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hello and welcome to part two the
Deadlands Halloween special at the rusty
quill gaming odd cars if you haven’t
listened to episode one then none of
this would mean anything to you so go
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you
it doesn’t take the few last week so
we’ll continue right now so everyone
here’s an ear-splitting scream from deep
inside the cabin Zeke you are part of
the way down your tunnel when you hear a
scream from behind you I will say for
our listeners that in the mean time
there has been some secret rollin
between Alex and the thing that was once
Black Jack Bronson but nobody except me
and Alex knows how that went
so Zeke turns around and Sprint’s
towards the screen you run almost bodily
into Fletcher hopefully flee what
happened oh I don’t know I don’t know
Black Jack went weird so we gotta go
there’s the thing and we got a flurry it
back there go nuts I’m immediately
standing up and trying to just run past
League I reluctantly let him flee okay
we then go down the tunnel towards the
terrifying evil monster because I am NOT
a genre savvy okay you could can’t hear
anything from the front of you
it’s about minute of walking same as
Fletcher no sound no movement you cast
your Lantern around it’s a small roughly
hewn cavern you see the scratches on the
wall you see the nest of discarded
clothes and lying in the center of the
room surrounded by a pool of translucent
a core
his blackjack Bronson’s skin it looks
almost entirely whole but there is
nothing inside it the face is very
recognizable his moustache sags
obscenely zzzquil poke at the skin with
his club just don’t poke the thing just
to see if there’s anything there and
then he’ll do the same to the other
piece of skin it looks and then I go
into the nest he’s just gonna poke
around I don’t want to get too close how
many other pieces of skin they sort of
start the flow away and you can see that
they are also complete people’s Worth’s
of skin some further decayed than others
maybe four or five collections is there
anything in the nest if I go and poke
around nothing you can see oh there’s a
pocket watch actually that might fetch a
few dollars it’s covered in blood I
pocket it mean wildly yep Fletcher runs
screaming into the main part of the cave
flea I immediately start trying to rub
up this
okay he’s trying to grab a horse Victor
what’s going on death dewmocracy and
shaking death only gonna get my flesh
against his chest oh come on now what’s
going on we gotta flee oh yeah three
people go in one person comes in exactly
look at me I can’t take them how do I
know we got guns
they cut a little things take it I’d
literally hand over my derringer we
gotta go
you’re going right now it twice you shot
this well yeah I shot this the things
trying to get me
I didn’t hear a gunshot I heard you
scream too during this conversation
carla has taken Marjorie down is now
holding it at chess okay new plan okay
great here’s what I’m gonna do right I
am gonna I’m gonna sit here like on the
ground okay you can point your guns at
me that’s fine as long as one of you
keeps pointing your gun at that cave
because death lots of death death what
does that mean point Zeke looking a bit
bloodier than he did when he went down
the tunnel emerges into the mouth of the
kill it kill it now Oh God where’s
blackjack some
I see I told you I told you what is that
thing’s gonna bond and we gotta kill it
or or we have an extra horse and we flee
we flee away we go we got that’s a posse
out there looking for us posses don’t
eat people they put them in jail no I
don’t shoot them or they hang them oh
yeah uh it’s probably just a coyote or
something sure that I mean it kind of
ate him while I was there and it was
invisible and it ate him from the inside
out and it’s gonna kill us all ish so
what am I talking about
I don’t know cuz I can’t see it let’s go
give me my gun or something we flee we
go like how how is no one perturbed by
this but this is my point
literally dead there’s a posse outside
that’s definitely gonna kill us
sounds like a Cody growl to me sounds a
lot like death let’s stick together
let’s hunt this thing and I’ll guard the
horses you are coming with why cuz I
don’t like you what do you think Carl
the voice of experience as a suggestion
we’re at the mouth of the cave and
outside there’s a posse and that’s very
dangerous insider may or may not be some
danger why don’t we Romania maintain a
watch looking in both directions wait it
out that’s an excellent plan let’s do
that let’s wait are I the horse I am not
waiting for a code to come for me you’ve
got a gun he’s got a huge gun in there
and I’m finding it I’m killing it best
of luck to you as well that’ll slow see
I’ve never seen an animal eat before
they get slow after that’s you know what
you should you should go home that thing
tell you what you give me my gun back I
wanna sneak coward
come with me have a good time guys
that’ll be great
I I wish you all the best if you’d allow
me to keep my gun oh hi every place the
posse come I’ll keep them at bay I’ll
hang back urine is good back not trust
him with it he’s likely to take a shot
at you and Sherlock get out on his own
you give things look just don’t give me
any bullets
why do you need to come then I’ll hold
it and feel better
I’m gonna listen to that guy why look at
him
yeah he’s big when you should know how
to coyote oh my god if we’re if we’re
going anywhere we’ve got to stick
together there’s no sense that’s leavin
this useless little toss piece short or
captioning tell us tell everyone where
we are
smash cut - you’re in the cave yeah
going down I’m gonna say you are at the
crossroad presumably all of us because
there’s no way - yes yes you are in
front with obviously all the guns
pointed at your back are actually
pointed at any dangers that might be in
front of you you are currently at the
way of the cave splits we’ll go down the
right one first the one just to make
sure we thoroughly explore the nest okay
yeah you can find you can find your
lantern it is fine I almost picked up a
go see see everything’s fine you can
give me my gun because I’m in front of
you all anyway just Everett keeps ya
mannan you can see that there is a nest
which looks like it’s been gradually
built up from stolen clothes piles of
complete sets of human skin huh see see
I don’t eat people you know why because
because I couldn’t fit him in where
would I put and in the middle with a
nice neat seam down the back is the skin
of blackjack Watson I’m gonna pull a
Hamid need for bit I’m gonna use the
opportunity to try to steal my gun back
James could you make me a smart roll oh
one is a six eight total yeah based on
what you’re seeing here you’d probably
be willing to wager that whatever took
you on that job was not black Jack
Bronson hmm based on your based on what
you’ve seen of him before your
suspicions and the fact that his skin
suit is now lying yeah they need to roll
in order higher than you would have
before you started playing yeah Karl is
a very
man many things is the row before you
know I don’t think that blackjack your
Brunson that took us on job same as what
chuckles no no from years ago I
continued trying to steal my gun Oh make
me a stealth roll until I make a yes me
too cuz I’m no you you’re too busy
thinking right oh five the six explodes
to an eleven you have your gun back I
have my gun back you did not notice and
proceeded to on the sly try and just
load it or something with with with an
eleven I’m gonna say yeah you can get
your gun back and you can load it as I
like I dropped it when I was robbed yeah
I just I just pocketed no one knows that
I have my gun but I’d rather have a gun
guns are good oh yeah I’m just going to
explore this carbon fully maybe or a
coyote you see you see this this is what
I’m getting at well what do you what do
you think it was I I think it was death
on legs I think it was death on legs and
it’s coming for us we can leave there
are horses horses have for this thing
presumably have animals the damage the
skin
oh no he’s still just some you stick a
some Cup I’m almost it’s the best bit
it’s like crackling delicious I’m gonna
throw my hat win Fletcher here I see you
i just take my trinity in the past a
smart you know i don’t know what’s going
on if I have a point I think I mean you
know a better good tell them you know
cuz you can show a double-faced one
animal or dozen angry townsfolk I’m
starting to think I want to take out the
town’s folk if you never had a hanging
Posse asked me before you don’t know why
you’re talking I can’t hear nothing I
know I listen there’s no okay so I’m
just off backing and standing
deliberately right next to cigarillo so
you want to hunt this thing that’s a
great idea how do you feel you feel I’m
safe now we can go guard the entrance
yeah no I still don’t trust you
oh come on man no way alright we should
stay together
you know I grabbed one of the lanterns
and I start walking back to the fork
okay this is great we’re heading back
the way we came
everything is fine we’re going to leave
when we get back to the fork I turn down
the roof okay really I call ANOVA you’re
absolutely sure about this Lud
yes I’m waiting about fork and I’m not
even near the entrance because I’m
afraid they’ll kill me if I do
down the tunnel cuz I’m afraid I’ll die
if I go there Carl tosses up the options
looks at these two measly pathetic
excuses look I’ll give my best boys
smile with a little slicked comb over my
head
I’ll sigh and I kind of still shaking a
bit but get around behind him and stop
pushing him down with my pistol jammed
in the smaller business you know that
I’m good for it like everything’s fine
sure there’s nothing you can do I’ve got
your gun oh wait oh no I must have
dropped it sorry I’ve lost you gone oh
come on
that’s awful I’m so annoyed further down
that passage it goes on for quite a
while getting deeper and deeper
and it splits off into what looks like
to be a small network of passages I very
slowly to show that I’m not trying to
pick a fight pull out my hidden knife an
etchant arrow scratching it into the
rock pointing back the way we came and
then very slowly and obviously for
everyone put it back where it came from
and good thinking Fletcher maybe you’re
not so useless after all
oh my god please I can hold the gun
someone else will go by pixi and I’m
going to load the rifle oh yeah you
can’t actually be like oh yeah sure as
soon as it bolt action it doesn’t matter
it’s one shot I reload it cool I’ve got
some experience truckin animals when
you’re out here for long as I’ve been in
like deep American West I’m not gonna be
accident obviously but I’ve acquired a
cynic about trucking experience so look
around you probably used to be a poacher
back in it yeah Carl starts picking
things up and it’s looking across oh
that’s not feces
that’s not theses fusco feces meanwhile
what is it he’s now bizarrely the
driving of wars with the plant guys I
just have to say
I’m enjoying so much being the airhead
job in a horror movie scenario I’m the
idiot who never learned how horribly
yeah I’m gonna ask Carl which way we
should go and do some sort of track yeah
they’re just gonna let rocks and call
them feces yeah for the third thing you
lick is still not feces Oh which point
you’re kind of give up on that
particular method of trapping and notice
the launch drag marks robot which is
address of real article of me together
there’s no strike marks they’re quite
old you reckon a couple of weeks maybe
but they go from this passage through
the dirt and it curved into one of the
tunnels meaning I can I throw what has
been dragged it looks like people it
looks like a person there are two lines
as though legs are being dragged sure
there’s one thing I know it’s the marks
made by bodies it’s dragged out by
position under the arms across into a
passage in a doomed uh a very specific
knowledge you can’t board schools it’s
also it’s the thing that carried a
person away let’s list the animals that
carry things away humans yes okay humans
are scary what they don’t steals like
who do you know whose skins people I’ve
walked down that passage now that Kyle’s
pointed it I’m gonna continue bickering
quite being for sure I’m guy in Brooklyn
who said it’s key to a heading down the
passage you two are still bickering so
who is not currently carrying a lantern
Carl isn’t because I was having a
two-handed rifle the rest of us have
like that yes or no I’ve loaded my rifle
yep
so you two are bickering you two are
heading down this passage it leads to a
smaller room and in the walls
it’s got divots sort of carved and
hanging from them look to be very old
hooks some of which yes have more skin
on them but in the corner is quite a
well-kept looking chest or a trunk
probably the sort you use for coach
I walk over to it and attempt open it it
is not locked inside a lot of money a
lot of jewelry valuables some small
books some guns ammo and it’s quite a
prominent leather-bound journal I close
the chest again and say may not have
been a wasted trip all together let’s
take this back to the horses I don’t
want to admit I can’t repeat there is a
gunshot and your lantern explodes
plunging you into darkness like curse
loudly James mm-hmm
could you make me a fighting roll sudden
you feel yourself getting claws into
your shoulders and you are dragged away
already of us see this because we’ve got
some other well that depends what sort
of vocalizations you make Oh get off me
I’m not giving you a piggyback God pull
off with your Caltex rifle into us there
are gunshots you see just a few
milliseconds of Carl being bodily lifted
by it looks like a skinless human with
large pointed teeth and wicked claws I
drop everything I’m holding except for
my club and I’m gonna just jump forward
and give a wild swing above the level of
Carl’s head you’ll be making me a
fighter at minus 6 because it is pitch
darkness that seems fair - for I might
use a free roll on that yeah that was a
zero on my details I’m gonna re-roll it
and a four so 14 Wow alright so with
tonight yeah okay that’s a hit they
throw me your damage please fourteen
both the 8x8 floats because you are just
you’re a huge horrible bruiser
sixteen damage the club smashes into
something and you hear a squelch
now no longer being gripped by Palance
oh oh oh I’ve got I’ve got oil sweet
home John where are we more wheezing
during this
you have heard a scream and then a kind
of squirrel tree hit sound and there’s a
relief Oxman yes I will immediately drop
my lantern begin to flee realize that
there’s no lights because we’re too deep
run back to grab my lantern at the same
time I’m gonna run forward with my gun
okay it’s a try to help the scene that’s
illuminated is an Old York Sherman
bleeding from the shoulders horrify a
large southern man with a club standing
looking very pleased with himself
I’m looking around see if I can hit it
again you can see basically a flash of
red disappearing down one of the tunnels
no Norris I’m gonna cave come on come on
all right I guess so almost to jump me
well there’s originals where the girly
screams patting himself down go confuse
you book it you’re checking me mints
good could you tracking no actually
notice rolls noses are all from everyone
everyone including people who are
failing to play explodes 14 914 read
cool just like old times
Bryn you can pretty much hear where it’s
going follow it through the tunnels yeah
then you hear what sounds like shouting
from the direction of the entrance guys
I think the posses here I can hear
shouting at the entrance and our lovable
cowards was running away I believe I
wasn’t aiming for love that’s great
hateable cowards I picked up my lantern
and I am fleeing to our entrance because
you know what you’re all great people
die for you okay
as you run you can see the light of the
entrance approaching and everything’s
fine a silhouette steps into it
am I able to tell anything more than a
silhouette it has a wide brimmed half I
immediately turn around and flee back
into the cave okay I respond to cielos
yell of the posse is here by then the
best thing to do is get deeper in these
caves
come on went that way sure thing okay
you follow it for a little while it
looks like most of these
empty from what you can see and there is
one other nest that you find there’s not
as much skin in that one it looks like
most of the skin is in that strange
wardrobe that you found Alex yes as you
run back down yeah in the light of your
torch you can see something something is
running towards you something red and
angry please make me a cut small - - now
the Deadlands has actually quite a
complicated fear role system because
there is the fear level of the area
because everywhere is a different level
of spooky
this place is 3 spooky 3 spooky it goes
all the way up to 6 spooky which is when
the entire landscape like hills or
skulls like the road is made of bones
the trees are actually we’re gonna power
how are the transport links in this
areas it is affordable I mean it depends
on how many spikes you’re happy to have
in your flesh while you travel like fix
is basically a hellscape it’s 3spooky
fight basically it’s three spooky so
minus 3 you’re a coward
so minus another two on you do however
have one point of grit yes plus one
coarse grit is how numb you are to
everything being horrible so this is a
minus 4 minus 4 I have to hit four you
have to hit four so you need an eight so
it really has to explode yes I lose come
on he’s got a six
okay I already have one God God and a
four he’s gonna turn so yeah there’s a
skinless angry to feel or man running
towards you and strangely your
adrenaline kicks in and all those false
going the other way what do you do you
are currently in the passageway between
the entrance and the fork it is coming
up from the fork and the entrance is a
silhouette of a man and a wide-brimmed
hat oh it’s a coward nightmare no matter
where I flee I flee towards death I am
going to die
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I am going to draw my gun if possible
and plant two shots in it while
continuing to run it and desperately try
and run around it in the narrow corridor
as ill-advised as that is many a shootin
wrong but I can keep exploding these
right that’s a thing they can have I
mean in sabot worlds yes I got a 5
that’s a hit
roll me your damage is damaged okay
that’s 2d6 it’s alright guys I got this
I’m gonna save as well it’s already got
16 prints still save you if you don’t if
it dies 11 I may explode if you’ve
rolled a 6 oh okay
6 7 8 9 10 11 and then the second roll
on the 6 was a further 2 so 13 13 the
bullets think of the shoulder praying
it’s a flesh and it : just now asking us
all over the walls it’s sort of tumbles
it’s not dead and it’s not stopping but
it does mean you can just press yourself
against the wall and let it kind of
Scrabble past you it’s not trying to
kill you anymore because you’ve heard it
that’s fine I am going to push my look
because I’m that foolish a character and
if possible I’m going to try and swing
the lantern at its head as it goes by me
alright yeah make me make me a fight and
roll a minus 1 because it is very
provides weapon fighting roll 5 minus 1
I mean you sort of shove the lantern in
it which costs its jagged horrible
spacing ok you didn’t get a real good
look at it when it was coming no you
haven’t
no okay so you made things worse for
yourself good great it is currently
running off towards the entrance I then
proceeded to try and just run back to
all the other people who I know won’t
kill me on sight
ok yep you get back you get back into
the tunnels with deeper in right you
haven’t heard any real movement around
until someone runs in shouting your car
I’m gonna take a snapshot at the thing
that runs in maybe shooting off in the
panic if a gun please no no this is the
best Abdallah
are you shooting me well as weapons when
you burst into the room we’ve really
scared people with yeah
seven seven that’s a hint Romney you’re
damaged please seven seven okay what’s
your toughness my toughness is five so
that’s enough to shake you but not wound
you basically the shoots clips right
past Jory oh geez ha ha
sneak up on people like us sure I shot
it it’s not dead and the sheriff’s here
and the sheriff’s at the entrance and
the creatures between us and the sheriff
which is a good thing and I shot it
which is a good thing but the creatures
there which is a bad thing and there’s a
creature and it’s not no face and it’s
there it’s at the front I love many of
the bow they have is they just this one
that’s been wounded Joe they’re of us
around two nests right well the first
one was a second homeowner where’s maybe
maybe have a larger or something do you
think it’s breeding
let’s go of actually have a chance and
see what’s going on I know you can’t be
nice yeah calm because the sheriff’s at
the entrance so or at least something
like oh that’s rewards the entrance and
see what’s coming there’s just one of
them there’s still four of us yes okay
we won’t engage unless we have to okay
if we do it’s common ooh do you know
this just it’s a narrow passage it’s
full of us with guns I’m sure I died
load my gun and place myself a central
between everyone else as possible so
you’re starting to head to back up
towards the engine yeah much much more
cautiously than before who’s going first
yeah we’re shuffle round and push him to
the front yeah I thought you were just a
yellow-bellied streak of the yellow or
belly but it turns out actually you got
spine and I think that’s not a mixed
message Oh on you go
I can’t hop alonein alright you go I’m
gonna grab my rifle and rest it on
Fletcher’s shoulder and just sight down
it as we walk up so that he’s
stabilizing it for me like a mobile Mad
Max yeah yeah
nice enough not to pick the fight moves
the Lanson to his left hand having
already reloaded his gun pockets his gun
and then puts his finger in his ear next
to that gun because he’s a coward he’s
not an idiot as you head up towards the
entrance you can start to hear voices
drifting down yeah
can’t see much though gunshot was it
yeah don’t you mean that about five
minutes you any deeper Wyatt don’t look
to be running back
oh no just the entire group look at me
as quietly as I possibly can and I
actually mean that I turned meaningfully
to look to everyone else and mouth I put
one hand over his mouth and gesture to
the other members of the party but we
should cover the lanterns I do so yeah
[Music]
[Music]
so can we see him is Easter like
silhouetted against the mouth of the
cave you are not currently at a stage
where you can no line of sight no
otherwise they would have seen your
antennas oh right I shout come on
goodness if you want us Carl
Emma drops to one mean also said himself
and he aims up the no no no I say I will
position the lanterns on the floor
either side of the passageway uncover
them and gesture sure we want to back
off a little
okay if people will allow it Allen cover
my lantern and point it immediately
behind us in towards the dark terrifying
tunnel so I’m going down on a knee as
well with my right
and yet shaking slowly let them come
into the light first what you thinking
well I reckon if we head down there they
got the advantage it’s a bald man I say
we’ve done right on the answers believe
me man come on cor you’ll be doing this
along guess what do we do right well
there’s one thing that I is a true
Pollack York Sherman no it’s the dangers
of cave-ins in mining scenarios we don’t
wanna get stuck down here okay so we’re
gonna rush normally fun that’s Russian
yeah okay
hey watch you go first no it’s okay I
I’ve got it back I start running okay
I’ll follow thee Ben
there are 20 of them outside oh dear all
arms
Anat as you run Abel dives to the side
and shout something and they all start
shooting you are as they turn to ride
off leave your moldering bodies for the
Arizona Sun uncle Abel just readjusts
his face sheriff lead fled anywhere just
fleeing as an to be fair got shotting
the sheriff kind of signed a lot of your
death one yes I think all that Florence
is a boy yeah thank you all for joining
us for this spooky skinny massacre
massacre because Halloween episode that
ends with all of the players alive and
saying there’s not a good one
and don’t even get me started on the
characters
[Laughter]
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thanks for listening humans Steven don’t
sit around fast madness even if it were
to in a waltz the most appropriate dance
first time of the morning at this stage
in the season that would be ludicrous
you’ll be saying it was wearing a fancy
top hat and tails next and toasting the
Macarena there’s not as much skin in
that one it looks like most of the skin
is in that strange wardrobe that you
found it’s like a very sinister episode
of mr. bird I mean to be honest all
episodes and mr. Benn our sinister if
you ever think them missed miss mr. Ben
being a kids TV show in Britain from
years and years and years ago yes you
know we’re a very middle class man in a
bowler hat puts on other hats in a
costume shop and becomes all sorts of
spaceman nights and even at some points
a cowboy mm-hmm it’s mr. faceless
understand me buddy doesn’t have the
skin bitter I stand by my panic
statement of the Moustakas it doesn’t
have a moustache so this is the Old West
so he’s here correct
my backup was to pretend was to shoot
myself with my own gun in the shoulder
tie myself up and claim I was a hostage
lovely
you