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Setting
The game arena for Midpoint Saloon is a roughly circular area about fifty miles in diameter (approximately 2000 square miles). The area contains a flat scrub plain, melding into desert in the west and mountains to the north, dotted with small copses of trees and the occasional ravine. There is one river, passing just outside the town of Midpoint and running mostly straight from the mountains in the north to the flood plain in the south. The ocean is just visible further south, through the waves of heat, but any attempt to reach it results in various... unpleasant consequences.
A set of train tracks meanders around the game arena, with stations currently located in Midpoint, a mile outside Bank Town, to the west at the Ranch, and in the far north at Tycoon's Depot. The train schedule is erratic and unpredictable, especially as the train has an unfortunate tendency to get blown up.
At six equidistant points along the rim of the game arena are the starting jails. Whenever a new player is brought to the game, or a player dies, they wake up in one of these six jails. This is also where players receive their instructions for each new game round, even if no one needs to be picked up.
Scattered around the arena are small towns and even smaller homesteads, the former all important game nodes and the latter meant as way-stations and hideouts for players, and sometimes sources of information and supplies. Each listed town has a general store, a stable, and a bar, but only Midpoint and Tycoons' Depot have actual inns with rooms available to characters. Otherwise, the contents of the towns vary depending on their name. Tycoons' Depot has the main train station and the houses of the wealthy railroad, ranching, and bank owners as well as their families. Ranch Corner is where ranchers bring their heads of cattle and other animals to be sold, and where if you don't like your assigned mount, you can trade it and some points for a new one.
Then there is the Bad Jail. No one knows where it is, or if it's even inside the game arena itself. It's where you wind up if you break the rules too badly, or fail to be sufficiently entertaining. Nobody really likes to talk about it, but most people have been there at least once...
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( Starting Jails )
( Midpoint )
( Tycoons' Depot )
( Bank Town )
( The Ranch )
( Miner Flats )
The game arena for Midpoint Saloon is a roughly circular area about fifty miles in diameter (approximately 2000 square miles). The area contains a flat scrub plain, melding into desert in the west and mountains to the north, dotted with small copses of trees and the occasional ravine. There is one river, passing just outside the town of Midpoint and running mostly straight from the mountains in the north to the flood plain in the south. The ocean is just visible further south, through the waves of heat, but any attempt to reach it results in various... unpleasant consequences.
A set of train tracks meanders around the game arena, with stations currently located in Midpoint, a mile outside Bank Town, to the west at the Ranch, and in the far north at Tycoon's Depot. The train schedule is erratic and unpredictable, especially as the train has an unfortunate tendency to get blown up.
At six equidistant points along the rim of the game arena are the starting jails. Whenever a new player is brought to the game, or a player dies, they wake up in one of these six jails. This is also where players receive their instructions for each new game round, even if no one needs to be picked up.
Scattered around the arena are small towns and even smaller homesteads, the former all important game nodes and the latter meant as way-stations and hideouts for players, and sometimes sources of information and supplies. Each listed town has a general store, a stable, and a bar, but only Midpoint and Tycoons' Depot have actual inns with rooms available to characters. Otherwise, the contents of the towns vary depending on their name. Tycoons' Depot has the main train station and the houses of the wealthy railroad, ranching, and bank owners as well as their families. Ranch Corner is where ranchers bring their heads of cattle and other animals to be sold, and where if you don't like your assigned mount, you can trade it and some points for a new one.
Then there is the Bad Jail. No one knows where it is, or if it's even inside the game arena itself. It's where you wind up if you break the rules too badly, or fail to be sufficiently entertaining. Nobody really likes to talk about it, but most people have been there at least once...
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Towns
( Starting Jails )
( Midpoint )
( Tycoons' Depot )
( Bank Town )
( The Ranch )
( Miner Flats )
