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Occupied Equestria - Get Away
Anonymous
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No.159000
Silver and Dark Star just killed several creatures and need to get the Tartarus away as the police arrive
1816 replies and 21 files omitted.
DS
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No.159633
159634
>>159631
To Sorrel
"Yea its a very interesting species, the Griffin."
To Tricky
"Heh seems like you two are out of alcohol"
To Mr Glass.
"Another round over here."
Anonymous
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No.159634
159635 159637
>>159632
She turns, and looks to him with a smile.
“We should do that. When things calm down.”

>>159633
Sorrel:
“I can’t say I’ve really gotten to know a Griffin before.”

Both mares light up, as they happily await more alcohol.

Glass pours the drinks, and they drink them.
DS
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No.159635
159636
>>159634
"They are Definitely.....Interesting."
He sips on his whiskey
Anonymous
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No.159636
159638
>>159635
"What's interesting to you?" Sorrel asks, taking another drink.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.159637
159639
>>159634
With a smile, he replies "When things calm down."

Alright, now the two can part on a good note. He waves goodbye at his friend before slipping it into first, and with his share of the loot (which, if I'm counting right and the others agree, is 353 Bits, ammunition for his shotgun and revolver, ~4 gold coins, the telescope, and maybe the potions) goes to fulfill the other things on his list: namely to get groceries, candy for the colts, make preparations for his date, and maybe see if there's a store that sells items to help Clip achieve sexual relief.
DS
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No.159638
159639
>>159636
"Well, I'm in college for political science. but Equestrian History is also Very Intriguing. "
Anonymous
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No.159639
159640 159641
>>159638
"You're in college?!"

"Where?"

Both mares are surprised, and Sorrel grabs onto his right foreleg, leaning over with wide eyes and a mouth open in a smile

>>159637
The bits should be more. Much more. About 830. The rest is most accurate.

Silver is in a position where he is either going to have to significantly postpone, cancel, or blow off his date, as he has very little time for much else.
DS
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No.159640
159642
>>159639
He was not expecting this response
He Chuckles slightly
"Well, I go to Jim haykins university, I actually just started."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.159641
159642
>>159639
Well, it would have been without the 500 payed to fix his injuries, but Silver wouldn't argue against more Bits.

Hmm...if he cut it down to just making date preparations, getting candy, and some alcohol, would he have time?
Anonymous
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No.159642
159643 159646
>>159640
"Oh..."

"That's the nice one in town."

"What's it like?" She asks

"You must be smart."

And now she's definitely hanging on him. Just Sorrel though.

>>159641
Depending on the definition of "date preparations," yes.
DS
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No.159643
159644
>>159642
"Yea it is very nice. Well it's Amazing if I'm being honest."
"I Like to think i'm pretty smart."
He chuckles
Anonymous
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No.159644
159645
>>159643
Tricky:
"Well tell us about it."

Sorrel
"What are you gonna do with that degree?"
DS
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No.159645
159647
>>159644
To Tricky
"The architecture is wonderful, There's a nice courtyard, the staff is a little iffy, Some of the professors are Great."
To sorrel
He Grins
"You're looking at the future mayor of Baltimare."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.159646
159647
>>159642
Making a reservation and getting Khoi something nice to wear.
Anonymous
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No.159647
159648 159650
>>159645
Sorrel
"Oh really?..." She leans onto him with both hooves

"What're you gonna do as mayor?" She asks

Tricky asks,
"What do you learn there?"

>>159646
Reservations where?

>buying dresses
Uh... that normally takes a while
DS
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No.159648
159649
>>159647
To Sorrel
"I'm Gonna Clean up baltimare. Help out the ponies who live here."
He grins
To Tricky
"A lot of stuff. I'm taking a few different classes. Philosophy, Hippology, Equestrian History, Myths of Equestria and my major is political science."
Anonymous
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No.159649
159652
>>159648
Sorrel:
"It's good to clean it up. This is a very dirty city. It could use a cleaning."

Tricky starts to place a hoof on his shoulder.
"And what are those like? I haven't studied... any of those. Like, what do you do in those classes?"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.159650
159651
>>159647
>Reservations where?
Somewhere fancy that would impress the kirin.

>Uh... that normally takes a while
looks up at
Anonymous
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No.159651
159659
>>159650
Um... Well I have another idea
DS
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No.159652
159653
>>159649
To Sorrel
"You are absolutely correct. Its filthy, Somepony has to clean it up."
To Tricky
"Well they are all kind of different, but all kind of the same. there are seats that everypony sits down in and then a professor comes in and starts teaching you about which ever subject you are there to learn about."
Are they Both Earth Ponies?
Anonymous
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No.159653
159654
>>159652
Both are pegasi
Tricky:
"Are you living on campus?" She asks. "Or with your parents?"
DS
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No.159654
159655
>>159653
"No I don't live with my parents. they are no longer with us. I stay nearby in hotels."
Anonymous
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No.159655
159656
>>159654
Both of them lean in and hug him, so that Solar is sandwiched between them.

Tricky:
"Awwwwwwww... I'm so sorry"
DS
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No.159656
159657
>>159655
"It..It's Fine."
He smiles at them.
He takes a sip of his whiskey
Anonymous
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No.159657
159658
>>159656
Sorrel sits up now. She no longer leans on Solar

Tricky:
"Are you atone in the city?" She asks
DS
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No.159658
159663
>>159657
"What do you mean by Alone?"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.159659
159663
>>159651
What is it?
Amber Sunset
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No.159660
159662
>>159570
A very stately house. What did it take to build or buy one like this? Amber follows the group.
Anonymous
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No.159662
159664
>>159660
They enter through a threshold, into a large, wooden themed room. In some ways it isn't terribly different from the one Amber was in earlier, with a fireplace on one end, wooden floors, upholstered furniture, and book shelves. It is, however, even larger, and though it too has many windows, the angle of the sunlight and preponderance of walls lined with rows of books leaves the room in relatively dim light. On the walls are portrait paintings of griffins in armor, a suit of armor on the opposite side of the rectangular room away from the fireplace, and so many rolls of books. There are many griffins there, including several in dress vests and several female griffins, though most seem paired to some other male griffin. Two griffins stand out - an old griffin in green dress, standing and with a glass of presumably some hard alcohol in claw, and near him, an even older, fatter griffin in full black formal wear, still wearing his top hat.
Anonymous
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No.159663
159683 159806
>>159658
"Well, are you living with a wife, I mean." She clarifies.

>>159659
Well... Silver can return home, and find out.
Amber Sunset
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No.159664
159665
>>159662
A noble house, perhaps. Best to wait for Helder to introduce Amber to these fine folk. A mere musician cannot simply go up to them and talk casually, after all. Isn't that how it works?
Anonymous
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No.159665
159666
>>159664
Ah, but Amber does know who these two griffins are. The gentlegriff in the green is Monteirter Helm, owner of the home, and a member of their social group. The griffin sitting down in the white chair with green floral pattern is a professor Emeritus from the Rectorate, a griffin by the name of Weit Grünerhügel. Amber doesn't know him well. Still another griffin, standing on the other side of Weit, is a much younger griffin in a striped vest and a bowler hat, whom Amber knows to be named Mason.
Amber Sunset
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No.159666
159667
>>159665
Who is the griffon in the formal wear?

Amber goes up to the gathering. With a polite nod, "It is good to see you again, Herr Helm. Hello again, Herr Grünerhügel, and Mason."
Anonymous
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No.159667
159668
>>159666
Weit Grünerhügel, the professor, is the Griffin in full black formal wear. He is the only one sitting down.

“Gutentag.” Mason replies, though one briefly looks to Amber, and nods.
Amber Sunset
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No.159668
159669
>>159667
"It's briskly cold today, isn't it? How are you faring?"
Anonymous
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No.159669
159670
>>159668
Weit does not answer, but Helm does.
“We have the fireplace going. That helps keep the room heated, or it will. We will have lunch served soon enough.”
Amber Sunset
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No.159670
159671
>>159669
Evidently they don't want to jump straight to the crux of the issue.

"Ah, very well, that will be good." Amber tries to start some small talk, bringing up a recent orchestral performance or somesuch.
Anonymous
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No.159671
159672
>>159670
Now Weif speaks
“And what does it mean to you?” He asks
Amber Sunset
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No.159672
159674
>>159671
"It speaks to the soul, its motifs a cry to be resolute and true to oneself in a disordered age."
Anonymous
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No.159674
159675
>>159672
He nods
“Continue. What does it mean to be resolute, why must we be resolute, and how does the music help?”
Amber Sunset
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No.159675
159676
>>159674
"To be resolute means not to cower in the face of history's caprice. Great creatures are not driven by history, they drive history themselves, and although we cannot all be great creatures they are models to follow. As for the music, it's a message from a composer, not simple but designed to be uplifting and inspiring."
Anonymous
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No.159676
159677
>>159675
“Tell me, have you read much philosophy of history?” He asks
Amber Sunset
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No.159677
159678
>>159676
"Only a few tracts, here and there. I can't say I have any serious academic understanding of the philosophy of history," Amber confesses.
Anonymous
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No.159678
159679
>>159677
“Well… nevermind that. For now, at least. What is music?” He asks
Amber Sunset
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No.159679
159680
>>159678
"Is this a trick question?" Amber asks flatly.
Anonymous
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No.159680
159681
>>159679
He smiles

“Not one for the abstract?” He asks
Amber Sunset
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No.159681
159682
>>159680
"Well…music is auditory art. It's an expression of emotion, or some deeper truth, with the use of unique sounds from instruments played to unique notes and chords. The variety is endless, from soloists to orchestras, concertos to arias, tonal to atonal…."
Anonymous
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No.159682
159684
>>159681
“Good, good.” He nods. “Yes, yes.”

“Now tell me… how much do you care for… ‘deeper truths’.”
He forms a wide, almost malign grin.

“But I suppose you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t care for deeper truths. Truths deeper than any school teacher or priest cares to tell.”
DS
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No.159683
159686
>>159663
He laughs
"Not exactly, No I Don't have a Wife."
Amber Sunset
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No.159684
159685
>>159682
Amber raises an eyebrow, or the griffon equivalent of that.

"I care quite a bit, which is why I'm a musician. A symphony can convey as much as a thousand-page tome, and much more eloquently for it. Music speaks far better than words."
Anonymous
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No.159685
159687
>>159684
“And why is that?” He asks
Anonymous
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No.159686
159689
>>159683
Sorrel:
“So do you work, or….?”
Amber Sunset
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No.159687
159688
>>159685
"Words are ponderous and have to filter their way through one's eyes and then the brain before one can think about them. Music reaches the soul directly, it has a power underestimated by many, yet because of its tendency towards beauty it has been cynically used by only a few."
Anonymous
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No.159688
159690
>>159687
“Good. Then if seems like you’ve reached a conclusion it took the philosophers centuries to understand. All that our consciousness receives is experience, pure and simple. Reason, logic, words, forms - all are inventions of our reason, forced onto that which they are unlike. Mere symbols. And our perception? Representations, but not the thing itself.”

He smiles, still somewhat malignly.
“Do you want to continue, or shall I?”
DS
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No.159689
159691
>>159686
"Yea I have a Job, I can't really get into what it is i do though. Top Secret"
He Grins
Amber Sunset
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No.159690
159693
>>159688
Nodding, Amber says, "Go on."
Anonymous
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No.159691
159692
>>159689
They take his words seriously, both staring at him, as if waiting with bated breath.
DS
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No.159692
159694
>>159691
"It's all very, Hush Hush. I can't really say anything about it. I can say, It Does involve helping ponies though."
Anonymous
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No.159693
>>159690
"Well, as we've both come to understand, words cannot convey truly new information themselves. Rather, our reason distills a portion of our experience, and matches to that experience a symbol, a word. And that word is conveyed to another, who, with luck, has experienced something similar, and has matched hopefully the same word to a similar enough portion of his experience.

The logical conclusion is that I cannot tell you what is 'true', I can merely tell you my interpretation of my experience, and hope that my symbolic representation of that interpretation allows you to distill your own experiences a bit better.

You will not believe me unless you already know what I am saying to be true. I hope that you have enough experience in such matters that you will, if not believe me, at least understand me.

So though I hate to waste your time with rhetorical questions, they are asked for a reason. So I shall ask: all of those arias and orchestras. Sound, generally. Are there not those who cannot hear sound at all?"
Anonymous
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No.159694
159696
>>159692
"Is that where you are getting your money from?" Sorrel asks
Amber Sunset
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No.159695
159697
Amber has never heard of this line of thinking before and cannot come up with a response other than, "Well, that's…interesting."

"Yes, there are griffons who are sadly deaf and are unable to experience the same."
DS
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No.159696
159697
>>159694
"In a way, yea it is."
Anonymous
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No.159697
159698 159699
>>159695
"Yes, yes. You hear music that they cannot. And likewise, are there not wide ranges of sound that certain other creatures can hear, that you cannot?"

>>159696
"And you're paying for that all by yourself?" Again, Sorrel asks.

Sorrel either can't or doesn't want to sit upright, and instead leans over, and physically grabs onto Solar Night, pressing against him. Tricky sits upright, but she also has a hoof on his other shoulder.
Amber Sunset
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No.159698
159700
>>159697
"Certainly. Bat ponies are capable of hearing much higher pitches, and they say they have their own peculiar form of music."
DS
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No.159699
159700
>>159697
"It's Hard Work."
He nods as he sips his whiskey.
Anonymous
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No.159700
159701 159702
>>159698
"Yes, good, very good. I think it follows that your view of music, your experience of it, your knowledge of it, is always going to be less than total, as there will always be more out there that you cannot experience and cannot know. Does that sound right?"

>>159699
Tricky:
"But uh, what is the work, exactly?" She asks
DS
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No.159701
159703
>>159700
"The Dangerous Kind, The Kind I might not walk away from if things go wrong."
Amber Sunset
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No.159702
159703
>>159700
"Perhaps, though music has reached a stage where all discoverable forms have been found, and there is now merely refinement and experimentation with these forms."
Anonymous
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No.159703
159704 159705
>>159702
"Perhaps my larger point has been lost." He says. "Knowledge of music and sound is only an example."

>>159701
"Oh..." Tricky leans in, and almost whispers,

"Care to tell us any stories?"
Amber Sunset
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No.159704
159706
>>159703
"You are saying it's possible to meaningfully communicate with others only when they have had the same experiences as yourself?"
DS
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No.159705
159707
>>159703
He Smiles
"I can tell one or two."
He Whispers
"What do you know about changelings?"
Anonymous
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No.159706
159708
>>159704
"Unfortunately that is true, probably, but it isn't where I am going. It's... well, let me say this.

Have you heard of the Cloudbury Interpretation of physics? Probably not. No matter. You see, well, you probably already know that scientists have long considered that the matter that we see is not solid as we see it, but is made up of much smaller particles with much space between them. Recently, based on new evidence, physicists have come to the conclusion that these particles are themselves actually waves. Matter isn't solid at all. It were as if it were made of sound." He says, smiling, and giving Amber a chance to respond."
Anonymous
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No.159707
159709
>>159705
Her ears perk up.

"I know a little." She answers
Amber Sunset
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No.159708
159710
>>159706
"Matter? Made of sound? Next you'll be telling me how the ponies are right to worship their 'Tree of Harmony.'"
DS
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No.159709
159710
>>159707
His tone and face turns stern and serious
"I've Found and killed a couple of them. If I didn't react quick enough it would have been me they would be talking about taking down. the bastards scared me."
He shows off one of his bullet scars
He sips his whiskey
Anonymous
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No.159710
159711 159722
>>159708
"Ha! No. No not at all. Most likely you've heard of the other famous physics theory of our time. That of Noble Stone, that time and space are not really distinct, but are integrally related. Indeed, he comes to the conclusion that time doesn't exist in the way we experience it. But rather, everything that has every been, and everything that will ever be, is as real as the present."

>>159709
Both mares move off of him, and move their heads around to look at the scars, clearly surprised.

"How?" Tricky asks
DS
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No.159711
159712
>>159710
"How what? How did it feel to get shot by one? Not Great."
He grimaces
Anonymous
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No.159712
159713
>>159711
"No no. Well, yes. I mean.. how did you find and kill them?" Tricky asks.

Sorrel:
"Really? Are you sure?"

Sorrel moves in so close to look at the wound left behind by that police officer Changeling that she almost falls onto Dark Star.
DS
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No.159713
159714
>>159712
"There's a trick to finding them, Not sure if i can say what it is or not."
He Says to Sorrel
"Yea its quite the wound ,almost did me in."
Anonymous
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No.159714
159715
>>159713
Tricky tilts her head
"But you've... killed them?"

Sorrel rests her forelegs on Dark Star's lap, as this is necessary for her to maintain balance.

"Wow. How long ago was this?" She says
DS
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No.159715
159716
>>159714
"Yea, It was them or Me. You shouldn't be afraid, I made sure it couldn't hurt anypony else."
To Sorrel
"A week or less."
Anonymous
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No.159716
159717
>>159715
Sorrel:

“Good. Fuck the Changelings.”

Tricky says meekly:

“They are living creatures…”

Sorrel is still leaning over into Dark Star’s lap
DS
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No.159717
159718
>>159716
To Tricky
"So are we. They are Predators."
To Sorrel
"What do you think of them?"
Anonymous
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No.159718
159719
>>159717
“Well, I’m sure we are to plants.” Tricky says. “It just seems a bit, I don’t know….”

>>159717
Sorrel looks up towards Dark Star. She has orange eyes.

“They should get away from our home.” She says
DS
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No.159719
159720
>>159718
"I Don't Take Joy in it, Tricky. It's a Dangerous Job. But Somepony has to protect everypony."
To Sorrel
"I Agree, if they weren't here there wouldn't be any problem."
Anonymous
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No.159720
159721
>>159719
Tricky nods, and she has a more solemn expression on her face

“I see…”

Sorrel moves forward, and presses her muzzle into Dark Star’s belly.
DS
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No.159721
159723
>>159720
He flinches slightly from her pressing her muzzle into his stomach
"Hey whats going on down there?"
He says in a surprised tone
Amber Sunset
f4122dc
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No.159722
159725
>>159710
"That is quite interesting. Sadly I cannot wrap my head around that quite the same as I can a sheet of music."
Anonymous
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No.159723
159724
>>159721
"Huh?" Sorrel starts to get up. She has to physically press against Dark Star to sit back up.

"She likes the drinks." Tricky says. "And your fur."
DS
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No.159724
159726
>>159723
He Laughs
"Yea, Drinks are good. She just caught me a little off guard."
"Yea my fur is pretty nice."
Anonymous
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No.159725
159727
>>159722
"That's alright. All you really need to understand is that The physicists have come to the conclusion that the world as it really is, is not as it appears to us.

But really, why would the scientists have the best answers. Everything they know is based off of the five senses of perception. But you know just as well as I that our senses do not tell us the full story. We cannot see nor hear everything there is to see. Did you know that Changelings can smell magic, and see emotions? There could be entire realms of form and matter that are invisible to us, as we could never experience it. All of this could be unknown to the physicist."
Anonymous
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No.159726
159728
>>159724
"It's not bad." Tricky looks at his shoulder, and begins to rub it.

"Solar... I hope you wouldn't mind if I..." She looks into his eyes, and smiles

"Got another drink?"

Sorrel, meanwhile, starts to lean again against him, and starts to rub her right hoof along his lower chest.
Amber Sunset
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No.159727
159729
>>159725
"Fascinating…." Amber is still trying to digest what the professor has said, and can't quite formulate a response.
DS
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No.159728
159729
>>159726
"Of Course."
"Mr.Glass Keep the Alcohol flowing."
Anonymous
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No.159729
159730 159735
>>159727
“Scientists are only just now coming around to what the philosophers knew 200 hundred years ago, and what the ancient mystics knew for far longer: that there is no such thing as fork and space in the way in which we naively understand them. That time and distance are, to put it inelegantly, mere constructs of the mind.”

>>159728
Sorrel jumps up and off of Dark Star, looking over fur a glass of alcohol. Tricky grabs her glass, and takes another drink.

“You help ponies?” Tricky asks
DS
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No.159730
159731
>>159729
"It's my Calling in life. Yea."
Anonymous
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No.159731
159732
>>159730
“Well… maybe it’s rude to ask… you’ve been so nice to us already…”
DS
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No.159732
159733
>>159731
He Raises an eyebrow
"Is there something you need help with?"
Anonymous
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No.159733
159734
>>159732
“Well…” she looks down, but places both hooves on Dark Star’s shoulders.

“My friend and I… could use a place to stay. At least for the night.”
DS
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No.159734
159736
>>159733
"Yea I can do that. It's not safe for two mares to not have a roof over there heads for the night."