RDR2 Playthrough Journal

2025-11-30

  • Dutch to Sean: Dutch is good at seeing people

2026-02-01

Notes

  • Recollecting some stuff and writing it down
  • Dutch says, “I get this feeling one day you will betray me” as a random NPC camp dialogue.
  • Dutch asks “So why didn’t you?” to Arthur when Arthur comes to Dutch telling him about the Jack fishing trip where Arthur sees the Pinkerton detectives.
  • Micah tries to coax Blackwater money’s location from Dutch.
  • I can’t believe Micah was being legit when he started this mission.
  • It looks like Charles was the one taking him on a horse. Took a screenshot.

Today’s missions

Colm O’Driscoll mission

  • I can’t help but think Dutch and Micah never intended to find Arthur after the Colm O’Driscoll mission. No spoilers.

Grays and Braithwaites missions

  • I just finished the two missions where we simply kill Grays and the Braithwaites.
  • The story took a very bad turn in quality and storytelling here.
  • This arc came to an undramatic and unsatisfying end really quick.
  • I thought we were playing the families against each other and nothing happens, and then suddenly this happens.

2026-02-07

Side missions in Saint Denis

  • Retrieved the crucifix for the Sister.
  • Shocked at the scene after picking up the crucifix.
  • Edith Downes? Who is she? I forgot.
  • Then I have to escape the law?
  • Lilian in the upscale saloon is interactable. Jimmy is late with her cocaine.
  • Watched the theater show. Got $40 and a letter from Marjorie.
  • Hated that a snake was there in the show.
  • Professor Dragic.
  • Read the journal. Shocked to see the Blackwater chapter. Never read that before now. Almost 100 hours in.
  • Turned on AMD FSR 2 and the game is immediately better looking.

2026-02-14

  • Chateau art exhibition. It was funny. I like this Chateau character.
  • Getting Jack back from Bronte.
  • Reactions in the camp for getting Jack back.
  • John says, “When you bury me, Arthur, bury me deep,” or something like that. Foreshadowing?
  • I cannot believe Dutch likes Bronte. There is something fishy here.
  • Tahiti: the first time Dutch explicitly mentions the country he could escape to.
  • Stagecoach robbery with Lenny.

2026-02-18

  • Saw a YouTube short of Dutch and Micah stuck in the cold mountains looking aged.
  • Micah, during a side mission, says: why can’t we just leave some people (deadwood) and leave.

2026-02-20

  • A few side missions and the riverboat casino mission, which was sub-par.

2026-02-21

Missions and moments

  • Uncle cattle mission.
  • Mr Black and White mission.
  • Cornwall sneak-and-grab-letter mission. Eagle Flies rescues Arthur. I lose honor because I killed a worker stealthily.
  • Twins side mission.
  • The prostitute lady is being hanged in Valentine.
  • Micah kicks Reverend in Shady Belle and then is menacing towards Susan Grimshaw.
  • Arthur asks: “What are you plotting now?”
  • Hosea and Jack reading.
  • “Have you seen the O’Driscoll boy” everyone asks in the camp.
  • Dutch says we can hit that train station in Saint Denis and says “Why not Micah” when Arthur suggests Lenny as a sidekick.
  • Kieran beheaded. Truly shocking moment. O’Driscoll attack.
  • Arthur: “Mrs Adler is driven by powerful forces I scarcely understand.”
  • Race with that Black woman.
  • “You’re the guy from the riverboat, ain’t you?”
  • Electric chair man.

2026-02-22

  • Swamp mission. One of the dumbest missions.
  • As if a monster alligator takes dozens of shots to be killed and only bites a part of the leg.
  • Legendary fox.
  • Javier story with her mother.
  • Arthur asks Tilly: “Why do you have that guilty look?” Is something going on? Did Tilly betray the group?

2026-02-26

Missions and reactions

  • Released some prisoners.
  • Angelo Bronte mission.
  • Why did they consider it shocking that Dutch fed Bronte to the alligators? John and Arthur looking shocked. There’s nothing shocking about it. Weak plot device.
  • “Let’s get out of this godforsaken place and rob ourselves a bank.”
  • Weak mission. There isn’t the epic feeling of robbing a bank like in the GTA 4 bank mission. The robbing part is too quick and too brief.
  • Hosea getting shot was quite shocking but not as brutal as I would have liked.
  • I truly did not expect Hosea to die so quickly.
  • GPT had said some of the best dialogues in the high honor story come from Hosea, and I feel like we didn’t get to it.
  • The first bear mission with Hosea was unforgettable. The map and world felt so new and unexplored in those mountains.
  • Slight disappointment.
  • Lenny dies. Also unexpected.
  • John is captured. No idea what happened to his wife.
  • Arthur to Micah: “They knew we were coming. Just like your ferry job in Blackwater!”
  • Milton is seemingly alive.
  • Charles voluntarily leaves the group to serve as a distraction. I didn’t suspect anything then, but more on that later.

The shocker

  • “colonel waxman on a jolly” ???
  • Micah: “That cloud look like good news to you?”
  • Welcome to the New World.
  • One of the most shocking moments I’ve ever felt in a video game story.
  • I truly thought it must be a hallucination for a while.
  • Guarma. Then it hit me. It’s real.
  • Arthur in a chain gang. The sheer ordeal starts.
  • Arthur to Javier: don’t lose faith. We’ll find you.
  • Micah: “Hosea was dying anyway. And Lenny… you know what they say about pride before the fall.” WTF.

2026-02-28

Guarma

  • New animals. Iguana. Far Cry 3 vibes.
  • The beating by the guard.
  • The stealth is so bad.

Arthur and Dutch mission

  • Arthur and Dutch tension.
  • “How could I doubt you, Dutch.”
  • Dutch keeps saying: “I’ll do whatever to survive.”
  • Gloria. It’s the last gold he gives to her.
  • Fussar was in the Bronte party.
  • “Captured, tied up, beaten.”
  • They talk about John.
  • “They’re the only one they took alive. Why is that you think? Abigail.”
  • For somebody this is all going to plan.
  • “She was going to betray us, Arthur, you couldn’t tell.”
  • “Are you going to strangle me next?”
  • Dutch does seem disturbed by the beating Javier took.
  • Long fight in that fort.
  • Micah: “We got a real problem. Fussar doesn’t want us going nowhere.”
  • Suspicious.
  • Been thinking about Micah’s first meeting mission in Strawberry. He felt suspicious. Want to revisit after finishing the story.
  • Micah suggests we head back to Blackwater. Dutch says forget it. Wow.
  • Dear Uncle Tacitus.
  • Me talking to the captain NPC and taking his cap. Funny. Post it on YouTube later.
  • Bennet Brothers newspaper scrap like he’s an Annesburg resident.
  • Emotional song. One of the best moments. I couldn’t wait to see what happens.

Back with the gang

  • Killed the Pinkerton men silently.
  • Meeting up with the gang wasn’t as dramatic or emotional as I had hoped.
  • I guessed they already knew Arthur survived because Micah is already there.
  • Dutch comes later. Full of doubt.
  • Javier is also here.
  • Charles too.
  • Adler and Charles drove away the guys who were there.
  • Adler seems to be the hero. Hopefully she isn’t the one who betrayed us to the Pinkertons.
  • Already ???
  • Micah: “Asked everyone you could find, did you Bill?” LMAO.
  • Bill keeps insisting after the mission: “I didn’t lead them there. I swear.”
  • Dutch seems to be really losing it now.
  • Micah: “You always figure it out, you always do, Dutch.” That’s an Arthur line.
  • I wish this wasn’t already spoiled to me.

Chapter 5 into 6 lead-in notes

  • Dutch having tuberculosis.
  • The voice lines when he’s thin and walking alone in the city is really something.
  • Brother Dorkins line.
  • Edith: shown earlier when Arthur first gets to Saint Denis. What happened to her? The story hasn’t showed her yet and it’s been a long time.
  • Mary voice.
  • Hosea voice.
  • Deer in the street.
  • Hot balloon mission.
  • He’s quite a character.
  • The moonshiners. Post it on YouTube.
  • I get to threaten him when he goes running to the police. They gave everyone voice lines for every situation?
  • Duel in Van Horn.
  • Mission in the corner of the map: widow side mission.
  • Help a Spanish guy who was bitten by a wolf. Medicine? I am past medicine?
  • Going to Valentine.
  • “Hey friend, you don’t look so good.” Doc Calloway is just down the street, he says. After TB.
  • Twins mission.
  • Free gun at Annesburg from Jenkins.
  • House with the three brothers.
  • Dragic mission.

Old RDR2 memories (noting it down)

  • Dutch asks Arthur why Arthur didn’t rat Dutch out when Arthur informs Dutch in Chapter 2 that Arthur saw Pinkertons by the lake when fishing with Jack.
  • Dutch mentions once: “I have a feeling one day you will betray me, Arthur.” WTF. Camp interaction.

2026-03-14

  • Dutch playing chess in air.
  • Arthur keeps saying to Micah: “You might have Dutch fooled but not me.”
  • Charles mission at night to the Murfree Brood cave.
  • Disturbing hacking.
  • Meredith hostage to Annesburg.
  • Mrs Downes??? She’s a prostitute with bad pimples on her face.
  • Dutch mentions Cornwall is buying a stake in a mine in Annesburg.
  • Molly O’Shea.
  • “I told them.” Mr. Milton and Mr. Ross.
  • Susan killing her. Quite shocking.
  • Chapter 6: Beaver Hollow

2026-03-15

  • Karen sympathizes with Molly. “She loved him!”
  • Bill ain’t too friendly.
  • Says to Uncle: “He’ll stab you in the back.”
  • Money box smashed.
  • Micah and Dutch planning in secret until you approach them.
  • Javier doesn’t like Arthur. Isn’t very friendly and loyal to Dutch.
  • Arthur to Susan: “What do you think we should do about Dutch?”
  • Strauss missions.
  • Charlotte's mission. Arthur faints.
  • Hunter NPC.
  • Strauss debtor: John J Weathers.
  • The veteran side mission: Buell horse.
  • Viking helmet.
  • Arthur Londennery.

2026-03-15 (Part 2)

  • Arthur trying to get the money from Arthur’s wife.
  • “You need money and I don’t.”
  • “You could do things differently.”
  • Dead women’s home.
  • Jack alone in camp without Abigail. Also no Sadie.
  • Strauss is thrown out.
  • “And you shame us. If we could be shamed, then we already are.”
  • “The sick delude themselves.”
  • “You and me, we ain’t decent. But those folk.”
  • Maximum honor.
  • Reactions to kicking Strauss out.
  • Murfree Brood boat in the distance. I sniped them.

2026-03-22

Edith mission

  • “This country is man unleashed.”
  • Save his son from the bullies at the mine.
  • It really hurt me to see others call his mother a whore.
  • Great music on the way.

Hamish fishing mission

  • Very difficult, but finished it somehow.
  • Cougar killed an NPC.

Edith mission (continued)

  • “Don’t let your pride kill you.”
  • I said don’t thank me.

Obediah mission

  • Wild dogs.
  • Kill the true deductive things on trees.
  • Cave.
  • Confront the shaman.
  • I killed the shaman.

Sadie Adler free John mission

  • One of the dumbest missions in the game. Completely unrealistic. A stealth mission would have been better.
  • John says something shocking:
    • I can’t stop thinking about this: in the bank, when they grabbed me, he saw it.
    • He had a moment to do something and he didn’t.
    • Reminds me of Dutch saying to Arthur in Guarma that it’s suspicious that John was captured alive and Abigail got away.
  • Arthur: “Maybe he isn’t who he thought he was.”
  • Dutch isn’t happy, but he does call John his brother and son: “I was coming for you.”
  • They was talking.
  • And now they may come and hang us all.
  • Deer visions.
  • Abigail. Dutch seems to have lost his mind.
  • “I don’t have to be careful. I have you as a friend.”
  • Uncle: “Dutch is crazy as a cat herder. Micah and Bill are turning all kinds of screws on me.”
  • “Only way this is going to end with a bullet in my head.”
  • Bill quarrels with Charles.
  • Penelope letter.

2026-03-24

  • Feral Man
  • Feral Man’s letter
  • Drajic dead
  • Last Charlotte meeting
  • Hamish wolf mission
  • Henri Lemeuix intimidation for museum mission
  • Freeing John from the prison. Terrible mission.

2026-03-26

  • Penelope's mission.
  • Declined the jewelry.
  • Stagecoach robbery from Strawberry.
  • Logs to block the stagecoach.
  • Did it in secrecy.
  • “Leave Undetected.”
  • The veteran is now at Valentine. Profound dialogue about death. Captured as a clip.

2026-03-27

  • Peeping through a couple’s window in Valentine
  • Hamish dies from the big boar. Sad. I didn’t expect this.
  • Made the mistake of googling Hamish and seeing John can interact with Hamish.
  • Until now I didn’t realize if John was the flashback or the post-game section. A mistake.
  • Took Buell.
  • Mad Preacher.

2026-03-28

Just A Social Call

  • Quite shocking but not all that irrational though plenty irrational like Arthur says.
  • Micah says there is a rat.
    • Got me thinking. Is Micah the rat?
    • He was very squeamish about what he was doing in Strawberry when we rescued him.
  • Micah keeps saying the best thing we can do is let the weak go, move on get the money and start moving.
  • Dutch throws cold water on it immediately.
  • Dutch insists this isn’t a revenge mission.
  • Surprised to hear Milton saying to Cornwall he’s following them within the confines of the law.
  • “He’s America”
  • I kind of knew that mine office would be part of the story one day even when I first discovered it early on in the game. I remember getting to Annesburg early in the game. Buying a newspaper. Was one of the first moments I was completely wow-ed by the newspaper and the lore and the effort they put into it.
  • “You kill, I kill. You rob, I rob.”
  • “You’ve lost your mind”. “Noise Arthur Noise”
  • The reasoning Dutch gives is not all that irrational.
  • There’s bonds at his oil factory.
  • The Plan
  • I find a rare Western Bull Moose after the mission.

Final Henri Lemeuix mission

  • Interesting stealth
  • I spare Jean-Marc

Shocking Murfree brood NPC kidnapping

A Rage Unleashed

  • “We ain’t so good at doing anymore scores Dutch”
  • Divert them with a scandal. Not a bad idea actually.
  • The chest I had hidden outside Shady Bell. What? What Chest?
  • There’s no way to do this mission completely stealthily.
  • Several missions unlock.

2026-03-30

  • Checked my Diary
  • Pinkertons near camp
  • Important dialogues at Camp about Molly O’Shea and John about Dutch
  • John to Javier: I won’t let me child die because of Dutch —— Need to find the full convo later
  • On the way to Wapiti notice burnt shrine and an empty camp
  • Explore the area a bit
  • Found barrel woman the waterfall
  • Hunted the Legendary Wolf

Archeology for Beginners

  • One of the most memorable conversations.
  • Capt Monroe
  • There are multiple branches of conversations.
  • Finished the mission but without stealth.
  • Game crashed

2026-03-31

  • I do Archeology for Beginners and complete it
    • I choose the dialogue about Arthur’s son.
    • Eliza Morgan
    • Completed the mission with full stealth.
    • “I wish my son understood restraint as much as you.”
    • “I now know you don’t get to live a bad life and have good things happen to you.”
  • Hunted the Legendary Bharati Grizzly Bear
  • “Is that supposed to lighten the mood?” when I go around wearing the Grizzly pelt hat in the camp.
  • Dr. MacIntosh NPC at Annesburg.
  • Found the Shark Tooth Trinket in a corner of the map.

2026-04-01

  • Mexican camper. Convo.
  • He tells the Three brothers of Annesburg mystery.
  • Re-did the Archeology for Beginners mission. Arthur has a son ??? Quite shocked.
  • Part 2:
  • Cabin in the woods.
    • Dead child and women.
    • Otis Miller book.
    • Momma’s letter to Glen and Eddie.
    • “I’ve gone out to track those men and get our money.”
  • Returned to camp.

2026-04-02

  • Explored the snowy mountains
  • “You Flourish Before You Die”
  • Arabian horse
  • Shack in the mountains

The Fine Art of Conversation

  • Trewlany leaves. Arthur angry. “You go with“Get out of here with my blessing.”
  • Horse ride with Rains Falls to the meeting with Colonel Favours.
  • Arthur coughing.
  • Arthur to Capt Monroe: Avoid Guarma
  • Memorable conversation with Sister.
  • Tells her about his life. His son.

2026-04-03

  • Colm hanging mission
  • Didn’t expect Sadie to go rogue
  • Dead Eye Critical unlocked by killing the sniper
  • Carcano rifle
  • Mary letter with her voice.
  • Funny clip disrupting the start of the mission.
  • “But clearly you was just spinning us a yarn”
  • Hanging scupltor.
  • Had a great deal of difficulty getting to it.
  • But the game crashed.

2026-04-04 - part 1

  • Got wanted level by taking on the army and the loaded the game back.
  • Got to the Hanging sculptor.
  • What lol? The French painter did this?

Favored Sons

  • Dutch fucked up. Yet again.
  • I cannot believe we had to go through all of that.
  • I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if we chose Micah’s mission before this.

  • At Valentine, I stopped the John killing prostitute’s hanging.

2026-04-04 - part 2

  • Witness the John killer’s hanging.
  • Visit the General store in Grizzlies west for the first time
  • Mother and her 4 sons at Watson’s Cabin

2026-04-04 - part 3

  • Kill the Hanging Dog Ranch members.
  • I had no idea this was going to be part of a mission very soon. No idea.
  • Black and White final mission — holed up in a cabin!
  • Witch in a shack.
    • I don’t kill the Witch but tie her up.
    • Catahoula Cur dogs.
    • Arthur tells her “Nice meeting you” when leaving.
  • O’Driscoll camp

4 / 9 / 2026

  • Micah and Bill mission —
  • Like I suspected Micah says we’ll cause a distraction and get the money from Blackwater
  • Glad there weren’t any civilians in Van Dorn
  • Bill fights with Uncle and Abigail in camp
  • Bridge to Nowhere mission
  • Arthur to Jack
  • Take your wife and child and run
  • Then he says when the time comes run
  • John keeps saying he should have helped in Saint Denis
  • Dutch seems to enjoy causing chaos and taking revenge
  • OMG
  • Very important scene after blowing up the train
  • Dutch has all the money and he’s safekeeping.
  • Abigail knows where some of the money is. Wow.
  • Great line - “Remember it wasn’t us who changed.”
  • Many in camp aren’t talking at all. They’re not interactable.
  • Susan comes up to Arthur and left says Reverend Swanson left and that she should too.
  • I don’t know what’s going to happen in this next mission
  • Will the Pinkertons raid the camp and we’ll escape through that ladder room in the cave?
  • Camp dialogue to Abigail — just be ready .. just be ready and she responds I understand. Wow.

  • I remember the state bonds
  • Is the last time we see Charles?
  • The coughing. Wow. Shocking and unexpected.
  • I have no idea who these people are.
  • European?
  • German. When we needed saving? What?
    • Now I looked it up (4/18): It’s the German family that was saved by Arthur and Charles before taking over the Lemonye camp. Arthur and Charles save Andreas, a German immigrant, from kidnappers near Dewberry Creek and reunite him with his family.
  • What the hell?
  • Beggar in Annesburg?
  • Don’t slumber too deeply. The man with no nose is coming. What?

4-11-2026

  • At camp, Arthur saying to both John and Sadie that Dutch left him hanging.
  • John and Abigail mentioning that they meet at the bridge should something happen.
  • Finish the railroad NPC mission. Getting the Cornwall deed.
  • Start the mission.
  • OMG. I can’t believe they left — I can’t believe there haven’t been conversations about this at camp— Uncle, Mary Beth and Pearson left.
  • What about Karen?
  • Arthur isn’t confronting Dutch about him betraying.
  • Arthur pleads to let the women and children go.
  • One more big score.
  • Poetry.
  • “He insists upon its” — is he contemplating killing them? I have no idea what he’ll do.
  • I can’t wait to find out what will happen.
  • What? It’s hidden in the caves — John says Abigail found out.
  • Arthur mentions Susan and Tilly too.
  • One last train.
  • Can’t believe Micah noticed Abigail packed and made that comment bout a skirt.
  • John and Arthur board the back?
  • We still going through with this?
  • WTF?
  • John shot.
  • First time using the Maxim gun on a mission.
  • Cleet didnt betray us.
  • Arthur and Micah saying they tried.
  • I wonder how this would’ve hit if we didn’t know of RDR 1s existence.
  • Arthur shocked and also not shocked.
  • What Red Dead Redemption?
  • WTF?
  • Micah just saying his dad died in front of him.
  • Micah is something man.
  • “All them years”
  • Arthur gives Tilly all the money and the bag.
  • Sadie. It’s all we need you and me.
  • Copperhead Landing.
  • I’m going to get your mama.
  • Tilly and Arthur goodbye.
  • We didn’t get to say goodbye to others.
  • I have a feeling Sadie will die.
  • For a second I thought I’ll play as Sadie.
  • Arthur to the Lighthouse.
  • I still don’t understand how Blackwater is going to be unlocked even if I play as John.
  • Is it because John wasn’t involved in the ferry job? I don’t remember exactly.
  • Story at 78% and overall Total Completion at 69%
  • You should’ve taken the deal. I’m a fool. I wonder what exactly Arthur thinks
  • I truly didn’t expect Micah is a Rat.
  • What’s Arthur doing?
  • I don’t need it anymore. Chest in a cave.
  • I always a good thief.
  • Wearing his hat. Wow.
  • Nice song. But not as impactful as that one, but still great.
  • Widow quote. And Edith, Amazing. I wonder what would’ve happened if we didn’t finish these side missions.
  • Who is Jimmy? You saved my life
  • Weathers. Who?
    • J. John Weathers the one with the pregnant woman.
  • Mary-Beth quote .
  • Still someone at the camp? WTF?
  • I can’t believe John survived.
  • Nice scene with John
  • We’ll have to come back for the money John says
  • Arthur doesn’t give the key though.
  • Dutch is chasing us? He’s dialogues can be heard through the chase too.
  • Buell is dead?
  • Arthur is thanking the horse.
  • I wonder what happens if we choose Take the Money !
  • Saddle is shown on the map.
  • Micah and Arthur fight
    • Despite my efforts to the contrary, it turns out I’ve won.
  • Reminds me of MGS4
  • Dutch shows up.
    • “We made it” - Micah
    • “John made it. He’s the only one. Rest of us, no. In the end, I tried. I did.” - Arthur
  • I truly did not know if the game will or would kill Arthur.
  • Dutch just leaves Arthur.
  • Deer.
  • I don’t know if this is the end of the game or if Arthur survives.
  • Some years later. WTF. Arthur truly did die.
  • He died on a rock.
  • Jack is all grown up.
  • Calls John Marston “Sir”
  • Live somewhere for more than a few weeks.
  • Strawberry.
  • Mr. Deeds
  • Married hands?
  • Pronghorn Ranch.
  • I haven’t keenly noticed differences in Strawberry due to years.

Stopped the game. Started the game again.

  • I wonder what happens to all the missed side-quests.
  • I wonder what happens to Arthur’s diary.
  • I wonder what happens to the missed stuff.
  • Loading the game. Says Journal updated.
  • Wow. “I hope John has more brains in his head….” last thing Arthur wrote.
  • Actually wrong.
  • The Journal goes on.
  • Wow. John Marston’s first entry. Jack don’t like. Abigail don’t like me.
  • Two Laramie encounters. Took my first gun by running over them with my horse.
  • Starting from first! no guns no money!
  • Seems like they’re one of the two undiscovered Gangs.
  • Saw a dead body. Lost honor stealing.
  • Visit Strawberry.
  • Mayor NPC.
  • I can’t help but wonder what happens if I get in trouble with the law.
  • Get a tip from Hector.
  • “I knew Arthur.” .. what a line .. I felt the impact on me. First time John says that.
    Have a feeling he’ll say that a lot more.
  • Reverend Peter Fordingham NPC at Strawberry.
  • NPC who was tricked by a fraudster
  • He kills the fake pharmacist and I lose honor. Set to the middle.

4/12/2026

  • Wait, Blackwater is accessible? Why isn’t John wanted in Blackwater?
  • I asked GPT this:
    So I will follow its advice
  • Mad Preacher on the creek. John interacts on his own.
  • Laramie ambush back to TD.
  • John Jim Milton.. slip up
  • Abigail mad
  • Abe suspects John might be a gunslinger
  • Worst milk graphic ever.

Simple Pleasures:

  • Tom Dickerns
  • First Geddes Mission : Old Habits
  • Geddes scolds Abe but does not seem to be a bad boss.
  • Duncan is Geddes youngest.
  • Oh, where does Geddes go to town and for what?
  • Duncan is sweet and is worried about them Laramie boys.
  • “Where does my husband get hands like you?”
  • Wait, even Mrs Geddes knows what Mr. Geddes does in town?
  • Birthing a foal.
  • Mrs Geddes wants to fuck John? WTF?
  • John goes to Abigail
  • John takes Jack for a ride
  • I let Jack win
  • Good bonding mission
  • Laramie boys are back and they threaten Abe.
  • John fights them off. Abigail mad. Stop being a storybook hero.
  • Mission ends. Geddes and Mrs Geddes dialogue.
  • End of play.

  • Restarted the game

Abigail mission — Fatherhood for Idiots.

  • Excellent cut-scene showing the struggles. “I stole cattle not raised them…”
  • Abigail … “Can’t I dream”. Worth watching this cutscene again.
  • Bank Loans? I am a wanted man with a prize on the head woman.
  • I love the Jack characterization. I wonder what must be going through his mind. An outlaw father. On the run with no money with his parents. Truly amazing that the emotional weight it puts on the viewer to contemplate his situation. He’s into a books to forget the household troubles and the large picture of his father being taken away by the law.
  • Jack says to John - You’re clearly not happy to be here with us.
  • Is that’s what bothering him? That John hasn’t been around a lot.
  • Why did those NPCs run? Clipped it. Called us a cocksucker.
  • We’ve already interacted with Hector before for the tip. He doesn’t remember us.
  • John Marston? What a blunder. He heard us.
  • One of them most memorable missions.
  • Eyes on the back of your head Tony Soprano style
  • John is lucky that this is just a guy who is upset about John Marston killing his brother a month ago in Roanoke.
  • Jack - Reprimand or Encourage. I chose Encourage. John brings up Beecher’s Hope in Blackwater to ease his mind.
  • Abigail doesn’t give him a chance to explain himself. John Marston cannot in that situation. I get it.
  • Arthur quote - Just do one thing or another. Don’t be two people at once. wow. First time I’ve heard Arthur’s voice.
  • Laramie boys shootout. Killed the leader. Spent a lot of time looting the bodies. Have $187 now and a lot of Cigaratte Cards and a lot of loot.
  • Abigail being completely unreasonable. Doesn’t say a word.
  • The next day a telegram from … Sadie Adler. Wow.
  • Glad she’s still alive and not dead. Hope she doesn’t die. But then again, I did a dumb thing and I saw on YouTube a short of her getting stabbed. Fuck I wish I hadn’t. But I still don’t know for sure she’s dead.
  • I am glad they keep us on these scenes in one mission. Keeps us maintain the pace.
  • Speaking to Abigail now.
  • Abigail letter. She leaves.
  • Tom Dickens tries to nose around but isn’t too indecent. He leaves us be.
  • Farm work.
  • Great montage.
  • A Few Months After…. I didn’t expect this.
  • Tom Dickens say we’ve turned into a fine worker.
  • We now speak to Geedes for.. guidance. Guidance on what?
  • Nice convo with Geddes. Go to Brazil? What? He was joking.
  • Ansel Atherton at the Bank. I’ve seen this name on the Wikia before.
  • 87% story complete. Able to save the game.
  • Unlocks two. Sadie Adler and Ansel Atherton.
  • Free roam now.
  • Broke a beautiful Red white Kentucky Sadler
  • Mexican gunslinger NPC shooting challenge I won.
  • I can’t believe the Red Eye is so bad. Accuracy in the lowest bars for me I guess.
  • Stabled the Red White Kentucky Sadler.
  • Lily-May marrying NPC. “Years ago”. Arthur? I vaguely remember but not very well.
  • Going to Valentine to see Sadie Adler.
  • Went to the Theater at Valentines. Funny movie about aviation. Creative.
  • Sheriff Malloy has a beard now.
  • I keep hearing the NPCs mentioning the Sienna brothers and how dangerous they are.
  • Mickey is at Valentines. He’s grown old. Alan? John recognizes him. Why does Mickey not glow about him more.
  • Bought the newspaper. Gazette no 37.
  • Benedict Albright is still in holding jail at Valentine? He’s not interactable. Not very realistic.

Start of Sadie Adler mission - Gainful Employment

  • She stabs a Bubba in the hand.
  • They identify each other by their real name and discuss business in front of the bartender. Unrealistic.
  • Micah! Wow.

4/13/2026

  • St Denis slightly changed
  • St Denis tribune
  • McKnight instead of Cornwall
  • Did the Bounty. Amazing. It’s Anthony Foreman who Arthur let go during the Susan Tilly mission. He remembers Arthur.
  • The Egert mission is still active
  • Going to Van Dorn
  • Sold a lot of stuff at the Van Dorn trader.
  • Sold the Catherine’s Brooch. I dont even remember this.
  • Went to an unexplored part of the map — It says lookout tower. I dont remember Arthur seeing this at all.
  • I wonder what I can see if I go to Arthur’s death’s spot.
  • Butcher’s creed still the same.
  • Beaver Hollow full of Murfree. No dialogue.
  • Blind man near Annesburg.
  • Going to Williard’s Crest to see what happens.
  • Annesburg still the same.
  • Manito Glade — A Hermit home. I dont remember this at all.
  • Charlotte. Good cutscene. Took a lot of stuff from her house.
  • Went to Hamish cabin. Took a lot of stuff.
  • End.

4/14/2026

  • Letter from Garfield to Martha - A civil war soldier - a cabin called Martha’s Swaine
  • Trapper - new vest
  • Mexican Camper and his story. Unexpected.
  • Lost honor when I cut down the ‘Carcass’ which was a duck.
  • Loaded the last save game.
  • New plots of land everywhere “Contact Annesburg broker”. Found a new home.
  • Beautiful vistas at night. Took a clip.
  • Went to that farm. Emerald Ranch.
  • Saw that trader. John mentioned something about Arthur and the dialogue got cut off. (Search for it later)
  • Bought the upgraded satchels. Wow. The hours I put into finding the pelts for this thing!

4/15/2026

Landowning Classes

  • Meet Athel Atherton.
  • John flubs the pitch. Good dialogue.
  • “The terms won’t be too favorable.”
  • Have a feeling John might not be able to pay the bank and maintain possession of the property.
  • Maybe John has to resort to crime to make payments.
  • Gavin’s Friend. Seems to be mentally ill. Has been looking for him for years.
  • Paid off the squatter.
  • Interesting, provocative dialogue with Mr. Atherton.
  • What the hell? Uncle?
  • John doesn’t seem shocked at all.
  • Uncle is dying from Lumbago, a slow and painful death.
  • John doesn’t seem startled at all, and he wants to leave.
  • This is quite a weird scene.
  • John and Uncle dialogue… Umm weird.
  • “You can run from a bounty John, but you can’t run from a bank.”
  • Uncle calls Abigail indirectly stupid. Wow.
  • “Abigail even seen it, yet” no.
  • Good montage of John working hard at the land, clearing rocks.
  • Epilogue Part II: Beecher’s Hope.
  • Story: 89% complete.
  • Did the Elias Green Skinner bounty
  • Couldn’t save the man
  • Go to Strawberrry and pick up the bounty poster
  • I wonder what will happen if I press Antagonize to the Sheriff when picking up a bounty.
  • Stagecoach robbery tip from Hector
  • Lost honor because I didn’t remove the horse when blowing up with dynamite.
  • Bart Cavanaugh bounty. Guys were sleeping and drunk. Part of the Laramie gang.
  • Went back to Pronghorn Ranch. No sign of Tom Dickens or Mr. Geddes. NPC workers are still there. They don’t recognize John.
  • Cabin with the Grizzly bear. Two Annabelle letters. The guy is dead.
  • Witch’s cabin. Torn Treasure Map 1 but not pickable. Some glitch? It seems the other map is on the other Hermit cabin near Annesburg.
  • Fast travelled to Blackwater. Picked up a new bounty from the Blackwater sheriff. A thief who steals construction items from sites.
  • Saved an NPC from robbers near Beecher’s Hope.

Bare Knuckle Friendships

  • Starting the Uncle mission.
  • Uncle has a mouth on him. “No wonder she left you.”
  • John. I guess you can never outrun his sins.
  • Charles alive? Train to Saint Denis.
  • This scene was too short.
  • How is our horse here?
  • Charles reaction to seeing John is more of what I was expecting.
  • I bet on Charles.
  • “Think he’s Micah” John says when he’s fighting him.
  • Pretty good setting. Bookies betting on fights. Realistic and captured the era. Boxing was about to become famous.
  • Uncle is sus. Where is he going? Also, how did he first hear about Charles in the first place?
    Is Uncle a rat?
    John: “You’re useless.”
  • This scene of John and Charles walking is one of the most important scenes.
  • Charles was about to get into a steamer. That’s why he was throwing fights for money.
  • Charles has no idea that Micah was a rat.
  • John: Dutch is nowhere near here.
  • Strauss was picked by agents? Died in custody after being tortured and not giving up a word? What the fuck. Great line: “Guess some folks is strong in way you don’t really see.”
  • Guido Martelli shootout.

Home Improvement for Beginners

  • Uncle, has a mouth on him for sure.
  • This is why your woman left you.
  • We demolish the house.
  • John says to Charles to make Uncle work.
  • Order a house. Made-to-order houses back in the day.
  • I just need a bit of peace and quite from your incessant yapping.
  • Turn off the game.

4/16/2024

  • Move to Rhodes to go to the Fence.
  • Missed a Lemonye Raider NPC scene because I wanted to check the other one.
    • It was that Civil War veteran.
    • He says he used to see a guy with John. John tells him about Arthur and that he’s dead.
  • I check the General Store and see … Pearson?
    • John seems not shocked at all.. Bad Writing.
    • Or did they meet before?
  • Did the Zinzendorf Bounty.
    • I saw a cat show up on the map as a blip when returning him to the police. I wonder if it was a cat. I clipped it. Investigate later.

A Honest Day’s Laborer's

  • Sadie mission. About James Langston, a professional rival.
  • John mentions to Sadie about Charles.
  • I wonder what would have happened if I didn’t do the Uncle/Charles mission before as the Sadie Adler had been available.
  • Heard anything about Dutch? No.
  • A colorful character. Word should have come up.
  • Very Important Dialogue about Dutch.
    • Sadie: The Dutch that put a blanket over me wasn’t the same Dutch at Beaver’s Hollow.
    • John: Maybe he always was and we didn’t see him.
    • I shouldn’t have followed him for all these years.
  • New parts of the map open up.
  • I see MacFarlane’s Ranch… I know this place because I watched 1 hour of RDR 1 on YouTube before starting RDR 2.
  • I can’t help but wonder if these parts of RDR 2 are the same as in RDR 1 and what parts of RDR 1 are inaccessible in RDR 2.
  • Still so much of RDR 2 was unexplored was an utter shock to me yesterday. I had not expected RDR 2 unexplored Epilogue parts to be this big.
  • John mentions he’s been doing some bounty hunting of my own since I last saw. I ain’t gonna make a habit out of it.
  • John does not mention Pearson. Sadie and Pearson hated each other.
  • Stunning Vista. Absolutely stunning.
  • Changed the game capture resolution to 1440p just for this.
  • Opened the map to see Armadillo, which I remember from RDR 1.
  • I guess that’s not accessible. Just now I get the mental map of RDR 1 and RDR 2.
  • For a second I thought all of what I saw on the vista was accessible.
  • Chose stealth but the game forces a shootout.
  • I didn’t loot James Langston. Seems there’s nothing there.
    • I don’t know why John says to Sadie it’s John Marston here… in Blackwater. But why?? Isn’t he wanted in Blackwater too?

  • Uncle NPC encounter. Trying to cheat at poker.
  • Uncle at Beecher’s hope.
  • I visit MacFarlane ranch. It triggers a dialogue between a rancher.
    • Family’s been hit by the sickness.
    • Daughter’s been travelling.
  • I decide to go to the border to see what happens.
  • NPC camper.
    • Interesting dialogue about New Austin, and the fever that’s gripping Armadillo and Tumbleweed.
    • Also he mentioned poker, gambling and a big black sheriff called Sam something.
    • Like many of these he says “Do I know you”. I pressed Respond Positively. He left. I wonder what he’ll
  • See someone burning bodies at a cemetery.
    • Interesting dialogue. It seems there is a Cholera plague at Armadillo
    • New dialogue opens up when I try to steal his horse saddle. “Hey you will get sickness mister”
    • Save the game.
    • Then I point a gun at him and he runs. He says I am sick
  • I go to Armadillo and on the way I get robbed by this Mexican gang Del Lobos.
  • Then at Armadillo I see a Sheriff being threatened and then bribed by the same Mexican gang.
    • I don’t interfere in time and Honor loss.
    • Then I kill the gang.
    • The Entire town is dying. Chaos. People dying. Storefronts boarded up.
    • A NPC telling everyone to stay away.
    • I rob and kill some people
    • I don’t save any of this ofc. Well done.
    • This is a real town. It has a General Store, a Doctor store, a Bar etc.
    • There is no law because the Sheriff died.
    • Unbelievable.
  • I would have never ever ever expected an entire town, particularly from RDR 1 to be here in this game.
  • I didn’t expect the map to be this big. I only expected Blackwater and a bunch of desert to be the locked area.
  • I am quite shocked by the extent of all this.
  • NPC couple family the town behind. Tells us to do the same.
    • “I can’t believe we are leaving all of this behind.”
    • “Do we have enough food and water?”
    • All of this happens at night.

4-17-2026

  • Loaded the game put me in the Church. No bodies.
  • Saw a group of guys riding around in horses.
    • Del Lobos
    • Funny dialogue.
    • Truly funny.
    • Greeted them and they shot me.
  • Good dialogue at the Bar in Armadillo
  • NPC Couple leaving Armadillo
  • OMG. Fort Mercer. It’s occupied by Del Labos.
    • This is where we get shot by someone in RDR 1.
    • I have no good recollection of who it is.
    • Is it Micah? Is it Dutch?
    • My bet is on Micah.
    • Before Kieran’s death I wondered if it was Kieran.
    • I am sure it isn’t Bill.
    • That was my first introduction to RDR universe.
    • Surreal seeing this place.
  • Vistas are visually stunning
  • I cannot believe how large the Epilogue RDR 1 map is.
  • Lot of Del Lobos gang controlled areas.
  • See a dead man.
  • Game crashes.

< Fill Missed Days>

7-22-2026

  • Otis Skinner Bounty mission
    • Recruiting some Indian. Interesting dialogue.
    • “If you kill, you’re just on your own. If you kill us with the Skinners people will think the world is coming undone.”
  • Buying house mission - The Tool Box.
    • One of the most memorable missions I bet.
    • Very good dialogue from Mr. Wayne.
    • Sad he had to die. He mentioned he had a family.-

    A New Jerusalem

    • Letter from Abigail before the house building montage begins.
    • Interesting montage.
      • Nice song.
      • What’s that robin bird doing there?
      • What does it signify?
    • John writes back a letter to Abigail.
    • Excellent montage.
    • 94% story complete.

Exploration

  • So many bodies by Skinner Gang
  • Assault a Skinner camp
  • Get assaulted by the gang on the way to the camp
  • Saw a guy who was almost dead at a camp with arrows in him.
  • Searched the cabins nearby. No notes.
  • See an “Evelyn Miller Camp” — that’s where a gang hideout is.
    • Who is Evelyn Miller? Do we meet him in St. Denis with the Mayor and Rains Fall for the first time?
    • Isn’t Dutch always praising his novels.
    • Why is it his camp and why is it here?
    • So many bodies in a pit.
  • Wow a White Question mark. I didn’t expect any at this stage of the game.
    • Oh, it’s Albert the photographer!
    • Oh, it’s not Evelyn Miller.
    • Now the map marking makes sense!
    • Nice convo.
    • John mentions “My mentor” referring to Dutch.
  • Try to explore unexplored parts. Particularly a dead end
    • It’s a dead end.
    • I wonder if this will be featured in a story.
    • Will we find Dutch here?
    • There is a cave opening. But I can’t get to it.
    • There is nothing there when I see it from the horse.
    • Seems like a high probability this place will be featured in the story.
    • Coachinay it says in the map.
    • WTF
  • Assault a new Skinner hideout.
  • Find a new Trapper.

7/25/2026

  • Exploration
  • Joseph Arroyo Bounty in Tumbleweed.
  • Interesting.
  • I find an Unfinished Letter to Mother from a diseased body in Armadillo.
  • Uncle mission
    • The dialogue is just ..bad. and rushed. WTF?
    • Sadie!
    • New bounty with Sadie.
    • Great dynamic dialogue with Sadie
      • References John has been doing bounties of his own
      • Del Lobos gang
      • Mayor of Tumbleweed and that John has already met him
      • Ramon Cortez
      • Painted Sky
      • Rhodes??
      • Does Sadie realize Pearson is here?
      • I visit Pearson in the middle of the mission!
      • I wonder what happens if its the first time I meet Pearson — I have to ask this on reddit.
      • Rhodes.
      • The dialogue at Dewberry Creek is ominous. Is Sadie going to die?
      • Great mission
  • Fast Travelled and got to Tumbleweed to pick up the Bounty.
    • Saw Joaquin Arroyo there
    • Interesting thing happened - The bounty is Esteban Cortez brother of Ramon Cortez
    • Sheriff Freeman says “Brother of Ramon Cortez now deceased.”
    • Marston says Tell him I knew his brother.
    • Apparently this bounty can be done even before doing the Ramon Cortez mission
      • Ask Reddit if Esteban is mentioned if Ramon Cortez mission is done after the Esteban bounty
    • Did the Esteban Cortez bounty
      • Interesting dialogue by the bandits
      • Captured him but his dialogue was disabled and bugged out I think. - Saw the dialogue on YouTube.
      • Returned him to the Sheriff and he said its the last of the bounties.
      • So I completed all the bounties in the game.
    • Mysterious writing in Blackwater - John noted down in his diary.
    • Witnessed Otis Skinner hanging

    4-26-2026

  • At Blackwater stopped a robbery
  • Another mysterious writing.
  • Saw a stagecoach carrying lumber. It triggered the Castor’s ridge mission.
    • When I went there the place was blocked by a garden.
    • Went inside and stole some stuff with the woman watching.
    • She ran for the lawman for Tresspassing.
    • Evaded a wanted level.
  • Visited Valentine.
    • Nothing unusual.
    • Seems its the first time I visited the smaller saloon.
    • Saw a movie Sailors around the World. somewhat funny but gorgeous illustrations.
  • Now I want to visit the first camp to see what happens.
    • nothing happened.
  • At St Denis
    • Went into the shanty town bar.
    • Saw a prostitute NPC called Daisy - special scene.
    • Pressed Accept.
    • Lured into an ambush with the fellers angry at the boxing fight.
    • Stabbed them and escaped.

5-2-2026

  • Heavy thunderstorm and lightning — I haven’t seen one like this before
  • Saw William the Herb guy in the woods! They don’t discuss Arthur. He gives a Special Miracle Tonic for a special occasion.
  • Evelyn Miller is writing. We bring food to him. We need to visit him later.

Uncle’s Bad Day

  • Nice mission. Harrowing dialogue about killing Uncle if it comes to it.
  • Charles is one of the best characters of the entire saga.
  • Can’t believe I thought he was a rat because he volunteered to get caught while escaping St. Denis with the gang.
  • Uncle is badly burnt but alive.
  • Bug: Rachel comes following us to the camp.
  • Got throwing knife kills and unlocked the weapon’s expert 3.
  • Nice dialogue after the mission.
  • Charles reassuring John he’s safe here.

The Best of Women - Abigail is back.

  • I can’t believe that’s all the reaction from Jack Marston.
  • Even Abigail’s reaction was I thought a little underwhelming.
  • But still very heartwarming part of the story.
  • Charles is up and about.
  • I see two missions - Abigail and Jack Marston.
  • I do all the chores. Well designed for the ranch.

  • Evelyn Miller mission icon is missing.
    • I go up there he’s still writing.
  • I pick up a rare flower and it says you can sell it to a collector (St Denis botanist)

  • Elias Skinner hanging in Blackwater
  • Otis Skinner burial by the Preacher at the Blackwater cemetary. I interrupted it. Lost honor when I tried to loot his grave. Nothing to loot though.

  • NPC dialogue between Charles and Uncle.
  • The Evelyn miller mission isn’t showing so I am just going to do Abigail.
    • Nice detail. blood in a blanket in one of the rooms. Uncle’s

Sadie Adler bounty mission (triggered by Abigail)

  • Abigail does not appear to know Sadie is alive.
  • Sadie stressed that bounties are legal work.
  • Micah is alive! Someone sounding like Micah killed a family or something.
  • Abigail hates the idea of going after Micah as much as going after bounties.
  • Sadie to John Marston: “Remember what going after Micah means for everything.. you got a settled life here.”
  • Huge bear.
  • Accountant bounty. Unremarkable.
  • Good dialogue between Sadie and John.
  • Sadie - I can’t be thinking about you and your family every time I hear a gunshot.
  • Can’t believe it’s going to end. The game is at 96% story completion after this mission.

Keep Trying - Jack Marston mission.

  • Taking Jack fishing.
  • Eerily similar to the Arthur taking Jack fishing mission - that’s when it all went down - Pinkertons found out where they are.
    • So many memories — Dutch plainly asking Arthur “so why didn’t you take the deal?”
  • Is this a endgame sort of mission?
  • Are we going to be found out by the Pinkertons?
  • How many more missions are there?
  • Could this be the final mission?
  • Jack mentions Arthur taking fishing .. and city people looking for him.
  • Oh no Rufus got snake bit. I was expecting something more sinister.
  • John: “Sometimes things you don’t expect happen”.
  • Charles after the mission. John says Sadie heard something about Micah.

A New Future Imagined — Abigail Marston mission

  • Now, is this the last mission?
  • Uncle and Abigail fighting.
  • Angus and the Geddes son donate furniture how nice.
  • Great dialogue on the stagecoach.
    • Good decent wholesome fun.
    • Portrait. How great.
    • Are they going to caught by Pinkertons at Blackwater ????
    • I am being paranoid. Keep thinking someone is going to recognize them.
    • Good photography scene.
    • They’re by the lake.
    • Isn’t this the exact spot the Blackwater Ferry heist would have happened?
  • 99% story completion.
  • This is truly the penultimate mission.

American Venom

  • Jack is reading some story to Abigail and Uncle
  • The House is clean and developed. Jack has his own room with posters.
  • No BS start cutscene.
  • Sadie just comes and says Micah’s associate was seen in Strawberry and he killed a woman.
  • Abigail is 100% right. Risk all this for revenge?
  • Jack mentions this as Arthur helping us escape.
  • Jack: This isn’t real if we just let Micah escape. This is as real as Jack’s dragons.
  • Truly great moral conundrum.
  • Charles wants to be a family man. Go up north to Canada or someplace.
  • So many thoughts rush my mind
    • What happened to Tilly?
    • What happened to Karen?
    • What happened to Mary Beth?
    • What happened to Swanson?
    • What happened to Javier?
    • What happened to Bill?
    • I made the mistake of getting a glance at a YouTube thumbnail of “reactions to Arthur’s death” video and seeing Tilly in it.
    • Are they all characters like Pearson that should have been found in the world but wasn’t?
    • I came across Pearson by sheer accident afterall.
  • We’re going after Cleet the “rat face” looking one. I truly didn’t expect him to be featured in the future.
  • Makes sense since this is where we first find Micah .. in Strawberry.
  • Very unrealistic that the NPCs don’t react at first.
  • Then it’s realistic that the NPC crowd gathers at his hanging.
  • I spare him. Honor increased.
  • Micah is in the mountains. Mount Hagen. With a gang. Figures.
  • I wonder if it’s the same location as Flaco Hernandez.
  • A few months ago, I made the mistake of seeing a thumbnail with Micah and Dutch in the snow but old. Back then I figured Arthur would kill them at the end of RDR 2 for some reason even though I knew that Arthur would die from TB.
  • Charles shot.
  • Then Sadie is stabbed. (unfortunately knew this from a YouTube thumbnail spoiler)
  • I hate the music for the mission. Just hate it.
  • Joe is now dead.
  • Nice setup .. through the mountains. I think I’ve been here before but not 100% sure.
  • Would not be shocked if instead of Micah it was Dutch.
  • Dutch shoots Micah. Why?
  • I should re-vist the dialogue on Youtube to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
  • THE LONGEST CREDITS I’VE SEEN.
  • Pinkertons are following up on stuff. They’re inquiring John’s whereabouts. They’re on Mount Hagen looking at Micah’s body.
  • Mary Beth is alive!
  • Tilly is Alive!
  • Arthur’s grave. Mary mourns!
  • Pearson sees the photo of the gang.
  • No sign of Dutch, Bill, Karen or Swanson.
  • 194 hours it took.

Post completion stuff.

Apparently there are jail breakout scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFXZyf9gL6E

5/6