The Founding of Piss Pot [Session 12, 1/15]

• On our way to Railyard to offload the computers we stole from the facility
• Exploring ruins. hear a mechanical winch noise. we find a lone oil pump thing that's still going.
• Find intact oil tank, three stories high and full of oil
• Decide to create hardhome
• Piss and Lithium stay behind to guard, others go to Railyard to sell computer gear and scout out the situation
• Ford, guard in power armor, asks the party at Railyard to undergo decontamination
• Blackjack is missing. Piss and Lithium tell everyone to buddy up. Then Fester lets Piss know that there are footsteps leading into the forest, and it appears Blackjack was dragged away.
• Back at the railyard, they bribe the guard to get by without decontaminating (most people because it would hurt, Want because he/she doesn't want to reveal his/her gender). The Railyard has automatons and androids walking around, lots of tech.
• Arms dealer named Lincoln -- the party buys some crap
• Two want followers are trying to sell rats to an automaton and are getting into a scrap. Want convinces them instead to just eat some mushrooms. in exchange for resolving the matter, the automaton lets Want choose a DVD to keep. Want takes an AOL CD, but the automaton cautions against it. Want chooses Sweating to the Oldies.
• Cupid takes mushrooms and vomits. They all decide to leave posthaste, since they didn't take decontamination.
• Back at the hardhome, which Piss names the Piss Pot, the party decides to hold tight while Piss leads his gang, and Lithium part of hers, to go find Blackjack and his abductor. They track into the forest where they find a camp with two humans and two automatons, with Blackjack tied up and also a captured man with a tentacle coming out of his face.
• Lithium is sneaking through the woods with some of her girls when a robot puts a gun to her head. The robot tells her to surrender, but Lithium snarls some hard shit and puts a big fucking gash in his robot neck with an axe.
• Piss takes advantage of the diversion and lays down suppressive fire while the maniacs swarm the camp and kill all the captors but one human, whom piss questions and then stabs to death. Turned out they were just dumb neural-grease hunters from the Railyard.

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Rebellion part 2: The Ballad of Leonard [Session 11, 1/8]

The party had hatched a magnificent plan to overthrow Glue Boy in favor of Harridan the madam.  Carlos and Maple stood in the middle of the thunder dome, their enemies slain on the ground at their feet, raising their arms in the air and begging the audience’s attention.  Want held firmly to the bars of the cage, suspended halfway up the side of the dome and now feeling the weight of the crowds’ eyes, drawn his way by a shot in the air from Lithium’s gun.

Want delivered a rousing speech, pointing out the cruelty with which Glue Boy ruled and empowering the crowd to rise up and overthrow him.  The empowered crowd did rise up… and rip Want from the side of the cage, to carry to a public execution.  Lithium ran to her aide, but received a knife to the gut for her efforts.  Lithium dispatched her attackers and ran to Glue Boy and his goons to take matters into her own hands.  Cupid, who had found himself in the ring playing referee led the charge to free Want of her terrible fate.

Piss and a few thousand maniacs (3) sauntered over to Lithium, in hopes of joining in the fray against Glue Boy.  More well armed, they dealt a heavy blow to the henchmen.

Want delivered a final rousing speech with a noose around his neck, turning the mob to her side, and sending them off to fight Glue Boy’s occupied minions.  A quick burst of machine gun fire was enough to send those peasant running though, and once again leave the party alone to fight.  Want, Carlos, and Maple ran off to grab the cars, since the caper seemed to be taking a darker turn.  In their absence, Cupid entered the psychic maelstrom and called forth an amorphous angel, seemingly made of nothing and encompassing everything.  Duke welcomed it into the material plane with a hail of gunfire.  

Lithium finished off the goons and claimed Glue Boy’s head as her prize as the convoy pulled up to make their escape.  She tossed the head into Maple’s car and climbed in behind it.

Cupid made a mad dash for the cars with his own monstrosity hot on his heels.  Watching from the safety of the limo, Want saw 3 of her younglings trying to escape the clutches of the angel.  Quickly he sprang forth from the sunroof, but judged that the situation was too dire to save all 3.  She made the brave, noble choice and kicked out Leonard’s knee from the side, driving him to the ground in a fit of horrible screaming pain and incomprehension, affording Want time to grab the other 2 kids.  

As they drove away, cupid watched as Leonard was sucked up by the Angel and disappeared, in a somewhat foreboding fashion.  

That night at camp, Piss called Want over to discuss the state of the children, as they were more mouths to feed, and perhaps more trouble than they were worth.  After much deliberation, they agreed to keep the kids on as a weapon, and Want would foot most of the bill, with a portion coming from the upcoming sell of some loot at the Railyard.

The following day, en route to the Railyard they encountered an odd fish man posted up beside a lake, with a net full of drowned debris he had recovered.  Cupid bought the whole lot, with an odd organ he had found.  Lithium fronted 2 rations of food, for the creature to fetch mushrooms for Want, and Piss put in an order with the creature for more high tech equipment from the zones, before the crew made their exit         

Rebellion [Session 10, 1/1]

• Want spends their own barter to support the brainer kids, and begins their tutelage in the Green.
• Maple and Carlos wake up.  Want explains to them that Lithium is alive.
• Harridan asks Lithium and Duke for help taking over Hound’s Town by overthrowing the hardholder, Glue Boy.
• Cricket recruits Maple and Carlos to the fighting pits.
• The crew meets and decides to accept Harridan’s job.  Harridan gives them some intel on Glue Boy, and also informs them that Live Oak was hit by bandits about two weeks ago.  She also tells them that the best bet for repairing the roller coasters would be the savvyheads in the Railyard.
• To the fighting pits!
• Mushrooms are dumped in the communal beer troughs to incite chaos. Cricket is enticed into making a speech after Carlos proves his mettle by stabbing an unsuspecting gladiator. Glue Boy is spotted.
• In the Thunderdome, Carlos shanks Corbit, Maple shanks Belch, and the frenzied crowd’s eyes are directed to Want.

Hound's Town [Session 09, 12/11]

• In the Facility, Duke encounters Future Lithium, and they go to the Nerve Center.
• Everyone bails from the Facility and reconvenes outside of the Zone.  Lithium is welcomed by Piss.  The Maniacs hold the perimeter while Cupid heals people.  Lithium spots a black obelisk within the Zone, but has a bad feeling about it and turns back.
• They head south and find a train station.  Cupid and Piss, who can read, find newspapers from the 2080s that mention a plague wiping out civilization.
• They come to Hound’s Town, a hardhold built on an amusement park with a penchant for gladiatorial combat and dogfighting. 
• Cupid picks up work with the local veterinarian, Toulouse.  Lithium and Piss attempt to buy ammo from Tum Tum, only to find that Harridan, the brothel owner, has stockpiled it.  They bust into her establishment, Whores Galore, and take out her guards in a forced buyout.
• Duke and Lithium go into the fighting pits at the behest of Cricket, where they kill Master Blaster to the delight of the crowd.
• With a bit of work and stability to be had, the gang holes up in Hound’s Town for a spell.