Nightmare Express
Names: Nightmare ExpressNightmare linethe Nightmarethe train
First appears in Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, chapter 1 (1)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 4The Nightmare Express runs every 90 minutes on a figure-eight with five stops, four of them transit stations; the other is station 436.
- Ch 5Carl believes there is only one Nightmare Express train, completing its figure-eight loop in an hour and a half.
- Ch 14The Nightmare Express is a black steam train numbered 666, hauling fourteen cages of giant monsters; it can only be boarded at the caboose.
- Ch 15Carl learns that only engine cars are teleported back to base; the rest of each train is dumped into the Abyss and new trains are built.
Connections
- related toStation 436stop on its route
- containsFire Brandy
- related toCarlstole and drives it
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 14Runaway train and Fire Brandy
Carl finds the engineers dead and the boiler about to explode, then meets Fire Brandy in the firebox.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Carl steals the Nightmare Express
Guided by Fire Brandy, Carl defuses the boiler, learns to drive the train and claims the Steam Engineer's Key.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Three bosses in one blow
Carl learns his Protective Shell killed everything aboard, including three neighbourhood bosses, earning three levels and a Platinum box.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Arrival at the ghoul-infested trainyard
The Nightmare passes through the portal into Station and Repair Hub E, which is overrun by Festering Ghouls breaking through the walls.