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BLOOD MOON — the dead ride west (Now → Nov 1)

BLOOD MOON - the dead ride west Live NOW → Nov 1. - 20 nights. You've been warned.

Something's wrong with the moon, partner.

The old timers used to say it: when the Blood Moon comes up over the mesas, the dead don't stay in Boot Hill - they climb out wearing ten-gallon hats and half a face and go looking for whoever put them down in the first place. Guess who that is. Now it's your problem too: the moon rises over CyberCowboys, and it keeps rising every damn night through Nov 1.

💀 While the moon is up

The desktop itself goes haunted - blood moon over the hills, the taskbar becomes the DEATH BAR, and every window grows a blood-rimmed edge. Your own theme snaps back at dawn, untouched. Probably. Dead-Eyes rise - around 15% of fights under the moon raise the undead version of whoever you're shooting. +20% tougher, same gold and XP, plus 1-2 ☠ Bone Chips for putting them down a second time. They don't stay dead the first time. They never do.

🪦 Boot Hill - grab a shovel The ⚰️ Boot Hill icon is your event hub. DIG A GRAVE for Bone Chips. Mostly dirt. Sometimes coins. Sometimes the HILL ROBS BACK - grave rot that takes 30% off your combat for five minutes, or a bump in your outlaw threat that makes the Marshal a whole lot more interested in you. The shovel's on a 3-minute cooldown, night digs pay ×2. The dead are a renewable resource, partner - act like it.

☠ The Crimson Rider Every legend out here started as a lie somebody told well enough. This one rides anyway. Pool Bone Chips into the summoning circle in the World Boss window - 150 chips, pooled across the ENTIRE server, wake him out of the ground. 30,000,000 HP of dead man on a dead horse, up for 10 minutes before he rides off again. He pays chips by damage, never gold (up to 40 a kill), and the first posse to drop him keeps the RODE WITH THE RIDER title forever. Bring friends. The horse doesn't play fair.

🛒 The Bones vendor A 💀 Bones tab appears in the General Store for the run of the event - grave-grade titles from Boot Hill Resident up to the big one, The Crimson Rider's Hat (400 chips), rot-grade chat colors like Blood Orange and Ghoul Rot, and skull emotes. Titles and emotes are yours forever; colors equip on buy. Chips only - the vendor takes no gold and no excuses.

🧾 Bone Chips ☠ Earned three ways: put down Dead-Eyes, dig Boot Hill, hurt the Rider. Your tally rides the taskbar next to your gold. They survive remorts, and when the event ends they don't vanish and don't convert - they stay in your pocket for the next Blood Moon. Spend stupid, spend now.

Moon rises NOW. Sets for good Nov 1. Bring a shovel, bring a posse, and don't let Boot Hill catch you leaning.

See you in the dark, partner. 🌕

🩸 Play free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5136630/CyberCowboys/

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