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[Avis-Mergulus]

After a few seconds of fumbling, you locate the handbrake on the car and flip it, stopping your ride with a shrill screech. Great.

From the outside, the building doesn't seem to be inhabited. The trail leading toward the door is overgrown, and grass is growing right in front of the door, where it would be torn out if the door were to be opened regularly. The boards covering the windows are nailed from the outside.

Treading through the wet grass, you walk up to the door, and following some sort of inherent urge to be polite, knock smartly on the door.

Nobody answers. You rattle the doorhandle - the door seems to be locked.

[Prophet]

Try to peek through one of the window boards?

[Worldmaster27]

Try to peek through one of the window boards?

+1

This game seems really interesting.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Glad you like it.

The room behind the boards is not very well-lit, but you can make out rows of dusty wooden benches and something resembling a counter. Everything is covered in a thick layer of dust. You can also see part of a handwritten poster:

"TRAINS EV
FRIDAY AT
1300

[Prophet]

Try to find some loose window boards and remove them as silently as possible.

[Avis-Mergulus]

You take a long look at the boards. Then you hook your hands under one and just remove it from the windowframe, nails and all. It doesn't look like whoever did this thought this out real well.

After the pathetic window covering is thoroughly disassembled - you even stack the boards neatly near the wall - you can see that it's probably a waiting room of sorts. The full poster (hanging on the back wall facing the door) reads,

TRAINS EVERY MONDAY AT 0800 AND
FRIDAY AT
1300

There's a counter to your left. The benches are in front of you, and to the right a bare wall. Behind the counter is another door and a stairway leading to the second floor. There seems to be no tracks in the dust.

You hear a faint rattling sound in the distance towards the woods. It is far enough away that you cannot discern its nature.

The rain drizzles on.

[Prophet]

Enter through the window. ((this is kinda weird I just +1 others ideas most of the time.))

[Avis-Mergulus]

You squeeze in through the window. At least it's dry here.

The rattling sound repeats, and is answered by a similar sound. You are not sure if it's closer this time, but that's a possibility.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Work clothing (worn)
Vereinian Royal Infantry coat (worn) In pockets: hold-out derringer (two shots), ID Coin x2, nail file
Vereinian Royal Infantry boots (worn)
Lighter (almost full)
Knife-blade
Water canister (carried)
Isandan passport
Isandan military registry ticket (lieutenant of reserve)
Siren pattern (on cardboard)

Welp, realized I've been forgetting this.

[Prophet]

Look around for stuff of interest like supplies.

[Avis-Mergulus]

You try the other door - it is locked too. After poking around the waiting room on the first floor and finding decidedly nothing, you head on up to the second floor.

There are shelves upon shelves of dusty log books here, plus two beds and a chair near the window. You check the shelves more thoroughly, but are unable to find anything other than a candle stub. In a bout of thoroughness, you check under one of the beds - there's a key there, it turns out.

The sound repeats, suddenly much closer. By now you're certain it can be nothing other than automatic gunfire. Sure enough: three bursts are answered by one at a much closer distance, then there's a period of silence, then another burst - even closer this time.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Work clothing (worn)
Vereinian Royal Infantry coat (worn) In pockets: hold-out derringer (two shots), ID Coin x2, nail file
Vereinian Royal Infantry boots (worn)
Lighter (almost full)
Knife-blade
Water canister (carried)
Isandan passport
Isandan military registry ticket (lieutenant of reserve)
Siren pattern (on cardboard)
Key
Candle stub

[Aseaheru]

Grab the key and the candle (if its tallow its food, if its not its light), try the key on the doors.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Your heart starts beating faster. You stuff the candle in one of your coat's pockets - your hand meeting some other object on the way down - and almost tumble down the stairs, key in hand.

Unsurprisingly, it does work. The door swings open. The room behind is poorly lit, but it used to be an utility closet of some kind. Almost everything's been taken away, except for a box of unlabeled tin cans, a small shovel, and a carton of what you tentatively identify as first aid supplies.

Several short bursts of gunfire - three or two bullets each - come from right behind the station. You think you can hear running footfalls over the wet earth.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Work clothing (worn)
Vereinian Royal Infantry coat (worn) In pockets: hold-out derringer (two shots), ID Coin x2, nail file
Vereinian Royal Infantry boots (worn)
Lighter (almost full)
Knife-blade
Water canister (carried)
Isandan passport
Isandan military registry ticket (lieutenant of reserve)
Siren pattern (on cardboard)
Key
Candle stub

[Aseaheru]

Grab everything.

[Avis-Mergulus]

You stuff the carton in another pocket, but the box and the shovel present a problem of sorts, since the box turns out to be heavy, and you can't carry both it and the shovel at the same time - need two hands for the box.

The gunfire outside reaches a crescendo, bullets whanging off metal somewhere in the direction of the rails. Somebody scratches on the door, then you hear what seems to be somebody trying to squeeze through the window with much huffing and puffing.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Shovel (in hand)
Work clothing (worn)
Vereinian Royal Infantry coat (worn) In pockets: hold-out derringer (two shots), ID Coin x2, nail file
Vereinian Royal Infantry boots (worn)
Lighter (almost full)
Knife-blade
Water canister (in railcar)
Isandan passport
Isandan military registry ticket (lieutenant of reserve)
Siren pattern (on cardboard)
Key
Candle stub

[Aseaheru]

Put down the box, grab the shovel, and head to the other room.