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FoE RPG G0-2 - #041 Gust: Out of the Fire, Into the Burner

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  1. [2015-09-13 21:56:04]<LuckyLeaf> You may comment or describe your reaction
  2. [2015-09-13 21:56:48]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust would have /definitely/ been in no condition being taken captive. Especially when it was Hellhounds doing the capturing...
  3. [2015-09-13 21:57:00]<Fluffy_Cumulus> condition to resist being taken captive.*
  4. [2015-09-13 21:57:07]<LuckyLeaf> You were also outfitted with the traditional slave collar.
  5. [2015-09-13 21:59:53]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust cooperates, but takes careful note of his surroundings.
  6. [2015-09-13 22:02:24]<LuckyLeaf> There is a strange mix of rustic stone and wood with metal and advanced equipment as far as the structures and machinery go
  7. [2015-09-13 22:04:57]<LuckyLeaf> I believe they would become more interested in you at some point you used some of the local herbs to make yourself a healing salve or something for sore muscles. What do you think?
  8. [2015-09-13 22:05:12]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Yeah.
  9. [2015-09-13 22:05:24]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Or prepare food from a plant that's normally inedible.
  10. [2015-09-13 22:08:59]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust understand that, as a slave, he's only worth something if he's useful.
  11. [2015-09-13 22:09:23]<Fluffy_Cumulus> So he'd offer to be useful... while working to find a way out of the situation.
  12. [2015-09-13 22:09:40]<LuckyLeaf> At first the hellhound guards would look angry for how you were using their crops, but a higher up would interfere and take you to a bulldog-like Hellhound in a lab full of chemistry equipment. You would be assigned to assist him.
  13. [2015-09-13 22:10:54]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust would be careful and respectful, only speaking if spoken to.
  14. [2015-09-13 22:11:16]<Fluffy_Cumulus> ... but he'd do plenty of looking around the lab, to see if he recognized anything.
  15. [2015-09-13 22:12:28]<LuckyLeaf> He could tell that a lot of the equipment seemed to be pre-war
  16. [2015-09-13 22:13:26]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust is probably trained in its use, since most equipment above the clouds is of similar make.
  17. [2015-09-13 22:14:02]<Fluffy_Cumulus> He wonders if he can figure-out what the hellhound is working on without asking or interfering...
  18. [2015-09-13 22:15:33]<LuckyLeaf> From your skill you could figure out a good deal of it, though you didn't get to see all of their uses
  19. [2015-09-13 22:16:44]<LuckyLeaf> Among the things you worked on there was a fertilizer and some sort extremely harsh plant killing agent, that you are sure would not do any good to the farmlands, but it didn't seem to be used there as far as you have seen before
  20. [2015-09-13 22:16:44]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust does whatever the hellhound directs, so long as it pertains to being a lab assistant.
  21. [2015-09-13 22:18:27]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust didn't lend his captors much aid. As much as it might improve his and others' conditions in the short term, he didn't want to aid or abet them in the long term.
  22. [2015-09-13 22:19:40]<LuckyLeaf> There was a number of chems as well.
  23. [2015-09-13 22:20:03]<LuckyLeaf> The details were on a terminal that was mostly handled by the hellhound scientist
  24. [2015-09-13 22:20:22]<LuckyLeaf> But you two made a large number of variations
  25. [2015-09-13 22:20:56]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust committed the processes -- and the effects, if he witnessed or experienced them -- to memory.
  26. [2015-09-13 22:23:40]<LuckyLeaf> One of them were physically-enhancing, and from what you could tell, intentionally mentally-impairing. It was produced in large scale along with a stimulant for reducing the need for sleep.
  27. [2015-09-13 22:24:11]<LuckyLeaf> They seemed to be intentionally addictive as well.
  28. [2015-09-13 22:24:11]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust thinks that points to preparing for war.
  29. [2015-09-13 22:24:25]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Drug-enhanced soldiers can be very efffective...
  30. [2015-09-13 22:24:29]<Fluffy_Cumulus> ... even if untrained.
  31. [2015-09-13 22:25:30]<LuckyLeaf> You haven't seen the average slaves being given weapons during the time you spent among them.
  32. [2015-09-13 22:26:05]<Fluffy_Cumulus> Gust wonders if the drugs could be heading elsewhere, for distribution?
  33. [2015-09-13 22:27:21]<LuckyLeaf> The farmlands are large and there are hundreds of slaves, but you are producing very large quantities
  34. [2015-09-13 22:28:16]<LuckyLeaf> The formulas sometimes vary as the hellhound receives technical reports from a harsh voice in a radio.
  35. [2015-09-13 22:29:56]<LuckyLeaf> There are three other formulas, which seem unfinished for how often they are adjusted, but you haven't seen their effects firsthand yet. While you have a perfect sense of their composition, you would need some medical knowledge to know their effects
  36. [2015-09-13 22:31:00]* Fluffy_Cumulus is now known as Green_Gust
  37. [2015-09-13 22:31:04]* Green_Gust can make better guesses than most, but he's still grasping at straws.
  38. [2015-09-13 22:31:22]<LuckyLeaf> You can roll, 3 times at -20
  39. [2015-09-13 22:32:06]<Green_Gust> 3d100 TN 12 (>__>)
  40. [2015-09-13 22:32:06]<BondsBot> Green_Gust: TN 12 (>__>) 3d100 = 126 [49,6,71].
  41. [2015-09-13 22:32:18]<LuckyLeaf> Well, look at that
  42. [2015-09-13 22:32:28]<LuckyLeaf> I think you got the most interesting one
  43. [2015-09-13 22:33:08]<Green_Gust> Hm!
  44. [2015-09-13 22:34:48]<LuckyLeaf> Among the medical babble that was very technical and you couldn't understand, you realized the second of the chems, that they didn't have success with yet, was a mind-control formula. And that the mental impairment from the other chems used in the rations seemed to be the closest they could get it to work so far.
  45. [2015-09-13 22:35:37]* Green_Gust /really/ doesn't like how that sounds.
  46. [2015-09-13 22:36:07]* Green_Gust decides he needs to know more, and damn the consequences.
  47. [2015-09-13 22:36:48]<LuckyLeaf> So, how do you do that?
  48. [2015-09-13 22:36:31]* Green_Gust (Mibbit@Pony-2qkeik.dsl.coastside.net) has joined
  49. [2015-09-13 22:40:25]* Green_Gust wants to create a distraction in the lab, then see if he can quickly hack the terminal and create an even /bigger/ distraction that'll give him the time to find-out what he's looking for. And maybe even throw a wrench in his captors' plans.
  50. [2015-09-13 22:46:02]<LuckyLeaf> The hellhound scientist spends most of his day working on the formulas. Out of the lab, there are other hellhounds patrolling. At night he goes away and you are taken to the where the slaves sleep.
  51. [2015-09-13 22:48:15]* Green_Gust does his best to appear as an unassuming and docile slave.
  52. [2015-09-13 22:48:42]* Green_Gust ... but subversive plans cook in his head while he thinks about what he can do.
  53. [2015-09-13 22:55:22]<Green_Gust> The next time they're in the lab, Gust tries something.
  54. [2015-09-13 22:56:38]<LuckyLeaf> Green_Gust tries to set up a slow chain chemical reaction, but it starts off sooner than he expected, right under his muzzle.
  55. [2015-09-13 22:57:34]<LuckyLeaf> "What you doing, pony?! Stop!" The scientist hellhound rushes to him and pushes him away to control the situation.
  56. [2015-09-13 22:58:48]<Green_Gust> "Sorry..." Gust coughs. "I... had no idea..."
  57. [2015-09-13 23:00:32]* Green_Gust backs away from the developing situation and heads towards the terminal.
  58. [2015-09-13 23:00:48]<Green_Gust> Well, backs away from the situation in the direction of the terminal.
  59. [2015-09-13 23:04:18]<LuckyLeaf> The hellhound scientist glances your way suspiciously. From what you know his former assistants had their share of mistakes, but it wasn't unheard of for the slaves to try sabotaging stuff. You have heard before of a pony who tried to bust the wall with a fertilizer bomb. They ripped one of her wings off. Fortunately he seems to be giving you the benefit of the doubt for your behavior, but he is watching closely
  60. [2015-09-13 23:05:30]* Green_Gust takes note of the hellhound watching him suspiciously, but hopefully he's got enough credit stored away to not have action taken against him yet.
  61. [2015-09-13 23:08:06]* Green_Gust thinks he should try from a different angle, or maybe just wait a couple weeks so another attempt doesn't seem so suspicious.
  62. [2015-09-13 23:13:27]<LuckyLeaf> Most of your day is spent at the lab. You get some extra free hours compared to most other slaves because you mostly work under the scientist hellhound supervision, and he doesn't work the ridiculous hours the ponies do. Then, you are given some slop of ugly and old produce that is fortunately drug-free because the scientist doesn't need a dumb assistant, and you are taken to the slavehouse to rest
  63. [2015-09-13 23:13:34]* Green_Gust is not very confident in his ability to sneak around unnoticed...
  64. [2015-09-13 23:15:23]<Green_Gust> He decides to wait a week or two until he feels he can try similar tactics again.
  65. [2015-09-13 23:18:50]<LuckyLeaf> Some weeks later Green_Gust overhears the scientist talking to the radio. It seems whoever is on the other side made a breakthrough. They have a sample of a working mind-control chem, but it must be kept in the right temperature, pressure and overall conditions. All they need to do is to stabilize it for general use.
  66. [2015-09-13 23:19:28]* Green_Gust curses his poor luck...
  67. [2015-09-13 23:20:26]<LuckyLeaf> The scientist hellhound seems to have forgotten the last incident, and he assigns you to go along and make sure the sample is kept in the right conditions.
  68. [2015-09-13 23:21:44]* Green_Gust figures this is about as good as it's gonna' get for him in terms of opportunity.
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