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Occupied Equestria: Day 4
Anonymous
xRY9C
?
No.79000
79002 79006 79010
Welcome to the latest thread of Occupied Equestria. Set six years after season 6, it presents an alternative history where Chrysalis chose a different approach to her second attack on Equestria. The Changelings have conquered half of Equestria, while an Equestrian splinter colony - soured to Princesses notion of harmony with all creatures thank to their dealing with griffins - Invaded and took the other half. In Baltimare and the Equestruan Southlands, the magic of friendship has weakened, as Communists, Changeling infiltrators, Fascists, gangs, and even ancient necormancers and dark gods threaten the city and the surrounding regions. This role play is based in large part upon the Equestria at War mod for Hearts of Iron 4, and uses D&d 3.5e mechanics.

In the latest episode, we are starting day 4. Ash is finally getting to sleep after dealing with foals that scarified animals to evil gods, Iron is disappointed to find that the only sex he is getting is in his dreams, Dark Star has declined to have sex, Onxy has discovered the joys of socialized medicine, I don’t know what Spark is doing, and Silver has discovered that when you don’t complete a quest, you don’t get paid for it
1864 replies and 40 files omitted.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
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No.80902
80903 80904 80907
>>80901
Sister Ash immediately gets to work, setting the remains alight and sweeping them into the well.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80903
80905 80906
>>80902
She then searches the room for anything else in need of reposition.
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80904
80907 80908 80911
>>80902
>>80893
>>80851
"What the buck was that?"
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80905
>>80903
Iron helps Ash with this process.


Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80906
80909
Hmmm... A little too easy even with added HP. I guess I can either just send more monsters, or start sending the "the monster has looked at you. Roll fortitude save to not die. It makes a touch attack, roll fortitude save not to die" monsters that are 2/3 of the undead

>>80903
More soul jars for the jar god, it seems
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80907
80910 80912
>>80902
>>80904
Silver trots up to the burning pieces of the skeleton as they're cast into the well. "That...that was chimera...undead chimera..." He seems fairly shocked at what he just witnessed, turning to his companions as if looking for answers to unasked questions. Only one manages to escape. "...they can come in undead form?"
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80908
80912
>>80904
Something soft rubs up against dark Star's side
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80909
80911
>>80906
Sister Ash sighs, and gets to work bringing the jars outside.
In a minute or so, she'd be back.

Onyx should have recovered 15 hp.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80910
80913
>>80907
"Most things can be made undead."Sister Ash says
"It just matters what the caster could get his hooves on."
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80911
80916
>>80904
Iron pants a bit, adrenaline maxed out. "Whew, I think it was a big skeleton with 4 or 5 heads. I did not see perfectly behind the shield."
>>80909
Iron decides to help out Ash as he needs some steam to blow off after that terrifying creature with some hauling. Good thing the armor stood between him and that beast.
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80912
80913 80914
>>80907
"it would appear so."
>>80908
Dark Star looks at what it is in case its not blue
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80913
80915 80917
>>80910
>>80912
"I did not even think chimeras really existed...I thought they were just foal's tales, kind used to scare young foals before bedtime. And yet, here we are, burning remains of chimera skeleton..." Silver sits down, flabbergasted. "...This is it. This is officially strangest thing I have seen or will ever see in my entire life. This is it, right here..."
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80914
80920
>>80912
It is indeed Blue Skies
"Are you okay Dark Star? I heard something"
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80915
80919
>>80913
"Oh they are all too real"
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80916
80918
>>80911
"is everyone alright?"
Shimmering Spark
u79o1
?
No.80917
80919
>>80913
"Why? Why do ponies keep saying things like that?"
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80918
80925
Here's something to sink in. We dealt 93 damage against that creature.
>>80916
"Onyx has been wounded but Ash has put some spell to regenerate his flesh back, so he should be fine. Keep an eye on him. I can spare some healing potions for the stallion if it is needed." Iron says while helping Ash's job.
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80919
80926
>>80915
Silver sends up a silent prayer to Celestia that he's not had the misfortune to meet one on his own.
>>80917
He is absolutely shocked at the premise that anypony would not find this strange. "THIS is not weird to you?"
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80920
80923
>>80914
"Yea i'm fine. there was a manticore skeleton."
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80921
80922
After Sister Ash finishes removing the jars, she turns her attention to the next room.
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80922
>>80921
Iron stands besides her. "Be careful." He whispers to Ash.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80923
80924 80925
>>80920
"Well, shall we return to work. You found a book?"
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80924
80928
>>80923
There's only one door left, right?
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80925
80927 80928 80936
>>80918
"alright. lets get him patched up as soon as possible."
>>80923
"yea i did."
Dark Star looks at the book
Shimmering Spark
u79o1
?
No.80926
80929
>>80919
"It is weird. It doesn't change that fact that you are just asking to find something worse. If a thing like that is walking around, it stands to reason that there is far worse ahead in the center of this place."

Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80927
80938
>>80925
"Here. Have a small healing potion." He hands it over to Star. "Ash should have done most of the job already."
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80928
80930 80938
>>80924
On that side, yes. Also blocked

>>80925
Rather thick, this one seems, shall we say, consequential, and has a letter at the beginning
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80929
80934 80935
>>80926
This quiets Silver. He holds his head low as he trots over to Blue Skies and Dark Star.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80930
80931 80937
>>80928
Sister Ash sets the door alight with her ability.
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80931
80932
>>80930
Iron drinks a barkflesh +2 on his inventory, readying himself for a fight.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80932
80933
>>80931
*Barkskin
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80933
>>80932
Yes, that.
Shimmering Spark
u79o1
?
No.80934
80936
>>80929
I follow Silver.
"I don't mean disrespect. I'm just trying to state the facts. We can't let our guard down."
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80935
80936
>>80929
Blue Skies looks very pleased as Dark Star examines the book that was in the cavity
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80936
80940
>>80934
"I know, and I am not. It is just difficult to imagine something more strange than undead chimera."
>>80925
>>80935
"So, that book. What does it say?"
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80937
80939 80941
>>80930
Sister Ash watches the hole in the door grow as it burns, taking the total defense standard action to gaurd against whatever is roused by the fire.
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80938
80940
>>80927
"alright ill give it to him."
>>80928
Dark Star reads it
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80939
>>80937
Iron also awaits, feeling the barkskin potion do its effect.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80940
80942 80943
>>80936
>>80938
This appears at the opening, first page, essentially a forward to a longer work
I write this to you, my beloved wife Wood Hill, for though you shall never read it, I hope someday to speak these words to you in person, as they shall explain my next endeavor in life.
It has been seven years now since the plague took you from my arms, as well as little Whinny, Petra, High Sails, and East Wind. I spent that next year unable to leave my room in the old and empty mansion by the shore. I let your father’s business go idle, and left the sea captains unmanaged in my despair. I needed to leave the place where my suffering had occurred. So I traveled across the world on a swift clipper. And in those years of travel, I learned powerful ancient wisdom from the cults of Zebrica and the dark halls of Northern Griffonia. The sight of corpses being stacked 20 high on the streets of Baltimare during the darkest days of the plague of ’47 is and shall forever be burned upon my mind, no more to be erased than your own precious face. I want you to know that though I may have retaken the reins at the head of your father’s business, I have by no means abandoned you nor the foals. Between the alchemy of the Zebras and the arcane necromancy of the North, I have found that there is a way I shall see you again. The veil of death shall be torn down and our world reunited as one. Death itself shall yield when I have perfected my process. I will see you again.

With an undying love,
Joseph Curwhinny
March 3, 754

14HBa
?
No.80941
80944
>>80937
This one too, has a sealed well. Entirely sealed
\r
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80942
80948
>>80940
Dark Star reads this aloud to the party. and when he reads about the zebra cults and the griffion rabbis he looks disgusted
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80943
80945
>>80940
"..." Silver looks stunned, upon reading the text in full. Something about it has obviously struck home with the older unicorn. He's gone completely quiet, and from the looks of his eyes, he's become lost in a memory of his.
9UYYI
?
No.80944
80945 80946
[1d20+5 = 13]
[1d20+5 = 15]
>>80941
Sister Ash examines the seal.
Listen checks
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80945
80947 80949
>>80943
Blue skies pets his back gently, and comes closer.
"You loved somepony, didn't you?"

>>80944
Yep. More sealed evil in a pit
Iron
QY7ud
?
No.80946
80949
>>80944
"Are you going to do the wood trick again?" Iron looks at Ash.
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80947
80948
>>80945
His head weakly nods, still in a trance-like state.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80948
80952 80955
>>80947
"Tell me about her"
Hoof still on his back, a little closer, like she seems to be hoping he will confide in her

>>80942
"To be destroyed, have faith"
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80949
80950
>>80946
"... Possibly.." the Sister replies, as she examines the well.
>>80945
Sister Ash sears a hole in the wood, and does her burnimg trick again.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80950
80951
>>80949
"Raaheee!"
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80951
>>80950
*Reposing intensifies*
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80952
80953
>>80948
"I do have faith."
He smiles and pats Blue
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80953
80958
luftpatpluswings.gif
>>80952
Basically pic related, but older, blue hair, and a bluish tint on her white coat
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
9UYYI
?
No.80954
Okay, it's 1:4, and I'm still sick. I need to sleep.

Goodnight, Anons.
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80955
80957 80959
>>80948
"Her name was Storm Warning...and she was everything to me." With his magic, he pulls out a picture. It's old, taken at a time when photography was still a relatively new technology, but it is still well preserved, as if it's his most treasured possession.

It's a family picture. On the left is a much younger Silver, in his mid 30s, wearing an old Equestrian military uniform with a lightly-weathered cuirass worn over it. On the right, a pegasus mare, around the same age as Silver, with blown-back hair and an obvious lighting-shaped stripe running the length of her hair from front to back. She's wearing a fairly simple dress, with cloud patterns woven into it. The two, rather than looking at the camera, are looking at each other, with quite possibly the most loving gaze Blue has ever seen. And in front of the pair, are three foals: a teenaged pegasus colt, a young pegasus colt, and a young unicorn filly, all smiling happily and looking at the camera.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80957
80963
>>80955
Blue Skies takes an Intense interest in this photo, coming closer still, but at least she's not touching him save one hoof

"What was it you loved most about her?"
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80958
80959
>>80953
A CUTE!
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80959
80960
>>80958
Indeed, something like that is under Dark Star's hoof

>>80955
>All this race-mixing
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80960
_angry ponk.png
>>80959
>spoiler
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80961
80962
Silver.exe has stopped working
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80962
80964
>>80961
F
he might be writing a 5000 word story about her, that would be cool.
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80963
80965 80966 80967
>>80957
"What is there for me to say about her that has not already been said? She was...beautiful, in more ways than just her physical beauty. She was as sky, so full of unmeasured promise, so full of hidden fury, so full of love for those within its embrace. She loved, craved freedom, so much like wild wind she was. For her to give it up to anypony was sign of her greatest trust and admiration. She gave it up to me, in her weakest, most vulnerable moment. She trusted me with her freedom, with her life. I took it, and made promise to always be by her side. To protect her whenever I could. We fought thousand gauntlets together, hoof-in-hoof, back-to-back. And we survived it all, because we worked better together than either of us did alone. We saw each other as none others had seen us. We understood each other, at deepest level. She was happy. She was insecure. She was angry. She was caring. She was understanding. She was...

He puts a hoof against the photo, holding it on his lost love. "And she was unafraid of everything, finding joy in darkest places. Death could stare her in face and she would laugh. She would happily face him to protect those she cared about. She did, as it turns out, before her end..."
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80964
>>80962
Not 5000 words, yet, just trying to find what to say.
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80965
80968
>>80963
"She sounds like she was a wonderful pony."
Dark star puts one of his hoof on his shoulder
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80966
80968
>>80963
She places a hoof on Silver's hoof on the photo, and comes fairly close with her mouth open ever so slightly, before telling him

"If I can rekindle just a little bit of that love you have for her now, then she isn't really gone. We live on in the hearts of those we touch and those we effect. And it seems to me that I can still feel her warmth in you"
Shimmering Spark
u79o1
?
No.80967
>>80963
Great writing. Excellent work.
The sorcerer's ears droop. He doesn't know what to say in this situation however, so remains silent and avoids direct eye contact.
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80968
80969 80970
>>80965
"Thank you, my friend, but my words could never do her justice she so properly deserves."
>>80966
Silver smiles slightly at this. "As long as I live, that warmth will live on. She completed me, when I did not even know I was not whole. Even as she is long dead, and cold in ground, I still go on with warmth she gave to me, and I shall carry that warmth to my grave. Until day we meet once more, and once again embrace each other into forever..."
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80969
80971
>>80968
Her eyes widen and mouth hangs slightly open. Silver might even think she was going to kiss him, until she doesn't

"Until you meet again. United in love, for not even in death does it the bond end. Together forever"
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80970
80971 80972
>>80968
Dark Star pats his back
"you'll see her again,but until then we have to kill these undead so nopony gets hurt."
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80971
80972 80973
>>80969
>>80970
He nods. He has no tears, happy, sad, or otherwise. All of the tears he could have spent have been spent for a very long time. He puts the picture away, in a special pocket in his bags that, for a brief moment, both Dark Star and Blue Skies see contains other photos. "Right. We have job to do."
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80972
80973 80974
>>80971
>>80970
Blue's eyes and ears droop
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80973
80975 80976
>>80971
>>80972
Dark Star looks a bit sad
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80974
80975 80978
>>80972
Now it's Silver's turn to pat Star and Skies on the back. "Perhaps I will tell more stories of her, after mission. It will be good, to share memories of her, after so long. She would enjoy it."
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80975
>>80974
>>80973

Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80976
80977
>>80973
As she looks up with envious eyes, she says to Dark Star "May I have the book?"
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80977
80978
>>80976
"Sure."
Dark Star hands the book over
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80978
80979 80980
>>80974
*Pony head is pat, and an ear wiggles*

>>80977
She looks through it, skimming pages, and then places it in the bag

"Well, there is more here, I am sure"
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80979
80981
>>80978
Where are we on the map?
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80980
80981
>>80978
Silver looks to see if Skies still has Joseph Curwhinny's notes.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80981
80982 80983
More catacombs map.png
>>80979
Something like the pic, although I can't say for sure if it is to scale, as I think Ash found more rooms than that, like 5 rooms on that hallway in total

>>80980
She presumably still has them
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80982
80983 80984
>>80981
Dark Star looks down the separate hallway
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80983
80984
>>80982
Silver follows, keeping his rifle ready in case they get attacked.
>>80981
"So, what exactly will you do with all these books once we are outside, Skies?"
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80984
80985 80986
>>80982
Extends at least another 30 feet

>>80983
"Consider them 'loot.'"
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80985
>>80984
"Fair enough for me."
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80986
80987
>>80984
Dark Star shines his flashlight down the hallway
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80987
80988
>>80986
At the very end of his light range, he can see a wall. Tentatively, it looks as if the design of the catacombs is more or less symmetrical
EmVB9
?
No.80988
80989
[1d20+7 = 16]
>>80987
Spot check to find any items or hidden doors
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80989
80990 80991
>>80988
Oh the ground in the hallway, near the end, another skeleton. Hat, very faded leather jacket, musket
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80990
80992
>>80989
Any emblems or distinguishing marks?
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80991
80992 80994
>>80989
"Must have been part of vigilante group, like one back in other hallway."
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80992
80993 80994
>>80991
>>80990
The hat seems to suggest colonial militia. No other marks

>>80991
"Probably all the same group. I wonder if Curwhinny could control these things he brought back"
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80993
>>80992
"It depends on how much necromantic knowledge and power he acquired, I would suppose."
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80994
80995
>>80991
>>80992
"Well it looks like we've reached a dead end."
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80995
80996
>>80994
"Then that means we are one more step towards clearing this place." Silver trots up to the skeleton, seeing if he had anything on him when he died.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80996
80997
>>80995
Jacket, hat, musket, but nothing else. The pony's bones are broken in some areas and scraped in others. He was facing this new hallway
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.80997
80998 80999
>>80996
"Hmm...does anypony else find these deaths odd? Did chimera skeleton cause this? Or was it something else."
Anonymous
EmVB9
?
No.80998
80999
>>80997
"i would wager this was caused in some way by curwhinny."
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.80999
81001
>>80997
"Well, it looks like they all died in the same incident"

>>80998
"That's a pretty fair wager to make"
Silver
G0ymC
?
No.81001
81003
>>80999
"And why did this one die facing wall..." Silver taps on the wall to see if it's solid or hollow on the other side.
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.81002
New thread!
https://mlpol.net/vx/res/81000.html#81000
Anonymous
14HBa
?
No.81003
>>81001
Oh no, it didn't die facing a wall per se, it died facing a hallway like the one on the other side. There's a large hallway at the end of the minor hall