Characters:
- AleBelly: Odlo
- AleBelly: Tyv
- Alethan: Thorhall
- Faanku: "Laughing" Pegg
- Faanku: Falnan Rosleigh
- greyarea: Casper
- greyarea: Pox
- Samwell Turleton: Hannu Survage (3 / 4)
- Samwell Turleton: Magna Jonsdottir
- ybn1197: Brocard Bottomhill
Pox, Magna, and Falnan are loaded into the first cart and their break is released. The cart accelerates down the rails, then accelerates, and accelerates...
Zoom! Falnan screams in terror as it flies down through the air high up the cliffside rails! They bounce like ping pong balls inside the speeding cart. Their slope levels, slowing them slightly, but they are the first cart in line and trigger the dumping mechanism as they reach the bottom. Rather than pouring out like a heavy cartful of crushed coal, they are launched airborne as the cart abruptly tips them out. For a few seconds they know how a gull feels, soaring over the coal yards, then they each hit the ground with sickening crunching sounds.
(All three die.)
Shortly after the first cart zooms out of sight around the bend in the cliff face,
Odlo and Thorhall are launched in the second cart. They are not as lucky as the first cart - the screaming and motion of the first cart has caught the attention of the dragon perched on the Keep below you and it launches upwards, straight at the second cart. Investigating to find a dwarf and halfling speeding down the cliffs, it swipes at you with its tail as it flies by, trying to knock the cart off the rails.
Make a Fort Save, DC 8, or take 1d6 damage as it jostles you.
Hannu gleefully leaps into the third cart and launches himself with a
"wheeee!", leaving
Casper and Pegg in the last cart. The dragon blows a gout of flame against the cliffside as the two carts speed past.
Make a Fort Save, DC 8, or take 1d6 damage as you are singed, the fireproof cart doing most of the job...
With no one manning the controls at the bottom to redirect empty cars, each additional car smacks abruptly into the car before it, crashing loudly on the bumpers and rattling all those within. If you survived the trip, you have a moment to clamber out and leap down onto the massive coal piles below while the dragon wheels around having flown the other direction...