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Warning! Violence, War, Magic & the Supernatural The fictional world of Rifts® is violent, deadly and filled with supernatural monsters. Other-dimensional beings often referred to as "demons," tonnent, stalk and prey on humans. Other alien life fonns, monsters, gods and demigods, as well as magic, insanity, and war are all elements in this book. Some parents may find the violence, magic and supernatural elements of the game inappropriate for yOlli1g readers/players. We suggest parental discretion. Please note that none of us at Palladium Books® condone or encourage the occult, the practice of magic, the use of drugs, or violence. A World 109 P.A. An epic adventure sourcebookfor the Rifts® series. Compatible with the entire Palladium Books® Megaverse®! 1 Sample file

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Warning Violence War Magic amp the Supernatural

The fictional world of Riftsreg is violent deadly and filled with supernatural monsters Other-dimensional beings often referred to as demons tonnent stalk and prey on humans Other alien life fonns monsters gods and demigods as well as magic insanity and war are all elements in this book

Some parents may find the violence magic and supernatural elements of the game inappropriate for yOlli1g readersplayers We suggest parental discretion

Please note that none of us at Palladium Booksreg condone or encourage the occult the practice of magic the use of drugs or violence

A World ~erview 109 PA An epic adventure sourcebookfor the Riftsreg series Compatible with the entire Palladium Booksreg Megaversereg

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Dedication To my brother Brian and my father Henry

Life is a war of attrition This book is dedicated to everyone who fights the good fight with some moshydicum of dignity style and grace and to those who hold onto their dreams

- Kevin Siembieda 2002

Also for Riftsreg Riftsreg Adventure Guidetrade

Riftsreg Game Master Guide

Riftsreg Book of Magic

The Riftertrade Sourcebook Series

Coalition Warstrade (Siege on TolkeenTM) Series

Riftsreg Anvil GalaxyTM (a Phase WorJdreg sourcebook)

Riftsreg Dragons amp Godstrade (coming)

Riftsreg Africa Two (coming)

and more

Available at stores everywhere

The cover Tolkeen resistance fighters ready themselves for a platoon of Coalition soldiers pressing through the smoke and haze of the city still under siege Painted by Dave Donnan

First Printing - April 2002

Copyright 2002 by Palladium Books Inc amp Kevin Siembieda

All rights reserved worldwide under the Universal Copyright Convention No part of this book may be reproduced in part or whole in any fonn or by any means without pennission from the publisher except for brief quotes for use in reviews All incidents situations institutions governments and people are fictional and any similarity without satiric intent of characters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental

Palladium Booksreg Riftsreg The Rifterreg RECONreg Phase WorJdreg The Mechanoid Invasionreg and Megaversereg are regshyistered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc

Coalition Wars Coalition States Coalition War Campaign Coalition Navy Chi-Town Free Quebec Old Bones Lazlo New Lazlo Tolkeen Freehold Magestock The Barrens Center Gear Cyberworks Northern Gun Manistique Imperium Iron Heart Triax amp The NGR Lone Star Psyscape Federation of Magic New West Glitter Boy Skelebot Xiticix Dog Boy Dog Pack Dead Boy SAMAS Techno-Wizard Temporal Raider Ley Line Walker Shifter Headhunter Cyber-Knight Psi-Stalker Simvan Mind Melter Burster Juicer Crazy Borg Bot Burb D-Bee Shemarrian Cyber-Doc Dragon Kings Shadow Dragons Archie Three Hagan Lanovich Lord Dunscon Emperor Prosek Karl Prosek Joseph Prosek the First Joseph Prosek II Erin Tarn Sir Thorpe Lord Coake The Defilers Robert Creed Corin Scard Sgt Deon Canton General Jericho Holmes Colonel Lyboc Julian the First Minions of Splugorth Splugorth Splynn Splynncryth Kittani Kydian Altara Iron Juggernauts Daemonix Lannac Lyn-Srial Brodkil Black Faerie Witchling and other names titles character names character likenesses and slogans are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc

Palladium On-Line wwwpalladiumbookscom

Riftsreg Aftermath is published by Palladium Books Inc 12455 Universal Drive Taylor MI 48180 Printed in the USA

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Palladium Booksreg Presents

Riftsreg Aftermath t09 PA Life after Tolkeen and an World Overview

Written by Kevin Siembieda

Some compilation and additional text Bill Coffin

Includes some excepted material by Carella Coffin Kornman Lucas Nowak Sumimoto and others

Editors Alex Marciniszyn

Wayne Smith

Proofreader Julius Rosenstein

Cover Painting Dave Dorman

Interior Artists Wayne Breaux Jr

Kent Buries

Scott Johnson

Ramon Perez Jr

Freddie Williams II

Michael Wilson

Art Direction amp Keylining Kevin Siembieda

Typography Maryann Siembieda

Based on the RPG rules text characters

concepts and Megaversereg created by Kevin Siembieda

Special Thanks to all my artists for working with me through thick and thin (not to mention helping me look good with their fantastic artistry) and to Maryann Wayne Alex Steve Bill Erick and all the Palladium madmen who put their hearts and souls into making Palladium Books the best we can be

- Kevin Siembieda 2002

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Contents A changing worldmiddot Tolkeen 109 PA The fortunes of war

Opportunists and cutthroats Honorable Troops Most Grunts

Securing the area Environment

A race for magic amp secrets Archie Three Typical CS Magic Recovery Team

CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) Dead Boy Body Armor Typical Coalition RRT middot Psychological Trauma Table (optional) Mop Up Operations CS Field Medical Ops

Coalition Bounties The Streets of ToIkeen Tolkeen Resistance Fighters

Retribution Squads Cyborgs amp Headhunters

Common Urban Warfare Strategies amp Tactics Warlocks amp Elementals

Other Supernatural Creaturesmiddot Iron Juggernauts

Rescues at Tolkeen Refugee Rescue Operations

The role of the various Occs middot Night Stalkers in the City middot

Wild Dog Packs Dinosaurs Supernatural Predators Devil Unicorns Mercenaries amp Looters

Refugee Exodus Mundane Considerations Attacks Ambush Robbery amp Murder Paths to Freedom

The Inhuman Factor The Barrier to the East Tolkeen s Transient Population by Race

The Second Juicer Uprising Julian the First Quick Stats Juicer Army of Liberation

Larsen s Brigade Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen I3lack Marketmiddot The World of Rifts - 109 PA Rifts North America Canada

An Overview Free State of Lazlo

Lazlo 109 PA A letter from Erin Tam

Lazlo and the war at Free Quebec For the time being Avenues of ad venture

Lazlo and the siege on Tolkeen The refugee relief effort Protecting secrets of magic middot

Free Quebec The changing tides of war

Free Quebec 09 PA Minions of Splugorth Pirates Shemarrian Uprising

7 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 15 15 16 18 19 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 27 29 29 29 29 30 30

33 33 35 35 35 36 36 37 39 39 42 45 46

47 49 49 49 50 51 51 53 55 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 63 63

Splugorth Incursions in Eastern Canada 65 Little Atlantis Colony middot 65 Ghost Island Colony 66 Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen 67

Xiticix Hivelands 67 Xiticix 109 PA 69

Calgary The Monster Kingdom 70 The Calgary Highlanders 71

The Old American Empiremiddot 72 A Historical Overview middot 72

The Eastmiddot 74 The Shemarrians New England States middot 75

The Shemarrian Uprising middot 75 Archie-Three middot 77

Archie amp the Shemarrians 77 Stats on Shemarrians 78 Stats on Monst-Rex 81

Archie s web of power and subterfuge middot 83 The eyes and ears of Archie-Three 87 Targets for Intelligence Gathering middot 88 Titan Robotics Complex 89 Argent Goodson 91 Desmond Masters 92

Elsewhere in America 93 The Deep South 93 Alabama The Dark Woods 93

The Hamlet of Clavicle 94 Dinosaur Swamp Georgia and Floridamiddot 95 Kentucky amp Tennessee 95

Soul harvest 95 Magic Zone middot 96

The Devils Gate 97 Federation of Magic Ohio Valley middot 98

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen operations in the aftermath 100 The Federation amp the Vanguard 100

Kingdom of Dunscon 109 PA 100 City of Brass 102

In the Aftermath of ToIkeen s fall 102 The war that isn t middot 104 The first target 104

City of Dweomer 105 After the fall of To Ikeen 105

The Grey Seers 106 The Society of Sages middot 106 Stormspire 107 Soulharvestmiddot 108 Undead Juicers 109 Minnesotamiddot 110 Michiganmiddot ]]0 Lower Michigan 109 PA 110

Demon Hordes of Michigan 111 Coastal Civilization- II I New Lazlo Lower Michigan 112 The Midwest amp Ley Line Communities 113

Mississippi River middot 114 Missouri 115 North amp South Dakota 115

Castles in the Clouds 117 Lyn-Srial 18

Northern Gun amp Manistique Imperium 120 Oklahoma amp Kansas 122

Kansas Labyrinth 122 The First Cavalry 123

Psyscape 124 The Secret War to stop Nxla 125

Nebraska 126 Nevada 126

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Area 51 amp Bandito Arms Utah

Abandoned Missile Silos Westward

Black Hills of Wyoming middot Wisconsin The American Southwestmiddot Colorado Texas - Lone Star New Mexico Arizona

Tryth-Sal (Lyn-Srial city) Arzno

The Coalition States A Brief Overview amp Update

The CS in the Aftennath of War The Vanguard

State of EI Dorado Arkansas State of Missouri Mexico The Vampire Kingdoms The Yucatan Peninsula South America The Republic of Colombia Vampire Kingdom of Haktla Land of a Thousand Islands

Kingdom of Lagarto EI Dorado amp Three Cities of Gold

Empire of the Sun Atlantis Africa Northern Africa

Phoenix Empire The African Interior Europe England

New Camelotmiddot France

The New German Republic The War of the Ages

Poland Mindwerks

By 109 PA middot The Brodkil Empire The Gargoyle Empire Gargoyle vs Brodkil The New Russian Frontier The European Wilderness Asia China Korea

The Japanese Islands Australia The High Seas Lord of the Deep Horune Pirates The Solar System Space Stations Moon Colonymiddot Mars Colonymiddot

126 127 127 Quick Find 128 Adventure ideas in Lazlo 55 129 Adventure ideas in Tolkeen II 130 Archie 77 130 Archie Coalition States 86 amp 88 130 Archie Cyberworks 84 131 Archie Hates Splugorth 78 amp 89 132 Archie Magic items in Tolkeen II 133

Archie New Cedarville 86 amp 90133 Archie Satellite Communications 84134 Barrens The 23134 Black Hill Empire 129

137 Bridge Themiddot 23

138 Brodkil vs Gargoyle Empire 179 180 amp 182 139 Buried Alive Psychological Trauma Table 15141 Calgary Highlanders 71

144 Cloud Castles 117145 Colonel Lyboc amp the JAL 41148 CS Bounties 16148 CS Devil s Gate St Louis 97149 CS Field Medical Ops 15150 CS fortunes of war 7

151 CS Magic Recovery Teams II152 CS Magic Recovery Team (Typical) 12

153 CS Military Ops against Xiticix 70

154 CS Operations in Tolkeen 7

156 CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) middot 13162 Cyberworks 83

163 Daemonix 25 164

Dragonwright (see Lagarto) 152165 Elementals at Tolkeen 23

167 Federation of Magic 98

167 Federation of Magic Tolkeen Magic amp Secretsmiddot 10

169 Federation of Magic Unites 100 173

Federation of Magic War plans 101 amp 104 174

First Apocalyptic Cavalry 123175 Grim Reapers 109 176

Iron Juggernauts 25 27178 179

JAL Juicer Leader (Julian) middot 37 JAL Juicer Anny of Liberation 41

180 Larsens Brigade 42181

Lyn-Srial 33118 amp 133182 Monst-Rex 81184 Murder Wraiths (Undead Juicers) J09 186 Necromancers of Clavicle 94186

Nxla The Harvester of Souls 108amp 125186

Psi-Stalkers vs Xiticix 69187

Raven McCoy (see Desmond Masters) 92187 Retribution Squads 19 192

Saint Louis Rift (see The Devil s Gate) 97197

Secret War Soulharvest 95 108 amp 125199 Shemarrian Stats amp Datamiddot 78 200 Soul harvest I 08

middot 201 Soulless Xombies of Soulharvest 96 middot 202 Splugorth Colonymiddot 63 middot 205 Splugorth Slavers in Tolkeen 30 amp 45 middot 206 Titan Robotics 89

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen Looters 30 Tolkeen Resistence Fighters amp Magic J J amp 19 Tolkeen Retribution Squads 19 Traveling Shows 35 Traversing our Modem Worldmiddot 7S Urban Warfare 21

Vanguard 100 amp 139

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Dedication To my brother Brian and my father Henry

Life is a war of attrition This book is dedicated to everyone who fights the good fight with some moshydicum of dignity style and grace and to those who hold onto their dreams

- Kevin Siembieda 2002

Also for Riftsreg Riftsreg Adventure Guidetrade

Riftsreg Game Master Guide

Riftsreg Book of Magic

The Riftertrade Sourcebook Series

Coalition Warstrade (Siege on TolkeenTM) Series

Riftsreg Anvil GalaxyTM (a Phase WorJdreg sourcebook)

Riftsreg Dragons amp Godstrade (coming)

Riftsreg Africa Two (coming)

and more

Available at stores everywhere

The cover Tolkeen resistance fighters ready themselves for a platoon of Coalition soldiers pressing through the smoke and haze of the city still under siege Painted by Dave Donnan

First Printing - April 2002

Copyright 2002 by Palladium Books Inc amp Kevin Siembieda

All rights reserved worldwide under the Universal Copyright Convention No part of this book may be reproduced in part or whole in any fonn or by any means without pennission from the publisher except for brief quotes for use in reviews All incidents situations institutions governments and people are fictional and any similarity without satiric intent of characters or persons living or dead is strictly coincidental

Palladium Booksreg Riftsreg The Rifterreg RECONreg Phase WorJdreg The Mechanoid Invasionreg and Megaversereg are regshyistered trademarks owned and licensed by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc

Coalition Wars Coalition States Coalition War Campaign Coalition Navy Chi-Town Free Quebec Old Bones Lazlo New Lazlo Tolkeen Freehold Magestock The Barrens Center Gear Cyberworks Northern Gun Manistique Imperium Iron Heart Triax amp The NGR Lone Star Psyscape Federation of Magic New West Glitter Boy Skelebot Xiticix Dog Boy Dog Pack Dead Boy SAMAS Techno-Wizard Temporal Raider Ley Line Walker Shifter Headhunter Cyber-Knight Psi-Stalker Simvan Mind Melter Burster Juicer Crazy Borg Bot Burb D-Bee Shemarrian Cyber-Doc Dragon Kings Shadow Dragons Archie Three Hagan Lanovich Lord Dunscon Emperor Prosek Karl Prosek Joseph Prosek the First Joseph Prosek II Erin Tarn Sir Thorpe Lord Coake The Defilers Robert Creed Corin Scard Sgt Deon Canton General Jericho Holmes Colonel Lyboc Julian the First Minions of Splugorth Splugorth Splynn Splynncryth Kittani Kydian Altara Iron Juggernauts Daemonix Lannac Lyn-Srial Brodkil Black Faerie Witchling and other names titles character names character likenesses and slogans are trademarks owned by Kevin Siembieda and Palladium Books Inc

Palladium On-Line wwwpalladiumbookscom

Riftsreg Aftermath is published by Palladium Books Inc 12455 Universal Drive Taylor MI 48180 Printed in the USA

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Palladium Booksreg Presents

Riftsreg Aftermath t09 PA Life after Tolkeen and an World Overview

Written by Kevin Siembieda

Some compilation and additional text Bill Coffin

Includes some excepted material by Carella Coffin Kornman Lucas Nowak Sumimoto and others

Editors Alex Marciniszyn

Wayne Smith

Proofreader Julius Rosenstein

Cover Painting Dave Dorman

Interior Artists Wayne Breaux Jr

Kent Buries

Scott Johnson

Ramon Perez Jr

Freddie Williams II

Michael Wilson

Art Direction amp Keylining Kevin Siembieda

Typography Maryann Siembieda

Based on the RPG rules text characters

concepts and Megaversereg created by Kevin Siembieda

Special Thanks to all my artists for working with me through thick and thin (not to mention helping me look good with their fantastic artistry) and to Maryann Wayne Alex Steve Bill Erick and all the Palladium madmen who put their hearts and souls into making Palladium Books the best we can be

- Kevin Siembieda 2002

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Contents A changing worldmiddot Tolkeen 109 PA The fortunes of war

Opportunists and cutthroats Honorable Troops Most Grunts

Securing the area Environment

A race for magic amp secrets Archie Three Typical CS Magic Recovery Team

CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) Dead Boy Body Armor Typical Coalition RRT middot Psychological Trauma Table (optional) Mop Up Operations CS Field Medical Ops

Coalition Bounties The Streets of ToIkeen Tolkeen Resistance Fighters

Retribution Squads Cyborgs amp Headhunters

Common Urban Warfare Strategies amp Tactics Warlocks amp Elementals

Other Supernatural Creaturesmiddot Iron Juggernauts

Rescues at Tolkeen Refugee Rescue Operations

The role of the various Occs middot Night Stalkers in the City middot

Wild Dog Packs Dinosaurs Supernatural Predators Devil Unicorns Mercenaries amp Looters

Refugee Exodus Mundane Considerations Attacks Ambush Robbery amp Murder Paths to Freedom

The Inhuman Factor The Barrier to the East Tolkeen s Transient Population by Race

The Second Juicer Uprising Julian the First Quick Stats Juicer Army of Liberation

Larsen s Brigade Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen I3lack Marketmiddot The World of Rifts - 109 PA Rifts North America Canada

An Overview Free State of Lazlo

Lazlo 109 PA A letter from Erin Tam

Lazlo and the war at Free Quebec For the time being Avenues of ad venture

Lazlo and the siege on Tolkeen The refugee relief effort Protecting secrets of magic middot

Free Quebec The changing tides of war

Free Quebec 09 PA Minions of Splugorth Pirates Shemarrian Uprising

7 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 15 15 16 18 19 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 27 29 29 29 29 30 30

33 33 35 35 35 36 36 37 39 39 42 45 46

47 49 49 49 50 51 51 53 55 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 63 63

Splugorth Incursions in Eastern Canada 65 Little Atlantis Colony middot 65 Ghost Island Colony 66 Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen 67

Xiticix Hivelands 67 Xiticix 109 PA 69

Calgary The Monster Kingdom 70 The Calgary Highlanders 71

The Old American Empiremiddot 72 A Historical Overview middot 72

The Eastmiddot 74 The Shemarrians New England States middot 75

The Shemarrian Uprising middot 75 Archie-Three middot 77

Archie amp the Shemarrians 77 Stats on Shemarrians 78 Stats on Monst-Rex 81

Archie s web of power and subterfuge middot 83 The eyes and ears of Archie-Three 87 Targets for Intelligence Gathering middot 88 Titan Robotics Complex 89 Argent Goodson 91 Desmond Masters 92

Elsewhere in America 93 The Deep South 93 Alabama The Dark Woods 93

The Hamlet of Clavicle 94 Dinosaur Swamp Georgia and Floridamiddot 95 Kentucky amp Tennessee 95

Soul harvest 95 Magic Zone middot 96

The Devils Gate 97 Federation of Magic Ohio Valley middot 98

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen operations in the aftermath 100 The Federation amp the Vanguard 100

Kingdom of Dunscon 109 PA 100 City of Brass 102

In the Aftermath of ToIkeen s fall 102 The war that isn t middot 104 The first target 104

City of Dweomer 105 After the fall of To Ikeen 105

The Grey Seers 106 The Society of Sages middot 106 Stormspire 107 Soulharvestmiddot 108 Undead Juicers 109 Minnesotamiddot 110 Michiganmiddot ]]0 Lower Michigan 109 PA 110

Demon Hordes of Michigan 111 Coastal Civilization- II I New Lazlo Lower Michigan 112 The Midwest amp Ley Line Communities 113

Mississippi River middot 114 Missouri 115 North amp South Dakota 115

Castles in the Clouds 117 Lyn-Srial 18

Northern Gun amp Manistique Imperium 120 Oklahoma amp Kansas 122

Kansas Labyrinth 122 The First Cavalry 123

Psyscape 124 The Secret War to stop Nxla 125

Nebraska 126 Nevada 126

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Area 51 amp Bandito Arms Utah

Abandoned Missile Silos Westward

Black Hills of Wyoming middot Wisconsin The American Southwestmiddot Colorado Texas - Lone Star New Mexico Arizona

Tryth-Sal (Lyn-Srial city) Arzno

The Coalition States A Brief Overview amp Update

The CS in the Aftennath of War The Vanguard

State of EI Dorado Arkansas State of Missouri Mexico The Vampire Kingdoms The Yucatan Peninsula South America The Republic of Colombia Vampire Kingdom of Haktla Land of a Thousand Islands

Kingdom of Lagarto EI Dorado amp Three Cities of Gold

Empire of the Sun Atlantis Africa Northern Africa

Phoenix Empire The African Interior Europe England

New Camelotmiddot France

The New German Republic The War of the Ages

Poland Mindwerks

By 109 PA middot The Brodkil Empire The Gargoyle Empire Gargoyle vs Brodkil The New Russian Frontier The European Wilderness Asia China Korea

The Japanese Islands Australia The High Seas Lord of the Deep Horune Pirates The Solar System Space Stations Moon Colonymiddot Mars Colonymiddot

126 127 127 Quick Find 128 Adventure ideas in Lazlo 55 129 Adventure ideas in Tolkeen II 130 Archie 77 130 Archie Coalition States 86 amp 88 130 Archie Cyberworks 84 131 Archie Hates Splugorth 78 amp 89 132 Archie Magic items in Tolkeen II 133

Archie New Cedarville 86 amp 90133 Archie Satellite Communications 84134 Barrens The 23134 Black Hill Empire 129

137 Bridge Themiddot 23

138 Brodkil vs Gargoyle Empire 179 180 amp 182 139 Buried Alive Psychological Trauma Table 15141 Calgary Highlanders 71

144 Cloud Castles 117145 Colonel Lyboc amp the JAL 41148 CS Bounties 16148 CS Devil s Gate St Louis 97149 CS Field Medical Ops 15150 CS fortunes of war 7

151 CS Magic Recovery Teams II152 CS Magic Recovery Team (Typical) 12

153 CS Military Ops against Xiticix 70

154 CS Operations in Tolkeen 7

156 CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) middot 13162 Cyberworks 83

163 Daemonix 25 164

Dragonwright (see Lagarto) 152165 Elementals at Tolkeen 23

167 Federation of Magic 98

167 Federation of Magic Tolkeen Magic amp Secretsmiddot 10

169 Federation of Magic Unites 100 173

Federation of Magic War plans 101 amp 104 174

First Apocalyptic Cavalry 123175 Grim Reapers 109 176

Iron Juggernauts 25 27178 179

JAL Juicer Leader (Julian) middot 37 JAL Juicer Anny of Liberation 41

180 Larsens Brigade 42181

Lyn-Srial 33118 amp 133182 Monst-Rex 81184 Murder Wraiths (Undead Juicers) J09 186 Necromancers of Clavicle 94186

Nxla The Harvester of Souls 108amp 125186

Psi-Stalkers vs Xiticix 69187

Raven McCoy (see Desmond Masters) 92187 Retribution Squads 19 192

Saint Louis Rift (see The Devil s Gate) 97197

Secret War Soulharvest 95 108 amp 125199 Shemarrian Stats amp Datamiddot 78 200 Soul harvest I 08

middot 201 Soulless Xombies of Soulharvest 96 middot 202 Splugorth Colonymiddot 63 middot 205 Splugorth Slavers in Tolkeen 30 amp 45 middot 206 Titan Robotics 89

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen Looters 30 Tolkeen Resistence Fighters amp Magic J J amp 19 Tolkeen Retribution Squads 19 Traveling Shows 35 Traversing our Modem Worldmiddot 7S Urban Warfare 21

Vanguard 100 amp 139

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  • PAL-RiftsAftermathpdf

Palladium Booksreg Presents

Riftsreg Aftermath t09 PA Life after Tolkeen and an World Overview

Written by Kevin Siembieda

Some compilation and additional text Bill Coffin

Includes some excepted material by Carella Coffin Kornman Lucas Nowak Sumimoto and others

Editors Alex Marciniszyn

Wayne Smith

Proofreader Julius Rosenstein

Cover Painting Dave Dorman

Interior Artists Wayne Breaux Jr

Kent Buries

Scott Johnson

Ramon Perez Jr

Freddie Williams II

Michael Wilson

Art Direction amp Keylining Kevin Siembieda

Typography Maryann Siembieda

Based on the RPG rules text characters

concepts and Megaversereg created by Kevin Siembieda

Special Thanks to all my artists for working with me through thick and thin (not to mention helping me look good with their fantastic artistry) and to Maryann Wayne Alex Steve Bill Erick and all the Palladium madmen who put their hearts and souls into making Palladium Books the best we can be

- Kevin Siembieda 2002

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Sam

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file

Contents A changing worldmiddot Tolkeen 109 PA The fortunes of war

Opportunists and cutthroats Honorable Troops Most Grunts

Securing the area Environment

A race for magic amp secrets Archie Three Typical CS Magic Recovery Team

CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) Dead Boy Body Armor Typical Coalition RRT middot Psychological Trauma Table (optional) Mop Up Operations CS Field Medical Ops

Coalition Bounties The Streets of ToIkeen Tolkeen Resistance Fighters

Retribution Squads Cyborgs amp Headhunters

Common Urban Warfare Strategies amp Tactics Warlocks amp Elementals

Other Supernatural Creaturesmiddot Iron Juggernauts

Rescues at Tolkeen Refugee Rescue Operations

The role of the various Occs middot Night Stalkers in the City middot

Wild Dog Packs Dinosaurs Supernatural Predators Devil Unicorns Mercenaries amp Looters

Refugee Exodus Mundane Considerations Attacks Ambush Robbery amp Murder Paths to Freedom

The Inhuman Factor The Barrier to the East Tolkeen s Transient Population by Race

The Second Juicer Uprising Julian the First Quick Stats Juicer Army of Liberation

Larsen s Brigade Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen I3lack Marketmiddot The World of Rifts - 109 PA Rifts North America Canada

An Overview Free State of Lazlo

Lazlo 109 PA A letter from Erin Tam

Lazlo and the war at Free Quebec For the time being Avenues of ad venture

Lazlo and the siege on Tolkeen The refugee relief effort Protecting secrets of magic middot

Free Quebec The changing tides of war

Free Quebec 09 PA Minions of Splugorth Pirates Shemarrian Uprising

7 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 15 15 16 18 19 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 27 29 29 29 29 30 30

33 33 35 35 35 36 36 37 39 39 42 45 46

47 49 49 49 50 51 51 53 55 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 63 63

Splugorth Incursions in Eastern Canada 65 Little Atlantis Colony middot 65 Ghost Island Colony 66 Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen 67

Xiticix Hivelands 67 Xiticix 109 PA 69

Calgary The Monster Kingdom 70 The Calgary Highlanders 71

The Old American Empiremiddot 72 A Historical Overview middot 72

The Eastmiddot 74 The Shemarrians New England States middot 75

The Shemarrian Uprising middot 75 Archie-Three middot 77

Archie amp the Shemarrians 77 Stats on Shemarrians 78 Stats on Monst-Rex 81

Archie s web of power and subterfuge middot 83 The eyes and ears of Archie-Three 87 Targets for Intelligence Gathering middot 88 Titan Robotics Complex 89 Argent Goodson 91 Desmond Masters 92

Elsewhere in America 93 The Deep South 93 Alabama The Dark Woods 93

The Hamlet of Clavicle 94 Dinosaur Swamp Georgia and Floridamiddot 95 Kentucky amp Tennessee 95

Soul harvest 95 Magic Zone middot 96

The Devils Gate 97 Federation of Magic Ohio Valley middot 98

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen operations in the aftermath 100 The Federation amp the Vanguard 100

Kingdom of Dunscon 109 PA 100 City of Brass 102

In the Aftermath of ToIkeen s fall 102 The war that isn t middot 104 The first target 104

City of Dweomer 105 After the fall of To Ikeen 105

The Grey Seers 106 The Society of Sages middot 106 Stormspire 107 Soulharvestmiddot 108 Undead Juicers 109 Minnesotamiddot 110 Michiganmiddot ]]0 Lower Michigan 109 PA 110

Demon Hordes of Michigan 111 Coastal Civilization- II I New Lazlo Lower Michigan 112 The Midwest amp Ley Line Communities 113

Mississippi River middot 114 Missouri 115 North amp South Dakota 115

Castles in the Clouds 117 Lyn-Srial 18

Northern Gun amp Manistique Imperium 120 Oklahoma amp Kansas 122

Kansas Labyrinth 122 The First Cavalry 123

Psyscape 124 The Secret War to stop Nxla 125

Nebraska 126 Nevada 126

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Area 51 amp Bandito Arms Utah

Abandoned Missile Silos Westward

Black Hills of Wyoming middot Wisconsin The American Southwestmiddot Colorado Texas - Lone Star New Mexico Arizona

Tryth-Sal (Lyn-Srial city) Arzno

The Coalition States A Brief Overview amp Update

The CS in the Aftennath of War The Vanguard

State of EI Dorado Arkansas State of Missouri Mexico The Vampire Kingdoms The Yucatan Peninsula South America The Republic of Colombia Vampire Kingdom of Haktla Land of a Thousand Islands

Kingdom of Lagarto EI Dorado amp Three Cities of Gold

Empire of the Sun Atlantis Africa Northern Africa

Phoenix Empire The African Interior Europe England

New Camelotmiddot France

The New German Republic The War of the Ages

Poland Mindwerks

By 109 PA middot The Brodkil Empire The Gargoyle Empire Gargoyle vs Brodkil The New Russian Frontier The European Wilderness Asia China Korea

The Japanese Islands Australia The High Seas Lord of the Deep Horune Pirates The Solar System Space Stations Moon Colonymiddot Mars Colonymiddot

126 127 127 Quick Find 128 Adventure ideas in Lazlo 55 129 Adventure ideas in Tolkeen II 130 Archie 77 130 Archie Coalition States 86 amp 88 130 Archie Cyberworks 84 131 Archie Hates Splugorth 78 amp 89 132 Archie Magic items in Tolkeen II 133

Archie New Cedarville 86 amp 90133 Archie Satellite Communications 84134 Barrens The 23134 Black Hill Empire 129

137 Bridge Themiddot 23

138 Brodkil vs Gargoyle Empire 179 180 amp 182 139 Buried Alive Psychological Trauma Table 15141 Calgary Highlanders 71

144 Cloud Castles 117145 Colonel Lyboc amp the JAL 41148 CS Bounties 16148 CS Devil s Gate St Louis 97149 CS Field Medical Ops 15150 CS fortunes of war 7

151 CS Magic Recovery Teams II152 CS Magic Recovery Team (Typical) 12

153 CS Military Ops against Xiticix 70

154 CS Operations in Tolkeen 7

156 CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) middot 13162 Cyberworks 83

163 Daemonix 25 164

Dragonwright (see Lagarto) 152165 Elementals at Tolkeen 23

167 Federation of Magic 98

167 Federation of Magic Tolkeen Magic amp Secretsmiddot 10

169 Federation of Magic Unites 100 173

Federation of Magic War plans 101 amp 104 174

First Apocalyptic Cavalry 123175 Grim Reapers 109 176

Iron Juggernauts 25 27178 179

JAL Juicer Leader (Julian) middot 37 JAL Juicer Anny of Liberation 41

180 Larsens Brigade 42181

Lyn-Srial 33118 amp 133182 Monst-Rex 81184 Murder Wraiths (Undead Juicers) J09 186 Necromancers of Clavicle 94186

Nxla The Harvester of Souls 108amp 125186

Psi-Stalkers vs Xiticix 69187

Raven McCoy (see Desmond Masters) 92187 Retribution Squads 19 192

Saint Louis Rift (see The Devil s Gate) 97197

Secret War Soulharvest 95 108 amp 125199 Shemarrian Stats amp Datamiddot 78 200 Soul harvest I 08

middot 201 Soulless Xombies of Soulharvest 96 middot 202 Splugorth Colonymiddot 63 middot 205 Splugorth Slavers in Tolkeen 30 amp 45 middot 206 Titan Robotics 89

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen Looters 30 Tolkeen Resistence Fighters amp Magic J J amp 19 Tolkeen Retribution Squads 19 Traveling Shows 35 Traversing our Modem Worldmiddot 7S Urban Warfare 21

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Contents A changing worldmiddot Tolkeen 109 PA The fortunes of war

Opportunists and cutthroats Honorable Troops Most Grunts

Securing the area Environment

A race for magic amp secrets Archie Three Typical CS Magic Recovery Team

CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) Dead Boy Body Armor Typical Coalition RRT middot Psychological Trauma Table (optional) Mop Up Operations CS Field Medical Ops

Coalition Bounties The Streets of ToIkeen Tolkeen Resistance Fighters

Retribution Squads Cyborgs amp Headhunters

Common Urban Warfare Strategies amp Tactics Warlocks amp Elementals

Other Supernatural Creaturesmiddot Iron Juggernauts

Rescues at Tolkeen Refugee Rescue Operations

The role of the various Occs middot Night Stalkers in the City middot

Wild Dog Packs Dinosaurs Supernatural Predators Devil Unicorns Mercenaries amp Looters

Refugee Exodus Mundane Considerations Attacks Ambush Robbery amp Murder Paths to Freedom

The Inhuman Factor The Barrier to the East Tolkeen s Transient Population by Race

The Second Juicer Uprising Julian the First Quick Stats Juicer Army of Liberation

Larsen s Brigade Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen I3lack Marketmiddot The World of Rifts - 109 PA Rifts North America Canada

An Overview Free State of Lazlo

Lazlo 109 PA A letter from Erin Tam

Lazlo and the war at Free Quebec For the time being Avenues of ad venture

Lazlo and the siege on Tolkeen The refugee relief effort Protecting secrets of magic middot

Free Quebec The changing tides of war

Free Quebec 09 PA Minions of Splugorth Pirates Shemarrian Uprising

7 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 15 15 16 18 19 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 27 29 29 29 29 30 30

33 33 35 35 35 36 36 37 39 39 42 45 46

47 49 49 49 50 51 51 53 55 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 63 63 63

Splugorth Incursions in Eastern Canada 65 Little Atlantis Colony middot 65 Ghost Island Colony 66 Splugorth Minions at Tolkeen 67

Xiticix Hivelands 67 Xiticix 109 PA 69

Calgary The Monster Kingdom 70 The Calgary Highlanders 71

The Old American Empiremiddot 72 A Historical Overview middot 72

The Eastmiddot 74 The Shemarrians New England States middot 75

The Shemarrian Uprising middot 75 Archie-Three middot 77

Archie amp the Shemarrians 77 Stats on Shemarrians 78 Stats on Monst-Rex 81

Archie s web of power and subterfuge middot 83 The eyes and ears of Archie-Three 87 Targets for Intelligence Gathering middot 88 Titan Robotics Complex 89 Argent Goodson 91 Desmond Masters 92

Elsewhere in America 93 The Deep South 93 Alabama The Dark Woods 93

The Hamlet of Clavicle 94 Dinosaur Swamp Georgia and Floridamiddot 95 Kentucky amp Tennessee 95

Soul harvest 95 Magic Zone middot 96

The Devils Gate 97 Federation of Magic Ohio Valley middot 98

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen operations in the aftermath 100 The Federation amp the Vanguard 100

Kingdom of Dunscon 109 PA 100 City of Brass 102

In the Aftermath of ToIkeen s fall 102 The war that isn t middot 104 The first target 104

City of Dweomer 105 After the fall of To Ikeen 105

The Grey Seers 106 The Society of Sages middot 106 Stormspire 107 Soulharvestmiddot 108 Undead Juicers 109 Minnesotamiddot 110 Michiganmiddot ]]0 Lower Michigan 109 PA 110

Demon Hordes of Michigan 111 Coastal Civilization- II I New Lazlo Lower Michigan 112 The Midwest amp Ley Line Communities 113

Mississippi River middot 114 Missouri 115 North amp South Dakota 115

Castles in the Clouds 117 Lyn-Srial 18

Northern Gun amp Manistique Imperium 120 Oklahoma amp Kansas 122

Kansas Labyrinth 122 The First Cavalry 123

Psyscape 124 The Secret War to stop Nxla 125

Nebraska 126 Nevada 126

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Abandoned Missile Silos Westward

Black Hills of Wyoming middot Wisconsin The American Southwestmiddot Colorado Texas - Lone Star New Mexico Arizona

Tryth-Sal (Lyn-Srial city) Arzno

The Coalition States A Brief Overview amp Update

The CS in the Aftennath of War The Vanguard

State of EI Dorado Arkansas State of Missouri Mexico The Vampire Kingdoms The Yucatan Peninsula South America The Republic of Colombia Vampire Kingdom of Haktla Land of a Thousand Islands

Kingdom of Lagarto EI Dorado amp Three Cities of Gold

Empire of the Sun Atlantis Africa Northern Africa

Phoenix Empire The African Interior Europe England

New Camelotmiddot France

The New German Republic The War of the Ages

Poland Mindwerks

By 109 PA middot The Brodkil Empire The Gargoyle Empire Gargoyle vs Brodkil The New Russian Frontier The European Wilderness Asia China Korea

The Japanese Islands Australia The High Seas Lord of the Deep Horune Pirates The Solar System Space Stations Moon Colonymiddot Mars Colonymiddot

126 127 127 Quick Find 128 Adventure ideas in Lazlo 55 129 Adventure ideas in Tolkeen II 130 Archie 77 130 Archie Coalition States 86 amp 88 130 Archie Cyberworks 84 131 Archie Hates Splugorth 78 amp 89 132 Archie Magic items in Tolkeen II 133

Archie New Cedarville 86 amp 90133 Archie Satellite Communications 84134 Barrens The 23134 Black Hill Empire 129

137 Bridge Themiddot 23

138 Brodkil vs Gargoyle Empire 179 180 amp 182 139 Buried Alive Psychological Trauma Table 15141 Calgary Highlanders 71

144 Cloud Castles 117145 Colonel Lyboc amp the JAL 41148 CS Bounties 16148 CS Devil s Gate St Louis 97149 CS Field Medical Ops 15150 CS fortunes of war 7

151 CS Magic Recovery Teams II152 CS Magic Recovery Team (Typical) 12

153 CS Military Ops against Xiticix 70

154 CS Operations in Tolkeen 7

156 CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) middot 13162 Cyberworks 83

163 Daemonix 25 164

Dragonwright (see Lagarto) 152165 Elementals at Tolkeen 23

167 Federation of Magic 98

167 Federation of Magic Tolkeen Magic amp Secretsmiddot 10

169 Federation of Magic Unites 100 173

Federation of Magic War plans 101 amp 104 174

First Apocalyptic Cavalry 123175 Grim Reapers 109 176

Iron Juggernauts 25 27178 179

JAL Juicer Leader (Julian) middot 37 JAL Juicer Anny of Liberation 41

180 Larsens Brigade 42181

Lyn-Srial 33118 amp 133182 Monst-Rex 81184 Murder Wraiths (Undead Juicers) J09 186 Necromancers of Clavicle 94186

Nxla The Harvester of Souls 108amp 125186

Psi-Stalkers vs Xiticix 69187

Raven McCoy (see Desmond Masters) 92187 Retribution Squads 19 192

Saint Louis Rift (see The Devil s Gate) 97197

Secret War Soulharvest 95 108 amp 125199 Shemarrian Stats amp Datamiddot 78 200 Soul harvest I 08

middot 201 Soulless Xombies of Soulharvest 96 middot 202 Splugorth Colonymiddot 63 middot 205 Splugorth Slavers in Tolkeen 30 amp 45 middot 206 Titan Robotics 89

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen Looters 30 Tolkeen Resistence Fighters amp Magic J J amp 19 Tolkeen Retribution Squads 19 Traveling Shows 35 Traversing our Modem Worldmiddot 7S Urban Warfare 21

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Area 51 amp Bandito Arms Utah

Abandoned Missile Silos Westward

Black Hills of Wyoming middot Wisconsin The American Southwestmiddot Colorado Texas - Lone Star New Mexico Arizona

Tryth-Sal (Lyn-Srial city) Arzno

The Coalition States A Brief Overview amp Update

The CS in the Aftennath of War The Vanguard

State of EI Dorado Arkansas State of Missouri Mexico The Vampire Kingdoms The Yucatan Peninsula South America The Republic of Colombia Vampire Kingdom of Haktla Land of a Thousand Islands

Kingdom of Lagarto EI Dorado amp Three Cities of Gold

Empire of the Sun Atlantis Africa Northern Africa

Phoenix Empire The African Interior Europe England

New Camelotmiddot France

The New German Republic The War of the Ages

Poland Mindwerks

By 109 PA middot The Brodkil Empire The Gargoyle Empire Gargoyle vs Brodkil The New Russian Frontier The European Wilderness Asia China Korea

The Japanese Islands Australia The High Seas Lord of the Deep Horune Pirates The Solar System Space Stations Moon Colonymiddot Mars Colonymiddot

126 127 127 Quick Find 128 Adventure ideas in Lazlo 55 129 Adventure ideas in Tolkeen II 130 Archie 77 130 Archie Coalition States 86 amp 88 130 Archie Cyberworks 84 131 Archie Hates Splugorth 78 amp 89 132 Archie Magic items in Tolkeen II 133

Archie New Cedarville 86 amp 90133 Archie Satellite Communications 84134 Barrens The 23134 Black Hill Empire 129

137 Bridge Themiddot 23

138 Brodkil vs Gargoyle Empire 179 180 amp 182 139 Buried Alive Psychological Trauma Table 15141 Calgary Highlanders 71

144 Cloud Castles 117145 Colonel Lyboc amp the JAL 41148 CS Bounties 16148 CS Devil s Gate St Louis 97149 CS Field Medical Ops 15150 CS fortunes of war 7

151 CS Magic Recovery Teams II152 CS Magic Recovery Team (Typical) 12

153 CS Military Ops against Xiticix 70

154 CS Operations in Tolkeen 7

156 CS Rescue amp Recovery Teams (RRT) middot 13162 Cyberworks 83

163 Daemonix 25 164

Dragonwright (see Lagarto) 152165 Elementals at Tolkeen 23

167 Federation of Magic 98

167 Federation of Magic Tolkeen Magic amp Secretsmiddot 10

169 Federation of Magic Unites 100 173

Federation of Magic War plans 101 amp 104 174

First Apocalyptic Cavalry 123175 Grim Reapers 109 176

Iron Juggernauts 25 27178 179

JAL Juicer Leader (Julian) middot 37 JAL Juicer Anny of Liberation 41

180 Larsens Brigade 42181

Lyn-Srial 33118 amp 133182 Monst-Rex 81184 Murder Wraiths (Undead Juicers) J09 186 Necromancers of Clavicle 94186

Nxla The Harvester of Souls 108amp 125186

Psi-Stalkers vs Xiticix 69187

Raven McCoy (see Desmond Masters) 92187 Retribution Squads 19 192

Saint Louis Rift (see The Devil s Gate) 97197

Secret War Soulharvest 95 108 amp 125199 Shemarrian Stats amp Datamiddot 78 200 Soul harvest I 08

middot 201 Soulless Xombies of Soulharvest 96 middot 202 Splugorth Colonymiddot 63 middot 205 Splugorth Slavers in Tolkeen 30 amp 45 middot 206 Titan Robotics 89

Tolkeen amp the Federation of Magic 99 Tolkeen Looters 30 Tolkeen Resistence Fighters amp Magic J J amp 19 Tolkeen Retribution Squads 19 Traveling Shows 35 Traversing our Modem Worldmiddot 7S Urban Warfare 21

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