Illegitimate Sun

Snake Oil Jake / Gadgeteer

This character can create potions that give a person Touched powers. Each potion has the Flaws: Focus & One Use. Each dose lasts the Gadgeteer Roll’s Width in hours.

Due to the low level of Willpower in this setting, this character demonstrates a potion or two and sells fakes to the crowd. He skips town soon after the sales before his customers find out that their expensive potions are cheap teas made from wild plants.

Guano Juan / Control: Bats

Guano Juan is the wealthiest Touched in Santa Fe. This Mexican-Indian uses his Control over bats to create large piles of guano that are harvested and sold East to supply industry. There is a large amount of resentment towards Juan due to bigotry towards his ancestry and jealousy about his vast fortune.

Captain John “Saber” / HyperSkill: Sword

Captain John Smythe is the commander of Fort Nelson Hawkins. He’s a hard man made even harder by the manifestation of his Touched ability. In the midst of ferocious skirmish, Captain Smythe found himself able to slice through a man and his horse with one slice of his cavalry saber. Men fell like wheat before a thresher. It was only after the battle was over that Smythe discovered the horror of his situation. His hand had permanently fused around the hilt of his saber. He could not let go of the weapon.

Captain Smythe – now going under the unfortunate nickname of Captain Saber – faced a hard choice. Saber could lose both his hand and his power (Focus Flaw on his original saber) or he can live his life a dangerous freak.

Saber attempts to enforce the law of the Union on all the occupants of Santa Fe and is not above using his saber to back up his orders.

Point Totals for Out West Characters: 120

Archetype: Godlike

Skill Limitations: No Skills Greater than 3d starting out

Most people received little to no education. What education people did receive was filled with inaccuracies and fallacies. Limiting the skills to 3d represents this situation.

Would you feel comfortable having a doctor with only 3d operate on you?

Setting Levels:

• Red: 3
• Gold: 4
• Blue: 1
• Black: 2

Prior to becoming a state in 1907, Oklahoma was designated the Indian Territory by the U.S. government. This was done in order to provide a place for the Native Americans to relocate to as the United States expanded westward towards the Mississippi River in the 1800s.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed by President Andrew Jackson within a year of taking office. This act gave the President the power to negotiate treaties for removal with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River. The treaty called for the Indians to give up their eastern land for land in the west. Those who wished to stay behind were allowed to stay and become citizens in their state. For the tribes that agreed to Jackson’s terms, the removal was peaceful; however, those who resisted were eventually forced to leave. (more…)