The Trotting Dead - s2e018 - Dangerous Attraction

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[19:51]<EchoesOfDeath>	The Trotting Dead - Season 2 - Episode #018
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[20:02]<EchoesOfDeath>	Perch nurses the malnourished newcomer back at the safehouse. Sugar and Mr. Bill observe from a distance, and Golden Leaf can't be seen nearby.
[20:04]<EchoesOfDeath>	Backlash is on her way back, carrying a sizable amount of food to give the safehouse more days of supplies.
[20:06]?	Star_Spotter trots up to Perch. "So whats the issue with them?"
[20:09]?	Backlash decides to trot to the end of the alleyway before taking off.
[20:09]<EchoesOfDeath>	The blue pony is almost a skeleton, laying down on the sofa. Perch turns to Star. "I can only guess it was starvation."
[20:10]?	Junette nods "Well done sherclop"
[20:10]?	Star_Spotter nods. "Have you tried to feed them with anything we have yet?" she asks. "If they don't look good soon it might not be a good idea to keep them
[20:11]<EchoesOfDeath>	 Swift_Hurddle and Cambiance are still on the rooftops, after delivering the starved pony.
[20:12]?	Cambiance checks her machete.  "Let's go back in then.  See what we can find."
[20:12]?	Swift_Hurddle nods, "lets"
[20:12]?	Cambiance walks back down the stairs.
[20:12]?	Swift_Hurddle follows, eye open for danger
[20:13]<EchoesOfDeath>	Mr. Bill steps closer. "Should I remind you that we are almost out of supplies? We still have many to feed here."
[20:14]<Star_Spotter>	"Yes I realize that, but we did just send others out for food and supplies." She says
[20:15]?	Cambiance walks down near the room they found the stallion, and continues down looking for other doors.
[20:16]<EchoesOfDeath>	Backlash sees two fliers at cloud height. The frazzled state of their legs seems to be the same as the infected pegasi's.
[20:19]<EchoesOfDeath>	The next door is locked, but Cambiance sees a large vent just by its side.
[20:19]?	Cambiance examines it.  "Do you want to crawl through this if it's open, or should I?"
[20:21]?	Backlash checks how full her pack is. (( How heavy/full is it? ))
[20:22]?	Swift_Hurddle looks up at the vent, "Um, well I can try but wouldnt it be easier to kick it open again?"
[20:22]?	Cambiance blinks.  "Well... I guess.  Might not be as fun..."
[20:23]?	Backlash is satisfied with her haul, but decides against flying for now. She tries to retrace her way back home on the ground; it'll be easier to hide down there, after all.
[20:23]<EchoesOfDeath>	"Hmpf." Mr. Bill strokes his moustache. "We should hope they find something rather than another person to  split the little we have."
[20:24]<Star_Spotter>	"True true." she agrees, sighing lightly
[20:36]?	Swift_Hurddle  blinks and looks up at it, "oh... Oh! I see, um ok then! Ill try it first"
[20:44]<LuckyLeaf>	Perch joins Star_Spotter and the others. "He seems very weak. What can we do?"
[20:44]<Star_Spotter>	"I'm not too sure, we don't have much supplies to give honestly."
[20:45]?	Swift_Hurddle climbs up the wall with his forlegs and pokes at teh grate over it, "is it open?"
[20:45]?	Cambiance shrugs
[20:47]<LuckyLeaf>	The grate is stuck in place with some small screws.
[20:47]?	Swift_Hurddle scrunchies his eyes and leans on it, "Dosent look very strong, maybe I can push it in?"
[20:48]<Cambiance>	"Just don't hurt yourself."
[20:48]<LuckyLeaf>	Finally finguring out how to backtrace from the debris covered streets, Backlash finds her way to the library door
[20:48]?	Backlash scales the building and returns to the roof, since that was the way she left.
[20:49]<LuckyLeaf>	The grate gives out from Swift_Hurddle 's weight and falls over him. Luckily it's not very heavy.
[20:49]<LuckyLeaf>	The roof door is still unlocked.
[20:51]?	Backlash re-enters the building and goes to the designated 'stock' area to drop off her haul. She's keeping a careful ear out for the sounds of anypony else she may know... or may not.
[20:51]?	Swift_Hurddle steps back and looks at it before looking at cambiance, "There... though the more I look at it the more I think I may not fit"
[20:52]?	Cambiance smiles.  "Silly colt.  Fine then.  I'll go.  Wish me luck."
[20:52]?	Cambiance tries to climb up into the vent.
[20:54]<LuckyLeaf>	Backlash easily notices the gathering around the coffee room, Mr. Bill, Star, Junette, Perch and Sugar, as well as a starved pony lying down on the sofa
[20:55]?	Cambiance calls back as she crawls up.  "And try not to ogle me too hard!"
[20:55]?	Junette blinks "So a donky a pony and a minotour walk into a bar"
[20:56]?	Backlash waves uncertainly and steps into the gathering. "What's goin' on?"
[20:57]?	Junette blinks at Backlash "oh good you got here, that was going to get quite offensive"
[20:58]?	Swift_Hurddle waves "good luck"
[20:58]?	Swift_Hurddle smiles becouse there is no pony around to ever comfirm or deny any levels of oggling
[20:58]?	Cambiance starts crawling.  "Let's see where this goes..."
[20:59]?	Star_Spotter rolls her eyes and chuckles lightly. "Thanks for clearing the air Junette. Backlash, did you bring any supplies?"
[21:01]<LuckyLeaf>	Cambiance soon finds the opening into the room below. There is a chalkboard and a large meeting board here.
[21:02]?	Cambiance goes to the door to try and unlock it before searching the room.
[21:03]?	Swift_Hurddle clrawls up the wall again and calls down the shaft, "you ok?", hereing the door click he lowers himself down and enters the room, "Never mind"
[21:03]?	Backlash nods eagerly. "Yup. Found a nice diner, and..." She glances at Junette. "I found out something else, too. The, uh, disease - it affects griffons too. I found one."
[21:04]<LuckyLeaf>	The door opens easily with a simple click.
[21:04]<Cambiance>	"Easy.  Not sure if anything's in here though."
[21:04]?	Junette faceclaws "great"
[21:06]<LuckyLeaf>	Cambiance spots under the table a small sound system with a mic.
[21:07]?	Cambiance walks closer to the device to examine it.
[21:08]?	Backlash nods solemnly. "It had glowing red eyes. It looked more like a demon than a pon- er, griffon."
[21:08]?	Swift_Hurddle stands near the door and keeps an eye out for trouble
[21:08]?	Swift_Hurddle nods, "ya, ill keep an eye out"
[21:11]<LuckyLeaf>	Star_Spotter remembers from some conversations with her Dr. Construct that a pony starved to this extent would need all their food made into juice and give little by little, but they would need more than the usual rationing  over time to recover. It would take a week, and 15 portions of food for full recovery
[21:12]?	Star_Spotter thinks on it and shares the information with Perch
[21:13]<LuckyLeaf>	Cambiance sees a pair of speakers attached to a small board
[21:21]?	Cambiance squees.  "Ohh!!  I found something."  Cambiance picks up the board and gently cuddles it.
[21:24]?	Swift_Hurddle twists his head from the door, "you found what now?"
[21:25]?	Cambiance happily stuffs the board in her pack, and then looks over the rest of the room to see if she missed anything.
[21:25]<Cambiance>	"A sound board."
[21:26]?	Swift_Hurddle trots over, "Oh neet, what was it here for?"
[21:26]?	Cambiance shrugs.  "No idea.  I'm just glad I found it."
[21:31]?	Swift_Hurddle smiles "Oh, well cool, so dose this mean we have music now? That may help with moral"
[21:31]<Cambiance>	"We don't have anything until we have a player unfortunately.  But when we do...  It'll be fun.  Shall we move on then?"
[21:33]?	Swift_Hurddle grips his axe and nods as he trots for the door, "lets do this!"
[21:36]?	Cambiance walks out and continues down the hallway.
[21:39]?	Swift_Hurddle follows
[21:40]<EchoesOfDeath>	The hallway is as empty as before
[21:41]<Cambiance>	"Let's look for a staircase."
[21:43]?	Swift_Hurddle "shouldnt be to hard"
[21:43]?	Cambiance smiles.  "I assume we should stick together?  Try to make this not a horror flick?"
[21:45]<EchoesOfDeath>	The staircase is just across the hallway, but Swift_Hurddle  hear some sounds under them
[21:47]?	Swift_Hurddle nods, "Seems only natural I mean safties in numbers and al-... wait, do you hear that downstairs?"
[21:48]?	Cambiance draws her machete.  "I... don't think so.  You think there are some infected down there?"
[21:49]?	Swift_Hurddle whispers as he slows to a crawl, "Could be... lets take this slow till we know whats going on, ok?"
[21:50]?	Cambiance crouches.  "Yep."
[21:51]?	Backlash breaks away from the group for now and drops off her haul. She's going to check up on the starving guy later, perhaps when there aren't as many ponies around them.
[21:53]?	Star_Spotter starts to arrange fruit and vegies into a juice form so she and Perch can feed the starving pony slowly
[21:56]?	Junette Lays down her head on Star_Spotter's lap
[21:56]<Junette>	Back*
[21:58]?	Star_Spotter smiles and pets Junette lightly after setting everything up
[21:59]<EchoesOfDeath>	Silently moving downstairs, they spot a book and a broom shaking and sliding along the floor on their own. They can tell one of the doors is open.
[22:00]?	Swift_Hurddle sneaks towards and down the steps, ears and eyes open
[22:00]?	Cambiance whispers to Swift.  "What is that broom doing?"
[22:02]?	Swift_Hurddle points, "I think something is behind the door... do you think somepony put it there to keep something inside?"
[22:08]<EchoesOfDeath>	The objects keep moving erratically, but don't seem to distance themselves from the door much.
[22:08]<Cambiance>	"This is... weird.  Do you think a unicorn is doing that?"
[22:12]?	Swift_Hurddle squints at it, "... im going to poke it"
[22:12]?	Swift_Hurddle crawls forwards slowly and raises a hoof to poke the broom of myster
[22:12]<Cambiance>	"..."
[22:12]?	Cambiance sighs.  "Please don't get yourself killed Swift..."
[22:13]?	Swift_Hurddle pokes
[22:17]<EchoesOfDeath>	Swift_Hurddle feels his hoof being pulled along but he stays in place. The broom swings to the other side of the hallway
[22:18]?	Swift_Hurddle eyes go away and tries to pull his hoof back
[22:18]<Cambiance>	"I think you offended it."
[22:19]?	Swift_Hurddle tugs at his hoof, "Do. Not. Want"
[22:20]?	Cambiance calls out cautiously.  "Hello?  Is there anypony there?"
[22:21]<EchoesOfDeath>	 Swift_Hurddle can pull his hoof back.
[22:21]?	Swift_Hurddle shuffles back, "Its haunted"
[22:24]<EchoesOfDeath>	An unicorn steps out of the doorway, a white eyed unicorn with black blood running from his eyes. A discolored aura spreads from him to the whole hallway and you can feel yourselves being pulled to it.
[22:26]?	Swift_Hurddle eyes go wider, "Ok, not haunted, Worse!"
[22:30]?	Swift_Hurddle bumps Campiance out of the feild of magic and draws his axe, charging into the vortex and swinging for the head.
[22:32]<EchoesOfDeath>	The momentum leads the axe right to the infected's open jaw, splitting his head in two.
[22:32]<EchoesOfDeath>	The aura disappear and it falls to the side. The objects stopping as well
[22:34]?	Swift_Hurddle stumbles over the body as he follows through and is thrown off balance.
[22:34]<Swift_Hurddle>	"Ugh... so aparently these things are also a.. thing".
[22:35]?	Cambiance sits still, panting.  "Oh my... That certainly was... a thing."
[22:35]?	Swift_Hurddle nods as he lies on his back, "Yup... and not a good thing"
[22:36]<Cambiance>	"All unicorns aren't like that, right?  I mean, surely we saw some infected unicorns that were normal... and what was it doing with its magic?"
[22:38]?	Swift_Hurddle stands up from the goor, "No idea...", turning he looks at his jackets blood slick back, "Ewwww... how am I going to get this out?"
[22:39]?	Cambiance walks over to the downed unicorn.  "Warm water?  Or is it cold?  I don't know how to remove bloodstains off the top of my head..."
[22:39]?	Cambiance inspects the unicorn for any irregularities in physiology she could spot.
[22:40]?	Swift_Hurddle grumbles and looks back up the steps, "Well I hate to call this short but maybe we should go tell the others about this? seems like useful information"
[22:45]<EchoesOfDeath>	Other than the tears, Cambiance notices the coat of this unicorn seemed to be getting a leathery aspect, yet his belly was not as thin as some of the other infected they had seen.
[22:46]<Cambiance>	"Is this... an older infected?  It's skin looks less fresh.  And I'd cut open its stomach to see if it has eaten if I was brave enough..."