A Fistful of Crecibles/Session 1

Ivory Hands, with the aid of Dr. Guilford, gathered a team of locals, bandits, and kobolds to rob a train full of medical supplies, mining supplies, and a McKeough Clan VIP. To initiate this plan, Ivory Hands, Mona Isa, Millie, and their new friend Starke posed as an Elvish noble and his entourage (featuring Mona Isa as the "Sister clinically obsessed with plastic surgery"). The plan started with a minor hiccup when a Dwarven guard declared that Mona Isa did not "smell" like an elf (and this fellow had smelled many elves in his time).
The party entered the train. Mona Isa and Millie broke off to explore, but ended up spending most of the ride getting the platoon of soldiers occupying the cars adjacent to the passenger seats drunk and sleepy. Meanwhile, Ivory hands (with the terrifying looking Starke as an "impartial" dealer) played cards with four distinctive gentlemen, nicknamed "Colonel Mustard", "Mr. Rosa / Jack Ruby", "Mr. Blueberry", and "The Man in Lavender".
Mona Isa did a random act of kindness to the teacake lady, handing her hundreds of crecibles, first sneaking them into her pocket after stealing a teacake, then outright buying the teacake cart from her. Millie, with the guards now drunk, got her way into an armored cargo car, in which she found an odd looking reflector dish with a strange mechanism attached to it. Mona Isa left to tell Ivory Hands about the discovery, interrupting the cheating match that he and Starke had gotten into during the cardgame. As Ivory Hands got up to leave, he took the business cards of each man he was playing with. The last, "the man in Lavender", handed him a small cylinder instead, which immediately exploded into a purple cloud.
The man in lavender declared that he was, in fact, the renowned bounty hunter "Indigo" and that he intended to take Ivory Hands' head. Ivory hands could not see Indigo in the purple haze and was shot and seriously wounded attempting to flee out the skylight. He then proceeded to ambush Indigo as he followed, and, quick on the draw as usual, used all his intellectual power to ensure that he blew Indigo's head to bits. Meanwhile, Mustard and his crew drew on Starke, who killed everyone except "Jack Ruby" (who jumped out the window and miraculously survived with little damage).
Finally, with purple smoke billowing from the passenger cars and all hell breaking loose, Shakar went to decouple the cars, but critically failed his stealth check and fell flat on his face. Fortunately for him, the machinegun crew similarly failed spectacularly, causing the gun first to jam, and then, when a second round got stuck, the magazine exploded, throwing the crew from the train. Shakar had only one chance to decouple, however, and only with quick-thinking from Sallah, who had been waiting in his snipers spot, managed to break the chains that held the cars coupled. The Kobold demolitionist missed the timing by a large margin, blowing up the first cargo car section instead of merely the track between the first engine and the rest. Thus, as guards rushed to question Starke and Mona Isa, and as Ivory Hands and Millie attempt to divine the dish mechanism, Sallah and Shakar prepared for battle as the engine slows down and the train guards disembark to fight.
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