Session 8(Sand)

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12[19:11] <~Damhoof>  Our group of adventurers followed a relatively hidden path through the storm and came across a livid basin of water which whispered to Chrome Veneer the name of Ul-Athra a name still shrouded in much mystery, and they continued on towards two stone slab doors complete with pullabe knobs for their friendly neighbourhood minotaur Mayhem to pull open, but as she got close enough hushed voices could be heard from the other side of the door.
12[19:12] <~Damhoof>  With the forewarning of traps and raiders. What could possibly be waiting on the other side of these doors?
08[19:14] * Blueberry_Muffin glares at Chrome_Veneer "Are ya' stupid or somethin'? just runnin' into a room without checkin' it beforehoof?"
08[19:14] * +Chrome_Veneer frowned, "It was the water. How can you not say it was calling you to you?"
[19:15] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... magic."
08[19:16] * +Lemon_Cookie stands at the door, arcane daggers buzzing about him.
08[19:17] * Blueberry_Muffin deadpans and opens her mouth as if to say something, but then reconsiders and closes it again. She walks out of the room and up to Mayhem. "Ya found somethin'"
08[19:17] * +Mayhem stashes her MLP and tries quietly tries the doorknob, the knife still in her left hand.
[19:17] <Blueberry_Muffin> *?
08[19:17] * +Mayhem whispers: "Shht. Quiet!"
08[19:18] * +Chrome_Veneer readies his weapon as it seems the rest of the group are eager to ready for a possible fight ahead of them.
12[19:18] <~Damhoof>  Alas, Mayhem finds that the stone doors are heavy and would require effort to open silently. Effort she is painfully aware through her incredible perceptive abilities that she lacks.
15[19:21] * Damhoof sets mode: +v Blueberry_Muffin
[19:23] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "So?"
12[19:24] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem however can hear angry voices within the next room, although muffled it would appear that a male within the next room has cause for fustration, and is currently being comforted by a feminine plea. Sadly the minotaur cannot hear the exact words being spoken. Only the manner of which they are being uttered gives her a clue as to what to expect.
08[19:27] * +Mayhem increases her effort to open the door, regardless of any noise she makes now.
08[19:28] * +Lemon_Cookie looks over at the sound, turning from watching their back to participating in the entry.
08[19:32] * +Blueberry_Muffin makes herself ready for whatever may lie behind the door
12[19:33] <~Damhoof>  The stone slab grumbles and groans against sand and rock as the minotaur pulls at it, and a foul mixtured scent of piss, fucking and shit invades Mayhems nostrils. She can also hear a muffled whelp of surprise, and the angry voice from before mutters an unusual. "Shut up."
08[19:36] * +Chrome_Veneer waits patiently, trying to peek in through the crack Mayhem was creating.
08[19:36] * +Lemon_Cookie strafes off to the side, trying to find some cover from which he can fire.
12[19:39] <~Damhoof>  Opening the door reveals a rather petty chamber hidden in darkness. 3 ragged equine shapes look back at the minotaur from within the cover of this darkness with mixed expressions of anger, apathy and fear. A rugged carpet to sit on and a bowl of gruel seems to be all of their worldly possessions. A fourth figure is looking out into a well lit hallway leading further into whatever complex building this is.
[19:39] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Lemon, light please."
[19:40] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sorry. Holdin' a spell already."
08[19:41] * +Mayhem looks if she can see any weapons on any of them, while readying her MLP again.
[19:41] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Oops, sorry bro."
08[19:41] * +Chrome_Veneer "As though only one pony can cast light." Casts his own light from close to the door,
12[19:45] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem sees the desperate look of haunted equines. 3 zebra huddled on the mat, and the fourth equine, a pony that is now currently running towards her while carrying a hopeful yet sceptic expression and fluttering a wing as if wanting to fly over instead. "Hello there." The pegasus mare mutters to Mayhem in a somewhat rushed manner before nodding to the entrance. "Guards haven`t heard you yet."
08[19:47] * +Blueberry_Muffin is mildly surprised "Uhm, hello. We're here ta' kill raiders. Ya' don't look like a raider."
08[19:47] * +Mayhem raises and eyebrow and moves to the side. Then lifts up the knife and pistol again as the moves into the room, checking the corners, then movin towards the door.
08[19:48] * +Lemon_Cookie moves in with Mayhem, clad in his security armor and looking very much like a riot cop.
08[19:50] * +Chrome_Veneer moved a distance and aimed his horn a bit away so that nopony would accidentally look in to it.
08[19:51] * +Blueberry_Muffin looks a bit displaced with her saddled .32 rifle and utility barding.
08[19:51] * +Blueberry_Muffin moves in with the others
12[19:52] <~Damhoof>  "No. those guys over there were part of a caravan that got ambushed. They pick one to never return a day, and feed us whatever they wont eat themselves." The pegasus mare grimaces. "They left two guards to watch over us."
[19:52] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Okay, any other threats in tha' tunnles we should know about?"
12[19:56] <~Damhoof>  "Other than the dust ghosts and raiders trying to apease them. No." The mare mutters back whole looking at the party. "I could come with as a guide iguess, but i want water or some food. Please." The pegasus mare, carrying an orange coat and blue eyes licks her lips with a somewhat begging expression. "They bastards broke my wing."
[19:56] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... Dust Ghosts?"
08[19:57] * +Chrome_Veneer "There's a water basin not too far back from here."
[19:57] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "I don' trust that basin."
[19:58] <+Lemon_Cookie> "I-- isn't anypony else interested in what a 'Dust Ghost' is?"
12[19:58] <~Damhoof>  "Yea. small whirlwinds with menacing eyes." The mare shudders and tries flapping her wounded wing with a grimace. "The leader of the raiders feeds them the corpses of those that fail the maze.."
08[19:59] * +Lemon_Cookie walks over to the pegasus mare. Pegasus. He'd only ever seen one or two before, and those were from Friendship City.
08[19:59] * +Chrome_Veneer "Nothing wrong with that water... If anything there's something good about it." He argued, ignoring his whole 'weak knee' moment.
[19:59] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... 'fail tha' maze'?"
08[20:00] * +Mayhem reaches the door and carefully peeks down both sides of the hallway
12[20:01] <~Damhoof>  The pegasus takes a step backwards as Lemon_Cookie approaches, but frowns at her own action and nods. "Yes. They`ve made a sport out of sending their captives through a maze and taking bets on how far they reach."
[20:02] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Hm. Sound like reeeeeeal sick fucks..."
[20:02] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... but do ya' know what tha' Dust Ghosts are, specifically? Heard legends a' anythin'?"
[20:02] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "we dust 'em, tha's all."
[20:03] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sis. Ya' can't blast /air/."
12[20:03] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem finds that the hallway is being lit by two torches with passages going both to her left and her right. Two guards are playing cards near one of these torches. Their menacing armour and growling attitude seems to be made out of a mixture of leather and bones.
08[20:06] * +Blueberry_Muffin snickers "Sure ya' can. I bet their only weakness is a fan."
08[20:07] * +Mayhem pulls her head back in and keeps standing next to the door, her knife at the ready to be slammed in somponies throat, should they come through the door.
08[20:07] * +Lemon_Cookie looks over at Blueberry, then back to the pegasus mare, lifting his visor up so he doesn't sound so far away anymore.
08[20:08] * +Chrome_Veneer "If you want some water i can lead you to the basin." He offered to the pegasus.
08[20:09] * +Lemon_Cookie He waits for her to answer his question.
[20:09] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "No Chrome. It did funny stuf ta' ya. Idon' want an injured pony go thar."
12[20:09] <~Damhoof>  The pegasus mare looks to Lemon with a look of fear and sorrow.. "I never asked. They howl and suck you bone dry while you scream and plead until all that is left is a shruken and dry husk. I know because I`ve seen them eat every single captive so far."
[20:10] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... great."
08[20:10] * +Blueberry_Muffin nods "Mhm."
[20:11] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sounds like we got our work cut out fa' us."
[20:13] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Yeah."
08[20:14] * +Chrome_Veneer shrugged, thinking about the basin of water. "Ul-Athra..." He spoke out quietly, whispering to himself just to hear the name spoken out loud.
12[20:14] <~Damhoof>  "Its okay." The pegasus mare shrugs. "They don`t move beyond a certain room and the raiders fear them as much as anyone else. Their leader worships them even, but even he isn`t stupid enough to try anything other than play his games with them."
[20:16] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sounds like a real pleasant fellow..."
[20:17] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... say. He's a shaman, right?"
[20:20] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Those shamans are wierd."
12[20:20] <~Damhoof>  The mare surpresses an urge to laugh and buries her face in hidden grief. "He used to be an apprentice for that fucker in the capitol, but he got banished for some time ago."
08[20:26] * +Chrome_Veneer supposed the need for water was ignored then~ "So what's our course of action from here?"
[20:28] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "First we get rid of tha guards. Then we check tha' tunnels, I'd say."
08[20:29] * +Chrome_Veneer "What about getting her some water and food?"
12[20:30] <~Damhoof>  She looks to chrome_Veneer with a plea for food or water. "Anything would be better than nothing."
08[20:31] * +Lemon_Cookie digs around in his saddlebags.
[20:31] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... got apples an' some canned yams, if ya' want."
08[20:32] * +Chrome_Veneer pulled out an apple from his saddlebags, "All i've got is this apple' and the 'cursed' water."
08[20:32] * +Blueberry_Muffin gets her last bottle of water from her saddlebags. "Enjoy it, it's my last."
12[20:35] <~Damhoof>   The trio of zebra slaves look on with mistrust and fear as the pegasus mare accepts both blueberry_Muffins water and Chrome_Veneers apple before explaining, while eating,  how the caravan got ambushed by the raiders and how she got shot in the wing when trying to flee. They took twenty captives back then, and a few injured. She continues with some trouble speaking that because of her exotic apperance and equestrian ancestry, she has been subject to the leaders whims. He even reserved her a spot for last while making use of her for his pleasure openly in the sight of these dust ghosts for some perverted logic. They would only have to overpower the guards outside to reach the main area used by these raider scum and they dont have much in therms of ranged weaponry, but for a few exeptions. A sniper mare which is no doubt a lover from the city he hailed from, and a brute carrying some heavy weaponry in the form of a minigun. Exhausted and at the end of her tale the mare smacks her lips once more.
[20:36] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... sniper an' a heavy weapons buck..."
08[20:36] * +Lemon_Cookie winces.
08[20:37] * +Blueberry_Muffin sighs "Sounds familiar."
[20:38] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "But we could really use that minigun."
08[20:38] * +Mayhem has an idea suddenly. "Lads, ye think tha' cursed water is any good against those Dust Ghosts?"
[20:39] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Uh... how about we focus on ways ta' get these assholes out a' our way before we think about loot."
08[20:40] * +Chrome_Veneer frowned. "I was joking! Nothing wrong with that water!" He continued trying to defend it, not quite sure why.
[20:42] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Hey, Mayhem's got an idea an' not a bad one either!"
[20:42] <+Lemon_Cookie> "It's certainly worth a shot."
[20:43] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... I wouldn't put any money on it harmin' them, though. Probably jus' distract them."
08[20:43] * +Chrome_Veneer sighed, "It won't do anything, i even drank the water and nothing's happened to me." As a distraction... "Wouldn't there be better distractions?
[20:44] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "We'll never know without tryin'!" With that she rushes out of the room to fill her two bottles with the strange water.
[20:44] <+Lemon_Cookie> "For tha' Dust Ghosts, Chrome."
08[20:45] * +Chrome_Veneer gave up when Blueberry ran off. "Do what you will."
08[20:45] * +Blueberry_Muffin comes back after a short while, having both her bottles filled with the "holy" water.
12[20:46] <~Damhoof>  "Cursed water? He did say something about a curse, but that was just about how they could never slake their thirst." The mare frowns. "I was too horrified to pay any attention. I`m sorry."
[20:47] <+Lemon_Cookie> "S'fine," Lemon says to the pegasus mare. "These fuckers are equine refuse. We're gonna' get /you/ an' everypony else they're holdin' captive out a' this place."
[20:47] <+Lemon_Cookie> "What's ya' name?"
[20:48] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "okay, we're runnin' out a' time. Tha' longer we wait tha' higher chances are they'll find us."
12[20:49] <~Damhoof>  "Fresh Breeze." The mare looks to the pink haired equine with vengeance in her blue eyes. "And yours?"
[20:49] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Lemon Cookie."
[20:50] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Lemon, stop, hittin' on mares, we got a job ta' do."
08[20:50] * +Lemon_Cookie looks over at Blueberry, clearly not amused.
12[20:51] <~Damhoof>  "I`m not much in a fight now. Please stop their madness for me Lemon_Cookie." The mare points towards the entrance where Mayhem is keeping watch.
08[20:51] * +Lemon_Cookie doesn't actually have much mane or tail visible on account of his armor and helmet.
08[20:52] * +Lemon_Cookie He flips his helmet visor down, nods, then heads towards Mayhem, glowing shards of arcane force following behind.
08[20:53] * +Chrome_Veneer is still creating a light from his horn.
08[20:55] * +Blueberry_Muffin looks over to the door "Guys, c'mon, tha sooner we get 'em outta here tha better."
12[20:56] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookie can spot the guards easily in the shimmer of two torches, as they are seated in the middle of the fairly large hallway and playing cards over a stone table while being watched over by two equine shaped statues sporting snakelike lowerbodies.
08[20:57] * +Mayhem peeks her head out again and whispers to Lemon: "On three?"
08[20:57] * +Lemon_Cookie nods.
08[20:59] * +Blueberry_Muffin nods
08[21:01] * +Chrome_Veneer readied his weapon again, his light going away as he prepared [Spirit of Wind] on his weapon.
08[21:04] * +Lemon_Cookie motions for the others to stand back as his Arcane Daggers float into position.
08[21:04] * +Lemon_Cookie He taps Mayhem with a hoof, urging her to count.
08[21:06] * +Mayhem starts to count in a whisper, while she stashes her MLP away and lowers herself in a starting position for a sprint down on her free hand.
12[21:07] <~Damhoof>  One of the two guardspony gives out an utterance of fustration over being given a bum hand to his companion.
[21:07] <+Mayhem> "One...tuu...tree!" with that, she starts off, rushing to the raider next to her, lifting the knife up, about to stab him in his neck.
08[21:07] * +Lemon_Cookie lets fly for the other, the shards making a noise like breaking glass and wind.
08[21:14] * +Mayhem does four further slashes at the raider and one wild, desperate to finish him off.
12[21:20] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookies blades fly true and ravage the unsuspecting cardplaying raider, as Mayhem moves up to the other and slashes at the other guard. Their combined knifework yields great results as the bodies of two dead guards soon flop down to the floor.
[21:22] <+Mayhem> "Ok, lads. You move on. i will stay beck here 'case on of 'em comes back."
[21:23] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Gotcha'."
08[21:23] * +Blueberry_Muffin moves into the hallway and nods "Go for it."
08[21:23] * +Lemon_Cookie takes his silenced twenty-two in his mouth and summons more Arcane Daggers.
[21:25] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Ok, lEmon, ya' take tha' lead."
[21:25] <+Blueberry_Muffin> *Lemon
08[21:25] * +Lemon_Cookie nods and moves to the front of the group.
12[21:27] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem wanders back to the worse for wear captives as Lemon_Cookie, Blueberry_Muffin and Chrome_Veneer move into the well lit guardroom. The equine statues with snakelike lower bodies intimidatingly look on with impartial faces as the party into the room with force. Blood from the guards seems to coat the tiles near the stone table and use the cracks as aqueducts in a creepy looking spiderweb fashion.
08[21:28] * +Lemon_Cookie looks about the room, inspecting it.
08[21:31] * +Chrome_Veneer follows in, surprised at the aptitude Lemon an Mayhem presented just a moment ago. A little frightening, actually.
12[21:33] <~Damhoof>  The stone table, now littered with a strange set of gamecards leftover by the two guards is scribbled with hard to discern runes in a mixed language that seems almost nonsensical to his practiced and intelligent eye, and going by the square pattern surrounding each letter this is a puzzle placed down by ancient hooves.
08[21:34] * +Lemon_Cookie wonders if it's some sort of altar.
08[21:35] * +Lemon_Cookie His curiosity is rather beside the point at the moment, unfortunately.
08[21:35] * +Lemon_Cookie looks for doors and other passages into rooms that may lead to the leaders they need to eliminate.
12[21:37] <~Damhoof>  Chrome_Veener and Blueberry_Muffin take note of the double passages they have yet to explore. One door seemingly emblazoned by a large equine face crying fire and tribal markings, and the other seems relatively plain to their eyes. The bodies, of their recently slain yield raider armour and strangely enough not a single weapon.
08[21:38] * +Lemon_Cookie holsters his gun momentarily.
08[21:38] * +Chrome_Veneer "They had no weapons?" He asked, looking around the room, trying to find where they would have left them. "Could they be fighting with just their hooves?"
[21:39] <+Lemon_Cookie> "That table in tha' middle looks kinda' like an altar. Don't inspect tha' runes too hard. Might be a trap."
[21:39] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... that or we might a' just sacrificed them on ta' it..."
[21:39] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Don't give me any ideas. Let'scheck out tha' plain lookin' door."
12[21:40] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookies eyes are directed to the plainer entrance, which the pegasus mare had pointed them towards. His intellectual mind easily grasping the concept of a ritualistic door opened by the altar puzzla and leading further into the debths of this strange place towards the dust devils, along with the maze she mentioned. The other leading to the raiders they seek.
08[21:40] * +Lemon_Cookie points to the ritual door.
[21:41] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... that's tha' bad door."
08[21:41] * +Lemon_Cookie points to the normal, more 'living space'-like door.
[21:41] <+Lemon_Cookie> "This is probably tha' one we want."
08[21:42] * +Chrome_Veneer "What's bad about it?" He inquired.
[21:42] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Uhm sure? Well, I trust ya'."
[21:43] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Notice how... ornate it is? Ritual significance. What with all tha' talk a' Dust Ghosts, that's... probably where they keep them."
08[21:44] * +Blueberry_Muffin shakes her head with a chuckle "Zebras an' their rituals."
[21:45] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... maybe we should close it."
12[21:46] <~Damhoof>  Chrome_veneer is drawn to the sounds of the plain door with relative easy. His ears echoing with the crystal chime of more flowing water.
08[21:47] * +Chrome_Veneer "If it takes a ritual to open it, could we really just clo~~" He stops, hearing the sound of water which seems to pull him towards the plain door. "Maybe we should go this way after all."
[21:48] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "No, Chrome we shouldn't. An' frankly, ya' startin' ta' creep me out."
[21:48] <+Lemon_Cookie> "No, no. He's right. We should go that way... jus' after we close this hellgate."
[21:49] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sis. Ya' got any idea how a door like this works?"
[21:49] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Maybe ya' could disable tha' mechanism an' shut it fa' good..."
08[21:50] * +Chrome_Veneer stared the direction of the plain door. "There's more." He stated, mostly to himself, not paying as much attention to the 'hellgate'.
08[21:50] * +Blueberry_Muffin trots up the the door and and gicves it a general lookover to check on any mechanisms.
12[21:56] <~Damhoof>  As chrome_Veneer heads further towards the plain looking doors he is greeted by the grey chiseled out mountain rather than hoofmade tiles, and soon enough spots a running river with flowing water pooling in the center of the tunnel along with a metal bridge that runs across the entire body of water. His nose however is greeted with the stench of rotting carrion. Piles of debris, white like eggs, and something within the water stirrs. Acknowledging his puny equine presence.
12[21:59] <~Damhoof>  Blueberry_Muffin takes note of the general metallic nature of these doors, in star comparison to the large stone slabs they passed through moments ago, and behind thick metal lies an obvious metallic natured mechanism made to withstand the tests of time almost like a vault door it is not without weakness however as the revolving mechanism that pushes and opens the door is in plain sight, on the wrong side unfortunately. Whoever seeks to sabotage the doors revolving mechanism would get locked inside.
[22:01] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "No way sabotaging tha' doors without a Phase or teleport spell. They seem pretty massive too. I don't think we can blow 'em up without vaporizing ourselves too."
[22:02] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... we got any grenades?"
08[22:03] * +Chrome_Veneer his broken out of his eagerness to find the source of the water when the stench fills his nostrils, stumbling backward a few feet and bracing himself to look back through. The eggs were peculiar, but what really drew his attention was a motion in the water, not just the running river but an unnatural movement.
[22:04] <+Lemon_Cookie> "If we--"
08[22:04] * +Lemon_Cookie looks over his shoulder.
[22:04] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... Chrome?"
08[22:04] * +Chrome_Veneer "There's eggs over here."
08[22:06] * +Blueberry_Muffin facehoofs "Why didn't you say anythin'?"
[22:07] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Eggs?"
08[22:07] * +Chrome_Veneer "There's something in the water too..." He looked back, "Are you able to get that door closed?"
[22:07] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... please say 'chicken eggs'."
08[22:08] * +Chrome_Veneer shrugged, "Well they look like eggs, i can't say for sure."
[22:08] <+Lemon_Cookie> "I think tha' door's a lost cause."
[22:09] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Think ya' might be able ta' solve tha' puzzle an' get it closed, Blueberry?"
[22:09] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "I think tha' door's connected ta' tha' altar. An' those look like seapones, right?" She point to the statues "Maybe if we poor water on it?"
08[22:10] * +Chrome_Veneer "Why don't you use the 'cursed water'" Chrome joked.
[22:10] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Right. Well. Ya' see what ya' can do, I'm gonna' see what's with these eggs."
12[22:11] <~Damhoof>  The puzzle on the table seems language based and ancient, with shapes that look almost like gibberish. The shaman apprentice raider obviously opened it, and he may know how to lock it again.
08[22:12] * +Chrome_Veneer "I want to investigate the river... there's something in there" He agreed with Lemon, "Watch the smell though."
08[22:12] * +Lemon_Cookie walks in, holding his breath slightly.
[22:12] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... what is that?"
08[22:13] * +Blueberry_Muffin poors some of her water on the altar to see if something happens
08[22:13] * +Chrome_Veneer "Rotting bodies... trash? Can't say." He acknolwedged, moving further in but stopping to turn back for a moment, "You alright being alone Blueberry?"
[22:13] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Actually not. Jus' gimme a minute."
12[22:14] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookie is greeted by the watery river pooling in the middle of their passage forward, and the relatively safe metal bridge passing above it. Eggs litter the sides of the water alongside unrecognizeable debris and decomposing brahmin flesh.
08[22:16] * +Lemon_Cookie cautiously looks down at the water, heeding Chrome's statement about there being 'something in the water'.
12[22:16] <~Damhoof>  The creature in the water seemingly floats to the surface, its shell based hide glistening in the flickering ligth of a torch. Small black eyes gleam knowingly at Chrome_Veneer, and a set of musical clicking tunes reach the ears of our party.
12[22:17] <~Damhoof>  Blueberry_Muffin splashes water on the alter, and the letters seem to glisten with the liquid. It would appear to have no real effect outside of its rinsing qualities.
[22:18] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... tha' fuck?"
08[22:19] * +Chrome_Veneer walks slowly toward the water, feeling the eyes upon him but maintaining a calm gaze back. "Hello?" He asked, moving closer to the water's edge.
08[22:19] * +Chrome_Veneer "Is that you making that noise?"
08[22:20] * +Blueberry_Muffin pouts and moves up with the others. "Fuckin' shit..."
12[22:20] <~Damhoof>  "Yes." The creature echoes in chrome_Veneers head. "Have you finally come to free the orb of my mistress?"
08[22:21] * +Lemon_Cookie nonchalantly walks off the metal bridge and away and out of the reach of the creature in the water.
08[22:23] * +Chrome_Veneer shook his head, "Not exactly our original intention..." He started, but wasn't about to ignore a creature with an obvious plight, "But if you tell me more, i may be able to assist... Do you mean, Ul Athra?"
[22:24] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Uh... Chrome?"
08[22:24] * +Lemon_Cookie looks at the white unicorn, eyebrow raised.
08[22:25] * +Blueberry_Muffin arrives with the others "Is he talkin' ta' tha' water?"
[22:26] <+Lemon_Cookie> "I think he's talkin' with what's in tha' water."
[22:26] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Oh. Now tha's better."
12[22:27] <~Damhoof>  "In the beginning Zebra and seapony cooperated. Ul-Athra was set to marry the caesar before the war, but instead she was met with treason and held captive further inside. She was given to the wind that rages outside, and her vengeance struck down those that would take her power. Turning their bodies into dust and bones, ever thirsting until one day one of her kind would come free her orb and take it back to the sea." The creature explains with sorrow. "I can only guard her entrance and give my children to her water to show my devotion like my ancestors before me."
08[22:29] * +Blueberry_Muffin leans in to Lemon and whispers to him "I think he's crazy. We should see a doc."
08[22:30] * +Chrome_Veneer turns around to face the other two for a moment before looking back to it, "Waiting for one... such as me?" He asked, looking down further inside for a moment. "I'd be given permission to take her orb to the sea then? I wouldn't be stricken down like the rest?"
[22:30] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... might also be magic," Lemon suggests, though he's skeptic.
[22:30] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "What orb an' what tha' hay are ya' talking ta' or 'bout Chrome?"
08[22:31] * +Blueberry_Muffin sighs "Chrome, c'mere please. Jus' a second."
08[22:31] * +Chrome_Veneer shook his head, "It's talking of Ul-Athra's pearl," he answered Blueberry as though that explained everything.
[22:32] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Yeah. That's... doesn't-- wait."
[22:32] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Pearl."
08[22:32] * +Blueberry_Muffin puts on a "dafuq"-face
[22:32] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Like... seapony pearl?"
[22:33] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Chrome, I think ta' seaponies did somethin' to ya' and ya' lied ta' us about it all tha' time."
08[22:33] * +Chrome_Veneer nodded, "A powerful sea pony, one meant to marry caser in the past. I think her curse is what causes the wind." He sighed, still determined to protect his pact with the sea pony, "I told you, i asked about their culture quite a lot."
[22:33] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "So...why tha' FUCK aren't ya' honest with us?"
[22:34] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Yeah, uh, ya' jus' talked ta' a... crab, I think."
[22:34] <+Lemon_Cookie> "This is way beyond tha' pale. Start talkin'."
08[22:35] * +Chrome_Veneer looked at the two of them strangely, "You can't hear what it's saying?" He seemed dumbfounded.
08[22:35] * +Blueberry_Muffin trots up to Chrome_Veneer. Although he'staller than her, she's more buff. She looks up at him "An' what really happened back on ta' ship with yaself an' tha seawitch. Be honest or I'll break one of your legs an' leave ya' behind."
12[22:36] <~Damhoof>  "Indeed." The creature clicks happily to the unicorn. "However Chrome_Veneer. There is one thing i want you to help me before you face dust and death. The cruel master that took residence here some time ago has taunted me and defiled my nesting grounds by flinging rotting meat into Ul-Athras waters. I dared not cross his path as I am only one creature, but you have brought friends. Please help me crush this defiler."
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08[22:37] * +Lemon_Cookie looks a little taken aback at his sister's harsh dealing.
08[22:38] * +Chrome_Veneer cringed backing a bit toward the water with Blueberry's threat. Clearly she would be able to, he wasn't exactly a strong pony to back up his size. "I will just... let me speak to it a bit more." He pleaded, "Its purpose and its ancestor's purpose is almost finally fulfilled."
[22:39] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "I don' give two bucks about it if ya' don't tell me what's really goin' on with ya. How can I work with ya' when I can't even trust ya?"
[22:41] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... Chrome. Ya' need ta' be straight with us."
08[22:41] * +Chrome_Veneer "Just... a.." He turned to face the creature once more, but trying to avoiding turning his back on Blueberry at the same time. "We're here to hunt down some raiders... very vicious and cruel ponies without much sense for themselves or others. We will take care of them and the master that has been defiling this place, but first i need to speak with my companions." He announced.
08[22:42] * +Blueberry_Muffin sighs "Finally."
08[22:43] * +Chrome_Veneer stepeed away from the water, turning around for a moment, "I'll be back to discuss this more later. I will free your mistress's pearl." He walked back for the door leading to the altar. "It smells back there." He explained why he was heading back to the altar area.
[22:44] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Ya' stop right there Chrome. Lemon, please lend me a hoof there."
08[22:44] * +Lemon_Cookie stands in front of the door, blocking Chrome's passage.
[22:45] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... it does smell here, sis."
08[22:46] * +Chrome_Veneer snickered, looking back to Blueberry, "Would help me think straight just a bit through the door." He continued up to Lemon and through if allowed, feeling Lemon wouldn't mind as long as Chrome didn't just run off.
[22:47] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Okay, but I want answers."
08[22:47] * +Blueberry_Muffin trots up to them. She had to admit that id stunk pretty bad.
12[22:47] <~Damhoof>  "As you wish saviour." The shellish creature clicks with fervor before rising from the pool of water it has made home. Stretching its long armored legs and clapping shut large pincer like claws.
08[22:48] * +Lemon_Cookie walks back into the altar room ahead of Chrome, heading to block off the only real escape route.
08[22:48] * +Chrome_Veneer led the way in to the altar room, but before explaining anything asked, "So you two really can't understand what it's saying?" He figured that must have been a part of the pearl's effects on him.
08[22:50] * +Blueberry_Muffin shakes her head "nope."
08[22:51] * +Chrome_Veneer "Huh..." He shook his head, "Anyway~" He looked at the ground, tapping a hoof a few times. "The sea ponies... during the ship ride over, even i was able to tell i was captivated by them." He recalled one of the days he spoke with Blueberry, "I'd even told you that i wasn't in control of myself back then, remember?"
08[22:52] * +Lemon_Cookie watches and listens, visor lifted up.
[22:52] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "That doesn't explain your stupidity, but whatever."
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08[22:54] * +Chrome_Veneer "It started out as curiosity, i wanted to learn more about them. Over time it became stronger though, i couldn't resist going to see Britania every moment that didn't seem suspcious." He looked to Lemon a bit apologetic, "Didn't want to seem like i was sympathising with them too much after you took a spear to the head after all." He sighed, "But you were right, i did lie. That day we arrived on shore, when i went to see Britania h
[22:54] <+Chrome_Veneer> [ Britania her sister has already arrived."]
08[22:56] * +Chrome_Veneer the sea ponies... they gave me Britania's pearl, and hatched an escape plan where i was put to sleep to ensure everypony wasn't suspcious that i'd helped in their escape. The guard was used as well, though i suppose you know that."
[22:57] <+Lemon_Cookie> "'Gave you Britania's pearl'."
[22:57] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... what does that mean?"
[22:57] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Oh dear..."
08[22:58] * +Chrome_Veneer put a hoof to his stomach, "The sea pony pearls... they have a power to them. Purifying, magical... i can't quite explain it." He looked to them, "But it's created a connection between me and them, a feeling that was once compelled by their captivation is now real. A real desire to protect them and those like them..."
[22:59] <+Lemon_Cookie> "That's... not really an answer."
[23:00] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Do ya'... have it on ya' a' somethin'?"
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15[23:00] * +Blueberry_Muffin ([email protected]) Quit (Killed (NickServ (GHOST command used by FloRad)))
15[23:00] * FloRad is now known as Blueberry_muffin
15[23:01] * Blueberry_muffin is now known as Blueberry_Muffin
08[23:01] * +Chrome_Veneer "Britania's pearl is a part of me, it's changed me... in a way. Inside me." He tried, "I don't know about it that much either, so i can't explain it as well as you probably could in my position." He stated, looking to Lemon with a ghost-white face. "Speaking of which... " He paused, there would be no way he would agree to being the other unicorn, or that his sister would let him. He shook his head, "I can hear what that creature w
[23:01] <+Chrome_Veneer> [ saying, its mistress, Ul-Athra's pearl still exists. Her rage from being betrayed by Caeser is what is causing the restless winds in ths area."]
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15[23:03] * Damhoof sets mode: -v Cold_Storage
[23:03] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... ya' have a piece a' natural magic inside ya', alterin' ya' thoughts an' biology."
[23:03] <+Lemon_Cookie> "That is creepy, disgustin' an' worryin'."
[23:04] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "An' it makes me sad."
08[23:05] * +Chrome_Veneer frowned "It's bound to me and may have done what you said, but given a chance to remove it i wouldn't dare sever my link with Britania." He began to defend it, "It's a connection unlike ever i've felt before."
[23:06] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... I jus'... don't understand how in tha' world ya' can possibly be okay with that."
08[23:06] * +Blueberry_Muffin deadpans "I've heard tha' before. Ya're in love with her, right?"
08[23:07] * +Chrome_Veneer frowned, "A.. I.." He stuttered, not sure how to speak, falling to a sitting position with a drooped head, "Before she even first began to captivate me with her sea pony magic."
[23:09] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Sure, well, you're not gonna make it alone. And ta' be honest we share a goal. I want ta' help 'em too and miss Honeycomb offered me help. Ya' know what? we're gonna talk about that when we get back, ok? Right now, we got some raiders ta kill and a pearl ta' get."
[23:09] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Yeah... uh... how do ya' know this isn't jus' love magic workin' on ya'?"
08[23:10] * +Blueberry_Muffin trots up to Chrome_Veneer "Also, this." With that she slaps Chrome across his face with a hoof. She walks back to her brother. "Ready ta' go?"
08[23:10] * +Chrome_Veneer He bit his lip and shook his head standing up abrubtly, "All that matters right now is that we have raiders to kill, and one of em' or somepony is defiling that room where the' crab is protecting Ul-Athra's pearl, If i return it to the sea we have also taken care of the winds outside. Regardless of whether or not i am really myself or not."
08[23:10] * +Chrome_Veneer nodded to Blueberry, "Thank you."
[23:10] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Honestly, I don't feel entirely safe workin' with somepony whose faculties have been compromised."
08[23:10] * +Chrome_Veneer rubbed the place where he was hit, it felt like he deserved it.
[23:12] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Right now Chrome is our only connection to tha' seaponies and calmin' that storm will help everypony. I suggest we take advantage a' our assets."
[23:12] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... an' that's ta' say nothin' a tha' giant crab-beast right over there," Lemon says, pointing at... whatever it is.
08[23:13] * +Chrome_Veneer shrugged, "If anypony deserves to be skeptical, it would be you." he agreed, refusing to look at Lemon eye to eye. "I'm going to speak to the crab about moving on to the raiders and clensing the cruel ponies that are defiling his mistress's sanctum." He announced moving toward the river once more.
[23:14] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Ya' do that. And Chrome? Thanks for finally tellin' us what's up with ya'." There is a sad tone swingin inher voice.
12[23:15] <~Damhoof>  The shell armored creature looks onto Chrome_Veneer as he returns. "You have spoken to your companions. Let us cleanse this place together." it sings to the unicorn.
08[23:15] * +Chrome_Veneer brings himself to the water's edge once more rubbing where he was smacked again. "We're going to take care of the cruel ponies, and then i will return your mistress's pearl to the~~..." He stopped, "You're coming with?" Not sure if pleased or worried.
[23:16] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sis, I'm... not comfortable with any a' this."
08[23:18] * +Lemon_Cookie looks extremely displeased. Not angry. More resigned and disgusted.
[23:18] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Me neither. We, I mean /you/ have ta' take a look at whatever thing there is in Chrome. If ya' deem it safe, then we let him have it, right?"
[23:19] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... he did a real piss poor job explainin' what it was, exactly."
12[23:19] <~Damhoof>  "I would like to exact vengeance on the defiler for tossing rotted meat on my eggs and into Ul-Athras waters." The crab being states with conviction, but looks to the eggs with worry. "Unless you are opposed such thoughts too. The mistress never was one to preach such words. She was a matron first and a protecting force second."
[23:20] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Probably some kind a' psychic-empathetic linkin' stone a' something. Maybe latent physiological effects."
[23:20] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... could be real bad mojo, dependin'."
[23:20] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "I have no idea whatcha talkin' 'bout but you're right 'bout his explainin."
[23:21] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Chrome's an enigma in general."
08[23:21] * +Chrome_Veneer looked back to the altar room the twins were in, talking to eachother about something. "Revenge is a cruel thing, but rather than killing for vengeance instead rid the world of the cruel creatures that will only do worse if left free." He had something to ask first,  "One question though, about that altar room. The door was opened and behind it is an ominous feeling, do you know what it is, or how we can close it?"
[23:21] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Let's jus' go."
08[23:21] * +Lemon_Cookie draws his silenced twenty-two.
08[23:22] * +Lemon_Cookie If he feels the urge to grit his teeth, this'll give him something to abuse.
[23:22] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Wait, tha# more we are tha' higher chances are we'll get through this alive."
12[23:23] <~Damhoof>  "No. The machinations of zebra shaman are beyond my ways." The armored creature sings back at Chrome_Veneer. "Let us rid the world of this defiler then."
08[23:25] * +Chrome_Veneer waved to the other ponies, "My friend here is going to join us, says he's got some bones to pick with the raiders himself." Quite literally, if he thought about it. "Do you have a name?" he asked a bit quietly to the crab, embarassed that he was asking for a crab's name.
12[23:27] <~Damhoof>  "I am Muddywater secondborn of Sharkslayer. The song is quite long for your seafilled ears, and so you may call me Muddy."The armored crab turns to Lemon_Cookie and snaps its rather intimidating claws shut with echoing force before pointing across the metal bridge and walking sideways across its own waters, and awaiting them.
08[23:28] * +Lemon_Cookie mutters something about "seaponies in the fuckin' desert".
08[23:29] * +Chrome_Veneer looked to Lemon laughing a bit hesitantly. "The sea isn't that far off and the zebras seem to have a desire for them." He moved toward the walkway, looking over the waters.
08[23:30] * +Lemon_Cookie has a pistol bit in his mouth, so it sounds more like: "Shmrmphmns if df ffinf defert."
[23:30] <+Chrome_Veneer> [just moves then]
[23:32] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Can we go now?"
08[23:33] * +Chrome_Veneer nodded. "Sorry for not speaking honestly about the matters." He stated before walking first across the metal bridge.
08[23:34] * +Lemon_Cookie thinks Chrome's dishonesty might just be the least of their worries.
08[23:35] * +Blueberry_Muffin follows Chrome_Veneer
08[23:35] * +Lemon_Cookie walks along. Guess the hellgate's remaining open.
08[23:36] * +Chrome_Veneer finished crossing the bridge looking to the crab once more. "What about the eggs, will they be fine?" It did seem worried about them earlier.
12[23:38] <~Damhoof>  Lead by the armored crab creature the party continues forward into the hoof carved cavern and towards a larger area where which several ponies are lazily walking about with relatively little to do. Dressed in bone and leather this flock of raiders seem ungeared and lack weapons aside from household tools like hammers or eating knives.
08[23:40] * +Chrome_Veneer wonders how sneaky they can be with a giant crab in thier midst. "Muddy, stay quiet until a battle starts." He spoke to it quietly, "Lemon, do you intend to make this a quick finish like earlier?"
[23:41] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... how many are there?"
[23:41] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "I do."
12[23:41] <~Damhoof>  Chrome_veneer is first to count up to 9 raiders loafing around, most of them sitting near a roaring fire in the middle of the room. Suddenly one of them roars and another responds, resulting in a one on one fight, that doesn`t stop until the loosing party flops to the ground in defeat.
08[23:42] * +Chrome_Veneer frowned, "At least nine... maybe more. They're not exactly prepared for an assault though." After the roar and a fall, "Maybe less."
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[23:43] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Might be too many for us to easily get the jump on them..."
[23:44] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Then we jus' open fire?"
[23:45] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Yep. Pick tha' strongest a' fastest lookin' ones an'... pow."
08[23:45] * +Chrome_Veneer readied his weapon again, [Spirit of Wind] (last time didn't get much use out of it though). "Blueberry, let me see a little bit of your ammo."
[23:47] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Check that box behind tha' gun. Tha's the ammo compartment."
12[23:47] <~Damhoof>  The party can easily spot the now 6 raiders huddled in the fire, as the victorious from the hoof-figh, a rather rough display of zebra martial arts, grabs a partner of the opposite gender and pushes her towards one of the two pathways of the room. A clear cut sleeping area.
08[23:48] * +Chrome_Veneer nodded, moving over and quickly finding five pieces of .32 S&W Rounds and infusing them with power, [Spirit of Flame]. After reordering, "Your first five shots will be potent, don't miss."
[23:48] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "ThanksChrome. I hope i don't miss."
[23:49] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Okay, then. Let'sget this party startin'!"
08[23:49] * +Lemon_Cookie doesn't seem to share his sister's enthusiasm.
08[23:50] * +Chrome_Veneer pulls his pistol up, "Let's get to it then."
08[23:50] * +Lemon_Cookie collects the small pieces of arcane force and brings them to bear.
12[23:52] <~Damhoof>  These raiders dont look very intimidating outside their armour, and considering the slop they`d fed the slaves one might reason out with a high intellect that they haven`t had the healthiest of diets. Infact those two guards looked positively starving.
08[23:55] * +Chrome_Veneer brought his pistol up, aiming 4 shots to one of the raiders near the fireplace, and 3 more shots to a second.
12[00:00] <~Damhoof>  One of the raiders, the one facing down Chrome_Veneers barrage of laser shots quickly desintegrates inside his raider armour, and the second groans with pain as chrome_Veneers shots him in the belly.
08[00:01] * +Lemon_Cookie unleashes his barrage of Arcane Daggers at the gutshotted raider, so as to put him out of his misery. Then he turns to another target and opens fire with his pistol, firing a quick four shots.
12[00:03] <~Damhoof>  The raider squeals and falls into the fire to Lemon_Cookies arcane knives, bleeding and squealing like a stuck pig while rolling himself into charcoal.
12[00:07] <~Damhoof>  A third raider falls to the ground to lemon_Cookies pistol barrage. Leaking blood from the head in an admirable display of accurate shooting.
08[00:08] * +Blueberry_Muffin fires two steadied shots at the raider nearest to the fire
12[00:11] <~Damhoof>  The raider blueberry shot at gets his chest lit in flames and magical flame lick his corpse as it falls burning to the ground alongside his bone armour. Leaving two raiders left to gape at the sight of their comrades falling like flies.
[00:14] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Damn, those pack a punch."
08[00:15] * +Chrome_Veneer decided to begin conserving ammo, better now than later. Firing 3 steady shots at one raider, and then 2 more at the last one in visible range.
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12[00:21] <~Damhoof>  Both of the raiders get singed pretty badly by Chrome_Veneers laser shots, and one of them even looses most of his back mane while legging for safety from the party of marksponies, even the raiders preoccupied by their acts of sexual intercourse run off into the sleeping area to find protection from these stangers that took them by surprise while yelling angrily at the top of their lungs to awaken those still sleeping or otherwise not having paid the gunfire any attention.
12[00:22] <~Damhoof>  "This went rather well. See how they flee before your mighty weapons of light." Muddy remarks in tone with the atmosphere to Chrome_Veneer in a lighthearted musical clicking tune.
08[00:23] * +Chrome_Veneer put his hoff in front of Muddy for a moment, "Calm yourself. They're not done yet. There's no way they could be done already." Must be strange, hearing the crab's clicking and having a pony speaking back to it.
[00:23] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Hey, bro, ya' know I had this crazy idea of buildin' a portable turret. I could jus' throw it down there and we'd have some extra firepower."
[00:24] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Cut tha' chatter."
08[00:25] * +Lemon_Cookie nabs his pistol out of his levitation, scanning the area for more raiders.
08[00:25] * +Blueberry_Muffin rolls her eyes "Fine."
08[00:26] * +Chrome_Veneer shrugs, biting down on his pistol as well. He preferred using levitation to fire it, but he was going to run out of strain again if he kept it up.
12[00:28] <~Damhoof>  The raiders return with a larger iron clad brute at their back. Chased between the rock and a hard place they charge forward towards the party while the larger, metal clad foe readies his minigun barrel against them while bellowing curses in his zebra language.
08[00:29] * +Blueberry_Muffin her eyes widen "Oh shit..."
08[00:30] * +Lemon_Cookie narrows his eyes and unleashes two beams of searing light -- orange and red -- from his horn, quickly following up with four shots from his silenced twenty-two. All of them are aimed right at the cursing behemoth.
12[00:37] <~Damhoof>  Lemons beams of light strike the stallion cleanly in his ironed chestplate, and left leg, and the stallion grunts with pain as bullets sear over him, and strike the wall.
12[00:40] <~Damhoof>  The giant crab clicks into action in front of the ponies. "For the sea!" The creature cries out before clamping his giant pincers against the wave of raiders twice, and clipping off one of the raiders heads with relative ease who`s body quickly and limply squits blood over his tough scaled hide.
[00:42] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Gross!"
08[00:44] * +Blueberry_Muffin concentrates her fire and fires two steadied shots at the raider with the minigun. "I want that gun!"
12[00:47] <~Damhoof>  The firey bullet strikes the zebra`s metal coated chestplate and he laughs with strained effort before rolling his minigun into gear against the mare that just shot at him.
[00:47] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Is that seriously all ya' thinkin' about right now?"
08[00:48] * +Blueberry_Muffin sees the barrels spin up "Incoming!"
12[00:58] <~Damhoof>  The barrage of bullets rain over blueberry_Muffin and the mares head explodes in a puff of red smoke as her left ear and part of her mane gets removed from her head, and blood begins to leak from her newly pierced chest.
12[01:00] <~Damhoof>  Chrome_Veneer can only watch in awe as the raiders leap onto his seacreature friend and begin to inneffectually strike at his hide.
08[01:00] * +Blueberry_Muffin cires out in pain and collapses on the floor where she continues to twitch and whimper.
08[01:01] * +Lemon_Cookie snaps his head to look at his sister, the side of his visor covered in the remnants of the red mist.
08[01:03] * +Chrome_Veneer wanted to congratulate Muddy on his nice hide, but it seemed that taking down the large zebra with a minigun was more important. Raising his magic laser pistol he immediately fired off 7 shots directed at the zebra. Hm... Laser against metal armor.
12[01:05] <~Damhoof> Chrome_Veneer
12[01:05] <~Damhoof> it is your turn
12[01:07] <~Damhoof>  Chrome_veneers barrage of beams reap through the cround and strike true twice. Once in the chest and another leaves a smoking red burn on the stallions legguard.
12[01:11] <~Damhoof>  The raiders continue to hammer away at the seacreature, but all they succeed in is that one of them slides off his hide while getting the air knocked out of him as he falls to the floor with a resounding omph.
08[01:26] * +Lemon_Cookie barely even has to think about what he does next. Enveloping his sister in a telekinetic bubble, he hoofs it over to the nearest spot that'd provide enough cover to stop the big brute's bullets-- the river. He charges, Blueberry in tow, and begins to think about what sorts of healing items he can give his sister.
08[01:27] * +Blueberry_Muffin mumbles in a daze of pain and shock "Mommy..."
[01:29] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Shh, shh. Don' talk," Lemon says, laying her down and lifting his visor up.
[01:31] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Lemon..." Her look is weary and there'S blood all over her barding
08[01:32] * +Lemon_Cookie turns to his bags, levitating items out. Two pears and a dose of Buck. That'd heal her wounds and shore-up what the healing potions couldn't.
[01:33] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sis," Lemon says, checking to see if she was still conscious. "Ya' gotta' eat these. Healin' potions an' Buck."
12[01:34] <~Damhoof>  Blueberry_Muffin is missing an ear, and part of her skull is showing. A positively gruesome sight! her ear will never grow back the way it was! The prospective husbands is diminishing by the hour!
08[01:34] * +Lemon_Cookie levitates her the pears first.
08[01:35] * +Blueberry_Muffin opens her mouth and slowly starts to munch on the pears
08[01:35] * +Lemon_Cookie He grits his teeth at the sight of viscera.
[01:39] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... Buck, next."
08[01:39] * +Lemon_Cookie levitates the medium sized red and yellow pill capsule and puts it on his sister's tongue.
08[01:44] * +Lemon_Cookie He almost lets it go before scowling and tucking it back into his bags.
08[01:44] * +Lemon_Cookie Quietly, he levitates out a Stampede syringe.
[01:45] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Scratch that. Ya' need painkillers an'... Stampede's the closest we got."
08[01:46] * +Blueberry_Muffin lies on the floor still dazed from the shock. Her fur has grown back and most of the headwound has been closed, but the ear is still missing.
08[01:47] * +Lemon_Cookie finds a vein and injects the Med-X/Rage mixture into his sister.
08[01:50] * +Blueberry_Muffin jerks as the chem fills her system. She cranks her head up and looks Lemon straight into the eyes "Dat sucker's gonna die."
08[01:50] * +Lemon_Cookie stumbles back.
[01:50] <+Lemon_Cookie> back, surprised by the strength of the reaction.*]
08[01:53] * +Blueberry_Muffin gets up on shaky hooves and fires and aimed shot at the minigun raider, pumping her last imbued round into him
12[01:55] <~Damhoof>  Blueberry`s shot clangs loudly against his hindleg, and the raiderpony tries to look for Blueberry from his limited view metal helmet!
12[01:59] <~Damhoof>  Muddy`s claws clamp against another raider and clip him in half, guts spilling onto the floor as the armored seacreature does more than does her share of the fighting! Five more raiders however continue their steadfast assault.
08[02:01] * +Chrome_Veneer needed to conserve ammo but now wasn't the time. Seven more shots to the deadly raider with a minigun. Sounded like the best choice to him!
12[02:06] * ~Damhoof The burly stallion gives of a grunt of pain as his armored chest and body begins to glow and crumble together into a wonderous sight of red glowing ash. His weapon giving off a last clang onto the floor before beginning to glow in the samey color alongside its owner.
12[02:07] <~Damhoof>  The burly stallion gives of a grunt of pain as his armored chest and body begins to glow and crumble together into a wonderous sight of red glowing ash. His weapon giving off a last clang onto the floor before beginning to glow in the samey color alongside its owner.
12[02:10] <~Damhoof>  Muddy gives off a painful clicking noise as one of her many armored legs get hammered into a crippled state. The monsterous crab stumbles, but remains upright as the raiders cheerfully continue their work. Tearing and hollaring with a near feverish hunger.
08[02:19] * +Chrome_Veneer "Muddy, you can fall back if you need too!" He offers, giving a strange look to the pile of glowing ash, including the melted minigun. "Blueberry might not forgive me for that..."
08[02:28] * +Lemon_Cookie pokes his head back up, looking over at the battle still being fought. It seemed so far away from back here...
12[02:30] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookie can spot the heroic creature do battle with the 5 remaining raiders dogpiling the armored creature.
08[02:35] * +Lemon_Cookie Quietly, he climbs back up, then charges in the direction of the raiders, weaving a spell. Two beams of light -- purple and green -- fly from his horn, both concentrating on one unfortunate raider.
[02:36] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Mayhem!" Lemon shouts, turning towards the corridor behind them. "MAYHEM! WE NEED HELP!"
08[02:40] * +Blueberry_Muffin kicks her saddle to reload and then fires an aimed shot at a raider
12[02:41] <~Damhoof>  BLueberry`s aim is wide off, probably has something to do with the creature waggling so much.
12[02:45] <~Damhoof>  Enraged by their recent accomplishment the armored seacreature decimates the remaining raiders. Clipping two in half with her mighty pincers, before tearing a third one apart by piercing his guts out with one of her sharp, and armored legs. leaving two stunned raider atop of her shell suddenly realising their odds.
12[02:45] <~Damhoof> (enraged. I meant inspired)
08[02:49] * +Chrome_Veneer fire two remaining shots as steady as he could, two for each raider.
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12[02:51] <~Damhoof>  the two raiders scream with fear and reek of ash as they start fleeing away in the opposite direction than last time. Clearly looking for more support.
08[02:52] * +Chrome_Veneer attempts to fire once more, (15 ap left) but realizes he'd completely run out of ammo. After putting it away in his saddlebags he looks back to Blueberry and Lemon, not sure what to do.
08[02:53] * +Lemon_Cookie casts another spell, firing two more bolts of light at the raiders.
08[02:53] * +Lemon_Cookie He runs, trying to get closer.
12[03:02] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookie runs after the raiders, but finds that they are much too fast for his like. The archmage would need to improvise with buck and dash if he ever wished to catch up to such natural sprinters.
08[03:09] * +Mayhem suddenly hears some faint calls over the conversations she had with the captives and decides to run after the group.
12[03:10] <~Damhoof>  The raiders that tried to run fall to the rays of light emanating from lemon_Cookie`s horn and their bodies crumble to the ground.
12[03:13] <~Damhoof>  ----------------------------------------------------------------Session8------------------------------------------
12[03:14] <~Damhoof>  For slaying raiders and minigun zebra the whole party gains 370 experience
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15[06:19] * Damhoof sets mode: +v Lucky
15[06:20] * +Lemon_Cookie ([email protected]) Quit (Killed (NickServ (GHOST command used by Lucky)))
15[06:20] * Lucky is now known as Lemon_Cookie
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15[18:46] * Damhoof sets mode: +v Kroama
15[18:50] * FloRad is now known as FloRad|Dinner
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15[19:16] * FloRad|Dinner is now known as FloRad|Borderlands2
15[19:17] * FloRad|Borderlands2 is now known as FloRad
15[19:50] * Kroama is now known as Chrome_Veneer
15[19:51] * Arx_Sanare is now known as Mayhem
15[19:51] * FloRad is now known as Blueberry_Muffin
15[19:51] * Damhoof sets mode: +v Blueberry_Muffin
15[19:51] * Damhoof sets mode: +v Mayhem
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12[20:02] <~Damhoof>  --------------------------------------------------------------------Session9---------------------------------------------------------
08[20:05] * +Blueberry_Muffin breathes heavily while she is on her Stampede trip
12[20:05] <~Damhoof>  With the raiders cleaned out, our party is left to rest and recover from their recent trial. Muddy is limping from a legwound, and Blueberry_Muffin still has the taste of pear in her mouth!
08[20:09] * +Chrome_Veneer moves immediately to Blueberry, a frightening sight... she'd lost an ear to that raider! "Are you alright?" He asked, though it held little meaning.
12[20:12] <~Damhoof>  Corpses of the recent dead, along with piles of glowing ash, shining brightly with MEW radiation, litter the rather impressive stone hallway, and an eerie, dry, silence threatens to overwhelm the party.
08[20:12] * +Lemon_Cookie stands there, then lifts his visor.
[20:12] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sis. Ya' okay?"
08[20:13] * +Blueberry_Muffin nods "Yes, I'm fine. Kinda." She staggers a few steps forward, towards the pile of ash that once wielded a minigun and took one of her ears.
12[20:13] <~Damhoof>  Muddy groans. Taking her time to get seated. "That was some battle huh?" She clicks to Chrome_veneer.
08[20:15] * +Chrome_Veneer "Take it easy." He told Blueberry before quickly moving closer to Muddy, specifically the side of an injured leg. "And what about you, do you want to stay back in the river?"
08[20:17] * +Blueberry_Muffin slowly moves towards the pile
12[20:17] <~Damhoof>  "That would be nice." The creature clicks back at Chrome_Veneer. "There is something dangerous in the air, and I`d prefer to hide away until the danger passes, but you are the saviour of Ul-Athra. I want to aid you as much as i can."
08[20:19] * +Chrome_Veneer "You've done amazingly already, more than your fair share. If you want to rest, you hold no obligation to me, i intend to return her pearl to the sea but i have yet to fulfill such a promise."
12[20:20] <~Damhoof>  Blueberry_Muffin is greeted by a glowing pile of ash and melting metal quietly sizzling with arcane energies. It hizzes and churns as the mare approaches.
08[20:22] * +Blueberry_Muffin spits in the pile then angrily bucks the molten gun into a corner
08[20:22] * +Chrome_Veneer jumps at the sound of the gun clanking against the ground again and nervously looks over to Blueberry. "Sorry... about that... He just sort of evaporated..."
08[20:23] * +Blueberry_Muffin snorts but then regains her composure "It's alright. I... just forget it."
08[20:28] * +Mayhem comes barging through the door. "Alright lads, I'm here! What did I miss?"
08[20:29] * +Chrome_Veneer looked back to the crab, "Feel free to return to the river for now. Stay with the eggs, you've helped quite admirably already."
12[20:29] <~Damhoof>  The shelled creature limps up into a readied posture and a beam of water shoots out from its strange mandiblefasceted mouth towards the ashes that blueberry_Muffin spitted at. Muddy sways backwards at the sight of the minotaur and looks to Chrome_Veneer. "I suppose i should go back to my eggs."
08[20:30] * +Chrome_Veneer moved closer to the water as well, or more rather the altar room door from which Mayhem appeared. "What of the other pony you were with?
08[20:34] * +Blueberry_Muffin carefully steps over the ash and moves closer to the corner where the gun lies. She lies down next to it, tears and blood running down her cheecks
[20:34] <+Mayhem> "When I left them, they still seemed alright."
08[20:37] * +Chrome_Veneer laughed a bit hesitantly, "We could have used you here a few minutes ago."
08[20:38] * +Lemon_Cookie has been sifting through the dead bodies, looking for loot, while keeping an eye on his sister. Stampede's a hell of a drug.
12[20:38] <~Damhoof>  Muddy clicks her farewells to Chrome_veneer and sways her way past Mayhem. The shelled seacreature is still very much covered in the blood and guts from the raiders she gutted, and only a short moment does it stop to look back at the unicorn before heading back to her watery dam.
[20:38] <+Mayhem> "Sorry, ah jus' didn't hear ye."
[20:39] <+Mayhem> "And what by tha totems was tha'?"
08[20:41] * +Chrome_Veneer "If you mean the crab, she's a.." Hm... "She's a friend of mine."
08[20:42] * +Lemon_Cookie quietly walks over to Blueberry, visor up.
[20:42] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sis?"
08[20:43] * +Blueberry_Muffin sobs "Huh?"
08[20:44] * +Lemon_Cookie sits down next to her, pulling his neckerchief off and wiping some of the mess from her face.
08[20:44] * +Blueberry_Muffin lies her head on Lemon_cookies shoulder
08[20:45] * +Lemon_Cookie He also levitates some bandages out. He didn't have a chance to apply them earlier, but now is a great time to do so.
[20:45] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Hold still. 'M gonna' wrap ya' head up."
12[20:47] <~Damhoof>  The party finds 446 caps, a nearly destroyed minigun and iron helmet, 4 poor conditioned raider armors and 10 Worse condition armors along with matching helmets.
08[20:51] * +Lemon_Cookie carefully wraps the wounded portion of his sister's head up.
[20:51] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Here. Eat this orange."
08[20:51] * +Chrome_Veneer begins walking around checking the bodies and creating a pile of leather, iron, and caps.
08[20:53] * +Mayhem takes in her surroundings, and starts filing through the corpses' belongings
08[20:53] * +Lemon_Cookie levitates Blueberry one of the healing potion oranges.
08[20:54] * +Blueberry_Muffin eats the orange. "Tha' pears tasted better."
[20:54] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Hm."
08[20:55] * +Lemon_Cookie goes back to cleaning up Blueberry's face with his neckerchief.
[20:55] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Ya' get hit anywhere else, sis?"
08[20:56] * +Chrome_Veneer looks about the pile he created, as well as what Mayhem had rifled through. "A lot of poor armor... an iron helmet, but quite a few caps."
[20:56] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Than tha' chest? No, but my head feels wierd."
[20:57] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Ya' ear's gone."
08[20:57] * +Blueberry_Muffin stares at Lemon in shock and then reaches up a hoof to feel if he was lying or telling the truth
[20:58] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Don' touch it too hard."
12[20:58] <~Damhoof>  BLueberry_Muffin can feel the empty spot where her ear used to be now covered in a soft bandage.
08[20:58] * +Lemon_Cookie is speaking perfectly calmly.
[20:58] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "No, tha'...how bad is it?"
[20:59] <+Lemon_Cookie> "If we get a good healer, they'll probably be able ta' grow it back."
[20:59] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "A full ear?!"
[20:59] <+Lemon_Cookie> "S'why I specified 'good'."
[21:00] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Once we get out a' here, I'm gonna' give it a full look-over. Make sure tha' canal's clean an' unobstructed."
[21:00] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Ya' gonna' want ta' keep the bandages on fa' a while. Keep tha' sand out."
[21:01] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... but yeah. Ya' ear's blown ta' smithereens."
[21:01] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sorry, sis."
08[21:02] * +Blueberry_Muffin nods "Yeah, sure... Can ya' help me whit tha' minigun? it's alright, it's jus' an ear anyway. I'm glad I'm alive, thanks to you."
12[21:02] <~Damhoof>  Since Chrome_veneer already put the armor and caps in neat rows, Mayhems attention is instead drawn to the sleeping quaters of the raiders. A dimly lit room with plenty of animal skins lugged into a nice comfortable row of beddings all scented nicely with raidersmell.
[21:03] <+Lemon_Cookie> "We should leave it. Nab it on our way back."
08[21:03] * +Chrome_Veneer split up the caps in to four groups, leaving the rest as it were.
[21:03] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "I jus' want ta' take it with me. I can carry it."
[21:04] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Sis. There's no need ta' strain ya'self."
[21:06] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "But..." she sighs "Okay."
[21:08] <+Lemon_Cookie> "We're headin' back in ta' combat soon."
08[21:08] * +Mayhem pulls out her MLP and knife again, move towards the quarters to queck them.
[21:08] <+Lemon_Cookie> "C'mon. Lemme' help ya'."
08[21:09] * +Chrome_Veneer back to combat? Oh right! "I'm out of ammo, spent the last of it shooting those running raiders."
08[21:09] * +Lemon_Cookie stands up, tucking his neckerchief into his bag.
[21:09] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Ya' any good with a pistol, Chrome?"
08[21:09] * +Lemon_Cookie He offers his hoof to Blueberry.
08[21:10] * +Chrome_Veneer shook his head, "can't say i could do much at all without some gem packs. Feel i would be too far off with the kick from regular firearms."
[21:11] <+Lemon_Cookie> "It's a silenced twenty-two. There's barely any kick."
[21:11] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Ya' need somethin' ta shoot with, right?"
08[21:11] * +Blueberry_Muffin takes lemons hoof and stands up, filled with new strength, but only physically.
08[21:13] * +Chrome_Veneer shrugged, "If there's no other choice it's better than nothing i suppose."
[21:14] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Well, I guess ya' could also ask Mayhem."
[21:14] <+Lemon_Cookie> "She's got one a' them Laspistols too."
08[21:15] * +Chrome_Veneer "Does she now... how much ammo?" No point asking Lemon. He moved closer to the Raider's living quarters to search for Mayhem, "I lost most my ammo in the last battle, you got any spare gem packs?"
[21:17] <+Mayhem> "Psshhht! Carefull."
08[21:17] * +Mayhem moves into the quarters, checking the corners.
[21:18] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Ya' feelin' okay, Blueberry?"
08[21:18] * +Lemon_Cookie pops the magazine of his pistol out and starts reloading.
08[21:18] * +Chrome_Veneer moves quietly behind her, "You think there's more? We caused a lot of noise, most of them already came for us..."
08[21:18] * +Lemon_Cookie Once he's done, he takes it in his mouth and flips his visor down.
[21:19] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "uh-huh, sure, thanks ta' ya', I do."
08[21:19] * +Mayhem rolls her eyes, thinking: 'Always those ponies, who can't shut up, when there might be enemies near.'
08[21:20] * +Lemon_Cookie nods, then walks over to where Mayhem and Chrome are.
12[21:20] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem cannot find the classic higher ranking beds. Clearly there are tribulations ahead with worse enemies than what they faced.
08[21:23] * +Mayhem lowers her weapons and sheathes them away, seeing that there is nopony in here.
[21:24] <+Mayhem> "So how much do ye need?"
08[21:24] * +Lemon_Cookie levitates the pistol from his mouth.
08[21:24] * +Blueberry_Muffin moves with her brother "Any supplies here?"
08[21:24] * +Chrome_Veneer relaxes seeing the minotaur finally agree nopony was around. "How many can you spare? I'm dead out minus a few drained packs."
08[21:24] * +Chrome_Veneer already piled up the loot, and sorted the caps in to four groups.
08[21:25] * +Lemon_Cookie He places it back in its holster, but doesn't summon more arcane daggers.
08[21:25] * +Mayhem checks her pouches. "Ah got twenty left an' the thirty in me pistol."
12[21:25] <~Damhoof>  There is little of note hidden in the sleeping quaters of the unarmed raiders. A stale piece of bread hidden under the pillows, and a foul smelling silk sock is all their search amounts to.
08[21:30] * +Chrome_Veneer "Well i'm not much use without any ammo myself... if you give me the left over it'd give me a few more shots.
08[21:32] * +Mayhem hands Chrome the 20 gem packs.
[21:33] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Hm.
08[21:33] * +Blueberry_Muffin shurgs "We better move one. We got raiders ta' kill an' a pearl ta' find."
08[21:33] * +Chrome_Veneer pulls out his laser pistol and begins reloading it with the little ammo he was given. "Thank you very much. Going to buy ammo first thing back, now that i have more than 0 caps to the name." he stated walking back to the piles of loot.
[21:33] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Yep. Hide tha' loot real quick so we can get it on our way back."
[21:35] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Nah, I take tha' gun and some of tha' armour with me now. Might safe us time an' I'm feelin' better already."
[21:36] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Mayhem, ya' might take tha' helmet."
12[21:37] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem notices that the iron helmet would require some extensive re-engineering to fit her minotaur skull.
08[21:37] * +Mayhem just raises and eyebrow. "An' where am ah supposed ta stick me horns?"
08[21:38] * +Chrome_Veneer looked about the caps, "I split them in to four groups, if you all want to take a share. The armor is free for you all to take though, not sure i could possibly wear raider armor and feel right."
08[21:39] * +Blueberry_Muffin walks over to the pile of loot and takes 112 caps, four of the better looking raider armours and the minigun. She stuffs it all into her saddlebags.
[21:39] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... on second thought, yeah. Why not wait around? Let's wage some psychological warfare while they wait ta' get beat-up."
[21:39] <+Lemon_Cookie> beat-up," Lemon deadpans.*]
08[21:40] * +Chrome_Veneer "What do you mean by that?"
12[21:41] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookie intelligently realises that they killed every raider that tried to run away, and so the rest of the raiders would not realise the threat now present within their own lair.
[21:42] <+Mayhem> "I mean, do ye see any holes fer horns in tha' thing?"
[21:42] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "The horns? Well, once we get back, I can modify it. Drill holes an' bend it in shape."
[21:47] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Holy Celestia's massive flaming sky-plot, can we do this later!"
[21:47] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Son of a bitch!"
08[21:47] * +Chrome_Veneer "Well, it's already split, take what you can and discuss what can be done with it later."
08[21:48] * +Lemon_Cookie facehoof-- or tries to, at least. The helmet gets in the way.
[21:48] <+Lemon_Cookie> facehoofs*]
[21:48] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Let's wipe all tha' raiders out before we go lootin'. Jeez. Isn't that tha' first rule a' stayin' alive out here?"
08[21:49] * +Chrome_Veneer "Wouldn't hurt to take a break, and i'd say we're doing one and then same splitting up the loot here."
08[21:49] * +Chrome_Veneer "Granted we should move on now."
[21:50] <+Lemon_Cookie> "We have to move, lest we lose tha' element a' surprise. We jus' slaughtered them here. That means they're not expectin' us."
08[21:50] * +Lemon_Cookie summons arcane daggers around his head.
12[21:50] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem can hear a distant click echo from the hallway they have yet to explore and muffled hooves, no doubt threaded in soft furs to escape notice thread away softly.
08[21:51] * +Mayhem furrows her brows, pulls the knife out and puts a finger on her lips, mving to the hallway as silent as she can.
[21:59] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "My bro's ri-" She stops at Mayhem's gesture
08[21:59] * +Lemon_Cookie looks over at Mayhem.
08[22:01] * +Blueberry_Muffin whispers "Wha's up?"
08[22:01] * +Lemon_Cookie just draws his pistol.
12[22:01] <~Damhoof>  Mayhems search leads her towards the edge of the fireplace and a hallway protected by two flowing sculptures depicting a rising current. The road ahead, paved by mountain that has been chiseled with hoof and nail seems to edge slightly upwards.
08[22:03] * +Mayhem just points to her ear and in the direction of the sound. After that she presses further on.
08[22:04] * +Chrome_Veneer follows along, pulling out and holding his laser pistol in the mouth.
08[22:04] * +Blueberry_Muffin tries to silently catch up with Mayhem
12[22:04] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem can only hear the sound of the wind against the mountain as she presses on while an ominous expectation pervades her senses.
12[22:06] <~Damhoof>  The minotaur ,along with chrome Veneer notice the slyly placed silk thread running between the two sculptures. A trap.
08[22:07] * +Chrome_Veneer halts abrubtly, he was a pony that seemed to easily fall in to traps, but luckily that wasn't the case this time around.
08[22:07] * +Mayhem stops and stretches out her arm to stop the two other oblivious ponies.
[22:07] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Huh?"
08[22:08] * +Lemon_Cookie stops next to Blueberry.
08[22:08] * +Mayhem pioints down to the tread and kneels down to inspect it.
08[22:08] * +Lemon_Cookie He raises an eyebrow-- not that they can really see it, what witht he helmet and all.
12[22:09] <~Damhoof>  A further inspection reveals the thread leading into a mechanism beyond the wall, and several of the statuette tribal markings seems to be hollowed out tubes. The artwork is a trap!
08[22:09] * +Chrome_Veneer left the inspection of the trap to the more apt pony, he was just lucky enough to notice it.
[22:10] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "I'm gonna go out on a limb an' say it sets off some arrows."
[22:10] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Let's jus' step out a' tha' way an' set it off."
08[22:11] * +Mayhem just shrugs and decides for the most simple solution. She just cuts the tread with her knife.
08[22:12] * +Chrome_Veneer "Won't it be noisy?" He aske
08[22:12] * +Blueberry_Muffin rolls her eyes "All tha' silk, jus' wasted."
[22:16] <+Mayhem> (redact)
[22:17] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Anypony got a stick a' somethin'?"
[22:17] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "What for?"
[22:18] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Ta' set-off tha' trap from a safe distance."
08[22:19] * +Mayhem just steps over the tread and mentions the rest to follow
08[22:19] * +Chrome_Veneer "As long as we don't trip."
08[22:20] * +Blueberry_Muffin carefully follows Mayhem
08[22:20] * +Lemon_Cookie cautiously steps over the tripwire.
08[22:22] * +Chrome_Veneer follows along, trying to remember where it is in case they come back this direction in a hurry.
12[22:28] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem is lead further along this slightly sloping, narrow corridor within the mountain. The design of this place seems utterly obsurd, but then again if the trap was intended to work on anyone intruding rather than leaving it would make sense to have a sloped corridor to give any approaching treasure hunter some sense of claustrophobia and rush to get out. Without much trouble she takes notice of a very familiar torch holder, and further along she can finally hear rushed and hurried voices.
08[22:29] * +Mayhem tries to pull at the torchholder, just to be sure.
08[22:32] * +Chrome_Veneer watches where they came from, more than where they were headed.
12[22:32] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem is greeted by a part of the wall cracking open in similar fashion to the basin room. The voices outside grow clearer, and more numerous as the mechanism finishes churning out sounds of old gears moving, while inside she can hear an unsettling hiss of pressurised air.
[22:32] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... what's that sound?" Lemon mumbles, enunciating fairly effectively around his pistol.
08[22:33] * +Mayhem peeks into the opening.
12[22:35] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem finds only darkness inside the opening, and old, stale air fills her nose.
08[22:35] * +Mayhem looks over her shoulder and whispers: "I could need some light here, lads."
08[22:36] * +Lemon_Cookie closes his eyes and a pale green light begins to emanate from his horn.
08[22:37] * +Blueberry_Muffin nods Lemon to please help Mayhem out while she keeps watch outside
08[22:38] * +Chrome_Veneer waits with Blueberry.
08[22:39] * +Lemon_Cookie casts some light on the situation.
12[22:42] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookies light reveals a dusty shelter from older days. Bright skeletons look at the unicorn from a rotted wooden table. Picked clean and left to dry where they sat.
12[22:43] <~Damhoof>  The voices grow in volume with each passing moment, and angry voices spouting foul curses reach their ears. Indicating that they would have to pick their battlefield soon or face them in the hallway with little cover.
[22:44] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "So?"
[22:44] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... I fink we wewnt da wong way," Lemon says, not really trying to speak around his bit.
08[22:45] * +Mayhem motions the rest of the group to move into the room and hide there, preparing an ambush for whomever might come down the corridor.
[22:45] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Damn."
08[22:45] * +Lemon_Cookie He turns to look over his shoulder, summoning a set of emerald green arcane daggers.
08[22:45] * +Blueberry_Muffin quickly moves into the room
08[22:45] * +Lemon_Cookie moves into the room, light extinguished and daggers hidden out of sight from the hallway.
08[22:47] * +Chrome_Veneer finds his own place in the darkness, carefully to avoid tripping over himself.
12[22:51] <~Damhoof>  Mayhem takes note of the two skeletons seated on rather uncomfortable boxes rather than chairs. One of the skeletons is rather slumpled over. His chest impaled wholly by a zebra blade. A particular part of the room itself however is covered in a painted wood made to look like the mountain.
12[22:53] <~Damhoof>  "They would still be down there right?" A voice utters on the side opposite the hidden door. "I wouldn`t know. I set the trap and legged it out." A feminine voice replies with great annoyance and arrogance.
08[22:54] * +Mayhem quietly walks over and pulls the blade out of the skeleton. She decides to give the crates a look over later.
12[22:59] <~Damhoof>  "How nice of you." The male voice grovels back, only to have the mare laugh. Moments later she bellows her orders on zebra. Several hooves At least 6 ponies head further down the corridor. "Your funerals." The mare laughs while listening to the echo of these hooves continue down.
12[23:07] <~Damhoof>  "I better go call off the raiding parties to deal with this infestation. We need another caravan of meat and fruits too. We starved them too much. They are growing desperate." Another voice calls from beyond the door.
12[23:07] <~Damhoof>  Hooves echo from their hiding place, as their enemies begin departing from their hiding place.
08[23:07] * +Lemon_Cookie wishes they had a sniper right now.
08[23:14] * +Chrome_Veneer looks at the others for guidance, what they were planning to do.
08[23:15] * +Blueberry_Muffin looks around, getting used too her now missing ear
08[23:15] * +Lemon_Cookie tries to sneak a peek at the speakers.
12[23:18] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookie finds himself glancing directly at the hindquaters of a rather tightly dressed mare in black leathers. Her zebra mane adorned with wide golden jewelery and a quite oldfashioned golden ring.
08[23:19] * +Lemon_Cookie -- startled -- reflexively blasts her ass with arcane daggers.
12[23:29] <~Damhoof>  The mare grunts with pain as Lemon_Cookie perforates her, and she touches briefly with one of her many stabwounds before looking back in Lemon_Cookie`s direction. She smiles to him as if to say hi before dropping flat to the ground.
08[23:30] * +Lemon_Cookie ducks back into the room.
[23:30] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... shit."
[23:31] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Ooops."
08[23:32] * +Chrome_Veneer "Did you just..." He wasn't even sure how to ask.
[23:32] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Quick, drag her in!"
08[23:33] * +Mayhem weighs the blade in her hand, doing a few swings and finally nods. After that she places herself next to the door.
08[23:34] * +Lemon_Cookie does so, using his telekinesis to levitate her up and float her in.
[23:34] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Chrome, clean up tha blood like ya' did with tha sheets!"
08[23:34] * +Lemon_Cookie He feels... really bad about this, somehow.
[23:35] <+Blueberry_Muffin> (redact)
[23:36] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "We gotta do somethin' about tha' blood!"
08[23:36] * +Lemon_Cookie Like the equinity of all these ponies they've killed has suddenly come into focus for him.
12[23:36] <~Damhoof>  Lemon_Cookie is deeply disturbed over his own capacity to kill. The blood leads a trail of death towards their ambush site. Threatening to ruin their surprise party.
08[23:38] * +Blueberry_Muffin thinks quickly. "Check for usefull stuff and then place tha body back outside. We can use it as a distraction."
[23:40] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... yeah," Lemon says, barely even thinking straight.
08[23:42] * +Lemon_Cookie grits his teeth, snapping himself out of it. They were here to kill them all. No talking.
08[23:42] * +Lemon_Cookie He begins to frisk the mare's body for valuables.
12[23:43] <~Damhoof>  As Lemon_Cookie pragmatically intends to loot the mare for valuables Blueberry notices a strange grin on the mares face, and one of the mares hooves have grasped an incineration grenade.
[23:44] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Fuck! 'Nade!"
08[23:45] * +Mayhem throws over the table and jumps behind it.
08[23:45] * +Lemon_Cookie grabs everything around the mare in a single bubble and chucks it out the door, diving for cover immediately afterwards.
12[23:46] <~Damhoof>  Before the mare can unleash her deadly firey death blueberry adeptly flicks it off her hoof and lemon_Cookie throws her back out into the corridor.
[23:47] <+Blueberry_Muffin> 7me dives for cover after flicking the grenade
08[23:47] * +Blueberry_Muffin dives for cover after flicking the grenade
12[23:47] <~Damhoof>  "Enemies are here!" The mare cries out before cackling madly at the party and running off. "Enemies here!"
[23:47] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Fuckin' bitch!"
08[23:47] * +Lemon_Cookie suddenly loses all his previous qualms.
08[23:48] * +Blueberry_Muffin tries to shoot the mare in the head to shut her up
08[23:48] * +Lemon_Cookie He pops up and fires two pulses of concentrated light at her head.
12[23:51] <~Damhoof>  The mare gets her face singed by LemoN_Cookies concentrated beam of light and her lip based grin seemingly melts in place before the mare drops to the floor once more.
08[23:52] * +Lemon_Cookie slumps back behind the table, a headache beginning to assault him.
[23:52] <+Lemon_Cookie> "... damn. Startin' ta' run out a' juice."
12[23:52] <~Damhoof>  The unpinned grenade rolls off her body and incinerates her thoroughly as the sound of approaching hooves echo in the corridor once more.
[23:53] <+Blueberry_Muffin> "Fuckin' shit, they found us!"
08[23:53] * +Chrome_Veneer "It would be impossible for them not to after that!"
08[23:53] * +Mayhem lifts the zebra sword with both hands, getting ready to strike at the first one that comes through the door.
[23:54] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Can't stay in here," Lemon chimes in. "All it'd take is another flame grenade an' we'd all suffocate."
[23:54] <+Lemon_Cookie> "Gotta' go on tha' offensive."
08[23:55] * +Lemon_Cookie quietly shifts some buck from his pack to one of his front pouches. If things get really bad, he might just need it...
[23:55] <+Lemon_Cookie> Buck*]
08[23:55] * +Blueberry_Muffin nods in approva "We're toast if we stay, c'mon let's get outta here."
12[23:57] <~Damhoof>  the first wave of raiders arrive in the distance. 3 ragged looking fiends in the same armour as before with hungry looks easily spot the entrance now, and bark madly, their eyes and recklessly charging selves quickly turning to BLueberry_Muffin. Will the party manage to survive? Find out in the next session of sand group.
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12[23:58] <~Damhoof>  Group gains 250 experience because im such a tease. Jk the mare is an additional 50.