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 because of their encounters 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 long train ride from Baltimare to Bales has been interrupted by a group of partisan fighters, claiming to be looking for none other than Pinkie Pie, who has been kept prisoner since the end of the war. They don't seem to have found their prize, but they do seem to have found a very pissed off Brie, Onyx, and Spark, as well as another Bat Pony, and both groups have been interrupted by a new set of intruders. In Baltimare, Silver, Dark Star, and Iron await a new and uncertain dawn.
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>>99620I can stay up however long
>>99621Alright. When we last left off, Brie was getting kiked by a shitty dice roll and some curiously interpreted game physics.
How fast is the train going?
>>99622Maybe 30 MPH? Pretty fast, but very far below the 80 MPH+ that is the average speed of the train’s route
>>99623Brie sticks his head out of the hole the ponies fled through
>>99624Much as last time, they jump into the wind trying to glide forward by using their own momentum. They try to fly in the 20 feet or so of clearing between the tracks and the forest
>>99625"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Brie Eeee's to himself.
Pulling his head back into the car, Brie storms toward the engine room.
For the record, I'm pausing to allow you to throw a wrench in my plans or intentions,... never know when a pony is going to fly out of the woodwork and try and cut his head off
>>99626Brie runs over and past a disoriented mail pony, and opens the door. As stated before, the gap between the locomotive and the RPO is not covered nor is there a floor, but neither is it non traversable. The door to the locomotive is unlocked. Going in, the Layout, strangely enough, is almost like that of a normal sleeping car, with a door in the center and a narrow corridor along the far left side of the locomotive. But unlike a normal car, there are no windows, only lighting. To the right are noisy stainless steel covered units with gauges, handles, and small openings fit things like oil. Some parts are more exposed, showing massive Diesel engines with giant cylinders driving large electric generators. Further towards the front, the corridor leads into an open cab. Or rather, an area behind the main cab that has a pair of bunks, a coffee machine on the right, and a small door on the left that is probably a lavatory. Through a threshold is the cab itself, where there are a pair of seats, a throttle, and a number of gauges and what have you on a control panel. Through the forward windows the track and the night are illuminated by the train’s headlight, and the night above is starry.
Black Ozren stands there and looks back at Brie, and another pony, an earth pony who is also blue, wears a grayish uniform. There is a copy of the Princess’s journal laying on part of the control panel off to the right. Ozren addresses Brie
“You again?”
>>99628"What was in that safe?" Brie demands.
>>99629“What safe? The one in the RPO the bandits dynamited to try to get? Probably cash being transferred between banks, maybe jewelry... if it was something special, I am not aware of it.”
>>99631Ozren looks over the to the engineer pony demandingly
“Smokes.”
The engineer pony lowers his ears
“Smokes. Now.”
He pulls out a cigarette from a pocket
“A light, too.”
Ozren answers
“That I need to get the hell out of this forest”
He lights a cigarette
>>99632"You don't seem one to fuss about breaking a nail. What's got you scared of this forest?"
>>99633“Did you not see those sun cultists swarming this train? The pyromaniac train robbers didn’t help.”
>>99634"Oh for fuck's sake,..." Brie storms back through the train, pausing to search the corpses of the various ponies who are dead, headed for his cabin.
>>99635Search roll and a luck roll
>>99637Loot, ammo, weapons, whatever. Brie has no idea how long this is going to take, and since he's down to two of his daggers
;_; it may be time to improvise
>>99638Damn.
Looking into the opened safe, Brie can see, or rather, feel, that a number of notes were left in the back safe by the bandits in their haste. A book is also neglected. Perhaps more interesting are several envelopes that have fallen on the floor, but are too “fat” and heavy to simply be normal letters... they carry something valuable.
Also probably some of his daggers should still be there. At least the ones that were thrown inside of the train.
There is a shotgun with some shells in the RPO, and a carbine in the coach car as well as a pair of magazines. Private snowflake seems to have jumped the train when she could earlier.
>>99640Taking everything, Brie heads for the Ling's quarters. He remembers to do the 2-1 knock
>>99641Kerr opens, sticking his nose through, then looks at Brie
“Was ist mit dir passiert?”
>>99642"Jemand musste diesen Zug wieder in Gang bringen, ...."
>>99642Brie deposits his newly acquired equipment in the corner and takes inventory.
>>99644By that I mean, how much ammo does he have for each weapon, how many of his blades did he manage to locate, what's in the envelopes and everything, how much money did he find, etc."Du Junge Tiere hast noch die Papiere, die ich dir gegeben habe?" Brie asks the Lings, while pouring through everything.
>>99619That picture makes me feel sick at my stomach tbh
So what I neglected to mention was that several hours before I drugged myself with sleeping pills
>>99643“Aha” says Kerr
>>99645>>99644“Ja” responds Kerr. Wesley however, open the door to the bathroom, and looks in with an expression of apprehension.
Then he points his hoof in and says
“Was wirst du mit ihnen machen?”
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>>99647I guess that's one way to fall asleep...?
Okay, so who is available when?
>>99652I'm free until...whenever, I suppose.
Well... it looks like Dark Star is dead...
At least he got to lather Skies
Silver may need to go for his Wheaties alone
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>>99654F. He will be missed.
How long are those two going to be in there? Silver gives the clock an impatient look, as he has been doing since he had stopped eavesdropping on Star and Skies' passion a few minutes ago. He throws his hooves in the air in a "fuck it" fashion, signaling he's had enough.
I have things I need to do today. I can not wait forever for them to finish. As he begins to put on his clothing and equipment, he jots down a small note on a "borrowed" napkin for Blue, stating how he's going out to do a couple of tasks before tackling that catacombs job again today.
A few more minutes later, a fully-readied Silver makes his way out of the Hotel for the first time in what feels like ages. An empty growl from his stomach signals his most pressing concern. He quickly hooks himself up to the cart he left outside last night, and makes his way towards the diner he and Skies visited yesterday for Breakfast.
Still can not believe all of that took place in one day. Here is hoping today will be little bit more calm and orderly. >>99656Aww, I thought he would go with Skies
>>99655Well, we
could continue with Iron
>>99657I sense a bit of resistance. Any particular reason why?
>>99657He would have, had Star not stolen Skies for himself.
Unless it's a personal request from you. I'm fine with retconning if you want to be able to actually do something with Skies today, instead of waiting for Star to suddenly decide to be not-ded. [1d2 = 1]>>99658Laziness and I don’t want to go back to my laptop
>>99659 >>99659I mean, I would have thought it would be silver and Skies with Star thereafter joining them... I don’t know. It kind of makes sense to split but I thought there would be a discussion about it first
>>99660Ohok. I'll let you be lazy then. For the sake of posterity:
There were two ponies down the ledge. They had a little more description, which makes me think they are semi-important ponies that I don't want to kill and can interrogate for info
and be evil with the mare to get it.>>99659Try not to pound her and spill your seed inside of her again. A shitstorm of high magnitude will occur again. >>99663>>99662HE LIVES!
>>99663So Iron is right in front of a mare and a new gunman, yes?
>>99664He jumped down from the ledge to do that, yes. It is unsure of their allegiance yet. I think they're meant to be enemies from that one bang someone did when I hit the ledge gunstallion.
>>99666Oh no, they are both on the ledge
>>99667Oh. Well, the gun stallion
is staring at Iron
menacingly, right?
>>99668Obviously. This is the area where the armed guard was guarding earlier
>>99669wew? Do you have any actions to declare?
[1d20+6 = 15]>>99670Making sure I'm not accidentally hitting a possible friendly.Iron glances at the mare, unsure of going for her first. He fixes his gaze over to the stallion pointing another one of these armor piercers on him.
"You ponies and your guns."
Iron closes the distance between him and the armed pony for a swift, powerful strike on his chest.