It's October, 1899. The Wild West is dying.
You've fought it tooth and nail, but the time has come to face facts. The renegade Natives have all been defeated, most of the West is now under rule of law, barbed wire prevents cattle from wandering astray or being stolen, railroads and telegraphs allow quick communication.
While the newspapers rightly tout these advancements as proof of civilization, for you it means the end of a livelihood, the end of adventure. Cattle are impossible to rustle, police will immediately break up a duel or a good old saloon brawl, lawbreakers will go to prison rather than face frontier justice. Yep, might be time to hang up the old Stetson.
That is, until you read a little sidebar in the newspaper. Nothing too important, just a notice that the government intends to mint a new limited edition $10 gold coin to celebrate the coming of the 20th Century. Of course, that coin needs to be minted somewhere, and in this instance it will be at the San Francisco Mint in California. And of course, that gold needs to come from somewhere, and in this instance it comes from the gold mines of Colorado.
And so, $1 million worth of gold bullion is loaded onto a passenger train in Colorado Springs, Colorado, under guard by a detachment of cavalry troops. The same train you're riding on.
It's simple. Just steal the gold sometime over the three-day, 1300-mile train trip to San Francisco. You're crossing the mountains of Colorado, the scrublands of Utah, the deserts of Nevada, and the forests of California, should be easy enough to make a getaway and then never be seen again.
Then again, it seems like more than one person has had the same idea. . .
Feel free to ask any questions in the OOC!
You've fought it tooth and nail, but the time has come to face facts. The renegade Natives have all been defeated, most of the West is now under rule of law, barbed wire prevents cattle from wandering astray or being stolen, railroads and telegraphs allow quick communication.
While the newspapers rightly tout these advancements as proof of civilization, for you it means the end of a livelihood, the end of adventure. Cattle are impossible to rustle, police will immediately break up a duel or a good old saloon brawl, lawbreakers will go to prison rather than face frontier justice. Yep, might be time to hang up the old Stetson.
That is, until you read a little sidebar in the newspaper. Nothing too important, just a notice that the government intends to mint a new limited edition $10 gold coin to celebrate the coming of the 20th Century. Of course, that coin needs to be minted somewhere, and in this instance it will be at the San Francisco Mint in California. And of course, that gold needs to come from somewhere, and in this instance it comes from the gold mines of Colorado.
And so, $1 million worth of gold bullion is loaded onto a passenger train in Colorado Springs, Colorado, under guard by a detachment of cavalry troops. The same train you're riding on.
It's simple. Just steal the gold sometime over the three-day, 1300-mile train trip to San Francisco. You're crossing the mountains of Colorado, the scrublands of Utah, the deserts of Nevada, and the forests of California, should be easy enough to make a getaway and then never be seen again.
Then again, it seems like more than one person has had the same idea. . .
Feel free to ask any questions in the OOC!
