Re: [DL] Random RV&C2 quesitons [John Goff]

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 09:04 PM 4/3/00, you wrote:

> > Just a few questions about some incomplete thoughts I
> > saw in RV&C2.
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> > On page 70 when discussing Living Houses the book
> > says, "The result is the same as that of a haunted
> > house: the local Fear Level raises by one.  Worse, the
> > usual methods to cleanse a haunted house have no
> > effect."  I'm not sure I recall any previous source
> > refering to haunted houses in either respect (raising
> > fear levels and cleansing methods).  Does anyone know
> > which book this is referencing?
> >
>
>Err, uhm...opps. Honestly, the part on setting up/running a haunted house
>was one of the first things to hit the cutting room floor. I've still got it
>and will forward it on to Chris to pop onto the web page. Hopefully, this
>week even.

shame that.  I _love_ haunted houses, and had even considered doing a net 
supplement.  Not cool secrets, not new monsters. just ideas and maybe a few 
choice Ghostly effects.

I still keep a tattered copy of Van Richen's Guide to Ghosts for running 
them in Deadlands.

If it could appear on the web, though, that would be poifect.



> > On page 85 when discussing Replicants the last
> > paragraph says, "These monsters are usually discovered
> > long before they have a chance to overrun a settlement
> > - which is exactly what the Reckoners want."  I know
> > the Reckoners love fear, and discovering an
> > abomination exists is a fearful event.  Is this what
> > this statement is refering to?  Do the Reckoners
> > regularly set their abominations up to fail, just to
> > gather the fear from discovery?
> >
>
>Pretty much. Have you ever seen "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"--any
>version? Until you realize your friends and neighbors _aren't_, it's not
>really that scary. Also, a town filled with Replicants doesn't generate any
>fear. So, the Reckoners want the creatures exposed once they've gotten a
>decent foothold. That way trust amongst the citizens goes into the outhouse,
>people know something's up that's _VERY BAD_ (TM), and yet enough folks are
>around to still generate a good deal of fear.
>
>Replicants are amongst those rare abominations that become more frightening
>the more of them you find. :-)

eeeh, never liked that movie.

course, I have a ridicules and unfair Bias.  as a nipper, I read (and 
LOVED) "The Body Snatcher" short story.  as a teen, I watched the movie 
with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.  One of my first Vampire characters was 
"Karloff", a Samedi (originally called Grey) who was a Victorian 
graverobber like from the movie who was Embraced.  Even ran "The Burke & 
Hare Mortuary".

Long of the short of it: when I told people of it, they said "oh I saw it. 
with the pod people".  and I would have a conniption, and gripe about how a 
truly great horror story was being mistaken for that sci fi flick, ad 
nauseum.

But I never lost my Bias, or my love of the Macabre (you wouldn't think?)



>John
Jason,
Da Baron