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<span class="quote speech">Everything okay? You look puzzled.</span>
Jack looks at her.<br />
<span class="quote speech">What&apos;s this weird noise?</span><br />
<span class="comment">TODO: Change this back to say something along the
lines of the power doesn&apos;t work outside</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">The generator. The electrified tracks end
at the air lock so the train has to generate its own power.</span>
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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title> No U Don&apos;t Have Train. </title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="html_resources/style.css"></head><body><a href="index.html"><button class="back">&lt;</button></a>
<h1> No U Don&apos;t Have Train. </h1>
<p class="comment">
The following is a conversation between Jack and someone from the
train company.
</p>
<p>
<span class="quote speech">Why wouldn&apos;t they work outside? It&apos;s
not like they&apos;re magically gonna come off the rails once they leave
the dome.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">All of your trains are outfitted with fail-safe
emergency brakes. On power loss, you have about 15 seconds before they
are applied and the train comes to an abrupt, unscheduled halt.
You can&apos;t even tow these things without power.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">All of your trains are outfitted with
fail-safe emergency brakes. On power loss, you have about 15 seconds
before they are applied and the train comes to an abrupt, unscheduled
halt. You can&apos;t even tow these things without power.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">I thought you said the tracks were in decent
shape? Why would the <span class="comment">contacts? sliders?</span>
come off the power rail for that long?</span><br />
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People be believing strange things these days...</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">I don&apos;t have to believe. I was there when
the city was built and, more recently, I helped replace a failing
generator at said power plant. You might have noticed the power
outage.</span><br />
generator at said power plant. You might have noticed the outage.</span>
<br />
<span class="quote speech">Uhuh, sure buddy. Since you&apos;ve been doing
nothing but spewing nonsense all this time, I&apos;m just gonna have one
of our guys drive a train up there and we&apos;ll see what happens.</span>
<br />
<span class="quote speech">I&apos;ll get some popcorn; watching this is
gonna be fun. Wouldn&apos;t be the first time a train got stuck in these
tunnels...</span>
<span class="quote speech">I&apos;ll get some popcorn. Watching this is
gonna be fun...</span>
</p>
<p>
The rails start ringing and a train of the Sunside Cove Metro approaches.
It slows down and comes to a halt before the power rail&apos;s gap for
the switches in front of the closed airlock. Inside are a driver and the
railway official. Jack reaches into his backpack, grabs a bag of chips
&ndash; he didn&apos;t find any popcorn for the occasion &ndash; and
opens it. The headlights turn off and the driver leaves the driver&apos;s
cabin. A moment later, the first door opens and he climbs out.<br />
<span class="quote speech">No, I am only going to drive the first segment
in there. We don&apos;t need the entire train stuck in the tunnel if it
doesn&apos;t go to plan.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">It&apos;s gonna be fine. What could go
wrong?</span><br />
Jack replies loudly so both of them hear him:
<span class="quote speech">A lot.</span><br />
<span class="quote speech">You shut up.</span><br />
The driver says: <span class="quote speech">I&apos;m inclined to agree
with him.</span><br />
He turns around and walks to the end of the first railcar where he
proceeds to detach the hoses and cables and unhooks the couplings.
Then, he returns to the front and climbs back inside.
</p>
<p>
The headlights come back on and a compressor kicks into action.
A few contactors click inside the train. After a moment, the door closes.
The train sits like this for a few minutes until the compressor turns off
again. Jack shoves a handfull of chips into his mouth. The inner door
of the airlock begins to open, creaking and buzzing as it slowly moves
up.
</p>
<p>
The motors begin to hum and the first car of the train starts moving
towards the airlock. It loses power as it rolls over the switches
and the headlights dim. Jack puts his bag of chips aside and presses
the button on his watch that lights up the display. He begins to count
in his head:
<br />
<span class="quote non-speech">One, two, three, four, five...</span><br />
The railcar rolls completely into the airlock. It&apos;s still
decently far away from the other door.<br />
<span class="quote non-speech">Six, seven, eight, nine...</span><br />
It rolls deeper into the airlock, beyond Jack&apos;s view.<br />
<span class="quote non-speech">Ten, eleven...</span><br />
Loud hissing sounds from inside the airlock &ndash; the train&apos;s
failsafe mechanism begins to release the pressurized air from its tanks.
<br />
<span class="quote non-speech">Twelve, thirteen, fourteen...</span><br />
A loud <i>clunk</i> followed by screeching and grinding noises as the
emergency brakes are applied.<br />
<span class="quote speech">Fifteen.</span><br />
Jack grabs his bag of chips and gets up. He walks onto the tracks and
looks into the airlock, stuffing his face as he watches the dim
<span class="comment">R&uuml;cklichter? rear lights?</span> go out.
</p>
<p>
A few minutes pass and nothing happens. Eventually, Jack hears one of
the doors getting unlocked with a key and sees it getting pushed open
by hand. He gets off the track and sits back down next to the rails,
continuing to stuff his face with chips. A bit later, he watches the
driver and the railway official doing the walk of shame, the latter
seeming pretty close to an aneurysm.<br />
<span class="quote speech">Told you so.</span><br />
The railway official loses it completely, <span class="comment">stampfen?
</span> and jumping around while screaming some apparently very colorful
language &ndash; Jack doesn&apos;t understand a single word.
</p>
<p class="comment">
The train driver proceeds to walk to the rest of the train but Jack stops
him.
"It&apos;s too far back. There are only two feasible ways to get it
back out: Getting power on the track inside the airlock or dismantling
the brakes so it can be towed."
</p>
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