GURPS Y2K: The Countdown to Armageddon (GURPS: Generic Universal Role Playing System)

Introduction
	Fourteen Years of GURPS
		About GURPS
	Using This Book
		GURPS Trivia
	About the Authors
1. Why 2K?
	Millennialism
		When Does the Millennium End?
	The Y2K Bug
		The Millennium in the Media
		The Chain Reaction
		Compliance
		Cults
		So What Could Happen?
		Recovery Time
		Government Preparations
		Party Time
		Magic Numbers
		Fail-Safe
		Y1K
	Industrial-Strength Idiocy
		The Population Bomb
		Y to K
		Y10K
		Pollution
		The Ozone Hole
		Early Warning
		Global Warming
		Who Benefits?
		Deforestation and Extinction
		Tests That Failed
	Things Man Was Not Meant to Grow
		Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases
		Biological Weapons
		No More Taxes?
		And Nature Makes It Worse
		Out of This World
		Frankenfood
	Nuclear Nightmares
		The Y2K War
		Y2K Web Pages
		The Merry Pranksters
2. Murphy’s Law
	The Trigger Effect
	People Are Dumb
		The Butterfly Effect
		GIGO
		The Computer Is Your Friend
	Computers Are Dumber
	Silly Disaster Movie Clichés
		Recommended Viewing
		Disaster-Movie Campaigns
3. Built-In Obsolescence: The Y2Konspiracy
	One World, No Waiting
		Other Illuminati
		Setting the Scene
		Emergency Management
		If This Had Been a Real Emergency
		PROMIS Keepers
		ARPA and the Network Control Protocol
		Nothing to Worry About, Friend
		Birth of the New World Order
	11111010000: Program Complete
		The COBOL Cabal
		Uncle Bill
		Tracing the Network
		The Antikythera Device
		Binaries
		Conspiratorial Computing: The First 4,900 Years
		Building Babbage Machines
	When Time Shall Be No More
		Alchemical Engineering
		Singin’ in the Brain
	Shades of Grey
		Majestic 12, Earth 0
		Six Degrees of SPECTRE
		Through a Monitor, Darkly
	Timeline Suboptimal: Abort, Retry, Fail?
		Reboot/One
		Reboot/Two
		Reboot/Three
		Green Day
		Alternate Aliens
4. A World With a Byte Out of It
	The First World
		Alternate Dating Systems
		“The Battleship Just Crashed, Sir!”
		The YES Corps
		366-Day Meltdown
		Russian Missiles
		A Wing and a Bug
		“Your Luggage Is in the 19th Century, Sir”
		Satellites
	The Second World
		Making a Date on the Date Line
		The Y2K Exploding Computer Scam
		Power to the People!
	The Third World
		Cheap Clocks
		Categorizing Catastrophe
5. The Survivors
	Getting Organized
		Just Me and My Woman
		Family and Friends
		Politics and Philosophy
		The Ranch Club
		Barter
		Ranch Hospitality
		Personal Basics For 1999
		The Springville Militia
		A 3-Day Emergency Cache
		Toys and Conveniences
	Retreat Locations
	Stocking Up
		Water
		The Survivalist Library
		Food
		Groups That Will Hold Together
		Medicine
		Luxuries and Trade Goods
		Money
		Long-Term Supplies
		Other Necessities
		Equipment
		Self-Defense
		The Top 10 Professions In Demand After Y2K
	Surviving the Madness
		Keeping Your Head Down
		Home Defense
		Low-Priority Preparations
		Wrist Slingshot
	New Beginnings
		Adventure Seed: The Best-Laid Plans
		Cinema vs. Realism
	Campaign Seeds
		Realistic
		Cross-Genre
		Cinematic Campaign Seeds
6. Smash and Grab
	Ready or Not
	Gangs and Tribes
		Street Gangs
		Gang Life
		Initiations
		Biker Gangs
		Car Gangs
		“Spiky-Haired Mutant Cannibals”
	Campaign Seed: The House of the New Day
		Minivan Gangs
		Squirrels: City Holdouts
		NeoLuddites
7. That Was Now, This Is Then
	Parallel Millennia
		Deep-Fried Chips
		What’s Gone
		Blame It on Society
		What’s Left Over?
	The World of Tomorrow – I Mean, Yesterday
	Trip Planning for Time Travelers
	Worlds of Yesterday
		The Metaworld: Brave New Burgs
		Flops
		Chrome City
		Who’s Playing?
		Regilded Age
		What’s Wrong?
		Not With a Bang
		The Age of Really Stupid Weapons
		Steel Courtesies
		What’s Gonna Kill You
		Heavy Iron
		Lavatory Analysis
	Campaign Seed: Route ‘00
		“Magic? Ick!”
8. Paranoia Plus: New Fears from the Machine Millennium
	Biological Nightmares
		Frankenfood Revisited
		Is Frankenfood Safe?
		Biohazards: What Leaked?
		Transgenic Terrors
		Is This Stuff Real?
		Who You Gonna Call?
	Bad Chemistry
		Plastics Ate My Baby’s WHAT?
		Telemedicine Trauma: New Fears for the One-and-Twenty
	EMP-ty Threats
		Low-Tech EMP Guns (TL7-8)
9. IST-2000
	The Coming End of Time
		Ralph 1-2-4C-4U+, Inc
		Discovering the Danger
		The Wall
	Saviors of Humanity
		Preventing the Big Crash
		Preventative Powers
		Supertech
		Survival and Recovery
		Talents for Recovery and Reconstruction
		Reconstruction
		Adventure Seeds
		Personality Alteration
	Metahuman Morality
		Survival of the Fittest
		Four-Color Morality
		Only Now Do You Understand!
		Realism Rears Its Ugly Head
		Complications
		Y2K Origin Stories
10. Judgment Day
	A Disaster of Biblical Proportions: The Apocalyptic Campaign
		The Seven Seals
		Good Taste (And We Don’t Mean Brains)
		The Seven Trumps
		Apocalypse How?
		Character Types
		The Fall of Babylon
		The Seven Vials
		Armageddon
		Final Judgment
	Yetzirah 2K
		A Brief History of Cabbalism
		Locusts of the Fifth Trump
		Computer Cabbalism
		Horses of the Sixth Trump
		Millennial Magic
	Thinking Bad Thoughts
		The Harrowed
		Lucky 7?
		A Campaign of Biblical Proportions
	Mutant Radioactive Zombies from the Year 2000
		Collateral Damage
		Demons & Daemons
		Is My Tombstone Y2K Compliant?
		Who’s Watching the Reactor?
		Bring on the Zombies!
		Bug or Bugaboo?
Index