Wild West C&C: Dead Mule 2: Electric Boogaloo (Finished)

Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:04 pm

This thread is for discussion of the Thursday Night Irregulars' game Dead Mule 2, which uses the Go For Your Gun Rules, _heavily_ modified. No need to buy the rules, but I will send everyone a copy of the important (and confusing! ) house rules document

Players who missed the first go round can get up to date on the madness, and unending carnage, by reading the session summaries here

Most players have characters (although there will be a change or two to each of those). For the 2 new players, a character will be provided by me.

One thing to set up right away is which sessions will people be absent for, so we know what sessions to cancel, or split the party or whatever

Also, importantly, I cannot host maptools, so no matter what we do, there must always be someone who can host it.

As to the Treeboreans, I assume Silva, Treebore, and Titania are playing. Is Patrick playing?
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spak_man · Post by **spak_man** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:41 am

I just finished reading over the session summaries, and Im pumped to Get back to dead mule

TONY MARTINEZ RIDES AGAIN!!

Hopefully this time I'll be able to hit someone two feet away from me with a scatter gun. on A side note, I'm glad that little standoff I had with the bounty hunter was broken up, with my track record I wouldn't have been able to hit him even with my derringer stuck right up his nose.

Also Kurt do you have a copy of the old characters, If I remembered to back up my character when I bought my new system, I dont have access to it as my main system is still dead until I get my replacement CPU in and if not its long gone as the system I was using when we first rampaged through the quiet streets of dead mule has since been formatted and sold
anyways Ill see you on thursday

-Andre
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:09 am

spak_man wrote:
I just finished reading over the session summaries, and Im pumped to Get back to dead mule

TONY MARTINEZ RIDES AGAIN!!

Hopefully this time I'll be able to hit someone two feet away from me with a scatter gun. on A side note, I'm glad that little standoff I had with the bounty hunter was broken up, with my track record I wouldn't have been able to hit him even with my derringer stuck right up his nose.

Also Kurt do you have a copy of the old characters, If I remembered to back up my character when I bought my new system, I dont have access to it as my main system is still dead until I get my replacement CPU in and if not its long gone as the system I was using when we first rampaged through the quiet streets of dead mule has since been formatted and sold
anyways Ill see you on thursday

-Andre

Good point! With my comp freshly dead I hope we posted copies somewhere as well!
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spak_man · Post by **spak_man** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:36 am

I found a copy of Tonys character sheet as well as the house rules doc in my old e-mails, hurray for gmail

are we using the characters as is, or do we get to level up thanks to our heroic exploits
-Andre
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:27 am

spak_man wrote:
I just finished reading over the session summaries, and Im pumped to Get back to dead mule

TONY MARTINEZ RIDES AGAIN!!

Hopefully this time I'll be able to hit someone two feet away from me with a scatter gun. on A side note, I'm glad that little standoff I had with the bounty hunter was broken up, with my track record I wouldn't have been able to hit him even with my derringer stuck right up his nose.

Good times, good times

I am glad to see someone is doing their assigned homework, reading those summaries
I was thinking of tweaking the damage from firearms a bit to make them a bit more lethal (if you will recall, melee weapons added STR modifiers so often did more than a pistol shot. Then again, maybe getting hacked with an axe _does_ do more damage than a pistol shot.) We shall discuss.

spak_man wrote:
Also Aramis do you have a copy of the old characters, If I remembered to back up my character when I bought my new system, I dont have access to it as my main system is still dead until I get my replacement CPU in and if not its long gone as the system I was using when we first rampaged through the quiet streets of dead mule has since been formatted and sold
anyways Ill see you on thursday

-Andre

You mean those old character sheets are presently being handed around in some computer shop in Sub Saharan Africa?

I think I do have everyone's sheets. But, mine are the ones initially handed out, prior to going up a level etc. (you levelled from 2 to 3 near the end). And of course, they are missing acquired items and such (I don't think there was much of that, besides a russian silver tea set!)

I am sure we can sort it out. The character sheets will also incorporate a new stat, but that is tip top secret. (I like my house rules to be a surprise, so when we first use them, they are guaranteed to be an utter catastrophe)
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:31 am

Treebore wrote:
Good point! With my comp freshly dead I hope we posted copies somewhere as well!

As with Tony, I think I have everyone's initial sheets.

Treebore, 2 questions:

1) is Patrick in?

2) Since no one has said otherwise, it seems we are splitting the first session or 2 (I hope only that long)

Since Jay, Jaybird, Kayolan, and Andre will play in the Thursday slot, it is the Treeboreans that must agree to a different time/day to play their portion. You are away next weekend. Should we try for sometime this weekend (July 4th holiday?) or what?
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:32 am

So as I understand it, it is Jay, Jaybird, Kayolan, and Andre this Thursday (and probably next-after that everyone will be together on Thursday)

Everyone in?
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:28 pm

Yer darn-shootin' I'm in!
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jarredmcgee · Post by **jarredmcgee** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:17 pm

spak_man · Post by **spak_man** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:41 pm

ill be there

-Andre
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:32 pm

Thursday of next week the Treeborians will be in Arkansas digging quartz and waiting on the start of Trollcon. We will have internet access, but only one computer, so don't know how well the play experience will go, etc...
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:50 pm

Treebore wrote:
Thursday of next week the Treeborians will be in Arkansas digging quartz and waiting on the start of Trollcon. We will have internet access, but only one computer, so don't know how well the play experience will go, etc...

Well, remember, since you guys are away, we are _splitting_ the group.

As I wrote a few days ago:

Aramis wrote:
Treebore, 2 questions:

1) is Patrick in?

2) Since no one has said otherwise, it seems we are splitting the first session or 2 (I hope only that long)

Since Jay, Jaybird, Kayolan, and Andre will play in the Thursday slot, it is the Treeboreans that must agree to a different time/day to play their portion. You are away next weekend. Should we try for sometime this weekend (July 4th holiday?) or what?

Although it is probably a bit late to set something up for this weekend, on my end. Maybe could move stuff around

Anyway, tell me when you guys want to play your portion.

The non Treeboreans will be playing the next couple of Thursdays
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:58 pm

The odd thing is, Kayolan posted an affirmation that he was playing this Thursday, but now it seems to be gone from the thread. Perhaps some of the other players discussed the kind of game I run, and he wisely decided to "wait for the next bus"
I have the two characters for Jay and Kayolan.

They are:

Luis Hernandez- Drifter (Jack of All Trades Fighter)- Luis is a product of a marriage between a Spanish Mexican father and an Irish American mother. His father was a wealthy plantation owner in Mexico, and could afford to send Luis to the best schools in America. While in America, Luis began to question the system from which he benefitted so much. He began to see the terrible exploitation of the peasants by the landowners. And, as the landowners took on more and more land, their holdings took on the feel of feudal baronies.

So, Luis became a freedom fighter. Unfortunately, the rebellion of the peasants he helped lead was brutally repressed by the landowners, and Luis was forced to flee across the border, back to America. He has taken up anonymous employment as an orderly at an Asylum, with the intention of one day returning to Mexico and freeing the opressed.

And:

Howard Phillips-Muckraker (modified). Howard Phillips was a somewhat sickly, dreamy boy who spent most of his youth reading of far off lands. Phillips fought honourably in the War and was discharged early with a shot lung. The pain of the condition has led to an unfortunate addiction to laudanum(opium). After service in the War, he took up journalism. One benefit of the laudunum addiction is that Phillips' dreamy nature has expanded through the drug use to produce wonderful visions. Some of them even seem prophetic.

Phillips has become quite a student of the occult. The combination of his writing skill, his interest in strange occult topics, and his enhanced dreaming have fostered in Phillips an ability to write disturbing stories which seem to sell well to the New York papers.

(The 2nd character is more role play oriented (not too tough, like spak man's character)

Full character sheets are also prepared, and will be sent with the house rules doc.

I will try to do a bit of a story post to get us going before the game. Who can host maptools for me? I have a 56 campaign made. So I will need to send that to you first.

Also, there are a few surprises on the map, not visible to players, so if you log yourself in as GM you will see these things and ruin a bit of the surprise for yourself. Your call.
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:26 pm

I wish I could offer to host, but I'm down to just one dicey iMac with a blown video card. Frankly, it's a miracle the thing even lets me surf since it will only boot off of the XP partition of the drive. I'll buy a new one one of these days.

Is start time 9EST, as usual?
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:00 pm

jaybird216 wrote:
I wish I could offer to host, but I'm down to just one dicey iMac with a blown video card. Frankly, it's a miracle the thing even lets me surf since it will only boot off of the XP partition of the drive. I'll buy a new one one of these days.

Is start time 9EST, as usual?

Should be
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spak_man · Post by **spak_man** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:02 pm

Id offer to host, but I'm still (yes.. still) on my backup PC which has trouble running maptools if the map has lots of images. If your campaign files are relatively light, I could try, but I can't make any promises.

I could try to get maptools running on my netbook, but its always a struggle and a half to get older versions of maptools running on it. anyways, if anyone else can host it would probably be better, but if no one else can I will give it a try.

-Andre
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:44 pm

spak_man wrote:
Id offer to host, but I'm still (yes.. still) on my backup PC which has trouble running maptools if the map has lots of images. If your campaign files are relatively light, I could try, but I can't make any promises.

I could try to get maptools running on my netbook, but its always a struggle and a half to get older versions of maptools running on it. anyways, if anyone else can host it would probably be better, but if no one else can I will give it a try.

-Andre

Uh Oh. Looks like the gods themselves are conspiring to keep me from DMing
I think the campaign is in the most recent version of maptools, but I can't tell. All the maps are homemade (and thus extra nutritious) but they have a lot of tokens because I kept forgetting to put things on the background layer
Maybe jarred can host it. Or Kayolan, I know he often hosts. Still not sure what happened with that message from him, though.

If we don't have maptool we are screwed. I won't go back to open rpg, I can't face it
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:15 pm

Excerpts from the last few issues of the Dead Mule Gazette that have caught your eye.

Obituaries*

William Morrison, gold prospector, 43, found dead in his room in the High Pass Hotel. Mr Morrison was found dead in his bed at 10 a.m. when the clerk at the hotel entered his room to wake him. The body showed some signs of abrasions and bruising; mining is a rough life. The sherriff put it down to natural causes.

"Bold" Davey Jones, 23, vagrant. Shot down in the street for using a lady's hat as a spitoon. Didn't even fire a shot. Nice shooting, Mrs Adams!

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Breaking News! Extra! Extra!

There has been yet another Indian attack on the main road between town and the mines out west. Fortunately, the three miners were only injured, although their supply wagon was lit on fire! Durn Injuns!

The disgrace of it is, as usual the sherriff won't help (He says it's not his jurisdiction. Jurisdiction to hell, I say) and the Governor seems incapable of acting! We are surrounded by a savage foe, on all sides. If we don't do something, we may be swept from these lands, given to us to safeguard by a higher authority than the damned pacifist governor

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Remember, as of Saturday, the town ban on spitting comes into effect. Spitoons have been provided to every business in town. Any violations will result in a 25 cent fine. We need to clean up this town if we want to get more ladies to move out west, so keep it in the spitoons fellers.

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K-2 Lou Mining has purchased the Donaldson mining claim and both the Stuart claims (although everyone knows the Stuart is played out, so I don't know what K-2 is playing at.) The rich ain't like you and me, I guess, they got more money, so they're "eccentric", rather than dumb

Nice for Stuart and Donaldson, they can retire to some fishing and hunting. I envy you fellers!

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Sounds like the 'Lazy Vandal' gang struck again. This time up in Bisbee. Got the local bank on the weekend. Police are, as usual "baffled". Not much money was taken, but they made a hell of a mess.

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Classified

For sale. Colt Navy pistol. Used once. Contact R. Little re: Estate of "Bold" Davey Jones

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Editorial

As you are no doubt aware, there is an election coming soon. But this is no ordinary election. This is a decision which will affect all of our lives for years to come.

Our governor, "Lucky" Luke Dire tells us he has a plan. He tells us that with statehood we can have a voice in national affairs. We (or at least he!) can become important big muckety mucks with the movers and shakers. And to do this we just have to do a few simple things. Things like stop mining the western hills and hand it over to a bunch of Indians for a reservation. Can you believe it? Just give up our mines? I don't think so, Lucky

And this pacifist friend to Indians sure seems to get all martial in regards to the Mexicans to the south. All fire and brimstone, he is, with invasion this, and protect the "homeland" from unscrupulous invasion that.

Here's a clue, Mr Governor. It ain't Mexicans shooting up our stagecoaches and supply wagons out to the mines.

And it was you that opposed putting the doggone railroad in, which will protect us from most of these attacks. Thank God no one listened. How many times can one man be wrong? The railroad will open soon, and hopefully the Governor will be on it, out of the state and out of our hair.

Fortunately there is an alternative to Lucky Luke's mad schemes. That alternative is Richard Halliburton, with his "steady as she goes" attitude and promise to crack down on the Indian attacks, ensure the railroad is completed on time, and double mining in the Western Hills, this newspaper thinks you would have to be crazy (or clearly an anarchist) to vote for Unlucky Luke

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Letters

From Anonymous:

Dear Editor- You are a disgrace. Who do you think atttacked the darn army railcars last month? The Indians? With what, bows and arrows? That was a professional job. It doesn't take too many smarts (although more than a newspaperman, obviously) to know it was the Mexicans that wanted to get their hands on those weapons. Trouble is brewing to the South. Trouble we may not be prepared for, especially if we waste our time and energy on rail lines and fighting Indians.

We could lose our country, and our liberty if we ain't careful. You wanna be a serf on one of those giant farms they got down there? Worked to death for a few pennies? No thanks. That's why I'm glad Lucky Luke Dire is protecting us from them Spaniards.

Signed,

Worried in Bisbee

from Mrs Martha Swenson (widow)

Mr Washbuck- Are you going to mention old Bill Morrison? Terrible, terrible what happened. He was a good man, and an excellent dancer. And between you and me, there is more to this story than the sherriff is letting on. Natural causes, my foot! Flying fellers from the moon more like.

This is just like a ways back, when that newspaperman was found in a pool of blood (not his own) out behind the La Loma Alta. Sherriff said it was "drunkenness". Drunkenness!! Heavy drinkin' don't make you sweat 3 gallons of your own blood. And it ain't even his blood! Not more than a few scratches on him, I heard.

He's still up in the loony bin I bet. Which is where I am heading if I start believing the cockamamie stories you and the sherriff cook up. Natural cause! Harumph.

Keep watching the skies

M Swenson (widow)

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*- in Dead Mule, Obituaries often lead off the front page
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:18 pm

Telegram

Tony Martinez

Dead Mule, Az Territory

Mr Martinez STOP Your friend Mr Honeywell needs your help STOP He says someone is "trying to eat his dreams" STOP He is very sickly and I fear for his life (and his soul) STOP He says to bring "buffalo", I think STOP Sorry if that makes no sense, He is not very lucid

Be Careful

Luis

Arkham Asylum

Promise City, Az Territory
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jarredmcgee · Post by **jarredmcgee** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:23 pm

both characters seem interesting

but i think i'll go with the muck racker

if you've found no one else i could host maptools but

my system is slow

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:29 pm

Love it, Kurt!

See you soon. I just test-fired maptools, because I haven't gamed since my video card melted down. I had to reinstall java, but I got it to open. Trick is, there are a lot of pixel artifacts on the maptools window, so I may not be able to make out the finer points of the maps. Following the chat screen and rolls may be a challenge as well, but I won't know until we try. At least I'm confident that I'll be able to see where the different tokens are and will have a pretty good idea of the map at large. Text is what may kill me.

Looks like I should get a new computer sooner than later, since I'm also scheduled to jump back into Nate's game after the holiday.

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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:57 pm

Beautiful! I just turned down my hardware acceleration and the maptools window is clear as a bell. Wunderbar! Now let's just pray that it's stable.
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jarredmcgee · Post by **jarredmcgee** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:10 am

version: 56

password: player

game: go for your guns pt 2 eb

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:20 pm

Fun game last night. Thanks Kurt! Poor spakman's livin' in a cuckoo clock!
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:53 pm

jaybird216 wrote:
Fun game last night. Thanks Kurt! Poor spakman's livin' in a cuckoo clock!

Your welcome, jaybird. That was a fun session. Very reminiscent of the good old days of Dead Mule

It seemed to be a very fast, smooth game too. (From the DMs side, the game seems faster because you are always on, whereas a player waits for their turn, but it still seemed to move along). Maptool worked great. Thanks Jarred.

The one down side was Jarred had to sit a bit until he got his big entry. But what an entry it was At least he got to enjoy some fun early on by running the NPCs. Perhaps he was a bit _too_ successful at that . Poor, poor Mrs Henderson (or whatever her name was).

Plus, it didn't help that we have 2 jays in the group. I was trying to use "Buffalo" most times, but I know I threw a few ambiguous "Jay"s in there too.

Good fun
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jarredmcgee · Post by **jarredmcgee** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:37 pm

i suppose you could call me jarred

or howard which is the characters name

jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:47 pm

People usually just call me "Hey! You in the bushes!"
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:39 pm

So, it's the same group this week? Two J's and an A. *rimshot*
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Aramis · Post by **Aramis** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:39 pm

jaybird216 wrote:
So, it's the same group this week? Two J's and an A. *rimshot*

Try the fish! He'll be here all week, folks

It may be the same group. Or, there may be a surprise. You carried Luis to the lobby, waiting for the sherriff. While you were filling out the Cause of Death paperwork (check box #3-club to forehead), the sherriff noticed some movement under the blanket.

"What....what's that?", asked the sherriff, alarmed

"Involuntary muscle spasms", said Tony knowledgeably, "you see those a lot if you spend any time at all around Buffalo"

"He's dead as a raccoon what mistook a wolverine for a lady raccoon, I can tell ye that", confirmed Buffalo

"I'm not...not dead yet", mumbled Luis from under the blanket.

"Yes you is, Luis" Buffalo said comfortingly "you just don't know it yet on account of muscle spasms".

He looked to Tony to confirm Buffalo's wise diagnosis.

"Uhmmmm, maybe we better look under the blanket", said Tony

"Ooooooooh", said Luis.

Kayolan Pmed me saying he had to miss last week but was raring to go, so he may join in.

We might even be able to get him to host Maptool rather than Jarred.

If not, ignore all of the above, Luis really is pining for the fjords
It turns out the Treeboreans won't be doing the split party thing, so we will see if they are interested in joining in after they get back from their trip.
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jarredmcgee · Post by **jarredmcgee** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:02 am

we still on?