[HoE] Ideas welcome (cont.)

[Jim Burzelic <zombi_bobb@yahoo.com>]

--- Jim Burzelic <zombi_bobb@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm starting a pretty-much-new to the game group
> near
> Albaqerque. I've got a few ideas, I'm going to start
> with a few Walkin' Dead to kind of show 'em the
> ropes
> and depending on which little town they stumble
> across
> they'll run into my Story Monster. I'll detail that
> later becasue I've got class now but I was wondering
> if anybody had any good ideas for that area. The
> group
> consists of a sword-wielding Taleteller, an undead
> Indian Scout for the Union, an undead Lector, a
> Junker, and three others that haven't made
> characters
> yet.
> 

My Story Monster is going to be a type of undead. 
Background: After the Last War a platoon of Union
soldiers holed up in a small town about fifty miles
from Albaqerque and basically started up a very tiny,
close-knit community. Whenever SA units of small
enough size would come through the Yanks would capture
as many alive as possible and kill the rest. What they
would do to the survivors is torture them for mostly
sick pleasure and also as a scapegoat for the
destruction of the world, which they blamed on the
Confederates. The way they would do this is by hanging
them upside-down from the cieling in basements
throughout the town, tying their hands behind their
backs, and putting bags over their heads, usually the
heavy-duty sinch-sack variety. Sometimes this was all
they did, other times they would do terrible things to
them. Not too long after they started this the spirits
of these tortured soldiers would come back.
Eventually, they killed off all the Union psychos in
the same manner they were done away in. Now the
restless souls of vengeance do this to anyone who
comes into the town. They take wounds just like any
person and will go down as such but the moment  no
one's looking the body will disappear. It will then
reappear at the next dusk. The only way to put down
these abominations for a longer period is to find the
still hanging bodies and cut them down. The spirit of
that corpse will then disappear the moment the body
hits the ground.

That's about it. I was thinking of making it worse,
but a friend said it was a bit much but I'll add it in
case any other Marshals want to use it, I'd also like
opinions.
Cutting down the bodies will stop the haunts but not
forever. The Sergeant in charge of the platoon had
killed himself before the spirits could get to him.
Unfortunately he also came back Harrowed. The Sarge
also had control over the spirits, so anytime they
tried to attack he'd just ward them off with a mere
thought. Now he's wandering northern New Mexico
commiting the same atrocites to other survivors and
creating more of these evil nasties. What's more is he
always comes back to the old towns around once a month
and rehangs any fallen bodies. So now the only way to
completely give the vengeful spirits their much
deserved rest is to cut down the corpse and give it a
proper, or at least decent, burial. This way the
spirit is free to go on to it's just reward. The Sarge
has found a few bodies buried and has dug them up and
hung them again, but it just didn't work. But instead
of this detering him he'll try to find the body and do
it anyway, leaving any would-be heroes to try and find
the evil corpses hanging among the now benign corpses.

Whatcha all think?



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Jim Burzelic
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