Deadlands: Harrowed and Hookers

 Next Session (1)

 

    Coming up soon I'll be playing in a Deadlands game, which I am... excessively excited for. Seriously, I've been pestering the GM pretty much every day about it. She is probably ready to have me hanged. If I stop updating again, it's safe to assume that an angry Dutch woman has hunted me down and I now swing from a tree branch.

    Ahem, anyway. Deadlands is a game that I've wanted to play since, like, the 90s. I remember seeing the books at Active Imagination in Albuquerque and thinking they looked neat. Also there was a game going on at one table one time I was there. Don't really remember what was going on in their game, but the GM was a staff member and used that to play... That stereotypical western dueling song... Old West Song? Theme from Good the Bad and the Ugly? Whatever. That one. It was amusing at the time to... tweenage me?

    God my memory sucks. The point is: Deadlands. Awesome. Wanted to play since young. It's the Savage Worlds version we'll be playing, which isn't entirely the same, but it's still Deadlands so I was excited when the GM messaged me and mentioned it was an option.

    For those unfamiliar with it: Deadlands is an alternate history setting in the mid-late 1800s (I believe our starting date is going to be 1886 or so). Focus on the Weird West, with monsters and super coal that's probably the souls of the damned (and maybe not damned? I'm unsure). Poker magic, mad scientists, and old timey shootouts galore.

    Oh, fair warning: Given the time period and location the game will likely touch on some sensitive subject matter. Not as a primary theme, but the group isn't uncomfortable with things like racism and sexism and superstitious bigotry being obstacles and road bumps to deal with. I will be keeping the majority of such things glossed over, but if you're uncomfortable with just the idea of such themes being present, well, fair warning like I said.

    Our posse of insanity consists of (character blurbs written by their players)

 

Artist is solkorra,

    Between the awkward flirting, openly carrying a number of weapons, and dressing in a habit that would be more appropriate in a brothel, you'd be forgiven to think that Sister Eldritch was not actually a nun. The friendly nun and the other sisters at El Santuario de Chimayo swear that she is an honest-to-God member of the church. Of note are her deathly pale complexion and accent best described as “someone trying very hard to sound American.”

 

Artist is ???

    Wade’s loyalty has gotten him in plenty of trouble, whether that’s loyalty to bad friends, his morals, or his belief in justice has resulted in issues for him. Despite this, the green-eyed young man’s always trying to do right by him and those who he calls friend, even if they’re not true friends to him. These morals of his even led him to enlist with the Union, fighting against the Confederacy and the injustice of slavery. Course, after this, he didn’t know what to do until an unlucky incident for one individual set him on the path to bounty hunting. Rifle and pistol in hand, he tracks down those who’ve wronged others and brings ‘em to justice.

 

 

Artist is this person on pixiv.

    Finding it hard to really talk to many of the locals, her broken English and lost sense of direction getting her into more trouble than she'd like to admit, Shing Li stumbles from town to town almost by pure luck as she tries to find small work here and there. Having come overseas to help trade silk from her land, her job now finished, she had a desire to stay and learn more about the 'world of the white men', as their customs and different ways of life were fascinating to her. Her journey is not without its hardships, from those looking down on her for being different, to outright being denied for being a "dirty yellow skin", whatever that means. Still, the Emerald Dragon Of East, with a high code of honor and righteous sense of morality, carves her own path in this new world. Just be sure to never anger her, as even a thick wooden door would be not but splinters against her powerful and deadly strikes.

 

 

 Artist is rity_k

    A man of science, progress, and keen intellect, Edward Grimm has the potential to become one of the greatest forces of industry in the Weird West- if his hunt for vengeance doesn't put him in the ground. Last survivor of the Grimm family, as a boy young Edwards family was brutally slaughtered in an '"Injun Attack" that he swears was just a front for shadier dealings. Dedicating his life to vengeance, Edward was picked up by Smith and Roberts after demonstrating incredible technological aptitude at a young age. Now a full grown man, and blessed with the smarts and willpower to take full advantage of the miracle substance Ghost Rock, Edward travels town to town plying a living as a gunsmith and traveling inventor all to fund his true goal; get back his families land and fit the bastards who stole everything from him for pine boxes. A wise man once said if you embark on a quest of revenge, dig two graves. Ed plans on digging a hell of a lot more then two.

 

Artist is ??? 

     Jane Doe's player didn't get a blurb to me, so what I know is this: Westernized (Europeanized? Americanized?) Native American hottie rocking two pistols. She works with Edward.

 

    The GM asked us to have connections to everyone else. I don't know how everyone else is connected, but as far as Sister Eldritch goes:

• Wade is probably the closest to a friend she has outside of the church. She and the bounty hunter have talked on numerous occasions.

• Shingi Li was sent to Eldritch's church by a drunk that said the foreigner would burn in hell if she didn't. The sister was not amused, but did get along with Li, they talked about religion and the afterlife.

• Sister Eldritch's relationship with Edward is one of business. She gives him money, he gives her special ammunition, custom speed loaders, and has done some tweaks to her prized LeMat revolver. Eldritch has recently put in a request for some rattler-hide armour.

• Jane and Eldritch didn't get a connection set up.

 

    The game is starting in Chimayo, New Mexico. The town has been selected to host an expo showing off a selection of the wonders that modern science has to offer! Why was such an out of the way place selected? Because of the volatile nature of modern science, of course! If something explodes there nothing -important- will get damaged.

    The game is set to start on 2022/08/23. I'll try to get new posts out a couple of days after a session.