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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Golden Bee" data-source="post: 9459635" data-attributes="member: 7041055">Riptide in the Dust Bowl.Diamond stabbed the Wolfman with the Troubled Blade. The gray blood glowed in the pale green light.This week’s adventure was amazing. Devika, JP Diamond, ranch hand Elliot McCaffrey and Aldous Bingen headed to Dust Bowl Kansas in search of a uranium-loaded meteorite dagger. They found hundreds of wild dogs roving the countryside, a divided populace, and many, many plot threads. Instead of a very long summary (because the game ran 330 minutes), I'll spotlight some of the vivacious and interesting NPCs. (Tacìto’s player GM’d for the first time this week, based loosely on a Deadlands adventure he had run.)One of the main attractions of the town was a theater with an absurd musical called “There’s a dead man in my bed!”. It featured boatloads of bawdy humor that neither detective Diamond nor stoic butler Bingen would explain. Luckily, they snuck into the next-door speakeasy, and kid millionaire Devi got to sit next to a college student who explained all the dirty stuff. Later, it turned out that girl had a very short fling with the evil mastermind… which led to Devika, the only girl in the group, having to slip into the sorority house and comfort someone eight years older than her (who had a lot of clues). The mystic orphan mostly paid attention, but did stop the story to verify if they did “tongue kissing or lip kissing”.(The codeword for the speakeasy was “banana pudding”. This ended up upsetting our man Elliot, who didn’t want a themed drink with banana liqueur… He wanted some pudding.)Turns out the club’s stage show was a live human sacrifice. Not knowing it was theater, our heroic quartet interrupted and ruined it, freeing the oblation, who slapped Aldous in the face. Seeing the Dust Bowl up close had a big impact on Devi. She hired one of the “Okays” to start an orphanage, handing her a life-changing amount of money and then leaving her at the hotel because the adventure had to continue. Sorry, but ex-goddesses are busy! Later, while sneaking into a suspicious doctor’s residence, Miss Velyapur met the man’s housekeeper. After confirming the guy was stealing werewolf blood to inject into himself, Devi stayed for a snack and offered the lady three times her salary to help maintain the orphanage. After that though, Devi wanted to join the rest of the party, who were sneaking out of the house… but the woman was really bad at saying goodbye. Is clinginess good for someone who works at your commorancy?Towards the end of the adventure, the group had to report a dead body. Suspicious, they made sure to find a non-corrupt cop… and met a big city detective who was trying to have a quiet life in the sticks. Elliot asked how the Dodgers were going to do this season, and he said he didn’t like baseball… Which made the Texan accuse him of being a communist. Which is a weird argument to have right before you report a headless corpse. But come on, what American in 1935 didn’t follow baseball?Diamond would’ve asked, except the man’s bones (and not the rest of him) was sucked into a nearby space-time rift.</blockquote>

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