Re: [DL] Pitch's Army o' Darkness (long)

["Tim Denee" <gilkison@ihug.co.nz>]

> >>Should your marshal decide to take anything from my ideas, spoilers
> >>follow,I guess.<<
>
> >>The Darkmen are essentially just harrowed who have come within
> Pitch's reach and he'sshredded the human soul and completely reworked the
> body. He doesn't
> have many right now; only four or five.<<
>
> So what can he do to any PC that is harrowed - temporary Darkmen? a
> Darkmen servitor?

I would make it an all-or-nothing spirit contest between the human and the
host manitou. Whoever wins comes out with complete dominion. Should the
manitou end up winning, then the change would be slow. The skin would
gradually darken over a period of weeks as the person grows taller, more
robust, and so forth. The only way to stop the harrowed from becoming a
Darkman would be too take them away from Pitch's grasp, (which currently
extends along the rockies and anywhere near them, such as denver), and then
to somehow give the human dominion back.

> I like this, however I would probably lead them in slowly, running a
> couple of adventures in which the posse find one of the Darkmen to be
> behind various nefarious plots and he becomes a general pain in the
> butt.  I would horde my fate chips to make him hard to take down and
> get him to run before he falls.  This leads up to when the posse
> eventually leads up to the big finalle where the posse find that he is
> the tip of the iceberg and that all tha pain and sufffering the
> darkman they have been fighting is four or five times that - plus it's
> all their fault as they called big nasty Pitch into this world in the
> first place.  Don't it make you feel good.

Yeah, that's more or less what I had planned. They see a big black man
following them around, on the edges of combat, and so forth. Should they
confront him he can simply Ghost and walk through a nearby wall. Aside from
that, adventuring willl continue as normal. Eventually they'll see the black
man talk to an identical version of himself, and then they'll realise
something baaaad's going down.  This is over several sessions, of course.
And then, in all probability, Pitch will end up taking over the world and
turning it into a Deadland. My posse will then most likely create new
characters and make a fresh start in 1876, sans greater manitou running
amok.

> >>Tim "Kill the posse! Kill them all!" Denee
>
> It's terrible when one of Goff's experimentations escapes to wreak
> havoc on the general populace, ...oh wait it's New Zealand, that must
> be the official PEG test site :-)
>
> Roy

Braaaaaains.... Mooooore posse braaaaains.... Must... Kill... Posse....

Tim "Goff Zombie" Denee