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>>119673iron goes out, and Sands tentatively follows, looking around with wide eyes and more than a normal amount of blinking
>>119678"Can i do anything to help you?"
>>119679With a cautious walk, he scans the area for anything of note as he walks, hoping to find a clue of something happening.
>>119680"Well, you can help us with making firebombs. We already have made good progress, we will be able to really put hurt to these griffons."
>>119681It looks as if he sees Dark Star entering into the Bathroom
>>119683Iron breathes a sigh of relief after seeing his brown/red colleague, turning to Sands.
"They have not seem to move, it looks like."
He slowly prances casually to the bathroom door.
"We should be good, Sands. Stay behind me, just in case."
>>119684She follows behind him, looking behind her, and bouncing her shoulders a little. They go to the door
From behind, "Iron?"
>>119682"what is that black drum?"
>>119685Iron stops to look at Samds with a kind smile.
"Yes, Sands?"
>>119686"Heating oil.
That is what we are putting in these bottles. They will go up in flames very well."
>>119686Whether or not it's relevant to the question, Dark Star can smell something like Diesel fuel
>>119687Oh it's not Sands. Sands, in fact, jumps forward, and repositions herself facing the new creature. It's a griffin, a certain
specific griffin
"Where have you been?"
Sands tries to respond first
"Looking around in these rooms for anything hidden. Books, evidence, captives, hidden doors"
>>119689Iron, for his part, raises his brow in surprise at the sudden appearance of the pegasus mare hidden in a beaked chick, his ears standing straight at her sight.
He simply nods to what Sands say, since it was technically what she was doing previously.
>>119689>>119688Dark Star sits down and helps fill jars full of it.
>>119690"Right..."
Her lower beak pulls back as if in a frown
She looks back behind them, where the other griffin, with bandages on her, walks back along side the Kirin Khoi Lua. The dark blue colt walks between them, looking around, and with steps that are almost like a tip toe. Behind them all walks the gnoll, with open mouth and protruding tongue. Skies walks past them, opening the door into the room
>>119691>>119688Silver Shekels enters the bathroom
>>119693Now Silver looks to the new arrivals. "You finished. Uh...did anyone happen to remember to bring my armor?"
>>119693Iron gladly lets the others pass through the bathroom before either him or Sands, breathing a little heavily from the surprise to find almost all the other rebels down here right as he was about to enter.
"Go on through. I will keep guard."
>>119694"The scally pony has it"
She answers. Behind them walks in the colt, who dashes in and off to the side, Jubilosa with a sort of limp and who immediately looks to Silver, Khoi Lua by her side, a hoof on Jubilosa's back and Silver's armor on her own back, and behind them all, Mala, who walks almost lazily or happily
>>119696"It is good to see you all. We are almost ready." Silver grabs the armor off of Khoi, and puts it on.
>>119693Dark Star smiles as he sees her
>>119698She smiles back to him
>>119697Khoi looks up to him, and lowers her head, to allow the armor to move over her
She says to him, looking up to his eyes
"Are you alright? I was busy helping Jubilosa and could not tend to you"
>>119697>>119698"Alright... now that
that is taken care of, how are we doing this?"
>>119695Sands turns around and looks to him, tilting her head slightly, with drawn back lips and big eyes
"But are you sure? You will be easier to see here than inside"
>>119699Iron starts to sweat slightly after what Sands told him.
"Well..."
He lightly kicks the floor with a pout, before inhaling a bit, letting a breath out in a short gust of wind.
"Let us enter."
Thus, he walks over to the door and enters the bathroom, hoping Sands follows."
>>119698>>119697Lo and behold the native has arrived. Keep your responses ready until Sands comes along. Then you can shoot.
>>119700"Howdy. you look relaxed."
>>119699Silver looks to be in pain, still, though not as much as he was. He smiles at the concern she apparently shows towards his injured state. "I...could be better. But I am afraid my injuries will require more time to heal than we have. Midnight has helped them to heal somewhat, so that will have to be enough."
>>119700A rather severely-injured and bloodied Silver can most
definitely smell the sex and pheromones coming from the big native. He smiles a knowing smile at Iron as he hoofs over a potion of Cure Light Wounds. "Here, I heard you were injured in boiler wound. Drink this and heal up, we will need as many health fighters as we can get."
>>119701Silver looks over to Dark Star for leadership.
>>119703"That was.... pretty brave"
She looks over to Loputu, who himself has moved closer to the improvised bombs
"It's a very dangerous place for a colt to be running about"
>>119705He can't help but look a little bashful at the compliment. "Just doing what I do best to help..."
He looks over to Loputu as well. "It is difficult to ask him to remain in the place. He is strong colt, but it may not be enough. Should time come, he may need to become warrior, as much as I do not want it to come to that."
>>119706"he looks just a year or two below drafting age... Whether he is ready or not, the call may come to him"
>>119703"Let's get these bottes filled."
>>119703Iron blinks at Silver, before pulling his own Cure Light Wounds potion with a smile, leaving him with the last one in his person on his belt.
"Remember who gave the gift you present, Silver."
He chuckles, before bumping Silver's shoulder with a hoof.
"Do not forget to stop by for more later."
He takes a drink to heal his wounds
[1d8+3 = 9]<Zebra voodoo magic at play here>>119701Iron looks at Star, puzzled by his comment.
"Thank you?" he responds.
>>119705>>119706Iron looks at Khoi and Silver with a cock of his head.
"I assume something else happened that I was not there to witness?"
>>119707"Sadly...listen, Khoi, if things end up looking dook dire, as if we are going to lose, I want you to take Mala, Jubilosa, Loputu, and whoever else we can save, and run. Make sure at least someone escapes this place alive."
>>119709Khoi narrows her eyes, and almot speaks through her teeth
"
Yes. The pony colt almost got carried away, Jubilosa nearly died, and Silver is injured"
>>119710She is silent for a moment, looking at him with wide eyes. And the silence drags on a moment longer. She looks back to the others near the barrels, and then to Loputu, then back to Silver
"Okay. I will do so"
>>119709"Hmm...so, I suppose I should take this one myself, then." Silver looks to the potion he was otherwise going to offer Iron.
>>119708Blue Shekels walks over
"What are you doing here?"
>>119711Iron cranes his head in shock
"
What?!"
He decides to walk over to Jubilosa, quickly handing her his last potion.
"Take it. I do not want any casualties on this mission if I can help it."
>>119712Iron nods at Silver, before turning back to Khoi
>>119711"How did that happen?"
>>119713"making a nice little drink for our Hooked beak friends."
He grins.
[1d8+1 = 5]>>119711Silver nods in appreciation, and at Iron declining the potion Silver offered him, downs it himself, instead.
>>119714She is surprised, and says in her accented voice
"Where have you been?"
She looks down to the potion
"Wow, thanks. But the Unicorn has already given me one"
>>119714Khoi:
"Loputu was not pulled into a safe room and wondered around. These... criminals here in the hallway encountered him. He tried to hide in a closet but it did not work. They tried to drag him off, and may have succeeded, but for Silver here. We fought them and succeeded. But there was suffering and injury in the process"
>>119715"Uh, you're going to burn them?"
>>119718"I am.... not so sure about that. You see, as evil as what is happening here is, it's not a war zone, so you can't just kill unsuspecting creatures without special circumstances like them trying to kill you, or at least fleeing"
>>119719Silver looks over to Blue Skies, now partially healed a bit more than before. "Why did you not raise these objections earlier?"
>>119720"I did realize you were going to
firebomb them"
>>119719"They have tryed to kill us. and im sure they've done worse than that to somepony's here."
>>119717"Bedroom," he responds flatly to Jubilosa before looking for any sort of wounds, circling around her.
"How much was it treated? Are you still able to wield a weapon and swing it? Any headaches? Difficulty breathing?"
He turns to Khoi, with an alarmed expression
"How was the colt left unguarded all this time? Did no one want to be on guard duty for the little one? Why did he wander off the group?
How did he wander off the group?"
>>119723"Wha" she responds to the bedroom comment
Then looks to Iron with large eyes, pulling her head back, clearly not expecting the close attention to her physical body
"Yes... I was scratched into my chest and the wounds were deep. I had some difficulty breathing, pain, and bleeding. No headaches."
Khoi:
"Looks like no one was looking out for where he was. Maybe he was behind us and didn't see us go in, or he thought there wasn't enough room for all of us"
>>119722"Well yes, but you see, every single individual instance of creaturacide must be justified. It's the same as the normal laws against murder, except where the opponents are partisans in arms against the state, in which it is like the laws of war, minus the laws, because they do not wear uniforms or abide by laws themselves."
>>119721"If you have any better ideas, let us hear them."
>>119724Shaking his head at Khoi's explanation, he simply presents the potion again to Jubilosa, shaking it with his hoof lightly.
"Drink it. I need you to be in top shape for the fight. You need it more than me."
>>119724"Laws were made to be bent."
>>119725"Uh... I'm sure there is a work around. You can still kill any creature that is either trying to use deadly force against you, against some other innocent creature, or who is fleeing the scene. And of course enemy combatants may be ambushed, and partisans have no legal protection at all. I think the civilian government will give a bounty on live aliens that are turned in."
>>119726"Uh... the grey unicorn, Silver I think his name is, already offered me one."
She looks back up to him with her slit, cat eyes and a beak pulled back in what loooks like a smile
"Thank you, though"
>>119727Blue Skies smiles back to him
"Well, see if you can figure out how to bend these"
>>119728"I can not believe you did not know that is what we were going to do. You gave your approval of idea of making them in first place, and you even gave idea of using heating oil."