Twilight 2000 1e - Free City of Krakow, The.pdf - Twilight 2000 1e (EN) - Matrinicz

Zbiegi .................................................................................. 33

Robotniki ............................................................................ 33

Neighborhood Gangs ......................................................... 34

Rzezniki Ropczyce............................................................. 34

Towns in the Krakow Area .................................................. 35

Bochnia............................................................................... 35

Brzesko............................................................................... 35

Dobczce.............................................................................. 35

Gdow .................................................................................. 35

Kalwaria............................................................................... 35

Krzeszowice ....................................................................... 35

Miechow............................................................................. 35

Myslenice ........................................................................... 36

Niepolomice........................................................................ 36

Nowy Huta ........................................................................ 36

Ojcow ................................................................................. 36

Olkusz................................................................................. 36

Oswiecim ........................................................................... 37

Preszwice ........................................................................... 37

Skawina.............................................................................. 37

Tunel................................................................................... 37

Tyniec................................................................................. 37

Uscie Solne.........................................................................37

Wielczka ............................................................................. 37

Wolbrum..............................................................................37

Zabierzow........................................................................... 37

Zebrzydowska.................................................................... 37

Helicopters in Twilight: 2000 ...............................................38

Krakow's Helicopter...........................................................38

Pilots ...................................................................................39

Introducing the Helicopter..................................................39

Helicopter Escape from Krakow ........................................39

Flying Helicopters ..............................................................39

Travel Movement ...............................................................40

Combat Movement ............................................................40

Maintenance ...................................................................... 40

Pylons................................................................................. 40

Encounter Range................................................................40

Firing at Helicopters ...........................................................40

Nap of the Earth Flight ......................................................40

Component and Personnel Damage ..................................40

Special Note: Antitank Helicopters ...................................41

Helicopter Charts ................................................................... 41

Glossary..................................................................................44

Contents

The Free City of Krakow ........................................................2

Introduction.......................................................................... 2

Referee's Notes....................................................................2

Design Notes .......................................................................2

Adventure Plots........................................................................3

The Killing Ground ...............................................................3

The Lieutenant .....................................................................4

Operation Reset....................................................................4

The Decision.........................................................................5

Adventure Plots for The Free City of Krakow ....................6

Plotting the Adventure ........................................................ 6

The Friendly Stranger .......................................................... 6

Loose Lips............................................................................ 7

Looking for Work ................................................................. 8

They Found Us..................................................................... 8

Ending the Adventure .......................................................... 9

The City and Its Environs ......................................................10

The City Districts ...............................................................11

The City .............................................................................12

Encounters..........................................................................12

Notes to Encounters .........................................................15

The Old City ......................................................................15

The Wawel.........................................................................15

Kopiec Kosciuszki ..............................................................16

Electricity ........................................................................... 17

The Hospital .......................................................................17

Lodging in Krakow .............................................................17

The Economics of Krakow ................................................ 18

Who's Who In Krakow.......................................................... 19

Dowodca Josef Kutrzeba ..................................................19

General Diwizji Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko ....................... 19

Major Wladislaw Kobiecki ................................................. 20

Henryk Rapacki.................................................................. 20

Piotr Rutkowski ................................................................. 20

Lieutenant Aleksander Paszkiewicz.................................. 20

Major Anatoli Malekov ....................................................... 21

Marion Dmowski ................................................................ 21

Henryk Hallecki ................................................................. 21

Gustav Cryankowicz ......................................................... 22

Colonel Richard Stark ........................................................ 22

Tanya .................................................................................. 22

Sergeant Randolph Cutler ................................................. 23

Stanislaw ............................................................................ 23

Wieslaw Kokoszynski ........................................................ 24

Juliusz Wojchiechowicz..................................................... 24

Alexander Kosikowski....................................................... 24

Special Note: CIA/DIA Relations....................................... 24

Organizations .........................................................................25

The Najezdzcie Warsawskie.............................................. 25

Rada....................................................................................27

Warta .................................................................................. 28

ORMO................................................................................. 28

KGB..................................................................................... 31

DIA ..................................................................................... 32

Partisans............................................................................. 32

CIA...................................................................................... 33

Credits

Design: William H. Keith, Jr.

Additional Design and Development: Frank Chadwick and

Loren Wiseman.

Research Assistance: Dan Williams. Art Direction:

Barbie Pratt. Cover: Steve Venters. Interior

Illustrations: Steve Venters and Liz Danforth.

Game Designers' Workshop

PO Box 1646

Bloomington, IL 61702-1646

Reserved. Twilight: 2000 is Game Designers' Workshop's

trademark for its role-playing game of survival in a devastated

world.

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The Free City of Krakow

For weeks we'd been on the road, travelling at night mostly,

and hiding by day. We'd heard a lot about Krakow, you see,

and were hearing more and more as we got closer. Remember

the old stories of El Dorado that used to lure the Spanish con-

quistadors on in the Americas? Krakow was like that for us.

Maybe it wasn't a city of gold, but it was a place where, rumor

said, you could have anything, buy anything, but the best thing

they had was peace.

You see, Krakow was a free city.

It was back in the fall of 1999 when Krakow declared itself

a sovereign state. I don't know how they expected to get away

with it, but they did, I guess, because the local garrison stayed

on as the city's defense. They made the city tough enough that

no one left in southern Poland cared to take them on.

We met some merchants on the road south of Radomsko who

told us that the garrison now did nothing but keep the peace.

The war wasn't allowed in Krakow. We'd be able to trade for

food, for ammo, for some other things we hadn't seen in a long

time. Peace? Hell, to us, after Kalisz and a month of nothing

but running and hiding and fighting, a bit of peace and quiet was

exactly what we needed.

Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time.

REFEREE'S NOTES

This game module is designed to be used by the referee. Nar-

rative sections describing scenes from the point of view of the

characters are provided to add additional color and detail to the

referee's narrative as he describes the situation to the players.

These narrative sections may be read to or by the players, but

all other sections in this booklet are reserved for use by the

referee only. Narrative sections are set apart in italics for easy

recognition.

The map on the center pages is intended to be removed by

the referee and shown to the players. To do this, carefully pry

up the ends of the center staples with a tool such as a

screwdriver, remove the map (and the tables on its reverse),

and bend the ends of the staples down again. The text will now

read properly.

DESIGN NOTES

The Free City of Krakow was designed to introduce an ele-

ment of mystery and intrigue into a Twilight: 2000 campaign.

The situation in Krakow is similar to that in Lisbon or Casablan-

ca during WWII, outwardly neutral and at peace, but—behind

the facade—labyrinths of plots and counterplots, of cabals,

clandestine meetings and secret plans, as shadowy figures work

under cover to achieve their goals. This module presents the

referee with enough characters and possible situations to assem-

ble as involved a plot as he desires.

The excitement can come from wild firefights with mysterious

and powerful enemies, or from intrigue with shadowy forces

striving for mastery of the priceless Reset papers...or any blend

of the two desired. The exact mix of action and intrigue is up

to the referee. Survival of the characters is up to the players

themselves.

Miec szczescie! (Good Luck)

INTRODUCTION

The Free City of Krakow is a module for use with GDW's post-

World War III role-playing game Twilight: 2000. The main plot

deals with the recovery and disposal of important, secret plans

by the players. However, the module is more than this single

adventure. The information given in this module will allow the

referee to create a complete Twilight: 2000 campaign set in the

city of Krakow and/or the surrounding area. Referees are en-

couraged to use this module as a jumping-off point for adven-

tures and campaigns of their own.

William H. Keith, Jr.

This booklet includes the following material:

This introductory chapter.

Details of Operation Reset, and the secrets it has uncovered.

The search for a buyer for these secrets is one way to get the

characters into Krakow and set them up for the many potential

adventures there.

Maps of the city of Krakow and vicinity, a plan of Wawel Cas-

tle on the banks of the Wisla, and a plan of the military camp

at Kopiec Kosciuszki west of the city.

Descriptions of the important citizens of Krakow, and a

number of interesting and/or dangerous people the characters

may run into.

Details and descriptions of several organizations and groups

which the characters may encounter. These organizations, both

hostile and friendly, can be adapted by the referee for use in

other adventures.

Descriptions of villages and possible encounters in the Krakow

area. Even if your characters choose not to go to Krakow, this

chapter can provide the basis for numerous adventuring

sessions.

Rules for incorporating helicopters into Twilight: 2000 play.

Several helicopters are described in detail, including a Soviet

transport helicopter (the MI-17) which may play a major part

in the characters' adventures in Krakow.

PLAYERS SHOULD NOT READ ANY FURTHER IN

THIS BOOKLET IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THE

ELEMENT OF SURPRISE.

The Free City of Krakow

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a firefight, and it couldn't have lasted long. They'd been am-

bushed, caught in the open by heavy automatic fire from at least

three different spots among the woods thirty meters from the

road.

They didn't have a chance. Five had been captured. We found

them in an untidy pile off by the woods where they'd been herd-

ed together and machinegunned.

One truck had burned; the others had been shot to bits and

then stripped of everything useful: tires, engine parts, canvas

tops, they even drained the crankcase oil. It was like a plague

of locusts had hit, leaving the bare-bone skeletons and a sick-

sweet death stench. Whoever had knocked off that convoy had

gone over the place with a fine-toothed comb.

We were getting ready to move on when we heard the moan

from deeper in the woods.

Referee's Notes: The player characters' unit has come upon

the scene of a recent ambush. It is obvious that the attackers

achieved complete surprise, and most of the defenders were

gunned down where they stood.

Even a cursory examination will show that everything useful

has been taken from the vehicles and the bodies lying by the

road. All weapons, ammunition and supplies have been taken.

Alcohol has been siphoned from the wrecked vehicles, and spare

fuel and water have been taken. The engines have been stripped

of plugs, gaskets, even copper wire, and the tires, tools, fittings,

chains and cablesare gone. Even the truck's canvas tops have

been removed. The soldier's bodies have been stripped of coats,

boots, helmets, and other useful gear, and personal effects such

as rings and watches are also missing.

The field is littered with debris from the looting, mostly torn

articles of clothing, broken truck parts and equipment, empty

boxes and a few discarded shell casings missed by the

scavengers. Footlockers stuffed with papers have been dragged

from the trucks, opened, and rummaged through in a ruthless

search for valuables.

There is no trace of the attackers, though marks can be found

at several points within the woods to show where a large force

had set up machineguns to sweep the road in a crossfire.

Adventure Plots

The following background is assumed for the adventuring

group. This material may be altered by the referee in order to

incorporate it into an on-going Twilight: 2000 campaign.

The players are survivors of the US Fifth Division (Mech-

anized), which was destroyed by two Soviet armies during the

Spring of 2000 near the Polish city of Kalisz. A group of be-

tween three and eight player characters is recommended,

though more or fewer may play, and the unit may be made larger

by including several non-player characters (NPCs).

This group has been wandering roughly south for the past

month, hoping to rejoin friendly forces. In that time, the

characters have fought several actions with scattered Soviet

and Polish forces in the region, as well as marauder bands seek-

ing to kill them for their stores of food, ammo, and weapons.

Recently, during their travels, they heard rumors about the free

city of Krakow in southern Poland, where a strong local garrison

(actually the Polish 8th Motorized Division) enforces a tense local

peace.

Krakow will be a place where the unit can buy food and am-

munition, where it can rest, and where it can seek information

about friendly units and the location of friendly lines. Other US

or NATO units may have gathered there, and the city will be

an ideal place to plan future moves.

The adventure proper begins with the discovery of an am-

bushed US unit in a field somewhere north of Krakow.

THE KILLING GROUND

We found them strung along the main road north of Krakow.

It had been a small unit, maybe twenty-five, thirty men, three

deuce-and-a-halfs and a couple of Hum-Vees. Someone had

been awfully thorough. Helmets, jackets, boots, and (of course)

all of their equipment, weapons, and ammo were long gone.

Somebody even took the trouble to gather up the spent shell

casings. There must have been quite a few of those, because

the trucks looked like swiss cheese. It must have been quite

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While the characters are examining the wreckage, the moan-

ing of a wounded man is heard in the woods. After a short

search, they find a US army lieutenant, badly wounded, lying

where he had dragged himself after being hit during the attack.

He is conscious, but has lost a great deal of blood and is ex-

tremely weak. Any character with medical experience will know

that he is dying.

them in search for loot. Identifying the papers as records, per-

sonnel forms and requisitions from the University of Lodz is

ESY:LNG (Polish).

A search will reveal one footlocker which is different. It is still

aboard one of the trucks, opened and rummaged through, but

the contents have not blown all over the field. These papers in-

clude what are obviously electrical wiring diagrams, hundreds

of them, in sheaf upon sheaf, all carefully labelled and annotated

(in Polish), together with several loose-leaf folders crammed with

hand-written notes. Characters who read Polish will be able to

determine only that the notes are highly technical, and that they

describe modular components for an extremely complex piece

of electrical equipment (DIF:LNG). The papers include a bound

volume of blueprints, again of electrical wiring diagrams and cir-

cuitry, and several exposed rolls of 35mm film. A leather Nikon

camera case remains in the truck, but the camera has been

taken.

The characters should be able to guess that these are the

papers Schaeffer was talking about. It will be difficult to know

what they are, exactly. Characters may attempt to figure out

what the wiring is supposed to do. If the characters do not read

Polish, this is DIF:(ELC and CMP). If they read Polish, it becomes

AVG. If successful, they will recognize some of the wiring

diagrams as part of a logic circuit. The drawings seem to

describe a complex, hard-wired circuit which might be a part

of a computer system. Outstanding success will show that the

drawings definitely are designs for some type of computer cir-

cuitry. Any character will know that there very few working

computers left by the year 2000. The silicon chips which are

their central components were nearly all damaged by the EMP

(electromagnetic pulse) of the first nuclear detonations of 1997

and 1998.

If the Reset papers have something to do with computer

research, perhaps with making computers operational once

again, they could be very valuable indeed.

THE LIEUTENANT

"Schaeffer, Frederick L...Lieutenant," the man manages to

say. "Mission...mission accomplished... almost. Operation...R-

Reset. Got that? Reset. Got to get them through..."

The Lieutenant's story will come out in bits and pieces. He

frequently lapses into delirium, but he will be better able to speak

as he is made more comfortable, and especially if a character

with MED skill is able to treat him for shock (stop his bleeding,

keep him warm and his feet elevated, and give him him IV fluids,

if any are available) and pain (administer pain reliever, if

available).

His unit is, or rather was, a B team of the US 20th Special

Forces Group. At first, all that the characters will be able to

understand is that Schaeffer's unit was carrying something of

vital importance, that their unit immediate destination was

Krakow, and that they were ambushed by marauders with the

aid of a traitor.

"It was that damned Cutler," Schaeffer says. "Sergeant

Cutler. He...he led us...right into a trap. He was with the Cap-

tain in the lead Hum-Vee, and they didn't fire on him. He was

with them when they rounded up the prisoners. Like he was

in charge. He was with them when they marched us over to

the woods..."

Schaeffer had been among those captured by the marauders,

who he says numbered between 50 and 100. The prisoners had

been led to the edge of the woods, herded together, then

machinegunned. Schaeffer had been hit, but managed to crawl

into the underbrush, his escape concealed by the fall of his com-

rades. He'd lain hidden in the underbrush while his friends were

massacred, stayed hidden while the vehicles were stripped and

the bodies looted. He'd lain there all night, his wounds draining

him, but he'd seen the characters' arrival and managed to get

their attention.

"Listen to me," he says with a desperate, burning intensity.

"This is Operation Reset. Got it? Reset. We were carrying vital

plans. Blueprints. Films. All the way from Lodz. They're all

there...I don't think they got them. Can't let them get lost. DIA

needs that stuff...bad...real bad..."

When asked what the convoy was carrying, or what Reset

is, Schaeffer manages a weak grin. "Damnedest things you ever

saw. Crazy...Y'know. Used to have one when I was a kid...got

it for Christmas...one year. They sure don't make'em like that

anymore!" He begins to laugh, then lapses into a coughing fit

which leaves him weaker and bleeding from his nose and mouth.

It subsides, and he continues. "Listen, you've got to get the

papers. They got the...the things...the prototypes...but I don't

think they got the papers. That's what's important...the papers!

Raiders didn't know...about the papers. Everybody'll want

'em..DIA...CIA...KGB even. Got to get them...get them

to...they'll pay..."

Schaeffer dies, leaving the characters more confused than

ever. There are many papers lying in the field where the wind

has blown them. Apparently they were scattered by the

marauders who broke open footlockers and cartons filled with

OPERATION RESET

The following information will not be immediately known to

the characters, but may be uncovered by them during the course

of the adventure. It is described here for the referee's use in

answering questions put to Lieutenant Schaeffer before he dies.

Remember that the Lieutenant will be incoherent part of the

time, and his training will prevent him from telling very much

about either the mission itself of its objectives. Most of the story

will have to be pieced together by the characters themselves

during the adventure.

Lieutenant Frederick Schaeffer was the second in command

of a Special Forces B Team with a very special mission. The final

offensive in Poland was launched by the 3rd German Army and

the US 11th Corps in the spring of 2000, an attack which was

expected to clear the Baltic coast as far as the mouth of the

Wisla river of enemy forces. Under cover of this offensive, the

Special Forces B Team code-named Strike Zulu had moved off

toward the city of Lodz on a mission of its own behind enemy

lines. Its movement was masked by the fury of 5th Division's

attack.

Their goal was the University of Lodz. The Defense In-

telligence Agency had learned of a young Polish computer ex-

pert, Dr. Piotr Czerwinski, working at the University on a device

which could revolutionize the post-war world.

Among the casualties of the war were hundreds of thousands

of microcomputers, the machines responsible for running

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