Campaign World Date(s): July 5, 2097
Groot is an expert driver and scavenges the atomic wastelands in
a pickup truck. While scavenging a ruin somewhere in the Wasted West, he picked
up a mutation. He now has an arm that looks like a gnarled tree branch. Played
by Jacob. (Played by Steven this session.)
Jet Li is a master of Kung Fu fighting with a signature
"Ka-Doosh!" power. At some point during his wanderings across the
atomic wastelands, he picked up a mutation and now his skin has a metallic
sheen to it. Played by Heath.
Mad Max is a Harrowed road warrior with a motorcycle. He tangled
with a supernatural horror at one point and is now slightly nervous about
things that go bump in the night. Played by Justin.
Martell is a young child with a completely bald head. He is just
beginning to tap his syker abilities. Played by Keanu.
Solomon is a templar. Sometime in the past, a fearsome creature
nearly ripped off Solomon's leg and now he walks with an obvious limp. Played
by Jeremy.
Tituba is a stunningly beautiful witch and a descendent of Mina
Devlin. Played by Miranda.
Tom has wandered the Wasted Waste for years working as a hired
gun. Like some other members of the posse, he played too long in the
radioactive sandbox and now has a mutation: he has aged prematurely. He has
strangely wrinkled skin and unnaturally looking gray hair. Played by Thomas.
Readin' the Sitch
The posse has travelled north from
their current home in the city of Junkyard. They had two missions:
·
Go to the
ruins of the city of Logan. Gather intel on the Hellbore, a huge mining machine
used by the Combine during the Harvest War. Junkyard was offering a nice reward
for this mission.
·
Enter the
Saltmarsh Deadland to find a crashed plane full of weapons and ammo. They would
be rich if they succeeded.
The posse had just finished a fight
with a band of walkin' dead, defeated a fiery ghost that haunted the Hellbore,
had taken photos of the interior of the Hellbore, and fought an automaton
controlled by an undead rotting human head. Just as they thought the worst was
over, a Combine force emerged out the old tunnel that the Hellbore had drilled.
The Tell
Fight against the Combine
·
The
Combine forces emerged out of the tunnel. They had two prisoners, naked and
bound. One was a child with a completely bald head: probably a syker. The other
was a man, with strangely wrinkled skin and unnaturally looking gray hair:
obviously a mutant.
·
There was
a brief firefight. The posse killed the Red Hat, the commander of the Combine
forces. With the loss of their leader, the Black Hats retreated back into the
tunnel.
Interludes
·
The posse
set to work repairing Groot's truck and Max's motorcycle. The two prisoners
introduced themselves and told the posse about themselves.
·
Tom was a combat medic before the war. After the
Boom, he met Matthew Baxter, who became a close friend. Together they worked on
rebuilding civilization, on returning things to how they used to be.
Unfortunately, General Maxie Podrax, a particularly nasty individual, captured
both Tom and Matthew. They were separated and Tom has not seen Matthew since.
He hopes to find and free his friend. Then they can go back to rebuilding the
world.
·
Martell has a twin sister, older than him by mere minutes. General Caruso, a
cruel man and an officer serving the Combine, had taken the siblings under this
care. One day, Martell's sister disappeared. His greatest desire was to find
his sister.
·
Combine
forces took both Tom and Martell into a cave system. After several days of
marching underneath the earth, they emerged out of the tunnel at the ruins of
Logan.
Through the Ghost Storm
·
The posse
debated as to whether to return to Junkyard to collect the rewards or proceed
to the Saltmarsh Deadland, which was on the way to Junkyard. In the end, the
posse decided to investigate the cache of arms and ammo inside the Deadland.
·
Groot,
Jet, Tituba, Tom, and Solomon piled into Groot's truck. They would drive
through the Ghost Storm first. Max and Martell would follow on the road
warrior's motorcycle.
·
Groot
gunned the engine and drove into the Ghost Storm. He and the others experienced
the visceral thrill of a Ghost Storm. It felt like their insides were being
pulled apart. They made it through, but a couple of posse members were
exhausted from the ordeal.
·
Before
Max could follow on his bike, the manitou that powered Max's body with unlife
decided that now would be a good time to possess the host's body. A test of
wills followed and Max lost. With a hateful chuckle, the manitou turned the
bike away from the Ghost Storm and headed south with Martell.
Fight against the Swamp
Leviathan
·
The posse
had little time to dwell on their experience in the Ghost Storm. The road they
were on had disappeared, being replaced by a brackish swamp. Suddenly, large
black tentacles emerged from the water and attacked the truck.
·
An epic
fight commenced as more and more tentacles emerged from the swamp. Two
strangers on a skiff entered the battle, casting spells against the tentacles.
Their spells looked very similar to those cast by Tituba. Soon, the last of the
tentacles was sliced in half and whatever creature the tentacles were attached
to retreated.
The Saltmarsh Coven
·
The two
strangers from the skiff approached. They stared in amazement at Tituba. They
said that she was a more beautiful twin of the coven's leader, Betty Lou
Devlin. When they had a moment to recover, they introduced themselves as Amy
and Stacy.
·
The pair
said that Betty Lou hated men with a passion. She had recently turned against
the male members of the coven, invoking a ritual that turned all of the males
into beast men.
·
The posse
realized at this time that Max and Martell were not with them. The posse
debated as to whether to brave the Ghost Storm again and go in search of Max
and Martell, or proceed with searching for the crashed plane with its supply of
guns and ammo. They decided to find Max and Martell. The road warrior had the
palmcorder with the images from inside the Hellbore. That palmcorder was vital.
The Road Orcs, Part 1
·
The posse
walked through the Ghost Storm and again experienced what it felt like when a
thousand screaming souls try to rip out your heart. They emerged mostly intact.
Once on the other side, they spotted a skid mark from Max's motorcycle that
indicated he was headed south.
·
Somewhere
down the road, the posse crested a hill and saw a large group of armed
mercenaries blocking the only bridge available for at least a day's ride in
either direction. A dozen or so cars, trucks, and motorcycles were parked near
the bridge. A trading convoy was stopped several hundred yards from the bridge.
It looked like the leader of the convoy and the leader of the raiders were
talking in the space between the two groups. They also saw an animated Max and
a crying Martell near the bridge. Max seemed to be in negotiations of his own.
·
Groot
gunned it and made for the bridge. As they approached, Jet made multiple eye
contacts with the leader of the raiders. It was Four Eyes, a mutant with four
eyes, who was a lieutenant in the Road Orcs gang. Four Eyes immediately called
out for the Road Orcs to take Jet dead or alive.
·
Tom had
snuck down on his own and hidden in some brush. Once he heard Four Eyes yell,
Tom sent a fire arrow into the nearest vehicle. The fire ignited the Spook
Juice in the fuel tank. A nice explosion followed, which set off explosions in
the vehicles next to it. A chain reaction followed as more than a dozen trucks
and motorcycles went up in flames.
·
It was at
this moment that the manitou lost Dominion over Max. Now his normal (abnormal?)
self, Max grabbed a screaming and crying Martell, hit the gas, and flew north
up the road. Tom dove back into the truck. Groot gunned it, turning his truck
around, and followed the road warrior north. The Road Orcs, stunned by the
destruction of so many of their vehicles, did not pursue.
The Road Orcs, Part 2 (or The
Capture and Death of Four Eyes)
·
Jet and
Red Fang, the leader of the Road Orcs, had vendettas against each other. The
posse thought it would be a good idea to capture Four Eyes and find out where
Red Fang was lairing.
·
The other
posse members strapped Jet to the hood of the pickup in hopes of convincing
Four Eyes that the kung fu master was their prisoner. They drove back to the
bridge and convinced Four Eyes that they wanted the bounty for Jet. Four Eyes
was happy with the capture of Jet and offered the posse the reward: 200 bullets
and a days worth of Spook Juice. He ordered a truck brought forward with
several jerry cans of fuel.
·
As Four
Eyes grabbed Jet, the kung fu fighter slipped out of his bonds and punched Four
Eyes right between his four eyes, knocking him out cold. The rest of the posse
then hustled the unconscious mutant into the back of the truck.
·
Tom had
snuck up on the truck carrying the Spook Juice. He killed the driver, grabbed
control of the truck, and sped off to the north. Groot flipped off the Road
Orcs, did a U-turn and followed. Max pulled off a spectacular maneuver with his
motorcycle, leaving a number of Road Orcs in awe. A fusillade of shots
followed, but the posse made good their escape.
·
Tituba
used her feminine wiles, and a little bit of witchcraft, to try and convince
Four Eyes to give up the location of Red Fang.
Four Eyes pronounced his love for Tituba but just couldn't give up the
location of his boss. Then Tituba planted a kiss right on Four Eyes' mouth. She
did so at the same that Max showed his stomach wound to the Road Orc, which
caused Four Eyes to throw up a little in Tituba's mouth. Tituba's sacrifice was
worth it, however. Four Eyes was now totally enslaved to her and the mutant
declared that Red Fang was in Road Kill Alley, discussing some big plans with
Mercy Devlin. Four Eyes didn't know what those plans were, but they must be
important enough that Mercy would deign to cooperate with a man.
·
As soon
as Four Eyes finished his confession, Tom shot an arrow right through the
mutant's skull.
The Storm
·
The posse
saw a storm approaching. Any storm in the Wasted West was bad news. They
immediately scrambled for cover as Black Rain washed down on the land.
·
Max and
Tom ended up in a small cave together. The manitou decided now would be a good
time to take over Max. The road warrior lost the test of wills. The manitou,
now happily in charge of its flesh puppet, had plans for Tom . . . .
And that's where we stopped for the
night.
Vehicles
Vehicle
|
Spook Juice (in days)
|
Notes
|
Groot's Truck
|
2
|
|
Max's Motorcycle
|
2
|
|
Tom's Truck
|
2
|
Stolen from the Road Orcs
|
XP
Answer the following questions. 1 XP is
earned for every yes answer. Min of 1, Max of 3 XP per session.
Did we successfully complete
a Mission, overcome a major NPC or monster; or scrounge up a big, fat pile of
Scrap from the pre-Apocalypse world?
|
Yes. Swamp Leviathan, Four
Eyes.
|
Did we create a new Mission
by learning something new and important about the world or a PC?
|
Yes. Two interludes.
|
Did we lower the Fear Level
of an area?
|
No
|
2 XP earned.
Tituba gains an Advance!
Character
|
Old XP
|
XP Earned
|
New XP
|
Raisin' Hell
|
Groot
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
·
1
Mutation: arm like a gnarled tree branch (Brawny Edge)
·
1 Heart
Attack
·
1 Scar:
horrible, disfigured skull (-1 Charisma)
|
Jet Li
|
22
|
2
|
24
|
·
1
Mutation (VotWW): metallic sheen to skin (+1 die bump Vigor)
·
1
Memento
|
Martell
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
|
Max
|
22
|
2
|
24
|
·
Harrowed:
death wound = hole in the stomach
·
Harrowed:
Dominion = -1
·
Paranoid
(Yellow Hindrance, VotWW)
·
Mark of
Fear (-1 Charisma)
|
Solomon
|
22
|
2
|
24
|
·
Lame
Hindrance (VotWW)
·
1 Heart
Attack
|
Tituba
|
9
|
2
|
11
|
|
Tom
|
20
|
22
|
22
|
1 Mutation: Elderly (VotWW)
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