Frontier Scum - Scene II: Horsehead Ranch

[Sly Boots]

Doc would like to drag one of the nearby, presumably headless, corpses over and lob it down the well.

Basically, I'm trying to dislodge Manny.

[Animalmother]

Cut the rope and toss one of his dead friends down the well to keep him company.

Ah beat me to it

[Stormbringer]

Doc picks up a headless corpse and heaves it over the side of the well.

A second later, you hear a splash as the corpse hits the bottom.

[Animalmother]

Maybe drop all the bodies down...

[Wrathbone]

I'm spitting feathers.

"My... GODDAMN HANDCUFFS! You're dead, Manny! ALL YOU SONSABITCHES ARE DEAD!"

EDIT: I'm unconvinced Manny is as dead as I want him to be, so I'm climbing down the rope into the well.

[Stormbringer]

I'm unconvinced Manny is as dead as I want him to be, so I'm climbing down the rope into the well.

Okay, you'll need to make a SLICK test to descend the rope without falling off. D20+1, but the target number to reach is 8, rather than the standard 12.

[Wrathbone]

17 + 1 = 18

[Stormbringer]

Cadaver Kid carefully ascends the rope into the shaft of the well.

After a few yards, you realise it's pitch black down here (save the circle of light from above) and you can't see a darn thing!

[Wrathbone]

I'd like to go as far down the rope as I can, checking with my feet for any secret tunnels or hidey holes.

[Stormbringer]

You descend further and further into the dark, but without a light it's hard to see what you're doing. When you get to a certain depth you can smell the brackish water beneath you.


(you do have matches in your pockets)

[Wrathbone]

Good point, I'll light a match.

[Stormbringer]

Clinging onto the rope with one hand, and bracing your legs against the wall of the shaft, you strike a match on your stubble and hold it around.

You can see, down below, that the well-shaft comes to a stop above a cavern, with a pool of stagnant water beneath. A rickety bucket hangs over the water. There's no sign of Mumbling Manny down there.

You look up, then you notice it.

In the wall of the well, there's a small hole, large enough for a man to crawl through.

[Wrathbone]

I'll call back up the well to report my findings, then against every instinct I'm crawling in the hole, gun at the ready.

[Stormbringer]

You swing on the rope toward the hole and catch it with your feet, then carefully slither inside.

Argh! Someone's covered it with a net curtain, made from human hair and broken glass! You'll need to test GRIT (d20-1) to push through it!

[Sly Boots]

This is going brilliantly