
During that time, a strange, well-dressed man appears and speaks to Father, who at the time had grown impatient with the gold mining process, and sells to him an amulet designed to grant them luck. After successfully stopping the bandits, Warren sets out to check on Florence's family, leaving Father alone in the farm, as Father stays behind, possibly building a secret tunnel to the farm should the player choose to do so.

The crime lord agrees to help if the family starts to pay taxes to him on every gold they obtained, giving Father and Warren weapons and sending his henchman Cheech to help defend the homestead. As they continue to mine more gold, news spread of their success, and in order to ensure their protection, Father decides to request protection from the region's crime boss, the loan shark El Eshcuro, much at Warren's begrudging approval. During that time, Father and Warren become acquainted with Florence's family, neighbors not interested in gold prospecting, and eventually Warren and Florence find themselves in love.
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After acquiring a gold mining license from the Masked Man's thugs, the two begin to have some success in the gold business. Coincidently, gold is discovered in the region, and the two decide to engage in gold prespecting in order to finance their journey. Ten years after the tragic events, Father and Warren, barely surviving due to their farm, decide to return to the Oregon Trail as Warren's mother would have wanted, but require supplies in order to do so. Both financially and emotionally devastated, Father and Warren decided to remain in the region, living in an old railroad building which the two converted into a farm. One of the cultists, mortally wounded by Father, but still alive, told him they had killed her in order to fulfill a ritual that would make the Devil grant them riches in Hell.

After a brief firefight, Father emerged victorious, but proved unable to save Warren's mother, who had been decapitated by the bandits and had her head put in a box.
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Warren's mother was taken away from Father and Warren by the bandits, who hoped to sell the two to white slavers, but Father managed to break free from his restraints and pursue after the kidnappers. As supplies began to dwindle, Father hoped to sell his hunting gear to assist the family, but the town they found themselves in was overrun by a group of Satanic cultists, possibly under the command of the Masked Man, and all three family members were imprisoned. Additionally, while Father is a good hunter and marksman, he could not find any animals to provide for his family as they progressed along the trail, although their scarcity was seen as extremely odd, as if something was deliberately keeping them away from Warren's family. Warren's family on the Oregon Trail, as described by Death.Īs described by Death, Warren's family decided to travel through the Oregon Trail when he was six years-old, but as many others, they were subjected to the West's brutal conditions and soon found themselves with difficulties.
