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Dad got sick in

the great puke,

The CDC came in

and now ru-

mors of mutatio

ns, viruses, The

Blind and People

are even claim-

ing they see mon

sters.

The Blind are sic

k people and on

e

of them is my d

addy. I don't

know if anyone

is telling the

truth; the CDC, T

he army, The

government, or t

he Gangs.

Sam

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What Is Roleplaying?

Roleplaying is simply the process of taking on a role to play a game. Video games, vari-ous books, and board games allow you to take on the role of interesting characters in different situations. Tabletop role playing entails getting together with friends and tak-ing on the roles face to face (usually at a table). One person often takes on the role of the Storyteller and he or she is just as vital to the game as the players. They write the scenarios, figure out the results of your actions, and generally work with the players to make the game as fun as possible.

Remember that role playing is first and foremost about having fun. If you’re not hav-ing fun, talk to your friends and find a way to compromise so that everyone can have fun. Some folks like a more story oriented experience while others enjoy a tactical form of gaming with lots of combat and less focus on storytelling. Both are valid and a lot of fun.

Roleplaying is a great way to make new friends and have a good time exploration worlds of fantasy and adventure. Enjoy your forays into role playing and Island City Horror!

About This Game.

Island City is a tabletop role playing game using a unique system to play out fun sce-narios set in a city filled with mystery, horror, and suspense. If you enjoy zombies, el-dritch horrors, and mysteries that probably shouldn’t be solved then Island City Horror is for you!

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The Setting: Island City Horror"It started with a fever, got so bad that it literally boiled out their eyeballs. Yes I know it doesn't make sense but they were still alive after, empty eye sockets and all. When it started spreading, that's when they shut down the island."~ Doctor James Pridain, Director of Saint Thomas Hospital

"Listen, listen, can you hear them? There's some kind of chanting in the hospital. Ben bring the van up closer, see if we can't get a better shot. They've been chanting for hours but I can't tell what they're. Ben, I said move the van. Ben?"~ Camera Operator Bianca Pane, last seen recording near St. Thomas Hospital

“Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place."~ 2 Chronicles 7:15

Island City is an urban area sticking out on the East Coast of the US and it has recently become a very bad place to live. Street gangs war with local police, poor folks work for too little pay and too many hours, and corruption in the local government means that very little gets fixed up or taken care of. This has left the city decaying in most places and fully dead in others. All in all a very bad place for most people and a great location to start a business if that business involves murder, drugs, or arson.

But against all odds things have become worse. Some kind of sickness has started spreading from the hospital and when local doctors could do nothing to stem the seem-ingly random infection, the government ordered the island quarantined, the only con-nection to the mainland via electrical and sewage lines. Now the several hundred thou-sand inhabitants have limited food and medical care and very little hope of a cure.

And while material concerns plague everyone, something sinister is stirring in the wa-ter...

Sam

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Answers Not Forth Coming

They keep showing up. Every day we have a staff meeting talking about the best we can do for patient X, what seems to work better or worse. We talk for an hour about what it could be, what rumor makes sense to follow up on this week; so we can find a cure. We try to find hope in the fact the numbers are dropping, but we deep down we know it’s because they are just not getting to us.Every day it seems the sick, the more cynical or scared among us call them the Blind-ed, moved beyond our ability to help. We are the CDC damn it! Every available re-source is at our finger tips. There is nothing we cannot get or use; I have a copy of a presidential order for god’s sake. Yet we scour the internet for rumors to help us try and diagnose where this damn disease came from, assuming it even is the virus we think it is.. “Yvette, could you look at this? I think it might just be something.” As I walk over I look at the owner of the youthful voice who called to me. John Haskins a new single doctor from somewhere near Washington; we were all without immedi-ate family now after we lost Trace and Carol. Who knows how they became Blinded. Haskins looks at me, that hopeful maybe you have not seen this before look in his eyes; almost desperate for some new clue. I look in the microscope and see the cells die, yet not die. I see the cellular mutations and the cells that look like a bomb scrambled them into something not human, but yet still human. Haskins points out the discoloration on the outer sheath of the white cells, suggests it could be a change that makes the white cells attack the body that made them. “Trace saw that 5 months ago, before he ” I trail off remembering his smile and the way he spoke of his wife and 7 kids. It was the same thing I had said to Trace; 5 months later he was a blind, hyper-aggressive, kill-ing machine. No one could explain how he caught it, what protocol had failed. Trace had been fine and then he was sick and losing his vision. The whole situation made no damn sense. It was like the damn disease had picked him because he was on to some-thing, which made as much sense as any other cause.Hell in the 10 months I have been working here I have heard every theory or ru-mor that explains the origin of this virus; Aliens, Mad Scientists, Corporate hijinx, high school chemistry experiments gone wrong, and more others than I could count. I half believe the rumors that the government started it to thin out the population, or that it was caused by a flu vaccines mutation; some many guesses as to the cause of the dis-ease. Many guesses but no answers seemed to be forthcoming. Any one could be right; yet none were, not at least that the science could prove.I used to cry when we lost a test subject, that we could not help them, that we were failing them somehow. Now I just say a prayer and move on to the next test cycle, the next test vaccine, hoping we find a cure before my vision starts to get fuzzy like Trace’s.I dream of myself going blind as 10,000 more come wailing to our hospital to save them.

Sam

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The System: Simple D6For this game we will be using a very simple conflict resolution system that uses d6s for the rolling. When you need to resolve a conflict, for example in a fight, you would roll a number of d6s (between 1 and 3) and consult the following table to see how well you did.

1: Fail - You failed in a spectacular way, earning you some added negative consequence.2: Fail You fail marginally without any extra bad stuff.3: Fail + You failed but not so badly and you've got a chance to turn things around.4: Succeed - You barely succeeded and left yourself open to complications.5: Succeed You succeeded at your goal, nothing more or less.6: Succeed + You succeeded spectacularly and earned some added benefit.

Depending on how many successes or failures you rolled and the degree to which you did either, the GM can figure out what's happened and how well you've done.

I plan to move thr

ough town and

find my dad and

see what I can

do to piece this st

ory together,

like Mr jorgenson t

aught us. I

will figure this out

and get the

story out so it doe

s not happen

again.I am tryi

ng to at least find

out

what the hell the

CDC and the

Gov types ae doin

g. Lots of guns

keeping us in and

no answers.

maybe the gangs h

ave an Idea.

Sam

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Character Generation A smple design that requires that you assign 1, 2, or 3 dice to the three skill sets. Those skill sets are: Physical, Mental, and Social.

The Physical skill set covers situations that involve athletics, running, jumping, and en-durance. This skill also governs what your damage threshold is, which we'll be discussing later.

The Mental skill set governs intellect, logic, education, and mental composure. This skill also affects your sanity thresh-old, which we'll be discussing later.

The Social skill set covers situ-ations like intimidation, per-suasion, and understanding the motives of others. The amount of die in your Social skill also dictates how many luck dice you have in your pool. We'll be discussing the luck pool later.

Each skill set also has a number of sub-skills equal to the num-ber of dice in that set. These sub-skills represent specializa-tions that your character has gained through practice of that skill. You may chose these skills yourself and it can be great way to add variety to your character. Please note that all skill choices are subject to change by the GM.

Next we'll be discussing your defenses and how they work.

In the previous section Thresh-olds were mentioned and now we'll go through what those mean and how they work.

Military just attacked

something out in the bay,

there are a ton of Blind

on the beaches, Going up

high maybe I can see dad-

dy. Oh God the MILITARY

IS BLASTIng the Blind! Oh

God. Daddy why can’t I

see you.

Sam

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