Lost and Found (aka Taffy Train Reunion Tour)

## Premise

After the Taffy Train incident rocked the continent, fear and worry have been running rampant through the population, with even the weather reflecting the negative mood of its citizens. It is in this situation that the people at the heart of the initial accident find themselves in an attempt to right things. Coming together with the publicly shamed Engineer, they pour their energy into making a movie that will lift the spirits of the populace. But will their efforts be enough? After all, the culprit behind everything is still on the loose.

## Cast

* Modmad (DM)
	+ Engineer as NPC
* Ky as Charlie Black
* Owldart as Shorts Kid
* Snailcomicz as Snalien
* Yuni as Larry Samuel

## Notable NPCs

* DJ Mooves
* Dora Z. Scale

* Gregory the Drake (Snailcomicz)

* Wudlig Don Vrake

## Plot Summary

**The First Episode**

7 weeks after Taffy Train incident, fear and paranoia are abounding across the continent, with even the weather becoming unseasonably cold and snowy. Dora Z. Scale is still at large and, needing someone to blame, the populace has been blaming the Engineer (who reappeared 48 hours after the Taffy Train exploded with only vague memories of what happened to him during that time). On top of all that, Scru McCodger took a massive fiancial loss from the incident and, as recuperation, sued the Engineer for everything he had.

The others have been dealing with things in their own way. Charlie Black has been avoiding the limelight and getting caught up in his own awry schemes. Larry Samuel has just been doing things as usual (though he did go support the Engineer at his trial since no one else showed up). Snalien has been staying with Shorts Kid as her support network while going to the library to research more about Einquell and trauma. Meanwhile, Shorts Kid has been having the hardest time, learning to deal with the idea of permanence and irreversible events for the first time in their life (due to their time magic breaking).

One cold evening, the four are walking home after going to get dinner together and come across the Engineer (who is in a disguise but they recognise him anyway). Shorts Kid gives him a big hug, which he half-heartedly returns. The toon looks really threadbare and down-trodden. He grateful to have come across them all, as it gives him a chance to say goodbye to them before he moves away to go stay with his family in the Independent Isles (as he feels there is nothing left for him in Toontown). The others (especially Shorts Kid) convince him not to go and instead to make a movie that the continent could really use right now. Charlie even gives him 50 gold to get the project off the ground. Grateful and reinvigorated, the Engineer asks if they are sure they want to help him with the movie, to which they all readily agree. With this, the Engineer then pitches his movie idea (about a vagabond [himself] finding a child [Shorts Kid] and trying to take care of them while being chased by a police officer [Larry]) before sending the four off to secure everything they will need.

Charlie and Snalien are very effective at finding and building several cameras and a microphone while Larry and Shorts Kid go to Dodo Studio to try and enlist the help of the owls and penguins there, as well as DJ Mooves. After a terrible movie pitch performance from Larry (that causes the penguin to laugh uproariously), DJ Mooves agrees to help them (without telling the Engineer of course) before giving Larry 'the Pick of Destiny' to help with his performance.

After acquiring equipment and help, they proceed with filming. Both Larry and Shorts Kid excel in their parts while Snalien and Charlie do a decent job on the cameras. Satisfied with how things are coming along, the Engineer gives Snalien her translator fish back (which he 'acquired' from the police station) before pulling Charlie aside. He gives the cat toon an apology and an explanation for filming them all on the Taffy Train without their knowledge before presenting Charlie with a wrist watch that can change his fur colouring.

Next the group go about advertising the film, each coming up with a way to get the public's attention. It works so well that they end up with a bunch of extra background characters as well as a massive crowd as they are shooting the final climatic scene of the film. Several members of the Brecht Brigade also offer their services, allowing Charlie and some of the staff to shoot the scene from the witches broomsticks.

The scene begins with the vagabond convincing the child that they don't want them anymore to try and get them to go with the policeman and the orphanage lady. After managing to do so, he leans up against the bridge railing. There things go off script as the railing breaks, sending the Engineer down into the frozen water below. As this happens, the orphanage lady actress pulls Shorts Kid close, revealing to the child that they are actually Dora in disguise.

**The Second Episode**

Everyone is stunned by what just happened, allowing Dora the opportunity to put Shorts Kid under a suggestion spell and begin pulling them away from the scene. It is then that the crowd notices that a very large chunk of them is made up of zombies. Rather than fleeing, however, the crowd rallies together and begins to fight back.

Charlie doesn't have time to take in what is happening and immediately jumps on the broom and off after the Engineer. Snalien also acts fast, giving directions to the staff around her to keep the cameras rolling (as the Engineer instructed as he fell) and situating herself in a place she can see what is going on. Larry, however, has frozen up, revealing to those around him that he is afraid of water.

Meanwhile, underneath the water, the Engineer isn't doing too well. He didn't manage to take a breath before going under and has been swept a fair distance, however, he does manage to dig his claws into the ice to stop his progress down river.

Dora is frustrated that her route out has become blocked, and uses Vampiric Touch on Shorts Kid, stealing a lot of their health. This is enough for Shorts Kid to break her hold on them and they shout out to Larry (who does not hear them). Charlie, unsure of where the Engineer is, shatters the ice with magic, locating the Engineer but also sending him tumbling back into the current. Larry finally breaks out of his indecision and swings down to the ice to try and catch up to the Engineer while Snalien summons Gregory to help get everyone out of the water.

In an attempt to help, Shorts Kid launches the muddy water up into the air (causing the Engineer to shoot upwards with it) however this also breaks the ice into large pieces that those on and above the broken ice then have to navigate. Things end up ok though as Charlie catches the Engineer and Gregory picks up Larry and they all start back towards the others.

Up on the bridge, Dora has revealed herself and Snalien is pissed. In a fit of rage, she throws herself at the woman but misses. Shorts Kid moves the earth of the bridge to steal her shoes, effectively stopping Dora from escaping that way again.

Those flying are now able to see what is going on and Larry shoots a violin bow at her, knocking her disguise off. Glowing with anger, the Engineer uses all of his movement to cover the distance in seconds, knocking Dora over as he snarls in her face. Terrified, Dora summons a sword and stabs him with it but he doesn't even flinch. The injured Shorts Kid then throws Snalien at the woman before putting distance between them and the rest of the fighting. Snalien lands true, latching onto Dora with her rows and rows of teeth and terrifying the woman in the process. This allows Charlie and Larry enough time to reach them and Charlie hits the downed woman with his own sword while Larry follows up with his banjo.

The ground is then shaken by a bark that sounds from somewhere beneath them, knocking the Engineer from pinning Dora. She tries to escape but doesn't get very far before the Engineer runs her through with his sword, killing her in the process. The group don't have much time to process the shock of this, however, as she quickly reanimates herself as a lich, blasting the group back.

With her undead army dispatched and the rest of her plan falling to pieces, she tries to flee again, calling her flying bike down to her location. However, the group delay her long enough for Professor Wudlig Don Vrake and the other ghostcatchers to capture her while whatever had been helping Dora under the bridge runs away.

With Dora finally dealt with, the entire group celebrate with some group hugs before splitting the loot she left behind (Shorts Kid takes Dora's slippers while Larry takes the flying bike).

In the end, the movie is a huge success and the Engineer is able to buy his side of the studio back. He then adopts Shorts Kid and Snalien, offering to adopt the others too. Larry declines but does take up his offer to work with him while Charlie, who has a family of his own, promises to pop in and come round for dinner on occasion.

## Notes

There are a lot of cameo character appearances at the end of the second game

## Session Recording

Toonkind DND: Lost and Found (aka the Taffy Train Reunion Tour) Part 1

Toonkind DND: Lost and Found (aka the Taffy Train Reunion Tour) Part 2