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From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net
[mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On Behalf
Of Joey Fanning
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 7:33 AM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: [DL] Setting poll
I want to create a new time setting for the Deadlands system
to put up on my website, and I want to know which of these three you loyal
fans like the best.
1.(1920s)The Screaming 20's
The US's "great experiment, prohibition,
has become a colossal failure as bootleggers from down south and the
territories keep bringing in illegal liquor and the cops are corrupted by
the mobs. Men who would have become pinkertons years ago are now vice
cops, vigilant and loyal officers whose duties are to stop the flow of alcohol
in the US and bring
down the family. The CSA has no desire to stop their own bootleggers, and
border disputes break out. Meanwhile, the vice cops, border patrols, and
mobsters have another set of "spirits" to worry about. Could
another civil war break out less than half a century after the first one ender
and bring a premature reckoning?
After the atomic bomb brought an end to
the weird wars, the forces of evil shifted allinces from nazi Germany to
communist Russia,
supplementing their already-strong military with undead hordes risen from all
the world's armies. The already-corrupt officials have become their own
type of servitors, and nearly an entire continent has become a deadland.
The northern and southern US have put their differences aside for now and try
to stop the sneak attacks, espionage, and sabotage that the russkies have
attempted. Their best help, however, is a mad scientist that will one day
bring about an end to the world. Throw in the fact that your own allies
may be harrowed under red control, you may be a spy for another government, and
the public must never know, and you have an unparalleled paranoia-fest.
3.(2000s)The War on Terror
When a dual-national tragedy hits both USA and CSA
soil, they join forces to take on their new common enemy--te Tailban. In
a modern setting, troops have all the machinery they need to take on their new
foe--or so they thought. The afghani rebels have taken over a large
portion of the middle east with the help of creatures straight out of
legend. The armies of the west have their own secret weapon, though--the
sykers, a newly perfected foot-soldier that is as effective as a heavily-armed
squad of soldiers. The USA has begun
talks of using nuclear weapons if their ground war does not succeed, but will
this transform all of the middle east into a deadland and tip the war--in favor
of the bad guys?