Prelude (EVRS2021)

*“Fine, fuck off! Run to Ianto you whore!”*
―Geronimo to Lindsay
Prelude is the first part of The Prelude Saga, and essentially the "0"th episode of Season 1 of The Elwyn Valley Railway Stories. It is followed up by Saturday Night.

It introduces the Elwyn Valley Railway, and it's characters.

It was the first part of the pilot episode of EVRS2021, before it was rebooted

## Plot

On a bleak, rainy day, Geronimo is shown pulling the express, much to his dislike due to the weather.

Eventually, the weather clears up, and he pulls into Llanforth Station, where he meets Rhys. Geronimo tells Rhys how tired he feels, and Rhys, having not had any jobs to do that day, offers to take Geronimo's train for him, so he could sort out his Anniversary for him and his girlfriend, Lindsay. Geronimo accepts, and leaves the station to have a quick rest.

At Llywellyn Works, Alwyn is shunting trucks into the building, when Lindsay pulls in, demanding to see the "secret project" that she'd recently caught wind of. Much to her dismay, Alwyn denies Lindsay entry, and still does not budge after a threat of blackmail. Lindsay leaves in a huff, and heads off to find something to keep her entertained.

Later on, Lindsay comes across Geronimo, sleeping at Llanforth. She quickly questions what he's doing, and then Geronimo, asking if she got tank wagons of alcohol, finds out that Lindsay herself had forgotten their anniversary, and finds out she had plans for that evening. They quickly break out into an argument, and toss multiple horrible insults at one another, all of which Sophie witnessed from afar, although this is not shown in the episode.

Lindsay declares that she's had enough, and backs away, screaming at Geronimo that their relationship is over. He promptly tells her to "Run to Ianto you whore!"

Later that day, Geronimo backs down into a goods shed at Llywellyn Yards, And tears up. Rhys sympathizes with Geronimo, and tells him he can talk to him. Geronimo promptly explains what happened, and the episode ends.

## Characters

* Geronimo
* William
* Rhys
* Lindsay
* Alwyn
* Leo (cameo)
* Sophie (First Draft)
* Ianto (Mentioned)
* Maya (Mentioned)
* Jaeyd (Mentioned in Original Cut)

## Locations

* Elwyn Valley Railway
	+ Llywellyn
		- Llywellyn Yard
		- Llywellyn Works
	+ Westwick
		- Westwick Industrial Complex
	+ Llanforth
		- Llanforth Station

## Trivia

* This episode has had three different cuts.
	+ The original cut, remained mostly the same as the second cut, but Alwyn's role was replaced with Sophie, and she was shown to be more of a pushover, and unlike the second cut onwards, Lindsay succeeds with her manipulation, and manages to get into the works.
	+ The second cut, has Alwyn at the works instead, and Lindsay does not make it into the works. That cut was uploaded to YouTube on April 2nd, 2021.
	+ The third, and final cut, was a remade version, with new footage in the cold open, an updated intro which was made when the character of Jaeyd was axed, and replacement of FlattenedFunnel's original Rhys lines with newly recorded lines by Steam Supreme. Another change included an updated credits sequence.
* The episode, after suffering development hell for a year, was written in a period when FlattenedFunnel was going through a breakup of his own, and the events of Geronimo and Lindsay's argument are loosely based off of real events.