The rear portions of the SSRS Kostroma have been cleared. The Boiler room draws near. Still that sound persists. Calling them.
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>>195628Posey would tell you that constructs can never regenerate, only fast-heal, were she not preoccupied with her moment of glory.
>>195629She can feel the oil on her hooves. And probably a bit on other parts of her coat, splashing from the collapsing oil
>>195625Mala walks up to Silver, as does Zara
Zara: "Are you okay?"
>>195628>>195631Cavaliere also approaches the now badly-injured Silver.
"How hard were you hit? You may want to lie down on a soft surface." >>195631Luckily, for the next several hours Posey will look spotless and beautiful, thanks to her glammer spell.
>>195629>>195631>>195632Silver chuckles wryly along with Posey as he looks towards his attentive friends. "Heh, nothing I have-" he's interrupted with a couple more coughs, each of which bring up plenty of blood, and perhaps at least one small piece of viscera. "-ow...gone through before." He pulls out a small knife, and starts to cut away at the oil keeping him stuck to that spot.
>>195635He waves over Patient Pipette.
"Doctor, don't be afraid! He needs your help over here. Might be a punctured lung." >>195635Silver is indeed still stuck there and must free himself. There should be some health potions remaining, although this might be the remainder of the supply. Silver can feel that he has indeed been seriously injured
>>195636Pipette, not far from the two, widens her eyes, and comes towards Silver
She inspects him
[1d20+3 = (10+3) = 13] >>195637It's very clear that he's suffered significant blunt force trauma, causing immense muscle strain and breaking multiple bones including several ribs that likely have punctured his lungs and risk injuring other organs as well. His breathing is raspy and unsteady, and putting any pressure on...well, really most any part of his body causes him to wince in pain. How he's still standing is a mystery to her, but very clearly a pony of lesser consitution would be at least unconscious or more likely dying by this point.
>>195628He inspects the dead remains.
"None of the others had before, but they dissolved on death. I think this creation was using the oil as a sort of skeleton. I would burn this oil if it was safe, but here it might be a better idea to douse it with some sort of chemical to dissolve it.">>195629Now that there's some time, Cavaliere makes an arcane knowledge check to figure out what kind of spell would not only heal and clean a pony but also dramatically change her appearance.
[1d20+7 = (13+7) = 20] >>195640Patient Pipette
"There are chemicals... not enough, not here."
>>195639If you actually had broken ribs or punctured lungs, you would have taken Constitution damage/drain. This is just HP damage; you will be fine after some rest.
>t. is still recovering from existential manecare emergency >>195640Magic. Possibly glammer subschool. Very pretty.
>>195642>>195641scrunchWell, regardless of the actual mechanics of Silver's significant internal injuries, he's enough of a stallion to admit: "...I may actually need some help to heal."
Kira raises her hoof. "Would it help if I wrapped around you? You know, like a splint?"
Somehow, Silver has his doubts that would work.
"We should go kill that hippogriff immediately. The longer we wait, the more opportunities it has to send monsters to harass us. Another creature could appear at any moment."
>>195644Zara Zama:
"When does a giant snake thing wrapping around you help anything? Except to die."
Patient Pipette
"Rest and magic..."
>>195645Blackheel:
"For once, I agree with the white unicorn."
>>195645>>195646Silver shakes his head. "Rest later. Magic now."
Kira keeps her hoof raised. "I'd still like to go explore and free as many of the poor possessed ponies as we can, if that's a possibility. Can we at least do my thing first though, even if we don't have enough resources to keep going on?"
>>195645>>195646The griffon shakes his head dismissively.
"We would be going upstairs in close quarters against not just Bearer and other monsters, but the various crew that have been enslaved. It would be a bloodbath. Afterwards, we would still have to fight that thing which will be attacking us, and we can't be sure it would be blind either. If we go after the source instead, we eliminate the monsters, the crew would no longer be forced to fight us, and Light Bearer would be helpless." >>195648Blackheel:
"The griffin
does raise an interesting point"
>>195648>>195649Kira keeps her hoof raised, and bounces up and down excitedly. "Oh! Let's do my thing! It will make everything super easy!"
>>195650Blackheel points a hoof towards Kira:
"Yes, overgrown garden snake, what do you have to say?"
>>195651Kira stops bouncing, and tilts her head at Black Heel. "Garden snake? I'm a Hunter, not a Farmer. Err, Gardener? Anyways, I don't know how much I can really say, because I'm fairly certain that the Traveler can hear us, or maybe even hear our thoughts, but basically I have a way I'm going to try to remove him from the minds of the possessed creatures. If they're free, not only will they not be fighting against us, but maybe it will also weaken the Traveler and, as a consequence, Light Water, if it draws power from its followers."
>>195652Silver: "Something to heal, like potion. Or maybe even just something to get me up and going again." Another cough, and more blood comes up.
>>195653Blackheel tilts his head
"A hunter of
what?"
After a moment, he says
"Surely, we have some possessed creatures to try it on."
>>195654"Well, mostly gazelle, wild hogs, anything that could be found out in the savannah really. Oh, anything
non-sapient, we don't do anything like that to creatures like zebras or...well, there aren't really any back home, but we wouldn't do it to ponies either. Plus the rise of agriculture a long time ago means that we aren't actually the main food producers for the tribe anymore and we're more like soldiers now, but...sorry, got off track. I don't know if I'll be able to do it multiple times, so I'd like to try to get as many possessed creatures together as possible before I do it."
>>195655Blackheel:
"I see..."
He relaxes. Some inarticulable aspects of tone and body language suggest this was the right answer, and he seems to have some sympathy.
"Very well. Try it. when you can."
>>195653"Did you bring healing potions?"
"I have none. I am allergic."
>>195656Kira smiles. She's happy to see more ponies start to relax around lamias like her. "Yay, thank you! Okay, let's go gather some more creatures like it's some sort of pocket creature collection game!"
>>195657Silver: "Huh, I am sorry to hear. At least you seem to be doing well." Another cough. "We have small amount. I do not want to take all of them up, but I am very hurt."
>>195656This would be a great time to resolve that Arcana/Religion roll from months ago when Posey checked to see if that Strand Of Prayer Beads we found was actually magical.
>>195658"Take them now then. We need to leave."
Did the oil monster drop any treasure?
>>195660Kira: "It isn't? I feel like it should be a thing, though. There's a lot of appeal in cute creatures, like ponies."
>>195662Silver definitely agrees on that.
I just don't know who has the potions, or how much they'll heal. >>195664At this point, Kira has definitely lost Blackheel, who stares at Kira, mouth hanging open
Silver should have a potion bottle of Cure Serious Wounds from Cargo Hold 4
3d8+5
>>195665Kira just tilts her head at the pony. "Did I say something wrong."
Silver absolutely takes the potion, making sure to drink every last drop.
[3d8+5 = (14+5) = 19] >>195666>66610% of randomly rolled items are cursed btw :p
>>195666>>195667It definitely doesn't taste the freshest of all potions that he's taken, and it's not enough to heal all of the damage from even just this one fight, but it's definitely better than nothing.
>>195669Posey takes out her Tiara and polishes it.
>>195670Unlike Posey, it is not covered in oil
Now... Who wants to roll Spot?
>>195669Silver looks to the others to see if he should take it or not.
>>195673Spot: Kira's keen snek eyes come in use here.
[1d20+8 = (1+8) = 9] >>195675Patient Pipette looks especially friendshaped
>>195677Now this, this is true. Kira would give her a hug right about now, if she wasn't so covered in oil.
>>195664You never specified how many we had, other than that we had "at least one" large potion
>>195673Cavaliere's careful, practiced eyes look around....
[1d20+5 = (9+5) = 14]