"Wizards, Whiskey & Wonderful Things" ENW Game Thread

[Steve Jung]

Kate and Chester arrive at the Breakheart Stamping Mill and Smelter. The Mine Foreman arrives and introduces himself as 'Boston' Harker in a voice thick with Boston accent.

"Morning Mr. Harker. Is Patrick Sewell here? We want to speak wit' him."

 

[Silver Moon]

Harker replies, "Said he'd be by mid-afternoon with another load of ore. Why don't you come back around two or three."

 

[orchid blossom]

Harker replies, "Said he'd be by mid-afternoon with another load of ore. Why don't you come back around two or three."

"Good morning," Katherine said in her own Bostonian accent. "How nice to hear a familiar accent. We'll be certain to stop by later, but if we happen to miss him, could you ask to him to stop by the El Parador and see Mrs. Kale please?"

 

[Queenie]

He pours some whiskey into his coffee and slouches down comfortably in the chair before he says loudly, "It's time to wake up."

Ruby smells the coffee and hears Jake's voice calling her. She opens her eyes slowly, but with much less effort than earlier. "Morning Jake." She sits up, a little too quickly, "Oohh, my head. I need this." She stays in bed but drinks her coffee. She looks at Jake to try to gauge his mood before saying anything further.

 

[baradtgnome]

Jake finishes chewing his mouthful of food and washes it down with some of the whiskey coffee followed by a satisfying "Ahhhh." He watches Ruby watch him and decides to speak first.

"You know if I hadn't spent all night worried sick that you might be hurt or worse, I'd probably contemplate killing you myself." He has another sip of coffee. "It's hard to stay angry under those circumstances. Not impossible mind you but hard." Just the hint of a smile breaks on one side of his face. "Apparently Eastman showed up at the Lucky Lady last night, drunk out of his mind looking for me. Folks thought they heard him saying something like 'I lost her' or 'She's gone forever' or some other such words. Next thing you know the whole town thinks he's killed Ruby West. The whole blasted town!" Jake takes another sip of coffee. "Now I don't give a rat's tail what the town thinks, except that the whole blasted town is telling me you are dead. That and Adair is the first one to tell me the news." He pauses and look down into his coffee. "So I spent the whole night walking around Promise City looking for you and wondering if I found you whether you would be alive or not." He stops gazing into the coffee and drinks some more.

"So how was your night?"

 

[moon dancer]

Minerva took a deep breath, squared her shoulders and walked briskly into the Palace saloon in search of Senor Adair.

 

[Queenie]

"So I spent the whole night walking around Promise City looking for you and wondering if I found you whether you would be alive or not." He stops gazing into the coffee and drinks some more.

"So how was your night?"

"Dead? You thought I was dead?" Ruby is silent for a few moments, and she looks down at the sheets on the bed. "You really thought I was dead? What did Eastman think he was doing?" Ruby says to herself and shakes her head before looking up at Jake. "Uh, somehow sorry doesn't seem like enough."

"I was just, um, angry that you left me, after telling me not to leave you, that we had to stay together. And Kate was late, that was annoying. Plus I was, well, really upset over what I told you earlier. I don't feel like we finished talking about that."

"So I went to the El Parador, but I didn't know he was going to be there. So I spent the time trying to convince him I wouldn't marry him. Then I found out the party that was going on was an engagement party... for the two of us. And I got really mad. And I embarassed myself. And maybe you too." She blushes and looks away again. "Then I left to find you but I guess I uh, didn't make it home."

 

[Silver Moon]

Minerva took a deep breath, squared her shoulders and walked briskly into the Palace saloon in search of Senor Adair.

The Palace is open but only a few people are inside. Two are sitting at the bar drinking coffee. The other is behind the bar, but not somebody that she saw the night before. "Get you something Ma'am?" he asks.

 

[moon dancer]

Si Senor, Could you please inform Senor Adair that the Priestess Florencia has arrived.

 

[Steve Jung]

Harker replies, "Said he'd be by mid-afternoon with another load of ore. Why don't you come back around two or three."

"OK. Thanks."