Deadlands: Hell on Earth - The Harvest Comes (Inactive)

Game Master kamenhero25

Here's a discussion thread for you folks. Feel free to chat and to get your characters and aliases worked out entirely. I'll get things started in the near future.

Hey everyone! Great to game with you and I look forward to the campaign! Should be a lot of fun.

I know that Niles and I are planning to have our characters already know each other by game start, but what about anybody else? Although it's a big wasteland, it's easily feasible that some of our characters could have met before the campaign, especially given that Zeke's backstory involves some wandering around trying to help people.

I'll get this profile swapped over to SWorlds asap.

Thanks for having me, I'm super pumped to join.

re:Posting Rate What is everyone's active times? Mine are Mon-Fri 7a-3p CST. I can generally get 2-3 posts up per day in that timeframe.

RE:Shared Backgrounds I think its important for us all to share some sort of common bond, even if that thing is a common enemy.

Thanks to you all for having me. I am most active after 4 PM CT Mon-Fri. I'll make at least one check a day during the week unless I'm traveling.

As for knowing one another, I've no doubt some of you have heard of Jane's proclivity for disaster.

Well, I'm from Australia, so my garaunteed active time is like... early morning for you guys. That said I normally am able to post earlier but uh... timezones man, they're confusing.

I'll go build an alias for Richie now :) He does wander a bit but I think he'd stick to the NW of the states unless he had a specific task in mind elsewhere, or knew about someone in need.

My posting is sporadic and erratic, but I can usually get up a post or two a day if there's something moving. Sometimes that number goes up or down based on other stuff I have to work on, but almost always 1 check-in and post can happen as a player. I'm Eastern U.S. Time, so there's that.

I'm certain Zeke's heard of Jane, at least in her aftermath. He probably doesn't know her specifically, or even if she's the cause of the troubles or just an unfortunate bystander, but he may well have heard of her.

As for the Northwest, Zeke spends probably most of his time at least vaguely in the region, although he's moved back and forth some distance since leaving his hometown. Maybe he stopped by the mutant town at one point to see if they needed and deserved help, or he and Richie had a chance encounter?

EDIT: GM, I think you mentioned Belknap before, at least IRL, but I don't recall if there was any particular reason for our characters to be there beyond happenstance. Is there anything happening there that would draw us to that settlement in particular, and perhaps give our characters some connection?

Belknap is one of the largest settlements in the region. It's also the last stop of pretty much every trading caravan on its way to Junkyard and their first stop on the way back, so it's a very wealthy and well traveled location. Almost everyone coming through southeastern Colorado passes through simply because of the convenience.

"Max Powers is online. All systems nominal. Weapons hot. Mission: the destruction of any and all Evil Wastelander. "

Ehem... Here I am. Well, Max is a Cyborg bent of fixing things: from engines to injustice. So it's actually pretty probable that he and Zeke met before Belknap.

Also, as I said in the Recruitment thread, there's a vacancy for Lucille shotgun seat. If anybody is interested on pairing with Max I am all ears.
Remember that despite being undead and a cyborg, Max was an engineering student, so he has a sense of humour most of us probably can relate to. And he has a Rifle arm, and that's real cool.

P.S.- @Zeke: I love your last name. Man, Max Fightmaster is my hero.

Hey GM, I'll need you to draw two cards for me for my Books.
• Book Types: When a bookworm chooses his initial powers, and any time he takes the New Power Edge, he must draw a card on the Book Type Table (page 28) to see what kind of book he’s found, how much it weighs, and any special effects it confers

Personally I use This website to draw cards for my SW game.

@GM What are your posting requirements?

One of Nilus's books is a hardback, the other is a large paperback.

My posting requirements are generally once per day, though I'm fairly lenient unless someone misses several days at a time.

Reporting for duty. Sorry it took so long to get this ready, stuff has been crazy. I'm getting my gear squared away at the moment, but it shouldn't be too long until I'm done with Aaron completely. Also, I believe you mentioned previously that re-barreling the Damnation would be a Repair (-2) check, right?

Repair: 1d8 - 2 ⇒ (4) - 2 = 2
Wild: 1d6 - 2 ⇒ (6) - 2 = 4
Wild; Ace: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Wild; Ace: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Well, that's a 14, so I think that successfully rebarrels the gun. I was going to have it shoot standard 10mm ammunition, since that seems the logical choice with it firing caseless 10mm to begin with.

Yup and yup. Good to see you. Now we're pretty much ready to get going.

Sweet

woot!

So is Max visibly robotic?

I wouldn't say so, not with his clothes and such. If you were another tinhead or knew one I guess it would be more obvious.

Fair enough :)

Important plot note!

The Harvest hasn't happened yet. This is using the classic Hell on Earth books for a lot of the plot, so some of the more recent history in the Wasted West hasn't happened yet.

Oh whoops! My bad. The name of the campaign should probably have been a hint :p Uhh, oh well, no real harm done.

No harm in the slightest. Better to clarify before things go to far though.

Well, assuming we're soon given a reason to want to travel together, I'd be willing to take the humvee and invest the rest of our share into getting it up and running again. Would be pretty awesome :D

Otherwise Richie would just take a share of the ammo (he prefers to travel light, by which I mean his Strength sucks).

Maybe a bike or two would also be good. That way we're split up some and can ride in style. Other than potentially that, though, Zeke won't be taking any of the loot; he doesn't really need any of it.

Hey all! I'm just posting this into each of my active games to let you all know that starting this Thursday, I'm going to be going on a trip to France for my university. While we're spending the first few days in Paris and the last few in Bordeaux, the majority of the trip will be renovating a chateau in the south of the country, where the Internet will probably be spotty and I won't have much time to post. I'll do my best to keep up with games, and I imagine I should be able to get up a post every few days at least, but it will probably be less active than usual. Please feel free to take control of my character for the time being! I'll be back home come June, so it's just for a few weeks.

wow, sounds like an awesome trip! Enjoy :)

I'm going to need a list of what you want to keep and what you want to give to the town from the loot list. Do note that the list is the entire take, so you're entitled to do what you want with half of it, but the other half is already going to the town.

Aaron would love to have that .45 ammo, but none of the other weapons appeal to him. He has, I think, already laid claim to that HMMWV in regards to repairing it for the party, and I think we wanted one or two of the bikes? Two of the bikes is enough that none of us would have to squeeze to get in any of the vehicles, and we can ride the Wastes in style.

I don't know if anyone wants the rest of it, but I vote we sell the rest to the town for ammunition we might actually want, as well as fuel for our new vehicles; Aaron would want some for himself since the town apparently manufactures Red, which he'd want for a rainy day if he ever really needs a boost. I will never complain about having more 10mm ammunition for my rifle, so I'd be partial to bargaining for some of that.

Richie's a caster with no skill in driving or shooting, so he has no real interest in any of the loot :p He'd take a share of ammo just as for it's monetary value though, otherwise he's happy to donate it to the 'party' to repair the humvee.

If no one wants anything else, we can finish here. If you want to trade everything else to the town, you'll get two bikes, the humvee and everything to repair it, two weeks worth of food and purified water, and the bullets can be traded as equaling $1 for any type of ammo in the rulebook. I need to know what everyone wants to buy, or if you want to keep the ammo as cash on hand.

With her share, Jane would like to acquire some .357 ammo, if any is available.

Richie would just take whatever ammo he can use as cash on hand :)

If you're dividing the bullets equally, there are 219, meaning everyone gets 36 dollars worth of ammo, plus three extra left over.

Is everyone still here? I posted in last, I didn't really want to double-post in Gameplay... that and I have nothing else to say at the moment.

I'm still waiting for Max and Niles to tell me what they're doing with their bullets.

Doesn't hurt to give things a nudge every now and then :)

Sorry! I've been busy like hell, I'll keep half the bullets and get the other half as money so I can buy juice, oil and such later on.

So that's 18$ worth of bullets and 18 bucks on my pocket

Alright, so:

Richie: $36
Aaron: 36 10mm rounds
Zeke: Not sure, if he doesn't have time to post, I'll retcon in his decision when he gets back
Max: $18 and 18 5.56 rounds
Jane: 18 .357 rounds
Niles: Not sure

Sorry, I didn't know waiting on that would stall the entire game.

Nilus will take the bullets I guess

So Nilus takes 36 .45 rounds. Alright then

Hey everyone, my posting might be a little slow for a few days; I had to put my dog down earlier today. He was getting old and he was just starting to go downhill, and it seemed the best thing for him. Obviously I'm a little torn up right now, so I may need to take a few days before I'm back up to speed.

Hey guys, I'll be traveling all day tomorrow so no updates from me until Friday.

I have a con this weekend, so if I'm slow to respond, that's why.

wow, everyone's busy this weekend

Hopefully I won't be... I'm doing my best to get out of working Memorial Day weekend. It's the first wave of tourism for the summer, and I would much rather be kicking back and, to be honest, not dealing with that.

ohhh it's a holiday for you guys huh? guess that explains it :)

Yes, this is a holiday in the US. :)

At a conference all day today, probably nothing from me again until tomorrow.

Hey all, finally back and ready to post. Zeke would honestly just donate the bullets to the town. He doesn't need the cash right now, and certainly doesn't need the bullets.

Noted. If Zeke has anything to say/ask, go ahead. I'll move things forward to some bandit hunting once you're caught up.

Right. I am going to roll Survival and Tracking into one skill. Primarily because there are quite a few useful skills in this game and it helps keep people's point from being too spread out.

yay! well good to know for next time then :)