Welcome to Mortiston, Usa

An All-American Zombie Apocalypse For Multiple game systems

Credits
Written by Mark S. Cookman
Cover Art by James Miller as modified by Mark S. Cookman
Boilerplate
This playset is a system addition for Welcome to Mortiston, USA, a zombie
apocalypse campaign setting for multiple rpg's by Scrying Eye Games. For more
information about our products, visit www.scryingeye.com.
This playset is also an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by Bully Pulpit
Games.
For more information about Fiasco or to download other playsets and materials, visit
www.bullypulpitgames.com.
If youd like to create your own playset or other Fiasco-related content, wed like to
help. Write us at info@bullypulpitgames.com.
Fiasco is copyright 2009 by Jason Morningstar.
Welcome to Mortiston, USA is copyright 2012 by James Miller.
Mortiston, USA is copyright 2010 by Mark Cookman.
This playset is copyright 2012 by Mark Cookman.
When you play, play hard Theodore Roosevelt
The Score
i today !as your last day " " "
Mortiston is a medium-sized American city somewhere in the mid-western part of
North America. In most ways it's just like every other little American city, there are
good people and bad people, but most people are somewhere in between, just trying
to get by. The National Weather Service has predicted stormy weather all morning
for the Mortiston area. In the morning there was a terrorist firebomb attack at the
school. Just before noon the weather broke and tornadoes were sighted in the
industrial district north of town. Just after noon a small nuclear explosion destroyed
much of the downtown area. By 1:00 PM, there were zombies on the streets. Z-Day
has come. The rest of your life is now just for surviving.
Mo#ie $ight
28 Days Later, Bio-Zombie, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Dead Alive, Jerico
(TV Series), Night of the Comet, Night of the Living Dead, Re-Animator, Red Dawn,
Resident Evil, Return of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, The Horde, The Walking Dead
(TV Series), Zombie, Zombieland
%elationships
Family
1 Twins
2 Siblings
3 Cousins
4 Parent / Child
5 In-Laws
6 Grandparent / Grandchild
Friends
1 False Friend / Real Friend
2 Childhood Pals
3 Mentor / Student
4 Work Friends
5 One Saved the Other from Death
6 Former Enemies Now Friends
&ld %i#als
1 Criminal / Former Victim
2 VFW Member / Gangbanger
3 Former Boss / Previous Employee
4 Sheriff's Deputy / Bike Gang Member
5 Old Business Partners Who Blame Each Other
6 Rival Street Racers
Community
1 Native American / White Supremist
2 Martial Arts Instructor / Martial Arts Student
3 Members of the Same Religious Congregation (Church, Synagogue, Temple, etc)
4 Members of the Exalted Order of the Secrets of the Golden Dawn
5 National Guard Troopers
6 Members of the Gaiten Country Club
%omance
1 Stalker and Victim
2 A SECRET Affair that has been going on for a long while
3 Unhappily Married Couple trying to work it out.
4 Prostitute and Customer
5 A Mixed Race/Faction Couple (Romeo and Juliet)
6 Happily Married Couple
Coincidence
1 Went to Grade School Together
2 Fought in the War Together
3 Involved in a Traffic Accident with each other
4 Acquaintances who are both Close Friends with another person
5 An Ex-Cop and an Ex-Con
6 Just Met and Have a Lot in Common (I.E. Don't want to be eaten by zombies.)
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$eeds
To )et A!ay " " "
1 . . . with what you came for before the zombies realize you are here.
2 . . . from a relationship more toxic than zombie spit.
3 . . . from the Sundowners gang before they realize what you have taken.
4 . . . with the information the boss wants before they realize who you are.
5 . . . with everyone else's supplies.
6 . . . from the horde of zombies outside.
To )et *aid " " "
1 . . . by that special someone you never had the courage to approach before.
2 . . . before the zombies kill everyone.
3 . . . for the first time ever.
4 . . . and then get drunk and then get laid again. Party! Woot!
5 . . . by a zombie because I'm freaky-weird.
6 . . . one last time by an old lover to celebrate the end of the world.
To )et The Truth " " "
1 . . . no matter the cost to everyone else.
2 . . . about the experiments of Dr. Norbert West.
3 . . . and then make sure no else finds out.
4 . . . out of the captured Sundowner about what the gang plans to do.
5 . . . from a loved one about an old family secret.
6 . . . from satellites in orbit by using the satellite dishes at KGON TV.
To )et %ich " " "
1 . . . by killing Old Man Shrike and taking over the Gas-n-Go.
2 . . . by figuring out how to make an effective zombie repellant.
3 . . . or at least live that way, by scavenging the houses in the Gaiten District.
4 . . . the old-fashioned way, by exploiting the needs of those weaker than you.
5 . . . by selling your friends off as slaves to the Sundowners gang.
6 . . . by helping the Pythons MC infiltrate and take over Fort Robert J. Quinn
To )et %espect " " "
1 . . . from everyone in Mortiston, including the faction leaders.
2 . . . from the old bikers by killing Meatballs, the new president of the Pythons.
3 . . . from Fort Robert J. Quinn by luring the Sundowners gang into an ambush.
4 . . . as the greatest zombie killer that ever lived. Your name will be legend.
5 . . . from your family and friends no matter the cost to you.
6 . . . from an old mentor before he/she passes away.
To get +#en " " "
1 . . . with those snobs and twerps at Gaiten Academy.
2 . . . further away from those crazy cultists than you did the last time you escaped.
3 . . . with Andy Bearstalker and the other Black Horse Raiders once and for all.
4 . . . more glory in the service of your your dark master who lives below the city.
5 . . . with Sheriff Anderson and his deputies for dark deeds done in the past.
6 . . . more supplies and ammunition by raiding Burt's Guns.
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*&CATions
,o!n By the $aldalooshi %i#er
1 The Old Delemorte Gaiten Bridge
2 The Mount Rodgers Trailer Court
3 The Delemorte Mortuary and Memorial Gardens
4 The Westin Hills Asylum Riverside
5 The Northwood -Western Rail Bridge
6 The Abandoned Mine
-n the )aiten ,-strict
1 The Walled Mansion of Thomas Alexander Gaiten IV
2 Phillips Quality Auto Repairs
3 Maggies Fresh Market
4 Mowry-Prentice Walking Gardens
5 Gaiten Academy
6 The Gaiten Country Club
-n ,o!nto!n Mortiston
1 The Edge Building an 11 story office building
2 St. Thomas Home for Children
3 West Memorial Medical Center
4 Campbell's Hardware
5 Fort Robert J. Quinn National Guard Armory
6 Columbus Memorial Library
&utside o To!n
1 Old Man Heron's Shamrock Ranch
2 The TLS, Inc. Logging Camp
3 The Black Horse Indian Reservation
4 Andy's Hunting Emporium
5 KZED Radio Studio and Broadcast Tower
6 A camp in the Portmanteaux National Forest
-n t.e SouthSide ,-strict
1 Savinni's Motor Sports
2 The Mortiston County Zoo
3 Fosters Pharmacy
4 Hung Fat's Chinese Resturant
5 Shrike's Gas and Go
6 The Kirkman Building a 5 story luxury apartment building
-n Sundo!ner /ar0
1 The Racketball Courts
2 The Playground
3 The Fitness Station Trail
4 The Community Center
5 Castle Boat Rental on the Pier
6 Spring Lake
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&b1ects
Weapons
1 . . . a Colt M1911 pistol with 8 rounds.
2 . . . a bloody naginata.
3 . . . a double-barrelled shotgun with 4 shells.
4 . . . a fire-axe with the handle wrapped in duct tape.
5 . . . a molotov cocktail and a lighter.
6 . . . a piano string garrotte.
Supplies
1 . . . an overturned ambulance full of medical equipment.
2 . . . a survivalist's bug out bag.
3 . . . a case of Kentucky sipping whisky.
4 . . . a milk crate full of MRE's.
5 . . . a high school gym bag filled with ammunition.
6 . . . a 55 gallon drum of gasoline.
Transportation
1 . . . a home-made doom buggy with mounted flame-thrower.
2 . . . an electric scooter covered in zombie bumper stickers.
3 . . . a polo horse taken from Gaiten Academy.
4 . . . a fully-restored 1942 Indian motor cycle.
5 . . . a National Guard HUMVEE.
6 . . . a 6 person pontoon boat with an electric motor.
Sentimental
1 . . . family photo albums and scrap books.
2 . . . carnival prize stuffed giraffe.
3 . . . an old family Bible with a chart of four generations of the Grimm family tree.
4 . . . a Lightning McDean key chain with a key to a wrecked 2010 Ferrari.
5 . . . a chalk caricature drawing from a pirate theme park.
6 . . . a gold fish bowl with 2 living fish in it.
-normation
1 . . . a conversation overheard in a dark room.
2 . . . a streetmap of Mortiston marked up in red sharpie with circles and X's.
3 . . . freelance reporter Cash Vest's detailed research notes on the events of Z-Day.
4 . . . the journal of Sgt. Leroy Allen telling of his fighting zombies during WW2.
5 . . . the GPS location of a Pythons MC weapons cache.
6 . . . the psychological files of Zadock Alcius Gaiten, heir to a fortune.
S-$-ST+%
1 . . . a pornographic snuff-film in which the victim dies to zombies.
2 . . . the mad journals of Dr. Norbert West, the creator of the hive-mind virus.
3 . . . a bloody voodoo charm bag containing a rat skull and human finger bones.
4 . . . a dark and terrible idol of a nameless reptillian god engraved with alien script.
5 . . . an ornate sacrificial dagger covered in dried blood and burnt sulfur.
6 . . . a metal tin with 13 severed human thumbs inside.
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A Welcome to mortiston, usa
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%elationships on '(day in Mortiston,
USA
For three players...
Romance: an Unhappily Married Couple trying to work it out.
Old Rivals: Sheriff's Deputy / Bike Gang Member
Coincidence: Involved in a Traffic Accident with each other
For four players, add...
Community: Native American / White Supremist
For five players, add...
Family: Twins
$eeds on '(day in Mortiston, USA
For three players...
To Get Away: from the horde of zombies outside.
For four or five players, add...
To Get Rich: by killing Old Man Shrike and taking over the Gas-n-Go.
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For three or four players...
Outside of Town: inside Andy's Hunting Emporium
For five players, add...
In the Southside District: inside Shrike's Gas and Go
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For any number of players...
Supplies: a high school gym bag filled with ammunition