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The Excess Express is a luxurious train boarded by Mario and his partners on their way to Poshley Heights in Chapter 6: 3 Days of Excess of the game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It can be found in Rogueport's West Side, next to the blimp that takes Mario to Glitzville. It departs from Rogueport Station and stops at Riverside Station before arriving in Poshley Heights at the Poshley Heights Station. Conversely, it can depart from Poshley Heights, stop at Riverside Station, and arrive back in Rogueport on a return trip. The initial trip takes three days, though it only takes one day in subsequent departures, with Mario being able to sleep for the entirety of the ride. The train consists of a locomotive, three passenger cars, a dining car, and a baggage car. The Excess Express may have taken inspiration from the Orient Express from the English detective novel Murder on the Orient Express. Similar to the story in the book, Chapter 6 of The Thousand-Year Door involves a crime being committed on a train and several of the passengers being suspects. Both casts of characters include a detective (Pennington, who resembles Hercule Poirot from the novel) and a celebrity (Zip Toad, who loosely references Linda Arden from the novel). In the GameCube original, the Excess Express is not a defined location on the Magical Map. Whenever Mario takes the train, the location Mario is at according to the Magical Map is where the train is stopping at or last stopped at. For example, if the train is en route from Riverside Station to Poshley Heights, the map shows that Mario is still at Riverside Station. In the Nintendo Switch remake, the Excess Express now has its own map node, name, and description located between Rogueport and Riverside Station. When inside the train, the map shows Mario on its map node, regardless of where the train is currently stationed. HistoryPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year DoorThe Excess Express is featured in a RDM article, which says that the Excess Express staff tackled a Laki, a train-obsessed Lakitu, who was in a staff-only area. This incident made the train late for the first time in ten years, though the staff allowed him to leave with just a warning. After returning to Rogueport from Keelhaul Key, the Magical Map leads Mario and his partners to the Poshley Sanctum in Poshley Heights, where the Garnet Star is located. Like Glitzville, Mario needs a ticket to get to the Excess Express, which Professor Frankly says is the only way to reach Poshley Sanctum. After doing Don Pianta's cronies (Tony and Vinny) a favor (finding Don's daughter and her boyfriend), the Don gives Mario an Excess Express Ticket. While on the way to the station, Beldam spied on Mario and his party, revealing herself and thanking Mario's partner for saying that the next star is in Poshley Heights. Knowing they must reach the star before the Three Shadows do, Mario and his partners head for the station. During the three-day train ride, many unfortunate events happen, forging the premise of a whodunit novel or film and hindering Mario and his partner by keeping them from getting the sixth Crystal Star. First, Heff T. steals Chef Shimi's stew, causing an upset. Next, Doopliss, disguised as Zip Toad, steals the businessman's briefcase containing Nitro Honey Syrup and Vital Paper, the waitress's Shell Earrings, and Toodles' Gold Ring. At the behest of Beldam, he planned to mix the things he stole together to bomb the train, resulting in what he described as a "sticky, yummy explosion" in the threatening letter he left in Mario's cabin. Mario and his partners enlist the help of Pennington to foil his diabolical plans, and in doing so, returned the stolen items to their rightful owners. A third mystery, a missing blanket, leads to Mario meeting Ghost T. after using Vivian's Veil ability in Cabin 004. The mystery begins with the Excess Express conductor realizing a blanket has gone missing, leaving him to believe there is a passengers without a ticket on the train. Mario has to retrieve Ghost T.'s diary for the ghost to agree to return the blanket. If Mario opens the diary, he will be warned three times not to read it. If he ignores all three warnings, he will be only allowed to read the first three lines before Ghost T. appears, causing the screen to spin around in the original version or turn static in the remake. In both cases, an instant Game Over occurs. The final mystery occurs on Day 2. After the Three Shadows' sticky bomb plan was foiled, they ordered a horde of Smorgs at Riverside Station to guard the station's drawbridge switch to keep the bridge lifted and prevent the train from progressing any further. After Mario ventures inside the station, he fends off the horde and lowers the drawbridge, allowing the train to continue on its journey; however, during this time, the Smorgs secretly invade the train. The next morning, the horde attacks the train and kidnaps all the passengers and staff onboard, with the exception of Ghost T., the Excess Express engineer, and the red Toad who runs the Sales Stall, though the Toad is knocked unconscious. Whereas the Excess Express waitress and Excess Express conductor are held captive in the baggage car, the others have been absorbed into the horde of Smorgs. Mario must use his Hammer to navigate through the Smorgs and fight them atop the locomotive. This is the only time the train's rooftops can be accessed. Eventually, Mario and his partners defeat the Smorgs, freeing the passengers and saving the Excess Express, which soon arrives in Poshley Heights. Mario acquires the Garnet Star, which was hidden in a secret area of the Poshley Sanctum, they ride the train back to Rogueport. With the train ticket permanently in his inventory, Mario and his partners can board the Excess Express any time after Chapter 6 to travel between Rogueport and Poshley Heights; however, Mario can no longer access the baggage car outside of glitches. Later in the game, Mario receives emails from characters on the train, including the real Zip Toad and Ghost T. Super Paper MarioDuring Chapter 3-4 in Super Paper Mario, Francis writes about wishing to buy an Excess Express train set in a list of future purchases found in his room. InhabitantsBelow is a list of the occupants of the eight cabins of the Excess Express. With the exception of Mario, Ghost T., and Heff T., all occupants are replaced by various traveling Toads, Koopa Troopas, and Goombas after Chapter 6. The staff on the train does not change after Chapter 6. Jr. Troopa can be seen in the background of a photograph Zip Toad sends Mario via email, though the player cannot interact with him and it does not appear that he is actually a passenger on the train. Main story
After Chapter 6Following Chapter 6, all passengers are replaced with a selection of random travelers. The backslashes indicate the potential individuals or groups that occupy the cabins following the main story. A Yoshi can appear as one of the randomly selected passengers in the dining car, the only Yoshi in the game other than Mario's partner Yoshi Kid and the many Yoshis that run across the screen in his Stampede attack.
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