"Wait," Louis says in a low voice, laying her hand on Robert's arm. "I think there's someone outside." She points to the building's southwest corner, the one closest to them, as they are on the south side of the building.

Robert hears nothing, though.

Robert stops at Louis' touch.  He carefully looks outside where Louis pointed. "We're boxed in.  We need to get out of their lines of sight."

"There is no place to hide if we venture out," Louis says quietly.

"At least we have cover in the buildings. Let's work our way into a firing position on the ones to the Southwest. If we can narrow the odds then we can turn into the hunters." Robert will move south in the building so he can engage the opponents outside.

Robert and Louis move to the southeast corner of the building, where they find a door facing east.

Robert checks his revolver and slowly opens the door.

The weapon is fully loaded, and Robert sees no one - and no shouts or shots come his way. He does hear the scuff of a boot sole on the pavement around the corner to his right, though.

Robert will make a motion to his right and move to the corner. He will be prepared to shoot.

Louis steps out behind him, and a quick glance back reveals that Lucinda has stepped out of a similar door at the north side of the building. The young woman moves to the northeast corner, mirroring Robert's actions at the southeast corner.

At the corner, Robert catches a hoarse male whisper, but he can't make out the words. The speaker is somewhere around the corner to the west.

OOG: The buildings and streets here are oriented to the northeast, with Robert and company at the southeast-facing wall.

Robert glances back at Louis and then quietly steps around the corner ready to deal with their foes.

Robert immediately sees two men walking toward him side by side thirty feet away. They are both carrying pistols held at their waists.

Robert will fire at the outside of the two and then dodge forward along the wall to clear a shot from Louis. (Ideally he will not be silhouetted)

OOG: Roll 1d6 for each shot - 6 is a miss, and he can fire up to three shots. Roll 2d6 damage for each hit.

Robert fired immediately as soon as the targets were available.

OOC:
20:56, Today: Robert rolled 5 using 2d6.  Damage.

20:56, Today: Robert rolled 4 using 2d6.  Damage.

20:56, Today: Robert rolled 6 using 2d6.  Damage.

20:55, Today: Robert rolled 9 using 3d6 with rolls of 3,4,2.  To hit.
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Both men drop their pistols and sag to the ground, bested by Robert's superb gun handling. Louis also fires a shot, sending a woman at the southwest corner ducking for cover.

"I missed her", Louis says. She glances behind her to the southeast building face. "We might need to help Lucinda."

"Cover me while I move forward." Robert will dash forward to the southwest corner of the building to deal with the woman possibly sheltering there.

Robert hears the click of heeled boots on the pavement, receding away to the northeast as he approaches the corner.

Robert will wave Louis up and look around the corner.

He sees a woman step around the opposite corner. There is no one else in sight. Louis arrives behind him.

"One woman just ahead," Robert whispered. "Cover me again." With that Robert moved forward carefully to the next corner making sure to leave Louis with a clear shot.

Robert passes a door and three windows on his way northeast down the wall. Halfway there, the woman he'd seen earlier stuck her head out, and Louis, who was trailing her husband, nearly hit her. The woman jerked her head back with a most unladylike curse.

Robert will continue toward the Northeast corner. As he approaches he will take a handful of coins and toss them beyond the corner as a distraction as he ducks around the corner ready for action.

As Robert tosses the coins, he hears running footsteps, then several shots, and a feminine scream. No one is there, but he can hear running footsteps around the corner to his left (that being the the southeast-facing side of the next building in the row). Two closed doors face each other across the alley, one leading to the building they were in, and the other to the next building.

"Lucilla," Louis said softly. "That sounded like her." She turned to check behind them, her rifle ready.
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Seeing that Louis was covering the rear and him as well, Robert nodded and move forward toward the source of the scream.

Robert and Louis both heard the door to their right - the building where they all had been before - rattle as someone tried to open it. "I can't work the lock," they heard Lucilla say. "I've been shot."