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The town had brought one coffin for a skeleton who was still playing guitar.
It waited in the square beneath the wanted poster.
Dark wood.
Red lining.
Narrow through the shoulders.
Extra room near the right side for a revolver.
The lid had even been widened around the top, apparently because the measurements included a sombrero broad enough to require its own weather.
Wild Bandito stood beside it.
White charro suit.
Red sash.
Gold trim.
Curled black moustache attached to a face with no skin.
One pistol raised.
The other hand resting near the guitar.
He looked up at the poster, compared the jawline and nodded at the likeness.
Behind him, candles burned along the steps. Purple smoke drifted between the buildings. Confetti moved through the night air. Gold coins bounced over the stones while a crowd of flowered skulls watched from windows, balconies and several places where living townspeople would normally have required chairs.
The bandit put one boot on the coffin lid and began tuning the guitar.
Nobody arrested him.
The town had apparently arranged a capture ceremony where the wanted man supplied the music.
I selected €1.00 and started spinning.
The reels opened as a crowded street of instruments, drinks and the alphabet.
Guitars arrived wrapped in red roses.
Cocktails glowed green inside tall glasses.
Maracas appeared in painted pairs, already shaking before anything had touched them.
Bright letters filled the remaining spaces.
The symbols gathered from the left, disappeared under small wins and allowed fresh ones to fall from above.
The square kept rebuilding itself through little collapses.
A guitar procession cleared.
New drinks dropped through the gap.
Maracas found relatives beneath them.
The coloured letters moved around everything with the vague confidence of tourists who had entered a funeral and decided the clothing looked festive.
Through the three middle reels, some symbols arrived inside gold frames.
The town treated these as evidence of progress.
A framed guitar appeared and received no matching route.
A cocktail entered gold, sat between letters and remained untouched.
One portrait held a maraca so securely that even the instrument stopped shaking.
Every frame looked expensive.
Most contained an object that had missed the capture.
Wild Bandito remained above the reels, playing guitar while the town surrounded unrelated property with gold.
The first frame to open belonged to a maraca.
Matching instruments crossed through it.
The win flashed.
All the maracas vanished.
Fresh symbols tumbled into the street.
Then the gold border split.
The framed maraca did not return as a maraca.
Crossed pistols appeared in its place.
Wild.
The multiplier moved from x1 to x2.
The town cheered.
The coffin remained empty beside the reels.
The first successful capture had removed one musical instrument and produced additional firearms.
Wild Bandito bowed.
His wanted poster fluttered above him.
The reward had increased because the town’s law-enforcement strategy had made the outlaw better armed.
The base game continued as one long rehearsal for civic embarrassment.
Gold frames appeared through the middle streets.
Wins cleared them only occasionally.
Whenever one joined a procession, the object disappeared and the Bandito’s pistols occupied the position after the collapse.
A cocktail became Wild guns.
A framed letter became Wild guns.
One guitar entered a winning route and left behind another pair of pistols, proving that the town’s official method for reducing crime involved removing guitars from circulation and distributing weapons.
The multiplier rose during useful cascades, then returned to x1 with each new base spin.
Wild Bandito kept playing.
The coffin stayed open.
He never approached it except to place coins on the lid while tuning.
My balance softened beneath the music.
Small cascades returned enough to keep the procession moving, but the capture remained ceremonial.
The town could frame his property.
It could replace that property with his pistols.
It could raise the reward.
It could not persuade the skeleton standing in plain sight to enter the wooden box built specifically to his measurements.
Then three Scatter skulls arrived.
Blue faces.
Bright flowers.
Open mouths.
One landed on the left.
Another appeared in the centre.
The third dropped near the right edge.
All three stared toward Wild Bandito.
The church bell rang twelve times.
The crowd moved away from the square.
The candles flared.
The bandit lifted the guitar.
Twelve Free Spins opened.
A gust raised the coffin lid.
The entire centre reel became a gold-framed wanted wall.
Every ordinary symbol arriving there came enclosed in bright borders.
Guitars were framed.
Maracas were framed.
Cocktails were framed.
Even the coloured letters received full ceremonial portraits, although nobody in town had issued a reward for the capture of J.
Wild Bandito stepped onto the coffin and played the first chord.
The multiplier began at x1.
The early wins moved through the square in broad musical processions.
A group of drinks connected through the centre.
The framed cocktail vanished.
Crossed pistols rose from the empty gold.
The multiplier increased.
Maracas followed.
One framed pair joined a win, disappeared and returned as another Wild.
The middle street had begun converting entertainment into an arms display.
Each successful collapse raised the multiplier again.
The gold frames were supposed to identify what had been caught.
Instead, they marked the exact positions where the outlaw had taken control.
By x4, crossed pistols occupied several parts of the centre reel.
The symbols falling around them became easier to connect.
Guitars found Wild assistance.
Letters used the pistols as replacements.
Maracas crossed the street through armed support.
The town’s capture plan had created its own escort service.
Wild Bandito moved along the roofline above the reels, sombrero tilted, guitar sounding faster as the multiplier climbed.
The coffin remained below him, correctly positioned and completely irrelevant.
Every collapse moved the procession elsewhere.
The middle of the feature became one extended street takeover.
Guitars dropped around a gold-framed guitar in the centre.
The route opened.
Roses, strings and polished wood disappeared together.
The frame cracked.
More crossed pistols appeared.
Fresh symbols fell.
A line of maracas immediately used the new Wild.
They vanished.
The multiplier rose again.
Cocktails arrived beneath them, connected through another pair of pistols and cleared before anyone could drink.
The gold frame behind one of those glasses opened.
Another Wild occupied the middle street.
The multiplier moved through x6, x7 and x8 while the town removed instruments, alcohol and letters and replaced nearly all of them with Bandito weaponry.
There was one coffin on the screen.
The reels now contained enough pistols to require a wagon.
The bandit remained a single skeleton only because he had delegated the rest of his personality to firearms.
At x9, the street finally went quiet.
The multiplier glowed above the reels.
The centre remained filled with gold and Wild positions.
Then the symbols arranged themselves into complete nonsense.
One guitar on the left.
Letters through the centre.
A cocktail on the right.
No route.
No win.
The bandit kept playing anyway.
The x9 hung over the empty square like a bounty announced after everyone had gone home.
Another Free Spin brought even more gold frames and no useful family.
A framed maraca sat beside a guitar.
A framed cocktail stood between letters.
The Wild pistols occupied positions nobody could reach from the first reel.
The multiplier stayed where it was.
Nothing successful meant nothing increased.
The town had raised the reward high enough to attract every bounty hunter in the region and then removed the outlaw’s address.
The recovery came when the reels remembered they were hosting a band.
Maracas gathered across the first three reels.
Wild pistols carried them farther.
A guitar line opened underneath.
The symbols cleared in layers.
One gold frame became Wild.
Then another.
The multiplier climbed into double figures.
New symbols dropped through a centre reel now resembling the display wall of a gun shop operated by a mariachi orchestra.
At x11, cocktails found a route.
At x12, coloured letters crossed through two Wild positions and paid far more than letters deserved for attending a capture.
The multiplier reached x13.
Gold coins burst from the steps.
The flowered skulls danced.
Wild Bandito played from the coffin lid while his pistols occupied the town behind him.
The feature total reached 96x.
At €1.00 per round, €96.00 entered the session.
The visit moved clearly ahead.
The crowd celebrated the capture.
The wanted man remained outside the coffin, playing the celebration music.
One final Free Spin remained.
Most of the street cleared.
A gold-framed maraca landed in the centre reel.
Bright border.
Painted handle.
Small flowers around the body.
The rest of the reels supplied no matching instruments from the left.
One cocktail.
Several letters.
A guitar too far away.
Wild pistols below the wrong path.
The framed maraca joined nothing.
Nothing vanished.
No collapse followed.
The multiplier stayed at x13.
The frame did not crack.
For the first time all night, the town had successfully kept something inside gold.
The Free Spins ended.
The Wild pistols disappeared from the reels.
The centre reel lost its wall of frames.
The candles lowered.
The church bell stopped.
Wild Bandito jumped from the coffin lid, collected several coins from the ground and lifted the framed maraca.
He examined it.
Shook it once.
The instrument produced a small, embarrassed rattle from behind the gold.
Then he placed it inside the coffin.
It fitted easily.
The red lining had been prepared for a skeleton in a sombrero, so one instrument occupied almost none of the available space.
The bandit closed the lid.
Four men lifted the coffin.
Wild Bandito walked in front of them, guitar across his chest, pistols at his hips, sombrero catching the candlelight.
The flowered skulls followed.
Maracas played from the balconies.
Coins scattered behind his boots.
The wanted poster remained nailed above the empty square.
I stopped the session at €96.00 ahead and watched the procession leave the screen.
The town had begun the evening with one outlaw, one coffin and an entire population prepared to collect a reward.
It finished with a street full of pistols and one successfully framed maraca.
Wild Bandito played the funeral march.
The prisoner kept the beat from inside the box.
The scatter in The Great Banker showed up late and drunk.