Dave (GM): It's been 10 year near on 10 years since we last spoke on the morning of the Battle of Yellow Tavern when the bastard Yankees took the general from us.
Marion Freeman: For the benefit of the listener, Tony and I both turned to Andy and looked at him with a hard stare.
Nathaniel Horcock: Get on your feet, lieutenant. You're a fucking mess. I cannot share those memories as you must have known my father was an abolitionist. My son is a father. Remember?
As was I, and I only joined it when the North invaded Virginia. Sometimes your sins will find you out.
Dave (GM): But on your own, those 31st infantry guys are gonna kill you.
Marion Freeman: He's not on his own.
Dave (GM): have any jobs. But the year is 18 69, And there are historical records indicating there were ninjas. Here in fucking Japan. I'm Dave. I am the GM and co designer of Tales of the Old West.
Marion Freeman: I am the other co designer of Tales of the Old West, and my name is Matthew. I'm also playing in this actual play, Marion Freeman.
Nathaniel Horcock: My name is Andrew. I play Nathaniel Hawcock.
Jimmy Harlesden: I'm Tony. I'm playing Jimmy Harston.
Dave (GM): But with 6 of us, we could deal with those.
Nathaniel Horcock: No more blood, I think. Where's the so where's the nearest,
Marion Freeman: Cavalry fort.
Nathaniel Horcock: Not cavalry fort. I think the nearest sheriff to here.
Dave (GM): It'd be Las Cruces, which is 50 something miles to the south. Don't know where the other map's gone. So here we go. Las Cruces is there. The scale is 5 miles per thing.
There it is. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. About 12. So it's about 60 miles to the south.
Nathaniel Horcock: Seeing this one, you have?
Dave (GM): K. The other 2 guys are sort of more slowly, but they're getting to their feet.
Nathaniel Horcock: I think I do not like lynch mobs, but I think sometimes you have to pay for your sins.
Marion Freeman: Sounds to me like a captain is telling you to run.
Dave (GM): Sounds like the captain is accepting his own death. Maybe the case.
Marion Freeman: We each of us here have faced death.
Nathaniel Horcock: I won't. I can't hand a gun like a knife. I can't. I saw I thought I turned around and said to you, sir, I'll come up hand them over to,
Marion Freeman: Fine. Now I I saw that straight away. That's why I'm telling these people that they're wasting time talking to you. And they can get on their horses and get out of town.
Jimmy Harlesden: Yeah.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. I think, yes, we want to make our scene sooner. I'm not going to add add to it.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Elliot sort of nods his head slowly.
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm. I keep going inside to see what he's doing, you know, because I'm moving my
Dave (GM): Okay. Yeah. Make an insight roll. Yep. Can you have help?
Have for us? Probably not on this one. No. I think because this is more insight in the in the second rather than
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Like you said, he was one of the main corporates, wasn't it? That's what I
Dave (GM): remember. What
Nathaniel Horcock: you told me, if memory serves. Yes.
Dave (GM): Bear with me. No. Elliot was possibly the one of the least involved in this.
Nathaniel Horcock: Oh, right. They're wrong.
Dave (GM): The McDermott was
Nathaniel Horcock: Oh, was McDermott? A
Dave (GM): winning participant. Alright. Reid was, you think, was involved.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Oh, I forgot.
Dave (GM): But perhaps
Nathaniel Horcock: not. Okay.
Dave (GM): Well, well,
Nathaniel Horcock: well, well, well, Oh, I forgot. But perhaps
Dave (GM): not all these elements. Okay. Well, well, Elliott's look okay. Well, Elliott, anyway. Elliott's kind of
Nathaniel Horcock: No. I'm not pushing.
Dave (GM): You always knew Elliott as a loyal Yeah. Loyal to his friends, and you think
Nathaniel Horcock: Yes. No. I get anything. Got 21. No.
I'm gonna push that.
Dave (GM): No successes.
Nathaniel Horcock: No successes. No. Okay.
Marion Freeman: Okay.
Dave (GM): Elliot does look quite mournful.
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm.
Dave (GM): Sad. The other 2 are a bit more angry,
Nathaniel Horcock: a
Dave (GM): bit more aggrieved. And he's like, okay. Let's go. And they sort of back away to the door, not turning their backs on you. Mhmm.
And then stepping out through the lounge and out of the home sweet home.
Marion Freeman: I will, at a distance, follow them. Okay. I'm watching from the door. They they've got horses wrapped up outside.
Dave (GM): Yeah. They probably have. Or actually, I think, no. Their horses are probably not there. There there is a dog, a very big and evil looking dog tied up to the to the horse post out there, which one of them unties.
Mhmm. And then they walk, down to the path and then back up to the road.
Marion Freeman: Can I see from this is 8? Can I see which way they turn at the end of the road or is that how to say?
Dave (GM): No. It's not very far. What is 2? 2 is a sundown, isn't it? Yeah.
They notice you watching, but then they head this way. By by this way, they they are heading up into the center of town. Yeah. For the purposes of the tape.
Marion Freeman: Hey. I imagine they're gonna fetch their horses.
Dave (GM): Mhmm. Do you
Marion Freeman: want me to keep an eye on them?
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. I think watch them till they go. And I appreciate if you never use the the, ever use a tiler captain again. It's something I don't wish to ever be reminded of ever again.
Marion Freeman: I was doing
Dave (GM): it for that. Basically, every every 5 minutes, you're gonna call you captain.
Marion Freeman: Right. So I'll I'll go
Jimmy Harlesden: I'll go with you.
Marion Freeman: K. So we'll we'll head off there. Just, you know, following a discreet distance, but kinda making sure that eating time. Okay. They, Well, you're sorry.
Tony might be coming straight after them and pissing the shit out. No.
Jimmy Harlesden: No. I mean, probably just treatise. They don't really care that they whether they see us or not. I'm quite happy if they
Dave (GM): do. But, okay. They, they walk up towards delivery, walk past delivery, over over the over the stream, over the spring, and go into the trials hotel.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Tell me they've done that.
Dave (GM): And they're talking quite closely and intently with one another as they go.
Marion Freeman: Maybe he was going to oh, we can see from we can watch the trials from the environments of the, Blessings.
Dave (GM): From Blessings. Yeah. Absolutely. Because that is up on a ridge, and it overlooks down. Yeah.
And each deck is about 50 feet, so it's about a couple of 100 feet.
Marion Freeman: So, I got for that conversation. I fancy a drink. Shall we sit outside?
Jimmy Harlesden: Seems like a fine idea.
Dave (GM): It's got
Marion Freeman: another afternoon. It's
Jimmy Harlesden: a lovely it's a lovely eve. What time of day is it now? Is it
Dave (GM): It's early afternoon, I guess, by now.
Nathaniel Horcock: You got mine about joining you then?
Marion Freeman: Well, you can come and join us later. You can't you can't you can't say that because you're not here.
Dave (GM): So so what are you doing, Andy? What's the you are following?
Nathaniel Horcock: That's half of me is that 10% is gonna be my days are obviously numbered to stay down at the, No. So, give my regards to the to the host hostess and head up towards the blessings then. Might as well. Yeah.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Madam Chastity is there, and I think she's couldn't overhear what was being said,
Nathaniel Horcock: but here
Dave (GM): it was a tense conversation. And so thank you, thank you, Nathaniel, for sorting out those men for me.
Nathaniel Horcock: Must say my brother. My pleasure.
Dave (GM): They look like, a troublesome sort.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yes. Just the old past. Yeah. And I'll get like I said, I'll say good day under Abel up the street.
Dave (GM): Yep. Okay. Cool.
Marion Freeman: So we're watching. You meet us there. Mhmm. We all three watch. I like my first plan.
But I understand why you can't.
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm. That's it.
Marion Freeman: I would, of course, approach for you. We only have their word that they're hunting everybody on this list. This 4 pillar, this massacre that happened off us, were they all involved?
Nathaniel Horcock: Yes. They were there.
Marion Freeman: And why were you not involved?
Nathaniel Horcock: Because I was a gal I was running the air messenger.
Marion Freeman: Yeah. I can understand. A bunch of people out for vengeance. That might not matter that much.
Nathaniel Horcock: Indeed. Yeah. But maybe I should have stopped it when I got there. But there, it was none of dusting when I got back.
Marion Freeman: Probably don't say that. Mhmm. Don't say maybe I should have stopped it. I'm interested to know whether they're going to leave town.
Dave (GM): Mhmm.
Marion Freeman: That hotel is you're prevented by the McGinn's.
Nathaniel Horcock: No. Yes. That's why
Marion Freeman: a unit past me.
Nathaniel Horcock: Past him, you mean? You got the smile that's why I had his smile on his face, you mean?
Marion Freeman: I I I might not be surprised if that's why he was smiling so poorly.
Jimmy Harlesden: So if what they say is true and these guys are coming for revenge and they're a day behind, what are their their options apart from just carrying on running? Unless they try and take him down and hand him over in the hope that that would save their lives.
Marion Freeman: Yeah, mister captain. We were saying following
Nathaniel Horcock: orders. We're not
Jimmy Harlesden: Or I guess, so if they talk to the beginners, maybe they could
Dave (GM): Could you
Nathaniel Horcock: would you try and
Jimmy Harlesden: change their identities and pretend just to be begin employees.
Dave (GM): And what as long as the
Nathaniel Horcock: Under assumed names.
Dave (GM): I can't get the answer.
Jimmy Harlesden: What would you do for me to do with that? Assuming that what they told us is true.
Dave (GM): We're still recording at the moment. Yeah.
Marion Freeman: We don't know that they are working with the McGinns.
Jimmy Harlesden: No. This is we don't We
Marion Freeman: have, therefore, at this point, no reason to expect that the beginners will come out and stand alongside them. If they don't run, then sooner or later, a boss is gonna come into this town.
Nathaniel Horcock: And cause trouble.
Marion Freeman: And we can point them to the hotel. And let's face it. I don't mind if the McGinn's Hotel gets trashed.
Nathaniel Horcock: It's not the
Dave (GM): McGinn's Hotel.
Marion Freeman: Yeah. I know it's not the McGinn's Hotel, but it's the one that
Nathaniel Horcock: How long have they been in there? What do you say now? Since I've joined you.
Dave (GM): Oh, yeah. The afternoon has passed.
Nathaniel Horcock: So They haven't moved out?
Dave (GM): Several hours. Yeah.
Marion Freeman: So you don't look like they're moving on.
Jimmy Harlesden: Unless they snuck out the back where we can't see them.
Marion Freeman: Yeah. I got it wrong. The house is a bit blurry.
Nathaniel Horcock: Seems to me the McGinn has just caused travel problems after problems in this town.
Marion Freeman: We we let let
Jimmy Harlesden: let me
Marion Freeman: just be really clear. We're not saying it begins, of course. No. No. Any of this trouble.
Maybe it was the people that murdered the regiment of black folk that caused the trouble
Nathaniel Horcock: that we
Marion Freeman: are dealing with now. Just just put that down there. We are we are hypothesizing that, obviously, the one Hotel Webster is the one that is Dunnington begins. That's all. That's all.
I'm also noticing, though, that they're not leaving town and were they so scared of this mob. That they're not leaving town means either that mob ain't coming a day behind us, they said. They did say day behind.
Jimmy Harlesden: They did. They did that. Yes.
Marion Freeman: And getting no support from you.
Dave (GM): I can start with you.
Marion Freeman: Or from the 6 of us as they said. We can hold them off.
Jimmy Harlesden: Did it say how many people were in this one?
Nathaniel Horcock: No, they didn't.
Marion Freeman: They didn't. But they they I
Jimmy Harlesden: don't think people could take them down.
Marion Freeman: I sort of feel one of us, and it shouldn't be me, and it shouldn't be you. Let me just check.
Dave (GM): Let's face facts first.
Jimmy Harlesden: It's you. Yeah.
Nathaniel Horcock: Well, she's going there. How to tell them.
Marion Freeman: She'd go in our.
Nathaniel Horcock: I'll never live. Yeah.
Marion Freeman: And I'm sure Tony's the best equipped to have that conversation, but I don't. I don't.
Jimmy Harlesden: I'm sure they're gonna they're gonna
Marion Freeman: It could be you, I suppose. Tell us.
Nathaniel Horcock: It could be me. Yes.
Jimmy Harlesden: I mean, why would they why would they tell us anything? So they're not necessarily anything true.
Nathaniel Horcock: And I could go in and say I did ask, you know. I do that.
Marion Freeman: Well, I'm not going to the hotel on my, ticket front.
Nathaniel Horcock: Free.
Dave (GM): Confederate offices. Sorry.
Marion Freeman: Come here. He's just well, A man's gonna do what a man's gonna do. He's not gonna be stupid.
Nathaniel Horcock: Oh, hell. Now the part of me says it's a shootout in the place. It's Yeah.
Dave (GM): So I don't think you were actually barred. You were asked to leave because you were bad mouthing the begins loudly at the bar.
Marion Freeman: Yeah. But Andy takes that personally because he's been barred from so many times.
Nathaniel Horcock: It's not that
Dave (GM): many. How many?
Nathaniel Horcock: Trying to think now.
Marion Freeman: Well, there's the sportsman. Yeah.
Nathaniel Horcock: The dance floor three times. That was that's my proudest effort.
Dave (GM): Okay. That's 4 at least.
Marion Freeman: How many of you were buying 3 times? The first two times obviously didn't really count. No.
Nathaniel Horcock: No. But it was different landlords because it showed
Jimmy Harlesden: you a bit.
Dave (GM): So they do, Cam. So to the rest of us, put your hand out if you've ever been barred from the place. Go and keep them up.
Marion Freeman: For the benefit of the tape, nobody else but that.
Dave (GM): I'll do it.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Only 4.
Jimmy Harlesden: From 3 times, it was the same pub.
Nathaniel Horcock: Three times the same pub. Yeah.
Dave (GM): That that would
Jimmy Harlesden: be different angles.
Nathaniel Horcock: Different angles. Good effort.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Right then.
Jimmy Harlesden: So I'm not sure yeah. I'm still not sure what we'll gain by going and confronting them again, because they're not gonna tell us anything.
Marion Freeman: Right. So do I get anything that That's you and I should go back to the lunch. You should spend the night as you were suggesting at the
Jimmy Harlesden: Home sweet home.
Marion Freeman: Home sweet home. Then if these people really are, if they really have a list and they're doing their detective work and they know where you live, they'll be coming to the branch. Now if they meet us there, we may be able to better explain what's going on here. And I'm sorry, but whatever your considerations are, I will take them straight to that hotel. If they come into town
Dave (GM): Mhmm.
Marion Freeman: You'll be in town, and there'll be 4 people hanging up for trees. But, that that that might be the downside of it.
Nathaniel Horcock: What do artists think?
Marion Freeman: You could you could the blessing's like us. You could stay here. If they think you're rated, they won't be expecting to find you in this. Or you could come home with us to ranch.
Nathaniel Horcock: And get links to the ranch?
Marion Freeman: No. We face off. We can convince them to see the other way.
Nathaniel Horcock: Maybe my last night, so I'll go down to the thing.
Jimmy Harlesden: Home to be home.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Maybe I'll get a discount now.
Jimmy Harlesden: Not sure. Well, actually, yeah.
Dave (GM): I think you might do because you did run I think, yeah, I think you get
Marion Freeman: a Key for the
Dave (GM): price of
Nathaniel Horcock: 1. Yes.
Marion Freeman: Exactly. I think, yeah, I think you
Dave (GM): get a a discount. Yes.
Nathaniel Horcock: Let's see.
Marion Freeman: I think we should go home, but
Nathaniel Horcock: Yep. Let's see what
Jimmy Harlesden: tomorrow man.
Marion Freeman: Let's Okay. We'll head back to the ranch then.
Nathaniel Horcock: Let's see what tomorrow brings in.
Marion Freeman: Let's see what tomorrow brings. Okay. How do we get on with the guy at delivery stables?
Dave (GM): I think you get on with him fine. I don't think there's any anything either way particularly. Yeah. What's his name? His his name is Palmer Wright and he is a Oh, jeez.
He is an emancipated player.
Jimmy Harlesden: He already has a name, so he
Dave (GM): Yeah. He's a he's a he's an ex slave, He runs oh, no. Hang on. No. Okay.
So the blacksmith and the livery are kind of run side by side, so connected but not. Palmer Rowe runs the blacksmiths. Mhmm. The livery sabers is run by Palmer's friend, a guy called Cello Cayetana. Okay.
And so Palmer is a is a emancipated slave. Cello is a Mexican. So I'm here on
Marion Freeman: the way home. We maybe ask Palmer to keep an eye on the hotel across the across the way for us. Maybe even explain some of the story.
Jimmy Harlesden: Yeah. And so we can let us know if if they well, we can check first. Have they do these guys have they left their horses at the stables? Or they
Marion Freeman: Yeah.
Dave (GM): Are you going with them, Andy? Or No.
Nathaniel Horcock: What's that?
Dave (GM): To talk to the livery? Or are you too busy getting your 2 for the price of 1?
Nathaniel Horcock: I must be getting the 2 for the price of 1.
Marion Freeman: Dedicated to the narrative, obviously. Yeah. So it's just a joke I said. It
Jimmy Harlesden: will have to
Dave (GM): it might be well.
Jimmy Harlesden: You know, we don't we
Marion Freeman: don't want to have to explain that, yeah, what he did once upon a time. He was a captain in the regiment that did this terrible massacre. I'm a Confederate taboo.
Dave (GM): Okay. So, you obviously know Parma. Make a role. Make a performing role to see what your relationship with him is like at this point.
Marion Freeman: What's your
Jimmy Harlesden: I have Ford icing
Marion Freeman: for me. Okay. Well, tell you what, I've put 4 dice in the form in 2 pictures. I take
Nathaniel Horcock: one of
Dave (GM): your dice. No. This is about how you've just Just a step. Over the over the time. So this isn't
Marion Freeman: Right. Okay.
Dave (GM): So both of you are all separately. Okay. But I think you can both have a bonus die because of your behavior dealing with the Tannenhol gang and stuff.
Jimmy Harlesden: No. And one success.
Dave (GM): Okay. So you don't really know him. You haven't really, done anything. I think he was I think William was probably friendly with him. So you don't particularly know him, but he feels warmly towards you because of his friendship with William.
So yeah, he he he kind of welcomes you when he when he sees you gives you a little wave.
Jimmy Harlesden: So, yeah. A little bit of faith that you'll ask us. 3 guys in town.
Dave (GM): How how are they dressed? They're dressed. They're gonna check out the fire. They're not wearing non red coats. No.
They're not wearing Confederate uniforms. You can describe it. They're wearing fairly standard sort of cowboy trail.
Marion Freeman: I took
Jimmy Harlesden: you guys from out of town. They just wanna find out if they if they left their horses here.
Dave (GM): And then what,
Nathaniel Horcock: what what, what what
Marion Freeman: what business is it of yours, you know, Jimmy?
Dave (GM): Well,
Jimmy Harlesden: I think we'll just explain pretty much. The truth is our old comrades of, what's his names?
Nathaniel Horcock: Reputation? Minus 500 then.
Jimmy Harlesden: K.
Dave (GM): On a 66, Palmer was at Fort Pillay.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Girl.
Dave (GM): That was quite close. Yeah. Marvelous.
Jimmy Harlesden: These guys, they've got themselves in some some troubles, and fellas are after them. They're trying to drag a cockroach into it. We're trying to you know, it's nothing to do with him. We're trying to make sure he stays at we can keep him out of it. So we basically told them earlier that,
Marion Freeman: we
Jimmy Harlesden: want nothing to do, they should get out of town, but as far as we can tell, they haven't yet. So we're just,
Dave (GM): what what do you what do you what do
Jimmy Harlesden: you need me to do, Jimmy? Well, I don't need to do anything. We're just we're just kind of asking if they,
Dave (GM): Make a performing role.
Marion Freeman: Take a point for me? Yeah. Can you have
Dave (GM): a point for Matthew on this occasion?
Jimmy Harlesden: I think I'm gonna push it anyway. Okay. So I've got a success, but I've got 2.
Dave (GM): One case. I
Jimmy Harlesden: will I've got plenty of faith. I'll buy both of them off.
Dave (GM): Okay.
Jimmy Harlesden: So I've got one success.
Dave (GM): Right. Yeah. He says, you know, I I don't know what trouble you're getting yourself into young Jimmy, but for, as you know, as a good friend of your brother, mourn his loss. Yeah. They, they've got some horses here.
If it's the 3 men I I think you're, you're talking about. Rode into town first thing this morning. Yeah. We've got the horses here if, and what you want you wanna know when when they leave.
Jimmy Harlesden: If, if they do leave,
Marion Freeman: if you could get
Jimmy Harlesden: wedged, that would be a big
Marion Freeman: help. Yeah.
Dave (GM): And where where where are you gonna be? Are you gonna be all the way out at your ranch or because that's that's a bit of I can't promise how quickly I can get a message to you out there. Or you could be in town somewhere.
Nathaniel Horcock: The rest and welcome.
Marion Freeman: Look. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Dave (GM): You haven't been honest with me so far?
Marion Freeman: No. No. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you the whole truth here. This trouble follows is a 131st, which travel?
Dave (GM): 31st. 30 1st, isn't it? Infantry regiment of the USTC, as it was called. The US or
Nathaniel Horcock: CT. NEC, wasn't it?
Jimmy Harlesden: US Coast Troops. Wow. Alright.
Dave (GM): What's the name of that?
Nathaniel Horcock: I don't see it.
Marion Freeman: This is about a battle at Fort Pillow. I don't know if you've heard of it.
Dave (GM): I I think most educated people have heard of fork pillow.
Marion Freeman: Maybe you're a blacksmith. Sorry.
Dave (GM): I can I can read, you know, mister mister, mister Freeman? Better than most.
Marion Freeman: Yeah. So you know what happened in pork pit up. Those 3 behind it. There were some survivors. I'm guessing relations of those that were killed or who are hunting them down.
Dave (GM): Now And what's this got to do with, with mister Hawcock?
Nathaniel Horcock: Must have changed my name now. Mister Grand. Yes.
Marion Freeman: They're trying to pull him into this conflict. Was he, was
Dave (GM): he was he
Marion Freeman: involved? Not that I not to my knowledge.
Dave (GM): Why why are they picking on, on mister Hawcock?
Marion Freeman: They know him from the past. But the key then is I don't care what happens to them. My sympathies lie more with those that are chasing them as within themselves. But whatever happens with them don't need to happen in this town which has seen enough violence already. I'll show you the way.
So I am somewhat disturbed that they haven't left town already. Then there just be a posse riding through. We can wish them luck as they go. But they haven't left town. They're looking to make some kind of stand here, and I think it's because of the presence of mister Hawcock.
That they think they may have allies in this town. So that's what I wanna know. So you're right. I think young Jimmy and I I need to get Jimmy out of the whole situation about the ranch. Maybe if you do see anything, you could report their movements to mountain chassis.
She's a friend of ours. She'll have a snow.
Dave (GM): I can yeah. I can
Jimmy Harlesden: do that. Yeah. If these
Dave (GM): are if these men are bad men, then as you say, it'd be nice to see them stroll on out of town before, before any trouble starts.
Marion Freeman: All I care about is symbolism happen here. It can happen a mile down the road.
Dave (GM): Yeah. He agrees. He'll get a message to to, to chastity. Chastity or charity? Charity.
Nathaniel Horcock: I think it's was it charity?
Jimmy Harlesden: I thought it's chastity.
Dave (GM): Chastity. No, it is chastity. Yeah. Chastity Mariel.
Marion Freeman: That's an ironic name. Of course. Lord chosen. Right. Okay.
I think that's the best we can do. That's right. Yeah. So much.
Nathaniel Horcock: That's meant to be too
Marion Freeman: my protective almost finally where I'm seeing I've gotta get to the. Yeah. I knew that would work on me.
Dave (GM): And it did because I didn't And
Marion Freeman: it did because I didn't have to make a swaging
Dave (GM): Man, very well done, Matthew. Very well done. Very clever.
Marion Freeman: Thank you. I like you clever.
Dave (GM): I'm presuming you're gonna stop by the, the home sweet home and let Chastity know. Yes.
Marion Freeman: So I'm gonna say, we've got somebody watching the hotel. I'm not gonna be I'm gonna be conveyed about names, but I said someone's gonna watch another big man. Gonna report on their movements. You get a message back here. Don't tell them that mister Hawcock is here, but pass the message on to mister Hawcock.
Dave (GM): Cool. I
Nathaniel Horcock: seem to be spending a lot of time in that place at the moment.
Marion Freeman: A lot of time. A lot of money.
Nathaniel Horcock: Do you?
Dave (GM): Okay. So you guys have gone back to the ranch.
Jimmy Harlesden: Yep. Mhmm.
Dave (GM): You're spending the night Yep. Getting tired.
Nathaniel Horcock: Getting tired.
Dave (GM): So I
Nathaniel Horcock: don't get her for a fake appointment.
Dave (GM): You don't get a point of faith of sleeping with her. You explain yourself. I'm not gonna give him a point just because he's, you know, high of 2 girls.
Jimmy Harlesden: Okay. Okay.
Dave (GM): But I've I under circumstances, this does seem to be you know, you're obviously not capable of forming a proper relationship with the girls. No.
Marion Freeman: So how long did you get married?
Dave (GM): So I think in this case I'll say. I think, you've gone there for comfort and for solace. So I think I am gonna give you a point of faith.
Nathaniel Horcock: Thank you, sir.
Jimmy Harlesden: Yeah. I am gonna clean my gun as well in the proxy.
Dave (GM): Mhmm. And who's every man's right. Okay. The next morning comes around.
Nathaniel Horcock: And I've led it to Canada.
Marion Freeman: So no messages from
Dave (GM): Well, you do get woken quite early. Mhmm. Or maybe you're awake. You're just cleaning your gun perhaps. And, madam chastity dropped us on the door
Nathaniel Horcock: and says,
Dave (GM): just had a
Jimmy Harlesden: a message from Palmer
Dave (GM): down at the blacksmiths. Mhmm. Those those those men
Nathaniel Horcock: Yes.
Dave (GM): They they appear to be just in the town square, kind of waiting, standing. Quite unusual. But I thought I'd I thought I'd let you know.
Nathaniel Horcock: Oh, well. It was good character.
Jimmy Harlesden: You're very
Dave (GM): You're very fair to let's speak about a cat, aren't you? Yeah. I remember with, Amhar Ironblood, whatever his name was.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah.
Marion Freeman: Oh, yes. I thought
Dave (GM): he was a dead man when we
Nathaniel Horcock: When he pulled me up against the mountain. Yes.
Marion Freeman: We were playing Game of Thrones, and he was fighting the mountain. Of course.
Nathaniel Horcock: We all knew he was a bit.
Dave (GM): We did. Yeah. I didn't think you'd win it as easily as you did, actually. But Well,
Nathaniel Horcock: I think it went on for quite a while. I think they'll It did,
Dave (GM): but I think once you got the upper hand, you're you're fighting defensively very well.
Nathaniel Horcock: I think it's good. I had lots of faith points or whatever you wanna
Dave (GM): call it.
Nathaniel Horcock: I think that's using lots of
Dave (GM): Glory, I think it's Glory. Glory. Or destiny points.
Nathaniel Horcock: Destiny, whatever it was. Yes. But there was a lot of parrying going on, I see.
Dave (GM): There was a lot of defending.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yes. Yeah.
Dave (GM): Which is what won it for you.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. God, you got a good memory, mate. Oh, bad. Yeah.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Now I remember
Nathaniel Horcock: My panic.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Dead. And you just reached on a weed out of it at every point, and me working out the way of making you
Nathaniel Horcock: I wasn't gonna weed on out of it.
Dave (GM): To do it when Oberyn said, yeah. That'd be a great idea. Go on, sir. I'm a crack on. I feel enjoy watching it.
Nathaniel Horcock: Well, he is really
Dave (GM): on your face. Oh, fuck. I'm dead.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah.
Dave (GM): You can't Anyway, back to Granada Springs.
Nathaniel Horcock: Just like now.
Dave (GM): She offers to send, a rider out to the ranch to tell
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay. Yeah. And Freeman, what's happening? Mhmm. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah. So I guess yeah. Okay. And I shall get myself You've
Dave (GM): probably got an hour before they turn up, assuming that they decide to come into town.
Nathaniel Horcock: They'll do this.
Dave (GM): I think
Marion Freeman: we should wait
Dave (GM): here. Yeah.
Marion Freeman: We don't need to get involved in this.
Nathaniel Horcock: No. No.
Dave (GM): We do. We need
Marion Freeman: to stop the violence happening in this town.
Nathaniel Horcock: How far is it to Canada?
Dave (GM): About 3000 miles.
Nathaniel Horcock: At least that a little. Maybe
Dave (GM): not 3. 2 and a half 1000 miles maybe.
Nathaniel Horcock: Near to Mexico. Oh, what the hell?
Dave (GM): You are quite close to Mexico. El Paso to the south is a 100 miles away or something.
Nathaniel Horcock: Well, I suppose I'll get myself cleaned
Dave (GM): up. Yep.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Just ask just just ask. Are they still out there, or are they still standing out there? Can I can I see the
Dave (GM): No? Not
Marion Freeman: where you are. You're you're here in
Dave (GM): the south of the town Mhmm. And the the thing is there, so it's a few 100 feet away.
Nathaniel Horcock: Just one way.
Dave (GM): 4, 500 feet away, and there's properties and
Nathaniel Horcock: And ways? And stuff
Dave (GM): in the way. Yeah.
Nathaniel Horcock: What time in the morning is it? Is it Quite early. Quite early. What? 6, 5?
Dave (GM): Not quite first light, but it was yeah. It's not the sun's not long been up.
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm. Okay. Let's start walking out new new
Marion Freeman: character names.
Dave (GM): When the messenger gets to, to the ranch, what are you 2 doing?
Marion Freeman: Well, when they actually arrive, I'm doing some actual ranch work, but, I think
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay.
Marion Freeman: I'm suddenly thinking, here's what we're spending all this time having adventures. Whereas, I've got a business to run, I would say.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Turning the horses out. Yeah. Or whatever.
Marion Freeman: But I see the messenger coming.
Nathaniel Horcock: Is it just being like, was it unforgiving, wasn't it? There you are.
Marion Freeman: Wait. Except for my food farmer.
Nathaniel Horcock: No. Don't worry about it. I'm forgiving was a lady, and I wasn't who came back with a message.
Marion Freeman: So this is a young woman, is it,
Jimmy Harlesden: or a horse?
Dave (GM): No. It's probably a teenage boy.
Nathaniel Horcock: Who's that?
Marion Freeman: But with with the message that is?
Dave (GM): He's been told to tell you that the the 3 men are are are up and about and in the town square in Granada Springs. Don't know what that means. Thank
Marion Freeman: you. I'll give him 50¢. Cool. Thank
Dave (GM): you very much, mister Freeman, sir.
Nathaniel Horcock: How much do I take off my
Dave (GM): $1. $1.
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay.
Dave (GM): That's half price for double.
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay. Excellent. Excellent value.
Marion Freeman: Can I have your wrapper?
Dave (GM): And actually I mean, yeah.
Marion Freeman: Erase it.
Dave (GM): It's less than half price because, yeah, you spent you spent the night there as well.
Nathaniel Horcock: Town. Mhmm. Alright, kid.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Candy. Yeah. You're dressed. You're clean.
Clean. Your hands clean.
Jimmy Harlesden: Well,
Nathaniel Horcock: what they are.
Jimmy Harlesden: Okay. Once we get to this message, I'm gonna get
Marion Freeman: hidden to town. Yeah. Yeah.
Jimmy Harlesden: I'll hang as well.
Nathaniel Horcock: How long has it been, Rufe, since I since they told me it's been a since they passed the message on to me?
Dave (GM): Half an hour?
Nathaniel Horcock: Half an hour.
Dave (GM): For you to get ready and
Nathaniel Horcock: well, sometimes. Yeah. Just start walking up the town then. Yes.
Dave (GM): Okay. Yeah. And as you walk along the road, you can see there's a few people milling about. Visitors of the day is starting.
Nathaniel Horcock: Again, they sent some of these guys. You know, are they picking up any vibes for the people of town or not?
Dave (GM): So now it all seems to be fairly fairly normal. Mhmm. The 3 the 3 men have now but when you walk up to here, you can see they've got chairs from somewhere.
Nathaniel Horcock: Alright.
Dave (GM): And they're just sitting in the middle of the square Mhmm. On their chairs, kind of looking in this direction, sort of towards the to the west, towards the road. Right. They're obviously armed, but they're not sitting there.
Nathaniel Horcock: Where's the No. But
Dave (GM): Sitting there as if they're, you know, they're not they're not in a kind of defensive position or anything like that. They're just sitting on chairs in the in the middle of the of the, of the town square. Obviously, waiting.
Jimmy Harlesden: Waiting. What direction is that route in?
Dave (GM): South.
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay.
Jimmy Harlesden: We said we didn't see any signs of an approaching posse of Oh, as we approach the town.
Marion Freeman: The the ranch will say, if anybody comes calling looking for Just tell them that the people they're looking for are in town. Okay. Yep.
Dave (GM): Make a little call. Roll the time.
Jimmy Harlesden: Two successes.
Dave (GM): Okay. You other than the dust kicked up by the by the teenage boy on the horse running back into town, you can't see anything that looks out of ordinary.
Marion Freeman: K.
Nathaniel Horcock: You have 2 successes on it. Okay?
Dave (GM): Which means
Jimmy Harlesden: I'm not coming from that direction.
Nathaniel Horcock: Maybe. Yeah. Well, We'll walk up some
Dave (GM): Okay. So, anyway, yeah, you you're you're sort of
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. Yeah.
Dave (GM): And how
Nathaniel Horcock: do they react when they see me walking up the street?
Dave (GM): Wary, but Mhmm.
Nathaniel Horcock: Otherwise not
Dave (GM): Alright. Otherwise, not too, Not too
Nathaniel Horcock: Too bothered?
Dave (GM): Too bothered, it seems. No?
Nathaniel Horcock: Hello?
Dave (GM): I think as you as you sort of walk across the big cube bit so this this the springs
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm.
Dave (GM): Is quite narrow, so it can be crossed, particularly on the horse. So it's not like it's a big running river or anything. But, obviously there were bores over here, so you can't get their feet wet. As I do see, they do they do stand up.
Nathaniel Horcock: Right.
Dave (GM): And Elliott says, have you come to your senses, captain, and decided to join us?
Nathaniel Horcock: No. Well, I never repeat myself. I said, what was said was was, said yesterday. Although, I did ask that you left and not bring the shit to this town. Well, then again, I feel you're still not telling me all the truth.
Dave (GM): Can I
Nathaniel Horcock: have a Hawkeye role here?
Dave (GM): What are you looking for?
Nathaniel Horcock: Well, I'm Phil. I just I say you're still not telling me all the facts.
Marion Freeman: So that wouldn't be
Dave (GM): It'd be that'd be inside role.
Nathaniel Horcock: Insight. Okay. My apologies.
Dave (GM): And you can make an inside roll. Yeah.
Nathaniel Horcock: I wonder whether what is inside. Where is it? We find it. Oh, inside 26. Yes.
It is 6. So it's 5 red and one green, isn't it? That's right.
Dave (GM): Yep. Isn't it? Yes. If you got 6 dice Yeah. 5 would need to be covered.
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay. Just see what they've got. And how many face points have I got left?
Marion Freeman: Oh, one success.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. It won't success.
Marion Freeman: Just one.
Nathaniel Horcock: Should I push it?
Marion Freeman: No one's there?
Nathaniel Horcock: No one's there. Oh, what the hell? You gotta push it. Okay.
Dave (GM): I might have done.
Nathaniel Horcock: Oh, 2 more. Success.
Marion Freeman: 2 more. 3 successes.
Dave (GM): 3 successes. On your trouble?
Nathaniel Horcock: One on my yeah. There's 2 ones on your 2 one.
Dave (GM): 2 two trouble.
Nathaniel Horcock: What have I got? 5, 3 So I'm gonna but you spend
Dave (GM): the faith to push Yeah. So you're down to 4
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm.
Dave (GM): And you got 2 points of toggle.
Nathaniel Horcock: So then we don't take 3, won't you?
Dave (GM): No. You don't have 2 if you both did both.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yeah. You keep 1 and
Jimmy Harlesden: then you just go down 1 or 4.
Nathaniel Horcock: Oh, oh, what the hell? That pushed me down 2.
Dave (GM): Or you just take your your luck on 2 d six and roll on the table.
Nathaniel Horcock: Oh, I'll get rid of it. I'm down to 2 fief then. Get rid
Dave (GM): of both of
Nathaniel Horcock: them. Yes. Solid.
Dave (GM): And so how many successes in? Yeah. You
Marion Freeman: guys came down because you've got the table. I know.
Dave (GM): Yeah. I'm not so wrong.
Nathaniel Horcock: 6. Well, dude. Would've
Dave (GM): well, 6 would've been, you're lucky you slipped, triple stomped. You say the wrong thing or do
Jimmy Harlesden: something that looks out of
Dave (GM): place, but no one really notices and this has no adverse impact. However, you're shaken by the close call and lose one point of faith. So you lost 1 you would have lost 1 instead of 2 on that dialogue.
Nathaniel Horcock: Right. Oh, no.
Dave (GM): So how many success did you get? 3.
Nathaniel Horcock: 3. Yeah.
Dave (GM): You're not sure whether or not they're hiding anything, but they do look pretty tense. Now you see it. And with 3 successes, you you you feel you feel threatened. Like, they dance towards you. Because if they might
Nathaniel Horcock: draw,
Dave (GM): they might do something going, yeah, threatening.
Nathaniel Horcock: Right. Okay.
Dave (GM): Well, if you've come here to not to join us, then, then why why are you here?
Nathaniel Horcock: I'm here because I've tried to make a decent a new a decent life for myself in this town, and you basically boys are fucking it up. I want the past gone. We all made mistakes.
Dave (GM): And We're not fucking it up.
Nathaniel Horcock: Yes. You are.
Dave (GM): The 31st inventory are. If they'd leave us alone and let Beiers be Beiers gone, then none of this would be happening.
Nathaniel Horcock: If you what's which one did he say was it was wasn't Elliot, was it?
Dave (GM): Which one? What?
Nathaniel Horcock: The derma, wasn't it? It was the bloodthirsty, wasn't it? Yes. Yeah. If people like not why not mister Dermott there?
I haven't been so fucking hot headed and caused all the shit while, you know, the colonel had been so weak. Now this trouble have happened, will it?
Dave (GM): You're beginning to put a little attention Uh-huh. From the people around.
Nathaniel Horcock: They're beginning to cause
Dave (GM): a bit of a sin. Look. What happened 10 years ago happened 10 years ago. It doesn't all all we wanna do is see ourselves clear so we can do what what you're doing and to start a new life. Well,
Nathaniel Horcock: which way is Mexico? South. South. Well, I'll point that direction. Well, the horse is in your horses are in the stables.
I'm not stopping it.
Dave (GM): Yeah. But we can't run forever. The point has to come, man.
Nathaniel Horcock: Well, not in this town. If you wanna make your last stand, make your last stand somewhere else.
Dave (GM): Well, you're happy being here for now, captain.
Nathaniel Horcock: Would we normally it's normally boot here, isn't it?
Dave (GM): Sorry. What do you mean?
Nathaniel Horcock: Normally boot here would have a shoot out, so that's really the last time.
Dave (GM): Oh, you have had one shoot out in here. The first one was Yes.
Nathaniel Horcock: I'm trying to be a
Dave (GM): And then and then he had to shoot out by then.
Nathaniel Horcock: I'm trying to be a good man yet again. I'm trying to be a better man, I feel. So, okay, boys. I will give you, yet again, for for old time's sake, Half an hour to air to go to leave or you can point up to Boot Hill. The choice is yours.
Dave (GM): Are you calling us out, captain?
Nathaniel Horcock: No. Your choice. You're bringing trouble to this town. I don't want the trouble. Now if there is, if you say, a possum is way, well, then that is something we deal with when it arrives.
Dave (GM): Make a performing role.
Nathaniel Horcock: That's I can't read it now. That is probably 3. 35
Dave (GM): no 7
Marion Freeman: Yeah. No.
Nathaniel Horcock: I don't know. I wanna look great. Here we go. Give me a 6. Oh, I've got a 6.
And a 1, but I'm not gonna push it.
Dave (GM): You're not pushing. No. Okay. They don't seem intimidated by by that. And, McDermott, he called him out, and he says, you do what you like, Hawk.
What do we care?
Nathaniel Horcock: Uh-huh. Well, I care that you're gonna cause trouble here. This is the whole point of this stupid argument, isn't it?
Dave (GM): We're not causing trouble. The posse will be.
Nathaniel Horcock: How people reacting to that sort of voices, you know?
Jimmy Harlesden: Because I
Nathaniel Horcock: only get really out of time to think
Dave (GM): fuck off. People are confused because they don't know what's Uh-huh. You know, what they're hearing is this talk, and they don't know what's behind it.
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm. Well, it's your choice, boys. You gotta leave or I see you up at the at the booth in half an hour.
Dave (GM): Were you 2 just moseying into town, or were you galloping?
Marion Freeman: I was just asking that question myself, actually. But I'll ask my colleague here, Tony, Billy.
Dave (GM): I think we're probably Tony. Yes. Jacobs.
Jimmy Harlesden: Marion? Well, I think we're I
Dave (GM): think probably riding quite hard. Yeah.
Jimmy Harlesden: Can I bring you?
Marion Freeman: Should I make riding, Rob? Yeah. I think you need
Dave (GM): to make another one handle, new girls.
Nathaniel Horcock: I'm gonna go for a wee while.
Marion Freeman: My handling is 5. But do I do something for my horse?
Dave (GM): Depends on what your horse is qualities are.
Marion Freeman: I've got hot horse plus 1.
Dave (GM): That's plus 1 when galloping.
Marion Freeman: Yep. That's a plus one when galloping. Cool. I don't use the horse's equipment, so you
Dave (GM): No. This is your animal handling. Right. So if I if I riding.
Marion Freeman: But I can go to plus 1 for horse.
Dave (GM): So her horse, specifically, let me just for the purposes of the tape, explain. So, yeah, Hot Horse. And is that a mustang you got, really? Just out of interest.
Marion Freeman: I haven't got meat on this Okay. Sheet.
Dave (GM): It could be random, but No. Mustangs are hot horses by standard because that's that's they're they're temperament. So hot horse
Marion Freeman: What's they're calling them Ford?
Dave (GM): Is got hold of animal handling when galloping because these these horses love to run.
Jimmy Harlesden: Okay. So I've got fast and sure fitted. I think fast, when I so I could push on the hand twice on the gallop.
Dave (GM): Yep. I'm not sure if it's the horse gains plus 1 to move. Oh, to quick. If it needs it.
Jimmy Harlesden: Okay. So it's not that's not
Nathaniel Horcock: relevant to me.
Dave (GM): But this one means you could push the roll twice if you want.
Jimmy Harlesden: But simply at a cost of faith each time.
Dave (GM): Yes. Absolutely.
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay. I
Jimmy Harlesden: have 3 in Alhandling and 4 kinds. 7.
Dave (GM): Nice. And if you want to you can push it twice.
Jimmy Harlesden: I probably won't. That's 2 successes.
Dave (GM): Yeah. Okay. Probably human. And methanol success. Yeah.
Okay. So you're no risk of falling off. Your horses are running well. You are galloping towards town. So you will appear at a narrow Too much of your question.
Andy, as you all stood there Mhmm. In the square here you go. Let's do a little drawing just for fun. You've kind of got the pond there.
Nathaniel Horcock: Don't tell me a posse of 20 suddenly turns up.
Dave (GM): You've got the springs there. You got the the wood wooden planks over it there. And then you've got Reuben's house here. And you've got the road that comes in. And then you've got the 3 houses over there.
So yeah. So they are in the middle over here. Mhmm. You are, I think, over here. Mhmm.
Marion Freeman: And as you're in the
Dave (GM): middle of this this standoff, you can hear, the sound of riders
Nathaniel Horcock: Alright.
Dave (GM): Coming down this road. And as you look, you see 5 horsemen.
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay. That's more than 2, isn't it?
Marion Freeman: All Yeah. We're cutting out
Dave (GM): the other one. All all black men riding, and they kind of ride into, the end of the road where the where the where the square is. And they see the the the scene there. They see the 3 men. They see you, and they kind of reign in reign in themselves Mhmm.
And and stop them surveying the scene. You can see from the reaction Mhmm. Of Elliot, McDermott, and Reid that these are the men there.
Marion Freeman: Mhmm. About.
Nathaniel Horcock: Jesus. Okay.
Dave (GM): And Elliot immediately steps forward and says, just wait a minute, guys. Just wait. Don't do anything stupid. We've got a deal. We can make a deal.
Mhmm. And the the men on the horses start to dismount. I think at this point, you boys are probably riding up the road here.
Marion Freeman: Okay. Right. We'll start down to a counter. Tell me, don't get in danger.
Dave (GM): Yeah. So Well, you obviously don't know that anything's happening up there, but apart from that square, like
Marion Freeman: so fun fact. I know. Where where
Dave (GM): But you were told that the 3 of them were in the town square. Yeah.
Nathaniel Horcock: Okay.
Dave (GM): And these these men, like, get off their horses. They look tough.
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm. They
Dave (GM): look weather worn. Mhmm. But they look kind of resolute. They're confident. One of them has a dog that was running alongside them.
Nathaniel Horcock: Another another dog.
Dave (GM): Oh, I
Marion Freeman: mean, a do easy one. Yep.
Dave (GM): They've got a dog.
Nathaniel Horcock: Alright. Dogfight. Dogfight.
Dave (GM): Yes. This dog where where where their dog is a big, effectively guard dog, star dog, the one that they've got isn't. There's a tracker dog.
Nathaniel Horcock: Alright. Okay.
Dave (GM): And it's it starts to bark. Mhmm. Yeah. So these men get off their horses and sort of step forward, One slightly ahead.
Nathaniel Horcock: Mhmm.
Dave (GM): They're all holding. They've all got shotguns
Nathaniel Horcock: and rifles. Marvelous. So this is gonna get messy.
Dave (GM): And the first one the first one says, why on earth have we been making a deal with you, Elliot. We've been chasing you down. And he says, yeah. But you don't really want us, Dee. You?
You want you want the leaders. You want the captains. You want the colonels. And we can give you that.
Nathaniel Horcock: You're right.
Dave (GM): This man here was our captain. He was the one behind it, and he draws a gun and points it in your direction. And we can get you the colonel. Colonel Keith, we know where he is. You let us live, and you can have the men to really to really cause the problems.
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