[h3][color=ed1c24]Rose Storm[/color][/h3] Rose stepped out of the 'Dragon's tooth' bar stumbling and giggling, her cheeks bright. She was dressed without her signature red coat and her weapons were at her room in the Inn. The man behind the counter inside the bar called out to her, "Hey, be careful out there Red, you don't know what kinda creeps are out this timea night!" Rose, drunkenly waved him off and kept stumbling into the darkness. Outside the Dragons Teeth it was dark and overcast, the light from the windows stretched and elongated the shadows, giving everything a menacing look. Rose walked past a narrow alley and stooped down to look at something inside. She drunkenly slurred out, "Hey kitty, nice kitty. Come here you little fur ball. Come here." Rose then stumbled into the alleyway. It was slightly wider that shoulder width and she used the wall for support. Once she got about halfway in she heard a 'click' and felt what she recognized as the barrel of a pistol, probably a six shooter, pressed to her back. Then she heard a raspy mans voice in her ear, "Listen here. You're going to take off all your clothes, nice and slow, and if you make a sound, I'm going to put a bullet in your pretty little stomach. Got me?" Rose stuttered out, petrified, "Y-yes sir." She stood still for a moment, and her apprehender quickly became impatient. "What's the damn hold up? What are you waiting for doll-face?" Rose let the tension leave her body and her voice dropped an octave. "Why, sir. I was waiting for that." The mand had just enough time to get out a confused, "Wha-" Before Rose spun to her left and brought her left elbow back, smashing the man's right hand, which had been holding his pistol, into the wall. She could feel the snaps and pops in his wrist that meant she had broken it. Rose then, still spinning, brought her right knee into the man's gut, which pressed him up against the wall and made him double over. She then brought her right foot back against the wall so she could push herself forward and deliver the strongest punch she could to his temple with Her righr fist. She connected. But her punch was to string and her knuckles dragged across the bricks of the building behind the perpetrator. Rose shook her hand and looked at the blood already welling up from where the skin peeled back. "Well, shit." Rose reached into her poket and pulled out the poster calling for the bounty of one unknown 'Dollface Rapist'. She then rolled it back up, then bent down and searched the man. She found several bits of beef jerky that looked a bit past experation, a wallet full up with cash, and a little black diary. She flipped through the diary and saw that it was a detailed accounting of his entire 'career'. She then patted the wallet on his chest and asked quite cordially, "You don't mind do you" He, of course, didn't offer a reply and she proceeded to put it in her pocket. "Didn't think so" She then grabbed him by the front of his shirt, and dragged him out of the alley and to the nearest bounty claims office. -------------------------------------------------------------- Rose stepped off the train and into the bright sun. She was wearing her red coat. The attendant had given her the equipment bag she had been required to use. She didn't mind because they let her keep her homing bracelet. She kneeled in the cracked dirt and opened the long case. Inside was her razor sharp blade Rebelion, her gauntlet The Iron Fist and her two pistols Ivory and Ebony. She slid Rebelion into it's sword ring on her back, so her blade was bare. Then she holstered her pistols on either side of her waist, making sure that she could still easily slide them in and out of the device. Next she picked Iron Fist and slid it onto her left arm. It went all the way up to her forearm and glinted in the light. She strapped it to her arm, moved it back and forth to make sure it was secure, then stood, picking the case up in her right hand. "Well, this should be fun." Then she started off across the broken town, looking for the crystals everyone was paying for.