Surrendered Gulch

Something followed you back from the well.

You rode into Sundered Gulch chasing a bounty on a man who never rode back out. Elias Thorne went down the old well behind the saloon three weeks ago. Nobody's pulled him back up. Something wearing his coat has started coming to your window instead.

Twenty nights stand between you and the stagecoach road opening again at the new moon. What you do with them is yours to decide — and yours to survive.

A cursed-town narrative built around four resources, not just one.

• Sanity — your only visible gauge, cracking a pocket-watch face as it drops
• Bullets — spend them on confrontation, or save them for when it actually matters
• Whiskey — buys you short-term relief at the cost of clarity and corruption
• Faith — quietly builds (or erodes) toward the one path that might actually put this town back to sleep

Every choice touches at least one of them. None of them are free.

Four allies, four plans, six endings. Sister Mara has a rite older than the ground it answers to. Doc Cray wants to burn the whole town down around whatever's rooted under it. A prospector named Kessler has spent nine years alone in a mine plotting to collapse it. Or you can trust none of them and just try to survive until dawn.

Commit to one by Night Fifteen. What you've built up in trust, faith, and nerve by then decides whether your plan actually holds — or whether Sundered Gulch keeps you anyway.