The so called Center Squad finally began their plan. The sand Slingers brought Clint
mccrack into the Sheriff's office and his execution was decided. However, the group
came across Missus Ambrose, Matthias's mother, and eventually had to inform her of
their plan when she found Matthias's bounty. A New Week, a new episode,
Welcome back everyone. Last we left off, the group has been talking
to Missus Ambrose about possibly spreading the truth in truth Water. Um, so
you're talking about specifically to furgarate verification. You want her and whatever palig she
has to spread information about Project Alice or just thought like Dolly does magic project
Alice both? Why not? Why not hip both? You can with your
with your part of the story, you can magic. It's kind of inferred
in there. That's okay, that's fair. Uh yeah, I would like
that very much. I think, um fuck it. I mean, should
I just give my account or will people not believe Warren Morris? I think,
well, unfortunately that would end up being a persuasion check. Um,
I mean it also depends on the person. Hmm. Okay, we do
have those papers, don't They don't well, yeah, you do have the
file. We don't have pamphlets for this is I think what you're asking you,
Yeah, you would, you'd be a lot more difficult to find someone
willing to print this kind of ship, right, Yeah, but I'm just
trying to think of what we have accessible to us. Word of mouth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's kind of our best thing.
You know. I don't know what else we can do with this, but
I think that's something moved forward. Right unless anyone we should we should get
back to keep an eye out for Clint comes out. It's not a bad
idea. Should we designate that to some other people or should we split up?
Um? I don't know. I feel like I feel like my mom
could probably do it. Yeah, I mean she's not wanted or anything.
Um, yeah, you're gonna have your mom scout for you. Yeah that's
so base. Okay, Yeah, I think if we we just got to
get project out, so ah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna as we
kind of break. I'm gonna pull um missus Ambrose aside and say, you
know, but all this fire Brimstone, I keep saying, you should be
really proud of your son. It's a good man. Well, thank you
very much, mister or Morse EXOGRAC collective executive. Oh that makes more sense.
Yeah, I was wondering why an actor was involved in this kind of
nonsense. Be a little silly, wouldn't it, man? No, yeah,
a little bit a little silly, little silly like you know, like
why would you? Why would like why would Dolly Pine Kidney acting actor's daughter
don't make as much? I just seemed like, yeah, well, thank
you very much for mister Morris. I am indeed very proud of him.
I think he's got a little bit more growing to do. But don't we
all this is for sure stepping there? Oh yeah, I know that for
sure. Well I'll be off then, Uh would you just want me to
go uh check to see what the situation is over there? That would be
excellent, thank you? Cool cool cool cool cu cu cuck cool. All
right, Well she'll go over and give how that's another hug. It's like
now I asked, know what what you're doing is a lot bigger than you
or me. But I if you get hurt, I'll kill you. And
then she taps her her her side where where the gun goes? Yeah?
I know, I know, mama, and if anyone dare lays a hand
on you and I like tap the back of my sawed off shotgun, I'll
blow the fucker's head off to the arquin from here. Fuck yeah, boy
pound its Mom's pretty fucking sweet. Uhias was like the only person that didn't
have family trauma, and I was like, I gotta make her mom awesome.
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah. So she heads off. Short
bit later she comes back. Well, news is apparently they plan on doing
the dirty deed, and then she makes that motion, Uh, tomorrow high
noon seems a little on the nose, I think, but um, all
right, sure, yeah, I mean they want to be as fast as
possible before him, and last time they called him, he managed to slip
away. So uh, they're they're kind of rushing through the paperwork, putting
a stop on all of the things. Which good news for me. Apparently
I don't have my lone hearing has been rescheduled to next week. Oh that's
wonderful, very I know, right. Wow, civil unrest truly is a
great thing. I wouldn't necessarily go that far, but I was kidding mister
Morris. All right, all right, I'm sorry about that. I'm a
little addled at the moment, if you understand me. Oh, I can
tell your eyes turned yellow. They've been like that for a minute. Um.
Yeah, that's just sort of my situation at this point. Well,
yeah, I do very much appreciate your hope. It is amount of kindness.
We else there anything else see y'all might want from this par old woman?
M hmm, y'all think of anything. M hmm. I'm good,
I'm all right, I'm alright. It at it then cool, I'll see
y'all later. Be safe. And again, if this all turns out,
whale, feel free to stop back for supper. I'll plan on it.
I got he'll be of a journey out of town. So here I go
and she leaves to go home, all right? Cool? Um? What
is uh? What's the political climate now that the story's out? Has anything
changed now that the story is out? Um? Immediately, No, because
it's not out that much. Um, but I mean just hanging around and
bars or whatnot. A few hours later that night you will start to hear
a little bit of whisperings um. And eventually, at one point in one
such bar, you will notice, um huh uh, someone kind of like
stand on top of a chair and go, you know, everyone, this
this situation going on with Claint McCracken, a higher collective. You know,
it's it's I heard some of them might add a little bit lat to it.
Uh. And then the bar keep goes, Johnny, set the fuck
down. No, no, you're gonna want to hear this. You're gonna
want to hear this. I heard from a very lovely old woman down the
street or something like that. I met her. She gave me a muffin.
It was delicious. I heard present dollar pines keeping a young woman captive.
A couple people who go like what, no, no, no,
no, it's true. It's true. You know why you never see her
in public? You know why? How you know, despite the fact that
I mean, it seems like she kind of just always gets what she wants,
you know, like she has all this power. Where the fuck did
that come from? Like, I mean, think back, everyone, think
back, you know, before before you are when we're talking. You know,
y'all, you'll remember the sky. You'll remember those cities, looking over
the balcony and seeing seeing clouds below you, seeing the scorched mountains beautifully showing
the light. You remember those times. Who was Dolly Pine? Then?
She was nobody. She was some rich folk's daughter at the time. She
was nobody. But you know, she survived the crash, you know,
as I'm assuming a lot of us. Did. I mean, if you
didn't, you want to be here today. Unfortunately, God rest those souls.
But and that crash and that war that happened afterwards, the best thing
that ever happened to her. She rose from the dust and the ashes of
thousands of deaths. And I just want to know how, I mean,
did she just sees his advantage or is there something more there? I mean,
I heard I was, I was in that city. I was in
that same city. She was that rich folk that was her dad or professor
at the magic academy right at like the High Phelane Magic Academy at the time.
This dude was an arch Maids. And you're telling me, Dolly Pine
president the Hydroclective, sets up her little business, try and take control of
water. And you're telling me that this daughter of an arch maids don't use
that magic. You're telling me that she's okay with that band that she installed
herself. She installed herself. She created the law. Yeah, who's to
say she's not above it? Damn right now? When I year she kidnapped
a young woman and is like and is like investigating that woman's magic, doing
like experiments and shit. That doesn't sound too hard to believe that she made
the law, she founded this city. Who's to say she can't do whatever
the fuck she wants in it? And you know what, as everyone's like
listening in on this, just fucking random ass dude, who's to say that
we gotta let it happen anymore? Yeah? Like Clint mccracking here, he's
been working against her ever since the war. He saw what was happening.
They didn't let us hear about it. They didn't let us see it.
They kept they kept our eyes closed, they kept their tight grip around our
eyes. But he knew, he knew what was happened in the background.
He knew that that fight for land and that fight for power was meaningless because
he saw that she would end up on top in the end. Does that
sound to me like a bad person or simply a man trying to stop the
inevitable? Amen? Yeah, okay, you get the crowd rowled up a
little bit. Yeah, Uh, make am persuasion check. I can't get
that advantage because Sean has been has been Yes, it's been risen as we've
been saying, what the does that mean? I think it's like if you
have good at swooning people. Oh, people are cheering, like people are
really down for this, like the Bartenders down for it, everyone down for
it, and fuck natural twenty jesus, Okay, what's your total on that,
like twenty eighth? Yeah, twenty eight cool, awesome, great,
Well that happens and in the night it's the own and then well that is
what happens in the night, and in the morning it's the only thing anyone
can talk about. I mean, you walk through town and you hear people
start saying, have you heard have you heard about Project Alice? Have you
heard about what she's done? Have you heard about what she's doing? It
doesn't make sense or in other words, it has to make sense this,
you know, people people are doubting it as conspiracy, but it is a
conspiracy that has a strange amount of grounding to it. A collective executive suddenly
leaves a woman born into magic who made a law against using it. It's
even if the conspiracy isn't true. It's too strange to not be questioned.
There is something there, and at this point pretty much everyone knows it.
And give fuck Dolly Pine. How are the collective goons taking this? The
Clint goons or or the hydrogoons? The hydrogons? Okay, uh, sorry,
only I had one earbuddon at the time. That's fuck dumb, you
fucking silly, you goofer. I was doing stuff. Hey. Yeah,
information has spread in the morning and the gallows are preparing. Dolly Pine obviously
probably probably can't see her reaction to this, I'm assuming considering she's she's live
streaming it. Can everyone actually gonna say, Sean nake a perception check for
me? Eleven. The crowd around the gallows begins forming an hour's before hind
him, like eight thirty am. People are starting. They want to get
in the front row. They want to be as close as they can.
They want to see what happens. This is a big moment. Maybe they
want to protest it, maybe they just want to see it happen. For
a variety of reasons, everyone wants to be there. You said you got
an eleven hm, okay, you don't see anything as you're walking past this
thoroughfare? Cool? Is there anything you guys want to do before the moment
happens? Can I talk to h who someone we know is going to be
there. Who's somebody who can like rile a crowd up sneakily? You know
what I mean? Because my plan is I want someone to kind of like
yell out like before, like Lesus Dipine comes out like well the Hales Project
Dallas like that kind of deal, and then like kind of start that sort
of deal, you know what I'm saying. Um, So the people that
you know are near. You know that there's um some of Clint's crew that
are still outside of town, like Joe Lene and that that group of people
only the Sland Slingers win in. Um, they're still around if you want
to talk to them. Um, But the I think the rest of those,
the rest of the crew is going to make their way into town at
some point so that they can possibly assist when shit goes down. Sure,
so you could ask one of them, that'd be great if one of them
could also that you can also try and find that um young man that was
like spouting the stuff at the bar before. Actually, yeah, that'd be
perfect. Can I try to do that? Yeah, you can try and
find them all right? Yeah? Cool? Um what chack? Um?
I'd accept either perception or investigation. Let's do Uh. You could also try
and ask the bar keep. Yeah, ask the bar keep. Okay that
night, Yeah at night? So, um, you go up to him.
Uh yeah, excuse me? What can I do for you, mister?
Yeah, he's got a giant mustache. That is. I got scratched
my musts, my own, that is, man, I say, an
excellent mustache. Firstly, think you're doing pretty well yourself. I've been working
on this one for a good long while. I mean, I do think
the mustache makes the bartender. I like to think so. I mean,
if the sky handlebars on it, you know you can drive. You know
what I'm saying? Oh helliot, regardless, I was wondering that, um,
that gentleman who decided to speak his mind about the whole dollar pond situation.
That's wild. By the way, Who you know who he is?
Oh yeah, that's a that's Asander Willis. Andrew Willis. Do you mind
point me in his direction? Yeah? Yeah, Um, he is a
gunsmith. He works down the way a bit there. Okay, okay,
Uh, wonderful. Yeah, I'll get the infraoration add restwise from him and
I'll go visits Ander. Anyone else anyone else is obviously will come if they
wanted to also talk to Zander Willis. Oh go, it's one of those
buildings that just has firearms on it. Classy m h. And like the
one next to it is pharmacy that just has drugs. Yeah, I'm walking
to uh. You walk in um and you see him, uh, just
like behind the counter. And this is this time of year in the morning,
this would be the morning of I think the morning of Um. You
see that he is currently um going through some old newspapers. I'll knock on
the counter or bring the bell or whatever. You ring the bell. I'm
gonna see if you recognizes Yeah, he goes, Oh, how can I
help? You're at the bar last night? Mister Zander? Is it not?
Well? First name is Ander, mister Willis. You can call me
either mister Willis. And I leading real close with this still though my eyes
kind of like a glint off the light. Why would you like to be
a part of history? Make a persuasion check? Not super cool? Eleven?
Well, how do you mean mister, I don't even know your name.
Uh what still leaned in? I like a corner of my mouth kind
of raises in like a smirk. Names Warren Morris. I believe Alice is
the one you were spouting about last night? Is that not correct? He
puts down the newspapers spence at you that he is correct. Let's just say,
shouldn't I have familial relations? Oh huh. I would like to get
my daughter back, sir, and my feels though I can trust you.
He looks at me, It's like, are you a con man? Are
you fucking with me? Five years ago, a Hydro Collective executive by the
name of Warren Morris was deemed a sinner and was forced to walk out of
the organization he helped to build. He then decided to go and hop into
the ark win dan at all. But he has come back for reasons that
not even he understands. And now he's here with the with the mid and
fury of the justice of this plane. Well, to be honest, I
mean I am not a big fan of a collective for absolutely sure. I
mean I knew something was afoot. I wasn't sure that was real like that
all what happened to you, he's taking notice of your of your eyes,
the thing that allowed him to recognize you from being at the bar of the
night before. What happened to me was I watched my daughter get killed right
in front of me. At least I thought I did. Apparently Dollar Fine
has gotten pretty good at manipulating people's minds. Huh, so are we really
doing this question? I most certainly, my friend. The question is are
you well if it's happening in the list, and I'm sure it's going to
be a part of it, Welcome on board, my friend, and I
reach out for like a predator handshake, Yeah, he'll do a predator handshake.
Well, and then I kind of explained to him the plan in terms
of heckling and whatnot. Y'all you just want me to shout some shit,
Yeah I can do that. I mean, we'll probably arrest me afterwards.
But sure you're willing to go to jail for a good cause? Yeah?
Why not? I guess. I mean, listen, we'll see what happens.
We'll see, my friend. If you're lucky, it won't even be
for too long. Well, I'm gonna take your word on that, trust
me. A wheel for now, so high noon, h noon, all
right, cool, it's all I got. M h. I feel like
that's the most cowboy thing we've ever said. Yeah, it really is a
Western raise. A little held by trooper plays in the background like a banjo
day. All right, cool, that's really cool. Cool, high noon.
The crowd fully gathers, Um, where are you all stationed? Uh?
Four two? I'm assuming you want to go up back up that tower?
Yep. Can you remind me how far away I am? Um,
you are like like one hundred twenty feet no, damn it yours, but
you're in the long range of the sniper rifle. I mean it's like it's
like nine hundred feet away or something. I know there were said m hm,
uh Warren, you're gonna station in that one hotel? Yeah? Or
I think it was like I don't know, business that with with an empty
attic, Yeah, exactly, all right. Uh, It's it's a bit
more busy in there today because like people can see out the windows to to
get kind of a view. Mm hmm. So you're stationed up in there,
uh, Matthias and Arthur, where would you too like to be?
Maybe it would be wise to uh be a little closer. Yeah, okay,
well, um, you didn't have to be involved with the hole Xander
things, so you can be as close as you want. You had all
morning to fitch out your spot, your spot, so we've been like in
our lawn chairs. Yeah, you guys like set up. You're tailgating this
execution front row. Baby, that must have been wild bacommdial times like you
know, you get you put up your little George Foreman, you know,
right before we're about to hang someone, get your tomatoes ready? Yeah,
you know. The marching band is there for the pre show. The marching
band is marching in circles. They have a track. Eventually the sheriff will
come out with Clyde Dominic. They will go up on stage. You two
being very close. Clyde Dominic makes eye contact with one of you, with
both of you. I just he mouths the word. I mean, he's
mute, so he can't speak, so he can only mouth words. But
uh, he said, he mouths the word don't. But he is not
going to do anything other than that. I am so incredibly far away from
all of you right now. Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't see that,
could I? No? Warren could not see that. Yeah. We Um,
I'm speaking to hush tones now like in game, but like I'm just
talking normally right now, just to make sure it comes through on the mic.
Okay, Um, yeah, I think we don't have enough time to
alert the others. Right, we should go Uh Okay, we know where
Warren is, right, how fast can we get there? Um? You
know where Warren is? But you have an entire crowd behind you. Well,
I got I got an idea. Okay, Um, art act dead
or act injured or sick or something? What I uh? I pop my
tail up? Okay, what gosh, I'm gonna pick him up. I'm
gonna carry him like cut your tail. That's that's a desert lizard thing,
right, they can we go go tails? Yeah? Is that is that
not a lazard thing? Um? I don't know if that's specifically a desert
lizard thing. I didn't say. I didn't say I said, pop pop
off that tail? Does Arthur just have a prosthetic tail this way time?
Part of his chicanery? That's not what I was saying. Uh. So
I'm gonna carry him, you know, like um like duality of man's style.
Um, I'm gonna now I'm gonna use that as a way to get
everyone in the crowd to disperse, because we need to get to the back
to like go somewhere out of sight so where I can administer AID in air
quotes. What does that mean in reality? Well, what does that mean?
We're just using this as an excuse to get out to minister aid.
Yeah, to to get you help for whatever whatever happened. You're tail Oh
my god, this tailful of Are you okay? Bro? Grab that?
Yeah? Yeah, he's fine, he's fine. We just gotta we just
gotta go up to come off. What the fuck? You know? You
know it happens sometimes when you get older. You know, stuff starts falling
apart, your back getting sore, and you know what it happens. It's
terrifying. So we're rushing, We're rushing to the back. I'm trying to
get everyone to move out of the way. Um. Yeah, make a
persuasion check with advantage. Oh shit, oh I got water on myself.
Um okay, okay, So first one, oh easy, First one's a
nineteen and then first one's nineteen Yeah, so a nineteen. Yeah, that's
enough, you guys can uh, A pathway is made for you as people
let you through the crowd, um and as you you you move up to
to Warren's position. Uh, y'all, all right, what's going on?
Warren? Warren? Yeah, yeah, he said not to do it.
Who is he? Glide? He saw you? Yeah, well we were
for brow. Yeah. Shit, something bad is planned. Well fuck,
we can't just let Clinton. We just we can't let Clinton die. I
mean shit, I don't understand no matter what plan is out there, do
you have a death wish? I don't know. Alex, what's up?
Sean? Make a perception check. We're gonna try this again. We're gonna
try this again. All right, Oh god, okay, that's better.
That's a two. So fifteen you look outside the window, um to see
like if anything's changed, it's still just like the sheriff and um Clyde dominic
kind of waiting for stuff to be set up as like a couple of goons
or on guard. Clint has not been taken out of the office yet,
but out of the office comes a couple of deputies who are pulling a chain
or at least holding one that has a few people on it. None of
them are Clint McCracken. One of them is your mother. Oh boy,
oh great, thanks, oh boo bock all right um um. And they
are set to like they're they're like captain, like an area or right away
from everyone else, but so they can clearly view the gallows. Um.
This is something that the City of truth Water does. They make their current
prisoners watch executions. That's fucking barbaric hot that Oh my god. Okay,
all right, maybe we just gotta start the riot now. I don't know.
This is so weird to be fair, those all those prisoners are not
explicitly up for execution. It's mainly just hey, if you do a worse
thing, this can happen. Okay, cool, that's it's a little better.
It's not. That's not fucking peaches Korea. Most people aren't executed.
Okay. Oh I'm glad that's a standard of this. Heretown. Yeah,
that's great. That's so cool. Um m m mmmmmm yeah yeah, um
fuck me, yeah, that's great. That's real cool. He says,
don't fuck fuck fuck you can make an insight check into that down yeah please?
Okay, uh, Sammy, you have disadvantaged because you didn't see it.
Okay, that that doesn't make sense. Like bumb But he and I
were lovers anyway, I don't. I don't actually know if we were not.
Oh wait, can I roll? Oh shit, disadvantage? I got
fourteen and seventeen? Um, oh okay, that is a eighteen. Okay,
someone else can also roll for it A thing more twenty three? I
gotta. I think I might be a little too far away. Just a
smidge a hair, just a smidge, my fires. You're thinking about that,
don't it was? You're thinking back on it. It was for sure
a warning of some kind, but it wasn't a grim warning. It almost
seemed reassuring. Whoa mm hmmm? What does that mean? Alex Warren?
I think I think Clyde might have an other plan. Do we want to
take that risk? I don't know. How did genuine How did Clint look
class C class come up? Yeah? Has he? He has not gone
up yet. Fuck, I don't. I think it might be prudent for
me to give up my position to get closer. I think, fuck it,
Yeah, I'm shit. I'm stealthen in there because we have long range
with four too, I'm not worried about that. Um, I'll stealthen with
these two gentlemen, Okay, want to make it's up to you. I
mean, it's kind of just blending in with the crowd. Okay. Um,
there are gonna be people on stage who I mean, as you've noticed
earlier, can recognize you, yep, like I mean, there are there
are deputies who are who have probably put up your bounties on things yep,
on like poster boards and stuff, who will be on stage. M hmm.
Yeah. And then I don't want to bring it out because it will
hurt the Okay, stealth Steve, come on, Okay, Sean has disadvant
I was just gonna say Sean and I were tailgating the execution and we're late
wanted middle listen player. That's not bad. Uh seventeen Okay, who I
rull the sixteen? In the seventeen nine? I got a nineteen? Oh,
I guess it's great. Hey that's the that's all the Nashville ones.
Yeah, yeah, that's that's finally common a payoff. Mm hmm. Well
you all get closer, you get into the crowd. Blending in now is
when Clint McCracken is brought out with a hood over his head, but it
has little cutouts for his horns. Yeah, this truly, I mean this
is you see like the Debbie is walking up. Giant of a man Um
is brought up to the gallows um and he is stead He is put to
stand there in front of the crowd. This point, the crowd has gone
silent, waiting in anticipation. Dolly Pine also exits the Sheriff's office. She
walks up next to Clyde Dominic in the back of the stage. As the
sheriff goes in front of crowd, says, we are all here to witness
the public execution of notorious bandit Clint McCracken. Let this be a warning to
all other outlaws, rascals and sinners that the city of truth water and he
kind of regrudgingly turns to Dolly says, the Hydro Collective are not to be
trifled with. At this point, you and be silent. You can be
noisy, do what you do, do as you wish, just do not
interfere, and may have the gods have mercy on all of us. As
he walks back towards the other two. Now, what's everyone feeling in this
moment? Fear? I'm just waiting for my shot. Everything's going according to
plan so far, I can I vibe checked in allipine, yeah, making
it's a check. I'm just like to wait for the most optimal shot I
could have that my friend is a seven. You she is not giving away
anything in her face, but then you hear Sander, well it's project Alice.
Yeah, baby whispers begin agrounst the crowd. M The sheriff gives a
confused look. Missus Ambrose looks up in both confusion and a little bit of
fear. Dolly looks around and this for a few of you, this is
probably the first time you've seen Dolly. Dolly is surprisingly short. She's five
foot two. She has not terribly long but she has pointed ears. She
has almost a pinkish hue to her skin and short dark hair, and she
is dressed up in a very nice like pantsuit situation with lighter tones and colors
on it like sreams and sands. She looks infuriated. She looks almost panicked
like. Her eyes go wide for a little bit before she shuts her face
back down to be expressionless as she can make it, she does not acknowledge
it. Clyde gives a worrying look as he turns towards her, a little
bit, a little bead of sweat glinting off of his forehead. A couple
of other people start yelling, what's project Dallas. Clyde is worried. What
happened to Warren Morris? Oh? Fuck? The sheriff starts towards the proud
says, please please everyone, we are not here to discuss conspiracy theories.
We are here to watch an execution of a terrorist. Can I shoot Dolly
Pie? I'm kidding o, God, saying looked so scared for the second.
It's not exactly out of pocket for you. So I was like,
oh, I'm waiting, I asked. I told y'all, I was waiting
until I had the best window. Someone throws a rocket. Dolly Pine,
Oh maybe I won't even have to do it, and Clyde Dominic steps in
front of her, and then he gestures to the sheriff, Well, please
stop everyone, Let's get this done as fast as we can. Claire McCracken,
scourge of the Storming Sands, do you have any last words? And
he says, yeah, yeah, I do, and he turns towards Dolly
with the hood still on his head and Clyde, and he will echo the
statements of the crowd when he says, where is Alice Morris, At which
point the lever is pulled and Clyde Dominic takes out his gun and shoots the rope.