Deadlands!
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theweaselkingYes, yes, I'm catching up on the recaps. Weird, that.
Last time: Our Heroes saved most of a small town from a horde or rail-riding Nosferatu. In the process, one of their number died, and the other three came very, very close. Well, okay, TWO of them died, but one of them hasn't noticed yet.
Our Heroes are:
Inigo the Arizona Desert Pirate, who is now a zombie, and simply thinks he's recovering from a near-death experience. And has a strange craving for flesh. Mmmm. Flesh.
Velvet van Sloan, Louisiana belle and also terrifying practitioner of the secrets of Hoyle's Book.
Mike The Scout Of Doom, getting more and more nervous as they go further and further east. He's got a Past, you see, and there are some people who remember it.
Now with even more Real True Game Quotes(tm)!
"When we last left Our Heroes, you'd all been disembowelled by vampires!"
Recovering and rewarded, Our Heroes are on their way to the Jewel of the Mississippi, New Orleans. Why are they going there? Well, because it's just about as far as you can get from Arizona without going to one of those weird northern states, and they're hoping to lose the bounty hunters.
The bounty hunters, as I'm sure you don't remember because I don't think I mentioned it in a previous recap, date all the way back to the Horrible Underground Snake-Worms. Specifically, a dozen rough-looking strangers in town, looking for Mike and Inigo. Luckily, Mike and Inigo had left town before they arrived, and they weren't looking for Velvet. So, she left town ahead of the Bounty Hunters while they were getting the runaround from the friends and neighbours, and hooked up with the other two to warn them.
These were the ones who they were avoiding during the Mexican Werewolf Incident and the ones they were heading to New Orleans to avoid when they found the Night Train.
Those bounty hunters.
So there.
Yeah.
Anyway. The heroes are going to New Orleans. They're in Jackson, changing trains to go south, when Mike makes two unpleasant discoveries. First, the price on his head is $1500, not $150 as he'd thought. Second, it's for a whole lot of murders and arsons and cattle rustling that he really doesn't remember doing, in a state he's never been to. But the likeness on the picture is striking, down to the scars. And the name on the poster is James Madison.
"So, Inigo had a life-changing experience. I get that. What the fuck is up with the bacon?"
New Orleans in August is not a nice place. It's hot, sticky, stinky, disease-ridden, and full of unexplained disappearances near the St Louis #1 Cemetery.
Velvet reunites with her family, doing her best to keep Inigo very, very far away from them, as she's discovered that her younger sister Analise has grown up and, well, gotten herself a job as a reporter for the Tombstone Epitaph. The Epitaph, for those of you playing along at home, is midway between the New York Times and the Weekly World News. It reports as truthfully as it can on all the "weird" stuff in the world, and is generally considered by those not in the know to be silly. Those in the know generally consider it dangerously accurate.
Analise has an old map of the city, and has been marking the disappearances. They happen once every three to five days, for the last several months. They start in the southern end of the city, move progressively north, and settle in regularly around the massive and legendary St Louis #1. She's been going out, alone, at night, with her camera, hoping to catch a picture of the cause and solve the problem.
Meanwhile, Inigo is trying his best to get really, really, really drunk. After a brief confrontation with a mambo in a run-down bar, he learns three things: that's she's hunting dead things that walk, that he seems to qualify to her magic, and that he's not what she's looking for.
Finally, Mike is interrupted while drowning his own sorrows by a young man who wants to face him, in the middle of the street, and shoot him in a fair duel - because, after all, Mike murdered his father. (Mike does not recall doing so, for the record.) A brief demonstration of gunplay and a much longer explanation later, and the young man accepts that, should the man in front of him actually be his father's killer, he would be dead himself right now. He's not entirely convinced of Mike's explanation of an evil twin that Mike himself was previously unaware of, but he's willing to give the benefit of the doubt. For now.
"You're a zombie!"
"And you're a witch, and he's a werewolf, and there are Horrible Underground Snake-Worms!"
"He's not a werewolf!"
Not wanting to have her sister become a meal for something that's eating the poor and neglected of New Orleans, Velvet reluctantly introduces her to Mike and Inigo, and the three of them go, on a muggy, overcast night, to the cemetery to see if they can find the source of the problem. On the way in, they discover that they're not the only ones watching the cemetery, but the natives don't seem to really want to go looking *inside* the place at night.
Our Heroes, being made of sterner stuff, walk right in.
Creeping between the rows of monuments and mausoleums, they spot movement. Being paranoid and trigger happy, they promptly open fire.
This leaves them with a body they need to dispose of, and fast. Luckily, they're in the cemetery already. Picking the nearest tomb, Inigo is surprised to find it unsealed and opening easily, but accepts this as a perfectly workable solution for a place to drop the body.
And when the tomb's occupant - bald-headed, long-nailed, bat-eared, and long-toothed, dressed in tattered black clothing and reeking of blood and decay - rises to meet him, grinning hungrily? That's a problem.
"Who ever heard of VAMPIRES in NEW ORLEANS! That's absurd!"
Long version: This vampire is tougher and faster than the ones they saw before, and can turn to mist. This goes badly - it escapes into the city after giving up on eating Inigo. Our Heroes talk to the people who were watching the cemetery, and, at dawn, start pulling open the disturbed crypts and exposing the Nosferatu inside to the sun. These ones are slow and easy to kill, in daylight - but they're all dressed in tattered and stained MODERN clothing. According to the locals, they've been killing the freshly turned ones as fast as they form (which is why the entire city isn't a charnel house), but they've never managed to catch the leader.
And now he's loose in the city and probably won't come back to a place he was driven out of, and they have no idea where he'll go to ground next. So they have no clue where the new clutch of vampires is going to pop up, and don't know if they'll find the new ones before there's a lot more deaths.
Next time: Tracking the vampire to the source. The evil twin shows up. Everyone goes to jail. And it rains sideways.
"The little old lady appears to have bled to death."
"Does she have any cool stuff?"
Last time: Our Heroes saved most of a small town from a horde or rail-riding Nosferatu. In the process, one of their number died, and the other three came very, very close. Well, okay, TWO of them died, but one of them hasn't noticed yet.
Our Heroes are:
Inigo the Arizona Desert Pirate, who is now a zombie, and simply thinks he's recovering from a near-death experience. And has a strange craving for flesh. Mmmm. Flesh.
Velvet van Sloan, Louisiana belle and also terrifying practitioner of the secrets of Hoyle's Book.
Mike The Scout Of Doom, getting more and more nervous as they go further and further east. He's got a Past, you see, and there are some people who remember it.
Now with even more Real True Game Quotes(tm)!
"When we last left Our Heroes, you'd all been disembowelled by vampires!"
Recovering and rewarded, Our Heroes are on their way to the Jewel of the Mississippi, New Orleans. Why are they going there? Well, because it's just about as far as you can get from Arizona without going to one of those weird northern states, and they're hoping to lose the bounty hunters.
The bounty hunters, as I'm sure you don't remember because I don't think I mentioned it in a previous recap, date all the way back to the Horrible Underground Snake-Worms. Specifically, a dozen rough-looking strangers in town, looking for Mike and Inigo. Luckily, Mike and Inigo had left town before they arrived, and they weren't looking for Velvet. So, she left town ahead of the Bounty Hunters while they were getting the runaround from the friends and neighbours, and hooked up with the other two to warn them.
These were the ones who they were avoiding during the Mexican Werewolf Incident and the ones they were heading to New Orleans to avoid when they found the Night Train.
Those bounty hunters.
So there.
Yeah.
Anyway. The heroes are going to New Orleans. They're in Jackson, changing trains to go south, when Mike makes two unpleasant discoveries. First, the price on his head is $1500, not $150 as he'd thought. Second, it's for a whole lot of murders and arsons and cattle rustling that he really doesn't remember doing, in a state he's never been to. But the likeness on the picture is striking, down to the scars. And the name on the poster is James Madison.
"So, Inigo had a life-changing experience. I get that. What the fuck is up with the bacon?"
New Orleans in August is not a nice place. It's hot, sticky, stinky, disease-ridden, and full of unexplained disappearances near the St Louis #1 Cemetery.
Velvet reunites with her family, doing her best to keep Inigo very, very far away from them, as she's discovered that her younger sister Analise has grown up and, well, gotten herself a job as a reporter for the Tombstone Epitaph. The Epitaph, for those of you playing along at home, is midway between the New York Times and the Weekly World News. It reports as truthfully as it can on all the "weird" stuff in the world, and is generally considered by those not in the know to be silly. Those in the know generally consider it dangerously accurate.
Analise has an old map of the city, and has been marking the disappearances. They happen once every three to five days, for the last several months. They start in the southern end of the city, move progressively north, and settle in regularly around the massive and legendary St Louis #1. She's been going out, alone, at night, with her camera, hoping to catch a picture of the cause and solve the problem.
Meanwhile, Inigo is trying his best to get really, really, really drunk. After a brief confrontation with a mambo in a run-down bar, he learns three things: that's she's hunting dead things that walk, that he seems to qualify to her magic, and that he's not what she's looking for.
Finally, Mike is interrupted while drowning his own sorrows by a young man who wants to face him, in the middle of the street, and shoot him in a fair duel - because, after all, Mike murdered his father. (Mike does not recall doing so, for the record.) A brief demonstration of gunplay and a much longer explanation later, and the young man accepts that, should the man in front of him actually be his father's killer, he would be dead himself right now. He's not entirely convinced of Mike's explanation of an evil twin that Mike himself was previously unaware of, but he's willing to give the benefit of the doubt. For now.
"You're a zombie!"
"And you're a witch, and he's a werewolf, and there are Horrible Underground Snake-Worms!"
"He's not a werewolf!"
Not wanting to have her sister become a meal for something that's eating the poor and neglected of New Orleans, Velvet reluctantly introduces her to Mike and Inigo, and the three of them go, on a muggy, overcast night, to the cemetery to see if they can find the source of the problem. On the way in, they discover that they're not the only ones watching the cemetery, but the natives don't seem to really want to go looking *inside* the place at night.
Our Heroes, being made of sterner stuff, walk right in.
Creeping between the rows of monuments and mausoleums, they spot movement. Being paranoid and trigger happy, they promptly open fire.
This leaves them with a body they need to dispose of, and fast. Luckily, they're in the cemetery already. Picking the nearest tomb, Inigo is surprised to find it unsealed and opening easily, but accepts this as a perfectly workable solution for a place to drop the body.
And when the tomb's occupant - bald-headed, long-nailed, bat-eared, and long-toothed, dressed in tattered black clothing and reeking of blood and decay - rises to meet him, grinning hungrily? That's a problem.
"Who ever heard of VAMPIRES in NEW ORLEANS! That's absurd!"
Long version: This vampire is tougher and faster than the ones they saw before, and can turn to mist. This goes badly - it escapes into the city after giving up on eating Inigo. Our Heroes talk to the people who were watching the cemetery, and, at dawn, start pulling open the disturbed crypts and exposing the Nosferatu inside to the sun. These ones are slow and easy to kill, in daylight - but they're all dressed in tattered and stained MODERN clothing. According to the locals, they've been killing the freshly turned ones as fast as they form (which is why the entire city isn't a charnel house), but they've never managed to catch the leader.
And now he's loose in the city and probably won't come back to a place he was driven out of, and they have no idea where he'll go to ground next. So they have no clue where the new clutch of vampires is going to pop up, and don't know if they'll find the new ones before there's a lot more deaths.
Next time: Tracking the vampire to the source. The evil twin shows up. Everyone goes to jail. And it rains sideways.
"The little old lady appears to have bled to death."
"Does she have any cool stuff?"
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