Jornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 21

I cannot share those memories as you must have known my father was an abolitionist, as was I, and I only joined it when the North invaded Virginia.

Those 31st infantry guys, they get a key. Fellows are after them. They're trying to drag a cock into it.

Although I did ask that you left and not bring the shit to this town.

Just wait a minute, guys. Just wait. Don't do anything stupid. We've got a deal. You want the leaders. You want the captains.

You are. You

are. This man here was our captain. He was the one behind it, and he draws a gun and points it in your direction.

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.

My name is Andrew. I play Nathaniel Hawcock.

I'm Tony. I'm playing Jimmy Harston. Who really were behind the massacre? Was it us?

You I think you

guys are now probably riding up here

just about hearing some of this. This is This is going well. Who said this, Elliot? Or Yeah.

Hey. It was your friend.

No worry. No. I thought I thought I thought it was gonna be 2 months was gonna be the git. He's the he was the killing one, wasn't he? McDermott. McDermott. Yeah.

He was the one who was enjoy really enjoyed acting like

was the one who's yeah. The

senior one.

Yeah. He's already shitting himself.

No. No. Elliot was the other one, the other second lieutenant. Alright.

So who's the guy who's his friend?

None of them. None of them. He just knew them all. Just knew them.

Yeah. One of them was slightly more. No.

One of

them was slightly less involved.

The excellent. Elliott. Elliott. Oh, no. That was.

Who is slightly less involved with the one that's now holding

he's aiming. He's not aiming

at you.

He's just holding in

your direction using it to point it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So I just shoot him like captain Malcolm Reynolds in in in the thing with the Reavers coming in Yeah. Early episode. Can I just do that?

You can do what you like. I mean Where

are you just visiting? So coming up here, I'm seeing any Yep. Who I don't like. There's 3 people I don't like.

Yes. So you're coming riding up towards here now.

That's Andy. Yep. That's Elliot.

Yeah.

Looking again at him. These are the black guys.

Yep.

What's the range here?

So the whole thing from one to another is a 100 feet. So the range from there to there is 60 feet, something like that. So it's gonna be

medium, probably. Range? I've got medium range gun. I can do medium range. What's that? Minus 1?

It probably is, isn't it? See, I don't think we've really used negatives for ranges in the games that we've been playing.

Well, I can't be shooting at long range. I really want this to count. So So I think so I

think there was a there was a there was a question here about should the ranges if your gun is in range because the ranges aren't that long for most things.

Yeah.

Should it should we just not worry about negatives?

So only when it's beyond range as

it were. Yeah.

But it's okay. Well, just

thinking it Let's do that

for another game. Let's just not worry about this time.

Yeah.

See how we go. So I've got 8 dice.

So you'll get this action, and then it'll be initiatives.

And then we'll do initiative. Cool? Mhmm. I'm

just gonna just I'm just gonna do the form. I'm just gonna do a form. The form is What are you

trying to do and say?

I'm just gonna snarl

at the

area and say, you lying gutless.

Okay. And then he said it's Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Let let him do his role first.

You're trying to

With the form, would you say you lying gutless back stabbing, little, you know, really really bit this Right. The swinging up. This look like I can't pronounce it now. Let's see. No. Hello. You really upset my feelings. No. Actually, you really hurt my feelings. I'm gonna go home and cry

now. Okay. So you failed.

Yeah. Yeah.

And you're not pushing? I'm

not pushing.

Okay. You kind of Any ones on trouble? One one. I'm gonna

Oh, yeah.

Are you pushing? Push.

Okay. It's 2 successes with 1 trouble. Oh.

2 more troubles. Oh, that's nice. Okay. Any more trouble? No more trouble. And I'm gonna buy off that point of trouble because I want this to work.

Right. Because that's so that's 2 faith in total.

Yeah.

Okay. You've hit him. Now you've hit him with which weapon?

With the walker.

K. What's the glove?

I didn't do plus 2 for the walker, actually. Let's roll those 2 for the walker. Oh, that was always gonna be a 6.

You did push those. Oh, you did push those. Again. Okay. This is Elliot you're shooting.

And damage of your walker is 2.

K. So he goes down to 43. What are you doing with your other 3 successes?

Now what do we you you've been you've been having we think about crits.

Yeah. So we decided that you would roll just one crit, but you could use your other successes to increase either the tens or the units.

Okay. Oh, no. Okay. I'm just thinking this through for the benefit of the plate.

I think that was

what we agreed

on that.

I could have said because I did say, but I didn't actually specify that's what I was doing. I mean, you know, he said it's notes. So I could have said, I'm shooting him in the head. That would have been a negative of

Minus 2 or 3. Short.

We're called short.

I can't remember if we have got the update. I don't think I've got them here. It's either minus 2 or minus 3. Probably minus 3, I would say.

And it strikes me if an average role on d six is 3, the value of spending 2 of those successes on improving the crit. So now hold on. To crit, I just So you'd want success.

So you can To

hit cost 1.

Yeah. To crit,

cost 1.

So you have 2 successes left.

Two successes, you could do that up to a headshot, effectively.

You could add 2 to the unit dice if you wanted to.

Yeah. That's what I will do. K. Black is tens. No. Good. Unit dice, I don't mean to you I'll come to the hedge.

So you need to

you need You said I could choose tens or units.

Yeah. You're probably gonna go for units. It's hard units. Ones. Units. Yeah. But I think you can choose once you the only thing is you choose once you've rolled.

Oh, okay.

So you roll it, and then you can modify it.

Okay. So black is 10s.

So what we got?

23. So I'm gonna move that up to 43.

Okay. Or is would is 25 worse than 40? Always

always what's 25?

25, you shoot them in the foot. 43, you shoot them in the groin.

Neither of them are gonna kill them.

I shoot them in the foot, though. What's what's with that? So we shouldn't really No.

You shouldn't know.

So that this

is what this is the

thing we're trying to avoid, actually.

Well, meta gaming like that. Yeah.

Yeah. Because we're not going, yeah. What's the error? Because the way we had done it was you roll if

you had 2 extra success,

you could roll crisps 3 times and take the one you wanted.

And take the dice?

And you're like, oh, is that is is Achilles tendon better than gut chop? But so he wants to make it one roll. So I think maybe what it should be is you with this, you say, I'm gonna roll, and I'm gonna use my 2 successes to increase the units. All units. Yeah. Before you roll. Before you roll, and then that is your output.

I did say tens. So that puts up to 43, which is 40, yeah, 43, which is what?

Skewered groin. Yeah. Oh, that's not smart.

That's hurtful. That's painful.

So he suffers one damage for every labor move or fighting role he makes. He's not gonna kill him, but he's got a 33% chance of losing his ability to have children.

I definitely that's gonna be all his mind somehow.

Okay. So he's What was that? 43 down. One damage from labor movement fighting. Okay.

I take it you're all an initiative card.

Well, now I gotta back out sack.

No. I'm down to Mexico now. I'll

start with I'll start with Andy, seeing your the one in the middle. Okay. So So high is good.

So 2.

Base base is counted high, so 2 is true. So it's just worst possible. Okay. So And you Jack was on shouting.

Mhmm.

They go on sixes, and the 31st go on.

Check first.

So Tony goes first. With the with the ringing of a gunshot, there are shrieks and screams. Mhmm. And the townsfolk stop running to get out of

get out of the job. Do you change initiative each round or is it

Yes. You draw each round.

Yeah. Alright.

Well, as you started shooting as Elliott is pointing a gun

at

at Warcock, I'm gonna draw my Colt 45 and also shoot at Elliott. Okay? Now I'm still on horseback here. Does that affect? So that would give you minus 2 shooting from horseback. So I get 5 I'm afraid you're taking that

as well.

And dice. Yeah. Use a Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. So the pistolator gives me plus 1. Plus 1 to pistol? Yeah. Level 1. I have got level 2, but presumably both levels apply? Yes. Absolutely. What does level 2 allow you to do? Level 2 means that, I basically roll 2 crits and choose the normal, which completely goes against exactly what we're trying to do. Maybe that could be something like you get to

choose what the tens day

is, and then you roll them. That's a cool shot. This level 2 of, though. It could then just be Bonus to court shots.

Well, not a bonus, but less of a less of a cost charge.

Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Because I think

so you have

plus 2 from my government. I get minus 2 because I felt I'm still on horseback. Because I think doing the rolling more than 1 and choosing just breaks the emotion. So Yeah.

And I think you've gotta you've gotta choose your your terms or

Yeah. And then you and then you just take what you get.

So that might be then, yeah, I'll put bonus to court shot, but it'll be less negative or no negative. Okay. Yes. Go ahead then. 10. Do you have left? I have 6. Okay. I get 2 successes. Okay. Did you wanna push? No. I'll go with that, I think, at this point. So it's, 3 damage. Okay. And one crit. Yep. Okay. So roll your crit down. So what do we say my pistolier level 2 does now? It's gonna be bonuses to call shots. So it's not gonna affect crit roll at all.

Okay. I'll

go with yellow first.

Hold on.

Hang on.

Okay. Well,

I've rolled I've rolled it, mate. 51. I was gonna say, let's not change it mid game.

No. Let's change it mid game. We've just done that.

I think I mean, because because that's the rule we had. I'm changing it right before it applies. 50 1 or So I think you get to roll twice.

This is the last time you ever rolled twice.

Or 16.

Well, 51 then.

You've got all the Not necessarily. Not necessarily. K. 16.

Geez. You would never do anything.

I know. Yeah.

I think you should just go the highest when you roll 2 dice and yet you Yeah. It makes sense. Yeah.

Because the niche is better than 50 And he's gonna die in he's gonna bleed out in Alright. 16.

Let's have that one.

Yeah. I'll go with that. In 6 I would be down in 6 rounds. Please.

I thought that was probably

Sorry. 7 rounds. So I think also on this table, there should be a thing. So the effects

The steps

are really quite minimal. If they

all called 45 seconds.

You just

had a bullet go through you. So what's the steps?

And I don't

have a leap of

depth and we're dying in 35 seconds.

Essentially We can we can

redig that, I think.

Yeah. Yeah. I think the the table is It's

also I'm thinking, I you know, I just shot him through the groin. That's gonna hurt.

Yeah.

I mean, okay. He's gonna take time and show you down the boobies, but surely, the movement is gonna be great.

Oh. My guts. Yeah. But we don't

have that as a Yeah.

As a dynamic in the game at all. And there is the downside of doing something like that is that you then maybe give them a resist role to avoid being stunned, but then they get another dice roll.

No. No. No. I mean, groin shot. Who's avoided being stunned? Have you ever seen

that in any media at all? No. But, again, so the other thing is that we could put for groin shots say, we could put it in here.

But groin shot should be fatal because you got a big artery in the groin, haven't you?

Yeah. I mean, it's yeah. It doesn't mean your your nuts are blown off.

No. I mean but there is a big artery around the groin area. You should be.

You're not so good. Run off. Well, there is a 30% chance of losing your ability

to have children. I lost my ability in Game of Thrones. I don't remember awarding a 33% So different game, Ben.

That was called a lance in your to your bollocks, I think that was.

The point I was gonna make though was if we make some of these like that one,

an automatic slam for a round

Mhmm. For a player, that might be a death sentence.

Yeah. Yep.

Which might be fine. Yeah. But it might not be

as well. It's just just just my thought. Because then

Yeah. I'm not sure, you know, if this was meant to be a deadly game for players.

It is. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. And it and it is a deadly game for players.

Yes.

But yeah. I think I think Elliott has has fallen to the ground.

Mhmm.

Even though he can still act, he was going to die quite soon. Next is

The posse.

The the posse guys. So they're kinda taken by surprise by this. They are kinda scattering of cover.

Mhmm. Okay. Some posse. Let's be yours. It'd be the, it's

the bad guys now. Okay. Elliott has got his gunpoint in the inauguration, so he is gonna fire.

Hold on. I just shot him in the groin. I mean, this this is what I mean.

He's he's been shot in the he's on the ground.

Surely his his gun is now pointing down at his feet like that's oh, fuck.

And he's been shot in the fire as well.

How the hell? So, yeah, going by the rules as written, Yeah. As they're currently written. Okay. There's no reason why you shouldn't act.

But surely, you must get some margins. I mean, if you're bleeding to death, you're gonna be a bit weak.

Well, you can't take a hit point for just that's

usually Right. Well, on the basic on the rules as they're written, no, we won't.

Well, if it

was in a fist fight, he would, but not in a because it's labor move while fighting. Oh, right. He's he's just firing his gun. Swap playtesting, swap. Yeah. Swap playtesting. I mean, this is based very much on on the 3 league versions. Mhmm. But it's only really in this game where the inconsistencies and the kind of isn't that a bit of a weak effect with that

injury coming up coming out?

Because I think the effect should be more severe. Even if on these ones, he does still get to act, it should say minus 2 to all roles or something like, as if he had conditions. So I'm okay. I'm gonna give him minus 2, but he's still gonna shoot you.

Nice. Thank you. Can I use my last 2 faith points to give him another one?

So he's down to 2 on his quick, and he's got 2 aiming. He's very good in a in a punch up.

Is he?

He won't be doing any punch ups at his eyes. No.

No. I think he's gonna be hot weekend.

And his gun is no good, and he loses 2 dice. He's got 2 dice.

2 dice. Okay.

Although he's gonna aim. Yeah.

Well, let's face it. He has

he has

Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yeah.

Raise it and point it at you now. Pute.

Oh, boring.

Fuck you. Fuck you, Adia. What do you

mean I'm boring? Okay. Hang on. I have a bit of GM bias there. Boring.

I think some tension. Okay. Nixon Reed is gonna go for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 because you are both shooting in that direction. He's going for E10. Oh, here we go again.

No. I'm sorry. No.

I'm done. He's gonna draw his pistol. He hasn't drawn his pistol. So he just gets a normal shot. He does have pistol here. So he gets 7 dice, and his gun is the same. So he gets no modify modifier for that. And he's got 2 gun, but that doesn't apply on this shot.

Fucking hell.

On the plus side, he does get a face point.

I'm sorry, Tony. Really? Fuck.

That's a hit for for 2 damage.

A generous GM would just give 3 extra points of damage.

I I am gonna give you 5 points of damage, Tom. Okay. So there's a cover. It comes off. Grit. Grit. Quick.

Grit. Quick.

Grit. And it's 5. So yeah. I'm I was thinking I could give you 2 of them 1 crit. But then yellow Quick. I would have 16.

So odd numbers.

Oh, quick

first. Yeah. Not quick first. You're right.

Yeah. Quick first. Yeah.

Sorry. My bad.

The other thing we could think about is just to say you can take

the damage and fly there. Simplify it slightly.

Nah. I like it this way.

Yeah. I don't mind it this way.

At one point, it's almost not really a hit, but that in

Just slowing you down. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair.

Brother brotherly love there.

And and well, I think under the circumstances, I think that's fair. And the other one, McDermott is going Sorry, James.

Oh, good. What's it?

What's it? They're gonna count me because I'm black, I guess.

Yeah. Actually, they should be going for you. So I think Will Demick is gonna

shoot you because He's sexy.

Well done. He

is the most nasty race. He's one of them. And I think actually makes absolutely sense for him to go for you because you're shooting and you are African American. So he gets he's gonna draw his gun as well. He gets a save number of dice. He gets 7 dice.

See, that's what you want, mate.

K. That's a hit. Wow. Two points of damage. And now, Andy, it's your action. No.

Matt goes before me. He's on 3.

I do go.

Okay. Yeah. Everybody goes

before Andy. That's Jesus. Yeah. Looks like it. Standby. Standby. Look. Look. Look. Right. Yep. Which means I

have to a fast action

to prepare it by copying it, and then you get the bonus for the gun in shooting it.

So so that's plus 2, but I'm on the back of a horse.

That's minus 2.

That's minus 2. Horse isn't particularly moving, but I guess No.

It's still you having to control the horse at the same time.

So, that is

There are talents that allow you to shoot from horseback without the negative.

That is still 8 dice.

Who are you shooting at?

You guys have just shot at me with Germa. Okay?

How many of you have left?

I jumped down to 1 and I am going to one success so far. And one trouble. And 2 tube trouble. Four troubles. It's on the other device, but

luckily, it's on the Okay. So is that a hit still there It's a hit. For the moment. So your trouble, 2 dice. Roll the dice and add them together.

Chen. Of course. Now I get a bodysuit.

Your bullet was a dolt. And otherwise, successful attack does no damage.

So I think, yeah, you can you can hear it. Yeah. My my it

was fire. Yeah. The gun I hope that the gun's jammed because the chamber has turned,

but that bullet has just gone. Andy, you were actually So alright. So I have a Colt 45 electronic, and I'm thinking because I've got 3 pixels and 2 there on there. I'm gonna draw the Colt 45, and you could do this fanning attack, you said?

Yep.

Well, that's what I'm doing. I dropped the draw dropped 1 knee and do a fanning attack on the 2 step on the

2 still standing. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Good to to test the fanning rules. I need to find them again.

This empties the gun, though, doesn't it? Yes?

It will empty the gun.

Yeah. Okay.

So just bear with me. Ken, we have funny rules on there because I'm not sure where I've got them in here.

Here we go. Yeah. I got

that. Okay. Okay. Your weapon's gonna be single action.

It is.

Yep. Must have at least 4 bullets left. It's full.

Mhmm.

You must have 2 hands free. It's a 2 handed attack, and you must have all your actions available. Okay. So to find your weapon, you gain -2 to your aiming role.

Okay. To your

shooting role. If you wish to target more than one enemy with your fanning attack, you suffer an additional minus 1 per extra target.

Alright. Let me see if I still want.

How many dice have you got there?

Well, I did have 7. I'm gonna drop it down. That's Go 5. 4.

But you you rolled twice.

So every fan he gets at, the first success counts as 2 hits as if it were 2 separate attacks.

Oh, damn. Sorry.

These can be hit the same target or be split across 2 targets. The 2 hits both count a separate attacks and each delivers damage equal to the damage rating for the weapon. Further successes can be used in the following ways. To have a 3rd bullet, strike a 3rd target if this intention was declared before the dice rolled or to add 1 or more bonus effects from the extra successes to any or all of the successful strikes you have. These successes are used in the usual way.

So there's 4 dice then we're gonna get 4 dice. If I get to a

special success that is used

to increase

roll. 4 roll.

Yeah. The success is equals 2 attacks.

Alright. The first successor. Okay.

The damage the damage of each subsequent hit is 2 instead of

1. Right. So many buttons. Oh, well, here we go. Solid. Nope. But I'm gonna put I got the thing. I'm gonna push it as I've got no Yeah. Will you?

They should all be

red, but What about they're all

They're all

Alright.

They're all 4 again?

Yeah.

That's what I want you to hear.

Yes. 2 sixties.

Okay. And no trouble?

No trouble at all.

What's the damage of the gun? 3. 3. So Nixon takes 2 to that and so does he. 3. Yeah. And 1. I don't know. 33. And you've got your second success. You can either use to have a crit on one of them Mhmm. Or you could do an extra an extra hit which does, with Fanning, 2 points of damage.

Oh, what the hell?

So here

we have a again, so the other thing we have with fanning is because it's so inaccurate. I've put that if you score a critical injury, you roll twice and take the lesser of the two results. Mhmm.

Could you scrap that and just say, it's less accurate. There's more bullets flying around. Mhmm. So because I feel a lot

of just of hitting them in the face are just as Because Do you agree?

Yeah. I agree.

Well, Marshall say I've

received the questions. You always

been gay.

It would be unfair to Danny.

It would be unfair.

It would be unfair to Danny. Okay.

I'm gonna say Redford.

And which one are you hitting with?

I'm gonna go for the one I was supposed troublemaker. McDermott. McDermott. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That is 44. 44.

Let me find it. It's got injuries table again. Ruptured spleen. You fit him in the guts. Minus 1 to all physical actions and minus 2 to resilience. He is going to die from this, but not quickly. He's gonna die in a day. 24 hours. Okay. Yeah. You've given him a nasty Yeah.

Yeah. That's a lot.

You hit him in the guts. Next round. Tony, you're actually new cards. Oh, no. It's a really yep. New cards. Yep. K. I'll just go around this time. Andy?

Alright. A little bit like that. The

the bad guys and the the other guys. Okay. The bad guys are going first.

They say it's a 3rd cock. I'll go I'll go with it.

Okay. Elliott

with 3 successes on his resilience role is fight fighting on. Reed with one success, and his residual is fighting on,

and McDermott is fighting on. So, Elliot, he is going to shoot at you again, Andy. Oh,

just okay.

Hang on.

I didn't shoot at him.

You're in his sights, basically. So he's gonna aim.

Yeah.

So he's got 4 dice. He has 6 with aiming.

He has a double action gun,

does he? Either's that's a good point. Let me just check. I think he might do. Let me that's a referencing in here to find the rhythm of pages for everything. So he has got a 18 60 army. Oh, no. It's a single. So he gained plus 1 for being a single action, but he loses his aiming bonus. K. He hits you, Andy. Now? That's 2 points of damage.

Okay. What come what does that come off?

One off quick, one off quick.

Okay.

Okay. Reid, I think it was only you, wasn't he, Tay?

Yep. And he'll, again, shoot at you again.

He's got the same gun, so he's gonna have to prepare. So he's got 2.

So he got 5. So he

got 6 in total for this one. Yeah. I got it. Oh, 5. And he misses. He does have 2 guns, so he's gonna do a quick shot. But he loses 4 dice,

and he misses.

How quick is he down? Mhmm. How quick is he down?

2.

Down 2. Okay.

Yep. He's down 2 2.

And then McDermott is gonna do the same with you, Matt. He's got fast tutor, though. So he's got a pair 3

Mhmm.

And aim.

He's got 3, 4, 5. That'd be 7 dice. Okay. That's a big hit. Okay. So that's 2 points of damage, 3, 4 points of damage, and I'm gonna roll a crit. I love I love Romani Crits, but I just I hate them as well. Yeah. I kinda feel I ought to.

But I don't know. I don't know. I don't

know why the character. Which dog do you want those tens?

YouTube. K. It's all awful.

White tens.

44. I

think there's another role

to believe that. You're shutting the gut, Matt. Yeah. You need some Minus 1 to all physical actions, minus 2 to resilience, and you were gonna die in 2 days unless you just don't trust it. Resilience.

I love a lot of resilience dice. Anyway, never mind.

Fours and fives.

No. I did fives, so I

I might no. I might have actually not taken off there.

No. Alright.

Yeah. That's okay. That's that's a fair point. It's the posse's action. They are they're basically taking some cover. They've all drawn weapons, but they're not shooting at the moment. Uh-huh. 9, tone. I'm feeling a bit vulnerable up here, so I'm gonna get off my horse and try and find some cover

over here.

Yeah. You can get yourself behind the so that building there is 12. Is that the post house? Yep. So you can get yourself in cover. I guess that'll be my forward action.

Yeah. Yeah. Dismounting and doing that will be Andy, your action. My action. So since I've dropped the, Colt 45 is empty Yep. I'm going to draw my naval ones. Now can I draw both guns, or can I just just draw 1?

Well, the rules stay as they're as written that it takes a fast action to draw a weapon.

Right.

Now I I just wonder if 2 weapons, it's you got 2 arms. I can't even wonder whether that has

you got 2 arms now, though?

No. I've still got 2 arms. Yeah.

I'm gonna I'm gonna allow you

to draw both guns in one fast action. Right. Okay.

Because you're not going, uh-huh. You just go

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of the same length of action. Mhmm. Okay. I'll do that. So alright. You're gonna allow me to fire both of them. Yes? As we go?

So you've got you can have a normal shot

Yeah. And then you've got your Which is only minus 2 now because I've got as I've got 2 guns too.

Yes. Yeah. Okay. Really? Get your free quick shot.

Yeah. But I don't know. Too. Well, I'm getting pissed off of being shot at by Elliott for nothing. Okay. So I think, the first So I'm on it down to 2. It's a shooting, isn't it? So that's 4. 6 days. So that's 1, 2. 6. 1st shot's going to go at the Dermott, the, him.

The right Dermott? Yeah. The the the bad one.

The bad one. Yes. Yeah. So not all bad. And then there's a lot of the quick shot will go at Elliott.

Okay. Yep. So your shot on McDermott.

One hit.

Jake, did you wanna push that?

No. I've got a one oh, that's That's not on the trouble, is it? No. No.

So that you could you can that one doesn't okay. That one could be rerolled

that one. If it's not on trouble, then Alright. Okay.

So you could fish.

How many how many things have I got there? I still got 2 points left. Oh, the hell. Well, should I oh, looks to it. Another hit.

Okay. That is a trouble.

That's trouble. So I barely it was that 1 a year solid. So I'm down to 1 fake fake point now. Faith point? Yeah. Faith point.

Yeah. And

so, okay, you got 2 successes. Mhmm. The first one does damage.

Right.

What are you gonna do with the other one? You can do a crit with it, of course.

I'll do dam I'll do a crit with, say, red. I want red first, some green.

Okay.

Yep.

25. 25. You shot him in the foot. Minus 220 physical task. He is not gonna be running anywhere.

He's not gonna die from that though. Okay. And then, the one against, Elliott, isn't it? Yep. So that's minus 2.

So I believe it was 4.

So it's 4 dice. And they're all trouble dice, aren't they?

Yes. Yep. There's only 4 dice.

Yeah. Okay. No. I'm not gonna push them that. I'm not pushing that.

K. That's a miss. Yep. Okay. Matthew, your action.

Right. I'm reviewing. Sorry. My my ketchup is giving me minus 2 resilience. What else?

Minus 1 to all physical actions.

Right. So

That'd be minus 1 to shooting.

I'm on 5 shooting. 4 shooting with a minus 1. I'm still on the horse. I'm gonna stay on the horse because getting off the horse is gonna kill me.

So You need medication because you you

will bleed out. You've got to put it lodged in your gut at the moment.

How long do I got

to live?

2 days. Yes.

2 days. Back area. Just to shut my phone.

McDermott.

McDermott. I'm out of I'm out of faith.

Are you down to 1 plate, are you?

Yeah. Down to 1 plate.

Just one minute. So is

that just one hit?

A one hit, but it's 3 points. No. Two points of damage.

Okay. Yeah. He's still hanging on just about. Yeah, next round. Mhmm.

Thank you. Did you chuck those cards back in?

No. I just put them on the bottom. Okay. Tone. No. Andy. Let me

find the guy.

Matthew, the bad guys, the posse.

Break them down, Tony. Break them down.

Yeah, Tony. Your action. Okay. I'm going to aim and shoot at the fuck, are they shooting me? A reed, is that Reid? I think it was, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Nixon Reid. So I'm quite down on my quick. So my my aiming, I'm only down to 2. I get plus 1 for my crystal clear talent. I get plus plus 2 for aiming. I also get plus 2 for my gun bonus. Oh, yeah. So I think

that's it.

Awesome quick. Come on, mate. 1. Okay. Cool.

Thought I'd been a bit short. And that's 3 successive soils. Stick with that. So it's 3 damage. Yep. And then he's prob he's been quite bad at damage already.

He's issued yet?

Reid. So I think I'll,

think he's well, he's gonna be broken,

whatever happens. You can crit him. Okay. I'll crit him then if in that case.

And is that you've got extra I've

got 2 additional successes then. So it's one for the crit. So plus 1 bonus to tens or units. Units. So yellow is the tens. I'm gonna add 1 to the units. So that's 26. 26. Well, there isn't so. He just reduced just your maximum. Okay. You've, you've shot him in the upper leg. You can see the blood begin to

splurt out. You've obviously hit something very, critical.

The blood is coming out. He's gonna be dead in 15 seconds. Yeah. The posse, they are still

Got confused.

Holding their keeping their powder literally keeping their powder dry. It's their actions. So Elliott, throws down his gun and surrenders.

Uh-huh.

Says don't shoot. Don't shoot. And McDermott does the same.

Okay. Matthew, your action

if you wanted to do something.

Carefully. Carefully. No. No. I don't

You're still my horse horse, aren't you?

I will put up my gun now and ride as carefully as the horse can damage. Mhmm.

You're 44 waiting. Okay. Yeah.

Where was Elliot wounded?

Elliot. Oh, Elliot. No. Ball shot off. He's wounded in the thigh and something else. I mean

Now I guess those 2, I think, for Elliot. So he's not gonna die yet. McDermott will, unless he gets medical aid because he's shot in the gut. Mhmm. He's bleeding.

That was one of yours at

1, wasn't it? But he'll

he he'll die in 24 hours.

Okay. But Reid is Reid is dying. Mhmm.

But as it's on the ground, I wasn't like They're all down.

Yeah.

So I'm riding in, and I'm saying to the posse, This man is innocent of the massacre. Whatever they said.

The point is to him.

Yeah. Okay. I was in the bedroom, but he wasn't there.

Okay. Make a performing Do

you want a dice?

You want you want to help me commit something.

Yes. Not to. Yes. That's right. That's right.

I mean, 4 dice, 5 dice.

One success. Okay. Did you wanna push that?

No. It's No.

No. No.

I think it's like a one

time At one

point, I don't if you take that last point, you're down to 0. Do you have negative effects?

It does have negative effects.

What negative effect does it have?

K. If you get down to 0 faith, you suffer from shaking faith. You cannot push your roles, trouble

or active on every role.

Fight back for a

game or something.

You can't buy off trouble. Yeah. No. I'm not You can't gain faith through normal means, and you need to you need to restore your faith in 1 of 3 ways.

I'm not pushing. I've sent my piece bleeding out. Am I gonna give myself more bad luck? Fuck off.

No. Don't move.

Okay.

Okay. It's my dice. It's

Well, it it just rolled.

Well, it's early.

Haven't got any success.

Dice and no successes.

So they might they might

be beginning at least to believe they Yeah. They're not immediately discounting what you're saying. Yeah.

And I'm walking up to Elliot, so then here he's on the ground. You see sees all the wood on the in the pot. Was it

Elliot's been shot shot in the gut in the nuts and in the leg.

In the leg. I'm gonna put my foot on the wound wound on his leg. Yes. I'm gonna say, you lying, Peter.

Okay. Yeah.

Really. We're gonna say alright. So what I need to roll

And what are you trying to achieve?

I'm gonna say because

hold on.

I'm gonna say. Who's who's this fan we keep having the grief with?

McGinn. McGinn. Don't bring them into this.

No. No. Well

There is there is a bit of a crowd. Obviously, the fighters, you can see the blessings are up on their veranda watching events. Mhmm. There are people with tickets. People kind of looking out from around fences and through windows, obviously, trying to keep out of the way of the bullet, but watching and listening to the

most important part. I'll just put my little, my foot on his little wounded leg. The gun down and just say, give me one good reason why why I should not.

Not kill you? Okay. Are you

Well, I gotta squeaky. You get me. I get me.

I think yeah. Make a presents or before me roll. I have some presents on my sandwiches. Yeah. Probably presents. I will give you plus 2 for

Alright.

I will add to plus 3.

That's great.

Not only having won the gunfight, but also exerting the pain on him.

Mhmm.

And let's see how he He's got a lot of them up with a

really good reason.

So that'd be 6 then because I'm down to, presences before. That's my 3 year 6. I think it's gonna squeaky voice. Maybe my tongue is tired from the night before. No. It's not. 2 3 successes.

3 okay. Well, you got 2 dice. Yeah. He he can't. He's he's he's he's he's, yeah, he's beaten. Mhmm. He's, you know, he's saying,

you should've helped us if we didn't. No. You dragged me brought him here to drag me to lie to drag me into the shit. That was it. That was your whole thing, wasn't it? There's no way of this.

Those bastards will kill us all now anyway.

No. Actually, I'm only gonna do everybody's watching, are they?

Pick. I don't think they're watching. People watching.

It's up to you.

You could let these these guys you guys will probably kill

him. Mhmm.

They might kill you.

Might might kill me. Yes. Indeed.

In a way, this is bad. I always have not seen

Yeah. Yeah. You're on

with guts out. Yes.

Holding your guts in.

Yeah. Well,

I'm I think can I have a resilience test, please, at minus 2? Minus 2. Because of your wound?

Yeah. But I have one hertz and nothing in resilience.

Okay. You can't succeed the role then, I don't think. Well, I think maybe you get one die anyway. I have, like, minimum of 1 dice.

Shoot him. Looks like you're hiding the truth. And

then Fooling

off.

Yeah. I think you're all down on the ground bleeding.

You're you're

getting some help.

So I'll I'll look at the posse then. Yes.

They're all still a bit jumpy. Obviously, suddenly, you know, this this fight happened before just as they arrived. Yeah. They are arms are shouldered in your direction, but they're not they're not firing. One of them sort of steps out whilst the others stay stay in cover. And he says, what's your name? The only time it's coming useful.

Yes. Indeed. Alright. Look. My name, Nathaniel Hawcock. You just look at him.

And your connection to these men?

Mhmm. And he points to them. Points to the 3 men lying on

the ground. I think at this

point, Reed goes

or is it McDermott? Mhmm. Read's already dead. McDermott breathes the last. He had a second one. He got a shot through his thigh. I love it. 24 hours. Oh. Oh. Meredith? Oh, shit.

He just died. No. I was in the same regimen as that. You can okay. You can feel the tension. Mhmm. Mhmm.

Yeah. I would no. Movies always go

click click. Click click. But this

way, they did that about

5 hours ago. Yeah. So they've gone to already

ready. They might just ease it off one evening.

Thank you. And just a dramatic effect. So what that man said was true?

No. I wasn't there. I got back after the massacre. Well, you've only got my word, haven't you?

Oh, that man beating in the dust over there seemed to say the same thing.

Yeah. But isn't it a bit oh, isn't isn't it a bit suspect to the fact that here they come lead trying to lead what am I trying to say?

Of course. Did you point you at me then?

Yeah. No. Aye. So Yes.

There's one of you

Oh, no. I thought he was pointing. I thought you were

pointing to.

To him. Yeah.

So then, yeah, this man in the dust because before he fell off his horse Yeah. He said,

yes. I don't know what you've heard about

this man. He's untrue.

I was yes. I was yes. But I wasn't there at the massacre. I had no I had no part in the massacre. Colonel was his name. Colonel Keith. Yeah. Colonel We're calling Keith. We're calling Keith.

McCorley Keith.

McCorley Keith was a weak man, and he couldn't control the regiment.

Elliott pops up and says to to the guy who's who's who's walking you know, the the guy from the 31st Infantry. He says, look, Sanford, I know where the colonel is. If you promise to let me live, I'll tell you. He's the man you really want.

Well, I'd like to turn to him just so why don't you shut up? Just turn to him.

I'm trying to save my life here, man.

Maybe you should have thought about that.

Make a performing role. Okay.

This is a matter of catch. What happens when you lose use all your flavor?

How much faith you got left? 1. This could be the point when you want to

Use it.

Use that, you know.

Yeah. Right. So it's

Nothing many mishaps. Hey? Not while I'm bleeding here.

So Very dice, isn't it? And then it's green.

Oh, for fuck's sake. That's

quite a few more ones. There. Yeah. No 6 seasons, in fact. You can You can't

push, but you got at least 2 tall.

Mhmm. Okay.

And then you'd be down to 0. Right?

So you couldn't push every every roll, every you get trouble just

on a normal push as well. Mhmm.

Oh, what the fuck? Oh, dead.

So it's a green one you can re roll. Yeah. It's only the ones on the

Oh, right.

The ones on the trouble that you

Oh, Okay. Yeah. Oh, 2 successes.

Another another trouble.

No. You had to mention that one, didn't you?

Yeah. So your faith is now down to 0. Yeah.

And I've got pushed. Yeah.

And you got 3 double dice?

No one. What's it? Or 3?

Yeah. 3.

3. There's 3 of the rest of the world. So we've

got 3, 6, and Adam together. This is too much trouble. Well, 3 ones. 2. Worst.

2. Yeah. I got it. 4 bollocks. 1.

7. 7. That could be worse. 2. That sounds like it could be worse.

It could be an 18. That can even be rough.

Your words and actions have gone down very badly, and you blustered to cover it up.

You lose your next round.

It doesn't matter too much. But, yeah, you did get 2 successes. Okay. Okay. So came on. So they got 2 successes. So they're not really believing you.

Mhmm.

And he says, if, prove to me that these men aren't your comrades.

That seems to be an easy decision to make now. Yeah. It doesn't it?

We while you murder them people.

Blah blah. Lucky me. Yeah.

Children are dead already, aren't they? Children are dead. But you've got Elliot here. He's like, you've got your foot on his leg still.

Well, I don't know. I actually took my foot off

for a minute. Okay.

And you've got to take an empathy role to kill him?

You would have to fail, empathy role.

How many times can I roll empathy?

It's well, you you would roll your, dossity, and you need to fail

just to put your guard in. That's 4 dice then. So if

you want to just kill him

Okay. Which is what you've been invited to do, obviously. Yeah. You'd fall In fact, I've been actually in fact, I've been shooting him.

I know, but now it's cold blood.

Because this is 4 sixes, isn't it? Failed. You failed the robot.

You can kinda

locate them.

Are you doing that? You don't need to take a rope in the shot. You can just could've Just do it. Put Brian in there. Yes.

Bam. Mhmm. I've shot people with cold blood after the thing when they murdered him, and I shot the guy who

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Elliot goes down. He's dead.

Oh, he's on down the ground. I didn't like.

Yeah. But as he goes over. There's a a few shrieks

from the people who are watching. Yeah. My reputation is gonna be minus 500.

And so this guy walks up to you.

The others are still covering you. Uh-huh.

Say if you wanna

do anything, Tony, whilst this is going on.

Well, I'll probably just walk out and see what's going on, but I'm not I don't think I'm Getting involved. To get involved at this point.

No.

And he says, my name is Jake Sanford, sergeant of the 31st Infantry Regiment USCT. Stated at Fort Pillow in April 18/64. You are?

I, he he he opens up a little book. Mhmm. He's flicking through it. Captain Nathaniel Hawcock.

Hawcock. Hawcock. Captain Nathaniel Hawcock of the 7th Confederate Cavalry.

Yeah. I can't deny it. I'm not going to deny it.

And he look and he looks around, looks back through his men, and he looks around and sees there's quite a lot of people Love it. Gathering around. And he takes out a pencil out of his top thing and he licks it. You see it make a line mark on his book. Well, as he's doing that,

you can see him go through the book and cross out 3 other names. Uh-huh.

He says, he says, now leave it, guys. That's enough.

And

they go down to delivery. Mhmm. And he then comes back and goes into the Trails Hotel for some breakfast

with these men.

What are you guys doing? Is it Matt's live there?

I think you need doctor.

Have we got a is there a doctor in town? There probably is a doctor in town.

I've got I've got dusty 2 doctorings 1, where you got lots.

I have no doctoring.

Do you? I'm not dusty.

I said no. You're already ready.

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