Twinkle Twinkle - Notable Locations, people & Items

Player Safehouse(s):

Notable Items:
The Artifact - This little sucker is the ultimate source behind all your present problems it would seem, at least from what Spade had said. Ares seems to believe it has something to do with insect spirits, though to all of you it had seemed a relatively harmless and mundane (if very, very old) Egyptian diorama of an insect plague ravaging a farmer's field carved out of some sort of stone. No one had really bothered to appraise it much since the client had insisted it was the real one and specifically what they wanted. They didn't seem to provide many details and the money they offered had been almost too good to be true. Still, at the end of the day when the job was over they actually paid up and simply left with their new prize, and leaving the survivors literally millionaires.

Past Locations:
Spawn's Warehouse - This is where the trouble all started (this time around anyway). The group had been called in for a meeting that turned into an ambush by their old team leader, apparently on behalf of the AAA corporation Ares Macrotechnology. (More details to come later)

Herman Jester's Mansion - This is the residence of the man you broke into to steal the artifact. Security had seemed a little on the lax side at first, but had soon proven capable enough and resulted in the deaths of several team mates.

Present Locations:
Chen's Safehouse: Triad controlled
Darkon has gained Chen as a 3/2 Contact. Gala gains him as a 3/1

Notable People:
Herman Jester - A reclusive but rich collector of assorted artifacts, he's known to travel the world personally in search of his next addition. While he's known to travel with a retinue of guards, and once made many public appearances he's seemingly gone to ground since his collection was hit. Still, he pops up time to time, especially at various notable auctions of historical items before disappearing again. To date his bidding habits seem to be more by whim and fancy rather than any particular area of interest and as a result he's considered by many others in the circles he deals with to be eccentric at best.

Spade - A once charismatic man, even though he was heavily augmented. Smarter than your average street sam he also became the group's defacto leader over time and certainly proved he earned it. Known for having a cool head and a mind for tactics, the loss of Fractyl and Blip to his apparently carelessness or or causes eventually drove him to drink and from there to drugs and BTLs. The group hadn't heard a peep from him for years save for the occasional splash in the news about the odd stunt that made minor news on yet some latest binge of excess. Seemed to clean up his act a year or two ago before he betrayed everyone for reasons unknown.

Fractyl - One time team mate, group Hacker. KIA on the 'Big Run'
Blip - One time team mate, group rigger/mechanic. KIA on the 'Big Run'

Sid: A hacker from The Exchange. For the most part all the group knows about Sid is that he seems to be a fairly straight forward guy though a little lost in the trix. Still he's clearly got some combat experience under his belt and he's an incredibly good hacker who seems only limited by the hardware he has to use. KIA - Enemy Agent.

Interpol Inspector: Details unknown but some how tied to the figurines and kidnapping of Darkon's children.

Minotaur Bartender: Bartender at a gay bar, supposedly knows something about Spade. Details are sparse at the moment but Minotaur are not common in Seattle so finding him shouldn't be too hard.