PnP Group [DATA REDACTED] Session 22

[16:26] <~Headlong>  GDRL-2 Addendum 22
[16:26] <~Headlong> "Never knows best."
[16:29] <~Headlong> It's late afternoon, not that it matters much. The clouds are too thick and overbearing to actually see the sun. Occasional ribbons of light do however hint that the sun is still out. The Tide Hauler once again pulls into the dock of Malakara Island, and prepares for a lot of waiting. Redshift has slipped into the cabin to chat with Anchor Steam for a while.
[16:31] <~Headlong> The crime scene remains largely as it had before. A light dusting of rain and a little ocean wind has disturbed some of the chairs, but otherwise, everything is how they left it.
[16:33] * Kopesh heads out for the crime scene to look it over again while Giddy does his thing.
[16:34] * Scribbles steps off the Tide Hauler and onto the sand of the island, looking around at the scene, trying to picture it as it once was."
[16:37] * Bonnet trots slowly over the sands as she follows after the group, adjusting her pith helmet and looking around at the scene again.
[16:38] * Giddy hefts the bag in his mouth by the clasp. He was steeling himself for the actual surgery. It... Was going to be weird.
[16:48] <~Headlong> Giddy finds the corpse to be in the same immaculate condition he found it in earlier, which doesn't come of much surprise to him.
[16:48] * Scribbles strolls around the scene, looking at every little thing as she passes.
[16:49] * Giddy starts undoing the tarp and exposes the body. He then moves the body onto the tarp, rolling her over to see what the other side of her looked like just for frame of reference.
[16:52] * Kopesh heads over to the body to be there in case Giddy needs any help at some point.
[16:53] <~Headlong> Her mane, neatly done up in a bun that Bonnet could probably match as the handiwork of Clover's of Mane Street, bobs a little as Giddy moves her. She's just as fine on the back as she was on her front.
[16:56] * Scribbles finds her way to the catering table, looking at the grub as fell.
[16:59] * Giddy moves the bun out of the way and checks her spinal column for any signs of breakage. He wasn't too keen on the idea of exploratory surgery in any circumstances in which it wasn't alright to simply cut open their organs and dig around until everything was pulp. Which is never.
[17:01] * Scribbles takes a sandwich, giving it a sniff.
[17:02] <~Headlong> Giddy finds her spine and neck otherwise untouched. Scribbles finds that the sandwich smells quite tasty!
[17:03] * Giddy sighs, then looks around. "Alright. Have one of you got a pen and paper.
[17:04] * Scribbles decides against eating it and walks over to Giddy, fishing her notepad out of her pocket.
[17:05] * Giddy waves his hoof. "I want one of you to record what I'm saying as I go through with this. Get it in writing."
[17:05] <~Headlong> Wishing Well beams. He's been there the whole time! "I have a video camera!"
[17:05] * Scribbles taps her pencil on her notepad. "Stenographer. Gotcha."
[17:09] * Kopesh pulls out his pad and pencil, ready to write as Wishing records. "Can do."
[17:09] <~Headlong> Wishing Well boots up the camera. Backwash would love a live autopsy... Wouldn't he?
[17:13] <~Headlong> Flashes of Mrs. Butterball's character sheet appear before Giddy's eyes. Most relevant data concerning her body can be found there.
[17:15] * Giddy sighs. This was the first creepy part. He starts disrobing the body and looks for any birthmarks or fur dye, or aberrations to her cutie mark. "This is Agent You-Know-Who. Victim is Mrs. Butterball. Height: [REDACTED]. Weight: [REDACTED]." He takes a hoof pad from the autopsy bag and prints her hoofprint. Useful for comparisons.
[17:19] <~Headlong> Butterball's buttmark is fine, and her coat well maintained. Her color is all natural, and she has a small spot on her back, a patch of white fur. But, it looks like it's always been there, as it's just as well manicured as the rest of her coat.
[17:19] * Scribbles scribbled that down in her notes.
[17:24] * Giddy sighs, then gets a small magnifying glass and opens her eyes with a gentle nudge of magic. "Small abberation of white fur on her back. Seems to be a birthmark. Otherwise, immaculate. No signs of a struggle. No signs of violence."
[17:30] <~Headlong> Butterball's eyes are white, even her irises. That's... curious.
[17:34] * Giddy 's eyebrows furrow. That's not a good sign. "... Eyes are blank and white, like a blind pony. Possible sign of magical meddling. Which means it's not a great idea to do anything too invasive." Giddy grumbled. That's not a good sign. He proceeds to take a blood sample from her carteroid and chest cavity with a long syringe. "Taking blood samples now for future DNA and bloodworks analysis."
[17:35] * Scribbles contines to scribble.
[17:36] <~Headlong> Giddy finds regular, red pony blood. Wishing swings around to get a fresh, new angle on the autopsy.
[17:43] * Giddy caps the syringes and marks the locations taken on them, as well as their designations. "See Autopsy Evidence One and Autopsy Evidence Two marked AE-1 and AE-2 for further information on blood." He looks at her bun. "Victim's mane is done in a professionally done manner, most likely done recently." After looking at her bun, particularly the tips of her mane hair with the magnifying glass and the bun fastening, he undoes the b
[17:46] <Giddy> he undoes the bun and runs his hoof through her mane to check for any strange things on her skull.
[17:48] <~Headlong> As her mane falls out of the bun, Giddy feels a pair of bumps, right beneath the spot where it was tied.
[17:51] * Giddy 's eyes narrow. "Two bumps on her skull where her bun was tied. Clipping her mane there to take a closer look." He proceeds to take a pair of small coroner's scissors and cut her mane where he felt this and looking at it with a magnifying glass.
[17:53] <~Headlong> He clips away her golden locks, and he doesn't need a magnifying glass to tell that there are two needle-like incision points in her skull.
[17:54] * Kopesh continues jotting everything down.
[18:01] * Giddy looks horrified for a moment. "... Two incision points penetrating her skull. Small. Conjecture, like an animal bite?" He looks confused, like he's trying to figure it out and failing. After a moment of hesitation, he goes to her lower body and proceeds to clip a bit of fur off and take another long needle to get a urine sample before sealing the draw point with a bit of liquid suture and a small, but rather sticky bandage.
[18:02] <~Headlong> Wishing Well gets a close up. "Whooooooa..."
[18:07] <~Headlong> Giddy collects his samples, and Wishing continues to circle him. "So... An animal bite? Maybe it's the roaring thing we heard earlier?"
[18:10] * Giddy rubs his eyes. "I don't know." His breathing is a little more shallow. He caps this sample and marks it AE-3. "Urine sample is marked AE-3. Mane and fur sample labelled AE-4 and AE-5. This concludes the autopsy for now."
[18:12] * Giddy then checks the pin points for any particular signs of blood, fluid, or abberations, floating a pen-light in so he could get a better look.
[18:20] * Scribbles keeps her notes updated as Giddy gives out information.
[18:21] <~Headlong> Giddy spies some sort of liquid residue, but it certainly isn't blood. In fact, it's not really clear what it is... That being said, it looks like something he /is/ very familiar with: topical numbing solution. That couldn't be it, could it?
[18:27] * Giddy 's mouth goes wide. What the hell was this? He swabbed the incision point and then put the resultant into a small, sanitized plastic bag and then labelled it AE-6. "Addendum: Unknown fluid found at the site of the piercing site. Conjecture: topical numbing solution, similar to the kind they use to get foals to take their shots."
[18:27] * Scribbles looks at Giddy for a second before writing that down.
[18:28] * Giddy finishes off. "Fluid swabbed and labelled AE-6." He sighed, and then gulped. "How'd I do?"
[18:28] * Scribbles checks her notes. "Pretty through."
[18:29] * Kopesh finishes writing his own. "Looks as though he did well. Interesting findings."
[18:30] * Giddy put the tarp over the body again, then started heading back to the boat. "Nothing compared to what they did at the hospital. I'm decent, but fuck if I'm going to do what my mom only helps someone else do. I didn't even do the brain-scoopy-outty thing or look at her organs."
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[18:56] <~Headlong> The Tide Hauler and the Bigger Boat are right where the Dullahans left them. "All set?" Anchovy calls from the stern.
[18:57] * Pariah` is now known as Grim
[18:57] * Scribbles followed Giddy to the boat. "I think so."
[19:00] * Kopesh follows after, stowing his notepad again.
[19:00] * Giddy then proceeds to dump a whole heaping helping of still-warm evidence on the crew of the Tide Hauler. In an appropriate area, of course. "So, I think we're dealing with maybe-intelligent maybe-not-intelligent invisible magic firey bat-spiders. Who do we have on hoof to deal with that shit?"
[19:01] * Giddy raises his hoof. "Sorry. Invisible magic firey bat-LION-spiders."
[19:02] * Kopesh finds a place to sit and rubs his forehead. "Not sure if anyone knows how to deal with them."
[19:03] * Giddy rubs his own head as well. "Well, /we/ sure as hell don't. I shot a gun, like. Once. Ever. In the foundation facility. Before we left."
[19:04] <~Headlong> Anchovy blinks hard. "Fiery... bat... spider..." He looks to Keelhaul, having just come up from below deck. "Yeah... You might want to get on the horn with Dr. Lockout... He usually deals with the zoological ones..."
[19:05] <Kopesh> "Could see if Headlong or Task could patch us through."
[19:05] * Scribbles nods. "Zoological sounds close enough."
[19:07] * Giddy points at Anchovy. "Yeah, that sounds good. Let's do that thing."
[19:08] * Giddy tilts his head. "Although, this reeks of murder. No untrained animal would go right for a place that a casual glance would overlook."
[19:10] <~Headlong> The cook pony joins the duo on deck and smiles at the group. "Would anypony care for some lunch? Fresh pestooooooo~" She sings, twirling back below decks.
[19:10] <~Headlong> Keelhaul sighs. "It's always murder with these things, if you listen to Ivory's crap about sentient anomalies."
[19:12] * Giddy frowns and scratches his chin? "How could an animal bite through somepony's hair bun without disturbing it in any way?"
[19:13] <Kopesh> "Perhaps if it's intelligent, it put the hair back to appear undisturbed."
[19:14] <~Headlong> The Bigger Boat collectively shrug. "Hell if I know... But here, let's get below decks so we can start heading back... The weather's not getting any-"
[19:14] <~Headlong> A defeaning roar shakes the dock. Waves splash up against the side of the boat, soaking anyone standing near.
[19:15] * Scribbles steadies herself, looking around. "What under Celestia's sun was that?"
[19:16] * Giddy has a strange sort of expression on his face. Somewhere between resignation, fear, and shock. His eyes went wide and he stood rigid. "... Fuck."
[19:17] <~Headlong> Keelhaul holds his hat on to his head. "Sounds like your fiery bat lion..."
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[19:20] * Giddy exhaled a long breath from his nose, face long and eyes wide. "Welp." He murmured, pulling out his flare gun. "So. I don't have any plans. What's yours?"
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[19:20] <~Headlong> Keelhaul draws a pistol from his saddlebag. "We're ready to support you, if we can..."
[19:21] * Kopesh pulls out his straight razor. Better than nothing.
[19:22] * Giddy 's hooves shake a little. He looks a tad unstable. "THAT ISN'T A PLAN I'M HEARING."
[19:23] <Kopesh> "Well, if we can outrun the thing, I say get moving out on the boat, but I have no idea if that's smart or if it's just making a coffin for us all."
[19:24] * Scribbles looks around again, trying to catch a look at the creature.
[19:25] <~Headlong> Anchovy scurries up to the wheelhouse. "Captain, captain! Let's get going!" She shouts before ducking inside.
[19:26] * Giddy nods and points at Kopesh, then Anchovy. "That! That's a plan! Let's do that!"
[19:26] * Bonnet had been sitting with her face planted in her hooves at a table, but the roar makes her jerk upright, shaking a little.
[19:28] * Kopesh runs to Bonnet to help her get going. "We're needing to leave. That thing is after us."
[19:30] * Bonnet gives an unsteady nod, getting to her hooves to follow
[19:31] * Kopesh makes for the boat again.
[19:34] * Bonnet gallops after Kopesh the best she can, glancing back over her shoulder towards the event area.
[19:34] <~Headlong> Everypony is suddenly keenly aware of a particularly nice smell. Anypony with any knowledge of chemistry could place it as Ozone. There's a loud clank as ethereal jaws that everypony except Scribbles can see clamp into the railing as Bonnet and Kopesh jump aboard.
[19:35] <~Headlong> Just as soon as those jaws close around the metal railing, utterly cleaving it, a massive bolt of lighting crashes into the wheelhouse, and starts a fire.
[19:37] * Scribbles looks up at the Wheelhouse, gasping as the fire begins.
[19:38] * Kopesh drops to the deck and looks up. "What the fuck!? It can call down lightning too!?"
[19:39] <~Headlong> Anchor Steam, Anchovy and Redshift all come falling out of the door as the wheelhouse burns. "What... the hell..." the captain mutters.
[19:39] * Bonnet falls flat on her face as she boards the ship, sliding across the deck and sending her hat clattering off
[19:39] * Scribbles calls up to the trio. "Are you okay up there!?"
[19:40] <~Headlong> Redshift coughs a little as he clears his throat. "Yeah, yeah, yeah... I'm used to fires..."
[19:43] * Scribbles looks back at the others before calling back up. "Can we still boat outta here?"
[19:45] * Giddy hit this special place of panic. When you're racing, you learn to deal with the fact that one wrong move will wind up with you and your car wrapped thin around a tree going flat out with the top up. He'd heard a name for this state of mind, but he could hardly be excused for not knowing the name of it right this moment. He wheeled around, shot once at the jaws of the creature, and then turns back to
[19:45] <Giddy> pick Bonnet off the floor and continue running with the nape of her neck in his mouth.
[19:45] <~Headlong> The Bigger Boat look at Scribble's skeptically. "Until we can assess the damage to the-" A second bolt of lightning strikes the wheelhouse, visibly frying its navagation components. "-Fuck..." Anchovy groans, having landed on his ribs.
[19:46] * Scribbles sighs. "Damn it.." She mutters under her breath.
[19:51] <~Headlong> The flare from Giddy's unique weapon scorches the pair of disemobdied jaws, and ignites it. With a howl, the jaws, which, as the spreading flames show, are in fact connected to a longer, serpentine body, slither off into the woods behind the stage. It howls the whole way.
[19:51] * Giddy looks back, hyperventilating like crazy. Holy shit.
[19:51] * Scribbles looks back at the howling, towards Giddy and his flare gun. "What did you..?"
[19:52] * Bonnet starts a little as she's lifted from the deck, trying to scramble and support herself in the movement
[19:52] <~Headlong> Anchor Steam takes off her cap and stares out into the woods. "I'm getting my gun... And a few flares..."
[19:53] <~Headlong> Keelhaul steps over to Bonnet, helping her up and offering her her hat back. "There you go, ma'am."
[19:54] * Giddy gasps for air. "I-I think I made it eat a flare."
[19:55] * Bonnet takes the hat back with shaking hooves, glancing over her shoulder, "Th-thank you."
[19:56] * Kopesh stands back up. "Nice shot."
[19:56] * Scribbles fixes the collar on her coat, looking off to the woods. "We should put the fire we have out.."
[19:57] <~Headlong> Anchor Steam heads below decks and grabs her trench shotgun, while the Deckhands scramble for fire extinguishers.
[19:59] * Giddy slowly feels the adrenal spike fade away. His heart felt like a music box that had reached the point where it's winding had faded off and the music was distorted and lengthened. Oh Celestia. Oh Celestia. "Thanks." He whispered, trying to catch his breath.
[19:59] * Scribbles walks around on the deck, rubbing her neck while she assesed the situation.
[20:00] * Kopesh looks back toward the fire. "Yeah, lets fix this and get the fuck out of here. We're not suited for this."
[20:00] <~Headlong> After a few moments of hosing down the wheelhouse with foam, the Bigger Boat sighs softly as they see the roof of their ship gone, and their equipment fried. "Sweet Celestia..."
[20:03] <~Headlong> Anchor Steam emerges once more, armed and looking ready to kill. "Call in some reinforcements... We're going on a snake hunt."
[20:04] * Bonnet is still shaking as she trots around slowly, keeping an eye on the island while trying to stay out of the way.
[20:04] <Kopesh> "You actually want to go after that thing?"
[20:05] <~Headlong> Anchor Steam glances up at her wheelhouse. "Yes... Nopony harms /my/ ship, or /my/ crew... and gets away with it."
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