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Occupied Equestria - Long Hard Ride
Anonymous
72d6971
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No.139000
139001
The adventure continues
1610 replies and 7 files omitted.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
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No.140210
140211
>>140209
Are there enough strips of cloth left for Silver to try again?
Anonymous
58c04a9
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No.140211
140212
>>140210
Yes.
9226999
?
No.140212
140213
[1d20+5 = 19]
>>140211
Then try again he shall.
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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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
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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
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No.140216
140217
>>140215
Silver helps them, believing it to be a good idea.
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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No.140218
140219
>>140217
"I do not know, but I would be surprised if there were any more changelings left in there."
Anonymous
58c04a9
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No.140219
140220
>>140218
"If there are any creatures known to surprise, it's changelings" he answers
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
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No.140220
140225
>>140219
"True..."

Silver continues to help, all the way until they get the private set up in a bed.
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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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
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No.140227
140228
>>140226
Silver goes outside to hear the gunfire is further off and to the west.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
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No.140228
140229
>>140227
Silver heads off in that direction, keeping his head on a swivel.
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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No.140230
140231
>>140229
Silver looks at him, and before answering, he speaks the first part of the code phrase.

"Klutzy."
Anonymous
58c04a9
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No.140231
140232
>>140230
He blinks, and after a pause, answers:
"Draconequis."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
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No.140232
140233
>>140231
"Good. Lead way, soldier."
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No.140240
140241
>>140239
Silver looks up at the church roof.

"What about church itself? Think it will collapse?"
Anonymous
58c04a9
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No.140241
140242
>>140240
He looks up
"Well.. I don't think the beam is collapsed. Hard to say."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
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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
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No.140243
140244
>>140242
"Don't forget the telephone relay." He says
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No.140248
140249
>>140246
“Sir, yes sir!” They answer
Silver "The Floof" Sword
9226999
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No.140249
140250 140252
>>140248
"Dismissed!"

Silver leaves them to it, so he may scout the telephone relay and grain elevator.
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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No.140251
140252
>>140250
Silver decides to go a little north.
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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No.140253
140254
>>140252
Just how far away are the hills?
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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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
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No.140256
140257
>>140254
Is the hill in the direction of the thunder?
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No.140261
140262
>>140260
With this geography in mind, Silver heads for the grain elevator.
Anonymous
58c04a9
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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
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No.140263
140264
>>140262
I assume the lights are on at the tower?