[X] My Assistant

[cykotek]

There is a reasonably large map of the CZ only, with all sorts of little color coded chunks to represent areas of influence of the various factions inside the wall. As Kanada mentioned, it's got a lot of small maps imbedded in the various sections, too. THe full size map is a two-page pull-out deal.

As for the corporations, Ares, Aztechnology, Federated-Boeing, Fuchi, Mitsuhama, and Yamatetsu are all located in what's known as the Core, on the southern edge of the CZ. The Core is the main corporate district of Chicago, circa 2055, and is divided in half by the wall.

For reference, the CZ runs from Harlem Ave east to the lake shore (I want to say the water-fence of the CZ is ~1km out, but don't quote me), and runs from Irving Park Road south to 115th St (just run a line along 115th from Harlem Ave to the lake shore for the southern boundry). The Core runs from about 103rd st to 127th st, and from halsted to about 2 blocks past western.

As for ways to get out early, consider the Fed-Boeing flightline inside the CZ. Everything from commuter production models to military prototypes were on property, and most were stolen within a short time of the Wall going up. Until the UCAS military got their SAM sites online, that is. By canon, there are rumors of a still-locked hanger still containing vehicles to launch with. It's interesting to note, that every scuba rig in the city disappeared real fast, too.

The "Ares Dome" is actually the Wrigley Dome. The remnants of the FireWatch team responsible for the nuke detonation took control of it, and forged a strong refuge against the bugs there.

In addition the Wrigley Dome, the CZ also contains such notables as Soldier field, the University of Chicago campus, Midway airport, and all of the elevated train loop. Midway was cratered very early, so bring a VTOL. O'Hare is still running, though mostly as a military depot.

[RedmondLarry]

The color coded map in Bug City has too many colors that look the same. It's hard to tell orange from orange from orange. After I put post-it notes on it, it became a very useful tool for me, and after the players had moved around the zone some we started identifying which places they knew.

I tried going online (maps.yahoo.com or mapquest or mapblast) and printing out sections of the Containment Zone and taping them together, but that wasn't very satisfactory. The maps either showed too little detail, or not enough. This might work to print a map of the streets around just a few important spots, such as the Dome, the Sanctum, or Little Earth.

What the players used the most was a Chicago city street map. If I were to run it again, I'd just buy a new map, use a big black marker to mark the containment zone wall, and let the players tape onto it a note for each place or group of people they might want to come back to. (Or places they might want to avoid -- like the place where it looked like bodies had died of radiation poisoning.)

We did some major activities at the old Cabrini Green public housing project. For that I went to terraserver-usa.com and printed out satellite photos of the project. For example, here is a satellite photo of Soldier Field, the Field Museum, and Meigs airfield.

[Stormdrake]

Ourteam,
I was thinking of dong just that. I figured with a common street map I could mark the containment wall and the blast site and other important locations. Just need Bug City to indicate were said locations are. Question, ground zero for the nuke was were exactly? Was it within the CZ or outside? Some one mentioned Racine as the location but thats in Wisconsin for smeg sake.

[Kanada Ten]

[cykotek]

the blast is mentioned in the two places I can quickly find as either near Cermak and Racine, or Cermak and Halsted (both north of meigs, I believe).

IIRC, it was at the secondary waste treatment facility for the Chicago area. I seem to recall that the one time I saw an actual address listed, it was for 1100 W. Cermak Road. The same address as where the contemporary FASA offices were.

[Stormdrake]

I may be off then. I am thinking of Racine the town not the road. In either case I am assuming that the blast site was within the CZ, right?

[Kanada Ten]

Yes, very much so.