Saturday, April 29, 2017

2. THE IMMINENT STORM

The Face
The sound of rock grinding on stone, grinding on metal, replaces the voice in your ears (or was it your mind?). The ground at your feet shifts before your eyes, the dust, and dirt, and soil beneath forming into a large face in relief. "Walkers of the wasteland! Hear my words!"

And the voice from the face in the ground speaks thus:
"Beware the green destroyer,
It is a single voice,
Many worship it as a God,
But it is false.
Trust the ones who are covered,
Faith is welcome in the things unchanging,
Never go near the glowing,
Always kill the followers!"

As it speaks its final words you find the arrival of massive vehicle from the horizon is at hand!
 
 
 

Friday, April 21, 2017

1. THE FACE OF THE WASTELAND

Campsite on the wasteland steppes.


The green moon dominates the twilight sky. Purple chases the red sun down the horizon. Stars push through murk. A radioactive glow pulses in the East horizon. A series of large dust devils are like a forest in the South. Your group camps metallic ruins. Some escaped the valley of the violent winged creatures, The Church, and the only home you've known, using a stolen vehicle.

The rig was crippled during your sojourn through the mountains. A sentient mudslide engulfed the rig. You barely evaded the mud but it seemed more interested in The Mother than you. A tribe of mutant rats guided you for a portion of the journey. But an battle with a group of cybernetic slavers decimated the rat tribe. However you and your allies were victorious. You rescued the meat slaves of the cyberborgs and some joined your growing group. Others joined the rat tribe to rebuild in the mountain bluffs. 

It's been a week traveling the steppes wasteland. Gray dust is ubiquitous. The rat tribe spoke of a rumored settlement to the north. You've been making your way on foot in that direction without incident.

Above the sound of the wind you can hear a the mechanical grind of a vehicle approaching from the West. You see a cloud rising from a point in the distance, but it's too far away to make out what it is.


Bookkeeping

You guys are all carrying what you had from the last game. Your HP is at full strength.
Here's what I had recorded:

MORN-START 
HP - 50
Broken slate tablet
Rusty chain
Lighter

MOSES 
HP - 73 
Skull helmet
Femur bone
Another bone
Bluish steel sphere
Small, old rock hammer

WINTER 
HP - 29
Small Key, on ring with plastic piece
Black stone shard
Rusted knife hilt
Old, metal toy spaceship