The Day After - Session 2

SPOILER WARNING if you are going to play an RPG campaign in the world of "The Day After Ragnarok" - then please don't read these posts.

Huh What?

The World Sucks but make the best of it
World War II ended with a bang - but not of a gun.  More like a bulldozer falling off a building, but no that would be like a mosquito hitting the ground.
Somehow Germany was able to summon the apocalypse, from Norse mythology the serpent that would destroy the world - But we lucked out - sort of - an American bomber loaded with a nuke was able to get to the serpents eye before it grew to its full size (it's head was only 350 miles across!).
They sacrificed their selves to kill it and venom spewed into the upper atmosphere and it came crashing down.
Most of the world is in tatters now, not much of a summer in a few years, the venom spread magic, twisting and destroying things it touched.
The splash down of the serpent caused giant tidal waves that devastated most of the US east of the Rockies, and then the venom twisted what was left there.
California, and Texas are doing okay.
The British empire has gotten stronger - but England and Europe are trashed, it is now lead from Australia which was virtually untouched.
It will take a long long time for this snake to rot, and there are some wonders to be made from its flesh.

Poisoned Lands

That is history, it happened 3 years ago.

The group happens to be in what is left of Knoxville, the mountains gave it enough protection to not be completely washed away.

The flood and the serpent venom has really trashed this part of the US, it is now generally called The Poisoned Lands.

Strange beasts roam, many crops become twisted and poison, but people still try to make a go of it, and heck, some of this weird stuff might be worth a pretty penny.

They looked for some work and were in luck, the mayors office called for some volunteers.

It seems a small town that gains protection from the city, decided they don't need any protection any more.

The group accepts a task to travel out there and see why, they can also get nice bonuses if they can persuade the town to come back under the cities protection.

On the Road

While they are travelling, something all too common occurs - they are attacked by bandits.

Luckily they don't have too much trouble dispatching them (unless having your jet pack engines get stuck shooting your straight up is a problem - but hey only one guy had one, and yeah that snake stuff made it possible to create.  Anyway it only took a few seconds to unjam).

Turns out the bandits had just left a town, and low and behold, it is the town the group is headed to.

The bandits are like, no way we aren't going back to there, there are monsters there that nearly ripped us to shreds.

The detour and hand off the bandits then head back on their mission.

Our Town

They make it to the outskirts of town and find a girl and her brother apparently he is sickly so they can live here (huh?).

The mayor figured out how to make some sort of brew with tainted corn that temporarily turns people into these fighting monsters that will protect the town.

If you don't come from the town, then you have to give up a family member to volunteer to defend the town by imbuing this brew.

The mayor talks openly about this and tries to convince the group to help him sway other towns to use this brew to be free of the city (but be under the mayor instead).

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The Day After - Session 1

This is just a reminder about what happened.
I will definitely miss alot...

On their way

The gang were on their way to GenCon (2014?).
It was the middle of the night (people have jobs, so they couldn't leave earlier).
The driver and the co-pilot noticed some strange billboards that they don't remember ever seeing before on the trip.
They were about an attraction with worlds largest wicker basket (sadly they weren't told the signs were weather beaten and looked like they had been there a long time - so they must have been there before even though they were not remembered).
There was a sudden detour (Sudden? yeah sudden, no advance warning, zooming along, and not many cars backed up before it).
So they followed the detour.

Ooops

They saw a coyote.
They saw another coyote, but the co-pilot thought it looked identical.
They saw another coyote, and the co-pilot was sure it looked identical.
They got a flat (luckily not a blowout).
They pulled over to deal with it.
As they walked around the van to see the flat, someone walk around from the other side of the van.
A storm was starting, with lightning and not yet rain around them.
He looked like some sort of barbarian warrior, he must have been some nut dressed up for GenCon a few hours early and traveling that way.
(Through the power of my bad memory...) He said something _like_, "You must get the book undamaged, every thing depends on it..."
Did they see him after he spoke? I don't remember, but they did all black out just then.

After the Dream

They awoke - sort of...
They have a strange flashback, to a dream where they were geeks traveling to GenCon, but not to worry about that, got to complete the mission.
Got to get the stolen intelligence back...

Chase

They are speeding after a train in snow covered country (Siberia?)
They got there too late, they were supposed to get to it before it left.
They commandeered what vehicles they could find.
A couple of things like this (sort of a snow jeep):
http://media.hobzob.com/files/419/vehicle/4b90608f53c3b/IMG_0166.jpg
And a bunch of snow mobiles.
The train was heading uphill, there was a chasm and a bridge not to far away.
The tracks went through forest, they must have been here a long time, the trees were tall.
There was a bit of drama where they had to navigate around trees and around and over iced, snow covered boulders.
Some highlights:
One of them jumped off a snow mobile onto the train, got his leg stuck in a ladder was bent over backwards almost falling off before another pulled him up.
As they were traveling over the box cars from the back of the train to the front (where the passenger cars were), they saw someone stick his head out from a few cars ahead then the train lurched, and then the cars started separating
Too bad they were on the train cars starting to fallback.
But with the all the trees some of them were still in vehicles and hadn't yet made it onto the train.
Someone (or a few?) jumped back off and planned to zoom up to the front of the train, and oh yeah don't forget there is a chasm getting ever closer.
A couple of them sprint towards the front of the train hoping they can get to it before the trains separate too far.
One of them gets there as it is just too far away and does his best long jump anyway - of course he doesn't reach it - but hmm, he didn't fall on the tracks either...
He was able to jump far enough to grab onto the edge of the car (really a ladder on the end of the train car).
He was then able to shove the stunned guy who separated the trains, tumbling him away.
But Wait! did that guy have a swastika on his arm? - nah couldn't be, this is 2014.
Maybe the jump wasn't so impossible, another one of them made it, but there was no way anyone else could make the jump.
But they were less than a minute from the chasm.
The 2nd guy across has a knack for machinery, he figures out how he can swing down and around the side of the train and trigger a break.
It is enough that now the escaped cars start to catch back up to the train.
The driving ace in the remaining vehicle messes up badly [ or did he do a great maneuver? ] and hits a boulder which just happens to fling his vehicle up and onto a box car.
Everyone is on the train now.

Give 'em a Hand

They fight their way through  2 cars to the front passenger car and end up in a stalemate with an enemy agent holding something out the window, the intelligence they are after (or could it be from the dream, some book they must protect? -nah)
One of them who didn't fight through the cars is still on the roof, and remember that chasm, guess what they are over it now.
Anyway he dives over and lays prone over the agents hand and grabs the book.
He pulls but cannot quite get it loose.
The guys in the cabin see what is happening so one of them runs up and with a machete and with a perfect slice, chops the agents arm off.
Which is good right?
The guy on the roof is pulling the book, right?
Um, not so good... the book was being pulled inward, with the arm chopped it is trying to fall down and backward - so like a tug-of-war where one side lets things go slack... He drops the book...
Bye by, all the way down the chasm.

Maybe we can get it somehow, maybe it is... and they black out again.

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