Re: [DL] Death rate (was: Hi There)

[Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:46:22AM +1300, Leybourne, Brian - CLM said:
> in general I don't gun for characters, the players are good at
> handing me their characters' heads without my help :-)

 For the record, just an hour ago I finished up the latest session of our
 campaign, where at the moment we're playing the This Harrowed Ground
 scenario from the book that comes with the GM's screen.  Uhh, this is
 probably a spoiler if you haven't played it yet, so stop reading if you
 don't wanna know about it.

 Anyway, the posse followed Major Slate out of town when he first made his
 reappearance, and got into a fight.  Which was dumb, because those guys
 are hard-asses.  The gunfighting kid took two simultaneous shotgun blasts
 and died from his wounds, becoming the first character to die properly in
 the campaign (I guess this is adventure number three).  The rest of the
 posse survived (barely) due to lots of fate-chip swapping and beat the
 baddies.

> Brian "Of course, several of their ex-characters are now harrowed or
> abominations kicking up fear and/or chasing the posse" Leybourne.

 ...and the previous adventure we'd played was All That Shimmers, as seen
 on the Pinnacle website.  The Texas Ranger blessed priest got eaten by the
 Cthulhu-alike beastie at the end, but came back Harrowed with the manitou
 in full dominion (as stated in the scenario).  In life, he had a wooden
 cross which doubled as a stake, for use in killing vampires and the like.
 So, when he arose from his grave, he started staking anybody who'd been at
 his funeral (I figured that'd be scarier, when people noticed a pattern).
 He staked the gravedigger with the cross from his own grave when he arose,
 then staked the preacher with a crucifix (beat it into his chest with a
 Bible), the doc with some scalpels, the Sheriff with his Peacemaker, and
 the little old lady who goes to all the funerals with the leg of her cat.
 The other players were climbing the walls in terror by the time their
 characters' stagecoach arrived and they got out of town.

 Probably all uninteresting to you folks who weren't involved, but I like
 reading about that kind of thing, so maybe somebody else does too.

 Wishkah

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