Arc 7: Tracking Liberty

## Session 1 (6/20/2020)

* We open up on the road to Junkyard, one week after we initially took the Hell Rider job
* Gonna be about a 6 hour drive, we start at 7am
* As we approach the Utah border, notice a maelstrom in the near distance covering a large area, decide to drive around it
	+ Adds another hour to our drive
* We then run into a roadblock, with gang vehicles all around
	+ Bandage takes note of all the enemies around, messages us to kill them all
	+ Addie, Bandage, and Choc argue over text about starting a fight with the gang while they’re in the middle of it, Addie and Choc opposed, Bandage ‘bouta start shit
	+ As Atom is talking to one of the gang members, Eddie steps out to get his horse, Addie goes to stop him
		- Atom notices a few of the gang are nomads, and messages Addie he made a promise to Red
	+ As the internal group fight is going on, the barricades behind us move, and some trogs along with a few people make their way onto the scene
		- One of the guys with the trogs mentions he’s here looking to find Atom, he’s a Doomsayer
	+ Atom convinces the bikers to help us kill the hunters
		- Combat ensues, and the hunters are eventually put down
	+ Atom then convinces the bikers to drink some green shiz from some vials he has on him, they walk away, he blows them all up
	+ Atom then questions one of the hunters about Vegas and Silas
* We eventually get to Junkyard, have to wait for a long ass time in line, takes us around 8 hours, we get in around 9pm
	+ Eddie and Addie are furiously texting each other the whole time about what went down
* We get to the area around Junkyard, head up to the Rusty Nail bar
	+ Atom asks about a meeting with Bran, with the belief that he knows about the Heretic friend he’d been looking for
		- Bran eventually reveals himself as the bartender, he met Liberty, he gave her a job, hasn’t seen her in a while
			* Bran’s son Samual’s missing too, and he wants him found
		- Atom also shows a picture of River’s dad, a couple of Bran’s people mention seeing him
	+ River then approaches Bran and his people, asking for details
		- She doesn’t get too much, mostly that he fought in the pits
		- Addie follows River to the bar to give her support

## Session 2 (7/11/2020)

* We open on that same night/early ass morning
	+ In the meantime, Gregg signs up for a fight in the pits
	+ Bandage annoys someone with his harmonica playing, Bandage smashes the dude’s face into the bar and kills him
* We eventually get into Junkyard proper
	+ Toussaint leads us to the Yard Arms motel
	+ After realizing Gregg signed up for a pit fight, Addie asked Toussaint if he could get Gregg out of it
		- He mentioned he likely could
	+ We mention Addie was looking for a place to get armor, Toussaint leads us to Sven’s armory
		- Meet Cassidy there, says she knows someone that could help Addie out
			* Cassidy mentions she must past a “test of confidence”
			* Cassidy then takes out a gun and aims at Sven
			* Addie tries to grab the gun, Cassidy gets the shot off, purposefully shoots right next to Sven’s head
				+ Imma be real chief, my brain was really tired at this point in session, but I woulda said Addie’s first instinct was to step in front of the gun, and while I’d assume Cassidy probably woulda not shot at that point, it’d be very funny to me if Addie just got shot in the guts
			* Cassidy tells Addie she passed, while she’s sitting on the edge of a panic attack
	+ Cassidy leads Addie, River, and Gregg to H3x’s place
		- H3x recognizes River from pictures her dad showed a lot, mentions her dad
		- River says she’s not doing this right now, and H3x accepts getting to Addie’s business
			* Addie goes over the details about her armor, mentions she’s just there to get a quote, has to use her money to buy med supplies for the party
	+ Choc goes to visit Edna looking for cyberware
	+ Back in H3x’s shop
		- While working with Addie, he mentions wanting to talk with River
		- Addie asks what details he has about River’s dad
			* He used to run with Richard
			* Richard stole from them, took something dangerous, important
			* Addie asks about what he was like
				+ Helped people, always seemed a bit off, talked a lot about his daughter and ex wife, straight shooter
				+ Dick had admitted to murdering someone he thought his wife had an affair with a long time ago, he went to prison
		- Addie brings up that H3x mentioned something about an artifact
			* Gregg convinces him to talk about it
			* It’s some kind of puzzle box: the Abyssal Maw, contains the soul of a very powerful demon, something that appeared in several places of mass bloodshed in history
		- River heard all of it, and after trading a few words with H3x about her father, walks out
			* Addie follows
		- Gregg stays behind to ask H3x about fixing her skateboard, and he says he’ll do it
	+ Choc and Enda go to H3x’s to discuss schematics Choc had gotten his hands on
	+ Addie gets a room for her and River at the Yard Arms

## Session 3 (7/25/2020)

* It’s 7am the next day
	+ Addie, River, Atom, and Gregg ar at the motel
	+ Choc is working with H3x
	+ Toussaint is helping Bandage get some nicer clothes
* We gather at H3x’s, Atom gives us the details that Bran gave him
	+ Liberty had come into town looking for paying work, Bran sent her to find a shipping manifest to a museum
	+ She was going to Curie, south east of Junkyard
	+ When she didn’t come back, he sent Samual after her, and he didn’t return either
	+ Addie’s excited as fuck to get out of the city
	+ All the while, Choc and H3x go over Derpy’s new body design
* We decide to split the party
	+ Addie, Atom, Choc, and River head out to Curie first to find Liberty, to be met later by the others
		- When we get close, it starts to get cold, and snow and ice are built up
		- Addie and Choc are able to somewhat navigate with the new conditions, but Atom spins out and smashes his car
			* Thankfully it ain’t damaged and Atom’s fine
	+ Bandage, Gregg, and Toussaint investigate what happened to Dick
		- Go to the police station, find a blown out wall
		- They get the details of how Dick ended up in jail, and how he broke out
			* Zoya was his accomplice and was jailed with him
		- They investigate the radio station
		- Bandage goes to talk to Zoya in the pit
		- I got a shit ton of notes from this section and maybe I’ll type it out sometime but settle for the subpar basics right now because holy shit it’s a lot of little details

## Session 4 (8/15/2020)

* We pick up in Curie, the same day
* Gregg, Toussaint, (Bandage retconned), are on their way to the town
* Meanwhile, the rest of the party is checking out Curie
	+ Trucks and cars are sitting around the sidewalk and street, some seem to be crashed into buildings
	+ Everything is covered in snow, with the only sound coming from our vehicles and the wind
* We notice some fresher tire tracks and footprints
* As we drive, we notice strung up corpses hanging around the various storefronts and buildings
* We follow the tracks to the elementary school building
	+ There’s a large hole in the wall that leads to the gym
	+ Seems a lot of foot traffic has been in and out of the hole
	+ Addie, Choc, and River enter in, following the tracks to a locker room
		- River warns Addie she has a bad feeling, Addie says they don’t have much choice and (like an idiot) walks in
		- Something lunges out of one of the lockers towards Addie’s throat, but barely scratches her
			* Another shadow does the same, but River shoots it dead before it can make contact
		- Real combat starts
			* We’re dealing with small little goblin looking fellas, Hobbs
			* River saves Addie’s ass by a lot, and then really all our asses by cutting down more than half the fuckers
	+ Afterwards, we hear some sort of thudding beneath the floor
	+ River draws our attention to the shower behind the locker room, where we find Liberty
		- She’s covered in chains and scratches, looking rough, hanging from the ceiling
		- Addie helps cut her down, we get her out of the chains
			* The chains have sort of fluid like substance on them, and based on Choc’s taste test, seem to interfere with one’s connection to their magic
		- We give Liberty a moment to gather herself before she starts explaining
			* She’s been stuck here for a week with the hobbs, creatures summoned to a person’s service
			* Curie used to just be a ghost town, then people started disappearing here
			* The hobb’s master chained her here, some warlock with potent magic
			* Samual had come to free her, but got attacked, incapacitated, and dragged off
		- Addie attempts to heal her, with only a small margin of success
	+ We take Liberty out to the vehicles to get her a change to rest before we move forward
* Toussaint shows up

## Session 5 (10/24/2020)

* We open up where text rp left off: same day, slightly later, inside a McDonald’s
	+ Gonna retcon Jonah’s stuff so I’ll just leave that out
* We’ve been resting up since our encounter earlier with the hobbs
	+ Liberty mentions Samual and his family are werewolves, all pretty old
		- Werewolves tend to lash out when in distress, so if we meet Samual now, likely won’t be in a place to talk
		- Werewolves eat a lot to fuel their healing abilities
	+ Atom heals Liberty, Atom gives Liberty her lanturn
* We all make our way to the school again
* On the way, are ambushed by hobbs
	+ We kill all those fellas
* Gregg sends Tony ahead to scout the school, Atom sends Morbus to scout the outside
	+ Tony notices some hobbs slipping into the pool area, follows
	+ In the pool area, he finds the pool itself empty of water, a group of hobbs surrounding a woman sitting at a fold out table and chair with a grill next to her
	+ She has face paint on, tearing into what looks like raw meat, teeth very sharp
	+ In front of her is a werewolf in silver chains, a large wound on their leg, grey and white fur marred by red claw marks
	+ Morbus drifts down, uses Atom’s power to undo the chains and set the werewolf free
* We rush into the pool area
	+ The woman is holding a glowing staff, running around the pool to avoid the werewolf, hobbs taking shots at it
	+ Gregg skates around the pool, we clear a path for her, and she grabs the woman’s staff, wrenching it away, and the hobbs around her dissolve
	+ She tries to get away by flying, but Atom knocks her out
	+ The werewolf, who we know is Samual, passes his smarts roll to retain some sense of control before reeling back in pain
	+ Addie helps heal some of his wounds, the rest he heals himself through scarfing down MREs
	+ When healed, Samuel changes back
		- Addie tells him that Bran sent us, he lightens up a bit, Liberty assures him she’s okay
* Samual tells us what he knows
	+ There are several witches around, they came to Curie and found a man called Kemlar, a summoner with a book that feeds on souls of the innocent to summon bigger and badder creatures
	+ The witches have been luring people here for that purpose
	+ The witches are looking for certain items that Bran is also looking for
		- Witch’s Blade, Abyssal Maw, Lantern of Saint Anthony
		- The museum manifest was supposed to show where the items were
		- The manifest is heavily guarded, Liberty got captured trying to get to it
* Atom manacles the witch to stop her from spellcasting
* We prepare to meet what threat may be coming from outside
	+ Spoiler for rp, we make it out of town without trouble, and head back to Junkyard