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I also had a client who worked there too, basically, he told me that it is so big down there, you can drive entire semis down there. As to earthquakes, I know if you go north a little bit, there have been some small ones, the largest I know if was a 5.2 in 1998 near Greenville/Jamestown, PA, at the time it happened, I owned property up there and I think it was close to the epicenter. Chuck
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Found this list of firearms museums when looking for one I saw on "History Detectives"
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Nowhere Man, is that a Burmese on your avatar? We had one when I was a teenager. Fiendish little thing, but she and my dog were best buddies.
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Burmese cats are usually friendly, but Muffin was kicked around by my cousin in a drug rage and she never trusted men except for me and my best buddy. She was a good, little cat, so was Pixie. We lost Pixie on October 2nd, she was the last black cat I had. Pixie 1992 - 2008 Chuck M. P.S. - I'll have to post some pics of Muffin.
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How is this for a treasure trove?
http://www.smallarmsreview.com/pdf/jan04.pdf
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In my Southwest campaign, I had the PCs raid a casino in a boarder area of Nevada, I had the upper rooms on the floors above the 5th floor still have some items in them, with more items found the higher they went.
They had everything from viagra, to small bottles of liquor to larger bottles to all maner of medicines from the former occupants and lots of bedding, and the best was finding the storerooms on the upper floor with the maids cart filled with soap, shampoo and toilet paper! And of course the miints that get left on the pillows.
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How about the many Small unincorporated towns off major highways.
Im sure theres small enclaves or starved dead houses full of goodies. Guns,canned goods,gardens,tools. Places like the show american pickers on history channel would be good. Scroungers should check this show out. |
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Groups of Non-LDS refugees flood into Utah on the false presumption that every Mormon family has stocked away food for three years. Told by state and local authorities that this is not true, concentrated in under-fed refugee camps, these refugees ultimately riot and turn marauder. This invasion by violent, desperate non-LDS members shocks the citizens of Utah into taking on a very isolationist stance. Non-LDS Utah residents get the same treatment from the out-of-state marauders who think everyone in Utah is a Mormon. Utah residents are tortured for the whereabouts of their giant "Mormon" stashes by marauders too stupid to realize there is nothing to steal. Per canon, the State Governor withholds the National Guard from Federal Service and (although they refuse to actually say they are seceding) refuses to recognize the authority of MilGov or CigGov. In my timeline, this causes a lot of bad blood with MilGov (which is closer), but no outright combat. MilGov has a couple airbases that are still manned that the Utah State Government is hoping MilGov will abandon so the state can occupy them. Some of those bases have nuclear weapons and MilGov wants to remove them to Colorado for storage, but without the State government's help, transporting them could be precarious. The result is a tense stand off that's not quite a siege, but more of an endurance contest. Can the MilGov facilities hold out until such time as one Federal government has enough resources to force Utah back into the union? Well, maybe not "force them back into the union." Maybe it's more like "get them to recognize the legitimate authority of the new federal government." I'm imagining that if the reformed US government isn't a religious state hostile to the LDS, then the state of Utah will rejoin the union, and pretend that this was all just a big misunderstanding. Of course, there are plenty of LDS extremist who want to declare Utah the State of Deseret, creating a nation where church and state are one, bring back polygamy and kick the "children of Ham" out of the church. A violent minority, they are sort of a mini-New America for Utah, constantly causing trouble. Perhaps the Extremists even attempt to provoke a shooting war between MilGov and Utah? If these idiots gain control of any nukes, they are going to be serious trouble. They might even use it to try and stage a coup, seizing the state house and declaring a real secession from the USA. Quote:
I'd be interested to know what percentage of fringe-wacko LDS members participate in national military service. I expect that since these groups are insular, and secret, they wouldn't get out much and their access to Uncle Sam's training would be lower... which is good. It means that the orthodox LDS would be fighting amateurs, not professionals. Of course, amateurs can suprise you. A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing |
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Nevertheless, one of the greatest moments of the books (for me) is when one of the kids explores the "attic full of junk" the adults have forgotten about and discovers a treasure trove of early 20th century technology: A hand-cranked gramaphone and a large collection of 78 rpm records. A sewing machine that uses a foot-petal to provide energy. A couple of old kerosene lamps with wicks, but no oil. An old pot-bellied iron stove with lengths of straight and hinged stove pipe An old fashioned grooming kit including a strap and two straight razors Any group of TW:2000 players had better recognize how valuable an intact pot bellied stove would be. So? What kind of helpful cache of supplies have you thrown at your players that they turned their noses up at because it wasn't ammo, MREs, fuel or medicine? A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing |
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Just thought of an interesting treasure trove...
What about something like the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation? http://www.mvtf.org/ A private collection of military vehicles... currently there are 240 vehicles in the collection. Most, if not all are functional. The staff has the facilities and th skills to machine parts to restore the vehicles... perhaps even restore or replace their weaponry with something useful. Obviously the wouldn't be as many tanks in 1997 as there are today, but the tools and equipment for working on tanks might be worth more than the tanks themselves. It's a privately owned tank depot! For me, this place would have fallen into the hands of the US 6th Army, particularly the 40th ID (Mech), which might partly explain how the unit has managed to keep so many vehicles operational. A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing. |
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I left a special treat for thieves or marauders in one farmer's smokehouse--cheese made from milk produced by cows that had ingested fallout-contaminated meadow grass. Biologically concentrated, some of the medium and lots of the longer-half-lived radioisotopes would still be present 3 years later. The farmer, rather than discard it, decided to leave this as a delayed-reaction booby trap for the uninvited.
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I had the PCs find a Royal Engineer Section complete with vehicles all in mid stages of decomposition. It is a lucky thing they never tried the water ine tank trailer.
In the same town near the river, they found a nezt of someone who had been living under a building foundation. They also found several cans of food again, good thing they never tried it, it was contaminated with radioactivity and would have rocked their world. Its good to be the evil GM ![]()
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Some bound copies of "Popular Science" - dating back to the 40's and 50's
Seriously... have a look through them on "Google Books". There's some amazing stuff in there (for example, the April 1940 issue includes an article on how to make a crossbow). |
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After a supply Huey crashed enroute, some naive new Supply guy was instructed to go around to the various units and ask the supply sergeants if they had anything that had been coming in on that downed chopper that now had to be replaced. The supply sergeants recognized a unique opportunity to balance their books, so to speak, and said, "Now that you mention it, I had ordered six cases of this, and seven boxes of that..." By the time it was all calculated, the Huey had some eleven tons of materials on it, according to the supply sergeants' tally. "No wonder the goddammed thing went down!", Mason commented. |
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When I got back from one deployment, the National Guard state HQ supply guys were there when I cracked open the container full of equipment we redeployed. By the time they left, they had what my commander (naively) was referring to as "the extra list" - a few things that were not officially accounted for. On that deployment I had 4 or 5 little stash locations that nobody new about... they assumed some other unit owned that space. As far as trading, good supply people don't operate on a "transactional" basis - "I'll trade you this for that" - but on a "relationship" basis - "I'll hook you up when you need something, and when I'm in a bind I can count on you to help me out if you have what I need". Helps get things done. (With that, I once pulled a deal that involved the Danish and Turkish armies and four different US bases... it was epic!)
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A lesson for junior officers... don't try to needlessly court martial your supply sergeant in a war zone.
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For some reason a vision of a conglomeration of Radar O'Reilly and Major Po just flashed before my eyes and I was very scared of the concept.
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Thread revival and all, but I was just doing some research and came across this thread. I was thinking about odd treasure troves myself, and thought about Coca-Cola. I know that in the present you can find Coke in every country except Cuba and North Korea (and even then
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Coke requires kola beans which do not grow in non-tropical environments, generally; however, some are cultivated in northern italy or southern germany, according to this map:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lanutYield.png Also note a crapton are grown in central southern California, but well enough away from LA that they might not be fallout contaminated. What was the yield of weapons used on and around that region? We can use nukemap to maybe determine what the crops would be like... Also: I had a character (didn't get to play, unfortunately) among his treasures was a 12 pack of canned coke.
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Well I work at a woodworking store (http://www.woodcraft.com/) we stock power and hand woodworking tools. But the big thing would be the books on working with hand tools.
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I know that Michael "Mad Mike" Williamson knows the guy who owns that room. According to Mike the Owner recently sold a Livingston rifle for $500,000. And yes it was once owned by that Livingston.
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