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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1333091" data-attributes="member: 1710">14: Abandoned Military Facility.This could include bunkers, secret test facilities, Area 51 type installations, The Maginot Line, or even bunkers underneath a dictator's home.Example: The forests of the Northwestern US are quite large and often remote. Many miles from civilization in one such forest lies a series of subterranean tunnels belonging to a branch of the military involved in many top secret projects. The locals do not know what is in the forest, and no one is allowed within five miles of the facility without clearance. People have, however, seen vehicles entering and exiting the remote dirt road to the facility. A few weeks ago something happened in the facility that caused all activity there to cease. No one has come or gone since then.Virtually no one outside of the facility knows of its existence and thus, no one has come around to see what, if anything, is wrong.The players could be members of the military or a similar organization sent to find out what's wrong, or they might just happen upon one of the entrances. What lies waiting for them inside? What has quieted the activity within? Who knows...-------15: Sunken ships.This could include aircraft carriers, cruise liners, battleships, submarines, pirate ships or even an alien craft that splashed down in the ocean.Example: In bayou country there is an area referred to as the Black Trench. It was discovered around 1958. The 'Trench" is approximately 100 feet long and of unknown depth. The water should have been ice cold because of the depth, but it was actually warmer than the surrounding water. It was ignored as a geographical oddity by the scientific community until it was discovered that it was the extremely high level of radiation that was warming the water and either killing or mutating any wildlife that made their home in the trench area. The scientists studying this area kept this information quiet while they did their research, to no avail; The military stepped in after a month or so and kept everyone else from getting close. Presumably they sent divers into the trench. They didn't stay for long, especially surprising for a government operation.Radiation warning signs were placed around the trench, the public was advised to stay away and not to eat any fish from the area. In the late 1980s the government revisited the trench and stayed for a year. When they left, they did so in a hurry. Two helicopters went with them; one was a Chinook with a large, crated object hanging below it; it left for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The other was full of men in diving gear being taken to the nearest hospital. They all died that night, save one; he appeared to be getting better and was transported to a military hospital. Immediately following his transfer he mysteriously entered a coma. A month later, as per his family's wishes, he was taken off life support and died. This turned out to be a clerical error, his family had not given any such permission; indeed, they had not even been told which hospital he had been transferred to.The radiation levels are reported to be lower now, almost fifty years after the Black Trench was 'discovered', but eating the fish is still not advised...The conspiracy nuts say an alien craft crashed, or was at least housed in the Black Trench and that deep in the water there are a number of channels that lead in and out of the trench. They are convinced a piece of alien technology was removed from the trench and that more may still be hidden in the inky depths.-------Here's a quicky.16: Illegal Drug FacilityPrivately or as part of an anti-drug task force the PCs raid a cocaine factory in the jungles of Colombia. When they get there the place is deserted. The workers appear to have left in a hurry. Many kilos of drugs are just lying around, batches of drugs sit unfinished, doors are left standing open and the buildings are unsecured. There is no sign of anyone at all (or there are grisly human remains here and there, whatever suits your purpose).The locals tell legends of strange creatures that call the jungle home, did one of these creatures make off with the factory's staff, or were the workers informed of the raid beforehand? Did a rival drug lord kill the people here? Who or whatever emptied the factory may return.Alternately the PCs could be sent in to see what happened to the members of the anti-drug task force when they aren't heard from for a few days.Whoever the PCs are, they may find themselves attacked by the drug lord who owns the factory when he comes to see what's wrong at this facility. They might also end up working with the drug lord and his private bodyguards/army when the creatures (whatever they are) that killed the factory workers return for another meal!</blockquote>

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