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  1. [2013-12-04 13:36:06] <Kkat> 3> Paladin Bacon Strip's Personal Log
  2. [2013-12-04 13:36:27] <Kkat> 3> Shattered Hoof Ridge Expedition. Entry 003
  3. [2013-12-04 13:40:23] <Kkat> 3> Nine ponies -- six troops and three recruits getting their first field marks -- two crawlers and the damned Crux. I wonder what Mint Drop would say if she knew what we were carrying up here. I understand why. But still, damn thing makes me edgy.
  4. [2013-12-04 13:42:38] <Kkat> 3> The recruits are proving as useless as I was at their age. One of them, Cedar Woods, nearly lost his tail to frostbite, and we're still a day out from the fall zone. My job to make sure they all get back in one piece, and the weather isn't the only thing working against me.
  5. [2013-12-04 13:44:34] <Kkat> 3> Forward scouts have spotted blackbirds in the sky north of here. Celestia isn't satisfied to toss me a near blizzard and three young fools, now it looks like there might still be Enclave up here. Bloody tartarus.
  6. [2013-12-04 13:45:46] <Kkat> 3> Still, if that's the case, then we're going to have to use the Crux after all.
  7. [2013-12-04 13:46:35] <Kkat> 3> One thing to risk leaving tech up here that the Appletraitors can get their hooves on. But the blackbirds? Not while I'm alive.
  8. [2013-12-04 13:47:27] <Kkat> 3With a click, the first message on the PipBuck ends.
  9. [2013-12-04 13:47:40] <Kkat> 3Moments before...
  10. [2013-12-04 13:48:42] <Kkat> 3...Bookwright crouches down. Breathes. His breath clouds. He breathes more. Warm air on the PipBuck. Puff. Puff. His horn burns like the umber of the sunset. In a moment, the PipBuck is free of the encasing ice.
  11. [2013-12-04 13:48:49] <Kkat> 3Bookwright sets it before Golden_Dream with his telekinesis. "Here you are Golden Dream. Make good use of it."
  12. [2013-12-04 13:49:15] <Kkat> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session Sixty-Three: The Top of the World (Part Five) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LETrhOP90p4
  13. [2013-12-04 13:49:20] <Kkat> 3--- Session Begins ---
  14. [2013-12-04 13:51:34] * Golden_Dream blinks after having it. Huh. She decided to play with it a little. Maybe there was an open button somewhere so that she could slap it on Get_Lost to freak her out. She thought twice about doing that and decided, nah, too mean. She still made some uneducated guesses on how to operate a pipbuck, though. Hey, these things are supposed to be invincible.
  15. [2013-12-04 13:51:46] * Noble_Heart sighed quietly as she fidgeted in the hallway. She didn't like the confined spaces in here at all. Much less the cold and the dead ponies. "We would like to move on soon. Do we know if there is a way out of here?"
  16. [2013-12-04 13:57:04] * Shatara waits quietly in the side-room with Get_Lost
  17. [2013-12-04 13:57:50] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream's exploration of the PipBuck brings up audio logs (the first of which started playing), maps and a radio. The last was only picking up a single station with an unfamiliar designation. The station was broadcasting strings of numbers.
  18. [2013-12-04 13:58:02] * Bookwright points vaguely in the direction they came. "There are still more rooms in that hallway that is now a big open shaft."
  19. [2013-12-04 14:00:19] * CopyCat sits on the cold ice at the bottom of the shaft with Bookwright and Golden_Dream. Her new fangled Crystal armour casts reflections in the ice walls around her. She stretches her wings, but the shaft is too narrow for her to use them. "When you two want out I can lift you to the doorway with magic so Noble can take over... but, um... I don't want to be left alone down here." She says the last part very quietly.
  20. [2013-12-04 14:00:42] * Golden_Dream smiles. Yes! She was going somewhere! She could be the science pony! When it actually came to the message, well. It didn't go very well at all by her. Explorer's joy of finding something interesting very quickly turns into dread once you realize that you're in danger. "... Oh fuck us."
  21. [2013-12-04 14:01:22] * Noble_Heart eartwitches at what's going on up above. "What have you found?" She calls up the shaft.
  22. [2013-12-04 14:01:50] * Bookwright ponders. "Uh. Um. I can lift you out myself if somepony else holds me up to the doorway while I do it."
  23. [2013-12-04 14:02:34] <Kkat> 3After a long pause, a voice comes from the PipBuck again.
  24. [2013-12-04 14:02:38] <Kkat> 3> Paladin Bacon Strip's Personal Log
  25. [2013-12-04 14:02:50] <Kkat> 3> Shattered Hoof Ridge Expedition. Entry 009
  26. [2013-12-04 14:03:10] <Kkat> 3> Damn.
  27. [2013-12-04 14:04:10] <Kkat> 3> We've... I've lost two. Cedar Woods and Green Tea are dead.
  28. [2013-12-04 14:05:13] * Get_Lost is somewhere, probably letting the exploring ponies do their job and tinkering with her pipbuck
  29. [2013-12-04 14:05:53] <Kkat> 3> We still don't know what killed them. Initial appearance is natural causes... that they froze to death in the cold. But I don't think so. I've put the camp is on high alert.
  30. [2013-12-04 14:06:47] * CopyCat hugs Bookwright without hesitation. "You can? Oh thank you Bookie!"
  31. [2013-12-04 14:08:33] <Kkat> 3> The three of them were guarding the northern camp while we prepped for excavation. According to Tinsel, the others dared her to touch her tongue to the ruins of the tower.
  32. [2013-12-04 14:10:24] <Kkat> 3> Idiot mare did so, and got rightly stuck. We found her there, still stuck, after finding the corpses of her fellow recruits. According to her, they ran off to get our help. Despite our being less than fifteen minutes away, even in this snow, they didn't make it.
  33. [2013-12-04 14:12:14] <Kkat> 3> I want to think something got them. They had run off course, but not that far. Still, if it was some mountain wasteland monster, it passed up Tinsel, trapped and alone, to go after two green but still armed and trained recruits.
  34. [2013-12-04 14:13:10] <Kkat> 3> Which has me questioning environmental hazards. Hostile plant life? Zones of killing cold? Something up here we haven't encountered before.
  35. [2013-12-04 14:14:06] <Kkat> 3> Until we know, nopony goes anywhere alone, and we keep constant radio contact.
  36. [2013-12-04 14:15:06] <Kkat> 3> Right now, I have to write up my initial report, and figure out how I'm going to break the news to Wood's and Tea's families.
  37. [2013-12-04 14:15:15] <Kkat> 3>This is the part I hate most.
  38. [2013-12-04 14:15:28] <Kkat> 3The recording ends with a soft click.
  39. [2013-12-04 14:17:21] * Golden_Dream blinkblinks. Well. This... Was something that Bookie would probably prefer to have. "Hey, Bookie! Take this thing. Take it offa me. I don't want any part of it, and I think th' recordings better suit you anyhow."
  40. [2013-12-04 14:18:56] * Bookwright takes it gently. "Ah. Uh. Okay." He examines it. "Hey, what's this weird radio station...?" He tunes the PipBuck to the numbers station.
  41. [2013-12-04 14:19:49] * Shatara continues to wait for the others, glancing at Get_Lost occasionally.
  42. [2013-12-04 14:20:20] * Golden_Dream sighs. "So, now we know that this guy died and th' Crux thingy is gone with two 'walkers'. And there's Enclave about. That makes me fuckin' scared."
  43. [2013-12-04 14:20:54] * Get_Lost sits somewhere opefully safe and keeps working on the pipbuck, occasionally she returns glares at shatara... maybe... you can never say because of that visor
  44. [2013-12-04 14:22:18] <Kkat> 3With a glance, Bookwright notes that Golden_Dream has turned on autoplay for the PipBuck's audio logs. Turning it off is easy enough. Switching to the radio, he turns on the numbers station, and is treated to the calm voice of a mare droning a series of numbers.
  45. [2013-12-04 14:23:02] * Shatara looks away from Get_Lost's mechanical gaze.
  46. [2013-12-04 14:23:04] * CopyCat looks up their ice-filled shaft, at the bodies frozen in the ruined toilets above them. "I...I think we should get back to the others before listening to more of those messages." She shivers, despite not feeling the cold.
  47. [2013-12-04 14:23:10] * Golden_Dream sighs, then looks up. "There's a door up there. Copycat, wanna float me up there?"
  48. [2013-12-04 14:23:48] * Get_Lost sighs and tries smiling, going back to her work "am i that scary"
  49. [2013-12-04 14:24:18] * CopyCat follows Golden_Dream's gaze. "Ah, up there? Are you sure? I mean, I can if you want to look."
  50. [2013-12-04 14:26:48] * Golden_Dream nod nods. "I can jump on across if it gets bad up there." She shook out and prepared to be floated. She hated the sensation, but there wasn't really much of an option.
  51. [2013-12-04 14:27:29] * CopyCat surrounds Golden_Dream with a gentle glow of magic and lifts her up slowly towards the unopened door in the shaft above them.
  52. [2013-12-04 14:27:43] * Shatara looks up. "Huh? uh...no?"
  53. [2013-12-04 14:28:17] * Bookwright listens for a while, then turns it off. "It's fascinating that the numbers station is still running, which means that it either gets used a lot or this expedition isn't that old. But it's useless to us without the matching one-time pad."
  54. [2013-12-04 14:29:20] * CopyCat swallows loudly and glances around. "But... but what if there's just no pony left to turn it off..."
  55. [2013-12-04 14:30:28] * Bookwright "I suppose that's possible. I doubt the source is here though."
  56. [2013-12-04 14:31:05] * Bookwright looks up the ice-filled shaft. "Well, there's no reason to stick around in here anymore. Don't put your tongues on anything."
  57. [2013-12-04 14:34:05] * Noble_Heart grumbles a little bit. "We cannot reach the rest of you alone. Nor are We certain We would wish to now."
  58. [2013-12-04 14:52:18] <Kkat> 3The bathrooms above create a maze of partitions and ice. Of broken stall doors, sinks and toilets. As CopyCat lifts Golden_Dream upwards, the glow around her glistens off the rippled, flowing ice. And off the frozen bodies of the dead. Golden_Dream spots two pegasi, frozen in place, nearly encased in ice.
  59. [2013-12-04 14:53:18] <Kkat> 3The door proves stubborn, stuck. It would take a pretty strong pony with some good leverage to get it open. A crowbar would probably help.
  60. [2013-12-04 14:55:51] * Golden_Dream scans the pegasi over for anything interesting. Armor, saddlebags, what have you. She briefly wondered why the hell a scribe and these possibly Enclave ponies would be doing in the same building. She didn't like the answers she was coming up with. "It's jammed!" She cried. "Shatara! We gotta break this thing open! If ya'lls got a crowbar, now's th' time t' use it!"
  61. [2013-12-04 14:57:16] * Shatara snaps out of being ignored by Get_Lost. "Uh...I have shovel, would that work?" He digs through his tools for anything that might resemble a prybar.
  62. [2013-12-04 15:00:19] * Get_Lost waves a hoof at shatara going away but doesn't even stop focusing on her toy
  63. [2013-12-04 15:03:02] * Noble_Heart looks to Get Lost with a frown, then back up into the upper room and the distant glow around Golden Dream. "We would come and help if We could!"
  64. [2013-12-04 15:05:44] * Golden_Dream kicks her legs a little. She /hated/ being floated. Even if it's by a really nice mare. "I guess? I dunno, I'm jus' kinda floatin' here." She looks at Noble. Oh, now this is a spectacle. The amazing floating filly! "Ya'll can prolly help Copycat get outta there. And probably get this door open if ya'll got somethin' like a pick 'r a crowbar." She blinks when she spots Get_Lost. "Hey, Noble....
  65. [2013-12-04 15:05:46] * Golden_Dream ...Ya'll're good at nerd stuff. Why don't ya'll help Get over there? I think she could do with some of yer' sensibility."
  66. [2013-12-04 15:07:35] * Noble_Heart looks back down towards Get Lost. "We can attempt to help with Our knowledge of spell matrixes, if she desires..." She trots up towards Get Lost. "Are you alright? Is it going well?"
  67. [2013-12-04 15:07:36] <Kkat> 3The Enclave ponies are both in a light Enclave scout armor, not unlike the armor on the first body the group had found -- only these had battle saddles. One of the corpses had died biting down on the mouthpiece, about to fire. The ice covers them almost completely, but they seem intact. However, there is no glow from their energy weapons nor PipBucks.
  68. [2013-12-04 15:09:03] * Golden_Dream blinks and whistles. "Hey! Noble! I found a couple of pegusi with some battle saddles on here! Big caps if we c'n pry 'em off!" That would keep her fed for weeks!
  69. [2013-12-04 15:09:56] * Get_Lost waves a hoof at kid "no thanks, i'm sure everything is under control" then sighs and stops whatevers she's doing to return noble's stare "i can't complain, still, i'm missing a large enough floating memory unit if i want to reach real self-awareness... why do you ask?"
  70. [2013-12-04 15:12:30] * Noble_Heart frowns. "Ah. We were just wondering if there was anything We could do to help. You have seemed quite obsessed since that PipBuck was found. One might take it as a sign of worrying interest." She looked down to Get Lost with a smile. Golden's call was one she did flick an ear towards, but evidently ignored.
  71. [2013-12-04 15:15:57] * Shatara doesn't seem to find anything particularly good at prying, and fiddles with his pipbuck idly.
  72. [2013-12-04 15:19:11] * Golden_Dream frowns. Oh, now she's being ignored. "Well, Noble, can ya'll at least catch me and go get Copycat?"
  73. [2013-12-04 15:19:29] * Get_Lost "i don't feel obsessed" the mare tilts her head "this work i'm trying to do, it takes a lot of time and concentrations, that's all. moreover, i think that whatever kid found it can be easily covered by the others, we are quite the scientific team, aren't we? if you need a medic, just call, okay?"
  74. [2013-12-04 15:21:38] * Bookwright is listening to the numbers station again. It seems maddeningly familiar.
  75. [2013-12-04 15:25:11] * Noble_Heart smiles a little bit to Get Lost. "Yes, we are. Is that a yes? If not, We suppose We should really go see about what is bothering Goldy." She offers a forehoof to Get Lost. "You have been most skilled and valuable in Our friendship. We thank you."
  76. [2013-12-04 15:25:25] * CopyCat nods along with Golden's request at the bottom of the shaft where only Bookwright could see her, but he was busy listening for lottery numbers or something.
  77. [2013-12-04 15:28:34] * Get_Lost "oh you're welcome, don't worry for me, go and help kid before she needs medical help"
  78. [2013-12-04 15:31:53] * Noble_Heart nods, turning away from Get Lost, then moving to look up at Golden Dream. "We can try to help." She reaches out with her magic to take hold of Goldy and lower her down slowly. "But We cannot easily get up the shaft. CopyCat will have to lift Bookwright for Us to catch him, then he will have to lift CopyCat."
  79. [2013-12-04 15:32:50] * Bookwright nods. "Yeah. Yeah, right. Yes. What she said."
  80. [2013-12-04 15:33:21] * Golden_Dream sighs. "Thanks. Ah /hate/ bein' floated around! Makes me think I'm gonna fall always!"
  81. [2013-12-04 15:35:39] <Kkat> 3The numbers continue to drone on. Then stop. A snippit of a song plays.
  82. [2013-12-04 15:37:33] * Noble_Heart smiles to Goldy. "We would not drop you." She carefully lowered the smaller pony back down to the ground in the hallway.
  83. [2013-12-04 15:38:23] * Golden_Dream shakes out. "But yeah. There's a door next to th' door here that needs openin'. Ya'll got anything t' pry open a jammed door with that? I got somethin', but it's my last grenade."
  84. [2013-12-04 15:40:11] * CopyCat nudges Bookwright out of his reverie. "You are ready to be lifted? I'll lift you, then you lift me. Okay?"
  85. [2013-12-04 15:40:23] * Bookwright "I have a variety of high-power magical energy weapons, capable of collectively melting or disintegrating a ton of marble. But no, I haven't got any prybars."
  86. [2013-12-04 15:40:47] * Bookwright "Yes, O lunar one. Lift away!"
  87. [2013-12-04 15:41:24] * CopyCat nods and lifts Bookwright up the vertical corridor.
  88. [2013-12-04 15:42:10] * Bookwright floats like a butterfly up to the doorway. "Okay. Hold me steady. Noble Heart, you ready for your trip up? I'm gonna lift you up here and lower you down on the other side."
  89. [2013-12-04 15:42:22] * Golden_Dream pouts. "Alright, fine. How 'bout you shoot th' damn door open or do yer magic shit t' make it intanjibble 'r somethin'."
  90. [2013-12-04 15:43:27] * Noble_Heart frowns. "We suppose We can try." She takes control over Bookwright's lifting. "We can attempt to break through it with Our weapons, We suppose. But that may damage them. Perhaps Get Lost can assist? She is most knolwedgable about locks."
  91. [2013-12-04 15:45:40] * Bookwright lifts CopyCat up, through the doorway, and then down on the other side. "Alright CopyCat, you take over levitating me again. Golden Dream, ready to come back to the main shaft?"
  92. [2013-12-04 15:46:39] * Golden_Dream shakes her head, then realizes that they can't see it a little too late. "It's not locked, it's jammed. Needs some muscle on it ah think."
  93. [2013-12-04 15:46:43] * CopyCat smiles, already happier to be back with the rest of her friends.
  94. [2013-12-04 15:51:49] * Golden_Dream frowns. "Ah guess. But ya'll better do a good job a' lootin' that room!"
  95. [2013-12-04 15:54:05] * Bookwright gently transfers Golden_Dream back to the main shaft. "Okay, now it's Noble's turn. Ready, O noble one?"
  96. [2013-12-04 15:54:49] * Noble_Heart frowns. "We are prepared." She tilts her head to one side. "Well, opening the doors are difficult. We are not particularly strong, by the standards of Our sisters."
  97. [2013-12-04 15:55:35] * Bookwright has been getting pretty practiced at this levitation thing, and Noble_Heart is transferred speedily and without delay."
  98. [2013-12-04 15:55:50] * Bookwright "Alright CopyCat, let me down now please."
  99. [2013-12-04 15:59:24] * CopyCat nods and brings him down in the larger room beside herself and Get_Lost.
  100. [2013-12-04 16:00:01] * Get_Lost patpats bookie on a shoulder before going on with her job
  101. [2013-12-04 16:03:52] * Shatara ponders how some ponies had programmed games into thier pipbucks. He ponders if he could teach himself that.
  102. [2013-12-04 16:08:32] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream spots Mare-Do-Well as she flies down from above, "landing" on an outstretched sink above Noble_Heart. She is looking at the frozen Enclave pegasi with an unfathomable expression.
  103. [2013-12-04 16:09:25] <Kkat> 3Softly, she mouths, "They can't get you if you're alone."
  104. [2013-12-04 16:10:20] * Noble_Heart looks up the frozen passage towards the doorway above. "We are uncertain how easy it will be to get to it. But We can try with Our magic..."
  105. [2013-12-04 16:10:23] * Golden_Dream looks at Mare-Do-Well. "Hey, Mare-Do-Well. Um. Ya'll, uh. Ya'll don't look like yer havin' a good t-" She stops and then considers her words. "What do you mean by that?" Her tone went grave quick, like she's both anticipating and dreading the answer."
  106. [2013-12-04 16:17:03] <Kkat> 3The disembodied voice of the numbers station mare begins extolling her numbers again. "15-7-14-26-26-18-24-8-26-23..."
  107. [2013-12-04 16:19:28] <Kkat> 3The ghostly mare looks down to Golden_Dream. "That's what the first one we found said, wasn't it?"
  108. [2013-12-04 16:20:05] * Golden_Dream nod nods.
  109. [2013-12-04 16:22:36] <Kkat> 3The ghost nods, thinking aloud, "... the recruits..."
  110. [2013-12-04 16:23:55] <Kkat> 3"...9-25..." continues the almost monotone mare's voice, devoid of any passion, "...8-21-9..."
  111. [2013-12-04 16:24:59] * Golden_Dream frowns a little. "If ya'll expect me t' know what's on yer mind, ya'll gotta tell me."
  112. [2013-12-04 16:25:43] * Bookwright is writing down the numbers in sequence, for lack of a better thing to do.
  113. [2013-12-04 16:28:12] * Noble_Heart looks up at the door, trying to decide the best way to actually get up there to work on it. She could levitate tools, ofcourse. But it was vastly easier when you could see what you were doing.
  114. [2013-12-04 16:36:20] * CopyCat calls out, "Noble, I could give you a lift up to the door if you like. I can sort of see it from where I am..."
  115. [2013-12-04 16:38:47] * Noble_Heart frowns. "We would appreciate that. But We are still not certain that We can open it..."
  116. [2013-12-04 16:39:37] * Mare-Do-Well 3flies down. "Sorry. I'm..." A resolute look takes over her masked face. "...not creeped out or anything."
  117. [2013-12-04 16:39:51] * Get_Lost "if we have batteries i think i could put together some sort of resistor and have it overheat the meta and melt the ice... could that help?"
  118. [2013-12-04 16:40:37] * Golden_Dream smirks a little. Dread still had a hold on her. "... Well, ah am if y' care t' join me."
  119. [2013-12-04 16:44:48] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"10-9-6-24..." the numbers station continues. "3-19-9-12-8-19-14-4..."
  120. [2013-12-04 16:45:22] * CopyCat smiles, even though Noble can't her. "Okay I'll help you up. At least you'll get a good look at it then." With that she focuses her telekinesis on Noble_Heart via their link through Bonds of Friendship and lifts her up slowly, making small adjustments when as she senses Noble getting too close to the walls.
  121. [2013-12-04 16:45:51] * Noble_Heart tilts her head to one side. "We do not think the door is frozen shut. But it may help. We are well versed in lightning magic, but are not certain that will help either." She does her best to remain still as CopyCat lifts her, taking the chance to get a look at the frozen pegasi, and then the door.
  122. [2013-12-04 16:46:11] * Mare-Do-Well 3perks an ear, hearing Get_Lost. "Or a really big toaster."
  123. [2013-12-04 16:47:07] * Bookwright "Or you could just kick it really hard?"
  124. [2013-12-04 16:47:57] * Golden_Dream frowns. "You got a really big toaster handy, Mare-Do-Well?"
  125. [2013-12-04 16:52:39] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The frozen pegasi were clearly active when they froze, one biting down on the bit of her battle saddle, the other with his muzzle open in what Noble_Heart can only assume was a scream. Frozen blood on his wings and running down his right hindleg show that he had been wounded.
  126. [2013-12-04 16:53:15] * Mare-Do-Well 3shakes her head.
  127. [2013-12-04 16:53:54] * Noble_Heart looks at the frozen ponies and shivers a little, ruffling her wings. "Something very strange happened here. We do not like it."
  128. [2013-12-04 16:54:10] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"21-25-19-19..." the mare's voice drones. "13-6..."
  129. [2013-12-04 16:57:17] * Mare-Do-Well 3suddenly flies off. A moment later, she lands next to Get_Lost, looking at her, then looking about.
  130. [2013-12-04 16:58:51] * Get_Lost nods at the ghost pegasus "nice place, mh?"
  131. [2013-12-04 16:59:03] * Bookwright looks up from his notebook. "By the way y'all, these numbers don't mean anything to me. Even turned back into letters, they're just gibberish. Without knowing how they've been encrypted I can't do anything but write them down."
  132. [2013-12-04 16:59:53] * Noble_Heart turned her attention back to the door, trying to decide whether it was frozen or just jammed in place. Different problems meant different solutions, after all.
  133. [2013-12-04 17:01:48] * CopyCat looks at Get_Lost for a moment in confusion, then goes cross-eyed and sways. "Trying to see what you see Get... whew, you see so much!"
  134. [2013-12-04 17:01:52] * Mare-Do-Well 3sits next to Get_Lost.
  135. [2013-12-04 17:02:47] * Shatara finds himself wondering if Get_Lost can see through his barding, blushing.
  136. [2013-12-04 17:03:25] * Get_Lost "so, we have things that.... kill ponies on groups.... but lone ponies in this climate will die.... looks like a pretty empasse, doesn't it?"
  137. [2013-12-04 17:03:59] * Golden_Dream waits in the main hall, looking kind of pensive.
  138. [2013-12-04 17:04:31] * Shatara turns his gaze towards Golden_Dream and tries to think of not sexy things.
  139. [2013-12-04 17:04:40] * CopyCat shakes her head. "I wouldn't go that far, Shatara."
  140. [2013-12-04 17:04:52] * Bookwright "Well, if we face it together we'll all die together? Better than dying alone, I think."
  141. [2013-12-04 17:04:53] <Mare-Do-Well> 3From where Noble_Heart is, there's really virtually no way to tell if the door is jammed, or coated with ice on the far side.
  142. [2013-12-04 17:06:08] * Noble_Heart frowns, smacking the door with a forehoof briefly. She didn't expect anything of that, but it would at least give her an immediate result in terms of noise. "We are not certain why the door is jammed. We shall try to move it."
  143. [2013-12-04 17:06:10] * Mare-Do-Well 3nods to what Get_Lost and Bookwright are saying.
  144. [2013-12-04 17:06:39] * Bookwright "Give it a shove then. Hard as you can."
  145. [2013-12-04 17:06:48] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The door is thumped solidly.
  146. [2013-12-04 17:06:56] * CopyCat glances at Bookwright briefly before mumbling to herself. "I don't want to be alone."
  147. [2013-12-04 17:07:12] * Shatara 's attempt to think non-sexy gets interupted by CopyCat, making him think sexy again. He hides under his wings.
  148. [2013-12-04 17:08:42] * Bookwright shakes his head too. "Neither do I."
  149. [2013-12-04 17:09:16] * Noble_Heart frowns and looks at the door, concentrating her magic to wrap the door in her telekinesis in an attempt to push it open. She was pretty strong, as magical ponies went, so one could hope it'd work. If not, she might have other options.
  150. [2013-12-04 17:10:41] * Get_Lost "it could be some sort of mutated monster, maybe something scaring or i don't know.... i'd say that leaving could be an option?"
  151. [2013-12-04 17:11:58] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Noble_Heart's efforts are rewarded with a cracking sound from the other side of the door, and a very slight give. That definitely sounds like ice. But not ice too thick to break.
  152. [2013-12-04 17:12:59] * Golden_Dream tries to calculate if she could reach the door by jumping it or by letting down a rope in her head.
  153. [2013-12-04 17:13:48] * Noble_Heart grunts momentarily. "This ice is not so hard as to be unbreakable. We shall prevail!" She continues her attentions.
  154. [2013-12-04 17:13:59] * CopyCat 's magic continues to glow around Noble_Heart as the powerful purple alicorn does her thing. "Well done Noble! Can you see anything through there?"
  155. [2013-12-04 17:21:59] * Golden_Dream frowns. She could've done that. Somehow.
  156. [2013-12-04 17:22:28] * Bookwright cheers Noble_Heart on.
  157. [2013-12-04 17:25:28] * Get_Lost takes a look up to noble "i like strong mares. they make strong foals"
  158. [2013-12-04 17:27:00] * CopyCat blinks at Get_Lost. "They do? Oh! What would I make?"
  159. [2013-12-04 17:27:23] * Shatara whimpers. This was getting almost as bad as the 'sandwiches in relationships' incident.
  160. [2013-12-04 17:27:44] * Get_Lost "cute healthy fillies, probably"
  161. [2013-12-04 17:28:54] * CopyCat nod nods. "Okay, I'll do my best."
  162. [2013-12-04 17:34:29] * Get_Lost "i want them lively and smart too, okay?"
  163. [2013-12-04 17:36:21] * Golden_Dream kicks up some dust. She wonders what kind of kids she'd had. She didn't like to think of the future for some reason. Whenever she tries, all she comes up with is a big nothing, notable in it's presence.
  164. [2013-12-04 17:36:32] <Golden_Dream> (have**)
  165. [2013-12-04 17:41:24] * Golden_Dream grimaces, then tries to shake off this feeling like there's something weird in this place.
  166. [2013-12-04 17:42:28] <Mare-Do-Well> 3With great telekinetic effort, Noble_Heart forces open the door with a shattering crack. Several yards above, the door to the next bathroom hung open, and the water that had poured down off of it had frozen into exceptionally long icicles which had been holding this door in place.
  167. [2013-12-04 17:43:20] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Faced with Noble_Heart's magical strength, those icicles shattered, the pieces raining down into the chasm of the vertical hallway, shattering further as they hit.
  168. [2013-12-04 17:47:06] <Mare-Do-Well> 3This vertical hallway is similar to the last one, but the differences are not in the ice alone. The opposite wall is striped in pink, broken with the occasional emblem of balloons and the wording "Lower Observation" stenciled above. Additionally, there is but a single egress visible on that wall -- a set of transparent double doors.
  169. [2013-12-04 17:47:22] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The room behind them looks dark, cavernous and important.
  170. [2013-12-04 17:47:25] * Bookwright calls up. "So, what's on the other side?"
  171. [2013-12-04 17:52:30] * Noble_Heart looks up and down the hallway on the far side of the door. "There are some glass doors within. THis appears to be an observation area, most likely for a view from the tower. But We have no idea what else might be within."
  172. [2013-12-04 17:52:46] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"18-10-24..." the disembodied mare continues. "11-11-13..."
  173. [2013-12-04 17:54:02] * Golden_Dream calls out. "Is there somethin' over there?"
  174. [2013-12-04 17:54:39] * CopyCat suddenly exclaims: "Bingo!" Then sheepishly returns the gaze of everypony around her.
  175. [2013-12-04 17:55:13] * Shatara blinkblinks at CopyCat.
  176. [2013-12-04 17:55:49] * Bookwright "Yeah, I won the Powerball myself."
  177. [2013-12-04 17:57:27] * Bookwright looks around. "Er. Ah. Nevermind. So, I guess we should push on? Time for more levitation trickery?"
  178. [2013-12-04 17:57:28] * Noble_Heart wobbles a moment in the air. "IT is quite hard to remain here. And there is no solid ground on the far side. We would suggest that CopyCat float us to the doorway and We can lift another up through the door to the other side."
  179. [2013-12-04 18:00:24] * CopyCat calls back, "Okay Noble, I'll have you there in a jiffy. Thankfully our new barding makes hanging over those doorframes a bit more comfortable than they'd otherwise be."
  180. [2013-12-04 18:02:10] * Noble_Heart frowns. "That would be dangerous. But We suppose it is true. Bookwright! Can you carry CopyCat as she carries Us?"
  181. [2013-12-04 18:02:28] * Bookwright nods. "Yeppers! I'm ready when you are!"
  182. [2013-12-04 18:08:55] <Mare-Do-Well> 3"23-5-5-8-22-18-3..." comes from the numbers station "...23-8-18." Then it stops. There is dead air for a few moments. Then a snippit of a song.
  183. [2013-12-04 18:09:30] * Bookwright writes down the last number. "That'll be the whole message then. Whatever it is."
  184. [2013-12-04 18:09:54] * Noble_Heart nods her head. "We are prepared."
  185. [2013-12-04 18:11:45] * Bookwright nods, and puts away his tools. For the sake of noise, he leaves the radio playing. "Let's go then. Does everypony want to go through the door Noble Heart opened for us?"
  186. [2013-12-04 18:12:12] * Golden_Dream yells. "Yes!"
  187. [2013-12-04 18:13:23] * CopyCat smiles. "Then let's get to it!"
  188. [2013-12-04 18:16:13] * Noble_Heart nods her head, looking down the corridor. "There is no place to go on the far side save through the large doors. We suggest being careful."
  189. [2013-12-04 18:16:59] * Bookwright nods. "Right, so no playing loud radio stations, having arguments, or breaking down doors. Good plan."
  190. [2013-12-04 18:19:34] * CopyCat tilts her head as she is herself floated. "But I thought we had already done all those things?"
  191. [2013-12-04 18:20:10] * Bookwright tilts his head to mirror CopyCat tilting her head. "Gee, I wonder."
  192. [2013-12-04 18:29:07] * Shatara flutters up to the doorway and peeks into the hallway beyond, trying to see what's past the doors.
  193. [2013-12-04 18:29:48] * Golden_Dream is still in the hallway! Help!
  194. [2013-12-04 18:31:14] * CopyCat works hard on concentrating on two things at once, and lifts up Golden_Dream so she can come too.
  195. [2013-12-04 18:31:32] * Golden_Dream is floated!
  196. [2013-12-04 18:35:16] * Mare-Do-Well 3stays with Get_Lost as the others work together to get through the transparent doors.
  197. [2013-12-04 18:35:38] <Mare-Do-Well> 3--- End of Session ---
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