500th POST and 50th Grumble Jones Scenario-All on Friday the 13th!!!

It's finally time for the third installment of the Backstory for GJ050 - The Heroes of Hollis or how Jeff and Dave saved ASL for future generations.

We pick up the story after The Büffel received his orders to destroy the Hollis Center and its instructors.

Under cover of darkness, The Büffel  heads to the railroad tracks near the Hollis center and sets the demolition charges which will derail the train and ensure the deaths of all the German POW's onboard. They were to become the undead army needed to destroy the Hollis Center.

After setting the charges,  The Büffel  returns to the Hollis Center to prepare for the radio transmission.

Near midnight on Halloween night...a POW train hurtles down the track headed to POW camps in Arkansas and Oklahoma. But its destination would be forever altered...

A mighty explosion would destroy the train and its unsuspecting occupants.

                                  A hellish fate awaited them.

Back at the Hollis Center....The Büffel begins transmitting the ancient Egyptian radio frequency.

As the signal reaches the train wreck...the recently living once again rise up and head for the source of the signal filled with an undying rage.

       But something unexpected had also occurred and it would alter the German plans irretrievably...

Flash forward to suburban Chicago as two ASL players leave Chicago on their way to the March Madness ASL Tournament at the Hollis Center in Kansas City. Jeff and Dave are on the road...after many hours, they begin the drive into the little valley of Hollis. Dave is driving as Jeff changes the radio station. As he hits a certain frequency...a bright light flashes and Jeff and Dave find themselves transported to Halloween night 1944.

"What's happening...???"

Jeff and Dave are unsure of what has happened...but suddenly they see zombies coming out of the woods and decide they must act quickly to warn the inhabitants of Hollis of the impending danger!!!

Dave and Jeff sound the alarm and the Heroes of Hollis rush to defend the center and repel the zombie horde...and to find the source of the strange humming sound coming from one of the buildings.

A furious battle ensues, but ultimately, the Heroes of Hollis are able to hold off the zombies and locate the radio transmitting it dark signal.

But before they can disable the radio one of their number reveals himself to be a German agent.

The Büffel reveals himself in a desperate attempt to stop the Heroes of Hollis...but he is brought down and eliminated.

With The Büffel gone, the Heroes of Hollis successfully turn of the radio.

And in an instant the zombies collapse and Jeff and Dave vanish. The Hollis center had been saved.

As soon as the radio was disabled...Dave and Jeff found themselves once more in 2018 and sitting in front of the lodge at Hollis. They looked at one another and wondered what had just happened. Both agreed that it must have been something they drank. So they grabbed their kit and plunged into a weekend of ASL!!!

Following the unsuccessful attack on Hollis, General Patton himself directed that the program be moved to a safer location in Maryland. The Advanced Squad Leadership Program was too valuable to risk every again.

Here now is the scenario GJ050 - The Heroes of Hollis. My thanks to the Kansas City ASL Group and to the 2 Half-Squads for agreeing to be part of this year's annual Halloween Scenario. May it bring some fun to your gaming day.

As always these monthly "Basement Quality" Scenarios are offered for fun only and as a thank you to the readers of this blog.

Remember to open pictures in a new window in order to maximize the size. 

And as always, the PDF for this scenario can be downloaded from The ASL Scenario Archive 

(just search on Grumble Jones).


Now you may think the story of the Heroes of Hollis ended that Halloween night...but you'd be wrong....

The events surrounding the Hollis Center were cause for grave concern at the highest levels of the US Military. Rumors of dead German POW's roaming the Kansas countryside were spreading and had to be squashed immediately. The Battle of the Bulge had begun and anything adding to fear on the Home Front was unacceptable.

The War Department sent in Military Intelligence to clean the site and remove all traces that a military installation had ever been there. 

All other activities undertaken were to be strictly top secret and controlled from a new super secret site...known as Area 51...

And there the story of the Hollis Center was to end...

or did it...

Happy Halloween to the readers of this Blog!