Jornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 25

But he he reaches over and says takes the badge off you and says, well, welcome. And he's pins it onto you. Welcome, sheriff Hawcock.

Alright.

And, you can see Rayburn has got kind of tears coming down his face. So he goes, Chisholm Chisholm. Every man that Chisholm's here I work with, I'm gonna kill them all.

Toby, is this, Chisholm's man must be, caught and brought to justice. And, obviously, mister Chisholm himself, there's any evidence that he was actually involved in instigating this action.

Mister Picker was ready to pull his firearms while outnumbered around our campfire.

Right.

4 to 1. He was ready to shoot all 4 of us down

Mhmm.

In a draw. So he's that confident.

Yeah. That lethal then fair enough.

He's not gonna you know, there is no indication that he might cut our throats at night while we slept.

My name is Andrew. I play Nathaniel Hawcock.

I'm Tony. I'm playing Jimmy Harston.

And you wanna have galloping into that. So can I have an animal handling role, please, to avoid basically charging straight into the herd?

One success.

Two successes.

Yeah. Okay. You both quite expertly. Yeah. Pull your horses off.

I go, woah. Shoot straight.

And, you know, the so there you go. There are there are 5 or 6 men who are sitting on their horses, kinda waiting for you.

Do we recognize them? Any of them?

They are wearing like handkerchiefs over their over their mouths. But make a make a make a hawk. I roll. The one at the front who you kind of, like, takes a couple of steps towards is you're, like, reining your horse in.

No. No. I I did roll 2 successes.

Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, it's it's quite it's it's it's impressive for

Impressive. Yeah.

You can tell that's Stono McGinn. And, he says, he pulls this thing down and he says,

there's a crime Apologies. Of horse theft in this land. Punishable by death.

Apologies for the theatrics, gentlemen, but I knew you wouldn't have responded to an invite. I'm not stealing your horses. They're here.

I'd say you wouldn't respond to an invite?

Well, you don't like me, do you?

Just maybe I like you just being good.

Look. Your herd is unarmed. They are entirely yours. I just wanted to gain your attention and have a quiet opportunity for a conversation.

This isn't like I'm planning into it. Stop. I can't

hear you. Yeah. Make you out of mind me, Rob.

This is where I roll 9 ones, isn't it? Give me a fucking Yeah. I've got a couple

of 6.

You got

2 6 again. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. You yeah. I think the dust is really settled. You come over the top, and you can see what's happening, and you're able to pull up pretty

quickly. Yeah.

Yeah. Not unimpressively. Mhmm. I need to see

that Sherif, thanks for joining us. You wear our Sherif's badge.

I wear

that Sherif's badge. Put it grabbed

it. Is it I think make it make it insight role, Andy. If you succeed, you can choose whether you're wearing it or not. If not, you're not wearing it because you've just grabbed your

Coramid clothes. Yes. Yeah.

You don't have to be wearing it, but if you've made the in the inside roll, then you can choose whether you're wearing it or not.

So 5 what's it? What what do you call these dice? 5 Trouble. Trouble dice and one normal dice. Right. Okay. Oh, it's a 6. 2 sixes.

Okay. So are you wearing it? Does it tie up to you whether you're wearing the sheriff's badge or not?

Well, it must be would have been on my coat when I when I grab the coat.

It's up to you.

Yeah. No. No. I mean, it must be pinned on my jacket, so it's I haven't taken it off. So yeah. I would be wearing it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not gonna stop girl. I'm gonna wear this now. Yeah.

Yeah. So you can see that, you know, McGinnis here with he's got 5 men with him.

Welcome, sheriff. These these people are assure me they're not horse thieves.

Really?

Yeah. Millie politicians, apparently.

McGinn says, look. I've I've I've I've tried to be your friend,

but you Really?

You keep rejecting my my open hand.

Because because your open hand is an open handed slap.

Slap.

See? I come here to be reasonable, and you you you know

The diesel van doesn't mess up another man's head to get his attention. He comes and speaks courteous like at their house.

But then, mister mister McGinn, I have spoken courteous to you, your wife, and your daughter.

Oh, I suppose.

You have given me short strips. So don't you talk about me being friendly. I

have reached out the hand of friendship.

Friendship.

Many occasions.

I've seen your hand of friendship.

Name me one time that you've reached out hand of

You gentlemen might wanna hear what I was gonna say before you start

Go on then speak. Go on. Accusation Go

on, Vincent.

Speak. Go on then.

In the direction of a man. He

was a man who's just waking us up by disturbing our herd.

That's not

that's not the actions of of a man with good intentions.

To try and make your lives a little bit easier.

Speak then. Go on then.

Yeah. Let's get get to the point, mister. Because we're you have our attention. We're listening.

Do you recognize, you know, I'm I'm not a powerless man. I'm not a foolish man. I have my own sources of information. And I know that you are Chisholm's men. Paid up, paid good.

That'd be these 2. What made you?

Got you there. Murder. Well, he's

right. He's

right there. Yeah. Well, I am right. And, just on them. Ain't quite so popular in town right now.

We I know. I know.

You got us out of banter. Yeah.

Yeah. This is information I'm aware of.

It would be a pity if if the town all found out that you boys are being, you're on Chisholm's payroll and you do what Chisholm says and, because Chisholm, you know, ain't so ain't so popular. You're friends of mister Picker. The man who

says h Christ.

Murdered all these people who are high and important people in town. Everyone's very upset about their deaths.

It should be the same mister Chisholm. You tried to blackmail with $1,000 of It's

a drive,

I think, on the blackmail.

You tried. Sorry. I think it's Yeah. Yeah. Is that This is the same, mister Cherry. Rather than background noise. You tried to grab with $1,000 of stolen money?

That money wasn't stolen. I earned all that money with the the sweat off off my back. And then you get

get money by selling

Mister Chisholm's

capital. Mister Chisholm's capital that

It was stolen. Knows.

Was that?

It was a big so it was stolen. Yes.

I think.

If you come here and start trying to blackmail, I think you should make sure that you're

If everyone hates me, I think you're both you're too funny. You can say what you like because I

hates me. So

Yeah. But everyone hates me more than they hate you. I'm I am hated. And that is fine. I'm happy with that. I'm comfortable with that.

The, so how much time are they gonna spend? You're spreading rumors about somebody people know or person they hate. You're spreading rumors about people know about people who people know he does not like. It's very easy

to spread rumors. Not for you, clearly. Yeah. Like, I've got a I'm not here to have an argument with you, gentlemen. I'm here to here to here to here to make a make a make a deal that will be, you know, keep everyone happy.

What is the deal then before I lose my temper?

Well, all I need is your quiet word and mister Crosby's ear and, to see my range extended to Coyote's gap. And, I'll even happily take the shit land on the west side of the river as well. But if you talked across me today and send them to me to confirm the, acceptance of my applications, I'll,

give them a call. Overestimating our influence, mister Chris mister Chisholm, mister Crosby.

Well, I know that Chisholm has sent you know, told you guys to you're the man here who's gonna look after Crosby and do everything he wants, but that's difficult for you now being that might out you as chosen men.

I'll tell you what, you were as you can see, what you must have heard from Trevor, mister Rayburn has been kind to offer him in the office That's. He was also grant

see that that his eyes, like, narrow a little bit with that. And he said, well,

congratulations for your

current post.

Thank you. Thank you. But he's also granted me to appoint deputies for help if I so needed.

Me speak. I'm still on your land and that your horse is a

Let me fuck. Oh, Jesus Christ. Let me speak. I don't we've heard you speak. Let me speak. You give me a power to my death, but I'm so therefore, I'm gonna be a good neighbor and allow you and your 5 fellows, who's your 4? Yeah.

Him and 5. Yeah.

To leave, and therefore, I will not appoint these to a deputies, and I will not take you in his horse rustlers.

Well, we're not horse rustlers.

My word against yours. You got that fucking horse rustlers to me.

They're worried of, guys who've been sheriff for less than a day. I

mean, so horse lift is a crown where we don't need to take you in. We could hang you right here while they're a tree high enough.

Wow. There's yours. There's 3 of you, and I've come here in peace.

Blackmailing

Doesn't go well with me.

Agents in the in front of an officer of the law, well, that ain't a crime that's punishable by death, but that is a crime. And this sheriff here has witnessed it.

Yeah. No one's gonna believe a word you say. I sure know the ghost mind. Everyone hates me anyway. Doesn't matter.

Oh, you make my heart bleed.

So they're gonna believe you.

So you are you saying that that my my my reasonable and generous offer is being rebutted.

Resoundly rejected,

young man. As Wellington told the courtesan, be published and be done. Publish and be

done. That's a real pity because, you gentlemen have opportunity of a bright and prosperous future in this town, but clearly, you you don't want that and you rejected it. Come on, boys. Let's No.

I can't say come on there. I can ask him to say stop. They're right really close.

Make a performing role to stop him because he's now turn you told him to,

you know,

do a pitch

role or a brick role.

No. I'm making performance.

Presents, I mean. Sorry.

No. I don't wanna be a Yeah.

You can do press presence or performing. It's either actually, yeah. No. It should be present.

Should be present.

Exactly. This is this is using the power of your personality to stop him.

Follows our girl there. Before

Now this should be present.

I would I should correct.

You are right. Couldn't I correct?

Maybe if you get Okay. Because you're really good at performing. Yeah.

That's what I am here.

So I do love it in these games where all of us players make sure that our fellow players get as many good as possible

here. 4 dice.

4 dice. Shit.

I've got 7 performing, so I've got 6 anyway.

Okay. Well, this is gonna be an opposed test.

Okay. Okay.

So resilience, I think.

Okay.

So he got success as well. So he's not stopping stopping.

Stopping. Yeah. But he's

if you wanted to ride up next to him, you can probably say something as he's

Yeah. Yeah.

As he's riding off.

Okay. I would say, one day, me and you are gonna have a real personal fucking argument, Wanda.

So this this is this is the the law of threatening an innocent member of You're

an innocent? No. Let's turn a horse and leave this time of back then.

Says that. I look forward to that day, sheriff. May it may it be soon.

Soon. Yeah. I just like to stop ahead in agreement.

Yeah. I think they ride off. They've done nothing bad to your horses other than hurt them away to cause cause a cause a rocket. Scooch my horses. Yeah. And they ride off into the early dawn light towards their own towards their own range.

Right.

At pace. They run. They get away with the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Before they've done it, so they've done it.

Nothing for we're gonna have to play guitar and violin to suit these horses.

We are. I think we should do that. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure that would help.

No?

Luckily, your horses can't cut their own throats. Yeah. They kinda, like, just ride off a

cliff somewhere.

The rear band isn't that far away. You know, they'll just chuck themselves in.

Oh, dear.

Okay.

So the meeting for the Grandland branches in the afternoon, isn't it?

12 o'clock.

12 o'clock.

At sundown Saline.

So if I wanted to go to, Rayburn and what's the best in families? Oh. Pequito. Pequito. And try and use my performance. She's asked them to keep it to be calm. You know, so there's no outburst to tempos in there.

To be calm when they find out that you're all Chisholm's men. He's not Chisholm's.

I'm not Chisholm's man. Fucking hell.

Really clear

here. The letter is addressed to us. He wasn't there.

Yeah. He

really isn't Chisholm's man.

Oh, you can write in to tell before the meeting of calls. Yeah. Yeah. What what are the what are you doing, Tony, Matt?

Should we get to tell Katie and Rayburn about our associates before McGinn does? And say, look, obviously,

you know

Well, we gotta get these horses back. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm not gonna make

a make a

roll for that. Yeah.

But should we just fess up now and say, like, obviously, we

although we find it hard

to believe that Chisholm is behind this, but if it turns out they are, obviously, we'll end our association with him. We want no part of such things.

Yeah. Are you gonna do this before or after I ask them to keep it keep it calm at the lands grounds meeting?

Well, I

guess, well, let's

keep it calm at the lands grounds meeting.

Would that be a performance role or a presence role?

Would that be

a performance role? Because you're talking.

Yeah. Yeah.

Because it's gonna come out. Yeah. It's probably better if we just fess up at at at the start about it. So, obviously, you know, we

the sheriff did say that we had Tim say that he wanted to kill everybody associated with Chisholm, So we just sort of, you know, make them aware that we're associated with Chisholm.

Well, we've actually done nothing wrong. Yeah. We've been a legitimate arrangement. Argue that

knowing full well that Cody Picker killed Eugene Raeburn, you might have

not Yeah. What's the recipe say that?

Not hidden that. In fact, I I'm not sure you've entirely done nothing wrong.

No. We we've done

their eyes.

We've looked at it from their point.

By omission of truth. Yeah.

But by knowing full well that Pickett murdered these men, even if it wasn't self defense in your opinion,

therefore not murder, killed.

It's not what looks like I'll be resigning the best.

But we may we may not tell him that bit.

No. I think we probably don't

tell him that bit. No.

Because I'm not sure what's happening.

And also, we will just remind him that this is a felon.

Mhmm. He's lying.

I hope it's a felon, and I will well, let's play it out.

Yeah. Anyway, I'll get I'll go to,

So all 3 of you riding into town as soon as you got the herd back?

Well, should I be there? So You

live a bit over.

I mean, this

is not big.

You can all go together because you you're going back anyway. You can just ride the bike and the back. I'm not gonna make you make rolls for that.

Well, I'm just thinking of the fact is I go into the family and then the yeah. And then a few minutes later they walk and say, we're actually with Chisholm's. Maybe we wouldn't

And make sure the man and actually Be calm.

Be calm. When my friends

tell you

the day of the associates of

the many of your jobs. Yeah. So okay. What are you doing?

I'm I'm just going this to say, I know it's going I'm gonna know. I know the land grants meeting is coming up. I know it's all I'm asking. I'm gonna say to both Rayburn and Allan. Just keep I'm just asking you to calm me. You asked me to be sheriff and therefore I am therefore asking you to keep it calm. You want me to try and keep this town peaceful. I'm therefore asking for you to, respect that. To remain calm. To remain calm.

Despite provocation.

Despite provocation. Yeah.

Whatever that provocation might be.

It might be. And also, I will point out as well, you gotta remember the proof is coming from a woman who's actually I wouldn't call her reliable witness.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. You can do that. So make make a role for each of them. Well, you make a role for the ketays.

We got bonuses to get off the roof.

Not in this second. No? That they are they have their their their temper is up. Oh, for fuck's

sake. Mate, I hate my dice. I'm gonna burn them front of the fire. Like, go in the fire.

Is that

is that a fail?

That's a failure.

Are you gonna push?

I can't push that one, can I? It's a fail.

No. No. You get one.

Mhmm. What do you mean?

I've got one there.

No. You can't push it.

Yeah. You can't reroll that dice

there unless you buy off of the point of faith.

That would push me down to no faith points left then. You gotta have

this conversation 3 times. At

least once more. Are you pushing it?

I'm pushing it. Yeah. Are you

burning it off?

Yeah. Yeah. I got 2.

It takes it down to 0 face.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't do anymore. Come on. Be kind. Yes. I've got yeah.

Anyone's on on trouble?

No. None on trouble.

Okay. So

got 2 successes there, actually.

Yeah. Okay. So you can see that Paquito is is a very thoughtful woman

Mhmm.

And she is calculating stuff.

Yeah. The head. It has been sinister. She had to use

and, yeah, you you made a strong case and you think, you know, you're pretty pretty convinced that with your persuasion, she's calculated that kicking off Yeah. Isn't helping their cause particularly. Okay. And she agrees. Yes. You're absolutely right. For the good of the town, those of us who set the example for other people in the town need to

Mhmm.

Remain calm and reasonable and peaceful as far as we're able.

Okay. This is where it goes. And then, Gregor. Yes. It goes horribly wrong here.

So you have no faith left?

No.

So that means that any trouble dice you roll cause trouble. Joy. Even on the first roll? Even on the first roll. You obviously can't push

because you got no face. Yeah. Yeah.

But any trouble that come up.

This is James Bonden, isn't it? It's about revenge.

This is exactly 24 hours since you saw him to be awarded the job as

Yeah. I'm gonna quit.

Well, he might be fired.

He might be fired. Give me 6. Be kind. You son of a bitch.

Any ones on trouble dice?

2. 2.

2 ones on trouble

dice. Okay. So this composition is going well

then. Yeah.

Right. So roll That

would be 5. Oh, that makes things easy.

Roll a d 6 to see what your trouble is.

And don't get a 6.

6 makes it much worse.

3. 3.

K. Either directly or through the grapevine, people get to know if you're bad showing. Your reputation moves one point in a negative direction. Oh. So so we'll bear that in mind for the end of the scenario.

Mhmm.

Basically

I'll get you out of that.

Rayburn yeah. Rayburn doesn't take kindly to to what he said. He's still in a sense

and in

in in a set in a in a place where he's not thinking clearly.

Yeah. Okay.

But you've kind of fluffed your words.

Yeah. I know.

You've said it really badly. Yeah. And he's, you know, and he's, get out of my house. Go and do your job. You've been sheriff for a day. Go and be the sheriff. Leave me to make my own decisions about what I do with

with No. Yeah. I feel that.

To those who might have killed my son. Get out. We will leave it till later.

I don't know we're gonna go in. Maybe not quite quite straight off either.

No. That's the advice that I say. Don't go in straight off.

It's gotta be Raven first anyway.

Is it?

Yeah. Probably Raven. Even more so than the Pequito's, I think.

Maybe a couple of hours at night.

Because Raven Raven was the one where he heard him say I want to kill everybody associated

with the chase.

So I think we go in and we say.

Yeah. Like, because, you know, obviously, we respect the friend of the union family and

k. So you're knocking on the door, Ravey. Yes. How long after he's come out? It's like Oh, believe it.

Couple of minutes. Yeah. Is

that is that cute? Okay. And if you're in the in the square, everyone around can hear Rayburn shouting at Really? Which is why your reputation is good. Drop. Yeah. I don't care.

How's your performing? My performing is a massive four. What's your performing?

It's an equally massive 4.

But she's quick. Come out with your tail between your legs a little bit unless you wanted to argue with him. No. It's entirely up to you. Obviously, as a player, you can do what you like.

I'm not gonna do that. And, actually, I'm gonna be obsessed when I go to a bar. I'm gonna have a coffee.

With lots of whiskey in it?

No. He

needs his wits about him.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

So I go humble, hack in hand when I open it. When when

as they do like like Yeah. Turning around on the rim

and staring.

Kind of nervous.

And we we can do this actually one of us rolls and rolls a 5.

You can't you can't you can 1 of you can roll and one

can resist.

Yeah. Yeah.

So you

knock on the door and, Nola answers the door, missus Rayburn.

Miss Rayburn?

And she says, oh, good good good morning. Good morning, boys. If you're here, mister Garland, he's he's in a foul mood. You you might have just heard. Yeah. We did.

We heard. We did.

And you know you know the sheriff lives with us, so he's told us the whole the whole thing that happened. We're terribly sorry, but I think we we have to come and we we have to speak to mister Aban because he needs to know, what we know about the matter.

Do you need to speak to him now, or you might be better to give him half an hour to cool down? I I I honesty Half probably fine.

So what how long is it till the public meeting?

Oh, you got a couple of hours?

I mean, half an hour is probably fine.

Well, I say half an hour, you know, I mean, a week. Yeah. You know,

but it it's a thing that he needs to hear from us.

It may not be in a used conversation, but it is one we we have to have.

He's he's very he's very upset about the news.

You know, it was us that discovered the body of your son and

Yeah. Yeah. I'm very grateful for for your services to us,

over over Paul Eugene. We haven't told him everything that's going on in Albuquerque, and I think he needs to know.

Who are you talking to?

K. She she looks slightly I don't know. I can make a performing role

for that, but you

can get a point of help from time. Yeah?

Oh, dear.

Okay. She she twigs on you saying we didn't tell you everything before. And she's like, well, I'm not sure that's the

best thing to do.

She's like,

you've you've been holding things back from us?

Well, I'm really You know how it was that, mister McGinn sent a bribe to mister Chisholm in hope that he would, be looked on favorably.

So so you told us. Yes. Yeah.

Well, had had mister McGinn's bribe work then there's every chance that mister Chisholm would have made him an agent of interest, down here in this town. And one of the conditions of not accepting mister McGinn's bribe was that we had to hold that position for mister Chisholm. Now, mister Hawker, he told us that mister Chisholm, mister Rayburn wants to kill everybody associated with that man in Albuquerque and and we were associated.

And then we felt we should

I don't want him to find out from any from anyone else except Perfect.

We're afraid to let you know before you hear from somewhere else.

And they before me. She's looking quite shocked and betrayed.

5. 3 fives. Would you wanna push it? Oh, I could. Yeah. Probably should. I've got no ones. How much faith have you got? I've got 3 faith, sir. That's worth a push. One success, one trouble. Okay. Roll no trouble.

Just wanna bite off.

Or I let you wanna bite

off. I'll be

down to 2. I'll be down to 1. I'll bite that one off, I reckon. Okay.

So she also got one success, and she kind of like looks a bit mournful and and sad and says, oh, boys. Why did it why why was it you that you just closes the door?

On on us, as

you are. Leaving you outside.

Yeah. No. No. I think I I speak loudly enough through the door. Yeah. You're right. Perhaps it's better that you tell him in the right way at the right time.

Oh, yeah. Hawcott wasn't isn't chooses man. Oh, well.

I should have said, you and I, and she may she may think it. I see. But never mind. Anyway, what's done is done. That's when the bell is well, we could expect it to go. But we could've expected to get a few more down.

I was

only we would get

a little better than that,

to be honest. Alright. Okay. So but again,

this is Are you standing on the suit for any length of time?

Or No. No. No. No. Okay. But we're we're looking, assuming, I'm I'm assuming that she's looking out the window at us somewhere and designed some deck curtains, and I I am most definitely not walking away cocky going, job done. And I am still happy as I walk out.

And when

I get past their picket face, then maybe I will sheepishly put my hat.

Right. Okay.

There's so much to do then.

Are you going to go and tell a Pekito?

Yep. Maybe you do this as well.

Well, since I got 4 faith, I probably should. Yeah.

I don't know.

I think

you could one fight over there, boss.

Were you doing? Did you were you observing them? Do you then you've seen the fact that

Well, I've gone and see it from the hospital. Yeah. The yeah. The coffee and hand watching us.

Oh, yeah.

So you're

on the trails.

Yeah. But not the trail. The other one. What's the other bar we used to drink in? Blessings. The best blessings. Yeah.

Yeah. And you can be the blessing. You can still see that. It's not so close.

It's not so close.

Close enough. Close enough to see from a distance. You're probably 50 50 meters away.

Yeah. And if if I see him, he's the way he's acting, I think, oh.

Yeah. You can see the work in that end.

Yeah. Yeah. On the doors. Yeah.

What's what's slamming in the face, but gently closing their face.

I think I turned to the old one, the bomb said, well, let's start. I won't be keeping this much longer.

So the blessings are there. They're like, so, oh, mister Hawker, what's what's the problem? What's going on? What's happening? Things are things are bad in town

at the minute. Well, very bad. Yes. Yeah. I'm afraid.

This far, I mean, the whole town sewn up.

I'm afraid it's politics, boy. I it's, I'm afraid.

You can

call him boy. No.

It was gonna be boss, but not all of it.

Luckily, the Blessings are great guys. Yeah. They are. No

one's no

one's seen a bad bone in either of their bodies. I mean, they might be hidden the secrets in there somewhere, but

No. I've always put

Everyone loves

them in this town. Well, but mostly everyone.

All about land, I'm afraid.

Okay.

Okay. You see guys going up to? Yep. And you're knocking on the door?

Yep. Okay.

Let's

say this a bit differently.

What? Kicked the door down?

One of the

one of the hands Yeah. That's what I'd say. We didn't change everything. 1 of one of the hands is is is is

also say that we were approached by, McGinn to support his claim on Kyoto.

That will be similar because she does think she hates McGinn, so he mentioned McGinn's. Yeah. Not that I I tried I

tried I tried to get McGinn's involved in the other conversation, but

that didn't work.

Alright. Now

I think I think your error was saying we didn't tell you everything

at that point.

That was the the

Yes. The

key moment that sound of things.

Yeah. A bit of mitigating. I must admit to the fact she thinks Wiggins are out. Let me ask. I've mentioned

The begins

are? Out for the key. It does. Yeah. He doesn't love them at

all. Anyway, yeah. So one of the servants opens the door and says, hey. Good good morning.

Morning. I would like to have a word with Augustine, if you may. We appreciate this is a difficult time, but it's a very important murder that we need to discuss.

Make it for me wrong.

You can

add plus 1 dice for Matthew's help. Yep. Yeah. 2 successes. Bloody hell. Okay. Yeah. They they seem convinced, and they say, yeah, please come in and and wait here in the lobby, and I'll I'll go and see if she's, she's available, she's free. And he totters off into one of the back rooms. You've probably been in this house before, so you're probably aware of the layout.

Thank you. That's most

And there's coffee for people.

What's a

what can I So there is a What

can I do? No matter we need to tell you about? We feel we need to be honest with you as

a as friends Neighbors?

The neighbors. Robin, that's obviously about the rumors that mister Chisholm's men were responsible for the murder of your son. You can see

she her her friendly bizarre fades into a steely look of ice when you're talking about that. But she's trying not to she's trying to remain courteous and friendly. But and

I'm sure this is terrible news, but we just felt we need to let you know before, before you hear from anyone else that we You're very good. No.

You got a man in the car.

Still in the car.

We have

This is the last We

have been

working with mister Chisholm, as his agents in the area from

the land grounds. Obviously, you've been working with Chisholm? Yes. And, obviously, if you are Chisholm's men.

We are nobody's men. We are our own men.

We You you are you well, you're paid by Chisholm.

We are paid retained by miss Chisholm.

And Paul Cock, the sheriff?

No. But he's not. I've always managed. Just us 2. So, obviously, if these this accusation turns out to be true, that sort of association that we would immediately Although I would say that to our mind, it seems doesn't seem likely from what we know that it it these things are true, that it's Chisholm was involved in any way with your son's murder.

How well do you know Chisholm? How many years have you been there?

Not at all. Not at all. We've we've met him once, basically.

I fear your naivete and inexperience may have maybe the the most positive interpretation I can put on these events.

Yeah. Maybe so.

The less positive interpretation of these events is you are colluding with Chisholm, who is always was my enemy, but now has drawn blood.

And as I said, this is a

It's not

the best. You're the worst. At the worst, you are colluding, deceiving, evil men who are still now trying to

Deceiving deceivers.

Well, I trust it. The fact that we've come to to

have this conversation with you should make it clear that we're we're not deceiving anyone. Our relationship with miss Chisholm was entirely legitimate business relationship. If it turns out he's a an evil murderer, then clearly that is a relationship that we will not continue.

So what do you think?

What do I think

about you found Eugene's body and Audrey Deelgrist's body.

I think there's every chance that somebody like Picker may have killed them. Then

So you're saying

in self defense

This man, Chisholm's man murdered those men.

May have done, but he was very handy with a gun, but I do not think he killed your boys. They were killed with a knife and from an argument we had with him on the trail, I got the impression that he was very confident with his gun. Could've taken this down. There was a time when your boys were still with us, and I felt at that moment that he would have shot all 4 of us down with his gun and felt confident enough to do it if we we didn't let him go, which we did. Your boys chased off him, but I don't think they found him.

So we think what we think is we don't think Chisholm is a man responsible for your son's murder. The evidence for this seems to be the testimony of a the testimony of a a lone bandit. Mhmm. His testimony seems unlikely to be

reliable. But if,

obviously, once justice runs its course, if it turns out that Chisholm and his men were responsible, of course, that's not an association.

And that gang were

We would. We would consider

That's that's why I thought they might have killed Eugene as well.

And this may not be the time to discuss it, but our associate association with mister Chisholm could have advantages for ourselves and

and you that the

matter that we were hoping to discuss before this all came up was related to the the land grants and some information that has come into our sphere of knowledge.

So you are Chisholm's men. We are. And you are making claims about whether my son was was or was not killed by Chisholm's men, and you are now dangling No. A bates? No. A bribe?

No. Let's be clear.

I think they need to make a performing role, You got an exercise from Matthew? Yeah.

Okay. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna buy

off that one and repush the ear. My occasion.

What do you want? You want my

rubber around somewhere?

Where's it going?

I've got

rubber here if you want it.

Yeah. I had one away. But but it's

it's never by me. You didn't

start with begin.

Was that it?

You didn't start with begin. We start the story as begin tried us to get us to support his claim. Man, come in here saying Chisholm's willing

to Well, he can't sack him off off your report.

Wasn't fair.

He just said the wrong thing about we've been lying to you.

I didn't like

And we didn't. I said we haven't told you everything that happened in Albuquerque.

Okay. So that's my successes and a trouble.

Okay. So I'll just probably

just take the trouble.

Roll the trouble then, Taylor.

Shit. What? Okay.

Alright. You upset someone by your words

or actions. No. You don't.

They react badly towards you. Okay. Laugh at you will show you no respect. So she then she reacts badly. Suffer minus 1 die to your next role when dealing with it. So any more performance roles are at minus 1 die.

It's yeah. Because because of our She's

she's bringing up the set. So it seems to her that you've come in and said, we're Chisholm's men. We don't think Chisholm's men killed your boy.

Oh, by

the way, here. Have a deal to make it okay. So that's how she's kinda taken what you said. And it feels, but she's she's angry now. It's not the angry of Rayburn. It's the white hot she could cut your throats right now kind of angry.

We are naive. We're new to this town. We're new to the machinations of mister Chisholm. We felt at the time, McGinn was fixing to be mister Chisholm's agent. When McGinn, when we proved to mister Chisholm that McGinn wasn't as honest as his $1,000 bribe, we would purport then mister Chisholm only chose not to support him if we would become his agent.

He's met. We are. We have done some we

we are.

What brings us here today is this morning, mister McGinn came around Raj startled our cow startled our horses and told us to use our influence with mister Chisholm to make sure that he got the claim all the way to devil to Coyote's gap and beyond which we had thought that you would be wanting. It was McGinn trying to cut you out of that that made us think we gotta be honest about this.

Maybe we're gonna be honest about this because we're honest people and who are their friends.

Yeah. We're

not we're not saying, yeah, we were forced into coming to being honest.

What I'm saying is, you know, you

know, this is a conversation. You guys

just I'll

be having the conversation, but I just to have a look.

By telepathy. Okay.

Yeah. You you you are right, missus Paquito. I think we have been foolish to to have offered our services, but at the time that we felt there was very little we could do for the for the sake of the town, other than agree to be mister Chisholm's eyes on the town. And it's better if it's our eyes, isn't it? Does mister McGinn

make it perform a role at 4?

Well, no. I got the ones as well, not you,

so you can't get

help. I

think you can't get help.

I can't get this help. So it's

a 4.

I'll do it.

Are the dice being equally helpful as they were yesterday?

Have you got any face lift?

I've got one face lift.

Is that no successes?

Absolute success.

No successes.

Any ones?

No. No.

No faith.

2 successes. Okay. She rolled 1. So your mentioning of the of McGinn and your explanation of of what was going on behind it has softened us somewhat.

We would take your guidance in all our negotiations. You you've been here a lot longer.

And she says, look.

We have to do anything but Chisholm would come and talk to you about it first. It's what we were gonna do. We were invited you to see. We would have had this conversation yesterday had you been able to, come to do yesterday because

nice try. It's a good bit of work, actually. Yeah. What are you saying?

I'd say, yeah. And, obviously, if it turns out that mister Chisholm was behind this, but then clearly, we would immediately sever any Yeah. Connection with him.

She says, I know that McGinn is the cancer eating away at you know, in Olive Springs. I know he's done bad things. I know he is an evil, evil man. But You know what Chisholm's name? Oh, dear. God. 2 successes.

Yeah. I know.

This is the outcome of 2 successes. I am still I haven't even buried my boy yet. I I you know, McGinn did not kill Dimas. It seems likely that Chisholm's men, whether on Chisholm's order or not, killed him. I accept that you are inexperienced and naive, and have perhaps been hoodwinked by others who are better than you. But still I have to bear the grief of the loss of my son. I've heard what you said. I would like you to leave now.

Of course. Thank you for listening to us.

We thought you should hear it from us, though.

I appreciate that.

Was a good boy.

I think it's time that you leave, mister Ken.

I'm gonna take it as we go.

I know that Dimas was a good

boy. King.

So how does a good boys put a pints of favor other than going for a ride and polishing your weapon?

There's a there's

a variety of ways. Variety. You know, a good night's sleep in at home.

Don't get it for shagging your hall?

You don't get it for shagging your hall or your horse. A good meal with friends, maybe, you know, a last lunch.

From set?

I think so. Are you guys meeting up then to

Just so.

Because you Okay.

Yeah. Blessings. Don't do food.

They do do food. He's in the blessings.

He's in the blessing. Yeah. Drink coffee.

If you

have a slap up breakfast in blessings, you can all have a point of faith. Woo hoo. Yee mee. Hey. Because you might need it. As you're in the blessings and you're eating, you know, eating a hearty meal

Hey, mister Blessing. You can't eat gun oil? They don't

appreciate people cleaning that.

Had a grooming brush for a horse.

You do see about, I guess, 15 minutes after you leave the Paquito's, Augustine, a Paquito dressed up Mhmm. Walking out with a few couple of her family, a few attendants, and they go down, knock on Rayburn's door, and go into Rayburn's house.

I don't think I'm gonna be keeping this much longer.

You're you're having breakfast. You

Wait wait wait wait wait for our doom.

About 40 minutes after you see Paquito go in Mhmm. And about a quarter to 12 now, you see Paquito come out of Rayburn's house with Garland, Raeburn, a few men. And they walk down the road in the direction of the sundown.

Is it due time for the

It's about a

quarter to 12. Meeting.

Resign, take the horse, and

just ride from next time. No. Okay. I suppose

we should

go to the meeting. We can

go to the meeting.

To the meeting. Mhmm. It's time for the back.

Yeah. But my head held up. I don't think we've done that much wrong.

So I'm not I'm not

No. You haven't done much wrong. I'm not really

Respectful, but not

We've done everything right.

You've been honest. Yes.

Probably fingering. What?

Fingering chism?

Fingering chism's man Bicker for the, for the murder of the boys.

That's what

But it probably was self tested because we felt they were going after him to stop him.

And it was a sheriff who said, he's what's it. I mean, what's a man to do? At

this point, I wouldn't say any more about

that. I think we've said we've made our case, and I

But the scene in the movie where you're, like, chuntering away at the back of the Mhmm. Thing and then if we'll turn it back. Jimmy turns over and says, look. Just just just for now. Just don't say anymore about it. Just shut up.

But it was shiny while we were for a bit. I walked down to the

Are you still wearing it? I think

it gets ripped off me as well. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool.

I'm not I'm not a Chisholm's man, am I? So as far as I'm concerned. No. No. No.

Unless you wanna be.

No. No. You're not

you're not implicated in this. I guess you're implicated by association.

Oh, yes. So you

might think because Euro Chisholm's meant

that Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yes. Yeah.

They have made try to make it quite clear that you're not

Mhmm.

Part of this, and, you know, they're they're they're the traitors, not you. I mean, they're Okay. So Julie. It's quite busy in the Sun Down. As you as you come in, you know, there's no sign of Bruiser Goodish. He and he's told that everyone thinks he's still on death's door. Obviously, he's in his in his in his rooms. Grainne is behind a bar with a couple of couple of men, women sort of serving. Great for them because it's really busy. Busy.

That's why I get very friendly looks.

They haven't seen you yet. No. You can see, McGinn is there with a couple of other couple of friends and family.

I mean, today, been quite successful and that we have managed to piss off every single major family in town.

We've done well. Yes. Yeah.

Talented. And yesterday Probably should've taken

this distance of owning this town.

Hell yeah. Should've taken

Wiggins off. If we'd had if we'd

had those conversations first and then met McGinn required, but made a different decision.

It would have been interesting if you had taken McGinn's offer because that would have been the first time where you didn't do the right thing. You were doing the

right thing? You are

doing the right thing. The right thing is, yes, really paying off, I say, as always. Life experiences.

Okay. If

you get The wagon to the front and the wagon to the back. Barricade the exits. Anytime in my turn.

Move up to steaming rock. Yeah.

I've heard

it's nice up there.

Yeah. You're really friendly. You love them. No fucking hope in Steven Rock. They would eat you for breakfast.

Oh, thank you.

It would be quite funny to if

you did leave and then

have Steve and Robert have Anaheim and Carmody all as MPC. Yeah. That would be quite entertaining.

You mean if we die, is that which one is the

Not necessarily, but it would be quite funny. Just as an experiment or as

a thing

to do with me, as a GM.

Drove from the spare gatling gun town. No.

Shooting doesn't solve problems. Witness. Sure. This whole thing started with a shooting of 2 lads by mister Picker.

You say that loudly, you know. Yeah. As he as he come in, Matt, do you wanna make a hawk eye

roll? Yeah. I don't do not make it a hawk eye.

Is there a raised area where the agent is sitting or is he must be sitting.

No. It's just the back room with a few tables

in it. Oh, 2 successive thing. How about that?

Okay. Do you see Grainne Begin sees you as you come in and gives you a smile a bit like that? A kind of like

a I should smile.

I shouldn't really be smiling at you kind of smile, but

I will return that smile with the with the sort of recognition that Yeah. We both know we're in the dog house or I'm in the dog house. Make a performing model.

Presents or performing either.

Alright. Presents. Presents it is. Success.

Okay. Yeah. You seem to have a little a little moment of Show a moment. Show a moment. Show a moment in that. Place kind of understanding the situation and she's now busy serving. So, there's a few people in that room.

Mhmm.

You've got, who else is

here? You've

got the, a couple of other people you recognize. It's a guy called Sanders Beckman. He's got a man with him. He's another small time cattle rancher.

That's right.

He's got ranch to the North and Chuck Tate. Chuck Tate is is sitting with on the McGinn table. There's been plenty of kind of discussion around, you know, Tate has been cozying up to the McGinns a bit.

But the McGinns told us that everybody in this town hated him, and now He's got friends. He's a liar.

You're just Jess because he's got friends,

and we And we have.

And there's a few other He's got a friend.

He's a friend.

There's a few other people there, but it's it's not that busy. It's not that it's not that it's not packed because obviously not everyone in this town is is worried about Mhmm.

The land grants.

About the land grants. Yeah. So are you standing back, sitting down, sitting at the dinner table, sitting at somebody else's table? Well, what's got

seats available? Is there, like, an empty because

I'm staying, of course, so I can need to be sitting my presence. No.

Yeah. Okay.

There's there's there's a table where you could sit if you wanted. Yeah.

Is it? Mama, show up.

Oh, you can stand. Stand. I think

I should stand.

I might as well try it.

I think I'm standing at the back. Okay.

I suppose I'm standing at the front, so in the corner of

the front. You're gonna go and stand next to Crosby?

Yes. But yes. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Try and do the job for the last few minutes.

Like, Crosby, you know, gives you gives you both a little sort of a half hearted wave.

Okay. That's not really good, my brother.

Yeah. I'm sorry. Don't don't don't

don't do that. Don't do that. He gives a little So just

sheriff. Yeah. He he doesn't realize you already been sheriff it for 5 minutes.

Not now. I don't think it's been one day. It's been, what, 24 hours and 5 minutes.

It's been it's been more than a day.

More than a day.

It's nearly it's nearly a day in 2 or 3 hours.

Really? Yeah. Oh,

Yeah. And so about 5 past 12, Crosby stands up and bangs the table and says, so hello, citizens of United Springs. Thank you for for coming to my little little meeting. I just like to say, I am Samuel Crosby. I'm a territorial, surveyor.

make it because of that special relationship and this is just McCain doesn't

make any reaction to it.

Don't whisper that way. Overheard. You may be I will,

my survey will start tomorrow and will will take me probably a couple of weeks. I've got the applications. Once I've done my survey, I shall report back to attorney Ketron. And, you will all be informed, by by the new year of, of his decisions. Does anybody have have any any questions? Can I

have a Hawkeye role? You see this Can I fail the Hawkeye roll?

Just see

if you can start the trouble for that. You can make

Hawkeye roll if you like?

See if I can fail it, because I'm not gonna do any new rolls. We've only one fake one. So I see that's the whole bit here. That's fine. Okay. So,

yeah, the atmosphere in the room is is reasonably calm.

Is it? No. Right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Maybe, she's calmed Rayburn down. So I did I did see the roles with her.

I mean, Rayburn is exceeding, but the atmosphere generally in the room is is quite calm.

Oh, for for now, I'm not pushing that. No. I see if I could.

No. Okay. You did You can't really tell Mhmm. Tell anything. The the first time you said it is there's there's not a couple of questions about why the the western side of the Rio Grande suddenly included when it wasn't before and possibly doesn't really know.

lot of, like,

sucking your teeth and, you know, obviously, there's a lot of people there who hadn't been told that you're a chiseled man, and It's quite a lot of, like, moving on.

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