Re: [DL] Bringing down Grimme (Spoilers)

[David R Goecke <mightygecko@juno.com>]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:00:36 +0200 (EET) Janne Matti Oskari Vuorenmaa
<jvuorenm@cc.hut.fi> writes:
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> Spoiler alert in the title. Which means, that you player types 
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> My posse seems to have an obsession of bringing down our favourite
> reverend. They've bloodied their noses twice already (counting in
> yesterday), but are more and more determined to doin' him.
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> And I, of course, do not want it to be impossible, only immensely 
> hard.
> It is, after all, an excellent goal for this chapter of my 
> campaign.
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> What makes it even harder is, that of the three surviving members, 
> one is
> a huckster who has trouble sleeping in the city, and therefore 
> cannot
> spedn too much time within 75 miles radius of the city, one is a 
> blessed
> who is hunted by the church of LA (5 point enemy hindrance) and the 
> last
> one is badly peppered and imprisoned by them.
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> My questions are:
> 1. What would you have as Grimmes weaknesses? I like 'logical' 
> weaknesses
> that many of the DL critters and baddies have. What would be 
> Grimme's
> achilles heel? Firstly, probably, the dude is unkillable as long as 
> LA is
> ok and the cathedral is still standing -- this should be very easy 
> for the
> players to understand. After all ,it is mentioned in several places, 
> that
> the whole city is built according to his "heavenly" plans. Other 
> pointers
> or ideas? Last night my players pondered this, and they came up with 
> two: MS
> gizmos -- that's why he opposes mad science (they do not know why 
> Grimme
> opposes railroads. They presume it is because of MS) and holy men. 
> The
> first is wrong, the latter only partially, IMO. Ideas?
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> 2. The factions in and near LA. Possible people they might contact 
> and try
> to team up with? Men of the grid, naturally. Others? Mexicans might 
> be
> interested, if well enough buttered, at least if offered 
> significant
> assistance. How about injuns, does e.g. the necessity alliance have a 
> good
> enough reason to help? Some of the char's are rangers, but they're 
> on an
> unauthorized gig at the moment, and will probably lose their badges 
> 'just
> in case' if they reveal their plans to the Rangers, who do not want 
> to get
> mixed up with a conflict of that size. Kang, maybe? LaCroix (who was 
> the
> target of their previous assassination attempt.. that would actually 
> be
> kinda cool to force them to beg him for assistance.. :)? Armies 
> (USA&CSA),
> of course, but neither has proper resources. Others?
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> The date in my campaign is fourth of july, 1877, coincidentally.
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> One idea, that popped in my mind was, that what if they hijacked 
> the
> airship in Rain o' terror, or at least get their hands on 'Project
> Ghostfire'. It would cause nice moral dilemmas, when while trying to 
> solve
> problems in a fear level 5-area, they accidentally create a 
> deadland
> (IIRC, wasn't that the result of using the ghostfire?). Of course, 
> getting
> the bomb is not an easy task, since they do not know about it, and 
> it
> doesn't even exist yet. Maybe a lead-in into Rain o'terror?
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> As you can see, my plans are not very developed yet, because this
> situation evolved last night ( ~8 hours ago), so any kind of ideas 
> are
> welcomed.

 Los Mestizos may want to help this posse out, as well as former sheriff
duncan and his group.

As a weakness.... I don't know what would hurt him, but it would
interesting if he regenerated no matter what, until he was cannibalized
again, poosibly by a blessed.

Dave "Cannibals are fun" Goecke

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