"FoE PnP Group 4 Episode 5" By CelestialBoon (https://pastebin.com/u/CelestialBoon) URL: https://pastebin.com/Y8Ba3L4R Created on: Sunday 11th of March 2012 10:22:50 AM CDT Retrieved on: Saturday 31 of October 2020 02:40:44 AM UTC 18:07:45: After vanquishing the previous occupants, our heroes have begun to fortify the town hall. The main doors open inwards, so were easy to block on the inside, however the fire door at the back of the hall opens outwards, which has proven more tricky. 18:08:20: As the stacks of sandbags are moved from the upstairs room where they were stored, another door is revealed. This leads to a narrow chamber with a ladder up to the clock tower, which Spectre immediately climbs. This feat leaves the 18:08:20: two griffons gawking: how does pony climb ladder? 18:09:35: Geldnir is so effected by what he sees that he has to go have a lie down somewhere. 18:11:41: Gnash cocks an eyebrow; "You ponies confuse me. You build stuff that doesn't fit well with the dexterity of those clunky hooves of yours." 18:13:16: SilentSpectre would shrug but she'd kind of climbing 18:13:40: she's* 18:14:05: Umbra shrugs for the both of them. ''We make do with what we must. It just takes practice and a modicum of care.'' 18:14:51: SilentSpectre finds that old clock mechanism leaves little room to move around at the top of the tower, and there are no openings to the 18:14:52: outside. The clock face itself is made of heavily tinted glass and supported by an iron frame. 18:15:16: SilentSpectre pouts "Well that's no fun." 18:16:21: SilentSpectre looks around anyways to see if she can find anything useful before heading back down 18:16:58: Umbra trots off around the outer walls of the building, searching for any means of entering the building beside the two doors. All there barricades would be for naught if there was a hole in the wall somewhere. 18:20:52: Gnash lays flat, grumbling about his radiation poisoning. "Really hate that fucking glowing mayor thing." 18:21:28: SilentSpectre doesn't find anything of value so decides to head back down. 18:24:08: Umbra checks the walls carefully but finds no other entry points. Just the 2 doors downstairs and the window they came in through on the upper floor. 18:26:25: cerberus the little pony stretches her legs and yawns "i'd like to get back my rope at some point... is that possible?" 18:28:06: Umbra trots back to where the griffin is lying, satisfied that the ground level is reasonably secure. ''Our first goal is across the street is it not? There is yet some daylight left if, I recommend we not waste it.'' 18:29:27: Umbra then proceeds to poke Gnash gently a few times with a hoof. ''Oh, do get up, you can sleep later.'' 18:29:35: Gnash clutches at his unsettled stomach and grumles; "Remind me what that is again." 18:29:35: cerberus the pony gets up on her hooves "sure, why not... moving bvbefore darkness falls sounds like a good plan to me" 18:31:31: cerberus trots up to gnash and nuzzles him a bit "are you okay? you seem a bit off..." 18:32:46: Gnash forces himself upright, at least trying to look tough; "I think that glowing zombie messed me up a bit more than I thought." 18:33:00: SilentSpectre trots over to the other ponies when she gets back down 18:36:24: ''Are you well enough for a jaunt across the street? Or would you prefer to hold down the fort?'' 18:37:15: Gnash grimaces, but puffs out his breast; "It probably feels worse than it is." 18:38:00: cerberus "yeah, it can't be worse than killing joke, let's give it a try, maybe we wil lfind some healing stuff for you in one of these houses" 18:39:10: Umbra was not in a position to do anything about radiation poisoning, and so took the answer at face value, giving her customary shrug. 18:42:00: cerberus the foal poke her head out of the place, checking the roads, mostly to confirm that there is no imediate danger 18:42:17: SilentSpectre is just standing there being her typical quiet self. 18:43:27: The streets are clear, except for that tumbleweed from before, playing in the wind. 18:44:06: Geldnir shrugs off the shock after a short rest. "I still can't figureout how she did it. . . Anyway we need to get moving. If we want to set up before night fall." 18:44:17: SilentSpectre has the sudden urge to set the tumbleweed on fire 18:44:50: Umbra flips her hood back into position, then slinks outside, keeping to the shadows as much as possible before dashing across the road and diving back into cover on the other side. 18:44:51: Geldnir returns to the main room where the others are. 18:45:46: SilentSpectre follows suite after Umbra 18:45:56: SilentSpectre sans hood-flipping. 18:46:03: Gnash doesn't feel like flying such a short distance, and simply walks across the street 18:46:40: cerberus sighs when everyone else runs across the road and simply trots followig them, but without any particular hutty 18:46:44: *hurry 18:46:45: Geldnir then heads flies out of the HQ to see what the others were doing. 18:47:50: cerberus glares at the hooded zebra "so, barcode pony.... you checking for ghgouls like the last time?" 18:48:05: The house looks sturdy but run down. The front door stands ajar. 18:48:26: Geldnir glides across the street. "Sorry about earlier. I was stuck on trying to figure out how a pony climbs a ladder." 18:49:11: cerberus shrugs "you think too much, kitty cat... ponies are stupid animals, they succeed in doing things because they don't stop thinking about how to do them.. didn't you know?" 18:49:12: Umbra snorts in disgust at the blase attitude of the others, this was unscouted and undoubtedly hostile territory. With a glance back at the filly, she replies, ''There is no reason not to be cautious.'' 18:49:56: Gnash glances at the Zebra; "I was never any good at being quiet; comes with being bulky." 18:50:02: cerberus "fine sis" nods at umbra "so, we walk in and start checking the whole place?" 18:51:30: cerberus sniffs at the door, checking it and trying to sniff the air coming from inside the place 18:52:21: cerberus "mh... smells like ghouls...." 18:52:30: "Me and Gnash can enter through the top floor do you guys want to go through the front door first? 18:52:35: cerberus maybe we should check the windows 18:52:39: SilentSpectre snorts "This entire place smells like ghouls." 18:52:43: Gnash glances at the filly; "That might be me." 18:52:55: Umbra creeps carefully around toward the back of the house, scouting the perimiter. 18:53:05: cerberus "alright, as you wish, bt i'm not going inside first...." 18:53:26: Geldnir snorts aa chuckle. "Right. Remind me we need to get a water talismin so we can have running water at the HQ." 18:53:46: SilentSpectre keeps and eye out for hostiles, slipping her rifle off her back as she does so. 18:53:55: "Clean running water I should say. 18:53:57: " 18:54:40: Gnash glances skeptically at Glednir; "I'm not even business savvy and I know how valuable those are. What makes you think we could get one?" 18:54:49: Geldnir looks flies around the building looking for a second story window to enter from. 18:55:36: "There is plenty of salvage here, and we're going to on old stable tech builiding. There is bound to be at least one in there somewhere." 18:56:00: SilentSpectre sighs and looks around "Where'd Umbra run off to this time?" 18:56:00: (an*) 18:56:28: cerberus "i think she's checking the perimeter...." 18:56:41: cerberus "or she abandoned us... your guess" 18:56:59: Gnash mutters; "She's awfully quiet. I'd be more worried if I did hear something." 18:57:24: "Hopefully it's the former and not the latter." 18:58:23: the house looks like a typical 4-windowed, 1 door affair. 19:00:25: Geldnir hoovers near one of the second floor windows thinking for abit. 19:01:28: Umbra slinks back around front, haveing made complete circut of the house. ''It looks clear.'' 19:01:39: SilentSpectre waves her pipbucked leg around around "This thing says clear, but you can never be too careful." 19:03:12: SilentSpectre bows dramatically in Umbra's direction "sneaky equines who can kill things up close first." 19:03:30: cerberus mutters "i'm no expert, but the dorr doesn't seem trapped...." 19:04:03: cerberus "well, then we try getting in now?" 19:04:18: Umbra nods in return, taking point and easing the door open and slipping though into the entryway. 19:04:47: cerberus grabs her rifle with the tail and gets ready to react rapidly to an eventual hostile presence 19:04:54: SilentSpectre slips in behind her after a few seconds 19:05:24: The house has clearly seen better days. Its wall paper is peeling away, its furniture seems to be rotting where it sits, and a thick coat of dust covers everything. On the other hoof it doesn't look like its been searched through, so there may be valuables to find. 19:05:36: Geldnir lands grabbing a decent size rock and then takes back to the air. Smashes the window with the rock, and then clears away the glass debri using his machete. 19:05:50: However a sound from upstairs suggests that you aren't the only ones there. 19:06:33: SilentSpectre glares at her pipbuck and whispers to Umbra "3 marks." 19:07:03: A howl errupts from behind the window Geldnir smashed, shortly follorwed by an angry pegasus ghoul 19:07:18: "Ghouls!" 19:07:24: cerberus sighs and mutters "alright... we could lure them with noise and shoot them while they trot down the stai- what the!?" 19:07:39: Umbra winces at the noise from ustairs. 19:07:51: SilentSpectre backs away to the farthest point from the stairs and takes aim. 19:23:57: The flying ghoul tackles Geldnir out of the air and brings the griffon to the ground, causing him minor bruising in the process 19:27:24: cerberus the foal turns on herself releasing the failsafe from the rifle, that makes its usual noise when the leenses start to heat 19:32:50: cerberus two energy blasts hit the ghoul, but they aren't enough to kill it, the foal curses under her breath 19:34:43: Gnash sees that his meal ticket, er, contractee is in peril, and lunges at the injured ghoul with a swipe of his talons. 19:40:25: Weakened by his exposure to radiation, Gnash's leap fails to clear the small picket fence around the house, becoming trapped with his head poking through the wooden panels. 19:41:09: -Critical Failure- 19:43:00: SilentSpectre Whistles loudly and just makes a lot of noise in an attempt to draw the remaining two ghouls down the stairs 19:44:32: Gnash letsd out a squawk and jerks himself free of the fence, breaking most of it and suffering a few slinters for his trouble 19:46:17: ((splinters)) 19:51:34: Umbra charges from her concealed position to the aid of her endangered comerade. A Khan never left a friend in danger. She strikes the ghoul a brutal blow with one hoof, but fails to connect to the struggling pegasus with the second, unfortunatly leaving it still standing. 19:58:18: Geldnir struggles to break free from the pin finally shrugging the brain rotten beast off of him taking his time to aim a careful strike in at the same time. 20:06:43: Geldnir kicks the pegasus away and carves through its exposed belly, not stopping until his machette reaches bone. The lifeless body falls away as he stands back up and dusts himself off; no one does that to an ex-Talon. 20:08:05: "All better now. Thanks for the Assist guys, but I'mmore than capable of handling a single ghoul on my own. 20:08:09: " 20:10:54: the two upstairs ghouls appear on the landing, SilentSpectre is ready with her rifle. 20:18:09: SilentSpectre takes careful aim as the first ghoul pokes it's head into her crosshairs, steadies herself, and fires. 20:19:57: The unicorn ghoul's leg is blown clean off as it and its earth pony brother leap off the landing at the filly and mare below 20:23:37: The earth pony ghoul misses SilentSpectre completely, crashing through funiture and landing head-first. However the injured unicorn somehow manages to land on Cerberus. 20:30:36: cerberus the foal is stunned by the ghoul landing on her and being a lot smaller than it she is unable to react effectively to the creature's pinning 20:38:30: Gnash spits on the fence out of spite, then wings inside to attack the ghoul pinning berry. Not that he really cares about the filly, he just wants to murder something 20:41:40: The griffon unleashes a barrage of strikes, yet he slices nothing but air. This ghoul was blessed, or something. 20:42:58: ((Scenery!!)) 20:49:10: SilentSpectre takes aim at the clumsy earth pony and takes a shot at its back 20:51:46: A large chuck of ghoul is blown away as the struggle continues twixt pony and chair 20:53:51: Geldnir flies into the house and takes a swipe at the ghoul pinning the Night Wings adorable mascot. 20:57:16: Geldnir's strike lashes through air, the ghoul escapes death yet again. 21:02:23: Umbra turns and canters back into the house, determined to protect the odd little filly from her attacker. The ghoul is lucky or skilled enough to avoid her first blow, but not enough to dodge the second. Her hoof connects sharply with its skull, snapping its neck with an audible 'Crack'. 21:04:57: cerberus as soon as the ghoul is killed the foal gets up on two hoves and bracing the rifle in her weird way, firing at the blocked ghoul trying to finish it 21:11:13: cerberus one hit is good, but the other missesthe target 21:12:56: though injured severely, the ghoul breaks free of its wooden captor and lumbers at SilentSpectre, swiping at the riflemare 21:15:54: The chair, however, is not so easily defeated and trips the ghoul as it tries to attack Spectre. The ghoul comes crashing down onto its face. Again. 21:16:55: cerberus the foal gets up, sticks the rifle in the side of tthe creature and pulls the trigger 21:19:50: The ghoul evaporates into a cloud of sweet-smelling steam. 21:20:30: cerberus the foal is snarling and almost foaming, apparently a little more than simply upset 21:20:52: SilentSpectre coughs, waving a hoof in front of her face 21:21:30: cerberus looks at the powdered pony "this is where ponies must stay, weakilng!" 21:22:59: SilentSpectre reloads her rifle, slinging it back across her back and gets down to looting anything worthwhile 21:23:49: cerberus puts 5 more crystals in the rifle and takes a step to start checking the corpses, but staggers a bit 21:26:28: Umbra steps outside for a moment, wiping the blood and other esoteric bits of ghoul off her hooves on the dead grass outside before beginning to search the house. 21:27:13: SilentSpectre wanders off upstairs, keeping an eye out for the keycard 21:31:46: cerberus trots around the placce and seems to be picking up every feather she finds 21:33:48: Geldnir looks around the room. "If you can grab beds for the HQ we'll set them up for tonight." 21:33:55: SilentSpectre pulls out a cigarette and lights it as she searches the house 21:34:55: Gnash grumbles about being sick and 'off his game'. 21:55:20: cerberus looking around the foal finds a large book "aw, here there's only useless printed stuff!" 21:55:37: cerberus "i hope that it burns fine, at least...." 21:57:33: cerberus tries to gnaw the book to see if it is tasty "meh, tastes like paper... geld! GEEEEEELD!" 21:57:42: "Yeah?" 21:57:53: Umbra rummages through the First Aid box in the bathroom, liberating two healing potions and several bandages before returning to the entryway. 21:58:03: cerberus "i found a book!" 21:58:44: "Cool! bring it here I'll see if it's worth anything." 21:59:13: SilentSpectre trots back downstairs with three dresses and some healing supplies in tow. 22:01:01: Geldnir goes at side lugging a sack of assorted food/ and healing stuff. He hnads berry the potion he found. "Here drink up, it'll make you feel better." 22:01:06: out* 22:10:17: With the house cleared of monsters, our heroes rummage through drawers and search through boxes, finding a bounty of first aid supplies in particular. However one locked safe remains in the bedroom. Taunting them, until next time. 22:10:31: END OF SESSION FOR GROUP 4