Fiddler's Green in for Approval

[Pyromancer]

Anything new?

 

[MJD]

It's apporved and just waiting to go through the publication process. Which is taking a while...

 

[tdwyer11b]

Fiddler's Green (not surprisingly, given the title) is set on a mid-tech world just outside the Imperium where order is kept by mounted police. Cavalry, if you will.

It is a rather violent adventure featuring horses (and kian), trains, gunfights and stuff exploding.

I used to be in a Cav unit, so I couldn't resist.

Halfway down the trail to Hell,
In a shady meadow green
Are the Souls of all dead troopers camped,
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddlers' Green.


Marching past, straight through to Hell
The Infantry are seen.
Accompanied by the Engineers,
Artillery and Marines,
For none but the shades of Cavalrymen
Dismount at Fiddlers' Green.


Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he's emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers' Green.


And so when man and horse go down
Beneath a saber keen,
Or in a roaring charge of fierce melee
You stop a bullet clean,
And the hostiles come to get your scalp,
Just empty your canteen,
And put your pistol to your head
And go to Fiddlers' Green

 

[MJD]

Yup. It's quoted in the Author's Introduction.

 

[Alan Hume]

That's pretty cool

where is it from? never ever heard that before

 

[Emperor Herdan]

That's pretty cool

where is it from? never ever heard that before

From the www (so take it for what it is worth... (smile))

The origin and author of "Fiddler's Green" is unknown. It was believed to have originated in the 1800's and was composed as a song sung by the soldiers of the 6th and 7th Cavalry. Its first known appearance in published form was in a 1923 Cavalry Journal.


Take care

E. Herdan

 

[Alan Hume]

Hi,
thanks for that info,
now I know, US Cavalry, cool
I was thinking it was Napoleonic or something

 

[MJD]

It may be a clue to the adventure content....

 

[Alan Hume]

Ah, that's rather intriguing...

....hmmm, intrigued, intrigued :lol:

 

[daryen]

It may be a clue to the adventure content....

So the adventurers will eventually have to commit suicide to keep themselves from capture and torture ... ?

 

[MJD]

Best if they do it before the adventure starts if they want to avoid trouble...

 

[captainjack23]

It may be a clue to the adventure content....

So the adventurers will eventually have to commit suicide to keep themselves from capture and torture ... ?

Hmmm. More in keeping with "soldiers of the queen" than fiddlers green...
....
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier......
(kipling)

And I'll bet MJD knows that bit of rhyme, too.

 

[MJD]

Yup.

 

[qstor]

Best if they do it before the adventure starts if they want to avoid trouble...

What about eat their horses? Grav tanks can be pretty tough on the teeth

Mike

 

[Alan Hume]

and they give you indigestion so I hear :lol: