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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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| − | This is just a think and planning page. It will be overhauled once the development is far enough along.
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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.
| + | Game could start in 1876 as the PCs hear of the rich strike in Bodie. It would last till around 1900. |
| − | *1880 starts the game with Bodie well on the way to the end of its gold rush.
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| − | *1877 lets news of the Bodie gold get around. Gives the game an arc of about 10 years.
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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: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Scurlock]] | + | *Doc Scurlock: Rode with Billy the Kid. Left Arizona in 1879 for 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.'' |
| − | | + | *[[Mysterious Dave Mather]].[[File:Davemathercard1.jpg|100 px]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Dave_Mather]] Deputy US Marshal-East Las Vegas, NEvada-1879. <span style=color:green>''All kinds of possibilities. Come to Bodie hunting bad men? Hunting PCs? Posted as temporary US. Marshal. '' |
| − | 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.'' | |
| − | *[[File:Davemathercard1.jpg|75 px]] [[Mysterious Dave Mather]].[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Dave_Mather]] | |
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| − | **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.
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| − | **Deputy US Marshal-East Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory-1879 through mid 1880.
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| − | **Legal troubles in Texas involving petty theft and a brothel that might have more to the story. Acquitted on all charges.
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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.'' | |
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| − | *Moses Ehrich[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Ehrich]]
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| − | New York fence. Involved in a diamond theft 1875. Dissappeared.
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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.
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| − | *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?
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| − | *[[File:Rufus ingram.jpg|100 px]] Rufus Henry Ingram[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Henry_Ingram]]
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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 train robbers, etc.
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| − | *Michael O'Rourke [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Rourke_(gambler)]]
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| − | *HooDoo Brown. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_Brown]] Justice of the Peace. Gang leader and Coroner for Dodge City, '79-80.
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| − | He was hunting American bison and hauling lumber in 1872. At the time, he was known to be a small-time gambler and confidence trickster. He eventually went to Colorado, working in silver mines with a friend. Hoodoo and his friend ended up in Mexico to form an opera company.
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| − | When Hoodoo arrived in Las Vegas, New Mexico, he found it was developing a reputation as a lawless place, filled with outlaws, confidence tricksters, murderers and thieves. His displeasure with this led to his election as Justice of the Peace for East Las Vegas. He also served as coroner and mayor of the town, and recruited several former gunfighters from Kansas to form a police force. However, the force was as lawless as the criminals they were supposed to be policing. Called the "Dodge City Gang", the force included J. J. Webb as the town marshal, Mysterious Dave Mather, Joe Carson, "Dutchy" Schunderberger and Dave Rudabaugh. Ousted in summer 1880.
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| − | **Dodge City Gang. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City_Gang]]. Stories vary but Hoodoo ran the gang as Justice of the Peace and Coroner and may have done run the group to control gambling while elements like Dave Rudabaugh and others may have been robbing stagecoaches and theiving.
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| − | *Procopio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopio]]. California mexican bandit
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| − | *John Joshua Webb. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joshua_Webb]] Member of the Dodge City Gang
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| − | *[[Charles Edwin Loose]]: Banker, Miner
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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.
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| − | *[[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.
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| − | ==Bodie Plots==
| + | **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. |
| − | *Rufus Ingram leading a group of rustlers raiding cattle and interrupting wood hauling. Wood and beef are important to Bodie. Concerned citizens might hire the PCs the deal with Ingrahm. As a Confederate raider in California it may be interesting to see if PCs from both sides of the war cooperate. | |
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| − | *There is a Portuguese merchant who takes a wagon train from Sonora,Ca to Bridgeport and then in to Bodie in the 1880s. He hung a sign on the narrow natural Sonora Pass that read "Que de Porka", which means ''Tail of the Pig''. The merchent thought the portion at the top reminded him a oa pig's curly tail. PCs could escort or be part of the wagon train in 1880 when the sign was hung. The sign remained till the 1940s. Steep, difficult, the game would center on the hardships of the trip, not necessarily bandits. Might be a good way for PCs to originally arrive in town. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora_Pass]] | + | **Indian Magic: Native American shamanism. Low power but one never knows. |
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| − | [[File:Sonora pass.jpg|150 px]] | + | **[[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. |
