What a Cowboy - Hog Thief Bend. Update by Snappers 22.04.24

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Ah ha! A new narrator and yet, the usual canard of convoluted half-truths and fantastical, fake falsehoods and fictional forgeries.

Give us more!   

[FifteensAway]

Some turnin', burnin', and rollin' ahead it seems.  But where is Tina T. with that fringe skirt seriously shakin' her booty?! 

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

In view of the death of certain characters throughout this campaign, I have revamped our poster to reflect the culminating event of this whole, sordid affair.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Prior to the unexpected arrival of the Arthritis Gang in Hog Thief Bend, Sheriff Saveloy and his trusty deputies have been up dating their 'Wanted' posters, owing to the demise of Raving Jack Daniels and other low-down nonentities. All law-abiding and concerned citizens of this town are warned to be on the lookout for newer outlaws, who have hitched their wagon to the Arthritis Gang.

[Doug ex-em4]

Snapcase - you’ll be hearing from my lawyers; Messrs Bench, Press and Jerk…..

Standish (Steadfast)

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Snapcase - you’ll be hearing from my lawyers; Messrs Bench, Press and Jerk…..

Standish (Steadfast)

Deep joy! Refer your lawyers to mine: Messrs Blush, Cringe and Flinch, King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple. They await your missive with barely-concealed boredom.

Snapcase (Earl of)

[Doug ex-em4]

Silk has been briefed and, indeed, briefs have been silked. Lawyers at 50 paces. Fire at will.

Standish
aka d’Emfore
aka loads of others

[Doug ex-em4]

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night (except it was daytime, in the newspaper office and they were rifle shots)

Enter Proud Mary from the upper floor (actually, on the roof).
She longs to see Saveloy in a pool of blood and to be able to cry out
"my God, Ive killed them all"

Anyway, enough of that - where were we?
Let’s start with another photo of Standish crossing the tracks behind the caboose because, well because it looks quite nice.



Right - on with the story

[Doug ex-em4]

We’ll start off with the photo of where everyone finished at the end of the first session. At the bottom of the photo the routes taken by the Standish Regulators. Standish is the black line; Mary (she’s proud) is red; Loco is purple and TMWNN is brown. At the top, the weasel-creeping sneaking of the Saveloyards. He is red; G-g-g-Granville is Orange; The Melon is purple and Misty is dark red



OK, let’s go:
Loco, from the 1st/2nd story of the newspaper office shoots at G-G-G-Granville, who is skulking along the sidewalk outside the Broken Drum. G successfully Dodges and retreats back from whence he came






Next, The Melon, from atop the station ticket office, shoots at Standish who has crossed the fence in front of him and moved outside the side window of Arkwright’s store.





True to form, over-indulgent Melon misses




Meanwhile, TMWNN finally gets to a position which is almost near where the action is





Foiled in his plan to get near the newspaper office, G-G-G-Granville heads towards the station, cowering behind the undertakers wagon





Misty Meaner, meanwhile, has reached the roof of the barber’s shop. She starts to draw a bead on Standish who plays a Bonanza card. She responds and a fast draw takes place which Standish wins. This enables him to leap through the window of Arkwright’s store and gain some cover. Misty therefore shoots at Loco who dodges back from the window in the newspaper office which is opposite, on the far side of the railroad carriage




Standish, having reached the front of the store, now returns fire on Misty. Being a Gunslinger, she has 2 Bonanzas and now plays her second. Standish cannot counter so she can shoot - which she does with some effect, scoring 2 hits. He is able to shoot back but, regrettably, misses🙁



By now, TMWNN has moved along the side of the newspaper office to the front



The sheriff, on the roof of the Broken Drum still, lines him up but TMWNN plays a Bonanza. The sheriff plays one of his to counter it and wins the subsequent Fast Draw. But before he can do anything, Mary (she’s proud) on the opposite roof (the newspaper office) plays her Bonanza against the sheriff but then realises she isn’t in a position to actually do anything. She’s proud but also a bit dim.



When the dust has cleared, the sheriff is able to fire four shots at TMWNN and score two hits, forcing him back the way he came in a state of shock.

He then enters the newspaper office and crosses the ground floor towards the front door.



Standish, sore wounded (as ever he has been at the fore and heedless of his own safety), repositions himself in a tactically more advantageous location


Loco recovers from an earlier near miss and takes cover near a window



Mary (still proud and more than a bit wild), manages to get a shot from her roof to the opposite one and force the sheriff to seek cover



And finally, to conclude this session, a nice shot of a peaceful yard with various interesting things in it.


To be continued and, hopefully, concluded in the near future


Doug

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

As this epic tale of combat draws nigh, one feels a certain sadness that more blood must be spilt in this vicious vendetta. However, the ghostly spectre of raving Jack Daniels would have it no other way, I suspect.

My thanks to Doug for keeping us up to date with this dark but entertaining tale of hate and vengeance.

[Vagabond]

As this epic tale of combat draws nigh, one feels a certain sadness that more blood must be spilt in this vicious vendetta. However, the ghostly spectre of raving Jack Daniels would have it no other way, I suspect.

My thanks to Doug for keeping us up to date with this dark but entertaining tale of hate and vengeance.

You might have a certain sadness that more blood must be spilled but Proud Mary Daniels and her hired killer are looking forward to copious amounts of the stuff flowing from the lifeless but still twitching bodies of Cowardly Cartwheel and the man who instigated the vendetta Spapcase.

Thanks to Douggers for picking up the dropped batton and turning my Beanoesque tales into something worthy of Tolstoy at his finest. Although where he gets the gall to rename the Daniels Standish gang to the Standish Regulatoors I don't know. Can you even have a gang of 2.....one man and his Loco?

The opening photo illustrates the age old saying, a picture saves a 1000 words. This one shows the oft quote line 'Standish leads from the front' or another one 'he's always in the thick of the action' both are Standish quote by the way.

I'll leave the good reader to evaluate the evidence for themselves.

[Elk101]

This is brilliant! There's so much to see on the table set ups, well done again guys.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

This is brilliant! There's so much to see on the table set ups, well done again guys.

Thanks for your kind words, cheers.   

[Vagabond]

This is brilliant! There's so much to see on the table set ups, well done again guys.

  I'd like to take some credit but it's all in the Mad Lords collection, which is a bit of a bugger really.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

I'd like to take some credit but it's all in the Mad Lords collection, which is a bit of a bugger really.

Well, you and Doug must take part of the credit for the overall success of the game. It wouldn't have been much fun without you both! In the annals of the history of the Gentlemen of Much-Piddling, Raving Jack Daniels will always be remembered for his excessive consumption of mescal and laudanum, shooting at all and sundry (including his own gang members). Who can forget the legendary O. Standoffish, who invented the concept of dynamic patrolling in a retrograde orientation?

You might have a certain sadness that more blood must be spilled but Proud Mary Daniels and her hired killer are looking forward to copious amounts of the stuff flowing from the lifeless but still twitching bodies of Cowardly Cartwheel and the man who instigated the vendetta Spapcase.

Now, obviously I have to take exception to this spurious statement. Snapcase himself, has done nothing to instigate this vendetta. Granted, he set out in game one, to blow up the Los Pollos Hermanos Saloon, hopefully when all the Arthritis Gang were inside, getting absolutely trolleyed! But this was just business, the people of Otero County, New Mexico entrusted the Sheriff with maintaining law and order and Old Saveloy, if anything, meant business! Nothing personal!