FoE PNP G-Platypus Session 71

[18:21] <Mister_Clacky|GM> *****G-Platypus: The City of Broad Withers - Session 71*****
[18:22] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Vanished.
[18:22] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Gone. So much disappears everyday in the Wastes.
[18:22] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Friends, allies, places, enemies. Every  moment in the wastes is the last moment for something.
[18:23] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Love can't stop it. Faith can't stop it. Rage can't stop it. Everything you care for will be stolen from you, or you from it.
[18:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  That is the wasteland.
[18:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The bones of the past slowly eroding away. Tearing down the ponies clinging to life with each passing moment.
[18:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Until one day, there will be a peaceful nothingness.
[18:25] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  What else can our wastelanders lose?
[18:25] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Let's. Find. Out.
[18:25] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Session start.
[18:27] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake climbs higher and higher into the old hospital. A stallion and motorbike stand ready to ferry North_Star out of he belltower to the rest of the group down by the slave cages.
[18:29] * North_Star climbs aboard the motorbike. "If we crash. I'm gonna throttle you, dead or otherwise." He warns, holding on to something.
[18:31] * Snack_Cake continues to make her way up the stairs, looking for any sign of the filly, or any place she could be hiding.
[18:31] * Canary sticks close to Scrap
[18:32] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stallion spools up the back tire in a rolling smoke before releasing the brake and rocketing out of the hole. Gunshots ring out, but don't connect on the rapidly fleeing target. They weave through buildings and across rooftops, making their way back to the cages.
[18:35] * North_Star swears are drowned out by the roar of the engine.
[18:35] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake slips through the building's stairway. Most of the doors are blocked off, refusing to budge. THe fifth level's door hangs open. THe sign beside it has a curvy, almost triangular lable.
[18:35] * Snack_Cake takes a look inside, carefully.
[18:37] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake shines her PipBuck light down a hall. The hall is blocked farther down by a dirty glass door. There is a body by it.
[18:38] * Scrap looks around the cages as Berry works on the downed stallion.
[18:39] * Canary looks to Scrap, "You any good with locks?"
[18:40] * Scrap looks back and shakes his head. "No, but Thunder_Strike is."
[18:41] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The cages are mostly one large containment area. THere are smaller cages around, assumably for segregation or punishment. One looks hardly big enough for a pony and is made of sheet metal with a very few holes cut into it for air.
[18:42] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star survives the trip down to ground level, comping out a bit north of the cages and in an alley between the roads  that have the cages and Gin's mall base.
[18:43] * North_Star climbs off, catching his breath. "Thanks.."
[18:44] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Gin is bleeding pretty well himself, but gives a little nod. "Yeah. It's a job. And it's done. Be safe.
[18:44] * Snack_Cake slowly heads inside, watching the body closely to make sure it's not... ghoulified.
[18:45] * North_Star looks back at Gin. "You need a doctor?" He asks, looking out of the alley for the group.
[18:46] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Gin is quite shot, blood staining the bandages from the first bullet he took. He's putting on a strong front. "How much?"
[18:47] * North_Star shakes his head. "It's on me. Come on." He waves Gin to follow his as he makes his way towards the others.
[18:47] * Canary nods to Scrap, "Where is she?"
[18:48] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry has the stallion stabalized, but he's still unconscious.
[18:50] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  As Snack_Cake gets closer to the body, it is definitely ghoulified. The ghoul stallion wears the tattered remains of stable barding. The glass door is very thick and smeared with grease from so many decades recessed in the ceiling. His back looks broken by the door slamming down. His forequarter isn't visible on the other side of the too-dirty door.
[18:51] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Gin nods and lets the bike idle at a walking pace beside North_Star as he leads the way.
[18:52] * North_Star whistles to get everyone's attention as he approaches.
[18:55] * Snack_Cake may be afraid... but she's a little curious, too. If he was wearing stable barding, does that mean there's another stable...? She takes her time, inching ever so slightly closer... ready to scramble away if it turns out to be alive. She does want that closer look, though.
[19:01] * Thunder_Strike is standing nearby keeping everypony covered.
[19:04] * Canary looks to Thunder_Strike, "You wanna take a crack at these locks?" He pulls out his brush gun to take her place covering their asses
[19:04] * North_Star walks up to the cages with Gin, taking a look at the damage they've caused as a group.
[19:05] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake can see P02 on the back of the stallions barding where her own read P03.
[19:06] * Thunder_Strike looks at canary. ''sure.'' she says then gets her picks and screwdriver.
[19:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star can see eight dead slavers. On the other side of the cages Scrap has cut through the wire to get in. Blackberry has finished stablizing the still unconscious stallion.
[19:07] * Snack_Cake continues to take her time. When she finally gets close enough, she checks to see if there's anything the stallion is holding, or that's visible on the body.
[19:07] * North_Star ducks through the hole in the wire, glancing towards the direction of the machine gun nest.
[19:11] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  THere is a massive building between the two locations. THe barricade cannot see the cages or vice versa. The slavers ran through the big building to respond to the shots on the cage side. THe double doors still stand open on a second story balcony reachable from the top of the slaver's catwalks.
[19:11] * North_Star walks over to Berry to see if she can spare a few seconds to tend to his chest wound.
[19:13] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blackberry appraises the wound. "Fuck. That's a nasty one." She gets her tools to get the bullet out before shoving a potion down his throat.
[19:14] * North_Star gives Berry some bottle-muffled thanks.
[19:15] <Mister_Clacky|GM> 10d10+60
[19:17] * North_Star yanks the empty bottle from his mouth. "There's some more, at least three. They could be lugging down some heavy equipment." He at the surrounding buildings. "Where's Snack at?"
[19:17] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The ghoul has some ancient saddlebags. Looking through, there isn't much. A couple old books and magazines and an old, wierd pistol.
[19:19] * Thunder_Strike tries to pick the cage locks for canary.
[19:21] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Berry gives a little tilt of her head toward the hospital north of them. The other slaves are being tended too by Thunder_Strike. She works her lockpicking magic to set the five free of their hobbles.
[19:21] * North_Star nods. "We should grab what, and who, we can and clear out while we still can."
[19:22] * Snack_Cake decides to hold onto what she finds, putting them carefully into her saddlebags for safekeeping. Once that's done, she starts looking for a way to get the door open.
[19:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake gets three books without titles on their binding, two magazines, and a wierd pistol. As she looks around she spies a terminal glowing in a room to her right.
[19:26] * Snack_Cake heads on inside the room with the terminal, taking a seat and checking to see if it has a command to open the door.
[19:26] * Thunder_Strike gets the chains off the last slave
[19:28] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike frees the five still huddled in the corner. The mare and the caravan stallion still have manacles to hobble them. She'll need to get those off too now that Berry has moved on to working on North_Star.
[19:29] * North_Star keeps still, leaning against one of the cages.
[19:29] * Thunder_Strike goes to help then aswell'
[19:29] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake defeats the password protection easily. There are several boring looking logs as well as an alarm prompt. Seems it registered a containment breach and sealed the lab. Terminate Alarm? Y/N
[19:32] * Snack_Cake presses 'Y'. Hopefully that will get the door open! She looks into the other room from where she sits to watch and see...
[19:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  With a sick squelch of half-congealed ichor, the door slides up into the ceiling. THe rest of the stallion is now visible.
[19:37] <Mister_Clacky|GM> Berry finishes with North_Star's chest. "There. Patched up."
[19:38] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike unlocks the mare and the still unconscious stallion with ease.
[19:40] * Thunder_Strike pita her tools away. then resumes her job on covering everyone.
[19:40] <Thunder_Strike> puts.*
[19:43] * Canary smiles at Thunder_Srike, then goes to see if the now unchained ponies were doing alright
[19:45] * Snack_Cake trots over to the now open door, looking inside. She calls out a bit quietly, "Hello...?"
[19:46] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The five slaves huddled up venture out a bit after being freed and the gunfire having died down. There is a stallion, two more mares, and two more just on the verge of passing their juvenile stage, a colt and a filly.
[19:46] * Scrap keeps watch with Thunder_Strike, looking the other way.
[19:46] * Thunder_Strike stays rather close to scrap.
[19:48] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stallion's body was crushed near to severing. Past the door is a laboratory covered in a thick coating of dust.
[19:48] * North_Star goes over to riffle through the nearby corpses.
[19:49] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake, glancing around, notices a tool by the stallions forehooves and some small hoofprints in the dust.
[19:51] * Snack_Cake gives another quick look around. Those hoofprints could mean the filly is here! Before she heads inside, she checks out the tool.
[19:51] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star finds 3 9mm SMGs, 3 markspony carbines, a cowpony repeater, and some odd rifle the female slaver originally on this side was using. THey are all wearing reinforced leather armor with Butcher's Boys colors flying proud.
[19:52] * North_Star picks through the pockets of the armor, in case anypony was carrying caps or chems.
[19:53] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star comes up with 197 caps between them. He also finds 5 potions and 5 syringes of Med-X on one of the SMG mares.
[19:54] * North_Star tucks those into a pocket in his satchel before picking up the odd rifle.
[19:57] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The strange rifle is some kind of magic energy weapon... that's about all he can tell.
[19:58] * North_Star bundles the weapons in one of the leather armors before picking through them once more for ammo..
[19:58] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake tilts her head as she looks at the vaguely familiar tool. It clicks with her that she knows what it is! They used them to pop off her PipBuck when it needed new lining or a size adjustment. The stallion has more tools in a neckpouch.
[20:02] * Snack_Cake checks to see if she can get the pouch off. If there are more useful tools like that, she should probably hang onto them.
[20:05] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake has to untie the pouch and slip it off the corpses neck... It's a bit foul, but it is a lot of specialty tools. He noticably doesn't have a PipBuck on, but his left foreleg's barding is rolled up on his leg like she'd seen ponies in the stable do to accomidate theirs.
[20:06] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  North_Star finds three spare magazines for each weapon on the pony he pulls it off of.
[20:06] * North_Star looks over at the freed slaves first. "How many of you can handle a weapon?" He asks the lot.
[20:07] * Snack_Cake puts the other tool back into the pouch before dropping the whole thing into her saddlebags. She'd wash it later. For now, she starts to look around for any signs of the filly.
[20:07] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  One of the mares and the two juveniles raise their hooves. She answers. "We aren't guards... but we know enough. Run a caravan for years."
[20:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake can see the hoofprints clear as day in the thick coating of dust. They lead off to the left.
[20:09] * North_Star passes the mare and youngins a carbine, an SMG, and the repeater respectively, as well as a pair of spare magazines each, or a hoofful of rounds, int eh case of the repeater.
[20:10] * Snack_Cake follows them, keeping an eye out for the filly. As she searches, she starts calling out again. "Helloooo? Are you here? I came as fast as I could to find you!"
[20:10] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  They take them, checking their load with sure enough hooves North_Star can tell they really do have an idea how to use them.
[20:11] * North_Star nods in approval before looking to his own group. "Who want's an extra gun?"
[20:11] * Scrap looks at North_Star and shrugs. "I could use one I guess."
[20:11] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake keeps moving after the filly's hoofprints. They are soon joined by bigger hoofprints from off to the side. She doesn't know much about tracking, but she could have been running. They take off down another hall to the right.
[20:12] * North_Star looks through the guns. "Rifle or machine pistol?" He asks.
[20:12] * Thunder_Strike ''what ya got?!'' she yells to North_Star
[20:13] * Snack_Cake is starting to get worried. She hurries onward, following the hoofprints as best as she can.
[20:14] * Scrap blinks thinking. "Uh, maybe the machine pistol?"
[20:14] * Thunder_Strike ''rifle for me please!'' she says after Scrap
[20:15] * North_Star tosses Scrap one of the SMGs, and chucks a carbine to Thunder_Strike.
[20:16] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake finds another stairwell at the end of the hall on the opposite side of the building from the one she had been using.
[20:16] * North_Star looks around at the group, making sure everypony at least looks ready to go somewhere before calling them to attention.
[20:17] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake's PipBuck crackles and the robotic voice of TOM speaks. "Proximity to PipTag P02-206. Within 50 yards."
[20:24] * North_Star looks up at Scrap. "Hey. You think you can carry some of this? I've got no space."
[20:24] * Scrap nods. "Sure."
[20:24] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The caravan mare trots over to a gate and puts a bullet in the lock. She slips inside the guard tower.
[20:25] * North_Star looks around at the group. "Alright then. Let's not stick around longer than we need to."
[20:28] <TenMihara|GM> Canary contemplates his navel
[20:33] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  There is another shot from inside the guard tower.
[20:34] * Snack_Cake looks in the stairwell... up or down... She'd just came from down, so... she decides to check up, first. She calls out again! "Hello? Can you hear me?"
[20:34] * North_Star looks up at the tower.
[20:34] * Scrap snaps his head toward the tower.
[20:37] <TenMihara|GM> Canary looks too
[20:37] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake heads up the stairs. Her PipBuck speaks up again. "25 yards."
[20:41] * Snack_Cake moves quicker. She's worried about that filly...
[20:44] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake notices a vent cover has been knocked off near the floor.
[20:47] * North_Star calls up the tower. "Hey! What's the word?"
[20:50] * Snack_Cake leans down to shine her light inside the vent and take a look inside.
[20:52] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The mare comes out of the tower dragging a chest, the lock has been shot off. She motions for the younger ponies to come over, handing them each a saddlebag from inside. "Looks like they just tossed them in and didn't ransack them too bad." She puts one on herself as well.
[20:52] * North_Star smiles. "Personals. Alright then. That all?"
[20:53] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Snack_Cake shines her light into the hole, there's just a hint of color around a corner. Some lightgreen hair of the tip of a tail.
[21:00] * Snack_Cake calls out, once again! "Hello? Are you alright?"
[21:02] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The tail shifts. A little voice comes out of her PipBuck. "Hello?"
[21:07] * Snack_Cake smiles a bit. "It's alright. I'm here now. You can come on out."
[21:08] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The mare gives a little nod to North_Star. "Thank you."
[21:08] * North_Star looks at the group once more. "Alright. I propose we duck inside and try to join up with Snack, then slip away and make a trail for town."
[21:11] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The tail in the vent flicks and disappears. A cream face peers around the corner, illuminated by a PipBuck in her hooves.
[21:13] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stallion starts to stir, coming to.
[21:15] * North_Star looks over at the formerly unconsious stallion.
[21:16] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stallion starts to stand unsteadily, the mare crosses over to help steady him. "Come on you big lug."
[21:18] * Snack_Cake smiles at the filly, tapping her hoof on the ground. "Come on out, okay?"
[21:18] * Canary looks to the stallion and mare, "Are you faring alright? Do you need help?"
[21:19] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  THe dirty filly crawls out of the vent, pushing the abused PipBuck with her.
[21:22] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The stallion is still getting his bearings. The mare replies, "Much better now." She smiles. "We need to start looking for the last of our caravan. I think she escaped when the raiders attacked."
[21:23] * North_Star looks back at the mare. "She? Youngin?
[21:23] * Canary tilts his head, "She? IS she a filly?"
[21:26] <Mister_Clacky|GM> She shakes her head. "No, not really. Sixteen or so. When the raiders got us, she managed to get away."
[21:27] * North_Star tilts his head. "Did you see which way she took off?"
[21:28] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  She nods. "Off toward the orphanage, I'd guess."
[21:28] * Snack_Cake takes a few steps back to let her have enough room to get out of the vent. Once the filly is clear, she starts looking her over to make sure she's not hurt, or anything!
[21:29] * North_Star nods. "We'll check in that way, then. We've got someone looking for a filly."
[21:30] * Canary nods, "Pretty sure that's how this whole thing started."
[21:30] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The filly pulls herself out. She's very dirty from crawling and hiding, and scraped up, but not hurt in any serious way.
[21:31] * Thunder_Strike looks around.
[21:32] * North_Star looks towards the building Berry pointed him to. "Hmm.."
[21:34] * Thunder_Strike steps back closer to scrap. ''should someone wait for Snacky?''
[21:34] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Thunder_Strike can see North and Canary talking with the caravaneers. The pony they lost is probably Deadly's friend. The other mare's ear swivels. She's stayed rather quiet and somber. "What... about a filly?"
[21:35] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The filly catches sight of Blue and the colt and shimmies back a bit toward the vent, not looking away from Blue... but she doesn't bolt.
[21:36] * North_Star looks back at the Mare. "A filly. She got a hold of us over the radio waves. You know her?"
[21:36] * Snack_Cake tries to clean the filly up at least a little bit. She can't do too much, but at least she can make her a bit more comfortable. "I'm glad you're alright... I was worried for a while. Are you ready to go?"
[21:38] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The filly looks around, nervous. "Is it safe?" She's carrying the PipBuck in a foreleg.
[21:40] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  The mare starts to ask a question but stops herself. She closes in on herself, foreleg over her chest protectively. She closes her eyes.
[21:41] * North_Star steps closer. "Ma'am..?"
[21:42] * Snack_Cake nods. "We should be able to get out just fine." She crouches down, to let the filly climb up onto her back, if she wants to. Though, it might be a bit crowded...
[21:43] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  She looks up. "My daughter got loose..." Its painful for her to say, like she doesn't want to open herself up to hurt again.
[21:43] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  Blue jumps off and the filly and colt share a spot on her back.
[21:44] * North_Star offers a hoof to her. "She got loose. What happened after..?"
[21:45] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  "She bolted... we were chained... It happened when these guys ambushed the raiders that first had us."
[21:46] * North_Star still offers his hoof. "So, she got away."
[21:47] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  She shakes her head. "She's gone..." She looks up.
[21:48] * North_Star sighs. "Well.. You're not clear of the wolves just yet yourself. Come on, up and attem."
[21:49] * Snack_Cake stands up and starts to head back the way she came from, once the filly is settled in place. "Just don't make too much noise, and hold on tight, alright?"
[21:52] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  THe mare takes his hoof and stands. Snack_Cake heads down to the bottom level to reuinite with her friends heavy one new filly.
[21:52] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  *****Session End*****
[21:52] <Mister_Clacky|GM>  500 XP, Snack_Cake gains 1 karma for saving the filly.