Oil and Blood, Tor Megiddo - part 22 - Gang Moot

The campaign finale!

It's been so long,
And we've been putting out fire,
With promethium,
Feel our blood enraged,
It's just the fear of losing all.

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Dust-clouds gathered on the horizon and a storm of a different sort was brewing in the shanty town at the edge of Windgrip.

In a last-ditch attempt to broker peace between the Yaike Yaike tribes the elders arranged a Moot. The leaders of the Slipgibbets, the Stash Riders, the Ashtown Wasters and the Purebred met in a corner of The Notever and eyed each other warily.

Their henchmen and followers milled around the ruins, trying not to look too conspicuous or aggressive but also trying to be as intimidating as they could. None of them really wanted this peace, but they didn't want to get the blame for the negotiations failing.

Any hopes of a truce soon went out of the window though as Beetle, the leader of the Stash Riders, revved his chainaxe and charged straight at Great Father Arun!

Commander Blitzer read the ley of the land and charged Katorax! The Slipgibbet's leader was wounded twice and failed to hit back. Luckily for Kastorax, Blitzer's plasma pistol fizzled out of ammo as the last charge missed him. Then the Commander's stimms overloaded his system and the hulking brute seized-up!

Kastorax looked around to see if anyone saw, then fried the Ashtown Waster's leader with his shock stave and laughed to himself.

Beetle and Arun dueled on. Two Wasters ran passed them and ignored both!

Absent and Cable mucked about and did nothing useful.

Duggee stalked his prey...

Kastorax tried to raise the alarm as Beetle took down Great father Arun, but only Hijack noticed! The other gangs' fighters all paid much more attention!

Warfather jax gunned down the Slipgibbets' Tech Witch with his heavy stubber!

The Wasters pinned down a couple of the Stash Riders, wounding one of them badly.

Echelon the Rider and Warfather Dez were both injured by a grenade Cable fired (when the lunk finally realised something bad was going on!)

The Rustmen looked on. Who knows what they made of the unfolding scenes of mayhem before them?

Duggee chomped on Jax's leg and breathed flames over the Rider!

Hijack tried to have a go at one of the injured Stash Riders.

Successfully for once! He pulverised the fallen ganger with his power pick.

Cable blasted Beetle off his feet with a krak grenade and Smilin' Merc ran up and finished him off - claiming the kill. much to Cable's annoyance! But even though he was out of action he had been the last leader standing and gained some reputation for that!

The Hound jumped up and shot at Hijack and pinned him. Atlas also took fire and ducked...

... As the Red Wind returned!

The Notever, and probably the rest of the continent, was once more engulfed in choking dust clouds and the gangs scattered to their boltholes and hideouts.

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And so the Oil and Blood: Tor Megiddo campaign draws to a close. 

The final Reputation table looks like this:

19 - The Stash Riders
16 - The Slipgibbets
12 - The Purebred
8 - The Ashtown Wasters
7 - The Disciples of the Black

The Gang Rating table is as follows:

1920 - The Slipgibbets
1520 - The Ashtown Wasters
1470 - The Stash Riders
1415 - The Disciples of the Black
1390 - The Purebred

The Powerbroker and Creditor Triumphs go to the Stash Riders. The Slaughterer Triumph clearly goes to Duggee, as that good boy took out more enemy fighters than any whole gang managed!

We will be returning to Tor Megiddo next year: We will begin a new Turf War with some gangs returning and some new gangs joining the fight. The story will move on as well as new plot-threads will be added and we will continue to explore new facets of the Tor Megiddo setting.

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The land shakes beneath the fury of the storm.
The sand is drenched in blood and oil.
Most holy Promethium, it fills our veins with wrath.
Ride forth warlord! Blessed by the Cog and the Bolt!
Wage war in the sun!