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Life in the Wasted West™ is hard, and there are

few places where it’s harder than the Mississippi

Delta. Waltzing around within spitting distance of

the roving undead minions of the Necropolis is

something that’s done only by diehard heroes—or

brainers either too stupid or desperate to get the

Hell out of the place.

Still, that’s where Hell or High Water finds the

posse, wandering around the bayou in what used

to be Louisiana before the ghost-rock bombs nearly

blasted humanity from the face of the Earth. There

the heroes stumble upon Nouveau Baton Rouge, a

post-Apocalyptic Venice in which what’s left of old

Baton Rouge’s taller buildings poke out of what’s

now the middle of the mighty Mississippi like the

skin-stripped fingers of some gigantic, waterlogged

corpse.

The people of Red Stick (as the town’s also

known) have trouble coming in the shape of a

ramshackle riverboat full of cutthroats roaming

down the river and looking for prey. The town’s

right in the path of these post-modern pirates, but

that’s the least of the populace’s problems.

Somewhere out in the steamy swamps, a great

evil has been awakened by the townsfolk, and it’s

up to the heroes to put the damned thing down for

good. If they fail, every man, woman, and child—and

the heroes along with them—are going to meet a

watery doom!

Cred i ts

Written & Designed by: John Goff

Editing & Layout: Matt Forbeck & Matthew Tice

Cover Art: Toren Atkinson

Interior Art: James Chandlee Stowe & Loston Wallace

Maps: Jeff Lahren

Playtesting & Advice: Joyce Goff, Shane & Michelle Hensley,

John & Christy Hopler, Neil L. Martin & David Wilson

Special Thanks to: Rachel Butterworth, Barry Doyle, Shane, Michelle & Caden Hensley,

Christy Hopler, Ann Kolinsky, Ashe Marler, Hal Mangold, Jason Nichols, Charles Ryan, Dave Seay,

Zeke Sparks, Maureen Yates & John Zinser

Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc.

P.O. Box 10908

Blacksburg, VA 24062–0908

www.peginc.com or deadlands@aol.com

Deadlands, Weird West, Wasted West, Hell on

Earth, the Deadlands logo, the Pinnacle

Starburst, and the Pinnacle logo are Trademarks

of Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc.

Dedicated to:

Neil L. Martin for his sage advice.

Deadlands created by Shane Hensley.

™

Hell or High Water

Marshal: 4

Chapter One:

Hell or High Water

Now that all Hell’s broken loose and the

Reckoners are walking around laying waste to

the world, folks tend to forget that things weren’t

all that great before the bombs started falling.

Most people remember the “good old days” and

how easy things were back then. They’ll give you

a list a mile long about all the wonderful

reasons life was better: electricity, fast food,

television, and so on.

Well, every now and then, somebody stumbles

across something to remind him that it all

wasn’t peaches and cream back then. The posse

is about to get firsthand experience with the fact

that Evil, with a capital E, was around even back

when you could get a pizza delivered—without

glow-in-the-dark toppings.

And, the funny thing about Evil with a capital

E is that it seldom dies easy.

keep the more desirable tenants away. That

means the few communities remaining tend to

be shanty towns or tent cities somewhere safer—

like the middle of nowhere.

There are a few places that escaped the worst

of the ravages of the Last War, however, and

folks lucky enough to stumble onto them fight

tooth and claw to keep them.

Baton Rouge is one such place.

Baton Rouge

Why did the former capitol of Louisiana

escape the beating cities a tenth its size got?

Simple: Nature got to it first.

The Mississippi put a hurting on Baton Rouge

long before the Yankees ever thought about

getting around to it. Back in 2071, the ground

underneath the city shifted and sank more than

50 feet in less than three hours. The Mississippi

shifted its course, overran the city’s levees,

and turned most of greater Baton Rouge into

Bayou Baton Rouge.

The change in the river’s course was

unexpected—Geologists blamed it on a

massive earthquake that happened along

the same fault line that hit New Madrid

back in 1811. That didn’t matter much to

the fair citizens of Baton Rouge, Louisiana,

since a fair portion of them drowned when

the river came roaring in, so by that time

they were well past caring.

The Story So Far

When you say “city” nowadays, people tend to

think of mile upon mile of concrete rubble. See,

there aren’t too many cities standing any more—

The nukes, ghost-rock bombs, and good, old-

fashioned high explosives of the Last War saw

to that. And those that are still around are

jealously guarded by their inhabitants.

The ruins of the once-great metropolises are

now the playgrounds for scavs, mutants, or

worse. Ghost-rock radiation has a tendency to

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