2023.01.22

Continue to fight and gamble.

1. Round
   1. Strange tree (wrapped in the tattered remnants of SilasWanamaker) comes out, shaking us to our core.
   2. The manitous attack. There is kung fu action.
   3. Gamble: I have some trouble, but manage to win a couple rounds (2 tokens).
2. Round
   1. Kung fu fighting (QuiLongWang)
   2. TheColonel shoots one dead, then moves over and checks on me (1 token)
   3. EmmaSchneider …
   4. Gamble: I barely win a hand.
   5. Manitous
      1. Evil Tree attacks QuiLongWang. Entangles him in its branches.
3. Round
   1. TheColonel kills the Evil Tree (it drops QuiLongWang). Draws another gun and misses.
   2. Gamble: I manage to win both hands this round. The deck flies out of my hand. The portal closes. The cards fall to the ground. Where the face cards fall, the trapped souls appear.

We gather the townsfolk and explain what happened (the fear in town is reduced). Then we party.

Lacy has left town, but left us a letter. Gives us the details of the job in Unita County.

We take train to UnitaCounty and get off in Bridger.

We tell tales and bad jokes all the way.

EmmaSchneider recommends a steam powered bartender. As we go, we hear a ruckus

I recognize a shot we hear–it came from a hex slinger rifle! I tell the others, then slip around back.

We all get inside. The bartender has gone wild (it is covered in Gremlins!).

1. Round
   1. QuiLongWang climbs the walls and attacks.
   2. EmmaSchneider hits the bartender with a beam of light
   3. The bartender (owner/) shoots at QuiLongWang for attacking her robot
   4. I try to put them asleep (gremlins hide inside and are immune)–the robot almost powers down, but recovers and tries to throw a bottle at me but gets stuck on the bottom of the balcony.
   5. TheColonel runs and and tries to get the civvies out of the bar
2. Round
   1. …
   2. EmmaSchneider blasts it–malfunction! A gremlin infests her device!
   3. Bartender attacks QuiLongWang
   4. TheColonel shoots at the robot.
   5. I try to entangle (lasso) the robot, but hit QuiLongWang instead.
   6. TheColonel leaves.
3. Round
   1. We all leave

The sheriff arrives and we fill him in. He and is men go in, calm down the owner and shoot the robot to pieces.