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Occupied Equestria - Long Hard Ride
Anonymous
72d6971
?
No.139000
139001
The adventure continues
1560 replies and 7 files omitted.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140160
140161
>>140159
Yes
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140161
140162
>>140160
He points to one of the soldiers' grenades, and makes a motion with his hoof like he wants it given to him.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140162
140163
>>140161
The soldier tosses a grenade to Silver, letting him catch it.
9226999
?
No.140163
140164 140166
[1d20+10 = 27]
>>140162
I'm not sure what the roll would be for a thrown weapon, so I'm going for a basic ranged roll, and if need be we can remove from the modifier.

Silver pulls the grenade's pin, then chucks it around the corner towards the changelings' general direction. He doesn't wait to find out how successful he was as he immediately moves to find another direction to attack from.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140164
140165
>>140163
There’s a loud explosion, the sound of breaking glass, and tile hitting tile.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140165
140166
>>140164
Silver moves to another sidestreet to attack from. In particular he looks for another sidestreet or alley closer to the church.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140166
140167
>>140163
As for another direction, Silver can presumably go three directions (back the way he came, across the street to the houses, and into the house)

>>140165
The church has whinnyton to its north, the house silver is hiding behind to its west, another house to the east, and the floral shop to the north of it.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140167
140168
>>140166
Silver goes into the house he's hiding behind, then.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140168
140169
>>140167
Silver breaks down the door to see it leads into a wooden floored living room. There is a small hall on the left with an open door way into a room, a couch on the far right, broken windows on the right wall, and a radio on the wall on the left. The far wall has a few pictures in wooden frames hanging, and a door on the left.

Bullets have not only hit, but penetrated the wall on teh right, with bits of wood fragments and gypsum on the floor, as well as a shattered pot, and some bullet gashes on the wall on Silver's side.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140169
140170
>>140168
"Hmm..."

Silver turns the radio on, and turns the volume up as high as it will go.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140170
140171
>>140169
The first channel it is set to is a static signal. Static, and nothing more. Still, it can be loud at the higher volume.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140171
140172
>>140170
Are there any windows facing the church in this house? On a related note, besides the picture frames, is there anything that can be thrown to break said windows?
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140172
140173
>>140171
Yes, at least two, and the windows are already broken. Disturbingly, however, it looks as if rifle rounds (probably from the machine gun) have already penetrated through parts of the wall
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140173
140174
>>140172
In that case, if he can, he rejoins his unit.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140174
140175
>>140173
Silver goes outside, and is rewarded with a long burst of the machine gun presumably aimed at the house.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140175
140176
>>140174
He better run, then.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140176
140177 140178
>>140175
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kk5iiSE-0I
Silver presumably leaves the house, to hide behind it
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140177
140178
>>140176
Indeed.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140178
140179
>>140176
>>140177
Once Silver returns, he points to one of the soldiers present.

"Enough time should have passed. Go tell mortars to begin shelling."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140179
140180
>>140178
The soldier peels off, and the machine gun nest position goes silent. It's not very long before there is that distinctive "thumb," and a whirling noise where you can almost count the rotors

whoosh

[1d20 = 17]
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140180
140181
>>140179
This one slightly over shoots the position, evidently hitting the roof of the church behind it, with another loud clash

[1d20 = 15]
[1d20 = 10]
[1d20 = 20]
[1d20 = 16]
[1d20 = 2]
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140181
140182
>>140180
A minute or so of mortar rounds follows

One round goes very wide, hitting the roof of a house. One round lands on Whinnyton, sending shrapnel that breaks windows. One hits the end of the church roof nearest Silver, sending splinters of wood flying, and another hits near there.

But it's one very well placed shot that gives a great "clang" as the bell is hit by explosive force. The tower leans forward, and then falls, collapsing down onto the street and part of the ground below. The bell rolls off the roof, crashing down on the ground with another "clang."

The position is gone.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140182
140183
>>140181
Silver peaks out from behind the house once the shelling is finished. Although the destruction of this house of Celestia is quite distressing, the satisfaction of seeing such a thorn in their side destroyed gives him comfort.

"Brings tear to your eye, does it not?"
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140183
140184
>>140182
Mostly, the structure is intact besides the collapsed tower, but the bell is gone, the windows are shattered, and many of the tiles have fallen from the roof, almost like kernels removed from a cob of corn. Some of those hits seem to have cut holes in the roof, and may have damaged the beam.

On the far side, Silver can hear "Bang. Bang." and then "Dakka dakka dakka" in the recognizable fire of an Equestrian light machine gun.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140184
140185
>>140183
Silver looks back to his soldiers.

"Come, sounds like roaches are fleeing their nest."

He heads off in the direction of the fighting.
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140185
140186
>>140184
Silver doesn't have to look far at all for the roaches.

Two changelings come out of the door in the back of the church, one carrying a changeling submachine gun, and the other a rifle

Roll for Initiative

[1d20 = 5]
[1d20 = 13]
[1d20 = 11]
[1d20 = 5]
[1d20 = 10]
[1d20 = 5]

[1d20+2 = 17]
[1d20+2 = 18]
9226999
?
No.140186
140187
[1d20+4 = 24]
>>140185
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140187
140188
>>140186
Silver notices the instant they open the door, and is first to respond.

Silver's turn
9226999
?
No.140188
140189 140191
[1d20+10 = 12]
>>140187
Silver blasts the changeling with the SMG first.
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140189
140190
>>140188
Not a great shot, but it should hit At a +2 dex and no armor bonus
9226999
?
No.140190
140191 140193 140195
[2d8 = 5]
>>140189
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140191
140192
>>140190
>>140188
Silver does not down the Changeling. He gets off at least one burst

[1d20 = 7]
[1d20 = 18]
[1d20 = 11]
[1d20 = 18]
[1d20 = 20]

And the changeling with the rifle fires a short before anypony else can
[1d20+3 = 23]
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140192
140193
>>140191
[1d7 = 6]

[1d20 = 1]

[2d4 = 8]
[2d4 = 4]
[2d4 = 4]

[1d20+3 = 16]

[2d8 = 13]
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140193
140194
>>140190
>>140192
A dandelion colored private is hit in the chest one, two, three times by the submachine gun. There is a "ping" of metal hitting metal, and another private falls.

The remainder of the rifle group responds:
[1d20+1 = 15]
[1d20+1 = 8]
[1d20+1 = 10]
[1d20+1 = 13]
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140194
140195
>>140193
[2d8 = 8]
[2d8 = 10]
Anonymous
881db3a
?
No.140195
140196
>>140190
>>140194
The Changeling with the submachine gun makes a "hack" sound and falls over, while the drone with the rifle is hit in the belly, bleeding on the concrete steps of the church. He is still up
9226999
?
No.140196
140197 140198
[1d20+10 = 22]
>>140195
Silver aims his rifle again, this time at the rifleling.
9226999
?
No.140197
140198
[2d8 = 9]
>>140196
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140198
140199
>>140197
>>140196
There is a splatter of blue blood and the changeling falls backwards off of the concrete steps of the back of the church.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140199
140200
>>140198
Silver rushes over to the nearest downed private to see how badly he's wounded.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140200
140201
>>140199
It's a large built royal blue unicorn stallion. There is a large hole in the front of his helmet, and blood coming out off the back. His eyes stare up blankly. He was probably dead before he hit the ground.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140201
140202
>>140200
Silver closes his eyelids, and gives him a quick quiet prayer to Celestia before he goes to the other downed soldier.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140202
140203
>>140201
This soldier is the dandelion earth pony. He is hit once in the chest, and twice in the chest. He is bleeding heavily. His eyes are closed, and he has short and rapid breathes. The best guess is that he will die of blood loss or shock before he makes it to a medic. But you don't really know that, do you?
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140203
140204
>>140202
Silver points to the dead changelings.

"Tear their uniforms into strips and bring them to me as quick as you can!"

He resumes examining the private. How deep are the bullets in him lodged?
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140204
140205
>>140203
Hard to say for sure. They clearly made it a decent ways in. The most pressing issue - by far - is the bleeding, which will kill him in a few minutes. He may also drown in blood.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140205
140206
>>140204
Silver presses his forehooves against two of the holes to at least slow down the bleeding while he waits for some strips of cloth.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140206
140207
>>140205
Strips of cloth are provided soon enough.
9226999
?
No.140207
140208 140209
[1d20+5 = 12]
>>140206
"Thank you."

Heal: Silver tries his best to bandage the private and do whatever else he can to prevent his death.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140208
>>140207
[1d20 = 3]
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140209
140210
>>140207
Silver does not seem to succeed in stopping the bleeding
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140210
140211
>>140209
Are there enough strips of cloth left for Silver to try again?
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140211
140212
>>140210
Yes.
9226999
?
No.140212
140213
[1d20+5 = 19]
>>140211
Then try again he shall.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140213
140214
>>140212
This is more successful, with Silver basically forcing strips into the wounds, and covering these up with more. Maybe he'll make it back to the medic. He's far from clear though, and could still die of shock.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140214
140215
>>140213
Silver looks at the other soldiers.

"Alright, he will not die of blood loss, but he needs immediate treatment for shock or he may not make it. Make sure his throat stays open to make it easier for him to breath, and get him in bed with pillows placed under his hindquarters to keep his bottom half above his heart. It will mean his heart will not have to work as hard. I also need somepony to fetch medic immediately."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140215
140216
>>140214
One stallion runs off, while two stallions pick him up, and another follows. They seem to want to move him into the house
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140216
140217
>>140215
Silver helps them, believing it to be a good idea.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140217
140218
>>140216
The soldiers take him inside, then through the door on the left, past a bathroom, and onto a bed with a half-circle wooden headboard. He is laid down.

"Is the church cleared?" A soldier asks
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140218
140219
>>140217
"I do not know, but I would be surprised if there were any more changelings left in there."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140219
140220
>>140218
"If there are any creatures known to surprise, it's changelings" he answers
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140220
140225
>>140219
"True..."

Silver continues to help, all the way until they get the private set up in a bed.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140225
140226
>>140220
The covers are already pulled down on the bed, and the private is set up right. He coughs and hacks, and his eyes are still closed. There are clothes strewn about on the floor, and one of the privates pulls up a shirt to press into the wounded soldier's sides. Another thinks of placing a coat - located on the floor - over him.

Off in the distance, there is the sound of gunfire.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140226
140227
>>140225
"Shit...go ahead and cover him, keep him warm and keep him from choking. I need to go see what gunfire is about."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140227
140228
>>140226
Silver goes outside to hear the gunfire is further off and to the west.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140228
140229
>>140227
Silver heads off in that direction, keeping his head on a swivel.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140229
140230
>>140228
A soldier of the rifle section comes up to Silver
"Platoon Sergeant. You may want to see this."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140230
140231
>>140229
Silver looks at him, and before answering, he speaks the first part of the code phrase.

"Klutzy."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140231
140232
>>140230
He blinks, and after a pause, answers:
"Draconequis."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140232
140233
>>140231
"Good. Lead way, soldier."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140233
140234
>>140232
The soldier leads Silver around the house, and back to the church, this time to the front. Outside of the steps of the church are two dead changelings and their rifles to the left, and a dead one on the steps. The steeple of the church lies broken across the road slightly further to the left, essentially blocking off the road. Both windows are shattered, and the white painted wood is dotted with numerous bullet holes.

"This way," the soldier says, leading him inside. It's what Silver sees here that is more troubling.

It's a layout remarkably similar to the church Silver entered before, and if anything is narrower and smaller. There is an open door with steps leading up on the left, and so many bullet holes on the walls of the foyer. The sanctuary is more austere and plain than that of the Universalist location, and at the far end above the altar, is the colored stained glass of a star with so many elements around it, with the top right point of the star shot through with a bullet. Parts of the roof have visible collapsed in and fallen down, with a hole visible above the far side. Just through the foyer, on the ground, is a fallen drone on the ground with bullet wounds, facing away from the entry door.

But it's what's in the pulpits that the soldier called Silver out to see. There are, in each pulpit, between them, and around them, numerous large "cocoons" of ominous shape. Some are white silk with dark shapes underneath, but many are more transparent - literally - in displaying their purpose. Silver can see, in a few of these, ponies suspended in liquid. Pegasi, mostly, mares more common than stallions, eyes closed in a state of torpor.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140234
140235
>>140233
Silver stares in shock and disbelief. His jaw hangs open for quite some time.

"Что во имя Селестии...what is this? Where did they capture all of these ponies from?"

He investigates the ponies inside of their pods.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140235
140236
>>140234
A cocoon rests on edge of a seat with darkened silk in part and transparent gossamer in part, with a few sprinkles of white sheetrock covering it. Silver can see inside an aqua colored pegasus mare with a short cut mane and slightly emaciated or wasted appearance. She wears no clothing. Her eyes are half open, as is her mouth. Her lips are contorted back to expose her teeth.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140236
140237
>>140235
"Did changelings bring these with them for food source? They look like captured civilians, and it seem like they have been cocooned for while..."

He looks at the riflepony.

"We need to move these civilians to more secure location. Town Hall seems to have been secured, see if you can round up some soldiers to help cut these civvies out and carry them to Town Hall."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140237
140238
>>140236
"Maybe this is why there's nopony in town" the soldier remarks.

"I don't think that's the last of the changelings in this tow" he says
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140238
140239
>>140237
"Could be. And most definitely there are still changelings here. I am just worried about these getting caught in crossfire. They already came dangerously close to getting destroyed by mortar shell."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140239
140240
>>140238
It isn't clear that some haven't already been caught in machinegun fire, or under parts of a collapsing roof.

"Well, I think this area is secured. I think."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140240
140241
>>140239
Silver looks up at the church roof.

"What about church itself? Think it will collapse?"
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140241
140242
>>140240
He looks up
"Well.. I don't think the beam is collapsed. Hard to say."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140242
140243
>>140241
He sighs.

"Very well. I will accept your input. In this case...we have job to do, and town to liberate. I am going to scout grain elevator I saw earlier, it may be some changelings have taken position inside it as their base."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140243
140244
>>140242
"Don't forget the telephone relay." He says
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140244
140245
>>140243
"Ah, thank you. I will also scout that. As for you, I recommend either joining me or joining soldiers in house I just left. Safety is found in numbers, here."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140245
140246
>>140244
“Yes sir.”

Silver presumably regroups the entirety of A company. The rifle section has suffered one dead and one critically wounded, as well as several lightly wounded. The machine gun section has suffered one heavily wounded and one lightly wounded. Down three ponies in total, but nine remain, counting the squad leader.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140246
140248
>>140245
Silver addresses the company.

"Alright ponies, you have done well so far, I could not be prouder. But we still have job to do. I am going to scout ahead, and see if I can not find position of remaining changelings. While I do so, there is number of cocooned civilians inside church that need to be guarded until I get back. Understood?"
Amber Sunset
5826d62
?
No.140247
140250
>>140094
"Well, miss, I don't have any real important jobs now, but if I ever do I want to do it the right way. I think taking care needs practice like anything else."
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140248
140249
>>140246
“Sir, yes sir!” They answer
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140249
140250 140252
>>140248
"Dismissed!"

Silver leaves them to it, so he may scout the telephone relay and grain elevator.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140250
140251
>>140247
"No important jobs? She asks back, almost incredulously. She turns away from Amber and runs her hoof through the set of dresses, stopping to look at the patterns on one.

>>140249
Silver may go a little north, or back down towards Old Mecc and Main Street.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140251
140252
>>140250
Silver decides to go a little north.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140252
140253
>>140249
>>140251
The wind stops, and the rattling of the flagpole at the school house ceases with it. There is no silence, but instead a new sound of thunder far down the valley. This boom is louder and lasts longer than before, and its sound is soon duplicated.

Silver is in a less dense set of dark wood ranch houses with walkways leaded up to covered porches. Some have chicken wire fences in the back, and small shed. Not far beyond the houses Silver can see the low, sagebrush covered hills.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140253
140254
>>140252
Just how far away are the hills?
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140254
140256
>>140253
To the top? Perhaps as much as a mile. But the hills have a low gradient with mostly gentle slopes, so they begin much closer to Silver.
Amber Sunset
5826d62
?
No.140255
140257
"Well I don't think being a store clerk is very important, but I guess it depends on how you look at it…" she mumbles uncertainly. "Do you see something that you like?" she then asks, looking at the dress.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140256
140257
>>140254
Is the hill in the direction of the thunder?
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140257
140258 140259
>>140255
She almost looks past the dresses, down between them.

"Let me ask a different way. What would you wear. A six year old you."

Let's add a diplomacy roll to this

>>140256
Not really. The Thunder comes through the valley, in the direction of the front. Though the valley is at a slightly oblique angle to the front and the western sky, as it moves southwest.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140258
140260
>>140257
Regardless, while it is a bit of a trot, Silver decides to make it in order to get a better view of his surroundings.
Amber Sunset
5826d62
?
No.140259
140260
>>140257
"Hmm, it would depend on what my parents were able to get me, but I'd always fancied a skirt with circles of color going around, like a soft green or purple." [1d20+4 = 11]
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140260
140261 140355
>>140258
Silver can see the geography of the town. The valley comes west from Wald and virtue along the river, as the valley narrows and hills become taller. The town lies at a bend in the valley, where it turns south. There is a large hill just to the west and north of the town, and a gap in the hills going northwest where there is a rail line and telegraph wires. The valley itself is wide enough to have irrigated farmland to either side of the Misfortune River that flows through it, and is much wider east, especially much further east. Silver can see the top of the county courthouse, the town hall, both churches, and to either side, the dairy processing facility and the lone grain elevator. Besides the fields by the river, and the small town, the whole area looks like semi desert, with the mountains of what must be the Unicorn Range in the far distance, and endless brown hills dotted with shrubs and occasionally cut up with barbed wire fences.

>>140259
She looks to Amber, then down at the row of dresses, and pulls one out with a flash of magic. The dress has a lighter green color, though one sort of like the dress she is already wearing.

"I'll take this one."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140261
140262
>>140260
With this geography in mind, Silver heads for the grain elevator.
Anonymous
58c04a9
?
No.140262
140263
>>140261
The grain elevator is between Old Mecc's Trail Road and the railway in the east side of town, towards Wald. It has four tall silos one next to the other, with a steel tower at the end, and a steel overheard conveyer above all. There are three lights on at the facility. There are also three trucks visible, all Army supply trucks
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
?
No.140263
140264
>>140262
I assume the lights are on at the tower?