Catastrophe Caravan

Created for Lone Rabbit's OST Composing Jam #4.

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1. Boxcar

You are on a train that has derailed itself and will drive off a cliff in exactly five days. The train's only exit is in the frontmost car, meaning that you will need to make your way through several other cars to reach it. You are currently inside a vast boxcar that is miles long. The boxcar is stacked floor to ceiling with mysterious crates, which is no small feat considering that the height of the ceiling is comparable to some historic chapels. The box-dwelling denizens refuse to believe that the train has derailed, choosing instead to believe that you simply don't know what you are talking about.

2. Gondola

After escaping the boxcar, you find yourself in another closed car, this one even larger than the last. The ceiling is obscured by a dense fog, but you can make out that the walls of the car are covered with metal pipes and steel plates, mimicking ivy creeping up a brick wall in its form. The denizens of this car roam its halls in vehicles ranging from tractors to small tanks. These vehicles emit the same fog that covers the ceiling. The denizens this car are aware that the train has derailed, and they blame you for it. They will attempt to hunt you down by any means necessary, even at the cost of their own lives.

3.  Coil

The next car is relatively narrow, and its walls are marked by coils of wire that have been twisted into various symbols by its denizens. These denizens are convinced that the train was derailed by a divine power, and that the only way to stop the train now is to slaughter an outsider as a sacrifice to this divine power. You are the only person to enter this car in centuries, which is interpreted by the denizens to mean that you were sent there to be a holy sacrifice.

4. Smoke Clouds

The next car is completely blanketed by thick smoke. The floor of this car is littered with garbage, which is only made worse by the fact that it is perpetually raining in this car. From what you can gather, the rainwater is somehow bailed out of the car by the denizens. This car is the smallest one yet, but while the end of the car may be only a few miles away, reaching it will be no easy feat. The denizens of this car know that the train has been derailed, and they believe that taking any action to stop it would be a hopeless endeavor. They have resigned themselves to their fate and allowed the rainwater to begin filling the car, decreasing your chances of survival with each passing second.

5. Runaway

When you finally reach the front of the train, you are struck by how completely ordinary it is. The conductor is gone, and the train's exit appears in the form of a broken window. Try as you might, nothing in the conductor's car can help you slow down the train, leaving the broken window as your only option. With seconds to spare, you dive through the window just before the train hurls itself off of the cliff.  Even though you were unable to save the train, you were able to save yourself.