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Ed’s Midnight Tales

Maps by: Craig Largent

Edited by: Jerry Blakemore, Preston P. DuBose, Tom Harrison, and Ed Wetter-

man, with assistance from Trey Gorden.

Cover photo by: Lynn Hyde

Layout by: Preston P. DuBose

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Parts of Ed’s Midnight Tales ﬁrst appeared in Modern Dispatch #38: Big hicket Adventures , Modern Dispatch #53: Beer,

Pretzels, an Ouija Board, Chicks, and a Demon; Modern Dispatch #57: Soul Gazer ; Modern Dispatch #69: Holiday Horror;

and Modern Dispatch #81: Goblin Friend .

his product is a work of ﬁction. Any similarity to actual people, organizations, places, or events is purely coincidental.

Made in Texas, USA.

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12 to Midnight

By Ed Wetterman

Midnight Tales

Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................4

Chapter 1: Big hicket Adventures ..........................................................5

Plot Hooks ..............................................................................................................6

1.1: Beasts of the hicket ........................................................................................6

1.2: Little Lost Child...............................................................................................8

1.3: Last Chance Gold ..........................................................................................10

Chapter 2: Beer, Chicks, an Ouija Board,Pretzels, and a Demon ...........12

2.1: Introduction and Background ........................................................................12

2.2: Let’s Get this Party Started… .........................................................................13

2.3: he Ritual: Sudalak’s Return ..........................................................................13

2.4: Pocket Dimensions of Terror ..........................................................................14

2.5: Ending the Tale… ..........................................................................................15

Sudalak Demon of Illusions- WC..........................................................................15

Lana Fowler ..........................................................................................................16

James Jones ...........................................................................................................17

Note to Dream Weaver Hero ................................................................................18

Map ......................................................................................................................19

Chapter 3: Soul Gazer ............................................................................20

Soul Gazer Character Modiﬁcations ......................................................................21

Putting Tales to Use...............................................................................................21

Isaiah Roberts-WC ................................................................................................23

Chapter 4: Holiday Horror ....................................................................25

4.1: Home Invasion ..............................................................................................25

4.2: Bad Santa .......................................................................................................26

4.3: Payback ..........................................................................................................27

Leroy Franks -WC .................................................................................................27

Molitov Gangmember...........................................................................................27

Bad Santa (Jerry Bender’s Revenent)-WC ..............................................................28

Jimmlyn ................................................................................................................28

Streilberk Demons ................................................................................................29

Chapter 5: Goblin Friend .......................................................................31

Introduction..........................................................................................................31

Background...........................................................................................................31

Cold Beginnings ...................................................................................................31

he Hounds ..........................................................................................................32

he Men in Black..................................................................................................32

Men in Black.........................................................................................................33

Goblin-Friend .......................................................................................................34

Altered Hounds.....................................................................................................34

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Introduction

Welcome to Pinebox and thanks for purchasing our

second Midnight Tales. hese are a few of my own

horriﬁc tales and include over 40 plot hooks and

adventure ideas, 13 new creatures for your Savage

games, and more Pinebox Personalities to make your

Pinebox campaign come to life. Of course we also

included Pinebox News stories and other goodies.

Big hicket Adventures is a tale I wanted to tell

for some time. See I grew up in the Big hicket and

I truly love that forest. I remember my grandfather

telling me of hunting those woods in the early 20th

century. Once as a little boy he had been hidden in

the hollow of a tree by his father, when a man who

had murdered one of his cousins had come onto our

families’ land, and my great grandfather had gone

out with a riﬂe to speak to him. Another time he had

a run-in with a black panther. He said he was walking

through the thicket and heard what sounded like a

woman’s scream above him. Upon looking up he saw

a black panther hanging on a limb over his head. He

shot the big cat several times, ﬁnally killing it. He

hunted his entire life and I believe him when he said

it was a panther. Many zoologists have stated that

there are no panthers in East Texas. My grandfather

would disagree.

As to the chupacabra, well….I believe! Something

is killing goats, dogs, and chickens and sucking the

blood from them. A bizarre animal was killed in East

Texas a couple of years ago, just miles from where I

grew up. Pictures of this creature may easily be found

on the internet. Legends of Big Foot are also found

in East Texas. One of my best friends growing up

in East Texas swears one day in the woods he came

upon a small monkey. And of course there is always

legends of lost Confederate gold, pirate’s treasures,

and more throughout East Texas. One legend states

that Jean Laﬁtte ran from pursuit up the Sabine River

and hid his treasure somewhere therein.

Beer, Chicks, an Ouija Board and a Demon was

just fun. My players love the chance to mess with

the other players and this allowed their imagination

to go crazy and do whatever they wanted. his is a

great one-nighter and I hope you enjoy it as much

as I did.

he Soul Gazer is my own creation following a

conversation with homas Driver, the bassist for A

Jury of Robots. I’d really love to see the Soul Gazer

idea catch on and how other folks grow the idea. he

Christmas tales are also good fun, but I really love

Goblin Friend. We will reveal more about the secret

military base and the government labs in future ad-

ventures. hese Midnight Tales are a great way for

you to introduce Pinebox to your players and will

be an awesome bag of tricks for those of you looking

forward to running our ETU campaign due some-

time in 2008.

So sit back and plan some horriﬁc gaming!

Thanks,

Ed Wetterman

“Howdy” from 12 to Midnight

From all of us here at 12 to Midnight , wel-

come to Midnight Tales . In case you are not famil-

iar with us, we are a Texas-based RPG publisher

specializing in modern horror. You might not

normally think “Texas” and “horror” go together,

but we are pretty sure you will change your mind

after spending some time in Pinebox.

hat’s Pinebox, Texas. It is a nice little rural

community smack-dab in East Texas. here is

a university nearby, a Pine forest called the Big

hicket, and a mess of beautiful wildﬂowers every

Spring. Unfortunately, it is also the epicenter of a

whole lot of bad mojo. We’re talking dark magic,

serial killers, haunted buildings—the whole ball

of wax.

If you want to learn more about Pinebox, just

visit our website at 12tomidnight.com . You can

start using the free campaign setting on our site

right now, then watch it continue to grow right

here in the pages of Midnight Tales . Of course,

Pinebox is our setting but all the material in these

pages can just as easily be dropped into yours .

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Chapter 1:

Big Thicket

Adventures

Setting

deep within the forest, overgrown with the weeds and

thorn bushes of a hundred years’ growth.

Today, biking and hiking trails have been cut

through many parts of the Big hicket, which is now

protected by both state and federal governments. he

fall and winter see many hunters enter its dark inte-

rior seeking deer, ducks, squirrels, geese, turkeys, and

wild razorback hogs. Several large camping areas are

available for those who wish to keep the amenities of

civilization close at hand, but others prefer to hike

into the forest and create their own campground.

Many legends involving the hicket persist even

today: bigfoot and panther sightings, rumors of chu-

pacabra attacks, reports of ghostly Spanish soldiers,

ﬁerce Native American spirits, and tales of buried

Confederate Hope Gold. Some even say that pirates

from Galveston ventured up the Sabine River to hide

their loot in the deep woods. Other phenomena are

also common, ranging from unexplained lights in the

night sky to strange disappearances, bizarre and dan-

gerous weather patterns, and the mysterious Flames

of Kirby Smith. In a Pinebox Campaign all of these

legends are true, and they make for great side treks

or short adventure tales. hree such side treks are

presented in this section of Ed’s Midnight Tales : he

Beasts of the hicket, Little Lost Child , and Last Chance

Gold .

he Big hicket of East Texas is one of the last re-

maining jungle-like regions of North America. Its

dense undergrowth is so thick in places that it cannot

be penetrated without a sharp machete or hatchet.

Every deer season, many hunters ﬁnd themselves lost

within its conﬁnes. In East Texas it is often said, “Stay

within 20 feet of the road or you’ll get lost—and you

may never be found again!”

he hicket is primarily made up of tall pines,

ancient oaks, and a few beech trees. he understory

is a tangle of vines, small bushes, and thorns. his

forest is home to coyotes, black bears, many species

of birds, and the legendary panther. Native American

tribes, such as the Caddo, once made their homes

deep in the hicket. hough two hundred years ago

the forest covered a majority of East Texas, today it

only covers a few counties, including the southern

reaches of Golan County.

In the 1800s, many bushwhackers, outlaws, and

renegade Native Americans made the hicket their

home and sanctuary. During the 1920s, bootleg-

gers hid their alcohol stills deep in the reaches of the

hicket along its natural creek beds. Today, murders

are commonplace and human remains are found by

hunters on a fairly regular basis, though these re-

mains are generally half eaten by wild animals and

rarely identiﬁable. Ancient Native American burial

mounds, rotting cabins, and old barns are found

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