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A Fistful of Warlocks (SPOILERS: FISTFUL OF WARLOCKS)
Serack:
--- Quote from: Aminar on July 05, 2017, 02:48:15 PM ---Near as I can tell the story is in 1877. So almost a decade, but not a terribly long time. (As that appears to be when Earp and Bat were working as deputies in Dodge city.)
From wikipedia.
(click to show/hide) Masterson soon made a complete recovery and settled in Dodge City. On June 6, 1877, Masterson tried to prevent the arrest of a certain Robert Gilmore – who was known to the locals as "Bobby Gill."
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I've never spent a lot of time reading up on the Wild West, so when I beta'd the story, I looked up information on Earp and Dodge City, and landed on the "Dodge City War" as the timing for the short story, since it pretty closely resembles Earp's description of the tensions in the city/saloon. Hence my estimate of the timing between the two events.
Rasins:
I have a theory that the Blackstaff can removed ALL black magic taint from it's user. Even taint that was gained prior to the Blackstaff's acquisition.
Therefore, it's possible that Eb did some horrendeous things before acquiring the BS, and the BS cleaned him up aftwards.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 05, 2017, 04:07:10 PM ---Wait, were we just assuming he'd done New Madrid all along? Somehow I'd got the impression it was one of the ones he admitted to Harry in BR (along with Krakatoa and Tunguska).
Edit: Krakatoa was 1883. So I guess either he pretty much used the Blackstaff immediately upon taking it up to cause the eruption (and it's within the margin of error to Jim's ca. 1884-85 answer), or the eruption broke both the laws on time travel and collateral damage of mortal lives.
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Yeah, New Madrid happened somewhere between 1811 -1812
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Rasins on July 05, 2017, 07:05:14 PM ---I have a theory that the Blackstaff can removed ALL black magic taint from it's user. Even taint that was gained prior to the Blackstaff's acquisition.
Therefore, it's possible that Eb did some horrendeous things before acquiring the BS, and the BS cleaned him up aftwards.
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I'm not sure I buy that Eb was walking around with the taint of having caused hundreds of deaths on him for eighty-odd years between New Madrid and gaining the Blackstaff, apparently as captain of the Wardens for a chunk of that time, and nobody would have noticed something wrong with him.
Although given the WOJ that the Blackstaff chooses his or her own successor, it's possible they'd be heavily biased in favour of one of their own apprentices as the person best trusted to use it responsibly. I wonder if the collection of journals is not just a chain of masters and apprentices, but Blackstaffs and their chosen successors? In that case, New Madrid might have been an act of Ebenezar's predecessor, or the predecessor loaned a trusted apprentice the artifact for one-time use for some compelling reason.
ethical crackpot:
I'm a big fan of weird west, particularly Deadlands. I had no idea this was coming out! So glad I started lurking here when I started reading the series a 2nd time!
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