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RE: [DL] Tale Tellin' [*Potential Spoilers*]
I run HoE almost exclusively after running through the Devils
TOwer trilogy with my group, but since the Agency doesn't
really exist in HoE I confine my remarks to the Weird West
(especially Back East the North/South). On occasion, such as the
week before last, I also run Lost Colony.
Back East (at leaast the impression I got from BEtN) was that the Agency and their freelancers were pretty much the dominant force against the Reckoners. Considering that their actions can't lower the fear level, and during war time it doesn't normally lower (plus their are cults and such to consider) it seems as though it would keep rising and rising until it hit Deadland proportions. If it doesn't lower, and new monsters step in to replace those slain then efforts are about as futile as in HoE (pre-Unity). Afterall the Agency has a much stronger presence back east, and they hate it when people tale-tell. Thus, you might get away with it once but then the MIBD are going to drag you away. BTW this is cool.
The Red lantern gang has people convinced their ghosts/zombies,
and this causes fear. As of yet the Recknoners haven't taken advantage, yet...
Likewise raids by the Laughing Men can spike the fear level, as
can other mundane action that scares lots of folks. Not all
fear has a supernatural cause. Although improper application of ABs can go a long way...
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--- "Clint Black" wrote:
From: "Clint Black"
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:26:16 -0400
To:
Subject: RE: [DL] Tale Tellin' [*Potential Spoilers*]
>Thats really screwed up. Sort of fits with the blurb in the
Agency book.
But if
>that's the case why isn't the entire east coast a Deadland? I
mean the fear
just
>keeps building right?
Well, it doesn't *lower*, but that doesn't mean it
automatically rises.
Getting rid of the local monster does slow down the process a
bit; it just
doesn't make it any better than it was before.
Also, it's not like the Agency and the Rangers are the only
ones out there
fighting (kind of the point of posses without a member of one
of those two
groups).
And as far as the entire east coast being a Deadland... I
presume you
haven't read HOE yet. ;-)
>Also does this mean that if nobody is living in an area you
can't tell the
tale even
>to the people living just outside the zone. What reason
(besides their
fear) would
>they have to believe your outlandish claims?
Ah, big assumption there. Who says they have to *believe*?
They don't have to acknowledge the story as true. Heck, even
the teller
doesn't have to acknowledge the story as true... but on that
gut instinctual
level where Truth and Fear truly exist, they will know.
>Also in the case of bandits and such like the Red Lantern Gang
could you
expose
>the truth or would they believe your lying since everybody
knows their a
bunch of
>ghosts...
The Red Lantern Gang and other bandits aren't a function of the
Reckoners,
so telling the tale of their capture or exposure isn't going to
affect the
Fear Level anyway.
>I don't have a problem with the Agency/Ranger handicap, but
not being able
to
>soften the blow is insane. Your going to get yourself lynched
telling them
the
>whole truth.
Now, I never said "the whole truth." ;-)
But you do have to tell the story of your posse defeating the
monster. If
you turn the Huckster's Soul Blast into a "shotgun blast,"
well, that isn't
going to change the fact that he stood there, fought a monster,
and won.
Whereas, making the monster into a rabid wolf does change
things.
After all, on that same gut instinctual level, those people
*know* there was
a real monster out there. Telling them you killed a rabid wolf
leaves them
thinking the monster is still out there... and since they think
it, it will
happen.
Clint Black
"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing
else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the
morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it
was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank
body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled
like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
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