Fallout World, second session.

Fallout World, second session.

PC Cast: The Quarantine, The Operator

NPCs: Hadrin, a chopper and gang. Murphy Sawguns, hardholder of Pentslanding. Colonol Waters, commander of The Southern Clave.  Tammy, the Quarantine’s wife, colleague & taken by the maelstrom to be a pain seeker.

Questions for anyone reading: Does this make sense? Am I letting the Operator be OP in any meaningful or relevant sense? Should a 7-9 on Moonlighting and choosing to botch the obligation gig cause something as strong as a biker gang showing up to get whats due? Did I arbitrate the seize something by force move correctly when The Quarantine shotup the gang?

Prior Session: The PCs went on a moonlighting gig from Murphy Sawgums,.. They knew The Quarantines wife was taken by Hadrin,.

Session highlights: We started with the PCs outside the amish settlement of Second Chance, an amish farming settlement that treats outsiders as meat.

Both the Quarantine and Operator have first-of-session moves: the Quarantine remembers more about the Apocalypse, and the Operator does Moonlighting. The Quarantine learned that yes, the apocalypse could have been stopped but (follow-up question) those that let it happen thought this was a better outcome, due to being backed in a corner.

The Operator has “brokering deals”, and worked out a deal to get Pentslanding to bring salt water to Second Chance. He rolled a 7, and his obligation gig came due, which started us at a terrible place as a chopper gang (mentioned in the prior session) rolled up, looking to collect for Murphy Sawgums.

Hadrin’s gag had the Quarantine’s wife, and were interested in taking both the Operator and the Quarantine. They wanted the Quarantine for information about where she comes from, and the Operator was behind on his debt in Pents Landings.

The gang threatened the PCs, and the wife. This … did not go well for the biker gang. The PCs played a bit of a trick, and the Quarantine wanted to “seize her freedom by force”, and she rolled +hard. With a 10+, she choose to inflict terrible harm and to impress, dismay, or frighten.

WELL … what’s a GM to do? She was using her assault plasma cannon (3-harm autofire hi-tech loud) against a gang of 15 assholes (2-harm small 1-armor gang assholes), so she did 4-harm. Due to size and armor, that was something like 2-harm to the group, which meant a few casualties.

Some of the gang were reduced the slag, others ran away. The chopper lost an arm. His bodyguard grabbed the wife and threatened to kill her, but the Operative got off a good shot (do something under fire, and the fire is “you fuckup the wife with a bullet”), and the bodyguard lost his head. Hadrin left, telling the PCs that he’d pay the debt to Murphy Sawgums – as the Operator had just advanced, and chose to get rid of his obligation gig.

With the Operator the the Quarantine’s wife both in bad condition, they stole the remaining bikes and headed to The Quarantine, to use the medbay. Which meant the good people at Pentslanding were ignored, and they are running short of food.

The Operator wasn’t allowed in, but was given a hamburger and fruit while waiting.  The amazing food opened his mind to the psychic maelstrom. He learned the world is supposed to be green, and the sky blue. That the apocalypse has fucked over the sky, and that the sun isn’t meant to be red. He also got a new obligation gig – Food snob (you eat something amazing / you stomach turnips)

The Quarantine got her wife into the isolation rig and away from the maelstrom, but in the medlab figured it’d either take weeks to fix the tumor caused by the maelstrom, or would expose anyone in Quarantine to the maelstrom. She choose letting it take weeks.

Colonel Waters told his Quarantine that he needs her in the field to help reclaim the United States government. That’s about where we quit.

If you’ve read this far, do please comment. Seeking ideas and thoughts.