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0:00Welcome back to part two of The Ghost
0:02Light Express from The Crooked Moon,
0:05available now on DND Beyond. That's
0:08right, Andy. You may know us uh Legends
0:10of Evantress as uh the bunch of goofy
0:12goobers that you see animated shorts of
0:15featuring Chuckles the Clown, uh Torbeck
0:18the Bug Bear, Bitsy the Mouse, and all
0:20of their silly shenanigans. But we are
0:22also publishers and we have published
0:24The Crooked Moon, a 632page
0:28behemoth of a folk horror tome. All of
0:30it is available on DND Beyond. Inside
0:33you're going to find everything that you
0:34need to run a folk horror adventure for
0:37fifth edition Dn D uh for the 2024
0:40rules. Uh we have 15 subasses, 13
0:43species, 85 monsters, 11 of which are
0:46epic uh boss monsters. uh 13 of which
0:49are familiars with rules to summon and
0:52uh and bond with any class. There is 13
0:55backgrounds, 14 feats, a 350 page
1:00adventure campaign from levels one uh to
1:0314 primarily and then optional endgame
1:05content all the way to level 20. 26
1:08upgrading magic items that uh upgrade
1:10through all tiers of play. 13 potions,
1:1213 cursed items. There's a lot. That's a
1:14lot. Dark bargains. Dark bargain. Oh,
1:16there's 13 dark bargains. Exactly.
1:17Right. What about all those maps?
1:19There's like over 50 maps. Oh, there's
1:20over the fate weaving system. What about
1:21the fate weaving system? Fatew weaving
1:23system is where you can tie your parties
1:27backgrounds and motivation into the
1:28overall crooked moon adventure campaign.
1:30There is a ton. There's too much to
1:32mention of folklore. There's so much.
1:34There's so much. But we should mention
1:36the chaotic curses. Oh my god. You may
1:38have seen on our shorts the results of
1:40the wacky chaotic curses. We have 156 of
1:44them. a table with 156 that also
1:47interface with the tarot deck if you
1:48happen to have one of those where they
1:51can be wacky, they can be hilarious,
1:52they can be scary, they can be spooky,
1:55they can be ooky. I don't think any are
1:58boring. Skeletons might chill up. That's
2:01true. That is true. Skeletons might
2:04chill up. That scares me. And so on D
2:07and D Beyond, you have a lot of options
2:08here. Well, you have three options.
2:10That's a lot.
2:11There's part one, which is the player
2:14options and the campaign. Oh, there's a
2:16whole campaign setting. There's a whole
2:18campaign setting with the 13 Province of
2:20Dusk involved. Uh, and so you can get
2:22part one on D and D Beyond that features
2:24the character options in the campaign
2:25setting. Then part two, you can get the
2:29adventure uh and the monsters as well as
2:31the uh the treasury for both of them. Or
2:34you can get the bundle and you save 10
2:35bucks. Bingo. So, I mean, clear choice.
2:39Clear choice. Which more do you want?
2:40Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The bundle is great.
2:42There's so many folk horror goodies.
2:44There are even cryptids. Bigfoots even
2:48and Moth Man. I am Nikki and I'll be
2:51your dungeon mistress this evening. Join
2:53us as we journey beneath the crooked
2:54moon. All aboard the Ghost Light
2:57Express.
2:59[Music]
3:07Hungry woods
3:09reaching high
3:14snatch the light out from the sky.
3:19Leafy size
3:21creaking bones.
3:26Pray you don't get found alone.
3:29[Music]
3:34Cricly crack the branches. Puppy crawls.
3:36The night that never stops. The tree
3:39that leans with twisted grin. Her limbs
3:41are thrown. Her soul is sin. Underneath
3:44the crooked moon
3:48stalks the king on clove.
3:53In pale decay and empty gloom,
3:58he comes for you.
4:00[Music]
4:05Six horns his crown
4:08his kingdom
4:12for life delicious heat is cold.
4:20He carries six of sword and seal
4:27once souls the fallen kneel.
4:37Run run run don't shrink and cow and
4:40join us at the wood chimp and sing
4:43thrashing light to sw the streets of
4:46endless night. Dance beneath the crooked
4:49moon
4:51and rising rapture hand in hand.
4:56From pale decay and empty
5:00will comfort you.
5:05May our light embrace you too
5:10and kiss the edge of midnight zoo.
5:14The breakest place in a blue.
5:20[Music]
5:35Last time, Carnival Lrew found
5:37themselves through the veil after
5:39passing to the realms of death. Suddenly
5:42becoming reborn into new forms, a
5:44mysterious ghost train arrived to take
5:46them to the next stage of the afterlife,
5:49a land of eternal night called
5:51Duskinbald.
5:52After boarding the Ghost Light Express,
5:54things went wrong as a phantom train
5:56hopper attacked and attempted to corrupt
5:58the locomotive. Now, the crew has
6:01received an ominous terror reading from
6:03the Lady of the Land, unsure of if they
6:06can stop the coming doom.
6:10Adela looks down at the card that she
6:13holds in her hand. The tower card, a
6:17blazing wicker man at top a hill,
6:20the village, a light in flame. The look
6:23on her face is distant, almost as if
6:27she's
6:28seeing something none of you can see,
6:31seeing a different place in time. As she
6:35shakes her head, she
6:39continues to stare at the card for a
6:40minute before shuffling all of your
6:42cards back into the deck. the
6:47feelings that have overcome her. At the
6:49end of this tarot reading, she quickly
6:52buries beneath a smile as she
6:57adjusts in her seat and places her hands
7:01beneath her chin. Well, I mean, that's
7:05that's great. You all got your your
7:06tarot read. And we even got a little a
7:08couple of special cards. One for the
7:10lovers and, you know, one for me. Oh,
7:14was that a good reading?
7:17Well, you know, with the cards, you can
7:19never really say whether it's good or
7:20bad. It's really guidance. It's helping
7:23you to see what the future holds for
7:26you. It's up to you how your future
7:28plays out.
7:30It's like a horror scope.
7:34I'm sorry. What? It's all about how you
7:36interpret it. My girlfriend Tiffany told
7:38me all about it. Oh, yeah. Sean, no.
7:42That sounds about right. Are you feeling
7:46all right? Oh, yeah. It's been a long
7:48day. The Yeah, the train was shaking
7:51there for a little bit. I think I'm I'm
7:54feeling a bit
7:56feeling like I could take a bit of a
7:57nap. I might head to the sleeper car in
7:59a while and try and catch a couple of
8:02Z's, maybe snuggle with Phil. But, uh,
8:05for now, I'm okay. I'm doing all right.
8:10May I determine if I feel like she is
8:13telling the truth, that she's not
8:15shaken? Um, roll a perception check or
8:19insight. Roll inside. Oh, that's going
8:21to be a 17. Um,
8:26yeah, she's not doing a very good job of
8:28hiding it. It's very clear that she is
8:30putting on heirs of being okay, but
8:33there is something about the reading,
8:35whether it was the final card or the
8:37reading as a whole, that has shaken her.
8:41Well, all right, Miss Dela, just make
8:43sure you get some rest and Oh, yeah.
8:46Just take it easy. You know what? I'll
8:48I'll have a drink. Phil, can you can Can
8:51you get your darling a drink? And Phil
8:53nods his head and he leans behind uh
8:56towards the bar and grabs a couple of
8:57the bottles and begins to mix her uh a
9:00drink. He barely is even looking at what
9:02he's doing. All the while he's clearly
9:04watching Adella. Um you can see worry
9:06lines on his face as he monitors her,
9:09but he quickly makes a drink and uh
9:12holds it in his hand as he slowly walks
9:15behind her. the tapping of his cane can
9:17be heard on the wooden floor of the
9:18lounge car as he um stands behind her
9:23and places the drink in front of her,
9:25leans down, places a gentle kiss on her
9:27cheek, and whispers something softly
9:28into her ear. Uh she looks at him and
9:31smiles and nods and he makes his way
9:34back towards the bar, leans up against
9:36the wall and crosses one leg over the
9:38other and he looks content. He looks
9:40happy. Um but he continues to monitor
9:43[Music]
9:48Oh, she's back. I mean, she's just been
9:50sitting there at the table with you. Oh,
9:52well, everything's going to be fine. And
9:54if anything not going to be fine, it's
9:56going to be fine soon. So, don't you
9:57worry. Uh, a pretty hair on your little
10:00chinny chim chin. Everything's going to
10:02be fine. Oh, yeah. No, no, nothing's
10:03wrong at all. I scout's on. Oh, no. I'm
10:07I'm sure you're right. And honestly,
10:09it's just been such a long trip. I think
10:12I think it's really time that Phil and I
10:14get home to Chateau Cla DeLoon. So, I
10:17mean, I'm not sure how long we've been
10:19on this train. It feels like forever,
10:20but we can't be too far from Dusk
10:23involved. And then I'll be home safe and
10:27sound in my own bed. I'm sure you can't
10:30wait to to get back home to yours or I
10:33guess wherever you're going.
10:35I mean, who's to say, frankly? I mean,
10:37you know, we I mean, you could say we're
10:40a couple of vagabons,
10:43a uh group of renegades. Oh, we go where
10:47the wind takes us. And you know, uh
10:49trailblazers
10:51where we lay our head is our bed. Right
10:54now, the train is taking us to wherever
10:55we end up. Uh we have no home in Truskin
10:59Valds. there. There really is no place
11:03where we could call our Maybe you can
11:05help direct us when we get there.
11:07Something's kind of currently behind us.
11:09And of course, you're welcome at Chateau
11:11Cleon anytime you want to come by and
11:13stay. But I mean, thank you. It's been
11:15lovely getting to know you. Thank you.
11:18You all seem very sweet and
11:22just just peachy, every single one of
11:24you. I am I am feeling a bit tired
11:27though. So, if it's all right with you,
11:29I think I'm going to have Phil escort me
11:31to the sleeper card. Oh, you all can
11:33enjoy the bar and the lounge and just
11:37the rest of the ride. And if you need
11:39anything, well, we're no we're room
11:41number one.
11:43Oh, thank you. Well, we're not going to
11:45stop by or nothing. No, that would be
11:47untold. And if we're not there, we'll be
11:49right back here. So, you'll know where
11:51to find us if you need us.
11:54Rest well. Rest well. Have a good
11:56evening. and and we'll discuss other
11:58options for like forms once we get
12:00there. We don't talk about that. Sleep
12:02well toler
12:08gets up and you see she's a little bit
12:09shaky as she writes herself and Phil
12:11quickly almost um almost quicker than
12:14your eyes perceive. Darts behind her and
12:17holds her up as he wraps his arm around
12:19her. Um they begin to glide out of the
12:23um stroll out of the train car, but you
12:25realize that Phil is holding her up. She
12:27is so petite and short that he's got her
12:30in his arms and her feet are not even
12:32touching the ground as he um moves them
12:35out of the out of the lounge car. And
12:37with this gentle click of the door, uh
12:40Philip and Adella make their way to a
12:43little bit of an afternoon nap. Uh, and
12:46you are left in the smoky confines of
12:49the lounge car. You look around you and
12:52outside of the the single um hate that
12:57you have seen here. You're alone here,
13:00but the bar is stocked. The uh the
13:03tufted seats are plush. The ambiance is
13:08cozy and relaxing with the gentle
13:10flickering of the yellow light of the
13:11the wall sconces.
13:14The moment that they are gone and have
13:16have exited the car, I will look around
13:19with the rest of my community and say,
13:21"Well, Torbach doesn't want to alarm
13:23anybody." Uh, but Torbbeck understands
13:25that we just told her that everything's
13:27going to be fine. Does Torbbeck need to
13:30remind all of you that Frost literally
13:32got a card of death and Torbeck got the
13:36devil? That doesn't seem very good.
13:39Well, we also know that nothing's
13:41nothing okay. Torbeck. All right. The
13:44the train's all up. Yeah, that
13:45that spooky ghost. He was a spooky ghost
13:48and he taught two face. I look over to
13:50the hat.
13:53You look to the h and you see that she
13:55is she's looking wistfully out the
13:58window. Uh, one of her legs is draped
14:01over the other as she rocks her foot
14:03back and forth to a melody that's
14:05playing in her head and her head alone.
14:08the um the dress that she's wearing is
14:11completely covered in sequined fringe or
14:14beaded fringe. And as she as she moves
14:16and she holds her cigarette, a loft in
14:19her hand, um you watch as her spectral
14:22dress um
14:25uh jingles this way and that almost like
14:28a dance. And it's it's almost enchanting
14:34as you watch this and you realize that
14:36there's a or you you notice a single um
14:41spectral tear rolling down her cheek.
14:43She quickly wipes it away with one
14:46finger. You it so quickly you almost
14:49didn't notice it was there as she tries
14:52to uh temper down whatever feeling she's
14:54keeping under control. But she there's a
14:59there's a sorrow about her and you
15:01realize that that sorrow you felt it
15:04when you entered this car. You had a
15:06small uh a small encounter with her when
15:10you first entered. But that feeling that
15:12she's emanating is growing and it's
15:15beginning to you're able to feel it now
15:17on the opposite end of of this train
15:20car.
15:21What were we supposed to say, man? I
15:23mean, the vagrant said, "Keep it all on
15:25the hush." Dormeck just wanted to make
15:27sure we're all on the same page. If
15:29we're lying, we're lying. I mean, you
15:32figure you out a bad call. Mine said the
15:34fool. That's very rude.
15:37I mean, mine said strength. Yeah. Why do
15:39I It's just some kind of pure reflection
15:41of us. Why do you get to be the
15:42strength, but you get to be the emperor?
15:44And we all got terrible cars. Well, I
15:46feel like reading was all generally
15:47positive. Even with death and the devil
15:50and the fool. The literal devil. Yeah,
15:54but wasn't it like kind of a friendly
15:56devil, you know? Yeah. Smiling grinding
15:58devil. Wait a minute. What's wrong with
15:59the devil?
16:02What do you mean? Oh, Torex. Sorry. Come
16:05on. Torb used to the way. I know we're
16:07not both goblinoids anymore, but what?
16:09All of a sudden, everyone's got a
16:10problem with devils. Sorry. You know,
16:13Tor didn't mean that. My Torx dart was
16:15wonderful. Don't make me sting you and
16:17say it's just in my nature. Toby,
16:20wait. Are you an actual devil or are you
16:22like Gibb was before he looked like
16:24this? Well, he kind of looked like a
16:25devil, but he really wasn't at all.
16:27Well, I think I'm more devilish. I don't
16:29think I'm full devil, but I don't really
16:30know the cosminology. Devilishly good.
16:35That's true. I do have a fine goatee,
16:38man. Oh, we should take seriously these
16:41card readings. I think that she has the
16:43prophetic gift and I think that these
16:46cards all do have some reflection of our
16:48future. She's connected to uh the space
16:52between life and death, that liinal
16:53spot. And I imagine that there is going
16:55to be meaning in these cards for each of
16:57us.
16:59How about first we take advantage of
17:01this bar? I wouldn't mind a drink. Yeah.
17:05I like the way you think. Well, serve
17:08them up.
17:09Well, that kind of we got to we got to
17:12deal with it with the ghost. We got to
17:14deal with that. Can't deal with a little
17:16bit of whiskey.
17:18I bet she's down, too. Yeah, fine.
17:22Everybody knows the best cure for
17:24sadness is alcohol.
17:26Tobac, you're a mad genius.
17:29Okay, let's do it. What to do there,
17:32Miss Lady? My associates known to you
17:34from across the room and we I wanted to
17:36inquire if we may uh sit with you for a
17:39while. Oh, honey, you know that we
17:41already talked, right? Yeah. No. Well, I
17:44mean, yeah, I I gave you a little wave,
17:45but you know, now that
17:48the time has passed, I just If you want
17:49to take a seat, you can go ahead. I'm
17:52not going to stop you. All right.
17:55All right. Give me a drink.
17:58Okay.
18:00Did you at least get a girl a drink?
18:02Yeah, we got one right here. Dor's
18:04working on it. We can complain about
18:05hair in the boos.
18:07I I'll go for some drinks and I'll bring
18:09them over, but my finger will be in each
18:11of the glasses as I grab like all six of
18:13them and like place them down. I see
18:15this and I stand and I go make my own
18:17drink. Uh I'll uh reach for I'll reach
18:19for a bottle of milk. Uh thinking of my
18:22umi past, but all of a sudden I realize
18:24that's not the the flavor set that I
18:26want. and I start scurrying around and
18:28looking for what what my new taste buds
18:30might uh entice me. Uh but I'll I'll
18:33keep the bottle. Believe it or not, his
18:35hygiene's improved.
18:38I know it smells like wet dog, but
18:40that's a very big improvement. It's
18:42almost like, oh dear, wet dog. You
18:45definitely should have smelled him
18:46before. You know, this is a huge
18:49improvement.
18:51She looks between all of you and she she
18:55looks
18:57concerned.
19:00[Music]
19:02Well, you know I'm a
19:05I'm a ghost, right? I can't smell a
19:08thing. Oh, thank goodness.
19:12Wait, you can't smell? Can you taste? I
19:15can't taste a thing.
19:17Oh, no. But I sure do feel a whole lot.
19:21Oh, what what a you so spirit.
19:25I don't want to I don't want to burden
19:27you with my
19:29mortal and deathly troubles. Oh, trust
19:32me. We're burdened with far worse things
19:34right now. Your burdens are just a mere
19:37passing would be a relief. A temporary
19:40relief.
19:44In life,
19:46I was a singer.
19:48M music was my passion. Oh, and I never
19:53I was never fully able to rise to my
19:56true potential. I always yearn to fill
19:59rooms and
20:01sing songs that
20:04filled the hearts of
20:07everyone who listened. And I never got
20:09the chance. And now I'm here in death,
20:13here in my eternal song, never able to
20:15fully
20:17live up to that dream.
20:21Now eternity awaits me and I'll never
20:24reach it.
20:26She looks out the window and you see the
20:28tear again roll down her cheek.
20:32Oh, that's that's very sad.
20:35Well, you know, it's never too late,
20:37right? learn a new skill or a talent
20:45or do you think it is?
20:48What What is a new skill or talent going
20:50to do for you?
20:52I don't know. I mean, maybe give you a
20:55new dream, right, Grummy? Yeah. You
20:58know, turn over a new leaf or you know
21:01what? Why can't you become a wonderful
21:04singer musician right now? Right this
21:06very second.
21:10Who's going to listen that's going to
21:12remember?
21:14Well, I think we would. Oh, we'll
21:15remember. I don't think we're
21:17technically dead no more. Yes, we're
21:19corporal. We have uh the ability to
21:21remember, taste, and smell. We have the
21:24ability to listen to your song and feel
21:26the swell of emotions as you perform
21:28your art. We're great at listening to
21:30music. I couldn't sing without some
21:34instrumentation.
21:36Maybe if you could find me,
21:39I don't know, something something that
21:42could play a backing track. I would sing
21:44for you. We'll remember it. Form for
21:46you. We
21:49survive. That is what uh don't listen to
21:52him. Uh what is your gene? What is your
21:55favorite gener?
21:58I'm not sure what you're asking. He
22:00means genre. He does mince around his
22:02words often. What? It's definitely I
22:06love I love a bit of blues and a bit of
22:08jazz. Yeah, I say jazz sounds lovely.
22:11Grammy, do you like jazz of the ominous
22:13variety?
22:15I don't mind a bit of minor core.
22:18[Music]
22:20I pull out the trombone
22:26and I play along to the song that we're
22:27listening to on the gramophone. Roll of
22:31performance ch. Uh, so I'm I'm I'm a
22:34little new to this. Uh, I apologize for
22:37any rustiness. Uh, 17. It takes you a
22:41minute as you begin to play the trombone
22:43to get used to um, a lot of playing this
22:47instrument in your new form, but you
22:51find your rhythm and you begin to play
22:53along with the song that's playing very
22:55gently over the speakers in this car.
22:59and she looks at you and she smiles a
23:03bit as she begins to sway along to the
23:06music. And she eventually gets up out of
23:09her chair, swinging her hips from side
23:11to side as she walks over to the bar.
23:14She leans forward and grabs whiskey,
23:18pours herself a shot and downs it,
23:20knowing you knowing full well that she
23:22can't taste the alcohol. She It's as if
23:26she's done this many times before. And
23:28as she turns around, her entire persona
23:30has changed. The sadness about her has
23:35completely disappeared.
23:38As she begins to sing,
23:41she begins to sing these words.
23:44Impossible to think at all. Without the
23:47thought of you and me, it all would
23:50fall. Nothing left to hold the stars and
23:52seas apart. Ridiculous. There ever was a
23:55world without a you and me. To not
23:58recall a you at all would send it all
24:00crashing down. Floating over the storm,
24:03love as soft as a cloud. Incredible that
24:07through it all the dashed and broken
24:09stardust fell and settled into you and
24:12me and all the time we need. And as the
24:15song slowly comes to a close, you begin
24:19to see her form start to start to shift
24:23and it becomes even more incaporeal.
24:26She looks towards all of you as the
24:28final notes leave her lips and you watch
24:31as she completely dissipates into
24:34nothing. Having found whatever it was
24:36that she needed to that was holding her
24:38to this plane, you watch as the
24:41songstress moves on.
24:44That sadness that had been filling up
24:47this car completely dissipates. That
24:50weight that you had been feeling here is
24:52no longer present. And the car feels
24:56warmer. It feels lighter. It feels
24:58happier. And you remember the words that
25:00the vagrant told you that he had a fear
25:04of the of that tendril of magic that the
25:10um that the passenger had brought aboard
25:13the Ghost Light Express and the fear
25:15that it would affect these hints that
25:17were still holding on to something from
25:20their past lives. And you feel that you
25:23have done something right here in
25:24releasing the song bird from this the
25:26songstress. All right. I mean, spit it,
25:29man. Did I just kill somebody? That's
25:32what Tormbeck was worried about. But
25:34Tormbeck feels better now. Like, no.
25:37Everything is lighter. Well, she was
25:39already dead, man. I think he just kind
25:41of helped her. I don't know. It kind of
25:43feels like she super killed her. Oh,
25:46man. You super killed her. Oh, you
25:48played a mean piece of bread. Yeah, he
25:50blew a mean piece of bread. And it was
25:53the secret to her moving on. It was
25:55true. Did you hear the lyrics and how
25:58sports was so pretty? It was touching,
26:00but I I mean my trombones got a higher
26:02kill count than my little gun. Well, I
26:05don't think that you killed her. No, I
26:07think that you were able to release her
26:09uh tether from this world so that she
26:11could move beyond the veil. You don't
26:13think she got tired of my plane and just
26:15decided to like, you know, move on to
26:18get away from me, right? You can't rule
26:20that out, but probably not.
26:23She was dancing along. She look at her
26:25look at her body body language. Gremie
26:27body language. Yeah, she was all her
26:29body language was she died for
26:32her body language. She super died. No
26:35bris Grammy was playing a mean piece of
26:37bread. I'll never play a game. I mean,
26:39don't say the body language thing. You
26:41saved us all. You heard her. She was
26:42like,
26:44"Oh, impossible."
26:48Over over the city. Really good. Fly me
26:53to the space moon.
26:56I mean, you heard it. They said
26:59Stardust, not Oh, the Oh, Stardust. She
27:02was like, "Oh, Stardust."
27:05She was so It was so It was coming from
27:07the heart that I mean, not the heart,
27:09the the ghostly core, sexual organs, the
27:13ghostly center. Yeah. At the center of
27:15every booty pop.
27:19All I know, man, is she was crying
27:21tears. By the time you finish playing,
27:23she'd smile at a big smile as she
27:25exploded into ghost stuff. So, I mean,
27:28hey, you know, who's to say? This may be
27:30easier than we thought. If we just have
27:32to get people to realize what they are
27:34holding on to and had let them release,
27:36then they'll they'll be free from their
27:38uh uh spiritual bond.
27:41I'm going to take a moment and I'm going
27:43to pull out my calligraphers tools and
27:46I'm going to make a map. No, I'm going
27:47to make a
27:51Who knows what that word means? I'm
27:54going to instead use them to uh uh uh
27:57write on parchment. I'm going to write
27:58out the lyrics. Useless. I'm going to
28:00write I'm going to write out the lyrics
28:01as a a momento, a token, a memory
28:03because that was what she asked for was
28:05to be remembered and I will roll that up
28:07and I will put it in my pack next to my
28:09bottle of milk. That's very touching.
28:10How do you do that? I will look to see
28:13if anything's been left behind of her.
28:16Uh, I think about my my new background
28:18as a gravekeeper where I feel like I've
28:21felt I do I feel like as as a
28:23gravekeeper that I felt her passing on.
28:26I would say it would be very easy for
28:28you to tell that that's what happened.
28:30There was a peacefulness to it. It was
28:31not it was not an evil thing. It was not
28:34an angry thing. The the sadness that had
28:37loomed here was removed because of her
28:39passing on. And you she had a smile.
28:44There was a happiness on her face as she
28:47finished her song and was able to
28:49fulfill that dream that she had always
28:51longed for uh to be that songress that
28:56that made an impact. It was a reququum
28:59that she deserved. I could feel her
29:02moving on.
29:05We have done a good thing here. And I
29:08feel like if all we have to do is just
29:10help all these other ghosts, maybe
29:12that's the purpose and the identity that
29:14I've been looking for. Yeah. We're just
29:16going to trombone all these guys to
29:17death. Super. No, we're not. No, we're
29:21not. There's something lesson here.
29:23There's something less. I mean, well,
29:25how's the trombone factor in there? I
29:27mean, the trombone was relevant to her
29:30her her tragic past when she learned a
29:32little bit of jazz. So the trombone's
29:33not the key to all of this? No. It kind
29:36of feels like the trombone was the key
29:37to all this. We absolutely cannot rule
29:40out that the trombone is the key. If we
29:42run into other reason we beat the last
29:44guy was cuz of the trombone. He's
29:46playing a mean he's blowing mean piece
29:47of brass for last. We're batting a
29:49thousand here with the trombone. If we
29:51run into other people who need to hear
29:53music, then the trombone can come into
29:55play.
29:56We'll see if the next thing that we come
29:58across is trombone thing somehow and
30:00then you can try that. But let's not
30:02immediately try to trombone and everyone
30:04will meet the super death. I think maybe
30:06it's over with the trombone. I would
30:08like the trombone and everyone will come
30:10across. No, no. I mean, it's kind of
30:12it's my new thing. Look, if you can if
30:13you can try it, but if they seem angry
30:15about it, stop right away. All I know
30:17I'm trying to wait. I can't believe that
30:19I've been trying to find my new thing.
30:20Grummy gets a gun. Everyone is tall and
30:23cool. I'm short. I don't know my new
30:25thing. I tried to be ye old cowpoke and
30:27that didn't work. I tried to be this.
30:29I'm gonna tease the lantern words. Who
30:31goes
30:33I want to hobble off to the next train.
30:35We all cringe. We all absolutely cringe
30:37in horror.
30:39Perhaps I am the old gravekeeper. What?
30:43What lantern are you using? I had the
30:44lantern from my back. My grave keeper
30:47background. Nice. Nice. But you you had
30:49mentioned you were looking for
30:50something. Oh yeah.
30:53I'm sorry. Yeah. I was looking to see if
30:55there's any kind of rem I'm going to
30:57look around the car to see if there's
30:58any kind of like spectral remnant or
31:00anything that's left for her. I want to
31:02make sure that she's gone and not like
31:04temporarily hiding like a Luigi's
31:06Mansion. Roll a
31:08If we're the only ones here, I roll a
31:10perception. I will help Greco uh look
31:12around advantage.
31:14Oh, 16. Not bad. H you you make your way
31:19over to the bar and you you take a look
31:21around and you're you're looking for any
31:23spectral remnants, anything that would
31:25say that that her spirit still lingers
31:29and you find nothing that would
31:32insinuate that her spirit still lingered
31:34here. What you do find is the cigarette
31:36holder that she had been using. It is uh
31:40it has fallen to the ground and it is
31:44corporeal
31:45something that you could that you could
31:47hold on to. Um picking it up it doesn't
31:50feel magical at all. It just is a final
31:53rem is the final remainder.
31:58How would you how would you say that?
31:59Final remains. The final remains. Yeah.
32:01The final remains of the song stress.
32:05And as you're looking at it, you notice
32:08something above the bar. There is a
32:12painting here.
32:14It is vivid, lifelike, unlike all of the
32:17other painting. There are other
32:18paintings that dot along the bar, but
32:20this one is different. You move closer
32:23to it. It is the painting of a seascape.
32:25Oh, and as you get closer to it, you can
32:27als you can almost smell the sea just
32:30wafting off of the canvas. Um,
32:33occasionally you occasionally you do
32:37hear the gulls. You feel the sea breeze
32:39against your face. A warmth that is not
32:42present because of the the fire that's
32:45roaring in the the hearth. But
32:50um I can almost hear the goss.
32:52[Music]
32:56Why? Why did Why did I do that? Bizarre.
32:59Oh, guys, what is that? It's an
33:03enchanting painting of the sea. Oh,
33:06Jorbeck thought it was boy with
33:08trombone.
33:11That's very funny.
33:15I look at my lantern. I feel my hunch.
33:18And I look under the painting.
33:21I feel like it's calling to me.
33:24Maybe I meant to spend my afterlife as
33:27an old lighthouse keeper. Oh, and be an
33:31old wiki. That explains the lantern. The
33:33lantern? Well, it will make sense.
33:36Well, I guess I'll have to put this cool
33:40crossbow down and I'm going to
33:45go
33:47just off the wall. It spoke to me. Are
33:50we art thieves now? I'm not going to
33:52leave. I I just had a moment that gave
33:54me spiritual awakening just like that
33:56just like the hate that sang that lovely
33:58song and I'm not going to let this go. I
34:00need to I need to linger with it. But I
34:02can't linger here like the hates are
34:03lingering lingering cuz we got to go.
34:05They're never going to have us over at
34:07Cla's house now. We're stealing
34:09paintings off the walls, man. What?
34:11Claire's house. Claire's house. Oh, she
34:14was like, "Come on, Claire. Come stay at
34:16Claire's house." A chat here. Oh, Cla
34:19Duca. Oh, Cla Luca. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
34:22Lucas. She was talking. Is that what it
34:23was? I think so. I think so. They had
34:24grand names around here, you know. I
34:27don't believe that's what she said.
34:28Anyways, I feel like this has called to
34:31me. And I feel like I finally You can't
34:35be happy me for me for once. Finally, I
34:37realize after I'm supposed to be a
34:39remote isolated uh wiki, a lighthouse
34:42keeper. I'll be happy with it if you
34:45carry it. Yeah. Yeah. You you you hold
34:47on to it. And uh it's about it's about
34:50as big as yours. Well, if you're
34:51stealing a giant painting, I'm taking a
34:53bottle of whiskey. Okay. If you're
34:54taking a whole painting, I'm taking a
34:56bottle of milk. They said that we could
34:57enjoy our drink. I took a bottle of milk
35:00and he can take a painting. And if the
35:01vagrant decides that we can't have these
35:03things, perhaps he'll smoke us at the
35:04end of this journey.
35:07I'm going to play the drum. Yeah, the
35:10drum
35:12beats. Wait, before we go,
35:16that beautiful songress just wanted to
35:19be remembered and she wanted to be a
35:21star. So, I think a toast. Oh, with a
35:23beautiful voice. Hold on.
35:27Okay, this one to the songress. To the
35:30songress. Your song, your final song was
35:33beautiful. And a round of applause. A
35:36true swan song. Brava for a true
35:39starlet. I don't think I'm into milk
35:41anymore. You you drink the milk and it's
35:46not milk. It's it's an it's a creamy
35:49alcoholic beverage. Oh, it's coffee lour
35:52in here.
35:54I mean, it's growing on me. It's an
35:57awesome Oh, it's kaboua.
36:00Yeah. Yeah. That's a ghost theme. That's
36:02very funny. I like that a lot. I use my
36:06calligraphers tools to write kabooa on
36:07the side.
36:09I got it pretty quick. I got it pretty
36:11quick. You did. You did. I'm very I'm
36:12very I didn't catch it immediately but I
36:14was there. Okay. That's very funny.
36:18I'm going to bring this cigarette holder
36:20cuz she wanted to go to Duskin Volder
36:22and she may not be able to but at the
36:24very least this last piece of film will
36:27go. Well, do you know what you're doing
36:28with that? You ever use one of those
36:29things? Uh why don't I hold on? Hold on.
36:35He's going to put his eye out. He's
36:37stealing art. He's going to burn his
36:38eye. You really are going to do well at
36:40that lighthouse. Oh yeah. Oh, aoy,
36:43Robbie.
36:45Ah, there'll be a strange enchantment in
36:48the lot.
36:50Huh? Maybe you should put his eye out so
36:52that he can wear an eye patch. Have an
36:53eye patch. I mean, yeah. Pretty cool.
36:54Okay, here you go. We just need to make
36:56sure that we get it to Drusva safe and
36:58sound. All right, I'll take good care of
37:00it. Okay, we got to get to Drusinva safe
37:03and sound first and foremost. I believe
37:06we can do anything as long as we bring
37:07this with us.
37:11All right, let's proceed. All over the
37:13door so that you can slide through,
37:14Greg. Yeah. Hold on. Okay. Oh, this is
37:20Can someone get the door? I'm going to
37:21go to the the end of the car and I'm
37:23going to open the door and what do I see
37:26when I look through the door? Is there
37:27another Do I look into the beyond? And
37:30it it is the same situation that you
37:32encountered when you moved into the
37:34dining car. It looks like there's just a
37:36connection to another um to another car,
37:40but as you step into it, you realize
37:43that you're in this almost foggy uh
37:47realm um that is holding you here until
37:51all of you make your way into this
37:53space. So, we all end up in this limbo.
37:55Um the moment the last person makes
37:57their way in, you spill out into a new
38:00car. I'm going to take a moment to uh
38:03look back at the car and sort of
38:05contemplate what once everyone's passed
38:07uh in through the door and contemplate
38:09what's this experience is actually
38:11meaning to me and finally I'll turn and
38:14I will walk through the doorway. All
38:15right. Can you please roll a d6 for me
38:17please?
38:19Five.
38:20You all make your way into another car.
38:25The baggage car's musty scent lingers in
38:27the air. A strange contrast to its faded
38:30elegance. Polished wood paneling and
38:33brass fixtures worn and tarnished by
38:35time line the walls. Heaps of dusty old
38:39canvas bags and wooden chests clutter
38:41the space. But among them stands a fresh
38:43cluster of fine leather travel trunks
38:46embossed with the letter D.
38:50You find yourself in this car surrounded
38:53by baggage, by other people's luggage.
38:59[Music]
39:00at first seems completely empty. The
39:04comforting sounds of the music that were
39:07playing in the lounge car completely
39:09gone in this space. And you can hear the
39:14sound of that strange fog that is
39:18outside of the Ghost Light Express
39:20rushing past the wheels turnurning and
39:23moving. The sounds of the smoke stack
39:25belching,
39:27but that that sound of the the fog
39:31rolling by is so present. And then you
39:34realize
39:35that's not the sound of the fog. What is
39:38that noise? There is a strange almost
39:42airy noise that you can hear coming from
39:44somewhere in this baggage cart.
39:49Oh, this is people's stuff.
39:52Oh, there's like a whole bunch of it.
39:54They don't need They don't need this,
39:55right? I mean, a bunch of ghosts. We
39:58don't know that. We don't know that. We
40:01don't know that. The song didn't need
40:02it. I mean, I guess maybe this is all,
40:05you know, Lord Phillips didn't Philip
40:07Madella seem to be luggage carrying
40:10types.
40:12[Music]
40:14Yeah, I'm going to I'm sorry.
40:18I like to think that every time you move
40:19the painting, the water inside is like
40:22pushing back and forth inside the place.
40:24No, that's exactly what's happening.
40:26Okay,
40:28we need to make sure there ain't no
40:30spooky ghosts around here.
40:32We're in a ghost train. What's that?
40:33What's that sound?
40:36Oh no. Say a thing.
40:39Oh, who goes there? And my tail with the
40:42lantern will lean forward.
40:45Uh you uh how loud do you say this? Very
40:48loud. Who goes there? You immediately
40:51hear that noise um get a little bit
40:54louder as you realize it is the sound of
40:57snoring, but it doesn't sound to be
40:59humanoid snoring. It sounds animalistic.
41:06You you hear the noise of whatever this
41:08creature is stir for a minute and then
41:10complete silence as you're all
41:12practically holding your breaths before
41:14you hear the heave and sigh again of the
41:17snores slowly picking up.
41:22We should be quiet. That sounded bad. I
41:27didn't sound like any ghost, man. I
41:29think it's I think a monster goes there.
41:33What is it? Wasn't that your whole thing
41:35in life? Yeah. Oh, should we like look
41:38around for it? Get some eyes on it. And
41:40the one time it would have been
41:42relevant. I'm dead and I don't got that
41:44stuff no more. I'm still going to try
41:46I'm going to try to remember who I was
41:47in life. Dig deep. I'm going to try to
41:49listen to this breathing and try to like
41:52move bags around. Look for any uh
41:54perception check for me. Where this
41:56monster is. That is going to be a 14.
42:01you begin to move some of the cargo
42:04around. You notice a significant portion
42:06of these um uh of the trunks and
42:10baggage. The the baggage itself is all
42:13marked with a very fancy letter D. All
42:16of the all of the well-made pieces of
42:18luggage are um and there are a
42:21significant amount of them in the
42:22baggage car. As you begin to move all of
42:24these pieces this way and that and
42:26eventually you see a flash of ghostly
42:28green as you realize behind a large
42:32stack of luggage is what looks to be a
42:35sleeping ghostly tiger.
42:38Its body in the form of a ghostly
42:41greenish flame. The flames flicking this
42:45way and that. Its beastial snoring now
42:49that you have moved some of the um
42:51luggage away is now significantly louder
42:53in this space. As you look down in it,
42:56you see that its tail is adorned with a
42:58hot iron ring.
43:01What? Hot iron ring. A hot iron ring.
43:04And where this this tiger is this
43:07spectral greenish flame, this iron ring
43:09looks to be fully corporeal.
43:14Given my I try to think back to who I
43:17was in life. I was a beast tamer in the
43:20circus. I don't know if I remember how
43:21much I remember and how fuzzy it is. I
43:23was a beast tamer. I knew about animals.
43:25I knew about monsters. Do I recognize
43:28this kind of spirit at all? Roll.
43:33Roll. And let's do nature. Nature. You
43:37go.
43:39That is an 18.
43:42you
43:43at first you have no recollection of
43:46what this thing is, but as you look at
43:49it, it reminds you of you you worked at
43:53a carnival, which is not too dissimilar
43:56from a circus. And you have been to
43:58circuses before. You had seen um tigers
44:02in
44:03uh in the big top. and the way that um
44:07they would perform this this iron ring
44:10reminds you of one of the tools that
44:12they would utilize in those
44:13performances. But this isn't just a
44:16run-of-the-mill tiger.
44:19This is something that you had heard
44:22stories of that sometimes the the other
44:25carnese would talk about um not wanting
44:28to go out in the swamps for fear that
44:31the spectral form of the the wild p
44:35would appear.
44:37It is a tiger, a spectral tiger
44:40completely made of flame. Oh, what?
44:44What is it? Guys, I actually I've
44:47actually used Fulf. Gosh, guys. God,
44:50what is it? I mean, that thing's pretty
44:51cool looking, man. You've changed a lot,
44:53Rogo. I really have.
44:56I would say you also know that they're
44:57incredibly dangerous.
44:59[Music]
45:01Okay,
45:03that's a wild pie.
45:06They are
45:08[Music]
45:09creatures what have died in a fire
45:12usually of the circus and they're very
45:15dangerous. They're very deadly.
45:18I feel like
45:22we should not disturb it.
45:25Can we just
45:27scadaddle on past real quietly?
45:32Perhaps it's another one of these
45:34spirits that needs screaming. We may we
45:37may need to engage it and and and use
45:39the trombone. This is a savage beast,
45:41man. I was going to say it's a savage
45:44beast.
45:46This is a little trombone coding. The
45:48trombone, man. Gideon, are you yelling
45:50or are you No, we're we're yelling at
45:54the table, but in reality, we're hush.
45:57Very hush. Very hush. We're so hushed.
46:01I would like you all to roll a stealth.
46:05Oh man, I crushed him. 20
46:09got attacked.
46:11Torb's not very stealthy
46:14in this life. Oh, 19. I will natural 1 +
46:195 is a six.
46:2216 disadvantage. I don't have heroic
46:25inspiration, do I?
46:27uh tour.
46:29One thing that as as you are as you're
46:33having this conversation, you you feel
46:35your voices begin to um uh begin to get
46:40louder. You're you're so used to
46:42speaking in loud spaces that controlling
46:45your volume is not something you're
46:46familiar with doing, but you need to in
46:49this moment. And you catch yourself as
46:51you try and quiet yourself. You feel
46:54almost an uncanny ability to control
46:58yourself as if you are emboldened in a
47:02way you hadn't been before.
47:05And you all think back to that. You've
47:08been feeling that feeling. You felt it
47:09with the song bird and you you felt it
47:12in the things that you've done since
47:14your tarot reading with Adela. You all
47:17for an hour have the benefits of the the
47:20bless spell. No concentration required.
47:22Um, having performed a tarot reading
47:24with Adela. But unfortunately, that
47:27doesn't matter because that only applies
47:29to attack rolls and saving throws.
47:31However,
47:34there were enough of you that succeeded
47:35that you do feel even with this new
47:38found even with this new found um
47:43ability that you you feel in your very
47:46core, even without the use of that in
47:48this moment, you feel like you are quiet
47:51enough. You're in control enough of your
47:53new forms that you would be able to
47:56sneak past this creature and make it all
47:58the way through the baggage car and into
48:00the next train should you choose.
48:04Okay. Yeah, these are very dangerous.
48:08It would probably kill us. Well, then
48:10we'll just sneak on by. Well, you think
48:13one animal could kill all five of us?
48:15Probably not a chance, man. They
48:17probably just kill me and then move on.
48:19I'm quite diminished from our first
48:21encounter with those spirits.
48:28It's a cool thing. It's on fire, you
48:30know. Wait, is this the hate?
48:33Do we need to put it to rest? That's
48:34what I'm saying. It could be the the
48:36creature that we need to convince to let
48:38go. Oh, there's hates on every car. The
48:40vagrant did say we got to like deal with
48:43them in every car. I think I'm pretty a
48:45wild pie. I ain't never heard of no
48:47hating before.
48:48You think wild pies like trombone music?
48:51I I'm telling you, I think it's trombone
48:54time. Most most creatures do enjoy
48:56trombone. Tromboning.
48:58Trombone. Okay. All I'm going to say
49:02is
49:05you can do whatever you want. I finally
49:07am useful in saying this is ridiculous.
49:08We should sneak by. But if you guys want
49:10to try to poke the target while
49:12sleeping. Well, no. But I look, here's
49:14the thing. If we're going to sneak by
49:17and but this is one of the hints we need
49:18to help move on. What's the plan? Maybe
49:21we could speak to it. I am a
49:23gravekeeper.
49:24Oh my god. Why don't you speak to it?
49:26And if you uh perhaps it'll wake up and
49:29be like, "Oh, I'm trapped in a body of a
49:30wildfire. I just need to remember how
49:33how nice my mom was or something." And
49:35remember at the carnival, you were so
49:36good at working with the tigers and the
49:38lions and the bears and the owl bears.
49:41Pick up a chair and and go to work. was
49:44just another carnival animal. Man,
49:46you're great at that stuff. Here. Here,
49:48I will I will help you and I will give
49:50you guidance using my Azureorn feature
49:53to that allows me to uh access the
49:55beyond.
49:58Feel the winds of magic.
50:01Okay. What would a wild pie like to eat
50:05other than flesh?
50:07I'm going to do this. Flaming hot. Okay.
50:12I'm going to grab these.
50:17No, that didn't that didn't work. No,
50:20you're thinking of Boogles.
50:23Or you could have said Koo Land.
50:28Those are all pretty good, but I don't
50:30know. I I like flaming hot Bu.
50:34Okay. Okay. I'm going to do it. I'm
50:36going to do it. You're right. I know
50:37these are dangerous, but I am a beast
50:38speaker now. I'm a gravekeeper and I can
50:41put this soul to rest.
50:44Hear me, tiger, wild pie. I'm here. You
50:47died in a fire. That's terrible for you.
50:50The moment that Grio screams, he is
50:52leaning over this wildfire. The moment
50:56that he screams, the wild immediately uh
51:00raises its head and begins to look
51:02around. And as its eyes uh focus on you,
51:06it lets out this horrifying spectral
51:10roar that shivers you to your very core.
51:14And you imagine you have mere seconds
51:17before it's going to attack. I spe
51:22[Music]
51:24you. Do you wish to hear a song from a
51:26trombone? Can we start playing it?
51:30[Music]
51:33Uh, I need you all to roll for
51:36initiative.
51:38What? No. No. We No, but we But we're
51:41here to help him. But you just woke up a
51:44tiger.
51:46And it's now attacking you. But movie.
51:50He plays a mean piece of brass. Bricko.
51:53As you scream and start, what you
51:56speaking to this tiger? Um, it it wakes
51:59from its sleep. As you command Creme to
52:02uh to play his trombone, the music
52:05erupts out of this um out of this
52:08instrument. It echoes throughout this
52:10space. The tiger rears up to attack, but
52:14you see its every move. Frost, you are
52:16able to take your first turn in battle.
52:20I am going to use a crooked moon spell.
52:24I'm going to reach out. Um, I am going
52:27to um uh I'm getting more and more uh uh
52:31resonance with uh my connection to the
52:33beyond here. Uh all the things that I
52:36had, uh uh pushed away in my mortal life
52:38uh are starting to uh flood back in and
52:42uh I realized that perhaps uh by
52:45invoking those whispers that I've always
52:47ignored, I can perhaps charm this
52:50creature. I'm going to place I'm going
52:51to cast captivate undead. Uh as I as I
52:54reach out with my hands, uh you're going
52:56to see um my eyes start to glow uh with
52:59this Eldrich light. And I try to catch
53:02its eyes. Even though it's focused on
53:04Grio, uh I'm going to speak a few arcane
53:06words and reach into its mind to see if
53:09I can charm it. I usurp the negative
53:12energy animating an undead creature. And
53:14presuming that it's undead, which I can
53:16only assume, I reach out and the
53:18wildfire has to make a charisma saving
53:20throw.
53:22Uh, nine.
53:24On a failed save for the duration, the
53:26target has the charmed condition.
53:28Wildfire is immune to charm. Oh, no. But
53:31per the parameters of the spell, it is
53:34uh it ignores immunity to that
53:35condition, which means it is now capital
53:37F friendly to me. But it's not friendly
53:40to me. No,
53:43I am going to do I am going to feeling
53:45feeling the magic take hold and knowing
53:47that this creature is uh uh soft to me.
53:50I'm going to uh uh walk forward and I'm
53:52going to get between Grio and the wild
53:54pirate by him. Easy, boy. Easy. Please
53:57uh relax there. You just focus on me.
54:00Focus on the sound of my voice.
54:01Everything's all right. There's no
54:03reason to attack anyone. He's a cat or
54:05he was a cat. I was a cat. I was a cat.
54:07He is friendly to you. So, he's has no
54:10intention of attacking you, but that
54:12doesn't mean that he's going to want to
54:13do everything that you tell him. So, I
54:15want you to roll an animal handling
54:16check at advantage. Okay. I will also
54:18say as I say say this uh I I think I
54:21have him with my my magic with my mind.
54:23Please just everyone relax at animal uh
54:26uh handling at advantage. You say and
54:29the the DC for this will be would be
54:31adjusted because it is friendly to you.
54:33Okay. I'm not a great animal handler,
54:37but with a 16 Oh, yeah. You you harness
54:42the you harness the innate memories that
54:45you have of your toaxi life. And there
54:48is even though you are no longer in that
54:50form, there is an innate connection
54:52between you and this creature that in
54:54its own life had been a tiger. Easy now.
54:57Easy. I I have this bottle of milk.
55:01It seems to respond really well to you.
55:04You hold out the bottle of alcoholic
55:06creamy laor.
55:09The the kaboua
55:11I the kaboo I pour into a little saucer.
55:13You you pour the kaboo into a little
55:15saucer and the um the wildfire begins to
55:20sink down towards the towards the ground
55:22looking between all of you. It arches
55:25its back. Its tail whips back and forth.
55:27It seems to be fairly placated as it
55:30begins to lick up the um the kaboom.
55:33There you go. There you go. Here we go.
55:34Everyone back up. Back up. Good here,
55:36man. I think we're okay. I Let's get the
55:39bug. I I I I I reached out. I was able
55:41to captivate it with my new powers. How
55:43long does this last? It lasts for a full
55:46minute. Oh, no. Up to an hour. Oh my
55:48god. My apologies. Okay. I Frosty
55:50cleanse it like Kmy did, man. Do
55:52something cool. Yeah. How do we How do
55:54we get rid of it? Make it turn into
55:55dust. Uh, do we need to help you uh uh
55:58release your tether from this world? I'm
56:00going to start to like nuzzle behind the
56:02ears a little bit.
56:04I ask him if his big dream was to also
56:06be a singer. Was your big dream also to
56:08be a We have a trombone.
56:12I don't think so. No. No. No. I don't
56:13think so. Uh perhaps you we we we need
56:17to find a a a ghost here. Are you aware
56:20of any ghosts in this area? Um, as you
56:24say that, you uh you watch as the
56:27wildfire arches its back and slowly
56:29turns towards the door. It begins to paw
56:32in front of it uh scratching
56:36normally would be scratching into the
56:38wood of the floor of the train, but its
56:40spectral uh nails just move through it
56:44doing no damage that you can tell. um as
56:47it looks almost angrily towards the door
56:50and you see that hiding behind the last
56:53stack of um of baggage and luggage are
56:57two spectral legs that are sticking out.
56:59Um there is clearly something there.
57:02They look humanoid and you I would say
57:05at this point with your experience in
57:06the Ghost Light Express would imagine
57:08that there might be a hint potentially
57:11asleep as well. Everyone there there are
57:13two legs over there. I'm going to stay
57:15with the wildfire and keep it calm. I
57:18think that perhaps he's not the one
57:19worth meant to uh help.
57:22Okay. Well, we can handle the ghost or
57:25hate or whatever and you deal with the
57:28flaming tiger. You have 58 minutes and
57:3023 seconds. Okay, let's go. Probably
57:33less than that. I mean, fit that that
57:34fire tiger out. I mean, he's got like 30
57:38seconds left. I don't think I'm good
57:39with beast or monsters no more. Well,
57:42that's okay. That's fine. And I got the
57:43whole lighthouse thing. Yeah. Yeah. A
57:46new leaf. A new leaf. You got that whole
57:48painting, man. I mean, what were you
57:50going to do with that if you were good
57:50with monsters? Smells like a storm on
57:52the wind these days.
57:55Okay. Good kitty.
57:59No, not with those.
58:03Uh, I'd like you. Yeah, we we're going
58:04to go approach the uh try to sneak past
58:06the fire tiger. So, at this point,
58:08you're all making your way past the py
58:10tiger. The imminent danger that you felt
58:13like you were in seems to dissipate as
58:15the tiger is solely uh the uh wildfire
58:19is slow solely focused on Frost. Uh as
58:23Frost uh you gently scratch at its neck
58:27and you uh you pet it, you rub its belly
58:31as you feed it um uh as you feed it this
58:34uh alcoholic creamy laor. My hand is on
58:37fire. Uh, and the rest of you make your
58:40way towards the exit to this train car
58:43as if you're moving on to the next. And
58:45as you get closer, you realize that
58:47exactly what was pointed out to you is
58:49true. There are two um two spectral legs
58:53that are sticking out from beneath a
58:55pile of luggage. And as you get closer
58:57and closer to it, you see that there is
59:00a man here.
59:03He is chubby,
59:06thick jowls.
59:09He is dressed in a striped outfit. And
59:15given your line of work, you've seen um
59:19you've seen prisoners before. You've Oh,
59:22yeah. Oh, yeah. This is very akin to
59:26outfits that you would have seen from
59:28escaped convicts, some of which you
59:30hired for Carnival LA crew. That's true.
59:33Um,
59:35this hat is leaning up against the wall,
59:39one arm slouched over one of the um one
59:42of the cases that's clearly marked uh D
59:46most likely for Dusk involved and all
59:48you hear is
59:56just groaning, moaning noise coming from
1:00:00this entity entity.
1:00:02Now that you're He's already letting go.
1:00:04You guys
1:00:05asleep or ugly crying.
1:00:09Dorbe has seen this many times. Why
1:00:11don't you go like relate to him? I don't
1:00:13know.
1:00:16You sad pathetic loser ghost we've seen
1:00:19so far. This sucks. Okay. And I'll I'll
1:00:24shuffle over and I'll You're already
1:00:25doing it. Yeah. And I'll shuffle over to
1:00:28him a little closer.
1:00:31Hey. Hey there.
1:00:38Just scream. But you notice, are you
1:00:40okay? You're passing a kidney stone.
1:00:44You notice that he's holding his
1:00:45stomach. Oh. Um,
1:00:49you sound like you might be in pain.
1:00:53I am in pain. Dorbeck's name is Dorbeck.
1:00:57What's your name? He looks up at you.
1:01:00and you see for a second a a flash of
1:01:05hunger across his face as he looks at
1:01:07you. Um,
1:01:10and then he shakes his head and
1:01:14I'm just really damn hungry. Oh,
1:01:19that Well, that's fixable. Have you ever
1:01:21had licorice?
1:01:24Yeah, I've had licorice before, but
1:01:26that's not what I want. Okay. What do
1:01:29you want?
1:01:32I want steak.
1:01:34Oh. Oh god. What I wouldn't give for
1:01:38steak. Like a steak and eggs. Like a Oh,
1:01:41you just said my last meal. Oh,
1:01:45that's a touchy subject.
1:01:49Is that upsetting? Am I upset? He looks
1:01:51up at you and he grabs the scruff of
1:01:53your your collar and he pulls you closer
1:01:55and he goes, "You don't understand what
1:01:57it's like, kid."
1:02:00Your torso. You don't know what it's
1:02:02like living your last days knowing that
1:02:05you're finally You're going to go to
1:02:07your deathbed, but it's going to be with
1:02:09steak and eggs in your belly. Torb's
1:02:12like 45, just to be clear. Is there some
1:02:15way that Dorbeck can help? I died before
1:02:19I got to eat my steak and eggs. You
1:02:21never made it out. How many years you
1:02:24do, fella? He moves to back to the side,
1:02:27but he doesn't let go of of your stuff.
1:02:3145. And then he looks up at you, Torv.
1:02:36I think he's making that up. That's a
1:02:38long time. I mean, jeez.
1:02:41You don't know what it's like to be this
1:02:43hungry. to be so hungry in death.
1:02:48All I want is my steak and eggs.
1:02:57It's very loud. I'm not sure what's
1:02:59happening. Very close.
1:03:02I go back towards the wildfire. No, I
1:03:04lost.
1:03:06I I
1:03:08walk past I like I look at the wildfire
1:03:11and I go and I grab the painting again.
1:03:14I think Tor's got this. I should eat
1:03:17that. Oh gosh. I hope this doesn't catch
1:03:19on fire. I hope it doesn't catch on
1:03:20fire. Ask me if he likes trombone music.
1:03:24And Torment doesn't have a steak or
1:03:27eggs. Could we interest you in some
1:03:29trombone music? You see his face of
1:03:32light in anger. I went to jail cuz I
1:03:35killed a trombone player. Okay. Well,
1:03:37the good news is we don't have any
1:03:38trombone players in our party. Hey, Mr.
1:03:41Grammy. Torvbeck uh remembers that maybe
1:03:44uh you used to cook us food. Oh yeah, I
1:03:48did. Absolutely. Yeah. Do you have any
1:03:50steak and eggs on you? What do I look
1:03:53like?
1:03:57What about that previous luxury car,
1:03:59man? Was there food back there and
1:04:00drinks and stuff? They were just booze.
1:04:02There was a whole bar, but I didn't see
1:04:04I didn't see any steak and eggs. I look
1:04:06like I'm some kind of rat. Am I going to
1:04:07jump on your shoulders and pull your
1:04:09long disgusting hair and cook in the
1:04:12Sunday brunch? I love raccooney.
1:04:16And it's a deep cut, sir. Could you
1:04:18please let go of Torme's coat, please?
1:04:21Dor is uncomfortably close to you. You
1:04:24kind of smell like steak. No, Tor smells
1:04:28like wet dogs. They're not even close.
1:04:30Oh. Would it help you to gaze upon a
1:04:33beautiful romantic painting? No. No. Go,
1:04:35he doesn't like art. He doesn't like
1:04:36art. No. And he like doubles over just
1:04:40holding his stomach. I don't think you
1:04:43understand what it's like to die on an
1:04:46empty stomach.
1:04:48I waited. I fasted for days
1:04:53to truly enjoy my last meal. Son. Oh,
1:04:57you you you passed up on your last
1:04:59sangria.
1:05:01I don't drink.
1:05:05I eat steak and eggs. Well,
1:05:09I feel like a fancy train. If we'd had a
1:05:11booze car, it's got to have like a food
1:05:13car, right? Yeah. Why don't you just You
1:05:16just stay put right here. And you know
1:05:17what? Why don't we go fetch you some
1:05:20steak and eggs? Don't leave torment.
1:05:22Don't Don't leave torment collateral.
1:05:24You don't need collateral.
1:05:26No. No. No. Not to get the idea. Don't
1:05:29do it. Don't do it. No. You collateral.
1:05:32No. We actually we actually can't pass
1:05:34to the next car unless we're all there.
1:05:36So we you can't keep them as collateral.
1:05:38If you want steak and eggs, that is I
1:05:41can't even spell collateral. Me either.
1:05:44You can't eat it, Dorang. Let's be real.
1:05:46He releases your collar.
1:05:50I'm sorry. I don't mean to be rude and I
1:05:53don't I don't mean to be mean. I'm just
1:05:55hungry.
1:05:57Well, we'll see what we can do and we'll
1:05:59come back. And I if you think you could
1:06:02bring me steak and eggs, I'd be
1:06:04eternally grateful. I I can't do nothing
1:06:07for you.
1:06:09Well, we wouldn't expect just trapped
1:06:10here on this train. Eternally hungry.
1:06:13And I'm sure a little trombone music
1:06:15wouldn't just, you know, sugate.
1:06:18All right, enough about you feel
1:06:20yourself maybe corrupting on account of
1:06:22a crooked curse or something like that.
1:06:24Just I mean just the same like I've been
1:06:27much more angry over the past hour than
1:06:29I've been since I got on this train. Oh,
1:06:32that's probably unrelated to anything
1:06:34that happened. No, no. We're going to go
1:06:36find you snaking eggs. You want to stay
1:06:38po Oh, Frost. All right, you can you can
1:06:40come on now. Watch the giant dog at the
1:06:41back.
1:06:44This my name. Oh, you mean you mean
1:06:46Chad? Oh, your name is Chad. Well, Chad,
1:06:50it's called C O L L A T E R A L. Uh,
1:06:53anyways, uh, I'm going to, um, you said
1:06:56that he had a ring on his tail. Yes.
1:07:00Does the wild pirate seem protective of
1:07:02the ring? And do you think that I could
1:07:03perhaps You have
1:07:06You have charmed an unchable creature
1:07:09and it is now partially drunk and its
1:07:13tail is whipping back and forth happily.
1:07:15You You imagine It doesn't seem protect.
1:07:18It it did seem protective at first, but
1:07:20now it's focused more on the saucer
1:07:22filled with um with alcohol than it is
1:07:26on the ring on its tail. It just the way
1:07:28that it's flopping back and forth. You
1:07:29imagine it might be a little difficult
1:07:31to get off, but you think that it's I'm
1:07:34looking to see if it's like
1:07:36bound by this. Was this like a a chain
1:07:39attachment thing? Like is is it
1:07:41literally just a a ring on the tail? Is
1:07:43it is it a piercing? Like I just want to
1:07:45make sure that it seems safe to take
1:07:47off. ring on the tail and it seems it
1:07:49seems attached to it in some way and for
1:07:51some reason. But you do notice they
1:07:53don't seem to be made of the same stuff.
1:07:55Oh, this this ring is corporeal where
1:07:58the the the tiger itself is incorporeal.
1:08:01Yeah, it looks very heavy. Uh Chad, uh
1:08:04I'm going to remove this and then uh I'm
1:08:06going to be on my way. Um but you've
1:08:08been you've been great. You have a you
1:08:10have a very pretty coat. It's a very hot
1:08:13coat. He pushes his face. I've lost all
1:08:15the feathers on my hand. Oh yeah. Yeah.
1:08:16We nuzzle a bit. He pushes his face into
1:08:18your face. Uh, we I I All my feathers
1:08:21burn off in my face.
1:08:24No, it's like
1:08:26doesn't want to. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah.
1:08:28Yeah. No, this milk is great.
1:08:32Yeah. No, no, no. It's just extremely
1:08:34hot. And uh I will um see if I can work
1:08:38the tail.
1:08:41Um slight of hand. Oh, look at what
1:08:44Frosty's doing. You know, it's probably
1:08:46the ring is like the paw. The thorn in
1:08:49the paw. I have a plus two on these.
1:08:51Come on, bros. We're on top of this.
1:08:53Let's go. Is a 12 going to do it? That's
1:08:55low. Oh, no. I don't think that's going
1:08:57to do it. You have uh What was this? You
1:08:59still have bless. I have bless
1:09:04saving throws. Doesn't matter. You um
1:09:07you attempt myself guidance first.
1:09:10Ro. No, I'm not going to do that. I'll
1:09:12just take the You attempt to grab the
1:09:15the hoop and the tiger thinks that
1:09:17you're trying to play with it. So, it
1:09:19whips its tail the other way and you're
1:09:20not able to grab the the ring off, but
1:09:23it seems to now think this is a game and
1:09:25it starts positioning itself for you to
1:09:28attempt again and it is ready to to move
1:09:32it away. But it it's now um it's now
1:09:35engaged in in a bit of play. I will
1:09:36channel the cosmic as apparations that
1:09:38live between the spaces of reality. And
1:09:40I will try again by casting guidance on
1:09:42myself. Let's go, bro. Come on. I'll be
1:09:45right there. I'll be right there at
1:09:47advantage. Uh oh, no, no. The first roll
1:09:49was an 18. Uh, not at advantage. Not at
1:09:52But I'll still roll the guidance and I
1:09:53will get 21 23. You move this way and
1:09:58that almost in like Here we go, Jad. I'm
1:10:00going to get you with with this tiger.
1:10:02And it is it is thoroughly charmed by
1:10:05you at this point. And as it goes to
1:10:07pounce on you, almost thinking it's a
1:10:09kitten in comparison to you, but it's it
1:10:11is gigantic, far bigger than you are.
1:10:14Um, but as it goes to pounce on you, its
1:10:17tail whips to the right and you're able
1:10:19you see as the the ring begins to slide
1:10:21along it and you are able to grab it off
1:10:24as it lunges forward and uh makes to
1:10:27lick your face. And as you pull the ring
1:10:30from its tail, you watch as it begins to
1:10:32disperse the same way that you saw the
1:10:36frost disperse
1:10:39come um lulling out mid um
1:10:44affectionately as it disperses into
1:10:46nothing.
1:10:47[Music]
1:10:49You feel the ring in your hand. It is
1:10:54uncomfortably hot to the touch, but you
1:10:57imagine that you can carry it without
1:10:59damage to yourself. Frost, you released
1:11:01Chad. I don't know what happened. I
1:11:03mean, well, he either released him or
1:11:06just actually super killed him. It's a
1:11:08strange fate that we should suffer so
1:11:10much fear and doubt over so small a
1:11:11thing.
1:11:13Are you going to keep that? I don't know
1:11:15what else to do with it. I might as well
1:11:17put it in my pack, but I'm going to
1:11:19It'll be my my remembrance token for for
1:11:22my diamond chat. Okay, guys.
1:11:26Oh, what's wrong with this guy? Let's go
1:11:27talk to him. Come with Torb. Torb will
1:11:30explain. Okay. Uh Chad, sleep now. Oh,
1:11:33you're sleeping. Weary
1:11:35is falling. Okay, goodbye. As we move to
1:11:37the next car, I guess to go find what
1:11:40lies beyond. Uh, Tormach is hoping that
1:11:43maybe there will be some sort of dining
1:11:44car, but they'll turn to the rest of the
1:11:45companions and say, you know, Tormach's
1:11:48feeling pretty good about this steak and
1:11:51eggs thing. Uh, he's guy definitely
1:11:54wouldn't have asked for it if it wasn't
1:11:56somewhere in the adventure. Otherwise,
1:11:58that'd be pretty crappy.
1:12:00Come on. Let's go this way. Okay, hold
1:12:04on. Can you get the door? Yeah. Yeah.
1:12:07Get the door. Do you need help with
1:12:09that? Uh, no. I got it. I know that you
1:12:11suddenly made a stone, but I got a
1:12:14scorpion tail and I can ride on a frog
1:12:15and sting a mono.
1:12:18Come on. Okay, Chad's just gone. Just
1:12:21like that. Like dust in the wind. Well,
1:12:25it's probably for the best. Another 2
1:12:26minutes and 23 seconds and he would have
1:12:28killed all of us.
1:12:33Well, uh, is that ring not hot? Oh, no.
1:12:37It's scalding my skin. Uh, that's why I
1:12:39put it in my back.
1:12:41Well, good luck with that. Maybe keep it
1:12:45to remember the souls you've ushered to
1:12:48oblivion. Anyway, let's go. I was going
1:12:50to keep it as a token to Chad, but that
1:12:52sounds fine, too. Let's go. You once
1:12:55again step into the space between the
1:12:57cars and uh you all wait there until
1:13:00each of you has made your way into this
1:13:02space. And as the last one of you um
1:13:05steps through the doorway, you find
1:13:07yourself spilling out into yet another
1:13:09car. Can I have the last person who
1:13:11entered roll a d6 for me? Okay. I feel
1:13:13like I was first very canotically, but
1:13:15I'll roll.
1:13:19Uh, perfect. Oh,
1:13:21nice. You spill out into a car and
1:13:24you're immediately met with the smells
1:13:27of fresh food.
1:13:29Thank the gods.
1:13:33You have found yourselves in the dining
1:13:36cart.
1:13:38Oh my god. Just like you build this into
1:13:40existence. Dorbec was thinking about it
1:13:43really hard. You haven't tripped the
1:13:45hell up about a dining call for the last
1:13:4715 minutes. Well, that guy freaked Torb
1:13:49out.
1:13:51That will stay with you.
1:13:54Did you see the way he had Tor by the
1:13:56collar? He really handled you, man. I
1:13:58mean, messed up, man. You going to fight
1:14:02a flight about that, right? Tor like
1:14:06No, man. The man just grabs you for no
1:14:08reason at all. You got to go into a
1:14:10closet and just scream in the top. That
1:14:12guy was making Tormbeck was sure he was
1:14:15sad. He that guy flipped like this. Next
1:14:17thing you know, Torclair's getting his
1:14:19head bit off.
1:14:21Those sounds will haunt Tormbeck dreams
1:14:23forever. Well, we can make it right.
1:14:26Maybe if they got snake and eggs. Holy
1:14:28there's snake and eggs right over
1:14:29there. So, I don't want to handle this.
1:14:32It's all over the snake and egg. Maybe
1:14:34I'll run it back a few cars. You guys
1:14:36see there's a go back with that freak.
1:14:38Yeah, you're going to go deliver. All
1:14:39right, you guys wait right here. Hey,
1:14:41can I get some steak and eggs? You yell
1:14:43this and as you look around, you see
1:14:45that the dining car is decorated with an
1:14:47eerie elegance with plush velvet booths,
1:14:49ornate brass fixtures, and wax candles
1:14:51casting a dim mystical glow. The air
1:14:54carries the scent of gourmet food,
1:14:56though the booths are mostly empty,
1:14:58haunted only by the faint traces of
1:15:01deceased diners. I almost said disease.
1:15:06green
1:15:08remnants of the great spring sickness.
1:15:10You look around and these are not like
1:15:13the hints you've seen before. These are
1:15:16more spectral figures. These are these
1:15:18are entities similar to what you saw in
1:15:20the passenger car. Ones that had
1:15:22accepted their their death and they were
1:15:25prepared to move on. They're riding the
1:15:27train for the purposes of moving on to
1:15:29the next stage of their afterlife. all
1:15:32but one. Sitting towards the back of the
1:15:35dining car, you see a small boy, a
1:15:39smorgusborg of food laid out in front of
1:15:42him as he um is um apparently ordering
1:15:47food after food. And you notice that as
1:15:49he says things, more food appears in
1:15:51front of him, almost as if all he has to
1:15:53do is ask and he shall receive.
1:15:56All right. Uh meme rare set up. Let's
1:15:59go. All right, we got him. Steak and
1:16:02eggs. You're very good at that. Sit down
1:16:04first. I mean, we just got in. He was
1:16:06standing in the Troy doesn't even see a
1:16:08chef. Did you work at a diner? Is there
1:16:10any help here? You are standing next to
1:16:14one of these um one of these booth
1:16:17seating areas. As you call this out and
1:16:21it takes 30 seconds and a plate appears
1:16:24on the table in front of you. Um, on top
1:16:27of it is a a steaming um steak, medium
1:16:31rare, with sunny side up eggs. It looks
1:16:37delicious. You are incredibly hungry.
1:16:40You haven't eaten in a long time. Got to
1:16:43test this.
1:16:45Can't give that guy his last meal and
1:16:47make sure it tastes good, right? It's
1:16:49like they're going to run out of
1:16:53crazy. They might run out. No. And even
1:16:56I was going to notice a bite was missing
1:16:58to just order another plate. You don't
1:17:00know how stock this ghost before you.
1:17:03Oh, I take a big old bite of the steak.
1:17:05That could be ghost steak. A ghost egg.
1:17:06I cut off a big old chunk of this steak
1:17:08to see if it is medium and rare and how
1:17:09how delicious this is. You take a big
1:17:13bite of this steak and it's not real.
1:17:17It's spectral. You
1:17:21at first feel like you taste nothing,
1:17:24but there there are hints of the steak
1:17:26there. You look over towards the the
1:17:29small boy, the was clearly a hate on the
1:17:32opposite end, and you see that he's
1:17:34enjoying this in a way that you can't.
1:17:37You think about what the song just said
1:17:38to you in the first car, and you realize
1:17:40that there must be something special
1:17:41about this food. Though you aren't
1:17:44enjoying the steak the way it's meant to
1:17:45be is you've been reborn into a new
1:17:47body, you're not dead. This food is
1:17:51meant for those that are no longer
1:17:53living. And you imagine that
1:17:56the way that this tastes in your mouth,
1:17:58even though it's not what you were
1:17:59looking for, you imagine that the
1:18:01jailbird in the other in the other car
1:18:04would absolutely love this steak. All
1:18:07right, Torv's got good news and bad
1:18:09news.
1:18:10Bad news first. This steak and eggs
1:18:13tastes like another steak and eggs
1:18:14farted near it. That's as good as it
1:18:16gonna get.
1:18:18But Dorbeck believes that this might do
1:18:22it for the old hate back there. So it is
1:18:24ghost steak and ghost eggs. It's
1:18:26probably exactly what he wants. Yeah.
1:18:28Yeah. Well, run back real quick, man.
1:18:30See if he's all happy or whatever. Okay.
1:18:32Yeah. I feel like you should on account
1:18:34of how shook up you are, you should go
1:18:35back and face him alone.
1:18:38You go back and you take care of
1:18:40business. Yeah. I you got to face your
1:18:41fears, man. We got to move to That's
1:18:43what Torv's therapist was always saying.
1:18:45Chad probably won't be there to go. Face
1:18:48your fears. No, I can do this. And we'll
1:18:50deal with this depressing kid. Yeah.
1:18:52Yeah. All right. I think Frosty's like
1:18:54actually turbo killed Chen. Okay. Uh
1:18:58hands in. I don't think he's dead. Hands
1:19:00in. Can you lower your hand, please? I
1:19:02can't. Why do you raise it that high?
1:19:04You know, every time. It's like you're
1:19:06doing it on purpose. You're doing it on
1:19:07purpose. Good. Well, now you're
1:19:09patronizing me. On three break. One,
1:19:11two, three, break. Break. Finger bells
1:19:14look weird, don't they? That's kind of
1:19:15creepy. I'm going to scoop up the steak
1:19:18and eggs. Uh, hope that the creepy dude
1:19:20doesn't realize there's a bite missing
1:19:22and uh start to whistle as I just kind
1:19:25of like cheery leave the the cart. And
1:19:27I'm going to try to go backwards to see
1:19:28if I can go find that. You haven't
1:19:30attempted this before, but you make your
1:19:32way towards the back of the car from
1:19:34once you came. And you open the door
1:19:36expecting to step back into that same
1:19:39space between the cars, but you move
1:19:41directly from the dining car into the
1:19:43sleeper car. And you don't have to wait
1:19:47for anyone else to follow you. You
1:19:48listen and all is quiet except for the
1:19:51sounds of the snoring drusenvolves as
1:19:53you quickly make your way through the
1:19:54cars until you find yourself back into
1:19:58the baggage car. And you're immediately
1:20:00met with the sound of
1:20:03I open the door and I kind of stick my
1:20:05head in and I
1:20:09I put the ladies sticking hands on the
1:20:10ground and like see if I find a broom.
1:20:15Uh you you don't see a broom, but you
1:20:17see a really beautiful parasol that
1:20:19someone was using that's part of their
1:20:22luggage and you grab that and push it
1:20:23forward. I just kind of like
1:20:26slide the plate and you go. As the plate
1:20:28gets closer, the you can see the
1:20:31tendrils of scent wafting up from this
1:20:34steak. And as they hit his nostrils, the
1:20:37sound immediately stops and he looks up
1:20:40and you you see the look of of ravenous
1:20:44hunger on his face. He doesn't even look
1:20:45towards you as he dives forward and
1:20:48begins to just shovel this food into his
1:20:51mouth. You see bits of steak and eggs
1:20:52flying this way and that as he as he
1:20:55begins to eat it down. And as he is
1:20:58trying to tell you thank you over his
1:21:00mouth full of food. You watch as he
1:21:02disperses into nothing. And that feeling
1:21:05of anger and angryness that you were
1:21:08feeling in this uh in this train cart uh
1:21:11you realize had gotten much worse since
1:21:14you'd left. But in that instant it
1:21:16completely disperses. There's a moment
1:21:18where things are kind of quiet and I
1:21:20look around and I say,
1:21:23"You're going to rinse, you sick. I turn
1:21:26around and I start to head back to my
1:21:28friends." Uh,
1:21:31Meanwhile, we've all ordered steak and
1:21:32eggs.
1:21:34Well, you know, I can't really taste it.
1:21:38While we're waiting, does the kid What
1:21:39does the Does the kid look like he has
1:21:41some sort of negative emotion? No theme.
1:21:43The kid looks like he is. He very much
1:21:46looks like a hint. Um, and it's not
1:21:49necessarily that he looks like he has an
1:21:51emotion, but you all feel oddly guilty.
1:21:55As you're eating the steak and eggs, you
1:21:57you feel guilty that you get to move on
1:22:00and one day you can have actual steak
1:22:02and eggs. That you didn't die before
1:22:04your last meal. And you're enjoying this
1:22:07knowing that there are more meals to
1:22:08come. And that that hunger, that that
1:22:11eternal hunger that that hate was going
1:22:12to feel is not something you would ever
1:22:14have to feel. And normally you wouldn't
1:22:17feel guilty about this. That would be a
1:22:20a him problem and not a you problem. But
1:22:22there is something about this train car
1:22:24that is making you feel a similar level
1:22:26of guilt. Uh, hey kid.
1:22:31You, how are you? You see the kid turn
1:22:34and look towards you. Hey, I'm eating a
1:22:37turkey.
1:22:39Oh, that's cool. What do you think about
1:22:40this cool painting over the ocean? Ew,
1:22:43gross. I don't like paintings.
1:22:46Gosh, these ghosts are very
1:22:48disrespectful to the majesty of the sea.
1:22:51Stop trying to make this painting
1:22:52happen. It's frankly embarrassing to me.
1:22:55I'm going This is going to be where I
1:22:57eventually set up shop in Dusk and
1:22:59become a and and get driven mad on
1:23:01account of eating wood alcohol. Uh,
1:23:03drinking wood alcohol. I want some wood
1:23:05alcohol. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:23:08And also, we're going to eat. I'm going
1:23:09to also be drinking petroleum. Wood
1:23:11alcohol appears on the table. Kerosene.
1:23:13Some kerosene.
1:23:16No, give me that. I try to like get the
1:23:19wood alcohol away from the wood alcohol.
1:23:21Fine. You can have it. Okay.
1:23:25Well, I feel like now that I have it, I
1:23:27may as well.
1:23:31Do you think I could be a turkey in my
1:23:32next life?
1:23:34Oh, is that how that works? I mean,
1:23:36maybe. It really depends on how the
1:23:37afterlife works. Perhaps it's just one
1:23:39afterlife after the other and we're all
1:23:41stuck here for eternity. Well, we grew.
1:23:43Okay. You going to stay with me?
1:23:46No. Never leave this train car? No. Eat
1:23:49turkey with me? I mean, maybe. But then
1:23:51we'll leave. Why? Cuz we have our
1:23:54business to do. Can I come with you?
1:23:57Possibly. I don't know how the train
1:23:58cars work. Scampy ghost kid sidekick
1:24:01could be pretty marketable. I mean, have
1:24:04you tried pretty marketable? No, no. I
1:24:06mean, you think about ratings. Yeah, the
1:24:09ratings would be really nice. And it
1:24:10would be I feel like it would be like a
1:24:12little like new adventures of Scooby-Doo
1:24:14with Scrappy and I feel like it would be
1:24:16more like cousin. What is it? Who is the
1:24:18cousin from the Brady Bunch? Yeah, no.
1:24:20No. Scrappy's Beloved. I feel like that
1:24:22would work. No, at least it would work
1:24:23for a season kid. Sure. Oh, can you
1:24:27leave? No. Oh, no. I hate your painting.
1:24:31Oh. What? Young man, respect great
1:24:35artist work. Do you know how hard
1:24:36somebody worked on that painting? And
1:24:38also probably put an Eldrich curse on it
1:24:40maybe or something. I don't know. I
1:24:42wanted to be a painter. Okay. For 5
1:24:44minutes. No. Okay. Well, what do you
1:24:48want right now?
1:24:52[Music]
1:24:54Well,
1:24:56I want to find that dumb old rock I
1:24:58painted.
1:25:01Oh. Oh. Just a a painted rock. Yeah. I
1:25:05stole a rock from my neighbor's yard and
1:25:07I painted it like a frog and then I died
1:25:09before I got to give it to her. And now
1:25:10I know that she's going to be she's
1:25:14she's going to be so mad that I stole it
1:25:15from her and she doesn't even know I
1:25:16tried to do a nice thing and that I'm
1:25:18going to be a painter one day. Well, not
1:25:19anymore cuz I'm dead. So, I hate artists
1:25:21and I hate painting.
1:25:24Well, I'm not going to ask what did you
1:25:25eat, kid? But no, we don't need to.
1:25:27Let's keep a little pey for a table.
1:25:29Yeah. No, I think you're right. That's
1:25:30exactly right. I feel like these should
1:25:32be like maybe you're a Danny Phantom
1:25:34ghost. That's kind of You're just kind
1:25:36of a ghost and no one's really sure what
1:25:37that means. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Danny
1:25:41Fenton.
1:25:44Uh, can do you is the rock on the train?
1:25:47Do you bring it to Do you bring it to
1:25:48the afterlife?
1:25:50Yeah, it was here, but I don't know
1:25:52where it went. Oh, you lost it. Well,
1:25:55did you have it in this car with you? I
1:25:58don't know. I don't remember much.
1:26:02Without my neighbor, she used to tell me
1:26:03I could do anything. I could be anything
1:26:05I wanted. I used to dream up all kinds
1:26:08of things with her. She was really nice.
1:26:10She gave me popcorn. Wow. I love
1:26:12popcorn. She was going to take me to the
1:26:14circus once. Wa. I didn't get to go. Oh,
1:26:18but I can dream about it.
1:26:20Well, uh, you know, kid, she'll never
1:26:22take me now cuz I stole that rock.
1:26:26Hey, at the end of the day, kid, it's
1:26:29just a rock. Come on. Hey, you put my
1:26:32heart and soul into that rock. I painted
1:26:34it like a frog. Oh, one whole frog. She
1:26:39probably would enjoy the rock more now
1:26:41that it's been painted by a rock. Uh,
1:26:42given your talent, I'm sure, as an
1:26:44artist, painted by a rock. Painted that
1:26:46the rock was painted by you. Oh. Oh,
1:26:49that's what I thought. She always liked
1:26:51when I brought her things. When I
1:26:53decided that I was going to be the
1:26:55greatest crochet artist of the world and
1:26:58I made her a slightly lopsided cardigan,
1:27:02he said I was going to be great. You
1:27:05have a lot of interest, kid. Yeah. Um,
1:27:09how about this?
1:27:11Maybe we'll keep an eye out for the rock
1:27:15and we're going to We're not going to
1:27:17eat any more turkey. We can't taste it.
1:27:19Or maybe old Mrs. Jenkins is long dead.
1:27:22You got nothing to worry about.
1:27:25She has no spirit or animal to feel
1:27:27guilty about.
1:27:29That's possible. I mean, you have no
1:27:31idea how long you've been here, do you?
1:27:32Yeah. You You maybe Maybe you've been
1:27:34here for thousands of years. But are you
1:27:36saying she's dead?
1:27:39You never know. Certainly. No, I
1:27:41definitely can't move on. How do I move
1:27:44on to the afterlife without that? Not
1:27:46that. Not that direction. Uh, well, why
1:27:48don't we just keep an eye out for the
1:27:51rock? We'll keep an eye out for the
1:27:52rock. We found a steak and eggs. Is it
1:27:54possible that we passed the rock? We've
1:27:55been through many rooms that potentially
1:27:57have rocks in them. I feel like I would
1:27:59have seen a Do you think she's going to
1:28:01put me in timeout if I show up without
1:28:03that rock? No, she's dead. No, no, she's
1:28:06not long dead. There's still hope for
1:28:07you and your life. There's still hope to
1:28:11perhaps you already found the rock and
1:28:13she's just sad and missing you. Oh,
1:28:15that's you're about that's not much
1:28:17better. Yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying.
1:28:19I'm trying. Yeah, but then it's all my
1:28:21fault that she's missing me. No, we'll
1:28:25find the room. We'll find the stone.
1:28:27We'll find I mean, can we get away from
1:28:29this depressing kid?
1:28:32Everywhere we go. Damn wrong. All right,
1:28:34that season was shortlived.
1:28:36Oh, yeah.
1:28:38Okay. Uh, don't worry, kid. You want a
1:28:41piece of turkey?
1:28:43Uh, will it make you feel better? Nope.
1:28:46Uh, sure.
1:28:49He He rips off a turkey leg and hands it
1:28:51to you.
1:28:54It's a little dry. You got any sauces?
1:28:56Um, yeah. What kind you want? I don't
1:28:59know. What is this drink I'll have? Uh,
1:29:02mustard, ketchup, blue cheese, mayo,
1:29:05Sriracha. We don't have time for this
1:29:07bit.
1:29:09There's nothing
1:29:13Caesar.
1:29:15Honey mustard. Hot mustard.
1:29:19I'm already through the door. Yeah, I'm
1:29:21stuck. I'm stuck in a a foggy limbo. The
1:29:23rest of us.
1:29:25It's so It's so quiet here. This is I'll
1:29:27just wait for Grio. You are in this
1:29:30shrieking limbo for about 30 minutes.
1:29:32Oh, okay. See you, kid. See you.
1:29:38turkey. And he starts to eat the turkey.
1:29:40This is dry. All right, Brickle, get in
1:29:42here. We all of us need to be there to
1:29:44move on. Okay. Okay, hold on. Hold on. I
1:29:46got to get Let me just get past you. Let
1:29:48me get past the benches. Wait, it's not
1:29:50happening. What? We're all here. I'm not
1:29:53I don't understand. Once finally makes
1:29:55his way right there. Oh, no.
1:30:00We're all here. We're all here.
1:30:02Not a single person. 40 47 years go by
1:30:05while wanders the cars looking for us.
1:30:08Hey kid, did you see uh stone guy, a
1:30:12little red guy? You found my you found
1:30:14my rock? No, I mean a big stone guy like
1:30:17made of stone with wings. There's a
1:30:19bird, a little red guy, and a weird
1:30:21skeleton guy. Yeah, you saw them. Yeah.
1:30:24Where'd they go? I don't know. Why do
1:30:27you have so many sauces?
1:30:31That that little red one was just asking
1:30:34for every single sauce and sounds like
1:30:36Ro. Yeah. Do you want to eat them with
1:30:38me? Not really. You want some turkey?
1:30:41Yeah. All right. He rips off another
1:30:44lunch and passes it to you. Which tastes
1:30:46like a turkey farted near? Yeah, you're
1:30:49right. It does. Torex's got to go, kid.
1:30:51Good luck with the turkey. All right.
1:30:53I'm going to proceed to the next Hey
1:30:55guys.
1:31:00Corvette, can you please roll a d6 for
1:31:02me? Jesus.
1:31:05Holy Uh, three. We already got
1:31:08three. Yep. Five. Uh, five. We've gotten
1:31:11you. You're looking for a four and a
1:31:13six. Six. Six. Fantastic. As you step
1:31:16into the this space between, you all
1:31:19stumble out into the next car and you
1:31:23are hit with the scent of decayed hay.
1:31:26Musty water and old blood fills the air.
1:31:28What looks like a circus card. Rusting
1:31:31cages line the walls amidst the wooden
1:31:33crates painted in garish red and white
1:31:35stripes. The decor inside is a Macob
1:31:38spectacle of twisted whimsy with faded,
1:31:40tattered banners advertising various
1:31:43carnivals. Each one depicts unsettling
1:31:45clowns and terrifying animals, creating
1:31:47an atmosphere of horrific revalry that
1:31:49leaves an uneasy chill in your bones.
1:31:53This space is also loaded with cargo,
1:31:56but cargo that is clearly carrying the
1:32:00the tools and pieces of whatever this
1:32:02this carnival would be or whatever this
1:32:05circus would be. You see all of these
1:32:07cages lining the walls, empty cages that
1:32:09would have held things like the tiger,
1:32:12Chad, the
1:32:15in his in his former life when he was a
1:32:17corporeal creature, but now they remain
1:32:21empty.
1:32:23One thing, however, catches your eye. A
1:32:26collection of creepy marionettes is
1:32:28stuffed into an open chest in the corner
1:32:30of the car.
1:32:32There's something unsettling about them.
1:32:37And as you walk deeper into the train
1:32:40car, you're immediately met with yet
1:32:42again another overwhelming feeling.
1:32:45A feeling very similar to the one that
1:32:48you just experienced in the car before.
1:32:51feeling of guilt. But this is deeper.
1:32:54Like you have done something truly,
1:32:56truly awful. Something that you will
1:32:59never be able to make up for.
1:33:03Look at this fellas. It's like we're
1:33:05home.
1:33:07Was our was our carnival this ma?
1:33:11Well, the smell is very familiar. Ah,
1:33:14you're right. It's not quite the same
1:33:15theme. You know, really hit me with a
1:33:17bad feeling in here, man. You guys
1:33:19getting there? Maybe is it like is this
1:33:21like oh gosh is this like limbo or
1:33:23purgatory or well ours leaned a little
1:33:25more art nuvo this is a little more
1:33:27gothic you know but I mean you know the
1:33:30it's kind of similar maybe this is our
1:33:33home that's what I'm saying maybe are we
1:33:35doomed this is where we stay for
1:33:37eternity until we fall to despair and
1:33:41grief and it is as you say that that you
1:33:44realize that the feeling that you're
1:33:45feeling is not guilt it is so very
1:33:49similar similar to what you felt in the
1:33:51dining car. This feeling you know very
1:33:55well. The feeling of shame.
1:34:00Oh god. What is this feeling?
1:34:04It's so sudden and new.
1:34:08What? What is this feeling? I don't
1:34:10know. I don't know it either, man. kind
1:34:12of filled with guilt.
1:34:15This is what is I don't like how maybe
1:34:19this is a limbo.
1:34:22Oh, hello. Who? Oh, who goes there?
1:34:25Please, Pirate, please. You shine your
1:34:27light at the movement that you see off
1:34:29in the corner. And you you re you rear
1:34:33back as you see the movement, what looks
1:34:35like five entities lunging forward
1:34:38towards you. But as you rear back, you
1:34:40realize you're just the five marinets
1:34:42juggling on their strings.
1:34:45Uh, and can I have you roll a perception
1:34:47check for me, please? Easy. Doesn't like
1:34:50this. Uh, that'll be a 17. You
1:34:54you almost uh you you rear back and and
1:34:57you fall to the ground as you um as you
1:35:00kind of crawl backwards away from these
1:35:02things as you realize or before you
1:35:03realize that they're marionettes.
1:35:06I mean, and then something catches your
1:35:08eye. The head, the face of one of these
1:35:11marionets is not the carved wooden doll
1:35:14the four other ones are, but is a stone
1:35:17painted to look like a frog.
1:35:20[Music]
1:35:21Oh, wait a minute. That kid has been
1:35:24back in the other car. He's been waiting
1:35:25here for probably decades. And he's he's
1:35:28in his Cifian torment. The Rock was just
1:35:30in the next car over.
1:35:33Oh my god. You know, maybe this whole
1:35:36train is a metaphor about how we spend
1:35:40our whole lives waiting for something to
1:35:43begin.
1:35:45But
1:35:46what happens if no one told you when to
1:35:49run? What happens when you miss the
1:35:52start and go?
1:35:55Uh, can we get away from this depressing
1:35:58crummy?
1:36:02Wait, but then don't you have a
1:36:04beautiful house and a beautiful wife?
1:36:07And as the days go by?
1:36:10What? What? Oh, I'm mixing metaphor
1:36:13rays. Uh, who's going to bring that back
1:36:14to that depressing kid? Oh, wait. The
1:36:16rock. The rock.
1:36:19I think that's a you thing. Yeah, you
1:36:20you seem like the one. Oh, I got to stay
1:36:22by this bad boy. No, no, we'll watch.
1:36:25No, there's a ghost in here that needs
1:36:26to see his painting. I don't want to go
1:36:28with that. We haven't seen He's buming
1:36:30me out. Torm, go back to the cube. Yeah,
1:36:33let's go back. He was so good at that. I
1:36:36tried to take the rock off this uh
1:36:38marionette. It's It's easy. It comes off
1:36:40easy. It didn't belong there in the
1:36:41first place. All right, guys. I don't
1:36:44know. Find the H and I'll be back. See
1:36:47you. And I start to go back towards the
1:36:49other the other car. Just as easily as
1:36:52you were able to make your way back to
1:36:53the baggage car, you're able to make
1:36:55your make your way back to the dining
1:36:56car. The kid is still sitting there. He
1:36:59now has 15 turkeys on the table in front
1:37:02of him. Jeez, kid. Slow down.
1:37:05This is your rock.
1:37:08Whoa.
1:37:09You found my rock. Torb did. Well, got
1:37:13to help. But yeah, here. And I'm going
1:37:16to set it down on the table.
1:37:20You know what this means? No. I got to
1:37:24face the stone cold truth. Oh, I got to
1:37:28pass on and get this rock back to who it
1:37:31belongs to. Okay.
1:37:35And she's going to be proud of my
1:37:36artistic ability. Who?
1:37:40My neighbor.
1:37:43Wow.
1:37:45Yeah. Let me And then he turns into
1:37:47dust.
1:37:50No. Tre's around.
1:37:54has no clue what that was about.
1:38:00He missed it. Sorry.
1:38:04Could have been a different kid.
1:38:08You know, Ricko, I mean, sometimes when
1:38:10you go through life, you just sort of go
1:38:11along this path set before you by your
1:38:15elders, your peers, society,
1:38:17institutions,
1:38:19and who ever stops to think why?
1:38:23You know, I mean, have I ever really
1:38:25stopped to think, what does Grammy Cru
1:38:27want?
1:38:29I mean,
1:38:30I just feel like I just went down the
1:38:32automatic path of starting a wacky goofy
1:38:35gnover. Criminal. We're criminals. You
1:38:37think about a drunk criminal con. You
1:38:39think about what you want like every
1:38:40day, man. We're always talking about
1:38:42things we want. Oh, I guess you're
1:38:44right. You know what? I'm not like that
1:38:45at all. Oh, man. God. Oh, man. That must
1:38:50suck to be the No, we're the embodiment
1:38:52of freedom, man. We do what we want when
1:38:54we want.
1:38:56Yeah, that's pretty cool. Crummy. Look
1:38:58at this.
1:39:00He's doing that thing. Oh, is that thing
1:39:03that's pretty That's pretty cool, Gummy.
1:39:04Look at this. Let us look. Shadow
1:39:06puppets.
1:39:08[Music]
1:39:11I'm Tobic now. You know, it doesn't have
1:39:14quite the same effect as when you're not
1:39:16turned into some kind of animal, you
1:39:17know. Yeah.
1:39:19Really cool when you did it before, man.
1:39:21Yeah. Well, is there a spooky ghost in
1:39:24here? Spooky ghost paints. Hello. We're
1:39:28here to help you deal with this feeling
1:39:30that none of us understand. Oh, here's a
1:39:34spooky guy. Just kidding, guys. This
1:39:36door backbone
1:39:39delivered the rock to that kid. Oh, and
1:39:41super dead. Did he Did he burst me into
1:39:43spectral energy? Yep. Did he tell you
1:39:45the secret to immortality? No. Dang.
1:39:48Well, there's no ghost, so we've
1:39:51determined that this is our final
1:39:52resting place. We've reached the end.
1:39:54We'll slowly turn into hints and then uh
1:39:56fall to grief and shame and then become
1:39:59corrupted. There's a door right there.
1:40:01We can just stuck here, too. Wow.
1:40:05Oh, hi. Hello. Hello. And you see
1:40:08hanging directly behind Kmy from um what
1:40:11is clearly a trapeze is a harlequin. Um
1:40:16she's hanging upside down. She's looking
1:40:18quite pouty. Um and as she's as she's
1:40:23doing this, she's attempting to do um uh
1:40:26different uh trapeze movements, but
1:40:28she's clumsy about it. um stumbling over
1:40:30things almost as if her heart isn't
1:40:32fully into it.
1:40:34So, you're stuck here with me, huh? By
1:40:36the Baron, why did I have to be a clown?
1:40:38Do you think it look look
1:40:41All right. We don't want any trouble. We
1:40:42We have real bad luck with a clown.
1:40:44Yeah. Be careful. No, I ain't no clown.
1:40:47I'm a Harley Quinn.
1:40:49It's It's clownish. It's under the
1:40:51umbrella of the word. I'm not sure
1:40:52that's a meaningful mistake. T was going
1:40:56to say something about a heart. It's
1:40:57eight in one hand, half a 20 in another.
1:41:00It's very different. We do completely
1:41:02separate things. I ain't I ain't
1:41:03throwing pies in your face. I ain't hing
1:41:05my nose wearing big shoes. How do you
1:41:08feel? H I'm doing contortion acts. I'm
1:41:11flying on the trapeze. I'm doing silk
1:41:13dancing. Excuse me. Uh uh uh. How do you
1:41:16feel about this painting? How do you
1:41:17feel about this painting? Does it make
1:41:19you feel wistful? Does that help you
1:41:20move on? What? No. Does it feel cold in
1:41:23the sea? I always wanted to go to the
1:41:24beach, but I never got a chance to be
1:41:26driven mad in your isolation on a cold
1:41:29rock with no loved ones around. I was
1:41:31saving so much money. Oh, I was hoping I
1:41:34could go to the beach someday. I just
1:41:36travel in general, you know. Beach. He's
1:41:38got the beach here for you. Yeah, but I
1:41:41don't know if that was my, you know, I
1:41:42don't know if that's where I was
1:41:44supposed to end up. It was just one of
1:41:45the places I wanted to go. There was so
1:41:47many places I wanted to go. All right.
1:41:49Her thing was vacation. I don't know how
1:41:51we deliver that. I'm sorry. What? You
1:41:52missed the starting gun of your life.
1:41:55Oh, we don't talk about guns. Oh, man.
1:41:57The guns went off that day.
1:42:00Guns?
1:42:02What? I I knew I should have listened.
1:42:05They said that tiger was dangerous.
1:42:08But he was always so sweet in the cage.
1:42:12Tiger. The tiger. Yeah, the tiger. And
1:42:15then I I felt bad for him. You know, he
1:42:18was in there. It was sad. His tail was
1:42:21never raised high. He was always down to
1:42:23the ground. They weren't feeding him
1:42:24enough. You could see his ribs. I'm
1:42:26telling you. Was his name Chad? Yes. You
1:42:29knew him? We met him. He's very
1:42:31friendly. No, he ain't. No, he's he
1:42:33isn't. But I was able to befriend him
1:42:35using magic. I wish you'd been there
1:42:37that day. I didn't listen. They told me
1:42:38he wasn't friendly, but he fooled me. I
1:42:41let him out of his cage. I think I get
1:42:43it now. The horror. The absolute horror.
1:42:46All the people. He killed everyone. This
1:42:48was meant to be. Everybody,
1:42:51including me. Oh, time. It's all my
1:42:54fault. I'm the one that did it. Wait,
1:42:58you let him out? I opened the gate.
1:43:03Well, I was just hungry.
1:43:07You You never And now they killed him.
1:43:10The sound of the gun. They killed him.
1:43:14And now he's somewhere in the afterlife.
1:43:17[Music]
1:43:19He's wreaking havoc forever. It's not
1:43:22just what he did in life, it's what he's
1:43:24doing in death. No, no, no. We We
1:43:26confronted him and uh I was able to
1:43:28befriend him and then he turned into
1:43:30spectral energy and he fluttered. We
1:43:31turbo killed him. Frosty turbo killed
1:43:33him. Oh, there's no way that happened.
1:43:35No, we turbo killed him. Let's show her
1:43:36the thing. Just just just one moment. Uh
1:43:39this iron ring that was around his his
1:43:41tail, he he uh I I grabbed this off him
1:43:45while we were playing. I I gave him some
1:43:47tummy scratches and he was playing a
1:43:49night that's above you. You really
1:43:51didn't meet that mean old cat. I thought
1:43:53that perhaps it was a a chain link or
1:43:55something, but it just seemed to be some
1:43:57sort of a jewelry. Can I Can I have
1:43:59that? Oh, if you insist. You promise.
1:44:02He's gone. He can't hurt anyone anymore.
1:44:03No, no. He He's He's He's passed on.
1:44:07Wow. That's amazing. And she throws it
1:44:10up in the air and she starts to juggle
1:44:11with it. Oh, wow. That's quite talented,
1:44:13actually. Wow. He's He's never going to
1:44:16be hurt able to hurt anyone ever. And
1:44:18then she bursts,
1:44:22man. Wow. That whole time, Grammy, it
1:44:25sounded like you were going to say
1:44:26something. Well, yeah. I mean, then
1:44:28Frosty just fixed all Yeah, but you feel
1:44:31that sense of shame that infiltrated
1:44:34this entire car dissipate. You can tell
1:44:38us. Do you like to say it now? The the
1:44:41very first we met was like trombone
1:44:44themed and then we get to the carnival
1:44:46themed and I just figured she'd be gun
1:44:48themed and that I could you know
1:44:51you solve this with my gun. That's the
1:44:53next day we meet we can solve we can
1:44:56solve it with a gun. No problem. Well,
1:44:58but no, it's not going to be gun themed
1:44:59next time. It could be. You don't know.
1:45:01We can meet perhaps some sort of Venelt
1:45:03character. Yeah, I think there's only
1:45:05one Hank to go and then we'll free him
1:45:06and then we save the day. There might be
1:45:08an infinite number of train cars on this
1:45:10train. That's That's true. We don't know
1:45:12how many train cars there are. Well,
1:45:15no.
1:45:17All right. So, I can use my gun to solve
1:45:20the next one. Yeah. We We promise that
1:45:24no matter what, the next you can solve
1:45:26with a gun. No matter what. We promise.
1:45:28Oh, you fellas are all right.
1:45:30And I can't believe that even if there's
1:45:33some other obvious solution. Yeah. And I
1:45:35can't believe that we that that ghost is
1:45:38turbo dead now forever and it wasn't
1:45:40Gideon. Good job. That's character
1:45:42development, Gideon. That you that you
1:45:45didn't do it and accidentally avoided. I
1:45:47was getting some kind of response in the
1:45:49beginning and I was, you know, I was
1:45:51feeling a certain way and then you just
1:45:53died so fast. I was like, you know,
1:45:55that's okay. Okay. Yeah. Well, I feel
1:45:58good about this guy. Okay. All right.
1:46:01Torch will get the door for you, Greg.
1:46:03Okay. Don't worry.
1:46:04I'll be the first one in. Remember, Mr.
1:46:06Kmy, no matter what happens on the other
1:46:08side of this door, you got this. Who
1:46:11needs courage when you have a gun? You
1:46:14need a win. You need a win. You need a
1:46:16win. You all stumble out into the next
1:46:20train car. Ricko, you are in the
1:46:22forefront of the group as you find
1:46:23yourself in a mail car. The car is
1:46:26filled with two rows of shelves
1:46:27containing heavy mail satchels and bins
1:46:29filled to the brim with parcels and
1:46:31envelopes. You look around this car and
1:46:35you immediately spot the hint at the
1:46:38back of this car sitting um sitting on a
1:46:41stool. You see that he has a letter open
1:46:46um in in a pink parchment. He seems to
1:46:50be reading this letter and you see tears
1:46:53rolling down his his face as he sniffles
1:46:56and he he hears you immediately
1:46:58realizing uh that people are here. He
1:47:00wipes his eyes as he looks up getting
1:47:03ready to say something. This appears to
1:47:04be an old mariner. A big shaggy beard.
1:47:08Uh a captain's half hat on his head, a
1:47:11big pipe in his mouth. Uh as he looks at
1:47:14all of you and immediately his eyes dart
1:47:18down to the painting. Hey, what do you
1:47:20think about this? He rushes forward. He
1:47:23rushes forward and grabs the painting.
1:47:25What do you think about this? without
1:47:27even without even a word. He you you see
1:47:30you see him look whispered at as the as
1:47:33the salt sea mail that salt sea air
1:47:37blows through his beard and through his
1:47:40hair the sound you watch as a seagull
1:47:44flies out of the painting and lands on
1:47:46his shoulder and as it does this hate
1:47:49turns to dust.
1:47:54You did it. Well done. I did it. Oh, Mr.
1:47:59Grammy, you didn't even fire a shot. I
1:48:01really thought this guy I thought the
1:48:03fisherman was like shooting fish in a
1:48:05barrel or something, man. I really
1:48:07thought you had this one.
1:48:10Well, at least one of these Hanks
1:48:11appreciates the uh the majesty of the
1:48:14sea. Okay.
1:48:19Okay. I I'm done with that now.
1:48:24Wow. I guess being an old lighthouse
1:48:27keeper wasn't for me anyway. I'm sure
1:48:30I'll find my place in Duskin vault.
1:48:32Let's go to the next car. On to the
1:48:34next. Surely there will be an additional
1:48:36hint that we have to solve first. I'm
1:48:38pretty sure it's a rule of six. Frosty,
1:48:40it's a rule of six. Well, how do we get
1:48:42this letter back to that poor poor
1:48:44woman? She already moved on. Yeah, she
1:48:45moved on, man. And it can't be that I
1:48:47would had to deliver her letter to a JB.
1:48:50Her letter was to a JB. His letter was
1:48:52to a JB. JB's getting around, man. I got
1:48:55to tell you, JB knows a lot of people.
1:48:57We have to give it to the vagrant.
1:48:59Perhaps he'll know what to do with with
1:49:01the letter. He likes guns. I bet I bet
1:49:03she might like guns. She might like
1:49:04guns, man. You never know. Oh my gosh.
1:49:07All right. What if Kmy shoots the letter
1:49:10and then that will get rid of the the We
1:49:13saved the day cuz all the all Well, I
1:49:15guess we got to make sure there's no
1:49:16more no hates, but like shoot the letter
1:49:18and maybe that'll just save everything.
1:49:19Why would that do anything? I mean,
1:49:21Crimy's trying to make this happen. I'm
1:49:22just trying. I mean, I had my I mean, do
1:49:24the painting. How about we just go
1:49:27handsome painting? Maybe you can shoot
1:49:28the next car, man. Maybe you just shoot
1:49:30in in the next car. Just keep your gun
1:49:32ready. Can you roll a group perception
1:49:34check for me? Yeah. All right. No, you
1:49:36know, the second Let me go first and the
1:49:38second I walk in, I'm shooting my gun.
1:49:40So, everybody got a 16 for perception.
1:49:4312 8 9
1:49:4620 Oh my god.
1:49:4922.
1:49:50No, 21. 21. You are all arguing about
1:49:53this as you um and it most of you do not
1:49:58notice, but Creremy and Torbeck, you
1:50:03some movement catches your eye as you
1:50:05see that strange dark fog that had
1:50:11entered into the train car uh with the
1:50:14phantom train hopper. you that
1:50:18um that strange spectral um substance as
1:50:23it darts beneath the exit of this train
1:50:26and into the next car.
1:50:28It's just a quick glimpse, but it is
1:50:32clearly moving quickly. Uh did did we
1:50:35get the name of what JB stands for? Torb
1:50:38thinks it might be Jabroni bumper. Wait,
1:50:40what was that?
1:50:42Did you guys see that? Who was Wait a
1:50:45minute. Wait, wasn't that the spooky
1:50:46ghost with what like the windows? Was
1:50:48that that guy? I didn't see it, man. No,
1:50:51I know. I know. I think you're right. I
1:50:53think it was that It was the the spooky
1:50:55spectre. Isn't this car darted under the
1:50:58doorway? Oh my god. This is what I
1:51:03didn't
1:51:07I ripped the door open. You rip I'm
1:51:10right behind the door open. you leap
1:51:12into that same space between uh the cars
1:51:15and then you plummet into the next car
1:51:18expecting another set of sleeper cars or
1:51:21maybe another lounge car or something of
1:51:23that nature, but you find yourself in a
1:51:26part of the train that is known as the
1:51:27tender.
1:51:29This car is an ironclad carriage bathed
1:51:31in hot wavering light. A large blackened
1:51:34fuel tank stands at its center with a
1:51:36small reinforced glass window revealing
1:51:38a sickly blue green glow within. The air
1:51:41vibrates with unnatural energy. And from
1:51:43deep within the tank, faint whispers
1:51:46rise, haunting disembodied voices. Iron
1:51:49pipes twist overhead, snaking their way
1:51:52from the tank to a ghastly furnace at
1:51:54the far end of the car.
1:51:57You
1:51:58find yourself in this space.
1:52:03You are familiar with what this is
1:52:07already. This this is how this train
1:52:10runs and you had already been told what
1:52:14it runs on. That whailing that you hear,
1:52:16the wailing souls of the damned. Those
1:52:19hints that were never able to fully move
1:52:22on. Before this phantom train hopper
1:52:25made its way onto this train, they would
1:52:27have been filtered into this furnace and
1:52:29used as fuel to make the Ghost Light
1:52:31Express run. But now that that thing has
1:52:34made its way on here, you've had to help
1:52:36those entities move on to the afterlife,
1:52:39denying the Ghost Light Express its
1:52:41fuel, lest this space be corrupted. And
1:52:46you're looking here and you see
1:52:48everything looks just fine. He's running
1:52:52normally.
1:52:53You see no movement at first. Who goes
1:52:56there?
1:52:59We saw him come in here, didn't we?
1:53:03It was just a flash. Tormbeck's pretty
1:53:05sure he saw something come in here.
1:53:09Oh, this is an engine room, man.
1:53:12Oh, G. This is sort of your your
1:53:14environment, right, man? Oh, it used to
1:53:16be. Murphy was monsters anymore. Get
1:53:18your own new things.
1:53:20No men's. I don't like this. Gideon, you
1:53:25would know better than any of us where
1:53:27something would hide in a room like
1:53:28this. Yeah. Can you tell us? Imagine
1:53:30that you needed to hide here. Where
1:53:32would you jump? Uh, Torbat, who is the
1:53:34last person to enter?
1:53:37Grammy would I would have been right
1:53:38behind. I probably been last. I would
1:53:40have been I would like you to roll a
1:53:41perception check. Uh oh. 11. Dang it.
1:53:45Okay.
1:53:46You are you are all talking about this.
1:53:49It's Gideon would know about this. This
1:53:51is something that you're familiar with.
1:53:53Um, where did it go? We saw it. It
1:53:56entered in. As you notice something move
1:53:59past your feet, Bricko, and you realize
1:54:02in a flash, as all of this happens in
1:54:05mere moments, that that entity, that
1:54:09spectral form of the phantom train
1:54:10hopper didn't make its way into the
1:54:13tender. It couldn't. But it waited for
1:54:16you in the space between. And now that
1:54:18you've all moved in, it slinks in behind
1:54:21you and just as quickly darts in to the
1:54:24furnace. Branch-like tendrils of shadow
1:54:28whip out from the twisting pipes running
1:54:30along the ceiling, shattering the
1:54:31circular window of the storage tank and
1:54:33pouring into the iron capsule. The
1:54:35glowing soul coals darken to a ghastly
1:54:38near black green before violently
1:54:39shooting through the pipes and into the
1:54:41firebox as the fuel storage tank
1:54:43completely empties.
1:54:45The flame within rages. The Ghost Light
1:54:48Express groans mechanically just beyond
1:54:50the tender.
1:54:52The train begins to lurch
1:54:55as this entity
1:54:58completely twist and and transforms the
1:55:02the the engine of this train. The Ghost
1:55:05Light Express begins to twist and change
1:55:08too. Suddenly, the train shakes with
1:55:10turbulence and an earsplitting blare
1:55:12rings out. An instant later, there is a
1:55:14vicious jolt as the train comes to an
1:55:16abrupt and violent stop.
1:55:19You are, this is all happening in
1:55:22instance as you watch this um as you
1:55:25watch the furnace become corrupted. You
1:55:27are jostled this way and that almost as
1:55:30if the the train is being thrown um
1:55:33through the the fog around you. you are
1:55:36unable to uh keep yourself steady as
1:55:39you're thrown against wall from wall to
1:55:41wall as it almost feels like the Ghost
1:55:43Light Express is fighting back against
1:55:45this and eventually you feel it slam and
1:55:50stop
1:55:51as it comes to an abrupt violent stop.
1:55:53The sound of splintered wood and
1:55:55groaning steel fills the cab as the far
1:55:57wall rips free and you are ejected from
1:55:59the tender into the dark of night. The
1:56:02Ghost Light Express has crashed.
1:56:07The Ghost Light Express has crashed
1:56:10and you are in a place wholly unfamiliar
1:56:14to you.
1:56:16You are in a place that
1:56:20is shrouded
1:56:22with darkened trees all around you.
1:56:26The crescent moon that hangs above you
1:56:28is gargantuan, shedding a sickly milk
1:56:31light upon the surrounding forest. But
1:56:34aside from the size, it's the shape that
1:56:36fills you with unease as you all look up
1:56:39and you witness the haggarded visage of
1:56:41a crone learing down at you with mad
1:56:43eyes past a long bent nose and an
1:56:46everpresent grin filled with crooked
1:56:49teeth. The crooked moon is watching you.
1:57:00Oh my god. You
1:57:03guys got to calm down. Calm down. Calm
1:57:07down. Hey. Hey. We got to We got to calm
1:57:10down. We have to stay together on this.
1:57:14Okay. Stick together. You see this crazy
1:57:15floating lady up in the sky? Yeah. Is
1:57:17everybody okay?
1:57:19Who's alive? Oh gosh. Are you all right?
1:57:23You hear Adella's voice as Philillip um
1:57:25helps pull her um out of the wreckage.
1:57:28You see the vagrant has made his way
1:57:32over towards part of the uh broken
1:57:34portion of the Ghost Light Express. Um
1:57:37as he begins to move this way and that
1:57:39half-hazardly in in a in a a flurry as
1:57:44Adella rushes towards you. Oh gosh,
1:57:46you're screaming. Are you all right? Do
1:57:47you do you know what happened?
1:57:51The train crashed. Yeah, I mean somehow
1:57:54that that spooky shadow guy got Oh, no.
1:57:57That we don't know about. What? What
1:57:58happened? Well, are you guys okay? I
1:58:00mean, the whole train with thrown from
1:58:02the train. Yeah, I was I'm all right. I
1:58:04was sleeping at the time and so was
1:58:06Phil. We We just woke up abruptly when
1:58:09the train crashed and
1:58:11rushed outside when we heard you
1:58:13screaming. It doesn't seem like there's
1:58:14anyone else aboard the train and oh
1:58:16gosh, the train's in pieces. and she
1:58:19looks and you see that the train isn't
1:58:22connected, that the cars have spread all
1:58:25over this um portion of the forest that
1:58:28they are they've broken apart and have
1:58:30tumbled into the brush and the trees. Uh
1:58:32and it looks like the vagrant is um
1:58:36furiously working on the um the engine
1:58:38portion of the train. Also, we were
1:58:41screaming at that point to the horic
1:58:44moon. Oh yeah, the moon.
1:58:47Welcome to Drusinbolt.
1:58:49Oh, that's normal. Well, yeah. Like like
1:58:53all the time? Yeah, we're here. Yeah, at
1:58:57night, right? Only at night. Oh, it's
1:59:00always night here. No, so all the time.
1:59:03Yeah, but this isn't a portion of
1:59:07Truskin vault I'm familiar with. Oh
1:59:11gosh. Where did the train take us? He's
1:59:14not supposed to be here. Oh, no. It's
1:59:17supposed to make its way to one of the
1:59:20one of the the stations and it would let
1:59:21us off closer to Chateau Clear DeLoon
1:59:24and we'd take one of our carriages up to
1:59:26the house and I'm not sure which stop
1:59:28you would go to. Maybe you'd wind up in
1:59:29Chernabos or maybe you're going to
1:59:31Astramar.
1:59:33You know, maybe you're you're on your
1:59:34way to Pico. I'm not sure. You you're
1:59:36carnival folks, right? So, Pico sounds
1:59:38like the perfect place for you, but
1:59:40this is not where we're supposed to be.
1:59:44Uh, well, maybe we can get back on
1:59:47track. I think now that we've crashed,
1:59:49is I I hate to interrupt you, Miss
1:59:52Adela. The the Vagrant makes his way
1:59:54over to you, but I think it's going to
1:59:57be some time before I can get the Ghost
2:00:00Light Express up and running without
2:00:01some help. And I understand that this is
2:00:06scary and un unusual and uh we got to
2:00:10get this train up and running.
2:00:12What? What is this? And he looks down
2:00:14and you see these roots begin to climb
2:00:17up out of the ground and wind around the
2:00:20ghost express around the locomotive
2:00:22itself. And he reaches forward and he
2:00:25tries to rip some of them away, but more
2:00:27begin to climb out and begin supposed to
2:00:29happen. No, it ain't. But if we're going
2:00:32to get if we're going to get her up and
2:00:33running, we we got to get we got to get
2:00:36some more fuel in her tank. I I can at
2:00:37least get a couple parts of her going.
2:00:39We can we can get us on out of here. We
2:00:41we whatever's happened here, we can't we
2:00:43can't let it happen. Well, how do we I
2:00:45got I got three of my canisters. Um and
2:00:47he shows you these large canisters that
2:00:50glow with that same eerie green glow.
2:00:53We're We're going to need about six of
2:00:54them to make it work. I got three. Uh
2:00:56they should be pretty easy to spot if
2:00:58you look around this place. See See if
2:01:00you can find them. Bring them back. And
2:01:02you're talking about uh we need to go
2:01:03find hints and kill them and then put
2:01:05them into these canisters. Oh, no. The
2:01:07hints are already dead. They're already
2:01:08in the canisters. So, I just need you to
2:01:10get the canister and bring them back.
2:01:11Oh, we just we're just looking for the
2:01:12canisters. I see. I see.
2:01:15Yeah, we can check the road. I always I
2:01:17always have some excess in store for
2:01:19emergencies. But with the the extent of
2:01:21that crash, they they could be anywhere
2:01:23in in this uh in this grove. Well, if we
2:01:25flew out this direction and you know,
2:01:27maybe the trajectory of them probably a
2:01:29lot of them. I'll work with uh with the
2:01:31Lord and Lady here to try and get as
2:01:33much of the train back together as we
2:01:35can fight off some of these branches and
2:01:36whatever they're doing. If you can find
2:01:37that that uh the fuel, we'll try and get
2:01:40out of here as quickly as we can. Okay.
2:01:42All right. Let's split up. Let's find
2:01:44Let's split up. Maybe that's good. Yeah.
2:01:46Team, let's just hit each car or
2:01:48whatever. Get around. Probably Yeah, the
2:01:50spooky woods. Probably nothing. Oh,
2:01:53okay. No, don't look up. Don't look. We
2:01:55spread out through the through the woods
2:01:57to see if we can find the far-flung soul
2:02:00the canisters. Soul canisters.
2:02:04You um Yeah. Make a group investigation.
2:02:08That's where I'm a Viking. Assuming the
2:02:09dice agree.
2:02:12Oh, baby. Natural 20. Oh my god. Oh my
2:02:16god. That is so Okay, that is crazy
2:02:19because I didn't listen to you, but I
2:02:21just I wrote a 20 and then you said
2:02:23natural 20. Like literally on this
2:02:25paper, I just wrote it. You forced it.
2:02:27You forced it happening. I got I got I
2:02:29got a six.
2:02:31I rolled a nine and got an eight. Oh
2:02:34boy. So, you got two high rolls, a
2:02:36couple I know that we don't always do
2:02:38automatic critical successes. So, I have
2:02:41a 27. Nice. Um, and you notice that um,
2:02:46uh, Phil is helping the vagrant as they,
2:02:49uh, attempt to, uh, do whatever needs to
2:02:51be done to this train to clear. It looks
2:02:52like they're trying to clear away uh,
2:02:55any remnants of these creeping vines
2:02:57away from the firebox as Adella moves
2:03:00towards you and attempts to assist you.
2:03:02And with the six of you working
2:03:04together, it takes maybe 15 minutes um
2:03:0815 minutes to half an hour for you to
2:03:11find these um to find the rest of these
2:03:14soul canisters. Um and during this time,
2:03:16the work is not difficult. You're able
2:03:18to enjoy a short rest. Thank
2:03:22God. And as as you do so, you you don't
2:03:26talk much. you're you're focused on
2:03:29this, still listening to um listening
2:03:33back to uh to Philillip and the vagrant
2:03:36talking. You you can hear the fear in
2:03:38the vagrant's voice as he's working to
2:03:40um to get the firebox up and running to
2:03:44consume this fuel. Um and eventually you
2:03:47all meet back and you're able to bring
2:03:49the fuel back to the vagrant.
2:03:53[Music]
2:03:54We found it. It's kind of like one of
2:03:56those glow sticks that you like crack
2:03:58and we're like in the middle of the
2:03:59summer. Oh, be careful. You're going to
2:04:01break that and then we're going to lose
2:04:02some of our tool. All right, come over
2:04:04here and let's let's uh um I'll pour let
2:04:08we got one, two, three, four. Me and
2:04:12me and Phil uh you and Adella go ahead
2:04:14and stand to the side. Um why? Well, we
2:04:18we got to get the you know the strongest
2:04:21of us among us. These are hefty. I'll
2:04:24stand to the side. He can go.
2:04:26I'm strong enough. I can I can I can
2:04:30create a point of celebrity. I'm I'm
2:04:32capable of flight. All right. I also
2:04:34found this. Everyone else was screaming
2:04:36about the room of the moon. Oh, last
2:04:38steady, Go. Right. You just You just
2:04:40look like a weak wizard.
2:04:43A lot of cigarettes.
2:04:45I had my drained by a All right. On the
2:04:47count of three, we're all Yeah, I'm
2:04:49Well, no. Let's not do it that way.
2:04:51We're going to pour them in one at a
2:04:52time. I'll go first, followed by Phil.
2:04:55Followed by you. My name is Frost. Then
2:04:58Torbeck. Then Torbeck. And then Gideon's
2:05:00last. And then Grio over here. Oh, I'm
2:05:03holding the line. Oh, and Creremy over
2:05:05here. Standing on the side. Well, then
2:05:07who's going to take the sixth one? I'll
2:05:09do two of them. All right, fine. You get
2:05:10a big strong He's all bricked up. Here
2:05:13we go. Um All right. Here we go. And he
2:05:16he pours in the first soul canister.
2:05:19Tuesday from a certain point of view
2:05:21from a certain point of view. He was a
2:05:24good friend. Gideon finally read the
2:05:25letters. I don't know. Uh he pours in
2:05:27the first soul canister and a strange
2:05:30grinding noise begins to happen within
2:05:32the the vagrant looks a little
2:05:34concerned, but you hear him mumbling to
2:05:36himself that you know the this has never
2:05:38happened before and the tank is empty
2:05:40and it's it's going to take more to get
2:05:42it up and running. Uh as Phil Phil's
2:05:45lets loose the the next one. Uh, Frost,
2:05:48you step up and let loose the third one.
2:05:50It is in this moment
2:05:53that a thunderous roar shatters the
2:05:55stillness and the ground trembles as the
2:05:57ghostlike locomotive tears free from the
2:06:00foilage that's trying to encase it. You
2:06:03notice too late the final branch-like
2:06:05tendrils of the phantom train hoppers
2:06:07lingering remnants slithering into the
2:06:09ghastly smoke stack of the enormous
2:06:11engine. With a cacophinous groaning and
2:06:13creaking, the locomotive charges changes
2:06:16before your eyes, sprouting a malevolent
2:06:18face with burning ghastly eyes filled
2:06:20with wickedness. Now a truly monstrous
2:06:23and haunted construct, it spins around
2:06:25and thunders towards you. I need you all
2:06:28to roll for initial
2:06:32with a natural 20 and a plus one. I got
2:06:34a 21. Before we resolve this, can I use
2:06:37my Azureorn ability to give two people
2:06:39advantage? Oh, because of my I would
2:06:42love it if you're old very low. I can't
2:06:44do any better. So, give the advantage.
2:06:46I'm going to give my advantage to Cremy
2:06:47G. But I am able to enjoy this benefit
2:06:50because I have glimpse of fate. I got a
2:06:5310. I got a eight. I rolled a natural
2:06:55one. I have a three. As the third of the
2:06:58soul cans was poured into the ghost
2:07:00light locomotive and it begin to
2:07:02transform. Um, those of you, all of you
2:07:05are thrown back a little bit and those
2:07:07of you that are holding on to the three
2:07:08remaining soul cans, you feel them fly
2:07:11out of your arms with the impact and
2:07:13they land uh haphazardly around this
2:07:17outcropping as the Ghost Light Express
2:07:20rears up in front of you. Um, you are
2:07:23staring down at this thing. uh as the
2:07:27creepy smile on its face is looking at
2:07:29each of you. Not just the hagmoon in the
2:07:32air above you looking down at you, but
2:07:34also this train with its uh horrible
2:07:38crooked grin as it stares out at you.
2:07:41And even though it essentially got the
2:07:44jump on you, tore back, you are much
2:07:45faster and you are able to um you are
2:07:48able to strike first. Awesome. Uh, since
2:07:51I took a short rest, uh, my strength has
2:07:53returned to normal, uh, from our very
2:07:55first encounter in this adventure. Um,
2:07:57and as my first action on my turn, I'm
2:08:00going to, uh, rage. I'm going to use my
2:08:02barbarian rage. Uh, you will all kind of
2:08:04see the tanks on my back begin to glow a
2:08:07little bit brighter. This mysterious
2:08:08liquid that is a part of my experiment
2:08:10nature. Uh, and as I rage, I will use my
2:08:14volatile serum to again choose
2:08:16monstrosity as my limbs begin to grow
2:08:19and my flesh kind of undulates as I
2:08:22become a large creature. Uh, and you
2:08:25notice again as Torb's voice uh changes
2:08:28and this voice that comes out from Torb
2:08:30says, "Oh, I'm back for more fun. What's
2:08:33all this then?" and he charges forward
2:08:37uh to attempt to attack this insane
2:08:39monstrosity of a of a of a uh a
2:08:42locomotive. Trad
2:08:47slashing attack with my natural claws.
2:08:49Okay, that's a 24 to hit. Uh that's
2:08:51going to be a total of 10 points of
2:08:54slashing damage as I try to rake my
2:08:58unnatural experiment claws across the
2:09:00metal grate that this face has formed
2:09:02in. I'm not done yet. You rake your
2:09:06claws into the metal of the Ghost Light
2:09:08Express. You hear the the iron grinding
2:09:11as your your claws sink into it. You you
2:09:14watch as the metal peels back. Uh and
2:09:17the locomotive uh the the spectral plume
2:09:20that's billowing out of the stack whales
2:09:23in pain as you do this damage to it. But
2:09:26just in the same way that you were able
2:09:28to shrank off the decrease in your
2:09:30strength with your short rest, there is
2:09:33something about this area. This is this
2:09:37place now belongs to the ghost light
2:09:39locomotive. Oh, and there is something
2:09:43about this place that though you rested
2:09:47has taken an effect in all of you. And I
2:09:49need you all to roll a uh constitution
2:09:52saving throw. Oh no.
2:09:54Uhoh.
2:09:56Okay. 18. Oh, wait. Does Do we still
2:09:58have bless does that help? There you do.
2:10:00Oh, it's a saving throw. We have bless.
2:10:03Hooray. Nice.
2:10:0622. Uhoh. 22. 10.
2:10:10I got a 20. Dirty 20.
2:10:1322. 10. Three of you feel this strange
2:10:20energy that's emanating from the Ghost
2:10:22Light Express. seems to spread out um
2:10:24deep into the woods around you. Um but
2:10:27you are able to shrug it off. Cremy and
2:10:31Frost, however, you're not. And you feel
2:10:34weakened
2:10:36while in this place. You are overcome by
2:10:41this ghastly shroud and you
2:10:45you don't know it yet, but for the sake
2:10:47of game state, you will only take half
2:10:51from any healing that is done to you
2:10:53while you are within a mile. Then I'm a
2:10:55wizard of the ghost light. Wow. Oh no. A
2:10:59mile? That's not very far. That's a
2:11:03mile. Oh my gosh. That's just fine. I
2:11:06will uh what does that feel like? Is it
2:11:10you It feels like something has sapped
2:11:13your strength. You feel like just the
2:11:16very air around you is difficult to
2:11:18breathe. Like this ghostly shroud, this
2:11:20plume of specters that's being belched
2:11:22forth from the smoke stack on this
2:11:24locomotive is hindering your ability to
2:11:28to exist. I
2:11:31there's the smoke and and this sort of
2:11:35spectral ghastly just fire and er that's
2:11:39in my lungs as I'm struggling to catch
2:11:41my breath. And I'm going to stumble
2:11:45again.
2:11:46How are we going to stop this thing? And
2:11:48I'll pull out my pistol and I'm going to
2:11:51fire a shot at it. Um seven to hit. I
2:11:55miss my shot as I as I cough and almost
2:11:58fall to one knee and kind of back up a
2:12:01little bit as I'm a little freaked out
2:12:03about this thing. You take a shot at the
2:12:06locomotive and it rears back on these
2:12:09spectral rails and looks towards all of
2:12:13you. I need everyone that is within a
2:12:1630ft cone of the ghost light locomotive.
2:12:19All of us. All of us. Easy. I need you
2:12:21all to make a Constitution saving throw.
2:12:24Sure. Okay. Uh-oh. I got a 10, which I
2:12:30assume will fail. If it does, I'd like
2:12:32to use one of my curse features. Oo, I'm
2:12:37going to use gray balance. When I fail a
2:12:39saving throw, I can take a reaction to
2:12:41succeed instead. When I do, I have
2:12:44disadvantage on d20 tests until the end
2:12:47of my next turn. I can use this trait
2:12:48once, and I regain the ability to do so
2:12:50when I finish a long rest. So, I'm going
2:12:51to turn that failure into success. Dang.
2:12:53Wow. I as I kind of bristle and my fur
2:12:57will kind of stick up on the back of my
2:12:58neck as I try to channel this innate
2:13:01nature of resistance to whatever this is
2:13:03happening to you. That's like legendary
2:13:05resistance with a cost. Yeah, that's
2:13:07nice. So you you passed. What did you
2:13:09get, Frost? 23 11 Seven for me. Uh
2:13:1514. Uh the DC was 13. Oh. Uh so anyone
2:13:19who fails is going to take full damage.
2:13:22Anyone who uh succeeds takes half
2:13:24damage. Um you watch as the ghost light
2:13:27mo locomotive rears forward. The great
2:13:30opens up on its face and it lets out a
2:13:34blast of spiritual exhaust as all of you
2:13:36are washed uh are washed over by these
2:13:40whailing specters that eat away at your
2:13:43flesh. The necroantic energy burns at
2:13:46you as your skin begins to blacken and
2:13:48darken beneath um beneath the heat of
2:13:51the spiritual wailing. 15 15 for anyone
2:13:55who uh failed and half for 15 for anyone
2:13:58who failed. Yeah. Half for half if you
2:14:01succeeded. Oh, I see. I succeeded. So,
2:14:05what variety of damage? Uh necrotic.
2:14:08Okay. I can't resist that.
2:14:11Uh-oh. Gria, I am going to uh stumble
2:14:16back as offsite. Oh gosh, the train
2:14:18alive. Trains alive. Hoochie, help me.
2:14:20Help me. Help me. Help me. Help me
2:14:21Hoochie. Help me. Hootsie. Oh, come on
2:14:23Hoochie. Give your papa some good luck.
2:14:25I am going to uh cast a crooked moon
2:14:29spell. I am going to be uh I'm going to
2:14:31cast ancestral communion. Is a first
2:14:34level spell. Uh, I invoke the wisdom of
2:14:37uh, my ancestors to gain insight into my
2:14:39trials. When you cast the spell at the
2:14:40start of each of your turns for the
2:14:42duration, uh, you gain heroic
2:14:43inspiration if you don't already have
2:14:44it. I'm going to take a heroic
2:14:46inspiration right now.
2:14:49Wow. And cuz I need to survive this. And
2:14:51I'm presuming I would not be surprised
2:14:53if necrotic damage doesn't do do too
2:14:56well for this guy. So, I don't know.
2:14:58Damage. This has not been your chapter.
2:14:59No, it's not. It's not. uh Hootsie will
2:15:02kind of uh linger almost uh half uh in
2:15:05reality and half not as she circles
2:15:07around me and I feel uh inspired by
2:15:09Hootsie uh my my shadowy owl bear being
2:15:12with me as I gain uh her guidance. It is
2:15:15going to use a uh legendary action and
2:15:18it is going to move 25 ft or as much as
2:15:23it needs to to get into Frost's space.
2:15:26Oh yeah. It does not take opportunities
2:15:28opportunity attacks as is as it moves
2:15:31along its spectral rails and it is going
2:15:35to it it will grapple you uh against the
2:15:38spectral rails. You watch you watch as
2:15:41Frost is grappled by this thing. He is
2:15:44attached to the great at the front of no
2:15:49and uh it should be within 10 ft I
2:15:52believe of a soul can. Yes. Oh yeah.
2:15:55Wow. Exactly. Exactly. You watch as it
2:15:59as it consumes this soul can, the damage
2:16:02that you've done to it seems to repair
2:16:05itself um almost immediately. Um and it
2:16:10begins to uh the the wheels begin to
2:16:12chug faster and faster and faster. It
2:16:14seems significantly more powerful. Does
2:16:15anything happen to me if I was in front
2:16:17of it and it moved? It ran him over. You
2:16:20would also be grappled.
2:16:22Um the escape DC is 14. So on your turn,
2:16:24you can attempt to escape. Yeah, but
2:16:26you're not restrained, right? No, just
2:16:28grappled. Oh. You watch as the the Ghost
2:16:31Light Express consumes this soul can and
2:16:34regains its strength, emboldens itself.
2:16:37And then you watch as from the smoke
2:16:40stack, a wisp appears out and shoots
2:16:42back to the spot where the soul can had
2:16:44been. A spectral hint appears looking
2:16:48weakened, but this is clearly enraged.
2:16:51This is you. You can see immediately
2:16:53that this is what would have happened to
2:16:54all of those people that you had met on
2:16:56the train had you left them to be
2:16:58consumed by we don't recognize this hate
2:17:01some new guy. It is some new guy.
2:17:02you guys. We spared all those guys. You
2:17:04spared them from this fate. This is a
2:17:07weward hate. This is a weward hate. Um
2:17:09and it does it does seem like it is not
2:17:11at its full strength. It's wobbling a
2:17:14little bit. Um but it is looking at all
2:17:16of you ferociously. Gideon, it's your
2:17:18turn. H I don't know about this one,
2:17:21Kmy. But when in doubt, we'll hit it
2:17:23very hard. Hey, look out. Um and I will
2:17:28uh I'm going to cast my my great axe out
2:17:31to the side, and for a moment, the blade
2:17:34will catch the gleaming light of the
2:17:36moon as it shines down. Uh and I will
2:17:38cast the hungering blade, and for one
2:17:41minute, I'm going to imbue a weapon that
2:17:43I'm holding uh with uh ravenous negative
2:17:47energy. Uh, for the duration when I hit
2:17:50a creature with an attack using the
2:17:51empowered weapon, for the first time on
2:17:53a turn, it'll take necrotic damage equal
2:17:56to my spell-casting ability modifier,
2:17:58and I will gain temporary hit points
2:18:01equal to the damage dealt. Uh, and I'm
2:18:03going to roll forward. Uh, and I'm going
2:18:05to I'm going to try and run. I don't
2:18:07know if this like will do anything or if
2:18:08this matters, but I'm going to run kind
2:18:10of like toward at the train towards the
2:18:12section where Frost and Torbbeck are
2:18:15scooped up. And I'm gonna try and just
2:18:17like, you know, not hit them, but like
2:18:19attack very close. And if there's
2:18:20anything that looks like they're very
2:18:22like caught up in it that I could kind
2:18:24of like strike towards and maybe help
2:18:26them out, I'd like to kind of aim in
2:18:28that direction. Pick one of them.
2:18:31Yeah. Uh, Torv. Okay. Well, he's I will
2:18:33say you'll have advantage on escape DC
2:18:36because of what Gideon's doing to try. I
2:18:38I don't want to play F.
2:18:41It just always feels so bad. Was that
2:18:42spell from the crooked moon or was that
2:18:45where did that spell come from? I I've
2:18:46never seen that before. Spell from the
2:18:47crooked moon. Oh, very cool. Very cool.
2:18:49Yeah. The crooked moon. How about that?
2:18:52Oh, how about that? And I'm going to
2:18:54take that as a paladin. A 16 to hit. 16
2:18:57hits. So, I'm going to do three necrotic
2:19:00damage if Well, so hit so it'll just do
2:19:02three necrotic damage. And however much
2:19:04it that actually happens, if it is in
2:19:06fact resistant, I'll all uh it does
2:19:08appear to be resistant. You attempt the
2:19:10necrotic damage and a little bit of it
2:19:12takes but so just so cuz I get the temp
2:19:15HP. Does it like what does it actually
2:19:17take? Is it take one point of damage? So
2:19:19it would be half is it half rounded up?
2:19:22Rounded down. Down round. So one point
2:19:25five points of great axe damage. You
2:19:29slash into it and you watch as the the
2:19:31metal peels back similar to when Torb
2:19:33had slashed at it. As this happens, the
2:19:36whailing of the smoke stack turns into
2:19:38the sound of a haunting whistle as it's
2:19:40going to use another one of its
2:19:41legendary actions. Uh, and it's it
2:19:44begins to blow this haunting steam
2:19:46whistle. Um, I need one creature within
2:19:5030 ft. Uh, in retaliation to you, I need
2:19:53you to make wisdom saving throw, Gideon.
2:19:55Oh, boy. Very wise. Better than you than
2:19:58me.
2:20:02[Music]
2:20:04is saving three. You're blessed. You're
2:20:05blessed. Blessed. Too blessed to be
2:20:07stressed. Not going to matter. I'm
2:20:09pretty stressed. You know, bless is
2:20:11more. 10. That fails. You are going to
2:20:15take eight psychic damage and you have
2:20:17the frightened condition until the end
2:20:20of your next turn.
2:20:25Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to um
2:20:29I'm going to speak to my new friends on
2:20:31the other side. I'm going to reach out
2:20:33to the aberrations, the eldrich powers,
2:20:35all the things that I've been holding at
2:20:37bay for so long in my mortal life. I'm
2:20:39going to tell them that the gods are
2:20:41liars and that laws are chains. I'm
2:20:43going to unleash them on the
2:20:46ghost.
2:20:49It really is. Wow. I Jesus. I uh I cast
2:20:54mind spike. uh I unleash this psionic
2:20:57energy uh basically opening portals. But
2:21:00uh in addition to the fact that it has
2:21:02to make a wisdom saving throw, I am
2:21:04going to use my intrusion to uh force it
2:21:09uh to have disadvantage on this saving
2:21:10throw using overwhelming mind. Uh the DC
2:21:15is 13. Okay, so it got a natural 14 for
2:21:18its first one. It's going to use a
2:21:20legendary resistance and 16. Oh, okay.
2:21:22Uh I believe you still take half as
2:21:24much. So, instead of all the additional
2:21:26benefits, I need a d8, not a d6. You
2:21:29take seven points of psychic damage.
2:21:31Ghost uh train you. I will say um help.
2:21:35Oh my gosh, I'm caught in a spectral
2:21:37rail train.
2:21:41I'm not going to use my action to do any
2:21:44uh uh I can't because I've used it in
2:21:45this spell. I can't escape. I don't have
2:21:47any bonus actions. That's it. I'm just
2:21:48I'm just stuck in this uh ethereal uh uh
2:21:52rail fog. It is going to use its next
2:21:55legendary, its final legendary action.
2:21:58Um, and it's going to use ghostly rails
2:22:00again. It's going to turn and it's going
2:22:02to run through all of you and try and
2:22:04get to Grio and see how many of you it
2:22:08can attach to the rails. I mean, it's
2:22:09definitely all of us. I think it's all
2:22:11of us. A larger, smaller creature whose
2:22:14space it passes through has the grappled
2:22:16condition. I'm I'm going to yell out.
2:22:17He's going for the soul cans.
2:22:22The real
2:22:26ismy grapples everyone. Yeah. Yeah. We
2:22:29just get picked up on this train. It's
2:22:31almost like it's a train.
2:22:35And that is its legendary action. Tour
2:22:37back. Yeah. So, if I have to use my
2:22:39action to escape the grapple, I'm not
2:22:42going to do that cuz I will lose rage.
2:22:43Mhm. So, I am just going to keep
2:22:45attacking. I'm stuck to the glare of
2:22:47this thing. You're not disadvantaged as
2:22:48long as you attack this guy. Oh, I'm not
2:22:50going down like this. And uh I will use
2:22:53a bonus action to change the serum that
2:22:56I'm actively using to reconstruction. Uh
2:23:00the serum dulls pain and forces wounds
2:23:02to rapidly knit. Upon activation, and at
2:23:04the start of each of my turns, I can
2:23:06expend and roll a hit point die. I will
2:23:08regain a number of hit points equal to
2:23:10the number rolled plus my constitution
2:23:11modifier with a minimum of one hit
2:23:13point. Any that I gain in excess beyond
2:23:15my hit point maximum will become
2:23:16temporary hit points. So, I'm going to
2:23:18start by rolling a d12 and adding three.
2:23:21So, that's going to be 13 points of
2:23:22healing. Uh, I only needed to heal seven
2:23:25to get to max. So, that's going to give
2:23:27me an additional five temporary hit
2:23:29points. I also am no longer large. Uh, I
2:23:32shrink back down to a normal size. I
2:23:34lose my reach. I I look more normal
2:23:37again. Uh, and now while I'm stuck to
2:23:39the great, I'm going to pull back and
2:23:40attempt to uh uh slash again at this at
2:23:44this spectral train. Uh, I will attack
2:23:46recklessly, but because I use my gray
2:23:48balance, I will be at just normal
2:23:50straight up because I'm disadvantaged in
2:23:52all d20 tests until the end of my turn.
2:23:56And that is going to be a 22 to hit.
2:23:58That hits nice, dude. And I will do a
2:24:00total. If it doesn't, then we're in
2:24:01trouble. 10 points of slashing damage
2:24:04again. Oh, I'm just like screaming
2:24:07trying to slash this thing. But you do
2:24:09notice that the wounds, that blackened
2:24:11hair, the flesh, uh, starts to heal up a
2:24:13little bit. Um, if you deal fire acid
2:24:16damage to me, it will not trigger the
2:24:17start of my turn. Amazing. So, he
2:24:19basically looks like Warwick from That's
2:24:22right. You are slicing into this. So,
2:24:25you're furiously digging your claws into
2:24:27the the the great of the ghost light
2:24:29locomotive. You see bits of the of the
2:24:32grill being ripped off as more spectral
2:24:35energy is spilling out of it now. Um,
2:24:38and it is its turn. Um, it is going to
2:24:43first see if spirit exhaust recharges
2:24:46and it doesn't. It's going to rail slam
2:24:48against you to back. I'm already tank
2:24:50this thing. I'm in tank mode. It is. It
2:24:52has advantage because it it does it
2:24:55consumed the soul can. Yep. Oh, it also
2:24:58and yeah, I reckon Oh, yeah. Okay. Uh,
2:25:01it is definitely going to hit. Yeah, my
2:25:03AC is only 14. It's going to do 11
2:25:05points of bludgeoning damage. Awesome. I
2:25:07will take half cuz I'm resistant. You
2:25:08are thrown off of the rails 10 ft away
2:25:12from it in a straight line.
2:25:17The hint is going to move towards
2:25:19whatever it's closest to and it will be
2:25:21it will be right behind you, Creremy.
2:25:23Um, looking at you spooky. Super dead.
2:25:26Yeah, I'm hearing all of this ominous
2:25:28jazz in my head and all of a sudden I
2:25:30start to kind of feel the the the the
2:25:33rhythm and the song fill my ears and all
2:25:36I can do in this dow moment is to
2:25:39celebrate our impending doom as I pull
2:25:41out my trombone.
2:25:47Trombone's all I know. I will use my
2:25:50species trait um called dance of death.
2:25:54It's a bonus action. I can make a DC-15
2:25:56charisma, musical, instrument, and
2:25:58performance check. If I succeed, the
2:26:00next attack roll you make before the end
2:26:02of your turn has advantage. If I succeed
2:26:04on the check by five or more, I can roll
2:26:06one of my hit point dice without
2:26:07expending it and gain 10 HP equal to the
2:26:10number rolled.
2:26:12Very high. One of my very favorite
2:26:14abilities.
2:26:16I failed. Uh-oh. Uh, yeah, I fail. I
2:26:19have to roll a 10 to succeed. My
2:26:22pistol's in my belt. I put my put my
2:26:25trombone away and I just in my breast uh
2:26:30coat pocket I pull out a dagger just
2:26:34desperate and I stab it into the side of
2:26:36the train. You'll see runes and sort of
2:26:39uh Jinx craft glyphs uh fill in as I
2:26:42won't be disadvantaged and so sneak
2:26:44attack will actually trigger a 17 to
2:26:46hit. That hits. Nice. Let's go. Let's
2:26:48go. Let's go. Um and it is going to
2:26:51glow. We're all around you. So
2:26:53presumably you get sneak attack.
2:26:56So seven piercing damage, but then the
2:26:59sneak attack damage, the Jinxcraft magic
2:27:02will transfer through
2:27:06uh the uh the dagger into the side. As I
2:27:10roll the seven, I'm going to use my Jinx
2:27:13craft um feature called Hexslinger. Uh,
2:27:17so until the end of the target's next
2:27:19turn, the target speed is h haveved and
2:27:21for that duration, attack rolls against
2:27:22it have advantage. Nice. So I got cheap
2:27:25shots in my in my hexlinger. Um, and so
2:27:28that is another seven points of damage.
2:27:31So 14 damage total. 14 damage. What
2:27:33type? All piercing. It is going to use a
2:27:38legendary action. Do you watch as it
2:27:40regains um a significant amount of
2:27:44health as it consumes the soul canister
2:27:47and then once again that mode of
2:27:49spectral light appears out of it and
2:27:51where that soul canister had been
2:27:53another hint appears. There is we
2:27:55can do about this.
2:27:58Uh my turn. Uh I want to Oh, we're going
2:28:01with it. Oh, how do we go? There's
2:28:03spooky ghosts everywhere. Okay, Hoochie.
2:28:05Come on. Let's kill these spooky ghosts.
2:28:07As I call forth Hootzie, I use Omen of
2:28:09Doom on uh
2:28:12I'm going to use Omen of Doom on this
2:28:14guy here. I mark him as Hootsie uh
2:28:17emerges from the shadows. And as part of
2:28:20that bonus action, I command her to
2:28:22attack as she is going to attack this uh
2:28:25hint. Do that. Oo, baby. 14 to hit. Is
2:28:29this the first hint that appeared or the
2:28:31second one? The first. The first hint.
2:28:33Okay. Yep. That hits. Okay. 12 points of
2:28:35necronic damage to uh this this weward
2:28:38hint. You watch as Hootsie slices into
2:28:43this thing and it doesn't seem to be
2:28:44shrugging off any of the damage. And you
2:28:47watch as in one swipe she obliterates
2:28:50this thing and it turns into spectral
2:28:53dust and disperses throughout this area.
2:28:55And as it disperses, you see, although
2:28:58she's still kind of cute in her like
2:28:59shadowy form, her eyes narrow and she
2:29:01slinks back into the shadows as uh this
2:29:05I've killed this one. I then turn and I
2:29:08levy my crossbow at this one as I pull
2:29:11the trigger as my action. Oh, big.
2:29:14That's 13 plus
2:29:16that hits. It's just a basic crossbow
2:29:18because he does not have my omen of doom
2:29:20and so it's just going to be 1d10
2:29:22piercing. Uh plus three piercing. Yeah.
2:29:24Oh, 13 points of piercing damage.
2:29:27Maxamage as I am I guess up against this
2:29:29rail grappled as I'm I'm doing crowd uh
2:29:32I'm managing the the mobs. That's right.
2:29:34Mhm. You watch as the um as the bolt
2:29:38pierces into its spectral flesh. And
2:29:41though it sinks in, it's very clear to
2:29:43you immediately that it's not doing the
2:29:45amount of damage that you expect it to
2:29:46be. It's still taking some damage. It's
2:29:48what? It's still taking some damage.
2:29:50It's still taking some damage. Um, it is
2:29:53barely hanging on. You watch as it as it
2:29:56leans forward. It was already weakened,
2:29:58but you can see now as this um spectral
2:30:01white er begins to spill out of its
2:30:03ears, its eyes, and its mouth as it
2:30:06begins to cough up this uh spectral
2:30:08bile. Uh, and it is not looking good.
2:30:11Many hints. I'll handle it.
2:30:14That's my turn. Nice. Uh, it is going to
2:30:17use a legendary action. Um, and it is
2:30:20going to turn towards you, Bricko. You
2:30:24watch as it it almost looks between
2:30:27where the one hint was obliterated and
2:30:30the one that's barely holding on, and
2:30:32you watch as it uh it lets out another
2:30:34haunting whistle. I need you to roll a
2:30:36wisdom saving throw for me, please. I'm
2:30:38going to use my wisdom saving throw, and
2:30:40I'm going to use my heroic inspiration
2:30:42as well. 13 13 passes. Wow. The DC is
2:30:4613. Oh,
2:30:49that was close. You do not take any
2:30:51damage. You are able to shrug off the
2:30:54sound of this. And you um as this
2:30:56happens, it's almost as if the the
2:30:58whistle on the train malfunctions and it
2:31:01doesn't seem like it is uh able to
2:31:03utilize this again as it works to repair
2:31:06itself. Nice try, Gideon. I think uh
2:31:11I'm going to cast cure wounds.
2:31:14Always wise. I'm going to cast cure
2:31:16wounds. It's a great spell, folks. It's
2:31:18a really good spell. Yeah, it's looking
2:31:19pretty good right now. It's looking
2:31:21pretty good right about now.
2:31:24I I guess that's it. I'm I'm still stuck
2:31:27on the train. Uh but you'll see this
2:31:29this silver light uh in my hand. It
2:31:32almost feels like it it dances like a
2:31:34flame as I'll press my palm to my chest.
2:31:37Uh and I'll and I'll feel that uh that
2:31:39burning glory of the silver path. Also,
2:31:42lay on hands there just for another
2:31:43five. A big heel. Yeah, big throw in
2:31:46just as one action, the silver. It seems
2:31:48to react to the healing that you're
2:31:50doing. And it turns and I mean, this is
2:31:54this is just flavor. You do what you're
2:31:55doing. It's just going to use a
2:31:56legendary uh it last legendary action.
2:31:59Um and it's going to turn around and
2:32:01it's going to head its speed, which is
2:32:0312 ft um towards um the next soul
2:32:08canister. I'm going to use frostbite
2:32:10because I means that I can force you to
2:32:12make a constitution saving throw. Um I
2:32:15reach into the uh beyond. I open portals
2:32:20and this numbing frost starts to uh uh
2:32:23crush the sides of this spectral train.
2:32:27Uh DC13 20. I'm going to I'm going to
2:32:31force you to have disadvantage on that
2:32:32by using my uh intrusion ability once
2:32:35again. I think I think he wouldn't he
2:32:38wouldn't want to take whatever this is.
2:32:39So, I'm going to legendary. He feels he
2:32:41feels the m of the beyond. Uh that said,
2:32:45instead of taking 1d6 cold damage and
2:32:47having disadvantage on his next weapon
2:32:49attack, I will roll this intrusion die
2:32:52and not get a one. That's correct. I do
2:32:55not get a one. But this drops now to a
2:32:57d2. D2. Yikes.
2:33:00[Music]
2:33:01That'll be the conclusion of my turn.
2:33:02Uh, the last attack that you dealt to me
2:33:05removed all of my temporary hit points
2:33:07so my flesh continues to knit and I'm my
2:33:10last hit die to get temporary hit
2:33:12points. I'm going to roll a d12 plus
2:33:13three. That's another 13 uh temporary
2:33:16hit points. Nice. Um, but that's my last
2:33:18hit die. I'm feeling healthy. I'm
2:33:20feeling good. I'm going to say swiggity
2:33:22swoosh. I'm going for the caboose as I
2:33:25rush at this guy. And I will I don't uh
2:33:28do I need to recklessly attack? You're
2:33:30advantaged. So, I'm not going to
2:33:31recklessly attack this time. This cheap
2:33:33shot. Am I Are we still blessed after
2:33:34all this time? Yes. My goodness. Thank
2:33:37God. Uh that's going to be 17 to hit.
2:33:40Nice. That hits. Big hit. A total of
2:33:44only uh 11 points of slash. That's
2:33:46pretty good, man. Once again, it um it
2:33:49takes he is he seems to take the full
2:33:51amount uh as you tear into now the side
2:33:55of the ghost light locomotive. Stop
2:33:57running from me. That's my turn.
2:34:00There is. Okay, it is his turn. He is
2:34:03going to um he's going to look towards
2:34:08I mean you did just attack him and he is
2:34:10a incense train. I think he is going to
2:34:14reach out towards you Torb and he's
2:34:16going to attempt to uh rail slam you
2:34:18again. Um he backs up the caboose. He
2:34:20twerks
2:34:24asked for this. Let me
2:34:27save me. 25 to hit. Yeah, I will do it.
2:34:31I will do it. 12 points of blood sugar.
2:34:34That is almost all of my temporary hit
2:34:36points. And you were pushed 10 ft away.
2:34:39You're resistant. Oh, that's right. I'm
2:34:40resistant. Yep. Thank you for reminding
2:34:42me. And he is knocked down 10 seconds.
2:34:46There is still a hint there. Uh he is
2:34:48going to dash straight to Torbach and he
2:34:50is going to attack on me too to attack
2:34:53Torbach. Um and he is going to miss. He
2:34:58reaches out and attempts to dig his
2:35:00fingers into his fingernails into you
2:35:02and render your flesh, but he is barely
2:35:04holding on. The the ickor that is
2:35:06dripping out of his eye sockets now is
2:35:09impeding any uh sense of spatial
2:35:11awareness that he has and he lunges
2:35:12forward and misses you completely. Was
2:35:14that the train's turn? That was the
2:35:16train. Cheap shot falls. Okay, good to
2:35:18know. Great use of cheap shot though.
2:35:20Yeah. Yeah, that was huge. Oh, great.
2:35:22This is the perfect turn order for my
2:35:24for my stuff. Yeah, really. I'm like in
2:35:27the great out. I've dropped the
2:35:29trombone. The knife is stuck in the side
2:35:32of him. I grab my pistol.
2:35:38I'm your
2:35:40[Laughter]
2:35:43natural 20. It's going to be the natural
2:35:4420. Oh god, I hope so. I'm
2:35:46disadvantaged. Uh oh, it could be too.
2:35:49It could be a natural 20 and then not,
2:35:51you know, and that would be less than
2:35:52that. The I'm your huckleberry
2:35:54will be that bonus action was my steady
2:35:57aim as I was just trying to keep my aim
2:36:01to give myself advantage and not move.
2:36:04Counteracting the disadvantage I'm
2:36:06rolling the straight. All right. Now
2:36:08just smoke this. Come on. Get a natural
2:36:1020 12. Unreal misses. Let's go. Do I
2:36:15have Hold on. Do I have anything? I
2:36:17might have some kind of like like you
2:36:19know jinx craft tricks. Gun having gun
2:36:22having tricks. Hold on. Hold on. I've
2:36:24never seen you roll this badly. No. No.
2:36:26I don't think I've ever rolled this
2:36:26badly. Use some of my dice. Crim. Are
2:36:29you okay? No.
2:36:32The ghost light locomotive is going to
2:36:35use a legendary action. He's no longer
2:36:38impeded by uh decreased speed. Yep. Uh
2:36:42and he's going to rush toward the uh at
2:36:45half speed. So 25 uh towards the um the
2:36:49remaining soul camp. Is he with 10
2:36:51within 10 ft? No. Um I uh because I have
2:36:56uh ancestral communion, I get a heroic
2:36:57inspiration back because I my
2:36:59maintaining concentrated on the spell.
2:37:00Uh so I feel a bit more lucky as I say,
2:37:03Hoochie, you're on the big bad train. I
2:37:05said, many Hanks, handle it. I'm going
2:37:07to handle it. As I use a bonus action to
2:37:09c uh omen of doom as I uh am marking the
2:37:13train. Hootsie is going to emerge as she
2:37:17uh emerges from the shadows again with a
2:37:19hoot and slashes forward with an ominous
2:37:22rend. Uh cuz I have a tactic for
2:37:24hooting. Actually, I'm going to put her
2:37:26right here. It's very tactically
2:37:28important cuz I can basically put her
2:37:30here. Um and then she is going to make
2:37:32an attack.
2:37:35That is going to be a 16 to hit. That
2:37:37hits for this is for the soul cam. This
2:37:39is Oh, no. No. So, this is for Hootsie
2:37:41attacking the train. Oh, gotcha. Uh,
2:37:43necrotic dam. It's going to be necrotic
2:37:44damage, but it is what it is. Seven
2:37:46points of necrotic damage as he slices
2:37:49it. Hootsie is trying her best. Um, and
2:37:52she's and she's doing a little bit of
2:37:54work, but it is not as much as you had
2:37:56hoped, but not immune. No, not and if
2:37:58the creature is not immune to fear, it
2:38:00is frightened of Hootsie until the end
2:38:03of it next turn. I I don't know if it's
2:38:04immune to fear. You watch, you're you're
2:38:07familiar with this happening before and
2:38:09and the tactics that Hootsie has at her
2:38:11disposal and you wait to see even a
2:38:13flash of fear across the face of this
2:38:16locomotive and there is no fear present.
2:38:19Okay. Uh I figured not. Can I shoot the
2:38:21uh soul cam? Good try. You're
2:38:24disadvantaged if you're caught up in it.
2:38:26Yeah, but I have heroic inspiration.
2:38:29I'm I'm going to use my heroic
2:38:31inspiration and
2:38:35Uh, use it. Boop. I'm going use my
2:38:37herbrations to just full straight.
2:38:40That is going to be a 19 to hit. That
2:38:42hits. Nice. As I'm I'm there as I see
2:38:44the soul can. I say you're not going to
2:38:46get this. Thump. Uh, that is going to be
2:38:49nine points of piercing damage. You You
2:38:53watch as um Grio takes aim and this uh
2:38:56this bolt flies through the air
2:38:58expecting it to um be aimed towards the
2:39:02locomotive itself. But Grio has his eye
2:39:04on something else. The tiny glowing um
2:39:07or the glowing can soul canister that is
2:39:09nestled on the ground. Uh and as it
2:39:11pierces you, you hear the whale of the
2:39:13soul that escapes from it. The
2:39:15locomotive is not able to consume it and
2:39:18regain health from this soul. But where
2:39:22it was, you do see a hand. Well done,
2:39:25Gregor. Well done. Oh, it's Oh, don't
2:39:28worry. I got this. I got this. Don't
2:39:30worry. Okay, it's my turn. It is going
2:39:32to use it's legendary a legendary action
2:39:35and just to get you all closer to the
2:39:36hint uh and it's going to use ghostly
2:39:38rails again to uh move you all directly
2:39:41in front of the h as soon as it gets 5
2:39:44ft. Hootsie is going to let out an
2:39:47ominous hoot uh as she uses her reaction
2:39:51and uh the ghost light express the ghost
2:39:54the ghost light locomotive needs to make
2:39:55a wisdom saving throw 14.
2:39:59that succeeds. So, it's going to
2:40:02continue moving. That's it. Legendary
2:40:05action. It's Gideon's turn. Um I strap
2:40:08to uh the front of this thing now. A
2:40:10little bit closer. Um
2:40:13well, let's try this one more time. Um,
2:40:17and I'm going to uh from my from my
2:40:20form, those uh similar uh silver flame
2:40:25uh chains will erupt from my person and
2:40:28shoot out and attempt to wrap around the
2:40:30train as well as the hint that's towards
2:40:32my back uh as I um evoke my
2:40:38uh castigate. I I use a channel divid uh
2:40:41divinity to use castigate as a magic
2:40:43action. You can expend one use of your
2:40:46channelneled divinity to clap those you
2:40:48would bring to justice in fiery
2:40:50shackles. Choose a number of creatures.
2:40:53I mean the transit creature. Yeah. Yeah.
2:40:56Uh choose a number of creatures up to
2:40:57your charisma modifier which is which is
2:40:59plenty. It's like four. Um you can see
2:41:02within 30 ft of yourself. Uh each
2:41:05creature must succeed on a strength
2:41:07saving throw or be wrapped in fiery
2:41:09shackles and have its speed reduced to
2:41:11zero. Big money. DC's uh 13, I believe.
2:41:16They both fail. Nice. And I don't have
2:41:18legendary resistance.
2:41:21Um so so these flaming these silver
2:41:24flame uh chains wrap around the the
2:41:28hole, the body of the train as the edges
2:41:31will shoot down to the ground uh and
2:41:33almost like tent pull plant it in and
2:41:36lock it uh speed down as well as it'll
2:41:38wrap around the chain behind me. And as
2:41:40a bonus action, uh, I will ignite the
2:41:43chains, uh, in radiant fire. Silver
2:41:47radiant fire, dealing
2:41:51six points of fire damage to both this
2:41:55hane over here and the train to the h
2:41:57and the train. You blast forth that um
2:42:01that holy energy. And you see as it
2:42:03singes the haint, it is barely holding
2:42:06on. is in a similar state to the the
2:42:08other hint that's the where I is pouring
2:42:12from their eyes and it is barely able to
2:42:15move forward. Um the train itself is
2:42:18looking worse for wear, I should say. It
2:42:21doesn't it doesn't look like it's it's
2:42:22about to uh fall over at any point, but
2:42:25you're you're noticing that it's slowing
2:42:26down. You're noticing that it is uh it
2:42:29is struggling. You can hear the whine of
2:42:31the engine now. You can hear the
2:42:33grinding of the wheels. um especially as
2:42:35it tries to move forward while you hold
2:42:37it back with these spectral chains. So
2:42:39Frost, your turn. I am going to uh speak
2:42:43to my
2:42:46Aberin buddies on the other side. I'm
2:42:49ask them for help. I cast data flare and
2:42:51I kill it instantly. Uh no, no, no. Uh
2:42:54what you're going to see is I'm going to
2:42:55focus in and I'm going to uh request the
2:42:59help of these creatures. Um, I'm
2:43:01murmuring and uh whispering uh and a I'm
2:43:04I'm mechanically casting cloud of
2:43:06daggers. Unfortunately, it doesn't force
2:43:08an intrusion die test because I keep
2:43:10trying to force that but it will
2:43:12allow me to do some damage. Uh 5ft cube
2:43:15centered on a point within range. I'm
2:43:16going to put it here right at his butt.
2:43:18Uh the caboose as they say. I'm going to
2:43:20do 14 points of slashing damage. Uh and
2:43:24I'm going to concentrate on that. It's
2:43:26going to stay there and it's going to do
2:43:27damage to any creatures that I uh care
2:43:29to damage. This
2:43:33Eldrich
2:43:36like mouthing
2:43:40eyeballs are floating around. They're
2:43:42all swirling in this tornado of to tear
2:43:45away at the caboose of the locomotive,
2:43:48the backside of this thing. As the
2:43:51locomotive begins to take this damage,
2:43:53you see it lurch forward. The ghostlike
2:43:55locomotive grumbles and shuddters with a
2:43:57burst of otherworldly light. Its face
2:44:00becomes a nightmare exaggeration with a
2:44:01crooked iron grin and huge black plumes
2:44:04of billowing souls erupt from its smoke
2:44:05stack. Each one twisted into writhing
2:44:08shadows that look like gnarled branches.
2:44:11You watch as this this train begins to
2:44:14shift and change once again. You hear
2:44:17the engine speed up even further. You
2:44:19hear the rails begin to grind even
2:44:22faster. The malevolent maw on its face
2:44:24is even more sinister than the moon that
2:44:26is shining down on all of you as it uh
2:44:31as it uh almost it feels almost like
2:44:33it's gotten larger in front of you. Oh
2:44:36my god.
2:44:38Uh and that is Torbex's turn.
2:44:41[Music]
2:44:43Oh boy. Let me real quick see how close
2:44:45I am here. 5 10 15 20. I just It's
2:44:49really hard to see. 5 10 15 20 25 30 35.
2:44:52Do I have to technically get to the base
2:44:54of this thing? Yeah, you have a hint on
2:44:55you, right? Yeah, but I was going to say
2:44:57screw that guy, but I can't even get to
2:44:59I can't get to the train, so I'll just
2:45:01attack the hat. I'll recklessly attack
2:45:03him.
2:45:0515 to hit. Got hits.
2:45:0812 points of slashing damage. Get away
2:45:10from me. You immediately shred this
2:45:14thing. Um, and you you watch as with
2:45:16every tear of your claws, bits and uh
2:45:19bits of it form begin to fade away until
2:45:22it turns into nothingness in front of
2:45:23you. Uh, and then I as I as I uh
2:45:27swipe away at this horrific uh
2:45:29apparition and and get it away from me,
2:45:31I begin to run after the train to try to
2:45:33uh continue to attack it. And that is my
2:45:35turn. Uh, it is its turn now. Um you
2:45:39watch as it um I'm going to see here if
2:45:46we're lucky that it hasn't recharged
2:45:47itself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um
2:45:51Yeah. Cuz that's devastating. It's going
2:45:53to uh it's going to turn towards you and
2:45:55it's going to see if it recharges. It
2:45:56doesn't. Um and it is going to it's
2:46:00going to you watch as the rails begin to
2:46:02shake beneath it and uh it is going to
2:46:05reach out and it's going to slam against
2:46:07you. forbeck, but the other rail is also
2:46:10going to reach out and slam towards you,
2:46:13Frost. And you watch as this thing has
2:46:15become emboldened now. Whereas it was
2:46:18only able to manipulate one of these
2:46:20rails before, whatever has just happened
2:46:21to it, whatever has invigorated it, it
2:46:24is now able to access both as it
2:46:26multi-attacks um between the two of you.
2:46:29What's the range on? Um 10 ft. I Torb's
2:46:33out of range. Oh, I thought Torbeck was
2:46:35right on its butt, but that's away from
2:46:37the base. Okay. So, then it will do uh
2:46:40it'll it'll go right thereon frost on
2:46:43one side because it's each of the rails.
2:46:45So, it's going to do Frost on one side
2:46:46and then Gideon on the other side. All
2:46:48right. What's happening? Uh and it's
2:46:51going to be an 18 to hit Frost.
2:46:54I will um again call upon uh my new
2:46:58masters and you'll hear this Eldridge uh
2:47:01gibbering and I will cast shield as all
2:47:04of a sudden a giant mouth stops the rail
2:47:07uh in the middle of the air and chomps
2:47:08it away. Um and I will use that spell
2:47:11slot. That's fine.
2:47:1520 to hit. Yeah, that'll hit. That'll
2:47:18hit. And it is going to be I can't cast
2:47:20shield for you. I I don't have any. I
2:47:22don't I can't. Uh 10 points of
2:47:25budgeoning damage and you are pushed 10
2:47:27ft away from it in a straight line. Am I
2:47:29on gravel by break the grapple? It
2:47:30breaks the grapple to flossing you away.
2:47:33Wow. Take a bite of that silver bath
2:47:37sandwich. Silver bath sandwich. Silver
2:47:39bath sandwich. Okay. Don't mind if I do.
2:47:42That sounds delicious. Silver path.
2:47:44Yeah, that sounds delicious.
2:47:48What's the point? Can we get away from
2:47:50this depressing gummy?
2:47:53I mean, I better steady my aim to get
2:47:55this brain the size of a bomb, but you
2:47:58know how it is, mechanics and such. And
2:48:01I will use steady aim as my bonus
2:48:04action. And I just want one hit on a
2:48:07normal roll, please.
2:48:09Oh, we can't hit the ball. Sort of a
2:48:11locomotive.
2:48:16Oh, wow. Come on. Was it 15 and 15?
2:48:20[Applause]
2:48:22Got it, brother. Oh my good. That's
2:48:26crazy.
2:48:27[Music]
2:48:30And that deals uh and it's going to
2:48:32light up with uh magenta light as it
2:48:35blasts into this thing and glyphs will
2:48:38appear on the side where I hit it. I
2:48:40deal eight 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
2:48:4419 20 points of force damage and I got a
2:48:46nine. What? On my cheek attack roll.
2:48:51Send this thing back to hell.
2:48:53Go away.
2:48:55Finally. This is why it's good when
2:48:57Creremy doesn't hit. Yeah, exactly
2:48:59right. But when I do finally hit, I
2:49:01actually do some damage to it. Uh, I'm
2:49:04obviously going to use Hexlinger. Nice.
2:49:06Nine. Bless you. Excuse me. Is withered
2:49:11arm. until the end of its next turn, the
2:49:13target has disadvantage on D20 tests
2:49:15that rely on strength. Nice. So, if it's
2:49:17melee attacks or strength based, Oh,
2:49:20yeah. Is disadvantaged. That's awesome.
2:49:23Uh that's my turn. Can't move. Uh it is
2:49:26going to use one of its legendary
2:49:29actions and it is going to uh you see
2:49:32the whistle on your side, crummy, uh
2:49:34activate as it uh lets out a a horrific
2:49:38whale from this whistle. And I need you
2:49:40to make a wisdom saving throw. Me? Yeah.
2:49:43Does he mean me or that?
2:49:46Cut. I don't know if I rolled above a
2:49:4810, folks. Oh, you're blessed. You're
2:49:50blessed. You're blessed. I am blessed. #
2:49:52blessed. Thank you, Adella.
2:49:54Well, pretty wild.
2:49:57That is not enough. You are going to
2:49:59take
2:50:01You're going to take Don't worry, it's
2:50:03only two points of psychic damage. Your
2:50:05head immediately.
2:50:07Great. But you have the fright
2:50:08frightening condition till the end of
2:50:09your game. Oh no.
2:50:12Oh, there really is no point.
2:50:15Grio, hang in there, man. It's going to
2:50:17be okay. Hang in there. I'm so scared.
2:50:19Yeah. I am going to uh just turn and I'm
2:50:23going like as I'm wrapped up, I'm going
2:50:24to try to like shoot one of the pipes.
2:50:26Uh I'm uh because I'm disadvantaged, I'm
2:50:28going to uh use my Heroko that I gain my
2:50:31turn because of my essential communion.
2:50:33[Music]
2:50:35I miss. I'm going to use my bonus
2:50:37action. Come on, Hoochi. You've got it.
2:50:39You've got it. She's going to lumber up
2:50:41and swirling along the uh ground like a
2:50:44shadow as she is going to make an attack
2:50:47roll against.
2:50:49That is going to hit uh that's over 20.
2:50:52And she is going to deal
2:50:57uh nine points of necrotic damage.
2:51:01And she's she's doing this with her
2:51:02claws. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's necrotic.
2:51:04It's her rend. Uh she it's part of my my
2:51:07um she claws into the back of the the
2:51:10train. And though the damage isn't uh
2:51:12what she's used to and what she would
2:51:14hope, you are still slowly wearing this
2:51:18thing down. The hit that Kmy had just
2:51:21done to it was significant.
2:51:24And it even though it had just
2:51:26emboldened itself and is almost in a
2:51:28frenzy, you see that it is getting even
2:51:31weaker than it had been before. It is uh
2:51:34once again you can hear the grinding and
2:51:36chugging of the engine as if it's
2:51:37struggling. It almost sounds like the
2:51:39whailing specters are crying out in
2:51:42pain. It is going to make another
2:51:44legendary action as it is going to look
2:51:48towards uh you Grio and it is going to
2:51:52um let out another whistle. Um and I
2:51:57need you to make a wisdom saving throw
2:51:58for me please. I have blessed. Thank you
2:52:00Adela.
2:52:02Oh, come on. You're going to be okay.
2:52:05You've got to be okay. I believe I'm
2:52:06You've got to be okay. That's 13
2:52:08exactly. And that is the new phenomen.
2:52:12I was one.
2:52:14No, you you've gotten real fun. You've
2:52:16been having a rough run. You were able
2:52:19to shrug off the noise of this whistle.
2:52:21You are emboldened by your your grim
2:52:24companion, Bootsie. Uh, and you do not
2:52:26let the sound of this whistle affect
2:52:28you. You're able to shrug it off. Shrug
2:52:29it off. And you see that similar to um
2:52:33to when this has happened before that
2:52:34the whistle itself uh cracks and the the
2:52:37train is working to repair itself to use
2:52:39it again. Uh and that is Gideon's train.
2:52:44Hey you train. You let my friend go.
2:52:46You're making him depressed or
2:52:47something.
2:52:49Are you going to run up to him? Oh yeah.
2:52:51Where am I? You're right over here.
2:52:52Yeah. I'm going to run up. You want to
2:52:53move like in front? Yeah. I'll move to
2:52:55just wherever Ky's kind of general
2:52:57direction. Yeah. Right next to him.
2:52:58Yeah. like here. Big swing. Oh, hey
2:53:01dude.
2:53:0417 big money. That hits. Okay. Okay.
2:53:07Come on. One more time. Just one time
2:53:09actually in the beginning. About seven
2:53:10damage this whole this whole thing. Just
2:53:12cast Zeta flare.
2:53:16I uh seen KMEy's crippling depression.
2:53:20Uh I take I raise my uh my axe and
2:53:24ignite it. Blade that is now has that
2:53:26blood red uh edge. will ignite in a
2:53:29silver flame. Uh, as I bring it down
2:53:32onto this train, unless this kills it,
2:53:33then I'm going to knock the train up
2:53:34into the air. Um, but
2:53:38just remember that if that's relevant or
2:53:39not. Um, this do it, Gideon. Do it. This
2:53:43will deal uh like six slashing damage.
2:53:48Um, oh, but then three necrotic damage.
2:53:51So, one necrotic damage. So, seven
2:53:53damage in that form. But then it's going
2:53:56to deal 11
2:53:58holy radiant damage. Unless it's like
2:54:00undead or something. I don't know if
2:54:02it's undead ghost train. Um cuz if it
2:54:04is, I'll roll another d8. It's an
2:54:06undead. Oh, come on. I believe it's a
2:54:09construct. Oh yeah. No, sorry. I was
2:54:11looking at the way wewarded hate. I was
2:54:12looking at the way. You're right. It's a
2:54:13construct.
2:54:15No, thank thank you for telling me that
2:54:17cuz I looked I looked straight up at the
2:54:18wayward hate and I'm like, "Yeah, it's a
2:54:20medium undead." No, it's clearly not.
2:54:23Oh, so just long enough.
2:54:26There's And also the hand takes that
2:54:27damage as well, right? They're both
2:54:29chained. It's not from the chain. Is I'm
2:54:31just holding the chain right now to
2:54:33ignite the chain as a bonus action. I
2:54:35smited. Oh, you're using divine smite.
2:54:37I'm using divine smite. Silvery lights.
2:54:40I'm using the I to ignite my bladed uh
2:54:43edge in the silvery light. And I'll gain
2:54:44110 HP. Don't mind if I do. Nice. You
2:54:48don't say. You look
2:54:53[Music]
2:54:53[Laughter]
2:54:56I up just dribbles out. I use my axe to
2:54:59uppercut the train until the whole train
2:55:01soarses high into the sky. And I leap up
2:55:04in the air and grab the front of the
2:55:06chain around and boom, slam it back into
2:55:09the ground and say, "Why don't you ride
2:55:11the silver path, you dumb son bitch?"
2:55:13Uh, as I suplex the train into the
2:55:15ground. That is what happens in your
2:55:17mind.
2:55:20Man, that's cool.
2:55:23As you rush forward, you see your
2:55:25friends uh weakened and wounded uh next
2:55:29to this thing, especially Creremy, your
2:55:31boss, your companion, your roommate, and
2:55:35you rush forward, your best friend, and
2:55:38this train is making him depressed. This
2:55:41this train is ruining him. And you rush
2:55:43forward to come to the aid of the people
2:55:44that you care about the most. And you
2:55:47you charge forward into this into this
2:55:50attack with every bit of holy light that
2:55:53you have within you. This power that is
2:55:55completely new to you uh upon being
2:55:58reincarnated into this new body and you
2:56:00move forward and you you let loose these
2:56:03attacks. Your your chain um is still
2:56:07tight around this thing as it pulls the
2:56:10train apart doing the exact amount of
2:56:13damage that it needed.
2:56:17It had it had 18 hit points minus the
2:56:20six minus the one takes it to 11 and
2:56:24then the 11 hit points to zero. Well
2:56:27done is you uh in your head you you
2:56:30suplex this train but that is not
2:56:33physically possible in this world but
2:56:35you are okay. So that's a but you are
2:56:38able to rip it to rip it to pieces with
2:56:42this holy energy and the help of your
2:56:44chains as it spirals around it and rips
2:56:46this thing to pieces. The whailing sound
2:56:49of these specters as they rise up into
2:56:52the air. Um, and all is and all is quiet
2:56:58for but a moment.
2:57:05As the ghostlike locomotive's malicious
2:57:07face disappears, its true form returns,
2:57:11belching out the crooked corruption in
2:57:13an acrid black cloud. What remains of
2:57:16the phantom train hopper rides and rages
2:57:18against its final destruction, but it is
2:57:20quickly annihilated by the billowing fog
2:57:22of the shroud before the mist dissipates
2:57:24from Wickermore Hollow.
2:57:27You stand here breathing heavy.
2:57:32You feel I'm on the ground. K, get out
2:57:36of there, man. Come on. Come on. I got
2:57:38you. You feel exhausted. You are
2:57:41wounded. This was nothing like you
2:57:44expected your trip to go. And you are
2:57:47now standing here in front of what had
2:57:49previously been a horrific reincarnation
2:57:53of the ghost light uh locomotive. But it
2:57:56is now returned to its normal state
2:57:59before you is the train that you had
2:58:02rode in on. It's not in the best shape.
2:58:05It is clearly in need of repair, but it
2:58:08is whole and it is no longer graced with
2:58:11the same visage of evil that was um
2:58:15plastered across the face of this thing.
2:58:19You in the the midst of this fight
2:58:23never even took the time to notice that
2:58:25Philip, Adella, and the Vagrant were not
2:58:27by your side during this during this
2:58:30encounter. Uh, but it is in this moment
2:58:32that you see as they make their way out
2:58:34of the underbrush, move moving toward
2:58:36you, wiping their their clothes off, uh,
2:58:39uh, wiping the dirt off of their
2:58:40clothes, Adella runs over to you and
2:58:42checks on each of you to make sure that
2:58:43you're okay. Uh, both her and Philip
2:58:46begin to thank you profusely. Um, all
2:58:49the while, the vagrant makes his way
2:58:51back to the train, not paying much mind
2:58:55to you, seeing that Philip and Adella
2:58:57uh, have you taken care of. Oh my gosh.
2:59:01I That was That was That was crazy. That
2:59:04was wild. I I How did you do that? I I
2:59:07thought it was going to I thought it was
2:59:08going to tear you apart.
2:59:10It almost did to be fair. I think it was
2:59:14the good boons and the good faith you
2:59:17saw in the lovely tarot readings. Your
2:59:20grace, your harness, your ladyship.
2:59:23Thank you so much.
2:59:27It was definitely nothing I did. That
2:59:28was all you. You're so impression of
2:59:32you're spectacular, but you're
2:59:33completely beat up. We We got to get you
2:59:35back on the train. We got to get some
2:59:36food in you. We got to get some good
2:59:38sleep in you. We got to get you all
2:59:40bandage up. Oh my gosh, you're bleeding.
2:59:41And she rushes over uh she rushes over
2:59:44to you, Torbeck, and she wipes a little
2:59:45blood off of your brow. Um she does this
2:59:48by literally leaping up. You are so much
2:59:51taller than her. But she stands on
2:59:53tiptoes, realizes it's not enough, leaps
2:59:55into the air a little bit, and wipes
2:59:56some some of it away. Thank you. As she
2:59:59moves between all of you, trying to tend
3:00:01to you at least a little bit. You must
3:00:04be feeling awful.
3:00:07Feeling awful. Yeah, not me. I'm in my
3:00:11prime. And I stand up and I see the lit
3:00:15cigarette that I had lit. And before
3:00:17this fight started, I go, I reach it and
3:00:19I pick it up in the cigarette holder
3:00:21that I got from the songstress and I
3:00:22take a long drag on it. All I'm going to
3:00:24say, I think I would have been able to
3:00:28take care of that real quick if I was
3:00:30reborn into something like really tall
3:00:33and sporty, muscular. Oh, certainly.
3:00:35Like about 7t tall, taller than Gideon.
3:00:38I don't know, man. I mean, I think you
3:00:40did a lot better than me in that fight.
3:00:42I'm just going to say it could have been
3:00:43done real quick. I feel like this
3:00:45scorpion tail, you know, it may be in my
3:00:47nature, but it's holding me back.
3:00:50What? What do you mean, Dash? You You
3:00:52killed that thing. That was That was
3:00:54incredible. I saw you charge it. I just
3:00:57looking out for your friends. You You
3:00:59just That was That was amazing. All of
3:01:01you. Every single one of you did
3:01:03spectacularly. Mostly uh we were
3:01:06defending ourselves as I tried to invoke
3:01:08the Eldrich powers beyond the veil.
3:01:11Okay, here we go.
3:01:16He also has friends on the other side.
3:01:18Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's his new thing.
3:01:22Once once we're back inside the train
3:01:24and on our way to the to the station,
3:01:26the chatau clon, you can tell me all
3:01:28about it and and we'll get you fixed up.
3:01:30We we get you another cigarette and and
3:01:33we'll get you all cleaned up and and and
3:01:35you could talk to Phil if if you're not
3:01:36happy in your current form. I mean, you
3:01:39could always talk to Phil. I'm sure once
3:01:41we're on the train, he could he could
3:01:42look at helping you. What What do you
3:01:45What do you think about that? And as she
3:01:47starts to address Phil, you hear,
3:01:50"Sorry, friends," the vagrant cries out.
3:01:52"Looks like the Ghostl Express is moving
3:01:55on. In its current state, it can't take
3:01:57any living passengers, I'm afraid. Soon
3:02:00as I get it all fixed up, I'll be sure
3:02:02to return and pick you back up. But for
3:02:04now, it looks like this is the end of
3:02:06the line. See you in a few weeks, I
3:02:09think." And that is where we will end
3:02:12our session. Wow.
3:02:15Thanks for running the session, Nick.
3:02:18Unbelievable. Thank you for playing.
3:02:20Thank you. Gosh, that was fun. Amazing.
3:02:23What an awesome fight. Yeah. Jeez. God,
3:02:26that was tough. That was tough. That was
3:02:28tough. This fight is hard. Yeah. If I
3:02:30didn't have like active healing, I would
3:02:32have been If you had not killed that
3:02:36canister, that would have been that
3:02:39would have been another 20 hit point.
3:02:42I was almost one shot out of the gate.
3:02:44Oh, yeah. Me, too. Love you, too. I was
3:02:46down like 28. That That freaking spirit
3:02:49exhaust is brutal. Thank you for running
3:02:51this session, man. You're welcome.
3:02:53You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you all
3:02:55for tuning in. The Crooked Moon, this
3:02:58adventure, this boss fight with these
3:03:01creatures and these subasses and these
3:03:03species and these backgrounds and these
3:03:05spells
3:03:07and these feats, all of it, all of them
3:03:09can be found on D and D Beyond right
3:03:12now. That's right. And you can uh get
3:03:14either the player options in the
3:03:15campaign setting or the monsters and the
3:03:18adventure campaign or you get the bundle
3:03:20and you save 10 bucks. Boom. And so you
3:03:22can enjoy all of this and so much more
3:03:25to have a wonderful folk horror
3:03:27adventure and game with your friends.
3:03:30When we say more, this was a streamlined
3:03:32version. There are all sorts of corners
3:03:34and nooks and crannies that we didn't
3:03:35explore in the Ghost Light Express
3:03:37before we even arrived in this dark
3:03:39forest. And with that, we're going to
3:03:43say good night. Thank you all so much
3:03:45for joining us Beneath the Crooked Moon.
3:03:48Thank you. Good night. Have a good
3:03:49night, everybody. Good night everybody.

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