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Varyon · 06-03-2016, 12:05 PM

Since Yellowstone keeps getting mentioned, I'll note that a zombie apocalypse* campaign I made a while back had as part of its backstory a mostly-failed nuclear strike by North Korea. Of the few ICBM's that reached the US, none actually hit what they were aimed at. Unfortunately, one of these was a nuclear "bunker buster" aimed at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, and it drifted to the northwest, hitting the Caldera and causing a partial eruption thereof. A similar event, but perhaps with a (launched by mistake) Russian nuke, could occur pre-1990.

*The backstory basically had things start falling apart on 12/21/12, starting with the North Korean nuclear strike. Things were actually starting to improve a few decades later, when the campaign was to be set, but it turned out Reich-5 had taken advantage of the chaos to start a research center to research things they'd rather not have reach their homeline. The zombie apocalypse was due to containment failing on one of these projects.

06-03-2016, 12:05 PM	#13
Varyon Join Date: Jun 2013	Re: [ATE/IW] Ecological Collapse Since Yellowstone keeps getting mentioned, I'll note that a zombie apocalypse* campaign I made a while back had as part of its backstory a mostly-failed nuclear strike by North Korea. Of the few ICBM's that reached the US, none actually hit what they were aimed at. Unfortunately, one of these was a nuclear "bunker buster" aimed at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, and it drifted to the northwest, hitting the Caldera and causing a partial eruption thereof. A similar event, but perhaps with a (launched by mistake) Russian nuke, could occur pre-1990. *The backstory basically had things start falling apart on 12/21/12, starting with the North Korean nuclear strike. Things were actually starting to improve a few decades later, when the campaign was to be set, but it turned out Reich-5 had taken advantage of the chaos to start a research center to research things they'd rather not have reach their homeline. The zombie apocalypse was due to containment failing on one of these projects.