Jornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 40
Graine Goodish, ne McGuin, was badly shaken by the news that Donal McGuinTony was not her natural father, and a man from Las Vegas, a former outlaw and now rancher called Norton Torrance, in fact was her father.
Dave (GM):I I would have expected... He kinda looks at his pocket watch. I would have expected to have found you at the the the sheriff's office, but...
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I don't know how to tell you, man.
Dave (GM):Obviously, a a a late breakfast today, sheriff. Won't... Yeah. I... There's there's there's some thefts from my Have
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):you had any problem with thefts?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):No. It seems that mines have been targeted according to Mr.
Tony (Billy):As they're saying that, let's watch them and have a light insult to see if I can see any kind of reaction. We
Dave (GM):have not suffered any thefts as far as I'm aware.
Tony (Billy):Okay, I've got one success of the incident role.
Dave (GM):He seems to be being genuine and on the level as far as you can tell with one success. Between you and me, what I've heard is there's a guy who wants to kind of make a presence in town. It's that bastard who's reported to be lover of the McGinn woman, Torrance.
Dave (GM):Hello, and welcome. And here we are again at our fabulous eighth retreat about
Dave (GM):to
Dave (GM):play tales of the Old West, the ongoing tale of Jimmy Harleston, Marion Freeman, and Nathaniel Hawcock.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Hi. I'm Matthew, and I play Marion Freeman, the largest owner of the Freeman Halston outfit.
Tony (Billy):I'm Tony playing Jimmy Halston, co owner of the Freeman Halston Ranch and trying to live up to the memory of my dead brother.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I'm Andrew, and I'm playing on Nathaniel Hawcock, our part time rancher with these two, also Sheriff, I seem to remember. Am I a
Dave (GM):You are a sheriff.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Still sheriff.
Dave (GM):You are a sheriff of Eunada Springs.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Eagles. Oh god. Your your father-in-law.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Torrance wants to make a presence in this town.
Dave (GM):Well, I've I've heard that these men are are here These inspectors are his men. His on his instruction. Yeah. I mean he's a rancher, he's not a miner.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Well, that's what I was gonna say.
Dave (GM):Oh god.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Alright, okay.
Dave (GM):But that's what I heard. I mean I don't know anything else.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Why didn't you tell us that straight away? Why did you send us off to the Sigsons? Sigbats. Because
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):that does make a difference there.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Do
Tony (Billy):we know where Todd is? He
Dave (GM):lives in Las Vegas.
Tony (Billy):Which is quite a long way north.
Dave (GM):Look at the lovely map of New Mexican territory. Granada Springs is here, and Las Vegas is up here somewhere. See, I'm sorry, there.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, so since your chat with him, he's
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah. Might just wanna be with his family, what family he has left.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Could we?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Where did you hear this from?
Dave (GM):Some of my men were talking to some of those men.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):What were they doing that talking? Is there a bar in town those men frequent?
Dave (GM):Oh, don't know. Just one of my men said that to me a little while ago. I'm a very busy man, gentlemen. Okay. I'm sure you've got other things to do, Sheriff.
Dave (GM):Yes, I'm To investigate this matter and talk to me about it even more. So if you don't mind. And he kind of dismisses you to the house in a slightly grumpy way.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Okay can I I'm gonna make an insight roll which isn't great for me?
Tony (Billy):What are you trying to? I
Matthew (Marion Freeman):want to see I just is he lying? I had a thought as I asked him that question that if a mine was running dry and one recognised that one might want to boost the perceived value of that mine before selling it off and one way that one could do that is spread a bit of rumours about a big find round here which may protect one's investment.
Dave (GM):Okay yeah and you can...
Matthew (Marion Freeman):And you know he's thrown me with the the torrent thing but he'd know that he'd thrown me in particular with that because of my relationship with Gunther.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah. Would he know that Le Guin's father was not actually her father? Has that been spread around town? She's
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I don't know.
Dave (GM):I I think that news is probably Yeah? Has probably percolated. Maybe guess as a rumour, maybe nobody's confirmed it.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):But I
Dave (GM):think that is going around as a rumour.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):True successes again, if he's live.
Dave (GM):No you don't think he's telling you a barefaced lie no.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):But I do think he's a manipulative fucker and may not be telling us everything yet.
Dave (GM):Oh wouldn't yeah. Alright.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Okay.
Dave (GM):So that took about an hour or nearly an hour.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah yeah good good good yeah.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Should we all go or should we split our forces?
Tony (Billy):Well what's the next thing? Again have look around.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Look around, yes. If it's going to be more than one night, it's going to be more than one day.
Tony (Billy):Yeah, so I think it's probably stick together. I'm just
Dave (GM):going to get a jumper.
Tony (Billy):Because otherwise we can always wander around the wines on our own because if you run into one these guys it could be...
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):What's his name?
Tony (Billy):Yeah. I
Matthew (Marion Freeman):might catch you up there because I want to go and have a word with Grunya.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay. Or her sister, I'm sorry.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):No. Gronje if I can. This is well enough.
Dave (GM):Have you made a decision? Yeah.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah. So those two are gonna go with super up to his mind.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Okay. I want to talk to Gronia first.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, no. Very nice. I
Matthew (Marion Freeman):want to... So first of all, yeah, I'll go back to the Sundown Hotel and first of all ask
Dave (GM):Sundown Saloons and
Matthew (Marion Freeman):see where she's receiving visitors.
Dave (GM):Who, Gonja?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Gonja, yeah.
Dave (GM):Yeah, she'll always receive you.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah,
Dave (GM):cool. I mean she's been quite sullen and withdrawn. Yeah. Obviously a bit shocked and upset by what's happened Now and she's feeling a bit poorly.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Gone yet. I promised myself I'd tell you everything as soon as I discover
Dave (GM):it. Okay.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I said, know, when I realised you might be Torrance's daughter and not Donald's,
Dave (GM):that
Matthew (Marion Freeman):was the first time Torrance had thought of it as well he hadn't suspected that when your mother had run away she might be pregnant with you. I've heard a rumor and it's just a rumor and me and the lads are going to be checking it out but it's a rumour that Torrance may be interested in setting up a presence in this town and my first thought is he wants to get closer to you. Now sometimes I've discovered things and kept them hidden from you and that hasn't been the right idea.
Dave (GM):What things you kept hidden from me?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Well I didn't tell you straight away about and things like that and I'm mindful of your condition, that you're unwell and I don't want to put any more pressure on you but at the same time I want to be open with you.
Dave (GM):I have no interest in my so called father.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Donald Ortowans?
Dave (GM):Either. I'm glad he's... Well, I was glad he was a long way away in Las Vegas. I don't want him interfering in my life. I hope what you've heard is wrong, because I have no need or desire for this man to be poking his nose just want to in.
Dave (GM):Get on with living my life and put all that behind me.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):You're a strong, independent woman. But he hasn't tried to he hasn't made any attempt to communicate. I mean, he haven't had any letters from
Dave (GM):him. Well, had a letter from him right soon as you came Shortly afterwards. Yeah. I didn't respond to it.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):But not one that said Anglo Saxon mining operation in this town.
Dave (GM):No. I haven't had a letter from him since.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Because it intrigues me that the rumour goes that his men are looking for a potential seam of silver to open up a mine and that's not his business. I'm not... I'm as unhappy about the prospect of him coming to town as you are.
Dave (GM):I'm glad to hear that.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):The boys are on their way to investigate. Okay now you be well you get better.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):It means your sister may not have to do without my help for maybe a couple of days but
Dave (GM):Siobhan is young, it's a bit much to put on her but she'll learn, she'll cope, it's a good opportunity for her.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I'm getting nervous when you're getting cards out, that's it.
Dave (GM):Just readiness for later. Oh, yeah. What you're all about to attack, man? So initiative, Matt.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Right. Okay. So that's all I wanna say. Yeah. I bid her goodbye.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And she does say, look, I I I'm I'm not
Matthew (Marion Freeman):How hot is I I test her forehead. How how hot is that temperature? Back of my hand. And then I wash my hands.
Dave (GM):Well, singing happy birthday to myself.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah. For twenty seconds. With an alcohol based
Dave (GM):salad. Actually feels quite warm. I, you're you're no doctor, are you? No. Do you wanna make a doctoring role?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I could make a doctoring role, am I? Three dice? Three dice. You're fine.
Dave (GM):Get that, you lazy bitch. You get working. Lying around in bed all day. Fuck's sake. She's definitely got a bit of a fever.
Dave (GM):She doesn't look at death's door by any means, but she doesn't look terribly well either. And she has a bit of a cough.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I'll go down to Siobhan and say you look after your sister, I'm gonna be gone for a couple of days.
Dave (GM):She looks a bit, kind of, she gives you a look that says don't leave me on my own but doesn't say anything.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Hand on the shoulder. You're 17 now. Time to put away charge ish things. Take responsibility. Are girls your age who have had babies.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Make it for me, Roland. Fucking.
Dave (GM):Well, you just increased it with your last experience.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah. I did. There we go. One success.
Dave (GM):Yeah. You can you can see... Yeah. Your your words have an effect on her. You can see her sort of trying to pull herself together.
Dave (GM):Water, we're chill.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Okay, okay.
Dave (GM):Can do this.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Can do this.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I'll give her shoulder a little squeeze and then head off.
Dave (GM):Okay, cool.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):So when we're riding up to the mine with...
Dave (GM):Anchor. Anchor Siegbert. Siegbert.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah. So I'm just gonna say it casually. So I hear that there's room, but I've heard that these new... These incomers... Was it Torrence?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Torrence's man.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Torrence's man. Have you heard of the man Torrence?
Dave (GM):Oh, only only the rumors that have been going around town that McGinn wasn't the father of his children and this Torrance was?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No, that's what we've heard, you haven't heard of.
Dave (GM):No, I haven't heard anything else, no. Is that true? Was McGinn cuckolded all along by Mary?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):That's...
Dave (GM):I've been
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):less for
Dave (GM):and other half. Lagrangia.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Lagrangia, I've less for Lagrangia to say.
Dave (GM):But you've heard the rumours, right?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I've heard
Tony (Billy):the rumours, yes.
Dave (GM):Okay. But no, say I only know that name because my wife came back from the market, from the shop. I was going And we said she'd heard this story somebody else, she'd heard it from somebody else, there's a little rumor going around town.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, actually, oh well, tongues do wag, don't they?
Dave (GM):Yeah. Matt, if you're going, what are you looking for out of interest?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Talent.
Dave (GM):Yeah, so it's near the front of that.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Near the front of the
Dave (GM):top Yeah, and just to say, you're going through it, don't look at the tabs, because that'll give away what might be coming later.
Tony (Billy):Yeah.
Dave (GM):So you're so you're riding up through through the mountains. It's it's quite hard going. You know, you you haven't really been up here before, don't suppose. It's it's quite rocky. It's quite wooded.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Mhmm.
Dave (GM):Yeah, there's quite a lot of undergrowth.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Can
Dave (GM):I have Hawkeye rolls? Individually? Yeah. So that's gonna that's
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):gonna be just five travel dots. All Kai one coming from God. Alright. Okay. Here we go.
Dave (GM):Oh, two. Good. I'm pushing.
Tony (Billy):I'm gonna fly off that one, and I get one success. Okay.
Dave (GM):As you're sort of riding along, both your horses, or all three horses, seem to skitter nervously. And with their heads raised, they're sort of like something in the air.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Alright. I've got my horses in.
Dave (GM):I think this probably does require an animal handling role to get them under.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):So
Dave (GM):Siegbert has managed to control this horse.
Tony (Billy):They're not spooked
Dave (GM):yet, but they are definitely... Buzz
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):come out of their under professional
Dave (GM):shoes? You haven't seen anything or heard anything. Okay. Okay.
Tony (Billy):Bear or something.
Dave (GM):You suspect that they might have smelled something on the wind.
Tony (Billy):Handle handling. Yep. Three successes.
Dave (GM):Okay, you gain a faith tone for three successes. Yeah, you control your horse with absolute skill and authority.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, bloody hell. Well, I do have eight, this is why I didn't know nothing could. I don't know if I would like it. My ass. Two.
Dave (GM):Okay, yeah, that's good enough. Yeah, so your horses are unhappy, but you manage to bring them under control. And as you do that
Tony (Billy):I should keep an eye out for On
Dave (GM):the trail, quite near you hear a very deep
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):growl. Oh, God.
Dave (GM):And you've... The undergrowth near you moves,
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):and
Dave (GM):this enormous form of a grizzly bear kind of lurches out of it and you've obviously disturbed it in Riding Past.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):It's the worst moment in my life. Playing Red Dead Redemption, I just killed the main bad guy if you've ever played Red Dead Redemption every time you get to the chapter there's a song and this song had just started about I'm going home to my wife who's been kept from me by the Effekt all this time, there's this song about she's my compass and
Dave (GM):all that stuff. Yeah.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Just starts and the bear comes out and kills me.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well cheers to that, Matt.
Dave (GM):So Siegbert will go on that and the bear. Okay, so, yeah, the bear is quite close and is quite enraged because of You're the walking up in the store.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah. So
Dave (GM):I think I've got all the information I need there. Okay. Andy, your action first.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, suppose I'm gonna be...
Matthew (Marion Freeman):No, I should have had plus one for my judge of character when I did that playing test.
Dave (GM):Okay.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I just let it run away. That's... And I draw, I suppose. I draw them out here. Yep.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yes. Draw them here. So...
Dave (GM):Okay, so draw your pistol, one action, and then you prepare. Is it a single action or double action? It's a single action. So then you need a second action to prepare.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Right, okay. So that's me done, isn't it?
Dave (GM):Yeah. 10, what are you going on? 10. 10, okay. The bear is going to act next, and it's going to attack one, two, three, four, five, six for seatbelt.
Dave (GM):Andy. But actually it's gonna attack your horse in the first instance.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No, not that, not that mate, no.
Dave (GM):Because that's the biggest thing. It gets... It is a grizzly bear, it gets a lot of dice. Only one success. So that's a swipe, it does four points of damage to your horse.
Dave (GM):That's two off quick and two off grit, and your horse is spooked.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Grit. Okay. Bloody hell. So that was my grit down to two. And my
Dave (GM):This is the horse, yeah, not you.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah. Yeah. And my grit down to one. Okay. Ouch.
Dave (GM):Okay, can you roll a d six for your horse being spooked?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I'm not surprised, really, I've thrown,
Dave (GM):Two. Two. It bolts in panic For 1d three rounds. So it's got a bolt in panic for three rounds.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, see you later.
Dave (GM):You need to make an animal handling roll just to reduce that.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah. Okay.
Dave (GM):So that is reduced by the number of successes that you make on an animal handling roll, but you make it right now.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'll get that.
Dave (GM):If you fail this, you are unseated.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):This is gonna get better, isn't it? Okay. Well, I've got... Oh. Three successes.
Dave (GM):Okay. Well, you gain a faith.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah.
Dave (GM):And you bring the horse immediately back under control. Yeah. Starts to bolt, but then you
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):can Yeah. Pull it Yeah.
Dave (GM):And gain your bonus point of faith.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay, that's six, alright, okay. My horse, my blood of a nutmeg, no.
Dave (GM):Okay, Siegbert spurs his horse and tries to run past away from the bear, past the bear, up the the trail.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Right.
Dave (GM):Tone, your action.
Tony (Billy):Okay. I'm gonna draw my court with five and shoot the bear.
Dave (GM):You have a talent that means you don't have to pay your gun, don't you?
Tony (Billy):Oh, yes. Parachute to level two.
Dave (GM):So you should have had a shot.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, right.
Dave (GM):So actually, let you have that shot now.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Right. Okay. So you gotta remember how to play this game
Dave (GM):again. Because you should've, yeah, because you should've been able to have a shot because your your prepare action is free.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Right. So am I gonna do this good?
Dave (GM):So you you draw you're drawing your pistol.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):So that'll
Dave (GM):be that'll be shooting skill.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Shooting shooting is free. Goes on quickness as well, isn't it?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yep.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):So that's five. And then bonus of the gun, isn't it?
Dave (GM):Yes.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I think it's...
Dave (GM):What's what's your gun?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, I've got two. I've got
Dave (GM):So which one did you draw?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I'll I'll go for this... I'll draw the... Because I've got a Colt 45 as well. So that's plus two, I think, isn't it? So, yeah, attack plus two.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah.
Dave (GM):Call 45. Mhmm. Attack plus two. Yep.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):So that's six... Eight dice. Yep. Okay. I'll use these again.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Let's see if we're doing alright.
Dave (GM):I see one. So it's one success?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):One success, yeah.
Dave (GM):Okay, and the damage have you caught 45?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):It's three, I think.
Dave (GM):It's three.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah, two, three.
Tony (Billy):Tom, you're... I'm doing the same. So I've obviously had a fast shooter at level two. Yep. Fair with that.
Tony (Billy):Okay, that's one success which I'll have to stick with because I've
Dave (GM):got three ones on my shoulders. Okay.
Tony (Billy):So that's three damage.
Dave (GM):Okay, next round. Keep keep keep keep keep keep keep
Matthew (Marion Freeman):keep
Dave (GM):fuck. Ace of Spain.
Tony (Billy):The ace's gone.
Dave (GM):The ace's gone. Ace's three ace's drawn, and the bear still goes first.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Bloody back.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No, it's not funny.
Tony (Billy):I was thinking, alright, least we'll get another couple of shots.
Dave (GM):It's a joke, you're right. I was thinking exactly that. Okay, so you guys are now shooting at it. So I think it's fiftyfifty whether it's just gonna carry on going for your horse. One to three
Tony (Billy):it goes
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I'm for your try and find my two friends dead from a bear,
Dave (GM):aren't I? So it's now gonna attack one of you two.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Right. Okay.
Dave (GM):One, two, three. There it goes for you, which is kinda gets fair.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):It's not fair.
Dave (GM):Definitely fair. Yeah. No. All I meant by that was... It's right next to you because
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):it's taking your
Dave (GM):horse, and you just shot it. So that's so that's why it's that's why it's fair. That's only quite hard, isn't it? That's fair. I'm glad Tony's not being attacked.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, good and nice game. Nice game. Okay.
Dave (GM):So you can try and dodge if you wish.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Do that on animal handling as a dodge?
Dave (GM):I think that would be an animal handling roll in this case, yeah.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay. Yeah, I must be wilt because I don't really want to get hit by a bear, it'd hurt.
Dave (GM):It'd be likely to hurt, yeah. Oh. Okay. The bear's got three successes. Oh.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Fuck the bear. Oh, man.
Dave (GM):One success with one on a trouble die.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):One on a trouble die. No I could push that didn't I?
Dave (GM):You could but your trouble die would either buy it off or
Tony (Billy):spend a bet to buy
Dave (GM):it off or
Matthew (Marion Freeman):get in trouble. Think I might in this situation whereas you know I didn't bother to push the thing on asking Blokeepoy a question. If I was being attacked by a bear I
Dave (GM):might say. But every faith you've got! So it cost you two faith if you wanted to re roll and buy off that one on the top of
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):the line. Faith, okay. And re roll the whole lot.
Dave (GM):And then re roll all except for your success,
Tony (Billy):of course you
Dave (GM):keep that.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah, okay. So do I get eight dice again or just seven?
Dave (GM):You basically re roll the dice that you've got there because you keep that one.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Alright, okay, I'll take
Dave (GM):that But you pay one faith to get rid of that troubled dice and then one faith to put.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Another success? Another success.
Dave (GM):Okay, as long as it says, but you've got trouble. Do the trouble first, but you are getting...
Tony (Billy):But you could spend another faith to buy that off.
Dave (GM):You could buy that off with another point of faith.
Tony (Billy):Or you just take one trouble, which might be alright.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well I knock myself down to three faith.
Dave (GM):Yeah and
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):then I could spend time grooming my horse and cleaning my gun off.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Knock yourself down to three faith because...
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah, I'll bite that one off.
Dave (GM):Okay cool, so that swipe is four points of damage.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Too off grip, too off quick.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Too off grip, too off quick.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah, okay.
Dave (GM):That does though, You've done enough to avoid the critical injury, which you would have thought.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, right, well that makes me feel so much better. Two
Dave (GM):Two off quick and two off quick.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well that pushed me down to one above at the moment. Ouch. Ouch. Enjoy.
Dave (GM):The next action is you, Tony. I think diamonds? Diamonds go ahead. Yep, so diamonds go ahead of clubs, do they? No, actually, no, clubs go ahead of diamonds.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):So they move, isn't
Dave (GM):Yeah. In American order, it's spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Right.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I thought it was reverse alphabetical.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well I think I've...
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Which means clubs go last.
Dave (GM):Well, both get to go anyway.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, think after that, think, my instincts are, both me and Ors have been gouged. I'm gonna try and spur out the bears' range.
Dave (GM):Okay. Yeah.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I think after that.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Okay, you can tackle the
Dave (GM):bears.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):What do
Dave (GM):we do for moving out of... Do we do anything for moving I'm out of not sure we ever did, did we?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Did I lose two dice?
Dave (GM):No, you've to back out, isn't it?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Have I?
Dave (GM):Yeah, yeah, no, there is definitely a thing.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, I just shoot the bloody thing.
Dave (GM):Hang on, let me just...
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Won't be in the short guide.
Dave (GM):I think backing out is If you want to retreat but you have an active enemy at arm's length you must make a move roll to back out of the fight. If you succeed you move away your distance... If you fail you still move but the enemy gets a free fighting attack. So you would need to make a animal handling rod.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, I'll just shoot. I'm down to six dice while I shoot the bloody thing.
Dave (GM):Yeah, okay.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):If my balls up, I move my handling then yeah.
Dave (GM):It will get an attack on you. Bollocks. So that's no successes but no one's on trouble.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):So I'll spend another five.
Dave (GM):Another five. Go on. Getting attacked by
Matthew (Marion Freeman):a bear.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):By a
Dave (GM):grizzly bear? These are pretty dangerous. No. God. No.
Dave (GM):That's all. Okay. That's a That one's not on That's
Matthew (Marion Freeman):not trouble,
Dave (GM):but you fail. You miss. I think it's kind of narratively appropriate under the circumstances. Really? Oh, I'm so glad you approved.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):It's fair and narrow. There was nothing
Dave (GM):I could do.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):It was
Dave (GM):a no sweat then. That sounded very much like I'm enjoying Andy's impending death. Yeah. Sorry, mate. Tony, it's your action.
Tony (Billy):I'm gonna shoot the bear. Because I don't need to use action to prepare.
Dave (GM):Can I aim? You can, absolutely.
Tony (Billy):What does that give me? Plus two. Two.
Dave (GM):Actually, what forgotten to do, actually, you should be getting minus two for shooting from a mounted. So
Tony (Billy):if I aim then I basically have my normal dial. Yes. That's big
Matthew (Marion Freeman):pile of Use your fucking face. Have you got
Dave (GM):any ones on trouble?
Tony (Billy):I've got one one on trouble. I'm gonna bite that off and push. That's two things. That is successes. We've got two successes and one trouble.
Tony (Billy):I'm gonna bite that trouble off. Put me under one faith, I probably will do that. Okay. So I've got two successes, it's three damage with crit of one, so I can do a crit.
Dave (GM):You can do a crit. Okay, let me find the animal crit for you because it's different. Okay so C66, so it's a different table so you get different outcomes. Okay so I'm
Tony (Billy):black first,
Dave (GM):62. 62. It goes down unconscious but it's not dead. It will revive in 2d6 rounds. Yeah, so you've put it down and it slumps down on its side and I think actually with the damage you've probably broken it as well actually.
Dave (GM):So it's not dead but it's beaten.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):And it'll come back around when Matt's riding up.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Could have been, could have been, yeah. And then I come along 10 rounds later. Coutigua. Coutigua. I'm just saying coutigua.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):There's no coutigua for killing an animal.
Dave (GM):Yeah. You can finish the bear off. Yeah. Let's offage you off. Mhmm.
Dave (GM):Sure. How are you feeling? You alright? Oh, happy. No.
Dave (GM):Well, cocker who's gone on. Give me your cards back. Mhmm.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, good shooting her.
Dave (GM):So I did a couple of things wrong there, because actually hide gives it armour as well.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, God. Okay.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I thought we didn't have armour as a concept in this game.
Dave (GM):Well, toughness or whatever you call it. So the height does give it two points of... It's like cover. I think it still has that. It certainly did have that.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No, well, never mind. We don't need to...
Tony (Billy):I guess people don't wear armour,
Dave (GM):you know? No.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Give them the opportunity to, and they fucking will.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Yeah.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):You got people walking around like a bloody ironmongers. Oh, Ned Kelly did it once. Well, Ned Kelly's in fucking Australia.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay,
Dave (GM):yeah, so you and your horse are A bit knacky. Are quite battered. Yes. You came through the fight alight.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):And I must've been swearing about my breath quite a lot at the moment. Yeah okay.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Right should I ride up then? Because that bear fight seems to have taken almost as long as my conversation. That
Dave (GM):bear fight took two rounds so that took about ten seconds of in game time.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):At least you'll find a nice spare pelt when you're riding up the path there.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Oh yeah, this is worth a pretty penny. Who is this?
Dave (GM):Riding back to the centre, look what I killed. With my trusty fruit knife. If you're not
Matthew (Marion Freeman):taking the pelt I will do that and just again getting Red Dead Redemption. The camera gets back.
Dave (GM):It'll be a making roll and about an hour's work. Yeah, you
Tony (Billy):should walk up to it and press X and it says
Matthew (Marion Freeman):'Cabin'. The camera gets a bit spattered with blood but it's fine. Completely. Making roll. I succeed in taking the
Tony (Billy):You've managed to
Dave (GM):do a reasonable job with getting the pelt. Pelt off, yeah. But that'll take you about an hour.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah. Well, know, people can't leave.
Tony (Billy):Yeah, it's fine. Not doing anything important. So it's fine.
Dave (GM):And whilst you're doing that, the local cougars get the or the bear's daddy comes along. What are you doing with my boy? Okay, so Sigbert apologises
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):It was not your
Dave (GM):fault. For riding off.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, but we wouldn't.
Dave (GM):It says, In my experience, it's better to run from these things, particularly if you're, well, you're mounted, if you're not mounted, then you're fucked. But if you're on a horseback, it's better to run than
Tony (Billy):fight. Think my friend was already engaged in combat
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Combat air, friend.
Tony (Billy):Oh, we got it.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Would have must have run myself if we'd given that chance. Well, these things happen even though Rayburn is
Tony (Billy):Rayburn Synth the Bear.
Dave (GM):It's got a GR in it. Shaved in its fur. Okay. Have to carry on, sure?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay Yeah. Get any
Tony (Billy):war fights.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No. I'll try not to. I'll try not to avoid the
Tony (Billy):I mean, has, Sukbar got any doctoring skill? Could he patch him up?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Or is he a doctor at this camp?
Dave (GM):What does
Tony (Billy):that only really apply if something's broken?
Dave (GM):I think that only applies if you're broken.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):If you're broken or a critical injury.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Right. You just need to rest to get your point. Okay.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Maybe a bit of rest. As soon as you get to the camp.
Dave (GM):So, you've been battered and bruised rather actually badly hurt.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, I'm more worried about how I'm not going.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Same for her though. Yeah.
Dave (GM):So if you wait for an hour or something or...
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Can't afford it, yeah.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Right away from the bed, wait for an hour, and then I'll come along going, Hey guys, I just got a massive bed pal.
Dave (GM):That's what I found.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yes, yes. Just lying there.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):You look a bit battered and brewed.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Oh, what's wrong with you?
Dave (GM):Fall off your horse again, Sheriff. Yeah, if you take a bit of time and maybe just brew a coffee and that, you get your point to stop and have a little
Tony (Billy):rest and to recover.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No rest up at the camp, as long as it's not. Yeah.
Dave (GM):You get to the camp without any further Okay. Any further worry. I was thinking that fight might take a little bit longer. But... Alright.
Dave (GM):But no.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):But no.
Dave (GM):So you get up to Siegbert's Camp without too much trouble. It's a reasonably tidy camp. There's a few workers there. He's got a couple of white men and there's probably half a dozen, maybe 10 Chinese labourers. Who Right.
Dave (GM):You recognise from town, they live in town when they're not up Yeah. Yeah, it's a relatively small outfit. Yeah, what did you want to look for?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Have I caught you up now?
Dave (GM):Probably with them waiting.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah. We're waiting. Yeah. I suppose just sabotagely go looking around all the pickaxe parts. Yeah,
Dave (GM):make a Hawkeye roll then. No, it's a group activity. I think you can give Andy a dice to help. Okay. Yeah, you look around, the overseers and the Chinese labourers give you a funny look.
Dave (GM):But you can't see anything obviously with a GR brand something to do.
Tony (Billy):Not just openly nicking anyone's equipment
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):and using You can't even
Dave (GM):see ones that have had part of the thing burned off or anything.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I'm not gonna make it that obvious.
Dave (GM):Nothing looks particularly out of the ordinary. I
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):mean, I'm also gonna just ask him if he's got, well, while I'm kind of resting, but I'll see if I can have a coffee or whatever. Yeah,
Dave (GM):they've got some coffee brewing. Yeah, they I You can rest here for an hour without that one.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Bless you. I'm just having a look around my... Just taking the coffee just so
Dave (GM):Right. Okay.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Think about, you know.
Dave (GM):Alright. Can I just,
Tony (Billy):while we're resting, clean my gun?
Dave (GM):I'm not sure you brought all your stuff to clean your gun with you, have you? Oils and cloths and everything? Not sure if I came in a bag of Yeah.
Tony (Billy):Some bags at times.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Why don't you take a ride in the wilderness? That gets you a point. Very little chance of relaxing in
Dave (GM):the wilderness. Might not be so relaxing thinking there's bears around. No. Sorry. No.
Dave (GM):I'm not gonna let you just... No. Sorry.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Rest has got to be rest. Although you don't need to rest.
Tony (Billy):I don't need to rest no I was trying to get some faith back. Yeah. Rather than yeah I was uninjured. Well let's have a look
Matthew (Marion Freeman):at the faith table. What does the faith table say? I haven't got the faith table.
Tony (Billy):The GM has already ruled on the matter.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yes. Hold on what's this Bear?
Dave (GM):It's okay, you can look at them now.
Tony (Billy):The other
Dave (GM):one was a spooky table. Yeah, so I'm not sure you've, just for a day's ride, I'm not sure you brought your gun cleaning kit with you.
Tony (Billy):Okay, and then, I'm gonna shoot
Dave (GM):you, I'm gonna make sure I do.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I thought we could actually guess it was gonna be longer than
Matthew (Marion Freeman):that.
Dave (GM):And that ritual, kind of theory, is supposed to be shift long.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah, it is meant if it was
Tony (Billy):shift long.
Dave (GM):I mean, what it does do though is I could let you do that, and then whilst your gun is disassembled, have some raider turnout.
Tony (Billy):I think just
Dave (GM):hold on a minute. A couple of hours. A Comanche raid turnout and go, oh, hang on.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):What? It's only just
Dave (GM):It's gonna let me finish cleaning my gun. Alright. That's just my other gun. Well, aren't you lucky? So, no, you're not cleaning your gun.
Dave (GM):Okay.
Tony (Billy):You've got that point.
Dave (GM):Yeah, so, I mean the place, it seems quite a well run little They don't seem frantically busy.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No.
Dave (GM):It's not overrun with ore
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):and gold and silver. Yeah, like say, it looks well run and
Dave (GM):You can't see anything that looks stolen.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Or out yet. They're not kinda trying to hide. Oh, shit. It shows you this hardy shovels from under a cart.
Dave (GM):You know
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):what mean? No. Here. I know what I mean.
Dave (GM):You no sense of that. Mean, obviously, Seabert had an hour. He could have sent somebody bunny up there before he went,
Tony (Billy):if that was his thing.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):But you
Dave (GM):get no sense of that. They all seem quite it's a bit unusual that you're there, but they're not fussed. They're not bothered by anything.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):No. If anybody, just explain because I've heard, you know, just looking around because of that outboard gang and stuff like this.
Dave (GM):Yep. What's it called? The Kyla gang. Yeah.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yep. I suppose just wait for Matt to catch us up then. No. I've caught
Dave (GM):you up. Yeah. Think he caught you Yeah. Yeah. Well, has caught you up now.
Dave (GM):Yeah.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Right. Should we go look for some of Tarantis boys? Ask these guys where the nearest cutting point or whatever it is they're doing is.
Dave (GM):Yeah, they can point you in the general direction of where they think these new prospectors are. There's a little ridge up near the Blacktop Mountains, they said they've been working on there.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I'll be back up to...
Dave (GM):Yes, you'll have restored your points, yeah. You had an hour.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):So, we'll nutmeg.
Tony (Billy):Yep.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I really would be pedophile this nutmeg.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah. Be prepared for disappointment.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, I see.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Never has staying behind a bit to talk to my girlfriend been A better choice.
Tony (Billy):Yeah. A girlfriend has a fight with a bear. Right.
Dave (GM):And you got yourself a free bear pal.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):And look at it, yeah. I'll split it with you guys, whatever
Tony (Billy):the I'm money
Dave (GM):not sure it's worth very much.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):I know, tell you what, it's gonna be a wonderful blanket for my girlfriend's sick bed. Once it's been cured. You are darling.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Don't Don't worry about the blood and the...
Dave (GM):The gore all over it.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Did keep Blokey Boy alive, who's the fella? Oh god what's the film?
Tony (Billy):Revenant.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Revenant yeah with
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):DiCaprio.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Leonardo DiCaprio that's it kept him alive you see.
Dave (GM):Okay. He was like, wasn't
Tony (Billy):he like out in the wilderness was like in his own bed in his house.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Well so the effect would be so much better in your own bed. Right anyway let's head out to the woods into the woods.
Dave (GM):Yeah, mountains you mean? So on this map here, Siegbert's place is sort of over here somewhere and you've basically been sent sort of north up into this area up here Okay. And Rave Run's place is up on Blacktop Mountain. Okay, I will get you to make a nature role to find these people.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Who's good at that?
Dave (GM):Could be a group role.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah, but I haven't got any nature.
Tony (Billy):I don't have nature skill. Have foreign
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):cunts. So we don't.
Dave (GM):We're black. So you're never seen again. And
Matthew (Marion Freeman):that was the end of the story. Good game. Good game.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, wrap up the bears, pal.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):But we can all make a day to your old but we can't help anybody so I suggest we each make a day to your old and then have an argument about the best path to take and then I'm absolutely convinced we should be going that way.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Hang on. Which way do say it? Way?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):That way.
Tony (Billy):If I got a success, I think we should be going that way.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I think we be get
Dave (GM):a success, but I think we'll find that way.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Tony, I feel, has slightly more confidence in his voice. Let's get away with Heath. Oh, good.
Dave (GM):Yeah, so you... Yeah, I think this isn't too difficult. I could probably have given some bonus stuff on that. Yeah, you didn't.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):You didn't, did you? No, you're a selfish cunt.
Dave (GM):No, didn't. I wasn't selfish, it was just mean. Yeah, you passed the headwaters of Giarda Springs, and yeah, you come up to the small sort of plateau and you can see some smoke from a couple of fires, there's a couple of camps up here. You can hear the sounds, some sounds of metal on stone. Bit of panning, there's a few men not many But yeah.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay, so what's the role you need to sneak up so you can we can mask them all well? Mean...
Dave (GM):That'd be a move roll.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):A move roll.
Dave (GM):To sneak up on them. Yep.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):You got a move?
Tony (Billy):I have one at move forward quick. So we we just sneak up and murdering them. Yeah.
Dave (GM):Is that a pundraf?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):No. Think I think we ride in, serve in front wearing his badge because we're not deputized at the moment are we?
Dave (GM):No probably not. You were deputized for murder. Begins arrest.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Arrest? That
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):was a lawfully procedure. Everything
Matthew (Marion Freeman):entirely above board. It was an impossible situation.
Dave (GM):It does say something about the life path that you're joking about it now.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah, yeah. I'm an effective life path. I very much enjoyed my story I have to say. Let's head out there in the open casually you know riding out of the path into the clearing. We've got nothing to hide you know obviously not guns drawn unless they draw their guns.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yes yes.
Dave (GM):Open handed welcome. I'm assuming you two guys are reloading.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yes, think so. And
Matthew (Marion Freeman):you can assume I've taken all the bullets out of my gun.
Dave (GM):Yeah, okay. Because I haven't. Lucky you said you haven't. I would have taken your word, Matthew. Okay.
Dave (GM):Yeah, you ride up. As you're riding up, you see there's about maybe eight men here. There's two or three of them who are not working as hard as the others, and there are five who seem to be the labour, and who are busy with tools, and there's a little stream here that they're panning. There seems to be a fair amount of equipment here, quite a few boxes.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Hawk O Roll.
Dave (GM):Before you do that, you can see the three men who were not really working, who are kind of the overseers, they see you and their facial expressions don't require an insight role to see that you are very unwelcome.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):All right. Okay.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Okay, I'm gonna roll insight anyway just to see how unwelcome we are.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Insight or Hawkeye?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):No, I'm gonna roll Hawkeye now. I'm, whatever you're doing I'm looking at the...
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah, no. I'm...
Dave (GM):So you're still mounted at the moment?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah. But I'm just I'm just looking
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):What at I think is that I'll be the distraction because I see me with the badge one but you know I'm riding up to them with the badge and these two can do the looking around.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Okay so I don't take the extra dice for you.
Dave (GM):Yeah you can't. No no you can't. Alright.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):So I do take an extra dice to you and we will while he's talking to them.
Dave (GM):So, well, as you're approaching, the three of them are sort of coming, stepping towards you and sort of fanning out in a line.
Tony (Billy):Are there any kind of horses?
Dave (GM):There are three horses.
Tony (Billy):Tied up? They're not mounted, no.
Dave (GM):If you actually wanted to look closely at stuff, you would have to and ride past they are deliberately standing in the barrier.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):All right, okay. So you're saying don't do a Hawkeye roll.
Dave (GM):You can have a Hawkeye roll, but this is just like you're scanning it from where you are.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Yeah that's fine. Quite a success.
Dave (GM):You can't see anything with a GR on it from this distance but there is quite a lot of equipment here. Quite a lot of tools, there's a couple of boxes of dynamite. Yeah, there's quite a lot of stuff here. Yeah, you know the middle of the three guys is obviously looking a bit concerned. He says, Howdy, howdy partners.
Dave (GM):What brings you up to these parts?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, my parts.
Dave (GM):That a cretin such as this could be sheriff of United Springs.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Okay. Well, do I just shoot everyone in the head then? No. So I just I'm just... Just checking accounts.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):I've heard the reports of theft, and I also know that that gang's name I can't remember. The Kyler gang. The Kyler gang. Yeah. Up here, so just...
Dave (GM):Well, we've nothing stolen, Sheriff, so... But thank you for your interest and Easy. Good luck with the rest of your day. Goodbye.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well I'm sure you've done well we just ride through because you know globally now.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Well Sheriff we've been riding a long way I say. Can't we stop and maybe brew up some coffee with these people?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Yeah sure you might, you know. You weren't the greatest of coffee.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):God we should be doing the shill.
Dave (GM):Yeah yeah. Well, as you can see, gentlemen, we're very busy. Don't really have time for uninvited guests. So if you wouldn't take it as an insult, I'd appreciate it if you just continue on your way. Well, it's not meant as an ilsa.
Dave (GM):I'm a busy man, and you wouldn't you wouldn't want your your business interrupted by a stranger equally, I'm sure. So you gonna understand?
Tony (Billy):I'm sure if you cooperate, we can we can conclude our business and be on our way quickly. Would you mind if you don't mind if we just have a quick look around your equipment?
Dave (GM):So what are you you're accusing me of something?
Tony (Billy):We're not accusing anyone of anything.
Dave (GM):So why do you want look around
Tony (Billy):my equipment? Because we've there's people want check whether there's any stolen equipment or
Dave (GM):So you're accusing me of something? We're not accusing anyone of it. You're accusing... Well, you're you're saying that there might be stolen equipment
Matthew (Marion Freeman):If you've
Tony (Billy):got nothing to hide, you you...
Dave (GM):We'll look at We'll... And we'll be on
Tony (Billy):our way within within minutes.
Dave (GM):Within minutes. Yeah. Well, I've got nothing to hide, but I I I I take very unkindly to people coming along and accusing me of that.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):We try to be... But I try to be nice.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):While while this argument's going on, can I just make another Hawkeye role just to see
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Sneaking in again?
Matthew (Marion Freeman):Obviously these three guys are definitely going to be armed what about the five labourers just checking them out for what they're like and got a success.
Dave (GM):So I think that the labourers aren't carrying, but you can see a gun belt or two and a shotgun or two propped up against boxes. So they've got weapons nearby, but they're not carrying whilst they're working. So is it... Well, you know, you
Tony (Billy):would not have struck the, of the business of the
Dave (GM):I Sheriff. I've I've I've I would never I would never dream of instructing them.
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Well, you know, I mean That's
Dave (GM):fine. But you're... But but you're basically accusing me of theft on
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):the basis no evidence.
Tony (Billy):If you if you're not guilty of anything, you've got nothing to worry. We're not accusing anyone of anything.
Dave (GM):We're just Well, you are. You're saying you wanna search my my gear for some stolen gear. So you're saying I've stolen something. And that offends me.
Tony (Billy):We can do this easy?
Andy (Sheriff Hoarecock):Oh, you can do so.
Dave (GM):Well do it the hard way.
Matthew (Marion Freeman):No. We... Let let go.
Tony (Billy):Well, when
Dave (GM):when you say when you say that, he pulls his coat back, unclips the the harp on his on his holster and says, I'm happy to do it the hard way, gentlemen, but if you come here threatening me and my people, then I'm... We're gonna threatening me. Gonna... Well, he just did, Sheriff, in in your hearing. Now I'm gonna ask you gentlemen to leave.
Dave (GM):If you do anything violent, we will defend ourselves as is our right. I I'm asking you gentlemen to leave now.
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