As my PCs are learning (and my players already knew), the world of Kaserne on the Borderlands is not a stock Twilight: 2000 setting. There are definite anomalous elements, starting with their own difficulty in recalling specific events before their arrival in Ponikla. What they’ve experienced so far:

• Zenobia grew up in Ponikla and remembers the forest around the village being much less dense. She also recalls the Pilica River being not nearly as wide and deep as it is now. Childhood memories tend to make things bigger than we perceive them as adults… not smaller.
• The river water has hallucinogenic properties with possible precognitive visions.
• Something has been taking the village’s children… and returning them with missing time. I haven’t had this occur on-screen yet (it was a player-submitted problem for the village) and I really should do something with it soon…
• The disappearing/appearing swamp road southwest of Ponikla where they acquired their UAZ-469.
• The mysterious circumstances that led to that UAZ-469 being found abandoned and idled dry, with impact damage to the front end and lots of blood splatter on the ground around it.
• So far, everyone they’ve encountered from outside Ponikla has had serious issues with long-term memory and any sort of planning or abstract thought, as well as a general inability to comprehend the concept of “map” or other recorded knowledge. Conversation that probes the latter topic has induced some sort of minor seizure, after which the issues have receded.
• What’s a map? The PCs have failed to find maps in at least three places they would have expected to find them (highway maintenance facility, mobile command post vehicle, railroad maintenance facility).
• For that matter, other recorded knowledge is profoundly rare, too. Ponikla only has about five books. The most blatant and recent example of this is the apparent erasure of a family library that Zenobia remembered being in a relative’s house at the village by the rail yard.
• A pack of dogs with healed wounds that should have been fatal.
• A couple of instances of weird howling or heavy wind noise coming from the river with no apparent weather pattern to account for this.
• Pettimore’s memories of living through events of June through October 2000 before finding himself in Ponikla in May 2000.

I’m not saying there’s a pattern (because I may be making all of it up as I go along)… but there is definitely a direction I’m going with this.