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From: Boarding Again (Ealing Gardens), Returning Home, A Return Journey, Returning East – or Further West or Boarding Again (Station VIII)
A thriving parish requires proper supervision.
Unlocked with 
Involved in a Railway Venture 100
Challenge information
- 205 - very chancy (41%)
- 255 - chancy (51%)
- 305 - modest (61%)
- 355 - very modest (71%)
- 405 - low-risk (81%)
- 455 - straightforward (91%)
- 500 - straightforward (100%)
Difficulty is ((
Seeing Banditry in the Upper River - 
Train Defences) x 50) + additional difficulty as follows:
- 300, from Ealing Gardens
- 200, from Jericho Locks
- 150, from the Magistracy of the Evenlode
- 100, from Balmoral
- 50, from Station VIII
Success
Arrival
Description summary:
Description varies with Seeing Banditry in the Upper River.
| Banditry | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | This stretch of track is perfectly safe: no one tries to hold up the train, or put a claw through the windows. |
| 1 | This part of the track is safe most of the time – and so it proves on this occasion. None of the passengers try to pick your pocket or start a fight; nothing outside the train mounts an attack. |
| 2 | This part of the track is safe most of the time – and so it proves on this occasion. One other passenger eyes your pocket, but you stare at her until she realises you are not the target for a wise criminal. |
| 3 | This territory is perhaps less wild than it used to be, but it is still not as safe as the Railway's posters like to suggest. It is sheer good fortune that you don't run into any trouble on your journey. |
| 4 | Whatever the Railway's promotions may claim, this is not tame territory. "Lucky journey this time," the conductor remarks, and kisses an amulet shaped like a thistle. |
| 5 | At one point, the engine slows to a crawl. Something thumps repeatedly against the outside of your carriage. The window cracks. Then the engineer pours on the coal – or perhaps some other, more effective fuel – and the train flies forward again […] |
| 6 | The western Neath has a reputation for being empty. You do not find it so today. Dozens of would-be train robbers gather at a narrow point in the track and pelt […] the train. The engineer […] speeds through. But this could have ended very differently. |
| 7 - 8 | […] On the track ahead is a cloaked man riding a huge, tusked creature: […] Its eyes are lamps; its hooves are sledgehammers. […] you manage to wound the thing – hanging out the window, aiming in the dark – and it falls back. […] |
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Dangerous is increasing…
You have moved to a new area: Burrow-Infra-Mump
You've gained 1 x Rumour of the Upper River
Failure
Arrival
Description summary:
Description varies with Seeing Banditry in the Upper River.
| Banditry | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | The journey is a stop-start one, giving the impression that you're on a new-fangled exercise device […] Your back will ache for weeks. […] the driver […] blames obstacles set up by criminals. You, however, see no evidence of these. |
| 1 | The journey is a stop-start one […] The bandit who boarded the train as it slowed to take a curve was unaccustomed […] – a sudden jolt launched him towards you. When your heads collided, he fell unconscious. But you've a bruise the size of a Whitsun egg. |
| 2 | The driver has the engine rattling and shaking at top speed […] He drives like a man who has already clocked off, keen not to waste a moment's drinking […] with a scream of the brakes, the motion abruptly halts. You are slammed against a carriage door. […] |
| 3 | The driver […] drives like a man who has seen what terrors await if the train slows […] A 'passenger' – […] a bandit armed to the teeth – had hacked away at the coupling. Your intervention prevented greater loss, but he didn't go down without a fight. |
| 4 | A pack of Terror-Birds loiters on the line […] One puts its head through an open window and consumes a matron's hat. Another bites a hole at shoulder height and takes a chunk from your arm. […] neither finds their meal particularly palatable. |
| 5 | The train lurches to a stop. The conductor runs, screaming, through the corridor. A Terror-Birds scampers, screeching, after him. The birds have been observing bandits, and have learned how both to block the line and break into carriages. […] |
| 6 | […] a pack of bandits […] leaps aboard. The conductor tries to fend them off […] but he is merely tugged from the train […] The bandits pass through the carriages unimpeded, gathering valuables and challenging anyone who looks like they might resist. |
| 7 - 8 | […] a figure looms in the darkness. It is twice the height of the train, and possesses far too many arms. There is a sound of swarming bees […] The swarming intensifies, overwhelming you. Your ears still ring when you regain consciousness at the station. |
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- Dangerous is increasing…
- You have moved to a new area: Burrow-Infra-Mump
Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
