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Colorado; Morning


The weather seemed almost oppressive, the sun seemed bleaker then usual yet its stark, unforgiving presence bathed the Citizens of Colorado in unforgiving heat. Colorado was a city under duress. Mysterious disappearance worried the populace, strange cattle deaths worried the farmers. Its street seemed as if they were choking with dust and something strange and alien hung in the very air they breathed. It was safe to say the hunters had come to the right place. Here was a den of sin, a great mystery and terror waiting to be unbound. This is a place of Massacres after all, the dead was never given the chance to rest.

Out on the prairie, wierd noises haunted the nights and dead, carved up carcasses showed up as the sun crested the horizon once more to let day take over. Now the Lament was taking up the jobs of safe keeping cattle becouse all the regular roughnecks were to afraid to do it. A blood red sun rose that morning. Bathing the steppes in a crimson sheen. Another cadaver was found far from its original grazing ground, torn up and turned into a shredded bloody mess.

Salim Al-Jahem didn't like it one bit. He was considered a scholar among his kind, and he held the culture of others in high esteem. But there was something sickly with this town. A deep, profound wrongness he could not place. But he felt it, deep within him. It crept up on him. He was here to aid the Lightbringers. During the crusades, they had gone from mortal enemies, to tentive allies and back a dozen times. Politics were confusing, but now he knew why they needed his help. The necromancers legacy was here, it had to be. They had tracked it to America before it was lost. But with all that was going on around them he knew it was here.

And they were not alone. Jacobs Lament held position outside of town. He had seen people of the Lost Brigade at the barracks. Something massive was underway, it had dragged them all to this infernal place. And natives, that his western allies had reffered to as ”Children of the Lynx”. Pagans, heathens that did not know God or Allah. But he did not hate them, they fought the darkness as he did. And that was all he asked of them. He was not like many of his brethren. The Crescent were formed before the enlightenment, as such their ideas were vastly different. They valued everyone who would stand against the evils not of this world. The freemasons had however, called for a meeting to be held. The middle aged marrocean held the handwritten letter in his hand. Marvelling how precise this mans cursive was.

”To all those whom it concern.

Never before have we gathered in such a manner, and as such, I feel we need to meet. This a opportunity to shed some light on recent event nad distrubute the tasks at hand. We have all fought the same foe, for different reasons. As such it is high time we join forces, if only temporarily. Send your representives to the ”Lone Stallion” salloon, we shall await them.

Best Regards,
Thomas Rawling Jr.


He balled it up in a fist, and tossed it at the fire. Well, he was the only Crescent presence so he had to attend. There were a bunch of lightbringers, but he knew who'd they send atleast he was pretty sure of it. He was curius however, who else would show.

EVENT


All of you have been called to a meeting, sent as representives for your factions. This meeting is unprecedented. Never before have people of all thes factions gathered under one roof .
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Bill chewed on the end of a smoked piece of beef. He lounged on one of the rickety cots that covered the barrack floor. Or what passed for a barrack out here in the Wild. On his hip was strapped his trust sword. His rifle was within easy reach. His knit cap was pulled low over his ears for warmth. His other brigade members were perched on their cots, pulled close to his.

"Moon." Scruffy, A scruffy man; scruffy even compared to Bill, called tossing the tarot card onto Bill's cot.

The moon card set off a flurry of movement as everyone scoured their cards for the right one.

"Sun." Carlos, a Mexican, called.

Bill ripped off a piece of meat and wolfed it down as quickly as he could. They had long since stopped playing with his deck of cards. Instead some brigadier had stolen the tarot cards from somewhere. They played with them with a slapdash irreverence. Theoretically according to superstition their play could still tell the future, but Bill didn't care. And neither did any of the men they were with. None of them knew what the cards meant in any order. So even if it did happen, they'll be blissfully unaware. Anyways, they didn't play divination tarot. They just played Tarot the gambling game.

"Jack." Bill said around his full mouth and tossed his card onto the growing pile.

"Aint it time for the hoopla?" Scruffy asked around a wad of chewing tobacco. "Aint you and Alex supposed to be there?"

Bill eyed Scruffy and grunted. "Prob'ly." He allowed.

"Alex's gonna be pissed if you miss it." Scruffy helpfully pointed out.

Bill just exhaled loudly and continued the game.

"Yankee just donna wanna lose." Carlos sniggered as he claimed the cards.

Bill tossed his next wager at the Mexican's face. "At least I ain't a filthy bandito."

There was a moment of silence before Carlos launched himself at Bill and they ended up toppling the cot as they wrestled on the floor. There were muffled shouts of insults and You take that back. In the end, it stopped when Bill had the smaller Mexican pinned on the ground.

"You yield?" Bill asked. Carlos slapped the ground and Bill helped him to his feet.

"One of these days I'm gonna get ye yank." Carlos muttered. There was no ill will on either side.

"Sure. Sure." Bill righted his cot and they all looked at the strewn cards. None of their betting money was anywhere to be found. Two pairs of eyes turned to Scruffy who wisely offered them back their money. Bill snatched his share and shoved it in his pocket.

"Guess I better be off." Bill sighed again. "No sense in getting everyone's britches in a knot."
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Mud. It clung thickly to Albans' leather boots and pasted his trousers to his legs. His leather duster and his satchel were coated with brown clumps of what could only be horse manure, grass and dirt. Mein Gott...he thought.What a country. But he pushed on; as he had across war-ravaged Virginia and Pennsylvania, across this continent as far away from that...Dämon... Alban stopped his trek suddenly and listened. Had he heard a noise? These mountain passes carried sounds weirdly-maybe it was only a-no.. A shriek.

Alban scurried off the road and up a rocky bank to his right. He ducked behind a wide Ponderosa and pulled his pistol from its' holster. He checked the rounds in the revolver quietly, and after a moment he peeked around the great pine to check the road. A crow had landed very near to where he had been standing only a moment ago. It turned it's head sideways, to look at Alban. The black bird pecked at its' foot for a moment and then took flight. Alban, gun still drawn cautiously descended to the road once more. The bird had removed a tin cylinder from its foot. Alban read the note twice.A meeting...How did they find me? Never mind. This is what I have been waiting for. Maybe now I can find some answers...


Colorado was a town in the grip of something...disturbing. As Alban trecked into town, he took note of the shuttered windows, the barred doors. The closed Granary. The well defended Barracks and the Jacobs Lament boys encamped outside town. Alban suddenly felt very alone-very...Foreign; and he suddenly wished he was walking the cobbled streets of Vienna, strolling alongside the river Wein.


"Watch it!" said a man, bumping into Alban.

"Es tut uns leid," said Alban. Sorry. The man lumbered away with a grunt. "Wait," called Alban. "I'm looking for the Lone Stallion Saloon."

The man, without turning said, "your standing in front of it you dumb foreign bastard!"


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She was crouched down towards the ground, resting on her haunches and gazing out at the skyline. Her features were afflicted with thought that bent them into furrows contradictory to her youth. Then again, youth was such an absurd concept; they never seemed to notice the way death crept upon their features, and why should they? A slow death that marked the aged would never consume them. There were too many dogs in the fight for claiming their ill evolved bodies that the calming serenity of passing from days wasn’t even a flicker in the focused mind.

Clawlike nails dug into the dirt at her feet, sifting it about in her hands and letting it fall into the suffocating wind before reaching the same digits to her face and pressing them to her nose. She gave it a sniff before dropping it back to her side and rising up to her full 63 inches. “Something is waiting.” She spoke in a solitary tone that barely escaped into a conscious idea, but it didn’t pass away unnoticed. A tall lean man canted his head towards her and allowed a goofy grin to spread across his lips. She didn’t return the smile, and in fact had moved her gaze to dwell on the town that seemed to be tightening some primordial noose.

“The meeting probably isn’t waiting on us.” The smile had infected his tone and she sneered at the town in response.

“No. Something else.” She glanced at the man to the north of her shoulder, finally acknowledging his disposition. “You sound almost excited about the meeting.”

“Aren’t you?” His grin became self conscious and slipped away, calling back the usual sedated contemplation. “It’s rare to talk to others that understand.”

Cocheta scoffed at the assertion and wrapped her arms across her chest. “I am not optimistic about their understanding. It’s going to be a waste of time. You should be going if you are so excited.”

“I’d better not.” He started looking at the town and he found the same sneer she had worn infectious. Her leather boots dragged enough to send nugatory swirls of dirt following her path to the dappled appaloosa. She reached into the horse’s side pack and pulled a couple things out. She buttoned a thin cotton black long sleeve that fell almost to her knees and then wrapped a leather ammunition belt with holster around her waist. She was slipping a knife in her boot when the man turned to speak, “Send word as soon as you can. We’ll be nearby.”

Her response was a nod as she pulled a dark and dusty cowboy hat onto her head. “I’ll be in touch; good luck.” She smiled for the first time, but it was still infected by the by the gloom of this place. She grabbed at a tuft of horsehair and pulled her nimble form to slide up on the sturdy creature. She raised a palm to the man and he responded in kind as she turned the horse towards the town, heading for the lone road that lacked even good intentions for paving.

She traced back to try and collect memories from her last visit to a populated area. She was coming up short until she felt the throbbing of a few mundane eyes following her. She had hunted various flesh eaters, but the isolation of strangers starring jarred her for some reason. She pulled the hat a little lower over her eyes and found a bit of solace in spotting the Lone Stallion. She made a click from the side of her mouth and the horse eased to a stop and let the girl slide down. She didn’t have reigns to tie the horse up with, but it wouldn’t matter. They’d spent enough time together she had little concern that he’d up and decide to wander off now.

She pressed her palm into the door of the Stallion, gauging the vibrations of voices and ambience on the other side before pushing it open and slipping in as subtly as her lithe form could manage.
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