The Journal of Cassandra Kane: Her Adventures in the Wild Wild West

Dime Novel: The Cross & the Dagger

Real World Date: December 2006

Game World Date: April 1878

Season One, Episode One

April 13, 1878

First adventure! We go the Mission of the Disciples of Obedience run by Reverend Ephraim Wickliffe. Get a dagger that is supposedly an Evil Relic!!

April 18, 1878

5 days by train takes us to Freemont, Montana.

We meet with Mr. Erik Parker at the rail station. He gives us horses and sent us on our way.

We get there and it’s dark. Corman goes scout it out. He came back and told us the mission was empty. He suggests we should wait until morning but I convince him and the others that we should go in now because that’s when stuff happens. Waiting until morning might be too late.

We found some corpses and but no one alive.

We find a tunnel system under the mission. Connect some building to others. It has a stream of blood flowing through the entire system, constantly flowing.

There’s a well in the middle of the mission and I convince the others to lower me down it. The thing is like 50ft deep and at the bottom there’s a bunch of bodies. (there are always bodies in a well by the way). Under all the bodies I find a glowing rune, I think it symbolizes the opening of a gateway.

April 19, 1878

Aieslynn deciphered the preacher’s notebook that she found in his home. She says she been getting dreams about what may have happened.

Suddenly some Bandits attack. We fight back! Climbing up on some of the roofs me, Reggie, and Corman start firing at them and take them all down. Two guys survive and we interrogate them. They say that have been working with the preacher to kidnap more sacrifices. They are slavers and been bring him anybody they could find. In the last batch of sacrifices they had taken an Injun chief’s daughter. The Injuns were pissed off and attack the mission killing everybody (hence all the arrows we found all over the place).

After talking to the two bandits we tie them up and put them in a house – but then a zombie shows up and attacks Aieslynn. But after we kill that one, we find one of the bandits has been dragged off into the tunnels by the preacher (we’re pretty sure). We can’t find him, there are too many tunnel entrances, but while we are crawling around down in the church tunnel Aieslynn goes nuts and stabs Corman in the leg.

Reggie sees Zombies crawling up from the well. As we attempt to fight zombies, unbeatable by the way, the preacher pops out of his house all melty and deadish.

No matter what I do I can’t kill those things. Shooting doesn’t work. I try to stab them, that don’t work either. I finally start throwing my hexes and that barely works.

Reggie & Corman are finally able to take the Preacher down. Luckily once he’s taken down the rest of the zombies fall over.

We get the dagger off the Preacher and take any important books with us. We let the other bandit go – Reggie & Corman do it in exchange for information and loot at his hideout. He promises to not be a bad guy anymore and I give him one of my pulp novels to inspire him to be good.

We then meet up with Mr. Parker – he says that we did a good job and will get back to us with a new one.

Things I’ve learned:

Reggie lies about stuff. I think he’s testing me!

Corman is grouchy but actually nice.

Aeislynn is very smart! She can figure out codebooks.

Marguerite dances in the woods in the dark around a fire – I think she likes me. She gave me a mouse skeleton.

I’m a great shot!!!!

Zombies are icky and impossible to kill!!!

Guns, knife, cards– though Corman was able to kill one with a tomahawk!!

Reggie shot Aieslynn

Aieslynn stabbed Corman in the leg (she said she doesn’t remember)

The Books Are Right!!!!