Stable Mountain Session 2

<NitoKa> Haha well I hope you kids are ready for this new part of our story. Now I know the last one wasn't so action orriented and I left out a few characters after a while, but trust me on this. This new one will be very nice and fun. Include everypony or griffon, or zebra. Whatever.
<NitoKa> Well then, after our heroes went into the Ponyaci's Clown College, they found a map, and a new pony that one of the group seemed to hate for some unknown reason. Where is she? Don't ask stupid questions yet. Right now we need to find out where they're heading, after all a tunnel opened up under that there desk right?
<NitoKa> Group Mountain - Session 2 - Underground Enforcing - Start
* Brumhilda still has her light flamer at the ready as she takes a big draw from her cigar
* Phisa trots forward, her face still frowning as usual as she keeps her caravan shotgun ready. She doesn't speak for awhile until she turns to Ginger_Snap. "So what's the story between you and your mother competing for finding Stable Mountain?"
* Summerfree rolls onto her back on the desk and looks at Ginger, then she looks down the tunnel that's opened up, then back at Ginger.
* Composite puts the little pink grenade pistol in his bag, walking out of the weird hall and looking at the stairwell.
* Ginger_Snap has her grenade rifle ready, anticipating trouble. "She wants me to go home, so when I left she followed me and has spent the entire time trying to prove to me that I'm not cut out for being out here. So she challenged me to beat her to stable mountain, if i get there first I can finally get her to leave me alone"
<Brumhilda> "Let me take point, I got fire" she says moving to the hole and peeking in, holding her flamer out in front
* Composite turns his head and looks at the griffon. "Fire? In an enclosed space?"
<Ginger_Snap> "Its the best kind of fire, as long as shes in front..."
* Brumhilda nods "Flamers...never miss"
<Phisa> "So you want to prove to her that you can survive on your own?" Phisa asked Ginger_Snap. "If you want, I can kill her for you."
<Summerfree> "That's not really beating her, then, is it?"
* Composite is quiet for a moment. "It's... an enclosed space. That seems dangerous."
* Lancer mumbles. "Yeah, never miss -us-."
* Summerfree reaches a hoof out and waggles it at Phisa. "Tsk tsk. Cheating~"
<Phisa> "But effective if she wants to be left alone by her." She replied to Summerfree.
<Brumhilda> "Not if it aint full of flamable gass, which if it is...just the pilot light or my cigar would set it off, all th' more reason for me to go first"
* Ginger_Snap turns to Phisa. "Um... No thanks... besides... if it came to that it should be me that does it... if anything I just want /her/ to go home and let me be"
* NitoKa is now known as NitoKa|GM
<Phisa> "Why exactly do you want to survive on your own?" She responded to Ginger_Snap.
* Composite rubs his head. "Look, I'm not the best authority on this, but even if there isn't gas, that seems a bit... dangerous."
<Brumhilda> "No more dangerous than usin' explosives"
* Composite scowls. "You got me there."
<Ginger_Snap> "I dont want to live the rest of my life in a shithole under siege, theres got to be more to life than putting insides back inside ponies"
<NitoKa|GM> Brumhilda can hear the distinct sound of punching coming down the hall. It sounds like someone is punching something made of metal
<Phisa> "That's all there is to life." Phisa said rather coldly. "We live in a world where ponies hunt each other for survival. Making sure ponies don't kill you is all what life is, nothing more, nothing less."
<Brumhilda> "Hold up, ya hear that?"
* Composite looks at the griffon. "Hear what?"
* Ginger_Snap looks "what?"
<Phisa> "Hmm?" She said turning to Brumhilda.
* Summerfree flicks an ear, twisting one to listen to Brimhilda and one to listen to the conversatin between Phisa and Ginger. "I hear a lot of things," she says.
* Brumhilda moves quickly into the tunnel with a grin "Somethin' t' burn up, ther's fighting to be had"
<Phisa> "Hold on." She said to Brumhilda. "There could be more out there, you really want to rush ahead and expose yourself?"
<NitoKa|GM> Everypony can now hear the fighting, but something sobers up Lancer's mind and he hears something very distinct. Those are the sounds of a Hellhound with strengthed metal claws punching a Mark 2 Security Sentry bot, and winning.
<NitoKa|GM> Except Phisa, she hears the sound of nothing.
* Summerfree nods a few times. "Wait, wait. How do you hear the sound of nothing?" she asks. "Wouldn't that be not hearing anything? It's a double negative!"
<NitoKa|GM> Shut up Summerfree.
<Phisa> "I didn't say anything." She said to Summerfree, with a confused look on her face.
* Summerfree whimpers, her ears drooping.
* Lancer motions to the group. "Hey, slow down! Unless you wanna get yourself shredded by a hellhound."
<NitoKa|GM> See now you look crazy, what have I told you about talking out of turn
<Summerfree> "I'm sorry..."
<NitoKa|GM> Anyways, Yeah lancer can totally hear the sound of a hellhound fighting a Securitron, with bare fists, not even fully using it's claws, and winning.
<Brumhilda> "All depends on the situation, honestly"
* Phisa just sighs upon seeing Summerfree talking to herself apparently, then turns to Lancer. "A Hellhound?" She said as she cursed under her breath.
* Composite looks ahead. "Hellhound? The fuck?"
* Lancer nods. "Sounds like it's beating up a robot, pretty well too. I wouldn't wanna go near it."
* Ginger_Snap sweats, uncomfortable by well... everything
<Phisa> "If that's the case, we'll need a plan if we want to continue. Either that, or we can just turn back and hope the alcohol is someplace else."
<Brumhilda> "That and it probably already knows we're here" she adds on, might not be a bad idea to take advantage of the confusion of a fight to sneak past or see what's going on"
* Composite readies his grenade rifle. "And if that doesn't work..."
* Summerfree sighs and rolls over onto her hooves, then trots through the air from the top of the desk to the floor. "Well, into the mouth of madness, or down the tunnel," she offers, being quite calm down once. "Is there another way out? Hellhounds are....... bad."
<Brumhilda> "Then we tack advantage of our numbers and take it down, We have the advantage between us"
<Ginger_Snap> "Lets go down, get this over with and get the hell out, last thing I want is to deal with my mother's bullcrap or Hellclowns or MoP party gas"
* Composite lifts his grenade rifle. "That, and explosives."
<Ginger_Snap> "MoM. I get those mixed up"
* Lancer shrugs. "You wanna go first? Be my guest."
<Phisa> "Hmm, that may work." She said to Brumhilda, rather impressed with her idea. "Alright, that sounds like a plan."
<NitoKa|GM> Suddenly the securitron goes flying into the end of the hallway where the group is looking down. It's previously red eye lights deactivate and they hear the sound of a neck cracking. "Damn, fucking bots always get in my way. Piss me off sometimes."
* Brumhilda nods "We should stay as spread out as possible, most of the buggers rely on close combat, if we are spread out, it has farther to move to get to any one of us"
<Phisa> "Wait, did I hear it talk?"
* Composite points his grenade rifle down the tunnel. "Who the fuck is there?"
<Lancer> "A hellhound, I just said. Goddamn listen will you?"
* Brumhilda rolls her eyes in exasperation, lifting her light flamer quickly and looking back and forth rapidly, her feathers fluffing out slightly
<Phisa> "Doesn't matter if it'll be out to kill us." She said readying her shotgun.
<NitoKa|GM> From the end a Petite looking hound, about the size of one of a normal griffon looks over the group, she looks at them and sighs. "Fuck really? More of yah?" She asks and sighs. She's a brown coated but Biege maned hellhound female with what seems to be a ragged cloak on her, under the cloak it looks like she's wearing Security armor.
<NitoKa|GM> "Look, I don't really care much for a fight, so I won't ask for one, this bot just annoyed me. I just want to grab some Whipped Cream and go."
* Brumhilda nods "Aint got no quarrel with you, aint got a contract for ya"
<Phisa> "Good, then lets leave it that way." She said to the hellhound in a threatening tone.
* Composite still holds up his rifle. "I don't fucking trust you."
<Ginger_Snap> "Cream...."
<Lancer> "We're just here for the drink, I think we can keep out of each other's way."
* Summerfree waves repeatedly at the Hellhound, smiling wide.
<Brumhilda> "You idiot, there's a time to fight and a time not to, wasting ammo and your life cause your stupid, is well, stupid"
<NitoKa|GM> She blinks from the hostility and laughs a bit, holding her head. "Oh man, you guys actually thinking you could take me?" She says before seeing Summerfree and waving back. "Yo."
<NitoKa|GM> "Do you even know who I am?"
* Phisa glares at Composite. "Don't do anything stupid."
* Composite glares right back at the zebra. "I've seen what these fuckers do to ponies, you think I'm getting anywhere near one?"
* Summerfree lowers her hoof after several more waves. "Who are you?" she asks calmly.
* Phisa turns back to the hellhound. "Yes, a hellhound. But you don't know me. If you decide that you want to rip us apart ... I think it's best if we just leave each other alone." She said, trying to appear intimidating.
* NitoKa|GM sighs and lets out an annoyed ugh at the rest of their words before actually hearing what she wanted from Summerfree. "THANKS FOR ASKING!" She says as she punches the metal walls, almost as thick as a stable's walls and leaving a huge dent in them. "I'm Fist of Cuffs, strongest merc out here."
* Ginger_Snap stops imagining herself headbutting the wall in exasperation and addresses the Hellclown "Hey have you been here before?"
* Brumhilda glares "Talon's are the strongest"
<Phisa> "We're not here to debate about who's the strongest merc. If you've been here, perhaps you may know where some bottles of alchol is?"
<NitoKa|GM> She looks at them and then looks to Ginger. "Yes." then to Brumhilda." No." And finally to Phisa. "What alcohol?"
<Phisa> "So you don't know, great." She said in an annoyed tone. She was hoping that she could help get this done quicker.
* Summerfree pats Phisa a few times on the head, then scratches a hoof behind her ear. "We just got here, we'll find it," she says reassuringly.
<NitoKa|GM> "If you're talking about supplies yeah theres some down here. I came to get some but lost my map."
* Summerfree yanks the map they found earlier out from behind the ear she was scratching! "Is this it?" she asks.
* Composite looks at Summerfree. "The fuck?"
* Summerfree looks at Composite. "What?"
<Brumhilda> "...."
* Brumhilda face tallons
* Lancer shakes his head. "There's something very wrong with that pony."
<NitoKa|GM> Fist looks to Summerfree and blinks. "Yeah actually that's mine. I lost it about the same time this weird unicorn showed up. I bailed before she could piss me off anymore."
* Phisa just looks confused when she saw Summerfree taking /her/ map out from behind her ear. She face tails herself.
<Ginger_Snap> "For crying out loud! We're here to find a stash of booze, you're here to find 200 year old whipped cream. How about we just go and holler if we find either!"
* Summerfree looks back and forth between the group. "What? I have a copy..." she says, holding up the broken PipBuck on her fetlock. "We can give it back and maybe work together?" she offers, holding the map toward Fist of Cuffs.
<NitoKa|GM> "Ohhhh Gingy~! Is that you I hear from down here?" All of the ponies and Hellhound can hear from the headmasters office
* Composite starts. "Who the fuck?"
<NitoKa|GM> All of yall know that voice, it's the one of Ginger's mom.
* Phisa just sighs. "Great, as if this wasn't getting more complicated."
* Brumhilda groans
<NitoKa|GM> Fist takes the map and smiles before sighing and faceclawing. "Great. She was trying to get me to show her to some alcohol too, saying something about a job she got."
* Ginger_Snap pops a blood vessel somewhere as her skin crawls and fur stands on end
* Composite turns, pointing his grenade rifle up the stairs. "Come out where we can see you!"
<Phisa> "Well, she'll have to go through us if she thinks she can take that alcohol." She said in a threating tone as her shotgun was ready at the stairs.
<NitoKa|GM> Soon enough a very mature yet aged like fine wine mare comes strutting down the stairs, any one interested in the female sex at all would be stunned and hot under the collar just from the sight of her. She winks and blows a kiss to Composite. "Can you see me now big boy?"
<Composite> ...
* Composite turns to Ginger_Snap. "Is this your mother?"
<NitoKa|GM> Ginger on the other hand feels a light talon tap her shoulder. "You wanna get out of here?"
<Lancer> "Hot damn."
* Brumhilda looks to see the source of the other voice
<NitoKa|GM> It's Fist of Cuffs asking Ginger if she wants to take her leave.
<Phisa> "..." She just narrows her eyes at Ginger's mom, giving her a threating glare.
<Composite> "Ginger, your mom is hot."
<Brumhilda> "No, a flamer, is hot"
* Ginger_Snap shakes and boggles... she looks to whom the talon belongs while answering "yee..ss?"
* Summerfree waves to Ginger's mom, much like she did to the Hellhound.
* Composite ignores the griffon. "So... what brings you here?"
<NitoKa|GM> Ginger Schnapps smiles a bit and blushes from the compliment. "Oh why thank you dear, It's nice to be complimented even at my age." She says before lightly waving to Summerfree and looking to Composite. "Oh well I'm here to find some bottles of alcohol that bartender back in Horseshoe needed."
<NitoKa|GM> Fist nods a bit. "Just stay low and follow me, I can get yah to the things you need." She says
<Brumhilda> "Keep it in your pants boom stick, we're on a job, so keep it profesional.  And missy, hate to break it to ya, but, I'm contracted for that job, so save yourself th' trouble, and bugger off"
<Phisa> "Shut up." She said to Composite in an annoyed tone, then address Ginger_Schnapps. "Well I'm afriad we've taken that job already, and unless you value your life and don't want to have your head placed on a pike you better turn back now." She said in a threatening tone.
* Composite glares at the zebra and the griffon, mouthing profanities.
* Summerfree blinks several times. "That's a bit much for competition on a job, isn't it? What are you, a raider?" she asks, a bit incredulously.
<NitoKa|GM> She giggles and waves her hoof. "Oh sillies. You know that that wasn't a contract right? It's open ended, like a bounty. Anyone can claim it as long as they have the goods." She then blinks at Summerfree for a second. "Raider? Why whatever gave you that idea."
<Phisa> "No, I'm smarter than that. That was a threat." She replied coldly to Summerfree.
<Brumhilda> "I am a talon, I've NEVER failed to finish a job, and I don't intend to.  Ever.  And a verbal agreement is still a form of contract"
<NitoKa|GM> Fist and Ginger_Snap make their exit silent and countinue down the hall, where Fist sighs. "Well the supplies are about two rooms over and one above us, after that we should all get the shit we need and get out."
* Summerfree gets a little lightbulb above her head! She reaches up and clicks it on. "I have an idea," she announces, before the bulb disappears.
<NitoKa|GM> Schnaps looks to Summerfree. "And what is that idea you precious friend of my daughter?"
* Ginger_Snap rubs her forehead tiredly "I hate all of this... lead the way?"
* Summerfree waves a hoof to Ms. Schnaps to come closer. She walks over to the corner and motions her closer
* Phisa is on the edge, keeping herself ready in case Summerfree's plan doesn't work.
<NitoKa|GM> Schnaps blinks and follows Summerfree
<NitoKa|GM> Fist nods as she walks ahead, opening a large steel door. "Go on ahead for a second. "She says
* Summerfree waits until the mares close. She leans in and rests a foreleg on her shoulder before looking back at the group. As quiet as she can she makes a 'go!' motion with her head, and mouths the word. "So, I just think we should talk this over," she says to Ms. Schnaps.
with her head, and mouths the word. "So, I just think we should talk this over," she says to Ms. Schnaps.
* Brumhilda nods at summerfree and just...walks out
<NitoKa|GM> Schnaps nods lightly. "Well as much as I'm sure we could dear It might just not be possible."
* Ginger_Snap stops and looks over Fist, then looks beyond the great big steel door through which she is being asked to proceed alone, paranoia takes over, is this hellhound merc in the service of her mother? is this a trap to capture her and return her home?
* Phisa tries to leave quietly and without being seen as well.
* NitoKa|GM rolls her eyes for a second seeing the nervousness. "I'm making you go first before if the door snaps shut and I'm on the otherside I can't easily get to you. But if it snaps shut and your on the otherside." She drags her claw through the wall, tearing it down. "I can get to you easy."
* Summerfree produces a cookie and offers it to Ginger's mother. "I just think that you need to let us do our work. I have a vested interest in finding the place, and I'd really like to do it. If you could just... Let us work? Your daughter will be safe, I promise," she says to the mare. She motions to her PipBuck. "I've got things handled if there's an emergency. When all's said and done,
* Summerfree I'll talk to her about her home?" She sounds quiet calm, unlike her normal silly disposition.
* Composite sits down near the wall. "Guess I'm not doing much," he mutters.
<NitoKa|GM> Ginger if she listens in can hear that in the next room it sounds like theres patrol bots, but she can't tell if Fist is lying or not.
* Phisa trots alongside Brumhilda and speaks after they're at a point where Ginger's mom can't hear them. "It seems you're the only one who knows what she's doing."
<NitoKa|GM> Schnaps shakes her head as she moves back and gives her the cookie back. "Thank you dear but I don't trust you nor your friends to keep my daughter safe. Afterall that vicious zebra and griffon threatened me just on some alcohol!"
<Brumhilda> "This is all I've ever done, so it's second nature, I pride myself on never giving up on a contract, and I follow through.  I was born a merc, I was raised a merc, and I'll die a merc, such is the fate of a Talon"
* Summerfree waves her hoof dismissively. "They're just silly ponies, and zebras, and griffons. All very silly," she says, eating the cookie in one bite. "I'm different, you can trust me."
<Phisa> "We're almost the same, other than our occupation." She replies to the griffin.
<NitoKa|GM> "Really dear because you seem rather silly yourself considering your randomly taking things out of nothing." She says raising an eyebrow.
<Lancer> "Pffft, yeah, we look so darn trustworthy..."
* Brumhilda snorts some and nods "All different types, one single road to walk, eh?"
* Summerfree winks. "That's why I'm the best," she answers, reassuringly.
<NitoKa|GM> Fist sighs and looks to Ginger. "Fine whatever." he says taking the door and twisting the handle to open it, walking in.
<Phisa> "And one purpose alone will I take for the rest of my life."
* Ginger_Snap steps forward, beyond the door threshold, readying herself and doubting her sanity
<Brumhilda> "That sounds rather narrow minded, don't forget there's more than one way to walk a path"
<Phisa> "Not for me. There's one path, and that alone. Survival, nothing more, nothing less."
<NitoKa|GM> Schnaps sighs and shakes her head. "I'll trust you for her safety but how do I know you won't just keep her from coming back home?"
<Brumhilda> "Why survive when you can thrive"
<NitoKa|GM> Brumhilda, Phisa, and Lancer all see Ginger and Fist go into a room.
* Brumhilda picks up the pace "Hold up"
* Phisa stops. "What is it?"
<Phisa> Err she actually continues.
<NitoKa|GM> Ginger and Fist are faced with two large Pony Tron security units, hem aiming their guns at the two, slowly charging up.
* Summerfree stands up on her hind legs. "Look at me! I can't stop anypony from doing anything!" she announces. She doesn't look like much, honestly. "In the end she'll do what she wants, I'm just here to keep us all together." She looks over the mare's shoulder in agitation. "Though some can't seem to take the hint to stay together...."
<NitoKa|GM> Schnaps sighs. "I know I know. It's just I want her to be safe and I think by showing her she isn't ready for hte wasteland she'll just give up and come back home."
* Summerfree pats the mare's shoulder. "Where I come from, we have to go and find out for ourselves. Give her some time, if she needs to she'll come back. We'll keep her alive," she nods a few times.
* Composite glances over towards the two mares. "At least she has a mother to come back to." He mutters.
<NitoKa|GM> Summerfree nods lightly. "I... I'll bechecking up on her and your group besides I think Stable Mountain is still a nice adventure for htis old mare." She smiles. "I'll leave you all to solve this 'contract'." She says with air quotes. "I'll show myself out."
* Summerfree offers the mare, herself? Wait no. She offers Ms. Schnaps another cookie. "See you around then!" she says cheerfully.
* Composite looks to the pretty mare with one eye. "Guess we'll be seeing ya'."
<NitoKa|GM> She rejects to cookie, shaking her head and smiling. "Goodbye then." She winks and shakes her flank to Composite once before leaving
* Composite blushes something fierce.
* Summerfree smirks and chomps the cookie down in a single bite. "That went a lot better than expected," she says, sounding quiet pleased with herself. "Now where did everypony go?"
* Lancer shrugs. "Into one of these rooms, probably."
<Summerfree> "Wanna go find them?"
* Composite shrugs. "Sure."
* Composite draws his nine millimeter pistol, loading a magazine. "Though I wouldn't recommend using explosives in here. Tight spaces like these are a death trap."
* Ginger_Snap sights up the menacing robots on instinct and fires her grenade rifle, although missing and hitting the rear wall the room is still engulfed in flame and shrapnel. "Fuucckkk" She groans as she falls victim to her frayed nerves
<NitoKa|GM> The two robots creak a bit but they don't fall. The Rest of the party hears the explosion. Yes you too Summerfree
* Phisa hears the grenade going off and gave an annoyed look. "Idiot, using a grenade in a narrow space like this? Come on, I think our allies are in trouble." She says to Brumhilda.
* Summerfree looks up. "Thank you narrator!" she announced. "Thisa way!" she says, heading in the direction of the loud BOOM!
<NitoKa|GM> Fist grits her teeth at the pain of the explosion. "WATCH IT. We're kinda tight up here, no explosives!" She yells before she goes to town on the robots
* Composite jerks his head up, ignoring Summer's outburst and following the mare.
* Brumhilda nods "Already figured that....idiot'sre gonna destroy the cargo"
* Lancer sighs and follows after.
<NitoKa|GM> Fist wails on a robot, batting it around with her claws as she punches it right into the roof.
<NitoKa|GM> The robot turns towards Ginger and fires off two shots of it's energy rifle firearm.
* Ginger_Snap Pulls out a healing potion with her magic and drinks it down as she then casts a fire spell on the remaining robot, erupting from her horn comes a twirling arc of flame that cranes through the air and splashes down over the mechanical annoyance like a bucket of flaming oil
<NitoKa|GM> The Mechanical Annoyance twitches as it's steel skin turns red from the heat but it still works.
* Brumhilda has quit (Quit: Life without danger is a waste of oxygen)
* Phisa enters into the fray, narrowing her eyes and taking a fighting stance almost akin to a wolf. She aims her caravan shotgun at the robot and fires two buckshots at it.
* Phisa curses as her shots missed.
* Summerfree sidles up next to Ginger_Snap, leaning in close. She smiles and looks up at the mare. "I talked to your mom, she won't be an issue for a while," she says, still sounding quite pleased with herself. Looking past her, she sees the robotic assailant. "Oh, hi! I need to shoot you now," she tells it, before biting down on her battle saddle's bit and launching off three shots at the
* Summerfree thing!
<NitoKa|GM> Summerfree's Saddle comes undone after the first shot and it slides off to the left, forcing her to adjust it and not fire more shots.
* Summerfree droops her ears and groans, "Again!"
* Composite bursts around the corner firing his pistol. The first shot goes wide, but the second locks the slide back, the 9mm casing sticking out of the ejection port. His eyes widen and he says a hasty "fuck!"
<Composite> err, ignoring the previous statement...
* Summerfree scrubs the previous statement from her memory.
<NitoKa|GM> In an Alternate Timeline Composite dies but not this one, yet.
* Composite bursts around the corner, firing his pistol. The first shot solidly strikes one of the bots, but the second one goes wide.
* Lancer sprints towards the robot, jumping and tackling it. Thankfully he manages to knock it over and grapples with in on the floor.
<NitoKa|GM> The robot flails around a bit
<NitoKa|GM> The robot fails at getting up
* Lancer smashes at the robot underneath him with his hooves. Some hits glance off, but other make it through.
<NitoKa|GM> The robot is smashed
<NitoKa|GM> Fist is leaning back as she looks to the crew, she was tending her wounds. "Pfft, y'all got some shitty luck." She looks to Lancer. "Also, good job, I recomend getting some good fist things to beat u things if you're gonna go unarmed though. I've got my claws so I'm set."
* Phisa gives a frustrated sigh as she reloads her shotgun using her tail. She then glares at Ginger_Snap. "What were you thinking using a grenade in a close space like this?"
* Summerfree trots over and stands atop the defeated robot! She holds a forehoof up to the sky! A little victory tune plays. "What loot did we get?" she asks.
<NitoKa|GM> She opens up her map and looks on it. "The supplies should be one room over and up, or up and over, either way." She says.
* Composite holsters his pistol. "Alright, who the fuck detonated a grenade in here?"
* Lancer shakes off bit of robot from his hooves. "Yeah... Might be a good idea that."
* Lancer shakes off bit of robot from his hooves. "Yeah... Might be a good idea that."
<NitoKa|GM> Summerfree...  you ummm you get not dying!
* Ginger_Snap blinks, unsure if she is hearing gibberish or not in her ringing ears, she puts her grenade rifle away, lest she reflexively shoot one off again
* Lancer picks through the remains of the robots, looking for useful scrap and components.
<Ginger_Snap> "Sorry"
* Composite glares at Ginger. "You'd better be."
* Phisa snorts. "Nevermind." She then turns to Summerfree. "I take it you took care of her?"
<NitoKa|GM> Lancer finds three pieces of Scrap metal, everything else is crushed
<NitoKa|GM> Lancer when he searches the other bot gets a Steam Guage Assembly
<NitoKa|GM> Summerfree you get a bop on the noggin
* Summerfree whimpers.
<NitoKa|GM> Fist starts to move ontop of some boxes and puts her map away, tearing and digging into the cieling, opening a large hole
* Phisa just sighs. "I take since she isn't here that's a yes." She then trots toward Fist. "Come on, we don't have all day, let's just get this over with."
* Composite trots over to Ginger, roughly pulling her to her hooves. "Fucking dumbass, coulda gotten yourself killed with that stunt! Anypony ever teach you explosives safety?"
* Summerfree hops off the robot she was posing on and walks over to Ginger. She sits in front of the mare and offers her a cookie. "I talked to your mom, she said she'll let you do what you want for a while," she explains. "I'm pretty sure we'll see more of her, but... I bought you some time!" She boops the mare for emphasis.
<NitoKa|GM> Fist sighs as she lets the party up into a room that looks like a classroom. She points to a small door. "Should be in there, leads to a supply room."
* Ginger_Snap aches and tires, she pushes Composite off of her. "No. They taught me explosives putting legless fucks back together, all day, everyday, sorry I inconvenienced you with my own damn mistake"
<NitoKa|GM> Eh to be fair the Gm never told you it was tight spaces.
<Lancer> "Geez, keep your damn panties on."
* Composite glares at Lancer. "You shut the fuck up."
* Phisa let's Fist take her up to the room, and trots toward the small door, putting an ear to it before opening it to hear if there was something in there.
* Lancer snorts and turns off towards the door.
<NitoKa|GM> Phisa hears nothing in there.
* Phisa has her shotgun ready just in case and slowly opens the door with her tail.
<NitoKa|GM> Fist looks to Phisa. "Not going in? All the security is downstairs. They made this place pretty 'safe'" She says with airquotes.
* Summerfree slumps, her good news completely unnoticed.
* Ginger_Snap limps after Phisa, turns to Summerfree "She'll leave me along? I doubt it"
* Composite sighs, then follows the zebra, pistol drawn.
* Summerfree perks up! "She'll leave you alone, for now," she corrects. "Better than nothing right?"
<Ginger_Snap> "Like I said, if true"
<NitoKa|GM> Phisa's bag lightly puffs up and pops open as the flowers she put away earlier spray her with some sort of nasty smelling powder, making her now stink like a skunk
<NitoKa|GM> Fist covers her nose. "Wooo! You take one of those flowers from the things? Never take something this place offers you."
* Lancer covers his nose. "Well, that's jus' peachy."
* Ginger_Snap recoils and covers her nose, it smells like one of those body parts they didnt find right away
<Phisa> "Gah!" Phisa yells as she gets sprayed. She then sniffs ... and seems to just blink. "I don't smell that bad." She said as she throws away the joke flowers. "Doesn't matter now, we have a job to do." She says as she goes in, looking for the supplies.
* Lancer scoots over. "If we find those drinks, you're not carrying 'em."
<NitoKa|GM> Phisa can easily see boxes of various supplies, and stacks of bottles filled with liquid!
* Composite coughs. "Gah," he grunts, "Summerfree, you got a bandanna handy?"
<NitoKa|GM> Yes she does
* Summerfree does! She produces it and gives it to Composite.
<Phisa> "Finally we can get this over." She says. "Come on, I'm not taking all of these by myself." She says as she begins to take some of the bottles.
* Composite nods. "Thank you," he says, tying the bandanna around his face. Hopefully it'd block the smell...
<NitoKa|GM> Fist opens up one of the boxes and smiles. "I got my stuff." She salutes them. "Never really got your names."
* Lancer loads up with as many bottles as he can.
<Phisa> "Phisa." She just says simply.
* Summerfree pulls out a pencil and erases her nostrils. She scrunches her nose a little, then puts the pencil away. Nasally, she answers, "Summafwee."
* Ginger_Snap loads up bottles in her saddle bags, also looks to see what Fist is grabbing, as she has never seen whipped cream before
<Lancer> "I'm Lancer, and those are some strange people I'm having to follow."
* Composite gives the hellhound a look out of the corner of his eye. "Composite." He grunts, before loading bottles inot his saddlebags.
<NitoKa|GM> Fist seems to be grabbing round cans with Pinkie Pie on them, and it says. "Pinkie Pie Brand Whipped Cream!"
* Summerfree sticks her hooves out to collect some of the bottles, too!
* Phisa takes another load for the road.
* Composite finishes the first load, then starts putting some more in his saddlebags. "Never can have too much booze..."
* Summerfree grabs one of the bottles and rubs it against her face. She smiles and-... ... "Narrator is this right?" she asks, looking at her PipBuck.
* Lancer walks up to Fist. "Hey, know where I could get some hellhound claws? I mean, like, not the ones on you, but... Spare ones?"
* Summerfree remembers she has no nostrils and has to talk with a nasally voice. "Narrata, is dis wight?" she corrects.
<NitoKa|GM> Yeah it's right. Your pipbuck is only wrong when I tell you. That is grade A Seltzer water. Also....
* Composite takes another look at one of the boxes. The kinda weight he's already got, he doubted he'd be able to carry a third load. The second would probably be good enough pay.
<NitoKa|GM> PING Summerfree's pipbuck reads the quest as complete.
* Summerfree blinks several times and stares at the PipBuck. "Uhhh," she starts. Frustrated, she draws her nostrils back on. "Oh jeez that smell." Shaking her head, she turns to the others. "SOOOOOO... This is what we came for, but it's not booze."
<NitoKa|GM> Fist blinks and thinks for a second. "Hmm well theres always killing one. But some hounds are stupid enough to take out their claws. Those are the ones you might meet in towns. You can ask them, they usually keep them."
* Ginger_Snap stares longingly at the remaining booze, after all the familial stress and fuckups she'd really like to be unconscious right now
* Lancer nods, hoof to chin. "Hmm... Makes sense, thanks."
<Phisa> "Doesn't matter, we'll lie and say it is." Phisa says, already wanting to leave this crazy place for good. "Come on, we don't have all day, let's get out of here."
<Ginger_Snap> "What do you mean its not booze?"
* Summerfree taps at her PipBuck several times. "No, no... It says this is what we came for! We did good," she says, still tapping. "Just, it's seltza wata.... Seltzer water. No alcohol."
<NitoKa|GM> Brumhilda is grabbing a box herself
<Phisa> "Again, we don't have to tell him it's not booze."
* Composite looks at Summerfree, rubbing his head. "Are you saying," he starts, "that we came here and got ambushed by clown fuckers for seltzer water? SELTZER WATER?"
* Summerfree nods repeatedly, loading her saddlebags up with the bottles. "Uh huh!" she announces.
<Phisa> "Get over it." She says to Composite as she waits for everypony else.
* Ginger_Snap heads towards the exit "Worst day ever..."
* Lancer takes a bottle out. "Ugh, no drinkin' that then."
* Composite groans. "Fuck it, let's just get back to town."
<Phisa> "Trust me, it could be worse." She said to Ginger_Snap as she heads towards the exit as well.
<NitoKa|GM> When they arrive back in horseshooe the bar's doors are nice and open for them
<NitoKa|GM> wait wait
<NitoKa|GM> --------------------------------
<NitoKa|GM> there time skipe time
<NitoKa|GM> When they arrive back in horseshooe the bar's doors are nice and open for them
* Phisa trots over to the bartender, droping her loads in front of him. "We got what you asked for. Our payment and information?"
<Lancer> "For some reason the journey back always feels shorter."
* Composite follows suit, dropping his loads and leaning against the counter. "And some booze, please."
<NitoKa|GM> He nods a bit, checking it. "Nice, This seltzer water should help with a lot of my drinks." He says with a smile as he takes out 500 caps each, but then takes the cap pouch from Lancer.
* Ginger_Snap limps in and starts unloading the apparantly-not-worthless seltzer water on the bar
<NitoKa|GM> He gives Composite a bottle of whiskey. "10 caps."
<Lancer> "Hey!"
<NitoKa|GM> "What? I said you'd get your tab paid off, not you'd get the money."
<Phisa> "So, Stable Mountain, what do you know?"
* Lancer sits back and grumbles to himself. "Cheapskae load a money grubbin..."
* Composite snatches the booze. "Finally," he mutters, stuffing it in his bag.
* Summerfree unloads each of her bottles one at a time, tossing them onto the counter in a stack so that they form a fancy little triangle. She looks up at it and nods. "There ya go, and thank you much!" she says happily, collecting her share of the profits from the little job. She tucks them away in her saddlebags and takes a seat on the barstool.
<NitoKa|GM> The bartender stares at Lancer. "Lancer, your tab was 1035 caps."
<NitoKa|GM> "You're lucky I voided it for just that."
* Lancer mimics him silently, but shuts up.
* Summerfree slides Lancer 50 caps.
* Composite perks up. "Hey, bartender, I need to ask you about something."
<Phisa> "Stable Mountain?" She repeats to the Bartender.
* Lancer pushes it back. "Thanks kid, but I earn my own keep."
<NitoKa|GM> He looks ot Composite. "Sure, right after I give y'all what I know about Stable Mountain." He says and sighs, then breathes.
* Summerfree frowns, tears welling up in her eyes.
* Composite nods. "Alright, I can wait."
* Lancer frowns. "Ugh... Fine." He takes the caps.
<NitoKa|GM> "Well then, what I know is it's out in the east at the very least, at least more ponies with more stories are out there, they say it's closer aorund there. The first town you should check is Piltover. It's supposedly one of those really techno towns. They just got lucky cause they managed to beat the local steel rangers, then the enclave when they came looking, so they have more tech than anypony."
<Phisa> "The Enclave?" She said, appearing familiar with the term. "I thought they don't leave they're cloud cover."
* Summerfree smiles again, tears instantly disappearing. She looks at the bartender and begins to spin in the barstool. Her ears twist with each turn, following the lecture.
* Summerfree stops at the last second, her eyes widening. "More tech than anypony?" she repeats, nodding to herself a few times.
<NitoKa|GM> "Well the Enclave heard a bunch of ground pounders had tech."
<NitoKa|GM> "Then they got their flanks wooped with said tech and got their tech taken."
* Composite chuckles. "Fuckers got what they deserved."
<Phisa> "What they deserve. They don't belong in the Wasteland." She said coldly.
* Ginger_Snap takes her share of caps, bar a hoofful "Thank you, youve told nopony else? and can I get a bottle of something scotch-like?"
<NitoKa|GM> He serves up cold scotch on the rocks. "Sure, and I've mentioned it a bit, I mean it's a rumor, nothing too based, but it's a lead." He shrugs.
<Phisa> "That's all we need." She said as she looked to everypony else. "Well, I guess I'll be stuck with you all for awhile until we find this Stable Mountain." She said as she took a seat.
* Composite scoots forward. "Alright, bartender, you open for that question?"
<NitoKa|GM> "Sure son, what's up?"
* Summerfree starts to spin again, still twisting her ears to listen to the conversation.
* Ginger_Snap faintly objects the drink, seeing as she asked for a bottle, but concedes and drinks, sliding a few caps over to the barkeep and pocketing the rest
<Composite> "You got any cheap alcohol, real alcoholic, nopony drinks it? Kind that burns real easy?"
* Phisa doesn't say anything at all, just staring at the rest of the party. Not exactly a social mare was she?
<NitoKa|GM> "Uhh not really. We're kinda a dive. All our alcohol get's drank."
<Lancer> "-Used- to get drank."
<NitoKa|GM> He smiles and takes out a large bottle of Peppermint Schnaps. "Here there little mare, if you want to get drunk, try this." He says giving it to her.
* Composite sighs. "Alright, then. You know anyplace I can get cheap alcohol?"
<Phisa> "... How exactly do you do most of that stuff." She finally says something to Summerfree, having nothing better to do.
<NitoKa|GM> "Well probably in Piltover. They only drink like fancy shit there."
* Summerfree stops in an instant, but her ears keep twisting. "Do what stuff?" she asks.
<Phisa> "Stuff like ... opening doors that are suppposed to be locked ... or bringing up maps from behind my ear ... that stuff."
* Composite nods. "Alright, shit, you know any place here where I can get oil?"
* Phisa clearly didn't look like she was used to this sort of socializing, but she kept up using a composed look.
* Summerfree reaches up and stops her ears. She shrugs. "Can't everypony?" she asks.
<Phisa> "No." She says bluntly.
* Lancer shakes his head. "You are one weird pony."
* Summerfree sits back. "Huh," she says, eyebrows raising. She looks up. "Got an answer, narrator?" she asks.
* Composite glances at Summerfree. Then he shakes his head and waits on a response from the bartender.
<Phisa> "Who?" Phisa said giving a confused look.
<NitoKa|GM> "Oil... hmm well I know a couple caravans sell them."
<NitoKa|GM> What? I thought you were keeping track on how you do that
* Summerfree raises her hooves and rubs them at her temples. She closes her eyes and frowns. "Nevermind... I guess you wouldn't be able to hear," she mutters, still rubbing her hooves in little circles. "I don't know, I've always been able to. Also I need the bandana back, please."
* Composite leans forward. "Any of them in town?"
* Composite takes the bandanna off his face, tossing it back to Summerfree
<Lancer> "Don't suppose you have anything useful back there? Like a lawnmower or something?"
* Summerfree catches it and stuffs it into her saddlebags, never to be seen again.
<NitoKa|GM> "Nope, it's too late, maybe in a day or two." He looks to Lancer. "With what caps you gonna pay for it if I did?"
<Phisa> "..." The zebra was clearly out of things to ask about, so she simply just waited to be spoken to.
* Summerfree shrugs. "Sorry."
<Lancer> "Eh, ah well."
<NitoKa|GM> SESSION END
<Summerfree> "Only when it's funny. Or unexpected. Or necessary. Or pointless..."