Joe DelJanovan (Order #26545046)

Adventure Locale #2:

solace police
department
 

Written by: Charles Rice

Art and maps by: Jon Gibbons & Jan Willem v.d. Brink
Layout by: Ade Smith
Edited by: Jason Tondro
Copyright ©2017 by Charles Rice

Joe DelJanovan (Order #26545046)

 Introduction
Welcome back! This is Adventure Locale #2:
Solace Police Department. Each locale features
a fully detailed sandbox location. Why the PCs
are there is between them and the Game
Master. Perhaps the PCs just saw the location
and decided it would be worth investigating.
Given the location we’ve picked this time that’s
an especially likely outcome, as the area seems
not to have been looted previously and likely
has guns and ammunition in large quantities.
Of course, there’s a reason the place hasn’t
been looted and a frontal assault is quite a risky
proposition. Clever PCs will try and see if there
isn’t an alternate method of ingress. Brute force
entry from the outside is going to require
explosives and will draw zombies not only from
the inside, but from a long way away.
Unfortunately for the PCs, the building was
upgraded with a grant from Homeland Security
just before the fall of civilization. Every window
has bulletproof glass in front of stainless steel
bars. A decision was made during the dark
times to seal the building and let no one in.
Whether this decision was taken independently
by the police chief, or mandated from the
outside is unknown.
Still, the local authorities were wrong in their
belief that a self-imposed quarantine would
save them. After a fire in the mechanical room
(Area #19) caused the power to go out, one of
the civilian employees made a break for it out
the backdoor (Hall 1D), determined to die with
her family. In the crush to reseal the door amid
a wave of zombies, several officers were bitten.
From then on, it was a matter of time. The
police were already, to a man, as armored as
they could be and even with the wealth of
firearms and training at their disposal, the
forces inside were unable to stem the tide. They
turned, one by one, until only death remained.
In the first, frantic days of the apocalypse, these
zombies were then kept in near-constant
motion by outside stimuli. Gunshots and
explosions outside were a constant source of
stimulation. Combine this with the occasional
survivor banging on a door or window, before
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fleeing once they realized the horror within the
station, have cause many of the first floor rooms
to look like a pack of wild beasts have trampled
through multiple times, tracking dirt and blood
around the common areas of the first floor.
Should the PCs try to knock down any part of
the building by breaching through a wall, the
building has a Durability 100, with +25
Durability for reinforcement. Entrances and
doorways have a Durability of 50, again with
+25 Durability for reinforcement. Any damage
sufficient to open the door way will trigger an
encounter with all the zombies in areas 1, 7, 8,
9, 12 and 13. It will also draw the attention of
Remnant scavengers, who routinely patrol past
the building, hoping for a way inside. If the PCs
blow a door and retreat, hoping to wait the
zombies out, they will return to find either a
Remnant patrol (detailed below) or an ongoing
battle between the Remnant and Juggernauts.
Either way, there are few scenarios where this
will allow the survivors to slip into the building
unnoticed.  
Behind the Screen - Developing Adventure
Locale #2: As many projects do, Adventure
Locale #2 began with me reaching out to the
usual suspects, looking for cartography
assistance. I know just enough about
mapmaking to know it’s hard and I can’t do it,
and that it’s better to pay a professional than
include a shitty map at the heart of an
adventure. One of the challenges of working
with talented people is that they’re busy and so
it was with Jon Gibbons, primary artist for AZ:
After Zombies and the man who had done the
maps for most of our previous adventures. So I
then decided to turn to the internet and seek
some new blood (pun absolutely intended).
Of all the candidates who sent me art samples,
Jan was absolutely the best of an impressive
field. Once my brain started going over what a
professional draftsman could do on a project
like this, I immediately decided to invest a little
more and get a larger map. The result is the
largest site yet for an AZ adventure and I think
of this adventure like some of the best
dungeons of the classic D&D mold, something
like “Against the Giants”. This adventure is
dangerous, action-packed but also laden with
 treasure, for the party intrepid enough to fight
their way through. I hope you enjoy playing this
adventure as much as I did writing it.  them long to respond to any stimuli from behind
POLICE DEPARTMENT – GROUND FLOOR
1. HALLWAY (Scrounging Modifier —)
1A. South Hallway
1B. West Hallway
This part of the hallway is covered in a thick
layer of dust and rubble.
1C. North Hallway
Bloody water seeps into the hallway, from
underneath the door to area 15.
Someone/something left bloody footprints here.
1D. North Entrance
The door to the parking lot is slightly ajar, but
blocked from the inside with a makeshift barrier:
two printer machines from area 11, a table and
several desk chairs. The pile caught on fire at
some point, and all of it is burned badly. The
hallway leading south from the entrance is
covered in soot.
This area is so trampled and overrun that
nothing of value can be found here, except the
armor of the Juggernauts, should they be
defeated. Any significant noise or combat here
will draw the Juggernauts from areas 7, 8, 9, 12
and 13 here, in addition to those present in 1a-
d.
Encounters: 4 Juggernauts: Heavy Armor
(Page 117).
2. LOBBY (Scrounging Modifier +25)
The layer of dust on the floor and features of
this room shows it’s not been entered for a
while. The window between this area and area
4 (reception) lies in shards on the floor,
smashed from the other side. This room is
otherwise fairly undamaged. The doors are all
locked.
The mass of Juggernauts in Areas 1, 7, 8, 9, 12
and 13 have not been here for some time.
Occasionally a noise from the door (an explorer
seeking entry) draws them in here, but so far,
no one has been stupid enough to open the
front door and the zombies have been unable to
build up enough mass to force the door open by
sheer weight.
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While survivors could draw the Juggernauts in
here with the Distraction skill, it wouldn’t take
them in the building. The layout does not work
to the advantage of explorers.
Encounters: None (but zombies from adjacent
areas will respond to any noise here). 
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
3. CITIZEN CONTACT (Scrounging Modifier
-25)
The doors to this room are locked. Make a Very
Easy Stealth check (+25) to open them quietly.
Otherwise, the door can be forced, generating a
Normal noise (Page 94).
Once survivors enter this room they are likely to
regret they did. This room has been sealed
since the police lost control, with two office
workers sealing themselves inside. The pair
starved to death and there is evidence that one
turned to cannibalism at the end. Once they
both died and turned, the daily heat buildup in
the room caused both to become Putrids.
Encounters: 2 Putrid (Page 119).
A search of this area reveals: 2
antidepressants.
4. RECEPTION (Scrounging Modifier -25)
The door of this room lies on the floor, along
with computer monitors, keyboards, and
contents of the cabinets. A desk that runs along
the length of the room is in surprisingly good
state. It supports one of the cabinets, which lies
toppled over.
As with other forward areas of the station, the
constant movement of large number of
Juggernauts have destroyed most items in this
room, to the point where they won’t even serve
as sources of spare parts.
Encounters: None (but zombies from adjacent
areas will respond to any noise here).
A search of this area reveals: 1 codeine
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 5. BREAKROOM (Scrounging Modifier -50)
The door to this room is nailed shut from the
inside, with four inch nails. The glass of the
center window is knocked out, and the frame
broken. Apparently this was all done to plunder
this room thoroughly and without getting
disturbed, as nothing is left here but the (empty)
kitchenette.
Encounters: None (but zombies from adjacent
areas will respond to any noise here).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
6. OFFICE (Scrounging Modifier +0)
The south side of this room is wrecked. A big
cabinet fell over, and its weight pushed desks
and other office furniture into the opposite
corner.
Two more toppled cabinets hamper access to
the rest of the room, which is relatively
undamaged.
Movement is heard but not seen when this
room is entered. A Perception check will tell the
survivors the noise is much too small to be
caused by a man-sized creature.
Encounters: None (but zombies from adjacent
areas will respond to any noise here).
A search of this area reveals: 10 Small Game
(Rats, living off various corpses and food items
in this room. They have a nest in the ruined
southeast corner. These can be “harvested”
with Outdoorsman or weapon skill checks.)
7. FITNESS (Scrounging Modifier -25)
A large part of this wall seems to have been
bashed down with brute force, from the hallway,
possibly to get at whatever – or whoever – left
the pool of blood in the room. A pile of debris
lies in the blood: concrete, weights, pipes, and
the wreckage of what appears to have once
been a couple of exercise bikes. Some
mattresses in the far corner escaped
destruction.
Encounters: 7 Juggernauts: Heavy Armor
(Page 117).
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A search of this area reveals: 2 Caffeine (pills),
1 Duct Tape.
8. CONFERENCE ROOM (Scrounging
Modifier -50)
This large room was used for several purposes,
such as press releases, meetings, and training.
There is a large pile of tables, chairs and AV
equipment. Everything is either damaged or
completely broken. Like many other areas on
the first floor, this room has been trampled
practically into oblivion.
Encounters: 6 Juggernauts: Heavy Armor
(Page 117).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value. 
9. STORAGE (Scrounging Modifier -50)
The doors to this room were ripped from their
hinges. It’s empty.
Encounters: 2 Juggernauts: Heavy Armor
(Page 117).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
10. WC - WOMEN (Scrounging Modifier -50)
The features of this accessible toilet were
smashed to bits. The floor is covered in shards
of ceramics.
Encounters: None (but zombies from adjacent
areas will respond to any noise here).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
 
11. WC - MEN (Scrounging Modifier -50)
The door to this room is gone. Just like area 10,
this toilet is destroyed.
Encounters: None (but zombies from adjacent
areas will respond to any noise here).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
12. COPY & SUPPLIES / STAIRS
(Scrounging Modifier -50)
It looks like a bomb went off in this area. A large
part of the flooring is reduced to splinters,
showing the concrete underneath.
 The steel supports of the stairs are bent and
rickety. The bottom five steps are gone. Of the
sixth step – nearly four feet above the floor –
only bits and pieces remain.
Except for a battered cabinet, the area is empty
(the machines were dragged to the north exit;
area 1D).
Encounters: 4 Juggernauts: Heavy Armor
(Page 117))
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
13. JANITOR (Scrounging Modifier -25)
The southeast corner of this room collapsed in
a pile of rubble. A careful search of this area will
reveal some potent cleaning chemicals. These
will only be discovered if the survivors rid the
building of the vast majority of its undead
inhabitants and have time for a careful search.
Encounters: 3 Juggernauts: Heavy Armor
(Page 117).
A search of this area reveals: 19 Ingredients
(Demolitions).
14. LOCKER ROOM / SHOWERS (WOMEN)
(Scrounging Modifier +10)
This area was unoccupied when the base lost
power and no one knew about the supplies
contained in individual lockers. If they had, this
room would have been ransacked long before
the police inside turned. Rats, fat off the feast of
food the building still contains, flee when light is
shined in this room.
Encounters: None (but zombies from adjacent
areas will respond to any noise here).
A search of this area reveals: Book (Thrown
Weapons), 2 Telescoping Batons in Poor
Condition, 2 Wood Batons in Fair Condition,
112 rounds 10x25 mm, 118 rounds 12 gauge,
Colt Double Eagle in Fair Condition, Benelli 121
M1 in Factory Condition, 38 Ingredients
(Chemistry), 12 bottles of Purified Water, 6
Small Game (Rats. These can be
captured/killed with a Normal Outdoorsman
check.)
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15. LOCKER ROOM / SHOWERS (MEN)
(Scrounging Modifier -10)
One of the shower doors floats in a large puddle
of bloody water. A trickle of water drips from the
shower itself. The drain is clogged (probably
with what’s left of the source of the blood).
When this room is entered, unless a Normal
Stealth check is successful (roll once for the
survivor with the lowest Stealth) a loud
thrashing sound is heard. This could draw
distracted zombies from different areas (50%
chance each round for 1-10 zombies on the first
floor, or 1-5 zombies from the second floor to
investigate).
When the police inside the station began to
turn, two unfortunate souls were ambushed and
killed in the shower. In the struggle, the men
were partially submerged face down and
drowned while their legs were eaten off. They
now live as Waterlogged (see new creatures
below) and are frenzied with hunger. However,
they are face down, unable to see or stand so
they are easily killed, but the noise they make
might draw zombies to this room.
Encounters: 2 Waterlogged (see new
monsters below).
A search of this area reveals: 1 Book
(Psychology), 6 Ingredients (Cooking), 4 Energy
Bars, 1 Mossberg 500 in Poor Condition.
16. HOLDING CELLS (Scrounging Modifier
—)
These were cells used to hold suspects
awaiting interrogation, or minor offenders
waiting processing. Usually suspects who had
had way too much to drink and cops who were
deep in the doghouse stayed in these rooms.
All three of these cells appear to be locked on
casual inspection but only two are. The middle
cell (the one labeled 16) can be noticed as
unlocked with a Perception check, or
automatically on physical inspection. The doors
and walls are obviously extremely sturdy and
apparently zombie proof.
Opening the two locked cells requires a Very
Hard Stealth check to pick the locks. A survivor
who lured a group of zombies to the outside of
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Distraction check, made every 1-5 rounds. The
frequency of checks is determined by the Game
Master, based on competing stimuli. So if the
zombies in Area #15 are making a racket, the
survivor would need to check every round.
Unfortunately for survivors who happen upon
the unlocked room under duress, probably with
zombies in hot pursuit, the unlocked holding cell
also has a Silent Deadly, a prisoner who
crawled under the bed with an infected wound
and died there. If a survivor is pursued into this
room and throws the door closed, this zombie
automatically gains surprise.
Encounters: 1 Silent Deadly (Page 121).
A search of this area reveals: 1 non-skill book
about a savage barbarian warrior (see
miscellaneous items).
17. INTERVIEW (Scavenging Modifier —)
This room contains a couple of chairs and a
table that’s missing two legs. Through a small
window in the door, you can view a dead man
sitting motionless, still handcuffed to the broken
desk.
This creature is not really bound at all and will
sit, motionless, despite any attempts to rouse it
before the survivors enter the room. The minute
the door opens however, the creature will snap
the cuffs like tissue paper and attack with all the
ferocity of its kind.
Encounters: Omega Zed (Page 118).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
18. OBSERVATION (Scavenging Modifier —)
The door to this room is bashed in. A hand
carved wooden sign above the door reads “the
fish bowl”. A small desk and a few chairs were
shoved into the corner. The one-way mirror in
this room is still intact, though.
Through the window a suspect, quite dead, can
be seen sitting handcuffed to the desk in the
interview room next door.
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19. MECHANICAL ROOM (Scavenging
Modifier -50)
This room, and all its contents, were destroyed
in a fire. Several pipes sprung a leak, but the
water pressure is gone and water barely trickles
in.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
20. PARKING LOT (Scavenging Modifier -50)
The burnt out wreck of a police car sits in the
center of this area. Both gates have been
destroyed.
There is a chance for the PCs to attract the
attention of the Remnant if they make a racket
while clearing out the police station. Roll a
Noise check (Page 94) every time the survivors
make a noise of Loud or louder. If this check
succeeds, rather than the normal zombie
encounter, there will be an 11 man Remnant
patrol in this lot when the survivors emerge.
Encounters: Possible Remnant patrol (see
above). Wearing Light Body Armor in Used
Condition. Armed with M-4s in Used Condition,
2 magazines each (60 rounds).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
SHOP NEXT DOOR – GROUND FLOOR
A sign above the door reads, “Papa’s Pawn and
Bail Bonds. Open 24/7.” This extremely shady
establishment held onto its prime location,
despite several attempts by the SPD to buy the
rest of the building and expand. Due to a
combination of a very sturdy drop down gate
and its nearness to the horror of the police
station next door, this area has seemingly not
been opened since the apocalypse.
Getting into the store requires either a Difficult
Strength check (-10) to force the gate up, or a
Hard Stealth check (-25) to pick the lock.
21. PAWN SHOP (Scrounging Modifier +10)
The shop looks empty and abandoned, but not
trashed. The shelves and the counter still
remain.
 Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: 1 Book (Archery),
1 Crowbar, 2 Batteries, 110 rounds 5.56x45
mm, 122 rounds 9x19 mm, 1 AR-15 in Fair
Condition, 1 HK-MP5 in Poor Condition, 18
Cooking Ingredients, 2 MRE, 18 Small Game
(Rats. These can be captured/killed with a
Normal Outdoorsman check.)
22. SHOP OFFICE (Scrounging Modifier +0)
This used to be a small office but there are
signs that “Papa” (if he even existed) crashed
here on a regular basis. A desk with a chair is
pushed into a corner and a filthy mattress lies
on the floor.
In fact the owner had taken up residence in the
shop full time, after a spat with his girlfriend.
Luckily, he was ill the day everything went to
hell and had never opened his shop. The sturdy
security gate kept him safe, at least for a time.
The virus had wrecked his immune system and
his common cold turned deadly. Still, many
would consider dying in your sleep, as this man
did, better than surviving in the AZ.
Encounters: 1 Infected.
A search of this room reveals: 53 NSAID, 6
Rubbing Alcohol, 1 Sterilized Bandage, 12
Canned Food (Ravioli), 10 Drinking Alcohol
(Bourbon).
23. STORAGE (Scrounging Modifier -10)
This room was used for light storage, mostly of
paperwork for those looking to make bail. There
is a safe hidden behind a painting on the wall.
The combination is in the pocket of the Infected
in room #22. If the survivors open it they find
over 20,000 dollars in cash, now quite useless
to them.
Encounters: None.
A search of this room reveals: Nothing of value.
24. BACKROOM (Scrounging Modifier +0)
This room served double duty as Papa’s
kitchenette after closing, and as a makeshift
office for clients making bail (since Papa had
converted his actual office into a bedroom).
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There’s a toilet underneath the stairs.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: 18 Caffeine
(instant coffee), 15 Drinking Alcohol (Scotch), 9
Canned Food (Soup).
 
25. PRIVATE BATHROOM (Scrounging
Modifier +0)
Despite an “out of order” sign on the door, this
toilet works perfectly with an outside source of
water. It seems Papa wasn’t into sharing what
had become his bathroom with his customers.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: 8 Antibiotics.
POLICE DEPARTMENT – UPPER FLOOR
The upper floors of the police department are
generally in better shape. Outside stimuli
naturally draw the undead to the first floor and
their movements have trampled the first floor.
This area is almost never visited, though there
are some lurking dangers survivors should be
cautious of.
27. HALLWAY & COURTYARD (Scrounging
Modifier —)
27A. East Hallway
The upper half of the stairs that lead up from
the ground floor into this hallway are intact,
although the support structure is damaged. If
survivors can take their time, navigating the gap
and making their way up from the first floor is
automatic. On the other hand, if they are being
chased by a dozen or more Juggernauts on the
first floor, require a Normal Athletics check.
Failure results in the survivor slipping and
dropping back to the first floor, prone and most
likely being the unfortunate recipient of a
feeding frenzy.
27B Covered Courtyard
There are several benches and dead potted
plants here. A bizarrely lifelike office worker
moves around here, acting for all the world as
though she is watering dead plants with an
empty bottle. On a Hard (-10) Stealth check, the
survivors will mistake the zombie for one of the
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Captain’s Office (area #28 below) to water the
plants there as well.
Encounters: 1 Automaton (see new zombies
below).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
28. CAPTAIN’S OFFICE (Scrounging
Modifier +10)
This large office contains a large desk and desk
chair, oak cabinets, a (long dead) potted plant,
and a round table with comfortable chairs on a
drab carpet. The Automaton occasionally
wanders in here to water the plants. Much
worse for the survivors, the Captain is still here
and has transformed into an Omega Zed. He
crouches behind the desk and attempts to
surprise any living creature that walks in.
The walls in this office are annoyingly thin.
Combat here will almost certainly draw the
zombies from the offices on either side (+25%
to normal chance based on Noise).
Encounters: 1 Automaton (this is the same
creature as area #27B;if the survivors have
already dealt with it it cannot be encountered
here). 1 Omega Zed, crouched behind desk.
A search of this area reveals: 2 Hydrocodone,
48 NSAID, Beretta 92-F, 92 rounds 9x19 mm, 4
Flashbang Grenades, 10 Tear Gas Grenades,
Light Body Armor, 12 MRE, 8 Canned Food, 16
Purified Water.
29. IT (Scrounging Modifier +10)
This room contains two ruined computers, as
well as two automata that continue to type and
answer phones.
Encounters: 2 Automata (see below).
A search of this area reveals: 37 electronics
spare parts (these parts can be used to create
or repair anything on the Engineering list).
30. LIEUTENANT’S OFFICE (Scrounging
Modifier +0)
There are two offices for lieutenants, one for the
day shift and one for the night shift. These
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offices are both somewhat sparse and
professional, with only a few personal items like
family photos to lend them a touch of humanity.
During the crisis, both detectives were on duty
and both are downstairs, part of the throng of
Juggernauts on the first floor.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
31. SERGEANT’S OFFICE (Scrounging
Modifier +10)
This shared space is actually much more
personalized than the Lieutenant’s offices.
Perceptive survivors will note these men and
women lived for their work and took tremendous
pride in it and themselves. Kids’ drawings,
family photos and the like practically plaster the
inside of these shared desks, along with funny
passive aggressive notes left from one shift to
the next.
Three of the Sergeants made it back up here
before they turned. They intended to make a
last stand here but one turned on the others
first.
The roof in this room leaks badly and the ceiling
tiles are sagging in the center of this room.
Encounters: 3 Juggernauts (Heavy Armor).
A search of this area reveals: Colt M1911A1 in
Poor Condition, Glock 17 in Used Condition,
Telescoping Baton in Ruined Condition, 98
rounds .45 ACP, 122 rounds 9x19mm.
32. TOILETS (Scrounging Modifier -25)
These toilets were clearly the location of at least
one death. A Silent Deadly awaits the survivors
in one of the stalls, hoping for a careless meal
to wander too close to the doors.
Encounters: 1 Silent Deadly (Page 121).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
33. STORAGE (Scrounging Modifier -10)
This storage room contains more dust than
anything else.
 Encounters: 1 Play Dead (Page 119).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
34. ARMORY (Scrounging Modifier +25)
This room holds a small desk, a large, steel
table and – against the back wall from the
entrance – a gun cage, which was used to store
both weapons and ammo. Getting into the cage
will be a challenge, requiring a Difficult Stealth
check (-25) to pick the lock. Survivors who don’t
care how much noise they make can get in with
an Easy (+10) Demolitions check. Shooting the
lock is possible with a sufficiently powerful
weapon (rifle or shotgun).
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: M-4 SOPMOD,
M-4/M-26 MASS, MAUL, Enhanced Battle Rifle,
SIG Sauer P-228 x2, M-24 with Nightvision
Scope, Beretta 92-F with Advanced Suppressor
and Laser Sight, HK MP5-SD, 85 Spare Parts
(Small Arms), 830 rounds 5.56x45mm, 275
rounds 12 gauge, 425 rounds 7.62x51mm,
1,265 rounds 9x19mm.
35. EVIDENCE STORAGE (Scrounging
Modifier +25)
This room contains three large safe-like
cabinets on one side, for the storage of
weapons, valuables, and drugs & room of the house next door. A piece of the
miscellaneous. The file cabinets are on the
other side. Still lurking in this room are two
Juggernauts assigned to guard this room in
case looters got inside.
Encounters: 2 Juggernauts (Heavy Armor).
A search of this area reveals: 60 Codeine, 50
MDMA, 20 Hydrocodone, 40 Oxycodone,
Double Barrel Shotgun, FN-49, TEC-9, 280
rounds .45 ACP, 90 Ingredients (Chemistry), 30
batteries, 225 rounds 9x19mm, Machete, 75
Spare Parts (Small Arms).
36. EVIDENCE PROCESSING (Scrounging
Modifier +0)
This is a small forensic laboratory, with a large
worktable, several special machines (like a
-100ºF temperature freezer) and a cabinet with
vials, Erlenmeyer flasks, a microscope, etc. An
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automaton “works” here, wearing a lab coat and
staring down a broken microscope. It attacks as
soon as the door is opened.
Encounters: 1 Automaton.
A search of this area reveals: 72 Ingredients
(Chemistry).
37. ADMINISTRATIVE (Scrounging Modifier
-50)
The door to this room became stuck somehow,
possibly a warped frame from some blunt
impact from the outside. The inhabitants of this
room obviously starved to death. As they died,
they ransacked the office several times, finding
every edible scrap in their struggle to survive.
Encounters: 2 Shamblers.
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
38. MEETING ROOM (Scrounging Modifier
-25)
This room can be divided in two with a folding
wall.
Someone appears to have used a chainsaw or
similar tool to saw a roughly rectangular hole in
the wall – large enough for a person to fit
through. It connects this room with the living
wood framed wall (filled with insulation) was left
there.
This was the last attempt by a group of office
workers to stay alive. The remaining police had
given them a chainsaw and instructed them to
try and break through to the apartment next
door while they held off the zombies that had
penetrated the second floor. Unfortunately, one
of the workers was already bitten and turned on
the others. The shamblers here will respond to
loud noises here or in the shop next door
normally.
Encounters: 22 Shamblers (Page 121).
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value. 
39. BREAKROOM (Scrounging Modifier +0)
This room shows signs of the struggle that killed
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 its two occupants. The floor is smeared with dry
blood. The inhabitants had loaded everything
edible they could find (including non-dairy
creamer packets) into a plastic garbage bag,
intending to then join the group in room #38.
They never made it.
The bag is hooked around one of the zombie’s
ankles, and it makes a Normal Noise every
round of combat, which might attract nearby
zombies.
Encounters: 2 Shamblers (Page 121).
A search of this area reveals: 6 Canned Food,
34 Ingredients (Cooking).
40. OFFICE (Scrounging Modifier -25)
Encounters: 23 Shamblers.
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
SHOP NEXT DOOR – UPPER FLOOR
The second floor of this side of the building is
an apartment that Papa rented out as a source
of side income. The tenant moved out a couple
months ago and rather than rent it out, Papa
was having it renovated, in case he couldn’t
patch things up with his wife and he needed
more permanent accommodations than his
office.
41. BALCONY (Scrounging Modifier —)
This is another way a properly prepared and
trained group of survivors can gain access to
the second level. If the party has climbing gear,
accessing the balcony is an easy Athletics
check. If the party does not, they can still
access the balcony with a Difficult Athletics
check. Parties with a high Unity could form a
human pyramid (Skill Assist) etc. In short, any
party that thinks of entering through the balcony
should be encouraged to think outside the box
in this way. Once survivors reach the balcony,
they will find the door wide open to the inside,
you know, for air flow.
From here, the survivors can access the roof in
similar fashion. There are roof windows in
rooms 29, 30, 31 and 39 the PCs can use to
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scout those rooms and possibly gain entrance
to the second floor. The windows are not meant
to open but survivors with proper tools (a
crowbar or nail puller would be perfect) can
force the windows open quietly on a Difficult (-
10) Strength check.
Barring that, survivors could always shoot or
bash the windows open if they aren’t afraid to
make a lot of noise.
Survivors climbing around on the roof have one
potential nasty surprise. The ceiling over Room
#31 is leaking and soaked from recent rains and
is structurally unsound. If the PCs climb on the
roof above #31, make a Luck check. If this fails,
the survivor falls through the ceiling, landing
prone in that room. If multiple survivors are on
the roof, only check for the survivor with the
lowest Luck score.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value. 
42. LIVING ROOM (Scrounging Modifier -25)
There’s a hole in the wall here that leads to
room #38. This room is fully furnished with a
beat-up, dusty living room set from a nearby
“rent to own” place. The former occupant left it
behind when they moved.
Encounters: None (though the large number of
Shamblers in #38 will burst in at any Normal or
louder Noise.
A search of this area reveals: 16 Spare Parts
(Construction).
43/44. KITCHEN/DINING AREA (Scrounging
Modifier -25)
Like the living room, this room has cheap,
rented appliances that were beat to hell and
barely worked, before being abandoned by the
former occupant.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
45. BATHROOM (Scrounging Modifier -25)
The personal effects of a single man can be
 found in a plastic bag on the floor (deodorant,
shampoo, toothpaste).
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: Nothing of value.
46. STORAGE (Scrounging Modifier +0)
This room was used as storage by the former
occupant, who was apparently a collector of
classic comics. Depending on who the survivors
talk to, the items found in here are either
worthless junk or priceless relics of a bygone
age.
Find a buyer for these artifacts could prove an
adventure all on its own, assuming the
survivors wish to sell them at all. If they don’t,
there will be attempts by men hired by the
leader of the Ravagers to steal the items,
though these thieves will be instructed not to
damage the items at all costs.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: 1 Heirloom (Roar
#1 in mint condition) Value: 98 Cans, 1
Heirloom (Revengers #56 in Poor Condition)
Value: 9 Cans, 1 Heirloom (Dachshund vs.
Badger Movie Tie-In in Mint Condition) Value: 2
Cans, 1 Heirloom (Coldfront #3 First
Appearance of El Nino in Good Condition)
Value: 78 Cans, 91 miscellaneous comics (treat
as non-skill book Miscellaneous Items).
See new items below for a description of the
Heirloom special item.
47. BEDROOM
More furniture that was worthless before it sat
in an empty apartment through the fall of
civilization.
Encounters: None.
A search of this area reveals: 12 Small Game
(Rats. These can be captured/killed with a
Normal Outdoorsman check.)
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NEW CREATURE
Automaton (Zombie)
“I swear that zombie just said the word pizza.
No, I am not drunk, stop saying that! Look, let’s
just get out of here already.” Stephen
Hernandez, Roughneck
Number Encountered: 1-2 (self-employed); 1-
5 (team); 1-10 (squad); 11-20 (company)
Combat Ability: 40 HP: 80
Health: 40 Action Points: 4
Insight: 30
Quickness: 40
Strength: 40
Level: 1
Skills: CQC 40, Stealth 40
Combat: Bite 2d10 CQC
Special: Hide in Plain Sight on Normal Stealth
check
Description: For unknown reasons, perhaps a
bizarre form of muscle memory, these zombies
maintain a normal routine when a food stimulus
is absent. Automata have been observed wiping
down bars in local taverns, pushing baby
strollers and even sitting at desks, typing on
non-functioning keyboards.
Because they rot less than other zombies, and
maintain their clothes better, these zombies are
often mistaken for the living by unwary
onlookers. Make a Stealth check for the
automata at Medium range, then make a Hard
(-10) check when the survivors get 100 feet
away and finally a Difficult (-25) check when the
survivors get 25 feet away. Success on each of
these checks means the automata are mistaken
for the living.
If automata are attacked, or if prey get within 25
feet, they suddenly revert to their feral nature
and attack. The sight of this is very startling to
onlookers. When an automata attacks, if they
have made one or more Stealth checks
successfully, survivors being attacked suffer 1-
10 MT damage. If the survivors have never
encountered automata before, or if the
automata were unnoticed until within 25 ft.,
increase the MT damage by +5. 
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 Waterlogged (Zombie)
“We thought we were hot shit. Until that thing
pulled Ramirez under, anyway. Thus ended my
glorious career as a post-apocalyptic
commando. Any other questions you want to
ask me or can I go back to my drink?” Survivor,
name unknown, encountered in the Malltown
pub
Number Encountered: 1 (group); 1-10 (pack);
11-20 (swarm); 44-80 (mega-swarm)
Combat Ability: 40 HP: 50
Health: 20 Action Points: 3
Insight: 20
Quickness: 30
Strength: 30

Level: 3
Skills: CQC (40), Stealth (40; +65 when
submerged)
Perks: Shh
Combat: Bite 2d10 CQC
Special: +25 Stealth checks when submerged

Description: Often poor souls are infected and

then trapped underwater. Once they have been
submerged for a time, with silt or beach sand
covering them, or even plants growing in rotting Heirlooms often have an affect on a survivor’s
flesh, they become very difficult to spot, even status as well. Returning such items, especially
by a trained observer. if no compensation is asked for, could grant a
survivor a friend who will return their generosity
NEW ITEM in the future. See the Status rules below for
Heirloom: Although humanity has been more information.
reduced to a state of mere survival in the AZ,
there are still some items survivors are willing to
trade for, simply because they remind them of
what they once had. What constitutes an
heirloom is limitless. It could be a wedding ring,  
a family photo, or even a favorite comic book.
Heirlooms are worthless to most survivors but
to the right person, they have a value of 1-100  
cans plus a number of cans equal to the
Scrounging Modifier of the location where the  
heirloom was recovered.

Heirlooms are only found at the discretion of the

Game Master and multiple heirlooms in a single  
location is extremely rare. If multiple heirlooms
are discovered, their value is still determined by
rolling percentile dice, meaning two heirlooms
found together could have widely differing
values.
 

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