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Fallout: Beyond Equestria, 102: Origin Story (Part 19)

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  1. [2014-09-17 13:17:21] <Little_Gloom> 3Small shafts of golden morning light pierce the green canopy above the ruins. Slowly, one-by-one, ponies and a griffin awaken to the sounds of the surrounding jungle.
  2. [2014-09-17 13:17:30] <Little_Gloom> 3Golden_Dream slowly drifts awake. First off, she looked for Mare-Do-Well. Second off, if everyone was still asleep, she got somepony, probably Noble, up and awake and let her know that she was going to go search for edibles.
  3. [2014-09-17 13:17:40] <Little_Gloom> 3CopyCat yawns as Golden_Dream climbs out of the alicorn sandwich. "Okay Goldie~ Just look both ways before crossing the street and don't talk to strange ponyzzzz~"
  4. [2014-09-17 13:17:48] <Little_Gloom> 3Golden_Dream smacked her lips and took that as an okay while she hopped out of the pile and took a step out into the forest for a bite to eat.
  5. [2014-09-17 13:18:21] <Little_Gloom> 3Sometime during the night, Mare-Do-Well drifted upwards; she is currently floating above everypony and pretending to sleep. If nothing else, it helps bleed off requiem.
  6. [2014-09-17 13:18:43] <Little_Gloom> 3When others start to speak and move about, she opens an eye.
  7. [2014-09-17 13:18:51] <Little_Gloom> 3Bookwright emits a growling sound from his abdomen. "Oh. Right. Food. Sometimes I forget about that. Um. Is anypony and slash or griffin hungry?"
  8. [2014-09-17 13:18:58] <Little_Gloom> 3Noble_Heart yawns a few moments as she begins to wake up. But she seemed recalcitrant about actually getting up. A day of flying with a heavy, though thankfully magically lightened, wagon would do that to you.
  9. [2014-09-17 13:19:43] <Little_Gloom> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session One Hundred and Two: Origin Story (Part Nineteen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSUQxGjZZ4
  10. [2014-09-17 13:19:49] <Little_Gloom> 3--- Session Begins ---
  11. [2014-09-17 13:20:18] <Little_Gloom> 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTiRw7kx97E
  12. [2014-09-17 13:21:58] * Get_Rum yawns and turns to the other side "call me if you need somethng opened..."
  13. [2014-09-17 13:26:53] * CopyCat dreams pretty pony dreams. And she isn't selfish about them. Anypony nearby may find their thoughts drawn towards happily prancing ponies frolicking in a flowery field.
  14. [2014-09-17 13:26:58] * Mare-Do-Well 3needs nothing opened. Closes her eye and continues to pretend to sleep.
  15. [2014-09-17 13:31:31] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream wanders from the camp, scouting about the ruins for food. She returns an hour later with a collection of what looks like small, spikey coconuts and red-skinned bananas.
  16. [2014-09-17 13:37:58] * CopyCat rolls over, cat-like, on her side. Her belly just begging for rubs. The dream shifts as well. A beach! Ponie's surfing and mares playing volleyball and impatient foals having suncream rubbed on their noses...
  17. [2014-09-17 13:39:49] * Bookwright stares intently. "So. Um. Golden Dream. May I have a banana?"
  18. [2014-09-17 13:40:57] * Get_Rum yawns widely "banana? no i'm fine... is there something else?"
  19. [2014-09-17 13:45:55] * CopyCat sits up all of a sudden. "Banana!"
  20. [2014-09-17 13:46:37] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There is a light rumble of thunder in the east
  21. [2014-09-17 13:47:19] * CopyCat blinks and looks around. She smiles at her friends sheepishly. "I mean, may I have a banana, please?"
  22. [2014-09-17 13:52:40] * Golden_Dream starts to toss out red bananas. "I wouldn't eat too many 'o these. They look alright, And I tried one and it ain't killed me yet, but y' never know with this weird stuff."
  23. [2014-09-17 13:53:40] * Get_Rum grabs a banana too and starts trying to peel it... with hooves
  24. [2014-09-17 13:56:52] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(It works because ponies.)
  25. [2014-09-17 13:57:56] * Bookwright peels with telekinesis. "Obvioushly I nee' to com' up wish a shpell tha'll peel bana'ash."
  26. [2014-09-17 13:58:14] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The bananas inside the red skins a soft, pink and sweet with a slight raspberry flavor.
  27. [2014-09-17 13:59:34] * CopyCat noms the pink bananas in a very unprincess-like manner. "Mmm! These are good! Thank you Golden_Dream!"
  28. [2014-09-17 14:01:08] * Bookwright nom noms noms and chews. "Whaddabout these... hairy... um. Brown... things?"
  29. [2014-09-17 14:01:13] * Get_Rum succeeded somehow in opening the banana and tries it "hey, this isn't half bad"
  30. [2014-09-17 14:03:30] * Golden_Dream puts the rest of the bunch away. "If we got some cream, we could totally make some shakes with this stuff." She plops down. "So, were are we off to next?"
  31. [2014-09-17 14:04:04] * Get_Rum "aren't we going to explore the ruins?"
  32. [2014-09-17 14:04:25] * Get_Rum "maybe there's something spooky inside?"
  33. [2014-09-17 14:05:36] * CopyCat nods at Get_Rum. "We are already here after all. And I thought I heard a storm coming in... but maybe somepony just dreamt it."
  34. [2014-09-17 14:05:37] <Mare-Do-Well> 3http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nlaDqEfB9Lg/TkneL8-CEiI/AAAAAAAAGQg/J3h3-2YFiSM/s640/DURIAN-RAJA-KUNYIT_big.jpg
  35. [2014-09-17 14:06:01] <Mare-Do-Well> 3http://img.allw.mn/content/qf/m9/iwn5z6tu.jpg
  36. [2014-09-17 14:07:19] * Get_Rum gets outside, checks the weather
  37. [2014-09-17 14:08:11] * Bookwright "Golden Dream, why did you bring us these disgusting smelling... things? These can't possibly be edible."
  38. [2014-09-17 14:09:00] <Mare-Do-Well> 3It's cool in the perpetual shade of the thick canopy surrounding the ruins. But beyond the jungle morning is rapidly warming up. It's going to be a sweltering day unless the clouds roll in for another shower.
  39. [2014-09-17 14:11:44] * Golden_Dream gives Bookie a strange look. "Look, these things smell bad when they crack open, but they're edible. They got all sortsa go juice in them. Just, uh. We're gonna keep this thing closed as much as possible."
  40. [2014-09-17 14:13:57] * Bookwright is highly skeptical.
  41. [2014-09-17 14:14:35] * CopyCat steps up beside Golden_Dream and smiles. "I believe you, Golden_Dream! I'd like to try one."
  42. [2014-09-17 14:14:43] * Bookwright "Anyways, we ought'a be on our way. Back to Yearling Manor."
  43. [2014-09-17 14:15:05] * Golden_Dream gives Copycat a grave look. "No. Not until all else is lost."
  44. [2014-09-17 14:16:51] * Shatara groans sorely and flops amongst the ponies.
  45. [2014-09-17 14:17:32] * Get_Rum trots back inside "looks like it will be a clear da-" sniffs the air and frowns "woah guys, what is this smell?"
  46. [2014-09-17 14:17:34] * Bookwright notes Shatara's lassitude. "That reminds me. Golden Dream, do you have any tea?"
  47. [2014-09-17 14:18:10] * Golden_Dream rubs her nose. "Alright, alright. Get yer' hooves in gear, this is a job not a vacation." She looks at Bookie and frowns. "No, sorry. Can't say I recognize much up here that can be called tea."
  48. [2014-09-17 14:18:31] * Get_Rum since chatara i still sleeping, checks the griffon's back and applies a couple of bandaids
  49. [2014-09-17 14:18:45] * Golden_Dream ponders. "Unless you like th' herbal stuff."
  50. [2014-09-17 14:18:59] * CopyCat nods to Golden_Dream. "Well, alright. If you say so." When Shatara flops in she smiles at the griffin. "Good morning Shatara! Did you sleep well?"
  51. [2014-09-17 14:19:13] * Bookwright "What about... tall bushy things, twice as high as Copycat is, with red berries the size of a bit? Did you see anything like that?"
  52. [2014-09-17 14:22:23] * Shatara looks up and quietly stares at CopyCat, deadpan.
  53. [2014-09-17 14:23:07] * Golden_Dream shrugs. "I didn't see any. I know what yer' talkin' about, and if I saw some, I would've brought some around. But I didn't wanna stray too far from the camp.
  54. [2014-09-17 14:23:12] * Get_Rum is still applying bandaids on shatara's back. both ponies have several bruises and get is still limping a bit, but nothing serious
  55. [2014-09-17 14:24:02] * Mare-Do-Well 3stares at Get_Rum and Shatara curiously.
  56. [2014-09-17 14:25:06] * Golden_Dream exhales. "Alright, so th' plan is t' tool around back at Yearling manor. Does anyone want t' raid a temple while we're out here?"
  57. [2014-09-17 14:25:57] * Mare-Do-Well 3groans a bit. "Why are we going back to the manor again? I thought we got everything."
  58. [2014-09-17 14:26:17] * CopyCat stares back at Shatara, her smile showing no signs of fading. She tries very hard not to listen to his mind... thankfully his surface thoughts are focusing on a nosy alicorn. Phew!
  59. [2014-09-17 14:27:33] * Bookwright "Because we think that the mystery room is the key. Somehow."
  60. [2014-09-17 14:28:52] * Mare-Do-Well 3blinks. "Yeah... but we found the secret compartment in the spooky room and took everything that was in it. If none of those things are the key, what is?"
  61. [2014-09-17 14:31:18] * CopyCat breaks her Shatara stare to look over at Bookwright. "Wasn't it that the key was in the mystery room? And we found everything of interest from inside it. Mare-Do-Well even did a search herself."
  62. [2014-09-17 14:31:52] * Golden_Dream rolls her eyes. "Bookie, we ain't looking for the key. We got it. We're lookin' fer what th' key unlocks."
  63. [2014-09-17 14:32:44] * Get_Rum "well, we didn't search it all day long, but we were a bit on a rush... still, i'd go and visit the other places we've still to check in this place before we go back to the rock ghouls"
  64. [2014-09-17 14:33:09] * Shatara looks away trying to focus on the others' discussion, but end up pondering if he should loan the wingboner magazine he definitely doesn't have to Get, since she seems to need the instruction.
  65. [2014-09-17 14:33:41] * Bookwright is highly confused, and looks it.
  66. [2014-09-17 14:34:08] * CopyCat surfs on waves of collective thought. "Like Golden_Dream said, we won't know what the key is until we find what it unlocks. And to find it we'll need clues from those reports left by Daring Doo. So we should look for more places that will trigger those reports."
  67. [2014-09-17 14:35:38] * Bookwright "Right, so... where are they then?"
  68. [2014-09-17 14:36:00] * Get_Rum "still, i don't see why we're not exploring the jails..."
  69. [2014-09-17 14:36:04] * Bookwright "I mean, I'm kind of out of ideas of where to look."
  70. [2014-09-17 14:36:22] * Get_Rum "didn't we have another pyramid to check?"
  71. [2014-09-17 14:36:41] * Golden_Dream nods at Get_Rum. "Yeah, there were three of them ziggies."
  72. [2014-09-17 14:37:06] * CopyCat smiles at Bookwright this time. "Perhaps these ruins? And then the other ziggies?"
  73. [2014-09-17 14:39:29] * CopyCat turns about and nods to Get_Rum and Golden_Dream. "Shall we head in then? Oh, I'm getting exctied! No time to explore like the present!"
  74. [2014-09-17 14:44:03] * Get_Rum "if we're looking for more hidden archeological places, there's a quick way to gathr informations..."
  75. [2014-09-17 14:44:42] * CopyCat nods. "Parley would be most helpful here."
  76. [2014-09-17 14:45:49] * Golden_Dream gives CopyCat a sharp nod and gets into the wagon. Their wings must be sore and their skin cracked from the sun. In that sense, she pitied the alicorns. "Parlay /would/ be helpful on gettin' our hooves down." She looks around her. "What does Parlay say we should go after first?"
  77. [2014-09-17 14:46:49] * Get_Rum "well... yes and no. you see: trees grow differently depending on what they grow above... if somepony, or griffon, can fly high enough, parlay could take some photos of the fores from very high above and we could see temples and such covered in trees... but i'm talking about getting three or four miles high, and parlay can fly thirty meters top..."
  78. [2014-09-17 14:50:26] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods to Get_Rum and floats down into the ground again. A few moments later, she floats back up, and announces, "The dungeons below are very dark." Then, mostly to herself, whines, "Ghost should glow. Why don't ghosts glow?"
  79. [2014-09-17 14:50:56] * CopyCat straps herself into the wagon. Beside her, Noble Heart does the same... since there's no way CC was strong enough to pull the wagon by herself. "So the first thing to do would be to fly above the ruin here so Parley can take pictures. Then Get_Rum can analyze them and tell us if there's some interesting geography to check down here. If not, we head to the next Ziggy and see what its deal is."
  80. [2014-09-17 14:51:11] * CopyCat smiles at her friends. "Does that sound like a plan?"
  81. [2014-09-17 14:51:21] * Bookwright lights his horn. "Unicorns glow. Isn't that enough?"
  82. [2014-09-17 14:51:36] * Mare-Do-Well 3mutters "Showoff."
  83. [2014-09-17 14:52:11] * Bookwright starts pulsing his light. "I can also communicate in mares code!
  84. [2014-09-17 14:52:24] * Bookwright blink blink blinketty blink blinketty
  85. [2014-09-17 14:58:20] * Golden_Dream faux-hugs Mare-Do-Well. "I wish I could hug y' fer real. I been feelin' kinda left out of th' hugpile when yer' involved in it." She chuckled.
  86. [2014-09-17 15:02:02] * Mare-Do-Well 3chuckles back.
  87. [2014-09-17 15:10:12] * CopyCat taps the side of the wagon. "All aboard! Time for a quick aerial sight-seeing tour! Please do not eat durians during the flight."
  88. [2014-09-17 15:10:45] * Bookwright "I wanna explore underneath!"
  89. [2014-09-17 15:13:33] * Golden_Dream looks down at the extremely jungle-y jungle with some not jungle bits thrown in.
  90. [2014-09-17 15:14:21] * Bookwright scarfs another banana and puts a third into his pack for lunch. "Okay! Who wants to come with, looking for cool underground stuff?"
  91. [2014-09-17 15:16:32] * CopyCat takes off and flies up and over the jungle canopy, gaining height for Get_Rum and Parley to do their thing. Down below the jungle becomes a shifting, patterned, sea of green.
  92. [2014-09-17 15:17:36] * Golden_Dream raises her hoof. She was okay with looking for underground stuff.
  93. [2014-09-17 15:17:39] * Get_Rum "i'd like to explore the dungeon. spooky stuff is always fun"
  94. [2014-09-17 15:17:57] * Get_Rum "we can always take photos later"
  95. [2014-09-17 15:18:14] * Get_Rum "or... we wait for copy to come back"
  96. [2014-09-17 15:18:52] * CopyCat had abducted Parley, it seems. She should be back shortly.
  97. [2014-09-17 15:23:02] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Parlay boopbeeps
  98. [2014-09-17 15:23:31] * CopyCat calls down. "You go on ahead, I'll catch up shortly."
  99. [2014-09-17 15:25:28] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There are clouds massing on the east near the blue line of the ocean. They don't seem to be moving inward, or at least not very quickly. The sun-warmed air is humid, but not entirely unpleasantly yet.
  100. [2014-09-17 15:27:40] <Mare-Do-Well> 3CopyCat quickly spots the pirate ship. It is anchored over the ziggurat ahead -- the one without a flock of ahools.
  101. [2014-09-17 15:27:44] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Parlay begins scanning.
  102. [2014-09-17 15:30:47] * CopyCat briefly considers firing her Moonstone Cannon... but she doesn't have a Moonstone Cannon. So she just flies around, letting Parley scan, and hardly thinks about moon-powered airship cannons at all. Nope. Not even a little.
  103. [2014-09-17 15:31:00] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Below, Bookwright and Shatara find where vines and undergrowth have concealed a hole in the jungle floor, collapsed in where a few stones have fallen from the ceiling of the dungeon into the chamber below.
  104. [2014-09-17 15:31:40] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The hole is dark, and there is the sound of trickling water within.
  105. [2014-09-17 15:32:42] * Bookwright lights his horn. Honeyed light washes over the walls and into the pit.
  106. [2014-09-17 15:34:50] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The drop is further than expected, but still not far. Broken stones from the ceiling lie scattered on the floor twenty feed below. Skeletons of dead wildlife shine in the light of Bookwright's horn.
  107. [2014-09-17 15:35:38] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(s/feed/feet)
  108. [2014-09-17 15:35:55] * Bookwright "Huh. D'y'all think, predators? Or they just couldn't get out?"
  109. [2014-09-17 15:38:45] * Bookwright shrugs. "Anyways, I wanna go down there. Um. Can you give me a lift?"
  110. [2014-09-17 15:39:42] * Get_Rum "i'd like to go down too, this thing looks like adventure... shatara, you coming?"
  111. [2014-09-17 15:40:09] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The hole is wide enough (barely) to allow the alicorns to squeeze through, but not enough to allow open wingspan.
  112. [2014-09-17 15:40:33] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Still, the room below is plenty large.
  113. [2014-09-17 15:42:17] * Golden_Dream gets down the hole and looks at the critters. "I think they jus' might be critters that fell down and durned broke their legs."
  114. [2014-09-17 15:42:54] * CopyCat sets the wagon (and Parley) back down on the ground after their reconnaissance mission and frees herself from the harness. She trots merrily into the ruin with Parley at her heels. Her friends knew where they had been, so CC knew where they had been, too. It doesn't take her long to catch up.
  115. [2014-09-17 15:45:04] * CopyCat joins Bookwright, Get_Rum, and Shatara around the hole. Looking in, she can see Golden_Dream below. "We're back everypony. Bookwright, were you asking for a lift to get down there safely?"
  116. [2014-09-17 15:46:34] * Bookwright "Yeah, but I don't think that your, ah, generous....ness could fit through there with your wings out..."
  117. [2014-09-17 15:48:16] * CopyCat cocks her head and her horn lights up. "Well I meant with magic. It seems you are quite eager for pony rides this morning, Bookwright."
  118. [2014-09-17 15:53:31] * Bookwright blushes. "Ah, er. Um. Right. Levitation."
  119. [2014-09-17 15:54:15] * Bookwright points downward. "At any rate, this place is an archeological treasure trove. Trapped wildlife bones are valuable, historically."
  120. [2014-09-17 15:54:31] * CopyCat uses levitation to gently lower Bookwright down into the hole. Then she turns to Get_Rum. "Would you like a lift too? Or would you prefer to use Golden_Dream's rope?"
  121. [2014-09-17 15:54:40] * Golden_Dream had tied her rope to a nearby tree and then began to decend down into the great below. Her rope had not been able to reach the bottom, but it would get to the point where she could get down.
  122. [2014-09-17 15:55:46] * Get_Rum "i'd like levitation, thanks copy"
  123. [2014-09-17 15:56:45] * Bookwright rubs his hooves together. "OOoh! This is so exciting!" He increases the strength of his light. "Okay! Exploration, ho!"
  124. [2014-09-17 15:57:36] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The sound of trickling water is louder inside the chamber, echoing about the room, either from the passage 'ahead' or the one 'behind'. The only lightsource is from the horns of ponies; what little might make it through the hole is being blocked by friends still above.
  125. [2014-09-17 15:58:40] * Shatara dangledrops and wingglides.
  126. [2014-09-17 15:59:18] * Bookwright immediately sets off in the forwards direction. Towards history!
  127. [2014-09-17 15:59:51] * CopyCat lowers Get_Rum down as well. Lastly she looks at Shatara. "You and I should be able to use our wings to break our fall, after we clear the edge of the hole." She smiles. "But if you think being lowered looks like fun then I would be happy to oblige..." she says as Shatara has already made it down.
  128. [2014-09-17 16:00:55] * CopyCat blinks. "Oh." And chuckles to herself. "Too much talking not enough doing, CopyCat." She follows Shatara's lead and drops into the hole, spreading her wings when she is able.
  129. [2014-09-17 16:01:33] * Get_Rum takes a look around and start switching on various view modes
  130. [2014-09-17 16:02:22] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Moss and creeping vines cover crumbling stonework. The chamber is spacious with four columns holding up (most of) the ceiling above. The stonework of the ceiling is carved in ancient symbols of winged creatures and clouds.
  131. [2014-09-17 16:02:26] * Golden_Dream digs through her things and then pulls out a flashlight, which after she got down, she placed in her mouth.
  132. [2014-09-17 16:05:15] * Get_Rum "nothing magical so far..."
  133. [2014-09-17 16:06:19] * CopyCat lands on her hooves lightly and trots off to join Bookwright. He seemed the most enthusiastic and CopyCat was here for her friends, really.
  134. [2014-09-17 16:07:47] * Bookwright "I'll be the judge of that, Get Lost." His horn glows.
  135. [2014-09-17 16:14:14] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright leads the way. Beyond the first chamber, stubby, L-shaped hallway leads to a second, almost identical chamber. This one, however, has an intact (if unstable-looking) ceiling with a giant feathered-serpent carving, as well as several rotting beds and detritus from an ancient Legion camp.
  136. [2014-09-17 16:15:14] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Upon turning the corner into the room, Bookwright finds himself face-to-muzzle with a dead and rusted security turret overgrown with vines. There is a similar one stationed at each of the other two exits.
  137. [2014-09-17 16:15:44] * CopyCat looks from the beds up to the ceiling carving. "Imagine trying to sleep at night with that looming over your head."
  138. [2014-09-17 16:17:25] * Bookwright "Ach! That's a bit startlin'."
  139. [2014-09-17 16:17:58] * Shatara investigates the turret for function and/or salvage.
  140. [2014-09-17 16:19:38] * Bookwright stares up at the ceiling carving. "Wow. Just think of how much effort went into that. These zebras were totally into couatls."
  141. [2014-09-17 16:20:20] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright's little feathered friend hisses, curling around him.
  142. [2014-09-17 16:20:36] * Bookwright recasts the basic form of telepathy again.
  143. [2014-09-17 16:20:51] * Bookwright <Sorry, didn't catch that. Say again?>
  144. [2014-09-17 16:21:02] <Mare-Do-Well> 3{ Empress. }
  145. [2014-09-17 16:21:27] * Bookwright <Of course.> "Scales says the carving up there is specifically of the Empress."
  146. [2014-09-17 16:22:04] * Golden_Dream whistles a little. "Well, yeah. Coatl's look kinda awesome when they ain't tryin' t' eat yer face."
  147. [2014-09-17 16:23:19] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The turrets are in spectacularly bad shape. Their ammo and energy supplies were completely depleted before they were beset by aggressive rust and vegetation.
  148. [2014-09-17 16:27:48] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There are moss-encrusted skeletons in the rusted remains of Legion armor. A few discarded weapons in such bad condition they aren't worth the effort to pick up. A terminal long dead, vines having grown through it's cracked screen.
  149. [2014-09-17 16:30:19] <Mare-Do-Well> 3In one of the corners of the room where the covering of green grows thickest, CopyCat spots the skeleton of a great jungle cat bound up in the vines like a moth caught in a spider's web.
  150. [2014-09-17 16:34:11] * CopyCat approaches the strangely bound predator's remains. "Curious," she murmurs. "What do you think could have caused this? It hardly seems natural..." her horn sparkles reflexively, casting a small spell on herself.
  151. [2014-09-17 16:37:24] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost is right that there is no detectable flow of magic here -- no fields or lay lines, nothing reminiscent of the obelisk that is part of the Radiant Shield of Rasdon. However, Bookwright catches a faint glimpse of something magical beyond this room.
  152. [2014-09-17 16:37:26] * Golden_Dream gets uncomfortable for a moment. "Either that cat died and then the vines came down, or the cat died /because/ the vines game down." Either way, she wished she had a road flare about now just in case they got... Grabby.
  153. [2014-09-17 16:38:21] * CopyCat plucks ideas out of the air to continue. "Although the vines could have grown that way after the fact, I suppose." She lifts a hoof and pokes at the vines.
  154. [2014-09-17 16:39:53] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There is a rustling sound in the dark hallway to the north.
  155. [2014-09-17 16:40:19] * Shatara readies his shotgun in the direction of suspicious rustling.
  156. [2014-09-17 16:40:39] * CopyCat ear-flickers. "What was that?"
  157. [2014-09-17 16:41:49] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(Quick directions: the chamber you first entered had north and south hallways. You went north. The north hallway turned west and you entered your current room. There are three exits: west (further on), east (back the way you came) or north (rustling).
  158. [2014-09-17 16:41:49] <Mare-Do-Well> 3)
  159. [2014-09-17 16:45:21] * CopyCat joins Shatara in readying her shotgun.
  160. [2014-09-17 16:46:01] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The rustling stops.
  161. [2014-09-17 16:46:26] * Bookwright "There's some kind of faint magic nearby..." He drops the detect magic spell. "And did anypony else just hear some rustling?"
  162. [2014-09-17 16:46:29] * CopyCat smiles and lowers her gun. "That was easy!"
  163. [2014-09-17 16:48:28] * Mare-Do-Well 3floats next to Bookwright. In a ghostly voice, the purple-costumed phantom murmors, "...that was... something..."
  164. [2014-09-17 16:49:45] * CopyCat suddenly has the thought that just because it had stopped rustling that didn't mean it had gone away. Well, /she/ didn't have that thought. But she heard it! That counts, right?
  165. [2014-09-17 16:50:58] * Golden_Dream exhaled slow and changed magazines for her shotgun. Dragon's breath. She gave Shatara a look and gestured that he should probably focus on the north hallway. She then proceeded to try to sneak up and stacked up at the entrance of the north hall.
  166. [2014-09-17 16:51:17] * CopyCat raises her weapon again. "We shall investigate!" She exclaims with Noble's authority. CopyCat heads towards the north entrance
  167. [2014-09-17 16:51:55] * Bookwright sighs and carefully extracts Pew Pew from its holster. "I suppose I'll go with."
  168. [2014-09-17 16:53:46] * Golden_Dream rose her hoof to Copycat and gestured that she should stack up on the other side of the entrance.
  169. [2014-09-17 16:54:30] * CopyCat freezes like a meerkat, and then follows Golden_Dream's instruction and takes up position on the other side.
  170. [2014-09-17 16:55:32] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The northern hall is more green than stone, the far end of it blocked by vines and a curtain of hanging plants. However, along the right wall is an area of bare stone. Red ichor, fresh and gleaming in the light, drips down from the covering of green above and forms into zebra glyphs.
  171. [2014-09-17 16:55:59] * Bookwright "Woah. That's freaky.
  172. [2014-09-17 16:56:13] * Golden_Dream gestures Shatara to bunker down where he was, and for Bookie to get close. "Bookie, if you got some way t' ping it, ping it."
  173. [2014-09-17 16:56:18] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The ichor looks like freshly-spilled blood. But Golden_Dream soon realizes that it is actually some sort of sap from the vines.
  174. [2014-09-17 16:56:39] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Parlay beeps.
  175. [2014-09-17 16:57:20] * CopyCat smiles at Parlay. "Can you read it, floating friend?"
  176. [2014-09-17 16:57:26] * Golden_Dream nervously winced when Parlay beeps. "What do you want, robit?" She stressed every word in almost a hissing tone.
  177. [2014-09-17 16:58:11] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost comments, "Parlay says the glyphs say 'leave now. stay forever.'" After a moment, she adds, "there should probably be an 'or' in there. or maybe an 'and'."
  178. [2014-09-17 16:59:43] * CopyCat shivers. "Ohh, creepy."
  179. [2014-09-17 17:01:04] * Mare-Do-Well 3stares at the glyphs in disbelief.
  180. [2014-09-17 17:01:29] * Golden_Dream looks up at the source of the red sap. "It's sap. It's sap. It ain't blood, it's sap."
  181. [2014-09-17 17:01:40] * Bookwright "This place is abandoned. Clearly a zebra left it, but... Who?"
  182. [2014-09-17 17:01:53] * Mare-Do-Well 3whispers, "It's pandemonium."
  183. [2014-09-17 17:02:39] * Golden_Dream looks back at Bookie and slowly shakes her head. "It ain't abandoned. We got somethin' here with us." She checked the shells. "Bookie, everyone, load fire if you got it."
  184. [2014-09-17 17:02:40] * CopyCat blinks at Golden_Dream. "Sap? Well that's better than blood... is it still dripping? How recent is it?"
  185. [2014-09-17 17:03:00] * Golden_Dream looks at Copycat "It's still dripping. It just wrote it."
  186. [2014-09-17 17:03:32] * Golden_Dream points at Mare-Do-Well. "And /yer/ tellin' us what Pandemonium is."
  187. [2014-09-17 17:04:18] * CopyCat frowns. "Then... what is the /It/ that just wrote it."
  188. [2014-09-17 17:04:45] * Mare-Do-Well 3shakes her head as Golden_Dream checks her shells. "Those won't help," she ghost-whispers, "This place is /haunted/."
  189. [2014-09-17 17:05:29] * Bookwright frowns. "You're sure we're just getting carbon monoxide poisoning?"
  190. [2014-09-17 17:05:47] * Golden_Dream gives the most 'no shit' expression at Mare-Do-Well that the filly has ever pulled off.
  191. [2014-09-17 17:07:46] * Mare-Do-Well 3shakes her head at Bookwright. "That was pandemonium. Arcanos -- a ghost power. Potent too. I could hear the requiem the ghost suffered for causing it."
  192. [2014-09-17 17:09:34] * Golden_Dream exhales through his teeth. "Mare-Do-Well, sorry t' say, but I'm bettin' yer gonna get into a ghost fight here,"
  193. [2014-09-17 17:11:38] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods. Then smirks. "I'm the ghost of the most awesome of the Ministry Mares. Commander of the Shadowbolts." The purple-costumed ghost puffs up. "If there's a fight, I'm not the one you should be sorry for."
  194. [2014-09-17 17:11:52] * CopyCat rubs her chin. "And Get Lost never did get around to building that Proton Pack..."
  195. [2014-09-17 17:12:28] * Mare-Do-Well 3is a lot more nervous about the prospect than she's willing to let on.
  196. [2014-09-17 17:14:20] * Golden_Dream looks up. "If this is a ghost, odds are it's a ghost fer th' same reason Mare-Do-Well's a ghost. So let's avoid sayin' her name." She looks at the vines. "And odds are, it's possessin' th' flora here. So th' moment you see anythin' green movin, you squeeze those fuckin' triggers, got it?"
  197. [2014-09-17 17:14:42] * Mare-Do-Well 3floats forward. "...pandemonium... " she whispers again. Then turns, "... be careful, all of you. This ghost is probably a one-trick-pony, but with one hell of a trick. She can make any plant in here do anything she wants it to."
  198. [2014-09-17 17:15:26] * CopyCat shrugs. "I ain't afraid of no ghosts," and steps through the northern door.
  199. [2014-09-17 17:17:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3CopyCat moves into the northern hallway. It goes about fifteen feet before ending in a wall of green -- vines and hanging plants that block continued passage.
  200. [2014-09-17 17:18:18] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There is a soft rustling in the hallway. It seems to come from everywhere.
  201. [2014-09-17 17:18:47] * CopyCat whinnies. "Such a nuisance." And casts her shield.
  202. [2014-09-17 17:22:21] * Bookwright holds Pew Pew at the ready, but he's rather nervous. "I don't know how to make a ghost go away..."
  203. [2014-09-17 17:22:49] * Golden_Dream starts pulling out the bottles of pink death. "I do."
  204. [2014-09-17 17:24:04] * CopyCat thought she sensed an attack... but it might just have been the tension eminating from her friends. She tries to back out the way she came.
  205. [2014-09-17 17:28:08] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost shouts at CopyCat, "Duck!"
  206. [2014-09-17 17:30:27] * CopyCat tries to duck as the first syllable left Get Lost's lips.
  207. [2014-09-17 17:33:46] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Amidst the rustling, nobody else heard the snap and clank that Get_Lost instantly interpreted. The scything blade that whips horizontally across the hallway is fashioned from the claws of an elder ahool, and slices through plants, vines and shield with equal ease. Had CopyCat not ducked so quickly, she could have lost her head!
  208. [2014-09-17 17:34:25] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"Trap!" Get_Lost warns a split-second after the blade has passed.
  209. [2014-09-17 17:35:03] * CopyCat 'Eeeps!' and scrambles backwards. "That's not a ghost! That's not a ghost at all!"
  210. [2014-09-17 17:35:38] * Mare-Do-Well 3groans. "Terrific. The place is booby trapped. And the ghost can set off the traps even if we don't."
  211. [2014-09-17 17:37:32] * Bookwright "Man, it's just like /Daring Do and the Temple of Doom/! 'Only the penitent shall pass!'"
  212. [2014-09-17 17:40:51] * Mare-Do-Well 3murmurs, "Awesome."
  213. [2014-09-17 17:41:50] * Golden_Dream watches that scenario play out. And she didn't like what she saw. Or rather, what she didn't see. "Where's th' ghost?" She muttered.
  214. [2014-09-17 17:42:47] * CopyCat reaches her friends, her burst shield dissipating around her. She throws her hooves around Golden_Dream and wails, "I didn't like that at all!"
  215. [2014-09-17 17:44:11] * Golden_Dream rubs Copycat's mane. "Hey there, Copycat. Yer' gonna be fine. We're gonna go out, we're gonna find th' ghost, and then we're gonna get some answers."
  216. [2014-09-17 17:48:59] * CopyCat seems comforted but doesn't let go right away. "I've changed my mind. Ghosts are scary."
  217. [2014-09-17 17:51:00] * Golden_Dream hesitantly nods. "Yeah, yeah, they are. 'Cept for Mare-Do-Well, she's cool. But yer' gonna get through this, alright? Just don't let them fuck with yer head, alright?"
  218. [2014-09-17 17:52:00] * CopyCat nods and finally let's Golden_Dream go. "Mare-Do-Well is cool," she mutters.
  219. [2014-09-17 17:52:40] * Mare-Do-Well 3hehs. "Thanks."
  220. [2014-09-17 17:53:50] * Bookwright "All ghosts are cool. It's just that Mare-Do-Well is the coolest."
  221. [2014-09-17 17:54:24] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks about. "This is the ghost's haunt. She can exert her control from any chamber within it."
  222. [2014-09-17 17:55:05] * Golden_Dream rubs her chin. "So, how do we get th' ghost out in th' open." She paused. "And how d' y' know all this shit?"
  223. [2014-09-17 17:55:33] * Mare-Do-Well 3notes, "Ghost," pointing to herself.
  224. [2014-09-17 17:57:22] * Mare-Do-Well 3frowns. "But... I thought ghosts could only be created by the Healing Fields." She notes, "This feels... older."
  225. [2014-09-17 17:57:32] * Bookwright points at himself. "Unicorn. Me unicorn." He points back at Mare-Do-Well. "Ghost. You ghost. Me unicorn, you ghost."
  226. [2014-09-17 17:59:28] * Mare-Do-Well 3rolls her eyes.
  227. [2014-09-17 17:59:36] * CopyCat nods at Mare-Do-Well, and then bops Bookwright on the head. *Bop*
  228. [2014-09-17 17:59:50] * Bookwright snickers.
  229. [2014-09-17 18:00:21] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"Thank you, CopyCat," Mare-Do-Well says.
  230. [2014-09-17 18:00:48] * Golden_Dream looks at Bookie. "Bookie, Mare-Do-Well. What would Daring Do do?"
  231. [2014-09-17 18:01:03] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost, meanwhile, disables the trap.
  232. [2014-09-17 18:01:16] * Bookwright looks thoughtful. "She'd find a way to drive away the ghost."
  233. [2014-09-17 18:01:51] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods at what Bookwright said. "Yeah. She totally would."
  234. [2014-09-17 18:01:52] * Shatara considers shouting 'zombie goast leave this place', but already did that joke 2-3 times now.
  235. [2014-09-17 18:04:38] * Bookwright shrugs. "But I wouldn't know how to go about doing that..."
  236. [2014-09-17 18:05:39] * Mare-Do-Well 3thinks. "We have to find her first." She looks around. "And maybe figure out a bit about her."
  237. [2014-09-17 18:07:21] * Golden_Dream looks around. "That hallway's trapped t' shit. Should we go down another one?"
  238. [2014-09-17 18:07:24] * Bookwright "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?"
  239. [2014-09-17 18:08:01] * Golden_Dream takes a moment for that to register. And then she exclaims, "The cloaks!"
  240. [2014-09-17 18:08:37] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(( Session note: Golden_Dream has a crit success on a Perception check not used yet. Shatara has a normal success not used yet. ))
  241. [2014-09-17 18:08:45] * CopyCat nods at Golden_Dream. "That is a very good thought."
  242. [2014-09-17 18:11:36] * CopyCat shivers. "And I do not want anymore of those close shaves."
  243. [2014-09-17 18:11:40] * Bookwright 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.
  244. [2014-09-17 18:14:05] <Mare-Do-Well> 3--- End of Session ---
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