Welcome to Santa Angela, my own little slice of hell in the Deadlands Reloaded Universe, amigos!
It's a fair spring day in 1880 as the wind sweeps across the dusty West Texas badlands. Santa Angela is an outpost in the middle of nowhere, a place not worth the attention of men of distinction and consequence.
And yet in its vicinity is Fort Nueces. A tribe of Comanche, formerly lead by the wise and well loved Sitting Duck, has long dwelled in the region. The Comanche and the white settlers have long clashed, until a truce was reached ten years ago. That truce however is now worth less than the paper it's written on, as a new chief arises to guide his people to avenge the white man's desecration of the land he does not hold sacred. The fort is suddenly more important than ever.
The fort of course is a little unusual. Its flagpole is a repurposed mast from a Galveston shipyard and the soldiers regularly play baseball. That would be enough, except it also has a decked out Maze Runner with Steam Gatling guns mounted, and a mysterious structure right next to command called The Tomb, where the worst prisoners the Rangers capture are brought in, but they never come out!
The life blood of Kelton County, the Perlas River, has become heavy and blackened with ghost rock contamination! There is now not enough fresh water for the Comanche to drink. The ghost rock sediment in the river has attracted prospectors, who pan and filter the river and explore the countryside looking for ghost rock in all its forms. The CSA has solved the problem by contracting with Hellestromme to build a water treatment plant, a wonder of the New Science unprecedented in scale and application!
The town is a haven for gamblers and whores who prey upon the lonely and bored men stationed at Fort Nueces. The well behaved ranchers find themselves at the mercy of the outlaws and scum that come with these elements. Naturally, Mr. Herrod has done something about it, and now the Dove Boys ride and keep the peace, but as Mr. Herrod directs, of course.
And if that weren't bad enough, leave it to a lawyer to make it worse! Due to a contract dispute, the Great Rail Wars are now being fought in Santa Angela! Black River, Wasatch and Dixie Rails are all trying to protect their claims at the others' expense!
Marshal Tom Mix and all his deputies died about a year ago in a cigar smoking accident, Hellestromme Industries refuses to divulge to anyone what is behind the gunmetal walls of its plant fortress, and the Dove Boys run rampant, the local wildlife is mutating due to the pollution in the river, the new Comanche chief says that a ghost dance will purge the earth of the white man, and the commander of Fort Nueces refuses to do anything about it even though he easily could! People lock themselves in at night and cradle their shooting irons, terrified of what could be lurking for them in the dark!
And it's about to get a whole lot worse amigo, we haven't even gotten started yet.
Welcome to Santa Angela. Welcome to Hell.
This game is based on my real life experiences in the real city of San Angelo Texas, where the real Fort Concho stood in the 1870s.
Now recruiting! We've lost our voodoo hougan to real life, but the current preliminary chapter is wrapping up, and I hope to start the new chapter in the middle of next week! Ride into Santa Angela in style in the recently refurbished Dixie Rails Number Nine Freightliner with all the other player characters!
We've already got the posse building super trains to win the Great Rail Wars, returning from the land where all Apache can fly, battling undead sorcerers, sorting out the drama of their non existent love lives, starting fights between rival gangs armed with explosives and automatic weapons, killing the master of the Lin Kuei with a Colt, capturing the Terror of the West - Blackfire Hagel, and this was the introduction!
It's just about to get interesting!
Looking for another head or two for the herd, amigos! Got plenty of Weird Science but there's room for plenty of other outlaws, wanderers, lawmen, and weirdos in Santa Angela!
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