FoE RPG G0 - #006 Scrapyard: ~island~

[19:55]<SpiritOfFate>	The ponies left, and you are alone now, the night growing over you. You hear the occasional ruffle of wins of the guard griffin, but only the sounds of the grasslands can be heard from over the wall, other than that.
[19:56]?	Ignis sits on his bed, looking around his shack
[20:01]<SpiritOfFate>	The shack is... mostly dry. The ceiling drips on some spots, but your resting place is still fine.
[20:02]?	Ignis observes the furniture
[20:08]<SpiritOfFate>	The same usual features mark the shack every single day. His feeding throughs, an old and not so comfortable mattress, the furnace, a receptcle for charcoal and splintered wood to keep the fire alive and a shadowy figure looking inside through the doorframe. The tools are kept with the griffin. Even if you are regarded as little more than a beast even among the slaves, they don't entrust you with th
[20:08]<SpiritOfFate>	em.
[20:10]?	Ignis blinks, the dragon raises from his bed, lazily setting his eyes around his surroundings...when he finaly goes to regard the shady figure.
[20:15]<SpiritOfFate>	The light blue, slim earth pony mare trots in looking around. "Ah, here is the dragon." She nods to you. You recognize her as the nurse from the landfill, though you don't seem to see her so often, even if you need it.
[20:17]?	Ignis nods and examines the mare with some curiosity, fidgeting a bit. "Yes, the dragon" He sighs slightly. "I have a name..." He mumbles to himself, then raises his gaze again to the earth pony. "May I help you, ma'am?"
[20:20]<SpiritOfFate>	She smiles apologetically. She doesn't seem to have a collar. "Oh, I'm sorry. I don't have a good head for names, there are so many here." She frowns, her eyes wandering again. "Well... how are you?"
[20:23]?	Ignis nods, looking off. "Its okay." The dragon roams back to his bed and sits onto it, biting his lips for a bit. "Its Ignis, by the way..." He says, then sratches his arm. "I'm..." He shugs. "Okay, I guess...mostly bored often enough, but..." He smiles sadly. "Figures I'd have much to do or places to go..."
[20:29]<SpiritOfFate>	The mare frowns. "I'm sorry to hear it, Ignis." She trots closer. "Mind if I give you a check-up?"
[20:31]?	Ignis shrugs yet again, he lays flat into his bed, eyes looking up at the mare, alowing the mare to checkup his bare body.
[20:33]<SpiritOfFate>	The mare looks over him, noticing the mark of a recent, but healed wound on his tail. "Does it hurt?" She touches it slightly.
[20:34]?	Ignis shakes his head.
[20:39]<SpiritOfFate>	"Well, good." She smiles to you and leans around, looking at the furnace.
[20:39]?	Ignis nods and fiddles with his digits for a while. "And your name is...?"
[20:43]<SpiritOfFate>	"Chroma cure." She says, her eyes still at the furnace.
[20:46]?	Ignis hmmms his acknowldegment. "Interesting name..." He looks over at the furnace as well. "Its pretty solid and well-built, yes..." The dragon remarks, moving his gaze from the mare to the furnace. "Again, can I help you with something?"
[20:51]<SpiritOfFate>	She shifts for a moment, looking through the chute. She bites her lip before turning back to you. "You wouldn't have found... something, would you?"
[20:51]?	Ignis nods.
[20:56]<SpiritOfFate>	"You did?" She rubs her neck. "Where is it?"
[20:57]?	Ignis looks over at her. "Its with me....just tell me the whole story from the beginning and I'll hand it over."
[21:00]<SpiritOfFate>	She cringes a bit.
[21:02]?	Ignis sighs. "It's because I am a dragon, isn't it?"
[21:15]<SpiritOfFate>	"What? No!" She shakes her head. "Not at all!"
[21:16]?	Ignis raises an eyebrow at Chroma. "So, any chance you telling me?"
[21:20]<SpiritOfFate>	"Wait, wait." She taps her temples. "It's not that simple, you know."
[21:20]<Ignis>	"I got time..."
[21:21]<Ignis>	"Its actually what I got the most, you see..."
[21:22]<SpiritOfFate>	Chroma frowns, though she shows a pang of guilt from his last words. "...I can't trust you just like this."
[21:24]?	Ignis nods. "Your call... I know for one thing that your buds will keep dropping stuff around over my doorstep, and since I'm definately not going anywhere, you'll be coming over for more, on and on...and then you'll eventually have to tell me." He sighs deeply. "So, if you could just skip all that BS and get to point where you lay out everything to me right now, that would be great for both of us."
[21:29]<SpiritOfFate>	Chroma presses his eyebrows in annoyance. "I could very well figure out another way. Why would I have to tell you anything at all?"
[21:30]<Ignis>	"Because I got your meds."
[21:33]<SpiritOfFate>	She grumbles and rubs her temple. "Listen, I need those alright. It will be easier and safer for both of us if you just hand them over and leave it at that. What are you going to do with them anyway? Hoard them?"
[21:34]?	Ignis hmmms. "Perhaps...for all I know, you'll probably gonna use them to make drugs and get high...must be the reason you're so shady 'but your business."
[21:34]<Ignis>	*bout
[21:40]<SpiritOfFate>	"How you even..." She grunts. "Do you know what is like to take care of all this place on my own? I put almost all of my pay just to get medicines and it is not enough, and Doodad won't pay me more. He'll just scream at me for every pony that dies on my hooves." She sighs. "At least Doc shows up to help... sometimes."
[21:42]?	Ignis looks at her stoically. "If you are so convinced of that, then lay out everything to me..." The dragon nods. "I have my own interests on knowing, and I don't intend to hoard the meds...but I won't give off squat unless you tell me the whole thing." He says with conviction.
[21:57]<SpiritOfFate>	Chroma gives a long sigh. "Alright, alright. Do you know about the Mudponies?"
[21:57]?	Ignis shakes his head, noooope.
[22:03]<SpiritOfFate>	"They are a group of escaped slaves who hide out there. Because they can't just go to the next city, you know. Most slaves are reported as missing as soon as it is found out, and they may be caught by the slavecatchers or the town militias or... anyone looking for a reward. But that's not all they do."
[22:03]?	Ignis nods. "Go on, please..."
[22:10]<SpiritOfFate>	"They also try to get into the farms and households to release others, and they keep ways of contacting a few slaves from within." She goes gloom. "I see what happens with slaves who work here for too long. It isn't pretty. So... I found a way to help them. And they... intended to help me back." She says with a glare. "They want the ponies here alive as much as I do."
[22:12]?	Ignis nods, his expression softening. "I see...I'd like to get out as well." He looks at the floor. "Still, I don't have enough to make it by my own..." The dragon clatters his own chains. "Can't even get rid of a stupid chain on my own."
[22:21]<SpiritOfFate>	Choma looks at you sadly. "I can't be sure when they'll show up again" She pets you slightly in sympathy. "I wish I could help more, but I can't pick who gets out..."
[22:24]?	Ignis looks up at Chroma with a nod, his claw drawing a bit to her shoulder and rubbing it lightly. "Its okay..." The dragon smiles. "I'll figure something out eventually." He raises from his bed. "So, I'll fetch the meds...a deal is a deal." He nods again.
[22:55]<SpiritOfFate>	She smiles to him, standing back to wait for him to fetch it.
[22:57]?	Ignis digs the med package and offers it to the pony. "Had a letter on it, said that's all they could scrounge and that they'll keep doing their job so you could do yours." The dragon says. "I scorched it, in any case...won't need it, I suppose."
[23:08]<SpiritOfFate>	She takes the package, breathing relieved. "Thank you. You could have made it easier, you know?" She says in mock-annoyance, though not so irritated anymore, then she lowers her voice, seriously. "Just keep it down. Who knows what would happen if the wrong person found out."
[23:10]?	Ignis nods, holding his chest... "Its...its..." The dragon pants a bit. "I need to take a...seat." He lays onto the bed again. "If you told me everything...from the start, could be...nicer." He nods. "Sure, I'll keep it down."
[23:13]<SpiritOfFate>	She frowns. "Not everypony can be trusted, you know? Some slaves would rather please their owners than try to escape."
[23:15]?	Ignis nods. "As if..." He chuckles. "A dragon would ever be on the good graces of any fucking pony..." He shakes his head. "I /really/ need to get the fuck out of here, doc..." The dragon nods several times. "I just felt...something tells me I don't have much juice left if I stick around."
[23:17]?	SpiritOfFate blinks. "What? Are you feeling sick?"
[23:17]<SpiritOfFate>	Chroma^
[23:17]?	Ignis nods. "Sort of...I just had sort of a stroke or something..."
[23:19]<SpiritOfFate>	She moves closer. "Let me take a better look."
[23:20]?	Ignis nods. "Go ahead."
[23:22]<SpiritOfFate>	She looks into your eyes and pats your body, then hears into your chest. She looks back at you, confused. "You seem fine to me."
[23:22]?	Ignis bites his lip. "I'm far from fine, but thanks anyways..."
[23:24]<SpiritOfFate>	She scratches her neck. "Weird. This is the kind of stuff I hear from the kooky old types."
[23:24]?	Ignis stares at her wordlessly.
[23:25]<SpiritOfFate>	She shrugs. "It is."
[23:26]?	Ignis looks at her in silence.
[23:28]<SpiritOfFate>	Chroma blinks. "What?"
[23:30]<Ignis>	"Nothing..." He reaches out, placing a claw by her forehead and gently brushes Choma's mane, distracted.
[23:31]<SpiritOfFate>	She sighs and pats your head. "I'll see if Doc takes a look on you when she shows up, but that sort of thing never goes anywhere."
[23:32]<Ignis>	"Don't bother with me, as you said...I'm fine." She continues to pet the mare.
[23:35]<SpiritOfFate>	Chroma smiles to him. " If you say so." She glances back, putting a hoof over the medibox. "Well, I think I should be going now."
[23:36]?	Ignis nods, his expression between thoughtful and sad.
[23:37]<SpiritOfFate>	She tilts her head.
[23:38]?	Ignis keeps looking at her in silence.
[23:41]<SpiritOfFate>	She puts the box on her back. "Until next time, Ignis." She turns to the door. "I will come to check on you again sometimes soon. Who knows what that might be?"  She smiles softly back to him.
[23:42]?	Ignis raises his claw to the mare and waves at her, expressin unchanged, lips stilled, eyes off...
[23:48]?	SpiritOfFate sighs a little and trots out.
[23:48]<SpiritOfFate>	Chroma^
[23:51]?	Ignis shakes his head, rather unsatisfied with his fate...the dragon follows throught the door, eyes moving around the little piece of worthless kingdom his mind claimed as its own. His head seemed to boil...forever, forever a junkyard hound. He sat and looked at the stupid junkyard for the uptenth time.