Heya yall! Sorry, it's been quite a while! But don't worry, the joy is back in yo' lives! Lol. It's time for me to continue rewrite this game as I ever desired and hopefully, nothing comes in my way to make me delay this again :) Anyway, enjoy!
Back at Colter, the gang was now preparing to leave, they've been loading everything to the wagons, the snowy weather is slowly died out and they reckon it's time to leave. Susan was making sure everyone else was working until she saw Mary-Beth with her book in her hand, she sighs and marches up to the pickpocket thief.
"Oh, for Lord's sake," Susan complained to her, "Put that book away and go help. Oh... Mary-Beth."
Arthur arrived back in one piece and sees all the wagons and everyone loading everything. He dismounts the Tennesse Walker and walks over to Dutch and Hosea, both of them were talking about where they headed.
"So, we getting out of this hellhole?" Arthur asked them.
"We're gonna try," Dutch replied. "weather seems stable."
"And we just robbed a Leviticus Cornwall train," Hosea added, clearly still not liking the idea to rob a train that was owned by a rich oilman.
"We got money in our pockets," Dutch told them. "the worst is behind us, gentlemen. So the question is, where now?"
"I know this country a little," Hosea said as Charles and Abigail carried John into the wagon. "I told you, we should set up camp in... Horseshoe Overlook near Valentine. We'll be able to hide out there no problem, as long as we keep our noses clean."
Dutch agrees to Hosea's decision. "Well then let's go, clean noses and everything." He pointed to the wagon at the far back. "Arthur, you're in that one, bring Hosea. I know you two like to talk about the good old days and what's gone wrong with old Dutch."
Minutes later, the wagons are now on the move, they went through the snow with no trouble than the last few days as the weather becomes normal. They continued until they went through mountains and once they were out of Colter, the more they head further, the weather becomes better and even warmer. Dutch was leading the caravan with Pearson, Dutch decided to call for Lenny and Micah.
"Lenny! Micah!" Dutch called to them. "Get over here!"
The two come up closer, Micah rides up next to Dutch on the right of the wagon.
"Yes, boss?" Micah asked him.
"You two ride up ahead, make sure there's no surprises. We've had enough of those," Dutch ordered.
"Me, with the boy?"
"Just go," Dutch told him again.
"Come on kid," Micah told Lenny as they both ride ahead. "You can buy me a whiskey."
They pass underneath the railroad bridge and crossing the state border from Ambarino to West Elizabeth. They came across a river, the Dakota River, and where they're going through next is Cumberland Falls, and it also separates from the state of West Elizabeth to New Hanover.
After fixing the wheel Arthur broke when crossing the river, they find three men on horses, overlooking them from a high cliff, not wanting to push their luck now, they quickly reload the cargo and hop on the wagon, they find the rest of the caravan left them but they'd still keep catch up with them, so Arthur Charles, and Hosea continued to ride alongside the Dakota River.
"So... yes, the Indians in these parts got sold a very raw deal," Hosea explains the situation the Indians are in. "This is the Heartlands we're going to, good farming and grazing country, they lost it all. Stolen clean away from them it was, every blade of grass. Killed or herded up to the reservations in the middle of nowhere."
"And how's that different from everywhere else?" Charles asked him.
"Well, maybe it's not," Hosea shrugged. "I just heard some of the army out here was particularly, uh... unpleasant about it."
"Unpleasant?" Charles asked again. "How do you rob and kill people pleasantly? We don't, in spite of Dutch's talk."
"I fear I was perhaps trying to simplify something more complicated for the benefit of our blockheaded driver here," Hosea said.
"Hey, don't blame me," Arthur protested. "Never forget, here's a conman, Charles, born and bred. Just cause it sounds fancy don't mean he knows a damn thing about what he's talking about."
After some time, they finally made it! They're in Horseshoe Overlook, they saw Javier standing by the rock.
"There you are, brother," Javier said. "Head in there and follow the track a bit."
"Thanks" Arthur replied
As Javier climbs up the wagon, they continued through the trees into the main trail towards the spot Hosea was talking about. After a while, they finally reached the clearing trees and they see very tents set up, all the horses are hitched and everyone were settling down.
"Here we are, gentlemen," Hosea said. "Home sweet home
After a while, Dutch made a speech to everyone about what they're going to do in New Hanover. Finding some leads that could make them some money, and half of their cut goes to the camp as well, Hosea even told them about Valentine, a good place to scout but as long as they keep their noses clean and not to cause trouble. Pearson also mentions food, which means hunting every day as well. Arthur mentality adds that to his bucket list.
When everyone was crystal clear of what they're doing there, Susan led Arthur to his tent.
"Now, the girls have your tent ready, Mr. Morgan, come with me." Susan told him and she turns to Dutch and Hosea, "You two will be ready shortly."
He led Arthur to his tent just a bit closer to Dutch's tent, "I'm sure everything will be fine, Miss Grimshaw," Arthur told her
"It should be," Susan replied, "most of your stuff from Blackwater got saved."
"Everything apart from my muneh," Arthur said.
"Oh, don't remind me,"
"Well, we can always make more money," Arthur replied.
"We're going to have to," Susan said as she left and march up to Tilly Jackson.
As Arthur sits down his tent, he looked around and sees everyone slowly settling down here. He hoped this spot should work for him and the others, and hopefully, once they make enough money, they'll able to head back west, (and hopefully dodge the Pinkertons) and he and his family may live peaceful lives.
The long conversations in this part were skipped because one feller told me I don't need to go into full detailed most of the time, for the sake of real-time like right now, I have my limits. That means some long conversations in the game can be skipped, dragged along for the sake of my limits and real-time, although I can still put in the long conversations that are for some, any chapters in this rewrite. I hope you understand.
Anyway, thanks for reading!