BARGHEST

[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!

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[recode]

. . . the mystery of the train tracker?

Fine. I'm good at survival, I'm sure.

[chuggachuggasnoozesnooze]

Excellent!

[recode]

So? How do I start?

[chuggachuggasnoozesnooze]

You talk to the conductor!

[ There's a red-haired frumpy looking conductor standing over by Barghest's train! ]

[recode]

[. . . approaching conductorchan]

Excuse me.

[soulping]

[ The conductor gives a small bow, smiling. ]

Oh, hello! Is your team ready?

[recode]

Just about. Before that, I want to talk to you about a few things, though.

[soulping]

Like what, sir?

[recode]

You're the conductor of this train; you know everything about this train, in other words. Where it's going, when it's going and such. Tell me about that, firstly, to warm this conversation up. Where is it going?

[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. ]

[recode]

[hey what if i do the thing where i don't go through the obvious exit and look around to see who the fuck shot the pistol in the first place]

[soulping]

[ Well there's totally a guy in a white suit who just pulled out a pair of pistols

but the actual shot came from the EAST. ]

[recode]

[oh, oh okay. loudly:]

Stay calm, everyone! Please stay in your seats. [wwwwwatching the white suited guy as she gets up to go east]

[soulping]

[ they absolutely do not listen

But as the whitesuited guy gets ready to fire, some blacksuited guys burst in with machine guns and tell everyone to do the exact same thing. ]

[recode]

[oh my god these chumps]

[well, listening to those blacksuited guys to hear what they have to say 9_9]

[soulping]

[ They have a lot of things to say, like about how the senator's wife better come with them and how they're going to definitely free their master with this an --

oh

oh the whitesuited guy is shooting at them now

there is now a gunfight in the dining car ]

[recode]

[well that's great. hiding and maneuvering herself over near one of the blacksuited guys and perhaps their guns if they're dead

and if they're not dead maybe she'll deck them in the face while they're preoccupied with white-suited guy]

[soulping]

[ Wait no this is an empty hall because you were just the gunfight

good job rui

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE WEST, EAST, and NORTH. ]

[recode]

[i did a good i guess]

[lettttt's head north]

ROOM 2.5

[soulping]

[ You are now in the Orchestra's Cabin!

There is a CELLO CASE leaning against the wall, and also a DELICIOUS MEAL on the table in the center. ]

Re: ROOM 2.5

[recode]

[but there are no people?]

Re: ROOM 2.5

[soulping]

[ Nobody! ]

Re: ROOM 2.5

[recode]

[. . . eh, well, okay, exiting the orchestra car and heading east]

CAR 3

[soulping]

[ As you enter this car, you hear absolutely nothing, because once again, you DID THE GUNFIGHT. 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 is there, and cries.

OBVIOUS EXITS ARE EAST AND WEST.

>]

Re: CAR 3

[recode]

[briefly ignoring the nervous man, although if he seems unarmed she'll step between him and the whitesuit, just in case]

You. [with a free hand (the pistols are on her person) pointing to the whitesuit] Who are you, and what's going on in this train?