Episode 2B

[brianfenris]

GM POST

Mariah's kneed to Dotson's junk does the job and drops him down to his knees with a grunt of pain. His flunky started to come over to help him until you grabbed your shotgun and stuck it in the downed man's face. He paused a moment, but your order to get his boss sends him scurrying into the school with a quickness.

Dotson glares up at you over the barrel of your shotgun. His sunglasses fell off when he went down and now you have good look at his blood shot eyes. He says through clenched teeth, “You're going to pay for that bitch. You don't know who you messing wit-” He stops when the door clicks and opens partially. You see they flunky hesitantly peeking around the door, until he violently thrown forward, staggering into the parking lot.

Another man exits behind him, throwing him an irritated glance before setting his eyes on you and Dotson. He's wearing a t-shirt and jeans, no weapon visible. He walks towards with his hands out to show he's not armed.

“Hey, lady, do me a favor. Take the finger off the trigger and rest it on the guard. We don't need that shotgun going off by mistake. My name's Gil Caldwell. I hear you're wanting to file a complaint about the rules of our friendly little town?”

Gil is moving to keep your jeep between you and him, but moving slowly. The flunky just standing beside the door to the school, looking tense and worried.

[Janxi]

She kept her eyes and the shotgun trained on Dotson. "Let me be clear, anything of yours that ever touches me again you will not be getting back. That is promise."
Mariah answers Caldwell but still has her eyes on Dotson, she moves her finger from the trigger but doesn't lower the gun.
"Your boy has bad manners and should be lucky that he doesn't have permanent air conditioning between his eyes."

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[brianfenris]

GM POST

Gil flashes her a quirky grin. "Yeah, he's kind of an asshole. Been like that since I've known him, but I guess the end of the world isn't bringing out the best in all us. Savvy?"

Dotson turns to give him a dirty glare, making to say something in reply but stops when he remembers he has a shotgun in his face and a very angry woman behind it.

Keeping his hands on the hood of her SUV, Gil starts to move around in front, keeping his hands out where she can see them. "What'cha say? We send shithead back inside for a time out and put some ice on his junk, and you and me can see about getting you settled in here."

[Mariah]

She was far from ready to put her gun down she didn't trust Dotson not to try something stupid. Stupid people do stupid things and in all honesty he wasn't worth a bullet. She moved with her gun still trained on Dotson but was able to keep Gil in her line of vision as well. She wasn't about to have him sneak up behind her. She whistled in the direction of her car. "Come Taja!" The dog bounded out of the passenger side of the car and moved to stand beside her. "She goes wherever I go." Spoken to Gil.



Perception [dice=20]

[brianfenris]

GM POST

Gil stays where he is, exchanging a dirty looks with Dotson. Gil jerks his head towards the school, indicating it was time for him to go away. The man gets to his feet and with a parting glare, he limps back into the school, leaving you and Taja with Gil.

Gil watches her a moment, then says, "I get that shit head didn't make for the best of impressions of our town. I'm sorry about that. He's one of the guys in charge. Most of them time. When he's sober and not being a dick."

"But we do have rules, but I'm willing to cut you a break today. Usually we take and hold the firearms of the new people coming in here, for our protection till we get to know you enough to trust you. But I guess that ain't gonna fly with you. Not now."

"So here's the deal. You can keep you're pistol, just because Dotson's an asshole, but we get to put up the shotgun. For now. We give it a few days and if you haven't gunned him down, I say you're not a threat to the community."

"What do you say?"

[Janxi]

"How about let's split the difference? I'll put the shotgun away, and I'll keep my pistol in the holster until fuckface gives me an excuse to draw it?" The woman pulled out a stick of Wrigley's spearmint and unwrapped it, chewing it deliberately.

"The car belongs to me. The dog belongs to me, and only responds to me, get it?" She slung her shotgun over her left shoulder, being a southpaw. "Now you should know one more thing. I'm not a cop. I'm a nurse practitioner and a midwife. If you have sick people, I'm more than willing to help. If you have any pregnant women, or women with health problems, I'll volunteer to look after them. If you're a bunch of degenerates, then thank you, I'll fill my canteen, and be on my way before this turns into a shootout."

She pointed to Taja, and the dog shot a fangy scowl to Gil, making it perfectly clear she was a cocked weapon that would fire on command.

"I can also get right back into the car and keep going. We can have a little showdown, or we can act like a couple of grownups."

[brianfenris]

GM POST

““There's not question about you keeping your stuff and your dog. It's yours. No problem. Because of Dotson being an asshole you get to keep your pistol, but not the shotgun. That part isn't negotiable. We've already got a doctor here, but we can use someone else with medical training. That's a skill set in short supply.”

He folds his arms, watching her.

[Janxi]

"And my car?" Mariah safed her shotgun and unslung it, before passing it to Gil, slowly and carefully, to avoid a provocation. "If you have a doctor, good. What is his name and specialty? I'm more than willing to work for any doctor, unless things here are not what they seem to be. Dotson's one thing, but you? If your conning me? We'll settle that score later"

The black shotgun fell into Gil's arms. "That's a promise."