Station and Repair Hub E
Sealed into a boss arena with half-visible walls, then flattened by a god: buckled ground, slagged trains, and a bisected city boss.
Story so far
Carl arrives by falling through a portal into it and immediately discovers it is no longer open ground. Princess Donut reports that the trainyard walls have magically come back, only half visible, like the boss battles on the first floor — a minion went in and could not come back out, so you can enter but not leave. Every one of the yard's named-train portals, the ones the trains use to return to the loop, is switched off.
What happens inside over the next few minutes: the Station Mimic's tongue splits train cars and craters the ground; Grull erupts out of a mantaur amid exploding trains, rocks and metal and rises until his head is halfway to the ceiling; his axe cleaves the earth into meteor craters and the mimic into halves; his heat breath turns trains and awnings into slag along whole lines; and a rolling train car flattens Carl. Afterward the The Nightmare Express chugs in and stops a few tracks over, Tizquick gawks out of the window at the remains, and a group of wide-eyed crawlers climbs out of a crashed train car and runs from the scene, not trusting that it is over.
Appearance
A cratered cavern of buckled track, derailed and melted trains, half-visible glowing arena walls, and a bisected mountain of mimic flesh.
Role
A trainyard converted into a sealed arena for a televised death match.
Relationships
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
- A mile-wide underground engine-car trainyard behind the Abyss portals — one of ~20 such hubs, now overrun by a collapsing ghoul infestation.
- The one yard the party keeps a cart tuned to — their own back door, and the way home to the Nightmare.
- The party's private back door, now occupied by a city boss they mailed to themselves.
- Formally struck off the map: stay away from trainyard E, which now features a brand-new resident.
- A group gets squeezed between the tunnels and a mimic that keeps sending pieces of itself around behind them.
- A half-mile of open cavern full of corpses, five hundred monsters, a besieged administrative building and a city boss the height of the ceiling.
- Sealed into a boss arena with half-visible walls, then flattened by a god: buckled ground, slagged trains, and a bisected city boss.