[HoE] an intro to HoE for my new players...

[drlucky@iglou.com]

Like many marshals, I'd like to keep my posse in the dark 
concerning some things in the Wasted West.  To that end, and 
after stealing the idea off a dude on the Wierd West mailing list, I've 
come up with a small write up intro to the world to stirr the PC's 
interest. I would appreciate your feedback...

thanks
-BM


Okay brainer, listen up.  What you are about to hear is for your 
own good, so learn it, live it, love it...

Some genius or another once said that you have to know where ya 
been to know where yer goin' (Some frikin' genius huh?)  Anyways, 
in case yer stupid or too young to remember, the world has gone to 
Hell.  We're left with the crapped on ashes.  In order to give you 
some insight as to the way things are nowadays, you ought to 
know what things used to be like...(brilliant huh?)  that, and my 
poor soul doesn't want to feel responsible for your untimely demise 
if I pass up this oppourtunity to educate you.  Nevermind any a that crap
anyway.  That pack of trogs I just outran were hungry, so lets us talk on
the move shall we?  

By the way...got any Ale-8-1?  No?  Oh well...

The Start:
From what I've heard this old world set foot on the road to Hell quite a
distance back in history.  Some say that in the 1860's, an Indian shaman
named Raven cut loose a mess of evil spirits on the world in an attempt to
run the White Man out of the states.  Obviously, this didn't work the way
he wanted, but thats another story.  Well, these spirits (demons to you
and me) brought quite a bit of baggage with them when they came.  Plenty
of wierd things started transpirin' : magic came back into the world, part
of California fell into the ocean, and the dead started walkin' around
after Gettysburg.  

On top of all that, science made a massive leap forward fueled 
(litteraly and figuratively) by the discovery of a new mineral, Ghost
Rock.  It burned longer, hotter and spookier than any other substance
known to man.  (it makes this awful racket if you burn it, kinda like a
dyin' mule.)  What with all this goin' on things just went wild all over,
but more so here in the American West.  I guess cause thats where Raven
let them through...

This is where things get really freaky...it seems that (least this is the
way that Librarian told me) these demons...these manitous weren't just
here to cause a small stirr.  Nope, they were collecting negative energy
for some bigger, badder, entities known as the Reckoners.  (Named after
Raven's little stunt, that he liked to call The Reckoning.)  It seems that
the Reckoners feed off of bad vibes like anger and aggression..., but
their most favorite treat of all is...fear.  Yep, so to get more fear,
they sent the manitous out to stirr it up, and bring it back for them to
feed on.

As you may well know, or guess, the world just kept getting worse 
and worse.  Untill finally all the countries of the world were throwing
down over the last and largest deposit of Ghost Rock in the world...in
California.  (which, by the way, had been claimed by both the CSA and USA,
but that issue was never really settled.)  Anyways, then the Librarian goes into
all this politics crap, and I kinda stop paying attention (plus those
Trogs showed up, and ate her too).  But what it all amounted to was every
body was somebody's friend, and the irradiated G-rock bombs started
raining.  

What with radioactive-demon filled death (did I mention that G-rock 
is made of the souls of the dammed?  I found that out from the 
Lib's palmcorder...) falling on every major city in the world the latent
fear shot through the roof.  And the Reckoners shot out from the Hunting
Grounds where they'd been trapped, and proceeded to stomp the irradiated
guts out of the remaining bits of humanity.  And, get this...they were the
FOUR FRICKIN' HORSEMEN OF THE FRICKIN'...well you get the picture...

Now, there's muties, zombies, robots, and other junk scattered out 
all over, and you've got to out run, out gun and out...crap!  they 
caught up to us!  Later!...