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  1. [2015-08-12 13:09:12] <Kkat> 3Previously...
  2. [2015-08-12 13:09:36] <Kkat> 3=== REDACTED ===
  3. [2015-08-12 13:09:42] <Kkat> 3...
  4. [2015-08-12 13:10:44] <Kkat> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session One Hundred and Forty-Seven: Xero Hour (Part One) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aHcANs4GE
  5. [2015-08-12 13:10:56] <Kkat> 3--- Session Begins ---
  6. [2015-08-12 13:12:41] <Kkat> 3CopyCat is galloping through the white haze, broken asphalt beneath her hooves, when suddenly she realizes she has no idea what she is running from (or possibly to). Nor where she is. Nor how she got here.
  7. [2015-08-12 13:18:36] <Kkat> 3Shatara feels the sheet metal beneath him as he crouches down staring through the magnifying lens of his scope. But there is little to see other than white. And, after a moment, he realizes he has forgotten what his is looking for.
  8. [2015-08-12 13:20:53] <Kkat> 3The thing in Bookwright's mouth is hard and tastes of decaying plastic and old magnets. In front of him is a marquee, the letters on it spelling out: IF YOU DONT REMEMBER GO TO THE CHURCH YOU WILL FIND
  9. [2015-08-12 13:22:47] <Kkat> 3The loud report of a gunshot echoes through the smoke-shrouded streets.
  10. [2015-08-12 13:23:11] <Kkat> 3To Bookwright and Shatara, that sounded close.
  11. [2015-08-12 13:23:21] * CopyCat slows gradually as she looks around and then stops. Where was she? Who was she? There was nothing. Was she nothing? The Silence was upon her again, only this time the white wasn't cold. Snow would have at least crunched beneath her hooves. She bites her lip, trying hard to remember... what? The What wasn't important. The What was never important. Only the Who mattered. She just had to remember Who.
  12. [2015-08-12 13:25:46] * Bookwright spits the thing in his mouth into a hoof. "Okay, so I don't remember... Anything. Or where the church is. Or where I am."
  13. [2015-08-12 13:27:03] <Kkat> 3The black plastic letter A hits the ground at Bookwright's hooves, landing amidst a collection of other letters.
  14. [2015-08-12 13:28:13] * Bookwright looks down. "Looks like I was being semi-clever. Right. Church. But first... The gunshot." He breaks into a run towards where he thinks the gunshot emanated from.
  15. [2015-08-12 13:29:07] <Kkat> 3Shatara hears a familiar-sounding voice nearby. Looking around, he can see he is on the rooftop of some structure. There are large letters in front of him, mounted on the edge of the roof. Seen from the other side, they would spell out VIGOR.
  16. [2015-08-12 13:31:45] * Shatara looks up from his scope, and looks around in confusion. He checks his EFS, while trying to figure out the source of the voices and gunfire.
  17. [2015-08-12 13:34:45] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream tastes the trigger on her tongue and acrid scent of her freshly-fired shotgun. Light spills into the decaying bathroom through a dingy window from a sky of white haze outside. It falls on a rusted sink, a barely serviceable toilet, walls of pealing paint, a shattered mirror...
  18. [2015-08-12 13:36:37] <Kkat> 3...and the ichor-splattered remains of an oversized bug nailed by the blast to the shot-riddled bathroom door. There's hardly anything left of the insect to identify it, but the dangling bits of leg and proboscis remind Golden_Dream starkly of some of the nastier swampbugs back home.
  19. [2015-08-12 13:38:11] <Kkat> 3Shatara hears hoofsteps galloping somewhere beneath him. And the shot, he believes, came either from the building he is on or another nearby. His E.F.S. is picking up two friendly signatures, one of which rapidly shifting position.
  20. [2015-08-12 13:40:50] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart finds herself staring at a blackboard. Written across it are words in Imperial and words in Equestrian, lined up in vertical rows. She finds she is unsure how she came to be staring at this. But before she can formulate questions, she becomes aware of something moving out of the corner of her eye.
  21. [2015-08-12 13:42:52] * Shatara relaxes a little. Green means friends, doesn't it? He does remember those, right...? He tries to call out. "Uh...hello...?" He suddenly sincerely hopes he wasnt trying to hide from something.
  22. [2015-08-12 13:44:15] <Kkat> 3Bookwright hears Shatara's voice from somewhere above him.
  23. [2015-08-12 13:44:50] * Bookwright stops. "Shatara? Did you shoot? What did you shoot at?"
  24. [2015-08-12 13:46:52] <Shatara> "I didn't shoot anything!...I think..." He checks his magazine just to be sure.
  25. [2015-08-12 13:49:24] <Kkat> 3VIGOR is a robot recharging and service station. Bookwright's brief run took him from the roadside marquee out front to the lines of recharger stations beneath the pavillion-style metal roof. Just beyond, there is a building housing the repair center and a small convenience store plastered in faded advertisements, all in the Imperial language of Roam.
  26. [2015-08-12 13:49:57] <Kkat> 3Shatara finds he is down three bullets. He fired at something sometime since he last reloaded.
  27. [2015-08-12 13:50:38] <Golden_Dream> stumbles and struggles to get back up. Questions haven't really had time to hit her yet. Stuff like "Where am I?", "What is going on?" and "Did I kill that thing?" kinda fall by the wayside. Instead, her first instinct is to peek outside the door.
  28. [2015-08-12 13:51:19] * Noble_Heart looks up at the blackboard and frowns. Who wro- her line of thought was interrupted by spotting something moving, turning her head in that direction. How had she even gotten here? Wherever here was?
  29. [2015-08-12 13:52:05] <Shatara> "...Huh." He tops off the magazine quickly and puts it back in place.
  30. [2015-08-12 13:54:37] <Kkat> 3Mitzi seems to have misplaced her friends. Also, the airship and everything else familiar. She doesn't know the building that she is in, but the nature of it is clear enough. Beneath the stains of age and decary are the colorful crayon drawings of happy suns and green meadows.
  31. [2015-08-12 13:54:51] <Kkat> 3Rusting lockers, once gayly painted, line the hallway she finds herself walking through.
  32. [2015-08-12 13:55:48] * Mitzi frowns. Being alone was no fun. She flares her nostrils and sees if she can sniff any of them out. Still, at least it wasn't an entirely unpleasant place to be alone in.
  33. [2015-08-12 13:56:22] <Kkat> 3The writing on the wall outside the bathroom door may be in Imperial, but the symbol for the little filly's room is pretty universal.
  34. [2015-08-12 13:57:07] * Golden_Dream blearily blinks. She did some fizzy mental math. The first thing she said after being done is shout out "IF THIS THE AFTERLIFE, THEN THE AFTERLIFE BLOWS!"
  35. [2015-08-12 13:57:26] <Kkat> 3Mitzi finds her sense of smell dulled by smoke. There is a slight discomfort in her lungs.
  36. [2015-08-12 13:58:13] * Mitzi frowns. "Smokeen eez bad fur yu," she calls out to no one in particular. "Uh wudeen't be smokeen, so whu eez?"
  37. [2015-08-12 13:58:18] <Kkat> 3Both Bookwright and Shatara hear Golden_Dream's shout. That's definitely Golden_Dream. She's inside the VIGOR convenience store.
  38. [2015-08-12 13:59:06] * Bookwright shouts back, "WELL YOU'RE PROBABLY IN LUCK THEN, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'RE DEAD!"
  39. [2015-08-12 13:59:34] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart's ears perk as she hears the familiar voice in the hallway just outside the classroom she finds herself standing in.
  40. [2015-08-12 14:00:22] * Noble_Heart stands and heads towards the doorway, glancing around again to see if she can spot anything else. She moves to open the door and peer out into the hallway. What was going on? It definitely wasn't normal.
  41. [2015-08-12 14:02:47] <Kkat> 3Mitzi senses the movement behind her.
  42. [2015-08-12 14:03:36] * Mitzi tries not to inhale too much of the smoke, keeping her nose unflared. She turns her ears towards the sensation of movement and looks for the most direct path to whatever it was. Friend or foe, she would be glad to just not be by herself.
  43. [2015-08-12 14:05:58] * Shatara checks his Pipbuck's health status just to be sure.
  44. [2015-08-12 14:06:17] <Kkat> 3It is with that decision that Mitzi and Noble_Heart swiftly find themselves face-to-face in the ruins of a zebra schoolhouse.
  45. [2015-08-12 14:07:13] * Mitzi blinks at Noble_Heart. "Oh!" She immediately hugs her.
  46. [2015-08-12 14:07:32] * Noble_Heart blinks briefly at suddenly finding herself face-to-face with a hellhound. It was, at least, a friendly hellhound. "Mitzi. We were not expecting you. Or anyone else. Or wherever this is..." She lets out a slight 'glrk' at suddenly being hugged. "It is pleasant to know We are not here alone."
  47. [2015-08-12 14:08:54] <Kkat> 3According to his PipBuck, Shatara is not dead. Although the device does suggest he is suffering a temporary loss of constitution from smoke inhalation. This is not surprising as wherever they are seems to be enshrouded in smoke that wraps the world like a thick, acrid fog.
  48. [2015-08-12 14:09:20] * Mitzi nods, "Friends gud. Wanted to find da rest, but can't smell for smokeen. Will have tu find wit heareen."
  49. [2015-08-12 14:10:19] * Noble_Heart nods her head, then glances back towards the chalkboard. "We were... Studying? What else have you seen here? If anything?" She frowns slightly. The presence of both equestrian and roaman was strange.
  50. [2015-08-12 14:12:09] * Mitzi can't read either of them, so shrugs it off. "Squiggles not mattur. Shud try tu find friends."
  51. [2015-08-12 14:13:54] * CopyCat breathes in and out, standing with her eyes closed on the broken asphalt. Focus, Lenore, focus. Who was she today? The green alicorn opens one eye and peers around at the smoke-shrouded environment. She closes her eye and ponders.
  52. [2015-08-12 14:16:16] * Noble_Heart nods her head to Mitzi. "We should start by trying to find a way out of this building." She looks up and down the hallway curious as to if they could see a way out.
  53. [2015-08-12 14:16:32] * Mitzi looks for the nearest outside wall or window.
  54. [2015-08-12 14:17:42] * Golden_Dream licks her teeth. It takes a moment for her to register that someone's shouting back. "Then where the hell are we?!" She shouted, then extricating herself from the bathroom, giving a bug an odd look.
  55. [2015-08-12 14:17:44] * CopyCat suddenly leaps into the air and announces dramatically: "I am /Filly Fantastic/, Space adventurer!" and with a woosh she's off. She even made her own 'wooshing' sounds.
  56. [2015-08-12 14:21:38] * Bookwright "Judging from the signage, we're in some abandoned zebra town! Come on out of there! I think I know where to find a clue!"
  57. [2015-08-12 14:21:45] <Kkat> 3CopyCat is flying through the smokey haze, following broken streets in a place that slowly reveals itself to be rural zebra town.
  58. [2015-08-12 14:26:17] <Kkat> 3"Delicto!" a mechanical voice announces from somewhere down the street ahead, and the air is sprayed with bullets.
  59. [2015-08-12 14:30:09] * CopyCat 's telepathy reaches out tentatively as she flies, shyly reaching out for her friends competely at odds with the persona she currently wore. So much so that when she is greeted by a hail of gunfire she laughs rather than runs. "A fiendish mechanical monster! Have at you!"
  60. [2015-08-12 14:33:20] <Kkat> 3The vaguely pony (or zebra) shaped automaton trudges forward with the whirr of servos and gears. "Delicto!" it announces again.
  61. [2015-08-12 14:33:46] * CopyCat draws her revolver (or as she was currently calling it, her /Blast-O-Matic 9000/) and surrounded herself in a shimmering green bubble. "Raise shields! Prepare to return fire!"
  62. [2015-08-12 14:37:39] * CopyCat flies around the automaton in a circle making phaser noises with her mouth as she fires. "Peww peww peww!" *BLAM BLAM BLAM*
  63. [2015-08-12 14:41:54] <CopyCat> (oops! only 2 shots)
  64. [2015-08-12 14:43:58] * Golden_Dream tries to leave the room. She continues to shout out. "Keep shoutin'! I gotta find m' way t' you!"
  65. [2015-08-12 14:46:34] * Mitzi is still trying to find a window or exterior wall in the schoolhouse/classroom she's in with Noble_Heart
  66. [2015-08-12 14:47:54] <Kkat> 3The automaton lifts it's built-in assault rifle and sprays the air, attempting to hit the invading alicorn. Most of the bullets miss. Those that hit find themselves no match for an alicorn shield.
  67. [2015-08-12 14:53:30] * CopyCat gasps as her blaster shots do not leave the robot a pile of rubble, although its own return shots are even less effective. "Cap'n!" CopyCat says with an appalling accent. "Our weapons cann'e penetrate the hull!" She swoops from one side of the automaton to to the other before replying to herself as Filly Fantastic again. "Divert power to the tactor beam!"
  68. [2015-08-12 15:00:54] * Get_Lost reacted to this turn of event as you would expect. striking kung-fu poses and humming some apocalypse meow music
  69. [2015-08-12 15:01:03] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost is pulled back to reality from... wherever she was... by the sounds of shouting. Golden_Dream and Bookwright, from the sounds of it. Nearby. She looks around, finding herself in a new yet somewhat familiar place. A workshop, surrounded by robots in various states of disrepair. So many parts here. Good parts.
  70. [2015-08-12 15:01:24] <Kkat> 3She should collect some... oh, from the look of the crates next to her, she has already started.
  71. [2015-08-12 15:05:55] * Get_Lost frowns, calls "parlay? where are you?"
  72. [2015-08-12 15:08:16] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream leaves the bathroom, finding herself in the decaying ruins of a convenience store. The shelves are almost entirely bare, and several are knocked over and broken. Shattered glass from cases and neon advertisements litter the floor. Layers of smoke have seeped into the walls and ceiling.
  73. [2015-08-12 15:09:27] <Kkat> 3The dust on the floor looks like it has been disturbed by a passing herd. Through dingy, cracked windows, Golden_Dream can spot Bookwright amongst the recharge stands outside. There is a loud clatter of metal somewhere deeper in the building.
  74. [2015-08-12 15:12:57] * CopyCat 's magic surrounds the automaton, lifting it with her as she flies herself higher. She looks for something suitable, like a dumpster or empty coal pit, then tries to drop the robot inside, upside down.
  75. [2015-08-12 15:20:00] <Kkat> 3It doesn't take long for CopyCat to find an empty dumpster behind what looks like a record store. But she also swiftly learns not to fly too high, or the smoke will obscure the street below and she will lose all sense of baring.
  76. [2015-08-12 15:22:08] <Kkat> 3Still, after a few seconds, there is a satisfying crunch of metal as the automaton crashes head-first into the dumpster, the lid swinging closed from the impact (with one robotic hind leg catching between the lid and side of the bin.
  77. [2015-08-12 15:22:49] * Shatara attempts to locate his nearby companions.
  78. [2015-08-12 15:22:55] <Kkat> 3Get_Lost is greeted by a loud clatter. A pile of scrap metal collapses as Parlay emerges from inside.
  79. [2015-08-12 15:23:57] <Kkat> 3Shatara has no difficulty finding Bookwright, who is standing just beneath the metal awning that Shatara had apparently taken position on. They can both hear Golden_Dream inside the VIGOR station's convenience store.
  80. [2015-08-12 15:24:21] * Get_Lost quickly and fondly hugs her artificial daughter, then talkes a look around "hey, dearie, can you show me the pics you took in the last days? also, do you know how much time passed since we fought the cruetos?"
  81. [2015-08-12 15:24:41] <Kkat> 3Both of them hear the loud clattering of metal from inside VIGOR's robotic service center.
  82. [2015-08-12 15:26:22] <Kkat> 3Parlay beeps affirmatively and starts feeding Get_Lost pictures, starting with pictures of Noble_Heart's plot. The fringes of the pictures reveal them to have been taken aboard the /Shadowbolt/. And in one, Noble_Heart is clearly getting a fierce hug from Golden_Dream.
  83. [2015-08-12 15:26:28] * Bookwright cautiously swings open the entrance to the convenience store. "Golden Dream? Was that you that just made that loud banging noise?"
  84. [2015-08-12 15:26:51] * CopyCat smiles at the satisfying sound. "Good job. Plot us a course out of the hostile sector." She flies a little too high in the smoke, then drops back down again so she can actually see where she's going. "Stick to a low altitude, Number one. Keep scanning for friendly life signs."
  85. [2015-08-12 15:29:46] * Get_Lost nodnods to parlay "good girl, now let's find the others..." the mare starts looking for her friends
  86. [2015-08-12 15:33:20] <Kkat> 3Mitzi and Noble_Heart quickly locate the entrance to the schoolhouse. Through the window, they can see the dilapidated skeletons of a playground and a surrounding white picket fence. But even that much is partially obscured from the smoke that fills the area, and they cannot see what lies beyond the school.
  87. [2015-08-12 15:34:06] * Noble_Heart frowns and heads out into the yard. Looking around as best she could in the smokey strangeness. Something very odd was going on here. That was for sure.
  88. [2015-08-12 15:34:22] * Mitzi gives the schoolhouse door a shove so they could get outside. Should it resist'she'd simply remove it from its hinges.
  89. [2015-08-12 15:34:45] * Noble_Heart pauses briefly to check if she still had the PipBuck she'd been given in Roam... Maybe it would have some information on it about what had happened.
  90. [2015-08-12 15:36:15] * Shatara hops down from his perch, following Bookwright inside.
  91. [2015-08-12 15:38:26] * CopyCat floats almost lazily down the zebra streets inside her glowing shield. She makes sonar pinging noises with her mouth as she flies, her telepathy reaching out in search of her friends.
  92. [2015-08-12 15:38:52] <Kkat> 3According to Parlay's internal clock, several days have passed -- nearly a week -- since saving the Cruetos.
  93. [2015-08-12 15:43:01] * Get_Lost frowns "and... you have nothing from these weeks? not even a picture? that's weird... have you idea of the reason?"
  94. [2015-08-12 15:44:10] <Kkat> 3"Lenore?" a small voice calls out.
  95. [2015-08-12 15:45:18] <Kkat> 3CopyCat isn't entirely sure she heard it -- a small filly's voice -- until it calls out again. "Lenore? Can you come play?"
  96. [2015-08-12 15:46:11] * CopyCat stops in place, floating in the air. "Beep?" she asks, looking around for the source of the voice.
  97. [2015-08-12 15:47:52] * Golden_Dream narrows her eyes. "Maybe?" She offeref.
  98. [2015-08-12 15:47:58] <Kkat> 3The white smoke begins to turn black.
  99. [2015-08-12 15:48:45] <Kkat> 3"Lenore?" CopyCat sees the little filly wandering into the street, looking up at her. CopyCat remembers her. From back when she was very, very young.
  100. [2015-08-12 15:49:26] <Kkat> 3Mitzi and Noble_Heart spot shapes moving in the darkening smoke, shambling towards the schoolhouse.
  101. [2015-08-12 15:50:51] * Noble_Heart looks upa t the sign of movement, peering into the smoke with a frown.
  102. [2015-08-12 15:51:07] * CopyCat lands slowly in front on the filly calling her name. She tilts her head, looking very confused. "Beep?" she sonar's again.
  103. [2015-08-12 15:54:47] <Kkat> 3Parlay shows Get_Lost more pictures. Unfortunately, the combination of smoke and bad lighting makes them unhelpful.
  104. [2015-08-12 15:55:26] * Mitzi wishes she could smell them, and instead swivels her ears, trying to see if she could make out what the shambling figures sounded like.
  105. [2015-08-12 15:55:36] <Kkat> 3"What are you playing?" the filly asks. "Can I play too?"
  106. [2015-08-12 15:57:04] * CopyCat blinks. "I..." she blinks again. "I am /Filly Fantastic/, space adventurer..." she replies, sounding unsure.
  107. [2015-08-12 15:59:13] * Get_Lost frowns, then shrugs "that's okay, everypony has her day... let's go, i heard the others shouting a little earlier..."
  108. [2015-08-12 15:59:30] <Kkat> 3The foremost of the figures emerges far enough through the smoke for Noble_Heart to recognize her. Even burned alive, her Maripony lab coat melted to flesh and bone, there was enough left of her for Corolla to recognize her.
  109. [2015-08-12 16:00:53] <Kkat> 3The little filly smiles eagerly. "Can I be your sidekick?"
  110. [2015-08-12 16:01:13] <Kkat> 3Outside the VIGOR station, the smoke grows black.
  111. [2015-08-12 16:03:42] * Shatara yelps. "Uhm...g-guys...?"
  112. [2015-08-12 16:04:30] * Noble_Heart blinks in confusion as she looks at the strange, burned, half-melted pony before her. Struggling for a moment to place the one she was seeing here.
  113. [2015-08-12 16:04:42] * Mitzi looks to Noble_Heart, "Wut yu see?"
  114. [2015-08-12 16:04:48] * CopyCat tilts her head at the little filly, then she smiles and nods. "Sure! You can be Zippy!"
  115. [2015-08-12 16:05:04] <Noble_Heart> "The impossible." Her answer was accurate, but perhaps not useful.
  116. [2015-08-12 16:05:22] <Kkat> 3The little filly dances, "Yay!" Then adds, "I love it when you let me play with you."
  117. [2015-08-12 16:06:55] <Kkat> 3More figures shuffle close enough to be seen. One mare is dragging her blackened body across the ground on her only remaining hoof, her glasses melted into her eyes and face. Corolla recognizes her too.
  118. [2015-08-12 16:06:57] * Golden_Dream looks around. "... We might wanna start bein' anywhere else!"
  119. [2015-08-12 16:07:12] * Mitzi looks to Noble_Heart, "Eef eet's not possible, then eet must be sumting else."
  120. [2015-08-12 16:07:46] <Kkat> 3The little colt that Golden_Dream immediately recognizes as her older brother peeks our from behind one of the sets of shelves. He raises a hoof to his muzzle in a shushing motion. "Shhhh. They'll hear you," he whispers before darting out of sight.
  121. [2015-08-12 16:08:32] * Noble_Heart scowls at that answer slightly, doing her best to back away from the encroaching ponies. "Yes. We must agree. There is something wrong with this place. Very wrong." She swallows nervously, her hooves shaking slightly as she recognizes more of those approaching. "It cannot be what it appears. It must be a trick..."
  122. [2015-08-12 16:09:20] <Kkat> 3The VIGOR station isn't that big. Get_Lost finds her way from the robot service center half of the building into the convenience store half, spotting Shatara, Bookwright and Golden_Dream.
  123. [2015-08-12 16:10:01] * Golden_Dream goes from zero to /exceedingly/ pissed off in ten seconds flat. "Now you fuckin' listen t' me, I don't give a fuck who you think you are, I don't give a fuck what you are, you do /not/ fuckin' take th' face a' Southern Comfort and get away with it." Her voice was like acid.
  124. [2015-08-12 16:11:23] * Bookwright "Oh, there you are Get. I don't suppose you remember what happened before about... Uh. Five minutes ago...?"
  125. [2015-08-12 16:12:09] <Kkat> 3A voice responds to Golden_Dream from the darkness outside. "Li'l colts an' fillies should stay where they belong!" the voice calls out in a long, hick drawl. "Now we're gonna have to punish you." The words end in a little sing-song.
  126. [2015-08-12 16:13:22] * Bookwright "Also, you didn't see Golden Dream did you? We just shouted at each other, but I haven't seen her yet."
  127. [2015-08-12 16:14:01] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream is immediately hit with the memory from when she was very, very small. A memory of wondering too far from home with her brother. Of hiding all night in a shed as the swampfolk taunt, trying to find them.
  128. [2015-08-12 16:14:29] * Golden_Dream has /never/ looked this angry and on edge. Her eyes were wide and the hair on nape of her neck went jolting up. Her teeth bared, head twitch-shaking. She bolted, never having her hoof too far away from her shotgun.
  129. [2015-08-12 16:15:36] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream is soon in the midst of her friends.
  130. [2015-08-12 16:17:24] <Kkat> 3The first of the shambling dead of Maripony reach the front door to the schoolhouse. Others are pulling themselves over the playground equipment or limping up the walkway to the front steps.
  131. [2015-08-12 16:18:18] * Mitzi frowns at the dead pony walking. "Feral Ghul ponee." She takes a swipe at it.
  132. [2015-08-12 16:18:23] <Kkat> 3Lenore feels the little filly embrace her in a hug.
  133. [2015-08-12 16:18:31] * Get_Lost approaches shatara and bookie "jey there, vreepy place, isn't it? ah... the ghouls are friends?"
  134. [2015-08-12 16:18:34] * CopyCat cheers at her sidekick. "Yus! Our ongoing mission is to seek out new life and new civilizations... also I have the strangest feeling that I'm looking for some ponies."
  135. [2015-08-12 16:18:49] * Golden_Dream breathes through her teeth. It's not incredibly clear whether she's terrified or livid.
  136. [2015-08-12 16:19:28] * Bookwright "Ghouls? Uh... it depends usually."
  137. [2015-08-12 16:20:03] * Noble_Heart wobbles on her hooves. "No! Th-they're not... They're not... They can't be..." She looks like she's about to throw up or something. She clearly doesn't want to be here. Even knowing they're not real, or at least probably not real.
  138. [2015-08-12 16:20:10] * CopyCat also feels the hug, having dropped her shield after gaining her sidekick. "O-oh!" she hugs the filly back with her free foreleg.
  139. [2015-08-12 16:20:43] * Mitzi has no idea who they are, only that they're encroaching and look threatening, like other feral ghouls she's seen.
  140. [2015-08-12 16:21:14] <Kkat> 3Mitzi's claws tear into the visage. It tears apart like paper, crumples like ash, and burns with balefire across Mitzi's claws. The PipBuck on Noble_Heart's foreleg immediately clickity-clacks at the burst of radiation.
  141. [2015-08-12 16:22:53] * Mitzi winces and whimpers at the burning sensation. APparently using her claws was a bad idea, judging by her blackened and blistered pad, but at least they were fragile. She pulls out her plasma rifle.
  142. [2015-08-12 16:23:02] * Noble_Heart blinks at the sudden ticking from her PipBuck, apparently shocked back into reality by the sudden detonation. "They are fake. They must be. We need to get out of here quickly!"
  143. [2015-08-12 16:23:22] <Kkat> 3Bits of the thing fall to the ground, blackened ash burning green.
  144. [2015-08-12 16:24:29] * Mitzi nods to Noble_Heart, "Use yur shield Uh tink. So yu dun get burned." She takes a shot at the next nearest phantom balefire zombie thing.
  145. [2015-08-12 16:26:53] * Golden_Dream 's breath comes in shuddering, ragged streaks. "T-they're comin'! They're made of shadows and are too fuckin' stupid t' die, and they're comin'!"
  146. [2015-08-12 16:28:41] <Kkat> 3Mitzi fires at the next one to reach the door. It erupts in a flash of balefire and plasma, it struggles as it dissolves, seeming to fight between burning up or melting into goo.
  147. [2015-08-12 16:28:54] <Kkat> 3Again, the PipBuck protests.
  148. [2015-08-12 16:28:57] <Kkat> 3More are coming.
  149. [2015-08-12 16:29:30] <Kkat> 3Everyone in the VIGOR station hears the voice calling out, "We're gonna git yew!"
  150. [2015-08-12 16:29:44] * Mitzi is glad it didn't take too much, but there's lots of them, and she couldn't shoot the gun as fast as she could claw through things. She switches to the tri-beam rifle, wondering if perhaps she could take them three at a time. It would burn a lot of ammo, but it might do the trick.
  151. [2015-08-12 16:30:36] * Noble_Heart nods her head to Mitzi. She casts her magic to encompass herself with her shield. "We need to get out of here." She looks to Mitzi. "We are going to have to carry you if We are to escape."
  152. [2015-08-12 16:31:01] * Mitzi doesn't really like being off the ground, but would much rather be uncomfortable than alone.
  153. [2015-08-12 16:33:30] * Noble_Heart steps forwards and spreads her wings, taking to the air over the oncoming horde of possibly-zombies, levitating Mitzi behind her. "They are ponies from Maripony. They were those who helped research the IMP. But they cannot be here. They burned in balefire," her voice got low, "or were changed as I was."
  154. [2015-08-12 16:34:47] * Mitzi nods, "Eef dey from splendid Valley, dey double dead. Two balefire bombs went off dere. Eet's trick. Real ghuls not so flimsee."
  155. [2015-08-12 16:36:40] * Get_Lost "i don't think that's normal..."
  156. [2015-08-12 16:37:24] * Noble_Heart nods her head in agreement. "They are not real. That is certain. But that is not what worries Us. What worries Us is they come from Our memories. We had thought this place might be built of the memories of ponies and zebras aboard the airships. Perhaps that is true. We are uncertain. It is definitely strange. And definitely influenced by the Zebras."
  157. [2015-08-12 16:37:56] * Mitzi nods, "So eets sum kind uv mageec. How we turn eet off?"
  158. [2015-08-12 16:38:53] <Kkat> 3Something very fast shoots by just outside the convenience store windows.
  159. [2015-08-12 16:39:49] * Bookwright draws Pew-Pew. "Um. Does anypony know what's going on?"
  160. [2015-08-12 16:40:24] * Noble_Heart shakes her head. "We have no idea. If this is some kind of alternate world created by the Griffon's Goblet and the Chaos Magic? It might not be able to be 'turned off'. It's also possible this is actively malevolent magic created by some outside force. We know little of the magics of the Zebras beyond their alchemy."
  161. [2015-08-12 16:40:42] <Kkat> 3CopyCat feels the hug fade... the presence doing the hugging is no longer there. Around her, the smoke begins to lighten.
  162. [2015-08-12 16:42:01] * Mitzi shrugs, "Eef eet's magic, we just have tu deal wit whuever eez makeen eet. Eef eet's another world... Uh dunno."
  163. [2015-08-12 16:42:05] <Kkat> 3As Noble_Heart flies through the school, the level of light shifts, the hallways and rooms that had been plunged into shadow brighten as smoke-filtered sunlight once again pours through the windows.
  164. [2015-08-12 16:43:32] <Kkat> 3Outside the VIGOR station, the sky slowly brightens as the smoke slowly shifts to grey then white. The voices and the movement outside have vanished.
  165. [2015-08-12 16:44:29] * Noble_Heart slows down with a frown. Gradually landing and letting Mitzi down. "It seems the threat has passed for now." She looked out the window. "But We are no closer to escaping, or finding Our friends..."
  166. [2015-08-12 16:45:09] * Bookwright "Right, do any of you three remember how we got to this... place?"
  167. [2015-08-12 16:45:50] * Golden_Dream lifts her shotgun and whips it to any trace of movement. "I fuckin' told you, Bookie! They're swampfolk, they're made'a shadows, and they're comin'! So get yer' fuckin' gun out and..." And then the sky went white. "... I don't fuckin' know what this place is, but I can tell you we need t' get th' fuck out."
  168. [2015-08-12 16:45:52] * Mitzi looks to Noble_Heart, "Maybe we just need tu not use door." She tries to find an exterior wall while remaining inside the building.
  169. [2015-08-12 16:46:55] * Noble_Heart frowned slightly more. She began to check the class rooms looking for the one she had awoken in. She wanted to look at the board again, to see what had actually been written on it in specific.
  170. [2015-08-12 16:47:21] * Bookwright "Well, I'm pretty sure I left myself a message on a marquee outside. In fact, I have a hunch." He turns and walks back outside towards the marquee. He sifts out the pile of letters on the ground.
  171. [2015-08-12 16:49:50] * Mitzi sticks close to Noble_Heart.
  172. [2015-08-12 16:49:59] <Kkat> 3The first exterior wall Mitzi finds is the wall of a nearby classroom filled with overturned desks that appear to have been built into a barricade -- many of which are damaged by bullets. The far wall of the classroom has boarded-up windows. White, hazy light filters in from outside.
  173. [2015-08-12 16:50:11] * Shatara starts to poke through his pipbuck map and notes for any kind of clues. Terminals don't forget...do they?
  174. [2015-08-12 16:51:14] * Golden_Dream 's ears go up and she immediately goes for her own. Holy shit, shycatbird had a good idea.
  175. [2015-08-12 16:51:41] * CopyCat suddenly finds the filly gone and that the only pony around to hug is herself. She does so for a little while as the smoke lightens. "I wonder if that means something, Number One," she murmurs to herself.
  176. [2015-08-12 16:51:49] <Kkat> 3Noble_Heart finds a lunchroom. The upper half of a zebra skeleton hangs from a rope tied around a ceiling light. The rest of the bones have fallen into a pile beneath it.
  177. [2015-08-12 16:53:01] * Noble_Heart blinks and blanches slightly. That was... Not what she was looking for. She frowned and moved past the skeleton to check out the rest of the room. What school was this? From whence did it come? It was certainly not a school from her childhood. And she could not imagine it was from Mitzi's either. She frowned contemplatively.
  178. [2015-08-12 16:54:16] <Kkat> 3Shatara pulls up his PipBuck and sees that their current location is tagged on the global map. According to his PipBuck, the town they are in is either named or the general location of "Vault LIV".
  179. [2015-08-12 16:54:53] <Kkat> 3He finds record that this tag was uploaded to his PipBuck five days ago.
  180. [2015-08-12 16:55:48] * Mitzi winces a bit at the sight of the skeleton as well. "Lynched, or hung eetself?"
  181. [2015-08-12 16:56:23] * Shatara frowns. "So we're at vault LIV? Where necrobugpone came from?"
  182. [2015-08-12 17:00:24] * Golden_Dream sucks on her teeth. "... Fuck, damnit, I shoulda taken Sleipnir's fuckin'..." Sleipnir. Reapers. For once, the concept of death brought her a little hope. "Sleipnir! If we can spot one of the reapers, maybe we can get th' fuck outta here!"
  183. [2015-08-12 17:02:41] * Noble_Heart frowns, contemplating more. She furrowed her brow. "With walls lined with desks and a schoolhouse and ghouls? We believe this place may be Luna's School for Gifted Unicorns. Or something approximating it."
  184. [2015-08-12 17:04:25] * Mitzi raises an eyebrow, "Dat's een Leetlehorn, right?"
  185. [2015-08-12 17:04:37] <Kkat> 3CopyCat's wanderings do not lead her to her friends. Instead, they lead her away from the town, up a road that was once well-traveled. The rusted hulks of motorwagons litter the street, several of which are military transports.
  186. [2015-08-12 17:05:13] <Kkat> 3Up ahead, a large, byzantine structure looms in the smoke.
  187. [2015-08-12 17:10:59] <Kkat> 3Bookwright finds the letters were piled not by word, but more alphabetically to allow him to assemble words faster. It occurs to him that this must have been a message he had meant for his friends, as he has easier ways to leave notes for himself.
  188. [2015-08-12 17:12:15] * Noble_Heart frowns and contemplates that. "Yes. Where the massacre was. The start of the war between the Zebras and Ponies."
  189. [2015-08-12 17:12:51] * Bookwright nods to himself and returns to Shatara and Golden_Dream. "So. I left a message for everyone on the marquee that says to "Go to the church", and there we will find... something. So... Do any of you see a church around here?"
  190. [2015-08-12 17:13:36] * Golden_Dream looks around. "Well, uh. There a big road fulla places t' eat around anywhere?"
  191. [2015-08-12 17:14:18] * Mitzi shakes her head at Noble_Heart, "Uh thought dat was halfway tru eet."
  192. [2015-08-12 17:15:22] <Kkat> 3Golden_Dream finds hew own PipBuck has the same information. The same tag was uploaded into her own PipBuck on the same day. She finds something unfamiliar in her notes.
  193. [2015-08-12 17:16:18] * CopyCat looks between the rusted, wrecked motorwagons and up at the byzantine structures ahead of her. "Bring us into a low orbit. Keep scanning for signs of life and Sidekicks, Number One."
  194. [2015-08-12 17:17:21] <Kkat> 3Six days ago, she wrote up what looks like a personal "bucket list". The first item on the list is "Find Noble Heart!" That item has been crossed off.
  195. [2015-08-12 17:18:16] * Bookwright digs in his packs for his own journal and flips it open to the latest entry."
  196. [2015-08-12 17:18:36] * Noble_Heart scowls slightly. "In a sense. It was the point at which the war went from merely being hostilities, to being active invasion." She sighs quietly and looks out the windows into the fog. "This place is definitely not normal."
  197. [2015-08-12 17:18:40] <Kkat> 3The other entries are things that don't surprise her at all. Although "Find Xero and MURDER HER FACE!" is highlighted.
  198. [2015-08-12 17:21:16] * Mitzi shrugs, not like the history really mattered too much at this point.
  199. [2015-08-12 17:22:49] <Kkat> 3CopyCat is approaching a huge, byzantine temple. There are military barricades and skeletons all around the broad staircase that leads up the hill to the structure. Halfway up, a sign proclaims it to be the Temple of the Forsaken Night. The words are in Imperial... yet CopyCat realizes she understands it.
  200. [2015-08-12 17:23:37] <Kkat> 3Across the edifice of the temple, someone has spraypainted "WHO ARE WE?" These words are in Equestrian.
  201. [2015-08-12 17:24:15] * CopyCat commends her communications officer, Uhoofra, for translating.
  202. [2015-08-12 17:25:38] <Kkat> 3Bookwright finds that the journal he is carrying is a fresh one. The first entry explains that "for safety" he left his previous journal on the /Shadowbolt/.
  203. [2015-08-12 17:26:02] * Golden_Dream stares at the 'bucket list'. "Folks, it kinda occurs t' me that I have some anger issues, and I do apologize for that."
  204. [2015-08-12 17:27:27] <Kkat> 3The next entry is apparently the continuation of a theory from an entry in the previous journal:
  205. [2015-08-12 17:30:11] <Kkat> 3..."CopyCat can't read zebra minds. But she communicated with the Faceless. So she might be able to open a line of communication between me and the Spirits of Memory trapped in the smoke. If it works, I could not only learn what happened here, but gain immeasurable knowledge about the past."
  206. [2015-08-12 17:30:29] <Kkat> 3..."For the record, if something goes wrong, this was a bad idea."
  207. [2015-08-12 17:30:42] <Kkat> 3There are no more entries.
  208. [2015-08-12 17:35:28] * Bookwright looks up from his journal. "Well, that was edifying. Apparently there are entities called 'the Faceless' and Copycat can communicate with them. And this smoke contains spirits of memories, which might be what happened to our own memories. Also, it looks like I did something really dangerous and it backfired... it might be what caused our amnesia." He jots a quick entry: "Day ???: Apparently...
  209. [2015-08-12 17:35:28] * Bookwright ...it was a bad idea. Left a message for myself and my friends on a marquee across from the VIGOR station. Reads: 'IF YOU DONT REMEMBER GO TO THE CHURCH YOU WILL FIND'. I had the letter 'A' in my mouth, so obviously there is a clue of some kinds, probably singular in this 'CHURCH'. Have met up with Shatara, Golden Dream, and Get Lost inside the VIGOR station. No idea where the others are."...
  210. [2015-08-12 17:35:28] * Bookwright ...He snaps the journal shut and puts it away.
  211. [2015-08-12 17:36:00] * CopyCat tilts her head, studying the words spray painted onto the temple wall. "Who are we?" she wonders aloud.
  212. [2015-08-12 17:37:37] * Golden_Dream 's ears flatten out. "... Galdurnit, Bookie."
  213. [2015-08-12 17:38:17] * Bookwright wilts a little. "Well excuuuse me princess. Just trying to learn from the past."
  214. [2015-08-12 17:38:45] * Noble_Heart sighs quietly. "A mystery ontop of a mystery ontop of a mystery. We do not like it."
  215. [2015-08-12 17:38:54] <Golden_Dream> "You did a shitty job of it."
  216. [2015-08-12 17:39:05] * Shatara tries to peek at the journal before he slams it. "You sure...?"
  217. [2015-08-12 17:40:54] * Bookwright wilts further. "I know."
  218. [2015-08-12 17:41:43] * Mitzi shrugs at Noble_Heart, "Da important ting eez tu find ur friends."
  219. [2015-08-12 17:42:05] <Kkat> 3--- End of Session ---
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