Wishbone: If you jack a palanquin, you have to persuade the guys carrying it to continue doing so. Granted, a musket is a great persuasion tool, but most likely you can't even see the guy(s) carrying the rear end. All they have to do is let go and leg it. Your ass will hit the ground, and by the time you've gotten out of the thing and sorted out your musket, they'll be around the nearest corner. It's a conundrum...

Aliasalpha: Maybe they'll do something unprecedented in FPS games and invade suburban america. You could have shootouts in hamburger joints

Aliasalpha: Not really, get whatever identifying documents they have and then you can do a cart-by musket shooting on their family