Notes to players:

You can create characters in one of three ways:
1. Do nothing, show up at 3pm, and I'll give you a character or
   two to choose from.
2. Show up at 2pm, and I'll have one or more partial characters
   waiting for you.  You can choose a partial character and flesh
   him out with more skills, quirks, etc.
3. Develop your own character from scratch, using rules that I will
   send you.

In any case, you can help me by emailing me animal totems and 
jobs that you would like your character to have.  I already have
these from Jon-Luc, Andy, Chris F, and Sarah (but you can send more).
An example would be "squirel fisherman" or "brown bear priest".

Rules and other materials

You do not need to buy any rule books!  (Although having the free 
GURPS: lite material is a good idea.)

I will be using these books:
GURPS: Basic (all that applies)
GURPS: Compendium I (all that applies)
GURPS: Magic
GURPS: Religion
GURPS: Low Tech (Parts of chapters 1, 2, and 3.)
GURPS: Aztec
GURPS: Old West (Some of the magic.  Remember that the indians described
    here are very post contact.  They ride horses, drink liquor, hunt
    buffalo, etc.  Also remember that it focuses on the plains indians,
    while this adventure covers mostly Californian Indians.)

I will be using GURPS Character Assistent software.

If you want to do some homework, read up on local
indian tibes.  (The mountain View library has a
CD-ROM on the Pomo, for example, with pictures of
houses, weapons, and so on.)  The tribes you can look
at are Pomo, Ohlone, Salinas, and related "Costanoan".

Here are some web sites to get you started:
    http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/spanish/ohlone.shtml
    http://mail.springer.losaltos.k12.ca.us/1999/19/ohlone/default.html

And here are some pictures to fire your imagination:
    http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/virtual/moac/honeyman/@Generic__BookView%3bcs=default%3bts=default

My Goals

I have always felt that a gaming world based on the Myths of American
Indians would be an interesting one, so I am working on developing it.
I'm using this adventure to help play test my "animal totem" character
generation system and also several different magic systems.