Bobby squeezes the trigger on his gun just as Taylor is dropping to the floor, but the leader of the bandit crew doesn't stick around to see if he hit the fellow outlaw.  Instead, he abandons his efforts to gain this platform and pushes his horse ahead.  Maybe to try to gain the express car from the front side.  Maybe toward the engine where Fred Linch is headed.  

Sergio takes out one of the bandits riding alongside the train and the remaining ones (other than Fred, Bobby, & Sparrow) drop back.

Other than the pieces of the broken door now decorating the floor, the express car currently has 4 barrels that make the whole car smell like coffee beans; several sacks filled with mail; 2 boxes filled with paperwork; a crate about 5 feet long, 3 ft wide, locked with a padlock; and a safe about 2ft x 2ft.  There are also two guards in here: one is lying on the floor bleeding. A lucky shot through one of the small open windows must have got him.  The other is popping off shots at Bobby as he rides by.  

The wind is knocked from Sparrow Hawk as he's slammed backwards and he gasps once. Just barely in the nick of time, Sparrow rolls to the side as Mistihkoman's tomahawk connects with the floor where Sparrow's head had just been.  "Then why do you fight to protect their money?" he asks, forcing the breathless words out, still struggling to fully recover his breath.  But that doesn't stop him from regaining his feet.  Even getting pushed back through the door, he hasn't lost the knife in his hand and he lunges at Misti, intent on embedding that blade in the Cree's stomach. 


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(OOC:  Here's where I think everyone's at right at the moment.  Please tell me if I got it wrong.  Or if you'd like any of the other NPCs included on the map. :)

[img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/58e60152-4575-411e-9ee1-3bf036c4d581.png[/img]

blue - Phineas & William
green - Sergio
purple - Taylor
red - Misti
orange - bandits.  Sparrow in the express car.  Bobby riding toward the front of the express car.  Fred Linch riding toward engine.  Others fell back to board train at caboose and freight cars.   

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