Scene II: Horsehead Ranch

[Stormbringer]

Okay, Doc, drugged up with home-made meds, you expertly descend the rope and find yourself in the dark well-shaft, the scent of stagnant water below.

Assuming you whip out your flip-lighter and strike it (to see what you're doing) you see the hole in the well-shaft wall that Cadaver Kid found previously.

Now it's time to make a GRIT test to get through that mesh of human hair and broken glass that's blocking the way into the tunnel beyond.

2d20 again, and it's a +1 each time for you.

[Sly Boots]

Couple of good rolls, 17 and 18 the totals.

[Stormbringer]

You slip through the mesh unhurt and find yourself in a tight tunnel that leads through the rock until you arrive in a cavern with three rotted corpses lying slumped against the walls.

As a reminder, the corpses have upon their tattered clothes:

- a deed to the ownership of their horse
- a business card for the company Miser & Sons, owners of Horsehead Ranch
- a torn-out page, containing a list of names, many of which have been crossed out

There is another passage leading out of this cave, which Cadaver Kid never explored, having turned around at this point.

[Sly Boots]

I'll press on, but will pick things up on the morrow...

[Stormbringer]

Soon you arrive at a larger cave. Someone's here...though they're dead.

A bearded corpse, much more recently dead than the bodies in the other cave you've just left, with an eye-patch, is lying on a fold-up mattress near a dying cooking fire. A cooking pot hangs over the fire, filled with some kind of chilli stew.

There's also a large chest pushed up against one of the walls.

There's a hole in the wall of this cave, opposite where you just entered, leading into a dark chamber beyond.

[Sly Boots]

"I wonder how the others are getting on," Doc muses, contemplating heading further into the scary tunnels alone...

[Sly Boots]

I will investigate that chest first, though

[Stormbringer]

I will investigate that chest first, though

Inside the chest you find a sack of flour, empty saddlebags for a horse, and five silver coins.

[Sly Boots]

I will investigate that chest first, though

Inside the chest you find a sack of flour, empty saddlebags for a horse, and five silver coins.

Does my horse already have saddlebags?

[Wrathbone]

I’ll forego my laudanum and head down the trapdoor to join Doc.

Do I recognise the bearded corpse from the wanted list?

[Stormbringer]

I’ll forego my laudanum and head down the trapdoor to join Doc.

Do I recognise the bearded corpse from the wanted list?

Hold your horses, partner! You ain't near that corpse yet.

First, take a GRIT test (to open the hatch)!

[Sly Boots]

I’ll forego my laudanum and head down the trapdoor to join Doc.

Do I recognise the bearded corpse from the wanted list?

I went down via the well incidentally, with the idea of you and Cumflutter to go down the trapdoor and hopefully catch those Loudmouth boys in a classic pincer manoeuvre...

[Stormbringer]

I will investigate that chest first, though

Inside the chest you find a sack of flour, empty saddlebags for a horse, and five silver coins.

Does my horse already have saddlebags?

It sure does. You've got your camping gear stored in them.

[Sly Boots]

Inside the chest you find a sack of flour, empty saddlebags for a horse, and five silver coins.

Does my horse already have saddlebags?

It sure does. You've got your camping gear stored in them.

I leave those then, and just pocket that silver.

[Wrathbone]

GRIT is a natural 1, minus 1 = 0.

I unload both revolvers into the hatch.