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Just a Social Call, Micah Bell
Chapter 6 โ€“ Beaver Hollow

Just a Social Call

Micah Bell

Arthur meets Dutch and Micah in Annesburg where they are planning to confront Leviticus Cornwall.

Mission giver
Micah Bell
Playable
Not stated
Location
Annesburg, Roanoke Ridge, New Hanover
Target
Not stated
Unlocked by
Not stated
Unlocks
Not stated

Player notes

Arthur meets Micah Bell in an Annesburg alley, where Micah accuses him of leading someone to them. Arthur denies it and shoves him away, but a coughing fit gives Micah cause to mock his condition. Dutch van der Linde joins them and repeats Micah's suspicion that the gang has a rat. Arthur rejects the idea, blaming the gang's own mistakes and carelessness since Blackwater. Dutch says they are going to speak with Leviticus Cornwall, calling it a simple social call.

The three men head to the harbor and hide behind crates as Cornwall's steamboat arrives. Arthur watches Andrew Milton and Edgar Ross disembark with Cornwall, who berates the Pinkertons over their failure to catch Dutch and threatens their funding. Cornwall sends his secretary, Janson, to telegraph New York and complains to Didsbury about striking miners. Dutch steps out, demands $10,000, Cornwall's ship and safe passage in return for Cornwall's life. Cornwall laughs, and Dutch shoots him dead.

Gunfire erupts as Cornwall's guards and the Pinkertons close in. Arthur fights through Annesburg with Dutch, then finds Micah after Micah knocks Janson unconscious. They reach the mine works, free horses and ride out through Roanoke Ridge until their pursuers fall behind near the Kamassa River. Micah produces papers taken from Janson, revealing Cornwall's arrangement to move dynamite from Annesburg to Saint Denis. Dutch tells Micah, Arthur and Bill to investigate it.

Objectives

7 steps

In the order the game gives them. The unnumbered steps only appear if you go off script.

  1. 1Follow Dutch .
  2. 2Hide behind the crate .
  3. 3Take out the attackers .
  4. 4Follow Dutch and Micah .
  5. 5Free the horses to escape.
  6. 6Escape the attackers with Dutch and Micah.
  7. 7Return to Dutch .

Trivia

  • โ—†Dutch nearly says the title of the mission, except he says "it's just a simple social call."
  • โ—†Cornwall arrives on a steamboat called Malvina, which was a fashionable feminine name during the era. The name and its popularity stem from the bride of the hero Oscar in Scottish writer James MacPhersonโ€™s famous Ossian cycle of epic poems, which were first published in the 1760s. Throughout the poems' stories, a common pattern is for characters to kill loved ones through mistakes, suffer mental breakdowns, and eventually die of grief or suicide.
  • โ—†Cornwall's steamboat also has a similar name and very similar look to Turbinia, built in 1894 by Charles Parsons as the first turbine powered steamboat. It was the fastest boat of its era by a large margin, steaming at over 34 knots, and demonstrated to both military and civil concerns the usefulness of the steam turbine. Parsons' turbines (and those of the type he designed) would go on to be fitted to famous vessels such as HMS Dreadnought and RMS Titanic. At the time of the mission, in 1899, this technology was still considered state of the art, and demonstrates Cornwall's wealth and how he embraces the new technology of the coming century.
  • โ—†It is impossible to loot Cornwall, as his body is nowhere to be found after the cutscene.
  • โ—†Once the player has exited the Jameson Mine and Coal Company, they will be prompted by Dutch to shoot a nearby oil wagon, which will cause a massive explosion, killing several enemies. This can be useful for completing the second gold medal objective as quick as possible.
  • โ—†In the opening cutscene, when discussing the reason for the gang's misfortune, Arthur suggests that the gang's "time has passed." While initially dismissive, this sentiment would be echoed by Dutch years later.
  • โ—†During the entirety of the mission both Dutch and Micah seemingly kill most of the enemies without (much of) the player's involvement, making Arthur (and the player) appear slow and constantly falling behind with not much to do. This might be intentional to show Arthur's sickness affecting his constitution both in the story and to the player, or to show that Dutch is growing more ruthless with Micah's influence.
  • โ—†After completing this mission Micah will give Arthur the permanent nickname "Black Lung", a term for a disease mostly by coal miners whose lungs deteriorated due to inhaling an excessive amount of coal dust, which is fitting due the fact that this mission happens at Annesburg, a coal mining town.
  • โ—†If the player visits Van Horn after the mission, some people may talk about Cornwall's death:
  • โ—†The Post Office Clerk will ask Arthur if he had heard about the murder of Leviticus Cornwall and will comment that "the whole country had gone to the dogs."
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Last verified September 14, 2026