Campaign World Date(s): July 20, 2097
The Posse
Jericho is an attractive gunslinger and former actor with a
penchant for collecting antique and famous firearms. At some point in his
wanderings across the Wasted West over the years, he encountered something
truly horrific. Now, only a bottle of whiskey keeps that memory from driving
him mad. Played by Jeremy.
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 paranoid about 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 legs 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 is looking for Jet's
daughter, Sarah. They had just "acquired" the Fertility Talisman, a
small statue wanted by Dolly, a madam of a house of ill repute in the town of
Junkyard. Dolly knows where Sarah is and will give up the info in exchange for
the Fertility Talisman.
The posse had just fled the town of
Dead Man's Mark with the Fertility Talisman. They had successfully lost their
pursuers but had ended up in a Rad Patch, an area glowing green with radiation.
The Tell
The Rad Patch and the Attack of
the Living Dead
·
The posse
found themselves smack dab in the middle of a Rad Patch, a green glowing area
of high radiation. Ahead of them was a destroyed bridge. The posse had to
either turn around, or drive down the ravine and then up to get to the other
side of the road. Then walkin' dead came shuffling out of the darkness. Max
gunned the engine and headed into the ravine.
·
The
walkin' dead were everywhere. They leaped onto the car, smashing windows, and
clawing at the posse members. Max was severely wounded. A zombie got into the
car and savaged Tituba. From the amount of blood and gore, the witch was
presumed dead. However, with a mighty heave, the witch pushed the undead
monstrosity off of her and emerged intact. [Miranda played the "Send in
the Clones" Adventure Card.]
·
Tituba
jumped into the front seat and pushed the accelerator. With a scream of spook
juice, the car shot up the ravine and reached the open road. Tituba kept the
pedal to the metal. The posse pushed the
walkin' dead out of the car. Other walkin' dead flew off the car as it
roared down the road.
·
Poor
Solomon the Templar did not survive this encounter. The radiation caused his
head to expand to the point that it exploded, showering the rest of the posse
with brain matter and gore. [Jeremy rolled Snake Eyes to resist radiation
poisoning, which lead to a draw from the Mutation Deck. He drew a 2, which
meant death.]
Junkyard and a New Mission
·
Jet and
Tituba went to the House of the Rising Sun and gave the Fertility Talisman to
Dolly. The madam told Jet that his daughter was in Silver Town, home of the
Black Knights, an organization of fallen Templars. He might find more
information from another madam, Gigi, at the Red Garter in the steading of
Jerrod's Strip. She then seduced Jet.
·
Ike
Taylor called the posse to his office with a job offer. A young woman and an
attractive man with a brace of pistols strapped to his chest was there as well.
The woman was Joan, leader of the Church of the Atomic Revelation. She was a
mutant with four arms. The man was Jericho, whom Ike wanted to go on the
mission. [Jericho was Jeremy's replacement character.]
·
Joan
explained that the Church used to have a number of chapels scattered throughout
the Wasted West. They had served as sources of information for the Iron
Alliance. However, most of the chapels were destroyed during the Harvest War.
The chapel in Carson City had been destroyed the Cult of Doom, an organization
of mutants dedicated to killing norms.
·
Joan had
one remaining contact In the steading of Carson City: a blind man by the name
of Alexander. His last message was that something big was going down, and he
needed help. Ike doubted the posse's ability to succeed, but he had no other
options. He offered them a rent free three room apartment with free water and
electricity as payment. They would have a 7 day supply of spook juice as well
for the trip.
·
Both
Jerrod's Strip and Silver Town were on the way to Carson City.
Attack of the Freaks
·
The party
headed out on I-80. They soon ran into a road block set up by the Freaks, a
road gang made up of mutants. Raiders appeared on cliff tops on both sides. A
couple of trucks emerged from hiding to block their escape. Despite being
outnumbered, the posse decided to fight. Things did not go well. Max and
Jericho were both shot and taken out of the fight. Tituba was hit as well.
·
In
desperation, Jet climbed a cliff to engage some of the Freaks in hand to hand
combat. Then, even more desperate, he grabbed a Freak and then leaped from the
clifftop onto the car holding the leader, using the Freak to cushion his fall.
·
Tituba,
just as she had during the encounter with the walkin' dead, jumped into the
front seat and hit the accelerator. She drove out of danger.
·
At this
point, Tom showed up just in time to save the day. He hid and waited until all
of the Freaks had gathered around their leader's car to deal with Jet. Then he
sent a flaming arrow into the fuel tank.
·
Every
last Freak died in a mushroom cloud explosion of spook juice. Amazingly, Jet
walked out of the blast area, a little cooked, but otherwise fine. [I messed up
the Adventure Deck and Thomas ended up getting dealt, "Send in the
Clones" again.]
Jerrod's Strip
·
The posse proceeded to Jerrod's Strip. This
steading had a small airfield and a single prop plane that Jerrod flew to such
places as Junkyard and Silver Town.
·
The posse
soon learned that the steading had a problem: Tyrone and Rozz, young, star
crossed lovers, had fled to Jerrod's Strip, and were hoping to make it
Junkyard. Tyrone Gigi, the owner of the Red Garter Casino and Whorehouse (she
wasn't much for subtlety), was hiding the pair.
·
Tyrone
was a norm and the son of "Colonel" Jebidiah Dean, leader of the
Rebel Reavers, a Civil War confederate army themed road gang. They were
dedicated to racial purity and the enslavement of mutants.
·
Rozz was
a mutant and the daughter of Cat Skinner, leader of the Stormfront, a road gang
of mutants.
·
The Rebel
Reavers had already arrived. The Stormfront gang was on its way. There would
soon be a war and Jerrod's Strip would be ground zero.
·
The Rebel
Reavers had set up a rocket launcher on some bluffs near the airstrip and
threatened to shoot down Jerrod's plane if it took off. Jebidiah would rather
his son be dead than married to mutant scum.
Max Terrorizes the Steading
·
Things
went slightly off kilter when Max started terrorizing the town. For unknown
reasons, he wanted to know where the star-crossed lovers were. There was a
locked door and the road warrior was sure that's where the lovers were hiding.
He threatened the bartender at the Red Garter, wanting the door unlocked. He
then threw the bartender into the locked door, nearly killing him. Luckily,
Tituba was able to use her healing magic on the innocent man.
·
The
patrons of the Red Garter surrounded Max, overpowered him, disarmed him, and
tied him up. The posse was able to talk their way out of the mess. They offered
to take care of the Rebel Reavers free of charge.
·
[Strangely,
Max's Manitou did not cause this chaos. Justin role-played this on his own.]
The Acid Queen and Her Dragon
·
Gigi sat
down with Jet and told him that Sarah was indeed in Silver Town. Sarah was also
the Acid Queen. She rode Spew, a dragon that spit acid instead of fire.
·
The posse
also learned that the Black Knights were fallen Templars. They wanted to rule
the Wasted West, and so became typical warlords and gang leaders. They were
eventually kicked out of the Templar organization. The fallen Templars donned
black tabards with red crosses and called themselves the Black Knights.
The Rocket Launcher
·
The posse
decided they would take out the rocket launcher. In the dead of night, they
snuck up onto the bluffs. They located and surprised a dozen or so Rebel
Reavers. Tituba distracted the men. Max snuck into their camp and made off with
the rocket launcher. Then the posse snuck off into the darkness.
·
The posse
returned to the Red Garter with the rocket launcher. Jerrod and the
star-crossed lovers got into his plane. He taxied down the runway and took off
into the night, flying for Junkyard.
Slave Boy
·
Happy
with the posse's success, Tituba headed off for some well-deserved rest.
Suddenly, a familiar form appeared out of the darkness. It was her hated enemy,
Slave Boy, a lackey of Mercy Devlin. Other figures emerged from the darkness,
obviously Slave Boy's backup.
And that's where we stopped for the
night.
Vehicles
Vehicle
|
Spook Juice (in days)
|
Notes
|
Groot's Truck
|
6
|
|
Max's Motorcycle
|
2
|
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. Tyrone and Rozz were
flown safely to Junkyard, hopefully to live happily ever after. The posse
also acquired a rocket launcher.
|
Did we create a new Mission
by learning something new and important about the world or a PC?
|
Yes. Jericho wants an old fashioned
flintlock pistol used by the actor Johnny Depp in a movie about pirates from
one hundred years ago.
|
Did we lower the Fear Level
of an area?
|
No. The posse utterly
destroyed The Freaks, a road gang that had been terrorizing I-80 around
Jerrod's Strip. However, Max negated that triumph by terrorizing the town.
|
2 XP earned.
Tom receives 1 XP because Thomas was
late.
Character
|
Old XP
|
XP Earned
|
New XP
|
Raisin' Hell
|
Groot
|
4
|
0
|
4
|
·
1
Mutation: arm like a gnarled tree branch (Brawny Edge)
·
1 Heart
Attack
·
1 Scar:
horrible, disfigured skull (-1 Charisma)
|
Jericho
|
24
|
2
|
26
|
Major Hindrance: Habit:
Alcoholic
|
Jet Li
|
27
|
2
|
29
|
·
1
Mutation (VotWW): metallic sheen to skin (+1 die bump Vigor)
·
1
Memento
|
Martell
|
4
|
0
|
4
|
|
Max
|
27
|
2
|
29
|
·
Harrowed:
death wound = hole in the stomach
·
Harrowed:
Dominion = +4
·
Paranoid
(Yellow Hindrance, VotWW)
·
Mark of
Fear (-1 Charisma)
|
Tituba
|
14
|
2
|
16
|
|
Tom
|
22
|
1
|
23
|
1 Mutation: Elderly (VotWW)
|
The Roll of Fallen Heroes
Solomon
|
24
|
3
|
27
|
·
Lame
Hindrance (VotWW)
·
1 Heart
Attack
|
Solomon died when Jeremy rolled snake eyes when the
Templar was in a Rad Patch. Jeremy then pulled a Two from the Mutation deck =
instant death.
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