Hunt: Showdown 1896 - The Heart of Lower DeSalle

This DLC contains one Hunter, two Weapons, and one Tool:

- Lady Lewis (Hunter)
- A Real Gem (New Army Swift)
- Pearls Before Swine (Auto-4 Shorty)
- Petticoat Spur (Throwing Knives)
- Lady Lewis (Avatar)

Once known as nothing more than ‘the saloon lady,' Ruby Angeline eventually worked her way into the hearts of patrons just as deeply as Lewis' Saloon itself, earning herself a new nickname: Lady Lewis. Not because she owned the saloon or had even met the Lewis who'd opened it, but because of how, over time, she'd become as much of a fixture to the saloon as the saloon had become to the town. Her favorite patron had once called Lewis' “the heart of Lower DeSalle.” She was later forced to kill him after he became infected and tried to rip her throat out.

In quieter moments, she let herself carefully prod at one specific memory from the ‘before times,' her mind like a hesitant tongue fearing searing heat: the night a certain band from a nearby town performed at the saloon. The unnaturally dark weight of the music had clung to Ruby's soul like something unholy. She'd watched as the band's eyes rolled back in their heads while they crooned and pounded keys and stomped and clapped and wailed, the singer's fingers waving in the air as though performing an invisible spell—or clawing away some outside force. It had made Ruby feel suddenly and hysterically certain that the song was a curse. Afraid, she'd turned away from the stage, as though doing so could protect some hidden shadow in her soul from being awakened.

Things had moved quickly after that. The rise of the Hunters. The fall of the saloon. The breaking of Ruby's heart as it became clear that Lewis' had become a Corrupted birthplace for the worst kind of monsters, always coming back no matter how many times they were killed, Scrapbeak, The Butcher, any of them.

At the end of the day, it didn't matter if the saloon's status as some Corrupted spawn nest had anything to do with the night of the strange performance. This was her home. She could not bring herself to accept that it was gone forever, and so she took the inoculation, sealing her fate to try and resuscitate the heart of Lower DeSalle until she succeeded or died.

Still, though. If Lady Lewis ever happens to cross paths with that band again? Well, she has a list of questions for them.

And a few bullets too, depending on the answers.