Set six years after season 6, Occupied Equestria presents an alternative history where 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.
Half of the party - Brie, Onyx, and Spark - are on a train to far off Bales to try to cross the border into the Changeling Lands. the other half remains in Baltimare, where Silver is searching catacombs seeking books filled with long buried dark secrets, Dark Star is having luck with his marefriend, and Iron aiding in trafficking exotic animals
/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal
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>>94318
Oh boy, I am feeling funny again.
"No?"
He inspects Cauldron's coat just to see how clean and tidy it is.
Rolling spot.
>>94318
Oh boy, I am feeling funny again.
"No?"
He inspects Cauldron's coat just to see how clean and tidy it is.
Rolling spot.
[1d20 = 10]
>>94320
Iron huffs to himself.
(Did she leave while I was not looking?)
He stands up, trying to get a better look.
Another spot roll.
>>94320
Iron huffs to himself.
(Did she leave while I was not looking?)
He stands up, trying to get a better look.
Another spot roll.
>>94323
Iron blinks twice.
(How come I did not see her with all those stripes?)
He shakes his head.
"Blanche never gave you any sort of this potion thing to try yourself as a gift?"
Iron blinks twice.
(How come I did not see her with all those stripes?)
He shakes his head.
"Blanche never gave you any sort of this potion thing to try yourself as a gift?"
>>94324
"I think once, yes. Last Hearths Warming. It makes my coat shinier, but I don't really need a shinier coat"
"I think once, yes. Last Hearths Warming. It makes my coat shinier, but I don't really need a shinier coat"
[1d20+8 = 19]
>>94323
Oh Boy the first time i can use my cutie mark skill
i probably should have used it more, but i was going a more diplomatic style.
Roll Intimidate
>>94323
Oh Boy the first time i can use my cutie mark skill
i probably should have used it more, but i was going a more diplomatic style.
Roll Intimidate
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>>94328
Iron smiles back, a tingle of curiosity in his eyes.
"What other things you do apart from cooking, brewing and kicking pony butt?"
Iron smiles back, a tingle of curiosity in his eyes.
"What other things you do apart from cooking, brewing and kicking pony butt?"
>>94331
Iron chuckles.
"I know. We just agreed on going to the jungle for a couple of days for botany reasons. I am not that inattentive."
This is followed by a cock of his head.
"But what are these 'ray-dee-o' dramas?"
Iron chuckles.
"I know. We just agreed on going to the jungle for a couple of days for botany reasons. I am not that inattentive."
This is followed by a cock of his head.
"But what are these 'ray-dee-o' dramas?"
>>94332
"You know, it's like a story in a book. But it's shorter, or broadcast in episodes, and someone else reads it to you"
"You know, it's like a story in a book. But it's shorter, or broadcast in episodes, and someone else reads it to you"
>>94331
"Sorry about startling you. i was trying to see if i could get the rock to move"
Dark Star says with an apologetic tone
"lets check out that orange."
"Sorry about startling you. i was trying to see if i could get the rock to move"
Dark Star says with an apologetic tone
"lets check out that orange."
>>94333
Iron blinks once in confusion.
"You mean a pony visits you to read a story in front of you every week or so?"
Iron blinks once in confusion.
"You mean a pony visits you to read a story in front of you every week or so?"
>>94337
"Huh? You mean there is a box that recites some sort of story to you just like that? I suppose the box is giant to fit the pony, right?"
"Huh? You mean there is a box that recites some sort of story to you just like that? I suppose the box is giant to fit the pony, right?"
>>94337
Dark star looks shocked by what he sees, even more so than the rock.
"An Orange with frogs legs? fascinating."
Dark star looks shocked by what he sees, even more so than the rock.
"An Orange with frogs legs? fascinating."
>>94340
Iron feels like this makes no sense.
"Where is that magical box you speak of? I want to see for myself."
Iron feels like this makes no sense.
"Where is that magical box you speak of? I want to see for myself."
>>94344
Iron has a look of determination set to find out where is the hidden pony.
He starts fiddling the radio's nobs to see if the pony voice appears.
Iron has a look of determination set to find out where is the hidden pony.
He starts fiddling the radio's nobs to see if the pony voice appears.
>>94345
Oh yes, it's definitely coming from the frog-orange thing
>>94343
They never turn it back. presumably, that orange-frog is still there
>>94346
It sings!
Mother bucker, they got a whole band in there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCOFLFpy3M
Oh yes, it's definitely coming from the frog-orange thing
>>94343
They never turn it back. presumably, that orange-frog is still there
>>94346
It sings!
Mother bucker, they got a whole band in there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxCOFLFpy3M
>>94347
Iron jumps in slight surprise.
"Woah! I thought there were a single pony in there, not a bunch of melodic noises and a mare singing in there!"
Iron jumps in slight surprise.
"Woah! I thought there were a single pony in there, not a bunch of melodic noises and a mare singing in there!"
>>94350
Iron simply stares at the radio, a dumbfounded expression.
(Hm, those nobs did something to it. What would happen if I move it again?)
He does exactly that.
Iron simply stares at the radio, a dumbfounded expression.
(Hm, those nobs did something to it. What would happen if I move it again?)
He does exactly that.
>>94351
Now it's a stallion talking something about balls and fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xap-hAG9D_8
>>94352
It's odd alright
Now it's a stallion talking something about balls and fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xap-hAG9D_8
>>94352
It's odd alright
>>94353
Iron's eyes widen
"Now it is a stallion talking about some sort of game! How many ponies are in there, Cauldron? Why do they sound funny, like they are eating grass in my ear?"
Iron's eyes widen
"Now it is a stallion talking about some sort of game! How many ponies are in there, Cauldron? Why do they sound funny, like they are eating grass in my ear?"
>>94356
Iron huffs in slight frustration.
Another nob turning session for Iron.
He JUST CAN'T STOP TOUCHING THE NOBS.
Iron huffs in slight frustration.
Another nob turning session for Iron.
He JUST CAN'T STOP TOUCHING THE NOBS.
>>94358
An upbeat song plays with drums and an unidentifiable instrument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A
>>94357
It just sits there, silent
An upbeat song plays with drums and an unidentifiable instrument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A
>>94357
It just sits there, silent
>>94359
Iron's shock increase, but the beat...
(This is... quite catchy.)
His hoof starts lightly stomping the ground to the drums, no longer interested in turning the knobs.
Iron's shock increase, but the beat...
(This is... quite catchy.)
His hoof starts lightly stomping the ground to the drums, no longer interested in turning the knobs.
>>94362
Iron nods.
"It sure is."
He watches in slight curiosity at how she dances, a small smile forming on his face.
"It really has you going, that is for sure."
With that, he starts doing a simple pattern of jumping from one foreleg and its opposite backleg to the others to the beat.
Iron nods.
"It sure is."
He watches in slight curiosity at how she dances, a small smile forming on his face.
"It really has you going, that is for sure."
With that, he starts doing a simple pattern of jumping from one foreleg and its opposite backleg to the others to the beat.
>>94363
She does a sort of jumping as well, mostly with her back hooves side to side, she closes her eyes in enjoyment of the tune
She does a sort of jumping as well, mostly with her back hooves side to side, she closes her eyes in enjoyment of the tune
>>94364
Iron simply joins along in the jumping, now mimicking Cauldron's jump as he goes closer to her.
Iron simply joins along in the jumping, now mimicking Cauldron's jump as he goes closer to her.
>>94366
Oh, we're doing this!
Whether it's a good idea or not, the stallion is getting giddy for a dancing session with the mare.
Iron extends a hoof at the swinging zebra.
"Care to dance, Cauldron?"
Oh, we're doing this!
Whether it's a good idea or not, the stallion is getting giddy for a dancing session with the mare.
Iron extends a hoof at the swinging zebra.
"Care to dance, Cauldron?"
>>94369
Iron feels like this is the best way to burn all the energy Cauldron's food has given him.
While he attempts to mimick her dancing, he pipes up.
"Wow, you know how to move, Cauldron."
His eyes remain fixed on her body as she moves her body in front of him, absorbing the information like a pony drinks water from a stream.
Iron feels like this is the best way to burn all the energy Cauldron's food has given him.
While he attempts to mimick her dancing, he pipes up.
"Wow, you know how to move, Cauldron."
His eyes remain fixed on her body as she moves her body in front of him, absorbing the information like a pony drinks water from a stream.
>>94372
Iron is having a blast from this dancing session as all the hoof stomping and body leaning action takes place.
He lets out an energetic laugh as he goes along with the music as he inadvertendly closes the distance between him and Cauldron.
Iron is having a blast from this dancing session as all the hoof stomping and body leaning action takes place.
He lets out an energetic laugh as he goes along with the music as he inadvertendly closes the distance between him and Cauldron.
>>94375
Iron obeys for the time being, simply taking the dancing all in as the groove drives him on to dance and dance.
It reminded of the music they used to play at home, just without those imposing, booming sounds from the instruments he does not understand.
Thinking he has a grasp on it, he decides to lock eyes with Cauldron as they dance along, trying to prove he got the moves.
Iron obeys for the time being, simply taking the dancing all in as the groove drives him on to dance and dance.
It reminded of the music they used to play at home, just without those imposing, booming sounds from the instruments he does not understand.
Thinking he has a grasp on it, he decides to lock eyes with Cauldron as they dance along, trying to prove he got the moves.
>>94375
dark Star still with the impressed look on his face says
"i think that's all of them. do you think HQ would get angry if i used my recon camera to take some pictures?"
dark Star still with the impressed look on his face says
"i think that's all of them. do you think HQ would get angry if i used my recon camera to take some pictures?"
>>94382
Iron, after hearing the song end, just exhales loudly, extremely pumped up.
"Wow! That was quite the song! Thank you, ponies in the 'ray-dee-o'!"
Iron, after hearing the song end, just exhales loudly, extremely pumped up.
"Wow! That was quite the song! Thank you, ponies in the 'ray-dee-o'!"
>>94382
Dark Star waves it off
"ah if they will they will,Let's take a picture together so we can always remember this feeling."
Dark Star waves it off
"ah if they will they will,Let's take a picture together so we can always remember this feeling."
>>94385
Dark Star put his arm around blues neck and puts his head close to hers, then he takes the camera and holds it in his hoof and extends his arm in such a way that the lens is pointing to towards them.
"get ready."
Dark Star put his arm around blues neck and puts his head close to hers, then he takes the camera and holds it in his hoof and extends his arm in such a way that the lens is pointing to towards them.
"get ready."
>>94388
Iron stops his hopping for the time being, interested in knowing more.
"Swing? Is it because we swing our forelegs from side to side?"
Do the Mario!
Iron stops his hopping for the time being, interested in knowing more.
"Swing? Is it because we swing our forelegs from side to side?"
Do the Mario!
>>94396
"You can say that again."
Iron exhales excitedly.
"I need to dump some energy if I am ever going to bed. Do you mind taking a nightly jog around town?"
"You can say that again."
Iron exhales excitedly.
"I need to dump some energy if I am ever going to bed. Do you mind taking a nightly jog around town?"
>>94399
"Alright. You can lead the way. It could be a fun tour of what you know of the town as well."
Iron keeps jogging in place, edging closer to the door.
"Alright. You can lead the way. It could be a fun tour of what you know of the town as well."
Iron keeps jogging in place, edging closer to the door.
>>94402
After a bit of mid-jog humming, he finally gets it.
"I would like to see your favorites places to go. To eat, have fun and the like. I trust your tastes are similar to mine by quite a lot after going along our boop battle."
After a bit of mid-jog humming, he finally gets it.
"I would like to see your favorites places to go. To eat, have fun and the like. I trust your tastes are similar to mine by quite a lot after going along our boop battle."
>>94405
Dark Stars eyes linger on the frog
Actually wait
Dark Star takes a picture of the frog before they leave.
Dark Stars eyes linger on the frog
Actually wait
Dark Star takes a picture of the frog before they leave.
>>94407
Welp, my time has come to lay my head on the pillow and drift off to dreamland.
Little correction for previous post.
*just pick a constant fast pace."
Welp, my time has come to lay my head on the pillow and drift off to dreamland.
Little correction for previous post.
*just pick a constant fast pace."
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Another episode of "Things that Never Were"
The first is Ash and the polluted field. In that scene, Ash comes upon a field of vegetables that are hardly growing. She quickly discovers that the field is probably not doing so well because the soil is too Alkaline. Immediately after typing that, I had a story in my mind: the field was too alkaline because somepony had been burying dead bodies in the field, and covering them in lime - a very alkaline substance - to try to degrade and decompose them. This would immediately suggest a serial killer, or at least a single murder, or maybe a number of deaths do to negligent handling of a disease outbreak, or something. While I liked this idea, I knew it would immediately become extremely serious and would overshadow almost anything else, and would require a mystery to be set up, which I had no real plans for. The alternative, that it was the result of a typhus outbreak or something, could make the orphanage look worse than I was wanting to portray them at that time. Still another option was to make it be a mass grave from the war, although that might call into question how ethical the Blackhooves were with POWs and civilians, and given that they were and are the protagonists, they needed to be more likable. The plan I eventually went with was a call back to a line spoken by a nun many threads before, where she said the other property was "sold to a paper company." So I figured I would look up methods of paper manufacture, and sure enough, the Kraft Process of a paper pulping makes use of Lye, which is extremely basic. That particular process became very popular around 1940 as a way of recycling the "white liquor" became available. Thus, the quest became about pollution from a paper mill, rather than the original plan.
The second one is Silver's Dreams. The first dream I had for him, the "sepia tone" dream during the period that he was asleep was inspired by a film clip of the coronation of King George V in 1910, which almost eerily showed Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Alexander I, and I believe even Fraz Joseph attending the coronation together, just a few years before World War 1 and the Russian Revolution. Of course Silver's player freaked out at the proposition of his character sleeping at that time because of fear of being abducted by changelings, so I had to cut it short. Silver's player inexplicably entirely lost his fear of changelings the next time he started to sleep...
The second dream sequence, which was also cut short, featured Silver having a picnic with his long dead wife and separated children. I had intended the song "And the Band Played On" to play in the background, or at least, o have it's lyrics come through, as Storm Warning was described as feeling strange upon contact. The song "And the Band Played On" is a jovial sounding song from 1895, which was to represent a feeling of Nostalgia. The "Gay 90's" as they were then called, or the period of the 1890s, was the typical subject of Nostalgia round about the 1940s, as the Gay 90's were thought to be a simpler, innocent era, before the horrors of the World Wars and Great Depression. The fact that the only recording of "And the Band Played On" I can find original on Youtube is from 1941 shows how that song figured into nostalgia in the 1940s. Meanwhile, Storm Warning was supposed to be described as feeling unusual, as she would feel more or less the same as Blue Skies - who Silver was in physical contact with as he was sleeping. Of course, Silver never tried to hug Storm Warning, and I had to cut the whole thing short, so all that was abandoned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8wujySB4CE
The first is Ash and the polluted field. In that scene, Ash comes upon a field of vegetables that are hardly growing. She quickly discovers that the field is probably not doing so well because the soil is too Alkaline. Immediately after typing that, I had a story in my mind: the field was too alkaline because somepony had been burying dead bodies in the field, and covering them in lime - a very alkaline substance - to try to degrade and decompose them. This would immediately suggest a serial killer, or at least a single murder, or maybe a number of deaths do to negligent handling of a disease outbreak, or something. While I liked this idea, I knew it would immediately become extremely serious and would overshadow almost anything else, and would require a mystery to be set up, which I had no real plans for. The alternative, that it was the result of a typhus outbreak or something, could make the orphanage look worse than I was wanting to portray them at that time. Still another option was to make it be a mass grave from the war, although that might call into question how ethical the Blackhooves were with POWs and civilians, and given that they were and are the protagonists, they needed to be more likable. The plan I eventually went with was a call back to a line spoken by a nun many threads before, where she said the other property was "sold to a paper company." So I figured I would look up methods of paper manufacture, and sure enough, the Kraft Process of a paper pulping makes use of Lye, which is extremely basic. That particular process became very popular around 1940 as a way of recycling the "white liquor" became available. Thus, the quest became about pollution from a paper mill, rather than the original plan.
The second one is Silver's Dreams. The first dream I had for him, the "sepia tone" dream during the period that he was asleep was inspired by a film clip of the coronation of King George V in 1910, which almost eerily showed Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Alexander I, and I believe even Fraz Joseph attending the coronation together, just a few years before World War 1 and the Russian Revolution. Of course Silver's player freaked out at the proposition of his character sleeping at that time because of fear of being abducted by changelings, so I had to cut it short. Silver's player inexplicably entirely lost his fear of changelings the next time he started to sleep...
The second dream sequence, which was also cut short, featured Silver having a picnic with his long dead wife and separated children. I had intended the song "And the Band Played On" to play in the background, or at least, o have it's lyrics come through, as Storm Warning was described as feeling strange upon contact. The song "And the Band Played On" is a jovial sounding song from 1895, which was to represent a feeling of Nostalgia. The "Gay 90's" as they were then called, or the period of the 1890s, was the typical subject of Nostalgia round about the 1940s, as the Gay 90's were thought to be a simpler, innocent era, before the horrors of the World Wars and Great Depression. The fact that the only recording of "And the Band Played On" I can find original on Youtube is from 1941 shows how that song figured into nostalgia in the 1940s. Meanwhile, Storm Warning was supposed to be described as feeling unusual, as she would feel more or less the same as Blue Skies - who Silver was in physical contact with as he was sleeping. Of course, Silver never tried to hug Storm Warning, and I had to cut the whole thing short, so all that was abandoned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8wujySB4CE
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