Brecht, a bearded tail gunner from War Wag Two once
dropped his Beretta 92, it went off and shot a woman named Karen
Mutter, also from War Wag Two, right in the ass. (Pg. 13).Convoy History
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Brecht, a bearded tail gunner from War Wag Two once
dropped his Beretta 92, it went off and shot a woman named Karen
Mutter, also from War Wag Two, right in the ass. (Pg. 13).
O’Mara, A machine gunner from War Wag One, once
suffered a nasty crack to his skull. Boasted for days that he was
Traders Grandfather and Grandmother too! (Pg. 195).
Ryan heard a story of how a trader in the north
killing a buffalo, cutting it open and crawling inside to stay
warm. The Buffalo froze, trapping the trader so he couldn’t
escape. The trader died from doing this. (Pg. 214).
Ryan relates a story on a friend who removed all his
clothing and then jumped into a tar pit. When Ryan asked him why
he did such a thing, his friend tells him that it seemed to be
the right thing to do at the time. (Pg. 247).
Ryan has been in the ruins of New York city at least
once in the past. He has seen the cracked avenues of the city,
the groves of poisonous vegetation on every corner. (Pg. 22).
Ryan recalls a story of another trader in a gaudy
house near windy city telling him about missiles that destroyed
life but left the buildings standing. (Pg.33).
A tail gunner off War Wag Three named Dean Stanton
once threw himself off a high bridge into a couple of feet of
water. As above, the runt said it seemed like the right thing to
do at the time.
Trader told Ryan about some Crazies he encountered
in the west. Slit the throat of a little girl. Claimed that she
was a horn-less goat. Trader killed the entire group. (Pg. 105).
Ryan and J.B. discovered a stockpile of old guns,
magazines and manuals in a Redoubt near what used to be Billings.
(Pg. 47).
Finn recalls a story of a little mutie girl
with a broken arm and a sweet smile who was being carried by a
man named Old Fletch. She reached up and plucked out his eye like
it was a grape. (Pg. 115).
Trader got a watch from an ancient woman who was
nearly blind. The watch appeared to be of excellent
manufacturing, but it was empty. So he in return gave her a box
of dry Soya that was also empty. Figured it was a fair exchange.
(Pg. 115).
Trader told Ryan about the way some of the desert
looks in Vada where
the nukes exploded over the sand, creating vast areas of broken,
jagged nuke glass. (Pg. 109)
Ryan new of an old blind mutie who lived up in the
high plains that could hear a satin kerchief land on the ground
at over two hundred yards. (Pg. 186).
Many years before while in a high class gaudy in New
Orleans Ryan had seen a powerful metal detector set up to protect
the women from anyone bringing in weapons. (Pg. 191).
Kathy was the medic on War Wag one. (Pg. 83.)
One of Ryan's earliest memories after joining Trader
is that of a firefight against some hillies in the Zarks.
Most of the hillies were armed with two hundred year old muskets.
The man at his side had stuck his head up a touch careless, and
Ryan would never forget the warm, sticky splash of brains and
clotted blood that hit him in the face as the man's head exploded
from the impact of one of the musket balls. (Pg. 28)
A man named Rocco Papini from War Wag two put down a
little mutie girl with two rounds from his pistol. Instead of
putting a third round through the girls head, he knelt down to
cut her throat, believeing that she was helpless. He was
distracted by the site of one perfectly formed breast showing
through a tear in her shirt. The young mutie opened him up from
his groin to his throat with a straight razor. Ryan put a bullet
between her eyes. (Pg. 149-150).
Ryan witnessed the impaling of a child killer in a
frontier pest hole near the old Idaho panhandle. He had been the
mildest, most gentle appearing man. Twinkling eyes and a halo of
silver hair brushed back from an academic forehead and neat
little hands and feet. He had rammed a beer bottle down the
throat of a twelve year old girl, then smashed it in her. He died
slowly and painfully. (Pg. 191-192).
At one time Trader had wiped out a ville of
cutthroats near the Mississippi. The leader had been a giant,
over eight feet tall who was blind in one eye. He had so
terrified the locals that they wouldn't even come to view the
body after trader had killed him. In the end they used some
gasoline to burn the massive corpse.
About five years ago, a small four man team from war
wag three came across a baby in the remains of a Stickie
encampment. They picked up the baby which caused a pound of
plastique explosives to detonate which was hidden beneath. It
took over an hour to collect the shattered remains of the team.
(Pg. 53).
Several years previous, Ryan lead a team into the
remains of a hospital which was located in Wyoming. One section
of the hospital remained intact, which reminded Ryan a great deal
of the redoubt they jumped to located in the Sierra's. (Pg. 62).
J.B. talks about a baron up in the north who had a
pair of residual hands. He kept a huge mutie maggot as a pet. It
slept in a huge wooden bed covered in silk sheets and was fed
just like a baby. (Pg. 128).
While travelling through what is left of Texas, Ryan
spotted many abandoned oil pumps, scattered across the prairies
like the skeletons of long dead birds. (Pg. 137).
Years ago, a man named Harpo, a driver from war wag
two was grabbed by a Stickie. It ripped of most of his face, as
well as both eyes after grabbing his face. (Pg. 208)
Trader at one time had come across a ville filled
with over two hundred Stickies. The biggest pack of Stickies Ryan
has ever personally seen was about forty or fifty of the hated
mutants. (Pg. 270)
Trader at one time had found a huge Cache of
aviation fuel near what had once been the City of Boston. Since
no one in the Deathlands could fly a jet, the Cache has remained
untouched. (Pg. 273).
In what had used to be Pennsylvania, Ryan came
across an old coal mine that had been used as an emergency nuke
shelter. The bombs had caused the mine to cave in, trapping those
trying to escape death. After a century of erosion, the mine
entrance was re-opened. Ryan had never seen so many desiccated
corpses together in one place. (Pg. 32).
J.B. Heard of Troggies before. The big Rockies are supposed to be
home to many of these odd little muties. (Pg. 26).
Five years previously Trader's convoy came across a ville on the gulf
coast that had been attacked and destroyed by a swarm of mutie
killer bee's. Ryan remembered the silence of the ville filled
with the bloated corpses of men women and children, all stung to
death. (Pg.71).
A man named Bob Duvall who was a relief driver on War
Wag Three went bathing in a river up near the darks. He was
attacked by a shoal of tiny mutant fish who killed him and
stripped the flesh off his bones in fifteen seconds. (Pg. 97).
Ryan had once see a pair of men in a duel up in the
Northwest. They stood on eight foot long branches that ran along
side one another and began to saw. They cut through the branches
at the same time and hit the ground at the same time. A second
duel he witnessed a skinny kid in the deserts kill a bounty
hunter by beaning him with an eight ball right between the eyes.
(Pg. 187).
In a gaudy house south of Reno both Hunaker and Finn
got high on a bottle of Joltsky. They stripped each other naked and painted
themselves in black varnish. (Pg. 69).
After wiping out
the ferryman York and his family, Mildred wants to know the
reason why they had to kill the children. He relates a story
about getting ambushed by a party of muties near Death Valley.
Killed a woman named peachy, and severly wounded a man named
Otis. The muties were tracked down to their camp and wiped out. A
man named Giardino found a three year old toddler wrapped in a
dirty blanket. The toddler had a implode grenade which detonated,
killing him. Ever since then, they would kill everyone, young or
old. (Pg. 101-102).
The air conditioning and heaters inside the war wags
were always spotty at best. One time in the darks the outside
temperature was -50, but it was so hot inside the war wags that
most of the crew were stripped down to their skivvies and had all
the doors and ob slits wide open. (Pg. 231).
Ryan had met a baron on the edge of the Darks who had
an elderly woman as the head of his sec forces. She looked like
everyones favorite granny. Ryan personally seen her tear open a
mans chest and rip out his heart and lungs.
Again Ryan remebers meeting a trader about fifteen
years ago near the Grandee. He didn't name his horse and when
asked why, it was because he didn't want to know the name of
something that he might have to chill in a few days.
Several years ago a tail gunner on war wag one
slipped and cut himself on the thigh while climbing in a window.
He cut the artery and bled to death before anyone could help him.
Ryan relates a
story about a baron in the Cascades who invited Trader, J.B. and
Ryan for a feast. Was one of the best meals he ever had, served
on rare china and they ate with gold and silver utensils, and had
wine that was over one hundred and fifty years old. (Pg. 74).
A girl from a
gaudy house near Pecos River was attacked by a stickie who tore
the skin off her arm, like it was a glove, then killed her by
tearing the skin off her throat. (Pg. 98-99).
A rear gunner from
war wag two was blinded by a stickie who tore out his eyes one
night while they were camped in the Cascades. Trader shot him,
putting the man out of his misery. (Pg. 99).
A baron's fortress
on the western side of the green mountains had been invaded by
stickies. They got into the nursery where a dozen babies were
sleeping. When the guard checked again, he found them butchered.
The guard was driven insane by what he saw. (Pg. 99-100).
Jimmy McCluskey, a
top gunner on war wag two contracted a disease known as 'trips'.
Knowing he had only a short time to live, and that his passing
would be bad, he opted to go outside during a rain storm. He
tilted his head to face the sky and opened his mouth. He
drowned.(Pg. 159).
Once, years
before, Ryan and trader had encountered a group of bounty hunters
who had seen a group of Fladgies in the brazo's. All they found
were the mutilated corpses. (Pg. 193-194).
After stopping in
a ville called leadville near the ruins of Denver, Colorado, many
members of the war wag crews suffered from headaches, nose
bleeds, and sickness all caused from the altitude. (Pg. 8-9).
A tale gunner from
War wag one, known only as DeeTee overdosed on some bad jolt. The
tall, bearded and skinny man rolled around on his back, screaming
as if his soul was being dragged to hell. Luckily for him, he
recovered. He couldn't tell if he was mad, going mad, or dead
while under the influence. (Pg. 38).
J.B. new of a
baron near the ville of Waycross who had a sec force of gaudy
sluts. The baron enjoyed watching the women torture their
victims. (Pg. 248).
One of the worst
places Ryan had ever encountered was a flop house in the glades
that flooded everytime the tide turned. (Pg. 158).
A mechanic from
war wag one while they were up near the great lakes had suffered
from a virulent bout of dysentery. He refused to use the
facilities in the wag and headed out into a blizzard. When they
were able to go out after him thirty six hours later, they
discovered his frozen corpse, only fifty yards away from the war
wag. (Pg. 11).
Twenty years
before Ryan had visited a frontier gaudy which had electrical
power. Here he had watched a predark video about a huge great
white shark. (Pg. 117-118).
Hunaker had once
gone after Loz, the cook, after a particularly nasty argument
about near death experiences. It was all over whether your whole
life can flash before your eyes. Trader had to lay her out using
his armalite. (Pg. 139).
Trader one time
found a case of Coke in the basement of a isolated house near the
ville of Crested butte. The crew of the war wags had shared it,
with mixed feelings towards it. (Pg. 150).
On the edge of
Canon city Colorado, Ryan had encountered a high price gaudy that
specialised in S and M. (Pg. 171).
Just after joining
with Trader, Ryan and the rest had been hired by a Navaho to go
and scour out a group of renegade drug dealers who had set up
shop in the ruins located at the bottom of Canyon De Chelly. It
had been an easy kill for Traders men. (Pg. 163-164).
Abe encountered a
huge fat woman who asked him if she was on the fat side. He said
that she was and got the piss beat out of him for being honest.
(Pg. 213).
A fat kid, named
Ray, one of the cook assistants had a problem with lice in his
blanket. Remembering a trick taught to them, he placed the
blanket on a red ant hill and allowed the ants to clean it off.
Except when he was done he made the mistake of not shaking it
out. Got bit quite bad. (Pg. 214).
One of the
funniest things that Trader ever saw was a breed whore master
near Nogales who slammed his cock in a drawer and cut it off.
(Pg. 215).
Ryan had been in a
ville in the Bayous where a coup had taken place, but was
unsuccessful. The baron set out eight glasses and the idea was
that the coup leader and his son would drink one at a time until
one drank the poison. The survivor would be allowed to go free.
The father made a mad rush and downed all eight to try and save
his son. In the end, as he lays dying, he watches the baron
execute his son. (Pg. 248-249).
A group of
Stickies captured a shipment of alcohol ten years ago in the
Apps, near Odessa way. They not only drank it but spit it into
the fire, causing explosions. After Cohn was injured, Trader sent
in a search and destroy team. Most were killed outright, but the
survivors were doused in the potent moonshine and set on fire.
Several of the muties literally exploded! (Pg.47-49).
J.B. learned a
trick to starting fires from a man who lived in Oregon. Was paid
by a local baron to spot the fires. The more he spotted and
helped put out, the more jack he got paid. (Pg. 63).
Ten years ago
Trader found a warehouse near Taos in which he found hundreds of
the tiny rad counters that the group carry attached to the lapels
of their jackets. (Pg. 93).
Trader did a good
deal in knives in the ville of Rome Georgia once. (Pg. 176).
Abe and Trader
talk about the gaudy shows they saw in Leadville, the various
shows between multiple partners, women and animals. and so forth.
(Pg. 235-236).
Someone on War Wag
Two fell through the ice during an ill planned fishing
expedition. It took six minutes for the crew to fish him out.
They were able to revive him partially, but after twelve hours it
was obvious he would never recover from his coma, and the next
day Trader killed him. Only thing for him to do. (Pg. 258).
Trader was quite
worried about rabies during one time when they had been camped
near huge caves in New Mexico. Abe had went out one night and
found himself in the middle of a bat storm. He ended up falling
through a basement and found a store of liquor. When the others
were finally able to get to him he was pissed out of his tree.
(Pg. 26).
A fat engineer on
War Wag two named Lek went crazy one day during a powerful storm.
Ryan had always suspected that he was a jolt user but was never
caught. He might have been suffering from claustrophobia and
ended up going outside in the storm. Instead of trying to protect
himself, he ended falling flat on his back. The rain is so
powerful that it ends up drowning the man, but not before his
heart stops. (Pg. 196-200).
Fifteen years ago
Ryan and Trader had found themselves caught between two separate
groups of Stickies in the Cascades. Trader had picked apart a
Deathlands daisy showing that he was totally un-worried and ready
to fight. The Stickies never stood a chance. (Pg. 235-236).
Several years ago
a couple of kids enlisted on as gophers for War Wag two. One was
part Indian, the other black. While camped by a lake, they both
out skipped Trader in a skimming stone contest. Jud was killed
later by a mutie gaudy, the other disappeared. (Pg. 286).
There was a baron
in a ville near the Washington Hole. His nose had been eaten away
by rad cancer. He got drunk and bad mouthed Trader and the war
wags, saying how he thinks Trader is a coward and would say it to
his face. He didn't realise that Trader was still near by. Ended
up getting a mouth full of busted teeth from Traders Armalite.
(Pg. 32).
A member of the
crew, a man named Simon Lam had an interest in Indians. Said that
he had visited the Chaco canyon when he was a young man. (Pg.
68).
Ryan had heard
about a man on a wagon train west that had to take a leak, and
was bitten on the end of his dick by a rattle snake. No one would
suck out the poison. (Pg. 73).
Trader lost his
temper with a teenager in Kansas who barely kept an animal alive.
Trader took pity on the barely living bear and put it out of it's
misery. He then had the boy stripped naked, and had the collar
welded on the boys neck. The using a cattle prod, he forced the
boy to dance and caper until he finally fell unconscious.
(Pg.121).
A tall silent man
named Jerzy Wajda, a map reader with a prostate problem had
opened a window to relieve himself when a Stickie grabbed his
balls and tore the entire thing away from his body. He died
quickly. (Pg. 207-208).
Up in Ohio they
once found a really long suicide letter, one that filled three
notebooks. By the end of the letter, the writer convinced himself
not to commit suicide after all! (Pg. 66).
A young woman from
War Wag two got lost in the desert and when they found her, she
was severely dehydrated. It was near nightfall and they were
sponging her body down with water and allowing her only small
sips, despite her demands for more. During the night they woke up
to find her dying. She drank too much cold water, too quickly,
and it put her body into shock. She convulsed until her heart
failed. (Pg. 214-215).
A mutant know as
three eyed charlie near the mississippi was the best shot that
Trader ever knew. Until he met Mildred that is. (Pg.129).
Things that Trader
and the others have seen in the Deathlands. Onxy woman in Huston,
Giant mutant rats in Allegheny, purple creeper in Tuscaloosa, and
gold eagles up near the Canadian border. (Pg. 138).
The war wags came
across a frontier ville in either the Darks or in the Idaho
panhandle. For years the inhabitants had been at odds over
religion. When the convoy arrived, they discovered that the
hatred had finally come to a head and the inhabitants killed each
other in a final brawl.
Ryan and J.B. had
a run in with a group of inbred sicko's up in the smokies. They
brewed potent liquor and were experts with throwing axes. (Pg.
286).
While walking
through woods in old Texas they came across an old mill with a
family of mutants that didn't have any body hair. Things get bad
and there is a fire fight. The entire group are wiped out. (Pg.
286).
J.B. mentions a
story, but is unable to complete it, regarding a limping man, a
missing brindled dog, and a triple fat woman. (Pg. 287).
J.B. and Ryan
remember a time when they were captured by a baron in the
Carolina's. The baron kept them in a cage that was in the water,
and at high tide, forced to fight to keep their heads above
water, and at the same time fight off rats and blind eels. When
Trader rescued them, he placed a metal bowl over a rat on the
baron's belly, then lit a fire on top so the rat would have to
chew its way out to escape. (Pg. 33-35).
Once while
travelling through northern Minnesota, Trader's convoy
encountered a pack of over two hundred wolves!
Years before while
travelling along the Idaho Panhandle, the convoy was forced to
stop when a huge swarm of locusts landed. When the swarm finally
passed, the area that they were in was stripped totally barren of
all plant life. (Pg. 262-263).
Up near the great
lakes many years before Ryan had found a stash of children's
books. One beautifully illustrated book was about Robin Hood and
his merry men. The story proved to be of great amusement to the
crew of the war wags. (Pg. 141).
In the ville of
Jackson, in the backwoods of Missouri, Ryan had witnessed a
sacrificial ritual where the population of the ville drew from a
bag full of stones, one by one. Anyone who drew the black stone
was then stoned to death as a sacrifice to ensure good crops.
(Pg. 317).
A pair of gunners
from war wag two deserted to go work as sec men on a river boat
named Delta Princess. Trader spent days following the boat until
it docked at the ville of Cairo where they took back the men and
had them flogged for desertion. They then abandoned the men. (Pg.
75).
A man named
Handsome Wyatt had ridden with Trader for a long time before Ryan
and JB had joined the convoy. Shortly afterwards he had been
caught siphoning gasoline from the wags to sell at his own
profit. Trader cut off one of his thumbs and kicked him out of
the convoy. (Pg 210).
Created on 07/14/97
Updated on 08/03/98