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Occupied Equestria - Mended Horn
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.179000
179006 180235
It Begins.
1542 replies and 121 files omitted.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.180113
180114
>>180112
"We're looking for ponies, so let's check the cottage first. They could have hidden there."
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180114
>>180113
Idk why I put that in quotes, but I guess that's not unreasonable to say in character...
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180115
180117
>>180112
Posey walks to the door of the cabin, but as she's about to open it...
She compulsively knocks.
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180117
180118 180119
>>180115
No response.

This door is indeed closed.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180118
180119 180121 180122
>>180117
Posey freezes there, struggling against herself.
....
Wait, is there a welcome mat?
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180119
180120 180121 180122
>>180117
>>180118
Silver looks oddly at Posey, before opening the door for her.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180120
180121 180124
>>180119
But does he invite her in?
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180121
180123 180124
>>180119
The door is unlocked, and opens simply

>>180118
No.

>>180119
>>180118
Mala stands at the ready with his shotgun, and seemed as if he intended to kick down the door if Silver had not simply opened it.

>>180120
Kek
Cavaliere
29cfec4
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No.180122
180123 180124
>>180118
>>180119
"Are you worried about a trap in there?" he asks Posey.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180123
180124
>>180122
>>180121
"It's okay if I go in, right?"
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180124
180125 180126
>>180120
>>180121
>>180122
>>180123
Silver steps inside, and having not immediately died (as far as I know) turns to Posey and says, "Seems safe enough. Come on inside."
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180125
180126
>>180124
Posey enters the building, and looks around.
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180126
180127 180128
>>180124
>>180125
You wanna get a surprise round against you? Because this is how you get a surprise round against you

Silver opens it...

To find that the cottage contains a desk with many papers, some papers strewn on the ground, a collection of giant... teeth? On a windowsil. Many, many, many empty bottles. A couple glasses, one turned over. Writing in.. chalk? Multiple... spearheads? On the walls. A single bed that is made but slightly disturbed.
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180127
180130
>>180126
Fair.

Silver: "This seems to belong to hunter."

Kira enters, and wonders at the interior. She takes special interest in the spearheads, comparing it to the leaf-shaped steel spearhead of her spear.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180128
180130
>>180126
>You wanna get a surprise round against you?
People told me not to powergame. Posey phobia is one of her weaknesses.
>a collection of giant... teeth?
Ooh, that's fun.
>Writing in.. chalk?
A magic circle? Summoning?
Arcana
[1d20+11 = (5+11) = 16]
>Multiple... spearheads?
Any of those look masterwork?

Let's check the floor boards under the bed, to see if there's a hidden compartment that the crown could have been hidden in.
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180130
180131 180133
>>180127
It sholuld be clarified that there are two distinct and radically different types of "spearheads" here. One is absolutely massive, six or so inches long and made of steel, presumably chrome plated.

But another class is several different kinds of mostly smaller spearheads. Some are made of... metal? Some odd looking black colored substance. Two are carved bone. One of the metal ones looks broken, probably from something larger

>>180128
These are definitely of some kind of magical attempt or occult tradition, very possibly for the purpose of summoning. However, Posey does not recognize any of the attempts at symbols. Well, that isn't true. She recognizes a symbol belonging to Erebus, of primordial chaos, and another to the fish god. However, if Posey really had to guess, this looks more like an imitation of magic rituals rather than anything real.

>>180128
There is a box, yes.

>masterwork
Maybe the large steel one?
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180131
180132 180133
>>180130
Hmmm...this may be a long shot, but...can Silver use his mastery of Weaponsmithing to learn the quality of the spearheads?
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180132
180135
>>180131
Are you asking if it's masterwork?
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180133
180134 180135
>>180131
If you have tanks in weapons nothing, you get a bonus to appraisal checks.
>>180130
>imitation of magic rituals rather than anything real
"It looks like the fishermen were getting desperate. They even resorted to esoterics." Posey declares
"It's all wrong though. For all we know they angered the sea spirits and had a horde of sea fiends ascend in this settlement." She ponders
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.180134
>>180133
>tanks in weapons nothing
*ranks in weapon smithing
The Floof and The Noodle
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No.180135
180136 180137
>>180132
Yeah, and maybe recognizing what the metal and black colored substance is.

>>180133
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Kira: "They didn't ask the spirits correctly, I suppose, and didn't receive their blessings. We're not really a sea people, so I don't know if we had any ways to ask for blessings to increase fish yields. We just fished in the rivers if we needed any."
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180136
180137 180138 180141
>>180135
You can roll.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180137
180141 180145
>>180135
"Esoterics are no laughing matter. Some creatures think of them as harmless futility at worst, but in dire circumstances it can do more harm than good. I know of a village not unlike this one that was depopulated by drowners after the locals got chancey with chalk like this..." Posey says, shaking her head slowly
>>180136
Rolling
[1d20+3 = (4+3) = 7]
Zoob
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No.180138
180139
>>180136
Can I roll? Not for anything in particular, just in general
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180139
180140 180144
>>180138
Yes.
Zoob
2a814fc
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No.180140
180145
>>180139
Yay!
[1d20 = 7]
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180141
180142 180144 180145
>>180136
Weaponsmithing: Silver inspects the spearheads with the keen eye of a master smith.

[1d20+12 = (14+12) = 26]

>>180137
Kira: "I imagine they got desperate, ran out of whale meat and resorted to hunting sea birds for food. This might have been their last gambit to survive..."
Cavaliere
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No.180142
180144
>>180141
"How would four griffons eat through an entire whale, assuming they practiced some method of preservation?"
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.180144
180145
>>180141
"It may have also been their undoing. Sea spirits are not to be trifled with." Posey says
"I know that first hoof...." she adds
>>180142
"I wondered the same. Perhaps there were more of them at some point."
>>180139
Are there any hidden chambers under the floorboard, behind the bed, or under the mattress?
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180145
180146 180149 180164 180209
>>180140
Defiant's mix tape does not get picked up by a record label.

>>180137
Posey does not recognize the spears

>>180141
Silver can tell that the large spearhead is a fresh, modern spear with a chrome plated head. Presumably, it's for a harpoon.

The other objects are... less clear. One is the tip of a larger spear, and a few are full spearheads. One of the spearheads is corroded in an unsual way. However, all of them seem to be made from some kind of alloy. Iron, Nickel, and Manganese. The thing is, it looks as if it hasn't been properly smelted at all, and is a naturally occurring semi-metalic substance. This means that the iron includes ferric oxides that you'd really rather not use. However, it is near purely metalic.

>>180144
No search roll?
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180146
180147
>>180145
I keep forgetting my bonus
[1d20+5 = (5+5) = 10]
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180147
180149
>>180146
Someone else roll
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180148
I really should take 10 on these kinds of rolls...
The Floof and The Noodle
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No.180149
180150 180151
>>180145
Silver: "These are odd. I have never seen anyone attempt to fashion spearheads like these before. It almost seems as if they were using whatever metals they had on hoof...talon?...to make these."

>>180147
Search: Kira also searches the house for any hidden compartments.
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180150
180152
>>180149
[1d20+5 = (12+5) = 17]
Rosey "Posey" Ring
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No.180151
>>180149
"Seems like it. They probably melted down old scrap metal to make these."
GM Pony
992cfd3
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No.180152
180153
>>180150
There is a hidden compartment in the floorboard.

It contains a couple boxes, and has clearly been moved recently.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180153
180154
>>180152
Voila!
Posey levitates the boxes out.
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180154
180155 180157
>>180153
Kira taps her hooves together as she watches Posey lift the boxes out. "Um...can I help open them?"
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180155
180156
>>180154
"Sure. You can be the trap-checker." Posey replies
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180156
>>180155
Kira: "Okay!" She smiles, and claps her hooves together excitedly...before stopping and looking at Posey a couple seconds later. "...how does one do that, exactly?"
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180157
180158 180159 180209
>>180154
Opening the boxes:

There is not a waiting hoof grenade

It's pretty clear that the physically largest items under the floorboards have been removed.

Inside are a couple smaller boxes of ammunition, two sets of papers, a necklace with a symbol of a lion holding an axe, some paper money, and a number of coins in foreign currency.
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180158
180160
>>180157
Kira: "Oh, money!" Kira takes the money, seeing what kind of money it is.

Silver: "Money?" Silver looks, and takes the ammunition, seeing what caliber they are.
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180159
180160 180161
>>180157
Posey examines the amulet.
Does it look like it could be magic?
Arcana
[1d20+11 = (18+11) = 29]

Let's pool all the money we find into a loot pile, to divide at the end of the mission.
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180160
180161 180163
>>180159
It does not.

It's insignia to be sure, and precious metals, but not magical

Symbol is a lion holding an axe overtop two shorts words. Silver with gold plating.

>>180158
Two distinct calibers.

.45 ACP
6.5 MM rifle

The money is... well, there's a griffin on it. It's silver and gold, though.

The paper is colored green and red.
The Floof and The Noodle
1748d93
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No.180161
180162 180163 180165
>>180159
A fair idea, but does that mean we would also pool all of the money we get from pawning items?

>>180160
Damn, no one has firearms in those calibers. Though the existence of this ammunition implies the existence of their matching firearms somewhere.
GM Pony
9d64f0b
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No.180162
180167
>>180161
>A fair idea, but does that mean we would also pool all of the money we get from pawning items?
You can have an in-character discussion on loot splitting
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180163
>>180160
"Well, that's treasure." Posey says, eyeing the necklace
>>180161
Depends, items that clearly are better off for certain characters should go to those characters. Items that are not useful to any characters should be sold off and proceeds divided.
Zoob
2a814fc
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No.180164
180166
>>180145
I hope you know that I am scrunching at you. Hard
Rosey "Posey" Ring
6933879
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No.180165
180166 180167
>>180161
"We can decide how to divide the treasure after we get paid." Posey says, stowing the necklace
"Let's check the other building before we head to the pier."