Seaslip
Edith explains the mess...
Session 11: Index ; What the F*ck
; Body
Count ; Who's playing Who ; What's been happening
Oooops.
That needs to be said from the start, I state for the record that I was trying to be sensible and make my character slightly less of a threat to his comrades when I killed two of them. Basically what happened was this: Bob decided to leave the Plasma Cannon behind, he decided to take it apart and bury it, Adam gave the following advice once my mistake had become obvious:
"Do not remove the control computer from the thermonuclear device - especially prototype ones"
This is what happens when you roll Critical Failure when attempting to disarm a Gun that runs off a fusion power cell. The crater was a kilometre across, the others were heading away from the site where Bob buried the Nuke when it went off so only Pixie and Bitch died because their characters were weaklings. Bob's corpse was never recovered, they rarely are after a blast that big.
The remainder of the session involved me sitting back and enjoying the usual vast confusion of a session from the outside, Sally got lots of quotes, and laughs.
Several hours after their death Bitch and Pixie got back up ("There is a god!"). Bitch was a Cat and Pixie was a Koala ("There is a god and he has a sense of humour..."). The following banter between Pixie and Bitch was great as they tracked the other three, I could really visualise them both arguing, with Bitch getting wound up by Pixie and Pixie moaning about his paper clip collection (Bruce nicked it for a joke).
The other three had took off to put as much room between them and the radiation of ground Zero as possible and ran into a crowd of refugees, the refugees took off the minute they saw them but were easily caught up with because they're crap. At this point Bitch and Pixie showed up which lead to one of the most surreal episodes of the campaign so far. Bitch hid in a tree and pretended to be the Egyptian God of Cats while Pixie pretended to be the Egyptian god of Office Stationary. During the ensuing argument and confusion between the group the refugees legged it again, this time leaving behind their wheel barrow full of stuff and laughing like hell.
After some talk of how people were (dead but not too bad was the general answer) the group settled back into the usual dynamic. Pixie got a lot more negative attention than usual due to the lack of Bob and kept falling out of trees trying to sleep in one. Bitch decided to go back to the wheel barrow and watch it to see if anyone came back and sure enough they did, she followed them back to the camp and tried to use the invisibility belt to listen in on their conversations, it failed. As most of the rest of the group ran like hell Bitch grabbed hold of one woman and dragged her back to camp for questioning. This was where I came in again, Adam decided to give me the option of keeping this one as a new PC (and thus wave fare well to Bob forever), I felt like a change so I said yes and thus my new character Edith "Two-Sheds" Johnson was born, as I call myself Edith anyhow this is either going to make things a lot more simpler or really really complicated. After strenuous questioning I told everyone that we came from a small place not too far away after the local gang went on the rampage after someone took their jeep and that yes I did have a husband and children but they died in the fires. Bitch made lots of references to eating people and I backed away from her.
After an evening of this the entire group took off to look for the refugees, we found them, Edith was sent ahead, they were massacred by a gang of Tigers, Edith hid, the mercs opened fire, the Tigers ran, Bitch followed them. The session ended.