Post/Author/DateTime	Post
dvsman 07-02-04, 04:42 PM	Does it still run? Does the gray mist affect it in anyway? I picture the stones were either destroyed, displaced or just covered up to prevent rail travel through the lands. I mean it was mentioned as game idea, but I can't see it running. If it still runs, imagine the problems raiders and the warforged would cause. The opportunity to provide protection for a transport as an adventure is rich. Anyone else consider the parralell of the day of mourning to the a-bomb ending WW2. In my mind that's how I view the Mournlands.
Taurren 07-02-04, 05:33 PM	Good question, I've been wondering the same thing. Although it looks like the Metrol's huge train station may still be standing, I can't imagine how the lightning stones in teh Mournlands could survive, yet almost everything else didnt.
Pallis 07-02-04, 05:46 PM	My reading of this is that the Lightning rail in the Mournland doesn't work anymore. Read p.190 of the CSB, and it tells you that the lighting rail station at Metrol "once" served as the gateway to the west. However, its anyone's guess (at the moment) quite what the Lord of Blades is up to and with a potential Warforged army at his disposal perhaps he could quite readily fix the Lightning Rail, and thereby give his army a quick means of falling upon the Mourlands neighbours...if he so chooses. Guess it's whatever works for your gaming group. Take the CSB and run with it!
Arshune 07-02-04, 11:21 PM	I don't remember reading definitively what happened to the rail there, but if something was bad enough to wipe a whole country, one would assume a railway would be down too. On the other hand, a lightning rail captain (conductor? pilot? dunno what to call them) trying to make record time by rerouting through the Mournland only to get attacked by the strange monsters and/or the Lord of Blades is a nice plot hook.
Arisen Phoenix 07-03-04, 02:20 AM	"Conductor" would certainly be a good pun, but could get confusing with "Conductor Stones" already in the jargon. :D
Rulandor 07-03-04, 08:53 AM	On p. 126 in ECS it says: "... connect the nations of Aundair, Breland, Thrane and Zilargo in the west, and Karrnath, the Talenta Plains, and the Mror Holds in the east." So it seems that the line through the Mournland, that would connect west and east, is out of order. Also there is an adventure idea mentioned somewhere, that during the desaster a lightning rail coach on route through then Cyre has gone missing, complete with important freight.
Steven Snyder 07-03-04, 09:05 AM	The Lightning Rail in what used to be Cyre is out of service. This, combined with the destruction of the great bridge between Rekkenmark and Thaliost has severed the continent in land travel. No conductor with an ounce of brains in his head would even attempt the journey into the Mournlands...though you might find a few insane ones that have grand ideas... The journey from Vathirond to Metrol is 800 miles, and that is a long way to go through hostile territory. The train would have to travel slow, visibility is low and there is a real risk of derailment if the track is damaged or obstructed. That is a long slow journey in some of the worst territory that one could concieve, a place where wounds don't heal and monsters roam freely. If it were me I would send a Warforged diplomat to make friendly contact with the Lord of Blades and contract him and his followers to repair it. Thereby improving relations and letting someone else fix the problem.
Goblin-Crunch Cerial 07-03-04, 11:02 AM	One hing I would like to see is a complete map of the light'ning rail...
Axys 07-03-04, 02:15 PM	:devil::devil: actually I am house ruling that the line that runs through Mournland is still fully operational and functional, tho never used due to the myriad of things that keep wandering about the area. This is mainly due to a future adventure that I am planning for my group..... :devil::devil: mini-idea....The House Kundarik Sharn office has been recently inundated with a large amount of gold (both trade bar and coin) due to some speculative ventures into Xen`drik paying off big dividends. Sending out a request for contracts to move this 100 tons of material to thier vaults, Orien won the contract with a special lightning rail train made from Byesk plating that will run from Sharn to Krona Peak. The PCs will be hired on as extra guards by House Kundarik who dont trust House Orien completely. If the journey goes smoothly, I calculated the travel time of the lightning rail from Sharn to Krona's Peak at nine days, eight hours and some odd-minutes. But in Eberron, what ever goes smoothly? *WEG* :devil: PS. the time calculated for the lightning rail is assumed that the train will always move at the speed of 25 mph and all other coaches have been sidetracked for an hour before and after this special train, due to the highly-sensitive contents of its cargo.
scaryfroman 07-03-04, 04:07 PM	why 25? did you choose that speed for a particular reason? (it can go 30...)
Oufi222 07-03-04, 06:22 PM	Speed up and slow down times would make its average speed slower, 25mph I guess would make a decent guess.
Steven Snyder 07-03-04, 06:45 PM	Sharn to Krona Peak... 5,754 miles 191 Hours and 48 Minutes (nonstop) or just under 8 days. 2,877 gold per person