03/12/2017 - Stand and Deliver! (2)

Attacked in the Dark

As it gets late, Bart decides to go off with his winning to find a prostitute. He is followed and attacked. His attacker attempts to kosh him. There is a grapple and they draw weapons. The attacker is able to injure Bart, who then manages to break free and run.

Bart is sure the attacker was Phillipe the Frenchman. He decides to head back to the Inn, stumbling into Leon and Gert’s room. Leon give him some first aid for his wounds.

Bart then wants to go the Inn Keeper and ask about the Frenchman. Johanna asks why he does not get the authorities involved, which he responds saying the Frenchman maybe from around here.

The Barman tells Bart that the Frenchman is a stranger, travelling on another coach. Bart deicdes to stay up for him until the doors are locked, but the Frenchman does not return. Bart does not sleep in his own room that night, but the night is otherwise uneventful.

The coachmen stay up late that night, getting very drunk.

Monday, 10 April 1702

Not Enough Room!

In the morning, the Coachmen are late due to being hungover. Marie, bodyguard to Lady von Struddeldorf, bullies them but they are still slow.

There are 8 people but only 6 allowed in the coach and two of the travellers will have to wait for the next coach. None of them are prepared to wait and there is an impasse.

Bart eventually breaks the impasse by bribing the man with the book 10 shillings to catch another coach, which he accepts. He them pays the coachmen extra to accept 7 passengers, but that means someone will have to ride on top.

Highway Men!

Gerhardt and Leonhardt go on top of the coach and get rained on. They try to encourage the coach drivers to go faster.

Later that afternoon, the coach encounters someone standing in middle of the road, refusing to move. The coach pulls up. The man draws a pistol and shouts “Stand and Deliver.” Leon points his rifle at him. The highwayman tells him his friends from the trees will shoot him down.

A Fire Fight

Leon shoots the highway man. The coachman with a blunderbuss stands up, trying to see what is happening. He is shot from the trees and falls off the coach.

Leon goes after the shooter in the woods, firing at him. The man in the woods then flees. Gert goes after him. Bart checks the other side of the coach, but there is no one there and eventually he goes after the others.

A Generous Inheritance

There is a crashed coach and some dead bodies, which have been partially robbed.

There are some papers that have been discarded nearby a body with expensive clothes. While Bart rifles through the dead man’s pockets, Gert reads out a letter telling a certain Kastor Lieberung that he can claim an inheritance of 20,000 gold pieces if he comes to Boganhafen.

End of Episode Two.