Welcome To Gamma World

Welcome to the world after the cataclysm. Few remember the cause, even fewer seem to care. Those that claim to remember always spout stories about shadow governments, or angry gods. None of that matters anymore. All that matters is to survive this hellscape of a planet that was left after all of the past, present, and future realities came crashing down into one world. The majority of the planet is now a desert wasteland, the rest of it is so deep in war the only people who can seem to enjoy the lush landscapes are the ones who's bones it grows over.

You all have your reasons for being here. You all brought something to the table to help you survive this long. Brute robotic strength, or possibly being made out of a massive pile of highly intelligent rats. Your mission became clear after you started to hear the stories. It was always the old crazies, or the near insane that spoke of Haven. A bastion of peace and prosperity in this otherwise bleak landscape. Story after story lead you to dead-ends, but the legend never seemed to dwindle. It only grew with intensity.

You've finally found it. Days spent out in the desert driving mindnumbingly boring stretches of unchanging sand had you thinking maybe you imagined it. Maybe the heat has finally been getting to you. Your supplies, and gas, are running a low. You are sure it has to be real though, this vision hasn't faded since you saw it. At night lights glow from it, during the day small stacks of smoke rise from it. There has to be others. There has to be a place free from all this. It's only about half-a-day's journey now. You could get there by midday. This close you can see today they have a particularly large set of smoke stacks floating up from the city. You hope it's a celebration. This hope has never been proven right.

[ GM: So where is everyone? I think we have two pick-up trucks. Who is driving and who is riding shotgun, or in the bed, of these trucks? Feel free to give us all a little flavor text of your character and how they perceive this situation. ]

After dismissing what you thought you had seen as another trick of the eye in this horrible desert you start to hear a sound you had hoped not to hear. All of you can hear it now. It's that ominous hum of drones. As your pick-up trucks barrel through the desert you see them in the distance behind you. Sterlin spots them first. Two mecha-nazi shock drones. Gaining quick. They must have skirted around and flanked your position.

Those damn Nazi drones. The Fourth Reich. If anything has caused more grief in the piecemeal world it was when Hitler and the Third Reich found themselves here. The only thing that was worse, then momentarily better, then far worse was the arrival of the dreadnaught Mecha-Hitler. He flashed into being just above Hitler, crushing him flat, but he turned out to be a far more ruthless enemy.

You thought you had finally escaped the reach of the Fourth Reich.

As the drones swoop in closer you can hear their positronic arian hyperdrives thumping in a steady rhythm as they each break off to follow a separate truck. The static that had been coming through the radio in Quarth's truck suddenly is overtaken by that damn nazi war song that seems to broadcast on every channel when those things get near.

As you hear the high pitched charge of the electro cannon charge up Ssilas looses the arrow and it connects with the drone.

Likewise the other drone following Quath's truck gets struck mid-swoop by the bullet from Garrthon.

[ GM: Roll damage for Ssilas' and Garrthon's damage, then everyone roll for initiative. Looks like we got ourselves a high speed chase. ]

As the first arrow hits a drone it spins wildly and spirals towards the ground. As is custom with the mecha-nazi drones, in it's death spiral the on board speaker calls out "Heil Mecha-Hitler!" just before it hits the ground and is consumed in a ball of fire. Looking past the downed drone another pair of them is in the distance. Haven draws closer as do the drones.

[ GM: Two more drones are coming up and are in the same initiative group as the other drones. ]