A solid punch to the jaw from a man twice your weight can be enough to make you reconsider your profession.

Endure Harm
Health 5 + Action 6 = 11
Challenge 5 & 5 = Strong Hit
Shake If Off = -1 Momentum to save 1 Health
Take -1 Health (instead of -2) from Dangerous Foe

For starters, I’m not much of a scrapper, but this situation didn’t call for a gun fight… yet.

I took it on the chin, literally, and flailed my arms a bit to try to turn this into a quiet arrest.

Compel
Iron 1 + Action 4 + Marshal 1 = 6
Challenge 4 & 2 = Strong Hit
Combatant in handcuffs and +1 Momentum

“Samuel, dammit! You’re only gonna make this worse for yourself when I drag you in front of the sheriff,” I managed to grunt as I shoved the louse by the shoulder and hooked my heel around his opposite leg to turn him around, providing just enough leverage to slap the cuffs on him.

Truthfully, Samuel likely wouldn’t remember this conversation, let alone getting five sheets to the wind and causing a ruckus in the Lone Star Saloon, which meant the judge in this case might lower his charge from “assault on an officer” to a measly “drunk and disorderly.”

But giving the town a night off from cleaning up his mess would likely be enough to let them breathe a sigh of relief, and earn a pat on the head from the sheriff, whose approval I desperately needed, if I was going to make Sagebrush my home.