Good morning Vados! We have a story update for our Season 4 opener, VALLEY OF FEAR, with a comic by the incredibly talented Beau Lee and Aesa Garcia!
Aesa wrote the text for this comic, and is one of our Gamerunners for DR:TX. Beau completed the art for the comic and is one of our Storytellers for Season 4, and has designed several comics for us over the last few seasons, so you might recognize their art style.
This comic references some events that occurred during our last game of Season 3, and you can find a recap of THE CICATRIX here if you don’t recall what happened after the long summer.
COMIC: “INTO THE VALLEY OF FEAR”
By Aesa Garcia and Beau Lee
THE VALLEY OF FEAR
One last reminder of the Story Premise for Episode 1, along with our Story Update from last week.
Before the Burning Season forced the San Saba into hibernation for the summer, dramatic changes to law and order in the wastes took root thanks to the work of the citizens of the tiny town of Bravado. A new law banning the sale and trafficking of Crystal Candy, new faces and new voting members on the San Saba Board, a mysterious accident in the floating city of Waking, and now — a missing Warden.
Tabitha St. Mercy - hounded, hunted, betrayed - caught off guard by enterprising people in Bravado, has disappeared from Prudence Penitentiary. In her place, a new Warden has taken control. Adam Moriarty, former Lifer, has stepped out from the shadows and the effects have rippled across the San Saba Territories. While major changes have been occurring at the prison commonly called “Killhouse”, life in the San Saba Territories has grown more dangerous.
People have gone missing. Roving bands of Vigilantes, often called “puppies” in a deriding fashion by some, try and help the Law Dogs. Their goal is to help enforce the newest laws, especially against Crystal Candy, and if a few skulls get broken, such is the way of things in the wastes. The Justices of Sin are more prevalent than ever, under the orders of Moriarty to help quickly pass judgement so that the Law Dogs can continue their crusade. Moriarty has even helped Wyatt break the backs of the Rotgut Family, former purveyors of the largest Crystal Candy pipeline in the San Saba and now they too sit in Prudence Penitentiary.
Despite the Board’s bold action against the drug trade of the San Saba, a prophecy of trouble has come true. Crystal Candy is still in abundance, and new pipelines are sprouting like weeds. There are even rumors of new and more addictive variations making their way to the marketplace.
And then there is Bravado - breeding ground for Saints and Miscreants - stuck in the middle of these wars between law and order, in a valley of fear…
WRAP UP
We will have an update for some last minute Rules You Need to Know for this weekend on Wednesday as usual, but if you’ve been a particularly hyper fixated type of person, you might have a noticed a few site updates here or there already…
I can’t wait to see everyone this weekend for VALLEY OF FEAR!!!