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[Michael Cone <mkcone@yahoo.com>]

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The Shreveport Polychem Installation

Installation and grounds
Notable Folks
Chemical Development- machine lubricant, super
fertilizer, layered industrial polymers
Consumables- Power Bars, Freeze Dried Packets,
Processed Food Substitutes, Vitamins

The Installation

	North of the remains of Shreveport, Louisiana along
the winding Mississippi River is the massive
Development and Production facility for Polychem
Limited. PL was a mid range company in the CAS before
the War with a number of products made for public and
private consumption.
	The plant is a massive building almost a square mile
in size containing research labs, testing areas and
production facilities. Thirteen years after the War,
things have worn down a bit from the elements and
general neglect. The exhaust stacks lean dangerously
in the wind, many of the walls are covered in rust
patches or are missing panels. The entire complex is
shrouded in a wavering gray-black fog that obscures
random segments of the building. The underlying stench
of burning chemicals pervades the area and can cause
bouts of coughing with prolonged exposure.
	The plant was built deep into a swamp about eleven
miles off of a major highway. Screened from curious
government safety inspectors for many years, Polychem
had free reign over its secluded riverside property.
Its location would come back to haunt the workers
after the end of the world.
	After the missiles flew, the Polychem plant suffered
a number of industrial accidents when the state power
grid failed. Back-up generators kicked in eventually,
but the damage had already been done. Massive amounts
of heavy industrial solvents, research grade
preservatives and high corrosive acids were introduced
to the surrounding environment and eventually seeped
into the Mississippi.
	The grounds surrounding the plant have a distinct
chemical smell to them. Many Magnolia and Oak trees
have grown twisted and stooped, their appearance is
anything but natural. Off in the trees, noises echo.
But they sound harsh, bent.
	There was once a bridge built out to the grounds but
a terrible flood tore the structure apart, leaving the
installation surrounded by stagnant, murky water. At
random spots, shattered boat wrecks lay in rotting
pieces. The picture is anything but welcome.

Notable Folks
	While the remaining inhabitants of the plant have
managed to survive in their exile, there has obviously
been a harsh price to pay. All of them are in some
stage of vitamin deficiency, with pale skins, little
obvious musculature and a near constant sheen of sweat
on their skins.
	   After thirteen years, the last of the clothing in
the worker’s possession had long since succumbed to
wear and exposure to heavy chemicals. When they
inhabitants are first spotted, they are all wearing
bizarre pseudo muumuu/robes made of old curtains and
wrapping plastic. 

	Doctor Armand Diego- Diego was the Facility
coordinator for the Shreveport facility and has
stepped into the role of the leader of the group of
survivors. His once thick head of dark hair has shrunk
and led a steady retreat south. Worry lines etch
patterns across his Hispanic features. Diego is never
without a small pair of worn leather gloves kept
bunched in one fist.

	Leslie Klieb- A short, nervous engineer with a
penchant for wringing his hands, Leslie is responsible
for the Chemical Development sections of the plant.
The visible portions of his small form are spotted
with little rippled chem burns and scars. The engineer
looks every minute of his sixty-plus years.

	Katya Mushnick- One of the youngest members of the
plant staff, Katya was a member of a Russian corporate
exchange program when the missiles finally flew. She
has taken over managing what remains of the
Consumables Division. Mushnick still retains some
vestige of her former beauty but hides it well behind
scowls and a generally unpleasant disposition.

	Emily Cassada- When the War feel upon the world and
the power was cut from the plant, Cassada made sure
that the spills took only a few of the remaining
workers. When the flood wrenched the bridge from the
site a few days later, she made sure that no one else
fell to the river’s fury. Chief of the Facility Emily
Cassada is the most headstrong, obstinate, and
determined person in the plant. And no one ever
forgets it. Even short thirty or so pounds, Cassada
still cuts a very imposing figure.

	Nathan Forrest- The remaining machinery to actually
process products is the bailiwick of the stuttering,
twitchy body of Nathan Forrest. A former Engineer to
Coyote Chemical, Forrest has endured the most from the
ecological disaster that is the plant grounds. His
nerves are shot, he suffers from memory losses and the
occasional low grade hallucination. But when the day
is good, there is no one else who can coax the abused
assemblies to work.

	William Garth- Garth is the last surviving member of
the thirty-man research team that has fallen to mishap
after mishap after the isolation has begun. This once
brilliant vibrant man has been nearly broken by the
loss of his subordinates by accident, radiation or act
of nature. His scarecrow build and erratic nature has
only reinforced the perceptions of the other
survivors, few of them will have anything to do with
him without a dire need.

	Chemical Development- The larger of the two
departments at the plant, ChemDev is responsible for
HydraGlide, the world’s fourth largest selling machine
lubricant. There is better than seventy barrels left
after all of the machinery has been taken maintained.
Nitrogro is another fine Polychem product, one geared
for the greater agricultural market. Nitrogro is the
product of seven years worth of intensive research and
was the most potent grade of fertilizer available
before the Dust-up. Crops could conceivably triple
their output with regular usage. The last item of
interest out of ChemDev was called PolyPly. Polyply
was a remarkable layered industrial polymer capable of
resisting massed small arms fire but was still light
enough to be moved by hand.

	Consumables- This division has been the sole reason
that the plant has survived the many years since the
War. While the many products mixed and packaged aren’t
quite like mother used to make, they have survived
flood and radiation well enough. From the top and the
most popular would be Captain Stamina’s Energy Bars.
Protein and sugar packed for the person on the go. To
fulfill the ever-popular and lucrative military
contracts, Consumables has pioneered a line of
Freeze-Dried foodstuffs and M.R.Es built for long
shelf life. These have been sitting on shelves in
storage waiting for a supply truck that never arrived.
The last product at the facility would be the wildly
popular K-netix brand of vitamin supplements. Each one
guaranteed to get someone through the day. No one is
willing to comment on the packages labeled “Processed
Food Substitute”




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