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The year is 1879 but in the world of Deadlands it is a very different 1879. In both of our worlds the year of 1863 saw the United States at war with itself but in this world things went very differently. For one thing, the war did not end two years later. For another rumors persist...persistently...enough that many have good reason, though oddly little evidence, to believe something else quite important happened that day. The dead of Gettysburg rose and beset the living, Blue or Grey making no difference whatsoever.

That's ancient history now though. Well 16 years, but much has changed in those years. Slavery has been abolished. A new natural resource, known as Ghost Rock, has been found that burns Five Times Hotter and One Hundred Times Longer than Coal. California has, in large part, been reclaimed by the Pacific leaving a broken land known as The Great Maze. Utah has been taken over and renamed The Republic of Deseret. What's more Manifest Destiny has been considerably delayed with the founding of two separate large Indian nations, The Coyote Confederacy and the Sioux Nations. Amid all this chaos, Ghost Rock has dropped the nations into an Industrial Age.

What Is This?

This RP is an attempt to combine the freedom of collaborative non-linear roleplay with some linear storytelling, incorporating as much as possible actual Pen and Paper rules to ensure a dangerous engaging experience. Hopefully it works.

It's a fairly short story with a start and a finish, though leaving things open to play or encounter our characters again.

For this story we will all be either living in or making our way toward a small town in Kansas called Selina. Selina is a small town North East of Dodge. Kansas is known as Bloody Kansas in this setting. Selina is rather basic, consisting of a respectable if quite bare bones Bed and Breakfast run by one Father O’Flanagan, the monastery where O’Flanagan works, a General Store run by a ex-miner who once hit it big, a taxidermist by the name of Zeke, and a small three man operation Sheriff's Department. Selina is more friendly than most toward the various Indian tribes as there has been in large part an unofficial policy of live and let live. Most inhabitants of Selina get by by being as self sufficient as possible and selling any food or goods beyond what very little they truly need in Dodge.

Our Party

2sky11 - Rick Matthews, Union Cavalryman
Dragonbud - Aveline, Blessed
ElGappa - Constantin LeBlanc, French Soldier of Fortune
Lewis - John Blackburn, Investigator
Wampower - Franz Kaufman, Austrian Gunsmith and Ex-Soldier


About The Setting

While this adventure won't explore most of the world or many of the themes here is a bit, fresh from the Player's Guide, to explain the setting and where it differs from the world we all live in.

Bloody Kansas and Dodge


An Ugly Past
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Characters

2sky11 - Rick Matthews, Union Cavalryman


Dragonbud - Aveline, Blessed


ElGappa - Constantin LeBlanc, French Soldier of Fortune


Lewis - John Blackburn, Investigator


Wampower - Franz Kaufman, Austrian Gunsmith and Ex-Soldier


War - Eli Mckee, Marshal
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I'll wait a bit until either everyone in the carriage gets a chance to post or someone makes a post that seems like its telling me to just go ahead and post...to get things started. The driver of the carriage will soon see something that freaks him out.

Perform actions within brackets such as

[Notice], [Persuasion], [Shooting] and I'll figure out if it works or not and let you know here in the OOC
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Oh shit, didn't realize this was up
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Oh shit, didn't realize this was up


It only went up today/last night so no need to worry
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And with my testing done, I can actually dedicate time to other things
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I feel that, this week is my finals week
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We have one more application coming in relatively soon. Hopefully Life in Stasis will join in on a future RP as her character Sequoyah Guess seemed really cool.

I'm updating the front page a bit, just to copy/paste some stuff from the Interest Check thread to the opening and to provide a bit of a reference for who the Supporting Cast is.
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Name: Jack The Gambler Gambol



Agility: 5
Smarts: 6
Spirit: 4
Strength: 5
Vigor: 5

Coach Driving- 1
Fighting- 1
Gambling- 3
Healing- 1
Intimidation- 1
Investigation - 1
Knowledge – 1
Notice -1
Persuasion -1
Riding 1
Shooting- 3

Gear
Twin white and silver single action colt peacemakers (so looks like this for design

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Winchester ‘76

two boxes of ammo one for his peacemakers and one for his Winchester
300 dollars in his pocket.
Background - Jack had been gambling for as long as he could remember and very rarely lost. he seemed to have a knack for winning some called him the Gambling House because of the saying "the house always wins." Most, however, just called him the Gambler. Jack arrived in the disputed territory of Kansas as he had managed to dodge fighting in the civil war since he was always traveling and didn't care for the reasons of the war as he detested fighting some rich person's battle. he had been heading to Dodge City from a small town in Kentucky to be precise. When something told him to take a detour to Selina. he was not sure why but in no hurry to Dodge started heading there on his horse hoping something interesting would happen when he arrived. the traveling life was a lonely one maybe there was a pretty girl Jack could marry.



Worst Nightmare - being killed by a coward. A man who doesn't look him in eyes and shoot.
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So we are about to begin what will soon become our first combat. In order to make things a little bit more game like we're going to have turn orders which really just means a post order. Deadlands doesn't really have a lot, at least not that I've found, about who goes in what order so I'm just looking at relevant-ish stats for now.

The way Deadlands proper is run, like at a table and in person, is that everyone draws a card from a deck at random and then they act in the order of highest card. We could try that too with me just picking random cards for everyone if that sounds good. But for now...

In the post I'm about to make a Big Fucking Cougar will make the first "move." A move is not necessarily an attack it can also be movement or an action such as reloading, clearing a jammed weapon, falling back, crouching, or saying something much longer than a syllable or so. So we will go in move order and at least at first lets do PMs to figure out whats going to happen.

When it's your turn PM me what you want to do so we can make sure that everyone is doing roughly the same amount of stuff per turn taking into consideration abilities and whatnot, and we'll figure out if it misses or if it hits and if it hits how effective it is. This will also help keep things clearly in sequence so folks are clearer about where everyone is. In time I'm confident we can all kind of figure out how to share the story and actions so that only a move order is needed, but lets try it out like this a bit.

Move Order for this encounter is : Big Fucking Cougar - LeBlanc - Kaufmann - PAUSE - Blackburn

So ElGappa if you can send me a PM with what you want to do, then we'll figure out how much of that is reasonable for you to do as your turn and how effective it is, at which point you can write up your post.

This is pretty experimental so any input on what does and doesnt work and how it might work better is verrrry much appreciated. I kind of wish there was an Initiative skill or stat. I'm basing this off of Agility and any relevant stats, for this encounter I'm looking at Fighting, Shooting, and Survival. I'm also trying to take into account positioning, which is simple enough for this but not so much in the future probably.
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I’m at work so I can’t do real posts but I don’t want to slow you guys down so...

ElGappa, go ahead and post your turn
Wampower after he does that if you can PM me what you want to do or hit me up on the Discord.

Everyone in town, the bar is rather small and located in the back of Zeke’s Taxidermy shop. It’s decorated with a variety of well preserved and posed wildlife. You can get hard drinks or stuff like water, club soda, or coffee. Nothing fancy to eat as that’s mostly at the Bed and Breakfast.

Zeke owns the place and acts as bartender. He’s a smaller guy, jittery, heavily bearded. The bar is less than pristine but well cared for, mostly by the worn out waitress Nancy who looks as though she was probably once quite pretty.

If you’re coming in to town feel free to have Zeke call you over, something like “Hey there feller! You look like youse in need of a stiff drink. C’mere”

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Sorry I haven’t updated in a while it’s been a weird week. I’ll post tonight tomorrow to bring the coach in and get things going. Coach limping in with a big ass dead cougar strapped to it and a badly wounded man, as well as three foreigners probably in need of booze and food. Looking forward to it.
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I'm working on a post now! I had been camping this weekend!
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Just wanted to put a bit of a notice out. We've only got 5 folks actually posting, and one of them will soon be unavailable to post for a while, so if anyone would like to join let me know. I set it back to (Apply) rather than (Full) but figured I'd put this up too.
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I'm interested in joining this, but I don't think I have the time right now. I'll keep an eye on it in case I free up some time.
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I'm more than willing to put my hat in on this if ya'll are still looking for an extra.
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