Enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend

Post date: Apr 06, 2008 9:6:19 AM

In Oakridge were meeting with this fancy rancher who contracted us to bring him these horses, he hires the town vet who says they are sick. He blows a gasket declaring they are worthless and he won't buy them. Derick and I finally get him calmed down when one of his hired thugs makes threats and draws his pistol. Jimmy bing the fast draw, no-dicipline, jumpy kinda person draws first and shoots him with his derringer. Not really too bad cept he seemed to hit the guy right in the heart for all the blood that was leaking out of him. So Solomon (the rancher) calls his buddy the Magistrate to have a hearing, i'm thinking this is bad news, Solomon is buddies with the magistrate, but I have a chat with the Sherif who says Jimmy will get a fair trail, so I figure what the heck, not my neck we'll see how this plays out.

An hour later in Hank's Saloon with the drinking townsfolk and whores looking on the Magistrate (a fat ugly little bitch) agrees that since the horse contract said nothing about the health of the animals Solomon needed to pay us in full with fuel costs(yipee), but since Jimmy shot a gun in the town he would be hanged at noon the next day (bummer). Which most of us figure is illegal since the Alliance outlawed corporal punishment a while ago.

Not that we can do anything about it. We tried a bunch of plans, involving sowing confusion and distrust amoungst the law, getting evidince of previous hangings, sneaking Jimmy explosivs and tools to escape, and preping to blow him out. Which we did, just as the Alliance dropped in to arrest the magistrate and bring her to justice (praise Dike).

Anyway, we got out with the cash, and a hold full of cargo, nothing sweeter then that.

- JD