Bullet relics -- was RE: [DL] Healing magic

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

Sorry for responding to my own post -- let me adjust the subject a bit
to kinda make it look like a new thread. ;-)

After re-reading the parts of this thread about bullets that become
relics, my poor excuse for a brain almost remembers something about some
other lead that gained a power and a taint...

Spoiler space, just to be sure...

















Weren't the lead balls that Booth shot Lincoln with imbued with some
sort of relic-ness?  Anyone have the memory or books to comment?

Jeff Y.


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Yates
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:31 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: RE: [DL] Healing magic
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net
> > [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of Wangenstein 
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:12 PM
> > To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> > Subject: RE: [DL] Healing magic
> > 
> > 
> > > Ya know tho, for my games I think I'd still have the magic
> > remove the
> > > bullet/arrow/knife.  It's just simpler/quicker that way, 
> and we can
> > > move on to the other meaty bits of gaming.
> > > 
> > > Jeff Y.
> > 
> > That is an excellent question, and a good point about it
> > being simpler/quicker for the magic to just take care of it. 
> > However, it could be an interesting idea for a later 
> > adventure. Maybe something where the character can sense when 
> > the person who shot him is in the vicinity (the bullet 
> > 'aches'), or knows when the "bullet with his name on it" is near...
> > 
> > Derek D. Bass
> 
> Sounds like a good idea for a PC-created relic, with a mean 
> Manitou twist.  The chunk of lead that almost did a character 
> in, removed and discarded, becomes a "marked bullet."  It's 
> got a hankerin' for that PC's blood now, and will cause an 
> extra die of damage should it ever hit that character again.  
> The original wound the bullet caused aches and throbs 
> painfully whenever the "marked bullet" is within 100yds of 
> the PC.  To have gotten a "taste" for the PC, the bullet must 
> have caused 4 wounds to the head or guts of the PC, and done 
> it all by itself (not by causing the 4th wound, but by 
> causing all four).  And the PC must have some Reknown and 
> some Grit, or they just aren't gonna be 'powerful' enough to 
> create a relic like this.  The trick is that someone that 
> really wants the PC dead must know enough to recover the 
> bullet, and reshape it and use it to reload a round of ammo.
> 
> I suppose a kind Marshal could let PC's try to gather bullets 
> removed from enemies that they didn't quite kill as well. ;-)
> 
> Still a vague idea, but I'm sure the truly EVIL marshals on 
> the list can buff up this idea...
> 
> Jeff Y.
> 
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