Sunday, November 18, 2007

The first blow is struck by the Dogtown Navy

The Setup:
Owen, Seamus and Dan joined up and took a stage to Faust, having received information that the bandit El Torro was in town. The trio and an englishman disembarked at the Brosco Station, and the boys started askin' around for El Torro. Unfortunately, no pictures of El Torro existed, so the group had to ask around town to find out who or where the outlaw was. Luckily, the Brosco agent gave the men a lead that El Torro had the sweets for Wilhelmina who ran the store across the street.

They found two banditos at the tail end or the early moments of mischief in the store. After a quick interrogation, the banditos were allowed to leave (mostly to put poor Wilhelmina at ease so that she would talk without fear- and talk she did.) As it turns out, El Torro wasn't a bandito at all; he was the very Englishman who had arrived in the same stagecoach as our heroes!

John "El Torro" Bull had wandered into the saloon to gather his compatriots to battle the bounty hunters.

The Battle:
The two banditos found in the store had been allowed to leave. Joaquin ran into the saloon to warn El Torro (who was already in the know) Also in the saloon was the infamous 2-gun shootist, Hector. The final bandit, Cesar, walked over toward the alley between the gunshp and the barber across the street from the saloon. There he waited to see what transpired.


Owen walked over to Cesar. Cesar told Owen to stop where he was if he wanted to live. Owen closed the distance, drew his pistol and went to work. The Owen-Cesar duel lasted the duration of the game as they traded pistol and retaliation shots.

Meanwhile, Dan and Seamus split up. Dan went to the backdoor of the saloon, and Seamus went to the front door with his pistol holstered to not arrouse suspicion. Unfortunately, Owen's opening shot alarmed the enemy within the saloon. So with Seamus in the front door and Dan about to come in the back, the final shootout was about to take place.

Joaquin jumped up on the bar and pointed at Seamus in the front door, "That is him, Boss!!!!" Joaquin immediately began fanning his pistol oblivious that his own gangmember, Hector, was in the line of fire. But Joaquins guns jammed afer only the second shot! No one was hurt in the opening salvo.

Dan quickly burst through the backdoor and came face-to-face with El Torro who fumbled drawing his pistol. Dan let the gangleader have both barrels of his sawed-off shotgun at point blank range! El Torro's nice clothes weren't pretty anymore. Torro got his pistol out and shot at Dan AND MISSED! Dan cooly reloaded his shotgun under fire.

Seamus poured lead into Joaquin while saloon customers took cover in corners and behind the bar. Torro would get one more shot on Dan, wounding him for minor damage. Then Dan let Torro have one more barrel of his sawed-off. That's all it took. El Torro lay in shreds on the saloon floor. Hector and Joaquin quickly surrendered.
Outside, just seconds after El Torro had fallen, Cesar's ticket was punched by Owen.
The bounty hunters were wounded, but none seriously. And they now had a handsome reward and a town full of new friends to celebrate with!