Protect and Survive (BRP)
It's 1984. IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD. SWITCH OFF YOUR CASSETTE WALKMAN AND STOP LISTENING TO DURAN DURAN!
It's 1984. The Cold War has gone hot. After a NATO military exercise¸ a full strategic exchange of nuclear and occult weapons has silenced the world.
London has miraculously survived - saved by eldritch technology - but technology that has caused irreparable damage to the walls between worlds.
The Prime Minister¸ Margaret Thatcher¸ has established a number of Rapid Reaction Teams.
Your role is to work in secrecy and investigate phenomena and situations that are neither civil or military.
Protect and Survive includes:
- A full post apocalyptic campaign setting¸ including key locations and a suggested timeline of events
- Eight missions for your team to explore the horrors of post-strike London and environs
- Eleven suitable occupations
- Twelve new mythos monsters
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Setting: Armageddon 1984
1939¸ The Nazi Discovery
The Cold War
1983: The Year the World Ended
The Awful Truth
The State of the Country
Civil Defence
The Rest of the World
London¸ March 1984
Hazards of the apocalypse
Communications breakdown
Demographics and Geography of London
Who is in charge of London?
Security forces
Transport
Food and water
Health
Power
British Culture in 1983-4
Places of Interest
The illuminated city
No.10 Downing Street¸ Westminster
Houses of Parliament¸ Westminster
Ministry of Defence¸ Westminster
Queen Anne's Gate¸ Westminster
Greater London Council Town Hall
British Telecom Tower¸ Fitzrovia
Barbican Estate
Millbank Tower¸ Westminster
Covent Garden Market
Brick Lane
Centrepoint
Soho
The City of London
Going Underground
Weird London
Smithfield Meat Market¸ Farringdon
South Bank Centre¸ Waterloo
Reliance Arcade (Indoor Market)¸ Brixton
Regent's Canal¸ Camden
Embankment Underground Station
West India Docks¸ the Isle of Dogs
The British Museum¸ Bloomsbury
The Greenwich Foot Tunnel
The London Defence Array
Potters Bar
Epping Forest
Brentwood
Tilbury Docks¸ Gravesend Swanley
Biggin Hill
Kenley Aerodrome¸ Coulsdon Epsom
Shepperton
Heathrow Airport
RAF Northolt
Watford
Using the setting: Campaign Styles Occupations
Campaign timeline and scenario ideas
Mission Outlines
Mission 1 (March 1984)
Mission 2 (April 1984)
Mission 3 (May 1984)
Mission 4 (June 1984)
Mission 5 (July 1984)
Mission 6 (August 1984)
Mission 7 (September 1984)
Mission 8 (October 1984)
Epilogue
Bestiary
Gang members
Soldier
Flesh Puppet
Dennis Nilsen's Creature
Mantid Horrors
Maw People
Vault Robbers
Radioactive Ghouls
Kelvedon Hatch Militia
Glass Crabs
The Staines Massive
Dr Ludwig
Plasmic Horror
Thought Eaters
Rubicund Orb
The Hollow
Demon Bees
Automata
Gorgon
Further reading and inspiration