Provo_setting.pdf

Hello again! This is the setting for the town of Provo, where the continuation of

previous adventure is taking place. This document is only a setting, describing

important locations inside the town, as well as important NPC’s and their relationship

to each other. The town of Provo is divided into two sections – the more prosperous

walled-in section, and the outside-the-walls shanties. This document describes the

walled-in section only, the setting for the outside the walls section would be released

later. I have a map of the town, but it’s pretty crude, so right now I’m working on a

more neat and presentable version. Once I finish it and scan it I would release that as

well. My apologies. Again, if you have any comments, suggestions, bomb threats and

so on, send ‘em to akritchever@hotmail.com .

One more thing. The NPCs in this setting are varied individuals with different

appearances, interests, opinions and habits. If you feel some of these characters are

offensive for whatever reason, feel free to change them. Just don’t expect me to agree

with you that they might be offensive or stereotypical or whatever. I will keep an open

mind but I don’t promise any changes. You are the GM, it’s your right to make

whatever changes you feel are necessary.

Warning : The following document contains violence, coarse language, mature

subject matter, adult situations and themes. Reader, Gamemaster and player discretion

is advised. No frontal nudity though… ☺

The setting: Provo

The layout: t here are two main parts of the city. One is a walled in community, and

another is numerous ruins and shantytown surrounding it. The walled in community is

referred to as Provo, the community outside the walls is mostly referred to as the

shanties.

Provo (the town behind the wall): Provo is located at the south-west end of what

was once pre-war Provo, near a gently sloping hill. It is located approximately near

what was once the downtown. The walled in community forms a rough rectangle, one

side of which is on the slope of the hill (see attached map). The long sides of the

rectangle are approximately half a kilometer, while the short sides are approximately

200-300 meters. There’s a main street running parallel to the long sides cutting the

city in roughly two parts, starting at the main gate. The street is simply known as the

Main Street. Running perpendicular to the Main Street are the following major streets

(from east to west): Cypress Street, Prospect Street, Whyte Street, Church Street,

Mine Street. Located on each street are the following places of interest:

Main Street: market, caravan office, caravan hotel, “Wild Horses”, “Miner’s rest”,

“Doc’s office”, City Hall, offices of mining companies, “Toolbox”, Bank

Cypress Street: nothing of interest but this street has many beautiful cypresses and is a

better neighborhood than most

Prospect Street: a trading street. McKormick’s General Store, “The Wagon”,

“Lomen’s mart”, “Guiver’s Guns”.

Whyte Street: nothing of interest.

Church Street: two churches. A protestant church and a small chapel of Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Mine Street: miner’s barracks where some miners live and equipment is stored.

In the roughly middle of Provo is Provo Square, a large open space with a rusted

monument, some neatly grown bush fences and a basin.

The town is walled in by a 3 stories high wall made of wood, bricks, sheetmetal and

sometimes integrating collapsed buildings. There’s a thin runway on top of the wall

two-men wide. On each corner of the wall is a guard tower, plus one more guard

tower above the main gate (two M249SAW, two MG3s, and one Browning M2

respectively).

Locations and descriptions (from east to west):

Main street places of interest

Open Market

A large open area with concrete floor. There’s a wooden platform on which

sometimes slaves or Brahmin are sold, or an auction is held. There are several

permanent stalls belonging to regular caravans and merchants. Mostly the market is

filled with pitched tents and farmers selling food. Busy all of the time, best place to

gather some rumors or see if there are any new arrivals in town.

No one’s in charge really, but large sellers (slavers, caravaneers, etc) have to pay a

small “protection” fee to militia which regurarly patrols the market.

Caravan Office

A small one-story building made of brick and neatly whitewashed. Inside there are

three rooms: an office divided into two parts with several chairs for visitor, a storage

room for various documents and a safe for whatever small valuable items caravan

master wants to store, and finally an apartment for the office clerk.

An old clerk by the name of Lorry Meister runs the office. He’s a tall gaunt man with

bushy ears but otherwise well-dressed and kept. He has a constantly disapproving

face, but he’s meticulous, well known by caravaneers and merchants, honest and good

at what he does.

Hotel

Named simply “Hotel” this place is exactly what you might’ve guessed: a hotel. It’s a

small two story building, with a few rooms and office on the first floor and most of

other guest rooms on the second floor. It’s a sturdy small building with first floor

made of brick, and the second floor made of wood.

It’s run by a family of four: father (Frank Allisson), mother (Sarah Allisson), 19-year

old daughter (Hewlett Allisson) and 21 year old son who works in the mines (Robert

Allisson). The rooms are well kept, with running water and electricity.

There’s a flat rate of 10 coins per one night and say, and 50 coins if the room is rented

for one week.

“Wild Horses”

A popular bar and casino among visiting caravans and miners. It’s a large three-story

pre-war building of plastered brick (first two floors) and wood (third floor). The first

floor is a large bar, three dice tables, two roulettes and ten one-armed bandits. Second

floor is pool, some pinball machines, more roulettes and dice tables and a several

sound-proof rooms for card games such as blackjack and poker. Be advised that

roulettes are rigged, and half of one-armed bandits do not work. Third floor is

management office. Brawls and troubles are rare in this establishment because the

staff has an ‘agreement’ with city militia and has five huge bouncers.

“Wild Horses” is run by a man known as Nick Weather. He’s not a native of Provo

but lived in the city for last 15 years and made quite a fortune on his casino, mine

prospecting and sound investment in the mining companies. He’s a rather small man,

in a great shape and a half a left ear missing. He always talks quietly but has a

commanding presence. Unless there’s a major trouble or the players manage to talk

their way through the bouncers he would be rarely seen on the first two floors of

“Wild Horses”. There’s a rumor than he has a special poker room just for his friends:

Mayor Sutro, mine overseers and the banker.

“Miner’s Rest”

A place for those who like it rough. A frequent site of brawls, robbery and noise, this

place competes with “Wild Horses”. This place is a rougher sort of a bar (imagine a

classic John Wayne Wild West tavern, add poor lighting, neon graffiti, rowdy miner

and mercenary customers and rotgut instead of beer and that would be “Miner’s

rest”). It’s a large two story building made of concrete and patched with metal sheets

and wood. There’s a small stage (surrounded by metal wire fence) where one can

listen to a wildly popular local country band – “Chain Children”, a small strip podium

(again surrounded by metal wire fence) and a large bar. Second floor is a bunch of

small seedy rooms with cheap prostitutes (number varies from 10 to 15 a night). It’s a

dangerous place with strong drinks that can kill once in a while, where a wrong word

starts a massive brawl with some dangerous objects, where a whore can drug you and

steal your stuff and then maybe a bouncer will slit your throat, but more importantly

it’s the only place in town that legitimately sells hardcore drugs (jet, cocaine, pot,

heroine, buffout, voodoo, and some local-made drugs).

This place is run by a tall thin man by the name Grady. He’s missing part of left arm,

in which place he grated a long stiletto. There are about 10 bouncers usually,

sometimes more (if it’s the weekend), armed well with firearms, brass knuckles and

cattleprods. Usually they are not effective to stop a brawl, but effective at throwing

out overly rowdy drunkards, breaking up small fights and roughing up the customers

after they got their satisfaction on the second floor. Unbeknownst to the militia, Grady

also runs a smuggling operation and has dealings with the gangs in the shanties. Most

of the prostitutes are slaves.

Doc’s Office

This is a single story pre-war building, which was neatly repaired. It is surrounded by

a well-maintained lawn and bush fence. The building is made of thick brick and the

walls are whitewashed. The building is very roomy and houses doctor’s apartments,

waiting room and several rooms where he practices. There’s a well-equipped surgery

room, a pharmaceutical room and general medical practice room. In the back are

doctor’s apartments: two large rooms, kitchen and bathroom. There’s also an

independent electricity generator which generates power for the surgery room and

computer (one of the only functional computers in the town).

The Doctor’s name is Donald Bush. He is a middle-aged portly man usually seen

wearing a suit, or a nice shirt with suspenders. He has a beet-red face (the local rumor

says from consuming too much of) and a rather large nose. He lives with his wife

Margaret, and employs a young nurse Anne Collington, who also doubles as his

secretary. Depending on the severity of injuries, Doctor would charge anywhere

between 50 to 300 coins for the treatment. He also provides treatment of radiation

poisoning and sickness for 100. he also trades in some medical supplies (x3 Rad-X,

x5 Rad-away, x10 stimpacks, x3 super-stims, barter 50%).

City Hall

This is by far the largest building in Provo. It sits in more or less the center of town. It

is an imposing building with main part made of stone, and the two adjoining wings

made of brick. The front of the building has large stairs leading to double-door

entrance adorned with 4 columns. The main part of the building is 3 stories high and

the two wings are two stories each. The main part is the city hall itself. The first floor

contains clerks, large hall for important meetings. Second floor contains more offices

(largely unused), some computers (in good working condition) and town library

which is rather small but has books on pretty much every topic and is free (although

rarely used). Third floor is off-limits except by invitation and contains Mayor’s

personal living quarters: an 8 room luxuriously furnished apartment, guarded at all

times by two militiamen. There’s also the basement which serves as the vault for

taxes, an electrical generator for the building, small arsenal and more archives.

Basement is guarded by another two militiamen as well.

The left wing contains militia headquarters. There’s militia barracks for nightshifts on

the second floor, some offices on the first floor, arsenal and small vault (for keeping

militia pay) in the basement (which is independent of the main part basement). The

right wing has independent gallery passage to the left wing, independent basement

and houses a town prison. The wing is actually fenced off from the town and can only

be entered through the left wing (or by cutting the wire fence of course). The passage

entrance is on the second floor which also doubles as quarters for the wardens and

nightshift guards. The first floor is filled with large prison cells (for 5-10 people) and

is mainly used for small petty crimes, brawlers and drunks. The basement is filled

with smaller cells, two specially designed cells with completely metal walls and solid

metal doors (for those scheduled to be executed or especially uncooperative

prisoners). There are always 4 full time wardens (working in two shifts) and usually

4-6 more militiamen. The first floor cells are the usual fenced-off from each other

cells with thick bars, and the basement cells are actually walled off from each other

and have solid metal or wood doors. The wardens have exactly same stats as

militiamen, except they carry shotguns instead of hunting rifles and also carry police

batons.

There are several people of note which can be found in the City Hall.

1) The Mayor. Mayor Albert Sutro (named for a famous pre-War mayor) is a 55

year old black man. He is middle-height but he is nonetheless an imposing and

commanding man. Sutro has a commanding voice and can really appeal to the

crowd. He has a limp (left leg) from his younger days as a militiaman. He

likes to appear as a man of the common people but he enjoys the luxury of his

own apartments. The Mayor is nonetheless very well educated in medicine,

history of per-War, able to use computer well and is very well read (he has

quite a large library in his apartments). He is well known to stick to the full

letter of the law (as he is the twon judge) and is not particularly known to be

merciful for more serious offenders or repeat offenders. He is known to be a

good Christian, reguraly visiting church and running a Sunday school.

Nonetheless he has several vices. He is rigid in his views and is not easy to

convince. He is quite authoritarian and while he will listen to advice, he will

not accept any disagreements with his decisions. He also enjoys luxury living,

and while he is married (second wife) he is known to invite ‘open-minded’

young women to his quarters, and he also enjoys gambling occasionally. He is

normally suspicious of strangers and especially some of the Mormons (those

from Price anyway). In fact, he is tolerant of the town Mormons, but hates the

Army of Deseret Mormons with passion. His inability to compromise,

authoritarianism and hate of equally militant Mormons in Price might put

Provo and Price in the near future.

2) Chief Constable Luther Bounty. He is the youngest Chief Constable of Provo

ever, but people generally agree that he’s the best one so far. He is 25 years

old, tall, handsome man with shot dirty blond hair. He has a long scar on the

left side of his face as well as scars elsewhere on his body. He usually dresses

in a semi-military uniform: fatigue pants, a nice shirt, black leather jacket, and

sheriff cowboy hat (complete with sheriff star on the hat and stitched words

“CC Provo”). His customary mirror shades disguise narrow eyes which

constantly search for any signs of danger, lies or clues. He also wears a desert

eagle .45 at all times and a combat knife. He is respected by all law-abiding

citizens of Provo and feared by any troublemakers. Luther is known for his

fairness, he always tries to get as much proof as possible and keeps an open

mind. However, once he makes up his mind he strikes hard and without any

mercy. He runs the town militia with iron hand and always conducts drills,

inspections as well as combat training (as opposed to purely police training).

Luther occasionally leads patrols that scout out the surrounding lands for any

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