[DL] Some thoughts on Stone [spoilers]

[Brom Clancy <spleen23@webtrolls.com>]

Major spoilers for the 3 dudes on the list that 
havent read all the marshall information. (wink-wink)










Spoilers








Some random meandering thoughts,

Kay the original history goes something like this, 
the heros kickthe recongners collective asses, and 
the future is a better place.

The Big guys din't like it so they sent Stone back in 
history to kill off all the heros who contributed in 
a major way to them getting said asses kicked.

In the first few years back in the pass Stone works 
his way down a list on names, hunting down the heros 
while thier young and weak, and relativelly unknown.

Without the heros the future becomes the hell on 
earth setting, because Stone succeeds in killing off 
the heros who could have stoped it.


Therefore,

If the player charater where the heroes who could 
have stopped the recongning, Stone would have came 
for then while they was still at about 1 or 2 grit, 
not after 5 grit when a group of 4 or so of them 
might have stood a chance.

So all Player charater must be second raters who in 
the original timeline never amounted to much and are 
not on Stone's original list.

Being that way it will only be after getting 5 grit, 
and getting the attension of the recongners that they 
become aware of the potensal of the PC and send a 
diablo to test them, if they live, they go on stone's 
hit list. The bottem of the list.

Because he's never heard of the player before, 
getting put on stone's list dont mean he's going jump 
on his horse, ride streight to you and gun you down 
in one shot. He's got no clue where you are or what 
you look like, and his got bigger fish to fry first.

If I was goin to send stone after a posse, I would 
have them encounter his handywork a few times first, 
have them find a town where every single person with 
the last name O'conner has been shot cuss stone knew 
one of them would one day be the parent of a hero, 
but he wasn's sure which one. Have the posse run into 
someone famous, like hank ketchum, impress them with 
what a badass his is, then lt them hear about him and 
entire fort of CSA troops getting gunned down by one 
man. Let them know that they dont stand a chance if 
they just try to fight Stone cold, let them have a 
clue that thier goin to need help and divine 
intervention just to survive him, let alone kill him.

As far as stats go, if the players gets into a 
situation where your rolling dice for Stone, the're 
already dead.

Now here a few idea to help player keep alive.
Somewhere thiers a bullet that killed Stone the first 
time, and the gun that fired it, even with him not 
coming in contact with them since then, thier 
probally relics by now. 
Since Stone dont know anything about the players, 
they can fake thier death or just lie low to make it 
hard to find them, they won't sell many dime novel, 
and the recogner will still feel each point of grit 
they earn like another nail in thier coffins, but at 
least it might buy them time. A spiritual rebirthing 
ceremony like being inducted into a indian tribe or 
getting bathtisses might muddy the trail on the 
spiritual side as well.