Nov. 13th Session [Session 06]

When last we left our group, they were all huddled around one individual, whose name was Pingo. Pingo was cowering on the floor as we talked about his impending fate. Lithium had taken off after some guy who had grabbed Twi, a little girl captured from Duke's village, and was trying to hunt him down. Pingo begged for his life as we discussed ending it in front of him, and he eventually told us he could help us in some way. We grabbed him and stalked after Lithium and Twi. Eventually we found them, and the guy who had grabbed her. Twi and Lithium were okay, but this gentlemen seems to have been shot in the chest somehow. He dead.

Once we all got together and Duke had the opportunity to ask Twi some questions (Or, you know, not. Ted was unhelpfully high for that segment of the game), we heard a rumbling come over the hill. We spotted a convoy of large armored vehicles and bikes coming over a ridge. We figured out that they were the The Rookery, a rival gang led by Flapjacks, who were enemies of the 10,000 maniacs. Luckily, we had enough time to either make a run for it, or face them head on. Piss, the ever valorous leader, choose for us to hightail it out of there. The 10,000 Maniacs left for the rendezvous point, 1 mile north of the almost deserted city, while the group had to manage their way out of the structures without being caught.

As they made their way through the structure, they were met with a variety of obstacles. The only memorable one (meaning the only one I remember) was where Duke had to disrobe, taking off his armor and weapons, and snuck through a large AC unit that had collapsed. A lucky roll and some help from his compatriots, the team made it out of the structure, but not before hitting Pingo with the butt of his machete and leaving him unconscious on the ground. They met up with the 10,000 Maniacs to discuss next steps.

Duke spent the night by Twi's tent, protecting her from the eventual sex crime that would have taken place. The rest of the group chatted about next steps. Once morning came, Flapjacks and the rest of the The Rookery were holding court in the middle of deserted town. In what we think was an attempt to gain power, they were interrogating those few fools who stayed. We decided on a two-pronged attack, one from the front with the 10,000 Maniacs, and one..FROM THE REAR...with Duke and Maple. Safe to say that we laid them low. Like real low. Like lower than low. They were laid to the near Kelvin 0-point of lowness. That's low guys.

Enter the Mill [11/6, Session 05]

We left off having successfully avoided the bandits as we headed our way north to the Mill. We semi-successfully talked our way past the guards and within the Mill's walls, where we found a charlatan of a priest cloaked in broken CDs named Vip trying to preach to his followers. Not one to share the market of religious sheeple, Wont started a hostile takeover and denounced him. THe crowd was only semi-swayed by Wont, and Lithium saw this as an opportunity to prove what a good partner she could be. She seduced Vip to get inside the limo where they could "talk".

When Vip's hands got a little too friendly with Lithium, she ended up tazing him and beating him as he was half-naked. Piss, who was standing outside the limo, decided to add insult to injury by breaking the glass with his elbow, dragging Vip half-way outside, and then opening the limo door so that his followers could see his exposed nethers.

Maple and Cupid went to perform acts of healing to gain barter, and ran across a guy who had some problems with his junk. He said he could pay for treatment with information, and let on that he knew something about the kidnapped kids. Unfortunately though Cupid popped one of Want's mushrooms and passed out instantly for a few hours. Maple grabbed Cupids medical supplies and convinced the guy to show him where the merchandise was. Maple discovered a girl from live oak in a cage who displayed psychic powers and could be bought for 5 barter. Maple gave him a down-payment of a barter, and then went back to join the group.

Piss and Cupid were playing cards when they noticed a quiet had overtaken the town. They set off to explore, and found Piss's gang beating the piss out of the rival religious group's followers, and Piss quickly joined in. Cupid managed to drag Vip away and stabilize him, who revealed that A) his house was full of treasure to repay cupid and B) flapjacks had been tailing us since the rookery in a caravan of humvees seeking revenge. Piss commanded his group to ride out, but one of them ended up giving him some lip. With a little unwanted help form Cupid, Piss put him back in his place, and the team started to ride off.

Maple and Lithium went back to arrange the deal for the girl, but things went south - one of the goons ran off down a hallway with the girl, but Lithium ran after them, caught up to the goon wearing football pads, and shot him dead. She also left a trail of gasoline behind her as well.

[Cupid]