Strange anomalies/events found in an radioactive, apocalyptic wasteland (d100)

a r/d100 subreddit list

d100 Result

1

A 100 square foot area of ground where gravity has reversed. Anything or anyone who steps foot into this area is suddenly falls up into the air. Gravity returns to normal about 3000 feet up where the normal downward pull of gravity and the strange upward gravity has reached an equilibrium. A bunch of rocks, dead creatures, and broken down technology are suspended ominously in the air at this balance point. [u/solamon77]

2

A slowly rotting mutant who has taken to grafting random animal parts onto his body to replace the human parts he's lost. [u/solamon77]

3

A large spot on the ground that warps the party back to another similar spot 5 miles back. The two spots are almost identical. They are so similar that only the most eagle eyed adventurers would notice something is amiss. It's possible to get stuck walking between these spots over and over again, making no real progress. The GM should be sure to subtly describe the same things over and over again until a PC notices. [u/solamon77]

4

A huge rolling cluster of pre-apocalypse skyscrapers. A tribe of savages has taken up residence inside the skyscraper. Gravity in the skyscrapers is normalized such that it always pulls to the edges of the rolling cluster so from inside the rolling isn't noticed. [u/solamon77]

5

The Psychedelic Lake. A lake made of a seven different liquids, each liquid a different color. The liquids behave like oil and water in that no amount of mixing or agitation will cause them to combine. As the wind blows the lake slowly churns revealing it's many layers of colors. Bathing in the lake seems to put the person in contact with a strange cosmic intelligence. The intelligence is near incomprehensible in the same way an ant would find a human incomprehensible. [u/solamon77]

6

The broken, overgrown shell of an ornithopter. The ornithopter seems to be made some time after the apocalypse because it's put together piecemeal of various other pre-apocalypse materials. It was crafted a long time ago by a shaman from one of the local savage tribes. [u/solamon77]

7

The blasted ruins of a recycling plant. The plant is so old, very little of the buildings structure remains. In the center of the plant is a gradually sloping sinkhole, kind of like an antlion, that pulls anything walking near it towards a grinder in the center. Various robotic arms assist in pulling anything on the slope to the center grinder. The grinder is turned off as the party approaches and is difficult to notice, but activates when they walk near. [u/solamon77]

8

The Tour Guide. Every night at 4:10 sharp in the exact same spot, a flickering, glowing apparition of a man appears and starts his long journey down into a nearby very steep chasm. The apparition seems to be carrying a bunch of strange high-tech gadgets. As he walks he audibly points out various features of the environment that no longer exist. If followed, the apparition's journey ends exactly 30 minutes later as he falls down into the steep chasm. If the party makes their way to the bottom of the chasm, they will find the long dead remains of an old state park tour guide. On his body is a recording device that stores a hologram of the last 30 minutes of a person's actions as well as a small collection of other interesting technological loot. When the tour guide fell in the chasm, he landed on the device, activating it. [u/solamon77]

9

An old delivery truck. The truck has already been scavenged except for one crate way in the back filled with sealed cans of CHUM, an entirely synthetic meat flavored sandwich spread, now with more MSGs for that real meaty flavor! Even though the crate is at least a couple hundred years old, it still hasn't hit it's expiration date yet. As disgusting as this might seem, it's actually worth quite a lot to the right person. Certain tribes have found videos of ancient commercials and would kill to try some of the old world delicacies! The CHUM jingle has actually become popular in the wasteland: "♫ CHUM! It's CHUM! The meat flavored spread! Didn't you hear what your mama said? CHUM, CHUM, Eat Your CHUM! Eat your CHUM and don't be dumb! ♫ 4 out of 5 astronauts prefer CHUM." [u/solamon77]

10

A single red, upright telephone sitting on a pedestal in the middle of a wide, flat, dust storm filled expanse. Next to the telephone is a large TV antennae. The phone can be heard ringing long before it can be seen. Upon answering the phone, a monotoned female voice states: "5...4...3...2...1... Prepare for matter broadcast..." ZAP! The party is instantly transported to a large sealed cubical vault. Inside the vault are old dead trees, animal bones, and at least 20 dead bodies some more fresh than others, and other weird things teleported here over the years. The walls, floor, and ceiling are featureless and metal. There isn't any obvious way out. Let the party experiment and see what they come up with to get out of here. [u/solamon77]

11

A tree full of hanging corpses in advanced decomposition. The insides of the tree and the soil around it have been filled with limbs and decapitated heads. The tree is constantly spewing a red blood like sap. [u/axsisal]

12

A field full of bodies that have been buried upright, only their heads poking out of the ground. Some have died from heat stroke, others from blood loss or hunger. [u/axsisal]

13

A lone tombstone, it bears your name. There are some flowers in front of it, they are fresh. [u/axsisal]

14

A cafeteria that miraculously seems to have been spared from the destruction, it is spotless and the coffee pots and cups are still warm, but there's nobody in there. [u/axsisal]

15

A group of mannequins, they are dressed like people that you know, there's one that is dressed exactly like you, it has several knives deeply lodged on its chest. [u/axsisal]

16

A nice leather tent, until you notice that it is made of human skin. Inside there's a human meat cookbook. [u/axsisal]

17

The corpse of a pre-teen, s/he's dressed like a superhero. Apparently after the apocalypse s/he tried to imitate her/his favorite comic book hero and help folk. S/He was thoroughly tortured before being killed. [u/axsisal]

18

The apocalypse wasn't exclusive to Earth, suddenly you see countless of Mushroom shaped explosions on the Moon. For an instant the moon becomes as bright as the sun, then it starts to crack down and fall upon the Earth. You close your eyes and wait for the worst, but it never comes, when you reopen them the Moon is as usual. [u/axsisal]

19

The walls are filled with the charred outlines of people that died when the nuclear fire came. They move and try to surround you whenever you don't look at them. [u/axsisal]

20

A lone telephone booth starts to ring, oddly enough its cable is clearly severed. If you pick it up a deep voice starts to mock you and failures. [u/axsisal]

21

A random projector half buried in rubble activates when you get close and starts projecting against a nearby wall. The projection are of your youth, every face is disturbingly distorted and censored, including yours, specially yours, there's no sound but a breathing constantly surrounds you. [u/axsisal]

22

You spend a worryingly long amount of time without seeing another living person, be it friendly or hostile. You start to think that maybe you have become the last person alive. From that moment on you aren't sure if the people you meet are real of a product of your imagination. [u/axsisal]

23

You witness a far-away hot air balloon floating in the distance. If you look closer you see a corpse hanging from it, the corpse has a cardboard sign hanging around his neck that says "EVERYTHING IS DEAD" [u/axsisal]

24

You see a car driving across the road, instead of making a turn when needed the car drives straight into a wall and explodes in a ball of fire. If you check the wreck you see that the driver had been gunned down beforehand and it's corpse had been pressing on the pedal. [u/axsisal]

25

You find a repurposed nuclear silo that was going to be used to launch a rocket and save a dozen of selected powerful politicians and rich people. For some reason the rocket was never launched, and the people inside became trapped and starved to death. [u/axsisal]

26

A fridge surrounded by corpses. For some reason it still has power and the food inside seems edible and in good condition. The corpses around the fridge have expressions of horror on their faces. [u/axsisal]

27

You notice a shooting star, then another, followed by several more. It would be a beautiful and calming show, if they weren't repeating in a clear pattern. It's morse, three quick shooting stars followed by another three long and slower ones, and then another three fast ones again. It's repeating SOS. [u/axsisal]

28

You find a tugboat in the middle of the road, which is specially weird as the closest river, lake or ocean is at least a hundred miles away. The ship is filled with putrid fish. [u/axsisal]

29

You find a sealed bunker. As you approach a speaker next to the door stars to reproduce a prerecorded message that explains that the bunker will wait 500 years until the Earth is safe again and then announces that inside there are thousands of cryogenically frozen seeds, humans and animals that will be used to return biodiversity to Earth and make it look like it was before the nukes. Following the explanation a robotic warning message screeches that the cryogenic systems were damaged during the apocalypse, and that everyone and everything inside is dead. The first pre-recorded message then repeats again. [u/axsisal]

30

You find a working Ham-Radio, someone on the other side is asking if anyone is there, they announce they are the Astronauts on the space station and ask what the hell happened down on Earth. This is impossible, there were no people up in space when the apocalypse came, or it has been too long for them to be still alive. [u/axsisal]

31

A man hanging from a tree. When you approach he begins to scream to “cut him down.” [u/911roofer]

32

A book with detailing your adventures, except you always choose the right choice and do the right thing. [u/911roofer]

33

A huge bunker of food. Written on the walls in blood is “don’t eat - It’s poo” [u/911roofer]

34

In a library you find a skeleton with glasses. A bookshelf fell on him. [u/911roofer]

35

A mutilated burnt corpse hanging from a flagpole. Beneath it’s feet is a campfire with the remains of a campfire with several partially burnt trashy novels in it. Around a sign on it’s next is the words “If you burn books we’ll burn you”. [u/911roofer]

36

A pack of feral dogs that watches from a distance. They seem to be extremely intelligent, coming close only when your guard is down, but keeping a wary distance when you're alert. The dogs are big and vicious, save for one incongruously cute pup that seems to be the leader. She looks just like a dog you had when you were a kid. She's also the most dangerous of all. [u/sonofabutch]

37

You come across a bank. It's been thoroughly looted but the huge, heavy vault door is still closed and locked. Inside you can hear a faint tapping. It stops long before you figure out a way to open the door. [u/sonofabutch]

38

While walking through the ruins of a city, it's starts to snow... no, wait, it's bits of paper, fluttering down from of the top floors of a shattered skyscraper. Upon inspection, they're all children's drawings, torn and shredded. Are they yours? [u/sonofabutch]

39

While passing the entrance to a subway, you swear you can hear a conductor's voice calling from the depths, "Next stop, Broad Street." The stairs descend into filthy black water as the underground station is flooded to the ceiling. [u/sonofabutch]

40

A flock of Canada geese in a V-formation passes high overhead, honking loudly. They're flying in the wrong direction -- north if it's winter, south if it's summer. [u/sonofabutch]

41

The interior of a Starbucks. There are no walls, or maybe just one standing wall. There is no-one around for miles, but there's a coffee order on the counter. It's still hot. [u/overcomebyfumes]

42

A waist-high pile of bones. Many have knife and teeth marks and have been cracked for the marrow. [u/overcomebyfumes]

43

A pole with a working electrical outlet and a wire that goes from the outlet into the ground. No amount of digging, at least not without excavation equipment, can find the end of the wire. It just keeps going straight down. [u/overcomebyfumes]

44

Hospital with a number of failed zombie experiments, breeding mutants. [u/Anon-Keltar]

45

Sentient Ghoul who commands an army of non-sentient ghouls of varying mutated types. [u/Anon-Keltar]

46

A merchant offers to trade you some wares. They act like you've met before, they seem to know you well. The items they sell are things you thought you lost, things only valuable to you; a childhood toy, a wedding ring, your father's hat. When asked where they got these items, the merchant just laughs. [u/Craterfist]

47

A parked 757 with the slide deployed and the entire passenger section filled with aged, withered corpses which could not possibly be the original passengers; each one is dressed like a survivor save for a single throat cut administered from behind. There's six seats still empty. [u/LordsOfJoop]

48

City water tower with an abandoned camp at the base of it, showing signs of rampant violence inside of its robust walls. Scrawled on a patch of pavement in bloody handprints is the phrase "it's in the water now". [u/LordsOfJoop]

49

Two hundred pairs of boots, shoes and sandals laid out in perfectly parallel lines in front of an empty telephone booth. There's a corpse with no feet bolted upright inside of it. [u/LordsOfJoop]

50

A "tree" made from assorted rubble with thousands of cellphones plugged into it, dangling like electronic fruit. Upon approaching it, they all begin to ring then fall silent simultaneously. [u/LordsOfJoop]

51

Unfired rocket launcher with a steel wire attached to the rocket itself; next to it is a discarded model and a bunch of decapitated corpses with signed suicide notes. [u/LordsOfJoop]

52

A line of bowling ball bags running the length of an empty Mall's upper tier, each with a severed head inside of them. Sitting at a bench is a corpse with the head removed and replaced with a bowling ball and a cardboard sign around the neck reading, "perfect game". [u/LordsOfJoop]

53

A wretched looking person who pitifully begs you to help their family member who's trapped - but if you follow them, they only lead you farther and farther into an irradiated desert. If anyone else is with you, this person disappears. [u/jaunty_chapeaux]

54

There's a road you can follow that looks no different from any other, but when you've been on it for at least an hour, the sun starts to turn dark and red. If you turn back, it gradually returns to normal. If you keep on the road, you notice after a while that the sun doesn't change its location in the sky hour after hour - until it can't be seen anymore. Soon nothing can be seen anymore. [u/jaunty_chapeaux]

55

A small camp/settlement that clearly had been thriving, and would still be, except for the fact that every inhabitant is now dead, all of them with no apparent cause of death. [u/neilisyours]

56

A huge stockpile of canned sugared peaches in thick syrup. They have no labels, and upon inspection seem to be well-preserved enough to eat. They are so delicious they have addictive properties. They have a high chance of making you sick, but only after 14 days have passed. [u/neilisyours]

57

A wall-mounted screen in a blasted-out edifice depicts the head and shoulders of an attractive person. They can see you, but not hear, and you can both see and hear them. They don't know where they are; they're trapped. Successful investigation reveals that they are long dead & gone, but preserved via an AI inside this one program. The terminal/screen cannot maintain power if removed from the wall. They are trapped here, in this spot, as long as the screen has power (solar panels?). [u/neilisyours]

58

You find a room full of corpses with all but the biggest one with evidence of being shot without evidence of resistance. The room is decorated with crude child's drawings of a protector who seem to be elevated to a legendary status by the children. A lone diary for the protector shows that all the children were sick and dying and the protector lost hope. Mercy was a swift death and there is no good lootables from this. The weapon the protector was broken intentionally broken to leave it useless. [u/neilisyours]

59

A whole facility full of dead animals in cages. The animals are spoiled and decaying. Even the ones which killed their cage-mates to prolong the inevitable are dead. The newborns, dead. The old ones, dead. The ones that just had pups, dead. The scent of the halls is terrible and disgusting to the senses. [u/neilisyours]

60

You see a lone traveler on the edge of a long drop. When you try to get closer or yell out to them, they jump. They leave a letter and some supplies on the edge. Better to not look over the edge as you will only see a mangled body and bloody mess. The letter is usually a sadly relatable thing of losing the last loved one, killing a child, no more hope, haven't eaten in a few days, ran out of their drug of choice, cancer, lost will to live, yadda yadda yadda, etc, etc, etc.... [u/neilisyours]

61

You find a blind preacher who has gone mad and still preaches to their full house in bloodied and broken religious attire. Everyone in the pews have died and left to meet their creators. They claim that they have the water which will quench the soul and food to sustain the body to those who ask them. The asker must just wait for the daily communion to happen with eyes closed and hands bound in prayer. The blind preacher will slit the loyal believers' throats who kneel on the unusually clean communion rail and "bless" their fortunes and feast "brought forth by their devotion". [u/neilisyours]

62

A warehouse full of " popped popcorn". It is just a bunch of inedible packing material but, the corpses are swallowed by the tide of tempting "morsels". [u/neilisyours]

63

You see an emaciated corpse that is locked in a janitor closet with an unopened "can of nuts" and a unopened bottle of water. The lid is quite hard to open, but, when open a spring loaded toy snake pops out. The dead guy died trying to open the joke can with the last bit of energy they had before the long dark took their light. [u/neilisyours]

64

You find a town full of mannequin set up in various poses, positions, and places as if all of them were doing one thing. Some are wearing bloody clothes as others are in fine attire. Some have no dust on them as if they were dusted today. You feel like something is watching you and a few mannequins seem to change what they were doing. [u/neilisyours]

65

You find a intact can of beans in the road. It is oddly pristine other than it being set on a dried blood pool mixed with dried vomit. Its manufacture date is marked for today. [u/neilisyours]

66

A large crater filled with lush green vegetation. The area surrounding the crater is moderately radioactive. Within the crater itself the radiation drops to almost zero. [u/WorldofIdeas]

67

You see a cat riding a small disk shaped vehicle (Roomba) across the the wasteland. [u/WorldofIdeas]

68

A single thin, 200 foot tall, metallic tower stands in the middle of the wasteland. The way inside is either through the top or through a single large circular iris door on the ground floor. It is locked. The inside of the tower is mostly empty, except for the walls and ceiling, upon which is engraved various constellations, and a single, massive astrolabe in the center. Entering the tower starts a countdown clock. The clock is clearly glitching since instead of counting down, the numbers seem to be random, making it difficult for the players to know when the countdown ends. Once the countdown ends, three of the engraved constellations glow and a beam of light shooting down from outer space strikes the astrolabe in the center. The tower fills with a strange radiation, boosting whoever is in the tower in some way. [u/Fusion4RV10] & [u/solamon77]

69

The party encounters a large dilapidated building constructed from the remains of fast food restaurants. The people inside are still trying to sell food. There is a greenhouse inside too, but the people running it seem a bit out of it, as if they don't fully realize the world has ended. That and they won't tell you where the meat is from...worse yet you've not heard any animals around at all. [u/Gmknewday1]

70

The infinite tunnel. The players find a tunnel that seems to stretch inwards for miles, heading in some favorable direction. However, as they travel inwards, they realize the exit always seems to be double the distance away that they’ve walked. When they turn around, the entrance is a single pace from where they are, as if they had only walked one step inside. Next to the entrance is a small panel that produces another tunnel. No-one understands where they lead or how they’re made (or summoned, if the GM decides there is only one). [u/Fusion4RV10]

71

A moment’s time. A small portion of the ground seems unnaturally still. Players can move freely into the space, but bash against an invisible barrier after a few paces. Whoever is inside the space appears frozen to those outside, while inside, the players see a line of themselves stretching outwards ahead and behind them. Behind them, they see (yeah, weird how they can see behind them, huh?) still images of every minuscule movement they made leading up to this moment, stretching on to infinity, and ahead of them, they see the same, only leading into the future, as if every “frame” of their life had been separated out and captured in physical space. They cannot move whatsoever, as they realize that they are trapped in their current moment, no longer able to experience the passage of time. The moment they realize they regularly “move through time” in reality the stasis ends and they return to normal reality. The amount of time that has passed in reality is up to the DM’s discretion. Those affected might find themselves in a completely different situation than when they arrived, or find that nothing has changed at all. [u/Fusion4RV10]

72

The Very Tall Cactus. The players find a cactus which stretches almost indefinitely into the sky. As they watch, a small flower unfurls near the base, and another, regularly-sized cactus grows out of the it (still attached). On closer inspection, it becomes obvious this tower is a lot of separate cactuses all attached together by flowers. Whether these cactuses are grown instantaneously, or stolen from elsewhere in the world is undetermined. [u/1Fusion4RV10]

73

The Amusement Park. The party comes across a small, but strangely well preserved amusement park. On the premise is a still standing rollercoaster, a dried up waterslide, a large Merri-Go-Round, an old arcade, and a go-cart track. The place looks like it was a deathtrap even back when it was open & operational and the apocalypse certainly hasn't improved things (it's more of an Action Park than a Cedar Point). It's completely non-functional, but with a little work, the party may be able to get things working again and have a bit of fun. Every so often, the party sees a wispy echo from the past of a child injuring themselves on the poorly maintained rides. [u/solamon77]

74

The Swimming Pool & Playground. The party arrives at an empty swimming pool. Next to it is located an overgrown old-style playground, with all-metal installations. No plastic safety slides here! Aside from the dried up pool, there's also a tall slide, a human powered roundabout, a couple rusty horse shaped Spring Riders, and a swing set. When the party approached the park, it returns to the shape it was in before the apocalypse: the pool fills back up, the slide un-rusts, etc. After returning to normal, everything about the park seems weird and impossible: the swings chains extend upward to the sky and disappear into the clouds, the slide stretches out in length when slid down, the spring riders make sounds like real horses, and the roundabout spins under it's own power. If the party tries to leave without using the playground, a huge dust storm starts up all around, forcing them back. They can only leave AFTER having a bit of fun. [u/solamon77]

75

In the distance the party can see a flying saucer that has landed on the ground. Small aliens seem to be planting something in the ground. Before the PC can get close the aliens board the flying saucer and take off. Closer inspection of the area reveals, that the aliens have planted seedlings in the wasteland soil. There appear to be intentional gaps between the seedlings that will form an intricate pattern (crop circle) when the seedlings grow. The seedlings themselves are a genetically engineered variety of food plant that can survive in the wasteland. [u/WorldofIdeas]

76

The party discovers camp setup in the wasteland. There are several tents containing scientific equipment. The tents are arranged in a circular pattern around a strange antenna looking device. The equipment looks like it still has power. If activated, arcs of lightning shoots into the sky from the antenna and forms a spacial rift. A B17 bomber suddenly flies out of the rift, leaving a trail of smoke from its engines. It (crashes, lands) several miles away. The rift opening equipment begins to spark and catch fire. With several loud pops and bangs from the equipment the rift closes. [u/WorldofIdeas]

77

The party discovers a mostly intact building. It is surrounded by corpses in various stages of decay. If the party gets too close to the building the corpses begins to stand up and shamble towards them with jerky unnatural movements. They faintly moan "braaaaiiiiinnnssss". If the party moves past the certain distance away from the building, the zombies will return to their resting spots around the building. If the party kills the zombies, closer inspection reveals that they are actually robots made to look like zombies. Inside the building is a animatronics special effects studio. It looks like someone was living here until recently. There are lots of empty food containers. [u/WorldofIdeas]

78

The party finds a residential area. Most of the houses have some damage, but could be used for shelter. A ringing noise can be heard from one of the houses. There appears to be a working telephone in the house. If someone answers it, there is an automated message. "We have been trying to reach you about your vehicle's extended warranty." Each time the PCs get close to a house, the phone in the house rings with the same automated message. [u/WorldofIdeas]

79

While exploring the ruins of a town, the PCs notice a mail box that has mail in it. Most of it is junk, but there is one package. The package contains a replacement key card for a Mr Smith. The card appears to grant access to the secure areas at the company where Smith works. If one of the PCs checks the package for the address they notice that the package was mailed 1 week ago. [u/WorldofIdeas]

80

You come across a strange sight. At a small campsite a person appears to be playing fetch with a giant scorpion. The person throws a teddy bear and the scorpion runs off to retrieve it. The wastelander has apparently been studying these giant scorpions for a while and has discovered that a few varieties are about as smart as a dog. If the party is willing to bring them scorpion tails, scorpion carcasses, or scorpion eggs, they are willing to trade. They can make scorpion anti-venom, scorpion based weapon poison, scorpion carapace armor. They also know several recipes for giant scorpion meat. If the party brings them giant scorpion eggs, they can train up an animal companion in about a year. [u/WorldofIdeas]

81

 A small village trapped in an endless time loop where the same day keeps repeating itself. [u/eDaveUK]

82

The party finds a well tended garden in the ruins of a rural town. There appears to be a robotic gardener tending the field. If the PC try to take any vegetables from the garden without asking permission, the robot will yell thief and try to chase them away with gardening tools. If the PC ask for produce the robot will, offer them one basket full of vegetables. On a high perception roll the PCs will notice bone chips in the soil. The robot has been using the dead townspeople as fertilizer. [u/WorldofIdeas]

83

The party finds a drive-in Theater. Investigation of the projection booth reveals, that they were having an apocalypse movie marathon when the apocalypse hit. The projector seems to be in working condition. Several film reels seem viable. Take your pick of how you want the world to end (alien invasion, asteroid impact, plague, robot uprising, scientific disaster, WWIII, zombies, etc). [u/WorldofIdeas]

84

The ground begins shaking. A giant drill bit breaks the surface, followed by a drilling machine. A mutant mole man opens a hatch and steps out. "Surrender surface dwellers, for we have come to conquer....." He looks around for a moment, then turns to the party. "Is the entire surface like this?" If the PCs say yes or nod, the the mole man gets back into the drilling machine. As he closes the hatch, they here "Pack it up, there's nothing here". [u/WorldofIdeas]

85

Falling Skyscraper. The party passes by the ruins a couple of skyscrapers. Suddenly they hear and feel a loud rumbling combined with the sound of twisting, groaning metal. The skyscraper on the left leans and falls over! Fortunately, it leans onto the skyscraper on the right, which stops it's fall. A couple large pieces of concrete fall directly onto where the party stands. [u/solamon77]

86

The Baseball Stadium. The party comes to a dusty old Baseball stadium. Surprisingly, the Jumbotron still seems to be functional. As the party passes by, a live video feed of two of the PCs appear on the Jumbotron, their image surrounded by colorful red hearts with the words "Kiss Cam!" underneath. Seeing themselves on the big screen, they notice there are a couple red dots on their foreheads. Someone has a sniper rifle trained on them! If they kiss, the dots disappear and a wacky "Woooooooo!" sound plays over the speaker system. If they don't someone starts shooting at them. There is a deranged camera operator living in the stadium who thinks he was chosen to be the wasteland's embodiment of Cupid. He takes his job VERY seriously. (Note: if this scene makes anyone feel uncomfortable, just don't run it and roll again. My party would find this funny.) [u/solamon77]

87

The Babydoll Factory. Strewn across the road, the party comes across what looks like the disembodied limbs of a baby, but upon closer investigation turns out to be a bunch of babydoll parts. As they proceed down the path, the number of parts increases in number and the party notices that some of the parts seem to have bullet wounds and slash marks. Eventually they come across a factory that once made the "Big Bouncing Baby" line of babydoll toys. They were popular with little girls before the world ended. The factory is still operational and is still churning out new Big Bouncing Babies, except these BBBs aren't configured like normal people anymore. Some of them have eight arms, two heads, dozens of legs, guns where the arms should be, explosives loaded in their torso etc, etc. As the party explores the factory, the babydolls come alive and attack them. The dolls aren't particularly durable, but the factory keeps churning out new ones, forcing them to shut it down if they expect to win. [u/solamon77]

88

The Babydoll Factory. Strewn across the road, the party comes across what looks like the disembodied limbs of a baby, but upon closer investigation turns out to be a bunch of babydoll parts. As they proceed down the path, the number of parts increases in number and the party notices that some of the parts seem to have bullet wounds and slash marks. Eventually they come across a factory that once made the "Big Bouncing Baby" line of babydoll toys. They were popular with little girls before the world ended. The factory is still operational and is still churning out new Big Bouncing Babies, except these BBBs aren't configured like normal people anymore. Some of them have eight arms, two heads, dozens of legs, guns where the arms should be, explosives loaded in their torso etc, etc. As the party explores the factory, the babydolls come alive and attack them. The dolls aren't particularly durable, but the factory keeps churning out new ones, forcing them to shut it down if they expect to win. [u/solamon77]

89

Cryosleep Facility. The party stumbles upon a hole in the ground from which emits a faint blue glow. If they look in, they see a bunch of rows of cryopods, 60 in total. Most of them are cracked and broken, but a few still seem to be functioning. This was a storage facility for one of those cryo companies that freezes sick people with the promise to unfreeze them when the cure for their diseases has been discovered. The party can do what they want with the pods. Awakening the sleepers can go however the GM wants.[u/solamon77]

90

The Nuclear Bomb Vine. The party comes across a huuuuge crater made by a nuclear bomb blast. The crater is covered with a blue/green glowing ivy plant. The plant has as filled the crater and emits a massive amount of radiation, more than the parties armor can handle. If the leaves of the plant are disturbed, they explode in tiny nuclear explosions. In the center of the crater is something valuable that the party can use to craft useful stuff. [u/solamon77]

91

 A massive pile of fish bones. Just, utterly towering, like someone cleaned out the entirety of Lough Neigh. If the players investigate, it turns out there is a friendly town built in to the pile, though some residents seem to have caught a strange affliction, making them drink water excessively (even to the point of near suffocation), stand in corners for hours, and causing strange periods of insanity where they believe they are fish. [u/LargePileOfSnakes]

92

A bio-dome. A large mile diameter biodome sits undisturbed after all these years. This dome was created centuries ago to survive the coming apocalypse. It was supposed to open eventually and let the people inside restart civilization anew, but this never came to pass. The inhabitants of the dome are peaceful and spiritual living in their utopia, but have regressed into a agrarian tribal state and now worship the dome as if it was the Garden of Eden. The dome regulates all aspects of their lives, from food production (automated machines do the farming), to weather (the dome has carefully controlled rains), all the way to when the tribe sleeps (the dome dims itself at bedtime to simulate night). They no longer know how the dome functions and have become entirely dependent on it's automated systems to live. Unfortunately, the dome has started to fail. [u/solamon77]

93

The Conundrum Room. A large fallen billboard half buried in the ground advertises a local tourist trap: The Conundrum Room. The billboard, while old and weathered, is still readable. It features a swirling black & white spiral background over which is written the words: "The Conundrum Room! Is it magic? Is it science? No one knows! Just 2 km North... Right Up Route 43! It's a gravity hill kind of attraction, where a little house is built in such a way that when standing inside gravity seems to function strangely: balls roll uphill and people stand at an angle from the ground, etc. Weirdly enough, it's still staffed by a very odd, impossibly aged man who claims to be over 200 years old! Stranger still, the right half of his body is slightly smaller than the left, with a shorter right leg and arm. He attributes the Conundrum Room's magic for his advanced age and charges a small fee to enter. Once inside, the old man serves as tour guide for his weird little tourist attraction: He shows a bunch of weird gravity tricks and before sending the party through his gift shop and on their way. Once they leave the Room, the party discovers they seem to stand at an angle from the ground for the next hour. [u/solamon77]

94

The Oracle of the Wasteland. Strangle floral smelling fumes drift from a fissure in the ground. As the party approaches the fissure, they can hear New Age music emanating from within. Deep inside the cave is an old hippy-type kind of guy. He sits on a pillow that seems to be levitating over a hole, but upon further inspection is actually suspended by thin, but sturdy ropes. From the hole under the Oracle wafts gases that smell of petroleum. Next to the Oracle is an old boombox playing his new age music. The rest of the cave is decked out in the kind of décor that would be at home in a smoke shop or a college dorm room: Psychedelic tapestries adorned with marijuana leaves, crystals hanging from strings, posters with big bubbly letters advertising band tours, bongs, etc. The Oracle is high off his gourd from a combination of fumes and whatever is in that giant waterpipe he's smoking. If the party asks him any question, he responds with incredibly vague non-sequiturs. None the less, everything he says has a kernel of truth in it. Furthermore, he is able to correctly predict the future, but the things he says are so vague as to almost me useless. [u/solamon77]

95

A Refrigerator. The party comes across one of those old style refrigerators with the latching door. Inside is the desiccated corpse of a child who hid in there to try and survive the apocalypse. Inspection reveals the body has numerous bone fractures. The inside of the door has fingernail scratch marks suggesting that the child's plan worked, but were then unable to reopen the refrigerator from the inside and they died in there. Or if you want to joke on Indiana Jones 4, you can have the corpse be a man wearing a fedora![u/solamon77]

96

Baseball Machines. As the party moves through a narrow passage suddenly dozens of baseballs fly at them from the left and the right. Someone has set up a gauntlet of baseball pitching machines. The baseballs do non-lethal damage, but are fully capable of knocking the party unconscious. As the baseballs rain down, the party hears the sound of children cheering for their demise somewhere behind the machines. The children remain out of sight preventing the party from locating their exact hiding spot. Assuming the party survives the baseball onslaught, the children scatter to the winds, never to be seen again. Otherwise, they approach the incapacitated party and rob them. [u/solamon77]

97

A ship in the Building. Directly in the parties path is a lone skyscraper still standing. The skyscraper is at least 100 stories high. Impaled through the upper stories hundred of feet in the air is a large container transport ship. How did it get up there?! Nobody knows. Furthermore, the skyscraper is precarious and climbing it is fraught with danger. If the party makes their way to the top, they will discover that most of the stuff in the ship's containers are rotten and destroyed, but a couple containers are still sealed and contain treasures of the old world: factory made clothes, foodstuffs, game consoles, TVs, computers, etc. Surely this stuff is worth a fortune... if only they could get it down! [u/solamon77]

98

The Wasteland Superhero. The party comes across a battle. In the center of the melee is a glowing man dressed in bright spandex clothes wearing a long and flowing cape like a superhero... and a third arm growing from the top of his head. Surrounding him are at least a dozen men from one of the local marauding gangs. The glowing man in spandex puts up a good fight, but eventually gets tripped up in his own cape. If the party saves him, he claims to be Neon Neutron: a superhero who derives his powers from the boundless energy of the Neutron. He claims to have any number of powers, but is reluctant to demonstrate any of them, claiming a true hero doesn't show off. Whether he actually has powers is up to the GMs discretion. He also claims to "...wander the wasteland, far and wide, righting wrongs and singing songs!" If the party ignores the melee, Neon Neutron dies. The gang then turns their attention to the party! [u/solamon77]

99

Ball lightning. A large ball of lightning floats across the wasteland electrocuting anyone in it's path. Anyone who takes the time to look will notice that it seems to follow the same repeating circular path over and over. It takes exactly 48 hours to the millisecond to complete one circuit and the ball lightning travels a circle with a 720km circumference. If the party is able to locate the exact center of the circle, they will discover an old world laboratory that did research in manipulating planetary weather patterns. [u/solamon77]

100

The Big Mutant. The party crosses a long stretch of strange silty ground. Suddenly the torso of a large four armed green-skinned giant erupts from the ground! He is still buried from the waist down, but if he were standing on the ground, he'd be at least 100 feet tall. He immediately grabs out at the nearest four PCs with all four hands and brings them to his mouth to eat them. He takes sick pleasure dangling the PCs over his disgusting mouth, laughing before he drops them. The party can fight if they want, but he should be a VERY hard boss level encounter at least 3 or 4 CR above the average party level. Or they can bargain with him. The Big Mutant is very hungry and if the party agrees to feed him some other way, he'll let them go. Of course, he keeps one of the party as collateral. Let the party to creative on how they feed him, but it will take a lot of food to satiate him. [u/solamon77]