FoE RPG G0 - #003 Mud and Hope

[21:02]<SpiritOfFate>	Group 0: *Epitaph* - Session #3 starts now
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[21:06]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffin from the nearest watchtowers take flight and soar over you, heading north to the direction of the gunshots. The afternoon grows red. By the slavehouse side, the ponies presence all this
[21:10]?	Royal_Lace stands near the front door to the slave quarters and watches the guards take flight towards the sounds of gunfire, silently wondering what could be going on.
[21:11]?	Firefly looks up at Wintergreen, trying to balance the shovel by the handle on her nose. "Miss Green, is everything ok?"
[21:12]?	Wintergreen sits up and looks towards the door. "I'm not sure... why don't we check what we can see?" She moves to the door, wondering who the shots were coming from.
[21:13]?	Firefly nods at her foal sitter, tossing the shovel to her back and following her to the door.
[21:15]?	Royal_Lace glances at the two mares stepping out of the doorway before returning her gaze upwards.
[21:19]?	Royal_Lace begins to address the two, recognizing them from the mess with the rats earlier, "You dont think it could be anything like an attack or something of that nature... do you? I didnt hear anything about this sort of thing from the other slaves, but then again I havent really been very social since arriving yesterday"
[21:19]<SpiritOfFate>	Towards north, you see the griffin flying beyond your sight. Soon  after, several groups of worker slaves seem to spread around. Some stay in their work posts, keeping at their duties or unsure of what to do. A group led by the yellow pony goes west, while another ld by an older slave mare goes east, a dark red earth pony comes in your direction, though.
[21:23]?	Wintergreen tilts her head at seeing the earth pony, looking for a for a slave collar to discern whether he was a slave or slaver.
[21:23]?	Firefly looks up at Wintergreen, a smile across her face. "Oooh! Maybe he knows what's going on?" She points at the red earth pony as she speaks, before waving at him. "Hey mister!" The filly pegasus grins, blue eyes sparkling as her orange and yellow mane bobs with the waving.
[21:23]<SpiritOfFate>	The red earth pony has a collar, just like all of you.
[21:24]?	Whisky_Heart stomps heavily towards the group the red Earth pony is very large and has what looks like a heart shaped bottle of whisky for his Cutie Mark, with a bullet floating in it however. “What the hell are you lot waiting around for up here?” he asks.
[21:25]?	Wintergreen raises her eyebrow. "What do you mean? There were gunshots and we were told to come back here... what's going on?"
[21:25]?	Royal_Lace turns he gaze back down to earth as the young filly anounces the arrival of the other moments before he spoke up, probably saving Lace a minor heart attack. "Yes, information would be very apreciated", added Lace in a small voice.
[21:25]?	Firefly pauses for a moment, thinking. "Well...after we were told to dig for treasure, some rats that were on fire burst out of the ground! The old unicorn told us to come back here, and then we were wondering what was happening, and then we met you!" She laughs, and then pauses. "Uh...who are you?"
[21:27]?	Whisky_Heart “ah great you must be pretty fucking new then, well head south for now” pointing with one hoof “that way,  and I’m Whisky” he replies.
[21:28]?	Royal_Lace turns he head to look in the indicated direction as she stands, pausing for a moment before following his direction to look back to the red stalion with a concerned look. "Whisky... are we in danger at all?"
[21:29]?	Firefly smiles again. "I'm Firefly!" She jumps to emphasize her point, and her wings strain against the bindings for a moment before she lands. She looks up at Wintergreen, waiting to see if they will go south or not.
[21:30]?	Wintergreen nods at Royal_Lace's question, looking towards Whisky_Heart. "With all those gunshots..."
[21:30]<SpiritOfFate>	You hear a blast coming from the southern wall.
[21:32]?	Royal_Lace cringes and glances at the direction of the booming sound, ears pasted back on her head as she looks back to Whisky for his answer.
[21:32]<Whisky_Heart>	“well as far as danger, there’s some trigger happy griffons, revolting slaves, the waste land, and” tapping your slave collar “you have a bomb strapped around your gob, so probably” he replies with a roll of his eyes as he starts to head south.
[21:33]?	Firefly looks between Wintergreen and Whisky, trying to see they will get to go south or not.
[21:33]?	Wintergreen frowns, looking towards Royal_Lace and to Firefly. "I think we should follow... this could be a chance to escape."
[21:35]?	Firefly nods up at Wintergreen. "Okay, we go with Mr. Whisky, to adventure!" She exclaims before trotting after Whisky_Heart.
[21:36]?	Royal_Lace look south, then to whisky. "What exactly is south, a holding bin or something of the like?"
[21:37]?	Wintergreen stumbles slightly as she trots to keep up with the energetic foal, following her south.
[21:37]?	Royal_Lace takes up the rear
[21:37]?	Whisky_Heart "just one of the slave houses, for now"
[21:38]?	Royal_Lace Raises a brow, "For now? Im sorry my good sir but Im not sure I follow your meaning... Is it under construction?"
[21:39]?	Whisky_Heart "well you could say that i suppose"
[21:40]?	Firefly keeps the shovel on her back, trotting behind Whisky. She hums another tune, smiling happily.
[21:41]?	Wintergreen trots alongside Firefly, listening to the conversation surrounding her.
[21:42]?	Royal_Lace dose not look satisfied with the answer but dose not push further. "Well in any case thank you for helping us. My name is Lace by the way, Royal Lace. Im terribly sorry for not introducing myself earlier but Im not exactly used to gunfire and my nerves were alread a bit on edge from the rat incident the young filly mentioned earlier".
[21:42]<SpiritOfFate>	You reach closer to the the southern wall of metal scrap and plate to find a part of it bent inwards and smoking, a mare's voice curses loudly outside. Another unicorn mare wearing a dirt covered jumpsuit and no colar magically flashes by the side of the wall dent, looking around, extremely tense.
[21:43]?	Whisky_Heart Trots forwards towards the smocking hole in the wall.
[21:45]?	Royal_Lace eyes go wide and stops in her tracks at the sight, looking about for a moment at the scene she rushes forward to Whiskys side, calling out in a panicky voice. "Sir, I think you may have left out a few details"
[21:45]<SpiritOfFate>	The hole itself doesn't seem big enough for anything but a bunny. The many layers of scrap metal crumbled over each other, blocking the way. "Hurry!" The mare outside yells. The other mare beckons all of you. "Come here, quick!"
[21:46]?	Wintergreen nudges Firefly, and believing it to be a chance to escape, trots closer to the mares.
[21:46]?	Firefly slows down and stops, looking at the wall. "Ooooh." She looks up at the mare beckoning, and feeling the nudge from Wintergreen, trots over to the mare.
[21:47]?	Whisky_Heart “I fear you have made some sort of miscalculation in your demolition placement” says Whisky as he approaches
[21:47]?	Whisky_Heart peeks through the small hole
[21:49]?	Royal_Lace trots in place near the wall, nerveously looking about for any signes of guards. "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, Is this happening? What about the collars? Who are you ponies? Whats outside the wall?", she asks no pony in paticular
[21:51]<SpiritOfFate>	"No shit!" An earth pony mare curses from the other side. The unicorn mare quickly dashes to Firefly, pulling a set of tools. "No time to explain."
[21:52]?	Firefly looks up at the mare, blue eyes innocent. "No time for what? Oooh! Are we going to chase down the sky pirates?"
[21:53]<SpiritOfFate>	"Later, dear." She lowers Firefly's head with a hoof and works on her collar.
[21:53]?	Firefly giggles in excitement. They are going to swash some buckles!
[21:54]?	Royal_Lace continues to prance about nerveously on her hooves but bites her lips, silencing herself as she keeps her eyes peeled for sighns of trouble.
[21:54]?	Wintergreen keeps her eyes on Firefly, glancing between her and the mare protectively.
[21:56]<SpiritOfFate>	Whisky can see the mare knows what she is doing. Her movements are careful and deliberate, with not even a click to sign it, she moves away, pulling a different set of tools to work on Firefly's wing restraints.
[21:57]?	Whisky_Heart keeps his ears and eyes alet in case anyone/thing hapense by.
[21:59]?	Firefly keeps her head down low, her eyes widening as she can feel the mare working on her wing restraints. Flight? Could that be a thing again?
[21:59]<SpiritOfFate>	The mare pretty much hops to Royal_Lace as a click signals the restraints unlocking. After jabbing her tools on the mare's colar and twisting, Royal_Lace can see a winged figure showing up far in the distance.
[22:01]?	Royal_Lace stifles a cheer as her restraints on her neck are freed. turning to the mare she begins to profusely thank her before pointing to the sky. "Oh thank you thank thank you whoever you are but we have to be quick, something is coming this way!"
[22:02]?	Firefly looks back at her wings, looking at the others. "I can fly?"
[22:03]?	Whisky_Heart examining the mares work "hmm if you could remove the remaining explosives i think i could make a way for the rest of us to get over the wall..."
[22:03]<SpiritOfFate>	The mare grimaces at the sight of the approaching griffiness. "Time to go, Shockwave! We will be back!" She flashes again, disappearing
[22:04]?	Firefly blinks at the teleporation, and then trots over to Wintergreen. "Can...can I fly?"
[22:05]?	Firefly has her lower lip out, and is giving Wintergreen big, big soulful eyes.
[22:05]?	Royal_Lace blinks at the spot where the mare used to be, "Wait, what about us. What about my horn, come back!"
[22:05]?	Wintergreen shakes her head at the filly, giving her an apologetic smile. "Not yet, little one." She nearly chokes on her words, seeing the filly's adorable pout. "Y-you'll need to wait... U-until we escape..."
[22:06]?	Whisky_Heart "well this is bloody typical..."
[22:06]?	Whisky_Heart checks the ground to see if the mare may have dropped something!
[22:07]?	Firefly nuzzles Wintergreen. "Ok...I won't leave without you bestest foalsitter!"
[22:07]<SpiritOfFate>	Where the mare was now there is a bundle full of bobby pins and paperclips.
[22:08]?	Whisky_Heart scoops them up!
[22:08]?	Wintergreen frowns sadly, nuzzles back, and whispers to Firefly. "But if something happens... and I can't escape with you though, I need you to fly away."
[22:08]?	Royal_Lace eyes light up, a mad sort of giggle coming from her lips. "I can use those!"
[22:09]?	Firefly stomps her hoof, looking up at Wintergreen. "No. Mama said to stay with you."
[22:10]?	Whisky_Heart looks at Royal "can you use teleportation? and we should probably move away from the evidance of our escape attempt..."
[22:10]?	Wintergreen looks into the filly's eyes. "If I can't go with you. You need to escape, and to live..." She pets the filly's mane. "If that happens, please, listen to what I say."
[22:10]?	Royal_Lace nods quickly, "Yes, well no. My horn, I have to get this off my horn before I can do that... A MIRROR, I need a mirror and the bobby pins!"
[22:12]<SpiritOfFate>	A griffiness is approaching.
[22:12]?	Firefly shakes her head. "No! We'll leave together."
[22:12]?	Whisky_Heart absconds!
[22:13]?	Royal_Lace follows whisky and the sack of bobby pins, she needed those! Looking back she calls out to the other two, "Oh dear, please hurry we have to get out of sight!"
[22:14]?	Wintergreen sighs and nudges Firefly, looking towards the griffiness apprehensively. "Time to go! We need to go back to the slave shack."
[22:15]?	Firefly grins and nods at Wintergreen. She stays close by, making sure Wintergreen doesn't leave without her.
[22:15]?	Wintergreen trots away towards the shack.
[22:19]<SpiritOfFate>	The griffiness flies over you soon after you leave the scene of crime, letting out an enraged caw. You manage to reach the slave house inconspicuously, though.
[22:22]?	Whisky_Heart once well inside the slave house "hold still for a sec kid i need somthing out of here..." says whisky moving to fiddle with Firefly's coller
[22:23]?	Firefly enters the building and looks around, to see if she can have a private place to stretch her wings. Then she can fly! Her glancing is stopped by Whisky. "Uh...ok!"
[22:23]?	Royal_Lace trots behind whisky, trying her best to look inconsipcuous. "Sir, now that we are out of sight would you please be so kind as to explain what in the wide world of equestria is going on?"
[22:23]?	Wintergreen breathes a sigh of relief as she enters the slave house. She sits down next to Firefly, looking at Whisky fiddling.
[22:24]<SpiritOfFate>	The slave house is empty right now, but outside the taskmasters seem to be gathering the slaves back at the distance.
[22:28]<SpiritOfFate>	Whisky_Heart realizes opening the collar's innards may be a bit difficult with just clips.
[22:28]?	Wintergreen looks between the ponies in the room. "Do you think you could disable all of these with the right tools? ... I dug out a toolbox earlier, but I had to put it in the cart... "
[22:29]?	Whisky_Heart examines the collers "possibly... the collers are made to make it hard to remove yourself, but its doable with some tools..."
[22:30]?	Royal_Lace Looks between the two, "You mean the pile we were working at earlier today? I think I can get there and back without being seen".
[22:31]?	Firefly looks over at the others, and finds a spot out of sight from the entrance of the slave house to stretch her wings.
[22:31]<Whisky_Heart>	"well here's hoping... could really make a good crack at it if i just had a screwdriver..."
[22:31]?	Wintergreen nods to Royal_Lace. "Yes, and you're sure?."
[22:31]<SpiritOfFate>	There is quite a bit space in that can't be seen from the door
[22:33]?	Royal_Lace nods to wintergreen, "Yes, I think so... but I would very much like some expenation of what is going on before I go, oh and I dont think that we had time to make each others aquaintence before this began dear". Offering Wintergreen a nod Lace smiles, "I am lance". Looking back to Whisky she waits expectantly, "Now what is going on"
[22:33]?	Whisky_Heart starts to look around the empty slave house, there may be other usefull items about!
[22:34]?	Wintergreen smiles back and bows her head to Royal_Lace. "Nice to meet you, and I am Wintergreen."
[22:34]?	Firefly trots over and removes the bindings from her wings, letting her wings stretch to full length with a cacophony of pops and cracks, as joints long locked in place are freed to move about again. For a moment, Firefly's eyes wince in pain, and then her tongue rolls out of her mouth like she's itched a scratch that itched for so long...
[22:36]?	Firefly flaps her wings, working muscles as she attempts to hover in the air.
[22:37]<SpiritOfFate>	The slavehouse itself is mostly covered by rags used by the slaves to protect themselves from the cold
[22:38]?	Firefly floats off the ground, and starts to giggle. "Miss Green! Miss Green! Look!"
[22:38]?	Royal_Lace taps her hoof and waits for Whisky to respond
[22:39]?	Wintergreen sees the hovering filly and claps her hooves for Firefly. She smiles. "Very good!"
[22:41]?	Firefly lands on the ground after a moment, the muscles in her wings burning. "Ouch...my wings hurt." She turns her head over her shoulders, snorting in disgust at her traitorous muscles.
[22:42]<SpiritOfFate>	Looking into the rag covered floor, Whisky_Heart manages to find an edge of jagged metal prodding from the sheet floor and hurts his hoof.
[22:43]?	Wintergreen chuckles at the filly and trots over to her. "It was a great start." She pats Firefly's head. "Now though, we need to put your bindings back on. These mean ol' slavers can't handle how amazing your flying is."
[22:44]?	Whisky_Heart "ow goddamit!" rubbing his hoog "and im Whisky Heart please to meetcha..." examins the sharp pice of metal on the floor.
[22:44]?	Firefly smiles up at Wintergreen folding her wings so the mare can put the bindings back on. "Yup. No griffin can handle my awesome skills!"
[22:44]<SpiritOfFate>	It is pretty much a part of the floor bent outwards.
[22:45]?	Wintergreen puts the bindings back on, careful to not hurt Firefly's wings.
[22:46]<Royal_Lace>	Sighs as she steps for the door, peeking out at all the ativity. "Oh never mind, If I have any hope of getting all the way there and back without being seen I need to leave now.... just please be read to explain everything to me when I get back Whisky"
[22:46]?	Royal_Lace pushes out the door and begins to sneak away towards the garbage pile they had been working on earlier that day.
[22:55]?	Royal_Lace stoping near the front door Lace sees several guards making rounds in the aftermath of the mysterious attack. Gulping she wonders if she has bitten off more than she could chew before quietly sliping off for the junk pile. "Oh pony feathers!"
[22:56]?	Firefly looks around the guardhouse at the other ponies. "So...what do we do now? Are we gonna dig for more treasure?"
[22:56]<SpiritOfFate>	Whiskey can't quite pry the metal sheet, but he sees a glint from within the hole.
[22:59]<SpiritOfFate>	The green earth pony taskmasters looks directly at Royal_Lace as she makes her way through the junk. "You're going the wrong way." He stops, his shoulders slouched and a powder-smelling carbine on his back.
[23:00]?	Whisky_Heart attempts to peek into the hole, idealy without stabbing himself again.
[23:01]?	Royal_Lace stops dead in her tracks as the taskmaster calls out to her. Turning about she looks to the green pony and quickly starts running through her options in her head.
[23:04]<SpiritOfFate>	The taskmaster has the feel of that kind of pony that could be very bright... if he had any care for what goes around him, which he doesn't seem to.
[23:04]<SpiritOfFate>	Whisky can see a small metal tube inside.
[23:05]?	Whisky_Heart attempts to reach the tube, if his limbs are too thick he may need help!
[23:06]?	Wintergreen shrugs to Firefly. "Best we wait until Royal gets back... hopefully she'll be back with the toolbox."
[23:06]<SpiritOfFate>	His limbs indeed are too thick to the hole, and the steps of ponies are approaching outside.
[23:06]?	Royal_Lace deciding on a course of action Lace points at the pile of junk nearby, "But sir, One of the guards asksed me to go and fetch something she could store her empty cartriges in from the firefight for later. I mentioned that I saw a empty toolbox earlier today and she asked me to go and fetch it for her right away...Can I please hurry sir, she scares me".
[23:09]?	Firefly nods up at Wintergreen. "Okay." She sits down, and starts to count the rags in the slave house.
[23:10]<SpiritOfFate>	"Huh, must be Gabby." He shrugs and nods. "Go fast, I don't want to have to go after you."
[23:11]?	Whisky_Heart tosses a pice of cloth over the hole as the hoof steps aproch and heads towards the door.
[23:12]?	Royal_Lace nods vigerously before sprinting of, "Oh thank you sir, thank you very much!". Moving quickly to the junk mound she grabs the toolbox and spares only a few passing moments to look for a mirrored surface of some sort that she could bring back with her as well.
[23:15]<SpiritOfFate>	The booming voice of the old unicorn stallion, the main taskmaster, can be heard outside of the slavehouse. "Alright all of you, line up! We gonna need you all counted."
[23:15]<SpiritOfFate>	Royal_Lace finds the toolbox, but she can't see any mirror.
[23:15]?	Whisky_Heart turns back to FireFly and Wintergreen "your going to want to put those wing bindings back on now"
[23:16]?	Royal_Lace quickily abandons her quest and runs back towards the slave house, toolbox in mouth
[23:17]?	Firefly jumps at the unicorn's voice, getting to her feet and looking up at Whisky. She turns so he can see the wing binding is already there. "Miss Green already put it on. She's the smartest and bestest!"
[23:17]?	Whisky_Heart nods his head and heads out to be counted.
[23:18]?	Royal_Lace seeing (and hearing) the guards as she nears the slave house Lace quickly tries to come up with yet another plan.
[23:18]?	Wintergreen chuckles and smiles to the filly. "Time to go again, we don't want to make the taskmaster unhappy..." Winter heads to the door, leaving once Firefly follows.
[23:18]?	Firefly stays close to Wintergreen, keeping next to her as best she can. Where Wintergreen goes, Firefly goes.
[23:20]?	Royal_Lace begins to look for a place to stash the tool box during the line up
[23:22]<SpiritOfFate>	Royal lace can only find a tuft of grass behind the house that barely hides anything.
[23:23]?	Royal_Lace not seeing anyplace apparent to hide the toolbox that they would not see Lace opens it up to see if there are even any tools inside worth the hastle.
[23:25]<SpiritOfFate>	There is a set of wrenches, screwdrivers, a hex tool and a weird pointy screw-driver like thing that seems to need a spark battery. All of them are mildly rusted, but usable
[23:29]<SpiritOfFate>	The area around the slave house is plain dirt
[23:29]?	Royal_Lace groans as she takes out the screwdriver, that she knew was indispensable but the rest were probably important as well. Tucking the screwdriver away under her dress Lace closes the toolbox back up and starts to dig a shallow hole in the dirt. Once it was deep enough for half of the small toolbox to fit inside she tares off a bit of dress, covers the toolbox, and then covers that with dirt and grass from nearby.
[23:31]?	Royal_Lace Bite her lips and hopes her efforts are enough as she trots off to join the rest at the front of the slave quarters, quickly falling in line as she arrives.
[23:35]<SpiritOfFate>	Whisky can see a bit of the screwdriver sticking out from Royal_Lace's rags as she gets in line. The taskmaster is approaching from the opposite side of the line, counting all slaves
[23:36]?	Whisky_Heart stands next to Royal_Lace in case she needs to slip the screwdriver away some place, like in his dirty mane!
[23:36]?	Firefly huddles next to Wintergreen in line.
[23:36]?	Wintergreen smiles down to Firefly, staying close.
[23:38]<Royal_Lace>	Stand in line, oblivious of the apparant bulge of the screwdriver
[23:38]?	Whisky_Heart leans in to whisper to Royal "your going to need to hide that better" and gives a subtle poke to the scewdriver.
[23:39]<SpiritOfFate>	The taskmaster takes a particularly close look at the yellow pony and the twins by his side.
[23:40]?	Firefly still has the shovel on her back. The Taskmaster never said where to put her toy once they were finished digging.
[23:40]?	Royal_Lace epps softly and quickly wiggles her flank to tuck it farther past the hem of her poor dress.
[23:43]<SpiritOfFate>	The taskmaster reaches the brown pony, floating away his shovel, proceeding to do the same to all of you until the check is done. He doesn't notice Royal_Lace's screwdriver, though. He shakes his head. The fat pony, owner of the landfill, trots close. "We lost 3, boss." The unicorn tells him, to which he presses his eyebrows, irritated.
[23:44]?	Whisky_Heart does his best to look bored and not like he is planning to escape/blow somthing up
[23:44]?	Royal_Lace quietly stands in line, listening
[23:45]?	Wintergreen finds it hard to not look at the slavers in contempt, and instead looks to the ground.
[23:46]?	Firefly stays close to Wintergreen.
[23:48]<SpiritOfFate>	The fat pony just shakes his head and grumbles. "We need more guns, soon. We will have to ration the food until the merchants arrived too." A better dressed slave mare floats a row of buckets behind her, going to the slop trough and filling it only halfway, and placing a stack of hay on the side. Soon all of them trot away, leaving the slaves alone.
[23:49]?	Whisky_Heart whispers to Royal "were is the toolbox?"
[23:50]?	Firefly watches the slave masters wander away, and then looks over at the slop trough. Her stomach growls, and she nudges Wintergreen. "I'm hungry...can we go eat?"
[23:50]?	Royal_Lace whispers back, eyes never leaving the slavers as the troted off. "I bearied it nearby, kept the screwdriver on me just in case we couldnt go back for the rest of it"
[23:50]?	Wintergreen nods. "Go eat Firefly..."
[23:51]?	Firefly nods at the foal sitter, heading to the trough and starting to eat.
[23:51]<SpiritOfFate>	The slaves look to each other, waiting for Firefly and her friends eat first. The bony brown pony approaches hesitantly.
[23:52]?	Wintergreen walks to the trough, watching Firefly eat, content to have whatever is left after all of the others have had their fill.
[23:52]?	Whisky_Heart "show me were it is, i need to scoop out enough of the explosives here to get us out."
[23:54]?	Firefly gets half way through eating before she looks up at the brown pony and waves.
[23:54]?	Royal_Lace shakes her head as she steps towards the hay, "No, not till later. You still havent told me whats going on and there is no way Im making a move till I find Sotho...a friend of mine, im not going without him"
[23:54]?	Wintergreen waves to the brown pony. "Come on, come eat."
[23:56]?	Firefly looks up at Wintergreen, seeing her not eat. She walks over to Wintergreen and bops her on the nose. "Miss Green, you need to eat."
[23:56]<Wintergreen>	"There isn't enough food... others need to eat first."
[23:57]<SpiritOfFate>	"Thanks." The brown earth pony says, eating his own share from the slop and hay.
[23:58]?	Firefly looks up at her. "But..."
[23:59]?	Whisky_Heart sighs "oh fine" and grabs some hay to munch on "what is it you need me to tell you?" munch munch
[23:59]?	Wintergreen simply smiles and pets Firefly's mane. "Shhh... just eat. You're a growing filly and you need to be strong."
[00:01]?	Firefly frowns. Something's wrong with what Wintergreen is saying, but the filly can't put her hoof on it. Her stomach growls again, and Firefly nods. "Okay..." She walks back to the trough and starts eating again.
[00:01]?	Royal_Lace take only a mouth full of hay and leaves the slop. "Tell me? Well what is going on would be a good start. Like who you are, who those other ponies were, and any other loose bits of information you think would be prompt to enjlighten us new ponies"
[00:04]?	Wintergreen motions to some of the other slaves to eat, including the yellow slave and twins.
[00:06]?	Whisky_Heart "alright, well we are all slaves being made to work here till we most probably die, so most of us are petty lerry of that result"
[00:06]<SpiritOfFate>	The slaves move closer, surrounding the food
[00:07]?	Firefly eats equal parts slop and hay till she is full, and then goes to the trough and drinks until her thirst is sated. She then rejoins Wintergreen.
[00:07]?	Royal_Lace nods politely, wanting to rush Whisky Heart but politely waiting on him to continue past the obvious parts of the story.
[00:09]<Whisky_Heart>	"some of the slaves have already busted out, and now help to bust a few out at a time, in case you remember the unicorn, thats what she was doing."
[00:09]?	Wintergreen smiles towards Firefly, looking back to the slop and seeing how much was left, and how many slaves were done.
[00:10]<SpiritOfFate>	The food may not be enough for all that are left to eat
[00:11]?	Wintergreen sighs, smiling regardless of her grumbling stomach.
[00:12]?	Wintergreen heads to the water trough, drinking her fill.
[00:12]?	Royal_Lace nods, "And how was it that you knew that they were going to be blowing a hole at that specific spot in the wall?"
[00:12]?	Royal_Lace makes her way to the water trough as well for a drink
[00:14]?	Firefly looks up at Wintergreen. "Aren't you going to eat?"
[00:15]?	Wintergreen shakes her head. "I'm sure I'll be able to tomorrow..."
[00:15]?	Whisky_Heart "i may have heard a lil somthin from some one about that, it pays to listen in. i was a bit of an engineer before i got here so my skills are always a bit in demand."
[00:16]?	Firefly bites her lower lip, unsure. Being hungry sucks. "But what if those ponies come back," the filly asks, whispering.
[00:16]<Wintergreen>	"Hopefully they'll have food then."
[00:17]?	Royal_Lace nods, "Well Im going to take my leave, Need to find something ells to sustain myself besides this slop before I go to bed. Ill see you later".
[00:17]?	Firefly frowns, and starts to look around for some food for Miss Green. The bestest foalsitter can't go hungry!
[00:19]?	Wintergreen decides to follow Firefly... maybe to find some food.
[00:22]<SpiritOfFate>	Firefly finds a bunch of nettle!
[00:23]?	Firefly looks at the green weed. It isn't grass...she isn't sure its edible. She turns away and starts to look around again.
[00:23]?	Royal_Lace spends the next few hours grazing.
[00:24]?	Wintergreen grazes for a while longer.
[00:25]<SpiritOfFate>	Firefly finds even more nettle, this time tumbling facefirst on it. It itches, to put it lightly.
[00:26]?	Firefly scratches at her face, the burning and itching not helping her condition. Two hours of trying to find food and she can't find anything! She starts to cry.
[00:28]?	Wintergreen doesn't find much to eat. Still being near Firefly, she notices the crying filly. Wintergreen nuzzles Firefly. "Hey... What's wrong with the best flier in the wastes?"
[00:31]?	Royal_Lace is about to finish the last of the grass she had found when she hears FireFly crying, rushing off she quickly finds Wintergreen in the small pegusus.
[00:31]?	Royal_Lace Frowns worriedly, "Oh my, whats happened?"
[00:32]?	Firefly is scratching her face, trying to get the itching to go away.  She stops crying long enough to let loose quick tirade. "I found some green stuff and went to get it and then it was mean and I started itching and I'm sorry I couldn't find you something to eat!" She starts to cry again, trying to make the itching go away and not succeeding.
[00:37]?	Wintergreen pets the filly's mane. "Shh... It's alright. I'm not hungry anyway..." She gives the filly a boop on the nose. "Let's try and get rid of that itch." Using her medical experience, Wintergreen easily counteracts the nettle's itch.
[00:37]?	Royal_Lace frowns at the sight, obviously saddened by the little fillies plight
[00:38]?	Wintergreen uses some mud as a natural remedy for the itch.
[00:40]?	Firefly whimpers through the process, but shortly the cool mud starts to counteract the stinging.
[00:41]?	Royal_Lace trots closer, "Are either of you still hungry... Im almost full and I found a small portion of grass nearby. Its not much, but its eough for a few mouth fulls at least".
[00:42]?	Wintergreen nods, feeling quite hungry. "That would be nice... yes."
[00:45]?	Royal_Lace smiles, "Well it is late, if everything is settled here why dont I show you were it is. Its almost time to retire for the evening and I very much think we will need our rest for the coming day".
[00:46]?	Firefly looks up, her face and a bit of mane covered in the brown mud. Without so much of question, she climbs up onto Wintergreen's back and curls up, falling asleep.
[00:47]?	Wintergreen sighs. "Let's just go back and get to sleep. Thank you, but I wouldn't want to keep Firefly up..."
[00:48]?	Royal_Lace looks concerned, "Are you sure? I saw you eat earlier... I could always take little FireFly back to the house for you till you had your fill"
[00:50]?	Firefly snores softly on Wintergreen's back. As its already been determined, bestest foalsitter's back is best place for fillies to sleep.
[00:50]?	Wintergreen shrugs, without waking Firefly of course. "It's alright... really."
[00:52]?	Royal_Lace smiles politely, not pushing any more. "Alright then... Ill see you back at the house then". Defeated but at least cheared up a bit at the sight of Firefly sleeping happily Lace eats her fill of grass before turning in for the night.
[00:53]?	Wintergreen heads back to the slave house, finds a comfortable spot to sleep and curls up with Firefly.
[01:00]?	Firefly dreams of flying again, her parents beside her. She ducks and weaves through the clouds, leaping off the clouds and kicking from one to the next.
[01:08]<SpiritOfFate>	A glowing filly waves to Firefly from a cloud.
[01:09]?	Firefly hovers in mid-air before flying over beside the filly. "Hi! My name's Firefly! Who are you?"
[01:13]<SpiritOfFate>	The glowing filly smiles to Firefly. "I am Liberty Dream. Wow, flying like that looks fun."
[01:14]<SpiritOfFate>	Liberty Dream doesn't have wings or a horn.
[01:16]?	Firefly cocks her head at the filly.
[01:16]?	Firefly flies next to the filly. "Here! I can fly you!"
[01:18]<SpiritOfFate>	The little spirit beams and glows, extending her hooves to Firefly.
[01:19]?	Firefly reaches out to the spirit, attempting to pick her up and fly her around.
[01:21]<SpiritOfFate>	She is lifted by Firefly. "Ooooh~"
[01:21]?	Firefly puts the filly on her back. "Hold on tight!"
[01:23]?	Whisky_Heart is no longer away : Gone for 1 hrs 5 mins 21 secs
[01:24]<SpiritOfFate>	She holds around Firefly's shoulders, looking up at the beautiful sky.
[01:26]?	Firefly starts to fly, slowly at first, but steadily speeding up. Shortly the sky behind Firefly is lit up, a flaming trail left behind.
[01:31]<SpiritOfFate>	"Woohoo!" She extends one foreleg to feel the wind, her waving mane leaving its own trail of light. "This is awesome!"
[01:32]?	Firefly starts to twist and turn, weaving her name and Liberty Dream's name into the sky behind them. She misspells both.
[01:34]<SpiritOfFate>	Before going to sleep, Whisky_Heart managed, with some effort, to get two minor explosive charges.
[01:35]<SpiritOfFate>	The little spirit smiles at the sight and messes Firefly's mane, giggling.
[01:38]?	Firefly laughs, starting to fly through a miniature obstacle course! She flies through rings, around cloud poles, and even manages to buck a cloud once!
[01:40]<SpiritOfFate>	Liberty holds onto Firefly, thrilled. At the end of it she jumps back to a cloud. "That was fun!"
[01:42]?	Firefly giggles, landing on the cloud next to Liberty. "Yeah! Flying is awesome. I wish I could do it more often." Firefly frowns, scuffing her her hoof against the cloud.
[01:44]<SpiritOfFate>	Liberty smiles. "Oh, it's okay. I'm sure you'll fly lots when you are outside." She looks to the sides and beckons Firefly to move closer. "Psst, Firefly?"
[01:45]?	Firefly looks furtively left and right, checking for anyone close by. She leans in close, whispering conspiratorially. "Yeah Liberty?"
[01:50]<SpiritOfFate>	"Even if things look sad, don't give up, okay?" She glows brighter and boops the little filly. The dreamscape melts around her, showing the same dark slave-house again... though the filly stays there, smiling at her, sat on the back of another sleeping slave.
[01:52]?	Firefly looks at the filly, blinking twice. She isn't quite sure what happened. She waves, hesitantly at her.
[01:53]<SpiritOfFate>	Liberty, the spirit of Hope, waves back to the filly and prances to the door outside.
[01:53]?	Firefly watches the filly go, but not wanting to leave the warmth of bestest foalsitter, waves good night to her new friend before she falls back asleep.
[01:55]<SpiritOfFate>	============================================
[01:56]<SpiritOfFate>	Group 0: Session #3 end