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| | The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don't come out. | | The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don't come out. |
| | Escape from New York | | Escape from New York |
| − | The war began in fire in the year 1990. It has never really ended.
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| − | The world is struggling through the aftermath of a global nuclear holocaust. The war began suddenly and for what all sides said afterwards were uncertain provocation. Nuclear weapons ruined the breadbasket states of the United States of America and the Oil and Gold ranges of Sibera. The rest of the world followed suit in their own wars and the nations of the world fell apart.
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| − | ''What the people of the world do not know is that during the '''Black Road War''' between Amber and Chaos two intrusions of the forces of Chaos occured, like they did in Lorraine. One stretching from the North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico and on east of the Urals to the Pacific Ocean. The USA and the USSR each responded thinking the other was attacking it. Other nuclear powers responded on their own.''
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| | ==<big>'''Principal World Combatants</big>'''== | | ==<big>'''Principal World Combatants</big>'''== |
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| | The Federal Prison System was established soon after the unexpected outbreak of hostilities between the principal world combatants in 1988. In the 40 years sine the system began the wars have gone through several phases but the process of delivering prisoners has stabilized and has had few breeches of contract by participating members. | | The Federal Prison System was established soon after the unexpected outbreak of hostilities between the principal world combatants in 1988. In the 40 years sine the system began the wars have gone through several phases but the process of delivering prisoners has stabilized and has had few breeches of contract by participating members. |
| | ===Insurgent Type=== | | ===Insurgent Type=== |
| − | *'''Light Troopers'''. Day work. Deliveries in safe Zones. Teams are usually large. 10 to 20, armed with side arms and blades. Minimal body armor. Elbows, knees, gloves, helmet. | + | *Light. Day work. Deliveries in safe Zones. |
| − | *'''Medium Troopers'''. Medium Armed with side arms and a mixture of Submachine guns and combat shotguns. . Supervise Light Troopers details. Light body Armor on chest and head. | + | *Medium. Medium Armed. |
| − | *'''Heavy Troopers'''. Heavy Armor. Wall Guards. Route guards. M4 rifles and similar weapons. Protective. Wall-mounted Machine gun. Protective Observation Mounted Machine Guns | + | *Heavy Troopers. |
| − | *'''Air Support'''. Armed Helicopters. | + | *Air Support. |
| − | *'''Water Support'''. Mark 5 Special Operations Crafts. Reasonable armored. | + | *Water Support. |
| − | *'''Medical'''. Medium Armored. | + | *Medical. |
| − | *'''Vehicles.''' Duelist Armored and Armed Motor Cycles. Armored Trucks. Light Tanks.
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| − | *'''Insurgents.''' Special Armor. Special Weaponry. Insurgents tent to be allowed to arm and armor themselves as they see fit for their trips inside.
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| | ===Prisoner Arrivals=== | | ===Prisoner Arrivals=== |
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| | *Furies. | | *Furies. |
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| − | ====Noble Caste==== | + | ====Nobles==== |
| | In the early days of the prison a man of unknown history assembled a great deal of power in the form of a source of gasoline, electricity, food, and luxury items. How he came by was unknown for many years but his supply chain was secure enough that he became known as the Duke of New York. His main underlings Were called Counts, and the lower ones barons. These individuals used the trade goods to secure the loyalty of underlings and to seize territory in the form of buildings. The structure was sufficiently established that after the 1997 Presidential Incident occurred the surviving counts were able to vie for the title Duke and control of the inflow of goods. | | In the early days of the prison a man of unknown history assembled a great deal of power in the form of a source of gasoline, electricity, food, and luxury items. How he came by was unknown for many years but his supply chain was secure enough that he became known as the Duke of New York. His main underlings Were called Counts, and the lower ones barons. These individuals used the trade goods to secure the loyalty of underlings and to seize territory in the form of buildings. The structure was sufficiently established that after the 1997 Presidential Incident occurred the surviving counts were able to vie for the title Duke and control of the inflow of goods. |
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| − | In 2020 Insurgent Team 38 discovered a defunct subway line from the early 1900s that had been sealed off and used to reach New Jersey. This ended the flow of goods to the Duke of New York. By then other sources of goods had been developed and the Nobles held control over many parts of the city. | + | In 2020 Insurgent Team 38 discovered a defunct subway line from the early 1900s that had been sealed off and used to reach New Jersey. This ended the flow of goods to the Duke of New York. By then other sources of goods had been developed and the Nobles held control over many parts of the city. |
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| − | =====Count of Harlem=====
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| − | =====Baron of Tyron=====
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| | ====COA : Children of Anarchy==== | | ====COA : Children of Anarchy==== |
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| | *CoA-Brown Gang. A response to the other Color Gangs, the Browns seize the paint deliveries and mix all the paints together to make an ugly brown. This group is known to be violent, lending Brown troops as muscle to other groups. They especially hate other color groups. | | *CoA-Brown Gang. A response to the other Color Gangs, the Browns seize the paint deliveries and mix all the paints together to make an ugly brown. This group is known to be violent, lending Brown troops as muscle to other groups. They especially hate other color groups. |
| | *CoA-Rattlings. Ratlings have sort of a Fagan vibe. A senior Ratling mentors young ratlings, taking in strays of various ages, | | *CoA-Rattlings. Ratlings have sort of a Fagan vibe. A senior Ratling mentors young ratlings, taking in strays of various ages, |
| − | *CoA-Uppers. CoA group that occupy the top floors of a building, staying away from the dangers below. Reclusive. | + | *CoA-Uppers. CoA group that occupy the top floors of a building, staying away from the dangers below. |
| − | *CoA-Theater Folk | + | *CoA- |
| − | *CoA-Dancers. | + | *CoA- |
| − | *CoA-Smiths: These are weapon makers. Mostly improvised weapons. | + | *CoA- |
| − | *CoA-Golfers: | + | *CoA- |
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| | ===New York Aid Society=== | | ===New York Aid Society=== |
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| | For the first 10 years the organization was above reproach. Then it had unclear issues with deliveries inside and whatever the issue was it was covered up. THis has given the charity a somewhat dark reputation that they complain bitterly is undeserved. | | For the first 10 years the organization was above reproach. Then it had unclear issues with deliveries inside and whatever the issue was it was covered up. THis has given the charity a somewhat dark reputation that they complain bitterly is undeserved. |
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| − | The third Floor of the Flat Iron building has been converted into a armored restaurant. It is considered a clearing house of who is who. It is also the best example of '''''Stone Soup Barter Culture'''''. The Cooks of Chez Rat will cook nearly anything that is brought in by the customers. When doing so they will add herbs and seasonings and side dishes. The price is usually a third of the volume of food brought. The cooks prepare the main item the customer brought then augment the meal with side dishes. They then take the ''Cook's Third'' and put it in Restaurant stores. As in most New York restaurants the cooks smartly eat as they cook.
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| | ===New York Aide Society locations=== | | ===New York Aide Society locations=== |
| | *The Old Historical Society Building. This functions as on of 3 heavily armed NYAS locations inside the city. | | *The Old Historical Society Building. This functions as on of 3 heavily armed NYAS locations inside the city. |
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| − | This version of the Blighted Land, a Jeweled Amber Shadow, is reworked for use during TirCon.
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| − | ==Prince Bley comments on the Blighted Land for in the [[Diners of Amber]] pamphlet and the King Random's Trump Deck==
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| − | On some worlds people are just bound and determined to make their lives dangerous and short. They take huge risks and, if they are lucky enough to survive them, may get no reward at all.
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| − | This is an Earth/Aerth/Urth world that has seriously lost control. It is a testament though to how people can survive almost anything.
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| − | To go over the political dimensions of this world would be pointless. They change. Sometime around the late 1900s all law and order slipped away. Wars, nuclear disasters, militarization, easy availability of weaponry, advancing technology despite worldwide carnage, an extremely vibrant commercial climate and little regard for human life are all big elements of this freak show of a world. National governments ceding great sections of their countries to corporations more able to provide services to the populace. Many countries became little more symbolic. Countries turning their military against their populaces. Countries creating huge prisons for criminals of every type. One of these is the [[New York Federal Penitentiary at Manhattan]]
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| − | Nuclear disasters destroyed vast swaths of it. Industrial waste and human refuse have spoiled another chunk but some of that is being recycled. City-States, corporate oligarchies, criminal organizations, heavily armed communal groups, and small Regional governments rule this planet. Many people cluster around huge corporate compounds that still do most of the producing. Transportation of goods has become a death sport. Technological advances were extraordinary in the face of necessity and the greed and malevolence of the rich.
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| − | The roads of this world are dangerous. There is an active sport called Autodueling that pits drivers against each other in both organized and chaotic conflict. The sporting angle of it gives a modicum of legitimization to the production of equipment that is then used, often as not, to further the insane degrees of regular violence on this world. National legal systems have allowed death-sports as a defined exception to the laws defining Murder.
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| − | First is the availability of easy to construct, extraordinarily dangerous remote control drones has all but eliminated air travel. Its difficult to mount enough armor on a plane large enough to ship cargo in. There is an underground anarchist organization called the Civil Air Patrol, that treats destroying flying vehicles as a sport. 10 points for a Cessna, 50 point for a F-4, 500 pips for UPS Air Delivery planes. Effort
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| − | <span style=color:darkgreen>Caine brought me here once. He said he wanted to find a world that had taken consumerism and militarism to the extremes. Someplace he could get a vehicle built for dangerous work. He found it. I spent a bit of time learning the hows and whys of this place and it makes no sense at all. It is a conflict of paradoxes.
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| − | The war began in fire in the year 1990. It has never really ended.
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