
The Steamer Reach
The willow-shaded landing where the cruise begins, a striped promenade with a steam organ, the wheelhouse under a rising moon, a bandstand riverboat on still bayou water, an island castle in sunset mist and a tour boat threading pink granite.


Steam Organ Promenade

Wheelhouse by Moonlight

Bandstand on the Bayou

Turrets in the Mist

Pink Granite Channel
Aboard the paddle-steamer itself
The Willow Mooring and Pink Granite Channel are plain-line landings of medium volatility: what lands on the reels is all there is. Steam Organ Promenade is the calm one, low volatility with spreading wilds. Bandstand on the Bayou gives the fifth reel a second turn when two scatters show and nothing has paid.
Turrets in the Mist uses the same fifth-reel rule at high volatility, and Wheelhouse by Moonlight carries the steepest climb on the river, from double to ten times. The Willow Mooring is open on a deck pass.
Landings on the Steamer Reach, by current
- The Willow Mooring: plain sailing, medium volatility, open on a deck pass.
- Steam Organ Promenade: floodwater wilds, low volatility.
- Wheelhouse by Moonlight: rising tide, high volatility.
- Bandstand on the Bayou: fifth-reel eddy, medium volatility.
- Turrets in the Mist: fifth-reel eddy, high volatility.
- Pink Granite Channel: plain sailing, medium volatility.
Casting off from the Steamer Reach
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