Piss Poor Group Session 41

[17:59] * Rabtar  When we last left the group they had just fought their way through the power plants security loosing Midnight Hour in the process.... the bot that did the dead is smashed to bit and the pone who it had pinned is possibly still alive....
[18:00] * Specter is clutching his chest and keeping an eye on the hallway, grenade rifle at the ready as he waits for the others to return
[18:01] * Ragebrew trotted down the stairs back to the group, throwing a small mountain of gear on the ground. No one scavenged faster than a wastelander. She didn't say anything as she trotted by, her eyes completely red, her filthy fwuff marked by a pair of muddy trails. Down the corridor she went towards where the bot had been.
[18:02] <+Swamp_Shadow> A figure emerges from the shadows near the bot that was pinning the pony. "Come on, Sarsaparilla. Let's take some weight of yer shoulders," you hear a mare say as she tries to lift the robot off the unicorn.
[18:03] * Merciful_Devotion slumps against a nearby wall, covering her eyes with a leg
[18:03] * Specter grimaces "Layed her to rest?" he asks, rummaging through the loot and taking a few items, and anything explosive.
[18:04] * Elektron taps at the terminal, looking to see if there was something he missed before
[18:04] * Ragebrew merely nodded as she trotted up to the pair of ponies. Without a word, she dropped her ammocases and joined in helping remove the robot.
[18:05] <+Swamp_Shadow> The mare looks back, noticing the other group. "Hey! Y'all friendly? My partner here's hurt." She's a little more bulky, wearing heavy radigator leather armor, sunglasses, and a radigator ringed hunting hat, and carrying a crossbow on her back under a fur lined cloak.
[18:06] * Specter sighs "Luna give her peace..." he mutters and joins them, his chest is rather mangled from the fight, probably wheezing
[18:06] * Swamp_Shadow watches cautiously as Ragebrew helps her. "Not much of a talker? Anyway, thanks fer the help."
[18:07] * Rabtar  the weedy buck hacks the terminal with little dificulty, getting an option to unlock all the doors and deactivate the security
[18:09] * Elektron tears up for a moment before banging his head on the keyboard "Damn it! I could have saved her, I could've..."
[18:10] * Ragebrew just looked at the mare. Any pony with half a brain could tell she'd been bawling her eyes out. An ear twitched at the sound of wheezing behind her, and she turned back towards Spectre. Quietly she pulled out a healing potion and lathered it on his chest.
[18:10] * Merciful_Devotion walks over, gently putting a hoof on Elektron's shoulder. "You didn't know... None of us could've known..."
[18:11] * Specter coughs 'Thanks," he mutters and paces around the bot looking for anything of interest
[18:15] * Rabtar  the buck finds a bunch of ECPs amd scrap on the the bot
[18:16] * Elektron sighs "I guess..." before heading to where Ragebrew is
[18:16] <Specter> "Cant salvage the guns?"
[18:18] * Rabtar  he can not
[18:18] * Ragebrew was picking through the loot she had found earlier, setting aside a few chems and some drinks, little else. Her eyes laid on the heavy suit of armor, before she chuckled. "Like she'd have worn that..." She looked over at Merciful_Devotion "Pair of survivors. Talk to them. I can't." She returned to sorting through the loot.
[18:19] * Elektron tries, but fails "Sorry Spectre, they're too integral to the machine."
[18:20] * Merciful_Devotion nods at Ragebrew, trotting over to the two new ponies. "You two alright?"
[18:20] <Specter> "Oh well..." he sighs and hoofs elektron three missiles "When you get a chance, can you convert them to rockets like you did last time?"
[18:21] * Rabtar  Swamp_Shadow and her friend are in a small room that was once a break room, a barricade erected against the robotic enemy
[18:22] * Elektron nods "I should be able to, but I'll need a workbench."
[18:22] * Rabtar  across the large inner room is another short hallway, a dead sentry lying on it's side at the end...
[18:23] <Specter> "No rush. Its useless to me as is... "
[18:23] * Swamp_Shadow checks Sarsaparilla over. "What you think, Clem? She need medical attention?" she says to herself.
[18:24] * Swamp_Shadow then looks to Merciful_Devotion. "Sorry, I'm okay. Made of tougher stuff, but mah compadre here might need some more help. Our medic's dead, any of y'all know how to fix up a pony?"
[18:25] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Not me, that'd be the ball of fur who helped your friend earlier... She at least stable? Not sure what Rage's doing right now, but if it's an emergency I'll get her over."
[18:30] * Ragebrew pulled out her alchemical kit, holding up a small vial of bone white fluid. "Do I, or don't I?" She looked over at Spectre as she asked that.
[18:32] * Swamp_Shadow looks down at her friend for a moment, looks over at the furry mare and screams "We need a medic over here! She's in bad shape!"
[18:32] * Mad_Modd  Swampy's friend is indeed in bad shape.... she's suffered several gunshots and has even been stabbed
[18:34] * Ragebrew groans as she sets the vial down and takes off down the corridor galloping. She snatched out the little doctor's bag she had found, skidding to a stop infront of the wounded mare. "Two in one day. Fun." Out came the bandages, the ointments, and the surgical tools, and soon her muzzle was covered in a fresh layer of red.
[18:35] * Merciful_Devotion winces and looks away. "Ugh... I'm /so/ glad I'm not a doctor... Red doesn't go well with my mane."
[18:35] * Specter watches Rage do her thing and slumps on the ground feeling tired, and shivering... Trotting over to the loot pile he starts digging through it in the hopes of finding drugs
[18:36] * Swamp_Shadow watches silently.
[18:37] * Mad_Modd  it was touch and go for a minute but Ragebrew manages to save the badly wounded mare.... just. She will be out for some time though
[18:38] * Elektron goes back to unlock the door on the terminal and shutdown the security "I'm going to take a look around, anypony else coming?"
[18:38] * Swamp_Shadow bites her lip. "Is she gonna be okay?" Swamp_Shadow asks.
[18:38] <+Merciful_Devotion> "I'll come with you, Elektron. You need somepony who can shoot."
[18:39] * Specter pokes his head out of the bag and debates wether to go or keep looking for drugs which seem to not be in the bag
[18:39] * Ragebrew spat a bullet out, along with a spurt of blood as she looked down at the mare. She started to stitch her closed, rubbing a balm on the wound. "Yes. But she willl be weak, and will need a lot of rest." She stood up, not even bothering to wipe the blood from her muzzle. "What is yer name, her's as well. I need to etch them onto a gravestone. Let anyone who sees it know who she died to save."
[18:40] * Elektron nods, taking a look around the room for any still active security
[18:41] * Rabtar  the door slides open into a small server room. Several banks of computers filling the small space, a single terminal tucked away in a small nook to the side.
[18:41] * Specter returns to looking at the bag.
[18:42] * Swamp_Shadow stares at Ragebrew, her jaw dropping. "What? Who? Somepony died to save us?" she asks before adding. "I mean, Ah'm Swamp_Shadow and she's Sarsaparilla Smiles."
[18:42] * Merciful_Devotion trots after Elektron, shaking her head a little to get her mane out of her eyes
[18:43] * Elektron trots to the terminal and goes to access it
[18:44] * Rabtar  the buck hacks it rather quickly, the password being rather creative "Big_Flanks"
[18:45] * Ragebrew nodded as she pulled out a cigarette, hanging it between her lips. A single blood drop rolled down the underside before she could lit it. "Midnight. Midnight_Hour. A bitchy, stuckup princess... Who'd saved all our asses more than once." She sighed, pulling out a bedroll and putting Sarsaparilla on.
[18:45] * Elektron blushes lightly at the terminal and looks around at whats on it
[18:46] * Rabtar  the terminal seems to connected to the mainframe for the power plant on top of being a general use computer, much of it's memory filled with junk mail and simple letters back and forth...
[18:46] * Merciful_Devotion peeks over Elektron's shoulder, watching him work
[18:47] * Elektron tries to access the mainframe for the powerplant
[18:48] * Rabtar  the terminal call for another password...
[18:48] * Rabtar  and he hacks this one as well, the password being "Sparkle_Cola" this time...
[18:50] * Merciful_Devotion giggles softly.
[18:51] * Rabtar  Elektron now has access to the remainder of the local power grid, he can see the few remaining locations still receiving power. Manehatten, a town called Harmony Heights now where Newton is and another line heading towards what should be open desert, from what the screen is showing this line is interrupted half way.
[18:53] * Swamp_Shadow swallows hard. "Ah'm sorry for yer loss. Where'd ya bury her? Ah'd like to pay mah respects."
[18:53] * Elektron cocks his head "Huh. Thats weird, this line seems to just stop in the desert." he says, pointing to the screen
[18:54] * Swamp_Shadow disappears and appears behind Elektron. "Sounds like a quest lead. Let's hope it's not like my first quest. I don't want to face a giant tentacle monster again. Can't go near toilets anymore without havin' a panic attack."
[18:54] * Ragebrew pointed up "Outside. Big rock with an apple on it. If ya got a blade you don't mind ruining, etch something on it in thanks." She just sighed as she slid down against the wall. "Don't be sorry. It's just how everything is. Think I'm cursed."
[18:56] * Swamp_Shadow pops back over to Ragebrew, "Sorry about that. Sometimes the voodoo takes me. Anyway, be right back. Clem and Ah are gonna go pop out and do that," she says before trotting around the corner leading farther into the plant.
[18:57] <+Merciful_Devotion> "I dunno. I'm not the tech expert here, Elektron."
[18:57] * Ragebrew just blinked, looking at Swamp_Shadow, before she broke out laughing "Oh Sisters, finally another unhinged pony to travel with." She sat there laughing. It was not a pleasant laugh,
[18:59] * Elektron thinks "Well, for power to be flowing there it must have some load. Wish I knew how much though. Do you know of anything there?"
[19:00] * Merciful_Devotion shrugs. "No clue. Sorry hun."
[19:01] * Elektron shrugs and goes back to the games menu
[19:01] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Oohh, games?"
[19:02] * Rabtar  ...... he finds options for 'Solitair', "BlackJack' and 'Pinball'
[19:03] * Elektron nods and selects 'Solitair'
[19:03] * Merciful_Devotion pouts. "What, don't want me to play?"
[19:03] * Rabtar  a LOUD voice bellows out of the terminal "GET BACK TO WORK SLACKER!!!"
[19:04] * Elektron flails his hooves in surprise for a moment before falling onto his back
[19:05] * Merciful_Devotion folds her ears back. "Uh... Never mind, Elektron. I can wait my turn."
[19:06] * Elektron shakes himself off before trying 'Blackjack'
[19:07] * Rabtar  the terminal goes dark and a second later a single message flashes across the screen "EC-1101 Not Found" and goes back to the root menue
[19:08] * Elektron frowns "I think someone has a broken pointer." he says before trying pinball
[19:09] * Swamp_Shadow trots back around the same corner somberly. "Did watcha said, puffy. She's got a nice epitaph now."
[19:09] * Rabtar  the stubborn buck actually gets a pinball game out of this option
[19:10] * Ragebrew finally stops her fit of laughing, coming to her senses enough to double check on Smile, making sure the mare was as comfortable and secure as she could get, before packing up her now spent doctor's bag. "Thank ya. Gonna be a while, but one day, gonna go to Tenpony, tell her folks what happened."
[19:10] * Elektron taps away at the game for a few moments before turning to Mercy "Want to try?"
[19:11] * Specter gives a sigh at the lack of drugs and slumps against the wall tired
[19:11] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Nah, I'm good. I never liked pinball."
[19:13] * Ragebrew stood up, looking between the two. "This place'll be pretty safe for the next couple of days. Figure ya can hold up down here until she gets up again. Or ya can join us in the trek back to civilization." She looked at the mangled robot, a few gears turned, and she cracked a smile. "Oooh Elektron! I got a job for ya!"
[19:13] * Elektron "Well we should probably get back to everyone else anyway." he says, standing up and streching
[19:14] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Mmkay." She stands up herself.
[19:15] * Elektron trots back to the other room, looking at Specter "Not feeling well?"
[19:15] * Specter gives a small nod "Fucking drugs..."
[19:16] * Merciful_Devotion shakes her head. "Need a shoulder to lean on?"
[19:17] * Ragebrew trotted over to Elektron, looking at Specter. "Withdrawals, he'll be over 'em in a day." The mare wrapped a hoof around Elektron's shoulder, pulling him close with a big, blood stained smile "Sooo, gears for brains, I got an idea, and yer gonna make it a reality. Ya know ALL those treaded robots we blew the fuck out of? Well, yer gonna make us some bastardspawn of a packmule out of them and all the scrap we got around here.
[19:17] <+Elektron> "What does it actually do? I've never touched the stuff.
[19:17] <+Elektron> "
[19:18] * Swamp_Shadow nods. "Thanks. Ah think ah'll take ya up on that offer. I've been on mah own for a few months now, or technically negative twenty five years, but ah think Smiley needs a bed to rest in instead of this hell hole."
[19:18] * Ragebrew I just want something that can haul freight at decent speed. Make it happen. We got the parts, we got time. We can't haul all this back without help."
[19:18] * Elektron looks around "It might be possible, but they're not in that good condition..."
[19:19] <Specter> "Drugs and aches from the missile i fired... | he mutters "And 1 day? Is that your expert opinion or just a random number drawn from a hat?"
[19:19] * Swamp_Shadow looks at Elektron. "Oh? You're a techie? Used to know an alicorn named Fumbles that was really good with mews and fixing stuff. Kinda clumsy though, but good hearted girl."
[19:19] * Ragebrew looked at Elektron with a flat expression. "Time and tools. Nothing big. Pony sized. But able to haul freight with easy. Less chatty, more kit bashy." She looked at Swamp_Shadow "I'll keep an eye on her. She'll get better care under my watch than any quack who calls themself a doctor."
[19:20] * Merciful_Devotion blinks at Swamp_Shadow. "You know an alicorn?"
[19:20] * Ragebrew grinned to Specter "Experience. Maybe two if ya keep thinking about 'em. Sort out those explosives I found."
[19:21] <Specter> "Already did... Got a couple odd ones ive never seen before" he pulls out the 'hand' grenade and a chomper
[19:22] * Swamp_Shadow nods. "Thanks. Saw you had some herbs in your bag. Here's some for payment. Ah can find them, but Ah'm not too good at mixing them," she says before handing over 3 bundles of four red, blue, and green herb s each.
[19:22] * Elektron nods and trots over to a whiteboard, making a few possible plans for the... mule
[19:23] * Swamp_Shadow looks to Merciful_Devotion. "Oh yeah. First one Ah ever saw when she and her group got stranded in my neck of the woods up in Appleanta.
[19:23] * Ragebrew looked at 'em. "That's just vicious. Gimme one, I'd love to smack a pony in the face with it. Anyone claimed that heavy armor yet? I'll use it if no one has. Fits my "Walk up to enemy. Pull pin. Laugh" method of explosives use."
[19:24] * Specter slides one of the chompers "You didnt find any drugs in that stash did you? Looked and was rather disappointed"
[19:24] * Merciful_Devotion nods. "Weird. Never saw one myself." She looks over Swamp_Shadow a little. "Hmm..."
[19:25] * Ragebrew looked at Specter, nodding "Yeah, a few things. Not like ya need 'em. If I found some fixer, ya'd be the first to know, trust me."
[19:25] * Swamp_Shadow laughs. "Oh yeah. Got tons of stories for y'all. I've seen things y'all won't believe, mostly because they won't exist for another twenty five years." She then frowns. "Damn time travelling fog."
[19:26] * Specter gives a sigh "Are there any cots or beds in here? I might just try to sleep the rest of the blasted day away... Unless you all need me for something"
[19:27] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Time traveling what now?"
[19:27] * Ragebrew looked at Merciful_Devotion "And so it begins." She sat back own at her alchemy kit, holding up the vial of bone white fluid, flipping through her cookbook.
[19:27] * Swamp_Shadow finally notices Specter's eyes and wings. "Holy crap, a batpony! Ah thought y'all were just old mare's tales mah granny would tell the kids to keep us out of the swamps as foals."
[19:28] * Swamp_Shadow grins at Merciful_Devotion. "Yup. Ah'm from Appleanta, twenty five years in your future. Ah won't be born for another 5 years."
[19:29] * Specter was wearing sunglasses but the wings do give him away. Looking swamp over he rolls his eyes "Let me guess. My kind come out at night and eat foals who enter the swamps"
[19:29] * Ragebrew looked between a picture and the vial. "What are ya?" She swirled it around slowly, before pulling out a small needle. She took a single droplet of the potion, and began to test it with her kit.
[19:29] <+Merciful_Devotion> "... If it weren't for what I've seen traveling with Rage and the group... I'd call you nuts. Heck, we're probably all nuts by now."
[19:29] * Swamp_Shadow nods. "Yup. Knew it was bulls since the radigators were more likely to eat ya."
[19:30] <+Ragebrew> "Merci, I've never made any claim to sanity. And yer all insane by default for traveling with me."
[19:30] <Specter> "Foals dont taste good anyway... " he adds with an amused tone
[19:31] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Ah hush, fluffy." She turns and sticks her tongue out at him
[19:31] * Swamp_Shadow giggles. "Well, good to know Ah'm not the only center of craziness in this universe. Although Ah thought having another pony playing charades to talk in my head and having my front legs and half mah face replace by organic metal was pretty bad."
[19:32] * Merciful_Devotion whips her head back around. "Organic what?"
[19:32] * Ragebrew looked up as she bit her lip and let a drop of blood fall into her cauldron "Put that away unless ya plan to use it." She looked at Swamp_Shadow "Guess it's safe to say ya hear the voices to. Ya know, the ones always asking for more information, or explaling what ya do indepth? I hate those voices."
[19:32] * Elektron draws what amounts to a trash can on wheels, but frowns when the weight calculations finish "Hmm... not enough torque, and the center of mass is too high..."
[19:33] * Swamp_Shadow lifts her dark green hooves that are a bit darker than the right side of her face. Then she looks over her sunglasses and her left eye glows blue.
[19:33] <Rabtar>  /me  the blood hisses when it hit the potion but dose little else
[19:34] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Weird..."
[19:35] * Ragebrew blinked at the reaction. "Huh." She licked up the drop, and prepped another drop to test with.
[19:35] * Swamp_Shadow shakes her head. "Nah. I got mah head half blown off when we tangled with a dragon raider named Gator. We had to hide in Stable Sixty-Eight and their medical bot put a cybernetic shunt in mah brain to replace the parts that got messed up. Only problem is Ah also got the phage plague, mah legs started to rot off, and the shunt replaced the bad parts again with an organic metal made out of mah body."
[19:36] * Merciful_Devotion shrugs a little. "Either way, weird. Kinda cool though." She glances at Rage. "Did you... Get any of her books? I wanted to know if I could keep a few to remember her by..."
[19:36] <Specter> "Well, im gonna try and sleep off some of these shakes... Wake me when its night" he says and flops down upon that couch, curled up into a ball of batpony
[19:37] <+Swamp_Shadow> Anyway, one of them scientist ponies down there digitized her brain before they all sufficated in the stable. She hitched a ride on the shunt and hangs out on my EFS as a Stable Pony avatar. Can't talk though so I call her Clem."
[19:37] * Ragebrew looked over the edges of her sunglasses "And I thought my voices were jerks. Yer not gonna need a toolbox to fix up, are ya? Never had to deal with a cyberpony before." She looked over at Merciful_Devotion and pulled out a couple of spell books. "Here. Couple of primers."
[19:38] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Thanks Rage." She takes the books and reads over the titles
[19:39] * Swamp_Shadow thinks for a moment. "Don't think so. Healing potions tend to work on the organic metal parts too. Ah think Ah'll only need a mechanic if mah parts get REALLY screwed up."
[19:41] * Ragebrew nodded. "Well, that'll make things easier." She looked at the second drop in the cauldron, grumbling. "What the hell are ya?" She pulled out the coyote skull she had been carrying around for no reason, and broke off a tooth, dropping it into the dish.
[19:42] * Rabtar  the tooth floats...
[19:44] * Rabtar  redact.... the tooth absorbs it
[19:45] <+Ragebrew> "Huh." She picked up the tooth, looking at it for a moment before putting it into her mortar and pestle, trying to grind it down.
[19:47] * Rabtar  the tooth is to tough to be ground down
[19:48] * Swamp_Shadow cocks her cyber eyebrow. "Huh? That's weird. What's that gunk you put on it?"
[19:48] * Ragebrew looked back at the bone white fluid "Right then. Makes yer bones like iron." She grinned. "Now, do I cram this down Specters throat raw, or do I make it special?"
[19:52] * Swamp_Shadow shrugs. "Don't look at me. Mixing crap isn't my specialty. Plus Clem says that zebra alchemy and pony cybernetics don't mix."
[19:55] * Ragebrew grinned as she began to pull out bits and pieces of things. "Ah, but this...this is pony alchemy!" She cranked up the cauldron, poured in a bottle of hydra, a bottle of some weird blackish blue dust, and a bunch of creature bits. Then the smashing began! Crunch crunch crunch, she ground it all down with her red stone hoof. "Mix mix swirl!"
[19:58] * Swamp_Shadow shudders. "Never say those words again. Somewhere a thousand nerds cried out a multitude of curses."
[20:01] * Ragebrew looked up at Swamp_Shadow. The red mare was covered in bandages. "Good. Let them scream in impotent rage as they break one of the cardinal rules of their little game. Now..." She looked down at the frothing mixture, mixing it slowly. "Also, after this hell, how about a drink?" She held up a bottle of vodka.
[20:03] * Ragebrew grinned "Different times, my dear. Different meanings." She stood up, looking over at Elektron "Yer doomed." She trotted to Specter's dwelling, nudging him with a hoof, holding up the cauldron "How about a drink?"
[20:03] * Specter gives a groan as hes woken up and sniffs the contents "what is it?"
[20:03] * Rabtar  the building shakes for a moment before going still once more...
[20:04] * Elektron keeps focused on the whiteboard, muttering something about reducing the weight of the machine
[20:04] * Ragebrew looked up "Oh for the love of. It's something that'll keep yer bones from snapping like twigs, and then some." She smiled. One of her teeth was sparkling white. The rest were yellowed and indire need of a dentist.
[20:07] * Specter frowns "... I do sem to be breaking them with alarming frequency... Pass me the cauldron" he says getting up and reaching for it to drink at his own pace
[20:07] <+Ragebrew> "Every last drop, even it is tastes like ghoul plot left in the sun. It's good for ya."
[20:09] * Specter nods and drinks it up
[20:17] * Swamp_Shadow grimaces. "Seems pretty nasty."
[20:18] * Rabtar  Specter burps a small ball of fire then flops onto the ground convulsing for a few agonizing minutes..... when it is over he seems fine, a little.... heavier but still fine
[20:19] * Ragebrew shrugged. "Darlin', ya don't know nasty medicine until ya have to make yerself an antibiotic paste out of yer own urine." She looked down at Specter, rubbing her chin "Ah hell. Shouldn'ta used that dust..." She leaned down next to Specter, checking him over.
[20:28] * Specter cracks his eyes open and winces "Ok... THat was.... Interesting..." he mutters getting up uncertainly
[20:29] <+Ragebrew> "Good, yer not dead. I got an explosion to check." She trotted outside, looking for the source of the building rumbling.
[20:30] * Specter cants his head "I... Feel weird..."
[20:37] * Specter promptly hugs Swamp. "I dont know why... You're the closest pony and right now i feel like a colt in need of a hug" he mutters, not caring about how silly itsounded
[20:37] * Mad_Modd  in the mean time Elektron has made a drawing of.... something vaguely mechanical looking...
[20:40] * Elektron erases the drawing and tries again
[20:42] * Rabtar  Elektron has drawn what looks to be small rolling flatbed
[20:44] * Ragebrew loomed over Elektron's shoulder. "Good enough. Weld some lockers to it and we'll call it golden." She trotted off again, having found nothing to explain the tremor. "Gods are stirring I guess."
[20:44] * Elektron writes a few equations, the result turning out to be '~150lbs' "That should work... in theory." he mutters before looking down the other two hallways "Theres still some other rooms to check out, should we look in them to see if theres anything else to use?"
[20:48] * Ragebrew spun mid stride and trotted over to the door, looking at the handle. She blinked a few times, then grumbled something about pipless gameplay being a drag as she checked the handle to see if it was locked.
[20:50] * Elektron follows Ragebrew
[20:51] * Rabtar  the door is indeed locked and has a big radiation warning sign painted on it
[20:52] * Ragebrew looked over to Elektron, smiling "Hey, it's my kinda place. Lemme get one of those Rad suits, and I'll see if, for some reason, there are any shinies in there." She hustled back to the pile of loot, grabbing a pair of radiation suits.
[20:55] * Elektron accesses the terminal near the door and gets busy unlocking it for Ragebrew
[20:56] * Ragebrew pulled her kit off and tucked it back around the corner before slipping, somehow, into the radiation suit. The suit bulged and stretched, but the large fwuffy pony managed ot keep it intact. "Might wanna put one on yerself before opening that door. Also..." She unclipped her cloak, flinging it at him. "Wear that just to be sure yer sperm keep swimming the right direction."
[20:57] * Rabtar  he easily accesses the door unlocking the door to what they now know are the reactor rooms
[20:57] * Elektron nods and puts on the anti rad gear
[20:59] * Rabtar  Specter and Swamp_Shadow seem to be having a very long and awkward hug
[20:59] * Swamp_Shadow blinks. "Sorry, got a little distracted. Clem and Ah were having a nice conversation on the pros and cons of trying this crap." She looks down at Specter. "What?"
[21:00] <Specter> "hugs?"
[21:02] * Elektron takes a few deep breathes inside the suit, "Okay, ready... you first..."
[21:02] <+Swamp_Shadow> "Uh... What are the rules if you're a time traveller who was in a commited relationship, but your special somepony won't be born for a few years, Clem?" She pauses. "I thought so too."
[21:03] <+Ragebrew> "Yer staying outside to make sure the door opens up again. I'll be quick."
[21:03] * Specter blinks "Just for a hug?"
[21:04] * Swamp_Shadow sighs, rolls her eyes, and hugs back. "Only hugs, ya clingy bat."
[21:04] * Elektron nods
[21:06] * Specter lets go once hes received the hug "Im not clingy" he mutters "Just wanted ahug... Besides, Im not into ponies..."
[21:07] * Rabtar  Elektron opens the door, a loud claxon sounding before the heavy door slides into the floor, opening into a short hallway with four evenly spaced doors on either wall....
[21:07] * Swamp_Shadow blinks. "Huh? Aren't batponies a subrace of pegasi or something? You're technically a pony species."
[21:07] * Rabtar  a pair of turrets hang impotently from the cieling...
[21:08] * Ragebrew walked inside, looking at the turrets with a smirk as she moved quickly through the room. "I'll pull those off soon enough..." She checked each of the alcoves one by one.
[21:08] * Merciful_Devotion snorts and lifts her head. "Huh? Did I fall asleep again?" She somehow had a book on her head, open against her horn
[21:09] <Specter> "I prefer the term Thestral. At least my tribe does... And i honestly dont know. Our legends speak of Luna creating us." he curls up on the couch again
[21:13] * Rabtar  each of the four rooms houses a large magic amplifier generator, amplifying the power from the damn before pushing it out the surrounding towns and cities. Despite having been neglected for almost two hundred years they all seem to be in decent shape. There is nothing of value in any of the room cept the lasp. Huddled in the corner by a large blood stain is the headless body of a pony...
[21:13] * Rabtar ...wearing a radiation suite. It seems they have been there since the bombs fell, probably choosing to end their life with the massive three shot revolver sitting at the corpses hooves...
[21:16] * Ragebrew trotted over to the body. "Poor bastard." She took the revolver, looking at it with a slight bit of drool. Ok a lot a drool. Holy crap her helmet was half filled by the time she stepped back out, the helmetless radsuit slung over her back. "Blorp." Was all she could managed as she stepped past Elektron to a radless location.
[21:17] * Elektron looks slightly disgusted as Ragebrew walks out, shaking his head and closing the door
[21:19] * Elektron takes off the suit, trotting back to Ragebrew "Find anything?"
[21:20] * Swamp_Shadow grimaces. "What the hell?"
[21:20] * Ragebrew pulled her helmet off and shook it free of drool before holding up the revolver "Samaritan has a big brother! Oh Sisters this thing is gonna kick like a tank..." She shivered with a gleeful look "Can't wait to use it on Shadow." She peeled the rad suit off before putting her gear back on, trotting back to the others. "Merci, stop sleeping in books. Ya drool." Coming form the mare with a face/neck covered in it.
[21:22] <+Swamp_Shadow> "You're one to talk, fluffle."
[21:23] * Elektron leaves the suit, heading in the direction of the other doors "Should we check the rest?"
[21:23] * Ragebrew held up the revolver. "Not in my sleep. Only when I find something that would give me wood if I still had those parts. Ten months, four weeks, and a day left..."
[21:25] * Swamp_Shadow twists her face in confusion. "Do ah need to ask?"
[21:27] * Ragebrew thumps the harness on her chest, a piece of high tech tomfoolery. "I'm gonna be a Pama, and Long's gonna be a Mapa.  Welcome to my fucked up reality."
[21:27] <+Swamp_Shadow> "A what now? Who's Long and why is he a map?"
[21:28] * Elektron goes to the other doors to see whats inside, cautiously of course
[21:28] <+Ragebrew> "Or was it the other way round..." She rubbed her chin for a moment, looking at Swamp_Shadow with a smile "I'll tell ya the full story if ya decide to join us on  little quest for justice, vengance, wealth, glory, and the perfect lay." She says that last one looking over at Merci with a smile.
[21:28] * Rabtar  Elektron finds the boiler room, nothing but a bit of scrap, a few tools and a pack of smokes to found though...
[21:29] * ChanServ sets mode +v Soul_Serenade for #piss_poor_group
[21:29] * Elektron takes the tools and checks the other room
[21:31] * Rabtar  the other room is the recharging and repair station for the sentinel bots, one sitting dead right outside of the docking bay. It's 'head' and parts of it's upper body missing from an almost comically perfect bite shape.....
[21:33] * Elektron grabs what he can from the robot
[21:34] * Ragebrew looked at the bitten sentinel, blinking a few times. "Glad to see yer still kicking Amy."
[21:35] * Elektron tries to get another one of the guns for Ragebrew
[21:36] * Rabtar  Elektron pulls on the weapon after he tried to disconnect it, pulling the heavy hulk onto himself....
[21:38] <+Merciful_Devotion> "Hey Rage, at least it's on my head this time instead of under it."
[21:38] * Elektron tries to drag himself out, after realizing he's stuck he meekly asks Ragebrew "Little help?"
[21:38] * Ragebrew facehooved.
[21:39] * Ragebrew facehooves so hard there is a sick crack and her nose starts to bleed as she trotted over to Elektron, trying to lift the robot off him, at least enough for him to crawl out of.
[21:41] * Elektron crawls out, rubbing the limbs that got squashed "What do you think did that?" he says, pointing to the piece missing
[21:43] <+Ragebrew> "My little gem." Was her responce as she crammed some cottom balls into her nose, forcibly realigning it with a crack.
[21:44] * Elektron shrugs "Guess I'll get started on the robot then.
[21:44] <+Elektron> "
[21:47] * Ragebrew trotted over to Merci, sitting down against the wall. "So, any ideas on what to do with the power? Ya too Specter. That spot in the middle of no where is the MAS Hub we're looking for, no doubt."
[21:48] * Specter is sleeping. Shhhh
[21:49] <+Merciful_Devotion> "I dunno... If we killed the power there, it could end either well or not."
[21:50] * Swamp_Shadow hums. "Maybe we can try turning it off and on?"
[21:51] * Ragebrew looked at Specter and just shook her head. "Aye, that's an option too, although they're not the only folks taking power."
[22:02] <+Ragebrew> "But then again, I don't know shit about machines like this. Gonna leave it up to Elektron. We're going out to that hub anyways, having it powered might be good, but might also be reaaaally bad'
[22:08] * Ragebrew pulled the three together, sitting them all down over a hot meal of apples. "Plans kids. What are they?" She woke Specter up by waving the pint of dragon blood she had under his nose a few times.
[22:08] * Specter cracks an eye open "When did you get that?"
[22:08] * Merciful_Devotion shrugs. "I say rest. I mean, I passed out reading..."
[22:09] * Specter yawns and stretches
[22:09] * Elektron looks back at the machine being made "I'll still need time to get all this working, shouldn't be more than a day."
[22:10] <+Ragebrew> "Since Click died." She put the cap back on the jar, squirreling it away good and proper. "Day it is. Then what? We've got more loot that we can carry, an unconscious mare, and a power plant we can use. What do?"
[22:11] <Specter> "... Shame it isnt fresher" he mutters "We deciding what to do? How far are we from civilization?"
[22:13] <+Elektron> "I'm not really sure what to do with this, but we can't just shut down something of this magnitude, its amazing that its working at all recently."
[22:13] <+Elektron> really*
[22:13] <+Ragebrew> "A good ways. And if ya want it fresh... I'm sure I could ask the fuck offf huge dragoness to spare up a drop or two..."
[22:14] * Specter nods "Well thats not really an option... Heading back to town or something"
[22:15] <+Ragebrew> "Actually it is. We just need to get her a good meal before we go and visit."
[22:16] * Specter blinks "It would allow us to offload all the loot we dont use"
[22:17] * Swamp_Shadow blinks again. "Crap. Clem reminded me about something. Ah'll be right back, y'all." With that, Swamp_Shadow rushed through a side door and disappeared.
[22:17] * Swamp_Shadow ([email protected]) Quit ( Connection closed )
[22:20] <+Ragebrew> "She won't buy anything off us. We just trade her food for random stuff form her hoard. Works well enough. Plus, well, a little blood goes a long way..."
[22:23] * Specter blinks "... Must still be sleepy. I thought we were talking about a village. Not a dragon!" he gives his head a shake "So... We get her food, she gives us stuff... Sounds rather friendly for a dragon"
[22:24] * Elektron shudders "You're sure shes friendly right?"
[22:25] <+Ragebrew> "Oh no, was talking about a dragon. And yeah, she is. Friendly enough. I mean, I sorta tried to smoke her out of her cave when we met. Gave her some fresh gecko, she calmed down. Swapped stuff a few times. Told us to fuck off, she was taking a nap. If we do, need to get a good kill for her before though. Also, town. Newton would be closer to her, plus I like it there more. Nicer vibe to it."
[22:26] <Specter> "If the town can detox me...." he trails off
[22:27] <+Ragebrew> "For a price."
[22:29] * Specter shrugs "Any other opinions?"
[22:30] <+Ragebrew> "Sit on yer plot till ya stop jonsing for it."
[22:30] * Elektron raises a hoof "The power isn't quite reaching where the Hub is. If we want it powered we'll need to see why the line isn't delivering power."
[22:32] <+Ragebrew> "Odds are it's cut. I don't want power out there just yet either. That's our haul, and I don't want some uppity cultist taking it."
[22:33] * Elektron nods "But on the way there we'll probably need power, chances are there are some electrial locks plus some terminals. We might not even get inside without it."
[22:36] <+Ragebrew> "Well, make use of that power till then. Sure the other townships it reaches would love ya for it. Not like an old hub needs all that power."
[22:39] <+Elektron> "Power is already seems to be flowing everywhere else just fine, I don't think we can increase the output without risking damaging what working here."
[22:39] * Specter has no real opinion
[22:41] <+Ragebrew> "Well fuc. Alright, to hell with it. Get that cargo bot online, I got a wounded mare to tend to, Specter I swear if I see ya rummaging in my ammo cases later I'm gonna get a ballgag and hoofcuffs and give ya to Merci, along with a dose of Buck for stamina. We head out to Harmony then to Newton for supplies. Sound good?"
[22:42] * Elektron nods
[22:42] * Specter frowns "I suppose" he mutters, not really sure what to make of that threat "Wake me up tonight, ill keep watch"
[22:46] * Ragebrew chuckled. "Could be worse. Could take ya aside for myself." She got up, brushed herself off, and trotted over to Smiles to tending.
[22:48] * Rabtar  the group settle down and make camp in lower level of the power plant, Elektron working long into the night on his robotic mule... For doing... stuff 4500xp