News from the Overgrowth 31/10/2016 [Session 04]

Riding full throttle away from Live Oak, the 10,000 Maniacs split up into smaller groups, so as not to attract the attention of the bandits that they know to be roaming this region. Want, Lithium, Maple, Toadstool, and the truly indispensable Taint ride together toward the Mill.

Shortly into the journey, a giant tree unexpectedly fell across the path, crushing Taint and his motorcycle. Taint lay on the path screaming obscenities and crying for his mother, while the others gathered to examine his injuries. Lithium went to examine the base of the tree, only to find that it was not cut, but only rotten in a very localized region. She opened her mind to the Maelstrom and learned that the Overgrowth was attacking them.

Want and Lithium stepped to the side to discuss what was to be done with Taint. Want bade Lithium to do shuffle him loose the mortal coil, as they had no way to transport him or even remove him from under the tree. Want wandered off to gather flowers while Lithium approached Taint and tried to guide him into a restless sleep, from which he would never wake. Her humane approach did not work, since too much adrenaline coursed through his veins, so she shot him in the head. Toadstool took it pretty rough. Want returned with special flowers and performed a ceremony for Taint, helping Toadstool more than anyone else.

Want alerted the group, that while gathering flowers, she/he had stumbled upon a small hut that she had seen in a vision. The small hut was resting high on pilings over a strange dodecahedron, connected by many wires and humming of electricity. Their curious silence was broken as an old man wearing a colander hat, stepped forth and demanded an explanation for their presence. Through much dialogue, they learned that the man was Chips and that he was worried about robots in the woods and that perhaps he was a little out of his mind. He tried to bargain for some food to lead us around the woods, but Want learned from the Maelstrom that Chips really wanted to lure them to a put to test out a transporter on them. Want pressed for more information, but received little from the crazy old man. Maple drew a shotgun and forced him to the ground, demanding more answers, while Lithium grew bored and headed back to the convoy.

Lithium returned to the car to find that Toadstool was missing, so she grabbed her bike and followed some fresh pigoon tracks into the woods.

Want asked Maple to borrow his shotgun, in order to extract more information, but instead immediately emptied a shell into the back of Chips head before handing it back to Maple. She explained that no good would come of Chips, and if they left him, he may be able to tip off the bandits to their route. They searched his hut and retrieved some hand made maps.

Lithium stumbled across Toadstool just as her bike began to run out of gas. He was in the clutches of a 15 ft robotic monstrosity that seemed to ooze organic material from the seams. She engaged in a game of chicken with the robot, but was forced to ditch her bike at the last minute as it smashed into the robot’s shins. Maple and Want arrived on the scene as the smoke cleared, just in time to see the robot snatch up Lithium and run off into the forest. With Toadstool now safe, Maple suggested that they chalk it up as a win and head back. Want had to explain to her that perhaps Piss would not be the kind to listen to reason when they showed up without his second in command, and so he reluctantly sped off to save Lithium.

Lithium freed herself from the robot’s claw just as Want approached, and she hurriedly jumped on the back of the scooter. Want sped back to the camp, but not before gifting Lithium the rest of the flowers she had gathered, while there was no one to see. They returned to a slightly disappointed Maple and a relieved Toadstool, before driving on through the night.

[Want]

AW: Overgrowth - Session 3 Recap

We jumped forward a day or so and open with the group having arrived in Live Oak. Piss was offscreen, trying to keep the 10K Maniacs in line while we stayed in town. Lithium and Duke went to meet with Gog, the leader of Live Oak, who's also an old acquaintance of Duke's. We completed the deal for the guns we had brought (which we established that we took from another gang called the Old Bastards, which we wiped out). Gog paid us 10 barter for the guns, but Lithium angled for a little more. Gog told them that there was a small group of bandits nearby that have been raiding the town and if we took them out, he'd throw some more reward our way.

Meanwhile, Cupid and Want were in the market looking for some weapons. They met a seller named Lamprey and Cupid tried to buy some arrows from him. Things got awkward as it turned out he was actually Cupid's brother-in-law and because Cupid is crazy now, he didn't remember him at all. Things got tense for a moment and two guards came over and separated everyone. Want ended up taking mushrooms with his/her guard, who promptly blacked out and walked away. Cupid managed to intimidate his guard into leaving him alone. Want also spoke with a group of his/her students who he discovered had cornered the market of gasoline in Live Oak and were thinking about leaving town. Want convinced them to stay and gave them a big bag of mushrooms.

Eventually Lithium came back and found Want, who had started up a new deal with Lamprey who was thoroughly annoyed and trying to leave for the night. Want was attempting to buy a Derringer, but Lamprey was reluctant. Lithium offered to trade a 9mm Glock she had for Derringer, which Lamprey took and then left as fast as he could. Lithium then made Want come with her to her room to talk in private. Things took a turn as it became awkwardly clear that Lithium was trying to bone to Want. She gave her/him the Derringer as a token, but then got VERY sexually aggressive. Want turned down her advances, but managed to smooth things over. Lithium then ate some mushrooms and went dancing through the night. Eventually she found Cupid wandering around and through a weird interaction mind-controlled him into going to sleep.

Meanwhile, Duke went off look for cigars. He found out that Tricia, his dead wife's best friend, had some. He went to visit her and they reconnected and had some tender moments. Then they boned hard, because Duke is a stone cold pimp. Tricia made it clear that she wanted Duke to stay with her in Live Oak, and while he told her he had to leave, he seemed to indicate that he would eventually come back to her.

The night before, prior to being put to sleep by Lithium, Cupid had treated a rich guy for his various STDs. The guy told him about a town to the north called The Mill, where there were some shady characters who were looking for children to buy essentially. Specifically they were looking for Brainer children. Cupid thought that this was probably where Duke's daughter was taken to, or at least it could be a clue on that path. The next morning he told the group about it and suggested they go to The Mill and check it out. At hearing of the description of the kidnapped and sold Brainer children, Lithium totally freaked out, tackling Cupid and screaming nonsense. Eventually, despite her protests, the group decided that the best plan of action was to go check out The Mill and try to avoid the bandits that Gog had told them about.

AW: Overgrowth Recap Session 2

Back in The Rookery, we were still surrounded by the crowd of Vulture's former men, with Vulture himself dragged out in the middle of the small wooden fort. Piss commanded some answers as to why we should spare the life of him and his people. More so for his people really as it was clear Vulture was not long for this post-apocalyptic world. He mentioned a golden orb that can grant wishes in White Castle in one of the zones and that perked our ears up. But Lithium was getting tired of his blathering and whipped out her pistol to put an end to our chat. Duke snatched the firearm from her, which caused her to go into hysterics and be carried off. He eventually gave it back but sans ammo. In the interim Piss declared some guy Newton their new leader as he was bereft of any effects from the zones. It was then that a contingent of Rookery vehicles were heard driving up towards The Rookery with its seals adorned on their vehicles. Want and Maple hopped up on the catwalks to get a bead on the situation. But with the gates open, they saw something was amiss with our limo The Exec parked inside the walls. Gams (Yams?) got out of one of their autos and made her way up. And Lithium saw this as an opportunity to... do something weird or something. Want tried to rally the people of The Rookery to our cause but failed horribly and they began to turn on us, climbing over the The Exec and taking down Newton. And Gams (Jams?) was onto Lithium's bizarreness and began to draw her sidearm when Maple took her out with a single shot. The Rookery vehicles scattered back into the woods, we mowed down the majority of the folk, and, as evening drew nearer, Piss spent his nighttime constitutional murdering any survivors.

Duke also had a bit of late run in with Applesauce, who was actually being psychically controlled by Lithium to try and get the bullets back to her pistol. But ol' Duke is a light sleeper and caught her in his room, only for her to try and seduce Duke. But Lithium (all unbeknownst to us) ended up just frying Applesauce's brain. Mott's ado about nothing. Maple came running towards the gunshot but Duke simply and somewhat truthfully said he awoke to her with her hands in his pockets. Maple dragged the body out to loot and dispose of it but Cupid, fresh from a seemingly rocky trip with Want to their psychic playland plane while in Vulture's storehouse where Piss had a vision of a desolate campus strewn with ruins and corpses. Want saw Vulture stuck up to his waist in glowing slime. So when Cupid demanded Maple drop the body, Maple obliged as there wasn't much to loot anyway. Dragging Applesauce along, Cupid then added her body to the pyre.

We drove off the next morning, initially with plans to set off for White Castle until Want and Duke suggested we finish the job of running guns to Live Oak first. Piss concurred and so we oriented ourselves in the right direction and hit the dusty trail. On the way The Exec blew out a tire so we pulled over for repairs. Lithium saw this as an opportunity to sneak up to Duke and retrieve her bullets, which she slyly accomplished. With more bodies to dispose of while Maple changed the tire, Want led Duke into the forest to send the dead back to the earth as mushrooms or some such ritual even he didn't seem to have a firm grasp on. But the tree they stopped at bore the markings of... boars. Big ones. Monster pontoons. And lo and behold, as they were dropping the dead men off, they saw the giant creatures deeper into the forest beyond. Duke slowly began backpedaling to the car while Want was stuck, afraid and now soiled. Duke shook him out of it, though, and they were able to make it safely. Want changed his pants and then we were back off to Live Oak.

Session 1: Dice & Vice

• Piss burned a dude alive for not cleaning his bike off
• Maple and Carlos were attacked while scouting up ahead by bandits
• The rest of the crew caught up and defeated the bandits.  
• Maple got some masks from Porcupine, a kid.  Porcupine joined the gang.  They learned the bandits had been sent by Vulture Burbridge, Hardholder of the Rookery.  They were probably sent because Piss fucked Vulture's mom, Flapjacks.
• Carlos, Cupid and Want infiltrated the Rookery under the guise of bringing religion and medical aid.  Want incited an orgy among their followers.
• The others scaled the walls and slaughtered the guards.
• Vulture was dragged out.  He offered to give them details about the Zone in exchange for his life and the lives of his followers.