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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 9396367" data-attributes="member: 277">Keys From the Golden Vault Session 11Affair of the Concordant ExpressDay 360PC Killed 2 Monsters Killed 84 Villains Captured 4 Villains Escaped 18 PC Captured 9Start Time 6:38 End Time 9:12Take a Level, 10 down time days. 2,000 GPMagic Item Rare magic item, A Magnifying Glass worth 1,000 GP, Wand of Magic Missiles, +2 rod of the pact keeper, Arrow of Demon Slaying.I had a strong group of five. Buildrick Artillerist 10 Human. Bronwyn Barbarian 9 Human. Bolt Artificer Battlesmith 10 Winged tiefling. Birra Order Cleric 1 Necromancer 9 doppelganger custom lineage. Leon Oath of Vengeance Paladin 10 Tiefling.Key Master Buildrick, “Okay we have the map created by TSR 1980 using blue ink. These maps must not be copied. We board the train from the caboose, move forward one car to the jail car. Talk to the Stranger. Get the names and get out. Any questions?”Bronwyn, “Do I need hammer and nails?”Group, “What?”Bronwyn, “She said board. Is train made out of wood? Two by fours, 2 sheets of plywood.”Group, “What?”DM, “Wood puns are boring. Would you knock it off muse.”The train stops right outside the briefing room and Glitch gives them a brass ticket and brass pin each. He then leaps from the train. Entering the caboose the wind noise goes away. The conductor punches their ticket and they move forward.Complication. The next train is not the jail car but a huge calculator of living monodrones making math. A formula on a chalk board mentions 289 years. Just staring at gives everyone school flashbacks and some a headache. They move one.Ener the planetarium car, the train plane shifts to Cania. Icicles start growing off the windows.Leon, “What no free tour?” The group feeds money into the coin slots until the hologram speaks. Most of the train information is not available at this booth. But when questions about a plane gets ask, the star map shifts to that plane and information are down loaded into person’s brain.The next room is not a dining the barbarian wanted but a murder car. Um no a passenger car which had an active murder investigation going on. Two spells have the victim fingering the butler but after checking out his programming the real murder is revealed. The combat is swift but hard since the hallway is only five foot wide and cabins are only ten by fifteen wide. The murder is killed. The body is taken into custody by Inspection Milo Clouseau.During combat the train shifts to Acheron with complications.The next room has a board over the window. “Yearly Golden Key Staff reviews. Please wait for your appointment. Knock on the appointed time.” Buildrick is first to be interviewed followed by others in order of when they applied for the Keys.DM Note. I set a timer of 45 minutes of each plane shift. The game was going by quick so the players told be to add more cars.Just as Buildrick knocks and enters. A man in gray suit seats behind a huge desk.Gray, “I am from Syndicate of Terror, Extortion, Assassination, and Larceny. We at STEAL want you to join us. IS you is or is you ain’t Buildrick who tosses bodies into lava?”Buildrick, “It was only once. And he was dead.”Gray, “Well he alive now and sends warm greetings. FIREBALL!” The interview door window explodes and the party trips over itself due to the crowded hallway.DM, “YEA restricted movement. PUT those dice down. No throwing dice at the dm. Hey nor the dry erasers.”A second fireball takes the party by surprise. As the paladin, and barbarian nova strike the grey man, he flees and tosses himself off the train. Potions of healing are pulled out and they finally enter the jail car.DM “NOW THE MAP MAKES SENSE.” The I part on second floor is open air. The cells are two feet wide! Nope. Nope. With the large size guards the map does not make sense.A deva is the guard on duty and will allow the stranger to be interviewed.Deva, “Okay beat me at 3D 2D checkers. The best three out five.” Buildrick wins his game. Bolt loses his game. Birra wins his game. Leon loses his game even when he cheats. And Bronwyn wins her game.The Artificers and Mage talk to the stranger while the paladin and barbarian engage the deva into a game of jacks. The Stranger will not talk unless they break him out. Buildrick pops the lock to the cell unnoticed. But as soon as the leg irons fall off the Deva attacks.Stranger, “Follow me.” Grabs Buildrick brass ticket and pen and writes a name on it. He tosses on the floor and runs of the stairs. The mage wall of forces the skylight. And the artificers are confused. They cast some spells at the deva before heading down the stairs. Four Pentadrones jump on the skylight and bounce off the wall of force. Bronwyn goes down by is healed by Buildrick who chases the Stranger down. Everyone heads of the first floor of the car.Stranger, “Catch me if you can. Or your second name.” He tosses Bolt ticket to the middle of the car. Birria goes to do something before being frozen by a Pentadrone. Two of the guards enter the car fighting off the fighters to the front and artificers to the rear. I will not mention the groin stomp on the mage.Strange, “Sucks to fail doesn’t it.” He lifts to his feet Birria.The train shifts to Valhalla.Strange, “My you are stuck.” He steals the ticket and writes a name on it. He shoves into his hat band. Placing the hat on Birria’s head, the Stranger leaps from the train.Killing the Pentadrone in front of her, Bronwyn runs into the engine car to halt the train. She slides to stop when she see treasure being shoved into the fire by two monodrones.Bronwyn, “Guys, There treasure here. Gold. Hey they just tossed rubies into the fire. The two handed silver sword here.” Two more guards fall. The paladin runs into the engine car.Paladin, “A silver of Valhalla, and.”Engine Car, “And lots of loot to make me scoot. I think I can take you on. I think I can. I think I can. I.”Bolt, “THE TRAIN IS ALIVE. IT is going to eat us.”Key Master Buildrick, “AS KEY MASTER. Leave the engine car. Close the door. We are getting off on the next stop. THE KEY MASTER SAYS NO LOOTING OF ENGINE CAR.”The fighters retreat to the jail car. Buildrick, “But I didn’t say we can’t loot the jail car.”End of session 526.</blockquote>

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