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[soulping]

[ The Traveler steps in front of all of you, her arms raised dramatically! ]

Today, we take the first step of a very, very long journey together! This dream belongs to a young man, a criminal and his gang who on an otherwise normal heist has gotten in way over his head! Normally, this would be a nightmare, full of blood and death and abject horror!

Fortunately, I have taken the liberty of altering this dream so that it is completely safe and above all, fun! It would not do to have your first foray into the world of unreality to be so unwelcoming! The goal of this game is to survive, reach the end, and solve the mystery...

The mystery of the Train Tracker!

Comments

[horsefacing]

[wtf]

So we have to survive but it's going to be safe? Also it's a mystery? How is this even a game?

[chuggachuggasnoozesnooze]

It is a race against the other teams! And trust me, no harm will come to you.

[horsefacing]

A mystery race? [huffs] Well, either way I have to play so let's just get started.

[chuggachuggasnoozesnooze]

Just speak with the conductor!

[ There's a young, red-haired frumpy looking conductor standing by Epona's train. ]

[soulping]

[ A young conductor ushers you aboard, his frumpy red hair gleaming beneath his hat.

You're in the dinner car of your team's train, where some very clearly high-class people are mingling...for the most part. There's some people up at the bar that you can tell are LESS THAN SCRUPULOUS. Also, one of them is apparently a cowboy? It's 1931, for godssakes.

The cowboy appears to be telling the young nervous man a story. Something about a TRAIL TRACKER, that appears on trains to murder everyone, at which point the train vanishes...obviously a urban legend, but the nervous man proceeds to FLIP THE FUCK OUT ABOUT IT, and runs off out of the car, insisting that he needs to find the young conductor to warn him that everyone on the train is going to die.

The moment he vanishes, you hear the sound of a pistol firing, and people start to panic. Welp.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE EAST.

> ]

[horsefacing]

[oh no the rail tr-i mean, train tracker-- is gonna get me better take that obvious exit]

Yeah, sounds safe.

[soulping]

[ what's a rail tracer I haven't heard of a thing like that

Advance to CAR 2. ]

CAR 2

[soulping]

[ As you leave the dinner car, you see a group of people in black suits, carrying cases for musical instruments, running into it. The nervous man seems to have stopped for a second, watching them as they file in, wondering what the christ they're doing when someone just fired a gun.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE WEST, EAST, and NORTH.

> ]

Re: CAR 2

[horsefacing]

[address the nervous man? can he do that? if he can do that he does it

otherwise he goes north]

Hey, you alright?

Re: CAR 2

[soulping]

I'm fine right now, but everyone on this train is gonna die! I gotta tell the conductor!

CAR 3

[soulping]

[ There's nothing in here but a few crates, which if you wanted you could probably climb up to the HATCH on the roof.

SUDDENLY, a man in a white suit carrying a pistol walks in. The nervous man cries.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE EAST AND WEST.

>]

Re: CAR 3

[horsefacing]

[oshit]

Who is that?!

Re: CAR 3

[soulping]

[ A GUY WITH A GUN, OBVIOUSLY

AND HE JUST FIRED AT YOU.

You get hit in the shoulder, but there's no blood or pain. Just a sticker on your forehead that reads 'BLEEDING'. ]

[soulping]

[ You go up through the hatch, to find yourself on the roof of the train. There doesn't really seem to be much up here, and if you could find another hatch it might be a easy way to get to the conductor's cabin!

...Seems really hard to climb across, though. One wrong step would mean death.

Kilo's status changes to 'BLEEDING SEVERELY'.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE DOWN and EAST. ]

[horsefacing]

[he decides to check and see if he can go back down and keep moving after HOTTUB

after all he's not the objective of that guy right?]

[soulping]

[ WELL HE'D HAVE SHOT AT YOU AGAIN BUT

he already moved on, anyway, by the time you come back down.

Backtrack to CAR 3 and then advance to CAR 4. ]

[soulping]

[ The NERVOUS MAN runs past you, before bumping into a RATHER LARGE MAN in a white suit, who has just exited his cabin. He seems upset, but the NERVOUS MAN apologizes, babbles something about having to find the conductor, and continues on.

The RATHER LARGE MAN scowls, but the sound of MACHINE GUNS intensifies, and suddenly he's skipping down the hall towards you, singing about how EXCITED he is.

Kilo's status is "DANGEROUSLY BLEEDY".

Obvious exits are EAST, WEST, and NORTH. ]

[horsefacing]

[Following the NERVOUS MAN if possible, but also looking for anything to wrap his not!wound with to try and stop it so he can keep going. Hopefully the RATHER LARGE MAN lets him go by seeing as he's already wounded?]

[soulping]

[ The RATHER LARGE MAN totally just skips by him.

You see some CURTAINS on the windows you may be able to use...or you could look around in OTHER ROOMS for something more substantial. ]

CAR 5

[soulping]

[ Wow, you're almost home free! You see some blacksuits talking to eachother...but then one turns his back, and the other is pulled out the WINDOW. The other turns, and starts freaking out, calling for back-up on his WALKIE-TALKIE...and then is also pulled out.

SOME MYSTERIOUS THINGS HAPPENING ON THIS TRAIN?

Kilo's status is 'WOUNDED'.

Obvious exits are WEST, EAST, NORTH, and WINDOW. ]

> ]

Re: CAR 5

[horsefacing]

[UH SO THE WINDOW SEEMS LIKE A NO

walking quickly through the car heading EAST]

Re: CAR 5

[soulping]

[ Advance to CAR 6. ]

CAR 6

[soulping]

[ QUICK WALKING SUCCESSFUL!

You have reached the FRONT OF THE TRAIN. Here you spot A DEAD, HORRIBLY MUTILATED RED-HAIRED PERSON. There is a PRISTINE CONDUCTOR'S HAT on the ground.

The NERVOUS MAN is staring in ABJECT TERROR. ]

H-he's dead! I'm too late, the Train Tracker's already here!

[ HOTTUB BLEMISH CRIES. ]

Re: CAR 6

[horsefacing]

[



ok that's how long it took him not to throw up about the corpsepuddle and address hottub]

I think a few more weird things are happening than just the story you heard.

Re: CAR 6

[soulping]

...Like the guns, yeah?