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Chapter 15.2: The Harrowing of Blackthorn.

Posted by The StrayFor group 0
Comanche Raiders
NPC, 51 posts
Angry Indians
P7 T6 (8) F0 Extra
Sun 30 Sep 2012
at 09:07
  • msg #85

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

The Indians stare at the pile of rags and the dropped pistols that were the sole remains of their champion.

Then one near the back of the group breaks and runs. Like a dam bursting, the others follow suit, running back into the darkness.

The Dust Adders look over the suddenly empty battle flied, and a ragged cheer erupts from the rooftops.

((OOC: Good show. Combat over, unless The Hawk wants to have a go at Gus.))
Alouette
player, 1284 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Sun 30 Sep 2012
at 09:47
  • msg #86

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

The Hawk strode and leapt up on the barricade to watch, wood scored and splintered by unseen talons...then there's a murmur of Chumash and the static fades in a long sigh.

"...local demonic activity minimised...recalibrating static loops..."

Alouette sees some Pure Blooded Comanches! One is even nearby, hesitating in the street. The angel knows just what to do here, even without a hickory stick: it flaps at the warrior like an annoyed butler.
"Shoo! Shoo! Go on, get out of here, shoo!"

The man flees like the Devil might just singe his arse. Alouette flails a bit for balance and half-jumps, half falls off the barricade with a small-girl giggle, pattering up to see what Adrian and Evans are doing. There's a brief crackle and flare of light in its lenses as it looks at Gus, but it looks down at Evans and is apparently distracted.

"Should we take Ambrose to the Shepherd? He is leaking lots..."


[[Nah, she's not going to push it and is fortunately at the wrong angle to see the scalps, though Gus should be very, very quiet, methinks.]]

Adrian Vega
player, 459 posts
Harrowed Huckster
P4 T8 W0 F0 Cha 0 W0R3B1
Sun 30 Sep 2012
at 23:46
  • msg #87

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

Something called to Adrian near where the Harbinger lay. It was a primal and seductive calling that seemed to beckon to him. In an ancient saga the likes of which the huckster hadn't ever gotten a chance to read or hear, this would've been called a siren's song. But he wasn't an Achaean captain and had no crew to tie him down. Even as he walked, he talked to Alouette. But half his mind was somewhere else as he meandered over to the remains of the thing that died there.

"Ambrose needs a doctor," he said, looking down at the Marshal. "Shit. He said there's no doctor. Y'all got a holy man in town? Shit, you did this thing in good."
The Amazing Evans
NPC, 280 posts
Dodgy Marshal
P2 T5 W0 F0 B2
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 00:31
  • msg #88

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"I'm...not dead...yet." Evans mumbles from the street where he lays. "Might...go for...a walk. Don't go talking...about me...in the third person..."
Adrian Vega
player, 460 posts
Harrowed Huckster
P4 T8 W0 F0 Cha 0 W0R3B1
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 00:37
  • msg #89

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"You just lay yourself down, Marshal. Don't be gettin' up. We're gonna get you some help soon. Ain't that right, Alouette?" Shiny objects had always beckoned to him. Maybe it was a coin? Or maybe somethin' better. Somethin' like that probably didn't have coins. It probably had stuff more valuable than that. He looked at the guns, and they looked good, but there was something else.

He reached into the folds of cloth to see what he might find there.
The Stray
GM, 2113 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 01:02
  • msg #90

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

Within the folds of The Harbinger's rags, Adrian pulls forth a shiny silver marshal's star. It reminds him of the star he once saw pinned to Marshal Bentley's chest, back when he was a wild-eyed youth just getting into trouble. He remembers the time the Marshal clapped him in irons after catching him and some of the other boys drinking, in an attempt to scare him straight. It didn't really work out...Adrian's misspent youth turned into a misspent adulthood, but even then the marshal's stern countenance remained at the back of his mind.

The star seems a bit tarnished in the back, from where it had presumably touched the Harbinger's skin. Adrian could feel a bit of the power held inside the badge, power that had been wrapped around it.

What had the Harbinger been? Wrath incarnate, it seemed. Angry over some perceived injustice. He'd heard that angry spirits sometimes anchored themselves to their old homes and effects. Had The Harbinger once been Marshal Bentley? And if so...what twisted him into such a monster? There couldn't have been that much hate in the man's ghost for the town he'd served so long, could he?
Adrian Vega
player, 461 posts
Harrowed Huckster
P4 T8 W0 F0 Cha 0 W0R3B1
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 01:57
  • msg #91

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

Adrian took a long moment staring at the shiny badge in his hand. Marshal Bentley had been a good man in his life. He resented the law man when he was a young buck, but he knew that the things the man had done had been done with good intentions. It was a bad thing if he had turned into this thing after life, but at least Alouette had done the man's soul a favor by putting it down. He tucked it into his shirt pocket, something to remember old times back. He shivered, and hoped that he himself wouldn't come to such an end. If he did, well, he was pretty sure the clank would offer him the same courtesy. And well would he deserve it.

But for now, he could control himself as best he could and try to do the best for this town for however long he would last. Somehow he was sure that his time was coming, but before that, maybe there could be redemption. Probably not.

Reaching down, he picked up the scythe tipped guns. Strange weapons, but they were his now. To use in the defense of Blackthorne, not against them like they had once been used.
The Stray
GM, 2114 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 03:07
  • msg #92

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

PM
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:08, Mon 01 Oct 2012.
Alouette
player, 1285 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 07:04
  • msg #93

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Yes," the clank chirps, picking the wounded Marshal up with utmost care. It'd been correcting 'angel-' to Adrian's shit-related remarks as though addressed.

[[07:46, Today: Alouette rolled 1,10 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(6+4)10. pickin' up guys.]]


"Y'all be excellent to each other," it tells the defenders, and makes to head for the church.

[[are there any unconscious natives still about?]]
The Stray
GM, 2115 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 07:41
  • msg #94

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

Evans groans at being picked up. "No really...I'll be fine...just need something to dull the pain...and some ingredients...baking soda, vinegar, alcohol, laudanum...catgut thread...needles...ow..."

Gus looks at the street. "Frank, Felix, let's go bring down Abe and Elliot down. Might be able to save 'em." He says to the two Dust Adders near him. He looks over at the rooftops. "Eddy! Don! Get down here and help cover the Injuns! Gotta figger out what to do with the damn things!" He turns to Adrian. "You alright? I saw ya get winged..."

((OOC: The fleeing Comanche didn't have time to pick up the comrades for those that John knocked out, so there are three dazed and unconscious Indians in the street.))
Alouette
player, 1286 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 08:03
  • msg #95

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Y'all should arrest the Comanches and not let them go until they're sorry," Alouette instructs the assembled with Wildcat-like assurance.

"The Grand Bull has vingegar, but self does not know location of other objects," it informs Evans.
John Smith
player, 314 posts
Bennies W:2 R:0 B:1
P: 7/8 T: 6 W: 0 F; 0
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 08:16
  • msg #96

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

John blinked and simply watched the amazing display between Alouette and the Harbinger, the automaton, as ever, amazed him and it was clear to the man that it was much more than gears and ghost rock. When it became clear the fight was over he recalled the downed Marshall and winced, he'd only have a limited time to act before his wounds were too severe. He made his way to the barricade at a sprint, ignoring the fleeing Apache's unless one deigned to attack.

He was about to mentioned the Comanche's he had knocked out cold but it seemed Gus and the others had a handle on them, instead he went to the Marshall's side. "Hold still." he said simply. "There's more wickedness in this area for you to stress over yet." He straightened Evan's body and let his hands hover over him, sensing disruptions in his chi where the bullets had struck. He focused that energy around the tainted wounds and summoned it out. His face was one of intense concentrations as his body tensed and he seemed still until that filth had been removed. The wounds were still there, but Evan's might recover a little easier now.

OOC:
John spends 3 chi points to heal Evans.
John Smith rolled 1,5 using d4,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5. Healing.
John Smith rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2. Blue Chip adding D6.
Total of 7, damn, no raise. 1 wound is healed.

Adrian Vega
player, 462 posts
Harrowed Huckster
P4 T8 W0 F0 Cha 0 W0R3B1
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 15:49
  • msg #97

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Didn't hit me solid," he said, still testing the heft of his new guns. He was going to have to get special holsters made for them. He'd never seen guns like them before, and they felt kinda special. It would take some practice before he could quick draw with 'em.

"Just got grazed, that's all. You doin' alright, Gus? How many wounded we got? I think that was the craziest shit I ever done seen." Even as he talked, he began to get back over to where the dazed Comanches were. He decided to sort of strap in one of the guns into a belt loop and let it dangle there precariously for the moment until he could get a proper holster made. Holding the other one at one of the Injuns, he began to remove the weapons from one of the natives, tossing them aside. He was trying to see if he could find anything important that would tell them anything more about the attack.



OOC:
09:49, Today: Adrian Vega rolled 3,4 using d4,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,4. Notice.

The Stray
GM, 2118 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 10:55
  • msg #98

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

Evans stands unsteadily after John lays hands on him. "Ow...thank you. I think I can walk now..." he says, then flops over on to Alouette. "Though I may be somewhat unsteady."


The Dust Adders, meanwhile, are retrieving their fallen.

Gus looks over the men with Adrian. Abe, poor Dishonest Abe, had been hacked up good, and the skin of his scalp had been shorn clean off. Elliot, however, was still breathing when they lowered him down.

Gus leaned over him. "Hey...how you doin'?" he asks, surprisingly tenderly.

"I...I...hurts, Gus..." he gulps, looking at the wound in his side. Not directly in the guts...he'd be a dead man for sure. But it's mighty touchy.

"You think you can lend yer magic fingers to Elliot here, John-boy?"  Gus shouts at John. "We got wounded!"

The Indians Adrian examines are just as creepy up close. They have no color in them. Anywhere. It's like a horrible dime novel he'd read once at the Lady Luck Club, about an evil Voodoo wizard who'd magicked a photograph and sent the pictures out to steal and murder for him. He'd scoffed at the time - his personal experience was that Voodoo Did Not Work That Way -but this was real black magic...and real powerful magic at that. Unfortunately, he'd get no answers out of them until they woke up.

Frank jogs up to Gus. "Got a problem, boss. I spotted some tracks headin' up north...one o' them Injuns snuck away durin' the fightin'. And he's headed up for the graveyard."

"FUCK!" Gus growled. "That's just what we don't need right now! Bet you dollars to donuts he ain't aware his friends got stomped, niether..." he looks up at Adrian. "We gotta get up there. That graveyard...there's things there. The dead done rose once there, last time that big scary fucker came 'round. Ward put up some chains...said they was magic chains that would keep the dead asleep, or somethin'. If that red nigger breaks them chains..."
Adrian Vega
player, 463 posts
Harrowed Huckster
P4 T8 W0 F0 Cha 0 W0R3B1
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 14:08
  • msg #99

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Fuck. Too much shit to do, not enough time." He grunted sourly as he undid one of his newly acquired pistols that he had earlier tucked into his belt loop, carefully readying it in his hand and testing its weight. The weapon felt surprisingly well balanced despite the scythe that rested upon it. It had been remarkably well crafted.

"Alright, Gus let's go get the Injun. Frank, you mind tyin' up those Comanches so they don't get loose again? Or just plug 'em. Whatever you feel works best."
Gus Shaw
NPC, 75 posts
Roughneck Gun-for-Hire
P6 T8 W0 F0 B2
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 19:41
  • msg #100

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Ain't that the fuckin' truth." Gus says, then hollers over to Evans, "Hey! Mind if'n I keep hold o' this here doodad for a bit?" He hefts the nozzle of Evans' flame thrower.

Evans blinks. "Oh dear...be careful with that! It's not a pistol or rifle...don't expect it to fire like one. And for God's sake, don't aim it near any buildings! The last thing we need is a fire on top of everything else!"

"Yeah, yeah...I got it!" Gus says.

"Shootin' 'em didn't do no good the first time 'round..." Frank grouses, but he and Devil's Island Eddie are already in the process of gathering them up and pulling barbed wire from the booby trap to keep them contained.

"Come on, Adrian...let's hoof it!" Gus says, and begins to run.

((OOC: You can reach the area around Town Hall in a round...Deal yourself a card and put it on the Duck You Sucker thread so I can put you in to the next round's initiative.))
Adrian Vega
player, 468 posts
Harrowed Huckster
P4 T8 W0 F0 Cha 0 W0R3B1
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 20:38
  • msg #101

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

He stopped to look back to the ghastly, billowing cloak that had surrounded the Harbinger not long ago. "Hang on just a second, Gus, I got me an idea."

Walking back over to the garments, he quickly picked them up and draped them over himself, drawing the cloak over his head. He quickly put his wrists through the armbands, and pulled on the bandolier and its gunbelt, which had the holsters he had been wanting earlier. One of the scythe tipped pistols in each hand, he said, "I bet I can fool one o' them Injuns with these here outfit" as he caught up to the Dust Adder capo.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:42, Tue 02 Oct 2012.
John Smith
player, 315 posts
Bennies W:2 R:0 B:1
P: 7/8 T: 6 W: 0 F; 0
Wed 3 Oct 2012
at 08:03
  • msg #102

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

He had no luck trying to further patch Evan's up. He tried, he focused his energies and attempted to get his wounds to knit and mend but it was to no avail. "You're going to need to take it pretty damn easy from here on in." he said at last before looking over to Gus and Abe.

John nodded and went to Abe "I can try at least." He said as he looked at the wounds and winced. He wasn't an expert, he was working on instinct as much as knowledge from his Sifu's writings. He tried to focus the mans chi, maybe there was imbalance in his life, or maybe John was too new to all of this. "Crap." he said when he failed to work on the man. "If anyone can get me some bandages and disinfectant, or hard alcohol, I might be able to stabilize him the old fashioned way." he said. He would attempt to clean and bind the wounds as best he could, forgetting Chi and working with the simple first aid and Chinese remedies as best he could. "If he's to survive he needs rest and lots of it..." he said at last.

OOC:
Ugh, the dice roller hated me. Wasted two chips.
John Smith rolled -2,-1 using d6-3,d4-3, rerolling max with rolls of 1,2. Healing Evans Wounds .
John Smith rolled 3,2 using d6,d4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. Healing Check.
John Smith rolled 3,2 using d6,d4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. White chip reroll.
John Smith rolled 2,1 using d6,d4, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1. White chip reroll.
John Smith rolled 5,2 using d6,d4, rerolling max with rolls of 5,2. Healing Check, skill only.
So I may have stabilized him with simple first aid.

Alouette
player, 1292 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Wed 3 Oct 2012
at 21:46
  • msg #103

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Do you require plus fixing?" the clank asks Evans, clearly not quite caught up with processing all the running around going on nearby. It looks after the running men, then back to the Marshal.

"Priority capture of single Comanche attacking chains, location of Owl Comanche or aiding repentence of arrested Comanches?" it asks.
The Amazing Evans
NPC, 281 posts
Dodgy Marshal
P2 T5 W0 F0 B2
Thu 4 Oct 2012
at 07:07
  • msg #104

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Yes...yes, I believe I do, and I fear the good reverend is the only other healer in town than Mr. Smith and myself." Evans says, the frowns. "...and they would have to have taken all my weapons with them, too...honestly, you'd think Mr. Vega would have the common courtesy of at least returning my pistol after retrieving two new guns of his own before gallivanting off..." he shakes his head. "Well, such is my life. Right. Priorities." he thinks for a moment. "The last time some fool messed about with the graveyard, we had dozens of walkers roaming the streets. Of course, that was all the Harbinger's doing...without him I don't see what good opening the chains around the cemetery will do. But since the church is that direction anyway, I suppose we should put a stop to whatever our missing renegade is up to, just to be on the safe side."
Alouette
player, 1293 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Thu 4 Oct 2012
at 08:02
  • msg #105

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Okay!" the clank chirps, heading that way. "Weapons can hurt people, Ambrose," it points out.

"What does a hickory tree look like, resemble?"
The Amazing Evans
NPC, 282 posts
Dodgy Marshal
P2 T5 W0 F0 B2
Fri 5 Oct 2012
at 09:29
  • msg #106

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"That is the very point of them, Alouette." Evans says. "We may need to cause injury to those who would harm us in turn." He thinks for a moment. "Though if the situation could be resolved without resort to violence, it would be preferable. But I fear that the situation may not be conducive to that outcome."

He shrugs, then winces in pain at the shrug. "Ow...I cannot help you there--I have difficulty my own self telling the various species of trees apart. Why do you ask?"
Alouette
player, 1294 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Sat 6 Oct 2012
at 08:46
  • msg #107

Re: An Angel With a Gun is a Devil

"Logic error, Ambrose," the clank asserts, helping him slowly down the street. "If mortals are in danger, plus effective to remove weapons of harming people than adding plus plus weapons. Self can tell the Comanche to shoo," it offers.

"A hickory tree is a tree that has hickory sticks: Ranger Hawkins wanted to locate one for self...if you whoop the ass of a man with a hickory stick, he stops fighting: that would make it plus easy to effect arrest of Comanche," the tin-can angel reasons. The steps it imagines between gaining a hickory stick and hardened warriors giving up can only be speculated.


(Meanwhile, Deputy Chicken, glad all the localised demonic/bird of prey activity is over for now, finds herself a nice warm spot on one of the immobilised humans, tucks her head under her wing and goes back to sleep)

[[Deputy Chicken is Guarding The Prisoners. Sort of. See dice roller.]]
This message was last edited by the player at 22:54, Sun 07 Oct 2012.
The Amazing Evans
NPC, 283 posts
Dodgy Marshal
P2 T5 W0 F0 B2
Tue 16 Oct 2012
at 04:53
  • msg #108

An Angel With a Hickory Stick is Scary

"You know...hickory is often used in axe handles. If we got you an axe, you might be intimidating enough that you wouldn't need to, er, 'whoop' any 'ass.'" Evans says.

((OOC: Evans is injured, so his pace is 3. That means it will take Alouette, Evans, and John several rounds to get to the fight at the church.))
Alouette
player, 1298 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Tue 16 Oct 2012
at 07:45
  • msg #109

Re: An Angel With a Hickory Stick is Scary

"Angels should not spread fear alone, Ambrose...but then self would have a hickory stick to show the Comanche...where do axes live?"

[[Ach, I think they have it under control.]]
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