#weird west
French adaptation of Wild Wild West:
Mystères de l'Ouest: Les légions de fer in Pif-Gadget 321, April 1975, written by Jean Sanitas, art by Gérald Forton
Out in the wicked West, there lives a blood-starved monster… and its host.
( character(s) owned by @lsdoiphin )
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Hey more people should be playing Weird West
Go play it its great
Stranger and Witch Amherst’s relationship is strictly business and entirely professional.
Obviously.
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RESTLESS.
So, I drew this half in response to this question:
To answer… she woke up like this.
Stranger was given a pious burial akin the ones given to members of the Embrace… albeit on the cheap, and unusually far from sanctioned church grounds (read: out in the goddamn wilderness, nowhere near any church).
Upon her awakening, Stranger was equally infuriated by: 1. the circumstances of her death, 2. having been resurrected as a vampire, 3. the burial clothes thrown on her when she was too dead to defend herself, and 4. the fact she was trapped in a small wooden box buried six feet underground.
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At a glance, the great phleam is a travesty of weapon design. A wretched cross between switchblade and glaive, it known first as a symbol of the church and second as being more trouble than its worth to master.
Originally designed by and for The Embrace of Silence–the vampire extermination sect of the church–the great phleam was modeled on old notions of vampire hunting that have since been disputed. It was once believed that the source of the vampire curse was unholy blood, and therefore bleeding out a vampire would “cure” it, returning it to an honest human corpse. Once the cursed blood was removed, the ex vampire could be given a righteous burial, perhaps redeeming the departed from an afterlife in Hell.
Since then, the members of the Embrace have learned that vampiric affliction does not come from the blood, but abyssal parasites. Their tactics have changed accordingly, and the great phleam has largely been abandoned as a real weapon. However, it remains a part of church iconography and tradition.
One such tradition that remains is, when a Hand of Silence dies, they are buried with a great phleam in hand. Members of the Embrace claim this is to protect their fallen comrades as they ascend into the afterlife, but they know real message: “Don’t come back. You know what we’ll do to you.”
The irony of a vampire wielding a great phleam is not lost on Stranger.
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