RE: [DL] Anyone viewed the Deadlands CG movies yet?

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

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> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:27 AM
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> Subject: RE: [DL] Anyone viewed the Deadlands CG movies yet?
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> > From: Jeff Yates> Spoilers...
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> > I really don't think it's needed, but better safe than stuck with a 
> > posse that knows too much...
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> > - The "fear factor" clip is a hugely useful bit of visualization. 
> > Something like this would have been great addition to the Deadlands 
> > rulebook to explain the effect of fear on landscape. Not 
> sure how you 
> > could translate the video clip into print (maybe a
> flip-book-animation
> > on the bottom corners of the pages? Bet that'd be a lot of work!) I 
> > especially liked the way that the cacti slowly reached towards the 
> > viewer...
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> Not seen the video clips - but I always liked Allan 
> Seyberth's post on the subject of different fear levels...
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> Cheers
> 
> Roy
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> (from
> http://www.gamerz.net/archives/deadlands@gamerz.net/200006/msg
> 00120.html)
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> One from the vaults. . .
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>  >Can you give us some good at examples on how to describe 
> certain fear  >levels? Pat
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> It's a matter of shadow and the qualities of "hidden evil" 
> within the object.
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> Lets say this pen I am holding.  Black pentel pen with faint 
> gold swirls.
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> Fear 0:  Um... black pentel pen with faint gold swirls.  The 
<SNIP>
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> Fear 3:  (Steven King)
> You spot a dark pen laying on the table.  Out of the corner 
<SNIP>
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> Fear 6:  (Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
> Already weakened by the sights you have endured that no mortal man 
<SNIP>
> elder gods themselves claimed his soul....
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> Bread.
> Milk
> Butter
> Half dozen eggs
> Laundry on Tuesday.
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> Allan Seyberth
> darious@darious.com
> Deadlands fan site - http://www.darious.com/deadlands/index.html
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Or, you know you live in a Deadland when you gain a corruption point
just going to the grocery store...

Seriously tho, well done descriptions Allan.  I didn't get to see them
when they were first posted.  Thanks for pointing them out Roy!

Jeff Y.