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The drive to Albany takes you across a rolling plain that once fed a million head of longhorn cattle. Now the once-lush grassland is a vast desert of parched and blistered earth, completely devoid of life. The town stands at the centre of this bald prairie, its battered wooden houses and stores clustered haphazardly in groups on either side of a single main street. You stop your car half a mile from the town and park it in the shade of an old farm building, before venturing into Albany on foot.

The first building that you see is the ruins of the Shackelford County Sheriff’s office. Spent cartridge cases litter the ground around its entrance, marking the site of a recent gunfight.

Pick a number from the Random Number Table, and add to it your current Stealth and Perception skill totals.

If your total score is now 12 or less, turn to 31.

If your total score is now 13 or more, turn to 277.