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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Guns n’ Rexes

Chapter 5: A Hat And A Pistol

Jewels. Gems. Crystals. We rode back into the town, the first one, to sell our plunder. ‘Course, we didn’t tell ‘em it was plunder. Turned out that people don’t buy crystals ‘cause they’re pretty or like the sparkle, but ‘cause they’re rare and needed for lots of things. See, you have to travel up the mountains, where all the big and strong carnivores hang about, and harvest the crystals there. Turns out that lad and his bear were tougher than we thought. They then use those crystals to make windows, glasses, telescopes, fancy equipment, and then the really fancy stuff that caught my eye- the next shop we visited was the gun shop.

We were in luck- the blacksmith was in need of crystals. I was like a kid in a candy store, gapin’ and gawpin’ at all those guns, pistols, rifles, shotguns laid out on a tan cloth on a wooden table. Each gun was on its own cloth, with its own bullet type and how many per mag laid out on that same cloth beside it. I brushed my fingers over each gun as I walked past, from rifles to shotguns to revolvers as they sparkled in the light of the glowing irons the blacksmith was hammerin’. I found my way over to the perfect gun, as if it were calling to me… 6 Shots, classic revolver type but with two extra toggles. I flipped one and a knife whizzed out like a bayonette, leaving me as speachless as a toddler waking up on Christmas. I flipped the other switch and heard a clunk, but I could only speculate as to what it did. Left that shop with the pistol you see on my waist today.

“Wait… So you bought it black and red like it is now?”

“‘Course not!” I told Will. “That’s a story for another time. Now lemme finish this tale.”

I took it to the range to test my skills first, and after an hour the gun felt like an old friend that I could never forget. Turns out, I was just as great a shot as I am with a bow. Hit the drainin’ dummy’s eyes, chest and forehead 3 times each- then I remembered the second switch. I reloaded the mag, flipped the toggle and pulled the trigger. The barrel spun round quickly, firing all 6 bullets in a flury of bangs that landed dead in the targets head. I was dumstruck. But somethin’ didn’t feel quite right so we went back into the stores to buy one of those brown leather cowboy hats you see in movies. Walked outta that town like proper cowboys we did.

-Not really an eventful shopping trip, but now they have guns. Last was In Trike, next in Pteranodon.

-Nightfall