1934 · somewhere west of the Alleghenies

WINTER QUARTERS

You run a mud-show circus. You are looking for somewhere to lay it down for the winter.

Two cards make an act. Land it and you go again. Flub the cue and they get their turn.

How to play · the book of the show

Your troupe

Every act goes into the ring twice — a setup and a payoff. Find both and it lands.

Straight to an encounter

The world is still thin. These drop you into a fight.

Something on the road

Nothing

WASD / arrows to drive · drag on touch · the dust is west

The Bill

Tonight's gate, unbanked $0

The Painted Men

Six shows folded. Six of them never took the face off.

You meet them out on the road, one at a time, and you will not be told which. Beat one and he does not die — he has nowhere else to be, so he climbs on the truck and goes into the sideshow, and the sideshow is your deck.

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