1.6 KiB
Return to the Freight Station
The party will have to find some way onto the next du Toit Trade Company train to France. The station has been completely cleaned up since last time, and as far as the party can tell there is no one guarding it. Although slowing down, the train does not come to a complete stop. Instead it slows down as it passes by the city.
The Ride
The train is mostly abandoned, a few guards stand near the front, but the rest of the several hundred metres of rolling steel are entirely unwatched. After exiting the city, the train once more accelerates. From that point onwards, the track leads through forest and farmland for several days, no breaks, no stops. Just the noise of the wheels hitting the track, and the wood, steel and rope holding the train and it's cargo together.
Cargo
The train is carrying a shipment of food, water and digging supplies. nothing magical or otherwise out of the ordinary near the back. There is one passenger carriage for a group of guards and the train's engineers. Although the guards and engineers don't speak, the engineers don't seem to be uncomfortable with the arrangement. The passenger carriage is always entirely dark and silent.
The destination
The train's destination is a station in the middle of nowhere in northern France. About a kilometer's walk from the station there is a small town of about a hundred inhabitants. From the station, the train's engineers start resupplying for another journey. While the guards, joined by a delegation of more masked guards waiting at the station, unload the cargo onto four trucks. After unloading the cargo, the trucks leave in the direction of the town.