The Spooky Church

Before our campaign in Deadlands: Noir gets underway, I wanted to have a small combat primer

for two of our group members that were new to the game system.

The Continental Investigations Agency houses offices all over the North and South. The company acts as a go-between for clients and contract employees. One of the ways to make a quick buck during these hard times is to sign with the agency as a free lance detective. This job was hired out to the agency through a third party of the client. The client wanted a bit of anonymity for this case, in case it made the papers, and gave the agency a clock to get it done.

Continental chose a supernantural expert, Clarise Midnight, a forensic master, Dr. Marcus Wheelwither, and an experienced field veteran, Reginald Van Pelt. These three were promised a cash reward of $25 dollars a piece for the work.

The job was in the outer part of the city, near an abandoned catholic church. The three Dicks hit the books and the street to find out info about the area. One discovered that the church had been built next to an asylum, and that earlier in the year, the asylum had been torn down, and the property bought by the parish to expand their existing graveyard. This proved to be the downfall of the church as it couldn't make payments when its congregation had no money to give. The one thing that they did do was concecrate the ground.

The word on the street was that a figure that allegedly looked like a person's grandmother, came into the house and started to cooked. Once she was done, she left. The food was horrid, which was not like grandma at all.

The group received word of more incidents around the church, and headed to the grounds, where they saw some shadowy folk inside. As they were about to enter the church, four figures popped out of the ground and attack. Ahhh, Zombies!!!

After a few punches are exchanged, guns shot, they three realize that the 'zombies' are nothing more than regular folk dressed up to look dead. Eventually, the three get the invading churchfolk to surrender.

They tie and cuff six folk all together. They question the folk hard, who admit they missed their church, and were using the disguises to infiltrate peoples houses, posing as the deceased and stealing valuables. They also ambushed folk around the church and graveyard and took their money. When they realized that someone had hired a P.I., they spread the story of the ghosts of the criminally insane rising from the graves to hopefully scare the law away, and planned a little ambush to emphasize the scary part.

All six are put into a police wagon and hauled off, the three report back and receive $25 dollars a piece. Yay!!

The first adventure of the campaign is titled My Physicist Husband has Gone and Now I'm All Alone in This Black Hole