PART [i]2[/i]: Gender-bent Carmen Sandiego is nowhere near as skilled as the original. We found him in a temple of Odin, where his crows gave riddles where solving them correctly would grant knowledge and incorrect would trap you in an alternate realm with mana core golems inside of it. We got the second riddle wrong (overthought the thing), and found the guy cowering away from the golems. After killing the golems (and looting them for mana cores we could endorn some of our stuff with), we found out the their was just looking for the town as well. We proceeded to convince him to hand over what he took from the survey-takers and then used it to find the place with the cores. Turns out it was in a quarry that we had to take a train for! So we visited the mayor and his dad's place, took some naps, and then took the hedge wizard with us for a train ride. The train part begun the longest session in the whole campaign. Our heroes started with some of their own rooms on a train riding through the desert that had cats as a security force. Not Catfolk, but just black cats that each wore this strange flintlock apparatus except for the chief who had a tiny helicopter with shotguns (and had yellow fur). There was also a Cleric in the security team. So after some causal chilling about, making small talk, possibly a bit of snogging for the Mage and fighter, and meeting mordrons (think of some simple 3-D shapes with creepy faces and spindly clockwork limbs, most of them are a hive mind) familiar and unfamiliar, the train started having a lockdown. We returned to our rooms momentarily until we began hearing gunfire. Pirate automatons were attacking the train. They each had a rifle and a flamethrower, and they were murdering cats and mordrons. Our party fought our way through them, only almost losing an NPC that was with us. (I forgot to mention that the market boss sold her secretary to slavery for falling for our trick, we freed her and the bard convinced her to join us because we wants to find love again. She's a razorgirl from Shadowrun, which makes her great for grappling a man and then stabbing him in the cheat with robot arms!) The human second in command of the Pirates ended up killing the engineer (and then dying to us after getting his ass kicked and trying to run), while the leader fled entirely. The cleric tried to speak to the soul of our killed pirate, and the Hedge Wizard ended up lending a hand by pulling the soul straight out of the corpse for the audience. Turns out they planned the attack because the train was heading to death trap anyways. Mana gore golems took over the mines in the town we were going to, and they are TOUGH. We later let the soul move on and the Mage took some of the corpses so he can make zombies once he levels up again. The grand finale (of act 2) I'll make a part 3 for.