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Alright yall enough doodling around. It's nightfall in Alderwood, so grab yourself a hotel room, you can either opt for the snazzy spacious 5 star in the high class end of town or one of the less financially debilitating rooms on the second floor of the inn/pub, but expect to hear a lot of hooker noises and drunken cowboys from downstairs. You get what you pay for.

You ought to grab yourself a bounty poster and decide on a plan of action so that you have direction for your adventures tomorrow, because the Sheriff seems like he's not gonna stand for you taking advantage of their kindness if you're not going to hold up your end of the bargain.

There are four main bounties posted in the courthouse, but they're scattered about the town on posters, too. There's Dewie Martin, the highest paying bounty, Earl Johnson, Janna Turner and Billy Turner. There are other, lesser bounties, but those seem to be the four the Sheriff's really pushing for.

[Mission: rest up, youre going bounty hunting tomorrow morning]

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[its okay danny, you can just stand there and look....well you can just stand there.]

[nods to August and head for the saloon]

I'm not—

[hell with it. she's leaving without him. sighs and follows clara, with whom he wasn't. really. he's just impressed at planning that doesn't involve bullets.]

[busts in through the little swingy doors. that's whats up]

[who do we got to choose from]

[ there's a rowdy group in the middle drunkenly working their way through a poker game ]

[ the barkeep is serving the good whiskey to a man at the bar ]

[ there is also a crying prostitute in the corner, being comforted by the other girls ]

[choices....]

[shoots daniel a look before sliding over to the bar]

[leans over and mutters to clara:] Split up to cov—

[oh.

looks between the poker game and the crying woman.]

[heads toward the prostitutes.]

[ crying ]

Hey, are you all right?

[this is his concerned face. it's easy to fake because jesus christ he's not faking why is this poor woman crying.]

Jenny's been sleeping with my man!

[ one of the other women - jenny - makes noises of outrage ]

[ohhhh god he's suddenly out of his depth he should have gone to the poker game and risked getting punched.]

Oh, well. I'm sure that's. Not true.

[looks at jenny like she's gonna help. which. isn't likely.]

Why would you say that?

She knows I'm always his entertainer!

Oh. I'm. I'm so sorry. I'm sure this is all a misunderstanding.

[looks expectantly at jenny.]

[remember the mission, jackson. uh. this seems like a really awkward time to segue. he's kind of caught himself in it now though. maybe he can extract himself from this in a second and go see what's happening at the poker table.]

[ jenny makes a break for the stairs ]

Don't you try hiding, Jenny!

[ daniel save yourself ]

Well I'm glad we could clear that up.

[saves himself over to the poker game. smooth, daniel.]

D-do we haaaaayv another player?

[ too drunk to recognize daniel as one of the outsiders ]

Yep. That's me, here to play poker.

[has a pretty decent poker face. mostly because the furthest range of his visible emotion is dull alarm.

slides into an empty spot.]

Give the man some cards!

[ they deal daniel in. it's game time ]

[stares at the cards and tries not to look too alarmed. or more alarmed than his baseline normal.]

Twenny!

[oh my god what am i doing.

pokerface.]

[good thing it's not his turn yet? leans towards the person next to him.]

I hear you've been having outlaw troubles around here.

[what idiot sent daniel to gather information? oh right, he did.]

[ harumphs ]

Damn dirty outsiders, the lot of 'em! Can't take what we offer, the bastards just want more.

[obligingly gives the governor a harrumph.]

Right. Coming in here like they own the place. Scamming and murdering.

[wait, the outlaws are outsiders? orrr this man is just too drunk to hear properly?]

[ we just don't know ]

Cards!

[ has the worst hand ]

[has a pretty decent hand, actually. displays the cards with hesitation.]

These are all right, right?

Givth man 'ismoney!

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