Hi all!

Running my AW game I feel I lack in one area. I really want some more language to spew apocalyptica forth with, it's hard to come up with evocative words about the apocalypse sometimes. Got a picture in my head but it just doesn't come out with the impact I'd like it to have.

Was hoping to get a suggestion or two about an author who writes in an especially good descriptive way about this kind of subject.  And I do mean books rather than film or other media cause I'm looking to get better at finding the right words.

Cheers!

The players are holed up in a steady base of operations lead by an npc hardholder (not the playbook, just calling him that as the leader of the hardhold) Is this individual typically a threat? I can see the characters wanting the hardhold to succeed and therefore the hardholder, but sometimes a hardholder may be dysfunctional or dangerous to the PC's or to the hardhold itself.

Do you see an NPC such as this as part of a threat? In what circumstances?  And would he be part of the home front?

What I have in mind for my game feels a little strange cause he is a threat to the pc's and others due to his actions, he in fact seems to embody ignorance and I thought he might be a threat in the ignorance front, however... here he sits firmly at home and ostensibly sharing the PC's best interests, at least to a degree.

Any thoughts are appreciated.