Esoteric Enterprises - No Town Like Cow Town - Epilogue

The Servants of the Great Lord of Embers joined their master in a blaze that annihilated the Meat God's physical presence on earth. The survivors left Cow Town, in search of fresh kindling to regenerate their clergy.

With United Meat Train decapitated and the Grange annihilated, Cow Town was no longer a hub of agribusiness. The population dwindled, as stores closed and migrant farmhands went elsewhere for work. Beef prices across the country ticked upward, until new agreements with suppliers overseas could be negotiated.

In the absence of their corporate overlords at United Meat Train, Cow Town struggled to govern itself. Declining tax revenues and population brought an increase in lawlessness, with many homes and businesses converted to meth labs or other, less savory uses.

With no further use from United Meat Train, and a twenty year lawsuit still pending, the Sink finally closed. Enterprising sorcerers still make pilgrimages to the cordoned ecological disaster, hoping to fish out magic trinkets, or bottle fragments of the former Meat God's power.

With falling enrollment and endless litigation eating away at its budget, the K-12 school finally closed. The remaining students are now bussed to Coal City schools, an hour away on the King's Road.

With the Grange annihilated in its battle with the Dungeon Druids, large stretches of ranchland lay abandoned. The Druids stole out from the Botanic Gardens to replant the desolation, sowing seeds that grew into wondrous and terrifying parks and forests.

The survivors of the Exploration Project eked out a precarious existence in the shadow of the Seekers of the Path, traumatized by the horrors of the war with the Meat Cult, yet addicted to the seductive mysteries of the underworld. Adrian the Exploring Kid took up the study of magic and himself became a powerful and widely feared sorcerer. 

Absent the containing influence of the Shoggoth Pit, the Meat Cult and the Ancient Lich, the undercity was nearly swallowed by a Mycelid outbreak. The killer fungi were contained at great cost by the Seekers of the Path, and the Chthonicists of the Exploration Project.

With the collapse of the Cow Town Police Department, the case against the Megachurch was taken over by the National Police. Thanks to the addled Meat Cops' inconsistent record keeping and borderline incomprehensible case notes, the Nats were only able to prosecute a handful of the Servants of Christ the King for the slaying of several Cow Town Police officers during the siege of the church. Father Bacon was not among those charged.

Without the protection of the Meat Cult, the Tattoos were hunted down and put to the sword by the remaining Servants of the King of the Universe. The surviving vampires fled into the exurbs, creating nests in abandoned farmhouses and beneath ponds and lakes.

The two surviving artists from the Collective were adopted by the Light Market. The smugglers always had commissions for skilled painters.

With nobody to oppose them, the Seekers of the Path now rule what's left of Cow Town. The illusionists John and Jo do their best to restrain the wizards and witches, who view the town as a playground for occult science, its people as raw material for their experiments. Even with the meat cult destroyed, the Men in Black haven't let their finger off the button...

And when the Seekers' power armored mages broke into Old Boney's crypt, they found no sign of the ancient lich. Perhaps his old bones had undergone a transformation to another state of existence. Whatever bargain he'd struck with the Tattoos and the Meat Cult, it no longer concerned Cow Town. Or so everyone hoped...