The investigators shadow Edgar Wellington through Lausanne, uncover signs he may be copying or forging the mysterious scroll, only to arrive at the supposed 7.30 Club and learn that both Wellington and the ageless French Duke have abruptly canceled their meeting.
In Lausanne, the investigators’ pursuit of Wellington’s mysterious scroll draws them into an uneasy meeting with his broken brother, a secretive occultist Duke, and a chilling echo of Constantinople that suggests old powers and old faces have not aged as they should.
After surviving a shared and soul-scarring Dreamlands ordeal, the investigators reach Lausanne and trace Wellington’s letter to a taxidermy shop, where polite inquiry reveals a hidden scroll, the name Malon, and the unsettling presence of the shell-shocked William Wellington.
Aboard the nightmare-warped Orient Express, the investigators cast their burdens into the Gulf of Nodens, surviving ghosts, winged horrors, and a red-eyed sorcerer, and the survivors wake changed as the train nears Lausanne.
The Dreamlands Express transforms into a flying train-plane and plunges toward the Gulf of Nodens as Claire pilots through cannon fire, Per reshapes reality, Viola and Arthur battle spectral cavalry, and the investigators begin casting away their deepest burdens.
The investigators soar through the Dreamlands aboard the Express, witness King Kuranes judge the ancient crime of Sarnath against Ib, uncover more of Madame Bruja’s haunted past, and part ways with Walter just as the train races toward a skull-shaped storm with red stars for eyes.
As the Dreamlands Express carries its passengers through unsettling realms and fleeting beauty, each traveler grapples with what they must ultimately sacrifice before reaching the ominous Gulf of Nodens.
As the Dreamlands Express carries them onward, the investigators grapple with the aftermath of possession and buried guilt while glimpsing a greater, red-eyed horror that tests the limits of Henri’s mysterious train and the fragile safety it provides.
On the Dreamlands Express, Mironim-Mer erupts into a red-eyed monstrosity and assaults Madame Brugia for a mysterious empty valise, only to be subdued by desperate dream-manifested magic and revealed as an unwilling pawn of a greater, unseen power.
A locked-room murder aboard the Dreamlands Express draws the investigators into an unraveling mystery of alien witnesses and shifting identities, culminating in the revelation that the killer has been among them all along.