The Journal of Cassandra Kane: Her Adventures in the Wild Wild West
Dime Novel: The 'pledge' & 'turn"
Real World Date: April 2008
Game World Date: November 1878
Season Two, Episode Three
Reggie had brought the dog back from Mcellean – the one that was frozen. We are going to keep him and call him “Frosty”.
Fairfax arrives in town. He got my telegram that I sent through Mr. Parker as well as a note from him as well. I fill him in what’s happened and to be on the look out for the Major.
He wants me to train for a week at the Monastery to learn the righteous rage.
November 3, 1878
Mr. Parker returns from Virginia City with Mr. Murphy. With a Wanted poster from Lost Angels for Marguerite and me for $1500 each, alive. One for Aieslynn says $500 dead or alive. Also because of the defeat of Santa Ana “we” took back Progress and a lot of the surrounding towns.
Mr. Parker had gone to put some protocols into action – things to do should confidences be broken. Mr. Conkling is working on re-installing the telegraphs.
We talk about the things we’ve figure out about the Major and what he’s plans might be.
November 4, 1878
Package arrives for the Captain: A box that has 3 eyeballs and 4 fingers in it.
Hunch:
Finger: I see him chopping fingers off the Captain’s solider with a tomahawk.
Eye: I see him pluck the eye out of a living solider with a knife.
November 5, 1878
Go to Fort Lincoln to see about the package. A courier had delivered it from Fort Lincoln.
A man in a poncho dropped off the package.
November 6, 1878
Meet Ralph a tinker that fixed Corman’s hand. He’s going back to Freedom with us. Corman’s asked him if he wants to loot through Mcellean’s for anything to use.
Head back to Freedom.
Aieslynn had gotten a letter from her father – Mr. O’Connelly – that we should be getting a messenger soon and that we should listen carefully to what he says.
A dot Injun shows up at our door around dinnertime. Mr. Hanu-man wants our help – he was referred to by Mr. O’Connelly. Sometime ago there was a break in at Dr. Hellstrome industries and an item was taken. Mr. Hanu-man and his employer do not want Hellstrome to get this item back. A 150-carat black diamond called the “Heart of Darkness” that was in Hellstrome collection. It was found by Seamus Burn in the jungles of South America, he was part of the Explorers society, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. The diamond was sold to Hellstrome for an undisclosed amount of money.
Mr. O’Connelly is the employer. And is willing to pay us $14000 in gold. After much bickering and rudeness (on our part) we agree to the job based on the fact that when we retrieve the diamond he had to prove to us that he would do the right thing.
Info: Hellstrome bought the diamond from Seamus. A few weeks after buying it there was a break in as his house and the diamond was stolen (it however was a fake he kept there). The diamond was in Plant 13 along with research on it. The scientists were killed. The automons that were guarding the lab were blown up from behind by huge explosives. One of the human guards died of a heart attack. Probably from something he saw. He’ll get us badges that make up employee of Wasatch. So we can investigate of the scene of the crime. Possible suspects are Daniets (Mormons – skilled much like Grimme’s Angels). The plant will see as us employees and investigators. If we want to actually check out Hellstrome’s house we should get in touch with Mr. Hanu-man.
November 12, 1878
Arrive in Salt Lake. Yay. We get to use our masks again. We make our way to Plant 13. It’s almost been two weeks since the break in. The lab is cold. One body is hanging from the rafters wearing a lab coat, a hood, and handcuffed. Two bodies near the door. A female researcher stabbed 3 times. The other a male has been shot three times. Another body near the door is on a table and seems to missing a head – which in reality has been smashed flat onto the table.
All the papers on the floor seemed to be burned. Large footprint on the floor in blood. The shells on floor Evans 44 caliber.
A faint methane scent.
Pancake head - Yugan Jarlock
A man named Gerald helps with information
List of stolen items:
Maxus power suit (ego skeleton – iron man type suit)
Retype of shooting knives
Clockwork de-moler
Steamjack – (jackhammer)
Quad piston wagon – horseless stagecoach
Hunch:
The 44 Evans bullet. An Injun with a lot of firearms (with Injun markings on the guns). I see him shooting a guy. A big guy (9 feet tall, big feet, a big mechanical armor and mechanical eye) he smooshes the pancake guy. A Mexican girl with knives stabbing the girl. She has knife shooter. See the Mexican girl cutting up the guy that was hung. A dapper black man in white spikey hair in a (English) fancy suit watching. A guy in a duster with a marshal/Texas ranger watching as well. A guy with gogles and an aviator helmet (mad scientist type) got a flamethrower and throwing explosion bombs. The mad scientist guy & cowboy guy throw something at the back of the automatons and they explode so they can run out the door.
News on the street:
Kat Washington owns a pawnshop in the Junkyard and she’s gotten some interesting merchandise.
A drunken Injun has been making a nuisance and spending money at the Streamer.
Kat Washington – has the knife gun that I saw in my vision.
Hunch: on Kat Washington
Two raggedy guys trade the knife shooter for mining equipment and food.
The Steamer: The saloon is full of steam, but the air seems cleaner. The bartender helps out with the people we are looking for: Walter Hot Iron and the Tremada gang. Santa DiMingo the woman. Casper Zed – the black man, Zic – the big guy. Rex Tremeda – The cowboy, Doc Sneed the Tinker.
We talk about trying to set up a job with them and leave a message with the bartender.
November 13, 1878
We go to the Sledgeworks mining area to see about the men that sold the knife thrower. We find a guy who knows them and says they are gone but is able to tell us about their find. Including that that they had seen someone drive a wagon over the cliff and he found a tin badge in the muck.
Hunch: Tin badge
See an abandoned building. “Jackson’s smelt work”. Rex Tremeda.
We go back to the bar and see Walter Hot Iron there. The Captain and I talk to him outside and he agrees us to give us the info on the diamonds whereabouts for $600.
Mr. Stone (6’5, black hair, short, mustache, dark eyes – creepy) Gunslinger
15 6th Circle
Lost Angels, CA
We go see Mr. Huna-man and tell him the info we have.
Somehow we decide that we will go into Lost Angels in disguise. Miss Aieslyn dresses us up.
November 18, 1878
We take the train to a city close to Lost Angels and buy some horses to ride into the city.
William Seymour – The Captain
Johnny Williamstein III - Murphy
Rebecca Johnson - Cassandra
Philamina Dunbarrow - Aieslyn
William Cardigan - Corman
Tammy Sinclair - Marguerite
Pete Alistair – Reggie
He’s not in the boarding house where he was supposed to be. The Captain goes over to talk to the innkeeper and in the meantime while we were sitting in the saloon across the street we see like 25 guardian angels show up and 25 men in ponchos. We also see the Major. Aislynn teleports in to get the Captain and the Major also runs in and causes the force field to fall over the hotel.
Reggie & Murphy go get our horses and we wait in the alley next to the saloon to see if she will teleport out with the Captain. Instead we see the Major carrying Aieslynn and the Captain out. Corman & Reggie both take a shot at the Major and it doesn’t seem to hurt him. Marguerite is able to dispel Aieslynn who then grabs the Captain and teleports both them both to the alley. Marguerite then says that she can sense Grimme is nearby. We get the Captain up on a horse with Aieslyn and try to get everyone to ride out. But then we hear gunshots from inside the saloon.
10 men ran into the saloon to shoot Corman. The tavern shakes as well and Grimme is suddenly coming down the stairs. I run in to get Corman and see him surrounded by men with guns pointed at him and he looks shot up. I grab him and teleport back into the alley. He jumps on his horse and pulls me up. Everyone else is on the there horse as well and we start riding out of the city.
As we try to ride to the gate we see Angels & the Major’s men are on horses running after us. On a hill nearby a door seems to open up like a cave. A raggedy man in a wooden mask waves us over to the opening. He tells us if we want to get away to follow him. Aieslynn turns her ride over his way and hops off her horse and into the cave. We are able to walk alongside the horses into the cave. The man in the mask says his name is Pete and says that he needs to call down a landslide to cover our tracks. The tunnel leads us back into the city. Pete says that we have to wait until they stop riding around up top before he can get us out. He says anyone that pisses Grimme off that much is a friend of his. He says he was just a regular burglar who got caught and was sent to the Rock. Grimme seemed to think that Pete worked for Kang, which he says he didn’t – but he confessed to it just to try to get him to stop. He said that Caroline would visit with Grimme to torture him as well. One day he and two cellmates made an escape, but the other two were eaten by sharks.
He says now he sticks around to cause trouble to Grimme. To find out information about him and sell and give it away.
While waiting for Pete to return – he’s gonna go find out about the diamond. Pete says that Mr. Stone is in the Rock.
The Captain says that Stone got a package a couple of days ago. Grimme, fought Stone and defeated him. We suspect that Grimme has the diamond.
Pete returns and says rumor is that Grimme has the Diamond on the Rock. Grimme has a sanctum on the Rock. That’s were he does his experiments.
New plan! Now we are going to sneak into the rock for diamond & to rescue Mr. Stone. Who is a friend of Pete’s?
We are going in through a sewage pipe; crawl through that and the pipe will lead us into Cell-block B. We then want to get to stairs to the second, then third floor. To get to the Warden’s office. He has the key to the inner sanctum. (Where the diamond is? Either the throne room or his lab) Stone would be in the basement. Lab, throne room, council chambers, and shrine. He’s got minor wardens watching the prison, and of course guards, and his blood things.
We row our way out to the island. So Stone will recognize us as friends we are to call him Jasper and give him a piece of cloth from a confederate uniform.
We infiltrate the Rock, and proceed to take down guards quietly. Once they are down Marguerite rushes to slit their throats.
We finally find Stone in his cell and he agrees to come with us.
He takes us to where he thinks the diamond is and it’s a room with an altar. The altar is covered in blood and with straps. We see what looks like a Ghost walk through the wall and it solidifies into Caroline. Reggie shoots her to pieces.
There’s another door in this room and it leads to Grimme’s throne room. The door is covered by Glyphs of very dark magic. I unlock the door to the room and see a wooden throne covered in black & red cloth.
A guardian shows up and attacks us. Then some of the blood zombies as well. We kill a bunch of them, including the guardian but the guardian comes back. So does Caroline. Mr. Stone shoots her this time and Reggie cuts her head off. The guardian comes back again and while the guys are fighting it, I run into the room and look around. I tear the cloth off the throne and see a black skull sitting under it. I shoot it and it destroys the guardian.
Looking around we still can’t the diamond. Stone finds some paperwork for a ritual that Aieslyn says is for a summoning portal, the biggest ever, to summon creatures and make this a dead land and to spread it out over more of California.
The papers say this ritual is going to take place real soon and in the Cathedral with his worshippers.
We’re screwed.
