Re: [HOE] Help out a poor foolish marshall?

[Madnes6841@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/17/01 5:25:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
frighty@corporatedirtbag.com writes:
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> The problem I have is they've got a liiitle too much stuff. They've picked
>  up huge ammounts of trade goods (They'll pick up ANYTHING. These guys
>  scoured an abandoned office, couldn't find much of value so took paper. I'm
>  actually quite surprised they didn't take the filing cabinets too...).
>  This has given them way, way too much cash to do anything and I need a
>  believable way of taking some of it (the goods, their food, ideally some of
>  the RW's spook juice too) from them.


The first thing I'd tell you is this- Money Can't buy you love. The first 
thing I'd suggest is to put them in a straightforward situation where having 
alot of Stuff is useless to them. Also, I don't know if you do already, but 
in Waste Warriors there are rules for Scavenging TNs in Communities of 
varying size.(So if they don't spend a majority of their time in junkyard, 
it'll be harder to use this "Stuff" as currency- if they're in a community 
that doesn't have a pot to piss in, They'll have a harder time Selling that 
paper when what the people really need is Food, or guns for defense or some 
such basic necessity.)
 
The second suggestion is That if they're rolling around with a truck full of 
loot, Two other things could happen. Either A.) people could assume that the 
heroes are people of Means, and that they're tough enough to have won all 
this loot, And That These Heroes Could help us with our Big 
Community-Threatening problem.(Basically, people see them, realize that to 
get stuff like what they've got, you've got to have True Grit as salvagers 
and as guards, and wind up asking them to Stop the Combine from stealing 
their harvests every year in "Tribute." If they Say No, Then they're not 
heroes- Start turning them into servitors... drop charity cases on them until 
they either Be charitable(really, from their hearts) or until they lose 
patience and just start Hording.(I'm thinking they'd be favored by Famine for 
hording.)
Or B.), they could roll into a community that sides with Karl Marx, and 
Decrees that the posse is the proliteriate, and gets really stinkin' mad at 
em.

For the Third and final solution, the posse gets around right? Hows about 
this- a combine patrol, a more Elite unit(Not like red hats, but definitely 
veterans), That does a good job raiding and keeps itself very well supllied 
shows up ans starts demanding Tribute from a town that the posse was in, 
like, an adventure ago. They hear about this Truck full of food, spook juice, 
and general goodies, guarded by only (5, ?) guys. They then decide to do a 
Full out ambush. Basically, sick a bunch of well trained Scavenge hungry 
balck hats on them- Black hats typically don't have salvageable equipment, so 
thei'r good for bleeding a posse off.(certainly you could run combat to suit 
your needs.)