FoE RPG G0 - #023 Eyes Open

[19:16]<SpiritOfFate>	Group 0: *Epitaph* - Session #23 starts now
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[19:23]<SpiritOfFate>	The land is covered by the starry night, two mares stalk the walls of the landfill. The moonlight reflects on the scrap walls  and the guards march, still unaware of their presence.
[19:24]?	Royal_Lace whispers as quietly to Hawkeye as she can, "Are you shure this is a good idea?"
[19:26]?	Hawkeye wraps her rope around a forehoof and continues pulling herself up into the tree. "Ennope. Ah'm purty certain this ain't one of muh brightest," she says quietly. "But Ah gotta do somethin' to help y'all, an' this is what Ah'm good at. Now shush, please." She crawls up onto the branch, then takes out her sniper rifle and looks into the compound from this new vantage point.
[19:29]?	Royal_Lace waits at the base of the tree, not wanting to get in the mares way. Silently she presses herself into the shadows of the tree and kees her eyes open for trouble.
[19:42]<SpiritOfFate>	Hawkeye has a clear view of the landfill. There is a griffon in each of the 5 watchtowers of the landfill, and in the 4 watchtowers of the scrapyard within. 3 griffin patrol the walls while other 3 patrol the terrains of the landfill which are otherwise empty. One of them guides a stray slave to the slavehouse
[19:43]<SpiritOfFate>	Royal Lace spots a strange spritebot floating around below, just across the road
[19:44]?	Hawkeye pans across the area and takes a closer look at the slavehouse itself. "Fifteen," she whispers down to Royal_Lace. "Fifteen catbirds, ready to ruin anypony's day who plans on goin' in there to rescue slaves... Not seein' that cyborg one though..." She focuses on the slave building and watches the slave being led there.
[19:45]?	Royal_Lace nervously scans the walls and surrounding area while she waits for Hawkeye to finish. Blinking as she barely listens to Hawkeye as she notices the bobbing object, eyes bulging as she relizes who was peeking through that screen she looks up to the sniper, tugging her tail with her magic and pointing to the robot.
[19:46]?	Hawkeye looks down at the distraction, then to the spritebot. "Oh, there's one," she says. "That means he may not be too far away..."
[19:47]?	Royal_Lace nods her agreement as she presses herself further into the shadows and watches the robot
[20:30]<SpiritOfFate>	Through her scope, Hawkeye catches the sight of a faint glow far into the moonlit landfill.
[20:31]?	Hawkeye blinks and adjusts her scope before looking back at the glow. "What in the hay...?"
[20:34]<SpiritOfFate>	The glow seems to be coming from a half buried, rusted piece of industrial machinery.
[20:38]?	Royal_Lace keeps her eyes on the sprite bot
[20:40]<SpiritOfFate>	The spritebot wanders towards the grass fields before the suburb ruins
[20:43]?	Hawkeye lowers her rifle and begins climbing back down. "Next time y'all are in there," she says, looping the rope around herself, "y'all might want to double check that rusty piece o' machinery out there between the slave pen, the outhouse, an' the northwest tower. Ah seen some kind of... Iunno, glow or something." She drops down and sneaks over to Royal_Lace. "Might be a spirit, or maybe something...
[20:43]?	Hawkeye ...else. But Ah can't go look, an we're too far away. Y'all still go in there though, right?"
[20:45]?	Royal_Lace watche Hawkeye decend the tree again, "Im... not sure what you mean, but the only safe place to teleport into was my hideaway in the attic, and im not so sure that it is even an option anymore really.... so are you ready to go?"
[20:47]?	Hawkeye nods. "Yeah, ain't nothing else Ah can see from out here anyhow. And with that sprite bot closin' in, Ah'd rather it not spot you an' raise awkward questions," she says. The charcoal mare shuffles over to stand next to Lace. "Ready when you are, Miz Lace."
[20:48]?	Royal_Lace nods and focus her magic again, bringing up a mental image of the hotel room they had departed from.
[20:52]?	Hawkeye waits for the magic to whisk them away again
[20:53]?	Royal_Lace poofs them away
[20:55]?	Hawkeye shakes her head again as they arrive. "Sometimes Ah wish Ah'd been born with a horn," she says. "That there's right useful, Miz Lace. Now, let's talk details of that compound. Do y'all know where that furnace lets out, or how often they clean it?"
[20:56]?	Royal_Lace legs wobble after the second trip as she carfully takes a knee in the hotel room, feeling very tired from using so much magic. Rubbing her temple she shrugs, "I only saw it once, thought it could be useful for an escape, Ignis would know more about it since he worked there, or at least I belive he did. Its where we first met him and he seemed to live nearby it in his own quarters".
[21:00]?	Hawkeye puts out a hoof to steady Royal_Lace. "Well, we can ask him. Also, might be worth picking up a radiation suit, to go check what that there glow was out in the middle of that icky goop." She makes a wry face. "It weren't radiation glow, Ah can tell that much. Whatever it was might help them slaves. But against that many griffons... hell, I barely got more bullets than they got mercenaries..."
[21:01]?	Royal_Lace nods, "How may did you see Hawkeye?"
[21:02]?	Hawkeye heaves a deep sigh. "Fifteen, an' that was just the catbirds," she says. "Any force y'all tried to send from the outside would get picked to pieces by them snipers well before they got close enough to help. An Ah'm not in any hurry to get close to 'em neither. Griffons seem to have a knack for spottin' ponies who think they're sneaky..."
[21:02]<SpiritOfFate>	Sotho is still at the bar with Coral Spire, the unicorn mare amused by his lyric leanings
[21:03]<SpiritOfFate>	The salespony at the armory observes Firefly, Wintergreen and Ignis as they browse
[21:04]?	Sotho smiles lightly, he was enjyoing himself a bit. "So Ms. Coral, may I ask of why you are in town? Do you live here, or are you holding your camp down?"
[21:05]?	Firefly picks up a pair of thick socks, bright red with yellow strings. She puts on the socks to carry them easier, and also takes the thin wing blades over to the sales pony. "Hi! I'm Firefly, how much for these?"
[21:05]?	Royal_Lace stands on her wobbly legs, "Maybe we should be looking for a way to get ponies in close before they are seen? Or some way to passify the griffins quickly? oof.... help me to the sofa? I need to look at my spell book and see if I can find anything useful"
[21:06]?	Hawkeye crouches a bit to offer Lace her shoulder to lean on, and helps her over to the couch. "Or an entrance to use or a direction to come from that them griffons can't see. Hmmm... to bad we don't know any friendly hellhounds or we could come up from underneath..."x
[21:08]?	Wintergreen smiles at Firefly's choice.
[21:09]<Coral>	"I lived here all my life. It's hard to leave anyway, but at least we can keep all the nasties around at bay. What about you? Where are you from?"
[21:11]<Sotho>	"I'm from a village, far away. I just hope it is not in disarray. I have been gone from it For many years now."
[21:11]?	Royal_Lace nods as she takes out her book and cracks it open, flipping though pages. "There is the one in town, who I would like to speak to, a hell houd that is... I suppose I may even be able to turn is into one but tunnling seems a slow process to me... not sure how fast we could get one ready, never seen a hell hound tunnle before"
[21:13]?	Hawkeye looks at Royal_Lace and chuckles. "Hellhounds dig faster than a dragon pounces on gems," she says. "And they're right about pony size too, bit bigger sometimes. Enough to take the foundation out from under a building if you give 'em a few minutes." The dark mare shakes her head. "They're real dangerous, though. If y'all think y'can talk to one... well, Ah wouldn't bet on ya. No offense."
[21:14]<SpiritOfFate>	The salespony looks over at her. "Those are 150 caps." He turns to Wintergreen. "The wingblades are not fashion accessories, your daughter needs to take care with those."
[21:15]?	Royal_Lace eyes move over a page as she leans in closer to take a good look. "Well you would know more than me about them... but I still would like to at least try, one never knows unless.... oh wait a moment... yes, this sounds promising"
[21:15]?	Wintergreen nods, smiling. "I realize. She will be careful."
[21:15]?	Firefly looks up at the salespony. "What's fashion?" She sets the items on the counter and pulls out a bag of caps. She starts to count, but loses count after about 20.
[21:16]?	Hawkeye looks over Royal_Lace's shoulder, gets one look at the page, and her head starts to hurt. "Ugh, now that's a brainful of mud," she says. "Never did have a head for science. What did y'all find?"
[21:18]<SpiritOfFate>	"Oh, years? Wow. So where do you live now?" Coral says
[21:19]?	Royal_Lace eyes roll over the words and obsorve the arcane marks and glyphs on the page. "Its a spell that allows ponies to, for a short time, walk on clouds...."
[21:20]<Sotho>	"Around, I still travel. The monsters I've fought and the sights I've seen would make others marvel."
[21:22]?	Hawkeye shakes her head. "While that's a neat trick, hun, Ah'm pretty sure them griffons can do the same thing. And from the looks of the towers, they don't have much in the way of blind spots, even if y'all used clouds to drop down right in the middle of the place. Besides, gettin' in ain't the biggest problem." She leans on the couch and closes her eye with a sigh. "Gettin' the slaves out an' away...
[21:22]?	Hawkeye ...without gettin' killed is the biggest problem..."
[21:24]?	Royal_Lace closes the book with a sigh
[21:24]?	Royal_Lace "I was doing alright, not fantastic, but I think I could have managed it from the inside... if they had only never found out about me"
[21:25]<SpiritOfFate>	"I'd pass on the monsters." Coral says
[21:26]<SpiritOfFate>	The salespony waits patient and boredly
[21:26]<Sotho>	He smiles a bit and nods. "I would too, but I'm afraid it's my duty to take them out." He looks around the bar. "Any other questions you'd like to ask me?" He asks, dropping the rhyming.
[21:26]?	Firefly tries several times, but eventually she looks over at Wintergreen. "Miss Green? Can you help me? I don't count so good."
[21:26]<Hawkeye>	"An Ah'm sure y'all would have done a swell job," Hawkeye says, her eye still closed. "Ah want to help y'all, Ah really do, but unless we roll in there in a tank with plenty of passenger room, Ah don't see how we're savin' anypony. Sorry to rain on your parade, hun, but Ah don't have a clue what to do. We're outnumbered, outgunned, and outprepared. Even with your magic, we're still shy on...
[21:26]<Hawkeye>	...resources, not to mention that bounty hunter that's after y'all..."
[21:28]?	Royal_Lace looks up at the ceiling of the room, "And if we cant deal with this place I dont know how we would manage the other, we have even less to go on for that one... we need these mud ponies, or somepony ells, we need help. And to get help we need to help first"
[21:28]?	Wintergreen smiles. "Of course." She chuckles, helping Firefly sort out the caps to the salespony.
[21:31]?	Hawkeye opens her eye and pats Royal_Lace's shoulder gently. "Y'all are right... Ah wasn't thinking of that. If your friends have taught me anything since Ah met 'em, it's that havin' friends goes a long way toward solvin' your problems. Anything... Anything Ah can do to help y'all with findin' allies?" She flops down onto the couch next to Lace, and tucks her forehooves under herself.
[21:33]?	Royal_Lace rubs her head, "Im... not sure, all I know is that Im exahsted from teleporting you to the wall, Its much harder to take ponies with me than when it is just myself. I think I need to close my eyes"
[21:34]<SpiritOfFate>	"What do you do for a living? Are you a traveling saleszebra too?" Coral asks
[21:34]?	Hawkeye nods. "You catch some shuteye then," she says, a half-smile playing about her lips. "Ah'm thinkin' that we might be able to get some help if we check out that problem with weird plants that Sotho was talkin' about. Doin' favors for ponies makes 'em more likely to want to help you, right?"
[21:35]<Sotho>	"For a living?" He asks, tilting his head. "Well, nothing." He says. "I went traveling to help ponies and do better, otherwise I scavenge for my caps."
[21:36]<SpiritOfFate>	The salespony takes the caps. "Take care with those. "
[21:38]<Wintergreen>	Wintergreen pats Firefly on the back. "Now make sure you don't play with those. They aren't toys."
[21:39]?	Firefly nods up at Wintergreen. "Don't worry, I'll be careful! Pappa said I should never wear stuff to bed, I might get hurt." Firefly puts the boxing socks in her saddle bags before carefully wrapping up the wing blades and putting them in the saddle bags as well.
[21:40]<SpiritOfFate>	"That's cool. Maybe we should order drinks or..." She looks more closely to Sotho's face, puzzled.
[21:40]<Sotho>	He looks at Coral as well. "We should, is something wrong?"
[21:41]?	Hawkeye leaves Lace to her sleep, and heads outside, remembering that there's still some recon she can do that the others might not be able to: checking out the bar for information! She heads toward the bar, keeping an eye out for more 'escaped slave' notices along the way.