1d10 Dreams had on expedition
Signal
Mud Flats
Ashes
Woods
City
Drop Ship
The Mudflats (Level 4 Radiation)
Nothing but the mud remains. It is featureless in
every direction. The only thing you can rely upon to
tell you are moving is the signal getting stronger.
The Heart of War (Level 4 Radiation)
This is the source of the signal. It is deep inside a
giant crater. When in front of the crater you feel in a
way your conscious brain cannot articulate that
there is something WRONG in that hole. Peering
into the crater you will find a giant pure white heart.
It pumps blood into the mud below it.
If a teammate gazes upon the heart they must
make a Sanity Save to avoid being filled with the
desire to bash in the skulls of their fellow
teammates. If only one teammates remains the heart
will fly towards them. They will feel the pain of
everything ever inflected by war and the heart will
embed itself in their skull and fuse with their
consciousness.
All the teammates dream the
same dreams.
0. You are alone in a gray muddy plane. A
thunderstorm begins and blood rains from the sky.
1. You are huddled in a small hut, you hear
something flying overhead and you know it wants
you dead.
2. You go back to see your family, something is
wrong, all of their heads have been replaced with a
pale white heart.
3. You are somewhere in a cave, fire lights the holy
paintings upon the walls. You take a large stone
and bash in the skull of someone in front of you.
4. You are inside an early experimental tank, you
are passing over the trenches as a noxious gas
begins to fill the tank. It is too late to put on your
mask.
5. There is nothing in this dream but darkness and
voices. There are so many voices in so many
languages. Of the ones you can understand you
pick out talks of glory and victory.
6. You find yourself at your childhood home.
Everything is burning.
7. You find yourself in front of your loved ones at
home, you cannot control yourself, you tear them
apart with your bare hands.
8. You find yourself inside a bomber plane, your
body is frozen you see the crew preparing to drop
the bombs and can do nothing.
9. A massive white heart beats, it is connected to
no veins and simply spews blood. Sirens blare all
around.
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EXCLUSION
ZONE
A Paranuclear
Hex Crawl
Stella Condrey
In 1962 the term Mutual Assured Destruction
was coined by Donald Brennan. He argued that
holding weapons of war such as nuclear weapons
was madness that would lead to both sides of a
nuclear conflict being utterly destroyed with no
victor. During that era the end of human
habitation on a planet was seen as something
beyond what anyone could stomach.
It is now the space faring future. The nuclear
weapons of the 1960s are a quaint memory and
the warpigs who light the fires of Armageddon
will never have to be bothered to set foot on the
planet they destroyed ever again. By the time the
button has been pressed they are not even in the
same system if they strike first.
Phonoi 1 was made uninhabitable 25 years ago.
The evacuation was a rushed and painful
operation. No signals have been sent from the
planet in 23 years until now. A distress signal has
been sent. No language just a solid tone.
The Arnell Corporation has thrown together an
extraction team to locate the source of the
distress signal and escort the survivors back to
the drop ship.
It takes 8 hours to travel one hex. While one hex
might be geographically much larger than
another they all take roughly 8 hours to traverse.
The crew is provided with ten days worth of food.
They are also provided all with hazmat suits, a
Geiger counter, and a tracker that points to where
the distress signal is strongest.
The team is not to return without survivors
The City (Level 1 Radiation)
An empty place, the skeletons of vehicles litter
the streets waiting for riders that have long left.
Nature has reclaimed most of the city; grass grows
through the thin worn pavement, what were once
proud buildings are now scaffold for vines. While in
the city you have a distinct feeling that you are being
studied.
1d10 city events
0. A choir of screams that surrounds you from
every direction. It comes to a crescendo and stops
as abruptly.
1. After stopping moving for some time you begin
to realize something. A silhouette of your body is
burned onto the north facing side of any structure
you are near.
2. Small pebbles begin to float aimlessly just
centimeters above the ground.
3. The crew stumbled upon a perfectly smooth
concrete cube roughly 3 meters across. It is in
perfect condition with no signs of either flora or
fauna having touched it.
4. An old telephone pole finally falls. Body Save to
avoid 3d10 DMG Blunt Force.
5. A cry not dissimilar to a baby begins to wail.
Following the source of the sound will lead to a six
foot tall patch of grass. Exploring through the
grass will reveal a giant hairless rodentine creature
that was bitten in half.
6. The tone being transmitted on the emergency
frequency stops for a few seconds. It comes back
with two short bursts followed by a pause. This
continues for a few minutes and then goes back to
normal.
7. After stepping in a patch of grass a teammate
hears the sound of a skull crushing under foot.
8. One teammate suddenly finds themselves
surrounded by a world frozen in time. While they
can still move their compatriots cannot.
Eventually things will normalize. None of the rest
of the team can recall this event.
9. A three antlered deer eats grass next to a
partially destroyed anti war mural. Any approach
will cause the deer to flee.
The Woods (Level 2 Radiation)
With humanity having left this place long ago
the nature brought here has flourished. Reds and
oranges ignite the canopy above while the bull brown
earth sits calmly below. While the city was
surprisingly devoid of life, signs of it are all around
you in the woods. While in the woods it is clear that
whatever was watching you earlier still is.
1d10 woods events
0. The mostly rotted corpse of a deer floats gently
northbound a meter and a half a meter above the
ground.
1. A massive mutated beast is spotted 1d10x10
meters away. It superficially resembles a bear. If
you make yourself look smaller it will not attack
you. W: 3(15) C:40 I: 35
2. The earth under the team's feet begins to shake
in violent heart beats.
3. A pack of six hairless and hungry looking
wolves attempts to attack the party. They will run
off in fear once a single wolf has been killed.
W:2(10) C:35 I:45
4. The crew stumbles upon a set of many remains
in hazmat suits. They look like they have been here
for decades
5. A massive cacophony of birds erupts from a
patch of grass. Inspection of the grassy area will
find the corpse of someone who appears to be in
1600s Prussian military garb. The birds have
pecked out their eyes.
6. The team finds a massive tree wrapped in barbed
wire. It leaks a death red sap.
7. The feeling of being watched here is so strong.
Walking through the area has a 4 in 10 chance of
setting off a land mine (as frag grenade).
8. A massive chunk of smooth concrete suddenly
crashes down from the canopy just centimeters in
front of the person leading the pack.
9. An amalgam of flesh is seen 1d10x10 meters
away. It looks like a human torso spiking out of the
back of a horse, the head of the creature has a cast
iron mask that displays the face of both a swine
and a hound, in its arms is a SMG. If it spots the
team it will attack. W:3(30) C:50 I:20
The Ashes (Level 3 Radiation)
Despite all of the nature surrounding it the ashes
are barren. Spikes of charred trees jut out from a coal
black mud. For the first time on the planet it doesn’t
feel like you are being watched. If you listen long
enough you can hear the pain of the landscape,
scared and yearning for a better world that it has
been denied.
1d10 ash events
0. The team stumbles upon what looks to be their
dropship sunk in at a broken angle. A close
inspection of any of the electronics will find that
behind the panels are pulsing human organs
1. A bunch of medium sized concrete cubes hover
above the ground in a tight huddle. Touching any of
the cubes will cause them to try and crush the
offender. Body Save to avoid being crushed to pulp.
2. The team finds a bundle of barbed wire sticking
out of the mud. Following the wire will lead to
finding the corpse of a teammate wrapped in it.
3. Sirens blare out from no apparent source, it is
suddenly night, the trees are ablaze once more.
After a few minutes the team awakens in the mud.
4. Gravity suddenly shifts, everything not secured
to the ground begins to fall northward. Anyone
who falls is separated from the group by 1 hex.
5. Two men appear on the horizon on horseback.
They wear army fatigues and wear a rusted iron
mask of a swine. They both carry flame throwers.
When they get close they speak with many voices
and ask if the team has ever felt this good.
W:3(30) C:50 I:20
6. The team stumbles upon red splattered concrete
statues of soldiers standing at attention in the mud.
7. The team stumbles upon what appears to be an
assortment of their loved ones in the mud. The
loved ones will beg to be killed and if killed will
burst into ashes.
8. The team stumbles upon an open mass grave.
9. The group spots a massive commotion
happening roughly a kilometer away. Surveying
what is happening will reveal warriors from across
all cultures and time frames killing each other in
an endless bloodbath.