Detroit Suck City: Episode 1

You're no hero.

You're a wasteland wanderer:

a mutant, 

a seeker,

a robot killer,

a stoic shaman guarding forgotten ancient sciences.

You seek triumph and technology,

winning it with mutations and magic, 

soaked in the radiation and quantum fields of the altered, the savage, the semi-intelligent, and the artificially intelligent. 

The crew fares from Zlugtown a grungy little shanty town of mutant animals (with a few humanoids). The island has a massive old gravel pit, rail yard, and warehouses. Half of it is a radioactive wasteland where a stray tactical nuke landed. It is tribal and barely tech 1 bordering on pre-historical. Nice place to grow up though.

The entire crew is called in front of the town leadership to investigate a glowing red light that has been seen from across the waters in the mainland. These individuals were called on because they were outcasts in a world of outcasts. They had no family, no town responsibilities, and no official duties to speak of. All of the characters took the mission to earn their own fame within their community but each had their own personal reasons for doing this as well.

The crew decided to to head out at first light so everyone could spend the night getting sleep, preparing, and saying whatever goodbyes they felt like. The first light of day had hooves, feet, and paws hitting the broken pavement of the bridge and all seemed quite until they came to a section of the bridge that was covered in vegetation. Auron got really nervous and started to ask and look around for a way around the vegetation as he insisted that he would not go anywhere near those plants. It was then that Jiminy told everyone that he went on a scouting missing a few days before and those plants are alive and have the ability to shoot spines.

The crew was able to to discover a path down the side of the bridge onto the support beams and beyond. This path was obvious made as it consisted of chunks of wood, scrap metal, and wire all attached together to make a foot path along the underside of this bridge. Everyone was careful but despite a healthy dose of paranoia for the unknown (as no one ever left the island before) the crew was ambushed by four squeakers (which are mutated ferrets)!

The battle was fought behind and in front of the flanked crew as Jimeny took the lead at the front of the party and Auron took the lead at the back of the party. This was because the walkway was very thin and only in a few places could they stand should to shoulder. The squeakers attacked ferociously and inflicted some heavy wounds on Jiminy and Auron caught a few teeth. During the class, Parrot ended up shooting Ladmar in the back with his crossbow. At this point, the crew was considering retreat but then a high pitched squeaking was heard over the sounds of melee and the squeakers ran off, vanishing down the bridge.  

The crew pressed on and as they passed under the section of the bridge where the vegetation started they noticed all kinds of roots and plant matter was hanging down from the ceiling. Auron quickened his pace and kept looking up for any signs of movement as he forgot about the threat of the squeakers. They then came to a collapsed area were Jiminy easily jumped to the platform on the other side. The rest of the crew side climbed the crisscross lattice work to the other side. This platform shortly led to the control tower of the bridge with a door.

Auron led the way and a short way inside down on an makeshift floor discovered what appeared to be a mother squeaker with a litter of pups. The mother just started at Auron and company before Auron suffered a lapse in tactical judgement and told his friends to close their eyes. Once their eyes were closed Auron unleashed a bright flash from his eyes that illuminated the whole tower and blinded the squeakers. 

Parrot noticed a girl looking down at them from a few floors and announced it to the rest of the party. The mystery girl quickly started to run up the stairs and Jiminy sprang into action, leaping a few stories to catch the girl on a landed. As soon as he landed, he barely had time to notice she had a very rough tattoo of a black star over her face before he was blinded by a flash and the girl knocked Jiminy over the head. This blow to the caused Jiminy to fall back down the stairs to the next land and gave the mystery girl a chance to escape. 

The rest of the crew rushed to Jiminys aid.

It is just another day in Detroit Suck City...