James frowned as he thought how to answer the question. “There isn't much to say, I am afraid. I never knew my father – in fact, I don't even know if he is still alive. My mother, may she rest in peace... well, for now let's just say she was a good mother, but could not afford expensive medicine when she needed it... With her gone there was nothing keeping me in the east part of the country, so when I was old enough I left to seek my fortunes elsewhere. Eventually I arrived here in search of some way to earn money... and maybe settle down, if I can find the right woman...” He shrugged. “That's about it. So no, not a con man – though I would not mind stealing you and keeping you to myself, at least for tonight...” He finished with a charming smile.
Yona nods, mostly engrossed in the task as she helps inspect the body. (Really hard to write good posts at what is basically 8 in the morning for me, sorry)
"Thank you kindly." Elias takes a sip, before grinning, and withdrawing a book from his satchel, the cover emblazoned with an image of himself, pistol in hand as he single-handedly guns down a gang of outlaws, a buxom woman at his feet, hands wrapped around the leg of her rescuer. "Enjoy." He hands the book over. "Oh, Europe? It's mixed. In some places it's nice - art and culture and free spirited souls, but cities like London are filthy - running with dirt and filled by smog. I much prefer Prague - it's cleaner, and the people there are liberated." And the whores are second to none. "Paris by gaslight is a sight to see, as well." He admits. "If you're interested in Europe, you might like this one." He hands over a mostly fake detective story set in England, with himself again on the cover with a scantily clad lady, though this time there's a magnifying glass in his hand instead of a pistol, and a detective's cap on his head instead of a cowboy hat. Heh, I managed to get a few copies of that one on shelves before Conan Doyle sued the shit out of me for plagiarism. Pausing his reminiscence about Europe, Elias starts to focus on the horse thieves. Listening quietly, he ponders. Hmm, they only took the stallion? Girl's got good instincts - if this was a random job, and they came in at night, it would have been hard to identify the horses, so they would have taken 'em all and ditched the ones that weren't valuable once they were in the clear. That means they probably know this place, and its stock. "Let's go take a gander at the stables." He stands, walking over to the scene of the crime, trying to see if there's any clues he can track. It's a long shot, given that the crime's a week old, but he's a skilled tracker, so he's discovered clues on colder cases in the past. As he investigates, he asks Leona "Have you had anyone coming 'round recently to see the horses? Maybe someone who talked a good game about looking to buy, but didn't?" A scout, on a casing job, I'd imagine. "And the ranch itself - there's you and Mr Pearson, but are there any hands? Someone who might know the stallion and what it's worth?"
Slap! "Ugh!" Her entire body shook from pleasure, as she felt a sharp smack on her. She arched as her mind blanked, her body shivering. That additional stimulus was enough to make her climax. "Ahm~" She moaned out, as the waves of pleasure washed over her. For a moment she considered giving a false name, but where was a risk in that? "Kate~" She gave her real name. She turned around and grabbed the man's chin. "And if you allow me to look through the bounties before you open them, and take the most juice ones, we shall be repeating this~"
‘We’ll leave the experts to it then,’ Andy said, remaining on his horse. Code: Terrain investigation roll: DC 50 Roll = 56 + 10 hunting = 66 SUCCESS The huntress saw a ridgeline covered in bushes running parallel to the creek, giving any predator good concealment to approach a watering prey animal, like the dead stag. There were few signs of a fight, more like the stag dropped over immediately while drinking water. Code: Carcass investigation roll: DC 70 (week old carcass) Roll = 55 + 15 (hunting skill) = 70 Minor SUCCESS Julia couldn’t quite tell which wound killed the deer, but the chest cavity seemed like a good guess. On closer inspection, the pattern in the ribs might indicate that the animal was shot by a big-bore rifle, not killed by an animal. Code: Carcass Investigation roll: DC 70 (week old carcass) Roll = 60 + 15 (Tracking) = 75 SUCCESS Yona noticed that the antler wasn’t actually sheared off in a fight, but finely sawed off at the base, like a poacher would do. ‘You girls found anything of interest,’ Jonas asked them.
Molly looked sympathetic and grabbed his hand over the table, ‘Oh, you poor boy. I know your mother is in a better place now.’ Code: Seduction roll: DC 50 (already succeeded once) Roll = 83 + 15 (seduction) = 98 Major SUCCESS ‘Oh, so you want me tonight?’ She smiled and bit her lip, ‘Y’know what? Why don’t you head on up to your room, James? I just need to freshen up and I’ll be with you in a minute.’ As James went up to his room, he didn’t have to wait very long. Only a few minutes later, the door opened and Molly stepped in. Molly smiled, as she closed the door behind her, ‘I closed down the restaurant and you are my only customer today, which means we are all alone.’ Her hands moved to her top and to her skirt and it one motion they both fell to the floor. ‘I’m yours and yours alone tonight, handsome,’ Molly giggled.
Code: Seduction roll: DC 40 (already seduced) Roll = 33 + 10 (beautiful) + 15 (seductress) - 10 (man of the law) + 50 (sex in progress) = 98 Major SUCCESS ‘Kate, the little bounty hunter, ugh~,’ Dougles repeated her name as he kept fucking her, ‘You can have your pick of bounties, no questions asked if we can do this again.’ ‘Damn...’ the main groaned and slapped her butt again, getting a liking to hearing her moans.
Julia look at Yona and nod to her. "I think the presence of sheriff will be more helpfull than we thought before." She show guys place where stag fall. "On the first look out, there are tracks of fighting animals. But hole made of fallen stag look like was made right in the begining, which mean stag fall in the moment of first attack." Then she show chest cavity and broken ribs. "That kind of wounds are imposible to be made by animal. They bite with their tusk, rip with their claws, but not stabing. This wound was made by human weapon. Big-bore rilfe, to be specific." Julia stand up, holding her rifle. "It look like we are on trial of human poacher, not animal predator. Which men, this man doesn't mind killing humans or animals, and he is so good in making false clues for hunters. Julia take look at wound of stag again, and then look in direction where it could come shoot, walking slowly to find some tracks.
James openly ogled the naked beauty in front of him, his eyes roaming all over her curves and his pants suddenly feeling much tighter. “You're gorgeous, Molly!” Having had enough of just looking he moved closer and reached with his hands, one hand grabbing her naked ass, the other going behind her head, and he pulled her close. His lips pressed against hers as he began kissing her passionately, his tongue soon forcing its way inside Molly's mouth. James broke the kiss only when both of them were out of breath. “Mmm, time for dessert...” He grinned and lowered his mouth to her right nipple. He teased it a little bit with his tongue, then began sucking on it. At the same time the hand that had been behind Molly's head moved to her left breast and began fondling it gently. The young man kept teasing the woman's breasts and nipple for a bit, kissing, sucking, fondling, pinching... as he did so he listened to his lover's moans, trying to gauge what was most effective. Finally he decided it was time to continue. Leaving Molly's breasts alone for now he began kissing down her body, going from her chest to her stomach and then lower, to her crotch. Now down on his knees James looked up at Molly. “Spread your legs for me and let me taste you...” He requested, both of his hands now on the innkeeper's naked ass, fondling it softly.
‘Thanks for the books, I’ll be sure to read them when I get the time,’ Leona said, beaming at her father. Code: Stable investigation: DC 65 (week old tracks) Roll = 66 + 15 (expert tracker) = 81 SUCCESS There’s little to be found, but Elias noticed something in the hay in the stallion’s box: A small glint and as he retrieved the item, he saw that it was a small nugget of unrefined silver, partly blackened on the surface. Might’ve fallen out of some horse thieves pocket. ‘Hmm, there was this one shady guy, called himself Pete, who asked about our stallions,’ Leona pondered, ‘He wanted to buy Hercules, off us, that’s the missing stallion.’ She smiled, ‘I’ve been the only farmhand for the past year, old cowboy... horseboy? ... Michael, I think his name was, moved down south to Raverton, nice life-stock town, I think he’s a real cowboy now. We sell horses there from time to time.’
@Regin34 Looking at the beast, she started to nod. “The antler has been cut, not ripped. Too clean. No jagged marks. Straight edged. Smooth.” Her assessment backed up Julia’s claim, but Yona was visibly bothered by the apparent lack of supernatural activity from her assumptions. Still. Seeing the body, it made her frown more with annoyance. “Why just the antler?” Some tribes insisted every part of the animal needed to be used, and while it wasn’t really common practice with here, Yona had always believed it was better to do so than be sorry anyway. Imala felt that was ludicrous, but she still supported the idea finding it impractical to waste that many perfectly good parts. This still seemed like a massive misuse of resources even if people didn’t buy into her beliefs. Unfortunately, there wasn’t time to go through the whole process, and she had to focus on looking for clues of the more immediately tangible culprits.
Interesting... Elias asks Leona if the silver belongs to her or her boss, before slipping it in his pocket, if it doesn't. "Hmm, Michael might be worth checking out - especially if you had Hercules when he was here, but this Pete fellow seems worth checking up on." Elias stands, from where he was knelt to look for clues. "I'm gonna go have a look for the fella. Long shot, but did he say where he was staying, at all? If not, any buddies? People I can ask in town?"
Slap! "Uhm~" Kate froze, as her walls squeezed the man's rod, as another climax rocked her body. She then moaned again, her mind fully immernsing in pleasure, as the sheriff continued pounding her. Finally, the man grabbed the bars and pushed deep into her, pushing her against the bars. She arched again, with an orgsmic moan, as she felt the older man's warm seed filling her. As the two were raiding their climaxes, Kate could feel her body burning with pleasure - and the only thing cooling her, were the bars pressing against her flesh. "Ah~" she moaned as the afterschocks of climax rocked her body. A small smile graced her lips - she would not be pursuided by the local law enforcers...
Code: Follow trial roll: DC 50 Roll = 50 + 10 (hunting) SUCCESS Julia could follow the faint human boot prints up stream for a bit, before they crossed the creek and continued on the other side. Leading to the ridgeline with the bushes, she could find a spot where the hunter had laid down to take the shot. She could see the carcass from here, the right side with the gaping hole in the ribcage turned towards her. The tracks continued further and she came to a point where the human tracks gave way to horse tracks, obviously where the poacher had left hsi horse and continued on foot. Code: Spirit roll: DC 65 Roll = 52 + 10 (spirit warrior) = 62 Minor FAILURE Yona could feel the spirits in this place, but the feeling was confusing. They were angry at something, a good chance it was the same reason she was irritated, that someone would waste a kill like this, making the animals death in vain. But the message from the beyond wasn’t quite clear. ‘Can we help in any way, or do you have this covered?’ Jonas asked from horseback. ‘You should be more concerned about keeping watch while they work,’ Andy looked east further down the mountain.
‘You’re too kind, mmh~,’ Molly smiled before she returned James’ kiss, she wasn’t much used to French kissing but she let him have his way with her and tried to reciprocate the tongue kiss. ‘Oh my, yes, play with my breasts, James, I love that~,’ Molly moaned to her lover, as her nipples grew hard in his mouth and under his palm. From her moans, Molly really loved having her nipples fondled, growing loudest when he was running circles around them with his thumbs. ‘Golly, are you sure? You’ve been raining kisses down on me and now you want to... do that. Don’t you want to have some fun too?’ Molly lightly protested at his request, obviously not used to being the centre of attention. But she still opened her legs for him, giving James access to her pussy if he wanted to.
‘A silver nugget? No, I don’t think it belongs to us. One of the thieves must’ve had it,’ Leona shrugged, ‘Sorry, I had never seen this Pete fellow before and was only here once and he didn’t say he was staying anywhere in town. You think he was scoping out the ranch? He looked fishy to me so I let Mr Pearson do the talking.’
The sheriff breathed heavily, as his cock deflated and slipped from Kate’s pussy, ‘Damn... what a ride.’ He stepped away from Kate, now thinking a bit clearer, he fixed his trousers and looked at the ‘bounty hunter’, ‘I don’t know what got into me, but a deal’s a deal. You’ll have first pick of the new bounties once we get them in a few days.’
James took note of how much Molly seemed to love it when he played with her nipples. He would put the knowledge to good use later. “The night is still young, there will be time for me to have my fun. But first...” James replied as he looked at Molly's exposed pussy, noting that she had gotten wet. He planted a quick kiss on her nether lips, then took a long slow lick from the bottom to her clit on top. “Mmm, tasty...” He sucked on her clit for a bit before going back to licking her, gradually speeding up. Occasionally he would pause to push his tongue inside her slit, then go back to eating her out. Both of his hands were on her butt, squeezing and fondling her ass cheeks and keeping her in place. James' goal was to see how quickly hew could make the busty beauty cum...
"Cant say anything for sure, but it sure does seem like what someone would do if they were planning to steal a horse. If Pete came looking for Hercules specifically, though, he might be working for someone else. Y'all got any competition in these parts? Oh, and his name probably ain't Pete, though. Tell me what he looked like and I'll head to town for a quick search." Elias listens to the description, before nodding. "Alright, I'll go to town, and if I don't see anything there, I'll head down to see if I can find this cowboy fella. Mind if I borrow one of your fillies while I try to get Hercules back?" There's a protracted silence, before the old man hugs his newfound daughter again. "After I get back, we can get to know each other." He smiles, before letting go. On foot or on horseback, Elias returns to town, heading into the sherriff's.
Kate fixed her clothes. "Glad to heart it~" She smiled as she pointed finger at the man's chest. "You deliver me packed bounties, and we will repeat it~" With a smirk, she turned around and left the office. She made her way to the bar, where she intended to have drinks and ask about a room.
