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  1. [2015-10-28 13:41:42] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Previously...
  2. [2015-10-28 13:43:24] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The passage ahead opens into a wide chamber, falling forward and downward. Glowing orange veins of cut through the rocky walls like hellish arteries. The cart races towards the edge and then over it, shooting down a steep incline, picking up speed as it races towards the bottom of the underground quarry.
  3. [2015-10-28 13:43:32] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Along the bottom, several more tunnels can be seen to radiate outward into the walls. Most are collapsed or blocked off. One, instead, is metal-reinforced and was protected by sentry guns. The guns, however, look de-powered.
  4. [2015-10-28 13:43:40] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Below, milling about the floor of the chamber, are dozens of blackened, zebra-like figures. Their bodies are charred black and hard, with orange fire glowing fiercely between the cracks. The zebra figures almost look less like the shambling dead bodies of extreme burn victims, more like they are actually formed out of hot coals.
  5. [2015-10-28 13:43:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Noble_Heart prepares herself for battle. "Golems. Or something like them. Prepare yourselves!"
  6. [2015-10-28 13:44:03] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright sincerely hopes that their flame-bitten origins don't make them immune to bolts of energy. He checks his MASER is fully charged, and nods wearily at Noble_Heart. "As ready as I can be."
  7. [2015-10-28 13:44:10] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream just now lets go of Get's tail. She left bite marks.
  8. [2015-10-28 13:44:16] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The things below turn black-crusted heads towards the squealing sounds of the cart rushing down the ramp. And the air fills with fire.
  9. [2015-10-28 13:44:17] <Mare-Do-Well> 3...
  10. [2015-10-28 13:44:42] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Noble_Heart charged her horn, brilliant purple beams beating down at the glowing ground before them. Showering it in a curtain of energy blasts. "We shall keep them clear of the tracks for as long as We can!"
  11. [2015-10-28 13:44:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mitzi rowns as the scene plays out. Those scorched zebra things were easy to kill, but if they didn't get all of them, they were liable to cause another blast of fire like the one that had nearly killed Bookwright. She snots and growls, not about to lose any of her friends.
  12. [2015-10-28 13:45:15] <Mare-Do-Well> 3She places her massive paws on the front of the minecart and, using its momentum, hurls herself at the last five of the creatures. With blistering speed she makes two great leaps off the ground and lands right in the midst of the monsters.
  13. [2015-10-28 13:45:32] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Using a level of speed that a creature her size might not be suspected in, she buries her claws deep into each of the charred zebras with a lightning fast flurry.
  14. [2015-10-28 13:45:39] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mitzi strikes down those that Noble_Heart's rain of energy does not fell... and it is the last thing Mitzi does in this life. Her claws slice through the first creature's carapace with terrifying ease. But even as she does, her claws begin to burn. As her swiping paw moves through it the monster and to the next one, the creature collapses in on itself...
  15. [2015-10-28 13:45:44] <Mare-Do-Well> 3From above, it looks like a volcano opened up around Mitzi. Liquid fire roars upwards all around her, splashing down and filling the floor, turning the chamber into a hot magma pool.
  16. [2015-10-28 13:45:51] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright is able to grab what is left of her with his telekinesis, the body burning.
  17. [2015-10-28 13:45:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright hauls the altogether too-warm corpse back into the minecart just occupied by his recently-alive friend.
  18. [2015-10-28 13:46:02] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Golden_Dream 's eyes open wide. Horror starts to strike her. Of course she did OF COURSE SHE WOULD HAVE WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP HER. Nononononono Nononono. NONONONONO.
  19. [2015-10-28 13:46:09] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Noble_Heart focused on her spell, the rest of these rock-things would be destroyed lest her friend's sacrifice be in vain.
  20. [2015-10-28 13:46:11] <Mare-Do-Well> 3...
  21. [2015-10-28 13:46:30] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Fallout: Beyond Equestria, Session One Hundred and Fifty-Seven: Xero Hour (Part Eleven) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aHcANs4GE
  22. [2015-10-28 13:46:37] <Mare-Do-Well> 3-- Session Begins ---
  23. [2015-10-28 13:47:15] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mitzi is dead. Her body is burned to a charred husk of mostly bone.
  24. [2015-10-28 13:47:38] * Golden_Dream screams.
  25. [2015-10-28 13:49:31] * CopyCat is roused from her heat-blast induced daze by the screaming of her friends. "Wha-" she starts to ask, before being simultaneously hit with the sight of Mitzi's charred corpse and the wave of panic rolling off her friends.
  26. [2015-10-28 13:50:55] * Bookwright has tears in his eyes. "Oh, no no no, Celestia NO! Noble Heart! You can fix this, right? RIGHT!?"
  27. [2015-10-28 13:51:14] * CopyCat cries out, "M-Mitzi!" but her magic was already working. Trying to bring back her friend. Trying to do the impossible.
  28. [2015-10-28 13:51:31] * Shatara stares, stunned.
  29. [2015-10-28 13:58:47] * Noble_Heart blinks momentarily, stunned and confused. "We do not know any healing magic! It was never Our specialty!"
  30. [2015-10-28 13:59:55] * Bookwright is too broken up to care about the slip of his mind.
  31. [2015-10-28 14:08:01] * CopyCat 's horn lights up, shining so brightly it almost hurt to look at. Sparks of mournful magic burst from the tip and rain down in front of her, falling onto Mitzi's remains like tears of light. The spell casts and envelopes Mitzi in a blazing halo of life.
  32. [2015-10-28 14:08:33] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Under CopyCat's swift and powerful magic, the black charing on Mitzi's bones flakes away. Meat and sinew regrow. Organs regenerate. Synapses begin to fire in a reconstructed brain. Lungs swell with air. The muscle of Mitzi's heart takes a beat, then another, then another...
  33. [2015-10-28 14:09:39] * Bookwright watches, enraptured by the literal reversal of death before him.
  34. [2015-10-28 14:09:46] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The destruction of Mitzi's body had been overwhelming, and the reconstruction is not without its limits. Mitzi is returned to life, but her flesh is horribly burned, the burns now healed scars covering most of her body.
  35. [2015-10-28 14:10:46] * Mitzi growls and grumbles gutterally
  36. [2015-10-28 14:11:18] * Bookwright "Hello? Mitzi? Are you there?"
  37. [2015-10-28 14:11:56] * CopyCat gasps. She pants and strains and clenches her teeth with focused effort. She doesn't let the spell go. She forces herself to go on, even as the edges of her vision start to blacken and her legs tremble beneath her. She doesn't let herself stop, doesn't let her magic stop, until her friend had been brought back to her.
  38. [2015-10-28 14:12:30] * Golden_Dream 's teeth clench down on her tongue. Her eyes are wide and her mouth is split into a toothy smile that seemed to be borrowed from a corpse suffering from a mighty horrid case of rigor mortis. "M-m-mitzi?"
  39. [2015-10-28 14:13:22] * Mitzi growls in a low, grizzled tone. She responds in the more base language of the hellhound. She twitches her fingers with a pained whimper
  40. [2015-10-28 14:15:15] * Bookwright flicks his horn at Mitzi and a wash of golden motes sink into her flesh, bringing with it a soothing wave of relief of pain.
  41. [2015-10-28 14:15:49] * Mitzi feels her muscles relax and her pain ease. Her eyes open slowly
  42. [2015-10-28 14:18:37] * CopyCat almost blacks out when he hears Mitzi's grumbles. Her spell stops, the light fizzling out to just leave an afterimage that took up the top half of her vision. She sinks down into an exhausted heap and smiles. "Y-yay~" she whimpers.
  43. [2015-10-28 14:19:15] * Golden_Dream bolts /right/ up to her. "M-m-mitzi? Are you there?" Still with that rigor mortis smile.
  44. [2015-10-28 14:26:37] * Noble_Heart looks back towards Mitzi. She looks pensive and frustrated. But has little to say it seems.
  45. [2015-10-28 14:27:21] * Mitzi sits up gingerly. In spite of the lack of pain, she still felt wrong. "Everun alive?" she asks, looking around at her friends before herself
  46. [2015-10-28 14:29:47] * Bookwright "Yes. Thanks to Copy Cat's efforts, you are in fact alive."
  47. [2015-10-28 14:31:21] * Mitzi blinks. "Uh dun tink Uh ever stopped been ulive."
  48. [2015-10-28 14:31:49] * Bookwright grimaces. "Trust me. A few seconds ago, you were little more than bones and char."
  49. [2015-10-28 14:31:57] * Noble_Heart frowns. "We are fairly certain you did. We are sorry, Mitzi. We should have been more thorough in Our attacks."
  50. [2015-10-28 14:32:28] * Mitzi blinks. "Uh... eef Uh wuz dead, Uh wudeen't be talkeen tu yu now. Ur hurteen as much."
  51. [2015-10-28 14:33:53] * Bookwright blinks. "...What? I didn't catch that last part."
  52. [2015-10-28 14:34:13] * Mitzi looks to Bookwright, "Eet duzen' hurt now, but eet wuz a minute ago."
  53. [2015-10-28 14:35:05] * Bookwright "Oh, that's because I cast a spell on you. You won't hurt for another four hours or so."
  54. [2015-10-28 14:35:52] * Golden_Dream suddenly isn't smiling. Oh, her eyes are still wide, but her smile is now a right and proper scowl. She takes her by the ear and pulls her head down, not even being bothered by the smell of burnt dog. "IF YOU EVER DO THAT SHIT AGAIN, I'LL... I'LL..."
  55. [2015-10-28 14:35:54] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mitzi's resurrection and reunion with her friends happens over the span of moments...
  56. [2015-10-28 14:36:10] <Mitzi> *a moment ago."
  57. [2015-10-28 14:36:39] <Mare-Do-Well> 3...and then the cart reaches the bottom of the undergreound quarry...
  58. [2015-10-28 14:37:18] * Mitzi reaches to pat Golden_Dream on the head with a big paw, only then noticing her blackened fur and skin. "Huh. Guess uh shud have figured dat wud happen. No wunder eet hurt."
  59. [2015-10-28 14:37:27] <Mare-Do-Well> 3...and hits the magma pooled on the floor.
  60. [2015-10-28 14:37:59] <Golden_Dream> "I SWEAR TO FUCKING CELESTIA, I WILL BLOW YOUR KNEECAPS OFF, DRAG YOU BACK TO EQUESTRIA, FUCK THE MISSION, AND PARK YOU IN A HOSPITAL BED AND FEED YOU NOTHING BUT WATERY SOUP FED TO YOU BY A SURLY NURSE, WHERE YOU WON'T BE ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING-
  61. [2015-10-28 14:38:30] <Golden_Dream> BUT WATCH THE ABSOLUTE WORST COMEDIANS AND CHEESIEST SOAP OPERAS I CAN FIND."
  62. [2015-10-28 14:38:41] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The cart slooshes to a swift stop in a spray of molten rock!
  63. [2015-10-28 14:39:10] * Bookwright "I don't mean to distract you from your diatribe Golden Dream but right now /the freakin' floor is lava!/ "
  64. [2015-10-28 14:39:29] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The cart immediately becomes uncomfortably hot.
  65. [2015-10-28 14:39:38] * Mitzi blinks in confusion at Golden_Dream.
  66. [2015-10-28 14:40:53] * CopyCat jumps up like a cat upon hearing a loud noise. "Eeeep! E-everybody up!"
  67. [2015-10-28 14:41:21] * Golden_Dream looks up. "... Um. Fliers, get flying?"
  68. [2015-10-28 14:42:20] * Noble_Heart erps, wiggles a bit and takes to the air. Extending her magic to attempt to grab several of her friends to help them. "We shall do what We can. Be careful."
  69. [2015-10-28 14:42:22] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There is a pop and a nasty fizz as the motorized cart's engine is literally fried.
  70. [2015-10-28 14:43:45] * CopyCat flaps her wings in a panic, and then actually does take off when her instincts kick in over her panic. She tries to pick up Get Lost and Mitzi with her magic to lift them up as well. She has to screw her eyes shut in concentration. "S-sorry Mitzi, you're hurt and we've g-got to be q-quick!"
  71. [2015-10-28 14:43:55] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The alchemical batteries begin to boil.
  72. [2015-10-28 14:44:07] * Mitzi isn't really in any mood to move under her own power anyways
  73. [2015-10-28 14:44:36] * Golden_Dream hops onto Noble. "Now would be nice. Also, get Mitzi please."
  74. [2015-10-28 14:45:11] * Bookwright makes himself weightless. "Shatara, please haul me up outta here!"
  75. [2015-10-28 14:45:58] * Shatara airlifts the bookhorse
  76. [2015-10-28 14:46:01] * Bookwright points to the platform with the unpowered sentry guns on it. "Let's regroup over there!"
  77. [2015-10-28 14:49:03] * Noble_Heart nods her head. "Past the guns, into the tunnel. Doubtless that will be where this Vault is. The most well defended and warded part of this complex." She swoops in the direction of the exit.
  78. [2015-10-28 14:49:42] * CopyCat flies herself, Mitzi, and Get_Lost over to the sentry-gun platform which Bookwright had indicated, leaving Noble_Heart who had already grabbed Golden_Dream (and was probably helping CopyCat with her load, too).
  79. [2015-10-28 14:51:40] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The turret platform prove to be safe ground. The turrets themselves are powered down, but otherwise apparently little more than singed. They are hardened, robust machinery of clear zebra military design. Each sports a minigun and a second, massive barrel.
  80. [2015-10-28 14:51:44] * Noble_Heart carries Golden Dream and heads for the sentry platform. "This place has been more unexpectedly hostile than We anticipated. There are strange things in these mines. And they mean Us harm."
  81. [2015-10-28 14:52:27] * Bookwright examines the area, searching for the terminal designed to control the turrets.
  82. [2015-10-28 14:52:57] * Bookwright "If we have to come out this way again, it would be good to have something here covering our exit."
  83. [2015-10-28 14:53:17] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The secondary barrels more resemble something from a tank or small cannon than a turret.
  84. [2015-10-28 14:54:33] * Mitzi sits up and begins to look herself over once they're on safer ground.
  85. [2015-10-28 14:54:57] * CopyCat sets Mitzi and Get Lost down on the platform and sinks into a tired heap of CopyKitty while she catches her breath. "We made it! To somewhere not on fire."
  86. [2015-10-28 14:56:13] * CopyCat adds. "For now."
  87. [2015-10-28 15:00:24] * Shatara deposits Bookwright and takes to examining the turrets.
  88. [2015-10-28 15:01:32] * Mitzi frowns and sighs as she looks herself over. "Uh guess eet's wurth eet, we're all alive."
  89. [2015-10-28 15:01:58] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Between the platforms, the metal-walled and reinforced tunnel extends back to a massive slab-like door. Stenciled in military numbers: LIV.
  90. [2015-10-28 15:02:42] * Shatara looks up and ulps a little. "Looks like we found it..."
  91. [2015-10-28 15:04:18] * CopyCat also looks Mitzi over and winces. "D-does it hurt?" she asks timidly, forgetting Bookwright's spell with the panic moments ago.
  92. [2015-10-28 15:05:01] * Mitzi shakes her head, "Not at the moment. Uh tink dere wuz magic makeen eet not hurt now though."
  93. [2015-10-28 15:05:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara finds the turrets are particularly tightly constructed and heavily armored. It will be difficult to dismantle and scavenge from them without specialized tools (likely found inside the Vault, if anywhere). He can, however, loot the turrets for ammo.
  94. [2015-10-28 15:07:20] * Mitzi gasps and suddenly looks a lot sadder as she realizes she wasn't wearing her armor or weapons anymore. She slumps forward and places her head in her paws.
  95. [2015-10-28 15:08:21] * Noble_Heart looks down at the gate and frowns slightly. Quietly considering the best way to enter.
  96. [2015-10-28 15:13:31] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The miniguns are of a basic and familiar design, but the rounds are unique (or, at least, nothing Shatara has seen before). Each has a tiny gemstone embedded in the tip.
  97. [2015-10-28 15:15:49] * CopyCat bites her lip and turns her gaze towards the ground at Mitzi's realization. "I'm sorry my... um, I couldn't save your things. I could only bring you back after... after you were burned." She looks up again. "I'm not good enough to heal your scars, either. B-but maybe Get Lost can help. She and Shatara might be able to make you new things, too."
  98. [2015-10-28 15:16:15] * Shatara oohs and super shiny/pretty/fancy boolets
  99. [2015-10-28 15:16:32] * Mitzi shakes her head, "Eets not da guns. Uh stole dem from mean pegasus ponees. Eets Ur photo."
  100. [2015-10-28 15:17:14] <Shatara> "These things look expensive. It'd probably cost like...a hundred thousand bits to fire this weapon for twelve seconds..."
  101. [2015-10-28 15:20:48] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara finds 120 rounds of AP-Special 5mm ammo.
  102. [2015-10-28 15:21:40] * Noble_Heart looks up towards the munitions. "Likely more than that. Gems were rare in the Zebra lands. We imagine that these weapons must have been very important to spend such resources on."
  103. [2015-10-28 15:21:57] * Golden_Dream knocks on the Stable door.
  104. [2015-10-28 15:22:03] * Golden_Dream shrugs. Worth a shot.
  105. [2015-10-28 15:22:04] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The ammo chambers for the secondary weapon is empty in the first turret, and has only a single remaining shot in the other.
  106. [2015-10-28 15:22:12] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Shatara finds one balefire egg.
  107. [2015-10-28 15:22:37] <Mare-Do-Well> 3(Shatara discovers what probably set the mines on fire.)
  108. [2015-10-28 15:25:16] * Shatara stares at the strange little egg. Tilts his head, squints at it a bit...and squawks, eyes wide, fumbling the little ovid can of death, catching it and clutching it to his chest before very, very, very carefully putting it down and backing away.
  109. [2015-10-28 15:26:13] * Bookwright notices Shatara's consternation. "What... Is that...? Is that what I think it is?"
  110. [2015-10-28 15:28:01] * Golden_Dream winks down... And then her eyes go wide. "... Keep it away from Mitzi."
  111. [2015-10-28 15:28:16] * CopyCat hangs her head after Mitzi's reply. "Oh, right. Not something that can be replaced so easily." Then she has a thought. "Your father... is he gone?"
  112. [2015-10-28 15:29:23] * Mitzi doesn't seem concerned about the balefire egg, but looks to CopyCat, "No. Ur father eez Alpha uv Poneeville pack. He eez inspuration, und gud leadur, but Uh meant tu take heez place, becum new Alpha, make bettur friends wit ponees."
  113. [2015-10-28 15:35:01] * Noble_Heart backs away from the balefire egg slightly. "We suggest being very careful with that. Though its presence here may be useful to us as well." She frowns. "It might be the only thing capable of breaching these doors."
  114. [2015-10-28 15:36:04] * CopyCat ear-twitches, then looks up at Mitzi again. "Then when we get back to Equestria we can take a new picture. With your father and all your family. Parlay could take lots of pictures!" She smiles. "We just have to make sure we get back in one piece."
  115. [2015-10-28 15:36:09] * Bookwright "There are surely other ways to get past those doors. Though I suppose we shouldn't rule out using the egg..."
  116. [2015-10-28 15:38:55] * Mitzi smiles a bit at CopyCat. "Uh'd like dat. Friends und family, unce Uh becum new Alpha. Eet'll be wurth photo."
  117. [2015-10-28 15:39:21] * Bookwright begins searching for a thing to open the very large, very thick doors. Possibly a control console. Or maybe a helpfully-labeled lever.
  118. [2015-10-28 15:41:55] * Mitzi takes a moment to examine the condition of her claws.
  119. [2015-10-28 15:43:36] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Bookwright's previous examination of the turrets revealed no way to activate them here -- no terminals or controls. The turrets must be controlled purely from within Vault LIV.
  120. [2015-10-28 15:44:00] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mitzi's claws are as sharp as ever.
  121. [2015-10-28 15:44:22] * Mitzi takes some comfort in this
  122. [2015-10-28 15:44:38] * CopyCat chuckles a little nervously. "We just need Get Lost to check you over and work her own particular brand of magic. If anypony can heal... that, then it's Get_Lost, Mitzi!" CopyCat leaves the possibility of full-body cyberization unsaid. It was Get_Lost they were talking about here. Waking up with robot parts was just part of the package.
  123. [2015-10-28 15:45:19] * Mitzi looks back at Get_Lost. "Old Albino had uh robot leg. He lost his though. Urs eez still attached."
  124. [2015-10-28 15:51:30] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There is a loud popping and burbling hiss as the alchemical batteries in the once-motorized cart burst.
  125. [2015-10-28 15:53:19] * Bookwright "Looks like we might have to walk back, if we don't teleport."
  126. [2015-10-28 16:00:02] * CopyCat looks over at the big doors at last. She tilts her head again. "Has anyone tried knocking?"
  127. [2015-10-28 16:01:18] * Bookwright "Honestly, I'm kind of afraid of what would open the door when we did."
  128. [2015-10-28 16:06:58] * Mitzi stands up and lumbers over to the door. "Uh kin be gud fur sumteen." She shoves a claw in to test the door's thickness.
  129. [2015-10-28 16:08:05] * Bookwright "Mitzi, you were literally just a few minute ago a heap of charred bone and ash. Simply having you alive again is a good thing."
  130. [2015-10-28 16:08:45] * Mitzi chuckles at Bookwright. "Eet certainly felt like eet."
  131. [2015-10-28 16:13:54] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Examination has revealed no method of opening Vault LIV. Once closed, it clearly wasn't designed to be opened from the outside
  132. [2015-10-28 16:15:08] * Mitzi runs her claws down the metal to see if she could cut it, and how thick it was.
  133. [2015-10-28 16:19:16] <Mare-Do-Well> 3Mitzi's claws carve into the metal. It cuts easily for her. Like most everything else designed before the war, hellhound claws were never a proper a consideration. But the door has a thickness that extends beyond Mitzi's claws... possibly involving two or three layers of blast doors.
  134. [2015-10-28 16:20:18] * CopyCat pouts. "Well Xlix got in and out somehow. Hmm..." she turns to her fellow alicorn. "Noble_Heart, did the PipBuck you were given contain anything about how to get into LIV?"
  135. [2015-10-28 16:20:53] * Noble_Heart shakes her head. "This PipBuck has been wiped clean. Aside from the marker for the Vault, there was no information on it. At least none that We could recover."
  136. [2015-10-28 16:23:38] <Mare-Do-Well> 3There is a hydrolic hissing sound from somewhere deeper, and the door to Vault LIV begins to slide open.
  137. [2015-10-28 16:24:06] * CopyCat sits in front of the door and makes horse noises. "Pffft. I don't doubt that Mitzi could burrow her way in through the rock or something, but I don't want her to have to do something physically stressful without Get Lost looking her over first. Not after the... um, the lava..."
  138. [2015-10-28 16:25:37] * Mitzi pulls her claws out as the door begins to make noise and move. "Uh..."
  139. [2015-10-28 16:26:21] * CopyCat just blinks at the door. She didn't seem as surprised as she might have been. She was a cat sitting in front of a door. It was only natural that it would be opened for her. Soon she'd be meowing for biscuits or something.
  140. [2015-10-28 16:29:28] * Shatara readies his weapons, not sure what's looking to come out
  141. [2015-10-28 16:32:14] * Noble_Heart scowls, readying herself for potential battle. The sphere of her shield extending around her.
  142. [2015-10-28 16:32:19] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The slab of a door slides up into the roof of the tunnel. The set of doors immediately behind (bearing Mitzi's claw marks), split diagonally and slide into the walls with a hiss. The third door slides downward into the floor, revealing wartime Roam's equivalent of a Stable. The once gleaming chrome of steps and walkways having dulled to a depressing grey.
  143. [2015-10-28 16:33:33] * Mitzi steps back from the door.
  144. [2015-10-28 16:33:56] * Bookwright groans and casts another healing spell on himself, for all the good it'll do.
  145. [2015-10-28 16:34:10] <Mare-Do-Well> 3A voice over a loudspeaker invites in the old Imperial language (which CopyCat can translate), "Welcome to Vault LIV, ambassadors of Equestria."
  146. [2015-10-28 16:35:02] * Shatara blinkblinks. "Well that was...cordial."
  147. [2015-10-28 16:35:20] * CopyCat smiles like the cat that got the cream. "They say 'hi'," she translates. The she actaully translates what said.
  148. [2015-10-28 16:35:58] * CopyCat smiles like the cat that got the cream. "They say 'hi'," she translates. Then she actually translates what said.
  149. [2015-10-28 16:36:02] * Bookwright "I, uh. Well. I didn't expect that."
  150. [2015-10-28 16:36:59] * Bookwright focuses more magic into his battered body.
  151. [2015-10-28 16:37:03] * Noble_Heart blinks and frowns. "We are concerned, yes."
  152. [2015-10-28 16:41:27] * Bookwright 's eyes cross and his horn makes a noise like a cross between a fart and a balloon popping. "Whoops. Messed that up..."
  153. [2015-10-28 16:43:17] * Bookwright tries again, meditating on the fact that he'd like to not be really torn up right now.
  154. [2015-10-28 16:44:44] <Mare-Do-Well> 3The voice continues, "Please excuse the lack of a visible welcoming party. The majority of our personnel have transcended the need for corporeal bodies. Those few who still cling to their meat are heavily engaged in duties elsewhere."
  155. [2015-10-28 16:47:57] * Bookwright is ignoring everything except tending to his own wounds. By the third spell, he's got it down and as the tiny sparks of amber sink into his coat, he's looking hale and hearty again.
  156. [2015-10-28 16:48:15] * Noble_Heart scowls slightly more. "Golden Dream? Do you see anything?"
  157. [2015-10-28 16:51:14] * Bookwright pushes his glasses back up his snout. "What? 'Transcended the need'? What in Celestia's green Equestria does that mean?"
  158. [2015-10-28 16:52:42] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Please proceed into the Vault. We will be closing the doors imminently. You are welcome. Please do not mistake the perceived emptiness as a lack of welcome. The Mother of Balefire extends Her greetings to the Ambassadors of Equestria."
  159. [2015-10-28 16:53:44] * CopyCat smiles at her friends after translating. "Well this is very nice, isn't it." And steps into the Vault.
  160. [2015-10-28 16:55:05] * Noble_Heart follows CopyCat within as well. She had a very bad feeling about this. This distinctly felt like a cult. And not the happy, friendly kind either. "That they are dead, but their spirits still linger, We would assume. This is a cult of necromancers, after all."
  161. [2015-10-28 16:56:24] * Goldy looks around, anxiously. "There be zebra ghosts around. I feels it."
  162. [2015-10-28 16:56:57] <Mare-Do-Well> 10Goldy does indeed feel it. Very, very strongly.
  163. [2015-10-28 16:58:19] * Bookwright walks guardedly across the threshold of what he's starting to feel is his future grave.
  164. [2015-10-28 16:59:15] * Goldy has the fur on the back of her neck raise unconsciously. Her eyes darted around.
  165. [2015-10-28 17:03:52] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Welcome." The first room of the Vault is not dissimilar to the entrance room of a Stable, save that the ceiling is not dominated by the particular swing-arm mechanics of the gear-shaped Stable doors. And the dominant architectural note is dulled chrome. Windows look into empty rooms with consoles of buttons and blinking lights.
  166. [2015-10-28 17:05:39] <Mare-Do-Well> 10A picture of the former Caesar hangs prominently on the wall. The floors are clean of litter and debris. There are sagging panels in the ceiling and subtle warping in a few of the beams.
  167. [2015-10-28 17:07:04] * Noble_Heart looks up and around slowly. This place was... Odd. Not right. For certain it would be dangerous here at some point.
  168. [2015-10-28 17:07:05] <Mare-Do-Well> 10Cool bluish-white lights hum overhead.
  169. [2015-10-28 17:09:20] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Welcome Shatara, former Stable companion of Bonaparte."
  170. [2015-10-28 17:09:38] * Shatara eeps in surprise.
  171. [2015-10-28 17:09:44] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Welcom, Golden_Dream. We remember you. From the lighthouse."
  172. [2015-10-28 17:12:38] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Welcome Lenore. Joy remembers you fondly."
  173. [2015-10-28 17:14:31] * CopyCat blinks and stares off into the distance as she translates her own name.
  174. [2015-10-28 17:15:16] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Welcome, Mitzi. We assure you that, had your friends not acted in such haste, there would have been another option."
  175. [2015-10-28 17:18:27] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Welcome... all of you."
  176. [2015-10-28 17:22:19] * Noble_Heart ruffles her feathers notably. This was... A troubling consideration. Ghosts and spirits were not things she had a great deal of experience with before coming to this place. And that limited experience seemed to be increasingly strained.
  177. [2015-10-28 17:22:30] * Bookwright listens in growing wonder as CopyCat translates the welcome. "I would dearly like to interview whoever owns that voice. They seem to have first-hoof accounts of a lot of things, and I think they could fill in a lot of holes in the historical record."
  178. [2015-10-28 17:23:28] * CopyCat seems just a little less enthusiastic about being here than she was a few moments ago. Just a scosh. "Th-this is nice, isn't it..." she repeats.
  179. [2015-10-28 17:24:25] <Mare-Do-Well> 10"Bookwright. Historian. We speak of as we are bade to..." A pause. "The Mother of Balefire agrees. And acquiesces to your request for a private audience."
  180. [2015-10-28 17:24:35] <Mare-Do-Well> 3--- End of Session ---
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