The Road: High Road Forty-Nine
- Finding the Road
- The Road
- The Phoenix Highway
- Finding the Road
- The Road
- The Phoenix Highway
- High Road Forty-Nine: High Road
- “There is a road… no simple highway… between the dawn, and the dark of night…”
- The Glendale Train
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- The Train Robbery
- “O bandit, to these warriors glorious surrender!”
- High Road Forty-Nine: Joe Lakono
- If the player characters are aware of Joe Lakono and consider him an antagonist, he’s following the road ahead of them. He’s setting up opportunities for trouble; letting the bandits find the magic wand to help them rob the train, for example, and putting roadblocks in their way if they’re going towards the city. He’ll try to get them to do something stupid (such as attack an innocent barmaid in Linden’s Lake) or to turn around and go somewhere…
- High Road Forty-Nine: Nequinium
- The train never goes to Nequinium any more. The folk of the road call it “the city of lost monsters” where all the creatures that crawl out of the abyss make their way, living amongst themselves in a mockery of the silver city. There are rumors also of ancient cities within the mountain and of strange debaucheries in the city.
- Dragon attack
- Joe used Fantastic Servant on two wyverns from the abyss to attack the train; their trigger is the train. When they see the train, it attacks the cars with faces. If there are no faces in the windows, it doesn’t attack, but continues on. “Follow the train up Route 47. Kill whoever you see in the cars.”
- High Road Forty-Nine: Greenfield
- The wind blows dust in swirls around the building, stark against the barren ground. Brown plants, tangled in a ball, roll along the streets and fly against the train’s wake. A sign welcomes you to Greenfield, population 215, crossed out to 155.
- Linden’s Lake
- “These rails keep getting longer and this feeling’s getting stronger, she won’t let me be.”
- Rainbow Falls
- There is no sign welcoming them to Rainbow Falls. Just outside of town, the train goes over dry river, and they can see where the falls used to be to the west, a high cliff into a canyon sparsely populated with scrub and thin bushes. Not even a trickle of water remains. There are 94 people living in Rainbow Falls.
- High Road Forty-Nine: Aquestern
- Population 524, and once a great city overlooking a canyon, parts of the city long ago fell into the canyon.
- High Road Forty-Nine: Silverwood
- At Silverwood, population 694, the air remains dry and the land sparse, but the temperature drops to a cooler 73 to 85. Dust storms come by at least once a month, scouring the city.
- High Road Forty-Nine: Atchaeoli
- Almost deserted, its residents who still survive have mostly gone to Silverwood or Glendale.
- High Road Forty-Nine: Tupose
- On the edge of the badlands leading into the Glendale farmland, Tupose, population 858, is probably one of the better places to live on this part of the road.
- High Road Forty-Nine: Glendale
- The train stops at Glendale station at the edge of the world. It should take several weeks to get there by train, though this is mostly because of waiting in Linden’s Lake.
- Crossing the Abyss
- The tracks continue on across a great chasm, with a black abyss beneath it and a dark, thick mist around it. There is an old engine at the start of the chasm, stuck partially in the mist. The tracks are in a full-stop dead zone. Moving through it is like moving through molasses. The engine is left from when someone tried to blast on through to the other side. Peco could pull the engine out with his own, but he leaves it to serve as a warning. and…
