The Day After - Session 1

This is just a reminder about what happened.
I will definitely miss alot...

On their way

The gang were on their way to GenCon (2014?).
It was the middle of the night (people have jobs, so they couldn't leave earlier).
The driver and the co-pilot noticed some strange billboards that they don't remember ever seeing before on the trip.
They were about an attraction with worlds largest wicker basket (sadly they weren't told the signs were weather beaten and looked like they had been there a long time - so they must have been there before even though they were not remembered).
There was a sudden detour (Sudden? yeah sudden, no advance warning, zooming along, and not many cars backed up before it).
So they followed the detour.

Ooops

They saw a coyote.
They saw another coyote, but the co-pilot thought it looked identical.
They saw another coyote, and the co-pilot was sure it looked identical.
They got a flat (luckily not a blowout).
They pulled over to deal with it.
As they walked around the van to see the flat, someone walk around from the other side of the van.
A storm was starting, with lightning and not yet rain around them.
He looked like some sort of barbarian warrior, he must have been some nut dressed up for GenCon a few hours early and traveling that way.
(Through the power of my bad memory...) He said something _like_, "You must get the book undamaged, every thing depends on it..."
Did they see him after he spoke? I don't remember, but they did all black out just then.

After the Dream

They awoke - sort of...
They have a strange flashback, to a dream where they were geeks traveling to GenCon, but not to worry about that, got to complete the mission.
Got to get the stolen intelligence back...

Chase

They are speeding after a train in snow covered country (Siberia?)
They got there too late, they were supposed to get to it before it left.
They commandeered what vehicles they could find.
A couple of things like this (sort of a snow jeep):
http://media.hobzob.com/files/419/vehicle/4b90608f53c3b/IMG_0166.jpg
And a bunch of snow mobiles.
The train was heading uphill, there was a chasm and a bridge not to far away.
The tracks went through forest, they must have been here a long time, the trees were tall.
There was a bit of drama where they had to navigate around trees and around and over iced, snow covered boulders.
Some highlights:
One of them jumped off a snow mobile onto the train, got his leg stuck in a ladder was bent over backwards almost falling off before another pulled him up.
As they were traveling over the box cars from the back of the train to the front (where the passenger cars were), they saw someone stick his head out from a few cars ahead then the train lurched, and then the cars started separating
Too bad they were on the train cars starting to fallback.
But with the all the trees some of them were still in vehicles and hadn't yet made it onto the train.
Someone (or a few?) jumped back off and planned to zoom up to the front of the train, and oh yeah don't forget there is a chasm getting ever closer.
A couple of them sprint towards the front of the train hoping they can get to it before the trains separate too far.
One of them gets there as it is just too far away and does his best long jump anyway - of course he doesn't reach it - but hmm, he didn't fall on the tracks either...
He was able to jump far enough to grab onto the edge of the car (really a ladder on the end of the train car).
He was then able to shove the stunned guy who separated the trains, tumbling him away.
But Wait! did that guy have a swastika on his arm? - nah couldn't be, this is 2014.
Maybe the jump wasn't so impossible, another one of them made it, but there was no way anyone else could make the jump.
But they were less than a minute from the chasm.
The 2nd guy across has a knack for machinery, he figures out how he can swing down and around the side of the train and trigger a break.
It is enough that now the escaped cars start to catch back up to the train.
The driving ace in the remaining vehicle messes up badly [ or did he do a great maneuver? ] and hits a boulder which just happens to fling his vehicle up and onto a box car.
Everyone is on the train now.

Give 'em a Hand

They fight their way through  2 cars to the front passenger car and end up in a stalemate with an enemy agent holding something out the window, the intelligence they are after (or could it be from the dream, some book they must protect? -nah)
One of them who didn't fight through the cars is still on the roof, and remember that chasm, guess what they are over it now.
Anyway he dives over and lays prone over the agents hand and grabs the book.
He pulls but cannot quite get it loose.
The guys in the cabin see what is happening so one of them runs up and with a machete and with a perfect slice, chops the agents arm off.
Which is good right?
The guy on the roof is pulling the book, right?
Um, not so good... the book was being pulled inward, with the arm chopped it is trying to fall down and backward - so like a tug-of-war where one side lets things go slack... He drops the book...
Bye by, all the way down the chasm.

Maybe we can get it somehow, maybe it is... and they black out again.