"You don’t have to bother with the graveyard dirt, Joe. This here's the twentieth century. You wanna call on me, here’s what you do: hurt someone who cares for you, let down someone who’s counting on you, do wrong to someone who never done you anything but right."
-- The Man Variously known as "The Man at the Crossroads," "The Man from the South," or just "The Man." He's been around since way before TheSecretCivilWar, even before America itself was born -- he was a slave trader in the 1600s, and ascended as the Avatar of the Devil.
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-- The Man Variously known as "The Man at the Crossroads," "The Man from the South," or just "The Man." He's been around since way before TheSecretCivilWar, even before America itself was born -- he was a slave trader in the 1600s, and ascended as the Avatar of the Devil.
- BlindJoeBiscuit's last confrontation with the Man has shown us he's the representative of the Arcanum of the Devil. He claimed to be the representation what the American dream, though I thnk he represents the dark-side of it. The something for nothing easy path that has always existed in American folklore. He also has a nice house full of spooky Sambo-mimes. [Jere]
- Yes. Glad you liked the Sambos. I like that about the something-for-nothing part of the American Dream (which I believe it says in the UA rules is what dipsomancy is all about, so there's another resonance with Blind Joe's story). What's written above about the Man being older than the Secret Civil War, even perhaps America, is still pretty true. My thinking is that back when the Man was, um, a man, he was an early (1600s) slave trader (ie, a trader in souls). Hence his boast to Joe, "I made you Americans." Which would explain his particular affinity for black Americans and their music. And it seems appropriate that America's Arcanum of the Devil would be implicated in slavery, which one could see as America's Original Sin. (Well, except there's also the Indians. OK, so slavery is one of America's original sins.) [Rob]
- I had wondered if he wasn't one of Coronado's men, looking for the Something for Nothing that is ElDorado. [Chris]
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