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We opened with Snow. Their room is pretty sparse, and they're all business. They immediately went down to the security room where Missed, Wimple, and Putrid were - as requested - going over security tapes from the previous night and eating breakfast (I didn't get around to posting it, but another one of Kava's gang, Deer Park, was found stapled to the ceiling of the armory the previous night). Everyone seemed to be in on a joke that Snow wasn't.
Meanwhile, Kava woke up and took a nice, long, luxurious bath, while Yahtzee stood guard outside.
Meanwhile, Ebb was out meeting with a backer, Wisher. Wisher's gang roam the no-man's land between North Pgru and The Haunts. Dog Head's people have been raiding across the causeway, and Ebb has been infiltrating them. Dog Head's crew knows him as a new recruit, but Wisher promised him double if he could find out where DH was getting his hi-tech from. On the way home to North Pgru, Ebb ran from some of DH's people roaming the neighborhood - he assumed they were searching for him, but... well, never gave them a chance to explain. He jumped one from the second story of a building, pistol whipped him before he could get a good look, and roared off on the poor guy's bike.
But back to Snow... Missed, Wimple, and Putrid, couldn't keep the giggles in any longer. Deer Park had been killed by other members of the gang - by accident on purpose. They'd been doing some sort of pain thing that got out of hand, and Deer Park had wanted to get nailed to the ceiling to experience ultimate pain once he realized he wasn't going to make it. Oh, and by the way - torture game gone wrong = meat for breakfast!
Out of earshot of the crew, Snow rang Kava on the comm, and explained the situation. Kava sent her silent bodyguard, Yahtzee, down to grab those involved in the incident - Wimple, Putrid, Missed, and III.
While she was waiting for those to come back with Snow, Shan - one of the hold's inhabitants - showed up, barely coherent. She threw a mutilated infant into Kava's arms. When Kava wrestled her down and got her to focus, she got the story - the gang had come through the Holding the previous night, on the pretense of looking for info on Deer Park's "murder," but just abusing people. When she resisted, Yahtzee, III, and Fuse beat her and killed her child.
Meanwhile, Ebb got back and followed his nose. He found Clarion covering for Missed in the security room and asked for breakfast. He also seemed unperturbed to be eating people. Anyway, he got Clarion involved in a rousing game of strip old maid until being called up to Kava's office (I can't remember why!). He promised to finish later.
Kava was apopleptic. Once everyone was together, she promptly shot III in the face and cowed the rest (seemingly, at least). She was about to threaten to send the offending parties off on dangerous raids, then realized that being cooped up in the skyscraper without raiding was causing most of the problems... Yahtzee and Fuse were sent to apologize to Shan, and Kava planned a big barbecue for the Holding to try to distract everyone. She gave Putrid, Wimple, and Missed the scut job of going to get meat from The Farm with Ebb and his crew (they went in Sunny's armored van).
That went without incident.
After some debate, Kava decided that not inviting her gang to the cookout would cause more problems than it solved, but Ebb's attempts to get everyone back on good terms with some party games flopped. So much for hearts and minds.
Kava gave a bit of a concession to the gang by authorizing Putrid to take about 15 people out to raid DH's crew for booze - so she took Wimple, Defcon, Missed, and a bunch of others, while Grome got stuck taking over for the disfavored Missed as the dude in the panopticon.
After the BBQ, Snow and Ebb headed up to the barracks to party with the gang. Ebb found Clarion and Bar hanging in the lounge, watching ancient movies on TV and taking a "break." Clarion went with Ebb back to her room and introduced him to the pleasures (for her) of broken glass. Snow went back to the main room with Bar, and found most of the gang hanging out having a grand old time. Yahtzee (who can talk) implied crudely that their "apology" had involved finding Shan, raping her, cutting her hand off, and hogtying her on the pool table. III's headless corpse was watching the festivities from a chair of honor. Snow was invited to make use of her themself, if they wanted to.
As they were taking this in, commotion from the hall announced the return of 12 of Putrid's 15, with a couple dead comrades and a soon-to-be-dead member of Dog Head's crew in tow. Putrid announced that it was time to "initiate" Snow as their new leader, but they forcefully demurred and called Kava.
After chewing them out, Kava shot Putrid - Yahtzee knocked her into a wall, but the gang as a whole wasn't about to face her down. With Putrid on the floor, they looked to Snow as the person with the big-ass hammer.
With the gunshot, Ebb finally pushed Clarion aside and ran in, covered in blood, a sheet, and not much else.
After some debate, and lamenting that they wanted to find a way to be liked by everyone, Snow gave up on that and trapped Putrid with their icy stare and then proceeded to make an absolute bloody fucking mess of her. Kava and Snow walked out, with the gang at least for the moment under control.
NPCS WE MET
Wisher - drunkard head of a chopper gang south of North Pgru
Foster - head of The Farm's trading post
Kava's Gang
Clarion - into Ebb and being cut
Fuse
III (deceased)
Yahtzee - big, laconic guy, won't talk to Kava and hasn't tried to fuck her
Defcon
Grome - now mans the security desk
Missed
Wimple - big dude
Putrid (deceased)
Shan - one of Kava's holders, was a farmer, now... ???
Ebb's Crew
Roger - communications
Sunny - tech, has an up-armored van
... please help me out if you remember anything key I didn't include, guys!
Meanwhile, Kava woke up and took a nice, long, luxurious bath, while Yahtzee stood guard outside.
Meanwhile, Ebb was out meeting with a backer, Wisher. Wisher's gang roam the no-man's land between North Pgru and The Haunts. Dog Head's people have been raiding across the causeway, and Ebb has been infiltrating them. Dog Head's crew knows him as a new recruit, but Wisher promised him double if he could find out where DH was getting his hi-tech from. On the way home to North Pgru, Ebb ran from some of DH's people roaming the neighborhood - he assumed they were searching for him, but... well, never gave them a chance to explain. He jumped one from the second story of a building, pistol whipped him before he could get a good look, and roared off on the poor guy's bike.
But back to Snow... Missed, Wimple, and Putrid, couldn't keep the giggles in any longer. Deer Park had been killed by other members of the gang - by accident on purpose. They'd been doing some sort of pain thing that got out of hand, and Deer Park had wanted to get nailed to the ceiling to experience ultimate pain once he realized he wasn't going to make it. Oh, and by the way - torture game gone wrong = meat for breakfast!
Out of earshot of the crew, Snow rang Kava on the comm, and explained the situation. Kava sent her silent bodyguard, Yahtzee, down to grab those involved in the incident - Wimple, Putrid, Missed, and III.
While she was waiting for those to come back with Snow, Shan - one of the hold's inhabitants - showed up, barely coherent. She threw a mutilated infant into Kava's arms. When Kava wrestled her down and got her to focus, she got the story - the gang had come through the Holding the previous night, on the pretense of looking for info on Deer Park's "murder," but just abusing people. When she resisted, Yahtzee, III, and Fuse beat her and killed her child.
Meanwhile, Ebb got back and followed his nose. He found Clarion covering for Missed in the security room and asked for breakfast. He also seemed unperturbed to be eating people. Anyway, he got Clarion involved in a rousing game of strip old maid until being called up to Kava's office (I can't remember why!). He promised to finish later.
Kava was apopleptic. Once everyone was together, she promptly shot III in the face and cowed the rest (seemingly, at least). She was about to threaten to send the offending parties off on dangerous raids, then realized that being cooped up in the skyscraper without raiding was causing most of the problems... Yahtzee and Fuse were sent to apologize to Shan, and Kava planned a big barbecue for the Holding to try to distract everyone. She gave Putrid, Wimple, and Missed the scut job of going to get meat from The Farm with Ebb and his crew (they went in Sunny's armored van).
That went without incident.
After some debate, Kava decided that not inviting her gang to the cookout would cause more problems than it solved, but Ebb's attempts to get everyone back on good terms with some party games flopped. So much for hearts and minds.
Kava gave a bit of a concession to the gang by authorizing Putrid to take about 15 people out to raid DH's crew for booze - so she took Wimple, Defcon, Missed, and a bunch of others, while Grome got stuck taking over for the disfavored Missed as the dude in the panopticon.
After the BBQ, Snow and Ebb headed up to the barracks to party with the gang. Ebb found Clarion and Bar hanging in the lounge, watching ancient movies on TV and taking a "break." Clarion went with Ebb back to her room and introduced him to the pleasures (for her) of broken glass. Snow went back to the main room with Bar, and found most of the gang hanging out having a grand old time. Yahtzee (who can talk) implied crudely that their "apology" had involved finding Shan, raping her, cutting her hand off, and hogtying her on the pool table. III's headless corpse was watching the festivities from a chair of honor. Snow was invited to make use of her themself, if they wanted to.
As they were taking this in, commotion from the hall announced the return of 12 of Putrid's 15, with a couple dead comrades and a soon-to-be-dead member of Dog Head's crew in tow. Putrid announced that it was time to "initiate" Snow as their new leader, but they forcefully demurred and called Kava.
After chewing them out, Kava shot Putrid - Yahtzee knocked her into a wall, but the gang as a whole wasn't about to face her down. With Putrid on the floor, they looked to Snow as the person with the big-ass hammer.
With the gunshot, Ebb finally pushed Clarion aside and ran in, covered in blood, a sheet, and not much else.
After some debate, and lamenting that they wanted to find a way to be liked by everyone, Snow gave up on that and trapped Putrid with their icy stare and then proceeded to make an absolute bloody fucking mess of her. Kava and Snow walked out, with the gang at least for the moment under control.
NPCS WE MET
Wisher - drunkard head of a chopper gang south of North Pgru
Foster - head of The Farm's trading post
Kava's Gang
Clarion - into Ebb and being cut
Fuse
III (deceased)
Yahtzee - big, laconic guy, won't talk to Kava and hasn't tried to fuck her
Defcon
Grome - now mans the security desk
Missed
Wimple - big dude
Putrid (deceased)
Shan - one of Kava's holders, was a farmer, now... ???
Ebb's Crew
Roger - communications
Sunny - tech, has an up-armored van
... please help me out if you remember anything key I didn't include, guys!
