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  1. [2014-09-24 13:09:27] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mare-Do-Well looks about. "This is the ghost's haunt. She can exert her control from any chamber within it."
  2. [2014-09-24 13:09:45] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream looks at Bookie. "Bookie, Mare-Do-Well. What would Daring Do do?"
  3. [2014-09-24 13:09:55] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost, meanwhile, disables the trap.
  4. [2014-09-24 13:10:01] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright looks thoughtful. "She'd find a way to drive away the ghost."
  5. [2014-09-24 13:10:10] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mare-Do-Well nods at what Bookwright said. "Yeah. She totally would."
  6. [2014-09-24 13:10:31] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara considers shouting 'zombie ghost leave this place', but already did that joke 2-3 times now.
  7. [2014-09-24 13:10:38] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright shrugs. "But I wouldn't know how to go about doing that..."
  8. [2014-09-24 13:10:50] * Mare-Do-Well 3thinks. "We have to find her first." She looks around. "And maybe figure out a bit about her."
  9. [2014-09-24 13:11:02] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream looks around. "That hallway's trapped t' shit. Should we go down another one?"
  10. [2014-09-24 13:11:21] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright suggests, "Well, we know she's a ghost. We know she's a zebra. We know she's been here a long, long, long time. And we know she doesn't like visitors. So this place must have significance for her. Maybe she used to be a couatl cultist?"
  11. [2014-09-24 13:11:29] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream takes a moment for that to register. And then she exclaims, "The cloaks!"
  12. [2014-09-24 13:11:39] <Mare-Do-Well> 3CopyCat nods at Golden_Dream. "That is a very good thought."
  13. [2014-09-24 13:11:47] <Mare-Do-Well> 3CopyCat shivers. "And I do not want anymore of those close shaves."
  14. [2014-09-24 13:11:54] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright still has a zebra cultist cloak. "The ones with the couatl decorations? I've still got one in my pack somewhere, but I don't think Scales would like it if I draped one over her.
  15. [2014-09-24 13:12:11] <Mare-Do-Well> 3...
  16. [2014-09-24 13:12:22] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session One Hundred and Three: Origin Story (Part Twenty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSUQxGjZZ4
  17. [2014-09-24 13:12:36] <Mare-Do-Well> 3--- Session Begins ---
  18. [2014-09-24 13:14:27] * Bookwright "On the other hoof, maybe she would. On the other other hoof, maybe I don't want to antagonize her. She might threaten to eat somepony."
  19. [2014-09-24 13:16:18] * Bookwright lifts a hoof and looks at it. "On the other other other hoof, I appear to have stepped in something slimy. Yuck."
  20. [2014-09-24 13:16:50] * CopyCat scowls at the trapped moss-coated corridor that had almost cut her head off. "Only the penitent mare may pass... as much as I hate to say this, maybe what we're looking for is through there after all..."
  21. [2014-09-24 13:17:06] * Golden_Dream replies, "Well, Scales wouldn't like it more if she died due to some crazy-ass ghost, now would she?"
  22. [2014-09-24 13:18:36] * Noble_Heart frowns and looks down the hallway. "It would make sense that she was a worshipper of the Empress. Or perhaps a member of the Zebra Expedition to reclaim the amulet."
  23. [2014-09-24 13:20:22] * Bookwright shakes his head. "Nope. There was a set of legionnare's bones with plants growing through them in another room, remember? This ghost has been here since before the war."
  24. [2014-09-24 13:22:19] * CopyCat nickers, and looks at her friends. "Can any of us burn a way through these plants? It will be hard to see traps up ahead with them covering everything."
  25. [2014-09-24 13:22:41] * Noble_Heart tilts her head to one side. "That is a very long time to remain in one place." She contemplates that. "We would wonder what would have bound the ghost here to begin with. They are not exactly common."
  26. [2014-09-24 13:23:28] * Golden_Dream checks her shells. "We have that flare gun we picked up from Tragedy's End, if anyone wants t' go fetch that. Other than that, I got a few Dragon's Breathers."
  27. [2014-09-24 13:25:21] * Noble_Heart shakes her head. "Our skill is lightning, not fire."
  28. [2014-09-24 13:25:25] * Bookwright sighs. "I think the best we can do is proceed really, really carefully. And also, I'm pretty sure that the ghost is what set off the trap... not us."
  29. [2014-09-24 13:27:57] * Golden_Dream sucks on her teeth. "Alright. Gimme a cape in case that'll work. Let's see if she likes Coatls."
  30. [2014-09-24 13:28:31] * Shatara helpfully points out that lightning starts fires a lot
  31. [2014-09-24 13:29:22] * Bookwright digs out the coat from his bags and drapes it over Golden_Dream, securing the feathered serpent clasp around her neck with a flourish. "There ya go."
  32. [2014-09-24 13:31:47] * CopyCat nods. "Very well. But first, Shatara, Golden_Dream, Bookwright, Get_Lost and Noble_Heart, I would like your permission to link our reactionary consciousnesses together. It will not share thoughts... any more than normal. But it will help us to avoid danger. If any of us senses danger, we all will."
  33. [2014-09-24 13:32:23] * Golden_Dream just kinda wears it lazily on top of her mesh cloak. Because screw giving up armor in case it doesn't work. She mouths her flashlight, and clicks it on. "Yer' gonna get a lot of false positives outta me, Copycat."
  34. [2014-09-24 13:32:42] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Scales hisses.
  35. [2014-09-24 13:33:32] * Noble_Heart frowns slightly. "We would prefer not. But if it will help."
  36. [2014-09-24 13:33:40] * Bookwright <Wait, wait, don't tell me. The those are coautl feathers on the cloak, aren't they?
  37. [2014-09-24 13:34:08] * Get_Lost "what happens if one of us panics while wired together?"
  38. [2014-09-24 13:34:10] * Bookwright "You have my permission, CopyCat."
  39. [2014-09-24 13:35:59] * CopyCat shrugs at Get_Lost. "You would be less useful to the others. Otherwise it shouldn't be a problem."
  40. [2014-09-24 13:37:26] * CopyCat casts her spell on each of her friends as they accept.
  41. [2014-09-24 13:40:24] * Get_Lost nods and waits for spell goodies
  42. [2014-09-24 13:42:36] * Shatara nods a bit.
  43. [2014-09-24 13:43:07] * Golden_Dream actually loads one buckshot in the chamber before heading into the hallway, after sitting still for the weird magic thing.
  44. [2014-09-24 13:43:12] * CopyCat smiles. Now her friends could sense danger almost like she did, through the minds of those around her. "I just hope this is enough. Shall we proceed?"
  45. [2014-09-24 13:44:23] * Bookwright "Keep our eyes and, er, mechanical visors sharp and I think we're good."
  46. [2014-09-24 13:45:33] * Shatara keeps up eyes and EFSuses
  47. [2014-09-24 13:46:39] * Noble_Heart throws up her shield and follows some distance behind Golden Dream. She was not terribly happy about allowing another to go first, but right now it would have to be alright.
  48. [2014-09-24 13:47:49] * Get_Lost scans the surroundings, her visor switching color every few moments
  49. [2014-09-24 13:48:44] * Golden_Dream wanders down the hall in her feathery cloak that was just kinda draped over her normal one, eyes wide and bright with caution.
  50. [2014-09-24 13:54:17] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The plants rustle, the entire hallway seeming to shiver. Golden_Dream can hear the vines slithering behind the covering of large, green leaves.
  51. [2014-09-24 13:55:13] * Golden_Dream narrows her eyes, then ejects the buckshot shell.
  52. [2014-09-24 13:55:32] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream reaches the end of the hallway, meeting a curtain of hanging plants. The sounds of dripping and running water echo from the other side.
  53. [2014-09-24 13:58:13] * Get_Lost "parlay, play something appropriate"
  54. [2014-09-24 13:59:43] * Bookwright keeps his eyes peeled for untoward things.
  55. [2014-09-24 14:01:02] * CopyCat bites her lip. Isn't that what happened just before the trap had sprung on her? Perhaps it was the ghost setting things off after all.
  56. [2014-09-24 14:02:43] * Golden_Dream exhales. "Noble, you go ahead and get those plants outta th' way before ghosty goes n' strangles me with 'em."
  57. [2014-09-24 14:02:54] * Get_Lost offers "i have a pickaxe and a shovel, could that help dealing with the plants?"
  58. [2014-09-24 14:03:18] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Parlay begins to play music from the Daring Do movie soundtrack.
  59. [2014-09-24 14:05:43] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Vines begin to lower themselves from the ceiling behind Golden_Dream.
  60. [2014-09-24 14:06:07] * Golden_Dream whimpers a little. "Shovel me, then."
  61. [2014-09-24 14:06:32] * Shatara draws his own shovel.
  62. [2014-09-24 14:07:02] * Noble_Heart frowns. "We are not certain how easily We will be able to-" She pauses at the vines beginning to lower, reaching out with her magic to try and pull them away.
  63. [2014-09-24 14:07:40] * Get_Lost gives the shovel to kid
  64. [2014-09-24 14:08:00] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Noble_Heart's efforts are successful, pulling back the vines. For all their ghostly animations, they are still just vines.
  65. [2014-09-24 14:08:43] * Get_Lost "maybe i could concotion something for these plants...
  66. [2014-09-24 14:08:53] * Noble_Heart frowns. "They do not seem to be supernatural. Just.. Manipulated."
  67. [2014-09-24 14:10:27] * CopyCat cheers. "Ha! Take that stupid vines!" A vine just happens to drop down and touch CopyCat's back. "Eeeeep!"
  68. [2014-09-24 14:11:09] * Bookwright brushes it off with magic.
  69. [2014-09-24 14:11:29] * Shatara delivers a swift shoveling to the offending vine.
  70. [2014-09-24 14:12:25] * CopyCat turns to Bookwright and Shatara, her saviors from the creeping vines. "Th-thank you," she says, her cheeks flushed.
  71. [2014-09-24 14:12:51] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The vine slices, part of it falling to the broken stone floor. It begins to inch and slither towards CopyCat.
  72. [2014-09-24 14:13:28] * Bookwright snags it with telekinesis and floats it up in front of his face. "Eeew. That's just nasty."
  73. [2014-09-24 14:13:33] * Get_Lost tries grabbing it and watching it còosely
  74. [2014-09-24 14:14:02] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The cut vine wiggles like a fish out of water, then goes limp.
  75. [2014-09-24 14:14:05] * CopyCat freaks out and leaps into Shatara's arms. "Ahhhh!"
  76. [2014-09-24 14:14:44] * Get_Lost "i think we should call this specie the hentaicus molestarius pelagicus"
  77. [2014-09-24 14:14:59] * Shatara acks and catches the big alicorn, staggering a bit
  78. [2014-09-24 14:15:54] * Golden_Dream eeps! "Okay, we're goin' through this here threshold before we get noodled again!" And so she does!
  79. [2014-09-24 14:16:03] * Shatara collapses under her and sprawls out.
  80. [2014-09-24 14:17:02] * Bookwright shivers involuntarily.
  81. [2014-09-24 14:17:51] * CopyCat 'oofs' at the impact and quickly gets to her hooves, powered by embarressment. "Oh, I'm so sorry Shatara... here, let me help you up." She holds out a hoof to assist her fallen hero.
  82. [2014-09-24 14:18:29] * Get_Lost shrugs and folows. "so far, this haunted house looks a lot more like a tunnel of love..." couldd be glabncing at shatara and CopyCat but with cybervisor it is hard to tell
  83. [2014-09-24 14:24:09] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream pushes quickly through the plant curtain. Beyond is what had once been a small room with what looks like an alter... or perhaps an interrogation table... at the end. The ceiling is not stone, but a rusty metal gridwork. Mirror-polished stones reflect sunlight down into the room from a small hole twenty feet above.
  84. [2014-09-24 14:25:26] * Bookwright sticks his tongue out in disgust. "That table looks positively sacrificial."
  85. [2014-09-24 14:25:46] * Noble_Heart follows after Golden Dream and She takes moments looking around and frowns. "It would seem so."
  86. [2014-09-24 14:25:49] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Vines and hanging plants drape down through the metal bars from the room directly above. Golden_Dream stops short at the edge of a crevasse that splits the floor. Below is darkness and the sound of an underground stream.
  87. [2014-09-24 14:26:22] * Golden_Dream looks up. Hum.
  88. [2014-09-24 14:26:50] <Golden_Dream> "Um, y'all stay back, I'm thinkin' there's somethin' down here."
  89. [2014-09-24 14:27:41] <Mare-Do-Well> 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziewum1YeiU
  90. [2014-09-24 14:28:09] * CopyCat had followed through the corridor after helping Shatara up, but she pauses at the entrance when Golden_Dream spreaks.
  91. [2014-09-24 14:29:48] * Golden_Dream backs up. "Erryone stay back. Get_Lost, come up here and tell me what we're lookin' at."
  92. [2014-09-24 14:31:32] * Get_Lost approaches the hole in the floor and starts cycling her vision modes "let's see..."
  93. [2014-09-24 14:33:28] * Noble_Heart scowls slightly. "We wonder if perhaps the ghost in this place was a sacrifice to protect it from outsiders."
  94. [2014-09-24 14:33:32] * Bookwright stays back from the hole. He investigates the table of curious provenance instead.
  95. [2014-09-24 14:35:36] * Get_Lost "knowing why the ghost is trapped here could help us freeing her... maybe she lost her mom?" keeps looking in the crevasse
  96. [2014-09-24 14:41:17] * Golden_Dream shrugs. "I ain't seen her yet, I ain't talked to her yet, so I can't exactly make a call."
  97. [2014-09-24 14:41:49] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost spots the little underground brook about thirty feet down. The water cuts around rocks, following a slow-carved path in the sloping natural cave. There are skeletons down there, and possibly more.
  98. [2014-09-24 14:43:20] * CopyCat nods. "Good thinking Get_Lost. Setting the ghost free would help us and her at the same time." She nods at Golden_Dream as well. "Of course, we would have to meet her first."
  99. [2014-09-24 14:43:26] * Get_Lost "yep: more corpses. the place seems just a natural cave but it is full of corpses..."
  100. [2014-09-24 14:44:33] * Get_Lost "did i mention the ridiculous amount of corpses down there?"
  101. [2014-09-24 14:44:35] * Bookwright "Why is this place so freaking full of skeletons? Were they all after some massive counterfeiting operation?"
  102. [2014-09-24 14:48:37] * Golden_Dream exhales. Corpses. Why'd it have to be corpses? "Alright. I'mma mark that on m' pipbuck." And so she does. She then attempted to step over the crevice and then examined the mirrored surface. Hmm. Mirror. Sunlight. Overgrown temple. "What do I gotta reflect light onto t' get further in this place?"
  103. [2014-09-24 14:49:41] * Noble_Heart frowns. "Perhaps the zebras fled here at the end of the war? It would make sense. This is one of the few untouched places that We have ever seen. Doubtless many fled into the valley to avoid destruction by Equestrian megaspells."
  104. [2014-09-24 14:58:08] * Get_Lost "could be... are we going to delve deeper in this boneyard?"
  105. [2014-09-24 14:59:00] * Mare-Do-Well 3pokes her head through the floor. "Maybe shining light down here would help?" Or, of course, they could follow the other path.
  106. [2014-09-24 14:59:30] * Golden_Dream attempts to reflect sunlight onto the table. "No, Ms. Do, I expect you to die." She muttered in a low tone. If that didn't work, in the crevice.
  107. [2014-09-24 14:59:52] * CopyCat bounces on her hooves. "Skeleton path! Skeleton path!"
  108. [2014-09-24 15:01:29] * Noble_Heart shakes her head. "We do not believe going down into the skeletal area would be wise. Not yet. Whatever is there must be tightly guarded for so many to die there."
  109. [2014-09-24 15:02:47] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The reflected sunlight hits the table, and everypony can feel the soft rumble under their hooves.
  110. [2014-09-24 15:03:45] * CopyCat whinnies, having been swept up in general Daring Do admiration for dangerous things. "Well alrigh-woah!" She cries, feeling the rumble beneath her.
  111. [2014-09-24 15:03:48] * Bookwright "Woah! Did you guys feel that? Hmm." He lights his horn, illuminating the table again to see if he gets a reaction.
  112. [2014-09-24 15:04:48] * Golden_Dream raises her hooves in victory. "Too many Daring Do novels and knock offs helped!"
  113. [2014-09-24 15:04:58] * Get_Lost "parlay, please fly down, take a pair of pics and come up... don't touch anything, okay?"
  114. [2014-09-24 15:05:58] <Mare-Do-Well> 3With a grinding sound, the table shifts and begins to slide into the wall. The mechanism behind the wall sends shudders through the stonework. Morning dew shaken from the plants above falls on the ponies like a mist. A few loose bits of stone fall from the break in the floor, and a moment later they are heard splashing into the stream below.
  115. [2014-09-24 15:06:10] * Noble_Heart blinks in some surprise. "We are amazed that the zebras managed to engineer such complex machines out of such simple materials."
  116. [2014-09-24 15:07:30] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The moving table reveals a square gap in the floor and a ladder downward.
  117. [2014-09-24 15:07:39] * Get_Lost shrugs "probably they cheated with some spirit inside thehard parts..."
  118. [2014-09-24 15:11:12] * CopyCat takes a few steps back, admiring the mechanism. "Very impressive."
  119. [2014-09-24 15:11:49] * Golden_Dream smiles as she starts sauntering down the ladder. She felt good about that one! "Y'all just got done seein' an entire city made outta durned crystal."
  120. [2014-09-24 15:15:46] * Get_Lost shrugs "parlay, nevermind. looks like we're moving already... maybe later. stay with me"
  121. [2014-09-24 15:15:52] * CopyCat gives Golden_Dream a smile, too. "And your finding it was very impressive too, Goldy." She approches the squarish hole and shines a light down from her horn to assist her friend's descent.
  122. [2014-09-24 15:20:57] * Bookwright "Man, this is just like a Daring Do novel!"
  123. [2014-09-24 15:22:56] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The ladder remains mostly intact, save for a few broken rungs, for the first twenty feet. But the functionality of the ladder ends a good dozen feet above the ground. Only one side of the ladder and a few broken stubs of rungs remain below that point.
  124. [2014-09-24 15:24:40] * Noble_Heart peers downwards and frowns. "It seems that the ages have been harsher on some parts of this place than others."
  125. [2014-09-24 15:25:07] * Golden_Dream looks down after she gets on the ladder and puffs her cheeks. She didn't have her rope, she left that out there in case stuff happened and she needed to make a quick escape. "Oh, galdurnit. Wingy folk, get down there so y'all can give lifts."
  126. [2014-09-24 15:26:35] * Bookwright picks up Golden_Dream effortlessly with telekinesis and lowers her to the floor.
  127. [2014-09-24 15:27:18] * Golden_Dream 's cheek puffing intensifies. SHE HATES BEING LOWERED DOWN LIKE THIS.
  128. [2014-09-24 15:28:10] * Shatara glides down and checks dark corners for nasty surprises.
  129. [2014-09-24 15:28:58] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream finds the floor of the cave wet and slippery beneath her hooves.
  130. [2014-09-24 15:33:17] * Golden_Dream flicks on her flashlight and takes a look around, trying not to move around too much as to avoid slipping. She has a great sense of balance, but she wasn't about tempting fate.
  131. [2014-09-24 15:33:52] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The amount of plant life down here is considerably less than up above, despite the stream and the wetness of the cave. The cave, while itself natural, holds the remains of some sort of archaic machinery.
  132. [2014-09-24 15:35:54] <Mare-Do-Well> 3A water wheel rests near the edge of the stream at the back end of the cave, where the water flows from under a wall of rock, suggesting the stream was once a more significant underground river. The mechanisms that the water wheel once operated have rotted and rusted away.
  133. [2014-09-24 15:36:43] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Thick ropes thread through metal rings in the walls, precariously holding up platforms and, further down the cave, the dangling remains of a rope-bridge.
  134. [2014-09-24 15:37:41] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Old barrels are lashed to one of the walls.
  135. [2014-09-24 15:38:33] * Golden_Dream churns the flashlight in her mouth a little. "Gef down h'rr. Gef Lofft, ch'ck out dem bawwels."
  136. [2014-09-24 15:39:59] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Skeletons litter the floor, concentrated between the barrels and the ladder. Any armor or clothing they once wore has been erased by time. But a few have jewelry, and there are the rusted remains of cutlasses and knives.
  137. [2014-09-24 15:42:08] * Shatara blinks. "Is it just me, or do those skellepones look kinda...piratey?
  138. [2014-09-24 15:42:49] * Golden_Dream is saddened that the cutlasses have been rusted away. One of those would've been really cool to bring back home to hang above her... Well, hanging anything in her house is pretty much a recipe for disaster. "That they do."
  139. [2014-09-24 15:44:51] * Get_Lost "or desperates fighting more well armed ponies..."
  140. [2014-09-24 15:45:14] * Get_Lost waits for her turn to go down
  141. [2014-09-24 15:46:52] * Bookwright "Do you think this was a sky pirate lair, maybe?"
  142. [2014-09-24 15:47:02] * CopyCat magics Get_Lost gently down into the hole.
  143. [2014-09-24 15:49:15] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright suspects Shatara is right. What had been built in this cave contrasts starkly with ancient technology seen in the last temple -- or even in the mechanism used to move the stone table.
  144. [2014-09-24 15:49:47] <Mare-Do-Well> 3These ruins were revealing layers of history. At least three distinct eras of use: that of the original builders, the recent use as a prison by the Legion, and an intermediary use by what would seem to be pirates or smugglers.
  145. [2014-09-24 15:49:54] * Bookwright "This is weird. The last temple, right? It was full of ancient, complex, powerful tech. This is all much cruder."
  146. [2014-09-24 15:53:25] * Get_Lost inspects the barrels, letting thehistorians study the machinery
  147. [2014-09-24 15:53:47] * Mare-Do-Well 3says, "If by weird you mean /cool/."
  148. [2014-09-24 15:54:20] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The barrels apparently hold alcohol.
  149. [2014-09-24 15:57:04] * Bookwright "Apparently, this is where all the rum went."
  150. [2014-09-24 15:57:07] * Get_Lost did somepony want to forget somrthing really hard?
  151. [2014-09-24 15:57:19] <Get_Lost> ""
  152. [2014-09-24 15:57:53] * CopyCat drops down (assuming she is able to use her wings) and lands near the others. She nods at Bookwright. "Interesting. Do you believe that different groups came here to use this place at different times?"
  153. [2014-09-24 15:58:42] * Bookwright "It seems obvious, right? I mean, the way we got down in here is because the freaking sunshine shone on that table and it moved. But all the stuff down here is super crude."
  154. [2014-09-24 16:00:53] * Get_Lost tastes the beverage
  155. [2014-09-24 16:01:40] <Mare-Do-Well> 3As Get_Lost cycles through her vision, she notices a faint magical marking on one of the barrels. None of the others have it. Several barrels are empty, but this one and a few others seem to still have a measure of their contents.
  156. [2014-09-24 16:02:08] * Get_Lost hesitates
  157. [2014-09-24 16:02:36] * Get_Lost "i think i've got something here..." approaches the magical barrel
  158. [2014-09-24 16:03:09] * Bookwright looks up from his fruitless search for identifying marks on the barrels. "Hmm?"
  159. [2014-09-24 16:03:19] * Noble_Heart frowns. "So this place was once created by a highly skilled and advanced group of zebras. Then, some time after they vanished some smugglers found it and discovered this secret room. An ideal place to hide an alcohol making and smuggling operation. In a valley which the zebras feared, in a place no one would dare go."
  160. [2014-09-24 16:03:32] * Get_Lost "bookie, i have a positive reading on the Thaumic field on this one..."
  161. [2014-09-24 16:04:11] * Bookwright trots over. "Cool! Let's pop the top off then! Anypony got a crowbar?"
  162. [2014-09-24 16:05:03] * Get_Lost offers a pickaxe "almost the same thing"
  163. [2014-09-24 16:07:51] * Golden_Dream realizes they're actually gonna do this. "WAIT HOLD UP"
  164. [2014-09-24 16:08:07] * Bookwright stops, pickaxe in midair. "Eh?"
  165. [2014-09-24 16:08:38] * Golden_Dream winces. "If we can get a tap, we can just take a sample without fuckin' up th' rest."
  166. [2014-09-24 16:09:08] * Bookwright "...Oh. Well, you're the expert."
  167. [2014-09-24 16:09:59] * Shatara ponders. "You know what else pirates put in barrels? Powder..."
  168. [2014-09-24 16:12:20] * Noble_Heart tilts her head to one side. "Also bodies. But we already seem to have found all of those."
  169. [2014-09-24 16:14:20] * Golden_Dream checks the magic keg for a cork or a place where a tap would go.
  170. [2014-09-24 16:16:41] <Little_Gloom> The magic keg does offer up a cork. All the barrels have one.
  171. [2014-09-24 16:18:44] * CopyCat approaches Golden_Dream. "Are we going to get to taste some two hundred year old zebra specialty?"
  172. [2014-09-24 16:19:22] * Golden_Dream smiles, then shows Bookie the cork. "No pickaxe required!"
  173. [2014-09-24 16:20:37] * Bookwright returns the pick to Get_Lost. "See? I'm not qualified to operate these pieces of equipment."
  174. [2014-09-24 16:22:11] * Get_Lost puts the pickaxe away "don't worry: there will be a day when we will freely resort to violence"
  175. [2014-09-24 16:24:00] * Bookwright quietly punches the air, stage whispering "Yess! Resort to violence!"
  176. [2014-09-24 16:24:20] * Mare-Do-Well 3notes, "The plants aren't moving in here. I think this is outside of the ghost's range."
  177. [2014-09-24 16:25:22] * Get_Lost frowns "oh... this is bad... i wanted to help her... i guess we can try later, though"
  178. [2014-09-24 16:26:29] * Golden_Dream gingerly works the cork. "Alright, get you somethin' t' drink out of if we wanna see what this stuff is."
  179. [2014-09-24 16:30:35] * Bookwright "Don't you have a shot glass somewhere in that pack? You're the pony always going on about whiskey.
  180. [2014-09-24 16:31:23] * CopyCat checks her bags, but find nothing of practical use. "Um... I don't have anything..." She trots around the cave, looking for anything cup-like she could use.
  181. [2014-09-24 16:31:41] * Mare-Do-Well 3pauses. "Uuuh, I hate to be a Twilight here, but is the best way to find out what something is really to swallow it?"
  182. [2014-09-24 16:31:52] * Get_Lost has an empty bottle
  183. [2014-09-24 16:32:30] * Get_Lost smiles "i'm aa solaris, does that answer your question miss minister?"
  184. [2014-09-24 16:33:04] * Bookwright groans slightly. "I kind of doubt it's edible, actually."
  185. [2014-09-24 16:33:34] * Golden_Dream gives Mare-Do-Well a smart look. "Well, we know it's alcohol. And we aren't gonna swallow it, we're gonna have Get_Lost here analyze it with all due professionalism." She uncorks the stuff and fills Get's bottle before putting the cork back in.
  186. [2014-09-24 16:34:11] * CopyCat pauses in her search. She had totally planned to swallow it.
  187. [2014-09-24 16:34:35] * Get_Lost takes out her medical tools and tries getting some information from the liquid
  188. [2014-09-24 16:36:29] * Golden_Dream totally expected Get Lost to promptly drink it.
  189. [2014-09-24 16:37:59] * Shatara knocks on a few barrels to see if any have non-liquid contents
  190. [2014-09-24 16:45:00] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The smell is pungent. The liquid has reduced to something resembling vinegar... but with a peculiar aroma and a milky color.
  191. [2014-09-24 16:50:20] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost's best efforts fail to yield any valuable results. She can't identify the type of alcohol, nor its properties. Even if originally drinkable, she doubts it is anymore.
  192. [2014-09-24 16:50:52] * Get_Lost "meh, this is spoiled... don't drink it "
  193. [2014-09-24 16:51:57] * Golden_Dream takes a look at it. That milky color looks like something...
  194. [2014-09-24 16:52:00] * Bookwright "But it's magical, which is weird."
  195. [2014-09-24 16:52:59] * Get_Lost "who's the doctor? i said no drinking, the magical field is probably radiation poisoning."
  196. [2014-09-24 16:53:53] * Golden_Dream tilts her head. "That don't make sense. Why would only one barrel have the signature if it's rad poisoning?"
  197. [2014-09-24 16:54:08] * Noble_Heart blanches at the look of it. "It does not seem appetizing. Perhaps the signal was some way for the original creators to know which of them contained it?"
  198. [2014-09-24 16:59:20] * CopyCat sniffs it, and then scrunchy faces. "Urggh! I do not wish to try it anymore!"
  199. [2014-09-24 16:59:26] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Not even Golden_Dream can identify the fruit that was fermented to create this liquor, but her Special Talent does give her a degree of insight.
  200. [2014-09-24 17:02:17] * Golden_Dream sniffs it... Then sniffs it again. "Wait. Hold up." Taste taste. "I know what this is! Yeah, it's got good stuff in it, got them green herbs that makes y' feel better after gettin' cut up in it."
  201. [2014-09-24 17:03:16] * Bookwright "It's a tincture of green herbs?"
  202. [2014-09-24 17:04:08] * Get_Lost shakes her head "you'll get tummy ache and a lot of sleepless nights at the filly's room... i warned you"
  203. [2014-09-24 17:04:26] * Golden_Dream seems to twist her face a little after getting the aftertaste. Blurg. "Yeah, I ain't too sure about it, but it goes down all velvety like green herb."
  204. [2014-09-24 17:07:23] * Bookwright nods. "That would explain the magical energy coming off of it. Do you think we should take it with us?"
  205. [2014-09-24 17:08:23] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Even that small taste has an unexpectedly potent kick.
  206. [2014-09-24 17:11:43] * Golden_Dream bites her lip. "Nope. Well, maybe. It ain't great in it's current state, but maybe some zebra can make it better." Urg. That stuff was vile, how that small bit went down aside.
  207. [2014-09-24 17:12:47] * Golden_Dream rubs her ears and looks very uncomfortable. "Galdurn, m' ears are ringin' from just that. Ah' feel great, but urg."
  208. [2014-09-24 17:13:29] * Noble_Heart frowns. "It sounds to Us like it has fermented for longer than it should have. Fixing it may not be easy."
  209. [2014-09-24 17:14:29] * Golden_Dream looks up at Get_Lost. "How many bottles you got?"
  210. [2014-09-24 17:15:07] * Get_Lost "just that one... the others are on the wagon"
  211. [2014-09-24 17:15:53] * Golden_Dream winces. "What?"
  212. [2014-09-24 17:16:38] * Get_Lost that was an empty healing potion bottle... i usually don't take more than a couple with me... but i have two canteens
  213. [2014-09-24 17:17:18] * Get_Lost "do you really want to take that rotten drink with you?" looks perplexed
  214. [2014-09-24 17:17:49] * Bookwright "Well, put the bung back in. No good letting it stand open."
  215. [2014-09-24 17:19:07] * Golden_Dream nod nods. "Yeah, m' ears are ringin', but I got a cut while on that ladder and it's all healed up now."
  216. [2014-09-24 17:20:15] * Get_Lost mutters somerthing about ccolored water and gives her 2 canteens to kid
  217. [2014-09-24 17:21:57] * Golden_Dream fills one with the alcohol, fills the potion bottle, and then gives both, one canteen empty, back.
  218. [2014-09-24 17:22:51] * CopyCat shrugs. "Bringing some with us could be useful I suppose." She wrinkles her nose. "Although I would not wish to drink it if it can be helped."
  219. [2014-09-24 17:25:50] * Bookwright "I don't see why we shouldn't just take the whole barrel with us."
  220. [2014-09-24 17:26:12] * Golden_Dream looks back at the rest of the way down the path. "I bet you there's a way back up through that what's in that temple up where them pirates were." She looks to Bookie. "Can you carry it?"
  221. [2014-09-24 17:26:42] * Bookwright nods. "Definitely. It's not that huge."
  222. [2014-09-24 17:27:51] * Mare-Do-Well 3zips around then shoots off down the cave, exploring at the speed of ghost.
  223. [2014-09-24 17:29:40] * Golden_Dream exhales. then lifts her hoof. "You do it, then. I'm gonna stay light on m' hooves 'till I'm out of this horrible place."
  224. [2014-09-24 17:30:13] * Mare-Do-Well 3returns less than a minute later. "The cave leads out. Getting back into the ruins means going up."
  225. [2014-09-24 17:31:27] * Mare-Do-Well 3then exclaims, "Out through a totally cool zebra-skull-shaped rock in the side of a cliff!" The ghost practically squees.
  226. [2014-09-24 17:31:36] * Get_Lost "up it is, then"
  227. [2014-09-24 17:32:16] * Mare-Do-Well 3blinks, thinking of something. "Whoa!"
  228. [2014-09-24 17:32:57] * CopyCat hops on her hooves. "Through a zebra-skull-shaped rock? Cool!"
  229. [2014-09-24 17:33:03] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks to Bookwright, "These pirate-y zebras weren't killed by the plants, right? They had enough time to build all this stuff, after all."
  230. [2014-09-24 17:33:51] * Bookwright shakes his head. "Nope. It might just be abandoned. Or... they were working with the ghost? Unless the huge piles of bones we keep seeing /are/ the pirates, that is."
  231. [2014-09-24 17:34:52] * Mare-Do-Well 3prances in the air. "What if the ghost is a /pirate/ ghost!?"
  232. [2014-09-24 17:35:26] <Shatara> "better than a zombie ghost, I guess?"
  233. [2014-09-24 17:35:58] * Bookwright "Or a zombie pirate ghost robot."
  234. [2014-09-24 17:36:21] * Bookwright ponders. "It's possible, I suppose."
  235. [2014-09-24 17:37:09] * CopyCat skitters. "A... zombie ghost?" When Bookwright continues she shivers on the spot. "A zombie pirate ghost robot?!? Eeeep!"
  236. [2014-09-24 17:37:45] * Mare-Do-Well 3droops and stares. "Robots can't be ghosts."
  237. [2014-09-24 17:39:18] * Get_Lost "even better: what if the pirates had a booty?"
  238. [2014-09-24 17:40:16] * Noble_Heart contemplates that. "We doubt that the ghost is related with these smugglers. More likely they avoided the parts of the temple that the ghost had control over."
  239. [2014-09-24 17:40:17] * Golden_Dream gives Mare-Do-Well a level stare. "Mare-Do-Well, I doubt that it's a pirate ghost. Th' reality of things tends not t' be that cool." And immediately after saying that, she felt stupid because she just walked in a haunted temple, reflected sunlight on the table, and then proceeded to go downstairs.
  240. [2014-09-24 17:41:10] * Golden_Dream rubs her head as she gets back to around the ladder. "How did m' life become this exciting?"
  241. [2014-09-24 17:44:49] * Shatara looks over the broken down machinery while the others do their wine tasting thing
  242. [2014-09-24 17:45:01] * Mare-Do-Well 3grins at Golden_Dream as the reality of the current awesomeness clearly settles in.
  243. [2014-09-24 17:46:02] * Get_Lost helps shatara mostly because doing stuff with him
  244. [2014-09-24 17:52:28] <Mare-Do-Well> 3With so much of the machinery rotted away, Shatara cannot be certain... but a fair portion of what is here may have been a transport system. With higher water, the stream may have allowed ferrying things out of the cave (even with all the rocks), but getting anything bulky or heavy into it from outside would have been a major chore.
  245. [2014-09-24 17:53:43] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The other bits of machinery range from what appears to be a wine press to the utterly indecipherable.
  246. [2014-09-24 17:57:57] * Shatara ponders if they used the waterwheel to pull things upstream
  247. [2014-09-24 17:59:56] * Bookwright "So I guess this place was a, ah, cargo waystation of some kind?"
  248. [2014-09-24 18:01:39] * Shatara nods a bit. "Looks like it. The machines look to be booty-movers."
  249. [2014-09-24 18:02:40] * Get_Lost "sooo... can we look for the booty?"
  250. [2014-09-24 18:03:07] * Shatara shrugs. "Maybe its in the barrels?"
  251. [2014-09-24 18:03:27] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods to Get_Lost. Then looks upwards. "Know where I bet it is?"
  252. [2014-09-24 18:03:28] * Bookwright "I'd say that with Noble Heart and CopyCat around, we've got plenty of booty alrea...*ahem*. Yes. Let's search for treasure!"
  253. [2014-09-24 18:03:35] * CopyCat glances left and right, looking around carefully for zombie pirate ghost robots...
  254. [2014-09-24 18:03:54] * Golden_Dream wanted to make a crass joke about it not being a music joint, but the terror of her surroundings got to her.
  255. [2014-09-24 18:04:37] * Noble_Heart looks down the tunnel quietly, she shuffles her hooves and glances towards the barrel quietly.
  256. [2014-09-24 18:05:08] * Mare-Do-Well 3answers her own question. "Up there, protected by traps."
  257. [2014-09-24 18:06:20] * Golden_Dream sucks on her teeth. "Bein' watched by an angry pirate ghost."
  258. [2014-09-24 18:06:41] <Mare-Do-Well> 3--- End of Session ---
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