Stable 9 Session #2

(4:34:52 PM) GreenBankGM: ==== Stable 9 Session #2 Start ====
(4:35:13 PM) GreenBankGM: When we last left our heroes they had passed through the keycarded door admitting them into the restricted Utility 3 area.  They've been tasked with simply clearing up a radroach infestation and checking to make sure that the stable's water supply system is contamination free.  As it is, this is quite an unusual group of ponies that has been assembled to do the job.
(4:36:29 PM) GreenBankGM: They stand at the base of the stairs descending towards the talisman rooms, incenerator, and one of the big storage bays.  Ahead is a lefthand bend in the hallway towards those rooms.  Directly to the right is one of the Stable's cryogenic storage units.
(4:38:07 PM) mode (+vv Cold_Fusion Beanbag) by GreenBankGM
(4:38:14 PM) ***Spark_Plug was talking to Zenith about plots or something last time.
(4:38:39 PM) ***Zenith was nervously shying away last time.
(4:39:27 PM) ***Cold_Fusion decides to take a look at the cryo unit if it's a different one then the one that the science mare was looking at earlier
(4:39:50 PM) GreenBankGM: They have plenty of time to chat; none of their tasks are all that urgent though Sergeant Fog seems fairly interested in getting rid of Star_Light as quick as possible.
(4:41:12 PM) GreenBankGM: It isn't.  The terminal displays the medical department's sleep mode logo, the Stable-Tec Stablemare in medical getup listening to the screen with a stethescope.
(4:42:13 PM) ***Spark_Plug giggles, "oh come on, i'm just trying to be friendly."
(4:42:30 PM) GreenBankGM: Redmend is left with her attentive class of scholars, all eager to learn.... or at least whisper about the Overmare's visit.
(4:44:03 PM) ***Redmend looks in her notes, what else she had planned for today's lesson.
(4:44:16 PM) ***Star_Light lays down on the floor, rubbing her temples.
(4:45:48 PM) GreenBankGM: Beanbag has been summoned all the way to the overmare's office from a quiet donut break with her partner.  The command level is pretty busy; the entire security department operates out of here after all, in addition to the overmare.  Petetioners, mssengers, and loafers wander the atrium.  The overmare's secretary cuts through all of this to guide the securitymare straight to the lady in charge.
(4:45:59 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked oddly at the mare listening to a screen with a stethescope and not using an earbud apparatus or her pipbuck
(4:46:21 PM) ***Cold_Fusion shrugging trots back to the others. "So shall we get on with this?"
(4:47:42 PM) ***Beanbag wonders why she could've been summoned
(4:48:41 PM) ***Zenith fidgets, glancing at Spark_Plug "Um...why...um...me? There's a lot of other...um...ponies here..."
(4:49:19 PM) ***GreenBankGM Open_Source, the overmare's personal bi- er, assistant, doesn't seem all that helpful, "I hope the overmare didn't interrupt anything you were doing Officer Beanbag."
(4:49:36 PM) ***Redmend finds the part in her notes and looks up. "Alright class. Since you surely listened to what the overmare said, I want everypony to write it down. We will collect it later and see, if you remembered everything."
(4:50:16 PM) ***Spark_Plug shrugs, "You looked a bit lonely in the back of the group all by yourself." she smiles and looks around a bit.
(4:50:40 PM) ***GreenBankGM Redmend is greeted with a chorus of groans, rustling paper, and clacking pencils as the fillies get ready to write.  There's another knock at the door.
(4:50:48 PM) ***Star_Light lets out a few snores from the ground.
(4:51:24 PM) ***Zenith fidgets nervously "I-I was...okay..."
(4:51:26 PM) Beanbag: "Nah, it'S fine. I'm glad for a disctraction."
(4:51:39 PM) GreenBankGM: Low Fog pokes her in the flank with her baton, "Star_Light!  Get up!"
(4:52:08 PM) GreenBankGM: Low Fog turns to Spark, "Spark!  Move your flank or give me the shotgun, we've got work to do."
(4:52:17 PM) ***Cold_Fusion sighed snapping her tail to get Spark_Plug 's attention. "Mind flank gazing on your own time?"
(4:52:50 PM) ***Star_Light gives a groan, rubbing her head again as she slowly stood up.
(4:53:01 PM) ***Redmend clops her hoof on the desk. "Quiet down fillies. Come in please!"
(4:53:10 PM) ***Spark_Plug rolls her eyes, "I'm not flank gazing, I'm watching our flank so nothing sneacks up on us."
(4:54:18 PM) Cold_Fusion: "You're also the nice pony with the gun." She nodded to the front. "and if we're going forward in the tunnel. it might be nice to have you up front."
(4:55:43 PM) ***Spark_Plug sighs, "comeing Sarg..." she makes her way back to the front with her.
(4:56:27 PM) ***Zenith fidgets and watches her hooves as she follows. or stands there, depending on what the group is doing.
(4:57:20 PM) ***Cold_Fusion sighed shaking her head as she fell in near the middle of the group. She looked to Zenith before nodding her head at spark and rolling her eyes. A silent. Some mares right?
(4:58:26 PM) ***Spark_Plug rolls her eyes and takes her place next to her boss. She was just trying to be nice.
(4:58:41 PM) ***Zenith shrugs
(4:58:47 PM) ***Cold_Fusion might be a bit of a Cold bitch at times apparently
(4:59:18 PM) ***Cold_Fusion idly fiddles with her pipbuck as she trots.
(4:59:21 PM) ***Star_Light leans heavily against the wall.
(5:01:12 PM) ***Spark_Plug figered that, its in her name, but she knows all cold bitches have a creamy center.... mmmmm.... cream.... she wondered if she could get cream filled donuts later? or chocolates! sweet luna's teats she loved chocolate. She gives Star_Light a poke and and lets her lean on her.
(5:02:01 PM) Cold_Fusion: "So. I really have to ask. How big are the roaches down here if you need a shotgun?" She looked to the shotgun a tad warily. "Doesn't exactly Scream reassuring."
(5:02:42 PM) ***Star_Light is perfectly fine leaning on the wall as she zones in and out randomly.
(5:03:10 PM) ***Spark_Plug thinks, "I dunno, I saw one almost a hoof long once."
(5:03:44 PM) GreenBankGM: "We have more 20 gauge then we do ten mil," Fog replies, "It's just economics.  Okay, I'll go with you mares onto the talisman.  Spark, you and Miss Poobrain here clear the 'roaches out of the storeroom.  Your security card'll get you in."
(5:04:23 PM) ***GreenBankGM Open_Source smiles, "I'm sure it is.  We're about as safe as we can be thanks to your hardwork..... so please try not to be mad about what the overmare has to say."
(5:04:49 PM) ***Spark_Plug nods, "yes ma'am." she nudges Star_Light and trys to get her moving.
(5:04:55 PM) GreenBankGM: Redmend is greeted by the overmare's personal assistant, Open_Source, with a concerned frown, "I'm sorry Miss Redmend, but has the overmare already left?"
(5:05:44 PM) ***Star_Light looks around rapidly before sliding down the wall. She fumbles for a couple seconds before standing again. "What, huh?"
(5:05:54 PM) ***Redmend gets a worried frown on her face. "Yes she has. A few minutes ago. Is she not back yet?"
(5:06:36 PM) Spark_Plug: "its time to g stomp some bugs Star_Light."
(5:06:38 PM) GreenBankGM: The party continuing down the hall is greeted by dim, reduced lighting.  Only every other unit is turned on.  On one side is the large door and terminal for the storage room, on the other the sealed door to the oxygen talisman.  The incenerator room is open to the hall, it's machine dormant at the moment.  Ahead is the entrance to the water talisman room.
(5:06:54 PM) ***Cold_Fusion relaxed a bit. She had no experience with firearms and they had worried her. "I had no idea. Not exactly like I go around doing oversight on what ammo you have in stock."
(5:07:14 PM) ***Cold_Fusion idly looks at each unit they pass.
(5:07:19 PM) GreenBankGM: Open_Source sighs, "Oh dear, we must have passed each other somewhere.  Thank you anyway Miss Redmend! Sorry for interrupting your class!"
(5:07:31 PM) ***Star_Light blink blinks a few times before it clicks. "Oh, okay then."
(5:07:31 PM) ***Zenith looks up. almost at their destination...
(5:07:49 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog grunts, "Of course you don't.  Besides, 10 mil is for large animals, not bugs."
(5:08:04 PM) ***Spark_Plug goes where she was told too, helping Star_Light  along.
(5:09:00 PM) ***Star_Light simply follows along. She looks around a bit, "Woah... when'd we get in a hallway?"
(5:09:05 PM) Beanbag: "Oh, uhm, ok."
(5:09:07 PM) ***GreenBankGM Open_Source shuts the door and goes on her way from the classroom.
(5:09:26 PM) ***Redmend looks after her with a bit of concern. "No...problem..." She then realizes that her class stopped writing. "All right fillies, this is no reason to stop writing! Get back to it, please!"
(5:09:33 PM) ***Beanbag follows Open_Source "Do you need help?"
(5:10:04 PM) GreenBankGM: The Open_Source with Beanbag sighs, "You'll see what I mean.  Here we are, the overmare's office!  Go right on in, she's expecting you.
(5:10:36 PM) Spark_Plug: "probably a few hundred years ago." she listens for the roaches.
(5:10:55 PM) ***Cold_Fusion shrugs. "See the barding? Maintenance pony."
(5:10:55 PM) Beanbag: "Ok, thank you very much." Beanbag knocks on the door. "Ma'am, you wanted to talk to me?"
(5:11:02 PM) Cold_Fusion: "not security."
(5:11:17 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark can hear the skittering of roaches behind the door.
(5:11:24 PM) ***Star_Light nods, "I'll take your word for it."
(5:11:26 PM) GreenBankGM: *Spark and Star can
(5:11:37 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog: "I saw, yeah."
(5:11:43 PM) ***Cold_Fusion trotted up to the water talismen door and opened it. "Come along Zenith. We're supposed to handle the water talismen."
(5:11:51 PM) GreenBankGM: She stands by the door, waiting for the sciency ponies to do their thing.
(5:12:23 PM) ***Zenith trots to catch up with Cold_Fusion
(5:12:27 PM) ***Spark_Plug levitates the shotgun out and inhails, "you ever done this befor?"
(5:13:29 PM) Star_Light: "Hm..? Done what? Are we done working already?"
(5:16:43 PM) GreenBankGM: Inside the talisman room is full of technical looking machines arrayed around the talisman itself, pipes taking the excess water out of the room and more to bring it in.  The 'out' pipe runs first through the open concrete pit  Zenith is expected to test, known to the maintenance ponies as the cistern.
(5:17:03 PM) ***Spark_Plug sighs, "no Starry... still have bugs to stomp..."
(5:17:16 PM) Star_Light: "Oh, right. Bugs."
(5:17:52 PM) ***Cold_Fusion trotted up to the appropriate machine and ran a quick diagnostic to confirm it was still running properly.
(5:17:55 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark can tell there are 'a couple' bugs in there.  She might want to chech EFS.
(5:18:15 PM) ***Star_Light puts an ear to the door, giggling.
(5:19:10 PM) Spark_Plug: "can you tell how many there are?"
(5:19:39 PM) ***Spark_Plug looks at EFS... feeling like a stupid bitch.
(5:19:56 PM) ***Star_Light shakes her head, nearly hitting the door itself. "Nope!" She proceeds to open the door.
(5:20:09 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold is rewarded with loads'o scrolling text giving the status of the entire water plant.  It'll take her a minute to go through it all.
(5:20:28 PM) GreenBankGM: Star_Light bonks into the door.  It's still locked
(5:20:47 PM) ***Cold_Fusion knew what to look for since most of it was just the configuration info and the comands.
(5:20:54 PM) Cold_Fusion: ((I've done this stuff in real life :D))
(5:21:09 PM) ***Star_Light looks keeps trying nonetheless. "Open?"
(5:21:26 PM) ***Spark_Plug face hoofs and gently pushes Star_Light back a few feet, not wanting to accidently shoot her and unlocks the door, then opens it.
(5:21:29 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark can see four icons moving about on her display.
(5:21:33 PM) ***Cold_Fusion smiled happily. "So how goes the cesspool Zen?"
(5:21:47 PM) ***Zenith walks over to the cistern and takes out the kit Dr. Doll gave her and begins taking samples, remembering to sniff around (Literally) for any odd smells
(5:22:14 PM) GreenBankGM: Beanbag here's the overmare's sleepy voice, "Come in Beanbag dear~"
(5:22:53 PM) GreenBankGM: Miss Redmend has a content class of fillies now!  Unless somepony interrupts again.
(5:23:48 PM) ***Redmend sits down at her desk and goes through her files.
(5:23:50 PM) ***Beanbag opens the door and takes off her helmet, revealing her long bluemane and red bow. "Ma'am? What did you want to talk about?"
(5:24:44 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold finds everything in order with the talisman.  There's a brief hiccup in the telemetry, indicating that one of the automatic cutoffs suffered a temporary failure last week but corrected itself; flouride levels are a little low though.
(5:25:04 PM) ***Star_Light is easily pushed out of the way. She waits paciently behind Spark_Plug.
(5:25:46 PM) ***Spark_Plug is looking around for radroaches because she unlocked and opened the door.
(5:26:08 PM) GreenBankGM: Beanbag finds herself in the low key, but comfortable office of the overmare.  One of the few places in the stable with carpeting Downy Quilt isn't at her desk.  Instead she's stretched out under a blanket on her couch, across a coffee table from a pair of plainer chairs.  She gestures towards them, "Please take a seat my little pony."
(5:26:27 PM) ***Cold_Fusion sighed. "I keep telling them not to justle things." Shaking her head she looked up the ID of the cutoff failure and the error code so that she could check it out just in case.
(5:28:02 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold finds it was one of the cistern drains.  The error seems to be a power interruption.
(5:28:03 PM) ***Beanbag sits down on the other side of the coffee table, placing her helmet on it
(5:28:23 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith has her samples!  The instructions indicate she should place it inside the sampling chamber of her Med-Buck.
(5:29:14 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark_Plug can see two roaches in the open, scuttling about near a cracked container of emergency rations
(5:29:49 PM) GreenBankGM: *Med-Buck for further testing.
(5:29:55 PM) ***Cold_Fusion was interested again. Power failure? oooh That means she might get to trace something back to the reactor!. She giddly looks for the Cistern responsible.
(5:30:32 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold finds the cutoff at the very bottom of the tank.  It looks okay externally...
(5:32:10 PM) ***Zenith puts the sample into the little slot in her Med-buck. She'd never really used it much so she's working on blind luck
(5:32:11 PM) GreenBankGM: Yep!  Everything was totally okay externally with it.  Probably a short somewhere along the power cables somewhere.
(5:32:12 PM) ***Spark_Plug fires at both Radroaches... and misses... horribly...
(5:32:41 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark sprays buckshot all around the bugs.  Fog visibly winces, as if knowing her underling botched that.
(5:33:06 PM) ***Cold_Fusion none the less follows procedure draining the tank and routing it elsewhere. Leaving a message that it was down for maintenance.
(5:33:35 PM) ***Spark_Plug thinks ms. thunder cunt can shove it up her fucking snatch the stupid whore.
(5:34:04 PM) GreenBankGM: The cutoff functions as designed, draining away the reserve water into the aquifer below the stable.
(5:34:41 PM) Shady_steps left the room.
(5:34:43 PM) GreenBankGM: That's okay Zenith!  The interface is easy enough to use when it pops up;  all it asks is if this is a bodily fluid/unknown/or water quality.
(5:34:44 PM) Cold_Fusion: (a cutoff wouldn't be used since they are used for different purposes Such as to prevent leakage))
(5:34:51 PM) GreenBankGM: (Yep)
(5:35:17 PM) Cold_Fusion: ((I actually toured the water treatment facility of my city (and live near it) when I was a kid :3 ))
(5:35:25 PM) GreenBankGM: (I worded that badly, I'm tired, and I'm really not caring all that much.)
(5:35:29 PM) ***Zenith blinks and mutters to herself "...Bodily fluids?" she picks water quality
(5:35:32 PM) GreenBankGM: (I lived next to the city water plant.)
(5:36:17 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark apparently pissed them off because they scuttle right up and start clawing at her legs.  Elsewhere in the room the two mares can hear more insects coming their way.
(5:38:01 PM) ***Star_Light tries her best to smush the bugs off her new friend!
(5:38:02 PM) ***Cold_Fusion figured she'd replace the component with a working one and take it out for repair and set about doing so. Since if the water systems had a failure it could mean the end for the stable.
(5:38:49 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith's Pip-Buck bleeps and bloops some, scrolls code, then presents her with a readout of a number of typical contaminents.  They all checkout negative except for the last: ERROR- UNKNOWN BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE DETECTED
(5:39:25 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy Quilt yawns, "Sorry, I was just having a bit of a nap..... tell me Beanbag, do you remember when the GOAT placed you in Security?"
(5:40:11 PM) GreenBankGM: Redmend has to bide her time with dreams of a more exciting career, like running a bakeshop or something.
(5:40:16 PM) Beanbag: "Yes, ma'am. it was Security, followed by maintenance."
(5:41:18 PM) GreenBankGM: "But it also marked you as /ideal/ for Vault Loyalty inspector," she murmurs.
(5:41:43 PM) ***Zenith frowns. Oh dear, that's not right!
(5:41:51 PM) GreenBankGM: A little red light flashes once on Zenith's arm: "FURTHER SAMPLING REQUIRED"
(5:42:12 PM) ***Beanbag raises an eyebrow "Really?"
(5:42:21 PM) ***Zenith gets more samples!
(5:43:31 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy absently rubs her belly, "Really.  It, uh, probably wasn't mentioned because we haven't had a loyalty inspector in two hundred years.  However I have reason to suspect we need one."
(5:43:38 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith gets the same options!
(5:44:18 PM) ***Beanbag is quite surprised "What for?"
(5:44:33 PM) GreenBankGM: Star_Light stamps around fruitlessly.  She got those spiders  crawlin' all over her though.
(5:45:00 PM) GreenBankGM: A real bug lands right on her back from an overhead pipe.
(5:45:02 PM) ***Zenith picks water quality again. Maybe she should pick bodily fluids if it needs more :3
(5:45:55 PM) GreenBankGM: The display has changed slightly "Biological/Unknown/Water Quality/Soil"
(5:47:01 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith gets the same results again using Water Quality, then the revised readout pops upo
(5:48:07 PM) ***Zenith tries unknown, because...well...she doesn't know what this is?
(5:48:25 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold removes the faulty cutoff.  There's a loud pop and electrical smoke puffs out from the inside!
(5:48:58 PM) Cold_Fusion: "Oh Fuck..." She face hoofs. "I forgot to remove the...power."
(5:49:17 PM) ***Cold_Fusion sighed. "oh well I was going to have to repair it anyway..."
(5:49:25 PM) GreenBankGM: The Med-Buck simply displays a thinking Stablemare and the label 'Working....'
(5:50:11 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looks for the replacement part and goes to install it. after making sure the power was off. She took it very slowly stopping and double checking everything as she installed it.
(5:50:58 PM) ***Spark_Plug in hails, slides into SATS as she exhales, and targets 2 Radroaches in it, then fires.
(5:52:08 PM) ***Star_Light gives a little scream as the radroach on her starts attack! It hurts!
(5:52:21 PM) ***Zenith waits patiently, though a little nervously
(5:55:27 PM) GreenBankGM: Shortly after the Med-Buck unexpectadly deploys smooth jazz, Zenith gets a ding as the Stablemare wakes up on screen and is replaced with a data readout.  Results: UKNOWN BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE, NON-EQUINE
(5:55:39 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold finds one in the supply cabinet easy enough; the staff keeps at least one replacement for everything onhoof down here.  The installation goes smoothly.
(5:56:09 PM) ***Zenith groans "Oh come on!"
(5:56:38 PM) ***Cold_Fusion sighed in relief. Last thing she needed was wrecking one of the water tanks with a faulty install. She floated the Valve along filling the paperwork on her pipbuck as she went.
(5:56:57 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked up at Zenith. "What's wrong?"
(5:56:57 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog frowns, "What's the matter Doc?"
(5:57:17 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark_Plug splatters one of those suckers all over the floor.
(5:57:48 PM) ***Zenith waves her pipbuck...er, med-buck around slightly "It's being weird..." she tries to gather another sample...
(5:58:34 PM) Cold_Fusion: "Weird how? Like weird ha ha. or weird in the you've found a bomb in the pasta?"
(5:58:39 PM) Cold_Fusion: (way)
(5:59:06 PM) Zenith: "Er...neither? I don't think it's going to explode...Or is in pasta..."
(5:59:18 PM) GreenBankGM: As Zenith leans in for another sample, she gets closer to the surface then before.  Close enough to pick up a faint musky odor....
(5:59:42 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog sounds concerned, "Is it something I should call the overmare about?"
(5:59:47 PM) ***Spark_Plug snarls as they bite at her Barding.
(5:59:50 PM) ***GreenBankGM She already wants to go check her assistants.
(5:59:56 PM) Cold_Fusion: "I was meaning in the something is clearly wrong way."
(6:00:02 PM) ***Zenith frowns and sniffs "That's not right..."
(6:00:15 PM) ***Cold_Fusion trotted over. "oh dear..."
(6:00:32 PM) ***GreenBankGM Downy Quilt leans into Beanbag as far as the pudgy pony can, "There's a conspiracy in this stable, Beanbag, it runs right to the top of the administration."
(6:00:47 PM) ***Zenith fidgets "Fusion...can you um...smell this?"
(6:01:32 PM) Beanbag: "Are you feeling alright? Maybe I should call a doctor? Why should somepony conspire against the Stable? All our lives depend on it."
(6:01:57 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold smells it too.
(6:02:53 PM) ***Cold_Fusion nodded. "Umm...that doesn't smell...like anything I'd expect in our water..."
(6:02:59 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy's practically closed eyes furrow and she snaps, "Officer Beanbag, do not take this lightly.  I am /not/ simply being horomonal!"
(6:03:18 PM) ***Cold_Fusion mind goes down any contaiminates she can think of including industrial
(6:03:56 PM) ***Zenith nods and fidgets and takes another sample. there was another option last time, 'soil'. might as well try that if it's still there...
(6:04:24 PM) Beanbag: "Maybe, maybe not, hell if I know, but please continue." Beanbag thought that this 'conspiracy' would maybe pass as a medicore story.
(6:04:43 PM) Cold_Fusion: "If...something is in our water...we might want to let the overmare know..."
(6:04:49 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy wriggles out of her blanket and heaves off the couch, "Come to my desk."
(6:05:19 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog frowns, "Something in the water?  Should we call maintenance and medical too?  Maybe one of the big maneframes could identify it?"
(6:05:51 PM) ***Zenith nodnods "My pipbuck can't identify it..."
(6:06:25 PM) ***Star_Light tries to roll over and get back up to get the radroach off of her before hopefully attacking it.
(6:06:27 PM) ***Cold_Fusion nodded. "Definitely...if something is wrong with the water."
(6:06:33 PM) Cold_Fusion: "we've got isolate it quickly."
(6:07:25 PM) ***Beanbag helps the overmare to her desk
(6:07:28 PM) GreenBankGM: Somehow the roach clings to Star_Light
(6:07:53 PM) ***Cold_Fusion trotted to the station and made sure that the cistern and everything was still offline for maintenance.
(6:09:18 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy unlocks a drawer and lays a file folder ontop of her much notationed calender.  She flips it open with a hoof and scatters some photographs for Beanbag to see.  Even though she has never seen the surface it is clear enough where the ponies in Stable 9 security armor and one labcoated mare are; the ruins of an old world town with a group of filthy looking other ponies.
(6:10:16 PM) ***Star_Light tries to buck it off now!
(6:10:26 PM) ***Beanbag lifts up some of the pictures "Ma'am? What. Is. That."
(6:12:36 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy nods, "That is the last expedition to the surface from this Vault.  Part of my responsibility is to ascertain when the surface is safe for us to emerge.  Every twenty years we send a team up to explore and take samples.... so far results have been, discouraging.  Especially in light of certain evidence."
(6:13:39 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold finds everything is still shut down.
(6:13:43 PM) ***Beanbag continues to examine the pictures "What evidence?"
(6:14:32 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy pulls out another folder, keeping it shut, "What do you know about Equestrian History?  Namely the Elements of Harmony period shortly before the war?"
(6:15:06 PM) ***Cold_Fusion trotted back. "So we should tell the overmare like right now." She sounded worried about the whole talking to the overmare thing.
(6:15:23 PM) Beanbag: "Six elements, each representing the six main elements of friendship of harmony. The ministry mares were the bearers."
(6:15:34 PM) ***Zenith fidgets
(6:15:35 PM) Beanbag: *one of the main
(6:15:42 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy nods, "And what about what they did?"
(6:16:24 PM) Beanbag: "They saved our asses several times."
(6:17:04 PM) ***Star_Light tries desperatly to just punch it now. This thing was vicious!
(6:17:04 PM) ***Cold_Fusion was nervous as well even if she took it well the overmare still scared her. Anypony over her kinda did.
(6:17:31 PM) GreenBankGM: "Correct.  From Discord, Nightmare Moon, and anarchy following Celestia's abdication.... they also expelled Queen Chrysalis and her changeling army from Canterlot."
(6:17:37 PM) GreenBankGM: *Downy:
(6:18:42 PM) GreenBankGM: Star_Light's wild flailing is just the ticket.  Not only does she finally get that radroach off, it gets impaled on a convieniently pointy shelf.
(6:18:48 PM) Beanbag: "How is this connected to the fact that out Stable's seal has been breached?"
(6:19:42 PM) GreenBankGM: Star's troubles aren't over yet as another radroach comes skittering at her legs.
(6:20:33 PM) GreenBankGM: It claws viciously at her, shrieking
(6:20:51 PM) ***Star_Light cries out in pain again!
(6:21:48 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith, Fog, and Cold are still trying to decide what to do.  Fog insists, "I think we need to call Dr. Doll too."
(6:22:30 PM) Cold_Fusion: "And Light. She'll need to know."
(6:22:43 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog, "Yeah, Light too."
(6:22:53 PM) ***Cold_Fusion had decided. "Let's go get the others and get on thhis."
(6:22:54 PM) ***Zenith nods in agreement "I should inform Dr. Doll. I don't want to bother the overmare if it's something we can fix..."
(6:23:28 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy frowns again, "It hasn't been breached.  It has simply been opened under quarrauntine conditions to allow for exploration for repopulation."
(6:23:35 PM) Cold_Fusion: ",but...standard policy is to alert the overmare to any situation that might lead to the stable's safety being compromised."
(6:24:09 PM) Beanbag: "For repopulation? I dunno if you have noticed, but the Stable's overflowing with pregnant mares."
(6:24:52 PM) ***Zenith frowns and fidgets "Alright..."
(6:24:54 PM) ***Spark_Plug grabs the one attacking Star_Light with Telekinesis and glares at it as she slides into SATS again, pointing her shotgun at it.
(6:25:43 PM) GreenBankGM: The extremely pregnant mare's expression goes deadpan, "I had actually.  That's semantics though, and my descision to remain in the stable is not related our problem.  The real problem is that the changelings weren't all thrown out of Equestria by Cadance and Shining Armor's, er, love blast.  Some landed in Maneasota."
(6:25:52 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy: "Worse yet, some made it in here."
(6:27:11 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog nods, "Yeah, but we can't /just/ tell her."
(6:27:14 PM) Beanbag: "Are you implying that..."
(6:27:21 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy paces, "Not implying."
(6:27:57 PM) GreenBankGM: The overmare opens the next folder.  Inside is the photo of a dead changeling cut open on the table in front of a mare in surgical garb
(6:28:05 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy: "I know."
(6:28:10 PM) Cold_Fusion: "I don't see why not...I mean if we don't we'd all be up for a major discilpinary hearing."
(6:28:46 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog nods, "We need to tell her, but we can get ponies here quicker if we call them directly.  Either way, we need to do /something/ now."
(6:28:48 PM) ***Cold_Fusion started on her way up.
(6:28:53 PM) Beanbag: "Fucking shi- Sorry. So please let me get that straight ma'am, we have changelings in our Stable?"
(6:29:33 PM) Cold_Fusion: "Then Let's get going. If we stand around trying to decide Nothing will get done!"
(6:30:08 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy nods grimly, "We only discovered it last week when old Mrs. Luncheon died.  She'd been one of the surveyors with the original party.  I don't know how many others may have infiltrated with it, or how they've found a way to get more in but I'm certain they have.  That's where you come in."
(6:30:15 PM) ***Zenith nods and stands up, putting the sampling kit away
(6:30:18 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog canters after Cold.
(6:30:40 PM) Beanbag: "You need me to find them?"
(6:30:55 PM) GreenBankGM: Spark spaltters another radroach across the floor, leaving one more. in front of her
(6:31:42 PM) ***Spark_Plug smiles and grabs it in her TK, her horn sparking as she grins menacingly.
(6:31:44 PM) ***Cold_Fusion still hearing sound of gunshots looks to Fog. "umm...perhaps you might want to go deal with them...if they are still having trouble with those roaches."
(6:32:10 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy nods again, "Yes.  I've got a list of suspects I'd like you to check out, from the bottom up, starting with the elementary teacher Miss Redmend."
(6:32:22 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog: "That's where I'm going first."
(6:33:52 PM) Beanbag: "Miss Redmend? Okay. Do you have any instructions for me on how to identify a changeling?"
(6:34:25 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog bursts through the door, cringing at the bleeding Star_Light and cursing herself for not coming earlier.  She shouts to Spark, "Hold it still!" before drawing her sidearm
(6:35:18 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked to Zenith. "Let's go tell the others. While they do that."
(6:35:59 PM) ***Zenith remains with Cold_Fusion. She figured that they'd be alright anyways...they did have guns...what could go wrong? Certainly nothing she could help with...a stray bullet hitting a machine would be maintenance...
(6:36:16 PM) Beanbag: ke armour that's at least on par with yours :P
(6:36:28 PM) GreenBankGM: (Wrong channel Beanbag)
(6:36:35 PM) Beanbag: (oh crap, wrong window >_<)
(6:36:39 PM) ***Zenith nodnods
(6:37:03 PM) ***Cold_Fusion lead the way. "So what did you find out about the contaminate?"
(6:37:30 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy flushes a little, "Not.... really... I read in the Stable-Tec manual you should check the eyes, but start with questioning.  I believe she is relatively low down, but she might be our in to their cabal."
(6:37:48 PM) ***Zenith looks at her pipbuck "It's a biological contaminate, but it isn't from a pony..."
(6:38:00 PM) Cold_Fusion: "...bug droppings maybe?"
(6:38:13 PM) GreenBankGM: (Trololololololo)
(6:38:35 PM) ***Cold_Fusion didn't believe it either. She was loathe to admit that was actually taken into account within the maintenance.
(6:38:55 PM) Beanbag: "Great, just great..."
(6:39:11 PM) ***Spark_Plug misses trying to zap the bug with her lightning but is still holding it in her TK. "stupid bug..."
(6:39:47 PM) ***Zenith fidgets "...maybe..."
(6:40:46 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog: "Just fucking hold it Spark!"
(6:41:20 PM) GreenBankGM: The Sergeant clamps down on her bit; the shot explodes the roach midair.
(6:41:21 PM) ***Spark_Plug eeps and does so.
(6:41:23 PM) ***Zenith is highly distracted by Fusion's plot. It's very nice...
(6:41:47 PM) ***Cold_Fusion was really jittery looking around cantering probably providing an ice show (that WAS a typo now it is not :P)
(6:42:53 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith sees and hears nothing then the sway of Cold_Fusion's fine ass ass.  Cold, however, can hear something rustling and the drip of water.
(6:43:06 PM) ***Spark_Plug inhails and slowly slings the shotgun and whips blood guts off her visor.
(6:43:20 PM) Spark_Plug: *bug blood and guts
(6:43:35 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog kneels beside Star_Light, "Hey kid, are you okay?"
(6:43:36 PM) ***Star_Light hisses in pain and looks at her wounds.
(6:43:47 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked about. "...that's not a good sound I hear a water leak..."
(6:44:13 PM) Star_Light: "Not really. I just wanted to stay on the floor today too.."
(6:44:14 PM) ***Cold_Fusion backed a bit closer to Zenith nervously. She was listening for those on her way here.
(6:44:21 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog: "Spark, bandage!"
(6:45:04 PM) ***GreenBankGM Downy smiles sheepishly, "Sorry.  I just left her class though, and you have my permission to interrupt it for questioning Beanbag."
(6:45:22 PM) Beanbag: "So, how am I supposed to do this? Go to her and ask her if she's a changeling?"
(6:45:46 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy: "Check her eyes!  Maybe use EFS?" she offers
(6:45:54 PM) ***Zenith more than likely runs muzzle first into Fusion's backside. she still wasn't paying attention. She blushes heavily "W-what?"
(6:45:55 PM) ***Spark_Plug nods and digs bandages out of her saddle bags, levitating them over to Fog.
(6:46:19 PM) Cold_Fusion: "There wasn't a water leak...when we came down here..."
(6:46:23 PM) ***GreenBankGM starts applying it and her own bandage to the worst affected areas of bleeding.
(6:46:26 PM) Beanbag: "mind if I take the list of suspects?"
(6:46:41 PM) GreenBankGM: Something keeps dripping down onto the concrete but the rustling has stopped.
(6:46:43 PM) ***Zenith shakes her head to clear it and looks around "I...don't hear anything..."
(6:46:44 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked around....maybe it was a stray bullet?...but what was that rusling?
(6:46:44 PM) Spark_Plug: "Should I go get a medic Sarg?"
(6:46:49 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy: "Not at all."
(6:46:52 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked up.
(6:47:21 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog: "We'll carry her out.  There's something wrong with the water talisman, so Zenith can take her up to the clinic when she goes.
(6:47:37 PM) ***Star_Light sighs and lays down after Fog is done doing whatever for her back. She rubs her head once more.
(6:47:55 PM) ***Beanbag packs away the sheet of paper and starts to head out of the room "I'll take care of it to the best of my abilities."
(6:48:31 PM) ***Spark_Plug blinks, "what?!" This was super serious! "Uh... sould I go inform the over mare then?"
(6:48:46 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked apprent for the source of the dripping
(6:49:35 PM) Spark_Plug: "I could bring Star_Light up to the clinic on my way."
(6:49:50 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog: "Already on it."
(6:50:06 PM) GreenBankGM: Downy sighs, "Thank you Beanbag."
(6:50:27 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold can see something dripping down from the landing above.
(6:50:38 PM) ***Spark_Plug just... sits and waits for orders...
(6:50:49 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog helps Star_Light up, "Come on, let's go."
(6:50:54 PM) ***Beanbag heads to the classroom
(6:51:53 PM) ***Star_Light groans, but does so, still stumbling a bit.
(6:52:03 PM) Spark_Plug: "what sould I do then Sarg?"
(6:52:19 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog: "Help Star_Light.  I have to call the Chief."
(6:52:34 PM) ***Zenith looks around too but doesn't see much, she's still embarassed about running into Fusion...
(6:52:36 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold can also see it doesn't look like water....
(6:53:08 PM) ***Beanbag knocks on the door of the clasroom
(6:54:02 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked for the source if it was dripping it had to be dripping down. "umm...Z-zenith?...think...you could compare a sample of this...to your...other stuff?"
(6:54:08 PM) ***Cold_Fusion might be a little bit scared.
(6:54:40 PM) ***Spark_Plug nods and helps Star_Light walk, "ok..."
(6:54:54 PM) ***Zenith blinks and looks where Fusion indicates and nervously scoots over, getting the sample kit back out and getting some of whatever this is...
(6:55:14 PM) ***Beanbag opens the door and peeks inside the classroom "Miss Redmend?"
(6:55:25 PM) ***Star_Light simply follows Spark_Plug wherever she was going, leaning heavily on her side.
(6:55:37 PM) ***Redmend looks up from her notes. "Yes?"
(6:56:11 PM) Beanbag: "I need to talk to you, in private. Calss is dismissed. C'mon fillies and colts, you've got a day off."
(6:56:21 PM) GreenBankGM: Her Med-Buck gives a new option this time!  "COMPARE TO LAST KNOWN SAMPLE?"
(6:56:35 PM) ***Zenith compares to the sample from last time
(6:56:37 PM) ***Spark_Plug simply scoops the injured mare onto her back and heads for medical.
(6:57:02 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold can see something above is blocking the lamp above the door.
(6:57:54 PM) ***Redmend frowns slightly. "What? Why? You can't just intervene my lessons like this!"
(6:58:13 PM) GreenBankGM: It's about the size of a mare.
(6:59:07 PM) ***Beanbag sighs "Yes, I can, and would you please come with me now?"
(6:59:36 PM) ***Cold_Fusion turned her pipbuck light on and faced it toward it. "...what...is that?"
(6:59:54 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith's med-Buck clicks before returning "SUBSTANCE MATCH 90%"
(7:00:32 PM) ***Zenith blinks "U-um...Fusion?"
(7:00:34 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold_Fusion can see the white coat of a medical department staffer, a tossled red mane, and sprawled legs from here.
(7:01:00 PM) ***Zenith is staring at her med-buck
(7:01:27 PM) GreenBankGM: She isn't moving.
(7:01:36 PM) ***Star_Light simply rests on Spark_Plug's back.
(7:01:45 PM) ***Redmend sighs heavily. "Fine! Ok fillies, remember to finish those texts at home, ok?" She mutters under her breath: "Security ponies..."
(7:01:50 PM) Cold_Fusion: "..Z-zen!?" She was backing up pointing up at it.
(7:01:58 PM) Cold_Fusion: "What the heck is that!?"
(7:02:41 PM) Beanbag: "great. Please follow me."
(7:03:26 PM) ***Zenith looks up and over to where Fusion is pointing and...well she screams.
(7:03:48 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog comes running, her pistol still out.
(7:03:53 PM) Cold_Fusion: "is...she okay?..."
(7:04:01 PM) ***Redmend follows the security mare, grumbling all the time.
(7:04:32 PM) ***Spark_Plug flinks her ears, she heard screaming. screaming was bad, she goes running back toward the screaming.
(7:04:52 PM) ***Cold_Fusion vaguely recognized the mare up there.
(7:05:19 PM) ***Zenith did as well "I...I don't know!"
(7:06:13 PM) GreenBankGM: It's the mare from earlier who was checking the the cryogenics terminal she now lies beneath.
(7:07:30 PM) ***Cold_Fusion trotted up closer slowly trying to get her down with her Telekinesis.
(7:07:38 PM) ***Spark_Plug runs back toward Zenith and Cold_Fusion, "GUYS! Are you OK?!?" she yells.
(7:07:59 PM) Cold_Fusion: "...if...she like...c!" She jumped a bit as Spark shouted. "EEP!"
(7:08:45 PM) ***GreenBankGM Fog covers Cold with her pistol.
(7:09:25 PM) GreenBankGM: The mare is dragged across the grating a little ways, but she's a lot heavier then she looks.
(7:09:55 PM) ***Spark_Plug stands in the doorway with Star_Light on her back, "whats going on? I heard screaming."
(7:10:00 PM) ***Cold_Fusion had more then enough potency to life a mare much larger then she.
(7:10:09 PM) Redmend left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.89 [Firefox 16.0.2/20121024073032]).
(7:10:43 PM) ***GreenBankGM Fog holds up a hoof for Spark to be quiet.
(7:11:10 PM) ***Spark_Plug shuts up.
(7:11:31 PM) GreenBankGM: Cold's magic adjusts and the mare begins to float towards them, her lab coat still rustling against the grate with hooves dragging...
(7:12:04 PM) ***Spark_Plug looks around... what the hell was going on?
(7:12:10 PM) ***Zenith watches. She can't do much specifically at the moment so turns her own light on and looks at what was dripping
(7:12:40 PM) ***Cold_Fusion guided her down toward the where they were.
(7:12:54 PM) ***Cold_Fusion stayed very close to the others. Shivering.
(7:13:37 PM) ***Star_Light offsets the mood by snoring rather loudly.
(7:14:37 PM) Spark_Plug: "Um... do you need more light?"
(7:14:57 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith finds it's dripping from where the mare lay above... it looks viscous, thicker then just regular water.
(7:15:15 PM) ***Zenith fidgets "Um...mares?"
(7:15:17 PM) GreenBankGM: The mare draws closer to Cold_Fusion
(7:15:33 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked over. "...yes?...what is it?"
(7:15:37 PM) ***Zenith pokes the fluid with a hoof "This stuff almost exactly matches the contaminate in the water..."
(7:16:14 PM) Cold_Fusion: "I...don't thin thats....bug crap..."
(7:16:23 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith gets a sticky hoof for her trouble.  It does look like water, but smells like the bad water in the cistern, and has the consistency of gel."
(7:16:23 PM) ***Zenith shakes her head
(7:16:25 PM) GreenBankGM: *gel.
(7:16:35 PM) Cold_Fusion: "umm...zen...is this pony....okay?"
(7:17:04 PM) ***Cold_Fusion looked back to the mare that was floating hopefully near by by now.
(7:17:16 PM) Spark_Plug: "It looks like weird nasty goo that old shampoo turns into."
(7:17:31 PM) ***Spark_Plug is not a smart pony.
(7:17:32 PM) ***Zenith pulls her hoof out of the gel with a frown and stands up to hurry over to Fusion and the mare to look her over as best she can
(7:18:41 PM) ***GreenBankGM can't really be seen too well with her labcoat all dangly by Cold & Co.  Zenith actually has the better angle though.  At first glance it's quite obvious what's changed... the mare looks swollen almost to bursting.  Fog grimaces, and edges up the stairs.
(7:19:28 PM) GreenBankGM: Zenith also notices an oozing headwound and glass in her fur.
(7:19:46 PM) ***Zenith recoils slightly "W-we need to get her to medical. Now."
(7:20:03 PM) Cold_Fusion: "oh...okay..." She looked to Fog. "...tell the overmare NOW."
(7:20:16 PM) Cold_Fusion: "Something...did this."
(7:20:33 PM) ***Zenith stops to give a sample of the goo to give to Fog "Take this. It's a sample of what I believe to be in the water."
(7:21:19 PM) ***Spark_Plug stares in horror for a moment, "What the buck?"
(7:21:43 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog nods, "On it!  I'll have to get out of the shielded area fir-"
(7:22:14 PM) GreenBankGM: Fog gets broadsided as the sealed cryogenics door slams into her head, knocking her across the landing.
(7:22:28 PM) ***Cold_Fusion started quickly galloping toward the way out with the Pony in tow. "Come on....gotta get her to Med." She stops moving and looks at the door.
(7:22:35 PM) ***Zenith eeps "Miss Fog!"
(7:22:42 PM) Spark_Plug: "SARG!"
(7:22:45 PM) ***Zenith hurries over to the mare
(7:22:51 PM) Cold_Fusion: ((I realize I'm still floating that stupid broken water cut off valve huh?))
(7:23:02 PM) ***Spark_Plug draws her shotgun and checks SATS
(7:23:42 PM) ***Spark_Plug is looking for something that isn't a green bar...
(7:23:50 PM) ***Star_Light snores again.
(7:24:02 PM) Cold_Fusion: (that'd be EFS not Sats))
(7:24:28 PM) Spark_Plug: ((derped. my bad.]]
(7:24:46 PM) GreenBankGM: There's a red bar inside the door.... something chatters inside, green eyes glaring out at Cold_Fusion and her unconcious burden.
(7:25:00 PM) GreenBankGM: ==== End Stable 9 Session #2 ====