Welcome back to the Latest Thread of Occupied Equestria
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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>>111065"Hmmmmmmm. I Believe that i'll take a Shortbow. Hows the range on those?"
>>111068“An arrow shot by the bow can go several hundred feet, but with declining accuracy as distance increases. The bow is most accurate at a range of 60 feet for the single-wood bows, and 70 feet for the multi-wood”
>>111069"would you suggest a multi-wood bow? if so what other wood would pair nicely with yew?"
>>111071“It isn’t Wood, so much as horn laminated to the wood with sinew. Manticore, bovine, what’s bone... they slightly increase the resistance of the bow”
>>111072"Manticore bone eh? That sounds like a plan to me. I Need to be stealthy with this bow,so i won't spook the game, what enchantments could be put on a weapon like this?"
>>111073“There are many enchantments that can be placed on a shortbow. There are enchantments to make an arrow light up in flame. To distribute an electric shock into its target. To hit the afflicted wound with ice and cold. To merely knock and stun the targeted creature. To make the arrow fly twice the distance. To magically increase both penetration and damage. To be more likely to hit an important area. To afflict particular damage upon certain types of creatures... And more. Much more.”
>>111074"What types of creatures?"
>>111075“Well, sir, you tell me. They are organized by taxonomical category, rather than by species. From Outsiders, to Animals, to Dragons, to Plants.”
>>111077“Well, if you mean animals, then yes. We can include an enchantment for any non-sentient birds from sparrows all the way up to Rocs”
>>111078>>111077Sounds like you should come out on your intention of 'hunting' griffons if you want that enchantment.
>>111078"what if i wanted sentient avaians included?"
>>111081“Well... that would be sapienscide, and we would have to decline the sale”
He looks suspiciously at the young zebra male trying to buy weapons
>>111082"I Live Close to the Griffon Ghetto across town. There's a large amount of crimes that happen there. i'm just trying to protect my children."
>>111083“Self defense or not, we are not allowed to sell items of magically increased lethality to private actors who expressly intend to use it to kill others”
[1d20+5 = 22]>>111084Diplomacy
A Tear Rolls Down Zigger Star's Face and theres a desperation in his voice.
"Do you not know the brutality of Griffons? They would murder me,Rape and sell my foals into slavery. You don't have any foals of your own?"
>>111089There is clearly an effect on the salespony, yet he reiterates what was said before
“It is not up to me. There is a local law against selling weapons of magically increased lethality to civilians, where said weapon is intended for use other than hunting or wildlife control.”
[1d20+5 = 17]>>111091Diplomacy Again
The Tears are flowing now
"Fine, I'll Go Describe to the little ones the bleak painful future ahead of them, the Griffons will probably make them watch as they cut my throat open and let the blood drain out. after that they would probably turn my body into their meal for the week,at which point they will force feed my remains to my foals in a sadistic torture method,designed to break them.and my poor poor filly..."
He chokes the next few words out
"You could imagine what they would do to an innocent Young Mare like her."
>>111093This
>>111092“Tell you what. I cannot make for you a bow baned against Griffins.... but I
can sell you a magical sword or bow of Mercy that stuns more than a normal bow or sword wounds”
>>111094Dark Star isn't a real zigger, and statements like before might blow his cover
>>111095"Th-That would be Better than nothing."
>>111096I know, right? I was incredulous when he claimed to have kids at home. Then I figured “well, this is set back in something like the 1940s when Black families actually had fathers”
>>111097Reeee
>>111098“Right, we can do something like that, and or sell you something for hunting trips”
>>111099"Thank you so much. What kind of arrows do you have?"
>>111100“The arrows are normal. They take enchantments from the bow”
>>111102"Interesting. How much would it cost to carve something into the wood?"
>>111104“Depends on the intricacy of the carving. A few bits for just a couple letters, and much more for complex custom engravings”
>>111107"Could you Carve a picture of my Late pony friend into it? Her Name Was Dark Days."
>>111108“If there is a picture to go by, an artist may be able to”
>>111110Dark Star hands him the picture of his mother
>>111114“We’ll see if our artist can work with this”
>>111118"How much for the order?"
>>111126"The Bow,Light Crossbow, and the 2 shortswords."
>>111128“Was that a composite shortbow with manticore bone, the engraving, a mundane light crossbow, and two mundane short swords?”
>>111114>race mixingOkay, that's something a zigger would do
>>111130Oi! Don't diss on mah zeebfu, u lil beach.
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I fite u
>>111130its Dark Star's mom
>>111129"Yes, Can you put a Damage enchantment on the Crossbow though?"
Holy FUCK, treating kanker sores burns!
>>111143“And no enchantment on the bow?”
>>111145"I Still want the one on the bow as well as the one on the crossbow. How much would that be?"
>>111147“You are going to have to be more specific about what you mean by ‘the one enchantment.’ There are any of a dozen possible enchantments.”
>>111148A Look of confusion comes across dark star's face
"the one that stuns?"
>>111150“Alright... let’s see... a mere 20 bits for lower end mundane short swords, 450 bits for a master-work, Manticore boned composite shortbow with a custom engraving, and 2000 additional bits for a merciful enchantment. 375 for a masterwork light crossbow, and another 2000 for an enchantment on it. 4845 bits in total”