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[cyberinsekt]

I've just been reading Phaedra's storyline guide - excellent work, btw - and noticed that there's one clue to future events I'd never noticed before. From the message on Lucy's answerphone:

[xI1dr]

Well there seems to be a whole confederacy subplot

[rose]

Of course, the B in JEB is BROWN! As in James Ewell Brown. I found an Harper's Bazaar article from the time of his death. It specifies other bequests, his sword and horses, his golden spurs , made on his deathbed.

[yanka]

Given Wednesday's updates, I have lots of confusion and three questions:

Why are the Big Hat and fish00k the only ones to have used the phrase "new sheriff in town" (linky, linky)? Are they the same person? fish00k proclaimed himself the "new sheriff" on Sept. 21 (I think), so... yeah, this is confusing.

Might Lothar be the Buyer? Robert had his phone number, and, from Lothar's writing, it seems he might be interested in Civil War weapons, etc. Plus there is that curious resemblance of Maurice... And that Old Man in Lucy's phone call doesn't really sound like Maurice, but sounds old enough to be him (or Lothar).

Finally, I'm really baffled as to how the Gun exchanged hands around 1940s. J.E.B. Stuart was a Brown, and last night Lucky confirmed that he was "kin" - so it makes sense that the Gun would have just been handed down the Brown's male side of the family tree until it got to Lucky. But then why does Lucky say that he got it "a long time ago, back in [his] army days, just after it killed a man"? I don't think I actually expect an answer to this question, but it's just... curious, hm.

[rose]

Yanka:

1. I don't think that the use of the phrase "new sheriff" is important. They aren't the same person. The Big Hat is the crooked cop who is the inside guy for the gang. Now that McPherson killed Harry, he has taken over Harry's place as the lead inside guy for Mi Casa. I think that McPherson was inside for Mi Casa all along and decided to kill Harry because there could only be one cop inside the gang.

2. Yes, I think Lothar is the buyer, or the Buyer's contact, that Robert was in touch with. I also think he will turn out to have connections all over the game. He has McPherson and through McPherson, the Mi Casa gang and Kerry. He also has a link to Vaquero. I don't know if he is connected with Tony's gang yet.

3. No freaking clue.

And I will add what I posted above - I think Johnny is an undercover FBI cop in the Mi Casa gang, investigating them and working with Rojas. (That is pure spec.) I think that Kerry will either disappear for a while or maybe be killed by McPherson. Not sure about them.

[rose]

Another idea. I just remember Philip Kim, the cop on Maurice's payroll.

You think that he is smart enough to figure out that Maurice's death had something to do with the death of Robert Brown? Could he be "keeping an eye" on Lucy? She was the only witness to Robert's death.

I would think any cop --or person--involved or aware of Maurice's interest in Robert and the gun would be paying attention to Lucy and these killings at this point.

[aliendial]

Rather than start a new thread for this SPEC:

[thunderclap8]

I'm not so sure we'll be time traveling anymore. There seems to be enough going on in the present to keep us occupied, and unless the story is from Lucky's childhood I don't see how he could show it to us.

My personal spec is that the story of the gun pre-war will be told in Gun. Possibly involving an ancestor of Whitecloud, which is an Awfully native American sounding name.

[johnny5]

[CoffeeJedi]

[rose]

Johnnie Whitecloud only got the Gun from a soldier from Nebraska who was killed by a sniiper in WWII. I don't know how much either Johnny's family history or the Nebraska guys family history will be relevant.

We also may have to make a leap back to the end of the Civil War to see what happens to the Gun when JEB Stuart dies. And where that pesky Lothar got an interest in having it.

[aliendial]

I'd edit my spec but it's been quoted too many times. Right you are, Rose, the gun came to the halfbreed from an anonymous Nebraska soldier. So we probably will not be wandering into Johnnie's family history. Perhaps we'll step into the Nebraska family history. Maybe make a jump to another previous owner (I love the roaring 20's idea). Or maybe a sideways twist even WE cannot anticipate *throwing down gauntlet*.

But yeah, at some point I assume we make the connection with JEB Stewart and get the gun to the Wild West.

[konamouse]

I spec'd at a poker table a couple nights ago that I fully expect to be back in the Civil War era after the Atlanta cemetery event.
We probably won't go back to the future (current time) until Los Angeles (where we started).

[rose]

yes, I was up all night and my brain is making curliques

[Shad0]

Re: yes, I was up all night and my brain is making curliques