A D&D RP game based on My Little Pony, and the Hearts of Iron 4 mod Equestria at War, featuring an Equestria where the Princesses have been deposed, and Equestria is split between Changelings and a former Equestrian colony
Thus far, Dark Star has joined the fascist faction, and is taking on a job to assemble a team to stop a Communist cell. Onyx is no longer being detained, Ash has sort of joined a nunnery, Iron has joined the Waterside gang as a loanshark, Brie is still being edgy, and a new unicorn has joined. All are ready to reconnoiter the Docks.
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>>70440It's one hell of a lot smaller
But I really shouldn't intrude on your planning
>>70438we should definitely use the propane
>>70443How could you even set off the cannister? I'm pretty sure you need an igniter, and I sure don't know who has one without blowing their cover or themselves up, so I believe an ambush is better.
>>70444i could shoot it. maybe we could get brie to hide it close to one of the advisers?
It's so hard to not just say things
>>70446Well, I'm not going to get any better at thinking or perceiving information without some sleep, so I'll close up for today. Night.
Back-reading.
Gosh, I'm lost...
>>70450If I had to sum this up. We got some guards killed on the second floor. I had a plan about throwing a table over the gangway to the target mare but was foiled by the narrow corridor leading to it. Spark found some poison and explosives on the bathroom on the first floor. You and Onyx did not even arrive at the building where the targets are currently located. Current ideas of assassination are to ambush one of the targets in the bathroom through Dark Star or Spark's charisma, bluff and maybe seduce checks.
>>70451The plan is not set in stone and can be changed to simple poisoning through vodka and poison or maybe throw the cannister and hope it blows up. If we had Brie, this would be oh so easier.
>>70451I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I'm not exactly sure what the main objective of the mission was..
>>70453If I understand right, we must kill the two targets that Iron, Dark Star and Spark boi saw during the war announcement, maybe disrupt the event with some police intervention. I may be wrong.
>>70453To stop the communists from enacting their "plan," which during the night is found to involve both shipments of guns and two foreign special forces agents as advisers
>>70454>>70455Hmmmmm.
Here's a question. Were there any other children present in the area? Not just the ones from the orphanage.
>>70456The only other ponies visible in the Union Hall area besides Ollie were the two stallions. If there are any children in the docks area, they are not readily visible
>>70457I guess I should have her move in to investigate. If they were keeping any kids kids at all there, she'd probably prefer to make sure they're all outside before bullets start flying.
>>70451>the target mare>>70456Can I get a second description of her?
Sorry if I come off as a bit daft. I'm just trying to get an understanding of what the party is trying to get done, and set my character's motivations to match. I can't just go setting thing in fire at random.
>>70458You may want to recall Ollie's statements in
>>70250 and
>>70024>>70459Your character actually has not seen the Advisers, nor has Blue Skies provided a description
>>70458Your character has moved up next to the liquids warehouse, described in part in
>>70355 >>70461Alright. I've got it now.
>>70461>>70462I'm going to go for a limb here and use the third eye I have to guess that everyone is waiting for someone to post to start the session.
Here's hoping Brie is here. I've got about an hour before I need to go eat, but I'm ready now.
>>70461I guess I'll have her proceed into the warehouse then.
>>70467She can see a number of stacks of barrels. Those closest to the walls appear to be unmarked wooden barrels. In the center is a giant stack of drums. Some are labelled "Aviation Gasoline 130 Octane Tetraethyllead," some are labeled "Leaded Gasoline" behind these barrels and drums you can see ponies are messing with wooden crates, a few being stacked. Ponies are coming in an out of a door on the left side of the building from where you are, past the wooden barrels. A pony looks at the three of you, but, seeing none of you are wearing police uniforms, stops caring and goes back to the crates
>>70468Sister Ash walks in slowly, wondering to herself just what the hell she agreed to when she took this mission...
"Th-those are quite a few flammables.." she mutters, still a bit nervous
>>70468How many ponies does she see altogether?
>>70470>>70469As she rounds around the hill of drums, she can see a sign above the door over to her left "No Steel Horse Shoes," and to her right is what is apparently a loading bay with an elevated platform. A truck is backing up into it, and a pony is behind it on the platform
"Backwards, keep going, keep going, Stop, STOP. That's the clutch, not the brake. Now pull the handbrake. The handbrake. It's to your right. Alright, good"
Another two ponies to her left come through the door carrying a long rectangular crate. There are 3 ponies visible, and presumably one in the truck
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>>70471Do you think I can mingle with the advisors in-game without cocking up the mission aka making time run out for me and the other two peeps?
>>70473Hmmm.... Go ahead and try it. I can't imagine a conversation taking longer than what would be 5 minutes IRL anyways
>>70474Iron, deciding it is futile to attack at the moment, decides to go downstairs and meet up with the griffon advisor that was down the stairs, not before checking if his gauntlets were bloody or left a blood trail.
>>70475His gauntlet was indeed bloodied, although this could be cleaned off any of several ways.
The griffon is talking to a set of ponies who seem to be listening intently, telling of a time his platoon was cut off without supplies in Black Hollow. He is drinking what seems to be bottled beer.
>>70471Sister Ash decides to investigate further into the building, so long as nobody's suspicious.
>>70476Iron, not wanting to stain anyone's clothes with blood at the moment, decides to seek the bathroom on the first floor.
>>70476>>70478Dark Star remembers his stab wound
>>70477They already have a stack of crates set up behind the drums. There are some more drums and barrels along the other walls, and still another door on the far end opposite from which she came. The ponies' focus seems to be on placing crates inside of this building rather than on filling the trucks at the moment
>>70478That'll work
>>70479What do?
>>70481trys to slip out of the crowd and slips over to the vodka station
>>70481Iron checks the room for any sinks and
maybe mirrors in order to use water to scrub off the wound and if there is blood anywhere else on his body.
>>70481Where did Blue go off to? I know Onyx is outside the building.
>>70482It appears that the party was BYOB, with no refreshments being served
>>70483Both are possible. There is a little blood on the hide
>>70484"Boo"
She's right behind you. For now.
>>70485Iron, assured that he can clean himself, proceeds to do so with some water and scrubbing.
>>70485*Jumps with all four hooves leaving the ground*
"M-meep..!"
>>70485>BYOBUgh. You'd think commies would try barely to keep the illusion of hospitality. Dirty hypocrites, the lot of them.
>>70487She gives off a malign laugh. "I've got more and better surprises than that. Anyways, it looks like these are crates full of illegal arms they are bringing in"
As she speaks, a second two-and-a-half-ton truck backs into the loading bay
>>70486The steel gauntlets are wiped clean. The worst of the blood can be removed from the hide, although it looks like there will be a stain that won't come off easily
>>70488They are on a time crunch to set up and then leave. At least they will provide the guns for the fun later
>>70485Sister Ash shivers, clutching her broom.
"S-so it seems.. but there are so many ponies here too.."
>>70489Iron shrugs and proceeds to scrub his hide to clean as much as possible from the hide. At least it won't degrade his armor.
>>70490"There are a few, mostly they are on the move. They want to clear out a ship in the harbor before a routine patrol comes by."
>>70491It is as clean as it will get. A stain on it won't look that out of place with his "rustic" appearance anyways.
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Iron, finally feeling confident about not garnering much attention, decide to practice his intimidation, trying out some poses and such.
I'll just roll to excrete the bad rolls
>>70493I really hope the mirror doesn't break from sheer intimidation.
>>70493Iron is shaken by what he sees in the mirror, and feels ready to hand over his pouch of coins
>>70492"That poor colt said something about a 'revolution'.. I wonder what that could mean."
>>70496Iron almost gives his pouch until he sees there are two pouches of coins instead of one, being reflected by the mirror, composes himself and nods in satisfaction. He now finally goes to the main room in the first floor, looking for the griffon advisor.
>>70499Dark Star heads up stairs to look for shimmering sark
>>70497"We heard exactly what that means inside the rolling mill. They intend to violently push out the New Marelanders and establish a Communist regime here. Their first step will be to launch a campaign in the South to try to stop infrastructure projects there, including pretending to be natives when they attack. The ultimate goal of this is to drive a wedge between the natives and the Blackhooves - and Northern Equestria - so the natives will be more inclined to accept communist rule. Then they'll make an armed rebellion here in Baltimare and in Moonlight Shores. They've brought to advisers to help then train and strategize."
>>70498The Griffon is giving an impassioned retelling of crossing a flooded rice paddy laden with landmines
>>70501Iron listens in the story. Even though he is supporting such weaklings, he was still strong, and his tales may help him understand this complicated world of weak men.
So, what have I missed? Cause back reading lags like hell.
>>70503Iron Scared himself and im looking for a way to fix my stab wound
>>70502*stallions instead of men
>>70500The sorcerer takes note of these rooms and moves back upstairs to plan out the next step with the others.
>>70506"Hey Spark. ive been stabbed could you help me out?"
>>70507"I don't know any healing spells unfortunately. There is some first aid in the kitchen area though."
>>70501You can almost see the gears turning in the nunshead as she finally absorbs the socio-political circumstances of Equestrian affairs.
"That.. that's bad." She says, softly, but firmly
>>70508"Throw your Drink into my wound."
>>70510I look offended and hold the drink away.
"Umm... let's just go down to the kitchen."
>>70502"We were given orders to meet up with second company in a village south of White Flower. The land there was farmland, rich fields of rice. This was during the monsoon season and levees had been set up to keep the rice paddies flooded. No griffon wanted to walk through that, so we flew, and that worked for about five kilometers, until we encountered the Brodfield snipers. Nguwing, whom I had fought with since the beginning, took a bullet right through his skull. We didn't dare go above twenty feet, and hovering with a full set of equipment is no easy feat, for long periods anyways. But the mud - it could be feet deep, and it got everywhere. My feathers were thick with it. After a kilometer Raven Tram exploded into a muddy fireball. sprayed mud and water over many of us, myself nearby. I fell down into the mud because I thought that the Royalists were firing mortars at us. But when no attack came we realized the Royalists had mined the paddy. I'm not sure if they were hoping we would walk through, or if they set them for the Farmers when they would come......"
>>70503You are in a warehouse where they have crates of arms stacked up, waiting to transport out
>>70509"Yes it is"
>>70512Two questions spring to mind:
Who is around?
What kinds of arms?
>>70511"Wheres the nun?
>tfw sister ash never gave her name She can use Healing magic."
>>70513You can't know what kind of arms because you haven't seen them yourself, but you were told "rifles." Inside the warehouse right now are two ponies moving crates and another two by the loading docks, which has two trucks in it
>>70514"Didn't we leave her behind with the bartender?"
>>70512Iron gathered that he was at the least good at dodging and maybe had intense luck. He did not know of the "mai-nes" or "snai-puhs" that he was talking about though. No signs of physical strength as of yet. Iron looks obviously unimpressed nonetheless.
>>70512"... I don't think they'd stop if you talked to them.." she continues, moreso talking to herself than anyone else
>>70514I'm out of healing spells. Don't count on it.
>>70515>RiflesThat's about all I wanted or needed to know
Onyx leans towards the nun
"Now what?"
>>70515Are the rifles all in one place?
>>70520She gulps
"I guess.. we do what we came here to do.."
This group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J8uivKB6bs>>70517Just take a look at his muscles. He's freaking strong.
>>70521>>70518"I can't say I've had much success with it"
>>70521They are moving crates into the room. The crates that are in the room are in one stack
>>70523"I've got an axe on a spear, and a gun. You got anything better?"
>>70522>>70516"oh wait i found this healing kit. Do you know how it works?"
>>70525".. Let's wait until these ponies are done moving the crates.. then I can dispose of these.. toys.. all at once."
>>70524I sympathize with Bubbles.
>>70524While Iron did see his exceptional condition, he had not heard of the tales of strength apart from just surviving in a battle, and even with the endurance he may have by flying with all the mud on his feathers, he could be one of those stallions that pretended to be strong, only to be just the last survivor of a group that he only survived due to luck of cowardice. He keeps listening, also alert enough to see if his employer sends a signal to go loud.
>>70527"You see those trucks though, don't you? They will try to move some of them out tonight"
>>70530Among other exploits, Redclaw seems to have killed an entire machinegun nest of Royalists with only a Machete, and carried many huge packs of rice over his shoulders over treks of many kilometers during supply shortages. Is that tough enough?
>>70526I put bandages from the kit on Dark Star.
"That's the best I can do. I don't know how to use this other stuff in here."
Healing is a skill that I can't do. You probably won't recover hit points from this.
>>70536At least the bleeding stopped.
>>70533That'll doHis expression of unimpresiveness changes to a one of acceptance, hearing of how he killed that many ponies by himself inside that machinegun nest. Whatever that meant. He also admires his capacity of carrying those packs of rice through those marshlands, thinking about how the mud would slow the process by a lot. I guess it's too bad that he was on the wrong side still, but at least he knew it would at least be a fair fight. It took him every last ounce of willpower not to ask him for a spar, so that his employer's cover would not be exposed.
>>70533Were the tanks of fuel visible from outside the door of the warehouse?
Onyx walks up to the two moving the crates
"Want some help?"
>>70533She gulps again
"That poses a problem...
Those metal beasts.. if they were incapacitated, they wouldn't be able to move them out tonight.." Sister Ash murmers
>>70539She saw them only when she came inside, though maybe you could see them if you looked directly into the warehouse
>>70538Iron feels a tinge of happiness, as he has finally met a creature who is his equal
>>70540"Oh thank Celestia, yes"