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> 000701 -- Cray Canyon Cold Snap -- part I
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> AUTHOR: dsweet
> COMPOSED: 7/16/00
> STORY:
>   Due to a field trip to Camelot our adventure has a halting start.
>   By 8pm on some wintery night our will be heroes have all entered a moving train 
>    car headed for California via a twisting rail line through the Rocky Mountains.
>   Everyone is full from either a large steak dinner in Brown Creek Colorado or a
>     hearty feast in Camelot.
>   When the last of the adventurers arrive everyone is quite tired since it is 
>     about morning in fantasy England.
>   Dispite this, the adventurers try to figure out their mission.
>   Strangly Dolares was not in the ether between worlds this time.
>   
>   The adventurers find a piece of luggage for each member of their group.
>   Everyone goes through the luggag; some more neatly then others.
>   Everyone is hoping to find a period costume which fits.
>   Luckily everyone does.
>   From the appearance of the clothing it is obvious the adventurers have found
>     themselves in the Old West.

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>   By 8pm on some wintery night our will-be-heroes have all entered a moving train 
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<     themselves in the Old West.
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>     themselves in the Old West.
>   
>   Chris's character goes to the rear of the train to investigate while the rest go 
>     forward.
>   It is discovered the train has 29 cars:
>     2 porter cars
>     1 drawing room
>     1 smoker car
>     4 pullman cars
>     1 baggage car
>     2 Zulu cars
>     7 freight cars
>     1 caboose
>   The adventurers have only hearsay to support the existance of the porter cars,
>     the caboose.
>   The porter cars are for employees and since the chester working at the bar in 
>     the smoker won't let them pass into the upscale drawing room car they don't 
>     get to see porter cars at all.
>   All they know of the drawing room car is that it appears lavish from the 
>     doorway.
>   The smoker is a car for the passengers of the drawing room cars and pullmans to
>     relax, get a little something to eat or drink, and perhaps play some cards.
>   The pullmans are the classic rail cars of which the adventurers inhabit a 
>     sleeper in the third one.
>   Passengers can travel through the baggage car but the baggage is stored in lock
>     rooms off from the hallway.
>   Since the freight cars are locked the adventurers have to stop in the Zulu's 
>     which have some hundred or so emmigrants crammed in them.
>   
>   Eventually the adventurers find themselves in the smoker enjoying the atmosphere
>     enlivened by Paris Moses and his wife Deborah leading the singing of hymns.

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<     enlivened by Paris Moses and his wife Deborah leading the singing of hymns.
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>     enlivened by Paris Moses and his wife Deborah leading the singing of hymns.
>   
>   Jake joins a poker game held by a professional gambler named Hadrian Cook.
>   He only has enough period currency to play one hand.
>   He manages to beat Cook in the first hand but loses out to another player.
>   Strangley, he accepts this loss easily.
>   Perhaps the ambulance chaser has changed his ways.
>   
>   Meanwhile, Jay waits to speak to Paris.
>   When the next hymn is finished Jay gets to speak to Mr. and Mrs. Moses.
>   Jay discovers that Paris is both a Preacher and Lawman.
>   Paris is travelling to Sutter California to become both the community's 
>     sheepherder of the holy and seculer.
>   
>   Joe the Butch travels through the room trying to sell peanuts, soda water, and
>     porn.
>   
>   After over an hour of networking everone retires to their staterooms.

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<   After over an hour of networking everone retires to their staterooms.
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>   After over an hour of networking everyone retires to their staterooms.
>   Gun shots, screaming, and the sounds of running feet walks our will-be-heroes
>     from the disturbing dreams.
>   The adventurers run towards the noise side stepping the many emmigrants fleeing
>     the first Zulu car.
>   The people in the lead draw their blasters and Black uses his substancial bulk
>     to block the view from behind.
>   In the light of 21st century torches the adventurers witness a horrific sight.
>   
>   A man with apparent gun shot wounds and with bloody hands, face and chest stands
>     over a women whose chest seems to have been ripped open.
>   The man has a rifle in his hands.
>   Another man lays face down with a gun shot wound from a bullet passing through
>     his chest and exiting from his back.
>   Without delay the lead adventurer blasts the blood covered man.
>   Two blaster shots hits him and he crumbles with a maniacle grin on his face.
>   
>   The conducter tries to make order from the chaos.
>   He asks everyone to go back to their staterooms and has the bodies taken to
>     pullman car number four.
>   The occupants of pullman number four are moved forward.
>   Meanwhile, the adventurers mill about.