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[cowboycrap]

HOLLA you're in Summerhill. If you didn't make it out of Alderwood you have no excuse because everyone split up to look for you and drag your ass out, and if no one found you you'd be chased out by law enforcement. The residents of Summerhill don't seem too thrilled that you're back, but in a oops sorry you got the short stick too way not in a don't take kindly way.

Alderwood's still buzzing with the news and new rule so you ought to avoid it for a while. Or charge back in like the stupid assholes you are. They're hanging the outlaw couple in the town today so if you're going to go on a boneheaded rescue mission now's your chance. Maybe you can even reveal the mayor's dirty, dirty ways while you're there and get that ruling flipped. If you don't fuck it up.

For the time being as long as you remain in Summerhill you're safe, no one will bother you here. So you can take this time to regroup and come up with a plan.

[Mission: chill out in summerhill, don't get killed, maybe go on a rescue mission. you know]

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[cowboycrap]

[holds hands up]

Now, now folks. You gonna believe a dead man tryin' to stir the pot?

[recurred]

[by standing on something, daniel? i dunno]

Then I dunno, what do you think. Spring for a wagon?

[looks back at them. im making this shit up as i go is anyone else going to offer up ideas or]

[sawedoff]

Bang some pots and pans and cause a panic? That's the plan?

[i mean he doesn't have a better one so i guess we'll go with that]

[cowboycrap]

It's true! He was working with Dewie Martin himself to knock off the old mayor so he could get the position! Then he turned around and had him shot to keep him quiet. Your mayor's nothin but a two-bit criminal.

[more scandalized murmuring and shouting from the crowd]

[recurred]

Or I guess they can cause themselves a riot....

[im fine either way]

[armedarchaeologist]

[eyebrows.]

We should really have brainstormed on the way over, huh.

[finally tunes into what the npcs are saying.]

Hold on, I think some people are actually listening to this... Is that the truth?

[dices]

I was thinking a little bigger, man. [ holds up hands. remember?

talking over chatter, glancing to the hanging spectacle before turning back to the group ]

I could try and move something. Maybe a whole lot of people while we run, go in opposite directions. Splitting up, melding with the crowd.

[mercyless]

How about the water tank?

Think you could handle it?

[ it should be big enough. ]

[cowboycrap]

[the mayors starting to look nervous]

Now hold on folks- the Sheriff's right, think about the nature of these folk, they'll say anything to save their skin!

[cowboycrap]

[antsy side stepping as he heads to the front of the gallow]

That's right, mayor. What reason we gotta believe that these two outters are tellin' the truth? Now I know Mayor Wilkins, you know the mayor. He's one of our own. You gonna believe these pussyfooted outerkin over your blood born native brother?

[armedarchaeologist]

[slips in amongst the crowd, shouts from behind some tall cowboys in ten-gallon hats:]

Yeah, how'd he get to be Mayor again?

[sidles away, looks around like "who said that"]

[mercyless]

[ go for it nick. she also slips in, trying to get closer to the actual guards. if they cause trouble she'll take them down. ]

[crossmyhearts]

[smiles from under his fancy stetson ]

[ this is even better than what he'd planned... which was nothing ]

[dices]

[ looks over to the water tank and nods ]

I can handle it.

[ looks at clara and tilts his head over to the hanging guys. ] What about your uncle? [ no-one has bothered to correct him so

jumps a little at daniel's shouting tho. where he go ]

[sawedoff]

[yoinks someones hat off their head as he passes to pull it down over his face as they split up, keeps a low profile in the crowd. unlike some people]

[crowd weavin]

[cowboycrap]

[the crowd is distinctly unsettled at this point, people pushing and pulling at each other anxiously as they doubt their mayor]

That's enough. That's enough! Finish the damn thing!

[recurred]

I've got it.

[small smile at nick. you guys be careful you hear?]

[zips off to commandeer a wagon]

[cowboycrap]

You heard 'em, Gilly.

[waves hand like do the thing already]

[armedarchaeologist]

[hey he's not bad at keeping a low profile, he's just. trying to rile whilst he goes. good thing the mayor seems to be actually sketchy.]

Kinda convenient what happened to the old mayor. An' then what happened to Dewey 'fore he could talk.

[muttered.

right, fellow crowdmember?


moves on.]

[cowboycrap]

[ pushes daniel out of his way. freak. ]

Come near my children again and I will hurt you!

[ladybirdcrey]

Don't listen to Wilkins' lies!

[dices]

[ jogs off to a more remote location to do his thing so people don't look at him weird when he starts to pull weird faces of concentration and wave his hands

might think he's taking a shit and arrest him for public indecency. ]

[cowboycrap]

[a member of the crowd steps forward]

We want answers, Wilkins!

[cowboycrap]

[watches the crowd get more and more vocal]

Gilly?

[bueller?]

[slowly looks over his shoulder]

[cowboycrap]

HANG THE DANG OUTLAWS