The Weird West Chronicles

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[Read]
Previously on the Weird West Chronicles,
A unassuming train ride turned to a bar-room brawl, with a automaton with swords for arms, a small army of goblins, a mysterious box, some wild romps in the rooms, and a beaten military man promising a small fortune.

[Players]
Get players to introduce again their characters name, and how they look like. 

[GM][Read]
You are on the [Midnight Sword] a confederate private passenger train.
Next to you all is Irvin, a man dressed in a dark blue confederate military uniform. He is now leaning against the wall, bleeding quite profusely. He looks at [Lem] the embodient of a Sex-Fueled Liberachi in Gnomish form and looks at him as he tells you all..

Stay here, i'll get the strong box.

As soon as he leaves the carriage a loud screech can be heard outside the window, followed by many more screeches and clicks.

[DC 15: Perception]
it is a little challenging to discern this scene, but you manage. You see many black winged shadows against a blue-black starless sky. You can also see two winged figures, flying side by side, illuminated by the crescent blood red moon. A box is seen in between them, attached by ropes.  

[DC 15: Survival]
Judging from the mountain range, and direction of the train; you can tell that the train is moving [north east].

[Read][Only if he was not healed]
Irvin breathing heavily comes back with a metal box, he is also clutching his bloodied side. 

I'm sorry, I must have dropped or lost the key during the scuffle with the goblins earlier. But as promised you can take whatever is inside, along with 2,000gp from my own personal stash. 

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[GM]
The party lurches backward as the [Midnight Sword] is going faster and faster.

[Read]
When you rush to the front of the train, you can obviously tell that the controls have been tampered with. What with the driver of the train impaled with a big sword onto the drivers console. 

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[GM]

Dwarven - Arcanotech Driver
Wearing blue black overalls with the words [The Eve Company] and a nametag that says [Evald Stoneskin]

[Loot]
Wrench[Price-14GP-[Small-1d6][Medium-1d8][Crit x4][Weight 12lbs][Type:B]

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[Skill Challenge]

[Read]
Just as you pick up the wrench, several explosions in quick succession can be heard from the distance. [The Ones Near the Window] From the illumination from the explosion that the [Midnight Sword] is headed towards a valley.

[GM]This is known as a skills challenge. For this one, we'll need 12 successes before 3 failures. 
What you need to do, is choose a skill, and describe what you are attempting with that skill. Then we will resolve that with a roll. 

That roll will be against the difficulty set here. The skills and what you want to do with them must  be logical and make sense in the context of this world and setting. Besides 3 failures earning you all a failed skills challenge, the same skill cannot be used consecutively by the same player, and by other players as well.

For example if Jia Ning used Knowledge: History, that means she cannot use Knowledge:History on her next turn, and also Koon on his turn cannot use Knowledge History.