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>>183446They dissolved into black ethereal nothingness.
>>183441Posey's words
do not result in another spawned monster
>>183442There is not. He had it in his grasp, and then like that, it was gone with the wind
>>183444>>183445Mala moves up near Posey and Silver
>>183449There's rendered whale blubber elsewhere
>>183443>stow it away in his revolverholster
>>183442>>183446These are not Rain World centipedes and you cannot eat them.
>>183445"You're familiar with these creatures? They're unlike anything found in the wild and seem magical in origin, but I can't place from where. Silver is right, for once the communists aren't a likely threat and they might be some help.">>183449>>183450>>183451Brie could just ask Cavaliere if he's hungry.
>>183452"Have u tried feastables? I hear theure rly popular,"
>>183450>>183445Silver gives Mala some pets when he comes up to him. "Excellent shots, Mala! I am very glad to have you with us." While he continues to pet Mala, he addresses Posey. "We know where their master is, on Kostroma. Idiot communists brought it onto ship from Skynavia to bring home to study, and he dominated mind of most everypony on that ship. We need to find those remaining Stalliongraders and come up with plan to end this thing. You heard what it said through Sea Stone. If it manages to free that ship and reaches Stalliongrad, there is no telling how far it will go to assimilate everything into its consciousness."
>>183450>Posey's words do not result in another spawned monsterPosey curses into the void, chomping at the bit to fight the master of these monsters.
"Coward..."
>Mala moves up near Posey and SilverPosey pets Mala to soothe her frustration.
"I saw that hit you made with your shotgun. It was very fearsome."
She gives him a bone
>>183452>You're familiar with these creatures? Vaguely. Confronting horrors from the Cerebrosis periphery was part of my training. They are incalculably diverse creatures, but they are universally bent on corrupting all around them with their madness..."
She trails off, seemingly reliving a nasty memory
>>183455Ima slap u when his works
>>183440Vir grins wrly.
"To be honest, I don't really like talking with ponies in general, because when you wear your heart on a sleeve," Vir says and flaps the hem of her cloak. Her tan cloak that has Celstia's cutie mark cover its cape and once again a smaller sun over her hoodie. "I see happy faces too of course but sometimes I prefer ponies eye-rolls to their anger. But, uhh, yeah, I'm visting the Blackhooves to ask for my sister. If anyone would know her where-a-bowt, it probably be 'em."
>>183455"Cerebrosis, you say? Let's hear about all this at the village. It'll be a more secure vantage point, if this 'Commissar' has made use of it."He is ready to leave when the other party members are.
We did kill things, and quickly.
Suck it GM (he knows)
>>183454>>183455Mala smiles, closes his eyes, and opens his mouth, letting his tongue hang out as he receives dual pets.
When posey gives him another bone, he quickly chomps on it, breaking the bone and eating it quickly.
>>183457It almost did this time. 1d2
>>183453"What are those?" Mala asks
>>183458"Oh. Well, that makes sense. I doubt they'll tell you, but for a sister, it's worth a try." After a moment, she speaks again
"And thank you, again, for your help."
>>183463Kira returns to the party, her quivers fully filled up again. Silver looks over the entire party.
Silver: "Okay everyone, let us find those Stalliongrader survivors. Kira, take point."
Kira: "Aye aye, captain!"
Survival: Kira leads the group through the fog, continuing to be on the alert for any more aberrations they may encounter.
[1d20+11 = (9+11) = 20] >>183469Having second thoughts [...] yes, its moldy
>>183467It's kind of a narrow path. Kira believes she finds what is the beginning of the ridge of the hill, with the ruined remains of a stone wall just on the left side of it
>>183469Mala is intrigued
"Food that
isn't rotten?"
He starts to wag his tail
>>183470"Oh..."
>>183471Silver: "You have had food that was not rotten before. Remember when we went to that restaurant and you had octopus? Or earlier this morning when I made you alligator steaks?"
Kira: "I think we're getting close!"
>>183463>worth a tryAn image of an eye-rolling but genuinely smiling filly unicorn pass through Vir's mind.
"Yes, she is worth it," she says.
Vir dives in and nuzzles Heather's neck.
>>183461>Cerebrosic"The Cerebrosic Periphery. The back of the mind. The place where mortal perception intersects with the madness of the far realm. The peripheral is the Near Realm, a place of perversion and abstraction, through which we can contact and be contacted by horrors from beyond the unknowable void...."
".... It is the most vile, disgusting, horrible place imaginable. My master attached loathesome creatures to my skull and let them have their way with my mind to throw me into that vile jungle of misery, so that I could experience what infinite Dread truly felt like. I can still remember the omnipresent slime, the writhing 'grass', the gravitational distortions pulling me every which way, the lurking nightmares that prowled in the corners of the mind, leaping through the dimensional boundaries to latch themselves to my barrel and fuse themselves to my skin and prope their feelers up my nose and into my brain...! Master would not let me return to the realm of sanity until I had grown accustomed to it long enough to learn from the experience."
>>183473"Tee he he"
Heather scratches the back of the
silly filly big mare's ears
"Anything for a sister. I understand that emotion. I would if I could, too."
>>183472Mala to Silver:
"Well yes, but you can't have alligator, or octopus, or" licking his lips "zebra every day. These... monsters? Is that what they are called? They just disappeared. You can't even eat them."
>>183474Ow, the edge. I like your descriptive ability.Cavaliere only stares as she explains, withholding comment as he focuses on the path ahead.
>>183477[1d20+8 = (17+8) = 25]>>183476Silver: "Something tells me alligators and octopi would probably taste better than demon starfish and demon centipedes."
I gotta sleep soon.
I'm free all day tomorrow.
Feel free to carry on without me though.
>>183479"It will, I know. But there's only demon starfish around it seems. All I've had to eat since we left is bones. I am looking forward to being able to eat pony flesh again, or better yet, hippogriff." He looks upwards in ecstasy as he recalls some memory, then looks back to Silver
"I know ponies don't like it when I do that, but I feel like this whole thing we do here, well, that you do, is like a whole special exception to the pony world. Like, the pony society has rules. Very basic rules like you don't kill other ponies, and especially ponies with power. Then I saw you imprison my two superiors. You shot and killed the zebras that bullied me. And you killed that rich pony who was lord over us all. And you got praised for it. Paid for it. You fucked that griffin. You were loved even by the police for it.
Much of my life I thought that the ponies didn't like me because I was a kind of monster. The way I behaved made me monstrous to them. I thought I kind of deserved it and needed to be separate from the pony society. That is why I was with Sweat's society. I thought I could be accepted there, even though I really wasn't. Then I saw you, and I realized that it was okay to be violent, or carnivorous. It was okay to be a monster. Because monsters could be loved too. I could be loved too. By ponies."
Mala wags his tail
>>183479Kira sees something galloping through the mist. It's kind of low, and big around.
It's coming towards them.
>>183484You want me to stay up for this encounter?
I know people are sleep, I'm just gonna respond to Mala before we end up in the next encounter.
>>183483Silver gives some more pets to Mala, smiling at his loyal friend. "You
are loved,
and accepted. And it is true, society has certain rules that you are expected to follow - and usually for good reason - but when someone decides to break those rules for their own gain to detriment of others, you need someone who is willing to break those same rules as well for good reason to keep others safe and happy."
>>183476Vir pushes back into the hoof with pleased closed eyes. Then she realize the meaning of Heather's last words and sad look passes by her face.
She walks over to Flowercup and raise her hoof. She stops, hovering over Flowercup's head. A memory passes her mind's eye. A mare. She smiles down at her filly self. She reaches out toward her but hesitates. 'May I touch you?' 'Of course, you can. I luv u! Mother Justiney.'
"Sorry," Vir says. "I didn't ask before. May I?"
Yes, I literally added Lunchly (it says it on my inventory, including the mold) to my character sheet just so I could make a joke about it mid-game.
>wants to kill more
>>183489The beige mare closes her eyes and smiles, ready to receive her hoof
"You may."
>>183488Though masked and thereby expressionless, Brie nods appreciatively on hearing this
>>183476Dust stops wishfully looking at the deadish grass in the area as he hears "zebra." He freezes, and his ears immediately start swiveling more than usual.
>>183482reeeeee
"An excellent show of force everypony. Since we have a moment, I have been meaning to ask,... does anypony know what the hell we are dealing with? First there was that strange beast our beloved whaling captain mackicked into being somehow, and now theres these, well I certainly don't know what you would call them but they're certainly not stalliongradii!"
>>183503Rolling a base intelligence check for Brie to kinda maybe try to idk,... think I guess
[1d20+2 = (17+2) = 19] >>183503Dust shakes his head
"Trials like these I have not seen before
Though their rumors have traveled our lore
I do not wholey know what is in store
But a small bit from legends I can relay
Summoners, conjurers, witches, and cults
Appear to be the cards fate to us has dealt
Aberration's attacks are what we have felt
I should say we no longer our mission delay
Vile forces are working against this shore
To summon these monsters we abhor
I would say the source is to blame for more
But here I do not want to be another day."
As Dust mentions "for more" he gestures towards the area they left the griffons and that one pony that was talking nonsense. Where are they anyways?
>>183503Posey just mentioned that they're aberrant monsters of pure madness from beyond the realm of insanity who won't rest until everything else is just as twisted and insane as them.
"Interlopers from beyond the void. Some refer to these sorts of creatures as 'beachgoers', from their resemblance to loathsome sea creatures and their dual-worldly nature."
She gestures towards the shore
"Think of the Far Realm as the ocean, and our reality as this island. The Cerebrotic Periphery is the place where they intersect, like a beach, where creatures of land and meet and hunt one another. It is also known as the mire, for its swampy and foul appearance, like a wetland."
>>183506>>183505Brie is neither enthusiastic nor particularly receptive to the idea of things that have no throat - or.perhaps too many - to cut
>>183507They're not immune to crits for the most part. You should be able to sneak Attack them.
But they tend to save psychic powers, so watch out for your feeble Will Save
I'm available all day today, btw
Really excited to purge some xeno filth.