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.