Category: Deadlands: Noir

There’s a lot of strange things in this world. For some folks, they like to say it’s magic, because they don’t understand it. Funny thing is, some of the time – they’re more right than they’d probably want to be. And for Irving Holt and Miles Pike, they’re about to find out that some magic may be darker than a back alley shadow at Midnight.

Oh, and one word of warning, some of the descriptions in this episode, get a little… vivid.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Bebopovsky And The Orkestry Podyezdov – “Люди вкуснее овощей”
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Companionship in solitude”
Lowering – “We’re Dancing”
Trigg & Gusset – “Last Known Spy”
Trigg & Gusset – “Black Ocean”
Trigg & Gusset – “White Condor”
Bebopovsky And The Orkestry Podyezdov – “В гробу карманов нету“
Dead Melodies & Zenjungle – “Wisp”
Shirt Tail Stompers – “Mop Mop”

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I’m sure you’ve heard about this guy. Went by the name Thomas. Tommy was one of those mooks that you could tell a fishing story to, but if the trout wasn’t in your hands, he wasn’t gonna believe a word you said. And right now, Irving Holt running up against his own Tommy – but he’s just hoping it’s not the one inside his head.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Wordclock – “Thames Does Flow”
Manet – “Mr. Effektive Detective”
Manet – “Shrouded Hill”
Worldclock – “Heralds”
Worldclock – “Bell Ringing III”

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Nothing’s ever simple. And in Chicago in 1933, where the shadows grow nearly as long as the bread lines, everything is seven shades of complicated. And for Grace Gunn and Miles Pike, the paths they’re on are about to hit more twists and turns than the Monaco Grand Prix. But in a world where you swore you saw something you’ve never seen before and a black suited stranger insists you didn’t. What else would you expect?

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Wordclock – “Thames Does Flow”
Lowering – “The Bridge (Midnight Walker)”
Hot Sugar Band – “Sermonette”
Hot Sugar Band – “Sandu”
Somewhere off Jazz Street – “Don’t Give It All Away”
Manet – “This May, be Life”
Manet – “Zygomatic Bones for Days”
Manet – “No rest for the dead”
Manet – “The Log”

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You know that feeling when you go to the circus and watch the tightrope walker? That feeling in the pit of your stomach that one slip and the dangerous balancing act is over. Down she goes. Show over. You want her to make it across but each step’s an agony like learning the dame or Jake you love is stepping out to be in another’s arms. And in either case, you can’t look away.

And for Miles Pike, he walks his own tightrope, trying to balance his secret with his mission and with learning that something deeper is going on. But for Miles, if he missteps, there’s no net at the bottom of his fall.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Manet – “No rest for the dead“
Manet – “Delirious and Devoured – Devour”
Manet – “Dolomiten”
Manet – “The Log”
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Hurt people hurt people”
Aging – “Beneath Heaven”
Shirt Tail Stompers – “Esquire Bounce”

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Tonight we’re gonna talk about some F-words. No, not the kind that would cause your mother to replace your corn flakes with soap flakes. Tonight, Irving Holt deals with his film, Grace Gunn her family, and for Bam Bam – it’s his fight. That doesn’t make things any less foul. But when your foes front, you gotta face those fears. All right, I’m finally finished.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Shinjuku Thief – “A Red Room/A Slow Dance“
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Weeping and gnashing of the grave teeth“
Trigg & Gusset – “Rhododendron“
Francia Jazzline Orchestra – “Fanny’s score“
Michael Arthur Holloway – “Dead Weight“
Francia Jazzline Orchestra – “Some trouble in Pasadena“
Manet – “I“
Shinjuku Thief – “Waking at Dusk“
Shirt Tail Stompers – “Overtime“

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Every once in a while you see something you don’t want to see. Hear something you don’t want to hear. Something you can’t get out of that picture palace in your mind. There’s a showing every 10 minutes, and ushers are making sure you stay in your seat. And for Miles Pike and Irving Holt, two veterans of Weird War One, they’re about to have front row seats once again.

Oh, and just in case… Some things get a little descriptive in this episode.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Manet – “Doctor Schnabel von Ron”
Somewhere off Jazz Street – “Night Voices”
Manet – “Valee Noire – Dark Side of the Valley”
Manet – “Zygomatic Bones for Days”
Manet – “I Left the Phone Off the Hook“
Hot Sugar Band – “Sermonette”
Shirt Tail Stompers – “Broadway Holdover”
Aging – “Nights in Amber“
Aging – “Beneath Heaven“
Shinjuku Thief – “Waking at Dusk“
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Fear and Dread in Neon”
Hot Sugar Band – “Oh Lady Be Good”
Plate Mail Games – 1930s New York

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Trust. It’s hard to find these days. And the path to find someone you can trust is like looking for a piece of hay in a needle stack. You might find it, but it’s gonna hurt along the way. The good doctor, Miles Pike doesn’t know who he can trust in Capone’s Outfit. Irving Holt trusts he just got the photo of a lifetime of the Alley Cat Killer. Bam Bam is trying to learn how to trust anyone outside his own two fists. And Grace Gunn? Well, she’s landed a case. A case that you can trust is going to take her someplace she may not want to go. And yet, when it comes to the cold streets of Chicago, these four are going to have to learn to trust each other before they get burned.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Trigg & Gusset – “Intimate”
Francia Jazzline Orchestra – “Fanny’s score”
Francia Jazzline Orchestra – “Meeting in Malibu”
Francia Jazzline Orchestra – “Dinner at the Blue Duck”
Francia Jazzline Orchestra – “Hollywood Party“
Manet – “Delirious and Devoured”
Hot Sugar Band – “Louise”
Windshield Wiper SFX

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Everybody loves making the easy choices. Cake or a dirt sandwich. A night at the Ritz or a week at Chateau de Hooverville. But when it comes to the tough choices, that’s where the butter really meets the bread. And for Tommy Bam Bam Prue, Miles Pike and Irving Holt, they gotta make a tough choice and maybe face a nasty truth about themselves.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Trigg & Gusset – “Vanishing Gold”
Shirt Tail Stompers – “Jammin’ The Blues”
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Deed to sharpen the ire”
Hot Sugar Band – “Corner Pocket”
Hot Sugar Band – “Seven Come Eleven“
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Pink cigarette”
Somewhere off Jazz Street – “Rest Your Head”
Plate Mail Games – “Noir Streets”
Plate Mail Games – “1930’s New York'”

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Time we round out this crew. Next up is Miles Pike. He’s a cat who makes it his business to cure your ills, but don’t pay any attention to his vices. This back alley doc spends part of his free time playing sax pick up gigs in dance halls and speakeasys and the rest of his free time replacing the “a” with an “e” in “sax” when it come to playing with the ladies in those clubs.

And if that doesn’t draw enough heat, he’s smack dab in the middle of the three-sided war brewing in Capone’s outfit. If that doesn’t say ‘Physician Heal Thyself’ nothing does.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Somewhere off Jazz Street – “Night Voices”
Hot Sugar Band – “Grabtown Grapple”
Hot Sugar Band – “Seven Come Eleven”
Hot Sugar Band – “Little Brown Jug”
Somewhere off Jazz Street – “Uncertainty”

Plate Mail Games – “Speakeasy”

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Meet Bam Bam

Every crew needs their bruiser, and with these four, that’d be Tommy “Bam Bam” Prue. Some might want to call him Bam Bam because of his time in the boxing ring. It usually was the last thing the poor schmucks facing him ever heard. But sometimes I wonder if he got the Bam Bam name from what Grace did to him a while back.

He spent some time in the Big House for trying to take care of her, but now he’s out and looking for a rematch with life. Why he’s hanging out with the woman he tried to kill. Well, that’s a story for another time.

Music from this episode
Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill – “Alice”
Lowering – “Tonight I Am Throwing My Dreams Away”
Somewhere off Jazz Street – “Don’t Give It All Away”
Marcus Eads – “Above Snakes”
Manet – “Vallée noire”

Plate Mail Games – “Noir Streets”

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