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Tuesday, 3 August 2021

Rampant Cock Gangs of the Wasteland & Fast Food Wars



























Chicken madness continues on my game behind scenes as a party discussing an expedition to Mildura overrun with various fast food cults trying to control this hub to spread their one-tru fast food restaurant. Players may lead an expedition here and spread their chicken cult to this holy city. A bit inspired by the Umerica setting modules about fast food and wanting to do some river travel. The river can be followed towards Adelaide to southwest or to Victoria or NSW. I need car rules soon.

Note: I added more eateries

d12 Chicken Folk Clans
These are either the major chicken clans
1 Caponite Clan - minions of the Chicken Attack restaurants in the service of CAPON the AI god of factory cloned poultry production. They defend the god's property and cultists, mostly white "cornish" type. Other chicken clans disrespect these slave chickens and try to convert them
2 Coop Cluck Clan - chicken supremacists hate and hunt humanity, seeking revenge for human crimes against chickens. Have started to include other bird folks including the rising turkey star Jo Gobbles responsible for anti-human propaganda. Chickens of this cult come in many patterns, colours and are mostly piebald and multicoloured
3 Leghorn Clan - landgrabbers, chase humans or others off good land to steal property and buildings. Aggressive colonisers, "Sussex" Type with black patterns around neck
4 Redneck Clan - Mottled black and white with featherless red necks, these are notorious bandits taking food, weapons and usable goods, with little interest in trade. As they don't kill too many, traders are willing to negotiate or surrender to them unlike other threats 
5 Hellroosters - violent motorcycle gang of hooligans, flashy and loud but cowards, red feathers with metallic green and blue around necks and tails
6 Terrorbird Clan - these have entered the bushland and developed a feral tribal survivor lifestyle, notorious for torturing captured enemies and cunning at bushcraft with simple weapons and poison. They have golden feathers with orange and green tails and necks 
7 Bloodbeak Clan - these replaced members of a raider gang and have several cars and a bus they use to keep mobile. Often set up highway tollbooth and sometimes harass weak seeming travellers just for kicks. Black feathers and combs and skin 
8 SIlky Clan - a gang of glamorous chickens with matching name jackets, gold chains and fancy shoes. Notorious for knife fighting and robbing ruin prospectors. Various colours but feathers more fluffy and silky. Often raise other chicken clan youths as notoriously good parents
9 Henpecker Clan - an all hen gang of chickens, like vehicles, guns and murdering travellers for kicks. Vets have name jackets and carry chains and knives and have a variety of coloured plumage. Each chapter has its own punk rock name and likes to make roosters compete for their attention with dangerous contests
10 Cockamok Clan - violent angry young rooster Batchellor gang that go on rampages of property destruction and bullying the week. Like to relax near roads and ask what passers-by are looking at. Brown and grey plumage   
11 Hotspur Clan - satanic chicken cult who capture victims to sacrifice and eat. Worship a variety of chicken demons and their dark satanic lord who freed them to persecute humanity, black with red tails and necks. Many secret brethren are mutants 
12 Red Rattlers - these chickens are adapting to sedentary farming life and live near humans and other farming folks fine. Mostly don't like violent sorts and will quickly form a lynch mob to out unwelcome troublesome types. All red feathers with brilliant scarlet and orange necks and tails. Their quaint villages and handicrafts are much admired. They shun those who eat chickens, however. A few have been working on a small section of railway lines to move goods

d12 Common Street Food Vendors
cheap common snacks sold on streets
1 Fried Rice with extra stuff from a wok in a cart served on leaf
2 Meat on a stick including sausage, squid, spicy mince or rat
3 Gruel from a cauldron from a paper cup, cheap and minimally nutritious or flavoursome, some gruel is really good
3 Beans and sausages in a cup
4 Mash & Gravy possibly with sausages on a piece of cardboard
5 Bowl of gruel from a pot in a cup with seasonal variation and diareah 
6 Pies heated from warmer on a cart can be made with any local ingredients and some are decent
7 Pizza slices of flat oily bread with cheese and stuff cooked on top optimistically called pizza, get cheaper as they age, some up to a week old on a piece of paper
8 BBQ huge locusts on skewer sometimes called landprawns, various flavours and sauces and styles 
9 Farm produce such as fruit, nuts, boiled eggs and vegetables sold in grocers, markets or roadside stalls
10 Rat on bun, cooked on a stick on the fire, gutloaded with nutrient
11 Sly grog shop sells beer sold in a cup chained to counter or by the bottle, often from a tent or pretending not to be a shop to prevent paying tax or licence fees. Often sell nuts, salty dry fish, chilli-kibble, dried meat or fried potato skins as salty spicy snacks to get people drinking 
12 Icecream Van - sells icecream (or cream substitute), frozen yoghurt, alcoholic popsicles, gelato and other icy deserts. Sold especially in summer or near beaches, popular with children but even gangs leave them alone. Some stain your tongue strange colours or give you brain freeze especially if they use liquid nitrogen to make it. Strange colourful toppings available

d12 Generic Outback Eateries
These are either popular cliches 
1 Local Bakery - most decent towns have one with bread, pies, pasties, sausage rolls, buns and tarts. Some have a famous speciality item and are named after the community. Most do cut rolls and sandwiches also and salad boxes with a roll and some cheese and fruit. Famous treats include lamingtons, frog cakes, pavlovas, macaroons, anzac biscuits and cornflake cookies
2 Local Chippie - deep-fried potatoes thick-cut potato chips, possibly fish and any other locally available things battered and fried. Pineapple rings, dim sims, spring rolls and burgers might happen. Some serve chips and gravy but in Canberra, they have many types of exiting combos such as chips and chilli. Fancy "Milkbars" will have a game console and a jukebox, icecream and milkshakes, especially in dairy country. Coast and river towns they are very common. Most often sign says Fish & Chips or some haughty ones call themselves cafes
3 Pie Cart - cart selling pies open all night. Many kinds of pies for all budgets, tea, cake and pie dishes. On the South Australian side, they serve a pie in a bowl of pea soup, on the Victorian side you get peas or mash are on top of the pie with sauce. Both are horrified by the other heretical pie cuisine. South Australia is a bit Pastie mad and might have 3-5 types
4 Local Chinese - since colonial gold rush a feature of even small rural towns. Many have had to improvise a bit for ingredients replacing once imported ingredients with vegemite, rabbit and paddymelons. Kangaroo & Yabby spring rolls are popular. Tend to have names alluding to the legendary land of China and/or dragons
5 Roadhouse DIner - a tea, cake and sandwich stop for travellers with bathrooms and cooked dinners and breakfast. Often found in the smallest villages or crossings with outdoor seating and tables and often some caged animals to look at with some terrible folk art murals. Near water fish will be featured with burgers, schnitzels, chips, hotdogs common on the menu and lots of overpriced handy things for travelling are for sale. Some sell fuel or have a garage or stable and well
6 Sausage Sizzle - many towns and vendors set up such stalls selling cheap sausages (or snags) on bread with sauce and a beer, often to raise money for a cause. On election day a lack of such stalls causes rioting
7 Mystery Meat Man/Woman - selling assorted bush meat on a stick often including mutants and giant insects and all sorts of mysterious cheap protein on a stick cooked on a open fire on a spit or a metal plate over a fire or from a bbq on a cart. Flies follow them wherever they go and occasionally some operators are cannibals (far more common than others listed here)
8 Local Pub - all real towns have a pub or the local hotel with front bar counter meals or the more formal dining room. Some might have a more exotic theme restaurant. Some have pokies or gambling or prostitutes or live bands. Accommodation for traders and a few local live ins is available 
9 Sports Club Bar - affiliated with tennis, cricket or footy or lawn bowls club, serving counter meals. Often full of cases with sport memorabilia. Usually, each club has own but they might merge in a small town or operate opposite seasons. Each has an oval or courts or green, with outdoor seating. Often used for 
10 Tribal BBQ - local hunters put on a huge bush oven feast of tubers, lizards, rabbits and kangaroos. Often will put on such feasts by area with camping traders or workers
11 Cookies Camp - local cook often travelling with seasonal farm labour feeding shearers, loggers, miners, trifrond herders or other rural workers. These feasts are huge meals, three times a day for hard workers. Mostly from BBQs and fires, often with shelter of trees, a shed or tent
12 Feral Love Bus - roaming vegetarians often make money cooking for nomadic farmworkers and holding raves by night and selling drugs. Use vehicles as travelling homes and kitchens with awesome banging sound systems. Often frowned on by small town folk and seen as druggy cultists who lure youth away to join them. They do very well and many retire after a few years in some isolated wilderness commune

d12 Legitimate Franchises
1 Burgerclown - crazed violent cult who dress as clowns and are dedicated to gathering meat for the burgers that all chosen must enjoy
2 Bush Kebab - shredded meat cooked on a spit with spice and garlic with various salads and sauces on flatbread. Also called Yiros, Gyros, Yaros, Yeeros or other names depending on the border side you are on. Quality and honesty of advertised ingredients vary from amazingly delicious to may cause mutations or botulism
3 Rowdy-Burger - an aggressive foul-mouthed puppet Rowdy, popular across Australia in ancient times developed this restaurant chain. Notoriously the chain mock authority and greet customers with casual larrikinism, swearing and shit-stirring versus traditional manners. Once customers show they are good sports they get to sit. In the ancient restaurants, an animatronic Rowdy puppet appears at your table to insult customers, more recent built ones use a puppeteer under the table. Restaurants are famous for their themed playgrounds featuring Rowdy sculptures some of which seem a bit strange
4 Sausage Kaiser - mostly sell old sausages from slime mould filled tanks on old rehydrated bread or buns, some better ones have more types of sausage (like soylent), fancy buns and a huge range of sauces. Some are battered on a stick or fried or extruded from a machine before your eyes. Often these operate from caravans or small huts, occasionally you come across one that is actually good and very german with saurkraut and good bread and sausage, but they seem to be in caravans that move all too quickly
 5 PizzaJoJo -  frequently automated stores operated often as popular for the pizza as the video game consoles and other amusements they offer. Some have a bigger arcade than the pizza shop. Robots operate them and have become open-minded in pizza toppings after the apocalypse. Scorpion, bush tomato and kangaroo pepperoni is a favourite. Some cargo cults have set up stores mimicking the real ones as best they can without robots or advanced conveyor ovens. Also, sell pasta, salad and synth-steak all printed on-site
6 Sharky's Seafood - fish, plankton, protein from the sea fresh frozen then deep fried for you. Jellyfish and squid and trilobites feature more on the menu in the current era. Fish and crustaceans are alluded to in the packaging and restaurant art. Near water and major trade routes. Some restaurants even float and are even operated by aquatic abhumans
7 Chicken Attack - real cloned force grown chicken fresh, straight from the factory to restaurant. Operated by artificial intelligence god CAPON. Restaurants mostly serve repacked self-heating chicken dinners, but cooked on site Fried or BBQ or Spicy flavours are popular. Locals improvise sides from local materials for a balanced diet. Some places who desire a Chicken Attack restaurant erect a crude one built from second-hand descriptions and serving local food in hopes a truck of frozen chicken and self-heating long life chicken dinner boxes will come to the store and help them build the crude shrine into a worthy altar of Capon. Staff are cultists or prefer the term Caponites. Chicken abhuman warriors guard the stores but some rebel roosters escaped and plot against the Caponites
8 Noodle Master - selling asian fried and noodle and soup dishes. Cheap and healthy and famous for having real rice which it tries to monopolise from rival chains. Many complain serves just slightly unsatisfying. They usually are crushed by more aggressive rival chains 
9 Samurai Sushi Train - selling sushi but don't ask too much about the substitute seaweed nori and the substitute rice and the substitute seafood. Hundreds of years has mutated this franchise into a dedicated fast-food faith where practitioners are brilliant with knives and cleavers and flamboyant fashion
10 Buggys Bites - subsidiary of the Insektek corporation insect hatcheries breeds these giant locusts and other bugs and worms in many quite edible forms. The insects are given a biochip that directs the bugs to graze (or steal crops) then fly full-grown back to the factory to process into yummy buggy bites like a ladybug bar or a cockroach crunch or worm smoothie. The cult of Insektek corp include many insectoid abhumans made by the company AI when it thought humans were doomed for future staff and customers
11 Karma Curry - various Asian curries and other dishes served with chips and beer. The patient and stoic staff often have to deal with hungry drunken scum and after a point of abuse, the staff if pushed too far produce unfamiliar martial art weapons from their clothing or use ordinary objects as deadly tools. Often operate allied farms that grow food and mostly don't proselytise and stick to their own clans. A few turn to assassination or martial arts training as a side business. Others trade all kinds of goods on the side like Karma-Kola and will even stay open all night in a busy town
12 Roborg Human Foods - a fast-food operated by robots and cyborgs who not only provide cheap tasteless nutritious paste for humans but also supply synthetic nanite paste for androids. Robots and cyborgs can get a service or power cells recharged]0. Biological customers are often separated from synthetics and cyborgs seat in the middle. Biologicals are sometimes offered the chance to become cyborgs or full brainborgs for immortality by becoming employees. The AI responsible for these modular restaurant complexes is as unknown as it's motives. Restaurants have a cyborging suite, vault of brains, a nuclear pile and the food vats

d12 Diner Size
roll or choose, some have several eateries inside
1 BBQ in the street, a table and a d4 Eski coolers with one worker
2 Tent with field stove and tables with a block of ice with d6 workers
3 Small booth with a teenager and a cooker and a small fridge
4 Caravan with one worker, has a fridge and strive and sink
5 Foodtruck or trailer cart, d4 workers with several stations
6 Takeaway with waiting area, counter and kitchen d4 workers
7 Small restaurant or cafe, counter and kitchen and various tables d6 workers and a toilet
7 Large restaurant with dine-in and collect or drive-through and outdoor rest area and several toilets
8 Pub or Inn with counter meals and a large fancy restaurant dining room for the posh, some huge ones with several different eateries
9 Several small restaurants or foodcarts sharing an open eating area with seating in a strip or courtyard
10 Cafeteria with trays and array of foods to select and mass seating for up to 100 people and several large bathrooms 
11 Buffet all you can eat feasting hall for possibly 100 people and several large bathrooms,  
12 Mall food court with 2d6 variety outlets, seating for at least 100 and several large bathrooms 

d12 Post Apocalyptic Dining Risks
roll here for meals gone wrong or a bad date
1 Parasitic worm infestation in major organ
2 Poisoning 1=mostly diarrhoea 2=mostly vomiting 3=constant diarrhoea and vomiting 4=hemorging d3 damage per hour for d6 hours 
3 Mutagenic contamination usually save or cause mild mutation
4 Plague infestation from some virulent post-apocalypse plague
5 Meat this time definitely murder and disguised as respectable meat
6 Meat in meal twitches, save or now latent undead, arises after death as zombie
7 Vermin scuttles across the plate or falls in the bowl while eating, infestation
8 Ate a mutated polyp, takes hold and grows inside your body
9 Mutant plant seed starts to germinate inside body
10 Food is almost out, only one thing on the menu available at the moment
11 Rough customers barge in and annoy current customers and staff
12 Raiders attack venue to seize food and victims and burn it down

2 comments:

  1. This is some brilliantly creative and crazy stuff.

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    1. cheers - best stuff i do is lined up for use in a game session coming

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