Space Shuttle Arcturus

Space shuttle Arcturus taking evasive maneuvers over the Eastern seaboard; it was hit by an AA missile launched from a high altitude dirigible drone that had been hijacked by The Inverted Pyramid terrorist organization. Leader Malcolm Tent pledged to rain the world with trillionaires. Three more would soon follow. 

Sorceress Virginia Lightning

The warrior-sorceress Virginia Lightning was an extraordinarily gifted sorceress who was driven out of the Marauders Raider Clan for witchcraft. She found sanctuary in the Four Elements Towers outside the ruins of Denver. There she was taught the Dark Arts, and five years later she returned to seize control of the Marauders, and then lead them against the Sun Corridor.  

Decontamination team prepares to scour tunnels

An elite decontamination team in full hazmat gear assembles in the central hall of an abandoned subway station infested with giant mutant rats. A Mark VI antigrav AI sentinel hovers in the background, in case something more… formidable lurks in the tunnels. 

Underground materialist temples could be guarded by both huge bionitic monsters and microscopic plagueswarms.

 

Stranded BioCPU

During The Fall, attempts were made to secure the massive BioCPUs that managed modern civilization. SMS-57, for example, was moved from its nexus when rebels threatened to overrun the installation. Unfortunately, the convoy was caught in traffic and overwhelmed, leaving the disconnected brain adrift, and at the mercy of the elements… and scavengers, such as the manticore which can be seen flying in the distance, upper right.

Horror of the Eyepolyps

The Eyepolypus is a bizarre terrestrial psychic polyp colony that slithers about ruins, seeking (preferably) sapient life to enslave with its hypnotic eye. Victims become the willing minions of the eye, their minds filled with a compelling memetic dream-fog, protecting it and providing it with food. When these poor souls weaken from food and water deprivation, the eyepolypus engulfs them and absorbs the remaining nutrients. 

Once the eyepolypus reaches a certain size, it will separate into dozens of smaller colonies and the cycle begins again. 

Eyes emit a powerful psychic field that can cause headaches in sensitive individuals nearby. Some survivors claim a state of fugue consciousness, a co-mingling of awareness of all the beings in the loop, dominated by the hungry will of the polyp colony.

Tunnels of the Lost Mall

Acolyte Phaedra of the Blue Wizard Order became lost in the labyrinthine tunnels of the Mountain Undermall, leading her on a life defining adventure that saw her taken prisoner by semi-feral morlock cannibals, only to win their trust and organize them into a powerful union. She then led them against the billionaire brainpods and their robot enforcers. 

Mutant of Bunker Commune Seven

Due to radiation induced genetic deterioration, the telepathic mutants of Bunker Commune Seven resorted to telecloning, reproducing themselves via stored teleport patterns held in massive information buffers, drawing matter from tanks of organic soup and recycled corpses. 

This system evolved over time, ultimately resulting in AI super computer mainframes combining wave patterns to create amalgamated code beings with enhanced mental powers. In so doing, they avoided the fate of their increasingly genetically degraded brethren in Commune Nine.