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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 3884661" data-attributes="member: 8530">Game Four - “Jailbreak” Played June 17th 2006 Game Four- Previously Played Characters Shotgun Sally Fox – Fast Hero (3), Rustler (3) played by Joy Healinghand Pinto Joe Weems - Tough Hero (3), Desperado (3) (non-ENWorld player) Pamela Yeats – Dedicated Hero (3), Sawbones (3) - Played by played by Quartermoon* Mongo Bailey – Strong Hero (3), Tough Hero (3) - N.P.C. Game Four – New Characters Shamus O’Sullivan – Strong Hero (3), Pugilist (3) played by Spyscribe Henry Buckskin Bennett – Dedicated Hero (3), Mountain Man (3) played by Mythago Black Angus MacTavish – Tough Hero (3), Bounty Hunter (3) played by Plane Sailing Eugene Rex Rogers - Fast Hero (3), Pony Soldier (3) played by Cerebral Paladin*Quartermoon also played Mae Clarke in the initial game of this campaign. Chapter Thirteen, “New Cellmates”, June 11, 1882 – Canon City Colorado The Colorado Territorial Jail had been established in the community of Canon City, around a day’s ride west of Pueblo. As the Territory grew into Statehood so too the prison expanded, growing to three large cell blocks by the summer of 1882. It was here that Pinto Joe Weems and Shotgun Sally Fox were brought, awaiting a trial and sentencing. Pinto is placed alone in the center of three cells at the back end of the second floor. The cell to his left have two prisoners awaiting sentencing the first being Shamus O’Sullivan, a professional boxer who killed a man in a bar fight and the other being Henry ‘Buckskin’ Bennett, a hunter and tracker who lives in the mountains that is also facing a murder change. Born in Dublin Ireland in 1859, Shamus O’Sullivan was the youngest of nine children. He has a generally positive attitude and enjoys conversation. As a boy his older siblings would continually pick on the boy which caused him to learn how to fight back. At the age of fifteen when food became scarce he left Ireland on a ship bound for America. Settling in Boston, he soon found work in America was also scarce for those of Irish blood. He took a job as a wagon driver, which he was good at, but found the work to be very boring. Putting his fighting skills to work he soon began traveling the boxing circuit, quickly gaining a reputation as a successful fighter. This however, has resulted in a broken nose which seriously maligns Shamus’s once handsome looks although he still has little difficulty finding young women to dance with. Last year he signed on with a new fight promoter who began to take him on a road tour of the American west, as bare-knuckled fighting was a popular attraction in many of the saloons and barrooms. Shamus’s one main problem however is that his Irish temper keeps catching up to him. That was the case this month in the town of Colorado Springs where a man refused to honor a bet with Shamus that he had made prior to a fight. Shamus decided to teach the man a lesson in being true to your word by beating him up. But the man was physically not up to taking the punishment and died. Shamus is now awaiting trial on the charge of murder. Shamus’s cellmate, Bennett is a quiet man who has not shared his story with his cellmates. He was born in Canton, Ohio in 1856 where his father worked in a livery stable. Henry grew up around horses and dogs and acquired an affinity towards animals. People, however, he has never much cared for. He dropped out of school after completing the fifth grade, deciding that the rules and regiment of conventional education were not his style. He became a day laborer at the livery and would spend all of his free time out in the wood hunting with his old muzzleloader rifle and pistol. In the mid-1870’s the United States Army was looking for scouts to help with their Indian campaigns out west. Henry saw this as an opportunity to get away from Ohio and enlisted. But the discipline of Army life was not his style and he became to sympathize with and befriend the Native American population that the Army was trying to regulate. He began to spend his time off duty with the Indians and started to favor native garb over his uniform. He intentionally revealed the Army’s position at one encounter against the Sioux which earned him a courts Marshall, a year in Leavenworth Prison and a dishonorable discharge. Following that he decided to move to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He began living in the wilderness with a Sioux Indian companion named Red Eagle Feather. Henry would only occasionally head into the towns for provisions where people began to call him ‘Buckskin’ due to his hand made attire. His favorite game is bear, which he has become an expert in hunting and due to the rarity of them the hide brings an above-average price from the fur traders. Henry and Eagle became the best of friends and there is nothing that the man wouldn’t do for his companion. He proved that recently when Eagle got into a deadly confrontation in the woods with a French trapper that resulted in the Frenchman’s death. The local Marshall heard the gunshots and came to investigate, finding Henry and Eagle near the body. Henry knew that an Indian would never get a fair trial so he told the Marshall that he was the one who killed the trapper and that it was an act of self-defense. Henry has now been arrested for the murder and is in prison awaiting a trial and sentencing. The man in the cell to Pinto’s right is Black Angus MacTavish, a resourceful bounty hunter who killed a man in what he claims was an act of self-defense but the local judge ruled was cold-blooded murder. MacTavish has been sentenced to hang the following week. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1853, MacTavish came to the United States in the mid-1860’s with his father, a ship builder and blacksmith. MacTavish had a knack for machinery and mechanics but also had poor eye-hand coordination so had trouble holding down jobs. At the age of twenty took a job with the Union Pacific railroad as a mechanical engineer. That job also ran into problems due to his inherent clumsiness and he was fired. He decided to build a homestead and settle down, marrying a young woman named Martha Tanner. Tragedy struck two years later when gambler and killer Luke Hardeman came to town. He got drunk and shot two gamblers, stole a horse, robbed the local bank and rode off leaving the bodies of three more innocent victims in his wake, one of them Angus’s wife Martha who had gone to town to purchase supplies for the farm. MacTavish became “Black Angus” on that day, selling the farm and taking up the life of a bounty hunter, in his search for Hardeman. During the next several years he worked with a number of other bounty hunters, including the ruthless Irby Cole. He helped to bring outlaws Colorado Bill Elliott and Sam Bass to justice. He eventually found Hardeman in 1880, shooting the man dead. His quest was now over but he had found himself good at this line of work so decided to continue. One Thursday June 1st the New Douglas Gang led by Arthur Douglas and Safecracker Mae Clarke robbed $ 1.6 million from the Leadville, Colorado bank of silver baron Horace Tabor, killing a number of guards and soldiers in the process. Tabor contacted a number of bounty hunters include Irby Cole, Jim Courtright and Black Angus MacTavish to hunt down these outlaws. On Tuesday June 6th two members of the New Douglas Gang were arrested, namely Pinto Joe Weems and Shotgun Sally Fox, who had less than $ 300,000 of the stolen money with them. The pair were to be shipped to the Colorado State Prison in Canon City. But Douglas and Clarke remain at large with over a million of the stolen money. Tabor and MacTavish concocted a plan which they put into motion with the help of a Denver Judge friend of Tabor’s and an actor friend of MacTavish. MacTavish and the actor got into a fight in a Denver saloon and MacTavish pretended to kill the other man. The Judge brought MacTavish to trial and sentenced him to be hung for murder in two weeks time and shipping him off to the Prison in Canon City, where he arrived the day before Pinto Joe and the two were placed in the adjacent cells. The plan is for MacTavish to befriend Weems and break them both out of jail using a number of small concealed items that he managed to sneak in with him including lock picks, a straight razor and ten-feet of wire. He hopes that Weems to then lead him to the others as Tabor has promised him a $ 100,000 bounty for Douglas and Clarke plus fifteen-percent of all recovered money. If he is unsuccessful at a jailbreak the Judge will release him prior to the hanging. In order to maintain his cover nobody at the prison was aware that MacTavish wasn’t actually a man on death row. With no other female prisoners currently at the State Jail, Sally Fox has been placed a cell on the unoccupied third floor of the same cell bock as Joe, essentially the isolated attic level of the prison. She has gotten to know her main guard well, a handsome young man by the name of Eugene “Rex” Rogers. Sally convinced Rex to bring messages back-and-forth between her and Joe. In conversations with Rex she has learned that as teenager the man was a former Pony Express rider and loved that job, becoming disgruntled when the telegraph and railroad made that profession obsolete, and longing for those days of his youth. Other prisoners like Rogers too, as he has different attitude than the other guards, most of whom are sadistic and cruel to the prisoners, while Rogers is actually friendly and pleasant to those behind bars. A week earlier, Pamela Yeats and Mongo Bailey had put as much distance as possible between them and the other members of the New Douglas Gang, making good time and reaching the mine in Granby, Colorado where they had previously hidden the stagecoach. Pamela hid several of the saddlebags containing $ 324,000 of the stolen money. She and Mongo then returned to Dillon, Colorado where a friend of Mongo’s named Tom Carter agreed to given them sanctuary. A few days later Tom brought them a newspapers telling of Pinto Joe and Sally Fox getting captured following a shootout in the town of Rifle, Colorado. The paper said that only $ 286,000 of the stolen $ 1.6 million was recovered from the pair. Unfortunately for Pamela and Mongo, the same newspaper also told of the reward for the remaining gang members and Tom’s wife Mildred went to the local Sheriff and turned the pair in. The house was surrounded by soldiers and the two surrendered. They have now been brought to the State Prison in Canon City to await trial. Pamela has told the authorities that Deadeye has the remaining missing money, that all she and Mongo had was the $ 26,500 that was found on them, but she suspects that they do not believe her. At the prison Mongo and Pamela were separated, with him been brought to somewhere on the second floor with the hardened criminals. She is worried about how her simple-minded friend will be treated by the other prisoners. Pamela is then brought up to the nearly vacant third floor attic which is housing the prison’s only other female prisoner at the moment – Shotgun Sally Fox, who Pamela is put into a cell next to. On the floor below, much to Pinto’s surprise he is now assigned a new cellmate – Mongo Bailey! While Mongo happy to see himself being put in same cell with friend Pinto Joe, Pinto is less than enthusiastic at being put with the man who betrayed him.</blockquote>

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