Thursday, February 26, 2026

RPG Campaign Tour: Day 26 - Are There Any Dramatic Events From the Campaign You Can Share?

Day 26 of the #RPGCampaignTour for my Gamma World campaign "This Is Not a Test", and again I turn to my players in an interview for "Are there any dramatic events from the campaign you can share?"

First Place: Sonny Saving Lathar

Lathar Bracken was a pure-strain human who had no such stringent requirements when it came to his women... or his liquor. 

During a wintertime stop at Fair-Town, Lathar had gotten plenty drunk and began wandering the streets.  Sonny, the groups educated mutant sunflower, was the only one awake to notice that he wasn't in his room, and he tried his best to follow his tracks.... It was a comedy of errors, including discovering that he had challenged his ex-girlfriend, the blue skinned Kirothian leader, Elona, to a duel!  Thankfully she just called him an idiot and he wandered off, with a group called the Pathfinders.  Upon finding this group and invited to a bonfire and drinking, Sonny learns that they've stripped the poor human naked, strapped him to the front of a side-by-side ATV and were about to drive him off as a sacrifice to something called the "Pathinfinder Run"

The roar of an internal combustion engine could be heard. Emerging out of the woods was some sort of vehicle. There was a pair of skis attached to its front. There was space for two riders, elevated off the ground, and it was moved by a pair of oversized tracks. As the vehicle roared passed, Soony could see a naked Lathar strapped to the front of this device. The other campers cheered it on...

Before the vehicle disappeared, Sonny made a silent prayer to whatever useless deities were listening, and using his teleportation, he landed on the back of the vehicle, Destination: Unknown.

As the vehicle and its internal combustion engine peeled out in the darkened woods, the sunflower climbed forward from the back of it.  There were punches, flintlock pistols discharged, and persons and plants nearly falling off.  

The sunflower continued to fight the duo trying to sacrifice Lathar, when the reached their destination: 

A fire-breathing beast.   

Thankfully Sonny forced the driver to take a sharp left away from the beast, and only the other Pathfinder dude was engulfed in flames.  Ultimately, Sonny forced the driver to flee the scene, and to the upper gates of the town, where he forced the town guard to arrest the surviving Pathfinder.    

Ultimately Sonny got something to cover up the naked Lathar, got him back into his room at the inn, and made sure to wedge the door shut so he couldn't get out for the rest of the night.  

The high point of this story is that Sonny is the least-combat worthy of all the characters, and this action sequence, which took the vast majority of one night's session, was one of the most bad-ass scenarios and character has been through.

Runner Up - Squiggles, our Mutant Earthworm friend, still armed with a flintlock and a superscience weight belt used in warehouses, had suffered some grievous wounds while the group explored "Rho Facility."  But, as luck would have it, the had also befriend a piece of Living Metal named RHA-9, obviously an artificial medic with all its syringes and liquids.  

Squiggles was the most wounded so they let the Living Metal go to town.  A few injections later, Squiggles suffered horrible bouts of screaming, but was miraculously healed.... and grew a layer of shaggy fur....




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