In reply to Smoker Nix (msg #304):
Ha, I was just doing an intro PM for Smoker.
Capsule history:
The PCs met (by chance or fate, of course) a couple weeks earlier on the road from Tucson to Las Cruces, coming to each other's aid during an ambush in the town of Pantano Station.
Brother Edgar, a Doomsayer, was escorting a group of mutie pilgrims on their way to form a colony in the ghost town of Chance City NM where they would be free of persecution. Accompanying them was a former paramedic, Rowan,(a witch and practicing Wiccan). Rowan was assumed to be a Mutie herself but in fact was just very tolerant and decided to follow Brother Edgar and his group of her own accord. Dakota Jack had been hired as the town Marshall to be a fall guy by the gang that ran Pantano Station, Arthur (the Templar) and Michaela (his Squire) were undercover, while Roadkill (in his rig), Smoker (mechanic/gunner), Peter (in his armoured pickup "technical") and Jane (the technical gunner) were passing through.
After the fight, Roadkill decided to give the other PCs a lift as far as he was going. The Muties and their human neighbors were persuaded to work together and help each other survive in the harsh desert environment.
After helping the Muties get established the posse lit out for Las Cruces. They found the comminity there, Shalam Colony, razed by a Cult o' Doom posse led by a Doombringer, who were looking for Smoker. This was because Smoker possessed the "Eye of Hiroshima", a powerful Cult artifact. (The Eye was the eyepiece from the Norden bombsight on the Enola Gay, which as you know was the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat.) Smoker gave the Eye to Brother Edgar to pass along to Joan. The posse ambushed and wiped out the Doombringer and his posse, preventing them from returning and hunting down the remaining survivors of Shalam Colony.
Roadkill had to meet with a Convoy courier in Near Wichita, so the posse signed on as hired guns (guards) for the trip. Along the way different posse members dropped out: Col Schaeffer meeting some fellow Germans at Amarillo while Dakota, Peter, Jane, and Brother Edgar split off to attack a large group Black Hats occupying Enid, Oklahoma. The rest of the posse continued with Roadkill towards the colony of Near Wichita.
There, in the ruins of Wichita, they fought the Anti-Bishop (the former Catholic Bishop of Wichita who'd sold his soul for power) and his coven of undead Witches. Inside the terrifying Cathedral of Doom, the Anti-Bishop was about to sacrifce Trejo, a Templar, using the relic-sword belonging to another Templar, Chance, who he'd earlier murdered. The Posse's Templar, Arthur, was killed in the attack on the Cathedral on Doom.
The posse killed the Anti-Bishop and his undead minions, then made it to Near Wichita, where they met the posse-in-residence. The local posse had killed an abomination called the "Devourer", and were getting ready to take out the Anti-Bishop. (Chance was a part of this posse, doing a recce on his own initiative.) There was a rumour the local posse (Misha the Junker, Azrael the Sheriff and Mayor Quinn) were vampires but this was unproved. The colony of Near Wichita was flourishing, with local wildlife recovering and abundant livestock and agriculture.
Marshall's Note: The posse that was running Near Wichita was in fact mostly vampires, but a group of "vegetarians" who only fed on blood supplied by Near Wichita's abundant cattle herds.
In the colony of Near Wichita, the remaining posse (Roadkill, Rowan, Schaeffer, Smoker, Michaela) met with the courier, who dropped off a passenger (Sullivan the Mountie) to go to Boise. They were also charged with returning Arthur's and Chance's swords to the Templar Lodge. Peter and Jane caught up with the posse in Near Wichita, having lost Dakota while freeing the colony at Enid from the Black Hats, but picked up Crichton (a Junker) during the fight. The Templar they rescued from the Cathedral of Doom, Trejo, decided to continue travelling with them to Boise, and check in on the order.
The reunited posse hit the road, travelling northwest from Near Wichita to Boise. They ran into a Black Hat roadblock outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. In trying to run it, they caused heavy casualties but Michaela was killed. The posse is now camped outside Rawlins, Wyoming, less than day outside Junkyard territory. After that, it's on to Boise!
Route:
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Posse Members:
Roadkill: Trucker, drives a fully-armoured semi-tractor trailer "rig".
Smoker: Scavenger, the rig's mechanic and gunner.
Peter: drives a "chase vehicle", an armoured and armed pickup, the "technical".
Jane: USAF pilot, renegade Black Hat, the technical's Ma-Deuce gunner.
Brother Edgar: First Church of Atom, Reformed,
left to deliver the Eye to Joan.
Rowan: Witch, paramedic, Wiccan.
Dakota Jack: Gunslinger,
killed by Combine in Enid.
Arthur: Templar,
killed by the Anti-Bishop in Wichita.
Michaela: Squire,
killed by Black Hats outside Cheyenne.
Col Kurt Schaeffer: reconnaissance sniper.
Tech Sgt. Airen Crichton: Junker, SAW gunner on rig.
Sgt. Ian Sullivan: Mountie (Law Dog), rig passenger.
Vehicles:
The rig: armoured semi and trailer, no weapons but fighting positions with post mounts.
The technical: armoured pickup truck with Browning M2HB in back.
Hoverbike: Rowan
BMW with Sidecar: Schaeffer
Harley: Trejo
Honda sport bike: Michaela (damaged).
Tony
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:14, Mon 16 Apr 2012.