on the mutants of Freaky Town, though Mayor Farah and other members of her council convinced Angel this would far more harm than good Sheriff Ben Angel is a tanned man of average height and muscular build He has brown hair and a bushy mustache and mutton chops Sheriff Ben Angel uses the statistics of a caravan guard (page 109) C32: St Cloud Dam See page 88 C33: Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant See page 88 C34: Freaky Town Landmark Population: 343 Salvage Value: Buildings: Houses (3) Ruined Building: Stadium, Hydroelectric Power Station Tech Levels: production 3, maintenance During the Great War, the city of Minneapolis was hit by powerful bombs called enhanced radiation weapons, commonly called salt sowers These weapons dealt only minimal physical damage (for a nuclear warhead), but released waves of radiation and radioactive materials that poisoned the area for generations Most human and animal life within the area died terrible deaths, but a few who were exposed to the Extreme Radiation Resistance viral treatments survived as freaks As time went by, more freaks gathered here as they realized the radiation protected them from other groups of humans who hated and feared them Freaky Town was never formally founded Freaks simply started showing up and settling in the ruins The people of Freaky Town survive primarily as herdsmen, raising dreeks, the descendants of white-tailed deer that were also exposed to the Extreme Radiation Resistance virus Many also scrounge supplies from the ruins of Minneapolis The freaks in Freaky Town are dispersed throughout the ruins, including the ruins of Historic Fort Snelling, Target Field, and the Minneapolis-St Paul Airport The Spined Society: Most of the people in Freaky Town are content to simply ignore the outside world A few want to establish trading relationships with others The Spined Society is quite interested in the outside world, but they seek to destroy it They believe freaks are the next step in human evolution, and that to help evolution they should eliminate as much of the archaic strain of humanity as they can Many of them have suffered at the hands of “thin-skins” and seek revenge against them Important NPCs Flora: While Freaky Town does not have a formal leader, many look to Flora for guidance She survived many years wandering the waste, before arriving in Freaky Town She is an isolationist, but also believes in the importance of having a good defense in case their neighbors don’t stay isolated 122 Flora is nearly sixty years old She has one blood-red eye, and a patch covers the wound where the other once was Flora uses the statistics of a tribal leader (page 94) with all the freak racial abilities, but without the Craft (carpentry) skill or the Far Shot feat Obsidian: Obsidian is one of the loudest proponents of interacting more with the outside world He has explored many of the hidden nooks and crannies of Freaky Town and spent much of his life as a scrapper He often leads expeditions out of the remains of Freaky Town to map the area, find new secrets, and possibly discover new allies To date he has found more enemies than friends but remains optimistic Obsidian is a large man with skin as black as his namesake a scrapper (page 109) with all the freak racial abilities but without the Climb skill or Alertness feat Finnegan: When Finnegan was young, he watched his parents be killed just for being freaks Finnegan himself was beaten and left for dead He survived alone in the woods for many years, until he chanced to see a group of freaks traveling through the woods He followed them to Freaky Town where Finnegan made a new home Finnegan advocates both for greater structure in Freaky Town and for preemptive strikes against other settlements that would threaten them (most notably Cloud City) He leads the Spined Society, though within the society he is actually a moderate voice Finnegan has medium-gray skin and yellow eyes He still bears many scars from his early abuses Finnegan is an Axe Tribe ranger (page 93), with all the freak racial abilities, but without the Craft (carpentry) skill or the Far Shot feat C35: St Anthony Dam See page 91 C36: Burial Ground Hidden: DC 20 Perception Population: Salvage Value: The city of St Paul, Minnesota suffered a direct hit from a nuclear weapon in the Great War, and nearly all of the buildings were leveled In the decades since, nature has reclaimed the area, and it’s almost impossible to tell there was once a city of several hundred thousand people Unless somebody digs a little deeper While everything above ground was flattened, thousands of basements and subbasements remained intact Of course salvage among these areas is much harder to reach, but it also means it hasn’t been picked over by other scrappers, and somewhere beneath the soil, there may still be treasures just waiting to be discovered C37: Jeffer’s Wind Farm See page 88 C38: Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant See page 88