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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1964122" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><em>DM’s Note: This style of the next three chapters will be a bit different than those prior it. During the two months of the up to this point (Chapters 9 to 77) we had been doing this as a Play-by-post game, posting whenever we could. On the night of this chapter we started to also do a weekly gaming session where everyone was online simultaneously. The first night of doing this was rather chaotic and confusing, but that tended to add to the scenario this evening rather than detract from it. </em> </p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Chapter 78, “Ambush”, January 10th, 1882:</strong></p><p></p><p>Jake has headed around the far side of the mountain to get a look at the silver vein. It is extremely high up and will take some effort to get at, but based upon what he sees from the ground he does see a lot of silver gleaming as sunlight shines down upon it. He comes back around towards the coach. "Zachary Morand," Jake calls out as he comes back from exploring. "Are you ready to go? We should consider heading back."</p><p></p><p>Morand indicates that he is after checking a mechanical counter fastened to the wheel to get the exact mileage from the town to the mountain. Seawell decides to ride inside on the way back along with his friend MacNaulty, since Morand now knows the route. Sonoma and Nanuet get back on their horses. Jake looks around for Ruby, seeing her a distance off talking to Earp. </p><p></p><p>Nanuet mentions to Jake that there was a spot about three miles into the journey here that looked ideal for an ambush. A lot of hills trees and rocks. "Be aware when we near that spot, if they are going to do anything, that is where it would be." "OK, Indian." Jake replies. "So besides being on our toes, is there anyway to fool or ambush the ambushers?" He puts his hand on Nanuet's shoulder and looks him in the eye. "Or do we just trust that we are faster than them?" </p><p></p><p>Jake keeps glancing over at Ruby and Earp. "Nanuet, I was hoping Earp would still be on our side if there was a fight. After talking with that damn fool girl, I'm not so sure." Nanuet laughs "You have a point there. Are we ready to go? Should I break them up and get them back over here?" Nanuet replies as he looks towards the Marshall then back at Jake "Considering our company, I think we should ride straight through, but if you want someone to scout ahead I volunteer." Jake shares the location that Nanuet had suggested. "Me, I always suspect trouble all the time." Jake laughs.</p><p></p><p>A short distance away there has been a long pause that seems like forever before Morgan Earp tells Ruby "Don't believe everything you hear. Lots of false rumors running around these parts." As he walks away Ruby loudly says to herself, "Funny, you would think you could trust the Earps..." He returns to the stage and climbs up top with Morand. As is his habit Jake will offer a hand up to the ladies and then climb aboard. </p><p></p><p>Kate got herself back in the coach as Morgan Earp climbed back on top. Everyone seemed to think an attack would come on the way back if it was to come at all. Before anyone else joined her in the coach, she pulled out the slender metal rod Mr. Gonzales had given her and laid it lengthwise against Tom's pistol. Hopefully if she had to use it the pistol would hide it. Chester gets back into the coach after a walk around. He turns to Jake, "So just where are you expecting trouble?" He checks his Spencer and the reloads.</p><p></p><p>Ruby walks back over to the coach and lets Jake help her in. He rolls his eyes at Ruby and takes a seat facing the back of the wagon. "Lots of folks looking forward," he says to Ruby. She replies, "What does that mean?" "I mean that almost everyone is looking that way," He points behind him towards the horses, "because we are travelling that way. So I'll focus on what is behind us. What did you think I was talking about." He pokes her with his finger and grins. Ruby smiles. "You are smart, Jake. I thought you might be mad at me." She glances over to Kate. "But we can talk about it later."</p><p></p><p>The stage sets off and they continue back the way they came, riding for two miles first through the rocky area and then along the grassy hills. They then approach the area that Nanuet was concerned about, where there are a number of smaller but steeper mountains and hills, with the road winding around between them.</p><p></p><p>Nanuet trots to the back of the wagon where he can see everybody. "This is the area I noticed on the way here. If there was to be trouble, this is where it would be. Do we just keep going or do we want to make any kind of plan?" Chester says in a low voice, "Just what did you have in mind?" Jake says, "Want to just slow down for a minute and concentrate on looking up ahead for hidden folks? Everyone keep your eyes peeled." </p><p></p><p> Nanuet nods and says to Chester, "Just like Jake suggested keeping eyes open or maybe sending someone to higher ground or ahead to get a better look. I think it would be best if we stayed together though." Chester says, "I'm not that good at sneaking around. I'll keep my eyes peeled, then. An ambush will make me late for work." "Not to mention ruining that nice coat of yours with bullets holes" Jake responds with a straight face. It's Ruby's turn to roll her eyes.</p><p></p><p>Katherine returned Ruby's glance with an absent smile and went back to watching out the window. She was still wondering about the Marshall. She couldn't recall ever meeting him before she came to Promise City, and then all she had done was give her testimony, and she doubted she'd offended him with that. </p><p></p><p>It didn't really matter if he liked her at all, she supposed, but it seemed very strange. She'd have to ask Ruby later what she'd been talking with him about. Maybe she'd asked him about it. She heard Jake’s command of “keep your eyes peeled.” Kate nodded her head and refocused on watching the landscape.</p><p></p><p>They ride on, with Sonoma and Nanuet looking carefully around every bend and Morand alert for possible trouble. They travel slower for this mile, exercising caution at every turn. As they near the end of the mile long stretch of the road twisting around the hills things continue to look as they were during the ride out a little more than an hour earlier. The road begins to straighten out and the large mountain looms ahead to the right, running parallel the road most of the journey back to town. A few small hills remain to the left but none are as steep as those of the previous mile. Nanuet is still on full alert, anyone looking at him can tell his focus is fully on the road ahead and the area on either side of the road. "We aren't home yet" he mumbles to himself.</p><p></p><p>Chester begins to question the wisdom of riding on stagecoaches when it suddenly jerks abruptly to the right and off of the roadway, causing him to slip off of the seat and onto the floor. A rifle shot fires from up above. Chester exclaims "Damn, that was a rifle! Everybody get down! Where'd that come from?" He cocks the hammer on his Spencer, pointing it out the window.</p><p></p><p>"Get down!" Jake yells as he reaches down to grab his rifle and successfully rolls out of the wagon opposite the mountain. He maintains as much cover of the wagon as he can and looks for a shooter. </p><p></p><p>Nanuet and Sonoma have to slow as the stagecoach turns and charges in their path. As the stage rides he sees nine men on horseback and wearing bandanas as masks riding out onto he roadway from behind trees and the hillside around five hundred feet ahead of them.</p><p></p><p>Kate slid herself back along the bench and pushed her head hard against the side of the coach, trying to see out without actually hanging her head out the window. In her hand she held Tom's pistol with the metal rod against it, ready to start shooting if she sees something. It then occurs to her that she actually has no idea what the rod is or does.</p><p></p><p>Ruby starts actually paying attention and pulls out her gun. She had been thinking about what Earp said to her, trying to cover himself. She looks out the window and hopes she doesn't have to shoot too many people today.</p><p></p><p>Nanuet yells to Sonoma "Get behind the coach for cover." then spurs his horse to do the same. When he gets behind the wagon he unslings his rifle and looks over his companions to make sure they are OK. The stage has now turned rapidly off of the roadway and is pointing towards the Dos Cabezas Mountains, the pace quickening. MacNaulty looks out the windows on the other side and says, “Five more masked riders are coming up behind us, around 400 feet back.” Morgan Earp’s rifle now fires from up on the stage roof.</p><p></p><p>Chester sticks his rifle out the window toward the five. He decides that he will fire at the closest when they come within 100 feet. The miner Patrick Seawell grabs his rifle and crouches a bit to protect himself.</p><p></p><p>Not seeing the shooter from above Jake takes aim at the lead horse rider and fires with his rifle, missing the rider. Then he turns and runs after the coach and grabs the back. Ruby sees Jake running after the coach from behind and grabbing it. "Are you crazy??" she says while moving to the back. She sticks her hands out to help him. "Yes." Jake sticks the rifle in the coach and tries to climb in. </p><p></p><p>Now that Nanuet has an idea where the coach is heading he yells for the driver to stop. He rides alongside the horses and calms them down. Sonoma’s pony rides in closer to the stagecoach and Katherine sees her waving her hands and saying something. Sonoma then fades out of existence. Katherine can still see an impression of her on the saddle blanket and concludes that she is still present but has magically made herself invisible. She then hears Sonoma’s voice again and the pony also becomes invisible. Nanuet focuses his mind, hoping to reach Maska. He feels that they will need all the help they can get. Their minds connect and he calls her to come quickly.</p><p></p><p>Morand ignores Nanuet's advice as the stagecoach begins climbing the lower elevation at the beginning of the northern mountain. The miner MacNaulty exclaims, “What is that idiot driver doing, getting off the road and climbing is only slowing us down, those outlaws will catch up in no time.” Seawell looks out the back window and says, “He didn’t have much choice. Five more riders just rode out from the other side of the road so we were surrounded on three sides. It was either stop or head this way.” Chester says "Boy when you people get in trouble, you really do get into it. They must really want us dead." </p><p></p><p>"We don't do anything halfway," Kate said dryly. Then she focused her mind on the spell she had memorized this morning. She spoke the final words and with a gesture her clothes appeared to change. She now appeared to be dressed in black leather from head to foot, leaving only her face exposed. Chester turns as the words to Kate's spell leave her mouth. "Did you say something?" He stops in surprise, "My, Mrs. Kale. You are full of surprises. How does that help us now?" She replies, "I don't know that it really helps you, Mr. Martin, but it keeps me from getting shot. And I find that helpful." </p><p></p><p>Chester shifts his aim to the side of the carriage. He speaks out of the side of his mouth, "I didn't mean no offense ma'am. Just curious. Could've used that in the Army." "No offense taken," she says, watching for the outlaws to get close enough for her to try the slim metal rod again. "I hope you'll keep this to yourself, though." He answers, "I must look really trustworthy. That's the second secret I've had to keep since I arrived in Promise City." </p><p></p><p>Kate tells herself ‘Well, Mr. Gonzales said to use it instead of the pistol, so I'll try it anyway.’ Uncertain of the distance, Kate takes a chance and fires at the men coming up behind the stage. Kate watches as a mystical beam of light shoots forth from the wand. The beam travels for around 200 feet, around half the distance to the nearest outlaw, and then disappears. Looks like I have to wait a little longer on that she thinks. She pulled herself back inside the coach. Just like in the caves, a strange calmness had settled on her. </p><p></p><p>They continue up the hillside, riding over some small saplings and twisting to avoid the large trees and any boulders lying in their path. Earp continues to fire rifle shots from above. Looking ahead around 200 feet they then see a pair of saddled horses standing off to the side ahead, with two bodies lying on the ground beside them. Seawell comments, “Correction, the outlaws had us surrounded on all four sides, but this one only had a pair, Marshall Earp just cleared us a path.” "A path to where?" yells Nanuet "The path is getting pretty rough!' Chester says "Great work Marshall. I hope the rest are as easy."</p><p></p><p>After Ruby helped Jake into the coach she picked up his extra shotgun. "You don't mind, do you?" she says with a smile. Jake smiles at Ruby while reaching into his pocket and taking out some shotgun shells. He raises his eyebrows and stuffs them in the shirt pockets of the borrowed shirt she is wearing. He takes off his lucky hat, sticks his gun out the back and begins taking shots at their pursuers. "I better start hitting something, Chester's gonna be late for work."</p><p></p><p>As the nineteen armed riders following get closer. The five in front are around 300 feet back and the furthest are now 500 feet back. The ones in front start firing their guns at the stagecoach, although it is still at rather extreme range for revolvers. Nanuet tries his best to repeatedly shoot and reload the rifle while riding along side the wagon.</p><p></p><p>The stage continues to climb. Those inside now notice that the two riderless horses that had been off to the side are now moving parallel to the stage around fifty feet to the right, with the reins pulled up and together and floating in the air before them. Ruby guesses to the best of her ability where the actual riders on the horses to the right of them might be and gets ready to take a shot with Jake's shotgun, trying not to hit the horses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 1964122, member: 8530"] [I]DM’s Note: This style of the next three chapters will be a bit different than those prior it. During the two months of the up to this point (Chapters 9 to 77) we had been doing this as a Play-by-post game, posting whenever we could. On the night of this chapter we started to also do a weekly gaming session where everyone was online simultaneously. The first night of doing this was rather chaotic and confusing, but that tended to add to the scenario this evening rather than detract from it. [/I] [B]Chapter 78, “Ambush”, January 10th, 1882:[/B] Jake has headed around the far side of the mountain to get a look at the silver vein. It is extremely high up and will take some effort to get at, but based upon what he sees from the ground he does see a lot of silver gleaming as sunlight shines down upon it. He comes back around towards the coach. "Zachary Morand," Jake calls out as he comes back from exploring. "Are you ready to go? We should consider heading back." Morand indicates that he is after checking a mechanical counter fastened to the wheel to get the exact mileage from the town to the mountain. Seawell decides to ride inside on the way back along with his friend MacNaulty, since Morand now knows the route. Sonoma and Nanuet get back on their horses. Jake looks around for Ruby, seeing her a distance off talking to Earp. Nanuet mentions to Jake that there was a spot about three miles into the journey here that looked ideal for an ambush. A lot of hills trees and rocks. "Be aware when we near that spot, if they are going to do anything, that is where it would be." "OK, Indian." Jake replies. "So besides being on our toes, is there anyway to fool or ambush the ambushers?" He puts his hand on Nanuet's shoulder and looks him in the eye. "Or do we just trust that we are faster than them?" Jake keeps glancing over at Ruby and Earp. "Nanuet, I was hoping Earp would still be on our side if there was a fight. After talking with that damn fool girl, I'm not so sure." Nanuet laughs "You have a point there. Are we ready to go? Should I break them up and get them back over here?" Nanuet replies as he looks towards the Marshall then back at Jake "Considering our company, I think we should ride straight through, but if you want someone to scout ahead I volunteer." Jake shares the location that Nanuet had suggested. "Me, I always suspect trouble all the time." Jake laughs. A short distance away there has been a long pause that seems like forever before Morgan Earp tells Ruby "Don't believe everything you hear. Lots of false rumors running around these parts." As he walks away Ruby loudly says to herself, "Funny, you would think you could trust the Earps..." He returns to the stage and climbs up top with Morand. As is his habit Jake will offer a hand up to the ladies and then climb aboard. Kate got herself back in the coach as Morgan Earp climbed back on top. Everyone seemed to think an attack would come on the way back if it was to come at all. Before anyone else joined her in the coach, she pulled out the slender metal rod Mr. Gonzales had given her and laid it lengthwise against Tom's pistol. Hopefully if she had to use it the pistol would hide it. Chester gets back into the coach after a walk around. He turns to Jake, "So just where are you expecting trouble?" He checks his Spencer and the reloads. Ruby walks back over to the coach and lets Jake help her in. He rolls his eyes at Ruby and takes a seat facing the back of the wagon. "Lots of folks looking forward," he says to Ruby. She replies, "What does that mean?" "I mean that almost everyone is looking that way," He points behind him towards the horses, "because we are travelling that way. So I'll focus on what is behind us. What did you think I was talking about." He pokes her with his finger and grins. Ruby smiles. "You are smart, Jake. I thought you might be mad at me." She glances over to Kate. "But we can talk about it later." The stage sets off and they continue back the way they came, riding for two miles first through the rocky area and then along the grassy hills. They then approach the area that Nanuet was concerned about, where there are a number of smaller but steeper mountains and hills, with the road winding around between them. Nanuet trots to the back of the wagon where he can see everybody. "This is the area I noticed on the way here. If there was to be trouble, this is where it would be. Do we just keep going or do we want to make any kind of plan?" Chester says in a low voice, "Just what did you have in mind?" Jake says, "Want to just slow down for a minute and concentrate on looking up ahead for hidden folks? Everyone keep your eyes peeled." Nanuet nods and says to Chester, "Just like Jake suggested keeping eyes open or maybe sending someone to higher ground or ahead to get a better look. I think it would be best if we stayed together though." Chester says, "I'm not that good at sneaking around. I'll keep my eyes peeled, then. An ambush will make me late for work." "Not to mention ruining that nice coat of yours with bullets holes" Jake responds with a straight face. It's Ruby's turn to roll her eyes. Katherine returned Ruby's glance with an absent smile and went back to watching out the window. She was still wondering about the Marshall. She couldn't recall ever meeting him before she came to Promise City, and then all she had done was give her testimony, and she doubted she'd offended him with that. It didn't really matter if he liked her at all, she supposed, but it seemed very strange. She'd have to ask Ruby later what she'd been talking with him about. Maybe she'd asked him about it. She heard Jake’s command of “keep your eyes peeled.” Kate nodded her head and refocused on watching the landscape. They ride on, with Sonoma and Nanuet looking carefully around every bend and Morand alert for possible trouble. They travel slower for this mile, exercising caution at every turn. As they near the end of the mile long stretch of the road twisting around the hills things continue to look as they were during the ride out a little more than an hour earlier. The road begins to straighten out and the large mountain looms ahead to the right, running parallel the road most of the journey back to town. A few small hills remain to the left but none are as steep as those of the previous mile. Nanuet is still on full alert, anyone looking at him can tell his focus is fully on the road ahead and the area on either side of the road. "We aren't home yet" he mumbles to himself. Chester begins to question the wisdom of riding on stagecoaches when it suddenly jerks abruptly to the right and off of the roadway, causing him to slip off of the seat and onto the floor. A rifle shot fires from up above. Chester exclaims "Damn, that was a rifle! Everybody get down! Where'd that come from?" He cocks the hammer on his Spencer, pointing it out the window. "Get down!" Jake yells as he reaches down to grab his rifle and successfully rolls out of the wagon opposite the mountain. He maintains as much cover of the wagon as he can and looks for a shooter. Nanuet and Sonoma have to slow as the stagecoach turns and charges in their path. As the stage rides he sees nine men on horseback and wearing bandanas as masks riding out onto he roadway from behind trees and the hillside around five hundred feet ahead of them. Kate slid herself back along the bench and pushed her head hard against the side of the coach, trying to see out without actually hanging her head out the window. In her hand she held Tom's pistol with the metal rod against it, ready to start shooting if she sees something. It then occurs to her that she actually has no idea what the rod is or does. Ruby starts actually paying attention and pulls out her gun. She had been thinking about what Earp said to her, trying to cover himself. She looks out the window and hopes she doesn't have to shoot too many people today. Nanuet yells to Sonoma "Get behind the coach for cover." then spurs his horse to do the same. When he gets behind the wagon he unslings his rifle and looks over his companions to make sure they are OK. The stage has now turned rapidly off of the roadway and is pointing towards the Dos Cabezas Mountains, the pace quickening. MacNaulty looks out the windows on the other side and says, “Five more masked riders are coming up behind us, around 400 feet back.” Morgan Earp’s rifle now fires from up on the stage roof. Chester sticks his rifle out the window toward the five. He decides that he will fire at the closest when they come within 100 feet. The miner Patrick Seawell grabs his rifle and crouches a bit to protect himself. Not seeing the shooter from above Jake takes aim at the lead horse rider and fires with his rifle, missing the rider. Then he turns and runs after the coach and grabs the back. Ruby sees Jake running after the coach from behind and grabbing it. "Are you crazy??" she says while moving to the back. She sticks her hands out to help him. "Yes." Jake sticks the rifle in the coach and tries to climb in. Now that Nanuet has an idea where the coach is heading he yells for the driver to stop. He rides alongside the horses and calms them down. Sonoma’s pony rides in closer to the stagecoach and Katherine sees her waving her hands and saying something. Sonoma then fades out of existence. Katherine can still see an impression of her on the saddle blanket and concludes that she is still present but has magically made herself invisible. She then hears Sonoma’s voice again and the pony also becomes invisible. Nanuet focuses his mind, hoping to reach Maska. He feels that they will need all the help they can get. Their minds connect and he calls her to come quickly. Morand ignores Nanuet's advice as the stagecoach begins climbing the lower elevation at the beginning of the northern mountain. The miner MacNaulty exclaims, “What is that idiot driver doing, getting off the road and climbing is only slowing us down, those outlaws will catch up in no time.” Seawell looks out the back window and says, “He didn’t have much choice. Five more riders just rode out from the other side of the road so we were surrounded on three sides. It was either stop or head this way.” Chester says "Boy when you people get in trouble, you really do get into it. They must really want us dead." "We don't do anything halfway," Kate said dryly. Then she focused her mind on the spell she had memorized this morning. She spoke the final words and with a gesture her clothes appeared to change. She now appeared to be dressed in black leather from head to foot, leaving only her face exposed. Chester turns as the words to Kate's spell leave her mouth. "Did you say something?" He stops in surprise, "My, Mrs. Kale. You are full of surprises. How does that help us now?" She replies, "I don't know that it really helps you, Mr. Martin, but it keeps me from getting shot. And I find that helpful." Chester shifts his aim to the side of the carriage. He speaks out of the side of his mouth, "I didn't mean no offense ma'am. Just curious. Could've used that in the Army." "No offense taken," she says, watching for the outlaws to get close enough for her to try the slim metal rod again. "I hope you'll keep this to yourself, though." He answers, "I must look really trustworthy. That's the second secret I've had to keep since I arrived in Promise City." Kate tells herself ‘Well, Mr. Gonzales said to use it instead of the pistol, so I'll try it anyway.’ Uncertain of the distance, Kate takes a chance and fires at the men coming up behind the stage. Kate watches as a mystical beam of light shoots forth from the wand. The beam travels for around 200 feet, around half the distance to the nearest outlaw, and then disappears. Looks like I have to wait a little longer on that she thinks. She pulled herself back inside the coach. Just like in the caves, a strange calmness had settled on her. They continue up the hillside, riding over some small saplings and twisting to avoid the large trees and any boulders lying in their path. Earp continues to fire rifle shots from above. Looking ahead around 200 feet they then see a pair of saddled horses standing off to the side ahead, with two bodies lying on the ground beside them. Seawell comments, “Correction, the outlaws had us surrounded on all four sides, but this one only had a pair, Marshall Earp just cleared us a path.” "A path to where?" yells Nanuet "The path is getting pretty rough!' Chester says "Great work Marshall. I hope the rest are as easy." After Ruby helped Jake into the coach she picked up his extra shotgun. "You don't mind, do you?" she says with a smile. Jake smiles at Ruby while reaching into his pocket and taking out some shotgun shells. He raises his eyebrows and stuffs them in the shirt pockets of the borrowed shirt she is wearing. He takes off his lucky hat, sticks his gun out the back and begins taking shots at their pursuers. "I better start hitting something, Chester's gonna be late for work." As the nineteen armed riders following get closer. The five in front are around 300 feet back and the furthest are now 500 feet back. The ones in front start firing their guns at the stagecoach, although it is still at rather extreme range for revolvers. Nanuet tries his best to repeatedly shoot and reload the rifle while riding along side the wagon. The stage continues to climb. Those inside now notice that the two riderless horses that had been off to the side are now moving parallel to the stage around fifty feet to the right, with the reins pulled up and together and floating in the air before them. Ruby guesses to the best of her ability where the actual riders on the horses to the right of them might be and gets ready to take a shot with Jake's shotgun, trying not to hit the horses. [/QUOTE]
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