in. Conveniently, the rooms have power
and wireless connectivity that is more stable than other
places. If you’re one of the lucky ones, you have a window
overlooking one of the great caverns. Ceiling height is also
a premium within these condos; it’s more cost effective the
less you have to carve out, plus you can stack more shorter
units. The average ceiling height is two meters. If you want
three meters, plan on adding fifty percent to the price, or
getting a higher-class lifestyle. For dwarves, you can say
there is a bit of a gripe against them as their carved homes
cost two-thirds the price and are 1.5 meters in height.
Landlords of Butte Below don’t discriminate, so if you can
survive the claustrophobia and pay the price, it’s yours.
Don’t think about carving out your own space though, as
you risk breaking through your neighbor’s floor or ceiling.
Mining is highly restricted, and the Butte Council can issue
hefty fines and evictions for those digging without permits.
There are few luxury places here, however, as most prefer to
live in Butte and see the horizon.
COPPER STADIUM
Hollowed from one of the bigger veins of ore under the
town, this massive cavern was enclosed until engineers
found faults and there was not enough structure to keep
buildings from sinking. Once the heaviest building fell, en-
gineers from Montana Tech removed the entire ceiling of
the cavern. The hole was just over two hundred meters wide
by the time the engineers were done. The most impressive
aspect was the acoustics the cavern retained. It was aptly
renovated into a stadium with built-in seating. It was large
Neighborhoods
enough to host sporting events and rock concerts. Because
of the natural stone, it has been promoted for use in sha-
manic rituals that benefit from connection to rock forma-
tions. So far, Copper Stadium has had various bands play,
but no sports teams have wanted to move there. Still, the
college sports look impressive.
DANTE’S GOLF
In another mining tunnel collapse near Washoe Street, an en-
gineer surveyed the results and had an idea. The irregular slop-
ing terrain could be reclaimed into a golf course, the engineer
concluded. Not quite Pebble Beach, but a challenging nine-
hole golf course with cliff face holes and dramatic changes in
terrain height between the hole and the box. He figured that
with all that AR feedback and wireless golf balls, the game had
become too easy. Dante’s Golf Course has almost thirty me-
ters of elevation change from the surface starting box to the
seventh hole. Sand traps exist so that the ball doesn’t roll off
a cliff edge. Various bridges and staircases connect the whole
course, so a degree of fitness is required to play. Drones are
necessary for ball tracking and retrieval. In some cases, Dante
provides a drone golfer for those hard-to-reach places. This
gives golfers an option to play the field instead of conceding a
penalty shot. Dante’s Course remains popular enough that the
owner purchased the Highland View golf course with ideas of
expanding Dante’s to eighteen holes.
TEN-MILE NILE
With the diversion of underground water from the Berkeley
Pit, and in an effort to prevent flooding, an almost straight
channel of water runs east to west and connects to a series
of waterfalls and artesian wells beneath the city and out near
Little Basin Creek. Ten-Mile Nile is an exemplary architectural
achievement by Montana Tech engineers. Part of this water
feature is diverted to the water treatment plant and to a hy-
droponics chamber; the other part is used as a heat sink to
control the temperature. Technically, the water is potable, but
no one drinks straight from the Nile. Artistic evaporation col-
umns in various locations use water vapor to cool the air and
create circulating air currents.
THE RABBIT HOLE
This bar is carved at the lowest point in Butte Below off a
winding path from a maintenance shaft. The bar is well lit,
and the walls are intricately carved with paranormal crea-
tures. There’s an AR overlay that gives the bar’s ornament a
subtle animation. This bar allows drinking but not smoking:
being in the depths of Butte, any reduction of clear oxygen
is frowned upon. Alice, the owner of the Rabbit Hole, has
made it a point to have oxygen scrubbers and a back door
that opens up to the Ten-Mile Nile. Some seedy business is
discussed in the Rabbit Hole, stuff you don’t want other eyes
and ears to hear or see.
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GAME Perception +2, Pilot Ground Craft +1, Stealth skill group
+1, Unarmed Combat +2, Street Knowledge: Lakota Mafia

INFORMATION
+4, Street Knowledge: [City] +3

MEMBER OF THE LOST

SIOUX NATION LIFE Attributes: Charisma +1, Strength +1
MODULE ADDITION Skills: Blades +2, Cracking skill group +1, Con +1,
Demolitions +1, Electronics skill group +1, Intimidation
Primary Language: Anishinaabe, Athabaskan, Iroquoian, +1, Stealth skill group +1, Etiquette +1, Perception +1, Pilot
Siouan Ground Craft +1
Secondary Languages: Anishinaabe, Athabaskan, Iro- Requirement: Must be an elf
quoian, Siouan
Universal Skills: Archery +2, Knowledge: History +1,
Knowledge: NAN +1 MEMBER OF DRUID’S WOLVES
Region: Attributes: Body +1, Strength +1
Anglo Reservation: (Change Primary Language: English), Qualities: Toughness (9)
Blades +2, Language: Sioux Streetspeak (ka-ne-tsv)+1, Per- Skills: Demolitions +1, Firearms skill group +2, Heavy
ception +1, Sneaking +1, Street Knowledge: Sioux Culture Weapons +1, Throwing Weapons +1, Perception +1,
+1, SINner (5) Pilot Ground Craft +2, Running +1, Stealth skill group +1,
Survival +2, Professional Knowledge: SDF Tactics +1
EDUCATION
MONTANA TECH
LIFESTYLES
AND GEOMANCY (40)
Attributes: Logic +1 RULES CLARIFICATIONS FOR
Skills: Computers +2, Perception +1, Chemistry +1,
Demolitions +1, Industrial Mechanic +2, Professional
Knowledge: Geology +3, Professional Knowledge:
THE VARIOUS LIFESTYLES
Parageology +3, Professional Knowledge: Surveying +1 Lifestyles (Ordered from low to high for determining if an
Any Magician: May reduce Computers to +1 and add entertainment costs nuyen and quality requirement purposes):
Arcana +1 • Street
• Squatter/Bolt Hole

REAL LIFE • Low/Traveler

MEMBER OF THE ANCIENT
ORDER OF HIBERNIANS
Attributes: Intuition +1, Reaction +1
Qualities: SINner (5)
Skills: Animal Handling +1, First Aid +1, Influence skill
group +2, Perception +1, Pilot Ground Craft +1, Running
+1, Unarmed Combat +2, Professional Knowledge:
Corporate Law +5, Professional Knowledge: Law
Enforcement Protocols +5, Professional Knowledge: SDF
Tactics +4
MEMBER OF
THE LAKOTA MAFIA
Qualities: Made Man (5), Criminal SIN (10)
Skills: Blades +1, Con +2, Demolitions +1, Escape Artist +1,
Etiquette +1, Firearms skill group +3, Forgery +1, Hardware
+1, Intimidation +2, Leadership +1, Negotiation +1,
• Middle/Commercial
• High/Hospitalized
• Luxury
Entertainment options that have Bolt Hole, Traveler,
Commercialized, or Hospitalized for a minimum lifestyle are specific
to the lifestyle. These options always cost money if applied to any
other lifestyle.
STARTING NUYEN TABLE
LIFESTYLE STARTING NUYEN
Street/Bolt Hole 1D6 x 20¥
Squatter 2D6 x 40¥
Low/Traveler 3D6 x 60¥
Middle/Commercial 4D6 x 100¥
High 5D6 x 500¥
Luxury 6D6 x 1,000¥
Hospitalized lifestyle does not provide starting nuyen.

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ADDITIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT
OPTIONS
ESCAPE TUNNEL
There’s always a way out. From your residence, you have a
secondary exit connected by a hidden tunnel. This tunnel is
concealed at both ends (–4 dice pool penalty for Perception
Tests in finding the exit or entrance to the tunnel. Increase the
penalty by 1 per point spent after the first). The distance from
your residence to the escape tunnel exit can vary based on
the points spent.
Point Cost: Each point adds 100 meters to the escape tunnel
Type: Asset
Monthly Nuyen Cost: +75¥ per point
Minimum Lifestyle: Squatter
GARAGE (P. 221, RUN FASTER)
New additions to the garage asset: stable.
STABLE
Some people have to go old school, that sometimes means
going down to one horsepower. A stable provides a favor-
able environment and secure location for domesticated an-
imal transportation as well as space for veterinary tools to
care for the animal. Monthly cost covers feeding and care for
one animal. Note that the gamemaster may adjust the cost of
the stable based on the size of the animal and its needs.
Point Cost: 1
Type: Asset
Monthly Nuyen Cost: 200¥
Minimum Lifestyle: Middle
ADDITIONAL
LIFESTYLE OPTIONS
DUG A HOLE
(POSITIVE QUALITY)
For bolt holes only. People would believe you fell off the
face of the earth while using this bolt hole. It is so remote
or obscure that a tactical nuke in the general area would
be a better alternative to putting in the effort to find you.
Add an additional +2 the threshold of any test involving
someone trying to track a character who is living la vida
bolt hole. +2,000¥
GAME INFORMATION
HAUNTED
(NEGATIVE QUALITY)
Like the trideo of the house built on a graveyard, your resi-
dence has a bad karmic history. On occasion, toxic/insect/
etc. spirits, ghosts, or creepy (and dangerous) critters visit or
take up residence. If necessary, these critters gain an addi-
tional +4 dice to any test to bypass/defeat security measures.
Examples include an apartment in Glow City (Redmond),
squatting in the subway of Chicago; the burial ground of a
serial killer’s victims, or the site of a mass-murder. Reduce
Lifestyle cost by twenty percent.
HOUSEHOLD GREMLINS
(NEGATIVE QUALITY)
While the house looks nice, it constantly needs attention.
One week it may be the roof leaks, another time it’s the air
conditioner, or maybe power to the kitchen. Every month the
game master rolls 1D6. If it’s a hit, something falls apart at
the home, reducing the C&I of the lifestyle for that month. At
level 1, reduce the C&I for that month by 1; at level 2, reduce
C&I by 2. Lifestyle must have a C&I equal to or greater than
the Household Gremlin can reduce. Reduce Lifestyle cost by
300 nuyen for level 1, 600 for level 2.
LIMITED BUILDING SPACE
(NEGATIVE QUALITY)
Wherever you reside, the place was built within limited space,
be it within an established urban jungle or in actual outer space
(which is, admittedly, pretty rare). So things are abnormally close.
Occupancy of the residence is limited to the number of room-
mates—no guests. If there is more than that, reduce the dice pool
of any skill test done in the residence by 1 per person over the
limit due to the close quarters. Add 1 point to the base Lifestyle.
SAMPLE LIFESTYLES
ABANDONED MINE
(BOLT HOLE)
You’ve really found yourself a hole to hide in, and not the
six-foot deep kind. Generations of prospectors have left their
mark on the landscape, so even if the people looking for you
find the right one, there’s likely a few hundred meters of tun-
nels that you can escape through.
Comforts & Necessities: 2
Security: 2
Neighborhood: 1
Entertainment: Escape Tunnel (2 pt)
Qualities: Dug a Hole, Not a Home, W Zone
Points remaining: 1
Cost: 3,200¥
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CABBAGE PATCH SHANTY SIOUX TERRITORY SMUGGLER
(SQUATTER) LIFESTYLE (TRAVELER)
Living in the Cabbage Patch means that your shanty is made City life is too soft for you. In your life as a smuggler, you
of scrounged building material and held together by duct have built various caches around the outskirts of town, from
tape and prayers. You’ve made it as comfortable as possible an abandoned cabin to a natural cave. You’ve made a few
with pirated power, but occasionally Mother Nature will keep modifications in each so that you can always take care of
you busy with keeping the rain out or the heat in. your wheels, no matter what cache you’re at.
Comforts & Necessities: 2 Comforts & Necessities: 2[4]
Security: 2 Security: 2[4]
Neighborhood: 1 Neighborhood: 2[4]
Entertainment: None Entertainment: Varies
Qualities: Household Gremlins (Lvl 1) Qualities: One Good Thing About This Place (Garage 2 pts),
Points remaining: 0 W Zone
Cost: 300¥ a month Points remaining: Varies; 1D6 + 1 (with 2 allocated for Ga-
rage)
WALKERVILLE/GHOST TOWN Cost: Starting at 3,100¥ a month

HOMESTEADER (LOW)
THE RABBIT HOLE
Walkerville isn’t so bad. Sure, there’s work to keep the batteries
charged for lights and the water pump, plus all the foodstuffs
(COMMERCIAL)
have to be locked down to prevent rats and other vermin to This bar is carved at the lowest point in Butte Below off a
get into them. Oh, and then there’s the shambling figure that winding path from a maintenance shaft. The bar is well lit,
walks the streets every Thursday. It may be a drunken prospec- and the walls are intricately carved with paranormal crea-
tor or a zombie. Either way, keep the shotgun handy. tures. This bar allows drinking, but no smoking, being in the
Comforts & Necessities: 3 depths of Butte. Many come here for private meetings.
Security: 3 Comforts & Necessities: 3
Neighborhood: 2 Security: 3
Entertainment: None Neighborhood: 4
Qualities: Haunted, Garage (Stable), W Zone Entertainment: Escape Tunnel (1 pt), Merchandise: Goods
Points remaining: 1 (Low Quality Alcohol), Private Room
Cost: 2,080¥ a month Qualities: None
Points remaining: 1
BUTTE BELOW RESIDENCE Cost: 8,000¥ a month

(MIDDLE)
Residents here live in climate-controlled subterranean dwell-
ings. With all the mining that went on, residential space is
limited to prevent structure collapse. With everything made
of stone and limited space to loiter, people feel more secure
down here then up above in Butte proper.
Comforts & Necessities: 4
Security: 3
Neighborhood: 4
Entertainment: Public Transportation
Qualities: Extra Secure, Limited Building Space
Points remaining: 2
Cost: 6,500¥ a month

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