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  The Deadlands Epitaph
  Volume 1, Issue 4
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  Epitaph: 4
  This is that part of the book where we tell
  players to vamoose, and is a marked change
  from previous Deadlands products. We figure if
  you’ve bought this book, you’re probably the
  Marshal. That’s fine by us, and allows us to
  get right to the dark, dripping heart of things.
  Some of the articles in the Epitaph are for
  players of course, things like new spells or
  weapons, or the article on a different way of
  handling junkers in Hell on Earth. Share those
  sections with your posse once you’ve looked
  them over and cleared the material for your
  game.
  Now let’s get you caught up on what’s
  going on in the Weird, Wasted, and Way Out
  West.
  Weird West Roundup
  It’s 1879 in the Weird West, and there seems
  to be a strange calm—maybe the kind that
  comes before a big storm. Let’s deal with the
  major goings-on one at a time.
  The War Ends!
  Not the Rail Wars, amigo. We’re talking
  about the American Civil War.
  It all started—for most folks—with the death
  of General Robert E. Lee in the desert of
  Arizona. His private Dixie Rails train was
  attacked and “Marse Roberts” was gunned
  down by bloodthirsty assassins.
  A group of heroes—maybe your heroes,
  Marshal—eventually discovered that Lee’s
  death was ordered by the Jefferson Davis
  doppleganger. It seems Lee had caught on
  that something wasn’t right with his old
  friend, and the horror decided the popular
  general had to go.
  After a long and arduous trip across the
  West to Richmond, Virginia, the heroes
  managed to stop Jefferson and his Harrowed
  bodyguards, the “Nightwatchers.”
  The doppleganger was killed in the
  incident, followed shortly thereafter by a
  massive explosion from Libby Prison, where
  the doppleganger had stored a large amount
  of explosives.
  The public knows nothing of the Davis
  doppleganger, of course. At first they simply
  believed Union assassins were responsible for
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  this reign of terror. Then acting President Eric
  Michele (that’s “Michael,” friends) confirmed
  that the assassin was actually the leader of
  the Nightwatchers, Colonel George Alexander.
  Colonel Alexander was later hunted down by
  unknown adventurers and sent to a watery
  grave as he attempted to escape via the
  James River in a submersible.
  Publicly, Michele stated that Alexander was
  unhappy with Jefferson Davis’ secret plans to
  negotiate a peace with the Union. Privately, he
  came to the horrific realization that his
  commander-in-chief was actually a horrid
  abomination needlessly prolonging the war to
  spread misery and violence.
  Michele used the cover story of Davis’
  “secret negotiations” to order Confederate
  forces to stand down in memory of Davis’
  good name.
  (All of these events are explained in the
  Deadlands adventure, Dead Presidents.)
  The Cold War
  There are still quiet skirmishes between
  vengeful commanders here and there, and shots
  are still sometimes fired when soldiers in blue
  and gray come too close together, but officially,
  America is at peace. The “cold war” has begun,
  and spies on both sides are quickly infiltrating
  their rivals to ensure no surprise attacks are
  forthcoming.
  The Great Rail Wars
  Neither the North nor the South are being too
  quick to pare down their armies, but the cease-
  fire has allowed them to trim the fat a bit. One
  of the first side-effects of the war’s end is that
  both nations released thousands of soldiers
  whose enlistments had already expired, or who
  were considered too old, infirm, or mentally
  unstable to remain in the ranks.
  After the Battle of the Cauldron (see The
  Great Rail Wars), the Rail Barons’ ranks were
  decimated. This stalled both the fighting and
  the progress as there were fewer guards for
  those who actually did the hard work of laying
  track. The former soldiers have now replenished
  the railroad’s armies and the fighting has begun
  to heat up once gain.
  Many former soldiers also headed west
  hoping to find rich veins of ghost rock and
  their personal fortunes. Most don’t pan out of
  course, so the out-of-work soldiers find easy
  work in the Rail Barons’ service. It’s easier to
  pull a trigger than swing a pick, and easier to
  take ghost rock from someone than mine it
  honestly.
  Here’s a quick run-down on where the
  individual railroads stand.
  The Denver Pacific & Wasatch
  Bad blood began in earnest when the Denver-
  Pacific ended their business arrangement with
  Darious Hellstromme’s Wasatch railroad. The
  DP’s owner, Smith and Robards, literally threw
  Wasatch cargo off their rail lines—sometimes
  dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars
  worth of expensive gadgetry in the desert—and
  declared their former contract null and void.
  Strangely, Hellstromme remained silent. Most
  everyone expected an immediate reprisal by
  Wasatch’s merciless minions, but eerily, nothing
  happened. Confidants inside DP claim this
  scared Smith and Robards even more than an
  overt attack. They doubled their guards, added
  more war trains to their lines, and raised the
  cost on their other contracts, most notably
  Union Blue and Black River.
  The Tombstone Epitaph managed to get its
  star reporter, Lacy O’ Malley, in to see Dr.
  Hellstromme for a statement, but his reaction
  was polite and peaceful. Some believe Brigham
  Young’s Mormons have calmed the fiery and
  often violent inventor. O’Malley himself believes
  that Hellstromme has simply lost interest in the
  Rail Wars and is now working on other projects.
  Recent battles in the High Plains prove
  Wasatch troops do not share in their owner’s
  malaise. New legions of automatons and other
  mechanical soldiers have squashed their rivals
  with their typical relentlessness.
  In truth, Hellstromme has a secret plan to win
  the Rail Wars. His plan, and its results, are
  featured in Epitaph #5!
  Black River & Union Blue
  In Dodge City, rumors continue to fly that
  Union Blue President Joshua Chamberlain and
  Black River CEO Mina Devlin are having a sordid
  affair. Chamberlain denies the rumors profusely
  (they are false), but it is true those two railroads
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  have not fought since the end of the Civil War.
  It is also true that neither railroad has lain track
  past Dodge, though both have numerous bands
  of Enforcers across the California border along
  the growing Denver-Pacific line. The enforcers of
  the two lines have an uneasy truce, though
  neither acknowledge it publicly.
  Rumors are also flying about a missing heir
  to the Devlin fortune. Mina has put out quiet
  rewards among numerous bounty hunters for a
  teenage girl who closely resembles Mina herself.
  Stories in the Tombstone Epitaph suggest the
  girl is a love-child of Chamberlain, raised from a
  babe to a teenager in a year by Mina’s dark
  witchcraft. Chamberlain denies everything, but it
  is said his men search for the girl as well.
  In truth, Mina has been threatened by an
  ancient Harrowed named the Cackler to find a
  raven-haired girl of her own bloodline. You can
  find more information in The Black Circle. The
  rest of the story waits to be told, and changes
  the Weird West forever once it comes to pass.
  We’re sorry we can’t share more just yet,
  Marshal. We’re trying not to open up so many
  on-going plots in the Weird West, but this is
  one of the very few we have to keep to
  ourselves for just a bit longer.
  Bayou Vermillion & Dixie Rails
  As you might recall, Baron LaCroix of Bayou
  Vermillion managed something of a coup by
  bushwhacking the owner of the Santa Fe & El
  Paso Railroad and linking the two rail lines.
  LaCroix now owns the lines entirely and the
  former owners now serve the Zombie Master in
  undeath.
  LaCroix has always been careful about using
  his “special forces” around civilians, but he had
  no qualms about sending his zombie rail
  workers into Apache territory. The Baron figured
  the Apaches for ignorant savages and spared
  little thought for what they might think about
  his abominations. This proved a frightful
  miscalculation.
  The Apaches under Geronimo, who abhor the
  dead—let alone groaning undead—savaged his
  forces as soon as Bayou Vermillion passed
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  Tombstone, Arizona. Needless to say, help from
  the Texas Rangers was slow in coming.
  For its part, Dixie Rails quickly passed BV’s
  furthest railhead, and might well have made
  Lost Angels were it not for the assassination of
  the rail line’s president, Robert E. Lee, and the
  events at the Confederate capitol in Richmond.
  Bayou Vermillion has finally secured most of
  their tracks, however, and begun to catch up
  with the flagging Dixie Rails. Troops from each
  railroad never formally announce their allegiance
  before firing on each other, but everyone knows
  who’s working for who. Saying so publicly,
  however, might get BV shut down by the new
  government, or incur LaCroix’s arcane wrath on
  the fledgling Confederacy. Neither side wants to
  enter a public conflict at such a delicate time.
  Iron Dragon and the Church of Lost Angels
  Warlord Kang laid the most actual track in the
  previous year, but was foiled in his plan to
  quickly reach Lost Angels. Prior to the Civil
  War’s cease-fire, Kang had made a deal, perhaps
  less than scrupulously, with the owners of the
  Great Northwestern. His plan was to quickly
  forge ahead with his line to Seattle, then buy
  out and link up to the Great Northwestern line,
  which reaches all the way past Sacramento.
  A recent popular vote to maintain California’s
  status quo must have inspired the GN’s owners
  to do the same, however. They turned Kang
  down in a most humiliating fashion. Kang had
  scheduled a public signing to take over the GN.
  Respected members of the press, legions of his
  loyal tongs, Japanese ronin in their most elegant
  kimonos, and visiting officials of the state’s
  territorial government, all showed up to witness
  what would surely give Iron Dragon the edge it
  needed to win the Great Rail Wars.
  Then the owners of the Great Northwestern
  pulled a no-show. The spectacle would be
  embarrassing for anyone, but for an Oriental
  warlord—well, let’s just say Kang left the
  festivities in quite a huff.
  Once again, everyone expected an all-out war
  between Kang’s goons and Great Northwestern’s
  hired guns. Once again, everyone was
  disappointed. Then, exactly one week after
  blowing off Kang’s party, the owners of the
  Great Northwestern quietly sold their line to Iron
  Dragon for a paltry $100,000, a fee that doesn’t
  even cover the iron used in the GN’s line.
  Turns out GN’s chairman loves his wife and
  especially his daughter, and a not-so-subtle
  threat from Red Petals Su quickly changed his
  mind about selling the railroad to Kang.
  Sudden Death
  As you can see from the updated rail map on
  the previous page, the Rail Wars are about to a
  come to a close. In the next Epitaph, you’ll see
  just what we mean.
  Of course, the end of one thing might just
  lead to the beginning of another.
  High Tales of
  Hell on Earth
  The Wasted West is in a bit of a calm right
  now after the events of Judgment Day told in
  The Unity. All of the major players have gone
  back into their respective corners to lick their
  wounds and figure out what they need to do
  next.
  The good news for the heroes of the world
  is that the Reckoners are actually gone. Good
  deeds and hope can actually destroy existing
  Deadlands without worrying about five more
  sprouting up to replace them.
  The Reckoners’ abominations still have
  their power, and some are still created in the
  Deadlands when terror grows too strong, but
  their rate of growth is drastically diminished.
  The Iron Alliance
  That’s why Jo has stepped down from the
  Iron Alliance. She’s decided she can do more
  good out in the wastes than behind a desk in
  Junkyard. Taylor, Schwarz, and the other
  members of the Council pleaded with Jo to
  stay, but the former-housewife-turned-Grand
  Master of the Templars was adamant.
  Her seat on the Council has been taken by
  Colonel Green, a hero of Judgment Day who
  has the support of the all-important war
  veterans who lead most of the outlying
  settlements.
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  The Cult of Doom
  Silas and what was left of his most violent
  muties turned tail back to Vegas where they
  found themselves in a bit of trouble. The
  locals were rebelling, very likely at the
  instigation of several infiltrators from the Iron
  Alliance.
  Word got out that it was actually Silas who
  was responsible for the mutant massacre at
  Armana—not humans. Such a rumor might
  have been quickly squashed except that a
  Librarian somehow managed to get video of
  the event—even though no video cameras
  were present! (See the Knowledge is Power
  article in this issue for exactly how.)
  The Librarian has been quietly moving
  about Vegas showing the footage on his
  palmcorder to anyone who will watch it.
  Needless to say, “The Armana Tragedy,”
  Silas’ bloody defeat at Junkyard, and rumors
  that the Harbinger appeared and condemned
  him, has put a serious damper on the mutant
  king’s “administration.”
  The Combine
  General Throckmorton’s human troops
  suffered more heavily than anyone. Between
  their equipment failure at Junkyard and the
  long pursuit back to Denver, nearly 75% of the
  Combine’s flesh-and-blood troops were slain.
  More than half of their automatons, raptors,
  recyclers, and other minions were destroyed
  or damaged and left in the field as well.
  Strangest of all, the Denver AI has been
  completely quiet since a day after the
  appearance of the Ravenites (see below).
  In truth, Dr. Hellstromme is attempting to
  hack into the Denver AI and “reboot” it. He’s
  been unsuccessful so far, but the AI is now
  aware its creator is back and has sealed itself
  off until it can figure out how to block him
  from the reboot.
  In the meantime, Throckmorton’s second-
  in-command, Lieutenant Colonel Killian, a
  powerful syker from Black Lightning first
  mentioned in Brainburners, has taken control
  of the shattered forces.
  Killian doesn’t share the AI’s ideas about
  the Denver Resistance making good training
  tools, so he’s ordered his healthy forces to
  track down the rebels and wipe them out.
  This is a clever move on his part, because it
  diverts the survivors’ rage from their true
  leaders to the rebels.
  Raven and the Worms
  Raven is in something of a daze after his
  once-ally Dr. Darius Hellstromme somehow
  spirited the Reckoners off-world.
  Worse, as one of the most powerful
  supernatural creatures on the planet, he has
  felt his abilities begin to wane. If enough
  Deadlands are destroyed, he might even lose
  his status as a servitor and die.
  For now, he’s resting and performing rituals
  to determine exactly where the Reckoners
  have gone. His legions of undead were
  released and now wander forth to stir up new
  mischief and mayhem.
  His ancient wormling friends are unhappy,
  to say the least. They need the Reckoners
  dead to reestablish themselves as gods. They
  are patient creatures, however, and for now
  are spending their days breeding new
  wormlings to repopulate the earth in their
  image.
  Raven is starting to grow sick of the
  worms’ presence, however, and his disgust
  may one day turn to open fury.
  Banshee Screams
  The Way Out West hasn’t yet felt the effects
  of the Reckoners’ arrival. They escaped the
  Hellstromme device (as detailed in The Unity),
  and are now more-or-less mortal.
  Needless to say, they are more than a little
  upset about this turn of events, especially at
  the hands of one of their own servants. But
  such ancient creatures are anything but
  stupid. They’ve assumed new forms to learn
  about their new environment and perhaps
  find a way back to Earth and away from the
  accursed living planet that cripples them so
  greatly.
  Eventually, their search will bring them into
  contact with the skinnies, who have already
  sensed the Reckoners’ powerful presence on
  Banshee.
  Look for this plot to unfold more as the
  story of the Way Out West continues.
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