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## *Wasteland 3*

* The Scar Collectors are a gang of slavers who heavily modify their bodies as badges of honor.
* Colorado Springs is the center of authority for most of the settlements and factions of Colorado.
* Colorado Springs has been ruled by the Patriarch for over 50 years.
* Ranger Citadel was the headquarters of the Desert Rangers until its destruction in 2102.
* The Patriarch has three exiled heirs: sons Valor and Victory, and daughter Liberty.
* General Wade Woodson took command of the Desert Rangers after the loss of General Vargas.
* The Hundred Families are Colorado’s richest and most powerful citizens.
* A synth is a Cochise-built robot with an AI so advanced it has achieved true conciousness.
* Drools, the creatures who inhabit mine shafts, were once human.
* The Desert Rangers were founded by army engineers who survived the nuclear apocalypse.
* Colorado is currently in the grip of a brutal, perpetual winter.
* The Rangers in Arizona are in desperate need of resources after the destruction of Ranger Citadel.
* Angela Deth was part of the Ranger team which destroyed Base Cochise.
* The Kodiak is a tracked, all-terrain vehicle designed for hostile environments.
* In the years before the apocalypse, artificial intelligence (AI) had been integrated into the military control systems of the United States and the USSR.
* A robot is an semi-autonomous, ambulatory machine with a limited AI.
* The Brainwave Destabilizer uses microwaves to scramble a target's neural pathways.
* The apocalypse occurred when a meteor struck the US military’s orbital Starstation, triggering a full-scale nuclear attack.
* Slicer Dicers are fearsome robotic war machines that attack using circular saws mounted on their limbs.
* Before being reduced to ruins in the war, the Academy in Colorado Springs trained officer cadets for the United States Air Force.
* Over the years, scavengers have created ingenious weapons from broken tools and old scrap, such as the Road Sign Cleaver and the Sawblade.
* By the time of the apocalypse, laser and energy weapons were deployed with many US Army units. Many examples survive to the present day.
* Angela Deth was assigned by General Vargas to lead the Ranger advance team into Colorado.
* The Bile Bomber is a Drool that explodes in a shower of poisonous bile when killed.
* Radioactive fallout has spawned horrific mutations in both people and animals throughout the wasteland.
* Bandits are an ever-present threat when crossing the wasteland.
* Ranger HQ in Colorado has been established in the ruins of what was once Peterson Air Force Base.
* Peterson Air Force Base shares an airfield with Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, which housed many pre-war government command centers.
* Corporal Marcelo Gonzalez is a former marshal and radio communications expert that serves as Ranger HQ’s radio officer.
* The head of Ranger HQ security, Sergei Greatski is a veteran of the Patriarch’s most important battles.
* During his reign, the Patriarch has striven to protect Colorado from the chaos of the wastes, and give it a semblance of prewar American life.
* Marshal Darius Kwon is the Patriarch’s liaison to the Rangers.
* "You've made your decision. There's no turning back now. All that remains is to find out who's still with you."
* Colorado Springs is experiencing an increasing problem with refugees fleeing the vicious warlords who dominate the eastern plains.
* Colorado Springs usually gets its oil from the Gippers, the cult that controls most of the state's fuel production. Unfortunately, because of recent hostilities, the Gippers stopped oil deliveries to the city.
* Before being reduced to ruins in the war, the Academy in Colorado Springs trained officer cadets for the United States Air Force.
* The penalty for breaking the law in Colorado Springs often means time in the pillories. In Colorado’s freezing weather, this is effectively a death sentence.
* Colorado Springs is a rare, fully-functioning society in post-apocalyptic America - but many harsh sacrifices have to be made in order to maintain it.
* Colorado Springs escaped nuclear annihilation thanks to missile defense systems put in place to defend the nearby military installation at Cheyenne Mountain.
* "It's time to end this, one way or another."
* Faran Brygo, the former boss of Las Vegas, now runs a nightclub and criminal organization in Colorado Springs.
* Brygo’s Little Vegas nightclub is open all hours, and features a dance hall, lounge, and brothel.
* Brygo's nightclub is the favorite watering hole for Local 168, a mercenary company run by a former miner named Boulder.
* A eunuch named Ken Doll runs the brothel in Brygo’s Little Vegas.
* Faran Brygo employs a gang of machine-gun-wielding thugs to maintain order in his club.
* The Discobot is a variant of the Octotron, exchanging the fearsome arsenal of spinning blades for flashing lights and a library of danceable tunes.
* Since Faran Brygo’s Little Vegas nightclub was shut down, kids from the Hundred Families have taken over the building to throw parties.
* Approximately twenty years ago, the Dorsey family was one of Colorado’s elite Hundred Families – until they challenged the Patriarch’s rule.
* After fleeing to the plains to escape the Patriarch’s wrath, Nelius Dorsey molded what was left of his extended family into a vicious gang of hunters and raiders.
* The Dorseys believe they are harbingers of the Deluge of Blood, a great cataclysm that will wipe away the last remnants of the old world.
* Broadmoor Heights is home to the Church of the Final Deluge, Colorado’s official religion.
* The flow of refugees into Colorado Springs is putting a severe strain on resources and creating tensions with the Hundred Families.
* The wealthiest and most influential of the Hundred Families maintain residences in Broadmoor Heights, close to the Patriarch’s Palace.
* The Patriarch’s Palace was formerly a luxury hotel in the historic Old Broadmoor section of Colorado Springs.
* The Patriarch rose to power by uniting the Hundred Families and leading them to victory over the vicious gangs of Colorado.
* The Patriarch’s Marshals are responsible for maintaining law and order in Colorado.
* Survivalist groups were common in Colorado in the years before the bombs fell.
* Wealthy survivalists had the resources to create elaborate bunkers for their families in case of disaster.
* Peek and Poke are believed to have been popular cartoon characters before war. Strangely, new cartoons continue to appear on billboards across Colorado, but no one knows who is putting them there.
* The Gippers are a religious faction that worships Ronald Reagan as a god.
* The oil that Coloradans depend on for heat and fuel is pumped from the Denver oil fields.
* Mother Nancy Reliance is the most recent leader of the Gippers.
* Union Station was the main railway station and a central transportation hub in Denver before the war.
* The area surrounding Union Station is populated by scavenger gangs and dangerous predators.
* Many federal and municipal buildings contained secret bunkers or caches of emergency supplies in case of nuclear war.
* The Machine Commune is a colony of robots and artificial intelligences at the Denver airport.
* The MI Tower is a collection of machine intelligences that serve as the leader of the Machine Commune.
* SAL is a well-known radio DJ who broadcasts from the ruins of the Denver Airport.
* Until recently, Aspen served as a vacation retreat for the Patriarch and the Hundred Families.
* Aspen is reached by travelling up the remains of Interstate 82. In times past, the Hundred Families took turns on “82 duty” guarding the road and keeping it clear.
* The Breathers are innocent Coloradans who have been forcibly addicted to a powerful mix of hallucinogenic gases that Victory Buchanan uses to keep them under his control.
* Once a year, the Patriarch and representatives of the Hundred Families would gather at the lodge in Aspen for a summit on Colorado affairs.
* The Summit Lodge was a somewhat seedy ski lodge in Aspen before the war.
* No one knows what happened to the original inhabitants of Aspen. Evidence suggests they simply walked off into the snow and disappeared.
* Major Vera Prasad is the commanding officer of the Ranger convoy heading to Colorado.
* Ranger HQ has dispatched a convoy of Rangers to Colorado to establish a lifeline of vital supplies to Arizona.
* The Bloodbeast is a breed of savage, skinless wolverine that the Dorseys train to track down bleeding prey.
* The Bizarre is a marketplace of the expensive, the dangerous, and the weird, built into a prewar mall that’s buried under decades of snow.
* The Monster Army ruled a significant portion of Colorado for many years until they were defeated by the Patriarch and the Hundred Families. The Bizarre, once their seat of power, is now the only area they still control.
* Travelers have been known to wait outside for days – or even weeks – in hopes of gaining entrance into the Bizarre.
* The Bizarre exports meats, leather, and manure to Colorado Springs, in trade for more varied foodstuffs and supplies, as well as acting as a secure trading hub.
* The Sanctified Piscitelli is the owner and operator of the Bizarre’s weapon store and experimental workshop.
* Jakub Martin – aka Flab the Inhaler – is the most recent leader of the Monster Army.
* Someone has been strapping explosives to pigs and releasing them from the Warrens to wreak havoc in the Bizarre. The locals have taken to calling them "Hot Hogs."
* Decades ago, the Patriarch defeated the Monster Army by finding a way into the Bizarre through the Warrens.
* The first post-war inhabitants of the Bizarre were pig farmers, who used the Warrens to keep their livestock.
* The Monster Army seized the Bizarre from its original inhabitants and transformed it into the trading hub it is today.
* Members of the Monster Army wear pre-war Halloween masks to create a gang of faceless, unsettling killers.
* After their defeat at the hands of the Patriarch, the remnants of the Monster Army swore fealty to him, and were allowed to keep the Bizarre in return.
* The Ice Hopper is a mutated horned toad with blue-white skin and ice crystals instead of horns.
* Some Colorado families eke out a desperate existence on isolated homesteads, despite the danger from bandits and other predators.
* Many homesteads have been pillaged and burned by encroaching raiders, driving the survivors to seek shelter in Colorado Springs and elsewhere.
* The most powerful gangs of the eastern plains have gathered together at a derelict speedway in a council of war to overthrow the Patriarch.
* Ironclad Cordite is the former leader of the Scar Collectors.
* Three gangs currently dominate the eastern plains: the Scar Collectors, the Godfishers, and the Payasos.
* The Godfishers are part gang, part apocalyptic cult, sacrificing prisoners on huge leather kites to their strange sky gods.
* Star-that-Dreams is the current leader of the Godfishers.
* Godfishers cover their bodies with blue tattoos as a sign of their devotion to the sky gods.
* The Glow Hopper is a glowing, irradiated toad that feeds on nuclear sludge.
* Before the Apocalypse there were hundreds of satellites and a number of operational space stations in orbit. Many have crashed to earth in the years since.
* The Scar Collectors make extensive use of slave labor in their tech-mines.
* Billy and Jean are an especially ornery mutant two-headed goat with a propensity for butting people they don’t like.
* Over time, the Dorsey gang has grown beyond Nelius Dorsey’s extended family, and includes recruits from all over the plains.
* Alistair Hoon was a decorated marshal and a scourge of the plains raiders.
* Lieutenant Connie Zeng was Angela Deth’s second-in-command for the Colorado advance team.
* Many Ranger badges are more than a century old, passed from one generation of Rangers to the next.
* Major Tomcat is the Rangers’ mascot, and most valuable squad member.
* Ghost towns are a common sight across Colorado, as populations die out or are forced to relocate to the larger cities.
* The Hundred Families often employ mercenaries as bodyguards or enforcers.
* The Spiny Hopper is a mutated toad covered in painful spines.
* Servitor Bots are vaguely humanoid utility robots that can be programmed for a wide range of functions.
* Some remote government sites are still broadcasting automated radio messages from before the war.
* The Rocky Mountains are difficult and dangerous to cross in the best of times, home to packs of hungry mutants and vicious bandit gangs.
* The Waste Worm is a huge, burrowing worm that bursts from the earth to ambush its prey.
* Numerous strange cults and secret societies have emerged in the wake of the Apocalypse.
* Powered by a portable nuclear reactor, the LE-L1 power armor suit is the most powerful combat armor ever made.
* The Pikalope is the mutant hybrid of a pika and an elk. Though individually weak, they are dangerous in large numbers.
* Toaster Repair is a highly valued skill in many parts of the wasteland.
* RadTek armor was developed for use in extremely hazardous environments.
* The Razorback is a mutated wolverine that has porcupine-like quills along its back.
* Composite Armor was state-of-the-art prewar personal defense tech, comprised of multi-layered composite plates for superior ballistic and impact protection.
* The Neutron Projector fires a hyper-focused beam of ionizing radiation to kill targets with minimal collateral damage.
* Los Payasos originated in the town of Arriba, Colorado, some time after the Apocalypse.
* Los Payasos are a gang of sadistic killers who believe that the apocalypse was a vicious joke – and they are the punchline.
* The founder of the Payasos was a messianic figure known as El Payaso Rojo.
* The Iron Thunder Arapaho are considered the best drivers and mechanics in Colorado.
* Arapaho caravans provide much of the trade between Colorado’s scattered towns.
* The Iron Thunder Arapaho never bent the knee to the Patriarch. They are seen as valuable allies, given freedom of movement through his territory in the interests of trade.
* Despite the scarcity of resources – or perhaps because of it – drugs of various kinds are in high demand across the wasteland.
* The Meson Cannon fires a focused beam of high-energy particles that break down heavy armor at the subatomic level.
* Turrets are autonomous defensive weapons that can be deployed to protect high-value targets.
* Tellurium is a valuable mineral that is used to manufacture circuit boards and other advanced electronics.
* Robot scavengers have become increasingly common across the wasteland as spare parts become increasingly scarce.
* Government scientists pursued numerous secret projects, from advanced weapons to robotics, at hidden sites across Colorado.
* Constant snows and lack of food have driven some mountain clans to cannibalism in order to survive.
* The Tesla Arc Projector is a voltaic cannon that fires bolts of lightning at its target.
* The Octotron is an eight-limbed, tracked robot armed with a number of deadly, spinning blades.
* Commando Armor is specialized light armor that was originally used by special forces troops stationed in the Colorado region.
* The Graviton Shredder is a heavy weapon that destroys its target with a blast of gravitic micro-singularities.
* The Sawdog is a large, multi-legged robot that attacks enemies with its giant rotary saw blade.
* Killers are wheeled, miniature robot tanks armed with energy weapons.
* The Growler is a savage, mutated bear with a taste for human flesh.
* The Waste Wolf is a savage predator found all over the wasteland.
* The Godfishers and other gangs use slaves for labor, entertainment, and occasionally for food.
* The Patriarch is rumored to have work camps in remote areas where debtors and malcontents are sent for “rehabilitation”.
* The War-bot is a fearsome, robotic battle platform that can be outfitted with a variety of heavy weapon turrets.
* The Rage Ram is highly territorial, and will attack trespassers on sight.
* The Mutant Bison is a huge, horned animal as big as a tank, and nearly as hard to kill.
* The Mechagrowler is a Growler that’s been modified by the Scar Collectors and trained to kill non-modded people.
* The deadly Scorpitron is a robot war machine with a powerful minigun in its tail.
* Spectrum Assault Armor is hyper-advanced light armor developed by the Cochise AI to protect its human servants from the dangers of the wasteland.
* The Atom Smasher is a particle weapon that triggers a fusion reaction inside the body of its target.
* Energy weapons are extra effective against conductive targets such as robots or vehicles. With a higher Weird Science skill you'll gain additional critical chances and damage with these weapons.
* Each time a brawler punches someone they’ll build up a brawling combo meter which will lead to bonus critical chances and damage.
* Barter is one of the most important skills in the wasteland. If you don’t know how to barter you’ll only sell items for 5% of their total value, but barter can increase that amount to 30% or more!
* Think before you do drugs. Alcohol and drugs can provide bonus melee damage, critical chance, and more. But the come-down is a bitch. Prepare to suffer long lasting consequences!
* Charisma does more than affect your leadership and sweet-talking skills - it controls how quickly you charge up your strike meter.
* Ammo is hard to find and expensive to purchase. It’s wise to ensure no more than one or two Rangers are using the same type of ammo.
* Don’t like one of your Rangers? Kick 'em out of your team and recruit a new Ranger back at HQ.
* Protecting yourself from radiation on the World Map is critical. Upgrade your chassis back at the garage to punch through that radiation and unlock more of the World Map.
* Cold, heat, and explosive damage all ignore armor. However, some enemies have special elemental resistances.
* Each time you level up you earn 3 skill points. Upgrading skills starts out cheap, but becomes more expensive the higher level they are.
* Your characters earn one Attribute Point and three Skill Points every level-up, and a Perk Point every other level-up.
* If you have a low barter skill, you make better money field stripping your weapons and selling the parts, rather than the weapons themselves.
* Almost all turrets are powered by a generator. Finding and destroying or deactivating the generator is often much easier than destroying the turret itself.
* In a tight spot? Decoy is an amazing deployable that’ll trick enemies into shooting at a hologram instead of your fleshy bits.
* Seek the mythic golden toaster parts to unlock the ultimate bread toasting companion!
* Cyborg Chickens, collect them all!
* Rangers work best as a team of specialists. There are only a few non-weapon skills worth putting on multiple squad members: First Aid, Sneaky Shit, Explosives, and Weird Science.
* Just because a conversation option requires a skill check does not mean you’ll like the outcome. Consider what you’re saying before you automatically pick the skill based conversation option.
* Your vehicle can run over enemies and kill them instantly. However, each time you do this your vehicle will take damage.
* Food is a good alternative to medical supplies when you’re looking to heal outside of combat.
* Got a need for speed? The turbo-charger upgrade will make your Kodiak drive faster on the world map!
* Don’t neglect your Kodiak upgrades. You’ll wish you had a suped up super-truck when you’re jumped by angry randos on the world map.
* Your surviving Rangers drive through the night, fighting their way through Colorado's brutal storms, and finally reach their destination - the Patriarch's stronghold of Colorado Springs.
* Since the Deluge of Fire, the Peterson Airforce Base has been home to many groups, from bandits to slavers to refugees - and now the Rangers.
* There are rooms in Ranger HQ no one knows how to enter.
* The servitors in the war room started their watch before the Deluge of Fire.
* Before being reduced to ruins in the war, the Academy in Colorado Springs trained officer cadets for the United States Air Force.
* The Sans Luxe Apartments provide the finest budget accommodations in Colorado Springs.
* The Patriarch's Marshals keep the peace in Colorado Springs. Sometimes they keep a piece for themselves too.
* The Arapaho Garage keeps the Iron Thunder delivery fleet fueled and running, but they're open to the public too.
* No matter what you need, the merchants in Market Square have got you covered.
* The Little Vegas Casino guarantees that all its table games are ninety five percent on the level.
* Little Vegas' collection of beers from around the world has selections from as far away as Denver.
* Charley Knowes is the flair champion of Colorado Springs.
* No refunds are given for injuries sustained during a session with the 'Joker.'
* The Garden of the Gods was originally known as Red Rock Corral.
* The Garden of the Gods' strange rock formations were created during a geological upheaval millions of years ago.
* Broadmoor Heights gets its name from a dairy that operated in the area during the 1880s.
* There were never a hundred founding families in Colorado Springs, but the Hundred Families sounded better than the Sixty Three Families.
* Entrance to Broadmoor Heights is restricted to residents, guests, and servants.
* The Hundred Families united under the Patriarch's leadership fifty years ago, and have been his staunchest supporters ever since.
* Even before they rebelled against him, the Patriarch's children were not known for their filial piety.
* Diligent Joe is the Patriarch's gatekeeper and personal secretary.
* The Gippers' 'Western White House' is the former state capitol building of Colorado.
* The Gippers disapprove of swearing, and thus use many creative non-profane epithets when stirred to anger.
* Denver is named after former Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver.
* Denver got its nickname, the Mile-High City, because its official elevation is one mile above sea level.
* The Godfishers make leather clothing from the parts of their victims that they do not fly on their kites. Nothing goes to waste.
* Rumors from before the war say the Denver airport is cursed and can drive visitors mad.
* When built, the Denver airport was the largest in the United States. It probably still is.
* In the late 1800s, Aspen was America's most productive silver mining town.
* Before the Deluge of Fire, Aspen was a playground for the rich and famous, many of whom kept second homes there.
* After several unfortunate incidents when he was a child, Victory Buchanan was never allowed to be alone with a cat.
* Before Victory rebelled against him and left the palace, the Patriarch set aside a yearly fund for paying off the families of his victims.
* People who tell the mashers of the Bizarre that it's actually spelled Bazaar only ever do that once.
* Legend has it that the Monster Army discovered the Bizarre when they heard the sounds of idling arcade games coming from beneath the snow.
* You've got to know someone to get into the Bizarre.
* Eidilon is the most famous entertainer in all of Colorado, and she'll tell you so herself.
* Masato's noodles are a big reason there are long lines of people waiting to get into the Bizarre.
* The debt the Monster Army owes to Robert George Pickett cannot be overestimated.
* If you need armor - or just like leather - Talbot's Tannery has just what you need.
* Need a drink? See Finn at the concourse bar, right next to Masato's noodle shop.
* Rumor has it that there are treasures buried in the Warrens that have not seen the light of day since before the Deluge of Fire.
* Walk without rhythm and you won't attract the ice worms.
* One of the things that makes the Scar Collectors so intimidating is their faint but ever-present stench of gangrene.
* Los Payasos believe that the world's a joke, and they're the punchline.
* The Godfishers read the clouds and the weather for signs of things yet to come.
* Before the Deluge of Fire, the windmills of the windfarm provided energy for the whole region.
* Meat Clown is a Payaso-run restaurant. Try the Clown Burger.
* The Company Store is a Scar Collector-only bar, founded by singer Dee Sharp.
* Many of the Scar Collectors' augmentations were first unearthed in the tech mine.

## *Battle of Steeltown*

* Steeltown is where most of the weapons, trucks, and appliances available in Colorado are made.
* Steeltown was built upon the ruins of Pueblo, Colorado.
* Abigail Markham founded Steeltown after leaving the Motor City Combine in Michigan.
* Most of the members of the Ghost Gang are ex-Steeltown workers.
* Blue, the leader of the Ghost Gang, was once Abigail Markham's partner in Steeltown.
* The scrapyard in which the Ghost Gang's garage is hidden is filled with all the junk left behind after the fall of Pueblo during the Deluge of Fire.
* The administration level of Steeltown is where things are administered.
* There are more "Hang in there" and "It's almost Friday" posters in the administration level than in all of Colorado combined.
* Steeltown's R&D Department is always working on new and exciting ways to improve the quality of life in Colorado.
* When it is working at full capacity, Steeltown's war-bot factory can produce ten war-bots a day.
* The lockdown in Steeltown has kept the factory workers from seeing their families for weeks.
* Steeltown's foundry gets a majority of its steel from the scrapyard just outside its gates.
* Steeltown's spire is the tallest post-Deluge manmade structure in Colorado.
* The Computation Engine is the most powerful computer in Colorado.
* Watch out, the security robots in the Spire are hostile to humans and under no one's direct control."

## *Cult of the Holy Detonation*

* Fun fact: They used to track Santa here.
* At one time, this was the most secure facility in America.
* When the Air Force abandoned Petersen AFB after the apocalypse, Cheyenne Mountain was where they retreated.
* Drinking the water on the Observation Level is at your own risk.
* It is mostly safe to observe the Holy Detonation from the Observation Level.
* The Observation Level is the hub of Cheyenne Mountain, connecting to every other part of the base.
* While outsiders may find the radiation of the Holy Detonation debilitating, the cultists who worship it find it invigorating.
* The Loading Dock’s pressure plate technology means drivers don’t have to get out of their trucks when making deliveries.
* Proto-drools and flesh masses were once normal humans just like you.
* Feral proto-drools will ignore enemies in favor of consuming toxic waste - until they are attacked.
* The vending machine in the Research Level hasn’t been serviced since 1989.
* There are no badgers on the Research Level, but there are mushrooms.
* Before the war, the military invited America’s most forward-thinking scientists to do their research here at Cheyenne Mountain.
* Walls and bars do not a prison make. But a force field will do the trick.
* Remember, somebody is always watching.
* Warning! Touching laser barricades can be fatal!
* The energy released from the Holy Detonation can fill the batteries of the Energy Storage Facility to capacity in under an hour.
* Temperatures in the Energy Storage Facility can reach triple digits. Water misters are used to keep workers cool and hydrated.
* The Nucleists use the power stored in the Energy Storage Facility batteries to perform rituals of transformation and transcendence.
* Do not look directly at the Holy Detonation.
* If your skin starts to tingle in the presence of the Holy Detonation, don’t worry, that’s perfectly normal.
* If Colorado had the infrastructure to handle it, the Holy Detonation could provide power to the whole state."