Friends in Very Low Places is a mission in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Mission Overview[]
Trelawny invites Arthur to see a discouraged worker at Rhodes post office about any available stagecoaches to rob.
Story[]
Arthur speaks to Trelawny at camp, who asks him to come to Rhodes to speak to a teller at the post office, who will be able to provide Arthur with tips about stagecoaches worth stealing.
Once Arthur and Trelawny reach town, they enter the post office, where Trelawny will start a conversation with the teller, Alden Carruthers. After a bit of small talk, Arthur gives him some money in exchange for information on a stagecoach which is due to come through Siltwater Strand. Before the pair leave, Alden tells them that there is another clerk in Strawberry who is a member of the “discouraged men” association (as Trelawny calls it).
On their way to Siltwater Strand, Arthur makes known his apprehension on returning to Strawberry, considering the damage he caused there when he rescued Micah. Trelawny assures him that there should not be anyone left who would remember him, considering that nearly the whole town was massacred. He also comments on how popular the gang is becoming with all the trouble they have been causing, and believes they will all be dead soon enough. Arthur replies that he hopes they will all be free before that happens.
Once they reach the interception point, Trelawny decides to not rob the coach violently and tells Arthur to keep his guns holstered. He hands Arthur a lock breaker to open the strongbox in the back of the coach silently while he distracts an opera singer, Chester Damsen, and her driver. They see the coach, and Trelawny rides up to it and convinces Damsen to sing to him while Arthur rides further behind to avoid being seen. While Damsen sings to Trelawny, Arthur silently opens the lockbox, seizes the money, and sneaks away.
Trelawny joins him soon afterwards after the coach leaves, and the two share the take between them.
Gold Medal Objectives[]
- Complete the mission without being spotted.
- Complete within 8 minutes 10 seconds.
Deaths[]
- Chester Damsen (optional) - Can be killed by Arthur Morgan.
- Stagecoach driver (optional) - Can be killed by Arthur Morgan.
- Stagecoach guard (optional) - Can be killed by Arthur Morgan.
- Unnamed male passenger (optional) - Can be killed by Arthur Morgan.
Trivia[]
- On the way to commit the robbery, Arthur makes comments in regard to the state of notoriety of the gang during the passing weeks, to which Trelawny replies, "All this trouble... you gentlemen are becoming quite the celebrities, aren't you? Soon you'll be on the front of a dime novel... and dead, of course." This would prove to be an educated assumption, since the Van der Linde gang would go on to become popular folk songs and pulp novels eight years later.[1]
- Before starting the mission, Trelawny can be seen doing a magic trick with a playing card if Arthur stands away from him and uses binoculars.
- If the player hasn't already obtained one, Trelawny will give them a lock breaker for free.
- The player has the option to kill Chester Damsen and the others on the stagecoach when Trelawny distracts her, which leads to him saying "God, these amateurs! Why do I bother?", mounting his horse and riding away. Afterwards, the player finds Trelawny at a crossroad, who expresses his disappointment in Arthur not following his directions.
- If this is the last main mission to complete before "A Short Walk in a Pretty Town", Trelawny will give Arthur a message from Bill about meeting him in town to help the Grays with something before speaking with Alden.
- When Trelawny and Arthur are sitting on their horses at the farm, waiting for the stage coach to arrive, the player can ride off about 10m to the left, off the road, turn around and ram Trelawny's horse (aim for the front), so both Arthur and Trelawny fall off. Trelawny will start walking towards the stage coach, while his horse stays put. Depending on timing, two different things can happen - either Trelawny catches up with the stage coach in time, or he doesn't. If he catches up with the stage coach, his horse is suddenly teleported to him, and his conversation with Chester Damsen starts, but at the same time her singing starts. If Trelawny doesn't catch up with the stage coach in time, he is teleported back to the starting position, where his horse is, but if the player keeps riding behind the stage coach they will hear the conversation between Trelawny and Chester Damsen, while the stage coach just continues on and on, heading back into Rhodes.