Power
Siphon And Fuel Kit
Pump, hose and container for moving fuel between vehicles and stores.
Scenario
The Stand
Ninety-nine point four percent, in nineteen days.
It escaped a facility and it was engineered to be efficient. The dying takes under three weeks. What follows is a continent of working infrastructure with nobody left to operate it, and a very small number of survivors walking towards each other.
What kills you
The nineteen days, then the silence.
Rules
- 01Leave the cities before the bodies do their work.
- 02Every vehicle in the country is now yours. Pick a reliable one.
- 03Antibiotics have a shelf life. Note it.
- 04Find the others. Alone does not last.
The kit
5 itemsMillions of full tanks and nobody coming back for any of them.
Every car you inherit will fail, and no garage will open again.
Tools
Bolt Action Tool Kit
A maintenance kit for a specific mechanism, kept with the thing it services.
There is no doctor. There is a book, and time to read it.
Reading
Field Medicine Reference
Assessment and treatment written for situations where professional care is hours away.
Fuel ends. Bicycles do not, if you can patch them.
Tools
Bicycle Repair Kit
Patches, levers, a pump and a chain tool — the four failures that strand a bicycle.
Finding the other survivors is the whole second act.
Light & comms
CB Radio Mobile
Licence-free vehicle radio with an established convention of use on channel 9 and 19.
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