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Hello, and welcome to the Oxventure

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D&D podcast. It is a podcast

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where we listen to episodes of Oxventure

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and talk about them. It's a critical hit to your

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brain, and I'm Jane, your host, and

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here's Andy, also your host. Welcome, Andy.

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Hello. I'm here too, and

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we're talking about Deadlands this week, which

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I am the marshal for. I run the game, so

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that's why I'm here.

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Marshal Andy, what episode of Oxventure

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Deadlands are we listening to this week?

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We are listening to the first part of

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the chapter of Deadlands called

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More Wonders Than There Are in the Heavens, which

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is- What a title. Yeah. A fun one

0:37

set at the

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World's Fair, starring

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Edie and Delacy and a guest character

0:43

as well. You

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say that so mysteriously. I think we may have already

0:48

talked about the guest character. Yeah, it's Jasper

0:50

Cartwright from Three Black Halflings, but

0:52

he's here. He's in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, I

0:54

see what you mean. We talked about the guest performer,

0:57

but not about the character that

0:59

Jasper is playing. So stay tuned

1:02

for that reveal, I suppose. And

1:05

how are you, Andy? How's it going? Yeah, good.

1:08

Off to New York Comic Con soon.

1:11

So just sort of like getting the decks

1:13

clear for that. We've got the finale of

1:16

Oxventure

1:18

tonight, if you're listening to

1:20

this on the day the episode goes out. That's

1:22

right. Yeah. So everything

1:24

will culminate and then that'll be it for Deadlands. So I guess

1:26

watch out for spoilers, folks. They'll

1:29

be floating around. Yeah, yeah. We're

1:32

in this sort of Oxventure time machine right now where

1:34

we're traveling back two weeks to

1:38

be with the podcast listeners. I

1:41

would like to point out to

1:43

everyone that just before we started recording this podcast,

1:45

Andy was telling me about his

1:48

sort of

1:48

activities on the periphery of

1:51

New York Comic Con. Your

1:53

plans around the

1:55

event of New York Comic Con.

1:57

Yes. Well, if I'm going somewhere to work... You

2:00

know, I do try and path in a few little

2:02

extracurricular trips for myself. Oh, you gotta.

2:05

You gotta. You gotta do it. What's

2:07

on the agenda? Well, you know, it's Halloween time. So I'm going

2:09

to be heading down to Orlando

2:12

for Universal's Halloween Horror Nights. I'll

2:14

check that out. Very excited. I've

2:16

never been. And... Incredibly.

2:19

Incredibly I've never been, even though I love Universal

2:21

Studios and... I've lived

2:22

this long and never set foot in a Halloween

2:24

Horror Night.

2:25

The worst thing is I was in Universal

2:28

probably about

2:30

four or five years ago for a WWE press

2:34

event. Uh-huh. I

2:36

was in Orlando for that and

2:38

they took us for dinner one evening on Universal

2:41

City Walk and it was during Halloween Horror Nights, but

2:43

I didn't have a path ticket. So I couldn't go into

2:45

the path. No! So you could hear

2:47

the screams and the chainsaw noises. Yeah, I saw

2:49

the gates and I saw the people sort of trying to crawl their

2:51

way out and having their legs chainsawed off by the other face

2:53

or whatever. God,

2:54

I wish I was in there

2:55

having my leg chainsawed off by the other face.

2:58

Yeah, it could be being chainsawed, but

3:01

sadly, sadly not. So

3:03

yeah, I come close, but never done it. So I'm going to do that,

3:06

which I'm excited about. Also in

3:08

New York before Comic Con kicks

3:10

off, I hear that Sleepy Hollow is quite close to

3:14

New York. So might head up there and

3:16

check that out for some... How close?

3:18

You get there about 40 minutes on the

3:20

train. That's

3:21

great. Yeah, thinking about

3:23

checking that out. Maybe I'll see the Headless

3:26

Horseman finally bring him to justice.

3:27

I suspect you will see four or five

3:29

Headless Horsemen. Yeah. I

3:32

bet it's totally a buzz. It's absolutely

3:34

thronging with Headless Horseman around

3:36

Halloween and Sleepy Hollow. It's going to be great. It's

3:38

going to be so aesthetic. Everything is going to be orange

3:42

and it'll be totally charming.

3:44

I'll have three or four pumpkins thrown at me. I'm

3:47

mad on horses.

3:48

I feel like they give you a lay

3:50

of pumpkins as you step off the train. Welcome

3:52

to... That would be amazing. Here

3:54

are your pumpkins. Yes, please.

3:56

You have to carry this pumpkin with you all the time. Mandatory.

4:00

Yeah, it's going to be amazing. I

4:03

was looking at photos of the Sleepy

4:06

Hollow Cemetery

4:07

before we started recording.

4:09

Washington Irving is very there, obviously,

4:11

author of that. Yeah. Yeah,

4:15

how have you been? What have you been up to?

4:16

What have I been doing? I

4:19

have been thinking about

4:21

getting the Halloween decorations out of the

4:23

attic.

4:24

But you know. It's time.

4:26

It is time to enter. I mean, my attic actually on the grand

4:28

scheme of things is not that scary an attic. So

4:31

I'll be fine. I

4:32

was very worried about going up into the

4:34

attic. Yeah, right. So if I'm not around for

4:36

next week's podcast.

4:38

It's because

4:40

you went in the attic and there was a witch in it. Because I went

4:42

in the attic. Yeah. Yeah.

4:45

I've been playing a game I think you might enjoy. Oh yeah, what's that?

4:48

It's called El Paso Everywhere. It just came out.

4:50

It's

4:52

basically

4:53

old original Max Payne

4:56

with like blocky 90s PC

4:59

graphics and everything and like diving sideways

5:01

in slow motion and shooting things. But

5:03

it's it's like a

5:06

sort of creepy liminal space. You're in like

5:09

a hotel or an apartment building with an elevator

5:11

and you sort of it's this building

5:14

suddenly spawned like 40 new floors all underground.

5:17

And each one is a sort of weird like

5:19

ceiling less floating in a kind

5:21

of endless void and you're killing monsters

5:25

in this weird apartment building slash

5:28

hotel diving through the air in slow

5:30

motion, shooting things with two guns. And

5:32

there's a very through the air in slow motion. Yeah. And

5:35

it's got very Max Payne style hardboiled voiceover

5:37

in the main character as well. So yeah, it's

5:39

very Max Payne but also kind of

5:42

supernatural and spooky. I thought it might be up your. Yeah,

5:44

no, that checks all my boxes. I'm exactly

5:46

in the Venn diagram of Max Payne

5:48

and speaking supernatural. Yeah.

5:52

So you're still playing Baldur's Gate? I am. I'm

5:54

making such such aching the slow

5:56

progress.

5:56

It's the thing, isn't it? Because it's

5:59

because combat takes so long.

7:59

Why are you so tough, Skulls?

8:01

What gives? Anyway, Firebolt

8:04

from Gael did sort them out. Thanks

8:06

Gael.

8:06

Thanks Gael.

8:07

I recently saw Gael described

8:10

as the Rizzard, which

8:15

I enjoyed a lot. Because he

8:17

rizzes you up? Yeah, yeah. He's got

8:19

the Rizz. All of that Rizz-ma. Yeah.

8:23

I had to share that because there's no way I can

8:25

work that naturally into my

8:26

speech, but I did enjoy

8:28

it as

8:30

a new word, as a novel word in the English

8:33

language. Now it's my gift to you,

8:35

podcast listeners. See if you can work it into conversation

8:37

this Halloween.

8:38

There's that subreddit,

8:40

which is like r slash

8:42

brand new sentence. Yeah. So

8:45

yeah, there you go. That's going on there. Rizzard

8:47

of Oz. Rizzard of

8:48

Oz. Yeah. Awesome. Right.

8:52

Shall

8:52

we listen to...

8:53

To More Wonders Than There Are in the Heavens, part

8:55

one. Yes.

8:59

Deadlands takes place in the Weird

9:01

West, a treacherous frontier where

9:03

legends are born and nightmares are real.

9:06

Here, five wild cards come together

9:08

to seek fortune, justice and revenge.

9:11

And the final bounty on their list.

9:26

Welcome back to Deadlands with Oxventure.

9:28

I am Andy and I will be your marshal today. And

9:30

I am joined by our players. Who, if

9:32

you could introduce yourself, starting with you,

9:35

young man. Hello, I'm Luke

9:37

Westway and I'm playing the character of Delacy.

9:40

And hi, I'm Ellen Rose and I am playing

9:42

the character of Edie. This episode

9:45

of Oxventure presents Deadlands is brought to you

9:47

by Misty Mountain Gaming. Go to mistymountaingaming.com

9:50

to check out their dice and other tabletop

9:52

gaming products. Thank you to Misty Mountain Gaming for

9:54

the support. So last

9:56

time in Deadlands, as you will remember, Nate

9:59

Garnett and Simon Lowe...

9:59

traveled to the

10:00

town of Fort Parker to kill M.T.

10:03

Boudreaux. They were found guilty of trumped

10:05

up charges and sentenced to hang, but they

10:07

were able to escape and eliminate their target, a

10:09

fearsome hanging judge. So

10:11

now, while that is happening

10:13

concurrently, we are back at Victoria's

10:16

homestead with Delacey and

10:18

Edie, and you are hanging out in the parlour

10:20

awaiting your next assignment.

10:24

Well,

10:25

if it's alright, I'd like to just do sort of like

10:27

wandering around the house. Um, I'm looking

10:29

for Nate.

10:31

Oh, sorry, Miss Edie. Um,

10:34

have you seen Nate? Um, no,

10:37

I haven't seen Nate in a while.

10:40

He could look completely different for all

10:42

I know. It's been a while since I've seen

10:45

him. Oh man. Yeah, you

10:47

didn't...

10:48

they didn't... yeah. It's fine,

10:50

he's the same old Nate, he's just sort of soft and

10:52

cold. Okay.

10:55

Right,

10:56

well I don't rightly know where he

10:58

is. Well, actually,

10:59

I think they did go out

11:02

on a mission.

11:02

Um, they're over at Fort

11:05

Parker, I think. That's where they've gone.

11:08

Is it a long way away? Um,

11:11

I think it's a little bit too far for you to catch

11:13

up, hon.

11:15

Is he gonna be okay? I'm sure...

11:18

I mean, I'm

11:19

sure he's pulled himself out of worse

11:21

scrapes

11:22

than whatever they'll end up in.

11:25

Yeah, he's pulled himself out of some scrapes and

11:28

one coffin. Anyway,

11:30

thanks Miss Edie. Um, yeah,

11:32

uh, uh, uh, obliged. The

11:34

lady doesn't really have to talk to grown-ups. That's

11:37

okay, sweetie. Um,

11:42

speaking of grown-ups, Victoria McVary

11:44

enters the room. Um... Ablaged. Ablaged

11:48

to you too, to Lacey. How are you this morning?

11:52

Much obliged. Much

11:55

obliged to you too. Um, what a polite

11:57

young man. Um,

11:58

Edie? Morning.

13:59

of the products myself. I

14:02

made some of the pancakes, I tasted awful. I was

14:04

hungry again 20 minutes later but she's a genius

14:06

at marketing. Very good at selling herself, very

14:08

good at selling her products. Also

14:10

she undercuts the competition, they're half the price of everyone else's

14:13

so she's been putting a lot of good folks

14:15

out of business. As well, their latest thing, you've

14:17

probably heard of this, the Fulcrum Corporation.

14:20

They're the spearheading force behind the World's Fair

14:22

that's currently going on in Newgast Semine. Have you heard

14:24

of the World's Fair that's happening over there? Wow, yes.

14:27

I believe I saw some posters for

14:29

it on the train up here the first time we came.

14:32

Yeah, you probably did. In her kind of stack

14:34

of papers, Victoria has one of these posters

14:36

and she's not handed it to you.

14:39

The poster

14:40

it's got writing across the top, it says, the world's

14:42

Hyperion exposition, more wonders

14:44

than there are in the heavens, illuminating exhibitions,

14:47

wonderful concerts, a most diverting display

14:49

of fireworks.

14:51

And there's a sort of picture of some

14:53

fairgrounds underneath, walkways,

14:56

waterways. There's an American flag

14:58

in the corner and sort of in a little kind

15:01

of circular box out there, the picture

15:03

of Aunt Hilde sort of smiling benevolently

15:05

in the corner of this. So

15:10

that's the World's Fair that her

15:12

company's putting on at the moment. It's due to close soon

15:15

and I'm told outside of events

15:17

like this she never leaves her sort of corporate headquarters.

15:21

So this might be the perfect opportunity for you to

15:23

catch her unawares and- Killer.

15:26

Killer, yeah.

15:27

Yeah.

15:29

Okay.

15:30

I think that is, you know, the

15:32

only chance we're gonna get

15:33

to get close to her. So

15:35

yeah. I don't have any more information

15:37

on the the fair itself, but I do have a contact

15:40

for you to meet at the fair

15:42

if you're open for working with-

15:44

Any help

15:46

is good help, in my opinion,

15:48

when it comes to these missions. Okay.

15:50

Well, I've made contact with

15:52

a man called Bison Billy

15:54

Joe Thicket. He runs

15:56

a Wild West show. It's very entertaining, I'm

15:59

told. I've

16:01

been told that he has a pavilion inside the World's

16:04

Fair, so he

16:06

should be able to help you if you make your way inside the fair

16:08

and find out where he's set up. What

16:10

was the name again? Bison Billy. His

16:12

name is Billy Joe Thickett. Okay, but Bison

16:15

Billy is what? Bison Billy is what his kind of show name,

16:17

and then yeah, the man's name is Billy

16:19

Joe Thickett. So yeah, you

16:22

can get to the World's Fair,

16:25

kill Aunt Hilda and bring me back her ring as

16:27

proof of job well done. And

16:29

yeah, if you can get this Bison Billy to help you.

16:33

Bison Billy, it sounds like this is like a show,

16:36

like a Wild West sort of. Yeah, I'm told

16:38

he has a Wild West show at

16:40

the World's Fair. It's part of the entertainment fair I

16:42

think. Can I say that Delacey

16:44

in his little sort of bedroom

16:47

back on the farm had one poster on

16:49

his wall, and can it have been for

16:52

Bison Billy's Wild West? Absolutely. Okay,

16:54

alright, I'll keep that to myself

16:57

then. Yeah, cool, but colour is strange.

17:00

I didn't even mind to meet

17:02

Bison Billy. Are

17:05

you okay, you're not coming

17:07

down with something are you?

17:09

Yeah, I think I might be. Q.

17:13

Yeah, go cold. Cold as

17:15

on then. Will he be okay to go on the mission?

17:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I wouldn't miss it. I can wait until the

17:21

other show gets back, we could send someone else to meet Bison

17:23

Joe and have a high offensive

17:25

with him. Yeah,

17:28

I'll shrug it off. But already,

17:30

yeah.

17:32

Okay, I've got some tinctures,

17:35

but I don't know whether you

17:36

should have them. They have a lot of tic-tac.

17:40

I mean, it's

17:42

your funeral, give to Lacey all the tincture

17:45

you want, see what happens. It's

17:49

pretty straightforward to get to the World's Fair, it's a big tourist attraction,

17:51

so there's a lot of trains going out there. So

17:54

yeah, I've procured you tickets.

17:58

Good luck to you. Have fun as

18:00

well, I mean, you know, hopefully you get to enjoy

18:02

some of the fare before you have to get down to the your

18:05

brainwork. Yeah, killing her.

18:07

Yeah, I hope

18:10

so. Have you ever been to a fair Mercedes? No,

18:13

I'm very excited. I am

18:16

pulling for a bit of cotton candy. What's

18:19

that? It's a sugar

18:21

that is spun and spun

18:24

into like, like

18:26

it's cotton.

18:27

Like, that's why

18:29

we call it cotton candy. It looks like big cotton

18:31

balls, but they're made of sugar and they

18:34

usually make them pink,

18:36

bright pink.

18:39

All right. Okay.

18:46

Edie, do me a persuasion roll. Persuasion

18:49

roll. Persuasion. Lacey

18:52

believes in cotton candy. Yeah, let's

18:54

make this in the pose roll. So Lacey,

18:56

if you can roll. So what am I rolling?

18:59

If you roll, do a spirit

19:01

roll. Well,

19:05

I got a six on my wild. Can

19:09

I borrow a d6? And a four. So

19:12

I got 10 altogether. Okay,

19:14

I got, hang on, I got one. Success on the raise. Uh,

19:17

okay. I got a six on

19:19

the wild. Okay. One.

19:22

Seven tastes of sugar. Okay, you believe in cotton candy.

19:26

I got a, can I, yeah. Is it, must

19:28

be really expensive though.

19:30

It's not at all actually.

19:32

And you get it on a stick? Why

19:34

aren't we eating it all the time? Why

19:37

have I been eating chickens? Well,

19:39

it doesn't fill you up

19:41

that much. Once you've bad into it,

19:43

it all dissolves.

19:44

Will there be anything else? There's Victoria. I

19:49

mean, the training. We'll see when we get there.

19:51

I'm sure this is all important. Hard

19:54

cut to the train and this is

19:56

still going on.

19:59

like a whole bunch that all day that

20:02

i wish he was only of defense right

20:04

and the a very expensive i despise

20:06

the much visit i can to keep the that will the thing

20:09

is you then have to fill yourself

20:11

up again very

20:11

quickly because i don't think is some at woodlawn

20:14

such as it does taste

20:16

is stop town of new get

20:18

some an odd

20:21

jesus is us army are you

20:24

ready to

20:28

be regretting read civics

20:33

so yeah betraying them

20:36

awesome past two or two assholes in

20:38

cyberspace in a lot of people are getting off

20:40

yes some people have come to see the

20:43

world's fair price can have been from

20:45

of people are or moving off the train at the same time as

20:47

you and it seems like this

20:49

season has been set up specifically as a stop

20:52

for the welfare there is a sort of long

20:54

avenue which means to like our ticket

20:56

gates of the and made some see

20:59

big sign above as assist them the world's hyperion

21:02

said above the of the gates

21:05

is it busy yes

21:07

of it's sort of mid morning so

21:09

it's probably not as busy as get later there's

21:12

a steady stream of people but it's not like overwhelming

21:14

okay i'm in a ticket prices

21:17

about the door is sixty cents rattle sweetheart sense

21:19

to have

21:23

to use saudis

21:26

on we have a a child's to get it

21:29

back if you're under fourteen

21:33

in

21:33

favor twenty five cents fun

21:37

i slide a dollar to

21:40

that oh that is famously

21:43

as a certain

21:44

age

21:46

as and looks young is a

21:49

led to believe that

21:53

i'm a guy yesterday take a sick as you pass through

21:55

i'm business or wouldn't turnstile and

21:58

you you walk out into the sort of the main midway

22:02

of the World's Fair. So you

22:05

can sort of smell sponge

22:07

sugar and frying onions, you can hear like

22:09

kalai music, the shouts of the midway,

22:11

barkers. There's a long midway

22:15

leading down towards

22:18

what looks like a sort of lake down

22:20

at the end, some sort of water feature. You

22:22

can see like an enormous ferris wheel just

22:25

sort of slowly rotating. It looks to get

22:27

some extremely high up there.

22:30

There's a bunch of different attractions that

22:32

you can see. How kind of windmill is

22:34

that?

22:36

That in turn fosters

22:38

they put some canvas up there.

22:42

Oh honey no it's a ride. Don't they

22:44

wear small inventions and stuff here?

22:46

This is just fun. You

22:48

go in it and it takes you all the way to the top

22:51

and then you

22:51

can see for

22:53

miles almost. Then what

22:55

happens? Well you can just enjoy the

22:58

view and you enjoy the

22:59

motion of going round and round

23:02

and it's very relaxing.

23:05

Some

23:08

other things you can see along the midway they're signed

23:10

to, there's like national showcases

23:12

from different countries. There's a Hall

23:15

of Oddities which

23:17

you can see down at the end it's got sort of painted

23:20

boards outside advertising the various

23:22

things they've got inside. The Fiji

23:24

mermaid, insect

23:27

lad there's one of them, the 7th hand

23:29

of Wild Bill Hickok is painted

23:31

onto one of these onto one of these signs.

23:34

They got the 7th hand of Wild Bill Hickok?

23:36

Wow. You know about this guy? I

23:39

believe I've heard things in the papers.

23:41

I gotta see it, we gotta see it, we should see this. There's

23:44

a throng of people around

23:46

you there's people walking around with trays

23:48

offering free samples of food

23:52

from the Fulcrum company's

23:55

line of products. It's

23:58

a bustling midway. in

24:01

a world fair. I wanna see the severed hand of world

24:04

Bill Hickok. Also,

24:07

Delacey would have no concept that this might not

24:09

really be a real severed hand of world Bill Hickok.

24:11

Yeah, yeah. So this is like world's

24:13

greatest cup of coffee. You know, he's

24:15

like, oh my God, I have to try this. Yeah.

24:17

Yeah. Well, hopefully

24:20

he's a legend to the west. They

24:22

got his help. Okay, well, I

24:25

want you to not get your

24:27

hopes up to. He should have been buried with him.

24:30

Yeah, but the thing is. Get that hand

24:32

out of there. Hmm, Delacey. Now,

24:35

I'm gonna teach you some of the secrets of these

24:38

fairs. And sometimes those things are

24:40

not real and it's just the marvel,

24:42

the idea of them. And

24:44

if- So how can they can say it? Well,

24:47

Bill's hand, it's just some schmooze

24:50

hand or slow hand at all. No, because

24:52

advertising standards are not very

24:55

good right now. So they

24:57

can kind of say what they want.

24:59

Well, then so can I. I'd like

25:01

to do them up to whoever is counting while

25:04

Bill Hickok's hand. He's

25:06

a carnival worker. Yeah. Roll up,

25:08

roll up, see you in the Hall of the

25:24

We got the wild Bill Hickok's seven hand in here.

25:27

It's real. That's not his real hand. Well,

25:29

he told me so and it's disrespectful to

25:31

wild Bill's memory that you'd say it is. Well,

25:34

madam, I don't know where you're getting your information from, but this is

25:36

the real seven hand of wild Bill Hickok. He was taken

25:38

off his body there in Deadwood. We

25:41

came right here. We preserved it in the finest

25:43

alcohol.

25:44

And now it's available for all to see for only 10 cents. A

25:47

ticket to get into the Hall of Odyssey. But

25:49

we've already paid to get into the fair.

25:51

There's an additional fee for the Hall of Odyssey. Would

25:55

you like to try? I don't know whether it's real

25:57

or not. Have a feel.

25:59

and it's not but it would be interesting

26:02

to see anyway I want to put down 20

26:04

cents nothing if I don't think

26:06

that hand is genuine

26:08

you'd better not be here when we come out of this all of

26:10

us two tickets for the Hall of

26:12

Oddities in you go son have a great time all

26:14

right we'll just go find this hand I want to look yeah look

26:16

at it oh

26:19

all right I'm quietly followed the

26:21

lazy thing like yeah

26:23

I just want to kind of like shoulder through the crowd

26:26

and say to everyone there this might not

26:28

be real he's

26:31

just trying to like grab on someone in the dungaree okay

26:35

so yeah you have to pull aside a sort of flap

26:37

of it's a tent that you're getting into you

26:39

pull aside a flap of the tent it's quite dark inside um

26:42

they have various jars um

26:45

containing sort of um animal

26:47

skeletons with two heads um they

26:49

have what looks to be the

26:52

skeleton of a mermaid um it's

26:55

on closer inspection it's sort of half a monkey half

26:57

a fish sure that kind of thing um there's

27:00

the uh a plaster

27:02

cast of that says insect lad

27:04

above it and it's a guy with three legs all

27:08

right that's there but yeah in um in one of

27:10

those in one of the corners in

27:13

one of the corners on a pedestal behind

27:15

a sort of um velvet rope in a jar

27:18

um floating in liquid is a severed

27:20

hand holding poker cards

27:22

um it's a poker hand made up of aces

27:24

and eights all right uh can

27:27

I inspect the hand closely

27:30

I guess what am I looking for I'm

27:32

looking to see if uh it's

27:34

it's a right hand

27:36

presumably sort of supposed to be wild booger

27:39

looks like gun hand yeah is

27:41

he right-handed assume yes um

27:45

in dead land yes yeah uh

27:49

anything could be true in this wacky twisted version

27:51

okay okay yeah I suppose what I'm looking

27:54

for is I want to see if the hand has like

27:56

uh uh looks like it has

27:59

had kind of like callous This is around the

28:02

index finger. Do

28:05

me a notice roll. Okay. That's

28:07

a five.

28:10

And a six. Three

28:13

on the six. Nine total. Okay,

28:15

success with the raise. Cool.

28:18

Yeah, so you look at this hand. Yeah.

28:21

It is indeed gnarled. It's

28:23

got a... I climb over a rope and get

28:25

up close to it. Here with my hand on the glass. It's like huff against

28:27

it. Yeah, so looking at

28:29

it, it does have a noticeable callus on the

28:31

trigger finger.

28:34

And it is holding playing

28:37

cards. And a student

28:40

of Wild Bill, you will know that he was

28:42

killed during a poker game.

28:44

Yeah, everyone knows that. Yeah.

28:48

This look, I mean, it's a severed right

28:50

hand with a callus on the gun finger.

28:54

No one use gun tricks like Wild Bill. Let

28:57

me tell you, look at this. And

28:59

I show you my hand, it's all like, yeah, it's

29:01

got like kind of thick calluses from sort of where

29:04

the gun sort of hits you and you're like, mm-hmm, doing

29:06

the tricks. I

29:07

think this might be Wild Bill's hand. It's

29:11

the hand of someone who knew their way around a pistol.

29:14

Well, either way, that's impressive, isn't

29:16

it?

29:16

So who's lying to me? You

29:20

are the firm. I wasn't that. I didn't say it wasn't

29:22

real. I said it might not be real.

29:24

Sometimes. Well, how do we know?

29:27

How do we find out? Well, look at that mermaid.

29:29

That's not a mermaid.

29:31

What's a mermaid supposed to look like? Not a monkey.

29:35

Well, where's a real mermaid?

29:38

In the ocean, probably. The mermaids are

29:40

real. We don't know. And

29:43

how do we know if this is a mermaid?

29:46

Oh, my gosh.

29:49

From outside the tent, you hear someone saying, Cotton candy,

29:51

get some cotton candy here. Let's

29:54

go get some cotton candy. Yeah,

29:57

OK.

29:59

That better be real! It

30:02

is real, I know! Cotton candy

30:04

is real! Is it real?

30:05

It is! Cotton candy!

30:08

Cotton candy is real! It's true with the

30:10

mouth shot! Cotton candy

30:13

doesn't exist in that land! Cotton candy is

30:15

real, I'm gonna love it! Cotton candy. Okay,

30:17

alright. This should

30:19

come, down. Yeah.

30:22

My injection of sugar will definitely

30:24

come to me! Okay, so you're buying some cotton candy,

30:27

it's two cents for a bag. I

30:30

get it back. Edie, you're fine. Delacie,

30:33

make me a vigor check. Okay.

30:37

To see how you're... 19th

30:40

century constitution handles cotton candy.

30:42

Two and three. Okay, so you failed

30:45

the vigor check? Yes. Alright. Yeah,

30:48

this sugar immediately

30:50

hits your bloodstream, your pupils grow enormous. I

30:54

start talking in a most-mouthed way about Billy...

30:57

Billy Joe's ticket. Billy Joe's ticket, in a most-mouthed

31:00

way about Billy Joe. Bison Billy, yeah. Bison

31:02

Billy. Um, yeah. Okay. So, where's

31:04

Bison? Where's he on? Where's the cotton

31:06

candy salesman? Where's Bison Billy? Where

31:08

can we see him? Who are you wearing the same

31:10

hat that he had in the Idaho Carnival Spectacular?

31:13

You gotta see this hat, Miss Edie, it was something else. Oh,

31:15

I'm sure, I'm sure it is. It was something else, and then at

31:18

the end, Bison stomped on it, and it's got a big hole

31:20

where the Bison's... Bison's

31:22

horns went through it. Oh, then... And he kept it

31:24

on, and he said it was a mark of good luck. Because

31:26

one inch to the left, that would have been his temple. And

31:28

that would have been him done. That would have been him done,

31:30

Miss Edie.

31:31

He had been dead by Bison's.

31:33

So you, you know this,

31:36

Billy? Ben.

31:38

Oh, um...

31:40

Yeah... Yeah... Have

31:43

you been doing some research? Do you read

31:45

in the paper, or...

31:46

Bison

31:48

Billy was something, something of a... Hero

31:51

of... Hero of

31:52

mine. Oh, well, I'm so excited that

31:54

you'll get to meet more work with him today.

31:56

Won't that be fun? Uh,

31:59

yeah, you bet.

31:59

towards them mostly though. That's okay

32:02

I'll leave the conversation and then

32:06

you know when you meet someone you're a fan or

32:09

sometimes just need to take a deep breath. I

32:11

must be nervous because look I'm shaking.

32:14

Let's not get in any pistol fights with you

32:17

feeling like this.

32:19

Oh don't worry if I just

32:21

use something my aim will be true. What

32:24

is this? Oh I'm sure. So

32:28

where's this? Is

32:30

there a logo on the cotton candy? Is there the logo

32:32

of Miss? Yeah

32:34

the the fulcrum corporation. Yeah yeah

32:36

yeah. So yeah this is their

32:39

cotton candy. You work for this fulcrum? Extremely

32:42

sweet and kind of

32:44

hollow inside. You work for

32:47

this fulcrum? No

32:49

sir I work for the fair. What

32:53

are the words for the fulcrum company?

32:55

No various folks around here. What are you talking about Bison

32:58

Billy for? He ain't in this fair. His

33:00

tent's outside. What? He's not? No

33:02

his tent next door. Oh but he is

33:04

here. Oh yeah yeah yeah. Well

33:06

you're not part of the fair. No he's

33:08

out. He's going back out the way he came in.

33:11

Turn left. He got the big canvas

33:13

tent over there. That's the way his Wild

33:16

West show is but that ain't it's not part of the

33:18

fair. We

33:19

can still go through. We should probably still go through.

33:21

Oh we can still. If we have our tickets we

33:23

can come back into the fair if we leave. Get

33:27

your hands stamped on the way out. You

33:30

stamp my hand we're gonna have a problem. I

33:33

mean they'll do it if the turns that way you came

33:35

in. I need this.

33:38

Cotton candy. Who wants the

33:40

cotton candy? It's

33:43

pure sugar. Honey they

33:45

do it with ink. It's rubber stamp. Right

33:48

okay. It's okay they're not gonna actually

33:50

physically stamp on your hand. No no we better try.

33:52

No I think we'll. Where should we go now?

33:55

Oh well we can go see Bison.

33:58

Oh we could go in the fair so beforehand before. things

34:00

they'll get. What do you want to do?

34:03

I quite like to go on Ferris wheel before

34:06

we go if that's okay we can see

34:08

from high up exactly where the

34:10

tent is that Boston

34:12

is a smart Miss Edie okay

34:15

yes so the ferris wheel is down at the the end of

34:17

the midway you see the waterway

34:20

starts there and the it sort

34:22

of the path splits off for the ferris wheel in the

34:24

center it's ten cents to

34:26

ride the ferris wheel there's no

34:28

height requirement

34:30

no no high requirements and it's

34:32

actually there's not a lot of people at the moment so you get a gondola

34:34

yourself oh nice so it

34:36

it doesn't stop to become fast you have to sort of step

34:38

onto it as it's moving all right

34:41

do you have to roll to not get chewed up at the

34:43

mechanism gosh that would be fun that

34:46

would be what would that be

34:48

mechanism damage mr.

34:50

just make me an athletics role delay

34:53

see at an advantage because you're moving very quickly

34:56

that's your role okay great okay

35:03

hop on to the ferris wheel

35:10

okay good and another four hey going and a

35:13

three okay so they got a one of my

35:16

wild

35:23

success of the race okay so you expertly

35:26

hop onto the moving gondola as it comes fast and

35:28

at least seven seven okay and yeah

35:30

you you climb aboard as well and

35:33

yeah you're in the ferris wheel the

35:36

car the cars in it are sort of attached

35:38

but they they can rock back and forth okay

35:41

as you are and as you rise above the fair

35:43

you do get a nice

35:45

aerial view of the fairgrounds

35:47

you can see there's a sort of large Central

35:50

Lake a lot of neoclassical

35:53

buildings they're very grand-looking pavilions

35:55

with like some columns

35:58

and some statutory along

36:00

the top. These are very impressive looking

36:02

buildings. You

36:04

would suspect from the sort of nature of where

36:06

they are that they're not made of marble.

36:09

They'd be more like sort of plaster and concrete

36:11

and things like that. So more temporary buildings, but

36:14

they do look very impressive. And all the buildings

36:16

are painted as sort of pale gold. They

36:18

call it the Golden City, this World's

36:20

Fair. And

36:23

then as you rise up, you can also see outside

36:25

the fairgrounds where you came in to

36:28

the sort of the left hand side of the fairgrounds,

36:29

there is a very large canvas tent

36:32

with a painting of a horse on

36:35

the roof of it. Salas

36:37

would not like that. No,

36:39

he wouldn't.

36:40

But that's where

36:43

Bison Billy will be. Yeah,

36:45

and actually behind the canvas tent door, you can

36:47

see a horse paddock behind there with a bunch of horses milling

36:50

around there. So it looks like, yeah,

36:52

that's where the show is taking place. Can

36:55

I appear at the horse thing?

36:57

Can I see Bison Billy's horse? Yeah,

37:02

does he have a very distinctive horse in,

37:04

I mean, in your, in Delacy's

37:07

studies of Bison Billy's

37:10

show? Does he have a distinctive horse? So I feel

37:12

like at the risk of like getting

37:14

too deep into the Bison Billy lore, in my

37:18

mind, like Bison Billy was, Delacy

37:20

would not have got news quickly, like

37:22

when he was growing up. So like Bison

37:24

Billy would have been like, like a pretty big deal

37:27

to like the generation above him and stuff. So like

37:29

Bison Billy would certainly have had an iconic horse,

37:31

but that horse now I'm imagining would be pretty

37:34

elderly. Yeah. I

37:36

mean, you are, you are hundreds of feet in the air

37:38

at this point. So the horses

37:40

do all look quite similar. Yes. But this

37:42

one had, this one had like iconic

37:46

markings. All right, give me a notice.

37:52

Yeah.

37:53

You can, there's a horse

37:56

with a distinctive.

37:59

Palomino coat matches

38:02

the description of bison billy's horses

38:05

in the various dime store novels What's

38:07

a good name for bison billy's horse bison

38:10

billy and his famous?

38:12

feed

38:13

bison billy

38:15

fuck Thing

38:18

yeah fuck thought yeah, yeah, yeah,

38:21

yeah, yeah, it is a horse with the very same

38:23

on Holy cats, that's box on down there

38:27

Yeah, not as yeah, not

38:29

as um. Oh, it would be a

38:31

few hands higher But yeah, that's box

38:34

on all right. Well don't

38:35

forget. We're just quite with he's quite far

38:37

away right now, so

38:38

You

38:40

know actually that's Yeah,

38:45

thanks for seeing you good job you're

38:47

here. Yeah, let me a distance Tom

38:51

I can't believe you seem box on Well

38:54

should we

38:55

get up once this rides over should we head

38:57

over that way? Yeah,

38:59

yeah, yeah Finished

39:06

once once we're done What you know

39:08

we'll go around few times and

39:10

then it stops and everyone gradually gets

39:12

on

39:12

it Oh, you did get two rotations of the

39:14

ferris wheel But if you want to try and hop off

39:17

as you come fast for the first rotation, you're

39:20

So the second one I could we go

39:22

down and we go up, but it's like last time

39:25

yes, sweet. This is a game. Yeah

39:30

Why don't they make twice as much money and just have everyone

39:32

do one

39:35

Supposed to be smart business minds

39:37

here. I don't get it much of a rat.

39:39

It's so good. Let's get off Okay, I won't make you

39:41

do an after she's trying to get off. You're gonna ride your

39:43

result in the first one So yeah, yeah, I'd like to

39:46

say the next people in the queue like

39:47

yeah, this one you have to go around twice Just

39:50

so you know So

39:52

maybe only look out one side the first time around

39:54

or something. I think that's

39:56

the idea So you can

39:58

have multiple chances to see the view

40:00

delayed.

40:01

Alright! Okay,

40:03

so you're heading back up the midway out through

40:05

the gates and towards the... Yeah, that was

40:07

useful to get a sort of overview of the thing, and

40:09

I suppose... Yeah, I think

40:12

head out, go to the big circus tent.

40:14

We've seen no sign of... The rodeo tent. Hildegard,

40:16

outside of... No. There's a

40:19

lot of posters featuring

40:21

her likeness, but, you know, just

40:23

like advertising products. Yeah. A

40:26

lot of people going around with samples of like cracked

40:28

wheat, beef stock drink, things like

40:30

that. Yeah, I'd like to try and

40:32

grab a sample as I'm leaving of something.

40:35

Yeah, you get a little taste of cup of... It's

40:38

a sort of beef stock bullion drink that's

40:40

supposed to be nourishing

40:43

and good for the constitution. Okay, I'll just

40:45

wick that down. Okay. Do I

40:47

make you think you're wrong? No, it's just got a weird aftertaste,

40:50

and yeah, it just makes you feel

40:52

a bit... You're right, Mercedes, I'm hungry

40:54

again after all that cotton candy. I

40:56

do not recommend the beef broth.

41:00

Okay, so yeah, right, there's

41:02

actually... There are signs pointing

41:05

to the Wild West Show, it's not very far. Oh, right.

41:07

It's just past the

41:09

entrance to the left and sort of off to the side.

41:12

You see the big canvas tent outside.

41:16

You can see a big sign that says, There's a ticket

41:19

booth. So it's 25 cents to get in. And... You're

41:21

gonna go up to the ticket booth? Is it really good to buy us two tickets? Of

41:23

course. Two adult tickets? Sure. We

41:26

only

41:26

have one kind of ticket here. Yeah, adults.

41:28

But, um, it's... I'm

41:30

not sure about that. I'm not sure. I'm

41:32

just gonna go to the ticket booth. I'm

41:33

just gonna go to the ticket booth. Okay, let's go. Okay,

41:35

I'm just gonna go to the ticket booth. I'm just gonna go to the ticket booth.

41:37

Okay.

41:39

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay,

41:41

so let's go to the ticket booth. Okay. Okay.

41:45

No one getting in till showtime. We'll

41:48

buy some Billy doing until then. He'll

41:51

be inside the tent, running through the show with all the

41:53

performers and doing daring

41:55

tricks on his famous horse, Buckthorn.

41:59

Just shooting the breeze.

41:59

with anyone inside, you know?

42:02

That's how Bison Billie is. We'll

42:05

come back in a few hours. See you there for the show. I'm

42:11

quite a fan of

42:14

the equestrian arts, and

42:16

I was wondering if I could

42:19

perhaps

42:22

have a tour beforehand,

42:24

maybe meet some of the horses?

42:26

Hmm. Okay,

42:29

do me a persuasion roll. I'm

42:31

gonna use my attraction

42:33

roll.

42:36

My attractive edge. So I'm gonna plus

42:39

one to this, whatever I get. Okay.

42:44

Good thing I can plus one to that, that's a four. Okay,

42:47

so that's a success, but no

42:49

raise. No raise.

42:51

Well, I

42:54

suppose I could let you

42:55

peek your head in. A young

42:57

man is a fan, I assume. Oh,

42:59

he's a huge

43:00

fan. Tell you what, five dollars?

43:03

I'll

43:05

let you book it.

43:07

What about three?

43:09

Um, again

43:12

with the persuasion, please. Again

43:15

with the persuasion? Again with the persuasion.

43:19

Uh, yeah, that's a six.

43:22

Can I just sort

43:24

of lean back and just put my hand on my pistol

43:26

and just be like, Well,

43:30

you can buy him three dollars. He

43:35

sort of takes the measure of you both and is like,

43:37

Yeah, I don't care, go on. Thank

43:40

you, can't do. Don't go

43:43

bothering anyone. We will not cause

43:45

any issues and make sure

43:47

that the show

43:47

can go ahead absolutely fine.

43:50

Don't. Raise

43:53

the specter of the show. Wait

43:57

a minute. Um, yeah, what a suspicious thing to say, alright.

43:59

What

44:02

I mean is we're not going to be in anyone's hair.

44:05

Okay, well it is, you know, it is still quite quiet

44:07

at this point. No one seems to be sort

44:09

of guarding the front

44:11

tent flap. So yeah, you can

44:14

sort of go up to that.

44:16

Yeah, so looking inside,

44:19

it's

44:21

a large sort of arena

44:23

inside with sort of sand floor. There

44:26

are sort of banked seats leading up from the

44:28

other side.

44:28

It smells

44:30

a lot of horses in here. There

44:33

are various people milling around, people

44:35

doing like lariat tricks, some people spinning

44:37

revolvers, a

44:39

lot of people on horseback. And

44:42

yeah, stood in the middle of the arena

44:45

is a figure holding court and directing traffic. And here

44:47

he is.

44:48

What does he look like? So

44:52

before you, you see a towering

44:55

hulking figure. He is

44:57

probably around six foot five. He

45:00

has afro kind of very untimely

45:03

kept under his cowboy hat, huge

45:06

broad shoulders. He almost seems as wide

45:08

as he is tall. And he

45:10

has a kind of very like chiseled

45:13

and stern looking face. But he has a

45:15

big broad smile on as

45:17

he's currently directing people around. Flowing

45:20

very kind of flowery shirt

45:22

on. You can get a sense of the real showman

45:25

type figure.

45:28

Huge, big thick cowboy

45:30

boots on as well. And

45:32

he'll probably have a pistol on

45:34

the side as well. And

45:37

he is currently looking

45:40

a little frantic, I think. So

45:43

yeah, that's what you see in the center of the arena. You're

45:45

both stood at the tense flap

45:47

entrance to the arena.

45:50

Okay, right here. Now listen, what

45:53

else have you got in the material? Because

45:56

we are running low today. We had two people pull out. What?

46:00

Look, look, look, look, hey, you, you, come here. You've

46:02

been, uh... Bison Billy? Yeah,

46:05

you were doing that, uh, gun spinning one. Yeah, I,

46:07

I spin the gun for you, Bison Billy, here we go!

46:09

Hey, this guy spins the gun and he goes pinwheeling

46:12

over his shoulder. Oh, man. Um,

46:14

okay. And sort of clatters to the floor behind

46:16

him. That's...

46:17

Ta-da! I am not paying for any more

46:19

gun spinning, let's just feed you, I'm afraid, okay? Oh, I've tried

46:21

real hard, Bison Billy. Hey, we're gonna stick to tightrope walking,

46:23

but you're doing well! Okay,

46:25

back to the tightrope, I guess, for me. Yeah.

46:28

Um, okay. Anyone else? Anyone

46:30

else? Ha ha ha, we're going up in a few hours!

46:33

Ha ha! I, I gotta act,

46:35

Bison Billy, while I can... Look what

46:37

I can do! He, uh, tries

46:39

to get a knife out of his, um... Uh,

46:42

out of the side of his trousers, he ends up cutting his hand

46:44

quite badly. Oh, good, um... Oh,

46:46

um, is bleeding, is bleeding your tail? Oh, oh,

46:49

I thought I could do it, Bison Billy, but I guess

46:51

I, I guess I failed again. So you,

46:54

you, you, you, just to clarify, your talent was taking

46:56

a knife out of your pocket. I was gonna do, uh, some

46:58

five-fingers for late, buddy. What? No, never

47:00

do that! Never! Never right now! Please do

47:02

that! Please do that! That is bad.

47:05

Ah, that is... Ah, I needed that one. It was a good

47:07

one. Why did you immediately do

47:09

it? I thought I could be a star,

47:12

Bison Billy. Ah,

47:14

look, look, look, look. Not every cowboy

47:17

has a spurs, okay? And that's alright!

47:19

I understand. Some cowboys are behind

47:21

the horse cowboys. I go back to musking

47:23

at the stable for everybody, Bison Billy. I'm

47:25

sorry. But no, actually, wait, no, you gotta bleed and go

47:27

to the med tent. What are you doing? Don't, don't

47:30

go anywhere near the horses. They'll get freaked out. Bleeding

47:32

everywhere. I flew too close to the sun.

47:35

Good lord! Mary-Mam, please

47:37

get this man out of here! It

47:39

means gushing blood in various directions.

47:41

It is a

47:42

scene of, um, chaos in

47:44

here.

47:45

That's him.

47:48

Are you okay? Do

47:51

you think you

47:51

could say anything to him, or should I?

47:54

Go start. Okay.

47:56

Uh...

47:58

Oh, hello, sir. I'm still...

47:59

Yes, a pleasure.

48:02

Sorry to interrupt

48:04

you while you're off to getting ready for your show.

48:07

That's okay. I couldn't

48:08

help but

48:10

see that you're having some problems. Do you

48:13

need

48:13

some people on the show

48:15

tonight?

48:16

Um, I might do.

48:18

Yeah, but can I ask you... Sorry,

48:22

is he okay? He's just

48:24

a big fan of your work. Hey

48:28

there, son. How you doing? I'm

48:31

fine. I'm fine. Billy

48:33

Joe Thicke, pleasure to meet you. I'm

48:36

just eating like this.

48:43

That's a strong handshake, son.

48:46

That's a strong handshake. Yes, you

48:48

too, Billy.

48:51

Hey, how you doing today? We're

48:53

good. We're here.

48:57

We were told

48:58

that a very nice man

49:00

called Bison Billy might be

49:02

able to help us by Miss Victoria.

49:06

Oh, I see. Interesting.

49:09

Can I ask what...

49:12

How about this one? Why don't we go step to the side?

49:15

It's a little bit chaotic in here and I am stood

49:17

in a pool of blood. Bison Billy,

49:19

it happened again. Okay,

49:21

right. Keep jabbing the head. Oh, no,

49:24

jab again. That

49:27

man is a few hay bales short of a stack. Okay,

49:29

listen. Okay, Robin Nye's for the show tonight.

49:32

I know we said we weren't going to do that again,

49:34

but we are not having to repeat an Idaho. So,

49:38

how about we just take a little

49:41

side tip here? Yeah,

49:42

that would be best. Oh,

49:44

you said Victoria sent

49:47

you to fund me? Yes, we're here.

49:52

The fair next door? Are

49:57

they helping or hindering your business

49:59

out of it? say they're about helping anybody.

50:01

Well the thing is we, Miss

50:04

Victoria wants us to go after Mrs.

50:07

Hilda. You

50:10

have business with Aunt Hilda? Yeah

50:12

well when we say business

50:15

we'd like to finish

50:18

business with her.

50:20

Interesting. I mean

50:22

not to uh I don't want to condescend

50:25

or undermine or demean but

50:28

um you uh don't

50:31

strike me as the type

50:35

being you look very capable and um

50:38

I'm sure some of that handshake

50:40

like that you're capable but that

50:42

hill is not uh to be trifled with.

50:45

And that's

50:46

why we've come for your help because

50:49

we can handle ourselves

50:50

but she seems like something

50:52

a whole lot different than we've ever met before. If

50:55

you shoot her she dies.

50:57

Um that's happened for most people

50:59

here. Doesn't

51:00

happen all the time.

51:02

What now? Oh

51:04

don't. There was a

51:06

strange lady if you try to

51:08

shoot her you couldn't then you have to get her in

51:11

top of the head because she poisoned a bunch

51:13

of people. It was uh-uh. A

51:16

pollulated delay.

51:17

It was wild. Silas would

51:19

be able to fill it in as well. But

51:21

we just need to know all the ins

51:23

and outs and any help you can you know

51:26

help us with is greatly appreciated.

51:28

Hmm yeah

51:31

I know if you

51:33

if you if you

51:35

uh

51:36

okay you's worse son. I

51:38

know you got him in there. He

51:41

sure did. If uh you know like

51:43

if uh if we can kill anyone else

51:45

for you Bison Billy we'll

51:47

do it I'll do it. That's a mighty fine

51:50

offer. Are you uh you good with the gun?

51:52

Uh I

51:54

don't remember Bison Billy

51:57

you said something once about combinations of guns I think?

51:59

Obviously being no good to nobody,

52:02

so I'll just tell you straight yes, I'm pretty

52:04

good with the gun voice in Billy. Okay, okay,

52:07

proper cowboy. Well,

52:09

I can't ride much.

52:12

Well, he was great

52:13

with that carriage. That first time we

52:16

all went out together. I am. Drove

52:18

that like a

52:18

dream, and his shooting,

52:21

I've never seen anything like it. You

52:23

don't say. And I'll shoot

52:26

in my work for who else.

52:29

Hey now, this might be crazy, but

52:31

let's say we could help each other

52:34

in a way. What?

52:36

How would you folks feel about taking part in

52:38

the old Wild West show tonight?

52:40

You could show me a

52:42

little bit of what you do, how you do it. I

52:45

throw up a load of candy floss. Oh wow. Wow. Yeah.

52:50

How much of that did you eat? That just keeps coming.

52:52

That's like a little waterfall

52:54

there. Okay. I

52:57

thought I would treat him up. Yeah.

53:01

My

53:03

little brother, he used to love the candy floss,

53:06

but the lacy

53:07

took to a little bit too

53:09

quickly. Can I get you

53:11

a drink, love? Can I get you a beverage?

53:16

Whiskey. Do you say

53:18

so? A walk over.

53:20

Can I have a little like a little

53:23

like a glow drinks cabinetry? Yeah, yeah.

53:25

Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. I'll open

53:28

it up and I'll take out some

53:30

brown looking liquid, pour it into

53:32

two glasses and hand you. Show

53:37

you how clay came with this. Much

53:39

obliged, Billy.

53:43

It's a very sour tasting drink.

53:49

Well. It's just right, darn

53:51

it. It does. So

53:55

my proposition to you is if you weren't able

53:57

to help me, I've had a couple of acts drop out

53:59

tonight. you see and

54:01

as you may have seen on your way in my

54:04

backups aren't really uh well they

54:06

just stable hands mostly and they got

54:08

much in the way of talent and so it's

54:11

not gonna be the best show if I haven't got

54:13

any one of the fill a little spots so

54:15

we got the train high that's

54:17

still going ahead we can do that we can ice

54:19

the train

54:21

we got to practice that I mean it's

54:23

a complicated routine you can't just like

54:25

jump right into that one that's uh quick

54:28

all right well we can give

54:30

it a go if you think you're up to stop the train you

54:32

kill the fast watch oh

54:36

yeah how do you know the show okay that's that jab

54:38

feet now inside secret listen

54:52

I'm happy if you want to suggest whatever thing

54:54

you think you would be good at main thing

54:56

I want to do is put on a show so

54:59

if you can put on a show for me I

55:01

will help you with your ad here the problem because you

55:03

know the problem is probably the same as not and the other problem

55:06

so it's a mutually beneficial

55:10

miss Edie what can you do oh

55:14

I can entertain I can

55:16

shoot I can you know what a beautiful

55:18

singing voice never had such a true

55:21

time oh my thank you that's

55:24

very kind

55:25

it's been a while since we've had someone

55:28

do a little singing that would really make

55:30

this place feel a little bit more classy I think I'd like

55:32

that if possible

55:34

yeah I can do that I

55:37

can do that okay and uh

55:39

you sure I guess I could spin

55:42

I can shoot you can spin and shoot okay

55:45

what do you want to shoot

55:47

apple up top my head

55:49

what if we need you apple

55:51

up top my head yeah

55:54

you can do it yeah all right we'll

55:57

practice first though I want to see you do this before

55:59

I put the apple on have in my head you understand? Yes, it's

56:01

not something you wanted, you just want! Exactly! If

56:04

we do it just the ones, it's gone wrong, isn't it? It's

56:07

made for to do it twice! Yep.

56:10

Yep. Well, we'll see. The

56:12

first time I'd be lucky we'll see. Alright,

56:14

so do you want your lady to do a test shot on

56:16

an apple? Yeah, we'll put a...

56:18

go back out of the fairway, get

56:21

like a pole that's

56:23

around six feet-ish. Put

56:25

an apple on top of it. Alright. She

56:28

just made me a shooting roll, because she lives out there.

56:31

Yeah, okay. Looking for the ten. That's...

56:35

I should be good to better at this time. Okay, there we go. You

56:38

got any marks on the edges? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So,

56:41

I'm not moving when I do this presumably.

56:44

Nope. So I can add one, and I can add another

56:46

one for a trademark weapon. So

56:49

plus two to... Yeah,

56:51

that's a six on the wild. Just...

56:54

just no... Well, re-roll.

56:57

That's a five.

57:00

So that

57:01

is a plus thirteen. Thirteen,

57:03

yeah. So

57:05

that's a success with two raises. Yeah, unlucky

57:07

for some apples. Okay, so yeah, describe

57:09

what happens to this apple. Um, yeah,

57:12

I like look over at you Billy as if

57:14

to confirm, is this the apple that needs shooting? Yeah,

57:16

yeah, that's the one, yeah. Cool. And then, without

57:18

looking at it...

57:20

Yeah. Oh my god.

57:23

The apple detonates into applesauce. Yeah.

57:26

Oh, I'm so sorry Billy, I forgot.

57:29

I mean, this is custom ammunition. I

57:31

can make it not explode that bad. Yeah,

57:35

we're gonna make it not explode that bad. I

57:39

got this guy can shoot the pants off

57:41

of it. Haha, I love it. Okay,

57:44

well you really do. I'm

57:46

talking, you can't see my... Whoa, whoa,

57:48

whoa, hey, hey, hey. This one's

57:50

not wearing pants. Okay. It's

57:53

real small. This one

57:55

too honey. More lies! Have

57:58

you been to the uh, tent of olives in the next door? Pretty

58:00

sure they got a She

58:27

might be doing a little trial Once

58:29

they close the fair down later Like

58:31

a little, uh, Rehearsal Like, I guess

58:33

I did Uh, probably a bit less

58:35

blood and guts, though Um...

58:38

There was also the possibility we could,

58:40

uh... Say after our show this

58:42

evening we could... See come through See

58:44

if, uh... E-at the very least we

58:47

could condp the place out Mhm That

58:49

sounds like...

58:50

a plan I actually have a... A

58:53

way in, you see I, uh... hahaha Backed

58:56

the tent on onto their, uh... House of Oddities

58:59

Uh, whatever it's called, you know Actually

59:01

quite useful, you see because I actually couldn't get myself

59:03

a liquor license so...

59:05

I found a bunch of these bats in there to fill

59:07

with alcohol hahaha It

59:09

was really cool so that's why I've been sitting here I've

59:11

been making a rattle fortune hahaha Doesn't

59:14

taste bad, though, does it? Uh, quick vigor

59:16

roll, Lacey hahaha Oh,

59:19

is that the way I can go? I will as well

59:21

Alright Did you have some of the antlers? I

59:23

had a little bit I've been drinking it for days You're

59:25

good, yeah You're used to it by now One

59:28

One and...

59:29

Two Okay Eugh hahaha

59:33

One and five One and five Okay, so a success

59:36

you made I just threw up Sorry, you just threw up Yeah,

59:38

you're okay You've already covered it a bit, yeah Um, okay

59:40

you... It's my turn hahaha Wait,

59:42

no, I had the whiskey I told people No, it's fine You

59:45

do throw up in a very discreet manner

59:48

Just like what you do in your mouth and then you swallow it down again

59:50

Yeah, yeah, yeah It's, yeah No

59:52

one really knows The weird west, everyone's not

59:54

They're sick in their mouths all the time All the time That's

59:57

the main thing about the weird west, I think That

59:59

is a good... the main weird thing. Okay,

1:00:02

so, you know, this is a bit later in the day. There

1:00:05

is a source, there are speaking

1:00:07

tubes around the arena and

1:00:09

you hear an announcement come in and say, Distinguished

1:00:12

attendees, Ice and Billy's Wild West Show

1:00:14

and Congress of rough writers of the world will

1:00:16

begin in just a few months. Please

1:00:18

find your seats and get ready to travel with us on

1:00:21

a journey through rough and rugged terrain to

1:00:23

meet rough and rugged people and marvel

1:00:25

at their rough and rugged deeds. The

1:00:28

tent claps open and the public

1:00:30

do start to stream in to take their

1:00:32

seats. So I guess you better

1:00:35

get backstage.

1:00:36

Yeah. Okay, so

1:00:38

basically, the order of the show is we

1:00:40

have a couple acts. We'll probably put

1:00:43

you up right in the middle just to really

1:00:45

get the crowd going. Then

1:00:48

I think maybe we'll go with the song right before

1:00:50

the finale, which will be the

1:00:53

Bison Wrestling. So

1:00:55

if you want, please, we're going to join the crowd for the Bison

1:00:57

Wrestling. We're going to be working with

1:00:59

old Auntie Mildred. She's

1:01:02

a really, she kicks it up, but

1:01:04

okay.

1:01:07

Can I look is Bison Billy wearing

1:01:09

the hat with a hole in it?

1:01:12

A legendary hole, hole, hat. Are

1:01:15

you introducing more Bison Billy though? We already

1:01:17

introduced this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:01:21

I see. I sort of see. I'm

1:01:24

just going to take all that information

1:01:26

in because I'm just drinking in Bison

1:01:29

Billy. Not really. Yeah,

1:01:34

I think as I see you looking, I'm like, well, little to

1:01:36

the left and that would have been me done. That's

1:01:38

what he said. He would have been killed by a Bison. Good

1:01:40

way to go. I hope I die that way.

1:01:42

I mean, I don't. It's not a good way to

1:01:44

go.

1:01:44

I don't know. I don't know. I

1:01:46

don't know. I don't know.

1:01:48

I don't know. I don't know.

1:01:50

It's not a good way to go.

1:01:53

I think as well

1:01:55

now that we're kind of like walking around a little bit more

1:01:58

like he hides it relatively well. well

1:02:00

when he's like out in public but he has a pretty severe

1:02:02

limp like on one side like

1:02:05

he still like looks quite strong and he's but like

1:02:07

his knee definitely doesn't bend like at

1:02:09

full like the way he should do it's like he used

1:02:11

to there's a real limited amount of movement in

1:02:13

his knee. Probably something

1:02:16

that you noticed. The bison wrestling lifestyle is

1:02:19

yeah. You know what

1:02:21

I was saying? Just clap

1:02:23

that.

1:02:24

So yeah

1:02:27

the announce everyone seems to have taken their seats

1:02:29

now. The announcer comes in again. The

1:02:32

year is 1876. No

1:02:34

it ain't! Billy Joe thickened

1:02:37

headed to the same fortune

1:02:39

among the rough riders of the world. It's

1:02:42

narration honey. It's part

1:02:44

of the show. There's

1:02:46

certain stories, scenes, like playing. I'm

1:02:48

mortified for life and Billy. Correcting

1:02:51

me. Don't worry you'll

1:02:53

get it something. You can still vaguely hear them voice over

1:02:55

us talking about how bison Billy is. It's rough and rugged.

1:02:58

It's the terrain that he's conquered. This

1:03:00

is sort of this is your cue to come out and introduce

1:03:02

the show's joy.

1:03:05

Ladies and... Gentle

1:03:07

folk. And all those

1:03:09

a little bit rougher. We

1:03:11

have one heck of a show for you tonight. Whoo! You're

1:03:14

gonna be a doozy. Yeah.

1:03:17

We got a couple of new acts too. We're

1:03:20

bringing Melody back to old bison

1:03:22

Bill's pants. Oh hell yeah. That's

1:03:25

right. We have Chris. Thank you

1:03:27

for coming. Never everyday. Okay.

1:03:29

Thanks Chris. Melody. If you could stop talking

1:03:32

now. That's my job. Not yours. Thank

1:03:34

you.

1:03:36

So, first up we have

1:03:38

the world famous Billy Bison's

1:03:41

train heist. I think

1:03:43

uh... yeah. Like the little train. Yeah.

1:03:48

Imagine the sort of train that you would see

1:03:50

at the fairgrounds. Like a miniature train. Like

1:03:54

a sit-on train. Like one person can sit on. Okay.

1:03:57

Yeah. So yeah. This comes chugging

1:03:59

out to the backstage.

1:06:00

And today, what's

1:06:02

he gonna be shooting you at? Well,

1:06:04

how about an animal? Off

1:06:07

of my own head!

1:06:08

Oooooooh! The

1:06:11

crowd is... moving it.

1:06:14

And I'll just walk over and say, Hey kid, please

1:06:17

don't miss. Hehehehehehehehe

1:06:20

Uh, okay. You're lazy? Alright, yeah,

1:06:22

read in the room. I'll just, I'll do

1:06:24

a bunch of

1:06:25

spinning tricks first. I feel like that's probably the

1:06:27

vibe. So yeah, I just wanna keep for a bit, just kind

1:06:30

of... Yeah, that's how you just do that. Just

1:06:32

for a bit, I imagine there's a... Is there a drumroll?

1:06:34

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone

1:06:38

is very impressed with your, uh, your

1:06:41

scum spinning. Alright, make me, uh,

1:06:43

yeah, make me a shooting roll.

1:06:45

That is a ten.

1:06:48

Oh, okay. Do you need a ten?

1:06:51

Do you need a probably? That's

1:06:54

an eight. I'm gonna say that's plus two. 30-20! So 20,

1:06:57

okay. That's a success

1:06:59

with four raises. Yeah.

1:07:01

Um, yeah, so describe the scene here in

1:07:03

the wild. Did you take the exploding

1:07:06

ammunition out on that? Uh... I...

1:07:09

Okay, so how about

1:07:12

I... Would it be okay if I, um,

1:07:14

if I had to... Yeah, if I did take,

1:07:16

if I swapped out the first bullet for

1:07:19

just, yeah, just like a regular one. So,

1:07:21

so yeah. I just wanna, um... Yeah,

1:07:26

I wanna, uh, wanna just, phew, spin

1:07:28

it up like that and shoot

1:07:30

the apple into, and then as the two perfectly

1:07:33

split bits just sort of fly up, I just

1:07:35

wanna like... Kind of dead-eye them both.

1:07:37

Yeah, with the explosive ammo. Yeah, with the 20, I'll allow that. Yeah.

1:07:40

Yeah. Um, like apple

1:07:42

fire one. Yeah, this is absolutely spectacular.

1:07:45

The crowd are incredibly impressed. Uh,

1:07:47

Bison Billy, you get an apple sauce on you.

1:07:49

Okay. It

1:07:51

tastes good. Milk

1:07:53

powder and apple. Everyone.

1:07:56

Billy, jr. Billy, jr. Billy,

1:07:58

jr. Billy, jr.

1:08:01

And from this day on, this

1:08:03

kid is known the

1:08:06

fastest gun in the west, Delaysie.

1:08:10

Delaysie, Delaysie,

1:08:12

Delaysie. Crowd 11. As

1:08:14

we walk off like a rapper, we're like, hey kid,

1:08:17

let me know if you ever want a job, okay? Because we can work something out

1:08:19

on a permanent basis. Yes, please.

1:08:21

Miss Edie, I'm no longer past the scene. All

1:08:24

right. Excellent. I

1:08:28

mean, honey, I

1:08:30

think we have to finish our job. I'm afraid

1:08:32

he's under contract now. We

1:08:35

got that sound real quick. Wait, if you

1:08:37

could have it. Cool.

1:08:43

Yeah,

1:08:44

we will come back to that later. I guess I'll

1:08:46

be the one to tell Nate. Oh,

1:08:58

you're supposed to be singing. That

1:09:02

is a good point. The next act is

1:09:04

you. Yes. I think it kind

1:09:06

of works if you just like what we're going to do is

1:09:09

we've got some lanterns that are going to backlight

1:09:11

you here. So you're just going to walk out like a silhouette.

1:09:14

We're not even going to introduce you. You're just going to quiet the crowd

1:09:16

with the power of your own voice. Okay,

1:09:18

no pressure. Okay,

1:09:22

so yeah, hush falls over the arena. Everyone

1:09:25

is sat in anticipation of

1:09:27

the next act. The lights are sort of,

1:09:30

as Bryson Billy said, there's your sort of backlit

1:09:33

and there's

1:09:34

a spotlight in front of that where you

1:09:37

can tell you're sort of expected to go to to perform.

1:09:40

Yeah. So what

1:09:42

would you like to do? So yeah, I'd like to certainly

1:09:45

walk forwards.

1:09:49

This is going to be

1:09:50

interesting because I don't actually have anything in performance.

1:09:57

Because there's lots of

1:09:59

it like as.

1:09:59

saloon gal. Right, so there's a lot of

1:10:02

different types of gals who work

1:10:04

in saloons. So you had your dancehall gals

1:10:06

who are the

1:10:07

dancers and singers and everything. And

1:10:10

then you have the

1:10:12

ladies of the night. And then you have

1:10:14

me who's the just

1:10:17

a saloon gal who's basically

1:10:20

just there to convince dudes

1:10:23

to buy me whiskey.

1:10:25

But I don't actually drink the whiskey. The guy

1:10:28

behind the bar serves me sweet

1:10:30

tea.

1:10:30

And

1:10:31

I pocket the difference on the whiskey like

1:10:34

we split the difference. But

1:10:38

having worked in lots of saloons,

1:10:41

I know a lot of the socks so I kind of start to go out

1:10:43

and it is I you know, I'm like, is

1:10:45

there a man with pee? I just need one

1:10:46

pee in it. Oh, okay. You

1:10:50

had there is a pianist. He has lost a

1:10:52

finger today but um, you've

1:10:58

got two thumbs still. All right. He's

1:11:00

able to hold those up.

1:11:02

He's playing the piano with me. Alright,

1:11:05

so yeah, I'd like to kind of go up there and then

1:11:07

just sing a

1:11:09

selection of kind of like

1:11:11

saloon classics like can't tell ladies

1:11:14

sing that song. That

1:11:16

sort of stuff. And just try and

1:11:18

really get the crowd going and be that

1:11:20

warm up act. Yeah, or the final one. That'll

1:11:23

be a performance roll, please.

1:11:26

The crowd starting to get like rounder you're

1:11:28

like clapping along. I'm like, get the whiskey

1:11:30

out there. Get the whiskey. Give everyone a free shot.

1:11:33

This is it. This is the stuff. Yeah, it's a guy going around

1:11:35

with the tray. Yeah. He shot and in about

1:11:37

two or I say whiskey shot. Yeah,

1:11:40

round picture. Yeah, medical grade preserving

1:11:42

alcohol.

1:11:46

Okay.

1:11:57

Yeah. All right. Describe.

1:11:59

what happens.

1:12:00

So yeah I really like kind

1:12:03

of like try to like

1:12:04

clap along, get the crowd clapping along,

1:12:06

I'm singing all the classics,

1:12:08

there's one bit where I kind of like

1:12:10

jump on top of the piano. Not for

1:12:13

a fall there isn't.

1:12:14

What's helping is the whiskey

1:12:24

that's gone around, everyone starts to join

1:12:26

in the song and at that point

1:12:28

it doesn't really matter how well you're performing

1:12:31

because everyone's just enjoying the sort of group sing

1:12:33

along that's happening. Yeah

1:12:36

just yeah just you know I got a

1:12:38

girl in Valentine's. The songs are absolutely

1:12:40

filthy. Yeah

1:12:44

I'm

1:12:44

singing the raunchy

1:12:46

stuff and just like I'm

1:12:49

like kids

1:12:50

ask your parents what that means

1:12:52

when you get home.

1:12:53

I

1:12:56

think Billy's back there so I told you

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1:15:01

in which Bison Billy will wrestle the noble

1:15:03

yet deadly King of the Plains, the Great

1:15:05

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1:15:09

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1:15:11

break of leg, I

1:15:12

should say.

1:15:14

Looks down at his very injured legs. Thanks.

1:15:18

Have you got this, Bison Billy? It's

1:15:20

what they say in the sea. That's an expression

1:15:22

I thought you would just be in me. Oh no,

1:15:24

honey, no. Oh, okay. I'm not a brilliant

1:15:27

scene in time. Okay, I apologize. That's right. Okay, good.

1:15:29

That's a good thing. I'm a... a

1:15:31

break of leg. No, doesn't sit right. Okay. Give

1:15:35

me your Cincinnati twist. Oh,

1:15:37

you want to see the Cincinnati twist? Well,

1:15:40

yeah. Alright then. Okay,

1:15:45

cool. So yeah, you head out into the arena. One

1:15:48

of the other... it's not Jed, it's Ned. Ned,

1:15:51

obviously, yeah. He's leading out a

1:15:53

large... Ned's the only one I trust with Bison. A

1:15:56

large American Bison on a leash. And

1:15:58

yeah, the crowd is all looking to you.

1:15:59

you for what's

1:16:01

gonna happen.

1:16:01

Cool. So I think, yeah,

1:16:04

basically as Ned leads the

1:16:06

bison out, there's a kind

1:16:09

of moment of like

1:16:11

Ned locking eye contact.

1:16:14

I sort of get myself into like

1:16:16

a braced stance like this and

1:16:19

I effectively like wait for the bison to sort

1:16:21

of clock me and charge at me, at

1:16:23

which point I'll sort of duke to the side

1:16:25

and attempt to grab the horns. Yep. Do

1:16:28

me an athletics role but I mean

1:16:30

you do this all the time, this is your act.

1:16:31

So yeah, plus two to whatever

1:16:34

you want. Okay.

1:16:35

That's a ten. Okay.

1:16:39

A three.

1:16:40

So 15. So yeah. So yeah,

1:16:42

this is a spectacular test.

1:16:45

Describe the show to

1:16:47

the audience. Yeah,

1:16:51

so I think the bison charges

1:16:53

towards Billy and he kind of dukes

1:16:55

to the side, grabs hold of the horns and

1:16:57

it's sort of like this, almost a bit like

1:17:00

a roller coaster as the bison starts rearing

1:17:02

its head back, Billy's kind of like holding on.

1:17:05

It's probably the only time you see Billy look comparatively

1:17:07

small compared to anything because

1:17:10

this thing is like huge. And

1:17:12

then I think that like, as you can just

1:17:15

start to get the sense of the bison retiring a little bit,

1:17:17

Billy kind of like pushes

1:17:19

off the ground, like let's

1:17:22

go of the like kind of like looks to the audience

1:17:24

and like does like a little spin. The bison goes round,

1:17:26

grabs back hold and plants it into the ground. That's

1:17:28

just a night twist. Plants it into the ground. Oh damn,

1:17:31

he's still got it. Holds

1:17:34

the bison down on the ground for a minute

1:17:37

and then the bison starts to calm down and Billy

1:17:39

has like a moment where he sort of looks at the bison's eyes

1:17:41

and there's like a bit of an exchange

1:17:42

and I'm just like, good job girl. You

1:17:45

know, right. Nice. We

1:17:47

still got it. The crowd erupts. The

1:17:49

announcer goes, ladies and gentlemen, the

1:17:51

bison. Tell it all. And everyone

1:17:55

huge round of applause. Everyone's loving

1:17:57

it. Thank you very much. Please feel free.

1:17:59

There will be a hat-pass around if you want to give

1:18:02

a contribution to help us carry on the show.

1:18:04

We would madly appreciate it. Don't forget

1:18:07

if you can leave us a review all the way up right

1:18:09

in the slip. That would be good for us just, you know,

1:18:11

so that we can show those 2020-time select doors

1:18:14

that we can put on a good show. How's about that? Everyone's

1:18:17

applauding. The announcer says, Ladies

1:18:19

and gentlemen, thank you for coming to Bison Billie's

1:18:21

Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders

1:18:23

of the World. Please stick around for the Rex

1:18:25

Randall Memorial Parade. And

1:18:28

then a bunch of cowboys

1:18:29

dressed in a sort of white suit and hat of

1:18:32

Rex Randall come out.

1:18:34

They were all wearing black-armed bands and they're sort of proceeding

1:18:37

in silence. Everyone removes their hat

1:18:39

and looks very... Hey, pet.

1:18:44

Take it off. Put

1:18:47

it here. That's

1:18:49

right. Nope. On your heart. Come

1:18:52

on. There we go. Yeah,

1:18:54

the Wild West Show is over. You've all

1:18:57

successfully entertained a tough

1:18:59

audience of cowboys. A

1:19:01

lot of people are very sad about Rex Randall. Yeah,

1:19:07

so good job. Everyone goes... I'm not really sad about Ray-D.

1:19:09

You know, Edie doesn't realise he's a kid. I

1:19:13

don't know how, maybe he was

1:19:16

great before. Who was this Rex

1:19:18

fella? Rex Randall was a

1:19:20

famous movie radio cowboy

1:19:23

who Delacy shot to death in the duel. I

1:19:26

shot him through the throat.

1:19:28

What

1:19:30

did you say there, sir? Everyone saw.

1:19:38

I don't know about you folks, but I can do with a drink. Guess

1:19:41

out the whiskey again. I'm good, thank

1:19:43

you. I've had plenty of fun. All right, more for me. Yeah,

1:19:48

so now you're backstage at the

1:19:51

Wild West Show. Everyone who was in the show is sort of milling around.

1:19:53

Besides discussing what went wrong, what went

1:19:55

right, the train guys are all like, oh, I got the

1:19:57

leg caught in the rail. I couldn't even...

1:19:59

He fell off and landed on his spine. That

1:20:02

type of energy. That kind of energy

1:20:04

has been crowded. I don't know, Jed,

1:20:07

how you do the same trick a hundred times and yet

1:20:09

you're still mission marked. At some

1:20:11

point, you know, I know we've paid

1:20:13

a lot of compensation to you for your injuries,

1:20:16

but there's only so much we

1:20:18

can do. You're saying all this connects unconsciously. Yeah,

1:20:21

well, pull yourself together. Oh,

1:20:25

I'm sorry, I said they

1:20:27

never meant to do what. There's nothing with all

1:20:29

that mess.

1:20:29

What? There's not. Yeah, I know. Okay,

1:20:33

well listen. You're off show for two

1:20:35

weeks, but I need you back full fit. Okay? Okay,

1:20:41

that was a little bit rude, but I'll come back to

1:20:43

you later. So,

1:20:47

I appreciate, uh, yeah,

1:20:50

he's alright. He's alright. You'll get

1:20:52

to know him. You know, only time

1:20:54

here when you stay with the show. Alright.

1:20:57

What are we gonna do about this, uh, anti-

1:21:16

Welcome

1:21:19

back anytime. It would be, uh, an honor

1:21:22

to have you. I'm

1:21:24

sort of aiming that more at you. He's already signed the contract.

1:21:27

Right. Well, I will stick on it. I

1:21:31

can get a contract for you right now if you need it,

1:21:33

if you want to stay on. Oh, I know

1:21:35

you've got something very important to do. We're

1:21:38

on a mission to, um, well,

1:21:41

we're killing folks. Okay,

1:21:44

I think so. Let me give you

1:21:46

a little, uh, typically when

1:21:48

you're on a mission to kill folks. It's not

1:21:50

the best idea to go shout about it. Just

1:21:52

because you want to make it easier for yourself, you don't

1:21:54

want to have more people trying

1:21:56

to get in your way and stopping you from doing your

1:21:59

task. gonna figure it out in the end when

1:22:01

we kill them yes exactly but that's the point

1:22:03

that's when they're supposed to figure it out not beforehand

1:22:06

cuz then they can prepare they can be ready

1:22:08

waiting for you and then before you know it bam

1:22:11

that's right bullet between your eyes never

1:22:15

occurred to delay thinking could die all right we play things

1:22:17

your way

1:22:25

nice and Billy for sure absolutely yeah reconnaissance

1:22:28

we can get it we can get prepared I

1:22:31

replaced the four bullets I'm

1:22:33

ready okay by the way

1:22:36

we need to have a discussion we did not agree to three bullets

1:22:39

we did not agree there were two damn many bullets

1:22:41

where did the fourth one go well I don't

1:22:43

practice oh yeah um

1:22:47

well I think we can wait

1:22:49

till we're sure that they're that

1:22:52

World's Fair is closed down that's

1:22:55

round when the rehearsal should start then we

1:22:57

can sneak in through that little house

1:22:59

oddities and see if we can find

1:23:02

catch on here

1:23:03

they unaware so

1:23:05

yeah this is you're in the

1:23:08

evening now the shows sort of run on into

1:23:10

the evening and you can through

1:23:13

the opening in the ten you can see a

1:23:15

lot of people are filing out of the World's Fair now it seems

1:23:17

as if the fairgrounds have closed up for the for

1:23:19

the night so inside it's

1:23:21

getting dark outside as well

1:23:23

yeah this is that that time of day

1:23:30

if um if it's possible

1:23:32

I don't anticipate

1:23:35

you honoring this if you

1:23:37

don't wish to but if

1:23:39

there's a way that I could put the

1:23:42

final love

1:23:43

knife in as it were on that hill there

1:23:46

I might appreciate it we

1:23:49

don't care who does it

1:23:51

so that's absolutely fine by us

1:23:53

we gotta bring back her ring

1:23:56

that's cool that's okay

1:23:59

absolutely fine want anything from her person

1:24:01

just that her person is no longer a person. That's

1:24:04

fair enough. Um

1:24:08

well, and

1:24:10

I'll sort of yeah start moving towards

1:24:12

where the where the tent backs onto the house

1:24:15

of audiences and um will

1:24:17

uh probably yeah

1:24:19

I'll probably go get my Winchester as well. Just have

1:24:22

that on my back. Absolutely um

1:24:24

yeah okay so the um the

1:24:27

tent at the back it's it stakes

1:24:29

down but sort of removing the stakes and

1:24:31

pulling up the tent you can see it it

1:24:33

backs directly onto uh

1:24:35

the tent that housed the Hall of Oddities

1:24:37

from earlier so you are able to sort of lift up the

1:24:39

canvas there lift up the canvas there and sort of

1:24:42

slide underneath um and yeah you're

1:24:44

back in

1:24:45

the Hall of Oddities that you were in earlier um there's

1:24:48

a very different vibe to it now kind of

1:24:50

because it's dark um and there are no no

1:24:52

people in here

1:24:54

it suddenly seems a lot more sinister inside

1:24:56

the Hall of Oddities there are long shadows being cast

1:24:59

um by the light coming

1:25:01

in from the from the gap in the

1:25:04

tent that leads to the to the midway um

1:25:06

heads up don't get too close

1:25:10

that near insect land one of my guys

1:25:12

when he was through here stealing some of the you know alcohol

1:25:15

uh uh he swears hard wolf but

1:25:19

I okay that's the thing he's he's a little

1:25:21

jittery fellow you sure it's fine

1:25:23

when you were in here before there was a um a gramophone

1:25:26

playing sort of um jaunty

1:25:28

music um to sort of keep

1:25:30

people entertained as they look at the oddities they um

1:25:33

no one has waned the gramophone for a while so the music

1:25:35

has slowed down it's now taking

1:25:37

a lot more of a sinister sort

1:25:40

of tone to it yeah slightly discordant

1:25:43

carnival waltz it's sort

1:25:45

of coming through don't you worry

1:25:47

bison billy that mermaid's not real

1:25:50

huh oh that one oh yeah i'll

1:25:53

uh just put my

1:25:55

finger in the mermaid tank that's

1:25:57

a good vintage we're gonna get some of that tomorrow Real

1:26:00

mermaids live in the sea! It's not

1:26:02

right. What we are needy. And

1:26:04

said that everywhere. Maybe

1:26:07

just like cowboys, there's a lot of different types of mermaids.

1:26:10

Maybe some of them look like this and some of them look a little different. Whoa,

1:26:13

whoa, don't point that at me. So

1:26:18

here's a mermaid. It could

1:26:20

be. So you're in the far corner of the tent from where you

1:26:22

were before. I don't think you came into this corner

1:26:24

earlier when you were looking around. There's some...

1:26:27

We were straight to the hand and then straight to the hand again. Yeah,

1:26:29

there's some other exhibitions over here. There are

1:26:32

a lot of

1:26:33

what the tent describes as relics. So there's

1:26:36

Billy the Kid's Hat is on a sort

1:26:38

of mannequin in one corner. There are John Wesley

1:26:41

Hardin's cards. They're in a glass case.

1:26:44

Something that is described as a splinter of the

1:26:46

true cross is in a

1:26:48

little glass case as well. So yeah,

1:26:50

you're going to sort of make your way through

1:26:53

the tent towards the midway. I

1:26:57

don't really like the way the DM is asking us

1:26:59

this.

1:27:02

Can I swing by the

1:27:05

hand again? You certainly

1:27:07

can, yeah. What

1:27:09

kind... How big is the jar that it's in? The jar is... It's

1:27:14

about that size. Floating

1:27:17

in it is the hand holding. The

1:27:19

dead man's hand. Mr. Boyce & Billy.

1:27:25

They're saying that this is the hand of Wild

1:27:27

Bill Hicken. What I can see, it

1:27:29

is truly the hand of a legendary gunslinger.

1:27:32

Whether that be Wild Bill, I don't know. But

1:27:35

it doesn't feel right to me that if it is Wild

1:27:37

Bill's hand,

1:27:38

people are coming in to go get it. And

1:27:40

it doesn't

1:27:41

feel right to me that if it isn't Wild Bill's hand, then

1:27:44

people are being tricked into paying

1:27:46

good dollars and cents to see something that ain't

1:27:49

a genuine article.

1:27:51

So I'm thinking,

1:27:52

I'd like to

1:27:53

take this out of here.

1:27:56

And just, you know, take it, bring it ultimately

1:27:58

back to Wild Bill's ground.

1:27:59

I'm brave. I had to rest where it should

1:28:02

be.

1:28:02

Unless I dig him up and he's got two hands, in

1:28:04

which case, come back and I'll kill

1:28:06

the owners this year. Oh,

1:28:10

that's a yawl. You know the way I see

1:28:12

it? Sign of any true survivor

1:28:14

here in the West is, they gotta seize

1:28:17

the opportunities that they see in front of them. And it

1:28:19

feels right in your heart. Gotta go

1:28:21

for it, son. And I'm not gonna stand in your way.

1:28:23

Plus also that hand's gonna start decomposing, because

1:28:25

that's been water for about three days. What? Okay,

1:28:30

yeah, so I just wanna... I mean, it's very good. Yeah.

1:28:34

So it's heavy, I guess. It's like really too big

1:28:37

for a gelator to comfortably carry, but, you know, there's

1:28:39

a sort of slosh and all that. Yeah.

1:28:42

Okay, make me an athletic role. Yeah,

1:28:45

fine. I'd love to.

1:28:46

And so I will. Oh,

1:28:50

cool. Two.

1:28:54

Okay, so you do manage to pick

1:28:57

up the glass

1:28:58

tube.

1:28:59

Yeah. What's your plan now?

1:29:01

Carry it with me? Carry it with me. Could

1:29:04

Bison Billy just reach in, grab the

1:29:06

hand, put it in a sack and be like, I

1:29:08

think this might be easy if you'd carry it, son. Yeah,

1:29:12

okay, so Bison Billy, you

1:29:14

reach into the tank to remove

1:29:16

the hand. And the hand grabs you. The

1:29:20

hand

1:29:22

runs up your arm. And

1:29:25

it's going to try and strangle you. What

1:29:28

in the tarnation?

1:29:31

Well, Bill, will you calm yourself? Okay,

1:29:37

the hand is now strangling you and we're going to go into

1:29:39

initiative. This is

1:29:41

bad. Try

1:29:44

and do it all. Carry on. Carry

1:29:47

on, old counseling or a favor. Okay.

1:29:53

Okay, initiative order. So we'll start with Bison

1:29:56

Billy on a four. Okay, well

1:29:58

he was planning. Here

1:30:00

I go! He's freaking out!

1:30:03

3-3-D, you get two, right? Yeah, I can,

1:30:05

um... Oh, I lift it slower than a 5. Yeah,

1:30:07

yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's my quick... Well, you've got a

1:30:09

king. Hey, you need an apple

1:30:12

off my head? How about a hand off my neck? And

1:30:14

a 7. Oh, I'm a bill! It's a 7 for the animate

1:30:17

hand. Um,

1:30:19

okay, so the animate hand is currently

1:30:21

attempting to choke... Spice and Billy.

1:30:23

Yep. Um, just sort of rounded through. It hasn't got purchased

1:30:26

yet. But it's, um... It's drying. Okay.

1:30:29

So, Delacey, it's,

1:30:29

um... You first. In the dark...

1:30:33

Hand... On...

1:30:35

Spice and Billy's throat. Tricky

1:30:37

shot. Oh,

1:30:40

there is. I'll make it. Also noisy. As

1:30:42

well. GASP!

1:30:44

Um, it'll be fine. Ugh!

1:30:47

Uh, yeah. What else am I gonna do? But... Yeah,

1:30:50

this is... This is what I can do. But Billy is

1:30:52

now thinking... This is what I want to do. Consciously thinking,

1:30:55

I have to remove my hand... From

1:30:57

the hand around my throat... In order for him to shoot

1:30:59

the hand. Yeah! Yeah,

1:31:01

yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, that's cool. I like that. Yeah.

1:31:04

Uh, okay. Maybe she's... She's gonna run a tank? She's

1:31:06

gonna roll... Billy! Handed!

1:31:08

Drop him! It's okay! I'll

1:31:10

drop him. That hand would be the

1:31:12

best. That's exactly... I hope it's... Yep, it's getting tighter!

1:31:14

Okay. Like damn bowl constrictive!

1:31:17

This... One...

1:31:22

Thank you! That

1:31:28

was a good one! At

1:31:31

the end of all, Billy... Cool.

1:31:34

Alright, six on the six. And...

1:31:37

Add five on the six. Okay. Eleven.

1:31:40

Yeah. Eleven. Plus... Versus success...

1:31:43

And two raises. What? Yeah,

1:31:46

eleven plus one... Yeah,

1:31:49

plus two. So yeah, thirteen again. Success

1:31:51

and two raises. Cool. Yeah. On hand for

1:31:53

some. One ten. Yeah. Alright,

1:31:55

so... Roll your damage. You'll

1:31:57

have additional damage rolls for the raises. Okay.

1:31:59

Okay, so that's 2d8 plus 1 and d6 for each.

1:32:05

Okay. Jingly

1:32:07

jingly. 5 plus 5

1:32:09

plus 5 plus 7. Which

1:32:16

is... Alright,

1:32:20

yeah, that is, that's gonna hit the anima

1:32:22

hand. So describe

1:32:24

how you're shooting it. Well,

1:32:27

I suppose I'm really waiting for the... This

1:32:29

is a collaborative effort, I think, between me and Bison

1:32:31

Billy. I assume Bison Billy, yeah,

1:32:34

drop your hands, sort of swing

1:32:36

so you're in profile, so that the hand is kind

1:32:38

of like that, sort of sticking out, yeah, the most, and then right

1:32:40

just grazing, well not grazing,

1:32:42

not touching at all, but like

1:32:44

a millimetre away from the Adam's apple, I just want to be like... Yeah,

1:32:47

like straight through as many of its knuckles as possible. Yeah,

1:32:50

okay, so the bullet slides through the centre of the

1:32:53

hand, and it blows a hole in it. I'm

1:32:56

sorry, Bill. The hand sort of flies off, lands on

1:32:58

its back like a spider, but then it splits

1:33:01

over onto the front of it, scuffles

1:33:04

off across the floor towards

1:33:07

you, Delacey. And

1:33:10

it is the hand's turn. Okay,

1:33:13

so the hand is going to try

1:33:17

and strangle you, Delacey. Yeah,

1:33:21

so it should feel free to try. Okay.

1:33:24

We will. They're

1:33:32

successful with the brain, it's good. Now...

1:33:40

Work your toughness. Or... Okay,

1:33:43

the hand runs up your arm... Who pops

1:33:46

my head off? ...grabs you

1:33:48

round the throat... Glap! ...and

1:33:51

starts choking you. That

1:33:53

changed my voice, Pancho. No, I'm... You're

1:33:58

now shaking your voice. and I

1:34:00

need to make me a bigger roll. Okay. Bigger's

1:34:06

not one of my strengths. Oh, but

1:34:08

that's the default did pop. Nice.

1:34:13

Six. Okay, succeeded on the bigger

1:34:15

roll. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah,

1:34:17

that's fine. You're just being strangled

1:34:19

and you're shaken. Cool. Cool.

1:34:23

Bisonbelly. Okay, I

1:34:26

think... Bisonbelly

1:34:29

does not think he's anywhere near as good a shot as Delacey is. You

1:34:31

could do it, Bisonbelly! So, Delacey, I think

1:34:33

it's just sort of walk over, hands

1:34:36

just like furb, like massive meaty hands

1:34:38

just on Delacey's head, grabs the

1:34:40

hand and it's just gonna pull it, uh, try

1:34:43

and pull it off. Okay, I think that's a straight

1:34:45

strength roll in this interview. Um,

1:34:48

oh, it's an opposed strength roll. Oh, okay. Yeah,

1:34:51

the... you may tear the hand away with an opposed strength

1:34:53

roll. Cool. What's wrong with

1:34:55

this hand? Okay. Alright.

1:35:00

Three from the hand. Yeah, I'm gonna

1:35:03

spend a little more money in here. You're

1:35:06

gonna try that again. Uh,

1:35:09

that's a... six on

1:35:11

that one, that pops, but I got an eight on that one,

1:35:14

so... Probably roll that one again. Yeah,

1:35:17

you roll that one again. Six again! Hey!

1:35:20

And a two. Okay, great. Yeah, that's

1:35:22

it. So, yeah, you succeed, you pull

1:35:24

the hand off, um, off

1:35:26

of Delacey. You can do

1:35:28

something else with your turn now, but you'll incur

1:35:30

a multi-action penalty of, um, minus two

1:35:33

for what it can do next. I'm just

1:35:35

gonna, I'm gonna like eyeball

1:35:37

this hand and just try and crush it with my tongue.

1:35:40

Oh wow, yeah. Amazing. Alright,

1:35:42

well, let's, yeah, let's make that a strength

1:35:45

roll again. Or I will, or I could actually... Okay,

1:35:49

well, I'll probably like throw it on the ground and just try and like stomp it out. Okay,

1:35:52

that's a fighting roll then. Yeah, yeah, cool. The

1:35:54

Nevada stomp. Nevada stomp,

1:35:56

yeah,

1:35:56

exactly. You know what technique? No, you do it.

1:35:59

Still like.

1:35:59

Okay, that's a seven

1:36:02

on the ten. I've popped again on

1:36:04

the six. Yay! Three

1:36:07

for wild. Three for nine. Okay,

1:36:09

yeah, great. Success with a raise.

1:36:12

So, Romy damage for this

1:36:15

stomp. Strength plus one. Strength

1:36:17

plus one? Yeah. Ten.

1:36:20

Wow. Okay. All right,

1:36:22

yeah, Vice and Billy, you stamp down hard on this

1:36:24

hand. And it just flatter

1:36:28

on the floor of the Hall of Odysseys.

1:36:29

That's right. You never

1:36:32

got Vice and Billy. I'm

1:36:35

still working on my tagline. I don't really kill many things.

1:36:39

The seven hand of Wild Bill Hickok is no more.

1:36:42

You could say,

1:36:44

Bye, son. Oh, that's

1:36:45

good. Bye, son! I'll

1:36:49

turn around and look and be like, I'm sorry

1:36:51

about standing on that. I know you wanted to return

1:36:53

it. It's lying sort

1:36:55

of shattered next to the dead man's hand on the floor.

1:36:58

It's quite the tableau. I pick it up by the

1:37:00

pinky. It's sort of, the rest of the

1:37:02

hand is sort of hanging off. Yeah. From

1:37:05

the... I don't think this could have been

1:37:07

Wild Bill's. We'd be dead

1:37:09

if it was. That's very true. You

1:37:11

would have known. All right.

1:37:14

I don't need Ned to clean my shoes. Okay,

1:37:18

yeah, so are you heading

1:37:20

out of the tent? As quickly as possible. Okay. Yeah.

1:37:24

I did in fact fire my loud gun. Hmm. Well,

1:37:28

in fact, as you start to move towards the

1:37:30

entrance of the tent, you hear

1:37:33

someone say,

1:37:34

Who goes there? Who's shooting?

1:37:37

You hear a shout from the midway. And I

1:37:39

think, that's where we'll leave it. Oh,

1:37:43

no! We

1:37:47

gonna get captured? That's bad. I

1:37:50

got a show to do tomorrow.

1:37:54

I'll get it.

1:38:01

That was More Wonders Than There Are

1:38:03

In The Heavens, part one.

1:38:05

Joining, well,

1:38:06

guest starring, Jasper Cartwright

1:38:09

of Three Black Halflings, whose podcast you can listen

1:38:11

to right now, but don't finish

1:38:13

listening to this podcast.

1:38:14

It's this one, and then this one. Yeah, I was on a recent

1:38:16

episode talking about Deadland, so maybe start with

1:38:18

that one.

1:38:19

Jasper also on D20's new show, very

1:38:21

soon.

1:38:22

Yeah, on their

1:38:24

Redwall-inspired thing where people

1:38:27

are badges and stuff. Yeah, exciting, so

1:38:29

keep an eye out.

1:38:31

So, how did this one go for you, Andy?

1:38:33

Good, I think. So this was set in

1:38:35

a World's Fair

1:38:37

that was very heavily based on the 1893

1:38:39

World's Fair, which

1:38:41

happened in Chicago. Quite

1:38:44

a famous event. It's a

1:38:46

classic year. Yeah, it's what sort

1:38:48

of Bioshock Infinite is based on.

1:38:51

I think Walt Disney's dad

1:38:54

did some work there, and I think it

1:38:56

sort of inspired Walt

1:38:59

Disney in the creation of Disneyland. It's

1:39:01

where H.H. Holmes, America's

1:39:04

sort of first serial killer, was

1:39:07

stalking his victims. Got his big break. Got

1:39:10

his big break there. Yeah, it's

1:39:12

a really interesting... What is a World's Fair for starters?

1:39:15

Okay, so World's Fair is a kind of... It's

1:39:19

like a state fair or a county fair. Indeed.

1:39:22

It's like that, but on a much grander scale. I

1:39:24

think in this era, a lot

1:39:28

of it was about America sort of putting

1:39:30

its foot forward on the international

1:39:33

stage and being like, look at what a

1:39:35

great developed nation we are with all of our technological

1:39:38

advancements and things of that nature.

1:39:40

But also, the 1893 World's

1:39:42

Fair was, I think, the

1:39:44

first to include a lot of

1:39:47

entertainment diversions, like at the midway.

1:39:49

The Ferris Wheel was invented to the 1893

1:39:52

World's Fair, but there was also a sort of

1:39:55

lean towards an educational

1:39:58

aspect to it. So there were a lot of... pavilions

1:40:01

showcasing technological advancements but also

1:40:03

they would have pavilions

1:40:05

from different countries showing off their sort of like

1:40:08

what they were all about their sort

1:40:10

of their culture and their exports

1:40:12

and their industry and things like that. Like an Epcot.

1:40:15

Yeah basically like an Epcot. Only

1:40:18

not sort of embarrassingly

1:40:21

surface level. Yeah it's very interesting that

1:40:27

that was sort of happening on one

1:40:29

side of the country at the same time as on the other side

1:40:31

of the country you have to sort of what people consider

1:40:33

to be the Wild West. Those

1:40:35

two things coexisting is really sort of interesting

1:40:38

to me as a concept because

1:40:40

everything is so disconnected in a world before

1:40:42

you have things like the internet. It would

1:40:45

take you weeks to get a message from one side

1:40:47

of the country. Or easy travel. As the railroads

1:40:49

are just sort of being finished. The

1:40:53

transcontinental railroad and stuff. So that's

1:40:55

really interesting and I just think the idea of a world fair

1:40:58

is a really cool setting for

1:41:00

like a an RPG session because

1:41:03

you've got just so so

1:41:06

many possibilities for things that people

1:41:08

can do. I put a sort of the

1:41:10

Hall of Oddities in there. I thought

1:41:13

there's no way they could resist that and go in and they had

1:41:15

a fight with a disembodied hand

1:41:17

which was fun. The thing

1:41:20

with Jasper's character.

1:41:22

This is apparently

1:41:26

a true story. It may be apocryphal but

1:41:28

the thing about the Buffalo

1:41:30

Bill Wild West show style character

1:41:33

applying to be a part of the World's Fair and being

1:41:35

denied being

1:41:37

part of it because they thought it was too lowbrow and then

1:41:40

setting up like directly next door is apparently

1:41:42

something that really happens. Buffalo

1:41:45

Bill wanted to be part of the Chicago World's Fair but they

1:41:47

were like no thanks and he set up his showgrounds

1:41:50

right next to the World's Fair and made

1:41:52

just an act of fortune. A

1:41:54

lot of people apparently went to the

1:41:56

Buffalo Bill Wild West show thought they'd been to

1:41:58

the World's Fair had a broad brilliant time, went

1:42:00

home completely satisfied.

1:42:02

Let me tell you about the World's Fair. It's got

1:42:04

a Buffalo bill.

1:42:05

Yeah, it's got a train, train robbery,

1:42:07

gun trick. It was amazing. Yeah,

1:42:12

so I kind of have the idea in mind

1:42:14

for this character of like a Wild West

1:42:16

showman, which is what I sort

1:42:19

of went to Jasper with. And

1:42:21

then Jasper sort of developed

1:42:23

the character a bit based on that brief. So

1:42:26

I've got a really nice sort of character, character

1:42:29

description here from,

1:42:32

from Jasper, which is sent over, which is which is

1:42:34

really good. And quite a

1:42:37

lot of his character

1:42:40

was sort of inspired by a real, real life

1:42:42

black cowboy called William Pickett, who was the

1:42:45

cowboy that invented bulldogging, which is literally

1:42:47

where you wrestle cattle to the ground by their horns.

1:42:51

So that's the kind of that's what Jasper

1:42:53

wanted to bring. Okay. Bring to

1:42:55

the character, which I think was really cool.

1:42:57

Yeah.

1:42:58

And how did you enjoy the dynamics that emerged

1:43:02

in the group?

1:43:03

I thought it was really great how Delacey

1:43:07

immediately sort of latched on to Bison Billy and

1:43:09

Luke immediately decided that

1:43:12

Delacey idolized this

1:43:14

guy and wanted

1:43:16

to be part of his show more than anything. And

1:43:18

I mean, Ellen

1:43:20

and Luke had already adopted this kind of Ellen

1:43:23

is the kind of exasperated

1:43:25

aunt running around with an over caffeinated

1:43:28

over sugars child at the

1:43:30

carnival, which is a really nice dynamic. And

1:43:32

then that sort of got transposed onto this

1:43:34

Wild West show that they both had to take part in. I thought

1:43:36

that I thought that would be a really sort of fun thing

1:43:39

for the characters to have to do to have to try and

1:43:41

do something in a Wild West show. Yeah,

1:43:43

they are, you know, they are actual Wild West figures.

1:43:46

But when you try to translate that into entertainment,

1:43:48

it's like, well, what do you what can you do with that?

1:43:51

What can you do with that that will will

1:43:54

entertain an audience? That was really

1:43:56

good fun.

1:43:57

I also find when role playing that performance

1:43:59

within a performance stick is really enjoyable,

1:44:02

really kind of interesting

1:44:04

to noodle around with. Like in Blades in the Dark,

1:44:07

we had that episode where we were all

1:44:08

at an opera. Particularly when

1:44:11

you have like a performance

1:44:13

skill that you can roll the dice

1:44:15

to see how you're doing. But it's one of

1:44:17

those roles that like, so

1:44:19

it's like an intelligence role or a charisma role

1:44:21

when you roll high and the DM

1:44:23

is then like, oh yeah, you do something

1:44:25

really intelligent or oh yeah, you do something really

1:44:27

charismatic or oh yeah, you've done a great performance role

1:44:30

now perform

1:44:30

really well. And

1:44:33

so it's not like,

1:44:34

obviously with a, you know, a successful combat

1:44:37

type role, you're like, yeah, you do it and his

1:44:39

head comes clean off, well done. Or like,

1:44:41

describe how you kill that guy so good. And

1:44:44

now it's like, yeah, with these

1:44:46

other types of roles, it's like, okay, now you

1:44:48

actually have to be intelligent or you actually have

1:44:50

to simulate charisma or you actually have to

1:44:53

give a good performance in line with

1:44:55

the high dice role you've just made.

1:44:57

Ellen got

1:45:01

a four on

1:45:03

her performance role, which is the lowest possible success.

1:45:06

So she was describing how she was singing this song

1:45:08

and then she's like, and then I jump up onto the piano

1:45:10

and I'm like, not with a four, you don't.

1:45:14

I sit

1:45:16

sensibly at the piano.

1:45:17

You perform to an adequate standard. It's

1:45:21

fine. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,

1:45:24

yeah.

1:45:24

Yeah,

1:45:25

that is fun. But yeah, it's sort

1:45:28

of in my in my mind, the layout

1:45:30

is sort of a cross between the

1:45:32

actual Chicago World's Fair, which was can

1:45:34

I look, I'm just going to Google right now for the layout

1:45:37

of the Chicago, like a map

1:45:38

of the Chicago. I mean, it's all based around

1:45:41

there's a big sort of body of water in the middle, which people

1:45:43

used to boat across, which I want to include.

1:45:46

But then whenever my mind starts to think

1:45:48

about that kind of layout, it immediately morphs

1:45:50

into Epcot in my mind, which

1:45:52

is all set around the central lake. Yeah,

1:45:55

yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of it's kind of a combination

1:45:57

of the two of the Chicago World's Fair

1:45:59

and Epcot.

1:46:00

I'm looking at maps like souvenir

1:46:02

maps and such. Someone's

1:46:04

actually put Buffalo Bill's kind of sideline

1:46:07

adventure here on the map. It's like

1:46:09

just off to one side. It's totally not

1:46:11

part of it.

1:46:12

But I bet you would be

1:46:15

easily fooled because it still

1:46:17

looks like it's several blocks across or something.

1:46:20

Yeah, you can see it's got like a long midway leading

1:46:22

down to the sort of the fairgrounds and there's

1:46:25

sort of body of water with an island in the middle. Would

1:46:27

you call it like a proto theme park? Oh,

1:46:29

absolutely. Yeah, it's definitely the sort

1:46:32

of model for those things. Like

1:46:34

basically that's what Disneyland

1:46:36

is. Yeah, but permanent. How

1:46:38

permanent was the World's Fair? I mean, it couldn't

1:46:40

go up and down in a week, right? It must have been there

1:46:43

for months

1:46:43

or something. Oh, yeah, it was it was there

1:46:45

for, I want to say

1:46:48

like six months. Cool. Somebody's

1:46:51

maps are really beautiful, actually. Yeah.

1:46:55

Yeah, it's a lot of the buildings were

1:46:57

made out of sort of temporary. They

1:47:01

were like temporary structures made out of sort of woods

1:47:03

and things like that. But then they had a few

1:47:06

terrible fires.

1:47:07

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

1:47:08

The only permanent building was this

1:47:11

big stone building that they

1:47:13

used to house all the fine art because they were like,

1:47:15

they're like, the rest of this is going to burn down.

1:47:17

We know it's absolutely going to burn down. Yeah, that's

1:47:21

that building is still there in Chicago. It's

1:47:24

a museum of science

1:47:26

and industry.

1:47:28

It seems here one of its taglines was

1:47:30

Bigger, Better, Newer, which is yeah,

1:47:32

cool.

1:47:34

Send you a picture now of the

1:47:37

this is the building that's still standing. OK,

1:47:39

which is the Museum of Science and Industry. If you're in Chicago,

1:47:42

it's over in Jackson Park.

1:47:43

Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Very,

1:47:46

very

1:47:46

grand, very faux sort of.

1:47:48

Yeah, that neoclassical style. And

1:47:50

all the buildings were painted white as well as called the White City.

1:47:53

Yes, yes. Sort

1:47:55

of likening sort of

1:47:57

burgeoning modern America to.

1:47:59

civilization. Exactly. Yeah.

1:48:02

It was very much like America being

1:48:04

like, we're good too. We're like that. Yeah.

1:48:07

We're a bunch of smart art lovers.

1:48:10

Yeah. Check us out. Yeah. Cool.

1:48:14

Oh, good times. Well,

1:48:16

I've got a new sort of time travel destination,

1:48:18

I suppose, when I get hold of a time travel machine. I've got

1:48:20

to visit the

1:48:22

World's Fair.

1:48:23

Yeah.

1:48:24

Dodge that H.H. Holmes

1:48:26

character. Yeah. Don't go to anyone's

1:48:28

murder hotel. How will I know which hotel

1:48:30

is the murder hotel? I've got to sleep somewhere. Oh,

1:48:32

that's true. There's no TripAdvisor

1:48:35

to be like, don't stay at the H.H.

1:48:37

Holmes hotel. Yeah. You'll get murdered.

1:48:40

It was the first time people had ever seen a zipper

1:48:42

or a ferris wheel or chewing gum. What a day.

1:48:45

A waterbastic dishwasher. Half

1:48:47

blue ribbon beer.

1:48:48

I saw chewing gum in a zipper for the first

1:48:50

time, but my mind is blown.

1:48:52

Everyone's like, holy hell, America's

1:48:54

done it. America's doing it, everyone.

1:48:56

We've arrived. Now to repair to

1:48:58

my comfortable hotel.

1:49:01

What an incredible period. Yeah.

1:49:04

Yeah.

1:49:04

I thought it was

1:49:06

an environment rich for RPG

1:49:09

storytelling in this. Oh,

1:49:10

yeah. What a sort of playground. Yeah,

1:49:12

absolutely.

1:49:12

Yeah. You know, what's

1:49:15

going to happen next week? They've got to go in at night

1:49:17

when it's all closed and being patrolled by security

1:49:19

guards. It's going to be a very different vibe. Yeah.

1:49:22

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For the second half. What would

1:49:24

you think Andy of DMing TTRPG

1:49:27

sessions set in a

1:49:30

known theme park? Because

1:49:32

the map would already be made for you. You

1:49:34

get like a, you get like a Disneyland

1:49:36

map and you're like, okay, you're,

1:49:39

you're standing outside of Space Mountain.

1:49:42

Yes.

1:49:43

As there's a dragon, etc.

1:49:44

Yeah. Well, Disney's

1:49:46

frozen head has attached himself to

1:49:49

the hat box ghost animatronic and

1:49:51

it's running rampage. Yeah. You

1:49:54

got to, you got to track him down and stop him. That'll be,

1:49:56

that'd be great. Yeah. I mean, and again,

1:49:58

if it's somewhere that people know. in

1:50:00

their minds. Everyone's

1:50:02

got the same mental image. They can role play better,

1:50:05

describe things better, they've

1:50:07

all got ideas for how to do things. And Disney would

1:50:09

be cool with it. Famously

1:50:12

cool. Famously non-litigious.

1:50:15

Right,

1:50:16

next week you can

1:50:18

listen, as Andy previously said, to

1:50:21

more wonders than there are in the heavens part 2.

1:50:23

Thrilling finale.

1:50:25

It's going to be a different kind of vibe. And

1:50:29

we'd love to have you back on the Oxfordshire

1:50:31

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1:50:36

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1:50:38

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1:50:40

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1:50:43

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1:50:46

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1:50:49

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1:51:08

Glows in the dark, get a poster. I'm going to

1:51:10

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1:51:11

The thing with a glow in the dark shirt

1:51:13

is if you are trying to hide

1:51:16

from a

1:51:16

witch in your attic. Or a Jason.

1:51:18

Or a Jason.

1:51:19

They will see you more easily

1:51:22

if you are glowing. Yes. But,

1:51:25

you take your t-shirt off, you put

1:51:27

it in the corner and then you go the other way. And the

1:51:30

witch runs right towards the t-shirt, bangs into a

1:51:32

beam. Yeah,

1:51:34

and you just toplessly escape.

1:51:38