Session Three: Train Shenanigans, part two

As the train speeds up, the split party continues fighting the Warforged thieves in coach and in the first class section.

The coach party, composed of Damarris, Lou and Quartz, is sandwiched between two groups of thieves and fights on two fronts. Lou charges an enemy towards the back of the train while Quartz and Damarris concentrate on the attackers in the front. Lou fights valiantly but is eventually gunned down by the final enemy in his wagon. Quartz reaches Lou, stabilizes him and kills the gunman as Damarris is pinned down by two other gunmen guarding the door to first class.

Meanwhile, the first class party, Nyx, Fletcher and Sparky, fights their way towards the locomotive, where they find the conductor and other staff slaughtered by the Warforged and their leader, Fred. As the party enters the locomotive, Fred attempts to break off the train's speed lever to make sure the train crashes into the Mournland, but Fletcher shoots his prostetic hand at the lever to keep it in place as Nyx and Sparky defeat Fred's minions and move in. Fred tries fighting off the party, but is soon killed and melted across the floor by one of Sparky's overcharged lightning bolts.

As Nyx slows the train down to a more reasonable speed, the remaining Warforged thieves correctly deduce that their leader was defeated and promptly flee by jumping off a window.

The full party reconvenes in their first class cabin, heal up, ponder the dangers of splitting the party and rest, until Sparky reminds them that no one is actually conducting the train. Lou, Quartz and Sparky go to the locomotive. Worried that this again constitutes splitting the party and might somehow trigger another attack on the train, Quartz decides to switch on the trainwide intercom system to keep in contact with the party members who stayed in the first class cabin, sharing his intimate thoughts in great detail with every surviving passenger. A mob of distressed passengers knock on the locomotive door to beg Quartz to please, please shut the fuck up and let them rest for the remainder of the journey. Lou promises to control Quartz and Sparky decides to accompany the other passengers in coach to be a reassuring presence to the survivors and be petted.