This RPG is set in the land of Equestria after it has been conquered and split between the Changelings and a foriegn fascist nation. It is based in large part on the Equestria at War mod for Hearts of Iron 4, and uses D&D 3.5 mechanics
4 of the group have taken a job to clear a site of a future real estate development of undead. They seem to have stumbled upon a centuries old evil long forgotten by Equestria. Meanwhile, Ash has discovered foals from the order of Saint Prancis orphanage practicing dark magic and sacrifices in the woods, while Iron is having not-so-pleasant dreams
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>>76856 →The skeleton does not animate. It's dead Onyx
>>76859Onyx snorts and walks towards the others.
>>76855 →"Well, this does not look like ash, at least..." Silver shows the vase and the substance it contains to the others. "What do you all think?"
>>76864Onyx licks the salt looking substance to confirm
>>76865It's the most disgusting taste he has ever tasted in his entire life
>>76865Silver gives Onyx a horrified look. "Do not just lick it!"
>>76868It's a grainy substance that is white. It does not taste like Sodium Chloride, if that is your question
>>76870Silver takes an empty coin pouch from his saddlebag, and fills it with the substance.
>>76865"There are better ways to tell what something is other than licking it!"
https://youtu.be/Wrf15CzeWroOnyx instantly turns un-crystal
>>76870Salt gotcha
>>76869"Not good..."
Onyx stumbles off and pukes his guys out
>>76873>>76872Kek
>>76874When he disturbs the substance, there arises a magical blue aura around it, that starts to coalesce, but does not before it is placed in the coin pouch
>>76875*Guts cause I can't type today
"Yep, that's salt"
>>76876"...Did...any of you see that just now?"
>>76879Absolutely fucking disgusting. Dark Star can be absolutely certain that if he tasted dried Zebra semen, he would enjoy the taste better than what he just put in his mouth
>>76879Silver just stares at Dark Star, having witnessed a new level of stupidity he did not know existed. He feels as if he has become dumber simply by having been party to it.
>>76881There is a well in the center of the room, and a small shelf with a single small book on it in the room as well
>>76883Dark Star pukes in the corner.
"thats definitely not salt."
>>76882He diverts his attention from the comedy of errors he has just seen, and goes to the lone book, wondering if, by some miracle, it might have some piece of information to help dispel the mystery of this room.
>>76886Opening the content of the book, Silver can see number of chemical equations, a language he does not understand that is probably something like Ponish in short-hand, drawn out plants, and.... Hello. At the beginning of the book is a written note
"Dear Cinnamon Corn,
I have discovered a way of preserving corpses that merits no little attention. By taking a corpse, rubbing it in an herbal and arsenic based solution, and then burning it with the proper spells, any corpse - even one that has been severely degraded, may be turned into a mixture of bone-fragments and arsenic-phosphate salts that may be stored in a simple container. Here is the real magic of this solution - the salt allows the spirit of the deceased to be summoned readily as an apparition, even without Resurrection magic, and then reduced back to a salt just as easily. In this way, you may summon the spirits of the dead even from ancient and decayed corpses
Yours, Joseph Curwhinny
August 6, 762"
>>76888He looks up from the book and towards his companions. "Congratulations! You both just licked bone fragments, arsenic, and dead ponies' souls."
>>76888Silver pockets the book. While he can't make heads or tails of the equations and the alchemy described in the book, he figures he can take it to somepony who can. With the mystery of the vases and what they contain dispelled, he turns to the final mystery in the room: the well.
>>76893"i think i should go see the nuns after we leave."
>>76894"Hmm? What would nuns be able to help you with?"
>>76896"Well, you did just lick remains of somepony."
>>76893He can look down the well and see... well, it;s pretty dark. But he can tell that it is a pit that is probably as wide as the room he is in now, with the floor of this room being probably a ceiling for the pit. There are black and brown spots on the floor of the pit. And now here's another feature that should get his attention: A piece of lumber that probably once blocked the door has fallen down it, allowing a sort of connection between the side of the well and the floor of the pit, like it could be climbed up
>>76896"You can feel wrong with me if you like" >>76897Silver has this... elated feeling. This feeling of relief. A feeling of a sort of invulnerability. At least two ponies now can
never again criticize his choice of diet
>>76898He taps his chin with a hoof, thinking about it. He checks to see how deep the pit is, if there are any good hoofholds on the lumber, and if there is any place good enough to secure some rope.
>>76857>>76902The lumber seems steady enough. The drop is less than 12 feet. As for rope, well, he could probably tie off on what remains of a door frame
>>76898>>76906It would actually be kinda funny yet demented if he ended up with the spirit of the pony he licked inside him.>>76905He grabs the length of hempen rope from his saddlebags, and starts tying knots in it to give him some extra hoof holds to help him climb down. "I am going down there."
>>76909reee don't give me such ideas>>76909The door frame does not come loose with the first few tugs