From Tempe to Maricopa - Map
There is a stage service that runs from Tempe to Maricopa. $5 fare.
Kyrene
This tiny spot is a cluster of 5 buildings around a well and is
primarilly a spot to water your horses and get yourself a drink.
The population is 35 (including the childeren who number 12). It seems
like there are childeren everywhere you look. There are 2 houses,
Jackson stable, Desert Sands Inn (no eating) and a Golden Tabernackle
Saloon (bar food).
Jackson Stable - Prop. "Camel"
(Terence) Jackson
Room for 12 horses in the barn and 15 more in an oversized corale.
Board for a day is .10 and .50 a week. This does not include curry;
just hay a handful of oats and water. He has a small selection of new
and used tack (50% chance of finding a specific item for sale-30% new).
Desert Sands Inn - Prop. Johhann and
Anna Stupp
German Imigrants with thick accents. Johann is a thin man with a fat
laugh is jovial to customers and short with his childeren and staff. He
has a black woman named Natisha Jones and 6 childeren who help him. The
place is spotlessly clean. There is nothing fancy, but everything has a
fresh coat of paint, is polished and dust free. They are free of the
predujice most Americans have. They will rent to anyone with money
except West European Royalty. They hate the French. They arrived in
America in S.F. and moved east assuming it was more civilized than SF,
but found there mistake when the reached Phoenix. They moved to Kyrene
because they bought a homestead for 20.00 that included the land the
hotel is on. Rooms are 1.50 for 1 and 2.50 for a 2 person room.
Golden Tabernackle Saloon - Prop. Duke
Stuckey
Duke is a lying, theiving asshole. He doesn't have a charitable bone in
his body and is a brutal pimp for the ladies he keeps in flimzy
outbuildings behind the saloon. These are 8'x9' huts made of packing
crates. There are 4, but there are only 2 women named "Taffy" and
"Brandy". They are both unlovley and brused.
The main building is a single story thing made of clapboard painted
yellow. The roof is made of canvas and the floor is made of the same
clapboard as the walls. They sink about 1/2" when you step between
supports underneith. Its about 60'x80' (large) with a brick bar
inside. The chairs and tables are cheaply made and unfinished. They
break easily and Duke charges $10 if you break one. Water .05
inside-free outside, Beer .35, Whiskey .75, Corn Whikey .50, Jack
Daniels 1.50, Chili .75 comes with cornbread, corn dodgers .05 each,
biscets and gravy .25
The bouncer is a big man named Bull and looks like one. He is an
experienced bar fighter and a good hand with a gun. He carries matching
Remington pistols at all times, but handles most of his problems with
fists like hams. He is filthy with stringy long hair and an unruly wild
mustache.
Bouncer Bull -
male human Rowdy - 8: CR 8; Size M (5 ft., 2 in.
tall-190lbs.); HD 8d8+8; hp 53; Init +5 (+1 Dex, +4 Improved
Initiative); Spd 50 ft.; AC 14 (+1 Dex, +2 Wis, +1 Mnk); Attack +9/+4
melee, or +8/+8/+3 monk, or +7/+2 ranged; SV Fort +7, Ref +7, Will +8;
AL LN; Str 17, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 12, Wis 15, Cha 14.
Skills and feats: Escape Artist +12, Hide +5, Jump +14, Listen
+4, Move Silently +1, Ride +6, Spot +9, Tumble +12, Use Magic Device
+6; Alertness, [Deflect Arrows], Endurance, [Evasion], Improved
Initiative, [Improved Trip], [Improved Unarmed Strike], Point Blank
Shot, [Stunning Fist], Simple Weapons (pistols).
Gila River Ford
This is a tiny spot where the river widens and grows shallow and slow
moving. Any good horse and any normal steer can cross easily at this
point. However, there is a large raft that will ferry the stagecoach
and other carts across so they don't get wet. This small business is
run by the Hoover Bros. who make a good living poleing folks across the
river. They operate the ferry from April to December and stay in Tempe
in the winter. They charge 2.00 for a stage coach, 1.50 for a
buckboard, 2.50 for a conistoga wagon, .25 per horse and .10 per person.
The description above is just a backdrop for the encounter that will
take place here. Actually, this encounter will take place no matter
where the party goes as long as they cross the Gila River.
Indians - Tales
of the People
They will meet a group of Cocopa (Mohave) indians who will approach in
a friendly way
seeing the group has indians with them.
The good indians are the called Keo'otuk Manitu (those who respect
Manitu the Great Spirit). They are mostly populated by the Pawnees,
Omahas, Mandans, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Hurons and Ojibways and smaller
tribes further west. The nation is called Keo'otuk which has been
shortened by the white man to "Kotuk". They adhere to the "Old Ways"
and will not use the weapons of the whites.
It runs from Washington in the West, south to Arizona and East to Idaho
and Montana including California.
The bad indians are the Sioux. They are now really a collection of
different tribes combined into the the one nation. This nation was
formed by active conquest and was swolen by like minded indians who
travelled from far away because they want to drive the white man away.
Even though they are called the "Sioux Nation" they have absorbed many
tribes into their numbers. Most of the tribes represented in large
numbers are the ones from the east coast and north east. These are the
Delawares, Mohawks, Choctaws, Camanches, Dacotahs, Shoshonies and
Blackfeet. They say they hold the "Old Ways" but the Ravens will will
use white man weapons against white men. They have an injunction
against using them against other indians however.
Their territory runs from the Dakota territory in the NE, south to
Wyoming and West to include the E of Idaho and W of Montana.
The Ishkoodah
In 1863, the indians received a vision that would change everything for
them in the years to come. At the winter solstice, in the northern sky
they saw a comet looking like a waterfall among the stars. It was
something that only they could see; the white man never could. Even the
least aware shaman could tell this was an omen of a holy event that was
to come. The eyes of the shamen were ever looking northward for a
revelation.
The Calumet
On the spring solstice (what is this really called?), a huge line of
smoke could be seen in the north. It was supernatural in that it could
be seen even by the most southernly tribes. The whites living in the
north could see it, but it was to faint to be seen by them in the
southern territories. The shamen who were aware of the spirit world
could see this was a summons from Manitou. They chose members of their
tribe to travel with them to go to the source of the smoke and see was
Manitou demanded of them. They stopped at every friendly tribe on the
way to spread the summons to those with a less than in tune shaman.
The rest of the story is as in the Song of Hiawatha.
However, when Manitu departed into the sky, the men of the tribes had
many talks of how to return the land to the old ways. Despite the
commands of Manitu, they devided into the two main divisions and in the
fall of '64 they began the great migration where the two indian nations
were formed.
That winter was very hard and many died of cold and starvation. The
lack of assistance from the white man (who had problems of their own
with the Civil War) only intensified their resolve against coming of
the whites.
With the Calumet, the religion of the Indians surged and the power of
the spirits was much increased. It was Raven who brought the Changes.
As usual, they were a mixed blessing. While the horror of the dead
rising from the ground in Gettysburg horrified the whites and prolonged
the Civil War, the Changes also brought much pain and death to the
indians as well.
The Changes are simply manifestations of the good and evil spirits
power on the Americas. From this have come the undead, the
monsters and the benevolent spirits that are only now being recognized
for what they are. Even the sleeping whites are wondering what is
happeneing and how these things are coming to pass.
Sacaton Station
Sacaton Station is a spot to change stage horses and feed the
passangers.
It is a clip joint by the name of "Maggies". They also sell "sundries".
$2.50 lunch usually chili, $4 dinner usually stew (fish or pork), $.50
beer
Maggie is a horrible shrew who orders her husband around without mercy.
He likes it that way.
Maricopa
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