An abortionist’s tools
Transportation A Kansas-Pacific railroad car
A four-horse mail coach
A safety bicycle
A railroad hand car
The guarded mine payroll mud coach
A St. Louis and San Francisco railroad boxcar
Weapon A blacksmith’s tongs
A Sharps lever-action rifle
A matched set of Colt revolvers
A Sioux war club
A crate of old dynamite, weeping nitroglycerin
A 12-pound Mountain Howitzer
Information An assay note on the minerals in Circle S Ranch soil
An overheard conversation about the Gold Creek strike
A freedman’s manumission papers
A lady’s diary
A faded wanted poster
A contract with the Pinkerton Detective Agency
Valuables The deed to Sinclair’s Dry Goods and Mercantile
A promissory note for two thousand dollars
A wad of Federal postage stamps wrapped in a kerchief
A cage of Napaeozapus insignis, Woodland jumping mice
A heavy sack of gold dust
The cashbox from the Bradford Hotel brothel
Sentimental A newborn baby
A pretty locket with a lock of hair inside
A tiny oil portrait of a handsome soldier
A tear-stained love letter
An engraved silver goblet
A dying man’s last words
...in the Wild West
A Wild West Boomtown Insta-setup
Relationships in the Old West
For three players…
Family: Unrelated, but close as blood
Crime: Crime boss and toady
Romance: Mail-order bride and her groom
For four players, add…
Community: Government / citizen
For five players, add…
The Past: Both married to same spouse
Needs in the Old West
For three players…
To get free: of a relationship with a lover
For four or five players, add…
To get away: From hard-riding vengeance
Locations in the Old West
For three, four or five players…
The Bradford Hotel: The saloon
Objects in the Old West
For three or four players…
Information: An assay note on the minerals in Circle S Ranch soil
For five players, add…
Sentimental: A newborn baby
Relationships...
Family Parent and child
Parent and step-child
Siblings
Cousins
Aunt or Uncle and child
Weird / distant relatives
Work Business rivals in a dying industry
Service worker and client (restaurant, bank, janitorial)
Professional supervisor and employee
Tradesman / homeowner (lawn care, plumbing, HVAC)
Salesman / homeowner (siding, drive resurfacing)
Professional / client (pastor, doctor, lawyer, banker)
The Past Criminal and parole officer or detective
Fast friends back when all this was farm country
Cross-town sports rivals back in the day
Drunk driver and victim’s next of kin
Mutual keepers of an ominous secret
Bad family blood from way back
Romance Divorced and remarried spouses
Current spouses
Separated spouses
One-time fling
Current lovers
Former lovers
Crime Drug manufacturer and dealer
Gambler and bookie
Thieves (shoplifters, burglars, car thieves)
Small-time vandals and ne’er-do-wells
Embezzler and company accountant
Organized crime figure and wannabe
Community Officials (judge, county supervisor, town attorney)
Society (Jaycees, Masons, historical society)
Church (shelter workers, Sunday school teachers)
Sports (rec league athletes, coaches, boosters)
Government (citizen and tax collector or parole officer)
Law (cop and volunteer or registered sex offender)
...in a Suburban Community
A Suburban Insta-setup
Relationships in Suburbia
For three players…
Family: Parent and step-child
Romance: Separated spouses
Crime: Drug manufacturer and dealer
For four players, add…
Work: Tradesman / homeowner
For five players, add…
The Past: Bad family blood from way back
Needs in Suburbia
For three players…
To get rich: Through robbing your boss
For four or five players, add…
To get laid: To get what you want
Locations in Suburbia
For three, four or five players…
Apple Valley: Apple Valley Supermarket
Objects in Suburbia
For three or four players…
Information: A home-burned DVD
For five players, add…
Transportation: Tricked-out street racing Mitsubishi Lancer
Locations...
Poppleton Terrace A house with a fenced-in yard on Breezeway Avenue
Poppleton Terrace Elementary School
The gazebo in Poppleton Park
A Breezeway Avenue house with tin-foiled windows
The cul-de-sac at the end of Avanti Way
The drainage canal behind the subdivision
The Shops at Homewood PB&J Audio-Video
Fancy Cuts
Tile World
One Dollar, Period
Michelle’s Tavern
Homewood Branch Library
Redbud Court A crumbling trailer on blocks
Liberty Guns and Surplus
The Chicken Hut
A van without tires, surrounded by rotting newspapers
The Party House
A seedy rental duplex
Promise Hill Promise Hill Country Club
Water-filled gravel pit behind the country club
A million dollar home on the fairway
The Ellis Tract, last undeveloped land in the county
The oak tree on top of Promise Hill
An unfinished mansion on Patriot Lane
Historic Downtown Ratnapriya Anand, M.D.
The Well Dressed Lady
Memories and More
The Sugar Mill Lofts
County Social Services office
The historic Poppleton House
Apple Valley County rec center, skate park and pool
A Thirties bungalow with a leaky roof
The Law Offices of Cockburn and Lilley, LLC
A tidy house with an unusual statue in the yard
A gutted bungalow being turned into apartments
Apple Valley Supermarket
...in a Suburban Community
Needs...
To get lost …in your unsavory hobby
…in a doomed affair
…in the details of a new business
…in the eyes of your one true love
…in a harmless fantasy
…before they figure it out and arrest you
To get even …with all the two-faced bastards who ruined you
…with the local drug dealer
…with the “Community Policing Officer”
…with a family member
…with the dirty immigrants
…with your old high school rival
To get rich …through opening an improbable business
…through robbing your boss
…through tax fraud
…through ripping off some drug people
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…through a re-written will
To get respect …from this town, by becoming famous
…from this town, by showing everybody who’s boss
…from your lover, by making a serious commitment
…from your friends, by humiliating a cop
…from your family, by turning them in
…from yourself, by standing up for yourself at last
To get away …from your shameful past
…with murder
…from the people who are looking for you
…from your stupid family
…with the biggest lie this town has ever heard
…with the “crime” that is really justice served
To get laid …by anonymous party people, because why not?
…by your neighbor
…by your best friend
…to hurt someone (maybe yourself)
…to prove a point
…to get what you want
...in a Suburban Community
Objects...
Unsavory A broken police ankle monitor
Night vision goggles and flexi-cuffs
One hundred feral cats
A desiccated corpse in a duct-taped garbage bag
The charred ashes of $100,000
A replica of James T. Kirk’s command chair
Information A home-burned DVD
A living will, ripped in half, taped together
A digital voice recorder, accidentally left recording
A tattered birth certificate
A property survey from the 1940’s
An address written on the back of a business card
Valuables Three bags of undelivered mail
A pre-ban Heckler and Koch model 91 assault rifle
A briefcase containing one million dollars in Central American bearer bonds
A minivan stuffed with bales of marijuana
A piece of rare celebrity memorabilia
A pedigreed champion dog
Sentimental Bronzed baby shoes
A massive engagement ring
A battered set of golf clubs
A signed photo of an ex-President
An American flag
An elaborate tombstone
Transportation A tricked-out street racing Mitsubishi Lancer
An ancient Pontiac Bonneville sedan
A Ducati 1098 sport motorcycle
An ice cream truck
A hearse
A new Toyota Prius
Weapon A hockey stick
A K-Frame revolver
A child’s chemistry set
A .22 rifle
A 55 gallon drum of heating oil
A Klingon sword
...in a Suburban Community
The Ice
Relationships...
Work Supervisor / worker
Co-workers
Specialist / supporter
Former co-workers
Clandestine collaborators
Professional rivals
Friendship Manipulator / victim
Bewildered first-timers
Drinking buddies
Bitter enemies
Fuck buddies
Dorm room bunkies
Romance Former spouses
Current spouses
Life-long crush / object of crush
One-time fling
Lovers
Former lovers
Crime Smugglers (artifacts, endangered species)
Gambler / bookie
Ecological extremists
Government contract fraudster / investigator
Hoodlums (sports enthusiasts, drunkards, delinquents)
Drug people (dealers, manufacturers, distributors)
Community Social adversaries
Search and rescue volunteers
Tour guides
Community event organizers
Visiting dignitary “handlers”
Isolated co-religionists
Soul Lifers on The Ice
The only survivors
The ones who found the body
Newbie / old timer
Two-of-a-kind misanthropes
Poet and muse
...in McMurdo Station, Antarctica
An Antarctic Insta-setup
Relationships on the Ice
For three players…
Work: Specialist / supporter
Crime: Smugglers (artifacts, endangered species)
Community: Visiting dignitary “handlers”
For four players, add…
Soul: The only survivors
For five players, add…
Friendship: Fuck buddies
Needs on the Ice
For three players…
To get the truth: …about who the visiting dignitary is
For four or five players, add…
To get laid: By a visitor, fast
Locations on the Ice
For three, four or five players…
Mactown Outdoors: Scott’s Hut, the Terra Nova Expedition’s 1913 base
Objects on the Ice
For three or four players…
Forbidden: Five kilos of explosives and a detonator
For five players, add…
Sentimental: A can of potted meat stolen from Scott’s Hut
Locations...
The Weddell Sea Atop Iceberg B-15, larger than Luxembourg
Weddell seal research camp on the sea ice
Aboard the M/V American Tern, delivering supplies
Aboard the Khlebnikov, a Russian tourist icebreaker
The ATC hut at Williams Airfield, 16 km away
A research dive camp with a hole cut in the ice
Mactown: Business Satellite receivers on Black Island, 40 km away
The tool shed inside the Carp Shop
Explosives storage shed, up the hill from Mactown
B-120, the food warehouse
B-142, Medical
B-143, the vehicle maintenance “Heavy Shop”
Mactown: Pleasure Hut Ten, visiting dignitaries quarters
Wells Fargo ATM
A dormitory room
B-107, Southern Exposure coffee house
The post office in B-140
B-155, the galley
Mactown: Outdoors Observation Hill, above McMurdo Station
Scott’s Hut, the Terra Nova Expedition’s 1913 base
The retro yard, with cardboard containers of waste
An abandoned Jamesway tent near Hut Point
A metal shipping container
Inside the cab of a snow plow
Mactown: Science Closet in the biology pod in the CSEC research building
“The Chalet”, NSF headquarters
The Navy electronics shop in B-165
Naval Support Force, Antarctica weather office
Room 115, earth sciences pod, CSEC research building
B-195, atmospheric science building, road to Scott Base
Ross Island Lower Erebus Hut, kitchen and recreation building
Lower Erebus Hut, research and storage building
Volcanic sensor array on the caldera rim
Inside Mt. Erebus, above the lava lake
The 35 kilometer ice road to McMurdo Station
World’s largest Adelie penguin colony, at Cape Crozier
...in McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Needs...
To get out …of a work detail that is killing you
…of a relationship that’s turned weird
…of responsibility for an accident
…of intense scrutiny, so you can finish what you started
…of Mactown, where too many people know your game
…of The Ice, which is driving you insane
To get even …with a scientist
…with a contractor
…with a pilot
…with your rival
…with an organization – the NSF, U
SAP, etc
…with everybody on The Ice
To get off …on re-watching a DVD of what you did
…on prescription painkillers
…on secret trips out of Mactown
…on sabotaging a scientific program
…on destroying a reputation
…on illicit sex
To get respect …from everyone on The Ice, atoning for your mistake
…from everyone on The Ice, showing them who’s boss
…from your lover, by proving your devotion
…from the USAP, by ratting out the drug dealer
…from a friend, by rescuing them from ruin
…from yourself, by punishing your persecutors
To get the truth …about the accident
…about the secret project
…about someone’s criminal history
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