Death Road To Canada

Rotten Shotgun

The drive to Canada used to be a few days, at most. The apocalypse filled the roads with debris, hordes of zombies, and stranded cars. It's now a long trip.

The group finds a trader camp and decide to stop by and see what they have to offer. The group has 27 food left.

A particularly intense looking woman offers to sell the group a spare weapon.

"I only carry the BEST stuff!" she yells. She starts her chainsaw and revs it a few times, emphasizing this. She offers a chainsaw for 20, 8 Molotovs for 15, or a parking meter for 10. The group already have a chainsaw and agreed earlier they shouldn't mess with Molotovs, so they decide to bite and take a parking meter. It's very heavy.

"We ripped this out of the ground!" she boasts. "That's how we pass the savings on to you!"

The group leaves and head over to TNOMEY THE GNOME once again. He offers 30 gas for 10 Zombo points. The group can't afford that.

The group meets a man wielding a homemade spear. Despite it being a knife tied to a stick, it seems like it would be a great weapon.

"Nothing beats polearms for zombie hunting," he says. He offers a tactical spear for 9, a stick boot for 6, and a pitchfork for 3. The group buys a tactical spear.

"This is the latest model in zombie spearing design!" the trader explains. "Very easy to use, very tactical. The leverage also makes it take about half the effort to attack compared with most other weapons!"

The group thanks him before leaving.

The group finds a twitchy man selling homemade bombs. He's wearing a bulky coat with bumps bulging out from underneath.

"BUY MY BOMBS!" he shouts. Awsten looks at Geoff, Otto, and Travis as they each shake their head. The group backs away slowly and head back to the hot rod and leave the camp.

"These roads are awful," Travis says. "Cars don't last long on them."

"Not like we have a government to maintain them," Awsten mutters.

Travis's Morale: 5/6

The group finds an abandoned safehouse. There's a bit of ammo inside. In further searching, some unfinished pipe bombs are found. Someone must have had to leave in a hurry.

"Messing with those could be really dangerous!" Awsten says, backing away from the pipe bombs.

"But finishing them could be really useful," Travis replies. "I'll do it."

"That's a stupid idea," Awsten argues. "But fine, go ahead and blow yourself up!"

The rest of the group backs far away from Travis, who was too stubborn to listen to reason. Travis attempts to finish making the bombs. He finishes them and ends up with 6.

Travis's Mechanical increases: 4/6

"I really don't think we should put those in the car," Awsten says warily.

"Where else would we put them?" Travis says. "I'm not leaving them here. They're going to be really useful when we get to the Canadian border. Don't you realize how many zombies are going to be there??"

"Fine, but if we die, I'm going to haunt the fuck out of you," Awsten mutters as Travis opens the truck and puts the pipe bombs with the rest of the weapons.

The group encounters a library in town that seems to have mostly burnt down. Geoff finds a single book that avoided being really damaged by the fire. It was a self-help book on positivity. The group learns a lot about the power of staying positive!