Night Train

Check tickets on the last train of the night. Some of the passengers are not passengers. You are the guard on the 23:59. Every passenger has a ticket and one right call: PUNCH it, FINE it, or FLAG it, because something aboard is only pretending to be a person. Miss one and it comes loose on the next leg, walks the aisle and takes a passenger every few seconds. Hold your lamp on it to drive it out. Get too close without the lamp and it throws you off the train. Earn coins every shift. Buy a dining car and a lounge car for a longer train and more fares, and better kit for the guard. The day crew keeps earning while you are away. Play alone or bring a crew of up to four: a longer train, more tickets, more things to miss. Seen through your own eyes (or from behind). Phone, tablet and PC. Three things ride the Coast Line, two more the Moor Line once you have made Guard. The logbook tells how each gives itself away. Shifts and catches earn rank, and the honour board remembers.