FoE RPG G0 - #038 Nnoto Village: The Voodoo Pillow

[21:37]<SpiritOfFate>	Group 0: *Epitaph* - Session #38 starts now
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[21:43]<SpiritOfFate>	The wind blows and rain falls. The bandaged griffon looks at his turtle mates and frowns. You are back on the village, in your hut. Halafar walks in, with her irritated look seeming even fuller of displeasure
[21:44]?	Royal_Lace looks up from the three "Guests" she is watching
[21:45]?	Hawkeye taps her shotgun idly with her hoof. "Oh, there y'all are," she says. "Look, we got prisoners. Yayyyy" The sniper waves a hoof in a circle.
[21:46]?	Firefly waves to Halafar. "Hello! We beat up the bad griffins, see?" The filly gives the zebra a big smile before she digs through her saddle bag and pulls out her tools, starting on some basic gear maintenance.
[21:46]<SpiritOfFate>	"What is your plan? If these open their mouths, it will be a risk for the village."
[21:47]?	Hawkeye rolls her eye. "That's what AH said, but muh friends are convinced we have t'spare 'em. For some reason."
[21:47]?	Royal_Lace looks at the captives. "we will speak to the one who can talk to see what we can learn from him. They may have information that could be useful to us... after that we will discus what is to be done with them".
[21:48]?	Wintergreen shakes her head. "If they died, since they reported in with radios, near the village," She asks Halafar, "would it be any better?"
[21:48]?	Royal_Lace looks back to the zebra, "Belive me when I say that I will do whatever it takes to be sure everybeing is safe, including your villiage"
[21:48]?	Wintergreen nods. "This way, there is a -chance- that this will not end poorly for the village."
[21:50]<Hawkeye>	"And, if worst comes to worst, Ah still have a shotgun," Hawkeye says coldly. "And Ah ain't too squeamish to use it if we have no other option."
[21:50]<SpiritOfFate>	Halafar gives a dangerous grin. "The trees are dangerous, as Tramwat says." She shrugs. "If that means I my blade shines into hundreds instead of a couple, I will accept it."
[21:52]?	Ignis seems mostly apart from the results. "I don't think they'll have any intresting intel we can use, but anyways...prisioners are prisioners in any case."
[21:53]?	Royal_Lace looks to Ignis, silently hoping she misunderstood the zebras turn of phrase, "Well we wont know till we ask"
[21:53]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon observes silently.
[21:54]?	Ignis shrugs. "Mercs, they either don't care or have been paid to not ask many questions, I wouldn't keep my hopes too high."
[21:56]?	Hawkeye shrugs. "Whatever we do, we need to do it sooner rather than later, unless we're plannin' on ridin' the storm out here."
[21:56]?	Royal_Lace looks around, "dose anypony protest if I lead the questioning?"
[22:00]?	Firefly shrugs as she looks over one of her brass hooves with a careful eye. "They are bad griffins and we beat them up. Batmare doesn't ask questions. She acts."
[22:01]?	Ignis leans into a comfy corner and accomodates his body by. "Knock yourself out"
[22:01]?	Royal_Lace smiles, "Nopony mind then?"
[22:01]?	Wintergreen shakes her head.
[22:01]?	Hawkeye nods. "Probably best if y'all do," she says. "Ah trust ya, miz Lace."
[22:06]?	Royal_Lace nods with a genuine smile before trotting over to the Griffin and having a seat before him. Continueing to smile she offers a hoof, "Greetings, I realize that our... introduction, as it were, was a bit frantic but I still wish to appologize for not introducing myself earlier. My name is Royal Lace, may I be so bold as to ask yours good sir?"
[22:12]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon chuckles. "Jamal. Fine weather we are having, right?" He smirks
[22:13]?	Royal_Lace holds her smile, "Yes, quite, though the current surroundings risk spoiling it for me. Still it is a plesant change from the skys of Equestria proper. Now, shall we continue to speak of plesant things or shall we get right to the heart of the matter then?"
[22:16]<SpiritOfFate>	"I was hoping for some tea first." His eyes move around, between the door, the ponies and his leg
[22:17]?	Hawkeye is sitting casually in front of the door, occasionally tapping her shotgun on her leg with an audible 'clink.' Subtlety is not her strong suit.
[22:18]?	Sotho stays on watch around, trying to make sure everypony is safe
[22:18]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon stops smirking.
[22:19]?	Firefly has finished polishing the brass hooves and put them back on. She has since moved on to checking her boxing socks, making sure each brass eye is still secured and the laces are still in proper order.
[22:19]?	Royal_Lace smiles, waving a hoof to the group, "Im sure we could fetch you something to wet your beak with, though Im afraid i dont like the odds of finding good tea". Standing she whips off her cloak and levetates it, using it to cover herself as she changes.
[22:20]?	Royal_Lace lowers her cloak to reveal she is now in her buisness wear, "Now, while one of my compainons fetches something I would like to get to work. Im sure you have at least a few questions for me and as you already know i have a good number of questions for you as well"
[22:23]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon raises an eyebrow.
[22:25]?	Royal_Lace continues to smile as she retakes a seat (this time on top of her cloak as to keep her buisness suit clean as possible). "Ill take your silence as a leave to take the first question then Jamal, though I do think its only fair to begin with as I have had more time than yourself to compose a list of pertinant questions. The first of which is... why were you and your companions coming here?"
[22:27]<Hawkeye>	"And keep the smart alec to a minimum," Hawkeye says calmly.
[22:29]<SpiritOfFate>	He glances at Hawkeye. "You can't take anything out of a dead griffon. Alright, what is this worth to you?"
[22:30]?	Hawkeye shrugs. "Well, Ah ain't exactly the smartest of ponies, but strikes me as we got two more griffons, pardner. Y'all are expendable. What's yer life worth?"
[22:32]?	Royal_Lace smiles, "Well that was hardly an answer to my question Jamal but if you must know the answer is worth a great deal to us and right now it is what is allowing me the leverage needed to compell the others around me form removing you from the picture all together. Something I wish to avoid, dont you?"
[22:36]?	The griffon frowns. "Alright. We were here to check on these zebras, bring back any slave they captured... looks like they aren't doing their job."
[22:37]?	Royal_Lace smiles, "There, that wasnt so hard Jamal. I really do appreciate your compliance in this rather unorthadox situation. Keep up the good work and im sure we can reslove this in a way that is mutually benificial to all parties involved. Now, have you a question for us or shall I proceed with my own dialogue?"
[22:39]<SpiritOfFate>	"Tch. No." The griffon sights Knick Knack in the group and his eyes light up.
[22:40]?	Royal_Lace smiles as she follows his gaze, "I see... well I shall continue then, but first I take it you are familure with our friend?"
[22:45]?	Firefly finishes with her check of the boxing socks. She leaves them off and carefully removes the wing blades. She checks the straps before moving on to checking the edge.
[22:45]<SpiritOfFate>	"You are the foalnappers, aren't you?" He nods to Knick Knack. "I tell you what, if you let me take her back I'll bring you the reward. There's a working car loaded with supplies, two pipbucks and 100 caps for her. You'll be ambushed if you go yourselves."
[22:47]?	Hawkeye frowns. That DOES sound like a good reward... she looks down at her Amulet of Avarice. No... her friends are more important than transportation and a pipbuck.
[22:47]?	Firefly looks up at Miss Green. "Ooooh! A car! I can paint it and style it and make it the Bat-wagon!"
[22:48]?	Sotho glances over and frowns to Firefly. "We can't give her up for such a petty reward."
[22:48]<Hawkeye>	"Not to mention we got less than a bloatsprite's fart worth of reason to trust y'all," Hawkeye adds.
[22:49]?	Royal_Lace almost faulters at such an amazing price, her father truly wanted her home! Composing herself she clears her throught, "As grand as a prize as that is jamal I am afraid we must decline as she is not hear against her will and to bring her back would be to go against her wishes. We are not 'foal nappers' you see but liberators, just as we will eventuall liberate all of the scrapyard"
[22:51]?	Ignis blinks, the mention of loot stirring his focus. "Woah...if that's how much they're offering for her...we are just gonna meet a lot other trasure hunters on our way throught." He speaks, clearing his throat a bit. "Looks like old Doodaddy didn't held back spending his pretty penny to "rescue" off Knick."
[22:52]?	Wintergreen shakes her head. "We're not giving her up."
[22:52]<Wintergreen>	"It's her choice, not ours."
[22:52]?	Sotho chuckles. "I stand by the thought that he doesn't... he doesn't care much for Knick, he doesn't treat her well enough to. He cares about reputation. Think about it from his side, Slaves escaped his compound and then his daughter was 'kidnapped'? It sounds bad for any buisness owner."
[22:54]?	Firefly smiles up at Wintergreen. "But that's just it. We go and take the car from the bad pony! Knick Knack doesn't have to go back, and we get a Bat-Wagon! Everyone is happy!"
[22:54]?	Sotho blinks at Firefly's suggestion. "Well we do not know where it is being held."
[22:55]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon can't help but roll his eyes. "Yeah, you don't. Look, how can  I know you won't shoot me on the back after I tell you what you want."
[22:56]<Hawkeye>	"Actually, Ah was plannin' on it," Hawkeye says. "Unless y'all give miz Lace a reason to tell me not to."
[22:57]?	Ignis rolls his eyes. "We could had shot you anytime we wanted to, its really a no brainer there...you buy off your survival by answering us."
[22:58]?	Royal_Lace nods towards hawkeye, "She is always the protective type, I dont doubt her claim and neither should you. Perhapse you would do better to look at this whole situation as...", lace taps her hooves to her chin for effect before grinning, "a buisness oportunity?"
[22:58]?	Hawkeye looks over at Knick Knack and furrows her brow, apparently thinking hard about something.
[22:58]?	Wintergreen raises an eyebrow at the griffon. "Do you have any better prospects? We give you our word. If you help us, we'll help you."
[22:59]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack also seems to be thinking about something, withdrawn from the group, and avoiding their eyes.
[23:01]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon scratches his  beak. "What are you offering?"
[23:01]?	Sotho glances to Knick Knack. "Dear... what is your opinion on this?
[23:04]?	Firefly has thrown out her suggestion. She goes back to making sure her equipment is in good working order.
[23:05]?	Royal_Lace ear turn to listen in on Sotho and Knick Knack as she speaks to jamal, "Glad to see we have your interest. What we offer is an oportunity to lay clame to what comes next... after all, the Scrap yard is going to fall, that is a forgone conclusion"
[23:05]<SpiritOfFate>	"Maybe... maybe... I dunno..." She faces away.
[23:05]?	Sotho moves to her, smiling. "Dear, this is your choice, it's your life here."
[23:06]<Royal_Lace>	"We know there resources, clients, friends, allies, eneimes. All are either set up to crumble beneath this current regime or soon will be. That is a fact. For those who remain however after the dust settles... there is great oportunity"
[23:07]?	Hawkeye chuckles to herself, then looks startled and furtive.
[23:08]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon starts to laugh but turns it into a fit of cough. "Miss, you... that's not gonna work."
[23:09]?	Royal_Lace smiles, "Perhapse you could illuminate me as to why that is?"
[23:11]<SpiritOfFate>	"Since the cyberfreak became the big guy's partner, the place is crawling with robots. You wouldn't even get to the wall." The griffon says. "Just suicide."
[23:12]?	Firefly makes a note that she needs more lightning.
[23:13]?	Ignis raises both eyebrows and inches a bit closer to the commotion. "Maybe you could tell us more about this slagbrains who joined Doodad...I was always a bit curious about that dude."
[23:13]?	Royal_Lace nods, "I see your concern and it is noted and your observations are appreciated, but belive me when I say that these are mearly small obsticalls to overcome. Pot holes on the road, so to speak, to be navigated around. We will find a way to deal with them, again, this is a fact"
[23:16]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon sighs. "Alright. That's a few more hours of not being shot dead, I suppose."
[23:17]<Hawkeye>	"Ah wouldn't count on that, but don't let me stop you," Hawkeye growls.
[23:18]?	Royal_Lace grins, "Glad to Hear Jamal, you are being a great help to us. Now all I need you to do is kick back and relax while we wait for later tonight. There are other ponies who we will need to reach over the radio who I belive will want to hear what you have to say. For now I would suggest thinking carfuly about what you know of the scrap yard and its defenses"
[23:18]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack mumbles. "...maybe I should... go?"
[23:22]<Sotho>	"Do you want to." He says to Knick Knack. "It's entirely your choice, but please, listen to your heart, not the situation."
[23:24]?	Royal_Lace stands and carfully folds her cloak before sliding it into her saddle bags, leaving her buisness cloths on for now. the feel... right, maybe a bit stuffy but she definately feels empowered by them. Turning she smiles at Nick Nack, "If it helps your decision we all want you to stay with us..."
[23:25]<SpiritOfFate>	"Can I have my armor back? I'll tell you about the defenses." The griffon asks.
[23:26]?	Royal_Lace looks back to Jamal before glancing to Hawkeye, "Depends... hawkeye, do you think he deserves this luxury for agreeing to be coaporative with us?"
[23:27]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack closes her eyes and shrinks a bit, conflicted.
[23:28]?	Sotho smiles and places a hoof on her shoulder. "I know I'd like if you stayed."
[23:28]?	Hawkeye shakes her head. "He's trying to play you for everything he can get, Lace. Ah wouldn't give him a kind word or a smile right now 'til he provides us somethin' we can actually use. WITHOUT tryin' to get somethin' besides his own hide in return." She taps the shotgun again. "Me, Ah'm gettin' tire of this mess. If he ain't gonna help..."
[23:30]?	Wintergreen tries her hoof at a joke, leaning over to whisper to Knick Knack. Hopefully she won't take it the wrong way.
[23:32]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffon snaps. "As if I can trust a band of backstabbing raiders! C'mon, you want it so much? Do it! You'll be the next once you get there." He glares at Hawkeye.
[23:33]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack's weak smile is interrupted as she takes a step back, startled
[23:33]?	Royal_Lace waves her hoof to Hawkeye, "Well you heard my friend, perhapse we can try asking again afer we see how well you behave for our very special guests?". Frowning she raises a brow, "Raiders? that is hardly a plesant label, who may I ask has been calling us raiders?"
[23:35]<Hawkeye>	"You shut your sellsword beak," Hawkeye snaps back. "Ah don't make no bones about bein' a bandit, but at least Ah ain't sellin' people's lives, tearin' apart families. Ah ain't got no moral high ground, but Ah ain't as close to raider as the feller you work for." She glares at the griffon. "All these folks are better than me. If anyone here's got the high ground, it's them, not you, not me."
[23:37]?	Firefly looks up from her work as she finishes with the second wing blade. She walks over to the griffin, looking up with big eyes at him. "The batmare isn't a raider... is she?" Her lower lip trembles.
[23:39]?	Wintergreen 's glare towards the griffon tells him that he better choose his answer wisely.
[23:39]<SpiritOfFate>	"Give me my armor, or I'm not telling a thing." Jamal looks at Royal_Lace. "I've seen the eyes of that beast you keep with you. Ambushing us like that, and now with this crazy talk. So what, you are going to hang my guts on the wall? It's all madness."
[23:40]<SpiritOfFate>	Buck looks at Hawkey and shrugs.
[23:41]?	Sotho 's eye twitches lightly. "R-raider?" He asks, glaring. "We save ponies, we have spared raiders from brutal deaths as they deserve more chances." He thinks back to the foal raiders.
[23:41]<Hawkeye>	"Lace," Hawkeye says very quietly and very calmly in Royal_Lace's ear. "Ah'm about a half-inch from shootin' this one and startin' over with one of them turtles. Where does he get off calling us raiders?"
[23:42]<SpiritOfFate>	"Tell that to Marian." The griffon glares at Sotho.
[23:42]?	Ignis wavers off disappointedly. "Well, so much for actual finesse..."
[23:43]?	Royal_Lace nods to Hawkeye, "I know, but please give me one second". Turning she looks at him with a stern face, "I dont care much for labels, im sure you have been stuck with a few yourself you dont like Jamal. But what we are, truly, at the core. Is a family, one that i fighting for servival"
[23:44]?	Sotho frowns and sighs. He moves to leave, looking around.
[23:45]?	Wintergreen quirks her head. "So if you equate self defense to raider-like activity, what does that make you? Those that would capture a foal and enslave them, preventing them from living free."
[23:45]?	Royal_Lace glowers at the griffin, "Were on the bleeding edge here and Gaia be damned if im going to fail any one of the beings in this hut. I value life above all ells jamal but I will remind you that a slug is just as much life as say a being a griffin or a turtle. So please, please, for the love of Gaia think about how you will behave tonight when we ask you our questions"
[23:45]?	Firefly continues to look up at the griffin. Her eyes are slowly filling with tears... "Batmare isn't a raider. She's a good pony... right?"
[23:47]?	Hawkeye puts a hoof on Firefly's head. "Batmare ain't the kind of hero folks look up to. She's the kind of hero this burnt-up world deserves." She nuzzles the filly. "Don't make her any less a good pony just because she gets her hooves dirty."
[23:48]?	Firefly nods up to Hawkeye, sniffling a bit. "I'm... I'm gonna go and play with M'tat." Firefly nuzzles Hawkeye back and packs up her stuff.
[23:54]<SpiritOfFate>	"Tch. This chick shouldn't be here anyway." He frowns. "Don't come and tell me you are the heroes of the land. But if you want to make business, I'm listening. Give me my armor and I'll talk."
[23:54]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack trots after Sotho
[23:54]<Sotho>	"Why do you require your armor so much? It's not as if you are mute and the armor has a speech talisman." He scoffs, calling back
[23:55]<SpiritOfFate>	"Because I don't trust you." He says simply.
[23:56]<Sotho>	"We don't trust you, so it's fair."
[23:56]?	Wintergreen nudges Hawkeye. "Can you search his armor? Make sure it doesn't have any hidden weapons or anything... then give it back?"
[23:57]?	Royal_Lace looks to Hawkeye, "That seems a reasonable compromise, if you are comfortable with it"
[23:58]?	Hawkeye sighs. "No, Sotho, he's right. It comes down to stubbornness and buckshot if we can't make a gesture of good faith." She turns to Wintergreen. "Already searched it when we pulled it off him. Ah think we can safely give it back, and he's agreed t'talk." The sniper looks at Jamal. "You got a deal, merc. But you make me regret it, and we're back to the buckshot option." She digs the griffon's...
[23:58]?	Hawkeye ...armor out of her bag and drops it on the floor in front of him.
[23:59]?	Sotho trots away with a sigh with Knick Knack
[00:00]?	Firefly puts away her stuff and goes out into the rain. Maybe M'Tat can play or they can hang out or something.
[00:00]<SpiritOfFate>	M'tat is back at her hut. She peeks out at Firefly.
[00:01]?	Firefly waves over to M'tat, trotting over despite the rain. "Hi M'tat! What are you doing?"
[00:01]?	Royal_Lace sits in the far corner to keep an eye on there "guests" while pulling out her spell book for some reasearch to clear her mind.
[00:01]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack trots closer to Sotho. "W-why? Uh... what's going to happen?"
[00:02]<Sotho>	"Hmm?" He asks Knick Knack
[00:05]<SpiritOfFate>	"Yeah, I'm sure" Jamal puts the armor back. "Alright. They have a number of Equestrian flying radios there. Looks like the freak uses them for an alarm system. There's also 4 other toys of his ready for deployment when anything is sighted. Like the one that was with us. The spotlights are now automated, and there are six long range turrets above the walls..."
[00:06]?	Hawkeye listens carefully, making mental notes of the defenses. "What kind of long range, and what calibur?" she asks. "Or are they magic energy?"
[00:10]?	Sotho looks to Knick Knack. "Hmm?"
[00:13]<SpiritOfFate>	".308, Sniper rifles. They are linked to the spotlight trackers. Birdbrain won't trust the good guns to proper griffin." Jamal shrugs. "North, South, East, West walls, Junkyard Gate and over the main house."
[00:13]<Ignis>	"What about the cybergriffon dude? He's out on the hunt for us or he's keeping out at Doodad's side?" He asks over. "Also, what can you tell us about that dude, other than bots grind his gears?"
[00:15]?	Hawkeye chuckles. "Sounds like an idjit to me. The best snipers Ah ever knew were griffins," she says, then goes back to being serious. "What's he got on y'all? If he's such a pain to work for, why are y'all stayin?"
[00:17]<SpiritOfFate>	"He's making the place his playhouse. Looks like old Doodad didn't have the caps to pay him, so the griffon just started serving himself of whatever he liked from the salvage. Cares more for robots than griffin, the weirdo. Might be the robot head of his. That glowing eye freaks me out."
[00:19]<SpiritOfFate>	"They still got enough to keep us there, at least. Slave fields are the only real stable job for hired guns like us."
[00:20]<Hawkeye>	"Robots don't betray y'all or stab ya in the back, they don't complain, they're loyal an' strong," Hawkeye says quietly. "Ah can understand the appeal. But Ah can't see usin' that strength to make the lives of others miserable." She looks into Jamal's eyes. "Ah'm sorry we killed your compadre. But Ah can't let y'all take these folks back to Doodad. Y'understand?"
[00:20]?	Ignis smiles predatorily. "At least he has his head straight enough to trust tech more than any old ma..." He quickly clamps up as his eyes gazer over his hosts.
[00:23]?	Royal_Lace eyes open wide as she looks down at the page, a spark seeming to cross her eyes as a proverbial lightbulb gos off
[00:23]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack glances at Sotho. "W-why did you want me to stay?"
[00:23]<Royal_Lace>	"EUREKA!"
[00:25]<SpiritOfFate>	M'tat smiles, then tilts her head at Firefly. "How is Firefly? Looks like Tear, bad aura."
[00:27]?	Firefly smiles over to M'tat. "The bad griffin is mean. He said we were all raiders, but Batmare isn't a raider." Firefly sniffles a bit, wet mane dripping in the rain. "Can I come in?"
[00:28]<SpiritOfFate>	Jamal blinks at Royal_Lace. He leans a bit away. "...anyway, I figured that. This won't be good for my reputation... but it won't matter for much longer."
[00:29]<SpiritOfFate>	M'tat nodnods, giving the soaked Firefly a hug and showing her in.
[00:30]?	Firefly accepts the hug and heads inside. She does her best to shake off outside, but wet filly is wet, no matter how much she shakes. "So, what are you doing?"
[00:33]?	Royal_Lace leans close to the book with a wide grin and starts muttering about inverse magical decomposition across a variable tetotitanic surface as it realates to Elder Scroll the Magnificents therum of mana spheres... or something like that
[00:34]<Hawkeye>	"How do y'all mean?" Hawkeye asks. "They planning something big at the scrapyard? Or are y'all still thinkin' Ah'm going to shoot y'all in the back?"
[00:35]<SpiritOfFate>	"Balance train, much fun." M'tat grabs a leather ball and hops to a small clay pillar, holding it against the tip of her muzzle. It rolls off.
[00:39]<SpiritOfFate>	"The metal griffon was up to something last I saw. Either way they have the terrain advantage, intel and numbers." Jamal says
[00:40]?	Firefly looks at the exercise for a moment and grins. She takes out the apron and ties it around her, effectively binding her wings so she can't use them to help balance. She nods to M'tat. "Can I try?"
[00:41]<SpiritOfFate>	M'tat smiles, throwing the ball to her and hopping down
[00:41]?	Royal_Lace ear perks at the mention of "intel"
[00:42]<Ignis>	"We have a Batmare."
[00:42]<Hawkeye>	"Ah know," Hawkeye says dismally. "Ah just want Firefly to have her folks back, get Royal Lace hers, and make sure Doodad don't hurt Knack no more. Is that all too unreasonable?" Her ears droop. "Miz Lace, did y'all have any more questions for the griffin? HIs answers are depressin' me."
[00:43]?	Firefly takes the ball, hopping up onto the clay pillar, and tries to hold it on the tip of her muzzle, almost like a pony-seal.
[00:45]<Royal_Lace>	"I dont, but the mud ponies might"
[00:46]<Firefly>	Unfortunately, it turns out a pegasus uses their wings much more for balance than most think. With a thunderous crash that belies her small frame, Firefly crashes into the ground. Not to be outdone, the ball hovers in the air for a moment... before bouncing off the filly's head.
[00:46]?	Firefly winces in pain. "Owie..."
[00:48]<SpiritOfFate>	M'tat helps Firefly up. "It is hard first. Is good?"
[00:49]?	Firefly smiles back to M'tat. "Yeah. Its like the exercises my mom showed me when my wings were bound. Your turn!"
[00:51]<SpiritOfFate>	M'tat holds the ball to her muzzle. She hops to the pillar and trips, falling back over Firefly.
[00:53]?	Firefly lets out a whoof of air and is flattened onto the ground by the sudden, unexpected appearance of zebra filly.
[00:54]<SpiritOfFate>	"Ah, sorry." M'tat scrambles up, helping Firefly. "Is hurt?"
[00:55]?	Firefly giggles. "No. I wasn't expecting it is all." Firefly snags the ball and tries to get her balance right.
[00:57]<Firefly>	The pegasus filly, even with her wings bound, soon managed to balance the ball on the tip of her nose. Then, she rises up on a her hind hooves, keeping her balance, and soon, its only one hind hoof. Be the balance, Firefly.
[00:58]<SpiritOfFate>	"Oooh." M'tat claps her hooves.
[01:01]?	Firefly tries to take it up a notch by bouncing the ball on her nose. Unfortunately, her balance isn't that good, and she falls and lands on flank. The ball, not to be outdone, lands on the top of her head before bouncing to M'tat's hooves. Silly filly.
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