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Dark Star, Silver, Iron, and Midnight continue their investigation and hopefully, the take down of a group of organized criminals who have taken up operations at an old fortress on the sea shore. They have already rescued a number of creatures and persuaded them to join in their efforts. Now, they most hope that they can strike with enough force, and quickly enough, to destroy the evil that has taken up residence there.
Up in the North, the ponies are waking up, ready for a new day
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>>117916Dark Star Pets mala
"You Did a good job,buddy. are you hurt?"
>>117922So cootHe looks very much excite
*is pet*
“No. But did you see me? That member slashed out at Silver! So I slashed him back.”
He looks down
“I think he’s dead”
Then he looks back at Dark Star, and receives more pets
>>117923"Good Job! you saved silver."
Dark Star continues the pets
>>117924“Anything for my new friends!”
Mala happily receives the pets. His joyful expression tells all
For once, just once in his life, Mala is a good boy
And he knows it
>>117918>>117920>>117925Any pony else here?
"We Need to keep moving. they could have heard him scream."
>>117926I don't think so.
Iron simply nods, not wanting to dawdle much longer.
>>117926I'm here. Sort of.
>>117925"You did well, Mala." Silver smiles at him.
>>117908Brie turns to the Unicorn. "Alright, show me your paperwork. Requisition forms, repair requests, I'll need to see the paper trail."
>>117928He smiles back
"Thank you... I don't hear that often..."
He looks again at the dead griffin
"He won't be hurting you anymore... Or me either"
>>117929He looks at brie with a dead "really?" look
>>117930Brie smiles. "I'm sorry, did I stutter?"
>>117931He raises an eyebrow at Brie
>>117932"Hauling you out by the neck IS still on the table." Brie smiles sweetly.
>>117933There is no smile on the unicorn’s dead faced expression, looking back at Brie
>>117930Silver looks to the same griffin. "I take it you knew him, then."
>>117935"I'm not sure... A lot of them kind of blurred together to me. But he looks like this one that would come by and make condescending demands. Be angry like I did not do something when I had already done that. Several of them were like that."
>>117936Now, and only now, he speaks, with the same dead expression. His voice is deep, and accented to some region further West
"Kid. I'm with the Gendarme. I don't have any records. You're looking for administration"
>>117937Silver nods, and places a hoof on Mala's shoulder for support.
>>117937Brie looks from the unicorn, to Otis, and then back to the unicorn. He sighs "That's disappointing."
He walks over to Onyx and begins a whispered dialogue with him.
"This guy knows way more than he's saying. He's effectively admitted it to me. If he's part of the Gendarme, that means the entire group could be and likely is involved, either directly or tacitly. There's no way we're gonna be able to pull him out of here if he's an official."
Aside from his whispers to Onyx, he calls out to Otis and the unicorn. "Very well, one last question. Who is 'Fang Zu Lang'? I'll need to speak with him."
>>117938He looks back up to Silver, almost solemnly, and nods back
>>117939He answers, plainly
"He's the head of the Genderarme in Haysabi"
>>117941"Ah, splendid! That will be all." As he moves to leave, passing the Unicorn he smiles. "You get to live another day! You should be proud."
>>117942He looks on at Brie, dead eyed
>>117943Brie waves to him with a finger-wiggling, jazz-hands-esque wave.
>>117944He responds
“Not very subtle, are you?”
>>117945No
So is almost no one here tonight?
>>117949Yep, not here. You're imagining this post.
Hmmm.... maybe we can do something
Okay, so I take it the Hoebuck group wants to move on?
Where to?
>>117955I think going upstairs is a good idea.
>>117956>>117957>>117958“Well...”
Mala’s expression turns from his previous pride, to that of worry. A silent look of worry as he frowns, and looks at them
“There are two ways to go upstairs through the same stairwell. One is back into the basement of the old military prison, where we cane from. On the right. The other is down the tunnel under the main building, on the left. Either way, you will go up to where their members from across the seas live”
>>117960After hearing Mala's offers, Iron makes a quick decision.
"I choose the second option presented. If we can take out more patrols down here, it means that their forces will be weakened."
>>117961"That was my thoughts exactly."
>>117961Silver nods in agreement.
>>117961>>117962>>117963Midnight looks at the ponies, then the hyena before nodding
"Then let us be off"
>>117963>>117962>>117961"Okay...."
The group cautiously goes through the boiler room, then, peering into the tunnel, takes a right through the doorway of the now busted down door, and into the beige colored stone and mortar old hall. At times the hallway seems to twist and wind like a forest stream, at others it seems perfectly straight from end to end. Past one doorway, and another on the right, then
"Well... the sleeping quarters are up these stairs. I don't know how many of them will be up there. But it's a big building."
Mala in the lead, Khoi not far behind, Skies and Jubilosa in the center, with Loputu and Meadows at the rear, with only Sands to act the rear guard. It's an unwieldy caravan of the able and the less so
>>117964A renewed sound of steam flowing through pipes accompanies what seem to be distant whispers
>>117966Silver would be near the front.
>>117966>>117967Midnight tries to ignore the whispers as she joins the back of the group, by Sands.
>>117966Dark Star is in the middle near blue.