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Occupied Equestria: K-19
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The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191455
Kira: "Wait, Light Water? The hippogriff scientist guy we got the journal page about, talking about your dream you had with the Traveler where he appeared to you like a god and kept changing forms as he figured out you don't believe in a god and then you told him all that stuff about how you think the world should be fixed?"
Anonymous
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>>191455
Cavaliere looks to the other party members, in case another might be interested in speaking. He nods to Kira's inquiry.
"We are a rescue party. Roger-easy-sugar-charlie-uncle-easy peter-able-roger-tare-yoke. Communications are not secure, I repeat, they are not secure."
Anonymous
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>>191456
There is silence for a few seconds. When he speaks his voice goes lower for just a moment, and dropping his usual tone, he says almost flatly

"You read my private journal?" After a moment, it returns

"That is... sort of. Yes, I was the first here to realize the potential of Our Fellow Traveller... I can tell you haven't come around to realize the same."

>>191458
"Oh, I know. But the truth need not be kept secret."
Cavaliere
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>>191459
The griffon bluffs, "We are in the process of leaving. If you can give any reason to be rescued, you should say it now."
Anonymous
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>>191460
"I'm not really the one in need of rescue, am I? No, you don't really need to leave now, do you? You still have that little bit of curiousity, that lingering capacity for wonder that you first had as a child when you saw fireflies in the sky, or saw something new and grand in the glossy, colored pages of a book - that hasn't left you. It tells you that there is something more here. Something new, something... Wonderful. That marvelous instinct is one you should listen to."
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191459
Kira: "Oh, uh, sorry about reading your private journal. We just kinda found it on one of the possessed ponies we came across and we read it hoping it might give us some insight on what the heck was going on because we had no idea why there were Stalliongrad ponies wandering the island acting like they were suffering from hypothermia talking about commissars and Travelers or whatever the other name for him was (I think it was chernobog?) but I have to say it really did help, so thank you for writing it! Anyways, don't you think the Traveler is kinda weird? Like, have you seen the stuff that he's been summoning, they're super creepy. Also mean. One of the hellhounds he summoned bit me..."
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>>191462
“Oh, now what is ‘weird’ or ‘creepy’ but something new or out of the ordinary. Those instincts to fear what is different, or alien, are crafted in for survival in the darkness of primordial cave dwellings. But every creature must needs leave security of the cave for warmth and glory of the light.

But you need not fear the alien. Have we not all, at one time or another, found ourselves alone in a crowded room? Have we not all felt like we were the outsider? The stranger? The alien? We have.

We can overcome our instinctive aversions. No, we must overcome them. It’s the only way towards something better.

If those first interactions were less than pleasant, let’s put the past aside. Let’s make a new start.”
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191463
Kira blinks, even though Light Water can't she her do so. She also flicks her tongue. "Soooooooooooooooooo...does that mean you'll tell the Traveler to stop sending monsters to attack us and our friends? Because now there's the 'gee are you' on the island and they're also being mean and attacking our friends, and if we know we have one less enemy to worry about then we can save all of our friends lickety split!"
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>>191463
Cavaliere speaks into the microphone again.
"Doctor, this island is already crowded, and with ponies who will treat you as an outsider to be experimented on. Your only way off this island that's not with them is with us. You know that staying here will not lead to good results and will cut off your knowledge."
Posey
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"We should keep moving. Staying in one place may let it track our position." Posey says
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The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191470
Kira pipes in with a further addition. "Um, but p-p-please don't, like, get them hurt or, uh, or worse. Ponies are really super fragile creatures!"
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The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191472
Now Silver pipes up with a groan. "Equalists...of all forms of communism..."

Kira's voice expresses confusion. "Uh...I'm guessing you believe that all creatures are or should be equal and that assimilating all living beings into the mind of the Traveler will achieve that goal, which...I'm not sure there's many lamias in the tribe who would agree with that idea, I mean what with the different castes and all of the varied beliefs about the roles of predators, prey, and parasites. Also Ouroboros probably doesn't like that the Traveler is here, so he should probably be worried about divine retribution if he decides it's time to hatch. Also, wait a moment..." Kira puts a hoof to her chin as a thought comes to her.

"How are you still in control of your own faculties? Everyone else loses their minds, but you seemingly haven't or at least you aren't talking like the possessed ponies are."
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>>191472
Cavaliere replies, "Dr. Light Water, you know better than any other pony about the reports regarding where this thing was found. An entire village was forcibly drowned, with no distinction between collaborators and obstructionists. It has no sympathy for others' lives and views them merely as tools to be discarded when their use runs out. You and I value friendship for its own sake, I hope, but to this thing it's an empty platitude for domination. You are under its sway stronger than anything else it's talked to, but if you reflect on the truth you know that there's no future for a "Dr. Light Water" as an independent, thinking being in this thing's plans. Kindle enough strength to choose a path that will let you keep your dignity."
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>>191476
Are we close to our destination at this point?

"It is true that you need to break a few eggs to make an omelette. The real question is who is being broken by whom, and I have no intention of being broken again."
Posey ascends her animation to keep moving.
"That was quite the exhaustive monologue. You should be saving your breath instead, lest the freezing wind take you before we do."
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>>191477
My dear Ring, don’t you see? One of the best features of a play by post system is that no matter how badly the players may want to, they can’t interrupt the BBEG’s villian monologue
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191476
Silver, who has been quiet for most of his monologuing, speaks up. "If there is monster that needs fearing, it is not Traveler: it is you. Perhaps just as we need to save those on this island, we also need to save Traveler from your influence."
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>>191478
But I wanna go kill stuff!
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>>191479
Posey pulls Silver aside, away from the microphone
"I have a hypothesis: it appears as though the Traveller may be using this hippogriff as a figurehead, and an anchor through which it gives itself meaningful perspective in this causal reality. I have read of other monsters with similar behavioral patterns; creatures that are mindless or incapable of coherent thought on the material plane who use mortal subjects as reality anchors to pin their perspective in the dimensional metanarrative... I suspect that this may be the case."
"We should consider him a high value target. If we eliminate him, the Traveller may be deprived of its sensory and cognitive functions on this plane, at which point it may regress into a highly-psionic amoeba lashing out without any higher plans."
Also, DM is presenting this NPC to us right now for a reason; We should take it as a hint.
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191482
Silver looks to ponder through what Posey says, before coming up with a reply of his own. "It is possible. It is also equally possible that Traveler may be closer to lost foal than anything, and has been and is continuing to be used by bad actors like Light Water for their own gains. Either way, I have idea. I think it might be possible to communicate with Traveler without losing one's mind, if you can remain grounded in reality well enough and can maintain strong enough beliefs to center yourself. Perhaps then one could convince Traveler to abandon Light Water and search for way back home on his own."
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>>191476
Cavaliere scratches his talons together thoughtfully as Light Water mentions certain interesting details.
He holds up the microphone to the side of his mouth again, and says, "I fear you may be insulting your friend by comparing him to a common animal or an inanimate object. The way you describe him, it seems you want him tamed and bent to the will of ponykind. Was that inquisitive pony of the same view? You have a fond view of the 'progress' that pony made and to you it's valuable."
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The Floof and The Noodle
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Kira scrunches, not particular fond of how the Traveler seems to have the same sort of processes as what lamias believe happens when they eat a creature. "The Traveler is stealing our schtick!"

Silver: "He needs to go home, where he can no longer be used and abused by creatures like you, and where he will not cause the realm any more suffering."
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>>191485
>Communist
>Hippogriff
>made contact with space comrades
>Posada meme
>EaW setting
Oh Celestia, it's even worse than I thought...
Cavaliere
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>>191485
>zookind
sausage

Cavaliere glances around to his companions, making sure they're paying attention. At last, he replies, "You mentioned that he was harmed by some other entities. Who are they? Did they harm him out of prejudice or for some other reason? There must be information that lets you have such implicit trust in an outcast. Or is it more of a gut feeling?"
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>>191492
"Some were ponies. Neighsayers who interrupted and challenged the work of the would-be-prophet. Of course the science crew who tried to dissect him, and failed. Your comrade Blackheel over there. Some were simply ignorant, some were motivated by that spirit of reaction that drives so many. Our Fellow Traveller is more concerned by the action of entities it cannot name from its former home. They are the ones who reduced it to its current state. What motivated them I cannot say. I would assume territorial rivalry, the same as motivates nearly every animal and sapient creature to harm its fellow, but that is only a guess."
Cavaliere
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>>191493
"Dr. Light Water, given your scholarship in zoology you should know of the many situations when a species arrives in a foreign habitat. If it is at all suited to that habitat, it will adapt to new food sources and continuously expand due to a lack of natural predators. You can see that this 'Fellow Traveler' is an invasive species and its prey is the minds of ponies and other creatures. What you call 'loneliness' is its hunger, and like wasp larvae in a caterpillar it consumes the mind of its host and leaves only a husk as a housing. You are temporarily useful left alive, but all others under its control are in a slow torment until their eventual deaths. That is why this thing is so eager for new hosts. I think you'll find your own colleagues can back up what I'm saying."

He beckons Patient Pipette and Star Fire over to the radio.
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The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191495
Silver: "And what if Traveler were to learn of better way? If he were to learn that this current path you have forced upon him has made him feared and hated, but that by being guided by better hoof he could find that love and approval he so desires?"
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>>191495
Posey speaks up
"You did not seem concerned with freezing to death tonight. Are you you sheltered in a secure room? Where are you?How many are with you?" she implores
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Cavaliere
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>>191499
Cavaliere says nothing more but lets the others have another turn at the radio if they wish.
Posey
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>>191499
"Where would that be exactly? Are you on the ship? Where on it?"
>>191500
I'm just taking the occasional turn to participate in ongoing dialogue. I can move on to the airponies whenever everyone has asked their questions.
Cavaliere
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>>191499
"For every successful explorer there have been dozens who flung themselves on the rocks of fate and were forgotten. Only those who planned ahead and navigated around danger survived. How many chances will you give to a murderous invader before you understand the peril you put yourself in?
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191499
Kira: "Bah? Did the Traveler turn you into a goat?"

Silver: "It seems to me that these actions he is taking as result of your instructions are making him seem more of monster to other creatures."
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>>191504
Kira: "But I'm not going around trying to take over the minds of ponies to convince them that I'm okay. I wouldn't want that. I want ponies to view me differently because they saw for themselves that I'm not a dangerous, pony-eating monster."

Silver is intrigued. This manner of speaking from Light Water seems to lack the same confidence that he had when speaking earlier. In fact, he sounds even a bit...fearful. Silver turns to the other commie ponies in the party to see if they have any thoughts.
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>>191505
"Would that goats had the same harmonic energy as ponies... Or that Our Fellow Traveller had ever even encountered a goat. No, this is the hand we are dealt, and we must play it."

Blackheel has the same expression he's had. The "I'm going to kill that damn hippogriff." Pipette looks like a student who very much does not want to be called on by the teacher. Starfire looks about the same, not wanting to speak unless he had to.
Cavaliere
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>>191504
"You don't feel hope, but rather desperation. You know this thing is uncontrollable and could easily kill you, so you're placating it just to survive. The idea of an 'Ecumene' is just what you tell yourself to pretend the killing will stop at some point, but in your heart you know it won't.
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191506
In that case, Silver is the one to speak. "You are not controlling it, are you? You are merely distracting it, preventing it from doing what it really wants to do by directing its energy towards other goals. You are afraid of what will happen if you slip up."
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>>191504
"I am a busy mare, and my crew cannot afford distractions. I have targets I need to locate my targets before they perish at nightfall. If you are unwilling to divulge anything helpful right now, I think it is better that we speak again later, in-pony."
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>>191506
>Blackheel has the same expression he's had. The "I'm going to kill that damn hippogriff."
~Ooh, wrath
Posey glides past Blackheel and whispers: "I can sense you are chomping on the bit as much as I am. Do not be distracted by the mad ravings of a mere thrall. Your retribution will be victory. Let us see to it that our strike resolves as swift and fierce as we can marshal."
"I believe we have heard enough from this bird. Let us not canter off course, for losing direction spells doom.. Onwards!" she says, drawing her sword and pointing it in the air
>>191505
"Kira, make sure you keep track of the trail. The airponies could be moving."
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Cavaliere
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>>191517
Cavaliere keeps the radio on for several seconds. He looks to the others. "We should get moving. It was worth a try for dissuasion, but the information we got out of him can prove useful."
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>>191518
Posey nods.
"Turn it off. We have heard enough. At least we know who to kill first now."
The Floof and The Noodle
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>>191518
>>191519
Of course, before the radio is turned off, Kira gets one last confused statement in: "Riding a tiger seems like a really stupid and bad idea. They'd probably be more likely to turn around and bite you than actually take you anyplace. Big cats aren't really good riding mounts."

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