Ai - Experienced Tech
Axe - Mutant Hulk
Cap'n Chang - Lucky Nomad
Chung O'Flannigan - NPC Smuggler
"Lieutenant" Vaolt - Mutant Trooper
Day 20:
With Sharkticus' death, the weather improved, and the crew set sail. Chung informed everyone that the island chain they were entering contained more near-feral mutant gangs than usual, but he knew no specifics, as he had been shipwrecked for three years. Sure enough, the party came across two mutant-crewed ships engaged in a chase, while more mutants watched from the shore, cheering and occasionally firing a pistol in their general direction.
Fortunately, the mutants were entertained enough for Chang to "sneak" the Golden Hare past them, and they made camp slightly further up the coast. On Axe's watch, he noticed a 4' humanoid trying to steal stuff from their camp and killed the poor wretch instantly, before chucking him in the ship's blood drive.
Day 21:
3 ships identifying themselves as "The Skulls" tried to pursue the Golden Hare and requested a toll over radio. Their ships were heavily armoured, but appeared to have no ranged weaponry, and were easily outran. Before the party left radio range, they sent an ominous message stating "A Skull never forgets".
Later in the day, a naked man opened fire from the shore with a rifle, so Chang fired a shot at him from the LMG, killing him. A large crab emerged from the surf to eat the body, but it was also shot by Chang and scared off. Vaolt went ashore and scavenged the man's near-broken rifle, and some casings, but no bullets were left.
On Vaolt's watch overnight, some ships passed by the camp, but nothing came of it.
Day 22:
In the morning, the Golden Hare rounded a corner to find a heavily-armoured boat pointing a large LMG at them, causing Cap'n Chang to rev up the blood drive as he gunned it out of their firing arc, only for a gyrocopter to appear above the treeline, intent on giving chase. Fortunately, Chang was able to evade both without any damage or shots fired by hugging the shoreline and using trees to block line of sight.
Later in the day, they came across an upside-down ship that had washed up on the shore. Ai noticed that there were some wounded people pinned underneath it and immediately jumped overboard to help, but everybody else only agreed to assist if they could steal everything on the wrecked ship. Cap'n Chang ID'd the wounded as Steel Samurai, an abnormally honourable gang hailing from Japan who don't normally raid people.
Ai patched up the Samurai while Chang transplanted their ship's harpoon gun and scrapped their blood drive for parts, and Axe and Vaolt stole everything not nailed down. Without their ship, the wounded Samurai decided that they would try to find some other way off the island in the interior, but it was unlikely they would survive due to their wounds and the ornery locals.
Around midnight, on Chang's watch, a scratchy radio broadcast came through, listing coordinates which he placed as being on an island on their route and only a few days away.
Day 23:
Early in the day, the Golden Hare came across a pair of wooden ships, crewed by wooden tree people. They claimed to be starving, as they had ran out of nutrients in the soil on their ship, and required assistance. Chang tried to strike a deal, and they found out that the treeple generated a kind of healing sap (confirmed by Vaolt's mutant knowledge). In exchange for the sap (and some drugs for Vaolt), the party hooked up a line to their ships and starting towing them towards the next island.
A short while later, three bandits on sea-doos moved in aggressively, two with pistols and one with an unlit molotov. Much to the treeple's concern, Chang unhooked the Golden Hare from their ships for greater mobility, and manoeuvred close enough for Axe to decapitate him. The other two bandits opened fire but missed (badly), and one was quickly dealt with by Axe. The other was impaled on Vaolt's trident, and lowered into the blood drive while still alive.
Chang was able to grab the bandit in the blood drive's pistol just before his arm got sucked in, Vaolt grabbed some bullets off of another corpse, and Ai, Axe, and Vaolt crewed the sea-doos to scrap at the next island. Several hours later, they made landfall, and the treeple quickly went into the jungle to get nutrients, leaving their wooden ships to decay near-instantly.
When questioned, the treeple revealed that the location Chang had overheard on the radio belonged to a gang known as the Wizard's Foot, and that they would need a full day to create the healing goo. Ai grabbed the sea-doo blood drives as spares, and Chang was given a pump-action shotgun that the treeple just so happened to have.
Notes:
The GM got 3 crit failures on the first 7 rolls of the session, which is why Chang was able to sneak a boat past a reasonably large crowd in broad daylight.
We got sidetracked quite a lot, which is unfortunate as this was a short session.
Chang's high Boating continues to invalidate all ship combat, though the GM's poor rolls certainly helped.
We are mostly scrapping the rather complicated inventing/repairing rules and just going with whatever the GM feels is right in terms of parts.
The treeple are fairly common mutants, given that the nanobots that turned human blood into oil initially affected plants.
The treeple can make the healing goo, a hallucinogenic "peach", and very sturdy bark armour. Nobody really wants armour, and magic healing goo is always welcome.
3XP
+1 XP from the skill-testing question to everyone
MVP went to Ai for healing Chung, Vaolt, and the Steel Samurai
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