The bones of my face have grown and formed around what looks to be the shape of a shoe or boot, made long ago like when someone makes a print into wet cement, and then it dries and hardens. Ridges and flats where there shouldn't be, skin not stretch…
Flashes of silent lightning illuminate us both as she approaches. I stretch out both arms, perpendicular to my torso, naked except for what is left of my tattered leather pants, rain soaked and looking like some hideous and grotesque parody of Jim M…
In the brief illumination from the flash of lightning, there's no mistaking the sleek form of the Driver and her helmet. Of course the only one untainted, still holding onto to honor and mercy and goodness, is the one that's drawn back here.
I'll a…
For Stazie...
These streets all know me the shadows whisper • Tonight keeps looking back at me with neon eyes • And if they've seen you they're not talking • You think by now maybe they'd sympathize • Out in the rain I keep on walking • Out in the …
I bend my neck and start rubbing my temples and forehead with a hand, trying to figure out what this new world looks like now. It's like that shell game that Chaz used to get me to play for jingle, and I could never follow where the ball ended up. …
I have no idea what a sub-warden is, but I don't ask cuz I don't wanna look stupid. Must be some kinda Fipper or something'. Sierra! I 'member that newbie sweet girl up at the Irons, but why would she be at the Depot? And how'd she get mixed up in s…
"Listen to me, you little sand rat. I don't owe you a fuggin' thang. All this shite that went down at the Palace is cuz I owed sumbody. Just about every bad thang I've done is cuz I did what I was told or cuz I owed sumbody somethin'. The days of me…
Ah! The Junkyard, right! Snatches of memories start to flood back, and I remember Mimi. How could I forget? I met her right here outside Tum-Tum's tent. And Last and how I got mixed up in all this in the first place. And a brooding anger starts well…
I see Tum-Tum bring out two glasses and suddenly the thought of something strong to drink seems exactly what I need. I pull off my mask a drop it to the floor. Still swaddled in the quilt, I join Tum at his desk and pour a shot in the other glass. "…
Of all the places to take shelter from the storm, I knew Tum-Tum would know things. He's helping fill in the gaps.
"Don't fret, I'm just trying to get out of the storm. I knew you'd have a safe place. So, thanks. What about the little teeter? Fost…
"Don-Don't leave, Tum. I'm not h-here to harm ya," I say, teeth still chattering as I collapse on the couch and wrap myself in the quilt like a cocoon. "Why ya callin' me a dead man, Tum-Tum?"
As soon as I emerge into Tum-Tum's tent, I begin shivering and shaking from being soaked to the bone. Why am I soooo cold? I'm thinking as my teeth chatter behind the gas mask. So, Little Li is already dead like me. Did I have something to do with …
"I came back, mamma, for that little teeter. I fear something terrible is gonna happen to her and I need to stop it... or has it happened already? He's part of it too, ain't he? Somehow, mamma, I gotta set things right again..."
OOC: when you withdraw into the world’s psychic maelstrom, roll+weird. On a 7–9, choose 1. You emerge again, about an hour later, and...
• ...Meanwhile, you can still watch and hear what’s happening where you were.
• ...You can re-emerge in a differ…
"Whoa, heyyy, I...I...I ain't lookin' for no trouble. Just hopin' to get these freezin' bones dry and warm. S'ok, I'll just plant myself out here 'til you open up in the mornin'. No worries, friend."
I lean against the Depot wall near the gate and…
The Fat Man. That's him, my pop. Surely they will open the gate for his son.
I call out, "It's me, his son Will Isaac, I'm cold and soaked to the bone, and just trying to come in out of the desert and get some shelter from the storm, friend. You…
The smell of death and decay along with burning hair and flesh and ozone startle me awake. I'm not sure how long I just lay in the mud, feeling the rain soak me to the bone, staring at the mask and then up at the lights arcing across the the sky. I …
Chemical change • like a laser beam • you've shattered the warning • amber light • Make me warm • let me see you moving everything over • smiling in my room • you know you'll be inside of my mind soon • There are so many of you • White shirt and tie…
When life becomes untenable, choose 1:
• Come back with -1hard
• Come back with +1weird (max+3)
• Change to a new playbook
• Die
Triggers Pit bull: whenever your life becomes untenable, name the person you hold most responsible. Take +1 ongoing to …
OOC: When life becomes untenable, choose 1:
• Come back with -1hard
• Come back with +1weird (max+3)
• Change to a new playbook
• Die
Triggers Pit bull: whenever your life becomes untenable, name the person you hold most responsible. Take +1 ongoin…
I flaunt the 50-cal, pumping it like a barbell high in the air with one arm, the Ingram MAC-10 SMG in the other hand. I start off walking slowly towards the chopper, and begin to sing loudly at the top of my lungs
"I love my boots, my boots and me…
All I see is the blood. Not mine, or Mimi's or Cinch's or Last's. Just Li's blood. And all this insanity was for nothing. In my heart, I knew she'd end up like mamma if she stayed with him. But the naked truth is, she ended up like mamma because sh…