#redfell

[the-great-elwisty]

Neverember Day 1: Home

#a/n. I had the first few hundred words of this written already and lurking on my harddrive. I've now turned it into a full scene. It was actually meant to be three scenes, but time just isn't playing along and I'm about to fall asleep. 😴 It features the protagonist of my main NWN2 fanfic universe plus Georg Redfell No proofreading has happened yet. Will try to do that tomorrow!

She smoothed down her tunic, checked the soles of her boots were clean, and ran a hand through her hair in case the charm she used on it had gone flat in the humidity. Then, putting on what she hoped was her best, most winning smile, she knocked.

Georg’s door was open already, but announcing her presence seemed like the classy thing to do. A Mossfeld would lumber straight in and kick splinters off the doorframe at the same time. One of the hearty, good-natured, and boring Lannon clan would yell whatever was on their mind from the threshold in a voice moulded for summoning cattle home over mudflats. If her stepfather needed the ear of the village mayor, he’d appear like a winter ghost from the shadows of the inglenook, deliver a few sentences held tweezered at arm’s length by his cold monotone, then vanish before the possibility of conversation could arise.

I’m going to be better than that, she thought. No, I am better than that.

“Afternoon, Georg.”

The mayor of West Harbour was at his desk, a parchment in front of him. Although he was a big man, and the quill he was using seemed too small for his farmer’s – and swordsman’s – hand, he held it nevertheless with an easy, correct, grip, the index finger and thumb resting lightly a half inch above the nib. Just in the way that Tarmas had taught her and that she now endeavoured to teach the village children in turn.

“Lila. By the mercy of Chauntea, is the village burning down? It’s not midday yet, and you’re out of bed.”

Once, or twice, or perhaps a few dozen times during her adolescence, she’d been late for shared tasks or appointments after sleeping soundly through first light and later. It was one of several details of her history that Georg would never let her forget. But it could be worse: he never mentioned Cormick. Nor did he mention lizardmen, druids or her last abysmal escape attempt.

In submission to the joke, she gave a deep bow and spread her arms so that the long sleeves of her tunic touched the plain floorboards.

Georg squinted past her. “Dragons?” He craned further. “Rakshasas?”

“Ah ha,” she said flatly and raised an eyebrow. As often with Georg, she felt trapped in a place between annoyance and laughter. “Dragons say they can’t make it today. The rakshasa are going to Stormwreck Isle instead for the climate.” 

“We’ve got the best climate of anywhere between the sea and The Green Dragon.”

“There are no other villages between the sea and The Green Dragon.”

“There’s the Tumble and – “

“–and the caves and the ruins and the mystery band of swamp druids that only you ever see.” She’d reached for the wrong example there: Georg span up oddities and fancies all the time to populate his stories.

But the druids were real, or as real as anything ever was in marsh fever country. Bevil had said that Simon had told him that his girl Runcie had overheard Orlen talking to Daeghun about trading with some druids who were camping in the lea of Faross Tower. Of course, she’d grabbed him and Amie and gone to investigate, slogging a mile out across the home salt flats in a mizzle rain, only to reach the little meadow under the crumbling lighthouse and find nothing there. Not a thread of strange cloth, not a silver pin, not a nut.

“That’s right. We’re better here than all that lot. When I was a lad in Daggerdale–”  

“A tenday ago it was Amn,” she pointed out.

“When I was a lad in Daggerdale, after I lived in Amn and before I moved to Halruaa for the business with the harpies which I told you about before,” said Georg, reshuffling his details without smiling or pausing to blink, “I would never have believed myself so lucky as to live in a place without real winters or summers.” “Last winter the lake froze, and we all put sledge runners on the boats.”

“In Daggerdale the snow drifts come up past your eyebrows. Every winter you sit in your cabin, living on rations, waiting to see if the first thing to dig through to you will be your friends or a horn-toothed snowgre with a toasting fork.”

Snowgre was a new one. A muscle in her face must have twitched somewhere, because Georg opened his eyes wide in a display of earnest credulity that might have convinced a child, if the child was very young and very naïve.

Had there ever been a point when she believed Georg’s stories? She would like to think that she’d come into the world wise to them, but she also had a stubborn memory of once upon a time excavating a three-foot hole along with Bevil because some respected authority figure had told them that a djinn’s flask locked in a golden casket could be found down there. Retta Starling had marched in to pull them out just as the lustrous, slithering clay walls began to collapse in on their creators.

And for days afterwards, going back to that spot and imagining the glittering casket in the earth, still safe in its dark blanket, just a little further away than she could reach.

“Anway, Georg–” she pressed her nerves down, and tried to sound casual yet also confident and good in a fight. Not like the woman who’d missed the militia’s only real battle because when it happened she’d been in a rocky hollow to the south of West Harbour, persuading a line of ants to turn in a circle to the beat of her tabor, and hadn’t heard the yelling to the north. “I wanted to ask about that escort you’re putting together to meet Galen at the Green Dragon this summer. I’d like to volunteer.”  

“Thought you might,” said Georg. “Yes, the escort…” He massaged the edge of his aged desk with his thumb.

“Setting out a month before the fair, I heard, and going up to Leilon first, then down to the Dragon.” When she was growing up, there’d been constant traffic between Leilon and the village. Well, regular traffic. One caravan per month, at least. Then, when she was of age and desperate to see more of the world than the swamp, it had all died away. Patches of reeds were already colonising he straight road north, and pools lay thick across it for most of the year.

“That’s right.”  

Georg looked at her. She’d carefully composed a list of reasons why she should be included in the escort, and they all abandoned her. She suspected they hadn’t been brilliant reasons in any case. If you want to make sure a merchant can travel safely to your harvest fair, then sending him the toughs with combat experience rather than the local schoolteacher might strike you as a better option.

Gods, the bastard was going to send the Mossfelds, wasn’t he? Galen might be better off chancing the orcs and lizards on his own. At least the standards of conversation would be higher.

There was something she didn’t like in his expression. He had started to avoid her gaze. “I’ll be fine,” she said. “And Galen won’t be counting on just me, though I swear I won’t let anything happen to him. I’ll keep him safe.” She paused. “I’ll even get up militia drill early.”

Georg shook his head. “It’s not that.” He threw his quill down on the desk and leaned back in his chair. Flexed his fingers, then folded his arms over his chest. “I’m withdrawing the offer of an escort. Orlen and Daeghun and a few of the others say it’s getting more dangerous out in the depths of the Mere. More of the usual, and there’s worse things crawling out of the bric-a-brac the ancients left us with, bless their souls. The capable people we have should stay here.”

He gave her the kind of serious look that meant that he was including her among the capable people. She supposed she should have feel somehow buoyed up by that. In times past, she surely would have.

His skin was dark, though not as dark as hers. The corners of his eyes crinkled readily into laughter lines, and one side of his mouth rose a little higher than the other when he smiled. He wasn’t her blood father, but he and Retta and Tarmas between them had almost made up for her lack of parents.

They had none of them taken her away from Daeghun though. That was the heart of the problem. Georg was much cleverer than he pretended, and he’d been happy to clown for her when she was a child, nudge her into taking on responsibilities as she grew older, and trade jokes with her as an adult. But the thing she’d really needed – to grow up with a foster carer who didn’t hate the sight of her – that he hadn’t been willing to do. Just like he wouldn’t get involved with Kipp and his family now.

“Let me know if you change your mind,” she said, careful not to let any anger show. Alienating the village mayor would be – what was that phrase in Tarmas’s latest circular? – casting seconds before centuries.

“It’s West Harbour, lass. If I change my mind, you’ll know before I do.”

She plastered on her best smile and went out.

Well, that was another escape plan struck off. Time for the next one.

[awesomedndlocations]

Tag system:

- mobs

- places

- collection reference

- battlemap

- plot hooks

- items

- gods

Mentioned locations so far:

- Encephis

- Redfell

- Chiotto

[smlpodcast]

The SML Podcast - Episode 870: Redfell

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News, reviews, and Jacob being late. It's like the greatest hits of our show if we had any hits!

The show kicks off with Aki on hand to talk about the fact that Jacob is late. But since he's late, Bri "Lady Magritte" Galgano joins the show to hang out and chat news with us. Then Jacob shows up and ruins everything. New topics this episode include the latest Xbox Game Pass additions and departures, the uphill battle for Xbox after the disappointing Redfall release, Super Mega Baseball 4, sales figures, release dates, and tons more! Plus reviews!

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[arstudios2000]

Underfell Retold sketchdump.

1. Papyrus realizes he’s dating the wrong age group.

2. Metta-13′s facial looks and Sans’s rigntone.

3. Sans does not like the human’s flirting.

4. Papyrus’s helmet and Red.

5. Undyne doesn’t like Papyrus’s dickery.

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[wcrldcnfire]

Georg Redfell: Hnh. Looks like you picked up an admirer. Well met there, boy. You sweep her off your seat from some seedy tavern, did you?

Bishop: Oh, yeah, she wasn't even conscious when we were married.

Casavir: Mind your tongue, Bishop.

Bishop: As long as she's here to do it for me? Come now.

Georg Redfell: Well put, well put.

[theleightonredfell]

 Is that [NATHANIEL BUZOLIC]? No, that’s [LEIGHTON REDFELL]. The [30] year old [OMEGA] [MALE] is a/an/the [COOK] of/in the [SABRE] pack. If you ask their friends, they’re known to be [STRONG] & [WILLING], but they urge you to be cautious, because they’re also known to be [CUNNING] & [DECEITFUL]. Their friends also say that they’re into [ROUGH SEX, MULTIPLE PARTNERS, KNOTTING, SWALLOWING] but don’t even think about trying [SCAT, HEAVY BONDAGE] with them. [ADAM, 24, HE/HIM, GMT]

Brief Biography or Background:

GROWING UP, LEIGHTON HAD BEEN ALONE. HE LIKED IT THAT WAY AT FIRST - NO RULES AS SUCH AND NO ONE TO IMPRESS OR DISAPPOINT. UP UNTIL FINDING A PACK, HE WAS A LONER OFTEN HAVING TO FEND FOR HIMSELF AFTER LOSING HIS PARENTS AT A YOUNG AGE.

AFTER FINDING OUT HIS SECOND GENDER, HE WENT PROMISCUOUS AND SLEPT WITH ALPHAS AND OMEGAS ALIKE. IT WAS ONLY AFTER HIS FIRST KNOT THAT HE YEARNED FOR IT MORE. AFTER HAVING HIS PUP, HE TRIED TO SETTLE WITH THE ALPHA BUT STILL STRUGGLES AND SECRETLY OFFERS HIMSELF TO ALPHAS IN RUT OR OMEGAS IN HEAT. TO LEIGHTON SEX IS SEX - JUST HOW HE LIKES IT

[gothighunicorntolerance]

In League With Dragons- chapter fifteen

A Light in the Sky

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It was several weeks before Nico mustered the courage to ask about the pearl he had found in Thomas’s bag while they were in Redfell.

The thought of it had been lodged in his brain, nagging him to find out more ever since he had found it and Janus had told him that Thomas had made it, but he couldn’t bring himself to mention it to Thomas. Every time he began to consider the question, it was as if he had lost the ability to speak. 

Because what if Thomas got mad at him for looking in his bag? What if Janus had lied to him, and he was making a bigger deal of it than he needed to? What if, what if, what if!

But finally, when he could stand the buzzing thoughts no more, he took a deep breath and asked with a careful script he had planned since they had made their great escape. 

“In the city… When I got our bags back, I went through yours to see if they had taken anything. And I didn’t mean to snoop, but… I found something. A necklace, in your pocket. Janus said…”

“Janus said I made it for you?”

Nico nodded, feeling the heat rise to his cheeks. “I really didn’t mean to-“

“No, no. He’s right. I made it for you. And I was almost done with it, too. If you can wait until tonight, I’ll tell you everything.”

“Why tonight?”

“Because,” Thomas smiled. “I need to make sure everything’s ready.”

That night, as soon as the sun had fully disappeared over the horizon, Thomas led Nico up the hill to sit beneath the old willow tree.

“There!” Thomas pointed to the sky as streaks of bright color ran across the stars. “This is why tonight.”

Color continued to cascade across the sky, until every star shone with hues of everything from green to pink to almost fluorescent blue!

Nico huddled close to Thomas under the blankets that Thomas had set up as they sat together under the willow tree, looking up at the multicolored sky through the frost-covered boughs. 

As the streaks of color paraded through the night, Thomas cleared his throat and turned to Nico.

“Nico?”

“Hmm?”

“I- I have something to tell you. What I’ve been meaning to say to you.”

Nico turned to look at Thomas and shifted the blanket around his shoulders, then nodded to show Thomas that he was listening.

“Well…” Thomas’s shoulders shook as he took a sharp inhale. “I’ve been trying to find the best way to tell you for a while now, but I think just… ripping off the bandage is the best way.”

Nico’s mind raced. What could be so important that it would linger with Thomas for ages?

“Nico,” Thomas continued. “I think- I think I’m in love with you. Now- now before you say anything else, I- uh- need to say more.”

Even if he wanted to, Nico didn’t think he was capable of speaking. So he only stared at Thomas, wide-eyed and open-mouthed, his chapped lips parting to form an ‘o’ in surprise.

“I don’t know when I started feeling these things for you, but… every time I see you, I want to be with you. When I’m with you, I want to be closer. I want to touch you more than just brushing next to you. I want to hug you and never let go.”

Thomas took another deep breath and exhaled, a cloud of white fog bursting from his lips that Nico couldn’t pull his gaze away from. 

“I think you’re just… amazing. And I know you’re the first not-dragon I have a real relationship with, but… I care about you so much more than I have the words to tell you. You underestimate yourself, but you’re very brave, and incredibly smart, and you’re so kind… and you’re also beautiful. Everything about you. And- oh, I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore. I had rehearsed what I was going to say, but as soon as I said your name, I forgot everything.”

Nico sat in stunned silence as Thomas finished. Whatever he had expected Thomas to say, that hadn’t been it. 

“Oh,” Thomas sighed when he looked at Nico. “I’ve gone and ruined everything, didn’t I? You look… you look like I’ve said something wrong.”

“No!” Nico hastily replied, almsot shouting, then corrected himself. “No. No, you didn’t say anything wrong. It’s just that… I didn’t expect it. Nobody’s ever told me anything like that before, and… I didn’t think you felt that way. And I didn’t want to think that you did, because I guess I was afraid that I would get my hopes up.”

“What do you mean?”

“Because I feel the same way. I was afraid to say so because I didn’t want to lose what we had. Because there have been so many times where I wanted to move closer to you but always said it was because I was cold, not because I simply wanted to. And because I really, really want to kiss you right now.”

He fell quiet at the last part, only speaking above a whisper, but his confession seemed to hang in the air the way their could’ve breaths did, visible for anyone to see then gone just a moment later, though the feeling lingered much longer.

After a beat, Thomas replied. “What?”

Nico cursed himself. He had taken it too far already! “Sorry,” he mumbled. “I thought before I spoke.”

“No! I mean, it's… I think I would like that. I don’t know. I’ve never kissed anyone before.”

“Neither have I,” Nico admitted. “I always thought I was weird for not wanting to make out in some dark alleyway like everyone else seemed to, but I just never felt that way about anyone until you.”

Thomas nodded. “I… I think I also want to kiss you. Can we? Is that okay?”

“Yeah,” Nico said, his voice trembling slightly with either nerves or surprise. He couldn’t tell which. “Yeah, that’s okay.”

They shifted themself so that they were facing each other, and Thomas slowly put one hand on Nico’s shoulder, the other resting around his waist. Nico slowly found his hands finding their own place, both on Thomas’s collarbones, one on each side. 

Nico glanced at Thomas for one last nod of approval, which the other gave. Nico brought himself closer and-

He laughed as their noses crashed into each other, nearly knocking Nico!s glasses off his face.

“Ow!” Thomas snickered and clapped his hand over his nose. 

Nico couldn’t stop himself from giggling. “I’m so sorry!”

“I’m fine!” Thomas shook his head. “I’m fine! Can we… try that again?”

In response, Nico replaced his hands to where they had been and leaned back in towards Thomas, this time remembering to tilt his head slightly. 

Their lips touched, chapped and freezing, and Nico felt himself pull Thomas even closer. They moved clumsily, finding and adjusting and grinning. They broke apart after a moment and looked at each other, Nico smiling wider than he had in quite some time. 

I can’t believe I did that!

It was barely more than a peck, but Nico felt himself grow warm with emotion. 

“That was nice,” Nico whispered, breaking the silence. 

Thomas nodded in agreement, his eyes falling to his hands, which he had retracted to his lap, but Nico grabbed for Thomas’s hand, lacing their fingers together. He didn’t want to part so soon. 

Thomas’s face was bright red, the color of the filling of Florence’s cherry pie. Nico couldn’t be quite sure if it was because of the cold or because of the kiss, but he felt confident assuming the latter. 

What an odd feeling it all was, the knowledge that he could bring Thomas’s face into that wide, goofy grin with a single grab of his hand.

Nico leaned his head on Thomas’s shoulder and smiled as he turned his eyes towards Thomas. He felt Thomas’s hand snake around his waist, pulling him close before Thomas rested his own head on top of Nico's. 

And there, in the freezing dead of night staring up at the constantly shifting colors of the sky, Nico finally felt at home in Thomas’s arms.

It felt right. 

The two stayed out late into the night, long after the last streak of color had faded from the sky, simply sitting together. Even when they stood the walk back down the hill to go to bed, they stayed pressed up against each other, reluctant to part both because of the chill that hung in the air and because it just felt nice to be so close. Even in their shared bed, they stayed touching.

[au-catalog]

Goldfell

Author: Devil Twin Owner: Devil Twin Date of creation: September 16, 2018 Type: Personality change, take Status: Community owned Old names: Underfell Gold Math formula: goldfell Links: YouTube

Redfell is a Underfell take that gains Fellswap Gold when swapped.

[ayatolee]

Hey everyone, Ayato here!

So basically my parents came up with this brilliant (🙄) idea of sending me off to some academy in Siqv-Mbong (Redfell), a city located in the mountains of Hungh (King) County, Yaodainam (Country).

Can't believe they're making me go but my mother insisted that I ought to know more about my father's side of the family and thought the academy would be a very good start since the majority of my relatives goes to that school.

[ask-the-swapfell-crew]

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Gunman shoots, wounds US consular official in Mexico

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Gunman shoots, wounds US consular official in Mexico

Mexican prosecutors said Saturday they are searching for a gunman who opened fire on an official of the U.S. consulate in the western city of Guadalajara.The Attorney General's Office said the official was wounded in the attack Friday in Guadalajara. The city is the capital of Jalisco state, which is dominated by the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation cartel. There was no immediate evidence of any cartel link to the attack.The shooting appeared to be a direct attempt to kill the consular employee.Surveillance video of the attack shows the gunman following the official in a parking garage.

The safety and security of our employees overseas is among our highest priorities.

U.S. Embassy in Mexico City

consular employees and other U.S. agents have been attacked in Mexico in the past; the attackers have usually argued the attacks were cases of mistaken identity.In 2014, a Mexican gang leader was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2010 slayings in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, of a U.S. consulate employee, her husband and the husband of another employee.Prosecutors said Arturo Gallegos Castrellon was in charge of a team of assassins with the Barrio Azteca, a gang allied with the Juarez drug cartel, and had ordered the three slayings.The killings of U.S. consulate employee Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton, her husband, Arthur Redfels, and Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, the husband of another consulate employee, as they left a children's birthday party were a mistake, former gang members testified during the trial.Redfels was driving a white SUV that was very similar to a vehicle that Gallegos Castrellon had marked as a target for his team of assassins because they thought it belonged to members of the rival Sinaloa cartel.In 2012, uniformed police pumped 152 bullets into a U.S. Embassy vehicle carrying two CIA officers and a Mexican Navy captain.

We are working closely with Mexican law enforcement ? in this matter.

U.S. Embassy in Mexico City

[breakingnewsandsports]

A US consular official was shot while driving out of a parking garage in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Friday a little after 6 p.m. local time.

The official, identified as Christopher Ashcraft, 31, a foreign-service officer on his first posting with the US State Department, was struck on the upper right side of his chest but is in stable condition, according to Mexican authorities.

Ashcraft works as a vice consul, a US government source told AFP.

"According to the four videos, it was a direct attack," Jalisco state attorney general Eduard Almaguer Ramirez said. Almaguer also told AFP that Ashcraft interviewed visa applicants at the embassy in the city.

The US consulate in the city, which is Mexico's second largest, released footage of the shooting as well as photos of the assailant. No motive for the attack has been established.

One clip of security-camera footage posted by the consulate on its Facebook page shows Ashcraft getting a ticket from a parking-garage machine while dressed in gym attire, then walking to his car with the suspected shooter not far behind him.

Another clip shows the suspect loitering by the street, waiting until Ashcraft's vehicle, a black Honda Fit, exits the parking garage, then taking a gun from his pocket and firing a single shot through the windshield.

Another clip shows the suspect, clad in white shoes and purple pants and shirt possibly meant to appear like a nurse's uniform, running behind a van after the shooting. He was also wearing sunglasses and a dark-colored wig.

After the assailant fires and runs away, the car moves forward and stops, as people run over to the driver's side of the vehicle. Ashcraft was taken to a local hospital for treatment, where he is under protection.

Footage of the shooting is below, but it may be disturbing to some viewers.

According to the consulate's Facebook page, the FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the shooter.

The shooter was apparently targeting Ashcraft. He asked for the US official by name at the gym reception desk and then followed him to his car, a friend of Ashcraft's told The Washington Post.

In the footage below, Ashcraft can be seen retrieving a parking ticket and then walking to his car, with the suspected assailant following.

The friend said Ashcraft was recovering but planned to return to the US. "He has no idea what happened," the friend, who has been in contact with Ashcraft since the shooting, told The Post. "But it wasn’t random."

A source within the Guadalajara police department told The Guardian that authorities found US Drug Enforcement Administration credentials in Ashcraft's name, though the US consulate declined to comment on his position.

The source also said the attack was likely the work of a professional. "That’s not an easy shot," he told The Guardian. "He was probably aiming for the head but he missed as he leaned over to put his ticket in the machine."

While it's not yet known who the shooter was or if he acted on behalf of a Mexican criminal organization, Jalisco state, an economic center, is a hub of cartel activity.

The state is the home base of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, which is widely regarded as one of the country's most powerful cartels. And in mid-December, the alleged leader of the once powerful Beltran Leyva Organization cartel was arrested in a Guadalajara suburb.

The CJNG has proven itself willing to take on Mexican authorities. In May 2015 cartel gunmen downed a Mexican military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing six. Jalisco's southern border has also seen fighting between the CJNG and remnants of the Knights Templar cartel, based in neighboring Michoacan.

"I think that the Mexican cartels, the drug traffickers, have exceedingly become more brazen, and I think that US officials are in danger, very much like we were back in the '80s with the Guadalajara cartel when they kidnapped and assassinated Kiki Camarena," Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations for the DEA who was stationed in Mexico, told Business Insider, referring to the case of Enrique Camarena, a DEA agent who was kidnapped and killed by members of the Guadalajara cartel, then Mexico's strongest cartel, in 1985.

The killing strained US-Mexico relations and triggered a massive crackdown on the Guadalajara cartel, leading to the arrest of its top leaders and knocking it from atop the narco hierarchy.

The US State Department has issued a travel warning for Jalisco, barring US government personnel from "intercity travel after hours" and from using other roads in the area "because of continued instability" in the region.

"The Jalisco New Generation cartel, which operates in that area, is highly violent," Vigil, author of "Metal Coffins: The Blood Alliance Cartel," added. "They don't respect US officials, but what they don't understand is that when these things happen, the full weight of the US government will be brought to bear on them."

Investigators from the US and Mexico will now to tap into a pool of contacts in the region in order to ascertain the identity and motive of the shooter.

"They will activate the large network of informants to make a determination as to whether or not they have any information as to who was responsible for the killings," Vigil told Business Insider. "And there'll be coordination obviously with all US agencies, to include DHS, ATF, the US Marshals, the DEA, because all of them have their own distinct informant network, and ... they'll coordinate with the Mexican federal police, because they'll have jurisdiction."

"But this investigation is not going to go away, and what's very critical in these types of situations is that the Mexican government will be given a lot of support," Vigil added. "They sometimes lack the expertise, but with the US government involved, I can assure that this investigation will move forward in a very focused way."

Attacks on US officials working in Mexico have happened in the past, though in some cases the attackers have said the incidents were the result of mistaken identity.

In 2014, Mexican gang leader Arturo Gallegos Castrellon was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2010 killings of US consulate employee Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton, her husband, Arthur Redfels, and Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, the husband of another consular employee, in a shooting in Ciudad Juarez.

The killings came during the peak of bloody fighting between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels for control of Juarez.

Prosecutors alleged that Castrellon was part of a team of assassins working for Barrio Azteca, an ally of the Juarez cartel, which had ordered the hits. Several gang members testified that the killing was an accident, as the trio was in a car similar to that of members of the Sinaloa cartel.

In 2013, a Mexican drug-cartel lieutenant pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder in relation to the February 15, 2011, attack on ICE agents Jaime Zapata and his partner, Victor Avila, who were driving back to Mexico City after a work-related trip to northern Mexico.

Court documents in the case stated that a Los Zetas cartel commander attempted to hijack the agents' government-issued armored SUV while they were driving on Highway 57 in San Luis Potosi state. After Zetas gunmen forced the SUV off the road, the commander ordered the two agents to get out.

They refused and tried to identify themselves as American diplomats, but the gunmen opened fire, killing Zapata and wounding Avila.

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‘It wasn’t random’: The FBI is offering $20,000 for information on the shooting of a US consular official in Mexico

A US consular official was shot while driving out of a parking garage in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Friday a little after 6 p.m. local time.

The official, identified as Christopher Ashcraft, 31, a foreign-service officer on his first posting with the US State Department, was struck on the upper right side of his chest but is in stable condition, according to Mexican authorities.

Ashcraft works as a vice consul, a US government source told AFP.

“According to the four videos, it was a direct attack,” Jalisco state attorney general Eduard Almaguer Ramirez said. Almaguer also told AFP that Ashcraft interviewed visa applicants at the embassy in the city.

The US consulate in the city, which is Mexico’s second largest, released footage of the shooting as well as photos of the assailant. No motive for the attack has been established.

One clip of security-camera footage posted by the consulate on its Facebook page shows Ashcraft getting a ticket from a parking-garage machine while dressed in gym attire, then walking to his car with the suspected shooter not far behind him.

Another clip shows the suspect loitering by the street, waiting until Ashcraft’s vehicle, a black Honda Fit, exits the parking garage, then taking a gun from his pocket and firing a single shot through the windshield.

Another clip shows the suspect, clad in white shoes and purple pants and shirt possibly meant to appear like a nurse’s uniform, running behind a van after the shooting. He was also wearing sunglasses and a dark-colored wig.

After the assailant fires and runs away, the car moves forward and stops, as people run over to the driver’s side of the vehicle. Ashcraft was taken to a local hospital for treatment, where he is under protection.

Footage of the shooting is below, but it may be disturbing to some viewers.

According to the consulate’s Facebook page, the FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the identification of the shooter.

The shooter was apparently targeting Ashcraft. He asked for the US official by name at the gym reception desk and then followed him to his car, a friend of Ashcraft’s told The Washington Post.

In the footage below, Ashcraft can be seen retrieving a parking ticket and then walking to his car, with the suspected assailant following.

The friend said Ashcraft was recovering but planned to return to the US. “He has no idea what happened,” the friend, who has been in contact with Ashcraft since the shooting, told The Post. “But it wasn’t random.”

A source within the Guadalajara police department told The Guardian that authorities found US Drug Enforcement Administration credentials in Ashcraft’s name, though the US consulate declined to comment on his position.

The source also said the attack was likely the work of a professional. “That’s not an easy shot,” he told The Guardian. “He was probably aiming for the head but he missed as he leaned over to put his ticket in the machine.”

While it’s not yet known who the shooter was or if he acted on behalf of a Mexican criminal organization, Jalisco state, an economic center, is a hub of cartel activity.

The state is the home base of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, which is widely regarded as one of the country’s most powerful cartels. And in mid-December, the alleged leader of the once powerful Beltran Leyva Organization cartel was arrested in a Guadalajara suburb.

The CJNG has proven itself willing to take on Mexican authorities. In May 2015 cartel gunmen downed a Mexican military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing six. Jalisco’s southern border has also seen fighting between the CJNG and remnants of the Knights Templar cartel, based in neighboring Michoacan.

“I think that the Mexican cartels, the drug traffickers, have exceedingly become more brazen, and I think that US officials are in danger, very much like we were back in the ’80s with the Guadalajara cartel when they kidnapped and assassinated Kiki Camarena,” Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations for the DEA who was stationed in Mexico, told Business Insider, referring to the case of Enrique Camarena, a DEA agent who was kidnapped and killed by members of the Guadalajara cartel, then Mexico’s strongest cartel, in 1985.

The killing strained US-Mexico relations and triggered a massive crackdown on the Guadalajara cartel, leading to the arrest of its top leaders and knocking it from atop the narco hierarchy.

The US State Department has issued a travel warning for Jalisco, barring US government personnel from “intercity travel after hours” and from using other roads in the area “because of continued instability” in the region.

“The Jalisco New Generation cartel, which operates in that area, is highly violent,” Vigil, author of “Metal Coffins: The Blood Alliance Cartel,” added. “They don’t respect US officials, but what they don’t understand is that when these things happen, the full weight of the US government will be brought to bear on them.”

Investigators from the US and Mexico will now to tap into a pool of contacts in the region in order to ascertain the identity and motive of the shooter.

“They will activate the large network of informants to make a determination as to whether or not they have any information as to who was responsible for the killings,” Vigil told Business Insider. “And there’ll be coordination obviously with all US agencies, to include DHS, ATF, the US Marshals, the DEA, because all of them have their own distinct informant network, and … they’ll coordinate with the Mexican federal police, because they’ll have jurisdiction.”

“But this investigation is not going to go away, and what’s very critical in these types of situations is that the Mexican government will be given a lot of support,” Vigil added. “They sometimes lack the expertise, but with the US government involved, I can assure that this investigation will move forward in a very focused way.”

Attacks on US officials working in Mexico have happened in the past, though in some cases the attackers have said the incidents were the result of mistaken identity.

In 2014, Mexican gang leader Arturo Gallegos Castrellon was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2010 killings of US consulate employee Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton, her husband, Arthur Redfels, and Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, the husband of another consular employee, in a shooting in Ciudad Juarez.

The killings came during the peak of bloody fighting between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels for control of Juarez.

Prosecutors alleged that Castrellon was part of a team of assassins working for Barrio Azteca, an ally of the Juarez cartel, which had ordered the hits. Several gang members testified that the killing was an accident, as the trio was in a car similar to that of members of the Sinaloa cartel.

In 2013, a Mexican drug-cartel lieutenant pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder in relation to the February 15, 2011, attack on ICE agents Jaime Zapata and his partner, Victor Avila, who were driving back to Mexico City after a work-related trip to northern Mexico.

Court documents in the case stated that a Los Zetas cartel commander attempted to hijack the agents’ government-issued armored SUV while they were driving on Highway 57 in San Luis Potosi state. After Zetas gunmen forced the SUV off the road, the commander ordered the two agents to get out.

They refused and tried to identify themselves as American diplomats, but the gunmen opened fire, killing Zapata and wounding Avila.

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