Stable Mountain Session 4

<NitoKa_GM> Well yes children, the last time i told the story that boom pony was being an asshat. And yes, he did feel guilty for it. No it didn' stop him from being an asshat, but we need to drop it. Anyways, our heroes were last left talking with a zebra cripple, one of them trying to figure out the history of her race.
* NitoKa_GM drinks a hard apple cider and coughs. "Well then, let's get going on the story. Let's go."
<NitoKa_GM> Group Mountain - Session 5 - Never Know What Trouble I've Seen - Start
* Composite ([email protected]) has joined #StableMountain
<NitoKa_GM> As the sun starts to set on the day near the as station, the party can smell a meal being cooked form the first floor of it. It seems their host is preparing a meal, not just for himself, but for them.
* Summerfree looks up at the sky. "Wait, hadn't we just set out first thing in the morning?" she asks. "Did we really travel an entire day before we got here?" She looks at her PipBuck and taps it a few times to reset her clock.
* Phisa remained silent for the entire time when the party came to the gas station. She seemed to avoid even looking at Composite.
<NitoKa_GM> The fight combined with the travel time, and the wind down from the fight have made it almost sunset
<NitoKa_GM> it is only about spring at this time, not that anyone would know that besides me.
* Ginger_Snap feels terrible for the streak of failure, she curls in a corner and wonders how far behind her mother she is
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra moves on his wheelchair, rolling out to look for everyone. "It is almost time for dinner you all, I invite you in to partake, now hurry, don't crawl."
* Summerfree hums to herself as she taps away at her PipBuck, messing with the broken settings and trying to force them into working. When the smell of cooking hits her nose though, she lifts into the air and begins to float over to it, as if drawn by the seductive pull of deliciousness.
* Phisa just simply nods to the zebra as she slowly heads over to where the food was, grasping in pain a bit from her limbs but still continued on regardless.
* Composite sulked into the station, keeping his eyes off of Phisa and the zebra in the wheelchair. He sits away from the others, head hung low and eyes to the ground.
* Summerfree floats her way over to the designated eating area and drops to the ground. She lands daintily on her hooves and promptly sits down. With a massive smile, she looks around the others, excited to get free food. The smile slowly fades. "What's wrong with everypony?" she asks, cocking one ear down and perking the other up. "It's time for food! You should all be happy." She turns to
* Summerfree the zebra in the wheelchair. "Thanks mis--- Wait what was your name?"
* NitoKa_GM rolls in, looking between all the ponies and the zebra. He puts out five bowls, filling each one with the brown stew, smells good! He looks to them and chuckles. "My name is Xentos, my silly friend. But there is something i'd like to help me get to one end."
<Summerfree> "Xentos, the foodmaker."
* Phisa didn't respond, more focused on eating the brown stew placed in front of her, not even caring what it tasted like.
<NitoKa_GM> "What is your purpose for being out here? I doubt it was to guard that caravan. You all don't seem like to types to be easily comadered. That is evident by how one of your party just up and ran."
* Summerfree giggles as she reaches out to take the proffered bowl. Unceremoniously, she stuffs her muzzle in and begins to eat.
* Ginger_Snap sees food is being served... she gets up and walks to the table, lugging her broken gun with her. She sits and takes a bite.
* Composite slowly takes the stew, avoiding the gaze of the others and sitting far from the group. He eats slowly.
<NitoKa_GM> the zebra takes the gun and moves to a lock box, taking out a few things and starts to work on it. "So I ask again, why are you out adventurin?"
* Phisa for a moment didn't speak, still sorting out her thoughts and what not. She then sighed as she spoke. "We're looking for Stable Mountain. We were doing the Caravan job to get better supplies. And then we ended up here."
* Summerfree pulls her muzzle back from the bowl. With a somewhat obnoxious slurp, she looks at the others. So much grump.
<Ginger_Snap> "now, who knows why we are here..."
* Summerfree raises her hoof and waves it in the air. "Oh, oh! Pick me!" she yells. Straining, she reaches as high as she can. "Me me! I know!"
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra looks to Summerfree or a moment then to Phisa hearing her reason. He points at Summerfree. "Yes, you?"
<NitoKa_GM> He seems to be working on Ginger_Snap's gun.
* Ginger_Snap takes another bite, a bigger one as she realises how hungry she is, she looks to the always perky pony
* Phisa had already finished her meal. She eats rather quickly.
* Composite is still eating at a steady pace, but keeps his eye on Xentos
* Summerfree lowers her hoof. "We're here because yer a zeeba and because there was a misunderstanding and shots were fired. But really we're just here because, I guess, Carmela and the others in the caravan thought we were a liability and decided it was better to go without us. Honestly, I don't blame them because ponies around here seem really reckless," she says. "And grumpy. You all need
* Summerfree to cheer up." She jabs a hoof toward Composite, Phisa, and Ginger_Snap in turn. "Perk up! You're still alive aren't you? Not everypony can say that these days." She smiles. "Come on everypony, smile smile smile~"
* Composite glares at Summerfree. "No."
* Summerfree frowns. "Not even gonna try..." she asks, sounding dejected.
* Phisa frowns, as she always had 24/7 when she first met the group. "Don't press me." She then turns back to the Xentos. "Why did you shoot that pegasus from before? Was she doing something to you?"
* Summerfree makes a little 'hmph' noise and reaches down to play with her PipBuck.
<NitoKa_GM> The Zebra seems to start to hum a tune from Summerfree's song before he smiles. "Whatever the reason she is correct, you are alive. And if it is stable Mountain you seek." He gives Ginger_Snap her gun back. "I have something that might give you an edge, and I'll allow you a peak." He rolls himself upstairs for a moment before moving back down.
<NitoKa_GM> As he comes back down he nods to Phisa. "She was from the enclave. I saw her come down from about the clouds, not thrown like a dashite would have been. She then talked with somepony on a radio, advcanced technology that not was not of my or your kin."
<Phisa> "Doesn't matter now, she's in the hooves of a Dashite. Doubt she'd be let go easily. Now what was you said would give us an edge?"
<Ginger_Snap> "What's the Enclave?"
<Phisa> "They're what covers the sky in those clouds." She said with distaste in her tone to Ginger_Snap.
<NitoKa_GM> "The Enclave is a group of pegasi above the clouds. They give nothing to us, care nothing and believe us all to be louts." He sighs and nods, pulling out a holotape. "I have found this, as well as a memory orb. I cannot peer into the orb, but this contains information im sure you'll adore."
* Composite cursed under his breath. "Fucking knew it."
* Summerfree snorts, twisting an ear back.
* Phisa takes the holotape with her tail, deciding to listen to it.
<Ginger_Snap> "I never even knew there was an 'above the clouds'"
* Summerfree holds up her PipBuck, hoping the damn thing will work and make a recording. Always good to keep notes.
<NitoKa_GM> "Audio journal: Entry 48. Hey there, I know i was told to keep making these, helps with the lonelyness of just trotting around the wastes. But I found out something really good! Just like, north of here is a place. It's called the Triple P, which stands for something. I don't know what exactly but I heard the place has a lot of food and stuff I can sell in the next town. I'm going to make my way there to see if I can't get something. Holly Jolly out."
<NitoKa_GM> "Entry 49: Alright I made it to the place. One of those creepy Ministry of Moral places. They really had a huge foothold out here. First that college, then the Grand Bakery, and now this place? Geese it's like they ruled this place for some reason. Anyways I got inside and found some good food. But also I managed to find something better... I found out this place is a secret hub! Like seriously, it's right underground! I found the entrance! This is awesome, I'm gonna get some prewar tech and make out like a bandit! Holly Jolly OUT!"
<NitoKa_GM> "Entry 50: Never Again... I won't go back there ever again. I'm lucky I made it out alive... I think I'm going to stop these recordings and just go to Piltover, sell what I can. Holly Jolly... out."
* Summerfree raises an eyebrow and looks at the PipBuck screen on her leg. She pokes one of the buttons with a hooftip.
* Composite cocked an eyebrow. "Scary."
<Phisa> "... I take it she didn't exactly had a good experience in Triple P."
* Summerfree smirks and lowers her hoof. "Maybe there was just too much to carry?" she suggests.
<Ginger_Snap> "Triple P... What does it mean?"
<NitoKa_GM> The zebrs shrugs lightly, making sure Ginger_Snap knows her gun is fixed and given to her. "From what she said she found out it was a hub. This means that the place should have information on stable mountain, right bub?"
* Phisa gives a deadpan look at Summerfree. "I think it would be more than that." She then turns to Xentos. "But I doubt judging from the last entry that it'll be a simple cake walk."
<Summerfree> "It means Pinkie Pizza Pierria."
<Phisa> "A pizza pierria?" She asked Summerfree. "... Regardless we shouldn't let our guards down."
<NitoKa_GM> He looks to Ginger_Snap. "Perhaps your unicorn friend would like a look at the memory orb?
* Ginger_Snap takes her gun back, looking it over- "Memory orb?"
<NitoKa_GM> "Yes I found one with the recording, would you like to look at it?"
<Ginger_Snap> "Um sure?"
<NitoKa_GM> He nods andm oves to the locker, taking out the memory orb and giving it to Ginger Snap. "Please do tell me what's inside. I am curious myself."
* Phisa looks back at Ginger_Snap, curious to see what was in the Memory Orb as well.
* Ginger_Snap looks at the orb shes been handed, unsure what shes supposed to do with it, she holids it up to her eye to try to peer inside but sees nothing, embarrassed she holds it out and lifts it in her levitation "Does anypo-" The orb drops to the table and she freezes.
<Phisa> "That's how it works." She said as Ginger freezes up.
<NitoKa_GM> "I recomend you all eat or converse while she goes through and transerses."
<NitoKa_GM> transverses*
<Phisa> "I'm already done eating." She said, pointing to her empty bowl.
<NitoKa_GM> He points to the stew still cooking. "There is more if you are still hungry."
<Phisa> She nods.
* Composite quietly walks back and gets another bowl.
* Summerfree waves a hoof dismissively. "What's the point?" she asks, rolling her eyes. "They're all too grumpy to do any civilized conversing."
* Phisa takes a bowl as well, and doesn't waste anytime eating it. Would she just slow down?
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra nods. "i recomend you all put aside what has happened. I have found out that dwelling on the past gets you nowhere fast. It helps if you have a wheelchair though."
* Composite chuckles at the grim humor, but returns to sullen eating.
* Phisa paused, taking notice of the zebra's words as she stopped eating. She looked back to Summerfree ... and even finally gave Composite a glare.
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra chuckled a bit with Composite. "All is done, we must forgive and try to forget." He says, rolling around to take a look at a few things.
* Composite looked at the zebra. "Shit, just... sorry about that accident."
<Phisa> "Then don't do it again if you know what's best for you." She said in a venomous tone toward Composite.
<NitoKa_GM> He shrugs. "It's fine. I barely felt the shrapnel. It's almost as if..." He gasps and looks down. "My legs! I can't feel them!" He chuckles and shrugs. "I suffered no real harm, and that is best."
* Summerfree scoots over to sit against a wall. She just watches, eyes wide, taking everything in.
* Composite sighs. "Hindsight is 20/20..."
* Phisa then turns back to Xentos. "So ... who exactly are you, other than your name. And what more could you teach me about my race?"
<NitoKa_GM> "i'm a simple scout, or I used to be before my accident." He tilts his head. "I'm afraid I can only teach you what I know and what you want to know."
<Phisa> "A scout? So there are others I presume?"
<NitoKa_GM> "Were others. There may be more now."
<Phisa> "Were? Something happened?"
* NitoKa_GM points to his legs.
<NitoKa_GM> "The same thing that happened to me." He says with a shrug
<Phisa> "I see ..." It doesn't tell her much, but she'll accept that as an answer for now. "So you wouldn't know where a settlements of zebras would be I guess."
<NitoKa_GM> "I do indeed." He says as he starts to work on polishing his own sniper. "Why do you want ot know?" He asks her, stopping his rhyming.
<Phisa> "Again, I haven't seen any other zebras in my life except you. I might learn other things from them that you may not know."
<NitoKa_GM> "That is odd you haven;t." He says with a chuckle. "Have you tried to look for other zebras?"
* Summerfree flops onto her back and stares up at the ceiling. Grumpy ponies being grump. Bleh.
<Phisa> "I was seperated from my parents. I don't know what happened to them. I was mostly raised by other ponies. And yes, I have tried looking for others, but it's a rather big wasteland."
* Composite finishes his stew, setting the bowl down and quietly shifts over to Summerfree.
<NitoKa_GM> "It is indeed, but you should ask more often. Zebras are not as rare as you might believe." He chuckles. "Before I settled here I met at least 20 in pilotover alone."
* Ginger_Snap leaps backwards, slamming into the wall while yelling "ARGHHH!!"
* Summerfree looks up at him, her wavy mane falling over one of her eyes. She asks, "Yeee--- AHHHHH!"
<Phisa> "We happened to be heading there with the caravans before we came across yo-" She then stops speaking when Ginger_Snap came back yelling.
* Composite stares at Ginger. "Woah woah woah, calm down there!" he yells, rushing to her side!
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra almost falls back with a start. He pants holding his chest. "W-what was in the memory orb to give you that shock?"
* Ginger_Snap comes to take in her surroundings and newfound physical agency, even though her body is still doing things out of her control, her chest tight and cold sweats. She feels out of breath yet dizzy from gasping unnecessarily
* Summerfree watches, upside down. "You okay?" she asks.
<Phisa> "Where did you get that memory orb from?" She asks the zebra.
* Composite snatches the memory orb, eyeing it with contempt. "The hell was in here?"
* Ginger_Snap pants, and shakily wipes her face... "I'm okay... I dont know... it looked like a MoM facility, like the last one... but not clowns... City.. it was in a City!! I saw a city!"
<NitoKa_GM> The memory orb just is there
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra shrugs. "I bought it off the smae trader from Piltover, he sold them as a deal."
* Summerfree rolls over, her ears skewing forward. "What city?" she asks.
<Phisa> "What happened?" She asks Ginger.
<Ginger_Snap> "He was a guard I think? Watching through monitors.. there were robots.. like the clowns, but these were animals..."
<Phisa> "... Ok?"
* Composite looked at Ginger. "...The fuck?"
* Summerfree smirks. "Sounds fun!" she announces, perking up happily.
* Ginger_Snap gets up... her stomach rumbles, she remembers she was eating before, she goes to snarf down the last of her food
* Phisa steps back away from the vomit. "Don't tell me ... that's where the pizza place is?"
<NitoKa_GM> The holotape starts to play a haunting tune, and Ginger_Snap can remember that tune, it's the exact one playing from the memory orb, just as haunting
* Composite looks at the holotape, slowly backing away
* Summerfree hums along with the tune~
<Ginger_Snap> "That music that was playing in the orb" She says, while chewing her food
<Composite> "Yeah, sounds damn creepy." He grunts. "Can somepony turn it off? It's creeping me out."
<NitoKa_GM> The Zebra's eyes go wide at the sound suddenly coming from the holotape. He looks to the resto f thep onies. "I've listenign to that recording many a time, that has never been on it.
* Phisa didn't know what to say with what she's just learned.
<Ginger_Snap> "its probably Summerfree's pipbuck, cleaned it up, exposed bad sectors, pipbucks are weird like that... though Summerfree is also weird... like that..."
<Ginger_Snap> "my food is cold... how long was I gone?"
<NitoKa_GM> "About 20 minutes." The zebra says
* Summerfree stares at Ginger_Snap. "I'm not weird! And it's not mine," she agrues, holding the offending forehoof up to show a dim screen.
<Ginger_Snap> "... who'se is it?"
* Composite gulps.
* Summerfree blinks a few times and drops her hoof instantly. "What do you mean who's is it?" she asks.
<NitoKa_GM> The sound is coming from the holotape
* Phisa slowly trots over to the holotape and turns it off. Hoping to not hear it anymore.
<NitoKa_GM> It was already off, it siwtched off when the recording was done, but the music is still playing
* Phisa drops the holotape out of surprise.
* Summerfree reaches over and scoops up the holotape with her forehoof. She turns it on, then off again.
* Composite snatches the holotape, sets it on the ground, and smashes it with his hoof!
<Summerfree> ...
<Summerfree> "Rude."
<NitoKa_GM> The music had stopped when Summerfree did the on off thing
<NitoKa_GM> Composite gain 1 karma
* Composite looks at the smashed up holotape. "Okay, no more creepy music."
* Summerfree crosses her forehooves over her chest and pours, muttering something about her momma and being right about ponies.
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra sighs. "I'm not sure you should go anymore. But... I do believe still if it is a hub, then they will have knowledge on many things, maybe even stable mountain, information that no one else has."
* Composite looks at the Zebra. "If they play some creepy-ass music, I'm burning the place down."
<Phisa> "I think we'll have more luck with finding something from Piltover." She said, her eyes wide from still grasping what just happened.
* Ginger_Snap is even more out of the loop, having missed 20 minutes of discussion
* Summerfree actually looks upset for the first time since they'd met her. Her coat is practically turning red.
<NitoKa_GM> The zebra takes the chance to starts to wheel up the stairs. "I think I'm going to leave, the normally funny pony looks angry."
* Phisa coughes. "If there's something in there that will risk our lives and we're ill prepared for, I believe it's best that we go to that place later when we're more prepared."
* Composite nods, still shivering a bit from the creepy music. "Yeah, that."
<Ginger_Snap> "but my mother..."
* Summerfree stands up and leaves the room.
* Phisa just looked really uncertain right now. "I think I'm going to go someplace to think about this more." She said as she also left the room.
* Ginger_Snap looks lost, confused... she doesnt know what to do... she returns to her corner... trying to piece together what happened to her band of adventurers...
* Composite sighs, leaning down near the front door and resting his eyes. Oh teh day was just gonna get better from here...
* Ginger_Snap realizes she's crying
* Ginger_Snap wipes her eyes and goes to look for Summerfree
* Summerfree is sitting against the far wall, tapping furiously at her PipBuck with a hooftip. On the bright side, her coat is back to its normal color.
* Phisa doesn't seem to care where she was trotting to, breathing in and hard as she attempts to put to together what happened. Then a thought came to her, making her go back to her neutral look on her face. She then goes to find Summerfree.
* Ginger_Snap pauses... rehearses what she is going to say without her throat clamping up... she sits next to her and tries to say "What's wrong..?"
* Phisa takes notice of Ginger_Snap already coming to Summerfree, and hids herself near the enterance of the room and listens to the conversation.
* Summerfree flicks an ear. "He snatched the tape from my hooves," she answers. "I don't like having things snatched out of my hooves." Her ears droop. "And I don't like being mad! So that just made it worse." She frowns. "I'm fine now." She taps at the PipBuck buttons again, making the screen dim. "What about you?"
* Composite groaned, getting to his hooves and seeking out the rest of the group.
* Ginger_Snap tries to keep a straigh face...
<Phisa> Hearing Summerfree cry makes her step back a bit, where she accidently bumps into Composite.
<NitoKa_GM> Composite comes across Phisa spying
* Summerfree wasn't crying...
* Composite steps back. "Hullo," he whispers.
* Ginger_Snap buries her head against Summerfree, , her eyes watering
* Phisa turns around to see Composite a bit surprised, but then resumes her neutral look on her face, not showing any anger towards Composite. "... There was something you wanted from me?"
* Composite cracks his neck. "I... wanted to apologize."
<Phisa> "... Then don't do it again." She said in a assertive tone. I take it she accepted it?
* Summerfree blinks in confusion a few times. Looking back and forth a bit helpless, and unused to such things, she wraps her hooves around Ginger_Snap and pats her on the back a few times.
* Composite sighs. "Look, it was an accident. I know you might not like me that much right now, but can we just agree to put the past behind us?"
<Ginger_Snap> "Every pony... I dont know what to do... where are we going... I dont want to be alone"
* Ginger_Snap cries
<Phisa> "I get it. So don't do it again." She said once again in an assertive tone. "If we're to survive and find this Stable Mountain, we need to be together as a group."
* Summerfree pats her a few more times. "I think that memory orb was messing with you. You're not alone," she says, still awkwardly patting. "Unless you mean alone from you mother, because y'know, I talked to her and she's not trying to outrun you. But I already told you that."
* Composite nods. "I'll try not to."
<Ginger_Snap> "I dont want you all to leave me... I want..."
<Phisa> "Good ..." She then looked back at Summerfree and Ginger_Snap. "I think they'll be fine. Think I won't be needed, yet at least."
* Summerfree looks back and forth again a few times. "I wasn't leaving... I just needed some air," she says in her most reassuring voice. Sure she's perky and chipper all the time, but she wasn't good at being comforting.
* Ginger_Snap begins to calm, wiping her tears away
* Phisa then remained silent. She wasn't very good at speaking with others, so she simply waited for Composite to ask her something.
* Summerfree gives Ginger_Snap a cookie.
* Composite cocked his head to the side. "So... you were raised by ponies?" he asks Phisa
* Ginger_Snap takes and nibbles the suddenly present cookie
<Phisa> "... Yes. I don't know what happened to my parents. Ravage and the rest didn't know either, they simply found me when I was young, and took care of me for most of my foalhood ..." She said trying to hide her nervousness.
* Summerfree pats once more. "Better?" she asks
* Composite nods. "Must've been rough."
<Phisa> "... They were my only family. My only source of protection ... and the only ones who've cared about me."
* Composite finds a place to sit, face neutral.
* Ginger_Snap looks to Summerfree and releases her... "I dont know what we are going to do... this Triple P place... is it linked to the mountain..."
* Summerfree leans back. "I 'unno," she answers, tapping her forehead. "Can't really go into a memory orb to check it out, can I?"
* Phisa face turns serious as she looks at Composite. "I think you know exactly what kind of ponies they were."
* Composite smiles something wry. "Not very hard to figure out, that part."
<Phisa> "... Like I said, the thing that makes us better than raiders is that we want to survive and care about those in our family. And my family was one of the best out there in the Wasteland."
* Composite chuckles darkly. "I'm not implying that. What I want to ask is why you're going it alone."
<Ginger_Snap> "The recording said there was something underground... and it was north... I dont know what you ponies talked about while I was... elsewhere... I dont know whats been said or decided... only that everypony is upset"
<Phisa> "... Because they're all dead now."
* Summerfree shrugs. "We didn't really talk about much," she explains non-commitally. "Something something zeebas. No plans, lots of brooding."
<Composite> "Damn."
<Phisa> "Well ... except for /him/, but I don't count him in my family anymore after what he's done." She said, sounding scornful when she mentioned whomever was 'him'.
<Ginger_Snap> "Is that why... this all happened? While i was gone?"
* Composite scratched the side of his head. "I'm guessing he's the one who killed your family."
* Summerfree leans in close, one ear flicking. "I'm pretty sure the vast majority of ponies in the Wasteland have deep-rooted psychological problems," she whispers. "This was probably going to happen at some point regardless. Just, maybe not today."
<Phisa> "He sold them out, that's what he did!" She almost yelled, but tried to keep herself cooled and emotionless. "Dice Roll sold out where our base was to a rival gang and left before any of them could punish him for what he deserved."
* Composite noticed Phisa's outburst. "That didn't sit well with you, did it?"
<Phisa> "I trusted him!" She burst out. "How did you think it felt having somepony you thought love you for years only to stab you in the back? For caps no less?!"
* Composite looked to the ground. "You know I'm familiar with betrayal."
* Summerfree raises her eyebrows. "Seems Phisa has a sordid past," she mutters.
<Ginger_Snap> "mmm? what?"
* Summerfree shrugs. "Gangs? I'm not sure," she offers.
* Phisa stomped a hoof to the floor. "It's because of him that I lost everyone who cared about me. Bariolage, Autumn, Jet Rush, Charade, Valor ... Ravage ..."
* Ginger_Snap "Mmmm I see..." She shuffles a little closer to the happy mare and leans against, rubbing her sore eyes "What a day..."
* Composite sighed. "Must've been one bad SOB."
* Summerfree pats Ginger_Snap again a few times, once more being quite awkward. She was happy, yes, but not good with touching. "I've had worse," she says, shrugging.
<Phisa> "I had no one left to take care of me. Nopony else in the Wasteland cared about me for what I was. I was alone ... and scared."
<Ginger_Snap> "I hope by morning everything is cleared up and we can decide where to go next... I dont think the job from the caravaneers is still good... But that ... enclave? mare... this is all a mess"
* Phisa then tensed up. "... And then I realized that the only one left to protect me was only myself." She then narrows her eyes. "I realized it didn't matter if what I did was good or wrong. Ravage was right about survival. So I decided to become stronger, to become a force that everypony would be too scared to cross with."
* Composite glared at Phisa, straight into her eyes. "Survival. Is that all you can think about?"
<Phisa> "Yes. I decided that I would spend the rest of my life surviving the way they did. I am going to find whatever is in Stable Mountain, and use it to create my own bandit gang, and make the entire Wastland fear me, so that I may never be hurt again!"
* Summerfree waves a hoof dismissively. "I wouldn't worry about the Enclave," she says quietly. "They're too busy to come down and bother us. Plus, we got better guns." She pats her M.E.W. rifle.
* Composite sighed. "You want to know why I want to get to Stable Mountain?"
<Phisa> "So that you could settle down?" She said calming down.
* Ginger_Snap closes her eyes and leans back, emotionally drained and tired
* Composite nods. "That's right. No violence, no blood on my hooves, and the past dead and gone under six feet of dirt."
<Phisa> "And you think that nothing will go wrong from there? That nopony would think of trying to harm you in order to benefit themselves?"
* Summerfree frowns. "I liked that song..." she says, thinking of the now-broken holotape.
* Composite sighed. "I'm hoping for the best, but you always gotta plan ahead."
<Phisa> "You can't run away from the Wasteland. There will always be ways for something wrong to happen."
<Ginger_Snap> "can you fix the tape?"
* Summerfree rubs the back of her neck. "I 'unno," she mutters. "I can fix guns and I can fix armor and I can make 'em all sorts of awesome, but holotapes are usually off-limits."
<Ginger_Snap> "did the pipbuck make a copy?"
<Composite> "I'm not of that opinion, Phisa. How many raiders and bandits are there compared to farmers?"
<NitoKa_GM> Pipbuck totally made a copy Summerfree, don't worry I gotchaback gurl
* Summerfree taps at it a few times. "I can check, but it's mostly broken," she explains as she stares at the bright green screen. On the display she can see recordings for the voice logs, but no song. "Nope."
* Summerfree shakes a tiny rage hoof at the lying voice.
<NitoKa_GM> Woah hey don't blame me
* Ginger_Snap "Hmmm..." She gets up and starts back to the other room "I'll see if I can do anything"
<NitoKa_GM> blame Pinkie Pie, shes my boss
<Summerfree> "Okay."
<NitoKa_GM> Ginger_Snap finds the holotape, completely fixed
<NitoKa_GM> it's right at the feet of Phisa and Composite
* Composite looks at Ginger. "Hello."
* Summerfree looks up. "Ponies don't have feet. We have hooves," she corrects, waggling her forehooves in the air.
* Ginger_Snap looks to Composite and Phisa "uh Hi!" She looks to the ground... "Oh.. you fixed it already..." she turns to Summerfree "Composite fixed it for you"
* Composite cocks an eyebrow. "What?"
* Ginger_Snap bends down and picks up the tape
<NitoKa_GM> The holotape is fixed entirely and at their hooves
<NitoKa_GM> now in ging'ers hooves
* Composite looks at Ginger, then the tape, then back at Ginger. "The fuck?"
* Summerfree smiles and damn near teleports behind Ginger_Snap. She eagerly holds her hooves out, not snatching it, but obviously wanting it.
* Phisa looked surprised when Ginger_Snap came in. "Oh? Uh." She then looked down, eyes widening.
* Ginger_Snap walks over and gives the tape to Summerfree
* Summerfree stashes it for later listening goodness.
<Phisa> "You want to keep that?" She asks Summerfree.
* Summerfree nods.
* Composite shakes his head, ignoring the sheer impossibility of that.