FoE PNP G-Platypus Session 60

[21:17] <Scrap> *****G-Platypus: The City of Broad Withers - Session 60*****
[21:17] <Scrap> The group is in the outpost again, having just cleared it for the second time. They've managed to find a chair and have bound a raider to it. Having been healed some, he eyes them with a fair bit of hatred.
[21:19] * North_Star has taken it upon himself to be in charge of the weapons the raider and his friends brought.
[21:21] * Blackberry_Jam is standing over this raider, shotgun primed and plainly visible. She looks him in the eyes. "Ready to talk?"
[21:21] <Thunder_Strike> thunder waits nearby with her whip out ready to persuade the raider to loosen his tongue.
[21:22] * North_Star has his hatchet hanging from one of the empty dynamite loops on his satchel strap.
[21:23] <Scrap> The raider spits ay Blackberry_Jam. "Fuck you. You're going to kill me anyway."
[21:25] * Snack_Cake sits off to the side, not feeling very comfortable about this.
[21:25] <~Blackberry_Jam> She wipes herself off on his barding, frowning as she lights a cigarette. "I didn't plan on it, but I guess we could if you're so inclined. Or, you could at least die knowing you helped take down the ponies who put you in this position in the first place."
[21:25] * Snack_Cake frowns. "We can't do that... he's helpless!"
[21:26] <Scrap> He chuckles with a smirk. "You're going to blow your brains out if I talk? That does sound appealing."
[21:26] * Canary looks to the bound raider. "Nopony said anything about killing. Yet."
[21:27] * North_Star pulls a bit of hunting rifle bolt-action out with a loud scraping noise at the Raider's show of smuggness.
[21:28] * Blackberry_Jam shrugs. "You suggested it, not me. I'd rather not... Kind of a waste of a good bullet." She frowns.
[21:29] * Thunder_Strike looks at blackberry. can I show him what's it's like to be helpless? she asks hoping berry knows what she means.
[21:29] <Scrap> "Bullets are only meant for one thing. May as well kill yourself and spare us the trouble."
[21:31] * Blackberry_Jam crosses her hooves. "I'll level with you." She says, holding Thunder back for a moment. "I don't particularly like you, but nopony is irredeemable. Just make this worth our while and we'll make it worth yours."
[21:33] <Scrap> His grin fades to neutral. "I'm listening."
[21:38] * Blackberry_Jam sits down on her haunches. "Well, before we do anything, hokey as it sounds, I'd need to know that you'd put your raiding, pillaging, and potentially raping behind."
[21:39] <Scrap> "And, what would you give me in return?"
[21:41] * Blackberry_Jam shakes her head. "Oh, no no no. That's just the first part. We can guarantee you safety, a place to stay, work, all that. Of course, that's if and only if you tell us what we want to know."
[21:44] <Scrap> He smiles with a look of someone patiently putting up with something they find tedious. "And, what is it that you'd like to know?"
[21:47] * Blackberry_Jam retrurns his smile with her own, one of a mare with a shotgun who holds his life in her hooves. "Everything about your operations here. Numbers, locations, arms, leaders, names."
[21:52] <Scrap> "And, what happends when they find out that I squeeled and decided to work some deadbeat job? What happens when they gain enough power to come after me?"
[21:53] * Blackberry_Jam raises a brow. "They won't be long for this world, you know. My guess is, well, nothing."
[21:56] <Scrap> "You expect me to believe that you're going to take them down? They've gotten a lot of support built up. I'm not stupid, the worst I'd get from you is some shot to the face, a quick end. They'd drag it out, make it hurt, make it last."
[21:57] * North_Star gets up and onto his feet, packing the rifles up. "Oh, trust me. Between us, we can make /anything/ hurt."
[21:58] * Snack_Cake frowns. "As long as you cooperate, I'll make sure you're not hurt. But you have to /help/ us, or there's nothing I can do."
[21:59] <~Blackberry_Jam> She frowns, biting on her cigarette a little. "I don't know if you've heard of us, guy, but taking down large organized groups of raiders is any given week for us."
[22:00] <Scrap> He scoffs. "I'm not gonna cross them. Your help will be worthless once you're all dead."
[22:01] * North_Star nods. "Sure. And you'll be worthless with no legs. Pick your poison."
[22:01] * Blackberry_Jam scoffs right back. "Why don't you stop underestimating us and tell us what we need to know?" She looks to North_Star. "Or he takes a leg."
[22:02] <Scrap> "Fuck you."
[22:03] * North_Star smirks. "Oh, that might take some time, Doc. I 'unno if this rusty thing cuts through flesh well."
[22:03] * Snack_Cake hesitantly objects. "No. You can't do something like that!"
[22:05] * Blackberry_Jam tsks, shaking her head. "We can, Snack. I don't want to, you know. But he's being very unreasonable."
[22:05] <Thunder_Strike> thunder walks to Snacky and whispers. "there trying to intimidate him Snacky."
[22:07] * Snack_Cake scowls. "No. You can't. He's a horrible pony, Berry. But you're not." She pauses a moment, before giving a pleading look. "Don't do this. Please..."
[22:08] * Thunder_Strike sighs then looks at berry. then grins. do I get to remove his boy toy?
[22:08] * Blackberry_Jam frowns more. "I'm /not/, Snack! You're not helping, though..." She mutters.
[22:10] * Snack_Cake gives Thunder_Strike a horrified look. She quickly steps between /everypony/ and the hostage raider. "You all need to stop this! He's a bad pony, but he's still a pony! You can't just do such horrible things to another pony!"
[22:10] * Blackberry_Jam facehoofs. "Snack! For Luna's sake!"
[22:11] * North_Star rests his face in his hoof with a sigh.
[22:11] <Scrap> The stallion just chuckles quietly and smirks.
[22:12] * Snack_Cake glares right into Blackberry_Jam's eyes. "No, Berry! I won't allow it! Mutilating ponies is NOT okay!"
[22:14] * Blackberry_Jam runs her hoof down her face, sighing a puff of smoke out. "Celestia dammit, Snack..." She turns around and heads outside.
[22:15] * Snack_Cake stays right where she is, in front of the raider stallion.
[22:16] * Scrap just sits to the side. He doesn't really have an opinion on what happends to garbage.
[22:17] * Thunder_Strike walks over and sits next to scrap sighing.
[22:17] * North_Star remains where he was, looking at Snack_Cake.
[22:19] * Snack_Cake gives a stern look right back at North_Star!
[22:20] * North_Star blinks. "Snack. I ain't gonna do nothing. Not until I have a good reason."
[22:23] * Snack_Cake isn't taking any chances! "You were going to /cut his leg off/. Without a good reason! And Thunder was going to..." She doesn't say it. Instead she says, "If you think it's okay to do that, then how can I trust you not to do something as soon as I walk away?"
[22:26] * North_Star blinks again. "You can't. You also can't stand within hoovesreach of him all day."
[22:30] * Thunder_Strike looks at Snack_Cake. I wasn't gonna do that Snacky. calm down.
[22:31] * Snack_Cake frowns. "I'll stay as long as I have to. If..." She pauses a moment. "If I have to stand here all day and night until I collapse from exhaustion, I will!" She gives a determined look. "We need to hurry more than we need him to talk. So I know I can wait longer than you can."
[22:32] * Blackberry_Jam comes back into the room after a while, fresh cigarette in her mouth. She draws her shotgun and puts the raider out of his misery with a decisive headshot. "She's right. Let's get going."
[22:36] <Scrap> Decisive indeed. The stallion's smug grin ceases to exist as his head explodes from the shot. Another warning for any more raiders that may find it.
[22:37] * Blackberry_Jam lets the spent shell drop to the ground before turning tail and trotting outside.
[22:38] * Scrap silently follows her out, not feeling much on the way of anything with regards to waht just happend.
[22:38] * North_Star huffs, standing up again. "Que así sea." He grumbles while following Scrap.
[22:38] * Snack_Cake goes wide-eyed with shock. Berry... just... She starts shaking a little bit. She calls out to Blackberry_Jam as she walks away, "You... you shot at me!"
[22:39] * Blackberry_Jam shakes her head. "Snack, if I shot at you, I would have hit you." She says cooly, blowing out some smoke.
[22:42] * Snack_Cake shakes her head right back. "You shot him while I was standing in front of him! What if you'd hit me...?" She is genuinely afraid right now! "I... I thought..." She doesn't finish the sentence. Whatever she thought, it doesn't matter anymore. Her whole world is upside-down.
[22:43] * Blackberry_Jam stops on the stairs. "Snack. I'm getting the feeling you don't exactly trust me."
[22:43] <~Blackberry_Jam> "Even before just now."
[22:44] * Blackberry_Jam turns to look at her. "So, come out and say it."
[22:45] * Snack_Cake just shakes her head. "...You're starting to scare me, Berry..."
[22:45] * Blackberry_Jam trots back up to her and sits down in front of her. "Why's that?"
[22:49] * Snack_Cake flinches slightly as Berry walks up and sits down in front of her. "Because... you were supposed to be the pony who keeps me safe." She pauses, before adding, "And I'm afraid you're forgetting how to be a good pony... A-and... What'll happen to me then? I can't be out here by myself, Berry! But I can't just let you or anypony else do terrible things!"
[22:52] * Blackberry_Jam adjusts her posture a little. "Snack, just because I shot a buck, whose friends we'd already killed, and who was only alive because I treated him, doesn't mean I've suddenly lost sight of what's good in the world. It also doesn't mean that I'm leaving you. You'll never be alone. And... I don't know if I can't stress this enough..." She looks Snack_Cake dead in the eye. "We /weren't/ planning on doing any of tha
[22:53] * North_Star roots through the remains of the hostige raider, in the meanwhile, fishing one of the ears out of the gore before walking offscreen to get the other three.
[22:54] <~Blackberry_Jam> "...that to him. Did you miss that part?"
[22:59] * Snack_Cake gives Blackberry_Jam a very discouraged look. "It's still horrible to even /say/ things like that... to threaten ponies like that... He was tied up and helpless. Even threatening him like that... it's almost as bad as what /he/ might have done. Or what those slavers did..." After a moment, she adds, "And after you did that? What would you do next time, if they still wouldn't answer? How long would it take before you /actually/ followed through with it?"
[23:00] * Snack_Cake "...How longwould it take before you /actually/ followed through with it?"
[23:02] * Blackberry_Jam rises, frowning. All this after she had just spared a young buck's life. "What do you want me to say, Snack? You said it yourself, we need to get moving, and we need to move now. I sure as hell wasn't going to let him walk."
[23:04] * Snack_Cake frowns. "We took his weapons... he was tied up... I don't know what we should have done with him... but you still shouldn't have done that..."
[23:05] * Blackberry_Jam turns her head and leaves. "I made a judgement call. If any of you," She looks around at the rest of them, "Have anything else to say, say it now."
[23:06] * Scrap remains silent, ready to head out.
[23:07] * North_Star returns, letting the leather pouch rest around his neck.
[23:09] * Blackberry_Jam heads down the stairs with a, "That's what I thought."
[23:12] <Scrap> The group walk over the carnage to once again leave the house to head South.
[23:14] * Snack_Cake keeps her distance from the others as they walk. She still doesn't feel comfortable with what happened.
[23:20] <Scrap> The group walks through a mostly deserted area filled with mostly townhouses and what used to be businesses. The arrive at a river with a bridge across. There's junk piled onto the bridge that would make crossing it difficult. Shouting can also be faintly heard across it.
[23:21] * North_Star stopped, looking around for a vangate point to take advantage of.
[23:22] * Blackberry_Jam tells thier flier to go have a look. Scaling the pile of junk should be easy for her, right?"
[23:34] <Scrap> Before she has a chance to fly over, a pony can be seen climbing the junk from the other side. He peaks before getting torn to shreds by a machine gun of some kind. The shots come from the top of a tall building across the way. It's taller than any of the others and looks quite unsafe actually. It looks liable to topple over at any moment.
[23:35] * North_Star looks up at the pile, still looking for some place to geet a good view across the river.
[23:36] <Scrap> There are buildings around. Getting onto the roof of one would give a nice view. There may be a spot on one that would have decent protection from the gun. It's hard to tell from here on the ground.
[23:36] * Snack_Cake nearly jumps out of her skin at the sudden machine gun fire!
[23:38] * Canary immediately drops low at the sound of the heavy fire and looks for the source.
[23:38] * North_Star raises a hoof. "Stay low," He says, moving for one of the buildings.
[23:39] <Scrap> It's easy enough for him to get into one without drawing fire.
[23:39] * Blackberry_Jam is already low. "Sheesh..."
[23:40] * North_Star nudges the door, testing it for traps.
[23:40] <Scrap> None are found.
[23:41] * North_Star slips in, stepping carefully towards and up the stairs.
[23:42] * Canary follows North_Star inside to cover
[23:43] * Blackberry_Jam follows the group, but hangs back at the door, not up the stairs.
[23:50] <Scrap> As North_Star looks out a window on the top floor, a shot tears into his shoulder from across the river.
[23:52] * North_Star drops to the floor as soon as the pain hits. "Damnit.." He says, crawling back to where the window isn't.
[23:55] * Blackberry_Jam scrambles up after him. "North, Luna dammit... Are you hurt much?"
[23:57] * Snack_Cake stays far back from any of the windows! Windows are bad.
[23:57] * North_Star props himself up against the wall, checking under his armor. "I'm bleedin'.. .308, shouldn't be too deep in." He muttered.
[23:58] * Blackberry_Jam 's mouth is a flurry of MBFBB's and tweezers. "Did you get a bead on him?"
[23:58] * North_Star shook his head. "Lemme try something.." He said while fishing out one of the slightly used Hunting Rifles.
[00:09] <Scrap> No more shots come through the window with no one in front of it.
[00:10] * North_Star scoots over to the side of the window, letting his hat settle on top of the rifle's action before slowly peeking the rifle out.
[00:11] <Scrap> Another shot comes in, missing the hat by inches.
[00:12] * Blackberry_Jam breathes. "Sniper... not the best... but not bad."
[00:12] * Canary trots up to North_Star, "Was it a sniper, or just a lucky shot from the machine gunner?"
[00:13] * North_Star retracts the rifle quickly, taking a breath before poking the rifle out from under the window.
[00:15] <Scrap> This time the shot strikes the butt of the rifle.
[00:16] * North_Star huffs, tilting the rifle so his hat falls to the side and the rifle falls out the window. After placing his hat back on his head, he sighs. "I don't think he'll fall for that."
[00:17] * Blackberry_Jam frowns a little. "Sounds like we're pinned."
[00:18] * North_Star nods. "Let's.. Take a rest, gather our thoughts."
[00:27] <Scrap> *****End Session*****
[00:27] <Scrap> 1500 XP
[00:27] <Scrap> Snack gets one karma for once again standing up and wanting to save another.