06-06-2015, 05:46 AM | #951 |
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06-06-2015, 11:06 AM | #952 | |
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06-06-2015, 01:20 PM | #953 |
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I love the line about initially being mistaken for clumps of spaghetti. Are spaced clumps of spaghetti on highways that common of a sight in Texas? Plagued by roving bands of littering Italians?
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06-06-2015, 01:22 PM | #954 |
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06-06-2015, 07:18 PM | #955 |
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Sometimes while the water is still high, fire ant mounds will float loose from the soil and bump into houses or boats whereupon the fire ants swarm out and take over.
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06-12-2015, 06:56 PM | #956 |
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Lake Karachay is a small lake in the southern Ural Mountains. Used as a dumping ground for the Soviet Union's first plutonium and nuclear waste processing plant, the entire lake floor is composed of high level radioactive waste to a depth of about 11 feet. Radiation on the shore of the place can kill an unprotected human in an hour. The site remained in use from 1945 - 1957, until the plant's nuclear waste storage tanks (for the stuff they were wiling to hang on to rather than dump in the lake) exploded and contaminated the area.
The lake has been drying out since the 1960s, exposing the lakebed and allowing the radioactive material to be carried away as dust. What better candidate for the "Hot Spot" line? As a location, your PCs have a built-in time limit with an incentive to do their job and get out as fast as possible. Some might find it a suitably remote and unappealing spot for their (heavily shielded) secret lab or lair. The lake would have been a fine dumping ground for Sealed Evil in a Jar -- either before or after the Soviets built there, or as the destination for the Sealed Evil the PCs just contained on the last adventure. The radiation in the region could be a staple excuse for your atomic horrors and mutant superpowers. Last edited by Anaraxes; 06-13-2015 at 07:16 AM. |
06-12-2015, 07:02 PM | #957 |
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Heck, I would love to learn what kind of real world life survives there. We all know the Chernobyl plant has radiation "eating" fungi, but that lake has orders of magnitude more punch.
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06-12-2015, 07:05 PM | #958 | |
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I hope by naming it out loud I haven't placed the idea into a Sci Fi channel TV exec's head.
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