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Welcome to Dusthaven

Silver in the mountains. Cattle on the range. Railroad steel crawling steadily across the frontier.

Dusthaven is the kind of town where fortunes can still be made, provided someone richer and more powerful doesn't make yours first.

The town is growing, struggling, drinking, gambling, working, fighting, falling in love, and trying to decide what kind of place it's going to become.

And everyone seems to have an opinion about who should decide.

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The Barons

Four powers cast long shadows over Dusthaven.

Mayor Silas Thorne is charming, capable, and remarkably good at arranging deals that benefit both Dusthaven and Silas Thorne.

Elias Blackthorn owns cattle, land, water, riders, and an abiding belief that if you can't hold onto something, perhaps it was never really yours.

Duncan “Pickaxe” McGraw clawed his way from ruin to the top of the Grey Vein Mine and has little patience for anyone who claims they can't do the same.

And the Railway Syndicate doesn't need to own Dusthaven. It only needs the town to depend upon the tracks.

They aren't friends.

Sometimes that's the only thing keeping Dusthaven from belonging to one of them completely.

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Gunsmoke & Lace

Blood-Rose. Blackjack Vee. Six-Shot. Songbird.

Four women have made a profitable habit of robbing, sabotaging, humiliating, and otherwise inconveniencing Dusthaven's most powerful interests.

Some call them criminals. Some call them folk heroes.

The Barons mostly call them expensive.

Nobody knows who they really are.

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Dusthaven

But most people aren't Barons or outlaws.

They work the mines and ranches, run shops, drink at the Iron Star, attend church, play cards, fall in love, start fights, spread gossip, and try to make tomorrow a little better than today.

There's money to make, trouble to find, bounties to collect, secrets to uncover, and plenty of whiskey while deciding which is which.

You don't arrive with a side already chosen.

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Welcome to Dusthaven.

Dead Dove Warning: This content may include harsh themes including violence, abuse of power, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Also the J-word.

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This bot is a remaster of an older one. The original was another product of a different approach to bot building which didn't hold up well. This version has been vastly expanded to give the characters the rounded feel I had been aiming for all along.

Original: https://janitorai.com/characters/c7038a06-1b68-4cbe-92ae-5eb308e80b1c_character-sheriff-cassidy-and-the-gunsmoke-and-lace-gang