No West for the Wicked, Part 2: Red Hand Coven, The Revenant, Holy Inquisitors, feat. 77633

[Rigel]

Lots of pics here, a story's worth. Turnaround pics in spoiler areas.

You should imagine Ennio Morricone playing the soundtrack, slow-paced to start with. Diegetic horse noises, hooves plodding. Scraping, dragging sound. 

 

 

A glow of a cigarillo and a long inhale as we slowly zoom in on the horse's master.

 

 

The smoke exhales out of his nostrils, and the camera pans down to show it jetting from multiple holes in the Revenant's torso as well.

 

 

Spoiler

 

The rendezvous at hand, the Revenant knocks on the coffin once or twice. It is the only sound besides the horse breathing. 

 

Panning the camera around to the other side of the tree we see a couple boys from the Red Hand posse.

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

"Two against one, fella. You might be too stubborn to die, but you ain't gotten any better at counting."
He retreats. Hoofbeats recede behind the mesa.

 

(music gets tenser, speeds up)

"Boss! Good to have you back."
"Thought we'd lost you! Now let's get back to San Cascarion and drain those vatos dry!"
"<untranslatable screech>"

Other, different hoofbeats make the Red Hand thugs stop celebrating. They look around,

This, they did not expect.

 

(Morricone music just goes bananas here)

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

[fight choreography ensues, guns shot and whipped out of undead hands, etc,]

 

Camera zooms in on the Revenant again holding a cigarillo to withered lips. He holds up first one cracked and flaking finger, then another, then a third and finally a fourth. The barest hint of a smile crinkles his mummified cheek. Counts just fine. Roll credits. 

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Ooowee these were fun to do! The Revenant, an undead Man with No Name, is from Artizan, as are Brothers Thomas and Martin and Fra Benedict, the Holy Inquisitors 3-pack. I used a pin vise to drill a few extra holes in the Revenant. 

 

The bad hombres in red and the Nosferatu are from Dracula's America, the Red Hand coven 3-pack. 

Horses are from Nolzur's Adventurer's Campsite. They've been on my Shelf of Shame for too long. 

The Coffin and Skeleton are Reaper, 77633. The Tree of Despair and the signpost from Western Sophie make an appearance as well. 

 

Here's Part 1, from a WHILE back. 

Hope you enjoy!

 

[Iridil]

What a great scene! I love the Revenant's attitude

[Samedi]

Thanks for a good laugh, I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition! Absolutely love that guy with the sunglasses!

[Chaoswolf]

Good stuff!

[Glitterwolf]

[Rigel]

Thanks, all!

On 6/3/2021 at 3:22 AM, Glitterwolf said:

I don't know how you keep finding the absolute most perfect images for these! This is exactly what I was going for (even drilled a little hole in the Revenant's hat)!

On 6/1/2021 at 10:10 PM, Iridil said:

What a great scene! I love the Revenant's attitude

Thank you! They're my favorite--too troublesome to live and too ornery to lay down and die. In my Weird West game this fella would be a reskinned Death Knight. Beware the High Plains Drifter!

On 6/2/2021 at 9:29 AM, Samedi said:

Thanks for a good laugh, I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition!

I am given to understand nobody does! 😉

On 6/2/2021 at 9:29 AM, Samedi said:

Absolutely love that guy with the sunglasses!

Yeah, he and his cronies are great sculpts. If you need a Van Helsing type in the New World...