Posse Profiles - Deadlands

The following is a line-up of the Posse: the heroes that adventure across the Wasted West to save the world ... or their own hides, as the case may be.

"Sweet" Sue

Player: Wendy Peacock
"Sweet" Sue grew up on the rodeo circuit, right up until the bombs dropped. Now, she's all grown up, and hasn't forgotten how to fire a gun, rope a calf, or lasso varmints. She's a crack shot with a pistol, skilled with the lariat and bullwhip, and eager to find adventure in the Wasted West.
Character Portrait by Wendy Peacock

Blue-Feather

Player: Stephie
Blue-Feather is a Shamaness of the Sioux Nations who showed great ability to invoke favors from the spirits of the earth and sky, but in one of her rituals, she angered a powerful spirit which sought to bring harm to her tribe. In order to divert the spirit's anger away from her tribe, Blue-Feather was forced to leave her people and to journey in search of some way to evade the wrath of this malevolent being. Along the way, she does her best to respect the spirits of nature, even in the blighted Wasted West.

Jim

Player: John Cullen
Jim is a tall dark and mysterious fellow, proficient in the use of the sword, and an expert on action movies of old. His sword has a seemingly supernatural ability to slice through just about anything, and he's pretty deadly with thrown knives as well. Since his initial adventures at the Red Mesa complex, Jim has come to grips with the existence of the supernatural, and has gone on to train to become a Templar. (If nothing else, someone needs to be able to patch up the group!)

Karl Dracomortat

Player: John Zielinsky
Karl Dracomortat is a vampire hunter from old Europe, who was transported to the present thanks to a curse invoked by one of the more powerful vampires that Karl was in the process of hunting. He has been traveling the Wasted West, proving himself to be a quick study on the curiosities of technology, and using his finely-honed talents at taking care of various blood-sucking fiends and other undead monsters. Although he's quite talented with the use of wooden stake and mallet, he's found that a rocket launcher can do the trick quite nicely as well.

Adventuring across the wastelands (and being dunked in radioactive goo) has taken its toll on Karl, so after defeating hordes of undead at the Wild West Museum in Cobalt, Idaho, Karl has settled down. In the nearby town of Blackbird, he serves as resident monster-hunter.

Introductory Story

Karl's Dream (occurs between sessions #10 and #11)

Dr. Max Grant

Player: Diosden Rodriguez
Doctor Max Grant was a researcher at the Red Mesa Research Facility, when everything started going wrong. Experiments were escaping, power was going out, monsters were teleporting out of nowhere, and the Black Hat soldiers of the Combine were shooting any scientists they could find on sight. Dr. Grant met up with the heroes and assisted them briefly in their battles against the forces of darkness, though he later split up with them while they were all trying to escape the complex. He has not been seen since.

Barney Gumble

Player: "Otter"
Barney was a security guard at the Red Mesa Research Facility, still operating even after the bombs fell. He met up with the other adventurers when they headed into the complex to try to find the source of various monsters that were plaguing a nearby settlement. As things were going haywire in the complex, and it became increasingly obvious that some very dangerous things were being created there, Barney joined up with the heroes to put an end to the horrors at Red Mesa, and then joined up for further adventures beyond.

Alas, while Barney survived encounters with all sorts of strange monsters, he at last met his end thanks to a malfunction in a rocket launcher, caught by the blast without benefit of his combat armor at the time. He was instantly killed, and his remains were buried near the settlement of "Stonehinge" {sic} in Montana, in a pit made by a robot that had been piledriven into the ground by a giant horse-riding evil spirit. An odd artifact known to the group as the "Barney Stick" was used as his gravemarker, and Brother Joy gave the eulogy.