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Occupied Equestria: Through the mist
Anonymous
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No.173000
173462
In the south in the Kululu Forest, Posey searches for a lost instrument of war. In Baltimare, Kira establishes herself, while Silver enjoys a brief respite. In Hellquill, Amber prepares to play her music to the dictator of Hellquill. Elsewhere, trouble brews.
1357 replies and 95 files omitted.
Anonymous
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No.173930
173933 173934
>>173929
>others
"Well, where are they now?" Posey says, looking around
"You can come out now." she calls into the ether "No point in hiding, we're all dead here."
Anonymous
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No.173931
>>173929
>132 Cockatoo Street, Brismane, New Hooflem.
Posey writes this down.
Anonymous
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No.173933
173934
>>173930
>>173929
Do the ghosts respond?
Anonymous
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No.173934
173938 173942 173946
>>173933
>>173930
One pops up from that same crater Posey was examining earlier, peaking out and slowly walking forward, as if his hooves still mattered. One materializes from blue light from a laying position a couple feet off the ground in the clearing. One seems to hop out of the ruined truck. All four are ponies and male. It seems there is one of each type, including a bat winged pony, though she'd need a closer examination to say for sure. They slowly approach Posey
Anonymous
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No.173935
173936 173937 173941
>>173922
White Orchid smiles widely and his tag wags intensely
"I'd like my own room! I haven't had one in... in years!"

>>173854
"You're... you're welcome" the mare responds, again with that signature pony smile

Kira returns and finds that the water is fairly effective in shaping the bread. It doesn't taste as good as before, but Kira can balll it, and she can swallow it.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.173936
173943
>>173935
Damn, Silver knew he was an orphan, but he didn't know he had been one for that long. This colt desperately needs his own room, Silver couldn't imagine growing up and going through his body's changes without a bit of privacy.

"Well that is next thing on my agenda. I am going to look for mission to get enough Bits to expand our house, maybe add bedrooms to underneath area, enough for you, Mint, and Clip. Then while our house is being worked on to add those new rooms, we can all go to Puerto Caballo or somewhere like it for vacation."
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
89e77c9
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No.173937
173941 173943
>>173935
She didn't much care for the taste of the bread anyhow, finding it to be a bit bland for her, like the rice. At least now Kira can properly eat her bread, and with it finished she's done with her meal.
Anonymous
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No.173938
173942 173943
>>173934
"Greetings." Posey says, with a bow of her head
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
89e77c9
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No.173941
173943
>>173937
>>173935
Unless, of course, Neela wants some of Kira's bread
Anonymous
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No.173942
173943
>>173934
>>173938
>>173929
Posey puts the knife back where she found it, and turns around to proceed down the road.
"I guess it's none of my business why you're still here. I for one am on a mission though. Tag along if you wish." she says, walking away slowly with swish of her tail
Anonymous
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No.173943
173944 173945 173946 173949
>>173938
>>173942
Well which is it? Does she engage, or walk away?

>>173941
Neela seems uninterested in getting in the way of Kira and what she is eating

>>173937
Neela eats more slowly, and looks over at Kira as Kira struggles with the act of chewing. She gets up and follows Kira when Kira moves to go inside, taking the bag with her. When Kira is done, however, Neela still has food, especially bread, in the bag.

>>173936
White Orchid jumps up in place
"I can have my own room? And what is this 'Puerto Caballo'?"
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
89e77c9
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No.173944
173950 173964
>>173943
Kira looks over at Neela.

"Had your fill? I don't know how much non-lamias usually eat..."
Anonymous
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No.173945
173950
>>173943
>Does she engage, or walk away?
She's coaxing them to follow her, so that she can get more information out of them. Also, because she has no way of knowing how powerful these ghosts are, so she has to be careful before fighting them. She's banking on the idea that ghosts tend to be lonely types who are eager to either find somepony who will help them resolve their unfinished business, or relentlessly hound them with their with their stories.
Anonymous
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No.173946
173947 173948 173950
>>173943
>>173934
I would like to make some Sense Motive checks (Assess Opponent), opposed by their Bluff checks, to assess the power (CR) of these ghosts, relatively to my HD (3).
I know for a fact that they must be a minimum CR of 2 (assuming lvl 1 nonelite warriors), and likely CR 3 or higher (assuming lvl 1 elite PC classed characters, or lvl 2 nonelite warriors), so I can discount any result that would say Pushover, so I'll know if these guys are Easy (CR 2), a Fair Fight (CR 3 each), a Tough challenge (CR 4-6), or a Dire Threat (CR 7+)
https://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/skills/sense_motive.shtml
Posey does this because she is sizing them up to check if she can command them (CR being equal to class lvl for PC classed characters, or lvl -1 for NPC class; which gives her a sense of HD), thereby extrapolating their HD. Luckily, Ghosts are one of those class-leveled undead who's CR scale very quickly with HD.
I know this is metagaming, but this is the sort of thing that Posey would be an expert in and would be careful to observe before she makes her next move.

Check for the first one (the one who first spoke to Posey)
[1d20+3 = (1+3) = 4]
And the others (in order that they appeared in)
[1d20+3 = (11+3) = 14]
[1d20+3 = (1+3) = 4]
[1d20+3 = (17+3) = 20]
>A successful assessment reveals that your foe belongs in one of two adjacent categories (for example, "Easy" or "A fair fight"). If your Sense Motive check result exceeds the opposed Bluff check result by 10 or more, you can narrow the result down to a single category.
>By contrast, if the target's Bluff check result equals or slightly exceeds your Sense Motive check result, you gain no useful information. If the target's Bluff check result exceeds your Sense Motive check result by 5 or more, you may (at the DM's option) gain a false impression, believing your opponent to be much stronger or weaker than he really is (equal chance of either). If the target's Bluff check result exceeds your Sense Motive check result by 10 or more, your assessment is off by at least two categories (for example, a dire threat might be assessed as a fair fight).
Anonymous
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No.173947
>>173946
Idk why I keep rolling for things I should be taking 10 on...
Anonymous
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No.173948
>>173946
Btw, GM, if this is too complicated to bother with right now, feel free to ignore this post entirely.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.173949
173950
>>173943
Silver nods.

"That you can, all by yourself to do what you want with and decorate as you please. Puerto Caballo is big island south of Equestria. It is supposed to be warm, tropical island of sandy beaches and friendly faces. It sounds like good vacation destination, yes?"
Anonymous
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No.173950
173951 173956 173957
>>173945
The approach:

Bat pony, from the field
"Who are you?"
Unicorn, from the crater
"That flower is dangerous! Get away from it!"
Pegasus, from the truck
"Who sent you here?"
The earth pony Posey has been talking to, from the house
"Why do you leave?"

>>173946
One is reasonably dangerous and is easy for Posey to defeat if faced alone (but very likely to kill her if, for example, she simultaneously had to face 3 others) one is much the same, though a bit stronger... except not a combat type, one is an extreme push over, and one is extremely dangerous.

>>173944
>>173944
"Yes." She says, opening her mouth as if she is going to say more, but then stopping herself
"I saved some for later." She stands up, and looks back to Kira
"I didn't think you'd try to eat anything here"

>>173949
"I went to a beach when I was much younger... much younger. I was with my father, my mother too. I remember the sun being hot, blinding my eyes. The sand sticking to my fur and my mom told me to wash it off, and then more got stuck to me. I found a starfish. My dad told me to throw it back, and I did. And I built a sand castle! ... it wasn't very good. That was a long time ago. I don't remember much else."
Anonymous
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No.173951
173953
>>173950
>"Who are you?"
Oh, I thought they were listening on the prior conversation.
Posey introduces herself again, with a whirl of her cape
"I am Rosey Ring, the Undying Sorceress. Trainee spiritualist, Blackweave Warmagus, Dread Commando, and Aspiring Necromancer." She says, with her chest puffed striking a pose
>"Who sent you here?"
"My masters in The Dread League across the sea sent me sent me here to collect information and samples on the artillery used in warfare here."
>"That flower is dangerous! Get away from it!"
"Oh, these?" Posey says, taking off the flowers and levitating them
"I thought they'd make a nice gift for my little Gloomy at home."
>"Why do you leave?"
"I am on a mission to investigate the artillery down the road. I'm hoping to get it done quickly, so I can get back home to my little colt."
"Would you care to join me for a stroll? We could talk about ourselves on the way there."
Anonymous
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No.173952
I am going to make a Religion check to see just how much Posey knows about ghosts, their threatening abilities, and how to handle them.
I've played ghosts before, so I know most of their abilities, but Posey is only lvl 3, so I can't assume that she knows.

[1d20+9 = (8+9) = 17]
Anonymous
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No.173953
173954
>>173951
"Must you leave?"

"Those flowers should not be near foals!"

"Those guns belong to New Mareland!"

"I cannot follow far"
Anonymous
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No.173954
173955
>>173953
>Must you leave?
"I must finish my mission. I will be coming back the same way though."
>flowers
"Hmm, too bad then." Posey says, levitating a flower above her hoof and withering it with the negative energy of her charnel touch
>Those guns
"Well, technically I'm looking for a shock absorber, not the gun itself..."
She puts on a bit of a cutesy face
"You wouldn't mind if I took just one, would you? Pretty please? They've been sitting out here to rust for years."
>"I cannot follow far"
"Oh dear, an anchorite. How unfortunate. Is it that you can't stray far from the building, or something inside?"
Anonymous
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No.173955
173961
>>173954
"Must it always be 'missions'?"

"How do you do that? That is not normal magic"

"These are weapons to kill Monarchists and Griffins. Not to sell for scrap."

"The knife"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
89e77c9
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No.173956
173958
>>173950
"Would you like to make some new memories of building sand castles and trotting along beach?"
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
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No.173957
173958
>>173950
"Well, I was hungry, and I'm in a new place. I thought I'd try the local cuisine."

Kira smiles at her, and flicks her tongue.
Anonymous
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No.173958
173959 173960
>>173956
"Yes! Maybe not so much the blinding. And the clinging sand. I want to build sand castles. I wish we had a beach here."

>>173957
Neela seems to smile back, actually closing her lips to do so.
"Well it's not really 'local'. It's from Maregypt here. But I understand. Was that... your... first time to eat something like that?"
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
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No.173959
173962
>>173958
"Well...I've had potatoes, and recently bananas, but no, never anything cooked like that. That was a very novel experience! Have you ever had anything like that before?"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.173960
173962
>>173958
"Me too. I guess we are still just barely too far north for sandy beaches. It is kind of sad. Too far south for snow, too far north for sand." He plays a bit with some of his fluffy winter coat on his chest. "I almost wish it would snow little bit."
Anonymous
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No.173961
173962
Sorry, something came up.
>>173955
>missions
"Until my powers exceed those of my creator (which means being lvl ~6-8), I must carry out their will." Posey says, wistfully
"Dead, but still not free. You could say we're not so different, you and I."
>That is not normal magic
"Oh, this? It's basically blackweave magic, commonplace where I come from. I've practiced it well enough to conduit it effortlessly, even though my horn is out of power."
She poofs her mane
"I wanted to keep a strong connection to the gray, because it helps me stay pretty."
>to kill Monarchists and Griffins. Not to sell for scrap
"Well, that's precisely what we're fighting over at the Arcturian front. Griffons and Solarists are ever so tenacious." She says
"And it's not to sell, but to analyze."
>The knife
Posey levitates the knife again
"Would you join me for a stroll if I brought this with me?"
Anonymous
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No.173962
173963 173965 173966
>>173961
"How so?"

"THow do you know such magic?"

"Fuck the griffins and the solarists"

"Yes"

>>173959
"Well, I've had falafel before, and of course the pita bread. The pepper is new to me. Have you... had bread at all?"

>>173960
"I like snow" He says

"I've seen it... twice, I think? No, three times. When we went to Vanhoover. Near Vanhoover. I had an aunt there... I think. There was snow. It snowed here in Baltimare... two years ago, I think? Just after Hearthswarming. And then once in the mountains when I went there. I think."
Anonymous
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No.173963
>>173962
>"How so?"
"Well, through practice, study, experience, and danger. I feel my powers grow whenever I am close to death, or in the throes of battle. Just earlier today I fought a five headed hydra all by myself (which would have been a hard fight for an entire party of Posey's level), underwater: I can feel my powers growing already."
(Posey is of the Nerrulite belief that "killing makes you stronger")
>How do you know such magic?
"I always had an attitude for it, but my masters in Magehold taught me how to channel it properly, or at least at the basic level."
>"Fuck the griffins and the solarists"
"Based."
>"Yes"
"Then come along." She says, slipping the knife in her satchel.
She looks to the rest
"Would you mind joining us?"
Anonymous
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No.173964
173967
>>173944
"Why do you say that I am dead? I just want to leave"

"I need to save others"

"I need to kill Monarchists"

"I need to get home"
Silver "The Floof" Sword
89e77c9
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No.173965
173970
>>173962
"Where I was born it snowed every year, from late autumn, to winter, even into early spring. Foals would go out playing for hours in snow, making snowponies and snowangels before coming back indoors for warm drink while sitting next to fire. At Hearthswarming, everypony would come together in town center to tell stories, spend time with friends and family, and make merry. There would be so many ponies and so many warm and happy spirits that you could feel temperature rise and much of snow in city melt over course of day and night."
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
89e77c9
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No.173966
173970
>>173962
"Not...not really." She rubs the back of her own head with a leg, blushing. Her tongue flicks out again. "We never had to rely on bread or cake when I was growing up, whenever times were tough, and the bread the less fortunate lamias made and ate definitely looked nothing like that."
Anonymous
06b345c
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No.173967
>>173964
>"Why do you say that I am dead? I just want to leave"
"Because you are dead. You're a ghost." Posey says
"I'm dead too, even though I don't look it. My spirit is bound to this body."
She raises her hooves, revealing her little heart-shaped stigmata.
"Bound by my master, long ago."
>"I need to save others"
"Who are the others? The battle ended years ago."
>"I need to kill Monarchists"
"An attitude that I can understand."
>"I need to get home"
"Perhaps I could help you with that."
She looks at the rest
"Perhaps we could all help each other. What do you say? Why don't we be friends? I'm sure we could all... Benefit."
I roll seduction. As per libris mortis, I am adding a +4 bonus, for appealing to the business that anchors them to this plane.
[1d20+13 = (5+13) = 18]
Anonymous
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No.173968
173969 173971
Seduction. Not diplomacy seduction

The bat pony's wings extend, and though he is still translucent blue, Posey can see the bloodlines in the webbed wings
"I will be your friend"

"The other soldiers..."
The unicorn says with uncertainty

"They have no decency to shell a hospital. Can you help me end them?"

"Please... help me get home"
Anonymous
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No.173969
173973
>>173968
>Seduction. Not diplomacy seduction
I know what I said.
Anonymous
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No.173970
173974 173976
>>173966
"Should we go back?" She asks
"So... what do you eat? Zebras, I would assume?"
She picks up her bag with her mouth

>>173965
"That sounds like fun! We did something sort of like that at the orphanage. You know, with... less snow. But we would tell stories and... well there wasn't any family, but... warm drinks sounds nice! We would get coco. Sometimes."
Anonymous
06b345c
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No.173971
173972
>>173968
>"I will be your friend"
"Excellent." Posey replies
>"The other soldiers..."
"Likely gone by now. There are few here in this swamp among the living. Was there anypony in particular you were thinking of?"
>Can you help me end them?
"Oh, we'll end them alright."
>help me get home
"That can be arranged." Posey says.
"If this knife anchors you to the plane, mailing it to your home address should send you with it."
Anonymous
48fa069
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No.173972
173975
>>173971
The bat pony comes even closer, moving to Posey's side. The spectral edge of the wing touches Posey's side
"So can we travel together?"

"No... I mean.. in general"

"Then I will come"
Says the pegasus

"As will I"
Anonymous
48fa069
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No.173973
>>173969
Now she'll have to figure out how to fuck a ghost
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
89e77c9
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No.173974
173977
>>173970
"We still need some furniture, and maybe some food to put in the refrigerator for you for later, so getting those sounds like a good option to me."

At that second question, Kira blushes profusely and waves her arms in front of her.

"Oh no nonononononono no! No zebras, never! Never any sapient creature. Mostly it was sheep, goats, antelope, sometimes fish."
Anonymous
06b345c
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No.173975
173977
>>173972
>"No... I mean.. in general"
"Well then, it wouldn't hurt to tour the swamp to see who's left, would it? If I'm not mistaken, I should be trotting right by where your comrades had their artillery set up. Why don't you join us?" Posey says, walking down the road
Silver "The Floof" Sword
89e77c9
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No.173976
173977
>>173970
"Next Heartwarming you will be here to do all of that with us. Well, at least I hope that is what you choose."
Anonymous
48fa069
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No.173977
173978 173979 173980
>>173975
The unicorn specter stares - or seems to, hard to tell - for a moment, and then replies
"Then I will come"

>>173976
"That's a whole year from now"
He looks up, and then blinks
"Are we going to do all of this? Snow and Caballo and coco?"

>>173974
"No, I..." She looks over at Kira with an odd expression
"Know you don't eat those... but... like, big creatures? And yes, we need furniture."
Anonymous
06b345c
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No.173978
173982
>>173977
Posey proceeds down the road, humming softly. She continues strolling until she finds the artillery.
"The machinery should be not far from here..."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
89e77c9
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No.173979
173982
>>173977
Silver nods with conviction, like he knows for a fact that is exactly what they will do.

"All of it."
Kubana "Nope Noodle" Kirafiki
89e77c9
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No.173980
173982
>>173977
Kira tilts her head, a motion she has become very familiar with today.

flicks tongue

"I...suppose they are fairly big? Oh, and pigs. Really just whatever we can hunt out in the savanna or that the herders and fishersnakes have ready for eating."
Anonymous
48fa069
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No.173982
173984 173986 173987 173989
>>173980
"I... see... So do you plan to eat falafels, mostly, while here?"

>>173978
"Wait. let me get my cards."

"We cannot leave yet."

"The Monarchist magic has trapped us here."

>>173979
intense tail wagging
"Yay!"
Anonymous
06b345c
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No.173984
173985
>>173982
Ffs, let me check the rules for exorcisms...