The Great Paine Robbery! - AAR for High Moon

Here's another AAR for the new High Moon game.  This time I wanted to try the Bank Robbery encounter, but with a twist; I'd be robbing the bank with monsters!

Here's my group:

Ursula:  Witch (Star);  Rep 5 - Quick Relexes
Morgan:  Smart Zombie; Rep 4;  Pistol
Lucy:  Werewolf;  Rep 4; Pistol
Gravid:  Vampire; Rep 3; Pistol.

Since Vampires don't usually work well with werewolves (and neither is fond of zombies), I hard Ursula hire all 3 allies.

This is essentially a Raid encounter, expanded as a Bank Robbery.  The four start outside the Tim Paine Bank.  When we started, Lucy peeked into the window to identify those inside (Mental Challenge).  When she succeeded, I resolved the PEF's.

Two of the PEF's didn't resolve (one Passed 1d6).  The last resolved as a Gunman (Rep 5; Red), Cowboy (Rep 4; Red; top right corner), and 3 bank workers (Townspeople Rep 3; Blue and Green).  The one in the top left corner atop the d6 was guarding the $.

Lucy picked the lock (Mental Challenge), and we won In Sight.

 Entering the bank, Ursula approached the teller and successfully cast a Suggestion spell.

"Go show your friends the stampede outside."

Sure enough, he approached the cowboy and gunman and tried to get them to look out the window.

"Look!  Stampede!"

Both men failed their Mental Challenge and looked.  This left the other two tellers unguarded.

Morgan sneaked up to the one closest to the door and 'silenced' him, and Lucy did the same for the one guarding the door.

As we tried to escape though, the cowboy and gunman heard us (successful mental challenges) and drew their guns.

Gravid tried to eliminate the cowboys, but his guns missed, and they returned fire.  They scored direct hits, but luckily, none of them used silver bullets (They apparently hurt both vampires and werewolves in the West).

Ursula then jumped in and took out all 3 with magical bolt spells.  Our group then took off into the night.  Afterward, I rolled for the loot and Rep improvements.  Ironically, Gravid improved to Rep 4 while no one else did.

Since that encounter ended too quickly, we robbed 2 more banks.  Those got a little bloodier, especially the third, when I decided the gunfire attracted the law who attacked from outside the bank.  All 4 of us survived, but only Gravid and Morgan advanced.  Ursula and Lucy (who got the highest kill counts) failed each time.

Next time, things could get a little darker.  Apparently, our actions have attracted the attention of Alabama Adams, a singing cowboy and the bane of all innocent creatures of darkness.  Upon hearing of darkness falling on the town of Westbrook, Adams immediately went to work assembling a posse to help him.

But Ursula is assembling some help as well.

Until next time . . .