Silver Moon
Adventurer
“Seven Outlaws in Search of a Bank” - Sidewinder Recoiled
Game 1 - Prelude, played on June 6, 2005
Game 2 -Chapters 1 to 6 played at the Central Massachusetts ENWorld Game Day - Oct. 22, 2005
Game 3 - Chapters 7-12 played at the Boston ENWorld Game Day - April 1, 2006
Game 4 - Chapters 13-21 played on June 17, 2006
Game 5- Chapters 22-up played on June 2, 2007
Chapters 1 to 6 Cast of Characters:
Arthur “Deadeye” Douglas - Fast Hero (3); Gunslinger (3) played by MabGob
Flying Arrow – Dedicated Hero (3); Brave (3) played by Firesdream
Mae Clark – Charismatic Hero (3), Grifter (3) played by Orchid Blossom
Pamela Yeats – Dedicated Hero (3), Sawbones (3) played by Corsair
Pinto Joe Weems - Tough Hero (3), Desperado (3) played by Bobitron
Shotgun Sally Fox – Fast Hero (3), Rustler (3) played by Evil Kitty Grrl
Mongo Bailey – Strong Hero (3), Tough Hero (3) N.P.C.
Character History and Background:
Arthur “Deadeye” Douglas was born in February 1853 as the youngest and physically weakest of four brothers who went on to become the notorious Douglas brothers. Arthur trained in the art of the fast draw and unerring aim at close quarters to make up for his deficiencies. The Douglas Gang became famous for bank and payroll office robberies in California, Nevada and Utah during the mid-to-late 1870’s. Unlike the Dalton and James Gangs, the Douglas Gang would avoid using firearms whenever possible and always shot to wound rather than kill Their Gang’s operations reached a new scale in 1880 when safecracker Mae Clarke joined the team.
Mae Clarke was the widow of Josiah Clarke, the former Chief Engineer and Locksmith of the Harrisburg Safe Company. Following her husband’s death in a plant accident she had approached the Board of Directors about hiring her. They knew that she had visited her husband’s private workshop everyday, bringing him lunch and sharing a private lunch hour with him. She told the Board that she never actually ate with her husband, using the lunch hour to test out the latest lock designs. She said that she also tested every safe and vault before it left the plant, and volunteered her skills at the same pay scale that her husband received. They did not believe her, and only gave her a small stipend as compensation for her husband’s death.”
During the next two years a counterfeiting ring struck cities on East Coast of the United, breaking into bank vaults with Harrisburg Safe models and then replacing real currency with the fake, thus the thefts often going unnoticed for some time. Eventually Federal Secret Service Agents James West and Artemis Gordon traced the crimes back to Mae Clarke. They confronted her but she managed to trap them and escape.
For the next year that Mae was on the run, banks and private homes that had Harrisburg vaults and safes found themselves subject to robberies. The company worked to replace the locks on all products they had sold during the prior decade, assuming that she had a copy of the combinations, but she managed to get the new locks opened just as easily. As the company’s reputation back east waned and they rapidly lost business to their two competitors, they decided to send the Harrisburg sales force west of the Mississippi River. She in turn went west after this new opportunity to make a fortune while avenging herself against the company that wronged her.
She then began working with the Douglas Gang assisting them with bank robberies at locations with Harrisburg products. They would hit banks after hours, which appeared to be more lucrative and less risky than day jobs. The Gang then fell into a carefully laid trap during which Pig-eye Douglas was killed and both Eagle-eye and Bulls-eye Douglas were captured. Mae, Deadeye and a gang member named Toby Harris managed to escape. The three realized it was riskier to stay together so decided to split up.
Deadeye stayed out-of-sight in a small Nevada town. Toby Harris joined the Cowboy Gang, a group of cattle rustlers in southeastern Arizona led by Curly Bill Brocius. Mae Clarke joined up with Frank and Jesse James of the James Gang. A semi-successful July 1881 robbery by the James Gang in Promise City Arizona Mae left the James Gang with her share of the loot, amounting to over $ 5,000. She set up a home in Boulder Colorado and planned to stay put for a while.
In January 1882, Deadeye was invited by Toby Harris to join the Cowboy Gang in southeastern Arizona, a semi-organized group of cattle rustlers Deadeye arrived to find that Brocius, Harris and around twenty other gang members had been killed a few days earlier by the local law. Deadeye attempted to take charge of the remaining Gang and organized a few successful stagecoach robberies but then ran into personality conflicts with the Gang’s other leader Johnny Ringo. Marshals Wyatt and Virgil Earp retaliated and arrested as many gang members as they could find on trumped up charges, including Weems. Ringo and several other gang members were then captured by the law.
One of the captured gang was Pinto Joe Weems. Born in 1856, Pinto Joe was the son of a saloon harlot. He grew up to become as rough-and-tumble desperado if there ever was one. Joe is as tough as they come, taking no grief from anybody. Not ever finding a job or boss who suited his temperament, Joe became an outlaw. Partnering with buddies Lane Gifford and Harvey Knowles, the three became key members of the Cowboy Gang, a group of cattle rustlers operating in southeastern Arizona under the leadership of Curly Bill Brocius. Curly Bill liked Pinto Joe because he has no qualms about killing anybody who got in the Gang’s way.
Joe’s girlfriend was another Cowboy Gang member was Shotgun Sally Fox. Sally led a long rough life. Born in 1860, her parents died of disease when she was a teenager and the family farm was confiscated. She worked as a stable hand until she crossed paths with Pinto Joe Weems. He introduced her to the life of cattle rustling, a job that she has excelled at. She has been Joe’s sidekick for years now and they made great cattle rustling partners between her speed and his brawn. Sally tends to dress and act like a man as much as possible, drinking, cussing, smoking cigars and playing cards. But around Joe she can also be feminine when she wants to. Sally convinced Deadeye to organize a jailbreak, freeing Pinto Joe Weems, the Koonz Brothers Dudley Yeats and Mongo Bailey.
Mongo Bailey is a simple man. Born in Alabama in 1855, his father was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Following the war the family moved to the Arizona Territory, where Mongo found his way through life as a laborer. He worked on the railroads and in the silver mines then began working with Joe and Sally at catching and selling cows. Mongo took on the Cowboy gang’s toughest jobs. If you needed a door or corral knocked down Mongo was your man.
Despite Deadeye’s jailbreak Ringo still refused to cooperate and stayed behind in the jail while the others escaped. Exasperated, Douglas decided to give up on the Cowboy Gang and move on. The other outlaws who he had freed from jail agreed to go with him. Before leaving he decided that a bank robbery was in order. Those six, plus Weem’s girl Shotgun Sally and Dudley’s wife Pamela then planned and executed a bank robbery at Condon’s Bank in Promise City, Arizona.
The robbery went sour when two guards started shooting. One Koonz brother and Dudley Yeats were killed and Pinto Joe and Mrs. Yeats were captured. The gang only got $ 300 for their efforts to the four who escaped, as most of the money bags taken turned out to be “dummy” bags stuffed with Confederate bills. The surviving Koonz brother quit to rejoin the Cowboy Gang and Sally and Mongo would have also if Deadeye hadn’t agreed to attempt a rescue of those who were captured.
Pinto Joe and Pamela Yeats were sentenced to hang. Born in 1848, Pamela was the daughter and only child of a United States Army Major by the name of Doctor David Billingsly, much of her youth was spent traveling from base-to-base. In 1862 her mother died of an incurable disease. During the Civil War she accompanied her father from engagement to engagement and acted as his “unofficial” nurse. He often found himself in need of another doctor and began to train her in more advanced procedures as well. By the war’s end she had received on-the-job training that surpassed anything she could have learned at a formal medical school, which would never had admitted her anyway due to her gender.
Following the war the Army assigned Major Billingsly to the western frontiers where the Indian campaigns were being waged. She accompanied him and continued to assist her father in an unofficial capacity. During that time she met and fell in love with an Army private assigned to her father as an orderly by the name of Dudley Yeats. A year later she and Dudley married. They continued to work with the Major through a number of skirmishes with Indians. In one encounter Pamela saved the life of a wounded Navajo sub-chief who later presented her with a wampum belt as a reward.
Major Billingsly died in a railroad accident in 1879. He died needlessly, as Pamela had the skills to save him but the Army did not bother to contact her until after it was too late, unaware of her medical abilities. Dudley opted to not reenlist and the young couple set out on their own. They eventually settled in the town of Promise City, Arizona where they established the Trail Dust Saloon.
Whenever a patron came into the Saloon injured Pamela would explain her background as a nurse and offer to treat the injury. This soon came to the attention of the Cowboy Gang, a local group of some 200 cattle rustlers. Before long the Trail Dust Saloon had become a front for a private medical practice, where Pamela and Dudley would treat the injuries incurred by the Cowboy Gang for very reasonable compensation and “No questions asked”.
In January 1882 the town’s Marshall, Wyatt Earp, showed up at the Trail Dust and began asking questions about the business. Dudley panicked and fired a shot at Earp to keep him out of the back rooms, where two Cowboy Gang members were recovering from recent injuries inflicted by the Earps. Dudley was arrested, jailed and sentenced to five years of prison. While sitting with other Cowboy Gang members in the Tombstone, Arizona jail awaiting transfer to the Territorial Prison a jailbreak occurred, instituted by the new Cowboy Gang leader Deadeye Douglas. Immediately thereafter the Earps confiscated the Trail Dust Saloon and evicted Pamela. She rejoined her husband, who was now hiding out with the Gang.
Deadeye Douglas decided to leave the area and get away from the Earps, but organized one last bank robbery first in order to give them some traveling money. The bank robbery was a disaster, ending with Pamela a widow facing the hangman’s noose. But Deadeye organized an early morning jailbreak to rescue them, tying up the Deputy Sheriff and leaving town without having to fire a shot. Doing this helped to solidify his reputation as leader of his New Douglas Gang. He suggested they travel north and avoid cities and town.
The gang then became hopelessly lost in the Rocky Mountains in the midst of winter and were fortunate to be rescued by a Navajo Indian woman named Flying Arrow. The Indian woman had objected when his tribe was forced onto a reservations in the northern Arizona and New Mexico Territories. Refusing to be little more than a captive of the United States Army, she set out on her own and had been living in the Rocky Mountains for two years.
In February 1882 a dream spirit came to her and spoke of how she would soon encounter those who she should help. Not long after that she happened upon a group of five lost people, three men and two women, deep into the mountains and far away from any towns. She spent a day observing them and noticed that one of the women was wearing a Navajo Wampum Belt. Reading the symbols on the belt it indicated that the belt was given as a gift to a healer who saved the life of a Navajo Sub-chief. .
She approached the group who were neither afraid of or trusting of him. She spoke privately to the woman with the belt. The woman assured Flying Arrow that it was a gift freely given and not a trophy, explaining how she came to learn medical skills from her father. Flying Arrow agreed to help the party. First she found them food, then led them out of the mountains to safety.
Flying Arrow continued to travel with the group and they did not asked her to leave. She soon discovered that they were robbers, but as long as they steal from other whites and do not harm the native peoples she has not problem with that. She regarded whites as thieves, since they have taken the land from the natives, so felt is was only fitting that they get a taste of what they have dished out. During these weeks that they were traveling she and the woman Pamela have become close friends.
In early March, 1882 the group moved on to Boulder, Colorado where they met up with Deadeye’s girlfriend Mae Clark who had been living there under an assumed name. She decided that New Douglas Gang was an odd assortment of individuals but Mae has decided that with her guidance they should be able to be honed into an effective team. They then began to plan their next job.
Game 1 - Prelude, played on June 6, 2005
Game 2 -Chapters 1 to 6 played at the Central Massachusetts ENWorld Game Day - Oct. 22, 2005
Game 3 - Chapters 7-12 played at the Boston ENWorld Game Day - April 1, 2006
Game 4 - Chapters 13-21 played on June 17, 2006
Game 5- Chapters 22-up played on June 2, 2007
Chapters 1 to 6 Cast of Characters:
Arthur “Deadeye” Douglas - Fast Hero (3); Gunslinger (3) played by MabGob
Flying Arrow – Dedicated Hero (3); Brave (3) played by Firesdream
Mae Clark – Charismatic Hero (3), Grifter (3) played by Orchid Blossom
Pamela Yeats – Dedicated Hero (3), Sawbones (3) played by Corsair
Pinto Joe Weems - Tough Hero (3), Desperado (3) played by Bobitron
Shotgun Sally Fox – Fast Hero (3), Rustler (3) played by Evil Kitty Grrl
Mongo Bailey – Strong Hero (3), Tough Hero (3) N.P.C.
Character History and Background:
Arthur “Deadeye” Douglas was born in February 1853 as the youngest and physically weakest of four brothers who went on to become the notorious Douglas brothers. Arthur trained in the art of the fast draw and unerring aim at close quarters to make up for his deficiencies. The Douglas Gang became famous for bank and payroll office robberies in California, Nevada and Utah during the mid-to-late 1870’s. Unlike the Dalton and James Gangs, the Douglas Gang would avoid using firearms whenever possible and always shot to wound rather than kill Their Gang’s operations reached a new scale in 1880 when safecracker Mae Clarke joined the team.
Mae Clarke was the widow of Josiah Clarke, the former Chief Engineer and Locksmith of the Harrisburg Safe Company. Following her husband’s death in a plant accident she had approached the Board of Directors about hiring her. They knew that she had visited her husband’s private workshop everyday, bringing him lunch and sharing a private lunch hour with him. She told the Board that she never actually ate with her husband, using the lunch hour to test out the latest lock designs. She said that she also tested every safe and vault before it left the plant, and volunteered her skills at the same pay scale that her husband received. They did not believe her, and only gave her a small stipend as compensation for her husband’s death.”
During the next two years a counterfeiting ring struck cities on East Coast of the United, breaking into bank vaults with Harrisburg Safe models and then replacing real currency with the fake, thus the thefts often going unnoticed for some time. Eventually Federal Secret Service Agents James West and Artemis Gordon traced the crimes back to Mae Clarke. They confronted her but she managed to trap them and escape.
For the next year that Mae was on the run, banks and private homes that had Harrisburg vaults and safes found themselves subject to robberies. The company worked to replace the locks on all products they had sold during the prior decade, assuming that she had a copy of the combinations, but she managed to get the new locks opened just as easily. As the company’s reputation back east waned and they rapidly lost business to their two competitors, they decided to send the Harrisburg sales force west of the Mississippi River. She in turn went west after this new opportunity to make a fortune while avenging herself against the company that wronged her.
She then began working with the Douglas Gang assisting them with bank robberies at locations with Harrisburg products. They would hit banks after hours, which appeared to be more lucrative and less risky than day jobs. The Gang then fell into a carefully laid trap during which Pig-eye Douglas was killed and both Eagle-eye and Bulls-eye Douglas were captured. Mae, Deadeye and a gang member named Toby Harris managed to escape. The three realized it was riskier to stay together so decided to split up.
Deadeye stayed out-of-sight in a small Nevada town. Toby Harris joined the Cowboy Gang, a group of cattle rustlers in southeastern Arizona led by Curly Bill Brocius. Mae Clarke joined up with Frank and Jesse James of the James Gang. A semi-successful July 1881 robbery by the James Gang in Promise City Arizona Mae left the James Gang with her share of the loot, amounting to over $ 5,000. She set up a home in Boulder Colorado and planned to stay put for a while.
In January 1882, Deadeye was invited by Toby Harris to join the Cowboy Gang in southeastern Arizona, a semi-organized group of cattle rustlers Deadeye arrived to find that Brocius, Harris and around twenty other gang members had been killed a few days earlier by the local law. Deadeye attempted to take charge of the remaining Gang and organized a few successful stagecoach robberies but then ran into personality conflicts with the Gang’s other leader Johnny Ringo. Marshals Wyatt and Virgil Earp retaliated and arrested as many gang members as they could find on trumped up charges, including Weems. Ringo and several other gang members were then captured by the law.
One of the captured gang was Pinto Joe Weems. Born in 1856, Pinto Joe was the son of a saloon harlot. He grew up to become as rough-and-tumble desperado if there ever was one. Joe is as tough as they come, taking no grief from anybody. Not ever finding a job or boss who suited his temperament, Joe became an outlaw. Partnering with buddies Lane Gifford and Harvey Knowles, the three became key members of the Cowboy Gang, a group of cattle rustlers operating in southeastern Arizona under the leadership of Curly Bill Brocius. Curly Bill liked Pinto Joe because he has no qualms about killing anybody who got in the Gang’s way.
Joe’s girlfriend was another Cowboy Gang member was Shotgun Sally Fox. Sally led a long rough life. Born in 1860, her parents died of disease when she was a teenager and the family farm was confiscated. She worked as a stable hand until she crossed paths with Pinto Joe Weems. He introduced her to the life of cattle rustling, a job that she has excelled at. She has been Joe’s sidekick for years now and they made great cattle rustling partners between her speed and his brawn. Sally tends to dress and act like a man as much as possible, drinking, cussing, smoking cigars and playing cards. But around Joe she can also be feminine when she wants to. Sally convinced Deadeye to organize a jailbreak, freeing Pinto Joe Weems, the Koonz Brothers Dudley Yeats and Mongo Bailey.
Mongo Bailey is a simple man. Born in Alabama in 1855, his father was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Following the war the family moved to the Arizona Territory, where Mongo found his way through life as a laborer. He worked on the railroads and in the silver mines then began working with Joe and Sally at catching and selling cows. Mongo took on the Cowboy gang’s toughest jobs. If you needed a door or corral knocked down Mongo was your man.
Despite Deadeye’s jailbreak Ringo still refused to cooperate and stayed behind in the jail while the others escaped. Exasperated, Douglas decided to give up on the Cowboy Gang and move on. The other outlaws who he had freed from jail agreed to go with him. Before leaving he decided that a bank robbery was in order. Those six, plus Weem’s girl Shotgun Sally and Dudley’s wife Pamela then planned and executed a bank robbery at Condon’s Bank in Promise City, Arizona.
The robbery went sour when two guards started shooting. One Koonz brother and Dudley Yeats were killed and Pinto Joe and Mrs. Yeats were captured. The gang only got $ 300 for their efforts to the four who escaped, as most of the money bags taken turned out to be “dummy” bags stuffed with Confederate bills. The surviving Koonz brother quit to rejoin the Cowboy Gang and Sally and Mongo would have also if Deadeye hadn’t agreed to attempt a rescue of those who were captured.
Pinto Joe and Pamela Yeats were sentenced to hang. Born in 1848, Pamela was the daughter and only child of a United States Army Major by the name of Doctor David Billingsly, much of her youth was spent traveling from base-to-base. In 1862 her mother died of an incurable disease. During the Civil War she accompanied her father from engagement to engagement and acted as his “unofficial” nurse. He often found himself in need of another doctor and began to train her in more advanced procedures as well. By the war’s end she had received on-the-job training that surpassed anything she could have learned at a formal medical school, which would never had admitted her anyway due to her gender.
Following the war the Army assigned Major Billingsly to the western frontiers where the Indian campaigns were being waged. She accompanied him and continued to assist her father in an unofficial capacity. During that time she met and fell in love with an Army private assigned to her father as an orderly by the name of Dudley Yeats. A year later she and Dudley married. They continued to work with the Major through a number of skirmishes with Indians. In one encounter Pamela saved the life of a wounded Navajo sub-chief who later presented her with a wampum belt as a reward.
Major Billingsly died in a railroad accident in 1879. He died needlessly, as Pamela had the skills to save him but the Army did not bother to contact her until after it was too late, unaware of her medical abilities. Dudley opted to not reenlist and the young couple set out on their own. They eventually settled in the town of Promise City, Arizona where they established the Trail Dust Saloon.
Whenever a patron came into the Saloon injured Pamela would explain her background as a nurse and offer to treat the injury. This soon came to the attention of the Cowboy Gang, a local group of some 200 cattle rustlers. Before long the Trail Dust Saloon had become a front for a private medical practice, where Pamela and Dudley would treat the injuries incurred by the Cowboy Gang for very reasonable compensation and “No questions asked”.
In January 1882 the town’s Marshall, Wyatt Earp, showed up at the Trail Dust and began asking questions about the business. Dudley panicked and fired a shot at Earp to keep him out of the back rooms, where two Cowboy Gang members were recovering from recent injuries inflicted by the Earps. Dudley was arrested, jailed and sentenced to five years of prison. While sitting with other Cowboy Gang members in the Tombstone, Arizona jail awaiting transfer to the Territorial Prison a jailbreak occurred, instituted by the new Cowboy Gang leader Deadeye Douglas. Immediately thereafter the Earps confiscated the Trail Dust Saloon and evicted Pamela. She rejoined her husband, who was now hiding out with the Gang.
Deadeye Douglas decided to leave the area and get away from the Earps, but organized one last bank robbery first in order to give them some traveling money. The bank robbery was a disaster, ending with Pamela a widow facing the hangman’s noose. But Deadeye organized an early morning jailbreak to rescue them, tying up the Deputy Sheriff and leaving town without having to fire a shot. Doing this helped to solidify his reputation as leader of his New Douglas Gang. He suggested they travel north and avoid cities and town.
The gang then became hopelessly lost in the Rocky Mountains in the midst of winter and were fortunate to be rescued by a Navajo Indian woman named Flying Arrow. The Indian woman had objected when his tribe was forced onto a reservations in the northern Arizona and New Mexico Territories. Refusing to be little more than a captive of the United States Army, she set out on her own and had been living in the Rocky Mountains for two years.
In February 1882 a dream spirit came to her and spoke of how she would soon encounter those who she should help. Not long after that she happened upon a group of five lost people, three men and two women, deep into the mountains and far away from any towns. She spent a day observing them and noticed that one of the women was wearing a Navajo Wampum Belt. Reading the symbols on the belt it indicated that the belt was given as a gift to a healer who saved the life of a Navajo Sub-chief. .
She approached the group who were neither afraid of or trusting of him. She spoke privately to the woman with the belt. The woman assured Flying Arrow that it was a gift freely given and not a trophy, explaining how she came to learn medical skills from her father. Flying Arrow agreed to help the party. First she found them food, then led them out of the mountains to safety.
Flying Arrow continued to travel with the group and they did not asked her to leave. She soon discovered that they were robbers, but as long as they steal from other whites and do not harm the native peoples she has not problem with that. She regarded whites as thieves, since they have taken the land from the natives, so felt is was only fitting that they get a taste of what they have dished out. During these weeks that they were traveling she and the woman Pamela have become close friends.
In early March, 1882 the group moved on to Boulder, Colorado where they met up with Deadeye’s girlfriend Mae Clark who had been living there under an assumed name. She decided that New Douglas Gang was an odd assortment of individuals but Mae has decided that with her guidance they should be able to be honed into an effective team. They then began to plan their next job.
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