Nightmare Express
The fourth floor's great train, now behind the team, its final exploits deemed unfit for broadcast.
Story so far
The Nightmare Express carried the team through the Iron Tangle and out of it. Its last appearance in the record is oblique and censored: Odette begins asking about Eva Sigrid riding the front of the train and almost doing something, and is muted before she can finish, with Loita messaging the crawlers that Odette's people are being told to end the topic.
That one interrupted question is the only fourth-floor train story Borant Corporation actively suppresses, which makes it the one Carl is most likely to want. With the floor closed, the train and the whole rail network are left behind for a desert and a castle in the sky.
Role
The fourth floor's central train, retired with the Iron Tangle and partly censored from the record.
Relationships
Sources — 10 recorded facts, by chapter
- A larger, wide-gauge express line running a five-stop figure-eight — the party's likely key to backtracking to stairwells.
- A jet-black, dead-baby-fueled steam express of open-top monster cages — which Carl hijacks by teleporting aboard and driving it himself.
- Carl's captured black steam train, defended from withdrawal mobs and driven toward a zombie-filled station-repair yard.
- The hijacked demon train waits in the yards, the party's guaranteed way out and the reason one cart stays home.
- Its loop on the map is the first ring Mordecai matches to the Syndicate's logo.
- Parked, idling, and defended by a woman who tells the dwarves there is nowhere left to go.
- Idling with Elle in the cab, waiting on a signal to run down to the trainyard and pick up a cart.
- It is no longer just transport: Carl's fallback plan is to rig the train itself as the bomb, and Brandy knows how.
- The captured locomotive, packed with explosives and driven into the abyss as a floor-ending bomb.
- The fourth floor's great train, now behind the team, its final exploits deemed unfit for broadcast.