Absalom Hotchkiss and joining posses

Hi guys, just had a thought regarding this dude:

Absalom Hotchkiss 4:spades:
Dude • Draw 2 • Influence 1 • Cost 4 • Upkeep 0

React: After Absalom moves to the location of an Abomination, move one of your other dudes to his location.

I issue a callout with an Abomination dude and a shootout starts. Absalom is the first dude to join my posse, booting from an adjacent location. Can he then use his React to move another dude to the location of the shootout mid-posse formation, allowing them to then join the posse as the formation step continues?

(Would let you move a booted dude to the location to join the posse, or move a dude there to join without booting).

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Yes, per Rulebook section 6.1

Posse formation occurs in the following manner:

  1. First, the player who is the leader has their dude who initiated the call-out join their posse automatically.
  2. Then, the player who is the leader sequentially selects additional dudes to join the posse in the following manner: a. A dude is declared to join the posse, and any costs associated with the dude joining the posse are paid. b. Then, if the dude is unbooted and adjacent to the location of the shootout, the dude boots and joins the posse.
  3. Once the player who is the leader has completed forming his posse, the player who is the mark follows the same structure, with the dude who is the mark joining his posse first automatically, and then sequentially having dudes join his posse (following the same structure).

The Reaction will trigger during this and then continue forming your posse before the lead starts flyin!

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