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.
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