[DL] They live: was Pickett in Deadlands

[Brom Clancy <spleen23@webtrolls.com>]

> > >Yeah, but does he stay dead?
> >
> >          As far as I'm concerned, yes, Pickett 
did not join the million or
> > so famous Harrowed people that already exist in 
DL.
> 
> For crying out loud, guys.  I was making a joke!
> 
I've noticed a occsional tendency for the game 
designers and others to get irritated whenever 
someone starts talking about another famous person 
coming back as a harrowed.

Please calm down, your scareing the newbies.

I have bought many deadland products and that I can 
only think of two harrowed in the game setting that 
where famous in thier living days. Therefore I must 
disagree to the description of a"million or so famous 
Harrowed people". Althought in fact I agree with the 
policy that famous harrowed should be limited in 
number, whether because the manitou that animate them 
dont care about thier fame, or that other powers 
protect the famous dead from being used for evil.

But in fact becoming harrowed is not the only way for 
a famous figure to return to life, I can see a 
senario where someone with the Baron's happy joy 
juice starts stealing bodies of famous historical 
figures in order to raise them as walking dead for 
some grand fiendish scheam or for something as 
mundane as contesting a inheiritance. 

In other senarios a blessed can call in a big favor 
to return a defender of the faith to life. A mad 
scietist could build a new body for a old famous 
brain. An elighted could call up to life their last 
incarnation as a historical figure. An Voodoo priest 
could be possessed by the spirit of a celeberty. 

Plus there are madmen and impersonators running about 
pretending to be the famous person as well the 
senarios in which the famed person did not die at 
all, thier death being faked by themselves or others.