The Rail Baron-Note-
We won't be playing for a couple weeks, so I think I'll go back to filling the blog with information about the background/setting until I have new session summaries to share.
The enigmatic "Baron" has been around since the foundation of the group. The first Ghost Rider, Doc Holliday, received his contract from the Rail Baron. For many years, the Baron had no contact with the group, up to the point that he instructed Holliday to pass the mantle of the Rider on to its new host.
As far as the group has been able to ascertain, the Baron is a demonic entity. Locked within the iron rails of America's railways and Snakebacks, he travels in style on a black iron train. Primarily the group has met with the Baron on or around a railway, but he seems to be able to manifest away from the rails - for a limited time, at least.
The Baron isn't bothering to hide his intent toward the group. He's instructed them that important things are on the horizon, and that he wants them to make sure that "events unfold the way they were intended." The party doesn't yet know what this refers to, but each place he instructs them to visit seems to peel back another layer of the mystery.
Recently, the party discovered that the Rail Baron isn't the only creature of his kind, merely the only one they've ever encountered. In Salt Lake City, a fortuneteller warned Roosevelt that the Baron and his 9 brothers are spread across the continent. Their most recent addition, the group's defeated enemy Thomas Edison. At that time, the fortuneteller also provided Roosevelt with information about how to kill the Baron, should he need to, and the means of doing so: a rosewood box containing five vials of the black blood of Samedi. When she passed the blood to Roosevelt, she warned him that only a Baron can kill a Baron, and that they are only vulnerable when they are hiding in their homes. In the case of the Rail Baron, only when he rides the Hellbound Train back home.
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