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  1. [2015-10-07 13:26:32] <Kkat> 3Previously...
  2. [2015-10-07 13:26:52] <Kkat> 3“There is nothing sacred anymore.”
  3. [2015-10-07 13:26:58] <Kkat> 3...
  4. [2015-10-07 13:27:04] <Kkat> 3Based on the map that Get_Lost found, the school was the only possible entrance that was central to town. The other two were on the outskirts.
  5. [2015-10-07 13:27:11] <Kkat> 3The next closest is the theatre, which is towards the north edge of town. The other is a vacant lot on the far southeastern edge.
  6. [2015-10-07 13:27:19] <Kkat> 3...
  7. [2015-10-07 13:27:56] <Kkat> 3 3CopyCat smiles. "That will have to wait for morning of course. For now how about you and I try to find somewhere we might be able to cook for everyone, Golden_Dream? Shatara and Bookwright are busy making things. Perhaps Mitzi and Noble Heart can look for someplace in here where we can sleep."
  8. [2015-10-07 13:27:59] <Kkat> 3...
  9. [2015-10-07 13:28:25] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost calls downside "HEY! THERE'S THE CUTEST ANGRY LITTLE PET UP HERE! SHE'S LOVELY!"
  10. [2015-10-07 13:28:27] <Kkat> 3...
  11. [2015-10-07 13:29:11] <Kkat> 3Outside, the sirens have silenced. There are no more knocks on the doors.
  12. [2015-10-07 13:29:14] <Kkat> 3...
  13. [2015-10-07 13:29:40] <Kkat> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session One Hundred and Fifty-Four: Xero Hour (Part Eight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aHcANs4GE
  14. [2015-10-07 13:29:54] <Kkat> 3--- Session Begins ---
  15. [2015-10-07 13:30:29] <Kkat> 3The night bleeds away into dawn. The world outside becomes a smokey white.
  16. [2015-10-07 13:32:23] * Get_Lost probably kept working on parlay half the night, is still sleeping soundly, with the belly in the air and kicking wit a hindleg while muttering things about a bigger capacitor and mounting tech 2 lazors
  17. [2015-10-07 13:34:07] * CopyCat pokes her head out of the cocoon of old blankets and rags that had been her bed and yawns widely. "Urrrrhhhuuhrh~ You know, I had the strangest dream where everyone was being confronted by monsters from their own imaginations..."
  18. [2015-10-07 13:34:27] <CopyCat> *memories and imaginations..."
  19. [2015-10-07 13:34:38] * Mitzi is glad to see the morninf
  20. [2015-10-07 13:37:29] * Get_Lost drools a lot, on the display of het visor there's a savescreen showing pictures of plots 24/7
  21. [2015-10-07 13:37:43] <Kkat> 3Pink-E spent the night watching Get_Lost work on Parlay. But since the spritebot never sleeps, she is up and awake and full of energy as usual, announcing "BREAKFAST, SLEEPYHEADS!" as she finishes doing unspeakable yet surprisingly delicious things to a collection of MREs.
  22. [2015-10-07 13:38:04] <Kkat> 13(Pink-E posts should totally be in pink!)
  23. [2015-10-07 13:39:41] <Kkat> 13Pink-E spent the night watching Get_Lost work on Parlay. But since the spritebot never sleeps, she is up and awake and full of energy as usual, announcing "BREAKFAST, SLEEPYHEADS!" as she finishes doing unspeakable yet surprisingly delicious things to a collection of MREs.
  24. [2015-10-07 13:40:28] * Noble_Heart blinks sleep from her eyes and slowly stands up with a yawn. "We are awake. Any rumors to the contrary are highly exaggerated."
  25. [2015-10-07 13:40:53] * Get_Lost slowly rises and yawns "mh... mornin'...." waits as every system goes from idle to online and can finally see again... yay.. "so... we look for the mine today?"
  26. [2015-10-07 13:41:59] <Kkat> 3Parlay is flying around Pink-E, showing off new bits.
  27. [2015-10-07 13:42:27] <Kkat> 13Pink-E beeps flatteringly.
  28. [2015-10-07 13:43:50] * Get_Lost the new bits look a lot like some sort of interface port and a couple of magnetic hooks
  29. [2015-10-07 13:45:12] <Kkat> 3Shatara has long since finished his work, and is sleeping on the table he was using as a reloading bench. The noise of the two robots and the smells of breakfast wake him up. Smells good, but entirely vegetarian.
  30. [2015-10-07 13:45:27] * CopyCat sniffs the air. She suddenly looks as perky as a cat who's just heard a can being opened. "What smells so good? Is it me?" She sniffs herself and blinks. "No. Not this morning." She notices Pink-E "Ohh, breakfast!"
  31. [2015-10-07 13:46:06] * Get_Lost looks for nommy things, finds MREs... "close enough" then noms
  32. [2015-10-07 13:46:17] <Kkat> 13Pink-E announces excitedly, "We go /so/ lucky. One had peanut butter in it. And one had pickles!"
  33. [2015-10-07 13:47:09] * Bookwright mumbles something indecipherable. "Wait... pickles? Peanut butter?"
  34. [2015-10-07 13:48:01] * Get_Lost is really surprised "you could actually open a pickles jar!? this... this is... everypony said it was impossible! are you a wizard?"
  35. [2015-10-07 13:48:20] * Mitzi seems a little disappointed by the lack of meat, but the aromas were pleasant to her sensative no
  36. [2015-10-07 13:48:24] <Mitzi> * nose
  37. [2015-10-07 13:50:04] * Shatara sniffs groggily at the air, rolling off the table clumsily in the general direction of the scents.
  38. [2015-10-07 13:50:45] * Noble_Heart spent some time having some of the delicious, if perhaps unnatural, breakfast. "We shall have to be careful with this endeavour into the mines." She contemplates and flattens her ears slightly. "Whatever is in this vault is doubtless very dangerous."
  39. [2015-10-07 13:57:45] * Get_Lost nodnods "alright, i'm ready when you are ready..." tastes the various things "hey, this isn't half bad... actually, i like it"
  40. [2015-10-07 13:59:08] * CopyCat devours breakfast with gusto!
  41. [2015-10-07 14:03:26] * Bookwright snarfs breakfast hungrily. *belch*
  42. [2015-10-07 14:03:56] * Bookwright "Pink-E, I dunno how a robot with no tastebuds can make such unappetizing ingredients tasty."
  43. [2015-10-07 14:04:44] * Mitzi smiles at Noble_Heart. "Dangerous yes, but friends eez better."
  44. [2015-10-07 14:05:40] * Get_Lost thinks about it "Lysergic acid diethylamide" offers
  45. [2015-10-07 14:08:48] <Kkat> 13"It's a gift!"
  46. [2015-10-07 14:10:09] * Shatara noms quietly and introspectively
  47. [2015-10-07 14:11:40] * CopyCat noms loudly and exuberantly!
  48. [2015-10-07 14:11:41] * Get_Lost "well, that's a good gift. you should open a bistrot, you know..." gets up and opens one of the doors to look outside and assess the situation
  49. [2015-10-07 14:16:28] <Kkat> 3Outside, the town is quiet and smokey.
  50. [2015-10-07 14:17:08] * Noble_Heart gathers herself up. Taking another look at the map. "We suggest leaving while the day is young. Pink-E? It would likely be best if you remain here and guard the priest."
  51. [2015-10-07 14:17:13] <Noble_Heart> Temple*
  52. [2015-10-07 14:17:32] <Kkat> 3The air is still and unpleasantly warm. Thicker wisps of smoke curl around the barricades in front of the Temple. There is no sign of movement on the steps or the winding road below.
  53. [2015-10-07 14:18:04] * Get_Lost "for now, the place looks quiet... parlay, i'm sorry to ask you this, but could you check the surroundings for sentrybots and similars?"
  54. [2015-10-07 14:18:18] <Kkat> 13"Aye aye, Captain! No pony (or thing pretending to be a pony) will get in without the password!"
  55. [2015-10-07 14:19:02] <Kkat> 3Parlay beeps affirmatively and hovers out the front doors.
  56. [2015-10-07 14:20:49] * Get_Lost "good girl" smiles and trots outside "alright, the early bird gets the muffin..."
  57. [2015-10-07 14:21:14] <Kkat> 3A few minutes later, Parlay sends Get_Lost an image of its findings: a single swamp bug resting lethargically on the side of the building. The sole reminder of last night's onslaught.
  58. [2015-10-07 14:21:50] * CopyCat belches as they start to leave the relative safety of the Temple. But before they even make it down the first step, CopyCat calls out to her friends. "Wait!" As she recieves questioning looks she continues. "Everyone, group hug! This will actually help." She pouts at raised eyebrows. "I'm serious!"
  59. [2015-10-07 14:22:13] * Get_Lost "there's a bug somewhere in the area, but is sleeping... i'd dare to say that at the moment we are safe"
  60. [2015-10-07 14:22:18] <TenMihara> Mitzi has no objections and puts a paw gently around CopyCat
  61. [2015-10-07 14:23:07] * Get_Lost joins the group hug. it is princess orders, after all
  62. [2015-10-07 14:24:04] * Noble_Heart sighs slightly, but doesn't complain, instead moving to stand near CopyCat.
  63. [2015-10-07 14:26:37] * CopyCat 's horn lights up as her friends gather round, strengthening her Bonds of Friendship with them, and providing protection against forces that sought to tear them apart.
  64. [2015-10-07 14:27:20] * Shatara applies hugs to CopyCat and friens.
  65. [2015-10-07 14:27:26] * CopyCat squeezes Get_Lost, Mitzi, Bookwright, Shatara, Noble_Heart, and Golden_Dream before letting them go. "There! Now we're ready."
  66. [2015-10-07 14:31:52] * Bookwright "Hm, friendship makes magic."
  67. [2015-10-07 14:33:24] <Kkat> 3Just inside the Temple doors...
  68. [2015-10-07 14:33:44] <Kkat> 13... they can hear Pink-E giving them a Farewell Party.
  69. [2015-10-07 14:34:11] <Kkat> 3The morning minutes creep by.
  70. [2015-10-07 14:34:24] * Get_Lost waves at the temple and starts trotting in the general direction of their first checkpoint
  71. [2015-10-07 14:35:13] * Get_Lost smiles "let's find out for whom the bell rings"
  72. [2015-10-07 14:35:31] * Get_Lost jopes it is not phisical education
  73. [2015-10-07 14:37:27] * Noble_Heart heads out into the fog, in the direction of the school.
  74. [2015-10-07 14:38:08] * CopyCat trots beside her friends with a bounce in her step.
  75. [2015-10-07 14:41:15] * Mitzi keeps herself stooped a bit and ready to leap in the event of any new threats, keeping her nose and ears as alert as she could manage in the fog
  76. [2015-10-07 14:43:50] * CopyCat pays more attention to the environment around her this time as they head into the middle of town, as if the more she saw and tried to fix in her mind the harder it would be for that knowledge to fade away.
  77. [2015-10-07 14:44:54] <Kkat> 3The group soon find themselves walking familiar haze-shrouded streets. Past the recharging station. The hardware store. Past the motorized bike leaning against a lamp poast.
  78. [2015-10-07 14:49:20] <Kkat> 3Ahead, the road terminates in an asphalt circle in front of the pealing white picket fence of the school. The sign in front still clings to some of its colorful and once-cheery paint.
  79. [2015-10-07 14:50:59] * Get_Lost smiles enthusiastically "let's get some proper education! i wanna join the science club!" trots past the school's fence "i hope they won't ask me to take off my hat"
  80. [2015-10-07 14:53:20] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart can spot the scorch marks from where Mitzi exploded one of the memory phantoms taking the form of a Maripony scientist.
  81. [2015-10-07 14:53:45] * Mitzi rubs her blistered paw at the sight of it
  82. [2015-10-07 14:55:08] * Noble_Heart ruffles her feathers slightly, moving past the scorch marks. "We should be there soon."
  83. [2015-10-07 14:55:49] * Get_Lost switches to heat vision. she now can see hot mares. also, less interesting things
  84. [2015-10-07 15:03:05] * CopyCat nods, but pauses as she notices Noble_Heart's discomfort. "When I was alone in the mist it showed me a little filly who wanted to be my friend." She hesitates but then continues, deciding that such things might best be talked about between friends. "What did you all see in the mist?"
  85. [2015-10-07 15:05:00] * Noble_Heart frowns. "We saw old friends. Dead friends. Those lost when the world died and was reborn." she ruffles her feathers in irritation, "They are gone, and We remain. That is the truth, and this place cannot change that."
  86. [2015-10-07 15:05:55] * Get_Lost "fillies not wanting to be my friends... this mist seems to want to make me bitter... probably they have to meet a quota of marres turned into cat ladies per week?"
  87. [2015-10-07 15:09:17] <Kkat> 3The group move slowly through centuries-old hallways, dilapidated and filled with the ghostly memories of zebra fillies come to learn and play. A happier past, long extinguished, still clings to the walls and has seeped into the floorboards like an old stain.
  88. [2015-10-07 15:18:42] * CopyCat puts a gentle wing over Noble_Heart and another over Get_Lost. She doesn't say anything, just letting them know she was there, before giving her friends their space.
  89. [2015-10-07 15:25:12] <Kkat> 3The school is no different that when Noble_Heart and Mitzi were here before. They had explored the school fairly well... although admittedly not completely before the patrolling walker's arrival.
  90. [2015-10-07 15:27:05] <Kkat> 10The babble of laughter and little colt and filly zebra voices echoes through the hallways.
  91. [2015-10-07 15:29:09] <Kkat> 3From what CopyCat could catch: Mrs Zanawyth gave too much homework, Gnoonth was cute, and somefilly was tired of coconut paste sandwiches for lunch /again/.
  92. [2015-10-07 15:29:58] * CopyCat shivers as the sounds of ghostly children but she continues down the hallways nevertheless. "Soo," she begins, addressing Noble_Heart and Mitzi. "When you were here before did you check for a basement or a way that went down?"
  93. [2015-10-07 15:34:06] * Noble_Heart blanches slightly at the idea of coconut paste sandwiches, shuddering just a little. "We did not. We had no idea that such a thing would be important. We did find the lunch room, however."
  94. [2015-10-07 15:34:53] * Bookwright "Were the lunches therin as well preserved as they day they were glopped into the steam tables?"
  95. [2015-10-07 15:35:40] * Noble_Heart shakes her head. "No. Decidedly not. Or We would at least hope not. We would prefer to believe the zebras did not actually torture their children. Merely subject them to questionable diets."
  96. [2015-10-07 15:43:22] * CopyCat mutters something about coconut paste sandwiches sounding a bit bland to be eaten everyday... but it wasn't especially helpful. She smiles at Noble_Heart and Mitzi. "Well, now we know what to look for! Or at least the direction we want to be going in."
  97. [2015-10-07 15:44:28] * CopyCat turns to Bookwright and Shatara and Golden_Dream. "Come on everyone! Let's get down to the business of getting down!"
  98. [2015-10-07 15:44:52] * Shatara blinks confusededly
  99. [2015-10-07 16:00:19] <Kkat> 3Eventually, CopyCat finds the doorway to the basement. It is locked, but the lock is hardly a challenge for Get_Lost. Soon, the darkened doorway lies open, wide concrete steps descending into the chill below.
  100. [2015-10-07 16:01:34] * Noble_Heart lights up her horn and leads the way into the darkness. Surely this would be what they sought.
  101. [2015-10-07 16:01:41] <Kkat> 3From beneath comes a smell quite foreign to the wastelands of Equestria, both before and after Sunshine and Rainbows. The smell of coal.
  102. [2015-10-07 16:02:44] * CopyCat wrinkles her nose. "What smells like diamonds that have let themselves go?"
  103. [2015-10-07 16:03:21] * Bookwright also lights his horn. "Diamonds are formed from the concentration of natural magical energies in the ground. They don't smell like anything."
  104. [2015-10-07 16:07:00] * CopyCat sticks her tongue out. "Well, then why don't they smell like magic!"
  105. [2015-10-07 16:07:05] <Kkat> 3The stairwell leads down into vault-like room, filled with broken desks, old chalkboards, schoolbooks well past their prime, and seasonal holiday decorations for festivals utterly alien to the ponies and their friends.
  106. [2015-10-07 16:09:12] * Noble_Heart takes some time poking around in the boxes, just to see if there was anything interesting. She doubted there would be though.
  107. [2015-10-07 16:11:30] <Kkat> 3The room is bisected by wire fencing with a padlocked gate. Beyond are large bins of coal, surrounding the school's ancient boiler.
  108. [2015-10-07 16:13:21] <Kkat> 3The boiler is a monstrous, massive thing of wrought iron and brass, covered in pipes, wheels, gauges and meters. It looks cold and dead.
  109. [2015-10-07 16:13:57] * CopyCat pouts childishly, then notices Noble_Heart and Bookwright's hornlights. She looks at her own horn (going cross-eyed in the process) and lights it up for a few seconds. Then she whinnies and lets the light fade. "It's just not the same!" she wails, "I can't have a miner's hat headlight without a hat!"
  110. [2015-10-07 16:16:06] * CopyCat takes Shatara's power armoured claw in her hooves and begs. "Please say you have a hat I can use! Oh please please please!"
  111. [2015-10-07 16:18:08] * Shatara eeps and wiggles his claws in her hoofy grip, pulling it free to dig into his bags...and plonk a spify Stable-Tec hard hat upon her head.
  112. [2015-10-07 16:22:11] * Bookwright stares at the boiler and drifts away. After a moment he shakes himself out of it. "Sorry. For a moment I dreamed about a nice hot bath."
  113. [2015-10-07 16:23:33] <Kkat> 3Sadly, Noble_Heart finds nothing. None of the furniture or decorations seem to have value (most of the latter crafted by colts and fillies, of which little more than the ancient and brittle macaroni remains). If any of the teaching materials is of note, its value is lost on Noble_Heart as she cannot read it.
  114. [2015-10-07 16:24:05] * CopyCat cheers and hugs Shatara tight. "Thank you thank you thank you!" she glees. Her horn lights up with success.
  115. [2015-10-07 16:24:18] <Kkat> 3Shatara makes CopyCat look like a dashing miner.
  116. [2015-10-07 16:24:48] * Noble_Heart frowns and steps away from the boxes, instead searching for the possible exits into the coal mines.
  117. [2015-10-07 16:26:10] * Mitzi finds herself wondering where Bookwright got his information on diamonds, but doesn't want to seem rude by calling him out on it, not in this place anyways.
  118. [2015-10-07 16:28:49] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart finds herself before the fence that bisects the room. If there is an exit into the coal mines, it is either a trapdoor underneath all the junk piled in here, or it is on the other side of the fence somewhere, hidden from view by the boiler.
  119. [2015-10-07 16:30:15] * Noble_Heart frowns at the fence. That was irritating. She drew her sword, crafted from the flattened, sharpened body of a Crystal Kingdom Lamp-Post, and hunted down the line for where there might be a gate to be cut open. Failing to find one, she would simply attempt to cut a hole in the fence elsewhere.
  120. [2015-10-07 16:31:30] <Kkat> 3(There is a gate, sealed with a padlock.)
  121. [2015-10-07 16:32:13] * CopyCat approaches the fence and paws at it with her hoof like a cat who wanted a thing opened. She quickly steps out the way when Noble_Heart draws her problem solver.
  122. [2015-10-07 16:32:48] * Mitzi follows Noble_Heart, looking at her sword, then at her own claws.
  123. [2015-10-07 16:33:19] * Noble_Heart looks down at the padlock and frowns. "As much as We hate to admit it, attempting to remove this would likely damage Our sword. Mitzi, if you would be so kind?" She stepped aside for the hellhound to apply her special touch.
  124. [2015-10-07 16:33:23] <Kkat> 3After a quick observation, Get_Lost announces the padlock cannot be picked and that non-Equestrian locks are crappy. The thing is rusted solid. "who makes a lock that won't last outside for hundreds of years and still work perfectly?"
  125. [2015-10-07 16:34:15] * Mitzi nods to Noble_Heart, "Yur weapon wud blunt. Urs won't." She then touches the lock. Sharply.
  126. [2015-10-07 16:35:01] * CopyCat steps /farther/ out the way when Mitzi's problem solvers get involved.
  127. [2015-10-07 16:35:31] * Mitzi tends to solve most of her problems sharply
  128. [2015-10-07 16:39:06] <Kkat> 3The padlock falls apart, sliced cleanly into pieces.
  129. [2015-10-07 16:41:37] * Mitzi sits and looks pleased with herself.
  130. [2015-10-07 16:42:51] <Mitzi> *tail wagging
  131. [2015-10-07 16:43:57] * Shatara yays silently, happy to have best lockpick back in the party.
  132. [2015-10-07 16:45:12] * Bookwright is startled by the very loud thud of hellhound tailwagging. "Right, so... who's entering the dark, close, literally-coal-black mine that could collapse in a cave-in at any moment first?
  133. [2015-10-07 16:46:46] * Shatara eeps softly and dons his lunar army helmet.
  134. [2015-10-07 16:46:50] * Noble_Heart pushes open the gate and takes the step across the precipice. "We shall go first."
  135. [2015-10-07 16:48:48] * CopyCat stands up straight and adjusts her dapper miner's helmet! Well, it wasn't really 'dapper', but she wore it at a rakish angle.
  136. [2015-10-07 16:50:47] <Kkat> 3Beyond the gate is the half of the basement that serves as the schoolhouse's boiler room, dominated completely by the overwrought boiler -- a reminder that the zebra lands were prized for their abundance of coal.
  137. [2015-10-07 16:50:53] <Kkat> 3Huge bins of the black rocks fill the sides of the rooms. One, having cracked under the weight in the passing decades, has spilled coal all about the floor.
  138. [2015-10-07 16:51:55] * Bookwright "Wow Shatara. Look at that iron monster. How many cubic feet of steam you think it put out?"
  139. [2015-10-07 16:52:01] <Kkat> 3Both Bookwright and Noble_Heart are struck by the memory, having read the Book of Littlepip, that such a boiler was used to annihilate the Zebratown Police Station.
  140. [2015-10-07 16:52:10] * Mitzi looks at the black rocks curiously, having never seen their like before. She picks one up and examines it curiously.
  141. [2015-10-07 16:52:37] <Kkat> 3Black coal dust rubs off on Mitzi's paws.
  142. [2015-10-07 16:53:05] * Noble_Heart blinks and frowns, kicking one of the bits of coal out of her path. "Enough to turn it into a bomb, if necessary." She looks up and continues her exploration for an entrance to the mines. "Perhaps something We may need to use it for here..."
  143. [2015-10-07 16:53:15] * Mitzi blinks at that. She's never seen a rock that smudges before, or so easily flakes off dust. She sniffs at it a little.
  144. [2015-10-07 16:56:13] <Kkat> 3The far wall is made not of blocks of concrete, but tarnished and rusted brown metal, resembling less a school basement than the hull of a ship. Set into the metal wall, directly behind the boiler, is a heavy hatch. In once-bright lettering: Soles Prata Cladis Tegimen.
  145. [2015-10-07 16:57:25] <Kkat> 3Parlay translates it roughly as "Sunshine Meadows fallout shelter".
  146. [2015-10-07 16:57:30] * Bookwright "That's coal, Mitzi. It's inflammable. Don't strike sparks down here if you can avoid it."
  147. [2015-10-07 16:58:24] * Mitzi looks to Bookwright, "Coal? How duz a rock burn?" She tests the hardness of the material by balling her paw around it
  148. [2015-10-07 16:58:34] * Noble_Heart looks at the hatch. "It seems we have found the Vault. Though We wonder if anyone even used it." She shakes her head and frowns sadly.
  149. [2015-10-07 17:00:30] * Noble_Heart looks up in Mitzi's direction. "If the zebras were to be believed? The spirits of earth and fire went to war against one another long, long ago. The spirits of fire burned the lands as the spirits of earth regrew them. The earth swallowed the fire and extinguished it, forcing it down into the depths, where it slumbers encased in rock until re-awakened by proximity to itself."
  150. [2015-10-07 17:00:31] * Noble_Heart She frowns and snorts a little. "We wouldn't have believed it before. But with the strange spirits We have seen on this journey, it would not surprise Us if it were true."
  151. [2015-10-07 17:00:46] * Bookwright "It used to be plants. The plants died, were buried under dirt, and compacted. Eventually they turned into coal. What you're holding in your paw there has more energy in it than a log thick as your arm."
  152. [2015-10-07 17:01:14] * Bookwright nods at Noble_Heart. "As you can tell, there are competing hypothesis."
  153. [2015-10-07 17:02:45] * Bookwright shrugs. "Either way, it burns hot and long. And if you bake it carefully and slowly, it turns into coke, which is important for mass steel production. Where do you think the zebras got all the metal for their war robots?"
  154. [2015-10-07 17:05:34] * Mitzi looks between Bookwright and Noble_Heart. She seems unsure as to which theory she believed to be true. Plants turning into rocks didn't make much sense to her, but neither did rocks that burned. She was also a bit skeptical of the notion Bookwright presented about that much power coming in so small and brittle (her paw had pulverized the coal) a container, unless it were some kind of magic.
  155. [2015-10-07 17:07:14] * Mitzi drops the crushed fragments of coal and picks up another piece, placing it in her pocket. She was curious about the substance, and it seemed a harmless souvenir if nothing else.
  156. [2015-10-07 17:07:21] <Kkat> 3Set in the center of the hatch is a wheel. The shelter is clearly not designed to be locked from the outside. According to a red indicator next to the wheel, it is sealed from within.
  157. [2015-10-07 17:08:44] * Bookwright "Let's try knocking. And if that doesn't work, Mitzi can knock with her claws extended."
  158. [2015-10-07 17:09:35] * Noble_Heart nods her head in agreement to Bookwright. She moved forwards and clanged a forehoof against the door loudly.
  159. [2015-10-07 17:10:53] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart's hoof clangs on the metal. There is no reciprocal sound, no reply from inside.
  160. [2015-10-07 17:11:32] * CopyCat picks up a bit of coal and wipes in on each of her cheeks. "War paint! Rawr!"
  161. [2015-10-07 17:29:34] * Golden_Dream shudders. She's heard of stories of Stables. None of them, aside from Pip's, ever seemed to end well.
  162. [2015-10-07 17:34:48] * Bookwright "I have no idea if there's anything alive in there. The stables at least survived the bombs, mostly... The only zebra example I know of didn't."
  163. [2015-10-07 17:34:49] * Mitzi puts her paws on the wheel and attempts to turn it. Because that's what wheels do
  164. [2015-10-07 17:38:41] * Noble_Heart frowns, nodding her head in agreement to Bookwright. "Well this one has a cult. So it is doubtless double dangerous." She stands aside for Mitzi. "It might be best to cut it open carefully. Alternatively, there is the boiler to be destroyed."
  165. [2015-10-07 17:40:05] <Kkat> 3The wheel doesn't turn.
  166. [2015-10-07 17:40:09] * Bookwright stares at the boiler. "Something made up of that much ironmongy would take many hours to heat up. Possibly days. And there's no guarantee we can make it explode."
  167. [2015-10-07 17:40:50] * Mitzi takes her paws off the wheel and then shoves her claws into the door itself, seeing how thick it was
  168. [2015-10-07 17:41:03] * Noble_Heart nods her head. "Mitzi, it might be best if you cut through the door. Or attempt to. If it doesn't work, We have other options."
  169. [2015-10-07 17:42:07] <Kkat> 3(( https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4112/4981364529_24d8cc593f.jpg ))
  170. [2015-10-07 17:45:26] * Mitzi takes her paws off the wheel and then shoves her claws into the door itself, seeing how thick it was
  171. [2015-10-07 17:53:26] <Kkat> 3The door itself proves thicker than Mitzi's claws, but the bolts holding it in place less so.
  172. [2015-10-07 17:53:45] * Mitzi pulls her claws out and slips over to them, slicing them off as cleanly as possible
  173. [2015-10-07 17:54:19] <Kkat> 3The hatch falls out of the wall with a resounding crash.
  174. [2015-10-07 17:54:42] <Kkat> 3Deathly stale air and black smoke curl out of the opening.
  175. [2015-10-07 17:56:33] * Mitzi gags a bit
  176. [2015-10-07 17:57:00] <Kkat> 3Beyond is a shelter that is nothing like a Stable. This is no small, underground town. The school shelter is made up of only a few rooms. One of the side rooms is dedicated to storage, and held enough supplies to keep those within the shelter alive for weeks, a month at most.
  177. [2015-10-07 17:59:16] <Kkat> 3The central room is filled with the skeletons of zebra colts and fillies... along with the occasional adult skeleton of one of their teachers, the principle, the lunch mare. The skeletons are blackened by decades of coal smoke. The walls, furniture and remaining supplies are likewise black.
  178. [2015-10-07 17:59:31] * Noble_Heart frowns. "This is not the main Vault it would seem. What we are looking for must be much larger. Where the Zebras built their Megaspells..."
  179. [2015-10-07 18:00:58] * Mitzi frowns at the sight of such small skeletons.
  180. [2015-10-07 18:01:22] <Kkat> 3The far room holds a single door: and emergency exit into the mining tunnels beneath the town. The door is a simple one with no air-tight seal. Smoke from the mine fires has crept in for centuries. The door itself is mildly warm.
  181. [2015-10-07 18:02:57] <Kkat> 10The shadowed sounds of feeble coughing briefly fill the air, and then fall silent.
  182. [2015-10-07 18:03:00] * Bookwright shivers. "They hid in here from the fire, but the fire came up and got them."
  183. [2015-10-07 18:04:57] * Golden_Dream touches the door and gives it a good sniff. If it's fire, it'll smell like ashes and, well. Long Brahmin meat. If it's worse, it'll smell of rotten long brahmin meat and fire. She grumbles. "Never go anywhere nice."
  184. [2015-10-07 18:09:10] * Noble_Heart shudders slightly and frowns. "We shall have to give these zebras a proper burial before we leave this town." She moves to open the rear door carefully. "Be prepared to hold your breath. This may be dangerous.
  185. [2015-10-07 18:09:13] <Noble_Heart> "
  186. [2015-10-07 18:11:14] * Mitzi nods in approval to Noble_Heart
  187. [2015-10-07 18:11:41] <Kkat> 3From Golden_Dream's best estimation, the while the fires in the coal mines still burn, those on the other side of the door has been reduced to long-dying embers.
  188. [2015-10-07 18:12:02] * Golden_Dream slowly attempts to open the door, holding her shotgun dear.
  189. [2015-10-07 18:13:03] <Kkat> 3The door opens freely. Horrible and deadly black smoke rolls in.
  190. [2015-10-07 18:14:17] <Kkat> 3Just beyond the door is a platform, and metal stairs leading down into the mines. It is utterly dark here. But below, the mines glow with a feeble orange light.
  191. [2015-10-07 18:16:12] * Bookwright sniffles, coughs. "Suddenly, I am cured of curiosity. Let's all go home."
  192. [2015-10-07 18:18:07] <Kkat> 3--- End of Session ---
  193. [2015-10-07 18:18:22] * Noble_Heart scowls and looks down at the PipBuck on her foreleg. "We cannot leave until we have dealt with the Cult of LIV. Even if the spirits here would allow it. Onward, we go." She prepares to descend into the darkness.
  194. [2015-10-07 18:22:41] * Bookwright coughs again. "Fine. But if I get lung cancer it's your fault."
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