Trouble in Crankshaft Part 6

## Episode 13 - The FeyWild West

Mayor Finch Whendlewood will be driving, Willard is riding shotgun, and two deputies will be riding in the back of the cart. Seline checks over her equipment, her bone dagger, the 12 shot double barrel Antoinette, and Marie. While looking at the holdout pistol, she contemplates upgrading. Talia and Seline make a bit of a show of escorting Willard shipment. They notice now the 42nd is actively for patrolling Crankshaft when they were only patrolling taverns before. Outside of town to the south, Cortez is scouting ahead. Three miles to the south, Cortez spots the ambush site with 10 pseudo-orcs lying in wait on the other side of the road. Talia alerts the deputies waiting in the wagon. In the ambush site, there's a cart overturned appearing to have come from Rillvell with a guy trying to wave them down. When Talia rides ahead to meet him, The man claims his wheel broke on his cart and it overturned and his horse ran off. The man is wearing a leather duster but from the way it lays on him he's probably wearing armor underneath. The man, Tim, looks confused when Talia asked him if he would die to protect the natural order. Stepping back to the cart, Talia alerts her companions to the fact that Tim is wearing armor and is armed. With Death's Whisper pointed at Tim, Talia orders him to step back and not to reach for his gun while she and her companions upright his cart. Upon closer inspection, Tim's cart has been laying on its side for a while despite Tim saying he's only been broke down for a few hours. When Talia mentions it, Tim curses and goes for his weapon. Talia tries to shoot him first but Death’s Whisper jams. Sudden flash of pain around Talia’s heart as the barbed wire tattoo feels like it tightens around Talia’s chest. Tim quickly fires two shots in the air. The road is surrounded on all sides buy some large thorn bushes. The cart sits on the eastern side of the road tipped over with a couple crates lying out in the middle of the road. The cart that Seline and Talia were with is about 60 feet or so to the north. They are surrounded on all sides by fake 42nd orcs. Talia screams to Hector, who quickly pulls the mayor down into safety. Lawrence lets off a quick two shots at a 42nd rifleman and gunman hitting one. Willard even older than Sheriff Grihm, aims at the same two on the west side of the road hitting both of them with slugs from his double barrel shotgun. One of the 42nd wearing a blue coat and a saber on the east side of the road dubbed Alabama, shoots Seline. The bullet bounced harmlessly off her adamantine armor who laughs and cues up the wind machine in response. The spectral guillotine rises from the ground moves into place with the blade over an unsuspecting Tim. The click and sound of the blade swishing down morphs into Seline's familiar Shepard's tones as her spiritual weapon and Toll the Dead cleave Tim in half. Shaken by the grizzly display 2 Rifleman shoot at Seline could only one hits. Talia draws Retribution and crosses it and Death’s Whisper across her chest. The smoky tendrils of her Hex leave her crossed arms and surround one of the 42nd with a brown coat, a pistol and a book dubbed Alaska. She shouts Seline’s spells do more damage if you hit them. Alaska raises his pistol with the hammer cocked back and fires 3 blue needles that zig zag through the air. His magic missiles hit Talia who growls in response. One of the 42nd (on the east side of the road back toward the cart with the mayor in it) shoots Hector. A female 42nd shoots and misses Lawrence. Three more 42nd step out from behind the bushes with blunderbusses. Two of them shoot Talia and the third shoots Seline. Talia turns aiming with her gun turn slightly to the side at one of the 42nd that shot her and black fire erupts around him (Hellish Rebuke). Unfortunately her concentration wavered and she loses Hex. Lawrence continues to shoot rifle guy twice dubbed Arkansas who is hiding on the northwest side. Hector shooting the same rifleman and misses. Willard reloads. Alabama moves up but Seline gracefully steps past both of his saber attacks. Alabama and Seline exchange growls. Seline's guillotine floats over to Alabama and falls on him along with Toll the Dead. Two Rifleman take their shots, one hits Talia. Another hits Willard causing him to cry out in pain. Talia aims with Retribution and Death’s Whisper, are two shots got Alaska hurt bad. With hands shaking Alaska loads something into his pistol. He raises the wavering barrel at Seline and Talia and fires his Fireball. As the smoke clears Alaska has fallen to his knees with his gun still outstretched. The female 42nd fires two shots that miss Hector. Two shots hit Talia. Another three 42nd have to reload. Lawrence's next to shot kills one of The rifleman leaving nine 42nd left. Hector and Willard go shoot at female 42nd but only Willard’s shots hits. Alabama manages to land two hits on Seline with his saber. Seline casts Mass Healing Word before Alabama manages to sidestep her guillotine. Of the two riflemen, one jams the other misses with their Leroy Brown rifles. Talia activates her personal shield and takes a greater healing potion. As Talia watches Alaska, she sees he is bleeding heavily while on his knees, his blood soaking the ground. Having dropped his gun, he's writing symbols in the mud soaked in his blood. Finishing his symbols, he slams his hand into the mud and clenches his fist. The earth around Talia begins tremor and move. A hand forms out of the earth around Talia and grabs Talia in its fist. Willard gets hit once Talia shot three more times. Lawrence stepping out of the cart and moving south kills the wizard Alaska with one final shot. Hector shoots California but jams his second shot. Alabama's able to slash Seline one more time before her guillotine cuts him down and Seline unleashes Spirit Guardians. The 42nd Rifleman are spooked at the sudden appearance of Seline's Spirit Guardians. Only one of them is able to shoot Seline while his fellow unjams his gun. Talia’s able to shoot Delaware a Rifleman and California before Retribution jams. California also spooked by the spirit Guardians, misses and then jams her weapon. Hector unjams his gun and shoots California. Willard is able to shoot Connecticut, Delaware another Rifleman. Seline goes a little forward while casting cure wounds on herself. Her Guillotine attempts to sneak up on Colorado and misses. After one of them fixes his jam, the rifleman take their shots and Seline falls unconscious. Talia rushes over and with her ring of spell storing casts cure wounds on Seline bringing her back into the fight. Talia shifts, snarling at Colorado. At the sight of Talia shifted, California's eyes widen then narrow. Then she swaps her ammo for silver ammo before missing her next shot. Three more 42nd shoot and they all miss. Lawrence kills one of the pistol wielding 42nd. Only six left now. Hector's shots jam. Willard shoots one of the riflemen but jams the second shot. Seline rises bringing back her spiritual weapon which misses Colorado but toll the dead hits him. One of the rifleman hits Willard. Talia swaps Retribution for Punishment. She smiles at California, having seen California swap ammo, and then kills her with Death’s Whisper. The three 42nd with blunderbusses swap their blunderbusses for pistols and shoot Talia twice and Seline once. Lawrence shoots twice but only hits one of The Rifleman once. Hector unjams both his pistols and Willard reloads. Seline's guillotine cuts down Colorado before she heals herself with cure wounds. The two 42nd Rifleman shoot Lawrence and Willard. Talia swaps the Death’s Whisper for Solitude (ice). Talia misses with Solitude and hits one of them with Punishment. The remaining 42nd realize they're outnumbered. Talia suggests they surrender or be run down. Three of them surrender the 4th looks like he's going to run. As he turns to run, he's caught by Seline's hold person. One of Seline and Talia’s allies attempted to subdue the 4th 42nd and are struggling with it. Talia starts to shoot him in the head and instead shoots both kneecaps. After some discussion, they decide to wait the night out here in return in the morning with their prisoners. The mayor however is a bit bewildered at the fact the 42nd were attacking and not the orcs. Seline and Talia explain Brown's real interest in having 42nd in Crankshaft stopping orc attacks for votes. Seline and a still shifted Talia question the prisoners who had no idea about the Venassi. Our adventurers explain that Leroy Brown and constant Melody are murderers who massacred a town men women and children. As Talia explains Seline uses her spells to make Talia’s words more real for them. She makes them hear the gunfire of their leaders and smell the burning of the village. Three of them shake openly, spooked at this. One struggles to hold on to his composure saying he will continue until the job is done. Talia executes him.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* Mayor Finch Whendlewood
* Willard
* Lawrence
* Hector
* 42nd Mercenary Troop
	+ Tim
	+ Arkansas
	+ Alabma
	+ Alaska
	+ California
	+ Connecticut
	+ Delaware
	+ Colorado
* Cortez

## Trivia

* DM Molly mentions Dispel from Bonus Round