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[Abraxas]

I'd focus on Lincoln County. Johnson County is really just a desperate idea to get the link between Wild Bill Hickok, Dakota Territory and Ambrose Bierce.
As you said yourself, Sherman seems to be something to consider for the last week, as 15th November seems to be an important date, plus it's 14 days after Day of the Dead. Since the Wednesday update started with Tuesday, there's a good chance that will happen again in two weeks from now.

I think 1864 is too far back with another week left. And it seems logical that the Civil War will be the topic in the last week of LCP rather than now.
Plus, the time frame for next week would lead up to the one in GUN if it was Lincoln County. So I think there's plenty that speaks for it and you are just one week too early with your spec, mapmaker.

Edit:
Here's something interesting on 7th November 1877 (that would be the Tuesday prior to update-Wednesday) from this incredibly bad designed web page (no links to previous and next page!!) (it might contain spoilers, thus the spoiler tag):

[konamouse]

From the wikipedia for Lincoln County War:

[Abraxas]

@konamouse
You italicized Tunstall so I guess you think it is important? I'd agree if only Tunstall was shot in November, but he died in December...
Anyways, I still think it will be 1877 in Lincoln County and Tunstall will be the Banker.
Why do you think going back to 2005 is special? We are doing this all the time. I agree with the rest of your spec (as per what Shad0 and mapmaker already found out and posted).

[konamouse]

We know that the PMs have sometimes taken liberties with historical accuracy to help the story. They may very well change the names to create some fictional character that fits the time frame. I was just going off the spec of "November" (since the previous events happened around the right month, just previous years in history).

As for "going back to 2005" - I think that the Poker Tables and home page will resort back to the present after the LA event. Just fits. We should have our final showdown with the gangs, Don, Lucy, etc over the GUN. The story started in an LA cemetery, so it is fitting that it will end in an LA cemetery (and if it's at Hollywood Forever, they have hookups for internet broadcasting).

[Abraxas]

Crap, I was wrong. Although Billy The Kid is mentioned having shot (P, I guess) Sullivan - but Grouard was the real killer - we are indeed in Deadwood and not in Lincoln County. Did Lucky bluff?

Our deck for 1876:

Colton White - The Kid
Ned White - The Preacher
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok - The Sheriff
Martha Jane Canary aka "Calamity Jane" - The Drunk
Thomas Hollister - The Gambler
William Massie - The Banker
Mary Alice Chambers aka "Snow Falling" - The Half-Breed
Frank Grouard - The Killer (Ned and Don call him half-breed, but he is not Indian at all...it's mentioned somewhere...whereas Snow Falling is a true half-breed)

Edit: SuperJerms helped me clear this up. Thank you!
I think we worked out the best match and I'll just remove the points of indecision.

[hidamari]

[Shad0]

Re: 1876 archetypes

[SuperJerms]

Those are the exact points Abraxas made when I talked him out of it. It hinges on the fact that we only have 8 cards, and 8 archetypes. If you wanna go outside those cards, you'd have to consider Sitting Null, Crazy Horse, Custer, Charlie Utter, etc.

Sure, Gourard is a half-breed, just like Martin Halder was a kid. But what does that make Mary Alice? She doesn't make sense as anything else, even if she is a true-blooded Souix. Process of elimination makes that list shape up that way.

[ThaJinx]

I asked if the possibility of a Civil War jump was mentioned in IRC, and was told that it had, but I don't see a lot in this thread regarding, so I figured it'd be safe to bring it up.

I'm wondering if the name Sullivan is amounting to an ambiguous pun due to Lucky's recent update, and I've got the feeling that we're heading to the Civil War this weekend. A lot of us are looking at Sullivan as a last name, mainly because we've had two characters with said last name. Did a bit of research following said update.

[konamouse]