FoE PNP G-Platypus Session 64

[18:30] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  *****G-Platypus: The City of Broad Withers - Session 64*****
[18:32] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Plea
[18:32] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The wastes aren't for the weak.
[18:32] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  In Buckago, the weak die or are abused by the strong.
[18:33] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  It's what Equestria has become, a land of predators and prey.
[18:33] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  But there are still scraps of goodness in ponies hearts.
[18:33] <Mister_Clacky|GM> Some precious few still hear the heartache and need of others and feel moved by compassion to help.
[18:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Perhaps our wastelanders' ears aren't deaf to the pleas of weaker ponies... or perhaps they are...
[18:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  *****Session Start*****
[18:35] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Our wastelanders stand in the stairwell of this strange warehouse/office building on the landing to B2. A voice has bled through the static on Snack_Cake's PipBuck.
[18:38] * Blackberry_Jam has been keeping to herself, in a distant corner, twirling a cigarette between her fetlocks and thinking. She looks up at the newest disturbance.
[18:39] * Snack_Cake is concerned. This pony seems to be in trouble, or at least in distress! "Are you okay...? Do you know where you are?"
[18:40] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Another stifled sob bleeds through the speaker, the little pony on the other end trying to control it. "I don't know... He brought me here to get away from the dead ponies but then the door... he's not moving anymore..."
[18:41] * Blackberry_Jam stares at her cigarette. "Any chance you can get a trace, Snack...? Maybe have TOM do it?" She offers.
[18:43] * Thunder_Strike nods. yeah, see if Tom can find out where she's at.
[18:45] * Snack_Cake isn't so keen on calling for TOM's help. She doesn't really trust him much anymore... "I'll see if I can find where the signal's coming from..." She starts trying to figure out a way to trace the radio signal.
[18:47] * North_Star looks over from his rifle cleaning to the commotion around Snack_Cake
[18:51] * Scrap continues to slowly eat the Sugar Bombs idly as he watches.
[18:51] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake delves into her PipBuck's menues. After a while of fiddling, she discovers the signal is being trunked from a rebroadcaster nearby. With what she has onhoof, she can place it somewhere in a quarter mile radius of the tower... but there are a lot of building in that circle...
[18:52] * Blackberry_Jam sits over by Scrap and keeps just eyeing her cigarette. "There's more here..."
[18:53] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "I... I don't know what to do..." There's a sniffle that rolls over into soft crying.
[18:54] * Thunder_Strike looks at Snacky then says, ''is there anything distinctive about the building your in sweety?'' she asks the filly.
[18:55] * Snack_Cake adds, "Anything you could tell us will help."
[18:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  A rather icky sniff leads into more words from the filly. "I don't know... They were moving us and the chain was loose... I ran into a building... but there were dead ponies and I ranandhegrabbedmeandweranupstairsandHEISNTMOVING!" More sobs.
[19:00] * Thunder_Strike shakes her head. I know your scared little one but try and calm down, he might just be knocked out. calm down alright? everything will be ok.'' she says trying to calm the filly so she can give some details.
[19:02] * Blackberry_Jam looks down at Snack_Cake's pipbuck and trots over, waiting so she can talk. Better let the filly know there's a doctor who can help her friend/father/protector.
[19:03] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There are several deep, needy breaths on the other side as the foal tries to calm down. The hysterics, for now, seem to be over.
[19:03] * North_Star shuffles over, taking a seat.
[19:03] * Snack_Cake glances over toward Blackberry_Jam and North_Star. "She's not very far away..."
[19:04] * North_Star nods. "A quick walk or someodd?"
[19:04] * Thunder_Strike looks at berry. ''sweety I have a friend who's a doctor, she wants to talk to you ok?'' she says then nods to berry
[19:05] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  She's in some building within a halfmile diameter circle... there's quite a few tall buildings within the possible area. This built up area of Downtown giving a lot of places she could be.
[19:06] * Blackberry_Jam shakes her head at North_Star. "There's no walking with that sniper out there..." She leans down. "All right, honey, my name is Blackberry, and I'm a doctor. What can you tell me about your friend? And please, if you can, keep talking. It should help us find you faster!"
[19:06] * Snack_Cake clarifies to North_Star, "No further than a quarter mile away... but she could be almost anywhere around."
[19:07] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star and Canary would know they kinda knocked down the building the sniper was in...
[19:07] * North_Star looks at Canary. "Yeah. I don't think we need to worry about a sharpshooter."
[19:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The filly speaks quietly. "He's not moving anymore..."
[19:08] * Blackberry_Jam nods. "Yes, honey, we know. What does he look like? Is he hurt?" She looks to North_Star with a confused glance.
[19:09] * Thunder_Strike looks at berry and sits down listening to here.
[19:09] * Thunder_Strike looks back at North_Star, what do you mean by that?
[19:11] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "He looks like the dead ponies... but he helped me get away... He didn't make it through the door..." The filly seems a bit more in control, having something to focus on.
[19:11] * North_Star nodnods. "Well. Canary and I kinda, sorta, smoked 'em out."
[19:12] <North_Star> "In a manner of speaking.."
[19:12] * Thunder_Strike looks at him. how? she asks North_Star curiously
[19:14] * North_Star glances at Canary. "We burned the building he was in."
[19:15] <North_Star> "As in burned it down."
[19:16] * Thunder_Strike blinks, seriously? with what? magic? last time I looked. we mostly consist of earth ponies and 2 Pegasi, who's a secret unicorn?
[19:17] * Blackberry_Jam sighs as North_Star doesn't answer anypony's question, then gapes when he actually does. "All right, honey. Can you tell me anything about this stallion? What was his name? How'd you know him?" She says, rising and instructing the others to follow her. "We're getting this filly out... Let's go."
[19:21] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "I... don't... didn't. The dead ponies started chasing me and he grabbed me... I thought he was one of them but he didn't hurt me... He carried me up a bunch of stairs and through some rooms and up more stairs... Then the door closed and he didn't make it..."
[19:21] * Thunder_Strike looks at berry, I have an idea. get her to talk alittle louder and I'll fly arond to see if I can here her.'' she says to her
[19:22] * Scrap gets up to follow Berry. He gives the cereal back to Snack_Cake. "Thanks."
[19:22] * Blackberry_Jam mouths "Ghouls" to the party. "Keep moving, Thunder. Don't stand still, and keep towards the upper levels of the buildings, all right?"
[19:24] * Thunder_Strike looks at her, ''I know berry. just keep her talking.''she says then gets to then heads out ahead of the others.
[19:25] * Scrap watches Thunder_Strike go, wishing he still had his wings. He hasn't used his new ones enough to know if they're reliable.
[19:25] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike could have a bit of trouble depending on her route, they are still on the basement 2 landing. To follow the path exactly as they came down would have her going up to B1, to the elevator shaft, and then leaving through the lobby.
[19:26] * Blackberry_Jam plans to. "All right, sweety. What's your name? Where are you from? What can you tell us about yourself. And... what's your favorite food?"
[19:26] * Snack_Cake gives Blackberry_Jam a little smile and listens for the filly to answer.
[19:26] * Blackberry_Jam returns Snack's smile.
[19:29] * North_Star takes a seat next to them, going back to his rifle maintenence.
[19:32] * Thunder_Strike decides to take the elevator shaft, she'll also be looking for a group of ghouls.
[19:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The filly speaks a little louder. "I'm Fifteen, from Four House C Upper Twelve. I like stew day... Saphron doesn't like it so I get two helpings."
[19:35] * Blackberry_Jam only understood about half of that. Sounds like she's from a camp or something... "Who's Saphron? Was she with you?"
[19:37] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "She's my celly. She's not here." The distraction seems to have cleared her voice some. "I wish she was... she's bigger and I don't like being alone..."
[19:39] * Blackberry_Jam smiles softly, even if the filly can't see it. Maybe she could hear it, though. "You're not alone, honey. We'll be there soon, all right?"
[19:42] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry_Jam can almost hear the nod on the other end. "You will? He gave me his legthingy before he stopped talking... I can..." There's a loud thud through the speaker and a scream.
[19:43] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike backtracks to the lobby. There's still dust hanging in the air from the building across the river falling. The door is closed at the far end.
[19:44] * Blackberry_Jam blanches. Oh no... oh no, oh no, oh no... "Sweety? Stay with me! Whatever you do, don't stop talking! Run, if you can!"
[19:45] * Thunder_Strike flaps her wings harder to clear out some dust so she can see. what did they do bring the building down?'' she asks before moving to the doors.
[19:46] * Snack_Cake calls out, "Are you okay!?"
[19:47] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There's indistinquishable sounds bleeding through the speaker, movement and breathing and other hard to place noise. It goes silent.
[19:49] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike can see the lack of a building across the way, the dust still clinging like a mist near the ground.
[19:50] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake, Blackberry_Jam, and the rest gathered around the PipBuck hear nothing but silence.
[19:50] * Thunder_Strike try's to open the doors. she starts thinking that the others sure are in a hurry considering how long it is taking them to get up stairs.
[19:50] * Blackberry_Jam sobers a little and lights that cigarette at long last. "We need to help... Scrap, still good to fly?"
[19:51] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The doors open easy enough for Thunder_Strike, all they did was close it. The dustier air from outside sweeps past her as she does so, but it soon evens out.
[19:52] * Scrap nods. "Uhuh."
[19:54] * Blackberry_Jam is already making her way up the stairs. "Good... We'll probably need to fly out."
[19:54] * Thunder_Strike notices the missing building now. ''walivyofanya kubisha chini. she says looking amazed as the dust settles, then she flys up alittle higher and looks around for any sign of ghouls or the filly unaware of the sudden change of events for her.
[19:54] * Snack_Cake makes sure Blue is accounted for before they leave. She quickly follows Blackberry_Jam out. That filly needs their help!
[19:55] * Scrap runs after, ready to help as needed.
[19:55] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike takes to wing. From what she could see of Snack_Cake's little diagram, they are on the eastern edge of where the filly could be. There are quite a few buildings nearby that fit would have stairs... a lot of buildings...
[19:56] * Thunder_Strike looks around at the buildings and decides to circle around two at a time.
[19:57] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The group makes their way up the stairs to the B1 landing, it's door standing open still. They have, in fact, never actually turned the corner in all this time to see up the flight of stairs going up to the lobby level.
[19:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blue is still hanging out on Snack_Cake's back.
[19:59] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike flies a figure eight around two of the buildings, looking and listening. It's an exposed and dangerous thing to be doing, but so far she's not been seen by anything that wants to hurt her.
[19:59] * Blackberry_Jam assumed that the door, not giving to any of her demands prior, was blocked or something.
[20:00] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  She doesn't, however, hear or see any sign of a filly in the near buildings.
[20:01] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry_Jam's assumption could possibly be true, very possibly, still, it hasn't been seen directly. If they did glance, they would see a bubbly, hard foam fills the lobby landing, the blob having flowed halfway down the stairs toward the B1 landing
[20:02] * Thunder_Strike moves onto the next set of buildings and does the same
[20:02] * Blackberry_Jam stares, not entirely sure what to make of this foam. "Anypony want to guess what this is?"
[20:03] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry_Jam, on a closer inspection, can see a bit of blue barrel sticking out of the solid foam.
[20:04] * Scrap blinks at the foam.
[20:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The foam has been chipped and scratched, like something spent some time trying to claw through it.
[20:06] * Blackberry_Jam cocks a brow. "So... It's... plumbing caulk." She leans forward to look at the claw marks.
[20:07] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike stretches out her search pattern to get the nearest of the buildings. So far she's come up empty.
[20:07] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The foam is harder and denser than caulk, the consistancy of a hardwood, oak or maple.
[20:09] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The claw marks look like they could have been made by the things they just fought.
[20:09] * Blackberry_Jam knocks on it a few times before she realizes there's more important things that need doing. "Maybe next time. Let's just get the hell out of here..."
[20:11] * Snack_Cake gives a nod. "We have to hurry..."
[20:12] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Realizing the stairs are well and truly blocked, it looks like they'll have to use the shaft.
[20:14] * Thunder_Strike keeps moving to a new set of buildings using her ability to multitask to search efficiently
[20:14] * Blackberry_Jam would ordinarily try to climb up the cable... But something tells her that fate and luck are working against her, as of late.
[20:15] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The cable has, in fact, been swung on recently. It probably can support weight. Thunder_Strike makes a lap of the nearest buildings, finding nothing so far. She could go farther or check back in.
[20:16] * Blackberry_Jam just has a bad feeling!
[20:16] * Thunder_Strike looks around for the group, she doesn't see them so she gets worried and goes back to check in.
[20:16] * Scrap walks up to the shaft. "I can take you up, if you need me too."
[20:17] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The cable swings ominiously to an unfelt breeze, a hypnotic sway of a seductress. Surely it wouldn't tempt a mare or stallion to an ignoble fate?
[20:19] * Blackberry_Jam frowns at Scrap a little. "Yeah, that was the plan. I don't trust that cable. Just take us up, and let's be quick about it." She says to all of them, not just him.
[20:20] * Scrap nods and takes each up in trips.
[20:20] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike arrives with them just as they start the lifting. Between her and Scrap they are able to get on the lobby floor in short order.
[20:21] * Thunder_Strike helps as fast as she can. why don't I hear chatter coming from snacky's hoof device thingy?''
[20:21] * Snack_Cake can't help but cling overly hard to Scrap as they lift her.
[20:22] * Blackberry_Jam shakes her head to Thunder_Strike, galloping for the front door. "We might have lost her! Come on! There can't be much time left!"
[20:22] * Scrap lets Snack_Cake cling as needed. It's only a short trip and it is scary.
[20:24] * Thunder_Strike looks at berry really concerned now. she really wants to hurry now, she makes sure scrap can handle who ever is left, then she quickly goes and resumes her search. ''please be ok. I don't wanna lose Anypony I could have helped.'' she says to herself
[20:25] * Blackberry_Jam nods to Thunder_Strike. "Where haven't you searched? I don't want to waste time checking the same places!"
[20:26] * Thunder_Strike tells her about the buildings she has already searched and showed her where they are. no sounds it signs of ghouls around them.
[20:27] * Snack_Cake hurries along with Blackberry_Jam once she's up on the main floor. She checks her EFS as they go, watching for any signs that could be their filly in danger.
[20:27] <Thunder_Strike> ''no sounds it signs of ghouls around them.''
[20:28] * North_Star heads out with Blackberry_Jam, casting a glance at the building he and Canary burned down.
[20:29] * Blackberry_Jam is chiefly concerned in the ones she hasn't searched yet. She's sufficiently worried, and not slowing down for anything!
[20:30] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake checks the EFS, the only nearby readings its showing is the party. The filly could be anywhere within a two block radius of the trunking tower. There's a tall skyscraper east of them that is probably where the filly's signal is being bounced from.
[20:31] * Thunder_Strike looks around for any sign of a signal bouncer.
[20:32] * Thunder_Strike looks at blackberry, ''don't forget, she's not the only stray ou here.'' she says before heading up higher to resume her figure 8 search pattern.
[20:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The tallest building nearby is the most likely candidate, and it is in the center of the circle Snack_Cake drew. Snack_Cake can't pick up signal without the rebroadcasting... so she would have to be in a building farther away than her PipBuck could normally reach. That cuts out a chunk of the circle, leaving a crescent moon it could be. Still a large area... perhaps if she had a way to triangulate it?
[20:37] * Blackberry_Jam isn't entirely sure what Thunder means by that, but she's thought plenty about this. If these ghouls were connected to the slaver/raider ring... This could be trouble.
[20:37] * Canary slips back in from behind the 4th wall and looks to North_Star, "We getting any closer?"
[20:37] * Thunder_Strike moves to another set of buildings looking around at everything.
[20:38] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike continues her search pattern, so far coming up with zilch.
[20:39] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake is presented with a familiar logo when she tries to access the radio rebroadcast trunk. It's a Prism subsidiary...
[20:39] * North_Star looks back at Canary. "Were've you been?"
[20:39] * Thunder_Strike is getting more worried with each passing second but she keeps her composure enough to focus.
[20:39] * Canary shakes his head at North_Star, "I'll explain later."
[20:40] * North_Star blinks. "Right.. We're looking for the filly, any ideas?"
[20:40] * Canary considers that, "Is there anything we can use to triangulate the signal's source?"
[20:43] * Snack_Cake keeps checking her EFS as they go, but she's getting more and more worried... The filly is more important than her own nerves and fears, she decides. And after taking a moment to steel herself, she prepares to broadcast... "TOM! I need you to find somepony for me! They were broadcasting a signal that I've recently accessed on my Pipbuck... can you do it!?"
[20:43] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike's fur stands up at the base of her neck, her whole body feels... tingly... like her whole body is a tongue and she's covered in 9 volt batteries. It's a wholy unsettling feeling.
[20:44] * Thunder_Strike freezes up.
[20:44] * North_Star blinks again. "Uh.. I wouldn't know.."
[20:47] * Thunder_Strike stops flapping her wings at the sudden uneasy feeling.
[20:47] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There's a few moments of silence before TOM's familar mechanical voice answers. "Hello, Snack_Cake 'D'. How may I be of assistance?"
[20:48] * Canary wishes he was a little more literate in signals and broadcasting.
[20:49] * Snack_Cake repeats, "I need you to find somepony that was just broadcasting to me! They're in trouble! It was over the Prism network! You have to be able to find them!"
[20:50] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike falls into a dive, falling fast. The air above her is suddenly awash with intense energy, a polarized beam flooding through the ionized path that had sent tingles across her. The powerful beam cuts deeply into the building behind her, turning outer supports into slag and causing the top floors to topple over. The source of the blast being the pinnicle of Prism Tower.
[20:51] * Thunder_Strike eeps and adjusts her wings to pull herself from the dive.
[20:54] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  TOM takes a few minutes to respond to Snack_Cake. "Identifying... PipTag P02-206... Triangulating... failed... insufficient receivers in the area... Would you like an approximation?"
[20:55] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The blinding flash from the Air Defense System, which downed a flying something not so long ago, is impossible to miss. Those following Thunder_Strike's flight would see her diving toward the ground.
[20:55] * Blackberry_Jam stares, in awe of the flashing lights. "What the..." Her cigarette drops from her mouth.
[20:55] * North_Star flinches from the flash, thinking it was another sniper at first.
[20:56] * Canary shields his eyes from the brilliance of it, then looks back up, "What in blazes was that?"
[20:56] * Scrap immediatly takes flight after Thunder_Strike to catch her, flying as fast as he can.
[20:56] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There is little mistaking the firing of an anti-dragon/airship defense weapon and a pony-portable weapon. A building in the path of the shot is missing it's top now.
[20:57] * Thunder_Strike is trying to pull outta her dive.
[20:57] * Snack_Cake was afriad of that... "I /need/ to find her, TOM! The exact building! Approximation isn't--" At this, the stops, because of the air defense system. She looks up, taken by surprise.
[20:57] * Blackberry_Jam silently hopes that that particular building wasn't the one they were looking for. "Sweet Luna..."
[20:58] * North_Star looks up at the building. "What in Equestria was that?"
[20:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike is aware enough to pull out of her dive as Scrap approaches at speed.
[20:59] * Thunder_Strike slows herself and levels of then lands breathing heavily. ''sweet Luna! I almost died!''
[21:00] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  TOM highlights a thin pie-slice are out of the crescent moon Snack_Cake has made on her map. There are three buildings contained in it. "Closest approximation displayed."
[21:01] * Scrap doesn't slow down fast enough and still grabs Thunder_Strike in flight before quickly landing. He looks at her with concern. "Are you ok?"
[21:01] * Snack_Cake looks down to her map as she hears TOM respond. When she sees the small area, she goes wide-eyed and calls out, "Berry! BERRY! Here! She's here!" She holds out her Pipbuck to show Blackberry_Jam.
[21:02] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The buildings are three blocks east of Snack_Cake's and the others positions. Thunder_Strike and Scrap are a bit closer and farther north.
[21:02] * Thunder_Strike nods at him. then clings. ''yeah, just... really shaken up...''
[21:03] * Blackberry_Jam scans the map quickly and dashes off. "Teams of two! Snack, with me! You two!" She points to North_Star and Canary. "Take a flier with you and search those other two. Have them grab us if you find something!"
[21:03] * Canary salutes, then looks to North_Star, "Which one first?"
[21:04] * North_Star looks at the two indicated buildings.
[21:04] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  A weak voice on the radio. "H-hello?"
[21:04] * Snack_Cake gasps and quickly answers! "Hello!? Are you okay? We're almost there!"
[21:04] * Scrap looks back at the group. "That's good. Can you still fly?"
[21:05] * Thunder_Strike nods at him. ''yeah just... give me a minute.'' she says still clinging without realizing it.
[21:06] * Blackberry_Jam gallops off! "Trot and talk, Snack!"
[21:07] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "They tried to get in the door. I had to run hide! I turned the sound off... but I think they are gone now..."
[21:07] * Scrap keeps a hoof around Thunder_Strike, but gets her up. He knows they still have a life to save. "Ok. We can take it kinda slow, but we need to still save her."
[21:08] * Snack_Cake quickly follows Blackberry_Jam. "That's good... That's great! Just, stay safe, we're gonna be there soon. Don't worry!"
[21:08] * Thunder_Strike takes a few deep breaths, then ipens her wings. ''no slow. fast''
[21:11] * Scrap nods and smiles at Thunder_Strike. "Let's go."
[21:12] * Thunder_Strike carries scrap so he can save his time. flying lower til she reaches north and canary
[21:15] * Scrap isn't used to being the one carried, but let's her after he points out a strange feeling he has that his wings kinda feel like they need to recharge.
[21:16] * Canary waves up at Scrap and Thunder_Strike
[21:17] <Thunder_Strike>  /me lands near them and lets him off. ''so what's the plan?''
[21:19] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The group moves down the road toward the three highlighted highrises.
[21:26] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star and Thunder_Strike don't notice, but the rest see a scrapmetal barrier across the road. A few ponies are on the top, armed and seeming to have noticed their approach. They pull out weapons and one starts climbing a tower up to a mounted machine gun.
[21:26] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  *****Session End*****
[21:26] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  1000 xp, no karma changs