Compañeros Opening Credits

Compañeros

Grolm 13, 578
Two minutes after Pitch Noon!

Definitely not the voice of Barry Campbell:

One ominous faction in

The Troubles of Oatman Canyon

got whittled down

under the blackest noon

ever to blight this range.

At least one to go --

-- three, at most!

Outsider not-really-a-dragon Spiro

dives deeper into the thick fog.

He seeks retribution.

The gigantic Living Topiary plant-monster known as Topiary Rex

slapped Spiro more than a mile away from his chosen Sorcerer.

It hurt! It stung!

It was RUDE!

Spiro means to make his position on this matter scorchingly clear

but first: he has to find the lizard-shaped tentacular beast!

(That may prove difficult.)

The SNAFU Posse has no way to know that Topiary Rex was defeated and dismembered by the Hell Herd.

Master Transmogrifer Farvald Kerner,

creator of Topiary Rex,

knows that something

burned his construct severely

before the Hell Bovines got into halberd range.

He knows that the fault for his pet's demise is split

between the fire-breather and the possessed cattle

-- Outsiders all

and therefore proper targets for his nefarious works.

What more effective, more final work could he perform

than to establish his dominion over all of this space?

He has

the education,

the insight, the wisdom,

the moral imperative

to blot all Outsiders away from Whippetal Ranch!

Forever!

His path to success is currently fair:

He has converted an exorcised Hell Hand

and his Duo partner

into service.

He is fixin' to add two more

fully possessed Hands

to his collection --

they do not see the Briarseed Children gang which races toward them in the fog.

He knows where the Ominous weapons of the Greater Hell Bovine fiend Methurgh are

and he has an idea of how to use those

to catastrophically close Gate One.

He has a bona-fide Druid at his command.

If them interferin' yokels from the SNAFU Guild raise a ruckus?

At a word, EvilSeed can put Jesse Devonshire to feedin' the lot of them to the Crawlers of the Whistling Skull!

Speakin' of whom. . . .

The Human members of the SNAFU Posse

stand on the stone floor of Sarsparilla Barn, gazin' up into

the biggest danged "barn cat" either one ever heard tell!

Did the evil forces of the Hell Herd branch out into predators?

Next door to that barn,
butting one long stone wall against it,
is Sarsparilla Bunkhouse.

Bright light pours out of every window, the open doorway, even the two chimneys.

Each aperture forms a dazzling bubble in the thick fog.

You think whatever is in there

might be another threat on the Posse's to-do list?

(The sounds of good cheer ring out from within!)

Posse Rangers Zhang Sephia and Bruthazmus Kele are both close enough to the southwest wall

that they hear these glad sounds with only a bit of distortion.

From different directions, both Rangers are wadin' toward

the neon green glow of a Mysterious Book

between spills of window light.

Bruthazmus has got Stormborn Sorcerer Miro Teague on one shoulder

and the soul of Stormborn Sorcerer Agesilao Tiraboschi in his pocket.

Miro has a plan to fix up that arcane archive.

He might even make a profit for the Guild coffer!

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Starring:

• Bruthazmus and the SNAFU Guild!
not to mention
• A Princess on the Warpath!
• A Hard-Hitting Ranch Hand!
• The Redhead From Merovia!
• Battered and bruised local folk!

With special appearance by

• The Cultivator Consultant!
• The Lady of the Choking Smog!

Be on the lookout for

• Trouble on the Hoof!
• Captivating Cowhands!
• Blood-sucking Cabbages!
• Thorny Spite!
• Tentacular Territoriality!

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Time to let the GM know that you are ready to start the reel!