FoE RPG G0 - #048 Salvage Farm: La Boule

[20:49]<SpiritOfFate>	Group 0: *Epitaph* - Session #48 starts now
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[20:54]<SpiritOfFate>	Everypony has enjoyed a delicious meal in this great day. Now the ponies begin to leave, and there are only the group, Tamara, Knick Knack and Jamal on the house's main table
[20:55]?	Sotho starts to clean up, still in ear shot of everyone.
[20:55]?	Royal_Lace sits at a table with Tamara finishing up her conversation about Overgrowth, "-This place... sounds attrocious, and very well defended"
[20:57]?	Firefly pokes at the table with a filly-hoof. Not like she's really very useful in the planning stages... those are for big ponies! She should be working on a griffin bot.
[20:58]?	Ignis busies himself making an inventory, a rough-write up of everything they were going against and their percieved resources from this...entrepeneuring manuever on the landfill.
[21:05]?	Hawkeye wakes up groggily after a long nap and searches around for her hat.
[21:15]?	Hawkeye crams her hat on her head and meanders down the stairs to join the others in the kitchen, smelling food and sensing that planning may be afoot shortly.
[21:15]?	Sotho sighs as he trots back in. "So then, what's our exact plans?" He asks, trying to break the ice.
[21:17]?	Royal_Lace rubs her head, graoning. "Im not sure, this place... its quite litterally a fortress and with the safe house she was broadcasting from being inside the walls themselves... its going to be tricky, dosent help that I have a headache".
[21:18]?	Wintergreen sits at the table with a yawn, tired from assisting heal ponies up.
[21:21]<Hawkeye>	"Why don't we just buy Firefly's folks?" Hawkeye suggests as she sits down at the table. "Ah mean, Ah don't wanna support the slave trade, but wouldn't that be easier than attackin' a fortress an' getting killed?"
[21:22]?	Firefly nods twice. "Yeah, that's easy! And then we can use the information they have and free them all!"
[21:22]?	Hawkeye chuckles. "Plus, we did just get a pile of caps from here. I cain't see a better use fer slavers' ill-got gains than to free other slaves."
[21:23]?	Royal_Lace continues to rub her temples, "That is viable but we only know for sure that your father is in captivity, your mother was still in hiding last we spoke to her and we have no idea if she has managed to continue iluding capture or not"
[21:24]<SpiritOfFate>	Jamal covers a frown with his talon
[21:24]<Hawkeye>	"Well, seems to me that if we go in and see who we DO have..." Hawkeye stops. "Y'all have something to add, Jamal?" she asks.
[21:26]?	Firefly nods. "And momma's smart. If we can get a message to her..."
[21:29]<SpiritOfFate>	"The only ones who really know about that place other than the hellhounds is the train crew. They don't hire guards." Jamal says.
[21:30]?	Hawkeye leans on a hoof in thought. "Well, we have better armament now, and the element of surprise. We could probably ambush and capture a member of the crew or two," Hawkeye suggests. "Get us some inside info, or maybe a way in."
[21:30]?	Royal_Lace blinks, "So you suggest hijacking a train in?"
[21:31]?	Ignis overhears that. "Even if we manage that...does somepony here even know how to drive one of those things?"
[21:32]<Ignis>	"We can't trust them...not the crew of slaver buddy-buddy dejects..."
[21:33]?	Hawkeye shrugs. "If y'all know how a train works, it ain't that hard to pilot one, or so I hear," she says. "It ain't what we're after as a first resort, but that train DOES have some guns on it. Could make a better Plan B, if y'will."
[21:34]?	Hawkeye turns back to Jamal. "You think we could lift one of the train crew, disappear him, and get him to talk, without raisin' too much suspicion?"
[21:35]?	Firefly nods. "Uh-huh. Though... maybe we should just ask if the Hounds have a pair of pegasi slaves with the same cutie mark they would be willing to sell? Don't even have to go... just call them on the radio?"
[21:36]?	Royal_Lace tilts her head, "That is also a good point Firefly"
[21:36]?	Hawkeye shakes her head. "Nah, Firefly, the minute you start asking specific beyond 'pegasus' they'll either get suspicious or charge more," she says. "Ah want to make sure we have enough for BOTH your folks, and not have t'resort t'desperate measures..."
[21:37]<SpiritOfFate>	"Wait, wait. Have you seen how many guns they have on that train? They are in the gun running business." Jamal ponders over Hawkeye's words. "You'd have to disappear them very well, or they are going to start making questions. Your best chance is to bribe them."
[21:38]?	Firefly nods to Hawkeye. "Well... maybe. But if mama is causing trouble, wouldn't they want to get rid of her for cheaper?"
[21:38]<Hawkeye>	"Then we might not have enough caps to buy Firefly's folks," Hawkeye says. "An to be clear, Ah didn't mean hide him. I meant 'make it look like wild critters got him.'" Hawkeye says darkly.
[21:39]<SpiritOfFate>	Tamara chimes in. "From what we gather, selecting ponies by cutie mark kinds isn't uncommon, but being too specific could be suspicious."
[21:39]<Hawkeye>	"Wait a tic," Hawkeye says, looking at Firefly. "What's your folks' special talents? Because that would be somethin' specific to ask for."
[21:40]?	Sotho listens over and thinks, sighing lightly. "I'm afraid I am at a loss for what I can help with at this moment." He chuckles lightly. "I am not used to much planning besides where to place each other."
[21:41]<Hawkeye>	The sniper sighs. "You might see if we can get a spirit of some kind to help, Sotho. After all, not most folk can see 'em, and they do weird stuff. Might help us out, since it's the same game as here, with a different plan."
[21:42]?	Firefly nods to Hawkeye. "Well... mama was really good with explosives and papa is really good with machines... but their cutie marks are weird."
[21:42]?	Hawkeye frowns. "How d'ymean?"
[21:43]?	Royal_Lace sighs as she rests her head on the table, "Taking a train could also put weapons in the mud ponies hands, but its less than discreat. Contacting the hellounds before hoof could give us info but tip them off... so many veriables"
[21:45]?	Sotho nods. "I can try to see if I can't find help in the spiritual side, though I can make no promises."
[21:45]?	Hawkeye chuckles. "Well, muh Pap always said that that's how y'have an adventure. Y'make a stupid decision and follow through." She looks at the group. "Ah say we check and see if they have pegasus slaves available. No special mention of definin' traits. Then we set up an appointment to come look. Ah go look, find out what we can an' can't do from there, an' soak up all Ah can about the compound."...
[21:45]?	Hawkeye ...She taps beside her one eye. "This peeper ain't for show, and Ah can spot a lot from the inside."
[21:45]?	Firefly pulls out a bit of scrap paper and a pencil. "Well, they both have the same cutie mark... colors... everything. Had it for as long as I remember." She starts drawing on the paper. "When I asked em about it, they said 'We got it for being good ponies and leaving the Enclave' and never said anything more than that." Firefly finishes her drawing... the symbol of a Dashite.
[21:45]<SpiritOfFate>	Tamara. "We can't risk having the rest of the Railway Armory marching on us. Anything you do must not be linked to this place in anyway."
[21:46]?	Hawkeye looks at the paper and winces. "Oh. Heard about that. Yep." She turns to Tamara. "Ah'd rather not piss off another group just yet. After all, Ah did just pay off the Anchors to avoid that exact same thing."
[21:46]?	Royal_Lace nods, "Naturally"
[21:50]?	Royal_Lace rubs her face, "The more I think about it the more a large group just dosent make sense, at least on sight anway. It may be better to go with Hawkeyes suggestion of scouting the place with me working the extraction solo"
[21:51]?	Hawkeye grimaces. "But Ah don't want to leave all these folks out of the loop," she says, gesturing to the others. "Ah don't have half the skills you folks do, and muh social graces are... *cough* somewhat lacking."
[21:51]?	Firefly shrugs. "Ok. I can work on the griffin bot here. I'm not very sneaky anyway."
[22:01]<SpiritOfFate>	Tamara raises an eyebrow. "One-pony missions are often suicidal. You need somepony to watch your back."
[22:03]?	Royal_Lace "Im fine with Firefly staying here out of harms way... but a meathod of getting all the rest of us in going to take some work. I guess we could all pose as part of a slavers entarage? as for One pony missions I ment only if there was not a better option"
[22:05]?	Hawkeye sighs and sits with her chin resting on the table. "This last job went better than expected, but Ah don't know if our luck'll hold. Ah don't have a problem playin' the bad guy, an' goodness knows Ah look th'part. But Ah just want everypony to be safe. Ah can't lose y'all now. Makin' friends is hard work..."
[22:07]?	Royal_Lace smiles and looks up to Hawkeye, "Thank you for helping us with all this Hawkeye, after all this slaver buisness is over I look forward to some nice peacful rest. But until then there is a job to do and we need to plan this out to the letter if we want to come out on top"
[22:08]?	Hawkeye pushes her hat down over her face. "Well Ah ain't the thinky type. Ah just hurt people an' break things," she says, and slumps. "If it ain't a simple solution, then somepony else will have to figure out what t'do, an' point me that direction."
[22:09]?	Royal_Lace looks to Jamal, "What do you think, could we pass ourselves off as potentail buyers as an in so I can scout out the busted safe house? If she isnt there we can move on to trying to purchase them legitimately. Would they even let us on sight?"
[22:11]<SpiritOfFate>	Tamara shakes her head. "No cause gets anywhere if it's all thinkers and no doers. But I tell you what we do need, we need to get these ponies ready to march into the raider area and secure their new homes."
[22:15]<SpiritOfFate>	Jamal scratches under his beak. "They might let you see their slaves, if you make a good offer. The produce buyers are allowed to their storage too, I think. "
[22:15]?	Firefly frowns as she looks up to Tamara. "But... my momma... my poppa..."
[22:16]<Hawkeye>	"Ah look more like a slaver than a farmer," Hawkeye says, and pats Firefly. "That's why we let the mudponies help out the folks we freed, and me an' your other friends will help get your folks, m'kay?"
[22:16]?	Royal_Lace "What do they produce exactly?"
[22:19]<SpiritOfFate>	Tamara sighs. "We are going to help them, kiddo, but if we barge in they might be as bad for them as it will be for us. I still think you'll need more support, Lace." She turns stern eyes to the elegant mare.
[22:20]?	Firefly nods to Hawkeye. "Ok... I'll try to think of something to do to help..."
[22:23]<SpiritOfFate>	"Everything to from Apples, Hay, Milk and Meat to feed from the Railway HQ to Limestack and the quarry. I don't know how the manage, but likely all the food we ate here was produced there." Jamal says.
[22:23]<SpiritOfFate>	"I'd like to know as well." Tamara ponders
[22:23]?	Royal_Lace looks Tamara in the eye and nods, "Alright, well these plans are based of the need for an extraction. We will continue work in case its required but for now lets try and contact them as potential buyers and see if they have in fact found Fireflys mother, if they have... then we probably dont have to hurry to much and can refocus to just taking the slaveyard as a whole"
[22:24]?	Hawkeye nods. "I agree. Get 'em by radio and pose as buyers.. heck, we might even BE buyers. Find out who and what they have, an' work from there." She looks at Royal_Lace. "You want to make the call, sweetheart?"
[22:25]?	Royal_Lace nods to Hawkeye, "Yes please, meanwhile we will all split efforts between planning in case its needed and also helping ponies here at the scrapyard find a footing so we are ready when the time comes"
[22:26]?	Royal_Lace looks to Tamara with her own serious look, "How dose that sound to you?"
[22:31]<SpiritOfFate>	"It could work. Paying for them doesn't seem right, but as long we have everything to gain from having somepony who knows that place. And the filly gets her parents back." Tamara syas
[22:32]?	Hawkeye nods. "And honest, Ah don't give two rat droppins' in a rusty shoe whether or not the slavers make a profit off me, s'long as Firefly gets her folks back."
[22:33]<Royal_Lace>	, me nods, "Which brings me to my next question for Jamal... do you think we could talk them into delivering the slaves to an agreed upon location? we may be able to just take them, assuming that Fireflys parents are in the bunch"
[22:33]?	Royal_Lace shrugs, "Otherwise legitimately purchasing them is the best bet"
[22:33]?	Firefly looks over to Tamara. "Does it matter if we buy them so long as they are freed afterword?"
[22:34]?	Hawkeye grimaces. "Ah don't think they'll go anyplace they can be ambushed, and the first thing AH would do if someone attacked me to steal muh slaves would be to shoot the slaves in the head out of spite." She looks at Firefly. "No offense, sugarcube. Just... less risky if we buy 'em in good faith than try an' pull a fast one."
[22:35]?	Firefly nods to Hawkeye. "We already dealt with one bad griffin. I don't want to know what a bad puppy might do."
[22:36]<Hawkeye>	"Unpleasant things," Hawkeye growls. "An' if he wants to make trouble, Ah'll mop him up off the gallows too."
[22:37]<SpiritOfFate>	Tamara scowls at the taste of the bitter words. "There's plenty of good folk with their family and friends enslaved out there. I know one thing, we can't buy all of them."
[22:37]?	Royal_Lace nods, "Then its agreed, Jamal if you could please help Hawkeye prepare for this call I think im going to go have a walk before finding someplace to rest... im feeling a bit tired from teh days activities"
[22:39]<SpiritOfFate>	Jamal nods. "Where is your broadcaster?"
[22:39]?	Firefly pulls it out of her saddle bags. "Here."
[22:40]<Hawkeye>	"Ah don't intend to buy all of them," Hawkeye snaps back. "Ah intend to save the family of somepony Ah care about. The rest of them'll have to wait until the actual GOOD folk around here get around to 'em." She gestures at the others. "Me, Ah'm just a bandit with a soft spot for family. Ah hurt folk; it's what Ah'm good at. Ah'm no vigilante or savior, and so far as Ah care, the rest can go...
[22:40]<Hawkeye>	...cram walnuts up their-" She stops and looks at Firefly. "Nevermind."
[22:41]?	Firefly looks over at Hawkeye, confused. "Up their what?" She blinks over at the mare with wide eyes.
[22:41]<Hawkeye>	"Trees," Hawkeye says abruptly. "Like squirrels. Storin' 'em for winter."
[22:41]<SpiritOfFate>	Knick Knack giggles.
[22:42]?	Firefly nods in understanding. "Oh! Ok." She fiddles with the broadcaster and radio, setting it up.
[22:45]?	Hawkeye breathes a sigh of relief. "Anyway. You folk keep your slave revolution," she says. "Maybe some folk will get inspire by us, but it ain't our job to save everyone, and t'ain't fair to expect it of us."
[22:47]<SpiritOfFate>	Tamara chuckles. "I never did. It was a surprise."
[22:50]<SpiritOfFate>	Jamal sets the radio to 60.9. Snoring sounds come from the radio.
[22:50]?	Hawkeye looks away. "Some folk'll do a lot when it's for family..." The sniper falls silent and gets up to poke around the kitchen, but stops as she hears the radio. "You ready, Lace?"