Place · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Nightmare Express

A jet-black steam engine numbered 666 pulling forty cars — fourteen of them open cages of monstrosities — on a ninety-minute figure eight through two station 83s, two 283s and Abyss Station; fired by Fire Brandy; stolen by Carl after being hit by it. The party's train for the rest of the floor, and its bomb at the end.

Segment appearances

Chapter 1 — I'm on a train
Chapter 2 — Transfer station 83
Chapter 3 — Messages from deceased Crawlers
Chapter 4 — Limp Richard's books
Chapter 5 — Vernon the conductor
Chapter 11 — Gore-Gore
Chapter 12 — The Dismemberment Limited
Chapter 13 — The Ugly-Ass Backpack
Chapter 14 — Stealing the Nightmare Express
Chapter 15 — The Abyss
Chapter 16 — Babababoons
Chapter 17 — Station and Repair Hub E
Chapter 18 — The PVP coupon
Chapter 19 — Frank Q at the bar
Chapter 20 — Planet Beautiful
Chapter 21 — Brynhild's Daughters
Chapter 22 — The kebab plan
Chapter 24 — Brynhild's Daughters is no more
Chapter 25 — Seven hundred hats
Chapter 27 — Physical
Chapter 30 — The Syndicate logo
Chapter 31 — The Iron Tangle, signing off
Chapter 32 — Prepotente
Chapter 33 — Death Challenge
Chapter 34 — Tizquick and Brandy

Arc

Seen once and refused (ch. 14); then hit by, boarded, driven and stolen the same hour (ch. 14); switched to Station Repair and into a yard of ghouls (ch. 16, ch. 17); turned around on a sideways T (ch. 19); a parade float for thirty Daughters (ch. 21); parked on the employee line where the ghouls do not go (ch. 19); and at the end, packed with satchels and driven into the abyss by its own crew (ch. 34). 'Another floor ending with a big explosion.' 'It's always going to end with an explosion.'