Gourdian Knot of Peoria – Google Docs
The Gourdian Knot of Peoria
City: Peoria, Illinois
Population: 7,000/3,000
Controls: Peoria and the fields around it.
Government: Squatters
Problem: Gangs
Heroic Opportunity: Mercenary Work
City Aspect: Divided and Grim.
Lost Orleans
City: New Orleans, Louisiana
Population: 500
Controls: New Orleans
Government: Squatters
Problem: Unrest
Heroic Opportunity: Arcana
City Aspect: Dead.
Dire Skunks
They’re getting larger by the year: three years after the Serpentfall, a fully-adult Dire Skunk is at least as big as a Great Dane, and that’s just the ones born in 1946. The ones being born now are possibly going to grow up to be as big as a pony. Dire Skunks retain many of the characteristics of their pre-Serpentfall kin, including the omnivorous diet and the spray. The spray in particular is absolutely still there.
Ice-Choked Duluth – Google Docs
Ice-Choked Duluth
City: Duluth, Minnesota
Population: 11,000/60,000
Controls: Portions of Minnesota and the Great Lakes
Government: Strongman
Problem: Monsters
Heroic Opportunity: Arcana
City Aspect: Defensive
Snow-Wooded Grand Rapids
City: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Population: 30,000/150,000
Controls: a small portion of central Michigan
Government: Democratic
Problem: Monsters
Heroic Opportunity: Trade goods / Bounty
City Aspect: Mercantile.
Motorless City
City: Detroit, Michigan
Population: 100,000/600,000
Controls: Wayne County and parts of the Great Lakes
Government: Machine
Problem: Factions/Fuel Shortage
Heroic Opportunity: Trade Goods
City Aspect: Divided
The New Concord
City: Concord, NH
Population: 8,100/73,000
Controls: arguably, New Hampshire
Government: Democratic
Problem: Monsters
Heroic Opportunity: Bounty
City Aspect: Fortified.
New Hampshire actually weathered the Serprentfall remarkably well. Manchester and Nashua were wrecked by the tidal wave, but the state capital of Concord was above the floodline, and new Governor Charles Dale was in town and able to coordinate relief efforts effectively. The last few years have been incredibly hard, but Governor Dale can still truthfully claim that he is the legitimate and legal governor of New Hampshire. Dale was re-elected in an honest election in 1946, and will likely be re-elected again in 1948; interestingly, New Hampshire also plans to vote for a US President in the same election, despite the fact that the entire Poisoned Lands stretch between them and what’s left of the USA.
Incense-Drunk Cleveland – Google Docs
Incense-Drunk Cleveland
City: Cleveland, Ohio
Population: 80,000/420,000
Controls: Parts of Lake Erie and northern Ohio
Government: Despotism
Problem: Hostile Cities (most of the rest of Ohio)
Heroic Opportunity: Mercenary Work
City Aspect: Militaristic and Religious
Mortar Geckos
(strophurus igenti amicae)
Imagine a gecko with a golden spine and grey-black mottled scales. OK? Now make it as big as a horse, and give it the ability to shoot sticky mucus from its tail. And there you have it: the mortar gecko. All Mortar Geckos are descended from zoo specimens in North America and Europe; the various parent species are all from Australia, and are resolutely free from mutation. Oddly, while the species was clearly mutated by the Serpentfall, it shows none of the usual signs of Serpent taint.
Fort Avalon
The island of Santa Catalina, California had already been taken over wholesale by the US war effort prior to the Serpentfall; and it was summarily ignored in the confusion, chaos, and wholesale devastation that shattered the United States. It took the US Coordinating Committee a year to even formally realize that the facilities on Santa Catalina were still in operation, and by then it was… perhaps ‘too late’ is the wrong term. The various groups there still all recognize the authority and legitimacy of the Warren administration. Provided that President Warren doesn’t push too hard on that.
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