Stable Mountain Session 3

* NitoKa|GM coughs
<NitoKa|GM> Anyways kids where was I?
* NitoKa|GM is now known as Lollypop
<Lollypop> You were telling us about how they killed everyone
* Lollypop is now known as NitoKa|GM
<NitoKa|GM> no i wasn't you little shit
<NitoKa|GM> Anyways. I think I was mentioning how they had just delt with some traders and were planning on going to piltover. Or was it taking down some raiders? Anyways. The start of their journey wasn't that hard, but you know, like they say. Ever road has it's turns
* Summerfree clears her throat. "Actually, Mr. Voice... We'd just decided to accompany the caravaneers toward Piltover and to deal with the raiders at their toll. Because safety in numbers!"
<NitoKa|GM> Oh, good
<NitoKa|GM> Thanks mrs. voice
* Summerfree salutes.
<NitoKa|GM> Stable Mountain Group - Session 4 - Every Road has its Turns - Start.
<NitoKa|GM> It's morning now, about 6 in the morning, as you all hear a loud knocking on your doors.
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* Ginger_Snap has no recollection of going to bed or the evening prior, she assumes she went on from the traders to have numerous drinks, now she wonders where she is...
* Phisa stumbles a bit in her sleep until she wakes up, shaking her head. Hearing her door knocking did she tense up. Never know if somepony would come out to shoot her and take her shit. She got her caravan shotgun out just in case as she opened the door.
and take her shit. She got her caravan shotgun out just in case as she opened the door.
<NitoKa|GM> You all went to sleep in the bar in town you sillies.
* Lancer snores loudly.
<NitoKa|GM> The knocking increases in sound. "Hey! We're gonna be leaving in an hour, if you all's want to come with us you'd better hurry." This phrase or varients of it are repeated at each door.
* Summerfree knocks on each door after the other pony. "Hurry! You don't want to be late!" she yells through, as a second alarm.
* Ginger_Snap groggily gets up and checks she has all her possessions, seems she slept in her barding so barding: check. She loads up her stuff and steps out her room
* Composite gums his lips and cracks his eyes open. He swears under his breath and gets up. "Shut the fuck up!"
* Lancer grumbles, rolling awkwardly out of bed. "Ugh... What day is it even?"
* Phisa sighes with relief. It was just Summerfree. She places the shotgun on her back as she went to get all of her stuff ... looking around her to make sure nopony saw the teddy bear she was placing back into her inventory. She then trots out and follows Summerfree. This was going to be a busy day.
* Summerfree dances around, ignoring the others. She hums slightly, killing time before they leave~
* Composite starts putting on his gear, checking everything and finding nothing to be out of order. He slams the door open and looks around, his mood like a corpse brought back to life at an inconvenient time.
* Lancer shuffles outside, bags somewhat balanced on his back.
<NitoKa|GM> The caravans seem to be waiting, packing up their goods. Only one is missing, and that seems to be the caravan full of fillies
* Phisa certainly smelled much better now. She took notice of that the caravan of fillies weren't there, seeming to sigh with relief.
* Ginger_Snap squints bleary eyed at the bright new dawn
* Composite follows Lancer outside and groans. "The beds here are worse than a jumbled up pile of brahmin shit and rocks."
* Summerfree stares at the others. "None of you are morning ponies, are you?" she asks, casting a glance over the group and then toward the missing caravan. "Also who are we missing?"
<NitoKa|GM> "Oh just the fillies." The motorcycle helmeted pony says. "They always leave two hours earlier than the rest of us, saying they don't want us to figure out their shortcuts and shit." He waves a hoof. "Anyways you all ready to go?"
* Composite glares at the disgustingly-cheery morning pony. "Fuck no, I ain't a fucking morning-fucker with a fucking fetish for the fucking sun shooting fucking sun fucking beams in my fucking eyes."
<Lancer> "Jus' be lucky you even got a bed. Floor's been my buddy for a long time."
* Summerfree nods a few times, before Composite's speech catches her. Smiling wide, she pulls out a bar of soap. "Keep talking like that, and I'mma stuff this in your fucking mouth~" she announces.
<Phisa> "The beds didn't bother me." She said, apparently she was a morning zebra from the calm look on her face. "I'd want to get this over as quickly as possible, so yes." She replied to the helmet pony.
* Composite looks at the soap. "Fuck you, I ain't eating ANY of that fucking shit."
* Summerfree just smiles and slides it away, making a note for later.
<NitoKa|GM> "Alright then, it'll just be about 10 minutes." He says as he moves back to his cart, setting things up. "How y'all gonna be divided?"
* Composite then looks at the caravaners. "I'm with whichever one of you has grub."
* Phisa looked at the caravans. "Dividing might be a terrible idea."
* Summerfree waves a hoof in the air. "I call shotgun!"
<NitoKa|GM> "That would have been the fillies." He points out to Composite. "The rest of us have enough for ourselves."
<NitoKa|GM> He then loosk to Phisa. "So you all want to be in the front or all in the back? That missy is a terrible idea for guarding."
* Composite rubs his temples. "Fuuuuuck."
* Summerfree bounds her way to front cart of the caravan and perches herself atop it. With a grin, she lifts her foreleg and turns the radio broadcaster on her PipBuck on! "I'll bring the music, too," she says.
<Phisa> "It's terrible if the caravans are all too far away from one another with each guard. The more diverse we are and the Raiders might take advantage of it and take us out one by one if they plan to do a sneak ambush."
<Lancer> "I'm takin' the back then, I got food my own food, an' I wanna eat it in peace."
<NitoKa|GM> The helmet pony chuckles at Phisa." Duh what did you think we meant?"
* Composite grumbles. "Fuckers wanna fight me I'll stick my launcher so far up their ass they'll be tasting cordite and gunmetal for the rest of their fucking life."
<NitoKa|GM> "How do you want to be divided. How many in the front and how many in the back?"
<Phisa> "In that case, I'll take the front then." She said, changing her ammo from buckshot to slugs.
* Composite stares at the helmeted stallion. "Whichever one is least liable to piss me off, thank you."
<NitoKa|GM> "And that was Easy by the River by Slowpoke Shmopoke." A smooth voice rides out of the radio on Summerfree's hoof. "Now then, time for the news."
<NitoKa|GM> Helmeted pony shrugs. "You choose."
* Summerfree turns and yells, "Shut up everypony!" She turns the radio up so they can all hear.
* Ginger_Snap "I'll take middle" she sets off to the middle caravan
* Composite holds up his grenade launcher. "Fine," he grunts, trudging off to the middle of the caravan, stewing in his own hatred of the morning.
* Phisa turns to Composite. "You should guard the back, just so we have two ponies on each end and one in the middl-" She then stops and gives a sigh as Composite already made up his mind before his player could finish typing!
<NitoKa|GM> "Well then looks like we have more and more reports of strange lights in the night sky near Horseshoe. I'm just betting it's those Enclave doing something wacky, but some ponies swear it's aliens." The voice sighs. "Anyways also we've got reports of Piltover sending out an expedition of ghouls and inteligent and peaceful hell hounds to a local abandonded Ministry of Magic Science building which has become heavily irradiated. No
<NitoKa|GM> Magic Science building which has become heavily irradiated. No reports yet on how the search has gone."
<NitoKa|GM> Arcane Science*
<NitoKa|GM> Wildwest like music plays from the radio. "You know that sound. It's time for your weekly update on the rumors of.... STABLE MOUNTAIN~!"
* Summerfree gasps and twists her ears to listen to the rumors.
* Phisa perked her ears when she heard that from the radio. Might come in handy.
* Ginger_Snap swivels ears towards the front of the caravan
* Composite scratches his chin and idly listens to the radio at the front.
* Lancer munches an apple.
<NitoKa|GM> "It seems we're getting the biggest influx of Stable Spelunkers this year. With a rise from 20% of scavengers to almost 30! Well anyways those Scavengers have been thinking it's pretty smart to head on out near Piltover to load up on tech. Those smart ponies know what they're doing. And here's a tip just from me Kiddos." The voice stops for a second and gets to a false whisper tone. "I say keep your eye out if you  are searchin
<NitoKa|GM> The voice stops for a second and gets to a false whisper tone. "I say keep your eye out if you are searching. Never know who might betray you just for that extra tip to finding it."
<Phisa> "He didn't need to tell me that." She said as she searched around in case any ambushes came by, looking for most places where if she were in a raider's position would she hide out before ambushing.
<NitoKa|GM> "Anyways this is your DJ in Torrent, DJ Silver Star. Be on the look out tonight from my little brother and his new nightly segments. See you ponies later. But first, have some nice smooth jazz from an old soul we all know well. Sweetie Belle."
<Ginger_Snap> "He didn't need to tell me that." She said, thinking of all the ponies her mom got to first...
* Composite grumbles under his breath. "Any fucker wants to fuck with me I'll fucking immolate the fucking fucker..."
<NitoKa|GM> The music starts up, a nice somber jazz music as the caravans start to travel
<NitoKa|GM> Time skip time
<NitoKa|GM> Summerfree, play us out for commercial break
* Summerfree pulls out a drum kit and rocks out a wicked drum solo with double-bass pedals and a lot of abuse of the high-hat.
<NitoKa|GM> Good job, now a word from our sponsers
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<NitoKa|GM> Time skip initiated.... Error.... Error code: 23-9-12-4 23-1-19-20-5-12-1-14-4 Initiated
<NitoKa|GM> Fall back manuver made. Code 1-12-9-5-14 3-18-1-19-8 12-1-14-4-9-14-7 Initiated.
* Summerfree removes the cartridge and blows in it.
* Summerfree puts it back in gently and then jiggles the power button. "I got it!"
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<NitoKa|GM> As the group travels they can see something in the distance, someone on the road. They seems to be laying down on the road, from this distance it's not very easy to see the state of them.
* Phisa aims her shotgun at the person on the road. "Let's not let our guards down. Look around, it might be a trap."
* Composite also aims his grenade rifle at the area around the being. "Might be a decoy for the raiders up ahead."
* Summerfree holds a hoof over her eyes and looks at the form on the road.
<NitoKa|GM> Composite and Ginger_Snap can see it's a light grey female pegasus laying on the ground. Her attire suggest she was a scavenger. Around here there seems to be a pool of blood. Summerfree can see closer that this mare is still breathing, labored, but still breathing.
* Composite lowers his rifle, though only slightly. "Hey, Ginger, you see that?"
<NitoKa|GM> Phisa can't tell anything from this distance
<Ginger_Snap> "yes I see, come alongside, I'll handle it"
<Phisa> "What is it you see?" She asked in an agitated tone for not seeing it.
<Composite> "Alright, but keep an eye out, might be a decoy like I said."
* Summerfree looks back at Composite. "Whoever it is, she's still breathing," she informs.
<Ginger_Snap> "Body on the road, we dont need to stop, just get close and I'll put her in the back"
* Composite nods. "Good to know. I'll keep an eye out."
<Phisa> "Right." She said as she looked around. She'd comment on not wanting to waste medical supplies on a random stranger ... but it'd probably make her get on the rest of the group's bad side.
* Ginger_Snap readies herself to collect the mare in her levitation to deposit her in the back of her caravan so she can administer healing
* Summerfree leans over the caravan to watch.
* Composite keeps an eye on the area around the mare, ready to fire at a moment's notice
<NitoKa|GM> Ginger_Snap manages to pick up the mare, and using some quick reflexes she dodges a long range shot from a two story gas station about 200 meters away, it hitting the asphalt. The scavenger seems to be unconscious though, possibly from blood loss.
* Summerfree twists her ears, then her eyes, then her head, to look where the shot came from. "Oh dear," she whispers.
* Ginger_Snap floats the scavenger into the safety of the caravan, she sets about applying magical bandages to the mare
<Phisa> "What?" She said to Summerfree, her shotgun ready.
* Composite takes cover behind a tree, eye on the place the sound came from.
* Phisa gets alert upon realizing the shot. "We've got company."
<NitoKa|GM> All of the ponies can see where the sniper is shooting from, a gas station window on the second story. The problem is the distance and the lack of cover between there. Ginger snap can see that the shooter is infact a zebra. Who seems to be using a rather ornate sniper rifle
* Summerfree shifts her weight slightly, not moving from her spot atop the caravan cart. She leans a little, sitting right out in the open, aiming her MEW rifle right toward the offending shooter. Just in case. She smiles.
<Ginger_Snap> "Phisa! Its one of yours with a fancy gun"
* Composite curses. Oh if only he brought some kinda explosive sniper rifle!
* Phisa blinked with surprise. "What?" She said to Ginger_Snap as she looks at where the shooting came from.
<Ginger_Snap> "A zebra, we a high end gun"
<Phisa> "Wait!" She attempts to yell at the zebra as she walked towards his position, preparing for a dodge. "You're a zebra like me?! Aren't you?!"
* Composite sprints forward, past Phisa, stopping some hundred-and-fifty aught meters from the gas station, grenade rifle pointed to the window.
<Phisa> "Stop! I want to talk with him!" She yells to Composite.
* Composite turns back. "Tough shit, he shot at us!"
<Phisa> "But he's the only zebra I've seen! He's my chance to finally learn about my race!"
<Composite> "Tough shit, he still shot at us!"
<Phisa> "Maybe because most ponies happen to shoot at him first!" She replied back to Composite.
<Composite> "I'm still callin' tough shit!"
* Summerfree pipes up, yelling, "Technically he shot at the mare laying on the road! We just happened to be right nearby."
<Phisa> "There could be a reason. I /need/ to speak with him!" She said in a rather desperate tone that she's never shown the group before.
* Ginger_Snap dashes towards the gas station, going wide and heaving for breath, she skids to a stop kicking up dust as she sights up her 37mm grenade rifle on the snipers location, ready to fire if Phisa's gambit fails
* Summerfree turns back and looks at the pegasus mare. She hops to her hooves and rolls off the cavan toward where Ginger_Snap had left her. "Are you awake Ms. Pegarsurs?" she asks.
<NitoKa|GM> The mare is slowly gaining consciousness. She nods her head groggiy. "Y-yes." She says rasp
<Summerfree> "Why'd the zebra shoot at you?"
<NitoKa|GM> "Zebra?" She coughs
* Summerfree nods. "You were shot, we fixed you. Any idea why you were shot?" she asks. "Cause uhh... If there's a good reason I need to know now, or someone might die."
<NitoKa|GM> "I-I just... Was scavenging nearby." She coughs.
* Summerfree places a hoof on her chin. "Hmm, okay. Thank you," she says, before turning back to the others. Scooting away from the wounded mare, she takes her spot back and watches the chaos with a smile.
<NitoKa|GM> The Zebra blinks for a moment and repositions himself, taking a shot. the shot flies right into Ginger_Snap's grenade rifle, blowing right through it
<Phisa> "Wait!" She says as she begins to run in desperation. She wasn't normally this reckless as anypony could tell from having spent time with her. "Please, I want to talk to you! I'm like you, a zebra!"
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* Composite doesn't bother with diplomacy, raising his rifle and putting the window to the right of the zebra sniper in his sights. He squeezes the trigger twice, one shot punching through the shattered glass and the other... landing dangerously close to Phisa.
* Summerfree facehoofs.
<NitoKa|GM> The explosions racket hard. Phisa can feel her ears fet blown out first, the ringing slowly deafening her as she feels shrapnel in her body. A similar explosion happens above
<NitoKa|GM> Combat over
* Phisa gives out a large, pain filled screech as her eyes widened upon feeling the shrapnel in her body.
* Composite about-faces, realizing where the second grenade landed.
<Phisa> She then collapses to the floor, utterly shocked.
* Summerfree bops Composite over the head with a rolled up newspaper, HARD.
* Composite plants his rump on the ground, mouth open wide. He hardly registers the newspaper striking his thick skull
* Summerfree actually, she does it several times. "What in the name of TARTARUS is wrong with you!?" she demands, still swatting him over the head with the newspaper!
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* Composite tries to block the blows. "That fucker tried to kill Ginger and that scavenger!"
* Summerfree switched, thwacking him on the other side of the head. "So you think shooting a grenade INTO A GAS STATION is the best way to deal with it!?" she screams. "Are you fucking CRAZY!?"
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* Composite holds his head under his hooves. "I did what I thought was best!"
* Phisa just spasms on the ground as blood pours down, breathing heavily as her sense of reality faded away for a moment.
* NitoKa is now known as Nitoka|GM
* Ginger_Snap rushes over to Phisa and administers aid
* Summerfree swaps the rolled up newspaper for a mallet, because fucking hammerspace. "Then DON'T FUCKING THINK!" she yells.
* Composite scrambles back, dropping his grenade rifle. "Shit!"
<Nitoka|GM> The Dashite Carmela takes the mallet awaye from Summerfree
<Nitoka|GM> "Stop, violence ain't going to solve anything."
<Nitoka|GM> "Yes he's a fucking idiot. I think he realizes that."
* Summerfree swings an empty hoof at Composite. For a moment, she stares at her hoof, before realization kicks in. "Wait wha?"
* Phisa for a moment actually allows Ginger_Snap to do her work ... until a few moments later she stops spasming, and speaks in a dead serious, and angry tone. "Who ... shot ... that ... at ... me."
* Summerfree scoots over to Carmela. "I need that back when you're done with it, but... First." She snatches up Composite's grenade rifle.
* Composite glares at Summerfree. "The fuck?"
* Summerfree slides her hoof into the breech of the gun and pulls the firing pin out. She tosses it into her saddlebags, then throws the rifle back at the stallion.
* Composite catches the grenade rifle, looking between it and the mare. "Why the fuck?"
* Summerfree glares at him. "You'll get it back later," she announces. With a very cross look, she heads toward the wreckage to see if the poor zebra survived.
<Phisa> "Who, shot me." She asked ... no, demanded at Ginger_Snap in a venomous tone.
* Ginger_Snap applies healing bandages to Phisa, using her healing skills to pull out shrapnel where she can and stuanch the bleeding. "Dont talk yet, you might drown"
* Composite unloads his grenade rifle, looking at the angry zebra mare being treated by the other pony. The state of fuckedness he's in then hits his head like a train at full-speed.
<Phisa> "I asked you to tell me who shot me or else!" She threatened at Ginger_Snap.
<Nitoka|GM> As Summerfree explores the gas station she goes up to the second floor and finds the zebra that attacked them, on the floor, a tipped over wheelchair nearby
<Ginger_Snap> "Composite, got the sniper too"
* Composite gulps.
<Phisa> "Composite ..." She says gritting her teeth. "He ... did this ... he ... hurt me. And he ... he killed the only source I could ever learn about my kind." She says as she tries to get up.
* Summerfree scoots over to see if the zebra is still alive or not...
<Nitoka|GM> The Zebra is breathing, and since Summerfree got closer, she can see him looking at her.
* Phisa then tries to walk over to where she can see Composite regardless of her medical condition.
* Summerfree places a hoof to her chin. "I should probably tell Ginger_Snap you're alive. Can you hold on a moment Mr. Zeeba?" she asks, before sliding herself over to the window. "Ginger_Snap! Can you come up here, like, umm. Right now?" she yells down.
<Nitoka|GM> He simply waits and breathes
* Composite watches the zebra mare come closer. He doesn't bother to stand up, knowing just what was gonna happen to him.
* Summerfree turns slightly, to look at Phisa. "Phisa, sit down! I have good news for you if you survive the next few minutes!" she yells.
* Phisa face appeared enraged as she breathed quickly as her tail made a cutthroat gesture at Composite, narrowing her eyes at him.
<Phisa> She wasn't even listening to Summerfree at all.
* Ginger_Snap looks conflicted... "Phisa stay still!" She turns to Summerfree "Coming" she darts into the rubble to Summerfree
* Summerfree digs through her saddlebags...
* Phisa then starts to rush towards Composite in a frenzy.
* Composite scrambles backwards
* Summerfree mutters to herself as she does, something about getting that mallet back or else she'll be in trouble. She pulls out a net, and a harpoon, and then a megaphone, oh and some flowers. Frowning, she stuffs them all back, except the megaphone. Holding it up, she blares the little horn on it really loudly. "PHISA SIT THE FUCK DOWN!" she yells through it.
<Phisa> "YOU HURT ME!" She yells at Composite as she tackles him, preparing to storm a barrage of hooves against his body.
<Summerfree> "Oh for the love of..."
<Composite> "Shit! Phisa, Phisa stop!" Composite yells, trying to force the zebra mare off him.
* Summerfree throws the megaphone at Phisa. "He's alive you idi- Wait I just threw the megaphone, dammit..."
<Phisa> "YOU HURT ME!" She said as she began to beat Composite senseless almost like a wild beast. She seemed to ignore the megaphone for now, far more focused on the stallion.
* Composite tries to block the blows. "It was a mistake!"
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<Phisa> "You did on purpose because you thought I'd betray you!" She said as she contineued to to try and buck him senselessly, but her body fails on her as she falls on top of him ... but it doesn't seem to stop her from trying to bite the pony's ear off.
* Composite rolls out from under the mare. "Listen to me! I made a mistake!"
<Composite> "I didn't mean to shoot you!"
<Phisa> "Then why did you shoot! I had him outside shooting distance, I could of stopped him myself! But you, you had the guts to think you could cross me! Betray me! Hurt me like everypony else!" She says as her mouth attempts to catch whatever body part on Composite's face she could.
<Nitoka|GM> Carmela sighs as she moves and picks up Composite, pulling him away from Phisa. "Shut up the both of you."
* Summerfree sighs, watching through the window. She's gonna have to go down there and restarint that poor zebra, isn't she... Oh, no. That nice mare Carmela took care of it.
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<Nitoka|GM> She throws Composite to the ground a distance away. "You're a fucking idiot for even thinking of shooting a grenade at a Gas station. You could have killed all of your group."
* Ginger_Snap examines the sniper
<Nitoka|GM> She looks to Phisa. "And I won't say you're over reacting. You need to calm down and not kill your boyfriend."
<Phisa> "Shut up! After he tried to murder me!" She glares at the pegasus. "I guess I don't matter because I'm the damn race that made this wasteland! I get to be shot at for actions that I don't even know why my kind did!"
* Composite hits the ground and feels blood trickle down his lip. He picks himself up and turns to face both the zebra and the pegasus. "Really? REALLY? That fucker tried to kill that pegasus, and you're saying you want to talk with him?
<Nitoka|GM> Carmela glares at Composite. "I don't trust that pegasus. She isn't a dashite."
<Composite> "Oh really, like I give a shit, he shot at us, I reacted!"
<Composite> "I did what I thought was right and I made a mistake!"
<Phisa> "Who cares about her!? She's just a random pony you all just picked up, willing to waste your resources on her! She could backstab us with the right time, it's better to end her before she does that!" She was clearly not thinking rationally right now, having a complete breakdown as she attempts to crawl at Composite.
<Nitoka|GM> "You did, but you keep blaming everyone but yourself."
<Nitoka|GM> Ginger_Snap can tell the pony can't walk, but she doesn't know why. But otherwise, same as Phisa, errily the same damage.
* Summerfree sighs and looks at Ginger_Snap. "So angry, very savage, much hatred..." she says with another sigh. "Need any help?"
* Composite breathes. He backs away from the crawling zebra.
<Composite> "It wasn't the best choice, I... I admit, but I wasn't about to let someone who shot at us just get away with that."
* Ginger_Snap "I need to concentrate.. ugh" She tries to cast her healing spell on the sniper
<Nitoka|GM> Carmela moves and sighs. "Sorry kid." She pushes down with her hoof on a spot on Phisa's back.
<Nitoka|GM> Phisa is out like a light at a hotel room
* Phisa then stops, breathing heavily as she begins to fall unconcious, but resists it. "Why ..." She says in a rather sorrowful tone as she looses her conciousness. "Ra ... vage." She then goes out cold.
* Composite turns and starts walking away. "I-I'm sorry. Just... gimme time to think."
<Nitoka|GM> Carmela shakes her head. "We're leaving. We can't trust you all to be our guards."
<Nitoka|GM> The sniper lets out a sigh a bit. "Thank you." He says in a heavy accent.
* Ginger_Snap casts her healing magic on the sniper, closing all his wounds and stabilizing him
<Nitoka|GM> "Is your gun okay?" He asks Ginger_Snap. "If I broke it. I can repair."
<Summerfree> "I can fix it if not."
* Ginger_Snap leans back, rubs her head "wuh..? who?" she looks around... the sniper who shot at her at the caravan and shot her gun from her... "um... ah..."
<Nitoka|GM> "You." The zebra says. "Is your group okay?"
* Summerfree perks her ears up. "I need that mallet back," she announces. Without warning, she darts away from Ginger_Snap and the zebra, toward Carmela.
* Ginger_Snap twitches. "Our zebra took some shrapnel.... and you missed me... my gun.." stands and looks out to where she was when she had it last "I need my gun"
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<Nitoka|GM> Carmela nods and gives it to Summerfree. Starting to trot away. "Sorry kids."
<Nitoka|GM> the zebra nods. "I can fix it." He says. "I shot gun so you wouldn't blow up the station." He smiles lightly
* Summerfree takes the mallet and puts it away. "Sorry... I didn't think they'd be so reckless. Where I'm from, ponies are a bit more.... Organized. Good luck out there..." she says, looking down.
<Nitoka|GM> She nods. "Thanks. good luck. I mean it." The pegasus says as she flies off back to the caravans, them starting to move
* Phisa still lays out cold, completely exposed to whatever may intend harm upon her.
* Summerfree sidles over and collects her megaphone, which she deposits in her saddlebags.
* Ginger_Snap facehooves aand scrapes her face, why is it all so difficult...
* Composite sits down, eyes towards the ground, some hundred meters from the group
<Nitoka|GM> The zebra moves. "Can you help me back into my wheelchair?" He asks Ginger_Snap
* Phisa slowly wakes up, staring blankly at whatever her head was aimed at.
* Summerfree places a hoof on Phisa's shoulder. "You should come with me," she says calmly.
* Ginger_Snap "Summerfree!" she rights the wheelchair checking it for weapons and mechanisms and lifts the sniper into it with her magic
<Phisa> "... Why? Why should I trust you ..." She asked Summerfree.
* Summerfree shrugs. "You can come on your own hooves, or I can carry you," she answers, one ear twitching and hearing her name called. "C'mon, we gotta go now."
<Nitoka|GM> The zebra smiles and nods, rolling his wheelchair down the stairs, which had been altered to suit him.
<Phisa> "... I asked you why I should trust you." She repeated in a somber tone. She appeared pretty much depleted of all energy.
<Phisa> She also sounded ... scared.
* Summerfree leans in close. "You probably shouldn't," she answers, her eyes wide. "Ponies out here are crazy. Now come on. I have a surprise for you."
* Ginger_Snap keeps an eye on the sniper to make sure he goes nowhere near any weapons
<Phisa> That certainly didn't help her mood, simply saying nothing, but otherwise not resisting being picked up ... since she couldn't move at all right now.
<Nitoka|GM> His gun seems to be behind her. He rolls down to the front, looking out. "Hello." He says. "Habari" He says to Phisa
<Phisa> "... What?" She says, attempting to turn her head but couldn't.
* Composite picked himself up and slowly started walking towards the station, stopping some fifty meters behind the rest of the group and sitting there with his head hung low.
<Nitoka|GM> "Ah. You do not speak Zebra. How strange."
<Phisa> "... I've never seen another zebra ... so how am I supposed to know your language ..."
* Summerfree picks Phisa up and turns her to face the other zebra. She sets the mare down and rolls off to sit next to Composite.
<Nitoka|GM> "That is even more odd." He says and schuckles. "And how do you expect me to know your life? Though I can easily assume it has been filled with Strife."
* Ginger_Snap goes wide... making sure other ponies are keeping watch of the sniper before she goes to retrieve the gun shot from her magic earlier and to see how damaged it is
* Composite doesn't bother looking at Summerfree. "What do you want?"
<Phisa> "..." She just doesn't respond. Everything that's happend had emotionally drained her, not even sure what to feel anymore.
<Nitoka|GM> "So. What did you want to know."
* Summerfree offers Composite his firing pin back. "To talk," she answers.
* Composite glumly takes the pin. "About the fuck-up with the grenade?"
<Phisa> "... Everything, everything I've always wanted to know about our race ... but most importantly, why. Why we're hated ..."
* Summerfree pats the stallion's head a few times. "It's just... usually not a good idea to mix explosives with, y'know, other explosives. Think about that, okay?" she suggests.
<Nitoka|GM> "We're hated for the same reason that ones love life but hate death
* Phisa clearly looked a bit confused.
* Composite takes the grenade rifle out looks at the breech. "Really? You had to take out the firing pin?"
<Nitoka|GM> "Life is a blissful lie, while Death is a painful Truth." He says. "Ponies think themselves are the good ones in the old war, zebras know they were evil for what they did, and have come to accept it, trying to do better. Ponies don't think that, they think they should just keep believing the lie, and rejecting the truth."
<Nitoka|GM> Ginger_Snap
<Nitoka|GM> Shits broke
* Ginger_Snap tries to unload the broken gun, despondant, even though she was terrible at it... it was her only weapon, she returns to the group with it.. maybe Summerfree or someone could fix it..
<Phisa> "The bombs ... what was the point? What was the point of it all? If they never dropped those bombs, maybe I would ..." She stops, and tries hard to return to her neutral demeanor ... but that's obviously difficult to do.
* Composite replaces the firing pin, though leaves it unloaded. "Could've just asked me to give it to you, ya know?"
<Nitoka|GM> "The point was... the ponies were corrupted. Their own paragons had fallen so low."
<Nitoka|GM> "They needed to die. Or else the Nightmare would have consumed us all."
* Summerfree shrugs. "Heat of the moment. This has been somewhat of a fiasco," she admits, letting her hooves fall. "We were heading toward a group of raiders, remember? This all... Dammit, and we don't even know who that pegasus mare was..."
* Composite about-faces. "Shit, shit shit shit"
<Phisa> "What? What are you talking about? The ponies just fought the war for coal originally ..."
<Nitoka|GM> "Yes, but the nightmare, the dark one ruled them. She corrupted their paragons, the ones of Honestly, Loyalty, Kindness, Generousity, Laughter, and Magic."
<Ginger_Snap> "The mare... is she still in the caravan?
<Nitoka|GM> To everyponies knowledge, she is
<Nitoka|GM> And the caravans are long gone now
* Summerfree nods. "Yeah, she was recovering in the caravan, and Carmela took her when they left..." she answers.
<Phisa> "... You're talking about Luna?" Phisa said. "You mean Nightmare Night?"
<Nitoka|GM> He chuckles and looks sad as he smiles. "Nightmare Moon. She used that one you call Luna as a vessal, and we believe she was still using her. Just more subtly."
<Phisa> "... But Nightmare Moon had been taken out of Luna before the war ... you mean, you made a Wasteland, because you believed that she was evil? You, damned our race, all because of that?"
<Nitoka|GM> "I did no such thing." He says. "Our ancestors did. And they sinned." He says. "They fought the Nightmare with only more nightmare. And they created this world. Which is why we, as the new generations, must do better."
<Phisa> "..." Whatever anger the mare had wanted to try to exert vanished, she was just too exhausted to even be angry. "... But it doesn't matter if we do good or bad, in the end, nopony will care about us if we die."
<Nitoka|GM> "And those words will make that saying true." He says with a smile, rolling lightly away. "my name is Xalto." He says with a smile. "You are welcome in my home for the time being. I will explain what I can."
* Composite picks himself up, taking a look back and seeing no caravan. "Well... we aren't gonna have to deal with that mare."
<Phisa> "..." She just didn't know how to respond, looking uncertain after everything that's gone on.
* Summerfree looks down at her PipBuck... Closing her eyes, she stands and wanders off.
* Composite sighs, walking over to Phisa and the others. "Hey, is... is this a good time?"
<Nitoka|GM> Free RP initated
* Phisa just ignored Composite like he wasn't there.
* Summerfree returns from the little filly's room.