Re: [DL] Tale Tellin'

[Horace Black <horaceblack@yahoo.com>]

  I think I would have made the TN really high, but in
so doing I would have allowed them to lower the fear
level (from what you've told us).  The reason being
that they some how buffaloed those people into
believing their tale.  Perhaps in doing so, they might
also have explained that the zombies wheren't zombies
after all and that the virgins where slain by some
madman.  Just my 2 bits.

--- Matt Lavery <mattlavery@mattlavery.com> wrote:
> 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?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> - Matt Lavery
> 
>     Webmaster, host, and namesake of MattLavery.com
> 
>     "You are responsible for everything you think,
> say, do, feel, and
> believe.
> 
>     That is all you are responsible for, and you are
> the only one
> responsible for it."
> 
>  
> 
> 


		
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