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Tizquick

Tizquick the dwarf · the dwarf

Dwarf engineer who drove the train to the yard and stayed aboard to detonate it in the abyss.

Story so far

Tizquick was the dwarf who helped drive The Nightmare Express down to the trainyard for Carl's final plan. When Carl told Fire Brandy to take her babies and go, the dwarf exchanged a look with the demon: the two of them had already discussed it and decided to stay with the train. Tizquick told Carl not to worry — he knew how this worked, and he'd make her blow nice and big just before they hit the bottom of the pit.

His conversation with Brandy was what shook her memories of previous boilers loose. After the train vanished through the portal into The Abyss and the experience notifications came flooding in, Carl reflected that Tizquick had killed himself because his daughter had been a lie.

Appearance

A grizzled dwarf engineer in a locomotive cab, grease-stained and matter-of-fact about his own death.

Role

Engineer who volunteers to ride the bomb-train down and time the detonation.

Relationships

Fire Brandy — Fellow volunteer; their talk restored her memory.
Carl — Promises him a well-timed detonation.
The Nightmare Express — Drives it into the abyss and blows it.
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 47
  • A grieving Mango-line dwarf conductor at station 60, weeping over the realization that his little girl was never real.
Chapter 53
  • The grieving dwarf conductor of station 60, remembered by Carl not for his grief but for what he knows about the lines.
Chapter 54
  • The weeping dwarf conductor names the right coloured line, and a few thousand crawlers get a free way down.
Chapter 55
  • The dwarf with the daughter who never existed is standing vigil at station 60, pointing strangers to the next line.
Chapter 57
  • He told them about his daughter, and the telling got a woman hanged.
Chapter 59
  • He leans out of the Nightmare's window and gawks at the bisected corpse of a level-90 city boss.
Chapter 60
  • Dwarf engineer who drove the train to the yard and stayed aboard to detonate it in the abyss.
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