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Occupied Equestria - Between Storms
Anonymous
3f5f16c
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No.129000
In the North, Spark has encountered a new tribe of creatures, who are eager to take him as an emissary between cultures. In the south, Iron sleeps off his wounds, with dreams of a new life for himself and a certain zebra. Silver tries to settle in those he saved from the cultists into their own lives. Fantasy play establishes herself in Baltimare, and she too, has encountered cultures unknown to her before. As they all search for normalcy, it remains to be seen just what dangers await beyond the horizon
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Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130454
130456
>>130451
"Silver Sword. I am pony who cleared undead from quarry and catacombs."

He steps aside to show Mala.

"This is my partner, Mala. I heard bodies leftover from when I cleared this place were going to be recovered, and I came to offer assistance."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130455
130456
>>130453
"Did you not have this 'hangover' thing haunting you?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130456
130457 130458
>>130455
"Well yes, that's why I need alcohol. To help my hangover."

>>130454
Peer Review looks over at Mala, who raises his head and his diamond shaped ears
"I see"

Then Peer Review looks back to Silver
"We were hired to do an archaeological evaluation of this site before it was dug up for construction, per city ordinance. There are indeed equine remains here that must be interred as well. Tell me, you cleared this site?"
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130457
130459
>>130456
"Oh," he pauses, blinking once in mild puzzlement before sniffing slightly "alright then."
Having said that, he turns to Blanche. "That will be all, unless there is more you have to offer."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130458
130459
>>130456
"As far as my knowledge goes. Is there issue?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130459
130460 130463
>>130457
She blinks
"Well, if you want an appetizer, or anything else"

White Sands adds:
"Coffee. Get me coffee."

>>130458
"No, just... that explains the destruction..."

The green unicorn is walking over. Silver can see that the table below Peer Review has a sketch of what is presumably the below ground facility, and the cloth has on it items like a rusted sword and a hat. The green unicorn must find Mala interesting, because he looks towards him, and Mala looks back
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130460
130461
>>130459
Iron ponders the offer for a moment before nodding. "Add what she ordered for me as well," he answers "that will be all."
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130461
130462
>>130460
She nods, and walks away
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130462
130464
>>130461
Seeing Blanche leave, Iron turns to Sands. "So alcohol and coffee make you recover from the ailment that is 'hangover'?" he asks
Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130463
130464
>>130459
Silver rubs the back of his neck.

"Ahm...inside structure or outside?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130464
130465 130466
>>130462
"It helps" She says, placing her hoof to her head again

>>130463
He moves his head back, and his ears twitch. He seems to relax

>>130463
"Well... Yes. Underground, mostly."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130465
130467
>>130464
Iron's ear flicker as he tilts his head. "I see," he mumbles before his ears straighten in a flash "oh, I did not hear you order some food before."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130466
130467
>>130464
"Oh! Good! Not destruction I mean, that I was not cause of internal damage. It was likely caused when they started quarrying operation."
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130467
130468 130470
>>130465
She moves a hoof around
"Oh, no matter. I will eat from some of yours."
Then she widens her eyes, and looks to Iron
"May I have some of yours?"

>>130466
"Um hmm" He nods skeptically
"Did you gleam any information about what went on here?"
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130468
130469
>>130467
Iron nods. "Sure," he answers gladly, blinking once in mild confusion "you do not really have to ask, considering how long I have not seen you eat since back at Hoebuck."
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130469
130471
>>130468
She holds her pastern up, and angles her hoof down.
"Oh, I'm fine"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130470
130472
>>130467
"Plenty. While I do not know exact purpose of this place before it was buried, in 8th century it was rediscovered by Joseph Curwhinny, who owned farmhouse near here. He used it to conduct necromatic experiments on its denizens, zebra slaves, and others in attempt to discover how to bring his wife and foals back from dead, after they had all died of plague."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130471
130472
>>130469
"Is it a unicorn thing to have little need to eat food because of horn stuff?" he proceeds to ask, now becoming curious at how nonchalant Sands is currently being "or is it more about keeping under a weight threshold?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130472
130473 130481
>>130471
"Oh no, I just had food after you went to sleep yesterday"
She waves again

>>130470
"Hmmm... The record from this region is that there was a dispute over customs in which Joseph Curwhinny was killed. High Chair believes this incident to have been an example of a bourgeois lead attempt at revolution against the old order. That is preposterous of course, as Joseph Curwhinny was a member of the bourgeois class, and I think it was something closer to a peasant rebellion, or even a proto-proletariat rebellion. The crux of the question is of course who the violence was directed against... There are more zombies than I expected..."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130473
130474
>>130472
"Oh," Iron utters before nodding assertively "right." He softly rubs his foreleg a little as he looks to the side "I got a bit worried you were not eating for some reason, but that makes sense."
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130474
130475
>>130473
"Don't be silly" She closes her eyes, and again waves her hoof dismissively
"So... what is this? Zebra food?"
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130475
130476
>>130474
Iron nods "Igborncs-made, if what I heard recently is accurate. No idea what makes a food that, but it tastes real nice."
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130476
130477
>>130475
"Right..." She seems skeptical

Blanche comes back, and gives White Sands what looks like a beer, and a cup of coffee

White Sands takes a sip of the beer
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130477
130478
>>130476
Iron tilts his head. "What do you usually eat?" he asks as he waits on his food.
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130478
130479
>>130477
"Not Zebra ethnic food, I can tell you that"
She takes a sip of the coffee, and then uses both hooves to hold the coffee
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130479
130480
>>130478
"Do you have many bad experiences with eating foreign foods?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130480
130482
>>130479
"No, it just seems sort of lower class, you know?"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130481
130483
>>130472
"That I figured out, as well, thanks to letters I found on militia ponies and Curwhinny's own notes. He fell in love with mare, Wood Hill, who was betrothed with prominent sailor named Whipperwhill. He broke off their engagement and married Wood Hill, even having foal with her. Whipperwhill's anger, combined with one of Curwhinny's friends, Cinnamon Corn, betraying knowledge to him that Curwhinny had been performing necromancy and had supposedly achieved lichdom, caused him to raise milita to attack catacombs. Curwhinny was sealed away, but his experiments were released and none of attacking militia ponies survived. Wood Hill and her foal with Curwhinny escaped, however. I still have many of notes and letters that document this, if you are interested."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130482
130483
>>130480
Iron tilts his head as an ear droops. "Eating certain foods are signs of somepony being of lower class?" he asks in mild disbelief.
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130483
130484 130489
>>130481
"Well, that's quite a story. I suspect the Tall Sails shipping company will not want this story to get out, all the more reason why we will. Yes, I would like to see these notes and letters"

>>130482
She moves her head back a little
"Well, I had just sort of thought of it that way."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130484
130485
>>130483
He tilts his head to the other side, drooping the opposite ear instead. "How did you reach that conclusion?" he asks, plainly curious.
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130485
130486
>>130484
"Well... Zebras are mostly poorer, and the recent immigrants are the poorest of the zebras. The more closely connected to the Zebrican cultures, the poorer."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130486
130487
>>130485
"Zebras are usually poor?" Iron asks once more, surprised as his minds goes back to the painting Obere had made with all the fancy sights he drew. "...did you ever get to visit Zebrica?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130487
130488
>>130486
She turns her head
"No..."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130488
130490
>>130487
"Do you know anypony that has gone to Zebrica that told you this?"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130489
130490
>>130483
Silver nods, and gives him all of the notes and letters he had acquired looking through the catacombs...minus those he had given to the Black Hooves previously, but he doesn't mention that. He particularly points out the letter Curwhinny left behind to Wood Hill when Whipperwhill attacked, the correspondance between Whipperwhill and Cinnamon Corn, the account of the 8th century plague, and Curwhinny's own retelling of the events that lead up to him marrying and having a foal with Wood Hill in his final letter to Cinnamon Corn.
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130490
130491 130495
>>130488
"I mean... I mean the immigrants, especially in Manehattan. I have met some ponies who have gone to Zebrica. They tell me many things."

>>130489
Peer Review looks down at the letters, and then looks over to the other stallion
"Mr. Loans, come over here. Look at these."
He starts moving the letters with his own yellow magic
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130491
130492
>>130490
"...how peculiar," Iron surmises as he pokes his chin "perhaps the ones you asked did not really have the best experience there."
One second passes before his ears straighten up in realization, blushing lightly as he meekly shrinks into his seat "Wait, I did not make you uncomfortable by asking all these zebra-related questions, did I?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130492
130493
>>130491
"... No?"
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130493
130494
>>130492
"Oh," Iron replies as he relaxed his posture. "I figured I asking a lot of questions you did not know how to answer."
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130494
130496
>>130493
"I just haven't been asked those questions before" She answers
Silver "The Floof" Sword
46ec1b5
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No.130495
130499
>>130490
Silver is actually interested in hearing what they will talk about, so he stays to listen.
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130496
130497
>>130494
"Does nopony you have ever met ask you about that?" Iron mutters aloud as his ears droop lightly "...do you not have others that may be curious enough as to ask them?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130497
130498
>>130496
"Well, I've only been offered Zebra food like... twice, before. Once I didn't say anything, and the other time they didn't say anything when I said it was lower class"
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130498
130499
>>130497
"Ooh," Iron can't help but coo in wonder "What were your first impressions when you tasted it?"
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130499
130500 130505
>>130495
Peer Review says to Mr. Loans,
"This pony says that he found these letters down stairs. He says they prove that Curwhinny was a Necromancer, and that there was a dispute over a mare."

The Unicorn repsonds
"I know, I heard him"

Peer Review:
"Then help to check the dates and put these in order. If these are real, they could cause controversy. And that would help to boost the publicity."

>>130498
"Well, it was from Colthage. Some of it was just rice, and there was this jelly like substance I don't remember the name of. That tasted sweet, it was alright."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130500
130502
>>130499
"I see," Iron replies, nodding "so who invited you to eat zebra food in the first place?"
Amber Sunset
7580e37
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No.130501
130504
Sorry I'm late
Amber uses the toilet (which presumably was designed with quadrupeds in mind, and hopefully is not too dirty) washes her hooves and face in the sink, perhaps struggling to figure out how it turns on. She goes into the "kitchen," unlatches her saddlebags and pulls out a parcel wrapped in waxy paper. Unwrapping it reveals some brown bread, cheese, and a couple of tomatoes. What kind of cheese would be common for the area?

She retrieves her knife and washes it in the sink, which hopefully is also not too dirty. About a third of the bread and cheese is cut off into thin slices and one of the tomatoes is cut in half. These she eats slowly, savoring the flavor of each bite. When Amber is finally finished she carefully wraps the remainder of the food, including the tomato half, in the paper and puts it into a cupboard if she has one. She washes the knife and decides to test the taste of the water from the faucet.
Anonymous
673a4c2
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No.130502
130503
>>130500
"A stallion in Manehattan. Met him when I was a waiter in a different restaurant."
Anonymous
f9e8634
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No.130503
130504
>>130502
"Ah," Iron muses as he scratches his chin "why did he do it?"