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- (12:21:15 AM) DontAskForBakedGoods: The dim half illumianated interiour of the MASEBS com tower echoed with the sounds of hooves as the cast out stable 22 dwellers explored their temorary lodgings. meanwhile the air outside while still bareable in the early evening sun, was already starting to lower from what it had been at mid-day. One thing was for certain, it was going to be a cold night.
- (12:23:12 AM) DontAskForBakedGoods: ((Session 2.5 begins))
- (12:24:43 AM) DontAskForBakedGoods is now known as DontAskForGM
- (12:24:52 AM) ***Gizmo looked around, he sees the ponies he was with but something wasnt quiet right about him
- (12:25:10 AM) ***Trefoil sits atop the APC, stroking the sleeping Violet's back.
- (12:26:06 AM) ***Hospice sighed. She was finally done with her work. That took a lot more out of her than she had expected.
- (12:26:50 AM) ***Puzzler starts shuffelin about inside the tower. Today's experiane had taken a toll on him, wanting anything but going to sleep he started to have a closer look at the towers enterior. Being very carefull about his aproach.
- (12:27:46 AM) ***Gizmo looks around the tower, he sees many things of interest just not to him at the moment.
- (12:28:17 AM) DontAskForGM: The inside of the towner seems to consit of the main floor the ponies were occupying, as well as a set of stais built into the side of the wall leading up to multiple platforms along the inside of the tower.
- (12:28:56 AM) ***Gizmo wanders up the stairs in search of something.
- (12:28:58 AM) DontAskForGM: From the main room at the bottom it seems their are three sets of platforms above in the hollow tower
- (12:29:45 AM) d [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (12:30:09 AM) Hospice left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 121 seconds).
- (12:30:09 AM) d is now known as Hospices
- (12:30:20 AM) Hospices is now known as Hospice
- (12:30:35 AM) DontAskForGM: The second floor is made almost entirely out of steel platform, with file cabinates and strange terminals set along the walls. A door located just above where the downstairs door is is located directly acroos from the stairs.
- (12:30:57 AM) ***Puzzler watches Gizmo go up the stairs, with carefull steps he follows. Shouting down as they go up. "W-We'll have a look upstairs!"
- (12:31:07 AM) DontAskForGM: Old, staind mattresses litter the open floor space on the second floor.
- (12:31:38 AM) DontAskForGM: 7 tottal
- (12:31:38 AM) ***Gizmo looks aimlessly, seeing the matresses. "We found beds." He says softly
- (12:33:07 AM) ***Puzzler nods sagely. Moving up to one of the beds. Hoofing it lightly. It wasn't exactly his own bed, but after the night in the APC this was a welcomed upgrade.
- (12:34:02 AM) ***Gizmo looks to Puzzler. "I know you. from the Stable. You and I worked together sometimes.
- (12:34:04 AM) mode (+v Hospice) by DontAskForGM
- (12:34:21 AM) ***Trefoil shivers
- (12:34:48 AM) ***Steel_Innocence stops playing with her figurines and turns to Hospice. "You look sleepy. We can go with the other ponies."
- (12:34:58 AM) ***Puzzler just keeps stroking the bed. Looking down at it, slumping slightly. "I guess.."
- (12:35:24 AM) mode (-v Hospice) by DontAskForGM
- (12:35:28 AM) mode (+v Hospice) by DontAskForGM
- (12:35:39 AM) Gizmo: " No I remember working with you." He says softly, not happy nor angry.
- (12:36:48 AM) ***Hospice , still blissfully ignorant about anything inside the tower, asked around "So, did we find anything about the stables in here?"
- (12:37:09 AM) DontAskForGM: Outside, alone with the sleeping Violet atop the APC, Trefoil is treated to something that almost all the ponies so far had missed while being cramped inside the moveing vehical or fighting for their lives... the odd abbiant noises of the outdoors
- (12:38:20 AM) DontAskForGM: The sound of the wind whipping throught the rocks and loose weeds, insects chirping, all very different from the inside of a stable
- (12:38:23 AM) ***Puzzler turns around to look at Gizmo. "Yeah, I guess we did. Something over at maintenence, worked with a lot of ponies over there..." Looking down at the floor of the tower, sad expression on his face. Talking about home made him miss it an awefull lot.
- (12:38:37 AM) ***Trefoil listens, trying to figure out what passes for 'natural
- (12:38:45 AM) Trefoil: ' out here in the.... out.
- (12:39:29 AM) ***Gizmo smiles a little. "Homesick?" He asks. "Why? That place was terrible."
- (12:40:24 AM) DontAskForGM: Without the echo of hooves in the hall, the hummm of the generators and pipeing, or the near constant buzzing of the radio... it is all so alien to you.
- (12:42:03 AM) ***Steel_Innocence tries to recall. "Umm, the letter thing says the team ponies were on the place 23 and did fixy stuff."
- (12:42:23 AM) ***Trefoil is weirded out by it all. Nothing clangs, no vents whisper with recycled air. Trefoil reaches for her grenade pouch.
- (12:42:50 AM) ***Puzzler sits down on a matress. He was that readable, huh. "I- I don't know.." He says, ears dropping. "The stables are safe.. This, /place/ is just.. So alien." Atleast in the stable he could help ponies, out here he was just useless.
- (12:42:51 AM) ***Hospice nodded. "Hm. That makes sense." She then hesitated. "And uh...perhaps I am just a little sleepy. Probably better not to return to the APC though...um...that's for sure."
- (12:43:01 AM) ***Trefoil she also clicks her radio over the late night DJ from the day befre.
- (12:44:15 AM) ***Gizmo chuckles. "Safe? They arent." He says. "Do you know how many ponies in the maintenece used to bully me? Almost all of them. I tried getting on that squad to leave the Stable years ago. But i was denied. for medical reasons. Reasons that didnt exist."
- (12:44:23 AM) DontAskForGM: Trefoils raido crackles as it shifts through the channels, finaly landing on 107.8
- (12:45:19 AM) DontAskForGM: In a stroke of luck a song is just ending and the two deep and cracked voices of Skin and Bones come in.
- (12:46:14 AM) DontAskForGM: Skin: Well what did you think of that one Bones? // Bones: About the same as I did the last time you played it, you know, a few hours ago...
- (12:47:14 AM) DontAskForGM: The to continue to rib and poke fun at each other for a while before finnaly pausing after a short bout of husky chuckles after a particularly good insult by Skin.
- (12:47:33 AM) ***Puzzler looks up at Gizmo. Confusion in his eyes. Was the mechanic really serious, thinking the wastes where better then the Stable Then as he looks away he says. "Atleast nothing tried to kill you in the stable."
- (12:47:53 AM) ***Trefoil chuckles as she pulls the cap off with her magic and takes another sip of the increasingly dwindling bottle.
- (12:49:17 AM) DontAskForGM: Skin: serves you right you old sack of shit... now why dont you go ahead and do your news bit so we can play some more music, the faster we get through that the sooner we get to my portion for the evening, a nice bit of fiction written by yours truly!
- (12:49:46 AM) ***Gizmo looks to him. "I did." he says. "I've attempted suicide before. Never had any guts to go through with it. And now, i finally escape that place, but oh the irony, im here with some of the ponies i owe my hateful life in the Stable to." he says. "Hospice, she denied my acess into the team years ago, for some sort of medical reason that isnt there. Overmare might have twisted her hoof, but she still was the one to do it."
- (12:50:37 AM) DontAskForGM: Bones: You mean your shitty soap opra? I still cant belive how popular that junk is. All the Mares in teh wastes have got have bramin dung for brains to think that it is worth while!
- (12:50:55 AM) LuckyLeaf [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (12:51:04 AM) Steel_Innocence left the room (quit: Connection closed).
- (12:51:19 AM) ***Trefoil snorts and nearly inhales her whiskey, "Hey! That wasn't half bad!"
- (12:52:22 AM) Spectre|Sleepies is now known as Violet
- (12:52:26 AM) LuckyLeaf is now known as Steel_Innocence
- (12:53:08 AM) mode (+v Steel_Innocence) by Violet
- (12:53:09 AM) DontAskForGM: Skin: still gets more mail than your late night jazz and spook bull that you boor the wastes with every night
- (12:54:07 AM) Trefoil: "Damn straight."
- (12:54:32 AM) ***Puzzler lies down on the bed. Sighing softly. "I-I'm sorry.." Was really bad at these things, stumbeling for words. "I.. I din't know..." He looks up at Gizmo. "So now that you are out, what do you want to do?." Personally he would just want to stay in the APC untill this whole mess was fixed.
- (12:55:14 AM) ***Gizmo smiles at Puzzler, but its a smile that could chill bones. "I want to leave. Just go and find a place where i dont have to be with any of you."
- (12:55:38 AM) DontAskForGM: Bones: Fine fine, you dont have to rub it in. Its time for the news anyway... Ok folks, news time!
- (12:56:24 AM) ***Trefoil leans back, ready to learn some more about life in the waaaaasteland
- (12:56:33 AM) ***Puzzler twitches nervously at that smile. Slumping even more at Gizmo's comment. "..oh"
- (12:59:11 AM) ***Gizmo looks away. "Maybe you can find some work. After all, you seem just as good at mechanics as me."
- (12:59:20 AM) DontAskForGM: Bones: So news... lets see what we have here, nope, nope, crap, clearly not true...AH! her we go, the results from this afternoons races down at thunder langes. Now its not as exciteing as the powered devision but we had some basic hoof and chariot races today. Looks like the long shot Blister Wind finaly got a win in today for the hoof devision after a three month dry spell while the Annawann's prized chariot onc
- (1:00:40 AM) ***Steel_Innocence turns back to her little figurines, playing a little theater. "Hi, I'm Steel," she says happily. "Hi, I'm Steady," she says, switching to a deeper voice.
- (1:02:48 AM) DontAskForGM: Bones: while the Annawann's prized chariot once again won out as predicted sealing its seventh conceutive win.
- (1:03:57 AM) ***Trefoil makes a few mental notes
- (1:04:11 AM) DontAskForGM: Skin:... thats it? thats all your going to say? nothing about the reavers or the giant ants in Bucka-Vista?
- (1:04:16 AM) ***Puzzler "Work, where? I-I mean I know mechanics. Yes."
- (1:04:36 AM) ***Trefoil likes the sound of that less then the day's racing results.
- (1:05:23 AM) DontAskForGM: Bones: Old news babe, thats all played out... well at least until the Reavers eventually start, well, you know...reaving again. Until then All I really got is the weather and the races.
- (1:05:30 AM) ***Gizmo shrugs as he makes for the stairs again. "I dont know, maybe find some small town to work in
- (1:06:37 AM) Steel_Innocence: She moves the light blue pony behind a lighty box. "How did you get inside the lighty box?" she asked, shaking her own pony figurine. "I am not in a lighty box, I am in a big place very far with the 23 number. Do you want to be friends?" She says in a deeper voice again, shaking the light blue pony.
- (1:06:46 AM) DontAskForGM: Skin: What about the weather?
- (1:06:48 AM) ***Trefoil perks her ears up. Weather's pretty important. Its already snowed and shit, plus it's cold as balls. Chalk a point up in favor of the Stable's climate control system.
- (1:07:08 AM) ***Violet snorts and squirms around, cracking open an eye
- (1:07:09 AM) ***Puzzler stands up. Following Gizmo, the buck was starting to scare him. But he'd rather not be alone.
- (1:07:55 AM) ***Hospice just backs away from Steel, perfectly content to uh...let her do what she does. Instead, she started trotting upstairs, wondering if there was any reason why two ponies had gone up and never come down.
- (1:08:02 AM) Steel_Innocence: "I want. Yay!"
- (1:08:45 AM) DontAskForGM: Bones: Gawd woman fine, I thought you wanted me to hury up so you could do your bit. Besides, we decided twenty years ago I was in charge of all news reports... Anyway folks its going to be cold, alright? We already have reports of the first sightings of snow. Got to love the wastland early winters! Now how about some music Scales?
- (1:09:10 AM) ***Gizmo stops and turns to Puzzler. "What?" He asks after noticing Puzzler was following him again. "What do you want?"
- (1:09:15 AM) ***Trefoil huddles in her armor, "Lovely."
- (1:09:18 AM) DontAskForGM: A hissing comes over the raido before the adio cuts and music begis to play
- (1:09:51 AM) ***Violet tilts her head slightly "Whuz luvly?" She says sleepily.
- (1:10:28 AM) ***Trefoil sneezes
- (1:10:33 AM) Trefoil: "More snow. More cold."
- (1:10:36 AM) ***Puzzler takes a few steps back from Gizmo. "I-I-I don't want to be alone." He says, not daring to look him in the eyes.
- (1:10:42 AM) Violet: "Mmh."
- (1:11:00 AM) ***Hospice sneezed.
- (1:11:11 AM) ***Trefoil takes her leg off the filly's back, "Feeling better?"
- (1:11:17 AM) DontAskForGM: The stairs lead up the the second platform, much smaller than the first with only a walkway around the tower and one straight across it to another shut door above the others. Wires and switches stretch across the walls
- (1:12:00 AM) ***Violet nods "Li'l."
- (1:12:19 AM) ***Gizmo looked over to where Hospice was. he tried to change his expression but couldnt. He turned back to Puzzler. "I dont like you." He says coldly. "You were one of the reasons im broken."
- (1:13:53 AM) ***Hospice almost started walking backwards as she saw Gizmo's expression, but instead just remained planted.
- (1:15:25 AM) ***Puzzler just stares for a second then sits down on his haunces. Sadened he looks of to the side, ears dropping. "I.." Swallowing hard. "Im sorry." He says, not sure what he was appologizing for. Not sure what to do he just sits there.
- (1:15:37 AM) ***Trefoil holds up her radio, "Show's on. Pretty good tonight."
- (1:15:43 AM) ***Trefoil stares off into the noisy night
- (1:15:55 AM) ***Steel_Innocence realizes everypony went upstairs already. She opens the main door and goes outside, the chilling wind making her shiver.
- (1:17:04 AM) ***Violet is nice and warm in her ginormous jacket blanket "Show?"
- (1:18:14 AM) Trefoil: "Yeah. Skin and Bones. Music, news, weather, drama."
- (1:18:22 AM) Gizmo: ACTION chuckles. "No. You're not. You don't even know what exactly you did." He says, looking over to Hospice. "Neither do you. You helped break me too." he looks Puzzler in the face. "You took one of the only things i hade left, my work. You took my shaft for a month because the overmare asked you. You never thought what i might have to say. My wokr was all i had at that point, you took it. I hate you." he turned back to Hospice.
- (1:19:55 AM) ***Violet yawns "Oh."
- (1:20:20 AM) ***Hospice had a feeling she walked into something nasty and started to back away slowly, although her mane bristleld at what she felt was unjustified hostility.
- (1:22:58 AM) ***Puzzler winces as Gizmo tells him the story. "I- I just did what, the Overmare said." He finally manage to say, tearing up. Never thought that he hurt anyone for it. He turns away from Gizmo's gaze and starts going down, half galopping, the stairs. Not able to handle the situation very well he decides to run from it.
- (1:23:30 AM) ***Hospice sidestepped deftly to avoid Puzzler galloping down the stairs. It was only then that she realized she was the only one left with Gizmo.
- (1:23:54 AM) DontAskForGM: As Steel makes her way outside into the cold night she notices the smell of the dead "pink things" has almost gone away, but as she passes by the sight of the battle she sees the blood still remains although the bodies are missing. The blood is clumped in the dirt and starting to freeze but is till easily noticeable on the slope.
- (1:24:05 AM) ***Gizmo glared at Hospice. "You've heard what i've had to say. are you going to run like that coward?"
- (1:25:22 AM) ***Trefoil shivers, "Hm. There were blankets down in the main compartment, right Vi?"
- (1:25:33 AM) ***Hospice snorted. "That's not a particularly nice thing to say. Anyways, I have nothing to apologize for and I've had enough exercise today already."
- (1:25:48 AM) ***Violet leans over and nuzzles Trefoil and sits up, shivering a little as she loses her jacket cocoon "I think."
- (1:26:32 AM) ***Puzzler hearing the last word. Coward. Causing him to start run over to curl up on a bed in a corner and cry. Why would Gizmo hate him, he had hardly spoken to the buck before. Taking his work..?
- (1:26:37 AM) ***Gizmo shrugs. "Of course you dont, you were just following orders like that pegasus." He says as he walks by her. "You still played a part in breaking somepony though.
- (1:27:02 AM) ***Hospice 's eyebrows went up. "Orders? What orders?"
- (1:27:28 AM) Gizmo: "The overmares?"
- (1:28:42 AM) ***Steel_Innocence slowly walks down the path. Having lived on a controlled environment, she isn't used to such temperatures changes. She looks at the path, now empty. The pinky things are not here anymore. She lets out a sigh of relief and smiles. The pinky things must have taken the hurt pinky things to the pinky thing doctor. So it would be fine, after all...
- (1:29:13 AM) ***Hospice seemed to have a confused look on her face, "What? What orders? She didn't micromanage medical procedures or anything. And as much as it used to pain me to admit, I had a pretty poor track record when it came to executing those few orders she gave."
- (1:30:10 AM) ***Gizmo stood silently. "So... you just denied my acceptance into the repair squad, on nothing? for fun?"
- (1:30:53 AM) ***Steel_Innocence walks down further to the APC, waving to Trefoil and Violet.
- (1:31:01 AM) ***Trefoil nuzzles the filly back, "Hey, better keep that coat on so ya don't freeze. Hello Steel!"
- (1:31:10 AM) ***Violet waves sleepily to Steel
- (1:32:37 AM) ***Hospice 's face lit up in understand. "Ohhh. So that's what you're talking about. I think you were mistaken. The overmare actually reccomended you for that repair team, which probably helps explain how you ended up being sent to such a suspiciously conveniently haphazard community service despite doing nothing. She actually wasn't particularly happy when I denied you."
- (1:32:52 AM) ***Puzzler gets up from his corner again. Still shaken from Gizmo's outburst, in a atempt to forget it, he trotts up to the door, trying to open it and peer inside.
- (1:32:59 AM) ***Hospice talked on without a care for what Gizmo was actually thinking.
- (1:34:27 AM) ***Violet sticks her legs through the holes of the jacket...with it on backwards.
- (1:34:30 AM) ***Gizmo stood there not saying a word. Until he looked up and gave Hospice a death glare. "You need to leave. now."
- (1:34:36 AM) DontAskForGM: The door is steel, like the entrance downstairs but is unlocked. Also similar to downstairs it has chalk writing on it, "Stable 22 rescue team Securty outpost office"
- (1:35:06 AM) ***Puzzler opens the door and takes a peek inside.
- (1:35:08 AM) Steel_Innocence: "H-hi! Our friend-d-ds found b-beds. I can d-do the guard stuff and you sleep-p in the nice place." She adjusts the coat to protect herself from the cold.
- (1:37:18 AM) DontAskForGM: The room beyond the door is small and seems to contain a single office with a desk, computer terminal (on) and a safe with more chalk writing on it
- (1:38:36 AM) ***Violet looks down at Steel "Ya sure?"
- (1:39:22 AM) ***Puzzler stops snivveling and immediately trotts in to the room, closes the door again and then up to the terminal with a slight grin on his face. Sitting down infront of it he atempts to hack it.
- (1:39:37 AM) ***Hospice held out her hooves over her face as if she were sincerely deflecting hostility. "Whoa, wait a second. It wasn't personal or anything. Just this mare that I knew kind of well, Cogs, asked me to prevent you from heading out with the team. Said you were just too |FUN| to let leave. Had lots of |FUN| stories." Hospice switched from a very sincere, gentle tone into an almost
- (1:39:38 AM) ***Hospice sarcastic sneer everytime she said "fun", before returning to the original tone.
- (1:39:53 AM) DontAskForGM: The computer is in fact locked, but it looks like it should be a sinch to hack
- (1:40:02 AM) ***Steel_Innocence nods vigorously, as if trying to shake off the cold as well.
- (1:40:28 AM) ***Trefoil frowns, "Alright Vi, you and Steel can switch."
- (1:40:51 AM) ***Violet shakes her head "I got a jacket."
- (1:42:03 AM) ***Gizmo looks up. "Cogs?" He starts chuckling, which evolved into a form of crazed laughter. "She was the main pony that tortured me!" He laughed. he got close to Hospice. "Want to know why i like machines in THAT way? She showed me i cant trust anypony." His tone turned into a hush. "She even raped me."
- (1:43:26 AM) ***Trefoil purses her lips, telekinetically slipping the bottle back into her pouch, "A'ight, it is probably smarter to let the fillies with the coats stand post."
- (1:43:43 AM) ***Trefoil winks, "Don't fall asleep though! Or I'll put you on report!"
- (1:44:29 AM) ***Puzzler frowns at the terminal as he gets locked out from it. These Wasteland terminals where tougher then he thought. Another reason to why he hated the outside so much. The machines on the outside refused to cooperate. With another frown he moved over to the safe. Trying to open it.
- (1:45:05 AM) Violet: "What do I care? I'm never going back" She states quietly
- (1:45:23 AM) ***Steel_Innocence nods again and hops into the car.
- (1:46:17 AM) DontAskForGM: The safe is a turn dial affair, the sort you need acmbination to open. The chalk writing seems to be mutiple words written overtop each other, all of the rooms from the various levels of the stable.
- (1:46:20 AM) ***Trefoil hops off the vehicles top, bending at the knees, nearly getting hit by a flying Steel! Tre shrugs, "Well, I'd rather we not all die or get stranded. So try'n keep your eyes open, in shifts if you want. I'll be back down to check on you in an hour or so. Sound good?"
- (1:46:43 AM) ***Steel_Innocence turns confused to Violet. "No? Why? It is such a nice place with ponies and things and all."
- (1:47:31 AM) Gizmo left the room (quit: Connection closed).
- (1:47:53 AM) Gizmo [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (1:48:27 AM) ***Puzzler dismisses the text written on the safe. Seen it so often back in the stable that he knew it by heart. Poking the safe slightly. "Well.. I can't open you.." says. "So I'll give you another shot" he says, turning towards the terminal again.
- (1:50:04 AM) ***Hospice backed up a little. She kept an entirely emotionless exterior even though she was inwardly surprised and conflicted that it had gone that far. Hospice enjoyed hearing stories about "hilarious pranks" several ponies would play on Gizmo, but she felt a certain line had been crossed. Regardless, she seemed determined not to be shaken. Then again, Hospice soon realized that
- (1:50:04 AM) ***Hospice doubting Gizmo was easier than having to confront her own actions and feeling guilty. Hospice gave Gizmo a credulous look, "Hm. Nothing like that ever came up in the medical check-up reports." Hospice of course, partially didn't realize and thus neglected to mention that she was at least partially resposible for conveniently omitting that information on the reports through being
- (1:50:04 AM) ***Hospice much-less-than-rigorous with her medical check-ups.
- (1:50:19 AM) ***Trefoil heads up the long path towards the top, tuning out the sounds and smells of the wastes for now, focusing on the radio's songs.
- (1:50:24 AM) DontAskForGM: After a few more moments or digging in the terminals files, his wing fingers clicking away at the keyboard, Puzzler is rewarded with access to the terminal!
- (1:50:44 AM) mode (+v Gizmo) by Violet
- (1:50:48 AM) DontAskForGM: The pass-word was "Active_Duty"
- (1:51:04 AM) DontAskForGM: The terminal seemes to contain mutliple entries
- (1:52:23 AM) ***Puzzler picks an entry at random and opens the file.
- (1:52:31 AM) ***Gizmo looked at her with a certain amount of daggers, it was as if he could see through her. "You, this is and isnt you. You're guilty, you feel it. But instead you seem to think that poking the sleeping lion is a good idea. It's not." He says coldly. "Besides, you cant see if a stallion was raped through simple medical check ups." he added. then tapped his forehead. "It's mainly psychological."
- (1:54:53 AM) DontAskForGM: Data entry #3: Reported into the Overmare today, sent it encoded inside the repair ponies message. Nothing much to say really but if she wants an assesment of the dangers outside the stable doors then by luna she will get it. We are still fixing this place up, I have made this office my un-official home away from home.Should make a fine stand in for my office back at Stable 22 security headquarters... now as soon
- (1:55:00 AM) ***Trefoil pushes the doors open with a toned down version of her shockwave spell. Not seeing anypony or anything beyond her liberated supplies at the entrance, Trefoil calls out, "Hey! Anypony in here?"
- (1:55:56 AM) DontAskForGM: now as soon as I figure out this combination I can lock up the spare ammo and guns we traided for at that fishing camp...
- (1:56:04 AM) Hospices [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (1:56:13 AM) mode (+v Hospices) by Violet
- (1:56:20 AM) Hospice left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 121 seconds).
- (1:56:31 AM) ***Violet remains on top of the APC in her little jacket cocoon, looking out into the wastes
- (1:56:39 AM) Hospices is now known as Hospice
- (1:57:18 AM) ***Puzzler opens the files in chronological order. Lissening to the first one as he moves back to the Safe again. Ammo and guns, huh?
- (1:57:21 AM) ***Trefoil trots around the main floor room she explored before.
- (1:57:45 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Ooh, do you want to stay in the place 23 too, Violet?"
- (1:58:24 AM) Violet: "Hmm? I don't know, Steel. I really don't. All I know is I don't want to go back to 22..."
- (1:58:53 AM) DontAskForGM: Data entry #1: Foud this place while working ourway south looking for a safe passage over the mountains. The techies are shacked up downsair while my boys are up on the outer platforms under the dish on lookout. We havent secured the place and the are talking about getting it going again! At least we are heading out in the morning...
- (1:58:57 AM) ***Gizmo looks at Hospice. "I dont need to talk to you, you're just some fucking sadistic bitch that gets off on causing others pain." He looked at her. "In fact, I think i would rather die that stay here with all the ponies i hate." He trotted downstairs and out the door.
- (1:59:13 AM) Gizmo: he countinued to trot, towards the south
- (1:59:18 AM) Gizmo left the room (quit: Connection closed).
- (1:59:45 AM) ***Trefoil whirls as Giz flees out the door. Baffled, she trots over to the stairs and calls up, "Hey! What the fuck just happened?"
- (1:59:59 AM) ***Steel_Innocence looks at Violet, confused.
- (2:00:13 AM) DontAskForGM: The tormented gizmo flies past the other ponies as he charges out the door and down the hill, sprinting as fast as he can south...
- (2:01:05 AM) ***Puzzler gives the text on the safe another lookover with a puzzled look on his face.
- (2:01:50 AM) ***Hospice turned toward Trefoil and gave the most sickly sweet smile, "Oh, you know, just a temper tantrum." Hospice's account conveniently failed to mention herself in any way.
- (2:01:50 AM) ***Violet notices and explains "The overmare isn't a nice pony, Steel. She put a lot of ponies in danger and didn't tell anypony. I refuse to work under somepony with that kind of flippant disregard to those she is supposed to lead and keep safe."
- (2:02:49 AM) ***Trefoil cocks an eye at Hospice, "Yeah? Gizmo didn't seem like the kind to fly off the handle like that.... what'd you say to'im Doc?"
- (2:02:52 AM) DontAskForGM: Data entry #2: Well we are back again, 23 was so srewed I thought for sure we would have to lead the lot of them back to 22, but the wrench heads said they can fix it. And the kicker? It looks like they can, hell they may actually get this place working again. Amazing is what it is, going to have to clean this office up just in case they do it.
- (2:05:24 AM) ***Hospice pointed at herself innocently and tried to give off a cutesy facial expression not befitting her actual age, "What? Me? Nothing bad." She justified herself by pointing out that she hadn't technically insulted Gizmo or anything. After all, she was a polite pony.
- (2:05:47 AM) Steel_Innocence: "But then we HAVE to go back, because of the nice ponies."
- (2:06:01 AM) DontAskForGM: Data Entry #4: Got the combonation finaly, and just in time to! We are about to head out but I can still re-set the combination and store the surpplus weapons before we go. Im stealing a trick from the gear-heads and leaving a clue on the safe in case some of our ponies ever find it. Its going to be the leves of the stable, each level representing a number on the dial. Cool eh?
- (2:07:44 AM) ***Violet nods sadly "There are nice ponies there, yes...I'll miss my parents of course, but I'd rather live outside where nothing is certain than live in there where it /is/ certain that i'll likely be manipulated again."
- (2:08:46 AM) DontAskForCookies [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (2:09:00 AM) ***Trefoil snorts, "Fine, whatever.... I'm sure Vi and Steel'll stop him. Where's Wings at?"
- (2:09:18 AM) mode (+v DontAskForCookies) by Violet
- (2:09:24 AM) Trefoil: *whatever, you're a paragon of charisma and interequine relations. I'm
- (2:10:04 AM) DontAskForGM left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 121 seconds).
- (2:11:11 AM) ***Hospice failed to detect the sarcasm in Trefoil's voice. Which meant she was definitely a paragon of charisma. She gave a confused look towards Trefoil, "Uh...I thought Puzzler just went down."
- (2:12:33 AM) ***Puzzler grins as he hears the final message. Moving up to the safe. Starting to turn the knob according to the levels of the Stable. Knowing them by heart the safe was pretty easy to open once you knew the trick to it.
- (2:13:01 AM) Trefoil: "Down /where/? Specificity please Doc."
- (2:13:18 AM) DontAskForCookies: The safe clickes oppen, rewarding the pegusus with... well with quite the stash of treasures
- (2:13:49 AM) ***Steel_Innocence scratches her head. The confusion still crosses her eyes, but she decides to avoid a head ouchies. "The outside is dirty, but it looks nice. It is big and there are funny things."
- (2:14:01 AM) ***Puzzler eyes goes wide as he marvels in all the treasure!
- (2:14:47 AM) DontAskForCookies: Inside the safe is: 1 slightly used 10mm pistol, 30 rounds of 10mm ammo. 1 magic pistol, 15 shots worth of magic pistol ammo, and 7 20guage shot-gun shells
- (2:15:15 AM) ***Violet nods "And just think! Maybe there are some nice ponies out here too!"
- (2:17:00 AM) ***Puzzler scoops up all the guns and ammo into his saddlebags. Moving back towards the door with his newfound treasure. Smile on his face as he opens the door, he was sure the guardponies could have use of this!
- (2:18:00 AM) ***Steel_Innocence smiles. "Nice ponies are nice."
- (2:18:41 AM) Trefoil: "Hey. Doc? Hospice? Where's Wings at?"
- (2:18:50 AM) ***Trefoil waves a hoof in front of the medic.
- (2:18:54 AM) Trefoil: *leg
- (2:19:16 AM) ***Hospice gave a confused look, "Didn't he go uh...downstairs? He wasn't downstairs?"
- (2:19:54 AM) ***Puzzler trotts out of the door and into the room with all the beds. Beaming he starts to move for the stairs going down.
- (2:20:48 AM) ***Steel_Innocence ponders. "Maybe the pinky things are nice too. Maybe they are just angry because they are ugly."
- (2:21:34 AM) ***Hospice heard the clopping of hooves right behind Trefoil down in the floor with the beds. "Uh...maybe...?"
- (2:21:42 AM) ***Violet smiles "Maybe."
- (2:23:28 AM) ***Trefoil nods, "Yeah. Sounds like it."
- (2:23:43 AM) Trefoil: "Hey Wings! Find anything up there?"
- (2:23:59 AM) Trefoil: "Active_Duty's liquor cabinet or something?"
- (2:25:08 AM) ***Puzzler beams at Trefoil. "No... But I found something else", he says. Trotting up to the pair, sitting down and opening his saddlebags. Showing the treasure inside.
- (2:25:38 AM) ***Hospice was wondering if they would find more food or medical supplies. Puzzler didn't. "Oh. Guns. I see."
- (2:26:19 AM) ***Puzzler looks up at Trefoil. "M-Maybe, you and the other guard ponies could have use for these?" He says, offering all of it to Trefoil.
- (2:26:51 AM) ***Violet starts fidgetting abruptly and climbs down off the APC "I'll be right back Steel." She scampers off behind some rocks that hide her from view.
- (2:26:53 AM) Trefoil: "Ooooh! Guns!"
- (2:27:28 AM) ***Trefoil nods vigorously, "Yeah, I'm sure Vi'd love to have some more ammo. Good work!"
- (2:28:10 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Okay"
- (2:28:13 AM) ***Trefoil has taken the magic pistol, but doesn't really think much about it until, "Hey, did you keep anything to protect yourself with?"
- (2:28:55 AM) ***Hospice saw the glimmer and had an interesting expression on her face. "Hm. Is that a magical weapon? I actually played around with one in the stable until it broke."
- (2:30:37 AM) ***Puzzler slumps at the question. "No.. I-I'm not very good with weapons." Or combat.. Or fighting.. "I think you should take them."
- (2:32:06 AM) ***Violet trots back over to the APC humming to herself happily.
- (2:33:01 AM) ***Trefoil shakes her head, "Yes it is, no you can't have it."
- (2:33:28 AM) Trefoil: "Well.... keep in mind you may need to defend yourself out here Wings, or die."
- (2:33:42 AM) Trefoil: "I'll try my best to make sure you don't have to, but."
- (2:33:44 AM) ***Trefoil shrugs
- (2:34:34 AM) ***Steel_Innocence decides to fiddle with her clicky thing out of boredom. She tries to find a letter to read, but somehow she makes it start playing music, which is nice too. She softly sway left and right with the music.
- (2:34:39 AM) ***Trefoil has slipped the 'new' pistol into the empty holster of her barding, along with a full clip. The rest she'll hand over to Vi when she goes to inspect the guard post.
- (2:35:04 AM) ***Hospice gave Trefoil a smirk. "Well, looks like I'll probably hang out with Puzzler if anything goes wrong. Have fun."
- (2:36:38 AM) ***Puzzler twitches slightly. "I.. I do know how to use explosives." He mumbles. Then looking over at Hospice, not sure if what to feel about having the cynical doctor closeby.
- (2:37:52 AM) ***Hospice gave a strange expression, "...a skill probably far more useful out here than in the stable. Unfortunately, we aren't really drowning in explosives. Or perhaps thankfully."
- (2:39:12 AM) ***Trefoil groans, "No, it's unfortunate."
- (2:39:44 AM) Trefoil: "All I've got is my tear gas grenades, so, not really explosives beyond the igniters which is really more of a pyrotechnic device anyway."
- (2:40:16 AM) ***Puzzler jerks, stands up. "Maybe we can find some on the other floors.. Or perhaps more supplies?" He says, acctualy starting to enjoy his little adventure in the tower. Adventures without the whole shootypart was okay.
- (2:43:00 AM) ***Violet uses the silence as an excuse to reload her used clip with more ammunition
- (2:43:13 AM) Trefoil: "Aw sweet, there's more rooms locked up there!"
- (2:43:43 AM) ***Trefoil lifts out a hairpin in the shimmery brown glow of her magic, "I'm fuckin' ace at opening doors!"
- (2:44:12 AM) ***Steel_Innocence looks at Violet with a bit of a grumpy face for a moment.
- (2:44:23 AM) Trefoil: *there!?
- (2:44:50 AM) ***Hospice follows Puzzler, largely due to having nothing else to do.
- (2:47:12 AM) ***Puzzler heads directly for the 3d floor. Taking the final steps very slowly, scanning the floor for any movement. Looking for another door. Ready to jump down, behind Trefoil and Hospice if needed.
- (2:47:57 AM) ***Violet is oblivious to Steel's grumpiness
- (2:48:26 AM) DontAskForCookies: The third floor door is steel, like the ones below and has more chalk writing on it
- (2:49:03 AM) ***Trefoil follows behind the other two ponies, who are apparently even more eager then her.
- (2:49:24 AM) ***Trefoil has the holster flap open, just in case, "Whatcha see?"
- (2:49:36 AM) ***Puzzler examines the writing. These ponies surely liked their chalk.
- (2:50:12 AM) DontAskForCookies: Outside the two ponies listening to the radio hear the music end and a new sound, a breif introduction by a host named Skin (a mare? with an incredibly deep and gravvely voice) who introduces a segment titled, "As the waste burns", which is apparently a soap opra of sorts played by three diffrent ponies...
- (2:50:39 AM) DontAskForCookies: The writing on the door reads, "Please keep out when in use"
- (2:51:42 AM) ***Puzzler assumes that the floor is safe as he dosn't see any movement and moves up to the floor, starting to head for the door. "Looks empty.."
- (2:53:33 AM) Trefoil: "Uh huh. Is the door locked?"
- (2:53:45 AM) ***Trefoil notes the chalk inscription and listens for signs of 'in use'
- (2:54:01 AM) ***Puzzler tries to open the door. "I don't know.."
- (2:54:43 AM) DontAskForCookies: The door is quite unlocked and opens easily, the room beyond is dark and has an odd acid like oder to it
- (2:55:52 AM) ***Puzzler takes a few steps back from the room. Peering inside.
- (2:56:51 AM) DontAskForCookies: meanwhile on the radio, this evenings episode of "As the Wasteland burns" we learn the fate of Rapd responses pregnancy test, find out if Goal post is going to leave Stuffy for Lilly, and who Sgnt. Trotter is going to leave his bramin farm empire to...
- (2:56:56 AM) DontAskForCookies: Should be exciting!
- (2:57:56 AM) DontAskForCookies: The room beyon the door is only dimly illuminated by the light in the main tower. In the darkness Puzzler can make out a few counters and a table
- (2:59:03 AM) ***Trefoil steps around Hospice to follow Puzzler. Sniffing, the security officer furrows her brow, "Smells like a lab."
- (2:59:21 AM) ***Violet listens to the...weird as tartarus play over her pipbuck
- (2:59:55 AM) ***Puzzler activates his pipbuck light and moves into the room. Trying to ignore the smell. Who knows what could be hidden in here. He is almost shaking in excitment.
- (2:59:59 AM) ***Trefoil realizes she's missing 'As the Wastes Burns'! There's exploring/looting to be done though.
- (3:00:05 AM) ***Trefoil looks for a light switch
- (3:00:47 AM) DontAskForCookies: On the radio: In a twist it turns out that Rapid responce is actually fakeing the pregnancy to tear Pit-Raider away from Snap-shot!
- (3:02:08 AM) DontAskForCookies: A light switch is located just inside the door, the light fom the pip-buck is enough to reaveal that used to be an employee kitchen that has since been turned into a lab of sort with several small items litering the counters and table
- (3:02:21 AM) Trefoil: "Don't touch anything yet Wings..."
- (3:02:29 AM) ***Trefoil flips the switch with her TK
- (3:02:42 AM) DontAskForCookies: Also in the room is a fridge, sink, and a coffey maker
- (3:03:42 AM) ***Puzzler stops as he was just about to pick up a item from the table. "Uh.. Sure.." he says, standing still on the spot.
- (3:03:43 AM) ***Steel_Innocence scratches her head. "These voicy ponies are odd."
- (3:03:46 AM) DontAskForCookies: The sink now contains two metal buckets, bottles of chemical are sprawled across the countespace. Several plastic tubes rest on the table, a line has been tied up across the room with cloths pens attatched to it
- (3:04:22 AM) ***Trefoil drifts towards the fridge. She mumbles to herself, "Photo lab....?"
- (3:04:45 AM) ***Trefoil speaks up, "Recognize any of those chemicals Wings? Doc?"
- (3:05:52 AM) DontAskForCookies: On the radio, Rapidsplan is overheard by the nurse Well-Care who rushes of to tell Pit-Raider, who in turns rushes to appologize to Snap, asking if she will ever forgive him. The two make amends with a kiss and all is forgiven.
- (3:06:51 AM) ***Trefoil pops the fridge door open.
- (3:07:41 AM) DontAskForCookies: The fridge is the same temperature as the rest of the room, having stoped working years ago. If their was something in it the ponies from 22 cleaned it out years ago, but a faint smell remains...
- (3:09:26 AM) ***Trefoil sighs and turns back to her companions, "So?"
- (3:10:59 AM) ***Steel_Innocence gives up on trying to piece together the whole story and just smiles. "The voicy ponies are happy now."
- (3:12:13 AM) ***Violet groans and facehoofs. This...this is terrible. but she can't stop listening..."Yea I guess they are Steel."
- (3:12:47 AM) ***Trefoil pokes Hospice in the flank, "Doc?"
- (3:13:50 AM) ***Hospice yipped, "W-what? This isn't some super-medicine room. It's just a photo-making place."
- (3:15:13 AM) Trefoil: "Ah ha! I was right! Photo-lab!"
- (3:16:01 AM) ***Trefoil grins, "So, there's a bunch of pictures that haven't been developed yet? That could be helpful; show us what 23 looks like from the outside, maybe places to watch out for, you know, shit like that."
- (3:16:19 AM) ***Hospice semed to have realized something, "Oh! That's a good point! Nice thinking."
- (3:16:23 AM) ***Trefoil taps her muzzule with a hoof, "Either of you know how to develope pictures?"
- (3:16:50 AM) ***Puzzler trots around the table to see what chemicals where there. Taking note of each one of them. "Uh.. I think we can use these. Ma'am" He mention towards all the chemicals with a wing. "To develop some of these pictures. Never done it myself.. But I know the theory behind it." He mumbles the last part.
- (3:17:21 AM) ***Steel_Innocence wanders away from the car to look at a rock that looks just like a duck. Quack, quack.
- (3:18:37 AM) DontAskForCookies: Steels trot towards the duck shaped rocks takers her well outside the range of hearing from Violet and just out of her feild of view.
- (3:19:29 AM) ***Trefoil nods, "Good enough for me. Wanna try with a small first, get the theory down?"
- (3:20:03 AM) ***Violet just assumes Steel needed to piss like she did and doesn't think much of it.
- (3:20:23 AM) ***Hospice shrugged. Look like Puzzler had it, no need for her to help.
- (3:20:46 AM) DontAskForCookies: While Steel is enjoying the funy shaped rock the silly mare blinks, but finds to her amazment that when she opens her eyes a small stuffed pony is resting on the rock
- (3:21:14 AM) DontAskForCookies: A voice that seems to float from no-where in paticular echos from near the rock, "Hello"
- (3:21:36 AM) ***Puzzler "Uh, I. Well, I can try.." he says. Moving about in the room, making the proper preperations for the photobath and all that jazz.
- (3:21:57 AM) ***Trefoil nods, "That's all I can ask. You want Doc to help?"
- (3:22:40 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Hi plushie. I'm Steel Innocence."
- (3:23:28 AM) DontAskForCookies: The voice from nowhere returns, "Pleased to meet you Steel, Im... Polly pony, Im very glad to meet you"
- (3:23:33 AM) ***Puzzler prepares the developer, stop and fixer baths and places them in order. Pondering the next move as he goes through the things he have read about.
- (3:25:45 AM) Trefoil: "Lights off?"
- (3:25:48 AM) ***Trefoil fidgets
- (3:25:54 AM) Steel_Innocence: "You look nice, Polly Pony, like the duck rock. Did you see this duck rock? It is very nice."
- (3:26:02 AM) DontAskForCookies: it takes a short while but Puzzler is eventually able to place the chemicals in the correct order and prepare the bath, now all he needs is to dip the reals and leave them out to develp on the line. Something that should take at least 5-10 mins
- (3:27:06 AM) DontAskForCookies: The toy replies, "yes, It is a nice rock. Their are all kinds of shapes you can find out here, like that one over behind you that looks like a turtle... but dont you have rocks likes these were your from?"
- (3:27:22 AM) ***Puzzler nods. "Yes please." He says as he turns of his pipbuck. Then continues the proccedure, diping the reals in for a while, then putting them on the line. Working in the darkness.
- (3:29:16 AM) Steel_Innocence: "The place 22 is all square. We have funny toys, but no funny rocks."
- (3:29:24 AM) ***Trefoil nods and flips the lights off
- (3:30:42 AM) DontAskForCookies: The toy seems to pause, almost as if in thought, "You mean stable 22, Is that where you are from?"
- (3:31:18 AM) ***Puzzler guessing half of the correct moves he soon has a few of the canvases hung on the line, waiting for them to dry he starts pondering the past events. Being in these kind of elements felt right, but as soon as he went outside the entire world turned upside down.
- (3:31:29 AM) Arcane_Scroll is now known as Arcane_Scroll[A]
- (3:31:45 AM) ***Steel_Innocence nods. "Yup."
- (3:32:31 AM) Trefoil: "So. Everypony having fun?"
- (3:33:09 AM) DontAskForCookies: Polly pony mumbles to herself, "That would explain the APC...", after a short pause in the conversation Polly pony brightens back up, "It must have been nice in the Stable, why did your freinds leave it? Didnt you have freinds?"
- (3:35:26 AM) ***Puzzler jumps slightly, blushing for being such a scaredy pony. Glad that none could see that in the dark. "I guess so.." He finaly answers. Not being atacked, and in a building full of mysteries.
- (3:35:37 AM) DontAskForCookies: It isnt long before puzzler judges that the pictures should be done, the lights can now come on and reveal the photos secrets
- (3:36:32 AM) ***Trefoil waits in the dark, "Just tell me when, I'll turn the lights back on. After that I'll need to check the guards, see if I can find Giz..."
- (3:37:32 AM) ***Puzzler "Should be done now.. I think." He says, hoping that they photos turn out alright.
- (3:39:08 AM) ***Trefoil turns the lights back on, shielding her eyes from the flash
- (3:39:09 AM) Steel_Innocence: "I have many, many friends." She bounces up and down. "Like all the friends from school and the nice pony from the kitchen and those fillies from the farm and even the friends that are in the Outside too and sometimes they are a little mean but they are nice and sometimes they are need help and I help them because I am nice and we all go help my best friend from place 23."
- (3:39:52 AM) ***Puzzler forgets to shield his own eyes. "Agh!" He says, closing them quickly, being blinded by the light
- (3:42:36 AM) ***Trefoil gently removes her leg from over her eyes and bends down to check out the photos
- (3:42:47 AM) DontAskForCookies: Polly pony seems serprised, stubbling on her words as if she cant decided what to ask about first, "Y-Your on your way to help 23, wait- best freind from stable 23? how long have you been outside your stable?"
- (3:43:51 AM) DontAskForCookies: The photos seem to have come out alright, if somewhat fuzzy.
- (3:44:04 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Umm... two days, I think." Though she doesn't look very sure of that.
- (3:44:12 AM) ***Puzzler still being somewhat blinded from the flash blinks in a rapid session a couple of time before taking a closer look at the photos
- (3:44:49 AM) DontAskForCookies: The first ones seem to entirely be of stable 23, its entrance covered in rocksand its first level almost entirely uncovered above and beneith, cracks and open fissures running along the steel and cement
- (3:45:03 AM) ***Violet hops out of the APC and heads up to the tower lost in thought
- (3:45:22 AM) DontAskForCookies: The cliff-face it was built into seems to have slid loose damageing the entrace
- (3:45:24 AM) ***Trefoil frowns, "That don't look good."
- (3:46:03 AM) DontAskForCookies: Polly pony pauses again, "And what about your best freind, I have been many places. Maybe I have heard of him?"
- (3:46:58 AM) DontAskForCookies: the next photos show the repair team meeting an excited crowd of stable 23 dwellers, being welcomed in high spirits and ushered in to a large celebaratory meal
- (3:46:59 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Ooh, that would be nice. He is a very nice pony."
- (3:47:36 AM) Trefoil: "/That/ looks a lot better. At least they're still alive."
- (3:47:49 AM) ***Hospice frowned, "...but then why are we still out here?"
- (3:48:02 AM) ***Violet trots through the doors, looking around curiously before heading up the stairs since she couldn't spot anypony
- (3:48:16 AM) DontAskForCookies: Polly pony more urgently asks, "And what is his name?"
- (3:48:37 AM) DontAskForCookies: The next photos show the start of the reconstruction of the Stable 23 entrance
- (3:49:08 AM) Arcane_Scroll[A] is now known as Arcane_Scroll
- (3:49:33 AM) DontAskForCookies: Work seems to have started slow, mostly with clearing away the rubble. The next group of photos show a few of the repair ponies and security guards preparing to leave.
- (3:49:46 AM) Trefoil: "They're coming back? Already?"
- (3:49:59 AM) Trefoil: "Well, I guess that matches what we've seen here."
- (3:50:14 AM) Trefoil: "They /were/ in contact with the overbitch."
- (3:50:17 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Oh, he is Steady Pulse. He looks just like this." She pulls the figurine out of her saddlebags.
- (3:50:19 AM) ***Violet eventually spots the rest of the group and looks back and forth between the room their in and the stairway to the next floor. She shrugs and heads up to the next floor. They seem to have things well in hoof.
- (3:50:24 AM) DontAskForCookies: The next photos show various landmarks, hills, a rusty roadside diner, a camp of some sort set up on a large bridge...
- (3:50:44 AM) Steel_Innocence: "But bigger... I think."
- (3:51:10 AM) ***Hospice frowned. That was a confusing addition.
- (3:51:32 AM) Hospice: "So...they went to the Stable...and apparently stopped by here again to make pictures? Strange."
- (3:52:22 AM) DontAskForCookies: Polly pony pauses for short while, oddly it almost sounds like somepony is trotting closer to look at the figure. After a short while Polly starts talking again. "Thats... Well he must be a good freind, I bet you would like to see him someday".
- (3:53:14 AM) ***Puzzler starts taking down the picture the have looked at, placeing them in a protective cover and putting them in his saddlebags. "As proof." He says.
- (3:53:19 AM) DontAskForCookies: The Final floor of the tower is mostly empty besides various radio equipment, a few metal boxes, a makeshift work-table, and a steel door
- (3:53:35 AM) Trefoil: "Good thinking Wings, we may need those as guides later on..."
- (3:53:47 AM) ***Violet trots over to the boxes and looks through them curiously
- (3:53:47 AM) DontAskForCookies: The final photos seem to be of the team fixing up the tower, the last one being a group shot of the team
- (3:53:49 AM) ***Hospice frowned, "Does this mean we can head back to 22? Or should we stop by 23?"
- (3:54:18 AM) ***Trefoil snatches the group shot from Puzzler and brings it nearly to her eyes.
- (3:54:28 AM) DontAskForCookies: Also in the picture is an addition, a mare none of you has ever seen before dressed in what can only be described as a duster made from scrap leather and a large hat
- (3:54:51 AM) Trefoil: "No. We have to go on. Clearly they didn't fix the problem like they planned to. Something happened, and now I wanna know why."
- (3:54:53 AM) DontAskForCookies: One of the repair ponies seems to has also upgraded his standard barding with random bits of armor
- (3:55:27 AM) ***Trefoil drops the photo on the table for the pegasus to pick back up, "We might wanna start thinking about better armor for ya'll."
- (3:55:30 AM) ***Steel_Innocence nods vigorously. "I want very, very much. And now we have a car and go to all of the outside, but it is so big and the place 23 is so far."
- (3:56:19 AM) ***Hospice nodded, "It does all seem...quite suspicious."
- (3:56:58 AM) ***Violet looks in dem boxes.
- (3:57:02 AM) ***Puzzler takes a quick look at the final photo. Then picks it up and places it with the rest. Closes the container and places it all in is saddlebags. "So, if they where done, why didn't they come back?"
- (3:57:09 AM) DontAskForCookies: Polly pony nods oddly, almost puppet like, "Well i hope you all have a safe trip to 23, its a very long way away. I can only suggest that you be very carful, sometimes things can be very dangerous out here, especially other ponies. I have to go now Steel"
- (3:57:14 AM) ***Puzzler only nods slowly at the mention of armor.
- (3:57:30 AM) Trefoil: "Something went wrong Wings."
- (3:57:51 AM) Trefoil: "Don't know what, when, or how but now I want to."
- (3:57:53 AM) DontAskForCookies: The metal boxes seem to contain scraps of metal and wire, probably remains from when the crew was cleaning up the tower
- (3:58:07 AM) Trefoil: "You found the temporary security office, right?"
- (3:58:23 AM) ***Hospice smirked, "Well, it could be some kind of horrible misunderstanding. But then again, we'd have to clear it up, so we might as well head towards 23..."
- (3:58:24 AM) ***Puzzler nods again. "Y-yeah."
- (3:58:34 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Okay, bye." She waves to the nice plushie.
- (3:58:46 AM) ***Violet fiddles with the stuff in the boxes, looking it over then checks the worktable to see if anything's on it and finally the door
- (3:59:34 AM) DontAskForCookies: Polly pony waves back, "Ill probably see you again Steel, I hope to anyway. Be safe for now and protect your freinds. Freinds are hard to find out here an they are very special things to have. Good luck!"
- (4:00:50 AM) ***Trefoil nods, "So either way we gotta keep going to figure this mess out. Okay, where is it? I wanna take a look at Active Duty's notes and stuff. There were notes, right?"
- (4:01:08 AM) DontAskForCookies: The work table has a the basic array of tools, only what the orginal repair pony who set it up was willing to part with. Also on the table are a few sketches for what appear to be armor upgrades to Stable barding. The door is locked, a glowing terminal sits next to it.
- (4:01:20 AM) ***Steel_Innocence nods. She decides to go back to the car, glancing back to take a last look on the nice ducky rock, then waking all the way to Violet.
- (4:01:51 AM) DontAskForCookies: The last look at the ducky rock reveals that Polly Pony has disapeared...
- (4:02:24 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Wow, talky plushies move fast."
- (4:03:11 AM) ***Violet frowns. Not much she can use. maybe she could give it to Gizmo or Puzzler? She puts the sketches and tools into her bag for later and then sits down staring at the door intently. Stop being locked you Luna damned door.
- (4:03:27 AM) ***Puzzler "Yeah, a few audio logs and a safe. You, uh, its on the 2d floor. "
- (4:04:12 AM) ***Steel_Innocence hop back on the APC, realizing there is nopony else there anymore. "Violet?"
- (4:04:47 AM) Xavi is now known as Desert_Lightning
- (4:05:01 AM) Desert_Lightning left the room.
- (4:05:11 AM) Trefoil: "Ya did good Wings, thanks. Probably want to hit the hay soon, but that's up ta ya'll."
- (4:05:35 AM) ***Trefoil pats the repairpony on the back, "Guess I owe you /two/ kisses now."
- (4:06:12 AM) ***Puzzler blushes slightly at Trefoils compliment. Scratch that, blushes fiercly now. Looking down.
- (4:06:15 AM) ***Trefoil turns towards the door, eager to see what her missing counterpart had to say about the dangers of the wastes.
- (4:06:25 AM) ***Steel_Innocence looks all around, inside and under the car. "Violet? Are you hiding?"
- (4:07:10 AM) ***Puzzler gathers himself enought to splur out. "T-there is s-still another floor!" as he trots after Trefoil
- (4:07:23 AM) ***Hospice gave Puzzler an awkward glance before trotting after him.
- (4:07:47 AM) ***Trefoil perks up, "Another floor you say?"
- (4:08:19 AM) ***Puzzler "Mhm." Pointing with a wing towards the stair going up.
- (4:08:39 AM) ***Violet is still sitting and staring at the offending locked door
- (4:09:59 AM) ***Steel_Innocence sits by the car, puffing her cheeks. "No fair! You didn't tell me about the game."
- (4:10:15 AM) ***Trefoil gestures grandly with her leg, "Shall we then?"
- (4:11:35 AM) ***Puzzler "Uh.. Sure! Mares first?" He grins lightly.
- (4:12:36 AM) ***Trefoil smirks, "Fine fine, meatshield first. But honestly? I think we did a pretty good job cleaning this place out before w-, well, our party, got here."
- (4:12:50 AM) ***Trefoil mounts the stairs and heads up towards the next floor
- (4:13:29 AM) ***Hospice positioned herself right behind Puzzler, "You can never be...too careful."
- (4:13:39 AM) DontAskForCookies: The sounds of hooves on the steps allerts Violet to the arrival of her comrad
- (4:13:41 AM) ***Puzzler follows Trefoil up the stairs.
- (4:13:44 AM) DontAskForCookies: *Comrads
- (4:13:45 AM) ***Violet leans back, looking at the stairs upside down as she hears somepony coming up "'Lo Tre. Where's Puzzle? Got's'a terminal for him to take a crack at."
- (4:14:38 AM) ***Steel_Innocence takes the snack apple-tart out of her bags. "Violeeeet~ I have a tasty thing for you."
- (4:15:30 AM) ***Trefoil points behind her, "Right here. Did you leave Steel alone at the APC?"
- (4:15:40 AM) Trefoil: "Oh yeah, hey Vi."
- (4:16:27 AM) Violet: "...Actually Steel left first...then I got bored."
- (4:16:36 AM) ***Violet shrugs
- (4:16:49 AM) ***Hospice gave a smirk, "Another console huh? Can you imagine how much trouble we'd be in without Puzzler?"
- (4:17:08 AM) ***Puzzler trots up the stairs. Noticing the terminal. And goes straight for it. "Let's see.."
- (4:17:52 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Look at it, so tasty. Yum!"
- (4:17:55 AM) ***Puzzler starts tapping away at the terminal with his wing fingers.
- (4:18:09 AM) Violet: "Puzzle! Just the pony I wanted to see! Terminal here with your name on it!." She noticed the shiny (worn out) new (old) pistol in Tre's holster "find some toys?"
- (4:18:46 AM) Trefoil: "You got this Wings? Yeah, stallion found'em in the safe downstairs. I got some ammo for you too."
- (4:19:10 AM) ***Trefoil sighs, "Next time don't just abandon your post, please?"
- (4:19:15 AM) Steel_Innocence: "It smells so good too."
- (4:19:35 AM) Trefoil: "I'll have to go make sure Steel hasn't wandered off to- wait."
- (4:19:46 AM) ***Trefoil frowns, "Did you guys see Gizmo go past?"
- (4:19:57 AM) DontAskForCookies: The computer terminal offers little resistance to the winged wonder as he poweres through its defences and unlocks it. The password was WaveLength
- (4:20:01 AM) Violet: "What fucking post. We aren't in the Luna damned stable anymore, Tre. And no. I don't think I did."
- (4:20:10 AM) DontAskForCookies: The terminal only has one command option, to open or shut the door
- (4:20:39 AM) ***Trefoil snorts, "Right, we aren't, so it doesn't get a reaming from your mom anymore it gets us all killed or our shit stolen."
- (4:20:51 AM) ***Puzzler "WaveLenght, huh?" Imputs command to open the door. Looking back at the mares in the room. "I-I got it. Should open now."
- (4:21:08 AM) Violet: "Anyways, it seems I owe Puzzle here a hug for finding me some more ammo." She sighs "I'm sorry, Tre."
- (4:21:09 AM) Trefoil: "If ya'll got his, I'm going back out to make sure Steel's alright. Ammo'll be down on the bed."
- (4:21:22 AM) ***Trefoil nods, "Yeah. Good with locks he is."
- (4:21:23 AM) ***Steel_Innocence loves the smell of her mom's food. Maybe a bite would be okay.
- (4:21:26 AM) Trefoil: "Night everypony."
- (4:21:47 AM) ***Trefoil shuffles off down the stairs towards the main entrance.
- (4:21:51 AM) Trefoil: "Get some sleep!"
- (4:22:41 AM) DontAskForCookies: The door opens with a whine, obviously having remaind shut for luna knows how long. It would seem the other team never got this door open. As it opens a chill enters, followed by light as it opens completely. Beyond the door is more steel and railing apparently wrapping around the outside of the tower
- (4:23:00 AM) ***Hospice sighed..."so it's just the door to outside?"
- (4:23:12 AM) ***Violet trots outside, depressed again, and wanting to drown it in doing...something.
- (4:23:57 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Aww." She slumps in disappointment. Now she doesn't have a tasty thing for Violet.
- (4:24:09 AM) ***Puzzler flops down instantly, seeing the sky this close. Not good, not good. Fastening his gaze on the floor again.
- (4:24:10 AM) DontAskForCookies: The steel is rusted, worse off than the inside by far (similar in condition to the Stable tech supply depot.) but holds her weight
- (4:24:26 AM) Sky_Shine left the room (quit: Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.88.2 [SeaMonkey 2.9.1/20120429011004]).
- (4:24:31 AM) ***Trefoil winds her way back down towards the APC in the disconcerting dark of the night.
- (4:24:52 AM) DontAskForCookies: The view from outside on the raileing is amazing, Violetcan even make out the Stable tech building in the distance.
- (4:25:18 AM) ***Hospice saw Puzzler flop to the ground and was grateful that she hadn't really bothered to look out of the room. She fidgeted around a little until she realized that she was the only one really near Puzzler, so she inched closer to him. "Um...you...ok...?"
- (4:25:26 AM) ***Violet perks up a little...this is probably the most wonderous sight she'd ever seen...
- (4:25:27 AM) DontAskForCookies: In the dwindeling light of the nearly spent day, if she could see this far how far could she see in the day?
- (4:26:13 AM) ***Violet trots around the catwalk, her attention split between the view and watching where she's going
- (4:27:18 AM) ***Puzzler "S-S-S-sure, Im F-fine. It is just the outdoors, nothing to be afraid of.. R-right? he stutters nervously. Looking away from the mare. "Just the stupid outdoors..."
- (4:27:30 AM) ***Trefoil approaches the APC draped in her makeshift coat/poncho/blanket thing, "Steel? Steeeeel~"
- (4:27:50 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Oh, hi!"
- (4:28:19 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Do you have a tasty thing?"
- (4:28:26 AM) DontAskForCookies: The raileing leads all the way around the tower, to the north Violet can even just make out the bridge outside stable 22. Set not far from the door is a ladder leading up to the dish
- (4:28:32 AM) ***Hospice didn't know how much of a front she could put up considering that she was obviously staring very far from the door. "Oh yeah. Stupid outdoors. Why are we even hanging around it? Maybe we should just back away from it...or something."
- (4:28:47 AM) DontAskForCookies: Violet notices something, something blowing in the wind just on the edge of the disk
- (4:29:09 AM) ***Violet looks around, spotting the ladder and starts to climb up it, curiously
- (4:29:47 AM) ***Trefoil blinks, "Actually, yeah. You hungry?"
- (4:30:17 AM) DontAskForCookies: The ladder creaks and complains as the mare climbs, but eventually Violet arrives at the dish, a large bowl shaped structure.
- (4:30:28 AM) ***Trefoil tries to clamber back up ontop of the vehicle
- (4:30:41 AM) ***Puzzler "Y-yeah.. Let's go downstairs again." He says, standing up on shaky legs. And starts making his way down.
- (4:31:05 AM) ***Violet cautiously makes her way over to what she spotted, curious to see what it was
- (4:31:14 AM) DontAskForCookies: Looking about Violet notices whatit was she was seeing whipping about at the edge of the dish. slumped at the rim of the dish is the motionless form of a pony.
- (4:31:16 AM) Steel_Innocence: "Nuh-uh. It's for Violet."
- (4:31:24 AM) DontAskForCookies: its tail whipping about in the wind
- (4:31:42 AM) ***Hospice kept a small distance from Puzzler as they went towards the stairs. Close enough to react to any tripping of any kind, but not actually close enoughto feel awkward or anything.
- (4:32:21 AM) ***Violet yelps and scrambles over, throwing caution to the wind...caution probably being whipped away because it's probably pretty windy up there.
- (4:33:26 AM) Trefoil: "Yeah? Well, I've got some Sugar Apple Bombs up here if you want a snack."
- (4:33:34 AM) ***Trefoil beds down underneath the tarp
- (4:33:52 AM) DontAskForCookies: The strange purple furred and red maned pony dose not seem to notice or respond to the sounds of Violet approching. As she gets closer she can make out its wings, saddle bags, and leather barding...
- (4:33:59 AM) ***Puzzler goes down as far as the floor with all the beds. And flops down on one of them. Taking out his notebook he starts to write.
- (4:34:54 AM) ***Violet does an acrobatic mother fucking pirouette off the handle. Um...what to do what to do what to do what to do...PULSE! Check her pulse!
- (4:35:12 AM) Violet: (It's pulse*)
- (4:35:42 AM) ***Violet calls out while she does "DOC! PUZZLER! ANYPONY?"
- (4:35:52 AM) DontAskForCookies: But as the guard pony nears the strange pony it becomes all to obvious that she, whoever she was, is dead... no more than probably a days
- (4:36:21 AM) ***Trefoil finishes a sip from one of her collection of bottles, "And water. You tired Steel?"
- (4:36:34 AM) DontAskForCookies: Its fur is patchy, loose and falling out, her skin wrinkled and stretched across her face.
- (4:36:46 AM) ***Hospice groaned as she heard someone screaming her name. Despite wanting to flop onto the bed like Puzzler, he turned toward back upstairs and almost reached the outside before she realized she was outside. And very very high up.
- (4:37:29 AM) ***Violet seems to deflate. She was too late...
- (4:37:34 AM) ***Hospice immediately flopped down on the ground, realizing there was one thing she hated much more than being outside: heights.
- (4:37:44 AM) Hospice: "H-hello? H-help?"
- (4:38:00 AM) ***Steel_Innocence considers it for a moment. "I want water, but the snack is for Violet."
- (4:39:42 AM) ***Violet scratches her mane She's going to get this pony down, even if its the last thing she does. she climbs back down the ladder and pulls Hospice back inside, then storms off to find Tre. Maybe she could help...
- (4:40:51 AM) Trefoil: "Which is really nice kiddo, but I've got my own snack and if you wa-"
- (4:41:10 AM) ***Trefoil 's head whips around to look up at the tower
- (4:41:42 AM) Trefoil: "Something's wrong."
- (4:43:04 AM) DontAskForCookie [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (4:43:11 AM) ***Steel_Innocence looks up, but doesn't see anything. Is confused.
- (4:43:36 AM) mode (+v DontAskForCookie) by Violet
- (4:45:37 AM) ***Trefoil taps her ears as she wriggles out from under the tarp and hops down, "I heard Violet shout for a doctor! We better get going!"
- (4:46:02 AM) DontAskForCookies left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 121 seconds).
- (4:46:38 AM) ***Violet skids to a stop near wherever the fuck Tre ended up panting "Need...help...tower...dish...pony..."
- (4:47:25 AM) ***Steel_Innocence nods and runs to the building
- (4:48:01 AM) Trefoil: "What!?"
- (4:48:06 AM) Trefoil: "Who's hurt?"
- (4:48:20 AM) ***Trefoil steadies Violet, "What happened?"
- (4:48:46 AM) ***Trefoil instinctively steps aside of the Steel train, just in case it didn't apply the brakes in time.
- (4:50:02 AM) ***Violet shakes her head sadly "Not...hurt. Dead. Not...one of us...somepony else. Pegasus...mare. Found her...in the relay dish. Seems recent...too late..."
- (4:51:14 AM) ***Puzzler sees all the ponies suddenly in a hurry as they move up the tower. Follows suit as they all go up the stairs.
- (4:51:38 AM) ***Trefoil closes her eyes, "Take me to her."
- (4:52:10 AM) ***Violet takes off at a gallop back to the top of the tower
- (4:52:24 AM) ***Trefoil follows at a slow trot. The dead can wait.
- (4:53:57 AM) ***Steel_Innocence finds herself unsure of where to go as she gets to the tower, so she follows Violet.
- (4:56:41 AM) ***Violet goes out onto the catwalk and back up the ladder
- (4:57:07 AM) DontAskForCookie: The dead pony still remains where Violet had left her
- (4:57:08 AM) ***Trefoil clambers up after Violet, much more cautiously
- (4:57:13 AM) Trefoil: "All the way up there?"
- (4:57:17 AM) ***Violet nods
- (4:57:48 AM) ***Trefoil triest to spot the body from where she is, "You want me to lift her down and take a look?"
- (4:57:55 AM) ***Puzzler reaches the top floor and stops at the door. Hearing the news about the dead pony his breathing have gotten heavier. Now he just sits there, next to the door wondering what might have killed the pony.
- (4:58:06 AM) ***Hospice heaved in the corner. She had just gotten used to being outside...for short periods of time when the world decided to throw her a double-whammy. Instead, the pony crawled inside again, sticking as close to the door without having to look through it or being reminded of its presence.
- (5:00:07 AM) ***Puzzler looks over at Hospice, giving her a panicy look before moving over to a corner in the room sitting down there instead. Shaking.
- (5:00:48 AM) ***Hospice gave Puzzler a grim smile before chuckling, "Heh...heh...this is a f-familiar scene...isn't it?"
- (5:00:58 AM) Desert_Lightning [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (5:01:12 AM) Trefoil: "Violet?"
- (5:01:21 AM) Violet: "Yes?"
- (5:01:47 AM) ***Puzzler meerly whimpers. Hoping to one day conquere this odd fear.
- (5:01:51 AM) ***Steel_Innocence step ahead and climbs all the way to the dish.
- (5:02:50 AM) ***Trefoil whispers, "Do you want me to get her down?"
- (5:03:27 AM) ***Trefoil prepares her TK
- (5:03:54 AM) ***Violet nods "Yes..."
- (5:04:29 AM) ***Steel_Innocence approaches the fallen pegasus. "Hello?"
- (5:04:40 AM) Puzzler left the room (quit: Connection closed).
- (5:04:51 AM) Puzzler [[email protected]] entered the room.
- (5:04:57 AM) mode (+v Puzzler) by Violet
- (5:04:59 AM) DontAskForCookie: The pegasus dose not reply to steels call
- (5:06:05 AM) ***Trefoil lowers the body down level to the door. Bending down, Tre examines the body
- (5:06:32 AM) ***Violet follows the body.
- (5:08:01 AM) DontAskForCookie: Trefoil notices the bullet holes in the leather barding as well as the ones that seem to have perferated her wings. She seems to have taken on large volly of small guns fire. No doubt this is what killed her, bleeding out from her wounds
- (5:09:21 AM) Trefoil: "....
- (5:10:02 AM) Trefoil: *"....gunshots. Lot of them. Looks like her armor wasn't meant to stand up to that much punishment. Probably bled out up here."
- (5:10:08 AM) DontAskForCookie: Her saddle bags seem to be light, but a fire-arm of some sort can he seen tucked away on her side. Her cutie-mark...seems to have been branded off, replaced by a strange lightning shape
- (5:10:18 AM) ***Trefoil telekinetically doffs her helmet
- (5:10:30 AM) Trefoil: "Had a hard life it looks like..."
- (5:11:09 AM) ***Violet has tears in her eyes as she looks at the pegasus "...We should bury her...do...do /something/..."
- (5:13:05 AM) ***Trefoil remains silent
- (5:14:23 AM) ***Steel_Innocence climbs down the dish, approaching Trefoil and Violet. She moves closer. A shriek and hooves to the mouth. She falls on her haunches, eyes widened. A moment of struggle and she gets up again, both looking and trying not to. "...why..."
- (5:15:03 AM) ***Violet puts a leg around Steel_Innocence "I...I don't know..."
- (5:15:28 AM) ***Puzzler winces at the shriek. Curling up even further.
- (5:16:33 AM) ***Trefoil doesn't have anything to say
- (5:16:48 AM) DontAskForCookie: The corner of a worn and beaten notepad can be seen pokeing out of the saddle bags
- (5:18:15 AM) ***Trefoil reaches out with her telekinesis to reluctantly examine the notebook
- (5:18:26 AM) ***Trefoil mumbles, "Gonna find her name..."
- (5:18:35 AM) ***Violet sighs and checks the weapon. as much as it makes her sick, the pegasus no longer needs it...
- (5:19:20 AM) ***Trefoil keeps glancing from the pad over to Steel, making sure the young mare.... well, Trefoil was fully aware she wasn't.
- (5:19:53 AM) DontAskForCookie: The notebook is falling apart as it is pulled from from the bag.It seems to be just as damaged as the poor pony herself. The front cover is barely ledgeable but reads,"The private journal of Rainy Day, a wasteland castaway"
- (5:21:23 AM) ***Trefoil holds the pieces together with her magic and reads out the important part of the title, "Rainy Day."
- (5:21:52 AM) DontAskForCookie: The weapon when removed appears to be some sort of single barrle break action shotgun that has been sawed down to the size of a large pistol. Its hardwood is intracately detailed, by hoof aparently, and inludes the same lightning shape as is branded on the pony, and the words "Sky Splitter".
- (5:23:03 AM) ***Violet holds the weapon reverently for a few moments before putting it into her bags
- (5:23:05 AM) DontAskForCookie: 20g is stamped on the steel of the barrel
- (5:24:00 AM) DontAskForCookie: End of Session2.5
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