After a few hours of scholarly effort, the pair managed to hammer out a proper ritual, and boarded an emergency train to Irontown.  The lightning rail skidded and crackled over the tracks, as Khorvaire whizzed by, the train making its way along the banks and curves of the Karrn river.  Military planners in Korth plotted their every move, already one step ahead of the group when it came time to address the gap in the lightning rail line between their starting point and destination.  The train stopped in the city of  Vedykar, where a few gravely dressed porters from house Orien sat on the edge of the platform.  "By order of the king, we're to give you transport; but one of you isn't going to like it."  The lead porter said in a dark tone, pointing the assembled team towards a line of lightning carriages prepared to run the road from Vedykar to Vulyar at breakneck speed.   The Orien courier put his goggles down and pulled up a pair of heavy leather gloves, quite prepared to come out with the fact that the only rail line to Irontown would redirect through the Mournland.<br/><br/>The full moon cast its light into the stained glass of the cathedral like station, illuminating a row of fresh Korranburg Chronicles, bearing the headline THE FIVE NATIONS BREAK DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH RIEDRA.  Whatever Garrett and the rest had started, it had led to the expulsion of ambassadors from the courts of the major powers.  Sarlona still wasn't completely outside of Khorvaire yet though; the Riedran embassies in Lhaazar, Darguun, Droaam, and Zilargo remained as healthy as ever.<br/><br/>After several terrifying and bumpy hours, the party arrived in Irontown, quickly finding their way into the advance military camp.  An entire brigade of Karrnathi soldiers had mobilized to block off the perimeter of the town, but high command wasn't willing to risk dedicating them to the assault on the lab.  That was for the volunteers and the elites.  The lab had three entrances; two of them were secret trapdoors in the city, blocked off with heavy anvils secured with rope.  The final entrance was a set of adamantine reinforced iron doors in the basement of the city keep, where the majority of the soldiers were clustered.  The dusty wine basement had a number of tents set into it, where soldiers had been keeping up their constant vigil.  The side entrances had smaller complements of soldiers equipped with sending wands, so that the unit could mobilize in the event that there was an unexpected breakout.  The main entrance seemed like a much more likely bet than the side entrances though, for the simple fact that it's easier to invade on the same level than when you have to climb a ladder.