game report: Dogs in the Vineyard

Recently ralphmelton ran a game of Dogs in the Vineyard. For those unfamiliar with it, here's the opening paragraph from the Wikipedia article:

The game is set in "a West that never quite was" - loosely based on the Mormon State of Deseret in pre-statehood Utah. Players are "God's Watchdogs" (Dogs), who travel from town to town delivering mail, helping out the community and enforcing the judgments of the True Faith of the King of Life. This may involve anything from delivering new interpretations to the town's Steward to executing heretics. Dogs have absolute authority within the Faith, but not within the laws of the Territorial Authority, and so their actions can lead to conflict with the government in the East.

Four of us played this time; two of us (plus the GM) had played once before. I chronicled that game here, so it seemed natural for me to try to record this one too. This will be long.

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