How not to get rid of pesky neighbors

The Ankylosaurus were busily chomping away at the encampment walls while Lexington and Kage frantically raced around trying to figure out what to do. Butch went hunting for flammable material, hoping that he could deter the creatures by setting their shells on fire while Florida Man tried every kind of thing he could to wedge their heads in place with their own shells. Being enormously strong and damage resistant creatures, niter individual made much headway in their efforts to deter them from a really nice and easy food source.

Eventually Ray showed up and decided to use some of the trees composing the palisade to lure two of the monsters away from the rest of the wall. Seeing this, FM was emboldened and used the power of his mind to plant the suggestion in one of the beast's mind that the Lankton's knot patch to the north east was a wonderful place to relieve itself. Meanwhile, Butch stopped stomping around the top of the creature he was assailing and instead made an effort to befriend it which met with great success.

After a good bit of time, the two creatures Ray had been luring toward 'the mean faeries' home, arrived and Ray proceeded to toss a pair of slightly chewed stumps into the patch. The two Ankylosaurus, having brains only slightly less developed than the average house fly, chased the food directly into the hazardous patch of sticky acidic plants.

One of the lumbering monsters decided that the plants that were sticking to it and burning its flesh were too much hassle to continue pursuing the easy food and veered out, the other however was not so lucky. Its soft unprotected underside completely covered in sticky acidic plants, the other collapsed a few feet from the food that Ray had thrown into the patch. This greatly perturbed Ray causing him to go full monster and in dragon form he let loose a torrent of flaming breath.

Sadly only after the Block Buster atomic bomb in the center of the Lankton's Knot patch, which Ray had previously thrown in as a retaliatory action for being tricked by the faeries, had detonated, did everyone realize what a bad idea setting fire to the plants was. The resultant explosion killed all the Ankylosaurs around the patch as well as the faeries and just about anything else that was near the center of the blast. Ray was thrown three quarters of the way back to the settlement and the resultant crater was filled in with water from the neighboring pond revealing a pile of trees that had obviously been trampled into the shallows by the Ankylosaurs.

Kage rushed to Ray to make sure he was alright and Florida Man sat on Ray's belly gently trying to comfort the dazed dragon. After some confused explanations about a 'mean home' and a 'big bomb' Kage understood what happened and everyone went to go investigate the new crater. Here they discovered that the pile of trees had trapped socket under the waters of the pond in a kind of igloo that he had built to sleep in. They freed him and he immediately began the process of cleaning up the radioactive fallout that the bomb had deposited in the charred remains of the surrounding forest. Butch showed up riding Carol the Ankylosaurs and they headed back to the camp to see what had happened there.

With Lexington assessing the damage, Kage decided that it would be in their best interest to focus on finishing the settlement building and expressed regrets that the rubble to the north was one of the only close good sources of building material other than the area to the south. They decided that they would go check out the southern rubble again and found that only two of the bone crested dinosaurs from before were there. Everything seemed to be going OK as the group approached riding the back of Sheryl the Ankylosaurs but then the one of the bone crested dinosaurs noticed them and got very aggressive towards the Ankylosaurs.

Lowering its head for a charge, Butch underestimated the neck and beak strength of Carol the Ankylosaurus and after the first charged smashed off the shoulder armor of the creature, the second charge from the bone crested dinosaur slammed directly into Sheryl's face causing the massive creature to go limp. It took a moment for everyone to realize that their 'tank' had just died but the Stress was too much for Florida Man who went into a berserk rage and leaped from the back of the dead creatures shell landing with his vibroblade cleaving the bone crested beast in two. Beside himself, Flrida man proceeded to strip naked and attack everything, including inanimate objects for the next hour while Ray, borrowing Butch's survival pack, dressed the dead dinosaurs and headed back to the encampment to begin smoking the meat for reasons he did not explain.

When everyone finally got back to the camp, they found Lexington attempting to have a conversation with a group of barbarians. Kage stepped in and they learned that the group was from a settlement just a bit to the south west that apparently called themselves the 'Seega'. They came to investigate the explosion and found the settlement. The group of barbarians took the opportunity to shamelessly promote their dinosaur arena called 'Primal Rage'. The leader, who was later identified as Elroy, produced an encased flyer for the arena stating that his ancestors in the golden age had created a similar arena and this was their tribes destiny.

Lanaroy, a woman barbarian had taken a liking to the nude Florida Man and after someone mentioned the Kopar barbarians, the Seega got a bit cold and decided they had to head home. As soon as they were gone, a group of Kopar barbarians showed up and began to chat with the employees of 'Dinotours Excursions LLC' before they noticed all the golden age stuff lying around and made some hasty excuses to leave. Kage later explained that the Seega and the Kopar don't get along and that the Kopar believe that golden age anything is cursed and thus shun it.

Shortly thereafter a man named Malcolm showed up on a hover cycle and began talking to Kage. Apparently he was not supposed to arrive for a few more days but he had finished his business early and decided to stop by. Also he was worried about Kage because he had learned that Kage borrowed money from some seriously unsavory individuals to make his hasty flight to the swamp. Being pressed by the rest of the group for information about what Malcolm said, Kage explained that he borrwed a heafty sum of 200k credits from a crime syndicate but was not super forthcoming about which one. Malcolm mentioned it was one though that would not act with mercs but had sway with the Coalition and Dog Men accompanied by power armored troops would be who came to collect. Ray asked if the Golden age weapon smiths would be interested in purchasing two golden age Block Buster bombs and Malcolm mentioned he would look into it before heading off with haste.

It was at this point that Lexington explained that with the water in the nearby pond now irradiated past drink-ability and the tents demolished, they were going to run out of water in short order. Kage suggested that while he stayed to help Lexington work on a water tower/cistern, the others head to 'The Underground', which was the center of the Kopar civilization.

So the following morning Butch, Florida Man and Ray headed out to the east to find the Underground. After about half a says travel they found the settlement and headed inside with a skull that Kage had them harvest from one of the Bone headed monsters. Butch got all kinds of bad looks because he was carrying an obvious and large piece of golden age technology but the other two seemed to blend right in. Ray was still wearing the tattered remnants of his Dinotours jumpsuit and Florida Man had created an ensemble that he thought looked after the fashion of the local barbarians but really just looked like a bad costume from some movie about prehistoric times.

They eventually were able to trade the skull for two large water bladders and some coinage. They filled the bladders and after Ray made sure that he would be able to sell his 'hooch' here, they headed back to the settlement.

The following day, Lexington had seemed to finish his cistern and it began to rain in earnest. Kage was anxious to get the primary building in the settlement constructed and so asked the team to double up their efforts to find usable material to build with. With that, Butch, FM and Ray headed east to see what they could find because the day before on the way to the Underground, they had spotted all kinds of larger rubble structures in the forest. Socket stayed behind with Lexington attempting to get one of the anti-grav sleds working enough to allow them to use it to transfer anything that the others found back to the settlement, as well as create a technowizard concrete saw that could be used to harvest the material.

Ray, Butch and Florida Man meanwhile reached the building and began to investigate. The interior was remarkably well preserved and there were all kinds of Mega Damage relics to harvest here, but there was also a kind of pleasant sweet blood smell on the air. the whole site was surrounded with strange plants emitting the smell and a couple interior walls had been blown in allowing dirt to accumulate to the point where a lot of these plants were growing throughout the building. Every one began to feel a bit tired and dizzy and so they took a step outside to get some air.

They observed a hatchling Tiger Raptor walk up to one of the plants and then pass out as it breathed in the plants secretions. Ray quickly rescued it and then made sure that it made it back to its pack. Florida Man lost his patients and after tying a rag around his nose and mouth, proceeded to attempt to butcher the plants. A few seconds into his assault, he went down in a cloud of secretions. Butch realizing that the plants were trying to puncture their shoes, jumped into action with Ray and they dragged Florida Man out. Ray gathered some samples to fool with and Butch grabbed a really nice Mega Damage Naugahyde chair to bring back with them.

Back at the settlement Ray put his still in working order and experimented with the plants he gathered while the others prepared to go gather the material for the building. Ray brewed up a batch of stuff that tasted awful with the plants he gathered but the aromatics of it laid Florida Man out for a few more minutes. Realizing that he might have something good, Ray headed to the Underground and met with a steel tree worker as well as an herbalist. He made a trade agreement with the Kopar around steel tree saplings and learned some useful recipes for herbal brews that would sell well. The herbalist was able to identify the plant excretion as Seep Fern and knowing it was valuable, Ray headed back to the place where they knew it was growing in a large patch.

Meanwhile the others had arrived at the site and cleared the plants before starting to dismantle the golden age behemoth. Ray collected more plant samples and headed off to sell them before returning to camp smartly dressed in local leathers. By the end of a couple of days, they had the building moved completely finished the construction of their new base of operations. Ray and Butch spent some time building a nice themed wall on the front of the encampment with wood and Ankylosaurs shells and they all settled in to begin their business.