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Encounter Conditions
After opening the Glowing Gates and getting the Passing Train encounter
Initial Text
The ghost train slows, rumbling as it overlaps with the line of cubicles you're standing in. As the mist clears slightly, you realize you're inside one of its cars.
Screams echo in from different cars. Costumed students, older workers, ghosts, and machinery join together to form a symphony.
Summary of Choices
- Head for the engine - First time, fight 2 Spectral Security. Second time, removes this encounter.
- Search for students - Fight Spectral Security and Tattered Specter, save some students
- Rescue workers - Fight 2 Tattered Specter, save some workers
- Check under seats - Gain 20 Spectral Curse, 3? of candy corn, candy eyeball, licorice spider
- Leave immediately - Gain 10 Spectral Curse, Walk Away
Choice Text and Results
Head for the engine
As you push your way through the cabin after cabin, a pair of ghostly figures block your way forward. They heft ancient weapons, but approach you with the same assurance as you've seen in security guards across Metroplex.
(Fight 2 Spectral Security)
Or, after defeating the two spectral security above
You make your way up, car after car. Eventually, you make reach the engine.
A skeleton sits at the controls… unmoving and eternally staring out into the mists. As you look at it, something tingles up your spine, an intuition telling you that it can move.
No matter how long you stare, however, it doesn't turn its vacant eyes towards you.
Eventually, a lever shrieks and moves without the skeleton's attention. The train pulls away, each car passing through you with a chill like a terrible wind, leaving you in the dim light of the call center.
Stops this encounter and Spectral Security combats from appearing (Tattered Specters still appear)
Search for students
You find a group of students, in their varied costumes, attempting to defend themselves from a spectral form. It's dressed like an old security guard and swings its baton methodically.
While the students' fists and prop weapons pass through it harmlessly, the creature's baton lands with a crushing thump each time a student is a little too slow.
As you approach, one of the students screams in terror, attracting more attention from the train's denizens.
(Fight Spectral Security and Tattered Specter)
On victory: With the ghosts gone, you lead the students free of the train. They disappear into the mists, hopefully safer than when you found them.
Rescue workers
You find some workers cowering in a corner, their tasers at the ready. It takes a moment to find the source of their fear: spectral forms, tattered as though they were torn from the surrounding mists, swoop at the students.
(Fight 2 Tattered Specter)
On victory: With the ghosts gone, you lead the workers free of the train. They disappear into the mists, hopefully safer than when you found them.
Check under seats
You check under the seats, finding considerably more candy than you were expecting. Still, the shapes moving here… the longer you stay, the more it feels like you've been submerged in cold water.
You found: 3? of candy corn, candy eyeball, licorice spider
You've gained 20 duration of Spectral Curse.
Leave immediately
You don't trust the pull cords to ask for a stop, so you just push your way out through the spectral doors. The chill settles into your bones, but you're able to escape.
You've gained 10 duration of Spectral Curse.