The Journal of Cassandra Kane: Her Adventures in the Wild Wild West
Dime Novel: Respite
Real World Date: August 2008
Game World Date: December 1878
Season Two, Episode Five
December 13, 1878
We’ve been resting for 2 days here in the Tower. Most of us are hurt real bad. Aieslyn and Marguerite can heal up my arms but not our wounds. Damn Stone!!
Stetson: +2 to your intimidate, (once per adventure) get rid of shaken effect, (once per adventure) get rid of all your wounds. The hat feels like it’s got plans of it’s own like it wants to kill people. I see more flashes of Stone killing people like us. And of what looks like a skeleton in his outfit. Everything around him dies. He looks like death incarnate.
Reluctantly I give the Stetson to the Captain – who has been increasingly bugging me about for days. I need to keep an eye on him.
We head North to make Corman’s appointment in Montana.
December 24, 1878
After days of riding in the cold and evading Injun scouting parties we arrive at an old fort. Abandon barracks, doors of hinges, looks like a blacksmith shop and a mess hall too. A main building in the middle and an armory. This was the fort that Corman trained with the 51st at. Been abandoned for at least 7 years.
Corman and the men scout around. No sign of anyone.
We head into the fort to get in out of the snow and stable the horses.
December 25, 1878 12:01 am
A trumpet sounds and wakes those of us not on watch. Looking out the window there is no snow on the ground. We see building that look familiar but can’t place them. We see men working with steam engines and the scream of working ghost rock. And it’s very hot. And the Colonel is walking towards us. Aieslynn thinks we are the Colonel’s plane.
Oh and the Captain, according to Aieslynn, looks like Death incarnate. Yeah, this is bad.
The Colonel and Corman big talk at each other for a while. It’s decided that they will fight one on one with tomahawks. The Colonel raises them up on platforms so just the two of them can fight.
The Captain starts shooting the men at the bottom, seems to be 2 buglers, 2 banner guys and 8 more soldiers. I help him out. We back into the building and our building gets surrounding.
The building gets shot up while we are inside. All we are pretty doing is shooting anything in sight while they tear holes into this place. We see them roll up some canons and I’m able to blast the soldiers around them, but they start to reinforce. Luckily there is such a malfunction on one of the cannons it blows itself up and the other one along with it. The ghost rock screams killing almost 50 more men.
Corman’s actually holding up his own against the Colonel. I have to say we are a little surprised that he’s lasted this long.
The explosion actually some how hurt the Colonel letting Corman get an amazin’ couple of shot in on him and killing him as he falls off the platform.
Once the Colonel is “killed” all of his men turn to dust and disappear.
At one point, due to Aieslyn’s calling, Jonathan and a flock of ravens show up. They had been fighting the undead as well.
Now he attempts to find us a way out of this hell.
Jonathan says he can get us to some fairy rings and we’ll have to bounce around to different ones in order to get back home. He says there’s a ring near Freedom.
Jonathan wrote in some funny language in the air and Aieslyn performs a prayer.
(Hunter in the Shadow = What Jonathan calls the Major.)
What a birthday!
December 27, 1878
We arrive back in Freedom.
Mr. Parker is happy to see us and tells us that Mr. Conklin has arrived and that him and his men have taken over the boys’ room.
He says that there will be a gala on New Years that we all need to attend and dress up for. Except for Murphy – he doesn’t have to go.
Corman gets me a present for my Birthday. Mr. IM Hymm’s new pulp novel!
December 29, 1878
Mr. Parker has a Christmas spread for us. A yummy dinner with all the fixin’s
The captain gets me a hat just like his, just less evil.
I get:
Aieslyn a broach
The Captain a box of cigars and a shotgun holster
Corman a bottle of whiskey and a spyglass.
Mr. Parker gets us:
Reggie: Pearl handle colt peacemakers
Marguerite: Voodoo stuff
Murphy: A case of booze
Corman: A contact that can help him out with his hand.
The Captain: A nice scattergun and some ponchos.
Cassandra: Book of hoyles’ cards & games, a new set of cowboy boots, signed copies of all of Hymn’s dime novels.
Aieslynn: talisman from the roman era of Ireland, lots of dresses, jewelry.
We talk to Mr. Parker about what’s been happing with us. He fills us in on news that the Mexican army has a new leader – the Major.
January 1, 1879
In the afternoon we have a brief meeting with Mr. Conklin. He says that over the next couple days he’ll talk to each of us about what our goals are for the future. But for now we are to enjoy the party this evening.
He also pays us what we are due ($2000 each) A bank in Denver is where some of are pay is there for our retirement. Very safe.
People at the gala that we might want to influence. Col. Wembly (the new Colonel at the fort), Major Peterson – member of the war department in Washington. Liu Qwan (leader of the Triad). We might want to help him acquire fresh water resources, as we might need his help against Kang.
Mr. Parker insisted that at least The Captain and I go through introductions. The Captain because of his connections and me because of my family. Seems everyone has now learned my family is well to do.
The Captain has me be his date. He and his men look all pretty dressed up. Corman even cleans up nice. And of course Miss Aieslynn looks beautiful as always. She got angry about something and her and Corman ended up sharing a drink in the corner.
A little later, I hear a Lord Charles Fairfax get introduced.
The Captain comes with to talk to Mr. Qwan. We give him the money owed and a gift because the meeting with Mr. Kelly never happened due to his unfortunate murder by the Major. He accepts our apology and with a promise that we will look into seeing if we can get him a copy of the plans for the fresh water machine and help getting fresh water that perhaps we can be allies.
I talk to Mr. Fairfax for a while and he asks me to dance. So does Mr. Conklin and Mr. Parker. I dance with Corman and the Captain as well. The Captain and I tried to get Aieslyn and Corman to dance together but that didn’t work.
January 3, 1879
The meeting with Mr. Conklin has us figuring out goals for the year.
The Captain says Grimme & The Major are the two biggest things to deal with.
I suggest more alliance with Shan Fran most for the need to give them fresh water and to make sure that Grimme doesn’t get any more allies.
Mr. Conklin asked if there is anything he could get us to help us. I asked him for an items that could help us out against the Major. I think the Major isn’t a guy we could fight. He’s super tough, super smart, and always at least 2 steps ahead of us. Aieslynn figured he’s using the “laylines” to travel back and forth which would explain how he always get to place days ahead of us. That how we were on his trail and he managed to attack the fort, kill the general, and still take time to capture. Mr. Parker and torture him for days awaiting our return.
That and how he’s working with Grimme because we are against him.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Journal of Cassandra Kane: Her Adventures in the Wild Wild West
Dime Novel: The 'prestige'
Real World Date: July 2008
Game World Date: November & December 1878
Season Two, Episode Four
November 19, 1878
Wee hours of the morning.
We come up with a crazy plan to grab the diamond from Grimme in the Cathedral and get out. Some distraction, but we are not there to fight – we’re expecting some fightin’ but that’s not what we are there for.
We follow Stone & Pete in the sewers to the Cathedral.
The streets are empty and the Cathedral is packed to full. All 2 thousands citizens are in there along with Guardian Angels with Grimme at the pulpit holding the Black Diamond.
No one seems to notice us when we walk in and up the aisle. Suddenly Grimme finishes his sermon talking about how there is evil attacking his flock. The air shimmers and the biggest demon I’ve ever seen, and I’ve unfortunately seen a lot of them, appeared behind him. He laughed at about how Grimme is puny human and will be killed. The demon had an aura of black emanating from him. Grimme had golden light. The demon also spoke that he had brought others with him to take care of the others.
This looked like a very bad stage play. But the people didn’t notice as they were too busy screaming and getting killed.
Keeping to the plan I ran up to the pulpit but bounced off a blue wall that appeared around it. Teleporting in I grabbed the diamond while Grimme was busy “fighting” the demon and I teleported out and started to run out of the church. The others were fighting the demons and snake creatures,
People are dying, there are demons tearing people to bits. We leave the Cathedral and pass by churches with other people in them. Scared. They were able to hear Grimme’s sermon and everyone dying.
He’s ‘attack’ on the demon was to power the diamond – he will still have followers that believe he fought off the demons.
As we are making our way to the warehouse we feel a blast of air almost knock us off our feet.
When we get to the warehouse Stone turns his guns on me asking for the diamond. The Captain pulls his gun on Stone. But then Pete pulls his gun on the Captain and then pulls off his mask. He looks like Stone. Stone is confused. But then “Pete’s” face changes looking undeadish. The way Lane looked when he Ghosted. (He didn’t look human when he was ghosting)
Reggie shoots “Pete” and barely hurts him. Stone then shoots me. Pete’s zombie help shows up
I finally am able to teleport me, the Captain, and Margurite out of the warehouse. It doesn’t stop Stone from hunting me down, shooting me, and taking the diamond from me. The Captain shoots him, kills him – we think – and then takes the diamond back.
Now, Pete’s tries to kill the Captain. Everyone tries to jump in the Captain’s way. Reggie, Corman – even though he was really badly hurt and unconscious. I’m finally un-scared enough to shoot Pete and I manage to kill him.
Reggie tries to take both Stone’s & Pete’s guns that never seem to need reloading but he thinks that something bad will happen if he does. I take the Stenson.
A man pokes his head out of a door and sees the Captain. He says he is a friend of Father O’Hare. He says his name is Jonathan and he takes out of the city. He pilots the boat out of the city. He takes us to a small mining town in the Maze to rest up. It takes us a while to get healed up. Aieslynn & Marguerite’s healing isn’t working on us.
November 24, 1878
Days later we have finally healed up enough that I try my hunch on Stone’s Stetson.
Hunch: Stone’s Stetson
I see Stone, living, as a confederate solider. Shot by the Union in the back. He dies. Then I see him get back up. Probably when he first became harrowed. I see a black “line” leading from him upwards into darkness.
Images of different people. Probably people out in the West, doing things to lower the fear level in the West. Kinda like what we do. Then I see Stone finding these people and dueling each and everyone to the death. Killing them all.
I see… in the sense of a figurative chessboard and a hand moving pieces on it. When “hands” try to get near him they get blocked.
I see Stone walking down a road with 4 figures all darkened. They all have black “lines” leading up to the sky.
Jimmy tells the Captain that there is woman here to speak to him and us.
A tall beautiful woman dressed up in man’s clothes. She tells us her name is Jackie Wells and that she’s from the future from 2094. She said she saw us fight Stone in Salt Lake and that he got up after we left. She followed him and tried to kill him but she couldn’t. She come back to help us destroy the Reckoner’s War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. And that Stone works for them.
The world of the future is almost destroyed. Those that aren’t harrowed.
Devil’s tower in the heart of the Sioux nation. The Heart of Darkness is the black diamond.
Hunch: Jackie Wells
She’s telling the truth, I see horseless carriages (tanks, cars), robotic arms, fighting rattlers, radiated people. Lots of harrowed. Helping them and fighting against them.
We talk amongst ourselves for a bit.
Aieslyn says Jonathan says we are being hunted by something called the Hunters & the Shadows looking to kill Aieslyn and all of us. He introduced her to nice woman (Aieslyn says she may be a Goddess) and told her to find the tree of life.
We agree to help but first we need to head to Freedom and Fort Lincoln.
November 27, 1878
We get to Fort Lincoln so the Captain can talk to the Colonel Wimbley. And see if he can get more men. The scout, Henry Chavez, is the only one we still have left. The Captain gets some more men.
I buy some Fearlessness potions from the Captain’s man.
November 28, 1878
Head back to Freedom. We talk to Mr. Parker and fill him on what we are up to. Mr. Hunu man who was the man we took the job from for Mr. Donnelly has not showed up. We introduce him to Jackie Wells. And tell him the rest of the story. Then we head out to Virginia City. Murphy buys Jackie a dog trying to get her to like him.
November 30, 1878
We take horses to Virginia City and then we board a train to Cheyenne.
December 4, 1878
We arrive in Cheyenne and have to take horses the rest of the way.
December 7, 1878
We hear some swooping noise and Corman starts yelling “incoming” and that they are devil bats. There were six of them. We kill them right quick.
December 10, 1878
Corman hears rumble and yells that they are rattlers and we need to move, It’s too bad to fight. My horse gets spooked and throws me off. Corman rides in and pulls me onto his horse. The Captain shoots it to distract it and gets caught in a tentacle. Jackie throws some big dynamite and the rattler gets hurt and hides back underground
December 11, 1878
We arrive at the Devil’s Tower. Jackie says that the place was occupied by hobgoblin human size creatures.
Aieslyn gets another vision from Jonathan who tells her that this is not the hunter & shadows. But that Stone is Death, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Corman’s says that after this is done he needs to go further into Montana to meet Col. Blackstone. That he had gotten a note, that appeared under his pillow back in the mining town, that he needs to meet him on Christmas or else he’ll hunt him down and kill his friends and family. That he’s the last one still alive from the 51st (and their families) and that will kill him for his “lord & savior”.
Jackie tells us how she had gotten out of the tower, as much as she remembers because she was fighting her way out.
We try to stealthily get to a door and there were four chinamen guarding the metal gate.
Murphy tries to dance and slap fight with them. Then Aieslyn and I go over and talk to them. They won’t let us in. They talk about the spirits being in there – but there’s nothing we can say to let us in. So Aieslyn casts fear on them. Then run around scared and we corral them to see if they had a key to the door.
Corman takes the heart of darkness and walks up to the door with it and holds it up to the gate. The door opens. Corman and Reggie run in and then the door closes.
We hear gunshots on from inside and Aieslyn and I teleport Marguerite, the Captain, Murphy, and Jackie inside. She opens the doors for the others and we see Stone walking off with the diamond. Four chinamen are dead lying on the ground.
Corman apparently gave the diamond over to Stone. Guessing Stone’s Manitou is bigger than Corman’s. After the Captain takes care of Corman – who still is the best one of us to get possessed we take off down the tunnels after Stone.
We encounter some strange men along the way and kill them before coming across one of Hellstrome’s machines. We finally get to the chamber with the portal Jackie told us about. She says we need to get the diamond and go through it to the Hunting Ground. Stone is on the top of the mountain doing his ritual. We head up there to stop him.
Lots of zombies, Pete, and Stone doing the ritual. The zombies take out lots of the Captain’s men, who take out some zombies. I teleport Reggie up to Stone, but magic keeps Reggie from being able for his bullets to hit him. Murphy tries to fight Pete. I’ll hit him with bolts, and the Captain shoots him. Aieslyn dispels the ritual. The diamond falls out of Stone’s hand and he screams.
Stone shoots me and I get real hurt. While I’m unconscious I have a dream about those hands on the chessboard grabbing both Stone & Pete and shaking him around and he/them getting mad about it. Next I remember Margurite gets me up. I still hurt and my arm is not doing to well. Everyone is still trying to kill Pete & Stone.
I bolt him two more times then I get shot again. I feel my other arm is killing me now too.
I wake up later and they tell me that Stone ghosted. Pete was cut down again, but we still couldn’t get rid of him permanent. Jackie took the diamond and after giving Murphy a big kiss and stepped through the porthole.
Dime Novel: The 'prestige'
Real World Date: July 2008
Game World Date: November & December 1878
Season Two, Episode Four
November 19, 1878
Wee hours of the morning.
We come up with a crazy plan to grab the diamond from Grimme in the Cathedral and get out. Some distraction, but we are not there to fight – we’re expecting some fightin’ but that’s not what we are there for.
We follow Stone & Pete in the sewers to the Cathedral.
The streets are empty and the Cathedral is packed to full. All 2 thousands citizens are in there along with Guardian Angels with Grimme at the pulpit holding the Black Diamond.
No one seems to notice us when we walk in and up the aisle. Suddenly Grimme finishes his sermon talking about how there is evil attacking his flock. The air shimmers and the biggest demon I’ve ever seen, and I’ve unfortunately seen a lot of them, appeared behind him. He laughed at about how Grimme is puny human and will be killed. The demon had an aura of black emanating from him. Grimme had golden light. The demon also spoke that he had brought others with him to take care of the others.
This looked like a very bad stage play. But the people didn’t notice as they were too busy screaming and getting killed.
Keeping to the plan I ran up to the pulpit but bounced off a blue wall that appeared around it. Teleporting in I grabbed the diamond while Grimme was busy “fighting” the demon and I teleported out and started to run out of the church. The others were fighting the demons and snake creatures,
People are dying, there are demons tearing people to bits. We leave the Cathedral and pass by churches with other people in them. Scared. They were able to hear Grimme’s sermon and everyone dying.
He’s ‘attack’ on the demon was to power the diamond – he will still have followers that believe he fought off the demons.
As we are making our way to the warehouse we feel a blast of air almost knock us off our feet.
When we get to the warehouse Stone turns his guns on me asking for the diamond. The Captain pulls his gun on Stone. But then Pete pulls his gun on the Captain and then pulls off his mask. He looks like Stone. Stone is confused. But then “Pete’s” face changes looking undeadish. The way Lane looked when he Ghosted. (He didn’t look human when he was ghosting)
Reggie shoots “Pete” and barely hurts him. Stone then shoots me. Pete’s zombie help shows up
I finally am able to teleport me, the Captain, and Margurite out of the warehouse. It doesn’t stop Stone from hunting me down, shooting me, and taking the diamond from me. The Captain shoots him, kills him – we think – and then takes the diamond back.
Now, Pete’s tries to kill the Captain. Everyone tries to jump in the Captain’s way. Reggie, Corman – even though he was really badly hurt and unconscious. I’m finally un-scared enough to shoot Pete and I manage to kill him.
Reggie tries to take both Stone’s & Pete’s guns that never seem to need reloading but he thinks that something bad will happen if he does. I take the Stenson.
A man pokes his head out of a door and sees the Captain. He says he is a friend of Father O’Hare. He says his name is Jonathan and he takes out of the city. He pilots the boat out of the city. He takes us to a small mining town in the Maze to rest up. It takes us a while to get healed up. Aieslynn & Marguerite’s healing isn’t working on us.
November 24, 1878
Days later we have finally healed up enough that I try my hunch on Stone’s Stetson.
Hunch: Stone’s Stetson
I see Stone, living, as a confederate solider. Shot by the Union in the back. He dies. Then I see him get back up. Probably when he first became harrowed. I see a black “line” leading from him upwards into darkness.
Images of different people. Probably people out in the West, doing things to lower the fear level in the West. Kinda like what we do. Then I see Stone finding these people and dueling each and everyone to the death. Killing them all.
I see… in the sense of a figurative chessboard and a hand moving pieces on it. When “hands” try to get near him they get blocked.
I see Stone walking down a road with 4 figures all darkened. They all have black “lines” leading up to the sky.
Jimmy tells the Captain that there is woman here to speak to him and us.
A tall beautiful woman dressed up in man’s clothes. She tells us her name is Jackie Wells and that she’s from the future from 2094. She said she saw us fight Stone in Salt Lake and that he got up after we left. She followed him and tried to kill him but she couldn’t. She come back to help us destroy the Reckoner’s War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. And that Stone works for them.
The world of the future is almost destroyed. Those that aren’t harrowed.
Devil’s tower in the heart of the Sioux nation. The Heart of Darkness is the black diamond.
Hunch: Jackie Wells
She’s telling the truth, I see horseless carriages (tanks, cars), robotic arms, fighting rattlers, radiated people. Lots of harrowed. Helping them and fighting against them.
We talk amongst ourselves for a bit.
Aieslyn says Jonathan says we are being hunted by something called the Hunters & the Shadows looking to kill Aieslyn and all of us. He introduced her to nice woman (Aieslyn says she may be a Goddess) and told her to find the tree of life.
We agree to help but first we need to head to Freedom and Fort Lincoln.
November 27, 1878
We get to Fort Lincoln so the Captain can talk to the Colonel Wimbley. And see if he can get more men. The scout, Henry Chavez, is the only one we still have left. The Captain gets some more men.
I buy some Fearlessness potions from the Captain’s man.
November 28, 1878
Head back to Freedom. We talk to Mr. Parker and fill him on what we are up to. Mr. Hunu man who was the man we took the job from for Mr. Donnelly has not showed up. We introduce him to Jackie Wells. And tell him the rest of the story. Then we head out to Virginia City. Murphy buys Jackie a dog trying to get her to like him.
November 30, 1878
We take horses to Virginia City and then we board a train to Cheyenne.
December 4, 1878
We arrive in Cheyenne and have to take horses the rest of the way.
December 7, 1878
We hear some swooping noise and Corman starts yelling “incoming” and that they are devil bats. There were six of them. We kill them right quick.
December 10, 1878
Corman hears rumble and yells that they are rattlers and we need to move, It’s too bad to fight. My horse gets spooked and throws me off. Corman rides in and pulls me onto his horse. The Captain shoots it to distract it and gets caught in a tentacle. Jackie throws some big dynamite and the rattler gets hurt and hides back underground
December 11, 1878
We arrive at the Devil’s Tower. Jackie says that the place was occupied by hobgoblin human size creatures.
Aieslyn gets another vision from Jonathan who tells her that this is not the hunter & shadows. But that Stone is Death, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Corman’s says that after this is done he needs to go further into Montana to meet Col. Blackstone. That he had gotten a note, that appeared under his pillow back in the mining town, that he needs to meet him on Christmas or else he’ll hunt him down and kill his friends and family. That he’s the last one still alive from the 51st (and their families) and that will kill him for his “lord & savior”.
Jackie tells us how she had gotten out of the tower, as much as she remembers because she was fighting her way out.
We try to stealthily get to a door and there were four chinamen guarding the metal gate.
Murphy tries to dance and slap fight with them. Then Aieslyn and I go over and talk to them. They won’t let us in. They talk about the spirits being in there – but there’s nothing we can say to let us in. So Aieslyn casts fear on them. Then run around scared and we corral them to see if they had a key to the door.
Corman takes the heart of darkness and walks up to the door with it and holds it up to the gate. The door opens. Corman and Reggie run in and then the door closes.
We hear gunshots on from inside and Aieslyn and I teleport Marguerite, the Captain, Murphy, and Jackie inside. She opens the doors for the others and we see Stone walking off with the diamond. Four chinamen are dead lying on the ground.
Corman apparently gave the diamond over to Stone. Guessing Stone’s Manitou is bigger than Corman’s. After the Captain takes care of Corman – who still is the best one of us to get possessed we take off down the tunnels after Stone.
We encounter some strange men along the way and kill them before coming across one of Hellstrome’s machines. We finally get to the chamber with the portal Jackie told us about. She says we need to get the diamond and go through it to the Hunting Ground. Stone is on the top of the mountain doing his ritual. We head up there to stop him.
Lots of zombies, Pete, and Stone doing the ritual. The zombies take out lots of the Captain’s men, who take out some zombies. I teleport Reggie up to Stone, but magic keeps Reggie from being able for his bullets to hit him. Murphy tries to fight Pete. I’ll hit him with bolts, and the Captain shoots him. Aieslyn dispels the ritual. The diamond falls out of Stone’s hand and he screams.
Stone shoots me and I get real hurt. While I’m unconscious I have a dream about those hands on the chessboard grabbing both Stone & Pete and shaking him around and he/them getting mad about it. Next I remember Margurite gets me up. I still hurt and my arm is not doing to well. Everyone is still trying to kill Pete & Stone.
I bolt him two more times then I get shot again. I feel my other arm is killing me now too.
I wake up later and they tell me that Stone ghosted. Pete was cut down again, but we still couldn’t get rid of him permanent. Jackie took the diamond and after giving Murphy a big kiss and stepped through the porthole.
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