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Train Station
Basic Info
Eidola	None
Events	Train Ride, Night Train
Notable NPCs	Monsieur Pivoine
Other
Connecting Areas	Pale Park; Sun Reactor; Overgrown Railway ➡️;
BGM	🔊 noahrav_music_11 (No. 20); 🔊 noahrav_music_rumbling – Entrance (No. 48); 🔊 Surface of the Sky – Scenic Corridor (No. 21); 🔊 noahrav_ambiance_concrete_1 (No. 22); 🔊 noahrav_ambiance_concrete_2 (No. 23); 🔊 nolan_music_skyvillage (No. 49); 🔊 noahrav_music_36 – Night Train (No. 57);
Map ID	0091, 0092, 0093, 0099
Version Added	0.1.0
Primary Author	Noahrav
Contributing Author(s)	Ayayaya, RagnaEdge
Extras +
YNOproject Badges
	Monsieur Pivoine
	Lag Ride
	Missed the Train

Latest revision as of 23:50, 15 August 2024

Annotated map of Train Station

Train Station is an area that can be accessed through the stairs in Pale Park.

Features

Despite having only two destinations, Train Station is an elaborate spirit world that is made up of many linear, winding corridors. Adding to the location's complexity, it is possible to change the time of day while wandering the station, changing its ambience and providing an opportunity to access the rare Night Train event.

Following the path from the Pale Park entrance leads to a large lobby populated by countless shadows with humanoid forms. These shadows block Minnatsuki's movement as they wander aimlessly, and they cannot be killed with the Soulfire eidolon. The only NPC in the entirety of the spirit world that can be interacted with is Monsieur Pivoine, who can normally be found in a booth on the north side of the lobby. By interacting with the window on the left side of the booth, Minnatsuki can purchase a train ticket from him for 100 Luna, which can be used to open the gates in the northwest corner of the lobby. This grants direct access to the train platform (and Overgrown Railway by extension); in the room beyond the gates, traveling north leads to the train platform.

Using a slightly longer route, the train platform can also be reached without needing to purchase a ticket by taking the door in the southeast corner of the lobby, which leads into the deeper tunnels of the train station. At the first fork, taking the door inside the spiral path to the west leads to the area behind the ticket gates. Going east at the fork leads even deeper into the Train Station tunnels; this is one way to access Sun Reactor, but this route is otherwise a dead end, and it is longer than taking the route through the dark station.

Train Platform

The train platform is a long room within the station that, like the lobby, is populated by many shadow people. The train on the edge of the platform can be boarded through any of its doors.

Inside the train, Minnatsuki can sit in any of its seats. After sitting idle for 15 seconds, Minnatsuki will begin to doze off; if Minnatsuki remains still for another 10 seconds, they will fall asleep, and the screen will fade to black. The Train Ride event is then displayed: the train leaves the station and is shown traveling along a bridge, with a city and forested hill in the background. This event continues until any interact key is pressed, at which point the player will regain control of Minnatsuki in the same seat they fell asleep in. There is no way to return to Train Station at this point, and leaving the train leads to Overgrown Railway.

Dark Station

When entering Train Station from either Pale Park or Sun Reactor, the world will be well-lit and populated by many NPCs. However, taking the passage in the northeast corner of the main lobby and walking through the hallway with the long window will take Minnatsuki deep into the station's tunnels and change the world's ambience: as though it is late at night, the normal Train Station music will be replaced with a mechanical hum, the station itself will be darker, and neither the lobby nor the train platform will be populated by any NPCs. Turning around in the Train Station tunnels and returning to the lobby through the long window hallway will revert Train Station to its brighter "daytime" state, meaning that the train platform can only be reached in the dark by continuing through the tunnels. The atmosphere will also be reset upon leaving Train Station for another spirit world and returning.

Continuing from the long window hallway, traveling south through the next tunnel will reveal that the gates in the Train Station tunnels, normally a dead end when approached from the other side, are stuck open while the station is dark. To the south of the gates is a large, round room with a pillar in its center, surrounded by a large pit. The next room to the south is a smaller hallway with a manhole; Minnatsuki can climb down into manhole regardless of whether or not the station is dark, leading to a room where Sun Reactor can be accessed via a panel on the wall in the center.

Walking past the manhole and continuing through the various tunnels beyond it eventually leads back to the lobby and its surrounding areas, through which the train platform can be accessed. As with the gates at the end of the long window hallway, the gates in the lobby are also stuck open while the station is dark. Normally, the train can still be boarded from the platform as normal; Monsieur Pivoine, who is not at the ticket booth when the station is dark, can instead be found inside of the train using this method. The station will no longer be dark after getting off the train, reverting to its "daytime" state, and the train itself otherwise works as normal, connecting to Overgrown Railway.

Night Train

The Night Train is an event that can only occur in the dark station. Entering the train platform by paying for a ticket and going through the closed ticket barrier will not work. If the event is active, entering the train platform via either escalator will tint the screen a dark purple color before taking Minnatsuki to a unique version of the train platform. The platform is much darker than normal, a unique BGM will be playing, and the train cannot be entered or interacted with in any way (as you've "missed the train," per the badge description). The train will still function as normal when the train platform by paying a ticket and entering through the left side of the lobby.

There is a 10/256 chance (approximately 1/26 or 3.9%) for the Night Train event to be active that is determined every time Minnatsuki activates the totem in their room and enters the spirit realm. The event is persistent for the entirety of each trip to the spirit realm; if it is active, the event will remain active until Minnatsuki returns to their room and the odds are re-rolled.

Specifically, Variable 30 - which is set to a random number between 0 and 255 every time the totem in Minnatsuki's Room is activated - must be between 0 and 9. The route through the dark station to the train platform is arduous and time-consuming to navigate, making repeated attempts to activate the Night Train event highly impractical. It is more feasible to take shorter trips to other locations containing events that depend on Variable 30, making the trip through the dark station only when these events have narrowed down the odds to an acceptable amount. Two such options for this:

Like Train Station, Portrait Forest is accessible from Pale Park. The time of day in Portrait Forest depends on Variable 30. If it is nighttime, then Variable 30 is between 128 and 255, indicating that Night Train is not active. If it is daytime, then Variable 30 is between 0 and 127, effectively giving Night Train an improved 7.8% odds of being active.
In each visit to the spirit realm, the location of the Wanderer is determined by Variable 30. The Wanderer will be located near the lower dock in Fantasy Forest when the variable is between 0 and 42; encountering the Wanderer in Fantasy Forest effectively gives Night Train a 23% chance of being active. If the Wanderer is not present in Fantasy Forest, then Night Train is not active.

Directions

Nexus → Pale Park → Train Station

Gallery

Monsieur Pivione
The window hallway
The gates that block access to the window hallway
To Sun Reactor
Train Station will be devoid of NPCs if you exit the hallway room from the right.
The Train Ride
To Overgrown Railway
The Night Train

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 '''Train Station''' is an area that can be accessed through the stairs in [[Collective Unconscious:Pale Park|Pale Park]].
 ==Features==
-The connection from [[Collective Unconscious:Pale Park|Pale Park]] leads to a lobby containing shadow people. North of the lobby is a booth with a ticket salesman named Monsieur Pivoine. Minnatsuki can purchase a train ticket from him for 100 Lunas, which can be used to open the gates to the train to the left. However, there is a way to circumvent paying for a ticket by going through the path at the bottom right of the lobby. At the fork, take the door inside the spiral path to the left and continue down the stairs until you reach the train.
+Despite having only two destinations, Train Station is an elaborate spirit world that is made up of many linear, winding corridors. Adding to the location's complexity, it is possible to change the time of day while wandering the station, changing its ambience and providing an opportunity to access the rare Night Train event.
-At the train, you can sit in any of the seats. After 25 seconds, the Train Ride event will happen in which the train will be shown moving to the left side of the screen, with a beautiful sprite of the city in the background. After pressing "Z", Minnatsuki will be shown sleeping on the seat you previously had seated on, and the BGM will also have changed. After leaving the train, you will appear at [[Collective Unconscious:Overgrown Railway|Overgrown Railway.]]
+Following the path from the Pale Park entrance leads to a large lobby populated by countless shadows with humanoid forms. These shadows block [[Collective Unconscious:Minnatsuki|Minnatsuki's]] movement as they wander aimlessly, and they cannot be killed with the [[Collective Unconscious:Eidola#Soulfire|Soulfire]] eidolon. The only NPC in the entirety of the spirit world that can be interacted with is [[Collective Unconscious:Minor Characters#Monsieur Pivoine|Monsieur Pivoine]], who can normally be found in a booth on the north side of the lobby. By interacting with the window on the left side of the booth, Minnatsuki can purchase a train ticket from him for 100 [[Collective Unconscious:Luna|Luna]], which can be used to open the gates in the northwest corner of the lobby. This grants direct access to the train platform (and [[Collective Unconscious:Overgrown Railway|Overgrown Railway]] by extension); in the room beyond the gates, traveling north leads to the train platform.
-The other path from the bottom right of the lobby area leads to a hallway with screens showing a colorful fractal pattern, and continuing leads to an area where the tiles seem to have fallen away, revealing the same colorful fractal pattern beneath. This fractal pattern is similar to that of Julia Set fractals. Continuing across the halls leads to a manhole. Minnatsuki can climb down the manhole on a red ladder leading to a room full of exploded and exposed batteries. Interacting with the blinking electrical service panel on the wall in the center takes you to [[Collective Unconscious:Sun Reactor|Sun Reactor]].
+Using a slightly longer route, the train platform can also be reached without needing to purchase a ticket by taking the door in the southeast corner of the lobby, which leads into the deeper tunnels of the train station. At the first fork, taking the door inside the spiral path to the west leads to the area behind the ticket gates. Going east at the fork leads even deeper into the Train Station tunnels; this is one way to access [[Collective Unconscious:Sun Reactor|Sun Reactor]], but this route is otherwise a dead end, and it is longer than taking the route through the dark station.
-Going right of the manhole, there are gates blocking the path to the window hallway.
+=== Train Platform ===
+The train platform is a long room within the station that, like the lobby, is populated by many shadow people. The train on the edge of the platform can be boarded through any of its doors.
-If you go to the right of Monsieur Pivoine, you will enter a hallway with a window showing a town by the coast. If you leave through the right, you will be at the gates mentioned above. The lights will dim, the music will be replaced by a mechanical hum, and all of the NPCs will disappear. In this darkened state, all gates will be open, and you can encounter the [[Collective Unconscious:Events#Night Train|Night Train]].
+Inside the train, Minnatsuki can sit in any of its seats. After sitting idle for 15 seconds, Minnatsuki will begin to doze off; if Minnatsuki remains still for another 10 seconds, they will fall asleep, and the screen will fade to black. The Train Ride event is then displayed: the train leaves the station and is shown traveling along a bridge, with a city and forested hill in the background. This event continues until any interact key is pressed, at which point the player will regain control of Minnatsuki in the same seat they fell asleep in. There is no way to return to Train Station at this point, and leaving the train leads to Overgrown Railway.
+=== Dark Station ===
+When entering Train Station from either Pale Park or Sun Reactor, the world will be well-lit and populated by many NPCs. However, taking the passage in the northeast corner of the main lobby and walking through the hallway with the long window will take Minnatsuki deep into the station's tunnels and change the world's ambience: as though it is late at night, the normal Train Station music will be replaced with a mechanical hum, the station itself will be darker, and neither the lobby nor the train platform will be populated by any NPCs. Turning around in the Train Station tunnels and returning to the lobby through the long window hallway will revert Train Station to its brighter "daytime" state, meaning that the train platform can only be reached in the dark by continuing through the tunnels. The atmosphere will also be reset upon leaving Train Station for another spirit world and returning.
+Continuing from the long window hallway, traveling south through the next tunnel will reveal that the gates in the Train Station tunnels, normally a dead end when approached from the other side, are stuck open while the station is dark. To the south of the gates is a large, round room with a pillar in its center, surrounded by a large pit. The next room to the south is a smaller hallway with a manhole; Minnatsuki can climb down into manhole regardless of whether or not the station is dark, leading to a room where Sun Reactor can be accessed via a panel on the wall in the center.
+Walking past the manhole and continuing through the various tunnels beyond it eventually leads back to the lobby and its surrounding areas, through which the train platform can be accessed. As with the gates at the end of the long window hallway, the gates in the lobby are also stuck open while the station is dark. Normally, the train can still be boarded from the platform as normal; Monsieur Pivoine, who is not at the ticket booth when the station is dark, can instead be found inside of the train using this method. The station will no longer be dark after getting off the train, reverting to its "daytime" state, and the train itself otherwise works as normal, connecting to Overgrown Railway.
 ==== Night Train ====
-Per Spirit World visit, there is a 10/256 (or 3.9% - variable 30 must be from 0 to 9) chance for the [[Collective Unconscious:Events#Night Train|Night Train]] event to occur, where the train is completely dark once it's reached from the path through the window hallway. The train cannot be entered.
+The [[Collective Unconscious:Events#Night Train|'''Night Train''']] is an event that can only occur in the dark station. '''Entering the train platform by paying for a ticket and going through the closed ticket barrier will not work'''. If the event is active, entering the train platform via either escalator will tint the screen a dark purple color before taking Minnatsuki to a unique version of the train platform. The platform is much darker than normal, a unique BGM will be playing, and the train cannot be entered or interacted with in any way (as you've "missed the train," per the badge description). The train will still function as normal when the train platform by paying a ticket and entering through the left side of the lobby.
+There is a 10/256 chance (approximately 1/26 or 3.9%) for the Night Train event to be active that is determined every time Minnatsuki activates the totem in [[Collective Unconscious:Minnatsuki's Room|their room]] and enters the spirit realm. The event is persistent for the entirety of each trip to the spirit realm; if it is active, the event will remain active until Minnatsuki returns to their room and the odds are re-rolled.
+Specifically, Variable 30 - which is set to a random number between 0 and 255 every time the totem in Minnatsuki's Room is activated - must be between 0 and 9. The route through the dark station to the train platform is arduous and time-consuming to navigate, making repeated attempts to activate the Night Train event highly impractical. It is more feasible to take shorter trips to other locations containing events that depend on Variable 30, making the trip through the dark station only when these events have narrowed down the odds to an acceptable amount. Two such options for this:
-Using [[Collective Unconscious:Portrait Forest|Portrait Forest]] to discern your current Variable 30 value can be useful to reduce the number of full attempts. On your way to '''Train Station''', enter [[Collective Unconscious:Portrait Forest|Portrait Forest]]. If the area is dark, it indicates that your Variable 30 is somewhere between 128 and 255, meaning it is impossible to activate the event. If the area is set during the day, you can proceed to attempt to activate this event.
+* Like Train Station, [[Collective Unconscious:Portrait Forest|Portrait Forest]] is accessible from Pale Park. The time of day in Portrait Forest depends on Variable 30. If it is nighttime, then Variable 30 is between 128 and 255, indicating that Night Train is not active. If it is daytime, then Variable 30 is between 0 and 127, effectively giving Night Train an improved 7.8% odds of being active.
+* In each visit to the spirit realm, the location of the [[Collective Unconscious:Minor Characters#Wanderer|Wanderer]] is determined by Variable 30. The Wanderer will be located near the lower dock in [[Collective Unconscious:Fantasy Forest|Fantasy Forest]] when the variable is between 0 and 42; encountering the Wanderer in Fantasy Forest effectively gives Night Train a 23% chance of being active. If the Wanderer is not present in Fantasy Forest, then Night Train is not active.
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