Haven & NPC Manager

NPCs
We’ll use this space to track our NPCs. Please use the format below (along with an image). Each NPC in the book is trained in some skills, so let’s say that each NPC gets two trained skills. We can discuss Expert Skills on a case by case basis.

Given that NPCs interact with everyone, let’s have the NPCs’ creator create one issue for them, while a second issue can come from someone else!

And let’s give them 1d4 pieces of gear.

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Name:
Background:
Expert Skills:
Trained Skills:
Issues:
Gear:

The PontoonYou managed to find one or several pontoons abandoned on a body of water! Lashing them together provides a passable, though cramped haven on the water. There’s fish to be had, if you can catch them, but there were few other supplies on the boat.

Unfortunately, at least for now, the pontoons aren’t going anywhere! Out of gas, and out of luck, you haven’t been able to scrounge up enough juice to give you movement; save for the sticks you might use to push the pontoons further on to the water when walkers get near.

Defense: 2
Capacity: 1

Known Issues:
• Easy to spot out on the water. You’ll be sitting ducks.
• Requires runs to find food and gasoline.
• Cramped, which creates conflict in the group.
• Extreme cold in the winter.

Secret Issue:

Shayna's NPC anchor

Martin is tall but thin, a retired high school physics teacher.

Name: Martin Cater
Background: Teacher
Expert Skills:
Trained Skills: Close Combat, Tech
Issues: Wants to lead, secretly in love with Shayna
Gear: Canned goods: chicken broth (one ration)

Vinh (Owen's NPC anchor) is a fine artist who made a living selling watercolors to tourists in a small coastal town.

Name: Vinh
Background: fine artist
Expert Skills:
Trained Skills: Mobility, Scout, Survival
Issues: finds the horror surrounding him overwhelming, thinks art has no place in this world
Gear:
-Biscuits and gravy (one ration)
-Smoked snake meat and a beer (one ration)
-Chocolate Santa and a thermos with cold
mulled wine (one ration)
-Packages of instant noodles and water bottles
(two rations)

Meet Tracy Devlin, Billie-Faye Coopers's NPC anchor. A teenaged boy with a rough upbringing, he's the son of Billie's best friend. When Tracy's mom was on her deathbed, having been mauled by walkers, she made Billie promise to look after her kid... after Cooper pulled the trigger and ended her life. Trouble was, Tracy was living with his dad, and learning from the scary man's violent, weird, sexist and unnerving habits. Getting him out of there took some doing...

Name: Tracy Devlin
Background: Kid
Expert Skills: -
Trained Skills: Tech, Endurance
Issues: Troubled male teenager. Struggles with cruel and violent tendencies, raging hormones, lying, being a sexist little fuckwad and generally lacking empathy. He really wants a gun. Billie does not know how to deal with this kid, but she's stuck with him. Oh, and his father might be looking for him. He's not a great guy.
Gear: Collard greens and fried bacon (one ration), Small Solar Panel, Ten Firework Rockets (makes sense!)

Known Factions
Name: The Fort.
Number: 20 Survivors.
Leadership: Militia / Military.
Faction Needs: Hope.
Type: Well-structured and functional. Nothing is left to chance.
Haven: Holed up at Fort Lamar.
Assets: Weapons and Ammunition.
Issues: Provide a meeting place for other survivors.
Secret Issue:

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Name: The Athenians.
Number: 50-100.
Leadership: The Council of Five.
Faction Needs: More survivors.
Type: Trying to build a new world (by looking to the ancient past?)
Haven: An area built or secured by this faction.
Assets: Tech from the pre-outbreak world. Creature comforts.
Issues: Several fragile members that must be protected. Adolescents and children.
Secret Issue:

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Name: New Haven.
Faction Needs: More survivors.

Some questions someone might want to answer! Just something to get the noggin’ joggin’.

• How did you first meet The Fort / The Athenians? How did that first meeting go?

• It’s been more than a year since the world went to shit. Why hasn’t your group joined one of these bigger factions?

• Why are those at the Fort losing hope? What happened? What will happen if they give up?

• What did you say when an emissary from the Athenians came begging you to join their community?

• How have these factions helped you survive this long? How have you helped them?

Feast your eyes! The dice divined our coordinates on the map, and I worked stuff out from there. You’ll see Athens (it’s not all cleared out! The Athenians will only control a portion!) in the lower-left corner. And Fort Lamar is around 3B. I imagine your crew are set up a little down river from them. Maybe 4C (4 being horizontal, and C being vertical on the grid.)

Eva and Selena
Sisters you found on the road. You came across them as they were fleeing from New Haven goons. They hinted at some weird cult goings on up there!

Eva took stress, trying to grab the rope in the river.

New Coordinates!

Martin, Vinh, Emma, Tracy, Eva, Selena.

Death on a 6!

How long is Richard out?