What kinds of adventures has your party been on
@Atomic Postman
Campaign was set in 2273 Utah, Idaho, Nevada with slivers of Arizona and Colorado thrown in. ("Theme" was The World We Knew by Frank Sinatra but each player had unique themes).
Was largely a sandbox campaign driven by player and villain story arcs rather than any main adventure. More "western adventure of the week". Started out with them travelling together via Happy Trails Caravan to New Canaan on the I-80, but being diverted north into Idaho to take a longer way around to avoid the resurgent 80's Tribe (Who had since reclaimed the route following the collapse of the Desert Rangers)
Main villains were former NCR Major Calvera and "former" Desert Ranger Anton Holloway, known as the "Hollow Ranger" for wearing the armor of the Desert Rangers but disgracing their code. Major Calvera (
theme - L'Arena by Ennio Morricone) was inspired by the likes of Colonel Kurtz and Dutch Van Der Linde, formerly the leader of a large unit sent by NCR to wipe out tribals along the Big Sur, he now leads his men (and their families) in this bohemian vagrant outlaw lifestyle that rejects NCR and civilization as a whole. After stealing a bunch of NCR gold from Redding, him and his band have finally skipped town and headed out of California into the great unknown. His personality and (my) performance in RP was inspired heavily by Homelander from The Boys TV show.
Anton Holloway was a mix of Anton Chigurh and the Mountain from Game of Thrones. An inscrutable sociopath with what's likely a tumour on his head causing him to behave savagely. The true cause of Flynn's wife's death wasn't a deathclaw, it was Holloway. Flynn assumed otherwise because the raw mutiliation would only come from an animal. Calvera had hired Holloway for the Redding gold job, and was given a share of the gold. However, one of Calvera's men broke rank and stole Holloway's share of the gold in the confusion, and split off himself with a few others to flee into Idaho without Calvera.
This breakaway gang were encountered by the party in their first session harassing a small town, and the party could not help but take the gold despite situational warnings that this gang of petty thugs were deeply, deeply regretting taking it. This led to the party being persistently tracked and stalked by Holloway throughout the entire campaign, periodically turning up as a high level enemy to set traps, sabotage their efforts and scare the living jesus out of them with brutal ambushes (His arrival was marked by "The Man With a Harmonica" by Ennio Morricone). Fizzy managed to land a critical and melt Holloway's left eye during a fleeing attack, which only worsened things further.
I described some of the locations they visited in a different thread here:
https://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/share-your-head-cannons-for-fallout.219324/#post-4382031
Some of their adventures included:
Running into the middle of a democratic election in Idaho's main hub of slave trade, Bridgetown, and deciding not to side with any of the various candidates but instead the millitant abolitionists terrorizing the town, blowing up "The Bridge" of Bridgetown, killing several dozen civilians in the process and effectively cutting off the majority of Idaho from south of the Snake River and cutting the throat of the region's slave trade, but also damning it to economic and resource despair. Various moral debates between the party ensued.
Gaining the favour of New Canaan by helping the town guard defeat a gang of cannibalistic raiders, with Deadspeaker peforming a naked 1 v 1 boxing match with the raider's leader at the town gates. They helped strengthen a fledgling speakeasy under the town's abandoned rail station (Alcohol is banned in New Canaan), one party member converted to Mormonism. They later were sent on a task to find a replacement water chip to repair New Canaan's desalination/water purfiication plant which is on the fritz. Initially searching the Giant Mantis infested ruins of Vault 70 in Salt Lake City to no success, but nearly all dying in the process
Discovering a Vault inspired by the society in the movie Brazil, where everything is layered in comical levels of bureaucracy, red tape and the entire population is effectively doing meaningless paperwork (experiment intended to monitor how buisnesses naturally become more efficient starting from an absurd level of unneccessary bureaucracy and departments) for their entire lives. The Vault was about to explode due to a faulty geothermal plant which nobody had any idea was going wrong nor any idea how to authorize a fix, thankfully saved by the party after screaming frustration with papers and departments.
Playing bounty hunters and eventually musical chairs with various desert warlords (Referred to as "The Mandalorian period")
Recreating Seven Samurai with a village of tribals
Experiencing a mistaken "Hail Hydra" moment with a Legion Frumentarii
Discovering a cult of alien-worshipping hippies living around a pre-war space center and doing a LOT of peyote with them, eventually imprisoning their rapey cult leader inside of a sealed space colony prototype
Eventually this iteration of the party were mostly slain by Anton Holloway in a final confrontation, though Flynn finally managed to put a bullet in the bastard's head as well (his dying action). We were going to start again fresh from a higher level with a new story, but COVID happened.
