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Contents

Allegheny Uprising ....................................................................... 2

Introduction .......................................................................... 2

Referee's Notes ................................................................... 2

The Adventure Plot ...................................................................... 3

Playing the Adventure......................................................... 4

Preparing for the Expedition ............................................... 4

The Mission ......................................................................... 5

The Course of the Adventure ..............................................5

Ending the Adventure...........................................................6

Further Adventures in Pennsylvania....................................6

A Successful Conclusion .....................................................7

Conditions in Western Pennsylvania/Maryland ........................ 8

A Misplaced Treasure........................................................ 13

Referee's Notes: An Excursion in the Mountains ........... 14

Conditions in Central Pennsylvania ................................... 15

Conditions in Western Pennsylvania................................. 16

Conditions in Maryland ..................................................... 16

The Allegheny Warlords .................................................... 17

Encounters with Marauders .............................................. 17

Characters and Organizations .................................................. 20

Roger Caldwell .................................................................. 20

Charles Franklin ................................................................. 20

Chester T. Constable ....................................................... 21

Captain Howard Kirtchner ................................................ 21

Colonel White/The White Death ....................................... 22

Harrison Offut ................................................................... 22

Kenneth Jurgens................................................................ 22

Allison Sanders .................................................................. 23

Martin F. Bradley .............................................................. 23

Everett M. Johnston......................................................... 23

Richard Cameron .............................................................. 24

Tony Armata ..................................................................... 24

William Dobbson ............................................................... 24

Jeremy P. Fitzpatrick..........................................................24

The Warlords of Western Pennsylvania.................................. 25

Marauder Band Organization .............................................26

Encounters with Local Militias...........................................26

The Allegheny Warlords .....................................................26

Washington Militia .............................................................27

Jurgens' Ridgerunners .......................................................27

Alli's Rangers .....................................................................27

Bradley's Irregulars ............................................................27

Other Marauder Groups.....................................................27

SRS-17374-2 ........................................................................ 28

Contents of the Cache ......................................................28

The Location of the Cache ................................................29

The Land: Part 1.......................................................................... 33

Western Maryland ..............................................................34

Frederick ............................................................................ 35

Hagerstown ....................................................................... 35

Cumberland ........................................................................35

Hancock............................................................................. 36

Clear Springs ......................................................................36

Route 70/Route 40............................................................36

Route 15...

Route 81/Route 11 ............................................................36

Route 40 ............................................................................36

Route 220/Route 219 .......................................................37

The Pennsylvanian Mountains ..........................................38

Bedford County ................................................................. 38

Breeze wood ....................................................................... 39

Bedford .............................................................................. 39

Somerset County ...............................................................39

Somerset ............................................................................40

Fayette County...................................................................40

Uniontown ..........................................................................40

Connellsville........................................................................40

Westmoreland County ....................................................... 40

New Stanton ...................................................................... 41

Donegal...............................................................................41

Ligonier ...............................................................................41

Latrobe................................................................................ 41

Greensburg .........................................................................41

The Land: Part II ......................................................................... 42

Pennsylvania Turnpike ....................................................... 42

Route 70 ............................................................................ 42

Route 30 ............................................................................ 42

Route 40 ............................................................................ 43

Route 119.......................................................................... 43

Route 22 ............................................................................ 43

Coral Caverns at Mann's Choice ...................................... 43

Laurel Caverns................................................................... 43

Allegheny Tunnel ............................................................... 43

Ohiopyle..............................................................................43

Youghiogheny River .......................................................... 43

Monongahela River............................................................ 43

In the Western Counties ................................................... 45

Lawrence County............................................................... 45

Beaver County ................................................................... 45

Butler County..................................................................... 46

Allegheny County.............................................................. 46

Pittsburgh ........................................................................... 46

Allegheny River ................................................................. 47

Ohio and Monongahela Rivers .......................................... 47

Monroeville.........................................................................47

Important Highways .......................................................... 47

Pennsylvania Turnpike....................................................... 47

Route 79............................................................................ 47

Penn Lincoln Parkway/376 ............................................... 47

Credits

Design: William H. Keith, Jr.

Development: Loren K. Wiseman.

Art Director: Barbie Pratt.

Art Assistants: Lauretta Oblinger and Dana Reischauer.

Interior Illustrations: Tim Bradstreet and Liz Danforth.

Cover: Steve Venters.

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Allegheny Uprising

It was enough to make a man's mouth water. My God, think

of it! Computers, electric typewriters, jeeps, soybeans, canned

food, medical supplies, arctic parkas, Alaska Pipeline weld seam

X-rays, stack upon stack upon bureaucratic stack of DoD forms,

M16 rifles, portable electric generators, copies of copies of an-

cient IRS records, and (I swear) videotapes of every NFL game

since 1992!

No wonder those Civgov johnnies were falling all over

themselves to find the place! I mean, wouldn't you get excited

at the prospect of uncovering a buried storehouse, an honest-

to-God buried treasure, just chock-full of all those goodies we'd

come to accept once upon a long lost time as part and parcel

of civilization? All of us had heard a million rumors about lost

government caches squirreled away in out-of-the-way places

years ago as security against a nuclear attack. Most of those

stories were just air, of course. I remember there was this one

wild story about a lost fortune in gold on Manhattan...

But this story was for real. Just when things were getting hairy

in China and it looked like Mankind might be on the verge of

putting out his own lights, some unsung and now-vaporized hero

in Washington chose a site for an emergency supply cache. From

what we know now, it sounds like the guy was setting up a

private shelter for himself and a few friends and using the fic-

tion of a government cache to justify the appropriation of tax

dollars. He ran it through channels as a strategic reserve

stockpile (SRS-17374-2).

But it got out of hand. Whoever approved the paperwork

thought SRS-17374-2 was such a great idea he decided to up

the ante and include some surplus government office

machines—you never know when you'll need a typewriter once

everything gets nuked, right? Then someone else added a ship-

ment of winter gear that had wound up in D. C. after having been

sent to Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, by mistake. Hey, nuclear

winters are cold, right? Throw them in too! Another politician

had to get his two cents' worth into SRS-177374-2, and added

to the appropriation...and another...and another...

In true bureaucratic fashion, the thing snowballed until there

was quite a large and impressive inventory of gear at this secret

stockpile—lots of it even useful. Now, the word was, there were

lots of similar stockpiles around the country, but the people who

knew about this secret cache were in Mary/and, and this cache

was real close by, in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania,

and as far as anyone could tell, the place was still secret! Most

of the people who had signed the papers adding to the

stockpile's inventory knew the place only as SRS-177374-2. Only

a handful of people had ever known where SRS-17374-2 was.

It was just such a shame that those idiots had lost the paper-

work that told them where the thing was hidden!

storehouse of weapons, food, records, and supplies.

The party will include several Civgov officials. Depending on

one's interpretation of the characters' contract with the govern-

ment, they may be escorting Civgov officials who have the

responsibility of finding the supplies...or the officials may be

along to safeguard Civgov interests in the expedition. Some

Civgov personnel fear that the players might set up in business

for themselves if they manage to find the cache.

This booklet includes the following materials:

— Introductory material for the adventure.

— Descriptions of those parts of western Maryland and Penn-

sylvania where the adventure takes place.

— Details of various organizations, marauder bands, and local

defense forces in various parts of southwestern Pennsylvania.

— A list of important non-player characters, including people

the player characters must find in order to locate the stockpile,

and the officials who accompany them on the expedition.

— A map of the general area in southwestern Pennsylvania

where the adventure is set, including all or parts of Bedford,

Somerset, Fayette, Westmoreland, and Allegheny Counties.

— Background material on western Pennsylvania's recent

history on the secret supply cache known as SRS-17374-2, and

on the continuing civil war between native inhabitants of the

Allegheny Mountains and the large numbers of war refugees

who entered the area four years ago.

REFEREE'S NOTES

Allegheny Uprising is designed to be used by the referee. Nar-

rative sections describing certain events from the point of view

of one of the characters are provided to add additional detail

and color to the referee's description of events and the adven-

ture's background. These narrative sections may be read to or

by the players, but all other sections are reserved for the referee

alone unless otherwise stated. These narrative sections are set

apart in italic type for easy recognition.

Allegheny Uprising can be the first of many Twilight: 2000

adventures set in western Pennsylvania. Maps and road atlases

available from any book or stationery store may be used to ex-

tend this adventure into an ongoing campaign.

This adventure can also serve as a bridge to adventures set

in other interesting places in the area. The city of Pittsburgh is

still largely intact, though struggling with the problem of large

numbers of refugees, and offers numerous opportunities for

salvage, recruitment, or the creation of a strong local govern-

ment. Civgov officials may decide it would be nice to retrieve

old social security records stored at an underground facility in

the small town of Boyers north of Pittsburgh, and there may

be other hidden government stockpiles of food, weapons, and

records in the area as well. Finally, Milgov may decide that

arteries such as the Pennsylvania Turnpike and U.S. Route 40

are vital to the reopening of a nationwide transportation net-

work, and call on the characters to secure certain roads, passes,

and tunnels through the mountains.

INTRODUCTION

Allegheny Uprising is an adventure for Twilight: 2000, GDW's

post World War III role-playing game. In Allegheny Uprising the

players are members of a military or ex-military unit now in the

service of one fragment of the civilian government of the United

States. Whatever their current loyalties—pro-Civgov or pro-

Milgov- government officials currently in the company of the

228th Infantry Brigade near Fort Meade, Maryland, have hired

them to undertake a difficult and possibly hazardous assignment.

They must travel northwest from Maryland into the Allegheny

Mountains of Pennsylvania in search of a rumored government

William H. Keith, Jr.

PLAYERS SHOULD NOT READ ANY FURTHER

IN THIS BOOKLET IN ORDER TO PRESERVE

THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE

Allegheny Uprising

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The Adventure Plot

Imagine us working for the civvies!

We'd heard a fair amount about the breakup of the U. S. of

A. while we were overseas, but it was still hard to realize that

we were in the middle of an honest-to-God civil war in everything

but the shooting. Both sides had settled into this "we're the

legit/mate government, so don't start anything" attitude which

had Milgov and Civgov glaring at one another and doing a lot

of posturing, but no open warfare...at least, not so far. There

were a lot of scare stories out, of course—firing squads in

Chicago and CIA people running around demanding loyalty

oaths, that kind of thing—but those were just wild rumors, you

know?

Given that cold atmosphere of mutual armed and distrustful

neutrality, Roger Caldwell was something of a surprise.

Caldwell had been a minor functionary of the prewar govern-

ment, under secretary of something-or-other for some bureau

or other. He'd been lucky enough to be spending the Thanksgiv-

ing holiday with relatives in Baltimore when a Red SSBN dropped

a surprise present at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He helped

organize what was left of the Maryland state government at Col-

umbia, and by the time we met him, he was Deputy Governor

of the III Military Region, and a member of the State Emergen-

cy Council.

So what did a mover and shaker like Caldwell want with the

likes of us?

"Treasure," he said. "Imagine an incredible buried

treasure..."

"What?" I said. "Another lost fortune in gold?" You should

have heard some of the wild stories that were going around.

"Better than gold." Caldwell said. "Try machine tools.

Vanadium...chromium... tungsten...a two-hundred bed hospital

and supplies...not to mention guns, ammo, vehicles, gasoline,

generators, blankets...all squirreled away before the war."

"How do you know someone ain't found it?" Zebrowski

wanted to know.

"It's still there. We'd have heard if it had been discovered.

What we want you to do is go find it for us, organize a convoy,

and bring it back. We'll pay you well. Whatever you want. Guns?

Food? Vehicles? I'll set it up."

"Sounds good," I said. Yeah, a little too good. What was the

catch? "Where is this treasure supposed to be, anyway?"

"Ah... that's the one little problem," he said. "Somewhere

in Pennsylvania... but we're not quite sure where..."

So why didn't we walk then? I don't know. Hunting for buried

treasure without a treasure map kind of appealed to my con-

trary nature, I guess. I had to ask one other question though.

"What if we decide to keep the stuff?" I said. "What would

you do then?"

Caldwell smiled. "I think you're trustworthy, or I wouldn't

give you the assignment. Besides," his smile turned grim as he

continued, "Finding an honest man is tough these days...find-

ing a berserker to hunt somebody down is pig simple."

CHARACTER BACKGROUNDS

The player characters may be from any of a number of dif-

ferent backgrounds, depending on previous twists and turns of

their current Twilight: 2000 adventure campaign. If, for exam-

ple, the characters are military personnel who have recently

returned to the United States from Europe (via the evacuation

fleet discussed in Going Home), they will be members of the

US 5th Division or other Army units from the Norfolk, Virginia,

area. If the referee has just completed taking them through the

scenario Armies of the Night, the characters may still be in New

York City or in New Jersey, or they may have returned to Virginia

and be awaiting a new assignment. If the previous Twilight:

2000 adventure was set in Texas (Red Star, Lone Star) or Arkan-

sas (Airlords of the Ozarks), the characters may have been given

government transportation back to the East Coast as part of their

operational orders. Alternatively, they may find places for

themselves (as passengers or as guards) on a military convoy

travelling from Muskogee to the Norfolk area by way of Little

Rock, Memphis, Nashville, and Greensboro.

Allegheny Uprising assumes that the player characters are

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military personnel temporarily in the employ of one faction of

the United States Civgov currently located in Columbia,

Maryland, and in the general area around the ruins of Fort

Meade. Given the current state of near hostilities between the

country's military and civilian governments, this situation is

unusual, but not unheard of. Individual soldiers care little for the

politics of the dispute beyond which side has the best supply

lines, and both governments are, for the moment and outward-

ly, at least, cooperating to a limited extent. Roger Caldwell, in

particular, the man who hires the characters, would like to see

the breach between the civilian and military governments healed,

and might well use the mission as an excuse for incorporating

civilian and military personnel into a single, joint expedition.

There are other possible situations which can serve as

preludes to Allegheny Uprising. The characters could be former

military personnel who have since left the military and struck

out on their own. As such, they will be seeking some way to

exchange their military skills and experience for food and equip-

ment, and Roger Caldwell will offer them both. They could be

members of a U.S. Army unit (such as the 5th Division) who

have become temporarily separated from their unit (through a

marauder attack or shipwreck, for example, as they returned

to Virginia from Manhattan or the Gulf Coast). They have found

themselves stranded in Maryland under the suspicious eyes of

the Civgov officials there. Such characters might offer to ex-

change their services for food, equipment, and transportation

to a Milgov cantonment.

Finally, the characters could be members of a military unit

such as the 228th Infantry Brigade which has declared for the

civilian government. In this instance, the dispute between Milgov

and Civgov will be of no immediate importance at all, and the

character party will be operating directly under the orders of the

Provisional Governor of the III Military Region.

Whatever the background chosen for the player character par-

ty, the referee should feel free to tailor information presented

in this module to fit the existing background of his player group's

ongoing Twilight: 2000 campaign. The adventure will begin with

the character party in Maryland, at some unspecified time after

December 2000.

one of the major east-west roads: Route 30, Route 40, Route

70, or the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The areas, towns, and roads

where the characters might travel or engage in various activities

are described county by county. The players are not required

to visit all of the counties, or all of the towns and areas described

in each county. The referee will use the map of western Penn-

sylvania to determine how far the characters travel during each

play period, and which encounter tables to use. This informa-

tion will also serve to provide the referee with background

material to create his own Twilight: 2000 adventures set in this

part of the country, if the players decide they want to remain

in the area after the conclusion of Allegheny Uprising.

The referee may, at his discretion, allow one or more of the

player characters special knowledge of the area. The fact that

one of the characters originally came from western Pennsylvania

might be introduced as a logical reason for this mission to have

been offered to the player group in the first place. Such players

should not, however, have been in the area since the beginning

of the war—obviously enough, since they've been in Europe or

elsewhere during that time—and they will not be aware of the

polarization of western Pennsylvania's population into two op-

posed camps. Neither will they be aware of current conditions

in the region. The special knowledge borne by native Pennsylva-

nian characters should be limited to the locations of towns and

geographical features, and to the prewar history of the area.

Specific information, such as what sort of government a par-

ticular town has or where a large marauder band is camped

should be left for the players to discover on their own.

Again at the referee's discretion, and with the cooperation

of one or more players in his Twilight: 2000 gaming group, one

or several players may take on the roles of Charles Franklin, Chet

Constable, or Major Howard Kirtchner. Each of these characters

and their goals and motivations are described in the listing of

important NPCs. The referee should secretly coach these players

in the roles they are to assume and should introduce their

characters to the rest of the group during the briefing in

Maryland. Since these characters can become adversaries of

the other players in the group during the course of the adven-

ture, their participation as player characters will add a new

dimension to the intrigue and player interaction as the plot

develops.

PLAYING THE ADVENTURE

As with other Twilight: 2000 adventure modules, Allegheny

Uprising is played as a continuing narrative which unfolds

through interactions between the players and the referee. This

scenario booklet is designed to help the referee create and

develop situations as the adventure unfolds in the course of play.

Play as described in this booklet begins in central Maryland,

which is discussed in the first of the area descriptions.

Depending on the background of the ongoing campaign, some

referees may prefer to begin the scenario with the player

characters somewhere along the Mississippi or Ohio Rivers. An

adventure group which has recently completed the module

Airlords of the Ozarks may begin in Memphis, Tennessee, which

is currently held by the 197th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized),

and make their way by barge or river tug up the Mississippi and

Ohio Rivers to Pittsburgh. In the summer of 2001, this would

be a long and difficult journey, made dangerous by the marauder

and pirate bands which infest the river valley regions and prey

on inland waterway commerce. The trek could easily be spun

out into a long campaign in its own right.

If the players begin the adventure in Maryland, however, they

will enter western Pennsylvania and cross the mountains along

PREPARING FOR THE EXPEDITION

Vehicles: The players should have some say in the equipment

issued to them from the 228th logistical depot for the expedi-

tion. Up to five HMMWV ("hum vee") squad carriers are

available. At the player characters' request, these may be armed

with M2HB MGs or Mark 19 AGLs. If the players desire, other

vehicles may be made available for their use. These include 5/4-

ton utility trucks, FAVs mounting TOWs or M60 MGs, or 2½-ton

cargo trucks. TOW missiles will be in extremely short supply,

but reasonable supplies of other ammunition will be available.

Details on these vehicles and others are given in the Twilight:

2000 basic game equipment list, and in GDW's U.S. Army Vehi-

cle Guide.

Personal Weapons: The characters may be allowed to draw

personal weapons (if they have none), including M1 6A2s, HK

CAWs, M249s, M60 machineguns, and M203 grenade launch-

ers. The assault rifles and ammunition are plentiful. Heavier and

more exotic weaponry is more scarce and should be limited by

the referee to no more than two or three such weapons for the

entire player group. Depending on the agreement drawn up

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