LORE

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Coverups

Description

11. Affair
12. Alternate dimension
13. Animal abuse
14. Assassination
15. BDSM session
16. Blacksite
21. Car accident
22. Chemical weapons
23. Coup
24. Cryptid sighting
25. Cult sacrifice
26. Doppelgängers
31. Drone strike
32. Drug experiments
33. Embezzlement
34. Finance fraud
35. Forgery
36. Gene experiments
41. Insider trading
42. Ménage à trois
43. Mind reading tech
44. Oil spill
45. Ostentatious orgy
46. Paramilitary squad
51. Psychological warfare
52. Santa real
53. Second moon
54. Sentient AI
55. State execution
56. Surveillance program
61. Substance addiction
62. Time travel
63. Torture compound
64. UFO crash
65. Voter suppression
66. Wrongful imprisonment

Suppression

1. Highly classified
2. Internal knowledge
3. Evidence leaked
4. Conspiracy theory
5. Open secret
6. Public doublethink

Witnesses

1. Single witness
2. 1D6 witnesses
3. Household
4. Neighborhood
5. Whole area
6. No witnesses

Features

11. Birthday
12. Bitter breakup
13. Body doubles
14. CIA involvement
15. Cannibalism
16. Celebrity implicated
21. Concert/festival
22. Concrete boots
23. Encoded notebook
24. Exotic pet
25. Faked suicide
26. Framed witness
31. Hush money
32. Insurance
33. Invisibility
34. Knife collection
35. Lavish party
36. Mafia involvement
41. Mysterious bruise
42. Private island
43. Realistic mask
44. Recurring nightmare
45. Sealed letter
46. Silenced pistols
51. Sting operation
52. Stolen artifact
53. Supercomputer
54. Tabletop game
55. Tabloid article
56. Tape recorder
61. Tell-all book
62. Undercover cops
63. Vengeful ghost
64. Whistleblower
65. Wiretapping
66. Yacht

Hook

11. Airplane is shot down
12. Ammunition in a political battle
13. An embittered ex goes on a rampage
14. Car bombing in a major city (p. 114)
15. Cemetery is ransacked and a body is stolen
16. Court proceedings cease when plaintiff dies
21. Dog holding human bone in its mouth
22. Embedded spy activates (p. 100)
23. Encoded message delivered to wrong target
24. Failed poisoning
25. Gossip and hearsay gets somebody killed
26. Kidnapped witness escapes
31. Lone earring of a missing person shows up
32. Man on his deathbed confesses
33. Motel is burned down
34. Natural disaster isn’t natural at all (p. 122)
35. News broadcast abruptly cut off
36. One of the player characters is implicated
41. Photos dropped from a plane
42. Plucky teen discovers something horrible
43. Private investigator in over their head
44. Ransom note delivered via brick
45. Schism in a cult (p. 111)
46. Secret meaning is found in a painting
51. Skeleton found in a junkyard fridge
52. Sniper misses a shot
53. Soldier goes AWOL (p. 99)
54. Someone gets cursed
55. String of revenge killings
56. Sunken boat washes up
61. Trail of evidence leads to a dive bar
62. Treasure map pointing to natural expanse (p. 115)
63. True crime fanatics get involved
64. Unsettling message broadcast on radio
65. Vital footage/documents are burned
66. Widely-known truth revealed to be false

Diplomacy

Description

11. Birthday party
12. Book signing
13. Budget meeting
14. Charity gala
15. Christening
16. Corporate event
21. Embassy visit
22. Execution
23. Factory tour
24. Fancy banquet
25. Fashion show
26. Film festival
31. Fireside chat
32. Funeral/wake
33. Gallery walk
34. Golf game
35. Honorary knighting
36. Legal gambling
41. Messy trial
42. Peace talk
43. Political wedding
44. Press conference
45. Reporter scoop
46. Research summit
51. Sacred dance
52. Silly performance
53. Sports match
54. Stunt handshake
55. Symbolic trade
56. Tea ceremony
61. Trade agreement
62. Treaty signing
63. Tribunal
64. War declaration
65. Wine tasting
66. Yacht cruise

Coverage

1. Forbidden—would-be reporters get bullied
2. Unknown—successfully kept from the public
3. Uninteresting—the press likely won't report on it
4. Minimum—sparse reporting buried in the papers
5. Medium—makes daily news, but quickly forgotten
6. Maximum—the thing everyone's talking about

Features

11. Accidental fire
12. All old people
13. Bad acid
14. Body swap
15. Card games
16. Cruel gossip
21. Cultural garb
22. Dark magic
23. Dashing thief
24. Drinking contest
25. Drugged drinks
26. Dueling spies
31. Everyone smashed
32. Expensive jewelry
33. Fistfight
34. General scheming
35. Good music
36. Great food
41. Illicit photos
42. Intentional arson
43. Mind readers
44. New faces
45. Nice suits
46. Offensive costumes
51. One-night stand
52. Panic attack
53. Pearls stolen
54. Property damage
55. Pufferfish venom
56. Pyrotechnics
61. Secret handshake
62. Table dancing
63. Trip down stairs
64. Vampire attack
65. Veiled threats
66. Werewolves

Drama

11. A body falls out of a closet when opened
12. A corpse turns up in a nearby body of water
13. A diplomat’s paramours all show up at once
14. A pair of twins try to distinguish themselves
15. A Politician is found strung up by the neck
16. A strangler stalks the less social guests
21. A superhero fight violently interrupts the event
22. Actually a front for corporate advertising (p. 109)
23. Allegedly straight husbands all cruising
24. Americans and Soviets both attempt sabotage
25. An ambassador is found stabbed in the back
26. An attendee gets belligerent upon losing a game
31. An esteemed guest is forced out of the closet
32. Car crash just outside the event
33. Certain diplomats barely hide raging bigotry
34. Cherished family heirloom professionally stolen
35. Coke done off of a salacious body part
36. Enemy faction children eloping together
41. Estranged parent and child explosively meet
42. Event goers slowly replaced with body snatchers
43. Everyone ridicules an obvious figurehead
44. Floor or ceiling collapse, several injured
45. Gossip taken to task for slander or libel
46. Guests are served gourmet human meat
51. Important attendee instantly dropped by a sniper
52. Inexplicable tickling incident between two guests
53. One food item among several is poisoned
54. Single hitman methodically cleaning the place out
55. Smeared makeup reveals an affair
56. Someone offensively mispronounces a word
61. Swarm of hazardous insects released
62. Sword or pistol duel goes horribly wrong
63. Technological prototype goes haywire
64. The entire group teams up to stab one guy
65. The master of the event is held for ransom
66. There’s a big fight and the Olympics get moved

Diasters

Description

11. Avalanche
12. Bridge collapse
13. Chemical spill
14. Crop failure
15. Dam failure
16. Death fog
21. Derecho
22. Earthquake
23. Epidemic
24. Firestorm
25. Flash flooding
26. Fracking blowout
31. Freight derailment
32. Gas explosion
33. Grid failure
34. Heat wave
35. Ice storm
36. Jet crash
41. Landslide
42. Meteor air burst
43. Nuclear meltdown
44. Pandemic
45. Polar vortex
46. Sandstorm
51. Severe drought
52. Sinkhole
53. Smog event
54. Stampede
55. Tornado outbreak
56. Tropical cyclone
61. Tsunami
62. Urban fire
63. Volcanic eruption
64. Water spoilage
65. Waterway obstruction
66. Wildfire

Scale

1. Village
2. Town
3. City
4. Nation
5. Continent
6. World

Response

1. Concentrated
2. Multi-pronged
3. Diffused
4. Confused
5. Subpar
6. Absent

Features

11. Burned evidence
12. Chipper PSAs
13. Commodity hoarding
14. Confusing info
15. Crime spike
16. Electrical accident
21. Employees fired
22. Fauna unconcerned
23. Fleeing wildlife
24. Food shortage
25. Forced normalcy
26. Found footage
31. Fractured community
32. General negligence
33. Generational divide
34. Global relief drive
35. Heavily politicized
36. Lackadaisical feds
41. Landmark altered
42. Longest one ever
43. Media blackout
44. News censored
45. No word from outside
46. Nuclear threat
51. One casualty
52. Paperwork stacks
53. Police brutality
54. Poor infrastructure
55. Press gaslighting
56. Propaganda films
61. Raider gangs
62. Recurring sirens
63. Romanticized
64. Sensationalized
65. Volunteer orgs
66. Worst one ever

Impact

11. A Corporation attempts to buy the area
12. A Cult claims to have prophesied it exactly
13. Aliens offer superior disaster control (p. 107)
14. An anomalous Artifact unearths itself (p. 119)
15. An Experiment escapes into the area
16. Area becomes closed to the public
21. Area becomes flooded by ghosts of victims
22. Area to be bombed by the government
23. CYCLOPS reverse engineers the disaster
24. CYCLOPS seizes the recon opportunity
25. Catalytic event for the summoning of a demon
26. Celebrity writes an iconic protest song
31. City wracked with widespread agoraphobia
32. Covert Monster community outed
33. Criminal Organization takes over relief effort
34. Disaster presented as a divine punishment
35. END IS NIGH sign-wearers have a great day
36. Eugenicist ideas become popular
41. Event is forgotten, doomed to repeat itself
42. Every man for himself mindset takes hold
43. Final straw to start a brewing war
44. Hollywood immediately begins a film adaptation
45. Important Politician goes missing
46. Local reality spirals and becomes a Zone
51. Mandatory curfew imposed
52. Mass panic causes a fatal crowd crush
53. Mutual aid hub established
54. Officials all but openly hoarding supplies
55. Perfect cover for a premeditated murder
56. Police presence is tripled
61. Populace rocked by mass traumatization
62. Ruthless martial law imposed
63. Strict security protocol adopted
64. The event attracts disaster tourism
65. Triggers a second, worse disaster (reroll Disasters)
66. Used as mission cover by a Spy

Legends

Description

11. Activist
12. Artist
13. Astronaut
14. Athlete
15. Author
16. Celebrity
21. Chef
22. Civilian
23. Cowboy
24. Dancer
25. Detective
26. DJ
31. Doctor
32. Engineer
33. Gambler
34. Gangster
35. Hunter
36. Knight
41. Medium
42. Monarch
43. Musician
44. Pirate
45. Politician
46. Priest
51. Romantic
52. Sailor
53. Samurai
54. Scientist
55. Soldier
56. Spy
61. Stoner
62. Teacher
63. Thief
64. Vagrant
65. Vigilante
66. Wizard

Ultimate Fate

2. Lost all memories
3. Hunted
4. Captured
5. Dead-end job
6. Depressed
7. Dead
8. Soldier for hire
9. Partying
10. Exploring
11. Making TV
12. Many threads (roll two fates)

Features

11. Ascetic
12. Booze-swilling
13. Cool butler
14. Cursed sword
15. Cyborg arm
16. Demon horn
21. Eidetic memory
22. Famous pet
23. Fought in WW2
24. Framed
25. From space
26. Ghost swarm
31. Gold fiddle
32. Green thumb
33. Hacker
34. Hated the fame
35. Iconic hat
36. Immortal
41. Iron will
42. Loved kids
43. Lovely smile
44. Magic rings
45. Never lied
46. No parents
51. Optimist
52. Perfect shot
53. Precognition
54. Rags to riches
55. Secretly evil
56. Self-obsessed
61. Sensed lies
62. Sidekick (roll Legend)
63. Staged protests
64. Sunglasses
65. Ultrahuman
66. Villain parent

Achievement

11. Assassinated a political figure
12. Blew up an oil pipeline
13. Cast the most difficult magical spell (p. 124)
14. Created a new planet
15. Created an incredible new dish
16. Created sentient AI
21. Cured a deadly disease
22. Defeated a classical dragon
23. Developed terraforming technology
24. Directed a movie that made the world cry
25. Fell in love with a cool monster (p. 104)
26. Fought an onslaught of ninjas
31. Founded CYCLOPS (by accident)
32. Founded CYCLOPS (on purpose)
33. Found the meaning of life
34. Gave a common item its name
35. Got revenge for their own murder
36. Killed an elder god (Magical syllables, p. 147)
41. Literally never did anything wrong
42. Loved so much their heart literally burst
43. Made bridge to another dimension
44. Pulled off an insurgent coup (p. 112)
45. Rescued the President
46. Responsible for the birth or death of a country
51. Resurrected a dead saint
52. Saved a captured lover, friend, or family member
53. Saved the world (1D6 times)
54. Solved a mystery thought unsolvable
55. Stole something from the Devil
56. Stole the moon from the sky
61. Summoned an elder god (Magical syllables, p. 147)
62. Survived a battle no one else did
63. Trained a resistance movement
64. Unlocked the secret of eternal youth
65. Won the big game
66. Wrote a song that ends the world if played

Mission Prompts

111. Alien contact in a remote country
112. Alien impostor in an enclosed space
113. Allegedly “natural” disaster
114. Amnesiac clone seeking asylum
115. Arm and train a resistance movement
116. Assassinate a Soviet politician
121. Assassinate a US politician
122. Assassinate a global celebrity
123. Assist US/USSR with Space Race
124. Assist Vietnam POWs
125. Assist militarized freedom fighters
126. Assist in destroying an iconic landmark
131. Assist a striking labor union
132. Battle cutting-edge enhanced supersoldiers
133. Beat back aggressive plants/fungus
134. Biblical apocalypse imminent
135. Bomb suit user on subway
136. Bombed-out building civilian rescue
141. Breach Chernobyl exclusion zone
142. Burn down a police precinct
143. CYCLOPS agents are stalking FIST
144. CYCLOPS is building a concrete stronghold
145. CYCLOPS is staging a coup
146. CYCLOPS is deploying a mind control program
151. CYCLOPS occupies a small town
152. Cause an international political scandal
153. Civilian swears they’re being watched
154. Clear region of all hostiles, no complications
155. Cloned extinct species runs amok
156. Close a hungry dimensional rift
161. Collapsed mine civilian rescue
162. Collect information at a charity gala
163. Comb the desert for a lost nuclear briefcase
164. Complex and booby-trapped CYCLOPS bunker
165. Contain army of rogue haywire robots
166. Contain nascent zombie outbreak
211. Corporate mutant outbreak in major city
212. Corporation opens demon portal
213. Cover up a run-of-the-mill felony
214. Cuban missile crisis
215. Cuban spacetime crisis
216. Defeat a campy, themed CRO team
221. Deliver medicine to a war zone
222. Demolish an important government building
223. Destroy harmful drug shipment
224. Disarm New Year ball drop bomb
225. Disaster search and rescue
226. Disastrous archaeological dig
231. Disrupt WMD production
232. Distribute samizdat literature
233. Elude INTERPOL in a pan-Eurasian chase
234. End a long-running proxy war
235. Erase all traces of memetic mind-virus
236. Escort a targeted activist
241. Escort/smuggle across Berlin Wall
242. Escort/smuggle across US-Mexico border
243. Evil cars murdering passengers
244. Evil duplicates of FIST ruining their reputation
245. Explore a demonic hotel
246. Explore the Bermuda Triangle
251. Extract all civilians from a war zone
252. FIST placed on most-wanted list
253. Feds disappearing random civilians
254. Find out if the target is real or not
255. Floating island materializes
256. Flush out vampires from the suburbs
261. Formal first contact goes awry
262. Gather mech components
263. Gelatinous blob attacks major city
264. Giant insects swarm major city
265. Global thermonuclear war imminent
266. Guy made out of bugs
311. HALO jump into military base
312. Haunted mansion full of puzzles
313. Help seafaring refugees to safety
314. Help stage a politically intricate coup
315. High speed carrier plane heist
316. Hijack a commercial airliner
321. Human test subjects coverup
322. Hunt an expert bounty hunter
323. Hunt anomalous game
324. Impending Earth-asteroid collision
325. Industrial-scale alien invasion
326. Infiltrate Area 51
331. Infiltrate CYCLOPS sky fortress
332. Infiltrate Guantanamo Bay
333. Infiltrate Santa’s North Pole compound
334. Infiltrate an enemy oil rig
335. Intel-gathering pub crawl
336. International ultrahuman fight club
341. Investigate a cultist church
342. Investigate Dyatlov Pass
343. Involved in or responsible for a Triad war
344. Jump into someone’s psyche
345. Kaiju are wrecking a major city
346. Kids on bikes discover a monster
351. Liberate captive research animals
352. Locate haunted pirate treasure cove
353. Loose cannon cop on a killing spree
354. Mafia drama ropes in FIST
355. Magician irresponsibly casting real spells
356. Major supply chain train heist
361. Malevolent anomalous factory
362. Massive skyscraper heist
363. Maximum security prison escape
364. Meet with an informant across the Iron Curtain
365. Men in black sightings increasing
366. Meteorite containing alien monster touches down
411. Miles-wide hole opens in the ground
412. Monster gets loose inside Skylab/Mir
413. Moon phases begin behaving erratically
414. Moon’s haunted
415. Mountaintop CYCLOPS base assault
416. Multiple new countries suddenly appear
421. Murder-factory theme park
422. Murphy’s law stops working
423. Mutant animals escape zoo
424. NASCAR anomalous disaster
425. Naked in the deep wilderness
426. Navigate an enormous minefield
431. Nazi scientists working at NASA
432. Necromancer building an army
433. Nightmares are becoming real
434. Noir murder mystery
435. Notable building comes alive and rampages
436. Open mic night at FIST HQ
441. Paris to Dakar race has a supernatural contestant
442. Perform a counter-arrest
443. Pirates take over an island of civilians
444. Planned cult mass suicide
445. Plant a tracking device on a high-profile target
446. Police escalate a FIST chase into the wilderness
451. Police brutality rates surge
452. Portal to an illogical gonzo dimension
453. Prehistoric time travel detour
454. President being held for ransom
455. Protect a US politican from assassins
456. Protect a Soviet politician from assassins
461. Protect a drug deal
462. Protect a global celebrity from assassins
463. Protect a homeless encampment
464. Provide asylum for a sentient robot
465. Psionic child rampage
466. Raid a rival mercenary base
511. Realm outside reality starts bleeding in
512. Remote CYCLOPS weapons research base
513. Remote gulag escape
514. Rendezvous with a white-collar spy
515. Repair time travel meddling
516. Repel or appease an eldritch god
521. Rescue a CYCLOPS defector
522. Rescue Vietnam defectors
523. Rescue an asset from the Land of Oz
524. Rescue revolutionaries from a hanging
525. Retrieve target from a very similar parallel world
526. Return from the afterlife
531. Rival mercenaries competing for jobs
532. Rival mercenaries smear FIST
533. Rival mercenaries attack FIST
534. Rob a gas station to fund the next mission
535. Rob a grocery store to avoid starvation
536. Rob a high-tech bank on Christmas
541. Rogue AI commandeers a facility
542. Sabotage a colonizing force
543. Save commercial airliner from hijackers
544. Second coming of Jesus
545. Sewer creatures swarm a major city
546. Shrink to battle a virus in the President’s body
551. Shut down arms manufacturing
552. Sink an offshore platform with no survivors
553. Snub out the Fourth Reich
554. Someone is creating and destroying matter
555. Someone keeps tying victims to train tracks
556. Sports stadium battle
561. Steal CYCLOPS gadgets
562. Steal and disseminate corporate secrets
563. Stop a proxy war from starting
564. Stop a serial killer from killing again
565. Stop an anthrax envelope delivery
566. Stop chemical weapon development
611. Stop a plot to destroy an iconic landmark
612. Stop a runaway bus rigged to explode
613. Stop a mysterious string of bombings
614. Stop the use of child soldiers
615. Street racing tournament
616. String of alien abductions
621. Subway tunnel cultists
622. Superheroes need to be taken down a peg
623. Survive a really bad trip
624. Take a relaxing vacation
625. Tense hostage situation still hasn’t resolved
626. Terrorists steal a nuclear mech
631. Time portal to the year 3000
632. Tiny faction suddenly obtains a nuke
633. Top-secret mission to Mars
634. Track down a magical crystal
635. Track down D.B. Cooper
636. Track down the sword Excalibur
641. Track down the U.S.S. Eldridge
642. Training simulation exercise
643. Trapped inside an arcade game
644. Trapped on a submarine
645. Trip-sit an adventurous chemist
646. Ultrahuman registration act
651. Underwater CYCLOPS facility assault
652. Upscale art museum heist
653. Vegas casino heist
654. Voyage to the Earth’s core
655. War breaks out with Atlantis
656. Warring yakuza families both hire FIST
661. Werewolf terrorizing a village
662. Wildlife replaced by robotic duplicates
663. Win a bet at any cost
664. Win a team sports game
665. Woodstock is a distraction
666. World-eater entity’s herald arrives

Additional Charts

Operation Code Names

11. Altered State
12. Attachment Theory
13. Autumn Equinox
14. Beat Sheet
15. Cold Fusion
16. Cry Havoc
21. Current Mirror
22. Dark Matter
23. Deadweight Loss
24. Double Blind
25. Ego Death
26. Extinction Event
31. False Self
32. Fifth Element
33. Free Association
34. Future Shock
35. Genetic Drift
36. Human Error
41. Jungian Shadow
42. Liquid Asset
43. Long Exposure
44. Object Permanence
45. Observer Effect
46. Opposing Force
51. Platonic Ideal
52. Punnett Square
53. Quo Vadis
54. Random Access
55. Repressed Memory
56. Savior Complex
61. Self Destruct
62. Soft Power
63. Vacuous Truth
64. Vanishing Point
65. Winter Solstice
66. You’re OK

Random Events

2. Single/group of 1D6 aliens
3. Single/group of 1D6 monsters/experiments
4. Faction representative
5. Single/group of animals
6. A random pre-made NPC
7. 1D6 soldiers and/or a squad
8. 1D6 random NPCs
9. New location becomes available
10. Weather change
11. Single/group of 1D6 robots
12. Anomaly appears

Random Downtime Events

2. Massive CYCLOPS raid, all missions put on standby
3. A world-ending threat needs immediate attention
4. FIST's location is discoverd by 1D6 CROs
5. A thief steals something important from FIST
6. An NPC appears to offer a mission
7. A faction takes action and/or offers a mission
8. An enemy appears and plans to attack FIST
9. Someone drops off a valuable item for free
10. 1D6 missions are offered, all in the immediate area
11. An NPC appears to join FIST as an ally
12. CYCLOPS top secret base coordinates revealed

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