The Savage Wasteland of Fallout

Game Master thegreenteagamer

you guys are going to have to end up using the map now that its here. There are two roaches within reach of the pit bull (d2) with different gang up bonuses; one has one ally for +1, one has 3 allies for +3. I don't know where you're getting +5 from. If you're wild attacking or any other special abilities that has to be specifically stated,as it also comes with penalties.

I edited the map to show R3 as dead. I also stepped Aeryicka up to r4 so she could get a hit in. If Aeryicka attacks r4 she gets maximum gang up since that radroach is pretty much surrounded. Moving and attacking doesn't suffer multiaction penalties does it?? If it does, it still doesn't matter since I think she still hits because of the gangup. Also, @Aeryicka if I read correctly, you don't penalize yourself on an Ace roll. The penalties are only for the original roll.

Moving is a free action in savage worlds. You can do it any time without penalty as long as you're not incapacitated...even if you're shaken. running, however, counts as an action and can lead to multiaction penalties. (I designed some edges to deal with that though based off the run and gun perk, see the custom content I added in the campaign info page). The only thing I can think of you can't do while moving is aim

Sorry, got the dogs confused. I thought D1 was the pitbull. Is there any way to differentiate the two dogs on the map since they're controlled by two different people?

Just made a note on the map that d1 is the greyhound (Harper controls) and d2 the pitbull (Aeryicka controlled) to remind all of us, myself included (I think I goofed too once).

The radroaches, being surrounded and mindless, continue on, despite being picked off slowly.

R2 vs D2 (gangup from R5): 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
ACE: 1d4 ⇒ 3 = Total 8 vs Parry 5
damage: 2d4 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6
ace: 1d4 ⇒ 2 = Damage 8 vs Toughness 4 = Raise = Incapacitation (unless Aeryicka, who has the edge that lets her spend bennies on a pet, wants to try and soak for the dog)
One roach leaps up, wings flying and bites roughly at the pitt bull!

R3 tries to Unshake: 1d4 ⇒ 1
The roach that is totally surrounded seems to be twitching.

R5 vs Thomas, gang up from R2: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Ace is popular today with the roaches: 1d4 ⇒ 1 = total 6 vs Parry 4
damage: 2d4 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7
ace: 1d4 ⇒ 2 = total 9 vs Toughness 5 = Shaken AND 1 wound (unless Thomas soaks)
Thomas, too gets one that manages to jump up and bite at his torso.

R6 vs Badger, gangup from R5: 1d4 ⇒ 2 miss

Thomas and Harper up! (Possible soak rolls from Thomas and if Aeryicka wants to use her bennies on the dog, the pitt bull)

Harper brought a punch down onto the fifth roach, doing anything that she could to protect Badger from more harm.

Fighting: 1d8 ⇒ 5
Wild Fighting: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Damage: 1d4 ⇒ 3

The dog who was fueled by her fighting spirit took a lunge at the beetle surrounded on all sides.

Fighting: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Fighting Ace: 1d6 ⇒ 6
What: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Add four to the total for ganging up, correct? I think that the penalty negates that, however. The parry is three, if I'm correct, and I have 17 on the dice. Three raises. I'm going to roll three more 1d6s unless I'm confused, in which case don't include them in the damage.

Damage: 4d6 + 1d4 ⇒ (3, 5, 6, 1) + (4) = 19

Seriously concerned that I totally screwed this up.

You got it mostly right. Sadly, you can only ever get at most one extra d6 damage from raises on the attack roll (look at my new edges...in custom content, there's a high level edge that eliminates that maximum). You also missed light penalties, but that still would have hit at -1. Still would have been 12 damage...and the d4 would have aced and kept rolling, an instakill on a radroach.

Harper's kick doesn't seem to faze the roaches, but then the greyhound.

The dog, however, just chomps into the beetle, shakes it violently, flings it up in the air, and bites the head off, gulping it down. (Hey, food is food)

Thomas and then new initiatives On phone - can someone delete dead radroach?

Soak Roll for Pitbull: 1d6 ⇒ 5
That's a success, right?

Yup

The pitbull seems unfazed by what would have otherwise been a mighty attack by the lowly roach.

Just waiting on Thomas. I'll give him a few hours. If I'm moving too fast, let me know. I'm just trying to keep with you people's average flow.

sry. Was just waiting until I could check the map.

Soak roll: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Wild Soak: 1d6 ⇒ 1
= success, no wound. So, I'm not shaken either, then, yeah? Oh, and the dog just killed r4, yeah?

Thomas suddenly realizes that for some reason he's now in the thick of it. Thinking quickly, he panics and goes for self-preservation, attempting to defend himself until the opportune moment. After all, as they say, 'Du Muss Amboss oder Hamer sein'. And today is kind of an anvil day.

Defend option. +2 Parry.

Deleted the radroach.

New Initiative:
Badger (Joker +2 all rolls, even damage)
Estelle
Roaches
Everyone Else

Spirit roll! 1d6 ⇒ 51d6 ⇒ 4

Badger ain't going down like this- sure, these wild radroaches are far more dangerous than the ones in Engineering but didn't the G.O.A.T say that pest control was all he was good for?! A life-threatening wound isn't about to stop Badger from becoming the expert wasteland ranger he always knew he would be! So he calms himself down and swings wildly with his knife at the radroach in front of him!

Wild attack vs. r5, with gang up bonus from Thomas (does Harper count on the diagonal? +1 more if so): 1d8 - 3 ⇒ (5) - 3 = 21d6 - 3 ⇒ (1) - 3 = -2
I may have done that wrong, I haven't had my coffee yet. I have a -2 for size, -1 for darkness, -3 for wounds = -6. Then I have a +2 fighting for wild attack, +2 for joker and either a +1 or +2 for gang up; so that first attack is either a 4 or 5 if my revised math is correct.

Damage if that somehow manages to hit: 1d6 + 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + (3) + 2 = 9

My parry is at 4 until next action. I will use my free move to fall back- is each square 1 unit? I will move myself back 1 to get a little further from r6.

Harper counts as a diagonal. If I'm adding that up right you got a total 5 and hit.

Badger splatters roach 5 as an action of desperation, but provokes an attack from roach 6 as he backs up, leaving himself open.

R6 vs Badger: 1d4 ⇒ 1
But the roach is, in the end, a big clumsy bug.

Two bugs left. Estelle, then bugs, then the rest

Estelle moves to the other side of Badger, taking a swing at the Roach that tried to attack him, but coming up short.

Fighting: 1d4 - 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) - 3 + 1 = 1
Wild: 1d6 - 3 + 1 ⇒ (3) - 3 + 1 = 1

Estelle misses the roach, which turns around and wild attacks her!

wild attack: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

...barely missing

Apparently it's do or die, because the other roach does the same to Thomas.

Wild attack: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 2) + 2 = 6
...barely shaking him.

All others are up, and the roaches have parry 1 until their next turn. Map updated. Also, apparently you can edit the map with the Google docs app on your phone, too, so that's awesome!

I think I may have moved too far on the map- I have Pace 3 with all my wounds. Let me update that on my stat line.

Defend action. Parry = 6. It's sharp, biting mandibles thrust mightily at my vitals, only to meet my trusty bar of rusty metal, and the ring of chitin-on-steel CLANGS throughout the war-strewn bathroom, as, somewhere, the sound of MANOWAR is heard to accompany the ensuing melee. Have at thee! =) (Happy Friday everyone!)

Thomas deftly turns his STEEL against the gnashing, pulsing mass of radroach. Sensing that the tide of BATTLE has turned, he meets the roaches wild ferocity with a surge of his own RAGE. He brings back his ragged bar and opens his mouth to cry with barbaric ferocity a mighty "............." and brings his weapon down on the insect's hardened carapace!

Fighting, Wild Attack, gang up: 1d4 - 2 - 1 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (2) - 2 - 1 + 3 + 2 = 4
Wild Fighting, Wild Attack: 1d6 - 2 - 1 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (2) - 2 - 1 + 3 + 2 = 4
damage: 1d4 + 1d6 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (2) + (5) + 1 + 2 = 10

Oh, yeah, forgot about you defending. Nice!

The bug dies with a satisfying crunch, and for the moment Thomas is wielding a Radroach kabob as the pole pierces it fully. The little legs kick...and then stop.

Map edited for Badger's lowered pace (diagonal is no penalty so he's 3 away) One roach left.

Kristophe charges at the last Radroach (r6) a giant grin on his face!

This one's MINE!

Wild Attack!: 1d8 - 3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (1) - 3 + 1 + 2 = 1 Wild Die: 1d6 - 3 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (4) - 3 + 1 + 2 = 4
Damage!: 1d8 + 1d4 ⇒ (2) + (1) = 3

But his attack fails to squish the bug, instead it just clangs off its carapace.

Wild attack actually gets +2 damage also, so its Shaken.

I'm gonna move on, because one roach with parry 1 that is already shaken won't last.

As you guys finish off the radroaches which each give one 'radroach meat' item if you're so inclined the dogs whimper a little. Estelle can tell from a cursory examination that there's some glass in their feet, but nothing deep. Healing check at -1 to remove without tools, +1 if you get tools; until then they halve their pace and cannot run. The dogs bark, well...not happily, because there is glass in their feet, but at least in a non-aggressive manner. They start to scarf down one of the dead radroaches, because they're dogs, and meat is meat.

A quick search through the restroom can find that the toilets are filled with debris, and the mirrors are shattered, but one of the sinks still turns on...The water flowing out giggles brown for a while, but eventually clears out, and you can see a thin trickle of clear water.

Back out into the west hallway there is a second restroom for boys, a kitchen, and a staircase going up, but the rest of the way is blocked with collapsed debris. There is also the east hallway.

Kristophe stomps on the bug

HAH! Three for me! See what I said, stick with me and you'll go far. spying Badger's wound Kristoph grunts Heh, better get that looked at fore it goes rancid yeah.
Kristophe takes a little drink of water
Vigor: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Tastes fine.

Kristophe looks around for something to hold water like a canteen.

Well. I guess I'll have to check this place out. Get me some supplies so I can make it to whatever podunk town is closest. and he gestures to the younger members Best follow me unless you wanna end up like that guy. and he heads east down the hallway.

GM, could you sketch out a rough map of the school layout on my map link? Or if you describe it I can make a map

Thomas stands proudly, his radroach-staff thrust before him. Then he coughs a bit, then coughs some more. Then he coughs a hacking monologue, but nothing he can do can restore his voice. Tired, hot, and desperate, he opens the tap and takes a long, cool drink until he can hold no more.

Vigor: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Wild Vigor: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

He tingles a bit and shakes his head vigorously, but otherwise feels refreshed.

Then he marches over to Harper. He digs into her backpack, pulls put the baton, and thrusts it into her hands, reminding her that she need not fight bare-handed.

He then points to Estelle, and points to Aeryicka, indicating that Estelle could give the baton in her backpack to the other child.

If Harper lets him, he'll pile the rest of the 7 remaining roaches into her backpack so they might roast and eat them later, after the place has been secured a bit first.
While they gather the radroaches, Thomas will make a cursery inspection of the area. He doubts he'll find anything other than cracked masonry and dust, but seeing as how they lack so much as another bag to hold dead roaches in, he figures he might try.

Notice: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Wild Notice: 1d6 ⇒ 1

That done, Thomas gesticulates toward the kitchen, indicating that that might be the next preferred area of inspection.

Thomas shakes his head at the departing Kristophe, indicating disapproval, and that now is not the time for recklessness.

I don't have my computer today, and normally I would sketch it up after work, but I've got a Christmas party today. Now that I know we have these options, I can put the maps up when I have my computer around, but while I can type letters and delete them on the app, it won't let me add lines and stuff (or I haven't figured out how yet). It's not the most straightforward map, due to blocked hallways, sadly. The individual rooms are, though, so you can draw those up if we get in a fight, and I should be able to update the full school map tomorrow. Sorry :-/

Kristophe starts off down the east hallway, not waiting for anyone else. That hallway gets pretty dark...almost pitch black, but with the light of the entrance he can barely make out that the teachers lounge and the office are close, and then it becomes too dark to see. More of those alcoves to saints with sconces and candles line the walls.

Thomas heads to the cafeteria to check it out. Florescent lights are flickering on and off, giving visuals, but inconsistently. Overturned tables litter the area, and the stench of rotten food comes from behind the counter where the kitchen is, and you can see an open fridge, picked completely clean. A large dry pantry remains closed shut, and seems locked up. If you had lockpicks, or at least some bobby pins, maybe you could get it open.

Badger, swaying with blood loss, turns to Kristophe.
"Hold on.... killer.... I smuggled something else out of the Vault for you..."

He makes a production of reaching behind his back for something, only to come back with a middle finger.
Ah, why am I... being stingy...", he says, briefly pulling his bloody hand from his neck wound to flip Kristophe off with it.

Aeryicka gratefully takes a baton, tired of attacking with her bare hands. Looking over at Badger, she rushes over and inspects his wounds, trying to ignore his less-than-polite gesture. "There must he a nurse's office or something around here with supplies," she says in a rush. "Follow me, lets see if we can find it."

Smarts to see if I can figure out the location: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Wild Smarts: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Calling over the dogs, she adds, "And of course we have to get you beautiful creatures all fixed up, don't we? Yes we do. Yes we do."

Nurses offices are usually by or in the main office, usually locsted near the front entrance. You went west and there wasn't one, so...

The pitbull barks excitedly.
1 is male: 1d2 ⇒ 1
He starts to hobble after Aeryicka.

The greyhound manages a wiggling tail despite the pain.
1 is male: 1d2 ⇒ 2
She moves over and licks Harpers face.

"Yeah. Good idea.", Badger says stumbling after Aeryicka.
"Let's... let's follow Tom though. It's a bad idea to... get too separated. Someone could get really hurt."

Notice roll if we follow Tom: 1d6 - 3 ⇒ (1) - 3 = -21d6 - 3 ⇒ (2) - 3 = -1

Thomas sighs as he see the padlock. This place deserved a thorough inspection and some time to get through that lock, but they didn't have time now.
He mentally files away this place for later and meets Aeyicka helping out Badger. He supposes that they could try it if they had no other option, (like, trying his rebar out on the lock, or the hinges) but for now they should see if there are any low-hanging fruits.

Thomas indicates that there are no medical supplies that way, and they might wanna try the other direction, but leaves the decision up to Aeryicka.

Psst. I put "notice roll" in spoiler, so you can roll notice and possibly, you know, notice stuff. That way you can just open the spoils if you make the roll, instead of me asking everyone for a roll and waiting and then later saying what's in there. Thomas...You didn't even try. :-/

Looking over at Harper, Aeryicka smiles. "Seems like we both made a new friend today," she says to the young girl. Nodding in agreement, Aeryicka leads Badger back out to the hallway where they come upon Tom. When he indicates that he didn't find anything, she sighs before leading the two back the way they came and into the eastern hallway, keeping a sharp eye out for the office or any more radroaches, her new canine companion sniffing the ground curiously.

Notice: 1d6 ⇒ 5
Wild Notice: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Rex Notice: 1d10 ⇒ 7

If you were noticing the kitchen, that's a plain success (4 is the target number unless pointedly stated otherwise) and you see in the first spoiler. If the east hallway, it's what I told Kristophe. Teacher's lounge, office, or into the darkness. The west hallway also has stairs up.

Oh great jabba the hutt I didn't even see those. Sorry. Not that it would matter, I'd just end up poking my eyes out on a doorknob or something. Alright, I'll try harder.

Thomas follows Aeryicka and the wounded Badger east, in Kris's wake. Seeing that the light gets dimmer and dimmer, it seems that they really need to search one of these two doors that they can currently see. The odds of there being anything of use in liunge seems negligible, so Thomas goes to the office door and listens.

Notice: 1d4 ⇒ 2
Wild Notice: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Yeaaaaah, that figures. No chance I can intimidate the darkness, is there? Or cast Magic Missile at it? =)

Sensing that there is -certainly- nothing bad on the other side, Thomas opens the office door, hoping to find something to help Aeryicka help Badger.

Never made it to the cafeteria, as we met Tom in the hallway. It was more of a general notice for where we were walking, though if you want we can make it as me and Rex listening outside the office door.

All Aeryicka hears at the door is the hum of electric equipment, and Thomas opens the door to see the office in general shambles. Like the previous rooms, debris is all over the place. There's a large, center secretarial desk with a computer terminal that seems to still be active. A small alcove leads to a nurse's office that's seen better days. Drawers seem pulled out and scattered all over the place, as if someone already raided the place, with empty bottles and garbage everywhere. Digging around the mess can find...

The secretary's desk itself contains a carton of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka, along with 2d4 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5 bobby pins (no notice necessary).

Two other doors are clearly locked...The principal's office, which seems to have an electronic lock, and a closet that is labeled "confiscated goods" with a pin pad to enter a code.

After ensuring that there aren't anymore neck-eating radroaches waiting for them, Thomas frowns, rolls up his sleves, and sets to giving the place a thorough searching. He knows that the nurse's office has the best chance of finding something to help Badger.

Notice: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Wild Notice: 1d6 ⇒ 4
More Notice: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Yet even MOAR Notice: 1d4 ⇒ 1 = a whopping 9
Yeah, I was totes owed that!

Thomas dumps out the least destroyed drawer he can find and puts the cigs, vodka, and bobby pins in it. To the small horde he adds a newly found medit(10 supplies), a Stimpack, and a Med-X.
He also starts gathering all the empty bottles he can find.

He motions to Aeryicka to go to work.

The stuff should be put in a pack, so he waits for Harper or Estella to see if they want to carry it.

With that said, can Thomas find ANY empty bags? Trash bags, grocery bags, even a nice handbag. Anything at all that could carry one or two bottles full of only mildly irradiated water would do quite well right now. I mean, not -right- now, but if they leave and never find another backpack, those would come in handy.

Kristophe grunts in frustration and walks back down the hall towards the others. He pointedly ignores Badgers response.He spots Thomas and says "Hey, what you got there."

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There's a garbage bag in the trashcan by the Secretary's desk. It doesn't look pleasant, but man does plastic take forever to biodegrade, so it looks Hefty strong. About a gallon of storage.

You also find 1d10 ⇒ 10 empty pill bottles.

Harper let out a tentative chuckle at Aryicka's comment, and bent down to scratch her companion's floppy ears, trying to block out the dreadful imagery of the remains of society around her. When she more closely examined the dog's face, however, she noticed that the canine had definetly been in more than a single scrape before she had met it. It's jaw closed improperly as if a large animal had swatted it sideways, leaving several teeth on the upper left side of its mouth hanging out for the world to see. Its fur was matted. There were multiple spots on the dog's body that had no fur to speak of at all, the skin warped with scar tissue.

Harper ran her hand down the dog's back to its tail. "You need a name," she mused aloud. "I'll keep thinking on that. We'll also need to teach you to be a civilized doggie, like the ones that they have on the picture shows. Teach you how to sit and come and heel and such." She inwardly cringed at the thought of picture shows, a reminder of the vault. Vault Two, where Percy and Mother and Father and- No. Couldn't start crying now. She looked into her companion's eyes and gave her another quick pat on the head before standing up and looking down the hall. She'd spent too long petting the dog, and was now alone. Don't panic. Thomas was in the building, somewhere. She just had to find him.

Carefully, warily, Harper crept down the quiet hallway. She kept light upon her feet, just in case some horrible creature waited for her as she turned the corner into an unexplored, hopefully empty room.

Stealth: 1d12 ⇒ 8
Wild Stealth: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Not sure if I needed those stealth rolls, but I wanted to explore the school a bit; see what else there is around here. Better stealthed than sorry.

Since the only unexplored room in the western hallway is the other restroom, and you didn't specify where...

The other restroom has 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7radroaches in it.

NoticeGroupRoll: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 3

...and they have not yet noticed her. She sees a dead body of what looks like a human being feasted on by them.

Kristophe realizes that Thomas is ignoring him but he doesn't care. "Good eyes there finding that. That'll be useful, so you can come with me and the other two. We might need someone who can scrounge up supplies for us."

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Giving a small glare at Kristophe, Aeryicka took the medkit and examined the contents. Determining that they were still good, she motioned for Badger to stand next to her as she started wrapping his wounds.

Badger, dizzy as heck at this point, nods and sits against the wall where Aeryicka indicates.

Forgot the skill check lol

Healing: 1d8 ⇒ 7
Wild Healing: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Wild Ace: 1d6 ⇒ 5Total of 11. That's one raise for two wounds healed, right?

Well, you take the hurt person's wound penalties (which is why healing yourself is so hard - you take double) but even with -3 it's 8, which is a raise, so yeah, Badger heals 2 Wounds).

Knew I was forgetting something >.< Still, yay healing!

As Aeryicka goes about the serious business of healing Badger and Kris goes about the business of being Kris, Thomas scoops all ten pill bottles into his new found trash bag and crams the whole thing into his over-sized pockets. 'Well, it's not exactly luxury, but it's a start. I just hope these things are waterproof.'

That done, he starts wondering where Harper is. He exits the door and notices her just down the hall. It looks like she's opening the door to the other bathroom....

Gonna wait on her post. It could go a couple ways, depending on if she sneaks away, or runs in with a barbaric yop. =)

Harper slowly backed out of the room, keeping her arm extended toward her canine companion to keep the dog from entering. As soon as Harper was once again fully in the hallway, she grabbed the door's handle and slammed it shut with a loud bang!

She looked to her left to see Thomas staring at her several yards away.

"Thomas! Ack, you scared me!" She sighed. "I'm going to highly recommend that we avoid that bathroom, or at least make a plan before heading in there. I saw at least five more radroaches when I peeked in." She then let out a gag. "...And I think that someone else died trying to get at whatever was in the bathroom. The roaches were feasting on a- a..." She shuttered and attempted to complete her report. "They were devouring a rotting human corpse."