100 Post-Apocalyptic Rumours to Hear

This is a collection of rumours that could be heard by characters in a post-apocalyptic setting. They could be used as background colour, misdirection or potential adventure hooks. The setting is assumed to be one some time after a final war, or series of wars, that destroyed civilisation, during which every type of weapon was used or created, including modified creatures, orbital weapon platforms, and nanotechnology, as well as more normal ones, rather than one following a natural catastrophe or zombie apocalypse.

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• In an impact crater in the wastelands there's said to be a crashed missile from the war, still mostly intact as it never detonated for some reason. The missile was said to have been one of those controlled by an intelligent computer, and the warhead and the computer itself may still be salvageable.
• In the badlands are what look to be curiously regular hills, but though they are mounds of dirt, they are not hills. The hills are termite mounds, home to termites that have grown vast in size and act far more intelligently than the normal insects do, making them very dangerous to encounter as they are capable of setting up ambushes against those who travel nearby.
• In the depths of the wastelands there's said to be a permanent plume of black smoke coming from a deep fissure in the ground, a plume that is easy to see as it feeds into a black cloud that never moves from the spot. The smoke has been there as long as anyone can remember, suggesting that something deep in the fissure was ignited years ago and is still burning.
• In the desert, a tall tower of metal reaches high above the surrounding slagged sands. At the top of the tower is a rotating globe, which is continually turning. When the tower is approached too closely, the globe stops rotating and those nearby start to feel uncomfortable. Nobody has died there, yet, but no-one is willing to wait around or approach even closer to see what happens.
• In the rocky badlands can be seen sets of regularly-spaced holes that drive deep into the ground. The holes are quite narrow and following them is like following the track of a creature. Some think the holes are made by some sort of organism that is drilling into the ground to extract nourishment.

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