FoE PNP Group 57 Session 1

21:39   Zyrlana *** Group 57 Session 1 Start ***
21:39	Zyrlana	Okay.  You all start off in a relatively big room considering that you're underground.  It has creaky wooden ceilings with a well worn dirt floor, various sprigs of green managing to find its way to the surface.  Mostly grass.  Every two feet is a Zebtech(R) artificial sun light, these lights are actually pretty effective given how green your underground den seems to be.
21:41		Zen is balancing on a stick, up side down, with his back legs crossed while reading a book... up side down. He hums idely to himself as he reads, seeming very, very bored.
21:41	Zyrlana	At the head of the room is a zebra mare.  "Well, I've gathered you all here, the most promising zebras this den has seen in a long time.  We have a problem.  We are running out of ingredients to make our fertilizers.  Without these fertilizers, the ground will grow dry and frosty.  There is an old gulag about 45 miles away from here to the north.  The megaspells
21:43	Zyrlana	have missed this factory by several miles, so there is only minor damage.  I believe you will find most of what we need there in the "C" building, which produced a snack that we can break down for the ingredients we need.  It's best to go out in numbers, so you will all stick together.  We're in the middle of an arctic night, so I hope you will all be careful, as it would be a
21:43	Zyrlana	shame to lose such fine zebras such as yourselves."
21:43	Zyrlana	She then lets you leave, you already have your gear on.
21:44	Zyrlana	(A little bit more coming before you start off.)
21:48	Zyrlana	One of you glances at the thermometer before you trot outside of the strong metal doors covering the entrance to your den, reading an outside temperature of -41.8F.  When you all form up outside, it is indeed the middle of the night, despite being 7 in the morning.  The full moon is dimmed by the shimmering of the northern lights in the sky, giving the snow on the ground an
21:48	Zyrlana	off-white glow, a frozen river with many twists and turns in it trailing north.
21:49		Qindeo pulls his cloak tighter. "Damn it's cold." He mutters.
21:51		Zen shrugs, "We'll get used to it." He flicks his tail idealy, brushing snow off his flank.
21:52		Kyva nudges Qindeo, and adjusts her glasses. "We should start journey with positive attitude. Three zebras walked into bar, I forget the rest, but is joke!" One of the others present may have actually told her the joke recently...
21:53		Zazi follows out after them, pulling his hood around his head a little snugger from the chill. "Could be worse," he offers.
21:55	Zyrlana	As the four of you head north, the wind decides to pick up from behind, howling through the valley between the mountains that the frozen river wove through.  Odd cracks pierce the air, though you are unsure if it's just falling rocks, falling ice, or gunshots.
21:55		Zen chuckles, "Three zebra walk into a bar, one is black with white stripes and the other is white with black stripes, the third is grey with red stripes. The bar tender asks whats wrong with him, The black zebra with white stripes says, "Can't you tell? he's color blind." "
21:56		Qindeo looks over at Kyva, giving a small grin.
21:57		Kyva smiles, "That is joke I just told!" She looks around warily for any signs of avalanches.
21:57		Zen doesn't hear anything, he was to preoccupied looking at Kyva's flank.
21:58		Qindeo perks his ears up at the noise.
22:00		*** Arcane_Skylanders[A] is now known as Arcane_Scroll
22:01	Zyrlana	Those of you not occupied with flank can safely dismiss the sounds as echos of falling rocks in the distance.  As you head further along the river, the mountains start to tower over you, casting long shadows that extend all the way over to the river.  Are you all walking on the shore, or using the river as a windy path?
22:01		Zazi twitches his tail from the sudden gust of wind, glancing back briefly. "See?"  He twitches his ear at the noise on the wind, humming in thought before shrugging; probably just rocks knocked off balance by the wind.
22:05		Kyva walks along the river. It's much easier to balance on the ice than to tread deep snow, not that she's is incapable of that.
22:07		Zen follows the flank he's looking at, slipping on the ice a little but regaining his hoofing. "um... you sure we should be walking on Ice?"
22:07		Zazi steps towards the river warily, tapping at it with a hoof to test the ice... only to see Kyva carelessly walk out onto it. "... Taking the suicidal route of checking how thick the ice is?"
22:07		Qindeo trots onto the river as well, a little more carefully than Zen.
22:08	Zyrlana	If there were fish in this river, they hadn't seen the sun clearly in quite a long time, as the ice felt as solid as the steel doors to the zebra's den.
22:08		Zen quickly lososes said hoofing and falls flat on his flat, "Ow... the hell are you doing this?"
22:09	Zen	*falls flat on his face
22:09	Zyrlana	Just as Zen has his little hiccup on the ice, a harsh wind starts to blow through the gaps in the mountain, overloading your ears.
22:10		Zazi watches the others before stepping out onto it after them cautiously... mostly because he didn't want to end up like Zen. As a result, he walks right past his fallen companion without a problem.
22:10		Zen flatens his ears and sweetie scoots along the ice.
22:10		Kyva keeps her balance. "Is fine. We slip an fall, but not tire so-" The blowing wind drowns out the rest of her sentence.
22:11		Zazi squints at Kyva as she starts to talk, trying to listen, but failing miserably. He starts gesturing towards his ear while shaking his head.
22:12		Qindeo can't hear anything over the howling wind. Instead he just pulls his hood down farther, squinting his eyes.
22:12		Kyva is still talking. She's not imperceptive, just a bit socially oblivious.
22:12		Zen is, once again, distracted by Kyva's flank. That thing was distracting!
22:13	Zyrlana	Kyva manages to see an orange glint of an eye over Zazi's shoulder, as a zebra with an assault rifle in his mouth stepping out of the shadows, though the rest of the party misses him while the wind gusts over them.
22:13	Zyrlana	The glint comes from a gas mask.
22:14		Kyva points a hoof at the unknown zebra! She pauses a moment to identify more about them.
22:16	Zyrlana	The second the zebra sees he's been spotted, he opens fire on the group before they have a chance to act!
22:16		Zen eyes move from Flank to hoof too... Ohsweetdiscordwhatwasthat? he shakily trys to get up.
22:17	Qindeo	"Wonderful."
22:19		Zen ends up on his back, slideing slowly across  the ice toward Kyva's flank. This was going to end badly...
22:20		Zazi perks his ears up at the sound of a gunshot, quickly darting in a direction he presumes is safe, turning to see just who the hell was attacking and what weapon he should take out.
22:21		Zen slides face first into Kyva's flank like a idiot as he continues trying to get traction on the ice and avoid her.
22:23		Kyva was fairly aware that Zen was behind her, just not that he had any interest in her butt. She opens fire with four shots from her battle saddle, 2 shots per gun!
22:24		Zazi ends up taking a shot to the shoulder in his attempt to dodge, crying out and dropping to the ground, one hoof over the wound.
22:27	Kyva	"Say hello to boolet, friend!"
22:27	Zyrlana	The masked marauder flinches at one of those shots gets him in the chest, but more pairs of goggles pop out of the shadows as his four friends join the fight!
22:28		Zen manages to stand up and snarls at seeing his comrade injured.
22:30	Qindeo	"Oh, that was the wrong decision buddy."
22:33		*** Arcane_Scroll is now known as Arcane_Scroll[A]
22:33		Qindeo draws his sword from beneath his cloak, and charges the closest zebra too the group, his sword coming down twice on the Zebra.
22:45		Zen moves around Kyva and fires both barrels of his shotgun at the nearest figure, one shot goes wide and the other hits home. "Qindeo, I swear to the gods If I have to sew you back together after this..."
22:45		Zazi being that he was already down on the ground from getting shot, he takes out his varmint rifle and presses it to his good shoulder, taking a moment to line up a good shot on the zebra Kyva and Qin were attacking. He'd fire once, line up a second shot, and then fire a second time, making sure to aim clear of Qindeo.
22:50	Zyrlana	The target crumples from Zen's shotgun just as Qin swings his sword, causing him to miss his double swing, leaving Qin slightly confused.  Zazi's aimed shots go whizzing through the air where the zebra used to be, one shot cracking another zebra's sternum, while the second shot goes through one of the glass eyes of the gas mask, crumpling him as well.
22:50	Qindeo	"...What."
22:51		Zazi lifts his head from his scope, blinking a couple of times in surprise at the miraculous turn of events. He then leans back down, preparing to find a new target. "Now that's teamwork!" he shouts to his companions.
22:54		Zen reloads his shotgun, "Both barrels fer ya you bastards."
22:54		Kyva grins through the gunfire, not that anypony could see. "Nice shooting! Do not get cocky, friend."
22:54	Zyrlana	One of the zebras rushes out of the shadows at Qin, brass glinting off his hooves as he moves in to strike.
22:59	Zyrlana	Qin is caught by surprise, not noticing the zebra in the shadows until his brass hooves were already imbedded in Qin's thigh.
23:01	Zyrlana	One of the other Zebras watches Kyva in the battle saddle, lining up a few shots with his varmint rifle.
23:04		*** Zen quit (Ping timeout: 121 seconds)
23:04	Zyrlana	A bullet whizzes past Qin's ear to clip Kyva's flank, making her slide around on the ice a little from the momentum.
23:05	Zyrlana	The third zebra also comes with a fancy varmint rifle, deciding to focus on that sharpshooter from the back that just put two holes in his compatriot.
23:06	Zyrlana	One of his bullets veers off, pinging a mountain size as the other one digs into Zazi's side.
23:08		Zazi seizes up, teeth clenched, and lets out a pained growl, one hindleg twitching. That hurt, but fortunately the richochet deadened the bullets momentum; it didn't feel like it went deep.
23:08		Kyva whirls on the gunner that just shot her, lining up a couple precise shots! "I am done with joke!"
23:11	Zyrlana	The zebra buckles a bit under his shots, his forelegs quickly staining red, though he was still kicking.
23:11	Zyrlana	Under Kyva's shots*
23:13		Qindeo grunts. "...Bitch." He stabs his sword towards his attacker, following up with two more quick swings. "Now, die."
23:19	Zyrlana	The brass hooved assailant gets clipped as he jumps in for his next attack, taking a good 15 damage.  He has to work himself back up before he can jump into Qin again.
23:20	Zyrlana	He comes down with a double hooved downward blow to the top of Qin's head, not expecting the pony to be so resilient, though Qin still does feel quite a sharp pain on the top of his head after that blow.
23:21	Zyrlana	The other pony bleeds out at this point from his severe wounds.
23:23		Kyva slowly steps towards the last one, lining up a couple shots and firing one at a time. At this point, she wants to conserve ammo if the second show wasn't needed.
23:25	Zyrlana	The poor raider gas mask zebra makes another leap at Qin, only to have a bullet rip through his head, another one following suit, the momentum making him fall to the side a few feet.
23:25	Zyrlana	(Or only one shot, whatevs)
23:27		Qindeo blinks. "Good riddance." He slips his sword back inside his cloak.
23:28		Zazi raises his head to look around for the other attacker, only to find that he'd apparently fled at some point. With a sigh, he sits up and begins reloading his rifle, putting in a new clip and then reloading the other with four bullets. "You guys alright?" he calls out.
23:28	Zyrlana	After the snow settles, you find four zebra corpses, each wearing a gas mask, and a strange whitish sand colored horse-tabard (Like what knights' horses wear) with the letters Z, and then the Anarchy symbol in big red letters over the rear flank.
23:28		Kyva smiles and stands tall on the wind-swept icy path. "They will think twice next time they make hostile ideas at us! Hee.. maybe not, because they are dead!"
23:29		Qindeo looks curiously at the symbol.
23:31	Zyrlana	Qin can see that it's just a tabard covering patchy leather armor, the inside of which is heavily laden with thick fur.
23:31	Zyrlana	(On the brass hoof pony at least.
23:34		Zazi puts his rifle away and starts to get up to go examine and loot the bodies... only to pause and groan in pain. Adrenaline'd worn off. "Ach fuck... shoulder..." He continues over, albeit limping now, and joins in the examination of the deceased ponies.
23:35		Kyva trots over to the injured allies, and assesses their wounds. If any are bleeding, she can at least fix that up.
23:36	Zyrlana	Qin can definitely recognize the symbol, but he can't remember where he's seen it before.
23:36	Qindeo	"Hmmm, interesting."
23:37	Zyrlana	The cold wind starts to kick back up, fiercely howling through the path to the east through the incredibly narrow ravine winding betweent the two mountains, where the other zebra's hoofprints seemed to have trailed from.
23:37		Zazi glances over the symbol for a moment but then winces, sitting down and putting a hoof over his shoulder. His mind was too distracted by the pain to process the symbol at the moment.
23:43	Zyrlana	Zazi picks up a canister of strange fluid, and can immediately tell that it's weaponized...something, these canisters were meant to be launched from a grenade launcher or feasibly thrown, and whatever was inside it must've been pretty bad if the other zebras thought they were too close to throw it.
23:46		Zazi examines the strange fluid before furrowing his brow and offering it to the other two. "This isn't radioactive, is it...?" Hell if he knew what it was.
23:47		Kyva looks at the gathered regular stuff. She just starts loading herself down with anything useful. The others would know that they could just ask her if they wanted any of it, she's not greedy, just a bit socially oblivious.
23:49		Qindeo shrugs, wincing. "I do not know." He says, not looting anything, for he really didn't need anything.
23:52		Zazi shrugs as well, tucking it back into the bag before continuing to scavenge. He then grins upon coming across a few clips of 5.56mm ammo, collecting them into a pile between him and Kyva. "Hmmn... how nice! A dozen clips. Six for each, da?"
23:53		Kyva nods to Zazi. "You use boolets too?"
23:55		Zazi gives a nod, gesturing to his rifle. "Sniping, remember?" he chuckles before examining some of the armour on the raiders, wondering if he could possibly put it on beneath his heavy clothes. Didn't want anyone confusing him for one of the wretches, after all.
00:00	Zyrlana	*** Group 57 Session 1 End ***