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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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*Bloody Benders.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders]] <span style=color:green> Kate Blender as a spiritualist in Bodie that PCs discover the true identity of. | *Bloody Benders.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders]] <span style=color:green> Kate Blender as a spiritualist in Bodie that PCs discover the true identity of. | ||
*William Sharkey [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Sharkey_(murderer)]]. Corrupt politician, gang leader. Tammany connections. Escaped New York under death sentence, 1873. Thought to have traveled to Cuba and eventually South America. <span style=color:green> Recruiter for South American military? possible bodie politician? | *William Sharkey [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Sharkey_(murderer)]]. Corrupt politician, gang leader. Tammany connections. Escaped New York under death sentence, 1873. Thought to have traveled to Cuba and eventually South America. <span style=color:green> Recruiter for South American military? possible bodie politician? | ||
− | * | + | *Rufus Henry Ingram[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Henry_Ingram]] Confederate raider in California. July 15, an attempt by Ingram to rob the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine payroll failed. Never heard of again. <span style=color:green> By 1880s could be a gang leader of traine robbers, etc. |
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− | Confederate raider in California. July 15, an attempt by Ingram to rob the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine payroll failed. Never heard of again. <span style=color:green> By 1880s could be a gang leader of | ||
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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. |