PREVIOUSLY ON MY LITTLE FALLOUT   19:04:56: So after the last of the beasties was dead and Miss Tiggy was done trying to play the role of a stupid hero, Patchouli made herself extremely useful by healing everypony in the group that needed it, though not before DL drank a healing potion. No pony that got nommed was very happy about it, not even Cal whose sweet flank got munched. Also, Cal totally flirted with Patchy. 19:04:56: Lets get that ship sailing! 19:05:04: Still sweeter and much more chewed however, are the flanks of the tiger, but what really got to her was having her face chewed. A single large scar on the face can be somewhat dashing and roguish, but the network of tiny scars left by having your face chewed...but even worse, she came so close to being eaten, and tigers aren't exactly used to that. It's understandable then that 19:05:04: Tiggy needed a good cry and some snuggles from her Cat. 19:05:09: The crew reassured the foals that the worst was over, so Light_Seeker decided now was the time to make things awkward. Yay! To be fair, Rose_Bud really is a cute little darling, so naturally she's irresistible to the other foal. It didn't matter though because Rose_Bud had an important problem that she needed Patchy's help with...but Patchy wasn't so helpful with how mare 19:05:09: parts work. At least we know Patchy never read hentai comics. 19:05:15: While Rose_Bud became the first RPG character to need to use the bathroom, DL and Cal were each attempting to have a fun night, one with the first mate, the other with the captain. Things calm down for a while...and then they don't. What did you do, Cal!? We still don't know exactly, but apparently the captain is a kinky mare and Cal was horny enough to go along with it but 19:05:15: too into it to know when to quit. Good going, Cal. 19:05:23: Rose_Bud does know a lovely little poem though: 19:05:31: The night and the day, 19:05:31: Together they play, 19:05:31: But their fun ended far too soon. 19:05:31: The night grew cold, 19:05:31: Evil and old, 19:05:31: And became the Mare in the Moon. 19:05:38: That's a good thing to go to bed on, so everypony does even though both DL and the foals had reason to suspect there might be a teensy bit of a reason to worry. Because of that, everypony got the extra-special fun of being awakened by the boat rocking hard. Sadly, this boat's rocking wasn't the sort where you shouldn't go knocking. (Well, for DL and Pillow it was, but that's 19:05:39: another story.) No, it was a storm they sailed into. Yay! 19:05:48: There were a few moments of panic before first mate Pillow got everypony organized with song! Yes, wonderful song! 19:05:52: Pillow & crew: 19:06:06: Three days of quiet sailing, and awsome sunny days, 19:06:06: We kept our hoofies warm and dry even if we didn't play 19:06:06: But dark clouds are drawing near and the wind is growing cold 19:06:06: And even though I love this girl she's cranky and pretty old 19:06:18: The time has come to fight the waves and keep the ship afloat 19:06:18: But we must try to work as one, we're all on the same boat 19:06:18: How can you help, we know you're new 19:06:18: What does everypony do? 19:06:32: We'll fix it before it's tragic 19:06:32: And you can help us too! 19:06:32: Typhoon wrap up thphoon wrap up 19:06:32: Let's banish all of our fear 19:06:32: Typhoon wrap up typhoon wrap up 19:06:32: 'Cause the storm's already here 19:06:32: 'Cause the storm's already here 19:06:39: Blocking all the moving stuff, a sailor's job begins 19:06:39: And closing tight shut every hatch, we don't want water in 19:06:39: We tie the crates and we check each sloop twice 19:06:39: When the waves come up, they won't be very nice 19:06:47: Cat: 19:06:47: Tiny boats swing around, in the rain and wind. 19:06:47: We bind up all their boards and oars, make sure they won't bend. 19:06:47: We make sure they won't fall off the ship, make sure their sails won't blow! 19:06:47: We'll bind them up tight so to the depths they won't go! 19:06:53: Cal: 19:06:54: Even though I fucked up big, I can fix my mistake. 19:06:54: Tying down this huge lifeboat, a good sailor I can make. 19:06:54: A slip knot here, a hitch not there, this sure is no easy task. 19:06:54: When this is all done Jackie will have to pass the flaaaaaaaaaaaask~! 19:07:01: Rose_Bud: 19:07:01: Keeping ponies safe and sound, 19:07:01: By tying them all down. 19:07:01: To stop them going overboard, 19:07:01: This task can't be ignored! 19:07:09: (Jackie was too intent on the song and the work to make a quip about how tying ponies down was kind of kinky for a foal. Maybe Light_Seeker is into that?) 19:07:22: Patchouli: 19:07:22: We'll do our best to adhere. Keeping ponies from flailing round is the job I must continue. 19:07:22: Tying knots so very strong, make sure they'll not come lose. I will try my very best, it's just what ponies do! 19:07:22: DL: 19:07:22: Typhoon wrap up, typhoon wrap up. 19:07:22: Should have listened to me! 19:07:22: Typhoon Wrap up, typhoon wrap up. 19:07:22: Cause this storm is here! 19:07:30: (Don't quit your day job, boys. ;3 ) 19:07:38: Tiggy: 19:07:38: No easy task to tie things down, lashing all the rigging. 19:07:38: With proper care and hard work, no graves need digging. 19:07:38: Fore-mast, main sail, mizzen-mast, Bonaventure too - 19:07:38: We must set the sails just right, there's just so much to do! 19:07:46: Cat (because she's so awesome): 19:07:47: Now that we know what they all do, we'll have to set our own pace. 19:07:47: We'll work together and make this boat safe for whatever it will face. 19:07:47: How much more work can we do with friends? 19:07:47: We must work together or we'll all meet our ends! 19:07:58: (A crewmare was sent overboard and there's a scramble to save her that goes awry. DL does something very heroic which with our group apparently translates as boneheaded. Meanwhile everypony is struggling to lash boxes down.) 19:08:12: Tieing down the boxes so big and heavy. 19:08:12: We won't let them go free until we reach the levy! 19:08:12: Make sure they're secure so they won't bounce around. 19:08:12: If they get loose risk and harm will abound! 19:08:18: (And then there's the return of the S.E.A.L.S. - I'm really starting to hate those.) 19:08:26: Cal (surprisingly cool): 19:08:26: Celestia fuck me with her horn, there's more of these things! 19:08:26: We can't just catch a break: time for round 2 in the ring. 19:08:26: My .50 here says you should all go drop dead, 19:08:26: So hold still so you can take one in the heeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaad~! 19:08:35: The horror! 19:08:35: As the song comes to an end though, the storm rages on. Cal had some really epic machine gun action to slaughter seals with slow motion and everything as sad music played. It's a while before everypony realizes DL and the crewmare are missing. I mean really missing. Also the engine is dead, the compass broken, the rudder unresponsive and the toilet is clogged. The horror! 19:08:43: Much sadness was had all around...but then what's that? More S.E.A.L.S.? But no, that's not honking... Shoo be doo, shoo shoo be doo! DL called upon the seaponies and was saved along with the crewmare! Yay! Wait, what? 19:08:46: (^.^)           19:11:15: 13With the ship completely dead and the storm finally moving away from the group's heads, now our little ponies are staring at a weird looking creature that seems a pony with fins and a mermaid tail... go figure 19:11:36: 13START OF SESSION FOR GROUP 3 19:12:11: Desert_Lightning is standing on the deck holding the nearly drowned mare in his/her hooves looking awkward. 19:12:38: Calibrete stares slack jawed at the creature that arrived upon the deck. Also, the sea pony is pretty weird too. 19:12:45: rose_bud rushes over and jump-hugs Desert_Lightning. 19:13:14: Cataclysm struggled to her extremely wet hooves, staggering towards Desert Lightning and the... Sea pony? What in the world was going on now? 19:13:47: Desert_Lightning tumbles over, and is unable to get up due to the two mares currently pinning his hooves to the deck. 19:13:47: "You're so cool and awesome and I knew you'd be back!" 19:14:26: Patchet ears perk up from inside the captains cabin. "Whats going on now don't tell me more it's SEALS. . ." 19:14:31: Desert_Lightning laughs softly "Yeah, I'm awesome." 19:14:32: 13the weird creature is juping out from the water like a dophin, squaling in excitement as she sings in joy 19:15:43: Calibrete trots up to Desert_Lightning. After helping her off the ground, she gives her a swift punch to the face. "Don't you /dare/ do something like that again, do you hear me!?" 19:15:54: 13on the other hoof, Pillow seems to be quite alarmed while she looks at the sky "with no compass and all that waves, i can't say where we could be now... i think we're lost..." 19:16:11: Patchet does double take when she hears Desert_Lightning's familar although now more feminine. Busting onto the deck Patchet almost talkes Desert. 19:16:21: Cataclysm trots slowly up towards the railing and stares down at the leaping seapony. Blinking slowly a few moments as she waves a hoof to the creature. She hadn't even realized DL was missing before he was returned, after all. "Hey? Hey!" trying to get the swimming pony's attention. 19:17:03: Calibrete then hugs DL. "We thought we'd lost you. And I can't put up with more loss." 19:17:26: *tackles* 19:17:40: Light_Seeker runs up slaps Desert_Lightning and hugs her "I thought you were dead and i was crying so hard." 19:17:46: Desert_Lightning staggers as the hoof strikes him/her in the face. "I deserved that. I really did." he/she then just slumps as he/she is hugged. 19:18:16: 13the seapony stops jumping all around and waves a fin at Cataclysm "hey hey hey! you are weird!" 19:18:17: JackHammer just shakes her head, jaw hanging slack at the unexpected and thoroughly unconventional return of DL and the crewmare and their savior. Finally she finds her voice to ask, "What in the name of all that's cute and fluffy is that?" she asks pointing to the sea pony. 19:18:23: Patchet does a running jump and glomps Desert. "You idiot!"19:19:26: rose_bud looked shocked as Cal delivered her punch and Patch her slap, but realises that everything is ok when Desert gets hugged. 19:19:45: Desert_Lightning is unsure what to do, so takes the easy option and cries softly as he/she is hugged by the team. 19:20:00: Cataclysm blinks a few moments at that, "I'm weird? You're weird! You're a pony, in the ocean! Like... Some kind of ocean pony!" she frowns a little bit, "Only... Not that lame of a name." offering out a hoof, "I'm Cataclysm. Who're you? And... Uh. What're you doing out here?" 19:21:18: Patchet takes a few moments to come back to reality. "Are those what I think they are? They are aren't they. . . SEA PONIES!!!!!!" 19:21:44: 13the creature smiles widely "I am cold tide! i was waiting for you! i'm so happy i fould you so easily! a lot of other seaponies tried looking for the saviours but they never come back, so i said, i can do it! and i did it!" 19:22:23: JackHammer belatedly joins Cat at the railing adding, "Oh, um...manners...yeah, ah...I meant to say, my name is Jackhammer. Pleased to meet you, and...did you save our friend and that crewmare?" 19:22:32: Calibrete turns to the group. "Anyone wanna tell me what Chicken of the Sea here is talking about?" 19:23:36: "Do you need help Cold Tide?" 19:23:53: Patchet turns and grabs Cal's face with his hooves. "THEY ARE SEA PONIES. Like from the comic books and everything. This is the best day ever!" 19:23:57: 3The sailor mares are crowding the rails, very curious about those new creatures, and hugging their returned Lemon Juice. Some are waving a hoof at Cold Tide. 19:25:29: Cataclysm blinks, peering in some confusion at the extremely excited seapony, "Saviors? What wuld you need saviours for..? And why would you think we're them?" She had a bad feeling this was about to become some kind of mythical quest for the good of a whole country which would place the fate of thousands in their hooves based on some ancient prophecy. Those never seemed to end 19:25:29: Cataclysm well. 19:25:36: 13"yeah! we need help! it's the prophecy! you must come with me at Calamari and take us to Dryland!" 19:25:41: Desert_Lightning breaks away from the hugs and goes to lean against the wall of the ship, the solidness reassuring him. 19:26:01: "Um i can't swim can you help me?" 19:26:02: rose_bud squeezes inbetween Tiger and Kitty to look over the side. "Did you help Desert, pretty pony?" 19:27:32: Cataclysm opened her mouth to answer, then closed it again a moment, then opened it again. Finally she spoke very slowly and carefully. "To... Dry land? But... You live in the ocean. Why would you want to go to dry land?" Not that she didn't appreciate dry land! But... Well, everypony knew what happened when you took a fish out of water, right? 19:28:28: 13"yeah i put the feathery pony and her friend in the bubble, because you know, it's not nice when you let your saviours drown... i mean... you can't go underwater, right? otherwise... i hope i didn't mess something!" 19:28:43: "I say we help them. Whats the worst that could happen. I mean they're freaking sea ponies we have to help them!" 19:28:57: Calibrete stared at the fish-equine. They didn't look TOO different from ponies, she supposed. Similar muzzle, similar manes, similar body curves... NO! Calibrete can NOT be feeling this towards a fish! 19:29:01: JackHammer is struggling with whether to hug DL, buck him, gape at the impossible sea ponies, or ask them a bajillion questions. Yeah, she's gonna let Cat talk for now. 19:29:54: Cataclysm reaches a hoof up behind her ear, "Maybe... Maybe you should explain why you need saviours first? Is there something wrong that needs fixing?" 19:29:55: "No he would have been lost in the sea also if you don't mind if you can put me in a bubble also i'll follow" 19:30:09: Patchet suddenly remembers she is still hold Cal's face between her hooves. . . "Um I'm sorry." she manages to squeek before release Cal. 19:31:09: 13"sure, i can explain! uh... ah... from where do you wwant me to start?" 19:31:37: Calibrete thinks to himself "At the bottom and work your way up." 19:31:48: JackHammer does, however, manage to stammer out, "Oh, ah...no, no, you did just fine. Uh, thanks! Thanks a lot actually! You saved Desert_Lightning and Lemon Juice." 19:33:56: Cataclysm blinks and shakes her head slowly, water still dripping off her mane, "Why don't you start with why you think we're the saviours. And what we're supposed to be saving you from. Then we can move on to where you're from and how we'll get there, assuming we are the saviours you're looking for. Does that sound okay?" Please let that sound okay. It sounded like they owed this 19:33:56: Cataclysm 'sea pony' for her actions, but running off into disaster they knew nothing about sounded like an absolutely awful idea. 19:34:45: "I've always wanted to meet a sea pony before. I've only read about them in comic books before now. This is so awesome. We have to help them ponies. Have to." 19:36:14: 13"well, i live with the other ponies in the realm of Calamari... it's a nice place: we have seaweed fields and houses and such, but.... we are NOT real seaponies, we were... like.... changed." the creature pauses for a moment before continuing "i don't know very well how it worked, but... we were told that we were going to turn back to real ponies one day..." 19:36:34: Calibrete stares at Patchet. "Easy there, lover mare. Let's see what we're getting ourselves into." 19:37:17: 13"we waited for generations the arrival of the floating iron, a large vessel that was meant to be full of real ponies, coming to Calamari to activate the gates ans turn us back to ground ponies again" 19:37:57: 13"we knew that the floating iron was real, because there was a non floating iron just outside of Calamari, with skeletons of ponies very different from us..." 19:38:48: Desert_Lightning gets up to listen to the seapony talking. Finally comfortable with looking out at the sea. 19:39:27: 13"every time the tide changed, we seaponies sent scouts to the four corners of the ocean to look for the floating iron, but they never came bacj, until we gave up... but i didn't want to accept that we were staying like... seaponies forever, so i went to lookfor the iron myself, and i found YOU!" 19:40:11: JackHammer blinks. "The...floating iron..." She looks down at the boat she's standing on. "Um..." 19:40:17: Cataclysm listens quietly, nodding slowly. Running over what she was being told in her mind. Tilting her head to one side and then the other. "And this Calamari is somewhere at the bottom of the ocean, then?" That was troubling, "But none of us can breathe under water. Do you know how we could get there without drowning?" she didn't like the idea of trying to swim to the bottom of 19:40:18: Cataclysm the ocean. That sounded like an absolutely awful idea! But that did sound like a pretty convincing prophecy. Maybe not specific, but those kinds of things never were. Stupid prophets. If you mean 'a boat with some ponies on it' why not just say that? 19:40:22: Calibrete shakes his head. "So you want /us/ to go with /you/ on an adventure to change you back to ponies?" 19:40:54: 3The crew is moving about the ship, most are still interested in listening to what Cold Tide has to say. Pillow has taken a telescope in one hoof, has climbed on top of the ship deck, and is observing the horizon. Suddenly, she exclaims "There's dry land over there! An island!" ... 19:41:06: 3She rushes in the captain's cabin and comes back with a handful of maps, which she and other sailors give a good look to. After a while, she sighs, "Nowhere near where we was there should be such an island... oh, just where are we now? I wish the captain was with us, instead of staying sick in bed..." ... 19:41:12: Patchet nods. "Unfourtunately floating iron translates to boat, and we are on a boat, but The ponies you are looking for died long ago. We might still be able to help though. 19:41:13: 3While Pillow is moaning, all of the other sailors throw accusatory stares at Calibrete. 19:42:07: Calibrete rubs the back of his neck with a hoof 19:42:17: "I did my best to heal her. She just needs time to rest and heal." 19:42:28: "If you can take me to the gate i can try to open it." 19:42:41: "And that means no more rough sex. Doctors orders." 19:42:54: "I'll help too!" 19:42:59: Desert_Lightning looks at the Seapony. "Actually, I think Poison or Killing Joke may be involved. This might be a bucking gift from Celestia or Luna herself even. IF it's Poison and NOT Killing Joke." 19:43:02: rose_bud looks puzzled. "We can help the sea ponies?" 19:44:04: 13the seapony smiles "tee-hee, you are fun! calamari is an island! if it was under the sea we would have saved ourselves a lot of time ago!" 19:44:22: 13"we live UNDER calamari!" 19:44:37: Calibrete looks at Patchet in mock detest. "Rough? Me? Never." 19:45:06: "Uh-huh. I'll believe you when seaponies fly." 19:45:29: JackHammer blinks again. "Wait, so you need us to go to the surface side of Calimari where you can't go and then we open a gate for you?" 19:45:41: Cataclysm blinks, "Oh. Okay..." nodding her head, "Well... We need some supplies anyway. But our ship can't move from here. The engines aren't working." she glances towards the life rafts, "I guess we could take one of the landing rafts. But that's an awful long way to go by row boat... Don't suppose by any chance you can, like, control fish with your singing to tow our boat towards 19:45:42: Cataclysm the island, can you?" 19:46:09: rose_bud gets an idea. "Oh! So because you live in the sea you can't get on the super special island full of lost temples and buried treasure? We can find the treasure!" 19:46:29: Calibrete laughs. "Any more talk like that, Cat, and Patchet is going to have a heart attack!" 19:46:47: Desert_Lightning looks at Cataclysm with a very disappointed stare. "Make a sail and I'll get us a nice breeze to help us move. 19:46:48: "Yes buddy treasure island adventure time is a go-go." 19:47:51: 13"yeah that's it! the surfae part of calamari! you are smart pony!" then, tide giggles again "you silly, i can't move such a big thing, not even a lot of seaponies can!" 19:48:35: rose_bud scurries off to find a shovel. 19:48:50: Calibrete looks at a pile of rope. "Or we could just saddle you up and you could pull us, DL." 19:49:14: "That could work actually." 19:49:35: Patchet levitates some rope over. "Now hold still Desert." 19:49:57: Calibrete looks to the sea pony. "We could also do the same with Flounder over there." 19:50:01: Cataclysm sighs quietly and nods her head, "I guess we'll have to take one of the smaller ships then." Alas, she was going to miss her cabin. And the chance to rest comfortably. Maybe they'd be lucky enough to get there in decent time at least, glancing towards the others, "You can't seriously think Desert Lightnign can tow this entire ship alone, can you? It's huge! Maybe one of 19:50:01: Cataclysm the little ships." 19:50:44: Desert_Lightning looks at Calibrete. "I can't pull the entire boat on my lonesome, to hard, much easier to get a small breeze to move it along." Desert Lightning then sees Patchet coming at him with the rope. "No, not happening. NOT AT ALL!" 19:50:46: "Uh cat, that's what we were talking about." 19:51:04: JackHammer smiles at the sea pony. "Thanks, Cold Tide. We'll do our best to help you and hopefully find something to help our ship too." 19:51:44: 3Pillow walks to the group, a look of concern in her light blue eyes. "The crew has to stay here if we want to try and repair what's damaged... but you could take one of the lifeboats and scout that island over there. We might need any help we can find if we want to get to destination safely. I'll have it prepared, ok?" 19:53:11: Cataclysm even have to keep up this crazy chase for a ghoul. Unlikely, but you never know. And she was admittedly curious about this 'gate' which needed opening. 19:53:12: Cataclysm even have to keep up this crazy chase for a ghoul. Unlikely, but you never know. And she was admittedly curious about this 'gate' which needed opening. 19:54:58: "Hey Miss Cold Tide can you tell me about Sea ponies?" 19:55:53: 13"sure! we live under the sea, near to calamari... it's not a bad life but it's boring, there are just seaweed and singing and nothing else..." 19:56:41: Patchet wanders over to one of life rafts. "Sounds tons better, and funner than the wastelands." 19:56:43: Calibrete puts a hoof to his chin. "An island, completely uninhabited and possibly loaded with tech? Me, the hero of the team, scouring lands not seen by pony eyes for centuries? I think I like this..." 19:56:56: 13"our leader is Flagship, he is smart and awesome, even if not everypony likes him, but well... we don't really need a leader anyway and he likes playing the big pony, so we let him" 19:57:44: Patchet nods and makes mental note not to geton flagships badside, unless flagship is a total asshat and bully. 19:57:52: Desert_Lightning trots towards Pillow and attempts to hug her, the ordeal earlier still weighing heavily on his mind. 19:57:57: JackHammer nods to Pillow. "Yeah, we'll have a look around the island, see if we can find and open that gate, maybe figure out a way to fix the ship, and (hopefully) not die to horrible sea monsters, lagoon monsters, or some eldritch being from the depths in the process. I like this plan. I'm glad to be a part of it." 19:58:02: 13"but this time he decided not to send the chosen ones to look for the iron, because of that stupid P. Star, she and her friends want to stay in calamari forever...." 19:58:26: "Why?" 19:58:37: Cataclysm rolls her eyes a little at Calibrete's declaration, "Just remember not to go wandering off on your own. Last thing we need is for some local tribe to capture you and decide you'd taste great in a big tastey stew!" blinking at the claim of some disagreement amongst the sea ponies and listening in a little more. 19:59:20: "Well if someponies like staying seaponies they can stay that way, if others want to change they can change. Compromise can be a good thing." 20:00:28: "It may not work like that, Patchet. Could be an "All or Nothing" scenario." 20:01:01: 13"meh, Star is just stupid! i'm sure that when they'll see that the prophecy is real, everypony will want to go back on dryland!" 20:01:02: "Well then if its that way, will have to find a way to make it work our way." 20:01:27: *To Dryland 20:02:04: Calibrete facehooves. "You can't get your way just because it's the right thing to do. You've gotta make decisions out here. Not all are going to be happy about it, but you gotta do what you think is best." 20:02:04: Cataclysm frowns a little bit and tilts her head to one side, "You've... NEver met any ponies from outside Calamari before? Haven't heard anything about what happened on dry land? What... Do you know about the world outside your home?" 20:02:55: "B-but it always goes the heroes way in comic books!" 20:02:56: 3"Boat's ready!" Pillow exclaims, from her place supervising the lifeboat dropping. "I've loaded it with extra oars, and food for two days..." she pauses for a second, "I have faith in you misses, so please come back. Especially with some help. I want to see you back..." she ends, ogling Desert_Lightning with her last gaze. 20:03:11: 13"i know absolutely nothing! but i'm eager to learn! i want to see a lot of places and make new friends and see the trees and the grass and all the cool places ground ponies live in!" 20:04:03: "Most of dry land is desert wasteland with bandit and raiders that'd sooner strip your hide and eat your flesh than be your friend. . ." 20:04:06: Calibrete grabs Patchet and talks to her quietly. "Maybe it's for the best that they stay like this." 20:04:23: Desert_Lightning gives an appreciative look at Pillow, then dashes off indoors to grab his rifle and armour before going to the boat. 20:04:35: "Hey Cold Tide can i ride in a bubble alongside of you?" 20:05:21: 13"uh, i can't move very fast with a bubble to move around! i wantedto go back and tel lthe other you were coming, i'm sure they wil lbe super excited!" 20:05:56: "See you island side." 20:06:33: Cataclysm trots over towards the boat, climbing down into it after giving Pillow a brief salute. Settling into the craft she waves to the sea pony, "We'll talk about dry land once you've had a chance to tell the others. This... Isn't something you should rush into. Even if we can help you turn back." 20:07:30: "Okay we will wait for you there." 20:07:38: Calibrete jumps into the smaller craft, causing it to rock a bit. The smell of ocean spray is everywhere, and he breathes a deep breath of content 20:07:50: Patchet hops into the life boat. "Lets go help us some sea ponies!" 20:08:51: JackHammer grins and nudges DL. "See there, you've got a reason to survive this, lover girl. All right, let's do this!" And with that she checks to make sure everypony has their saddlebags before hopping in the boat. "To adventure!" 20:08:55: rose_bud jumps into the boat and sits down at the front, like a misplaced figurehead. "Full steam ahead!" 20:09:37: Calibrete nudges Jack. "Should we tell him it's magic?" 20:09:52: "Nah." 20:10:23: JackHammer chuckles and shakes her head. 20:10:24: Desert_Lightning steps out into the open air after recovering his rifle and armour, nervously he looks towards the sky, then lets loose a massive sigh of relief. "No major winds, no problems with the air. A good day to fly." He then spreads his wings and takes off. 20:11:50: 3On the way to the far island, Cold Tide reemerges alongside the heroes' boat, "Hello again dryland ponies! I've brought my friends along!", with some new friends. One's a yellow grown sea mare, "This is P. Star I told you of!" The new seapony seems cautious and distrustful, but curious nonetheless.... 20:12:11: 3"This one's Flagship!" She points at a red male (?) seapony, which seems to be smirking, "And those are Sushi and Sashimi, my little brother and sister!" She points with her fin last at two little green and light purple sea foals, that are seemingly very excited. 20:12:14: Calibrete sits awkwardly on the boat's bench; her new battle saddle making it difficult to sit. You didn't know Calibrete got a battle saddle? Oh, well she did. 20:13:16: Cataclysm settles into the boat a little bit, waving a hoof in return to Cold Tide as she arrives again, "Oh. A pleasure to meet all of you!" She was still overly damp, but the warm sunlight was at least making that dissipate slowly, "So what can you tell us about Calamari? If anything?" 20:13:17: Light_Seeker just looking at the new ponies with a smile "Hello there friends good to see you." 20:13:22: Desert_Lightning lands on the boat, interested in the new arrivals, and also quite thankful to his savior. 20:13:23: "Hi nice to meet you. We here to help all of you get your happy ending. We'll do what we can to make everypony happy!" 20:14:06: 13the seapony that was named flagship looks at the group and smiles broadly "so, you are famed savoiurs? finally! i knoew that i was doing well by not giving up!" 20:14:18: "Prepare the crouton torpedoes! All power to the forward deflectors! Beam me up Patchy!" 20:14:37: 3"Oooh, those are the dryland ponies!" Sashimi exclaims in awe, and swims closer to the boat, raising her fins up. She seems to want a hug from the land ponies. Sushi does the same. "How's it like not to be in the water all the time? It looks so... flat!" 20:15:16: Light_Seeker hugs both sea ponies "It can be fun at times but it is flat with lots of tress in places and towns." 20:15:46: 13he continues "calamari is our little but very peaceful community, we lived here for.... a lot of tides, and never gave up the hope to see you arrive... sure you took your time..." 20:15:49: Calibrete leans towards the water, extending a hoof in order to conduct what can be done of a hoof shake. 20:15:49: Desert_Lightning looks at the Seaponies. "I could ask the same of you, why you want to be stuck underwater all day all night?" He asks as his body shudders at the thought of drowning. 20:16:27: "Well after the war, ponies have struggled to recover. Sorry it took so long." 20:17:07: Cataclysm tilts her head to one side slightly, "I don't suppose any of you know anything more about how you became seaponies, do you?" She was really curious about that, but hadn't a clue about what could cause it, "It might help finding out how to turn you back, if you did..." 20:17:14: 13"war? what is that? some sort of... ground pony thing?" the seastallion tilts his head 20:17:24: Calibrete , with her other hoof, whacks Patch upside the head. "Shh!" 20:17:27: 3"Humph, I live just fine down here, thank you very much," the yellow mare intervenes. "We've been doing great so far." ... 20:17:56: "The war was 200 years ago, when ponies fought with zebras. Lots of bad things happened then." 20:17:57: JackHammer smiles at the sea ponies as they're introduced, and she even remembers to bow to Flagship. "Good to meetcha!" She listens politely to the sea pony leader but frowns a little. "Hey, not our fault. We only met a little bit ago. We're kinda new to this hero-ing thing." 20:18:06: 3The two little seafoals squee at the hug. "Can we get up on the floating thing? Please?" They make the pleadiest puppy eyes! 20:18:39: 13Flagship ponders for a moment "well, we became seaponies a lot of generations ago, it was because... i don't know, because we had to go away from the Dryland.... but we were told that we were going to go back one day" 20:19:02: Calibrete snirks at Jackhammer. "Maybe you are." 20:19:27: "Um i'm not sure you ponies can live without water." 20:19:31: "The surface still hasn't recovered from most of the damage the war caused. That's probably why you all are seaponies. Some prewar experiment." 20:19:53: Cataclysm tilts her head to one side, "And... To get back to dry land you have to open the portal..? I don't suppose any of you knows what this portal is supposed to look like, do you?" She had a sneaking suspicion and was hoping dearly she was wrong. This could all end very, very badly. Or very, very well. Depending on a few otherthings. 20:19:58: rose_bud is alerted by something nearby in need of a hug, so leans over to the seapony foals to provide some. 20:20:47: JackHammer gives Cali a flat look, but the pleading sea foals distract her from her annoyance. "Well...if your parents are okay with that, sure, you can come up if you want'." 20:21:48: Light_Seeker rushes over to Desert_Lightning and jumps on her back "DL that doesn't look like an island we should look at it from the top for a quick scan." 20:22:11: 13"well ,the portal is a portal, like... bif metal door in one of the pillars under calamari..." 20:22:15: *big 20:22:33: 13"but it stayed closed since, like, forever..." 20:22:43: "Uh-oh. Does it have a number on it?" 20:22:49: 3"Awwwwww," Sushi and Sashimi seem very disappointed at Light's answer, and drop their heads. "Come on now," Cold Tide says to her siblings, "maybe just for a second or two?" She gives a hopeful look at Jackhammer. 20:22:49: Desert_Lightning shakes Light_Seeker off. "Not now, it's to far to fly at this point. When we get closer then we can try and get a good look at it. 20:23:05: Desert_Lightning then looks at Light_Seeker closely. "Do you have a gun?" 20:23:16: rose_bud aims her own pleading expression at the seapony parents, hooves around one of the foals. "Please can they come on the boat? Pleeeeease!" 20:23:18: "No" 20:23:33: 13"nope, not numbers, just that weird mark with the ground pony with wings and horn" 20:24:25: "Does any pony remember seeing a sign like that out in the wastelands?" 20:24:29: JackHammer can't help thinking that description sounds REALLY familiar... 20:24:48: Cataclysm blinks a few moments, "Wait. A single ground pony with both wings -and- a horn?" That... Was odd, "You're sure about that?" 20:25:04: 13cold tide nods too "yeah, the white stallion with wings and horn!" 20:25:17: "An Alicorn? A male Alicorn?" 20:25:54: Calibrete remember's her days with the Rangers. "Hoh boy, this isn't going to be good." 20:26:10: Cataclysm frowns a little bit at that prospect, "The only white pony I know of with wings and a horn would be Celestia. But Celestia's a mare." rubbing at her head in a bit of confusion, "Why would someone put THAT on a Stable door..?" 20:26:22: "Solaris." 20:26:24: 13flagship nods "sure, male, why, are there female aliwhatever too?" 20:27:03: 3"Pheh," says Star, the yellow mare, "All ancient stories, no more than legends! Do you want to tell those fairy tails to them too? So many generations have passed, they don't even matter any more than some algae on my fin!" 20:27:17: Calibrete laughs to the group. "I think it's time we go back to the boat. Now. This may just be a bit to far over our heads." 20:27:22: "Yes, Princess Celestia goddess of the sun, and Princess Luna goddess of the moon. Both died near the end of the war." 20:27:26: Desert_Lightning looks at the group, mouth agape. Then turning back to the seaponies he talks quickly. "Mind if we talk amongst ourselves for a moment? Please?" 20:27:30: JackHammer sighs. "Oh, this is going to be SO much fun...but yeah, lets hear the fairy tales." 20:27:54: "Group huddle?" 20:28:25: "Yeah, group huddle!" 20:28:32: Cataclysm peers towards Calibrete, "What's the matter? Getting cold feet already? We can't very well head back. We need a new compass and supplies to repair the engine with. Unless you plan to just sit on the boat until we run out of food and starve." 20:28:44: 13the stallion groans "Star, stop arguing! you wanted to see the saviours and you've seen them! now just pipe down and let them do their... whatever they have to do to help!" 20:29:59: "Um listen if there is away for you both to get what you want then we will try to do that. No need to fight everypony. Fighting is bad." 20:30:17: Desert_Lightning motions for the group to huddle together, then he/she once more turns towards the seaponies. "Can we have some time to plan this out. Please?" 20:30:33: Calibrete shakes his head. "Listen, Cat. I'm not joking. This is something very serious Solaris was not known to be very... compassionate with their sciences. I've lost more than a few friends to that garbage tech." 20:30:37: Cataclysm tilts her head to one side and looks Star over a few moments, "So does that mean that none of you actually knows where the door IS under the island?" now this was getting more curious to her. 20:30:47: Patchet joins the huddle. "Plans are good, they do plan things." 20:31:24: "If you guys can tell us where to go we will do it for you to repay saving our friend and the shipmare." 20:32:00: rose_bud asks again. "Mr and Mrs Seapony can Sushi and Sashimi come up and play on the boat?" 20:32:01: 3"Fine," goes Star, crossing her fins together, somehow. The two little ones were talking amongst themselves, and now Sashimi approaches the boat, towards Rose_Bud, with a excited smile, "Hey, do you wanna do some toy trade? I have all those shell figurines I can give you!" 20:33:43: "So any ideas on how will get around all the deadly solaris stuff. I mean it already turned us into mares. . . I don't want to know what other things solaris cooked up." 20:34:12: 3"Oh no, we know the entrance, it's just on the right of that iron thing!" says Cold Tide. Flagship interrupts, "Of course, I discovered it years ago, haha! No one else would have found it, it was just so craftedly hidden!", to which she nods. 20:34:59: JackHammer keeps an ear on what the others are discussing but takes a moment to tell the foals, "As soon as we're done talking here, I'll help you up onto the boat." Deadly tech didn't sound so good, so sea pony foals deserved to have some fun now in case this all went horribly wrong later. 20:35:29: 3"What is this Solaris thing? Is it some monster that lives in the depths?" Cold tide says, in a fit of panic. "WIll it eat us if we go too close?" 20:35:29: Desert_Lightning pulls out Epic Fail and uses it's scope to look at the island. "We need to have an exit plan, if something should go wrong." 20:35:36: Calibrete chuckles somewhat darkly. "What /haven't/ they cooked up? You ever see your stomach? They've got tech for that. Want to see your friend's head explode? They've got tech for that! They've got tech to do anything and everything. Just none of it good." 20:35:44: Patchet turns to the seaponies. "If we can get that door open you guys will need to be very careful. Solaris inc isn't known for saving ponies. Usualy solaris tech skills ponies dead." 20:36:15: "Solaris is the company that made you all into seaponies." 20:36:26: *kils* 20:37:58: rose_bud rummages through her bags. "Umm, I only have a special toy that a special friend gave to me. Sorry I don't have anything else," she says sadly. 20:38:56: 3"Yeah yeah, sure," goes Star, "and next you'll tell me they built all that iron thing too. But whatever, the entrance to the thing's open, just knock yourselves out in there and don't show up again." "Star!" Cold Tide says, glaring, to which Star shuts up, and grumbles. 20:39:18: Patchet looks at Rose_Bud. "I've got a toy you can trade with them if you'd like." 20:39:24: Desert_Lightning dumps all his 10mm ammo on the deck. "Take this, I'm going to take a closer look. It's a god damn fucking dome, an artificial construction!" 20:39:31: Cataclysm tilts her head slightly, pondering that, "Iron thing..? You mean the ship which is on the bottom of the ocean? Like the one we were riding in?" That was... Not a good sign, but weird too. "We'll try to help however we can. But I'm not sure what you might find in there. And it could be very dangerous." She didn't like putting anyone else in danger. "But it might have what 20:39:31: Cataclysm you're looking for inside, maybe." 20:40:22: Wait, a dome? Seriously? 20:41:06: rose_bud turns to Patchet in surprise. "You do? But isn't that your toy?" 20:41:17: Desert_Lightning begins flapping his/her wings. "You lot start the boat back up, stick to a safe distance while I check it out okay?" 20:41:33: 3"Oh yes please", Cold Tide says, hopeful, "You might find the secret to make us back into dryland ponies in there! Or that horned winged pony! Please do this for us, we'd be infinitely grateful! Oh, and we could give us some of out shinies too!" 20:42:13: "Yeah but I'd be willing to give it to you so you could trade with your new friends." 20:43:13: Cataclysm reaches out a hoof towards Cold Tide, "I promise I'll do whatever I can to help. But... It may not be easy. Or safe. So just leave it to us, okay?" 20:43:15: JackHammer reaches to pull the sea pony foals into the boat so they can enjoy the ride. 20:43:42: Light_Seeker jumps onto Desert_Lightning "Lets go" 20:43:45: 3The two foals are squeeing and gleeing at first, only to turn blue and wheeze some seconds afterwards. Maybe getting them out of the water was not the best of ideas! "Oh my, come back here you two!" Cold Tide exclaims, after a gasp. 20:44:11: "Also we'dlike to help both groups of ponies, we want everpony to be happy. Including you Star." 20:44:23: rose_bud pushes the two foals over the sie again 20:44:34: ((side*)) 20:44:46: Desert_Lightning looks sadly at Light_Seeker. "Sorry, I can't let you come with me. I can't keep you safe up there if something goes wrong." he says sadly. 20:44:57: "Ah! Sea ponys get sick out of the water!" 20:45:06: JackHammer meeps! and helps toss the sea foals back overboard. 20:45:20: "I'll be fine but you shouldn't go solo." 20:45:54: "D. Light has a point, it's better if two go that way you have somepony watching your back." 20:46:19: "I can't dodge any sort of defense fire if your on my back! I don't want to see you killed because I'm not able to do anything!" 20:46:23: rose_bud turns back to the foals after they recover. "Maybe you should stay in the water... but Patchet has a toy to trade!" 20:46:35: 13now that desert mentioned it, even if it is still a bit far, you can all notice how this 'island' doesn't seem an island at all, itr's more like half a ball, perfectly eound 20:46:38: *round 20:46:43: Calibrete thinks about how Patch is sticking to close to his ideals. Can't help everyone out here. Can't hardly even help yourself. A decision is going to have to be made eventually. Just hope the team was ready for it. 20:46:55: 3Cold Tide sees that her two siblings are breathing (?) again, and sighs in relief. "We will bring you at the.. dome thing now, alright? We're all counting on you!" she says with a smile. 20:47:18: "Right." 20:47:50: Desert_Lightning gently places Light_Seeker on the boat. "I'll be fine, not like it's in the middle of a typhoon like last time!" 20:47:51: "I'll be fine DL i can teleport onto it if i must just get me close." 20:48:22: "No mean no Light, sorry." 20:48:55: Cataclysm nods her head, thinking about that, "Does it go all the way to the bottom? Or does it float? You said you lived under it, right?" 20:49:06: Calibrete snickers. "Look whose giving lectures about suicide missions." 20:49:08: "Desert just take him. Can't you see what it means to him for him to go with you. We did almost lose you." 20:49:15: Light_Seeker gets back on DL's back "Come on and lets go already." 20:49:32: Desert_Lightning sighs. "Fine. You death isn't on my hoove though." 20:50:03: 13the stallion replies to the quesitons "it's quilt above metal pillars. it's a sphere, half underwater, the other half outsinde" 20:50:16: Desert_Lightning takes off towards the dome, taking up a slight orbit of the object rather than straight towards it. 20:50:18: 3"Oh no, the iron thing doesn't go very deep, we live deeper in our little shell houses! I even have my own!" Sushi says, beaming with pride. 20:50:44: 13"there is this big doorin one of the underwater pilalrs at grould level but it's closed. the door on the upper part is open, instead" 20:50:51: Calibrete fakes a wide smile. "That... That's great!" 20:50:52: "That sounds so awesome. Seaponies are awesome." 20:50:54: Light_Seeker keeps on the look out for anything moving while on DL's back 20:51:21: Cataclysm nods her head slowly at that prospect, "Okay." Hmmm. This was all sounding very odd, and potentially dangerous. "We'll check it out, hopefully we can figure out how to help you." She had this sneaking suspicion that someone was ending this trip with fins. 20:52:08: Desert_Lightning flies for a good time, Light_Seeker slowing him some, but not as much as he'd feared. Looking at the structure, he spots an open door and heads towards it. 20:54:03: JackHammer shrugs. "Unless DL finds something obviously dangerous, we might as well give this a try. I'd ask what could go wrong, but I'm afraid I would find out in horrifying detail at some especially ironic moment." 20:54:31: Desert_Lightning lands and inspects to dead guards on the deck. "Light, I don't like this!" 20:55:05: "What do you think did this?" 20:55:27: 3"Yup! Best shell house I've seen! And I even helped this little squirt build it, didn't I?" Flagship says. "But really..." Sushi replies, but is muted by Flagship frazzling his little head. "Now now, we don't wanna take all the merit here, do we?" 20:55:31: "No idea, but I do not like this place." 20:55:32: Calibrete cranes her head to Jackhammer. "You don't want to know. At all. That tech is some terrible stuff." 20:56:10: Cataclysm mostly keeps her eyes on the horizon, curious about what was coming next. 20:56:29: 13the dome's entrance is actually open, but it's a double door: the first one leas to a small chamber with a second vlast door that will likely open only when the outher one is closed 20:57:11: "Light, can you teleport blind?" 20:57:31: "I can try but i think it will be hard." 20:57:40: 13just outside the door, on the docking platform, two skeletons are sparsed a bit like an old jigsaw pukkle; maybe they were guards, but their equipement is just too worn off to be recognizable 20:57:46: Patchet sits there thinking."We need a plan with plan stuff for this plan to work. Any body got a plan?" 20:57:54: rose_bud tries to get the attention of the two foals. "Patchet said she had a toy she could trade." 20:58:47: "Good, we're not going till the others get here, but it's comforting to know we have a semi possible exit strategy 20:58:50: " 20:58:57: Patchet levitates out her Big Mac Brushable action figure. Now with real hoof bucking action! 20:58:58: 3Sashimi oohs at Rose_Bud. "What is it what is it what is it? Is it some awesome dryland thing? Maybe one of those... trees?" She squeals in joy at the thought. 21:00:01: Desert_Lightning begins pondering how to get things done. Then desides a signal would be a good idea. 21:00:45: Patchet floats the toy over to Rose_Bud. "If you'd like you can trade for this toy." 21:02:24: JackHammer shrugs. "I think it's a bit early to have much of a plan. Ah...try to stay together? Don't get killed. Get useful stuffs. Help sea ponies if possible. That's about all I got." 21:02:50: 3"Oh, that is -awesome-!" Sushi says after seeing the Big Mac doll, and submerges quickly. After a while, he returns with all kinds of seashells in his fins, carved up and some joined together, to resemble all kinds of weird sea creatures, and seaponies too. "You can have two for that." He hurries in joy. 21:03:59: Patchet gives the toy to Rose_Bud to trade. "I'll let Rose do the rading she's better at than I am." 21:06:44: rose_bud looks between Patchet, the doll, and the seaponies. "I can't trade somepony elses toy. Patchet, do you like those cool shells?" 21:07:53: "It's okay Rose. I'm a big pony. Big ponies don't need toys. You can trade it for the shells if you like them." 21:08:10: 13the lifeboat is now near to the dome, there is an easy docking bay just in front of the door that was mentioned before 21:08:38: Desert_Lightning has been pacing whilst waiting for the boat to arrive 21:09:06: Light_Seeker has been looking around the place 21:09:43: Cataclysm slowly guides the boat around towards the dock. Cutting the engine once they get close enough. Tossing the rope up onto the dock, "Tie us down, Lightning." 21:09:50: 13besides the dock, the door and the 2 skeletons there isn't very much around 21:10:23: Desert_Lightning ties the boat up then starts pacing again. 21:10:39: 13 the pillars that sustain the dome must have had some sort of large naval gun on them, but now there is just twisted metal covered in rust 21:11:48: JackHammer doesn't waste any time. She climbs out of the boat onto the dock then turns to help Cat and Rose_bud up. 21:12:04: rose_bud nods at Sushi and Sashimi. "Ok, I'll trade you for that really cool one, and that really pretty one." 21:12:43: Calibrete climbs out of the boat, stretching her back as she does so. 21:13:03: Cataclysm carefully climbs up onto the dock. Spending a few moments looking around. Doesn't take her long to determine there's not much interesting going on here. "Guess we'll have to go inside to find anything really interesting..." 21:13:53: Patchet gets out of the boat and looks around. "Well, lets just hope things go smoothely from here." Turning back to the sea ponies. "Wish us luck." 21:13:54: 13cold tide waves a fin "good luck! i cant' wait to have fins like yoursso we can play together!" 21:13:56: Desert_Lightning looks at Cataclysm. "That's what I'm afraid of." 21:15:02: "I can go ahead and scout it out for anything moving." 21:15:34: "I'll watch you back Light." 21:15:37: 3Sashimi ooohs as she grabs the pretty, pretty, red toy, it's so... red and action-y! She fiddles in ecstasy with it for a while. "Alright, have these ones awesome dryland pony!" Sushi says, giving Rose_Bud the two statuettes she requested... and also a very pretty necklace is tied around one of those two toys. "Oh, I guess you can keep that too." 21:15:38: "Yeah, lets let the unarmed kid trot ahead. Sounds like a plan." 21:16:09: Desert_Lightning looks at Light_Seeker. "Somepony give him a gun please." 21:16:21: Patchet levitates his 10 mm and ammo to Light. "Here." 21:16:23: Cataclysm shakes her head, slowly stepping through the open door, "We should go in together. There's no telling how easy or hard opening these doors will be, after all." waiting for the others to follow as she looks around, trying to determine whether there's some kind of controls in here to activate the entry system. 21:16:46: JackHammer walks through the outer door once everypony is out of the boat. "Let's go. One way or another, the answers to our problems are all in there...probably along with a whole new set of problems, but still..." 21:16:53: Light_Seeker grabs the gun and ammo and slowly moves more inward 21:17:09: 3The necklace is a gorgeous piece of work, made with pure white pearls, and having something resembling (?) an unicorn's horn as its centrepiece. In the meantime, you can hear Sashimi going "Brushie brushie brushie..." 21:17:20: Cataclysm digs out the revolver Light had given her ages ago, finally returning it to him, "Right, right. Sorry about that. I kept forgetting about that." sighing quietly. 21:18:00: Desert_Lightning digs out his 10mm ammo and passes it to light. "This here as well." 21:18:32: rose_bud takes the new toys. "Cool! Bye bye sea ponies, see you soon!" 21:18:40: Calibrete trots up to the opening, then slowly walks inside 21:18:53: JackHammer eyes the necklace then chuckles to Patchy, "I think it goes well with your eyes, hon." 21:19:11: rose_bud trots after the others 21:19:36: Cataclysm trots over to the big red button, "Everypony ready?" Waiting only a moment to make sure they were and were all inside before pressing it. 21:19:37: Desert_Lightning unslings his rifle and gets ready for the worst. 21:19:41: 3The aseaponies wave the party goodbye as they enter, "Byeee!" "See you soon!" "Get lost!" "STAR!" 21:20:33: Desert_Lightning feels a chil go down his spine when he looks through the scope. "This gun does not like me." He mutters 21:20:43: Light_Seeker pushes the red button 21:20:46: Patchet chuckles. "We have to help both groups. Everypony needs to be happy." she said to herself following after the group. 21:21:23: Patchet levitates out her wrench. "Lets do this!" 21:24:02: JackHammer stomps a booted foot once and grins. 21:24:46: 13red lights start blinking in the ceiling while the outher door slowly closes, or at least itmakes a good try, since it stops halfway before a deafening sound makes clear that it will never ever move from half closed as it is now 21:25:02: Calibrete sighs and readies her new battle saddle 21:25:13: "Uh-oh." 21:25:25: 13the inner door starts opening anyway, showing how safe solaris tech is, as usual, outher door jams, inner door opens anyway, yay! 21:25:44: "Well, at least we don't get locked out, right?" 21:26:01: "Riiiight." 21:26:19: Desert_Lightning breaths out a sigh of relief 21:26:26: Light_Seeker moves to the newly open door to check it out 21:26:55: Desert_Lightning follows Light, covering him with his rifle. 21:27:38: 13the inside seems to be a room, similar to any other stable room entrance: a security station, a couple of doors leading to the maintenance and the living quarters, a couple of sentry bots readying their weapons and yelling "STOP RIGHT THERE! CRIMINAL SCUM! SURRENDER AND BE TERMINATED!" 21:27:55: Calibrete turns her rear to the group. Not only to give them a view, but to cover their 6. 21:27:59: "We're not criminals. We were sent from HQ to fix you!' 21:28:11: rose_bud seems completely oblivious to the closing door, and skips after Patchet. 21:28:35: JackHammer glances from the outer door to the inner one. "Yeeeeah...nothing wrong with this picture at all. So...oh yeah, there's the doom we were expecting! Get 'em!" And with that the mare is off, racing towards the nearest bullybot. 21:35:20: Calibrete cracks his neck. "Let's smash some central processing units!" 21:42:37: Desert_Lightning lines up three shots on the nearest Robot he can see, his scope allowing him to see the tiniest cracks in their armour. Unfortunately there isn't any real weakness he can see. Maybe the sensor, but only maybe. Steadying him self, he pulls the trigger. 21:43:43: {TWO SHOTS} 21:48:07: 3The bot's visor visibly sparks and frizzles as the projectile penetrates inside. The bot starts flailing around, "DARNED ZEBRAS, BLINDING US WITH YOUR EVIL MACUMBA DANCES!" 21:50:33: rose_bud remembers what Dad said to do with bullybots, and follows Desert_Lightning's lead by aiming for the visor of the other bot before taking a shot. 21:53:16: 3The other bot is also hit in the same spot, and begins a similar routine. "OH, YOU CAN TURN OFF THE LIGHT IN MY EYES BUT THE NOT THE TRUTH IN MY CORE PROCESSOR!" 21:53:41: JackHammer charges into the fray, racing past the two blinded bullybots, skidding around like an action heroine and bucking as hard as she can into the rear of the left bot. 21:56:30: 3The hits dent heavily the back armor of the bot, and sparks can be heard flaring in its insides. "COLONEL HARTMAN!" 21:57:03: JackHammer grins as her Flutterboots crunch through the weaker rear armor and smoke trickles out of the hole. "Aw yeah!" 21:58:28: Calibrete faces the bot opposite the one Jackie just bucked, and bites his bit on the Battle Saddle, sending two three-round-bursts flying 22:02:55: 3A round bounces off the heavy armor, but the rest lodge deep into the robot's circuits as it sparks heavily and shoots some stray shots wildly. "BzzZtZtZ I DIED LIKE I LIVED! AS A PSYCHOPATH ASSASSIN ROBOOOOOoooooo-" its voice slows and stops as it powers down. 22:05:43: Light_Seeker fires three shots into the bot 22:08:52: Light_Seeker misses with two of the shots but lands one on the robot 22:10:23: 3Light's shots bounce harmlessly off the robot's armor but one, that disappears inside the cold machine. "FATAL ERROR, EMERGENCE RECONFIGURING... Egads, thou shalt not pass!" it says, in a cracked, deformed pony voice. 22:12:21: Cataclysm swiftly rips a stick of dynamite from one of her bags, holding it tight in a hoof as she lights it with a lighter in her mouth. Where in Equestria did she get that? Tossing it down the hallway at the remaining robot, "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" Swiftly diving to one side from the open doorway. 22:13:34: Desert_Lightning cringes at the stupidity of Cataclysm before trying to cover his ears and hitting the deck! 22:15:02: Patchet ducks for cover 22:20:49: 3The blast of the stick hits and with a flash of light and an enormous BOOOM, it scorches and topple the bot to its side, ""Exterminate! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATEeeeeeeeee!" it says, coming back to its robot voice, before shutting down for good. Jackhammer is also caught in the explosion and is thrown to the ground from the close, devastating hit. 22:20:51: Calibrete screams "Oh for fuck's sa-!" as the dynamite explodes 22:21:16: Patchet gets up and runs towards Jackie. "Out of the way everyone I got this covered." 22:21:39: 3The blast was augumented by the close quarters, and so the blast deafens the whole party, who can hear nothing but the faint buzzing in their ears for a good half minute. 22:21:59: ugh 22:22:01: Calibrete screams "WHAT?!" 22:22:04: Desert_Lightning also moves forward, ears ringing. "I'll help you Patch, I got some supplies handy." 22:22:14: Cataclysm coughs a moment or two from the expanding cloud of smoke. Slowly climbing back up to her feet, "Is everypony okay!?" Evidently she'd thrown the stick before she noticed that Jackie had gone rushing down the corridor. Well, today was going to suck. 22:22:43: Light_Seeker runs up towards Cat and hugs her 22:23:21: Cataclysm blinks a little at the sudden hug from Light Seeker, patting her with a hoof. Okay, what'd she do this time? 22:24:21: Calibrete , after looking that the blood smear on the wall that was surly not from a robot, goes to scour the remains of the bots that were deactivated. 22:24:45: Desert_Lightning trips as he attempts to unroll one of his bandages to apply to Jackhammer's wound, tyeing himself up in the resulting fall. 22:24:47: "Cat you almost killed Jackie and brought down the roof." 22:25:51: Cataclysm blinks as she folds her ears back at Light Seeker's words, "What? I can't hear you!" This was the second time in a few days she'd been deafened by explosives. Ah, the life of a demomare. "Don't worry! A place like this wouldn't be destroyed by just one stick of dynamite! I'd need at least a dozen to do that!" 22:26:04: "PATCH! Take some of my Bandages from my saddle bags!" 22:27:27: 'I got my heal spell don't waste the bandages." 22:27:41: 3Calibrete finds, among the damaged scraps of machinery, a good batch of spark batteries. 22:28:02: Patchet 's horn glows as a light blue healing magic envlopes Jackie. 22:28:13: "NO I SAID YOU ALMOST KILLED JACKIE." 22:29:14: Desert_Lightning untangles himself and rolls the bandage back up. Shaking his head, he trots forwards towards the end of the corridor, his rifle at the ready. 22:29:14: Cataclysm blinks a moment, "Jackie? What was she..?" raising the free hoof to her face, right. Melee mare. This was the trouble with traveling alone for so long. Especially when your survival instincts override your better judgement. Today was -definitely- not going to be a good day. Very slowly peering around the corner to see if Jackie was actually okay or not... 22:29:38: 3Patchet's cures manage first to put Jackie's limbs back on their correct position, and then close off most of the open wounds and sever burns. 22:30:08: rose_bud has curled into a ball, covering her head with her hooves. 22:30:43: "There you go jackie. . . Let me know if you need more healing. I got maybe one or two more in me." 22:31:12: Calibrete trots back to the group, loot freshly stored in her saddle bags 22:31:43: Light_Seeker rushes over and hugs Rose_Bud the filly of her dream "It's okay Rose i'm here for you." 22:32:08: Patchet then rounds on Cat. "Why the hell did you through dynamite in an enlcosed space like this? You could have killed everpony! Next time please, please be more careful Cat. Please?" 22:33:02: Calibrete has a big ol' grin on her face. "How awesome were we!? I mean sure, one of them us almost turned into a pulp, but still! Pure amazing. I'll turn you all into soldiers yet!" 22:33:39: "I'm a doctor not a soldier Cal." 22:33:47: 13the room is peppered with burnings from energy weapon shots and bullet holes; there must have been some sort of fight here ,and it's proven by the remains of a third sentrybot and 3 pony skeletons 22:33:52: 3The room they are facing on the side of the corridor looks very much like a security room, especially since it is written so in faded letters in a nearby plaque. The smell of rust and wet permeates the area. 22:34:16: Calibrete pats Patchet on the back. "Every squad needs a medic, my mare." 22:34:39: 13sparsed on the ground there are, clearly visible, a couple of pistols and an assault rifle, next to the skeletons 22:34:40: Patchet blushes. 22:35:03: "Grab the guns, could come in handy later." 22:35:15: Desert_Lightning sweeps his rifle over the room, checking for any signs of movement. 22:35:19: Cataclysm stares back towards Patchet, blinking a moment, "I didn't intend for her to be in the blast range. If you'd just hold back and waited for me to do it first nopony would have gotten hurt." frowning a little, "Trust me, I'm an expert on things blowing up!" slowly trotting past Patchy towards Jackie, "Jackie? Are you okay?" moving to nose her gently. 22:35:21: Light_Seeker reloads her weapon and moves slowly to the new room 22:36:15: Patchet starts levitating the loose guns into his saddle bag. 22:36:24: *her* 22:36:56: rose_bud slowly uncurls, the ringing had faded and somepony had given her a reassuring hug. It was time for adventurer pony! 22:37:08: JackHammer comes to her senses in Patchy's forelegs. "Wow...I didn't know you cared," she mumbles then blinks and digs a hoof at her ears. "What the hay..." But then the healing spell finishes with the rest of her wounds and reaches her ears. "Sound! Sound sounds good!" 22:37:47: Desert_Lightning looks for anything that looks functional. 22:37:59: 3The security room is a small one, separated partly by a glass pane from the corridor. Light_Seeker can notice first a turret, seemingly inactive, on its ceiling, right above the doorstep, and a pony skeleton nearby an active terminal. 22:39:12: 13in one of the lockers at the bottom of the hall, there's a large amount of blue colored boxes, on the label there's written "seafood - fishlicious" 22:40:03: Desert_Lightning follows Light_Seeker, his rifle at the ready all the way. 22:40:17: "Grab the food. We might need it later." 22:40:22: Calibrete trots into the security room. 22:40:30: Patchet follows along. 22:40:30: Light_Seeker while walking points out the turret "Guys watch out we got a turret." 22:40:43: JackHammer looks around for Cat then finally finds her and smiles. "Was it good for you too?" she teases then coughs out a small cloud of smoke. 22:41:14: Patchet looks up at the turret. "Maybe we should make sure it's disabled be for we go fiddling with anything else." 22:41:15: Desert_Lightning flaps up to it and takes a quick look at it. "Pass me something to break this thing." 22:41:28: Calibrete looks at said turret. Want me to shoot it? 22:41:42: 13the hall leads to 2 other sections of the dome, named "living quarters" and "mainteinance" but the door for the latter is shut and there is a blinking red light on it saying "security lock down" 22:41:43: Patchet levitates up her wrench. "here you go." 22:41:44: Cataclysm blushes a little bit, "Maybe a little." Helping Jackie back upto her hooves, "Are you okay?" a moment spent glancing around. Nothing in particular which looked like it'd be good for her skills at the moment. 22:42:01: 3The room is small enough to just allow just one pony comfortably trotting along its length; at the end of it the terminal gives off a green glow, with the pony skeleton stretched over its desk. 22:43:06: rose_bud searches for treasure. 22:44:09: Light_Seeker reads about the sea food and what it is made with 22:44:11: 13there isn't a lot more to find, besides the blue boxes and the weapons and ammo that were already there 22:44:56: Calibrete leaves the two to handle the turret/terminal situation, and goes to the living quarters 22:45:02: Desert_Lightning bangs the wrenh against a weak looking part but has no luck 22:45:38: 13the box says that it's made with the best fish coming from the calamari fishing area, only the best grown sea fauna is used to make the most delicious sea snacks ever. once you taste it, you'll want it again?! try seafood! 22:45:47: JackHammer grins and gives her marefriend a nuzzle. "Except for a few minor aches, yeah, no worries. Patchy did a great job. Let's try not to do that again though. How about you smash that turret with your hammer, Cat?" 22:46:16: 13in small, there is the usual 5 lines of chemicals used to make this stuff last 2 hundred years, and a note: it could contain sentient beings 22:46:19: Desert_Lightning passes the wrench down. "Well that failed." 22:46:36: Desert_Lightning points his rifle at it. 22:47:03: Patchet takes her wrench back. "Let me give it a whack." 22:47:11: 3The turret sparks and explodes, seemingly it was pretty fragile to begin with. It falls to the ground, throwing bits of metal around. 22:47:37: Light_Seeker takes the seafood puts it in her bags and moves on towards that shut door 22:47:41: Calibrete wanders in the living quarters, and searches for anything worth pocketing 22:48:03: Cataclysm looks up as the others are working on the turret, "I think they've handled it." chuckling a little bit, "Alright. I'm sorry." kissing Jackie's cheek, "But don't go running off into melee with heavily armed attack robots, okay? Dynamite tends to hurt things around the target too!" winking with a sad little smile. 22:48:33: Desert_Lightning lands on the ground and follows after Light_Seeker 22:48:43: 13the door to the living quarters opens, showing a long corridor 22:48:59: 13with doors on the left and the righ, at least a dozen per side 22:49:19: rose_bud 's investigations lead her to Calibrete, so she follows the big earth pony. 22:49:55: Calibrete turns to the left side portion of the rooms, searching each room for anything of note along the way 22:50:02: JackHammer shrugs and points to the pock marks on the wall then at her holster-free barding. "What was I supposed to do, stand there and yell, 'Everypony take cover behind me!' Get me some ranger armor and I might try that." 22:51:10: Cataclysm sighs and nods her head, gently helping Jackie up, "I know. I know. Irony, isn't it? Finally find a nice mare in the wasteland who actually likes other mares, and our skillsets are totally incompatible." laughing a little at that, slowly trotting after the others. She's not going to overtake them, but was curious what they might have found. 22:52:03: 13suddenly, a pink ray hits Calibrete that disappears into nothingness 22:52:32: 13there's the sound of a hatch opening and then closing again, but it was so fast that nopony actually saw what happened 22:54:21: JackHammer grins. "We're compatible enough if there are multiple targets spaced well apart!" 22:54:31: 13a voice speaks from the loudspeakers "attention, intruders. nonlethat defences activated. GTFO guns powered and fully functional. activating STFU fields in 10.... 9..." 22:55:18: JackHammer blinkies at the odd anouncement. "Wait, a what gun? Which field?" (o.O) 22:55:25: Desert_Lightning looks at Calibre disappearing in horror. "SHIT! Every pony watch the doors!" 22:55:26: Cataclysm blinks. GTFO guns? STFU fields? This couldn't be good, "We'd better keep moving, fast! We can't very well leave now. Not with all those sea ponies depending on us." 22:55:35: rose_bud looks in shock at the space that mere moments ago held Calibrete. 22:55:35: "Lets get out of here ponies, and fast!" 22:56:30: 13 3... 2... 1... 22:56:36: Patchet dives for cover. 22:56:38: Cataclysm waves a hoof in Patchet's way, "We can't just leave now before we find Calibrete!" 22:56:49: Light_Seeker runs to Rose_Bud 22:56:56: 13there's a soft humming iun the air and all the unicorns feel ditzy, their magic is gone 22:57:30: Light_Seeker feeling ditzy trying to run towards Rose_Bud 22:57:48: Patchet rubs his head with a hoof. "My head feels funny. . . Wha, wha, what happend?" 22:57:56: *her* 22:58:25: JackHammer nods. "We need to find Cali, find something to help our boat, and maybe help the sea ponies." She pauses as a hum fills the air then looks at Patchy. "You okay?" 22:59:13: Cataclysm blinks a few moments and trots towards the doorway further inside, peering around the corner, "Today is just getting worse and worse." looking back towards Patchet and Light Seeker, "Are you two okay?" 22:59:42: "I-i feel soo dizzy right now." 23:00:27: Desert_Lightning charges down the corridor, not caring about the possibility for guns to seemingly vaporise him. "Cat, chuck a dynamite into any door that opens!" He yells. 23:01:26: JackHammer smiles slightly to Patchy. "Dizzy, huh? Maybe it's an effect of that explosion. Physician, heal thyself an' all that." 23:01:54: Cataclysm blinks, "Lightning! Wait up!" she began to move after the pegasus, but wasn't remotely close to as fast as he was. And had no idea where these things attacking them might come from! 23:02:00: rose_bud turns toward her struggling friend. "Light_Seeker, are you okay? Cal is gone!" 23:02:05: "I can't. . . My magic isn't working. . . This can't be good." 23:02:19: "I feel like crap and my eyes hurt." 23:03:49: JackHammer blinks and gets a sinking feeling. "You...can't use your horn? No healy magics of awesomeness and feeling tingly on my marebits too? Oh wait, that second part wasn't supposed to be out loud..." 23:04:13: Patchet feels weird and now has the odd feeling that there's something exactly behind her... it is closer, and closer... 23:04:49: Patchet bucks as hard as she can behind her. 23:05:04: Calibrete screams. "FUCK!" 23:06:00: Cataclysm blinks as DL vanishes, "What is going on around-" silenced by Calibrete's sudden cry, whipping her head around in confusion. 23:06:36: Calibrete dodges the buck, doing an excellent parry, and slaps Patchet on the flank. "Miss me already?" 23:07:02: "Pervert, where did you go?" 23:07:45: Calibrete shrugs. "I 'unno. One second, I was in the living quarters, the next, I was back on the dock." 23:08:06: rose_bud turns, grinning with joy. "Cal! You vanished and now you're back!" 23:08:30: rose_bud rushes up to hug the returning Calibrete. 23:08:41: "Teleportation. One of the attacks teleport you!" 23:08:46: Desert_Lightning comes galloping up from behind the group. "Miss me?" He says in a rushed voice whilst water drips from his mane. 23:08:48: Calibrete tussles the little filly's hair. 23:10:01: Cataclysm blinks a few moments as DL returns, "Hey, welcome back." glancing around in some confusion and slowly sitting down, "Okay. This is way out of my comfort zone. Terminals, teleporters and magic suppression? This place is weird." 23:10:54: Calibrete turns around. "Alright, team. On your hooves. This place is heavily booby trapped, and who knows what the next room can lead to. First thing's first, lets crack open that terminal." 23:10:59: "Terminal? Let me see that." 23:11:09: "A super cool tellyporta, like Light does! I wanna play!" 23:11:43: rose_bud gallops into the living quarters. 23:12:18: Calibrete shouts, "Somepony catch that foal!" 23:12:18: Calibrete shouts, "Somepony catch that foal!" 23:12:42: 3The terminal reads: "Welcome to SolOS v.3.12!" 23:12:49: 3>Security options 23:12:54: 3>Latest audio log 23:13:15: JackHammer blinks. "A teleport gun? Well...that's less horrible than I thought. Wait, that could explain the skeletons! They got teleported outside but had nowhere else to go and didn't dare go back inside." Yes, folks, the mare does have a brain. 23:13:38: Patchet plays the latest audio logs. 23:14:10: 3A metallic voice speaks first: 23:14:13: Desert_Lightning dashes out to catch Rose_Bud 23:14:16: 3*AUDIO LOG 37 BEGINS* 23:14:24: 3(A mare is heard breathing heavily over muffled sounds of screams, galloping, and magical energy shots.) *pant* *wheeze* Holy horseapples, Keen Eye here, head of security, it's all going down to Tartatrus here with those explosions! *pant* The security systems has initiated the emergency procedure, and it's killing everypony on sight! 23:14:34: 3Reconfiguring now the turrets to non-lethal weaponry... come oooonnn... *stomp**smash* Why does it take so damn long, you stupid piece of crud? 23:14:38: rose_bud paddles in little circles in the water outside. 23:14:46: 3*the muffled sounds continue, some hooves are heard banging on glass* *whirr* 23:14:59: 3Oh holy- AAAAAAAA- *zzap**zzap**zzap* ... *more shots and screams outside the room continue for a little while, and come suddenly to a silence only disturbed by the white noise of the recording. 23:15:13: 3*END RECORDING-TIME LIMIT REACHED* The metallic voice ends. 23:15:29: 13END OF SESSION FOR GROUP 3