Jornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 18

Alright. Here we are. Tales of the Old West, Granada Springs, the next episode. And finally, episode where we are reunited with, Nathaniel Hawcock, who, for various reasons, was unfortunately not able to be with us for the last couple of episodes. So let's just kick off then with introductions around the table. So, Andy, do you wanna go first?

Okay. My name is Andrew. I play Nathaniel Hawcock, and like our esteemed GM said, unfortunately, I will have not been able to make it, but hopefully I'll make up for it by dying in the first second or something like that.

That's the plan.

Tony?

Yeah. I'm Tony. My character is Jimmy Harston, a rancher, younger brother of William Harleston, former character who died doing the right thing. And I'm trying to trying to live up to the example set by my brother in his memory.

Cool. And Matthew?

I'm Marion Freeman. I am part owner of of the ranch, and indeed I've got the most capital. So, really, I'm the boss. But, I am of mixed race, and therefore, I don't say that too often. I found some great actual black ranches. Found 1 in Texas. Lived a totally un remarkable life except for coming from slavery, borrowing money, building a ranch, and giving money to charity. Okay. Lovely. Lovely bloke. Let's So that that's by the by. We're doing research still.

Always doing research.

We're always doing research. Yeah. That's it. And I started off as effectively as a bit of a gambler in in my life story, but I'm not very good at that. Sorry. I don't push my luck. I am turning out to with my experience point spend to have some authority. And in the last adventure, I did something so splendid, in terms of riding my horse very fast. You know, I've got 4 successes or whatever I've decided to spend my last XP on making the horse a companion animal.

Ah, cool. Nice.

I can't remember what that entails, but I'm sure we'll work it out when we need to.

The horse stands by you. If you're willing to

When when I'm killed, the horse

Hello. Hello. So, your horse is your closest companion. When it dies, you lose this talent, but can take it again at half price for a new horse. Your horse gains the loyal quality. This can take your horse's terrible quality over the norm maximum and will stand by your side and defend you if you're broken. Cool.

That's useful.

And then the level 2 of that, the advanced level, is you and a horse are so in tune that your steed can make an attack during combat, in addition to your action.

I might be wondering. So it can rear and Yeah. Brought cake and stuff. Cake. Yeah. What's it got for fighting? Which which awesome I look at here. Good old boy. So, yeah. It could with grip of 4. That's not bad. It's got 1 in fight but still.

So that's 5 dice. Five dice. Not bad. And being kicked in the head by a horse is never gonna be fun.

No. No.

Okay. So who can remember and who wants to say talk about what happened last time?

Well, remembering what happened last time, you know, is one thing. But I have got the email that you wrote, which you you described what happened last time. So I can. It was a long time ago. So we decided to take a herd up to Albuquerque to to the market. We were asked by someone called Katie Picker, who was John Chisholm's man in Granada Springs.

I wonder

if he could if

he could join us. So you so he was going back to see Chisholm bringing him a package. Various things happened on the way. We encountered a gang of riders who said that the, the picker was Chisholm's van, which obviously we knew, and that he was taking a message from Donald McGinn to Chisholm.

There were 2 things. There was a gang of riders who I faced down actually on my end,

which I've

totally forgotten about, but reading it in your Yeah. Network. Brilliant. That was

Yeah. That

was a very good very good role because there were 4 of them.

Yeah. Only one.

On your own.

And but there's

the other riders were there 2 riders who were part of, the ranch. They

So, yeah. So there was speculation that gang that you faced down was the Kyler gang. Kyler gang. Notorious group of cattle rustlers. And all bad folks, so you were lucky not to be just killed. Mhmm.

Frankly. Good presence roles, I seem to remember.

With my added authority.

So we met they met up with some of the guys from town who had been a trailing picker, and they told us that this this package from, Picker that was going back to Chisholm was offering him a deal from Domino McGinn. And basically McGinn was offering to be Chisholm's man in the area in return for basically being given the main share of the Spanish land grants in the Southern Rio Grande that are being given out at the moment, and Chisholm obviously is very influential in that. I think they these other 4 guys were keen to basically just kill Picker and stop him, from taking this package back to Chisholm. Again, being the good people that we are, we were not comfortable with that plan, but we did kind of agree to kind of turn a blind eye while they went off to do whatever they were gonna do. I think they were then just killed.

We we had a very intense, campfire conversation where there were hands near pistols. And we persuaded them to let him ride off, but we knew that they were gonna chase after him. And later on, you, I think, found their body?

We did find them dead. Yeah. So I think I

didn't get that well. Eugene Eugene Rayburn and Ardel Gilchrist were the 2 people who were found you found dead. The other 2 that were with them previously were, Dimas Paquito and Milagro Vicenta. And the Rayburn and Paquito families, are 2 of the big influential families in Granada Springs. But you're I couldn't tell them both.

But why they were keen to stop McGinn doing this deal with, with Chisholm. So we then persuaded Picker to let us, to set up a meeting with Chisholm for us. And we were basically gonna try and argue that it was not a good thing to, you know, make make McGinn so influential, around Junard Springs, and that there should be, like, a more equitable showing out of the the land. We had a quite a long conversation with him. He opened the package from McGinn while we were there, and basically that was offering as we'd expected to become Chisholm's representative in the area in return for taking the lion's share of the land grants.

Yeah. Killed. He's called Mickle Herman.

Yeah. I think we quite liked, but McGowan was saying to Chisholm about he'd he was disloyal to Chisholm, so he killed him, on behalf of Chisholm, but offered $1,000 in the compensation, for that. But we had quite a long conversation with Chisholm, and in the end, I think we basically agreed that we would be Chisholm's representative in Genoa Springs. Agents of interest is

is how he described it without really going into a great deal of detail about what that actually meant.

So yeah. So I think we I'm not sure we yell, like, so into detail about what that would mean for McGinn's offer and what it would mean for

us. But I

think we kind of assumed it would mean the land grants might be shared out a bit more equitably, and not all just given to the McGinn's. I think that was that was where we left it. We did sell our herd.

I think McGinn managed to convince him that we think the McGinns are guilty of trading his rustled cattle.

Yes. I think that's true.

I agree. Yes. And that $1,000 that with part of that bribe was probably $1,000 earned off the back of that stolen cattle. So that's the key point.

Yep. Yep.

I'm hoping that McGinn isn't looked at too favorably in the Spanish land grants. Because despite Dave dropping heavy hints about the land grants, we, of course, did nothing about actually, you know,

applying. Just making sure that you were aware of the opportunity if you wanted to try and take it, but it's entirely up to you.

Yeah. I think maybe let's, you know, when we write this campaign up in in some future version, we went out really explicit that that's what we meant to be doing.

And, you know, he just completely blanked it. Okay. You you give me shit now. Okay.

Which may be what most of the players want to do.

Well, that is true. That is true. Yeah. So you sold your herd reasonably well. You will get a bonus on your end of season, turn of the season business role when it comes to it. And you saddle up and headed home. Now for that time, Nathaniel Hawcock was doing all the work.

Yeah. Riding the ranch. Running the ranch. Staying out the way. Staying out the way. Was it the McGinn's, isn't it? Is it

The McGinn family is the one that you have crossed more than

once. Once. Yes. Yes. Yes. Swinking, maybe. Yes.

Let me just find

that one. Because she your server arranged the, caused the gunfire, which wasn't it? Yes. They got they got Tony's brother shot. I seem to remember.

Yeah. So this is Well,

when yeah.

So this is the Tannehill family.

Yeah. Yeah.

And the the the first time you came across them was a guy called Gus Tannehill, and he was involved in cattle rustling for Domino McGinn.

And Which Killing the family.

And you

were and killing the family there. Yeah.

Yeah.

You, successfully kind of called them out over that. Had a gunfight with him. He was shot and wounded, Quite badly wounded. After that, his family, his cousins and brothers came looking for you. And it was in that fight

That they got shot dead. Yeah.

William Harleston was shot dead. But the town was kind of on your side. And the guy who did that was then shot in the back by one of the 2 Blessings.

That's true. Yeah.

Or the

2 they were called Blessing who run Blessing Saloon. 2 former slaves who are now making a good living in United Springs, and were not impressed with the Tannehill gang, and what they were doing. But unfortunately, that was too late for William William Marsden, because he was lying dead in the dust at that point. So yeah. You don't get on totally well with the begins.

heard that you locked me down and set her out of the lakes.

Yeah. And expressed expressed a desire for bad blood between the families to be put aside and do French. Whether that was sincere or not is entirely up for you to judge.

One thing that happened, we we did have a bit of a yes. So one of the other things you missed in a previous event when we went off to find his mum.

Right. Yeah.

In Silvertown, we ran up against another family.

Oh, you guys are having fun on The Bullard.

The Bullard.

Taylor Bullard.

And we got a message at the beginning of the last adventure from them saying they were going to exact some sort of price, or they felt we owed

Well, Matthew Ballard was the, basically, the guy abusing my mom and

Well, she knew

she killed him. She killed him.

In fact,

she fell off.

She shot him.

She shot him in the end. We we had a rather messy fight where there was quite a lot of missing going on.

Oh, right. Okay.

Whoops.

But you did defeat him. But then, Minnie Mathieson, your mother

Yeah.

Took the gun and blew his brains out.

Okay. And here

was the younger boy. He was a 21 year old brother of Taylor Bullard, who is the eldest son of a guy called John Bullard, who basically set up Silver City.

Right.

The elder Bullard is dead, so Taylor is now the head of the family.

Mhmm. The

the power behind the Bullard family in Silver City. But, yeah, he basically said,

How far is Silver City away from this?

Right? Which is fair.

It's a couple of nights

to cover those

dry right.

It's not

it's not a 1000000 miles away. So Silver City is over here. Mhmm. It's on on the bigger map. Silver City is there, and you are there. And each square on that map is 12 miles. Okay. But, yeah, he basically said, you know, you you owe us for murdering Matthew. We accept you as a bad sort, so we're not gonna come for revenge. But in lieu of that, I consider that you owe me a favor.

Sounds like a fair fight to me not being impartial with the

whole purpose. That favor as an icy fit. Not an

incredibly fair fight. I can't remember

sleeping in

and sitting under the bed.

Oh, no. And you

were shooting when he wasn't wearing anything pretty much.

Oh, alright. So so much for being honorable people.

Well, I think we were it was an honorable fight.

Well, I think Not

exactly fair.

Yes. So right. So you you guys are returning home, kind of as just before they get back, Andy, you receive a letter.

Do I? Have fun. Lovely.

Can you read?

I know

it's not great for casting, but it's up to Andy whether he wants to read it out. Because I think you probably get that on the day these guys come back.

Alright. Okay. So I can read it.

It's surprising really that nobody said, oh, here's a letter for your, for your mate. She gave that that way.

They might

It's a long way out of town.

It might have it might have been that way.

Well, no. Maybe we're running back as as some messenger boy from town is riding towards us having delivered the letter. Let's imagine that.

Does it really matter that much, Howard?

Well, because she's reading the letter.

Oh, I see what you mean. The one thing you do learn when you get back is that the bodies of Eugene Rayburn and Ardel Gilchrist have been returned to United Springs, and their funerals are being planned. We're a few days ahead of sort of the the traditional harvest festival in Yonada Springs. There's there's preparations happening for, for a sort of a community party effectively.

Well, that sounds like nothing could possibly go wrong with a big town party.

I mean, this town has quite a lot of parties.

Well, it's had 2 this year. Yeah. You know, so it's not that many.

I wonder whether as we ride into town, we should pay mister Abert a visit. What did we we we haven't discovered the bodies. We must have

I think you took them to Albuquerque Yeah. And then handed over to the sheriff. We then returned them to Yeah. Your house

breaks. Did we leave any message for Abraham? Not that I'm aware

of. No.

But we told Mhmm. The sheriff what we thought had happened. No. We didn't. So if you made an assumption about that again

Yeah.

Okay. I'll try and read this then. Clear, are we? Yep. Dear, it has been 10 years since we last spoke at the moment of the battle of of Yellow Town when the bastard Yankees took the journal from us.

must have gone.

That's alright. That's my handwriting.

Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it's been 10 years 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. I guess they'd wanted revenge after we turned our hide before pillow the month before.

Just remember where I came from.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

How'd you

reading this letter out loud to me? I may be giving you a bit of a hard stare.

Well, I am of of Virginia stocks, so they are.

Yeah. So we none of us, should be blamed for where we're born. What we should be blamed for are our actions. When these people come, what will you say to them?

Yeah. Have you telling us about

the letter, by the

way? Yeah. I I see it when you said I'm

gonna meet

him. Okay. 2 hours. 2 hours. Fair enough.

Well, as far as I'm basically concerned, the war is something I'd rather forget. That's why I've never mentioned it to you. That's why I never mentioned it really apart from odd hints, especially dealing with the town when we had our little crash with the town again.

So what I'm saying is, you know, I'm I'm not

What?

I'm not I'm not taking sides on stuff that's happened in the past. What I'm asking you is when this

left tenant I don't know. That's one of

the second left tenants, lieutenant, sorry. And these 2nd lieutenants, come knocking at the door. What are you gonna say to them? It's what you do now that I'm interested in. Not what you did in

the past. Past. It is something I most probably got to go to the blessing to ponder. Oh, so much again.

A blessing.

To be honest, yeah.

Make sure you wanted to sell then. Okay. Back in style.

Good enough. Sounds like they, you know, sounds like there could be there could be money in it. How much?

Well, there is there is a wrong that's been committed to men. And we have we have seen ourselves, very much, on the side of right in many of these moral arguments. This is a particularly interesting moral argument there. What do you know? So they they tell you that he

They fled. Yeah.

Colonel Macaulay Keith ran away. Were you aware of that before this letter?

No. I think I must have been dragged off by the Yankees then. The battle.

By the federal army. So you know nothing of this?

No.

Therefore, we round this table I'm assuming we're probably at the blessing of the house. Yeah. Yeah.

This is cool.

Yeah. We free around this table and this bottle of whiskey.

Mhmm.

No. Nothing of Macaulay's motives.

No.

And partly thinks anyone stealing from the Confederate army deserves applause and praise. Not being hunted like a dog years later. But on the other side, every man deserves a day's pay for a day's work, which was kind of the point. And if, you know, if if if you rob the men, I'm torn is all I'm saying.

Mhmm. I don't know. Yeah. Like I say undecided because I don't really wanted to know about well, that's part of the reason why I came west. I didn't want to sit south then, didn't I? Because But

it's interesting because you, you know, you make no big thing of your actions during the war, good or bad. That's all in the past. They simply go putting their rank down there. Mhmm. They still celebrate the positions that they held.

Yeah. I have

a very quick word with you, Andy.

Yeah. Of course. Yeah. I'm making wrong. I'm just trying to my memory.

We should have should have done. Yeah. Let me pick up, but I'll just quickly Yeah.

Shall we maybe Tony and I go away?

And you have a conversation.

We have a

call on your forecast.

That is That's

pleasing.

It can only be 30 seconds, so Mhmm. Don't make yourselves too comfortable out there.

You can't make yourselves really comfortable.

Get out

with the snooze. Yeah.

So you

I mean

So one thing that you would know Mhmm. Is that Fort Pillow that they referenced

Yes. Yeah.

Was a battle that took place on the 12th April 18 64.

Mhmm.

And it was a confederate attack on a union 4.

Right.

Which is called 4 Pillow.

Right. Yeah.

It was a resounding victory. But after that victory, you know that the Confederate soldiers were out of control.

Oh, dear.

And there was a massacre. Right. And largely, it was a massacre of black soldiers.

Right.

Who were men of the union's 31st infantry regiment. And most of them some of them were killed in battle Mhmm. But a lot were murdered. Right.

So

it's it's much be one of the memories I've done. I really want to,

And I guess there's a question of you're you're obviously aware of that because you would have been there.

Mhmm.

These three men were there as well.

Right.

My question to you is how how involved in that massacre was Hawcock? I'm I'm guessing from the way you are that it was something that you weren't involved in but couldn't stop.

Yeah. I think I'd be quite appalled, really, because my father was an avid a abolitionist.

Yeah.

And I wanted nothing to do with the war until

Until it came to to get your hotel.

Yes. Yeah. So

But yeah. So

That's what I'm trying to think.

Did you

know that 4 Pillow

happened? Yeah.

Then that's what happened to 4 Pillow. It's

It's not something I want to remember. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's it's a well known matter. It became Right. There were, you know, congressional inquiries into it.

Mhmm.

And nothing came of it, of the inquiries, but it's it's a well known I might give them a role to see if they would Right. Which which is possible. They might have heard

of it.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that would make them happy. Yeah.

Yeah. But yeah. So I just wanted to give the that

Yeah. I think it was something that, yeah. Yeah. I mean, how are they well, how are they to color gentlemen, shall we say? Sorry. These three characters, can I remember what what's what's their attitude?

Yes. I

I think you probably know this. I'm not gonna

make you make a roll. Mhmm. So, you remember these 3 men quite well. Mhmm. Lieutenant Nixon Reid was a good horseman. He's a good soldier. He was a good shot. Wasn't tough, but was competent. He was involved in the massacre, but you think possibly he kinda just went along with it rather than he wasn't actively behind it. 2nd lieutenant Clarence Elliott was a tough but good leader, strong personality, excellent horseman, strong in a fight.

Yeah. Okay.

In

the in the in the in the terrible events.

Right. And there's no there's no there's no address I can reply to this letter to then?

I think the only thing in it is that they were obviously in Albuquerque at some point, but there's no address. No.

Okay. Alright.

But when they come back in, I'll I'll give them a roll.

Yes. Yeah. Okay. Well, I am thinking. Right. Okay. So reading earlier, most probably, but I think half of them is gonna say I'm not interested. Okay. I think. Because I want nothing to do with it.

No. That seems fair enough. Finished?

Yeah. Finish.

Come in, guys.

I think

as far as I'm concerned, that's why you mentioned my right. The war's over as far as I'm concerned. Yeah. Well, it's done. Yeah.

Yes. I noticed I noticed that. Yeah. Alright. Can you 2 guys, give me a insight role,

please? Insight. Let me have a look at my new cartridge. Here you go. I think I'm quite good at insight, I think. No. Not brilliant. That's only important.

Oh, immediately.

Have have you been told about the new dice rolling?

Not yet.

Oh, yeah.

When when they're making their rolls when when they're reading the letter in the Yeah. In the I'm gonna be looking the rack just to see if they do actually cotton on to the

any reaction. 2 successes.

Oh, dear. And so

is is it 5? So 5 dice are a total dice. Yes. Yeah.

Alright. No successes. I

don't think

I'm gonna push.

No. You're not gonna bother. Okay. You've you don't nothing comes to mind for you. Matthew, with 2 successes, you've you've heard of Fort Pillow that's mentioned in the letter.

Which is the place to hit that hell hole that he was

No. That's the no. No? That's the battle.

That's the battle of Fort Pillow. Right? Yeah.

Yep. Which they're referencing happened kind of a month before He was the the battle where? The other battle of there, the last time they saw Hawcock. Pillow, I think the 2 successes you know quite well. You probably don't know all the ins and outs, but it's it's notorious for having been a, a Confederate win, but followed by a massacre. Alright. And a massacre of soldiers from the Union 31st Infantry Regiment, which was a colored regiment.

Alright. Yeah. Yeah. I think I would know that. Yeah.

Two sets, is it?

And it's it's infamous. There was a there was a congressional inquiry afterwards. Nothing came of it, but, it's a it's an infamous atrocity, as part of the war.

Right. So yellow tavern is the one with the massive defeat. The other way afterwards, is it?

Yes. Yellow tavern was a was a union victory.

So you know that hard stare I was I was giving you?

It's got harder, was it?

Well, I think I think we know the reason now why why that was. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I signed it. I think I'm gonna meet them by myself and tell them that the parts aren't concerned. The war's over, and I want nothing to do with it.

Yeah. It's all very well. It doesn't say here how they're going to meet you. We'll ride for Johnard of Springs just as soon as we can and hope to bring you into our endeavors. They could turn up at the door any moment. They could walk into this bar. Yeah. Except I'm assuming they're not gonna be walking into this bar given the nature of the people that run it. So you may not have the opportunity to meet them by yourself is what I'm saying. I'm I'd be very happy if that's what did happen. But

Well

Yeah. Just

got just got to have a wee chat with someone.

Okay. No worries.

I'll take this opportunity to have a bit of a Yeah. Editable.

So you were also talking about going to the Rayburns. If you wanted to do that, or we can leave that for a little bit later. Yeah. I think, I mean, you in Yonada Springs, the Blessings is is up on the ridge near the near the mountains.

This is a new map, isn't

it? No. It's the same

one. I'm

thinking it'll it'll expand slightly as time goes on. And you're you can see the cemetery and you can see that there are people preparing for funerals.

Shall we go well, actually, given that we were the ones that found the bottom, we don't need Andy with us. Maybe we should leave him here. Ponder him. Ponder him. Ponder him. Bless him. Let's go up and that's their big house, isn't it?

The Rayburn's house is is that one. It's on the it's on the town square by the pond.

Which was the other so Eugene Raeburn and who else started? Oh, Gilchrist. Do we know the Gilchrist?

Do we

know the

He

is, well, he was a, a hand for the Rayburn family. And

the mister Quito and Milagros Vicenta, did they do we know what happened to them? Were they do they make, like, fine?

No. They haven't been seen. They've they've just been missing. Okay. Yeah. Also, who's So these are talking a couple of the people that they were Alright. Seen with in the last scenario. Yeah.

No. Very posh. Yeah. I like to yeah. So as long as I know what yeah.

So we're gonna leave you here pondering that while we go and speak to mister Rayburn about the bodies.

Of the bodies. Who?

Family member that we found in the previous

Eugene Rayburn. Yep.

Eugene and his hand.

Alright. Gilchrist. Arnold Gilchrist. Yeah.

We should probably go through the Paquito family as well.

If we share

Picuto is missing. So now he's dead, but we've nobody knows really.

This is the argument over the, land or the, land grants, was it?

No. This is these 2 people being killed by rustlers.

Ah, right.

Who I met and faced out. And sadly, not before they've done the damage, I imagine.

Okay. Do you want me to

Do we really think they were killed by the Russes, or do we think they were killed by? Obviously, we don't

think that. We we know how good your man Pinker is. Yeah. Yeah. Pinker?

Picker. Picker. Cody Picker.

I kept more than thinking last time I said this. So, yeah, I expect they confronted Picker, given that Picker's horse was also among the A member of Bob.

Yeah. Picker's horse was there. It was daytime.

So, yeah, Picker did it, but there's no reason why mister Rayburn necessarily needs to know that Given that we have solved the pick up of them anyway.

So you know that Eugene is Garland Raeburn's youngest youngest son.

And they've written up to us. So there were 4, because I remember the the ketos. Yep. But there were actually 4 men who've written up to us. Mhmm. Yes. And we which we had the trans conversation at the

And then, well, I think I think you they made it clear what was happening. 2 of them rode off. Yeah. I think Paquito and Milagro Vicente rode off to get ahead. Mhmm. And Weyburn and Gilchrist stayed with you, had the tense conversation with Cody Picker. Cody Picker then left. They then left to follow Cody Picker. You never saw Paquito or Vicente again, but you found the bodies of Braeburn and Gilchrist.

So let's go up, cap in hand, and, express our condolences.

You want me to?

No. No. It's fine. You can

go with them

if you want, but you don't have to.

It's just that you're on the phone call.

So No. I was getting Yes.

I haven't.

Not doing anything, like, secret from you.

Well, I have an issue with this.

Well, now we know a bit more about his past. Maybe you Well, maybe we

want it.

Yeah. Okay.

But anyway, yeah, you can come. You can come with us, but

then you can come with us.

That's fine. But but not If you want to. No. I think I'll stay at the bar actually, don't I?

Okay.

Looking at a letter. Yeah.

So there's digging going up at the graveyard, but there wasn't actually in there.

The funeral isn't happening yet. Funeral's gonna be Later today. Later today. Yeah. It's it's afternoon.

So let us go to the door of the Rayburn House.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. This is answered by, sorry, Tiggles. But if you will lie down now, I'll tread on you. Yeah. So the dolls are answered by a guy you recognize. He's called Brandon Rayburn. Yep.

Brandon. He's

another son. He is the he's a grandson. Grandson. Early twenties.

Eugene's

Nope. He's not. He's Eugene's nephew.

Okay.

Eugene's got 3 kids. They're all a bit younger. So the oldest there is 13. The youngest is 10. Yeah. And he couldn't yet. He calls for for his grandfather. And, yeah. Garland comes to the door. He sees you. Make an insight roll both of you please.

No.

Nothing? Nothing.

Okay. Should I push that roll?

Do you still have mishaps mishap dice on this anymore? Or

Yes. These are your first five dice or all your mishap dice. They've got trouble dice.

What? Okay.

What level of faith do we start at now?

Well, we were saying 4.

Yeah. So I think

How about my faith back?

That's a good point, isn't it? So I'm trying to remember what we what we decided, because We didn't decide anything, I don't think. Oh, we talked about it.

We talked about it. But so

on the basis, basis of the rules that losing your faith doesn't necessarily mean that you lose your faith.

You can find it behind the back of the sofa.

And I

think we decided that actually losing your face should be a narrative player choice.

So you you play an adventure session without without faith?

Let me just

looking up.

Yeah. So get getting to 0 faith has other negatives. But it's not doesn't make you lose your faith. Yeah. Because we say here, we we also encourage players and GMs to think about whether or not the narrative circumstances might lead to the PC actually losing their faith. But this would be something to role play and we would not have mechanics to cover it.

Cool. Okay.

So, yes, your faith is back.

So what 4 as well? Is it all 4? Yep.

Okay. I might push this just for a second bit. Okay. To demonstrate what might happen. Mhmm. Now I'm rolling 4 dice that are all trouble dice.

But any ones is a problem.

Still don't no ones, but also no successes.

Yep. Okay. Yeah. Garland comes to the door and he says, good good morning, gentlemen. You can imagine it's not it's not it's not a day where we are accepting visitors.

No. Of course not very standard. We just came. We got where we go. We try to express our condolences.

Having having found your son's body and transported him to Albuquerque, we just wanted to express our profound sympathies for your loss.

That's very that's very neighborly of you, and, and we appreciate it. You can see his wife kind of in the in the background as well. She's sort of listening to the conversation. They're obviously both still a bit upset. He says, so before did you did you did you see Eugene before before you found his body at all?

Because I

see you're all you're all traveling in that direction.

We met them on the trail. They were riding with, one of the McKinsey Labs and, well, one of your hands and one of theirs, I imagine.

Well, Ardo. Yes. Ardo is we're burying this afternoon as well.

They came. I will say there was a confrontation with mister Picker, one night, which mister Picker left the party shortly after.

You can see his face perks up, or this this it kind of strikes a chord, you can see, when you're saying this.

And, as you know me as a man of peace. I I I try to,

I've I've I've watched you have many gunfights.

It's very tall.

That's about peace.

I believe in peace and I cannot make

it to get it.

Yeah. I fear that, you know, guns might have been drawn that evening over supper. But we, we suggested that Picker left the party at that point and he rode off. Now I will say that your son and your hand. Hold on. I'm confused. How many people just remind me. Had other people written off beforehand? Yes.

Yes.

Because you'd you'd met the 4 of them. Yeah. And We'd had the conversation Makito and Vicente had written off before the others joined you on your trail with Pika. So Pika So Pika, it was just Gregoroni's sword. Guild choosed.

Yeah.

As far as you know, anyway. Yeah.

By that time, previously, Paquito and the other hand had had left the party.

But, why did they leave?

I don't know. They had business. They didn't tell us the entirety of their business. And, you know,

they did they tell you what what did they tell you about their business?

Well, if you're talking about mister Picker and the package from, mister Begin, we we dealt with that directly.

You dealt with the package?

Look. I don't want to trouble you at this time. As as

as as You can read on this. As you're saying this On another

day if you want.

He don't he says, come in. Well if you're

sure, come in. On this day.

And he shuts the door pointedly. Okay. With it all. It's like not slamming the door, but

Yeah.

Definitely looks out and shuts the door. Naturally, there were matters which which bring in which need to be discussed confidentially, rather than on the doorstep of the the premier family in town. So what's what what did what did Eugene tell you?

So Eugene and at that time, and mister, Paquita as well told us together that they were riding after mister Picker because he towed a package. A package that was said to come from mister McGinn, which they wanted to not be delivered. It looked as I say. And then mister Paquito and the Paquito hand, whose name was Paquito.

Paquito. Paquito.

Paquito. Left the party with I don't know what motive. But they to be honest, I think they were possibly going to ride ahead. So your son had it out with mister Picker at camp that night. I was very keen that we should not turn this into a bloodbath. Mister Picker is an accomplished gunfighter.

Did you not wish to

help Eugene in? I'm not sure we could have resolved this through talking without guns.

Are you saying that Cody Picker killed Eugene?

No. Not at all. We don't know who killed Eugene, and I myself came across, a gang of rustlers. What's their name?

Who we believe may have been the Kyler gang.

The Kyler gang.

Raven not

yeah.

I mean, everyone here has heard of the Kyla gang.

Yeah. And the sheriff believes that it was the Kyla gang that, that killed Eugene.

How does Eugene's misfortune of coming across the wrong people at the wrong time? Yeah. Absolutely. Yes.

They they were out there, and they were out for blood. I met them too and I think I was lucky to get away.

Can you make a performing roll please, Matthew?

Performing roll. Performing 4 dice. Four travel dice. You can have

a dice to help from Tony, if you want

to give him an idea.

Yeah. I'll I'll have that. And now oh. What? So that's a that's an interesting rule. When Tony offers a dice of help, is that another trouble dice, or is that an ordinary dice?

I think it adds to your pearl and 5 dice, and you'll pull the top of the dice.

Yeah. Okay. One success.

Okay. Yeah. He's he's listening. You can kind of see confused skepticism on his face a little bit.

These things don't need to be resolved violently, as we approved. So mister Pitter rode on ahead shortly after. Was it that very night or the next morning? I can't remember. Honestly, I can't remember.

I think it was a day or 2 later. I think it took When

they rode they rode after him.

Oh, pretty much straight away.

Yeah. Probably

So shortly after they rode after him in the but this is in the dark. I do not know whether they encountered him at all. 2 days later, we found their bodies. I rode hard and fast to try and outpace Mr. Picker and get that package. I was not successful. But together, What's your surname?

Jim Halston.

Halston. Mister Halston and I. Shall we say we arrived at Mr Chisholm at the time that Mr Pickerton had his package. So he opened it in our presence. And we made it clear that this package was done without the agreement of the wider community. Make another performing roll. Again, one capital of points. So I'm not inclined to push it.

Okay. You think he's you think he's believing you? He's like,

well, he should be because this bit's entirely true.

Yeah. That's true. But it seem but it seems

See, a bonus diet, I'm sorry for the fact that he took the truth.

No. No. Because it seems incredible that you should immediately have been introduced to Chisholm. Why would Chisholm talk to you?

Is that Williarty? Yeah. Why isn't

he talking to you? You're you're just small time.

Because even it's not

I was gonna say rustlers. We,

horse, you know, ranchers.

We basically badgered mister Picker What? Until he agreed to arrange the We were supposed to

do that.

Yeah. With mister Picker. We had the support of the sheriff who, appreciated that we've brought your son's body and out of your hand to his presence. So we used, I'll admit, our good relationship with both these people to to leverage us in a position where we could have some moments of mister Chisholm's time. I think we spent more time with him than he was planning to give us when we told him the story of how maybe Mr McGinn had made the money for the bribe from cattle stolen from the Chisholm branch.

Best. Yeah.

You know,

that's right. It's done now.

Yeah. 1,000 and 20 grand.

I don't yeah. My daughter, I don't know. I could That's vaguely ring a bell, but only vaguely.

Yeah. I I have apparently,

I have $326, which sounds quite a lot. So some of that might be.

Maybe he did give you a little bit for your Yeah. Your pains. Okay. Let's make another performing roll. We're gonna have plus 1 this time. Plus 1 dice.

Just one success. I would be willing to push that and risk a mishap. What did you

roll? What success?

Okay. You've I've burned through my face like nobody's business here.

That's what it's there for. It's there to be spent. I'll take it with you. Thank you, William.

Oh, fuck

it. Okay. And there's

a machine. Two mishaps. Two troublesome days. Two trouble?

How many dust did you roll?

That one? Rolled 5 trouble, plus 1.

Okay. So I thought you're going to roll 5 dice. Okay. Two dice of trouble.

Are you gonna are

you gonna buy any of those off?

What? With a faith point?

Yeah. 11 per 1, if you want to.

I go down to 0 faith.

That's that's not good either.

That's not good either. So I'll go down to 1 faith.

Okay. So roll 1 d 6 then.

Bloody grooming my horse. I'll sit

and do that.

So roll 1 d 6 then for your this is a mental social trouble? 4. 4. You're confused, your mind goes blank, or you lose your train of thought. You suffer minus 1 to roll the mate, and same issue for the rest of the scene. So, yeah. So you're you've been trying to convince him that you're not lying. And

the the mix of the story Actual lies and

the story feels a little bit fantastical that you, you know, little people like you were. Yeah. That part of it is actually true. It is. But, that that's what seems fantastic. And he's not quite buying that. But in short but you're seemingly being quite open with him. He's not thinking that you're lying, necessarily lying. He's just just it all seems a bit too much. A bit fantastical.

If you had been there, mister Aber, you could have spoken to mister Chisholm on the town's behalf and he would have listened.

Well it's, it it'll be a good outcome if McGinn doesn't get what he's so politely maneuvering for.

I think we have to wait until the, Grant Spauld has spoken, but I think I

think we persuaded Chisholm that that would not be in the best interest of the community as a whole. Okay. But Iain was not a trustworthy

thing. I I welcome

a man to deal with.

Your condolences. I I welcome your openness. But now, you'll understand we have family matters to take care of. Of course. And he opens the door for you and ushers you out.

As as as we're leaving, I turn around in the way that I've done in a previous adventure. I say, just one more thing.

Are you cumming both?

Just wanna think.

How do you know you did the murder? So I don't think we've necessarily learned this. I'd like to understand that mister Paquinto and the, Paquinto Paquito hand, they've not returned?

We've no one's

seen none of this news?

No one's seen them. As far as I know.

So I think we should

go and see

the Yes.

The keto as well. Yeah.

The keto as well.

The green. Okay.

Are you you're heading off to the Paquito's household, are you? Which is number 11. Okay. It's next to the blessings.

Come on. That's handy.

And I feel I shall

I'm gonna wait and get you Not sure. Yeah. Heading off to the Quito Ranch and, I didn't

I didn't I didn't design

the townhouse. Mhmm.

I didn't design the scenario to draw drive a wedge between you 2.

Wow. I know. I did wonder, I've just

I've designed it that way. But we'll see.

So what are we gonna say to them?

Basically, say, oh, yeah. We're sorry that

Well, you

know, this hasn't returned.

Well We should say

So we we did meet.

We met mister Vaquito and was surprised that, he hasn't come home. Yeah. Okay. And we can say that we discovered the bodies of the others, but there was no evidence.

I think we'll basically just tell the same Yeah. Story that we told.

This is a new scene, so my, my trouble has disappeared. Right? Yes. Yes. Well so, yeah, we go and say that. Basically, the same story. Okay. You you you get there,

and you there's there's there's only a a serving, servant there. They're sort of like the house man. All the others are out searching for for Dimas.

Is Dimas the son of the

So Dimas

is Is the is

the person we met on the trail.

Yeah.

Dimas is the younger son of Augustine Apoquito. Who is the Matriarch. The matriarch. The matriarch. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yep. Alright. And she's got 2 other children, eldest son, Roberto, and and the middle daughter, Rosalia. And they've got adult children. Yeah. There's 5 adult children. And the and actually there are There's nobody here to talk to at the moment because they are out searching.

Right. So we leave a message. Yep. To say, that we are shocked and surprised to find that he's not returned home before we met him on the trail. And if they want to talk to us, they can. Yeah. Anyway.

Yeah. Okay. Yep. You leave a message. And the houseman says, yes, you'll

you'll pass message on as soon as he he sees Augustine at Piquito.

I'll just ask, actually, again, as we leave the as we leave the house. Just one more thing. Here's our brand new iPhone. No. Because that's what Steve Jobs used to say. Just one more thing before the biggest whatever, and I was on there.

Alright. Okay. Yeah. I agree that you

Mhmm.

I mean, that's a good idea. Mhmm. What sensible thing would set

us up? Where where where do you know where where they're looking?

They've, they're they're heading they're searching the trail for Albuquerque. And we didn't meet

them on the way down for Albuquerque where we have to speak? No. Okay. Bye. Bye. Let's head back home then with a message they know where to find this at the one to

talk. Yep. Okay. Back to you, Andy. Mhmm. Sitting in Glenwood's bar.

Well, I ain't gonna get pissed. I must be sitting there looking at the letter with what with the same block, you know, just just not really drink. You know?

Okay. Just

anyway, while they're doing their bits, I'm gonna go up to the bar and talk to the 2 blessings. Yep. And say, I'd like to buy you 2 gen gentlemen a drink.

Well, that's, that's that's mighty generous of you, Nathaniel.

And I I wish to apologize for any future actions because it seems though my past future actions. Yes. My past seems to be catching me up, gentlemen. So what may happen in the future, I apologize for now.

And they're a bit confused.

They're like, what what do you mean?

Unfortunately, certain events from my past, look like they're going to be, catching me up.

And that means trouble for us, does it?

Yeah. I mean, there may be some hang up with it. Unsavory yeah. Let let's say some unsavory parts on my parts maybe catching me up.

You're being very mysterious,

Nathaniel. Did you wanna If anyone

will ask me, I'll give give him the whole

gospel. Yeah. You will. Yeah.

Did you wanna

No. No. I'm just apologizing. Yeah.

Just put it over for something that hasn't happened. Yeah.

But it's probably got it's gonna be really

And also something that definitely did happen.

Mhmm.

Before before he was a prisoner of the union. It's just what I wanna point out.

Rebel? What would it look?

I just wanna put out he was a prisoner of the union, and they didn't massacre him. I can't think why.

The conditions in Camp Douglas were particularly bad.

Yep. And a lot of the A lot of

the Confederate prisoners weren't at the end of it. It wasn't massacres, but it clearly wasn't a holiday camp.

No. It wasn't Butlins.

It wasn't Butlins. No. But yeah. There wasn't they didn't just murder them.

Murder them for being

oh, god.

Yeah. They they have a a good opinion of you. Mhmm. As do most people in the town because of what's happened. Well, because of, you know, the

Even some of the ones that have met you.

Yeah. Yeah.

You you you stood up to to the McGinns and you stood up to the Tannyhill gang and,

you

know, I think you're seen as, you know, upstanding members of community. I'm not quite sure what your reputations are, but

Look.

What are your reputations

Nothing. I'm just there. Yeah.

Am I

I guess because you yeah. You haven't done very much here yet, Vina.

Is that No.

I am 5 mobile and 3 cooperative or 5 good guy, which that needs a bit of work because that just says bad slash

Just bad guy. Bad guy.

You you be bad or you can be a guy. And I'm not

bad guy, Scott.

I'm not quite guy.

So so you got 5 and 3. 5 on which 1?

5 on the, Good Glove bag, Carax. That's set up on the top.

Yep. And 3 on the other. So you're gonna see it as likable and indecisive.

Good.

What are you? 44. 44. You are nothing. You're just there.

Yeah.

But you're at the good end of nothing. You're just

there. So I might I

might I

might change I might change those because

having 4 nothing. You're just there's doesn't really Yeah. Doesn't really work very well. What's yours, Andy?

As far as I can see, I got fame a plus 5 and moral plus 1, I think. So you're all I can see.

Okay. So that gives, you're a loner who looks after number 1.

That's what's in the old, as far as we've got my.

Or if it's the

other way around. Yeah. You should have another number incorporated.

Yeah. I know. That's yeah.

I think they could both be 1.

2 ones?

I don't know. Don't know. He's got nothing much. Oh, no. No.

No. Okay. Yeah.

You know, 2 ones is as bad as he gets. Self serving scum of the air between the 2 ones.

Yeah.

But he hasn't been being a self serving scuba boy

Recently, no.

In his in the way he's bathed.

So Well, let's let's maybe give him some new numbers after this scenario.

See how old he performs. Okay. So, yeah. The blessings are a bit confused. No.

I'm not.

How do we take a drink?

Yeah. How far is it to al is it Albuquerque? Let's use it.

Yeah. Albuquerque is, from where you are now. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. It's about a 150 miles.

Alright. So

it's got 3 or 4 days on the trail.

Unless you don't keep riding it. We we've

just If you're we're moving.

If you wanted to go to Albuquerque, you should have bloody come with us. We could have done with you, to be honest.

How old is it is this let the letter is it dated at all, this letter?

Yeah. I I it probably is. And it's dated, let's just think, it is dated probably 6 days ago, 7 days ago. Right. Whilst whilst you 2 were still in Albuquerque. Yeah. Okay. Probably at a point where you were just about thinking about leaving, actually.

Because we just spend that time pretty much constantly going, hello. We're Marian Freeman, a good friend of Nathaniel Hall.

Oh, god.

All cops. So I I think possibly in

your trading and the bartering and everything,

these some of these some of these things came out on the conversation.

I'm sure I did because because his name is definitely on the company account. Yeah. I

did put a wee bit up here.

Freeman Halt?

Yes.

Has he put any capital in?

I did put yeah.

Did you? Yes. Yeah. You got put in capital.

Yeah.

Although, actually, the name you gave us then was Nathaniel Grand. No. I tell you what, a

fake name.

I think that was just Andy struggling to link the latest character.

Suspicious. Yeah. Especially, yes. They are.

Oh, I've I've got the character generation stuff, if you need a new one later on. Yeah. Or either of you. Right. Okay. So that yeah. They they

yeah. They Although, it can be one misprovider.

They were a bit flummoxed about what you're doing on it. But they can see you had a couple of drinks and think maybe you're just being a bit

bit

drunk and more like that or something. They didn't inquire any further about what

No. Perfectly sober, unfortunately. Yeah.

What you're Yeah.

Not been drinking. Apart from the first whiskey we had when he read the letter out, and then I didn't buy him any more.

I did read the letter in the bar. And

okay. So the the day progresses, the the funeral the funerals of Eugene, Rayburn and Arnold Gilchrist are about to take place. If you're still in town, you can obviously attend those. Oh,

yes. We

will. We will. We

will be attending.

Augustina Paquito doesn't make her appearance. She's there at the at the funeral.

She makes an appearance at the funeral? Yep.

But, yeah. There's only only her and her daughter Rosalia are are there at the at the funeral.

Obviously, for the duration of the service, Just be respectful and silent, but maybe afterwards I'd like to maybe talk to her.

Yep. The Ravens have brought in a preacher to to, to actually go Officiate. Officiate the the the proceedings.

They brought in a preacher. Is there not a preacher in town or anything

like that? There wasn't a church or a preacher in town at the moment. Yeah. And there are after that, there are preparations for the festival, which is gonna take place the following day.

I will go and thank the preacher anyway.

Okay. Good

to hear the word of God. I'm always keeping an eye. And if I see missus Paquita turning to leave, I will run after her. So

Okay. So she she's talking with Garland Reburn. And their sort of quite a involved conversation. You know, not not agitated or anything, but they're obviously having

a

very intense conversation. And then after a short while, she, you know, they they clasped her in, and then she heads off back down towards the the town square.

Yeah.

So it goes down towards there. Yeah.

So I will just check after and say, Mrs. Paquito, I'm very concerned to hear that demon. Demas. Demas has not returned.

The the or somebody.

That that

demon hasn't returned yet.

Alright. I met him on the trail from Albuquerque. He seemed well, don't he?

Mister Rayburn did did say that you'd you'd seen Dimas.

He left for a confrontation with with mister Picker. Can you

offer me any insights as to to where he might have gone? Or Not at all. Might have happened to him?

We did meet. I met a notorious gang. I had a tense conversation with them. The sheriff thinks it was that gang that killed Eugene and the,

artist.

Thank you.

Complete candy bars.

But, we looked around, and then we when we discovered their bodies, there was no sign of anybody else being involved.

Garland tells me as well that that Eugene and and Dimas brought you into the into the knowledge of of

of what they would

what they

would do. Mister McGuinn. Again, yeah. And we, I did not like hard enough to intercept it, but but we did have a conversation with mister Chisholm on behalf of

He didn't tell me that you claimed to have have met Chisholm. Can you make a performing role, please?

He did tell me. Performance. Dump.

From there as well. I'll give it. Yeah. You're there.

Yeah. You're gonna give him

one of them. Yep.

We're gonna

buy some all 3.

Yeah. All 3. All 3.

That's good. All

the food. Otherwise, I'm

One success. How many? How many?

3. She doesn't believe a word of it.

I can push. I can push. You can't push? No. I can't push.