Re: [DL] Random questions

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

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> >3) How many towns have a telegraph station?  I assume
> >towns near a fort would have stations, and there would
> >be central lines heading out east, but just how far do
> >the lines run westward?  Is there one main trunk, or
> >is there a network established?  Just how do telegraph
> >lines work, must each station relay the information?
> >If there's a break in the line, how quickly is it
> >detected and someone sent out to repair it?
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>Practically every town over 100 people in it.  Right after they get a
>photographer shop.  :)
>That's outside of the Great Maze.  Conditions there are not condusive to
>telegraph lines.

sounds like a good rule of thumb. so noted. thanks.


> >4) How many Marshals actively include the civil war in
> >their adventures?  If one side rushed across the
> >boarder, how quickly would a defense be mobilized?
> >How would it be detected, and better yet, verified?
> >What's to stop one side from tricking a scout into
> >thinking a large force is moving into an area, only to
> >move troups to another area?  Do people play the
> >confederate as bad guys and the union as good guys, or
> >are the sides portayed more neutrally?
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>The Civil War is a major part of everything I do in Deadlands.  And I play
>both sides as Neutral.  Both evil and good in both ranks.  Though - in my
>game - a few states in the Confederacy have not emancipated their slaves.

yea I try to do that as well.  Tho the war is generally more of an 
inconvience then anything else.  My game is very CoC like at times, tho.

TBS