Re: [DL] Ideas? [Goff & anyone who can help]

["Stephen L Jacobs" <cbazaar@pcpartner.net>]

I have a WWI Campign that I am running. Although we have taken a break from
it. I have a Website for it. Time line info and such. Also read Any of Harry
Turttledove's Great War Novels. If you have any more questions I am a WWI
and WWII history fanatic. Email me at cbazaar@pcpartner.net

Deadlands : The Great War
http://deadlandswwi.freeservers.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheyenne Wright" <TheRaven@sprynet.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 7:19 AM
Subject: [DL] Ideas? [Goff & anyone who can help]


> I killed my entire party last night.
>
> It felt nice. Normal, i hate to say, I'm a pretty nice guy. And a real
story oriented GM. I hate
> killing off PC's because i have to many other things planed for them down
the road....
>
> But, I killed my entire party last night.
>
> S
>
> P
>
> O
>
> I
>
> L
>
> E
>
> R
>
> S
>
>
> they were all "good" kills. I was running a sequel to "Adios A-Mi-go" that
i had concocted
> myself. In this one, a Mad Scientist buy the name of Marcus was
responsible for the device
> that helped bring the Mi-go to the Weird West.
>
> He had been the assistant to Maximilon Arcanus, a NPC Mad Scientist in my
game. When
> Max decided that the "keyhole" device was too dangerous to work on; Marcus
(who had
> become obsessed with the images he saw in its magnetic Fields ) absconded
with the
> blueprints and built a new version in a small town called New Jerusalem
 insert published
> adventure here ).
>
> Now much later, The Mi-go have managed to restart the original (much
larger) device built
> by Arcanus. the posse fought their way to the mountain lab of Dr. Arcanus
and found it to be
> phasing in and out of reality with some sort of other worldly blasphemous
construct.
>
> To try and make a long story shorter. they killed the Mi-gos and took out
Marcus, who's
> brain had been removed and placed in a Automation built buy the Mi-go.
they explosion of
> Marcus' body destroyed the portal and killed most of the party (thanks to
Mr. Goff and the
> new Massive damage rules).
>
> This gave me the chance to follow up with a story idea I've had on the
back burner for a long
> time. they are all going to wake up in new bodies, summoned and inserted
into the corpses of
> recently fallen soldiers in the trenches of World War One. their Mental
traits, with all new
> Physical traits. the person responsible will be Oliver (the Barber/Great
Race of Yith from the
> first adventure). it seems he needs their help for something and has
"harrowed" them for this
> purpose with the promise that he can send them back and set things
right....
>
> Now, my questions
>
> 1.) i don't know much of the time line beyond the Weird West. What is
going on during
> WWI? are there new thing mentioned in HoE i should look up? like Scykers?
>
> 2.) My best idea for a bad guy right now is Dr. Fu-Manchu... if my poor
retelling has inspired
> anyone with other thoughts please share them.
>
> 3.)And lastly, a general "what would you folks do"? I want to make this
fun. and this List is
> such a great way to get new ideas that I'd like to hear more stuff to feed
my all ready feverish
> imagination.
>
> Thanks for your Time.
>
> Cheyenne Wright
> p.s. Goff, i got that photo of you and me at Hawks pub developed, and I'll
have it up on my
> site soon.
>
>
> http://www.geocities.com/medmenham/index.html     The Art of Cheyenne
Wright
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