Wild West: Requiem

The **Panamoan Frontier** also known as the Old West or the *Wild West: Requiem*, includes the geography, history, folklore, and culture in the forward wave of Panamoan expansion in mainland North Panamoa that began with Evalkan colonial settlements in the early 19th century and ended with the admission of the last few western territories as states in 1908. This era of massive migration and settlement was particularly encouraged by President Harold Middleton following the Louise Purchase, giving rise to the expansionist attitude known as "Manifest Destiny" and the historians' "Frontier Thesis". The legends, historical events and folklore of the Panamoan frontier have embedded themselves into Panamoan culture so much so that the Old West, and the Western genre of media specifically, has become one of the defining tenets and prides of Panamoan Republic national identity.

## History

### First Chapter

It starts off with Nicholas Wolfgang Bale, the event's main protagonist awakening from a deep sleep by a cry from a vulture, which he mistakes for a woman's scream.

It is revealed that he's headed West after thinking that he has possibly killed his own wife. Many times throughout the First Chapter, he recalls a flashback of someone in the shadows, killing his wife. But he is not sure if that really happened, due to his problems with PTSD scattering his memories.

He then makes his way down to a town and finds that it is being raided by bandits and a lady is being held captive. He then puts out the fire and frees the Lady. The Lady then rewards him with a horse.

He then makes his way down to Socorro Town and is confronted by Lockwood, the Sheriff. Nicholas then remarks that he had "some ties" with him. The Sheriff then swears at him, saying that they found body parts in his house; Clearly not intimated of his size and strength. He also says people have been seeing his wife all "mysterious-like". Wolfgang then says he doesn't remember anything among the likes of that, but they are interrupted by incoming bandits. Nicholas and the Sheriff take out the bandits and the Sheriff lets him go.

Nicholas visits his wife's grave with flowers, only to find that his wife's body is being stolen by grave robbers. He kills almost all of them, but one escapes. Buck chases him and finds that the robber has left to Fort Malanoche. He fights the grave robber in Fort Malenoche, where the grave robber has a prototype, hand-held Gatling gun.

### Second Chapter

Nicholas finds out that the grave robbers were hired by a barman back in Socorro Town. In Socorro, he tries to get information out of the barman, who has bandits with knives or fists attack him. After fighting them off with only his own fists, a bandit with an axe attacks. When Bale questions the barman, he says that his son was taken by bandits (it is revealed later that he actually doesn't have a son), and he was forced to take care of their business. Buck asks why they took his wife's body, but the barman didn't tell him. Buck then smashes his head onto the counter. He says that the gang will kill his son if he did not cooperate. He stops and gives the barman a chance and lets him go. Afterwards, the barman makes a deal with him, giving Buck information on the gang's leaders if he will take them out.

### Third Chapter

#### Confession

After he easily destroys the gang, He came back to the saloon. In the saloon, Bale realizes that it's empty and all of a sudden he is hit with the stock of a rifle from behind, knocking him out immediately. Nick is seen that he's tied up, and a man is sitting in front of you.

The man is none other than the Exorcist. He says that the barman has been lying, saying the barman doesn't even have a son and that he was the one who started the gang. He says that the gang kicked him out because they could perform a "ritual" without him. The exorcist then states that the gang wasn't searching for gold in the mine; they were looking for a place of "ancient power" that can only be activated by one witch. He then states that Buck knew this witch well, because it was his wife.

Nicholas denies him, saying that he doesn't know anything about his wife. The Exorcist strongly demurs, and says Buck shot her under the fact that he was "getting on to her being a witch." He says that Bale's wife is still alive; the bullets Nicholas thought he killed her with were not sufficient enough to do so, and states that if she reaches the place of power, the Devil will walk onto Nexus Prime itself.

#### Fear and Loathing in Socorro

In *Fear and Loathing in Socorro*. He goes outside for a moment, then comes back into the saloon to have his "medicine" (whiskey). After that, He flirted with several women, calling obnoxious attention on the residents.

He fights the men, then the Sheriff appears with his guards. Nick shot the water tower and get arrested. When in jail, Bale hear two outlaws in the other cell and they say they have to get to the barman. He pretended make a deal with them to get out in which you distract the guard, then he will come to you. Then the bandits beat him up while coming, but they lie and they leave you there. Nicholas Wolfgang Bale decided to break the cell doors instead with his bare hands.

### Fourth Chapter

#### The Dark Phenomena

Nicholas, best known as Wolf; headed to Meyzona and witnessed that women are being captured by bandits and he proceeds to become a hero. He went to the Abandoned Train and see that a bandit is floating away on a raft going through a river and he followed him to the Canyon.

Then, he obtains a damaged, portable Flak Cannon. The trigger will not be there because he can't use it. Wolf ran to the mine; On the way, two jaguars chased him. He threw the Flak Cannon against the gate of a tunnel. The gate explodes and the jaguars run away.

#### False Love Dies Away

Wolf walks through the tunnel and find the barman and his wife in Necropolis. He saw the barman drinking a toxic fluid of some sort, saying that the Devil will possess his body and he will be in unholy matrimony with his wife. Suddenly, the barman coughs up blood, questions Buck's wife about the fluid and what she did to him, and dies.

His wife talks about how she missed him for so long and how Nicholas never loved her the way she loved him. She states that by spilling innocent blood, the power of her love potions were able to control Nicholas into loving her, and that he and his "love" gave her power. Wolf shrigs it off by saying: "The man you know as Nicholas is no more. There is only Wolf."

Then, the Exorcist arrives and shoots his wife, and she gets frozen. The Exorcist shouts "Get back! Her potions have poisoned your mind! Your love for her was never real!" his wife transforms into an Umbra witch and flies towards the Exorcist. The Exorcist quickly shoots her with a Consecrator but misses. Bale's wife attacks the Exorcist, scratching him until he bleeds severely. The Exorcist says "You have to kill her! Do it!". The Exorcist kicks The Consecrator to Buck to defeat his wife.

### Final Chapter

#### Grief

After he kills his wife, he went to the Exorcist, who says he isn't going to make it because he is badly injured. In his final words, says, "You can't defeat darkness with darkness, no matter how tempting". He says you have to worry about yourself. Then, you see that the knife that she sliced you with made a dark hole in your chest, which then takes over your body, and then, you are warped to a place with lighting and floating boulders with rocky, hellish aesthetic. He is now on the Underworld.

A man appears saying he is the Devil in your body, and that he was the one who shot your wife and since you were so drunk you forgot it easily.

#### Mortals fight the Devil

Then Lucifer Servius will say, "What are you waiting for? Get your revenge!" Then he demands you take revenge, but he isn't alone. His trusty Devil Slayer Guild hunters are with him, fending off the demonic creatures, with no difficulty at all. Finally; The group witnessed the most powerful being right in front of their eyes. He is tall, red, powerful ominous and frightening. Lucifer Servius, the Devil himself.

All the members of the group fight in vain; Everyone except Wolf is killed, he faced the Devil alone. Lucifer breaks down his pride, cold-blooded nature and stoicism, which resorted to him fighting the devil with all his might. Lucifer is astounded to deduce the fact that Brandon Wolfgang Bale is his grandfather. Lucifer almost gets the upper hand against him, but Wolf was ruthless enough to snap out of his mind games and physically assaulted him; Lucifer unleashed his true form to stop him, but Wolf shoots him down on the head and kills him, once and for all.

After the fight, it shows him exiting the mine with the Exorcist's body, and the Sheriff tells his guards to clean up the mine. He kneels on the ground due to the trauma by the Devil's mind games and psychological warfare.

He says that he'll rid the world of evil or die trying to repay the Exorcist, then at his grave, he is accompanied with The Lady. The Exorcist's hat on top of the grave.

## Trivia

### General

* The darkest, unnatural events on the Panamoan Frontier is named as *Wild West: Requiem*, which was considered and named as the "Supernatural War".
* Most notable outlaws are Swift Lockett, Coward Mark, Heavy Will, Sharp Joe and Hurricane Matt.
* Nicholas Wolfgang Bale is a hugely praised cowboy slash mercenary.
* It started at May 2nd of 1880 and ended around 1905.
* A lot of iconic weapons are used throughout the expansion. Most notable firearms from Holt's Firearms Incorporated, whom has the most numerous amount of revolvers.