Title: Scrubbing Bubbles Quest 2 Author: Anonymous Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/qgsLzGhV First Edit: Thursday 23rd of February 2012 09:35:28 PM CDT Last Edit: Thursday 23rd of February 2012 09:35:28 PM CDT >Yesterday, you the player awoke to find yourself alone in the woods with no memory, not even of yourself. >After wandering around for a while, you eventually came across APPLEBLOOM who was being attacked by some strange goo monsters >You got her to jump in your arms and ran off away from danger >When asked what your name was, you panicked and made up a name on the spot (Rusty Shackleford) >Together, you and Applebloom found your way out of the EVERFREE FOREST and made it to PONYVILLE >It was seemingly a ghost town, but Applebloom's friends SCOOTALOO and SWEETIE BELLE made themselves known and tried to convince her to get inside away from the monster >You thought they meant you, but it turns out the town was being attacked by a BIG JELLY CUBE >You jumped into the house with the others, but the jelly monster tried to break in >You and the ponies made your way to the back and eventually made it to an open window >You tried to escape but the jelly monster got you by the leg. Luckily you were able to fight it off >The ponies tried to pull you out, but you made it out on your own, Applebloom still biting your scalp >When we last left off, you and the three other little ponies were laying on the ground behind the house, as the jelly monster was starting to ooze the both through and around the house to you   The jelly monster is definitely after you and your little friends. Probably best not to just stay out in the open and let it do that.   You pry little Applebloom of your head and set her down. "Ok, you three know the town! Run! Go hide somewhere!"   The other two take off together without hesitation. Applebloom joins them, but stops and turns back. "But....what about you?!" Well MLPG, what are you going to do? ------------------------------------------ Run with CMC. There's no way we can combat it without some sort of magical weapon. ------------------------------------------ "But....but what are you going to do?!" Applebloom yells back at you.   You look back to her, then to the jelly cube and then back to her. "What are you talking about? I'm following you, lead the way!"   And with that you and the other ponies take off away from the monster as it makes its way over this house. The little ponies had a head starts but you were able to keep sight of them. Eventually, they all stop at a fountain at what you assume is the TOWN SQUARE. They're out of breath.   "What are....what are we going to DO?!" Cries the little white one.   "We need help!" Says the determined orange one. "We should fine RAINBOW DASH and the others!"   "No, we should hide!" Yells the white one again. "Its too dangerous. That thing will catch us!"   Applebloom is looking between her friends and you with a frantic look, not sure what to do. Over your shoulder, you see the jelly monster coming around the corner not too far away, its gooey body glistening in the sun as it makes quick work of the distance gap. ------------------------------------------ 33773452 Alright, none of the buildings look like what would be a police station or a guard outpost? I figure they'd have at least some sort of body armor.   Hiding won't do much; we don't know how it can sense things. Continue running, towards the train station. Maybe everyone might be concentrated there trying to flee.   33773502 Definitely want to get the hell away from that thing. Are there any places to climb up? Can the slime climb or have we not witnessed this behavior yet? “ ------------------------------------------ >>33773452 >Alright, none of the buildings look like what would be a police station or a guard outpost? Not that you can tell. A lot of these buildings seems suspiciously similar...   >>33773502 >Are there any places to climb up? Can the slime climb or have we not witnessed this behavior yet? Well, there’s the fountain in front of you. Its pretty tall. Or any of the near by buildings.   You dont know if a big slime cube can climb. You aren’t very familiar with them. Not at all. Although its PRETTY BIG and had a good reach.   ________________________   You feel that the best course of action to HIDE. You ask the little ponies if they can think of a good place to hide, maybe a police station or something.   The tree of them seem a little confused at the question. "Well....there might be some GUARDS at the TOWN HALL!" Says the little orange one with wings. "Its not too far from here!"   "Or we might be able to make it to my house!" Pipes up the white one with a horn. "My sister will know what to do!"   "Ahh, we need to do something!" Shrieks Applebloom. "Its getting closer!"   Looking back, the cube is in fact getting dangerously close! =============== Alright, choice time   Fight   or   Run =============== Run =============== Where do we run   TOWN HALL   or   Sweetie Belle's house =============== Town hall ===============   You tell the other three that the TOWN HALL sounds like the best idea, especially if there are any guards.   "Right! I know a short cut!" The little orange one flaps it little wings and runs off to the side.   The other two chase after he and you after them. Together you all charge off away from the cube. Moments later, you hear a bang and look back to see it had demolished through the fountain, still chasing after you.   You then trip on something and fall on your face pretty hard.   Stars still sparkling in your vision, your try to turn over as quickly as you can and look back. You apparently tripped over....the little white pony? She's on the ground near by, struggling to get up and making little pained noises. She must have fallen or something   You look behind her and the cube is getting dangerously close again. You're not badly hurt, so you quickly pick yourself up and run to recover the little pony. You quickly scoop her in your arms, but not before the cube the cube is tower over both of you. ------------------------------------------ 33774965 What did she trip over?   33774979 >Inventory ------------------------------------------ >>33774965 You don’t know. You weren’t paying attention.   >>33774979 >Wallet >Lighter >Coins >knife >A button   The jelly cube charges you and the wounded pony in your arms. With no oppurtunity to get up and run, and not really liking the idea of taking it on with your new found bundle, you make a desperate attempt to DODGE to the side and take off running away from it and take off down an alley way.   You manage about half that....jumping to the side away from the cube, it chages past where you were just sitting a moment ago. But you couldn’t really get your footing after that. You stumble, fall down and lose hold of the little pony, who goes tumbling away from you.   Trying to get to your feet after falling TWO times in a row, you call to the little pony to run! She stirs, but is still making pained sounds and cant seem to get up.   You try to get up and recover her again, but are stopped by the sudden sensation of wet stinging on your legs and back, followed by the sensation of being pulled backwards! ------------------------------------------ 33775552 Scream for help and try to blast it with magic or something. IS this your doing, or are the dice screwing us?   33775606 Toss Sweetie ahead and cut at it with the knife. Like last time.   You're not seriously trying to tell us to sacrifice Sweetie so we can escape, are you? ------------------------------------------ >>33775552 >IS this your doing, or are the dice screwing us?   A little bit of both. Every trip has been a really bad roll.   >>33775606 >You're not seriously trying to tell us to sacrifice Sweetie so we can escape, are you?   I might need to explain, Sweetie flew our of your grip and tumbled a bit away. You are between her and the cub. __________________________   CHOICE TIME AGAIN   What do you want to use   Kife   or   Lighter =============== Lighter =============== You have once chance before the cube envelops you completely. You struggle with your pockets as the monster begins to fill them and, ignoring the pain of the stinging jelly, you flick open the little metal lighter.   Click Click Click Does this thing have any gas? Click Click ok there it goes.   You shove the lighter to the cube's side, trying to burn it with the little flame. The flesh (can you call it flesh?) near the fire quiver momentary and seems to draw away from it....but the entire rest of the cube keeps pushing forward!   "Oh you have to be kidding!" Was all you were enveloped completely into the beast! The sensation of being covered in the good stings like mild chemical burn EVERYWHERE, inducing your eyes, not to mention the incredibly discussing feeling of this semi-wet goo and the panic of not being able to breath. You can still see...barely! Its not the best material to see through, plus its like lemon juice in your eye! You can feel it pushing you even more, forcing you into its center...   You thrash around and try to muscle your way out of the cube...but you have no leverage and it keeps pushing! Its like swimming upstream! A stream of that stings the hell out of you! But you hit something.   Looking around, you see there's some stuff floating around in the cube. Mostly just bits of sticks and junk but there's also....another pony?! Bigger then the other three you met already. Its pink with big pink hair and is looking at you cheerfully, despite the situation. Its....actually trying to talk to you. You cant hear anything besides muffled garbles CAUSE YOU ARE IN A CUBE. But it just keeps on talking.   Behind this new pony, you see the cube is now making its way to the little white pony, who has barely moved from where she fell.     (And with that folks, I will leave off at this cliff hanger. WE'RE NOT DEAD, though the situation is dire. I feel it helps to leave off at an exciting part so I'm motivated to continue.)   (I'll continue the story soon enough. Maybe tomorrow or the day after. A week at the absolute latest. See you then)