The women arrested for bootlegging is an adventurous story and likely the first story the player will encounter after their first meeting with Dire Wolf. It is a Region Story found in Maine and is classified under the Emperor.
Dialogue Tree[ | ]
| This bungalow is being ransacked. There's furniture piled in the front yard, ammunition heaped under the mailbox, and a crowd of clean-cut men ripping a car apart in the driveway. | |
| STRANGE | |
|---|---|
| The two heavily-armed, mud-caked women leaning over the porch railing share the same bored grin. One shouts at you: "Lend a couple innocent gals a cigarette?" | |
| SURE | NO |
| You are about to hand her a smoke when those men draw pistols and shove you hard into the dirt. "You know these girls?" they demand. | One of the women wrinkles her nose in disappointment; the other raises a rifle, levels it at you, and shouts: "Bang!" A couple of the men come to take the guns away, "Keep that up, and we'll move this party down to the station," one snaps. |
| NO! | |
| Once they've dumped your bag out on the road, they decide you're harmless. "If you were selling booze too, you'd have a lot more cash," sneers one. On the porch behind him, the two bootleggers are fingering their empty rifles, grinning in disappointment. | |
| MOVE ON | |
Progression[ | ]
- First Progression: The shootout between the female bootleggers and the cops
- Final Progression: The legendary Gwen Michet, the richest and most ruthless bootlegger ever
Trivia[ | ]
The vignette is based on an actual historic photo of women arrested for bootlegging[1].