Deadlands: Things That Boom In The Night

This last Friday we had another session of Deadlands and lots of stuff blew up.
When we last left our heroes, they had just joined up with traveling “culture” show. Our patron has the crazy idea that he can some how bring cultural and sophistication to the Wild Weird West. The problem is that he has no clue about us “barbaric colonials” or any of the really weird stuff happening. And there’s another problem. He has this huge emerald that has some sort magical mojo and there seems to be some sort of cult after it.
The party ends up in charge of the show after our patron failed a Guts roll when the zombies attacked. Things were going well until bandits robbed the bank. Two party members ride off on their fast horses to catch the robbers while the rest guard the show. Of course, it was a distraction and the Arab looking cultists try to steal the gem. The party managed to catch the bandits and defend the gem. Of course, to throw things into even more confusion a huge rattler shows up to make things interesting. Think of rattlers as sort of like Graboids on steroids.
Every time some weird happens the gem starts glowing. We all start making loknar jokes. Especially if the Huckster starts saying things like “That’s my loknar, you bitches!”
Things calm down and the party prepares for the night when suddenly our train is attacked. Some crazy armored giant mechanical spider train thingie starts eating the front end of our train. More jokes ensue. Of course, this was another distraction but whenever there is violence, player characters will run towards it. While the rest of the party ran towards the front of the train, the Huckster stayed back and guarded the gem. Lucky him. A crazy (and probably undead/Harrowed) mad scientists attacks. The Huckster manages to hold off the Mad Scientist. The rest keep attacking the spider thing. Dynamite explodes at the back of the train and our Huckster is doing his damnedest to hold off the Boss. The others shot and throw some of our own dynamite at the spider machine. We sort of take it out. And by take out it, I mean damage it enough to activate the self destruct. Player characters scatter. I was crazy and remembered that silly bit from Indian Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Hey, if he can survive a nuke by jumping into a refrigerator then I might survive this by jumping into the still cold boiler of our train engine.
We all amazingly survived the explosion. But local law enforcement strongly suggested that we leave town. Also, the Mad Scientist got away with the gem and our train car (Originally, the property of our late Mad Scientist.)