Eventually the six reach Pike's basin.
But already there are Carly and Pinkie.
"Keep an eye out boys. We're probably gonna be outnumbered." Leith Johnson said.
"And those bastards aren't short on fire power either!" Eli cried.
"If we can take em alive good. If not. Smoke the sons-of-bitches!" Leith Johnson cried.
"Music too my ears Marshal!" Jonah cried happily.
Once getting the place, a man ontop of a hill shoots at them with a Carbine Repeater. But misses them.
"Damn! Those bastards were waiting for us!" Johnson cried, jumping into cover.
Packie, being a pretty good shot actually. Shoots at the said man. Hitting him in the shoulder, and from the guys reaction to it, he falls off the hill. Dying from the fall.
4 more gunmen run over. But John shoots all of them in dead eye mode.
With the area clear Leith Johnson says they need to split up. Michael and Packie go with Johnson to the right side. Marston goes with Eli and Jonah to the left.
"Alright Michael. Just make sure you don't slow me down." Johnson said playfully.
"That was some pretty damn good shooting there John" Eli said.
"Yeah. Maybe your not the tenderfood I thought you was" Jonah said.
"Coming from you friend, that's a real compliment." John said in his usual sarcasm.
Both sides shoot up the gang. Eventuallu they meet up again, finishing off the the remaining goons at the bottom.
After the mission Elli tells John that West Dixons, the local salesmen has gone missing.
West Dickens is an old swindler who poses as a traveling salesman when he is really a con man and is purported to have unique miracle cures for many medical and psychological problems.
John later Marston finds West Dickens having been shot and exposed to the elements not far from his stagecoach south of Coot's Chapel, and returns him to the doctor in Armadillo while fighting off bandits who want to finish the job.
Despite Marston's personal dislike of him, West becomes a Ally. And he puts John in contact with Seth and Irish.
John goes off to find Seth. Packie sent to go find Irish. Bringing along Dash Lucia.
Michael meanwhile stays with Johnson. Bringing along Pinkie and Carly.
They wind up in the small town called Ridgewood, and after opening a locked barn, they find a horrific display of blood, slaughtered animals and even a stripped body hanging from the rafters. A young girl runs out of the barn, nearly getting shot, and panickly explaining that the bandits are holed up inside the Ridgewood Farmhouse in the middle of the ranch, where some of her family are being held hostage. Maybe raped.
This angers both Leith and Carly, and everyone but the unnamed girl run to the house. Where bandits pour out and a gunfight ensues.
Johnson's group then dispatches all of the bandits, Pinkie using the sniper. When the area is clear, Michael runs inside.
Michael, using a semi-automatic pistol shoots one in the arm than grabs him shooting him excution style.
Michael heads upstairs two bandits using human sheilds but Mike shoots past the girls and kills the bandits.
After the violence, the survivors are rounded up and angrily blame Johnson for failing to protect them but also notify the Marshal of the location of a group of bandits, and the posse sets out in pursuit. Eli mentions that this looks to be the work of Williamson's brutal gang. Which shocks Michael.
"You just walk away now Michael.. I didn't kill Marston, but I sure as shit will YOU!" Bill Williamson cried from ontop of a hill, his men surrounding him. Including hiis right hand man, Norman Deek. All of them holding Winshester rifles.
"Get yourself down here Bill.. You know your not man enough to stop me" Michael said, he and the others on their horses.
Bill smirks.
"You know I don't wanna kill you, but I will" Michael adds.
"You always did have a high opinon of yourself Townley! Dutch always said you was an arrogant son of a bitch! Guess he was about right!.. GET EM BOYS!" Bill shouts.
They all hide in a shack, and begin gunning down Williamson's men. Bill is nowhere. But they capture Norman Deek.
John rides off to a graveyard, but however Sachi rides over on horse, Double Barrel Shotgun strapped on her back. Saying she secretly followed him, and wants to come. John reluctantely lets her tag along. Being a father himself, he keeps her close.
Marston and her come upon a disheveled, boney man, graverobbing and talking to himself.
Marston: Excuse me, are you Seth?
Seth: Who are you?!
Marston: I'm a friend of Mr. West Dickens. My name's Marston. John Marston.. And this is Sachi.
Seth: Goodbye, Mr John Marston. It's been a great pleasure.
Marston: I need your help, Seth. 'We' need your help. Me and Mr. West Dickens.
Seth: Let me be frank for one second, partner. I hate people. It was people who got me in this mess in the first place.
Marston: What mess?
Seth (chuckles): Look at me! Look. Scrambling around, looking for maps, half insane. I ain't washed in 6 months, my hair's fallin' out, my mind's going!
Marston: What happened?
Seth: What happened?! My partner! He stole half my map! I never would have done that to him. Never. Look at me.
Sachi: Who did this to you?
Seth: My partner. My boy. My man! Moses Forth.. I don't have the facility to tell you what I would have done for that man. AND WHAT I WOULD DO TO HIM NOW!
Marston: Why?
Seth: Because he stole half my goddamn map!
Sachi: And what map's that then?
Seth: The map, partner. The map that tells where it is!
Marston: Where what is, friend?
Seth: I ain't telling you that. I ain't! Don't make me tell, partner! (hides, laughing to himself) It's mine. It's mine. All mine! Hahaha!
Marston: Suure. And where's this Moses now?
Seth: ... He's at Benedict Point. The law got him for exhuming. Some people...they feel differently. Not Moses. Him, me, we the same. The self same.
Marston: Well, come on, Seth. Let's go see Moses, get you your map back. Then, maybe you'll help me.
Seth: Alright, Partner. Let's go.
[They set out on the trail, horseback riding].
Sachi: The hell is wrong with you!? Digging up corpses and looting from the dead!?
Seth: Ahh hypocrites, the whole damn lot of you! You saying it's better to rob the living!? Their corpses, they don't care none!
Sachi: These people been laid to rest asshole!
Seth: You don't know nothing! I talk to them long after they been forgotten by every other fella! I tell em it's okay to be scared and alone!
John: I met some sick bastards in my time Seth. But you, your special.
Seth: Fokes cold and heartless all their lives! Me, I embrace them when they ACTUALLY cold and heartless. Surely that makes sense, to even you two.
Sachi: Not exactly it don't.
Seth: We really alive anyway!? You exist outside my mind!? Maybe we both having the same dream, and when we wake up, we die!
John: I sure seem to be in some kind of nightmare.
Seth: Have you looked in the cave, Seth? (creepy voice) No, it's very dark.
Marston: What did you say?
Seth: I-I didn't say nothin'!
Marston: We just heard you say something.
Seth: You're a crazy man! You should get that head looked at!
Sachi: Seth, we need someone to get a wagon inside fort mercer. Was told you could help. But I ain't sure you even know what day it is.
Seth: I can't sister. I can't even tell you what year it is.
Sachi: I knew this was a waste of time!
Seth: So.. You wanna go after Bill Williamson do ya?
John: You know Bill?
Seth: Oh yeah. I know Bill, Deek, all of them. I have a reputation as someone who'll do things. Most other fellas, won't.
John: Now that I can believe.
Seth: I reckon you can get in there no problem. Assuming you help me find this map first.
Sachi and John: Fine.
Seth is creepy.. But serprisingly enough. He actually kinda harmless..