Liberty City

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- Bullion Run. • 2001

Federal Reserve platinum is left all over Pike Creek after a messy collision.

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- Rumble. • 2001

The last remaining Purple Nines alive want to ditch their guns and go out the old fashioned way.

Claude & D-Ice’s brother make paste of all standing in the park with their baseball bats.

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... • 2001

The Purple Nines set has gone the way of Rollin’ Heights Ballas.

Red Jacks now consume Wichita Gardens entirely. Time will tell if Southside Hoods dwell on further greediness once this SPANK fad dies out.

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- S.A.M. • 2001

Loaded SPANK dodo makes a fiery land on the Francis International runway.

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- Ransom. • 2001

Claude returns to Panlantic to find Asuka & Miguel already dead. Maria’s indeed being used as leverage, but that’s not what this is truly about.

Catalina, like her counterpart, is someone who wants to finish things through.

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- Love’s Disappearance. • 2001

Claude swings by the Love Media building for help, only to be met with serene absence.

Donald Love’s whereabouts are unknown. Old Oriental Gentleman gone as well. 

Maybe the Cartel got to them. Maybe Love knew the price on Speed was far too high, and was only protecting himself.

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- The Exchange. • 2001

Weeks on end of job after job... each one more risky than the last...

For once, this wasn’t anyone else’s objective.

He’s gonna put this bitch in the fucking ground for himself.

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... • 2001

Claude was left to play around in Liberty City and revel in the chaos he’s inflicted.

Most of the city wants him dead. The couple gangs that are allied catch on eventually.

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... • 2001

Half of the Cartel was killed in the assault on the Cochrane Dam.

SPANK strain was over, which meant the drug trade would revert back to the usual coke, heroin, meth, etc...

Colombian Cartel retired to Cedar Grove until eventually moving business elsewhere.

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... • 2001

Kanbu took on the role of Waka Kashira for Johnny Zoo and the Yakuza.

Following Asuka & Kenji’s death, Yakuza also gave up on their ventures with Liberty. They could cut even that most of their rivals on the east coast got it harder than they did.

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... • 2001

Saint Mark’s neighborhood was never the same. The locals didn’t like Joey & Anthony the way they loved Don Salvatore.

The only way La Cosa Nostra could save face in Liberty was having the Gambetti family absorb what’s left, and making Jon Gravelli the last charming old face of the Commission.

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... • 2001

Lazlow had spent the entire time hosting the wildly popular Chatterbox. It had been on LCFR for years, but only since July ‘01 has it been successful enough to earn its own station.

Chatterbox would shut down the following year due to Lazlow’s dabble in payola.