> First, here's my inventory;2 Dollars / Wood / Feather / Cord / Your Gun / Altar Cloth / Key / Map / Matches / Hat Pin / Playing Cards / SpittoonNow, I'm hopelessly entangled in a battle with 2 men and a nasty brunette in an old barn. If they defeat me, I am KILLED!and get to re-do the last thing. I can't escape and I can't just get over-powered enough to get myself simply tied up. I've tried every option a dozen times and it ends up with me on top of the hay or 'you lose'etc. with a new chance to climb up the bales. Please help! Did I somehow end up in this barn minus an item so that I'd need to scrap this game entirely and try the whole thing all over from scratch? Thanks, Nora

NO. You can't make this game unwinnable. Save yourself unnecessary grief - DON'T start over!

Like the poker fight, you can "win" this fight by following a certain sequence of actions. It's just a LOT more complicated. Get a piece of paper and keep track of the actions that DON'T get you killed. If you die, you know the last action was the wrong one.

See, you can't get away from these guys without one of them cold-cocking you. You just want to survive being knocked out to make your Houdini-esque escape later.

I won't spoil the exact sequence here, but I'll give you a nudge. Climbing atop the hay bales once is the right way to go, but have you tried getting down really fast? Throwing all your weight from that height onto one of your attackers might really hurt. If that works, and THEN you die in the next move, you're punching the wrong guy.

-Mandi aka Chaos