Hardscrabble

Sounds like a good name for a Western town, as I've stated previously. I met with Wayne yesterday to talk about the next "Agent X" event, which he'd like to be a Western, so I talked about typical frontier themes and threw a few ideas his way: the rich land-grabbing rancher, the bandits extorting from the townsfolk, the floods, the meddling government.

Wayne liked the bandits so I brought up The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven and we kicked that around some and stubbed out four acts and four possible endings. If the townsfolk appease the bandits they lose all of their cash and will likely continue to do so. Should they hire gunslingers to bag the bad-guys they lose all their cash but take solace in it being a one-time payment (unless the gunslingers go into the bandit business). If they decide the fight back themselves they stand to kill the bandits and keep all their cash. And should they fight back and fail, their town gets burned down.

Should be interesting. I'm looking forward to creating some characters for this one. Now if we just added some Chinese and high tech elements we'd had ourselves a Firefly adventure.