Day After Ragnarok – Page 5

The Glamorous Hutton Sisters Gang [The Day After Ragnarok].

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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 [The Day After Ragnarok]

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Goshen
[The Day After Ragnarok]
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.

Sons of the Little Sahara [The Day After Ragnarok]

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Sons of the Little Sahara

[The Day After Ragnarok]

Oklahoma is the marcher land between Texas, and the horrors of the High Plains. About the only good thing that you can say about the state now is at least it rains more often — but even then, flooding is a constant problem, and it’s not smart to drink Serpent-tainted groundwater for too long. So Texas moved the population of the state south, placed garrisons along Route 66 using what troops it could spare, and generally contents itself with maintaining a watchful peace on its northern border. The Texan state government has no interest in expanding further in that region, and certainly cannot spare enough resources to maintain even the pretense of the rule of law, north of the Double-Six. Indeed, some Texans argue that the border should be even further south; if it wasn’t for the fact that Texan control over Los Alamos might be endangered by the loss of Route 66, those arguments might be better heeded.

…Huh. That was a lot of Poisoned Lands write-ups for the Day After Ragnarok.

Easily enough for a The Day After Ragnarok Poisoned Lands Gazetteer. I should really talk to somebody about submitting it, once they start doing TDAR again. I think that it would go over well.

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White Shadows of Lima [The Day After Ragnarok]

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White Shadows of Lima
[The Day After Ragnarok]
City: Lima, Ohio
Population: 13,500/90,000
Controls: Northwest Ohio
Government: Machine
Problem: Cultists (Klan)
Heroic Opportunity: Technology
City Aspect: Imperialistic and Corrupt

Lima, Ohio is poised for greatness, or at least conquest. It made it through the Serpentfall with an ‘Emergency Committee’ that largely now operates as feudal overlords for their territories; the Committee members have so far managed to avoid internal squabbling via the judicious use of conquest. It’s the smallest serious Mayorality in Ohio, but it’s got the most advanced forces. Lima has both a battalion’s worth of actual Pershing tanks (from the Army Tank Plant in town) and what passes for a strategic reserve to operate them (the region had extensive oil wells, and the Committee moved early to secure them). This has been enough for the Mayorality to consolidate control over a reasonable amount of Northwest Ohio. The Committee is careful to avoid butting heads with Cleveland to the east, and has negotiated with both Cincinnati and Dayton to secure its southern border. The Committee believes in patience: there will be plenty of time later to ‘re-establish control over the State of Ohio,’ a policy which is genuinely popular with the subjects of Lima.

Swamp Kings [The Day After Ragnarok]

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Swamp Kings

[The Day After Ragnarok]

These creatures look remarkably like what a miniature T-Rex would have back in prehistoric times, assuming that it it had been covered in blue-green feathers. These creatures have clearly adapted to a freshwater aquatic life, with a waterproof coat and webbed feet. Swamp Kings will eat a lot of things, but they particularly like to eat giant snakes (which they can, and usually do). Swamp Kings, thankfully, do not fly. They might also be getting bigger ever year.

Rotten Spartanburg

It’s funny: I have nothing against this city whatsoever. It just felt right to keep dumping on it. As in, aesthetically right. I apologize to anybody who likes the place.

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Rotten Spartanburg

[The Day After Ragnarok]
City: Spartanburg, SC
Population: 10,000/70,000
Controls: Spartanburg County
Government: Strongman
Problem: Gangs
Heroic Opportunity: Trade Goods
City Aspect: Corrupt

Poisoned Springfield [The Day After Ragnarok]

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Poisoned Springfield

[The Day After Ragnarok]

City: Springfield, Illinois
Population: 20,000/135,000
Controls: Sangamon County and surroundings
Government: Despotism
Problem: Serpent Cultists
Heroic Opportunity: Arcana
City Aspect: Militaristic and Cultist

Kings of the Road [The Day After Ragnarok].

Kings of the Road

[The Day After Ragnarok]

City: Rolla, Missouri
Population: 2,100/12,000
Controls: Rolla, plus a decent portion of the Frisco Line
Government: Machine
Problem: Gangs (New Konfederacy)
Heroic Opportunity: Trade Goods
City Aspect: Dangerous.

The Rice Mineralogical Survey of 1948 [The Day After Ragnarok]

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Rice Mineralogical Survey of 1948

[The Day After Ragnarok]

The Rice Mineralogical Survey of 1948 has every resource that Vancouver can throw at it, which admittedly isn’t much; but what’s left of the Canadian government takes the Survey very seriously. It’s easy enough to issue a decree to get the Albertan oil fields running again; but to do that, the drillers will need (among many other things) metals of all sorts. Steel, copper, titanium, nickel, chromium — and stockpiles are low, after a decade of war and Armageddon. Worse, global trade isn’t remotely what it used to be. Fortunately, Canada has a wealth of mineral resources; unfortunately, at a minimum known Canadian titanium and nickel deposits are too far away from civilization to exploit properly.

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