Deadlands1 / Session12


Friday, July 6, 1877

Two men in black roll in, Bonnar's Travelling Revival Meeting roll in a wagon. Pull up to city hall, then set up outside of town with a tent.

Over the next few days fliers appear around town about the revival meeting - for Christians in these troubled times.

Mac has been keeping the mayor in protective custody.

Monday, July 9, 1877

Meeting scheduled for 6 pm. Mac sends Lightning Dan, none of the PCs care to visit.

At about 9 pm, Dan comes back and gives us the summary. Pastor Bonnar is convinced that Vulture's troubles are because we're under a curse. And the only way to break the curse is for all to repent and take shelter in the arms of the Lord. Widow Love was totally into it.

Father Michael turns his guns over to Mac. All

At midnight - a big commotion over at the revival tent. Onatah, Mac, and Judith hear gunfire over that way. Dr Wolf is notified by his landlady. Mac takes Lennox with him and the four head over that way.

There are crazy shadows on the side of the tent - giant snarling wolves. Mac raises a pistol and fires through the tent wall at the wolf shadow. Then Mac heads in and fires his shotgun at one of the three wolves menacing the two pastors cowering behind the pulpit. Dr Wolf runs in and stabs a different wolf in the leg and the electricity stuns it into unconsciousness. Dr Wolf runs over to the one that Mac had been shooting and stabs it but does little damage. Onatah dashes in a looses a fire arrow at the unwounded wolf, wounding it in the guts. Lennox steps in to back up Mac and fires at the wolf Mac's been shooting - the wound finally knocks that wolf out. Lennox fires again at the other wolf, wounding its forelimb. Judith circles the tent and looks in - there's no sign of occult summoning or anything like that in there. She aims at the last standing wolf and fires her rifle, further wounding the last wolf. Dr Wolf runs forward and the electricity from his sword stuns the last wolf into unconsciousness.

Father Michael arrives. A brief discussion ensues, we decide to burn the wolves (at the suggestion of Dr Wolf), outside the tent, after killing them first.

We talk to the pastors - they had no previous encounters with hellbeasts, or devil worshippers. They heard God's call to cleanse Vulture City. They don't want to take advantage of Mac's protective custody. Mac insists, and they go to "meet the mayor."

Dr Wolf gets his lantern and he and Onatah go to find the tracks of the wolves. The follow the tracks outside of town to a little sheltered ravine - they find an altar with obvious occult paraphernalia. Only one person was here and it was a woman.

Tuesday

Onatah is summoned by the Yavapai council and given magical weapons as they can tell the evil will continue to mount.

During the morning routine, we hear positive vibes in the direction of the revivalists.

We are summoned by the Mayor and told he's tired of being held up there and it might be time for him to be let out. He's thinking it might be time to turn things over to the revivalists. Mac cows the Mayor but agrees to let him go home if he takes two deputies with him.

Gave up notes here.

It shall be noted that later when the ghost of John Huddleston showed up Onatah threw her magic tomahawk and hit him in the lower guts, killing him. Poor John Huddleston, hurt there in life in the same way and hit there again in the afterlife.

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