Midpoint Mods ([personal profile] midpointmods) wrote in [community profile] midpointsaloon2020-05-12 03:24 pm

Round 85: The Long Haul, Part 8

PLAYERS: Rocket and Groot, Taako, Yoda, Jiro Azuma VS. Sam Wilson, Misty Day, Jo Harvelle, Sara Lance
LOCATION: Bank Town, the Ranch
GOAL: Keep hands on the cargo of the stagecoach travelling from Bank Town to the Ranch
WARNINGS: Attempted murder
OTHER: OOC post for plotting and questions!

The stagecoach isn’t ready for transport when the two teams arrive at Bank Town just before sundown, and the bank manager who is in charge of the shipment will only speak to someone on the driver team, so the bandits are shit out of luck even if they try to get to it first. There appear to be some delays, in fact, and the bank manager has many apologies, but the stagecoach isn’t loaded up with its cargo until noon the next day - as Bank Town has no inn, the teams had best find somewhere out of the wind to spend the night, whether by borrowing an empty house in the sparsely populated town or bedding down against the ravine walls.

There are two routes marked as safe for stagecoach travel on each team’s map: one that swings north following the railroad tracks and passing close to Midpoint, and one that swings south along the floodplains. It’s up to the drivers which path to take, and up to the bandits to guess the right one. It’s a breezy day: tracks won’t last for long. (The bandits might do well to check at Booker’s General Store before they leave.)

The stagecoach won’t make good time, burdened as it is, and the horses can’t run all day, but that’s why there’s a note on each route for the drivers on where to change horses. That might be a good place to wait out the darkness-- unless someone is foolhardy enough to drive the new team of horses all night. The cargo is due at the Ranch by the end of the third day, so there’s plenty of time... but there’s the threat of bandits to worry about.
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[personal profile] quitsmiling 2020-05-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"They won't let us," Rocket grouses, across Groot's shoulders, behind his head. Groot ducks it a little so his top-branches won't get in the way, looking tolerantly amused. "It's the way things work. Gotta keep it a freakin' secret until the big reveal or whatever."
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[personal profile] youwillbe 2020-05-27 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Faster, we could make it." But he chuckles. Apparently they don't want faster for some reason. This is really very strange system.
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[personal profile] quitsmiling 2020-05-27 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure we could. Probably more efficient, too! But nooooo, gotta wait out here like idiots," Rocket complains.

He looks down at Yoda, frowning. "So what's your deal, greenie? Where you from?" Clearly he's not human, and Rocket doesn't claim to know every species out there in the universe (or multiverses, whatever).