An Afternoon in Purgatory, Texas

 

The possible line up?  Five players actually took part.
 

The inaugural Purgatory City Gunfight was held on Thursday 9th October 1867.  Colonel Quincy Ewing Whitmore of the Texas Rangers lead a motley band of gunfighters and desperados to rescue the town from the forces of El Lardo, the fattest Bandido in all of Mexico (but now in Texas...)

Purgatory, population 98.  Soon to be fewer than that.

Four heroes on the start line, Colonel Whitmore, Mad mike, Doc Parker and the Cakey Kid

Advancing up mainstreet

Doc ducks left

The Colonel befriends a stray dog and walks down mainstreet

Doc jumps the fence and ducks behind the church

First blood to the Colonel who forces a Mexican bandit to duck behind a watertrough

Mad Mike spots the dancing girl Miss Belle, but does not go near her

Another bandit pops up behind a water barrel

Doc asks a Nun directions to "Annies"  Inappropriate!

The Colonel meanwhile uses his long shot pistol to keep the Mexican's head down

Kid Cakey optimistically takes cover behind a picket fence, and meets the town mortician, who measures him for a box.

Mad Mike goes peeping around the bathhouse

A bandit appears on the roof, but the Colonel puts him down

Tuco appears at the end of the street

Doc shoots at the boy, mistaking a guy with a broom for a bandit, but misses.  The Mexican civilian flees.

Doc is still behind the church and spots the guy on the roof

 Cakey looks on bemused, as the Livery stable boy runs into the stable screaming.

Meanwhile El Lardo and the gang emerge from Annie's at the end of the street.  

Cakey shoots it out with the guy behind the barrel.  

Curley turns up

 Alas Curley had not heard the warning about Miss Belle.  Boot to the 'nads.

Mexican rifle guy on the roof is back up, but knocked back again.

Still peeping around the bathhouse Mad Mike spots a Mexican emerging from the town lavatory.  Can`t remember if he shot him or not, but he hid in the lavatory.  I gave Mike the 100 dollar reward.

Miss Belle sends Curley on his way.  I think she is interested!  In any future games Curley will get a +1 wooing modifier.  Women!  

Curley encounters the town Barber, again unaware of the "perv" warning.  He suffers the consequences.

Curley spots Pedro the Undertaker's assistant, asleep on the boardwalk and decides he is a threat.  He takes a shot.

And this photo was posted up.  Clearly this is the town drunk sleeping one off.

Pedro flees into the lavatory.

I really think Curley was proud of that one!

Curley then aimed his pistol at the Mexican kids, but decided against it.  I will point out that if Marshal Rooster Coburn had been in play Curley, and Doc, would have been in trouble.

Curley even approached the lavatory, but was driven back by the smell

Tuco aims at Curley but doesn't fire.  The Mexican's inaction is getting them killed

Doc pops up from the back alley and shoots at Tuco

Pinned, Tuco hides behind the Prospector's mule.  "THE PROSPECTOR'S MULE" he said with hidden meaning.

Mike finds Curley, seems to consider shooting him in the back ancd then makes off again.

Finally EL Lard begins to advance

Mike runs around the block.  With that +1 to movement he should probably be "Fast" Mike.

The Colonel gets into the Livery Stable.

Watched by a shaken Mexican Livery Stable boy

The Colonel approaches Doc's back alley... cautiously

Kid Cakey is befriended by the dog.  he uses the waterbarrel for cover

And Djambo appears to give Tuco some helpful advice.

Mike appears around the corner of the Hotel.  He sees an 8ft wall

And an incredibly detailed model of a rattlesnake...

Curley takes a shot at Djambo.  Once again I must note that Marshal Rooster would take a dim view of this sort of thing.

Djambo runs for it ans Tuco thanks Curley

Doc finally spots the safe, but takes a shot at Tuco after the Colonel misses

the Colonel decides to pass up a second back alley and goes to find one.

For the third time the guy on the roof recovers.

El Lardo fires his six guns, and he probably has six guns.

Unfortunately Doc fires at Tuco and the PROSPECTOR'S mule explodes.  Nitro or black powder? Probably.  Didn`t get a good picture.

The Colonel takes a shot at El lardo.  500 dollars on this guy.  He misses

But Doc guns the fat boy down

Mike uses the ladder to get a shot at the last Mexican

He misses but once again Doc doesn't

Curley shoots at the guy on the roof, but misses, again...

The Mexican behind the barrel.

Doc makes an incredible once in a lifetime shot...

And then makes a second

The guy on the rooof takes a shot and then slinks away.

And the Hole in table E gang have cleared the town...

Great game, and I intend to keep the town layout of Purgatory to run a few more.