Brightwater Campaign/The Season 2 Story So Far

Here are recaps of the story so far for Brightwater's second season: Damn Outlaws! Players, feel free to write these yourselves. DM Kevin doesn't want to define the story for you.

Session 1

The wildcards witnessed the formal announcement in Brightwater about the wall-of-sand problem and a potential solution: Missus Clarabelle McLain's reanimated giant sandworm transportation. However, not everyone favors her intolerance for liquors, spirits, and cards; her purchase of The Brightwater Lamp Post; and her angel servants. She announced it in conjunction with Mayor Archibald's support.

The posse met for the first time in the Brightbeer Saloon (as is Brightwater tradition), sent for anonymously by Sheriff Tina. In an upstairs meeting room, the sheriff discussed her misgivings. Mr. Lucy himself showed up in a fog of smoke, confirmed that he had made a deal with Missus McLain, and that this deal stipulated that she would not remain dead (like how devils do not remain dead unless they are killed in the Hells). The escape clause for her death, requires the blood of her husband (Ol' Joachim), daughter (Cheyenne), son (the Devil's Child), and herself on a Holy Scythe.

The posse decided to acquire a scythe and have it blessed. Father Silas said it would require a major blessing, something outside his capabilities without holy water (the creation of which, again, was outside his capabilities). The church was out of holy water due to the sand wall blocking the way to Merca. He mentioned the water just as it falls into La Sedienta is holy, but the posse focused on locating a shipment of Holy Water from Crooks' Creek.

As they walked, they discussed using Cheyenne's unhappy history with her mother to convince Cheyenne to give her blood freely.

The posse stumbled upon wagon tracks veering into a strange, thick grove of pines in the middle of the dry prairie scenery. Following these tracks, they came across the homestead of a family of murderous cannibals wearing burlap sacks on their heads. The posse dispatched of the cannibals, finding the cannibals(?) did not have regular heads but strange, grey oblongs. The spooked heroes found the holy water (and a box of a dark purple tobacco-like substance) in the attic, and the tied up transporter (Edward Jacobs) in the cellar. Bill Jacobs was found on the dinner table.

Session 2

The wildcards arrived in Crooks' Creek, intending to acquire the blood of Shootin' Cheyenne!

They visited the Low Lantern, where Corey talked his way into a meeting with Mr. Six and the Prince of Passion. They gained an audience with Cheyenne at the Convent of Santa Clara after Corey was caught trying to smuggle in his saber. Cheyenne discussed two heists that had to happen that night: a bank heist and a reanimated worm heist. The wildcards chose to do the bank heist with the Prince of Passion to show Cheyenne their loyalty. Some sticks of dynamite, a sandshark, and absolutely terrible luck guessing the vault combination later, the posse were in a rowboat with 12 bags of gold and silver ingots in the Dune Sea. The Prince of Passion was last seen sashaying into the town, a bloody yet confident mess.

Session 3

The wildcards, having successfully completed the heist, gave the ingots to Shootin' Cheyenne and got their cut. Cheyenne, trusting them more but not entirely, gave them a vial of her blood in exchange for a vial of Addie's blood. Corey used his connections and some ingots to break the Prince of Passion out of the pirates' brig. The wildcards set Captain Kallus Dinn to track down where the Devil's Child actually is. Is he in the Blood Swamp as rumored? The Labyrinth?

On their return trip to Brightwater, the wildcards encountered a small herd of Nightmares. These hellish and hungry horses chased them, but the wildcards led the Nightmares to the cannibals' house, where the creatures were distracted to feast on those bodies. Perhaps this is poetic justice to devour the cannibals.

At Brightwater, the posse investigated the burnt down Church of the Sacred Heart. They returned the marred symbol of Pelor to Father Silas, who was staying at Sildar Hallsummer's lighthouse. They also found a petrified heart in the bell, a focus for dark magical energy. Father Silas blessed the posse's retractable-handle scythe with the holy water, and the blade now glows light blue. The posse kept the petrified heart in Father Silas' silver flask, since Sildar said the silver would shield the focus from outside dark magics. Father Silas wasn't at the church when it burned down (purportedly by lightning strike), since he was at a cotillion hosted at Clarabelle's mansion. He did not see if Missus Clarabelle ducked out at one point at the cotillion. Addie updated Sheriff Tina on their adventures, and Tina said she would also ask her connections to see if they could track down the Devil's Child.

Next, the posse headed east to Golden Gorge and ol' Joachim. The gave the hole to the hells, El Sediento, a wide berth. The found a town preserved by Mr. Lucy in a somewhat permeable yet acidic glass plateau. As a giant skeletal vulture approached, the wildcards rode off to hide in the giant skeleton of a beast. Antelope Allen just barely made it on his mule. The vulture flew past, and when the wildcards looked back the glass plateau and town were mysteriously gone.

The session ended as the posse entered Golden Gorge and entered the Nuggets tavern to get the town gossip.