Session Two: Train Shenanigans

After a delicious breakfast of fresh wild boar bacon prepared by Quartz, the party gets back on the road to Starilaskur. About twenty miles from the city, they come across a party of goblinoids camping in the middle of the road. Not taking any chances, the team chooses to scale a short cliff and sneak around the goblinoid camp via the nearby woods. Before reaching the road back, Lou steps on a rope trap and gets hoisted up a tree by his ankle. He is able to cut himself free, but falls hard on Damarris, who tried to catch him. Fletcher heals up Damarris and the party rejoins the main road further ahead.

The party finally reaches Starilaskur and heads straight for the lightning rail station. Damarris uses this opportunity to mail a letter to her family in New Cyre. Nyx and Fletcher purchase first-class tickets and board early. Sparky is allowed to accompany Nyx, as they pretended he was their emotional support dog. Damarris, Lou and Quartz, with their coach tickets, have to have their luggage scanned by a warforged security officer. The warforged detects the explosives in Quartz's bag and sends him to the security office for questioning. Damarris bluffs her way in the office as well, posing as Quartz's guardian. Lou tries to use his old Sharn Watch badge to get in as well, but is rebuffed. Quartz and Damarris fail to convince the security officer to allow them to take the explosives inside the train, and board without them.

About halfway through the journey, the train violently stops. Several warforged in each wagon produce weapons and demand all passengers surrender their money, weapons, valuables and clothing to them. In coach, Quartz immediately burns the gun out of one of the assailants' hand, triggering a fight. In first class, Sparky scratches at the compartment door to investigate why the train stopped, but one of the warforged kicks the door open, sending Sparky flying across the room, and demands Nyx hand over their money and clothes at gunpoint. Nyx talks back and is immediately shot.

In the coach wagon, Quartz disarms a second gunman, who grabs a civilian hostage and threatens to slit their throat. Both disarmed gunmen back away from the party and call for reinforcements from the two neighboring wagons as Damarris stabs the swordsman to death. In the first class wagon, Sparky kills one of the two assailants with a lightning bolt. The surviving one uses his communicator and says: "Gun it, Fred!"

The train then starts going forward full steam ahead, and the "Captain" broadcasts a train-wide announcement threatening to crash the train past Vathirond station into the Mournland, killing all passengers, unless the party surrenders to their demands. Warforged then converge towards the coach party's wagon.