Jornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 42
Torrence, wants to make a presence in this town.
Dave (GM):And says, yeah, I'm the I'm the overseer here. Yeah. We've... We were sent up here about a month ago. Mhmm.
Dave (GM):But it's shit.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Is it?
Dave (GM):There's nothing now. We won't be here for long. This is just rubbish. We're wasting our time in these sales. It's nothing.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Or where's the ore that's meant to be going out? Where do you store the ore we should get out of the mine?
Dave (GM):The guy was, like I said, was reticent to try and answer that question, but he looks around and the answer's pretty obvious and he says, Yeah, there isn't any. There isn't? We haven't had anything good out here for ages. The fact that my mind might be going through a temporary slump is none of your business, Sheriff.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I haven't seen that.
Dave (GM):I can see in your face. I would beg a temporary favor of you though, to not spread Your problems Rumors around of as I said, temporary struggles that I'm having with my mind, I'm sure I will very soon hit another seam and everything will be fine and I wouldn't want the locals to lose faith in the town or lose faith in me. We're here to bring her into the family and take her away from all this rubbish and all this disease. Take her back to civilization. Give her the better life, the life that she deserves.
Song:I said no, you can't play on Ninja. This is an Old West game, and they didn't have Ninja. But the year is 1869. And there are historical records indicating there were ninjas. In fucking Japan,
Dave (GM):Hello, and welcome.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):And here we are again.
Dave (GM):Oh, nice. Our fabulous eighth retreat about to play tales of the Old West, the ongoing tale of Jimmy Halston, Marion Freeman, and Nathaniel Hawcock.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Hi. I'm Matthew, and I play Marion Freeman, the largest owner of the Freeman Halston outfit.
Jimmy Harlesen (Tony):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.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm Andrew and I'm playing on Nathaniel Hawcock, part time rancher with with these two, also Sherry, I seem to remember. Am I Sherry?
Dave (GM):You are Sherry?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Still Sherry.
Dave (GM):You are Sherry for the Eunada Springs. Eagles. Okay. We are in the saloon bar of I'm Sundown not, I'm talking to myself.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah, only I'm in that bar. We, in the audience. You started recording again? Yes. Yes.
Dave (GM):That's why I've started trying to do a
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Narrator.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Carry
Dave (GM):on. A little segue back to the game from where we were, but you just fucking destroyed it. Whatever we It's fine. So here we are.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):What's the fucking word?
Dave (GM):In the saloon bar of the Sundown Saloon in Leonardo Springs.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):God. Picture of Marilyn the
Dave (GM):Freeman has just come in. See the sight of Graine wrapped up in blankets looking feverish and unwell, sitting around a table in the corner with Siobhan sort of bustling about trying to run the place but looking very nervous. Have you got any initiative cards already expecting it to go well? No, I'm just holding them.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah, last time I got mauled by a bear when you were holding them.
Dave (GM):Norton Torrance is there with a number of people, several men and a couple of women, who all either stood or sat around the table, and he sees you, and he's teasing you, goes, Oh, my friend Freeman. And he comes over and shakes your hand in a very ebullient and friendly way. Ebullient means energetic, enjoyable.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Okay.
Dave (GM):Sorry, Andy.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):No. It's alright. I didn't say well. It's good he noticed, you know?
Dave (GM):He didn't say well, he just went...
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, you'd only winged him if might have said something, wouldn't you?
Dave (GM):Oh, that's true. Yeah.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah.
Dave (GM):And Okay. He comes over and shakes your hand.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):What did he say though? What did he say? What's the last thing he said about?
Dave (GM):He says oh it's my friend Freeman it's great to see you.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):That's not what he said. He said when when we quit he would just said something like I'm going to take... Going you away from all this.
Dave (GM):Oh yeah he did mention that didn't he? Oh yeah, fair enough. That's what happens between four and a half hours between playing and having
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):a big So, he
Dave (GM):says, Yeah, Graine is my daughter and she needs her family and she needs to be brought up in the right tradition with the right people around her. As a father, feel the responsibility to look after her properly.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):And you call looking after her, getting her up when she's obviously ill and should be in bed?
Dave (GM):She insisted on coming down to see me.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I looked at Graine and say you should be back in your bed darling. Let me deal with this. I'll keep Jorn safe.
Dave (GM):Make a performing role. But I will give you plus one because Graine does. Oh, strange reason. Trust me.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Fuck it. I've... Have I got no bloody faith left?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Not really.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Got one point of faith left?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Didn't you groom your horse or?
Dave (GM):No, because you came back and then came straight to the sundown. I remember at the ranch and I've been grooming my horse and cleaning up my gun. So you are basically riding out of town now at this point?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah, I'm still with Mr.
Dave (GM):You are talking to Rayburn. Rayburn alone, yes, yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):This is a shit day system, I hate it, why we have to go to the bathroom?
Dave (GM):So if you're not pushing, she's reluctant only because this is a situation she feels she needs to be involved with. Okay,
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I'm gonna ask her. Do you want to go with your father?
Dave (GM):No, of course not. I want to stay here. But she's quite feverish and Torrance says, You're absolutely right, Freeman. She should be in bed. Eustace, Marilyn, Paul Graine back to her bed and two of the women who were with Torrance.
Dave (GM):One of them is an older woman, looks a bit like Torrance. The other one is a is a younger woman, probably in her early twenties. Okay. And they both get up on his command and come around to to Graine.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I stand up and I greet them gentlemanly like and I say I'm sorry, Mr Torrance hasn't introduced us. My name is Marion Freeman. Marion Freeman and you are Eustace?
Dave (GM):I'm Eustace Torrance. Torrance? I'm Graine's Arms. Ah. And this is Marilyn, Marilyn Blackstock, daughter.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Right, excellent. Good to make you acquaintance.
Dave (GM):Please let us, let us, as you're absolutely right that Gwani should be in bed.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Siobhan, why don't you help these two good ladies take your sister back to bed. I'll look after everything down here.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Mean, place is is is not super busy, but it's it's got a few people in it. Yeah. Siobhan looks you in a who's gonna run the place kind of way, and Torrance says, a couple of my men can...
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No, no, men don't need to do... Men need to do nothing.
Dave (GM):Well, they're here
Marion Freeman (Matthew):to help,
Dave (GM):but why don't you let them help? Wilson, Richard, man the bar, look after the patrons for the time being. And two of the men who are there, yes sir?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):At which point Patience goes upstairs with the...
Dave (GM):And Graine is gonna go upstairs with...
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Patience follows Graine up
Dave (GM):there. Patience?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yes. Siobhan. Siobhan, sorry.
Dave (GM):Why did
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I say Patience? Oh! Yes.
Dave (GM):Patience is in Steaming Rock. Patience Rockcliffe. Yes, Siobhan does, she takes your instruction and goes with them. Right. And Tyrone says, Yeah, absolutely, it's a good idea, she must rest.
Dave (GM):We will obviously you know, leave as soon as she's strong enough to to travel.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):She won't be coming with you. She doesn't want to come with you. She wants to stay here. You heard her say that.
Dave (GM):Well, that's as her father. And I
Marion Freeman (Matthew):have She is an adult. You have no paternal responsibilities over
Dave (GM):Well, I do have paternal responsibilities, and are you a father, Mr Freeman?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Of course I'm not her father.
Dave (GM):No, not her father, are you a father? Do you have children?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No, I don't.
Dave (GM):No, so you don't understand the love that a father has for his I didn't even know that this child was mine, was here through the terrible administrations of her mother and McGinn, who is lawless, who is now rightfully gladly dead. Realization is that I have a great responsibility for her and I need to make up for the time that she has been denied, my help and my support.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I'm sure you do but she wants nothing to do with you. I know she said so, you heard her say so,
Dave (GM):didn't she?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):When she's been
Dave (GM):ill, she
Marion Freeman (Matthew):is ill and feverish but she told me before I only
Dave (GM):have your word for that and as her father I have a greater responsibility than to kowtow to the word of you.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):She is an adult and a widow.
Dave (GM):Yes, you see what good being in this town has done for her. Her parents are dead, her family is scattered, her husband has died, she herself has now caught a horrible disease, So her husband used to be the bloke.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Rue was a good issue.
Dave (GM):He died from an illness.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yes, didn't remember. Yeah. So I was trying to think how he died. Don't worry. Was
Dave (GM):just trying to
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):think how Brian working was left
Dave (GM):of it. And this place is five yards from the Comanche and 10 yards from the Apache. It's a dangerous place for her to be. She should be within the caring bosom of a wealthy, powerful, civilised family my family where she can be properly cared for and not have to suffer the depredations of living in it no disrespect but a shithole like Mulada Springs.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Sounds quite disrespectful. That's the... The lawyer.
Dave (GM):No. Wrong.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):That sounds quite disrespectful to me.
Dave (GM):I I mean no disrespect to you personally, but if you if you had a child, would you rather they live
Marion Freeman (Matthew):in, in
Dave (GM):Las Vegas, in a civilized town with a wealthy, well-to-do family around her? I'm a father. I've been denied that right through McGinn and Mary for all these years. I have a right to try and support my daughter in the way that I feel she should be supported, and she's had denied her all these years. She...
Dave (GM):If you loved her, you would allow her to gain that support.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Don't tell me how I should love your daughter.
Dave (GM):Well I'm just offering you advice.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):And I'm just going I'm going with a with a cold presence roll on that one.
Dave (GM):Okay he will obviously resist that.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Lot of dice is picking up. Two successes.
Dave (GM):You got no successes. He's not frightened by you. You know, he's seen far too much to be frightened by a bloke in a bar. But he can see the steel in your eyes. And he says, I recognize the conviction, the good honest conviction that you have and the care that you have for my daughter, the love of my daughter, but that doesn't make you right.
Dave (GM):And she needs more than what some jobbing rancher and some crappy little...
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Shopping rancher.
Dave (GM):And some crappy little saloon in a crappy little shithole town can give her. If this was all that she thought she had available to her when Meghan and Mary were ruining her life, then that's her How suffering, her
Marion Freeman (Matthew):many non Meghan related people are in the bar at this moment hearing him call this a grubby shit hole?
Dave (GM):Yeah I don't think anybody here is a McGinn now because...
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):They've drew them all out.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Well there's the two, Boman.
Dave (GM):Are they not McGinn people?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Sorry, oh fuck I'm getting my names confused. So apart from the Torrance people how many townsfolk of Jornada Springs are in the bar hearing him call Jornada Springs a shithole?
Dave (GM):That's probably 10 people And, I said, you know, if you choose to live here, that is your choice. If you choose to try and make a life here and make this place better, I applaud you for that. I'm not going to allow my daughter to be inflicted with this place any longer than she has to be because it's not good for her.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):It is Widow Goody's choice.
Dave (GM):Goody.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Where... Widow Goody's choice. That's a really thing. It's widow goodish's choice where she lives now that she is a woman of age. You said that you had her childhood taken away from you and I can understand the terrible things that her mother and Donald McGinn did.
Dave (GM):Donald.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Donald McGinn. Why do you...
Dave (GM):You keep saying Donald.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Donald, not d o n a l.
Dave (GM):Okay. You're saying Donald. Okay. Thought it was... Not Donald.
Dave (GM):Okay. Donald. Donald. Yeah. Fine.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):You put me off my phone now, you bastard.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Sorry.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I can understand that you've missed out but uprooting her from the life she has made for herself here is not the answer. You can't sweep in here with your men and your money and your family and whisker off to Las Vegas. Nobody in this town likes to hear this town called a shithole. But if it is such a shithole, why are your men investigating a mining claim up in the Silver Mountains?
Dave (GM):Well, I was just looking at the options to see what the town was like. And it's proven to be a complete bust. I don't see how anybody's making any money out of the mines out there.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Right, again I'm kind of interested to see how many people here have heard him talk about
Dave (GM):I think a few people have heard him say that yeah yeah this is quite it's quite a small bar it's not huge and there's not many people in here and it's your conversation is quite loud
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah yeah.
Dave (GM):So it is dominating the room.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):But at least something's being said that I haven't said. So you will have to speak to Garland Rayburn about whether or not the mining business here is a bust but there's a good ranching business here.
Dave (GM):Yeah well I you know know me I'm a rancher first and foremost but with all the hue that I've been hearing going on about the Spanish land rights down here, didn't really wanna insert my legitimate and non tainted ranching business into the political corruption that is the Southern Rio Grande Valley. If there's a lot of land here that would be great, would gladly ranch some cattle here, but frankly the stink coming off the Spanish land rights is too much even for my strong nose.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah, I'm looking at... You're Joe Public in the car.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh yeah, well I got you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Have we ever been? No, I don't think I've ever been to Santa Fe.
Dave (GM):Did you go to Santa Fe? I think you did when on the cattle drive, didn't you? No, went to Albuquerque. Because Albuquerque didn't get as far as Santa Fe. Yeah.
Dave (GM):Okay.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):It wasn't a cattle drive, it was horses.
Dave (GM):Oh, that's true. The is just, the land down here is great and I can understand why many people are scrambling in the dirt to get their hands on it, but frankly my business doesn't need that kind of
Marion Freeman (Matthew):odour
Dave (GM):adding to it I You run a different
Marion Freeman (Matthew):won't be competing for the Spanish landowners?
Dave (GM):Well not at the moment, maybe if certain things don't go my way I might feel inclined to exert some influence and see what can be arranged.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Listen, we made friends in Lincoln County.
Dave (GM):It depends whether I'm able without unnecessary opposition, care for my daughter in the way that I think is most fitting and suitable, whether or not I make a claim for some of the lands down here.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Feels an awful lot like a threat.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Sound like a threat to me.
Dave (GM):Are you saying that? Yeah. Well you can you can take it any way you like. Mean I know I know what what what my intention in coming here was and that was to give my daughter Graine a a better life than that which she's had the opportunity to have so far by being forced to live in in this place with the, you know, the the the people around her and the and the disease and death that seems to stalk stalk her. You know, her parents, you know, her her father her father, I mean, her her adoptive father is dead.
Dave (GM):Her her husband is dead. Her mother and brother are in prison. Poor Siobhan looks like a stiff breeze would knock her over. She would be much better off in a steady, strong Begin wealthy household like
Marion Freeman (Matthew):having stolen your daughter from you, you now plan to steal not only your daughter back but her half sister.
Dave (GM):No, no, Siobhan is not my concern. If Siobhan wants to come with us, we could probably come to some arrangement but it might make sense if Siobhan wanted to stay here. Yeah, here's a here's a here's a perfectly decent business for somebody who wants to stay in this town, but she would be welcome.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Where are you staying while you're in this town?
Dave (GM):Well I haven't got accommodations yet. I only rode in this morning. I came straight here to see my daughter.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Can I suggest that you stay at?
Dave (GM):The Conorate Hotel.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):We haven't got a hotel here. Sweet. Yeah. Apart from...
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):What's the place we're bored? Where were we barred?
Dave (GM):So the Trails Hotel, that's where you're barred. Number 3. We're all barred, no? No. Well you were, you're probably not barred anymore.
Dave (GM):You were saying nasty things about McGinn in the bar there, the woman behind the bar told you to get out.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah,
Dave (GM):so I guess the Blessings Saloon's got a couple of rooms above it, the Sundown Saloon's got a couple of rooms. You probably don't want to stay in there.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No, it's the Trails Hotel.
Dave (GM):The Trails Hotel is the main hotel where you would stay, yeah. Look, naturally, I'm not going to suggest that that Graine moves until she is well enough to No. To travel.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):And you intend to stay in town until she's well enough?
Dave (GM):Oh, of course.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Then I suggest you make... Get rooms for yourself at the Charles Hotel. Your your men can go there too. I will look, stand behind the bar. I have been working here for some time.
Dave (GM):Well naturally whilst Gronaire is not well, my men will gladly help.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No if I require your men's services.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well you
Dave (GM):own this place, think it's Graine's isn't it?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Well if Graine requires your men's services she will send me to ask you for their help.
Dave (GM):Well naturally I think Eustace and Marilyn should remain behind to look after her well-being and care for her during her sickness.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):We may have accommodation for useless and... Useless.
Dave (GM):Eustace.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):And Marion.
Dave (GM):Marilyn.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Marilyn. That's going to be confusing. May be able
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):to...
Dave (GM):That's going be confusing. Like you don't get every name wrong anyway.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):But you and your men should I think repair to the trails hotel where you can consider more temperate speech.
Dave (GM):I believe my speech has been entirely temperate Mr Freeman. Have upset
Marion Freeman (Matthew):the residents of Jornada Springs overhearing this by court.
Dave (GM):Well I'm sorry for that if my plain speaking has upset those people who don't like to hear plain words.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):What you call plain speaking I might call intemperate. Don't argue semantics with me. I have got a point of book learning now and lawyer level one.
Dave (GM):That doesn't impress me at all. That don't impress me much. And he doesn't, he's not, he's not impressed by that. Look, I'm a straight talking man, I always have been. I have lived a colourful life.
Dave (GM):Spent many years
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Are you in prison? I'm not there.
Dave (GM):Yeah, no, freely admits it. I've spent many years as an outlaw on the wrong side of the tracks. I was caught and convicted of my crimes, and I served my time in prison, and I learned my lesson. Since then, I've been an honest man working hard to build up a family and a business and I have been successful.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yep and we met on good terms and we have had cordial relationships then and what I'm telling you now is that your speech in this town, this shithole as you call it, is somewhat intemperate. Go to the hotel,
Dave (GM):I'm just plain speaking,
Marion Freeman (Matthew):bathe, relax after your journey down here and when Graine is well we will talk once more. Do you want me to use my authority again? Because I will use my authority.
Dave (GM):Irrespective of authority.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I did get two successes before. I'm just telling you and just bear in mind.
Dave (GM):Eustace and Marilyn will remain here to look after her.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I have said we will accommodate Eustace Spouts and we can They do are
Dave (GM):the best place to to ensure that she she recovers at the quickest pace possible. I... As I told you, I will be staying in Tern until until Graine is well enough to travel.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Sure.
Dave (GM):And then we will be heading north. But for now, I will I will thank you for your advice and I will I will go and take rooms at the Trails Hotel.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Good. You can send your men for word if ever you want information or indeed come and visit at any point but until she is well you will
Dave (GM):not
Marion Freeman (Matthew):discuss Gagne's future plans with her.
Dave (GM):I don't entirely enjoy being told what I can and can't do Mr Freeman and I never have.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No?
Dave (GM):So I will forgive you your intemperate use of direct words on this occasion.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I
Dave (GM):will come by to see you on the...
Marion Freeman (Matthew):So only white men are allowed to speak plainly? Is that what you're saying here?
Dave (GM):No, you've reprimanded me for my direct words, I am now reprimanding you for yours. I will come by frequently to see on the health of my daughter and as soon as she is well enough to travel, we will repair north to more civilised lands where she can properly recover and build a life that isn't threatened by disease and political strife.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Let me tell you, your Las Vegas will be nothing in eighty years' time. There'll be another Las Vegas and...
Dave (GM):Las Vegas is still something. It's just not as big as the the new Las Vegas. I've seen this. And he says, but for now, I will I will bid you good day. He walks out and as he goes, his men follow him.
Dave (GM):You do notice that one of them is a native with long black hair, But as he goes out, he says a couple of words to a couple of them and two of them kind of take up, not guard positions, but are outside the saloon, kind of just there at present. And he then heads up the road. His horse is out front, so he gets on his horse.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):So how many men do I think he's got?
Dave (GM):So you saw with him four.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):And the two women.
Dave (GM):And the two women, yep, who were upstairs with Graine.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):His sister and his daughter. Right?
Dave (GM):His sister and his niece.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Niece, isn't it?
Dave (GM):Obviously, married niece because her name isn't Torrance. It's Blackstock.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Right I'm kind of stuck at the the saloon now.
Dave (GM):The sundown.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):The sundown saloon for the foreseeable.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay. Well, that's good. You
Marion Freeman (Matthew):are... You've gone back to the Sheriff's Office and you've gone back to the work?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, suppose, yeah, suppose I'm leaving Mr Rayburns the moment, aren't I? Yeah.
Dave (GM):Yeah. You've probably finished at Rayburns now by this point. And, Tony, you're like 500 yards out of town riding Okay.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):So will I see mister...
Dave (GM):Torrance.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Torrance leaving the place as I walk out or not?
Dave (GM):Yeah. I think you'd see Torrance coming up the road as you're going the other way.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay. Well, as I don't know what's going on, of course, I'll be... I'll I'll recognize him, wouldn't I?
Dave (GM):Oh, yeah. Think you'd recognize him. Yeah. It wasn't that long ago you saw him last.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Well, I'll just what's the plaffing? That's it. Right. Love is a slanted partner greeting.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):So... Oh, well, well, I met you in Lincoln. Did I not, mister?
Dave (GM):Torrance.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Torrance.
Dave (GM):Did. We did meet in Lincoln. Sheriff Sheriff Hawcock, isn't it?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):That's right, yes.
Dave (GM):Yes. Well, it's a pleasure seeing you again, sir.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):It is, yes. Hope you're all well.
Dave (GM):I am very well. I've never been better, actually.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):That's good, okay.
Dave (GM):I am very well indeed. Things are... Life is looking up.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I suppose I I would go in to see how... Because, would I have known that Matt's gone to see his beloved?
Dave (GM):Yeah. I was so excited.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):He probably said Yes. I think I said.
Dave (GM):Super chitler. Let's do a third in about ten seconds flat. Is that one coated in petrol or something?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Or paraffin or something like that. Paraffin Yeah. Suppose I'll go in to see how things are because I know the Groning Residual won't do it and stuff like that. Yeah. So I'll go in.
Dave (GM):So as you go in, you do notice there's a couple of blokes
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):kind of,
Dave (GM):yeah, just not quite happily. They're not Yeah. Looking troublesome or anything. Just a couple of blokes hanging around outside.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Must have given them
Dave (GM):a Nice.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Okay.
Dave (GM):And yeah if you look at them they give you you know.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yes yeah.
Dave (GM):Morning Sheriff.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Morning. I'm going.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):To me.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):To me. To me.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Two answers here.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh yes, suppose with a cheeky grin on my face I most probably would say I've seen your father you know
Dave (GM):it's a kind of father-in-law.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm not
Marion Freeman (Matthew):sure he sees it like that he wants to take Graine to Las Vegas with him.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):All right Okay.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Talking of muscling in on the ranching business here.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):All right.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Once he can get rid of the corruption.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):He's his
Marion Freeman (Matthew):own words. He also spoke of mister Rayburn's mining operations not being able to make money because as far as he can see, as far as his surveyors are seen here, the mining's a bust.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well I must really say a bit quiet to him so no one else can hear but that's something not to be discussed.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Something that has already been publicly announced and all here have heard it. Mr Rayburn will need to know this. I'm just wondering whether in the extreme situation it may be worth, I don't want to use you as messenger boy sheriff, this is So to voice but maybe if you can persuade mister Rayburn to come here and discuss it.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay and does Graine, does she want to go with the...
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Of course she does not. But she's in no state to say no right now. His sister and his niece are upstairs now tending to her. There's nothing I can do.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Not otherwise, isn't it? So
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I think at the very least you should go to Mr. Rayburn tell him what I have reported Torrance has announced to All and Sundry
Dave (GM):here. I suppose
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):quite a lot of the borrower groove if he's saying it if they can hear. Even the bar I suppose are nodding to what Matt's saying on yes.
Dave (GM):I think you're trying to be a bit subtle,
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):aren't you now?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I'm trying to be a bit subtle.
Dave (GM):So don't think people are overhearing
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):the No, miso fair enough, alright.
Dave (GM):Because you said it was sort of voce,
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):so you're
Dave (GM):obviously trying to be a bit
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):less. Okay, well. Yes I suppose yeah where is Mr. Where is... Torrance now.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I've sent him to the trails hotel. I'm sure he would have set up residence here as though he owns the place which I think in his mind he feels through his daughter's inheritance of her husband's affairs, he feels that he does.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay. Alright.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I thought. I believed him when he said he wanted to play straight, but I can see how he uses threats and pressure to get what he wants. He said to me that he will not interfere in the ranching claims here.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Do you think that's a lie?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):As long as somebody lets him take his daughter away to Las Vegas with him.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Is Graine able to have a... Able to talk to me, or do don't you want me to just... Alright. Ask because I know that you're
Dave (GM):because she's a bit feverish. Mhmm. But she's, yeah, she's not, you know, hallucinating or out of it.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Out of it. Yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah. Why don't you go after?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):She's very smart to
Dave (GM):see how she is.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yes. Yeah. Maybe reassure Siobhan that mister Torrance has gone now. Mhmm. You can also give you a message that the ladies will have the two rooms prepared for them so they can they can stay here but mister Twins and the men have gone to the Trails Hotel try try to speak to Gonya alone
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):so that
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I can be honest with you.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna go up. Yeah.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'll go upstairs.
Dave (GM):Okay.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'll be polite.
Dave (GM):So, yeah, you knock on the door, and a woman you don't... A young woman you don't recognize Mhmm. Opens the door.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):And Who are you? My wife or I just say, good morning. Good... Is it afternoon? Somewhere over the afternoon?
Dave (GM):No. Late morning now.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Good morning, ma'am.
Dave (GM):Good morning. We're we're tending to to to a sick woman in here.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yes. Graine. Yes. Yeah. I like to chat.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yes.
Dave (GM):Well, I don't know. Don't think she's really well enough for for chitchats right now. She notices you're bad as a sheriff. You'll understand.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):No, I think at the moment I'd rather talk to her in private. I'm not going to use charming. I'm not going to be rude or anything. I've been using...
Dave (GM):You're not schmoozing her, you can't use charming on this She's basically saying no.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Flat no. Flat no.
Dave (GM):But nicely. She's too weak, she's just about sleeping, it shouldn't be disturbed, she's very, very unwell, she needs her rest, doesn't need visitors traipsing in.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):This isn't going to take very long anyway, I think I'm going to insist at the moment.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):With your authority.
Dave (GM):Okay. She says, well, just just wait, wait here. And she closes the door. Mhmm. And you can hear footsteps on the other side.
Dave (GM):Mhmm. And then a few moments later, footsteps come to the door and the door opens and an older woman Yeah. Opens the door and says, sir, I'm afraid that Graine is in no state to take visitors. Are...
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm afraid I'm sheriff of the town. I'm not gonna be told by somebody I do not know.
Dave (GM):She... I am I am her aunt and she is very unwell.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Really?
Dave (GM):And I don't...... Seen you before. Well, I don't care who you've seen or you haven't seen before, sheriff. You will go away now because you're disturbing her her rest.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):No. Well, she
Dave (GM):shuts the door.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, my foot.
Dave (GM):Well, he didn't say you're
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):putting your
Dave (GM):So... Foot in
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):This is fun. Knocking the door again then. I'm not gonna bugger off.
Dave (GM):Okay. The door opens Mhmm. And it's her again. Yes. She opens it to like this far.
Dave (GM):Yeah. And she says, I've told you once.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm not going
Dave (GM):to tell you again. I don't care if you have sheriff business with her right now. She is not well enough to speak to anyone. Now go a fucking
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm not for going a fucking way. I just want a few words. One sec.
Dave (GM):You can't have a few words with her. She... She's unwell. You are threatening her recovery. Go away now before you get very angry.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I'm sure there's a town ordinance against vulgar language, isn't there? I
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):know she is not well, but this is just brief business. Just finishing business off.
Dave (GM):Your brief business can wait until she is better.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):You're the one who's who's raising the temperature of the...
Dave (GM):You are by being an unwelcome visitor to a sick lady. Now, please go away. If you have any honor, any sense, any decency, go away now.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):It's gonna be a stereo match, is it?
Dave (GM):Well, it can be an intrigue. It can be a social conflict.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Siobhan is in the room as well, remember? Is she? In theory, yes.
Dave (GM):Yeah. She wants... You haven't seen her. Yeah. She's there somewhere.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Alright.
Dave (GM):But did you wanna try and insist?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I was gonna say, Siobhan's name is your sister. I was just saying, Siobhan is your sister.
Dave (GM):Okay. If you if you raise your voice Yeah. The woman says, oh, fuck. Heaven's sake, sheriff. There is a sick woman in here who needs her rest.
Dave (GM):You must not be shouting and disturbing her. You not understand that? How stupid are you?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, I can be questioned.
Dave (GM):Oh, yeah. That is true. Go away, So
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):what role do we have to make then?
Dave (GM):So it'll be... I mean, are you trying to persuade her or use her What's
Marion Freeman (Matthew):the door wider open with your strength?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):That's my strength.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Grit. Grit. That would be.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Alright. That's free.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Grit and labor maybe if you got
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):A lot of labor.
Dave (GM):So are you pushing the door open?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No. No. I was just listing the various options for it.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Yeah. No. No. I'm persuading.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):It's gonna be...
Dave (GM):So it would be either authority, presence
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Presence. Yeah.
Dave (GM):Or persuasion, performing Performing. Against her insight. And then her response again would be her presence against your insight.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):So I can use I can use before as I would say presence, ears. Six, performing with seven.
Dave (GM):So are you trying to persuade her or trying to use the weight of your authority to get her to brilliant?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Combination of both, really. Well,
Dave (GM):it's a combination of both, it will be presents then.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Presents. Be using. Okay. So that'd be six then.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Gosh, she's very insightful, aren't you?
Dave (GM):She's a major non player character, that's why she's here.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh, thank you.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):She's got a point of faith. Can tell you that.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, that's not good enough. I tell you that's the right word.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):One six.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):One six.
Dave (GM):Did you wanna push? At the moment you are either giving up or losing two points of... Vape. No, no, no, because this is gonna damage you on your dossier cunning. So probably...
Marion Freeman (Matthew):This will be on his.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):No, we're doing it this way, alright.
Dave (GM):It'd probably be vexes, so it'd probably be two points off your cunning.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Off my cunning?
Dave (GM):Unless you push and get more successes, But that's your choice. So if you fail, you lose the oppose role, you can either back down and take no damage, but then you leave, at least for now, or you take the damage and continue the argument until one of
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):you gets to zero. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then I'll take the rules.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):There's less dice. Yeah. So that'd be two off. So so I've I've spent a thing I can read.
Dave (GM):Spend faith you can reroll a lot.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yep. Yep. Free faith. I'll solid reroll a lot. Come on.
Dave (GM):Oh. It's another success?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yes. Oh,
Dave (GM):bummer. It's one success, but one
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):One thing is trouble. Yeah.
Dave (GM):So are you taking the trouble?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm pushing it down to two. If I bite off, it'd be one, wouldn't it? Actually, one at the moment. That's what... Yeah.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):So it'd be a minor one, wasn't it? Because it's just one, isn't
Dave (GM):it? Yeah. Yeah.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):So push me
Dave (GM):down to K. So you take one point off your cunning.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Right.
Dave (GM):One point of damage.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Mhmm. And
Dave (GM):make a roll on the... Make a d six roll for your trouble.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):For fuck's sake.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Give me one to six. Five.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Only a five. Could be worse. Okay. Your your words and actions have gone down very badly, and you blustered to cover it up.
Dave (GM):So you lose your next round. So in this sense, think I'm gonna give you a negative to your insight role to defend against her attempt to reduce her authority against you. Right. Okay. So I'm gonna
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):give you
Dave (GM):minus one on your insight.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Mhmm.
Dave (GM):And she's now seeing you waver.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Waver is pushing her at once.
Dave (GM):She's saying... Yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Know. How many points have you lost off insight already through Vexus?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I've lost one.
Dave (GM):Okay. So your cutting is now three. Your insight is?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Two.
Dave (GM):Five. So So you're now down to four. Four. Because of your trouble.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh, okay. Fair enough. Alright. Go on then.
Dave (GM):That's one success.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I came out of blood. Oh, come on. Be kind. Come on. No.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I think that's gonna be me bugging.
Dave (GM):Okay. So you lose another point of cunning Mhmm. Unless you choose to back down out of the out of the social conflict. Well, no. Actually, you do take a point of cunning damage, actually.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Do I?
Dave (GM):Yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Why? Yeah, he takes a point of cunning damage.
Dave (GM):You take a point of cunning damage.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):So therefore, I lost two last time, didn't I? Because of that.
Dave (GM):No, one. You rolled again, so your cunning now goes down to two.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Two, right, yeah.
Dave (GM):But it's up to you whether you wish to continue the argument or whether you wish to relent for now and
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Impose. So that'd be five. If I lose, I just suppose I just bugger off in the soul because it's cunning or whatever, is it?
Dave (GM):Or Effekt, you you would get very angry and go off
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah.
Dave (GM):In a in a angry rant.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I don't really wanna lose my temper. Don't want to.
Dave (GM):But you've lost the... You'd lose the encounter. Yeah.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I lose the encounter. Yeah.
Dave (GM):But it's up to you.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):So I lose one point every every round. I lose a round.
Dave (GM):Yes? If you lose on the dice roll
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):It's one point.
Dave (GM):You then lose... Depends on the on the on the on the score. So you Alright. I'm
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):with 50.
Dave (GM):If you score more than she does
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah.
Dave (GM):She will take damage
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah.
Dave (GM):I'm with your success is minus hers and vice versa.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay.
Dave (GM):But again, so if you want it again, it'd be your turn, so you could use your presence again Mhmm. Against her insight if you wish to continue the continue the argument. And this is a this is a hist argument, know. Yes. I'm out lockdown.
Dave (GM):He's keeping a voice
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):down. Think
Dave (GM):downstairs you can you can see the poison in this in this conversation. How bitter and actually fraught with tension it is. Have to
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):make friends and influence people do They're just rolling fives. Why can't I roll fucking sixes? One six.
Dave (GM):Two sixes.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):For fuck's sake.
Dave (GM):So your cutting is down to one.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):One. I think I'm just gonna have to scour because I don't really wanna explode the temper. Don't think
Dave (GM):it's gonna be a lot. That would be a... Yeah. You probably smash something and
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Yeah. So I'm down to one cunning then. Okay. Yeah.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):All Yeah. Fives. What kind of these effing's...
Dave (GM):The joys of year zero, Yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Shitty dice system,
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I think. It is a shitty dice system, isn't it?
Dave (GM):So are you
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. I suppose I'm gonna get very fucking red faced and, well, whatever, or just give her an evil growl Yeah. Grind my teeth down the ball.
Dave (GM):She says, when Graine is well enough, you can talk to her. But not until then, I'm not having her disturbed. Now off you go. Click. No.
Dave (GM):Very matronly, very patronizing. You can shoot through the door if you lie.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm not going to.
Dave (GM):The door ready and shoot so
Marion Freeman (Matthew):you can
Dave (GM):see it before you shoot. Because... Yeah. What if you shoot through the door and just kill Graine?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. That'd be whoops.
Dave (GM):I'm sorry about this evening. No.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm I'm gonna... Gonna... Yeah. Yeah. No.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):No.
Dave (GM):The door is now shut in
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):your face. Yeah. This is going well, Fair enough. Well, was seeing my temper. My temper isn't exactly brilliant when I come downstairs.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Didn't go well then.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):It didn't go well. No. Anyway, okay. Does my cunning
Marion Freeman (Matthew):And, Shavon, did you
Dave (GM):You need to
Marion Freeman (Matthew):press from a Siobhan?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, I did so... I did call out a night, but you said there was no
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No reply from me.
Dave (GM):You didn't get a reply. I I think just because Eustace was very quickly Yeah.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Saying, quiet.
Dave (GM):Because you raised your voice to call to Siobhan.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay. So does it kind of go back? Once you finish on, does it go back?
Dave (GM):So, yeah. So for one turn of rest, you'll gain one point. So if you rest for fifteen minutes, you'll get your points of cutting back.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay. Well, I suppose I'll have a coffee here just to calm down before I go to see Rayburn because I don't want him to start whinging. Yeah. That would be it.
Dave (GM):You explode at Rayburn. Yes. Okay.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. But I... It's quite obvious that we have a problem then, isn't it?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Isn't it?
Dave (GM):Mhmm. Mhmm. Okay. So, Tone, you're riding back to the ranch. Yep.
Dave (GM):I guess there's no reason for... They're not calling... Haven't called you back or anything.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Well, no. Haven't had the ability. I'll tell you what. Before we come... Cut back to Tony, while these guys are upstairs Oops.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Hang Hang on. On. Pardon. I've been sounding out the other townsfolk in here about their opinions of mister Torrance.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'm sure he's made friends. Mhmm. I'm sure he's made a lot of friends.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Calling the place a shithole and stuff like that, I'm just hoping that they are antithetical to him. Antithetical? Do I mean that? I'm hoping that they're angry with him.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Not impressed. Yeah.
Dave (GM):Yeah. I think... I mean, there's there's a bit of, you know, bloody outsider coming and calling our town a shithole. But there's a few people that say, oh, yeah. It is a bit of a shithole.
Dave (GM):Good point. And if people are like, you know, none of my business. I don't wanna get involved with this guy, this this rich guy who's rode into town with a bunch of blokes and gun hands and stuff. So not my problem. But you do you do get a little of oh, the mind's all shit.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Oh. Okay.
Dave (GM):What's going on there? That's Mhmm. Not what Rayburn... Rayburn's been saying.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Any of missus Paquito's boys in here?
Dave (GM):No. No. I think the Paquitos haven't really come here because it was associated with the McGinns. Okay. Maybe if some few of them pop in occasionally now and again now that the McGinn's has changed but Is there
Marion Freeman (Matthew):somebody I can give a dollar to to ride down to the ranch and tell Tony what has happened.
Dave (GM):Yeah. I'm sure there's a
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I will do that.
Dave (GM):There's a boy out the back. Can
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Now you can cut to Tony and at some point later on, I haven't received the message. I've written it because now I've got book learning and shit. I can write.
Dave (GM):And what are you writing?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):So writing
Dave (GM):Trouble at Mill. Come back here.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Torrance in town to Torrance in town in force wants to take Grunya to Las Vegas.
Dave (GM):Okay. So, Tony, you get back to the ranch. Yep. Now you wanted to do a bit of horse grooming and gun cleaning. Very much.
Dave (GM):So, I think you get to do one of those.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay.
Dave (GM):Before the boy rides up. You probably know him. I'll clean my gun. His name's Steven. Steven.
Dave (GM):Yeah. 14 and 15 year old boy, just odd jobs around the place. Yeah. Is there? You're right, Steven.
Dave (GM):What's up? He says, mister Freeman wanted me to give you this. Thank you. Well, I'm very thirsty. Quite hungry too.
Dave (GM):Yeah, in your cum, come on. Thanks very much, Halston. A good one. Suddenly getting Victorian, and introduce him to... My mother's in the kitchen, so...
Dave (GM):And grandpa Willie, grandpa Dean. Yeah. I'll say, oh, yeah. Because Steven's here has just done us a big favor, riding out with a message. Yeah.
Dave (GM):Just give him a... Mila and a drink.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh,
Dave (GM):yeah. Bacon sandwich, young man.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Oh, don't
Dave (GM):be thick very much, miss. Now, on Brady Anahan's ranch, that that means you're gonna be fed to the Yes. Yeah. The Anaheim Ranch and ask for the the bacon special.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I can imagine what happens there.
Dave (GM):Yeah. My pigs have eaten quite a lot of our victims.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh, was surprising. They did.
Dave (GM):There was about 10 of them at one point, which obviously we had to keep other people away from the pigpen whilst the pigs took a couple of weeks to eat them all. Having let Morgan go online to say, how long does it take for a pig to eat your body?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh, that's not gonna bring any...
Dave (GM):Or how many pigs do you need to eat a body in an hour? I think is what you're putting. And it came out like eight or something.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh, well. Yeah. Yeah. He hasn't had any visits by anybody.
Dave (GM):No. Not that I'm aware of. I haven't heard from him for a while though. I'm assuming he's alright. Yeah.
Dave (GM):Morgan, we were joking about the pigs and the pigs and anhydranges where we feed all the bodies. But Morgan was the one who looked up online how how many pigs does it take to eat a body in an hour. And we worked it out, was something like six or eight. So here's our official Googler of dodgy things. I don't know why I approve of my son being that, obviously he might get into trouble at some point.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Because it keeps you in the clear.
Dave (GM):Okay, so you got the message, Minnie is happily feeding up Happy Stephen, who was the boy that you gave the note to. Who's apparently a Victorian urchin from London. Alright, governor. Thank you, mister, for the peace, posses. Please, don't
Marion Freeman (Matthew):be Victorian because we're in Victorian times. I should have added to that note, bring Minnie, actually.
Dave (GM):But you didn't?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No, didn't.
Dave (GM):So you don't know that. I'm bringing Mini, I'm just going back. Bring everyone to get cholera. Or whatever disease she's got, it might not be cholera.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No, I think it probably isn't cholera. Since you've put two, you've locked two important MPCs into the room with her, then there's probably indicating the illness is one that's recoverable form. But maybe it's gone.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Maybe not. Maybe they're all there.
Dave (GM):Oh, well. Okay. So I'll... After I've cleaned the gun, I'll saddle up and head back. I might have a little snack myself first.
Dave (GM):So... Yeah. Yeah. Then I'll head back into town. Yeah.
Dave (GM):Okay. Sundown. Yeah. Yeah. As you go, grandpa Dean is like, I don't know anyone doing any bloody work here.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):No. You're not doing any work. No.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):No. No. No.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):He's not. No. Young Jimmy boy.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Well, he's not really a ranch hand. He's more of a handyman. Yeah. Okay.
Dave (GM):So you guys have got a few hours before Tony reappears.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I suppose I've also had a coffee.
Dave (GM):Calm down a bit.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Calm down a bit. I'll go and get wind up by mister Rayburn. Don't know how this is.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Okay.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):I'm writing another note. Maybe you could just deliver this to the begin lunch while I'm there to Graine's brother.
Dave (GM):Patrick.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Patrick.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Saying, important news. Come to the sun... Meet me at the sundown.
Dave (GM):Yeah. And I'm good thinking if you riled him up to kill Tyrants, then Yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Maybe.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Maybe.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Either that or it will join turret forces with turrets, and then we got an even bigger game.
Dave (GM):That's true. That is a possibility. But... Will...
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah. I'll invite him.
Dave (GM):Yeah. As a player, you have to be very careful about what you just spout into the air because then the GM... You can assume that, you know, the GM would have thought about already. If they haven't, they go, oh, actually.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah. The GM though hasn't got any idea about my cunning plan.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Your cunning plan?
Marion Freeman (Matthew):That we all win and live happily ever after. Don't tell him no.
Dave (GM):Absolutely. That sounds very chilling.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Actually, once I see mister Rayburn, I'm gonna go and see the... It's Pachito. Pachito. Pachito's in Toy Fair as well,
Dave (GM):I think. Okay. Yeah. Rayburn is is surprised to see you again. He said, okay.
Dave (GM):Times in One day. Space of an hour an hour. Yes.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Two days. Your lucky day. Well,
Dave (GM):I'm honored by your presence again, Not that I'm a busy man or anything.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Oh, you're not busy. You're mining yourself, are you? You're not busy. Is your bank... Oh, no.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I just said no. Didn't say that. No. No. It's a...
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):You might know that there's this put... Mister Torrance is in town now.
Dave (GM):Okay. I I wasn't aware. Yeah. Well And what's relevant about Torrance?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, he's the guy who's sponsoring the the the new the new mining, you know, the new miners up here.
Dave (GM):Ah, so he's the he's the guilty man then. That remains that remains He's responsible for stealing my gear.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Remains to be seen. I'm sure.
Dave (GM):As we say in our games, everyone's like at the window, possibly, tell them that. Possibly, maybe we could frame him for it. Possibly.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):But the main thing is that he's had angry words with
Marion Freeman (Matthew):they made on the
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Mad Max, you know
Dave (GM):Mister Freeman. Mister Freeman. You think. Okay. And
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):he's made certain allegations. I wasn't... Cannot.
Dave (GM):Jimmy always good making them.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):I'll be a brunt. I'll just say about the mining. He said the mines are... About the mining around this and this.
Dave (GM):So Torrance has said?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):The mine the mining's played out up here useless.
Dave (GM):Okay. And he said that where? To you?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Or Not to me. No. In the
Marion Freeman (Matthew):In the sundown.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):The sundown.
Dave (GM):Quite loudly.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Quite loudly. When when we were having a discussion.
Dave (GM):In front of in front of many people.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Many people. Yeah.
Dave (GM):That's unpleasant.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Not very nice.
Dave (GM):Seeing that, you know, the the land isn't played out. I just need time to to get my get my business back on wheels.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Okay. And he's also... I cannot say because I haven't talked to him yet, so I... You know? But my instincts, he's also made some threats about getting involved with the ranching around here and made certain accolations about allegations about the text...
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):About the Mexican
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Land rights. Land rights.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Spanish land rights. Spanish land
Dave (GM):rights. They're also called the Mexican land rights as well. That was that was... You were right. Yeah.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):The Mexicano Spanish land rights.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yes. He's made certain allegations about them as well.
Dave (GM):In what in what in what sense?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):From what I've heard. Again, this is all going on. Was talking to you the first time that they were corrupt.
Dave (GM):Yeah. Well, it wasn't you.. Yeah. But... Okay.
Dave (GM):Well, I'm less interested in the land.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, of course, are. I'm just
Dave (GM):Not being a rancher.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Yeah. Well, I'm having, you know, I am because I've got that interest in the horse ranch. But
Dave (GM):But
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Basically, he's stirring trouble at the moment.
Dave (GM):Well, naturally, I'm most interested in in any evidence you can find that he's behind the death of my
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):my body. Of I may be... I'm thinking they may come down and raise a posse possibly to write... To actually inspect this this camp of his.
Dave (GM):Okay. Well, I mean, that... That's that's that's your job, isn't it, sheriff?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):Well, yeah, because it's my job. I'm just saying, I'm needing when you do such things, assume you need backing from the made... From major figures in the community. Can't just
Dave (GM):Well, I'm I'm I'm... You know, you're... You are our sheriff, and I Yeah. Yeah. I support law and order in Jornada Springs and anything that you feel is appropriate.
Dave (GM):If you want to call a posse to go and or deputize a few men to go
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):and progress
Dave (GM):your investigation into this despicable theft that have been going on, then I support that wholeheartedly.
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):But I just thought I should keep you informed.
Dave (GM):Well, thank you. I do appreciate that. Thank you very much.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):So you weren't wasting his time?
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):No. I wasn't. Well, I mean, yeah. No.
Marion Freeman (Matthew):Yeah. It's just he knows. He kind of accused you of wasting his time.
Dave (GM):There's a lots of kind of accusing going on in
Nathaniel Hoarecock (Andrews):this time. Yeah. Well, I suppose we could just shoot everybody. We've done a bit earlier. That
Dave (GM):would that would be a dramatic end of the story.
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