unusual treasures for scroungers/barterers to find

[Apache6]

- Backpacking water filter (civilian but also issued by USMC in 90s)
- Aviator sun glasses (cool points)
- An Olympic bronze medal (Owner was a world class sprinter, then joined Spetnaz/SF/Resistance)
- A functional GPS, would be VERY rare in T2K.
- Experimental solar charger 'blanket' that will recharge a battery in 3-7 hours
- Maps are always good, may have important info, or have dated info.
- A flag, the Regimental Colors of XX Regiment or Motor Rifle Regt

- climbing rope and six carbineers
- An old foot locker containings obsolete (before the war started) but servicable uniforms 3 sets of Medium Regular jackets/trousers, a field jacket, a pair of boots, gloves, regular and cold weather hat, a fighting knife, and binos.
- Fishing rod and reel with a set of tackle
- complete set of civilian backpacking kit: good quality sleeping bag, tent, stove, mat..., but the backpack is bright blue, sleeping bag is red and tent is orange.
- Super bowl 10 ring (leave players to speculate how it got to Poland in 2002)
- Set of 10 - 15 photos of a pretty young wife and two kids in a zip lock
- A nicely pressed, high quality black suit, in large mans size, with silk tie, in dry cleaners bag.
- A wet suit
- A duffel bag full of clean laundry, an "enemy uniform" and four sets each of clean and relatively servicable socks, t-shirts, and underwear. Describe them as being MUCH better the what the PCs have been wearing for the last 90 days.
- A gortex jacket in US Woodland or "north face" version in red with black stripe
- Nine 1 gal cans of house paint 3 antique white, 2 light green, 1 each brown, beige, black, maroon.
- A 'mostly full' can of WD-40
- 1/2 roll of duct tape
- A single (or a case of 24) red cross relief pack(s) with toothbrush and paste, razor, towel, comb, soap, shampoo in small cloth sack
- A dud 82mm mortar, 155mm HE round, Mark 82 2000 lb bomb (or whatever...) round, that can with successful CbtEngr skill roll be salvaged for X lbs of explosive or used as IED. Critical failure results in death. Not recommended in real life, but common in Afghanistan...
- 3 toy "Power Ranger" walkie talkies, with rechargable AA batteries. Only good for 1 Km but better than nothing.
- A "challenge coin" from C.G. of the 2d Marine Division (or other US formation)
- Leatherman knife/pliers
- Pair of bolt cutters
- US Calvary Stetson

[Cdnwolf]

The one I liked from the 100 list...

Board Games.... imagine finding a mint copy of Monopoly....

[headquarters]

VHS copy of a big blockbuster movie - due to premier but never distributed due to war.. Something big from the 1990s.. big budget movie that almost noone has seen

drugs..did anyone list recreational pharmaceuticals?

[Cdnwolf]

Originally Posted by headquarters

VHS copy of a big blockbuster movie - due to premier but never distributed due to war.. Something big from the 1990s.. big budget movie that almost noone has seen

Titanic....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/

[TrailerParkJawa]

How about books about surviving a nuclear war found in a basement full of skeletons? Morbid but darkly funny considering the PCs have survived a nuclear war (up to now at least) and probably didn't do anything listed in the book.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Copies of these three books

Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_lib....html#contents

Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14091...-h/14091-h.htm

The Book of Household Management By Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
http://www.victorianlondon.org/publi.../beeton-00.htm

This last one can be a bit tedious to read as most of the (in our context) useful information starts around Chapter 4

Even if you don't read them for the survival/preparation context, they're interesting just for the insights into what life was like in the 1800s and 1900s (pre-1940s)

[Greylond]

The characters find a collection of movie film canisters and a projector. When they run the films on the projector they find that it is a complete collection of the works of director Ed Wood...

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Pertinent to "scavenged films", here are the releases of 1996. The film-to-video treadmill wasn't quite as rapid-fire back then as it is now (I recall having to wait until sometime in 1999 to get saving private ryan on DVD, for example), so the 1996 releases would probably be the ones everyone was lusting after in 1997.

Ooh, look what was released: Barb Wire! Heh, talk about a weapon of mass destruction. Just what the characters would need: a pallet load of VHS tapes destined for US PX's around Europe - all copies of that movie!

[Bullet Magnet]

Originally Posted by TrailerParkJawa

How about books about surviving a nuclear war found in a basement full of skeletons? Morbid but darkly funny considering the PCs have survived a nuclear war (up to now at least) and probably didn't do anything listed in the book.

Or, just one skeleton, who apparently died kneeling in front of a broken pair of glasses.

[Cdnwolf]

Even better and meaner.... a crate of these movies


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrBdDsNWK1M

[dragoon500ly]

browising through a small drug store, on a small shelf next to the toy aisle:

a dozen bags of replacement bowstrings as well as four boxes of bronze hunting arrow tips...

[weswood]

Wasn't there a member of this board whose party was guarding an M113 full of "treasure" only to find out it was full of toilet paper?

[Cdnwolf]

Lionel Train Set

[Greylond]

Originally Posted by weswood

Wasn't there a member of this board whose party was guarding an M113 full of "treasure" only to find out it was full of toilet paper?

Sounds like "Treasure" to me!

[raketenjagdpanzer]

A full-sized semi- tractor-trailer full, front to back, top to bottom with various types of pet supplies including types of animal-only prescription drugs. How desperate are you to shake off the Kansas City flu? Desperate enough to try a "for canine use only" antibiotic?

...

A high-grade mobile-meth lab concealed in an RV. No drugs, just the "facilities" to make them. (yes I am a fan of Breaking Bad, why do you ask?)

...

A bookmobile.

...

A Laserdisk player, which the party will almost certainly ignore/leave behind due to matters of practicality.

Six months later, they find a store/truck/house with a vast collection of laserdisks.

...

a briefcase handcuffed to a skeletonized arm. On the hand is a rolex and a very expensive one at that. Said briefcase is booby-trapped to the max. After hours of blood, sweat and nerves getting the thing disarmed and open, within is the original formula for (Coke or KFC, your choice).

[Cdnwolf]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

a briefcase handcuffed to a skeletonized arm. On the hand is a rolex and a very expensive one at that. Said briefcase is booby-trapped to the max. After hours of blood, sweat and nerves getting the thing disarmed and open, within is the original formula for (Coke or KFC, your choice).

The Caramilk secret....

or Secret plans of a UFO hiding in Area 51...

an old movie reel showing JFK was killed from the grassy knoll...

an original copy of the Declaration of Independence.

a Gutenburg bible...

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

an original copy of the Declaration of Independence.

This could drive an entire campaign, given the MilGov/CivGov conflict.

[Cdnwolf]

Now if the characters are still in Poland...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

[TrailerParkJawa]

Originally Posted by Bullet Magnet

Or, just one skeleton, who apparently died kneeling in front of a broken pair of glasses.

LoL! Yeah that would be a good one!