Re: [DL] Fortress O' Fear

[Marshal Mike <deadlander624@yahoo.com>]

Y'know... I'm glad to hear that the first two parts of
Heart O' Darkness trilogy is better than the third
part.  My local gamestore was clearin' out their left
over Deadlands stuff in their bargain bin and I picked
up Fortress O' Fear for $5.  Actually, I got Ghost
Busters and Boomtowns for $5 apiece, also, along with
a mess o' dime novels for a buck apiece!

Anyway, I read through Fortress O' Fear and was kind
of disappointed to see what kind of direction they go
in with the whole connection and time travel between
the Weird West and Hell on Earth.  It was almost to
the point to where I was considering not getting the
first two books.  

But, it sounds like with adjustments to the end of the
adventure, it's not too bad as a whole.

Heh... yet another reason to be thankful for the
Listserv!

Marshal Mike


--- Reemull <reemull@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Greetings Listers!
> > 
> > Any Marshal's out there that ran the Heart O'
> Darkness 
> > trilogy, got to the
> > last book (Fortress O' Fear), and decided to plug
> in their 
> > own crunchy bits?
> 
> Sorry I've been on holiday - so I'm a little late in
> replying to emails
> - but yep - I ran the first two parts and then
> ditched the third
> completely and rewrote it to suit my posse.  I'll
> add in a spolier
> warning just in case there are any details that
> prove sensitive
> 
> S
> P
> O
> I
> L
> E
> R
> S
> 
> In my game there is only one Stone and Jackie Wells
> never appeared and
> thus no time travel - I do not plan to use HOE. I
> have explanations for
> the two Stone's in Heart O'Darkness and I can
> provide this if anyone is
> interested.  The explanation requires some rewriting
> of the background
> story for the Heart O'Darkness - but the actual
> adventure can be run as
> written.  My rewritten ending of the Fortress of
> Fear ties together
> some character background plots and so pulls in some
> NPC's that I use
> in my campaign.
> 
> - Stone's mission is now to take the Heart to his
> masters rather than
> Devil's Tower
> - To do this Stone needs to get into the hunting
> grounds, however he
> has a few problems here in that he doesn't want to
> stay close to Grimme
> and also he needs some link to the hunting grounds
> in order to pass
> through.
> - Just so happens that the Reckoners have provided
> an access for him by
> way of Fellheimers Folly (from ToT)
> - Fellheimer is dead yet curiously still alive
> somehow, providing a
> link between worlds (or at least that's my
> reasoning).
> - With some tracking an investigation my posse
> trailed Stone to
> Fellheimer's Folly - but where Stone ghosted in -
> they encounter a
> bunch of Pinkertons who aren't too happy about
> neighbours.
> - My group went all sneaky to get past the
> Pinkertons and gain access
> to the rock on which Fellheimer has been sacrificed
> - they go down into
> his mine and discover caves below the mine.
> - The caves below the mine hold the ancient
> paintings of one of the
> lost tribes of Indians wiped out by the white men.
> - Here they find that the angry Spirits have trapped
> on of Raven's band
> of Lost Son's (he is the last member of the lost
> tribe and the spirits
> aren't happy that he hasn't kept up the bargain to
> maintain the
> paintings). 
> - The posse rescue him and he in turn transports
> them to the Hunting
> Grounds - using Fellheimers body as a focus.
> 
> The next bit will involve them entering the hunting
> grounds.  From
> there, following Stone into the Deadlands, and
> finally to them
> confronting him and destroying the diamond (however
> not all of the
> posse want it destroyed - so that should be
> interesting).  I'm being
> deliberately vague on this section as my group have
> not reached here
> yet - and I don't like posting stuff that they
> haven't done yet as they
> are notorious for reading things that they
> shouldn't.  However Jeff (or
> anyone else for that matter) if you'd like some more
> details - send me
> an email privately and I'll pass on what I have.
> 
> Anyway that's what my posse are up to, I hope it is
> of some help.
> 
> I do have plans to put up the modifications I've
> done to the adventure
> on a web site - eventually.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Roy
> 
> PS - Two of my group discussed at length whether
> they'd be quicker to
> blow out the windows in the cathedral with dynamite
> and go through
> them, or whether they'd be quicker just running for
> the main entrance. 
> In the end they decided to go for the main entrance
> - preserving the
> cathedral for another day.  How boring!
> 
> 
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