In reply to The Stray (msg # 115):

I could take Maddox. That way he and Zek can have very humorous scripted arguments....

:P

Sounds fun! I look forward to it. Maddox moved.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:52, Sat 04 Apr 2015.

I can take Bullock again, but my posting is going to be very sporadic over the Easter holidays.
That's also why Leo and Moses are lagging behind.

In reply to Moses (msg # 118):

Yeah, I should have realized that posting would be slow this weekend. Character moved, going to need a card from you. Do you need any info from me on the situation?

So they released the first part of the 4-part Cackler graphic novel today for Kickstarter backers. I know that Logan's player is as interested as I am in this thing (and I like the fact that they touched on the "why is the Cackler still looking for Rachel" issue into the 1880's). I'm curious if anyone else has a deep interest in the Deadlands metaplot and wants to discuss/get spoilers from me.

I don't think I've ever run a DL/DLR game that did anything with the metaplot so I've never kept up with it overly well.

I backed the kickstarter, too, but haven't downloaded it yet.

I want to know if your theory was right, or the thing about the Welsh pirates, but other than that not so much.

No mention of pirates, I'm afraid. Which theory was that again?

I am most certainly interested in the metaplot and the Cackler related items, though I didn't take notice of that to back it.

Oh dear...it's another one of Janet's cunning plans...

It is a plan like this one, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DCExerOsA

[proffers pencils]

Oh, and...

***

If only...I have the sinking feeling that Janet's serious. And was that a young Hugh Laurie?

"Army of witches"? Nah. It's just the start of a long conspiracy ramble interesting enough that he'll let her live another day...and then another...and then another. The trick is just to keep the stories coming without trying to push Custer's buttons too much (as much as he loves glory, for instance, he hates the natives more), just enough that he subtly comes to like Janet and decides to keep her about as harmlessly nuts.

[is forever useless at actors] Probably? If you haven't watched any of the Blackadder series, though, you need to (all right, maybe not The Black Adder, but Blackadder II and onward).

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Vivicist! I am so entertained that undead civil rights are under discussion in 2/3 Deadwood threads at present, especially as The Prospector has brought in the term "differently alive".

It seems a lot of my NPCs come down on the side of "Harrowed is just folk with an unfortunate disability."

Yes well, Wilder doesn't really agree :)

In reply to James Wilder (msg # 134):

I have the feeling that Wilder's certainty on that will soon be tested... ;)

In reply to James Wilder (msg # 134):

James' default reaction to any differently alive people is that they should be hanged by the neck until they're...er...really, really bored? Aw, and I was admiring his loyalty there, too.

Semi-justified prejudice (for once) aside, I do wonder about the Nations' laws on the subject, since they've always had things like "stored souls", bad ghosts that need dealing with by professionals etc. about, so there isn't the whole settler "keep it quiet! There are definitely not any ghosts, ghouls or long-leggeddy beasties about, nope nope, never seen 'em" thing to overcome.

In a setting where so many NPCs freely throw around race and gender based slurs, I find it odd that they are as a class so accepting of the undead, or more properly, corpses that have been animated by demons.

In the United States (regrettably) ethnic minorities and women have been treated differently under the law, having few rights or no rights depending on the specifics of the situation and the individuals in question unless specified. It took an extremely bloody and divisive war and over a century of struggle for black people to come close to the semblance of equality that exists today. But deaders can just hop up from the grave and they're full citizens, with all the rights and privileges that anyone else has in less than a score years?

Putting my lawyer hat on (I passed the Texas bar a few years ago), there isn't much precedent for the rights of the dead. In fact, it goes the other way a good deal. In criminal cases, it is the governmet that is the plaintiff, not the dead person. In property cases, claims are made against an estate, not a dead person. Dead people can't get married or vote. It's even written into the law. Aside from the weight of tremendous prejudice I would imagine might be held against them, they would have to overcome legal barriers. Legislatures would explicitly need to give rights to the dead. In Deadwood, which I imagine falls under federal law, that means Congress.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:15, Thu 09 Apr 2015.

But isn't your Congress full of dead people, anyway?

I've no doubt about that.

Huh? James is going to do what he promised.

In reply to Freiherr von Steinhof (msg # 138):

BRAIN dead. The rest of them are alive...nonfunctional, but alive...