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  An abortionist’s tools

  Transportation A Kansas-Pacific railroad car

  A four-horse mail coach

  A safety bicycle

  A railroad hand car

  The guarded mine payroll mud coach

  A St. Louis and San Francisco railroad boxcar

  Weapon A blacksmith’s tongs

  A Sharps lever-action rifle

  A matched set of Colt revolvers

  A Sioux war club

  A crate of old dynamite, weeping nitroglycerin

  A 12-pound Mountain Howitzer

  Information An assay note on the minerals in Circle S Ranch soil

  An overheard conversation about the Gold Creek strike

  A freedman’s manumission papers

  A lady’s diary

  A faded wanted poster

  A contract with the Pinkerton Detective Agency

  Valuables The deed to Sinclair’s Dry Goods and Mercantile

  A promissory note for two thousand dollars

  A wad of Federal postage stamps wrapped in a kerchief

  A cage of Napaeozapus insignis, Woodland jumping mice

  A heavy sack of gold dust

  The cashbox from the Bradford Hotel brothel

  Sentimental A newborn baby

  A pretty locket with a lock of hair inside

  A tiny oil portrait of a handsome soldier

  A tear-stained love letter

  An engraved silver goblet

  A dying man’s last words

  ...in the Wild West

  A Wild West Boomtown Insta-setup

  Relationships in the Old West

  For three players…

  Family: Unrelated, but close as blood

  Crime: Crime boss and toady

  Romance: Mail-order bride and her groom

  For four players, add…

  Community: Government / citizen

  For five players, add…

  The Past: Both married to same spouse

  Needs in the Old West

  For three players…

  To get free: of a relationship with a lover

  For four or five players, add…

  To get away: From hard-riding vengeance

  Locations in the Old West

  For three, four or five players…

  The Bradford Hotel: The saloon

  Objects in the Old West

  For three or four players…

  Information: An assay note on the minerals in Circle S Ranch soil

  For five players, add…

  Sentimental: A newborn baby

  Relationships...

  Family Parent and child

  Parent and step-child

  Siblings

  Cousins

  Aunt or Uncle and child

  Weird / distant relatives

  Work Business rivals in a dying industry

  Service worker and client (restaurant, bank, janitorial)

  Professional supervisor and employee

  Tradesman / homeowner (lawn care, plumbing, HVAC)

  Salesman / homeowner (siding, drive resurfacing)

  Professional / client (pastor, doctor, lawyer, banker)

  The Past Criminal and parole officer or detective

  Fast friends back when all this was farm country

  Cross-town sports rivals back in the day

  Drunk driver and victim’s next of kin

  Mutual keepers of an ominous secret

  Bad family blood from way back

  Romance Divorced and remarried spouses

  Current spouses

  Separated spouses

  One-time fling

  Current lovers

  Former lovers

  Crime Drug manufacturer and dealer

  Gambler and bookie

  Thieves (shoplifters, burglars, car thieves)

  Small-time vandals and ne’er-do-wells

  Embezzler and company accountant

  Organized crime figure and wannabe

  Community Officials (judge, county supervisor, town attorney)

  Society (Jaycees, Masons, historical society)

  Church (shelter workers, Sunday school teachers)

  Sports (rec league athletes, coaches, boosters)

  Government (citizen and tax collector or parole officer)

  Law (cop and volunteer or registered sex offender)

  ...in a Suburban Community

  A Suburban Insta-setup

  Relationships in Suburbia

  For three players…

  Family: Parent and step-child

  Romance: Separated spouses

  Crime: Drug manufacturer and dealer

  For four players, add…

  Work: Tradesman / homeowner

  For five players, add…

  The Past: Bad family blood from way back

  Needs in Suburbia

  For three players…

  To get rich: Through robbing your boss

  For four or five players, add…

  To get laid: To get what you want

  Locations in Suburbia

  For three, four or five players…

  Apple Valley: Apple Valley Supermarket

  Objects in Suburbia

  For three or four players…

  Information: A home-burned DVD

  For five players, add…

  Transportation: Tricked-out street racing Mitsubishi Lancer

  Locations...

  Poppleton Terrace A house with a fenced-in yard on Breezeway Avenue

  Poppleton Terrace Elementary School

  The gazebo in Poppleton Park

  A Breezeway Avenue house with tin-foiled windows

  The cul-de-sac at the end of Avanti Way

  The drainage canal behind the subdivision

  The Shops at Homewood PB&J Audio-Video

  Fancy Cuts

  Tile World

  One Dollar, Period

  Michelle’s Tavern

  Homewood Branch Library

  Redbud Court A crumbling trailer on blocks

  Liberty Guns and Surplus

  The Chicken Hut

  A van without tires, surrounded by rotting newspapers

  The Party House

  A seedy rental duplex

  Promise Hill Promise Hill Country Club

  Water-filled gravel pit behind the country club

  A million dollar home on the fairway

  The Ellis Tract, last undeveloped land in the county

  The oak tree on top of Promise Hill

  An unfinished mansion on Patriot Lane

  Historic Downtown Ratnapriya Anand, M.D.

  The Well Dressed Lady

  Memories and More

  The Sugar Mill Lofts

  County Social Services office

  The historic Poppleton House

  Apple Valley County rec center, skate park and pool

  A Thirties bungalow with a leaky roof

  The Law Offices of Cockburn and Lilley, LLC

  A tidy house with an unusual statue in the yard

  A gutted bungalow being turned into apartments

  Apple Valley Supermarket

  ...in a Suburban Community

  Needs...

  To get lost …in your unsavory hobby

  …in a doomed affair

  …in the details of a new business

  …in the eyes of your one true love

  …in a harmless fantasy

  …before they figure it out and arrest you

  To get even …with all the two-faced bastards who ruined you

  …with the local drug dealer

  …with the “Community Policing Officer”

  …with a family member

  …with the dirty immigrants

  …with your old high school rival

  To get rich …through opening an improbable business

  …through robbing your boss

  …through tax fraud

  …through ripping off some drug people

  �
�through hurting somebody who needs hurting

  …through a re-written will

  To get respect …from this town, by becoming famous

  …from this town, by showing everybody who’s boss

  …from your lover, by making a serious commitment

  …from your friends, by humiliating a cop

  …from your family, by turning them in

  …from yourself, by standing up for yourself at last

  To get away …from your shameful past

  …with murder

  …from the people who are looking for you

  …from your stupid family

  …with the biggest lie this town has ever heard

  …with the “crime” that is really justice served

  To get laid …by anonymous party people, because why not?

  …by your neighbor

  …by your best friend

  …to hurt someone (maybe yourself)

  …to prove a point

  …to get what you want

  ...in a Suburban Community

  Objects...

  Unsavory A broken police ankle monitor

  Night vision goggles and flexi-cuffs

  One hundred feral cats

  A desiccated corpse in a duct-taped garbage bag

  The charred ashes of $100,000

  A replica of James T. Kirk’s command chair

  Information A home-burned DVD

  A living will, ripped in half, taped together

  A digital voice recorder, accidentally left recording

  A tattered birth certificate

  A property survey from the 1940’s

  An address written on the back of a business card

  Valuables Three bags of undelivered mail

  A pre-ban Heckler and Koch model 91 assault rifle

  A briefcase containing one million dollars in Central American bearer bonds

  A minivan stuffed with bales of marijuana

  A piece of rare celebrity memorabilia

  A pedigreed champion dog

  Sentimental Bronzed baby shoes

  A massive engagement ring

  A battered set of golf clubs

  A signed photo of an ex-President

  An American flag

  An elaborate tombstone

  Transportation A tricked-out street racing Mitsubishi Lancer

  An ancient Pontiac Bonneville sedan

  A Ducati 1098 sport motorcycle

  An ice cream truck

  A hearse

  A new Toyota Prius

  Weapon A hockey stick

  A K-Frame revolver

  A child’s chemistry set

  A .22 rifle

  A 55 gallon drum of heating oil

  A Klingon sword

  ...in a Suburban Community

  The Ice

  Relationships...

  Work Supervisor / worker

  Co-workers

  Specialist / supporter

  Former co-workers

  Clandestine collaborators

  Professional rivals

  Friendship Manipulator / victim

  Bewildered first-timers

  Drinking buddies

  Bitter enemies

  Fuck buddies

  Dorm room bunkies

  Romance Former spouses

  Current spouses

  Life-long crush / object of crush

  One-time fling

  Lovers

  Former lovers

  Crime Smugglers (artifacts, endangered species)

  Gambler / bookie

  Ecological extremists

  Government contract fraudster / investigator

  Hoodlums (sports enthusiasts, drunkards, delinquents)

  Drug people (dealers, manufacturers, distributors)

  Community Social adversaries

  Search and rescue volunteers

  Tour guides

  Community event organizers

  Visiting dignitary “handlers”

  Isolated co-religionists

  Soul Lifers on The Ice

  The only survivors

  The ones who found the body

  Newbie / old timer

  Two-of-a-kind misanthropes

  Poet and muse

  ...in McMurdo Station, Antarctica

  An Antarctic Insta-setup

  Relationships on the Ice

  For three players…

  Work: Specialist / supporter

  Crime: Smugglers (artifacts, endangered species)

  Community: Visiting dignitary “handlers”

  For four players, add…

  Soul: The only survivors

  For five players, add…

  Friendship: Fuck buddies

  Needs on the Ice

  For three players…

  To get the truth: …about who the visiting dignitary is

  For four or five players, add…

  To get laid: By a visitor, fast

  Locations on the Ice

  For three, four or five players…

  Mactown Outdoors: Scott’s Hut, the Terra Nova Expedition’s 1913 base

  Objects on the Ice

  For three or four players…

  Forbidden: Five kilos of explosives and a detonator

  For five players, add…

  Sentimental: A can of potted meat stolen from Scott’s Hut

  Locations...

  The Weddell Sea Atop Iceberg B-15, larger than Luxembourg

  Weddell seal research camp on the sea ice

  Aboard the M/V American Tern, delivering supplies

  Aboard the Khlebnikov, a Russian tourist icebreaker

  The ATC hut at Williams Airfield, 16 km away

  A research dive camp with a hole cut in the ice

  Mactown: Business Satellite receivers on Black Island, 40 km away

  The tool shed inside the Carp Shop

  Explosives storage shed, up the hill from Mactown

  B-120, the food warehouse

  B-142, Medical

  B-143, the vehicle maintenance “Heavy Shop”

  Mactown: Pleasure Hut Ten, visiting dignitaries quarters

  Wells Fargo ATM

  A dormitory room

  B-107, Southern Exposure coffee house

  The post office in B-140

  B-155, the galley

  Mactown: Outdoors Observation Hill, above McMurdo Station

  Scott’s Hut, the Terra Nova Expedition’s 1913 base

  The retro yard, with cardboard containers of waste

  An abandoned Jamesway tent near Hut Point

  A metal shipping container

  Inside the cab of a snow plow

  Mactown: Science Closet in the biology pod in the CSEC research building

  “The Chalet”, NSF headquarters

  The Navy electronics shop in B-165

  Naval Support Force, Antarctica weather office

  Room 115, earth sciences pod, CSEC research building

  B-195, atmospheric science building, road to Scott Base

  Ross Island Lower Erebus Hut, kitchen and recreation building

  Lower Erebus Hut, research and storage building

  Volcanic sensor array on the caldera rim

  Inside Mt. Erebus, above the lava lake

  The 35 kilometer ice road to McMurdo Station

  World’s largest Adelie penguin colony, at Cape Crozier

  ...in McMurdo Station, Antarctica

  Needs...

  To get out …of a work detail that is killing you

  …of a relationship that’s turned weird

  …of responsibility for an accident

  …of intense scrutiny, so you can finish what you started

  …of Mactown, where too many people know your game

  …of The Ice, which is driving you insane

  To get even …with a scientist

  …with a contractor

  …with a pilot

  …with your rival

  …with an organization – the NSF, U
SAP, etc

  …with everybody on The Ice

  To get off …on re-watching a DVD of what you did

  …on prescription painkillers

  …on secret trips out of Mactown

  …on sabotaging a scientific program

  …on destroying a reputation

  …on illicit sex

  To get respect …from everyone on The Ice, atoning for your mistake

  …from everyone on The Ice, showing them who’s boss

  …from your lover, by proving your devotion

  …from the USAP, by ratting out the drug dealer

  …from a friend, by rescuing them from ruin

  …from yourself, by punishing your persecutors

  To get the truth …about the accident

  …about the secret project

  …about someone’s criminal history