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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2338868" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chapter 119, “Deadeye Douglas Rides Again”, Friday, January 13th, 1882:"Maybe we should wait," Kate said, looking at the busy scene in front of the bank. Jake smells opportunity. Not everyone realizes that you can smell opportunity, but Jake can. "No, let's head in. Never learn anything standing in the street gawking." He leads her into the bank.Once inside the better dressed of the two strange man approaches Chester and asks to speak to the bank’s owner. Chester takes note of the well-armed pair. "The owner? I'll get him for you." Chester walks to Frank's office. He knocks on the door and glances back at two to make sure there's no funny business. Frank tells him to come in. Chester says, "Mr. Condon, there's a man here to see you. He's got on a black suit and hat. Careful, he and his buddy are armed.""That's what I have you for. That guy looks rich and we can use the money." With that Frank enthusiastically heads forward. Frank Condon shakes his hand, and invites him to sit at the manager’s desk. The man introduces himself as Doug Kingsley Arthur. He holds up the apparently heavy satchel and says “Would you mind having your guard stick close to us until we get this safely into your vault?” Frank replies, "No, not at all. Will your friend be joining us, too? Chester, help Mr. Arthur with his bag."  The well dressed man says "Not so fast. I need to find out some things about this bank of your before I decide to trust you with my valuables." He takes a seat in the chair beside the desk while Frank sits in the other.Jake and Kate enter the bank. Both tellers are behind the main counter. The two men who just entered are over by the desk along with Frank Condon and Chester. Frank and the well-dressed man are both seated in chairs while the two guards are both standing. Jake leads Katherine over to the tellers and positions himself so he can look at her and over her to see the others. "So Katherine, do you want cash or start an account?" She replies, "I suppose I ought to get an account, as much as I don't really care for the idea. Banks tend to get robbed."A few minutes later a young couple who each look to be around twenty years old enter the bank holding hands. Both are dressed in riding clothes. He has an upholstered single-action revolver tucked into the right side of his belt. She takes several crumpled bills out of a pocket in her coat and hands it to him. He takes the money, kisses her on the cheek and says, “I’ll be right back.” He heads up to the teller’s window and waits in line behind Jake and Kate while she stands in the middle of the room and smiles at Chester.A woman enters the bank. Those who had attended the court hearing on Tuesday recognize her as Pamela Yeats, the owner of the Trial Dust Saloon whose husband Dudley had been sentenced to five years of prison for shooting at Marshall Earp. She looks in the direction of the desk and says to nobody in particular “Oh, he’s busy. I guess I’ll wait.” Chester looks over at the new arrivals. A man who doesn't use a holster usually means trouble. He sees Jake and Kate at the teller. Chester nods, but otherwise doesn't greet them."There you go, sign her up with an account. We'll be transferring $300 from my account to it." Jake steps aside and let's Katherine forward to deal with the teller. I hate people standing behind me, he thinks, and turns to quickly scan the man waiting in line followed by his girl. Kate goes ahead and gives her information to start the account. The more people that squeeze in the more uncomfortable she becomes. "Jake, we should get Flint's money at least, shouldn't we? I need to get his fencing supplies." The man looks to be relatively harmless, although appearances can sometimes be deceiving. The crumpled bills in his hand consist of a twenty, a ten and a five. Jake notices that the man has on a gold wedding band.  Across the room Pamela Yeats begins to pace while waiting for Frank Condon to finish with the other customer. “Damn it! How much longer are you going to be?” Pamela yells at Frank Condon.” Her outburst causes everyone to turn and look in her direction. Simultaneous to this two men enter the bank. They are wearing jeans, work shirts and leather vests. The smaller of the two men is Dudley Yeats, who should be sitting right now in the Tombstone jail. The man beside him is huge, a good 350 pounds, and most of it appears to be muscle. The only thing detracting from the man’s intimidating appearance is a pair of wire-rimmed eyeglasses on his face. Each is holding a revolver in his hand that they point at the occupants of the room. "I knew we should have waited," Kate whispered.Jake says, "I see this is a bad time, should we come back later?" At the sight of the armed men the man standing in line at the teller’s window yells to his female companion “Honey, get down.” His hand begins to move towards the gun in his belt. The woman has a look of panic on her face and starts to move towards the desk. Meanwhile, Pamela Yeats reaches into a fold in her dress and pulls out a revolver.Kate tried to note where everyone was in the room. This wasn't like last night. Any attempt at using a spell here would be noticed. Tom's pistol was in her pocket, these men wouldn't know she was armed. She tried to get her hand closer to her pocket while keeping them in plain sight. Chester ducks behind the desk and draws his Remington. He tries to think if he can reach the long-arms without getting shot. Chester feels the barrel of a revolver pressing against the back of his head and the bodyguard for the man sitting at the desk says, “Don’t try to be a hero.”  He thinks, “Damn. They got the drop on me. Now what?” He drops the Remington and puts his hands up.The man at the teller’s window turns and points his gun at Scott Taylor ands says, “One move and I blow your head off.” His female companion near the desk casually walks around the desk and removes the shotgun from the back of well-dressed man’s bodyguard. She then points it in the direction of Jake and Kate and says "Don't any of you think of being heroes either. They don't call me Shotgun Sally for nothing." Jake whispers to Katherine. "Faint."  Kate started taking short gulping breaths, let her eyes roll up in her head, and collapsed to the floor, hoping she was at least a moderately convincing actress. Jake makes a little move toward the ill Katherine, but stops and looks around at all the guns pointed at him. He feigns a look of distress over her condition.The well-dressed man at Frank’s desk now stands up and says, “Please don’t any of you be foolish.” He looks towards Frank Condon and then says in a voice loud enough for everyone in the room to hear. “I haven’t been entirely honest with you Mr. Condon. My name really isn’t Douglas Arthur, it’s actually Arthur Douglas although most people know me by my nickname Deadeye.” If she hadn't needed to continue to pretend to be unconscious, Kate would have laughed. Deadeye and his "twin" together in the same room. But if what she had read was true, no one would be hurt if they were cooperative. She still went though her available spells to see if there was anything she could do.Douglas continues “Now unless you’d like to discover firsthand how I got that nickname I would suggest that you and your guard go and unlock the door to the vault.” Condon looks towards both Chester and Jake. Chester looks at Frank with a questioning gaze that indicates the question of “What do you want me to do?” Condon tells Chester "We'd better do as he says." "If you say so, Mr. Condon," Chester replies.   Douglas removes Frank's gun from its holster and picks up Chester's from the floor. Douglas puts both revolvers into a desk drawer, which he then shuts. He then directs both Frank and Chester towards the vault. Douglas says "I would suggest that you open it and don't delay. My satchel contains several sticks of dynamite so we're going to get in it one way or the other."Chester and Frank head towards the vault followed by Deadeye Douglas and his bodyguard. Dudley Yeats puts up the "closed" sign on the bank door and watches the street. Shotgun Sally keeps her double-barreled firearm pointed at Jake and Kate (who is still lying on the floor), assisted by Pamela Yeats who is acting very uncertain about this whole thing. The man near Jake keeps his gun pointed at the tellers and tells them "Okay, both of you, keep your hands where I can see them and get out of there. Head over to the vault. The oversized man near the door walks closer in the room to Jake and says to him "You too, go help bring out the money."Katherine rubbed her fingers against the floor, gathering enough sand to cast a sleep spell. She opened her eyes just a slit, looking for a place to center the spell that would only affect the robbers, but mostly to make sure Jake isn't affected.  She made sure her hands were where they couldn't be seen, and started making some moaning noises. At the first hint from Jake, those noises would hopefully hide the casting. Then she waited. Jake nods at the man, and coughs a little cough. He starts to move in the direction the man is indicating and coughs a little harder. He continues to move but now is coughing loudly and leaning slightly against the bank counter. "Do you 'cough, cough' smell something?"Jake certainly knew how to make his cue unmistakable. Kate took a deep breath and muttered rapidly under her breath, making the sinuous finger moments that comprised the spell. She directed it to the most concentrated pocket of robbers and away from Jake. The pinch of sand between her fingers disintegrated and fell away as the spell completed. She prayed she hadn't been seen and slipped her hand into her pocket.Frank Condon and Chester are over by the vault door and Condon places the key in the vault lock then reaches for the combination spinner. Both Deadeye and his large guard are beside them as the two tellers, Maxwell and Taylor, approach.   Jake begins coughing which annoys Shotgun Sally who yells over to her boyfriend that Jake is still armed. At that point the man is halfway between the teller’s window and the vault, his gun trained on the two tellers. He looks to the very large man who is now approaching Jake and says “Get his gun Mongo”. The man reaches over to grab Jake’s gun from the holster. He no sooner has his hand on the weapon and has begun to pull it out when Kate completes her incantation. Shotgun Sally, Pamela Yeats and the very large man all collapse onto the floor simultaneously. Dudley Yeats charges away from the door to check on his wife.  Jake’s gun was mostly out of the holster and starts to drop along with the man’s hand but the end of the barrel catches the top of the holster and hangs precariously there as Deadeye takes aim at Jake, almost daring the gambler to reach for it. Jake ignores the urge to lock eyes with deadeye and instead feigns a lack of focus and coughs again. He keeps his poker face not responding to the challenging look on the famous outlaw’s face. He is careful to not move towards his colt, but tries not to move to cause it to fall.The room was still ignoring Kate as she lay on the ground. Apparently despite her moaning they still assumed she was not a threat. With her hand inside her pocket it was easy to grab a bit of wool. Jake needed Deadeye to be distracted for just a moment. She muttered again, making the movements with her free hand and used the Daze cantrip on Deadeye, hoping he was not of such a strong mind that it wouldn't affect him.   She then turned slightly and pointed the pistol still in her pocket toward the man with his gun on the tellers. She didn't fire yet, waiting to see if her spell worked and how Jake would react.Katherine's spell seems to have no effect, as Deadeye continues to stare down Jake while he instructs the man by the teller's gate "Pinto, Get his gun." Dudley Yeats reaches his wife and is relieved to find her still alive. He splashes water onto her face from a canteen on his belt while shaking her and she starts to stir.  The man, apparently named Pinto, walks up to Jake and grabs for the Colt while Deadeye continues to point his gun at Jake. Deadeye's companion keeps his own gun leveled at Condon, Chester and the two tellers. Condon finishes the combination and announces "It's unlocked." Deadeye says "Step away and don't think about setting off any more magical gas traps. I've let you get away with that once but my patience is over."  Dudley looks up and says "Gas trap?" Deadeye replies "Probably contained in the leg of the table. He must have activated it while he was still at the desk. Your wife will be fine once it wears off."Jake thinks “Pinto, it's payback time.” When Pinto leans to grab the gun, Jake pushes Pinto's gun slightly to the side and grabs his own colt while stepping closer to Pinto to place him between Deadeye and Jake. Jake fires once into the very close Pinto and springs up and tumbles over the counter.  As Katherine sees Jake move, she moved the gun in her pocket as Condon and Chester backed away from Deadeye and fires at Deadeye's companion. Kate's shot at Deadeye's bodyguard misses and he fires back into her, grazing her gun hand for a minor wound.Jake's shot hits Pinto in the chest. He wasn't expecting it and staggers backward, unable to fire a shot. This also leaves Jake totally exposed and Deadeye's first shot hits deep into Jake's left shoulder and partially incapacitates that arm. Jake's tumbling move does catch Deadeye off guard and his second shot strikes the side of the counter where Jake had been a millisecond before. Deadeye continues to track Jake's movement. Jake makes it over the counter but as he is dropping down gets tagged in the chest by the outlaw's third and final shot for a near mortal wound.  He lands unconscious on the floor.</blockquote>

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