Re: [DL] Los Diablos

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From: Paul-André Beaulieu <beaulieu@pipcom.com>
To: Deadlands Mailing List <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:53:18 -0400
Subject: [DL] Los Diablos

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> My current game plan is first to have the players witness a Los Diablos
> attack 
> on a known hero. I want them to see this mighty hero trampled beneath
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> beast's hooves. I want them to *fear* these things. After that will
> come the 
> mean of the cult story, which should last about 5-6 sessions (we do 8
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> rotations). I want the last session of the rotation to end as they
> first hear 
> the Diablos coming for *them*, the newly minted heroes of the West.
> Comments? 
> Suggestions?
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> -P-A
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some random idears,

Have the el diablo be about the size of a building, chase down a steam 
wagon while shuggin off some gattling bullets, drive his horns through 
the armored sides of the wagon a few times before shoulder shruggin it 
over on its side, then let it ram the thing head on a few time bounceing 
it into rocks and tumbling it about. When the doomed hero finally gets 
knocked loose have Big D grind a few limbs into paste under his hooves 
before before finishing him off, and make sure the posse see the hero's 
soul get dragged off.

For building up some fear and loathing, how about makeing sure the posse 
sees a symbol branded into the diablo, then have the symbol start showing 
up everywhere until the posse wake up from a dream of being branded to 
find the symbol on thier own hides.

Haveing every animal in sight turn and look at the posse a few moments 
before they hear the Diablo's herd in the distance might be fun, 
especially if the posse's tries to hide and still has every horse, bird, 
dog, rat, cat, and cow around continuing to look right where thier 
hideing. 

Diablo's don't have to play fair, stampede thier horses, kill off the 
people who try to warn them thier marked, send them out to find the Bruja 
who is said to be able to make magic charms to save them and then her 
half eaten corpse, have it round up the remnents of the ghoul cult to 
steal thier guns and poisen their food.

Beef up the diablo, give it some firey breath, stick some spikes on it 
and run it through a barbed wire fence so that is has a few stands wraped 
around to catch hold of posse members and drag them along. Let it chomp 
down on the gunslingers shooting hand, either mucnching his gun or his 
limb, lets its charge shake the ground to make aimming dificult, have it 
kick up a dust storm so that it can close on the posse before they shoot 
it 50 times.