Mini-Campaign: Da Big Race

The final event of the Mini-Campaign, as usual, was Da Big Race.  Unfortunately for Marvolork, the Meks were still trying to stick the engine back inside the Skwagmobile after it's encounter with Grizwoad's big grabba, so the Dook of Skwag was forced to run two bikes as his entries - a first for da Big Race.  The two Gorker nobs ran their usual trukk and bike combo, while I tried my luck with my two trakks.  I also managed to scrape together enough teef to install shoutas in the back of my big trakk.  Because shoutas are awesome.

As soon as the race began, the bikes took an early lead over the other vehicles.  Although there was a bit of the usual chaos, the fact that the racers didn't have to swerve around the smoking wreckage of Marvolork's trakk on the way to the first curve meant that the start of the race went uncharacteristically smoothly.

Despite the lack of the usual catastrophic crashes, however, the bigger vehicles seemed to be unable to keep up with the Marvolork and Urzig's speedy bikers.

What no one realized is that while they were all having the Meks make their bikes fasta, I was the making my trakk fasta.  The Meks only squeezed another two inches of movement into my thrustas, but it was enough for Gabby to catch up to Marvolork's biker and start tailing him.

Just as Gabby finally got a spot of luck, the bikers' luck seemed to run out.  A series of thrusta malfunctions and spin outs befell the lead racers, sending nearly all of them careening into the corner of the racetrack.  As we headed into the straightaway, a single biker lead the pack with Gabby on his tail.

Since most of the excitement usually happened on the first half of the racetrack, we decided we needed to spice up the final turn a bit.  We did that by placing a few gun emplacements with 'eavy shootas on the cliffs overlooking the last half of the track.  Fortunately for Marvolork's lone biker, the shootas weren't able to hit him.

As Marvolork's biker began to pull out in front, the rest of the pack started to catch up to Gabby.

This time around, we had not one, but two large bombs near the finish line.  Fortunately for the biker, he was able to avoid the blast as the first one went off and carefully make his way between the crater and the nearby sand dune as Toast fired wildly in his direction with his shoota.  Sadly, Gabby wasn't able to get close enough for Toast to use his beloved skorcha.

And so Marvolork's biker won the race, scoring the first race victory for Da Dook's Blastas.

Gabby and Toast took home second place for Grizwoad and his Chop Squad, despite Urzig's attempts to stop them.

Finally, Spike and Grizwoad managed to take third, but not before plucking Chad's gunner right out of his trukk using their trusty big grabba.

And thus ended our epic, full-day campaign.  The plan was for it to be a one-off, but now that Marvolork has scored his first big race win, it looks like we might continue this campaign so Marvolork can use his prize - a rare set of Mega Armor.  That also means we might be starting off the next session with a rescue mission so that Chad can get his gunner back (or at least try).  That also means I need to start building a fort so we can have a proper rescue scenario.  Lots to do.

Now it's time to get back to painting grots...