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A large man with a large hammer interrupts your journey by leaping out from behind a rock and shouting:
"You damn ghosts won't get me! I'll hammer you back into the grave where you belong!"
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One-time
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A thin stream of smoke over the next hill indicates a nearby campfire, so you decide to check it out. It turns out instead to be a man strolling around nonchalantly. He's wearing a top hat, which is on fire.
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One-time
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- Shout at him until he takes the hat off [Intimidatin' 5]
- Explain how fire is bad for his head [Outfoxin' 5]
- Use reverse psychology [Hornswogglin' 5]
- Leave him alone
continue travel
- Y'know what? I give up. I'm leaving.
continue travel
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You ride past a woman who is running along the desert trail on foot... and although I say 'running', it's a slow run, with an odd loping gait. She's dressed oddly too -- no hat, just a thin strip of fabric tied across her forehead, light clothing, and strange soft-looking boots that barely even come up to her ankles.
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One-time
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- All right, I apologize.
gain 50 - 53 XP
- How about we see if you can catch me?
continue travel
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You're ambushed by a cow who was hiding behind a nearby billboard. Big billboard, big cow.
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Repeatable
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- Run away from it [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Surrender to it
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The hair on the back of your neck stands up as you realize you've ridden into the midst of a herd of ghostly floating cow heads.
You've heard that some ranchers, in a desperate effort to avoid the Homecoming, deliberately drove their entire herds into the ocean. If that's what happened here, it didn't work, and these cows are very angry about it.
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Repeatable
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- Escape them [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Surrender to them
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A goblin suddenly runs up with an armload of driftwood and dumps it out in front of you.
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One-time
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- Surrender [no Dark Horse]
- Run away [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Have Gary deal with it [Gary]
reduce price to 250 meat
- Haggle with them [Intimidatin' 5]
reduce price to 250 meat
- Haggle with them [Outfoxin' 5]
reduce price to 250 meat
- Haggle with them [Hornswogglin' 5]
reduce price to 250 meat
- Buy a driftwood... weapon? [300 meat]
- Buy a driftwood... hat? [300 meat]
- Buy a driftwood... shield? [300 meat]
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Off to one side of the trail, you spot a goblin digging in the sand with a little shovel and a pail.
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One-time
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Several loud gunshots ring out as you round a large cluster of boulders, and you dive into cover. Peeking cautiously around the corner, you discover a goblin shooting a large pistol at a pile of nailed-together driftwood.
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One-time
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With a spooky combination of hissing, chattering, and clanking, an ancient skeleton rises out of the sand in front of you. He's wearing dented and rusted antique armor and a long handlebar mustache -- must be an ancient explorer or would-be conqueror. Hopefully the former, because he doesn't seem to have been much good at the latter.
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One-time
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An ancient, seaweed draped skeleton is shambling toward you, hissing and moaning.
Oh, huh. I guess we must be near the beach.
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One-time
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A gurgling hiss draws you attention to a nearby skeleton. Honestly just the fact that there was a skeleton here should've been enough to draw your attention, but I guess you're getting used to them. This one is wearing rusted antique conquistador armor, caked with mud and rotting seaweed, and waving a waterlogged old blunderbuss at you.
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One-time
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An angry-looking skeleton with a mining pick is stalking you. I guess, now that I think about it, most skeletons are pretty angry-looking.
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Repeatable
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<horsename> wanders into a darker arroyo than you'd normally go to, and before long you find yourself lost.
From behind you, you hear an ominous tink tink tink ooooooooh, tink tink tink ooooooh.
You turn around to see the ghost of a miner, apparently frustrated that his ghostly pick can no longer find purchase and eager to take it out on you.
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Repeatable [Pale Horse]
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You catch a glimpse of something colorful out of the corner of your eye and hop down to investigate it.
Before you know it, you're mesmerized by a scintillating rainbow of shiny, multicolored scales. A moment later, you realize you've fallen for the oldest trick in the book. Specifically, the book about how Frisco vipers trap their prey. Because you're surrounded by Frisco vipers.
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Repeatable
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- Let <horsename> snap you out of it [Dark Horse]
continue travel
- Surrender
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The bleeping of your El Vibrato transponder leads you to a hulking robot, standing motionlessly out in the desert with a vulture perched on it.
The vulture quickly flaps away when the robot lights up and starts moving toward you.
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Repeatable [El Vibrato transponder]
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- Leave it alone
continue travel
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