Group 4 Session 61

<uSeaGM> **Group 4 Session 61**
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<uSeaGM> Milia's body bursts into flame. And the zebra stands on all four hooves.
<uSeaGM> Crimson blood stains the grey stone pier, leading from the monster's corpse to Milia's leg. But the zebra's injury is gone. The hoof that had been severed just moments ago is there, intact, covered in a strange flame-like tattoo that reaches as far as her shoulder.
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<uSeaGM> The fire around her burns brightly, but Milia merely feels pleasantly warm. A brilliant orange feather wafts upwards and floats above her, hanging for a moment before being consumed by the flame. Tiny fragments of ash blow away on the breeze.
<uSeaGM> “Your offering is accepted. Our pact is forged.”
<uSeaGM> The voice comes from somewhere beside Milia, perhaps even from the fire itself, but what follows can only be described as an awkward pause.
<uSeaGM> “Err... you were supposed to stop burning now...”
<uSeaGM> The fire continues, ruining her barding and burning through her saddlebags. Their contents spill out onto the ground, now ashes and scorched metal. Potions shatter and caps become melted and warped, yet despite all this a box of cookies sit in the ashen pile completely unharmed. Her knight's helmet and fancy cloak are similarly unscathed.
<uSeaGM> “Stoooop now... Now.... Now... Stop riiiight-” the fire stops, having burned through what it could, “-now! Hey, it worked!”
<uSeaGM> The vanishing flame dispels the shocked silence that had fallen on the group, leaving Milia gently steaming in the fog. The smell of warm cookies fills the air and the gunfire they had heard earlier also seems to have ceased. The immediate danger has passed.
* Whisper stands, stock-still. In a barely audible voice he murmurs, "Wha...?"
* Jasmine had made a crash landing moments before, having expended all of her energy into one final attack. It was all she could to to turn her head towards the heap that was Milia, as she bursted into flames and was shown to be unharmed. Her eyes widen, entranced by the sight, her beak hanging open in awe.
* Artifica jumps Milia and hugs her for all she's worth.
* Whisper follows Artifica's lead, piling into a hug while tears stream silently down his face.
* Milia is feeling very sore and exhausted, having just gone through an ordeal she honestly never could have expected. Nonetheless...what she felt right now...was annoyed. The zebra gives herself a once over, scrunching her nose at the absolutely demolished gear. "Ughh...did you really need to set me on fi-WOAH!" she yelps, as she's wrapped in a death grip from her friends.
* Milia finally allows the weight of what happened - what NEARLY happened - to hit her, and she simply returns the hug as best she can. "...shit...I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."
* Prism just stands there and stares.   "That...doesn't happen."
* Milia nuzzles and kisses Artifica frantically. 'I'm sorry' is all she can keep repeating.
<Jasmine> "Milly... shes a... shes not just a hero... shes a... SUPER hero!" Jasmine manages to exclaim. If she wasnt so exhausted, she would have been freaking out a lot more.
<uSeaGM> "Well duh, there's gotta be a sacrifice. Don't you know anything about pacts?"
* Milia stops the nuzzling and kisses and apologizing when the voice rings out again. She gives a somewhat awkward look around her, her eyebrow raising. "...Uh...are you still around?" The zebra calls out to the air, still hugging.
* Whisper steps back, looking around. "Who's the voice? And what sacrifice? And what pact?"
* Milia gives a wary-not-really-confident-sorta-bashful smile to Whisper. "Uhhh...it's...a bizarre story. See, when I...y'know...died there for a bit? I met someone. Not, uh, met someone like /that/, but..."
* Milia is stumbling over her words. She calls out again to the air. "Little help here? I'm new to this whole thing!"
<uSeaGM> "Of course I'm still around. There was a sacrifice and drama, so we're bound together now. My big sister said I was good at drama. Infact, she named me queen of drama! So you should feel lucky."
* Whisper looks thoroughly nonplussed. "I'm still very confused."
* Prism sorta backs away.
* Milia lets out an exasperated sigh. "You and me both, Whisper..." she mutters. "Look, can you just like...come out, or whatever? You got a name?" she deadpans to the disembodied voice.
* Milia takes this time to examine her newly regenerated arm, complete with gigantic full length flame tattoo. "What the hay..."
* Artifica hugs Milia more. Then, "Don't die on me!"
* Milia hugs Artifica tight again, giving her one more kiss on the muzzle. She'd respond with 'I won't' but...well...
* Artifica adds, slightly calmer, "And... are you going to introduce me to your new friend?"
* Milia instead decides to go with: "...It won't happen again, love."
* Whisper looks around nervously. "So...is the voice still here?"
<uSeaGM> "You want me to manifest here? I don't think I-" With a slight fizzle, a glowing flame-like equine figure appears over Milia's right shoulder. "Ohmigosh it worked!"
* Jasmine musters up enough strength to carry herself over towards Milia, taking a closer look at her new leg, still holding her old mangled with her tail, forgetting that she even had it. "Ive never SEEN that before! Is that the source of your super powers? Can you give ME one too?!"
* Whisper jumps back with an "eep!" as the fiery figure bursts into existence.
* Jasmine looks up at the sudden appearance of the flame horse, and her eyes widened. "Oh COOL!"
* Prism is uneasy about all of this.
<uSeaGM> The figure is quite small, about the size of a parrot, and seems perfectly suited to sitting on the zebra's shoulder.
* Whisper points to the figure with a hoof. "Who are you?!"
* Milia looks up to the...surprisingly tiny, fiery being floating above her, going slightly wide eyed. "Wait, 'it worked'? And wow, what the hay, weren't you bigger before?"
* Artifica blinks, stumbles back, and sits down with a thump, staring.
<uSeaGM> She crosses her hooves. "Well that was the spirit world. I haven't got the hang of this place yet." Instead of answering Whisper's question, the tiny fire pony points back and demands. "Yeah, well, who are you?!"
* Whisper starts backward. "Uh, I-I'm sorry. N-never mind, pretend I didn't say anything."
* Jasmine apparently was never taught what happens when you touch a hot stove. Or Fire. A hot fire stove. Inquisitively, she takes a talon and pokes at it
* Milia just lets Jasmine grab at her new leg without putting up a fight at the moment. Her attention is on her new...fiery...parrot horse. She's having trouble processing the fact that her new spirit world friend is getting snippy with Whisper. In a...surprisingly child-like manner. She doesn't bother to try to stop Jasmine as she goes to poke it.
* Prism sighs, not trusting the thing at all, he tries to change things up.   "Is anyone hurt?"
* Milia rubs the back of her mane. "Okay, okay! Sorry, didn't mean to like...offend you! Size isn't everything, I guess..." she mutters, awkwardly trailing off. "Anyways...unless you really want me to call you 'drama queen', I think an introduction is in order."
<uSeaGM> "Hey, quit it!" The figure feels hot and tingly to the touch, until she stands on her hind legs and holds her tiny hooves up like she was ready to box. "I'll have you know that I'm an incredibly wise and powerful and... wise spirit for my age! You just try that again!"
* Whisper carefully backs up towards Prism, not taking his eyes off the fiery sprite. "I'm fine," he says over his shoulder.
* Milia neglects to answer Prism's question for the moment. She honestly didn't know how.
<uSeaGM> She stops trying to box Jasmine's single talon just long enough to answer Milia. "I don't have a name over here. And my name over there is like, a super strong forest fire that will sweep across the world and scorch the oceans... but sound here can't pronounce that."
<Whisper> Upon hearing this, Wisper's expression changes to one of abject terror.
* Jasmine was hurt pretty badly, her sides were a mess after getting chomped on by the squids. She would probably need a doctors bag to even begin healing. She turns to Prism with a smile and says "Oh... Ive been through worse! Dont worry about it, Ill be fine in no time...!" She shrugs off her pain with her cheerful demenour, before turning back towards Milia's fiery friend. "Ooh! Ooh! Is this
<Jasmine> super hero training? Ill take you on! Let me spar with you!" She says, balling her talons into a fist and giving a few quick jabs, mimicing the spirit.
* Jasmine winces a bit at the exertion
* Milia rubs her temples wearily upon hearing the spirit's answer. "Yare yare daze..." she says with a groan. She didn't know what i meant...it just felt right to say.
* Milia lets Jasmine entertain the thing for the moment, as after noticing she's only got one spiked shoe on, the zebra attempts to yank it off. Walking with one on would be impossible anyways.
<Milia> ((what it meant*))
* Whisper calls out from his spot standing next to Prism. "So, Milia, is Jasmine right? Because what just happened...I think it kinda does qualify you as having superpowers."
<uSeaGM> The spirit 'fights' Jasmine for a few moments, before she notices the blood seeping down Jasmine's side. "Hey, the catbird is hurt. I'll... I'll show you mercy and let you off this time."
* Artifica is still staring, processing.  "Milia?  Does this mean you're a zebra shamaness now?"
* Notify: mimezinga is online (irc.canternet.org).
* ChanServ gives channel operator status to mimezinga
* mimezinga is now known as Berry
* Milia rips the solitary shoe off her not-fire-leg and spits it to the ground, then glancing over to Whisper. "I don't friggin' know, dude! Apparently this runs in the family, according to her! That's what she told me when I met her! If what happened qualifies as me having superpowers or something, I can't say!" she says, waggling her flame hoof at Whisper.
* Milia nods to Artifica, glad to have a bastion of sanity in her life. "That sounds...a lot more likely."
<Jasmine> "C-come oooon! Im fiiiine!" She complains. "I wanna do some superhero training!" She whines at the fire spirit.
* Milia 's ears twitch when she hears the spirit's comment to Jasmine. "And, okay...that name is a mouthful. Here, how bout this, I'll give you one that's maybe not a paragraph long or whatever. Does that work?"
* Berry points a hoofie at milia and yells "I-I-I-I-IMPOSSIBRU!"
* Artifica considers, "Is she... you're familiar?"  Shamans have familiars, right?
* Whisper slumps a little and stares, still a bit awestruck. "Wow," he silently mouths.
* Berry then, poceeds to the universal recon routine -LICK LICK- -SNIFF SNIFF-
* Milia facehooves. "And there's Berry."
<uSeaGM> The spirit turns to Milia. "You'll give me a name? Well I guess that works..."
* Berry tries sniffing and licking the spirit too, even if a little uncertain
* Milia nods to herself. "Good." She hums thoughtfully while Berry does her thing and licks both her and the sprite. She gives the filly a little noogie while still thinking. After a few moments, she speaks up to her new friend. "Well...you're weird. Really weird. Which is good, by the way, weird fits right in...but you /did/ save my life, which I am eternally grateful for, by the way..."
<Milia> "...so...how about...Strange Mercy?"
* Berry OMNOMNOM lucky berry! she found cookies!
* Berry tries offering one of the newly baked in demonic flames cookies to the fire thing
* Artifica is lost in thought for a moment.  "I'm...  that's...."  she mutters.  "Huh."
* Artifica then stands up, faces the little burning pony spirit and curtsies.  "Hello.  It's a pleasure to meet you.  I'm Artifica."
* Whisper chimes in. "I like that name. It's nice and hints at things other than drowning us all in unquenchable fire." He puts on his best smile. It still looks forced.
<uSeaGM> "... Your names are weird but I guess that works." She makes a funny face when she gets licked. "Gah! Is this how you lot say hello to each other?" But she takes the cookie curiously and procedes to nom. "This smells nice."
* Milia stares down at Jasmine finally as Berry and Artifica occupy Mercy's attention for the moment. "Holy shit, Jas...you're not, uh, looking so hot there." She remains silent for a few awkward moments, before facehooving. "...Pun not intended."
* Milia makes a mental note to never use the word hot ever again.
* Berry takes a look at the spirit "sooo... your job is burningg ponies alive? i... worked somehow in a similar branch before a serie of unfortunate events...."
<uSeaGM> The spirit vanishes from Milia's shoulder and fizzle-appears in front of Artifica (still holding onto the cookie that was half her size). "Hello, I'm Strange Mercy... or something," she says before licking Artifica on the nose.
<Jasmine> "Its nothing...! I mean... Ive been through worse!" She repeats herself, before pausing, suddenly looking pensive for a second. "I.. think I said that already, but REGARDLESS!" She points at Milia. "Teach me how to be a super hero and to get super powers! Please?"
* Jasmine winces again, after pointing at Milia. She probably shouldnt be making sudden movements like that
* Milia glares down at Jasmine. "Step one: don't bleed to death. And, okay, I know that TECHNICALLY worked for me, but I assure you, I am the EXCEPTION, not the rule! And it's not super-powers! It's spirit channeling or shamaness...ism! Whatever my smart marefriend called it!..."
<Milia> "...I think!"
* Berry taps her chin so, if it is not super powers.... it is a ceap trick? so we should call the spirit sheap trick...
<Berry> *cheap
* Prism wonders how Danse is doing.
* Whisper turns to Prism. "Are you starting to feel...obsolete?"
<Prism> "Not the word I'd use."
<Jasmine> "But... but... but...!" She stammers. "Im a tough girl..! I can take it! You KNOW I can take it!" She seems really insistent about this. "I would have died a long time ago if I..." Jasmine suddenly starts to feel a bit light headed, and she holds out a talon to the ground to keep herself from toppling over. "... I just need a breather. Thats all."
* Whisper looks away. "Right. Same here," he says quickly.
* Berry checks jasmine and tilts her head "well, we could try putting on fire jas too... i mean, what's the worst that could happen? if we are unlucky we get her anew, otherwise we gt some decent international cuisine..."
* Berry "sure, we should order fries too, but hey, it's the wasteland, you know"
* Milia lets out a sigh. "...you need /healing/. Please, Jas. I know you're tough, but even tough girls like you need help every once in a while."
<uSeaGM> Since she had finished giving Artifica what seemed to be the traditional real-world welcome, Mercy fizzles out and pops up just in front of Whisper. "Hey, err, I have a name now so I can answer your question. Hello, I'm Strange Mercy." Then she gives Whisper a tiny lick on the nose.
* Whisper gives a small cry and topples backwards in surprise. He stares up, wide-eyed, at the spirit and squeaks out, "Hi."
* Jasmine stays silent, not wanting to admit it. She looks towards Milia, and then away from her without a word.
* Artifica smiles to Strange Mercy.
* Prism backs away from it.
* Artifica then finally turns her attention to Jasmine.  "Oh.... oh, I'm so sorry.  Here... let me help you."
* Berry trots next to jasmine now. time to do her work, since nopony is healing the little parrot, she starte with the mommy rotine, licking everywhere it could hurt... that will take a bit...
* Milia takes this time to scoop up what little remained of the stuff in her saddlebags. When she comes to their group funds...
<Milia> "...our caps melted!  Dammit!"
* Prism takes this time since no one else seemed to be concerned to check on the aftermath of the battle,  like what was the damage to the town.
* Jack was likely wrapping up helping the pirates with the other squid.
* Milia pouts a bit as she sees that basically everything else she owned was melted or turned to ash as well. All that remained were a few blackened vials of alchemical mixtures, some stray bullets, her Scootaloo statue, a (somehow freshly baked) box of cookies (that had also been gotten into), and a small portion of their caps that avoided taking too much heat.
<Whisper> Still lying down, Whisper scoots back a bit from Mercy before taking a big gulp and speaking again. He takes a deep breath before saying, "I'm Whisper." He immediately falls silent again.
<uSeaGM> Mercy nibbles on her cookie and looks down at Whisper... who was cowering before her tiny form. "I like you." She then fizzles out and appears back on Milia's shoulder.
* Berry starts checking her bags "don't worry milia! i have saved something in case someone lost all of her stuff! i can give you stuff! good stuff!"
* Whisper groans softly and buries his face in his hooves. Wonderful. A terrifying spirit of fire liked him and was a permanent addition to the group. The nightmare was complete.
* Milia glances up to Mercy as she poofs back to her. "Go easy on him, he's skittish." the zebra jokingly scolds. "And wow, holy crap, go a little overboard on my stuff, much?!" she practically whines.
* Milia glances over to Berry. "Wait, you do?" she asks, genuinely intrigued.
* Berry offers a brush to milia with a wide smile on her muzzle "see? never unprepared!"
* Berry plus, 4 caps
* Milia takes the brush and caps...and has nowhere to put them. "Uh...how 'bout you...hold onto those for me, Berry. I can't really...carry stuff right now."
<uSeaGM> Prism's quick inspection reveals that none of the squid have made it into town. Their goal, if they had one, seemed to be near the stone piers.
* Milia sighs and pops a tag-a-long into her mouth.
* Berry "oh, don't worry! there are saddlebags everywhere around! it's just sripted, an adventurer can never have no saddlebags!" the filly checks the nearest not destroyed barrel
* Prism checks said pier.
* Milia watches Berry, thoroughly confused by the behavior as she idly chews her cookie.
* Berry pops out from the crate with a saddlebag "here you go"
* Milia spews crumbs with her exclamation. "Pfwhat the fuck?! No way!"
* Whisper cautiously approaches the group. "So, we're all alive. Where do we go from here?" He takes note of Milia's crispy gear. "Good thing I grabbed ammo before the fight," he mutters.
* Milia takes the saddlebags, in as much awe at Berry's luck as she was by anything else that had happened today. And it had been a weird day.
* Berry puts the brush and the 4 caps in the saddlebags, then gives them to milia "you should have a little more faith in your leader"
* Milia stammers out a response. "I...I never should have doubted you, glorious leader..."
* Berry nodnods and goes licking the squid corpse
* Milia gathers all her remaining junk into her miracle-saddlebags.
* Berry frowns "lacks salt"
* Berry also, refills her weapons with fresh ammo
* Artifica coaxes Jasmine.  "You need to hold very still.  I can help... but you don't want me to grow a rib in the wrong place by accident...
* Artifica focuses, examining Jasmine's wounds, focusing on the damage to her chest.  Her horn glows softly.
* Whisper takes the chance while everyone else is talking to reload his weapon.
* Berry then, since nopony seems that interested, the filly climbs inside the squid!
* Artifica warns, "This may.... ache."
* Milia glances over at Whisper after getting all her stuff in order. "Well...we still have a boat to catch, assuming that plan's still on..." She comments. It's only just now that she catches sight of the striped, bloody leg grasped in Jasmine's tail. The zebra shudders.
* Jasmine feels really weird... and also really in pain. She takes deep, sharp breaths as Artificia does her magic, but she stays as stil as possible
* Whisper nods at Milia, then looks around. "So where's the pirates? Weren't they going to sail the ship?" He pauses. "And where's Prism?"
* Milia casts a look around to take stock of who's currently here. Whisper...check. Artifica...healing Jasmine. Double check. Berry...rooting around in a dead squid monster for...Berry reasons. Check. Prism? No check. Jack? No check either. She turns back to Whisper:
<Milia> "In order: No clue.  Yes.  See answer 1.  He must have headed off on his own somewhere.  You didn't see where he went?"
* Whisper looks embarassed. "No, I was kinda being scared witless by your new fire-spirit thing," he mumbles.
* Milia leans her head toward Mercy. "Told you. Skittish." she mutters.
<uSeaGM> During Berry's search she finds half a cutlass... and lots of guts.
* Berry is lost in guts! wanders forever lost in the squidtastic dungeon
* Whisper turns a bit red. "W-well it's not like I don't have my reasons," he says with a touch of indignation.
* Milia rolls her eyes and chuckles. "Just yankin' your chain, dude. Sorry. I'd be lying if I said this whole thing didn't have me kinda freaked out too."
* Berry starts keeping a journal "day one... the squid is larger than it looked outside... we lost direction and estabilished a camp... tomorrow we will explore the lower bowels in hope to find a new open way. rations are enough and the morale is still good. we must endure"
* Milia pats Whisper with her flame arm. "But damn, son, you sure picked a heck of a day to join our group, didn't you?"
* Jasmine was still pretty lightheaded after the healing was done. After all, growing bones back and closing wounds doesnt mean all the blood that was lost was back too. She turns to Artificia "You didnt need to do that. I coulda just let it heal on its own... but thanks" She said, shaking her head to try and undizzy herself. She immediately stood up and walked over towards Milia. "Now, about your
<Jasmine> shamaness super hero powers.." She began, before immediately falling over on her side because of the diziness.
<uSeaGM> Mercy crosses her hooves and nods her head. "I'm sure it's a perfectly natural reaction after meeting a great and powerful spirit such as myself."
* Whisper thinks for a minute. "Yeah...I guess I did. I can't believe I just joined you guys this morning. Feels like a lot longer ago with all that's happened."
* Jasmine 's head swam a bit. "...What was I saying again..?"
* Berry uses the half cutlass to dig her way outside the squid
* Whisper leans away from Strange Mercy a bit nervously, nodding vigorously.
* Milia trots over to Jasmine, somewhat worried, and offers her a tag-a-long. "Eaaaasy there, girl...here, have a nice, nutritious, sugary snack. Does the body good. Or...at least the tongue."
* Berry shakes herself to get rif od the squiddy goo and comments "i'm not sure of the reason, but i expected to find a clarinet somewhere inside squiddy"
* Jasmine sluggishly looks up towards Milia "Woaaah... you can make copies of yourself too?! How mant super powers do you got?!" She exclaims with a look of awe on her face. She reaches out to grab the cookie, and misses twice, once grabbing to the left of her, and to the right of her.
* Artifica gives Jasmine a hug and would offer her patient a candy, but doesn't have any.
* Milia stares at Jasmine, nonplussed. "Say 'ahhh', Jas."
* Berry "hey jas, want half a cutlass too?"
<Jasmine> "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah"
* Berry "you can be half a pirate"
* Milia http://i.imgur.com/fRrqhMq.png
* Jasmine looks over towards Berry as she noms on the cookie ((and hopefully not Milias hoof)) "Wait waitwaitwaitwait.... YOU CAN MAKE COPIES OF YOURSELF TOO, BERRY?"
<Whisper> "Um, Jasmine, I think you might just be seeing double."
* Berry tilts her head "sure, if i can has double dessert..."
<Jasmine> "Seeing double...." Jasmine mumbles to herself. "Wait... WAIT.... I DO HAVE A SUPER POWER! YESSSS!"
* Whisper is uncertain how to react to Jasmine's rejoicing. "Er..."
* Jack trots on over from the other pier a bottle of grog in his mouth.
* Berry gasps "superpowers!? why i always am the last to know things! we need to find jas a superhero name now! let's see... sh can see double, she can see everything! ah... like.... see you all!... no, it's stupid... ah... think berry think! everyone is counting on you!... aaaaah... i know! four eyes!... no, that's nerdy... uhm.... i know! robot-chicken! i dont' know why but this makes me think if a thousand TV screens"
* Milia shoots an exasperated look to the rest of her group still on the pier, before glancing down to Jasmine and extending a hoof to the gryphon. "Yup, Jas, we just need to get you those dragon wings and you'll be a regular wasteland crusader..."
* ChanServ gives channel operator status to Cerberus
* Jasmine takes Milias hoof and uses it to pull herself up, before she rubs her eyes. "Yeah!.... Except Ill be a SUPER wasteland crusader! With SUPER powers" Suddenly, she is made aware of a strange feeling in her tail. She turns around to see Milias mangled leg. "Oh.. OH... I forgot I had this." Immediately, she pics it up in her talons and hands it over to Milia. "Uh... well, a bit late, but here."
* Jack takes now to rejoin the group. He spits out the bottle of Grog. "Gonna eat that?" He grins toothfully.
* Jack is clearly not serious.
* Milia numbly takes her severed leg into her hooves...and just sorta...holds it for a few moments. She honestly didn't know what to do with it. Slowly, she turns her head to see Jack approaching. The zebra just sorta...waves the leg at him in a fairly gross greeting.
* Whisper looks at Jack in horror and quickly takes several steps back.
* Cerberus goes all 'oooooh' "hey, milia now has five legs! her girlfriend is a really lucky mare"
<uSeaGM> Mercy eyes the grizzly leg. "Hey, do you want me to burn that?"
* Jasmine looks at Jack with a repulsed face and gags. "What? EW, no!" She pauses, glaring a bit. "Its been inside a squids guts....."
<Jack> "Who hasn't after a couple years living here." He laughs.
* Cerberus hearing jasmine, sniffs herself
* Cerberus instapuke!
* Cerberus "alright i need a bath"
* Milia glances up at Mercy. "U-uhh...yeah, sure. Gimme...a light." She awkwardly stammers out. Part of her didn't want to get rid of the thing because...well, it was a part of her. Or, used to be. The other part just wanted it gone because it was super grosso.
* Milia holds up the severed leg to her fiery horse friend.
<Jack> "aww" He mock pouts. "So I see you land lubbers managed to handle yourselves."
* Milia frowns at Jack. "That's...one way to put it."
<Jack> "I miss something? also what's with the night light?"
* Cerberus "i suggest an husky funeral for your leg: it is easy, and a honorable tradition of the nordern hellhound sea raiders. first, you put your leg on fire then you toss it in the sea. but you better not yell fetch or the funeral will get messy"
* Milia just stares at Jack. "I died. Then I made a pact. Then I got better." She motions toward Mercy. "Jack Shit, this is Strange Mercy. She's...a fire spirit. And apparently bound for all eternity to me or something. Also I think she's got a crush on Whisper there."
* Whisper looks startled and terrified. "WHAT!?"
* Jasmine turns to Strange Mercy "Ohh thats right.. you dont know Jack Shit yet do you?"
* Jack chuckles. "So what does she get outta the deal?"
<Jack> "also can I get a light?"
* Jack pulls a cigar from his pack.
* Milia looks down at Cerberus, and struggles not to burst out laughing.
<Milia> It's an odd sensation, trying not to laugh while holding your own severed leg.
<uSeaGM> The tiny Mercy bats at it ineffectively a few times, doing nothing more than singeing the limb. She scowls. "Wait wait, I can do this..." Mercy blinks out and reappears a moment later beside Milia, now as large as the zebra herself. She punches the severed leg out of Milia's grasp and down onto the stone ground, incincerating the limb instantly and leaving a scorch mark on the ground. Mercy blinks out and resumes her previous size on
<uSeaGM>  Milia's shoulder. "That's better!"
* Milia yelps. "WOAH!"
* Cerberus stares at the imp "do it again! do it again!"
* Whisper is too busy being terrified to say anything.
* Artifica blinks.  "Wow..."
* Jack takes that opportunity to light his cigar on the briefly burning leg.
<uSeaGM> The spirit's strike leaves a heat haze in the air and she looks quite pleased with herself.
<Jasmine> "Okay, now we GOTTA do some super hero training!" She says, holding up her talons, and punching the air a couple times. "And look! Im all better now! So theres no excuse not to!"
* Artifica looks at Berry and casts Clean.  Berry is now clean.
* Prism is off somewhere, probably at that pier, doing some investigating.
* Artifica wobbles.  "Okay... seriously... I need a nap."
* Whisper yawns. "Nap? How about a good night's sleep? We've been adventuring all day and should probably get some rest before going off to fight sea monsters."
* Milia just stares down at her burning leg, blinking a few times in amazement. She slowly lets her gaze wander over to the pint-sized Mercy, struggling to find the words. Artifica's comment snaps her from her momentary reverie. "Y-yeah, maybe we should head back into town for the moment, I think a few of us could use a bit of a rest..."
* Artifica nods, refusing to give in to the desire to just sit back down and rest.  She was pushing close to being a non-magical unicorn.  While, she noted, her marefriend had become more magical than she was.
<uSeaGM> Prism bumps into the main group of pirates heading the other way. Their cutlasses are drippling with monster bood and they are covered in bits of squid, but they seem in very high spirits. Black Beard tells Prism that they'll be joining the Party very shortly.
* Jasmine doesnt want to rest. She just got better why would she have to rest? Resting is stupid! RESTING IS-..... Jasmine was still quite dizzy and she found herself almost tripping again as she does an air punch to try and impress Strange Mercy. "....Do we haaaaave too?"
* Artifica trots over to Whisper and whispers, "We have something in common."  Then trots over to stand next to Jasmine and catch her should she collapse.
* Milia laborously plods alongside her marefriend (Mercy on the opposite side, of course. She didn't want to risk anything.) as they depart from the pier. She could feel the weight of the unbelievably insane day's events weighing down on her all of a sudden. "Arti's tapped out, Jas...and I'm not exactly in great shape either. Dying sorta has a way of taking it out of you."
<Prism> The squids probably didn't have anything interesting to scavenge.   He decides to reluctantly go back to the rest of the group.
* Whisper gallops to pull even with the rest of the group as they leave the pier.
<uSeaGM> Prism quickly makes it back to the group, and they are soon joined by Genie and the pirates. "Hey, is everypony okay?"
* Jasmine waves at Prism. "Yup! Everythings a-ok over here! Never been better! Hey, have you met Strange Mercy? Shes going to train me to be a super hero along with Milia!" She makes a few punchy gestures, before falling flat on her face, and then quickly gets up on all fours again.
* Jack is just casually smoking. Milia hasn't yet realized her cigs are all gone :V
<Prism> "That's...nice."   He dismisses Jasmine, and makes sure he gives Milia wide berth.
* Whisper shakes his head. "Not really, but I'm used to living in fear so it's all good."
* Milia assumed Mercy burned them all, so Jack's theft will go unnoticed. Score one for the ghoul! Milia just makes one long, tired moan in response to Genie's question.
* Cerberus is checking how bad her sitiation is.... long fur and squid trip don't get together very yay....
* Jack didn't steal a cig from Milia.
* Artifica has cast Clean on Cerberus, so the filly's as wonderfully fluffy as ever.
* Milia glances at Prism, sighing as he stays far away from her. "Hey Jack...can I get a smoke, please? I could use one and all mine sorta exploded."
* Jack offers a cigar. "sure."
<Jack> "Careful you puff these."
* Cerberus feels al clean again! magic! smiles all happily and starts trotting around looking for new ways to get stinky and bleh
* Prism didn't trust Scrappy, Strange Mercy, whatever the heck its name was.  There was pretty much no scientific explanation for this and that bothered him.  He was happy of course that Milia survived,  just that sort of stuff just doesn't happen.  Ever.  So he just thinks on it a bit.
* Jack demonstrates blowing smoke letters because he just lit a cigar on a buring zebra leg.
* Whisper sidles up to Prism and says quietly, "I think you're on to something worrying about that spirit. It incinerated Milia's leg! The old one, I mean."
* Milia gratefully accepts the cigar from the ghoul, pursing it between her lips. She would ask Mercy to light it for her but...well, she didn't want the thing to explode. The zebra wished so badly that she had a way to light it herself...or for the thing to just light itself somehow. In any case, in the midst of thinking such fiery thoughts...
* Milia 's new leg bursts into flames.
* Whisper stares, slack-jawed.
<Jack> "You appear to have burst into flames."
* Jack says nonplused.
* Milia looks down, and just sighs. "Well...that happened."
* Jasmine points at the flaming leg. "..That hoof of yours is BURNING RED!"
<uSeaGM> Mercy claps her hooves together, creating sparks. "That's the spirit!"
* Milia lights her cigar on her...leg, before groaning and rubbing her temples, leg still very much aflame. "...Today's been...weird..." she grumbles to no one in particular. There's really nothing else she can say at this point.
* Artifica gallops closer.  "Doesn't that hurt?"  She's already looking for ways to put it out.
* Prism searches for a bucket of some sort.
* Milia blinks a few times at Artifica, actually genuinely confused. "Huh? O-oh, OH!" She exclaims, not realizing her leg was still on fire. The zebra waggles it a few times and thinks unfiery thoughts, and the flames gradually recede.
* Artifica stares.  Then meekly asks, "That's... not going to happen... when we're intimate, will it?"
* Milia goes wide eyed. She shakes her head furiously. "N-no! Nonononono! I promise! I'll...I'll put a bag or something on it!"
* Milia mutters to herself about needing to find a fireproof bag.
* Prism looks fora bucket or similar container to fill with water.
<uSeaGM> Prism quickly finds a metal bucket as there are a few around the pier.
* Prism fills the bucket with water and heads back over to the others.
* Artifica walks quitely for a moment, unusually tired and deep in thought.  Suddenly, she leans over and nuzzles Milia.
* Milia is blissfully oblivious to the fact that she is probably about to be splashed. She returns Artifica's nuzzle gladly.
<uSeaGM> Mercy looks shocked. "When you're what?! You do realise you're both girls, right?"
* Cerberus giggles "that's the fun part, you silly"
* Whisper raises an eyebrow. "And? Mares fall for mares all the time. Same for stallions."
* Milia just glares at Mercy. "No, I didn't. Thanks for letting me know." she deadpans.
<uSeaGM> "But aren't you supposed to put the thing in the other thing and make more of you?"
* Cerberus frowns "no wait...if a male likes a male... that's gay, do not wat"
<Whisper> "While I can't speak from my own experience, lots of ponies have sex 'cause it feels good. I guess spirits don't?"
* Artifica looks over at Mercy.  "We are?  I better double-check that."  She adds, "Tonight.  Very thuroughly."
* Milia perks up. She definitely liked the sound of that! "Oh, yes...we'll have to come up with several in depth examinations to confirm this claim..." she says with a giggle.
<uSeaGM> Genie seems relieved. "Well I'm glad you're all in one piece but you look really tired. We can find somewhere for you to stay until we're ready to sail. Grandpa and his crew can keep the town safe while you rest."
* Whisper gives a relieved sigh. "Great. I'm exhausted."
* Jasmine raises her talon in the air "I CALL GETTING TO SAIL THE SHIP"
* Prism is now sorta having regrets.
* Cerberus frowns "i'd like you o remember we have friends at a radio station who culd be in knee deep trouble"
* Cerberus "we can rest on the ship"
* Artifica nods..  "Thank you, Cerberus.  We mustn't forget that."
* Whisper yawns again. "I'm not familiar with these friends. You'll have to tell me about it...later. Sleep now."
<uSeaGM> Genie tilts her head. "That was the other idea, if you were up for it. We can lure the squid away with Thunder Child, like we do to keep the fishing boats safe. The razor squid are attracted by her engine,” Genie explains. “If we keep moving them they shouldn't be able to attack us. We'll just need to meet up with the other boats at the fishing spot when it's dark.”
* Whisper looks at the rest of the group. "I'm okay with napping on the ship."
<Prism> "Will you be okay?"
* Milia squeezes her eyes shut. "Ahhh...hell's bells...you're right, Berry..." She nods to Whisper. "Ditto."
* Jasmine does a little fistpump. "Yeah! Ill lure the squid away with my sailing skills! Ill be the saltiest seadog youve ever seen, I'll....-!" She takes a moment to think a bit, before turning towards Genie "So how do you sail a ship exactly? Cant be hard right? Just turn the little wheel thingy?"
* Prism glares at Berry, and follows the rest of the group at a distance.
<uSeaGM> Genie grins at Jasmine and leads the way down the pier. "I can show you!"
* Jasmine raises her fists into the air "YEEEEEEESSSS! CAPTAIN JASMINE, SALTIEST SEADOG OF THE SEVEN SEAS! THE SCOURGE OF SEASQUIDS EVERYWHERE!" She shouts triumphantly. Today was already a long day, and it was just about to get longer.