What better to do on a holiday than burn rubber through an irradiated wasteland, crushing the ancient bones of silver screen C-listers! This hexographer map is a chunk out of my vision of a future California coast (uploaded in a previous post). I'm working on encounters for the sandbox format, with some known locations filled in and some local monster threats named. Some details and notes:

1) The primary settlement of "Morrow" men, 29 Palms, isn't on the map. The character "base" is a lone fortification known as Sunshine Depot, named after the raisin company logo emblazoning semi-trailers used to form the perimeter. This is the barter-based machine shop and armory for agents and explorers of the wasteland.

2) Inyo Oasis is a priceless lake of fresh water, needing brave fighters to defend it from the rampant Reno Morlocks and dangerous Cisternaworms (Puddle Worms in the MF rulebook).

3) The Filter-Face Gang are outlaws from 29 Palms, soldiers that refused to cooperate with friendly mutants from Shasta Dome. They stole the best anti-radiation gear from the stronghold, and rarely remove their filtration masks. They live to hunt subhumans and mutated "big game".

4) Poison Pasadena & Septic Simi are the only southern ruins where structures from the lost ages survive. However, these hot spots are filled with vermin, like exploding Ozo-Crows and giant insects.

5) Tehachapi Tower is a defended gas well and communication tower. Men armed with flamethrowers patrol the grassland for swarms of Glowcusts, ravenous 16" grasshoppers that require population control.

6) The Miracle Forest of Kern is a new wetland of petrified juniper and edible giant mushrooms. Unfortunately, the strange bio-weapons known as Prop-Dogs remain here from the Sectoid War. Grown in underground cyber-vats, these canine creatures have had their skulls replaced with a bullet-shaped metal case. Blender-like blades rotate around the circumference of the robotic "head", mutilating any humanoid target the dogs find. 

7) Boracic Jellies are sea-creatures hunted for their unique salt compounds that are used to make energy weapon power cells.

8) Lepdalids are the rabbit leeches from the MF book, and Steeranosaurs are ox-headed livestock with dinosaur bodies. The latter are occasionally used as riding mounts.