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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 3416733" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter 237, “Ringo‘s Arrival and Departure”, Sunday, April 2nd , 1882, 5:15 AM</strong></p><p></p><p>As the first light of dawn makes its way over the horizon Nanuet and Chester now see Deputy Eduardo Rodriguez approaching them from alongside the cliff wall 100 feet away. He is holding a rifle and has a revolver on his belt. The Deputy gets closer to Chet and Nanuet and asks "What's the status?" Chester asks Nanuet, "What's he doing here?”</p><p></p><p>To the Deputy Chester says, “ I'm glad for the help, but we're lawmen only within city limits." He then adds, “Glad you could make it. The cowboys are trying to make a break for it on horseback." Minerva suspiciously watches the Deputy while loading a magical shell into her rifle and mutters to herself. "How did he know we were here?"</p><p></p><p>Ruby calls to Jake, "You want me to light it up in there?" Jake grins, "You are music to my ears." At the same time Kate fired the pistol, with no thought of actually hitting, just to make the noise. Kate's bullet and wand beam both enter the cave, but it is uncertain whether anybody is hit. The action causes Ruby to now notices Kate and screams "Katherine! Get away from there or I will shoot you myself! What the hell are you thinking?"</p><p></p><p>Turning back to the cave Ruby took a big breath in. To use the wand in the area she would have to make herself a target. As she runs she calls out, "Everyone get out of the way!" She makes sure she is not standing in the thirty-foot radius of the powder, moving towards the cave area, makes sure none of her friends are in the way, then fires a shot into the cave, aiming for a little behind where she assumes the riders to now be.</p><p></p><p>Kate clucked her tongue to the horse to follow and moved back from the cave mouth, using the horse as cover. She waited for anyone to come out. Chester yells to Jake, "Is there another way out of the cave?" Jake now sees Rodriguez and approaches him quickly, "Deputy I found something valuable I think Ringo dropped. Take it before he comes out." Jake holsters his long barrel Colt and secretly draws his dagger. As Jake nears the deputy his hunch is confirmed… Rodriguez has Johnny Ringo's eyes!</p><p></p><p>"Fighting Cowboys is thirsty work." Jake says. He tries to read Ringo's thoughts as an aid to pushing the man's gun aside. Ruby runs out with the Fireball Rod to point it at the cave. Deputy Rodriguez advances the chamber of his gun and starts to raise the weapon as Ruby fires into the cave. Jake grabs for the gun with one hand and stabs the fake Rodriguez with his magic dagger and then yells, "Katherine, cast it here!"</p><p></p><p>Kate looked down at the scroll still in her left hand and began quickly casting, centering the spell right on the Deputy where Jake was stabbing with his dagger. When Nanuet sees the deputy raise his gun and realizes that only his friends are present other than him. He targets Rodriguez's head and fires. Chester says, "Jake, what are you doing?" He then realizes that Eduardo is using a gun, not a knife, and he's aiming it at Ruby. He's too close for a rifle shot, so he swings the butt end at Eduardo's head.</p><p></p><p>Jake grabs the gun but the shot still fires. Jake has managed to deflect the bullet but it is the special targeted one that curves in midair and strikes Ruby in the chest, puncturing her lungs, and she falls. Ruby falls to the ground and doesn't even have time to cry out in surprise or pain. She weakly coughs up a little bit of blood before her eyes roll back in her head and she passes out, the blood stain growing quickly. However, she had managed to get the shot off with the Fireball rod which flies directly into the cave and strikes the lead horse. The entire front room of the cave erupts with an explosion equal to a dozen sticks of dynamite, amplified by the close quarters, instantly killing everybody inside. The blast out of the cave mouth also covers or blows away most of Nanuet's powder.</p><p></p><p>Jake's dagger jabs at Rodriguez but fails to cut. Nanuet's bullet strikes the Deputy in the head and it just bounces off. After he fires his shot, Nanuet rushes forward and disregarding any battle begins tending to Ruby. He calls out for Minerva to help him and takes a stone of his necklace. Minerva runs to Nanuet and the two pray, using the necklace to heal her. "Please Goddess, do not let her die. Come on Ruby, wake up!"</p><p></p><p>"You lose Cook" Ringo states as he points the gun in Nanuet's general direction. Jake picks up from the medallion that next targeted bullet has Nanuet's name is next. Jake grabs Ringo's arm with both hands and attempts to drive the gun point to the ground. The Deputy is just pulling the trigger when the Dispel Magic hits where he is standing and he is revealed to everyone present to be Johnny Ringo. As the bullet is still within the dispel it looses its magical properties and continues on its normal path rather than curving towards the fixed target, missing Nanuet by a good six feet.</p><p></p><p>When the bullet flies past Nanuet, Minerva turns and sees Ringo. She rises up shoots her rife with the magic bullet at Johnny Ringo. Preoccupied with Ruby's fate, Minerva's shot doesn't even come close. Nanuet removes a four-inch stone from the necklace he places it over Ruby's wound and says the command word and hopes for the best. Ruby continues to lay lifeless, as the blood drips out her mouth and the blood spot on her chest grows larger.</p><p></p><p>Kate kept herself sheltered behind Ringo's horse as she cast a Magic Missile spell at him herself instead of using the wand, aiming for his gun hand. Kate's missiles all strike Ringo's hand. He had not expected it, assuming that his magical protections were still on, and screams out in pain but retains the weapon. Jake's medallion tells him Ringo's thoughts, indicating that the next three chambers have Pyrotechnic shells followed by the one with Chester's name on it.</p><p></p><p>Seeing Ringo's actual face and the realization that he may have just murdered Ruby causes Jake’s mind to snap into overdrive as he slaps the man's gun aside and fast draws his Colt, rapidly emptying the gun into him. Minerva aims more carefully prays for a Devine Favor and fires at Ringo again. Chester's rifle butt bounces off of Ringo with no effect. He drops the weapon and draws his Remington. At point-blank range, he lets loose with a regular bullet followed by the two enhanced with the Magic Weapon spell. Kate cast using her own spell again, this time aiming for Ringo's head.</p><p></p><p>Nanuet's necklace, hands and face glow bright green. The colors flow into Ruby as the healing magic begins to work. Nanuet continues to focus on the magic of the necklace. He tries to remember everything that Kajika taught him about shamanistic healing. He recites his own healing prayers pouring his thoughts and soul into the spell combining his magic with that of the necklace. His voice grows louder as he prays to heal his friend.</p><p></p><p>Minerva and Chester both manage to strike Ringo's gun arm, causing him to drop his Colt. The weapon goes off as it hits the ground, the bullet striking the side of the cliff forty feet away for another explosion. Jake empties the first three bullets of his gun at Ringo's chest, two of which deflect off of his magical coat but the third punctures a hole in the coat near the heart. Ringo remains standing with a shocked look on his face and mutters "How..."</p><p></p><p>Kate's magic missiles then strike Ringo's head. His eyes roll back and he collapses dead onto the ground. Kate let out an explosive breath and ran to Ruby, watching the light of Nanuet's healing wash over her. In anguish, Jake snatches his dropped dagger from the ground, jumps on Ringo's chest, pulls open his duster and begins to stab him repeatedly. “Live so I can kill you again you bastard“, burns through Jake's mind.</p><p></p><p>After a few moments she looked up at Jake and said, "Jake! He's not going to get any deader!"</p><p>Jake barely hears Katherine but her voice brings him back. With one last and forceful overhead swing he buries his dagger in the dead outlaws chest and leaves it standing there. For a moment the hilt reminds him of a grave marker. He mutters “Ruby, I'm sorry, I didn't stop him in time. I should have taken that... “ Katherine exclaims “Jake!” He turns and sees them all huddled around Ruby on the ground.</p><p></p><p>Jake slowly gets up to join them, feeling helpless and too afraid to use the amulet to see if she is alive. Ruby's breathing had slowed to almost nothing but as Nanuet's magic starts working he can see her chest rise and fall, slightly stronger than before. She coughs a bit of blood again and moves her head but does not open her eyes.</p><p></p><p>Chester rushes to Ruby's side and asks, "Nanuet, is she going to make it?" Nanuet continues to work the spell, adding one of his own to it. The bullet finally exits the body and seals over the would. Nanuet senses the spell is still busy internally, removing the blood from the lungs and resealing the internal damage. It takes another ten minutes for the spell to fully accomplish its task. Ruby is unconscious but still breathing and Nanuet looks like he can use a long nap.</p><p></p><p>Minerva casts one more of spells onto Ruby, bringing her back to consciousness. She looks as though she will need the rest of the day to recover. Jake had been standing beside this this whole time and finally begins to relax. Maska is still alive as well, although some debris had struck her from the tunnel explosion, requiring Nanuet to use another spell on her. This helps the wolf but Nanuet has overtaxed himself and falls unconscious, requiring Minerva's last healing spell to wake him up again.</p><p></p><p>Chester wraps his arm around Jake's shoulder. She's going to live. You know Nanuet and Minerva will do everything in their power to bring her back from the edge. I'm going to pray for her, will you join me?" "Um, thank you Chet. Er, ya, I'd do anything to help her." Jake thinks to himself, “I'd sooner carry her on my back from Hades barefoot over broken glass.”</p><p></p><p>Once Chester is done the prayer and while the healing spell is going on Chester had followed Ringo's tracks some 150 feet back, finding a tunnel into the mountain that had been used by the outlaw to escape the caves. He quickly discovers exactly why Ringo had chosen Eduardo to transform into, as the tunnel is very small, too narrow and low for a full-sized human to have squeezed into and would have even been difficult for the smaller wood elf form.</p><p></p><p>Minerva sends Luna into the opening, which they discover leads to a side passage near the rear stable room that Jake and Nanuet had been to before. Five horses remain in that room. Luna checks out the remainder of the caves finding no people inside up to the points of the two cave-ins. Until the front cave in is cleared, which will probably take some time with even a crew of experienced miners, there will be no way to get the horses out. Fortunately there is enough food and water to sustain the animals. Luna does not see any of the books. Jake and Nanuet surmise they are in the bunkhouse room, the passage way to that room now being blocked by the smaller of the two collapsed roofs.</p><p></p><p>It is now 5:45 AM light of the new day begins to shine in from over the mountains. Ruby, Nanuet and Maska all do not appear to be in any condition to travel. Qualtaqa and Costas have already left the region and would be well on their way back to town. Minerva tends to Ruby, Maska and Nanuet using cloaks and blankets from the horses to try and make them as comfortable as possible. Minerva suggests that they write out a note and have Luna fly it to the priest and the centaur. She calls to Luna and sends her off with a brief letter which states, "We have finished our business here but members of our party are unable to ride and require your assistance."</p><p></p><p>Ruby's eyes start to peek open ever so slightly, and she weakly coughs up a little bit of blood. She looks at the faces around her but everything is blurry and gets more so as her chest starts to burn. "Uuuuhhhh," she moans softly, "What happened?" Jake kneels very close to Ruby and tries to put on a cheerful smile. "You didn't duck, you told me you would duck." He holds her hand and whispers, "I'm sorry, I thought I could stop him." She turns her head towards him and blinks a few times bringing Jake into focus. "But we can't get married..."</p><p></p><p>Jake tilts his head slightly to one side and looks mightily confused. "Of course you are right," he replies with furrowed eyebrows. "Don't worry though, you are going to be fine." She says, "...If I'm dead...we can't get married, like my dream." With those words Ruby's eyes start to close. "It's ok, you stopped him and saved me." Ruby rests her face against Jake's hand then falls back asleep.</p><p></p><p>Katherine wanted to go to Ruby, but she and Jake had pulled that curtain of privacy around themselves that shut out all others. It was probably just as well, Ruby was angry with her again and getting her upset wouldn't help her. But Katherine has somehow known she had to be here, had even broken her promise to come. Perhaps it was just her imagination, maybe she wanted an excuse for having come, but if she hadn't been here.....</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>[DM’s Note: That concludes the final combat encounter of the module. Five remaining chapters will follow covering this character day from morning to early evening, with several more interesting encounters and wrapping up the various loose ends of the module as well as providing foreshadowing for the next two modules.]</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 3416733, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter 237, “Ringo‘s Arrival and Departure”, Sunday, April 2nd , 1882, 5:15 AM[/B] As the first light of dawn makes its way over the horizon Nanuet and Chester now see Deputy Eduardo Rodriguez approaching them from alongside the cliff wall 100 feet away. He is holding a rifle and has a revolver on his belt. The Deputy gets closer to Chet and Nanuet and asks "What's the status?" Chester asks Nanuet, "What's he doing here?” To the Deputy Chester says, “ I'm glad for the help, but we're lawmen only within city limits." He then adds, “Glad you could make it. The cowboys are trying to make a break for it on horseback." Minerva suspiciously watches the Deputy while loading a magical shell into her rifle and mutters to herself. "How did he know we were here?" Ruby calls to Jake, "You want me to light it up in there?" Jake grins, "You are music to my ears." At the same time Kate fired the pistol, with no thought of actually hitting, just to make the noise. Kate's bullet and wand beam both enter the cave, but it is uncertain whether anybody is hit. The action causes Ruby to now notices Kate and screams "Katherine! Get away from there or I will shoot you myself! What the hell are you thinking?" Turning back to the cave Ruby took a big breath in. To use the wand in the area she would have to make herself a target. As she runs she calls out, "Everyone get out of the way!" She makes sure she is not standing in the thirty-foot radius of the powder, moving towards the cave area, makes sure none of her friends are in the way, then fires a shot into the cave, aiming for a little behind where she assumes the riders to now be. Kate clucked her tongue to the horse to follow and moved back from the cave mouth, using the horse as cover. She waited for anyone to come out. Chester yells to Jake, "Is there another way out of the cave?" Jake now sees Rodriguez and approaches him quickly, "Deputy I found something valuable I think Ringo dropped. Take it before he comes out." Jake holsters his long barrel Colt and secretly draws his dagger. As Jake nears the deputy his hunch is confirmed… Rodriguez has Johnny Ringo's eyes! "Fighting Cowboys is thirsty work." Jake says. He tries to read Ringo's thoughts as an aid to pushing the man's gun aside. Ruby runs out with the Fireball Rod to point it at the cave. Deputy Rodriguez advances the chamber of his gun and starts to raise the weapon as Ruby fires into the cave. Jake grabs for the gun with one hand and stabs the fake Rodriguez with his magic dagger and then yells, "Katherine, cast it here!" Kate looked down at the scroll still in her left hand and began quickly casting, centering the spell right on the Deputy where Jake was stabbing with his dagger. When Nanuet sees the deputy raise his gun and realizes that only his friends are present other than him. He targets Rodriguez's head and fires. Chester says, "Jake, what are you doing?" He then realizes that Eduardo is using a gun, not a knife, and he's aiming it at Ruby. He's too close for a rifle shot, so he swings the butt end at Eduardo's head. Jake grabs the gun but the shot still fires. Jake has managed to deflect the bullet but it is the special targeted one that curves in midair and strikes Ruby in the chest, puncturing her lungs, and she falls. Ruby falls to the ground and doesn't even have time to cry out in surprise or pain. She weakly coughs up a little bit of blood before her eyes roll back in her head and she passes out, the blood stain growing quickly. However, she had managed to get the shot off with the Fireball rod which flies directly into the cave and strikes the lead horse. The entire front room of the cave erupts with an explosion equal to a dozen sticks of dynamite, amplified by the close quarters, instantly killing everybody inside. The blast out of the cave mouth also covers or blows away most of Nanuet's powder. Jake's dagger jabs at Rodriguez but fails to cut. Nanuet's bullet strikes the Deputy in the head and it just bounces off. After he fires his shot, Nanuet rushes forward and disregarding any battle begins tending to Ruby. He calls out for Minerva to help him and takes a stone of his necklace. Minerva runs to Nanuet and the two pray, using the necklace to heal her. "Please Goddess, do not let her die. Come on Ruby, wake up!" "You lose Cook" Ringo states as he points the gun in Nanuet's general direction. Jake picks up from the medallion that next targeted bullet has Nanuet's name is next. Jake grabs Ringo's arm with both hands and attempts to drive the gun point to the ground. The Deputy is just pulling the trigger when the Dispel Magic hits where he is standing and he is revealed to everyone present to be Johnny Ringo. As the bullet is still within the dispel it looses its magical properties and continues on its normal path rather than curving towards the fixed target, missing Nanuet by a good six feet. When the bullet flies past Nanuet, Minerva turns and sees Ringo. She rises up shoots her rife with the magic bullet at Johnny Ringo. Preoccupied with Ruby's fate, Minerva's shot doesn't even come close. Nanuet removes a four-inch stone from the necklace he places it over Ruby's wound and says the command word and hopes for the best. Ruby continues to lay lifeless, as the blood drips out her mouth and the blood spot on her chest grows larger. Kate kept herself sheltered behind Ringo's horse as she cast a Magic Missile spell at him herself instead of using the wand, aiming for his gun hand. Kate's missiles all strike Ringo's hand. He had not expected it, assuming that his magical protections were still on, and screams out in pain but retains the weapon. Jake's medallion tells him Ringo's thoughts, indicating that the next three chambers have Pyrotechnic shells followed by the one with Chester's name on it. Seeing Ringo's actual face and the realization that he may have just murdered Ruby causes Jake’s mind to snap into overdrive as he slaps the man's gun aside and fast draws his Colt, rapidly emptying the gun into him. Minerva aims more carefully prays for a Devine Favor and fires at Ringo again. Chester's rifle butt bounces off of Ringo with no effect. He drops the weapon and draws his Remington. At point-blank range, he lets loose with a regular bullet followed by the two enhanced with the Magic Weapon spell. Kate cast using her own spell again, this time aiming for Ringo's head. Nanuet's necklace, hands and face glow bright green. The colors flow into Ruby as the healing magic begins to work. Nanuet continues to focus on the magic of the necklace. He tries to remember everything that Kajika taught him about shamanistic healing. He recites his own healing prayers pouring his thoughts and soul into the spell combining his magic with that of the necklace. His voice grows louder as he prays to heal his friend. Minerva and Chester both manage to strike Ringo's gun arm, causing him to drop his Colt. The weapon goes off as it hits the ground, the bullet striking the side of the cliff forty feet away for another explosion. Jake empties the first three bullets of his gun at Ringo's chest, two of which deflect off of his magical coat but the third punctures a hole in the coat near the heart. Ringo remains standing with a shocked look on his face and mutters "How..." Kate's magic missiles then strike Ringo's head. His eyes roll back and he collapses dead onto the ground. Kate let out an explosive breath and ran to Ruby, watching the light of Nanuet's healing wash over her. In anguish, Jake snatches his dropped dagger from the ground, jumps on Ringo's chest, pulls open his duster and begins to stab him repeatedly. “Live so I can kill you again you bastard“, burns through Jake's mind. After a few moments she looked up at Jake and said, "Jake! He's not going to get any deader!" Jake barely hears Katherine but her voice brings him back. With one last and forceful overhead swing he buries his dagger in the dead outlaws chest and leaves it standing there. For a moment the hilt reminds him of a grave marker. He mutters “Ruby, I'm sorry, I didn't stop him in time. I should have taken that... “ Katherine exclaims “Jake!” He turns and sees them all huddled around Ruby on the ground. Jake slowly gets up to join them, feeling helpless and too afraid to use the amulet to see if she is alive. Ruby's breathing had slowed to almost nothing but as Nanuet's magic starts working he can see her chest rise and fall, slightly stronger than before. She coughs a bit of blood again and moves her head but does not open her eyes. Chester rushes to Ruby's side and asks, "Nanuet, is she going to make it?" Nanuet continues to work the spell, adding one of his own to it. The bullet finally exits the body and seals over the would. Nanuet senses the spell is still busy internally, removing the blood from the lungs and resealing the internal damage. It takes another ten minutes for the spell to fully accomplish its task. Ruby is unconscious but still breathing and Nanuet looks like he can use a long nap. Minerva casts one more of spells onto Ruby, bringing her back to consciousness. She looks as though she will need the rest of the day to recover. Jake had been standing beside this this whole time and finally begins to relax. Maska is still alive as well, although some debris had struck her from the tunnel explosion, requiring Nanuet to use another spell on her. This helps the wolf but Nanuet has overtaxed himself and falls unconscious, requiring Minerva's last healing spell to wake him up again. Chester wraps his arm around Jake's shoulder. She's going to live. You know Nanuet and Minerva will do everything in their power to bring her back from the edge. I'm going to pray for her, will you join me?" "Um, thank you Chet. Er, ya, I'd do anything to help her." Jake thinks to himself, “I'd sooner carry her on my back from Hades barefoot over broken glass.” Once Chester is done the prayer and while the healing spell is going on Chester had followed Ringo's tracks some 150 feet back, finding a tunnel into the mountain that had been used by the outlaw to escape the caves. He quickly discovers exactly why Ringo had chosen Eduardo to transform into, as the tunnel is very small, too narrow and low for a full-sized human to have squeezed into and would have even been difficult for the smaller wood elf form. Minerva sends Luna into the opening, which they discover leads to a side passage near the rear stable room that Jake and Nanuet had been to before. Five horses remain in that room. Luna checks out the remainder of the caves finding no people inside up to the points of the two cave-ins. Until the front cave in is cleared, which will probably take some time with even a crew of experienced miners, there will be no way to get the horses out. Fortunately there is enough food and water to sustain the animals. Luna does not see any of the books. Jake and Nanuet surmise they are in the bunkhouse room, the passage way to that room now being blocked by the smaller of the two collapsed roofs. It is now 5:45 AM light of the new day begins to shine in from over the mountains. Ruby, Nanuet and Maska all do not appear to be in any condition to travel. Qualtaqa and Costas have already left the region and would be well on their way back to town. Minerva tends to Ruby, Maska and Nanuet using cloaks and blankets from the horses to try and make them as comfortable as possible. Minerva suggests that they write out a note and have Luna fly it to the priest and the centaur. She calls to Luna and sends her off with a brief letter which states, "We have finished our business here but members of our party are unable to ride and require your assistance." Ruby's eyes start to peek open ever so slightly, and she weakly coughs up a little bit of blood. She looks at the faces around her but everything is blurry and gets more so as her chest starts to burn. "Uuuuhhhh," she moans softly, "What happened?" Jake kneels very close to Ruby and tries to put on a cheerful smile. "You didn't duck, you told me you would duck." He holds her hand and whispers, "I'm sorry, I thought I could stop him." She turns her head towards him and blinks a few times bringing Jake into focus. "But we can't get married..." Jake tilts his head slightly to one side and looks mightily confused. "Of course you are right," he replies with furrowed eyebrows. "Don't worry though, you are going to be fine." She says, "...If I'm dead...we can't get married, like my dream." With those words Ruby's eyes start to close. "It's ok, you stopped him and saved me." Ruby rests her face against Jake's hand then falls back asleep. Katherine wanted to go to Ruby, but she and Jake had pulled that curtain of privacy around themselves that shut out all others. It was probably just as well, Ruby was angry with her again and getting her upset wouldn't help her. But Katherine has somehow known she had to be here, had even broken her promise to come. Perhaps it was just her imagination, maybe she wanted an excuse for having come, but if she hadn't been here..... [I][DM’s Note: That concludes the final combat encounter of the module. Five remaining chapters will follow covering this character day from morning to early evening, with several more interesting encounters and wrapping up the various loose ends of the module as well as providing foreshadowing for the next two modules.][/I] [/QUOTE]
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