Spoiler: Tedras
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Tedras heads out into the night, to use his wits to find out about the Stranger.
You discover the following rumours:
1) The Stranger had humble origins; orphaned as an infant but with a knack for magic.
2) The Stranger is an angel with a mission to destroy all fiends
3) The Stranger is a fiend, and he guards his own name by holding the names of other fiends hostage
4) The Stranger scammed his way through mulitple magical institutions, and has many aliases.
5) The Stranger drank in this very bar! He's devilishly handsome, but prefers the company of men. (This one likely a lie, or at least exaggerated.)


Spoiler: Siobhan
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She has heard of the Concordant Express, a clockwork locomotive that travels the multiverse. She's heard that the engine car is sapient, and that it can create its own track and choose its own course. She's never heard about it coming to the Material Plane before, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.


Spoiler: Ennius
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knows that Mechanus is one of the outer planes, a realm of absolute law and order. Apparently everything is made of interlocking gears. The clockwork people that live there, are sapient but not sentient, and have no use for emotions or anything non-logic-based.


A few hours after you receive the message, there's another knock at the door. It is now past midnight, and it's very quiet in the area of the botanical gardens near your cabin.

A three-foot high round mechanical creature stands at the door. It looks up at you and says, "Ah, hello! Yes, good , finally - friends looking to catch the Stranger - the Stranger who has already been caught. Here, take this map. It shows the train cars. Here are your tickets and a pen to write down names. Not ordinary names, secret names! I am Glitch, by the way."

Spoiler: the map
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Spoiler: Glitch
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