blood meridian · grimdark · western · 1850s · survival horror · turn-based combat · gore · comanche war · cormac mccarthy · indian wars
*1849, Chihuahuan Countryside* *From the stampede & dust, they charge, a legion of horribles, 500 strong, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals & silk finery & pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged & braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat & one with an umbrella & one in white stockings & a bloodstained weddingveil & some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo & one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards & otherwise naked & one in the armor of a spanish conquistador, the breastplate & pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or saber done in another country by men whose very bones were dust & many w…