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Fallout: Beyond Equestria, 87: Origin Story (Part 4)

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  1. [2014-05-28 13:42:49] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream still feels pretty awesome now that she can fly. "Up. We need t' see if they got a graveyard or a shrine or somethin'."
  2. [2014-05-28 13:42:58] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost decides to sit i the wagon instead. magical wings are classy but risky. science is so much better
  3. [2014-05-28 13:43:07] <Kkat> 3Mare-Do-Well swoops next to Golden_Dream. "Taking to the air like a pro!"
  4. [2014-05-28 13:43:16] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost opens her bags and goes back to her project for the science fair!
  5. [2014-05-28 13:43:25] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream kicks her legs. "I know! Flyin' is so cool!"
  6. [2014-05-28 13:43:31] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream almost never squees. She just squeed.
  7. [2014-05-28 13:43:42] <Kkat> 3Bookwright loop-de-loops
  8. [2014-05-28 13:43:49] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream does a frontflip in the air, tucking her emerald-orange wings against wind resistance.
  9. [2014-05-28 13:43:55] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost "uhm.... can i borrow a pipbuck for a moment? i need to copy a couple archives..."
  10. [2014-05-28 13:44:03] <Kkat> 3Bookwright hovers. "Um. Anywhere, really. These spells will last another three hours, easily."
  11. [2014-05-28 13:44:13] <Kkat> 3Mare-Do-Well is totally grinning behind her mask. You can tell.
  12. [2014-05-28 13:44:24] <Kkat> 3Mare-Do-Well offers Bookwright and Golden_Dream hoof-bumps. Then flies down to offer Get_Lost one too.
  13. [2014-05-28 13:44:35] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream phantom hoofbumps Mare-Do-Well, then takes to the air to see the town from the air. Is there a graveyard to be seen?"
  14. [2014-05-28 13:44:42] <Kkat> 3Bookwright hoof bumps Mare-Do-Well, but she's too insubstantial for a proper bump.
  15. [2014-05-28 13:44:48] <Kkat> 3CopyCat flies a little ways behind Golden_Dream, trying her own arial acrobatics. Her efforts are clumsy, like this was the first time she'd tried to do something like this, but the enthusiasm on her face was unmistakable.
  16. [2014-05-28 13:44:55] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost hoof bumps but is mostly distracted by her usual tech dstuff
  17. [2014-05-28 13:45:03] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream gives Copycat an aerial cuddle before getting back up. An animal horn hung from her neck.
  18. [2014-05-28 13:45:11] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost pokes her head from the wagon "hey kid! care if i borrow your pipbuck a minute?"
  19. [2014-05-28 13:45:22] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream dove down to meet Get_Lost. She felt stupid. "Yeah, sure. Here you go!" She gives the scientist a little hug and lets her look at her pipbuck.
  20. [2014-05-28 13:45:27] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost takes the instruments and detaches the pipbuck "thank you have fun don't be late bai...." kisses the filly on a cheek and goes back to work
  21. [2014-05-28 13:45:35] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream peers over Get's shoulder while she works for a bit.
  22. [2014-05-28 13:45:42] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost is giving the finishing touches tp what looks like a silvery frisbee
  23. [2014-05-28 13:45:55] <Kkat> 3(not larger than a vinyl record, as thick as a hoof in the middle)
  24. [2014-05-28 13:46:27] <Kkat> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session Eighty-Seven: Origin Story (Part Four) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSUQxGjZZ4
  25. [2014-05-28 13:46:35] <Kkat> 3--- Session Begins ---
  26. [2014-05-28 13:48:17] * Golden_Dream continues to look around for a graveyard or a shrine of some sort.
  27. [2014-05-28 13:48:38] * Bookwright searches in the opposite direction from where Golden_Dream is flying.
  28. [2014-05-28 13:50:52] <Little_Gloom> After a few minutes of flying, Mare-Do-Well facehoofs. "Urgh. I forgot." She turns to Bookwright, "We're looking for the wrong thing. Zebras don't bury their dead."
  29. [2014-05-28 13:51:25] <Bookwright> ... "Oh. Um. Then I'm totally out of ideas."
  30. [2014-05-28 13:51:27] * CopyCat has to stop acrobatics, due to pulling the firewagon.
  31. [2014-05-28 13:51:48] * Golden_Dream frowns. Shit, she didn't know that. "What do they do with them? Burn 'em?"
  32. [2014-05-28 13:53:23] * Get_Meh keeps working on whatever she is doing
  33. [2014-05-28 13:55:58] <Little_Gloom> Bookwright dredges up a bit of etymology. "Balefire" comes from the zebra word for funeral fire. Particularly funeral fires set by the breath of dragons, as was the tradition with chieftains, Caesars and other figures of great importance.
  34. [2014-05-28 13:57:50] * Bookwright thinks super hard. "...yes. That's exactly what they do, Golden Dream. The word 'balefire' comes from the zebra word that means 'funeral fire'. Ech, Velvet Remedy didn't know just how right she was when she named that bird 'Pyrelight'..."
  35. [2014-05-28 13:59:44] * Bookwright "Maybe we're flying up the wrong tree here. The note said 'Only the remorseful one shall find the key', right? Maybe... Maybe we have to burn something down? No, that doesn't make any sense. How does a zebra show remorse...?"
  36. [2014-05-28 14:00:23] * Golden_Dream ponders that. And then she looks at her flank. She came to a conclusion. "I'm an idiot."
  37. [2014-05-28 14:00:53] <Little_Gloom> 3"Maybe by being, I'dunno..." Mare-Do-Well shrugs, "...remorseful?"
  38. [2014-05-28 14:01:59] * Golden_Dream sighs and pinches her nose. "Quick question, where do you go whenever you're feelin' particularly remorseful and sad and stuff?" She asked, fluttering around for a new target.
  39. [2014-05-28 14:02:32] <Little_Gloom> 3Mare-Do-Well heys, "You're not an idiot. I didn't do well in school either, and I was awesome!"
  40. [2014-05-28 14:02:33] * CopyCat tilts her head. "Try and cheer the pony up?"
  41. [2014-05-28 14:03:11] * Golden_Dream blinks. "Rainbow, I didn't go to school."
  42. [2014-05-28 14:03:12] * Bookwright "Um. When I was little and I was sad, I would go lay on my bunk and put my pillow over my head."
  43. [2014-05-28 14:03:56] <Little_Gloom> 3Mare-Do-Well grins. "See, you're totally one up on me. That means you never failed anything."
  44. [2014-05-28 14:07:23] * Golden_Dream sighs. "Like I was saying, 'round where I grew up? When y' lost a job or somethin'? You went t' me or th' bar t' deal with it."
  45. [2014-05-28 14:09:23] * Bookwright taps his chin with a hoof. "The... bar? That's genius! Now we just need to find the local watering hole. Does anyone here read zebra...?"
  46. [2014-05-28 14:18:14] <Little_Gloom> 3Mare-Do-Well raises a hoof.
  47. [2014-05-28 14:18:41] * Golden_Dream points at Mare-Do-Well. "So, is there a bar around here?"
  48. [2014-05-28 14:18:48] * CopyCat hmms, "Hmm, well zebras may not bury their dead but might there be some kind of memorial around? Maybe to some old battle..."
  49. [2014-05-28 14:20:36] <Little_Gloom> 3Mare-Do-Well begins looking around. Then stops with a frown and says defensively to no one in particular. "Hey, I'm not an egghead. I fought the zebras for over ten years... being able to read zebra came in really helpful."
  50. [2014-05-28 14:23:18] <Little_Gloom> 3Mare-Do-Well then proceeds to find the ruins of an oversized hut that she proclaims, "Not exactly a bar, but probably the next best thing."
  51. [2014-05-28 14:27:04] <Little_Gloom> 3Mare-Do-Well flies back to Golden_Dream. "Why didn't you go to school?" Then adds, "...If you don't mind my asking."
  52. [2014-05-28 14:27:41] * Get_Meh is still alive and doing stuff
  53. [2014-05-28 14:28:37] * Golden_Dream rubs her leg uncomfortably. "Well. 'Cause mom and dad booklearned me. And..." She rubbed the back of her mane. "And when I got th' chance t' go to school, it just seemed wrong after all that had happened t' get me in that situation."
  54. [2014-05-28 14:28:58] * Little_Gloom 3suggests to Bookwright, "Y'know, we might be going about this all wrong. The clue might not be about where to look next. But instead, what to do when we get somewhere." She thinks, "Or maybe who needs to take action once we do."
  55. [2014-05-28 14:29:07] <Little_Gloom> 3(reposing. oops)
  56. [2014-05-28 14:29:23] <Little_Gloom> 3Mare-Do-Well suggests to Bookwright, "Y'know, we might be going about this all wrong. The clue might not be about where to look next. But instead, what to do when we get somewhere." She thinks, "Or maybe who needs to take action once we do."
  57. [2014-05-28 14:30:14] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks to Golden_Dream, "Nothing wrong with being homeschooled."
  58. [2014-05-28 14:31:50] * Golden_Dream rolls her eyes. She'd give her a hug if her leg weren't there. "Huh. Alright. Well, if that's the case, let's go check out the south side of town fer' somethin' interestin'."
  59. [2014-05-28 14:32:25] <Golden_Dream> (gah. If her leg weren't material there.)
  60. [2014-05-28 14:37:29] * Golden_Dream fluttered into the hut. "Riiight after I check out what's in here." She kinda wanted to know what booze they had in the zebra lands. She's heard tale about palm wine, but she's never actually seen a date or palm tree sap.
  61. [2014-05-28 14:37:47] * CopyCat turns her head to call back at the firewagon behind her. "What are you building back there, Get_Meh?"
  62. [2014-05-28 14:39:21] <Mare-Do-Well> 3What Golden_Dream finds herself in was never a bar, but rather a smoke-house. A communal place to enjoy recreational drugs.
  63. [2014-05-28 14:39:48] * Get_Meh doesn't raise her head while she replies "oh, nothing special"
  64. [2014-05-28 14:41:12] * Mare-Do-Well 3flies up to Get_Meh, trying to get a look. When Twilight said nothing special, it usually turned out to be impressive and magical or nerdy. When Pinkie Pie said nothing special, it usually exploded.
  65. [2014-05-28 14:41:16] * Get_Meh "it's just an artificial intelligence... it's not really smart becsause i don't hsve the size for all the processors it would take, still, it will be smarter tyhan the average bear"
  66. [2014-05-28 14:41:44] * Bookwright follows Golden_Dream into the stinking hut. He wrinkles his muzzle. "It smells two hundred years of cigarettes in here."
  67. [2014-05-28 14:42:02] * Get_Meh "it could steal picnick baskets, though"
  68. [2014-05-28 14:42:42] * Mare-Do-Well 3mentally notes that bears were pretty smart too. At least, judging by Harry.
  69. [2014-05-28 14:43:31] * Golden_Dream whistles. "Well, I think I had a few of these in my town, but it weren't anything that lasted this long. Usually, when folks got t' sittin' in one place in a chem den, circumstances made it so that they disappeared after a short amount a' time."
  70. [2014-05-28 14:43:46] * CopyCat blinks. "I'll... be sure to hide my picnick baskets..."
  71. [2014-05-28 14:44:55] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There is a locked chest in the corner painted with a smiling zebra, and the walls are adorned with painted masks, some with fairly frightening visages.
  72. [2014-05-28 14:45:54] * Get_Meh "mostly, it will be able to listen to any conversation and say something appropriate, but not smart... you know, a good listener. sometimes you really badly need one of those"
  73. [2014-05-28 14:46:09] * Bookwright sighs, trying to breathe lightly and through his mouth. "This place is really nasty." He sticks his head out the door and calls up to Get_Meh. "Heya, Get? There's a locked chest in here, wanna practice your picking and pin-raking?"
  74. [2014-05-28 14:46:53] * Get_Meh leaves the small UFO where it is and follows bookie "sure, coming"
  75. [2014-05-28 14:47:46] * Get_Meh steps in the place "wow, creepy..."
  76. [2014-05-28 14:54:43] * CopyCat lands the firewagon and quickly unharnesses herself. She pokes her head into the smokehouse. "Oooh... do you think one of the masks would fit me?"
  77. [2014-05-28 14:56:04] * Bookwright coughs. "Um. I don't see why not."
  78. [2014-05-28 14:56:54] * Golden_Dream flies up to one of the walls, takes a mask, and totes it over to CopyCat. "Here you go, friend!"
  79. [2014-05-28 14:57:47] * CopyCat smiles. "Why hello there Mr. Mask. How are you today?"
  80. [2014-05-28 14:57:54] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Get_Lost works her skills on the zebra chest. It is no match for her, revealing it's secrets easily. The chest held drugs. Painkiller (2), Mint-Als (2) and Dash (6). Plus a smaller lockbox which she opens to reveal a variety of dried, crushed herbs, and paper that crumbles to dust with a light touch.
  81. [2014-05-28 14:59:02] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(4 Green Herbs, 4 Red Herbs, 2 Blue Herbs, plus unfamiliar but presumably smoke-able herbs -- likely flavorful or narcotic.)
  82. [2014-05-28 15:03:07] * Get_Meh goes back to her previos job "here, a paradise for the junkies..."
  83. [2014-05-28 15:03:22] * Golden_Dream put on a smile and made a funny voice. "Hwhy, awwwful, simply awful my good dear. Everyone here is just so two faced!"
  84. [2014-05-28 15:06:08] * Bookwright glances at CopyCat in slack-jawed confusion.
  85. [2014-05-28 15:08:03] * CopyCat giggles. "Then you shall have to come with us. My friends are very nice and they hardly change faces at all!"
  86. [2014-05-28 15:09:30] * Golden_Dream doesn't break character and keeps up the fake-posh voice. "Oh, I don't know. That Golden filly looks a little horse!"
  87. [2014-05-28 15:09:34] * Bookwright continues to stare at CopyCat, his disgust for the odor completely forgotten.
  88. [2014-05-28 15:12:07] * Bookwright gives equal time to Golden_Dream's antics.
  89. [2014-05-28 15:13:18] * CopyCat grins. "What's wrong Bookwright? Why the long face?"
  90. [2014-05-28 15:14:23] * Get_Meh smiles "hey, i'm halffaced! we cpuld be friends!" thinks about it for a moment... okay, in my head it sounded funnier
  91. [2014-05-28 15:14:49] * Bookwright shakes off his confused stare with a nicker. "Well, I don't think we're going to find what we're after here."
  92. [2014-05-28 15:15:50] * Get_Meh hey shatara, do you think you could help me with this antigravity engine?
  93. [2014-05-28 15:15:54] <Get_Meh> ""
  94. [2014-05-28 15:16:44] * CopyCat shrugs. "Well if were looking for a good time then I think we found it."
  95. [2014-05-28 15:17:08] * Mare-Do-Well 3sits "on" the firewagon, alternating between watching Get and staring into space.
  96. [2014-05-28 15:17:12] * Bookwright "Maybe arr-bee-dee is right. Perhaps we have to /be/ remorseful. Somehow. Somewhere."
  97. [2014-05-28 15:17:23] * Shatara perks up a little. "Sure, I guess..."
  98. [2014-05-28 15:17:29] * Golden_Dream raspberries Bookwright. Hey, her jokes were lame, she knew that, but Copycat and Get_Meh seemed to be happy about it, at least! No sense of humor on that stallion.
  99. [2014-05-28 15:18:27] * Golden_Dream puts the mask on the wagon for decoration. She wanted to put it on her wall when she came back home.
  100. [2014-05-28 15:19:04] * Get_Meh goes back on the small disk "okay, since i had no space at all i decidec to scraap everything but a directionale thrust generator,,, do you think you could repurpose it for a fully functional engine?"
  101. [2014-05-28 15:22:42] * Shatara looks over the device thoughtfully.
  102. [2014-05-28 15:24:08] * Get_Meh shows the parts she needs to be fixed "i don't have fingers, it totally sucks... thsnk you for helping here"
  103. [2014-05-28 15:24:31] * Bookwright tries to think some more. "Um. Zebras are totally into spirits and stuff, right? Do zebras go to shamans for, uh, therapy? To air the things they feel guilty about to someone who's job it is to not be judgmental, but to offer a listening ear?"
  104. [2014-05-28 15:25:03] * Shatara nods to her and helps tinker with the parts.
  105. [2014-05-28 15:25:56] * Golden_Dream exhales, getting on the wagon. "I didn't see any spirits millin' about."
  106. [2014-05-28 15:26:55] * Bookwright "Yeah, but... I think what I'm saying is, maybe we should find the local shaman's hut?"
  107. [2014-05-28 15:27:32] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"They were supposed to be for me..." Mare-Do-Well says, speaking to no one in particular, her voice a ghostly whisper. She pulls off her mask, revealing Rainbow Dash underneath, and stares out over the Basin.
  108. [2014-05-28 15:28:36] * CopyCat looks at their ghostly companion. "You mean those messages?"
  109. [2014-05-28 15:30:30] * Get_Meh yawns and starts assempling all the matrixes inside the chassis of the robot "so... what are our plans now?"
  110. [2014-05-28 15:31:43] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods. "I sent her here," she admits, giving context to much of the first 'pad'. "Told her that Equestria needed her. One last mission to the Tenochtitlan Basin." She looks to CopyCat almost vacantly. "She didn't want to come back here. I pushed her."
  111. [2014-05-28 15:33:11] * Golden_Dream looks at Mare-Do-Well, concern on her face. This was some backed up thing on her heart. Maybe it was her regret. "... Who do you mean?"
  112. [2014-05-28 15:33:31] * Bookwright merely waits.
  113. [2014-05-28 15:33:31] * Mare-Do-Well 3explains, "The mission reports... if something happened to her, our pegasus in Tragedy's End was supposed to collect them Transmit them, encoded, through the Final Echo number station. Send the pads to me by courier."
  114. [2014-05-28 15:34:20] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"Never got them. She vanished down here. Never knew what happened to her."
  115. [2014-05-28 15:35:53] * Get_Meh "well, you know, with the world ending in a giant balefire anf whatnot it isn't surprised that you lost touch with distant friends... don't blame yourself"
  116. [2014-05-28 15:36:12] <Get_Meh> *surprising
  117. [2014-05-28 15:36:43] * Mare-Do-Well 3adds, "But we knew that she succeeded. I sent her to figure out what the Legion was doing in Tenochtitlan Basin. We knew it was big. Possibly war-changing." Rainbow Dash looks out over the jungle. "Whatever it was, she stopped it."
  118. [2014-05-28 15:37:42] * CopyCat blinks. "By herself? She must have been quite a pony."
  119. [2014-05-28 15:37:46] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks to Get_Lost, then looks down through the firewagon at the ground.
  120. [2014-05-28 15:37:52] * Get_Meh takes a look at the engine shatara is working on "how is it going here? i'm almost done with the batteries..."
  121. [2014-05-28 15:37:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"She was. The best."
  122. [2014-05-28 15:38:19] * Bookwright "The Daring-Do books... she didn't just write them. She lived them. Right, Rainbow?"
  123. [2014-05-28 15:39:24] * Get_Meh "so, maybe she was talking about your regrets... maybe it has something to do with a place where you've been?"
  124. [2014-05-28 15:40:42] * Mare-Do-Well 3chuckles. "Yeah. 'Based on a true story'"
  125. [2014-05-28 15:41:07] * Golden_Dream inhales. Fucking hell, she's just not allowed to have a happy moment. She looked out at the jungle. "... I'm sure she wouldn't have gone out any other way."
  126. [2014-05-28 15:41:48] * Bookwright "Well, this got maudlin fast."
  127. [2014-05-28 15:43:56] * Mare-Do-Well 3gives Golden_Dream a wry smile. "Actually, I always suspected she didn't. My bits were on her winning, surviving and then... retiring someplace she couldn't be found again."
  128. [2014-05-28 15:45:34] * Golden_Dream almost said something to the effect of, 'well, it worked out pretty well for you', but she bit that thought right out of her mind. "I think that's the whole thought behind Moonwalk."
  129. [2014-05-28 15:46:17] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks askance, "She had retired already when I pushed her to do this one last job. And she wasn't a pony who liked company. I figured she decided she was out and fuck if she'd give us the chance to pull her back in again."
  130. [2014-05-28 15:49:06] * Get_Meh "well, story-wise, having an old pal coming back from retirement for a last job will kill her on a 99% chance. it's the way old glories go out. sad and glorious, you know..."
  131. [2014-05-28 15:50:05] * Mare-Do-Well 3notes, "I never got reports... which struck me a little ominous at first. But since she succeeded, I figured maybe she decided we shouldn't know the details." She smiles nostalgically. "She had this weird thing about the value of secrets."
  132. [2014-05-28 15:50:13] * Get_Meh "probably she said something like now it's up to you, kid, or give mmy regards to sunbutt, before going out in a blaze of glory... it's the way the story goes"
  133. [2014-05-28 15:50:19] * Shatara looks up from his work. "I think I got the thrust recompensator to stabilize."
  134. [2014-05-28 15:51:15] * Golden_Dream looks out in the Jungle. "I bet that's where she is." She chuckles a little.
  135. [2014-05-28 15:51:15] <Golden_Dream> "I ain't built like you ponies. Y'all seem powered by justice and awesome. I just kinda go along places and just kinda think, you know, hey this needs getting done. I don't really plan on getting anything done after this job. Th' closest thing I got to a plan is just going home, baking a pie, eating the entire thing, and taking a week-long nap."
  136. [2014-05-28 15:51:19] * Get_Meh "great, now we will assemble it and put the baby uner charge. when the batteries are fully green, we will turn it on and see if it works"
  137. [2014-05-28 15:51:42] * Get_Meh patpats shatara on a shoulder "thanks"
  138. [2014-05-28 15:51:59] * Shatara smiles a little and offers Get_Meh a winghug.
  139. [2014-05-28 15:52:30] * CopyCat smiles at Golden_Dream. "That sounds like a wonderful plan."
  140. [2014-05-28 15:53:44] * Mare-Do-Well 3sighs. "I miss week-long naps. Those naps were the best."
  141. [2014-05-28 15:53:52] * Get_Meh "great, now i want cake..."
  142. [2014-05-28 15:54:59] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"I miss cake too."
  143. [2014-05-28 15:55:13] * Shatara eartwitches. "Cake? Where?"
  144. [2014-05-28 15:56:07] * Bookwright "Um. Are you saying you can't sleep?"
  145. [2014-05-28 15:56:59] * Mare-Do-Well 3peers. "You know what's weird? It's been so long since I've tasted... well, anything... that I don't actually remember what cake tastes like. But I know I liked it. A lot."
  146. [2014-05-28 15:58:22] * Get_Meh "hey kid, me and shatara want some cake now.... since this is your fault, how are you going to fix it?"
  147. [2014-05-28 15:58:24] * CopyCat rubs her chin. "I wonder if there's such a thing as ghost cake... you know, like fairy cake."
  148. [2014-05-28 15:59:02] * Bookwright nods. "There's a kind of cake called fairy cake, you know. I, ah, don't think ghosts can eat it though..."
  149. [2014-05-28 15:59:11] * Golden_Dream rose an eyebrow. "I woulda swore I just made ya'll some war cakes."
  150. [2014-05-28 15:59:50] * Mare-Do-Well 3answers Bookwright, "I can't nap. I'm dead." She amends, "There's requiem... but that's not really sleep. And if I go into requiem, I might not come back for... decades. Maybe lifetimes."
  151. [2014-05-28 15:59:52] * CopyCat nods. "And they were very tastey."
  152. [2014-05-28 16:00:54] * Bookwright "Um. I realize this is a delicate question but, ah, why not just... go?"
  153. [2014-05-28 16:01:15] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"Go where?"
  154. [2014-05-28 16:02:10] * Bookwright "Um. To where ponies go when they die...? I mean, Littlepip got your box of orbs, just like Pinkie Pie asked you to. Why stay here, on this mortal coil?"
  155. [2014-05-28 16:02:12] * Golden_Dream frowns. "I think he's asking why y'all haven't gone to th' ever after, t' which I'd say it's clearly because she's got a curse on her that means she needs to find true love."
  156. [2014-05-28 16:02:58] * Mare-Do-Well 3sighs. Then spreads her wings and flies upwards. "I can't. I'm stuck."
  157. [2014-05-28 16:03:23] * Bookwright "Wait, still? Even though we're outside of the Crystal Kingdom?"
  158. [2014-05-28 16:04:21] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods. "The Crystal Kingdom was trapping me inside it. But it wasn't what made me a ghost."
  159. [2014-05-28 16:04:52] * Bookwright "I... don't think I understand."
  160. [2014-05-28 16:05:26] * Golden_Dream churns that thought around. "... I think she does. I think she's tried and can't."
  161. [2014-05-28 16:05:38] * Mare-Do-Well 3"lands" on the firewagon and pokes a hoof through Bookwright.
  162. [2014-05-28 16:07:17] * Get_Meh looks at shatara, a bit confused and asks "wait, wasn't she here because she wanted to?"
  163. [2014-05-28 16:08:15] * Shatara blinks back at Get. "And what about the reapers then...?"
  164. [2014-05-28 16:08:20] * Mare-Do-Well 3frowns, "I'm not the smartest pony, but I've had a LOT of time to think about it. I think ghosts are like crystal ponies... or ghouls... or those statue-zebras."
  165. [2014-05-28 16:08:40] * Golden_Dream does make a point to check for statue-zebras.
  166. [2014-05-28 16:09:13] * Mare-Do-Well 3adds, "Only instead of our bodies, it's our souls that are changed. We /can't/ pass on... at least, not on our own."
  167. [2014-05-28 16:09:17] * Get_Meh "well, no... you clearly have a soul.... and not a body. it's the opposite of ghouls, i think?"
  168. [2014-05-28 16:10:07] * Get_Meh "like that pink filly granny death showed us... did she say howshe passed out?"
  169. [2014-05-28 16:10:42] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods to Get_Lost. "I mean, Reapers can make us pass on... or destroy us. Not sure which. And Pink Cloud. But other than that..." She shrugs.
  170. [2014-05-28 16:11:14] * CopyCat goes wide-eyed. "Wait, if Rainbow Dash's souls is here but not her body... what if a ghoul-version of her is out there somewhere, hungry for pony blood!"
  171. [2014-05-28 16:11:37] * Mare-Do-Well 3stares at CopyCat with wide eyes.
  172. [2014-05-28 16:11:41] * Shatara tilts his head."So the cloud actually hurts ghosts? Interesting..."
  173. [2014-05-28 16:12:13] * Bookwright "It makes sense, actually. The Cloud is suffused with concentrated necromantic energy, the same stuff that reapers wield."
  174. [2014-05-28 16:12:22] * Mare-Do-Well 3frowns. "Yeah. 'Interesting'. Ghosts and necromancy aren't friends."
  175. [2014-05-28 16:12:37] * Golden_Dream glares at CopyCat with wide eyes. "Let's fucking not!"
  176. [2014-05-28 16:13:24] * CopyCat continues hysterically. "We'd never be able to escape, ahh!"
  177. [2014-05-28 16:13:47] * Get_Meh "starts connecting the UFO thing with everything connected to a battery"
  178. [2014-05-28 16:13:55] * Mare-Do-Well 3glares at CopyCat. "You're freaking me out."
  179. [2014-05-28 16:14:29] * Bookwright "Um. I really hate to contribute to this, but... we know that feral ghouls are merely animated bodies, and their souls have fled. It's... uh... possible."
  180. [2014-05-28 16:14:32] * Shatara blinkblinks at CopyCat.
  181. [2014-05-28 16:14:40] * Get_Meh "i must admit that a rainghoul dash would be something awesome, but i'd pass"
  182. [2014-05-28 16:15:09] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks to Get_Lost and Golden_Dream. "That's not possible, is it? My corpse isn't wandering around drinking pony blood, right?"
  183. [2014-05-28 16:15:16] * CopyCat grabs the mask and hugs it tight. "Save me Mr. Mask!"
  184. [2014-05-28 16:15:52] * Get_Meh "well, it isn't impossible, but i'd not say it would drink pony blood. that's ridiculous"
  185. [2014-05-28 16:16:05] * Bookwright nods sagely in agreement with Get_Meh.
  186. [2014-05-28 16:16:10] * Get_Meh "it would eat pony brains"
  187. [2014-05-28 16:16:25] * Bookwright stops nodding and stares at Get_Meh in disgust.
  188. [2014-05-28 16:16:31] * CopyCat pauses. "Oh... well that's alright then."
  189. [2014-05-28 16:17:16] * CopyCat looks over at Mare-Do-Well. "Where did you leave your body? Do you keep in touch with each other?"
  190. [2014-05-28 16:20:26] * Golden_Dream doesn't necessarily deny that. "Uh. It, um. If y' just kinda left it, it probably didn't ghoul. I mean, yer a spirit now, technically. I guess it could be like one o' them Canterlot ghouls that just wander around and keep bein' able t' regerate over and over no matter where it got shot, but I doubt that."
  191. [2014-05-28 16:24:18] * Get_Meh "if it did go ghoul, i'm sure it would hunt you down, anyway... you know, the hollow husk hunting for the missing thing in its emptyness... it would be some interesting story to tell"
  192. [2014-05-28 16:24:47] * Bookwright "Urgh, I feel sorry for getting us off topic."
  193. [2014-05-28 16:26:27] * Golden_Dream looks out at the jungle. There was a weird romance when thinking about how the past never really stops determining the future next to something that's constantly dying and giving birth. "Unless y'all remember there being an armory or a police station here, I recommend heading for the jungle."
  194. [2014-05-28 16:26:55] * Get_Meh "but don't worry, it's a chance on a million, nearly impossible... it can only happen in books... you know as they say: when donkeys fly"
  195. [2014-05-28 16:27:08] * CopyCat puts on the mask. Is suddenly less afraid. "To the jungle!"
  196. [2014-05-28 16:28:43] * CopyCat sniffs Berry. Then licks.
  197. [2014-05-28 16:29:04] * Bookwright grimaces. "I suppose we'll have to solve Yearling's puzzle later then."
  198. [2014-05-28 16:29:34] * Golden_Dream tries to determine a good path into the jungle, adjusting her pith helm.
  199. [2014-05-28 16:35:48] * Mare-Do-Well 3stares at everyone. Shudders. Then answers CopyCat, "um....no. I don't 'keep in touch' with my corpse."
  200. [2014-05-28 16:36:43] * CopyCat shrugs. "A pity. I bet you two would have a lot in common."
  201. [2014-05-28 16:36:57] * Bookwright really wants to know how Rainbow Dash met her end, but knows it would be terribly uncouth to ask.
  202. [2014-05-28 16:37:56] * Mare-Do-Well 3looks to Bookwright, "Honestly, going into the jungle will probably be pursuing her puzzle. After all, that's where I sent her on her mission."
  203. [2014-05-28 16:38:19] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"This town was just her first stop."
  204. [2014-05-28 16:38:46] * CopyCat ponders aloud. "So the clue we found might be important for something we come across later..."
  205. [2014-05-28 16:41:25] * Bookwright shrugs. "If you say so."
  206. [2014-05-28 16:44:13] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The firewagon ascends, CopyCat flying south beyond the zebra town and the river. The ground beneath them is soon covered in the green of the jungle.
  207. [2014-05-28 16:45:50] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The jungle basin stretches out, large and deep, filled with rivers and spotted with ruins of exotic and ancient architecture.
  208. [2014-05-28 16:46:47] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The grey clouds rumble overhead, promising a storm, but they still have not released a drop of rain.
  209. [2014-05-28 16:47:09] * Bookwright "This probably goes without saying y'all, but your ensorcelled wings will disappear in a puff of sparkles very soon. Y'all probably wanna land on the firewagon."
  210. [2014-05-28 16:49:28] * Get_Lost looks at her moth wings "it's a pity, the skull pattern was really pretty"
  211. [2014-05-28 16:51:54] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"There are all sorts of ancient jungle ruins in the Tenochtitlan Basin," Mare-Do-Well notes. "If you need to get out of the rain when it starts, or get some rest, that might be a good place to make camp. Assuming they aren't infested with monsters."
  212. [2014-05-28 16:52:52] * Bookwright "If the worst comes to it, we can park the firewagon on top of the ruins or something."
  213. [2014-05-28 16:56:36] <Mare-Do-Well> 3--- End of Session ---
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