OOC: Now's about the point I wish William wasn't build to just be a damn good shooter, but also a half-decent fighter...

William registers the weird snake eyes on this "Gus" fella, but too much has happened to him in the last 24 hours or so to it make of an impact.

Then he hears the ranger calling Spades a snake.
Snake? Looks like there's only one snake here....

He had to make a decision. He couldn't see Spades, but he thought that Old Monocle would be able to get a clean getaway. He, William, had shot through the other mans jacket, but apparently didn't hit him. So that would be easy to write off, probably. Knowing his luck, the people here might just string him up *because*.

Then there was that girl ranger, but she seemed to be focused on Spades. She'd be a problem in a second.
But right now, the fella with the bowie knife was the bigger problem. And he could use a Bowie knife after that fanged bitch stole his...


OOC: Ok, trying to take the knife from Gus. That's fighting -2 for the called shot, right? Trying to grab his wrist and turn it, using my superhuman strength to break his wrist.
09:23, Today: William Pierce rolled 8,9 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of (6+4)10,(6+5)11. Fighting, disarm, 2nd red chip.
09:23, Today: William Pierce rolled 1,2 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 3,4. Fighting, disarm, red chip.
09:23, Today: William Pierce rolled -1,1 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 1,3. Fighting, disarm.

Ok, down to the legend Chip. Now damage... straight up Strength, I think, right? 9 *might* be a raise, so I'm adding a d6 in an extra roll.
09:25, Today: William Pierce rolled 1 (potential total of 10) using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. Strength damage potential bonus.
09:25, Today: William Pierce rolled 9 using 1d10, rerolling max with rolls of 9. Strength Damage. Not too shabby!

In reply to The Stray (msg #281):
The native son looks at Cantrell with a stare like daggers. He looks away, his chest heaving in breaths as his eyes closes for a moment. "I should kill you for what you tried to do to me ...." while he speaks the knuckles of Charging Bear's hand pop as he balls his hands into tight fists. He goes quiet abruptly and remains so for a few moments.

Standing slowly Charging Bear walks over to where Cantrell is sitting. "I'll bring that bastard Itza-chu in and clear my name then you can apologize to me." his words come out with a venom on them unlike any the native son has ever used.

With that said Charging Bear turns his back on Cantrell, leaving the bounty hunter to lick his wounds, and heads back to Father O'Rourke with a small trail of crimson following after him as blood drips from his still clinched fists.

In reply to William Pierce (msg #286):

Gus struggles in William's iron grip, but the pain forces him to drop the blade within easy reach.

"Stronger...than you...look" Gus grunts through gritted teeth.

It's the work of a moment to snatch up the man's blade...and now the roughneck is unarmed.

((OOC: Alrighty, let's sort this out.

9 is a Hit but not a Raise, since Gus's Parry is 6. So no bonus damage (not that it would have helped anyhow, what with it so low).

9 Damage is enough to make Gus Shaken. Further more, he needs to succeed on a Strength roll vs. TN 9 to keep hold of his blade.

10:00, Today: Gus Shaw rolled 3,5 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,5. Strength.

William has a Success and Raise against Gus. Not only does Gus drop the knife, William is now holding it!

Since Gus doesn't have any Natural Weapons, he counts as an Unarmed Defender until he can draw another weapon.))

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Wildcat, you can finish your turn now.

In reply to Charging Bear (msg #287):

"Reckon I ain't got no cause to blame you for that..." Cantrell says. He stands, wincing in pain as his wounds protest, and walks after CB. "Though to be fair, you done just as much to me as I done to you. You cost me my commission, you tried to attack me while my back was turned, you let the Jellicles free to become worse monster than they already was. So don't get all self-righteous with me. We gonna have to settle things between us." He matches Charging Bear's gaze. "But I want to bring down that bastard down as much as you. The shit between us can wait until we take him down. So I propose a truce between us until that's done."

He holds out a hand. "Together?"

In reply to Jericho Cantrell (msg #289):
A counter to each of Cantrell's accusations comes to Charging Bear's mind as freely as light from the sun. You lost your commission cause you were going to murder women and children, the Jellicles are free cause you tried to kill me. but he remains quiet and listens to the other man's offer.

The native son nods, "A truce." Charging Bear takes the offered hand and shakes it to 'seal the deal'.

All right I realized in between postings that what I originally thought was so brilliant was actually full of problems, so this is going to take some artistry.  First, a Faith roll with MAP!

12:52, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 2,3 using 1d6-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5. Will thou smite him oh mighty smiter?

12:53, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 9 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+3)9. Red Chip from Outer Space!

The Miracle is obviously Smite, and that's a raise.

12:55, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 2,3 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5. Shooting!

12:57, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2. Blue Chip of Dooooom!

I forgot it's actually another -2 for the cover so I missed bad, I'm not going to try save that with chips either.  Should have just stuck to the Miracle but what can you do.

I have to stop and laugh, I am so useless in this combat.

13:01, Today: Wildcat Hawkins drew the single card: 9C using the Deadlands system. Dern it.

"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed!"  The ranger recited calmly.  The .45 barked once.  The shot nicked the corner of the doorframe, failing to find its target.

But where it hit, a small burning crater festered in the wood, as if the bullet were explosive.

Forgot to draw initiative...

20:12, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: QH using the Deadlands system. Initiative,again. William has Quick.
20:12, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: 3H using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

Cap'n Mustache, in the meantime, has drawn a bead on William with his shotgun.

"Time to put you down!" he says, squeezing the trigger.

The blast sends buckshot straight through William's back.

((OOC: Alistair spent last round Aiming and is firing buckshot well within short range, so he has a total +4 to his shooting roll.

15:54, Today: Alistair Milburn rolled 7 using 1d10+4, rerolling max with rolls of 3. Shooting. That's a hit, no raise.

15:55, Today: Alistair Milburn rolled 16 using 3d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,(6+2)8,3. Damage. That's a Shaken and 2 Wounds for William.

Initiative for next round: JD))

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Up next: Alouette!

"Angel," Alouette corrects Adrian, stepping back a pace with slightly blood-smeared brass fingers as he moves, then trying to get hold of one of his feet. Static murmurs as he looks towards the fight. "You should go outside and not die again, and be minus witchcraft: it is bad for you."

The static crests, then falls sharply away as the clank continues its ignored attempts to manually disassemble the fight...though the voice Adrian hears behind him is definitely that of his mother. "Adrian, please. The ever-fighters..."

Should he look back, there's only the clank to see, its weird head raised to point in the direction of his face, the pale, lambent glow deep in its lenses barely tinged with gold. "Repent," it advises in a last crackling sigh of static. "-beware the men of the mirror's skin; beware the woman who walks as smoke. Cause the Serpent to strike at itself. Remember your horse."



[[00:18, Today: Alouette rolled 11,17 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+5)11,(6+6+5)17. go go gadget impossible knowledge! Raise and then some...orphan-tormenting impressions ahoy, then!
init. AD]]

"Yow!" Seven cries as the Ranger's bullet strikes the doorframe. He pulls himself deeper into the kitchen. "What are you doin', you crazy bitch!? We didn't start this! We're only shootin' in self-defense! It's that goddamned zombie callin' himself a deputy that started pullin' guns and shootin' away! Why aren't you pluggin' at him afore the damn deadder eats yo' brains!?"

((OOC: Seven moves back into Heavy Cover from Wildcat (moving into Total Cover regarding the rest of the saloon, so he can't fire at Adrian this turn and Adrian can't fire back), and attempts a Smarts trick to untangle the situation. It's an odd trick, because he's actually telling the truth (mostly) but his target is not likely to believe him.

20:27, Today: The Seven of Spades rolled 9,3 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+3)9,3.

Wildcat, roll Smarts, please. You have to beat his roll of 9.

next Card: 7H))

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next round: Gus (which is me again).

"He's not undead, he's just differently alive!" a correction to the shouting comes from behind the bar.

07:01, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 4,1 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,1. Smarts Trickery.

>L<

Combats where you just miss every.  single.  roll.  are so grating.

Wildcat Hawkins has been trained to survive in Death Valley, pursue the most dangerous men in the world for weeks on end, then subdue or capture them, and now inexplicably has the power of God on her side.  She's a veritable paragon of human focus and discipline.

But she's confused by this.  He might as well have shot her.  "What!?"

William is thrown forward by the massive hit to his back.

"Fucking town of fucking backstabbers!" he manages to groan, then turns around, raising his pistol at Shotgun-guy.

16:37, Today: William Pierce rolled 12 using 1d35, rerolling max with rolls of 12. random chip.
16:37, Today: William Pierce rolled 3,3 using d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Soak roll.

Next round: 16:40, Today: William Pierce rolled 5,2 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 7,4. Recover fromShaken. No action for me.
Round after that:16:41, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: JH using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

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"Give up!" The roughneck hisses at William as he raises his gun. That rattlesnake buzz has grown loud enough to shake glasses on the bar nearby. "What are you gonna do? You ain't got enough bullets to take down the whole bar! And lucky foe you, we got bigger fish to fry, so we won't hang ya immediately!"

((OOC: Gus gets his action now. He's going to attempt to Intimidate William.

09:26, Today: Gus Shaw rolled 3,1 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,1. intimidate. Oy. William, make a Spirit roll, but I think you might be able to beat that with ease...

Next round: 10C))

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It's Adrian's turn!

You'd think so...

18:47, Today: William Pierce rolled 1,1 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Spirit vs. Intimidation.

Whatever's goin' on, Adrian just can't seem to shake it. He wasn't in love, but he was certainly all shook up. Instead, he found himself on the ragged edge and didn't really have it in him to move. If he was gonna die, he was gonna just lay there and watch while at least one of the men that had shot at him was taken down. It would be some kind of rough justice for the man.

Then his eyes started to drift closed, and he heard his mama talkin' to him again, and his head started to loll against the bar as he clutched his chest and started mumbling to himself. "What the hell's an ever-fighter, mama? Oh, sorry 'bout the language...I just never heard'a no such thing..." His mutters began to trail off into an unintelligible and inaudible drone as he seemed to lose track of where he was, when he was, and what was going on around him.

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OOC:

Dice roller hates me. I failed my Shaken check for last round, and this round as well. I'm just gonna have him lay there on the ground behind the bar, in what he incorrectly perceives to be the last moments of his life.

Initiative if needed next round:

11:55, Today: Adrian Vega drew the single card: QC using the Deadlands system. init?
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Turn Order:
Alouette: AD
Evans: KD
Adrian: QC
William: JH
Milburn: JD
Gus: 10C
Wildcat: 9C
Seven: 7H

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Alouette is up!

The clank tilts its head down at the half-hallucinating deputy, then leans in and nudges his face with its 'beak' like it did with Cantrell, infinitely gentle.
"Ever-fighters?" it queries. "Are the Pure Blooded Comanches here now?"

It stands up a moment to look for Comanches in the bar, then continues to witter as it takes Adrian's bar-clutching hand and starts trying to drag him towards Wildcat.

[[if it can get alongside/before her encumbered so, it will. Providing Adrian doesn't fight it off, naturally, but he's sort of Shaken, so...]]

"You should get food in before you go outside if you are being a witch," it tells him. "Otherwise you might be tempted to eat livestock and pets...do not eat people: eating people is wrong and differently alive people turn wendigo plus fast."

"You have holes in!" it exclaims at the sight of William, pausing in its dragging to tell Alistair off. "That was bad - Man In Black is not an outlaw or a Yankee any more." There's a distinct Wildcat tone to that declaration. "You should not make vampires that have not harmed mortals angry, holey or hungry, Moustache Man. Cease! Repent."

[[Persuade the Alistair to Stop Fiiiiighting!
Today: Alouette rolled 0,13 using d6-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(6+6+2)14. go go gadget telling people off!  ecksdee, there should probably be higher penalties on that, but you can play with them - that is a plus plus funny roll.]]

"You can bite Gus Shaw," it advises William, pointing at that same bulk of giant angry rattlesnake man. "It will not harm him like a mortal and self is not required to protect him."


[[witter witter witter witter...
init: 7H]]
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Well if Wildcat wasn't stunned by the circumstances before, she is now.  That little bit of clank talk just this moment sounded a little bit too familiar.

"...can't this place go five minutes without a crisis?" says a familiar voice from the entrance.

Evans enters the room, his strange gyromounted pistol drawn, and surveys the scene before him.

William sees a dapper gentleman with slicked-back black hair, curled mustache and goatee, and suit covered by a coat similar to the one he's wearing. He looks like the sort of character you'd have read about in a dime novel, the one that twirls his mustache as he tries to marry Polly Pureheart and steal the family farm. however, this gentleman has a tin star on his lapel, and is holding a modified six-shooter with pendulum gyromounts affixed to the side.

He looks around the chaos of the room, trying to make sense of everything. "Well?" He says, loud enough to be heard over the din. "What's all this, then?"

((OOC: Evans had to run to get this far, so he has no action this turn other than surveying the scene and wondering just what the hell is going on.

Card: QS))

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Adrian is up next!

His eyes fluttered open at the sound of the Marshal's voice, which somehow cut through the din to reach him. "Got shot, Marshal," he said, hiking a thumb back over his shoulder to point behind him, though at the moment it pointed only to the bar he was resting against. With another hand, he pointed at William, who was fighting with Gus and Milburn.

Adrian suddenly found it amusing that he was suddenly on the same side as a Dust Adder and the Mustache Man. He tried to chuckle, but it ended up in a sputtering cough. He leaned back against the bar.

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OOC:
Still Shaken.
15:23, Today: Adrian Vega drew the single card: KH using the Deadlands system. cardddd.

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((OOC: Card for next round? i don't know if there will be one, but just in case...))

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William is up next!

"If he drops them weapons, I'm willin' to oblige." Cap'n Mustache replies to the machine, lowering his shotgun some. Of course, he has to reload anyhow...

Great. Another Law Dog.

William still has his pistol trained on Shotgun guy. Both barrels smoking meant he was empty. That also explained the pain in his upper back.
The girl ranger was still next to him. Snake Eyes, too. The clank was acting weirder and weirder and he was still not sure it might not blow up any minute.

Face it, William, you're out of options. For now. The fanged bitch'll have to wait.

"You're empty, you yellow asshole." William says coldly to Milburn.
But then he releases the cocked hammer and puts his pistol - and Snake-eyes' bowie knife on the floor and stands up slowly, his arms raised.

There's a click, and Seven walks out of the back, hands raised, his pistol nowhere to be seen.

"Look, this here's all just a misunderstandin'." He says. "We're willin' to discuss things...as long as ya'll let us consult with a lawyer first." He glances at Adrain. "And as soon as ya'll plant that thing there back in the ground where it belongs."

"I can still shoot you." Gus growls as he retrieves his blade and his rifle. He heads over to Adrian. "You ok, son? Let me have a look at that."

Evans, meanwhile, holds his pistol trained on William. "Well, that's all well and good. But what are we to do with you? Just what on Earth happened here?"

((OOC: And we're out of combat rounds, unless someone wants to start another fight.))