Mexican gold
Quests
Capitán Torres
- Quest Giver: Sheriff John Fitzburn
- Prerequisites: Reached level 50
- Resolve: Heading into a new adventure (Showdown)
- Resolve: Hackett's Claim (Pay day)
- Requires:
- -
- Reward:
- 50 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Sheriff John Fitzburn: Hello {PLAYER_NAME}, let me introduce you to my old friend: Meet Capitán Esteban Torres from Mexiko.
Capitán Torres: Buenos diaz.
Sheriff Fitzburn: Esteban visits me every now and then if one of his gallows bird flees across the border. He might have a job for you.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Sheriff John Fitzburn: I knew that you would be interested. I'll leave you two alone, the less I know, the better.
Capitán Torres: {PLAYER_NAME}, correct? Don't be irritated by John's behaviour. Our plan is not fully legal in the narrow sense but saves my deputies and the sheriffs here a lot of work.
I am looking for one Emilio Vargas. He was a highly decorated general of the mexican army, until he tried to seize the power in the country. The coup did not succeed, but he was able to flee.
Since then, we have lost track of Vargas, but word is spread that his adjutant, a man named Pablo Salvador, is trying to recruit soldiers for a "revolution" in one of the border towns on the American side. He is up to no good. I want you to infiltrate these self-proclaimed revolutionaries and put a stop to their game.</spoiler>
Pablo
- Quest Giver: Pablo Salvador
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (Capitán Torres)
- Go to Pablo Salvador
- Requires:
- Defeat Cowboy (duel)
- Unarmed
- Reward:
- 100 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Pablo Salvador: They say you are interested in joining the revolution. We can always use brave people, but you have to show us if you are really one of us. For starters... beat up that guy over there at the bar. Don't use weapons, we don't want to rouse attention.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Pablo Salvador: That looked really painful. Well, you can follow orders without asking stupid questions.</spoiler>
Propaganda
- Quest Giver: Pablo Salvador
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (Pablo)
- Go to Pablo Salvador
- Requires:
- Go to Pablo Salvador
- Putting up posters (7 hours)
- Reward:
- 200 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Pablo Salvador: Let's get going. Here you have some placards and a bucket of glue. Did you think revolution means just brawling and fighting? Sometimes we have to spread the word and word at the moment is that general Vargas needs more volunteers.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Pablo Salvador: You're back, amigo. Why the general needs so many people you want to know? For the revolution! You will get to know the details soon enough.</spoiler>
The best army...
- Quest Giver: Pablo Salvador
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (Propaganda)
- Go to Pablo Salvador
- Requires:
- Go to Pablo Salvador
- T-Bone-Steak 5/5
- Beans 10/10
- Potato 5/5
- Corn 10/10
- Reward:
- 250 Experience points
- $600
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Pablo Salvador: It is said that the best army has the worst food. Not for us! The general knows that he has to keep his soldiers well fed and happy. We are lacking some rations for the upcoming operation. Here is a list, try to get these supplies fast.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Pablo Salvador: Now that looks good. We should be ready to march soon. Come, let me introduce you to the general.</spoiler>
The legend
- Quest Giver: Emilio Vargas
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (The best army...)
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Requires:
- -
- Reward:
- 50 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Emilio Vargas: Ah, {PLAYER_NAME}! I have heard a lot of good things about you. According to Pablo, you supported our just cause with great effort. You have probably heard of my little setback in Mexico. The war... I mean the revolution is not over yet! I just need money to recruit new followers.
We have a legend in my country about our ancestors leaving a great gold treasure in the mountains north of today's border while fleeing the Spanish conquistador Cortés. This gold belongs to the mexican people and what better could we use that for than our just cause?
I recently acquired a map that shows us where this treasure is buried. Will you help us retrieving it, {PLAYER_NAME}?</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Emilio Vargas: Very well. We are meeting up south of town. We will meet a mountain guide there, Pablo hired him. They say he can smell gold.</spoiler>
The mountain guide
- Quest Giver: Emilio Vargas
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (The legend)
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Requires:
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Transport ammunition (8 hours)
- Reward:
- 200 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Emilio Vargas: Welcome to this expedition, {PLAYER_NAME}. You already know my adjutant Pablo Salvador, and this here is our mountain guide...
Old Man Hackett: I'll be damned, the thievish greenhorn!
Emilio Vargas: I'm sorry?
Old Man Hackett: General, we can't trust {PLAYER_NAME}. We already had the pleasure of doing business and I barely survived but losing a bigger sum to this scumbag.
Emilio Vargas: Is that so? Well, {PLAYER_NAME}, you did not do me any wrong. We have a proven method of testing the loyality of a soldier: ride in the ammunition wagon. Oh, by the way... this might be a bumpy ride.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Emilio Vargas: Enough for today. We will make camp here. Looks like the "greenhorn" is more trustworthy than thought, or what do you think, Hackett?
Old Man Hackett: We will see.</spoiler>
Negotiations
- Quest Giver: Emilio Vargas
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (The mountain guide)
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Requires:
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Trading with Indians (2 hours)
- Reward:
- 175 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Emilio Vargas: Psst, {PLAYER_NAME}, wake up! It looks like we have company...
The general silently points towards the Indians that have surrounded the camp in the night.
Emilio Vargas: My people will try to get into defensive positions. Try to buy us some time or convince them that we don't mean trouble.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Emilio Vargas: Looks like you were able to convince them that we were trespassing here by accident...
Out of nowhere you hear a shot that hits and kills the chief of the tribe. This results in a fierce battle that leads to significant losses on both sides.</spoiler>
Grave digger
- Quest Giver: Emilio Vargas
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (Negotiations)
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Requires:
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Digging graves (6 hours)
- Reward:
- 250 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Emilio Vargas: What a debacle. Start digging! Neither the Indians nor the American cavalry can be allowed to blame us for this massacre.
While you throw the fallen of both sides into unmarked mass graves, you can't help but noticing Hackett whistling a happy tune.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Emilio Vargas: A dark trade, right, {PLAYER_NAME}? But don't you worry, after the revolution, all the brave soldiers that have fallen here will be celebrated as national heroes in Mexico.</spoiler>
Repairs
- Quest Giver: Emilio Vargas
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (Grave digger)
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Requires:
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Repairing a covered wagon (4 hours)
- Reward:
- 200 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Emilio Vargas: The ammunition wagon caught fire during the battle. We were able to extinguish it before it could spread over to the dynamite and other supplies. Before we can press on, we need to exchange one of the wheels.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Emilio Vargas: Very well then. In which direction do we need to go, Hackett?
Old Man Hackett: More to the north-east, general. These redskins are unpredictable as you've seen.</spoiler>
Scout
- Quest Giver: Pablo Salvador
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (Repairs)
- Go to Pablo Salvador
- Requires:
- Go to Pablo Salvador
- Exploration (5 hours)
- Reward:
- 300 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Pablo Salvador: According to Hackett, the lost enclave must lie in these mountains. The general has trusted me with scouting the area together with you two.
Old Man Hackett: Why you, doesn't he trust us?
Pablo Salvador: He is a very careful man and he has good reason for it.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Pablo Salvador: Back there, that could be the ruin we are looking for!
Old Man Hackett: Indeed, that should be the one. This is the end of the line for you then!
Before you can react, Hackett shoots Salvador in the back, killing him instantly. While you reach down to your gun, the echo of Hackett's shot is reverberating from the rocky cliffs. Almost instantly, the sound changes into the rumbling sound of a rock slide. In the last second you manage to get to safety. As usual, Old Man Hackett has completely disappeared.</spoiler>
To the treasure
- Quest Giver: Ruins in the mountains
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (Scout)
- Go to Ruins in the mountains
- Requires:
- Go to Ruins in the mountains
- Treasure hunt (3 hours)
- Reward:
- 250 Experience points
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">You hurry towards the ruins you have seen from afar. the labyrinth of canyons and caves makes it hard to keep track and you would be completely lost if the sound of small explosions wouln't help you find the way once in a while. It seems like Hackett and Vargas are already trying to get into the ruins.</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">A stronger explosion shakes the canyon. A short while after you turn around a corner, you find the burned-out ammuntion wagon, surrounded by dead soldiers. You can hear the echo of gunshots from the ruins. After you approach the treasure vault through blown-away walls, you see Hackett and Vargas oppose each other, guns drawn. In the middle, between them, stands an old clay jug, filled with gold coins.</spoiler>
The decision I
- Quest Giver: Old Man Hackett
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (To the treasure)
- Don't accept: Mexican gold (The decision II)
- Unresolved: Mexican gold (The decision II)
- Go to Old Man Hackett
- Requires:
- Shoot (pass out) Emilio Vargas (duel)
- Reward:
- 500 Experience points
- $8635
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Old Man Hackett: I have got to hand it to you, greenhorn, you can't be killed easily. What do you think, should we send the good general to his retirement and share the treasure?
Emilio Vargas: Don't listen to this cutthroat, {PLAYER_NAME}!</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Old Man Hackett: Heh... ARGH!
Everything happened in an instant: While you were attacking the general, he was shooting Hackett in the shoulder. The impact caused Hackett to fall backwards into a crevice. While Emilio Vargas slumps down, mortally wounded, you listen to his dying words: "Viva la revolución..."</spoiler>
The decision II
- Quest Giver: Emilio Vargas
- Prerequisites: Resolve: Mexican gold (To the treasure)
- Don't accept: Mexican gold (The decision I)
- Unresolved: Mexican gold (The decision I)
- Go to Emilio Vargas
- Requires:
- Shoot (pass out) Old Man Hackett (duel)
- Reward:
- 500 Experience points
- $8635
- Quest Text: <spoiler text="Show Text">Emilio Vargas: {PLAYER_NAME}, this dog has betrayed us all! But nothing is lost yet, this gold will fuel our revolution, soon all of Mexico will be ours!
Old Man Hackett: Pha, save me your highfalutin boasting!</spoiler>
- Epilogue: <spoiler text="Show Epilogue">Emilio Vargas: Ha... ARGH!
Everything happened in an instant: While you were shooting the treacherous mountain guide, he was hitting the general in the chest with his shotgun. The recoil caused Hackett to fall backwards into a crevice. You listen to Emilio Vargas's last words: "Viva la revolución..."</spoiler>
Total Reward
- $9235
- 2525 Experience points