EHVerse Presents
A Wheat County Story
Your car broke down on County Road 17. Earl would like to play a game of cards.
The Situation
Libson is the only incorporated city in Wheat County. Hardly anyone calls it that anymore. On County Road 17 there is an old farmhouse, and an old man who lives in it, and people drive a little wide of the place without being able to say why.
Your car broke down within sight of it. The gate was closed, so you opened it, the way anyone would. Horses came out of nowhere. Then a ranch hand named Cody: “You let the horses out. That's all right. You need some help? Come to the house.”
Inside, it is 1880. Supper is on the stove. And before anyone sorts out your car, Earl would like to play a game of cards. Western trivia. Just a quick one.
Win, and you get your phone call.
Lose, and Earl decides.
How It Plays
Sit down with Earl and play for real. The questions climb, and they get harder the longer you last. Win, and the road home opens.
Cody deals the cards face up and you pick what to practice: Eastwood, Deadwood, the Spaghetti Westerns, and more. No Earl, no gavel. Stay as long as you like.
A thermometer on the wall shows his temper. Right answers cool him; wrong ones heat him up. Keep him calm and you get your phone call home. Push him too far and you get the gallows. Watch his face, too. It tells you the rest.
The Household
Judge, jury, and host. He holds court. He hardly says a word.
Ranch hand, by his own description. The friendliest voice in the house.
“Welcome to our home. We don't get visitors here very often.”
Sent to fetch everyone for supper. Supper's nearly ready.
The County Is the Constant
Every story out here stands on its own. The county is what they share: the flat land, the Sentinel, the sheriff's statements, the things nobody says out loud.
Visit Wheat County →Warning: This video game depicts fictional violence and dread.And Western films you should have seen by now.
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