Piss Poor #29

[17:52]	Rabtar	When we last left our group the had just negotiated some kind of peace between the two gecko factions. But they still need to deliver the news to Slugg...
[17:54]	Ragebrew	trotted along, taking the occasional sip from her canteen while thinking. "Still feel like we're gonna to have to kill that batch...."
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[17:55]	Midnight_Hour	shudders. "Or teach them. I know the latter is better... But I don't know by how much."
[17:56]	Elektron	follows close behind, not exactly thrilled with this proposition "You really don't think we'll be able to reason with them?" he asks with some worry
[17:57]	Ragebrew	nodded. "Much rather have 'em be nice and friendly. But you heard 'em. They will either go to war, or they will leave. And most likely go to war elsewhere with some other group of ponies. Not gonna let my problem bleed over to the next region."
[17:59]	Click	rubs her head, wincing just a little as she followed the ponies "They'll be waiting a long time for the dragons, I think... Or some other Gecko will end up being king. It... doesn't seem like a stable thing. One of them was trying to get me crowned 'King'."
[17:59]	Ragebrew	"Would rather ya have been king instead of that prick. May end up doing that. Sure ya can brow beat 'em into playing nice if we have to."
[18:00]	Ragebrew	"Although I still plan on turning that leader prick into a coat if we do fight..."
[18:02]	Elektron	's ears droop "But how many Geckos are there? They seem well armed and armoured, could we even take them by ourselves?"
[18:03]	Ragebrew	"Whoever said we'd be doing it ourselves? We got another band of geckos who are willing to play nice. Ya, we'll be spearheading it, but they can help."
[18:04]	Click	"Well, that camp was really more of a shack, and I've only seen three Geckos. Two were big, but after the... fight, I only saw Snarl and Slagg." She said, fiddling with her claws. Then she blinked, turning her head to stare at Ragebrew for a moment "... Are there ponies that war pony-hides as clothing?"
[18:05]	Elektron	shudders at 'pony clothing'
[18:05]	Click	wear*]
[18:06]	Midnight_Hour	staves off vomiting. "Um, well, I hear that the occasional crazed raider is cannibalistic and go beyond mutilating other ponies, which is horrible on its own."
[18:06]	Ragebrew	nodded. "Yes. Rather not remember those days though..." She twitched slightly and muttered a curse as she spat on the ground. "But unlike pony hide, gecko hide can stop a bullet, soak up radiation, keep ya from burning to death, or help protect ya from toxins."
[18:07]	Elektron	shies away from Ragebrew "Wait, what?"
[18:07]	Ragebrew	"All depends on the color. Silvers are normal, golds soak rads, reds are fire resistant, and greens soak up toxins."
[18:08]	Ragebrew	gae Elektron a weak smile. "I had a very horrible foalhood."
[18:08]	Click	"But if pony hides did, would you skin another pony and wear them?" Click asked Ragebrew, looking her over curiously.
[18:09]	Elektron	nods with a look of sadness and disgust, wobbling slightly from queaziness
[18:09]	Ragebrew	stopped in her tracks for a moment to look at Click. "Ya make it sound like I haven't before." She just turned and resumed walking. "Fucked up foalhood, remember that."
[18:10]	Ragebrew	"Least I think it was a pony. I just skinned and butchered whatever they threw infront of me."
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[18:11]	Elektron	quickly learns he cannot cover both ears and walk at the same time, so instead he focuses on not listening
[18:11]	Click	"I meant 'Would you now'?" She asked as she followed after Ragebrew "Hearing you talk about other scaled creatures as future accessories... is it because they are not ponies?"
[18:12]	Midnight_Hour	just remains silent, literally biting her tongue.
[18:14]	Ragebrew	just sighed, and pulled out a cigarette to gnaw on. "Yes. If I felt making armor out of a pony hide would keep me alive, I would. Wouldn't go looking for a pony to skin, but if some raider decided to try and kill me, and I snuffed 'em first, yes, I would. Won't let morals get in the way of me seeing tomorrow."
[18:16]	Ragebrew	"Just cause ya can talk doesn't mean I can't find use for yer corpse besides letting it rot in the sun. But I ain't a hunter. I just scavenge."
[18:19]	Click	"Oh... I was just wondering if you were looking down on things that weren't ponies, like dragons do with ponies..." She remarked casually as she looked around. "I don't think I'll tall enough to look down on things..."
[18:20]	Ragebrew	"I'm too deep in the shit to look down on anyone, Click, pony or not. I'm just being practical."
[18:22]	Rabtar	they reach Sluggs camp shortly, a few more gecko milling about outside. Most pay the group little notice as they've been told of the ponies arrival.
[18:23]	Elektron	stays close to Ragebrew, knowing full well how this interaction might end
[18:24]	Ragebrew	just trotted inside, looking around at the geckos one by one. She kept an eye out for any with visible injuries. "Come on Click, time for ya to spill the beans about what happened to Sluggy."
[18:25]	Rabtar	Slugg runs up with there sign "What happen?"
[18:26]	Rabtar	most are in good health, some have healing wounds but the limited medical skills of the gecko seem sufficient
[18:28]	Click	follows curiously, then moved awya from the others, walking up to Slugg. "I, uh... delivered your message to Snarl. Snarl says he's willing to not go to war right now, but he wants to be king. One of the bigger Geckoes didn't like the not-war thing and tried to be king instead, but it-uh... is dead now..."
[18:29]	Rabtar	Slugg eye twitch, pointing furiously at there sign
[18:30]	Click	blinks, looking up at the sign. She stared blankly for a moment, then looked to Ragebrew "... What does that say?"
[18:32]	Ragebrew	just blinked at Click. "Oh for the love of the Sisters...." She turned to Slugg. "She talked, killed one of 'em. They are waiting for dragons to come and help 'em before they go to war. If they dragons don't come, they leave, and go to war with somepony else."
[18:32]	Ragebrew	"Midnight_Hour, ya got yer first student. Ya get to teach Click how to read."
[18:33]	Click	"Um... that's not exactly right." She pointed out to Ragebrew. "Snarl says no war. Says they will go to war when dragons arrive, but that will be a long time. Snarl will probably be dead from old age then."
[18:34]	Midnight_Hour	looks to Click and smiles. "I think she might be a little more managable a student than Snarl's geckos." She then looks to Click. "Would you like to begin lessons tonight?"
[18:34]	Rabtar	Slugg seems a bit confused, writing up a new message "Why dragon? Dragon only like gekkar for food."
[18:35]	Ragebrew	"Because one of 'em didn't think of 'em as food." She pointed at Click. "Think she made some big lies, keep 'em from fighting for a time. Time we use to strengthen yer group."
[18:37]	Click	blinks, then giving a small shrug I hadn't seen a Gecko till a little while ago... And never heard about them from the elders." Then she blinked at Click, looking a little confused "Um... I didn't lie, why would I?" She asked, her head cocked to the side "I just said that the dragons would come for this land after the zebras and that I didn't know what they'd think of the Geckos."
[18:38]	Rabtar	he groans, scribbling out "Little one make problems"
[18:38]	Ragebrew	nodded. "Eeeyup. If the dragons haven't shown up after almost 200 years, I doubt they will show up any time soon."
[18:39]	Click	blinks, her 'ears' drooping at the groan, then she looked at Midnight Hour "Um... reading lessons?"
[18:40]	Click	"Well, not soon for ponies. Something about increasing out numbers and making stronger dragons through, uh... 'selective breeding' I think?"
[18:40]	Rabtar	there seems to be some kind of commotion outside, angry growls and hisses echoing down the tunnel
[18:41]	Ragebrew	"Oh... Joy..." She turned around before heading towards the sound of potential violence.
[18:43]	Elektron	shrinks back, not sure what to make of the angry mtters
[18:44]	Elektron	mutters*
[18:45]	Click	again moves to follow after Ragebrew.
[18:46]	Rabtar	outside the three or four defenders have taken up defensive positions as Snarl with a good number of his cronies is waltzing towards the tunnels. It also seems he's fashioned a crown for himself out of junk.
[18:48]	Ragebrew	"Oh, go fucking figure. Won't even give us a moment to plot before he struts in...." She took a quick head count of the newcomers.
[18:49]	Click	blinks as she looks at the scene "I... don't really understand what's going on... What's the problem? Slugg only told me to tell Snarl he wanted peace, and was willing to compromise... so isn't him staying king okay if it means there's no war?"
[18:50]	Rabtar	there were ten total, about half were your average gecko, but three were gold colored and there was a single large fire gecko with them...
[18:50]	Ragebrew	"Means he's gonna try to push Slugg out of position, make the others follow him."
[18:50]	Elektron	catches up to Ragebrew, eye's widening at the approaching Geckos. "Oh nonono..." he mutters, clearly distressed by their arrival
[18:51]	Click	"But isn't that an okay compromise if they're not warring against each other or the ponies?"
[18:52]	Ragebrew	"Snarl wants war, that is the problem."
[18:52]	Rabtar	the group stops roughly fifty feet from the tunnels, snarl climbing up on another larger gecko and declaring "ME SNARL KING! Dragon say so! So that makes me Snarl king!"
[18:53]	Ragebrew	trotted forward, still wearing her Grimlock hat. "Yer crown looks like junk. Now get down from him and lets get ya talking to Slugg."
[18:53]	Click	"But if he's waiting for dragons, it'll be a long time. It'llake two more or so generations before they burn the zebras, let alone come here." She said with a sigh, mostly to herself.
[18:53]	Rabtar	Snarls 'booster seat' looks less than amused
[18:55]	Rabtar	"NO! Talk over. Me king!"
[18:55]	Ragebrew	grinned. "Yeah. King of YER tribe. This isn't yer tribe."
[18:56]	Midnight_Hour	frowns. "He doesn't seem to get the intricacies of opposing factions of the same race."
[18:57]	Elektron	nods fearfully "He doesn't seem very logical... which only makes me more worried at what he'll do..."
[18:57]	Rabtar	"Gecko has one king! Me Snarl! Slugg can't even talk pony! Sl that make me king!"
[18:59]	Ragebrew	rubbed the bridge of her nose before looking at the others. "Don't need to speak Equestrian to be a good leader."
[18:59]	Midnight_Hour	speaks up. "Don't you hate ponies? Wouldn't that make you closer to a pony than Slugg?"
[19:00]	Click	looks from Snarl to the others in silence, lost at what to do.
[19:01]	Ragebrew	stood back and watched Midnight_Hour play some mind games with Snarl. She pulled a couple bottles out of her medical case and slipped them into her harness.
[19:03]	Rabtar	a few of the gecko with Snarl look to each other, chittering among themselves. Snarls turn and growls at them before returning his attention to the group "Dragon! Tell Slugg, Snarl king! Then no more war."
[19:07]	Ragebrew	"Why don't ya tell him yerself? Or do ya need a dragon to speak for ya in public?"
[19:08]	Midnight_Hour	smiles softly. "So you speak pony and bow down to young dragons and need their authority to rule? What about that makes you a leader of geckos?"
[19:13]	Rabtar	Snarl's entourage look amongst themselves and seem to come to a silent conclusion. The one Snarl is standing on grabs him by the leg and throws him to the ground with a startled squeak
[19:14]	Ragebrew	"Thank the Sisters for silver tongued mares...."
[19:15]	Elektron	sighs with relief, at the very least they only have one crazy Gecko now
[19:15]	Click	blinks, looking concerned as Snarl is thrown to the ground. "Um... what if, like the other pony that joined him, one of them try to become king and want war instead?" she asked Ragebrew quietly
[19:16]	Ragebrew	"One problem at a time. Lets see if the next leader has some brains between his ears."
[19:16]	Rabtar	Snarl and his argue in there own tongue for a few long minutes before Snarl hangs his head, the others turning, leaving him one by one
[19:17]	Rabtar	Slugg is nowhere to be seen...
[19:18]	Ragebrew	"Someone get Slugg, gonna try to keep 'em from leaving." She trotted after the dispersing geckos, giving a sharp whistle. "Aye! AYE! Slugg king without dragon or ponies. Hell, he hired the Destroyer to make peace with ya'll! Stay a bit, talk to 'em! He's a good king!"
[19:19]	Click	looks down now "... I don't feel good."
[19:24]	Elektron	quickly rushes after Ragebrew "Slugg went after Snarl's Geckos... or at least i think he did. I lost track during the little speech."
[19:26]	Rabtar	the loud ruckus of automatic gun fire echoes out. Snarl falls to the ground dead, Slugg emerges from the bushes and stands over his body, roaring in triumph. Snarl's former geckos don't even flinch as he is gunned down.
[19:27]	Ragebrew	looked at Slugg, then at Snarl's corpse. She merely shrugged before trotting up to Snarl's corpse, looking at Slugg. "Ya mind?" She flicked out her metal sliver of a blade.
[19:28]	Click	snaps her head up at the sound go gunshots, now lookig at the dead body of snarl and Slugg standing over the body "Wh... What?"
[19:28]	Rabtar	Slugg looks away, but quickly writes in the dirt "Do so no see."
[19:29]	Elektron	jumps and gets low for a second before realizing the shots we're not directed at him, he looks over at Snarl's body unsure how to feel
[19:30]	Ragebrew	lifted up the corpse and slung it over her back. "I'm going for a trot." She trotted off over a dune and well out of sight.
[19:31]	Click	just stares as Ragebrew carries off the dead body "But... but he wasn't doing anything... the other Geckos weren't following him... I-I thought we were supposed to do this without bloodshed..."
[19:33]	Rabtar	Snarl returns to his tunnel, emerging shortly after with a new blank sign. "Snarl would cause more war. Get dumb gecko to fight."
[19:35]	Rabtar	Slugg*
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[19:35]	Midnight_Hour	sighs. "I guess this is second best case scenario.
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[19:37]	Click	"B... But what was the point of talking to him then?"
[19:38]	Elektron	stands up, shaking off the sand and trotting back to Midnight_Hour "Where do we go from here?"
[19:39]	Ragebrew	trotted back, her muzzle and hooves covered heavily in sand. She turned her head and spat out some very confused looking dune beetle.
[19:40]	Rabtar	Slugg goes to one of his, the pair both go inside and once again return shortly with a small metal box
[19:40]	Midnight_Hour	"I suggest we start looking for the witch's cave like we were planning on doing from the beginning."
[19:41]	Ragebrew	nodded. "Aye. Might find some useful things in there. Or a bunch more zombies."
[19:44]	Click	looks from pony to pony, then to the blood staining the dirt. The little dragon's eyes started to water.
[19:44]	Rabtar	the pair drop the box in front the group, Slugg scribbling out a long message before turning to leave with his other gecko "Slugg take gecko away. Pony are crazy and not safe for gecko to be around. We come back when pony not crazy any more. Box was Grimlocks. Can't open and not know what is. Grimlock didn't know what was either.
[19:45]	Elektron	looks down and pokes at the box before sending his robot at it
[19:45]	Rabtar	the box is quite heavy for it's size and is quite locked
[19:46]	Ragebrew	read the sign and sighed. "Ponies always gonna be crazy. Where ever ya go, yer gonna run across insane ponies. If ya stay around here, we can tell ponies about ya, have 'em either leave ya alone or trade with ya. Talking, thinking geckos aren't that common around here..."
[19:49]	Rabtar	the box refuses to open, exausting the groups suppy of bobby pins
[19:50]	Elektron	sighs "Might be beyond what he can handle. If we get more bobby pins I'll get him to try again later."
[19:53]	Midnight_Hour	moves over to the box and tries to animate it, which does absolutely nothing. "What is this box made of?"
[19:54]	Rabtar	it's a metal box
[19:54]	Elektron	puts his ear against the box and taps "I'm almost certain its metal"
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[19:55]	Midnight_Hour	growls. "Alright box, the foal shoes come off," she says, igniting her horn again and firing a string of eldritch knives at the lock, trying to magically cut it off.
[19:55]	Ragebrew	"Whatever it is, we'll find out later." She picked it up and slung it on PAL. "Alright, well, Midnight, could ya try to keep Slugg from wandering off into the wilds? Rather not have 'em end up on the wrong side of a barrel..." She watched as the knives formed. "Oooh, shiny."
[19:56]	Click	has now promptly gone off a little ways from the tunnel entrance, head low.
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[19:58]	Click	Ugh, what happened?
[20:02]	Rabtar	the magic knives bounce off the box! One bouncing back and hitting Aria, while two others strike Click!
[20:03]	Rabtar	Midnight_Hour (GM is dumb today)
[20:05]	Ragebrew	lifted her stone hoof as the knives bounded off, catching two of them with a yelp of pain.
[20:08]	Elektron	quickly backs away from the box "Those aren't lockpicks Midnight!" he shouts, feeling around if any hair got cut off from a stray knife
[20:09]	Ragebrew	holds her stone hoof close, wincing. "Well... I can feel pain through this...."
[20:10]	Ragebrew	pointed at Midnight "No more arcane lockpicking. We'll find out whats inside it later..." Then she saw the blood on Midnight_Hour. "Oh hell. What did we learn?!"
[20:10]	Midnight_Hour	"Ow!" Gah! I hate this box!"
[20:11]	Ragebrew	"Yer own fault." She trotted up and looked at the injury. "Looks pretty shallow..." She tore off a wad of fwuff and slapped it on the wound. "That'll stop the bleeding for a bit."
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[20:12]	Midnight_Hour	"Ugh!" Midnight groans.
[20:14]	Elektron	looks around, spotting Click by herself "Why is she standing all alone?" he asks Ragebrew and Midnight_Hour
[20:14]	Ragebrew	"Not bad enough for an actual bandage, Midnight." She looked over at Click as she wrapped a bandage around her hoof. "What's gnawing on ya?"
[20:16]	Click	just keeps on walking back towards the desert.
[20:17]	Ragebrew	trots after. "Lemme guess... Ya've never seen anyone die before..."
[20:18]	Elektron	follows as well, looking worried and confused
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[20:21]	Midnight_Hour	follows, but tries to remove the fur and clean it with some water. It was not helping the disgust she was feeling right now though.
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[20:36]	Rabtar	[*GM redact to] the magic knives bounce off the box! One bouncing back and hitting Midnight_Hour, while two others strike Click!*
[20:48]	Click	let's out a piained cry of surprise as she felt two sharp pains in her back, eyes wide, she immediatelt turned around and fired a gout of purple flame in response.
[20:50]	Ragebrew	watched the blades fly off, striking Click. Then the gout of flame caused her to stop mid stride. "Midnight, never do that again." She trotted over to Click.
[20:51]	Elektron	quickly covers his face "Careful Midnight!" he looks over to the see the flame, "I don't think they make good lockpicks" he says, following Ragebrew
[20:52]	Ragebrew	pulled out a roll of bandages from her ammo case as she trotted up to Click. "Yer bleeding."
[20:52]	Midnight_Hour	winces as she's cut by the knife before seeing that it cut Click. "Oh no! I'm sorry! I didn't know they would ricochet!"
[20:57]	Ragebrew	looked at the smoldering flames licking the sand. "Fucking dragon fire... Burning stuff that shouldn't burn..." She held up the bandage to Click. "Ya gonna torch me if I patch those?"
[20:58]	Click	moved back from Ragebrew, flacks flickering from her mouth as she used ehr dragon's fire to scorch a line in the ground between them.
[20:59]	Ragebrew	"I take that as a yes." She put the bandage back into her ammo case."
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[21:00]	Elektron	stops short, looking at the line of scorched sand "What's wrong Click?" he asks with worry and confusion in his voice
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[21:04]	Click	sits in front of the line, glaring at the ponies silently.
[21:06]	Ragebrew	0x01ACTION just watched as the sand... burned, before sighing and shaking her head. "Ya know, if I got this pissy every time I got friendly fire, Elektron and Long would be very dead by now." She turned. "We're heading to the Witch's hut. If ya want to join us in exploring, yer welcome. If yer gonna glare daggers at us over an accident, I'd rather not have ya with ya. Shit happens, whelp. If ya can't understand that, yer going to die rea
[21:06]	Elektron	shuffles nervously "We didn't do anything to offend you did we? I don't really know much about Dragon culture, I can't imagine anypony else does." he says, standing beside Ragebrew and rubbling a foreleg
[21:06]	Ragebrew	yer going to die real quick, real painfully." She looked at Elektron then Midnight_Hour. "Shall we?"
[21:07]	Midnight_Hour	nods. "Sorry," she tells Click, looking mortified at what she did.
[21:08]	Elektron	looks between Ragebrew and Click "I-I guess... I'm sorry if I ever acted cold Click... I have enough trouble handling ponies, I just- just don't know what to say to a dragon..." he says, trailing off with his head low and following Ragebrew
[21:09]	Click	stares at Ragebrew, then at Elektron, before looking at Midnight Hour "... What's the word for killing something that wasn't doing anything?"
[21:10]	Ragebrew	"Murder. And before ya get all huffy and fuming about Slugg killing Snarl, SNARL WANTED TO WAGE WAR."
[21:12]	Ragebrew	"He would have HAPPILY slaughtered everything in his way to become king of this wretched place. We're just lucky his followers had more brains than he did. His death may have saved a dozen, a hundred lives, gecko and pony. And if ya can't understand that, yer going to need to learn it real quick if ya don't want to end up as some raider's conversation starter on his wall."
[21:14]	Click	"And I got him to stop, and then he didn't have any geckos left to 'wage war'. If you killed things based on what they could or would or may do at some point, how is there anyone left alone here?"
[21:18]	Ragebrew	"Did I pull the trigger? Did I kill him? No. That was Slugg's action. Who has far better understanding of his own kind than ya. Yer blessed and cursed Click. Ya have no idea what it's like out here."
[21:20]	Ragebrew	"There are ponies who'd kill ya just because they felt like it. There are creatures that could eat ya in one bite. If ya want to go out on yer own into the wilderness, fine. Yer welcome in our little fucked up band, but only if you get off yer high and mighty platform and wallow in the shit with the rest of us." With that, she turned and started up the dunes.
[21:21]	Click	"You all acted like it was nothing, you even seemed happy it happened." She pointed at Ragebrew. "Give me a reason why I shouldn't think you 'would' turn me into a coat if I tried leaving."
[21:21]	Elektron	takes one more look at Click, and starts to say something but simply closes his mouth and follows Ragebrew
[21:22]	Ragebrew	stopped mid track, and looked at Click. "Because I'm letting ya decide right now if yer gonna stay or go." She crested over the dune.
[21:24]	Midnight_Hour	looks away. "They... I..." then she stops before walking away and stopping again. "It's really bad in teh Equestrian Wasteland."
[21:25]	Click	watches them for a minute before slowly moving to follow them, but staying at the back and never getting too close.
[21:28]	Ragebrew	looked back, and snorted. "Least she's got some beans rattling in that tin..." She crested another dune, staring out to the Waste. "Alright then... If I was an insane zebra... Where would I hide my base..."
[21:29]	Elektron	looks around "In plain sight maybe? It seems the most illogical." he suggests
[21:30]	Ragebrew	"She was able to hide her army from the Trailer Trashers and Newton, I doubt there is gonna be a neon sign pointing to it with "Necromancer base, here." on it.
[21:30]	Elektron	looks around for said sign
[21:32]	Ragebrew	just looked at Elektron for a moment, then chuckled and slid down the dune. "Odds are her base is near where we found her. I might be able to find it again. Kinda hard, since dunes shift."
[21:35]	Elektron	trots down slowly, not taking his sliding approach "Her monster seemed pretty big, maybe part of that is still visible?" he puts forward
[21:37]	Ragebrew	"Provided it hasn't been buried in sand. Remember, dunes shift."
[21:40]	Elektron	nods, looking around and quickly realized they are looking for a needle in a haystack
[21:42]	Click	keeps her head low to the groudn now, her snake-like tongue occasionally flickering out at the sand as she follows.
[21:45]	Rabtar	the group wander off in search of the zebra witches lair. After a few hours of wandering they come across an abandoned house, a long disused dirt road leading away. They small two story house leans slightly to one side but is relatively intact other than the dry rot and missing siding.
[21:47]	Rabtar	it begins to get dark as the sun slowly sets behind the cloud cover. They probably have an hour or so of light left.
[21:48]	Ragebrew	looks at the house then to the sky above, judging where the sun hung behind the clouds. "We may have found our bunkhouse for the night." She flicked out the Samaritan and double checked it for buck shot. "Lets take a look." With that, she trotted to the front door.
[21:48]	Elektron	takes a look at the house and gives a little push, making sure it's structurally sound
[21:49]	Rabtar	the house creaks a little but dose not give to Elektron's feeble eforts
[21:50]	Rabtar	the building is long abandoned and is not boobytrapped
[21:51]	Ragebrew	nodded with a slight smile before pushing open the door and peering inside. "Midnight, could ya get us some light?"
[21:51]	Elektron	shrugs "Should be stable enough, but lets jump off the walls to test it..."
[21:51]	Ragebrew	"Rather ya not."
[21:51]	Elektron	lets not*
[21:52]	Midnight_Hour	looks over the rotting house. "Ew."
[21:52]	Click	blinks, staring up at the big abandoned house, head slightly cocked to the side in curiosity "Huh..."
[21:53]	Ragebrew	"Eww all ya want, Midnight, this i our safest bet for a peaceful night's rest. I'll rig up some traps just in case before we bunk down."
[21:53]	Elektron	trots in and takes a look around
[21:53]	Rabtar	inside is a fairly standard selection of pre-war furniture. There is enough trash about to tell that this place has been used more recently than the war but not for many years
[21:54]	Ragebrew	looked around at the trash, then upstairs... "Alright, ya'll check down here, I'll scope out upstairs. If this house is like most, I expect a pony skeleton or two somewhere in here..."
[21:55]	Elektron	starts peeking inside draws, under pillows, anywhere where something might have been left
[21:55]	Ragebrew	trotted upstairs, the Samaritan at the ready. "Scream like a filly if something attacks ya."
[21:55]	Click	moves to carefully enter the house now "Old pony shelter..."
[21:57]	Rabtar	there seems to be a first aid box and locked safe in the bathroom...
[21:58]	Click	keeps her distance from the others as she wanders around the delapidated house
[21:59]	Midnight_Hour	looks around, trying to find anything that catches her eye, but is more disgusted by the filth all around her.
[21:59]	Ragebrew	smirks as she popped checked the first aid kit, then looked at the safe. "Who puts a safe next to the shitter?" She shrugged before continuing her search upstairs.
[22:00]	Ragebrew	whistled from upstairs "Elektron! Bring PAL up here, found a safe."
[22:00]	Ragebrew	"And some pins."
[22:01]	Click	proceeds flick ehr tongue out as she looked around the house curiously for anything that cause her eye
[22:02]	Elektron	perks his ears and motions P.A.L to follow, the robot giving a nod and saying "Order understood Commander."
[22:06]	Rabtar	the bot manages to open the safe with some dificulty, breaking a pin in the process
[22:06]	Ragebrew	patted the robot on the back as she continued her exploration.
[22:07]	Elektron	gives the robot a hug, the P.A.L responding with "Objective complete Master. Awaiting next command."
[22:10]	Rabtar	there is little to find here outside the safe, a bit of booze in the kitchen, a pack of smokes and a book on lockpicking under the moldy king sized bed, a few caps scattered around the spare bedroom. And the almost omnipresent first aid box.
[22:11]	Ragebrew	"Yay! More meds!" She popped open the first aid kit.
[22:11]	Rabtar	and an ammo box
[22:16]	Rabtar	the safe yields a fair amount of caps a beat up shotgun and a well preserved plasma defender
[22:17]	Rabtar	as well as some nice Flak Armour
[22:18]	Ragebrew	gathered everything together in the front room, setting it all on a table. "Alright foals, ya know the routine. Take what ya can use or can find a use for, rest goes into the vendor fodder bag."
[22:19]	Ragebrew	picked up the bowie knife, admiring it for a moment. "I'll take this, maybe the hooch for mixing, and the meds. Nothing else I fancy."
[22:22]	Elektron	takes the plasma defender, some caps and the gem packs. He admires the Plasma Defender "This is a lot better than what I have now, if we ever face something like those robots again it will come in handy."
[22:24]	Ragebrew	"Looks shiny." She looked over to Midnight_Hour and Click. "See anything ya like?"
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[22:27]	Midnight_Hour	shakes her head. "Not really. I'd rather just leave before this whole place falls down on us."
[22:28]	Click	looks at Elektron and his new weapon curiously before looking to what was left. "W... Well, I can't really use the loud-banging guns... and I can't read..." She said with a small sigh, reaching out to just take the couple of caps.
[22:29]	Elektron	looks tiredly at Midnight_Hour "Can't we just stay here? I don't want to have to search for somewhere else to stay thats out in the open..."
[22:29]	Ragebrew	"Those caps are money, Click. Use 'em to buy stuff from ponies and the like. Not many there, but every single one helps." She looked to Midnight_Hour. "It's lasted this long, one night more won't cause it to collapse."
[22:30]	Midnight_Hour	looks around nervously before sighing. "I guess I can clean up a little to make sure I don't get infested with parasites while sleeping in this dump."
[22:30]	Ragebrew	nodded before trotting to the bedroom, making sure it was... servicable.
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[22:34]	Rabtar	servicable? no free of bodies? yes
[22:34]	Ragebrew	clicked in annoyance at the moldy bed. She sniffed and checked the mold, see if it was harmless.
[22:36]	Elektron	pulls out the locked box from earlier and sets it front of the robot, ordering it to try and pick lock, the robot giving a nod and saying "Executing command"
[22:37]	Ragebrew	took a nibble of the mold. "Mmm, licheny..." Before trotting back downstairs. "Alright, there is a pretty grundgy bed upstairs. Is better than sleeping on the floor at least. If ya gotta use the bathroom, go out and use it now, I am gonna trap the door for when we go to sleep."
[22:37]	Rabtar	the box finally gives, unlocking...
[22:39]	Elektron	sighs with relief "Finally... I think that was really hard for it." he says, taking a look inside, the robot giving a happy electronic whine
[22:40]	Rabtar	a baleful green light baths the inside of the box, a largish green orb sits inside. A large crack running along most of it's length...
[22:40]	Ragebrew	"Oh... Not another one...."
[22:42]	Elektron	quickly jumps back "Is that what i think it is?!" he says, breathing heavily with a slight panic
[22:42]	Ragebrew	"No idea. Close the safe."
[22:43]	Ragebrew	"Not dealing with another one of Quark's testicles."
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[22:44]	Ragebrew	She licked the roof of her mouth, blinked once, and SLAMMED the safe closed. "I taste copper..."
[22:44]	Elektron	quickly closes the lid and retreats to a corner of the room
[22:45]	Ragebrew	"Whatever that thing is, it's bleeding rad hard."
[22:47]	Elektron	nods "What do we do with it? Doesn't seem like we should be anywhere near it." he says, pointing at the box
[22:47]	Ragebrew	picked up the safe making sure the hatch was sealed. "Like... A LOT of rads... I've only tasted copper in my mouth after I tried to eat a fruit that glowed in the dark..."
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[22:49]	Ragebrew	"Midnight, you got any idea what that thing is?" She held the box up and looked at it closely, looking for any writing or etchings or anything. "Figure the box is full of lead, since we're not dying right now."
[22:52]	Rabtar	on the front of the box is a very faded but still visible lavender star with five other white stars bordering it, with a set of black wings and a small moon...
[22:53]	Midnight_Hour	shakes her head. "I have no idea. I feel like I've seen it before, like it's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't place it... But that symbol is MAS."
[22:54]	Ragebrew	"Alright, so we're looking at some super heavy arcane bull..." She checked in her medical bag. "I got some Rad-Ex and Rad Away. Think ya might be able to sort it out if I made ya damn near immune to rads?"
[22:55]	Elektron	trots back to the group and lays down, satisfied that he isn't getting killed simply by proximity
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[23:00]	Ragebrew	"Well... Whatever it is, figure it can wait till morning." She set the box down in the bathroom before trotting back to the stairs. "There is a decent bed up here if ya don't want to sleep on the floor. Bit moldy, but harmless." She trotted to the stairs, pulling out one of her mines and carefully arranging it by the door, so it would only explode if the door was opened.
[23:01]	Ragebrew	She also flicked an apple to everyone, guzzzled down some water, and went off to bed.
[23:02]	Elektron	catches the apple and follows Ragebrew upstairs, most likely to sleep in the bed as well
[23:04]	Ragebrew	disrobed and flopped into the bed before wolfing down the apple. "I find hooves in odd places, and yer getting a black eye." She chuckled before curling up into a big fwuffy mound and passed out.
[23:05]	Elektron	blushes and keeps his armour on, sleeping on the bed, as far from Ragebrew as possible
[23:05]	Rabtar	Midnight_Hour has set her tent up.... inside
[23:06]	Rabtar	the group beds down after a very eventful day, hopefully that strange green orb wont explode or something. For ending the gecko civil war and opening many locks the group get 1200xp