Re: [DL] chips and (marshalls only)stuff

[Brother Bones <brbones1@yahoo.com>]

I just read brainburners a little bit ago and they
mentioned that 1 had gotten away from the unity, I
also seem to remember a part that said the survivor
had died later (I assumed it was a teaser and would be
expanded upon in LC).

--- Doplegnger@aol.com wrote:
> first of all, on the subject of chips, I am almost
> positive that the jokers 
> function exactly the same for the marshall, with the
> exception that they 
> don't get or give chips.   the reason for this is
> that marshalls play by all 
> the player rules (except where they explicitly
> don't.   as example, all 
> monsters drop with 5 wounds to the guts, but
> zombie's don't die because it 
> says explicitly that they don't.
> 
> on page 115, red joker lets you go at any time and
> gives you a draw (but not 
> to the marshall as explicitly stated).   black joker
> gives marshall a draw, 
> and you lose that and your highest action card, but
> nobody draws when the 
> marshall gets the black joker (as explicitly
> stated).   unless it says 
> otherwise, marshalls play by all the rules players
> do.   'sides, if marshalls 
> didn't play by black joker rules, they'd run out of
> cards (no reshuffle)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> now, on to the marshall's section
> 
> 
> 
> 
> marshalls only I said
> 
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> 
> 
> sigh...   alright, you're only messing it up for
> yourself
> 
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> 
> 
> ok, one thing has been bugging me for a little
> while.   most of the really 
> good stuff in adventures has been worked into other
> places or has some 
> obvious effect on the west.   examples include:
> bloody sunday (from devil's 
> tower 2), the effect of rain of terror is explained
> in the adventure, dead 
> presidents, even abra cadabra gets redone in both
> canyon of doom and in HOE.  
>  but in canyon of doom you bring an old one back,
> and then he leaves and is 
> never mentioned again.   what happened to him?  
> there is no way he'd just 
> stand in the background.   the only reasonable
> thoguht I can come up with is 
> that he plays a part in the upcoming major weird
> west adventures (the ones 
> referenced in the unity where the weaknesses of the
> reckoners are 
> discovered).   seems odd that such a major thing
> wouldn't even be mentioned 
> again by now though
> 
> 
> 
> also, on the off chance anyone on this list knows
> (nobody did on the hoe 
> list).   in brainburners it is said that one of the
> unforgotten 15 survived.  
>  all 15 of them are the final boss in the unity.  
> was this plot twist 
> dropped, or was the one "survivor" the brain glom,
> or did someone go back to 
> the unity to make the glom and become the fifteenth
> head?   also, comsat said 
> it heard survivors screaming on the unity, but there
> are no survivors on the 
> unity.   another dropped story line or is there a
> unity part two when we find 
> out biren went to the unity to kill all the
> survivors and create the brain 
> glom (with the help of a syker he brought with him),
> and the one survivng 
> syker is the one who goes after biren, and he needs
> the posses help.
> 
> 
> finally, any other marshalls have any trouble with
> posses going public with 
> hard evidence about the reckoning (like jackie's
> journal level hard 
> evidence).   I can see it coming and I'm debating
> about how to head it off 
> and thought some extra input mightbe helpful
> 
> thanks for any help with this.
> 
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