Jornada Springs, New Mexico - a Tale of the Old West: Part 38

I've got $500 here and he puts it up on the table. Money which which I'm putting up to to buy supplies, but I need you to go and get them for me. I'm not here to kill Indians, I'm here to rescue the children. Okay. So you've got half of what you think you'd want to get, but you've spent more than half of your money.

Yeah. I just gotta hope we got a better deal in for free for the rest of it.

Well, how do we find the kiddies then?

Yeah. They're probably half a mile from him. And they are at the moment. Can we show

you detail of who they might be?

They

are They

are Apaches. Apache.

And how many?

It's not 2 or 3, but it's not 20. He says something in Apache and all of it all of them are. The ones with the rifles are Uh-huh. Really, the ones with the bow are knocking an arrow.

We are great soldiers. If you wish to die today, then ... and I'll pull my pistol out.

I'm Dave. I'm Game Master.

I'm Tony. My character is Jimmy Harleston. Young lad trying to make his way in the world, keep his ranch running successfully, trying to live up to the legacy of his elder brother who was unfortunately shot in the head trying to do the right thing.

So, I'm Andrew. I'm the oldest character in the group, and, I'm Nathaniel Horcock, and I'm the sheriff.

But you're also my business partner as are you, Jimmy. And I'm, Matthew, and I'm playing Marian Freeman, who is, in fact, the largest shareholder in the Freeman Halson Lounge.

And then the second one. Okay. That that hits you quite hard. Dear. Fast. So that's gonna be that's gonna be 3 points of damage, and I think I am going to crit.

Ow. Okay. Well, I'll be broken then.

Okay. Did you wanna roll the crit or shall I?

You do it. Go on. I can't now.

Which dice

do you want me to roll?

Just roll it. You call it.

White first.

35. 35.

That would be great.

Not great, but k. You've been shot through the hand. Alright. So you're stunned for 1 round. Mhmm. You can't take actions that require the use of 2 hands. You're broken, aren't you? Yeah. I'm broken. Yeah. So you're gonna fall from your horse. Broken. But, yeah, you basically got I think you got an arrow through your wrist, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sure. It's in the palm of his hand. I mean Mhmm.

Yeah. I mean, they really took my spine and he'd done that and it's Yeah. Yeah.

That must be it. Sorry. Don't block it.

With a little bit of

blood splattered onto your face. Really good cinematic moment. But, yeah, I think you're you're full from your horse

Mhmm.

For 10 more damage now.

Yeah. I did remember last time I talked about it. So if you see when I'm broken, let's not faze you. Was it 10 minute

Being broken doesn't kill you.

No. I've been beaten. 10 minutes wrecked or something you said then.

So, yeah, a turn of rest will get you a point back.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Or now you're brokered medical aid, doctoring

will be Doctoring. Yes. Yeah. At least it's not fake.

But you're basically lying on the ground.

Don't go back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Most probably Griffin trying

Writhing in pain. Yeah. Yeah. Is is what's taking you off.

To get the nerve to pull the air out of the hand. Yes.

Okay. So the guy I mean, they've gone down now. So that's 3 of them have gone down.

We could talk. What? Don't fuck off. You're you're down.

I I think he's just gonna shoot you again, Matt. I'm fine. No, actually he's not gonna shoot you. He's he charges you and his horse pulling his tomahawk.

Paying his tomahawk.

He's very angry. But he won't get you'll close this round. Your go, Matt.

Right. I'm gonna shoot aiming at his horse.

Oh, poor horse.

Yeah. So the horse is oh, god. Gosh.

So the horse is a large target. So you gained a plus 2 for that. Plus 2 for large target. Yep.

And, I have to prepare, so I can't aim. But I get plus. That's a plus one for my walker.

Can you look up the spooked rules, Tim? Spooked. Yeah. I might have

them in. Is it in the

It should be, yeah.

In the quick start?

No. Well, I did I did a looser version for the quick start, but

Two successes. Point on trouble. So I'll take those 2. So that is, 2 points of damage on the horse. And I'll take a crit. And the crit will

Are you critting the horse, are you?

I'm aiming to crit the horse. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Let me just find this.

Animal crits.

So there's the horse so I found the horse sleep table too. Animal crit table. I I

I've got the speech horse a horse's speech table. I specifically printed off

some rules that I thought I'd need. But I don't know what I've done. Oh, there. It says something under there. Is that all your stuff now?

That's all our stuff.

What did I do with them? Now they kinda need you to be and this pile of papers right in front of me just just when I need them.

Well, well placed.

Did I? I might not have. No. I didn't get as far as doing the yeah. So animal crit, please. Tone. If you could find that. Man. Because I don't think I've got that. Yeah. Or is that oh, no. I have got them here.

Yep. Sorry. That's different from speech tone. Yeah. Yeah. So you don't got

a crit. So it's d 66. Orange tent.

Black 10s. I meant I meant orange icing. 36.

Okay. Battered. The creature suffers another minus 1 to or or minus 1 to all grit rolls. Doesn't really matter in this case, but the horse is spooked because it's taken damage. So roll at e 6 to see how badly spooked the horses. Higher, the better. 2. 2. The horse bucks its head and pounds the ground, but otherwise, seems okay. If the horse is spooked again during this scene, add plus 1 to the d6 roll.

Well, I I'm not acting this round because I'm just

Trying to control this whole?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Oh, well, I'll

still give you an initiative anyway. That is bad. It is bad. Okay. It's, it's their action first. So what have we got left? Yeah. So I think the the 2 guys on you, Tone, now charge you. Oh, no. What's it again? Drawing it on my aux. Matthew, the one there, he's not stunned anymore, But he is he is now spurring his horse towards you as well.

But he'd already been spurring his horse towards me. I thought he was gonna attack me this round.

No. This is the this is this is his companion. He's the warrior. The one who was Oh, right. Stunned. Okay. He is now unstunned.

The gunshot guy

Yeah. Un stunned. But he's now riding his horse towards you. The guy is gonna try and whack you with his tomahawk.

Okay. Dodge rules.

So I don't we haven't done any dodge rules for dodging on horseback.

Well, yeah. I'm thinking So

you can dodge, but you'll be jumping off your horse Yeah. In order to do do that. Yeah. So you can yeah. So it's a move roll for you against an opposed move role against his attack.

Right. I've only got 3 dice on that.

So his attack is 7 dice. Alright. He has horse warriors. He has horse warriors. He has caught on a taxman amount.

Yeah. I don't succeed.

Okay. He's hit you with 3 successes. Oh, shit.

We'll do it. We're gonna get scalped.

This is not gonna okay well, is it?

Okay. So the damage from the from the nut from the tomahawk is 2.

Okay.

And, he's gonna crit you. It's only fair seeing you try to flush it, Andy.

Do you

want me to roll it?

Go ahead.

White.

Decor.

White first.

But they're 2 white dice.

53. Probably better than 35,

actually. Is it? Oh, okay.

It's the easiest thing you really need to care about. 53, broken collarbone. You cannot run or use move, but it's not gonna kill you.

I can't use move. Okay.

Yeah. It's your action, man. So he's close. He's he's alongside you now. Yeah.

I've jumped off my horse.

So I think you can I mean, you you've tried to avoid him?

Right. I'm trying to swear.

So it

might have been

that you just didn't manage jump off your horse, and you can decide where you are.

And how what's that? Is that a quick action? So I've still got to shoot him.

To dismount.

No. No. If I try to avoid it, you're fast.

Oh, yeah. The dodges are your quick act. You're

fast. Okay. So I've I've got a shooter.

I can You have a shoot action.

Yeah. Basically, he's he's trying to swing in the shadows and the thumb hole's glass off. Taking a chunk out of his shoulder.

Yeah. It's caught you here. Both in your collarbone. So I'm

stuck in.

I will, as as he goes past

Yep.

As as he goes past, I will actually shoot at the other guy that I've already injured.

Okay.

He's charging towards me for the next attack.

Cunning.

Uh-huh.

What's what am I doing? Hold on. Shooting is now 2+

4+1.

One hit doing 2 points of damage.

Are you you're not you're not pushing it?

I've got the trouble.

So this is that guy there.

Maybe I'll push it in this desperate situation. A second hit, 2 points of treble. Okay. This is my last moment of glory. So, I will buy off those 2 points of treble and down to 0.

Right. Okay. Yeah. You'll also my face. And you're critting him?

Yeah. Orange. So 2 points damage and another crit. Olinj, 13. 13? Yeah.

K. You've shot him in the lower leg. He can't run or move. He walks at half pace. You'd already shot him in the gut, hadn't you? Yeah. Got shot. Okay. Actually, yeah. No. Yeah. You hit him and he pulls out of his charge and pulls away. Mhmm. Because I think he's realized he is gonna die unless he gets help. K. Next round.

Oh.

Tone, you're back in it.

That's better.

Okay. Yeah. So the the the guys go first. The one the one you just shot, Matt, he has pulled away and is riding away.

Right.

Hunched over, obviously, with a lot of pain and badly bleeding. There are 2 who just charged up towards U-turn, and they are gonna take a swipe.

Because they beat them. What? They answer to Kings, are they?

They're on King. Yeah.

Holy shit.

Did you wanna dodge at all though? I think I probably did. Yes.

Or you can block if that's better.

What's blocked?

Which is fighting.

You'd

kind of be using your rifle or something to block with.

I think, for me, dodging is better. So it's dodges move. Yeah?

Yep. Yeah. I'm gonna dodge. Yeah. Okay.

Very successful.

So the first one's hitting you. Did you wanna push?

I've got a That'll be

that'll be 2 damage if if he hits you.

I think I have done 2 face, and I'm not gonna say that. So no. I'm not gonna press anything.

Okay. So you get you get a glancing blow, but that's 2 points of damage. One off grip, one off quick. And the second attack I'll focus this as well. You can. Yep. That's all your actions for the round though. If you are being completely defensive, basically.

So once okay. So they're running at me, they're riding at me. Yeah. So if they miss me, do they can they turn turn around and attack me attack me next round? Or they No.

They'll have to do a little turn and come back. Okay.

So I guess I will dodge this. Yep. 1 successive dodge.

Yeah. He missed you. Yeah. And they ride past, both beginning to wheel around, again, to do exactly the same again. Matthew, your action. The leader guy is doing what that is. Wheeling round. Wheeling around.

On his horse.

Welping. Uh-huh. Swinging his tomahawk.

Okay. Again, I'm gonna shoot his horse this time Yep. Because, I want to talk to him.

Determined to have a conversation.

Yeah. Well, I would say, you know, his men are dying for a worthless thing, and I want to to try and somehow make him realize this. So, shooting, trouble dice. I have 2 skill oh, sorry. I have 2 stat. I have 4 scale. I have 1 point. Obviously, I'm this is single action, so I'm

Preparing.

Doing my thing. Can I also talk to him and say?

Probably not in this situation, though. I think he's still in the fight. If you if you knock him off his horse, then you probably get the

chance to. Yeah.

I'm shooting this horse again. Yep.

Plus 2 for a big target.

Oh, plus 2 for a big target.

You didn't take that. Yep.

I remember having plus 2 last time. I'm thinking, why why didn't I have plus 2? Oh, shit. No. Look at all those fours. I think if I I think in this game we should have fours, basically.

Success. Yeah.

So that's just one hit on his force, but he would spooked.

Yeah. So he spooked again. So he spooked again. Roll d 6 plus 1 to see how bad he spooked.

And also, they had grit damage last time, and 2 points of extra damage.

So he's still up, but he's he's he's wounded. But yeah. So roll d6 and add 1.

D6 add 1.

The horse winnies and pulls at the range. The next animal handling role with this horse suffers a minus 1 die modifier. So, yeah, he'll need to make an animal handling roll to bring the horse around, which is what he's trying to do. His animal handling is gonna be quite good. 3, 4. Okay. He does yeah. He he he controls his horse. He pulls it around. The horse is quite poorly quite badly wounded.

I don't

know if it's done this round. You're not? Okay. Sorry.

I do. I

do. I do. You dodged twice, didn't you though? Oh, yeah.

I didn't I? Yeah. That's what I thought.

K. Next round. Fuck off. Matthew? Yeah.

Crap. Double hit. 2.

So, Matt, you go first.

I go first. And there are 2 more.

There are 2 more who are wheeling around towards time.

I have shot 4 times with my walker, and it's 6. Yep. Pull back, shoot.

So you need to prepare again, obviously, won't you?

Are they on horses? Yes. Okay. Again, I'm gonna do the shooting the horse thing because Yep. I feel that's probably the best thing, and I want would like to have a survivor to talk to. So 2, skill. 2 for shooting a large target. 1 for my gun. However, none of those are trouble. Oh, back to

the though. Yeah. You've got So

one hit. Oh, yeah.

So roll for the spook.

Actually, I'm gonna roll the one that went 1. Yeah. Because, obviously, 6.

K. The horse butts violently. Make an immediate animal handling test to avoid being thrown. Each round thereafter, you must roll animal handling as your slow action for that round. The horse will continue to buck until you succeed the test. If you receive a mishap during this, you are immediately thrown. Uh-huh. So he's gonna make a immediate animal handling roll. His animal handling is 6. Yeah.

So both of them all There's none left to say.

3 no. 3 of them are fleeing. Him, him, and him. 2 of them are down.

1 was alive because one got shot on the you shot 1 on the hamstring, didn't you?

Yeah. 1 is broken. 1 is probably dead by now. You shot through the throat. Yeah. And there is one left up, but he is fighting his horse because the horse has been shot.

So you got somebody to talk to on the hamstring? Mhmm.

No. The hamstring one

No. He's he's gonna live.

He's gonna live?

Yep.

And he's also broken, isn't he?

Yep. Yeah. He was on. He was shot in the nose and then shot in the leg.

So the one that's still on his horse and fighting to control it. Yep. I'm just gonna basically ride up to him when we got it even to him. Stand down. Bash.

Okay. He is absolutely fighting the horse at the moment. It's like a rodeo, but you can definitely try if you want.

Can you can you help him control his horse?

You could try. Yeah.

Yeah. Not sure I wanna get that close. Mhmm. It's probably your tomahawk.

You cut your tomahawk. It does

have a tomahawk. You might still get it. So no.

I'm not. I'm still,

I'm staying a little way off at watching.

Points

where I get them, but not shooting.

Okay. Are you, like, aiming?

Yes. I think I

and then just holding your aim for next round? Okay. He's at his action. He's at his end. It's next round. Thank you. Matthew. I did shuffle these. Okay. So the the guy on the horse is trying to bring his horse under control again, and he does. So he spent the round controlling the horse, but he's now brought it under control. The others were all fleeing. Spades go ahead of hearts. Was it hearts ahead of spades?

Okay. I'm gonna Yes.

No. Spades ahead of hearts, s. Tony, you go.

Reverse order.

So you've aimed at this guy.

Yeah. So I'm not choosing. I'm just saying, stand down and get off your horse. Okay. In English, obviously. I don't know if you're gonna stand me or not.

Yeah. I'm not. And are you are you gonna be sort of in Overwatch in case you did something else?

Can I be in Overwatch from 1 round to the next into the next? Yeah. Okay. In that case, yes. If he does if he does any any overtly aggressive action, then I will shoot. Yep. So yes.

Matthew.

I will get off my horse.

And drink your milk.

Keeping my pistol loosely in his direction Yep. While I walk over to sheriff Hawcock, and look to see what his damage is.

Do you

have any doctoring skill?

I don't have any doctoring skill, but I could roll dose of tea.

So you get one attempt.

Oh, let me have done it.

Thank you.

He's not gonna die. Uh-uh. But if you fail it, Tony can't try. You just have to wait.

What's your

dose of T3? Yes. That's the same as it?

Okay. Yeah. No.

No. You make it worse.

We get it

out like this, mate.

That's fine. Just tug

it into the That's not chop

your leg off, mate. It'll be fine. I know what I'm doing.

I have a resilience role to actually cut the air out.

You're broke. You're broke. You're broken.

So you can't You're out.

Unless I

Until I have you get medical aid, which you won't

However, it'll be 10 minutes.

Or I turn his past. 10

minutes. Yeah. Yeah. So I look at you again. Nothing I can do for him.

That's probably your round.

That's my round. Yeah.

Okay. So, next round.

A long lost.

Yeah. I did. I gave you a good shuffle. So, yeah. You guys go first, Tony.

So I'm basically staying an overwatch on the guy that's just to control his horse. Yep. So I got off yours, and if he makes any aggressive action, I will shoot.

Yep. Matthew.

Do you speak English? Because he's now controlled his horse. Right? He's or is he Yes.

He's controlled the horse. Yep. You get no response.

Your leader led you into a situation that cost lives. If he had talked, then none of this could have happened.

He he looks at you as if he's listening and then he kicks his heels and the horse takes off. You're gonna shoot him, You can shoot him if you wish. You've got an aim as well. I mean, he's riding away. Yeah. No. I'm not gonna shoot him.

Right. We've still got the other one to doctor. We just have to wait till you get up.

Yeah. So you've got one on the ground who's, basically died Yeah. With a shot in his throat. The one on the ground, he had his nose shot and his leg shot. He was broken. The other 4 have all escaped. Although one of them was obviously bleeding badly. And I think you can see in the distance as they're riding away, one of them kind of slumps and falls off his horse and they they stopped her

Uh-huh.

Bundle him back on and Bee's like like lifeless.

They've been ridden away. We can trap them with the blood anyway, so that'll be a thing.

Alright. So after 10 minutes

You get a point back.

I get a point back. Yeah. Yep.

On whichever stat was broken. And you will so What if

you're broken on more than 1?

You then have to wait 20 minutes.

I will also, because I'm assuming that the But

you're you

just checked the

quick the quick you had, wasn't it? It was

Through the hand.

Hand hit, wasn't it? So yeah. So so roll a d 6 and don't get a 1 or a 2.

Why are we rolling? Are we using it a fight? Oh, I don't.

No. No. 3. Okay. That was to see whether you'd randomly lose a finger.

Alright.

But you haven't lost any fingers. No. I didn't get it. So you can't take any actions that require the use of 2 hands for 3 weeks.

Just to prove my own.

No. 3 days. Sorry.

3 days.

3 days.

Do I need to make a resilience rule to actually cut the arrow and put it out like that?

No. I think you can do that. That's that's fine. I think it's not

That's small to do.

That's that's a dramatic thing. It's not Oh. Yeah. So, but you just can't use that hand for 3 days. Right.

So I mean, he can't do a doctoring role on the Indian that I've tied up. Although, he will, of course, have come around at the same time, roughly.

You want me to doctor and then and now you're

We need to care for this person. We need to take him back and show that we're not killers.

I don't believe this.

Oh.

I'm not.

Yeah. We did kill a couple of them, so

Well, they attacked us.

What's your doctoring?

0 doctoring through your PhD. Doctoring?

Okay. I'll doctor him.

So, you are old.

You've got loads of skill.

I think with help, he could probably doctor with only one hand, I think.

Oh, well,

I haven't got doctor

in a second. I might assist you make a performance. No.

I mean, you tell us what to do, which is obviously put a splint on his hamstring, I imagine. What's the hamstring?

It's like your thigh.

Right. Okay. So, yeah, so we could split his thigh, couldn't we?

He just needs to stop bleeding and stuff, but he's not gonna he's not gonna die. So none of them were fatal. But but

you When do I assist you make a performance to roll for me to actually the mood that I must be

Can you get some more stuff?

Yeah. Can you chop that one as well, please?

This man

My my boss

is only following orders.

Come on. I'm shooting in the head.

I know you are, but we need them

We're fine.

We need them to

go save

the children, aren't we?

We're trying to save the lives of children.

Yes. Remember remember the children?

Yeah. Children. Yeah.

Why won't anybody think of the children? Cheers.

Cheers. Okay.

Yeah.

Sorry.

I would show them how to do to, you know

Yeah. I'm I won't it's not a problem. Just make it roll. That's fine. How

so my move, my collarbone

Oh, yes. You want

to see Logan Pack?

How long is that for?

He had a broken collarbone, didn't he? Mhmm. Chest was at 53. K. You cannot run. You cannot use move as a skill. And that is gonna be an issue for

How many days from the end?

A long time.

10, 22 days. No long term effects. So, yeah, you can't run, you can't use move as a skill.

That only makes me more implacable if I can't waste time dodging. I'll just spend my time shooting.

So I had this plan thinking that you, you know, when you saw these guys, you might run. So we might we might have a chase sequence.

What? Not stand the fire?

Just not start fighting. Why run? That's fine. It was good. I enjoyed that.

It was. Well, not I

mean, we're trying to find them, not run away from them. Yeah. You want me

to make a roll so I don't shoot the hit on me. I sort of doxed the Indian Indian instead of shooting him in the head.

I mean, you don't have to make a roll to make him better. He's gonna live. If you want to make a role to make it look like you're caring for him

and you're

not nasty people.

I want not nasty people.

Then then make a role to I

wanna spinch his legs so he can move. It's my my my thought.

So that's all like a doctoring roll.

You'd tell me to spin his legs so

he can move.

Yeah. Yeah. So just make a just make a doctoring.

So I can't do I've got to the hand roll for, isn't it?

I'm as I said, I'm happy for you just to make the doctorate roll, and that covers the situation. I'm happy with that.

No. I have got photos. It's bloody written.

No. You don't need to. I will, So you've tried.

You haven't done a very good job.

While while I'm talking to him, I say while while I'm following the doctor's shitty instructions because he doesn't really care about doing a good job. It's obvious. Then I Not

unreasonable. Yeah.

But Do you speak English?

I I understand.

I wanted to talk. I didn't want to fight. Do you understand that? You I know the white man lies, but it seems that when we say we'll kill you, we're telling you the truth. Do you understand that?

Because you do nothing but kill us.

So when I came saying I wanted to stop killing, when I came saying I had knowledge of a troop of American Yankee soldiers that you don't know about even, Your leader wanted to fight us.

He was defending his people. Defending

our people. I'm not. I'm trying to save your people. Like I'm trying to save you now. I'm not doing a very good job, I admit.

If you wish to save us, take your take all your white people and leave our

lands. That can't happen. You know the Mexicans were here before us.

The Mexicans lived with us better than you do. Really?

And I wish that we could live like the Mexicans with you. I'm trying to find a peaceful as I said to your leader, you may not have heard because you were with with the other party. But I said to your leader, I'm here on behalf of a family who have lost children. I have heard that your group have saved the lives of those children and are looking after them. All I'm trying to do is find out after their well-being, and maybe if they want to go home to their family, I will take them home to see you don't have to meet any white men.

Those children are are Inde now. They're not white men, they are Inde.

Can I see that they are well and they are happy to be Inde?

If you if you wish to if you if you wish to die, then yes.

And to bring news to their family that they are safe and do not need their family anymore. Which requires not dying.

Why should why should I care about white the their white family? They are they are in day. They are part of the tribe now. They are they are they are with us.

Has no one in your tribe lost a child?

You dare say that to me when We

have killed that man there.

Mounted to school.

What do his parents think?

Beat the heads in of our children with their sticks and their boots.

Yes. So you know the pain of loss.

We have lost more than you can possibly imagine.

I'm sure it's true. I will not argue with you. Generations of my men have been slaves to these white men.

But yet now you do their bidding?

We've always done their bidding. But now we do it as free men.

What has changed then if you were if you were doing your their bidding as slaves, now you're doing their bidding as free men. You're free.

I do this.

We are free. You are not.

Because he is a decent man. Take it from one who is not. He is a good man. He is trying to do a good thing.

I do it as a favor, not because I was told to. Their family have not asked me to do this. I only learned that these

children I don't do this. I couldn't get this put it back in hostel because of him, and this that's the end of it.

That is why he doesn't do that. Yeah. I've been waiting. We do this because we learned that these children were with you from a second group of Yankee troopers that are coming to kill you all. We came ahead of them to warn you of their presence. And maybe if those children want to come with us, take them back home.

Deal with us around these children, then you will deal with them and they will be more brutal and unforgiving than we.

Make a performing role. Does he

get any pluses?

You can have a plus one for Andy's intimidation, and you can have a plus one for Tony's help.

And anything from my reasonable argument?

Nah.

Paulister, we've all been

And I can't oh, one oh, that's that's the wrong sort of 6, but one success, and I can't push.

You he's not he's not frightened of dying. No.

I'm looking to

But he can see the the the strength of conviction, And he's obviously seen much action with against the cavalry. So you kind of think you were maybe getting through

to him a little bit?

And he says, what what what what my my brother lies dead there. My friends are wounded. What If what what what can I do to to to prevent this being worse?

These children The children are Inde. Right? They are of the tribe.

They are Inde. They

If they choose to do so, and I would not make them do anything they did not choose to do, they could save your whole tribe. I can take them back to their family before the troopers find you. The troopers will be called off. But if the troopers find you with those children you know as well as I do, better than I do, what the tubers will try to do and all your children will have their heads stoved in needlessly. But your in day children could, if they choose to, save your whole community.

I'm saying nothing.

If you follow the path that they took, you will be able to

I want

find what you seek.

I want to bring you back Yeah. To your tribe. To show them we haven't killed you, and so that you may speak for us. I know what your warband leader thinks of me. He's shamed, I'm sure, by his decision which is why he has gone back. But come with us. You've heard my argument. Speak in your tongue to your people and tell them what I'm trying to say. I promise no extra harm will come to you.

We may try.

Let's try. Well, we need

we need to bring the body of my brother

so he

can be

I will make a

honored in the in the right way.

A sled for him that he can be drawn behind our horse.

Alright.

Or one of us will who's got

a making skill. Yeah. No. I'll be sure of that.

Yeah.

Or just like, where you just like put it on the horse.

Labor. I've got labor. Oh, no. Making. Is is docity late making?

Labor would be making. No.

It's making. Making. Making.

Making is making. No.

I haven't.

Stop it.

Anyway, you've you can't because you've got one hand. Oh. Have you got making? No. Or does it take 3? Okay.

It's not good.

Well, between the 2 of us, we can We

can let let's go with some shit.

I think

you can lash something together shit.

I won't make you make a rule for that.

Do you wish to ride the horse that takes your slain brother home?

Yes.

Are you sure?

I I I I think for that speech, I think I'm gonna give you a point of faith. Yes. Because I Yes.

So does that restore my faith?

Yes. Woah.

What a generous GM. Now let me say that you're meaner than me ever again. Until the next time, I say.

Mind you then. Yeah.

Fast speaker. Bye, man.

Thank you. 5 minutes

And I don't agree. And then your rage quit. No. I thought that was very good. I thought that, yeah, was worthy of a point of faith under the circumstances. Okay. Can I can I have a group Hawkeye role, please?

Mhmm. Oh, god.

40 Apache. Aligned up.

So, a 5.

5. Who's gonna do it then?

My Hawkeye is 4. So but I can loan a dice to somebody with a better.

I have well, I must admit, I do have, 5

faithful Have we taken time

to cover

all our points?

You haven't been resting. You could rest here for I mean it's it's 5 minutes per

We can rest.

Per point. So if you wanted to race rest half an hour, then you should get your points back.

So how many points will I get back then?

How many did you lose?

Well, I broke my so I got one back. I think they'll come out with a damage.

So for half an hour, you'll get 6 back. Oh, I'll be back. Across across the 2. Yeah. Yeah.

So take a dice of help from each of us.

Alright. Okay.

If you can got that. Ready?

Yeah. Alright. So let me see. And I've got 5 plates, so I'll

use it.

My balls is up.

There's a 6. There's a

6 there. There are a couple of ones there, they? Yeah. I

don't wanna push that. Yeah.

Okay. Off. Yeah. You don't know it's anything? No.

No. We,

oh, I just wanna back up the fort before I die horribly earlier.

Okay. Yeah. So you wait half an hour. Everyone regardless of bit of strength. Probably takes you a few minutes to, maybe half an hour to put together some kind of stretcher from what you've got. Yeah. And then you can head off.

We'll follow the trail of blood.

Yep. He he knows seems to know where he's going.

Mhmm. That's not that surprising.

So if you're trusting him

Well But is he going in the direction that the others appeared

to go Yeah.

When they left?

What else do you think?

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

I mean, we're going back to history. I don't know if they're gonna have anything to say.

I have I have faith in him.

There's nowhere else he's contagious. You have one point of faith in him that's gonna

be more dangerous than where we think we're going anyway, isn't it? So Yeah.

What's a narrow? The more I always

do. Did anybody make that Hawkeye roll?

I got one. Yeah.

I got one.

Yeah. The needle saw nothing.

Didn't see anything.

Which means we're dead.

Okay. So he leads you up here and after a while you end up in steaming remote. No. Yeah. Was he by the time he comes in? Into the hills here.

Another room?

The day the day is waning. As the night as the light is beginning to go and night is beginning to fall, what do you want to do?

Make another Hawkeye rule.

He says, we have another few hours of riding before we reach.

Do you travel in the night?

Not long. Might as well as a matter

of go. We prefer not to.

Should we jump? Well, I would I have told you that there were Yankee troopers out hunting for you. They may be watching us right now, following us. If you wish to travel on, we will come with you, But we may lead them straight to your camp if they are following us in the middle of the night. Maybe we should rest until the morning when we can all see more clearly. And then make our way carefully to your camp.

Yes. K. Nature roll for making a camp.

Hey. Nature of America. You're any good at camp making?

Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly right. It's just that

it is.

What's his name, actually? What what does he want us to call him?

I've only noted one Apache name. Have you

used it yet?

No. Mhmm. But Kuruk.

Kuruk. Especially, we get to Apache come and ask all their other names there.

That's when they get angry and kill you.

I mean,

given given that we're, you know, I feel we're bonding with him a little bit. Let let let's see.

Okay. Alright.

Where would where where would you camp?

Okay. I think Kirk will set the camp because he's not gonna wanna camp somewhere where

Well, the rats are snakes are.

Where you idiots have put him. Won't make you make a roll. I think that's fine. I

think we'll keep someone watch at all times Mhmm. Through the night?

Yeah. He settles down and seems to be, in some kind of vigil over the body of On his brother. The one he's called his brother. Yeah.

As it gets dark, can I just have a wee Hawkeye ride to fill a minor interest looking backwards the way we've cut?

You can. Yeah. What are

you looking for in particular?

I don't

What have you said?

Yeah. Just one here. It's why I start here. No help or charges to be stopped.

Yeah. You can help get help for me.

Yeah. Get help for me as well. It's been settling down. Obviously, future Hawkeye role will have to be done

in the

Okay. In individual if we're if we're doing 3 shifts, of course. Two successes.

Okay. Yeah. You don't notice anything.

I spent more eating.

I'm not sure which pile of dice is.

He's looking so easy.

But he definitely made a roll of his dice, didn't he?

Yeah. Yes he did.

So there's something out there. I don't like it. It's quiet. It's too quiet.

Too quiet.

I've got another one for the ride.

Okay. So how are you dealing with the night? Are you standing watch or Yes.

We're standing no. We're definitely standing watch. Yeah. Can I take

your first watch then? Yeah.

Okay. Make your resilience for after these, Eddie?

I've got

Diggy, leave it.

Took a bite off, come on. That would cost me 2, wouldn't it, when we rolled? Yeah.

How many ones have you got? 1 on your, travel plans. Leave it. So, yeah. It will cost you one to push and one to buy off the trouble. So you could roll that dice again.

5. What the hell?

That's yeah. That's 2 points to spend.

And then the other 3 for getting rid of all those ones.

Any more ones?

No. Any more ones.

Any sick leave?

Yep. All 6.

Yeah. Okay. You you managed to stay awake and, yeah, nothing untoward seems to happen. Who's standing the second watch?

I'll take the second watch.

Okay. Resilience roll, please turn.

Cheeky. There are lots of flies. One sausage.

She just loves chasing them.

That's just so weird.

Okay. Yeah. You stay awake, and nothing untoward happens. Matthew, resilience role, please.

Resilience role. I have only got 4 in. Resilience. Why do I feel I'm gonna

Hello? Yeah.

It won't cost me anything. No. Oh, no. No.

No. No. You've got one face at the moment. Yeah. I'm Did you fail?

I failed.

Okay. Morning light comes around. You wake up. He's gone. Keurig is gone.

But we can we can chase him. It would be understandable.

He didn't kill you in your sleep. Yeah.

So that's That's not

a surprise. Which

is his was was his

Well, paying me respect. Yeah, I suppose.

Way of respecting how you treated him. But he felt no obligation to Yeah. To stay with you.

Well, that's yeah. That's a positive explanation. No.

That is perfect.

Let's see if we can pick up the trail that we are following.

He did leave the body of his brother behind. No. He didn't take that with him.

Oh, really? Well, should we

We should do all

that too. Yeah.

That's it. Well, you've forgotten something.

Yeah. Yeah. You left

you left it.

Wait, mate. You forgot something. I bet you've got something.

No littering the wilderness, mate. Come on. Right. Okay. Are you gonna try and pick up his track, then? No. You got Hawkeye role?

Yeah. We'll try, Oliver. We seem to have a vague idea of what direction we're going in.

Yeah. And I think there's still

And you're gonna help with 1 of you. I'm gonna help 1 of you, Hawkeye, because I only have 4 in Hawkeye.

You've got a good idea of what the direction you're in. I'm gonna give you plus 3 dice. Oh, obviously. Plus 3. To pick up the trail.

Okay. Shall I roll?

And I'll give you a price help.

Can I get help from Yep? You can get help. Well, yeah. Plus 3. 2 successes and I will not be pushing that.

Yeah. Okay. You do pick up the trail. It's quite easy to pick up. Yeah. So you you end up in those kind of the foothills. Uh-huh. And as you're getting closer, you sort of come it's forested as well. It's a forested mountain range. You do start to see the signs of some smoke. Right. In the distance from, like, a campfire smoke, but quite a few. Alright. I'll just take your way. So obviously, a bigger camp, up ahead sort of in a in a dip in the ground, but, kind of well protected in the trees.

Well hidden.

Do you want to try?

Make another Hawkeye roll, please. Group group Hawkeye, but this isn't with plus 3. Do you

want me

to start to help again?

Yep.

160.

Okay. You don't see anything.

So do you wanna try and sneak up and scout the area first, or do we just break the new Should we

try and see what we can do?

Hold on, actually. Do we have any idea that no. I already said we may be being followed.

Mhmm.

Yes.

And do we really

So maybe I'm just gonna shout into the woods. Hey. We know you're there. Come out.

I'm making sure I'm on a bit of cover when Mike says

We can talk.

How loudly are you shouting? Reasonably loudly.

Like, I'm imagining they're on a vantage point somewhere away. Mhmm.

Maybe take

In fact, we're in we're in the foothills under, so I'm not

gonna say

Come down or come up, whatever.

We're at the edge of the forest.

Up into the into the hills. Yeah.

Come up. We can talk.

You said we're the edge of the forest or something, didn't you?

Or Yeah. You're just going into the forest. Yeah. Mhmm. I mean, there's I mean, there is forest, but the forest is thickening.

But I am making sure I'm out there. There's some cover when he says that.

Okay. You get no response.

No response.

Okay. Do You wanna make a performing role?

You don't need to make a performing role.

I just did do you don't mind me or just have his Hawkeye role to the way we've come?

Well, that's what that roll was all about, and you gave him help. So

And, I'm gonna say again. Okay. You don't want to talk? Just give us a bit of time. Nobody has to die. Give us time to see if we can get those children out alive.

If you want so what is the sneak role on this then if you wanna Move. Move, is it? Yep. Move. Move. Move.

You get no response

from the trees.

Yeah. K. Do you want

me to make

There's the village. Off you go.

No. We're we're gonna go in. Well, I you you might wanna stay behind. What? Why don't you both stay behind and pull me out of the shit? But I will go in with the dead body.

Diggy. Okay.

Since you seem quite happy

I mean, you did such a good job of defending yourselves last time.

They are very good. So yes, sir.

1st shot was good. The first round, you put 2 of them down, didn't you? I thought, this is gonna be too easy. Alright. Diggers.

Yes. Cards won again. It's just gonna

be rude. Let me get way after that.

So, you know, let us not go mop handy.

Well, no.

But I wasn't going mop handy into an Indian village.

Also, if you stay back and we are being followed by the troopers, you can hold them off, maybe.

Plus, if they decide that it's gonna kill us, then they'll only kill you, or we can get away.

Yeah. And that and I'm willing to take that risk?

There's there's definitely risk I am willing to take as well. What was

that one?

Okay. They're gonna let me they're gonna stay behind here, maybe speak to anybody who might be following us, if anybody following us might come along in troop form. Yeah. And also if I get killed by the Indians, there's only one of us that gets killed by the Indians.

K. And that's a risk they're happy to let me take. Yes. The sacrifice

we're willing to have. Yes. Yeah. Are we gonna follow a few young punk cases so if the if the children are in the village?

Yeah. It won't be too far behind.

I'm not too far behind.

Yeah. Yeah. But if you've got a sneak, then, you know

I'll move you to sneak

up so you can try to see what's going on in the in the

Well, I'm a blunder. I've got

a But

you can't do a move anyway, can you? Because you're a bugle of your shoulder.

Yeah. You can't sneak.

Yeah.

So I

could have liked So

yeah, it's quite hard work for you to I think if you're

Well, I'm riding my horse and the horse is towing.

Oh, okay. Yep. Fair enough. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm not moving.

My horse is No. No. Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's cool.

So I will ride in turning the sled with the dead brake on.

Yep. And And you're just gonna brazenly ride straight in.

Yeah. I think so. Would be

a move as well, would it? Yes. Alright. Okay.

Okay. So Matthew trots on. What do you guys do with your horses, and what are you doing?

Well, that's when you because Higgins he metagame me. As you can sneak, you follow behind Matt next, and I wait behind to see who if somebody is coming up there.

So I leave a horse with you.

Well, maybe follow because in case he does go shoot, it's gonna be a bit difficult to Yeah.

Although sneaking with a horse is gonna be hard, isn't it? So Yeah. If I try and be stealthy then, probably you need to go without a horse.

Yeah. I mean, we'll tell our horse is up somewhere. Yeah. I'll let him set off.

Just on the hillside. Yeah. Because that Yeah.

Well, I made

him go there and cut

the cover And I'll let him set off and I'll wait.

Did he go to bed?

Then I'll wait around once he's gone and follow the way he's gone. So Yep. If he yards behind him. Yes?

Okay. Yeah. That's cool. Tank, make a make a move roll in.

Okay.

Okay. Blunder Blunder Blunder.

So I think yeah. I'm thinking of going, I'm really, really sneaky. I can't I've got 2 faith. I can't really push that because I'd have to keep the trouble. So, yeah, I think I'm just being shit at

sneaker. That's okay.

And like I say, and I'm just watching wave of comes, you know. Yep. After I could try and do that. Obviously, it'd be free dice to try and hide the hide the horses.

That's right.

Yeah. Okay.

I mean, no. You probably can't hide the horses. You could put them out of the way.

Out of the way. I mean, I'm I'm just being tethering further bits bits in the wood line, so they're in the wood line. Yeah. Not out in the open where people Yeah.

I would, yeah. I won't make you make a roll for that.

Yeah. That's what it's true.

But if if somebody's following and they make a successful Hawkeye, they can see the horse. If you want to hide in the bushes, you could then make a a roll for that.

Yeah.

But yeah. And the horses aren't gonna comply anyway once he?

I could try.

So you gotta hide in the in the bushes.

Just just wee one then then follow on because

I can

hear him crashing all the way down.

See, I think they've seen

me out.

No. No. Look. What they have 5s, they say.

Okay.

So I'm sneaking really well.

Yeah. You hear me? You've never got 30 yards behind me. Now I'm

looking normal. Crashing through the

Okay. You get to the kind of the sort of the brow of the head. It's quite a a slight incline. It's not very steep. And you can then look down into what is a, like, a very large clearing. And, yeah, there's probably 8 or 10 teepees, maybe 12, quite a few people, lots of little fires, animals, some dogs. It's alright. You notice very few men, mostly women, children, and elderly.

Okay.

Yeah. Make a Hawkeye roll. With my 4. I'll give you plus 2, actually.

Yeah. Oh, you're one success.

Kind of on the a bit further than halfway in. You can see 2 2 youngsters. The this distance is difficult to be sure, but they're definitely they're wearing in their garb. But they do seem to be lighter skinned and have blondish hair from what you can tell.

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