Re: [HoE] Interesting Black Hat story (Possible spoiler???)

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

Cool idea - the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.

>Not too long after, they see a bunch of wrecked vehicles in the road.
>Sitting on top of one of the HMMV's is a rather large man in a black
>tabard, finishing off a 6 pack.  It seems that a warband of
>Anti-Templars had decided to liberate the caravan (remember, they think
>they're heroes, too), not realizing the important bit that the posse
>did.  They've been camped out for a day or two, and don't know where to
>go from here.  The townsfolk are happy to be free, but are beginning to
>get leery of their new "friends."

Have the remaining vehicles and tribute being returned to the townsfolk
when the posse meets them - that way it's proof that the Anti-templars ARE
being good guys.

They are just clueless about how heavy the hand of Throckmorton falls

>However, when Throckmorton finds out what happened to the caravan,
>neither the Anti-Templars nor the posse will be able to help the
>survivors.  The only solution now is to make sure the caravan gets to
>Denver.  The posse has to take hats from the corpses of the dead goons,
>and together with the Anti-Templars, impersonate Combine troops long
>enough to drop off the supplies and get the townspeople out of there
>alive.

I wouldn't write this as the only solution (unless you were going to submit
it), as posse's do tend to come up with some strange ideas - but it's
probably the best one.
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