All posts by ChrisR2020

The tasks are just mundane farm chores but you do seem to gain a little honor by doing them.

Skinners by a country mile. The Murfrees are mad inbred hillbillies, but they often seem content to just scare or threaten you because they don't like outsiders on their mountain. Like their name, they want to be more free. Similarly, and horrifically, the Skinners are also appropriately named.

I took the trusty varmint rifle and a shotgun onto the roof, but I was wondering if a silent weapon would avoid getting the attention of the guard - and a price on my head.

Both good ideas (tho alas too late for me) thanks. If I'd known this challenge was coming up I would have done it on the robbed train in New Austin.

At this rate it would be easier to hold up a train myself, rob everyone, kill the birds and use the loot to pay the bounty!

I'm suffering the same problem. I wondered if I had simply bought all the news the game saw fit to print. The papers you buy generally have some useful info or reference the plot in some way. Maybe after you've acted on all that the game writers figured their job was done? Otherwise they would have to write endless newspapers.

Okay - again 'spoiler alert':

RDR calls it 'Faded Letter' - it was in a tin box on the spoonbill island (the one nearest Sisika Penitentiary on a line directly east from the word LAGRAS in the bayous.

Letter to Douglas Gray from Lucille Braithwaite

June 12th 1806

My Dearest Douglas,

The mere act of writing your name weakens me with longing. My exile in Connecticut has endured barely three weeks but it already feels like a lifetime since I saw your wonderful smile. Why should the family into which I was born, and a surname that was imposed on me, dictate whom I can and cannot love? Like you always say, however, there are so many less fortunate than ourselves and subject to far worse partiality and narrow-mindedness.

Please take all that gold to the group I told you about. It should provide them with enough funding for another two years of operation so they can keep pressure on Congress to abolish the importation of slaves into this country once and for all. Our two families are so blinded by avarice and bitterness that either they will not realize it is missing or they will assume the other has stolen from them.

Then come for me, my love, as we planned, and we will flee somewhere far away, down to South America or across Europe, where we can simply live as Douglas and Lucille, not as Master Gray and Miss Braithwaite.

Yours always,

Lucille

Intriguing, thanks. I'll pay it another visit...

I guess it has to be the Dutch/Micah combo, but I love the animation of Angelo Bronte. I get the feeling they based his looks on a real person/actor.

Rather OT but, speaking of Charles, I keep getting nudges to deliver eagle feathers to him, but he's already gone to Canada as far as I know (this is after a certain amount of vengeful bounty-hunting with him and Sadie). Is this a glitch or is there a way of meeting up with him again?

Not evil exactly, but I do enjoy throwing Skinner Brother corpses on the campfire. Or Lemoyne Raiders on the dynamite at Shady Belle, and seeing how many limbs get blown off. Okay, that is a bit evil, but they were already dead... so far...

Charlie: Alas, no, the Pinkertons shoot Arthur's horse during a chase cut-scene. Very sad, but nothing you can do. (RIP 'Firefly').

I have twice rebooted the game to 'resurrect' my horse (after going over a waterfall or standing too close to a railway line). And once the game swapped my horse for a completely different one!

Don't bother trying to 'retire' or collect your trusty steeds, though. You can only keep one spare horse. I've tried leaving them at the ranch and they disappear. Better to train them up and sell them.

Can't swim, presumably, to stop him crossing into foreign lands like Mexico.

More annoying is his seeming inability to sleep in his own bed. He can pitch camp (outside the ranch lands) and happily beds down in hovels with rats and corpses, but get him home and all he wants to do is change his clothes or fast travel elsewhere. Very annoying when he's knackered and needs a good night's rest. :-(

Those 'spirit animals' are a running theme, and you will see them again - most notably (and spookily) in a certain hut in the marshes near St Denis...

My Arthur always saw deer and eagles. Worryingly, my John is seeing coyotes/wolves and vultures. :-O

On a related note, if you've not started the Wildlife Art project, you have to post those, too. But (like the fish) you have to mail intact corpses so don't skin the larger critters first. For that reason, if you have a list for the Art challenge, it's worth killing the smaller ones first, which you can store in your satchel. Larger critters sometimes fall off your horse if you have an accident.

See, now I feel stupid. I'm sure I tried that. But thanks, I'll give it another go. :-)

Speaking of pocket watches - can you tell the time? Silly question, I know, but the character comes equipped with a pocket watch yet seems unable to use it. You have to ride into town or guess from your own shadow.