DustyDunes: Welcome to Hard Times

[Eversor]

Hit-woman...The pay is good I imagine.

I love the suit too! Rule one, always be professional, which includes looking dapper.

[Zylo]

Rule 4: Be prepared to kill everyone you know. (While in dapper attire)

[Curris]

Go to the graveside. You can look into the window of Peter's shop as you pass. But it's better to hit the grave before the sun really starts cooking. Then you can stay inside or on the sidewalk later. Consider the source of your corks? What happened to the rest of the bottles?

[Alcastar]

reader aquired!

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+exp multiplyer
+item(s) added
+30 i(s)
+suggestion rate
-boringness
your boringness stat cant go any lower!
you recieve 1 blackberry pie(Rare)! It restores 20 Vim, 45% hunger, and permanently increases Gumption by 1! (2 uses)
you recieve a Invisible Ghostly Pen of Story Writing +2! But it disappears!
You recieve a suggestion!

Melissa: Get over there and START MOURNING LIKE A PROPER DRUNKEN LADY!

[Eversor]

Holy Hell...Do I level up now? I have been waiting years for this!

Those Blackberry Pies are a .5 spawn rate...and I got two.

The pen makes me sad, it has a 50% of disappearing per post...it never lasts anyways.

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Great to have you here! Just put your hat by the door and coat on the hook, then take a seat. It's gonna be a darn-tootin' good ride!

[Zylo]

> Author make a quick meta appearance. Stare at gratified poster. Fine the art inspirational and level up.

[Wessolf27]

>Maybe you should go ahead and send those letters to their respective receivers first.

[Curris]

Wessolf -> I think they are the chaff mail. They have no return addresses, and are otherwise undeliverable. Lost in the system, it would seem.

[ILikeCommas]

>Look through letters (with ALL DUE respect and dignity, of course) when you get the chance, then mail what you think is appropriate/deserving of your time and effort.

I drank my Invisible Ghostly Pen of Story Writing and only got two guinea pigs, how are you gonna be out of Chex Mix when I haven't even fallen down the kitchen door because it stings my third tube of narrative context and that's how you win at Mornington Crescent!

[Alcastar]

>Look through letters (with ALL DUE respect and dignity, of course) when you get the chance, then mail what you think is appropriate/deserving of your time and effort.

I drank my Invisible Ghostly Pen of Story Writing and only got two guinea pigs, how are you gonna be out of Chex Mix when I haven't even fallen down the kitchen door because it stings my third tube of narrative context and that's how you win at Mornington Crescent!

there is no word in any of the human languages that explains how i felt after reading this.


and thanks im happy to be here, just dont spend all of those Internets(i) at one place!

[Wessolf27]

Wessolf -> I think they are the chaff mail. They have no return addresses, and are otherwise undeliverable. Lost in the system, it would seem.

Oh, I see... well, I guess open them with abandon and be privy to their secrets!

[Eversor]

-> Of all the things to carry around, what on earth is a bag of sand and a railspike doing in your inventory?

It's not that weird!

Recently you and Violet have being going down to the abandoned rails in the deserted part of Dusty Dunes and plucking rails spikes off the ground. I mean, its not like anyone is going to use them anyways! You just fill up a few bags and sell them in Plata Colina for a couple of bucks and BAM you have enough cash to enjoy a night on the town. Pretty ingenious if you do say so yourself!



As for the bag of sand...well its colored sand and you got a ton of it. Once when you were drinking at the saloon you told Peter that you loved pretty colored things...he has been sending you little glass jars with colored sand ever since. They were starting to take up to much room so you told Peter to stop, still though he sends a gift every so often that you need to dispose of discreetly.



Today just happens to be disposal day!

Go to the graveside. You can look into the window of Peter's shop as you pass. But it's better to hit the grave before the sun really starts cooking. Then you can stay inside or on the sidewalk later. Consider the source of your corks? What happened to the rest of the bottles?

You wander by Peter's Barber shop...which really isn't his. He just sort of just acquired it when the old barber left town. You miss the old guy, he was a lot less scummy. But anyways, you peer through the window, no customers (big surprise) but Peter doesn't seem to be in the main room, he possibly went into the basement, since you see the door open. Peter certainly keeps his shop clean for a man who runs the place all by himself, you got to give him credit for that at least.



As for the mystery of the corks and the missing bottles? We may never know what happened... *Hic*

Melissa: Get over there and START MOURNING LIKE A PROPER DRUNKEN LADY!

You don't have anythign to drink, besides your flask of laudanum...and you aren't feeling stupid enough to chug down that stuff. Still, you are going to pay your respects to the poor sheriff. Where was he buried again...hmmm



Oh! Well through your astute deduction, that sleeping old man with a shovel in his hand must be where we should go. Still, there is a lot of stones up here, a lot of people died during the building of the old railway, and the fights were bloody from people squabbling when Plata Colina got the goverment contract to have a rail-way run through there town instead.

Those were bad times...standing here only reminds you of the shit Dusty Dunes is in.

[Curris]

Melissa -> Observe the broken tombstone -> Surely Dusty Dunes isn't old enough for its memorials to be breaking down naturally. Who has vandalized these plots?

Speak to the old groundskeeper. He shouldn't be sleeping outside in the sun anyway. It's unhealthy. Besides, Graveyards are known to have ghosts, and it's not right to stay in one longer than necessary.

[Bohandas]

Melissa -> Observe the broken tombstone -> Surely Dusty Dunes isn't old enough for its memorials to be breaking down naturally. Who has vandalized these plots?

It could also have been made out of shoddy materials. Like some kind of stone that doesn't weather well.

[Wessolf27]

>You might want to alert the grave digger, he looks like he needs a bed.

[Shadow Phoenix]

>don't disturb him

[Recyth]

Check his cart before you wake him up. All quiet like. Who knows how far the conspiracy goes?

Also, avoid any and all attempts to flashback to dusty dunes' downfall. It's not the time.

[ILikeCommas]

>Check that big fancy-looking memorial in the far off center of the graveyard!

>Make sure the grave digger isn't secretly a time-traveling Albert Einstein before you wake him.

[Curris]

You know, it looks like the gravedigger is standing next to a fresh grave (disturbed dirt), but the Coffin is Still in the Wagon!
So, either there was more than 1 death, or the Sheriff is being buried in an existing plot, which I suppose is odd?

Certainly no chance of Sheriff Zombie rising in defense of the town. No sir. No chance of that.

[Eversor]

I want to spend a little more time on this update, so expect something later this week.

Here is a teaser until then.



Seeyall soon!

[Curris]

As always, Eversor, I'm totally psyched for your update. Aww. Too bad about that tombstone. I'm sad now.

[Zylo]

> Decorate the gravestone with your bag of colored sand, pay your respects... WITH ART!