Fallout: Beyond Equestria, 85: Origin Story (Part 2)

[2014-05-07 13:08:13] <Kkat> 3Southward, the forest thickens.  Dark and jagged mountains rise forebodingly in the distance.  Below, a massive wall ends the divide, this one apparently made of stalks of bamboo thicker around than the body of a pony.
[2014-05-07 13:08:22] <Kkat> 3From their altitude, they can see the village beyond the wall, complete with its own military outpost, including a tracked military vehicle bearing rockets.
[2014-05-07 13:08:31] <Kkat> 3The clouds hang low, burdened with water evaporated from the oceans to either side of the isthmus.  They are light grey, not threatening rain yet, but promising it will come soon.  The air is laden with humidity and smells slightly of salt.  The ponies can see that the land that stretches out beyond the isthmus sinks into a tropical jungle basin.
[2014-05-07 13:08:41] <Kkat> 3This place, they can glean, gets a LOT of rain, the mountain ranges north and south creating a natural trap for the weather.
[2014-05-07 13:09:47] * Get_Silly "wait, can we make a stop to check if there are missiles in that Zebrusjia LRM moving platform?"
[2014-05-07 13:09:55] <Get_Silly> *zebrushia
[2014-05-07 13:10:25] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream looks down. "Hey, you said yer' real good at doin' recon stuff, right? If you were t' look for somethin' that got lost in that there forest, where would ya'll start?"
[2014-05-07 13:10:31] <Kkat> 3Mare-Do-Well considers, then begins pointing to spots all over the jungle.  "Probably around one of the ruins."
[2014-05-07 13:10:45] <Kkat> 3Bookwright asks, "Hey, um, Rainbow? Do you know anything about the 'Daring Do' series of adventure novels?"
[2014-05-07 13:10:55] <Kkat> 3"I mean, it's kind of a shot in the dark that you might be able to help me, but... you were around for the existence... maybe you can shed some light on their history?"
[2014-05-07 13:11:03] <Kkat> 3Mare-Do-Well looks to Bookwright in surprise.  Then nods.  "More than you can imagine."  She swoops forward ahead of everyone, then turns around, flying backwards.  "Welcome to the zebra lands.  First stop, the Tenochtitlan Basin."
[2014-05-07 13:11:56] <Kkat> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session Eighty-Four: Origin Story (Part Two) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSUQxGjZZ4
[2014-05-07 13:12:06] <Kkat> 3--- Session Begins ---
[2014-05-07 13:16:29] * Bookwright 's task as BFG gunner means he must sweep the land and skies for potential threats, so his sharp eyes are usually the first to notice new and interesting things.
[2014-05-07 13:16:30] * CopyCat peers at the distant zebra machine in response to Get_Silly's question. "I think I see missiles, but whether or not they have warheads suitable for Crimson Caravans is another matter."
[2014-05-07 13:17:07] * Get_Silly "for who?"
[2014-05-07 13:18:10] * CopyCat calls back. "Crimson Caravans. They were the ponies who sent you on this mission, I believe."
[2014-05-07 13:18:28] * Golden_Dream nickers. "Alright, alright. Next stop, that thing." Her ear flicks up at Get_Silly. Her ears then go flat against the ground. "The folks what pay us."
[2014-05-07 13:19:16] * Bookwright "I don't think those missiles will have balefire warheads, but it can't hurt to check. And it might be a good idea to disable them anyways. They look like they could blow us out of the sky easily."
[2014-05-07 13:19:38] * Golden_Dream starts digging around the firetruck for where the books got stashed away. "So these things have pipbuck tags on 'em. There anything weird about why they would?"
[2014-05-07 13:19:49] * Get_Silly frowns "we get paid? didn't we do this because we needed to make some friends?"
[2014-05-07 13:29:20] * CopyCat turns her neck to face the firewagon. "Do we approach the village beyond the wall? Do we know if it is still inhabited?"
[2014-05-07 13:30:51] * Golden_Dream nods. "We dunno. That's why we're gonna take a look see."
[2014-05-07 13:30:51] <Little_Gloom> 3The village below is sparse.  Most of the buildings were thatched huts or similar structures with a lifespan far less than two centuries.  Buildings made of stone and dried mud still stand, but badly weathered and degraded.  A river runs through the town.  Rotting longboats are beached on its shore.
[2014-05-07 13:32:12] * Bookwright "Copycat? Is there anypo-er, any zebras down there?"
[2014-05-07 13:33:32] <Little_Gloom> 3Only a few of the buildings in town match the architectural style most associated with Caesarial Roam and the zebra empire.  They look official, and one of them is clearly military, armed with heavy turrets and missile batteries.  The turrets, however, don't seem to have power and no red flashes are showing up on E.F.S.
[2014-05-07 13:33:37] * Get_Silly adds her 2 cents to the conversation "see? if we had a long range missile that would be a irrelevant question" smile. loves helping with conversations
[2014-05-07 13:34:34] * Noble_Heart frowns and looks down at the settlement. "It seems unlikely anyone is living there now. But it may be worth finding out why." She began to maneuver to head towards the ruins.
[2014-05-07 13:34:42] * Shatara starts pondering how to strap the missile rack to the firewagon.
[2014-05-07 13:35:12] * Golden_Dream puts her hoof on her cheek, book flopping between her legs. "I dunno if she'd be able t' say that. She didn't know that Shatara existed th' first few days she was here."
[2014-05-07 13:35:36] <Little_Gloom> 3One building, on a hill towards the far end of town, is distinctly different.  It is a manor whose architecture would be more fitting in Equestria, such as might have been a rich Manehattanite's Ponyville summer home.
[2014-05-07 13:35:56] * CopyCat replies, "I can't sense zebra. Talking to them is a little awkward as well. How do you do it if you can't hear what they are thinki-" She turns away from the wagon, embarrassed.
[2014-05-07 13:36:37] * Shatara blinks at Golden_Dream. "Huh?"
[2014-05-07 13:37:19] * Bookwright "Copycat? We do it just fine."
[2014-05-07 13:38:12] * Golden_Dream sits there, slackjawed. Yeah, she just said that. "Oh, gee. It's almost like y' gotta take chances and learn how t' talk to folk you don't know." She plans on giving her the biggest noogie ever when they land.
[2014-05-07 13:43:30] <Little_Gloom> 3As the firewagon descends, and more and more details become visible, the group begin to spot what look like people.  From this height, they can't be absolutely sure, but it looks like there are zebras down there.  Quite a few of them.  Except... they aren't moving.
[2014-05-07 13:49:15] * CopyCat just looks straight ahead.
[2014-05-07 13:50:43] * Bookwright "Uh oh. I hope it's not another Crystal Empire."
[2014-05-07 13:52:05] * Bookwright blinks. "Oh. Oh no. Those are statues. Stone statues. Only one creature can do that to a living being."
[2014-05-07 13:52:14] * Bookwright sucks his teeth nervously. "Cockatrices."
[2014-05-07 13:53:15] <Kkat> 3Mare-Do-Well swoops down, staring.  "Oh geez."
[2014-05-07 13:53:20] * Noble_Heart frowns and looks down at the remains. "That... Is not a good sign. Perhaps they are native to this area?"
[2014-05-07 13:53:33] * Get_Silly frowns "what? ponies turned ito statues? can that be subverted? can we save them?"
[2014-05-07 13:54:59] * Bookwright shrugs. "I don't know. I just don't know."
[2014-05-07 13:56:51] * Mare-Do-Well 3zips between the statues, grimacing.
[2014-05-07 13:56:57] * Noble_Heart tilts her head to one side. "We believe it can likely be reversed. Though how is... Something uncertain."
[2014-05-07 13:57:35] * Shatara peers at the stonepones nervously.
[2014-05-07 13:57:54] * Get_Silly "well we should at least try! how did they get turned into stone?"
[2014-05-07 13:58:31] <Shatara> "B-back at the stable they told scary stories about stone ponies that moved when you weren't looking at them..."
[2014-05-07 14:00:31] * Bookwright scoffs. "That's silly, Shatara. Everypony-and-griffin knows that stone doesn't move."
[2014-05-07 14:00:54] * Bookwright "Copycat? Noble Heart? Can you please land us in the village?"
[2014-05-07 14:01:05] * Get_Silly sighs "duh, shatty, ponies dont' stop moving when you don't look at them! it's not that when you aren't there the world stops working... who put such childish ideas in your head?"
[2014-05-07 14:01:07] <Mare-Do-Well> 3As the firewagon draws closer, those with E.F.S. get a message flash:  Mwanzo Mpya location discovered.
[2014-05-07 14:01:54] * Bookwright titters. "Next you'll be saying that these living statues send you back in time or something! How silly."
[2014-05-07 14:02:44] * Noble_Heart continues to head downwards hopefully with CopyCat's help, looking for a safe place to land.
[2014-05-07 14:02:55] * Shatara stares at the stonepones quietly and tries very hard not to blink.
[2014-05-07 14:03:10] * CopyCat descends along with her sister-in-purple.
[2014-05-07 14:04:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3It is followed by another, this time in red letters: Alert!  Stable-Tec regrets to inform you that tows, cities and points south of Mwanzo Mpya are unlikely to have Stable-Tec Tags(tm).  Locations not tagged will not be automatically marked on you PipBuck's Automapper.  Stable-Tec apologizes for the inconvenience.  Thank you for choosing Stable-Tec.
[2014-05-07 14:05:10] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(tows = towns)
[2014-05-07 14:05:44] * Get_Silly gets ready to jump off the wagon, taking a look around and activating the EFS
[2014-05-07 14:05:58] * Shatara looks at his pipbuck quizically, before acking and remembering to stare at the stonepones again.
[2014-05-07 14:08:38] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Flying now lower than the height of Mwanzo Mpya's northern wall, the group can see that all the statues are zebras.  Several are military, petrified complete with their legionnaire armor and weapons, but most look like civilians of all ages.
[2014-05-07 14:09:19] * Golden_Dream frowns. "... Hey, Bookie. Noble, y'all are smart ponies."
[2014-05-07 14:09:20] * Get_Silly frowns "that's a massacre if i've ever seen one..."
[2014-05-07 14:09:51] * Bookwright tilts his head. "Um. Only for very limited definitions of 'smart'. What are you getting at?"
[2014-05-07 14:09:53] * Golden_Dream looks around. "Can you make a bomb out of cockatrice vision?"
[2014-05-07 14:10:47] * Bookwright 's disgust is visible on his face. "That... would depend on how cockatrices stoned creatures."
[2014-05-07 14:11:14] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Most of the statues have toppled over.  Many of them don't look like they could have ever stood, as they were turned to stone in mid gallop.  A majority, particularly amongst the civilian zebras, are looking up and towards the south, all facing the same way.
[2014-05-07 14:11:47] * Mare-Do-Well 3flies back to the others.  "I... don't think this was cockatrices."
[2014-05-07 14:11:50] * Get_Silly "well, i guess that if you can make a spell that peetrifies a pony then you could attach it to a megaspell and let it loos, so... technically, i'd say yes"
[2014-05-07 14:12:03] <Get_Silly> *loode
[2014-05-07 14:12:29] * Mare-Do-Well 3exerts the effort so that all can hear her.
[2014-05-07 14:12:51] * Bookwright "Are you... Are you saying that this was caused by a weapon? By an equestrian superweapon?"
[2014-05-07 14:12:57] * Golden_Dream checks her pipbuck for radiation. "I don't suggest hangin' around here, then. Rainbow Dash, you ever hear of somethin' like this?"
[2014-05-07 14:14:32] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods.   "Yeah.  I've seen... hell, I've /done/ this before.  It's Discord, writ large."  She extends her hooves in a sweeping gesture.  "The stone imprisonment spell, only powered by a megaspell rather than the Elements of Harmony."
[2014-05-07 14:15:44] * Bookwright "Can... Can it be undone?"
[2014-05-07 14:17:07] * Golden_Dream grimaced. "Doubt it. We got /real/ lucky on the Crystal Kingdom thing." She looks to the rest of the group. "I /really/ don't wanna be here too long. Megaspells have radiation, and I don't feel like having new stone shoes. Let's loot the mansion for all it's worth and get the hell out of here before we start turning into statues."
[2014-05-07 14:19:29] * CopyCat wriggles free of the harness and approaches the nearest statue. "Umm... hello?" She tries.
[2014-05-07 14:21:34] * CopyCat shakes her head and turns to Bookwright. "How do you do it?"
[2014-05-07 14:23:01] * Noble_Heart taps her chin and frowns. "But... Who? And why? We have never heard of an Equestrian Megaspell of such a nature. It would be... inequine to do such a thing!" She scowled at the prospect.
[2014-05-07 14:23:04] * Mare-Do-Well 3frowns.  "Well, Discord was freed, but only with Elements."  She lands next to CopyCat.  "So maybe with the Elements of Harmony.  Or another megaspell."
[2014-05-07 14:23:28] * Bookwright "We talk. We watch the other parties in conversation for nonverbal cues that give us some idea of how the other parties feel, assuming they're not dissembling. It's all part and parcel of not being able to read everypony's minds all the time."
[2014-05-07 14:24:32] * Golden_Dream looks at Copycat with an expression like she doesn't want to destroy her innocence, but she has to. "... Copycat, they're statues. They can't talk back." She starts treading up to the Manor, ushering the others to come along before she got an idea. "... Bookie, she means your telepathy spell! Check and see if they're still goin' on in their heads!"
[2014-05-07 14:25:04] * CopyCat grumbles. "That sounds complicated."
[2014-05-07 14:25:18] * Bookwright nods. "It is. And it takes a lifetime to develop it."
[2014-05-07 14:25:40] * Get_Silly "wait, a megaspell could free them? okay, now we know what we will do with the first megaspell we find.... in the meantime i'll be at the missile platform salvaging it"
[2014-05-07 14:26:41] * Bookwright horse noises at Golden_Dream. "Fine. I can't guarantee it'll work on them though." He selects the same statue CopyCat approached and touches its forehead with his horn."
[2014-05-07 14:26:43] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream's PipBuck has its radiation needle in the green.  The radiation that was surely here in abundance once has dropped to a level that is safe to all but a Stable Dweller.
[2014-05-07 14:27:46] * Golden_Dream blinks. "Shatara, fly up an work lookout. We'll keep in contact." She begins to open the door on the manor to look inside, if it's open.
[2014-05-07 14:28:14] * Noble_Heart carefully removes her harnass and follows after Golden Dream. Curious about what might be found here.
[2014-05-07 14:30:47] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(The radiation level here is 1 rad per hour.  Any level of radiation resistance will negate that.)
[2014-05-07 14:34:40] * Shatara nods and gets some altitude.
[2014-05-07 14:35:51] * Get_Silly waves at shatara "hey, if you dont' find interesting stuff, will yu help me tearing the missile thing to the minimum common denominator?"
[2014-05-07 14:42:42] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The manor was once clearly a stately place.  Now, it has been heavily boarded up and marred by angrily painted zebra symbols.
[2014-05-07 14:42:56] * CopyCat leaves Bookwright to his 'conversation' and trots after Golden_Dream and Noble_Heart, joining them at the manor.
[2014-05-07 14:43:23] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Another E.F.S. notification: Yearling Manor location discovered.
[2014-05-07 14:44:27] * Golden_Dream doesn't understand Zebra. She wish she could sometimes. So, she looked at her pipbuck and... Wait. She looked at one of the Daring Do novels. "... Rainbow Dash? How much do you like Daring Do again?"
[2014-05-07 14:45:43] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Then those with E.F.S. see a string of gibberish flash across their vision.  The gibberish disappears and is replaced by a new notification:  >> DDA Report I found.  Download complete. <<
[2014-05-07 14:49:06] * Golden_Dream blinks, then looks at the file. Report? She tried to find it the way Shatara taught her to. She felt like a science pony wizard for a brief, manic moment before being back to the grim reality of things.
[2014-05-07 14:50:24] * Golden_Dream flicks her attention to Noble Heart. "Could y'all get it open somehow? I think this is th' author of Daring Do's place."
[2014-05-07 14:51:28] * CopyCat looks over the painted symbols and thinks out loud. "The locals seem to have taken a dislike of whoever lived here. And the architecture seems much more Equestrian than the other buildings in the village."
[2014-05-07 14:53:04] * Noble_Heart blinks and frowns. She reached out with her magic intent to remove the blockades from the building. If this was the home of the pony that wrote Daring Do, then they must have been starnge indeed.
[2014-05-07 14:54:11] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost has moved over to the tracked military vehicle.  The vehicle holds three large missiles, aimed northward.  Cursory inspection shows that about a third of the vehicle is fused together, from the tracks to the launchers.  A faint tinting of pink suggests how and why.  Ditzy Doo's Deliveries has been using this route for over a decade...
[2014-05-07 14:54:46] <Mare-Do-Well> 3...and they have been careful to thoroughly disable any threats in their flight path.
[2014-05-07 14:56:00] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The download is not hard to find on Golden_Dream's PipBuck.
[2014-05-07 14:56:19] * Golden_Dream opens that thing, hoping very hard it's not one of those virus things he talked about!
[2014-05-07 14:58:09] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright senses something telepathically.
[2014-05-07 14:58:37] * Bookwright shivers, and breaks the spell quickly.
[2014-05-07 14:58:49] * Shatara looks over the pink'd out SAM launcher. "...Guess that means we can't strap it to the wagon."
[2014-05-07 14:59:38] * Bookwright "This one is still alive. Unfortunately. She's also quite insane. Restoring these zebras to life would be anything but mercy."
[2014-05-07 14:59:42] * Get_Silly "never say never"
[2014-05-07 14:59:54] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> First mission report.
[2014-05-07 15:00:14] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> I’m at Yearling Manor.  The locals haven’t given me any trouble, but they’re keeping a close eye on me.  They don’t trust me, but it’s more than that.
[2014-05-07 15:00:24] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> They all know that the zebra military has started up operations deep in the basin, and they know that their treaty with Tragedy’s End and all their neutrality won’t be worth a donkey’s fart if the Legion decides they aren’t.
[2014-05-07 15:00:32] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Or, worse, if the Legion takes offense.
[2014-05-07 15:00:49] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> By Scorcherro’s claws, this place brings back memories.  Most of them bad.  I never wanted to return here.  But Equestria calls and all that.  They’ve boarded the place up so tight I think they put Wonderglue on the nails.
[2014-05-07 15:01:14] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Fortunately, I know how to think outside the box.  I have what I came here for, safe and sound, and left what I needed to leave behind, so on to the next objective.  This is where it gets tricky.
[2014-05-07 15:01:28] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Reminds me, though, that I still have one more story left in me.  Since I’m supposed to add a “pad” with each of these for Final Echo, I might as well flesh out one last book.
[2014-05-07 15:01:42] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> This one will be different, though.  I’ll need a different sort of opener.  Not the big jump into action like I used to.  Maybe an entirely different tone.  Something… formal.  Like how she would sound.
[2014-05-07 15:01:56] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Ahem… rough draft, author’s notes, take one…
[2014-05-07 15:02:03] <Mare-Do-Well> 3>
[2014-05-07 15:02:21] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Open First Pad y/n?
[2014-05-07 15:03:26] * Golden_Dream blinks. "Hey Rainbow Dash! Here's th' rough draft of th' first story!" She clicks "y" to show to her.
[2014-05-07 15:04:05] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost starts prying open the missiles on the launcher.  But she quickly realizes that she does not have the expertise in explosives necessary to scavenge them safely.
[2014-05-07 15:04:24] * Mare-Do-Well 3flies over, looking slightly distraught.
[2014-05-07 15:05:11] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> What you have in your hooves, dear reader, is the first and, by all intentions, final story in a long series of adventures that began in my youth.  For long-term fans, the generalities of most of these stories are exceedingly familiar, as I was driven to tell the tales of my own adventures, for reasons both obvious and heretofore obscured.
[2014-05-07 15:05:21] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> The true details are, however, unknown except by a small few.  (I will admit taking more than my fair share of artistic license in my writings.)
[2014-05-07 15:05:40] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Fans may find themselves jarred by the tone and vocabulary used within this book, for it does not match my earlier writings.  In younger years, I was quite a prolific writer.
[2014-05-07 15:05:45] * Get_Silly sighs "hey shatara, do you understan something of missiles? i want the circuitry inside but there seems to be something boomy between me and that..."
[2014-05-07 15:06:02] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> .   I chose intentionally to mimic the style of the pulp adventure novels that had so shaped my earliest years, and which lent itself so well to not only the stories which I wished to tell but the conceit which I was constructing in their telling.
[2014-05-07 15:06:14] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> This book, however, I intend to write in a style more comfortable to the narrative of a confession… for that, in truth, is what this tale is.
[2014-05-07 15:06:30] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> It has been twenty-five years since I have lifted quill or tape recorder, much less put hoof to typewriter (or, rather, these new machines that have replaced them in the interim).  I was content to sit back in my home and allow the world to go by without me, satisfied that I had done my part and the world was better for it.
[2014-05-07 15:06:39] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> And, moreso, that the era of my adventures had come and gone, and that the torch had been passed to another generation.
[2014-05-07 15:06:49] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Sadly, the word “retirement” is not sacrosanct to many a pony, not the least of whom being an old, one-time companion whose insistent knock on my door propelled me out of my comfortable solitude.  Nor is it to the specters of the past.
[2014-05-07 15:07:03] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> The visit left me thinking of the words of one of my favorite professors: history is like a chain, each link following the last, irrevocably connected to it – no deed or event stands alone, without causes or consequences.
[2014-05-07 15:07:13] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> As of late, I have been taken with a different analogy.  History is alive – a monstrous mother, constantly spawning new generations of repercussions, each already pregnant and yearning to give birth to the next.  You cannot hope to cut the chain; you can only hope to corral the swarm.
[2014-05-07 15:07:16] <Mare-Do-Well> 3>
[2014-05-07 15:07:22] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> ...
[2014-05-07 15:07:35] <Mare-Do-Well> 3> Okay, that was awful.  If I tried to do the whole story like that, I’d probably go nuts.
[2014-05-07 15:07:40] * Get_Silly climbs down the missiles and goes for the launcher itself, seeing if she can salvage some interesting parts and circuitry
[2014-05-07 15:07:59] * Golden_Dream giggles. This pony got it.
[2014-05-07 15:08:13] * Shatara helps. Also make sure she doesn't turn the valley into a crater.
[2014-05-07 15:12:12] * Bookwright "I think... I think we should lay these zebras to rest. They're all still alive, for some definition of the word, and quite insane from centuries of being alone with only their own thoughts for company. What happened here is an atrocity no less evil than what happened in Equestria at the hooves of the zebras."
[2014-05-07 15:13:15] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara is helping make sure Get_Lost doesn't make their stay in the zebra lands extra short... hey, wasn't there a statue over by that tree a moment ago?  The zebra with the cloak and basket?  Oh.  No, it's there by that crumbled wall.
[2014-05-07 15:13:43] * Noble_Heart tilts her head slightly to one side. "have you any suggestions on how? Would shattering them kill them, or merely make them endure pain or perhaps worse?"
[2014-05-07 15:17:13] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks horrified.  Weakly, she claims, "It wasn't supposed to be like this."  She stares around her.  "We wouldn't have meant this... it should have been temporary.  I'm sure that was the plan...  I..."  Flying up to one of the zebra statues, she stares into the petrified face.  "I'm... I'm so sorry."  She is a ghost, and ghosts cannot cry.
[2014-05-07 15:17:13] * Get_Silly didn't giv up, is now trying to operate the electronics inside the truck itself
[2014-05-07 15:19:18] * Shatara turns back to watch Get_Silly works. Wait, what? He squawks with alarm and jumps on Get_Silly's back. "dontblinkdontblinkdontblink..."
[2014-05-07 15:20:27] * Get_Silly headbutts the misisle station. when you are trying to make com puters cooperate you better show them who's the baws
[2014-05-07 15:22:12] * Golden_Dream looks notably unphased. After seeing so much horror that comes with ponies' inequinity to ponies, after a time, you just start feeling numb to it. There was a sinking feeling, maybe a bit of depression, but that was it. "Hey! Get Lost! Gimme th' pickaxe! We're pryin' this thing open!"
[2014-05-07 15:24:15] * Get_Silly yells back "just a minute! i'm using it!"
[2014-05-07 15:25:01] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Noble_Heart's best efforts were unable to pull the boards from the doors and windows of Yearling Manor.  They seem fastened abnormally tight.
[2014-05-07 15:25:50] * CopyCat ear twitches. "That is... not a comforting thing to hear. Considering that Get is working on a missile platform."
[2014-05-07 15:26:14] * Noble_Heart scowls. "They are thoroughly stuck. I do not believe we will be getting in this way." She looked towards the upper floors, spreading her wings to check if they'd actually secured all the upper floor windows and the like.
[2014-05-07 15:29:00] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The upper floor windows and balcony door are all likewise boarded up.
[2014-05-07 15:29:35] * Bookwright "What's so interesting about this mansion, anyways? I mean, yeah, it's obviously equestrian. But why are you going at it hammer and tongs?"
[2014-05-07 15:31:29] * Golden_Dream proceeds to let Noble Heart find her own way in. She's a smart pony. She can beat two by fours. She walks on over to Rainbow Dash with somewhat of a vacant expression. "... Hey, hey. Hey, you didn't have much to do with this. You get used to stuff like this. This weren't your fault." She said in her best (awkward) comforting voice. She looks at Bookwright and clenched her teeth. "Because...
[2014-05-07 15:31:31] * Golden_Dream ...it's labeled 'Yearling Manor' and I just got a tag for A.K. Yearling's last book."
[2014-05-07 15:31:42] * CopyCat looks at Bookwright. "Because there might be cool things inside!" she says with a filly's enthusiasm.
[2014-05-07 15:33:12] * Bookwright 's eyes glint insanely. "Well then, stop prying at those silly things and let a unicorn open the way!"
[2014-05-07 15:34:23] * Bookwright ignores the boarded up windows and doors and instead makes for a piece of blank wall. Focusing inward, his eyes begin to glow like the setting sun.
[2014-05-07 15:35:08] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost, meanwhile, delves into the machinery and computer innards of the missile launcher, pulling out all manner of advanced zebra electronics.  Despite the damage done by Mouse, there is a good bit of salvage here.  On the far side of the vehicle, a zebra statue (was it there before?) is blocking one of the maintenance hatches she wants to get into.
[2014-05-07 15:35:55] * Get_Silly frowns at the statue "hey! i was using that!"
[2014-05-07 15:36:12] * Get_Silly tries pushing the statue aside, but without making it fall
[2014-05-07 15:37:21] * Bookwright touches the wall, and suddenly it looks a lot less substantial. "Come on then, Golden, CopyCat! Let's visit our local library!" He grins and steps through the wall, into the mansion itself.
[2014-05-07 15:38:06] * Shatara continues to stammer. "dontblinkdontblinkdontblink..."
[2014-05-07 15:39:30] * Golden_Dream stays behind with Rainbow Dash. "Hey, hey. Come with me. We gotta get yer mind off of this, alright? It won't do you or anypony no good t' get hooked like this."
[2014-05-07 15:39:55] * CopyCat tilts her head, then tries to follow Bookwright through the hole. She gets stuck halfway. "Eeeep!"
[2014-05-07 15:40:29] * Get_Silly is disappoint "okay, you want war? you get it!" pulls out some black marker or whatever it is and paint a hamster face on the zebra statue "serves you well!"
[2014-05-07 15:41:46] * Bookwright doesn't even look back. "Duck lower, Copycat. And hurry!"
[2014-05-07 15:42:41] * CopyCat wriggles in place, her (armoured) behind poking outside. "I need a push!"
[2014-05-07 15:43:08] * Get_Silly happy with her spring counter offensive, the mare goes back salvaging
[2014-05-07 15:44:23] * Golden_Dream looks worried for Rainbow Dash for a moment, then walks over to the door and gets through before the Phase spell runs out.
[2014-05-07 15:44:48] * Bookwright grabs CopyCat with his telekinesis and roughly jerks her through the opening.
[2014-05-07 15:47:20] * CopyCat is pulled through the hole, making space for Golden_Dream. She quickly picks herself up from the floor and looks at Bookwright sheepishly. "Thanks."
[2014-05-07 15:48:07] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The interior of Yearling Manor is in stately dilapidation.  The place is dark and gloomy, scant light filtering through cracks in the boarding across all the windows.   Dust lies thick, and cobwebs abound.  This room was the dining room.  There is a long wooden table laden with goblets and fruit bowls and surrounded by chairs.
[2014-05-07 15:48:28] * Bookwright doesn't even spare CopyCat a glance, so distracted is he by the promise of the book. "Fine, yes, you're welcome. Golden, you're the one with the pipbuck. Guide us!"
[2014-05-07 15:49:10] * Bookwright takes in the furnishings of Yearling Manor hungrily. "Look at this place! Untouched by looters! Beautiful!"
[2014-05-07 15:49:19] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Pictures hang on the walls, almost all of them of ponies looking stately and somber.  They are all faded, although one is faded far more than the others, to the point of being nearly blank.
[2014-05-07 15:51:43] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara notices Get_Lost drawing on one of the statues' stone faces.  When he looks back... damn, he could swear that statue of the zebra in centurion armor wasn't that close to the vehicle!
[2014-05-07 15:51:53] * Golden_Dream looks around for stuff. "Yeah. Untouched by looters. Until now." She looked around for anything good. An old rifle, some gold bullion, artifacts of ancient lore. Stuff like that.
[2014-05-07 15:52:28] * Bookwright is inspecting bookshelves. What else would he look at first?
[2014-05-07 15:52:51] * Shatara pokes Get_Silly's fleshy bits with his sharp bits. "Uh...We really should get back to the others...and don't blink..."
[2014-05-07 15:53:29] * Get_Silly "uhm, yeah, now please help me move away this statue so i can check this panel please...."
[2014-05-07 15:55:19] * Shatara finds this answer unsatisfactory, and so decides nonconcensual airlift is the best course of action. He picks up Get_Silly and dashes for the others as fast as he can.
[2014-05-07 15:56:08] * Get_Silly "hey! what the- hey, if you want sex it's okay but you should have asked a little more politely!"
[2014-05-07 16:01:05] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara is in time to see the last of his friends disappearing through the wall of Yearling Manor.  He also spots a dozen zebra statues on the hill staring directly at the Manor, and he cannot remember seeing them there before.
[2014-05-07 16:01:37] * Shatara dives at the wall where the others went through.
[2014-05-07 16:06:30] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara thuds against the wall, finding it very solid.
[2014-05-07 16:07:25] * Get_Silly "hey, it looks like we're stuck outside..... maybe there's some cafe in this place, mh? what about some relaxing time around the town?"
[2014-05-07 16:07:31] * Bookwright hears an echoing thud. "Hey! Who's out there?"
[2014-05-07 16:08:03] * Shatara whimpers. "...ow."
[2014-05-07 16:08:31] * Noble_Heart frowns as she lands on the roof, moving over to look down at where Shatara was collapsed. "What happened? We have heard tales of birds crashing into closed windows, but never griffons!"
[2014-05-07 16:08:38] * CopyCat answers for those outside. "Shatara was making sure he wasn't a ghost. I believe Get_Silly was helping him."
[2014-05-07 16:09:11] * Shatara looks up at Noble_Heart on his back. "Th-the statues are moving..."
[2014-05-07 16:09:20] * Bookwright stands in front of the wall. "Halloooo! Who's out there?"
[2014-05-07 16:09:50] * Get_Silly sighs and gies up "shatty, we could simply get in from the chimney, you know..."
[2014-05-07 16:10:41] * Get_Silly frowns, but it's hard to tell her mood since, you know, no eyes
[2014-05-07 16:10:53] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The manor is unlooted and unsavaged inside.  From the looks of several empty shelves and mantles, the last owners moved out before the apocalypse, leaving behind what they could not take or did not care to pack.
[2014-05-07 16:13:56] * Noble_Heart looks around at the statues a few moments curiously. "Are you certain? Statues do not normally move. Even those created from living beings."
[2014-05-07 16:14:26] * Golden_Dream checks the pantry and/or kitchen first. Maybe they had some gas or electricity left so that she could cook some lunch.
[2014-05-07 16:14:34] * Bookwright "Is that you, Get Lost? Hold on, I'll open the way for you." He mutters to himself. "Freeway, highway, byway, my way!" He touches his horn to the wall again, and a section two yards high and one wide starts to glow, faintly. He sticks his hoof through and beckons inside. "Come on then, quickly! The spell will only last thirty seconds!"
[2014-05-07 16:15:30] * Shatara nods vigorously as he scoops up Get_Silly again, holding her tight against his armored chest. "Th-they even tried to stop us from salvaging the launcher...a-and they're watching us on the hill there..." He points with his tail.
[2014-05-07 16:15:32] * Get_Silly trots inside, sighing "honestly, sometimes he's impossible...."
[2014-05-07 16:16:04] * Get_Silly but is grabbed "HEY! take a decisio and stick with it!"
[2014-05-07 16:16:10] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There heads of wild animals -- hunting trophies -- mounted on the walls in the den.  Five hydra heads are mounted above the huge fireplace.  Books still line several shelves, and there is a zebra-designed antique rifle mounted on one wall above a ornate globe.
[2014-05-07 16:16:28] * Get_Silly feels a little like an object mare
[2014-05-07 16:16:39] * Noble_Heart spread her wings to swoop down and through the opening. Better to not be left behind.
[2014-05-07 16:16:44] * Shatara changes vectors and dives through the re-opened wall-door.
[2014-05-07 16:17:43] * Golden_Dream passes by the rifle and whistles to take it. She was a fan of old guns, for some reason. Lever actions, bolt actions, crossbows. She felt confident with wood and steel.
[2014-05-07 16:18:58] * Get_Silly once inside, the scientist lowly growls and saying nothing goes siting by herself, opens her backpacks and starts working on her new acquired stuff
[2014-05-07 16:21:10] * Shatara tries to calm down and look around.
[2014-05-07 16:21:41] * Get_Silly is quite grumpy at the moment
[2014-05-07 16:22:10] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The kitchen is bare of food, and there does not seem to be any power here.  Most of the wall lamps, in fact, are of the oil-burning variety.  There are plenty of pots, pans, knives and cooking utensils.  And a walk-in second fireplace with a roasting pit.  There is a rack of skewers.
[2014-05-07 16:24:16] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream looks over the rifle.  She's not seen one quite like this before -- a powder-loaded blunderbuss.  The original zebra firearm, dating back well before the war.
[2014-05-07 16:24:46] * Shatara tries to busy himself looking at the hold gun with Golden_Dream.
[2014-05-07 16:25:43] * Golden_Dream whistles. "Look at this thing, Shatara. This here's an antique!" She turns it over in her hooves. "I don't think I got the heart to shoot it, if I'm honest."
[2014-05-07 16:27:01] * Bookwright shakes his head. Guns. Wotta silly pony. He goes back to perusing the (lacking) bookshelves.
[2014-05-07 16:28:57] * CopyCat trots over to Get_Silly. "Are you feeling alright?" She asks politely.
[2014-05-07 16:29:42] * Get_Silly "yeah, sure...." translate to WORST. DATE. EVER.
[2014-05-07 16:31:15] * CopyCat gives Get_Silly a hug. "There there. He was just scared that dozens and dozens of evil statues were converging on us at this very moment... Is there anything I can do to help?"
[2014-05-07 16:33:24] * Get_Silly "honestly... they looked just curious, not evil at all... i don't see why he was scared of them..." sighs "i.... i dont' know.... maybe i'll feel better if i go back to my computer programs.... they are so easy to understand..."
[2014-05-07 16:38:27] * Golden_Dream stashes it away before moving onto the kitchen. Right. Lots of fruit, lots of pots and pans. Not so much in the way of stuff to go with it. She wondered if there was at least flour and molasses so that she could make an improvised pudding with all the fruit she had.
[2014-05-07 16:39:21] * Shatara turns to Get_Silly and approaches, putting a wing over her. "We will have to talk to or fight them eventually...and then we can finish stripping that launcher..."
[2014-05-07 16:40:42] * CopyCat nods, and then tilts her head in thought. "Okay. If I can help with the date part either then you just have to ask."
[2014-05-07 16:41:58] * Get_Silly mumbles something on the line of "yeah, sure.... whatevr" and gently pushes aside the wing. she's not rude, still, the messae is very clear
[2014-05-07 16:43:52] * Shatara sighs and shakes his head. Weren't rescued damsels supposed to throw themselves at their rescuers? Then again, Get usually does that anyway...Either way, he is quite confused.
[2014-05-07 16:46:30] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The pantry stock is minimal, but there are some Good Pony Preserves, a couple sacks of flour, three jars of molasses and another two of honey that has hardened enough to be used as building material.  Plus, several strips hanging from the ceiling of some sort of heavily-salted, hardened vegetable matter.
[2014-05-07 16:48:03] * Get_Silly sighs and opens a couple of other bags, starting to put together several parts in a very compact block
[2014-05-07 16:51:46] * Get_Silly pauses for a oment, then goes exploring upstairs on her own but not trying to hide the thing very much
[2014-05-07 16:52:46] * Shatara sits in a corner, once again notvery useful. He decides to read the strange new document on his pipbuck.
[2014-05-07 16:53:22] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream takes a look at the strips hanging from the ceiling and is convinced they are actually jerky made from some animal native to the basin.  She gets images of the ponies who lived here roasting creatures they hunted over the roasting pit in the kitchen.  This was a hunting manor, clearly.
[2014-05-07 16:54:20] * Golden_Dream starts to put all the stuff, even the jerked strips, into her things. "Alright. Hey, y'all. Look for stuff. I'mma cook y'all some war cakes!" She called out. "Hey Shatara! I found you some meat, too! Looks, um. Tasty!" Meat was not her favorite thing to eat.
[2014-05-07 16:55:54] * Shatara perks up. "Oh?" He goes to investigate.
[2014-05-07 16:57:29] * Bookwright "Thank you for cooking, Golden_Dream! I'm starved."
[2014-05-07 16:59:49] <Mare-Do-Well> 3To Shatara's eyes, they do seem to be strips of jerky, although he couldn't guess the animal for the life of him.
[2014-05-07 17:00:39] * Noble_Heart looks up and down the walls curiously at the various things within the manor.
[2014-05-07 17:01:29] * CopyCat heads upstairs to look for dresses.
[2014-05-07 17:10:52] * Bookwright follows CopyCat upstairs, but he's looking for the book Golden_Dream was talking about, not the dresses.
[2014-05-07 17:12:08] * Golden_Dream begins the process of cooking stuff on the secondary fireplace. First, you add your fruit, heat it up, let it become a nice boiling slurry, add your molasses and then slowly introduce the flour and spices....
[2014-05-07 17:14:03] <Mare-Do-Well> 3CopyCat finds two bedrooms -- the master bedroom and the servant's bedroom -- both largely still furnished.  In the master bedroom, a large, four-poster bed is draped with gauze-like cloth (and spider webs).  There are dressers and nightstands -- those in the master bedroom far more ornate and more sturdy of build than those in the servant's bedroom.
[2014-05-07 17:14:53] * CopyCat pokes her head out of a bedroom when she hears Bookwright coming up the stairs. A set of old, frilly drawers are hanging from her horn. "Bookie, can you help me search for dresses? Get Lost is feeling a little down and I thought we might find something to cheer her up."
[2014-05-07 17:15:19] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There are closets in each.
[2014-05-07 17:15:37] * Bookwright "Of course!" He sets aside his search and goes on a dress hunt!
[2014-05-07 17:18:40] * CopyCat finds knickers! They are everywhere she looks! She cannot escape! She turns this way and that, almost in panic! Until eventually she removes the undergarments covering her eyes.
[2014-05-07 17:21:07] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost finds three bedrooms --  the master bedroom, the servant's bedroom, and a third bedroom, presumably either a child's bedroom or a guest bedroom, based on the floral pattern on the door.  .  At least, that's what Get_Lost presumes the third door she found leads to.  The door is locked.
[2014-05-07 17:21:35] * Shatara pulls out his enclave figurines and makes wooshy noises.
[2014-05-07 17:22:26] * Golden_Dream stirs her pulpy, sticky concoction. The smell of allspice and cinnamon with a fruity tartness wofts from her pot. "Just about done, here!"
[2014-05-07 17:26:45] * CopyCat (wearing half a sock drawer) joins Get_Silly by the flower door.
[2014-05-07 17:27:15] * Shatara sighs.Goes looking for a comfy spot.
[2014-05-07 17:29:03] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright and Copycat start checking drawers and closets in the two bedrooms they have found.  In the servant's bedroom, they find a tuxedo, complete with tie.  In the Master bedroom, Copycat finds a lot of socks.  Bookwright finds a light formal gown in the closet and a silver necklace with garnets in a jewelry box.
[2014-05-07 17:30:06] * Bookwright "Ooooh. CopyCat, look at this!" He holds up the gown and necklace. "Isn't it beautiful? Do you think it'll fit Get Lost?"
[2014-05-07 17:32:08] * CopyCat blinks at Bookwright. "Socks?" She shakes her head to clear it. "I mean, yes."
[2014-05-07 17:32:32] * Golden_Dream scoops the thick, pulpy mass and starts plating it. "Dinner's here, y'all! Get it before it's cold!"
[2014-05-07 17:32:40] * Get_Silly looks at the socks treasure "nice.... i have some socks too somewhere...."
[2014-05-07 17:32:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost opens the door to the room she has found.  The room seems... darker, although it really isn't.  Colder... although it really isn't that either.  More... lonely, maybe?  The room was the daughter's room, she thinks.  The wallpaper is unusually faded, but she can still make out the patterns of flowering ivy.
[2014-05-07 17:33:25] * Bookwright folds up the gown and necklace and takes them downstairs, setting them on the living room table. "Okay already, Golden. What's fer dinner?"
[2014-05-07 17:33:54] * Get_Silly steps inside and sighs "wel, let's see...."
[2014-05-07 17:34:36] * Golden_Dream taps a big wooden spoon on the pot. "War Cakes. Eat 'em up, they're sticky, good, and will stick to yer ribs."
[2014-05-07 17:35:44] * Bookwright spins some dishes onto the table and begins serving them up with his telekinesis.
[2014-05-07 17:36:08] * Shatara goes looking to join Golden_Dream for fuds.
[2014-05-07 17:37:04] * Golden_Dream starts digging through her things for the jerky. "Hey, Bookie. Yer' not stupid when it comes t' food. Can you put a hoof on what kind 'a meat this stuff is?"
[2014-05-07 17:37:16] * CopyCat turns to look for Get_Silly. "Get, Bookwright found something for you. Get_Silly?" Her friend wasn't in the corridor where she had been, and she gave no reply. Perhaps she was already downstairs after Golden_Dream's food call. CopyCat shrugs and heads downstairs herself.
[2014-05-07 17:40:29] * CopyCat is quickly distracted by food. She smiles at Golden_Dream. "That smells good!"
[2014-05-07 17:41:08] * Noble_Heart frowns slightly and sighs, lowering her head. The assorted objects in this house seemed to be distracting her worse than normal.
[2014-05-07 17:42:32] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost explores the smaller bedroom.  There is a nice, if slightly gothic, four-poster bed.  The sheets seem to be of a nice material, soft almost like velvet.  There is a elegant and sheer pony nightgown on the bed.  The closet has several dresses and ladies saddle-bags, as well as a few hats.
[2014-05-07 17:42:50] <Mare-Do-Well> 3 It doesn't look like this closet, or in fact this room, was touched by the packing efforts of the previous occupants.
[2014-05-07 17:43:28] * Golden_Dream sits down and lies back for a while, taking off her hat. The fur on her face felt like it was made of granite. "Eat up, it'll warm you up all the way through. That's what ya'll get fer draggin' my carcass around." She stuck out her tongue, but she did look tired. Not in the superficial way, although that wasn't exactly out there. She'd been out of her element for a long time now. It seemed...
[2014-05-07 17:43:30] * Golden_Dream ...that it finally caught up with her.
[2014-05-07 17:46:07] * Bookwright serves Golden_Dream first, putting a little english on the plate. "Here ya go. Cooky always gets first dibs."
[2014-05-07 17:46:13] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Something peculiar catches Bookwright's eye.  Another of the portraits, this one of a pony family standing in front of this manor in pre-war times.  Stallion, mare and... daughter, he thinks.  But for some reason, the paint has run and faded in that part of the image unlike any of the rest of it, blurring her(?) features.
[2014-05-07 17:46:58] * Bookwright serves himself and begins to eat, ruminating on the paintings portent, as well as the (delicious!) food.
[2014-05-07 17:47:08] <Bookwright> painting's*
[2014-05-07 17:47:45] * Golden_Dream sighs, and takes the plate. "Thanks." She set it off to the side and looked up at the ceiling. "... I got a question, folks. Have y'all ever heard of a pony named Cottonseed?"
[2014-05-07 17:49:07] * CopyCat shakes her head. "Noffh," she says, throug ha mouthful of cake.
[2014-05-07 17:50:23] * Shatara takes a plate and shakes head.
[2014-05-07 17:50:45] * Get_Silly packs up the dresses but this doesn't seem to make her happier... sighs and gets out, going with the others in the dining room
[2014-05-07 17:50:58] * Bookwright munches. "...Nope, can't say I have."
[2014-05-07 17:53:10] * Noble_Heart blinks and frowns, taking some of the food and shaking her head.
[2014-05-07 17:53:53] * CopyCat suddenly stops chewing and goes wide-eyed, nearly choking on her food. "I can hear Get Lost again. I couldn't just a moment ago. I didn't even realise it!"
[2014-05-07 17:54:34] * Golden_Dream looks off to the side. "That's their name. Cottonseed. Th' one what killed my dad."
[2014-05-07 17:55:02] * Bookwright "I... Oh."
[2014-05-07 17:56:25] * Shatara blinkblinks.
[2014-05-07 17:59:41] * Golden_Dream lets out a sigh. "I went on this mission to get guns and ammo and armor so that I could fight them on even ground when I got back. And then all this happened, I have the guns, and the ammo, and the friends I always wanted. Sometimes, I think maybe I wound up with some more competent pony's destiny."
[2014-05-07 18:00:47] * CopyCat smiles at Golden_Dream. "Sometimes I think I'm a more competent pony, too!"
[2014-05-07 18:01:13] * Bookwright "I'm sorry, I just remembered. That name shows up in the logs from the hospital down in Tragedy's End... A... 'Nurse Cottonseed', I think it was."
[2014-05-07 18:01:13] * Shatara tilts his head at CopyCat. "Wat."
[2014-05-07 18:01:37] <Shatara> "So...is this 'cottonseed' a ghoul then?"
[2014-05-07 18:01:41] * Golden_Dream nibbles on her war cake after some hesitation, chuckling lightly. And then there was silence. "... What did it say about her?"
[2014-05-07 18:04:04] * Bookwright flips open his notebook and finds his most recent transcription. "Not much. Only that she is apparently the pony who coined the word 'mutfruit'."
[2014-05-07 18:07:37] * Mare-Do-Well 3offers, "Coulda been an ancestor.  You wouldn't believe how many Apples I knew."
[2014-05-07 18:08:44] * Golden_Dream jumps a bit. "You're here!" She looks up, and then looks back. "You surprised me. You feelin' alright?" She rolls over.
[2014-05-07 18:09:21] * Mare-Do-Well 3blinks.  "Yeah.  I was just looking around.  There's... something not right about this place."
[2014-05-07 18:10:00] * Bookwright shrugs, and puts away the notebook. "She was a nurse, and all I can say is that she probably left with the rest of the ponies when they left Tragedy's End. If she's still around, she's probably the only pony who knows what happened to that group."
[2014-05-07 18:10:44] * Mare-Do-Well 3adds, "Also, those statues?  There's a bunch of them surrounding the house now."  She frowns.  "And I'm pretty sure they weren't there when you guys came in here."
[2014-05-07 18:10:59] * CopyCat nods. "Like I was saying, all of a sudden I couldn't sense Get Lost anymore. Like she had just stepped into a room and vanished someplace else. I only noticed when she came back."
[2014-05-07 18:11:54] * CopyCat bites her lip. "Where... did we park the firewagon again?"
[2014-05-07 18:12:08] * Shatara mumbles. "Itoldyoutheyweremoving..."
[2014-05-07 18:12:56] * Golden_Dream rustles around on her side. "I don't give a damn." She said under a low voice. "My dad is dead because of her. I'll get to know her because she didn't do the same to my dad before she killed him." And then current events happened. "... Aw, damnit." She ate the sticky cake, and then pulled out her combat shotgun and tossed Shatatra the necromantic thing.
[2014-05-07 18:15:12] * Bookwright pales. "The statues... are surrounding... the house. What."
[2014-05-07 18:15:55] <Shatara> "Th-that's why I dragged Get back...I don't think they like us..."
[2014-05-07 18:15:55] <Mare-Do-Well> 3--- End of Session ---