Red Dead Redemption 2: 10 Best Stranger Missions You Must Find
8. The Smell Of The Grease Paint - Van Horn
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The Smell of the Grease Paint certainly fits the bill for a 'strange mission', with Arthur encountering a clan of travelling performers just south of the mining town of Annesburg.
At the Saloon, Arthur will encounter a large man called Bertram, and a woman called Miss Marjorie. The latter is in distress at the prospect of one of her band having gone missing, while the former attempts to entertain himself at the bar. Eventually, he gets into a fight with the barkeep, which leads to Arthur's intervention.
Once Bertram's been dealt with, Marjorie asks Arthur to find her other performer - a magician by the name of Magnifico. Eventually, should the player choose to return to Saint Denis, they can actually watch a show starring the group, which is icing on the cake.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
