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 * Story: Brian Schultz is hiding at Carmichael Ranch in Nebraska as he is being hunted down by the Blackmask Gang as he killed their leader, Gerald Anderson, in revenge for the death of his father and the destruction of his family's ranch. Schultz, going under the alias of Jacob Brown, works as a ranch hand. During a trip to Ponca Station to buy supplies, Brian is spotted by a member of the Blackmask Gang who tracks him back to the ranch. The next day, the Blackmask Gang then attacks the ranch although they are forced to retreat. Brian then admits to being the cause of the attack and is kicked off the ranch, forcing him to ride away to Colorado to find an associate named Kerry Warthington. While Brian is camping in the wilderness, he is met by Michael Anderson- the current leader of the Blackmasks and the brother of Gerald Anderson. Anderson then tells Brian that he has a year to either leave the country or he will be hunted down and killed. Brian then rebukes Anderson and claims that he will use that year to destroy the Blackmasks, which makes Anderson laugh and he then leaves Brian alone. In the morning Brian left for Colorado Springs and then spoke with Kerry about finding employment in order to gain experience as a fighter. Kerry then sets up jobs for Brian with various contacts on both sides of the law as well as giving him a place to stay on his compound at an abandoned farm near the city. As Brian does the jobs, he makes enemies with various gangs around the states. After several jobs, Kerry then, depending on the player’s honor, recommends that Brian take up work under either Amos Landing, a notorious outlaw, and his gang or Alex MacAndle, a former sheriff, and his posse. In the former scenario, Brian becomes a criminal and in the later Brian becomes a vigilante. In both outcomes the group decides to head to Houston, the former to commit a bank robbery and the latter to stop the robbery before it happens, however Brian refuses due to his family living in the city. The end result is a disaster for both sides, with MacAndle being killed in the fight and Landing’s robbery being foiled and his leg being injured. In the former outcome, Landing blames the failure on Brian and attempts to kill him, but is himself killed in a duel, and the latter he leads an assault on the posse’s hideout and Brian kills him. No matter what, MacAndle's Posse and Landing’s Gang collapsed and Brian left with no employment. Brian then travels to Houston to see if his family is ok and to see the damage the gunfight had left. On his way there, Brian is met by Bureau of Investigation Agent Alexander Wilson. If Brian was a member of Landing’s gang then Wilson begins to question Brian’s involvement in the gunfight and asks him to come with him, however if he was a member of MacAndle’s posse, Wilson asks if Brian could help his investigation of the gunfight. Brian then accompanies Wilson to a restaurant and Wilson then begins conversing with Brian over the gunfight. If Brian was part of the gang Wilson then attempts to arrest Brian, although Brian bolts through the door and flees the city escaping to Louisiana while being pursued by police officers and deputies. If he was with the posse, Wilson tells Brian about a former member of the gang in the city who is hiding in the slums and that he needs Brian’s help in capturing him. Brain does so and the outlaw is interrogated and mentions Kerry causing Wilson to want to question him. In the outlaw path, Kerry is arrested and Brian must ambush a prison wagon to free him and the two settle in Louisiana to hide from the law. In the posse path, Brain warns Kerry that Wilson is coming to bring him in for questioning. Kerry then hides in Wyoming, however he is found by former members of Landing’s gang who want to kill him so that the law does not come for them. Brian then helps Kerry fend off the attackers and Brian then meets with Wilson to discuss Kerry’s disappearance where Wilson decides to give up the search. Brian and Kerry then work together to steal some of Kerry’s weapons and documents back from the law and they then decide to partner to steal from gangs and other criminals. This partnership works well initially, however Kerry then tells Brian that he wants to kill the Sheriff of Alamosa, John LaRouche, as he had discovered their business and was extorting him and then they would rob the Sheriff Office. The player is then given the choice of helping Kerry assassinate him or telling Kerry to do it himself. In the former, when Kerry and LaRouche are meeting Brian appears behind him and shoots him in the back. Brian and Kerry then break into the Sheriff's office and steal all the money that Kerry gave LaRouche. In the latter situation, Kerry kills LaRouche but is unable to grab the money himself. In either situation Wilson hunts down the murderer(s). Wilson finds their hideout and surrounds it with agents and deputies. If Brian helped Kerry, then Kerry decides to sacrifice himself so that Brian could escape, if Brian didn’t then Kerry tells Brian to pretend to be a bounty hunter and turn him in, reasoning that he could help him escape later. In either case as Kerry is turning himself in, he is shot in the stomach by LaRouche’s son James and is later imprisoned. Brian then visits Kerry in the jail where Kerry tells him that he is being sent to a prison in Denver, however he will likely die in transit due to his wound being infected and that James LaRouche is organizing a posse to lynch him and that the deputies are helping him. Brian learns that James has the keys to Kerry’s cell and pickpockets them from him. Brian then breaks Kerry out by telling the deputy guarding him that he is with the posse and was taking him already before carrying him to his horse and he flees the town in an attempt to get to New Mexico and find a doctor for Kerry. As the pair are hiding in a forest near the border, Kerry begins dying and tells Brian to bury him at his compound at Colorado Springs and to take a stash of money he had hidden in his house's basement. Brian clings to Kerry’s dying body and begs him to stay alive, however Kerry dies anyway. Brian then travels to the compound and buries Kerry and takes the money stash. The player can then choose to kill LaRouche in revenge. If chosen, Brian will travel back to Alamosa and kill James by shooting him in the streets with Kerry’s revolver. Brian will then spit on James’ corpse and leave. Brian leaves Colorado and goes to Houston to see his family deciding that it was time to stop masquerading as a gunfighter from a dime novel. Brian is met with hostility by his siblings and mother due to his absence and the fear that he was killed like his father. Brian lies about the nature of his disappearance and says that he had failed in avenging his father and that he had decided to work on a ranch before quitting to come home. Brian then moved in with his family and began working on a ranch near the city. One day as Brian is driving the cattle from the pasture to the railyard so that it could be shipped to Chicago, he was accosted by two men who pulled him off his horse and knocked him unconscious. Brian then woke up in a camp near the Texas-New Mexico border tied to a post. Brian’s kidnappers then reveal themselves to be bounty hunters who learned of Brian’s connection to Kerry and were bringing him to Alamosa to face justice. As one of the bounty hunters begins to untie Brian from the post to put him on his horse, Brian manages to grab his gun and shoots both bounty hunters before stealing one of their horses and riding home. Brian then begins packing his things and decides to head west so that his family wouldn’t suffer because of his actions. Brian then relocates to California and models himself as a gunslinger after the ones he read in dime novels.
 * Choices and Story Changes:
 * Secret Ending: If the player goes to Houston instead of Colorado Springs, Brian will return home and tell his family about what happened. At the end of the year, members of the Blackmasks gang attempt to break into their apartment, however they are arrested by police before they can find Brian. Following this, Brian continues living his life as a ranch hand outside of the city.
 * 1#: If the player has good honor Kerry will tell Brian to see MacAndle, however if his honor is low then Kerry will instead tell Brian to see Landing. If the player has neutral honor, Kerry will let the player make their choice.
 * 2#: The player makes a choice of helping Kerry deal with Sheriff LaRouche or letting him do it himself.
 * 3#: The player must make a choice of either killing James in revenge or letting live. If the former is chosen, Brian loses honor.