Re: [DL] Deadlands Down under

["Dan Sulin" <grandmasternilus@hotmail.com>]

Thats some really cool info.

You should think about writing some of it up and submitting it to Shane for 
an Epitaph article.  I just think My posse might have to visit Australia in 
a bit here.

Dan

>From: J T <jtsmailinglists@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: Re: [DL] Deadlands Down under
>Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:43:56 -0700 (PDT)
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>Heh... That's where my posse is right now.  They have
>yet to meet ol' Ned.
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>Major Spoilers and also long post on speculative
>Australian DL history.
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>The Aboriginal myth attributes creation to the Rainbow
>Serpent.  I interpereted that as actually worshiping
>the rattlers.  BTW - in australia they are know as
>rainbow serpents.  They are slighlt smaller, but have
>an injected poison in thier tentacles.  (For your
>Australian Marshalls, or Magistrates as they law was
>known down under, a good rule is give your monsters
>poison.  Everything in Oz is deadly poisonous.)  You
>know - the rattlers were once gods.  However thier
>worshipers began to turn away from them.  In a
>desparate attempt to keep thier worship alive they
>isolated the Aboriginals in Australia.  There they set
>up the Dreamtime.
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>The Dreamtime for the Aboriginals is not exactly a
>time, although in the past it once existed over the
>whole land.  However, it is also still here now, and
>can be reached through rituals, etc.  The Dreamtime
>did once encumpass all of Australia.  It was a place
>where the real world merged with the spiritual.  Much
>like a deadlands, only not as unhappy.  Everything
>wasn't all hunky dory - however at the time they set
>up the dreamtime the worms had the power to merge the
>hunting grounds with the earth on a large scale.  They
>did not need monsters to generate fear to power thier
>schemes.
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>But for the worms, it was not to last.  Despite the
>worms hopes, the Aboriginals developed a shamanistic
>world view.  Thier merging into the Dreamtime showed
>them that there was not just the just one spirit.
>Slowly even the chosen ones of the rainbow serpent
>began to drift away.  Now there are a few who still
>bring glory to the rainbow serpent.  Lets just say
>that they are becoming more and more militant and
>strident as the worms power fades.
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>With the arrival of the colonizing powers came they
>Reckoners.  They knew of the goings on in Australia,
>but they did not have the power to do anything about
>it.  With the Reckoning that changed.  Now there are
>several power brokers in the area that are backed by
>the Reckoners.  They slay the Aboriginals on a massive
>scale.  For the reckoners this has two benefits.  Fear
>spikes!  (nuff said there) and they eliminate they few
>remaining worm followers.
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>Other things of Oz interest:
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>They ran into Los Diablos. Not your standard "bulls"
>either.  They were huge funnel web spiders.  Instead
>of a stampede every night they heard an organic
>tapping that seemed to contain undecipherable
>messages.  (Spiders communicate by tapping thier
>abdemon on the ground.)  And when a huge trap door
>opened next to them and a giant spider rushed out.
>Well - it spooked 'em!
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>Some day - in my spare time, I will write this up, and
>post it on the web.  Someday!
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>Jeff Tolle
>--- balance@tubas.net wrote:
> > I found an interesting link today:
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> > <http://www.ironoutlaw.com/>
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> > Could be useful as a character for anyone thinking
> > of haveing a posse
> > travel to Australia, or a very weird way of adding a
> > harrowed in to any
> > campaign that's after 1880. There's some interesting
> > stuff... One part
> > of this site mentions that Kelly's skull was used as
> > a desk toy by one
> > of the policeman that brought him down!
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> > Also, i could see the Australian setting being
> > interesting, if someone
> > had the research and time to develop it. The
> > American Western 'vibe'
> > seem to be echoed there, although there are
> > certainly differences.
> > Rethemed shaman rules for aborginie magic (The
> > Dreamtime gets nasty when
> > the reckoning starts, I bet) but overall, probably
> > less visible magic
> > than the normal deadlands setting.
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> > --
> > Brett
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> > LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE
> > CARE OF THE REAPER
> > MAN? (Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett)
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