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LOCATIONS
THE CONTROL ROOM
Once the door has opened, the Passengers have full access to the Control Room. Unlike the rest of the train, the windows are fully visible, showing the scene outside as it speeds by at an alarming, dangerous, nearly out-of-control rate. The train controls are typical, aside from a panel that shows fifteen sets of vitals, labeled by numbers. Here, too, is a doorway that will let everyone out, presumably without hassle. Not that it would be smart to open it while the train is still in motion.
THE PASSENGER CAR
A single, narrow hallway splits its way down the middle of the car, surrounded on either side by seats in rows of two. There are spaces to put luggage overhead as well as underfoot. The seats are economical, neither particularly comfortable or uncomfortable, and with only an adequate amount of legroom separating one set of seats from the set before it. There's nothing particularly notable about any of the passenger seats aside from what each of you woke up with: a corresponding, locked briefcase and a single pair of handcuffs looped between the seats, keeping you all in place. There's an indication above each row of the seat number, as well as a space to slide one's ticket.
There's a locked door on either end of the car, but something very particular about the door at the front. A keypad is attached to the door, and to the left, a bolted side table carries a loaded tape recorder (also firmly secured to the tabletop), and a simple box (secured to the tabletop as well) with a small slot in the top.
Fluorescent lights buzz overhead, keeping the entire car lit so brightly that it's impossible to tell what time of day it is--and where every window should be, a thick steel panel has been welded in place. There is no music, only the sound of the wheels churning ever-faster against the rails unseen, and presumably the beating of your own heart heavy in your ears.
THE DINING CAR
The room just past the Passenger Car is fairly identifiable right off the bat: the two rows of tablecloth-covered tables with matching sets of chairs could only be meant for a dining car. The two halves of the room, if you discount the narrow closed-off area meant for the galley to your left, are a perfect mirror of one another, everything in immaculate order. Well, except for the chair that's missing a leg.
The galley is a bit of a tight squeeze, but there's plenty of places for things to be hiding, with a small walk-in freezer and wrap-around cupboards above and below you. There's a stove and attached oven, though neither seems to be functional.
THE LOUNGE
Moving on past the Dining Car brings you to a more laid-back seating area meant clearly for some quieter, potentially more adult conversation. A bar lines the left hand side of the room, and while a cursory glance seems to show that it's fully stocked, a more thorough search might discover some odd details about it. The rest of the area has bigger, plusher chairs facing the right-hand wall where, presumably, there once were windows where now there are only bolted-down steel plates. As if the area had only recently been in use, it seems that several of these stations are sporting identical glasses with coasters and folded newspapers.
THE SLEEPER CAR
The next car down has much dimmer lighting than the previous three, and it's easy enough to figure why: bunk beds line both walls to the left and the right, leaving only a narrow space between for passage. The bottom bunks have enough space beneath them to theoretically slide in a piece of luggage, and each bed is built with a small attached nightstand.
The beds themselves aren't particularly comfortable, but they'll do in a pinch. They're, perhaps, just a step above the hard, no-nonsense cots one finds in an infirmary. The pillows are small and the sheets are thin, each blanket folded nicely at the foot of each bed. From an initial glance, nothing seems to be out of place...but of course, as you've come to find by now, there's always more than meets the eye in this train. Best to be thorough.
THE OBSERVATION CAR
Making your way past the Sleeper Car, and it's clear that this room makes up the train's caboose. The room is shaped in an oblong half-dome, and seems to have been almost entirely made up of windows at one point. Now, however, an eerie mural covers up the near-entirety of the wall. It's cut into sections on very large strips of brown paper, children's fingerpaints depicting a stick-figure crowd with sad expressions surrounded by flames.
Aside from that, the only other features of this room are the window boxes beneath the artwork. This plain, mildly-cushioned block seating makes up the entire perimeter of the room, not including the flat-backed portion with the doorway. One of them opens to a decent-sized compartment, and one of the others has had the cushion ripped open with a blade.
ALTERATIONS