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Old 08-29-2018, 08:20 PM   #1
MIHellboy
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Default Odd New West - A (not Fallout) Post Apocalypse Adventure

The Cast

Think Tank - An evil despot fixated on world domination
Death Bot 9000 (Debbie) - Think Tank's simple minded minion.
Booker C. McGuire - (Radiation Mage) - An outcast large mining town tinkerer who left town to get out from under a domineering family.
Clark Stanley - (Snake oil salesman) - An itinerant self-taught purveyor of tonics and elixirs.
Solomon Ward - (Holmes) A Big City guy, with a classic education, seeking order and peace
Declan St. John - (Gunslinger) A hard luck case warrior, Outlaw Josie Wales style.

Session 1
Solomon Ward had been enjoying some well earned rest and recuperation after an exceedingly arduous investigation of espionage against the Liberty Collective by the Son's of Anarchy, a small but violent and well funded resistance group. Solomon received a missive via telegraph from Liberty City instructing him to make haste to Solomon, Kansas to aid the local officials in a matter of some import. Being a loyal servant, Solomon cut short his leave and made haste westward.

Whilst on the train to Solomon, Kansas, Solomon Ward spied a slight, young man of undetermined ethnicity, bearing a mop of unkempt hair and wearing clean but oddly mismatched clothes. Spread out on the table before him, a device of crystals, brass, nickel, tin and wood, its construction both confounding and intriguing. The man, Booker, tinkered with this arcane bit of technology. Solomon asked Booker what he was working on. Booker proceeded to explain but it made no sense to the well educated Solomon. Solomon exposed his mission and Booker accepted the deputation. Next Solomon approached the affable looking man with the over-sized valise. The pair discussed elixirs and tonics, Clark, the man with the valise, offered Solomon a curative, which Solomon took and quaffed to great effect. Solomon quickly deputized the alchemist, seeing the value of such a talent.

A fourth passenger, Declan looked out the window, ignoring the bunch. Solomon noticed the taciturn traveler, scarred of visage and marked with dust of his travels armed with a ferocious revolver whose design came from a bygone age (though of recent manufacture). Solomon, a student of all things of the nostalgic west asked for a closer inspection of the storied iron. Declan, drew the weapon with blinding alacrity and displayed it to the curious law man. After a brief consultation regarding Solomon's mission and Declan's availability, Declan also joined the posse, offering his talents to the enterprise.

It was at this time that the malevolent mind entombed in a glass jar and carried by a wicked engine of destruction woke to the cabal being formed only scant yards away. Think Tank sent his thoughts smashing into Solomon's consciousness, offering his considerable intellect to the group, seeing an opportunity to further his efforts at world domination. Solomon, curious made his way to the rear of the train where he encountered a most unusual sight. Linked to the rear of the caboose was a curious contraption, about the size of a small wagon, bearing a variety of protrusions of curious design, but projecting malice.

The voice who greeted Solomon was cheerful and oddly childlike, asking if he was the John he needed to greet. Solomon expressed his confusion and introduced himself, asking the speaker for his name. The voice identified himself as Death Bot 9000 (Debbie), and really needed to say "Hi" to "Jack", and did Solomon know how to find Jack. Solomon asked Debbie to step out of the car, whereupon Debbie confided that he and Think Tank are the car, and no, he could no step out. Debbie and Think Tank happily agreed to lend their services to Solomon in his noble endeavor, concealing their nefarious goals, abandoning their most recent plan to hijack the train.

As the train rolled into the makeshift station the party surveyed the resurgent town. Evidence of former glory was exhibited by the wonders of the past. The broken remains of gas stations, hotels, fast food joints and strip malls gave mute evidence to the wonders of the bygone world. In their place, like flower buds in spring, but much more dusty, sprung from the dust of Solomon, Kansas. The party, completing their study, debarked the train and made their way into the street to the town's administrative center.

Passing a saloon, general store, and barber shop, the party saw the beginnings of a church under construction at the end of the street. They approached what appeared to be the mayor's office and entered to jangling bell the cramped city administrative center, a one room building, 20x30' room with a 10x10' cell and two desks, one of which was occupied by an older balding man hunched over a flurry of paperwork.

Solomon introduced himself and the team and offered his assistance in the pursuit of the town's goals. The mayor explained that the sheriff sent his deputy and two townsmen to investigate some ranches from whom the town had not heard in a while. The mayor asked for help because he did not want to send more townsmen into danger. He gave directions to the last reported unreporting ranch to the south. The mayor further suggested the party talk to the sheriff who can currently be found at the saloon.

The party made their way to the saloon where they found the sheriff, drowning his sorrows in cheap whisky from a dirty glass. Solomon questioned him, but the sheriff did not have much more to offer than did the mayor. The party inquired of the barkeep as to how they might obtain horses. The barkeep offered to sell or rent horses for the party, Solomon tried unsuccessfully to requisition the beasts. The barkeep led the party out to the livery and presented the horses for sale, which Declan financed from his winnings at the poker table while Solomon negotiated. The party mounted up and moved south.

The party arrived at the perimeter of the ranch, observing the beginnings of a barbed wire fence. They continued down the wagon track marked path. The party approached the ranch proper, coming upon the main house, bunk house and barn. The group discovered evidence of cattle killed weeks ago by bites from what look like human teeth. Upon further inspection, the ranch yard contained evidence of a fight, discarded tools and weapons and the empty shell casings of spent ammunition. The party searched the buildings and found no further evidence. The group moved south following the trail of a large number of shod and unshod humans.

As the party followed the trail to the south, the track led to an overgrown cave bored in the base of a large hill. They proceeded into the cool, damp interior, the smell of death and rot faint in the still air of the cave. The tingling feel of a strange power was noticeable by all but Debbie who confirmed that the feeling was indeed not radiation, as alleged by Booker. Beyond the threshold, the cave transformed into worked concrete walls and finished floors. Light fixtures and motion sensors lined the walls, which the party, through Debbie was able to power briefly, illuminating the halls with a bright industrial light, but fatiguing Debbie mightily.

The party continued their descent, discovering a door with a card reader. Debbie again saved the day by bypassing the door's security. The party entered the room and found a sophisticated workshop, spanning a wide range of technical concerns. Finding another security pane, Debbie again bypassed the door pane, granting access to the hallway beyond. The party continued their exploration, finding a well stocked storeroom, with food, clothes, and other necessities for basic survival, some disturbed recently.

The party continued their descent, into the facility, becoming increasingly interested in the potential of the facility as a permanent base of operations. They discovered a large open chamber with an elevator platform leading up into the darkness and a strange sight further into the room. Upon a makeshift alter of a stone slab upon a pair of crates. Upon the slab was the bound form of a nude human woman. Laid out before the slab were twenty corpses.

The group approached and Declan cut the woman loose. She immediately began warning of an impending threat from "him". Concurrently, Solomon began investigating the corpses. One of the bodies bore a tin star labeled "Deputy Sheriff". Solomon reached down to remove the star, the corpse reached up and grabbed Solomon's wrist. Declan drew his pistol and shot the corpse, Solomon too shot the corpse, as did Booker. Think Tank telekinetically drew a scalpel from Debbie's toolbox and began dissecting one of the corpses.

(to be continued...)

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