Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Sly Boots » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:28 pm

Stormbringer wrote:
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Sly Boots wrote:
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Which I did!

4 + 3 + 4 = 11
Could you now roll me a d4+1 please?
3 (2+1)

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Animalmother » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:31 pm

Cumflutter will aim at one of the vision ports with his rifle.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Stormbringer » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:33 pm

After depositing the dynamite, Doc leaps clear of the iron behemoth as it rumbles toward the gang.

A second later, there's a muffled BOOM from within, and a sudden blast of smoke belches out of the viewing slits and the chimney. The machine comes to a stand-still, and does not move again.
My fire is more than can be made with forests,
My state more base than are the basest valleys;
I wish no evenings more to see, each evening;
Shamed, I hate myself in sight of mountains,
And stop mine ears, lest I grow mad with music.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Wrathbone » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:34 pm

I'll look for a hatch and stand nearby with my guns aimed at it.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Sly Boots » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:35 pm

Doc lies panting on the ground, slightly horrified in hindsight at what he just did. Jinx wanders over and licks his face.

He'll be resting here for a little bit now :lol:

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Stormbringer » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:41 pm

No hatches open; nothing can be heard from within.

Doc has obliterated the entire crew.


You may continue on to the General Store if you so choose, or head down the street, eastward, in the direction of the mayor's house.
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My fire is more than can be made with forests,
My state more base than are the basest valleys;
I wish no evenings more to see, each evening;
Shamed, I hate myself in sight of mountains,
And stop mine ears, lest I grow mad with music.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Wrathbone » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:47 pm

Could be worth asking the blacksmith if he can get it up and running again.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Stormbringer » Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:49 pm

I doubt that; Doc dropped the dynamite into the engine. Useful for scrap metal, though!
My fire is more than can be made with forests,
My state more base than are the basest valleys;
I wish no evenings more to see, each evening;
Shamed, I hate myself in sight of mountains,
And stop mine ears, lest I grow mad with music.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Animalmother » Tue Jun 10, 2025 1:52 pm

General Store please. No doubt we'll meet an airship if it keeps escalating like this.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Sly Boots » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:00 pm

Doc will peel himself up from the ground and wordlessly stagger towards the general store.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Stormbringer » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:11 pm

The Bean Bunch, minus the obliterated Miss Pitts, arrive at the General Store.

Thankfully the building's still intact, and not on fire yet, though smoke and sparks are billowing through the sky amidst the cacophony of gunfire and screams all about.

To your surprise, the door is unlocked and there's no sign of enemy soldiers anywhere.

The usual proprietor is behind his counter. Apparently it's 'business as usual' at the general store.

"What can I do for you, sirs? You're just in time for the closing-down sale! All prices are doubled!"

Here's the price-list:

Lockpicks - 10s
Bar of soap - 2s
Bedroll - 6s
Blanket - 4s
Candles (x4) - 2s
Canteen (1 day water/4 drinks) - 4s
Chewing tobacco (20 uses) - 2s
Cigarettes (x20) - 2s
Lantern - 10s
Lantern oil (6 hours) - 6s
Matches (x20) - 2s
Rope (30 ft.) - 6s
Tent, small (2 people) - 16s
Tent, big (4 people) - 32s

Laudanum (heal d4 HP, 4 uses) - 20s
Injury kit (back to 0 HP + Wits, 4 uses) - 20s
Doctor’s bag (heal d6 + Wits HP, 6 uses) - 40s
Gin pills (heal d4 HP when Drunk, 8 uses) - 20s
Healthful bitters (heal d4 + cures Miserable on 3+, 1 use) - 12s
Opium tincture (heal d10 HP, DR18 Grit or deep sleep, 4 uses) - 20s

Bicycle - 60s
Wheelbarrow - 20s
My fire is more than can be made with forests,
My state more base than are the basest valleys;
I wish no evenings more to see, each evening;
Shamed, I hate myself in sight of mountains,
And stop mine ears, lest I grow mad with music.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Wrathbone » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:17 pm

I thought all my silver had exploded in my saddlebags, but my character sheet says I have 180s. Did I recover some?

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Sly Boots » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:18 pm

Did someone say gang of bicycles?

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Stormbringer » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:18 pm

Wrathbone wrote:
Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:17 pm
I thought all my silver had exploded in my saddlebags, but my character sheet says I have 180s. Did I recover some?
No, that is a Game Marshall error. That's Cumflutter's!
My fire is more than can be made with forests,
My state more base than are the basest valleys;
I wish no evenings more to see, each evening;
Shamed, I hate myself in sight of mountains,
And stop mine ears, lest I grow mad with music.

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Re: Frontier Scum, Scene IV: Everything Will Burn!

Post by Wrathbone » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:23 pm

In that case, I openly start reloading my weapons and say:

"I don't rightly like sales, and I really don't like profiteers. Tell you what - my friend here just took down some mechanical steam contraption out there which was setting fire to everything. Good scrap, valuable. How 'bout you give me one of these dubious-lookin' bicycles and you take whatever you want from the metal beast outside?"

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