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Hazards

1. Banana peels
12. Bat swarms
13. Broken glass
14. Carnivorous plants
15. Chaff field
16. Conveyor belts
21. Crusher pistons
22. Dangerously cold
23. Dangling icicles
24. Deep holes
25. Extreme heat
26. Falling rocks
31. Fingerprint scanners
32. Fire ants
33. Flooded waist-high
34. Heavy smoke
35. Hungry piranhas
36. Icy patches
41. Laughing gas
42. Lightning strikes
43. Loose footholds
44. Low gravity
45. Metal detectors
46. Molten lava
51. Natural gas leak
52. Poisonous flora
53. Radiation leak
54. Raging wildfire
55. Retinal scanners
56. Security cameras
61. Snake pits
62. Spilled oil
63. Steam jets
64. Tar pits
65. Wasp nests
66. Wet quicksand

Traps

11. Ankle loop snare
12. Automated turrets
13. Bear traps
14. Buzz saws
15. Car bomb
16. Claymore mines
21. Clothesline trap
22. Compactor room
23. Covered pits
24. Crate mimic
25. Crusher ceiling
26. Door bomb
31. Electric floor
32. Exploding cigar
33. Falling cages
34. Floor trapdoors
35. Guns rigged to fire
36. Illusory wall
41. Invisible bridge
42. Landmines
43. Laser grid
44. Monster closet
45. Net snare
46. Poison dart launchers
51. Pop-up floorboards
52. Rattling cans
53. Razors under stickers
54. Rolling boulder
55. Room fills with water
56. Scattered caltrops
61. Spike traps
62. Swinging blades
63. Swiveling spike wall
64. Time bomb
65. Toxic gas jets
66. Tripwires

Battlefields

Description

11. Alpine compound
12. Automated lab
13. Beached tanker
14. Box canyon
15. Brutalist academy
16. Busy airport
21. City square
22. Cluttered warehouse
23. Control room
24. Desert village
25. Dusty farm
26. Facing towers
31. Fancy restaurant
32. Gothic castle
33. Grassy field
34. Icy frigate
35. Industrial foundry
36. Island resort
41. Jungle outposts
42. Lavish casino
43. Meat factory
44. Minecart tunnels
45. Muddy trenches
46. Nuclear test town
51. Oil rig
52. Power plant
53. Savanna fortress
54. Shopping mall
55. Shrubland foxholes
56. Skyscraper floor
61. Shipyard crates
62. Slum marina
63. Sprawling manor
64. Swamp bridges
65. Tropical beach
66. Walk-in freezer

Layout

1. Central "arena" area—all routes lead back to it
2. Perfectly symmetrical—any position is a good one
3. Safe areas and open spaces—move between cover
4. Small, interconnected areas—take control of them
5. Tight and labyrinth-like—tricky corners and doors
6. Very uneven elevation—high ground is everything

Feature

11. Air raids
12. Ammo shack
13. Armor lockers
14. Barbed wire
15. Bear traps
16. Bombed out
21. Broken glass
22. Chemical canisters
23. Civilians fleeing
24. Corpse piles
25. Covered truck
26. Exploding barrels
31. Explosives cache
32. Flare plumes
33. Floating platforms
34. Fortified base
35. Freight elevators
36. Insect hives
41. Landmines
42. Large cage
43. On fire
44. Parked chopper
45. Poisonous air
46. Radio towers
51. Reality fractures
52. Sack of money
53. Scared animals
54. Several bunkers
55. Snipers posted
56. Strewn bones
61. Toxic growths
62. Tripwires
63. Two flags
64. Unused tanks
65. Weapon racks
66. Weird noises

Grave

11. A grave has been dug but nobody's inside
12. A modest grave marked by flowers and toys
13. A single, shuffling zombie soldier, unresponsive
14. A skeleton in camo clutching a whiskey bottle
15. A spattering of blood and spare ammo
16. A tilted flag marks the spot of a loss
21. A warrior fallen upon a bayonet or sword
22. A wooden cross with scratched-out dog tags
23. Body in a foxhole wielding an impressive weapon
24. Boots with feet still in them, bucket of grenades
25. Bruised corpse with a severely broken neck
26. Case of untreated venom spread, unpleasant
31. Cleaned-out outpost with empty vehicles
32. Creatively stacked collection of skulls
33. Decaying body, gold coins spilling from pockets
34. Disorganized bones aside a dusty old novel
35. Gaunt corpse clutching a stash of stimulants
36. Gravestone that wishes good health and luck
41. Grinning natural mummy with a gut wound
42. Grisly suicide, shotgun trigger pulled with toe
43. Hanged soldiers swaying in the breeze
44. Head on a pike with a dreadful expression
45. Mangled skeleton shoved somewhere unusual
46. Nine simply marked graves in a perfect square
51. Peaceful natural mummy curled up with a pipe
52. People in uniform stacked beneath a bloody tarp
53. Person mauled by something vicious
54. Rotting skeleton hunched over an unsent letter
55. Scattered tongues, fingers, and eyes, radioactive
56. Several poor souls strung up on meat hooks
61. Shocked soldier with a clean hole in the forehead
62. Smoking pile of ash haunted by a ghost
63. Something has absolutely dissected a human
64. Unfortunate wanderer died to the elements
65. Unmitigated devastation, bodies litter the area
66. Very fresh corpse (1-in-1D6: Not actually dead)

Cities

Name

11. Addis Ababa
12. Bangkok
13. Berlin
14. Bogotá
15. Busan
16. Damascus
21. Florence
22. Galway
23. Halifax
24. Hanoi
25. Hong Kong
26. Jakarta
31. Khan Yunis
32. Kiev
33. Kinshasa
34. Lahore
35. Leningrad
36. Ljubljana
41. Mandalay
42. Marrakesh
43. Mombasa
44. Moscow
45. New Delhi
46. New York
51. Oslo
52. Paris
53. Reykjavik
54. Rio De Janeiro
55. San Francisco
56. Sydney
61. Taipei
62. Tehran
63. Tijuana
64. Tokyo
65. Valletta
66. Zamora

CYCLOPS Survelliance Level

1. None (for now, 3-in-1D6: Headline interests them)
2. Headlines and police reports closely monitored
3. Single informant assigned to entire city
4. Network of spies in all social strata
5. Working indirectly through local authorities
6. Most phones and security systems are tapped

Feature

11. Abductions
12. Art show
13. Assassination
14. Back alley care
15. Big heist
16. Black market
21. CYCLOPS base
22. Car bombings
23. Competition event
24. Convention
25. Disease spread
26. Drug hookups
31. FIST safehouse
32. Gambling ring
33. Gang war
34. High pollution
35. Hot nightlife
36. Huge festival
41. Killing spree
42. Ley lines
43. Magic shop
44. Mob mentality
45. Mugging string
46. Organized protest
51. Police brutality
52. Pop-up bazaar
53. Pride event
54. Propaganda
55. Riot waves
56. Sex workers' union
61. Slum unrest
62. Street races
63. Subculture schism
64. Technology expo
65. Undercity activity
66. Union strikes

Headline

11. AGENCY LOCKS DOWN ROADS (p. 108)
12. ALIEN UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTED (p. 107)
13. ANTI-WAR SENTIMENT SURGES
14. CAR CHASE ENDS IN TRAGEDY
15. CELEBRITY GIVEN KEY TO CITY (p. 95)
16. CITIZENS PROTEST NEW PROJECT
21. COPS AND CULT MEMBERS CLASH (p. 111)
22. CORPORATION OPENS NEW BRANCH (p. 109)
23. CRACKDOWN ON CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION (p. 110)
24. ENEMY SPY APPREHENDED (p. 100)
25. FANS CONGREGATE FOR SHOW
26. FINGERS FOUND IN FOOD
31. FIRES SPREAD DOWNTOWN
32. GOVERNMENT DENIES KNOWLEDGE
33. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT KILLS MANY
34. LEADERS' SUMMIT INTERRUPTED
35. MAJOR VICTORY DECLARED
36. MAYOR CONDEMNS INSURGENTS (p. 112)
41. MYSTERIOUS CIVILIAN DEATH (p. 96)
42. OFFICIALS OUSTED FOR NEW GUARD
43. ONE MILLION DOLLARS MISSING
44. PARTY TENSION HEATS UP
45. POLICE ARREST RINGLEADER
46. POLITICIAN PUBLICLY HARASSED (p. 97)
51. POLLUTION REGULATION PUSHBACK
52. PRISON BREAK ROCKS CITY
53. PUBLIC INSTRUCTED TO SHELTER IN PLACE
54. REFUGEES TURNED AWAY
55. SCIENTIST WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD (p. 98)
56. SLUMS TO BE DEVELOPED
61. SOLDIER RECEIVES COMMENDATION (p. 99)
62. STORES FORCED TO CLOSE
63. TOURISTS SWARM CITY
64. TRIAL PUT ON HOLD
65. UNEMPLOYMENT UNSUSTAINABLE
66. ZERO NEWS, EVERYTHING FINE

Nature

Description

11. Alpine coast
12. Alpine tundra
13. Antarctic tundra
14. Arctic tundra
15. Bog
16. Coastal desert
21. Cold desert
22. Cold ocean
23. Coniferous forest
24. Coral reef
25. Deciduous forest
26. Evergreen rainforest
31. Flooded savanna
32. Freshwater lake
33. Grass savanna
34. Highlands
35. Hot and dry desert
36. Mangrove
41. Mountain foothills
42. Pampas
43. Prairie
44. River delta
45. River headwaters
46. Salt flats
51. Salt marsh
52. Semi-arid desert
53. Shrubland/chaparral
54. Steppe
55. Swamp
56. Temperate coast
61. Tropical coast
62. Tropical dry forest
63. Tropical moist forest
64. Tropical savanna
65. Warm ocean
66. Wasteland

Situation

1. Empty—someone claims it, but no one lives here
2. Quiet—people are few and far between
3. Stable—sizable population, low regional conflict
4. Shaky—roll two claims, situation deteriorating
5. Powder keg—roll 1D6 claims, tensions are high
6. War—roll 1D6 claims, active conflict in the area

Feature

11. Bad weather
12. Bomb craters
13. Buried treasure
14. CYCLOPS outpost
15. Cave system
16. Chemical leak
21. Circling birds
22. Comfortable
23. Critical pipeline
24. Crude oil spill
25. Dead animals
26. Discarded plastic
31. Forgotten dinosaurs
32. Freak accidents
33. Heavy metals
34. Holy site
35. Invasive species
36. Isolated
41. Lost explorers
42. Magic circles
43. Meteor touchdown
44. Mining apparatus
45. Multiple factions
46. Mysterious holes
51. Near a border
52. Oil drilling
53. Rare earths
54. Regular patrols
55. Ruined houses
56. Rusted equipment
61. Strange rain
62. Teeming with life
63. Toxic waste barrels
64. Transport routes
65. Valuable gems
66. Wrong temperature

Claim

11. A corporation plans to strip mine it (p. 109)
12. A colony has been established by aliens (p. 107)
13. A criminal organization is feuding over it (p. 110)
14. A cult plans to establish themselves here (p. 111)
15. A festival frequently happens here
16. A general revolution has begun here
21. A musician wants to put on a show here
22. A nation is drawing artificial borders through it
23. A nation wishes to colonize it
24. A neocolonial force wants control
25. A studio wants it for a shooting location
26. A think tank wants it for their secret laboratory
31. Agency brass wants it monitored 24/7 (p. 108)
32. Aliens wish to make first contact here (p. 107)
33. An agency wants it for training grounds (p. 108)
34. Ancient spirits torment most visitors
35. Autonomous zone for an insurgent group (p. 112)
36. CYCLOPS has assumed total control
41. CYCLOPS is building something here
42. Claiming this area would start World War 3
43. Control of the area is contested via paperwork
44. Corporate heads want it developed (p. 109)
45. Criminals want to operate here (p. 110)
46. Cultists say it's theirs alone to worship (p. 111)
51. Few are aware of the place's existence
52. Indigenous groups are taking it back
53. Insurgents are using it to organize (p. 112)
54. Locals cultivate a traditional plant here
55. No one is claiming whole ownership
56. Protesters fight all ownership of the area
61. Religious groups are fighting over it
62. Resource exploitation rights are disputed
63. The army wants to build a base here
64. The local animals are warding everyone off
65. The place is being used as a penal colony
66. The region will be tactically obliterated

Rooms

Description

11. Anechoic chamber
12. Atrium
13. Auditorium
14. Bar
15. Barracks
16. Bathroom
21. Cafeteria
22. Chapel/prayer room
23. Clothing storage
24. Control room
25. Darkroom
26. Evil lair
31. Film set (amateur)
32. Film set (impressive)
33. Food storage
34. Gallery
35. Gym
36. Hallway
41. Indoor garden
42. Janitor’s closet
43. Laboratory
44. Library
45. Mailroom
46. Medical storage
51. Meeting room
52. Morgue
53. Observatory
54. Office
55. Prison
56. Rec room
61. Robot engineering
62. Server room
63. Shooting range
64. Surveillance
65. Torture chamber
66. Weapons storage

Exits

1. Up
2. Down
3. North
4. South
5. East
6. West

Doors

1. None/archways
2. Wooden
3. Metal bars
4. Stainless steel
5. Reinforced
6. High-tech

FEATURE

11. Animals in cages
12. Automatic turret
13. Blaring alarm
14. Boring decorations
15. Broken lights
16. Bug infestation
21. Cables across floor
22. Complex rafters
23. Contains secret door
24. Danger signage
25. Eerie statue
26. Film on projector
31. Flashing lights
32. Gas leak smell
33. Half-flooded
34. High ceilings
35. Mirrors
36. Multiple levels
41. Mysterious button
42. Novelty wallpaper
43. Oil-slick floors
44. Poorly painted
45. Rotten smell
46. Scattered papers
51. Smoky air
52. Spikes
53. Ticking clock
54. Trophy cabinets
55. Vents
56. Unusually cold
61. Very hot
62. Virtual reality setup
63. Weak floor
64. Weapon displays
65. Whispering sounds
66. Whiteboard

Event

11. A computer monitor, smashed to pieces
12. A corpse, clawed to ribbons
13. A radio plays a cassette tape (p. 145-146)
14. A smashed telephone
15. All clocks stopped at exactly 2:17
16. An empty pedestal, something clearly taken
21. An offering has been left to an unknown god
22. Armed time bomb at three minutes left
23. Autumn leaves crunched underfoot
24. Briefcase of money pierced by bullet hole
25. Covered in plastic tarp
26. Everything is soaked in green ooze
31. Fresh bloodstains smeared across the walls
32. Fully cooked meal, warm and laid out
33. Haunted by a recently dead spirit
34. Holes drilled through the ground
35. Impact crater the length of a car
36. In the midst of a simulated rainstorm
41. Inexplicable tire marks across floor
42. Katana sticking out of the ground
43. Left behind photograph of a character
44. Monitored by drones that mimic birds
45. Repeated message painted on all surfaces
46. Ritual circle in chalk, slightly burnt
51. Room’s colors have been inverted
52. Sensitive documents burn in a trashcan
53. Someone was just here and left their trash behind
54. Spilled mug of poisoned coffee
55. Tear-stained pile of tissues
56. The floors were just cleaned and waxed
61. The walls are pockmarked with bullet holes
62. Tiny house constructed out of office supplies
63. Trail of discarded clothing
64. Ultra-classified intel, foolishly left behind
65. Walls covered in crayon drawings
66. Winding trail of mysterious footprints

Structures

Description

11. Airport
12. Apartment building
13. Bank
14. Bar
15. Barn
16. Bridge
21. Bunker
22. Depot
23. Factory
24. Fort
25. Gas station
26. Hangar
31. Harbor
32. Hospital
33. Hotel
34. House
35. Laboratory
36. Mansion
41. Motel
42. Municipal building
43. Nightclub
44. Office building
45. Offshore platform
46. Outpost
51. Plant
52. Prison
53. Restaurant
54. Ruins
55. Shack
56. Shipyard
61. Silo
62. Stadium
63. Store
64. Theater
65. Tower
66. Warehouse

Owner

1. Soldier (p. 99)
2. Scientist (p. 98)
3. Celebrity (p. 95)
4. Politican (p. 97)
5. Civilian (p. 96)
6. Spy (p. 100)

Security

1. Non-hostile
2. Abandoned
3. No security
4. Single guard post
5. Loose
6. Tight

FEATURE

11. Always busy
12. Blends in
13. Broken windows
14. Confusing layout
15. Crime hotspot
16. Digital locks
21. Dilapidated
22. Dull sentience
23. Faulty wiring
24. Fire exits
25. Foundation tilt
26. Gunner post
31. Gutted out
32. Imperious
33. Meeting spot
34. Narrow doors
35. Never in use
36. Overgrown
41. Oversized
42. Padlocks
43. Panic room
44. Ramshackle
45. Repurposed
46. Safe house
51. Secret stash
52. Squatters
53. Thick walls
54. Thinning veil
55. Too small
56. Tucked away
61. Vandalized
62. Vantage point
63. Vibrant paint
64. Water leak
65. Weak supports
66. Weatherproofed

History

11. Absorbed into corporate holdings (p. 109)
12. Built with a hidden weakness
13. Championed by a politician (p. 97)
14. Constructed through community effort
15. Damaged by a past gunfight
16. Designed by a bad architect
21. Ebb and flow of insect infestation
22. Erected to evade taxes
23. Ex-tourist attraction
24. Founded by a retired soldier (p. 99)
25. Frequented by a celebrity (p. 95)
26. Funded by an intelligence agency (p. 108)
31. Handed down for generations
32. Has always been avoided at night
33. Hiding place for a body
34. Identical copy of destroyed structure
35. Inexplicable system of markings
36. Kids dare each other to visit
41. Legendary music festival happened here
42. Mass-produced by contractors
43. Memorial to a fallen hero
44. Moved from original location
45. Multiple exorcist house calls
46. No one remembers its origins
51. Once was important to gangsters
52. Raided repeatedly by police
53. Secret nuclear disposal site
54. Shuffled between management firms
55. Site of a well-known murder
56. Someone added several new rooms (p. 116)
61. Twice cordoned off as a biohazard
62. Used to have an expansion
63. Used to supply illegal substances
64. Visited by CYCLOPS investigators
65. Walls have seen the unspeakable
66. Years have passed, but not here

Zones

Description

11. Abstract geometry
12. Air is water
13. Alien overgrowth
14. Bottomless pit
15. Bubblegum ground
16. Cruel desert
21. Crystal caves
22. Cubist dimension
23. Everything is meat
24. Flash freeze
25. Funhouse mirrors
26. Generic fantasy
31. Hostile architecture
32. Impenetrable fog
33. Impressionist garden
34. Industrial sprawl
35. Insect realm
36. Inside a cloud
41. Kaiju bone pile
42. Melting city
43. Monochrome space
44. Monolith field
45. Mœbius world
46. Negative colors
51. Pastoral field
52. Petrified forest
53. Ruined skyscrapers
54. Scorched earth
55. Sea of goo
56. Smoking crater
61. Soot and ash
62. Sparkling air
63. Sterile nothingness
64. Surrealist hell
65. War trenches
66. Warped castle

Size

1. Contained portal
2. Widening rift
3. Anomalous room
4. Surreal structure
5. City-sized perimeter
6. Large exclusion zone

Integrity

1. Tenuous connection
2. Semi-stable
3. Self-sustaining
4. Hostile and dynamic
5. Impenetrable
6. All-consuming

Feature

1. Tenuous connection
2. Semi-stable
3. Self-sustaining
4. Hostile and dynamic
5. Impenetrable
6. All-consuming

Starting Years

1. 1960
2. 1965
3. 1970
4. 1975
5. 1980
6. 1985

Additional years

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. 0

Temperature

1. Sharp decrease
2. Mild decrease
3. Fluctuates
4. No change
5. Mild increase
6. Sharp increase

Precpitation

1. Sharp decrease
2. Mild decrease
3. Fluctuates
4. No change
5. Mild increase
6. Sharp increase

Center

11. Agitated animal of unusual size (p. 101)
12. Alluring wizard who tells your fortune
13. Artifact that actualizes your deepest desire (p. 119)
14. Button that undoes all previous missions
15. Center approachable but not reachable
16. Conniving bastard genie offering wishes
21. Cowering scientist in a bomb shelter (p. 98)
22. Disturbingly enormous antenna
23. Dormant true form of a sighted anomaly (p. 102)
24. Entity claiming to be God who desires weapons
25. Forward operating base for aliens (p. 107)
26. Gigantic chain hooked to the moon
31. Hovering psychic in a deep trance
32. Intelligence agency true headquarters (p. 108)
33. Lever that, if pulled, ends the world
34. Loose experiment, zone-supercharged (p. 103)
35. Magic door to a nearby safe settlement
36. Magic painting portal to a new zone (roll Zones again)
41. Malfunctioning prototype teleporter
42. Normal but out of place black hole
43. Ominous tower taller than the clouds
44. Orb that, if touched, kills you instantly
45. Out of control zone-research robot (p. 105)
46. Portal to another roleplaying game's world
51. Rift to a harder version of the same zone
52. Room stacked with heavy gold bars (p. 116)
53. Sinkhole to Biblical Hell, demons escaping
54. Space elevator to unfamiliar stars
55. Structure with malicious intelligence (p. 117)
56. Tall guy and wide guy boss fight
61. Treasure that, if touched, loses all value
62. Unbelievably powerful wizard
63. Unlocked chest filled with pirate booty
64. Utterly terrified and disoriented civilian (p. 96)
65. Vile, jagged spire of dark, slimy stone
66. Zone center guardian prohibits access

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