Posts: 64 Location: Northampton, MA Joined: 16.05.09
Posted on 11-02-2009 19:49
[A letter sent the day after last game. Imagine it's in Spanish, I don't have time to translate it all.]
Dearest hermano,
I write to you on this Day of the Dead with many emotions in my heart. Of course our entire household remembers the many fondnesses about Mami & Papa. But today there is a new hero that we remember, a woman of God who rescued many people from a godless land called Gommora.
This woman, Charity Rose, had been staying with us. She was like you... "blessed" by the power of God. She blessed our household with God's grace and she blessed our hearts with her presence.
Charity had to leave us last night. There was a house that was doing evil things, and it tried to capture and kill myself and many others. Charity came to our rescue, just like our parents would have. She ignored the dangers and put herself in-between the danger and those who needed protection. She saved my life and many others. She used the powers of God to banish the evil in that house... but it managed to take her life as it went.
The Day of the Dead is a time for celebrating the lives of those we have lost. A time for remembering the joys of the past. However, I fear there will be much sorrow in town at the loss of so great a woman of God. I know you are still in training, and that there is much you have yet to learn... but Thermopolis needs the light of God to guide it through the darkness left in Charity's absence. I beg of you, please return to your family and the town we have taken as our own. Bring God's light to those who fear the darkness, and allow those who knew her best to feel safe remembering the many good things that Charity brought to them.
Your brother in blood and God,
Jorge
"Hello. My name is Jorge Mantoya. If you want to mass-produce sheet metal moldings, prepare the die."
Joe
concurrently: Jesus Mantoya
formerly: Rock Strongo, Father Joe, Lin Fuqua, Will Sawyer
Posts: 64 Location: Northampton, MA Joined: 16.05.09
Posted on 12-19-2009 18:53
Response arriving at the Mantoya household at the end of Season 5... [this one's in English]
Senor Mantoya,
We received your letter and were quite saddened to read of the loss of so holy a woman. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and the entire town of Thermopolis. I apologize that my Spanish is not as fluent as yours... some of the regional vocabulary must have eluded me, as it almost sounded like you were speaking of an "evil house."
Your brother, Jesus, has not been present at our abbey for some time. After he returned from your father's funeral, he told us that he needed to be more of a hero, like your father. He said he needed to go out among the natives and preach God's Holy Word to them directly. These past many months he has been out among the Indians. We have sent a rider to find him out in the wilds of the Sioux nations to convey your letter to him. I pray that it reaches him and that he reaches you in due haste, God willing.
As always, we appreciate your family's contributions to our abbey. Your brother was quite a protege when he was with us, and I pray that our teachings bring to him the ability to heal your town from the loss of Sister Rose. We will burn a candle in her honor here.
May God be with you.
Monsignor Cluseau
Tucson Abbey
"Hello. My name is Jorge Mantoya. If you want to mass-produce sheet metal moldings, prepare the die."
Joe
concurrently: Jesus Mantoya
formerly: Rock Strongo, Father Joe, Lin Fuqua, Will Sawyer
Tom 09/08/2010 21:14 hope is also quite comfortable in greenfield these days, in a largely gamer (and thus deadlands) safe place.
Mio 09/08/2010 15:49 I wish the forum were like Facebook. I want to "Like" everything. I would never have to have a genuine thought again.
Jorge Mantoya 09/08/2010 13:33 Hope dangles on a string, like slow-spinning redemption. Winding in and winding out, the shine of it has caught my eye...
Bish 09/08/2010 13:26 No distance is ever safe enough. The only distance that is remotely safe is six feet, and THAT if only chased by two bullets.
The Gentleman Masher 09/08/2010 13:21 I think so. That may almost be a safe enough distance.
Gidim 09/08/2010 12:11 Doesn't she live in Rochester now?
GM Doppelganger 09/07/2010 23:04 Per player request, Hope will be present at the start of Manhattan, how long Hope survives is up to you.
The Gentleman Masher 09/07/2010 17:48 I love tumblebleeds. They're some of the nicest of the things Deadlands can throw at you.
GM Doppelganger 09/07/2010 14:40 If the existence of tumblebleeds in the new town is enough to shatter your hope it wasn't going to last long anyway
Tom 09/07/2010 11:24 ..and it's over. So that's what hope felt like, I always wondered.
