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Bodie State Historic Park is partly supported by the Bodie Foundation. | Bodie State Historic Park is partly supported by the Bodie Foundation. | ||
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===Game Time Period=== | ===Game Time Period=== | ||
− | + | Game could start in 1876 as the PCs hear of the rich strike in Bodie. It would last till around 1900. | |
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==<Font Face="Algerian">Why Bodie?</Font>== | ==<Font Face="Algerian">Why Bodie?</Font>== | ||
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*Jack Langrishe. The Comedian of the Frontier moved around a lot. Deadwood, SD from '76 to '79. Leadville, Colorado for'79 &'80/'81. <span style=color:green>''It would not be unreasonable that with the gold rush in full swing in Bodie that he might arrive in spring of '81. PCs might help him set up in a theater. Defend him from problems. He went to Idaho in '85'' | *Jack Langrishe. The Comedian of the Frontier moved around a lot. Deadwood, SD from '76 to '79. Leadville, Colorado for'79 &'80/'81. <span style=color:green>''It would not be unreasonable that with the gold rush in full swing in Bodie that he might arrive in spring of '81. PCs might help him set up in a theater. Defend him from problems. He went to Idaho in '85'' | ||
*Soapy Smith:[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith#Denver]] A criminal gang leader and organized crime figure. Conman. <span style=color:green>''Based in Denver his con activities might bring some of his antics to Bodie'' | *Soapy Smith:[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapy_Smith#Denver]] A criminal gang leader and organized crime figure. Conman. <span style=color:green>''Based in Denver his con activities might bring some of his antics to Bodie'' | ||
− | *[[File:Docskurloc.jpg|75 px]]Doc Scurlock: | + | *[[File:Docskurloc.jpg|75 px]]Doc Scurlock: |
Rode with Billy the Kid. Left Arizona in 1879 for Texas where he lived out his life till 1929. | Rode with Billy the Kid. Left Arizona in 1879 for Texas where he lived out his life till 1929. | ||
<span style=color:green>''He could have wandered to Bodie. School Teacher? Writer of letters for the general illiterate public. He is killed in Young Guns but most sources say he lived till 1929. He left Arizona in 1879 for Texas so he could have spent a few years in the 1880s in Bodie before going to Texas.'' | <span style=color:green>''He could have wandered to Bodie. School Teacher? Writer of letters for the general illiterate public. He is killed in Young Guns but most sources say he lived till 1929. He left Arizona in 1879 for Texas so he could have spent a few years in the 1880s in Bodie before going to Texas.'' | ||
− | *[[File:Davemathercard1.jpg|75 px]] [[Mysterious Dave Mather]].[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Dave_Mather]] | + | *[[File:Davemathercard1.jpg|75 px]] [[Mysterious Dave Mather]].[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Dave_Mather]] January 22, 1880, while serving as assistant marshal. He and his boss, Marshal Joe Carson, became involved in a shootout with four men at Close & Patterson's Variety Hall. |
− | + | Deputy US Marshal-East Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory-1879 through mid 1880. | |
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<span style=color:green>''All kinds of possibilities. Come to Bodie hunting bad men? Hunting PCs? Posted as temporary US. Marshal. East Las Vegas is a long way from Bodie but he is mysterious for a reason.'' | <span style=color:green>''All kinds of possibilities. Come to Bodie hunting bad men? Hunting PCs? Posted as temporary US. Marshal. East Las Vegas is a long way from Bodie but he is mysterious for a reason.'' | ||
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==Magic in the Bodie Game== | ==Magic in the Bodie Game== | ||
− | First off-Slap me if i suggest these PCs are Amberites. | + | *First off-Slap me if i suggest these PCs are Amberites. |
− | + | *There is a possibility that I may incorporate Chinese magic, Indian Magic, and Hexery | |
− | There is a possibility that I may incorporate Chinese magic, Indian Magic, and Hexery | ||
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− | + | **Chinese magic. There was a vibrant active Chinese community in Bodie. Wood haulers, laborers, laundry, saloons, opium dens. Herbal medacine would be big business at a time when western medicine wasn't terribly different. Big Trouble in Little China magic? Maybe. | |
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− | * | + | **Indian Magic: Native American shamanism. Low power but one never knows. |
− | [[ | + | **[[Hexery]]: Seventh Son stuff [[Hexery]]. Remember that having a Knack is rare. Being knowledgeable about hexes might be fairly common but they are fairly ineffective. Old Wives Tales. |