Var-city

A stadium and attached tower south of Rapid City, occupied by super mutants organized around a football cargo-cult religion. First encountered in Session 3. This is also the site where Rosa's late husband, an earlier clone of Johan, was killed roughly 35 years before the campaign's present.

Led in the field by referee-styled figures in black-and-white body paint, carrying a football helmet trailing burning incense and a mininuke painted to look like a football. Teams of seven fight for possession of the device with real, brutal violence; the scorer kneels and holds the live device as the referee arms it, detonating it to reverent silence followed by ecstatic celebration. Losing teams are executed afterward.

Correct in-fiction terminology, confirmed at the table: the chant/ritual name is "Bi-ga-me," and the officiant is simply "the referee." (Older planning material used invented proper names for these — not used at the table, retired from the wiki.)

The party was pulled in after being spotted near the stadium, answered the "Bi-ga-me" chant correctly, and were welcomed in as a team. In their own match they avoided any deaths by swapping the real mininuke for a decoy mid-play, then subverted an expected sacrifice entirely by carrying the fake into the end zone and, when nothing happened, leading a "Super Bowl" chant that the super mutants read as a divine sign — earning them treatment as chosen, protected figures and a small gold wedding ring (fulfilling A Ring for Rosa).

Also discovered here: the stadium's attached tower is closer to a full skyscraper than a simple radio mast, its lower floors holding old office ruins. Its satellite dish, once reactivated, picked up a heavily encrypted non-American (Chinese-origin) military transmission the moment it was pointed toward The Star.