Girderbow - community fiction

[Biggle_Bear]

Hi, I want to propose a community project. To write a lore for a settlement in the underhive.

To guide the process I am asking people to contribute stories and suggest events that happen in and around the settlement. But to title each event/story with a time and location. Events and stories should build upon each other and no one should consider a location or character to be theirs.

the settlement is called Girderbow, and was settled 100 years ago in the underhive. I want to leave everything else to other members.

An example of play might be...

Yaktribe member X says

Year: 23 (of Girderbow)
Location: Ed's bar
Event: a famous bounty hunter called Hans Dreadlocks captures the villainous scummer "Nail Gun" Murdock, after a shootout in Ed's bar.

Yaktribe member Y says

In the year 27 in the Love Guy's hotel...

Ed and his buddies storm into a hotel room and shoot the sleeping occupant to pieces. The victim is Hans Dreadlock and the motive is believed to be revenge for breaking the sanctuary Ed believed he was entitled to offer to those in his bar.

 

[Biggle_Bear]

Spoiler: Year Zero

Rumors spread (allegedly by way of House Delaque) of a newly unearthed dome. They say it's in surprisingly good shape but there are tales of an ancient sump-beast that drove off all the original settlers.

Spoiler: Year: 1

[redacted]

Spoiler: Year: 2

Location: Girderbow shanty town

Edak and Myra looked around at the small cluster of shacks. Someone had painted a piece of mildewed flakboard in red paint to read "Welcome to Girderbow". It didn't look very welcoming, but after their hab a couple of domes over had been bulldozed to make room for a new manufactorum store, it was as good a place as any to start anew. Their teenage son Ed came running back from what appeared to be what passed as the town centre office, and excitedly told them they could set up anywhere not already spray marked with a claim on the ground. Poor kid seemed excited by the prospect, as yet unburdened with responsibility like his parents.

Spoiler: Year 8

Location: Ruins just outside of Shanty town
Drekk Kreigheilm and his buisness partner,Stacy, establish Love Guys Hotel in an derelict hab block.

Spoiler: Year: 13

Location: Gerlochs Pit
Event:
The pit fights were always a sight to behold when Gerloch put on a show. Blood and wildsnake flowed in equal measure and all too often vioence erupted in the stands, Drekk Kreigheilm was owed creds, he was owed BIG and either by guile or by the bottle of wildsnake in his fist, he would get what was owed from Gerloch

Spoiler: Year 23

On an unusually quiet night, a massive explosion wakes the entire settlement when a Guilder warehouse detonated near the outer wall. Much of the quarter is flattened with casualties in the hundreds. The Guilder who owned the warehouse is assumed to have died in the explosion. Only part of their Guilder Creat was found in the wreckage.

Spoiler: Year: 23

Location: Ed's bar
Event: a famous bounty hunter called Hans Dreadlocks captures the villainous scummer "Nail Gun" Murdock, after a shootout in Ed's bar.

Spoiler: year 27

in the Love Guy's hotel...
Ed and his buddies storm into a hotel room and shoot the sleeping occupant to pieces. The victim is Hans Dreadlock and the motive is believed to be revenge for breaking the sanctuary Ed believed he was entitled to offer to those in his bar.

Spoiler: Year: 69

(7th cycle)
Eddy takes over running Ed’s Bar after Edd (son of Ed) is found murdered out by the cross tunnels leading deeper into the hive. The bar struggles to survive until a wandering trader arrives with a crate of a strange new liqueur. Ed’s Bar becomes the only known place to get a Punktakii Sump Lager Tallboy within a week’s journey. No one is quite sure how the bar gets it’s supply, despite many attempts by local gangs to hijack shipments for Ed’s.

Spoiler: Year: 72

Location: Yaktaki Fungi Roll restaurant

A goliath juve nervously walks into the restaurant. Many pairs of unblinking Delaque eyes turned to follow him from where they were sat at the tables.

"A yellow bellied goli'? Ha!" was heard from an unknown patron. The youth squared his shoulders at the offense but thought twice of challenging it.

The barman asked "How can I serve you?" neglecting the usual "sir" from the end.

"Portion of protein starch 5 rolls and... a hit of ... Trollblu."

In unison the patrons smirked. Soon they'll get the townsfolk hooked. Not even Eddy would be able to compete.

Spoiler: Year: 73

Unknown tunnel beneath Girderbow

Villainous scummer ‘Nail gun’ Murdoch escapes guilder custody for the second time. He is attacked by millisaurs and fights for his life. He fails, his flesh consumed by his assailants.

 

[drdrybrush]

Year: 13
Location: Gerlochs Pit
Event:
The pit fights were always a sight to behold when Gerloch put on a show. Blood and wildsnake flowed in equal measure and all too often vioence erupted in the stands, Drekk Kreigheilm was owed creds, he was owed BIG and either by guile or by the bottle of wildsnake in his fist, he would get what was owed from Gerloch

 

[Punktaku]

Year: 69 (7th cycle)

Eddy takes over running Ed’s Bar after Edd (son of Ed) is found murdered out by the cross tunnels leading deeper into the hive. The bar struggles to survive until a wandering trader arrives with a crate of a strange new liqueur. Ed’s Bar becomes the only known place to get a Punktakii Sump Lager Tallboy within a week’s journey. No one is quite sure how the bar gets it’s supply, despite many attempts by local gangs to hijack shipments for Ed’s.

 

[Stoof]

Year: 2
Location: Girderbow shanty town

Edak and Myra looked around at the small cluster of shacks. Someone had painted a piece of mildewed flakboard in red paint to read "Welcome to Girderbow". It didn't look very welcoming, but after their hab a couple of domes over had been bulldozed to make room for a new manufactorum store, it was as good a place as any to start anew. Their teenage son Ed came running back from what appeared to be what passed as the town centre office, and excitedly told them they could set up anywhere not already spray marked with a claim on the ground. Poor kid seemed excited by the prospect, as yet unburdened with responsibility like his parents.

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Year: 73
Unknown tunnel beneath Girderbow

Villainous scummer ‘Nail gun’ Murdoch escapes guilder custody for the second time. He is attacked by millisaurs and fights for his life. He fails, his flesh consumed by his assailants.

 

[cainex1]

Year Zero
Rumors spread (allegedly by way of House Delaque) of a newly unearthed dome. They say it's in surprisingly good shape but there are tales of an ancient sump-beast that drove off all the original settlers.
Year: 1
[redacted]

 

[Biggle_Bear]

Year: 72
Location: Yaktaki Fungi Roll restaurant

A goliath juve nervously walks into the restaurant. Many pairs of unblinking Delaque eyes turned to follow him from where they were sat at the tables.

"A yellow bellied goli'? Ha!" was heard from an unknown patron. The youth squared his shoulders at the offense but thought twice of challenging it.

The barman asked "How can I serve you?" neglecting the usual "sir" from the end.

"Portion of protein starch 5 rolls and... a hit of ... Trollblu."

In unison the patrons smirked. Soon they'll get the townsfolk hooked. Not even Eddy would be able to compete.

 

[CaptainDangerous]

Year:8

Location: Ruins just outside of Shanty town

Drekk Kreigheilm and his buisness partner,Stacy, establish Love Guys Hotel in an derelict hab block.

 

[Punktaku]

Year 23

On an unusually quiet night, a massive explosion wakes the entire settlement when a Guilder warehouse detonated near the outer wall. Much of the quarter is flattened with casualties in the hundreds. The Guilder who owned the warehouse is assumed to have died in the explosion. Only part of their Guilder Crest was found in the wreckage.

 

[Biggle_Bear]

Year 11, a fighter entrance at Gerloch's pit

Gerloch put the cigar back in his mouth and prodded the pit fighter in the chest.

"Remember, I took a hugh credit out to buy you. I expect a big show." He looked the scrawny thing up and down and wondered why it was so highly recommended. It nodded in acknowledgment.

A moment later the light flashed to green. Eyes fixed ahead. Lips sewn together. It swaggered into the arena, raised it's whirring buzzsaw in the air and from it's chest implant let out a thunderous warning signal -

HOOOONNNNK!!!

 

[Biggle_Bear]

I decided that I will test out my 10mm terrain, whilst pushing this project, whilst illustrating what I meant for my map campaign project.

Here is a rough WIP map of Girderbow for a map based Necromunda campaign.

Map of Girderbow

• Biggle_Bear
• Oct 1, 2023

I tried to include references to all the stuff spoken about in the Girderbow project. But if I missed anything or any new things that would be cool to include in the map, let me know please. In particular spaces 41 and 71 (I am looking for something that gives a tactical benefit as a base to assault Troll Towers and the Tunnel Control).