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Mar 2, 2024 5:01 pm

Mar 2, 2024 5:01 pm

Barlowe Station

Barlowe Station, Kansas

Barlowe Station is just that: a rail station on Black River’s main line and really nothing more. It serves primarily to replenish the water supplies on locomotives. The facilities are limited to a small office and a water tower, and the station was staffed by a single person. Few, if any, passengers ever get off at Barlowe, and even fewer board there.

On traincar your posse arrives at Barlowe. Upon arrival you find it eerily empty of human life. There should at least be a station manager, but no one gets the train.

The engineer gets out, intending to refill the water hopper, and tells you that he'll leave in about two hours, after he's drawn enough water from the tower. You step onto the platform, stretching your legs from the long ride. The train is short, the engine, the coal car, a passenger car, and a freight car wherein your horses are, along with true freight.

[ +- ] Map

https://i.imgur.com/aLhIhVD.jpeg

Let's start with them usual. Take this opportunity to describe your characters and why you're on this train going through Kansas. Are you a posse of people looking for something in particular, travelers in search of an important goal, or disinterested bystanders who have no place being player characters?

Mar 3, 2024 1:21 am

Mar 3, 2024 1:21 am

Barlowe Station

"Come on now, girl! Come on!" Dirt soothes, as he maneuvers his horse out of its place in the carriage, and guides her down the ramp and out of the carriage altogether. The ramp makes an awful clanging racket as the horse puts her weight on it.

"They say you can lead a horse to water…" Dirt starts, calling to the other passengers he’d shared the journey with, but leaves the other half of the saying unsaid. "… and I intend to do just that! Reckon she must be wicked thirsty."

He feels the stiffness slowly leave his body, and knows that the beast must feel the same. He claps the animal on the rump:

"Stretch it out, girl. Get that blood moving."

It’s only once he has fully disembarked and gotten the blood back into his legs, that he notes the heavy quietness in the air.

"Wicked quiet out here, ain’t it?" he says, chewing the words, and their possible meaning, even as he says them.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 3, 2024 3:27 am

Mar 3, 2024 3:27 am

Barlowe Station

Delilah Dillon, soon to be Marshal Delilah Dillon, once she makes her way to the emerging town of Good Intent and pins on the star, has been on this slow-moving train all day. So she takes the trouble at every stop to stretch her legs and get some fresh air, and as it rolls up to Barlowe Station she looks from the window to the others in the car and shrugs.

"Not exactly the welcome wagon here," she says with a soft and pleasant drawl. "I don't see a soul out there, y'all. This might be a longer stop than intended if our engineer don't have no help loadin' up on coal and water."

Dillon, daughter of the famous Marshal who used to rule the roost in Dodge City, and sister to no less than four big brothers, follows the others off the train car once they've come to a full stop. Del -- her family sometimes also calls her DD, or Lilah -- wears her brown hair in a braid down her back, a Stetson, a simple enough blouse and skirt, and a light shawl over top. Less expected, she wears a gun-belt and four and a half pounds of steel on her rounded right hip -- a Colt Dragoon, her pa's horse pistol from the war that she had converted over to fire cartridges some years ago. Delilah is pretty, her smiles disarming and not in short supply, and she flashes her pearly whites as the passengers disembark.

"Good to stroll instead of sit for a spell, right? Hopefully we won't be here more'n an hour or two."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 3, 2024 4:15 am

Mar 3, 2024 4:15 am

Barlowe Station

Kane steps off the train after Briggs and watches him lead his horse.

"Mighty fine horse ya got there." He didn't know whether that was true or not but it felt right to compliment the man on his animal. Horses were a means to an end for him. He considered them a bother that needed carin' and feedin'. He'd just as soon do without. The irony of this was he wore a rattler-hide duster and wouldn't be parted from it. That and his Sharps Big 50.

"Yayup. It is too damn quiet," he replies. "Two hours in this God-forsaken place. Sheeit." Adjusting his hat, he takes in the station platform and the general area. Withdrawing a pinch of chewing tobacco, he shoves it in his right cheek, finds a pole to lean against, and waits.

"You here for the posse call at the end of the line?" he asks Briggs or any of the other passengers. "Seems like a good deal. A wad of cash and a horse provided. Can't beat that with a stick."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 3, 2024 4:29 am

Mar 3, 2024 4:29 am

Barlowe Station

"Not me," Dillon says as she paces the platform, shielding her eyes from the sun as she scans for -- well, anyone. "On my way to Good Intent. Landed myself a job there."

She wants to ask about the rifle, but instead responds to Briggs' comment. "Yep. Real quiet. Kinda strange. Pretty horse. What's her name?"

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Mar 3, 2024 6:27 am

Mar 3, 2024 6:27 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt adjusts his wide hat, so he can better see the faces of those talking to him, while still blocking the sun.

"Nor me neither. I’m just passing through." he says, keeping things close to his chest. The question, followed by another about his horse, turns his thoughts dark for a moment. He pats the horse on the neck, and takes a moment to pay it close attention, so as to hide the scowl that had come over his face momentarily.

The man saw the word carved into the wood of the pen door. Thin, shallow cuts into the wood suggested a child’s hand had done the cutting.

Blossom…

The horse was inside, protesting Brigg’s being there with snorts and thrashing against the pen. How the man had calmed the beast and broke it to his will he could barely remember. Those days were a haze to him now. Last he remembered was the pool of blood making for his feet, and the heap of bodies left around that dining table…

He clears his throat.

"This here? This here is Blossom." he says, laughing at the name. If they thought his daughter gave the horse its name, all the better. "She’s a fine animal, alright!"

Mar 3, 2024 8:00 am

Mar 3, 2024 8:00 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby Reyes steps to the exit of the train car, a small steamer trunk held by a handle in one hand, a leather satchel in the other.

"Would any of you mind giving a lady a hand?" she asks in an a silky voice tinged with a Hispanic accent.

Ruby hardly ever needed to ask twice. Her dress would be scandalous in most parts of the world: a black bodice laced tight to accent her bosom and a divided skirt with no petticoats underneath revealed brown legs when the wind blew hard or she tactically stood in a posture to show them off. Her hair was long and wavy and blew freely in the wind giving her a wild and carefree aura that was at odds with the severe and matronly styles of many women in these parts.

Last edited March 3, 2024 8:02 am

Mar 3, 2024 4:38 pm

Mar 3, 2024 4:38 pm

Barlowe Station

There are four buildings and the water tower at Barlowe Station.

At the edge of the platform you unloaded on, a sign marked "Barlowe" swings from a post outside the single-story, unpainted building that is the station house. A wooden platform surrounds the building, and two wooden benches sit on the side toward the rails. Barlowe Station is a two-room affair. The front room holds the station master’s desk and a wood stove. The station master’s log book sits on the desk. A large map hangs on the wall behind the desk. There's no one visible inside.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 3, 2024 7:47 pm

Mar 3, 2024 7:47 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Is the engineer present or occupied elsewhere (say with the water), and is there anyone else on the train? Just us four?

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 3, 2024 8:20 pm

Mar 3, 2024 8:20 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

I think he'd be at the water tower hopper?

Kane notices Delilah's eyes dwelling on his Sharps Big 50 as he takes in the Dragoon perched on her shapely hip.

You gotta respect a lady packing that kinda iron which is just as well ... a fine woman like that traveling alone an' all.

Turning his head to the side, he spits a slug of tobacco, burying it between the platform boards with the heel of his boot. He had noticed the female passengers in the train car. Of course he did. What else was there to do? One of them emerged now, looking for help. Another fine-looking woman.

"Ma'am I'd be happy to help ya. Kane's the name. Victor Kane, at your service." Kane extends an arm to the woman.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 3, 2024 10:55 pm

Mar 3, 2024 10:55 pm

Barlowe Station

Watching as Ruby Reyes -- brief introductions had been made earlier in the day -- exits the train and Victor Kane predictably moves to help the gorgeous young woman, Dillon just tips her hat at the others and moves into the station house. Her pappy always told her to not judge a book by its cover, but land's sake what a cover.

Inside the building, Del tries to get some idear on just what's goin' on. How long since the place was last occupied? Is fresh coffee made? Are there muddy boot-prints that haven't yet dried? Dated copy's of Denver's Rocky Mountain News or Leavenworth's Kansas Weekly Herald lyin' around?

Barrin' that, DD walks into the office to take a gander at that log book.

Mar 4, 2024 12:01 am

Mar 4, 2024 12:01 am

Barlowe Station

The engineer has got two buckets, 4 gallons each, and is heading to the water tower to fill it up. He'll be making a few (dozen) trips, but he looks fit enough to handle that easy.

There were no other passengers.

In the logbook, DD finds the last entry was yesterday evening, a Black River express to Denver. The rest of the entries also appear fairly mundane stretching back months to the beginning of the logbook.

Mar 4, 2024 12:30 am

Mar 4, 2024 12:30 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby grimaces in disgust at the spit tobacco. She eyes Kane hesitantly but as no one else offers she reluctantly hands over her traveling luggage first and then and debarks from the train. Once down she says, "No offense met, but even a handsome man like you might have trouble finding a wife with such a disgusting habit. If you're looking to quit, I have just the thing to help you." She opens her steamer trunk and pulls out an amber flask with a paper label. "'St. Jezebel's Syrup' is just the cure. It will take away the desire to ever put tobacco in your mouth again." She beams at him and presents the bottle. "On sale, too, for handsome gentlemen looking to improve their lives. Just $2 and your habit could be a thing of the past."

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Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 4, 2024 2:37 am

Mar 4, 2024 2:37 am

Barlowe Station

"So I've been told, Miss ... what was it again? I'm not sure I know. I was kinda sitting alone. I tend to keep to myself."

Kane takes the woman's luggage and stifles a scoff when she mentions finding a wife. "I ain't a family man Ma'am, so no worries there about finding me a wife. I ain't a fan of little kids neither, damn rascals.

A few steps later he enquires about her destination. "Just where am I delivering your luggage to? I'll be especially careful of your St. Jezebel's Syrup. That is curious though. Way back when I was raised a Catholic, I ain't never heard of a St. Jezebel. Anyways, I like my tobacco and a man's gotta have his simple pleasures.

Mar 4, 2024 3:51 am

Mar 4, 2024 3:51 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt was more than happy to let the others jaw on, so as to keep the focus off of him and his animal. He ties Blossom up, and lets her find what she might on the ground to pass the time with chewing.

He steps into the building, a moment after this Marshall Dillon, and stands in the doorframe, taking in the quiet.

"Something prodding at you, Marshal?" he asks, seeing how freely the woman moved about the room. If she was expecting the proper company, she’d have surely acted more reserved.

Mar 4, 2024 3:59 am

Mar 4, 2024 3:59 am

Barlowe Station

When trying up his horse on the grass, Dirt notices some tracks in the dirt near the station.

[ +- ] Tracks

Mar 4, 2024 4:23 am

Mar 4, 2024 4:23 am

Barlowe Station

"Only, I reckon I saw some tracks out there in the dirt. I ain’t much of a tracker, mind. Figure that might be your thing more than mine." he says, assuming the woman passed at least some of her time tracking down fugitives from the law.

Last edited March 4, 2024 4:24 am

Rolls

Survival - (1d4-2, 1d6-2)

1d4-2 : (1) - 2 = -1

1d6-2 : (4) - 2 = 2

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 4, 2024 4:45 am

Mar 4, 2024 4:45 am

Barlowe Station

"I'm not a Marshal just yet, Mr. Briggs," Dillon says idly from where she's looking through the logbook, and from where she then scans over her surroundings. "And yeah, you could say that. Sometimes you just get a feelin', y'know? Somethin' feels off here. Could be the clerk's slept in or run off to the commode... but it don't feel that way, does it?"

Delilah's eyes are on Dirt as she finishes her sentence and her inspection of the office. When he tells her what he saw outside, she nods. "Well now, good spot. Can't hurt to take a look, can it? Let's see what we see."

Heading back outside, she gestures for Briggs to show her the tracks as she announces her findings to Reyes and Kane. "Was a train through here just last night, Black River Express to Denver, so might be the station manager is just under the weather today..."

OOC:

Presume I should make a Survival check? Dirt probably can't help me no more, right?

RE: the office / building -- I'm thinking DD's had enough time to look around and check it reasonably thoroughly, yeah? That would include looking for signs of a struggle, a weapon on the desk that's been fired, emptied shells on the floor, a locked (or broken into) money box out in the open, etc. You know the drill. She detectives that shit, looking for things that either don't fit, or that tell a story.

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Mar 4, 2024 9:53 am

Mar 4, 2024 9:53 am

Barlowe Station

"You ain’t the furthest thing from a Marshal neither." the man offers, with a chuckle. "Pays for a fella to be cautious, I reckon."

Dirt shows the woman where he stumbled across the tracks, and then posits:

"Might be those boys coming up out of Coyote? Some of them don’t play too nicely, if I can say so."

Mar 4, 2024 11:42 am

Mar 4, 2024 11:42 am

Barlowe Station

Reyes. Ruby Reyes. St. Jezebel was a local saint in Colombia. You can set the bags down here, I can take them now. You don't like kids, you say? Coincidentally I have an ointment to prevent that as well. But seeing as how your simple pleasures don't include women, I guess you won't be needing that as well," she smiles teasingly.

As she's about to pick up her things she sees two of the other passengers inspecting something on the ground near the station house. "What do you think they've found?" She saunters over to see what is going on.

Mar 4, 2024 3:41 pm

Mar 4, 2024 3:41 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

@harrigan Certainly DD can make a Survival check once the tracks are pointed out, as can Reyes and Kane if they saunter over.

If someone succeeds at rolling a 4+, give us a sentence or two on where they learned to track people.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 4, 2024 4:23 pm

Mar 4, 2024 4:23 pm

Barlowe Station

"Well howdy, Miss Ruby Reyes. Pleased to make your acquaintance. But lookee here. I ain't said I ain't interested in the fairer sex. What I ain't interested in is a wife hanging off my coattails ordering me around. No siree, no thank you. I am an independent man of the world. Now what's that you said about preventing kids? Well, I'll be, don't you have a bag of tricks? Anyways I reckon I'll have no need of that at the moment."

Kane sets the bags down as requested wondering where in tarnation Miss Ruby Reyes was going in a place like this. He follows her gaze over to the others.

"I ain't got an idea about that. Let's go see. I'm sure your bags will be fine here for a short spell."

Joining the others, Kane kneels on the ground by the prints and traces an imaginary line in the air above the footprints. "Welp, interesting. Fellas and ladies, over the years I have learned to track people. It's come in handy and I sort of fell into it finding a nasty outlaw a few years back."

Last edited March 4, 2024 4:27 pm

Rolls

Survival - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (3) = 3

1d6 : (4) = 4

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 4, 2024 6:24 pm

Mar 4, 2024 6:24 pm

Barlowe Station

Dillon is already crouched down, looking at the tracks as Reyes and Kane come over. She’s having a hard time puzzling them out, so Victor starts looking too, helping out.

"My pa taught me and my brothers a bit of trackin’ when we was growin’ up," DD says as she squints into the distance, trying to sort out whether these prints were coming or going. "But I’m just seein’ a jumble here right now. What do you see, Vic, anythin’?"

Last edited March 4, 2024 6:27 pm

Rolls

Survival - (1d6, 1d4)

1d6 : (1) = 1

1d4 : (2) = 2

Mar 4, 2024 10:52 pm

Mar 4, 2024 10:52 pm

Barlowe Station

Several human footprints outside the station lead from the tracks, then double back and return. Kane can't make out precisely how many people made the imprints, but can tell it was well over a dozen individuals. Interestingly, he also determines many of the prints were barefoot. The footprints head toward the shack at the back.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 5, 2024 2:25 am

Mar 5, 2024 2:25 am

Barlowe Station

"Welp, Miss Delilah I do see something. We got some barefooted individuals here, but I can't say for certain how many. Looks like .... hmm..."

Kane stands up easily, turns his cheek, and spits a stream of tobacco juice into the dirt, away from the footprints o' course.

He walks alongside them, cocking his head, following the trail. "I'd say more than ten. Maybe as many as fifteen, maybe more, and they all lead to there," he says, pointing toward the shack at the back.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 5, 2024 7:16 am

Mar 5, 2024 7:16 am

Barlowe Station

"Barefoot?" Dillon says with surprise, looking back down at the tracks. "Ah, yep! I see 'em now -- toes there... and there. Strange. Real strange."

As Kane starts following the tracks, Delilah goes after him, keeping her head up, looking about for other strangeness that might help her piece together what's going on at Barlowe Station...

Mar 5, 2024 11:55 am

Mar 5, 2024 11:55 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt looks anywhere but at their tracker when he mentions having had a run in with a nasty outlaw a few years back.

"It’s like I said. Them boys come up out of the Coyote Confederacy from time to time, causing trouble. That, or it could be some strange sort of Christian, I suppose. I’ve known a few of them to go barefoot at times." he says, scratching his head but not having much clue as to what actually occurred.

"Might we check the other places out? Could be that someone’s squirreled away somewhere."

Mar 5, 2024 1:58 pm

Mar 5, 2024 1:58 pm

Barlowe Station

"Other places? Seems we should check that shack. And by 'we' I mean some of you. If no one ain't here it stands to reason they might be there. I feel a tingle up my spine like something strange happened here." She hugs herself as a little shiver runs through her body.

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Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 5, 2024 7:26 pm

Mar 5, 2024 7:26 pm

Barlowe Station

"It’s a mite weird, I’ll give you that, Ms. Reyes," DD says as she peers around at the surrounding landscape while following Kane towards the shed. Astute observers might note that the woman uses her right hand to make sure her draw is clear, and then the woman is all eyes on the structure ahead of them, and calling over her shoulder.

"And stranger, darker things out here than them boys outa Coyote, Mr. Briggs. Watch our backs, if y’would."

OOC:

To the shed!

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 5, 2024 7:46 pm

Mar 5, 2024 7:46 pm

Barlowe Station

"Briggs you wanna hang back and watch the other buildings too, you won't get no argument from me."

Once Kane sees that whoever wants to follow is following, he pulls his .50 Caliber from the sling slung over his shoulder and walks purposefully toward the shed, calling out, "If there's anyone in the shed, now's the time to come out with yer hands up!"

Last edited March 5, 2024 7:46 pm

Mar 6, 2024 12:45 am

Mar 6, 2024 12:45 am

Barlowe Station

A small porch leads to the front door of this unpainted but well-cared-for shack. The shack is locked. Deep grooves mar door and porch. The grooves are claw marks. (You may learn more about the marks with a successful Survival check.)

Mar 6, 2024 2:07 am

Mar 6, 2024 2:07 am

Barlowe Station

"If you say so, Marshal." Briggs responds, and then nods as a follow up to Victor. He scans the immediate area, and then feels a tingle in his empty hands.

He pulls his pistols, and looks to Ruby:

"Stick close now, ma’am."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 6, 2024 2:30 am

Mar 6, 2024 2:30 am

Barlowe Station

"Ain't no one home I reckon or they ain't answering."

As Kane comes upon the door, he jiggles the handle. "It's locked. I can bust it open with a bullet but it ain't our shed," he offers, looking for a nod from the group in either direction.

"There's some marks on the door too. An animal was clawing at it. Maybe it's a feed storage shed. Don't make much sense otherwise unless folks were runnin' away from this claw-footed beast and hiding in here."

Kane runs his fingers along the grooves of the claw marks wondering what it might be. He could track humans right enough but tracking animals wasn't in his wheelhouse.

Mar 6, 2024 3:51 am

Mar 6, 2024 3:51 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby nods in response. "You know how to use those?" she nods to Briggs' weapons. "Where are you passing through to? Or from is maybe the better question?" she asks after his response, trying to make small talk, watching his body language the way a trained saleswoman could.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 6, 2024 7:56 am

Mar 6, 2024 7:56 am

Barlowe Station

"Yeah, private property and all, but just look at them claw marks. Could be someone's in there, unconscious or bleedin'. I didn't see no key back in the station house, so I think we should force the door. No need to waste a bullet and risk hurtin' whoever might be in there, though -- bust the lock with a good boot right on it, Mr. Kane."

The Dragoon finds its way into Delilah's hand as she says, "I'll cover ya."

OOC:

Survival roll of 9 to recognize the tracks / claw marks, and also -- presume I did *not* see a key or set of keys in the office.

Last edited March 6, 2024 7:57 am

Rolls

Survival (Claw Marks!) - (1d6, 1d4)

1d6 : (6) = 6

1d4 : (4) = 4

Aces were not turned on! So my exploding d6... - (1d6, RA)

(3) = 3

Mar 6, 2024 11:46 am

Mar 6, 2024 11:46 am

Barlowe Station

"Better than most." the man replies without boast or even much lament. It was a matter of fact, as far as Briggs was concerned.

He pays heavy attention to almost anywhere except for where the woman was standing, so that she might think he was too involved in scanning for trouble to answer her second question.

Mar 6, 2024 3:55 pm

Mar 6, 2024 3:55 pm

Barlowe Station

DD examining the marks can tell they are claw marks but something tells her that this wasn't no bear or wolf, but something with human dexterity.

The shack is fairly small, and you could go around it, looking for windows or so forth. To one side you can see a poor excuse for a vegetable patch, and an outhouse is nearby.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 6, 2024 5:32 pm

Mar 6, 2024 5:32 pm

Barlowe Station

"Mighty strange ain't it? All them bare feet and now these marks? Maybe we better see if this shack's got a window."

Changing course, Kane begins to cautiously walk around the shack. His solution most times was to shoot first, ask questions later but not this time now that he thought about it after Delilah's comment about it being private property.

Mar 6, 2024 5:59 pm

Mar 6, 2024 5:59 pm

Barlowe Station

The back of the shack is a small vegetable garden, and having gotten closer, it looks trampled.

The back window of the shack is smashed, glass fallen inside. It leads to the bedroom of the shack, and the sheets are all mussed. A nightstand underneath the window is overturned.

In the center of the floor lays a Colt Navy .36 revolver, the loading gate open, and six unfired rounds scattered around it. Near the weapon, a small stain, dark and brown.

Mar 6, 2024 11:49 pm

Mar 6, 2024 11:49 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby waits for a follow-up answer but upon receiving none she nods and says, "Well one reassuring answer is better than none," pointing out that she notices his lack of answer to her second question. "Well why don't you go be a brave man and inspect that stable. I'll cover you." Ruby smiles but has no weapon in hand to cover Briggs with.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 7, 2024 1:51 am

Mar 7, 2024 1:51 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Is the window large enough to crawl through?

Mar 7, 2024 4:35 pm

Mar 7, 2024 4:35 pm

Barlowe Station

The window is definitely large enough to go through.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 7, 2024 7:24 pm

Mar 7, 2024 7:24 pm

Barlowe Station

"I'm going in. See what I can see."

Victor pokes his head in through the window to listen for any noise. Laying his Sharps Big 50 to the side of the overturned nightstand, he steps over the sill and around the nightstand. Once he's fully inside, he grabs his gun and inspects the interior.

Kneeling on his haunches he touches the stain to see if it is still wet. "Looks like blood," he shouts to the outside. Taking the Colt, he loads it with the scattered rounds and shoves it into his belt. Then he rights the upturned nightstand and checks any drawers it might have and then he examines the rest of the interior.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 7, 2024 8:01 pm

Mar 7, 2024 8:01 pm

Barlowe Station

Inspecting the place from the window, Dillon takes a gander around the inside of the shed as well. "Any of them claw marks in there? Can you unbar the front?"

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 7, 2024 8:56 pm

Mar 7, 2024 8:56 pm

Barlowe Station

"Now I was gettin' to that after I secured the premises."

Thinking that nothin' or no one was lying in wait, he attempts to unlock the door from the inside, looking for scratch marks around the door or the walls.

Mar 7, 2024 11:28 pm

Mar 7, 2024 11:28 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane finds 4 expended rounds in the Colt, which he removes to reload with the fresh ones. Inside the nightstand, he finds the station master's lockbox (locked but easily smashed open).

A Survival or Healing roll might tell you more about the blood.

The front room serves as a kitchen, dining room, and living room, and is undisturbed. The sturdy door is easily unlocked from inside, allowing the others easier entrance.

Mar 8, 2024 12:40 am

Mar 8, 2024 12:40 am

Barlowe Station

"Ms Reyes and I are going to go and check on the stable! See if there’s a horse left in there!" Dirt calls to the other two, as they bust their way into the building.

Stands to reason that anyone leaving in some haste would go by horse, as a train may not be an option, depending on the hour.

Mar 8, 2024 3:35 am

Mar 8, 2024 3:35 am

Barlowe Station

"What he means is that he is going to check on the stable while I cover him," she loudly corrects. Then she nods for Briggs to get a move on. "By the way, I didn't catch your name. It would be good to know so that I can shout it out dramatically if things take a turn for the worst." She gives a playful grin.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 8, 2024 4:34 am

Mar 8, 2024 4:34 am

Barlowe Station

Delilah nods at Dirt and Ruby as she walks from the back of the shed to the front, arriving just in time for Victor to open the door and let her in. She joins him inside, continuing to try and make sense of what might have happened here, of where the manager might have gotten to.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 8, 2024 5:10 am

Mar 8, 2024 5:10 am

Barlowe Station

"Looks like we got ourselves a lockbox, Delilah," he says when he sees her come in.

"And this here dried blood."

Last edited March 8, 2024 5:11 am

Rolls

Survival - (2d6)

(36) = 9

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 8, 2024 5:26 am

Mar 8, 2024 5:26 am

Barlowe Station

Dillon nods as she looks around -- for more signs of blood (in case someone or something tracked in it), for bullet holes, scratches, or other signs of wrongdoing or violence.

"Gun fired?" she asks idly as she turns to look at the lock and the door, wondering if it's the kind of mechanism one can only lock from the inside. If it is... that means whoever fled in here went out the window, or...

Crouching down, DD examines the floor, looking for a trap door -- including under the bed.

Mar 9, 2024 4:31 am

Mar 9, 2024 4:31 am

Barlowe Station

Looking around, DD sees the bullets holes on the edge of the window frame, from inside. Whatever happened, it's clear to her that something crashed through the window, into a hail of gunfire, but the shooter likely was taken.

Kane spends more time with the blood and comes to the conclusion that the blood is somewhat fresh, probably no older than 24 hours.

Is Briggs going to the barn all by his lonesome?

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 9, 2024 8:35 pm

Mar 9, 2024 8:35 pm

Barlowe Station

"If we hurry, we could chase 'em, but then we'd miss the train. This blood here, ain't much older than a day. We could catch 'em, seein' as they're on foot. Maybe a kidnapper carrying the kidnapee. We could send Dirt after 'em on his fine steed."

Prompted by Delilah's question, he pulls the gun back out from behind his gunbelt and opens the chamber again, looking for powder residue, feeling very foolish for not thinking of that hisself.

Wiping his blood stained finger on his pants he goes to the window to see where the others are.

"I think we seen what we can here. Might as well take a gander at what the others are up to." Kane heads back out the door.

OOC:

Was the gun fired recently?

Mar 9, 2024 10:14 pm

Mar 9, 2024 10:14 pm

Barlowe Station

Powder and the four spent cartridges in the loader tell Kane that the worker had likely fired it yesterday, and probably fired (at least) four shots. There are three bullet holes on the inside of the window frame, telling you three of those shots hit nuttin.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 9, 2024 11:43 pm

Mar 9, 2024 11:43 pm

Barlowe Station

Delilah rises up from where she's been looking under the bed, inspecting the floor, and checking the broken glass. "Yup, nothing good happened here. Someone or something came in through the window and nabbed the station manager, I'd say." Once last quick look around, then the would-be Marshal climbs back out through the window to rejoin the others as well.

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Mar 10, 2024 1:24 am

Mar 10, 2024 1:24 am

Barlowe Station

"Most call me Briggs. There’s a few that call me Dirt. If you’re worried about being proper, I suppose you could call me Mr. Billy Briggs." he says, with a derisive snort that lets her know he isn’t the sort for that.

Then he approaches the barn door, putting one gun away to free up his hand to open it.

OOC:

Dirt is happy to be sacrificial lamb! Reyes is with him, but maybe she’s letting him call the all clear first?

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 10, 2024 2:35 am

Mar 10, 2024 2:35 am

Barlowe Station

"Well now Delilah, I'm curious. Why didn't you go out the easy way, through the door?" Kane asks with a chuckle once he is outside again and joined up with the others.

"What have the rest of you found?" he ask the others. "We seen a recently fired gun which I now have on my person. A Colt Navy .36 revolver. Four shots were fired about a day ago. Three bullet holes are in the window frame and there was an upside-down nightstand. Now one might ask where the fourth shot landed and I'd wager it landed in whoever was took and left the blood on the floor, be it the station master or some other poor fella or lady. But the bare feet? The claw marks. I can't rightly figgur any of that out. And I got this here lock box. Probably got the fares in it and it wasn't took, so it ain't the money they were after."

At this juncture, Kane removes his hat, wipes his brow, and replaces his hat. Withdrawing another hank of tobacco, he stuffs it in his cheek, glancing at Ruby, a smirk playing across his face.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 10, 2024 4:50 am

Mar 10, 2024 4:50 am

Barlowe Station

Brushing any bits of glass and dirt off her hands, legs and arms, DD’s eyes are looking northward as she responds to Kane. "Just figure that whatever came in that way… went out that way as well. Might be a trail out here… where they went might be visible out here."

As she talks, the woman checks the immediate vicinity for blood, tracks, trampled grass and such, but also looks to the horizon for other structures or trails — anything that might be a destination or a further signpost to what might have happened.

Mar 10, 2024 3:59 pm

Mar 10, 2024 3:59 pm

Barlowe Station

Delilah will notice the trampled vegetable garden as well when she goes out the back windder. A tracker might be able to figger something out of that mess.

Survival roll to learn something about the many tracks in the garden.

Dirt heads toward the barn. The unpainted, one-story barn contains two horse stalls and room for feed. The pen outside has a feed trough to the east and a gate beside the barn door.

A tired mare stomps nervously inside one of the stalls, and a couple of pigs remain in the pen. There are remains of food in the pig pen—corn cobs, some grain, etc..

Common knowledge roll please from Dirt.

Mar 11, 2024 1:06 am

Mar 11, 2024 1:06 am

Barlowe Station

"There’s still a horse in here." Dirt calls from inside. "And recently fed, too…" he shouts again, looking for signs of commotion around the animals.

OOC:

Knowledge so common, even dirt knows about it!

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Rolls

Common Knowledge* - (1d4, 1d6)

1d4 : (3) = 3

1d6 : (5) = 5

Mar 11, 2024 1:50 am

Mar 11, 2024 1:50 am

Barlowe Station

Billy Briggs is certain based upon the state of the animals and the signs in the troughs that they were all fed yesterday. They're getting hungry again of course, and might trust a stranger bearing corn.

Mar 11, 2024 2:00 am

Mar 11, 2024 2:00 am

Barlowe Station

"… reckon no more than a day ago, if even!" he calls again, and then tries to approach the horse to see her condition. He brings a food offering, so as to ease the transaction.

Mar 11, 2024 2:05 am

Mar 11, 2024 2:05 am

Barlowe Station

Briggs is able to feed the horse and the pigs, they will allow it.

Mar 11, 2024 2:15 am

Mar 11, 2024 2:15 am

Barlowe Station

"Well, they ain’t scared none." he says. "Can’t see too much else wrong with the place." he says to himself then, and simply makes sure the animals have enough to eat and drink.

Mar 11, 2024 4:00 am

Mar 11, 2024 4:00 am

Barlowe Station

"Thank you for checking the place out," Ruby says, suddenly in the entrance of the barn. "I would have felt guilty for a whole day if something were to happen to you. Why do you think a small station like this has some pigs? There can't be that big of a demand for bacon for one lone station manager, right?" She walks into the barn and walks up to the horse to give it a rub while its eating.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 11, 2024 5:53 am

Mar 11, 2024 5:53 am

Barlowe Station

Crouchin' down, Dillon tries to make sense of them tracks...

Rolls

Survival - (1d6, 1d4)

1d6 : (4) = 4

1d4 : (3) = 3

Mar 11, 2024 2:50 pm

Mar 11, 2024 2:50 pm

Barlowe Station

DD counts as many as twenty sets of prints, many barefoot. Some lead to the outhouse, but most look like they head back to the station platform.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 11, 2024 3:28 pm

Mar 11, 2024 3:28 pm

Barlowe Station

That there is an interestin' question, Ruby. Maybe they was feedin' the pigs to somethin' else. Somethin' with claws. Maybe whoever belongs to all them footprints got on the train? I gotta say, them claws, well they got me mighty troubled. And why are they barefoot? Beats the hell outta me."

Kane works the tobacco in his mouth. "Well, let's think about all this. What do we got? We got a horse in the barn fed yesterday, and pigs, we got pigs. We got twenty or so footprints headin' to the platform from the shack. We got a bullet that likely sunk into someone or something. Ain't no robbery cuz I got the lockbox. Oh yeah, and maybe a few of 'em took a piss in the outhouse. Did I miss anything? I mean if they got on the train, we ain't never gonna catch 'em."

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Mar 12, 2024 12:39 am

Mar 12, 2024 12:39 am

Barlowe Station

"A whole day?" Dirt says, with a grin. "That’d be too much, ma’am, believe me!"

Then he wonders on the pig question. He hadn’t even doubted it for a second, truth be told.

"Might be the man keeps pigs to pass the time. Not much else to do out this way, and trains come through but once in a while." but then Victor makes his suggestion, and it’s a grimmer suggestion than Dirt would hope for.

Besides the Marshal here, there ain’t none of us lawmen. Maybe we ought to rustle up some help to go chasing down them tracks? Men with badges on their shirts, I mean."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 12, 2024 6:33 am

Mar 12, 2024 6:33 am

Barlowe Station

Standing, Delilah adjusts her hat, sighs, and puts her hands on her hips, listening to the banter between her companions.

"Seems like they... made off with him? Back t'wards the tracks. Maybe wrestled him onto a train?" she says more to herself than anyone else. She doesn't react to being called a Marshal again, but she does point at the outhouse, and respond to the question of the livestock.

"Some of them made a trip to the loo, there. We should have a look, just to be sure. And Folks raise animals way out on their own all the time. Raise 'em for the meat, or sellin' the offspring can be good business if the parents are good stock."

OOC:

Check the outhouse. If it's clear, we should go back to the platform / tracks and see if the tracks go the other way (across the tracks). Would also be good to check in on the engineer.

Mar 12, 2024 10:51 am

Mar 12, 2024 10:51 am

Barlowe Station

"Or women with badges on their shirts," Ruby responds to Dirt with a hand on her hip, looking at Delilah. "But why abduct a station manager from such a small place in the middle of nowhere? And not even leave a ransom note? Something about this just doesn't feel right." When talk comes up about the loo, Ruby decides she should be at least a little proactive. "I'll check out the loo. I need to use it anyway." She saunters over to the outhouse and listens at the closed door.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 12, 2024 2:47 pm

Mar 12, 2024 2:47 pm

Barlowe Station

"Don’t disagree. Strange business here," Delilah says, edging closer to Reyes as she checked out the outhouse, backing her up. At the same time, she tries to put eyes on the engineer, see how he’s makin’ out.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 12, 2024 3:37 pm

Mar 12, 2024 3:37 pm

Barlowe Station

"It ain't for the money else they woulda taken the lockbox so I wouldn't expect no ransom note. We should bust it open, doncha think?"

He adds, "Sure, Ruby, go check out the loo, as Delilah calls it. But hold yer nose and be careful in case you get pulled down into it." Kane wasn't sure why he liked antagonizing Ruby. Maybe it was because she frowned on his tobacco use or maybe because she was a snake oil saleswoman. He wasn't sure.

Kane whips out the Colt he took from the shack and fires at the lock box that he had set on the ground.

Mar 12, 2024 5:09 pm

Mar 12, 2024 5:09 pm

Barlowe Station

Entering the outhouse it smells, and worse than normal for an outhouse. Definitely not a pleasant atmosphere. Still, a person's gotta do what they gotta do, no matter the stench.

A Notice check might provide more information.

Mar 12, 2024 11:48 pm

Mar 12, 2024 11:48 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby peers around the interior, especially the seat where she was about to sit.

Rolls

Notice * - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (5) = 5

1d6 : (2) = 2

Mar 13, 2024 12:16 am

Mar 13, 2024 12:16 am

Barlowe Station

The stench from beneath smells of more than just waste. The distinct smell of death lurks below!

Ruby also determines that the boards of the seat are loose.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 13, 2024 1:06 am

Mar 13, 2024 1:06 am

Barlowe Station

Dillon jumps a bit when the .45 goes off, and suddenly her own long-barreled .44 Colt is in her hand -- quickly.

"Snakes alive, Victor Kane, warn us afore you do that!" she admonishes him before approaching the now closed outhouse, pistol still out.

"You okay in there, Ms. Ruby?" she calls out. "Smells awful rank, even from out here..."

OOC:

Who else thinks Ruby might fall in, scared by the gunshot? =)

Mar 13, 2024 1:37 am

Mar 13, 2024 1:37 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Just to back up a bit...

Inside the lockbox, Kane finds a lot of assorted coin and small bills. If he takes off his boots to count it, he'd reckon it would be $250.

Mar 13, 2024 1:47 am

Mar 13, 2024 1:47 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Teehee!

Mar 13, 2024 1:55 am

Mar 13, 2024 1:55 am

Barlowe Station

"Let's just say I'm glad my unmentionables were already down otherwise I would've soiled myself from that gunshot!" comes an agitated muffled voice. "But yes, I'm ok, other than that! Who was that? I'm going to dose their next drink with my special Woman Spurned concoction!" After a few moments of silence Ruby says, "It smells like death in here. I think something is hidden under the outhouse. Some of these boards seem loose too!" She swings the door open after making herself proper again.

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Mar 13, 2024 1:56 am

Mar 13, 2024 1:56 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt jolts to attention again as the gun goes off. It’s not that he thought something had come upon them, but rather that something else… someone else… might have heard it, and come to investigate. He wondered if the train driver might be scared off by such a thing too, and frowns to himself. Then there was Blossom…

He steps over the man as he rifles through the lock box.

"Hell of a lot more than I’ve got on me." he says, with a whistle. He wondered what this soon-to-be-Marshal might think of them divvying up the dough!

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 13, 2024 2:23 am

Mar 13, 2024 2:23 am

Barlowe Station

Kane shrugs at Delilah's admonishment. "I had to test my new pistol."

Examining the contents, he declares,"Yup. Money sure wasn't the motive. Look what's inside this here box. On second thoughts maybe we can do that after we see what's going on in the outhouse. I hope my gunshot didn't startle her too."

Kane heads over there.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 13, 2024 5:13 am

Mar 13, 2024 5:13 am

Barlowe Station

Delilah is looking to the inside of the outhouse with a handkerchief to her face when the men arrive.

"That there pistol, and that there money? They got an owner, Victor. He might be dead or worse, but still. Hold off playin' finders keepers until we understand what's happened to the poor man, and give a hand here, pry up them boards."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 13, 2024 2:07 pm

Mar 13, 2024 2:07 pm

Barlowe Station

"Well now Delilah, I ain't said nothing about keeping the lockbox. Doin' a bit of investigatin' is all. But the pistol ... well I've taken quite a shine to it. Yes, siree. If the owner is dead, he won't notice."

Kane takes the kerchief that's around his neck and pulls it up enough to cover his nose and mouth. Pulling out his Bowie knife he sets about the task of prying up the floorboards.

"Wheweee, that's a mighty stench!"

Mar 13, 2024 6:07 pm

Mar 13, 2024 6:07 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane, a sodbuster stalwart enough to climb into the hole, finds the body of the station master beneath the filth.

Kane must make a Vigor roll at –2 or gain a level of Fatigue due to the stench and generally disgusting circumstances. This Fatigue can’t Incapacitate and goes away after an hour of breathing fresh air.

Mar 14, 2024 9:16 am

Mar 14, 2024 9:16 am

Barlowe Station

"The pigs smelled a good deal better than that! What on earth is down there?" Dirt asks, scrunching up his face. He shuffles a little distance away from the wafting stink!

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Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 14, 2024 2:47 pm

Mar 14, 2024 2:47 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane does his best to breathe through his mouth despite the risk of ... well he wouldn't give words to the thought or he might hurl up his stomach contents.

"Whoa!" The gentle splash of outhouse fluids accompanies his exclamation. "There's a body down here. Someone give me a hand getting it out. And be quick about it before I pass out from the stench!"

Last edited March 14, 2024 2:48 pm

Rolls

Vigor - (d8-2, d6-2)

d8-2 : (4) - 2 = 2

d6-2 : (1) - 2 = -1

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 14, 2024 3:49 pm

Mar 14, 2024 3:49 pm

Barlowe Station

Delilah is still covering her face with her hanky as she nods. "I knew it! Somethin' just didn't feel right here. We'll need to let the local Sheriff or Marshal know about this."

The woman has no fear of getting her hands dirty, but nor is she keen to just dive into the offal and refuse beneath the shithouse. And so she calls down into the darkness.

"Hold on Victor, I'll see if I can lay my hands on a rope!"

OOC:

Ideally to tie to the person and lift them out. Checking the buildings, barn, Dirt's horse, the train...

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Mar 14, 2024 5:27 pm

Mar 14, 2024 5:27 pm

Barlowe Station

Finding rope and helping Kane get the body out of the outhouse water is difficult labor-wise, but you manage to get him tied off and hauled out onto the grass.

The body is likely of the stationmaster, but it will take some ponderin' to make sure of that for certain.

Give me a solid reason of investigatin' his identity and no roll will be required. If you want to determine a possible cause of death, you'll need to clean him up some and make a Healing roll.

Mar 15, 2024 1:10 am

Mar 15, 2024 1:10 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Seems like the most sensible thing to do is to traumatize the train driver by having him identity the shit-covered body of his acquaintance.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 15, 2024 2:00 am

Mar 15, 2024 2:00 am

Barlowe Station

Delilah couldn't get that rope quick enough as Kane struggled not to gag at the smell. Wrapping it around the body and climbing out of the hole after what felt like an eternity in the disgusting muck, Kane declared that he needed a bath.

"I gotta strip, wash myself, and somehow git these clothes washed or find new ones. Anyone see a stream, a pond a hotel a house with a bath?"

Mar 15, 2024 2:15 am

Mar 15, 2024 2:15 am

Barlowe Station

"Train driver could probably throw a bucket of water of you!" Dirt offers, and can’t help but smile at the man’s misfortune. He took one for the team…

"I bet he could identity this poor fella here too." he says, less jovial. As he gets a waft of the man’s stinking clothes, he shuffles a little further away, and makes for the private quarters they had searched over already.

"Reckon this fella must have a change of shirt and what have you." he says, before rushing of to grab a change of clothes for the man.

Mar 15, 2024 2:32 am

Mar 15, 2024 2:32 am

Barlowe Station

Sure enough, the engineer identifies him. "That's Zeke alright. Ain't an end I ever wish for, getting dumped in the sloop. I'll have to report that in Varney Flats just down the line. Cryin' shame is what it is."

Kane can find a bucket and take water from the tower to wash off. Soap from the station masters house. Get somewhat clean anyway.

Mar 15, 2024 3:02 am

Mar 15, 2024 3:02 am

Barlowe Station

"Anyone that might have wanted that done to him?" Dirt asks, conscious that he might be stepping on the Marshal’s toes with such questions.

Still, he’d bumped enough men off throughout his life to know that it was safe bet the answer was ‘yes’.

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Mar 15, 2024 3:11 am

Mar 15, 2024 3:11 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby stays well back from the disgusting events unfolding in and around the outhouse. She has an embroidered handkerchief--embroidered with initials that are not hers--held to her nose and mouth the entire time. Once Kane is about to wash off, Ruby sighs as a glimmer of conscience overrides her drive to make money. She pulls out of her bag a dark green bottle labeled "Squeaky Clean Ablutions" and hands it over. "Use this when you wash. It'll get the smell out. On the house, just this once. Mostly because it will benefit myself to not have to smell you," she adds to make sure these people didn't think she just did things out of the kindness of her heart.

"If you rinse off the body I can take a look to see if I can find what happened. I know a little bit about the human body."

Last edited March 15, 2024 3:11 am

Rolls

Healing - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (5) = 5

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 15, 2024 6:48 am

Mar 15, 2024 6:48 am

Barlowe Station

With all the goins' on, the body haulin' and washin' up and corpse inspectin', future Marshal Delilah Dillon spends a moment with the engineer and Dirt.

"Or just mean sorts prone to this brand of bad behavior?" the woman asks as a tag-a-long to Dirt's question. "They didn't take his money or ransack his little house. It's a weird one. Like they had it in for him or somethin'."

Mar 15, 2024 10:05 am

Mar 15, 2024 10:05 am

Barlowe Station

"Revenge, could be." he says, knowing he had been the avatar of many a man’s revenge in his time.

"To put a man in an undignified place like that…" he says, as if the idea is plain. Whoever did it didn’t like the man much, or wanted to hide him for just enough time to get away. Else they would have dug a hole in the desert for him.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 15, 2024 2:20 pm

Mar 15, 2024 2:20 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane had found some water to douse himself with and along with Ruby's "Squeaky Clean Ablutions" and a fresh set of clothes that Dirt had found for him, he went back to the shack and cleaned up. Being in there again set him to thinking.

Walking back to the group he said "We ain't checked the vegetable garden. And we still haven't figured out why so many people, some of them barefoot, might have been here in the first place and then there's them claws on the shack door. Ruby's right. We should rinse off the body and take a looksee. Maybe these folks wanted a free ride on the train and the stationmaster told 'em where to go for. They killed him, dumped him in the hole and got on the train."

Mar 15, 2024 5:14 pm

Mar 15, 2024 5:14 pm

Barlowe Station

The engineer says he doesn't know Zeke well enough to reckon if he had it comin' or not.

Ruby examines the somewhat cleaned up body, and identifies a number of enormous, rat-like bites. However, if so, the creatures that made them would have to be nearly six feet long!

Mar 16, 2024 12:47 pm

Mar 16, 2024 12:47 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby squats down to inspect the body once he was washed up. Covering the body are large pairs of puncture marks close together, each one the width of a finger, and flat instead of round. "Well, I'll be damned. That's not something you see every day. See these puncture marks? Looks like bite marks from two flat front teeth. Something like a rat, beaver, or mole might make. Judging by the length of the punctures I'd say the animal must be about the size of a grown man. Sure hope that ain't right. Anyone hear about man-sized, buck-toothed rodents?" She stands up and looks at everyone.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 16, 2024 2:48 pm

Mar 16, 2024 2:48 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane thinks of the scratch marks on the door and the bare feet on the ground and an image begins to form in his mind. Something horrible and unnatural.

"Giant rats? Half human half rodent. A pack of 'em." The troubled man pauses and shoots a stream of vile tobacco juice into the dirt. "But why drag him into the latrine? And what in Sam Hell are they doing here anyway? I thought monsters were scary creatures children made up to scare their sisters. The poor station master musta been shootin' at 'em to protect hisself."

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Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 16, 2024 4:24 pm

Mar 16, 2024 4:24 pm

Barlowe Station

Standing close by during the inspection, but giving Ruby room and offering no thoughts of her own on the wounds or the state of the body, Delilah squints into the sun and cocks her head at Victor.

"See anythin' like that down the commode hole, Mr. Kane? Tracks or anythin'?"

When the man shakes his head and then postulates his own theory, the woman nods. "Yeah. Not good. Might be best for us to just move along as soon as we're ready, alert the law in Varney Flats."

OOC:

Since this is Deadlands, is it okay to presume we're somewhat in the know regarding weird west horrors? Even if we might not have yet experienced them? (Or maybe we have...)

Edit: Slight crosspost with Windy. Fixing.

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Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 16, 2024 9:46 pm

Mar 16, 2024 9:46 pm

Barlowe Station

"Are you shittin' me, Delilah? It weren't my intention to look around any more than I had to." Kane shakes his head, perplexed.

Truth was, Kane knew about the oddities that occasionally made theirselfs known but he reckoned didn't want to alarm the ladies. Who knew what they knew?

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Mar 17, 2024 1:03 am

Mar 17, 2024 1:03 am

Barlowe Station

The existence of the supernatural is hardly a secret. Maybe you haven't seen it much yourselves, but if you got points in Occult, or any appropriate Edge, then darn tootin' you heard enough to believe.

Mar 17, 2024 11:55 am

Mar 17, 2024 11:55 am

Barlowe Station

"Not the four legged kind of rats, in any case." Dirt says with a knowing eye to the others. "Not if they dumped a man down a hole like that, they ain’t. Could be that they walked on two legs."

Truth be told, he’d heard tell of things that walked on two legs, but he’d never heard tell of upright rats.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 17, 2024 2:14 pm

Mar 17, 2024 2:14 pm

Barlowe Station

DD shrugs at Kane, then nods at Dirt. "Lots of strange things roam these parts these days," she says, thinking of the many stories her father has told. "We best be on the lookout."

Then, after looking at the little cabin, the shitter, and back the small station house, the woman shakes her head. "Just one thing I can't figure. Where they come from... and where they went. We ain't seen no tracks suggesting either of them things."

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Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 17, 2024 3:00 pm

Mar 17, 2024 3:00 pm

Barlowe Station

"The train! The tracks lead from the platform, then double back and return. They musta got on the train and maybe they got off it too. Damned if I know fer sure."

Victor takes off his hat, brushes off imaginary dust from the crown, and places it back on top of his head.

"It's the only explanation in my mind anyways. We could look at the tracks theirselves, I s'pose."

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Mar 18, 2024 12:15 am

Mar 18, 2024 12:15 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby eyes everyone and gives a scoff. "I don't think any train conductor would let on board bipedal man-sized rats. Maybe they just follow the tracks to wherever their warren or den or whatever the hells you call a rat home? Either way, checking the tracks ain't a bad idea."

Mar 18, 2024 3:15 am

Mar 18, 2024 3:15 am

Barlowe Station

"Well, maybe we ought to check the other side of the track? Train driver will be looking to get gone before long, but we might have time to get on the other side and see if there are tracks out that way too." Dirt says with a shrug. The tracks might only look to be coming from the train carriages, though he did think the idea made some sense.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 18, 2024 3:38 am

Mar 18, 2024 3:38 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Confirming before I reply -- we -did- check the other side, and there were no tracks, right?

Mar 18, 2024 3:14 pm

Mar 18, 2024 3:14 pm

Barlowe Station

There are no tracks other than what you've seen, leading from the station platform to the shack including the trampling of the vegetable garden and to the outhouse.

Checking far side of the train, you don't see anything where they came across land. Now, if they came along the tracks walking, that's harder to tell. You'd have to go up and down the tracks both ways a spell to look carefully for signs someone might leave between spars or what have you. Nothing you can see from near Barlowe Station.

Mar 19, 2024 1:26 am

Mar 19, 2024 1:26 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby crosses her arms. "Well I don't see much else to do here besides passing the info on to the authorities at the next town we reach."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 19, 2024 3:50 am

Mar 19, 2024 3:50 am

Barlowe Station

Delilah Dillon nods in agreement. "They might'a come 'an gone walkin on the track, or even with their own steam engine. Or a pumper hand car..."

Looking up and down the tracks, the brunette adds to the engineer, "I'll walk the tracks a ways in both directions, see what's worth seein'. But yeah -- let's get underway as soon as you're ready."

OOC:

Check the tracks to see if anyone came to them or peeled off in either direction. Maybe half a mile in each direction, but not so long to delay departure.

Mar 19, 2024 7:08 am

Mar 19, 2024 7:08 am

Barlowe Station

"I’ll come with you, Marshal!" Dirt starts, with a nod to the woman. "Ain’t much else to do here, and it’s best to be safe."

He turns to the other two, and gives them a nod.

"Keep an eye on old Blossom, would you? See that our train driver don’t leave without her!"

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 19, 2024 1:55 pm

Mar 19, 2024 1:55 pm

Barlowe Station

"A dozen giant two legged rats on a hand car. Now that there's a perty vision alright. I might as well join the rest of you."

Mar 19, 2024 6:42 pm

Mar 19, 2024 6:42 pm

Barlowe Station

DD and Dirt walk the tracks a half mile in either direction, a two mile walk in total, but see no signs of anyone walking along. When they get back, they're both thirsty but perhaps relieved to see the engineer is ready to go.

OOC:

Anything further before the train continues? What did you do with the cash from the lock box? And the body?

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 20, 2024 4:15 pm

Mar 20, 2024 4:15 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane puts the cash box back into the shack and does his best to secure the door in the closed position. He decides to keep the pistol though. Fairtrade for his time, he figures.

So nothing, huh?" he says, rather than asks of DD and Dirt.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 20, 2024 7:45 pm

Mar 20, 2024 7:45 pm

Barlowe Station

"Not that I seen," Delilah answers, taking one last, long look around the area. "They definitely must’a come and gone usin’ the tracks, one way or another. Should we wrap up the poor man, get him aboard?"

Mar 20, 2024 11:55 pm

Mar 20, 2024 11:55 pm

Barlowe Station

"Yes, we should take him with us. He deserves a proper burial. If we leave him here who knows what will happen to the body."

Mar 21, 2024 2:50 am

Mar 21, 2024 2:50 am

Barlowe Station

You wrap up the body in a canvas sheet, and sure that the animals in the barn will be okay for a couple days, load back up on the train. Blossom is none too happy but goes back in with a few indignant snorts.

The train pulls out and continues down the line. It's a half days ride to the next stop

Varney Flats

Seldom do visitors bother to stop in Varney Flats, so the posse draws quite a bit of attention. The townspeople aren’t suspicious—just curious as to why anyone would stop in their little piece of Hell.

Founded two years ago, Varney Flats itself is little more than a water stop for locomotives traveling westward. The town hosts perhaps a few dozen permanent residents, with most respectable folk having long since moved on, but recently it’s gained a small boost from buffalo hunters.

The hunters use the town as a base for launching their hunting raids into the Coyote Confederation’s lands. This practice is frowned on by the US government and Coyote Confederation alike, but the revenue from the hunters is too great for the community to put a stop to it.

[ +- ] Varney Flats

Mar 21, 2024 7:20 am

Mar 21, 2024 7:20 am

Barlowe Station

"You folks making your own way from here?" Dirt asks, talking a little more freely with the others now than he had in the first leg of the journey.

"I expect you’ll be wanting to find a law man." he says to Dillon. "You want me to help cart that body over to them?"

Mar 21, 2024 3:08 pm

Mar 21, 2024 3:08 pm

Barlowe Station

"Yes, if you'd be so kind," she gives Dirt an appreciative smile, glad that she doesn't have to deal with the body. "I'll come with you though to find the law. I think it will be that building there," she points at a sign on a building directly behind the train station building.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 21, 2024 3:34 pm

Mar 21, 2024 3:34 pm

Barlowe Station

Upon arriving in Varney Flats, Kane replaces the hat that he perched on his knee throughout the long ride and gazes out the window.

"Hell this place ain't much of a town neither. Do they even have a lawman? That body's gotta be gettin' pretty rank by now, not that it weren't before..."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 22, 2024 4:49 am

Mar 22, 2024 4:49 am

Barlowe Station

"Should be one, yup," Dillon says to Kane, then Reyes spies the Marshal's office while Briggs offers to help lug the body. "Much obliged," DD says politely to him, fixing her own hat back on her head before she disembarks and heads for where they stored the body. No shrinkin' violet, she plans to help Dirt carry the poor station manager straight to the local Marshal.

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Mar 22, 2024 1:24 pm

Mar 22, 2024 1:24 pm

Barlowe Station

"We’d get it where it’s going a little faster with the help of a big strong fella such as yourself." Dirt says to Victor, and gives the Marshal a wink when the man isn’t looking.

He huffs and puffs the distance to the law office, working hard to keep the body moving while also trying not to huff in any of the fumes.

"My pleasure. Cant say this is what I expected to be doing when I boarded that train, mind."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 22, 2024 4:01 pm

Mar 22, 2024 4:01 pm

Barlowe Station

Up goes the kerchief after Kane loads up a fresh plug of tobacco, as he helps carry the deadweight of the deceased stationmaster.

"Me neither," Kane says to Dirt, wondering how in the heck he gets hisself into these crazy situations.

Mar 23, 2024 12:17 am

Mar 23, 2024 12:17 am

Barlowe Station

As you approach the Marshall's office, you see a man step out from beneath the shadows of the telepgraph building. He walks slowly over watching you enter the Marshalls.

There is a one-room office in the front which contains a desk, two chairs. and a bunk to one side. A rack on the wall beside the front door holds three Winchester ‘73 rifles and two double-barrel shotguns. A barred door to the rear of the office leads to a short hall with three jail cells. Currently only one of the cells is occupied.

Behind you, you hear the man from outside say, "I'm Deputy Parrish. That's a mighty suspicious looking parcel you're bringing the Marshall."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 23, 2024 4:46 am

Mar 23, 2024 4:46 am

Barlowe Station

"Afternoon, Deputy," Delilah says, walking back out onto the porch as she dusts off her hands and skirts. "That there's a dead man is what that is," she says thumbing over her shoulder, indicating the corpse. "The station manager from Barlowe Station, just down the line there. We found the whole place abandoned when the train stopped to take on water, and it turned out someone -- or somethin' -- murdered this poor man. We thought the Marshal might want to know. He or she about?"

Mar 23, 2024 10:38 am

Mar 23, 2024 10:38 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt rubs his hands down the front of his shirt, in an effort to wipe the death off himself. He keeps his mouth shut while the two lawfolk talk things out. Sometimes the fellers they set up out these ways don’t like to hear much from the likes of Dirt.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 23, 2024 3:24 pm

Mar 23, 2024 3:24 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane does what he always does after chewing for a spell and spits out a long dark stream of tobacco before entering the office, noting the rifles and shotguns in the rack. Upon hearing the chatter outside, he goes back out.

"Howdy, Deputy. What Delilah here says is true. We came upon this poor man," he says, pointing to the body. "Dumped in the outhouse he was. Messy business getting him out of there."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 23, 2024 3:37 pm

Mar 23, 2024 3:37 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Is it afternoon, btw?

Mar 23, 2024 6:49 pm

Mar 23, 2024 6:49 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Afternoon sounds about right.

Parrish spits in the dirt as if to get the outhouse stink out of his nostrils. "That's a hella way to go. Sheeeet, why you gotta bring him here? Nah, I know what you're saying. Let's find him a place to rest before we can bury him."

He leads you over to the church and has you place him just inside the fence of the graveyard, in the shade. "Marshall McBride headed out to check on the Larkin family homestead. It’s out where Knaggs did his business and no one’s heard from them in a couple of days. Oh, Knaggs. Lady you have the look of law about you. You interested in a job?"

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 24, 2024 4:23 pm

Mar 24, 2024 4:23 pm

Barlowe Station

"Knaggs? Who would that be now?" Kane asks after Parrish answers his own question.

Mar 24, 2024 5:31 pm

Mar 24, 2024 5:31 pm

Barlowe Station

The deputy looks at Kane, waiting for DD to respond, but he says, "He's the prisoner we have in the jail. The only one, but he's a murderer. "

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 24, 2024 6:22 pm

Mar 24, 2024 6:22 pm

Barlowe Station

Something's off about Varney Flats, but Delilah Dillon can't yet put her finger on just what it is. Something's happened here, some tragedy, she can smell it. Her father always had that sixth sense, and always told his little girl she did too.

"Good eye. Come from a family of lawmen," the woman says to Parrish after he names Knaggs a murderer. There's been a killing then; at least one. "I'm just on my ways to Good Intent, if you know whereabouts that is. I've got a new job there -- Marshal. Meanin' I don't have no badge just yet, but tell me... what's the business? Goin' up to look in on these Larkins, after Marshal McBride?"

Mar 24, 2024 6:35 pm

Mar 24, 2024 6:35 pm

Barlowe Station

"I got a little bit of a problem. As I was just sayin, there’s this murderer in the town jail, buffalo hunter named Abner Knaggs. Killed some settlers. He’s going to swing when the circuit judge gets here in a few days, but I’m afraid the townsfolk might not want to wait for the judge, if you know what I mean."

He opens the wrappings around the station master, examining him while he talks.

"You see, Mayor Varney hates the buffalo hunters. He thinks they’ll keep us from gaining ‘respectability.’ Knaggs claimed he was a buffalo hunter, but he was really a low-down dry-gulchin’ murderer. The mayor sees a chance to rile the town against the hunters and figures a lynching is just the thing for it."

He flinches at the stink, but sees the wounds, and whistles at the damage.

"Marshal McBride would've kept Varney in line, but he went out to check on the Larkin family homestead, as I said. It’s out where Knaggs did his business and no one’s heard from them in a couple of days."

He wraps the body back up and gathers dust and dirt to wipe his hands

"You and your friends help me tonight, keep an eye on the jail and scare off any lynchin posse that comes? I got a $100 in reward money for Knaggs I can give you. Marshall and I ain't eligible no how, since McBride brought him in himself. "

Mar 25, 2024 2:07 am

Mar 25, 2024 2:07 am

Barlowe Station

This was just the kind of work that Dirt was good at. The kind of work that he used to be good at, he reminded himself. Scaring off regular folk. Oh, they got angry once in a while, and came around full of piss and vinegar but a bullet over their heads usually let the piss out of them quick enough.

"This Mayor that might stop by… He got a lot of say in this town?" Dirt asks. The man was the mayor, so he supposed yes. "Trying to get a feel for how big a posse we might expect."

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Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 25, 2024 2:11 am

Mar 25, 2024 2:11 am

Barlowe Station

Kane looks at Dirt, Delilah, and Ruby, but his mind is already made up.

"We're here ain't we? I say we help Parrish. Hell, you're almost the law yourself Delilah anyways. Good practice."

Mar 25, 2024 2:27 am

Mar 25, 2024 2:27 am

Barlowe Station

"Mayor Sam Varney ain't neither pop'lar nor disliked. He'll have to work to get folks, er, worked up, but I'm worried he'll get enough to make it a problem."

Mar 25, 2024 2:52 am

Mar 25, 2024 2:52 am

Barlowe Station

"You set on gunnin’ folks down, if comes to that? Including that there Mayor." Dirt asks the uncomfortable question.

Mar 25, 2024 3:17 am

Mar 25, 2024 3:17 am

Barlowe Station

"I should hope not. A few shots over their heads is all it would take. Probably. These are good people, but I won't let them lynch a man just because they think that's a good idea."

Mar 25, 2024 3:20 am

Mar 25, 2024 3:20 am

Barlowe Station

"Fair enough, and understood." Dirt responded, and found that he liked the man well enough. He knew the way people worked, same as Dirt did. Only difference was how they ended up on opposite sides of the law.

Or had they? Dirt was fixing to uphold the law in Varney Flats after all…

Mar 25, 2024 4:23 am

Mar 25, 2024 4:23 am

Barlowe Station

"Sounds like a fair offer. Besides, I like crowds. Perfect for selling to," she grins with a glint in her eye. "Or if we want to be proactive, I can make some sales before a mob has a chance to form that should keep most of the men indoors..."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 25, 2024 6:35 am

Mar 25, 2024 6:35 am

Barlowe Station

Dillon listens and squints a little as the deputy explains. She knew there was a sour stank on this town, and there it was. Seeing agreement from the others, she nods and says, "We'll help, it's the right thing to do. But tell me -- how'd he do it, and why, this murderer in the back?"

After Parrish answers, the woman tilts her hat back slightly and presses a few soft spots. "So you'll get goin' after the Marshal then, makin' sure everythin's a-ok at that ranch of them Larkins? Who else you consider an ally in this matter, this possible lynchin'? Who all might give us a wink if trouble's comin'?"

To her companions, she adds, "We'll need to see if the engineer will hold the train -- or I'll at least need to send word on to my gainful employers regardin' the delay." She likes the idea of distractin' the townsfolk, as well, and gives beautiful Ruby a quick nod. If anything can take mens' minds off a revenge killin,' it's legs like Reyes got.

"That's a good idear, that is, Ms. Ruby. We should meet them townsfolk where they are, in the saloon or the church, wherever they might congregate. Distract 'em, let 'em know the law ain't in their hands. Nip it in the bud-like."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 25, 2024 7:11 pm

Mar 25, 2024 7:11 pm

Barlowe Station

"I won't say no to a whiskey a tall, ma'am. That's for sure. You'll drum up some business for your potions and whatnot too I reckon."

Kane figures if he misses the train, what of it? He can just take the next one, or the one after that.

Mar 26, 2024 1:31 am

Mar 26, 2024 1:31 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt knew that people fought hardest when you went to where they were. Folk felt emboldened when they were on their home turf. Still, the woman carried or badge, or would soon carry one in any case. Maybe that meant something around here.

"Lead on then!" he says with a nod, and sets his face hard. Let the common man see his scowl from the outset and it might shake them up.

Mar 27, 2024 2:53 pm

Mar 27, 2024 2:53 pm

Barlowe Station

The Palace Saloon

The deputy returns to his spot by the telegraph office to keep an eye on things and especially the jail.

You make your way to the saloon, ready to intervene in stopping any disorderly conduct and mob justice before it gets too free in the reins. A small number of folks have gathered, quietly sitting at tables, wiling away the afternoon heat. A pair of nearly-old timers sit drinking beer and playing whist. A well dressed man behind the bar polishes for glasses and puts them on the bar top, smiling broadly at you. "Welcome to the Palace. Can I pour you all a beer, or is whiskey your poison?"

Doesn't look like much of much is going on at the moment.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 27, 2024 3:28 pm

Mar 27, 2024 3:28 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane chuckles at the name of the joint. He'd hardly call it a palace. Still, it might be a place to the owner so he shouldn't judge.

"A whiskey for me. I'm parched."

Kane lets his eyes casually drift around the saloon, quickly assessing the patrons. Finding nothing out of the ordinary nor hearing the rumblings of an angry mob, he turns back to the barman.

"What do people do for fun around here?"

Mar 27, 2024 11:55 pm

Mar 27, 2024 11:55 pm

Barlowe Station

He pours Kane a whiskey (and to anyone else who signals).

"Not much fun to be had. We got faro on Fridays. I call it," he gestures in the air as if describing a sign, "Faro Friday at the Palace. Gonna make a sign and everything. Get some excitement from train folk who think they can do what they please."

Mar 28, 2024 12:23 am

Mar 28, 2024 12:23 am

Barlowe Station

"Just a beer for me," Ruby says as she sits down. It is too early and too hot to be downing the strong stuff, especially with what they might have to deal with soon.

"It sounds like you don't have a high opinion of us train folk," she states casually.

Mar 28, 2024 6:30 am

Mar 28, 2024 6:30 am

Barlowe Station

"I’ll take one of them beers, too." Dirt says, with a flick of the wrist, and pointing to the spot in front of him on the counter.

"Train folk doing what they like?" Dirt says incredulous. "With a lawman like that in town? Fella just about talked my ear off, warning me not to get up to mischief while I’m here." Dirt goes on, throwing his eyes up to heaven and making himself seem awfully put out by the whole interaction.

Mar 28, 2024 3:17 pm

Mar 28, 2024 3:17 pm

Barlowe Station

Jake Harding, Bartender

He slides beers in front of you, giving Ruby a couple extra blinks. "I'm not disparaging you folks. Some come through and think nothing about leaving a mess behind is all."

He sees a tall man come in and he gets a little grimmer. He moves off to pour another drink, and says, "My name's Jake, pleased to meet you all. Need anything, just holler "

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 29, 2024 12:45 am

Mar 29, 2024 12:45 am

Barlowe Station

"Make it three, sir," Delilah says to the bartender as he pours. She’s quiet as the others converse with the man, getting the lay of the saloon and a read on its occupants.

"Thank you Jake, you won’t get no trouble from us," the woman says after a moment as she sips her beer and raises it to the man in a silent cheers. Froth on her upper lip, she keeps an eye on the coming exchange…

Mar 29, 2024 2:59 am

Mar 29, 2024 2:59 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt takes a drink from his bottle, and nods to the man as he goes to leave. He drinks again, and raises an eyebrow to the others at the strange behavior.

He turns then, and puts his elbows up on the bar, and rests against the counter top, taking in the room. He spies the tall man that caused the sudden change in the bartender most of all.

Mar 29, 2024 5:02 am

Mar 29, 2024 5:02 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby takes a sip. "Don't look like Jake's expecting happy news from that fella."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 29, 2024 12:49 pm

Mar 29, 2024 12:49 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane knocks back his whiskey and thinks about tapping the bar counter for another but decides against it. He might be needing his wits about him.

"No it don't look like he has a high opinion of whoever he is. We could ask Jake about the feller? Might be a friend of Abner Knaggs. "

Mar 29, 2024 1:41 pm

Mar 29, 2024 1:41 pm

Barlowe Station

Jake Harding, Bartender

He can't help but overhear and says, "That there's Sam Varney, the mayor. He's up to something, I can tell. I don't reckon I know what it is, but I don't like it."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 29, 2024 10:41 pm

Mar 29, 2024 10:41 pm

Barlowe Station

Sidling right up to the bar, the boots she wears under her skirt thumping lightly, Dillon sips at her beer and keeps her voice low-key as she addresses the barkeep.

"What’s his story? The deputy told us he has it in for the guy locked up in the jail. Said he might even try somethin’. He got some men in his employ?"

Jake Harding, Bartender

Mar 29, 2024 11:56 pm

Mar 29, 2024 11:56 pm

Barlowe Station

Jake Harding, Bartender

Jake says quietly. "Well, what you got to know is Varney Flats was founded two years ago, and that's Varney. It's little more than a water stop for locomotives traveling westward, and only a few dozen folks live here, with most respectable folk havin long since moved on. But recently it’s gained a small boost from buffalo hunters."

He finds a mug to polish with his apron and continues.

"Now, those hunters use the town as a base for launching their hunting raids into the Coyote Confederation’s lands. Naturally, this practice is frowned on by the US government and Coyote Confederation alike, but the revenue from the hunters is too great for the community to put a stop to it."

It's becoming a little clearer. Deputy Parrish said Knaggs was a buffalo hunter and a murderer. "So Varney is just got his trousers in a knot about them hunters. Don't know what he's planning, but he's like a rooster struttin around lookin for a post to perch from and crow or my name ain't Jake Harding "

Mar 31, 2024 12:40 pm

Mar 31, 2024 12:40 pm

Barlowe Station

Dirt looks at the soon-to-be-Marshal and asks:

"You thinking to put a stop to this quiet, before it starts up? Or you looking to call this fella out in front of the whole town?" he asks, knowing which he would choose.

Well, he knows what he might be tempted to do in a situation like this. But that wasn’t the law man’s way, he reckoned. It wasn’t his way anymore neither, but old habits die hard.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 31, 2024 2:23 pm

Mar 31, 2024 2:23 pm

Barlowe Station

Listening to the bartender Kane nods along, then nudges Ruby. "Maybe we ought to buy him a drink and you can charm him with your womanly wiles. Maybe make a sale even. Bring him down off his perch. Whadya think?"

He turns to the others to see what they think of the idea.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Mar 31, 2024 2:58 pm

Mar 31, 2024 2:58 pm

Barlowe Station

Delilah takes another drink and shrugs, which gradually turns into a nod. She’s got her values and such, but the fact is that the brunette is pretty green when it comes to true peacemakin’. Her eyes are on the mayor, beneath the wide brim of her hat.

"Makes some sense. Hear the other side of the story and all. Maybe just defuse things long enough for the Marshal to get back. Calm the water and such."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 31, 2024 4:04 pm

Mar 31, 2024 4:04 pm

Barlowe Station

"Ayup, that's the idea. Buy some time." Now Kane does tap his finger on the bar for another round. Seems like things might be in hand soon enough.

Mar 31, 2024 8:11 pm

Mar 31, 2024 8:11 pm

Barlowe Station

Varney chats for a while with others then leaves. Your not sure, but maybe he's coming back from his body language. Soon it's time for you to watch Knaggs for the deputy, and you're not certain what's going to happen.

All of you going to go to the Marshall's office, any gonna stand outside, or elsewhere?

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Mar 31, 2024 9:48 pm

Mar 31, 2024 9:48 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Kane could stand outside and act as a guard.

Mar 31, 2024 11:55 pm

Mar 31, 2024 11:55 pm

Barlowe Station

"You all go watch the prisoner. I'll see if I can talk to Varney and maybe dissuade him of starting anything. I have some concoctions that could mellow a man out, or make him take a nice long nap."

Apr 1, 2024 12:02 am

Apr 1, 2024 12:02 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Dirt can mean-mug it up front.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 2, 2024 2:06 am

Apr 2, 2024 2:06 am

Barlowe Station

"You got that in hand," Delilah says as they pay up and exit the saloon, and as she adjusts the fit of her gun belt on her hips, "or could you use some backup?"

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 2, 2024 2:07 am

Apr 2, 2024 2:07 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

If she’s on her own, DD will go to the Marshal’s and talk to the skid in jail.

Apr 2, 2024 5:17 am

Apr 2, 2024 5:17 am

Barlowe Station

"I think I can handle this. We don't want to appear too hostile and aggressive. It requires a deft touch, and maybe a strong tonic." She smiles.

Apr 2, 2024 7:06 am

Apr 2, 2024 7:06 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

I only now see that Nezz and I sort of cross-posted. Not that it matters much. Though maybe we are operating on two separate time lines now? One that has the event starting up, and one that has Nezz hoping to poison this fella back at the bar?

Apr 2, 2024 3:33 pm

Apr 2, 2024 3:33 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

No separate time lines. That's big city talk.

So if I got it right, Kane wants to stand in front of the jail, DD may or may not go to the jail, Ruby is staying in the saloon, and Dirt is somewhere that has a front, either the bar or the jail maybe.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 2, 2024 5:00 pm

Apr 2, 2024 5:00 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Yes, Kane thinks he will guard as the best use of his talents.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 2, 2024 7:45 pm

Apr 2, 2024 7:45 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Ruby told DD "I got this," so Delilah is going to the jail for sure, to question the prisoner. And with Varney no longer at the bar (surprised me that we let him leave), I figured Ruby would go seek him out.

Apr 3, 2024 12:58 am

Apr 3, 2024 12:58 am

Barlowe Station

You all split up, covering various places. Delilah questions Knaggs, but he ain't sayin nothin, not keen on his chances with the judge for the things he's done. DD gets the impression the man is guilty as sin and is playing they only card he's got plenty: admit nothing and hope for a miracle

Dirt and Kane keep lookout, and Ruby tries to get into trouble.

She follows Varney to his shop, Varney's Mercantile, over around the corner by the saloon.

A tall man in his early forties, Varney’s black hair is beginning to gray at the temples. His confident manner, combined with a quick temper, make him an imposing figure.

Apr 3, 2024 2:26 am

Apr 3, 2024 2:26 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby enters the shop and takes a quick look around. "Nice place you got here," she says. Always open with flattery. "General stores are the heart of any town. But I'm looking for some un-general ingredients. Nothing illegal mind, just not something the average Joe needs. You wouldn't happen to have any dried saffron or potash?" Ruby flutters her eyelashes at him.

Apr 3, 2024 3:20 am

Apr 3, 2024 3:20 am

Barlowe Station

"Well aren't you a beautiful lady, welcome welcome, to Varney's Mercantile. I'm the proprietor, Sam Varney, and also they mayor of Varney Flats. Now saffron, that's an exotic spice, and I'm plumb out of that at the moment. Potash I can do. Got a three pound sack in the back. A tanner ordered it and well, he ain't come for it, so I'm happy to sell it to such a charming and refined lady such as yourself. "

He's flashy and charming, with the kind of engaging smile that draws in most folk and pushes away just a few.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 4, 2024 1:59 am

Apr 4, 2024 1:59 am

Barlowe Station

"Welp, Dirt, you reckon we will have fight on our hands before too long, do ya?"

Kane rummages around in his pocket for another plug of tobacco. "That Ruby's quite a woman. I figure she can handle that Varney fella if not by charm then by one of her famous elixirs. Seemed to get me clean enough after that outhouse crap," he chuckles.

"We best listen and make sure though." Kane stands up near the door where he's sure he will hear any angry voices with plenty of time to do something about it.

Apr 4, 2024 7:04 am

Apr 4, 2024 7:04 am

Barlowe Station

"Well, don’t listen too closely now." he warns. "Ain’t nothing like a woman to keep a man from fighting. There also ain’t nothing like a woman to set a man to fighting neither, if he think another fella is sniffing around some." he says, with a smirk as the other man chews away.

Apr 4, 2024 8:15 am

Apr 4, 2024 8:15 am

Barlowe Station

"Well I think three pounds might be a little too much for a lady like myself, but I'd gladly buy a bottle's worth, if you don't mind portioning it out." Ruby then gives a big stretch, theatrically exaggerated to show off her lithe body and curves. "Train rides are not easy on the body, are they, Mr. Varney? What can a woman do in this town to loosen up?"

Apr 4, 2024 2:59 pm

Apr 4, 2024 2:59 pm

Barlowe Station

Varney is about to offer a suggestion, but then he looks at his pocket watch. "Normally I'd suggest the saloon, but it might be a bit stormy out tonight. Unless you're keen on bringing a known murderer to justice. If you stand on the side of law and bringing peace to the area, then I might have a spot of fun in mind for you. How do you feel about lynching?"

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 4, 2024 3:54 pm

Apr 4, 2024 3:54 pm

Barlowe Station

Making no progress with Knaggs, Delilah leaves the man in the lockup and exits the Marshal’s office. From the front stoop, she signals to the two men she’s been traveling with, indicating that she needs one of them to stand watch at the jail for a moment. If and when one of them does, the soon-to-be law woman heads for the train, there to retrieve the heavy canvas bag containing her long arms and ammunition. She’s hoping she won’t come close to needing it, but she’d rather have it and not need it than the other way ‘round…

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 4, 2024 3:55 pm

Apr 4, 2024 3:55 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Meant to ask — where’s the deputy at the moment?

Apr 4, 2024 4:20 pm

Apr 4, 2024 4:20 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Good question.

Deputy Parrish is in the Marshall's office. Spending time with him, or near him, DD gets the impression that the man is well read and lacks the temperament to make a good lawman. Instead, he immerses himself in dime novels and probably fantasizes about the exploits of Buffalo Bill and the like.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 4, 2024 4:21 pm

Apr 4, 2024 4:21 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane takes a step back. "You got that right Dirt. No point in takin' chances. You want a plug?" Kane asks as he is getting ready to put his tobacco back in his pocket.

Apr 5, 2024 3:06 am

Apr 5, 2024 3:06 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby opens her eyes wide in feigned surprise. "A lynching? You certainly have a way with women, Mr. Varney. I usually prefer first dates that don't end with death. I don't find lynching and law to be very synonymous words, if I'm being honest. The law tends to frown on vigilante justice. I also can't help but notice you said known murderer and not convicted murderer." She strolls to the window and looks up at the sky. "You know, it doesn't look like a storm is coming. Mayhaps the skies were read incorrectly and it would be a better night to take a woman out on the town?" It's always best to veil a threat in sugar.

Apr 5, 2024 4:09 am

Apr 5, 2024 4:09 am

Barlowe Station

"Tonight I'm unavailable, madame. If you're still in town tomorrow, I'll treat you to the finest meal this side of the Coyote Federation. But tonight, I've got much to do, as much as it will pain me to be parted from your indelible and sublime ... character."

Apr 5, 2024 4:54 am

Apr 5, 2024 4:54 am

Barlowe Station

"That's unfortunate. I came in on the train and just stopped to make sure the body of the station master of Barlowe was safely delivered and I'll be on the next train out again. Did you hear about that? He was killed by some kind of large animals. We found some of their tracks headed this way. Might not be safe out of doors once the sun goes down." If honey didn't work, maybe some vinegar would do the trick.

Apr 5, 2024 9:48 am

Apr 5, 2024 9:48 am

Barlowe Station

"Not for me, but thank you!" Dirt says. There was a part of him that wanted to reach out and take some. But it felt like the old him: Chewing on something while putting the screws to some fella who hadn’t paid up on time. Leave a nice big wad of it spat on a fella’s boot as a parting insult.

"You go on now, Marshal!" Dirt says, moving over to give the woman peace of mind. "I’ll keep an eye!"

Apr 6, 2024 4:02 am

Apr 6, 2024 4:02 am

Barlowe Station

Varney nods, processing that news. "That's a darn shame is what that is. No animal will enter a town even one as small as this one is."

It's possible Ruby can convince him to follow her suggestions. Care to make an appropriate roll? A success will get you something. A raise will get you a chance at heading this confrontation off.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 6, 2024 4:50 am

Apr 6, 2024 4:50 am

Barlowe Station

DD nods and tips her hat respectfully to Dirt before departing to get her guns. "Deputy's inside, nose-deep in some book or other. Much obliged, Mr. Briggs."

On the way to the baggage car, Delilah searches the small train station with her eyes. If there's someone inside, she'll stop to query them a bit, see if they know or saw anything regarding the on-the-loose and evidently on-the-tracks barefoot murderers...

Apr 6, 2024 12:10 pm

Apr 6, 2024 12:10 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Yeah I'm trying to keep him distracted for the night so that he doesn't round up a lynching posse lol. Looks like it wasn't meant to be :(

Last edited April 6, 2024 12:11 pm

Rolls

Persuasion* - (1d8, 1d6)

1d8 : (3) = 3

1d6 : (2) = 2

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 6, 2024 2:35 pm

Apr 6, 2024 2:35 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

BENNY!

Apr 6, 2024 2:39 pm

Apr 6, 2024 2:39 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Oh thanks for the reminder! I'll do that.

Rolls

Persuasion* reroll - (1d8, 1d6)

1d8 : (2) = 2

1d6 : (6) = 6

Explode? - (1d6)

(4) = 4

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 6, 2024 3:04 pm

Apr 6, 2024 3:04 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Nice benny roll!

Apr 6, 2024 3:06 pm

Apr 6, 2024 3:06 pm

Barlowe Station

Alright then, there is a success and a raise in there. How does Ruby keep the mayor occupied until, let's say, 1am, and what does the rest of the posse do?

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 6, 2024 7:12 pm

Apr 6, 2024 7:12 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Oh my stars and garters, pull the curtains at least, girl! =] (Also, GOOD WORK!)

See my last post for a bit of a plan, Q. Anyone in the station? Planning to ask about the bare feet murderererers.

Last edited April 6, 2024 7:13 pm

Apr 7, 2024 1:09 am

Apr 7, 2024 1:09 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Old Varney might be the key instigator, but he probably has some lackeys that need watching out for! A crowd might gather wondering why a crowd ain’t gathered yet!

So Dirt will keep watch, if only at a bored and limited capacity!!

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 7, 2024 1:38 am

Apr 7, 2024 1:38 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Kane will chew and watch. He wants to make sure Ruby is safe first and foremost. Maybe when Varney comes outside we can ask about the barefoot and clawed dirty dozens.

Apr 7, 2024 3:20 am

Apr 7, 2024 3:20 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Ruby convinces Varney to show her around town, a dinner date, etc. but spikes his drink with some sleeping concoction during the date so that he sleeps early and through the night.

Apr 7, 2024 3:53 am

Apr 7, 2024 3:53 am

Barlowe Station

The mayor's plan to raise a lynching mob never materialized thanks to Ruby's patented SleepOMatic Tincture delicately (liberally?) applied to his wine.

Still you have been paid to watch the jail and watch it you do.

That night, at about one o' clock in the morning or there abouts, some of you may hear something.

Roll Notice checks. Apply a -2 if you think you'd be asleep, mayhaps taking turns to watch the night pass by in this sleepy and quiet tiny town.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 7, 2024 4:10 am

Apr 7, 2024 4:10 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Strongly suspect we'd split the watch up and get some sleep. With four of us, that probably a couple of hours watch each. I'll say there's a 1 in 4 chance that watch was DD's... nope. She's asleep, and nope on hearing.

Delilah Dillon is passed out on a bench, snoozing lightly with her hat covering her face when the sounds come...

Last edited April 7, 2024 4:12 am

Rolls

DD is on watch at 1am on a 1... - (1d4)

(3) = 3

Notice at -2 - (1d6-2, 1d6-2)

1d6-2 : (5) - 2 = 3

1d6-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

Apr 7, 2024 8:35 am

Apr 7, 2024 8:35 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt had been expecting a fight, but a fight never came. Probably for the best, if he wanted to break from the old life. Wouldn’t be right to leave a trail of bodies all the way to his new abode.

By the middle of the night, he’s getting lax in his watch, but he keeps himself awake at the very least. He paces out front, counting his steps on the wood to keep his eyes from getting too heavy.

OOC:

Since I’m here first, I’ll take first watch and not be sleeping!

OOC:

Ah, I should make it auto explode somehow!

Last edited April 7, 2024 8:38 am

Rolls

Notice * - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (6) = 6

1d6 : (2) = 2

1d6 [ RA ]

(5) = 5

Apr 7, 2024 12:25 pm

Apr 7, 2024 12:25 pm

Barlowe Station

[ +- ] With a success you hear...

Apr 7, 2024 1:25 pm

Apr 7, 2024 1:25 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby definitely gets her beauty sleep and since she takes a night out on the town, she is not on watch rotation. But before she gets to sleep, she hears the ghostly wailing of an eerie train whistle. "What now?" she grumbles to herself. She heads out to see who's on watch and to see if they heard what she did.

Last edited April 7, 2024 1:26 pm

Rolls

Notice * - (1d6-2, 1d6-2)

1d6-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

1d6-2 : (6) - 2 = 4

Apr 7, 2024 1:49 pm

Apr 7, 2024 1:49 pm

Barlowe Station

Dirt hears the wailing and it startles him from his relaxed watch. Not knowing what it was, decides to shake Dillon back to the land of the living.

"Reckon something awful just happened." he says, as a warning to get the woman in the right frame of mind.

When the chime goes a second time, he feels a bit stupid, especially with Ruby out to check on things too.

"I’m sorry, Marshal! I thought it was a woman. Reckon it’s just the next train coming through. You get yourself back to rest."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 7, 2024 2:33 pm

Apr 7, 2024 2:33 pm

Barlowe Station

On his watch, Kane had a chance to assess things. No one had addressed the barefooted folks, if they were even folks at all. He chewed on that whole situation for a spell but came to no solid conclusions. Later when the creepy train whistle blew, he had an inkling, almost a premonition, that they might be connected.

"You heard that to did ya, Ruby? Mighty odd I'd say."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 7, 2024 4:09 pm

Apr 7, 2024 4:09 pm

Barlowe Station

Dillon is quick to rise, though her head is a big foggy. She slept with her boots on, so getting up, putting on her gun belt and setting her hat straight is all that's really required for her to join the party.

"It's alright, Mr. Briggs. It's -- what is that? A train whistle?"

Listening more carefully, and doing some mental calculations that include the strange scream of that whistle, what they found at Barlowe Station and some stories told to her by her pa, DD pulls her Winchester from the bag she brought from the train.

"Suggest we prepare for anything," she says as she checks to make sure the weapon is loaded.

Apr 8, 2024 11:14 am

Apr 8, 2024 11:14 am

Barlowe Station

"As you say." Dirt responds with a resigned sigh, before gritting his teeth and checking his own weapons. He supposed the Marshal must be worried that the train is the key to the whole mystery, and it might be coming down the track to make itself known right this minute!

Apr 8, 2024 1:08 pm

Apr 8, 2024 1:08 pm

Barlowe Station

The train reaches Varney Flats less than 10 minutes after the second whistle. Anyone watching the tracks sees a train come to a halt at the station, an easy feat from the Marshal's Office.

The train appears old and weather-beaten from a distance. Behind the locomotive and coal tender are three other cars. The first two are windowless "sleeper" cars and the last is a freight car.

The train sits for a moment, the locomotive softly huffing like a great, panting beast. Then the whistle once again splits the night air. Closer, it’s wail sends a chill down your spines.

Immediately after the shadows grow a bit darker and the night air chills, doors at both ends of the sleeper cars burst open. Thirty frenzied people pour out of the train and into town looking for blood.

Apr 8, 2024 2:11 pm

Apr 8, 2024 2:11 pm

Barlowe Station

The creatures are going to spread throughout the town and even to the buffalo camp off to the side. That is, it won't likely turn into some kind of mass battle, but a series of chaotic skirmishes. It's also dark and hard to see what is going on.

A dozen or more come toward the Marshal's Office and then split up. Two try to get into the building you're in, rattling the locked door.

Your move.

Apr 9, 2024 2:34 am

Apr 9, 2024 2:34 am

Barlowe Station

"Marshal! We got raiders, looks like!!" Dirt calls, already holding his pistols up and leading the figures so he can get a shot off.

"I can’t see their feet too good, but there’s a lot of them!" he shouts, and opens up with both pistols on the ones that try to barge into the law office.

OOC:

I think a few of us are outside as it is, right?

Apr 9, 2024 5:22 am

Apr 9, 2024 5:22 am

Barlowe Station

"Is it too late to go back to sleep?" she grumbles as the train disgorges a horde of crazies into town. "I have a bad feeling a lot of people are going to die tonight. Let's not be one of them. We need to barricade here and make a defensible position." Ruby moves to close all doors and windows, locking them if possible, moving furniture in front of them if not.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 9, 2024 5:53 am

Apr 9, 2024 5:53 am

Barlowe Station

"I see 'em!" DD calls from the window she'd been looking out since the train arrived. "This must be the same crew that did in the poor station manager in Barlowe Station! We need to warn the townsfolk!"

Delilah nods and says, "Good idear," when Ruby starts barricading, and then the woman works the lever on her '73 and levels it at the door where two of the fiends are already pounding.

"Y'all gots till the count of three out there to back off or we open fire! One! Two!"

OOC:

She'll shoot after one if they stay at the door. Also, did we get a good look at them? Are these insane living folk or wild undead of some kind? The idea here is also that shooting should wake the town, give some people a fighting chance.

Apr 9, 2024 3:51 pm

Apr 9, 2024 3:51 pm

Barlowe Station

As they get to the door, you think they're definitely some kind of undead. Feral, unholy, ravenous. The two fling themselves at the door, hellbent to tear it from its frame.

OOC:

Let's assume you're all inside for the start of this, as you took turns sleeping and keeping watch

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 9, 2024 4:11 pm

Apr 9, 2024 4:11 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane had his ever present Big 50 at the ready when he heard the strange whistle. Wheeling around he pointed the muzzle at the feral creatures and fired at one of them as they came inside.

Rolls

Shooting - (1d10, 1d6)

1d10 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (2) = 2

Benny shot - (1d10, 1d6)

1d10 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (2) = 2

Benny shot - (1d10, 1d6)

1d10 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (6) = 6

Damage AP2 - (2d10)

(39) = 12

Apr 10, 2024 12:51 am

Apr 10, 2024 12:51 am

Barlowe Station

"I don’t think they speak, Marshal!" Dirt says, as the beating on the door continues after the law-woman’s warning! He unloads his pistols at center mass through the door in concert with the others!

Rolls

Shooting - (1d8, 1d6, RA)

1d8 : (7) = 7

1d6 : (4) = 4

Shooting (Two Gun Kid) - (1d8, 1d6, RA)

1d8 : (6) = 6

1d6 : (2) = 2

Damage 1 - (2d6)

(15) = 6

Damage 2 - (2d6)

(45) = 9

Apr 10, 2024 2:54 am

Apr 10, 2024 2:54 am

Barlowe Station

Kane's shot hits one of the creatures (Shaken)

Dirt hits with both shots: the first does no damage, but the second hits ( Wounded since it was already Shaken, which takes it out).

OOC:

One down, one to go.

Apr 10, 2024 4:36 am

Apr 10, 2024 4:36 am

Barlowe Station

"Dead men tell no tales," Ruby says as she pulls her pistol and fires out of a small gap in one window.

Rolls

Starr Revolver - Attack Roll - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (5) = 5

1d6 : (3) = 3

Starr Revolver - Damage Roll - (2d6+1)

(22) + 1 = 5

Apr 11, 2024 3:34 am

Apr 11, 2024 3:34 am

Barlowe Station

Despite striking it with a bullet, Ruby fires no harm to the creature.

Apr 11, 2024 10:34 am

Apr 11, 2024 10:34 am

Barlowe Station

"Tough son of a gun!" Dirt says, as he feels the weight of his weapon in his hand. That gun had killed its fair share of men’s and he had hit the think twice. He considers pulling up his shotgun, for good measure!

Apr 12, 2024 6:24 am

Apr 12, 2024 6:24 am

Barlowe Station

"Well I'll be a skunk's smelly sack, I hit that thing center mass and I don't think it even felt it. Anyone got some stronger firepower? I might be able to whip up a flaming cocktail..."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 13, 2024 9:16 pm

Apr 13, 2024 9:16 pm

Barlowe Station

"There's more firepower right there against the wall!" DD shouts as she takes aim at the hole in the middle of the door, and as she waits for the remaining creature to present itself in that ragged gap. The Sharps was none-too-kind to the wood, and Briggs and Ruby had poured it on as well.

Her Winchester roars and belches flame, smoke and lead twice when the woman works the lever, fires, then works it again and fires a second shot. The action is like butter on that gun, and as the spent brass flies it's clear Delilah knows how to handle the rifle...

OOC:

The extra firepower... Q wrote this when we first when into the Marshal's office:

[ +- ] GUNS!

Also, perhaps two hits but shit damage!

Last edited April 13, 2024 9:18 pm

Rolls

Shooting! - (1d8, 1d8, RA)

1d8 : (5) = 5

1d8 : (6) = 6

Shooting! (Again, RoF +1 due to Rapid-Fire Trait) - (1d8, 1d8, RA)

1d8 : (3) = 3

1d8 : (6) = 6

Rifle Damage 1 - (2d8-1, RA)

(14) - 1 = 4

Rifle Damage 2 - (2d8-1, RA)

(13) - 1 = 3

Apr 14, 2024 1:36 am

Apr 14, 2024 1:36 am

Barlowe Station

https://i.imgur.com/zKbXw7D.jpeg

Vampires! The angriest of the dead, have poured out of the train and and are ravaging the town. The two tearing at the door to the Marshal's Office rip and snarl, as a hail of gunfire tears into them. One flies back out of sight, but the other pulls the door off the hinges and jumps in snarling and raging.

I'll flip cards for initiative. DD and Dirt and first, then the vampire (s), then Ruby and Deadshot.

Rolls

Spirit vs Shaken - (1d4)

(2) = 2

Secret Roll

Deck Draws

DD, Deadshot, Dirt, Kane, Nosferatu

Queen of Hearts

4 of Hearts

Queen of Spades

3 of Diamonds

10 of Diamonds

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 14, 2024 2:06 am

Apr 14, 2024 2:06 am

Barlowe Station

"Vampires! Mean ones!" Dillon shouts as she retreats and keeps firing, working the lever on her '73 as she backs towards where she'd been sleeping -- and her coachgun!

OOC:

Spend a Benny on the first shot, succeeded with an 11 -- a Raise, so added a d6 to that damage roll. In the end, two shots with damages of 10 and 8.

Last edited April 14, 2024 6:13 am

Rolls

BAM! - (1d6, 1d8, RA)

1d6 : (3) = 3

1d8 : (2) = 2

BAM BAM! - (1d6, 1d8, RA)

1d6 : (4) = 4

1d8 : (1) = 1

Benny to Re-Roll BAM! - (1d6, 1d8, RA)

1d6 : (65) = 11

1d8 : (7) = 7

BAM! Damage - (2d8-1+1d6, RA)

(17) + (3) - 1 = 10

BAM BAM! Damage - (2d8-1, RA)

(72) - 1 = 8

Apr 14, 2024 3:50 pm

Apr 14, 2024 3:50 pm

Barlowe Station

Add a Fear (Spirit) check at -1 to your rolls please. These creatures are mighty 'Fear'some. If you fail the Spirit test, roll 1d20.

Delilah fires and she hits the one coming through the door. It staggers from the impact

Vampire 1: ? (Hit several times, is out of sight)
Vampire 2: Shaken (entering the Sheriff's Office)

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 14, 2024 4:12 pm

Apr 14, 2024 4:12 pm

Barlowe Station

Vampires! Dad told me about his one run in with the things! Why's it gotta be vampires?!

OOC:

Edit: Uh oh. Is that 1d20+2 on the Fear Table? I guess we need to add the vamp's number as well...

Last edited April 14, 2024 4:13 pm

Rolls

Fear Check! Rolling Spirit at -1 - (1d6, 1d8, RA)

1d6 : (1) = 1

1d8 : (1) = 1

Fear Table (rare d20 appearance!)(Also need to add Vamp bonus) - (1d20+2)

(20) + 2 = 22

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 14, 2024 4:20 pm

Apr 14, 2024 4:20 pm

Barlowe Station

Delilah shoots the thing two more times -- it has now absorbed a lot of lead, and while the Winchester's rounds staggered it, the creature is still on its feet! DD's heart is pounding... pounding as she backpedals, and everything just seems to tighten up and blur when she sees all the other vampires around the now torn-open door. How many of these things are there?!

"There's uh... there's too many... of... ahhhh... them!" Dillon barely manages as her retreat turns into a stumble and finally a fall!

OOC:

If I have this right, she's now Stunned.

[ +- ] Oof

Last edited April 14, 2024 4:25 pm

Rolls

Heart Attack! Vigor Roll at -2 - (1d6-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d6-2 : (4) - 2 = 2

1d6-2 : (64) - 2 = 8

Apr 14, 2024 4:32 pm

Apr 14, 2024 4:32 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

With the raise in her initial Vigor check, let's call that a free success on the recovery from Stunned check too, but DD is Distracted and Vulnerable, trembling as it were, until the end of of her next action.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 14, 2024 6:41 pm

Apr 14, 2024 6:41 pm

Barlowe Station

What in the hell...

Kane's face turns a whiter shade of pale as he sees the vampires.

That explains the claws and bare feet, I reckon...

Last edited April 14, 2024 6:45 pm

Rolls

Fear (Spirit-1) - (d6-1, 1d6-1)

d6-1 : (4) - 1 = 3

1d6-1 : (1) - 1 = 0

GM said to - (1d20)

(11) = 11

Apr 15, 2024 1:18 am

Apr 15, 2024 1:18 am

Barlowe Station

"Keep it together, Marshal! Put a few holes in them and they’ll soon get to running!" the man shouts over the sounds of gunfire. He wasn’t sure, and he had to swallow the fear himself when he saw how much lead they ate, but panic would see them all killed.

He raises both pistols at once, and lets them loose at the vampire that just ripped the door off the hinges!

OOC:

Dirt is brave!

Last edited April 15, 2024 1:21 am

Rolls

Spirit - (1d8+1, 1d6+1)

1d8+1 : (2) + 1 = 3

1d6+1 : (1) + 1 = 2

BENNY FEAR - (1d8+1, 1d6+1)

1d8+1 : (6) + 1 = 7

1d6+1 : (2) + 1 = 3

Shooting - (1d8, 1d6)

1d8 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (5) = 5

Shooting (Two Gun Kid) - (1d8, 1d6)

1d8 : (2) = 2

1d6 : (2) = 2

Damage 1 - (2d6)

(66) = 12

Damage 2 - (2d6)

(45) = 9

Apr 15, 2024 2:36 am

Apr 15, 2024 2:36 am

Barlowe Station

Victor is Shaken from the experience. You can roll Spirit to overcome it.

[ +- ] Shaken

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 15, 2024 3:26 am

Apr 15, 2024 3:26 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Rollin with the shakes...

Rolls

Spirit - (2d6)

(65) = 11

exploding - (1d6)

(3) = 3

Apr 15, 2024 3:39 am

Apr 15, 2024 3:39 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt fires and his bullet slams into the vampire, halting it in its tracks.

It recovers quickly and launches itself at Dirt who appears to be the most immediate threat. Dirt steps out of the way of all that.

The other one, the first one you put down, leaps through the door and slams into the back wall, attempting to break open the cell door. It just rattles the cage doors, snarling.

Your weapons are only showing them (Shaken) but not causing Wounds. An Occult check might tell you why.

OOC:

Victor and Ruby are up. Victor has passed his Spirit check, and can act normally.

Rolls

Spirit to overcome Shaken - (1d4+2, RA)

(3) + 2 = 5

Fighting vs Dirt's Parry - (1d10, RA)

(2) = 2

Strength to open cell - (1d12, RA)

(3) = 3

Apr 15, 2024 4:56 am

Apr 15, 2024 4:56 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Hwut is goin’ on?

Rolls

Occult - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (5) = 5

1d6 : (61) = 7

Apr 15, 2024 7:38 am

Apr 15, 2024 7:38 am

Barlowe Station

"Well it could be worse. We need stakes and holy water. Any of you happen to be man of the cloth you didn't tell us about?" Ruby rushes to her trunk and begins rummaging around.

OOC:

Any rolls I can make for crafting holy water? Or maybe I have some garlic infusion as part of my snake oil?

Last edited April 15, 2024 7:49 am

Rolls

Spirit - (1d8-1, 1d6-1, RA)

1d8-1 : (4) - 1 = 3

1d6-1 : (663) - 1 = 14

Apr 15, 2024 2:45 pm

Apr 15, 2024 2:45 pm

Barlowe Station

[ +- ] Dirt Knows...

Ruby reckons she'd need a preacher to bless water, a real one too not just a nod-alonger. As to garlic, sure, she'd have some of that.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 15, 2024 7:38 pm

Apr 15, 2024 7:38 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane points his trusty Sharps at the heart of the ugly beast that is attacking the group. Steadying his breathing and his own heart, he slowly squeezes the trigger.

OOC:

Called Shot

Last edited April 15, 2024 7:44 pm

Rolls

Shooting at -1 after Marksman edge - (1d10-1, 1d6-1, RA)

1d10-1 : (7) - 1 = 6

1d6-1 : (63) - 1 = 8

Damage AP 2 - (2d10, RA)

(85) = 13

Raise damage - (1d6, RA)

(661) = 13

Apr 15, 2024 7:59 pm

Apr 15, 2024 7:59 pm

Barlowe Station

[ +- ] The math

Victor's shot hits the vampire's heart, and it explodes into dust, which rains down over all of you.

Rolls

Vigor - (1d10, RA)

(7) = 7

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 15, 2024 9:27 pm

Apr 15, 2024 9:27 pm

Barlowe Station

"Gah!" Kane steps back to avoid the flying dusty heart parts.

"Get the other one!" he shouts to the others.

Apr 16, 2024 3:14 am

Apr 16, 2024 3:14 am

Barlowe Station

"Like that!" Dirt calls out, not needing to call out what they need to do, seeing as how it had just been demonstrated by the sharpshooter.

"Reckon their hearts must be black and mighty small! Steady your shots!" Dirt calls out, hoping to settle the Marshal’s nerves!

Apr 16, 2024 3:20 am

Apr 16, 2024 3:20 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby is up then I'll draw new cards.

Apr 16, 2024 8:44 am

Apr 16, 2024 8:44 am

Barlowe Station

With a shout of joy Ruby pulls a bottle of Gecko Hair Pomade, a greasy substance for styling hair and mustaches, but more importantly, a primary ingredient is pressed garlic. "Here. Might not look like much but its loaded with garlic extract. Dip your bullet tips in it. And no that's not a euphamism!" Ruby extracts her remaining bullets and gives the tip of each one a quick dip in the waxy substance.

OOC:

I'll use my turn coating my bullets.

Apr 17, 2024 12:32 am

Apr 17, 2024 12:32 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

New cards. Also, thanks everyone for avoiding the Edges that require redrawing cards haha

Delilah gets the Joker! Shuffling. She's up and Dirt, then the vampire.

Deck Draws

DD, Deadshot, Dirt, Ruby, Nosferatu

Red Joker

5 of Clubs

Jack of Hearts

4 of Spades

8 of Diamonds

Apr 17, 2024 3:01 am

Apr 17, 2024 3:01 am

Barlowe Station

"Marshal!" Dirt calls loud over the din once again, hoping to jolt the law-woman into action! He thinks to stoop to help the woman up, but knowing his luck, the creature would pounce as soon as he’d taken his eye off it for a second.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 17, 2024 4:41 am

Apr 17, 2024 4:41 am

Barlowe Station

The monsters are terrifying and Delilah is scared nearly out of her tree as they burst into the room and she stumbles and falls onto her backside, dropping her rifle. Kane blasting one of the things to ash and Dirt shouting at her snaps the woman back to action, and quick as that she draws he father's old Dragoon and thunders away with it, fanning the hammer from her prone position on the floor...

OOC:

That Joker should be +1 Benny for everyone, right? Using Rapid Fire and Trademark Weapon to attack twice.

Looks to me like two hits with raises? So 3d6+1 damage twice. Looks like 12 and 15 damage.

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Rolls

Blast #1! - (1d8+3, 1d6+3, RA)

1d8+3 : (5) + 3 = 8

1d6+3 : (3) + 3 = 6

Blaste #2! - (1d8+3, 1d6+3, RA)

1d8+3 : (6) + 3 = 9

1d6+3 : (4) + 3 = 7

Blast 1 Damage! - (2d6+1+1d6, RA)

(35) + (3) + 1 = 12

Blast 2 Damage! - (2d6+1+1d6, RA)

(642) + (2) + 1 = 15

Apr 17, 2024 1:28 pm

Apr 17, 2024 1:28 pm

Barlowe Station

DD's shots should take out a normal thing, but the bullets don't seem to do as much damage as one might expect.

OOC:

With Toughness 9, a normal creature would be Shaken by the first shot, and Wounded twice by the second (taken out since it's not a Wild Card). However, it's Shaken only, for reasons.

The creature gives up attacking the jail and leaps after Kane who has taken out his ravaging buddy. However, his claws only back up the man, and year no juicy flesh.

OOC:

Kane, Dirt, and Ruby are up. You each get a Benny from the Joker DD pulled.

Rolls

Fighting - (1d10, RA)

(2) = 2

Apr 17, 2024 1:47 pm

Apr 17, 2024 1:47 pm

Barlowe Station

"Let's hope this works and I didn't make my bullets smell for no reason!" Ruby slips the last greasy cartridge back into the revolver, spins it, closes it with a click. She aims at one of the remaining undead and fires.

OOC:

Loooool of course. Spending a benny to re-roll the attack.

Last edited April 17, 2024 1:48 pm

Rolls

Starr Revolver - Attack Roll - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (1) = 1

Starr Revolver - Damage Roll - (2d6+1, RA)

(642) + 1 = 13

Starr Revolver - Attack Roll - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (62) = 8

1d6 : (2) = 2

Apr 17, 2024 3:36 pm

Apr 17, 2024 3:36 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Keep your Benny, can't spend them on a critical failure, mwa haha.

https://i.imgur.com/tlg0t3O.jpeg

The sticky substance gums up Ruby's revolver, and the jam will have to be cleared if she wants to continue to fight evil today.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 17, 2024 6:10 pm

Apr 17, 2024 6:10 pm

Barlowe Station

Buoyed by his successful obliteration of the attacking vampire, Kane decides to try it again, aiming directly for the creature's heart.

OOC:

Shooting at -1 after Marksman edge, Called Shot

Rolls

Shooting - (1d10-1, 1d6-1, RA)

1d10-1 : (1) - 1 = 0

1d6-1 : (5) - 1 = 4

Damage AP2 - (2d10, RA)

(89) = 17

Apr 17, 2024 6:29 pm

Apr 17, 2024 6:29 pm

Barlowe Station

Victor bows the second one to smithereens, with a shot on the heart.

Combat is over, at least in the Marshal's Office. Screams outside.

Rolls

Vigor vs 17 - (1d10, RA)

(7) = 7

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 18, 2024 6:17 am

Apr 18, 2024 6:17 am

Barlowe Station

The soon-to-be (provided she lives!) Marshal climbs back to her feet, dusts herself off and moves to quickly top-off both her revolver and her levergun as she speaks to the others.

"Just how many of these things are there, did anyone get a good look?"

The woman then switches out her '73 for her coachgun, then puts a couple of handfuls of shells and her box of .44 bullets in the pocket of the duster she pulls on. "We goin' huntin'? Seems like powerful hits to the heart is what does it, you think, Kane?"

Apr 18, 2024 6:56 am

Apr 18, 2024 6:56 am

Barlowe Station

"Hell of a shot, this fella!" Dirt says, as he checks his weapons are good to continue.

"They wanted this fella in the cell something bad, don’t you think?" he posits to the others, remembering the thing lunging at the bars!

"We ought to stick together. Hopefully that posse that was set to get riled up tonight had their guns out in preparation!"

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Apr 18, 2024 7:40 am

Apr 18, 2024 7:40 am

Barlowe Station

"I don't know if they wanted in the man in the cell specifically," Ruby says as she tries to clean her gun. Apparently the grease was thicker than she expected and it had jammed her gun. "They're vampires, they likely wanted to get all of us. We should make our way to the town church, if there is one. It'll likely be free of the bloodsuckers and might have a supply of holy water and crucifixes." With her gun finally clean, she holsters it and closes her trunk back up.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 18, 2024 3:38 pm

Apr 18, 2024 3:38 pm

Barlowe Station

"Yeah, Delilah. The most efficient anyway. Aiming anywhere's else seems a waste of time and effort and bullets." Kane nods at Dirt, acknowledging his compliment. Kane was good with firearms. Had been all his life.

"Ruby's idea is a good one. We best get to that church pronto. Barricade the doors and shoot from the windows. Windows can be replaced. Our lives can't."

Apr 18, 2024 6:08 pm

Apr 18, 2024 6:08 pm

Barlowe Station

The prisoner Knaggs yells out, way too loudly, "You can't leave me in here! Get me out of here, give me a gun, I ain't wanna be food for no monsters, did you see that guy?"

Outside, you hear the first shot of the night, other than yours. Someone is putting up a fight, but your initial tally was a couple dozen might have come off that train, spreading out all over.

Apr 19, 2024 12:15 am

Apr 19, 2024 12:15 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby looks at the prisoner, then at the others, then back at him. "I think you're safer in there than out here. Vampires may be strong but I don't think even they could break into a jail cell." She turns to the others. "Any opinions?"

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 19, 2024 3:14 am

Apr 19, 2024 3:14 am

Barlowe Station

Crossing the small office's wooden floor with purpose, her boots thumping, Delilah opens her waxed canvas duffel and loads in the rest of the guns from the rack after handing a shotgun insistently to Reyes. "Y'all are gonna need this, Ms. Rudy. That there peashooter is good in a pinch against a misbehaving customer, but it's no better than barkin' at a knot against them vampires. Take this, hold it real steady when you fire it -- she'll kick."

When the subject of the prisoner comes up, the tall and busty brunette who hopes to soon wear a badge on her chest shakes her head. "Not leavin' him here. That's a death sentence, and we got no right. We'll cuff him, put him in irons -- and take him to the church."

OOC:

Taking allllll the guns and ammo that are here... are there handcuffs or irons or something we can slap on the prisoner? After that, suggest we look outside, time it, and make a break for the church, gathering any loose townsfolk as we go, also quietly spreading the word for that to be our defense point.

Apr 19, 2024 5:07 am

Apr 19, 2024 5:07 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby takes the gun but then raises an eyebrow. "You don't think moving him out in the open clapped in irons won't be a death sentence? If we get attacked he is dead weight for us and he'll be unable to defend himself."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 19, 2024 5:32 am

Apr 19, 2024 5:32 am

Barlowe Station

"Let's just do his hands," DD replies, grabbing the keys for the cell.

Apr 19, 2024 9:58 am

Apr 19, 2024 9:58 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt had doubts about whether his life couldn’t be replaced. Or rather, that it was worth going to great lengths to save in the first place. He kept those thoughts to himself, as he always had.

He didn’t fancy the idea of crossing the open with his hands tied behind his back, and so he sympathized with the fella in the cell. He supposed he didn’t have what it takes to be a lawman. That’s probably why he had ended up going the other way in life!

"Might be alright if we keep him between us! Making sure he can’t be picked off, I mean!"

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 19, 2024 2:52 pm

Apr 19, 2024 2:52 pm

Barlowe Station

"How 'bout y'all quit pussyfootin' around, make a decision and get a move on to the church?" Victor suggests strongly as he glares at the group. "Wastin' time right now is a recipe for a bad death. He ain't runnin' off. We're his only protection. Now let's git!"

Apr 19, 2024 10:59 pm

Apr 19, 2024 10:59 pm

Barlowe Station

Knaggs argues some but in the end accepts being chained to being left behind.

You step outside and here the fighting wind up. Between you and the church, you see three of the creatures dragging some people fighting and struggling ineffectively, a family it looks, down the street toward the train.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 20, 2024 5:55 am

Apr 20, 2024 5:55 am

Barlowe Station

"Stay close to us, it's your only chance, Knaggs," Delilah says as they advance up the street, a little cluster of people bristling with guns. Seeing the family in distress, she moves straight towards them and their vampires captors, intending to open fire...

OOC:

What she fires with will depend on the range, whether the vampires are aware or not, etc.

Apr 20, 2024 8:41 am

Apr 20, 2024 8:41 am

Barlowe Station

Pistols hanging in his hands and ready for action, Dirt sees his chance to save a family and takes it! He opens fire on the vamps and then starts hollering!

"Come on you freaks! Come and get some!"

It was the least he could do to make amends for everything that had come before…

Apr 20, 2024 2:03 pm

Apr 20, 2024 2:03 pm

Barlowe Station

They're forty feet away, and intent on getting their prizes to the train.

@KCC You've got The Drop on them, fire away.

The Drop adds +4 to a character’s attack and damage rolls against that target for one action.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 20, 2024 2:25 pm

Apr 20, 2024 2:25 pm

Barlowe Station

"Aw hell, we need to save that family from those monsters." Kane gets ready to shoot out a few more hearts.

Apr 22, 2024 1:03 am

Apr 22, 2024 1:03 am

Barlowe Station

"Don’t go getting separated!" Dirt warns, as he steps out of the formation to fire a shot!

OOC:

I’m guessing I don’t get a +4 to the second shot!

Rolls

Shooting - (1d8+4, 1d6+4, RA)

1d8+4 : (6) + 4 = 10

1d6+4 : (3) + 4 = 7

Shooting (Two Gun Kid) - (1d8, 1d6, RA)

1d8 : (2) = 2

1d6 : (3) = 3

Damage - (2d6+4, RA)

(23) + 4 = 9

Damage - (2d6, RA)

(42) = 6

Apr 22, 2024 2:31 am

Apr 22, 2024 2:31 am

Barlowe Station

You hit the creature, and it staggers from the impact.

OOC:

It's Shaken.

DD and Deadshot are up first, in whatever order you post.

Deck Draws

DD, Deadshot, Dirt, Ruby, Nosferatu

9 of Spades

6 of Spades

2 of Hearts

2 of Spades

3 of Clubs

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 22, 2024 4:25 am

Apr 22, 2024 4:25 am

Barlowe Station

"Place your shots careful-like, Mr. Briggs, go for the vitals!" DD says as she raises her coach gun and takes aim as she moves a few steps towards the creatures. Her twelve gauge thumps against her shoulder twice in rapid succession as she fires, trying to blast both the staggered monster and the next nearest barefoot vampire!

OOC:

Rapid Fire for two shots, at two different vampires. Missed on #1, spent a Benny and still missed. Hit #2. Damage to Vitals... 10

Last edited April 22, 2024 4:28 am

Rolls

Shootin' 1... Shotgun is at +2 for Short Range, Called Shot -4 - (1d8+2-4, 1d6+2-4, RA)

1d8+2-4 : (5) - 2 = 3

1d6+2-4 : (5) - 2 = 3

Shootin' 2... Shotgun is at +2 for Short Range, Called Shot -4 - (1d8+2-4, 1d6+2-4, RA)

1d8+2-4 : (6) - 2 = 4

1d6+2-4 : (1) - 2 = -1

Benny to Re-Shoot #1 - (1d8+2-4, 1d6+2-4, RA)

1d8+2-4 : (3) - 2 = 1

1d6+2-4 : (3) - 2 = 1

#2 Damage - (3d6, RA)

(235) = 10

Apr 22, 2024 9:44 am

Apr 22, 2024 9:44 am

Barlowe Station

"I was just hoping to clip him! Maybe slow him down and let those people get loose before we fill the whole street with lead!" Dirt responds though it’s slightly drowned out by the thunder of the shotgun.

Apr 22, 2024 1:30 pm

Apr 22, 2024 1:30 pm

Barlowe Station

DD blasts over of the wretched beasts in the heart and it explodes into dust.

Rolls

Vigor vs 10 - (1d10, RA)

(2) = 2

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 22, 2024 2:29 pm

Apr 22, 2024 2:29 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane goes for another kill aiming for the heart of one of the fiends. "We ain't got the luxury of that," he calls out to Dirt as he fires a shot from his Big 50.

Rolls

Shooting Called Shot, Marksmen's Edge - (1d10-1, 1d6-1, RA)

1d10-1 : (6) - 1 = 5

1d6-1 : (2) - 1 = 1

Damage - (2d10, RA)

(59) = 14

Apr 22, 2024 5:41 pm

Apr 22, 2024 5:41 pm

Barlowe Station

Another vampire blasts into dust as it's heart is struck.

The third one grabs it's victim and runs for the train, going behind a building. Unfortunately, the victim squirms and falls hard to the ground, and the vampire starts dragging it by the foot.

Ruby and Dirt are up.

Rolls

Vigor vs 14 - (1d10, RA)

(9) = 9

Strength check it makes it out of sight - (1d12, RA)

(2) = 2

Apr 22, 2024 10:45 pm

Apr 22, 2024 10:45 pm

Barlowe Station

Armed with the shotgun DD gave her, Ruby levels it at the vampire dragging away a victim by the foot, and pulls the trigger.

OOC:

What's the damage on the shotgun?

Last edited April 22, 2024 10:45 pm

Rolls

Shooting - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (4) = 4

1d6 : (1) = 1

Damage - (2d6+1d6, RA)

(42) + (2) = 8

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 23, 2024 4:19 am

Apr 23, 2024 4:19 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Lots of special little rules with the shotgun, which are range dependent. Here I bet Q will say either +2 to hit and 3d6 damage (short range, up to 24 yards), or -2 to-hit and 2d6 damage (medium range, 24-48 yards).

Apr 23, 2024 5:08 am

Apr 23, 2024 5:08 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Ok to save time I rolled 2d6+1d6 so we can drop the last one if it's the medium range. I missed anyway if it is a -2. Thanks for the info!

Apr 23, 2024 5:43 am

Apr 23, 2024 5:43 am

Barlowe Station

"Keep moving for the church!" Dirt reminds the others, even as he breaks off and heads for the building the vampire had just gone behind. Redemption would be his, if nothing else, and he levels his pistols at the beast!

OOC:

Ugh! Have to called shot with this!

Rolls

Shooting - (1d8-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d8-4 : (6) - 4 = 2

1d6-4 : (3) - 4 = -1

Shooting - (1d8-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d8-4 : (2) - 4 = -2

1d6-4 : (65) - 4 = 7

One hit! - (2d6, RA)

(623) = 11

Apr 23, 2024 11:36 pm

Apr 23, 2024 11:36 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby fires off the shotgun, scaring the Dickens out of the drug victim, but the vampire shrugs off the damage

Dirt lines up a bead on the heart and pulls the trigger. The vampire shivers and falls to dust.

The three victims get behind you. "Thank the lord Almighty you came!"

Rolls

Vigor vs 11 - (1d10, RA)

(5) = 5

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 24, 2024 1:58 am

Apr 24, 2024 1:58 am

Barlowe Station

"We ain't the type to leave innocent folk to the likes of those monsters. No siree," Kane says turning around to face the frightened victims. Reaching for a plug of tobacco, he places a larger than usual wad of it in his cheek.

"Y'all awright?"

Apr 24, 2024 2:07 am

Apr 24, 2024 2:07 am

Barlowe Station

"We’re fixing on holding up in the church." Dirt says, kicking over the corpse of the vampire to get a good look at it.

"Reckon you ought to head that way too. If you have guns, I suggest you get them. If you have neighbors, you best be getting them and all! Safety in numbers."

Apr 24, 2024 2:50 am

Apr 24, 2024 2:50 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby looks down and scowls at the shotgun. It wasn't the shotguns fault (probably), of course, but Ruby and firearms just didn't mix well. Well, at least the church was her idea. The sooner she gets there the sooner she could fashion some "holy Molotov cocktails". The name needs some work. "Revered Reyes Rumrunners"? She'd workshop it. "Speaking of, let's get to safety ourselves."

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 24, 2024 5:21 am

Apr 24, 2024 5:21 am

Barlowe Station

DD just nods at her compatriots, silently not liking their odds after seeing so many of the things leave the train, but she reloads, grabs that big bag of guns and hurries along to the church.

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Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 24, 2024 3:46 pm

Apr 24, 2024 3:46 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane takes up the rear while making a sweeping look behind as he too heads for the church, Big 50 at the ready just in case.

Apr 25, 2024 12:18 am

Apr 25, 2024 12:18 am

Barlowe Station

Outside the church you hear the town grow more and more uppity. Backing in, and bringing in a few more that join your group, you enter the church and hold the door.

A quartet of vampires see the buffet of bloodrich fleshbags and ran for you, aiming to break through your doorway and feast!

OOC:

Last vampire fight! They go first.

They rush out of the night up to the very doorsteps of the church.

Each of you are up in whatever order you post. Four vampires, ten feet from the door. They'll have to squeeze to get through all at once, and if that happens, you'll have an advantage. But you can shoot at them outside now, or wait and Aim.

Deck Draws

DD, Deadshot, Dirt, Ruby, Nosferatu

4 of Diamonds

2 of Clubs

3 of Spades

8 of Spades

10 of Hearts

Apr 25, 2024 2:07 am

Apr 25, 2024 2:07 am

Barlowe Station

"Hold them off, I'll be right back!" Ruby scans the church looking for a holy water font commonly found at the entrance to churches for baptisms and ablutions.

Apr 25, 2024 3:40 am

Apr 25, 2024 3:40 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby can see one in the left corner at the front of the church.

Apr 25, 2024 4:56 am

Apr 25, 2024 4:56 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby grabs a few empty potion bottles from her trunk and begins filling them up. Damn, she still didn't think of a great name yet. "Holy Ruby Cocktails," she explains. "Fill these up with holy water and toss them at those bloodsuckers. Shoot it in mid-air to look extra cool."

Apr 25, 2024 11:22 am

Apr 25, 2024 11:22 am

Barlowe Station

"So much for the church keeping the bloodsuckers out!" Dirt grumbles, steeling himself for another fight!

"You heard her! Get to working!" he shouts at idle townfolk on the inside!

He fills the gap in the door, eager to hold the things up a while longer until their gambit was ready! Though if the church didn’t work, it’s just as likely the water won’t either! He fires!

OOC:

Benny the Second Shot for that 13
Damage!

Last edited April 25, 2024 11:22 am

Rolls

Shooting - (1d8-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d8-4 : (6) - 4 = 2

1d6-4 : (2) - 4 = -2

Shooting - (1d8-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d8-4 : (3) - 4 = -1

1d6-4 : (3) - 4 = -1

Damage - (2d6, RA)

(53) = 8

Damage 2 - (2d6, RA)

(634) = 13

Shooting Benny - (1d8-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d8-4 : (2) - 4 = -2

1d6-4 : (1) - 4 = -3

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 25, 2024 3:03 pm

Apr 25, 2024 3:03 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane manages to squeeze his Big 50 through the gap of the door. "Dirt move over, will ya?"

Squinting at one of the vampires, he raises his weapon and squeezes the trigger.

Rolls

Shooting Called Shot, Marksmen's Edge - at the heart - (1d10-1, 1d6-1, RA)

1d10-1 : (5) - 1 = 4

1d6-1 : (1) - 1 = 0

Damage - (2d10, RA)

(92) = 11

Apr 25, 2024 8:36 pm

Apr 25, 2024 8:36 pm

Barlowe Station

Dirt blasts away but hits only doorway as the vampires tear open the door. Victor continues to target hearts, his sharp eyes and steady hands serving him well. One of the four explodes into dust.

Rolls

Vigor vs 11 - (1d10, RA)

(1) = 1

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 26, 2024 5:12 am

Apr 26, 2024 5:12 am

Barlowe Station

Shotgun leveled at the door, DD waits for the second vampire to come through after Victor blows one to smoke and ash. It takes both barrels, the second fired right after the first when the woman thumbs the switch, but she catches the next blood-fiend square in the chest.

Last edited April 26, 2024 5:15 am

Rolls

Shotgun Blast 1 - (1d8-4+2, 1d6-4+2, RA)

1d8-4+2 : (3) - 2 = 1

1d6-4+2 : (1) - 2 = -1

Shotgun Blast 2 - (1d8-4+2, 1d6-4+2, RA)

1d8-4+2 : (6) - 2 = 4

1d6-4+2 : (65) - 2 = 9

Blast 2 Damage with a Raise - (3d6+1d6, RA)

(6414) + (5) = 20

Apr 26, 2024 1:44 pm

Apr 26, 2024 1:44 pm

Barlowe Station

DD bows away the second vampire through the door, a cloud of necromantic dust lingering for a second as two more come in.

The third through the door launches itself at the shotgun wielding sheriff.

The fourth bumps off the third one and takes on Dirt.

Wow, they did not like the sheriff. Shaken and three Wounds on DD. Benny for a Soak roll?

Shaken and one Wound on Dirt. Benny for a Soak roll if you want?

Rolls

Vigor vs 20 - (1d10, RA)

(5) = 5

Choosing targets: 1 DD, 2 Dirt, 3 Kane, 4 the mob behind you - (1d4, 1d4, RA)

1d4 : (1) = 1

1d4 : (2) = 2

Fighting DD - (1d10, RA)

(6) = 6

Fighting Dirt - (1d10, RA)

(7) = 7

Damage on DD - (1d10+1d4, RA)

(8) + (441) = 17

Damage on Dirt - (1d10+1d4, RA)

(7) + (2) = 9

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 27, 2024 12:02 am

Apr 27, 2024 12:02 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Well, now, that poor Sheriff! He looks to be in dire straights! Now my would-be Marshal, she's just fine and dandy. Right?

RIGHT?!

Oof. Spending a Benny (down to 2), making a Soak roll now. Edit: Oh dear, that bloodsucker got her good!

Last edited April 27, 2024 12:03 am

Rolls

Soak! - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (2) = 2

1d6 : (2) = 2

Apr 28, 2024 6:42 am

Apr 28, 2024 6:42 am

Barlowe Station

The dust from one of the vamps kicks up, and Dirt raises his hands to try keep it from his eyes! Taking his eye off the vamps for a second, they strike!

OOC:

Down to 2 Bennies.

Rolls

Vigor - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (3) = 3

1d6 : (3) = 3

Apr 28, 2024 5:17 pm

Apr 28, 2024 5:17 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

DD can spend Bennies as usual to roll that Vigor check, but add it is, that's 3 Wounds so -3 to actions (after the soak rolls).

Dirt takes one Wounds and is at -1 to actions.

Everyone gets a Benny, and DD gets +2 to all Trait and damage rolls this round.

DD is up first (you can still reroll that Vigor if you want), then Deadshot (❤️ before 💎). Then the Nosferatu, then Dirt and Ruby.

Deck Draws

DD, Deadshot, Dirt, Ruby, Nosferatu

Red Joker

Queen of Hearts

10 of Clubs

8 of Diamonds

Queen of Diamonds

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 29, 2024 2:04 am

Apr 29, 2024 2:04 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Alright, I *will* spend a Benny to try and Soak one more time.

Edit: Nope! And with one Benny left, I'm saving it!

Last edited April 29, 2024 2:05 am

Rolls

Benny to try the soak roll again - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (2) = 2

1d6 : (3) = 3

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 29, 2024 2:06 am

Apr 29, 2024 2:06 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Actually, before I post and start the round -- what happened to DD that she took all those wounds? Was she bitten?

Marshal Delilah Dillon

Apr 29, 2024 3:07 am

Apr 29, 2024 3:07 am

Barlowe Station

Downed, shaken, and bloodied from the attack, it's all Delilah can do to keep from passing out -- or away!

OOC:

Forgot the -3 and +2... which in the end means she fails to unshake.

Last edited April 29, 2024 6:35 am

Rolls

Spirit Roll to Shake Off Shaken - (1d8, 1d6, RA)

1d8 : (4) = 4

1d6 : (1) = 1

Apr 29, 2024 6:21 pm

Apr 29, 2024 6:21 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

The attack was a savage combination of biting and claws (as a single attack).

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Apr 29, 2024 7:27 pm

Apr 29, 2024 7:27 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane swing his Big 50 toward the heart of one of the last remaining vampires.

Rolls

Called Shot -1 - (1d10-1, 1d6-1, RA)

1d10-1 : (6) - 1 = 5

1d6-1 : (5) - 1 = 4

Damage - (2d10, RA)

(17) = 8

Apr 30, 2024 11:02 am

Apr 30, 2024 11:02 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt grunts, and then seeing that the vampires weren’t put down yet, he winces and waits for them to begin their thrashing anew!

May 1, 2024 12:33 am

May 1, 2024 12:33 am

Barlowe Station

Kane will have to spend the round reloading his black powder Sharps Big 50. For some reason, the stat block on your pregen is incomplete, and the Sharps has three Reload 3 property. You can make at most three actions in a round, so it takes a full round without moving to reload it. Or you can combine that with an action at the normal Multi Action penalties to fire and reload (partially) in one round.

The vampires continues to savage DD and Dirt Briggs, committed to mindless feral rage.

That's three more wounds on DD by vampire fangs, surely a fatal attack, unless she can soak those 3.

Rolls

Vampire vs DD - (1d10, RA)

(8) = 8

Vampire vs Dirt - (1d10, RA)

(1) = 1

Damage on DD - (1d12+1d4, RA)

(9) + (42) = 15

Marshal Delilah Dillon

May 1, 2024 6:11 am

May 1, 2024 6:11 am

Barlowe Station

Her clothes and the flesh or her arms and chest already half-torn to shreds by the vampire’s horrific attack, Delilah screams and tries to scramble back from her attacker, but the creature stays on her, slashing and clawing and gnashing. Blood sprays and the never-quite-a-marshal gurgles and falls silent…

OOC:

Spending the final Benny to try and soak some wounds. BTW, is it three, or two? She has Toughness 5. Perhaps it’s three because she’s already Shaken?

Either way, Goodnight Irene!

Last edited May 1, 2024 6:16 am

Rolls

Soak! - (1d6-3+2, 1d6-3+2, RA)

1d6-3+2 : (3) - 1 = 2

1d6-3+2 : (4) - 1 = 3

Benny to Re-Roll Soak… - (1d6-3+2, 1d6-3+2, RA)

1d6-3+2 : (4) - 1 = 3

1d6-3+2 : (2) - 1 = 1

May 1, 2024 10:50 am

May 1, 2024 10:50 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt can see that the woman is about to be overcome, and tries to throw his attacker off! If he can get to the Marshal, he can distract the beasts for a second and let her up.

"Marshal!" he calls, even as he fires his guns into the thing in front of him!

"Hold on, Marshal! I’m coming!" he cries, making a break for her even though he had just whiffed both shots!

Last edited May 1, 2024 10:50 am

Rolls

Shooting - (1d8-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d8-4 : (5) - 4 = 1

1d6-4 : (4) - 4 = 0

Shooting - (1d8-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d8-4 : (2) - 4 = -2

1d6-4 : (3) - 4 = -1

Damage - (2d6, RA)

(15) = 6

Damage - (2d6, RA)

(15) = 6

May 1, 2024 12:22 pm

May 1, 2024 12:22 pm

Barlowe Station

"DD!" Ruby shouts as she sees the woman go down. Ruby hurls a glass bottle of holy water at the undead bloodsucker!

Rolls

Agility - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (5) = 5

1d6 : (4) = 4

May 1, 2024 1:46 pm

May 1, 2024 1:46 pm

Barlowe Station

As DD falls and Dirt fires at the fiend, Ruby finds the Holy water fires the trick. The creature screams and releases the woman. Backing away and covered in foul steam, it bumps against the wall beside the front door.

Deck Draws

Deadshot, Dirt, Ruby, Nosferatu

Jack of Diamonds

8 of Spades

4 of Clubs

King of Hearts

May 1, 2024 1:50 pm

May 1, 2024 1:50 pm

Barlowe Station

The smoking vampire tears out into the night, screeching in agony.

The other one, having gotten a taste of Dirt's blood is about to attack when the priest steps forward brandishing a cross. "Back fiend, by the power of the Christ I command thee."

It stumbles backwards and with a snarl circles the man, waiting for a chance to kill and eat the priest.

Each of you are up again. Except DD, she's gone. 🪦

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 1, 2024 4:58 pm

May 1, 2024 4:58 pm

Barlowe Station

Having reloaded his Sharps, Kane noticed his hands weren't as steady as he's used to. The vampires had rattled him as did the death of DD.

"Bastards!" he shouted as he aimed for the heart of him before he could get to the priest.

OOC:

My fat phone fingers took minus 2 both times!

Last edited May 1, 2024 5:00 pm

Rolls

Shooting called shot - (1d10-2, 1d6-1, RA)

1d10-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

1d6-1 : (4) - 1 = 3

Damage - (2d10, RA)

(48) = 12

Benny roll - (1d6-1, 1d10-2, RA)

1d6-1 : (65) - 1 = 10

1d10-2 : (9) - 2 = 7

Raise damage - (1d6, RA)

(3) = 3

May 2, 2024 12:45 am

May 2, 2024 12:45 am

Barlowe Station

The vampire is struck in the heart... and crumbles to dust.

Combat is over.

Rolls

Vigor vs 15 - (1d10, RA)

(2) = 2

May 2, 2024 9:10 am

May 2, 2024 9:10 am

Barlowe Station

"A little late to the party, Padre!" Dirt complains, dusting himself off and wincing at his wounds.

He rushes to the fallen Marshal’s side then, and starts shaking her awake.

"Come on now, Marshal!" he pleads. He had no great relationship with the woman, but she was a good woman, and tried to do right. More right than Dirt ever did, and the man couldn’t help but think that it should have been him laying cold.

May 2, 2024 9:54 am

May 2, 2024 9:54 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby kneels down and tries to find a pulse on the fallen sheriff. Nothing. Ruby shakes her head. "She's gone. She deserved better. Father, will you perform Last Rites?"

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 2, 2024 1:18 pm

May 2, 2024 1:18 pm

Barlowe Station

"She never got a chance to be Marshall. Damn shame, damn shame." Kane laments as he removes his hat and holds it to his chest.

"Rest in peace, Marshal Delilah Dillon."

May 2, 2024 2:42 pm

May 2, 2024 2:42 pm

Barlowe Station

The priest says, "Many will need it tonight, child, but I'll tend to her now."

He lays her flat on her back, and closes her eyes. "I commend you, my dear sister, to Almighty God, and entrust you to your Creator. May you return to him who formed you from the dust of the earth. May holy Mary, the angels, and all the saints come to meet you as you go forth from this life. May Christ who was crucified for you bring you freedom and peace."

Outside, the battle rages but soon you hear the shouts turn more triumphant and then screams of horror and grief begin in earnest. The dark locomotive blasts its screeching whistle and chugs off down the tracks.

As the citizens gather in the streets, you hear the terrifying news.

"They took Mary-Lou!

Them fiends drug off my pappy!

Both my kids, they got my kids, oh lord protect them!"

Out of all, only the four, now three of you killed any, responsible for eight dead vampires.

Deputy Parish, covered in blood and his left arm hanging limply, approaches you. "They got Knaggs? Oh you saved him. Hell, I'd have traded him for anyone else. You did what I asked, let's get back to the jail, and get him locked up. I'll pay you your fee too. I wish I had more money, but maybe the town will raise a collection. A bounty on those fiends, and for everyone brought back. Go on, get to the jail and him locked up, I'll meet you back."

Rolls

Secret Roll

May 3, 2024 9:44 am

May 3, 2024 9:44 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt folds the woman’s arms across her chest; if for nothing else than to hide some of the gashes carved into the woman by the beasts.

Dirt could spit on the fee in that moment, but keeps quiet on the matter. He stands, and dusts himself off.

"I guess we know why the last stop was so damned quiet." is all he can say; knowing that the Marshal had tried her damnedest to put it all together.

Marshal Delilah Dillon

May 3, 2024 12:56 pm

May 3, 2024 12:56 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Aw, treating my mangled corpse right! Thanks y’all, this is sweet! ;)

May 5, 2024 1:36 am

May 5, 2024 1:36 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Any chance the mayor bit the dust?

"You really got it in for this guy. I hope you've got some iron-clad evidence against him. We'll take him back, but you be ready with that money." Before taking him back, however, Ruby stoops by one of the piles of ash that are the vampire remains and scoops up a bottle's worth. She holds it up and explains, "Vampire ash. A potent ingredient indeed." She packs it away and turns to the others. "Let's get this show on the road then."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 5, 2024 5:30 pm

May 5, 2024 5:30 pm

Barlowe Station

"Potent ingredient for what, if you don't mind me askin', Ruby?"

He agreed with the woman about the deputy's level of dedication when it came to keeping Knaggs contained.

"We'll be wantin' that money you owe us, as the lady said, deputy.

May 5, 2024 10:45 pm

May 5, 2024 10:45 pm

Barlowe Station

Sam Varney comes out of his shop, thumbing cartridges into his double barrel shotgun.

When Deputy Parrish explains what he's said, Varney sweetens the pot. "A bounty of $20 from his own pocket for every citizen of Varney Flats they bring back alive."

Before negotiations get too involved, the deputy stresses if the train gets too much of a lead the heroes may never overtake it. Then he swallows deeply and says, "I’m goin’ with you." From the look in his eyes, the deputy cannot be dissuaded.

When your posse accepts the town’s offer, Parrish tells you the tracks curve to the north about four miles out of town. If you leave immediately and cut across the prairie, you may be able to catch it by cutting the curve.

May 6, 2024 2:29 am

May 6, 2024 2:29 am

Barlowe Station

"I'm not sure yet, never had vampire ash before. But something alchemical for sure. There's an underlying theory that the stronger the foe, the more potent the alchemical result. I'm going to experiment and find out. But that's for another day. If we want to rescue these villagers we best get moving quick."

May 6, 2024 9:05 am

May 6, 2024 9:05 am

Barlowe Station

"Now Deputy…" Dirt starts, as the man gets ready to depart with them. "You saw how many of those things there were on that train. You got anyone else both willing and able to take up arms? Hell of a thing to try gun down so many of them by ourselves.

As a matter of fact, we ought to recruit the preacher! He seemed to do the trick!"

OOC:

Just throwing out character bait!

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 6, 2024 2:30 pm

May 6, 2024 2:30 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane didn't take too well to highfalutin words like alchemical, and he still doubted that Ruby's potions were anything but hocus-pocus, yet he humored the woman with a nod of feigned interest.

"You're right. We best be on our way. Recruitin' a preacher is a mighty fine idea, Dirt."

May 7, 2024 5:12 am

May 7, 2024 5:12 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Preacher is definitely on the menu.

May 13, 2024 9:41 pm

May 13, 2024 9:41 pm

Barlowe Station

With the Preacher offering to join you, you've got a fast ride across the prairie to try n cut off the train as it goes around a long corner.

Several of you have horses, but if you don't, you can double behind someone, or you can waste a bunch of time trying to find another horse in town that's rideable.

First, Dirt and DD had horses. Don't think Ruby or Kane did. One of you could take DD's horse, then there others could double. Either way, everyone will have to make a roll, whether they're ridin (Ridin at-2) or passengerin (Athletics at -2) to not fall off.

May 13, 2024 11:22 pm

May 13, 2024 11:22 pm

Barlowe Station

"I do not have much skill in riding. If one of you gentlemen would kindly let me ride with you?" While she waits for the horses she quickly prepares a small satchel to take with her since she won't be able to take her whole trunk on the horse. She smiles at the mental image of riding a horse with her steamer trunk lashed to the horse's rear.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 13, 2024 11:41 pm

May 13, 2024 11:41 pm

Barlowe Station

"Well Ruby, why don't you hop right up behind me and we can get going. You'll want to be putting your arms around my waist or you'll fall off and get mud in that pretty hair of yours and that would be a cryin' shame."

Kane removes his foot from the stirrup, smiles and waits for her to offer a hand to him. "Put your foot in the stirrup, and I'll pull you up. I promise I won't chew while you are up here with me. Truth be told I don't partake while in the saddle. Horses don't like it. And you don't neither. Might be best if you leave your satchel with Dirt though."

OOC:

Kane took the liberty of assigning himself the horse, if that's ok with y'all?

Last edited May 13, 2024 11:42 pm

Marshal Delilah Dillon

May 14, 2024 4:16 am

May 14, 2024 4:16 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

You treat m’horse right!

May 14, 2024 6:10 am

May 14, 2024 6:10 am

Barlowe Station

"You got yourself an animal, Padre?" Dirt calls out, as the priest busies himself with gathering a few things to go out on a run.

"Sposin’ you might, seeing as how you probably visit all them folks out in the land." Dirt drones on, just talking to fill his mind with something, so he doesn’t have to wonder if any of them will come back from this.

He wasn’t so worried about himself, but the rest of these folk seemed fine enough.

Reverend James Turner

May 16, 2024 6:45 am

May 16, 2024 6:45 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Alright! Reverend Turner is done! He's basically a man of God with a past. He's going to tap that tonight. Also, he believes God speaks directly to him, and he's got some command / leadership skills that will make it easier to unshake, folks!

Reverend James Turner is grim-faced as he leaves the church. He's just said last rites over that pretty young Marshal and a number of his neighbors. Turner is a man with a past, and though he walks with a limp and has a wheeze in his lungs, he has put more men in the ground over his life than he'd ever care to admit. It's time to dig deep and become that man again, if he can.

God had started speaking to him directly lately, having quiet conversations at night, when he was out for his walk. It must have been a sign. That the Reverend had to step forward and do something about these devil-spawned vampires. And so the man buckled on Dillon's gunbelt, took her shotgun and shells and headed for John Jacobs's stables. John was dead, his throat torn out by a vampires, so he wouldn't miss his horse none.

"Ya, come on son!" Turner shouts as he rides up to Briggs, a silver cross hanging around his neck, gleaming in the moonlight. When he catches sight of Ruby on the back of Kane's horse, his rough cheeks color.

"When this night of terror is all done," he says to the air, "someone get this lady some proper clothing, cover her up! But now, time's a wastin', let's ride!"

OOC:

Hopefully that's all okay, Q. Have a look at his sheet and usual apologies for being late.

Last edited May 17, 2024 1:45 am

May 16, 2024 3:06 pm

May 16, 2024 3:06 pm

Barlowe Station

"Ms. Ruby here is a force unto herself! She ain’t shy about lashing you with her tongue neither!" the man says, setting off on his horse and letting himself a wry smile. The Padre was in for a whipping tonight if he thought Ruby Reyes would take that kind of take lightly!

May 16, 2024 8:51 pm

May 16, 2024 8:51 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

All good!

You quickly set off, riding hard across the prairie grass in the darkness, chasing a train that's picking up speed, but trying to catch it by riding the shorter way against the uneven prairie.

Everyone will have to make a roll, whether it's Turner, Dirt, or Kane ridin (Ridin at-2) or Ruby passengerin' (Athletics at -2) to not fall off.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 16, 2024 9:10 pm

May 16, 2024 9:10 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane snorted at Dirt's remarks. He wouldn't want to be on the woman's wrong side, especially with her right behind him.

OOC:

Wow, I really messed up these rolls. I hope it's ok to roll the d6 and subtract -2 from the roll.

Last edited May 16, 2024 9:14 pm

Rolls

Riding - (1d4-2, 1d4-2, RA)

1d4-2 : (2) - 2 = 0

1d4-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

Boo Boo roll - (d6, RA)

(65) = 11

May 16, 2024 11:37 pm

May 16, 2024 11:37 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby arches an eyebrow at the padre. "Anything that I put on my body is 'proper.' You worry about matters of the soul and leave matters of the flesh to those of us who enjoy it." She snorts and turns her head away. She focuses on staying atop this beast.

Rolls

Athletics* - (1d6-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d6-2 : (63) - 2 = 7

1d6-2 : (62) - 2 = 6

May 17, 2024 1:09 am

May 17, 2024 1:09 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Giddy up!

Rolls

Riding - (1d4-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d4-2 : (42) - 2 = 4

1d6-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

Reverend James Turner

May 17, 2024 1:49 am

May 17, 2024 1:49 am

Barlowe Station

Reverend Turner only looks at the woman as she admonishes him, and then she's gone as Kane kicks his horse into motion. Cutting the train off at the pass will be no small feat, and will require galloping hard. "I know, Lord Father, I know," he says to the voice in his head as he spurs forward as well.

OOC:

Benny to reroll.

Last edited May 17, 2024 1:51 am

Rolls

Ride - (1d6-2, 1d4-2, RA)

1d6-2 : (4) - 2 = 2

1d4-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

Reroll! - (1d6-2, 1d4-2, RA)

1d6-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

1d4-2 : (1) - 2 = -1

May 17, 2024 2:57 am

May 17, 2024 2:57 am

Barlowe Station

It has been a hard night riding as you thunder across the plain. The four of you on three horses soon come across the Night Train. It's steaming along, powered by Ghostrock, the diabolic scent catching your air.

The locomotive is a huge, iron behemoth. Its black iron seems somehow darker than the night, and its jagged cow catcher resembles the blood tipped fangs of some enormous monster. Ghost-rock vapor streams from its stack, wailing in agony as it pushes the iron monster forward. Behind the engine sits a coal tender. Behind that, two sleeper cars and a freight car.

It's going fast, not as fast as a horse can go, but pretty fast.

Turner is Fatigued from the ride, the rest of you are fine.

What's the plan?

May 17, 2024 3:12 am

May 17, 2024 3:12 am

Barlowe Station

"So, what's the plan?" Ruby has to yell to be heard over the sounds of the thundering horse hooves and the howling wind. "We can't exactly just stop a train even if we get ahead of it! We might just have to board it!"

Reverend James Turner

May 17, 2024 6:02 am

May 17, 2024 6:02 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Old Reverend Question Period! How many cars long is the train? Are there lookouts of some kind on the roof or at the caboose? Can we see in the windows / is it lit inside? Are these passenger cars, box cars, flat cars, open-topped gondola cars...?

May 17, 2024 3:10 pm

May 17, 2024 3:10 pm

Barlowe Station

Behind the engine sits a coal tender. Behind that, two sleeper cars and a freight car.

Finding a spot to board the train will be no cakewalk. The options are a ladder at the back of the freight car, between any of the cars themselves, or at the locomotive.

The back of the freight car has an entry portal, but it is welded shut and has no platform beneath it. There is a side door on the freight car, but it is currently closed.

There are no lookouts or windows.

Reverend James Turner

May 18, 2024 5:46 pm

May 18, 2024 5:46 pm

Barlowe Station

The Reverend has struggled to keep up, and grimaces as old injuries and wounds begin to act up — just as the train comes into sight.

"God Almighty, she’s steamed straight out of hell itself!" he shouts to the others as they close in, and as they see that there are limited way to board the fearsome thing. More shouting follows.

"What’s the plan? Board from the rear?!"

May 18, 2024 11:01 pm

May 18, 2024 11:01 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby shouts, "The rear looks welded shut! We could maybe get in through the side door. We'd have to pull it open. But then we'd be jumping in one by one into a group of vamps! This seems like suicide. We can just follow the train until it stops or until daybreak."

May 19, 2024 9:49 am

May 19, 2024 9:49 am

Barlowe Station

"I don’t know that old Blossom here can keep up this pace all night!" Dirt shouts to the others!

"I’ll jump on first! Make sure that we aren’t jumping into a nest of them! That ought to tell you whether or not you should follow!" he goes on, ignoring the idea of it being suicide for the moment!

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 19, 2024 1:34 pm

May 19, 2024 1:34 pm

Barlowe Station

"We gotta do something," Kane shouts, stating the obvious while eating the dirt from the horses in front of him. Straining to hear what Dirt is on about, he finally realizes what the man's intentions are.

"Don't do it, Dirt. Don't do it!"

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May 20, 2024 3:24 am

May 20, 2024 3:24 am

Barlowe Station

"You got a soft spot for me, Kane? Just about melts my heart!" he says, but his mind is set! He brings Blossom up along side the train, pulls a pistol and gets ready to try make the jump!

Last edited May 20, 2024 3:24 am

Reverend James Turner

May 20, 2024 12:49 pm

May 20, 2024 12:49 pm

Barlowe Station

Turner is barely able to keep up as the horses thunder along, and he watches with concern as Briggs prepares for the leap!

OOC:

Still away and busy, but keeping track!

May 20, 2024 3:40 pm

May 20, 2024 3:40 pm

Barlowe Station

Galloping beside the moving train, Briggs chooses his spot, and leaps.

Allright, Briggs, are you attempting to grab the ladder on the back of the train, or jump between the cars?
If the latter, which two cars is it between? <(ENGINE) (COALCAR) (SLEEPERCAR1) (SLEEPERCAR2) (FREIGHTCAR)

Athletics test, again at -2 because of the galloping and moving target.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 20, 2024 4:10 pm

May 20, 2024 4:10 pm

Barlowe Station

Victor grits his teeth when it becomes evident that Dirt will attempt to jump onto the moving train. It also means he'll have to attempt to do it himself.

Last edited May 20, 2024 4:11 pm

May 21, 2024 7:56 am

May 21, 2024 7:56 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Way I see it, feels most cinematic to jump on between the cars at the back of the train, as old Blossom just gives it enough for Briggs to make the jump and no more!

"Huagh!" the man heaves, as he gets himself up, and then jumps off the horse! He reaches for the safety of the cars on either side!

Rolls

Athletics* - (1d6-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d6-2 : (63) - 2 = 7

1d6-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

May 22, 2024 12:43 am

May 22, 2024 12:43 am

Barlowe Station

Briggs makes the leap balancing on the connector between the freight car and the next one. There are doors between them, so you could open the freight car or the sleeper car. Or climb onto the roof. Or help the next train jumper.

May 22, 2024 12:51 am

May 22, 2024 12:51 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt finds purchase on the train car, and then hangs his body back out into the night!

"Come on now! I’ll pull you in!" he promises, as he extends a hand towards the next closest person!

May 22, 2024 1:34 am

May 22, 2024 1:34 am

Barlowe Station

Next person jumping also needs to succeed at an Athletics check, but no -2 due to Briggs' help.

May 22, 2024 3:51 am

May 22, 2024 3:51 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby goes next as she is already riding as a passenger. She waits for Kane to pull within arm's reach of Dirt and stands in the stirrups. She places one foot on the horses back and leaps for the train and Dirt's hand.

Rolls

Athletics* - (1d6, 1d6, RA)

1d6 : (62) = 8

1d6 : (4) = 4

May 22, 2024 4:14 am

May 22, 2024 4:14 am

Barlowe Station

"That’s it!" Dirt calls, heaving Ruby up and then in behind him on the train.

"Now you watch and make sure no one sneaks up on us!" he says, before turning back to the chasing riders.

"Give them horses a rest now, come on!" he says, throwing his hand out again!

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Reverend James Turner

May 22, 2024 11:46 am

May 22, 2024 11:46 am

Barlowe Station

Reverend Turner spurs dead John Jacobs's horse forward after Ruby Reyes is safely aboard, and the man has the time and wherewithal to utter a quick prayer after seeing a flash of the woman's well-formed legs during her leap. After that, it's all he can do to match pace with the train, and as he closes in towards Briggs the sound and fury of the flashing train wheels, right beneath him, are all the man can hear.

"Give me strength, Jesus!" the man says as he stands in the stirrups, then sort of falls towards Dirt!

Rolls

Athletics - (1d4, 1d6, RA)

1d4 : (41) = 5

1d6 : (4) = 4

Reverend James Turner

May 22, 2024 11:49 am

May 22, 2024 11:49 am

Barlowe Station

There's a flurry of movement and no small amount of pain, but quick as that Turner miraculously find himself aboard. "Praise the Lord! God the Almighty above has chosen my path!" he says loudly from his new perch, before Dirt hurries him away to make room for Kane.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 22, 2024 12:50 pm

May 22, 2024 12:50 pm

Barlowe Station

Sorry to lose his horse, Kane counts to himself and on a count of five he will jump.

His head bobs to his counting as he swings his leg over the pommel, grabs onto a railing and Dirt's hand and attempts to hoist his self up.

"Well hells bells, we made it!" he declares.

Last edited May 22, 2024 12:51 pm

Rolls

Athletics - (2d6, RA)

(54) = 9

May 22, 2024 1:37 pm

May 22, 2024 1:37 pm

Barlowe Station

The four of you are balanced on the hitch between cars. One misstep and you're down and under the wheels of the freight car.

Where next? Into the windowless sleeping car, or back into that freight car. Somewhere a whole passel of nasty vampires waits. Somewhere, a herd of captives from the town.

May 24, 2024 3:08 am

May 24, 2024 3:08 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Is there any benefit to sticking an ear to the wall/door of the carts to try make out cries, sobs, snarling? Or is it just too noisy with the track and train right there?

Reverend James Turner

May 24, 2024 4:12 am

May 24, 2024 4:12 am

Barlowe Station

Holding on for dear life, trying to get the dead near-Marshal's shotgun situated so that he can use it to hunt vampires, Reverend Turner begins a prayer as deliberations begin.

"God of all that we see, and all that we don't! Protect us, God! From the fangs and the talons of these graveborn abominations! Lend us your strength, oh Lord, so that we may do your will and excise them from this Earth!"

He goes on from there, his voice barely audible over the clatter of the wheels and the roar of the engine...

May 24, 2024 4:20 pm

May 24, 2024 4:20 pm

Barlowe Station

Notice check at -2 and I'll give you some info. Get a Raise and I'll give you more.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 24, 2024 7:06 pm

May 24, 2024 7:06 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane rolls his eyes. He almost tells the rev to save his breath but he supposes they can use any advantage they can get, and what was the harm in it anyway?

"I think those creatures don't like the light so maybe we stay away from the windowless car."

He shouts only loud enough to be heard by the group, then wishes he hadn't for he had heard tell that vampires have much better hearing than mortals, if you believed all that hocus pocus. But weren't they confronting those very monsters now, and hadn't they seen them in the flesh or whatever it was that held their bones together? They existed alright, and it was up to their group to destroy them he thinks, as he holds onto anything that allows him to keep his balance on the swaying train car.

Last edited May 24, 2024 7:07 pm

May 25, 2024 3:59 am

May 25, 2024 3:59 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby looks between the freight car and the passenger car. Which way? She will put her ear to each car and see if she can hear anything over the sound of the train that will give her a clue.

Rolls

Notice * - (1d6-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d6-2 : (5) - 2 = 3

1d6-2 : (3) - 2 = 1

May 25, 2024 10:14 am

May 25, 2024 10:14 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt waves a hand downwards, indicating for the others to hush, as he presses his ear to the carriages on either side!

"Hush up, will ya? I think I hear something!"

Last edited May 25, 2024 10:14 am

Rolls

Notice * - (1d6-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d6-2 : (662) - 2 = 12

1d6-2 : (1) - 2 = -1

Reverend James Turner

May 25, 2024 12:03 pm

May 25, 2024 12:03 pm

Barlowe Station

Wide-eyed and still clinging on for dear life, the Reverend waits to hear what Dirt has to say...

OOC:

Traveling all day and busy as I return. Proceed apace with the Reverend supporting!

May 25, 2024 1:15 pm

May 25, 2024 1:15 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby can't heard anything over the screams of the Ghostrock engine or the clacking of the train on the rails.

From the freight car, Briggs picks up numerous wails and sobs between them other sounds, plus a few snarls. He thinks the bulk if not all of the townsfolk are in there, but there are a couple vampires in there as well. He hears nothing from the sleeper car

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 26, 2024 3:15 pm

May 26, 2024 3:15 pm

Barlowe Station

"Dirt, whacha hearin'?" Kane asks, then turning to the reverend and offering a hand to the terrified man. "If you put your boots here, you're less likely to plunge to your death, but I imagine your God will protect ya," he says, pointing to an area that will afford a less precarious position.

May 27, 2024 3:19 am

May 27, 2024 3:19 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

The freight car with all the townsfolk is at the back of the train. Any way to disconnect it from the rest and let it slow to a stop?

"Townsfolk sound to be in here." he half-mimes to the others. He’s suddenly concerned with being quiet, so that they might surprise the vampires inside.

"They’ve got company, if you know what I mean." he says, motioning to his weapon.

He stoops down carefully, checking if there’s any way to remove this carriage from the rest of the train.

Reverend James Turner

May 27, 2024 6:53 am

May 27, 2024 6:53 am

Barlowe Station

It's time, then. They've found not just the vampires, but the people they stole, the God-fearing folk of... that town where the Reverend conducted his sermons every Sunday.

"Lord God Almighty!" the man of the cloth beseeches, "Bless the aim and the iron of these here heroes! The souls of good Christians are at risk here tonight, so guide our hands and steel our hearts, God Above!"

He then nods to the others to let them know he's ready, and he cocks back both hammers on Dillon's shotgun...

OOC:

Anything to be done inspiring people or getting God's blessin' woth Faith or the like? Regardless, he's for busting into the car second!

May 27, 2024 4:34 pm

May 27, 2024 4:34 pm

Barlowe Station

Disconnecting the train is possible. However, while the train is moving there is significant tension in the couplers, and unhitching the freight car would be a Strength roll at -4. It will also be a noisy affair.

OOC:

The Reverend can assist by lending his fiery holy words.

May 27, 2024 11:13 pm

May 27, 2024 11:13 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Are there any helping rules?

May 28, 2024 12:53 am

May 28, 2024 12:53 am

Barlowe Station

Sometimes characters may want to cooperate or help an ally with a task. If so, and the GM decides it’s possible, supporting characters roll the relevant skill (on their action if the game is in rounds) and declare which of their ally’s skills they’re attempting to Support.

Success grants the ally +1 to one skill total this round, and a raise adds +2. A Critical Failure on the support roll subtracts 2 from the lead’s total—sometimes extra hands just get in the way!

Note: the assistance skill doesn't have to be the same as the tested skill, of it makes sense otherwise. If you're rolling Strength to assist, you won't apply the -4 to your assistance roll.

May 28, 2024 2:09 am

May 28, 2024 2:09 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Hmmmmm… that roll seems doomed to fail! Maybe we just burst in, sprayin’ and prayin’ until they’re all dead?

"Damn! This thing will take an arm off, if we don’t do it right! We can’t risk it, I don’t think!"

He stands back up and rubs the grease and dust from his fingers! He holds up his weapons, and nods to the others.

"The old fashioned way then?"

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 28, 2024 2:21 am

May 28, 2024 2:21 am

Barlowe Station

"Ready when you all are!" Out comes the Sharps Big 50. Kane is ready for some serious vampire slaying business.

May 28, 2024 2:32 am

May 28, 2024 2:32 am

Barlowe Station

"Ready, Padre? Ms. Reyes?" he asks, just about ready to throw open the door and let Kane loose with his weapon.

May 28, 2024 3:18 am

May 28, 2024 3:18 am

Barlowe Station

"Let's go in with a bang. So to speak." Ruby pulls out a flask of holy water. "I'll toss this as soon as you open the door. More as a distraction than hoping to hit anything, but fingers crossed!"

Reverend James Turner

May 28, 2024 4:20 am

May 28, 2024 4:20 am

Barlowe Station

Reverend James Turner had been ready to plead with God above that they be able to successfully separate the train cars, but suddenly the plan is to go in blasting. The preacher could get behind that idea as well, and he nods once at Briggs as the man times their assault.

Last edited May 28, 2024 4:21 am

May 29, 2024 12:02 am

May 29, 2024 12:02 am

Barlowe Station

I won't roll surprise, it's difficult even if you make serious noise. Instead, you have The Drop (The Drop adds +4 to a character’s attack and damage rolls against that target for one action).

You open the door and inside, you see the shadowy forms of the townsfolk, but they're are four vampires feasting on two of them.

May 29, 2024 1:23 am

May 29, 2024 1:23 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby hurls her last flask of holy water at the two vamps feasting on some poor souls.

Rolls

Agility - (1d6+4, 1d6+4, RA)

1d6+4 : (65) + 4 = 15

1d6+4 : (5) + 4 = 9

May 29, 2024 2:11 am

May 29, 2024 2:11 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby hits a vampire square in the forehead, and the jar shatters, covering it and spraying a second.

The two vamps shriek and run backwards, hitting the far end of the freight car and closing at their face skin.

OOC:

Their both Shaken

Rolls

Spirit x2 - (1d4, 1d4, RA)

1d4 : (3) = 3

1d4 : (2) = 2

May 29, 2024 3:38 am

May 29, 2024 3:38 am

Barlowe Station

Dirt bursts into the room, and levels his pistols at the crowd, quickly scanning for vamps among the townsfolk!

He spots them, and trains both pistols on a different vampire. He aims for the heart, hoping to end two of them while they have the drop on them!

OOC:

Going to take the +4 and counteract it with a -4 called shot for the heart!

OOC:

I’ll Benny the first roll!

Last edited May 29, 2024 3:39 am

Rolls

Shooting 1 - (1d8, 1d6, RA)

1d8 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (3) = 3

Shooting 2 (Two Gun Kid) - (1d8, 1d6, RA)

1d8 : (7) = 7

1d6 : (1) = 1

Shooting BENNY - (1d8, 1d6, RA)

1d8 : (87) = 15

1d6 : (3) = 3

Damage 1 - (2d6, RA)

(15) = 6

Damage 2 - (2d6, RA)

(43) = 7

Reverend James Turner

May 29, 2024 6:59 am

May 29, 2024 6:59 am

Barlowe Station

"God denies thee! Begone, foul wretches! Unholy devilkin, blasphemous demonspawn, begone!" Reverend Turner shouts as he heads inside, aims his shotgun at the chest of the other vampire, and opens fire!

OOC:

Called shot to the heart, which is only -2 since he has Marksman -- from his misspent youth. So -2 for Called Shot, +2 for Shotgun at close range, +4 for the drop.

Well lookie, I think that there is a raise...

Last edited May 29, 2024 7:00 am

Rolls

Shootin! - (1d8-2+2+4, 1d6-2+2+4, RA)

1d8-2+2+4 : (4) + 4 = 8

1d6-2+2+4 : (3) + 4 = 7

Damage - (3d6+1d6, RA)

(443) + (4) = 15

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 29, 2024 2:27 pm

May 29, 2024 2:27 pm

Barlowe Station

Kane trains his Big Fifty on one of the vampires that wasn't sprayed with holy water, aims for the heart and shoots.

OOC:

Gonna use my last benny

OOC:

Die sucker!

Last edited May 29, 2024 2:29 pm

Rolls

Called Shot to Heart -2 - (1d10-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d10-2 : (5) - 2 = 3

1d6-2 : (4) - 2 = 2

Damage AP 2 - (2d10, RA)

(101031) = 24

Benny shooting - (1d10-2, 1d6-2, RA)

1d10-2 : (9) - 2 = 7

1d6-2 : (5) - 2 = 3

May 30, 2024 1:26 am

May 30, 2024 1:26 am

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Rolling Vigor vs the damage
Dirt did 10 and 11 (with the Drop)
Preacher did 19
Kane did 28

All four vampires explode into dust as the posse aims and hits their hearts. The echoes of the sudden gunfire ricochet throughout the freight car. The townsfolk gasp, nearly scream them realize they're spared a blood draining, for now.

You hear the shriek of vampires from the next sleeper car, responding to the gunfire.

The townsfolk all turn and look at the door you came in, expecting reinforcements any second.

"Oh lord, they're angry now!"

What do you do?

Rolls

Vigor checks vs damage done - (1d10, 1d10, 1d10, 1d10, RA)

1d10 : (2) = 2

1d10 : (6) = 6

1d10 : (1) = 1

1d10 : (8) = 8

Reverend James Turner

May 30, 2024 3:33 am

May 30, 2024 3:33 am

Barlowe Station

Reverend James uses the few seconds of reprieve to break open and top-up the shotgun with a shell -- while at the same time putting himself in front of the innocent, shielding them from the doorway at the other end of the car where they expect more fiends to enter.

"Out the back, my flock!" he shouts. "We might have to jump if we can't separate the cars!"

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May 30, 2024 7:43 am

May 30, 2024 7:43 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby nods. "We got what we came for. We can jump out the back. Going to have to tuck and roll. Might get a bit banged up but better than getting our throats ripped out. I can start a fire at the opposite end of this car that might buy us some time." She rummages in her sack and soon withdraws a flask of alcohol.

May 30, 2024 8:39 am

May 30, 2024 8:39 am

Barlowe Station

"Fire might work, if the holy water won’t keep them back!" Dirt says, though he’s tempted to simply try and unhitch the damn thing himself, to save injury and death from a daring jump off the train.

"Hold on a second!" he decides then! "I’m going to try and pull us free! If they come through, you toss that fire and get to jumping!"

He nods his head, and stoops down to try and free the damn contraption from itself. There must be a knack to it!

OOC:

Do you get anything for playing into Hinderances (Death Wish)? +10 to a roll, maybe?

Last edited May 30, 2024 8:41 am

Rolls

Strength - (1d6-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d6-4 : (1) - 4 = -3

1d6-4 : (3) - 4 = -1

BENNY - (1d6-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d6-4 : (2) - 4 = -2

1d6-4 : (3) - 4 = -1

LAST BENNY, FOLKS! This is the one! - (1d6-4, 1d6-4, RA)

1d6-4 : (661) - 4 = 9

1d6-4 : (2) - 4 = -2

May 30, 2024 7:56 pm

May 30, 2024 7:56 pm

Barlowe Station

The townsfolk gather around you, expressing their fears at jumping from a moving train, when Briggs launches forward and has a go at the coupling. With a titanic effort, he pops the clasp and the sleeper car ahead of you begins to pull away.

The sleeper car door opens and several vampires stick their heads out, hissing and shrieking as their snacks are stolen. None of them try the leap, though, but just shriek in anger as the rest of the train pulls away.

May 30, 2024 11:32 pm

May 30, 2024 11:32 pm

Barlowe Station

Ruby eyes dirt with reappraisal. "That was mighty impressive," she says when he's back in the train car. "Now we just have a long walk back to town. And we gotta warn a railway station that there'll be a stalled car on the tracks."

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

May 31, 2024 1:48 am

May 31, 2024 1:48 am

Barlowe Station

"Well I'll be, Dirt. That was somethin'. How'd ya get that strong?" Heaving a sigh of relief he watches the ugly vampires and sneers at 'em as they grow further and further away.

"We showed 'em, bigtime. We all played our parts and by golly we done good." Turning to the townspeople he smiles, brown teeth and all. "Y'all alright, folks?"

May 31, 2024 2:51 am

May 31, 2024 2:51 am

Barlowe Station

"Must have been the Padre’s pleas to the almighty!" Dirt says, feeling awkward at all the praise!

OOC:

How long did all this occur within, would we say? Between the jump and the disconnect! Wondering if the horses are within whistling distance!

Reverend James Turner

May 31, 2024 4:53 am

May 31, 2024 4:53 am

Barlowe Station

Clapping Briggs on the shoulder, the Reverend smiles broadly. "The Lord worked through you, son! Truly! That was a miracle!"

He then turns to the townsfolk to treat bites and other injuries, while asking them, "Is this everyone? Were there others they took, further up the train?"

May 31, 2024 7:25 pm

May 31, 2024 7:25 pm

Barlowe Station

The townsfolk confirm that everyone is here, at least that they know of. Of the two feasted upon when you entered, they're still alive but have lost a lot of blood, which means they're all here, and all alive.

As the freight car slows to a stop, you might be able to call one of your horses, a well trained one might hear your whistle.

Reverend James Turner

Jun 1, 2024 5:03 am

Jun 1, 2024 5:03 am

Barlowe Station

Clapping Briggs on the shoulder, Turner finishes treating his congregation members as best he can, then he keeps lookout at the front of the now motionless train car. He'll watch for vampires as the others wrangle up the horses...

Jun 1, 2024 5:21 am

Jun 1, 2024 5:21 am

Barlowe Station

Ruby moves among the citizens with the priest and sees to their wounds. She has a bottle of antiseptic and a few rags she can clean their wounds and make impromptu bandages. She couldn't believe they got out of that alive and with everyone rescued. She keeps a wary eyes on those bitten, however. Ruby wasn't sure exactly what is true about vampires and doesn't want her ignorance to catch her off guard.

Victor "Deadshot" Kane

Jun 1, 2024 2:57 pm

Jun 1, 2024 2:57 pm

Barlowe Station

"You run out of that there antiseptic, I got some liquor left if you need it. I don't know squat about healing injured folks though, especially from vampire wounds."

Kane stick close to Ruby to offer support while keeping his eyes open for any more of the blood-sucking fiends.

Jun 1, 2024 3:05 pm

Jun 1, 2024 3:05 pm

Barlowe Station

OOC:

Benny's for everyone for the heroic rescue, and a bonus Benny for Dirt for leaning into his Hindrance.

You get off the freight car and recover your horses a half mile behind you, then walk back to town. When you return, shouts ring out across the prairie, and you find the people of Varney Flats rush out to help you escort them back.

The mayor with agreement from the others says you can stay in Varney Flats for as long as you please, free of charge. You suspect rightly that Varney doesn’t want word of the incident getting out and asks the heroes to keep a lid on it, as he believes it would forever ruin the town’s chances of growing beyond its current one-and-a-half horse status.

This is the end of the first adventure. The book has three connected ones. If you'd like to continue, take an Advance and we'll start the next one.

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