Who: Aunt Rose and OPEN
Where: Salvation Apothecary, about town
When: All but the last couple days-ish of the breach
What: Before You Get Bumrushed wild west breach
Warnings: TBA

Even with an influx of new faces in town, Rose Shelby feels no need to advertise her own business. The locals know both where to find her and of her reputation for being very, very good, both at mixing medicines and at midwifery, when it's called for. As for the newcomers, well, it's no skin off her nose if they're daft enough not to know what to make of her little storefront, right in the middle of downtown with its sign declaring Salvation Apothecary, and a pictogram of a mortar and pestle for those poor sods who never learned to read.

She does, however, immediately start to stock up on hangover cures and balms for cuts and bruises. Strangers in town, in her lengthy experience, mean more drinking and more fighting. And lucky for her customers, she grows as much of her herbs as she buys or trades from local farms, traders, or orders from back east, so her shelves typically stay quite well-supplied.

To most of the town, she's Aunt Rose, though she's only a blood aunt to one Thomas Shelby. A gentle way, perhaps, of avoiding the fact that she's a lifelong spinster, now well past her marriageable years. It's one of the things she likes about the west - being a single woman of her age, and a shop proprietor at that - would make her something of a pariah among those with more sensitive constitutions in the cities. Here, people see her skills before her skirts.

She's a small woman, and fierce, with her fingers on the pulse of the community. She finds ways to get her medicine to those who can't afford it, and aids Pastor Boyd's charity ventures quite frequently. She even takes in strays with some frequency.

And when some of those strays have a criminal history - or when the topic turns to her beloved nephew's "business ventures," for that matter - well, she's always sure she has no idea what folks are talking about.

When she's not behind the counter at her shop, she can be found about town, visiting friends and clients or catching up on news with the neighbors. It's not uncommon for her to bring her nephew a lunch so he has something that isn't drunk or smoked, nor is anyone surprised when she gets in heated arguments with the town doctor on a regular basis.