Day 29 of # RPGaDays2025 is "Connect" and this might be the first time my regular readers need a *SPOILERS* tag as I discuss a big event in my Gamma World campaign...
The wedding of Thunnelda and Lathar.
Those regular readers might be alarmed, as Lathar was a bit coerced to take out ferryman Clover Haycock's eccentric sister in episode #85, posted last month. Their first date garnered a series of lyrics by Sneaky Pete the Weasel, and Lathar's acceptance of her deranged fascination with hinges were just setting up a brand new facility out in the wilderness to discover.
It's worth adding, that the campaign's big 100th episode is the wedding between these two characters, scheduled to post December 2, 2025.
As much as the town, his fellow adventurers, and all the players call him "Lathar the Barbarian" , while he is an Enforcer (aka Fighter) in-game, the images in everyone's minds is wrong.
He's a mama's boy to a single mother, who worries he'll disappear every time he leaves town, just like his daddy did many years ago.
He spent with early teens as a gofer for the Restorationists. Even though he isn't a member, he's perhaps the second smartest in the group, to artifact guru and mutant sunflower, Sonny Helianthus.
While he does have a backstory about being a womanizer, he's been the one dumped recently, tricked and used sometimes. Showing a little kindness to Thunnelda seemed to get a tenfold return towards him. I knew as a GM that this was progressing when Lathar's player was trying to push conversations with other females to the other members of the group. Lathar did not want to get tempted.
Initially, I figured we were all agreeing to a date for Thunnelda Haycock for a couple laughs. The face tattoos, the fascination with hinges. But Lathar took offense at the discrimination and bullying she faced in town. I never anticipated a second date, then a third, then Thunnelda traveling with the group sometimes, other times revealing secrets of her own journeys.
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| Thunnelda (Haycock) Bracken on her wedding day, episode #100 (ChatGPT) |
The campaign posts are now into April 2026. The De Facto Explorers are currently wandering the ruins of an old manufacturing facility deep within the glow land. In the coming weeks, they may have some significant choices to make, choices Lathar would have made a concreate decision on just a few months ago. Now? He's literally pondering returning home to Riverbend in one piece to his Thunnelda, to start a family, compared to some other life-altering options.
That's a connection some folks have trouble making in the real world, much less an RPG.
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