18:11:05: We left our party in the old town hall's reception, whose bountiful features include a set of stairs going up to the landing (and the room you entered through), a reception desk with a faintly glowing terminal, and an open door to the main hall through which several ghouls can now be seen. 18:11:23: The ghouls do not seem to have noticed you, and Umbra's scouting revealed there to be seven in total. One of them is glowing green and is standing behind the podium at the back of the hall as if it were giving a speech. It also appears to be wearing the remains of a suit. 18:14:00: Umbra studies the layout of the room, judging cover and distances, looking for any ghouls she could remove without drawing attention. 18:14:54: AtomBell makes sure to keep as many ponies and griffins between the ghouls as possible. She doesn't like the looks of the glowing one, especially not if he's an orator. 18:17:22: Gnash gestures for the Zebra to make the first move; knowing his own bulk would make moving quietly near impossible 18:18:00: Umbra slinks forward and behind the ghoul most furthest from the rest. 18:19:27: Geldnir tenses up gripping the handle of his machete firmly. his brow furrowed waiting for the moment when combat would break out. 18:20:37: SilentSpecter uses the wall to cover her approach to the doorway where she hides in anticipation of the combat to come 18:21:21: Gnash points Geldnir at the single pegasus ghoul, then whispers; "If one of us takes that one up into the air, it'll make it easier for the groundlings." 18:22:05: Geldnir nods 18:25:19: Umbra deftly knocks the ghoul off balance, grabs its head between both hooves and twists violently, ending its tormented existence. 18:26:29: The now headless, as well as lifeless, body of the ghoul flumps onto the floor. The sneaky zebra made so little sound that the other ghouls remain unaware. 18:28:39: Umbra sets the head gently beside its body, out of respect for the creature had once been. It was in her way, so it had to be removed, but she too no pleasure in the act. 18:28:53: SilentSpecter pokes her head out and takes aim at the Glowing one standing at the podium 18:30:13: Gnash glances at Spectre; "Don't miss; that shot is gonna let them all know we're here." 18:38:21: Spectre's aim is true and the Glowing One takes a devastating round to the right hoof, blowing green goo all over the raised stage. The former town mayor raises his other hoof and lets loose a guttural howl. 18:41:35: Gnash cracks his knuckles; "Showtime." 18:42:16: AtomBell clamps down tighter on her scalpel. 18:54:02: Gnash throws himself into the room with a flap of his large, powerful wings and dives towards the glowing ghoul at the back of the room with a shriek. 18:57:57: ((An actualy Crit Fail. This is all Spectre's fault)) 18:58:04: Unfortunately, Gnash's aim was not up to scratch and he dives head-first into the podium. He takes several seconds to pull his beak free. 18:58:50: AtomBell watches in awe as the powerful, proud griffin introduces his beak to the podium's city seal. 18:59:09: Gnash lets out a pained squawk; "Motherfucker." 19:01:14: Umbra tries very hard not to laugh at the hapless griffin, and does, succeeds... Mostly. 19:02:54: ((I hate you all SO much)) 19:03:54: cerberus the foal stands up on her forelegs, bracing her laser rifle as if she had hands and using the tail to pull tghe trigger. she takes her time to take aim and shoots two rays against one of the ghouls 19:05:33: The filly's shots go wide and burn two new holes in the old wall. 19:08:39: She sheds a tear at the expended ammo. 19:09:10: SilentSpecter takes aim at the pegasus ghoul that she can see from her vantage point 19:11:48: Her aim once again proves true, this time tering off her target's back left leg entirely 19:14:24: As Gnash attempts to recover, the Glowing One leaps over the podium and attempts to maul him with it's hooves. 19:22:58: Gnash yells at the others; "This one is mine! Anyone who gets in my way is next." 19:24:29: The ghoul's ancient, cracked hooves score two wounds across the dazed griffon. The griffon does not look happy about this. 19:24:58: Gnash spits a wad of bloody phlegm at the glowing one 19:25:18: The Glowing One glows. 19:27:08: Geldnir charges into the room straight towards the now lonw earth pony taking two swipes at it with his machete. 19:34:13: Geldnir's swing cleaves through rotting flesh and tendons, his ghoulish foe is felled in a single blow. 19:37:00: "See that's how you do it Gnash!" 19:37:51: Gnash says nothing. He glowers at the room that is clearly too small to hold all of his awesome wingspan 19:40:09: Umbra breaks from cover now that battle has been joined, swiftly rushing a lone ghoul that had been out of sight until now. Upon reaching her target, Umbra quickly drops into her stance and unleashes a flurry of viscious blows upon the pathetic thing. 19:46:03: Expecting her foe to actually move or something, Umbra's strikes mostly hit thin-air. One does land though, shattering one of the ghouls front hooves. 19:51:22: Suddenly noticing that something was happening, the group of 3 ghouls split up and charge toward different foes; the pegasus goes for Geldnir across the room, the unicorn goes for Gnash, and the earthy goes for those at the door. 19:59:15: Geldnir grins wildly. 20:01:16: aside from one minor scratch on Geldnir, the ghouls display an almost Umbra-like ability to hit things right next to them. 20:02:11: AtomBell freezes for a moment as a ghoul appears in the door, menacing Berry and SilentSpecter. She doesn't stay still long, dashing forward with her scalpel to get in the way of the competent combatants and try to carve the long dead pony with her scalpel. 20:02:22: *dashing forward to get in the way 20:10:47: Atom closes her eyes and shakes her head around, 'aiming' to slice the ghoul before it attacks again. Upon opening her eyes, she sees that she was carving an area above Cerberus's head. 20:11:53: Gnash lets out a shriek that would make any feral ghoul proud and rears up, intending to slam the glowing ghoul through the errant podium 20:12:05: AtomBell squeaks in surprise that her aiming technique failed to aide her attack. 20:23:14: Gnash barrels the Glowing One through the podium and slams it to the ground. 20:23:50: Gnash proceeds to tear into the downed ghould with unrivalled ferocity 20:26:45: The ghoul is reduced to pieces to Gnash's rage, splattering everything nearby with glowing green gloop. 20:27:27: *The ghoul is reduced to pieces by Gnash's rage, 20:27:57: Gnash lets out a victory roar and declares; "THAT is how a Talon does it! Anypony else wanna laugh now?!" 20:27:59: cerberus mutters a curse and shoots again at the ghoul in front of her, taking her time to aim and trying not to miss at least at point blank 20:28:46: Geldnir grins and shouts over to Gnash "That's more like it!" 20:32:36: The filly's two shots burn a hole straight through her target, giving them an even less pleasant view of what Gnash is doing across the hall. 20:34:12: SilentSpecter takes aim at the remaining ghoul attacking Gnash 20:34:59: AtomBell is splattered with the remains of two different ghouls, accepting it with ablomb, "Canny shot Berry!" 20:35:20: cerberus "yes kitty cat, go for it, slat some ponies!" the former hellhound cheers the griffon's show 20:39:48: With a disturbing k-thunk, Spectre's carefully aimed shot jams inside the barrel. 20:40:16: SilentSpecter curses viciously under her breathe 20:43:54: Geldnir carefully guides his machete perfoming two well aimed swipes at his winged foe. 20:48:23: With two savage blows, Geldnir chops the ghoul's head from its shoulders. It rolls away into a pile of junk. 20:49:32: Umbra now haveing sutably intimidated the ghoul she faces, (yes, yes that was it exactly) goes in for the kill with a short flurry of well aimed blows. 20:52:13: Once again she over estimates her target, aiming at where it ought to be instead if where it was. 20:53:11: Umbra curses softly to herself. ''Might as well be dancing with it...'' 20:55:19: Lowering its horn, the unicorn ghoul charges past Gnash and imbeds itself in the wall. Oh dear. 20:58:34: Seemingly confused by the zebra's antics, the ghoul fighting her trips over its own hooves. 20:59:44: And lands on a spike. It is now an ex-ghoul. 21:01:07: cerberus sighs aiming her gun at the ceiling and looks at the dead ghouls, then tries to listen if there are noises of other incoming enemies 21:01:14: Umbra just stares at it, then the spike, then back at the ghoul... She snorts in disgust, mostly at her own performance. 21:01:25: "Well now that that's taken care of we need to barracade the first floor entrances. This'll be the new honorary Nightwing's HQ." 21:02:21: "I offically call dibs for our group. Anybody have a problem with that? 21:02:23: " 21:04:11: AtomBell realizes with most of the ghouls dead, that she should probably attend to the wounded, "Gnash? Ha bad did the glowin yen dunsh yee?" 21:04:11: SilentSpecter points "There's a ghoul there." 21:04:29: Geldnir looks at the stuck ghoul and laughs. "We even have a mascot!" 21:04:59: The lone remaining ghoul tried to pull itself free, and fails 21:06:02: Gnash's first strike somehow manages to miss. 21:06:12: As does the second. 21:06:23: "Alright some one tie that thing up before it hurts itself or us." 21:06:59: Gnash casually swings his free talon at the stuck ghoul, managing to eviscerate it after a few swipes 21:07:21: "Or that works too I supose." 21:07:43: AtomBell snorts, "Ah thowt yee meant him anywa." 21:07:51: The third, forth, and fith, however, tear it to pieces with little trouble. 21:08:08: fifth* 21:08:46: The party is victorious! SilentSpecter's PipBuck suddenly plays a tune! 21:08:54: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34X4faVQ63Y&feature=youtu.be 21:08:54: http://youtu.be/34X4faVQ63Y 21:09:24: "Anyway those of us not severally injured should barracade the first floor entrances so that we don't get overwhelmed in the night. 21:09:24: cerberus "i don't think that there are others coming, unless they are really stealthy...." the foal reloads ther rifle, then drops on her four hooves and trots around, beginning to look in the ghoul's pockets... at least the onse that still have pockets 21:09:48: " 21:10:12: SilentSpecter sits down and unjams her gun muttering under her breath 21:10:40: AtomBell pulls out some bandages and a healing potion in her mouth, putting the still clean scalpel back in place. 21:11:23: Geldnir goes and gathers the sand bags from the second floor bring the down into the room. 21:11:36: Gnash glowers at Geldnir; "I seem to be the only one here who actually got hurt. This thing was a bitch." Gnash wobbles, feeling a little unsteady. "Not good." 21:11:42: bring them* 21:11:51: Umbra trots back to the rest of the group, hoping nobody had noticed what had, or rather hadn't, been happening in her little corner of the room. 21:11:58: AtomBell approaches Gnash with her supplies in mouth. She tries to indicate that the griffin should sit. 21:12:07: SilentSpecter finally unjams her gun and then reloads it before trotting over and checking the terminal 21:12:57: Gnash grumbles, but complies with the 'doctor's' request; feeling woozy leaves him presently unwilling to be snide. 21:15:03: cerberus trots towards the merchant griffin "hey geldnir, i found 15 caps among the ghouls, here, noe i'm checking the room..." the foal trots away, finishing her searching tour 21:15:09: Umbra moves off to search the room for anything interesting or useful, now that she's satisfied nobody is seriously hurt and there isn't any other immediate dangers. 21:15:27: "Keep them berry they're yours." 21:16:33: AtomBell applies a bandage to stop the bleeding before pulling the cork out of the healing potion. She again indicates with hoof motions he should open up wide. 21:16:49: Geldnir finishes moving the sand bags downstairs, and begins to search the first floor looking for any entrances or exits that might need to be baracaded. 21:16:50: cerberus "hey, the glowing ghoul hat a piece of paper on him! there's something written....." 21:17:14: cerberus trots towards SilentSpecter "ah... cna you read it, please?" 21:17:25: "Pass it here." 21:17:59: SilentSpecter looks up from the terminal "I can read it, yes." 21:18:11: Gnash snatches the healing potion from the pegasus, refusing to be bottle fed. He downs it in one gulp. 21:18:13: cerberus gives the papert to Geldnir, on it there's written that the pass of the terminal is PAPERCLIP 21:18:40: AtomBell doesn't appreciate the griffin's beak in her mouth and nearly drops it in surprise. 21:18:55: SilentSpecter snerks "It's the password" 21:19:11: "It says PAPERCLIP." 21:19:32: cerberus "ah... okay... i guess it's useless then...." the foal trots again into searching 21:20:59: AtomBell shrugs, taking the bottle back before going back to the middle of the room and sitting down. Everypony else has something to do except her, since nopony seems to be obviously bleeding. She wipes the worst of the ghoul juice off of her exposed coat. 21:22:32: SilentSpecter taps a few keys on the terminal, bringing up the resident search option "Who were we supposed to be looking for? I can look them up on here." 21:23:18: Geldnir starts staking sand bags in front of the main entrance. 21:23:24: stacking* 21:23:55: cerberus "uh... i found three more caps, and... ah.... three bobby pins?" 21:24:35: "Give the bobby pins to somepony capable of picking locks, and keep the caps." 21:24:38: cerberus it's "18 caps and 3 bobby pins.... and there's a lot of useless junk, too...." 21:25:00: "We can use the junk to baracade the building." 21:25:21: cerberus "ah.... i'm not good with this barter thing... shouldn't be better if i give you the caps, Geldnir?" 21:26:01: "Yeah I'll hold on to them for you then." 21:26:36: cerberus gives the 18 caps to the griffon, then look around and asks "who needs the bobby pins?" 21:26:46: SilentSpecter does a search for residents who worked for stable-tec in town 21:27:47: Several locations light up across the map, including one that's across the street. 21:28:43: SilentSpecter perks up "Hey, apprently one of the ponies we're looking for worked right across the street!" 21:29:24: Geldnir starts moving the sand bags outside right infront of the main door using the second floor window to enter and exit. 21:29:51: "We'll go there next then. After we secure this place." 21:29:58: AtomBell raises a hoof to Berry's question, "Sure, I could." 21:30:42: SilentSpecter nods and helps with the barricading efforts 21:31:06: Geldnir faceclaws and moves the sand bags outside to block the fire door. 21:31:52: "Main entrance opens in so block it from the inside I'll handle the fire exist. 21:31:53: " 21:32:19: "Gnash you want to lend us a claw?" 21:34:25: cerberus gives an attempt at helping with the barricading stuff, but with her strength she is more a decoraton than a real help 21:35:33: AtomBell thinks about offerring to help, but with so many clustered around she once again ends up just sort of standing there. 21:35:40: Umbra checks the place over for any enterences the aren't obvious, as she wouldn't enter by the door if she thought hostiles were inside. 21:36:33: Gnash gets to his feet a bit unevenly; "We got anything for radiation? This fucker apparently didn't get the message that Equestria was cleansed." 21:36:54: With a room of ghouls massacred and a new destination in sight, our heroes set about fortifying the conquered town hall. 21:37:07: "We'll stop in town and grab some radaway." 21:37:29: Gnash takes one of the dead glowing one's hooves as a souvenir; the radiation having trickled away after its death. 21:37:40: Gnash smirks; "at least I got me a nightlight." 21:37:45: END OF SESSION FOR GROUP 4