The Adventure continues
Six years after season 6, Occupied Equestria presents an alternative history where Chrysalis chose a different approach to her second attack on Equestria. The Changelings have conquered half of Equestria, while a former Equestrian colony - soured to Princess Twilight's notion of harmony with all creatures thank to their dealing with griffins - Invaded and took the other half. In Baltimare and the Equestrian Southeast, the magic of friendship has weakened, as Communists, Changeling infiltrators, Fascists, gangs, and corrupt creepy politicians threaten the city. 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.
The Eastside Tavern Gang has broken through the house and pool-house of the politician Comte Burgher. What they found has been nothing short of astonishing. Deeds for properties bought by secret societies, seditious communications, cryptic booklets, concerning academic interests, and above all else, a sex dungeon with two young colts chained up, and traumatized. With these, they found something else: two caged and chained up adolescent Changeling drones. So doing what any logically minded group of people would do when encountering caged life-force vampires, they let the things suck on them, then took them home and hugged them and loved them and squeezed them and called them 'George.'
Dark Star is coming to terms with loss in the Stallion's room of the Eastside tavern, while Iron aids him. Silver dreams of an Equestria that is no more and his long lost family (while sleeping in a fairly awkward position). Ash awaits a new dawn of service, Onyx a new life of possible employment, while Brie and Spark stay in a small room with two strange guests
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[1d20+6 = 19]>>87464Iron shakes his head. "Right." He puts his hindlegs in position. "So, have you met Ash recently? She seems to have done quite a bit of work for the abbey." He kicks the final tree, same as all other times.
[1d20+13 = 21]>>87464>not too many plants to either side of the streamNot a good sign.
Sister Ash examines the plants and the water.
Rolling knowledge to notice anything that may be wrong.
>>87468And for the sake of it, Caleb sniffs the water to see if there's anything poisonous in it, since dogs are good at that kind of stuff.
>>87463"I guess not. It doesn't change that if we send them back they are our enemies. I will miss them, as strange as that may sound. I haven't even talked to them. All of what they say makes no sense to me. But I will miss them all the same."
>>87470He nods. "Just because they will live in Hegemony will not mean they are our enemy. It is soldiers we fight that will be our enemy, not every changeling in existence. Although Star would likely disagree in that regard."
>>87465They are more than a little shocked to see somepony taking to them at the moment, but then calm down
“You must be with the dock workers. Yes, this boat needs to be coaled before it can leave harbor” he says to Dark Star.
>>87466“I’ve answered the door for her on a few occasions, I don’t believe I have talked to her at length. I have seen her though”
The tree is badly damaged, and leaves, a book, and an empty bird’s nest fall from its branches
>>87468The stream looks like it probably floods on a yearly basis, discouraging tree growth within some feet of the banks. The area next to the steam also seems to have been used for either ponies or animals - maybe vehicles? - to traverse. But the problems with the stream plantlife go beyond that, as plant growth seems slow here
>>87469Just a little off
>>87472Iron stops what he's doing. He looks at the nest that just fell down.
>>87471"They will be called to fight one day. And if we do reclaim our land by some miracle the Blackhooves have tucked away, then they might be called even sooner. And the thought that they won't have any feelings for us after however long it will be...it's just sad."
>>87474He now looks at the book that just fell down
and didn't notice OOC 'cause if I kill bird, Ash will be mad. >>87472"Do i have permission to help fuel her,Captain?"
>>87472Sister Ash's expression grows dark.
".. Something's wrong with this stream.. could it be.. pollution..?"
She turns around towards the Sister
"I'm rather new to this area. Where does this stream lead down from?"
>>87475"I do not like it either, but there is little else we can do."
>>87477He looks to Dark Star
“Yes, get to it”
Both walk down the gangway onto the dock
>>87478“I... think it originates in this area, just beyond the old property, eventually merging with a river that flows from moonlight shoes into the harbor”
>>87480Dark Star walks onto the ship after they have moved out of the way.
>>87479"If we must, we must. I'll follow your lead."
>>87482One of them goes into the small building. Wind Bard himself just stands there for the moment, presumably waiting. The ship itself seems to have a shallow draft, meant more for estuaries than open ocean. It’s a smaller craft
>>87484Iron goes to the book and inspects it a bit closer, skimming the contents inside.
>>87476Rather large, but with a plain leather cover and binding
>>87483"I will talk with them about getting them home once we have eaten, and see what they think about options currently on table."
>>87481Sister Ash seems vaguely upset.
"... I believe this water may be polluted. The cause of which is likely to be upstream. Perhaps it could be an oil can, or some other piece of trash left in the stream. I would like to investigate." She says
Sister Ash gets up, and begins to follow the stream up towards its supposed source.
>>87485>contentsSome in ponish, some in a foreign language, some in something that doesn’t even seem to be a language
[1d20-1 = -10]>>87489Iron cocks his eyes. He tries to grasp what this book's all about. Rolling intelligence or knowledge to see if he can understand parts of it.
>>87492>cocks his eyes.Fuck. I meant cocks his head.
>>87488Roll a d20
>>87492Seems to be religious in nature, about prayers and such
>>87484Dark Star tries to snap a picture discretely of the building he went into
>>87494Iron nods. He puts it inside his mane for the time being to storage it. He then inspects the bird nest more closely, risking possible bird ambush.
[1d2 = 2][1d2 = 2]>>87496It is so. Does he simply observe them?
>>87500he shovels coal but he stops periodically to watch.
>>87501It looks to Dark Star, who can see through windows, like the Pegasus is operating a radio inside of the building
>>87497A small, red bear-like creature with ragged fur comes out from the brush, a little angry.
>>87499It is so. There are no birds in the nest now, it seems
>>87502Iron looks inside the nest, see if there is any eggs inside or it is just an empty nest.
>>87502Sister Ash becons the other Sister to get behind her, Caleb to her side, as she kneels down slightly.
>"Hello there." >>87502Dark Star takes a picture
>>87506Iron looks to the nun. "Say, you do not mind if we set this nest up on one of the healthy trees, right?" He picks up the nest.
>>87487>>87506Continues restaurant search.
>>87507A dragon approaches Wind Bard. At least, that is what it looks like. Much bigger than a pony, larger that a griffin, with a scaly hide, alligator-like belly, and long muzzle a pinkish colored creature walks up to him, and addresses him at the end of the pier, after waking up there from the left on the wharf
>>87508“Uh, sure”
>>87509The Wood Spoon is the first option
[1d20+7 = 8]>>87506She bows towards the creature, like she does to literally everything.
>"I'm investigating the stream. It seems as though something has been polluting it. I don't know if your familiar with the concept of riparian territory, but I think it would be in the interests all the local creatures to see that it is amended."Of course, Wild Empathy doesn't give anywhere near that amount of clarity in communication, so I'll just roll to see if it's influenced.
>>87510He looks at her. "Are you certain? It could be a bird that may harm the crops. Do you mind taking a look to see if you can recognize it?"