Corner of Bourbon & Division

Thinking about my favourite gaming stories, thanks to curtana. This is another Deadlands bit, featuring the infamous James Bartholomew Taft, quickest living gun in the West, and Emily Smith, niece of Jacob Smith of Smith & Robards, the famous inventors and mad scientists. As a parting gift, her uncle Jacob had given Emily a rifle-umbrella (much more ladylike, don't you think?), just in case she needed extra protection.

So there we were, in the wreckage of a train, fighting off giant automatons. Don't ask. Taft was diligently firing his Winchester at the automatons, when:

*blam!* *blam!* *click*

Taft: "Aww, hell!"

Emily: "What?"

Taft: "I'm out of ammunition!"

Emily: *holds out her umbrella* "Here, use this."

Taft: *looks at her as though she's crazy* "That's an umbrella!"

Emily: "No, it's a rifle."

Taft: "Umbrella!"

Emily: "Rifle."

Taft: "Umbrella!"

Emily: *aims umbrella-rifle at automatons*

*blam!*

Emily: "Rifle."

Beyond the Pale is back! Part 17 is up at secret_history, and if we're lucky, I might get Part 18 up too, a bit later tonight.

As usualy, comments are welcome.