Fallout: Beyond Equestria 138: The Last Free Town (Part 15)

[2015-06-10 13:10:55] <Kkat> 3Previously...
[2015-06-10 13:12:21] <Kkat> 3Mare-Do-Well suspects, "Their all ghouls.  The zebras on the Leviathan.  What ever sort of ghouls the Leviathan creates."
[2015-06-10 13:12:40] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart frowns. "We recommend destroying the radio tower. Without that the ship is far less useful to their attempts to take The Silos even if it survives." She scowls at the prospect of ghouls of an unknown type. "We should not stay aboard long either."
[2015-06-10 13:12:42] <Kkat> 3...
[2015-06-10 13:13:54] <Kkat> 3The draconequus scoffs, "Hey, you do desperate things when you're afraid for your life."
[2015-06-10 13:14:00] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream scratches her head. "Wait, what do you gotta be afraid of? You're a badass chaos spirit what made a megaspell!"
[2015-06-10 13:14:11] <Kkat> 3The chaos spirit says simply, "A bigger, more badass spirit, of course."
[2015-06-10 13:14:18] <Kkat> 3He adds, "There were a lot of spirits willing to do a lot of things so long as the zebras promised to keep the Empress sealed away."
[2015-06-10 13:14:31] <Kkat> 3Bookwright says, "Oh, we did that already. Sealed her away again I mean."
[2015-06-10 13:14:38] <Kkat> 3The draconequus nods.  "I know.  What do you think I can help you?"
[2015-06-10 13:14:40] <Kkat> 3...
[2015-06-10 13:15:53] <Kkat> 3"... Right, we're meltin' this here thing to the ground. FIRE IN TH' HOLE!" Golden_Dream strikes the flares, then bolts back to the rest of the party to try to get behind something.
[2015-06-10 13:16:03] <Kkat> 3Bookwright stands well back from the very hot fire melty iron burning things.
[2015-06-10 13:16:09] <Kkat> 3There is a long sizzle, then the thermite ignites in a dramatic lightshow.  The smell of burning chemicals and molten metal fill the air, along with the squeal of the tower as it begins to buckle, and the twang of cables.
[2015-06-10 13:16:22] <Kkat> 3Bookwright asks, "Okay, you two wanna get out of here? It's really kinda hot here and I don't just mean because of the sun."
[2015-06-10 13:16:32] <Kkat> 3Several red dots appear on Shatara's EFS.
[2015-06-10 13:16:39] <Kkat> 3The tower twists and crumples, metal rending as it falls off the control tower and crashes into the smaller structures and deck below.
[2015-06-10 13:17:00] <Kkat> 3Shatara answers, "We seem to have attracted attention anyway...so maybe someone should start talking, or we should start going...?"
[2015-06-10 13:17:11] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream gulps. "Yep. Away sounds pretty good right now." She looks at her EFS. "Lil' weird fella, if y' wanna not be in th' vacinity of a bigger boom, now's a good time t' follow us."
[2015-06-10 13:17:12] <Kkat> 3...
[2015-06-10 13:18:01] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream wipes her brow off. "Well. Y' could make sure that th' folk inside ain't fuggin' dyin' in there. We ain't so sure what's going on."
[2015-06-10 13:18:34] <Kkat> 3"Oh, I put them to sleep," the chaos spirit says, "But... well, you woke them up again."  He thinks.  Then snaps his talons.
[2015-06-10 13:19:00] <Kkat> 3>> FLASH << Noble_Heart and her entourage appear on deck. The chaos spirit blinks.  "We'll that certainly wasn't what I was trying to do.  How'd it go over there?"
[2015-06-10 13:19:15] <Kkat> 3>> FLASH <<  Two stripeless zebras, their coats dull and grey, appear on deck.  They look angry, and weapons drawn.  Then bewildered.
[2015-06-10 13:19:42] <Kkat> 3CopyCat blinks and looks around. She smiles upon seeing all her friends gathered together. "I think we did it! But everything may be about to explode so... Get_Lost! Fly us as far away from the Leviathan as possible!!"
[2015-06-10 13:19:59] <Kkat> 3Mitzi is grey coated and snarling. The sudden change of scenery only seemed to make her madder, but the port was enough to make her stumble and land flat on her back.
[2015-06-10 13:20:09] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart blinks in surprise. Somewhat confused about how she'd just gotten there. But now was not really the time to question it. "Shatara! Bring the ship around and move us away from the Leviathan as fast as you possibly can!"
[2015-06-10 13:20:16] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream blinks. "What? Why?"
[2015-06-10 13:20:52] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream looks absolutely shocked. "Y'DID WHAT."
[2015-06-10 13:20:59] <Kkat> 3CopyCat nickers in place at Golden_Dream's yell. "Mitzi may have shot at the Event Horizon..."
[2015-06-10 13:21:07] <Kkat> 3...
[2015-06-10 13:21:30] <Kkat> 3The world goes silent.
[2015-06-10 13:21:35] <Kkat> 3A spark of light cracks the Leviathan.
[2015-06-10 13:21:44] <Kkat> 3The light flickers, blue and black, then brilliant white.  Like a second sun.
[2015-06-10 13:21:54] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream feels... Significantly not listened to for the briefest of moments. It's a weird, esoteric moment, when you're about to witness a megaspell going off.
[2015-06-10 13:22:00] <Kkat> 3There is a loud WHUMP that is felt more than heard.  A distortion ripples inward towards the Leviathan from all directions.
[2015-06-10 13:22:16] <Kkat> 3Shatara damns the grenades! All ahead flank!
[2015-06-10 13:22:21] <Kkat> 3The wind suddenly picks up, rushing towards the ship with escalating force.  The nearest clouds are ripped from the sky, sucked towards the silhouette of the ship.
[2015-06-10 13:22:27] <Kkat> 3Air bends, light breaking apart into a rainbow pattern.
[2015-06-10 13:22:33] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart watches the Leviathan nervously. She went to say something, but the all-consuming strangeness of the moment made the words die.
[2015-06-10 13:22:43] <Kkat> 3Bookwright manages, "Shatara can you make us go faster please this is starting to really freak me out!"
[2015-06-10 13:22:50] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream watches for a moment, then ducks down and holds on for dear life. Look away, look away, look away. It'll blind you. It'll blind you if you look at it. Count to four. Inhale. Count to four. Exhale.
[2015-06-10 13:22:55] <Kkat> 3Mitzi can only stare at the... thing happening as she lays limply on the deck
[2015-06-10 13:23:02] <Kkat> 3Shatara throws the /Eclipsis/ into "all ahead flank", the wind tearing at her feathers and armor as the ship rushed forward against the growing hurricane.  Behind them, the /Rainbow Connection/ is torn towards the warping shadow of the Leviathan.
[2015-06-10 13:23:12] <Kkat> 3Shatara amazingy guides the /Eclipsis/ through the sudden storm...
[2015-06-10 13:23:17] <Kkat> 3... and in a breath, the storm is gone.  As is the Leviathan.  Sound returns to normal, as does light.  Shredded clouds streak the sky, pointing towards where the mighty ship once had been.
[2015-06-10 13:23:24] <Kkat> 3Trees and large chunks of earth that had uprooted and flown into the air fall back to the ground in a terrible roar.
[2015-06-10 13:23:33] <Kkat> 3The /Rainbow Connection/ survived, but is entangled in trees, and looks much worse for wear.   [2015-06-03 18:59:58] * Bookwright frowns at Noble_Heart. "You sure you're okay? You seem, er... angrier than usual. And I don't just mean like Mitzi."
[2015-06-10 13:23:42] <Kkat> 3The chaos spirit is nowhere to be seen.
[2015-06-10 13:23:44] <Kkat> 3...
[2015-06-10 13:24:05] <Kkat> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session One Hundred and Thirty-Eight: The Last Free Town (Part Fifteen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BigolJfoANw
[2015-06-10 13:24:20] <Kkat> 3--- Session Begins ---
[2015-06-10 13:24:44] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream guffaws, then slowly gets up, feeling for the life of her like a discarded bag in a parking lot. Tossed by the wind and probably not feeling in control of herself for the foreseeable future. She turn-tossed her way back up onto her hooves and just stared out into the place the Leviathan was, a distant and horrified look on her face.
[2015-06-10 13:26:36] * Get_Lost rapislt checks the radio, trying to figue out what is going on on the zebra side of the sky
[2015-06-10 13:26:42] <Get_Lost> *rapidly
[2015-06-10 13:26:43] * Noble_Heart turns away from the now-imploded non-existent airship. "Well. That went better than We expected. Where is Our drink?" She seems more than a little perturbed about the lack of service on this airship. Also about the sudden appearance of possibly-hostile zebras.
[2015-06-10 13:28:22] * Mitzi gives a low, angry growl as she lays limp on the deck
[2015-06-10 13:28:49] * Bookwright ignores Noble_Heart. "Get your own drink if it's that vital. I need to deal with these zebras. Somehow. Um. Golden Dream, do you have any more rope?"
[2015-06-10 13:30:06] <Kkat> 3There is a pregnant silence on the airwaves...
[2015-06-10 13:30:58] * Get_Lost frowns "everything is gone mute..." checks if the radio is still working, then shuffles the channels
[2015-06-10 13:32:12] * Shatara blinkblinks. "So uh...who wants to tell our new, uh...passengers...that we just saved their lives...?"
[2015-06-10 13:32:13] <Kkat> 3"You!" one of the Stripeless demands, a gladius in his tail.  "You are all prisoners of Roam!"  His voice seems to stir most of the others out of their slack-jawed astonishment.
[2015-06-10 13:33:36] <Kkat> 3...then the zebra airwaves erupt with chatter.  So much that Parlay is having difficulty, jumping between voices, translating bits and partial phrases before attempting the next.
[2015-06-10 13:34:05] * Noble_Heart snorts dismissively and steps forwards, her shield still surrounding her despite all the problems that have been going on. "You would not even last five minutes against Our friends. Even with your allies, this ship belongs to Us by rights of conquest and Our supriority. We have already destroyed your 'mighty' leviathan! Do you believe you have any hope against Us!?"
[2015-06-10 13:35:00] * Mitzi snarls threateningly at the stripeless zebras. She couldn't see the pony who had attacked her with magic from where she lay, so they would have to do. If she could actually move her claws to swipe at them that is.
[2015-06-10 13:36:25] <Kkat> 3(( Stripeless count by flash:  First: zero.  Second: two, on deck.  Third: two, unconscious.  Fourth: unknown, below decks.  Fifth: three, on deck, prone... one of which collided with CopyCat. ))
[2015-06-10 13:39:12] * Golden_Dream closes her eyes tight. Can't have a moment to think about the gravity of things. She chuffs a few times, then snaps back with her shotgun, quick as greased lightning immediately when Noble would get his attention. "You know, I should prolly pick up some Zebra at some point, but fer' universiality's sake, lemme jus' say fer' th' record, gun beats sword."
[2015-06-10 13:45:36] <Kkat> 3One of the zebras responds by turning and saying something to the others.  Three of the zebras on deck promptly draw magical energy weapons.
[2015-06-10 13:48:03] * Bookwright wastes no time drawing his magical energy weapons. All three of them.
[2015-06-10 13:52:37] <Kkat> 3One of the two unconscious zebras on the deck begins to stir.  One of those still standing begins barking orders at her.
[2015-06-10 13:55:07] <Kkat> 3From the radio chatter, Get_Lost starts to form a picture of what is happening to the north.  The Imperials were quick to decide that the brilliant implosion was a catastrophe on the Leviathan.
[2015-06-10 13:55:42] * Bookwright "Parley, tell them we want to, well... Parley."
[2015-06-10 13:56:27] <Kkat> 3Many of their ships immediately attempted to reverse direction, some hoping for survivors, some hoping for a lack of any, and some just unwilling to continue engaging the pirates without their flagship backing them up.  The pirates have taken full advantage of the confusion, routing the Imperials.
[2015-06-10 13:57:52] <Kkat> 3The Imperial fleet has taken several losses in the last few minutes, and the rest of the fleet is heading south -- heading almost directly for the /Eclipsis/ current position -- with the remaining pirates in pursuit.
[2015-06-10 13:58:21] <Kkat> 3Mitzi begins to feel her arms and legs again.
[2015-06-10 13:58:35] * Get_Lost "we have to move or we will have the whole imperial fleet on our tail in minutes! they are retreating from tthe assault, in OUR direction!"
[2015-06-10 13:59:06] * Mitzi manages to twitch her claws, but can't quite her her legs to do what she wants them to without solid ground beneath them.
[2015-06-10 14:00:06] * Get_Lost saying so, the mare staps out of the radio cabin and in front of the armed zebras "woah, what the puppy is going on here?"
[2015-06-10 14:02:37] <Shatara> "A standoff, obviously. Would someone care to tell them that we'd rather not have to make them dead after going through the trouble of saving them from certain horrible death?"
[2015-06-10 14:03:11] * Noble_Heart snorts derisively at the zebras drawing guns. She pulls herself up to her full imposing height and steps forwards towards them. "Throw down your weapons or face Our wrath! Your lives may yet be saved and the sins of Roam yet redeemed by your actions. Or condemned by the same!"
[2015-06-10 14:05:07] * Get_Lost frowns and tries in a very basic zebrican, mostly gotten from a lot of help from parlay "wait! empire fleet is routing: you lost flagship, you don't get support. pirates here soon. we are third faction, have our things to do, not want to kill you. please accept defeat, we leave you in not deadly place."
[2015-06-10 14:10:04] * Get_Lost seems unsatisfied, probably there is something more that can be added "ah... we give you cookies?"
[2015-06-10 14:11:07] * Mitzi shifts her arm to put her paw on the deck, flexing her claws to try and get a grip, only to shear through the material effortlessly.
[2015-06-10 14:14:16] <Kkat> 3Four more figures suddenly burst onto the deck from below -- three stripeless and Stoicae.
[2015-06-10 14:15:17] <Kkat> 3Two of these stripeless are wearing different uniforms than the light military armor that the rest of the stripeless: one is wearing a heavily decorated suit of armor similar to that which the captain of the /Eclipsis/ had been wearing, the other is dressed in garb that oddly blends tribal attire and formal doctor's fatigues.
[2015-06-10 14:15:58] * Get_Lost points at the commander "i know you! you are the zebra that was talking stuff at the radio!"
[2015-06-10 14:17:07] <Kkat> 3All are armed, Stoacie now holding a magical energy pistol in her mouth.  She is following the others, an indecipherable expression on her face.
[2015-06-10 14:21:56] <Kkat> 3The commander barks something in zebra to the others, clearly asserting her authority.  She pauses to look at Get_Lost, then at one of the other zebra's... the one on deck who had been the first to speak.  The zebra translates.
[2015-06-10 14:24:21] <Kkat> 3(At this point, it becomes easy to guess that the two stripeless who first appeared on deck -- the one who said everyone was a prisoner, and the one who spoke just before MEWs were drawn -- are zebras from the communications center.  Probably two of the red dots that Shatara first saw react to their destruction of the tower.  Those two know Equestrian.)
[2015-06-10 14:26:47] <Kkat> 3Several of the group notice that the stripeless are all wearing silver rings around their necks, each with glyphs inscribed into them.  The apparent commander has by far the most, some of the glyphs being different, but the same set repeated three times.
[2015-06-10 14:29:47] <Kkat> 3The communications stripeless takes a bit, seeming to be filling the commander in.  But she interrupts with a stomp and says something angerly back.  Parlay translates part of it, "...foreign spies... take an Umbra ship..."
[2015-06-10 14:31:09] * Mitzi manages to get her other arm up and presses her palms flat against the deck, pushing herself up.
[2015-06-10 14:32:33] * Get_Lost smiles "no wait, we're not spies! i'm quite sure of it! we are adventurers! it makes difference: we don't kill if we don't have to... please don't make us kill again? be nice and behave so that we don't have to defend ourselves again?"
[2015-06-10 14:33:44] * Get_Lost "really, the others were better armed than you and a lot more than your lot... don't make us go equestria again"
[2015-06-10 14:34:15] * Get_Lost points at the several splotches of blood and corpses already littering the deck
[2015-06-10 14:36:45] * Noble_Heart frowns slightly at that accusation. "We do not spy!" She scowls angrily at the zebras. "We have merely defended Ourselves and Our allies in the time since Our arrival to these lands. Roam has declared Us enemies, whether We wish to be or not. We shall not give you another chance. Stand down and surrender or face Our wrath!"
[2015-06-10 14:37:29] * Golden_Dream watches things play out. She had a plan in her mind. Start with the captain. See if he's a bug. Show them the corpse to prove the point they've been played. If they're still violent, start crippling limbs. Tails, most definitely a priority. Her pulse began to quicken into a vivace beat.
[2015-06-10 14:41:52] <Kkat> 3The commander barks more orders.  The zebra who was stirring gets up, salutes with an outstretched hoof, "Hail Caesar!"  while trying to kick the other awake with a hindhoof.
[2015-06-10 14:42:11] * Mitzi manages a pushup, but has to stay on her arms to keep from falling, her legs still trying to get proper purchase on the moving vehicle so far above the ground.
[2015-06-10 14:44:35] <Kkat> 3The commander responds in kind, and any orders or negotiations are delayed by a round of "Hail Caesar"s.  Then the translator offers, "The Admiral has offered to let you go free in appreciation for saving us.  However, the property of Roam must be returned to Roamen hooves," he stops to indicate the ship, "And your weapons must be confiscated."
[2015-06-10 14:46:59] * Get_Lost "you want... this ship back? that can be done... we want back the element of laughter. fair trade, okay?"
[2015-06-10 14:52:30] <Kkat> 3"The what?"  A moment of confusion later, the translator relates, "The Admiral wishes to make it clear that this is not a negotiation."
[2015-06-10 14:57:34] * Get_Lost "i totally understand, a commander's authority is very important, i don't want to undermine it. still... the admiral should understand that there is a moment for orders and a moment for a gentlemare's reasoning. i think that now it is more like the second than the first one"
[2015-06-10 14:59:19] * Noble_Heart snorts briefly again. "So be it. We have offered Our chance and We shall endeavour to do no more harm than necessary. Are We not magnanimous?" She lowers her horn towards the edge of her shield, intent to follow through unless she is interrupted.
[2015-06-10 15:00:33] * Get_Lost "nonono! i'm sure we can sort this one with everyone going away from her on their hoves... or paws... and claws..."
[2015-06-10 15:01:01] <Get_Lost> *from here
[2015-06-10 15:02:21] <Kkat> 3Stoicae backs away a little, glancing towards the stairs into the ship's lower decks.
[2015-06-10 15:05:20] * Get_Lost "look, we are on a very, very important mission... we have our hooves tied. really. if we could give the ship back and go on our own way we would really, REALLY do that! but we can't! why don't we call for a truce, put the weapons away, sit in front of a table and talk this out?"
[2015-06-10 15:07:42] * Bookwright has the Jukebox gun out, but lowered. He takes a step back and whispers to Get_Lost. "I think things are about to go extremely pear-shaped. Get ready to hit the floor."
[2015-06-10 15:07:53] <Kkat> 3The doctor stripeless whispers something to the commander, who nods.  The translator and Parlay both translate the commander's next question, "What is this mission?"
[2015-06-10 15:09:22] * Noble_Heart pauses briefly on her way towards casting her spell. "We seek a Balefire Bomb for use in creating a habitat for those ponies still effected by the after-effects of your blatant and unrestrained attack against Equestrian soil. Those who have suffered such a fate cannot survive without regular exposure to the magical radiation of the megaspells that created them. Much as We
[2015-06-10 15:09:23] * Noble_Heart imagine you are likely to suffer now that you are removed from the Leviathan."
[2015-06-10 15:10:26] * Shatara facetalons. "...'secret' mission?"
[2015-06-10 15:10:30] * Get_Lost was ready to reply, but noble speaks, so, she shuts up and retreats back
[2015-06-10 15:11:06] * Golden_Dream furrows her brow. Her trigger hoof was trembling. "Ghouls can't live without magical radiation. I figure now that you lot have been bathin' in chaos magic fer' so long, well..."
[2015-06-10 15:11:43] <Kkat> 3The two stripeless that understand Equestrian stare blankly at Noble_Heart.  The doctor stripeless' eyes go wide.   After a glare from the commander, one of the translators hesitantly translates.  All of the stripeless look stunned, as does Stoicae.
[2015-06-10 15:14:03] <Kkat> 3Stoicae suddenly spits out the magical energy pistol and makes a run for one of the gliders, cursing in zebra.  Parlay translates, "...all of you are evil!"
[2015-06-10 15:15:02] * Get_Lost frowns "i was talking about ditzt, actually...."
[2015-06-10 15:15:07] <Get_Lost> *ditzy
[2015-06-10 15:16:43] * Noble_Heart frowns. "Oh. Yes. And there is a ghoul presently incarcerated beneath Roam whom We seek to free. Preferably without bloodshed. We did not cross the isthmus and mountains, fight Windigoes and gargoyles, seal away the Serpent Empress and brave the mouth of Tartarus to spill unnecessary blood."
[2015-06-10 15:16:45] <Kkat> 3The commander shouts, and the three stripeless holding magical energy weapons turn them away from the ponies, taking aim at the fleeing zebra.
[2015-06-10 15:17:20] * Get_Lost "no!" charges and headbumps one of the aiming zebras
[2015-06-10 15:17:29] * Golden_Dream looks to Stoicae and attempts to go between her and the Zebra. "Stoicae, are y' fuckin' suicidal? If they don't shoot you down, th' fleet comin' this way will!"
[2015-06-10 15:18:16] * Shatara growls a warning, raising his weapon on the aiming zebras.
[2015-06-10 15:26:28] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost throws herself at one of the aiming zebras.  You'd never know she was aiming for his head.  It looks totally on-purpose that she face-clobbered the zebra's rifle instead.  Her nose spurts blood.  The stripeless' rifle fires as it swings away, nearly smacking the next zebra in the throat.
[2015-06-10 15:26:35] <Kkat> 3The bolt of supercharged energy hits the zebra's rifle, disintegrating it.
[2015-06-10 15:39:45] * Golden_Dream narrows her eyes and slid between Stoicae and the crowd. "Get, good work! Shatara, go fer th' cap'n! Try t' get 'em before what happened t' th' last one happens! Stoicae, I want y' t' see somethin' before y' go. Th' glider's all yours if y' still believe we're lyin' t' you."
[2015-06-10 15:53:56] * Noble_Heart steps forwards between the zebras and the fleeing pony. She scowls angrily at the zebras. Her horn glowed brightly for a moment, as the two remaining wielded rifles besides those of the commander as well as two of the most unfriendly looking melee weapons, vanished in a purple flash. The four weapons appearing at her hooves inside her shield. "We have been nothing save
[2015-06-10 15:53:57] * Noble_Heart patient and calm with Our unexpected guests. And this is how you repay Us? By trying to kill Our prisoner and guest!? By brandishing weapons against Us!? This will not stand! You should be thankful that We are above such base feelings as anger and hatred! Mitzi!" she looks towards the hellhound still struggling to her feet, "Be furious with them for Us!"
[2015-06-10 15:55:50] * Bookwright reaches out with his magic and envelopes the zebra commander, trapping her like a fly in amber.
[2015-06-10 15:56:06] * Golden_Dream takes this as a sign to go ahead and start blasting away at the Admiral. "He's a changelin'. Roam is fulla' them. I'll show y'."
[2015-06-10 15:56:46] * Bookwright gently floats the zebra up and over the ledge, leaving her hanging over uncompromising empty space.
[2015-06-10 15:57:10] <Kkat> 3The stripeless doctor acts with surprising swiftness, speaking something in a language that seems neither zebra nor Equestrian as she reaches into an apothecary pouch and tosses blue powder at Noble_Heart.  The powder falls to the deck in a circle around her shield and bursts into a ring of green flame.
[2015-06-10 15:58:11] <Kkat> 3The weapons that Noble_Heart teleported to her hooves immediately sink into their own shadows, vanishing.  The alicorn can feel something tugging at her... not physically but metaphysically... trying to draw her down into unknown depths.
[2015-06-10 16:02:45] <Kkat> 3The Admiral runs in place in the air with a look of grave alarm.
[2015-06-10 16:07:22] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream opens fire... and will probably never know if she even hurt the Admiral through her armor...
[2015-06-10 16:07:53] <Kkat> 3...as the impact from the slugs knock the Admiral out of Bookwright's telekinetic field, sending her plummeting to the ground.
[2015-06-10 16:28:50] * Noble_Heart snorts in irritation and stamps her feet in some confusion at the weird feelings and the strange green fire. "We shall not go quietly onto this dark night!" Her horn glowed brilliant purple as she pressed it to her shield, a manyfold set of energy lances shooting towards the shaman that had so entrapped her.
[2015-06-10 16:39:43] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart's attack rocks the doctor, whose eyes widen as she screams from the onslaught.  But she is still standing.
[2015-06-10 16:49:56] * Shatara directs his shotgun towards the apothecary, the only one to have acted against the party, and the greatest remaining threat.
[2015-06-10 17:03:26] <Kkat> 3The stripeless doctor crumples, falling to the deck, unconscious.
[2015-06-10 17:10:41] * Mitzi snarls and leaps at the nearest stripeless stripey ponee, claws bared and ready to carve something to pieces.
[2015-06-10 17:24:59] <Kkat> 3Mitzi unleashes her fury on the closest stripeless within reach, tearing the person apart in a savagery of blood and gore.  So violent and furious is the hellhound that she fails to realize when nothing remains of the zebra but sliced bones and shreds of meat, attacking wildly at an enemy exists no more.
[2015-06-10 17:25:56] <Kkat> 3She slips on the blood, collapsing in it while swiping at the air, before rolling over, her fur matted with gore, and ripping into the stripeless staring aghast nearby.
[2015-06-10 17:26:34] <Kkat> 3Soon, there is nothing left but the echoes from her cut-off scream.
[2015-06-10 17:32:50] * Golden_Dream furrows her brow. "Hey, hey, hey! Mitzi, Mitzi! We're caravaners, not fuggin' murderers. Cool yer' multiple teats!"
[2015-06-10 17:34:50] <Kkat> 3The stripeless all stare.  The Admiral was just thrown overboard.  The doctor is down.  And the monster on deck just /shredded/ two of them in a matter of seconds.
[2015-06-10 17:35:39] <Kkat> 3Each seems to race the others in throwing down their weapons and surrendering.
[2015-06-10 17:36:18] <Kkat> 3"We surrender!" announced each of the translators, talking over each other.
[2015-06-10 17:37:28] <Kkat> 3The only zebra on board who isn't reacting to the gorefest named Mitzi is the one who disarmed herself earlier... and now she stops in her flight, staring at what has happened behind her, but not at the hellhound.
[2015-06-10 17:38:49] * Mitzi has unfortunately clawed through the deck beneath the zebra gore, which breaks underneath her, dropping her off the top deck into the ship, and out of the way of butchering anypony else immediately.
[2015-06-10 17:39:26] <Kkat> 3Stoicae turns and runs for the nearest tossed-down weapon, screaming "Kill her!  You've got to..." the rest of the sentence is presumably "kill her", but it's not particularly clear -- the zebra's words are muffled when she picks up a magical energy spear.  She dashes to the fallen doctor, raising the spear above the unconscious stripeless's head.
[2015-06-10 17:40:58] * Noble_Heart fights against the shadows and scoffs in annoyance. "We warned you this would happen!" The sudden violence of Stoicae was also more than a little shocking. What was this all about?
[2015-06-10 17:41:51] * Bookwright grabs Stoicae and lifts her into the air with his telekinesis before she can deliver the coup de grâce. "Woah there, hold on a second."
[2015-06-10 17:43:51] * Bookwright "Golden Dream, you tie up that zebra right goddamn now, I don't know what spooked this mare but she's probably got a damn good reason!"
[2015-06-10 17:44:25] * Bookwright is nodding at the unconscious zebra shamen as he says this.
[2015-06-10 17:44:44] <Kkat> 3(Stoicae's words were, notably, translated by Parlay.)
[2015-06-10 17:46:04] * Mitzi can be heard growling gutterally from the cabin below
[2015-06-10 17:47:34] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart sinks into the deck of the ship, surrounded be green flame, and is gone.
[2015-06-10 17:48:12] * Noble_Heart struggles against the darkness, calling out as she's consumed in more than a small amount of panic.
[2015-06-10 17:52:32] * Golden_Dream jumps to start to tie her up and drag the apocathary back. Nononono, she has to know where she went.
[2015-06-10 17:52:57] <Kkat> 3Stoicae thrashes in the air, trying to stab at the fallen doctor.  She finally tries to hurl the spear at the doctor, getting a lucky shot as the spear slashes across the neck.
[2015-06-10 17:53:24] <Kkat> 3The magical energy tip cauterizes the wound immediately, preventing the doctor from a fatal bleeding wound, but the magical energy warps the flesh near her windpipe, causing the unconscious stripeless to begin to choke.  Without immediate medical expertise, she will die.
[2015-06-10 17:54:57] <Kkat> 3Stoicae, meanwhile, turns her head towards Parlay and shouts in zebra.  The bot beeps pleasantly and dutifully translates in a voice much more calm and reasonable than Stoicae's own, "You have to kill her.  Look at her conviction bands.  She is a necromancer."
[2015-06-10 17:59:17] * Bookwright drops the zebra. "She is a prisoner and can do nothing while unconscious. Furthermore, she just made /my friend/ sink through a wooden deck with her necromancy and I want to get her back intact and I can't /do that/ if she's dead!" Bookwright finishes on the upward curl of hysterics. He jerks his head urgently at Get Lost. "Do you think you can keep this zebra alive? Magical energy wounds...
[2015-06-10 17:59:17] * Bookwright ...are beyond my simple skills."
[2015-06-10 17:59:56] * Shatara freezes up. Too much was happening too fast. Noble disappeared. The one responsible is unconcious and choking to death, and another insisting it must be.
[2015-06-10 18:01:54] * Mitzi grumbles and growls. She hit her head on something. She had a thick skull, but it was still irritating
[2015-06-10 18:03:22] * Golden_Dream looks between them. Noble's gone. She's gonna find out where.
[2015-06-10 18:05:22] <Kkat> 3--- End of Session ---
[2015-06-10 18:05:31] <Kkat> 3--- Session Epilogue ---
[2015-06-10 18:05:31] * Golden_Dream begins to shout out commands. "Get, get on this here necromancer and find out if she's star necromancer, Sleipnir necromancer, or Lunar necromancer. Or changeling. I'm /really/ hopin' it's a changeling, so we can expose it for what it is."
[2015-06-10 18:08:23] <Kkat> 3By the light of her shield, Noble_Heart can see walls of rough-hewn stone... an unnatural cavern.  The floor is a pattern of cobblestones.  All else is darkness.    After a moment, her shield drops, seemingly of its own accord.  Without light, she can see nothing at all.  And she doesn't have the magical strength left to expend on light.
[2015-06-10 18:10:01] <Kkat> 3After a moment, she does see something in the darkness.  A light, very faint.  Moving towards her.  By the time she can make out what it is, something dead reaches out for her...
[2015-06-10 18:10:10] <Kkat> 3...pulling her into squishy hugs.
[2015-06-10 18:10:22] <Kkat> 3--- End of Session Epilogue ---