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Date & Time: Jan 12th to Jan 19th (real time), July 11th to July 18th (historical time), 1884
Location: Black Rock, New Mexico, USA
Characters: All transports
Summary: Fearing UE reprisal, the Initiative corrals all transports and shoos them onto a mission back to the Wild West, to vote Gerald "Moony" Jackson in as Mayor of Black Rock. Transports are encouraged to used all their wiles to encourage townsfolk to vote in favor of him, too. Other than that, they're free to roam as they will for 7 whole days! Good luck finding food and shelter, masses. (See the OOC post for more information.)

The Initiative had been terse and rushed as they gathered the transports into the Transporter room, and anyone unwilling to participate will have been forcibly hurried along. The Initiative employees had seemed distracted and worried, and unwilling to stand around and debate. It was time to move. The teleportation had gone off without a hitch, and a roomful of transports have been treated, quite suddenly, to a broad and sunny blue sky, and especially to the heat of mid July in the American West.

Enjoy your weeklong stay in Black Rock, New Mexico! The town is small and sleepy, with just 3 good saloons and one questionable (but considerably cheaper) one. There are a few inns, but these inns aren't quite prepared to room a sudden influx of over 300 travelers, and some people might have to bunk up or get creative with their sleeping arrangements. If you sleep in an inn at all, of course. There's plenty of unexplored wilderness out there to sleep in instead, isn't there? Just make sure to check your boots for scorpions in the morning.

The only instructions are "vote for Gerald "Moony" Jackson for Mayor, and try to convince others to do the same", and you've been given just enough money to cover a very sparse room and board for 7 days, if you don't spend it in anything else.

So, how do you spend your time?

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Do people call you "Samwise" or "Sam"?

They mostly call me Sam, but you can call me whichever you wish.

I'll call you Sam. Samwise is too long. Was your father named Samwise too?

No my father is called Hamfest. But people call him the Gaffer. Are people usually named after their fathers in your world?

[ Ignoring the question because her world=not interesting to her at the moment. ]

Why "Gaffer"?

I guess because he is the go to man on so many subjects, especially those pertaining to gardening. He's an expert on the growing of potatoes is my Gaffer.

I haven't had potatoes in a long time.

Me neither. [A small wistful sigh] They seem quite simple fare, but they are sorely missed when you can't have them anymore.

That's true for everything.

That it is. [She is very young to have been dragged away from her world. Though humans aged differently than hobbits Sam didn't think she would be considered adult even by their standards.]

Have you tried growing anything? Back where we were, I mean.

Not yet, I plan to though, I wasn't there very long before we came here.

What are you going to plant?

I'm not too sure yet, taters would be nice, but whatever we have the seed for. Food would be practical but I'd love to see some flowers and such to brighten the place up.

Food'd be better.

It probably would be, more useful in any case. I'll have to look into getting seed.

Can you see about finding it here and taking it back with you?

Well it don't look like much grows out here either but they must get food from somewhere.

Ask around.

I will do I think.

Let me know if I can help.

[ She might be fishing to get a small portion of any future food products. ]

Do you like gardening? [He will give her food anyways, he's a hobbit, he likes feeding people almost as much as he likes eating.]

Never tried it. All our food comes from the sea.

All of it? [Sam tilted his head] I must say that apart from fish I know very little about what can be found and eaten from the sea.

There's fish. And cockles, mussels, clams. But the ships bring in food from other places too.

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