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ALCON:
This time out, after my posse defeated two major menaces in and around Leadville, Colorado, one of the party makes a spectacular Tale Tellin’ roll (22 vs. TN 5). She went on to tell a tale in which the Posse discovered that there were, in fact, no horrible things in Leadville at all. The mysterious young lady (Elizabeth Bathory, for any of you obscure history buffs out there) was just a bit of a recluse and kind of aloof, not a horrid abomination that’s been around since the 1500s killing virgins and bathing in their blood to stay young. And their wagons and stages haven’t been attacked by some dark sorcerer’s zombie minions, just a small group of regular bandits trying to run people away from their particular vein of Ghost Rock.
I ruled that this didn’t lower the fear level in the area because people in town had seen the zombies, they’d seen their virgins disappear, they’d seen Miss Bathory come and go through town, never aging a day while the rest of the townsfolk grew old and died. There had been generations of stories that told these people they were being very eloquently lied to, about the Virgin Hunter, and numerous tales of the “Zombie Trail” to the south.
My question: Was I right? I mean, I know I’m the marshal and have the final word and all that, but is the important part of the Tale Tellin’ process beating the TN, or telling folk that the things that go bump in the night can be defeated by ordinary folk?
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