FoE PnP Group 4 Session 48

<uSeaGM> **FoE PnP Group 4 Session 48**
<uSeaGM> Having left the field of forget-me-nots our party find themselves deep in the woods. Glancing over their shoulders, the giant tree, the fillies, and the flowers are all gone. An air of melancholy hangs around the group and their hoofsteps feel a little heavier than before.
<uSeaGM> Trees stretch unhelpfully in every direction. Their goal is the Junkyard to the north east but they have lost their way. If they can get their bearings the group can choose to try their luck heading through the forest or get back to the road they had been following before.
* Cerberus approaches a high tree and starts a rapid climb to the top, with a hop a skip and a jump!
* Watch_Tower watches Cerberus climb the tree. (but who watches him?). "Be careful doing that don't want you to fall."
* Cerberus only, she choses the wrong tree! silly berry you can't climb bushes!
* Cerberus "that was just a test, now i go for real!"
<uSeaGM> The tree-climber extraodinaire is undaunted and tries again!
* Watch_Tower watches the battle of Tree vs Dog. And apparently the Tree finally gets revenge for years of Dog marking. "I coul...no I should probably conserve my magic a bit more...still exhausted...I was going to suggest making a shield stair case to help you..."
* Milia was about to raise a hoof to object, but decides rather to not interrupt Berry as she tries her idea. After that whole business in the glade, she figured something that would let the filly blow off some steam might be helpful.
<uSeaGM> She runs up the tree trunk... and slides down again.
* Cerberus tries climbing the tree some more, but she is mostly insulting the poor thing, and at the end the little filly gives up
<Watch_Tower> "uhh...Berry...perhaps we should let Milia...didn't she have that one wall walking goo?"
* Cerberus pouts "whatever... this tree was stupid anyway, i don't care, see? look if i care, stupid tree!"
* Artifica watches with amusement.
* Cerberus crosses her foremegs and tries looking angry
* Milia facehoofs. She trots up to the huffing and puffing Cerberus. "Well...you're too good for that tree, anyways, Berry! That thing's a jerk, anyways!"
<Watch_Tower> "It's probably just mad we accidently burned down so many of it's friends..."
* Cerberus the encouraging words of her friends give some self respect to the little filly, that now tedice to look uninterested in the whole climbing thing
* Milia turns back to Watch Tower. "And nope, no wall walking paste, I'm afraid. I'm fresh out of spider-zebra puddy. I'm practically /rolling/ in wings, though!" she comments, as she puts her flight talisman on.
<Watch_Tower> "That sounds wonderful he chuckles."
<Watch_Tower> " he chuckles*
* Milia beats her new leathery appendages a few times and awkwardly takes to the air. The zebra nearly falls forward onto her face as she does. "W-woah...uhh...I meant to do that...just, uh...just getting warmed up." She mutters, blushing.
<Watch_Tower> "Can't all be naturals."
* Milia manages to regain her balance...or at least what barely passes for such, when you're talking about a novice flier. Nonetheless, she starts to slowly drift upward, though to call it anything remotely approaching graceful would be an insult to the word. "G-Gimme a sec, I'll just see if I can't spot Junkyard or something from up above."
<Watch_Tower> "Sounds good to me."
* Cerberus since she lost her chance of being cool climber, the foal decides to look for some good noms on the ground
* Milia narrows her eyes and spots the settlement off in the distance. "Found it!" she calls out from above the canopy. "I see the road, too! It's not that far from where we're at now!"
<Watch_Tower> "That's good. I don't think I could take much more travel."
* Milia then begins the process of returning back down. It is a jerky, uncoordinated ordeal, but she finally manages to lower herself to the forest floor without embarassing herself TOO bad. She's quick to remove her talisman after landing.
* Cerberus is still sniffing the ground, looking for something to lick, but asks anyway "so, are we ready to go?"
<Milia> "...I swear, zebras were not meant to fly..." she mutters.
<Milia> "...even if wings DO look awesome and sexy..."
* Milia nods to Berry. "Yep. Follow me, the road's not far."
<Watch_Tower> "I dunno I think you wore them quite nicely."
<Watch_Tower> "Pretty sure Art agrees."
* Cerberus follows the others, still looking for good herbs to nom
* Cerberus but she has no luck
* Milia blushes a bit at the comment. Though as she opens her mouth to respond, her attention is drawn to a faint, reddish orange glow emanating from a nearby pile of mulch. She hoofs through the mound, surprised to find that the source is none other than a...feather?
* Milia leans down and nips onto the feather, now holding it between her teeth. "Shcore! Oh wow it'sh warm, too!"
<Watch_Tower> "What do you have there Milia?"
* Cerberus "hey what's that?"
* Milia spits the feather unceremoniously into one of her saddlebags. "...phoenix feather."
* Milia rubs her hooves together, mischeviously. "And oh, the things I'll make with it..."
<Watch_Tower> "oooh?"
<Watch_Tower> "Never seen a pheonix before...much less a feather."
<Watch_Tower> "What can you make with it?"
* Watch_Tower sounds curious and eager.
* Milia perks up. "Stuff!" she responds, enthusiastically.
* Cerberus "phoenix? aren't they extinct?"
* Milia chuckles to herself. "I actually have no idea what I can make with it...but I always love experimenting with new ingredients. For now, though, we should get a move on."
* Milia shoots a curious look to Cerberus. "...CAN they go exxtinct?"
<uSeaGM> It takes a few minutes but the group finds their way back to the road. The road itself seems well used and is wide enough for two heavily laden carts to pass each other quite easily. The ever present trees line each side like rows of wooden soldiers, their boughs stretched out in salute. Some bushes and branches look like they've been cut back to keep the path clear and you can see a fair distance down the road ahead and behind yours
<uSeaGM> elves.
<Watch_Tower> "I guess maybe if someone like drowns them..."
<Watch_Tower> (I read thatas elves)
<Watch_Tower> (just elves :D)
* Arcane_Sleeping[A] is now known as Arcane_Scroll
<uSeaGM> Our party sets off in the direction pointed out by Milia. The road makes the travelling quite brisk, but then some of them notice a sound...
<Watch_Tower> "I hear something!"
<Watch_Tower> "Something is getting closer..."
* Watch_Tower takes a breath and readies himself to raise a shield.
* Milia halts in her tracks, somewhat alarmed by Watch Tower's sudden exclamation. "Uhh...can you be a little more specific?"
<uSeaGM> A gargantuan timber wolf lopes out of the thick woods onto the road behind you, dwarfing the trees it passes and brushing their branches aside like twigs. This is the wolf-behemoth that Watch_Tower met before but now at its full size it's almost 10 times the height of a pony. However, the wolf did not leave their encounter unscathed. Most of its face and both front legs are scorched and blackened by plasma fire, making them resemble
<uSeaGM> charcoal.
* Watch_Tower gags a bit at the smell. "Hey...I chose to spare you. Wolf I could have burned you earlier!"
* Cerberus frowns "again!?"
* Artifica grimaces, whispering, "Yeah, remind him of that.  Good plan."
* Milia tosses up her hooves. "Oh come on!"
* Cerberus the foal whines "oh c'mon, we already hat that fight! it's not fair! pleasepleaseplease let us be, let's pretend we never met, PUH-LEEEEEEASE!"
<uSeaGM> It sniffs the air and turns towards you, letting loose a growl that causes the earth to tremble beneath your hooves.
* Milia falls into an aggressive stance. "Thoughts, guys? Do we really want to try tangling with this thing? Something tells me it's not going to just let us walk away."
<Watch_Tower> "reminding someone that I didn't kill them when I should...sounded like a goodidea..."
<Watch_Tower> "We...can just fly away..."
<Watch_Tower> "I can cage it!"
* Cerberus "well, if that can work, why not"
* Artifica clicks the ammo of her battle saddles.  "Well, I haven't gotten anything left in my spell closet, but..."
<Watch_Tower> "Shield spell it is!"
* Milia furrows her brow. "But...wait...isn't this a trade route?"
* Artifica considers.  "If it is, we need to clear it."
* Milia nods at her marefriend. "...yeah, that's what I was thinking. Especially since we're responsible for making it this big anyways."
<Watch_Tower> "We can still get into the air and fight it from above."
* Watch_Tower places his Mighty Shield around the Large Timber Wolf!
* Artifica shakes her head.  Where is a melee specialist with a chainsaw when you need one.?
<Watch_Tower> "Less talky more fly into the air!"
* Watch_Tower scrambles to put on his flight talisman and fly into the air with his pretty butterfly wins
<uSeaGM> The wolf takes a step forward but is stopped by the shield. It growls again and swipes twice.
* Puppysmiles is now known as Berry
* Artifica looks to Milia worriedly as she pulls out her flight talisman.  "Do you think you're up to another flight, sexy?"
* Milia beams a toothy grin back at Artifica. "Who, me? Always. Zebras were MADE to fly, sweetie." she chirps back.
* Milia turns to watch the wolf thrash about inside its glowy purple prison. Something clicks. "...aim for the charred parts. They're exposed."
* uSeaGM gives voice to Berry
* Berry is now known as Cerberus
* Cerberus is now known as Pony_81053
* Pony_81053 is now known as mimezinga
* ChanServ gives channel operator status to mimezinga
* mimezinga is now known as Cerberus
* Cerberus "so, the plan is run for your lives?"
<Watch_Tower> "I...think we're clearing the forest for the trade route..."
* Cerberus "that's pointless, these things keep coming back!"
<Watch_Tower> "Not if you burn them completely...notice it's got charred spots?"
<Watch_Tower> "Milia is right...take those out!"
* Cerberus it's full of trees here, you want to burn the whole thing? no way!
<Watch_Tower> "The shield should...contain the fire..."
* Watch_Tower options up a few holes for ponies to aim down.
* Watch_Tower swaps to plasma and carefully fires a shot down the hole.
* Errant is now known as Rooseblo_
* Rooseblo_ is now known as Rooseblood
* Artifica casts Spirit of Flame on her battle saddle and opens fire into one of the holes.
* Watch_Tower hears his saddle jam and activates the Jam buster and calls it a turn.
* Errant is now known as Rooseblood
* Pantzar_ is now known as Pantzar
<uSeaGM> Artifica pours flaming bullets into the creature through the holes made by Watch_Tower. Most bullets don't seem to do much, but the spiritual fire they bring with them more than makes up for it. The shots striking its leg and head tear of chunks of scorched wood and it howls in pain.
<Cerberus> the foal goes shooty on the biig head of that silly doggy! pew pew pew!
<Watch_Tower> (she is trying to establish dominance :D)
<Artifica> (:D)
<uSeaGM> The Big Bad Wolf is not very clever and tries simply clawing at the mystical barrier in front of it
<uSeaGM> During its mad scrabbling one claw luckily gets into one of the holes left by Watch, letting it use its Strength properly on the otherwise smooth shield.
<uSeaGM> The shield cracks and shatters. Wolfie is free
* Artifica gasps in horror.
* Cerberus "finally a clear shot...."
<Watch_Tower> "Neither of you missed a single shot. So don't start this clear shot stuff."
* Cerberus "eh...." the foal stands on her hooves and aligns the pistol again "but now i can hit the whole dumb guy...."
* Milia puts herself in front, making herself seem like an appetizing target. "Hey, you big smelly pile of crap! Come and get it! Free striped buffet right here for ya'!"
* Cerberus "or a fat ass zebra in the middle, that is..."
<Watch_Tower> "And he can hit Milia..."
* Cerberus "seems fair, everypony cann hit the zebra this way"
* Watch_Tower grins. "You know if my uncle were here he'd make a joke about that."
* Shady_Steps is now known as Shadow_Steps
<Watch_Tower> "I reckon that Art wouldn't appreciate that."
* Artifica gasps again.  "Milia!"
* Cerberus "i'll try to blow one of its legs.... stand still, big puppy..." and pew pew pew goes the gun again
* Cerberus "aw, i completely missed milia!"
<Milia> "I HEARD that!"
<uSeaGM> More chucks are blasted from the creature's limb. Soon it wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
<Watch_Tower> "Art, Mil want me to shield it again?"
* Artifica nods.  "Go for it!
<Artifica> "
<uSeaGM> With the combat still raging, we leave our party until next week.