The Irish Ash
Description: a 250 feet long, 3,000 deadweight tonnage, single-deck seagoing cargo vessel. Crew: 20. Armament: stem deck gun; 3 anti-aircraft guns. Top speed: 12 knots.
Officers:
Continue reading Maria (The Day After Ragnarok).Maria
Attributes: Agility d10, Smarts d6, Spirit d8, Strength d8, Vigor d8
Skills: Fighting d10, Guts d6, Intimidation d8, Knowledge (films) d6, Notice d6, Persuasion d8, Repair d4, Throwing d6
Charisma: +4 Pace: 6 Parry: 7 Toughness: 6
Edges: Attractive, Charismatic, Danger Sense, Luck, Great Luck
Hindrances: Loyal, Overconfident, Vow (“Be heroic”) (Minor)
Gear: Maria has a silvery full-body suit that makes her look like an android. Depending on the campaign, it can be anything from effectively leather armor (+1 to Armor) to the equivalent of Power Armor (+12 Armor, +1 die to Fighting, +2 to Pace, 2d6/1d6 Jump). If the latter, the suit is ophi-tech, and will absolutely require an Ophi-Tech roll to recharge and repair. Over that she has lately started to wear a black cloak and golden pocketed belt.
Tigers of the Poisoned Claws
City: Clemson, South Carolina
Population: 500 free citizens, 1,000 slaves
Controls: Clemson and area around it
Government: Machine
Problem: Serpent Cult
Heroic Opportunity: Arcana
City Aspect: Twisted and Scientific.
Clemson superficially was able to weather the Serpentfall well enough, being up in the mountains (by South Carolinian standards, at least); but it still got thoroughly saturated with venom-tainted rain and snow, and the stuff took root in the soil. The savants at the agricultural school tried their best to purify their food and water, and for a while it seemed like they had succeeded. In reality, the effects were simply delayed, and proved more insidious.
Shrouded Charlotte
City: Charlotte, North Carolina
Population: 4,000/24,000
Controls: Charlotte and outskirts
Government: Machine
Problem: Monsters
Heroic Opportunity: Mercenary Work
City Aspect: Secretive
When people think of the Serpentfall, they have this image of a two hundred wave of water crashing its way across the east coast of North America, obliterating everything. Which is what in fact happened, in a lot of places. Alas, a lot of other places died more painfully. Like, for example, Charlotte, North Carolina: it was sufficiently above the crest of the tsunami to avoid immediate drowning, but the combination of refugees, lack of food, horrible sanitation, and the first outbreaks of monsters proved fertile ground for typhus, and a horrible local version of influenza. The entire region is still considered to be a dangerous plague zone, which keeps a lot of people away.
Princeton Army Air Force Forward Base
Continue reading Princeton Army Air Force Forward Base [The Day After Ragnarok]Location: Princeton, West Virginia
Staff: 30, 800 Dependents/Civilian Staff/Support
Commander: Lt. Ruth Tolley Gwinn, USAAF
Runway Size: 2,000 feet
Capacity: 5 planes (Piper J-3 Cubs)
Elevation: 2,400 SF
Sky Fort Skillman
City: Skillman Airport, Ewing, New Jersey
Population: 500
Controls: Fort Skillman and environs, plus the skies above
Government: Strongman
Problem: Monsters
Heroic Opportunity: Technology
City Aspect: Fortified and worried.
It was blind chance that Major Chester Harrigan (USAAF) was able to get all of his current force of Grumman torpedo bombers into the sky before the tsunami hit; and it was a matter of geography that Skillman Airport itself was just barely above the wave that devastated the East Coast. Most of the rest of New Jersey got erased. And what the wave itself didn’t kill, the new monsters tried their best to.
Shipping Control Authority
(Replenishment Fleet, American Combat Elements)
(SCARFACE)
HQ: Manila, Philippines
Bases: Pearl Harbor, Manila, Palau, Santo, Tarawa
Commander: RAMD Donald Beary, USN
Forces: 45-70 ships, various tonnages; 10,000 civilian/military, all ranks
On paper, the Shipping Control Authority Replenishment Fleet acts as a replenishment service for post-Serpentfall American combat elements in the Pacific. In reality, Rear Admiral Emory Land has effective control over USN logistics in that theater, and Rear Admiral Beary is decidedly not subject to Land’s orders. This suits both admirals perfectly well, as Admiral Beary is only a logistics officer these days by the most flexible standards.
Puerto Ultimo
Location: Puerto Rico
Population: 750,000
Government: Despotism
The Serpentfall devastated Puerto Rico, of course. San Juan and the other cities on the north coast were obliterated; Aguadilla and Mayaguez on the west, merely hammered and half-destroyed. But the mountains protected the cities in the south, and the Puerto Rican colonial government under Tugwell successfully relocated to Ponce on the south coast, which is now the ‘provisional’ capital. Rexford Tugwell remains colonial governor, mostly because the US Naval units at the Roosevelt Roads naval base (itself a consolidation of surviving American military units in the Caribbean) unquestionably back his rule.
The Glamorous Hutton Sisters Gang
Grand Junction, Colorado — or, possibly, Grand Junction, Greater Utah, assuming that the folks running Salt Lake City ever get tired of the status quo — is arguably the easternmost outpost of the USA north of Texas. Which basically means that you can send a letter from Grand Junction to California and get a reply, five times out of six. But good luck trying to get help, men, weapons, money, and sometimes even attention from the West, though. The town’s on its own.
Goshen
City: Goshen, Connecticut
Population: 200
Controls: Town and Outskirts
Government: Despotism
Problem: Serpent Cultists
Heroic Opportunity: Arcana
City Aspect: Mystic and Dangerous
About the good only thing people in Goshen could have said about the initial Serpentfall was that the tsunami didn’t come close to flooding the town. Connecticut and the East Coast shattered under the wave, anyway: the town had a shortwave radio and a reliable generator, which just meant that they got to listen to the world fall apart until the radio operator finally smashed the set and hanged himself. There were a lot of suicides, that week. Almost too many to keep the town from just falling apart completely.
