Welcome back to thread number like 5 or 6 of Occupied Equestria, a My Little Pony RP based heavily upon the Equestria at War mod for Hearts of Iron 4, and using the mechanics of D&D 3.5, and set in South-East Equestria after it has been conquered and split between the Changelings and a foreign fascist power
Onyx is cleaning glasses, Spark has secured a contract to clear a quarry of Zombies for a real estate developer, Silver is eating meat, Ash and Iron are trying to raid what they believe to be a gangster's den, and Dark Star is holding hooves.
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>>75818When Dark Star gets out, he sees a certain very familiar face coming towards him. It's Blue Skies. She looks
pissed.
>>75820With a sort of venom, she says
"That prisoner was told that you too were captured at the scene, and were being held here. That you happened to wonder your way out of your room when a guard had been lazy and you wanted to find a bathroom.
He saw your face. He recognized you. And he saw that you were in the building"
>>75821"Restrain me and put me in a cell with him."
>>75823"Ill act like i was trying to break him out and got caught."
>>75822"Dark Star? We are trying to release these prisoners back into the populace with false information to feed their comrades. We will have to adjust that plan with this individual now that he's seen you.
We are in enemy territory here. This is an empire built upon secrets, lies, and misdirection. Be very careful."
>>75823"That...
That's the kind of thinking we need"
>>75824"But then he'll wonder why you shot as his fellows on the wharf"
>>75825"ill make him think it was a mistake and that he didnt see me shooting at you and the reservists."
>>75826"Would he buy that though? You shot at Redclaw, and he may have seen that. He sure as hell saw you shooting at the driver"
>>75827"well if he doesnt believe me, he could always have a accident."
>>75828"Those predisposed to hate our regime will automatically assume that any prisoner that dies in our custody was deliberately murdered, regardless of the actual cause of death. Now maybe if you can convince him that you are a gang member who was trying to keep him from getting away with the expensive guns.... That could work. Didn't you drive one of those trucks off the wharf or something? Maybe he'd think you tried to drive to get away but the flat tire stopped you?"
>>75830"Well... If you would like to try yourself...
He'll be in custody from now until, well, probably at least another 48 hours. We could hold him months if we get a warrant for weapons trafficking, but we want to release this back as a sort of witness"
>>75831"alright put me in the hoof cuffs."
>>75825>This is an empire built upon secrets, lies, and misdirection.This is why I'm not fond of the current regime.
>>75832"Hmmm.... Just whatever you do, don't let him think you are from the Blackhooves, and if you have to change your story, make it damned convincing as to why you did that.
Come with me"
She leads him to the stairs again, and takes him down a level, to the basement. When she opens the door, he sees a floor more befitting a secret police headquarters. While the upper floors, even the first, look more like hotel rooms, the basement level has concrete floors and rooms with bare concrete. She places hoofcuffs on Dark Star, which are more than a bit uncomfortable.
"Alright, stay here"
She places him in a cell - and that is indeed what it is - and leaves him there. It is a full two or three minutes before the white unicorn officer comes down with the Stallion in question. He is a black haired grey Earth pony, and he is placed in an adjacent cell that is seperated by bars, and appears to be the second half of what was once one room. He stares at Dark Star uneasily. "Alright, we're holding you here until we get some paper work sorted out"
She leaves
>>75833Hey, they are kind enough to leave Baltimare an autonomous democracy. And it's only here they use deception in extreme. Elsewhere they just use force
>>75834"Well i guess my breakout attempt failed."
>>75835With a definite tone of sarcasm, the stallion replies. "I noticed." His disposition seems hostile
>>75836"hey you look familiar. where you at the docks?"
>>75838"Hey yea sorry about trying to steal your guns. my gang leader said he would kill my sister if i didnt get them..."
>>75839Dark Star looks at the ground like he is realizing something
>>75839"Would kill your sister?"
He's still mostly angry, but there's a look of concern
>>75841"yeah, hes... not a very good pony. ive seen him do a lot worse for a lot less. shes probably dead by now...."
Dark Star looks very sad when delivering that last line.
>>75843"a pony bumped into him and he beheaded her. and hes set an orphanage on fire in canterlot because a orphan looked at him funny."
>>75844"I mean, why the shoot out? We were trying to take the guns back to the safe house"
>>75845Dark Star looks around to make sure no ones around
"Well, hes planning a coup."
>>75846>>75847"So you stole
ours" He is not happy with that
>>75848"i didnt want to. i knew you guys wouldnt want to give them up. but again he forced me. i was orphaned as a colt and he took my sister and i in. he raised us. i Couldnt have done anything to stop it. i am truly sorry about the comrades you lost."
>>75849He looks... conflicted for a minute, with mixed looks of anger and empathy
"Well.... I do believe in the inherent goodness of ponies...
"Don't you see? It's the concentration of wealth in the hooves of the few that forces us to be so cruel to each other. Those guns were destined to help overthrow the order that keeps us in the lower classes at the throats of each other. Those guns were destined to make a difference"
[1d20 = 1]>>75853Now we roll opposed sense motive and bluff. Rolling sense motive
>>75854>>75853Okay, that die actually was a 1d20.
He looks down a moment
"I admit I hated you for what happened. For killing our best hope. For killing my acquaintances. But I can see now that you are yet another victim of this cruel system. We should never have trusted that slimy underboss"
[1d20 = 4]>>75857You just won another opposed sense motive and bluff roll
He looks at you with narrowed eyes
"
Your boss."
[1d20 = 12]>>75858"Are you sure, my boss would never settle for just
underboss"
>>75859>>75858"Wait. Were you working for somepony other than Pransisco? He's the underboss we contracted"
>>75860"My boss goes by "The Slaughter King."
>>75861"I can't say I've ever heard that name before. Is he in the Waterfront gang?"
>>75862"i think we branched off from them. as far as i know he was going to use the guns against them."
>>75863"I must admit that i don't know much about the gangs around here. So was this the plan all along? To infiltrate and to steal the guns?"
>>75864"That was his plan as far as i know."
>>75865"So how did you get caught?"
>>75866"i was knocked in the head by a pony with things over his hoofs. and when i woke up i had the colts in brown pointing guns at me ,and here we are.
>>75867"I thought I saw you run to the ship?"