Isle Del Sol Session XII

Session Start: Sun Aug 31 09:44:45 2014
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[15:20] <%Somber> The six friends were on their way to Costa Del Luna, tracking down the source of the Colonel's information, an arms dealer that had sworn the baron was getting ready to occupy and fortify Costa Del Sol.  There was also an information broker they could see if they were interested in discovering the where abouts of pieces of teleporter.  The rain wasn't
[15:22] <%Somber> storming down with thunder and gusts of wind.  It was simply raining a perpetual drizzle. The land around them was almost impenitrable jungle punctated by dozens of streams pouring down the mountain side towards the coast.  As they went down, the footing became precarious, and a few places had ropes to prevent ponies from sliding off the sides of cliffs.
[15:26] <%Somber> Fortunately, all of them were sure footed enough to keep from having their feet swept out from under them.  Then, as the trail flattened out, they came across something utterly out of place.  A huge cargo ship lay in their path. Three hundred feet long, the rusted shell sat in the jungle as if the greenery were a fog slowly swallowing it.  A hole had been cut
[15:26] <%Somber> through the ship, and as water poured along the super structure, the metal groaned with the fatigue of ages.
[15:27] * Naphtha blinked, chewing her lower lip and looking up and down at the ship. "Um... Maybe it got carried in on a tidal wave?"
[15:28] * Harris gives the rusting hulk a good looking over before he gives any comment
[15:28] * Candlelight_Sonata shrugs.  "Could be, Naph.  Maybe from one of the bombs went off near coastal town like..."  she sighs.  "Well like near home."
[15:29] * Strifer looks at the ship, surprised with her mouth wide open. "Daaaym... Thats fucking cool." She says with a grin after taking it in for a while.
[15:31] * Calamine looks up at the ship. "I've never seen a boat this large."
[15:31] <%Somber> The trail went right through the hold, rusting cargo containers long ago looted for wealth.  Now vines and trees were its only shipment.
[15:32] * Calamine calls out. "Hello? We mean you no harm. Do you need help?"
[15:32] <%Somber> Something shifted inside the wreck.  A tense whispering passing back and forth.
[15:32] * Harris wispers to the rest of the party "The hulks full of pepole. They me be harmless, who knows."
[15:33] * Vera "Man, I bet there used to be a lot of really awesome salvage in there! Now it's just full of squatters, apparently. Oh well, no money to be had here."
[15:33] * Strifer raises an eyebrow. "Yeah.. And that path is like the fucking best spot Ive seen for an ambush.. "
[15:33] <%Somber> More restless whisperings.  Then a stallion called out.  "Toll.  ya gotta pay a toll."
[15:33] * Vera frowns. "It's not an ambush anymore, silly. We know they're there, obviously they can't ambush us now."
[15:34] * Naphtha tilts her head to the side. "W-well... Some folks travel to Costa del Luna from Costa del Sol and back, right? So it can't be anything too dangerous... I mean, we passed that trader earlier. They probably came through here."
[15:34] * Strifer snorts at Vera. "Don't care what the fuck you call it, if we're shot at its fucking bad. Oh.. Of course they want fucking money.. Fuck."
[15:35] * Vera "Well, that's a problem then, 'cause we don't have any! Maybe if we ask them real nice, they'll let us through for free?"
[15:35] <%Somber> "O...one bone button."  The stallion stammers.  "E... each!"
[15:36] * Candlelight_Sonata follows after Calamine and trots to a stop.  "Do we have bone buttons?  I think we could afford it."
[15:37] * Vera "My buttons are brass."
[15:37] * Naphtha chews her lower lip. "I don't think I have any bone buttons."
[15:37] * Strifer groans and keeps on walking into the ship, glaring at any onlooker. "They aint gonna do nothing."
[15:38] * Candlelight_Sonata follows Strifer into the hold.  "You sure about this?"
[15:38] * Calamine follows as well.
[15:39] * Vera shrugs and paces after Strifer. "If they really want to make an issue of it, we can handle it."
[15:39] * Strifer grins wickedly. "Oh yeah."
[15:39] <%Somber> As strifer walks through, she sees a wasted, emaciated stallion with watery eyes and slat ribs.  He's armed... with a stick.  When Strifer walks forwards he immediately shrinks away, muttering 'toll' over and over again to himself.  His face has been marked with an X brand on his forehead.
[15:40] * Strifer mutters something that sounds like. 'slaves'
[15:41] * Harris sighs and calls out to the ponies in the hulk "What if I do you one better? How does six caps sound?"
[15:41] * Naphtha blinks a moment and frowns. But doesn't add anything more to the observations for the moment.
[15:41] * Strifer groans loudly at Harris' offer.
[15:41] <%Somber> He barely seems able to register it and nods jerkily.  "Tha... thank you..."
[15:42] <%Somber> Two zebras watch warily, both also branded across the face.
[15:43] * Harris pass the caps to the old stallion "Here you go."
[15:43] * Vera is momentarily distracted by something out to sea. "Hey, Calamine, do you hear that?"
[15:43] * Calamine looks horrified. "What happened to you?" she cries before moving to help the "slaves."
[15:44] <Calamine> "Let me help you."
[15:44] * Candlelight_Sonata gives Strifer a look before trotting over to Vera.  "What do you hear, Vera?"
[15:44] * Strifer suddenly stops and flicks her tail back and forth in anger. "I thought we where on a fucking time limit here?"
[15:45] <%Somber> He's not old, but aged.  Like he's been sucked dry.  "Thank you... thank you..."  As Calamine shuffles fowards they disappear into the wreck.  Only the stallion remains, and he flinches back.  "No helping us.  We're nulls... noponies... nothing... Ex... but thank you."
[15:45] * Calamine shakes her head. "You are not nothing."
[15:45] * Naphtha blinks and tilts her head. "They're exiles." She frowned. "B-but why?"
[15:46] * Vera waggles her head between the ship and the sea. "Not the sailors. There's something else, out in the ocean. Sort of a, ah, whining? Wailing sound?"
[15:46] * Candlelight_Sonata listens intently, shifting her fluffy ears
[15:47] <%Somber> "Pissed off the wrong ponies.  Silvers won't hire us.  Baron doesn't want us.  Colonel won't keep us.  Nothing.  Ex...."  He started to shamble to the east.  "Food... real food. "  They could hear anything but the sound of waves and groaning metal.
[15:47] <%Somber> rain, waves, and groaning metal*
[15:48] * Strifer groans again and goes to bang her head against a wall, once,  before moving to the exit and waiting there for this nonsense to be over. Atleast it was out of the rain, kinda.
[15:49] * Calamine tries her best to comfort the stallion. "Just because the Silvers, Baron, and Colonel can't see that you're useful, doesn't mean you are not. We have friends that we helped establish a farm outside Costa Del Sol. I'm sure they will take you in."
[15:50] * Strifer perks up and takes a second glance outside, going out the exit for afew steps.
[15:50] * Vera sees blank looks. "Oh, right. Sorry. Spirits. There's a bunch of dead sailor ghosts around this ship groaning on and on about some kind of wave. The one that beached the ship, I suppose. But there's another sound coming from the ocean. I'm gonna go check it out real quick, back in a tick." She jumps up and starts to fly out towards the wailing sound, keeping just two meters above the swells.
[15:50] * Harris just keeps an eye out on the jungle as the rest work to help the outcasts
[15:50] * Naphtha swallowed nervously and shook her head. "I'm.. I'm not sure they would. If... If they're exiles then anyone else who helps them might also get in trouble. That's what makes someone an exile. They're not allowed back in."
[15:51] * Candlelight_Sonata gives Vera a confused look before trotting out after Strifer.  "Something up?"
[15:51] * Vera comes back almost immediately. "GUYS! GUYS! Get over here! You gotta see this!" She's grinning.
[15:52] * Vera points west, the direction she just came from.
[15:53] * Candlelight_Sonata takes flight and heads out over waves toward Vera
[15:54] * Strifer mutters something about turkeys..
[15:55] * Harris smerks at Strifer's comment
[15:55] <%Somber> As everyone walks out the west exit they see something... well... it looked as if once there'd been a city here.  There were fashionable hotels and high rises poking towards the rainy sky.  Then someone had thrown an armada at it.  As far as they could see through the rain were dozens, even hundreds of tossed over ships.  They lay amid the ruins of the
[15:59] <%Somber> town.  One of the high rises actually had what looked like a destroyer sticking through it like a javelin dart.  The waste of ships continued out to sea.  A floating mass of creaking, half sucken wrecks slowly rising and falling for more than five square miles.  Beyond lay the towers of the seawall.  A long pier of wrecks stretched out to the nearest tower.
[15:59] * Vera "Wow. That is a lot of dead, whiny sailors."
[16:00] * Calamine looks up, eyes wide. "Spirits preserve us. So many ships... So much death."
[16:00] <%Somber> Most of the town seemed to be centered around a cruise ship lying in the middle of town.  Even from this distance, the name on the stern of the enormous ship could be read:  LUNA.
[16:01] * Candlelight_Sonata flutters back down to her friends and puts a wing around Calamine.  "Are you going to be alright?"  She asks.  "Ain't seen shipwrecks before, have you?"
[16:01] * Naphtha blinks in surprise. "Um. N-not what I was expecting..."
[16:02] * Vera "Huh. So that's why it's called Costa del Luna. It's an epitaph."
[16:02] * Strifer points with a forehoof, a questioning look on her face.
[16:02] * Calamine shakes her head. "No. The reefs and the great protector stopped the sun from harming our island at the end of the war. Nothing like this happened."
[16:03] * Vera scowls at thin air. "Yes, I /know/ you're dead and you hate it. Go fly off to the great beyond or something. You've been here how many hundred years and you're still going on about this?"
[16:04] * Candlelight_Sonata hugs the zebra close.  "Just... let me know if you need anything."  She looks to Strifer.  "Use your words, honey."
[16:04] * Strifer puts her hoof down, still looking amazed. "Fuck me.." She mumbles.
[16:04] * Naphtha chewed her lower lip, fidgeting a few moments. "W-we should try to hurry."
[16:05] * Calamine closes her eyes and tries to either soothe some of the spirits around her or at least block out their whispers should that not work.
[16:07] * Vera rolls her eyes. "Who the hell is Celestia? Quit whining and get outta here already... Ech. No use." She shakes her head. "Sailor's ghosts are always so stubborn. As if sticking around and raising a ruckus can do anything. You can't finish business with a storm. Once it's gone, it's gone."
[16:08] * Strifer shakes her head. Looking between the rest of the group as she sets out to reach the town, city, boat thing. "So, like, you guys really talk to them huh?"
[16:08] * Candlelight_Sonata gently nudges Calamine along.  "Naphtha's right.  We need to get to the town."
[16:08] * Harris just follows the rest to Costa del Luna
[16:09] * Calamine sighs before following Candlelight_Sonata closely.
[16:09] <%Somber> The town appears almost abandoned save for dozens and dozens of the branded ponies.  Most of them appear used up as well.  A few are trying to cook with water soaked wood, eying each other fearfully.  A few others looked fitter and more aggressive.  They eyed the six as if trying to size up how easily they could be taken, and then dismissing it.
[16:09] * Vera grumbles. "More like, they talk to /us,/ and they won't shut up. I feel sorry for them, but... I can't help them. The storm that splintered this fleet is hundreds of years gone. The only think keeping these sailor ghosts here are the ghosts themselves."
[16:11] * Calamine mumbles. "I wish I could help them... but I'm useless." She says that last part at barely a whisper.
[16:11] * Strifer waggles a hoof. "And ya can't just tell them to fuck off? Or banish them or whatever it is you guys do?"
[16:12] * Calamine stops and looks around wildly.
[16:12] * Candlelight_Sonata drapes a wing over Calamine.  "You aren't useless.  If you're hearing all the of these souls at... once?"
[16:12] * Vera punches Calamine in the shoulder with a hoof. "Don't be so down. Maybe you can't help them /now,/ but the only thing that means is that you've got to come back here later, when you're stronger."
[16:13] * Strifer waves a hoof at the air. "So.. They're like, right here?"
[16:14] * Calamine nods.
[16:15] * Strifer blows in the air a few times.
[16:15] * Vera speaks in the general direction of Strifer. She tries to be warm and comforting. "Honey, your family is dead. You're dead. In all likelihood, your family moved on already. So should you."
[16:16] * Strifer blows a few more times, scrunches. "Yikes, sucks to be them." Shrugs.
[16:16] * Candlelight_Sonata gives Vera a thankful look.
[16:16] * Naphtha chewed her lower lip. "A storm like that... I've never even heard of it in any books. A-are you sure it as normal? Maybe their business isn't with the storm, but hwatever drove it..."
[16:18] <%Somber> "Oy!" a donkey shouts as he trots up to them.  "Oy!  You guys!  You don't look like you're from around here.  Oy?  No brands.  Got papers?"
[16:18] * Candlelight_Sonata looks to Naphtha.  "Might not even have been a storm.  Think about it.  How many zebra and pony cities were hit by balefire bombs?  All of that water, getting tossed into the sky?  Something like that don't sound natural.  The waves alone..."  she pauses.  "Took out stormgate."
[16:19] <%Somber> He's dressed just a modicum better than the nulls living in the ruins.
[16:19] * Vera shrugs. "That guy I just spoke to was a passenger, looking for his family. Either his family is still here and by some miracle he hasn't found them, or they've moved on already and he's griping on about nothing he can change." She shrugs. "Like I said, the ghosts of those that died at sea are really hard to satisfy."
[16:19] * Vera smiles at the donkey. "Why do you we need papers? This town is Ex!"
[16:20] <%Somber> "You need papers or you get the X.  Simple how that works, yeah?  So you got some?  You got some?"  He asked with a grin.  "Cause if you don't, you're gonna need some if you're planning on going into Costa Del Luna."
[16:20] * Vera turns to face Candlelight_Sonata, shrugging as she goes. "Even so, anypony responsible for that died long ago. There's no reason for these ghosts to stick around."
[16:21] * Naphtha blinks and chews her lower lip. She didn't think they'd been issued any papers, by anyone really.
[16:21] * Candlelight_Sonata sighs.  "Vera, I think what the gentleman is saying is he has a way to get papers."
[16:21] * Strifer shakes herself out of her toughts and turns to Donkey. "And what the fuck do we need papers for? Can't just walk in?"
[16:23] <%Somber> "HAHAHAHAHAHA!  You just wanna walk in?  HAHAHAHA!"  he said with a grating rabid fire laugh.  "Go ahead.  Try.  You get the brand lickety split.  Only ponies invited to Costa del sol get in.  Refugee riff raff get the X if Silvers won't hire them.
[16:23] <%Somber> Isla del Luna
[16:23] <%Somber> Costa del Luna**
[16:23] <Calamine> "What can we do to get these papers?"
[16:24] <Harris> "We could have gotten them from the Borons pony."
[16:24] <%Somber> "Well.  If you not invited, you can buy some.  Even pay extra.  But if you no good with the baron..." he grinned at them and polished a muddy hoof on a muddy leg.  "Well I know a pony that can get you them."
[16:25] * Vera "I got papers. Is that enough to get all of us in?"
[16:25] <%Somber> "Got papers for YOU.  But I know them.  Each of you need papers.  How they work."
[16:25] <%Somber> "They ask you questions and stuff.  Make sure you no work for the colonel or Redwing."
[16:27] * Calamine nods. It seems like fair terms, I guess."
[16:27] * Candlelight_Sonata frowns.
[16:27] * Vera "Bah, no they're not fair terms. You think the Baron ever does things fairly?"
[16:28] * Strifer snorts. "Who the fuck is Redwing? Pira never mentioned any Redwing."
[16:28] * Candlelight_Sonata chuckles.  "No.  Don't quite seem the type.  More like the kind who wears a very fine hat and sits somewhere comfy with delusions of grandure..."
[16:28] * Naphtha fidgets nervously. "W-we could ask the Silver lady we met before about it, maybe? She seemed to have an interest in not seeing Costa del Sol in trouble, right?"
[16:29] <%Somber> "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Who is Bloodwing?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  You is very funny!"  He points a hoof out to sea.  "Admiral Redwing is pirate queen with great armada who will rape, kill, and burn us all if she get past the sea wall.  And she trying verra verra hard!"
[16:32] <Strifer> "Uh huh."
[16:32] <%Somber> "Oh, you work for Silvers?  You work for Silvers, you get papers very easily.  But if you work for silvers you should HAVE papers already."
[16:34] * Candlelight_Sonata speaks up.  "We don't work for the Silvers.  Don't really work for nopony.  You have a way for us to get papers, speak your piece."
[16:37] <%Somber> "Well, like I say, you okay with Baron, you get then for one hundred buttons.  You want make baron very happy, you pay extra and get fancy papers.  Five hundreds.  But if you no got that money or baron not like you, I know a pony what sell them for twenty five caps!
[16:38] * Naphtha looks to Candlelight_Sonata. "W-we should just get official papers if we can."
[16:39] * Candlelight_Sonata nods in agreement with Naphtha.  "I'm inclined to agree.  Though we might want fake ones for that one."  She says, pointing a hoof to Strifer.
[16:41] * Naphtha blinks, looking towards Strifer. "Didn't she just get done having a day worth of rawkus sex with one of the Baron's lieutenants? I'd think she'd be -especially- good in the Baron's eyes right now..."
[16:42] * Strifer snorts. "Ya'll should get fucking fake ones, one of their representatives is my fuck toy. Hell, I shoulnt even have to pay anybody for this shit."
[16:43] * Candlelight_Sonata gives Strifer a flat look.  "Then you wanna try to use your contacts or prowess to get us quality papers?"
[16:45] <%Somber> "High Quality papers verra expensive.  One thousand buttons each!  Baron sign them all personally."
[16:47] * Strifer returns the look. "Yeah, but we aint got that long. Arn't we on a clock or someshit? Unless we want to smash our way in, which I fucking doubt." She spits. "And piss off with your expensive shit, we aint gonna waste our money on a pretty paper. No kidding everyone here is misirable when a peice of paper is worth more then what they can make in years. Take us to your 'friend' " she spits again. "And shut up."
[16:49] * Candlelight_Sonata gives Strifer a look of respect.  "If you don't mind."
[16:51] <%Somber> "Okay!  Okay okay okay!"  He laughs as he nodded towards an apartment building with a griffon fishing trawler parked on top of it, upside down.
[16:51] * Naphtha fidgets. "I don't like this. I... I think we should just get normal papers..."
[16:51] <%Somber> "You no need proper papers.  Fuck da baron.  My friends get you cheep papers just as good."
[16:52] * Vera "Yeah? Which papers do you use?"
[16:52] <Strifer> "He aint got no papers, none ever checks the one doing the fucking checking."
[16:52] <Strifer> "Aint that right?"
[16:53] <%Somber> He pulled a little booklet out of his saddle bags.  'These is my papers from my friends.  Is just as good as any other!"
[16:53] * Strifer snorts.
[16:54] * Vera "I have an alternative suggestion. Y'all can't afford papers now, but... We could do some work for the Barony and get papers that way."
[16:55] * Candlelight_Sonata hmphs.  "But do we have the time, Vera?  We're kinda on a tight schedule."
[16:55] * Strifer shakes her head. Flicking her tail as she glares back at the others. "No! We aint got fucking time for that shit!"
[16:56] * Vera grumps. "Yeah? We can be short on money or we can be short on time. We should at least find out what the job is! Maybe it'll only take a day."
[16:56] * Vera shrugs. "I don't care either way, to be honest."
[16:57] * Strifer mutters quietly. "And aparantly we're not allowed to take sides either." Glancing at Candle
[16:59] * Candlelight_Sonata glares at Strifer, trotting close to her and whispering.
[17:02] * Strifer whispers back, but not nearly quietly enough. "Well yeah, but we can't fucking fight a war on our own here! We have to choose!"
[17:03] * Naphtha fidgets nervously. "W-we should probably just buy our way in if we can afford it."
[17:03] * Candlelight_Sonata tries to posture herself so she's bigger than Strifer.  It doesn't work, obviously.  "Do you want to run this and help everyone get home?"
[17:05] * Calamine ponders. "Does anyone know a good way to make money fast?"
[17:06] <%Somber> Oh, there's all kinda o ways to make money, depending on what you is willing to do!
[17:06] * Strifer 's eyes darts to Naph and Calamine for an instant before snorting. "Fuck yes I want to get home, but sooner or later both sides will turn against us. It'll be better if we've chosen one, safer that way.. And you can fucking save everyone! We have to think about us, not the entire goddess dammed population!"
[17:07] * Calamine looks to the broker. "I am willing to do much to help my friends," she says, her eyes lowering slightly. "I have to make myself useful."
[17:07] * Strifer is very bad at whispering.
[17:09] * Vera "I can throw my brass buttons into the pot if y'all really wanna buy the cheap papers, but I can't actually recommend it. I've only got fifteen brass buttons anyways."
[17:09] * Candlelight_Sonata sighs, shakes her head at Strifer.  "We'll finish this later."  She looks to the broker.  "We have some skills that we can use to help folks."
[17:10] * Naphtha squeaks and looks down. "I... I still think we should just go to the proper source..." her voice was quiet and she wasn't really up to fighting about it at this point.
[17:11] <%Somber> "You're looking for fast work, yes?  Well, legally there is hunting, scavenging, and bounty hunting.  The baron always has work for anyone willing to attack the Colonel.  The silvers always need things too."
[17:11] * Strifer glares at Candlelight_Sonata. Then at Naph she adds. "Doubt all of us could fucking aford it anyway."
[17:13] * Strifer snorts again. "And I guess that we need the papers first to be able to even get these jobs, yes?" She grins at the donkey.
[17:14] <%Somber> "Nah...  Those jobs you can fill without going in to Costa Del Luna.:
[17:15] * Vera thinks. "You all might be able to get the papers now and agree to work off the debt."
[17:16] * Strifer mutters. "Being in debt to these ponies? Yeah, great idea."
[17:16] * Candlelight_Sonata looks to Strifer and shrugs.  "Otherwise we can do some jobs."  she looks to Vera and harris.  "We all can hunt...."  she says with a shrug.
[17:17] * Vera sours. "Is a regrettable debt more or less important than the lives and livelihoods of all the ponies in that town, hmm?"
[17:18] <%Somber> "Is not a big deal.  Hunt sea lions.  Twenty five caps a head.  Fifty if you bag an alpha male."  He gives a grin.  "Course, not getting eaten is always a trick."
[17:19] * Calamine gulps. "Hunting sea lions?"
[17:19] * Candlelight_Sonata looks to Vera.  "Well... you and I can fly..."
[17:20] <%Somber> "Oh yes.  Dangerous monsters that live in the wrecks and along the shore.  Verra dangerous."
[17:20] <%Somber> "Ah, but they not foolish.  If you fly too far away, they go underwater.  But if food in on ground, might be smart."
[17:21] * Strifer scrunches, then groans. "Fine, fuck it. Let's do some jobs, get the buttons, and the nfucking get proper papers. Im sure big ears here. "She gestures at the donkey. "can set us up with some good deals in exchange of not letting Pira know about his fucked up operation with the fake papers. Ye?" She gives the donkey a leveled look.
[17:25] <%Somber> "Pira?  You know Pira?"  His jaw drops.  "I gotta go!"  He turned and ran from them as fast as he could.
[17:26] * Strifer blinks. "Oi!"
[17:26] * Candlelight_Sonata facehooves and chases after the Donkey
[17:27] * Harris rolls his eyes as the bugger make a run for it
[17:27] <%Somber> The donkey moved at phenominal speeds and disappears into the ruins before they can catch up.  Pira's name had that effect on the criminal element.
[17:28] * Vera smiles cheerfully. "So... Why don't we go find the actual guards and find out what's actually necessary to get in, hmm?"
[17:28] * Strifer eyerolls. "Well,  fuck." Then nodding at Veras suggestion.
[17:29] * Candlelight_Sonata skids to a halt then trots back to the party.  "Fast for a donkey..."
[17:30] <%Somber> It's not hard/  There's a jobs board outside the ship with all kinds of work to do.  Most of it wasn't worth the time.  A day's work for 1 button wasn't worth while.  But there was the hunting job.  There's also work for folks scavenging off the wrecks.  Gathering food from the surrounding jungle.
[17:30] * Strifer snickers. "Must be the ears, acting as sails." She glances at Candles earfluff. THen shaking her head. "Nah.."
[17:31] <%Somber> The bounties were the usual thieves, rapists, and murderers.  Heads had to be brought back in for credit.
[17:32] * Candlelight_Sonata gives Strifer a strange look.  "So... salvage?"  She stops herself and shudders as the words leave her mouth.  "Maybe not salvage..."
[17:33] * Strifer shrugs. "Eh."
[17:33] * Vera "Hunting looks like the best return."
[17:34] * Vera "Would be good to remember what these various wanted ponies and zebras are though. Might run across one of them."
[17:34] * Strifer takes out some decent grub and munches on it whiles looking at the board of jobs, which she can totaly read, yup.
[17:35] * Candlelight_Sonata looks at the board and tries to remember the faces.  "See anything particular you want to go after, Strifer?  Otherwise I agree with Vera.  Hunting might be a good bed."
[17:36] * Strifer shrugs again, still munching on the food.
[17:37] <%Somber> "Best place to find Sea Lions are on the rocks along the coast, or out on the wrecks."
[17:37] * Naphtha fidgets nervously. She didn't add much at this point.
[17:38] * Candlelight_Sonata looks to the others.  "Any jobs that ya'll think you can help with?"  She looks over the board, seeing if she can find something safter for Naphtha and Calamine to do.
[17:39] * Calamine looks over the board as well. "Perhaps scavenging or gathering food?"
[17:39] <%Somber> "We're always buying fresh produce.  Lots of poisonous fruit out there, but if you can tell them apart, you can make decent buttons that way."
[17:40] <%Somber> "Savenging comes in the flavors of safe, not so safe, and damned dangerous."
[17:41] <%Somber> "Safe is bringing in scrap metal and scrap electronics.  Probably have to go on the wrecks for it.  Not so safe is spark batteries, conductors, capacitors, and stuff like that.  The damned dangerous stuff is bullets, ammo, and especially six inch shells for Luna's Hammer."
[17:42] * Candlelight_Sonata looks to Calamine.  "You know more about the flora here than anyone I know.  Maybe might be a good idea to go look for fresh produce.  Nopony, er... zebra else I'd know could do that."  She says, beaming at Calamine
[17:42] <%Somber> There's some warships out there on the wrecks.
[17:42] * Calamine smiles back weakly. "You don't think I'll mess up?"
[17:43] * Strifer swallows the last of her grub, kicking a hoof at the ground.
[17:44] * Candlelight_Sonata rolls her eyes and puts a hoof around the zebra.  "No, I'm pretty sure you won't, darling."  She gives Calamine a nuzzle.  "You and Naphtha'll do just fine."
[17:45] * Naphtha fidgets nervously. "B-but I don't know anything about plants..."
[17:46] * Candlelight_Sonata looks to Calamine.  "Callie'll give you a primer.  You're clever enough to catch on quick, I'm sure."
[17:47] * Calamine nods. "I can teach you what or what is not good to pick."
[17:52] <%Somber> Calamine goes out into the jungle to pick food.  She finds loads and loads of mangoes.  Not very pricy, but still, solid food.  Unfortunately, she doesn't come across anything else more valuable.  She does, however, elude a herd of nulls that was planning to beat her up and take all her food.
[17:56] <%Somber> Naphtha scavenges all day and only comes up with a ball of uncorroded wiring worth 5 buttons.... and a treasure map!  IT was carved on the wall of one wreck saying a treasure could be found in the hold of the Botany Bay.
[18:01] <%Somber> Strifer finds the herd, along with Vera's help and calamine. The felinoid seal beasts are feasting on a beached whale. They're easily the size of a pony, and can move quite fast when they need to, especially to get away or to strike.
[18:03] <%Somber> Sadly, in trying to get into position to fight, Strifer trips on a rock and falls head over heals down the slope, landing in the middle of them.  They immediately rush to attack.
[18:12] <%Somber> The fight at the whale carcass was short and bloody.  Strifer got torn up, botching the attempt to be sneaky.  So did the others.  They managed to kill 5 sea lions before the rest flee into the ocean.
[18:20] <%Somber> The mighty hunters return and the zebra taking them in looks them over.  "Well, they look pretty roughed up.  Twenty buttons each." He says sourly.
[18:24] * Candlelight_Sonata sighs, in pain supporting an injured Vera
[18:25] * Vera grunts. "Those things are awfully... awful."
[18:27] * Candlelight_Sonata nods in agreement.  "Let's get you back to Calamine.  She'll know what to do..."  She looks at Strifer.  "Come on, Twinkles."
[18:27] * Vera "C'mon man, we hunted the heck out of these things!"
[18:29] <%Somber> "Yeah yeah.  A ferocious battle.  Heard it all before."
[18:30] * Strifer just takes the buttons and leaves after Candlelight_Sonata. "The hell, Twinkles? What is that supposed to even mean?"
[18:32] * Candlelight_Sonata chuckles and blushes slightly.  "Short for Twinklehooves."
[18:33] <%Somber> Well, the day of work was... sadly not as productive as it could have been.
[18:34] * Strifer stops dead in her tracks, aparantly processing 'Twinklehooves'. After a moment she follows again. "MY HOOVES DOES NOT TWINKLE!"
[18:35] <%Somber> Mangos, some wire, and some pelts... a few buttons...  and for some a whole lot of scratches.  They'd found shelter under an overturned boat.  Thankfully the rain stopped in the late afternoon, but it was still wet out.  This side of the island didn't dry out like the other side.
[18:36] * Calamine is busy trying to find more work, running around speaking to anyone she could about working for them for money... Anything as long as it didn't require hurting or killing anything.
[18:36] <%Somber> Then there was a soft cough of somepony clearing their throat outside the boat.
[18:36] * Candlelight_Sonata trots out from under the boat, looking for the source of the cough
[18:38] <%Somber> That stallion they'd met stood there.  Mr. Gray.  The earth pony in the impeccible suit gave Candle a smile and a bob of his head.  "Evening.  How are you enjoying Costa Del Luna?"
[18:40] * Candlelight_Sonata nods her head in greeting, trying to not wince.  "It's... been a long day.  Would you like to come in out of the rain?"
[18:41] * Vera swigs from her canteen.
[18:42] * Naphtha sits quietly and fidgets a little.
[18:42] <%Somber> "Thank you.  I absolutely can't stand being outside Del Luna.  Inside the ship is fine enough, I suppose, but this terrain is simply depressing."  The gray stallion looked at all of them.  "I understand you've all been busy trying to get into the ship on your own devices.  I can facilitate your entry."
[18:43] * Vera "Mm-hmm. Go on, please."
[18:44] * Candlelight_Sonata sits down and pulls Naphtha close, waiting.
[18:45] * Naphtha leans against Sonata, looks down and yawns quietly.
[18:45] <%Somber> "There's a pony inside Del Luna that needs to die.  If you can bring about his death then I will provide you the caps to purchase your papers.  If you can kill him discretely, make it look like an accident or suicide, and not set off a general alarm, I will give all of you a bonus."
[18:46] * Calamine returns, looking defeated. When she hears Mr. Gray's offer as she enters the boat, her eyes go wide and her face, somehow including her stripes, goes white.
[18:46] * Candlelight_Sonata waves Calamine over with a tip of her wing, holding Naphtha just a little tighter.
[18:47] * Vera grins alarmingly. "Business or vengeance?"
[18:47] * Calamine just stands in the doorway behind Mr. Gray, her legs not moving.
[18:47] <%Somber> "Business, of course." he said, as if mildly amused it could be otherwise.
[18:48] * Vera "No, no, I mean the commissioner. The one who's paying you to have this done. Business or vengeance?"
[18:48] * Vera "What's her stake?"
[18:50] * Candlelight_Sonata sighs and lifts Naphtha onto her back.  "My apologies, Mr. Gray.  I'll leave the details to you and Vera."  She says, trying to pull Calamine along with her out from under the boat.
[18:50] <%Somber> "That's hardly relevant to you, now is it?" he said with a small smile. "You're assuming the murder is what I was comissioned to do in the first place."  He shook his head then went on.  "If you're worried about the ethics of the situation, the person in question is a mercenary.  Certainly no saint, and capable of defending himself quite well if you let him."
[18:51] <%Somber> "I need him killed within twenty four hours.  As I said, the bonus is if you can do so quietly and without alarm.  If you can't, well, you will have your papers as payment on my behalf."
[18:52] * Strifer chuckles quietly and shakes her head.
[18:53] * Naphtha fidgets a little bit nervously and chews her lower lip. But doesn't get involved.
[18:53] <%Somber> "If you decline then I wish you the best.  I understand murder is sometimes a... disagreeable business."
[18:54] * Vera "Interesting. Usually ponies and zebras just pay off mercenaries. Has this one committed any particularly interesting or heinous acts? I'll go along with whatever the rest of these guys wanna do, I'm just asking out of curiosity."
[18:54] <%Somber> "Not to my knowledge.  All I need to know is that he will be killed.  As I said, making it appear to be a suicide will be best."
[18:55] * Strifer eyes Mr Gray up and down. "Look, I don't know who the fuck you are wandering in here and thinking you can buy us like that. You can take your charity and shove off We dont fucking want it.. We have our own way inside, aight?"
[18:58] * Vera address Strifer as if speaking to a child. "This is a faster way. And it's guaranteed to get you all genuine, or at least genuine-looking papers. If mister Gray here says he'll get us usable papers, he means it. They'll be real, or close enough to the real thing not to matter. Trying to buy our way in with papers from that thief... Well. They say that you get what you pay for."
[18:59] <%Somber> He smiles and nods to Strifer.  "Everyone has a price.  You.  Me.  Everyone.  But I meant no offense.  You were willing to work with me before, and I upheld my part of the deal.  I'm sorry to offend you." he said with a smile and nod again.
[19:01] * Strifer snarls at Vera. "And this cunt will have a leash on us, blackmailing us to do even more jobs.  Fuck that, we have the buttons to buy papers. That's what we're doing. Aight!?"
[19:03] <%Somber> Gray looks at Strifer and smiles.  "I don't put a leash on anyone.  However, some do leash themselves."
[19:04] * Vera shrugs. She's not put off by Strifer's attitude at all. "As you like it, honey."
[19:12] * Strifer ([email protected]) Quit ( Quit: IceChat - Its what Cool People use )
[19:13] * Somber ([email protected]) Quit ( Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client )
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[19:16] * Harris is now known as Jackelmandingo
[19:18] * Naphtha is now known as Ilushia
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