Grand Theft Auto: Black Hand is set in the 4K Universe.
Grand Theft Auto: Black Hand is an installment of the Grand Theft Auto series set in the year 1910. Despite being set before the Prohibition Era, it is part of the Prohibition Saga in which sees the Heartworks Mob in its infancy.
Set in 1910, the story primarily unfolds in Heartworks in the State of Jolliet, USA, with limited development in the Far Southeast and Far Southwest sides, where the Southwest side was only 61% complete in its development. The primary focus is on the Black Hand extortion, which was prominent in the 1910s. Additionally - the playable areas extended to a few towns including into Hydration County (Lake County) in Americana (based on State of Indiana).
During 1910 - Automobiles weren't a common site are only used by certain mobsters and gangster while other NPCs use horse-drawn coaches and wagons to get around along with horses which the player cannot ride, however, they can drive wagons and coaches.
Cris Fratelli is the leader of the Heartworks Outfit. He is one of the playable characters of Grand Theft Auto: Black Hand. He chooses to combat the Black Hand Extortionist.
Riccardo Sorelli is a member of a Liberty City-based Welsh gang and the nephew of Cris Fratelli. He is one of the playable characters of Grand Theft Auto: Black Hand. Riccardo was sought by Cris to help with the Black Hand issue.
Alive
Antagonists[]
Name
Biography
Status
Mission Blip
Jonathan Romano
Jonathan "Johnny" Romano is the main antagonist of the game and the major Black Hand Extortionist in Heartworks. He is an American-born Italian-Canadian man.
Hershel Douglas is the secondary antagonist of the game and the Jolliet-based Chief of Police. He is the Great-grandfather of Vincent Douglas.
TBD
N/A
Valentino Ferrovia
Valentino is the longtime ally of Cris Fratelli and Tertiary antagonist of the game. He is the leader of the Ferrovia Outfit. He is an American-Born Italian-Canadian man.
TBD
Antonio Seán
Antonio "Toni" Seán is the leader of the Seán Crime Family. He is an American-Born Italian-Irish man and the quaternary antagonist of the game.
TBD
TBD
Giuseppe Da Amico
Giuseppe Da Amico is the leader of the Da Amico Outfit. He is an Italian man and the quinary antagonists.
Deceased
N/A
Major Characters[]
Name
Biography
Status
Mission Blip
Cosimo Salvatore
Cosimo Salvatore is an 11-year-old Italian-American boy and leader of the Street Rats. He is a loyal informant of Cris Fratelli.
Alive
William Isaac
William Isaac is the owner of the Isaac Fishing Gear in Heartworks and victim of the Black Hand after his daughter was killed after he refused to join the work force at the Carcer City Salt Mines. After returning to Heartworks; William hooks Cris up with a pornographic painter and art dealer to help make back the money that was destroyed by Valentino.
Alive
Donna Bellissima
Donna Bellissima is a head prostitute that works for Cris Fratelli in Heartworks. She is an 23-year-old Italian-American woman.
TBD
Josiah Wells
Josiah Wells is a tenor that lives in Heartworks and has an altercation with Riccardo. Later, Cris works for him after returning to Heartworks to help audition, but was denied due to the stage director finding his pitch imperfect.
Phineas "Tom" Thompson is the owner and founder of the Ammu-Nation stores that Riccardo meets and agree to finance and invest in his business ventures; giving him $100 as start and making donations after every mission.
Dorothy Salvatore is the older half-sister of Cosimo Salvatore that meets Riccardo Sorelli.
Alive
Merle Fox
Merle Fox is the County Sheriff of the James County whom Riccardo meets in Wezheget.
TBD
Rupert Buckingham
Rupert Buckingham is a bookie that Riccardo meets in Heartwork to help him remake his money back by fixing certain sports games as well as other competitive game like gambling. However, he reveals his true colors when he reveals that he was deliberately giving Riccardo the wrong amount of the cut by lying about earnings that he was making prompting Riccardo to either beat up or kill him before taking the rest of the money. If Rupert is alive; he is later arrested.
Cris invites his nephew, Riccardo Sorelli, to Heartworks to help him with the rising Black Hand Extortonist issue. Cris and Valentino pick Riccardo up from the train station and take him to Cris's loft.
Cris has Riccardo drive him to the barber where he is confronted by Hershel Douglas as they were getting their hair done. Cris introduces Riccardo to Donna Bellissima.
Cris decides to take Riccardo to Marty's for a drink and feed where they end up getting drunk out of their mind before picking a fight with a tenor by the name of Josiah Wells.
When a Black Hand Extortonist targets the Mayor; the IB are sent to investigate with Cris annoyed by the feds being involved prompting him to send Riccardo to the Extortonist's house with a baseball bat to take him out.
While exploring the outer regions of Heartworks; Riccardo stumbles across a group of moonshiners with that share their brew with Riccardo until he passes out and re-awakens to find that the moonshiners have stolen his clothes and weapons; prompting him to go after them.
Valentino tells Riccardo about the current civil war in the Outfit in which Giuseppe Da Amico has created his own outfit to try to muscle out Cris of the city, and arranges a sit-down with him.
Riccardo pays Tom a visit in which he learns that the Imperial Army soldiers have intercepted a stage carrying mail for Tom that would allow him to make some purchase for some special weapons and asks Riccardo to recover the stage for him.
Tom asks Riccardo to get on the board a train bound for the State of Jolliet to challenge an Imperial general to game of a shogi while he steals back his stolen weapons and property. Tom also steals ¥4200 from the imperial general in which he ends up splitting with Riccardo.
After Riccardo agreed to compensate the imperial general for the loss his men while posing as Tom, Tom asks for Riccardo Sorelli's help in stealing the imperial general's stash of 12.4 kilogram gold ingots each that come to value of $75000.
After learning that the thieves are part of rival group of cigarette smuggler have their own supply depot; he has Riccardo steal the cigarettes and take out the leader.
Cris's brothel is attack by the Da Amico outfit while Riccardo was visiting Donna prompting Donna to rush to Cris after Riccardo was shot and send him to Cris's doctor before he bleeds out.
Still angered by Riccardo's shooting; Cris ponders what to do to get back at Giuseppe to which Donna comes up with an idea and asks Cris to take her over to Salvatore Da Amico's saloon and use him to send a message.
25¢ Repeater The ability to play as Riccardo again.
Ethel meets with Riccardo at Cris's Loft while he was sharing a smoke with Cris, and invites them to join her as she wants to go on the Long Peter known for its luxury leisure activities and restaurant. Cris joins them.
A thief steals Ethel's pendant during night of debauchery; prompting Riccardo to go after him and recover it for Ethel which turns out to be a trap set by the ARF assisted by Hershel Douglas and a man dressed in a FORE's outfit forcing Riccardo to fight through revenue agents and CDA to recover the pendant and escape.
After killing Salvatore Da Amico; Giuseppe has made Donna a marked woman and wants her dead; so Cris takes her fishing to take her mind off it when Hershel Douglas makes an unexpected visit.
25¢ Fishing
Measure of a Private Lawman
Annoyed with Hershel interference; Donna suggests to Cris that he kidnap one of his Hershel's officers in order to try to turn him into their insider for the Coalfield Detective Agency. The mission introduces Cris's ability to sus out corruptible individuals.
$2.50 Cris's special ability Corruption Eyes
Cris Fratelli[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Calm Before The Storm
Plan a raid on Giuseppe's estate with Cris.
N/A
Moonshine Approach
Moonshine
Steal a supply of moonshine from the Jolliet Marauders.
N/A
Schedule
Acquire the schedule of the train.
N/A
Rifles
Steal a supply of Rifles from the CDA.
N/A
Dynamite Approach
Dynamite
Steal a supply of dynamite from the Jolliet Marauder.
N/A
Clerk
Get information for the train from the train station Clerk.
N/A
Repeaters
Steal a supply of Repeaters from the IB.
N/A
Raid Missions
Giuseppe Da Amico
Raid Giuseppe's train with your raid team and take out the Da Amicos along, and capture Giuseppe with Riccardo.
$50 Rifle
Giuseppe Da Amico
Raid Giuseppe's train with your raid team and take out the Da Amicos along, and kill Giuseppe with Riccardo.
$50 Repeater
Valentino Ferrovia[]
Title
Description
Rewards
The Guns of Romano
Valentino meets with Cris and Riccardo to tell them that the sit down with the head of the Cavalico was about to begin with them set to meet Donatello Fiore and his capo from Heartworks, Jonathan Romano.
The Inability to play as Cris Fratelli.
Chapter II - Wezheget[]
Cosimo Salvatore[]
Title
Description
Rewards
The Young Hustler
After being betrayed by Valentino and the truth of Jonathan revealed as well as the fact that 11-year-old Cosimo caused the death of Donatello Fiore; the trio are forced into hiding in Wezheget with Cris choosing to remain out of sight while Riccardo proceeding to handle business. Cosimo takes Riccardo around Wezheget to introduce him to everyone.
$2.50
Dorothy Salvatore[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Curse of the South
Riccardo meets Dorothy and learns of her childhood before being asked to kill her father for her as revenge for the abuse she suffered at her hands.
$2.50
Blood Money
Dorothy is invited to Benjamin's will reading by Samantha Salvatore and asks Riccardo join her as protection offering him pay him in return.
$2.50
Divided Family
Samantha Salvatore is out for blood with Dorothy and Cosimo asking Riccardo to take them into hiding. Riccardo decides to contact the Lodge's Sanitarium Gang to hide Cosimo and Dorothy.
$2.50
Daisy & Zeke Fox[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Faking It To Make It
Riccardo meets with Daisy & Zeke a couple of local con artists that sell bad safes and fake diamonds to out-of-townees and some of the people around the county to earn a quick buck in which the brother and sister pair convince Riccardo to join them for a cut of the profits by helping them sell their recent batch of fake diamonds.
$250
Home Invasion
Riccardo learns that Daisy & Zeke's safe scam involves them selling safes with a false panel that will let them take the back off a steal the contents of it in which they told him that they're clients often only meet one of them in which the other follows them home so they knew where to go when enough time has pass to rob them. Zeke told him that one of they were going to pay a visit to one of their clients that bought a tempered safe from them two months ago and were going to rob him which ends being $750 in cash.
$250
Shyster At Law
Daisy & Zeke take Riccardo to meeting with Luther Winter, a shyster that cons his clients out of thousands, in which Luther offers to cut Riccardo in his scheme to swindle Cian Murphy out of $1000 to represent him in his trial.
$250
Telegraph Office[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Sun Down on a Sundown Town
An admirer of Riccardo Sorelli offered to help Cris and him rebuild their lost money and their status by asking for some favors in return. The unknown admirer asks for Riccardo to help a couple wrongly convicted black men escape from custody and put them on a train bound for Canada.
$25.50
Daisy & Zeke Fox[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Liars, Cheats, and Fraudsters
Daisy and Zeke recruit Riccardo to help them steal back the fake diamonds they sold before the buyers discover their scheme before sending Riccardo to the telegraph office to speak with the clerk and pay him $50 to pick up some post containing $1000 from an ARF con with the agreement of 25% for all four of them.
$250
Telegraph Office[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Some Jobs Ain't For Savin'
Riccardo's admirer sends another telegram asking for assistance in locating some missing black and Asian men and children.
$25.50
Merle Fox[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Lure
Sheriff Merle takes up Riccardo on his offer for bounty hunter work to track down a member of the Jolliet Marauders and lure them out of hiding by burning down their moonshine operation.
$2.50
A Golden Opportunity
Merle deputizes Riccardo as a bank heist in the village occurs with the robbers stealing the state's gold inventory and planning to go to Carcer City with it. Riccardo uses the opportunity to steal some of the gold to make back the loss of money after Cris's and Riccardo's money was burnt by Jonathan Romano.
$54432.378
Merle's Gratitude
Merle wants to thank Riccardo for his help by buying him and Cris a house at the edge of the Heartworks, but bars them from returning to Village upon learning their true identities.
$25 The ability to play as Cris again
Chapter III - Cox & Preciosa[]
William Isaac[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Alternative Arts of America
William decides to take Cris to an underground art viewing to show him some adult paintings painted by Carsten Schwartz. Carsten agreed to help him rebuild his financial empire by helping him to sell them to his buyers for 12% of the selling price which is $220. He agreed, however, the viewing was invaded by Coalfield Detective Agency forcing Carsten and Riccardo to fight them off.
2¢
Darragh O’Sullivan
William takes Carsten to meet up with the first buyer of the pornographic art which is an Irish moonshiner by the name of Darragh O'Sullivan. The deal goes successfully, however, members of the Ferrovia Outfit arrive to try to take profits from Cris.
$26.40
Josiah Wells[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Pitch Imperfect
Cris meets up with Josiah whom was practicing his tenor singing style and told him that had an audition at the Symphonic (Auditorium), however, stage director Reuben Burton dismisses him after claiming his pitch wasn't good enough.
$3
The Family Business
Josiah introduces Cris to his brother and owner of the Wells Kerosene & Tar; Maxwell Wells. Josiah tells Cris that he was visiting from Saint Denis and told him that a barrel of kerosene was stolen from a horse-drawn carriage as Riccardo pointed out that the mayor has banned horse-drawn carriages as a transportation option in city and so they would have to break it in by manual labor to which they know and asked him to just take out the thieves as they'll handle the carriage.
$3
Tom[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Not on the List
Tom asks Riccardo to accompany to pick up a shipment of weapons when he discovers several Japanese-made Imperial Rifles were amongst the shipment when Hershel Douglas along with the CDA and members of Imperial Army arrive to confiscate the weapons and the arrest them forcing Riccardo to act.
$190
Imperial Inquest
Suspicious of the appearance of the Imperial Army in America; Tom asks Riccardo to help him dig into the matter only to learn that that they weren't imperial soldiers but immigrants that are members of the Yakuza. Tom gets Riccardo to take the proof to Hershel before he makes a mistake and ends up in another trap set by the Yakuza.
$190
Tom's Shopping List
Tom tries to use Poorly-Made Dynamites to destroy a Yakuza weapons' den, but it only resulted in a small explosion and thus sent Riccardo to grab list of items which included industrial-grade nitroglycerin, sorbents, stabilizers, and metal canteen along with a spool. As he was taking the items back to Tom, but the Yakuza intercept him.
$190
$190
Rupert Buckingham[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Bad Sportsmanship
Riccardo meets with Rupert Bucking at behest of Cris after learning that he runs a bet fixing and bookie scheme where Rupert can help got to a horse racing event and help him a large sum of money Rupert agreeing to it on the condition that he would cut so that Riccardo would get 88% of the earnings but he would keep 12%. Riccardo agreed and Rupert sent him to spike some of the horses with behavioral altering feed to make them too hyperactive to move correctly.
$880
High Stakes Rip-Off
Rupert helps Riccardo rig a blackjack deck at a $5000 blackjack games that a player by name of Seth wins his hands as Riccardo bets $1000 on him winning at least 10 times with a member of the Mayor's staff.
$8800
A Quiet Withdrawal
Rupert helps Riccardo sneak into a greyhound racing venue to steal diamond necklace worth $12000 from the underground vault that belonged to the owner's daughter. However, their heist is discovered with the CDA pursuing them forcing them to lose before having a fence sell it for them with Riccardo taking the agreed percentage.
$10560
Never Trust a Con-Artist
Riccardo meets Rupert at his place when Riccardo learns that Rupert has double the amount of what he should have with him revealing that he has been lying at that each of even were worth double the amount that he was advertising by halved them so that he can more money prompting Riccardo that he shouldn't have trusted a con artist and proceeded to decide between beating him up or killing before taking Rupert's cut of the profits as a punishment.
$5520
Chapter IV - Garfield Farm[]
Janice Garfield[]
Title
Description
Rewards
Once I Caught A Fish Alive
After falling overboard - off the stolen ferry in Lake Chippewa during their attempt to escape capture via Hershel Douglas - Riccardo Sorelli & Cris Fratelli was rescued by a younger woman by the name Janice Garfield whom spent the next five months nursing him back to help at her family's farm and as payment for her help and hospitality. Riccardo offers to stop the Oscarian Believers from harassing her farm.
N/A
Loot[]
Loot
Description
Value
Platinum Bar
A medium-sized platinum bar that can be sold to a Fence.
$8000.00
Gold Bar
A medium-sized gold bar that can be sold to a Fence.
$6,761.89
Giuseppe's Wristwatch
A wristwatch previously owned by Giuseppe that can be looted from his corpse upon his death.
$3493.64
Platinum Ore
An ore stone consisting of platinum
$700.00
Gold Nugget
A golden nugget
$563.49
Copper Ore
An ore stone consisting of copper.
$350.00
Silver Cutlery Set
A silver set of cutlery that can be looted from certain houses
$300.00
Platinum Wristwatch
A platinum wristwatch that can be looted from random npcs or from certain locations
$270.47
Platinum Sapphire Bracelet
A platinum bracelet with a sapphire that can be looted from random npcs or from certain locations.
$202.85
Gold Sapphire Necklace
A gold necklace with a sapphire that can be looted from random npcs or from certain locations.
$202.85
Silver Wristwatch
A wristwatch that appears to be made of silver that can be looted from random npcs or from certain locations
$180.31
Pearl Necklace
A necklace made of pearls
$90.15
Platinum Earrings
A pair of platinum earrings
$67.61
Silver Sapphire Earrings
A silver sapphire set of earrings that can be looted from random npcs or from certain locations.
$67.61
Gold Frame Buckle
A golden frame belt buckle
$67.61
Gold Plate Buckle
A golden plate buckle
$67.61
Imperial Belt Buckle
A Japanese belt buckle that can be looted from the "Imperial Soldiers"
$56.34
Sapphire Necklace
A typical sapphire necklace that can be looted from random npcs or from certain locations
$45.07
Necklace
A typical necklace that can be looted from random npcs or from certain locations.
Cris Fratelli[]
