Campaign World Date(s): July 4, 2097
The Team
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.
Jet Li is a master of Kung Fu fighting with a signature
"Ka-Doosh!" power. At some point during his wanderings across the
Wasted West, 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 afraid of things that go
bump in the night. Played by Justin.
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.
Readin' the Sitch
Mission: Recon the Hellbore
·
Out of
desperation, the team has decided to take up a mission for the town of
Junkyard. They've decided the rewards are worth it. First up, there's two weeks
of canned rations—the good stuff, not the recycled gunk served up in the camp
food lines. Second, and more importantly, if they complete the mission, there's
Junkyard citizenship. It’s nothing to scoff at, especially with food and
resources in the camps and shanty towns continually in such short supply.
·
They met
with Ike Taylor, the mayor of Junkyard. He explained that during the Harvest,
the Combine used a Hellbore, an enormous digging machine, to burrow under the
Rockies to flank Junkyard from the north up around the town of Logan. A huge
army emerged from the tunnel and started marching towards Junkyard.
Fortunately, Junkyard was alerted to this in time to react. The town had a MOAB
bomb squirreled away, and Ike ordered it dropped on Logan. The innocent people
of the town would be collateral damage, unfortunately.
·
Ike wants
the team to go to the site of this tunnel and determine if the Hellbore is
still there. He warned the team that he had sent scouts into Logan previously
and none had returned. Ike didn't know what was in Logan, but he advised the
team to be prepared for anything.
·
Ike gave
the team a palmcorder complete with a map to where they need to go. Once there,
the team was to use it to record the area, as well as get some interior shots
of the Hellbore. If they bring back this information, the food and Junkyard
citizenship are all theirs.
Mission: Get Rich or Die Trying
·
The team
had another reason to travel north. In one of his scavenging hunts, Groot had
found a journal from a sky pilot, now presumably dead. The journal stated that
the pilot's plane had passed through the ghost storm at Saltmarsh and
crash-landed inside the Deadland. Only half of the 8 man crew survived the
ghost storm and the crash. 3 out of the remaining crew died walking out of the
Deadland through the ghost storm. The pilot seems to have quickly lost his mind
after this ordeal, as the journal turns to gibberish shortly thereafter. The
plane was full of ammunition and weapons for the Harvest War. The team would be
rich if they could recover it. Of course, there's a good chance that they could
all die.
The Tell
Fight against the Walkin' Dead
·
The team
rolled into the ruins of Logan in Groot's truck and Max's motorcycle. They were
promptly ambushed by walkin' dead.
·
Groot was
unnerved by the sight of the undead and had a heart attack. Then he took a head
shot that ripped open his skull. Luckily, Max grabbed the missing skull piece
and slapped it back on Groot's head. Groot survived the wound, but now his head
is horribly disfigured. [Justin played the Hot Iron and Whiskey Adventure
Card].
·
Tituba
dropped the leader of the walkin' dead with one well placed magic bolt to the
head.
·
After the
combat, the team performed CPR on Groot and managed to restart his heart.
There's was nothing they could do for his gruesome head wound, though.
Interludes
·
Solomon,
Tragedy. Lost his daughter Ripley recently. Frederick the priest took Solomon
and Ripley under his care. He inspired Solomon to become a Templar. While Solomon
was away, Ravenites attacked Frederick's church, killing the holy man, and
kidnapping Ripley.
·
Tituba,
Victory. Has a sister named Mercy, who ran a town called Road Kill Alley.
Tituba was supposed to take over a town called Dead Man's Mark. Something
happened, though, and Tituba ended up as a refugee in Junkyard.
·
Jet Li,
Tragedy. Jet had a friend, "Kung Pao". The two survived the Fall due
to being in the freezer at the Chinese restaurant where they worked. They lived
on frozen food for several weeks. A man named Angus Bond recently killed Kung
Pao.
·
Max,
Love. Before the Fall, Max had a girlfriend, Crystal. They were both
mercenaries and assassins, and they were hired to kill the Pope. Just as he was
about to pull the trigger, someone popped him instead. As he lay dying, the
ghost bombs hit. He's wandered the wasted west for 16 years, hoping to find
Crystal.
·
Groot,
Desire. Sticky Bob stole a steering wheel named Charlie from Groot. The
steering wheel supposedly talked to Groot and made him a better driver. Groot
wants to find and kill Sticky Bob, and get Charlie the steering wheel back.
Scavenging Logan and Exploring
the Hellbore
·
The team
scavenged the ruins of Logan. Jet Li found a memento, a golden, plastic cat
with an arm that waved up and down. It brought back happy memories of his time
before the Fall as a Chinese food delivery driver. [A Memento acts as a
one-time Benny that the PC can save and play when necessary.]
·
The
Hellbore sat about 100 yards away from the tunnel it had created. Its nose
consisted of huge grinding drills which gleamed dully in the sunlight. The
Hellbore measured at least 100 feet in diameter and about 100 yards long. Along the flanks of the huge cylinder
were large tank-like tracks designed to drag it through the earth’s crust. The
team could see windows at the very top of the Hellbore.
·
Jet Li
scampered up the Hellbore, then lowered a rope for the rest of the team. With a
mighty Ka-Doosh!, Jet smashed in one of the windows. He was greeted by a
terrifying sight: a ghostly, fiery, screaming apparition.
·
Jet was
not impressed by the ghost. Solomon, on the other hand, took one look at the
fiery creature and promptly dropped from a heart attack. Groot reacted quickly
and punched the Templar right in the middle of the chest, starting his heart
back up. Solomon rose and slew the creature in one blow with his Templar sword.
·
The team
found themselves in the control room of the Hellbore. They recorded images with
the palmcorder. They were reluctant to explore the rest of the machine due to
Combine devices tending to explode.
Battle with an Automaton
·
The team
heard a "clank, clank, clank" sound from the outside. Looking out the
window, the team saw a large, metal, mechanical, roughly humanoid shape
approaching the Hellbore. On the top of the machine was a clear plastic bubble
that held a rotting human head with red glowing eyes. Max was so terrified of
the thing that a streak of white appeared through his hair. [Max failed his
Fear Check, then rolled the Mark of Fear on the Fright Table.]
·
The team
engaged the automaton. Things looked grim for the party until Groot rammed his
truck into the unholy machine, destroying it. This activated the automaton's
self-destruct mechanism. A huge fireball engulfed most of the party.
·
As the
debris was clearing, the team saw a group of humans emerging from the tunnel.
They were wearing distinctive black and red helmets. Combine forces!
·
And
that's where we stopped for the night.
·
Groot - 2
Wounds
·
Max - 2
Wounds
XP
2 XP earned. Tituba earns 9 XP (!?@#$%)
due to being a power spanking Munchkin and playing "The Hard Way"
adventure card, which turned her 7 Bennies into XP.
Tituba gains an Advance!
Character
|
Old XP
|
XP Earned
|
New XP
|
Raisin' Hell
|
Groot
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
1 Mutation, arm like a gnarled tree branch (Brawny Edge), 1 Heart
Attack, 1 Scar (-1 Charisma)
|
Jet Li
|
20
|
2
|
22
|
1 Mutation, metallic sheen to skin (+1 die bump Vigor), 1
Memento
|
Max
|
20
|
2
|
22
|
Harrowed, Paranoid (Yellow
Hindrance, Mark of Fear (-1 Charisma)
|
Solomon
|
20
|
2
|
22
|
Lame Hindrance, 1 Heart
Attack
|
Tituba
|
0
|
9
|
9
|
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