FoE PNP Group 80 Session 15

[20:24] <~Radio|GM>  --- Group 80: The Coltifornia Campaign ---
[20:24] <~Radio|GM>  Session 15
[20:25] <~Radio|GM> Last we left, the group just barely fought off a quintuplet set of glowing rats emerging from some strange chemical vats. They now remain safe, for the moment, in one of the offices.
[20:26] * Limuko was still at the lift, his head looking down in shame as he became more calm than before.
[20:27] * Zemblanity is still bleeding a little, but is searching the offices nonetheless.
[20:30] <~Radio|GM> Zemblanity, in her searches, will find that this office is only sparsely decorated. A single desk lies in the corner, atop which an active terminal sits, two crawers along the sides. Three filing cabinets lie directly beside it, as well as a long-dead potted plant up top. On the far wall lies a frame, though whatever was inside is no longer there. A few pegs, presumably for holding...
[20:30] <~Radio|GM> ...clothes, line the back wall, as well as four more filing cabinets and a small footlocker.
[20:31] * Silk_Rose is currently looking through the files on the terminal!
[20:31] * Zemblanity is fairly certain that she was looking at the footlocker.
[20:32] <~Radio|GM> Zemblanity, to her great relief, will find that the footlocker is unlocked. Within lies a small bag, its contents jangling softly, and some old illegible papers.
[20:32] * Limuko taps his forehooves together. Now that his thoughts were more clear did he begin to think more to himself as he looked around the place, wondering if there was anything else dangerous that could scare the shit out of him.
[20:34] <~Radio|GM> Limuko finds himself quite safe in the lift, surrounded by metal fencing. Apart from the occasional bubbling from the vats, he finds nothing.
[20:35] * Zemblanity pulls the bag free from the old papers. She then closes the trunk and upends the bag on the now closed lid.
[20:35] * Limuko sighs. "Limuko thinks he should owe apology." He said to himself, simply because he really had nothing to do right now.
[20:36] <~Radio|GM> Clinkety clink. Out pours a total of 27 pre-war bits, still shiny.
[20:37] * Zemblanity smirks. "Well... This wasn't a complete bust." She says, pocketing the bits, then turning her attention to the filing cabinets closest to her.
[20:38] <~Radio|GM> The four filing cabinets are all filled with papers, some nearly stuck together from age and moisture, of little use to the mare finding them. She does find, however, a small binder of interest, with a note tacked outside.
[20:39] * Zemblanity isn't sure what constitutes a binder of interest to her, unless it had something to do with... Well... She reads the note first.
[20:41] <~Radio|GM> "Hi daddy. I know you're going off to work for a long time, so I wanted to send you sumthing to remember me by. So I want you to have my cap colleckshun. Come home soon daddy".
[20:43] * Zemblanity discards the note, clearly not that much of interest to her. She opens this supposedly relevant folder.
[20:45] <~Radio|GM> Inside is...bottle caps? Yes indeed. The binder's sheets are protectors, like those used to hold trading cards in the pre-war days, but each one is occupied with a bottle cap, each labeled carefully (albeit in a foal's scrawl) with its brand and year of production.
[20:45] <~Radio|GM> Were she to count, Zemblanity would find a total of 85 caps. Not a bad find at all.
[20:46] * Limuko contemplates on getting out of the elevator and attempt to make an apology to Zemblanity ... but with his legs shaking over whatever could still be out there (he didn't trust his eyes) he hesitated.
[20:46] <~Radio|GM> Silk_Rose, meanwhile, finds that the terminal is unlocked. She only finds a list of numbered logs, from 13 to 17.
[20:46] * Zemblanity stashes the binder in her pack, then, and heads back to the terminal. "Anything good?"
[20:48] * Silk_Rose starts opening the logs, starting with 13! "That depends on what you mean by 'good', Zemmy! I mean, it's no luxury suite with complementary champagne, but... it's /something/."
[20:50] * Zemblanity looks a little confused by the comparison, but shrugs. "Well, we got a few caps out of it... Should pay for the medicine I used..."
[20:51] <~Radio|GM> "Another shipment came in today. Damn, you have no idea what kind of crap goes into this stuff. How can some of the nastiest chemicals in the planet make something that's supposed to HEAL ponies? Just who was the genius who invented healing potions, anyway?"
[20:54] <Limuko> "Well, Limuko could ... no no no no, that is not proper way to make apology Limuko. They will think you are making pathetic excuse." The conzebra said to himself as he began to pace around in circles, his tail on his chin.
[21:01] * Zemblanity cocks a brow. "Huh..."
[21:01] * Silk_Rose frowns. "They put that stuff in potions...? Ugh. Makes me glad I use my magic..." She keeps playing each file in order.
[21:02] * Zemblanity grimaces a little, having just drank one...
[21:04] <~Radio|GM> "Alright, so somepony knocks on my door, and who comes in but three ponies in full hazmat gear and some weird tanks full of Celestia-knows-what? Apparently the building has a rat problem. Like there's anything to eat. Food isn't allowed in the factory or the storage areas. How'd they get in?"
[21:04] <Limuko> "Ok, that sounds like a better plan Limuko ... but, what if there is something out there that could kill him?" Limuko then looked at a quarter he had just randomly received from out of nowhere. "Hmm ... heads Limuko goes, tails Limuko stays." He then flips the coin in the air with his tail.
[21:05] <Limuko> It lands on heads. "... Maybe Limuko will do best two out of three."
[21:05] <~Radio|GM> It lands on tails. Where /did/ that coin come from?
[21:06] * Limuko was confused, but as the green text was almighty, the coin lands on tails instead of heads as his player originally had it ... but he had already said best two out of three, and so Limuko flips it again.
[21:07] <~Radio|GM> Tails again.
[21:08] * Zemblanity grits her teeth. If she ever sees a rat again, it'll be too soon...
[21:08] * Limuko sighs in relief, wiping his forehead with his tail. He was glad that he didn't have to risk his life going out there. So now, he just had to wait ... and wait ... and wait ...
[21:10] * Silk_Rose keeps playing the logs!
[21:11] <~Radio|GM> "Oh gross. That's just sick. Apparently some of the rats have been falling INTO the vats. That's just disgusting. We're sending this stuff off to the army, for crying out loud! The factory's been shut down while we try and clean the tanks."
[21:12] * Silk_Rose glances toward Zemblanity. "So uh... looks like somepony dropped the ball on that one?"
[21:13] * Zemblanity has a scowl on her face. "More than that."
[21:17] <~Radio|GM> "They got the rats out of the tanks. Most of them, anyway. But holy shit, they weren't dead! You'd think they'd have drowned in there, but holy Luna. What would happen if a pony fell in there? I don't want to know."
[21:19] * Zemblanity heaves a slight sigh. "I can only imagine." She mutters. "I don't think we're going to learn anything we didn't already know from this thing."
[21:26] * Silk_Rose shrugs. "Well... There's one more log. Might as well hear it out, right?"
[21:26] * Zemblanity stands in the door, shrugging. "Sure."
[21:28] <~Radio|GM> "Note to self: Found a key on the factory floor. I think it's the boss's. I'm half-tempted to find out what it opens, but I'd get fired. I'm holding onto it for now and giving it to him tomorrow."
[21:29] * Zemblanity sighs a little, trotting out of the office slowly. "These dated at all, Rose?"
[21:31] * Silk_Rose checks for a date!
[21:31] <~Radio|GM> The logs are dated consecutively. The date of the last entry corresponds, coincidentally or not, with the day immediately prior to the megaspell exchange.
[21:33] * Silk_Rose hums a bit. "Weeell... He might not have given up that key after all."
[21:33] * Limuko just whistles as he waits for his companions.
[21:36] * Zemblanity nods firmly. "Right... Let's find ourselves a corpse." She heads out back across the causway, to the lift. "Limuko, on your hooves. We're looking for a body now."
[21:37] * Limuko turned to Zemblanity, looking confused and a bit nervous as he taps his hooves. "Umm ... if you ask Limuko to, of course." He said with a forced smile as he searched around.
[21:38] <~Radio|GM> The factory floor is empty and devoid of anything beyond those large, purple vats of stuff that used to be healing potion.
[21:39] * Zemblanity heads off the factory floor, then. There /were/ other places to explore, after all.
[21:40] * Silk_Rose leaves the terminal as-is, and follows Zemblanity out to look for the body.
[21:41] <~Radio|GM> There are three unexplored offices lining the sides of the factory.
[21:41] * Zemblanity picks one at random and busts open the door.
[22:16] <Radio|GM> As Zemblanity enters the office, she finds it occupied mainly by a large table surrounded by chairs.
[22:17] * Limuko continues searching for the body ... which ... honestly, he didn't want to do.
[22:17] * Zemblanity takes a walk around the table, eyes peeled and scanning for interesting things... Conference rooms general had ponies in them!
[22:19] <Radio|GM> Zemblanity notices, as she trots around the table, an object sticking out from under the far end of the table. upon closer inspection, it's a hoof - and a well-chewed one at that.
[22:20] * Zemblanity grimaces. She casts Light and ducks down under the table.
[22:21] <Radio|GM> It's a body, the decayed flesh chewed away by time and, most likely, the vat rats. It wears a security uniform, a single pistol still holstered to its side.
[22:22] * Limuko continues to search around ... having high hopes that somepony else would find the dead body for him.
[22:22] * Zemblanity snags the pistol and gives it the usual search. Pockets, under the shirt, around the neck...
[22:23] * Silk_Rose stand at the door to the room Zemblanity is exploring. "Find something, Zemmy?"
[22:24] <Radio|GM> The pistol proves to be a single 10mm in fair condition. Searching the body yields 20 10mm rounds and nothing else. The uniform is too ragged and damaged to be usable.
[22:24] * Zemblanity frowns a little as she pockets the pistol and ammo.
[22:24] <Zemblanity> "A security guard... with no keys."
[22:27] * Silk_Rose frowns. "Alright, well... I'll go check one of the other rooms." She trots over to the next nearest unexplored office to check there!
[22:29] * Zemblanity looks... underneath him, perhaps?
[22:31] <Radio|GM> No key to speak of. Odd.
[22:31] <Radio|GM> Silk_Rose, on the other hoof...finds this door locked.
[22:32] * Zemblanity heads out of that room with a sigh, to the third unopened office room and goes to test the door.
[22:32] * Limuko keeps wandering aimlessly about. He wasn't really trying to look for the corpse, highly hoping that Zemblanity and Silk_Rose could handle it.
[22:33] * Silk_Rose frowns. "Oh come on..." At least she found the door the key goes to, maybe? She goes to check out the third room, since this one is locked.
[22:34] <Radio|GM> The third door, likewise, proves locked.
[22:35] * Zemblanity thunks the door with a hoof. "Luna dammit..."
[22:36] * Silk_Rose frowns. "This one too?"
[22:36] <Limuko> "Well my friends, Limuko can't seem to find the corpse that you want him to search for. Perhaps we should continue on with our quest to Weedrush no?" He said, clearly hoping that nothing bad would happen the moment his player enters in that piece of dialouge out of Limuko.
[22:37] * Zemblanity nods. "Yep... Still got that key from the front door? Maybe it's like a... skeleton key, or something." It's clear that she's grasping at straws, as such an idea would be incredibly stupid, should it actually work.
[22:38] * Silk_Rose shrugs. "Maybe... worth a shot?" She tries the front door key on the door!
[22:38] <Limuko> "Limuko highly doubts that ponies here would be that stupid. Ponies who want to have good stuff locked away would never use the same key they use for other places. It is just poor security."
[22:39] <Radio|GM> These ponies must have truly had poor security, then. The lock turns.
[22:39] * Zemblanity gapes. Once the door's open, she bucks the door open hard with a huff and strides inside.
[22:39] * Limuko looks at the green sky in the text. "Hmm, Limuko guess these ponies are stupid after all."
[22:41] <Limuko> *green text in the sky
[22:47] <Radio|GM> Zemblanity and Limuko find another office, albeit one far more spacious than the one they previously encountered. In this room is no less than three decomposed bodies, lying in various places around the room.
[22:48] * Zemblanity covers her nose with her cloak. "Split up and search 'em..." She mutters, selecting one at random.
[22:48] <Radio|GM> Silk_Rose sees them too.
[22:48] <Limuko> "Gahhh!" Limuko yelped as he saw the bodies. He turns to Zemblanity, and nervously nods as he goes to one of the bodies and ... resists the urge to vomit as he searched it.
[22:49] <Radio|GM> Zemblanity finds this one is a security guard, also armed with a 10mm pistol, carrying 24 rounds of ammunition and a key identical to the one in Silk_Rose's telekinetic grasp.
[22:49] * Silk_Rose scrunches her nose. "Ugh... You owe me for this one, Zemmy." She takes the third body, staying further back and using her telekinesis to search the body.
[22:50] * Limuko couldn't resist, and begins vomitting out his lunch before he could even begin searching the second body.
[22:50] * Zemblanity takes it for herself. Couldn't hurt to have more than one. "That terminal mentioned a-" She looks to Limuko, eyes lidded. "Greenhorns..." She mutters. "He mentioned some kind of different key..."
[22:51] <Radio|GM> Limuko finds this one dressed in the tattered, unwearable remains of a pre-war business suit, now splattered with vomit. It carries a small satchel with 39 pre-war bits and nothing else.
[22:52] <Radio|GM> Silk_Rose's body wears an orange vest, a hard hat upon its head. In its pocket is a single bottle cap and a key.
[22:52] * Limuko grasps for breath as he wiped out the vomit from his mouth. He quickly grabs the satchel of 39 bits and quickly looks away from the body.
[22:57] * Silk_Rose waves the key she just found to show Zemblanity. "Uh... is this it?" She isn't sure whether she wants to take the bottlecap. At least, not before a thorough cleaning...
[22:58] * Zemblanity compares it to her own, close to her face. "Well, let's take a look."
[22:58] <Radio|GM> They are not one and the same. Evidently, this is the pony who used to work in that other office.
[22:58] * Limuko continues to breath. "So ... what is it that we are doing in here? Limuko thought we were done with place."
[23:01] * Zemblanity frowns and takes this key... to the safe that Chass had found earlier. "No, Limuko. We're getting something out of this now."
[23:02] * Limuko taps his hooves nervously. "But what if we come across more glowing rats? Or worse? Limuko doesn't believe he can handle more."
[23:05] * Silk_Rose takes the bottlecap with her and follows Zemblanity. She takes a good look at it to make sure there's no... nasty rotten... stuff clinging to it before she stashes it away.
[23:13] <Radio|GM> Zemblanity finds that this key does, indeed, open the safe, and inside finds three items. The first is a single pistol, outwardly resembling a .45 Automatic, though a compensator protrudes from the barrel, the metal a lustrous silvery steel, the grips of reddish-brown and embossed with the seal of the Royal Sisters.
[23:14] <Radio|GM> The second is a bottle of wine, identical to the one Silk_Rose and Zemblanity earned from their little journey near Trotters' Fort.
[23:14] * Zemblanity whistles a little, even if the compensator looks a little gaudy. She floats it out, pulls back the action, and drops out the magazine.
[23:15] <Limuko> "Hmm." He said as he looked at the pistol.
[23:16] <Radio|GM> The third is a vial, a small one, filled with water, in which specks of gold glint. It is simply labeled with the number "17".
[23:16] <Limuko> "GAAAASP!" Limuko said as his eyes widen, immediatly taking the vial as his eyes turned into caps symbols as he smiled.
[23:17] * Zemblanity blinks a few times. "Did you just... /say/ 'gasp'?"
[23:17] <Limuko> "Yes! Limuko has been searching for this!" He said holding the vial with his tail.
[23:18] * Zemblanity peers at the vial closely. "Gold?"
[23:18] <Limuko> "Not just any gold my friend."
[23:18] * Silk_Rose smirks and takes the bottle of wine in her magic. "Well, since everypony already helped themselves... This one's mine!"
[23:19] <Radio|GM> The pistol appears, to Zeblanity, to be exactly what it looks like. A standard .45 pistol.
[23:19] <Limuko> "This is one of the only 100 original samples of gold from the Coltifornia Gold Rush. Mr. Dusty has offered many caps if Limuko is to receive these for him." He said as he places it into his inventory.
[23:20] * Zemblanity cocks a brow. "And... who made them? Why are they labelled? Why are they even hidden? In a place like this?" She tucks the pistol away, to be used later, no doubt.
[23:21] * Limuko shrugs. "Limuko does not know. But does it matter? It will make Limuko many caps anyway."
[23:24] * Silk_Rose snickers. "I don't think we're going back to the fort anytime soon, Little Limuko. Besides, I'm sure /we/ could sell that little bottle for even /more/ caps!"
[23:25] * Limuko shook his head. "Limuko is sure with time passed that we can return eventually. Besides, Limuko intends to find more before selling them to Dusty anyway."
[23:25] * Zemblanity smiles as she places the pistol in easy reach. Surely she'd have noticed if the clip was loaded when she examined it.
[23:26] * Limuko then claps his hooves together. "Well my friends, Limuko believes we are done searching through here now?"
[23:26] <Radio|GM> Strangely, there is none. Odd...
[23:27] * Silk_Rose smirks at Limuko. "Yeah, but Dusty knows how much it's really worth, right? So he can't /possibly/ pay more than somepony who /doesn't/ know how much it's really worth." She wraps a foreleg around Limuko's shoulder and tugs him closer. "Little Limuko, you have a /lot/ to learn!"
[23:29] * Zemblanity pulls the hammer back and pulls the trigger, to at least see if the parts still move, as she makes for the door. "I think we are, Limuko. Let's get out of here."
[23:29] * Limuko backs away from Silk_Rose, getting out of her grasp as a red blush filled his face. "L-L-Limuko has it under control with price! A-after all, he is expert sells zebra." Or a conzebra is more correct, but they didn't need to know this.
[23:29] <Radio|GM> The pistol works flawlessly.
[23:30] * Zemblanity smiles. Better than that other piece of crap she had.
[23:30] * Limuko he nods to Zemblanity, his blush still present on his face as he followed Zemblanity out of the place.
[23:37] * Silk_Rose rolls her eyes as she follows them out.
[23:44] <Radio|GM> THey manage to find their way back out into the wasteland, much as they left it...but where is that rhino? Dumisani is nowhere to be seen...
[23:45] * Limuko looked around for Dumisani. "Hmm, where is rhino friend?"
[23:45] * Zemblanity stops, blinking. "Your laconic friend... Did she say anything about leaving?"
[23:46] * Silk_Rose gives a curious look around... even trotting over to look around the corner of the building. "Hmm... You'd think somepony so big would be easy to spot. But I don't see them anywhere."
[23:47] * Limuko gave a frown, given that Dumisani was the only female that didn't triger his hormones. He gives a sad sigh.
[23:50] <Radio|GM> Limuko notices Silk_Rose's scandalously short tail.
[23:50] * Limuko tries to ignore it!
[23:51] * Zemblanity sits on her haunches, doing up her mane into her head wrap. "What in the hell is going on around here?"
[23:53] <Radio|GM> Not hide nor tail of the rhino is to be found. Dumisani is gone.
[23:54] <Limuko> "... Limuko guesses we can only continue on then." He said in a sad tone.
[23:54] * Silk_Rose gives a quiet hum. "Well... there's not much else we can do, right?"
[23:54] * Zemblanity frowns a little. "Perhaps our paths will cross again someday." She says, drawing a small moon in the dirt. "Perhaps."
[23:56] <Radio|GM> End Session
[00:01] <Radio|GM> All party members gain 200 XP.