Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
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Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
With not much on your backs for this mission Mrs. Hucklebee is all that stands before you and your essential gear.
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Back in the Telsa Ranger three story station the group was escorted through its electric lit grey and brown halls by Gus whom as always was tellin’ a tall tale about somethin or another. ” We’ll as its been said from time to time we loose the volunteers that go out. Lost more than a few in El Diablo Canyon, a treacherous place to be sure, a bit more so than the rest.” The group turned down a hallway and past a room with the door adjar. A quick glance in the room as Gus led you passed revealed about a dozen copper made bunk beds along with chests half open filled with sundries. It was clear the station housed a few more folks than just the affiable caretaker. Gus kept talking as the group headed downstairs, ” Best get you some good gear as we donunt want you to end up like Ringo and his last ride, eh?”
At the bottom of the stairwell was an iron door, Gus took out a key grinned and opened the door. Inside was a large room about 15’x15’ more than half of it was behind a dark wood counter inlayed with brass piping. An elderly woman with a steel gaze whose face carried more worry lines than Bull had callouses watched you all enter with a hawked eye.
Gus bowed slightly and introduced Henrietta Hucklebee, ”Well not to cut a story short, but I would like to introduce you to our requisitions officer Miss Henrietta Hucklebee. Miss Henrietta please treat them as if they were your own...” Is voice trailed off as perhaps he realized her station was devoid of any family memorabilia one might expect a mother to keep. He smiled sheepishly and backed out whistling as he clomped back up the stairs.
Henrietta cleared her throat and put out several dragoon pistols, ” All rangers get a dragoon pistol and...” She puts out several cartradges with only three symbols on them: Hp, T, and ♾. ”Everyone is issued one of every speciality cartridge Mr. Tesla has provided.” She paused straightening the weapons and ammo. Her face reddened slightly as she coyly looked at Grandpa.
” Grandpa Masterson, I don’t know if you recognize me but we, well met a while back... I heard you had a family and well never tried...” She glanced at Charlette and smiled wide as if she was about to break her crackled face, ”Well I’ll be... Hon you looks like a spittin’ image of Grandpa, aren’t you cute.” She frowned at Bull’s face waiting to start bleedin’ all over the place, ”But you son, looks like your face met a blacksmith’s iron... Not sure if you should be here or at a soothsayer.”
She reached down and pulled out a leather wrapped satchel, ” We don’t normally get Englishmen out this way, but looks like someone across the pond knew you’d be here... Sir Andrew Cross.” She pushed the neatly wrapped satchel along the counter toward Andrew.
She drew a breath have neatly placed the weapons and now worked to separate the weapons and their respective ammo so the new rangers could easily grab them. Her eye glanced at Crankshaft with a hint of a scowl, ” Crank... Mr. Tesla said I am to provide evey curtesy to a fellow engineer. However... Don’t just think because you are one it will git you any special treatment here.” Crank got the feelin’ if she could she would have kicked him out if so permitted. But to Nita she smiled gently and said in her native toungue out of respect, ”Osiyo. Dawadoa henrietta. Ulihelisdi tesla rangers.” A surprise to be sure but a well met occasion nevertheless.
Behind her was all sort of fantastic weaponry that Nicola Tesla had provided the rangers. From little can sized electric grenades, to a set of knuckle irons with a battery powered back. There was even an ivory handled dragoon pistol with a unique chrome barrel hung nearly on the weapons wall behind her. It was all meticulously organized with lables noting what they were and the spaces that were empty had tags for whom had requisitioned it.
She tapped a series of forms and handed them each to the newest rangers, ”Please sign your name, and if you can’t write and X will do. One Dragoon each and three ammo cartriges. Sir Andrew Cross you will need to sign here, here, and here for your package. Everything looks in order. Once done, head back up to Gus... I think we just got a telegram in from Mr. Tesla... From the sound of it you’ll be riding out to Uncanny Valley but I won’t say more.” She was not necessarily ordering them ya’ll out, but it was clear unless someone pressed for something else she was only offerin’ the dragoon pistols for free. She was also tight lipped on further info about the telegram.
Items Aquired by every PLAYER:
At the bottom of the stairwell was an iron door, Gus took out a key grinned and opened the door. Inside was a large room about 15’x15’ more than half of it was behind a dark wood counter inlayed with brass piping. An elderly woman with a steel gaze whose face carried more worry lines than Bull had callouses watched you all enter with a hawked eye.
Gus bowed slightly and introduced Henrietta Hucklebee, ”Well not to cut a story short, but I would like to introduce you to our requisitions officer Miss Henrietta Hucklebee. Miss Henrietta please treat them as if they were your own...” Is voice trailed off as perhaps he realized her station was devoid of any family memorabilia one might expect a mother to keep. He smiled sheepishly and backed out whistling as he clomped back up the stairs.
Henrietta cleared her throat and put out several dragoon pistols, ” All rangers get a dragoon pistol and...” She puts out several cartradges with only three symbols on them: Hp, T, and ♾. ”Everyone is issued one of every speciality cartridge Mr. Tesla has provided.” She paused straightening the weapons and ammo. Her face reddened slightly as she coyly looked at Grandpa.
” Grandpa Masterson, I don’t know if you recognize me but we, well met a while back... I heard you had a family and well never tried...” She glanced at Charlette and smiled wide as if she was about to break her crackled face, ”Well I’ll be... Hon you looks like a spittin’ image of Grandpa, aren’t you cute.” She frowned at Bull’s face waiting to start bleedin’ all over the place, ”But you son, looks like your face met a blacksmith’s iron... Not sure if you should be here or at a soothsayer.”
She reached down and pulled out a leather wrapped satchel, ” We don’t normally get Englishmen out this way, but looks like someone across the pond knew you’d be here... Sir Andrew Cross.” She pushed the neatly wrapped satchel along the counter toward Andrew.
She drew a breath have neatly placed the weapons and now worked to separate the weapons and their respective ammo so the new rangers could easily grab them. Her eye glanced at Crankshaft with a hint of a scowl, ” Crank... Mr. Tesla said I am to provide evey curtesy to a fellow engineer. However... Don’t just think because you are one it will git you any special treatment here.” Crank got the feelin’ if she could she would have kicked him out if so permitted. But to Nita she smiled gently and said in her native toungue out of respect, ”Osiyo. Dawadoa henrietta. Ulihelisdi tesla rangers.” A surprise to be sure but a well met occasion nevertheless.
Behind her was all sort of fantastic weaponry that Nicola Tesla had provided the rangers. From little can sized electric grenades, to a set of knuckle irons with a battery powered back. There was even an ivory handled dragoon pistol with a unique chrome barrel hung nearly on the weapons wall behind her. It was all meticulously organized with lables noting what they were and the spaces that were empty had tags for whom had requisitioned it.
She tapped a series of forms and handed them each to the newest rangers, ”Please sign your name, and if you can’t write and X will do. One Dragoon each and three ammo cartriges. Sir Andrew Cross you will need to sign here, here, and here for your package. Everything looks in order. Once done, head back up to Gus... I think we just got a telegram in from Mr. Tesla... From the sound of it you’ll be riding out to Uncanny Valley but I won’t say more.” She was not necessarily ordering them ya’ll out, but it was clear unless someone pressed for something else she was only offerin’ the dragoon pistols for free. She was also tight lipped on further info about the telegram.
Items Aquired by every PLAYER:
- Dragoon Pistol: The standard-issue sidearm for all rangers. The Tesla Dragoon is a five-shot pistol built to be versatile to the needs of whatever the Wired West can throw at you. Every ranger gets one when they sign up. Additional Dragoons require a Requisition check. Dragoons are capable of using a variety of ammo cartridges to fit the needs of the mission (see below). (Range 12/24/48, Damage varies, RoF 2, AP varies, 5 lb, $100)
- QTY: 1 OF Cast-Iron Cartridges: Oversized armor-piercing bullets made of densely cast iron. These hefty cartridges pack a wallop against most robots. Pistol (Damage 2d6, RoF 2, AP 2, +3 lb/5 Shots, $30/15, HW). Rifle (Damage 2d8, RoF 2, AP 2, +3 lb/5 Shots, $60/30, HW).
- QTY: 1 OF Magnetic Cartridges: Made of standard lead wrapped around a magnetized core, these bullets don't have the oomph of cast-iron cartridges, but they aid rangers with difficult shots. These bullets have been seen to curve to hit robots behind cover and around corners. Pistol (Damage 2d6, RoF 2, +1 lb/5 Shots, $10/15, Ignores Cover for metal targets). Rifle (Damage 2d8, RoF 2, +1 lb/5 Shots, $20/30, Ignores Cover for metal targets).
- QTY: 1 OF Teslic Cartridges: Experimental ammo fresh from the Tesla labs back east. These rounds look like glowing miniature radio tubes. Developed from the same tech as galvanic coils, each round has just enough juice to project one bolt of lightning. Once expended, the cartridges require charging at a ranger station, or with a Teslic Dynamo before they can fire again. Pistol (Damage 2d6 + 2, RoF 1, +1 lb/5 Shots lb, $100/10, HW, Ignores metal Armor). Rifle (Damage 2d8 + 2, RoF 1, +1 lb/5 Shots lb, $200/20, HW, Ignores metal Armor).
Requisition Rules for SWADE modified for Tesla Rangers
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Requisition Rolls: 1 Success, 1 Crit Fail. She Gets 1 Bottled Lightning
Charlotte smiles wide at Miss Henrietta. ”Well, thank you kindly, ma’am. Always nice to meet someone else who appreciates a well-ordered storeroom of things that can go boom. Say! You got any o’ those lighnin’s in a bottle I heard so much about? The ones you just toss and then they unleash a whole little lightning storm wherever they hit?”When Charlotte sees the bottles on the shelf, she points and exclaims, ”Thems the ones!” She tries her best to be charming, and Miss Henrietta places one of the bottles on the counter in front of her. Charlotte tries to hide her disappointment; she had hoped for more.
As an aside, she whispers to @Grandpa, ”I know you like to use two guns, so you can have mine; I won’t need it. But do you think you could maybe turn on some of that Masterson charm and see if she’ll give me a few more bottles of that lightning? Should come in handy if’n we meet any bots out there, and one aint near enough.”
Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Requisition Roll
"Ma'am, this pistol and these special bullets are all nice and all and I am sure that they will come in handy, but I am more of a brawler. I've heard of an item I could ask for... a set of Galvanic Knuckles. I don't suppose you have any back there that you could send my way?"
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Grandpa smales as he sees Henrietta. "Dang, must ave ben 40 years if'n its b'en a day. Nice to see ya Henrietta. I did get merried and made a half dozen hellions while about it to. But most were worthless or they got shot after mouthin off to the wrong govrnt man." Idicating Charlette standing next to him he says. "This in her is Charlie, my favorite and one of only 23 great-grand-kids still kicken. But the only one with more dan a pebble in er head."
Looking behind the counter and at the forms he had he says. "I put my mark on it, and did the best I know on this form. Got any oh the toys I asked fer, I neva was told if they approved them?"
Looking behind the counter and at the forms he had he says. "I put my mark on it, and did the best I know on this form. Got any oh the toys I asked fer, I neva was told if they approved them?"
Grabbed 2 more grenades for Charlie
"All a man really needs in life is guns and bullets. The rest is usually free."
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Requisition 7
"Lady Hucklebee, I thank you for your excellent service," Sir Andrew says cheerily as he takes the wrapped leather package from the wrinkled woman. Opening the satchel he dons his Dragoon Pistol in its holster and distributes the ammo into his ammo pouch. Looking at the sparse amount of ammunition he grimaces before making eye contact with the stingy Quartermaster."Perhaps you could spare a box of Telsic ammunition? I have heard it can make a man harness lightning and is devastating to robots. It may aid our chances of survival greatly."
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Next GM post will come tomorrow and the adventure will begin in earnest.
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Crankshaft catches the menacing look from Henrietta and patiently waits and documents the proceedings. Noting which items are puchased and by home. Should be interesting to see what comes back.
When everyone else has managed their requests, Crank steps forward to the counter. Henrietta is quick to push the Dragoon and ammo to him and walk away. As she turns to leave, he clears his throat, "Excuse me Ms. Henrietta. Everyone should be afforded the opportunity to requisition."
Pushing the pistol in its holster back across the counter, Crank points up to the Thunderbolt Rifle. "That rifle, ma'am will be sufficient for my needs. That is the TBR-1000 model correct? Tesla said they were being shipped to the frontlines. I would like that and the ammunition appropriate for it please."
When everyone else has managed their requests, Crank steps forward to the counter. Henrietta is quick to push the Dragoon and ammo to him and walk away. As she turns to leave, he clears his throat, "Excuse me Ms. Henrietta. Everyone should be afforded the opportunity to requisition."
Pushing the pistol in its holster back across the counter, Crank points up to the Thunderbolt Rifle. "That rifle, ma'am will be sufficient for my needs. That is the TBR-1000 model correct? Tesla said they were being shipped to the frontlines. I would like that and the ammunition appropriate for it please."
Requisition Roll, Wealth 6, Success _
Crankshaft is perfectly fine with his wealth dropping by the wayside. After watching the other Rangers drop their money gambling, he figured he would hedge his bets and go after a sure thing.- Awinita Anikawi
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Thunderbolt Rifle 7
Magnetic Harpoon 8
Case of 20 Teslic rifle cartridges 1; I will take it and go broke
Ranger StationRound 0
Awinita quietly followed the others through the ranger station as the caretaker led them down to the small room with the old woman and supplies. Nita was surprised to hear Tsalagi spoken by the old white woman. She smiled and nodded her head in respect and acknowledgement.
“Thanks to you,” she returned in Tsalagi before switching back to American -- because that man from England said he spoke English, but she only understood him half the time. What in Coyote’s name was a pip pip cheerio?
Nita took her dragoon pistol and put it in the holster at her hip. She frowned at the meager amount of ammunition. “Best hope we each don’t need to shoot more than three clankers,” she said. “And that they all go down with one shot. At least we can recharge the Tesla cartridge,” she said, looking meaningfully at Crankshaft. He should have a teslic dynamo they could use.
Nita pointed to another Thunderbolt rifle on the wall. “That,” she said. “And a box of the teslics. And the harpoon,” the Cherokee woman said. “Thank,” she told Henrietta when she had received her items, and gave her a Tsalagi blessing her father had often given her.
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Awinita Character Sheet
Conviction: No
Bennies 3/3
Dragoon Ammo 5/5 (Mundane)
- Mundane: 45
- Cast Iron: 1
- Magnetic: 1
- Teslic: 1
- 15 Teslic cartridges
Winchester Ammo 15/15
- Spare: 35
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Re: Lady Henrietta Hucklebee- Requisitions and Supplies
Henrietta coughs a bit glancing down at the letter from Mr. Tesla. But she honors his request and hands over Crank’s gear as well as everyone else. Gus calls from up stairs.
Henrietta brushes you out, ”Best go see what Gus is going on about.”
Henrietta brushes you out, ”Best go see what Gus is going on about.”
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