FoE PNP G-Platypus Session 8

[18:28] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  *****G-Platypus: The City of Broad Withers - Session 8*****
[18:28] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Fall.
[18:29] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  What happens when one rises? They fall.
[18:29] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Rise in status? Disgrace. Rise in power? Coup. Rise in wealth? Theft.
[18:29] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The wasteland makes a habit of pushing hobbling its citizens and felling those who rise.
[18:29] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Will our wastelanders put themselves in a position to fall? Perhaps...
[18:30] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  *****Session Start*****
[18:30] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Our wastelanders are mostly still in the not-so-happy-they-are-still-there company of Slash in Slash and Slag’s.
[18:31] * Scrap is standing in the doorway.
[18:32] * Nyota , who now is disguised as a earth pony, manedye is so usefull. Trotts on the spot, glancing at the door. "Ah.. So we are going to take care of these raiders now, yes?"
[18:32] * Blackberry_Jam is by Scrap, having finally finished her smoke break. "Well... unless anypony has any better ideas, let's get to it."
[18:32] * Thunder_Strike is with Snack_Cake trying to make her feel better.
[18:33] * North_Star is still mulling over the purchase of some dynamite.
[18:34] * Nyota scratches a leg, flicking her newly trimmed tail. "I think that would be the best.. What do we do with the sniperpony though?"
[18:34] * Snack_Cake just finished freaking out and hiding in the ammo.
[18:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Slash has a selection of dynamite, standard and long-fused.
[18:34] * Blackberry_Jam breaks open her shotgun and loads the Dragon's Breath shell into the bottom barrel. With a satisfying snap, she closes the breach and shrugs. "We run as fast as we can to cover. He can't hit us if there's 13 floors of concrete between us."
[18:36] * Mister_Clacky|GM Slash's ears perk as Blackberry_Jam talks. "Hey, Doc? You taking the dead weight?"
[18:36] * Nyota nods at that. "Right.."
[18:36] * Blackberry_Jam turns her head slightly and flops an ear. "Pardon?"
[18:37] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Slash gestures to Snack_Cake half in hiding among the bargain bin grenades.
[18:38] * Snack_Cake already stopped hiding. Is currently being comforted by Thunder_Strike.
[18:38] * Blackberry_Jam frowns at Slash, and then turns to Snack_Cake. "Look... nopony here is asking you to come with us. You can stay behind, if you want."
[18:39] * North_Star picks out some good looking dynamite, two long-fused, three vanilla fused.
[18:39] * Thunder_Strike pat Snack_Cake on the shoulder. "Yeah, you can stay here."
[18:40] * Snack_Cake was already planning on it! "I just... I'm worried about all of you! Do you have to do something so... dangerous?"
[18:40] * Pantzar_ is now known as Nyota_
[18:41] * Blackberry_Jam gives a firm nod. "Well... somepony has to. Might as well be us."
[18:41] * Nyota_ looks away, mumbling. "If it means that we can help this town, and If it means that I can stop running, hiding, being quiet always moving away.. Yes."
[18:43] * Thunder_Strike nods. "Yes, you saw that they can hit us from there. What if they attack is again?"
[18:43] <Mister_Clacky|GM> 1d10
[18:44] * Blackberry_Jam trots outside, taking cover where she can, and makes her way towards the southern apartment building. She doesn't really wait for any response.
[18:45] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Slash looks at Nyota, squinting his eyes, then getting a look of comprehension.
[18:45] * Scrap , happy to be moving out, follows.
[18:45] * Snack_Cake frowns. She doesn't like this.
[18:46] * Nyota_ blinks, she wasnt really a good job of being someone else. She coughs once before trotting out after Blackberry_Jam, also taking cover where she can.
[18:47] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Outside the open space is deserted. There hasn't been any indication of fire in a while.
[18:47] * North_Star nudges Slash, holding up his purchase to see, and pay for.
[18:49] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Slash, not being the best shopkeep, looks back at North. "Oy, right, you pay for things. Call it 250."
[18:49] * Thunder_Strike gives Snack_Cake a hug. Then heads out after Blackberry_Jam and the others, ducking in and out if cover.
[18:50] * Blackberry_Jam takes a puff of her cigarette and looks back at the ponies behind her. "Stay close and," She says, looking intently at Nyota_ and Scrap, "Watch out for traps."
[18:50] * North_Star passes the caps to Slash. "Perfectly fair." He says, following the others outside while slipping the dynamite into loops in his satchel's strap.
[18:51] * Scrap nods.
[18:52] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The group leaves Snack_Cake in Slash and Slag's. To get to the apartment complex they would either need to go out the north gart and loop around the outside of the wall, or see if they can get off the elevated tracks to the south down to ground level.
[18:53] * Nyota has followed Blackberry_Jam  wherever she headed off to.
[18:53] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Slash looks over at Snack_Cake. "So, Dead Weight. Do you prefer Dead or Weight for short?"
[18:55] * Snack_Cake gives Slash an annoyed look. "The least you could do is be nice..."
[18:56] * Nyota who only now registered that Blackberry_Jam  had been speaking to her, nods at her once. "Of course.."
[18:56] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Slash walks back around the corner. "Why, the rest of Buckago won't be. It's gonna try to kill you, and your friends. More of your friends. And if you don't learn to fight back, your gonna help it."
[18:57] * Blackberry_Jam opts to gett off the tracks and work down to the ground level.
[18:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The tracks at the south are currently vacant, the caravan gone out on delivery. There is an unpleasant, but servicable ladder down.
[18:59] * Blackberry_Jam carefully climbs down. Unpleasant, but serviceable... just like Railyard. >.>
[18:59] * Nyota , reminded that this is raider encampment they are headed into keeps her eyes fixed on the ground. Trusting that Blackberry will give the headsup if something was aproaching from elsewhere. Traps are bad.. She knew this from experiance..
[19:00] * North_Star takes up the rear, keeping his eyes open for ambushes or any other trouble.
[19:00] * Nyota also climbs down, trying to make sure her hooves does not make to much noise on the ladder. Sneaky sneaky zebra.
[19:00] * Scrap hovers a foot or two above the ground.
[19:02] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Half a west of them stands the apartment complex. The western two-thirds has collapsed, but the eastern third rises fourteen stories into the sky. There is only one visible entrance from their position.
[19:03] * Nyota glances at the flying pegasus... Wings are so useful.
[19:03] * Snack_Cake frowns at Slash. "And that makes it okay? It's thoughts like that... that make things so dangerous..."
[19:03] * Blackberry_Jam carefully approaches the single entrance. Her eyes are trained on the ground, expecting a tripwire, of some sort."
[19:04] * Nyota follows closely. Perhaps too close, her tail bobbing up and down as she makes her way forward.
[19:05] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "It's already dangerous, Weight. Worrying does jack-shit. Only way to keep ponies safe is to get off your ass and watch theirs. So what you wanna do? I guess I could let you dust the ammo in here to pass the time, or do you have something better to do?"
[19:05] * Thunder_Strike is also hovering a foot above the ground. She is following behind the group like always taking up the rear.
[19:06] * North_Star looks to the back of the group. Half out of worry for any tailers, half out of habit.
[19:07] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The entrance to the apartment complex looms in front of them. The building's windows are small and the interior is poorly lit, especially looking in from outside.
[19:07] * Nyota 's ears flicks back and forth, so does her tail, she keeps glancing up towards the windows of the apartment building. All it would take is one good shot..
[19:07] * Blackberry_Jam stops at the door frame, standing beside it on her hind legs, in a breaching stance. "Now... we need to find a mare. Once we do, we can start the show."
[19:09] * Nyota nods, standing right behind Blackberry_Jam, glancing at her. She whispers. "I really do hope there are mares amongst this group of raiders, then."
[19:09] * North_Star walks up to the otherside of the doorframe, drawing his shotgun. "... You have no idea how ironic that sounds."
[19:10] * Blackberry_Jam furrows her brow and scans the door frame.
[19:10] * Thunder_Strike ears are on swivel as well. They've been ambushed once and she isn't taking anymore chances.
[19:10] * Snack_Cake wouldn't want to spend her time with Slash, no matter what she has to do to pass the time. She gives another annoyed look and leaves the shop.
[19:10] * Nyota looks, confused. "I... what?"
[19:10] <Nyota> at North_Star *
[19:12] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  An abused door sits half off it's hinges in the doorframe, It sways a bit in the breeze.
[19:13] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Slash snorts. "Fine, go. But if you go after them, come back first. Fuck-lot of good that jumpsuit would do ya."
[19:15] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Inside the darkened interior Blackberry_Jam can see a lobby and a receptionist desk straight ahead. The west side of the room is rubble from the collapse of that side. There is a sign for stairs next to a hallway leading east. She doesn't see any traps, or really anything raider-like in the lobby.
[19:16] * Nyota slowly reaches into her holster, drawing her silenced pistol. Shivering slightly from the incomming battle, her tail flicks, again.
[19:16] * Blackberry_Jam gives a nod to North_Star and moves in, sweeping her weapon around the room.
[19:17] * Scrap flies in above Blackberry_Jam.
[19:19] * Nyota waits a few seconds before also heading in, moving along the wall towards teh receptionist desk and slinking in behind it. Dammit, she should have decided upon a darker coat. Hiding as a white coated pony is making things difficult.
[19:19] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Inside, they can see a large, round fountain gone dry years ago. Farther past the fountain are several doors. The dusty plaques on them ready 'Conference Room A'
[19:20] * Blackberry_Jam thinks it's worth noting that Nyota is cream colored. :3 Berry takes a look around again (for books!) and then makes for the stairs that are so conveniently labelled.
[19:21] * Thunder_Strike kicks her saddle and her sparkle-Breeder on her rifle starts doing its thing, the tubes on her gun start to glow softly as it fully charges up.
[19:21] * Snack_Cake isn't sure where to go. Without Blackberry_Jam or Thunder_Strike, she feels lost... She has no idea what's even in this town!
[19:22] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Behind the desk Nyota can see a few old bottles, thier labels covered over in dust. There is very little liquid in any of them. Blackberry makes her way past several dry-rotted old chairs and an endtable with a few scattered magazines.
[19:22] * Scrap stays right over Blackberry_Jam as she goes up the stairs ready to drop in front of her if somepony starts shooting.
[19:22] * North_Star pokes around, looking for any forgotten supplies, either by Pre-War ponies or raiders.
[19:23] * Blackberry_Jam sifts through the magazines, but shrugs and continues upstairs, still searching for silly raider traps.
[19:24] * Nyota looks to her left, then right.. Picking the bottles up with her mouth she stores them into one of the pouches. Bottles can be useful! Noticing the others are heading upstairs she follows suit, taking up the rear for now. Ears flicking about, it was too quiet..
[19:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake knows a bit about the town. The doctor's office and the inn/bar are familiar at least. There is the general store and some residential cars for the various citizens.
[19:25] * North_Star heads up the stairs with the others, finding nothing of use.
[19:25] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry sees most of them have fallen prey to time, but a copy of "Modern Mare" is in good condition, for the wasteland anyway.
[19:26] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Nyota picks up three bottles, the last tastes a sweet when she picks it up.
[19:26] * Blackberry_Jam makes sure to pocket that.
[19:29] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Down the hall the sign indicated are several doors to the left and right marked "Conference Room B" and "Conference Room C" at the end of the hall is a door with a sign indicating stairs going up.
[19:30] * Blackberry_Jam slowly opens the door to Conference Room B and takes a quick peek around.
[19:31] * Nyota sneaks up to the conference room C door and presses a ear towards it.
[19:33] * Snack_Cake heads to the doctor's office, since it's really the only place she knows well.
[19:35] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Inside the room is a large oblong table surrounded by chairs, a larger chair is at the head of the table. It appears empty other than an open ledger at the head of the table.
[19:36] * Blackberry_Jam 's curiousity and love of literature overtaking her, she trots over to peek at the ledger.
[19:36] * Thunder_Strike is still following behind then keeping an eye on the doors they walk past.
[19:36] * Scrap is still flying or Blackberry_Jam.
[19:37] <Scrap> Over*
[19:39] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The ledger seems to be a logbook, a list of names of groups that have used the room. Among the last entries are 'Teakettle's Fine Tea Council' 'Prism Consolidated Industry Office Party' and 'The Hobby Hut's Craft Day'
[19:40] * Nyota trotts into Conference Room C, peaking inside first. Checking for traps!
[19:41] * Blackberry_Jam hmmms and tears out the last page, tucking it away. She looks up at Scrap as she trots back out into the main hall.
[19:41] * Scrap follows.
[19:41] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Conference Room C is very similar, except the ledger is on a side-table covered in dust.
[19:42] * Nyota who does not have the same fetish for books as Blackberry_Jam  has just takes a brief glance before moving out into the main hall again. "Anything..?"
[19:43] * Thunder_Strike is standing guard. Still watching there backs.
[19:44] * Blackberry_Jam shakes her head and takes another puff of her Mareboro. "Just an old logbook. Let's keep moving."
[19:45] * Nyota nods. "Its too quiet.. I do not like it.." She makes her way towards the stairs
[19:45] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake finds Dr. Splotches in his office still. He's nursing a cup of tea.
[19:46] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  As they move toward the stairs, Blackberry_Jam can see it is oddly ajar. Just cracked a tiny bit.
[19:46] * Snack_Cake heads inside. She asks, "Do you mind if I join you...?"
[19:47] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The Doctor smiles kindly and motions near him. "Absolutely. Care for a cup?"
[19:48] * Blackberry_Jam hmmms. She trots closer, eyes peeled.
[19:50] * Thunder_Strike follows along one ear facing back and the other full swivel. "It is far to quiet." She whispers.
[19:50] * Scrap hovers waiting at the base of the stairs going up.
[19:51] * North_Star follows Blackberry_Jam, bringing both barrels of his shotgun towards the door.
[19:51] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The group looking at the door, sans Nyota who's anxiety must be affecting her observations, can see a black cylinder at head level. There is a wire attached to the base of the door.
[19:52] * Blackberry_Jam furrows her brow. "Hold up. This door is rigged."
[19:53] * North_Star looks and the wire carefully, taking his ear-knife from his satchel. "Should we cut the wire?"
[19:54] * Nyota stops in her aproach and fidgets.. She had been about to walk right into another trap. "Oh.. My."
[19:54] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The trap is poorly rigged, A well-made trap wouldn't have the barrel propping the door open. Still dangerous for the unattentive.
[19:55] * Thunder_Strike stops and looks at the trap. "Wow. That's really hard to notice." She whispers sarcastically.
[19:55] * Snack_Cake trots over and sits down next to the doctor. "Yes please, thank you. I'm... a little nervous."
[19:57] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches drops some herbs in a glass and pours in some steaming water. He sits it in front of her to steep. "I'll tell you a secret." He smiles to her. "I am too. "
[19:58] * Blackberry_Jam nods to North_Star. "Snipping it should work. Make sure not to move it too much."
[19:58] * North_Star brings the knife under the wire, carefully cutting it.
[19:59] * Nyota takes a few steps back. Just in case, right? Her tail flicks. "Please dont't blow up.." She raises her left hoof to shield herself.
[19:59] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The wire cuts fairly easily, going slack up to the Single Shotgun (20%) above.
[20:00] * Blackberry_Jam looks up at the shotgun and grabs it, pocketing the shell. "Good work." She says, smirking just a little.
[20:01] * North_Star shares the smirk. "It's no pile of dynamite with a sensor slapped on it, or handful of grenades hanging over our heads, but it's close enough.
[20:01] * Nyota lets out a breath she didnt know she was holding. Groaning slightly.. "Lets keep on going.. Its.. To oquiet, where is everypony? Where are the raiders?"
[20:01] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry notices immediately that something is off about the shell. Looking at it she can see the end has been opened and the shot removed. It's basically a loud blank.
[20:02] * Snack_Cake gives Dr. Splotches a confused look. "You are...? Why?"
[20:02] * Blackberry_Jam blinks at the shell. "I don't think this trap was meant to kill. I think it's like an early warning. Keep it quiet."
[20:05] * Scrap utters an almost inaudible, "hmm."
[20:05] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches nods. "I consider Berry a friend, even if she is a bit light on the bedside manner and heavy on the extracurriculars. I have never really been 'out there' as it were. Railyard is fairly safe. So I worry."
[20:06] * North_Star nods. "One of these raiders is smarter than the average one. Or..." He paused, looking back towards the stairs, "Nevermind, it's a crazy idea anyway." He said, bringing his shotgun back towards the front and stepping inside the door frame.
[20:06] * Nyota sneaks after North_Star. She could do quiet.. In fact, she was very good at it.
[20:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stairwell is dark, but 'glass bricks' in the wall let in enough light to keep it being pitch black. The stairs go up and down.
[20:07] <Scrap> "Why would a raider leave a blank in a trap and also not shoot anypony?"
[20:07] * Blackberry_Jam shrugs and presses further into the stairwell, up and up!
[20:08] * Scrap stays above the lead pony.
[20:10] * North_Star keeps beside Blackberry_Jam, looking from side to side.
[20:10] <Mister_Clacky|GM> North_Star, Scrap, and Nyota (seriously?), with their amazingly keen eyes can see an almost imperceptible distruption of the dust on the stairs. Something was dragged, down.
[20:11] * North_Star starts going through the possible senarios. Chances are, somepony got here before them.
[20:12] * Blackberry_Jam , unaware of the dust, keeps on trotting upstairs. She's constantly looking for traps!
[20:13] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry can see a loose wire swept against the wall on the first landing up.
[20:13] * Thunder_Strike is still following them not having notice anything yet.
[20:14] * Blackberry_Jam makes not of it, but says nothing. Looks like whoever got here first slipped past that first one, or somepony didn't bother resetting this trap.
[20:14] * Nyota looks down the stairwell for only a moment.. "We can check that later.. " She whispers, then heading up agian. "Where are all the bodies.. and raiders?"
[20:15] * Snack_Cake nods to Splotches. "Yeah... I've just been finding out how dangerous it is out here... I've lived my whole life so much safer. It's hard to know my only friends out here are in terrible danger..."
[20:15] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry can also see an unexploded mine as she gets on the landing proper.
[20:16] * Blackberry_Jam steers clear of it. "Mines." She mutters at the ponies behind her.
[20:17] * North_Star brings hsi eyes back to the front. "I was thinking the same thing. For a raider infested building, I'm seeing less raiders than I expected." He slowed down, his sight now focused on tracking down the mentioned mines.
[20:17] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Spotches gives a small nod. "I feel the same way when the caravan heads out. Sometimes they don't all come back. It's rare, but we've lost a few close friends making that delivery. It's a hopeless feeling sometimes."
[20:19] * Snack_Cake gives a stressed sigh. "I want to help them... But I can't do anything out there! All I am is somepony they have to worry about!"
[20:19] * Nyota keeps to the wall, looking around. "They are here though.. The traps speaks for it.." She looks to North Star, he had disarmed hte last trap, why not this one.
[20:20] * Blackberry_Jam walks around the mine?
[20:21] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The mine stays silent and light-less.
[20:21] * Scrap just flies over. Yay, wings!
[20:21] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  A short bit of tripwire hanging losely from it's top.
[20:22] * Blackberry_Jam moves on, looking for around the next set of stairs.
[20:22] * Thunder_Strike looks at the mine then follows the rest of them.
[20:22] * North_Star judges the mine, decideing on disarming it or leaving it for anything following them.
[20:23] * Nyota sneaks around the mine, following Blackberry_Jam. Oh, right.. Move around the mine, of course.
[20:24] * North_Star leaves the mine alone. Following the others. He can always come back for it anyway.
[20:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "Sometimes it's just the being there that's helps them. My folks would go on trips sometimes when a nearby settlement got attacked. My father was worthless in a fight, unlike my mother. She was a firecracker. But he always went. She said she fought harder for protecting him." He swirles his cup.
[20:26] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The second landing up has a door marked with a '2'.
[20:26] * Snack_Cake frowns. "Do you... is there any way you think I could be... helpful?"
[20:28] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star can see the mine is already disarmed.
[20:28] * North_Star statches the mine with his tail, then. Tucking it away in his pack for use and/or sale.
[20:29] * Blackberry_Jam nudges the door open, ever so slightly, wary of traps!
[20:30] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Splotches gives a small shrug. "Only you can determine that, but I've heard those..." He motions to the PipBuck. "things can be awfully useful to a pony in trouble. A friend of mine once said there were never too many eyes watching his back."
[20:31] * Nyota scratches a forehoof, keeping herself lowered down. "Seeing anything?"
[20:33] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike and North_Star don't see any traps around the doorway. Blackberry doesn't see any sign of traps either, but she does notice the dragmarks. Something fell on this platform and was dragged down.
[20:36] * Blackberry_Jam nods to the marks on the floor. "Something got dragged through here." she says, opening the door in earnest and stepping through, weapon raised.
[20:36] * Scrap follows above her.
[20:37] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There is a hall on the other side leading into a wall of rubble. There are ten visible doors, five to a side.
[20:38] * North_Star glances at Blackberry_Jam. "Good you noticed. Then I can say this: Something doesn't seem straight in Buckago." He said, bluntly.
[20:38] * Snack_Cake looks at her cup for a bit. "That's the trouble... I... I don't even know what's useful, or helpful... or even if I can do it." She takes a sip of her tea.
[20:39] * Blackberry_Jam frowns. "We don't have time to search all these rooms... And... nothing's ever straight in Buckago." She grumbles, moving through the hall, ears flicking a little.
[20:40] * North_Star gives each door a quick glane. "I mean more than usual. And it stinks too, and not of raiders."
[20:41] <~Blackberry_Jam> "It's entirely possible that we're not dealing with just raiders."
[20:41] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Splotches nods sagely. "Nopony really does. We can only do what we can and hope it does some good. Sometimes I think I'll go out there like my parents did and do some good. Then I'll spend a day drinking tea and cursing myself a coward." He raises his cup. "But then I realize I do good here, what I'm able."
[20:41] <North_Star> "You wanna put any speculations out there?"
[20:41] <Nyota> ".. then, what?"
[20:42] * Blackberry_Jam shrugs her shoulders and keeps on moving. "Hell if I know... just hoping we can find a body double."
[20:42] * Thunder_Strike looks around at the others. "Possible slavers?"
[20:44] * North_Star looks at the closest door. "I was thinking it was another bounty hunter, but now that I think about it, this set-up is really starting to smell." He looks back at Nyota. "And it smells like herbs, I'm afraid."
[20:46] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The closest door is marked 243
[20:46] * Nyota sniffs twice. Looking back at North_Star. "Are you saying I smell like herbs?"
[20:46] * Snack_Cake nods. She's still not sure what she can do, but at least... she feels a little better about figuring it out.
[20:47] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  223*
[20:48] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike notices a distinct lack of blood anywhere, now that she's been made aware of the faint drag-trail.
[20:48] * North_Star sighs. It's so hard to be subtle now-a-days. "Just... Don't be surprised if somepony we know is around."
[20:49] * Blackberry_Jam grits her teeth... which is terrible for her precious mandible! "I don't think so... Those zebras wouldn't take potshots at random ponies. They'd probably hit what they were shooting for."
[20:49] * Thunder_Strike "hmm.." Looks at the drag trail. "There's no blood."
[20:51] * Nyota blinks. "Then.. Why did you not say Zebras, and no. I do not think they would take po- Unless, they knew we would come out here.." She looks down at the floor. "You're right, no blood."
[20:51] <Scrap> "The one that was dragged may have been the shooter."
[20:51] * North_Star looks at Thunder_Strike, "If my gut is right, we're walking through these traps straight into another one."
[20:52] * Blackberry_Jam hmmms. "Maybe they weren't dragging a body at all..." She says, making for the next staircase.
[20:52] * Thunder_Strike "now that I think about it, the traps do seem to be like they were meant to be found." She says looking to them.
[20:53] <~Blackberry_Jam> "You think somepony is playing us?"
[20:53] <Nyota> "'tis be nothing like I thought it would, we should have seen somepony by now."
[20:57] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The group hears a voice from high above. "'Ey! Dickhole! I'm eating your share ya lazy ass! I ain't bringing it down to ya!"
[20:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike and Blackberry_Jam can tell the rough and gravelly voice is a mare's
[20:58] * North_Star glances up. "... It's too convenient."
[20:58] * Thunder_Strike ears swivel at the voice. "Hmm... Looks like we're in luck. We have a mare up there."
[20:59] * Blackberry_Jam nods to Thunder_Strike, silently moving forward to investigate.
[21:00] * North_Star looks back over his shoulder, out of paranoia, this time, before following Blackberry_Jam & Thunder_Strike
[21:00] * Scrap keeps his place above the lead.
[21:01] * Thunder_Strike "but we do need to be cautious. I feel like we're being set up."
[21:01] * Nyota 's ears perk up. "Let us be quiet now ponies.." She starts to head after Blackberry_Jam .
[21:01] * Blackberry_Jam hefts her weapon a little. "I get the same feeling."
[21:02] * North_Star shifts his shotgun. "I've been set up before, and this sure does feel familiar."
[21:03] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The next landing looks devoid of traps
[21:04] * Blackberry_Jam approaches. Very, very cautiously.
[21:05] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  It is devoid of traps, the next landing up has a door marked with a '3'
[21:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry_Jam and Thunder_Strike hear a curse from above, something about 'damn, fucking, sticking door!' and the sound of a door slamming.
[21:07] * Scrap is still above Blackberry_Jam.
[21:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The rest can hear the slam of the door, but not the cursing. It sounds like it is coming from far up.
[21:08] * North_Star takes up the rear, looking back up to the door slamming. "Any bets on how high that is?"
[21:08] * Thunder_Strike "geez. They're so noisy." She whispers
[21:09] * Blackberry_Jam hmmms. "Domestic dispute." she says, creeping towards the next set of stairs.
[21:09] <Thunder_Strike> , then adds, "not sure but it seems pretty high up there."
[21:11] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches finishes his cup of tea. "Anything else you need, dear?"
[21:11] * North_Star nods. "I'd say four... Maybe five floors up, but I'm just guessing."
[21:12] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  BJ and Thunder_Strike think it is quite a bit higher than that, maybe near the top.
[21:12] * Nyota creeps after Blackberry_Jam . "Soon they should be able to hear us too.. Please ponies, let us be quiet, yes?"
[21:13] * Blackberry_Jam nods and hushes herself, tossing the key over her shoulder.
[21:15] * Thunder_Strike looks at nyota and nods. Then looks back and puts a hoof over her mouth telling the others to stay quiet now.
[21:15] * North_Star hushes, still constantly looking over his shoulder.
[21:15] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The door on the next platform, '3', is shut.
[21:16] * Blackberry_Jam doesn't close her mouth entirely, though. She's still smoking. With just as much care as she's opened every door in the place, she pushes the door to platform 3 open.
[21:16] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  It doesn't open.
[21:17] * Blackberry_Jam curses. Foiled again. "Think it's locked." She mutters.
[21:18] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Jiggling the handle, quietly, confirms it is locked and not just blocked from the other side.
[21:18] * North_Star looks at the obviously unopening door. He's good with explosions and guns, but quietly opening doors was never his thing.
[21:20] * Nyota mutters a curse in zebra under her breath. Looking about at her companions with a raised eyebrow..
[21:21] * North_Star shakes his head, punching the air to imply knocking the door down.
[21:22] * Scrap nods, lands and readys to buck the door down.
[21:23] * Nyota shakes her head looking wide eyed at teh two bucks. Raising a hoof and motioned them to be quiet.
[21:24] * Scrap looks between Nyota and North_Star balancing on his front legs ready to buck the door.
[21:24] * Blackberry_Jam steps in between Scrap and the door, shaking her head violently.
[21:25] * Scrap shrugs and starts hovering above the door again.
[21:26] * Thunder_Strike floats down the starts looking through her bags and pulls out a screw driver and bobbypins.
[21:27] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike breaks one of her 10 bobbypins on her first attempt. She can make two more.
[21:28] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Two more pins fall victim to the lock before it becomes fouled.
[21:28] * Blackberry_Jam breathes a sigh of relief. Thank Luna someone knew how to pick-
[21:28] <~Blackberry_Jam> "Shit..."
[21:30] * North_Star gestures back at Scrap. Or himself, should the need arise.
[21:31] * Scrap looks at Blackberry_Jam to see what she wants to do.
[21:31] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The lock is fouled for Thunder_Strike, although somepony else could try.
[21:32] * Thunder_Strike "kutomba" she whispers and moves away.
[21:32] * Nyota sighs and lowers down further. Whispering really quietly. "I think we should perhaps do it the other way, then?"
[21:34] * Blackberry_Jam sighs, smoke expelling out of her mouth. "Well... no sense in hiding if they know we're here... Buck it open."
[21:35] * Scrap returns to the floor and bucks the door.
[21:35] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The bang reverberated through the stairwell and the simple door is bucked open.
[21:37] * North_Star switches out his shotgun for his Repeaters, heading for the door and taking the lead. "At least we didn't need to blast it open." He commented as he walked past Blackberry_Jam.
[21:37] * Nyota winces at the bang, her tail flicks as he glances into the hallway.
[21:38] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Inside is a hallway identical to the one below, although it might have been a different color ages past. Nine doors are visible.
[21:38] * Scrap flies up and hovers above the lead pony once again.
[21:39] <Nyota> "... nothing?"
[21:39] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star is the only pony to hear the scraping opening of a door upstairs.
[21:39] * Thunder_Strike flies up and hovers beside scrap aswell, observing the hall carefully.
[21:40] * Blackberry_Jam moves forward into this new hall, even more cautious now that they've (probably) made their presence known.
[21:40] * North_Star chambers a round in his rifle, aiming towards the closest stairs.
[21:42] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The hall terminates in rubble, Four shut doors on the left, fice on the right.
[21:45] * North_Star looks around, starting down the hall, trying to watch for traps, armed or otherwise.
[21:45] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The loud door sound only he heard came from above.
[21:46] * Nyota trotts onwards, the front was starting to be pretty crowded so she just keeps to the rear.. "Where are the ponies?" She speaks between gritted teeth, stomping a hoof slightly. Starting to get annoyed.
[21:47] * Snack_Cake shakes her head and gives the doctor a little smile. "No... I don't think I need anything else. Well... unless you had any suggestions for me...?" She drinks some more of her tea.
[21:47] * Blackberry_Jam opens the door on the left, closest to the stairs.
[21:48] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Splotches shakes his head. "Not a decision I can make for you. For what it's worth, I don't think you would burden them. Friends are alway assets. But only you know your heart."
[21:48] * Thunder_Strike watches the other doors. "I really don't like how quiet it is since we kicked that door in." She whispers.
[21:49] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  That door is locked. The handle has something that looks like a slot for a keycard.
[21:49] * North_Star keeps his eyes forward and down. "I'm sure they don't appreciate the silence either. I'm sure they were expecting some gunfire."
[21:50] <Nyota> "Fireing up what, pony?"
[21:51] * Blackberry_Jam punches the door a little in frustration. "This... is... bullshit..."
[21:51] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  A crack rings out and the floor sparks near Nyota's hoof.
[21:52] * North_Star looks back up, scanning the hall for the source of the crack.
[21:52] * Snack_Cake nods. "I'll think about it... thank you."
[21:53] * Nyota looks down at the crack, shaking her head.
[21:53] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There is damage to the floor. It's almost like something small hit it at very high speed.
[21:54] * Thunder_Strike looks around at the crack. "What was that?"
[21:55] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The crack was a gunshot.
[21:55] <Scrap> "Where did that come from?"
[21:55] * Blackberry_Jam leaps around, shotgun raised and ready to shoot something. Her first instinct is to look up.
[21:57] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  From her perspective near the door, looking up only shows the bottom of the next flights of stairs.
[21:59] * Blackberry_Jam looks around for any other possible origins of he shot, then. Mostly behind them, or in some of the rooms off to the side.
[21:59] * North_Star keeps looking around, mainly to the front and upstairs, rifle trained on said stairs.
[22:01] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Although the angle of fire is severe, looking up the gap between flights of stairs a pony in spiked armor with a battlesaddle can be seen on the uppermost landing. There is movement behind him as ponies start down the stairs
[22:01] * Thunder_Strike also looks around for where the shot came from.
[22:02] * Blackberry_Jam gets a quick look at their numbers before deciding to wait till they come in "chunky Raider-salsa" range.
[22:02] * North_Star gets a wild idea. "Clear off the stairs, everypony. Jam, pass me a light."
[22:04] * Blackberry_Jam tosses North_Star her engraved lighter. "Gonna need that back."
[22:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches digs into a cabinet, he comes out with a wooden roll-top box. He opens it revealing a half-loaf of sweet bread. "Don't tell Jam where my stash is, and I'll share."
[22:07] * North_Star catches the lighter, taking one of the long-fused powder sticks, holding it with his tail while clicking the lighter. "Eyes up, hooves movin'!" He shouted, as he lit the fuse and gave the dynamite a toss towards the stairwell.
[22:08] * Blackberry_Jam gets te heck out of dodge.
[22:08] * Nyota jumps away from the stairwell, she'd been closest afterall.
[22:09] * Snack_Cake smiles and gives a little giggle. "Don't worry, I won't tell a soul."
[22:12] * Thunder_Strike gets in cover once she sees where they are firing from.
[22:14] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The group takes cover in the hallway as the sound of running hooves echoes from above. Ponies are sprinting down the stairs.
[22:20] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  They can hear the oncoming raiders hooffalls getting nearer, very near. Then there is an explosion, and screams.
[22:20] * Nyota shields her face in the explosion. Giving a yelp.
[22:21] * Scrap shields his own face and tries to not fall out of the air.
[22:21] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The screams fade quickly, falling away, and down. The blast sending the three ponies caught in it over the guardrail and cartwheeling down to ground level.
[22:22] * Blackberry_Jam gets into a shooting position and points her weapon at the door to the stairwell.
[22:23] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  From in the hall there are no enemies currently visible, but hooffalls still are coming down.
[22:24] <~Blackberry_Jam> "Come on... right into the shooting gallery..."
[22:24] * North_Star steadies his rifle sights towards the door, quite pleased with himself and his dynamite tricks.
[22:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches carves a large slice for Snack_Cake and a smaller one for himself.
[22:28] * Snack_Cake gives a "Thank you." She takes a bite, smiling.
[22:32] * Thunder_Strike in clips the button that secures her Bowie and draws it with her tail.
[22:33] <Thunder_Strike> Unclips*
[22:34] * Nyota gets ready to shoot the thingies
[22:35] * Scrap pulls out his pistol and joins the firing line.
[22:36] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Two raider's come charging down the stairs at full speed, skidding a bit at they take the turn onto the groups landing, coming face to face with them.
[22:39] * Blackberry_Jam takes aim (actually aiming) and points the barrel of her shotgun squarely at the first raiders face.
[22:44] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The raider's head explodes into chunky salsa.
[22:45] * Blackberry_Jam frowns. That was unpleasant. With the Dragon's Breath still loaded, she slips a new shell into her weapon.
[22:45] * Nyota takes a step backwards as the raiders head explodes. Looking grimly at the body thudding to the floor
[22:48] * North_Star aims his rifle at the remaining raider before unloading two shots into him.
[22:53] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The shots go wide of the skidding raider.
[22:54] * North_Star chambers a third round.
[22:58] * Thunder_Strike takes the control yolk I to her mouth and takes aim, then fires at the raider three times.
[23:00] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  One of the trio of shots strikes the raider square in the chest. She could squeeze off one more shot.
[23:00] * Snack_Cake is enjoying the bread. "This is good, doctor... where did you get it? Do you know how to make it?"
[23:02] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches smiles. "I make all my own food and drink. The thought of eating 200-year-old food..." He cringes.
[23:02] * Thunder_Strike fires of one more shot.
[23:03] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Her final shot goes wide.
[23:04] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Splotches leans forward conspiritorially. "Wanna see my pride and joy?"
[23:05] * Scrap fires off 4 rounds at the raiders.
[23:07] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Half the host strike the raider in the chest to the right of the MEW burn dead center. He yelps but keeps coming whether by momentum or meanness.
[23:08] * Snack_Cake smiles. "What is it? I'd love to find out how you make it! I uh... my special talent is making all kinds of sweet treats..." She indicates her cutie mark. "It's something I really enjoy doing."
[23:08] * Nyota fires three shots, a potshot at first, then aiming and fireing two more.
[23:12] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Nyota skillfully puts a bullet in each lung and one in the heart. The stallion's last breath pushes up a pink froth as he falls and skids forward.
[23:13] * Nyota tailflicks, breathing heavily. "Are there more comming?" She perks her ears to listen
[23:13] * Blackberry_Jam relaxes a little as the raiders die. "You can count on it." She trots over to the door and calls up, "Come and get us, assholes!"
[23:15] * Scrap to Nyota, "nice shots."
[23:15] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry_Jam calls out from the door, only to look up and see a stallion with a battlesaddle leveled on the door from the opposite corner, he fires.
[23:15] * Nyota glances at Scrap and nods.
[23:16] <Nyota> "You too."
[23:17] <Scrap> "They were ok."
[23:17] <Scrap> "I'm better with my hooves."
[23:20] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stallion places a well aimed shot right to face, the second shot goes a bit high, drilling a hole through her beret.
[23:20] * Blackberry_Jam cries out in pain as she's shot in the goddamn face. She crumples, falling back into the hall and probably bleeding a little. Oh... it's on now.
[23:20] * Nyota takes a step forward as the shot rings out. "B-blackberry!"
[23:21] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  More than a little blood.
[23:21] * Blackberry_Jam bleeds all over the place.
[23:22] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches leads Snack_Cake to the back room to see his pride and joy.
[23:22] * Snack_Cake follows. She wants to see how he makes that bread!
[23:25] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches leads here to what looks like a wall, but is actually a door. "Wanted to split the car, didn't wanna cook where I do surgery." Inside is a small but well stocked kitchen. "Took a lot to get Slash to work on something that doesn't shoot or explode, but that oven works perfectly!"
[23:28] * Blackberry_Jam falls to the ground silently, in a rapidly spreading pool of blood. A trembling hoof reaches for her pack.
[23:30] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The bullet went through and through left cheek to right. On the way out it took a larger chunk and a molar
[23:32] * Blackberry_Jam slowly takes a potion and forces it into her mouth. She couldn't feel much, in total shock.
[23:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The potion knits her cheeks back together and repairs the cracked and loose teeth around the void where the molar was. But it can't fix what isn't there. But it's a molar, so nopony will ever really know, except for Blackberry herself.
[23:34] * Snack_Cake smiles wide. "A working oven?" She pauses a moment. "Is that... rare? I uh... don't really know about what's hard to find out here..."
[23:35] * Blackberry_Jam thinks that will bug the hell out of her for the rest of her life. Well, she would think that, if the wasn't in blinding agony.
[23:36] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches nods. "Very rare. Most cooking is done over a fire at best, if at all. They had to modify it to run on spark batteries. But it's worth the expense."
[23:37] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North moves up over Blackberry and fires two shots from the doorway.
[23:39] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  His shots go high, sparking against the wall behind the saddle-wearing raider.
[23:42] * Thunder_Strike she moves to a better position to get a much clearer shot then fires three times. She still has her Bowie knife in her tail incase she needs it.
[23:44] * Snack_Cake inspects the oven, giving a little 'hmmm'. "Do you have any ingredients around? Would you mind if I tried to make a little something? It's been... a while since I've even seen a kitchen..."
[23:45] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike only hits once, but she strikes true. The beam strikes through a chinch in the armor around his chest and he howls around his battle saddle's yoke.
[23:47] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches smiles. "Sure. You won't find a better stocked kitchen around. Let me know if you have trouble finding anything."
[23:49] * Scrap not wanting Blackberry_Jam or anyone else to be hit, flies toward the raider and aims a series of strikes on him.
[23:53] * Snack_Cake nods and starts looking around the kitchen, investigating just what kinds of ingredients the doc had stored away.
[23:54] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The raider blocks well for being hampered by the saddle. He's no slouch at unarmed combat, but his defense wither's under Scrap's fury. He blocks blows twice with a foreleg and takes another blow with a hind leg. But he isn't fast enough to stop the fourth blow that strikes him in the chest, caving in the MEW blackened flesh and bone. Scrap is left with a hoof stuck inside the dead raider's chest.
[23:55] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches' kitchen has all the basics, as well as a large assortment of herbs. Some known to Snack_Cake, some not.
[23:55] * Nyota gallops up to Blackberry_Jam wincing she leans down next to her and mumbling. "Oh, oh no. Blackberry, are you, will you be okay?"
[23:57] * Scrap shoves the dead raider off of him rather violently.
[23:57] * Thunder_Strike rushes over to Blackberry_Jam.
[23:58] * Blackberry_Jam sputters a little and nods, her wounds closing thanks to the healing magic. "No... my... b-beret..." she says, very quietly, slowly trying to climb to her hooves. Her mane is soaked in blood.
[23:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Scrap manages to withdraw his hoof with a sickening squelch.
[23:58] * Nyota leans up against Blackberry_Jam , steadying her, trying to help her up. "E-easy!"
[00:00] * Blackberry_Jam puts her cigarette back in her mouth, flicking her tongue over the spot where her mollar had once been. "Today... is not a good day." She says, standing with Nyota's help.
[00:02] <Nyota> "Should we return, Blackberry? Can you continue?" She looks Blackberry_Jam  up and down, worrying look on her face.. "We have too fake my death, can't do that without you.."
[00:02] * Snack_Cake isn't quite ready to go experimenting just yet with things she can't recognize, so she opts for something simple...
[00:03] * Blackberry_Jam shakes her head. "We don't leave until that sniper's dead." She says, coughing again and shaking her head a little. "And he just really pissed me off."
[00:03] * Scrap seeing nother goes over and hovers by Blackberry_Jam, "are you ok?"
[00:04] * Thunder_Strike goes and looks the body's of the dead raiders.
[00:04] * Blackberry_Jam cracks her neck. "Been better."
[00:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Three raiders were blown off the stairs and down the central shaft, their broken bodies are below. between the three stallions near them can be found 3 sets of raider armor, an armor mesh cloak, 2 10mm pistols, and a Night-Scoped Varmint Rifle Saddle.
[00:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Between all the raiders are 109 caps (including the ones at the bottom).
[00:06] * Nyota takes a step back from Blackberry_Jam and nods once more. "Good.. Thank you." She bites her lip, looking out the door to the stairway. "I.. We really need to do this."
[00:10] * Blackberry_Jam returns to the scene of her headshot and glances down at Thunder_Strike. "Anything good?" She says, her voice a little raspy, and her gait a little awkward.
[00:12] * Thunder_Strike "well there's the usual raider armor, an armored mesh cloak 2 10mm pistols and the night scoped varmint rifle that said hello to your face."
[00:12] <Thunder_Strike> Varmint rifle baddlesaddle*
[00:13] <Thunder_Strike> "Oh and 109 caps." She adds
[00:13] * Blackberry_Jam grunts a little and looks at the bodies. Damn, Thunder_Strike counted those quick. "Do me a favor and smash that rifle. Any of them mares?"
[00:14] * Nyota trotts out into the stairway after Blackberry_Jam. Looking down, hopefully.
[00:15] <Scrap> "Can I get the cloak and a 10mm pistol?"
[00:15] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The broken forms of three mars lie at the bottom of the shaft.
[00:16] * Nyota looks too Blackberry_Jam;" Ah, did you bring the manedye kit..?"
[00:17] * Blackberry_Jam has it slung over her back. There's... a considerable amount of blood on it."
[00:17] <~Blackberry_Jam> "Yeah, let's get to work."
[00:17] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Considering its source, it's probably not the first time.
[00:18] * Thunder_Strike hands scrap the cloak and pistol. "Thea are bucks. I think the ones you blasted we're the mares."
[00:19] * Nyota looks grimly at the slew of bodies. She gags slightly but it had to be done.. She.. She needed this. "I.. If this does not work, I do not know what I will do.. " She's obviously started too doubt this plan. "Perhaps, perhaps if I can make my way to Filly delpheia and, I can hide there..." She starts to make her way downwards. Tail flicking.
[00:20] * Blackberry_Jam blinks. "Fillydelphia? That's a hell of a trek..." She says, trotting down to collect a corpse, never taking her eyes off the upper levels of the staircase.
[00:21] * EDtiGron takes the cloak and pistol.
[00:22] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  BJ finds 4 corpses on the basement level.
[00:22] * Thunder_Strike there's still the varmint rifle raider armor and pistol. Anyone want them?
[00:23] * Nyota mumbling. "I guess it would.." Flicking her tail. "Are you sure this will work?"
[00:24] * Snack_Cake hums a little song while she bakes her cake. She just feels so much more cheerful when she's doing what she loves so much!
[00:24] * Blackberry_Jam takes the one closest to Nyota's features, and the one that is the least recognizeable as a pony. Hefting the corpse on to her back, she trots upstairs, stamping on the battle saddle as she passes it.
[00:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Three mares and a stallion. The mares are burnt and broken from the explosion and the fall. The stallion would look in perfect health if his head lolling over at such an imposible angle.
[00:25] * Blackberry_Jam smirks. Burnt and broken is just what she's looking for.
[00:25] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Dr. Splotches can't help but chuckle at Snack_Cake's behaviour.
[00:26] * Nyota gives the stallions body a quick lookover before following Blackberry_Jam  back up.
[00:28] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stallions neck has been snapped, a hoofstrike to the back of the neck to stun if not break followed by a rending twist. It's... familiar...
[00:28] * Blackberry_Jam brings the body to the pool of her own blood and tosses it down. Pulling out the mane dye kit, she gets to work making the parts of the mare that weren't exploded look like a passable zebra. She takes the empty healing potion bottle and smashes it on the ground next to the corpse, and adds a few bandages to the corpse. "Everypony step back. I've never used Dragon's Breath before."
[00:28] * Snack_Cake doesn't even notice! She's in the zone. Pastries and desserts are what she does best! It always is so much fun to experiment with all kinds of delicious ingredients, but of course, she does have her favorites...
[00:30] * Nyota gives Blackberry_Jam pointers when it came to her own stripe patterns, trying to make a passable version of herself here..
[00:31] * Thunder_Strike shrugs then takes the rest of the gear. Then follows the others.
[00:32] * Nyota has a thought biting in the back of her head.. Soemthing felt wrong, this was going to easy. She keep glancing back into the stairway. Ears flicking.
[00:34] <Nyota> "Wait!"
[00:35] * Nyota remembers the cloak, she buries into her saddlebags and does her best not to throw up as she equips the body with it...
[00:35] * Nyota nodding.. "There... "
[00:35] * Blackberry_Jam stands over the corpse, read to pull the trigger. She nods as the cloak is applied. "And the note?"
[00:35] * Thunder_Strike watches over them from the stairs.
[00:36] * Nyota nods slightly again. "I.. I dont want it to burn up. They need ot know it is the note. Ill add it later. Hopefully this will work." Oh stars in the sky, please let this work..
[00:38] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike, hovering in the stairway, hears the a door open several floors up.
[00:39] * Blackberry_Jam pulls the trigger, scorching the corpse in fire, presumably.
[00:40] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The white phosperous shot peppers the corpse, burning and charing the corpse more.
[00:41] * Blackberry_Jam calmly reloads, looking to Nyota. "The note, please." She says, holding out a hoof.
[00:42] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The phosperous hisses and pops inside the body still.
[00:42] * Nyota hooves Blackberry_Jam the note from Itakaseni, giving it a slight glare before letting it go. Why...
[00:43] * Thunder_Strike watches over them.
[00:43] * Blackberry_Jam drops the note in the puddle of blood and uses her cigarette to burn the edges a little, making sure it was still recognizable as the note. Folding it a few times, she tucks it into the charred cloak and wipes her hooves.
[00:44] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry_Jam hears a single hoofstep from up above.Maybe a level or two above them.
[00:45] * Blackberry_Jam jerks her head up, frowning. "More company." She growls, not liking their situation.
[00:46] * Nyota tailflicks. "Should we.. Maybe move up and face them?" She crouches down from sheer instinct, glancing up in the stairway.
[00:46] * Thunder_Strike looks up at Blackberry_Jams head jerk and starts listening.
[00:47] * Blackberry_Jam rubs a hoof over the recently healed part of her muzzle. "I'd rather not get shot in the face again. Let them come to us."
[00:48] * Nyota moves back to the possitio nshe had earlier, lifting her weapon back into her mouth.
[00:48] * EDtiGron joins Thunder_Strike hovering by the stairs and listening.
[00:48] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The double lies in a pool of blood outside the door to the hallway they made their last stand in. The door could be closed with the double outside.
[00:49] * Blackberry_Jam tugs the feather dusters back inside and closes the door as quietly as she can.
[00:50] * Nyota aims at the door, keeping quiet, clenching down on her gun.
[00:51] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The group waits in the hall as quietly as they can. There are several long moments of silence before voices can be hear outside, although hoofsteps weren't.
[00:52] * Thunder_Strike is pulls back inside then waits close by the door her Bowie knife ready to do so slashing.
[00:52] * Nyota earflicks.
[00:52] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There is a small crack in the door from where Scrap had kicked it in, allowing a pony or two to peak out.
[00:53] * Blackberry_Jam thinks it would be best just to listen. Which she does.
[00:53] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Only one without risking falling over.
[00:54] * EDtiGron is now known as Scrap
[00:54] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Outside can be heard a sharp intake of breath. Then speech in Zebra. <Is... is that her? I can't tell.>
[00:55] * Nyota sneaks up to the door and peeks out.  She nearly lets out a gasp but catches herself as she hears the zebras. Wideeyed she looks back at her companions
[00:56] * Blackberry_Jam can hear the gibberish and assumes the worst. She gives Nyota a serious look, and beckons her over.
[00:57] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Over the corpse she can see Itakaseni now leaning over the double. The stallion behind him removes his hood revealing a /very/ familiar face to her.
[00:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  <It appears your family honor is cleansed. Your parents need no longer be shunned.>
[00:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The young zebra snorts. <Good! I hate her! She's been nothing but a curse to ou...>
[01:00] * Nyota lets out a quiet whimpering sound. Eyes tearing up slightly, she's shaking. Her brother.. Even her brother..
[01:00] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The elder Zebra wheels and a vicious slap staggers the younger. <Don't you /ever/ say that! She loved you. Curse the stars and spirits that corrupted her, that took her from us! Never her. Go! Tell the clan she is dead. I have other work to do.>
[01:01] * Nyota holds her hooves over her muzzle not to let out a yelping sound, ears drooped.
[01:02] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The younger stallion bolts away. Leaving Itakaseni standing over the double.
[01:02] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  He leans his head down, eyes closed. He sniffs... he smells...
[01:03] * EDtiGron is now known as Scrap_
[01:03] * Nyota blinks. Staring out that tiny hole, watching.
[01:03] * Scrap_ puts a reassuring hoof on Nyota's shoulder while hovering above.
[01:04] * Nyota jerks up, a tiny gasp escaping her as she is touched.
[01:05] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  A smile creases his lips. He speaks, oddly loud for being alone. <I'm glad you're dead. I hope happiness finds you wherever you go.> He lays down beside the double, moments stretching out as he digs in his saddlebag.
[01:05] * Blackberry_Jam is going to backhoof Scrap_ for that later.
[01:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  He lays a metallic disc on the body.
[01:07] * Nyota looks up at scrap for a moment, eyes filled with tears. She's trying her best not to sniff. Then, back through the tiny crack in the door. What are you doing Itakaseni.. He knew, didnt he.. Of course he did... But why, why would he.
[01:08] * Thunder_Strike returns her Bowie knife into its scabbard quietly.
[01:08] * Scrap_ has his eyes closed as if he doesn't want to see.
[01:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  He looks up at the hole in the door. <I can smell your taint. It was our destiny that one must die for the other to live.> He lowers his head on the disc
[01:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Beep
[01:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Beep
[01:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Boom
[01:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM> ***Session End***
[01:12] <Mister_Clacky|GM> 1500xp Blackberry gets +1 karma for planning and faking a death to save a life.