Piss Poor Group Session 19

[18:26] * Mad_Modd  our group awakes, after a night of feels and crying, the next morning. They still have much to do but they are making progress.
[18:28] * Long-shot nuzzles Ragebrew's chest softly still curled cutely atop her with hooves genlty wrapped around her
[18:29] * Elektron didn't get much sleep last night, and instead tried to figure out the mechanics of the strange Alien Tech
[18:29] * Elektron It was still, sadly, beyond him. Its almost as if some higher power didn't /want/ him to figure it out
[18:29] * Ragebrew cracks her eyes open as the first ray of daylight pierced into the trailer. There were a pair of muddy tracks leading from under her eyes and down her face. She looked down at the coat shifted Long-shot, and gently stroked her mane gently before shifting out from underneath her. Breakfast wouldn't cook itself...
[18:31] * Midnight_Hour set up her tent inside Trailer Trash near the trailer, rolled her hair and put on her beauty mask, spent a short time reading more of her new book, before turning in for a good night's sleep with her earplugs in. Waking up early, she continues to read while waiting for the trailer sleepers to awaken while snacking on an apple and drinking some Pure Water from her canteen.
[18:32] * Elektron still trying in vain to understand to understand how the rifle worked "Come on... You may be made by something not of this world... but you must still follow the laws of physics and arcane science..."
[18:34] * Ragebrew looks over at Elektron, frowning. "Thats it, tonight I am mixing in dreamless dust in with yer dinner." She trotted outside, wandering to attend to nature's call.
[18:36] * Long-shot yawns and rolls on her side "Raaage, what's for breakfast?" she groans tiredly curious at this morning surprise
[18:39] * Ragebrew trots back after far longer than it should, her tail looking throughly scrubbed with sand. "Alright.... Move tail before hoof..." She muttered, busting out the ol' alchemy kit. Ever so often she'd try to flex her new limb. "Today's breakfast... Should I go big or should I make a regular meal..."
[18:39] * Elektron frowns, not liking the prospect of some chemical aided sleep, but continues fiddling with the rifle regardless
[18:41] * Long-shot rolls up "I dunno Ragey, whatever you feel like" she trots out shaking her head
[18:41] * Elektron not looking up from the rifle "Regular is fine, we don't need anything fancy today."
[18:42] * Midnight_Hour hums to herself whiler reading, some silly song she just made up as she bit into her apple. "Oh... Interesting point."
[18:43] * Ragebrew nodded, before pulling out some carrots, some mushrooms, and the last of her grass shoots. Peering inside her food satchel, she frowned. "Need to find a good fresh field to forage from. Running low." Cut, slice, flay, sautee, Rage went about making breakfast with a slow skillfully hoof.
[18:45] * Long-shot trots over to Midnight_Hour and sits next to her "How's that book coming along?" she asks curiously
[18:46] * Ragebrew made sure to whaft some of the sizzling fumes toward Midnight's tent as she cooked.
[18:48] * Midnight_Hour looks up at Long-shot as she walks into her tent and sits down next to her. "Oh. It is quiet good. I'm reading about imbuing spells in this chapter. If only I could figure out how to enchant gems from these writings, then I'd be able to rediscover a lost Arcane Artform." She then sniffs. "Oh. That does smell good."
[18:52] * Ragebrew flicked off her hotplate, serving up everyone plus one. She went about offering the meals out, leaving a plate by the snoring Mercy before dropping one off for Elektron and a pair for Long and Midnight. Her stone hoof actually moved slightly now, but was still very stiff and slow. She popped her head into Midnight' tent, the pair of mudstreaked paths on her face still prominent. "Breakfast, princess."
[18:56] * Midnight_Hour skews her face at Ragebrew, not in disgust or worry, but in confusion before shrugging. "Thank you. I will be right there," she says before heading back into the trailer and sitting down, reading while eating. "This book is fascinating."
[18:57] * Long-shot nods and follows her to breakfast sitting down and pulling out her magazing reading also as she eats with a hum
[18:57] * Ragebrew sat down with the group, slowly eating her meal. "If ya find any recipes in there, lemme know. My cookbook is too slim for my liking."
[19:02] <Ragebrew> "Now, what's the plan kids? Figure we have a good talk with the leaders of the tribe and Newton, try to sort this all out without violence."
[19:04] * Midnight_Hour shakes her head. "I doubt there will be any cooking recipes in here unless the author decided arcane fire fried carrots was a good idea for awesome experiment.
[19:05] * Ragebrew chuckled, nibbling on a sliver of carrot. "Not that kinda recipe. Anything alchemical and the like."
[19:05] * Elektron is /still/ fiddling with the rifle "We still don't know where that zebra came from, or what she was doing, but we should at least tell them that she was responsible for the attacks so they stop assuming its each other."
[19:07] <Ragebrew> "She mentioned project 42 and Tartirus. Both of which we are looking into ourselves. Maybe she found it before us? Or maybe she used to work for them? Lotta questions to answer, but without finding her lair, we won't be able to."
[19:07] * Elektron finally looked up from the rifle "Project 42? Tartirus? What are those?"\
[19:08] * Long-shot "Hmm, that was odd" she thinks flipping a page in her magazine
[19:09] * Midnight_Hour rolls her eyes. "Tartarus is the prison of damned souls, guarded by the three headed beast, Cerberus. Some believe it's a myth, although Twilight Sparkle herself encountered Cerberus, so who knows."
[19:09] * Ragebrew pulls out the papers they had found back so long ago in the dragoness's lair. "Project 42, located in the MAS hub. We're on a journey to find it and loot the fuck out of it. The exacts to it, I have no idea, but hey, no risk, no reward."
[19:11] <Midnight_Hour> "Then it seems our goals really are intertwined."
[19:13] * Ragebrew chuckled. "It's one of many goals, one of the shortest term ones as well." Licked her plate clean before scrubbing everything clean with sand.
[19:15] <Elektron> '/me frowns, looking over at the papers "Thats all you know? Nothing else you can tell me?"
[19:17] * Long-shot looks to Midnight_Hour with a smile "I kinda want to go to that base though... maybe and hopefully find some guns or things"
[19:18] * Midnight_Hour chuckles softly. "You are absolutely obsessed with guns, aren't you?"
[19:18] <Ragebrew> "Two things I want: This fucking bandoleer removed, and anything that would help a settlement."
[19:19] * Long-shot shook her head "No, I just hold a lot but I'm always out for a specific one" she nods
[19:19] <Ragebrew> "Now, if yer all finished with breakfast, we have a war to help prevent."
[19:19] * Elektron mutters without really thinking "Defense turrets, service bots are pretty good for that..."
[19:24] * Midnight_Hour nods. "That would be most prudent. Just let me get to the end of this chapter."
[19:25] * Mad_Modd  an ancient stallion with a large headdress approaches the group, Crab Apple at his side "I am Chief Apple Juice. Is what Crap Apple tells me true?"
[19:26] * Ragebrew gathered everything up, looking at the very old stallion, and nodded. "It is sir. Black magic. Very black. We bear it's scars."
[19:27] * Midnight_Hour nods again. "Yes, sir. A mad zebra necromancer named Nanny Zuffums was killing ponies on both sides and raising them as a zombie horde."
[19:28] * Long-shot nods and points to herself "LOOK!"
[19:28] <Ragebrew> "I'd show what happened to me, but that'd be indecent."
[19:30] * Mad_Modd  the Chief raises an eyebrow, getting uncomfortably close to Long-shot "You survived taint, a feat of it's self but not proof. Now do you have proof of this?" look to each of the group
[19:32] * Midnight_Hour glances at Ragebrew and Long-shot before closing her eyes and rolling them. "Yes, I do. I don't know how much you know of magics, but we have her black book of necromatic spells," she tells Chief Apple Juice before stowing her magic book and pulling out the zebra's.
[19:33] * Ragebrew eye twitches at the chief, before pulling back her duster and turning around, giving the old stallion a good eyefull of mare private parts. "There's my fucking proof! Bitch turned my outdoor plumbing indoor with her magic!"
[19:34] * Midnight_Hour blanches and her eyes widen. "Ragebrew! Control youself!"
[19:34] * Mad_Modd  the Chief waves a hoof at her dismissively "Yes that's lovely. May I look at that book?"
[19:35] <Midnight_Hour> "Yes, of course. Just be careful. I haven't had time to check for wards or traps woven within the words."
[19:36] * Ragebrew sits down and positively bristles, several sections of braids coming undone, leaving her with random tufts of fwuff sticking out in almost spikey shapes.
[19:36] <Midnight_Hour> 1d100 P&N 91
[19:38] * Mad_Modd  he takes the book, holding it in front of his face for a moment, not even opening it "I believe you."
[19:39] * Midnight_Hour nods and takes the book from him. "Thank you, sir. You can never be too careful when it comes to unknown forms of magic."
[19:41] * Long-shot nods to that "Mmhmm" she smiles to Midnight_Hour thanking her silently for helping her in providing proof
[19:42] * Mad_Modd  "I ask you to be careful with this book. It has a.... dark shadow about it"
[19:43] * Long-shot blinks and nods "Can I read it first?" she asks quietly
[19:44] * Elektron frowns a bit, looking at the book. At least robots never have black magic for programming
[19:45] * Long-shot giggles and trots to Elektron "Hey can I try something? I want to see if it works!"
[19:46] * Elektron furrows his brows in confusion "Try what exactly?"
[19:46] * Ragebrew just mutters nonsensical words under her breath while she braids her coat back up.
[19:48] * Long-shot blinks and looks down "The camouflage, I want to see if I can get it to change to look like you when I'm next to you and hopefully get it to stay like that for a bit" she smiles
[19:48] * Elektron raises an eyebrow and says "Sure, I guess..."
[19:48] <Ragebrew> "Long, get yer head checked. Ya got tainted, and ya wanna tamper with it further?"
[19:49] <Midnight_Hour> "Yes. Taint is... probably necromatic in nature. Surviving one poison and trying another is not a good idea."
[19:52] * Mad_Modd  the Chief simply shakes his head at Long-shot "What an odd mare" then goes over to Ragebrew "You found a cursed thing. Our brother buffalo may know how to remove it, but something like that is beyond us"
[19:54] * Ragebrew looked down at the bandoleer and back to the chief, snorting. "Should all other options fail us, I will take up that offer. I have some ideas, and I'd rather not risk causing more problems if I can find the key to this damn lock."
[19:55] * Long-shot nods "Yes, I want to read it, I'll be the test subject, call me weird or curious but I'm interested in it" she says before trotting to Elektron and standing next to him keeping their sides pressed together and seeing if she could get her coat to blend in, she thought on it trying to see if anything at all would happen
[19:56] * Mad_Modd  "It was made by mt ancestors from magic we stole from the city under the mountain.
[19:58] * Midnight_Hour sighs. "The city under teh mountain again."
[19:58] * Ragebrew blinked. "Then my idea was completely wrong." She looked to the party, and chewed on her lip for a minute. "How far out are yer brother buffalos? I do not wish to sidetrack us even further with my own issues, many as they are."
[19:59] * Mad_Modd  Long-shot dose eventually blend in with Elektron a bit
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[20:02] * Mad_Modd  "They are only a few hours trot away. Maybe take two hours from here to get to the trade post"
[20:03] * Long-shot squees looking like Elektron and giggles
[20:03] * Ragebrew looks to the group, again chewing on her lip before sighing. "Up to the others."
[20:04] * Elektron blink blinks putting his leg near her "Wow... its a perfect match"
[20:05] * Midnight_Hour shrugs. "Whatever. But perhaps we should tell Newton too so they do not attack the Trailer Trash."
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[20:07] * Long-shot looks about still staying next to Elektron "Sooo, does this mean I can have that book?"
[20:08] * Midnight_Hour glares at the color changing mare. "No, you may not have the book. You have no formal training in magic and it is too dangerous."
[20:09] * Ragebrew looks at Midnight, snorting. "Much as I loathe it, I agree with Midnight, for now. We don't know whats in that. Might break yer mind, make ya as batshit bonkers as that zebra was."
[20:10] * Long-shot frowns and looks down sitting sadly
[20:11] <Midnight_Hour> "Yes. Being a taint chameleon does not make you a master of magic."
[20:12] * Ragebrew looked at Midnight and glared. "Yer bedside manner is abysmal."
[20:13] * Midnight_Hour shrugs. "Never said I was a doctor," she says before turning to the Elder. "If you shall excuse me," she says and trots out the room.
[20:14] * Ragebrew snorted, and gathered up her gear, grumbling this way and that before trotting over to the sleeping Merciful_Devotion, nudging her a few times. "Time to get up gorgeous. Yer gonna have to eat as we travel."
[20:19] * Merciful_Devotion groans, tiredly lifting her head. "Urg..."
[20:20] * Ragebrew looked over Mercy for a moment, a mixture of concern and amusement on her face. "Come on ya slump. We got miles ahead of us and a war to stop."
[20:21] * Elektron looks over to Merciful_Devotion "Did you manage to get some sleep?"
[20:21] <Merciful_Devotion> "Gimme a minute, fluffy... I spent most of the night with captain science over there and his mystery gun..." She rubs her eyes with a hoof. "More like passed out..."
[20:23] * Long-shot sighs and itches her head "I can't wait to find another gun.." she nods thinking to herself
[20:23] * Ragebrew shooks her head and chuckled. "Next time we get rooms, I swear I'm getting you all seperate rooms."
[20:24] * Merciful_Devotion stretches luxuriously before getting to her hooves.
[20:27] * Mad_Modd  our group sets off back to Newton, hoping to stop a war...
[20:28] * Ragebrew still moves at a slow, slightly stumbling pace, her stone limb now actually moving, but very slowly and stiffly. Now back on the road, she felt like she was walking on tar once again.
[20:32] * Midnight_Hour walks with the group, her eyes still glued to the magic book as she starts the chapter on getting better wattage for Lightning Magic.
[20:33] * Ragebrew trots off on her own once more, disappearing over a dune and out of sight, once again on the hunt for supplies.
[20:34] * Long-shot follows Midnight's lead except reading her stealth mag
[20:35] * Elektron follows along, trying to figure out the principles behind the alien rifle in his head
[20:36] * Mad_Modd  Ragebrew finds a few food items, she even manages to find a half buried six pack of beer and a few caps!
[20:39] * Ragebrew rejoins with the party somewhere along the way, sipping on her canteen and looking pleased and annoyed at the same time. She looked up to the cloud covered sky for a while as she trotted along with the group once more.
[20:41] * Long-shot smiled and trotted alongside Rage "You.. okay hun?" she asks softly
[20:41] * Ragebrew looked down from the sky at Long-shot and nodded. "Aye. Just no water to be found. And my canteen will be empty by days end. Need to find a spring or something, anything, to top off with."
[20:43] * Long-shot smiles to him "Hun I have a bottled pure water and a bottled dirty water and a canteen more then half full, if you need some please just ask"
[20:44] <Ragebrew> "Keep it for yerself. I know I'lll find some soon enough. Might head out tonight when it's cool and have a look around."
[20:46] <Ragebrew> "At least I found some beer. That works well for stews and the like. Can't waste water on 'em, but a can of beer can really add some flavor to a good chili."
[20:48] * Midnight_Hour contiues reading, completely disregarding anything and anypony around her. The book just started talking about Temporal Magic and the works of Star Swirl the Bearded. "Oh. This is getting REALLY good," she mumbles to herself."
[20:50] * Ragebrew looks over at Midnight, and shakes her head. She kicked a random chunk of debris forward, right in Midnight's path. "Awareness is vital." She said to no one in particular as she kept trotting.
[20:52] * Midnight_Hour simply levitates the rock without even looking up from her book and flicks it into Ragebrew's flank. "Quite."
[20:53] * Ragebrew chuckled and bounced the rock away with her magnificent flank.
[20:53] * Long-shot giggles at both of them "Oh you two are just silly, and Rage, don't make me force you to drink it cause I will"
[20:54] * Ragebrew looked at Long-shot and smirked. "I got three days to find water when I run out. If I reach two, then I'll take it."
[20:55] * Long-shot nods "Thankyou" to Ragebrew before booping her nose
[20:55] * Elektron mutters "Spark flux capacitor? No... they can't generate anywhere near that much power..."
[20:56] * Ragebrew bats at the booping "Ack, no, not the noses."
[21:15] * Elektron continues with his obsession "Maybe some super optimized energon crystal matrix? Maybe..."
[21:29] * Rabtar  our group finally reach Newton in late morning (no thanks to the GM), the guards letting the odd group in with little trouble
[21:30] * Ragebrew looks to Mercy. "Time to shine, young lady. We need to get a hold of the mayor, tell 'em whats up."
[21:40] * Rabtar  Mercy says "I'm gunna go sit down. Not feeling so well"
[21:41] <Elektron> "Is there a trader in town? I'd like to get some tools for the road incase inspiration hits me for this rifle" he said, nodding to that little piece of weaponry that he could not get out of his head
[21:42] * Ragebrew nodded, before venturing into the town, grumbling as she looked through her supplies. "Barely anything..." She clicked her tongue, looking towards the clinic. "I'm gonna see if they can fix me and accept barter instead of caps."
[21:43] * Midnight_Hour sighs. "I'll take care of talking to the mayor then," Midnight says before ducking into an alley and changing into the little blue dress before trotting off to the mayor's office.
[21:51] * Ragebrew trots into the medical clinic, looking like hell and obviously withdrawn to a trained eye. She looked to the first staff pony. "Aye, ya happen to be interested in a few wasteland medicine recipes?"
[21:54] * Rabtar  the medical staff come over and discuss what Ragebrew is showing off
[21:56] * Rabtar  they agree to exchange the recipes for a cleansing, throwing in a few caps on top
[21:57] * Ragebrew thanks them profusely as she is hooked up to the detox rig, nodding off slightly as it did its job. Even as she snored, there was a smile on her face.
[22:02] * Vieral ([email protected]) Quit ( Quit: KVIrc 4.0.4 Insomnia http://www.kvirc.net/ )
[22:20] * Rabtar  the /mayors secretary stops Midnight_Hour "Can I help you?"
[22:24] * Midnight_Hour smiles politely. "Yes ma'am, I have come far and fought zombies in order to relay a message to the mayor."
[22:25] <Midnight_Hour> "It is of the utmost importance."
[22:25] * Rabtar  she smiles back "Do you have an appointment miss?"
[22:26] * Midnight_Hour shakes her head. "No ma'am, but the information I have needs to be told or lives could be lost and a senseless war could start when it need not have to."
[22:28] * Rabtar  "Alright, but be quick. The Mayor is a busy stallion" getting up and opening the door for Midnight
[22:30] * Rabtar  the Mayor is sleeping at his desk, a half eaten snack cake sitting on his desk
[22:30] <@Rabtar> sitting in front of him*
[22:33] * Midnight_Hour steps in looking prim and proper, but her eyes fall upon the sleeping mayor and sighs. Bringing the smile back to her face, she speaks up, "Mr. Mayor?"
[22:36] * Rabtar  the Mayor sits up with a snort "YUP! I'm awake! Wasn't sleeping at all!". You can hear his secretary snicker as the door closes
[22:37] * Midnight_Hour stifles a snicker. "Yes, sir. Of course not. I apologize for interupting, sir, but I bear urgent news."
[22:38] * Rabtar  the brown and black stallion clears his throat and straightens himself "Urgent news? What about?"
[22:41] * Midnight_Hour clears her throat as daintily as possible before speaking. "Sir, my party and I went out to investigate the attacks on Newton by the Trailer Trash. However, upon investigation, it appeared that Trailer Trash was being attacked by Newton ponies as well."
[22:43] * Rabtar  "Horse shit. Our patrols only shoot raiders and slavers on sight. And untill recently we left them primitives alone"
[22:46] * Midnight_Hour holds up a hoof and continues. "That is quite true. You were both being played against each other. Our group investigated further at much personal cost to us, physically and... mentally, and discovered a zebra necromancer named Nanny Zuffums. She was raising your and Trailer Trash's dead as zombies and having them attack each other to goad you into killing each other."
[22:48] <Midnight_Hour> "We were unable to discover her true motives before we were forced to kill her in self defense, but I would guess if you two killed each other, she would have a lot of minions at her disposal."
[22:48] * Rabtar  raising an eyebrow "That's a pretty tall tail. You got proof?"
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[22:57] * Midnight_Hour smiles. "Of course I do. This is the necromancer's grimoire of necrotic magic," she says, pulling out the book with her magic. "If you wish to see the disturbing spells, writings, and depictions, you may, but I warn you that I have not checked to see if the zebra wrote traps into its pages."
[23:03] * Rabtar  "Let me see that thing"
[23:05] * Midnight_Hour opens the door to the office with her magic and calls back to the secretary. "As a precaution, I have warned the mayor about the possible dangers held within this book. If anything happens, I am not to blame," she calls back before offering the mayor the book. "Do be careful, sir, and I will need that back when you are done."
[23:08] * Rabtar  he takes the book and flips through it for a few moments "I can't read this..."
[23:10] * Midnight_Hour smiles slightly. "That may be for the best. It is written in zebra and is necromatic magic after all."
[23:13] * Rabtar  "I'm not sure I believe you. I want you to prove to me this is zebra or nercomatic magic:
[23:17] * Midnight_Hour sighs, picking up the spellbook, before flicking through the pages. The zebra was harder to decipher, but the spellwork seemed similar enough for her to figure out. Zebra spellcasters seemed to use fetishes as foci since they lacked horns. Settling on a spell, her horn glows green instead of purple before summoning an orb of green balefire and hovering between them at hopefully a safe enough distance to reduce radiatio
[23:19] <Midnight_Hour>  exposure. "There. Balefire. A spell of the zebra necromancy school of magic. Does this satisfy your curiosity?"
[23:20] * Rabtar  the green fireball pulses odly for several long moments before going out. The mayor eyes Midnight_Hour sceptically "That wasn't normal fire was it?"
[23:24] * Midnight_Hour extinguished the flames before closing her eyes and rolling them secretly beneath her eyelids. "No sir. As I said, that was balefire. You know, the stuff the zebra empire of the past combined with megaspell matrices in order to destroy the world. Of course, I don't think you need a history lesson to see the results," she explains while gesturing outside.
[23:25] * Rabtar  the Mayor leans back in his chair "Lets say I believe you... What would a zebra be doing out here? And why?"
[23:29] * Midnight_Hour shrugs. "Like I said, sir, we do not know her true reasons. A war between two settlements would have a considerably body count that she could raise for minimal losses of her own. She also spoke of Tartarus so perhaps she was just some doomsday nihilist."
[23:35] * Rabtar  he puts a hoof up "Alright I've heard enough. I don't want to know anything else. Specially if it has to do with fucking hell it's self. I'll get word out to the patrols to leave the primitives alone"
[23:37] * Midnight_Hour cocks her head to the side for a moment as she give the mayor another smile. "As you wish, Mr. Mayor. I'm just glad such a disgusting creature and her horrid abominations no longer walk this earth. If she's wanted Tartarus, she found it."
[23:39] * Rabtar  "Indeed. Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do." he pulls up a few papers and starts writing out the new orders for the patrols
[23:41] * Midnight_Hour sighs. "Yes, sir. I will take my leave then," she says with a smile. "Unless you might see fit to reward my group for such bravery and diligence of service to the cause of peace?"
[23:42] * Rabtar  he chuckles "I don't think so. Have a nice day"
[23:46] * Midnight_Hour pouts. "Yes, sir," she says before leaving, looking a little defeated even though she triumphed.
[23:55] * Rabtar  our group meet up in the market, buying what supplies they can before getting ready to set off once more. Stopping the war eventually led to an alliance against Red Eyes slavers years down the road, they could not stop them but it slowed them down considerably, at least until the alicorns showed up. For preventing a war the group receive 800xp