I've got Twix's gun, I thought he had his knife with him when he passed out so I didn't bother grabbing that. The gas mask I didn't even remember, therefore didn't take into account.

Hmm, what are we going to turn into? Our own band of wanderers? We could always just create a faction, rival other factions, and ultimately defeat them. Thus create the first government in the lands since the dropping of the bombs, and then turn towards repairing the ecological damages done by the war, and focus our efforts into making the world a better place.
Or we could wander around and kill shit, get better stuff, and then kill bigger shit, then just rinse and repeat :D