Isle Del Sol Session XIII

Session Start: Sun Sep 28 11:18:15 2014
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[15:31] <%Somber> Costa Del Luna... the town with a fleet of ships dropped upon it... seemed terminally rainy.  The great mass of bobbing wrecks in the harbor groaned and moaned like the ghosts of thousands of sailors.  Callie and Sonata had disappeared to take care of business, leaving Ilushia, Strifer, Vera, and Harris were sheltered under the overturned wreck of a fishing
[15:33] <%Somber> trawler leaning against an old gas station, the matted and tangled nets strewn like brown entrails and providing some slight shelter.  The nulls were keeping their distance... the emaciated ponies knowing they were no match for the healther and better armed ponies.  Mr. Gray had departed, taking his offer with him... and his disappointment that a little
[15:33] * Harris keeps his eyes out to the downpour not knowing what or who may come at them
[15:34] <%Somber> murder wasn't in their forte.  Everything was silent.  Calm... the water pinging off the rusty hull overhead.  Quiet... dead quiet...
[15:39] * Vera "The sailors. They shut up. That's... weird."
[15:39] <%Somber> The three of them happened to be looking in the same direction... that was the only way they could have seen it.  One second the space outside their shelter was empty of everything but rain... and then a figure is standing there.  It's hard to make out what it is, let alone who.  The equine form was wrapped head to hoof to haunch in filthy rags.  Rusty chains
[15:40] * Harris wispers to others with him "Do you two see this?"
[15:40] <%Somber> dangled and rattled on its frame.  The ends of the hooves had sheets of metal hammered over them... and through them.  Inside the hood that covered its face, a pair of red eyes glowed, looking at the four in the shelter beneath the boat.
[15:42] <%Somber> Slowly it starts to advance.
[15:43] * Strifer snorts and shrugs. "Whatever. So remind me why we aren't someplace more..." She trails off as the figure appears. "Well hello, what's this?" She begins to grin and flexes her hooves waving the claws at the figure. "Come to play?"
[15:43] * Vera "That's not a pony. That's... something else."
[15:44] <%Somber> "Well...The when the shaman's away..." the voice says, deep and echoing and sounding like the groaning of the ships or the damned.  "Give me the dragon," the chained figure rumbled.
[15:45] * Harris "That's something we sould not fuck with." he said in a low tune
[15:46] * Strifer darts a glance at Vera. "Are you sayin' this don't bleed?"
[15:47] <%Somber> Naphthalena gasps, cowering behind Strifer.  "What... do you want with me?"  The hooded form chuckles.  "To help you achieve your destiny... and ours."
[15:48] * Vera "You see the chains? There are ghosts chained to them. I'm saying that whatever this thing is, there ain't nothing you or I can do to it."
[15:51] <%Somber> "Words of wisdom," the hooded creature grumbles.  "I've been waiting some time for your Shaman to be occupied.  Now, give her to me."  The chains begin moving on their own accord.
[15:55] * Vera "What do you intend, monster? Is she to be harmed?"
[15:57] <%Somber> "To take her.  To use her.  To reshape her.  And I'm fairly sure harm is definitely involved in the process.  Repeatedly."  The red eyes narrow.  "Now.  Give her to me."
[16:00] * Vera "I rather think that decision is up to Naphthalena."
[16:01] <%Somber> Naphthalena shakes her head repeatedly.  Then asks, "If I go with you, will you promise not to hurt my friends?"
[16:02] <%Somber> "Absolutely.  They're so much meat of varying freshness... not really all that interesting to me.  You're the one we need."  It beaconed with a hoof.
[16:03] * Strifer scowls as she glances from Naptha to the hulking creature and back. "You expect me to just fuckin' hoof over Naph? Fuck that noise!" With no further words, Strifer launches herself at the figure and shouts, "Run for it!" as she launches a one-two attack.
[16:04] * Harris put a talon on Naphthalena's shoulder "You don't have to do this, you know."
[16:21] <%Somber> Strifer charges the shrouded figure, smashing it with her spiked hooves.  The impact though has a rattle like steel on bone and little fragments of dry bone pepper her face.
[16:21] <%Somber> "So be it... meat..."
[16:22] <%Somber> The chains wrap around her as if animated by magic and lift her completely off the air, then slam her against the ground repeatedly.
[16:24] * Vera merely stands off to the side. "When you're done beating sense into her, can you leave her alive, please?"
[16:26] <%Somber> Naphthalena gasps at Vera, then watches in horror at the prone form of strifer.
[16:26] * Vera glares at the creature. Are her eyes wet? Hard to tell.
[16:27] * Strifer lashes out, her first swipes wild to try driving it back to make an opening for the others to escape, but when that barely phases the creature, she focuses and slams her attacks home, grunting at the unusually tough customer. Before she can back away though, she feels steel snare her and growls, "Fuck!" as she struggles to break free. She's far less coherent as she's swung
[16:27] * Strifer repeatedly into the ground.
[16:33] * Harris gives Naphthalena shouler a tighter squeez looking down to the young dragon "If you don't what to do this, let me know." looking up as the thing slames Strifer onto the ground repeatedly
[16:34] * Strifer groans weakly, "I said run. Shit, no one listens to me."
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[16:37] <%Somber> Naphthalena shakes her head, tears running down her face.  "Stop!" she cries out.  "Stop!  Don't kill her!"  She steps forward, shaking terribly.  "I'll go with you!  Just don't kill her."
[16:39] <%Somber> The ragged figure laughs hollowly.  "Wonderful.  So glad you made this easy.  We were worried we might have to use an inferior vessel.  Now... step forward..."
[16:42] <%Somber> Naphthalena slowly walked towards it, chains tossing the battered form of Strifer aside and sliding around Naphthalena.  "I won't cry... I won't cry... I won't cry..." she repeated over and over.
[16:43] <%Somber> "Trust me... you will..." it hissed, and then dragged her into a pool of darkness, Naphthalena's last note a scream of terror before all returned to silent.
[16:44] * Vera glares. Her eyes are glistening. She remains silent.
[16:45] * Harris just stares out into the darkness of the rain
[16:47] * Vera "Are you finished now, monster? Go then. Let us see the last of you."
[16:48] * Strifer grunts as she's chucked into a mass of nets and ropes. She shakes her head, spits blood, and tries to pull free, but her hoof claws tangle in the net. "You don't have to do this, Naph. Naph!" As the young dragoness disappears before her eyes, she growls, "Fucking monster!" and jerks at the entangling net again.
[16:50] * Vera closes her eyes and wipes them with a wing. A single yellow feather falls to the ground. "We should go. I don't want to be here anymore."
[16:52] <%Somber> An hour or so later, Candle and Sonata return from there... well... where did they disappear off to?  Had they told anyone where they were going?  When they'd be back.  So many questions... so many little things that can happen in an absence...
[16:52] * Strifer finally pulls free and staggers over to where the monster had stood, staring at the ground. "Dammit. Dammit! Celestia dammed, motherfuckin', shit pissin' piece of crap!" she yells and punches the floor then stands there breathing hard.
[16:53] * Harris looks to Vera "You should tell them. I don't feel like I could do it."
[16:53] * Candlelight_Sonata widens her eyes in surprise at Strifer punching the ground.  The somber nature of the group causes her to stop short and raise her wings.  "Whats....?"
[16:54] * Calamine feels something dark and forboding in the air. "What... what happened?"
[16:55] * Vera grimaces. "Naphtha... Left. She went. I don't know a lot but... I think a Reaper took her. It waited until you were gone. There was nothing any of us could do."
[16:55] * Strifer flicks a glance at Calamine. "Where were you? That thing knew you. It was waiting for you to leave."
[16:56] <Vera> "I sincerely hope that none of us ever see either of them again. For our own sakes."
[16:56] * Candlelight_Sonata face falls.  "Left?  Left where?  Why would she leave with..."  She starts to hyperventilate.  "WHERE?!"
[16:56] * Calamine looks at Strifer, worried. "What thing? I... Where's Naptha?"
[16:57] * Vera shrugs. It is a gesture of despair. "
[16:57] * Vera "Elsewhere."
[16:58] * Strifer grumbles, "Big mass of bones and chain. Fuckin' thing hits harder than I do. It took her - poof gone in a ball a' black."
[16:59] * Harris nods "And it would have just taken the dragon if we fought it. She left with it to save us."
[17:00] * Calamine collapses on to her haunches, eyes wide as tears start rolling down her face. "No... No... I... I just... I..."
[17:00] * Candlelight_Sonata focuses on Vera, her eyes turning to unnervingly cat-like slits.  "Where... what... I have to find her!"  She looks at Strifer.  "Black?  Shadows?  Just..."  She darts to the nearest shadows.  "Have to follow... have to find her!"
[17:01] <%Somber> Unfortunately the shadows were merely shadows and there was no sign of a helpless baby dragoness anywhere.
[17:02] * Vera "This place is bad place. We should go."
[17:02] * Candlelight_Sonata focusses as hard as she can, both eyes glowing green as she tries to find the little dragon.  "No... No... we... WE HAVE TO FIND HER!"
[17:03] * Strifer slumps on the floor, looking much the worse for wear as she grouchily gouges lines in the floor with her claws. "Yeah, um, you may want to think twice about that, ears. You, me, and about a dozen of the kind of ponies I used to beat on, and we might be able to do it."
[17:05] * Vera sighs. "Candlelight? It's done. She's gone. C'est la fin."
[17:05] * Candlelight_Sonata slumps to the ground.  "Naphtha where are you?  Already dead or bleeding?  Just one more disaster to add to my generous supply..."  she sings softly as she hugs her wings to herself
[17:07] * Calamine screams, which is highly uncharacteristic for her, before charging the shadows and crashing headlong into the wall. Collapsing to the ground in a heap, Callie sobs, her whole body convulsing, while repeatedly whispering. "It's all my fault. I should have been here."
[17:08] * Harris just looks out into the rain
[17:09] * Candlelight_Sonata lifts her head as Callie crashes into the wall.  "No..."  She forces herself to her hooves and trots over to hold the zebra.  "It's my fault... not yours Callie...."
[17:11] * Strifer snorts, "From the way that thing was talking, dead would be better." She looks to Calamine and sighs, "If yer' tryin' to re-enact the fight, you have to hit Candle hard then let her tenderize you by beating you against the floor for a bit and then you get thrown into the wall. It's no good if you skip to the end."
[17:11] * Vera shakes her head. "It's not yours, or Calamine's, or even Strifer's. The only fault lies with the monster."
[17:11] * Calamine glares at the wall, feeling a horrid tugging in her very soul, before standing back up on shaking hooves. "Open up, damn you! Open! You're not taking anything else from us! This island has taken too much already! OPEN!"
[17:15] <%Somber> There was a resounding crack and rumble.  The ground around them heaved and a sudden tearing noise filled the air.  A rounded, flat stone lifted up like a headstone, rain and muck pouring down its face.  Below was a muddy shaft decending far lower than six feet, countless bones and skulls poking out of the sides.  On the headstone like boulder were
[17:15] <%Somber> the names 'Calamine, Candlelight, Calavera, Strifer, Lightwing, Naphthalena.'
[17:16] * Calamine glares down into the abyss, her breathing haggered, her hair a mess, and her body shaking. "She's down there. We have to go down there."
[17:17] * Vera feels her mane stand on end. "I'm already dead. I don't want to be buried."
[17:18] * Strifer shoots to her hooves. "What the... She did it. Celestia fuck me sideways, she did it. Somepony get me some healing potions."
[17:19] * Vera "I don't want to go down there. But if anypony is going down there, I'm with her."
[17:21] * Candlelight_Sonata doesn't need convincing about going down there.  "Well, if I'm dead, then so be it.  At least I can't say I didn't try to say save Napthalena..."  She says, stepping down the shaft.
[17:21] * Harris slowly moves to look down the hole "Why... Ok down a hole." sighs then looks to the rest "There'll be more of them things done there. So looks like we get a free funeral with it."
[17:22] * Calamine turns to Strifer and pulls out two healing potions. Administering the potions, she looks to the ex-raider looking more angry than she had ever been. "Are you ready?"
[17:22] * Vera dives down the shaft after Candlelight_Sonata. She's not a pony who breaks her word.
[17:25] * Harris just fallows after the two
[17:29] * Strifer snorts, "Fuckin' monster owes me. That was a cheap ass move." She downs the healing potions one after the other and grins. "Better. Much better. Okay, let's do this!"
[17:30] * Strifer darts into the hole feeling better than she had before the monster showed up, almost good as new. "Just give me a good shot, and I'll make it pay."
[17:31] <%Somber> Descending into the grave should have been like dropping into a pit, but oddly once falling, everyone seemed to be falling at the same rate and within a few feet of each other.  As they fell, the eyes of the skulls lit with blue flame, and the deeper they went, the more numerous the skulls were.  The blue glow washed everything else out, and soon they were on
[17:32] * Calamine stares down the hole before closing her eyes and thanking the spirits and the elements of the island before leaping down after the rest of the party.
[17:34] <%Somber> a road... a major boulevard running through a Costa Del Luna in the midst of madness.  ponies ran screaming too and fro, mindlessly rushing about.  The street was choked with them and looming out to the west.... the sea...  the sea was coming.  An immense wave studded with countless ships and boats was in the process of crashing down on the city.  And though
[17:35] <%Somber> everything was in motion, it was also as if time had become stuck in this terrible time.  The wave was forever crashing, but never actually impacting... and ponies were running, screaming, but never actually getting anywhere.  All other avenues were blocked save for the road, stretching into the city on the cusp of annihilation.
[17:36] * Candlelight_Sonata raises her wings as she looks at the scene around her.  "Ok.  This shamany stuff is disturbing my calm."
[17:38] * Harris looks around for any sign of the dragon or the thing that took her
[17:38] * Strifer looks around herself at the unnatural scene and mutters, "Fuck, did someone slip me some of the good shit in that last potion?"
[17:39] * Vera cocks her head and stares at the screaming figures. "Those aren't ghosts. Or spirits. Or anything. They're just... figments? Props."
[17:39] * Calamine looks around, confused. "I don't know what they are, but they don't matter. We need to find Naphta. We have to..."
[17:40] * Candlelight_Sonata steps closer to Calamine.  "Right.  Naptha."  She says, looking around, slowly folding her wing around Calamine's barrel.
[17:40] * Vera "I have the sinking feeling that all of this is explicitly for our benefit."
[17:42] * Candlelight_Sonata shifts her rifle off of her back and says nothing.
[17:42] * Vera "Calamine? You're the one with the mystical powers. Can't you, like, sense them or something?"
[17:43] * Calamine glances to Vera before nodding and closing her eyes to focus. "I'll try."
[17:44] <%Somber> The road seemed to lead onward through the screaming chaos... ponies praying to Celestia... parents shouting for loved ones... boat turning over and over as they rolled in the wave... and yet never hitting.  Never impacting.  None of these panicked people were reacting to them either.
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[17:47] * Candlelight_Sonata lays her ears back as she trots along next to Calamine, looking around warily.  "Why would someone live in this dark moment?"
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[17:49] * Vera "I don't think that's a useful question. That monster isn't a pony like you or I."
[17:49] * Strifer snorts, "That's an understatement. Most ponies pulp a lot easier than that thing."
[17:49] * Harris shrugs "I don't know whats it like to be a pony."
[17:50] * Candlelight_Sonata gives Harris a sympathetic look.  "Some days I don't either..."
[17:52] * Calamine shudders. "There are some rules here. We cannot leave this path. If we do before we reach Naptha, we'll be trapped here forever."
[17:52] * Strifer shrugs at Harris. "About like you but a bit smaller. Longer, thicker tongues too," she says sticking hers out as far as it will go and making licking motions.
[17:52] * Harris looks over to the batpony "Ok... so any idea as what this all may mean Calamine. Or you up the shit ckeek like the rest of us?"
[17:53] * Calamine continues after pausing for a moment. "Also, we must pay some price, overcome some challenge, and then we will recieve a gift before we arrive at where Naphta is."
[17:53] * Candlelight_Sonata stops short.  "When are we paying this price?"  She asks quietly.
[17:54] * Vera "I'm sure we'll know it when it happens."
[17:55] * Candlelight_Sonata shakes herself.  "That we will."  She says as she trots along, head held just a bit higher than before.
[17:55] * Calamine nods. "I don't know when, but we have to. We best get going," she says before leading the way.
[17:55] * Strifer blinks at Calamine's instruction to stay on the path. "Seriously? So no ransacking the stores full of mint condition goodies? Fuck."
[17:55] * Calamine looks back at Strifer. "This doesn't actually exist."
[17:56] <Calamine> "But the dangers are real."
[17:56] * Harris shrugs "Let the junky have its fun."
[17:56] * Vera shakes her head. "I'm not letting anyone in here die, at least not if they're not already dead."
[17:59] * Strifer snorts and starts trotting. "Great, so there's danger but no looting? Cally, this is the last time I let you take me on a date."
[18:00] * Candlelight_Sonata keeps trotting forward, though she stops and stiffens when Strifer mentions 'date.'  To those paying attention, she twitches slightly.
[18:01] <%Somber> It was hard to tell if it was five minutes or five hundred years, but the road curves and up ahead the road ended at a massive crowd trying to push their way on to an idling bus.  There were so many struggling to get on it before the wave hit that it'd be a tight squeeze for any of them to make it.  Then, from out of the crowd, five small figures raced at
[18:01] * Harris gives a little chuckle at Candlelight_Sonata discomfort
[18:03] <%Somber> them.  A blue gray batpony filly pounced on Sonata and cried "Mama! I'm scared!"  A young earth pony colt jumped on Strifer's back.  "Knock em out of the way, mama!  You can beat anypony!"  A griffon chick landed on Harris's back.  "Are we gonna get away, dad?!"  A pegasus stallion looked at Vera.  "Don't worry, we'll get on, love."  And a zebra foal silently
[18:04] <%Somber> clung to Calamine's forehoof, sucking her hoof fearfully.
[18:06] * Calamine blinks down at the foal before looking up at the crowd. "No... The island is cruel," she whispers to herself.
[18:06] * Vera shivers. "This is wrong."
[18:06] * Harris uffs at the chick "Ok any one go an idea."
[18:07] <%Somber> "Get onna bus, Daddy!" the chick says, pointing her claw at the still open doors.  "Duuuuh."
[18:08] * Calamine looks to Candlelight_Sonata. "I think this is either the challenge or the price. And I'm beginning to see what this is too."
[18:08] * Vera "No... I think this is the gift."
[18:08] * Strifer stiffens as the colt jumps on her, eye twitching as she tries to decide what to do about this. "What the f-" She hesitates, feeling strangely uncomfortable about swearing like a sailor in front of these pre-war children.
[18:09] <%Somber> The colt stamps his hoof.  "Common ma'am!  Kick all their fuckin asses!"
[18:09] * Candlelight_Sonata holds the batpony filly close.  "The challenge?  How are little ones a challenge?"  She asks, gently petting the filly's mane.
[18:09] * Strifer chuckles at the colt's exuberance. "I like this kid. Can we keep 'im?"
[18:10] <%Somber> The tiny zebra filly points one hoof at the bus as she sucks on the other.
[18:11] * Calamine looks around some more. "But I don't know if this is a challenge to save them or to let them go as they were meant to... I think this is a vision of the Costa del Luna of the past. When the wave hit."
[18:11] * Candlelight_Sonata pales.  "Is..."  she hangs her head.
[18:11] * Vera stares at the stallion. Then tears her gaze away, painfully. "If we go with them, I don't think we can leave."
[18:12] * Harris takes the griffonling in his talons "We don't need no bus silly, we just take to wing. Thats how we've all ways done it. Thats how the clans have always done it." the gives her a light tap on the beak
[18:12] * Calamine looks down at the filly and closes her eyes. "I think you're right, Vera."
[18:12] <%Somber> The blue batpony hugging Candlelight points at the bus.  "Hurry!  Get on the bus before its too late!"
[18:12] * Vera shakes her head at the stallion. "Go! I... I'll catch up later!"
[18:13] <%Somber> She shook her head.  "Nuh uh, Daddy.  Gotta get on the bus."  She pointed at the SHIPS that seemed on the verge of falling all of them.  "Can't fly through that."
[18:14] * Strifer gestures at the giant waves carrying immense ships like toys. "Really, Cally? I hadn't guessed. So what do we do about all this? If we don't get on the bus...huh..." She glances back at the colt. "Better idea, kid. We're gonna run like the wind. Sound fun?"
[18:14] <%Somber> The Stallion frowns.  "I'm not leaving you.  Not for anything!"  He said and hugged her.
[18:14] * Candlelight_Sonata starts crying as she looked down at the batpony.  "Sometimes, love, you have to be brave and go by yourself.  I... I'm not sure I can go with you, sweetheart."
[18:14] * Harris puts down the chick "Then how will that bus save you from that." he points a talon to the waves
[18:14] * Calamine stops as she's about to turn. "No... Perhaps this is the challenge. Perhaps we are supposed to know what the people of this island felt.
[18:15] <%Somber> "Cause it will, daddy.  It's a magic bus.  But you got to get on quick!"
[18:15] <%Somber> Indeed.  Behind them it seems like the wave was starting to hit the city.
[18:15] <Calamine> "We are in a land of spirits, I think the challenge, the price we must pay, is to know what they felt." She then picks up the filly and starts walking towards the bus.
[18:16] * Harris looks to Calamine for some if any answer
[18:16] * Vera pushes off the stallion. "Go! If you truly love me, trust me and go!"
[18:16] * Candlelight_Sonata puts a hoof on Calamine's shoulder.  "Just... tell me what you feel.  I don't..."  she looks down at the blue filly.
[18:17] * Calamine smiles at her. "I feel like we need to bring them to safety. It's the right thing to do and the path led us to this bus."
[18:17] <%Somber> The bus was crowded.  It was funny how the ponies were trying desperately to get in... and yet... couldn't.  The driver behind the whee looked at Calamine.  "Hurry!  Get in!  We only have room for... let me see... I think... eight!  No.  Nine!"
[18:17] * Harris then nods to Calamine "Come lets get on this magic bus, ok." as he takes the youngling in talon and leads her to the bus
[18:18] * Calamine stops as she climbs on the bus. "But there are ten of us."
[18:18] <%Somber> The stallion shook his head.  "No!  I love you.  I'm not going to go!"
[18:19] <%Somber> "Not unless its a choice of me, or you, love."
[18:19] <%Somber> "Well, I can only take seven more!" he said, looking at the foal.  "Hold on to your baby tight!"
[18:19] * Strifer snorts, "Ah, I get it. Don't leave the path, but the bus is on the path. Well, okay then." She grins at the colt. "Hold on tight, kiddo!"
[18:20] * Strifer charges forwards into the crowd, slamming ponies aside. "Make way for mama!"
[18:20] * Calamine looks to the stallion, holding onto the zebra filly in her hooves. "Thank you."
[18:20] <%Somber> Strifer gets on, the colt whooping on her back.  "Yeah!  Outta her way before she kicks all yer asses!"
[18:20] * Vera "Fine! Let's go!" She sprints for the bus.
[18:21] <%Somber> The driver coughed.  "Five... five more.  Hurry!"
[18:21] * Candlelight_Sonata looks at Harris and Vera as the pair wait to board the bus.  "You want children eventually, don't you Harris?"  And Vera wants... love?"
[18:21] <%Somber> Vera and the stallion got on.  He held her close, kissing her.
[18:21] <%Somber> "Three more!"
[18:21] * Harris makes his way on the bus with the chick
[18:22] <%Somber> There's barely room on the bus for them.  "Come on!  I can take one more!" he shouts at Candlelight.  The blue batpony filly looked up at her with huge, tear filled eyes.  "M...mama?"
[18:24] * Strifer yells, "You comin', ears?"
[18:24] * Vera stares at Candlelight_Sonata intently out the window.
[18:25] <%Somber> The stallion looks sadly at Vera.  "Do you want me to get off so she can get on?"
[18:26] * Candlelight_Sonata sobs as she wraps her wings and hooves around the filly.  "Sweetie?  Momma's gotta go.  You have to stay here.  I'm sorry honey.  I'm sorry..."
[18:26] * Vera nods once.
[18:26] * Vera presses her face to the window of the bus, tears smudging it up.
[18:27] * Vera closes her eyes. "Go my love. Go. Please. I will always remember you."
[18:28] <%Somber> He hugs her tightly.  "I love you.  I will always... always love you..." he said softly.  Then he sprang from the bus and swept up Candlelight and her filly and pushed them on the bus.  The door slammed shut.  He smiled gently at Vera from the outside of the glass, and then the wave hit.
[18:29] * Strifer looks from the stallion to Vera, a puzzled look crossing her face. "How old are you again?"
[18:29] * Candlelight_Sonata is pushed onto the bus, the filly in her hooves.  "NO!  VERA NO!"  She pounds on the door.  "That was my sacrifice, Vera.  Why?  Why did you do that?"  she asks, tears streaming down her face.
[18:30] * Vera sniffles. "I'm... I'm... Twenty one... I've been twenty one... *sniffle* for a while now..."
[18:31] * Strifer awkwardly pats the ghoul's shoulder, careful of her claws. "He...the stallion...he wasn't someone you knew, was he?"
[18:31] <%Somber> The world outside was transformed into a white world as the bus turned over and over, filled with the screams of ponies within.  It was rather akin to being trapped inside a side load washing machine tumbling over and over again... while the washing machine was being rolled down a cliff and beaten with hammers.  Then the bus broke open like a can spilling
[18:31] * Calamine hugs Candlelight_Sonata close, holding her and the two fillies.
[18:32] * Vera sobs quietly. "...Been *sob* twenty one... for an awfully long while..."
[18:33] * Strifer yells, "FUCK!" and grabs for the colt, hugging him close to protect him.
[18:34] <%Somber> them out on a debris and mud strewn road.  There weren't screams any more.  The waves were gone.  They could see the destroyer impaling the high rise, and off in the distance the cruise ship parked in the middle of town.  Bodies lay everywhere... and so too were flames, spreading from building to building as leaking gas tanks and gas mains went up one after
[18:34] <%Somber> the next.  The young they held smiled and embraced them tightly, before disappearing into mist.  All except Vera... who would never be loved again.
[18:35] * Candlelight_Sonata cries into Calamine's chest, occasionally whispering 'Why?'
[18:36] * Calamine watches as the children vanish while not letting go of Candlelight_Sonata. "This island is cruel. So much death. So much pain. The spirit of this very island has been warped by it."
[18:37] <Calamine> "/me shudders. "A price has been paid. A Guardian must be overcome. A gift must be given..." she says, her voice hollow as she repeats the spirit's words.
[18:37] * Strifer swallows at the odd warmth she could still feel where the colt had hugged her. "Y..yeah...fuck this place. What next?"
[18:38] <%Somber> There was a conspicuous lack of fire along the road before them.  almost like a trail leading onward.
[18:40] * Calamine helps Candlelight_Sonata up. "We need to keep going. Naptha's waiting for us to save her."
[18:40] * Harris gets up and looks down the road "So... this is one messed up ride."
[18:41] * Vera "We push forward. No going back."
[18:41] * Strifer snorts at the fire-lined path. "Oh, right. Because this has been so much fun already. Okay, let's go find out what the next horrible thing is," she mutters and begins trotting down the path.
[18:44] <%Somber> The city after the wave hit was a nightmare.  Water choked with muck and mire.  The air filled with fire and smoke.  Only the road seemed passible... but hardly pleasant.  Then they come across the stern of a ship lying in their path, laying upside down in the flames.  "H.M.S. Guardian' was printed on its stern, and as they watched, a rear hatch a few feet
[18:45] <%Somber> above the road fell open, unleashing a slurry of bloody water... the dark hope gaping wide.
[18:47] * Candlelight_Sonata limps along with Callie, occasionally looking pained at Vera.
[18:47] * Calamine keeps Candlelight_Sonata quietly as they walk. When they arrive at the ship, Callie shudders again. "The Guardian to overcome."
[18:50] * Harris looks over the 'Guardian' "Well it's our path it looks like."
[18:51] * Strifer chuckles at the name of the ship. "Somepony has a sense of humor. So let's get some light in there so we know what we're dealin' with."
[18:53] * Candlelight_Sonata wipes tears from her eyes.  "Then we go through."
[19:00] * Somber ([email protected]) Quit ( Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client )
[19:02] * Strifer is now known as Doubleclick
[19:03] * Doubleclick ([email protected]) has left #FalloutEquestriaPNP2
[19:05] * Vera is now known as Scorch_Mechanic[A]
[19:09] * Candlelight_Sonata ([email protected]) has left #FalloutEquestriaPNP2