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Onyx, Spark and Brie settle down for the night in a cabin in the woods along with a set of recently rescued ponies, saved from Changeling cocoons, as well as the changelings who sought to take them captive, who are themselves locked away as captives.
In Baltimare, Silver, Dark Star, Iron, and now Midnight Lily do their last preparations before seeking to take on a creature smuggling operation in a port-side neighborhood
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>>112750
Iron closes the front side door.
"The right door it is."
He opens the right-side door, with Midnight in tow at a safe distance, flashlight pointing forward, scouting the place.
Iron closes the front side door.
"The right door it is."
He opens the right-side door, with Midnight in tow at a safe distance, flashlight pointing forward, scouting the place.
>>112753
Wonder what Skies would have find when the party split. I can only imagine her freaking out “what the fuck are you doing, we need to stick together,” but I really can’t see her as in either group, since it would be awkward to not be in the other group
>>112754
It looks as if this is a tunnel underground that goes a short distance or so. The tunnel is straight, and the walls are painted white, while the floor is concrete
Wonder what Skies would have find when the party split. I can only imagine her freaking out “what the fuck are you doing, we need to stick together,” but I really can’t see her as in either group, since it would be awkward to not be in the other group
>>112754
It looks as if this is a tunnel underground that goes a short distance or so. The tunnel is straight, and the walls are painted white, while the floor is concrete
>>112755
Iron is quite surprised.
"An escape tunnel, maybe?"
He walks along the tunnel to see where it ends.
(This could prove useful if we end up having to run away.)
Iron is quite surprised.
"An escape tunnel, maybe?"
He walks along the tunnel to see where it ends.
(This could prove useful if we end up having to run away.)
>>112756
It goes deeper, further. Finally, they get to a room with loud machines, and a cart. These machines seem to have an internal spinning mechanism
It goes deeper, further. Finally, they get to a room with loud machines, and a cart. These machines seem to have an internal spinning mechanism
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>>112758
He comes closer to them, studying their purpose.
(The workshop was on the right door. Perhaps this control the lights?)
Int check to see what magic knowledge he can muster on what these machines could do.
>>112758
He comes closer to them, studying their purpose.
(The workshop was on the right door. Perhaps this control the lights?)
Int check to see what magic knowledge he can muster on what these machines could do.
>>112769
Iron hums to himself before picking the white clothing, attempting to put them on.
(Seems like a good idea before I venture further in.)
Iron hums to himself before picking the white clothing, attempting to put them on.
(Seems like a good idea before I venture further in.)
>>112774
He decides to use the cart as a possible hiding spot for both Midnight and himself for now.
(Is he coming over here?) Iron thinks to himself, peeking around where the noise came from.
He decides to use the cart as a possible hiding spot for both Midnight and himself for now.
(Is he coming over here?) Iron thinks to himself, peeking around where the noise came from.
>>112778
Crap.
(I need to hide until she is close. Perhaps I can do some interrogation if I can catch her.)
With that, he covers his whole body around the cart until he can hear her as where the machines are.
Crap.
(I need to hide until she is close. Perhaps I can do some interrogation if I can catch her.)
With that, he covers his whole body around the cart until he can hear her as where the machines are.
Okay, I’m’a go to sleep. Looks like midnight already kill anyways
Did you want cool and varied challenges for the party that are appropriate to the level?
Well that cant happen now, given that there isn’t really a full level 5 party
Well that cant happen now, given that there isn’t really a full level 5 party
>>112788
Shit. Well, Iron should know where they are and viceversa.
I'm not sure which path is the most time consuming one, but perhaps I can skedaddle with Midnight to the church or the S gang can go back to the warehouse after they find out the possible main bad of this mission and have some screentime to do things.
Shit. Well, Iron should know where they are and viceversa.
I'm not sure which path is the most time consuming one, but perhaps I can skedaddle with Midnight to the church or the S gang can go back to the warehouse after they find out the possible main bad of this mission and have some screentime to do things.
>>112790
I think you're witnessing the bad griff, so I assume he'll go back to the warehouse to oversee how everything is going back at his business. I think.
Or he could be some random griffon dressed in black, I dunno.
I think you're witnessing the bad griff, so I assume he'll go back to the warehouse to oversee how everything is going back at his business. I think.
Or he could be some random griffon dressed in black, I dunno.
Alright, a little back reading later and I think I know what's going on.
>Midnight and Iron went down a tunnel
>A griffon is coming
>Midnight and Iron went down a tunnel
>A griffon is coming
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>>112784
>>112790
Dark Star - and Silver, should be so choose - looks into the church though the blinds. The blinds are down, but open, so that they can see through the gaps between the blinds, even as parts of their vision are obscured. The church is rectangular on the side facing Horseman Avenue, before “bulging” bear the center. From the outside the materials used to create the “bulge” are different, as the extension to the building’s middle seems to have been created after the building’s construction.
Silver might recall that Severyanan Orthodox prefer a circular or plus shaped construction, where a congregation circles around s sacred center, in contrast to the austere and simple rectangular style of the Ponetarian Amstel ponies.
The walls are are plain, beyond a few posters around eye level. The icons, stained glass, and other religious decorations that probably existed at the time this was a church of the Severyanans. All that remains is a single set of stained glass far behind what was the center and pulpit, on the rear wall, and a single icon of the twin sisters hanging in a location where the ceiling rises in the center of the building. This icon must be too high for any renovator to bother removing. The walls are a subtle and non intrusive pink, and fairly plain. In a weird kind of way, the Church has returned to its origins through its new, austere and plain interior. This was a church of the Ponetarians before immigrants from Severyana made it theirs, and the Ponetarians eschewed iconography or religious pomposity. To them, the divine and moral was so beyond the material, that to attempt to represent it could only distract ponies from true Harmony. Harmony exists within and beyond us, not in our representations of it. Spiritual gatherings are useful mostly for teaching, and thus the places of their gatherings are structured as s teacher teaching a class. To be spiritual and in Harmony is always and everywhere, and no location should pretend to be especially elevated above it. This was not the view of the Church of Severyana, where the gatherings were the opportunity to take part in the sacred, and to be in the presence of the sacred. That is why they adorn their places of worship in icons, and structure their contractions in a circle around a center. It is a way to bring the self to the spiritual, to represent it, and to unite the self with the others around you.
Now the floor is planks of wood, forming a respectable enough dancing floor. The pews are gone, but removable and foldable chairs of various kinds populate it in makeshift pews. There are something like thirty creatures before a single speaker. The group is overwhelmingly griffin, more so than the average of Red Heart, but there is at least one pony among the audience. Dark Star described the scene as a religious congregation, and that is essentially what it appears to be, with a single griffin elevated on a stage speaking to larger group who do not seem to be speaking back. After all, the police report, or at least the portions not lost or sealed away, lists this location as home to a congregation of worshipers of the god Boreas, albeit one that does not answer to the Archonate, and is not recognized by the official griffin church.
If there are any rituals, or any special symbols, they are not present for the sermon. Indeed, the scene hardly looks any different from when Dark Star watched Golden delicious speak to a crowd of a thousand on the coming socialist state, or when Dark Star watched Affordable Care, or even Marecuse, speak of the Revolution. Indeed, it could as well be a lecture by a professor, or a briefing by a general. Even a corporate meeting. Unlike the congregation in Dark Star’s old Celestialist Church the creatures in the audience pay intense attention, never playing with their feathers nor talking to the creature next to them, but always focusing intensely on the speaker, never drifting or losing attention. One thing is certain, they are not dancing.
Their attire is fairly formal, but not fully ritual. The lead griffin wears a black formal coat that does not hang down like an Orthodox priest, nor does he appear to be a dandy. If this is indeed a religious sermon, this congregation seems as austere and plain as the Ponetarians, because their is no particularly special attire nor complex ritual on display. In appearance, it is essentially secular.
They can hear speech, they cannot hear said speech in enough detail to make out words or even the language.
>>112790
Dark Star - and Silver, should be so choose - looks into the church though the blinds. The blinds are down, but open, so that they can see through the gaps between the blinds, even as parts of their vision are obscured. The church is rectangular on the side facing Horseman Avenue, before “bulging” bear the center. From the outside the materials used to create the “bulge” are different, as the extension to the building’s middle seems to have been created after the building’s construction.
Silver might recall that Severyanan Orthodox prefer a circular or plus shaped construction, where a congregation circles around s sacred center, in contrast to the austere and simple rectangular style of the Ponetarian Amstel ponies.
The walls are are plain, beyond a few posters around eye level. The icons, stained glass, and other religious decorations that probably existed at the time this was a church of the Severyanans. All that remains is a single set of stained glass far behind what was the center and pulpit, on the rear wall, and a single icon of the twin sisters hanging in a location where the ceiling rises in the center of the building. This icon must be too high for any renovator to bother removing. The walls are a subtle and non intrusive pink, and fairly plain. In a weird kind of way, the Church has returned to its origins through its new, austere and plain interior. This was a church of the Ponetarians before immigrants from Severyana made it theirs, and the Ponetarians eschewed iconography or religious pomposity. To them, the divine and moral was so beyond the material, that to attempt to represent it could only distract ponies from true Harmony. Harmony exists within and beyond us, not in our representations of it. Spiritual gatherings are useful mostly for teaching, and thus the places of their gatherings are structured as s teacher teaching a class. To be spiritual and in Harmony is always and everywhere, and no location should pretend to be especially elevated above it. This was not the view of the Church of Severyana, where the gatherings were the opportunity to take part in the sacred, and to be in the presence of the sacred. That is why they adorn their places of worship in icons, and structure their contractions in a circle around a center. It is a way to bring the self to the spiritual, to represent it, and to unite the self with the others around you.
Now the floor is planks of wood, forming a respectable enough dancing floor. The pews are gone, but removable and foldable chairs of various kinds populate it in makeshift pews. There are something like thirty creatures before a single speaker. The group is overwhelmingly griffin, more so than the average of Red Heart, but there is at least one pony among the audience. Dark Star described the scene as a religious congregation, and that is essentially what it appears to be, with a single griffin elevated on a stage speaking to larger group who do not seem to be speaking back. After all, the police report, or at least the portions not lost or sealed away, lists this location as home to a congregation of worshipers of the god Boreas, albeit one that does not answer to the Archonate, and is not recognized by the official griffin church.
If there are any rituals, or any special symbols, they are not present for the sermon. Indeed, the scene hardly looks any different from when Dark Star watched Golden delicious speak to a crowd of a thousand on the coming socialist state, or when Dark Star watched Affordable Care, or even Marecuse, speak of the Revolution. Indeed, it could as well be a lecture by a professor, or a briefing by a general. Even a corporate meeting. Unlike the congregation in Dark Star’s old Celestialist Church the creatures in the audience pay intense attention, never playing with their feathers nor talking to the creature next to them, but always focusing intensely on the speaker, never drifting or losing attention. One thing is certain, they are not dancing.
Their attire is fairly formal, but not fully ritual. The lead griffin wears a black formal coat that does not hang down like an Orthodox priest, nor does he appear to be a dandy. If this is indeed a religious sermon, this congregation seems as austere and plain as the Ponetarians, because their is no particularly special attire nor complex ritual on display. In appearance, it is essentially secular.
They can hear speech, they cannot hear said speech in enough detail to make out words or even the language.
>>112796
"Silver...something feels Off about this congregation. it doesn't remind me of any of the Services i've ever attended. it feels more like a communist speaking to their followers. i've been to a couple of their rallies,"
"Silver...something feels Off about this congregation. it doesn't remind me of any of the Services i've ever attended. it feels more like a communist speaking to their followers. i've been to a couple of their rallies,"
>>112803
Perhaps it is only appropriate. Brie has finished persuading the pair of changelings to follow him to his date with the Hegemony. They are tired, starved, injured, and though the suspect Brie may sell them out, they cannot avoid the firing squad forever.
Over in the other room are several ponies, almost all of whom suffer from severe Changeling love drain
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Perhaps it is only appropriate. Brie has finished persuading the pair of changelings to follow him to his date with the Hegemony. They are tired, starved, injured, and though the suspect Brie may sell them out, they cannot avoid the firing squad forever.
Over in the other room are several ponies, almost all of whom suffer from severe Changeling love drain
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>>112809
If the ponies in the next room are suffering from love drain, then why are these two hungry?
If the ponies in the next room are suffering from love drain, then why are these two hungry?
Somewhere a bat is making bat noises near a church.
Somewhere else, a crystal is making rock noises.
Somewhere else, a crystal is making rock noises.
>>112815
I mean, it was more a commentary on their general state over the past several months and what they can reasonably expect if they remain the wilderness indefinitely. Right now they are fairly well off
>>112816
They ain’t asleep yet, but they are trying to lay down. Dawson is still vocalizing discontent about the loss of his bedroom, and in any case they’d like more blankets or mattresses
I mean, it was more a commentary on their general state over the past several months and what they can reasonably expect if they remain the wilderness indefinitely. Right now they are fairly well off
>>112816
They ain’t asleep yet, but they are trying to lay down. Dawson is still vocalizing discontent about the loss of his bedroom, and in any case they’d like more blankets or mattresses
>>112818
Ah k, just checking. I'm still not sure what went on, other than that some ponies got attacked, and some bugs got squished
Ah k, just checking. I'm still not sure what went on, other than that some ponies got attacked, and some bugs got squished
>>112820
Sorry I'm not available for you to play with Midnight. Having uni classes rn. Should be able to continue in about an hour.
Sorry I'm not available for you to play with Midnight. Having uni classes rn. Should be able to continue in about an hour.
>>112825
"A Cult? here in baltimare? Yes i have, it was before i joined up with the black hooves. and then one time afterwards to gather intel."
"A Cult? here in baltimare? Yes i have, it was before i joined up with the black hooves. and then one time afterwards to gather intel."
>>112829
Silver digests that little nugget. "Cults are everywhere, religious or not. I am not explicitly saying it is cult, it just seems like one. Cults rely on charismatic speakers, capable of getting inside others' heads and speaking directly to them, to what they want out of life. Rarely does it end well for those who fall for such honeyed words. And this, well, it seems more like they are here for who is speaking as much what they are speaking."
Silver digests that little nugget. "Cults are everywhere, religious or not. I am not explicitly saying it is cult, it just seems like one. Cults rely on charismatic speakers, capable of getting inside others' heads and speaking directly to them, to what they want out of life. Rarely does it end well for those who fall for such honeyed words. And this, well, it seems more like they are here for who is speaking as much what they are speaking."
>>112826
Inside are Brie (Spark? Probably Spark) and Onyx’s two favorite creatures, the changelings that drained his and shot at him earlier, ‘ol blue eyes (who shot at Onyx) stands nearer Brie, and blue green (who drained onyx) keeps his distended from Spark. Over in the corner is a basket with quilts - family quilts with pictures of ponies woven in it, and of the lands of Whinnysota
Inside are Brie (Spark? Probably Spark) and Onyx’s two favorite creatures, the changelings that drained his and shot at him earlier, ‘ol blue eyes (who shot at Onyx) stands nearer Brie, and blue green (who drained onyx) keeps his distended from Spark. Over in the corner is a basket with quilts - family quilts with pictures of ponies woven in it, and of the lands of Whinnysota
>>112833
"What you just described matches with the reactions of the audience at the rallies,Should we maybe...go inside?"
"What you just described matches with the reactions of the audience at the rallies,Should we maybe...go inside?"
>>112835
"Hmm...it is risky. And I am not certain how welcoming they would be of arms being openly brought into building, if we go in through front door. I will leave decision up to you."
"Hmm...it is risky. And I am not certain how welcoming they would be of arms being openly brought into building, if we go in through front door. I will leave decision up to you."
>>112839
"Well this used to be a SvetyaianTfw i forgot how to spell the word, just assume Dark star said it correctly. Church, you could say that you were showing your zigger friend, the church you used to pray at."
"Well this used to be a SvetyaianTfw i forgot how to spell the word, just assume Dark star said it correctly. Church, you could say that you were showing your zigger friend, the church you used to pray at."
>>112844
"Severyanan. And if that is what you want to go with, I will be with you all way." He chuckles. "So, what should I call you...zebra?"
"Severyanan. And if that is what you want to go with, I will be with you all way." He chuckles. "So, what should I call you...zebra?"
>>112851
"I agree. Very well, Zekker. Let me give you grand tour." Silver makes his way around to the front of the church, before trying the front door.
"I agree. Very well, Zekker. Let me give you grand tour." Silver makes his way around to the front of the church, before trying the front door.
>>112837
One if these quilts even has Rose and Dawson as a couple on it. Another has dairy farms, wheat, and iron ore mines.
Blue green backs himself even further away into a corner on the far side of the small room
>>112858
>>112858
Be advised. If thus turns sour, Dark Star and Silver will not be able to outfight their opponents, they will not be able to outrun the flying enemy, and they will never make it back to the party healer way across the map
One if these quilts even has Rose and Dawson as a couple on it. Another has dairy farms, wheat, and iron ore mines.
Blue green backs himself even further away into a corner on the far side of the small room
>>112858
>>112858
Be advised. If thus turns sour, Dark Star and Silver will not be able to outfight their opponents, they will not be able to outrun the flying enemy, and they will never make it back to the party healer way across the map
>>112879
Alrighty then
Midnight steps out, slowly trotting forward and doing her best to look confused.
Alrighty then
Midnight steps out, slowly trotting forward and doing her best to look confused.
>>112903
Excellent. Hopefully GM gets back, but I have a feeling he wants to shoo the S duo away from the church, since he's making it sound like a boss battle setting.
Excellent. Hopefully GM gets back, but I have a feeling he wants to shoo the S duo away from the church, since he's making it sound like a boss battle setting.
>>112955
Its friday. Who knows what he's doing. Obviously I hope for the best, but its a little early to be getting concerned about it.
Its friday. Who knows what he's doing. Obviously I hope for the best, but its a little early to be getting concerned about it.
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I am on an out of town trip for a Labor Day weekend. I think I will be available later tonight
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