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>>84927That gif made me kek.>>84928Nothing really of note to Silver. He heads to the next room.
>>84931Alright, he has three choices: two on the left, and one on the right
>>84930There is a list of names, and a list of ship names
>>84932He heads to the one on the right.
>>84930I hold onto the paper just in case I ever get around to checking the place out.
>>84928"Hmmmmmmm"
Whats the name of the organization?
>>84933This room has a bed with orange and white bedsheets, white carpet, pink colored walls, another chest. A stuffed breezie on the bed. Paintings of flowers
>>84935"Helping Hooves"
>>84936"They sure do love breezies…" Silver trots over to the chest and has a look as to what's inside.
>>84936Snap
What are the amounts transferred?
>>84937I know that because none of your have trap searching as an ability that you just assume that the floors are clear of death traps and just walk wherever,
but you're on fucking notice. Fortunately for Silver, none of those satanic bricks litter the floor of this room as he prances over without searching it first. When he gets to the chest, he finds dolls of ponies, a tamborine, and a blanket
>>84939HighLike in the tens of thousands of bits, in and out
>>84940In an effort to avoid going on a large rant, I'm just going to say this: have you seen my rolls as of late, GM? I'll take my chances with the death traps.Silver takes a better look at the room around him, suspecting this to be another foal's bedroom.
>>84942There is a picture of a pink unicorn filly on a night dresser. This just might be a filly's bedroom. Widows on two sides, the one opposite the door looks out to the street. There are some drawing of flowers hanging up, as well as scattered crayons
>>84940"Bucking tartarus."
dark star takes Close up of the transfers
>>84943With another sigh, Silver heads to the doors on the opposite side of the hallway.
>>84945Which rooms havent been explored?
>>84947Within the house itself, only two upstairs
>>84946This door opens to what appears to be a master bed room. To the left is a very large bed, pink bed sheets. The floor is fairly open and has white carpet. There are dressers on the wall closest to Silver, on the far side, and a night stand on his left. To his left is an analog TV, a painting, and two doors, one closer to the far side, one one closer to the door. On the far side are windows
>>84949a door near the center, one on the left far side, one on the left nearside, one on the right side near, and two on the rightside far. Silver is at the first rightside far
>>84951This room is a bathroom. There are a couple tooth brushes, a full bathtub and shower, a toilet, a medicine cabinet, and pretty paintings of Breezies
>>84952Dark Star checkes the medicine cabinet
>>84953Sleeping pills, anti-allergens, and pain killers, besides cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol
>>84954"hmmm maybe i can sell these to some ziggers."
>>84955And thus, GM did learn why he always feels compelled to embed NPCs in the party. So he has a mouthpiece to make smart ass remarks when players do certain things
[1d20-1 = -18]>>84948Search: Silver keeps a lookout as he enters the room for anything interesting.
>>84956Dark Star puts the pills in his bag for later selling
And goes on to the next room that hasnt been searched
>>84957Wow, holy shit.
He can see the frame of a painting. The painting inside has been
cut out. Inside of a dresser there is jewelry, mare's socks and panties. Deeper in the dressers are more clothes, for male and female. On the top of the dresser is a framed picture of a husband and a wife in an exotic seaside location somewhere north, and a candle that smells of cream. On the nightstand is a copy of "Ponies and Prejudice" opened midway upside down, a pair of reading glasses, a lamp, and a framed picture of a father and a pinkish colt. There is a check inside of a drawer on a nightstand
>>84958Are you seriously going to steal medical pills in hopes of reselling them as drugs? I don't think even Brie would have done thatOnly at the very end of the hall: one lonely door
>>84959It feels good to get a good roll like that after rolling three 1s, a 2, and two 4s during a mission.The sight of the missing painting worries Silver slightly. He can find no reason why somepony would want to cut out a random painting like that.
He takes a look at the check, first.
>>84960For none other than one Antonio Pransesco from a location on east and 9th, routed through the Raventrust Bank. Amount 2000 Bits. Looks as if it was never sent
>>84961Stairs, going up
>>84962Is it "Pransesco" or "Prancesco"? I thought you previously spelled it as the latter."...Now
that is interesting. What business would Comte have with him...?" He takes the check as evidence.
[1d3 = 3]>>84963https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qjYLsC16MIt appears to be an attic, with a number of items in storage
>>84964ReeeIt is so
>>84965Silver decides to take a look at the jewelry inside the dresser, to see if it would potentially be worth it to take it for himself to sell.
>>84966Most prominent is a pearl necklace, and a palladium brooch
[1d20+7 = 21]>>84965Dark Star looks through the items
>>84965Fucking hell, I passed out. Did anything happen to any of the guards? Is Iron
and Onyx STILL in the area where the guards are panicking about his presence?
>>84969Yes. Brie happened. And Yes
>>84967He grabs both, figuring it to be worth it to get at least a few Bits out of this excursion.
As he exits the master bedroom, he notices the last door has been opened, and leads to stairs to the next floor up. Cautiously, he makes his way up the stairs.
>>84969Yup. They're calling Iron and Onyx homosexuals, now. >>84970>Brie happenedI didn't read that Brie killed any guards, so what did he do?
>>84971Well, that was obvious from the first line. Iron doesn't really care for now. He is trying to help a mare hiding herself as a stallion, after all. >>84971And thus Silver steals a mare's jewelry after breaking into her house, jewelry that even Brie looked at and passed up, but saving him from the doom of the 'lawful good alignment'
>>84972He tried to get them drunk
>>84968Hmmm... Immediately visible is a chest, a guitar, a lamp...
>>84973So, they got even more scared by the prospect that Iron may try to fuck them while inebriated?
>>84973Shush.Silver eventually finds his way to the attic, with Dark Star searching around.
>>84968"Find anything else?"
>>84973>>84976"just a guitar and a lamp. but i found some interesting stuff,in other rooms."
Okay, it's late enough at night that I don't want to commit to any descriptions of what is - and by logical extension
is not in the attic
>>84976Like, I know I shouldn't care if Silver deviates from being "the only good one," but somehow I do>>84977Or maybe that is good enough
>>84981"some documents about a charity that sends and receives a large amounts of bits. could be bit laundering."
>>84984I guess so? For Silver, something like this is fairly normal for him, even if what you've seen so far says otherwise.It's only just recently I've found a way to articulate the reason why Silver's marked as being True Neutral even though the actions he's taken in the game thus far are much closer to Lawful Good: The Lawful Good Silver? The pony who donates to charity, gives romance advice to friends, who sticks to his principles and fights for those he cares for, was a loving husband and father for 18 years? That's the pony Silver wants to be, and wishes he could be. The True Neutral Silver? The pony who robs a mare of her jewelry without nary a thought, who has no remorse over brutally slaughtering those who killed his wife or just normally killing in general, who stays loyal to the contract and to Bits, who fights for little more than personal gain? That's the pony Silver is, and has been for a very long time. Try as he may to be good, until something significant happens to make him seriously reconsider his life choices, or until somepony manages to convince him to try to change his ways, he'll always revert back to that baser instinct, to the True Neutral Silver: the pony who knows how to fight, and choses to fight for himself.Or I just suck at this. Who knows?>>84983"I found some correspondence letter between Comte and other politicians, talking about fighting back against Black Hooves through elections. Also found some...concerning...philosophy books regarding sex, one of them involving foals. Most interesting thing I found was 2,000 Bit check from Comte to Antonio Prancesco."
>>84985>spoilerwow
"Yea i say downstairs that he was in correspondence with a stallion named pransisco
is that how its spelled?"
>>84988It's either Pransesco or Prancesco. For the sake of not breaking the GM, let's say either works."Yes, but this could serve as evidence that he payed significant sum to Prancesco for something. It is not enough for trial on its own, but if we can find something worth sending him to trial..."
>>84989>>84990>>84991Goddammit...Silver feels a strange pang of guilt, like something suddenly weighing down his heart. He looks to the brooch and the necklace in his bag.
>>84993"Well we have some addresses to check out. and does the name "the jungle express" mean any thing to you?"
>>84994"No, I do not believe it does..." Silver looks at something in his bag for a couple seconds, before sighing and turning to head back downstairs. "...Hey...I will be right back. Need to do something real quick."
>>84989>>84990>>84991Silver trots forlornly back down the stairs, the weight of his guilt weighing him down considerably more than he expected. Every step he takes with the stolen possessions, every moment that passes, he feels it becomes more difficult to breathe.
As he steps in front of the dresser in the master bedroom once again, he pulls out the necklace and the brooch. He stares at them, a mental battle being waged in his mind. One second, he'll make a motion like he's going to return the jewelry. The next, he'll move to put them back in his bags. And for a third second, they'll return to a neutral state.
Memories, meanwhile, come to mind and pass like the wind. Memories of him doing bad things, terrible things, in his past. Memories of him in which he tried to do something better, to be better. Memories of her. Of Storm. And them together.
After a few seconds of this, he sighs, and tosses them back into the dresser. "This is not right...I...she...she would want me to be better than...this. Whatever 'this' is." The weight feels lifted off his chest. He feels like he can breathe once more. He turns for the stairs back to the attic once more, only offering one lass look back at the dresser before making his way back to Dark Star.
"It is not worth it, to lose what little I have left."
>>84997Well, she was a former bandit.What, ponies can change!>>84994After almost a minute, Silver comes back looking a bit relieved about something, but at the same time looking somewhat troubled. Whatever exactly is causing it, Star doesn't immediately know.
>>84998"You look like you feel better. i dont suppose you found any information about boats?"
>>84999"Yes, I...I think I do feel better, yeah. But no, I did find anything on boats, I believe. Why?"
>>85000"That jungle express thing i mentioned before was a boat i was wondering if you had heard anything at all about boats. and you said you found some degenerate books right?"
>>85001He pulls them out: one is titled "Three Theories of Sexuality" by Signalmound Friend, the other is titled ""Psychology of Sex" by Havenlove Chalice.
"Just do not pull Ash and set fire to them."
>>85003"flip to the degenerate parts, i need to take some pictures."
>>85004He does so, turning them to the parts he found particularly distressing. In particular, he turns to the parts of "Psychology of Sex" where it talks about sexuality in foals.
Not knowing what else to say, he speaks the first thing on his mind. "So...you and Blue managed to talk things out. I am glad for this."
>>85005Dark Star Wretches at the contents
*Snap*
"You can turn the page now. and yea im pretty sure we did."
>>85006He does so. It gets to the part of the "Psychology of Sex" where it talks about homosexuality. Silver doesn't seem nearly as disgusted by this section as he does the previous one, though it's still clearly uncomfortable for him. "I thought jape at Iron was fairly humorous as well."
>>85007Dark Star seem disgusted by this passage as well but his disgust is not as intense
*Snap*
"Im sort of proud of that one."
Dark Star Laughs and looks away from the gay book
"You know i wish ash had burned this book instead of the books in the basement."
>>85008Silver laughs. "Me too." After a couple more seconds of laughter, Silver looks at Star. "Hey Star...would you like to learn how to do something for Blue? It will likely seem so small thing to you, but I figure I could share some of my knowledge about having pegasus partner. I am certain Blue would love it."
>>85010Yep, that one. >>85012Dark Star looks at silver with a quizzical look
"yea, i would like any information i can get, my dad died before he could teach me about mares."
>>85013Silver rubs the back of his neck. "I...do not know how much help I can be with teach you about mares in general, but for pegasi...well, what do you know about preening?"
>>85014"im not even sure what that means."
>>85015"Ah, let us start with that, then. Preening is way pegasi take care of their wings. It usually serves three purposes: remove loose or damaged feathers from wings, clean healthy feathers of dirt and sweat that accumulates over time, and cover them with natural oils to protect them from elements. Adult pegasi can do this on their own, but those in intimate relationships are known to preen each other, and it is usually seen as very intimate act. I have had some experience in this, as I was married to Storm for 18 years, so if you want, I could try to teach you how to preen Blue."
>>85016"please go on. im all ears."
Dark Star wiggles his ears
>>85017Silver laughs a bit more. He feels almost younger, teaching Dark Star like this. Makes him feel like he's teaching his own sons, again.
Silver starts to teach Star how to preen, or at least as well as he can as a unicorn can teach an earth pony without any visual aid. He describes how to root around in a pegasus's wing to locate loose feathers and very gently pull them out with his teeth, how to use both his snout and his tongue to clean the dirt and grime off of healthy feathers, and how to spread the natural oils secreted in the wings and wingpits throughout the feathers to add a nice, protective layer. He also goes into surprising detail about how the oils secreted by a pegasus's wingpits are absolutely loaded with pheromones, and just how effective it is in "exciting" the male member, and getting a pony "in the mood to reproduce".
>>85018"very interesting. Pheromones you say?"
>>85019Silver nods. "Indeed. It is supposed to prepare couple for intercourse, get both members in mood. There were many times when I would preen Storm and take large whiff from her wingpits, and it would be like punch to face, that scent of her pheromones. It becomes especially potent during estrus." He blushes a little in embarrassment as he continues. "Normally, I would have to wait until near end of preening to do so. It would not take long for my mind to go to mush thinking about nothing but rutting her, and for feeling of my, eh...'Splitting Sword'...popping out of its sheath and slapping against her back to make us both go crazy with lust."
>>85020"what does it smell like?"
>>85021Same >>85022"I have heard it is different for all pegasi, at least to some degree, that all have some sort of unique 'flavor' to their pheromones. It usually will always smell somewhat like mixture of sweat and musk, but there is also something...unique, something I can not quite describe. All I can come up with is it smells bit like sex, or energy, except more...potent."
>>85024"It is something you would need to experience yourself to understand, I feel. All I can describe accurately is feeling. You know those shivers down your spine or legs when you eat delicious food, or listen to great music, or when your partner does something
really pleasurable to you? It is like that, except throughout your entire body."
>>85025"i think im going to try it out next chance i get."
>>85026Star notices Silver shifting around a little where he's sitting. Apparently all of this talk about pheromones has got him worked up a bit. "I highly recommend it. I would offer to help guide you through process, but I am not sure how much my help would be welcomed. I...also would not want to...intrude...on any, eh, 'private' moments that occur between you two."
>>85027"Something wrong?"
Dark Star Chuckles a bit knowing whats wrong
"could you write the steps down maybe?"
>>85028"N-no, nothing is wrong." The awkward and silently pleading look on his face confirms what Star already knows. "If you had pen and paper, then yes, I would be very willing to write it down for you."