Dead Man's Hand

Questline

Required
level

50

ID:1736		A mysterious murder
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		-	Resolve: Look for hints (Dead Man's Hand)	100
Start {PLAYER_NAME}, I have work for you. Bill Hickhok has been shot from behind in front of the saloon in Burnham City. Nobody can think of a motive or knows who did it - sounds like a case for you, doesn't it? Off to Burnham City! The murder took place in Burnham City, that's in the northeast of the map.	Finish So you have accepted the case, great! Hopefully Bill Hickhok's killer is found soon.

ID:1737		Look for hints
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Accept: A mysterious murder (Dead Man's Hand)	Wanted dead or alive posters created: 5/5	200
Start So you will help solve the murder of Bill Hickhok? Alright, here's the basic information: The deceased is an infamous gunslinger and poker player. We found him in front of the saloon this morning. He was insidiously shot from behind. Surely he had many enemies - you should put a price on the heads of those who are potentially guilty. You'll surely think of some mean villains who could know something. You can issue bounties at your town's sheriff	Finish I have interrogated all of your suspects - none of the ones you put a price on is Hickhok's murderer. But a witness came forward, he says Hickhok was holding something when he was shot. That's a hot lead.

ID:1738		Look for hints
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Look for hints (Dead Man's Hand)	Duels won: 5/5	300
Start According to the eyewitness account, Hickhok was holding on to something before the Sheriff came to secure the crime scene that morning. The eyewitness reported that he had seen a person meddling with the corpse. There are some shady low lives hanging around, but you won't be able to get them to talk just like that. I believe only brute force will get them to talk. You have to be a member of a town to duel other players.	Finish Alright, I have questioned all scoundrels you have defeated. They said that Hickhok had a hand of poker cards clutched in his hand when he died. The villains of the area took the cards as souvenirs - Bill Hickhok was a bit of a celebrity after all.

ID:1739		Complete the poker hand
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Look for hints (Dead Man's Hand)	Earned money in duels: 500/500	300
Start Unbelievable, so Hickhok was holding a hand of poker cards when he died. Some scoundrels took five cards as a souvenir, that is theft of evidence! Maybe we can find the real culprit via the cards. You have to obtain all five, try making some money off the duelists. You might find a card in their pockets.	Finish You have found a card! A Queen...

ID:1740		Complete the poker hand
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Complete the poker hand (Dead Man's Hand)	Knocked out in a duel: 5/5	400
Start We have found one of the cards from Hickhok's poker hand. You won't be able to take the next card off of anyone that fast. The scoundrels now know that you are taking the cards off of them with the money you've won. The trick does not work anymore, so you will have to shoot your opponent unconscious so you can search them undisturbed.	Finish This is the second card: an eight

ID:1741		Complete the poker hand
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Complete the poker hand (Dead Man's Hand)	"One-Hit" Duel victory: 1/1	400
Start Three cards are missing for a full poker hand. The hoodlums will not give them away though, they are hiding their card well. Try to knock out your opponent with a single shot so he cannot hide the card.	Finish There we go, that wasn't so hard. The third poker card. Eight again?

ID:1742		Complete the poker hand
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Complete the poker hand (Dead Man's Hand)	Duel experience gained: 500/500	300
Start We are onto something here! The last card has to be in the possession of a very experienced scoundrel as we have not yet tracked it down. Get some more experience in duels and the right opponent will surely be among them.	Finish I knew it! A lot of experience helps luring even the worst guys... the second last card is an Ace.

ID:1743		Complete the poker hand
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Complete the poker hand (Dead Man's Hand)	Wanted persons caught: 5/5	200
Start We're close to a breakthrough in the Bill Hickhok case, I can feel it. We have to find this one card, maybe one of the ailing scoundrels took it with him.	Finish We have Hickhok's hand, a dead man's poker hand! You did it!

ID:1744		Crime scene reconstruction
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Complete the poker hand (Dead Man's Hand)	Bandit duels won : 10/10	500
Start Alright, we somehow have to lure the murderer out of his hideout. The best way to do this is to re-enact the situation, hoping that he will react to it. We know that Hickhok was an infamous gunslinger. You can get a good reputation by raising you duel difficulty for bandits - finish off increasingly difficult bandits in order to get the murderer's attention.	Finish You have become the menace of bandits in the West - that's what they are calling you now. This will surely attract the murderer.

ID:1745		Crime scene reconstruction
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Crime scene reconstruction (Dead Man's Hand)		100
Start Very nice, you are now almost as infamous as Hickhok himself. Now we lay the trap, sit down in the saloon and hold the poker hand he was holding onto when he died. Hopefully this will lure the murderer from his hideout.	Finish Very good, now let's keep waiting in the saloon and see what happens. Don't worry, a bunch of federal undercover agents has been positioned, so nothing will happen to you.

ID:1746		Draw Poker
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Crime scene reconstruction (Dead Man's Hand)	Defeat Jack McCall	200
Start That man there is Jack McCall, an unlucky poker player. That might be a motive, he surely lost a fortune to Hickhok and shot him from behind! Quickly, arrest him!	Finish While we did interrogate McCall, we had to let him go. According to him, it was an act of revenge, as Hickhok had killed his brother. It's an eye for an eye in the Wild West, so we cannot put him in jail.

ID:1747		Research
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Draw Poker (Dead Man's Hand)	Resolve: Research (Dead Man's Hand)	100
Start Something about this whole case seems Greek to me... so Bill Hickhok shot McCall's brother. He should be buried at the cemetery of the ghost town - why don't you see if you can find some hints there.	Finish What, you did not find a grave in the ghost town? So McCall did not actually have a brother!? He lied to save his neck - go get him, this time he really pushed his luck. He still has to be somewhere in Burnham City.

ID:1748		Research
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Accept: Research (Dead Man's Hand)	Go to:	200
Start The ghost town... there's a cemetery just as eerie within its walls. This is where McCall's brother must be buried, you are searching the entire cemetery for his tombstone.	Finish After a long search, you realize that there is no tombstone with the name McCall on it. That means McCall lied - he did not actually have a brother! He murdered Hickhok out of pure greed.

ID:1749		The last game
Quest Giver		Requirements	Requires	Reward
		Go to: Resolve: Research (Dead Man's Hand)	Defeat Jack McCall	1500 400
Start McCall is guilty of the murder of Bill Hickhok, out of pure greed. Now we got him, go and get McCall - and really shoot him down this time so we can take him straight to jail.	Finish Well done! McCall is finally is jail, he fooled us for the last time. You have solved the case of the dead man's hand!