We left our group heading back to Aurora after killing Six Gun Sal. One ugly woman according to Hambone. Regardless of the name Sal being a man (and then had to look up that Sal is probably Italian from Salvador, meaning savior). Anyway, that night the 1st shift goes well as Jack Looking-Horse listens to the winds and watches the stars slide across the skies above. Hambone's watch had a utahraptor sniffing around the dead body. Yes, they actually have an entire body and not just the head this time. Shooting at the raptor to scare it off did not work. Having plenty of meat from the last raptor that attacked them, Hambone throws a big chunk out. The gunshot of had awoken everyone else, and not long after that the raptor comes back, still sniffing at the body, wanting more food. Getting the raptor to back off, they decapitate the body and Hambone, Lee watching with his gun ready, drags the body a ways off. Apparently, this was enough to satiate the raptor as he did not come back that night.
Getting into town, Mr Rogers, the town mortician and casket maker, looks sadly on. Hambone, attempting to make it right, slips $5 into his hand, but the stoically silent mortician merely nods briefly and heads off back down the road, a tear dropping from his eye. After taking care of the reward business for the (hopefully) last of the Bad Company Gang, the group decides they need to head off towards Bliss Springs. John Chisum will be planning bad things for Jack's tribe. Hambone picked up a big breakfast for everyone. As they are walking up the street though, a long-lost friend of Lee shows up. Ajit is starting to warn Lee about the past catching up with him when he is shot in the back.
Brijash Abbas, brother of the slain pirate Tuanku, has managed to track down his brother's killer. Of course, his brother had also killed Lee's family in the Taiwan Sea years ago. Yes, there was backstory that I managed to get into the story-story.
Brijash is challenging Lee to a duel. Not one to take anything sitting down, Jack shoots at Brijash despite a warning shot to the ground in front of him. He takes a shot while shooting at Brijash, Molly is dragging Ajit to a safer alley and does some immediate first aid. Hambone is climbing up one of the buildings where the 1st shot came from. Lee gets in a blow to Brijash and between that and Jack's rifle. the Vietnamese pirate is slain. As is both of him compatriots a few moments later thanks to Hambone. While Hambone has only made 1 wisdom check in 7 sessions, he is a crack shot apparently!
The mortician is most happy, as now he can use his measuring string and make appropriate coffins rather than using the hat boxes he has been using.
At this point, the group splits up: Jack & Lee head the Chinatown, the section of town where most of the Chinee live. Hambone and Molly go to Maximillian's to catch up on things and see where things are at.
In Chinatown, Lee goes to the temple, and gives them his share of the reward money they have accumulated so far. He was looking for Chang Heng-di, but he was out west a bit. The Chinese were having a strike to get equal pay and hours as their white co-workers (this was a Labor Day game, and I was trying to bring in this strike, but the gunfight seemed more immediate as they were heading out of town).
Meanwhile, there is a package to be delivered to Bliss Springs. Pony Express would take several days to get there, but at 80mph Volgol and Molly can get there in a matter of hours. Molly heads out while the rest regroup and start heading out west. They are hoping to meet up with the dinosaur ride coming into town. They are concerned that John Chisum may be planning on something.
As Molly flies out, about 20-30 miles out she sees the Indians herding the dinosaurs. Not far behind them, though, is what looks to be a posse. Shooting to scare them off, she does some dodging and weaving on Volgol (dodge is one of the tricks, so they were shooting at disadvantage). She was just wanting to slow them down.
And here is where we left the game. I plan on using the chase rules from Apex, but because Molly slowed them down, will let the players roll with advantage. Apex has some simple yet I think pretty fun chase rules. We'll see who gets to the herd first.
I had a few goals in this session: I did want to have the labor strike in celebration of Labor Day. I usually have several possible things that can happen in any session, and because the timing was not quite right to get to the Chinese workers and Chang Heng-di, I moved in part of Lee's backstory. And who does not like Vietnamese pirates? Though again the battle went too fast. I was wanting to get Lee to use his trait where, as a martial artist, if he is shot at he can dodge if he gets hit. Sadly, it did not get to be played out that way. But I tried, and we did at least get Volgol to use his dodging skill, and Hambone shot a couple of bad guys, and Jack also killed a bad guy again. And got shot again.
Hopefully everyone had fun. I am still going strong after 7 sessions which to me is pretty amazing. But there are still a few stories to tell, and the John Chisum thing is not going to be quite as easy as he is very well off and has a lot of flunkies. And cattle. Which is why he wants the prime grazing lands Jack's tribe uses.
So next session - Indians herding dinosaurs, thugs or the players get there first (and Molly and Volgol will actually be able to get back into play by the time all this takes place) and what happens next? Plus they are not too far from where the strike is taking place. I'm not really sure how I am going to handle that, but I've a few days to think about that. Though I did find an image I like as the railroad baron BB Grapler.
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| BB Grapler, Railroad Baron |
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