Twilight 2000 1e - Airlords of the Ozarks.pdf - Twilight 2000 1e (EN) - Matrinicz

Walnut Ridge ................................................................. 33

Newport ..........................................................................33

Escaping from Newport.................................................. 34

Bald Knob....................................................................... 34

Searcy............................................................................. 34

Evening Shade ................................................................ 34

Towns on Highway 64/167 ........................................... 36

Other Roads in the Area................................................. 37

Highway Encounter Descriptions .................................... 37

The Lay of the Land, Part II ..................................................... 38

Arkansas River to the Buffalo ......................................... 38

Fort Smith...................................................................... 39

Conway .......................................................................... 39

Conditions in Conway/Lake Conway ............................. 40

Attacking Conway.......................................................... 40

Greenbrier ....................................................................... 40

Russellville ...................................................................... 41

Arbaugh .......................................................................... 41

Marshall .......................................................................... 41

Nogo............................................................................... 41

Brashe............................................................................. 41

Ozark National Forest ......................................................41

The Lay of the Land, Part III ................................................... 43

Mountain View............................................................... 44

Calico Rock .....................................................................44

Ozark National Forest ......................................................44

Buffalo River Valley .........................................................45

Jasper............................................................................. 45

Harrison .......................................................................... 45

Osage ............................................................................. 46

Berryville......................................................................... 46

Eureka Springs................................................................46

Huntsville........................................................................ 46

Lead Hill ..........................................................................46

Mountain Home...............................................................46

Salem...............................................................................47

Brockwell.........................................................................47

Melbourne........................................................................47

St. Joe ............................................................................47

Yellville ............................................................................47

Fayetteville ..................................................................... 47

Bull Shoals Lake .............................................................47

The Missouri Ozarks ........................................................48

New America in Missouri ................................................48

Contents

Airlords of the Ozarks .............................................................2

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

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

The Adventure Plot.................................................................. 3

Character Backgrounds ........................................................ 3

Conditions in the Ozarks ...................................................... 3

Playing the Adventure ......................................................... 4

NPC Skill/Experience Levels ................................................ 6

What's Going on in Arkansas .............................................. 6

Referee's Notes: An Assignment in the Country ............... 7

Briefing................................................................................. 7

Preparing for the Expedition ................................................ 8

The Goal .............................................................................. 8

Further Adventuring in the Ozarks ..................................... 9

The Course of the Adventure .............................................. 9

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

Personalities ...........................................................................11

Pvt. Randolph T. Dobbson ................................................11

Sgt. Everett V. Redman ....................................................11

Doctor John R. Carlin ........................................................12

Charles Gunn .....................................................................12

Bradley Dinton....................................................................13

Roger Fairfax ......................................................................1 3

Werner Doerflinger............................................................. 13

Erik Severin ........................................................................ 14

Jacob Roberts....................................................................14

Chuck Brighton ..................................................................14

Janet Leigh Pearson ..........................................................14

Father Joseph ................................................................... 15

New America ........................................................................ 16

Background and History..................................................... 17

Organization .......................................................................18

Philosophies........................................................................18

The Hierarchy of New America ......................................... 19

Arise, New America .......................................................... 19

Operation Valkyrie ............................................................ 19

Dirigible Attack .................................................................. 20

Captured by New America................................................ 21

Life in Camp ...................................................................... 21

Special NPCs...................................................................... 22

Leading a Popular Rising ................................................... 22

Engaging in Large-Scale Combat ...................................... 23

Operation Eaglestrike ........................................................ 23

Map, Northern Arkansas.................................................... 28

The Lay of the Land, Part 1 .................................................. 29

Memphis to Little Rock...................................................... 29

Memphis............................................................................. 30

Notes on Memphis ............................................................ 31

The Plot in Memphis ......................................................... 31

Little Rock ......................................................................... 31

The Plot in Little Rock ....................................................... 32

Bradley Dinton ................................................................... 32

Jonesboro ........................................................................... 32

Blytheville ........................................................................... 33

Paragould............................................................................33

Credits

Design: William H. Keith, Jr.

Development: Loren Wiseman.

Art Director: Barbie Pratt.

Interior Illustrations: Tim Bradstreet and Liz Danforth.

Cover: Steve Venters.

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his voice carried the chill of what we'd seen. "Someone in north-

ern Arkansas has won total air superiority." He walked forward

and stood in front of the screen, the picture wrapping around

him like some weird body tattoo.

"If they keep it, we might just be looking at the next folks

to run the United States."

Airlords of the Ozarks

The slides the intelligence guy was showing us had turned

our guts cold. It had taken a moment to let the unfamiliar shapes

take on meaning, but when they did, the chatter stopped and

the only sound you could hear was the clatter of that aging

Kodak projector and the distant yammer of the generator out-

side the tent that was feeding it juice.

"That's our problem, people." the Intel Major said. "These

shots came out of Newport, Arkansas, less than two weeks ago.

Pretty good considering our agent who took them had to crawl

most of the way to Memphis."

The picture showed the main street of a small town:

storefronts, a post office, the spire of a church... In the

foreground, the rag doll sprawls of dozens of limp bundles had

resolved themselves as bodies. The blood was very dark.

Of course we'd all seen bodies before. Who hadn't, these

days? What caught my attention was the long, lean cigar shape,

vast and massive and impossible, hovering behind the church

spire. Stories I'd read as a kid surfaced in the back of my mind,

stories by Heinlein and Asimov...and H.G. Wells. The shape was

just blurry enough that for one icy second I thought it just might

be... No. That wasn't possible.

"Next!" the Major snapped.

The second slide was clearer. The camera angle had changed.

There were more bodies in the street: a woman and her child.

The shape was closer now, silhouetted against the sun. We

could make out the undercarriage, the blur of propellers on either

side of the engine compartment.

That was no spacecraft.

"A blimpl" someone said.

In a way I was relieved.

"A dirigible," the Major said. "Blimps have flexible envelopes,

like balloons. This one looks to us like a rigid-hulled airship.

Next!"

The third slide was close enough you could see into the under-

carriage, a kind of gondola resembling a railway car, and we

could make out the people inside. They were in uniform but too

distant for details. The snout of a machinegun protruded from

an open window, and someone in a hard-billed cap was leaning

over the gunner's shoulder pointing out a target.

Anger stirred. Whoever they were, they were drifting low over

the streets of a small town machinegunning civilians! Why?

"Next!"

This slide didn't show the airship. It was a blurred shot from

a bad angle showing a rush of movement that might have been

trees and... what?

"That smudge, gentlemen, is an aircraft." There was a stir

in the tent. Aircraft were rarer than prime rib these days and

with good reason. The fuel to fly them was rarer than good

scotch. "Next!"

It was an aircraft! I could make out broad, flimsy wings, a

pusher-mounted propeller behind a tiny engine. The pilot dangled

below and in front of the wing, a control stick in one hand, a

pistol in the other. "Here's a better shot. To be precise, we

believe this to be an ultralight, a single-passenger, homemade

aircraft with a top speed of maybe eighty klicks per hour. You

can see the pilot...there."

My icy feeling of unease had returned. "Major!" I said. "Who

are those guys? What are they doing with dirigibles and

airplanes?"

"That's what we'd like you to find out," the Major said, and

INTRODUCTION

Airlords of the Ozarks is a game module for use with GDW's

World War III role-playing game, Twilight: 2000. This story

follows the adventures of the player characters in the rugged

hills and forests of the Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas

and southern Missouri early in the year 2001. The information

presented in this module will allow the Twilight: 2000 referee

to create a complete campaign lasting weeks or months in the

Ozarks area.

Details are given for regions, people, villages, and towns in

the campaign area. Referees should feel free to use this material

to create spin-off adventures and campaigns of their own.

Of particular interest is information on New America, a bizarre

right-wing organization determined to build an empire from the

ashes of the United States. New America's power is most signifi-

cant in the South, but cells are scattered throughout the United

States and Canada, and Twilight: 2000 referees will find this

information useful when creating their own encounters with NA

fanatics and strongholds.

This module booklet contains the following material:

This introductory chapter.

A detailed background of New America, including histories

of both the organization and its leader, as well as information

on its ideology and goals.

Geographical descriptions of villages, towns, regions, com-

munities, forces, and encounters in the general Ozark Moun-

tains area of Missouri and Arkansas.

Technical and game data on the Columbia, a giant, advanced-

tech, airfoil cargo dirigible which crash-landed in the Ozarks in

1997, and on three smaller dirigibles built by New American

forces with parts and equipment salvaged from the wreck of

the Columbia and from other sources.

Technical and game data on a number of ultralight aircraft

which may be encountered in this campaign.

A map of the Ozarks region.

REFEREE'S NOTES

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

rative sections describing scenes from the characters' points

of view are included to add color and detail to the story's

background as it is unfolded by the referee. These narrative sec-

tions may be read by the players themselves, but all other sec-

tions of the module booklet are for the referee's eyes only. Nar-

rative sections are set apart in italics for easy recognition.

Referees who plan to conduct adventures in the Ozarks region

may wish to obtain a good atlas or some maps of the area. While

not necessary for the adventure, they are useful to fill in details

of the surrounding region. The Rand McNally Road Atlas is good

and commonly available.

—William

Keith, Jr.

PLAYERS SHOULD NOT READ ANY FURTHER

IN THIS BOOKLET IN ORDER TO PRESERVE

THE ELEMENT OF SURPISE.

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The Adventure Plot

This chapter details the administration of the adventure by

the referee.

in New York City for a period of time, surviving among the ci-

ty's warring gangs and militant enclaves while attempting to

track down a fortune in misplaced gold bullion and reintro-

ducing the inhabitants of New York City to the benefits of

civilization.

At the start of this new campaign they will have been recalled

to Norfolk, Virginia, for a new assignment from the Milgov head-

quarters there. Rumors, and a report from a wounded Milgov

observer in Memphis, Tennessee, suggest that a monstrous plot

is brewing in northern Arkansas, and military leaders are con-

cerned enough to want to investigate. The characters will be

dispatched to Memphis, Tennessee, with orders to report to the

military governor there, and then to proceed to the Ozarks area

to carry out an investigation of the region on behalf of Milgov.

The characters begin the adventure in Memphis.

Working for Civgov: If the characters have allied themselves

with the United States civilian government (Civgov) during

previous campaigns, they may be conscripted by Civgov officials

in Des Moines, Iowa, to investigate reports of a dark cabal brew-

ing in the Ozark Mountains, as well as unsubstantiated rumors

of working aircraft being used in raids throughout the Ozarks

area. Nebraska, Iowa, and parts of northern Missouri are under

civilian government control, but reports of marauder bands in

southern Missouri using aircraft have Civgov justifiably worried.

The rumors which have upset Civgov have come from a CIA

agent in Jefferson City, Missouri. The characters are sent to him

to be briefed on their mission.

The characters will begin this version of the adventure in Jef-

ferson City, Missouri. The referee will need to modify his descrip-

tion of the briefing and subsequent events slightly.

CHARACTER BACKGROUNDS

The characters in Airlords of the Ozarks may be drawn from

several sources and may be introduced into this campaign in

any of several ways.

Up the Trail from Texas: Referees who have recently run their

group through the GDW adventure Red Star/Lone Star may use

the same band of adventurers if desired. These characters will

either be survivors of U.S. military units stranded in Texas dur-

ing the breakdown of government in that state or members of

the U.S. 5th Division who escaped from Eastern Europe aboard

the last troop convoy returning to the U.S. and subsequently

found passage to Texas. While in Texas they became embroiled

in the confused and bloody struggle for power in the southern

portion of the state, fighting the remnants of Mexican-American

criminal "families," elements of several factions of the

fragmented Mexican invaders, and the stranded Soviet Division

Cuba.

After the events chronicled in Red Star/Lone Star, the adven-

turers made their way north from the Port Lavaca area, past the

ruins of Houston/Galveston, and linked up with elements of the

US 49th Armored Division in southern Oklahoma. From there

they either secured military transportation on an eastbound road

convoy as far east as Memphis, or were ordered to Muskogee,

Oklahoma. In either case, they were approached by DIA officers

who requested their assistance in a special mission.

The characters begin this adventure in Memphis or Muskogee,

at the referee's discretion. The briefing is the same either way.

By Way of the Big Apple: Groups which have recently com-

pleted the Twilight: 2000 adventure Armies of the Night will

be members of the 5th Division or other military units recently

returned from Europe who were used by Milgov headquarters

in Norfolk, Virginia, to reestablish Milgov control over Manhat-

tan Island in New York. The characters will have been stationed

CONDITIONS IN THE OZARKS

Airlords of the Ozarks is set in the Ozark Mountains region

of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, roughly between

Joplin and Springfield in the north, and Fort Smith and Greer's

Ferry Lake in the South.

History: The Ozarks constitute one of the oldest mountain

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troopers were killed by snipers or murdered in bars or darkened

streets but at terrible cost in retaliatory strikes and hostages

killed—and the airships themselves remained effectively

invulnerable.

Because the Ozarks remained secluded, the only word the out-

side world had of events within the Ozark Plateau was through

rumor and the disjointed statements of terror-stricken refugees.

ranges in the world, stretching from St. Louis to the Arkansas

River. Not a particularly high range, it is characterized by deep-

cut, sheer-walled river valleys in a tangle of woodlands and sheer

bluffs which have resisted the encroachment of civilization for

quite some time.

Those who settled here were tough, daring, and individualistic.

Their descendents retain that toughness of character and tend

to be independent, clannish, suspicious of outsiders, reclusive,

and possessing a tradition-minded outlook on life. The mid- to

late-twentieth century saw the region opened to the tourist and

vacation trade, which brought more income to the area than did

farming, but which did little to change the basic character of

the people.

The onset of World War III affected the region even less. Many

of the younger men answered the draft call or volunteered in

the spirit of ancestors who had fought at Pea Ridge and Wilson's

Creek and the breakdown of transportation left these sons of

the hills far from their homes. Marauder bands passed through

the area following the breakup of the federal government, but

there was little to attract them to stay.

The Ozarks actually suffered far less in the ebb of civilization

than did many other parts of the country. Transportation suf-

fered when stocks of gasoline and spare parts were requisitioned

by the army and other agencies. Neighborhood mechanics made

do with scavenged parts, however, and converted car engines

to alcohol. When vehicle engines could no longer be repaired,

horse- and mule-drawn wagons began appearing in greater

numbers. It was not uncommon to see battered Fords and

Chevys with their engine blocks removed and replaced by a jury-

rigged hitch for a team of mules. Neighbors looked after one

another. Food became scarce but local agriculture was suffi-

cient to support the slightly reduced population. As hospitals

ran low on supplies and city garbage and sewage services

faltered, disease (typhus and cholera especially) depopulated

several larger towns such as Springfield and Poplar Bluff, but

the villages and isolated mountain communities continued as

they always had, often with little or no contact at all with the

outside world.

Otherwise, life went on unchanged...until the "awakening"

of the New Americans.

New America: The activation of New America forces in the

Ozarks ended the region's virtual isolation (the history and

organization of New America are described elsewhere in this

book). New American airships appeared in the skies of villages,

towns, and small communities, demanding tribute in the form

of livestock, crops, machine parts and tools, jewelry, artisans

and technicians, and women. Whole communities which

resisted were massacred by machinegun, grenades, and

dynamite from the air, and the surviving populations were

marched off to uncertain fates in labor camps.

The Ozarks became a virtual tributary state of the local New

American enclave. The larger towns received New American

military governors, called satraps. Smaller and more isolated

communities were visited infrequently but according to a regular

schedule. The inhabitants of each community were told what

supplies they were to have ready for the conquerors and when

to expect collection. Farmers, back-country mountain folk, and

numerous townsfolk banded together to carry on a resistance

against these invaders but with little success. New American

raids were infrequent, but they were well-organized and the

locals had no chance to fight back when their attackers held

uncontested mastery of the skies. Individual New American

PLAYING THE ADVENTURE

As with other Twilight: 2000 adventure modules, Airlords of

the Ozarks is played as a continuing narrative, unfolding through

interactions between the players and the referee. The material

in this booklet is designed to help the referee create and develop

situations during the course of play.

The characters begin play in Memphis, Tennessee, as de-

scribed later in this module. Some referees may prefer to start

the adventure in Jefferson City, Missouri, if the player characters

are working for the Civilian Government; or Muskogee,

Oklahoma, if they have just completed an adventure campaign

in Texas (either Red Star/Lone Star, or an adventure developed

from that module).

Throughout the adventure the referee will use the map of the

Ozarks region in this module to determine how far the characters

travel and which encounter tables to use. Each general area

where the characters might travel is discussed in a separate

chapter. Most of the terrain throughout the Ozarks is extreme-

ly rugged and heavily forested. The characters are not required

to visit all of these towns or areas. Rather, the region is described

to allow the players to determine for themselves where their

characters are to go and by what routes. Naturally, this infor-

mation can be used by the referee to develop later campaigns

and adventures in this part of the country, if the characters show

an inclination to remain in the region.

The referee may allow one or more of the characters some

special knowledge of the area. The fact that one of the player

characters comes from this region might be given as part of the

reason the adventurers were approached by the DIA or CIA and

asked to tackle this mission. In general, however, the referee

should not allow the players to have advance knowledge of the

area or of events in the region, and even native Arkansans will

have little more than a rudimentary knowledge of the basic

geography of the state. Specific information, such as what sort

of government a given town has, or where New America forces

might be based, should be left for the player characters to

discover on their own.

EVENTS AND ENCOUNTERS

General Encounter Tables: From time to time, the characters

will encounter various non-player characters or be subjected to

more-or-less random events such as storms or attacks by

marauder bands. Each region has an encounter table specific

to that area. Unless otherwise directed by the module, the

referee should roll on the area's general encounter table once

every four hours while the characters are travelling in that area,

and once each day if they are at rest. The events and their ef-

fects on the adventurers are described in the encounter descrip-

tion following each table.

Some encounter results will always be the same. These are

as follows:

Animal: The characters encounter animals. Determine the

results of this encounter by rolling 2D6 and consulting the table

on the next page.

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