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Region G: South Coastal Encounters
Location Discovery[ | ]
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| You spot a distinct lack of mining activity in the distance, and ride closer to it to investigate. Yep. Sure enough, nobody's mining over here. | Abandoned Mine |
| You see familiar outline of an army fort, and zag <horsename> toward it to investigate. The sign says "FORT UNNECESSARY." | Fort Unnecessary |
| A big billboard off the side of the trail boldly proclaims that a nearby stand is your very last chance to get custard, because there is no custard available in the ocean. | Last Custard Stand |
| You see a plume of smoke rising over the trees to the north of you. You nudge @horsename@ in that direction and find a cozy-looking cabin nestled in a copse of pines. The ground outside is sparkly and rainbow-tinted -- a telltale side-effect of the practice of the jeweler's trade! | Jeweler's Cabin |
Non-Combat Events[ | ]
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<horsename> gets a little skittish, and a few moments later you understand why -- a low, Nordic drone signals the existence of a nearby hive of Viking bees.
You hop down and follow your ears to the source. |
Repeatable |
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You slam on <horsename>'s brakes because you're pretty sure you just saw a floating banana.
When you hop down to investigate, it turns out it's not floating, but perched precariously atop a thin stalk. Picking it could be risky. |
Repeatable |
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A flash of brilliant orange next to the trail catches your attention. You park <horsename> next to a rock and hop down to investigate.
It's a Frisco poppy! They used to grow everywhere around here, but they're pretty rare since The Cows Came Home. The cause and effect there is still kind of murky. |
Repeatable |
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Looks like you've found an abandoned crate of military supplies. Since it's addressed to Fort Unnecessary, perhaps the shippers took that to heart. | Repeatable |
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You find an abandoned crate full of mining supplies. You can tell it's full of mining supplies because it has "THIS CRATE IS FULL OF MINING SUPPLIES" stenciled on the side of it. | Repeatable |
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You find a rough wooden cross stuck in the ground, with the words "SOME JERK" carved in them. I guess it's a grave? | Repeatable |
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Your El Vibrato transponder leads you toward a small cave. You park <horsename> outside and step in to investigate.
In the back of the cave, there's one of those big monoliths. It's dark. Inactive. Not turned on. |
Repeatable [El Vibrato transponder] |
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You come upon a covered wagon belonging to a newlywed couple heading west. It looks like one of their wagon wheels has broken, and though they have a spare, it was the heavy corner of the wagon and they don't have any way to lever it up to get the replacement on. | Repeatable |
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You hear a shout in the distance behind you, and a thunder of hooves. A riderless horse is racing toward you, reins flapping. | Repeatable |
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You come to a fork in the road. A pair of twins are standing near a sign that says "WARNING: VICIOUS BEARS". You ask the guys which path is safe, and they say they'd be glad to tell you, but one of them always lies, and the other always tells the truth. | Repeatable |
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Off the trail's shoulder, you see some ancient petroglyphs carved into a rock. | Repeatable |
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Riding along the trail, you pass two cowboys who are shooting craps. By which I mean, they're having a contest to see whose horse can crap the farthest. | Repeatable |
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You come to a treacherous canyon. Fortunately, someone has thoughtfully provided a log for you to cross on. Unfortunately, it isn't as wide as your horse. | Repeatable |
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Combat Events[ | ]
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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!" |
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. | One-time |
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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. | One-time |
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You're ambushed by a cow who was hiding behind a nearby billboard. Big billboard, big cow. | Repeatable |
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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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A goblin suddenly runs up with an armload of driftwood and dumps it out in front of you. | One-time |
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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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
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. | 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. | 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. |
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. |
Repeatable |
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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. |
Repeatable [El Vibrato transponder] |
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