Judge Gourmand:
Strength 2, Resilience 3, Dexterity 3,  Speed 2, Intelligence 4,  Perception 4, Charm 3,  Control 3, Resolve 5,  Resistance 5
Skills
Argument/Legal/Prosecution 4, Intimidation/Bossy 3, Business 3, Firearms 2, Drive 2
Merits & Flaws
Lecherous -1 on social rolls/resistances versus women (3 points)
Greedy – Always takes more than his fair share (2 points)
Nasty Reputation +1 bonus to intimidation and courtroom Law checks. (2 points).
Gear
Hog-leg – Sawn off shotgun, white-painted jeep.

Sherrif Haslok Poutane:
Strength 3,  Resilience 4, Dexterity 3,  Speed 3, Intelligence 3,  Perception 3, Charm 4,  Control 2, Resolve 3,  Resistance 3
Skills
Drive/Police Cruiser 3, Firearms/Pistol 3, Animal Handling/Dog/Swift 3, Alertness 2, Tracking 1, Melee 2
Merits & Flaws
Animal Companion – Swift the Bassett hound (8 points)
Lucky Escape – Can completely negate all damage from a car crash once per game (3 points).
Gear
Battered old police cruiser, mutant bassett hound, .38 revolver, 12 gauge pump action shotgun, billyclub.

Swift the Bassett hound:
Strength 2,  Resilience 3, Dexterity 1, Speed 2, Intelligence 1,  Perception 4, Charm 4,  Control 3, Resolve 2,  Resistance 2
Skills
Tracking/Scent 5, Looking sad and adorable 4, Running Under vehicles 3, Biting 1
Merits & Flaws
Mutant Immortality – Swift regenerates one column of damage every turn, even if killed or reduced below what the wound table would allow. (12 points). Swift can only be destroyed by fire.
Gear
Collar,  Weird little antennae sticking out his head.

Deputies Rufus Gourmand & Enis Bent:
Strength 3, Resilience 3, Dexterity 3,  Speed 3, Intelligence 2,  Perception 2, Charm 3,  Control 3, Resolve 2 Resistance 2
Skills
Drive 3, Tracking 2, Firearms 2, Alertness 2, Melee 2
Merits & Flaws
Too dumb – Rufus and Enis are gullible but any direct mental attacks or attempts to confuse them suffer from the fact they find anything but blindly following orders to be too mentally demanding. They gain a +1 bonus to all resistance checks, because they’re too dumb. (2 points).
Gear
.38 revolver, pump action shotgun, billyclub.

Crazy Pooter:
Strength 3,  Resilience 4, Dexterity 4,  Speed 3, Intelligence 2,  Perception 2, Charm 2,  Control 2, Resolve 2,  Resistance 2
Skills
Engineer/Automative/Jury Rig 4, Brawling 3, Melee/Wrench 2
Merits & Flaws
Gills – Pooter is beginning to mutate and, as a consequence, can breathe underwater (4 points).
Gear
Big wrench, toolbox, radioactive moonshine in a thermos.

Lola Gourmand:
Strength 3, Resilience 4, Dexterity 1, Speed 1, Intelligence 4, Perception 4, Charm 3,  Control 4, Resolve 5, Resistance 5
Skills
Intimidate/Men 5, Cooking/Southern style 3, Business/hotelier 3, Brawl 2, Melee/Frying pan 3
Merits & Flaws
Armour of corpulance –  Lola reduces all incoming harm by 1, due to her blubber. (3 points).
Natural authority – Lola gets a +1 bonus whenever she’s ordering or bossing anyone around. (3 points).
Gear
Rolling pin, Frying pan, Fan.

Doc Petticoat:
Strength 1,  Resilience 1, Dexterity 2, Speed 1, Intelligence 2, Perception 1, Charm 4,  Control 4, Resolve 4,  Resistance 4
Skills
Medicine/quackery 1, Bullshit/medical 4, Elicit Sympathy 5
Merits & Flaws
Senior Moments – the Doc constantly forgets things, up to 3 things each session when it would be most annoying for the players (3 points).
Gear
Doctor’s bag, seersucker suit.

Rose Puke:
Strength 3,  Resilience 3, Dexterity 4, Speed 4, Intelligence 3,  Perception 4, Charm 5,  Control 3, Resolve 3, Resistance 3
Skills
Seduction/Flirtation/Elicit Favour 4, Waitressing/Get Tips 3, Survival/Swamp 4, Lie 3
Merits & Flaws
Drop Dead Gorgeous: +3 to any manipulation of menfolk (9 points).
Gills: Rose is partially mutated and, as such, can breathe underwater (4 points).
Gear
Tiny, tiny, denim shorts and a halter top.

Aunty Bessie Puke:
Strength 4, Resilience 4, Dexterity 2, Speed 2, Intelligence 4, Perception 3, Charm 3, Control 4, Resolve 4, Resistance 3
Skills
Brewing/Distilling/Moonshine 5, Survival/Swamp 5, Brawling 2, Melee 3, Firearms/shotgun 3
Merits & Flaws
Gills: Bessie is partially mutated and, as such, can breathe underwater (4 points).
Mental Control of the Clan: Bessie can telepathically give commands to the fully transformed Pukes (4 points).
Gear
Double barrelled shotgun, old truck.

Lo Puke:
Strength 3, Resilience 4, Dexterity 3, Speed 4, Intelligence 3, Perception 4, Charm 4, Control 3, Resolve 3, Resistance 3
Skills
Drive/Muscle Car/The Beauregard 4, Brawl 3, Archery 3, Melee 3, Survival/Swamp 4, Dodge 3, Tracking 3
Merits & Flaws
Gills: Lo is partially mutated and, as such, can breathe underwater (4 points).
Gear
Compound bow, arrows, knife, dynamite.

Booker Puke:
Strength 4, Resilience 4, Dexterity 4,  Speed 4, Intelligence 3, Perception 3, Charm 3, Control 3, Resolve 3, Resistance 3
Skills
Drive/Muscle Car/The Beauregard 5, Brawl 4, Archery 2, Melee 3, Survival/Swamp 3, Dodge 3, Tracking 2
Merits & Flaws
Gills: Booker is partially mutated and, as such, can breathe underwater (4 points).
Gear
Compound bow, arrows, knife, dynamite.

The Beauregard:
Sports Car: Health 13, Armour 3, +2 Speed/Acceleration +1 Handling
Armoured
Blower
Heavy Chassis: +1 health box per row.
Oversized Engine (2 seats only)
Smuggling compartment
Turbocharged
Wheel Blades 9 damage.

Fulfilling another Christmas wish:

The Pukes of Dannger
Deep in the south lies Dannger County, a tucked away, rural area that was spared the worst of the war, but not the worst of the fallout. The town of Dannger City is constantly on a knife-edge of survival, caught between being too small to survive and not being large enough to attract any attention from anyone powerful enough to harm them.

They’re also protected by their ruthless ‘hanging judge’, Judge Hoss Gourmand. The Gourmand family are credited – largely self-credited – with being the saviours of Dannger County and the city. Judge Gourmand’s rough justice is another reason that few people bother the county. Backed by his sherrif and deputies Judge Gourmand runs a tight ship and claims ownership of just about everything within the county’s borders, standing for no guff.

There’s a problem though, one clan of swamp-billies is holding out against Gourmand’s attempts to bring justice and civilisation to the county. Mutated, rebellious and determined to spread their corruption to others, the Puke family runs radioactive moonshine to the outlying farms and even into Dannger City itself. One by one people are succumbing to strange mutations and disappearing into the swamps and there’s nothing Doc Petticoat – the town’s aging doctor – can do about it.
There’s little Judge Gourmand and his law officers can do to stop the Pukes, thanks to their souped up muscle car, the Beauregard, about the only fast car in the whole county.

Desperate to bring the Puke clan under control, Judge Gourmand sets out to hire people from outside to deal with the Pukes once and for all. That’s where the players come in…

Dannger County
Dannger Country consists of Dannger City, outlying farms and a good deal of swamp. It’s criss-crossed with trails and dirt roads that pick their way alongside the rivers and through the swamps. None of them are great surfaces to drive on and there’s so many dead ends and blind turns that the whole thing is incredibly dangerous to anyone who doesn’t know the area.

In the summer Dannger Country is a sweltering, fly-blown and stinking place and it’s not much better the rest of the year.

Dannger City
Dannger City is the only town in the whole county and it’s not much of a city. It has a few houses, a bar – The Gator – which belongs to the Judge, the Hotel Dannger, the doctor’s office and Pooter’s Garage.

The Gator:
The Gator is a big wooden building, it’s ceiling lined with rotating fans (the generator runs off swamp gas). It serves local food but – alas – no drink. There isn’t much that’s suitable for making into booze in the swamps. Indeed it’s something of a mystery what the Pukes use to make their ‘shine. You can get food and entertainment here, not least of all the lovely presence of Rose Puke, a pretty swamp flower who was rescued from her cousins in the clan Puke by the Judge and his law officers, about the only victory that they’ve ever had over the Puke clan the whole time they’ve been duking it out.

Hotel Dannger:
Judge Gourmand lives here with his impressively fat wife Lola, who runs the hotel. It’s clean and relatively dry and that’s about all that can really be said about it. It’s horribly overpriced for what it is – at least if you’re an outsider – but Lola is a fierce and intimidating woman and won’t stand for any guff, least of all her husband and she’s the only person in the whole area aside from the Pukes who stands up to him.

Doc’s Office:
Doc Petticoat is ancient and wrinkled old near-corpse. He has forgotten more about medicine than most people have ever known. Unfortunately he’s also forgotten most of what he’s known. Any talent he still has for medicine may have more to do with an intimate, personal knowledge of death than any medical skill. He only has the most basic of medical equipment and yet he’s still the best doctor (the only doctor) for some considerable distance.

Pooter’s Garage:
A graveyard of scrap metal, Pooter does his best to cobble together and keep running the few vehicles the town has going for it. The Judge suspects that Pooter is helping the Pukes keep their own car running, but he’s not been able to prove it as of yet and Pooter is far too valuable to the town to lock up or accuse without cause.

The Puke ‘Stead:
The Puke Homestead is a terrifying old farm out in the swamps, lurking atop a big pile of earth and slowly but inevitably sinking into the swamp bit by bit. The Pukes don’t spend much time there any more, it’s really just a rotting heap though it still contains many stuffed and mounted animals in its cobwebbed depths and the Pukes still congregate here as a clan on notable occasions.

The Swamp:
The swamp is a tangled mess of twisted and mutated trees, sucking mud, alligators, snakes and giant mutated catfish. It’s also home to the Puke clan – scattered in various hovels where they run their stills – and the mysterious source of their power and the fruit that they use to make their ‘shine.

Hovels and Stills:
The Puke clan hovels are all close to the raised dirt tracks that criss-cross the swamp but are little more than shacks with fold down beds and a pot to piss in. The stills are primitive affairs, distilling mashed up and fermented foul-smelling fruit into a clear, powerful, slightly glowing liquor that can be very flammable and explosive.

Mother Hydra:
Deep in the Puke-owned swamps is a grove of seven twisted trees, hung with heavy, misshapen fruit that smells faintly of fish. This is the source of the Puke clan moonshine and the mutation effects of their radioactive moonshine that introduces strange, fish-like traits to those who imbibe it, over time. Some members of the Puke clan who’ve been drinking it for some time have completely transformed into ‘Creatures from Lagoons’ (P85 of the ’45 rulebook) and rest here, protecting the mother trees.

Townsfolk
Judge Gourmand:
Fat, arrogant, disgusting, murderous, lecherous. Gourmand is, nonetheless, the unbending master of Dannger County and the only one standing between the county and chaos. Shame he’s such a disgusting, horrible, bastard.

Sherrif Haslok Poutane:
Incompetent and goofy the only reason he’s sherrif at all is that Gourmand knows he can be easily dominated and made to do what he wants. Haslok has an unreasonable love for his mutated bassett hound, Swift.

Swift the Bassett hound:
A mutated dog, trained by the military to wear a explosive harness and run at tanks, Swift turned out to mutate, during the short war and has somehow managed to survive many attempts to destroy tanks, tractors and several cars. Perhaps swift is immortal?

Deputies Rufus Gourmand & Enis Bent:
Interchangable, amiable dumb-dumbs whose defining characteristic is that they’re dumb enough to be ordered around by Poutane.

Crazy Pooter:
A slowly mutating, secret alcoholic, Pooter is utterly in the pocket of the Puke clan. He’s a good engineer but he’s just not on-side with the town or the judge.

Lola Gourmand:
A heaving mass of pale flesh and terrifying, indomitable will, Lola is a woman you do not want to cross. Through sheer power of intimidation and hard stares she can cause as much damage as a man with a shotgun.

Doc Petticoat:
A dried-up, ancient, mumbling, living corpse getting the Doc’s help with your injuries may be more harmful than not bothering at all.

Rose Puke:
A gorgeous woman, Rose is the only member of the Puke clan that’s liked around Dannger City. She was rescued from the Puke clan and brought into the town, taken under the Judge’s wing and given a job at The Gator. She has a sunny and bright disposition and everyone loves her to bits. Little do they know that blood is thicker than water and that she allowed herself to be ‘rescued’, just so that the Pukes would have an extra person in town to look out for their interests.

The Puke Clan
Aunty Bessie Puke:
A big, beefy woman, Bessie is the matriarch of the whole Puke clan. Clad in denim overalls she circuits the Puke family stills ensuring that they’re producing a good product that carries the taint that will mutate others in the same way as the Puke clan has been, spreading their mutant taint in service of the mysterious trees in the hidden grove.

Lo Puke:
Blonde, muscular and charming. Lo Puke is the salesman of the Puke clan, roaring around in the Beauregard and convincing people – who are already desperate for a drink – to buy their ‘shine.

Booker Puke:
Dark haired and dangerous, Booker Puke is the muscle of the Puke clan, a bareknuckle boxer who intimidates into compliance those who Lo cannot charm.

The Puke Clan:
Mutated into rampaging swamp beasts the majority of the clan hides in the swamps

The Beauregard:
A souped up muscle car resembling an Oldsmobile Jetstar 88, the Beauregard is painted grey and has the racing number ‘OO’ painted on the side.