Deadlands: Harrowed & Hookers - Session 1

 Previous Session (Intro)

 

So! Deadlands did not start on the 23^rd due to acts of Zeus cracking down on one of the players' house. So instead we did a dry run/test of the combat a bit since most everyone but the GM is new to the system. It was nice and educational, and the game was on for the 30^th instead.

And then I got covid over the weekend.

But I was better enough to play (thank heavens for online gaming). So Deadlands: Harrowed and Hookers has begun, muahahahahahaha!

First session was a trio of scenes to establish characters a bit and what they were doing in Chimayo.

Starting with Wade and Sister Eldritch. The former had recently returned from hunting down a bounty alongside Shing Li. Having found no new bounty to hunt down, he opted to attend the expo and was going for a walk the day before. The latter was spending her day running errands for the church, in particular ferrying supplies from the general store back and forth in an effort to rebuild the strength and endurance she'd lost to a number of questionable decisions.

Artist is sunsetagain (pixiv link)

Whilst carrying a few sacks of potatoes, Eldritch was met by Sheriff Shanker, the sheriff (gasp, awe) of the city of Chimayo. Wade soon spotted and joined them, pleasantries were exchanged and Sister Eldritch's foolish decision to try carrying -four- sacks of potatoes back from the general store was remedied by the two men each taking a sack, thus sparing her noodle-like arms from spilling them all halfway there. Both Wade and Eldritch offered to keep their eyes out and help with security at the expo before the trio made their way to the church.

Next up was Shing Li. Our intrepid martial artist was interested in the science expo even if she wasn't entirely sure what it entailed. So she approached a man in unform and encounter some goold ol' fashioned old west racism... Though the guy was probably from back east, a corporate guard, so fuck'em. He was at least nice enough to tell her she was in the right place, and armed with that knowledge she headed to the church, hoping to encounter Sister Eldritch as the two had previously had a pleasant conversation on theology.

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Arriving at the church, Shing Li was met with the sight of Sister Fatima Rodriguez, another nun leaving the church and nervously looking around everywhere except she was going. Upon stubbing her toe and -almost- swearing, Shing Li rushed to the sister's aid which further frightened her and made her -almost- swear again. Sister Rodriguez lets slip that she finds Wade handsome (Sultry Sisters of the Southwest, coming soon to a penny dreadful near you!), and that he and Eldritch are in the courtyard discussing the expo.

Being the helpful sort that she is, Shing Li decides to help Sister Rodriguez out. Can't let her go walking on an injured foot after all. Missing that the nun had been -leaving- the church, the martial artist used her prodigious strength and hefted the sister up and over a shoulder and promptly carried her back inside and to the courtyard. Finally, the dam broke and Sister Rodriguez began to swear like a sailor. Upon seeing this, Sister Eldritch burst into laughter hard enough that she couldn't breathe -and- dropped her accident for a couple of words.

One let down, Sister Rodriguez stomped off, followed soon by Wade to make sure she didn't get into any trouble – or carried off by anyone else.

Finally we had a scene between Edward Grimm and Jane Doe. Things started off with Edward working on his presentation and performance for the science expo while Jane watched. This lead into the pair conversing about the upcoming show, the performance, if Jane should 'slut it up' for the crowd and finally weird holy people and a bit of theological discussion as they made their way to the saloon... Sorta.

And that was that! The session was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the next one. There was supposed to be some between-sessions roleplaying on the Discord group between Edward, Jane, Sister Rodriguez and Wade, but with people being busy it might not happen. If it does, I'll recap it in the next post!

 

See you all next time!

Session Quotes

• Sister Rodriguez: ""h-huh WHAAAAAA!" the sister flails as she's suddenly lifted, her feet kicking a little and her arms swinging around in a mild panic attack "W-what are you doing!? I j-just fucking left from there!" quickly she falls into a string of panicked cursing and not actually anything useful to stop the asian 'monster' from carrying her back onto the compound "

• Shing Li: Shing Li comes to a stop at the entrance to the courtyard, lifting her gaze and looking around to see if she sees any familiar faces, her powerful grip not letting up on the sister. After all she wouldn't want the poor girl to be walking on such a horribly hurting foot, she has to do what she can to make sure she's niiiiiiiice and comfortable.

• Sister Rodriguez: "THAT WOULD BE MOST FUCKING WELCOME YES, THIS YELLOW BEHEMOTH JUST FUCKING LIFTED ME OUTTA NOWHERE AND JESUS FUCK ME CHRIST"

• Wade Harper: "Take care Sister!" (I just got strong smartass energy from this one)

• Jane Doe: "Want I should put on the dresses the whores wear? I hear it gets you men all flustered. Might be good if they're thinking more with their cocks then their senses." She didn't much understand why some of those layered dresses were all that hot but, then again, she didn't have a dick. Putting her cigarette back in her mouth."

• Edward Grimm: "Never could quite get my head around the logic of it all. Y'know there's a part in there about a guy with a dick the size of a donkey? True story!"