Storeroom
This room is pretty much just what it says on the label: a storeroom. It's a very well-organized one, though -- crates are neatly-stacked with plenty of room to walk between them, everything is plainly labeled, and you don't see a speck of dust. Over to one side of the room is a large workbench, with tools hanging neatly on a rack above it; on the other side of the room is a cabinet full of rifles, with shelves of ammunition next to it and a table with gun-cleaning supplies nearby.
It's a storeroom to be proud of, really. Hopefully you'll be able to be proud of finding a key somewhere in it.
| Search the crates |
You walk up and down the rows of crates, looking at the neatly-stenciled labels: "Bandoleers", "Guitar Strings", "Beef Jerky" ..."Napkin Rings"? "Egg Cups"? Out of disbelief, you start levering open the crates. They are indeed filled with silver napkin rings and porcelain egg cups. What kind of bandits are these guys?
Possible results:
You carefully search the area, but don't manage to find a key to Lopez's hacienda. You do find a clue, however, which strikes you as oddly out of place considering how fastidiously tidy these bandits seem to be. Hmm.
or:
You search around the crates for a while, but don't find any keys. You take a bag of gourmet artisanal organic free-range beef jerky instead.
 | You acquire an item: fancy beef jerky |
or:
As you stare, puzzled, at the egg cup in your hand, you catch a glint of metal out of the corner of your eye. Turning, you find an ornate brass key laying on top of a crate (which is labeled "Antimacassars")
 | You acquire an item: hacienda key |
or:
You poke around the crates for a while, but don't find anything interesting. Except for the mariachi bandit that just wandered into the room. He's kind of interesting, in an "Oh crap" sort of way.
| Fight! |
or:
You poke around the crates for a while, but don't find anything interesting. Unless you're interested in napkin rings and egg cups.
| Search the workbench |
The workbench is impressively neat and tidy -- no sawdust or wood shavings lying around, different sizes of screws and nails all have their own little jars... the bin of scrap wood nearby is carefully sorted by size and type, even. A wide variety of tools are hanging from a pegboard on the wall behind the bench, all of them clean and well-maintained -- nobody's used a chisel as a screwdriver, or the handle of a screwdriver as a hammer.
One of the bandits is in the process of building a little wooden birdhouse. It's pretty nice, and has a sort of Art Deco style to it.
Possible results:
- As you're searching the workbench, you hear a noise behind you. Turning, you come face-to-face with one of the bandits. He doesn't look like he's here to work on his birdhouse.
| Fight! |
or
You search the bench and rack of tools carefully, but don't find a key. You take a monkey wrench instead -- maybe you can throw it into Lopez's plans. Ha ha, see what I did there?
 | You acquire an item: pipe wrench |
or:
You search the bench and rack of tools carefully, and find an ornate brass key hanging from a hook next to an assortment of screwdrivers.
| You acquire an item: hacienda key |
or:
You carefully search the area, but don't manage to find a key to Lopez's hacienda. You do find a clue, however, which strikes you as oddly out of place considering how fastidiously tidy these bandits seem to be. Hmm.
| Search the gun cabinet |
Sadly, the gun cabinet is securely locked. You gaze wistfully through the glass at the rifles and pistols arranged inside, but decide breaking into it would be too noisy. Turning your attention to the nearby table, you find several bottles of oil and cleaning solution, plus a stack of neatly-folded rags, as well as various cleaning swabs and little tools arranged in organized rows. The ammunition shelves are similarly well-organized, with boxes of shells sorted by size and type, and little labels on the shelf-edges below them. The obsessive neatness displayed by these bandits is starting to grate on your nerves just a little.
Possible results:
You poke around the stuff on the table for a bit, but don't find any keys. Then you turn to the ammunition shelves, and find a bandit standing there looking at you quizzically. Uh-oh.
| Fight! |
or:
You sift though the items on the table and shelves, but don't find any keys. The gun-cleaning supplies look useful, so you pocket some of those instead.
 | You acquire an item: gun cleaning kit |
or:
As you poke around the ammo shelves, you discover a brass key on top of one of the boxes. With a little grunt of satisfaction, you pocket it.
| You acquire an item: hacienda key |
Subsequent times:
You sift through the items on the table and shelves, but don't find any keys, or anything else that looks particularly useful to you. Sigh.
| Sneak out of the fort |
Quietly as the shadow of a very quiet thing (like maybe a snake or a giraffe), you sneak back out of the bandits' barracks. (still consumes an adventure)
Occurs in The Barracks as a choice of Hallway Left
