More Red Dead fun...
As anyone who has played the game knows, there are challenges that you are tasked with completing. These give you XP (which in turn upgrades your health, dead eye, and stamina), along with unlocking some merchant items.
The challenge in question here is to kill ten enemies using crafted shotgun ammunition. For me, that means incendiary shells, as those are either the only ones I have unlocked or the only ones I have the ingredients to make (honestly not sure).
I happened upon a stagecoach being strongarmed by some Lemoyne Raiders (one of the gangs in the game) and decided that was a nice opportunity to tick a few enemies off my ten kill list. There were three of them, and they were all dead and burning pretty immediately thanks to dead eye.
That's where shit went sideways. Instead of thanking me, the stagecoach driver became a witness to my crime and I became wanted. I didn't want it to turn into a shootout with the law, so I took off. In the process, I maneuvered him through a small patch of fire. Moments later, my horse literally burst into flames and died over the span of about half a second and then just ragdolled, sending me flying.
Needless to say, that was not how I saw that encounter playing out.
I loaded my save.
