Jornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 33

I'm just here to see justice done and wanna see Mary acquitted.

Well, well, mister Torrence, well, as far as I'm concerned, the whole thing was done legally and properly. I'm sorry to

be here.

And missus McGuinness is accused of, basically, attacking Lorwyn, going about their lawful business, which is what exactly what happened.

I've fallen for a woman, which is no bad thing. But there's complications. Like, I shot her mother.

Many years ago, when they were first first started running, running trouble down in Las Vegas, up in Las Vegas, Torrance and Mary Davidson were an item. McGinn turned up. Lawless turned up. And, should we say took Mary's affections away from Torrance?

Maybe she isn't miss McGinn at all. Maybe she's miss Torrance.

I'm Dave, and I'm the GM.

I'm Matthew, and I'm Marian Freeman.

Oh, I'm Nathaniel Hawcock, part time, rancher and now the part time sheriff. What's the place called again? Junarda Springs. Junarda Springs. Yes.

Tony, on my catch is Jimmy Harston, part owner of the Freeman Harston.

That's what God is telling you to do then.

Is that worth a fake point for? Part? Faith point. Go on then. Have a faith

point. Okay. Tone, what are you doing whilst all this is going? You look around Matt's gone, but doesn't look you know, like you disappeared in a puff of magic.

So I've probably just sit here drinking and salty. I think I probably had enough whiskey there, so I'm just gonna get up and go for a walk down the harsh main street of town just to clear my head.

Yeah. Okay. Which way are you going, east or west?

Going towards the Lincoln Hotel. That's where he's going. And he got through his head up and down outside the Lincoln Hotel. So you have

to waste the rest of your face points getting in the boat

without being seen. How many face points have you got?

Back to, 3 now.

3. Yeah.

Well, I'll probably go east first. That's kinda past the

sheriff's office and then go back. Yeah. Okay.

Mhmm. Where's the sheriff's office?

It's east of where you're staying. So sheriff's office is down.

Oh, alright. Okay. Fair enough. You're staying there. Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. Mhmm.

Okay then. Whilst you're at it, Matt, let's carry on with you then.

Okay.

Go on to the Lincoln.

Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Torrance is there. He's in the dining room this time. He's just finishing up what looks like a hearty Sunday roast.

On his own or with his goons or how many of his goons?

He's got,

25.

He's got 3 of his mena with him. Okay.

I'm gonna go cap in hand. Yeah. Hat off. I'm I'm cutting it. I mean, by all means, make a performing role if

you want to make a

performing role, but I am genuinely looking to him to answer questions. So I say, mister John. So I've I've

bought Mister Freeman, is it?

Yeah. Yeah. Marion Freeman.

You've you've reconsidered your your hasty departure of yesterday evening.

Maybe I have. There's something I need to know, mister Terence.

If I can if I can help you in any way, I would be glad to do that, particularly if you you remember that friends help friends.

Well, I don't know whether I will be your friend after this. Let me tell you.

Yeah. When you say that, you do these these men tense slightly, you know,

and Can we

the direction of god?

Can we talk privately? It's a very discreet matter that you you may not want your your boys to hear.

You'll understand that I'm a I'm a man of valor who's had a long life and has made a lot of enemies in that time.

If you need me to put my guns on the table here and go with you just somewhere safe, then I will. But, obviously, I don't think you're you're friends to hear what I'm gonna say.

If you didn't mind, if if, you could leave your guns with with my men here and, just let them let them check. We could just take a little stroll out the back. Oh, my goodness.

So, I'm probably not carrying my Spencer Carbine, but I will unholster my walker.

Have you

got any other guns on you, Sydney?

You might have a Derringer that I'm being more discreet about.

Which is where?

I want it to be up here. But it's not up there. No. I I can take that off as well.

Yeah. Okay. You can see him. He says, he stands up, and you can see he does unhook his his own holster just to be, you know, on the safe side. And he then invites you out to the to the backyard.

And then

It's a chance. You said you said that there's Scuttlebutt in town that you and miss Davidson, as she was, were were once lovers. And I'm gonna say this without any I'm not plotting this when I say this. Yeah. I'm not, like, trying to get anything out of him. I'm gonna say it just, you know, this is now my understanding.

Make a

make a

insight roll.

Insight roll. That's 4 dice. I get a success.

Okay. You don't see anything obvious. There's a slight flicker of his eye when you when you say that. But, otherwise, he his face remains entirely deadpan. And

I'm not trying to I'm not trying to undermine a case here. I just have a personal concern. It was, what, 20 odd years ago that

Something like that. Yeah. Begin

Lawless died to you?

Laulus died 20 or 25 years ago.

And when he when he died, I can't I find it hard to say, but

just spit it out, man. Come on.

I I'm in a nascent relationship with miss Davidson's daughter, who is You're 24.

You're Shagging, daughter of the man you killed and the woman you shot.

Well, that that's my point precisely.

You know, it's the only kills.

I'm not I'm not gonna say that. I don't know. After all, that she's his daughter. And I need to know, was When you last saw miss Davidson, was she pregnant?

I last saw her 20, I don't know, 25 years ago Thereabouts. I can't I don't remember the exact date. She went off with Lawless. I never saw her again until I, you know, found out that she was in you know, in outer springs? I did have some more dealings with Lawless.

I nod. But you don't know. Why would you?

You might have If if I thought she'd been pregnant

You'd shoot her more for the movie if you thought she had. Yeah.

I would, I would have wanted satisfaction about the fate of my child.

Which is very satisfying. But and don't say that.

I'm not Donald Trump. You know?

Are you not? So I I say, thank you. I I I I'm not sure how I feel, but I need So you to

know So you think that Mary was pregnant when she ran off

with us? I don't know. No. I don't know. I just suddenly thought she might be and that her daughter might have a different father, one who's not lying 6 feet under. She doesn't like her mother much.

Does she look did she look like her father?

Well, I don't know. Jim, you tell me.

It's a

fair comment. It's a really

She didn't look so different that it was obvious that he wasn't her father. But she wasn't also, you know, a carbon copy female version of Donald McGuire at all.

She might might have been his daughter. I had no reason to suspect she wasn't until just now with what I've learned in this town. I think she hated him, and I think she hated her mother. She

I wonder if

She came to me.

She hated them because at some point, Mary told her.

Mary told her what?

That that she wasn't Lawless's son. She

was Maybe. Mine.

Son. Yeah. Child.

Daughter. Daughter. Daughter.

Well, just

This possibly changes things.

Changes things how?

If you'll excuse me, I need to go. And he walks

I need to.

Quickly back into the thing and says a few words to his men. And one of them comes out, run just basically runs out of the Lincoln.

Okay. I am Gonna

pause there.

Pardon me sorry. No. But I'm I'm just gonna go and pick up my guns. And I just wanna make really clear here that part of me really wants to plot and be cunning about this and collect evidence and all sorts of shit. That is not the mood my character is in at the moment. Yeah. And so I'm not doing anything, you know. I'm genuinely flustered by this realization. Yeah.

Okay.

Cool. Okay. He's fucking quiet. My little portable photograph has recorded the

entire thing.

But no, sadly, I don't have a portable photograph.

No. So yeah. Taylan, I guess you and Andy probably, you know, bumping into each other's Yeah. Out of a thing.

Yeah. So have you seen Freeman?

No. I don't know if it was.

But he was.

I left you 2 in the, Oh,

so too many whiskies.

Alright. Alright.

So he's gone. Puppy dad. Probably

be killed. He's most before he started the fight. Yeah. He is.

Well, you know what you mean?

He probably been murdered in cold

blood by Thomas.

Started a fight is what he said. Okay. As you're as you're kinda walking up here, a couple of people come out of the holy trinity Mhmm. Basically in a bit of a rush

Alright.

And run down the road shouting for the sheriff.

Oh, shit. Chat for the sheriff. Yeah. I'll start

sprinting. They are they

are they Torrance's goons or they just

Nope. You don't they're just they're not people you particularly recognize.

Oh, okay. I I just so I just well, just ask. So what what's happened to the

And, as they were, they're running to the sheriff's office as yeah. They shouted. They ran past, There's trouble. There's trouble.

And where the so where they went off? The The trinity.

Holy trinity. The trinity. Okay.

Okay. I'll spring up towards the trinity then.

That means horse probably pretty weird. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's Yeah. Head into that territory.

Okay. As you as you run closer, you can hear shouts and angry voices from inside. Yeah. Yeah. Matt, are you following

Yeah. In the middle of the days, no means yeah. So when he sent these people off to run off and murder the show, I'm I'm not to kill. I must go back and protect the show. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm ambling.

So, basically, one of his men was sent. The other 2 were still with him.

Alright. Okay. Yeah. So you're I I picked up my guns, obviously, and I'm leaving. Yeah. I'm not really sure where to go.

Okay. So what I'm concerned yeah.

Okay. As you come into the to the bar of the Trinity, you can see Horst is in a very angry argument with 2 men. Mhmm. You recognize them both as Torrance's 2 of Torrance's men.

Alright.

And and they're kind of taunting him, and he's he's shouting out though angrily about how evil Torrance is, and Torrance should have always been in prison. And and they're saying you know, and he and he he's shouting at them, kind of threatening them, and they're like, come on then, old man. You're so you're so strong. You come on. Come on. Fighters. And his, you know, his hand is down by his gun. Jesus Christ.

Okay. I think

we're gonna pop into initiatives for this. Okay. Well, shuffled.

So what's 6 then? So high which 3 scores which is lowest goes first?

No. High goes first, but ace is high.

Ace is high. Right.

So king goes first.

What is that?

Which is the the goons, the 2 of them. And they're not really looking at the crowd. There's quite a lot of crowd. Mhmm. You know, they've they've moved back, so they're not in kind of the line of any gunshots. And they're and they're saying, yeah, you're you're an old fool. You should've stayed where you were. You can't insult us, and you can't insult mister Torrance and get away with it. And they are yeah. They're not drawing, but their hands are down by their guns.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Andy, it's your action.

Okay. Alright. Okay. Well, I'm just gonna is there an easy passage in in into the, yeah. What I'm saying, is it easy because do I have to push my way through to get to the middle or not?

You have to push your way through. Yeah. But you can do that in one action.

Yeah. Okay. I do it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So in between what's the the old the old chef's name? Horst. Horst and 2 good men. Yeah.

You can

get in between them. Yeah.

Yeah. Right this way.

Enough. Use your presents. Use my I know. Hold on. Yeah. You use your presents. Yeah. I know. Your presents is 5.

Perform, I won't be,

Your performance is 7.

7.

But And this is really, it's

presence. His presence.

It's probably presence in this situation because you're Yeah. Cheering.

Yeah. Okay.

And you're you're what you're what are you saying?

I'm just saying. I'm just gonna tell him to just say, really, Gracie, enough. Really. Alright.

Okay.

Pull through them. I just hope it works. Mhmm. Oh, enough. Can you stop chatting to each other? Well, that's

16. 16. Did you wanna push?

No. No. That move that you got.

None of them at the moment seem to be listening to you.

Alright. Oh, god.

So if

I buy it off and push I've got 2, haven't I?

So if you go down to 0 faith, then you obviously can't push. All dice that you roll, trouble dice count after a first roll.

1 dice. So like, we we roll all these 4 giga on it. Got 1. It was it's not the old system, isn't it?

So, yeah. So you you keep your 6, obviously.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Now if you buy that off, you roll it again. If you don't buy it off, you don't roll it.

Alright. Okay.

But if you get down to 0 faith, then Mhmm. You obviously can't push

and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And trouble dice are active straight away.

Guys, fuck.

Don't follow it. Mhmm. Don't want it. Keep you always gotta keep a point of faith. Gotta have faith.

So you can push, but just don't just take the risk of that.

Okay. So just push these 3. Yeah. Solid.

So that cost you one face, so you still got one

left. Okay. If I don't buy if I don't buy it off.

Yeah.

Okay. Oh, son of a bitch.

Thank you.

Oh, I got 2 there.

Two successes, but 3 fails. Three trouble. Okay.

Three trouble, mate. So Been there, Doug.

With your 3 success your 2 successes, both of Torrance's men Mhmm. Kind of seem to listen to you.

Yeah.

And, or certainly one of them does, the other one is kind of with 2 minds.

Right. Okay.

Horse is kind of foaming at the mouth, and it hasn't listened to a word you said. Okay. He rolled 4 stitches. Right. You need to roll a d 6

on Just a little load. Load. Give me load, please.

Column 3 of the trouble table.

Give me load. Okay. Load. Give me a yell, please, please. 4. 4.

Things are going badly wrong, and you can't cope. You need a turn to pull yourself together.

I'm not gonna. I've been there before.

So, basically,

go on.

This basically takes you out.

The landlady's picking another train. Go on. Run off.

Oh, yes. I was imagining it. Kick it out of the way.

No. But I'm not saying, so so you're basically out of this

You don't wanna write that into Paul. The landlady drops a tray train

of stuff every because yeah. So you need a turn to pull yourself together.

Okay, Fran. That's fair. I suppose I'm looking look. Yeah. I'm I'm assuming I'm looking at a horse. He can shit seeing that he's mad.

Yeah.

It must be

But you're yeah. So it's gonna take you a turn to put yourself together.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

So basically, you're out of the scene, unfortunately. Almost It's almost like you're broken,

but you're not broken. Yeah.

Tony You

still got one faith left. Yeah. Okay.

So Tony, it's your action. You can see what's happened. Hawcock has has tried and has completely, kind of completely spooked himself by jumping in front of all these guns.

I was gonna fish my way through, and I'm basically gonna grab horse by the shoulders and say, come on, horse. This is you've had enough now. Come with me. Come back to your hotel. Let's see. Yeah. 2 other the goons.

Just gonna go. Okay.

There we go. There we go. I'll take it from here. I'll sort them out.

Okay. Make a make a performing roll then, Tane.

How many dice do you have in performing? 5. Oh, I'm not bad.

Well, I

don't But lots at once.

I've gotta push. Yep. I'm not going off. It's

not getting.

Okay.

Okay. So I get a success and won the trouble.

Okay. So roll keep 2,001 5th. Roll the trouble in time.

That's just one

Just one dice. Yeah. 3 dice. 3. Okay. You're confused, your mind goes blank, or you lose your train of thought. You suffer minus 1 to rolls right into the same issue for the rest of the scene. So I think that's gonna be minus 1. You can see kinda how disconnected he is behind his eyes. Can he get past there? So this is what you're doing in the real game as well?

Going to the point. In the

real world, ain't it? In the real game?

In the

real game. This is it's real life you're doing as well.

Get off.

Sorry. So you got 2 successes with 1 success. Okay. So, yes. So you're gonna be at minus 1 dice for trying to convince him or anyone to back to back down. He, he is still very angry, and wants to shoot the other guys. Okay. But he's restraining himself, just. So it's their action, the goons. One of them just shoves poor cockers out of the way, sheriff. And the other one is, again, shouting at Shouting at, Horst, trying to trying to make him react.

There's the other chef that was being called for when we,

He's

on his way.

Hasn't got it yet.

So I think, Matt, if you're if you're looking, you can you can see that there is obviously some hullabaloo going on down at the I mean, it's a couple it's a couple of meters, but you can see there's something going on.

Shooting started yet?

Not yet. Okay. He's I'm

running up there. This this knocked me out of my

Daydream or whatever it is.

Yep. You'll You'll be a couple of rounds before you get there, but okay. So, yeah, he's tried to incite him, but he hasn't hasn't done a done a shot. Now we should have done renewed initiatives, shouldn't we? But we'll stick with this one for now. So your action, Tony.

Okay. So I'm still trying to drag Horst away, maybe a bit more forcefully now.

Are you trying to physically drag him or I'm

trying to physically Or

you're trying to convince him still?

But I'm staying calm this way, but I am physically trying to put him as well.

Okay. So you can you can do one action to try and

talk him

down, and then your second action would be to try and grapple

him. Okay. So you're talking first,

Yeah. One, I'm just gonna dance down. Right?

No. No shit. Shit.

No. It's not what he rolled. That's what I'm saying too. I'm not pushing that.

Okay. He got 3 successes.

What was that? I got one success. No successes and that one, so I'm not fishing.

Okay.

Who rolled that one, mate? Who's that?

This was Horst trying to resist his blandishments. That's a swing. Yeah. Not Okay. So you you're gonna try and grapple him.

Drag it. Yeah.

Yep. So that's fighter. We're fighting. Yep. And you're trying to grapple him, so I was trying to

or trying to

pull him out

of the room. Pull him away, basically.

Right. Okay. Possible.

Ah, 2 successes.

Okay. Yeah. So you got one. So you're mainly you're able to drag him. Where are you trying to take him? I'm trying

to take him basically out the door. So because he's staying at the

Yeah. Banales. I'll basically drag him out out

here and take him back to his room.

Okay. Let's try and check about the front door of the, of the Yep. Okay. Yeah. As you're doing that, the guy, Matt, that you are following gets to the bar. You can see him running.

Oh, right. Hold on. So the 2 people arguing in the bar with Horst, neither of those were the man who Yeah.

Who left.

And so sorry. I'm just getting this. So what I see is some kerfuffle happening at the bar. And am I seeing the man that was walking briskly to the bar, then running towards the bar?

So he was he was running all the way.

He was running all the way. Oh, okay. Yep. Okay.

And he you could see him disappear into the bar.

He was trying to stop the provocation that Inglis currently happening.

In the bar? Not that

I know there's a provocation.

One of one of Torrance's gooners basically barges in, pushes past you and think without even looking, and, shouts to the other 2, back off, back off. And they both like, woah. Okay. Take a few steps back and say, it's just an argument. What's sort of fuss about? And you managed to drag him out. So, Andy, you got pushed to one side whilst you're at the toilet. And so you're kind of like Mhmm. Crumpled in a corner.

Yeah. I've driven around this.

Yeah. Struggling having

Mhmm. Yeah. That's fair.

Having the situation. So, yeah, you arrive, Matt. Tony, you get horsed outside. He's very drunk.

Mhmm.

He's still he's still kind of resisting and fighting you, but not strong enough.

So I see Tony in horse. I say, what happened? What happened?

Of course, he got himself drunk. He got himself in a fight with some of Torrance's men. Just have to try and drag her out of there before it before somebody

Jimmy, stop going on about horse being drunk. Sorry, sir.

He's not listening. He's in red red mist, completely east. He's still trying to, I fucking bastards. Are you talking to me like that?

But there were, what, 2 of Collins's boys?

That's alright.

I then realized, I don't think there's gonna be any more trouble from them. And I turned the horse to say, I don't think there's gonna be any more trouble from them. And I'll try and persuade him, using my performing, which is shite, but I'll do it anyway.

You can get a bonus dice and tone. Yeah?

Thank you, Tony. That brings you up to 5 double deck. Oh, double deck. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But what do I know? Because I'm very uncertain about life in general. So so I don't know. I I'm just I'm really confused in my head, but I honestly don't think there's gonna be any trouble for them, but it's not working. I'm not able to convince them at all unless they

No. No. No. He's still seeing seeing red.

Okay. So seeing that, I immediately turn my back on him because what I can't have is those 3 guys coming out of the hotel while he's still got his gun. So I go to the door and, stopping at the door just to see what's going on.

Right. Okay. Yep. You can see Sheriff Hawcock kind of sat by an overturned table, looking a bit shocked and kind of, like, pulling himself pulling himself together.

No. Not me.

The man you were following is talking to the other 2 Torrance men on the far side. They're all very calm now. And the sheriff turns up and runs out and says, what's all the what's all the fuss? He's talking to you because you're still holding on to

Oh, he's coming. He's fine. I'm I'm outside. Yeah. So I'm

Yes.

Yep.

I said, well, first, I think there's a bit of a altercation. It's the there's the horse here was had possible water or any whiskies. I'm just gonna help him back to his hotel.

Do you need a do you need a hand?

That

might be welcome. He doesn't I don't know. He's

he's, he goes Rufus. Rufus. He's all that keen to help, help sheriff Halston take, deputy Halston and Rufus Malcolm, the deputy you met before, comes over and helps you. And between you, he's quite easy to control. You're probably alright by now. Thank you. Just so you've just come and Yeah. Just just out of shock of the situation.

It's famous with a bit of a human, I think. Yeah. Fair enough.

And inside, they're like, it's all over now. Everyone sit down, have a drink. Oh, have a drink of water. No need to no need need for any more trouble. And the sheriff goes, sheriff Bakker goes inside.

Mhmm. And

I was kind of again, I'm really confused, but I was determined that they're not gonna come out into the horse's gun. Yep. So when the sheriff, he he might have to slightly push past me.

Right. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm I'm not stopping you. Now.

Yep. No. Torrance is made of kind of chills. They're, you know, very calm now. And they're like, ah, it's just an argument. Drunk old man running his mouth off.

Right.

And it

all comes down?

Oh, well, you say it all comes down. Seeing me standing by the door, is the landlady gonna tell me I'm bad? Having dropped 2 trades on it, Sheldon.

Well, I know. It wasn't.

She hasn't noticed you stood by the door. They're too busy clearing up and making sure there isn't gonna be blood spilled. Mhmm.

But I'll sneak in the back way.

You might need to apologize to her. You can see if you wanna get back in your room.

Well, I suppose once the pool is, you know, I've got this shacking myself out of this out of my shop, come outside, and just see the video talking to chef, aren't you, and stuff like that?

Well,

that's no. No. It was winding Horse. Horse up.

Yeah.

Oh, the Torrance man. Yeah.

Torrance man. Yeah. So

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I think that may have been a plot to turn into a gunfight to get horsed. Dead. At the very least, discredited, if not dead. I don't think Torrance is interested in doing that now.

What is that then?

I need a drink.

Okay. Well, that's it. Yeah. But

I need a drink.

And also Make a performing role to apologize to

Isabella Lopez. Piece with her.

No. Alright. Okay.

You can get a

you can get a

well, I think you need you need to apologize.

Ah. But you can get I was telling him I'm a dice

of help. You can

get no.

You can get

I'm gonna give you 3 dice of help because the 2 of you, your friends did run-in and risk yourself to try and break up the fight.

Okay.

And I I explained to her, I I I I've had some terrible news that affected me very badly. Yeah. I'm still confused by it, but I still can't. I will spend a point of faith and apologize. Cost me, dear. Just a point of faith to go. Sorry. I'm not spending any more than that. Oh, for fuck's sake.

You succeed though. I succeed?

Oh, no. Hold on. Yeah. Oh, no. That is still I don't that's sort of trouble, Dyson.

All you got there then?

I couldn't have bought that off. Off.

So you should have rolled the

I should have rolled the other one. I thought one doesn't matter.

Ah, I could have

rolled it. Yeah.

The ones only match on the roller.

I succeed, but I score 3 points. K. Roll a trouble.

I'll go down somewhere else for a drink then, doesn't it? Unless hang on.

Apologies. 6.

Roll again because

that goes

up and

down. Your

confidence is gone. You

Your confidence is gone. You stutter and stumble and are effectively stunned for d 6 rounds.

Ryan is possesses on a performing roll.

Yeah. So I think basically what happens here is, you get the telling off of your life as if you're a 5 year old

Yeah.

In front of everybody here, and she rants at you for 5 minutes.

But you said, well, I get extra dice for actually trying to stick in my neck. Yes?

I get I've always exercised. Oh,

okay. Bonus.

She lets you stay, because you got your success.

She does successes.

She does begrudgingly accept your apology, but she gives you a dressing down like you haven't had since you were a 6 year old by your angry mother. Mhmm. And everyone is laughing at you Oh, dear. In the whole place. Lucky you don't live here, I guess.

Yeah.

But she'll let you stay. She'll honor your booking.

Okay. Well, I'll buy a bottle of whiskey and get it sit down at the table and pour a drink. Pour a pour a drink. You'll say that, certainly, but drink take it. Yeah. Thank you.

Yeah. So Rufus Rufus says that he'll look after Horst if, you know, if you wanted to go back and

I think they haven't gone either way.

Yeah. Make sure he gets.

And he'll keep an eye on him.

Well, look at him.

Make sure he doesn't do anything stupid before the trial. Mhmm.

I looked at Martin Freeman and say, well, I can see that both of us have had a bit of a shock to our system then.

Yeah. Okay.

A couple of minutes later, Jimmy gets back.

Okay.

So I'm gonna say

The poor dream, isn't it? Isn't it?

Yeah. What is

What's obvious then?

20 odd years ago, missus Davidson runs off with Lucky Lawless, soon to become mister and missus McGinn.

Yes. Alright. So you're

Gonyea McGinn, 24 years old.

Mhmm. So, you you know, it's up trying to rob us. So so you're saying that you think that, she wasn't the daughter of lucky daughters?

Torrance's daughter. And I went to see him. And, gosh, I don't know whether he knows

Right.

But he thinks it might be true. And he said that changes things. Mhmm. And he sent a man

up to

the hotel. Fight. But up to this hotel, I'm saying

And to break the fight up.

Up. To make sure that whatever was planned with the other 2 hoods of his and Horst didn't happen.

So they were planning to provoke Horst

And to

a fight.

Justify killing it.

And, I am extremely confused by everything as my dice ruining shows. However, yes, I think that may be. What his intentions are, I have no fucking idea. Is, you know

Can I have a well, when it's time, can I have a one thing, an insight role here?

What are you wanting to

As a character, not meta games

here.

Yeah. Yeah.

I wanna figure out that, therefore, if Torrance does think that Max Goverin is, in fact, his daughter, I'm gonna think my character's gonna suddenly realize that he'll put Scott obviously gonna come down to

Granada Springs Springs

and, start being a pain in the ass.

I'm not sure it means

he's gonna

be He's need to make a roll. You could speculate that.

Speculate. Yeah.

May or may not. You don't know. They're not. But, it's not impossible

if he thinks that.

I don't know. I mean, one thing I'm sure, he's a clever man, and he knows his story is blown. I told him that I used the word scuttlebutt about town.

So, basically So

So I might have feared. Mhmm. Just in retrospect, I realized that I put horse in great danger since it was horse that told me he might have killed horse, given that's the only one that can tell that story.

Story.

But maybe because I said scuttlebutt about town and he thinks everybody knows, then maybe that's what saved Horst's life. I I have no idea.

Yeah. But what you've also well, you must realize now that you've attracted another another father-in-law. Yeah.

Yeah. But that's that's 2.

And yeah.

You want to get rid

of I

know he may have to be the best father-in-law.

But you

shot the first one. Got rid of him.

I shot.

Just get another one.

Yeah. You're right. That may have been a stupid idea, but, you know, it's what happened. I don't know what to do. Well

I

do wanna point out I may just to say somebody getting murdered tonight.

You were yes. Somebody's not. And, also, you may have made

What did you guys do? Nothing. I saw your words.

Alright. You just attracted another fucking major. Got rid of one asshole, and then attracted another one. Oh, god.

No. This is the Wild West. I think we can categorically say we have proven in our adventures that the Wild West is full of assholes.

Our Wild West is

full of assholes.

I don't know why they didn't call it the

Asshole West. It's the Asshole West. Well, yes. On the plus side, I just try and go very easy and quickly, so that means we can get back to the old back home and be ready when he turns up.

Invite him to the wedding. Yes.

There you are. Yes. You can tell your your fiancee, oh, by the way, your dad isn't dead. Here he is.

Yeah. I'm not pleased about this. I'm especially not pleased about this because I don't think this is what Dave had planned.

No. I'm sure Dave's very happy.

I'm enjoying money in the game.

Yes. Yeah.

It's a pleasure so far.

I'm just gonna go back We've

just written, like, 3 extra scenarios for him.

I'm just gonna go back to the show's office and eat eat cake from Melon. Yeah. Yeah.

That is me.

Yeah. Yeah.

So this has been a confusing day, and I have no idea how tomorrow is gonna turn out.

I have another drink. I'm not a wizard.

But, yes, I will have another drink.

Okay. Okay.

Well, I think

Rufus Malcolm looks after Horst and keeps him under guard, makes sure he doesn't do anything stupid, and he slips off his, his his his whiskey. Yeah. The the the, the the holy spirit, what is it called, holy trinity Holy trinity. Saloon is a bit quieter in the evening than it had been before. And, you know, bit of bit of, you know, lively lively activities, seeing people go home earlier.

Now this is where we come back to, yet again, to burning. Set it right. Do you

wanna do anything else this evening before the trial tomorrow morning?

I think I think I want to get very drunk and then get carried to bed. Okay.

Better than that.

Pretty much. You can do that? All that my state of mind can can That's

fair enough. Yeah. Cool. Although after I

wanna be really tough because I don't wanna be lying in bed thinking what the fuck's

going on. Yeah.

Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay.

Fine. Fine.

Okay. But after a few more weeks, I'll just go and switch to coffee, but I'll start with him and drink, you

know Yeah.

Drink. What are you doing, boss?

Oh, I was just drinking

as well. Mhmm. I might

probably not start this

in fact, at the end of the year, Armistice would be the only reason we saw it. I don't know if I can change.

And just vague.

How does

the trial start tonight?

It won't be too early, 10 o'clock. Yeah. But Josh doesn't like to go out a bit too.

Even though. And then were they all drunk at home, tucked away happily, drunk in their little beds

You're gonna kill them, mate.

I'm gonna go and burn Lincoln Hotel.

What are you gonna burn now?

Lincoln Hotel. Oh, no, sir. No. I'm not gonna burn it.

With the Judge in it, with Torrance

in it. Oh, I forgot about the Judge. You had to mention the Judge, didn't you?

It's also owned by LG Murphy, who's like the, you know, the the biggest guy in town.

Not not, when does old, Chisholm move in there then?

I don't think Chisholm ever lived in Lincoln.

No?

He was a business partner of Tunstall and McSween. Right. He lived in Roswell.

But he moved never actually moved in?

I don't think he ever lived in Lincoln. Not that I've ever seen. Okay.

He might

have done, but I don't think

so. Okay.

But you've got basically, Murphy and Dolan are kind of one side. Mhmm. And then Tunstall moves in with McQueen, and kinda starts to try and muscle in on their monopoly on the beef contracts for the nearby Fort Stanton. Mhmm. And that was what basically kicked off the Lincoln County War. So they then murdered Tunstall, and then his regulators, the people he'd hired Okay.

Let's just go out for a quick whaz, and the whole fucking thing can't do.

You're sorry. You were pissed for a long time.

You were so drunk. You woke up 5 years later. Okay. You wake up the Mhmm. The following morning. Under there's a there's a note that's been slipped under your door, Matt. Your door, Matt.

I don't notice it, because it's under the door. No. Okay.

Under your door,

Matt. I pick up the note, read it with the sore head.

It it just says, the bitch can fucking hang.

Oh, dear. Oh, yeah. Mhmm. Not not yet. Oh, well, you've got a new phone and all.

Yeah. That's good news.

Are you showing that The

question we've asked.

Yeah. Obviously. I'm sharing it with you. Yeah. So as I said, it all ends happily, and we go home.

Yes. Marvelous.

Are you are you getting yourselves ready for the trial?

Yeah. Yourselves up.

I need some hair to the dog, obviously. Put

trousers on that. Is there anything else I have to

do? Not much.

Oh, yeah.

That is a good point. I get dressed.

Putting trousers on would be useful.

Mean, I got myself taking them off last night, honestly.

Yeah. Who unjust me? And who put me in these stockings?

There are obviously certain parts of these recordings that we do not wish to be made public, That is one of them.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

Yeah. I think we have them here so often, you just forget that they're here after a while. Oh, dear. Right. Anyway, with with in case Matthew does fuck up and doesn't edit that, deep deep apologies for anything inappropriate that has just come out. But we've but we've found it funny. Anyway, that says more about us, I guess, than anything else. Okay. So the prosecution, is up first.

Alright.

And the prosecution lawyer, mister Boyles. Boyles? Boyles? It's not Boyles? Oh, not

for that. I don't either. Bowles. Bowles.

Bowles. Bowles. Todd Boyle. My wife's name. Not Boyles. Bowles. He, he's he calls sheriff, Nathaniel Hawcock to the stand.

No. I'm in Mexico now. Okay. Yep. I stand to the stand then.

Well, actually, you're not the 1st witness. The 1st witness is, is Horst.

Okay. Is he in a state?

He's he looks a mess, Mhmm. But he's you know, he hasn't had a drink this morning.

Alright.

Thanks to deputy Rufus Malcolm.

Oh, yeah.

And they ask him

about Rufus can stop him from drinking. Why can't you?

I think Rufus sat on him, I think. Alright. And they go over the identity of Jonah McGinn as Jonah Lawless. And and Horst gives, you know, reasonably clear testimony saying he's sure and he goes over his his experience. Yeah. So

just as I look back on that, is your man in the courtroom at all?

Torrance.

Torrance.

Can't see him or any of his men.

Yeah. What were they? Never mind.

Out of town? Yeah.

Then they call,

Back

to Las Vegas. Back to Las Vegas.

I'm sure.

Not not to the United Springs. That would be a that would just be

That would

really be that would be crass. That would

be a cliche, wouldn't it? That would really that wouldn't piss me off at all. No. Not at

all. I love the way you're trying to influence the GM in the how we might wrap up this scenario. Yes. Sheriff Nathaniel Hawcock.

Yeah. This is why I pulled up the thing if he wants to be able to do it.

So this is gonna be a social conflict.

Is it?

Against you and the lawyer.

Can I just suddenly shoot him?

He says, so, sheriff Hawcock, under under what and whose authority were you deputized as a sheriff?

I was, under the I suppose they're the town elders on the what what's his name? Who's is it a mayor? Who's There

isn't officially a mayor.

The de facto.

Defact the fact. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

Garland Rayburn is Garland.

Yes. Yeah.

And and and mister Rayburn has the authority to appoint you as as sheriff?

Yes. Not yet.

Well, it's more of a I'm sorry.

I'm not yet. Yeah. And I'm not I'm already back yet. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I think you say a council of senior land owners.

Yeah. It's good. Thank you. Hey. Hang on. My earbud isn't working here. My earpiece isn't working. Cupcakes.

Crumbly candy bars. So the, how did you how did you come to, be in possession of the so called warrant for for, mister McGinn's arrest?

I need to fuck. Let's see. Well, the 2 of the opposing, top fans just said they wanted to be the real real pain of nut. I'll try to remember the old scenario

now, actually.

Do we get Yeah. Ketos?

So Real life. No. So you got it was Samuel Crosby Crosby. Was aware of it, and he sent to Las Vegas, and they sent the

Alright. Yeah.

Yeah. So you got you got it from me.

Aware of suspicion.

You got it from the sheriff's office in Las Vegas.

Vegas. Yeah.

What was your relationship to mister McGinn?

My relationship? I'm gonna make a role here.

Not yet, but you will in a moment.

We really hated each other. I suppose we were both, on ranches. Is that yeah. We were. I suppose right here.

And did you did you ever act against mister McGinn's interests or against his family prior to becoming so called sheriff of you in Outer Springs?

In fact, my what? Should I say? It? It's a dude clan. Oh, Trying to think here.

Did you wanna make a insight throw, Andy?

What do

you want, mate? No. Andy. Andy, sorry. Yeah.

This is against this is basically the conflict with the with the lawyer in the court.

Shit. Lawyers are getting all loads of sixties, aren't they?

What? They're fucking what the fuck is that wrong? Fool. Fuck. You don't just give up now. Yeah.

Yeah. Make it real

say don't push this.

No. No.

So make an insight roll, Andy, with however many insight dice you have.

Okay. Fucking hell. Well, I'm not gonna put it in that. Got to

k. Andy, you you you lose 4 points of cunning.

Oh, really? Oh, I've broken.

Yeah. Because he's beaten you by 4. Oh.

Whose idea was to do this social conflict?

Okay. You're broken on that.

I'm broken. Yeah. I'm broken. Okay. So I jump across the thing and try try

No. It basically means that your your testimony Is

void.

Is is no. No. It's not void in the slightest, but it's it's not powerful for the prosecution.

Alright. Okay.

It's you you basically, the the lawyer has has has run rings around has performed so well that he's cast out upon

not only

the legitimacy of your appointment as a sheriff, but also the, the legitimacy the legitimacy of the warrant.

Alright. Yeah.

And then thank you very much, sheriff forecock.

Okay.

You may stand down. The day the prosecution calls, Marion deputy Marion Freeman.

Make making my way to the stand. My 5 trouble does.

Not much better performance, Dustin.

Mister Freeman, under what authority were you deputized?

Under the authority of Sheriff Hawcock.

Who are we so this is so obviously, this is the defense cross examination.

Oh, okay.

You are giving your evidence first, but then the defense is cross examining it.

And for the township, the the the nascent township of Johnarda Springs.

And as we've already seen, there is some doubt over the authority of of sheriff Hawcock's appointment. So, clearly, there is some legal doubts over the over the validity of your deputization. Excellent. Okay. We shall move we will move on. Did you serve the warrant or did sheriff Hawcock serve the warrant clearly and openly to mister McGinn?

Yes. He did.

And how how did he do that?

By knocking politely on the door, by requesting that mister McGinn come out of the house unarmed and hand himself over for arrest and trial.

What was your relationship with mister Begin before this situation occurred?

Not unpleasant. Mister McGinn was one of the

there are

a number of powerful families in, the the the council that that that made that that decided they needed a sheriff and recruited sheriff Hawcock, let's begin, sat on that council. We were newcomers to the town, so I don't know that we'd really formed a relationship with them that you could call a friendship or or otherwise.

Did you ever act against his interests?

I have to say that there were, on occasion well, I think mister McGinn had been less than honest, but I didn't put any didn't pay them any mind, really.

Make a insight roll, Pete, mate.

Yeah. That's not working. How many successes does

it have? 3. 3.

For facts.

Please don't. Never rolled as well when I'm the bloody player.

Have you

rolled a success today?

I've never rolled a success first die. I did. At some point, I rolled 4 dice and got 2 successes in a thing.

So let let's see now.

Did you

get any successes? I got no successes.

Okay. So lose 3 points of cunning.

Well, that's me out.

Did that break you? Okay. We like to call, deputy, James Harlston to the stand.

Oh, what

do I have to?

Okay. I'll go to

the stand. Mister Halston, what was your relationship to, to to mister McGinn?

Yeah. It was minimal, to fairness. We were in each other, but have not particularly had many dealings.

And did you ever activate mister Beginner's interest? Not that I remember. Yeah. Yeah. Am I right in thinking that you had a had an older brother?

Yes.

What was your brother's name? William. And am I right in thinking that that William, is is sadly no longer with us?

That is correct.

How did your brother die? He was shot in our fight. With whom was he fighting? So I have character.

This is the was it the Tannehill?

This is the Tannehill. Yeah. Who'd after you'd shot Gus Tannahill, who worked for Yeah. McGinn, his brothers and cousins came to take revenge.

Yeah. So it was a Tannehill family who had a disagreement with my brother.

And the Tannehill family or at least some members of them were close friends or or workers, of of mister begins. Is that correct?

I believe so.

None of the Turner Hill sorry. No. But none of the Turner Hill family who, shot your brother were workers for mister McGinn. Sorry. I don't know whether that counts, but you don't need to say that family. They came from out of town, didn't they, to kill your brother? Sorry. I'm I'm not an advocate here. I'm just pointing at that stuff that you would know.

If members of the if if if people in the public gallery could refrain from freaking, says the judge. That'd be great.

Quivering here with no cunning. I can't

even Yeah. You're not yeah. You're not saying anything. I put it to you, mister Halston, that you had a personal grudge against mister McGinn, and that you murdered him and tried to murder his wife and family. You should be on trial here, mister mister Haldon. Not Mary and not Murphy McGinn.

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