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Last time you decided to travel back to ponyville to pick up some supplies.
Swirl got a little scared by your new spectral friend.
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>>26895967
>>26899116
You try to interpret her meaning.
It seems like she is pointing at something behind you, White Wave assumingly. She’s also is motioning for you to come over.
You decide to walk over.
“Anything wrong Swirl? You look like a you seen a ghost”
>Sand Swirl:”That is not funny Daddy, there is an actual ghost following you.”
“Oh it’s alright Swirl she is a friend.”
>Sand Swirl:”Did you meet her at work at the apple farm?”
Oh right you didn’t tell her where you work to keep her away from following you.
She seemed okay in the hands of your friends, hopefully that stays this way.
“Uh, well not at the apple farm, but yes I met her at work. Why don’t you ask her and Platinum about it when they have some free time. Daddy has to go back to work.”
You give her a hug and leave back for the forest.
After a while you arrive back at the castle, you try your best to find the path that the cultist told you about.
You find it and start following it.
The leaves over the path are thick and your field of vision is limited.
After a while the figure of a pony comes to your sight.
Immediately after it spotted you it jumps into some bushes.
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>>26927838
Follow them.
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>>26927838
did it run off or just hiding in some bushes? what are you doing out here in the forest cloaked pony?
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>>26927838
Have weapon ready.
Are we going after Lucky now?
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>>26928110
Yes you have your weapon.
That was the reason why you wandered into the forest.
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>>26928170
Awesome.
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Will be back in a few hours.
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>>26927895
>>26927944
>>26928110
You keep one hoof on your sword, in case of an ambush.
This is unsettling to you, what is this pony doing here in the forest? Why are they wearing a cloak?
You decide to investigate this matter, after all you don’t want to get backstabbed when confronting this unicorn you are after.
Just like the pony you dive into the bushes, a clear path of broken undergrowth lies ahead of you.
You follow the path until you reach a clearing.
On it you see that the pony encountered some timberwolves.
They are slowly creeping up to it.
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>>26928357
Anon why are you roleplaying as me, don't you know that is against the rules.
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>>26928581
Tell the pony to get behind you and you'll protect them. Use your '"DRAGON BREATH ATTACK! " and burn them up.
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>>26928581
Sumthin' ain't right with that poner...
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>>26928614
>>26928659
You jump out of the bushes and draw your sword.
“Quick get behind me!”
The pony does as you command.
Something is not right with it, but that has to wait till later.
Now it’s time to deal with the Timberwolves.
Luckily you have the perfect attack for this.
You crank up your sword, the magic potion from the handle flows through the blade and a bursting blue flame shoots out of it.
From the tops of your lung you scream.
“DRAGON BREATH ATTACK!”
Maybe a little silly, but it helps your confidence. You feel awesome doing it.
One of the Timberwolves gets engulfed by the flames, it stands no chance.
The other one dashes to the side and quickly flanks you.
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>>26929482
you can't flank something that can fly. Go up into the air and then descend with your blade and drive it into the wolf's skull right between the eyes.
That will hopefully take care of them and then we can talk to the pony with the glowy green eyes.
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>>26929525
I was gonna say slash your fuckhueg sword to the side towards it. But hey, If you do combat the flashy way here I won't complain.
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>>26929525
>>26929725
You fly up, easily dodging the wolves incoming attack.
The creature looks upwards, it seems upset.
You drive your sword downwards while aiming for the wolves head.
The impact is heavy, the head and upper body of the Timberwolf are slammed into the ground.
It’s front legs are broken off by the sudden movement.
As you want to pull your sword out again, the blade bursts into blue flames.
You dodge back in surprise, as you did not activate the mechanism to inject the potion.
The fire burns only for a short while after which you retrieve your sword.
Finally you have a safe moment to talk to the pony.
She is the first one to speak.
>?:”Thank you so much, you saved me. Say what brings you to these woods? For a moment I thought you were a bandit.”stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>26930328
Ask what made her think we were a bandit, do bandits usually frequent this area? Is it out hat?
speaking of knowing the place does she know if there is a house surrounded by a wall around here? We're currently looking for it and we were told the path back there was the way to find it.
also what is her story? What's she doing in these woods. How long has she been out here? (her fur is a mess so it might be quite awhile) does she know zecora and could maybe lead you to her later?
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>>26931504
Pretty much this.
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safety bump.
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I feel sorry, but there won't be an update today.
This feels especially bad since, as usual I won't have time to run on Friday and Saturday, so the next session will be Sunday.
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>>26938321
OK Alchemy, it's been a fun read catching up. Looking forward to Sunday.
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lightly bump
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this is a sneaking mission into the house.
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let's ask if she knows of any river serpents. perhaps she has a tooth from them?
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>>26948390
do we have a suit
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>>26954632
nah, but we have something even BETTER then a suit. a potion that makes us invisible.
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If we gave her the spirit bond totem, she could probably get her personal guardian spirit.
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>>26960150
that'd be pretty neat
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>>26960618
yeah, it would be.
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>>26949597
might not be so easy
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>>26931504
>>26949597
>>26960150
“A bandit, me? How did you get that Idea? Do bandits frequent this area?“
>?:”I’m usually careful around ponies in the everfree. So I just assumed the worst. Why a bandit? You look more like a bandit than anything else bad that might wander in the everfree.”
“I guess you know this place. Say do you know if there is a house surrounded by a wall around here? I was looking for it and was told that the path back there was the way to find it.”
>?:”Oh yes, the house is there. I never moved to close to it, the magic in that garden is not the normal one you find in the everfree.”
“So what is your story? What are you doing in these woods? How long have you been out here?”
>?:”I’m researching the natural magic of the everfree. How long? A few months, it soon will be 6.”
“Do you know a zebra named Zecora? Could you show me the way to her?”
>?:”Yes I know where she lives. I guess I could show you the way.”
“That is great. You don’t happen to know if there are any Sea Serpents in this forest?”
>?:”I know of at least one. He lives in some river, you should find it if you follow the trench in front of the old castle.”
“Thank you for the help, say don’t you have a way to defend yourself against the timberwolves? I have this spirit bond totem with which you could get a guardian spirit.”
>?:”Oh I couldn't possibly take such a valuable item from you.”
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>>26972595
I'm looking to find the house surrounded with a stone wall because I'm told a horrible pony lives there.
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>>26972595
Tell me a bit about the magic. Do you know what it does? We can throw a stone at it.
Oh it's alright. You can take the spirit bond totem, I think it would be much more useful for you then it would be for us.
You're planning on staying in the forest for awhile aren't you? We can always get another one later. It's just been sitting in our pocket collecting dust. I also want to see it work.
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>>26972651
I'm not exactly sure why she would need to know this information unless you think we should ask for her assistance in this mission.
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>>26972652
“Tell me about the magic. Do you know what it does?”
>?:”Which one? The one of the everfree or the one in the garden.”
“The one in the garden please.”
>?:”I don’t know anything about it, besides that it’s pushing back the magic of the forest.”
“Could I throw a rock at it?”
>?:”At it, probably not. You could however throw a rock into the garden. Not sure if that would give you anything.”
He is a unicorn, so assumingly this magic should be his doing. You need to be careful when entering that garden.
“Please take the spirit bond totem, I think it would be much more useful for you than it would for me. You can look at it as a sort of payment for all this information.”
>?:”But you already saved me, so I owned you anyway. Besides, I would rather ask you for your assistance in one little problem I have in the forest than to get your totem.”
“Nonsense I insist that you take the totem, it’s for your own protection. It’s just sitting in my pocket collecting dust. We can still talk about that other problem you have later.”
>?:”Oh okay, if you insist. I’ll just use it later.”
“But I hoped to see how it works, couldn’t you use it right now?”
>?:”Well okay, how does it work?”
“First you take it in your hoof and then you are supposed to meditate, but I think you might be able to just call out to the spirits. It all depends on if they are willing to help you or not.”
You give the pony the totem, as both your hooves touch it, it starts to glow.
A green glow gets sucked from the pony into the totem.
The pony itself firstly turns into a pony formed mess of twigs and wood, just like a timberwolf. Then the wood crumbles under its own weight.
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That wasn’t supposed to happen.
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Um
A-are you okay
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>>26973635
Shit. Talk to to totem! Are you in there? Hello? Apologize to her. Say you're going to help her with her problem after you're finished with what you came here to do. Also she was a spirit? That would explain the glowing eyes.
put on the robe.
Go to house.
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>>26973635
We gotta learn more about this totem, hopefully we can return her
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>>26973671
>>26973687
“Uh, a-are you you okay?”
You hear the ponies voice in your head.
She doesn’t seem to happy.
>?:”What did you do to me?”
“It looks like you got absorbed by the totem.”
>?:”Well duh, Sherlock. Why did it do that?”
“I don’t know, maybe because you are a freaking timberpony? Listen, I’m sorry about this, I didn’t want it to happen. I going to help you with that other problem of yours once I finished what I came here for in the first place.”
>?:”What about my body?”
“It’s just wood, we can get new wood. I’ll fix it later, okay.”
You put the totem back in your saddle bag, pick up the cloak and continue to the house.
After a short walk down the road you spot the house sitting on a small hill.
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>>26974405
Ask the timber pony for their name and ask if they can still sense the magic around the house.
It might be some kind of warding magic and we can deal with that/ignore it. It's only a problem if it can also alert the occupant of our presence.
It's show time and we'll only get one shot at this. Drink the invisibility potion and let's find out how it works. Then we go up towards the house and look through a window. Check to see if the back door is opened or locked. We might just have to burst in through a window though.
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>>26974405
Let's go fuck his shit.
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>>26974473
>>26974702
You take the totem back out of your saddle bag.
“So I didn’t get the chance to ask you earlier, but what is your name?”
>?:”I’m a timber pony I don’t have a name, however you can call me Brown Bark if you can’t think of anything better.”
“Can you still sense the magic?”
>?:”I can sense the lack of natural magic from the everfree forest. That is all.”
You drink your invisibility potion and take down your hat, only to realize that it is invisible too.
A quick test confirms that your weapon also has become invisible.
You put it back and fly over the small garden wall.
First you check on one of the windows, it’s one with special murky glass, you can’t see anything inside.
Well looks like you have to go in blind.
You fly to the closest door, this house is strange, it has four exact same doors, each of them facing into another direction.
The door seems to be closed, damn.
While you are already starting to think about how to break into the house, the door is unlocked.
You back away slightly.
A unicorn stallion opens the door, he looks exactly how the cultist described him.
>?:”Hello who is t’ere? Ah heard mah bell for visitors ring. No need to hide.”
For a child prostitution ring leader he looks quite feminine.stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>26975384
Passing over the wall triggers a magical alarm. Maybe we should play along, say we heard of his special "service" and we took an invisibility potion to make sure we weren't seen or followed.
Luck's compound is tricky. There's a phoenix somewhere in the house he keeps as a pet and he can magically transport anything inside the walls to another areas across Equestria he's set. I know for sure there's another in either the Badlands or somewhere similar.
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>>26975659
is there anything stopping us from just punching him in the face with our super strength?
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>>26975700
Speed has super strength? Anywho, probably his hat. It protects him and he has the magical ability to forcibly rip into our memories and change them.
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>>26976570
How strong is his hat? Would he be able to stand up against a dragon breath attack? We have one last shot of those.
Yeah he has super strength. How else is he going to carry that huge ass sword around.
It's also invisible right now so would one good thrust break it?
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>>26976744
I don't know. All we know is that it powerful enough to stop a weak crossbow. I wouldn't underestimate him.
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>>26976831
well my opinion is speed>weak crossbow.
even if that shield is powerful enough to protect him from impacts it can't protect him from 2,600 to 3,000 degrees fahrenheit of blue fire.
as for the messing of memories speed would be safe due to us controlling him. then again it could really mess up the pony speed.
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>>26976927
I would rather face him without his hat just to be sure. Something is just telling me it would be a bad idea to just attack.
So wait a minute... if the house is made of wood could Bark's spirit go into the house and control it?
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>>26977318
I want to use the element of surprise though. What if he escapes using the means you described? Maybe a tackle is all that's needed?
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>>26977434
Well he can't escape like that. It's everything that's inside the walls that get transported. There's a peice of me that doesn't want him dead. I want him to live and suffer. Besides, if turned in to the guard they might get more information on the child prostitute/slavery ring.
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>>26977537
I thought he WAS the child prostitution ring. His death would be the end of it wouldn't it? The only thing we wouldn't know then was the fillies he sold
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I suppose the benefit of infiltrating is finding the children faster since he would lead us right to them. We would also gain his trust and we can attack him while his back is turned on us. We'll be able to draw a bunch of glass alchemy circles.
plus it would be bad to burn the house down with the fillies inside. Decisions decisions.
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>>26982790
I think it's worth playing along and capturing him alive.
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>>26983993
i'm against capturing him because police would be asking us a lot of questions like how we came across this information and not informed them when we did because we're not allowed to take the law into our own hooves or something like that.
There's also a chance of him getting out of trouble because of corruption or connections.
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we enforce
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>>26984068
We should at least interrogate him ourselves if we have means of disabling his horn. See if we can't find out where he's sold foals.
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well i thought of a way to get his hat off at least, just grab and spin him around above our head and then let him go.
I suppose we can just punch his horn to temporarily disable it.
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wonder what happened to alchemy.
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Tell me about the Speed. How come he is super strong?
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>>26990037
good parentage
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>>26984708
that'd be funny
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>>26975659
>>26982790
>>26983993
>>26984068
>>26984519
As much as you would love to just punch him in the face right now, it’s better to just play along for now.
That way you might get more information about the foals he already sold, or at least learn where the ones still in his house are.
“I heard of your special service and took an invisibility potion to make sure no one followed or seen me.”
>?:”Oh a pony who rather would stay secret? Interesting. Just t’a be sure, what sort of service are you talking about?”
“The foal thing.”
Even talking about it makes you want to puke.
>?:”All right, follow me inside.”
You follow him into the house.
The inside is way bigger than what the facade would suggest.
He leads you into the kitchen.
>?:”Please take a seat, Ah’ll get you the necessary documents. Do you want a tea while you wait?”
He uses his magic to pick up a kettle from the stove and fills a small cup.
Actually your throat is a little sore, but in no way you would accept anything from him.
“No I’m fine.”
He places it on the table.
>?:”Oh Ah’ll just leave this here in case you change your mind.”
With that he leaves the room.
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>>26994777
YES! THERE'S DOCUMENTATION! Let's fill it out to see what kind of questions they ask and see if the information is useful. We'll be able to find those other foals yet.
Your name is "slow rust" and you come from hollow shade.
Draw a circle under the table in the meantime.
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>>26994837
You use the opportunity to draw a circle under the table.
After a few moments the unicorn stallion returns.
He puts down some papers on the kitchen counter.
>?:”So before we can go through t’is Ah have to do something else first. I hope you understand t’at Ah can’t just trust everyone.”
“Sure I understand this. So how will this work? Do I first have to introduce myself?”
>?:”Normally Ah would try to use some magic to read your mind, but for t’at I’d need to see you. Luckily Ah got t’is potion t’at will serve the same purpose.”
He moves the teacup to the side and places a potion in front of you.
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>>26995420
We're not drinking that.
Tell him to drink some first to make sure it's safe. How did he make it?
What exactly are you looking for that I just can't tell you? There are some secrets we would prefer to keep.
Does he want the bits or doesn't he?
If he tries to weasel out and say we can't do business then pull the table back and give him a glass spike.
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>>26995420
Ask for potion's contents and how it works since we are an alchemist ourselves.
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>>26995508
>>26995597
“I’m not drinking this. What tells me that this thing is not poison. You go first, drink some of it that way I can be sure that it’s safe.”
>?:”It’s just a truth serum. Ah’ll drink it if you want me to.”
He takes a tiny sip from the potion.
>?:”See Ah’m still fine.”
“What are the ingredients of this?”
>?:”The scales of a pike, some leaves gathered from swamp trees, and the tear of a unicorn.”
“Is there anything that I couldn’t just tell you?”
>?:”It’s mostly so I can be sure that you aren’t a guard who tries to put me in. Not t’at t’at would be to much of a problem since Ah could just buy my way out of court.”
“I’m not a guard, my name is Slow Rust and I come from hollow shades. There are a few things that I would rather keep secret, after all there is a reason why I came here invisible. See if I was a guard I could just have tried to ambush you. I didn’t so isn’t that proof that I’m really in for this?”
>?:”But who told you about me? My usually customers are a very particular kind of ponies.”
“Oh some cultist in the castle not so far from here.”
>?:”You know what, Ah believe you. Well if t’ey t’ought that you could be trusted, so do I. Let’s look at these papers.”
He shows you a lot of stuff, mostly on what kind of treatment the foals got to be as obedient as possible.
Rings to block their natural abilities.
Brainwashing to the point that they can’t remember their old families and will love you whatever you do to them.
And a special, how he called it, training.
He also states that he always only trains one foal at a time.
With every new information the urge to bash this guys head in rises inside of you.
The worst thing is that there wasn’t even anything about giving him your position, so no locations of his customers in these documents.
The price for one foal is 1000 bits.
“So you have one here right now?”
>?:”Yes, a little filly t’at is very close to finishing her training. Do you want to take a look at her yourself?”
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Stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
Sorry about yesterday, I had a pretty bad block both art and writing wise.
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We still have the rest of the house to explore. Though it looks like the only reason we didn't immediately try to attack him will be for nothing.
The only thing left to do is try to get him to put the memories back on the filly.
I suppose we can ask if there is a "try before you buy" option and it would "excite us" if the filly can be herself just once. After that we kill him.
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Alch, your thread is deadLike Applejack's parents
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>>27001009
rude
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>>26996970
There should be memory potions that Lucky keeps around, just like his "forgetting" potions. It will likely take more than one potion to restore their entire memory. As long as we can find them it'll be ok.
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>>27001636
I thought that was a thing only the master in colorblind had. Because he tried to copy lucky's magic with potions.
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I realized that we should ask if this is the only filly he has and if it isn't can we see the others and then just come back in a week when their training is done.
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>>27002506
>He also states that he always only trains one foal at a time.
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>>26996970
Well looks like you can’t just get the locations out from him, then your new top priority will be to restore the fily’s memory.
Maybe you can trick him into doing it for you.
“Sure I would like to see the filly.”
He leads you down to the basement, you haven’t realized it before, but in here are no doors.
Also every time he passes a doorframe his horn lights up, until you passed the same frame.
Does he have magical doors or something similar to that?
Down here is some sort of playroom, all sorts of toys are in here, even a little toyhouse.
It’s a very child friendly room, you didn’t expect that.
Judging from his business you would expect some sort of dungeon with cells and chains.
You see a little earth pony filly sitting in front of a little toy oven pretending to cook something.
An earth pony, that poor thing, according to his documents he magically fused a magic blocking ring to her front leg.
You can’t believe what you going to say.
“So is there like a try before buy option?”
>?:”I guess as long you don’t hurt her.”
“Oh nice, you know what would really excite me. If she would be herself for that, could you undo her memory altering spell just for that short period?”
>?:”I’m sorry but that would ruin the work of weeks. I had to start from 0 again.”
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>>27004679
Ah, I understand. Hey there little filly, whatcha cooking?
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>>27004679
I don't suppose instead of the usual 1000 bits you'd be interested in 1500? That would be worth the trouble wouldn't it? And it will cover any lost time and profit. If he doesn't take that then make it 2000 and call him a thief and you're not offering a bit more.
Then we can attack.
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>>27001931
C'mon, isn't Speed an alchemist. He can whip up a memory potion can't he?
>>27004722
He might get suspicious. Wonder how he isn't suspicious as hell of us already.
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>>27004891
He can be as suspicious as he wants, this is going to be the last day he lives anyway.
He's probably already suspicious of us though thinks if we were going to do something we would have done it by now and that comment about wanting to try before we buy will make him think we're sick but interested in this.
As for making a memory potion we probably could do it though it would be pretty time consuming and we don't have a place to start.
plus it would just be easier for the guy that did this to her to fix it
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>>27004954
I say we get back to the literal bargaining table before springing any traps.
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>>27004720
>>27004722
>>27004891
>>27004954
>>27005045
“Oh I’m sure that the right amount of money might change your mind. Maybe a 1500 bits could do the job?”
>?:”Ah’m sorry, if Ah just turned her back she might try to escape and hurt herself in the process. However if you just want the reaction of a normal innocent filly, Ah can lift the spell from her so she reacts normal for a while. T’at would also require some more attention later on, but Ah t’ink it would make a good compromise.”
You could always try to find another way to restore her memory, maybe a potion could do that.
But you would need to look for a recipe on that first.
Maybe another try. Time to get really disgusting.
“That just isn’t the real deal, I want her to realize in what situation she really is right now. Far away from her family.”
>?:”Ah’m not even sure if she would t’ink about her family, after all t’ey sold her to me. Still the temporary thing is my only offer.”
What kind of parents would do that, subequine monsters.
“Fine, I guess it’s better than nothing.”
While he begins to cast his spell you get ready to attack him.stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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Let's ask what this filly's name is.
We should try our sword first correct?
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>>27006537
Since this is ACTUALLY FUCKING HAPPENING I say try for a diagonal slash through his hat and severing his horn.
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>>27007660
this. it's important we disable his horn.
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>>27007660
i wanted to aim for his neck but if you really want him alive that badly so we can toy with him I guess it's alright.
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it's us or us
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>>27006537
>>27007660
>>27009573
>>27010319
You have to make sure to disable his magic early on.
That means taking out his horn.
A quick slash through that hat of his and the horn should do the trick.
You approach them.
He’s right there, just a sword swing away.
Just one last thing to lower his defense.
“So hello what’s your name.”
As the filly opens it mouth to answer you strike with your sword.
It hisses through the air until the blade meets a magical shield.
The band around his hat has expanded to a ring around his hat, it glows and there are strange scribbles all over it.
It creates a barrier that blocks your strike, at least for a short time.
As your sword hits the barrier it fizzles and starts to create blue flames.
The magical barrier soon gives in and you continue with the strike.
It cuts right through the band and a part of the hat itself.
Sadly this little trick gave him enough time to dodge.
>?:”What, are you doing? Are you out of your mind?!”
>Filly:”Uncle Lucky what is happening? Is that ghost guy evil?”
He grabs the filly with his magic and holds her in front of him.
>Filly:”Ow! Uncle lucky you’re hurting me.”
>?:”Damn Ah shouldn’t have trusted you.”
His ears twitch in panic as her slowly backs away towards a wall.
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>>27013038
wait for him to back into the stairs, then fly/charge him. no sword out because of the filly, but make him misstep into the stairs and stumble.
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>>27013038
We're a pretty trustworthy pony most of the time.
It would have been smarter to run since we're invisible and he doesn't know where we'll attack from.
Fly up towards his right and punch directly into his face.
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>>27013054
>>27013066
“Well I’m a pretty trustworthy pony most of the time, just not when it comes to outright wicked ponies like you.”
You charge forward.
After a short leap you are to his right.
He doesn’t even see it coming as you hit him full force into the face.
The little filly falls to the ground and runs away crying.
She hides in the toy house.
Uncle Lucky, how she called him, lies on the floor in front of you, he is holding his chin while wincing in pain.
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>>27013531
horn ownership rights have been revoked.
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>>27013531
Draw a mirror and call out to hekate. We're going to finish this guy off in the castle dungeon and away from the filly.
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>>27013565
This. Nice and cleanly at the base.
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>>27013565
>>27013572
>>27013659
Time to neutralize his biggest thread, the horn.
With a well aimed strike you snap his horn off, nice and clean at the base.
He starts to scream.
Oh Celestia the screaming.
It’s deafening.
You do your best to ignore him for now.
This is not the right place to finish this, not in front of the filly.
You draw a transmutation circle and turn a small piece of the wall into a mirror.
Again you call out for Hekate, this time she arrives way faster.
>Hekate:”Oh you went after him without me? What if he had bested you?”
“As you can see I had everything under control.”
>Hekate:”Well I see what was once a unicorn, but not how much damage you took.”
“None, thanks to my invisibility.”
>Hekate:”So what now? Do you want me to get rid of this guy?”
“For now we take him to the castles dungeon.”
>Hekate:”What about the fillies?”
“It’s just one, part of the reason why I want him to take there is so she doesn't have to witness anything.”
>Hekate:”Let’s just hope she doesn’t do anything stupid while you are taking care of him.”
With the help of Hekate you transport him to the castle's dungeon.
Cloudy unlike the other cultist Pumpkin is no longer here.
You throw Uncle Luck on the floor.
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oh fuck we left the filly alone. have hektake hold him, then go make sure the room shes in is atleast locked or something. also reassure her that we're not going to leave her alone.
Actually, do we need to talk to him just yet? the dungeon is secure. shackle him to the wall and give him a day with an open wound in a dungeon to think about how co-operative he wants to be. In the meantime we can search his house for documents about the other fillies, names of customers, ingredients used in potions and which types were administered, etc.
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>>27014063
Well lucky you did a lot of bad things so I have taken it upon myself to correct this. Had you made other choices your life would have ended differently.
But you can do some good before you die. How many foals have you sold and to who?
>>27014128
She shouldn't be going anywhere, at least not soon. Sure about keeping him prisoner? The chains are probably really old and will break. They might also not be there.
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>>27014185
I dunno, i just read that line from hektate and its making me paranoid about leaving the filly.
Lets just get it over with now. the last time i looked away from a badguy in a cyoa he got away.
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>>27014185
This.
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>>27014213
should we offer him the mercy of a quick death for cooperating and if he doesn't we'll burn him?
Don't worry about the filly, I don't expect her to leave the toy house any time soon. She's probably crying and rolled up into a ball from the screaming she heard earlier of her beloved uncle.
The hardest part of this is convincing her that her uncle was bad and we had to take him away.
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>>27014128
>>27014185
>>27014213
>>27014238
>>27014285
You start to talk to Uncle Lucky.
“Well Lucky, you did a lot of bad things, so I have taken it upon myself to correct this. But here is one last chance to do something good before you die. How many foals have you sold and to whom?”
He doesn’t answer.
>Hekate:”He might be in a shock because you broke his horn.”
“Is there a way he can recover?”
>Hekate:”Time and medical attention.”
“Can you not cast a healing spell or something?”
>Hekate:”Nope sorry.”
Maybe he is just ignoring you intentional.
You grab him by the throat.
“Last chance, either you tell me where those foals are or I going to burn you slowly.”
>Uncle Lucky:”f-fuck you.”
That’s it, he lost his chance.
You slam him on the ground and ram the sword in his lower tummy.
The magical energies set it ablaze nearly instantly.
Lucky starts to burn from the inside.
The sound, the smell, his struggling, and the look are disgusting.
Hekate throws up into a corner of the room.
After it’s done you feel bad, he was really suffering in his last moments.
Yes, he was a monster, but does that justify yourself acting like a monster?Stopping for now, will continue Sunday.
Have a nice weekend.
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>>27015001
>Yes, he was a monster, but does that justify yourself acting like a monster?
in this case, yeah sure.
We'll sleep like a baby tonight.
Go check on the foal.
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>>27015001
Fuck. I did not want to kill him that way...
You Alchemy players are brutal as fuck. Speed is brutal as fuck.
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>>27015072
I didn't want this
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>>27015001
One way or another he had to die. Could we have done it gentler? We could have. But let's also remind ourselves of those other fillies that were sold and the kind of life they might be living now. I have no regrets about it at all.
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Hey Hekate, you alright?
Time to take that filly to an orphanage and then we can help with our spirit totems problem.
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>>27015001
If he hadn't taken the time to explane how he broke the mind of a filly i might have felt bad, but fuck that guy he was an asshole.
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>>27015138
You mean the ones that will never be found because we killed the only guy who knows where they are?
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>>27017068
well he wasn't talking
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>>27017068
given that nobody actually voted to kill him immediately, i doubt alchemy is going to screw us and make them unsaveable. Most likely we're just moving the story along quicker.
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We could also give Cleo that secret softer now that we're here. Not like it would take that long would it?
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>>27027688
a good stop
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i hope hekate is still our side
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>>27035161
Well she didn't have any qualms about killing him.
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>>27036028
maybe its just the way
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>>27035161
be pretty odd if she wasn't given how casual she was about killing guards when we were freeing the changelings.
didnt expect her to be someone who'd get queasy.
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>>27039564
we can ask how she would have preferred to do it. Would she rather have hanged him or something else?
She probably would have just stabbed him in the stomach too.
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>>27015027
>>27015138
>>27016390
>>27016880
>>27027688
>>27035161
No, after all he did he deserved this.
Hopefully Hekate didn’t take it the wrong way, she didn’t have anything against killing Lucky prior.
“Everything all right Hekate?”
>Hekate:”Sure, I just couldn’t stand the smell. But Speed, couldn’t you have, like, killed him a little faster?”
“Sure, but he deserved to suffer. Maybe I lost myself in the emotions a little.”
>Hekate:”So do you have any Idea where those other fillies are?”
“Hekate, you are rubbing salt into my wounds. I was hoping to get it out of him, but he wouldn’t talk. He had some documents generally describing the process. If he was stupid enough to keep that around, he might have some sort of customer register or something.”
>Hekate:”All right, maybe we should split up, one takes care and calms the filly and the other searches his house for other documents.”
Alright, maybe there is still some hope.
Oh wait what about Cleo, you nearly forgot.
“Sounds good. But before we go back I have something really quick to do in the castle.”
>Hekate:”Seriously, again? Fine I’ll be waiting here. Again.”
You can’t help but feel a little bad for Hekate.
“I’ll give my best to make it as fast as possible.”
You dash up the stairs back into the main hall.
So how do you even use a secret softener?
Uh, maybe if you just jam it into her mouth…
The liquid flows down her petrified throat.
Soon you see cracks on the stone surface, and piece by piece Cleo comes back to life.
>Clementine:”W-What? Shouldn’t I be dead, what happened?”
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>>27042821
I depetrified you, every one else is waiting in the library, you know where that is right? It's down that hall and to the left. Tell numb I'm fine but busy. Can't talk much bye!
Go back to hekate and the filly might not want to talk to us but we can give it a go while she searches.
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>>27042856
“I depertified you.”
>Clementine:”Speed guy is that you? I can’t see you, are my eyes still petrified?”
She panicky starts to feel her face.
“I’m just invisible. Listen I don’t have much time to talk, the others are in the library, down the hall and then to the left. Tell Numb that I’m fine but busy. Bye.”
You leave without giving the perplexed sphinx a chance to question you anymore.
Back in the dungeon you and Hekate move through the mirror back into the basement of Lucky’s house.
“Okay you search the house I take care of the filly.”
>Hekate:”Are you sure? I mean you are still invisible and I don’t know how much she heard of you before you attacked this guy. So she might be especially scared of you.”
“I’ll try my best to interact with her.”
>Hekate:”Okay fine, if you want to do it like that.”
Hekate walks upstairs as you approach the toy house.
You can hear the filly whimpering inside.
“Hello there, everything is all right.”
No answer, in fact even the whimpers stop.
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>>27043606
Ask if she's ok. She's not hurt is she?
Tell her that she's safe and that you're not going to hurt her.
Apologize for scaring her and tell her you got a little too rough with uncle lucky but he's alright now. A doctor is seeing him.
Ask if she can come out of the house.
Then tell her that uncle lucky was a bad pony who took things that weren't his. He's going to jail for a long time.
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i feel bad for this filly
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>>27043685
“Are you okay? You aren’t hurt, right?”
No answer.
“You are safe, I’m not going to hurt you.”
Still nothing.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you. I might got a little to rough with Uncle Lucky, but he is all right now. A doctor is seeing him.”
A faint voice speaks from inside the toy house.
>?:”W-why did you attack him?”
“Could you please come out of the toy house?”
>?:”N-no not until I know what is with Uncle Lucky.”
“Listen, Uncle Lucky was a bad pony who took things that weren’t his.”
>?:”Is this why you attacked him? Did he take something from you? Listen Uncle Lucky was nice, he would play with me and take care of me. He even gave me sweets when I was a good filly.”
“No Uncle Lucky was a bad pony, he’s going to jail for a long time.”
She starts to cry.
>?:”But what about me, Uncle Lucky is the only one I have.”
You poke through one of the windows.
The filly is lying curled up in a corner of the toy house.
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>>27044359
Don't worry, there are other ponies that will and would want to take care of you.
Do you know what an orphanage is? That's where you will live now. You'll also get to be with other fillies and colts that don't have anyone else either, it'll be like having a lot of brothers and sisters.
And then one day somepony will come along and adopt you and you'll have a mommy, a daddy or both.
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>>27044455
We could just keep her.
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>>27044590
And have TWO fillies to keep an eye on? I dunno man. Though you're right. We could just keep her. We need to give her a hug as soon as she out of that house.
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I suppose we can offer to take her if she really doesn't want to go to the orphanage though we're going to have a lot of explaining to do.
>"where'd you get that filly?"
"Adopted her."
>"you can't just adopt random fillies speed."
"Too late, can't stop the speed train and it's already left the station."
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>>27044455
>>27044590
>>27044685
>>27044898
“Don’t worry, there are other ponies that will and would want to take care of you.”
>?:”Uncle Lucky told me about that, he said that he will give me to a new master that will take care of me. Are you that?”
Another filly to take care for? You like that Idea, but it will be hard to explain this.
”Well, do you know what an orphanage is?”
>?:”No?”
“It’s a place for fillies like you who don’t have anyone else either. It will be like in a big family with a lot of brothers and sisters. And some day somepony will come along and adopt you and you’ll have a mommy, a daddy or both.”
She is crying even more.
>?:”I-I don’t have anyone else… I want to stay with Uncle Lucky!”
“P-please we can find something for you. So Lucky said that there will be somepony who he will give you to, right?”
>?:”Y-yes.”
“So he kinda gave you to me, didn’t he?”
>?:”Yes, he said that you would play with me. Does that mean you are my new master?”
Master, that doesn’t sound right.
“Yes, kinda, but please don’t call me master. Would you please come out of the toy house?”
>?:”O-okay m- how should I call you?”
“For now you can just call me Speed.”
She steps out of the toy house, still sniffling.
You give her a long hug.
She seems surprised by the sudden invisible cuddle assault.
As you wrap your hooves around her she also turns invisible.
>?:“So, will I stay with you like Uncle Lucky said or will I live in this orphanage?”stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27044685
>Cant have foals with sako
>adopt half of equestria instead
I'm down.
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>>27045661
so you're up for taking this filly?
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>>27045880
sure. well, we'd have to talk about it with the rest of our family before deciding.
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>>27045880
>>27047094
Let's at least take care of her temporarily and after we patch things up with Sako we pitch the idea.
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>>27047094
I don't expect them to say much on the subject since they usually tell us to do what we want.
Swirl is the wild card. She will either love the idea or hate it.
She might think she has to compete for our attention or she won't want to share her toys.
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Looks like we're getting the filly. We'll take extra good care of her.
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>>27047247
we could still attempt to find another home
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Something to note is that the reason Honeydrop was colorblind is because of the ring on her horn that canceled her magic. It's a possibility that the ring on this filly might have had the same effect on her vision. Either way we need to search this house.
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>>27051108
We could just leave her at the orphanage for that couldn't we? We don't need to personally put the filly in a home.
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We need to get that ring off on her right hoof.
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>>27045661
>>27047094
>>27047230
>>27047247
>>27048504
>>27051108
>>27051956
>>27052660
You have to ask Sako before making such decisions, and before you can ask her you first have to come back on good terms with her.
It’s best to at least take care of the filly till till the decision is made.
There is also that ring that is inside her leg, You have to find someway to get that thing off.
“You can stay with me for now.”
You walk up the stairs, halfway up you turn back and see the filly standing in front of the doorframe.
“What is it? It’s okay you can come up.”
>?:”Won’t I get shocked if I try to leave the basement?”
“Wait, what? Did Lucky told you that?”
>?:”Yes, don’t tell Uncle Lucky, but I also tried to go out once. It hurt.”
With Lucky gone the magic might have expired.
“Well why don’t you try to get out, if Uncle Lucky really wanted you to leave with me he should have lifted that spell, right.”
She takes a step through the door and whinnies happily.
Good at least the magic on that thing has gone.
You look around for Hekate when you suddenly hear a bang from upstairs.
Hopefully Hekate is okay, better to check it out.
You sprint upstairs, and enter the first room that has an opened door.
Something is burning on the ground… Is that a phoenix?
“Everything alright?”
>Hekate:”Yeah, just got attacked by this phoenix while I was searching these documents.”
“Found anything so far? How can I help?”
>Hekate:”The documents in the kitchen state that the rings he placed on the fillies can be used to track them. I’m searching for a description on that spell, you could try the other rooms on this floor. But I doubt that there will be anything, this seems to be his studying room.”
You take a moment to look around the room, big bookshelves, a desk, a table with a map, a cage probably for the phoenix, a nice alchemy table, and a still closed door.
>Hekate:”Oh and Speed, your invisibility potion ran out.”
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>>27054671
Ponies can finally see our handsome muzzle again. Let's check the books and the map.
Loot the alchemy table.
We can still look around the house later. (maybe steal some bits he has)
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>>27054671
Any alchemy recipes?
Check another room and ask filly for her name.
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>>27054714
>>27054985
You begin to search the room.
Of course the alchemy table is the first thing on your list.
Nothing in the distilling devices and flasks, however you find three recipes stashed in here.
One that forces a pony to speak the truth after it was consumed.
Truth serum: aqua - lumen - ventus.
One that makes you lose your memories.
Potion of lost memories(special): honey - effigia - humus - aqua
And a normal health potion one.
You continue your search and find a few basic alchemy ingredients, at least 10 of each.
Not sure which one would be the best, will be a hard decision.
Next thing you decide to look at the map.
This is equestria, though some places on the map are circled.
You’re not sure what this means.
Maybe Hekate could know, but you rather not distract her from searching.
Seems like this room doesn’t offer anymore.
Time to check on the next one.
You open the door and find what looks a lot like a smeltery.
In the middle of the room is a small ring formed casting basim.
This must be where he created the rings.
Besides metal and a couple of other smithing equipment you find nothing of interest.
Well then, might as well build a stronger bond with the new filly.
You turn around and realize that she didn’t even enter the studying room.
Instead she sits in front of the room just waiting.
“Hey there everything alright?”
>?:”Uncle Lucky said that he didn’t want anyone else to enter his studying room.”
“Oh… Well, what is your name anyway, it’s only fair that I know it, you know mine too.”
>Cinnamon Sweets:”My name is Cinnamon Sweets, Uncle Speed.”
From the room you hear Hekate shout in joy.
>Hekate:”Got it!”stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27056124
Tell Cinnamon that we didn't know about that rule and we're sorry about breaking it. Is there anywhere else in the house that we're not allowed to go?
Tell Cinnamon you'll be right back. Go talk to Hekate and see what she found out. Ask if it says anything about getting the ring off.
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Sorry my head hurts, have to cancel today's session.
Good news, I will be home over the weekend so we can have a session on Friday and Saturday.
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>>27062624
thanks for the headsup, hope you feel well soon
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>>27056124
Hope it's good news
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>>27062624
Take care of yourself alchemy.
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boop
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we'll have to consult on that map later
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Think Hekate will carry those ingredients for us? Or maybe we can just ask her to come back here later? Either way we can take that aether and effiga since that's the hardest to find after that it's ventus.
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>>27068956
might not hurt to ask anyway
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>>27057048
>>27063064
>>27068956
“Oh sorry I didn’t know about that rule. Say is there anywhere else in the house we’re not allowed?”
>Cinnamon Sweets:”No everything else is alright to go in.”
“Alright, I’ll be right back.”
You reenter the room, Hekate has placed a scroll on the map and is investigating it.
“So any good news? Did you find how to remove those rings from the fillies?”
>Hekate:”Remove them? I guess the best way would be to consult some kind of doctor about that. I thought that I should find out how to locate the fillies, which I did.”
“Those are also very good news. So how does it work?”
>Hekate:”You’ll need some sort of map, then you cast a spell that turns the map into a grid that scans for the rings specific magic and shows them on the map.”
Magic stuff? Sounds like she kept it simple, still you didn’t quite get it.
“Can you do it?”
>Hekate:”Shouldn’t be too hard, let me try.”
Her horns starts to glow and shortly after, small glowing dots appear on the map.
Three in the everfree, and single ones all over the map, in the middle of the badlands, in the forbidden jungle, in the macintosh hills, in the foal mountains, in the Galloping Gorge.
You are a little stunned by the pure amount of marks on the map.
Fuck Uncle Lucky.
>Hekate:”So what will you do now? Tell the guard?”
“I have to think about it Hekate. It will be hard to explain the authorities how I found out about this.”
>Hekate:”Tell them that you found this house in the middle of the everfree forest, totally empty. Though the filly might be a problem in this, since she saw you and Lucky.”
“Say Hekate something different, could you help me carry some stuff back to ponyville?”
>Hekate:”Depends on what you are talking about, It wouldn’t require too much work.”
“Some of the Alchemy ingredients, maybe a few toys.”
>Hekate:”Sure, I can do that.”
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>>27071378
Guess we'll ask Lanika because a hospital doctor is going to ask questions.
I also don't trust the guard that much because of possible corruption. Lucky thought he could buy his way out and "evidence getting lost" would be one way.
We could also write an anonymous letter.
Thank Hekate for helping you transport all these alchemy ingredients. Let's help the other two fillies in the everfree since they're the closest. We can leave cinnamon at our camp?
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>>27071378
Tell Cinny that she's coming with us and to gather any toys she wants to take.
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>>27071418
camp as in the castle or ponyville?
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>>27071503
Ponyville. The castle would be too dangerous.
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>>27071418
>>27071503
>>27071943
You tell Cinny to show you her favorite toys and that you soon will leave.
Back in the basement she insists on taking the toy oven she was playing with earlier, also a tea set and a small group of dolls.
Hekate helps you loading off the stuff into a mirror and transports you back to ponyville.
By now platinum is working on the engine, it looks a lot more complex than before.
Swirl is running towards you.
She is carrying a doll made out of, what seems to be, the old wagon plane.
>Sand Swirl:”Look Daddy, Masquerade helped me making- Who is that?”
Swirl looks curious at Cinny
Sako flies up from Swirls head, landing on your hat.
>Sachiko:”Yeah, who is that?”
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>>27072241
its a long story sako.
This is Cinnamon Sweets, I was hoping you could play with her for a bit Swirl while I talk to sako.
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>>27072241
What a cute doll you have Swirl. Finish your story first and then I'll tell you mine.
This is cinnamon swirl and we're going to be taking care of her because her uncle isn't able to anymore. Cinnamon this is Swirl and the breezie is Sako. There are other ponies you'll need to meet but we'll take care of that later. I hope you two can get along.
We should put all the alchemy ingredients we got in our inventory. We should also go to ponyville library and ask the little creature if there is a way to cure poison joke.
Or would Hekate like to get to those other two fillies in the forest as soon as possible?
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>>27072241
Introduce them and in private tell Sako Cinny's story and maybe we should try to work on patching things up with her. Isn't she still mad over the whole harem thing?
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>>27072283
>>27072294
>>27072346
“You got a really cute doll there Swirl, finish your story then I’ll tell you mine.”
>Sand Swirl:”Well I made this doll, that is all.”
It looks actually very good considering the source material it’s quite impressive.
“This is Cinnamon Sweets, we will be taking care of her for a while since her uncle won’t be able to anymore. Cinnamon this is Swirl and the breezie is Sako. Swirl could you play with Cinny for a bit, so me and Mommy can talk.”
>Sand Swirl:”Okay, come Cinny, I’ll show you my toys.”
Cinny looks up to you, searching for approval.
You nod and she runs off together with Swirl.
“Uh Hekate, could you just drop the stuff of next to my wagon? It’s the one with the plants and the oven on it.”
>Hekate:”Sure, what about those other fillies?”
“Do you want to get them out as soon as possible?”
>Hekate:”Well I don’t want to know them any longer than necessary in this sort of situation. At least we should tell the guard or someone.”
“I’m not sure about the guard, they could get out because of corruption.”
>Sachiko:”I’m not sure what your are talking about, but if the guard is bothering you maybe you could try to deliver the message directly to the princesses.”
“Well I was thinking about writing an anonymous letter.”
>Hekate:”If you don’t have the time for it I’ll take care of it. I would be better for that sort of thing anyway, since you don’t even know the exact locations.”
“Just give me a moment to think about it, and tell Sako the whole story, she often has some good ideas.”
>Hekate:”Okay, I’ll just drop your stuff in your wagon and return after that.”
Hekate leaves.
1/2
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>>27073267
You begin to tell Sako the story of Uncle Lucky and how you infiltrated his house and saved the filly.
>Sachiko:”How did you find out about this guy and his work?”
You tell her about the cult and the dungeon.
>Sachiko:”Well if you trusted Hekate with this filly, then why not trust her now. I mean you have other things to than to chase after some ponies. Also I rather know you safe, and with these kind of ponies you never know.”
“What about Cinny?”
>Sachiko:”Do you really want to keep her?”
“She has no place else to stay, and I’m always for a bigger family.”
>Sachiko:”I don’t think it’s a good Idea to drag all these fillies with us on such a long journey. Let’s focus on advancing our family once you reached your goal, depending on if it’s still possible leave Cinny in an orphanage in ponyville and adopt her on the normal way once we are settling down.”
Hekate returns.
>Hekate:”So did you made a decision?”
2/2
stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27073279
Psh, we could take those punks but it's nice to know sako worries.
I was thinking of leaving the fillies at platinum's house once we got way up north anyway. Just ask Hekate to transport her.
Yeah, you can go on your own hekate. I suppose we did enough with alerting her of this problem and giving her a way to track them.
We also gotta help the timber pony, what is their problem exactly?
Then we head to the library and find a way to fix poison joking.
i'm going to miss just walking into mirrors.
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still trying to stay in sako's better graces again so it might be best
also gets exponentially harder to keep more fillies, what we need to do is see them to a good home
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>>27073279
You're right Sako. I just hate to see foals suffer.
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We can also go out to the forest and look for that river serpent we were told about.
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>>27081500
That's a good point, I'd forgotten
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>Killing Uncle Lucky
Bunch of faggots you are.
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I think we're supposed to have two empty bottles because one was the invisibility potion and the other was for the secret softer. Also let's take one of the empty bottles, fill it with water inside the inn and then water our plants.
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>>27087338
you could have stopped it
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>>27074677
>>27077436
>>27080495
>>27081500
>>27085263
>>27088338
“Yeah, you can go on your own Hekate. ”
>Hekate:”Alright, if you need some help or want to trade, just call out for me like you did in the castle.”
With a flash she teleports away.
You turn back to Sako.
“I was thinking of leaving the fillies at Platinum’s house once we got to the north, but I guess you are right. It’s just that I hate to see foals suffer.”
>Sachiko:”Who would you leave back to keep an eye on the fillies?”
“Uh, right, maybe someone would volunteer.”
>Sachiko:”Right… So will you stay here for the rest of the day or head out again? It’s only around one hour till evening.”
So much you still have to do.
You still need to help the timber pony with it’s problem.
Then there is the river serpent of which you still need the tooth.
Of course you also have to get things back to normal with Sako.
“I still have a lot of things to do, I will see if that can wait or not. I’ll water my plants and think of it while doing so.”
>Sachiko:”Take your time, you don’t mind me staying up here while you go around for that. I don’t want to waste your time by setting me on someone else's head.”
“I don’t see a reason why you shouldn’t. So that gives me a chance to introduce you to my second newest friend.”
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>>27089367
You pull out your totem.
“See in here is the spirit of a timber pony. She said we can call her Brown Bark. There is a problem I promised to help her with.”
You can hear her voice echo from the totem.
>Brown Bark:”Oh good you didn’t forget.”
“So what exactly IS your problem?”
>Brown Bark:”Well- Oh- There is a place in the forest, a clearing, and on this clearing is a rock with a sword stuck in it. The sword is magical and spreads corruption through the forest, making normal forest spirits go mad, you know those spirits as timberwolves. It is protected by a spell, so you can’t just simply remove it, but I think with what you did to those timberwolves in the forest you might have a chance.”
“Alright, how urgent is it?”
>Brown Bark:”One or two more days won’t hurt anything, but I would like to get my body back as soon as possible.”
Right, you’ll also have to take care of that.
You finish watering the plants.
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>>27089379
Would it be hard to find? We can just fly to it, land and then shoot it with magic fire. We should still have one shot left in our sword unless we used it on uncle lucky.
If that's the case let's use the overcharged mana potion.
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>>27089379
It is kind of a tricky situation
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>>27089421
“So Timber Pony, is it hard to find? I could just fly there, land, and shoot it with magic fire.”
You still have enough mana potion in your magical Sword for one more attack.
>Brown Bark:”No, there is not much that is stopping you from doing that. You still have to pull the sword out of the rock after it.”
Looks like it could be done quickly, but do you want to do it right now?
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>>27090295
we'll stay here. tell swirl and cinnamon a story and then we can get rid of that sword in the ground.
We'll also head to the castle and finally activate that hidden switch, put a mirror inside and then close it again going there the next day.
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Might still be better to prepare a little first too so we're not caught flat-footed after expending the charge.
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>>27090341
>>27090490
It’s probably best to stay here, prepare, and head out later after you put the girls to sleep.
You put the totem back away.
“Hey Sako, guess what, I’ll spend the rest of the evening here.”
>Sachiko:”That is great.”
It’s a little too early to tell the fillies a bedtime story, so what should you do next?
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>>27090877
Suck up to Sako.
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Let's devote some time to Sako, it's been a while
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>>27090877
Make a fire breathing potion
Fire lizard teeth ( Igni ) + Firefly ( Lumen-Ventus )
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>>27090914
>>27091008
yep. we've been busy for awhile, havent had time to hang out and be a couple.
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>>27090914
>>27091008
"So Sako is there anything you want to do, I'd like to spend some time with you."
>Sachiko:”They have a theater here in ponyville, we could go watch a movie.”
“Sounds good, let me just quickly fix up a potion.”
You combine a lizard tooth and a dead firefly to create a fire breathing potion.
After stashing the potion into your inventory, you head out for the theater.
They have three movies running right now, downtown endurance 2, falsehood, and lathy moniker.
The first movie poster shows a bunch of ponies standing in a urban cityline.
On the second one there is a family locked inside a house with purple mushroom monsters outside of the house.
The third one shows a unicorn with strange markings, attached to some strings, and three ponies at the ends of those strings.
“So Sako, any preferences.”
>Sachiko:”I don’t know any of them, I’m alright with whatever you choose.”e to spend some time with you."stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27091913
watch falsehood since it's about a stallion protecting his family and we can relate to that.
when the movie is over go to the inn.
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We have to wait for the book pony to actually leave the library in order to get those books because they're camping there now. Think if we make a mirror there we ask hekate to make a portal and we can tell him "oh just read the rest in ponyville where it's safe"
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>>27091913
I could go for Falsehood because I liked the mushroom quest. My second pick would be the one with the strings, that sounds interesting.
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I hope white wave doesn't wander around the streets and scare someone.
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>>27092040
>>27093606
“Let’s watch Falsehood, I like that it features a family.”
You buy two tickets for the movie and enter the theater.
The movie trailers start,
One sticks out particular, royal guard endurance 2, it seems to be about a by humans occupied equestria.
The ponies are suffering, but there is an underground resistance.
Which somehow comes into the possession of an old spaceship to fight back..
You heard about the first one, a classic, this one seems a little strange and dumb in comparison.
Finally the movie starts.
It’s a normal farmer family, earth pony father and mother and a very active pegasus daughter.
She reminds you slightly of Swirl, which only immerse you more into the movie.
A hole opens in one of their fields and soon fairies, mushrooms and other evil spirits start haunting the family.
One of the fairies even slightly resembles a breezie, though it’s a bad guy.
>Sachiko:”Ofcourse the one time a breezie appears in a pony movie it’s evil.”
The father manages to defend his family thanks to his batpony friend, but as the more and more monsters appear they finally decide to run away from their home.
On their way to the next city they encounter more twisted forest spirits but manage to fend them off.
The movie ends with them setting up a camp to sleep for the night, reflecting about what happened to them and that even though they lost their home, they are happy to still be alive and together.
It was a good movie, the relations between the characters were very well fleshed out, and you were thrilled by every monster fight.
However you kinda felt left down by the end, it was a little unsatisfying.
The director probably left room for a sequel.
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>>27100021
You leave the theater.
“So Sako did you enjoy it?”
>Sachiko:”It was kinda scary. Not in a oh my god this monster is so horrifying scary but in a I hope nothing happens to the characters scary.”
“Yeah I know what you mean. Anything else you want to do or do you want to walk back to the inn?”
>Sachiko:”Let’s get something quick to eat on the way so we can eat together.”
“Alright, are hayburgers okay?”
>Sachiko:”I would rather have some Chineigh.”
“Fine with me.”
You take a short stop in a Chineigh restaurant and order some grilled rice with vegetables to go.
After a short walk you arrive back at the inn, the setting sun paints the sky in a beautiful red.
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>>27100037
ask masquerade how she is. Ask what's got her looking down.
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>>27100037
lovely evening isn't it
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>>27100118
>>27100137
You approach Masquerade.
Form the distance she looked down, but as you get closer you realize she is just measuring something.
“Hey Masquerade, how are you?”
>Masquerade:”Oh hey Speed, I’m fine thanks. Platinum asked me if I could take a look at the woodwork of the wagon. Say what do you think if I would carve a mask into the outside, maybe that could give us some form of protection magic.”
“Well I don’t see a reason to not take an advantage, is there any downside?”
>Masquerade:”It might be a waste of time, especially if we don’t get wood that can sustain the mask with magic. Also you know what my masks do, I mean all of them have beneficial abilities but they also can be negative. I think casting the pride spell on the mask could make the construction a little more resistant. However being inside the wagon might put us under the same effect as putting on a pride mask.”
You remember the last time you put one of those masks on you, not a pleasant memory.
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>>27101086
The spirit in our totem might know about putting magic in wood. Ask her where we can find such wood. We might also be able to figure out a way for the magic to not effect anyone inside the wagon.
swirl will want her story soon. better go tell her one.
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hmm, it is a bit risky, isn't it
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>>27101210
Might still come down to removing the corruption first, though.
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>>27101210
“I might know someone who knows where we can find wood for that purpose.”
There is also the wood Platinum wanted from the castle, the one in Luna’s bedroom.
Once again you consult your totem.
“Hey Brown Bark, I was thinking, do you know of any magical wood?”
>Brown Bark:”Sure, how about I tell you about it once we dealt with my problem in the forest.”
“I already promised you to do it, can’t you just tell me?”
>Brown Bark:”No can do.”
“Oh great. Anyway, Masquerade, I think it’s a good Idea as long we can figure out a way for the magic to not effect anyone inside the wagon.”
>Masquerade:”Any Idea?”
“Maybe some form of seal? By using the principles of magical flow used in alchemy circles we might be able to redirect the magic, or keep it out of the wagon completely. If White Wave knows how to store magic in crystals than we might be able to use that.”
>Masquerade:”Sounds amazing, maybe we have to sit together and work at that at some point.”
“I’ll see when I’ll find time for that, probably not till the day after tomorrow. For now I’ll have to look after the fillies, bye Masquerade.”
You walk into the inn, and up to your group’s room.
First you check your own room.
Jitter and the two fillies are here.
Somehow they moved the toy oven up here and are playing with it.
>Sachiko:”Let’s eat before you bring them to bed.”
You share what little you got with Swir, Cinny, and Sako.
It’s not really satisfying your hunger, but still nice to spend some time with the family.
After that you place the two fillies in the bed, they don’t mind sharing the same bed.
“So what kind of story would you like to hear?”
>Sand Swirl:”Not sure anything about Ghosts?”
You quickly scan through the book till you find a Ghost story, it’s a story about a friendly ghost who is searching for his shadow.
He makes friends and races against the time on the way.
The fillies fall asleep before you can finish the story, looks like they spend all their energy playing.
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>>27102461
If we're hungry go eat the chips that we have in the wagon. We can also eat those pack noodles.
If we're tired go to sleep after eating.
If we're not we can take care of that thing in the woods now and then just sleep at the library castle when we're done.
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>>27102461
Gosh they're cute! Really need to find a way to get that ring of her.
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>>27102528
“Okay, I’ll be heading out again, Sako you wanna stick around?”
>Sachiko:”I’ll stay with you for the rest of the day.”
>Jitterbug:”You leaving already? Can I join too? I would like to stretch my legs a little.”
“I guess you can come along. I will just do something in the forest.”
On the way out, you grab a bag of chips from your inventory.
Platinum and White wave are still working on that engine.
You wave them as you move past.
The flight through the forest is hard, you have to avoid some storm clouds, but with the guidance of brown bark you arrive at the clearing.
The whole sword and the ground around it are covered in thorny vines.
They are spreading from the sword to some mountain, covering it completely.
This mountain looks foreign compared to the scenery.
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>>27103560
It's times like these that I wish green was here.
Point your sword at the sword and unleash a magical fire wave. It will hopefully be that easy.
Tell us when we're done brown bark.
After that we head to the castle.
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>>27103560
I'm so curious about this
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>>27103637
You unleash your final burst of mana potion towards the sword.
The flames consume the vines and lay the sword free.
”Tell me when we are done Brown Bark.”
>Brown Bark:”Yes very good, now just pull the sword out, but you have to be fast, it will try to consume the magic inside you and grow vines out of it.”
“Wait, what? Gotta act fast in that case.”
You sprint up to the sword and grab it.
The vines start bursting out of your hooves, the pain is enormous.
Even worse the sword doesn’t even budge.
Damn you have to put all your strength in this. You rip your hoof away from the sword, and stem them against the ground.
You grip the sword with your mouth and pull with your full body strength.
The vines start to rip up your cheek but the sword finally gives in and comes out from the stone.
You try to drop it, but it’s already grown close to your head, so you yank it off with your front hooves.
That leaves your face ripped open.
Hopefully it’s just the skin, you wouldn’t want permanent scars on your face.
You hear the sound of grinding rocks coming from the mountain.
As you look at it you see a door opening.
Before you can react a ball of blue fire flies from the door and hits you.
The pain is enormous as the flames hush over your side.
You fall to the ground, rolling around to suffocate the fire.
This is bad, you are in a pretty bad condition.
As you look to the mountain again you see a skeletal pony stepping out of the door.stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27104977
Refill sword chamber with overcharge potion we presumably brought with us (It was suggested earlier), then consult your companions on whether to flee or fight.
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>>27104977
welp, it would be dangerous like that
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>>27104977
Why the hell is there a skeleton here?
Ask brown bark if they know anything about the skeleton.
Attempt to communicate with Skeleton. Like asking who they are.
Retreat is preferable
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>>27107979
skeleton is probably related to the sword
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>>27104977
Geez, that's nasty.
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So which would be better, lanika's bandages or going to our wagon, making a health potion, putting an aether in it and then drinking it?
I think we should go for lanika. It's easier, it's closer and mostly because I want to see speed's face wrapped up
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>>27104977
It's just a flesh wound
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>>27105705
>>27107979
>>27111822
You have to get out of here and get to Lanika, but you doubt that you will manage that without a fight.
“Are you okay Sako?”
>Sachiko:”I’m fine, but what about you.”
“My wing might be damaged, also my face is torn up.”
>Sachiko:”Do you have health potions with you? Is the wing so bad that you can’t run?”
“No, no health potions. About my wing, I’m not sure, I would need to stress it to know.”
Jitter jumps in front of you.
>Jitterbug:”Speed, are you okay? What is this?”
“I’m roughed up, but that won’t stop me. About that thing, no Idea, but I know who just might know about it.”
You pull out your totem.
“So Brown Bark, what is this skeleton doing here.”
She sounds happy.
>Brown Bark:”That is my master he was imprisoned in this rock for over 200 years. The sword you just removed from the stone was keeping him imprisoned. Do you know how hard it is to find someone who can cancel this sort of magic, I must thank you for that.”
Damn she tricked you.
You struggle back to your hooves and change the empty bottle in your sword for the overloaded mana potion.
“Do you guys think we should run, or fight?”
>Jitterbug:”You should get out of here, just run, I’ll try to buy you some time.”
No way you would leave one of your friends behind.
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>>27122496
I'm glad we never took her out of that totem.
We don't need to move a lot to use our flame thrower sword. If you can't lift it with your right hoof lift it with your left.
Now point and shoot and see what happens.
Bye skeleton.
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>>27122496
Coaxed into a snafu. Can't trust all the girls. Guess we've got an evil totem.
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Speed's pretty fucked up. What's the worst shape he's ever gotten into?
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>>27122763
This is probably it. While wrestling though his wing was knocked against a post.
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>>27122556
>>27122675
You try to lift your sword, luckily your legs were mostly unharmed by the fire.
“Jitter, step aside for a moment.”
She does like you told her.
You point your sword at the skeleton and fire.
A stream of white fire shoots out of the blade.
The heat is so high that your own hoof gets seared by it.
A few meters away from you the skeleton gets hit by the flame, at least it looks like that.
After the stream of fire ends you see the remaining flames getting compressed into a small ball.
The skeleton itself is completely unharmed.
For the first time the skeleton speaks.
>Skeleton:”Oh you can still stand? Interesting, the soul fire should have ignited your inner magic and burned you completely.”
He throws the fire back, but you manage to duck behind your sword.stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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well I'm glad not to be dead yet
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i had a feeling that would happen but i was hoping it wouldn't.
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>>27125220
It can always get worse
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>>27124238
we have two choices. run now. or splitting up from jitter and come at the skeleton from two directions.
we can also start drawing a circle and make a mirror and bring hekate into this.
I'm personally for splitting up and attacking from two directions.
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>>27124238
I suggest a tactical retreat. Head back to get ourselves fixed up and more prepared.
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>>27127469
what if he follows? he's loose now
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>>27127469
I want to retreat too but I also don't want an evil skeleton walking around on my conscious.
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>>27130171
if we die we have no conscience
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>>27130772
yeah there aren't many scenarios I can imagine where we win this.
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what can we do to get help
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>>27131874
make a mirror, call out to hekate, have her take us to ponyville while she and jitter keep an eye on the skeleton, bring platinum and masquerade and run to the mirror in town.
Call out hekate again, ( i hope she doesn't have to be on our side to open the mirror) she opens the portal again and we jump in and now it's 5 on 1.
we can also make an invisibility potion and health potion while we're in town.
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>>27131958
If you want to make a potion say which ingredients you want.
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>>27132131
good thing we got those basic ingredients recently.
Lumen+humus= health potion + aether added
drink as soon as it's made.
make another two for others just in case.
effigia + ventus=invisibility + aether added
put magical fire gem away and the plushie.
aqua+ventus= agility potion+ aether for jitter.
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>>27127469
>>27130171
>>27130772
>>27131764
>>27131958
>>27132172
This is bad, really bad, you can’t fight in this condition.
The thought of a skeleton just running around wildly, makes you uneasy, but you rather live to fight this thing another day than to die here.
After all Swirl is waiting for you at the inn.
You quickly draw a transmutation circle on the ground, and activate it to create a mirror.
Right in time for it to block a blue fireball that was thrown at you.
Luckily the mirror is unaffected by the fire.
You call out for Hekate as Jitter dodges another fireball that was meant for her.
The mirror starts to glow just as yet another fireball gets hurled at you.
It flies right into the mirror.
Damn, your really hope that didn’t hurt Hekate.
You see a flash of light right next to the skeleton, a moment later, Hekate is standing right next to it, a sword in her mouth, piercing through the skeletons body.
“Hey great to see you Hekate, could you please open a portal to ponyville? I’ll get reinforcements and some more supplies.”
Another flash and she stands next to you.
Is her hair singed?
>Hekate:”You look pretty bad, just go through the portal.”
“Thanks. Jitter please help her keeping an eye on that thing.”
You turn around and pass through the mirror as a fireball straight up flies through Hekate’s magical shield.
Back in ponyville you limb back to the inn as fast as you can, your wing isn’t able to lift you anymore.
In the inn you burst into Platinum’s room and rouse her up.
>Platinum Nut:”Speed, what happened to you?”
You only manage to pant out the basics.
“Evil Skeleton in the forest. Need help. Get weapons.”
>Platinum Nut:”Uh, alright.”
Next one is Masquerade, this time you have a little more breath to describe the situation.
Masquerade:”Alright, just let me heal you, I might not be as good as Lanika, but at least it will patch you back up a little. ”
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>>27132676
You give them the full story as you prepare some potions.
First a Healing potion for which you take the basic ingredients.
You throw a piece of aether in it to overload the thing, right before you drink it.
It feels good, the pain in your hoof and Wings is eased.
You make another two for the other just in case.
Next thing you make an invisibility potion, which you also overload.
Last you make an overloaded agility potion for Jitter.
Resupplied and with new allies you make your way back to the mirror.
You prepare for the worst as you step through it.
The clearing is a battlefield, mirrors are sticking out of the ground, some parts of the rock have been turned into reflecting surfaces.
The grass on the ground is mostly burned.
On the ground lies what you suppose to be the racks of the skeletons robe, it looks like they just went through a shredder.
You don’t see any skeleton, only Jitter and Hekate who are standing next to each other.
They are partially covered in sooth and Hekate’s hair was burned down to a shorter cut.
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>>27132686
Wow. I'm speechless. I thought they would have been stronger then that.
Ask if they're ok. do they need a health potion or a heal from masquerade? Give jitter a hug. Thank hekate for the help. Offer invisibility potion for calling her suddenly. Maybe she can find a use for it in her future. We were going to use it in the fight anyway.
ask brown bark where the magical wood is since were here in the forest anyway. our part of the deal has been completed.
let's go back to the inn and apologize for calling masquerade and platinum for nothing. We can just go to bed now.
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>>27132778
Wow.
That is surprising, yes you took some time to finish up those potions, but you expected the skeleton to be stronger.
“Hey girls, are you okay?”
Jitterbug:”I’m fine, most of the fireballs only brushed me.”
>Hekate:”My hair, it’s a total mess. Do you know how long it took to grow it to this size. Though seriously, I’m mostly fine. My philosopher's stone broke, but at least no one was hurt to badly.”
“I’m sorry about your stone. I know it’s not of equal value, but you can have my invisibility potion.”
>Hekate:”Well I’m sure I might come across a situation where it will come in handy, thank you.”
You give her the potion.
>Hekate:”If you don’t mind, I will search his cave for anything useful, liches tent to collect some rare stuff.”
“Yeah sure, could you please leave the portal open for a moment?”
You pull out the totem.
“So where is this magical wood you told me about.”
She is suddenly very timid .
>Brown Bark:”you can use any of the woods that grow in this forest, they all have magical properties.”
“Sorry everyone for wasting your time.”
>Masquerade:”How about you invite us to some dinner as a form of amend, nothing too fancy of course.”
>Platinum Nut:”You don’t need to do that.”
You step back to through the portal and arrive back in Ponyville, where you walk straight back to the inn.
You don’t waste too much time and go to bed.
The wounds still hurt a little, but you fall asleep rather quickly.
You begin to dream.
In your dream the moon speaks to you.
>Moon:”Little Pony, I have come to ask you a question. How did you met the filly Cinnamon Sweets?”
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>>27133474
uh, what's happening?
Answer the moon. I met her in a basement, in a house in the everfree forest that belonged to a bad pony.
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>>27133474
Easily answered, I suppose
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>>27133520
>>27133668
“I found her in a basement, in a house in the everfree forest. The house belonged to a bad pony.”
>Moon:”Where is that house?”
The floor below you transforms into a map of the everfree.
“Well it was here, you point at the place where you found lucky's home.”
>Moon:”I have to thank you Speed, you might just have saved a lot of fillies.”
“Uh thanks, moon.”
The moon bursts open and princess Luna appears.
>Luna:”It was me princess Luna, if you haven’t already realized. What are your plans for Cinnamon Sweets?”
“I wanted to make sure that her hoof is treated correctly, then I would probably left her at the orphanage here in ponyville.”
>Luna:”I will send you some of my personal guard who will take care of her. Say what happened to this bad pony you spoke about?”stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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well that's one relief
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You thought it was the moon talking to you but it was actually ME, Luna!
Not sure if we should tell the truth but I can't lie to Luna so let's just say " Oh, we dealt with him and he won't be a problem for anypony anymore."
We have someone with a spell that let's you track the fillies from the rings they're wearing and they should be writing an anonymous letter with their locations on it. The spell should also still be at the house.
Ask Luna if she has received any letters recently from somepony named "sand swirl" and if it would be possible for her to write a response that her personal guard can bring when they pick up cinnamon. Please.
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>>27134118
We made him "un-alive."
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something else i wanna ask is how she's doing. we're asking for a friend who used to work at her castle 1000 years ago and is a ghost.
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Sorry no session today, lost track of time playing videa.
Will continue tomorrow.
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>>27142524
see you tomorrow
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>>27134541
>>27135506
>>27135781
>>27136418
“It’s really a relief to know that she will be in good hooves. About the pony, I kinda made him uh, un-alive.”
>Luna:”I see. Be warned Speed Thrust, I can understand your action, but such vigilante acts will only lead you to despair.”
“Well, I know someone with a spell that let’s you track the other fillies, they should write you a letter with their locations on it.”
>Luna:”Very well, thank you for that too, I will watch the mail extra carefully.”
“Talking about mail, did you receive a letter from somepony named Sand Swirl?”
>Luna:”Oh yes, your little daughter, I visited her dream earlier to thank her for the letter. Then she told me about Cinnamon Sweets, which was the reason I visited you. She is a very nice filly.”
“Yes, she really is. So how are you doing? I’m asking for a friend who used to work at your castle 1000 years ago, she now is a ghost.”
>Luna:”Oh a pony from that time still remains? Tell her that I’m fine, and that I would love to meet her personally.”
>Luna:”Fine, Speed Thrust if you have nothing else to ask me I’ll let you rest for the remaining night. Two ponies of the night guard will visit you tomorrow evening.”
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>>27150888
I guess we can give the gem to the guards as well. Or would luna have time to come with them if she wants to meet white wave? She's kind of bound to it.
Does she know anything about fighting wendigos?
That's the only thing I can think of to ask.
Bow to Luna and wish her a good evening.
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>>27150937
this is good for me
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>>27150937
“If you want to meet White Wave should we hand her gem over to your guards? She is bound to that thing. Or would you have time to come with them if you want to meet her?”
>Luna:”I will give them a letter for her, with that she should be able to get to my private rooms.”
“Do you know anything about fighting Wendigos, Luna?”
>Luna:”The fire of friendship can be interpreted either figuratively or literally. Fire will hurt them, I remember the pact we agreed with the dragons. Their fire helped us secure the borders of the north. Harmony and friendship will keep them away from you, but as long you don’t have anything to channel the harmony you won’t be able to hurt them.”
You bow before the princess of the night.
“Thank you for your time Luna, I wish you a good evening.”
Your dream consciousness fades, and you return back to harmless dreams.
The next morning you are woken by Swirl.
She is hopping next to your bed.
>Sand Swirl:”Daddy, Daddy, guess who visited me last night.”
“Uh, let me guess… Princess Luna?”
It seems like she is surprised at your answer.
>Sand Swirl:”How did you knew that?”
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>>27151680
It was a lucky guess! Did you enjoy talking with her? Let's go take swirl to the bathroom and then have some breakfast.
after that head to the library and ask if they have a book on how to treat poison joke.
Then we can head to the castle one last time.
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>>27151759
“Oh just a lucky guess. Did you enjoy talking to her?”
>Sand Swirl:”Yes very much, sadly I didn’t get an autograph from her.”
“Who knows maybe you’ll have another chance someday.”
>Sand Swirl:”That would be awesome!”
“So how about we each take a shower and then have some breakfast.”
>Sand Swirl:”Alright Daddy.”
>Cinnamon Sweets:”C-can I come too?”
“Ofcourse.”
You hop out of the bed.
The burns aren’t hurting anymore, your wing also seems to be just fine again.
You take the fillies to the bathroom.
>Cinnamon Sweets:”Will you help me shower like uncle Lucky did?”
Probably not exactly like Lucky ‘helped’ her.
“Uh- How about this, you do what you can and if you need help I’ll assist you.
>Sand Swirl:”Let me help her Daddy!”
“Well if you are so eager.”
Everyone showers without any major troubles.
Breakfast also goes normal till Platinum shows up.
>Platinum Nut:”Good morning Speed, I need your help with the new engine. Can you make a potion or liquid that conducts magic? A little like a mana potion.”
“Sorry I don’t know how I would create such a thing.”
>Platinum Nut:”Maybe the librarian knows about it. I wanted to pay her a visit today.”
“Hey, that is where I wanted to head next. What else did you want to get from there?”
>Platinum Nut:”I wanted to learn where I could find some gems around here in ponyville. Read something up on how magic is influenced through symbols and circles. Maybe they have a book that tells me how I can transform magical energy into electricity, or physical energy.”
“Alright, looks like you got some magic on your mind. Where is White Wave?”
>Platinum Nut:”She is keeping an eye on the wagon.”
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You finish breakfast and head to the library together with Platinum, Swirl and Cinny stay with the others.
A unicorn opens the door for you.
>Twilight Sparkle:”Oh hello, you must be new in town, my name is Twilight Sparkle how can I help you?”
“Do you happen to have a cure for poison joke?”
>Twilight Sparkle:”Sure, I have this book called Supernaturals that contains a cure for it. Oh, there was this one time where me and my friends were affected by poison joke and…”
She tells you the story how she and her friends were afraid of a zecora, and she ignored the book because of it’s name, while getting the book.
The little lizard thing is also here.
>?:”Uh Twilight, this guy already rented a book.”
>Twilight Sparkle:”Oh really? Sorry, you can only rent one book at a time.”
“I don’t really need the book, I just need the recipe on how to cure the poison joke.”
She gives you the recipe, it’s a bath additive. You’ll need some tried fern, spruce bark, pink berries found from special bushes in the everfree, and the pedestals of a daisy for it.
>Twilight Sparkle:”They should have an already prepared mixture at the spaa.”
After she is done with you, the unicorn moves on to Platinum, it seems like they are caught up in nerdish magic and engineering talk.
Surely they wouldn't mind if you left.
Anything you want to visit before you leave for the castle?
2/2stopping for now, will continue Sunday. Have a nice weekend.
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>>27152862
go buy the mixture at the spa because screw collecting it.
we should also give a heads up to masquerade or jitter and tell them that guards are going to show up to take cinny. I wish luna gave us a time instead of "tomorrow." after that we can leave town.
on the way to the castle though we need to make one more stop.
have brown bark guide you to where she said the river serpent would be. We're getting that fang!
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>last reply 7 hours ago
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Wut
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>>27153562
gonna have to be wary
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bumping to the top
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>>27153562
You decide to pay the spa a visit, it’s better if you just buy it than collecting the mixture.
After asking the spa ponies happily give you the mixture for the low price of 20 bits .
Next you move back to the Inn where you tell Masquerade and Jitter about your dream, and how guards will show up to take Cinny.
Finally you leave for the forest.
On your way you consult Brown Bark.
“So, now guide me to this river serpent you told me about earlier.”
Her voice is faint and fearful.
>Brown Bark:”What are you going to do with me now?”
“Eh? I’ll have to think about it. Just show me where the serpent is and you will be safe, for now.”
She agrees without further complains.
The path she shows you leads away from the castle, through a ravine.
She leads you along a small trickle, which grows bigger and bigger as you continue.
Once you leave the ravine it has turned into a wild torrent.
>Brown Bark:”It’s living in here.”
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>>27179282
I was just going to leave her in that totem honestly. Maybe give it to zecora since she lives in the everfree and it might be useful for her. She could also loan her to ponies.
We need to get it out of the water. Jump on the bump and then fly up.
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>>27179443
You consider just keeping brown bark in this totem, maybe this zebra zecora could make use of her.
She tried to betray you, so whatever is fine with you.
Seems like this river serpent is hiding in the river, but you might be able to get her out by jumping on that strange looking bump.
You proceed with your plan.
Joyfully you jump on the thing and let out a skittish bump.
The serpent rises from the water.
It has pretty styled hair.
>Serpent:”Oh my, what is this sudden assault? You are disrupting my beauty sleep.”
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>>27180327
Apologize for waking him and then compliment him. He looks great!
Tell him we're an alchemist on a journey to collect certain ingredients and one of those is a serpents tooth. Would he be able to provide one and if not point you in the right direction?
Do serpents have baby teeth? Do they fall out and regrow like a sharks?
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>>27180327
Oh, whoops, our mistake
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>>27180377
>>27180546
“Sorry for waking you. I’m sure you will be fine without the beauty sleep, you like great!”
>Serpent:”Oh thank you. I have to say that you look good too.”
“Well, thanks. So I’m an alchemist on a journey to collect certain ingredients. One of those is a sea serpent's tooth. Would you be able to provide one, or point me in the right direction?”
>Serpent:”A tooth? Losing a tooth would ruin my fabulous look.”
“Do serpents have baby teeth? Or do they regrow like sharks?”
>Serpent:”Yes indeed they regrow if broken off. Sorry I don’t know of other sea serpents.”
“Is there nothing you would part a tooth for? I mean it would regrow anyway.”
>Serpent:”You see I once meet a pony that was so generous to me, I will give you the tooth but only if you can bring me an adequate replacement for the tooth.”
Well at least something.
“How about a glass tooth?”
>Serpent:”Glass? I’m sorry, but it needs to be something that you can’t look through.”stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27181004
would glass be ok if we glued gems onto the front?
we could even put a little design on it like a letter or a smiley face.
Ask what he would consider "adequate" so that we have a place to look or start.
Thank the serpent for his time and we will be back soon.
Now let's go to the castle and see how numb and lanika are.
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we need to make a stop to sugarcube corner.
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>>27181004
Perhaps we could find a white granite stone and shape it properly, or have a replacement made by a smith?
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>>27182846
>>27185032
“So what would you consider adequate?”
>Serpent:”I don’t know, something white and solid.”
“What if I glued gems to the front of the glass? That would look good, wouldn’t it? I could even add a design.”
>Serpent:”Gems? Now that would be adequate.”
“Okay, that is one option. What if I gave you a properly shaped granite stone?”
>Serpent:”I guess that would work too.”
“Alright, thanks for your time. I will be back soon”
You leave for the castle.
In the main hall you see your friends starting to pack things into the provisional fixed wagon.
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>>27188238
I was also thinking of giving him a glass tooth covered in gold food spray. or that gold powder the crusaders used in "one bad apple"
say hi to everyone and asked what happened to goat. Is he still acting odd?
Hairstyle says yes.
Give him some water and have him drink the cure for poison joke.
Ask what you missed and tell numb that you did many things yesterday and apologize for not being here.
You can help pack though. Did the guy end up paying?
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>>27188238
Treat the goat with the poison joke remedy.
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>>27188298
>>27188514
You greet the adventurer group.
“Is the goat still acting odd?”
>Lanika:”Yep, we tied him up, but he chewed through the bandages.”
“Don’t worry I got the cure for his condition. I only need some water.”
Lanika provides the water and you throw some of the mixture into it.
After this you force the mixture down his throat.
“So what did I miss?”
>Lanika:”Not much, some Rats sneaked in our camp and ate most of our supplies.”
“Oh damn, sorry for not being here. I did many things yesterday.”
>Lanika:”I’m sure you did.”
“I can help you get back though, did the guy pay yet?”
>Numb Nut:”Only Cleo, we others get our money once we are back in ponyville.”
>Griffon:”Considering how distracted the guy was most of the time you could just claim that you were here all the time.”
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>>27189321
that would be dishonest, though we can get paid for one day since we healed cleo and I'm sure she is helpful.
well then when are you planning on leaving?
Let's draw a mirror so that hekate can help us come back here later and we can get the books!
we can also just hang out with our friends. Ask numb and lanika what they thought of this little adventure to the castle. Tell them that we had a dream and spoke to luna. what are they planning on doing with the money they got.
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Stopping for now, sorry I hit a little depression slump, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27189659oh no, I hope you feel better soon Alchemy!thanks for running
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>>27189659
stay strong alchemy. wish you the best.
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>>27189539
“That would be dishonest. Though maybe I just take the money for one day, after all I healed Cleo and I’m sure she was helpful.”
Did he just turn a little red?
>Griffon:”Of course, you are too good for that.”
“So when were you planning on leaving?”
>Lanika:“Once we packed all the books. We should be done soon.”
“Alright, let me just draw one little circle, then we can hang out.”
You draw a circle and transmute a circle in the main hall.
Back to your friends.
“So what do you think about this little adventure to the caste?”
>Numb Nut:”It was fun, I had the chance to stand on my own feet and try the adventuring.”
>Lanika:”It was fine, but I felt like you had forgotten us.”
“Yeah sorry about that, I was kinda busy. Also I thought that It would be a nice way for Numb to experience his own adventure, without my help. I still checked on you regularly to see if you need help or not.”
>Lanika:”I guess you kinda did that...”
“By the way Princess Luna visited my dream.”
>Numb Nut:”Interesting, what did you talk about?”
“Uh, stuff. I will tell you later. So what will you do with the money?”
>Lanika:”Save it for later, also pay for my room.”
>Numb Nut:”I don’t know, maybe invest in some equipment.”
>Cleo:”Alright everyone we got all the books, and the bookworm. I think you are ready to leave. I guess this is where our ways part.”
“What do you mean?”
>Cleo:”I’ll stay at the castle, you know it’s a sphinx thing.”
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>>27197047
We should hang out with lanika tonight.
Numb can sell his old equipment when he gets his new one too.
Tell cleo we still have a little left to do in the castle so maybe we'll see her later. Where will she be staying? How long is she going to stay here for?
Let's leave with the group and guide them through the forest.
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>>27197047
I wouldn't mind learning more about sphinx things but we don't have time for it now
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>>27197113
Maybe you should spend some time with Lanika later tonight.
“I still have a few things to do in the castle so maybe I’ll see you later. Where will you be staying and for how long?”
>Cleo:”I think this would make an excellent home. For how long? Well that depends how long it takes till I get bored of this place. I think I’ll look for a comfy room, maybe one of the princesses’ old bedrooms.”
“Nice maybe we see each other later, bye.”
You leave with the group and begin to venture through the forest.
Shortly before you reach the clearing through which you reached the forest, you hear the muffled voice of brown bark from coming from your saddlebag.
You pull the totem out.
“What do you want?”
>Brown Bark:”You shouldn’t go through there, there is a pack of timberwolves on that clearing.”
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>>27197786
Thanks brown bark.
Alright then let's go around them. Does the monster book say anything about timberwolves Lanika?
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>>27197831
“Thanks brown bark, I guess I have to go around it then.”
But the only other way is the path that leads to the broken bridge and the pond with the crackadile in it.
You also doubt that you would be able to lift the wagon alone.
“Anything about Timberwolves in the monster book, Lanika?”
>Lanika:”... Here, Timberwolves are close to unbeatable, every time you break their body they rebuild it after a short time period. Escape is advisable, should there be no means of escape fire might sow effect. The only way to truly kill a Timberwolf is by destroying the magic it is possessed by.”
>Brown Bark:”Back when we met, your sword managed to burn the magic inside the Timberwolves. ”
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>>27198209
Alright, we're going through them! Let's drink some of the agility potion and try to take those wolves out. We'll get to find out how effective it is! Let's live up to the name SPEED!
better give numb the fire breathing potion just in case though.
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>>27198227
It's always coming back to timber wolves
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>>27198227
“Alright I’ll take care of these wolves.”
You toss the fire breathing potion to Numb.
“You’ll stay back and keep things under control, alright?”
>Numb Nut:”Sure, I’ll give my best.”
You walk through the cut down path.
>Brown Bark:”If I still had my old body I could control them. I mean in this state I might be able to take two out of the fight.”
You are not sure if you can trust her, rather not have her jump you once she has control over these wolves.
“I rather take them out myself.”
Time to give this agility potion a test run.
You take a quick sip as you enter the clearing
There are six wolves around that rock, where you encountered the elder pony on your way to the castle.
You decide to go head first into it, charging at the first wolf.
The Speed you are moving in is incredible, the background just blurs into a stream of color as you dash forward.
With your accelerated speed, you mow the creature down. It bursts into blue flames as you drive your sword into it’s body.
Another wolf tries to jump you, for you it’s like he is moving in slow motion.
Without problems you manage to dodge, bringing some space between you and the remaining wolves.
The next wolf falls to your blade seconds later, followed by another one.
You starting to feel tired and cachectic.
No, there are still 4 wolves left, you can’t just collapse.
In the few seconds you needed to catch your breath again another one of the timberwolves jumps at you.
You manage to dodge barely, its claws scratch up your flank.
In return you strike him down with your sword, splitting him in two and ignite a small blue flame.
You feel the potion starting to lose it’s power, this was nearly not as long as you hoped it to last.
With the last bit of speed you jump back away from the wolves.topping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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there appears to be a problem.
We started with six wolves and then we killed one then two more and then finally the last one we killed to a total of four. There should just be two left.
Unless another one popped up that we missed.
We should give bark permission to try and take out the two wolves she promised. If that doesn't work we can always fire blast one of them.
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>>27200022
gotta be careful on their turf
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>>27198942
"OK, Bark, I give you permission to control these beasts!" while falling back toward Lanika. Considering what the potion's taken out of you already, I don't think drinking any more of it soon is a good idea unless it's a dire emergency.
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after this we'll get a sandwich at subhay.
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>>27203290
5 bit footlong
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>>27200022I see, my fault for wording it wrong.
>>27201612
>>27202381
“Okay, Bark, I give you the permission to take control over the remaining two.”
You pull out the totem and channel the your energy, just like you did with the ghosts back in the tournament.
The eyes of the wolves start to glow brighter and they stop moving.
This gives you the opportunity to retreat.
As you walk backwards you can see the wolves retreating too.
You walk back to your friends, while you pass the trees your stomach growls.
Those leaves look really tasty.
You shake your head, not now.
Why are you so hungry?
Yes, you didn’t eat too much the last couple of days, but you had breakfast today.
Finally you reach your friends again.
>Lanika:”What happend speed, are you okay?”
She rushes to you and starts to look at your scratch.
“I’m just very exhausted, that is all.”
>Lanika:”Exhausted? This thing is just a scratch. Are you sleeping enough?”
“I’m sleeping better than four days ago.”
>Lanika:”So no? I mean the nightly trip with the princess might have cost you some sleep.”
“I was fine this morning.”
>Lanika:”Really? Mh do you eat enough?”
“Uh, well I kinda forget it from time to time, but I usually eat a big breakfast. I feel hungry right now.”
>Lanika:”I guess that is it, either that or you might got an infection from those mimic bites.”
“I hope not.”
>Lanika:”For now I say we go get some food right after we are back in ponyville.”
“How about a sandwich at subhay?”
>Lanika:”Make it three for you, and one for me.”
“That is a lot.”
>Lanika:”Your body needs nourishment, and somepony has to keep an eye on you.”
>Griffon:”So is the path clear?”
“Yes, I got rid of four of them and the other two left.”
>Griffon:”I knew you could do it.”
You continue your travel, Lanika insists to either carry you or put you on the wagon.
Since you don’t want to stress her anymore than necessary you choose the wagon.
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>>27206360
yeah let's get the others. They could use a bite to eat too. let's get a hayball sandwich with toasted bread and cheese.
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>>27206348
Without further problems you reach ponyville.
Looks like it’s time for payroll.
The hooded pony gives everyone 300 bits.
>?:”For you I thought about 200 bits, since you helped us get there, set up the camp, find the library, and helped us back to ponyville, but you were missing most of the time yesterday, and during the nights. Also 100 bits for your earth pony friend who helped us get to the castle.”
The payment seems adequate for you.
You accept.
With this your job is done, great.
So according to Lanika it’s time for some food, do you want to get the others from the inn?
Masquerade did speak about being invited to dinner for causing trouble yesterday evening.
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we could at least see if masquerade will elaborate but let's see the gang
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>>27206478
Amazing to finally be done! It's definitely a well-deserved celebration time.
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>>27206389
It’s best to see the gang.
You walk back to the Inn.
Lanika stays close by your side, the whole way through the busy streets of ponyville.
After a while you arrive back at the inn.
Looks like, Platinum and Lollipop who according to Masquerade had a free day went out to search for crystals.
Jitter is keeping an eye on the wagon, not much has changed.
You take Sako, Swirl, Cinny, Lanika and Masquerade to the sandwich shop.
Numb decides to stay and take a shower.
You reach the subhay store, it seems like they are celebrating the opening of the 500th store in equestria.
It’s not to full, just two guys sitting in the corner, one of them seems to ramble that this place has sold out by now.
You don’t pay too much attention.
Time to order, You get a nineteen inches hayball sandwich with toasted bread and cheese, as sauce you take mayonnaise.
Lannika looks straight in your eyes, her look is very firm.
“Uh make that three instead of one.”
You help Swirl order, she takes half a fried mushroom sandwich with honey oat bread and cheddar cheese, as sauce she picks the sweet onion.
Cinny just takes the same thing as Swirl.
>Sachiko:”I’ll just take a few bites from yours.”
Seems like Lanika does not complain about that.
Next one to order is Lanika, then Masquerade.
Both of them expect you to pay for them, which you happily do.
It’s totally okay to give such good friends some sandwiches.
You make menus out of every order and get some cookies as side order.
It amounts to 55 bits.
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>>27207340
At a random table in the local you start to dig in.
“Hey Swirl, Look daddy is going to eat three sandwiches in a row!”
>Sand Swirl:”Watch out daddy, or your tummy might start to hurt.”
“Don’t worry it was the nurse's order.”
>Lanika:”Yeah, I’m sure your daddy will be fine. Say who is your new friend Swirl?”
>Sand Swirl:”Her name is Cinnamon Sweets, and daddy said she can stay with us for a while. He took her from her Uncle Lucky, who lived in the everfree.”
You nearly choke on your sandwich, Lanika doesn’t know about Uncle Lucky.
>Lanika:”Oh is that so, Speed anything you might want to add?”
>Sachiko:”It’s alright, Uncle Lucky wasn’T able to provide for her anymore. Trust me this story has time for later.”
Sako glances shortly at the fillies while saying the last bit.
Lanika keeps her eyes locked on you.
>Lanika:”I see, maybe we’ll have some time for that later, when nothing else is bothering us.”
Now that you are gathered here together with your friends and family, is there anything you would want to talk about?
2/2stopping for now, will continue tomorrow
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ask masquerade if platinum took your pickaxe to make the digging for crystals easier. They're sometimes in rocks right?
tell your friends about the cool movie you saw with sako yesterday. They should think about watching it too.
might be too scary for swirl though.
We can ask what they think about going to the crystal empire and then if they would like to come further north with us.
Either of them have an interest in going to the griffin lands?
Tell masquerade you heard the wood in the everfree is very magical, maybe the two of you should go out there with an axe?
we can also go talk to the deer about high quality wood. would she be interested in that?
does anyone know where a bakery is?
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>>27208440
“So Masquerade,did Platinum take my pickaxe for the digging? Sometime crystals are in rocks, right?”
>Masquerade:”She wanted to give her new power bucker a try. Also since the have White Wave they can just search for crystals in the ground.”
“So yesterday me and Sako watched that movie, it was great! You should think about watching it too.”
>Sand Swirl:”You went watching a movie without me?”
>Sachiko:”Sometimes parents have to spend some time just by themselves.”
>Masquerade:”What was the movie about?”
“A family that got attacked by spirits, so they are forced to run from their home.”
>Masquerade:”Mh, doesn’t sound too bad, maybe I’ll give it a try later on.”
>Lanika:”Yeah I’d give it a try, Masquerade maybe we should watch it together?”
>Masquerade:”Aww yeah, girls night. We can go to a bar and see how many drinks we can get from the stallions!”
>Lanika:”Might be neat.”
“Masquerade, the wood in the everfree is supposed to be very magical, maybe you could go there with an axe?”
>Masquerade:”Isn’t this like your and Platinum’s wagon? I mean I have nothing against helping a friend, but going out there alone to cut some lumber, is a little too much.”
“Of course I would help you.”
>Masquerade:”I guess we could do it then.”
“Maybe some of the deers in the whitetail woods know about some high quality wood. They were using armor and weapons made out of wood.”
>Masquerade:”The whitetail is further away than the everfree, we also have to remember that we need to transport the wood back to the inn.”
“Huh yeah, you are right, maybe I could get a deer to help us identify some good wood in the everfree.”
“So does anyone know where a baker is?”
>Lanika:”A dessert?”
>Sand Swirl:”Cake and sweets?”
“I wanted to see what they have in store, maybe If I feel like getting some dessert.”
>Masquerade:”There is this one building, looks like a candy house straight out of a fairy tale.”
“Thank you masquerade.”
You finish your sandwiches.
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>>27213739
“Well then let’s check out this candy house place.”
You leave the subhay store, Lanika leaves for the inn.
A short walk through the streets of ponyville later, you arrive at the bakery.
It really looks like someone put a giant gingerbread house here.
As you step inside a bell rings, within seconds a pink earth pony dashes around you to the counter.
>?:”Hello to sugarcube corner, are you new in town? Youmustarrivedherewhenmeandmyfriendswerebusydealingwiththattempleathorseshoebay. Youshouldhaveseenthatgianthumanlikethingitwasallstrangeandhadtentaclesandstuff. OhIwassoscaredand... then…. andthen.”
Is this a pony or a word machine gun?
>?:”Anyway, my name is Pinkie Pie, how can I help you?”
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>>27213750
Ask for 5 cupcakes and 5 cans of gold food spray since the river serpent is pretty big.
Thank Pinkie for helping you and then let's go back to the river.
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this one sems like a character alright
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>>27213850
“I would like 5 cupcakes and 5 cans of gold food spray.”
>Sand Swirl:”Can I have a cupcake too daddy?”
“Just wait Swirl, I’m sure there will be one for you left.”
>Pinkie Pie:”Aww she is so cute, here take this it’s on the house, but remember to share it with your friend.”
The pink earth pony gives swirl a sugar glazed cupcake
>Sand Swirl:”Thank you miss Pinkie Pie.”
She runs back to Cinny with the cupcake.
“You know, that teaches her that her good looks get her things.”
>Pinkie Pie:”I’m sure one cupcake won’t cause any harm.”
She finishes of pack of cupcakes and the food spray.
>Pinkie Pie:”That would be 25 bits, please.”
You pay her and take the cupcakes and the spray.
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>>27214304
Let's go to the inn and get our pick axe. After that we go to platinum and help her with gem collection + get some ourselves.
Let's also ask to borrow her glue gem.
We can also ask white wave how the glue gem works exactly.
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>>27214324
white wave should know more than we've asked
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>>27214324
>>27214324
You get ready to leave, as swirl speaks up to you.
>Sand Swirl:“Daddy, it is okay to eat this, right?”
“Yeah sure.”
She turns back to Cinny
>Sand Swirl:”See, told you.”
“I think next we should take a short stop at the inn, and then look for Platinum and the others with her.”
>Masquerade:”FIne, I’ll be staying at the inn.”
At the inn you just quickly grab your pickaxe and con…
“Masquerade, do you know where she exactly went to?”
>Masquerade:”Rambling Rock Ridge, it’s in the north.”
You continue to the Rambling Rock Ridge.
It’s a decently long walk, but you play some I spy with my little eye with the two fillies and Sako, so it doesn’t feel so long.
The ambiance on the way is nice, you pass a little non spooky forest and then the Ridge lies in front of you.
Swirl is the first one to Spot Platinum and Lollipop.
You approach them.
“Hey, how is it going?”
>Platinum Nut:”So far so good, we already got a decent amount of jems.”
Lollipop shows you a half filled basket of gems.
“Very nice, I was thinking if you might need some help, I brought my pickaxe.”
>Platinum Nut:”That is very good, we weren’t able to get all of the gems, White Wave found since we don’t have the means to dig stuff out. I mean we can smash rocks but not dig anything.”
“Just point me where I have to dig.”
>Platinum Nut:”We have to wait till White Wave shows up again.”
Talking of which she just phases up through the ground.
>White Wave:”I found some rather low lying gems around this big rock. Oh hey Speed.”
“So Platinum could I borrow your glue gem?”
>Platinum Nut:”Sure, feel free.”
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>>27215066
“Nice, thanks. So White Wave could you tell me how that gem works exactly?”
>White Wave:”There is spell stored inside the gem. Thanks to the structure of a gem, it can store magic just fine, if it’s polished by someone who knows how to do it right, it can release or recast the spell inside of it just as easy. All you need is a magical source to activate the spell. The magic of said source, let’s say a pony, will flow through the gem and the spell get’s recasted. Inside the glue gem there is a spell that makes whichever surface it touches stick to the first thing that hits the surface. Since the magical flows moves away from you it shouldn’t make you sticky. However you should still be careful when using it, otherwise you need to find something to remove an enchantment or magic.”
“Okay thank you, You would show me how it works if I had problems right?”
>White Wave:”Of course.”
You move to that rock White Wave mentioned.
Behind said rock you spot a familiar face.
2/2stopping for now, will continue sunday. Have a nice weekend.
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>>27215079
say hi to rover and ask who his friend is. you're out here looking for gems. how about both of us helping each other?
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Alch u faget
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we should try practicing using the stone on rocks. let's do that when we're done getting gems
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>>27224184
that's a useful idea
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now we can start digging.
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>>27224184
>>27224184
>>27240499
“Hi Rover, who is this friend of you.“
>?:”You know these ponies?”
>Rover:”No, no, this cannot be! Not you again!”
“I’m looking for some gems, how about we help each other.”
>Rover:”No, I had enough help from you! Common Spot we are out of here.”
>?:”Uhh, oka-”
Rover picks up the small dog and runs off.
Well at least he is doing good.
White Wave shows you the exact spot where the gems are supposed to be.
You begin to strike the earth and after a short while you find them.
A good amount of gems in all colors, they look very shiny.
Perfect for the serpent's tooth.
Your little ghost pony friend already went to search for the next batch of gems.
You continue this for a while till Lollipop’s basket and your pockets are full.
“Hey Platinum could you give me your glue gem right now? I want to test something.”
>Platinum Nut:”Sure, here.”
She tosses the blue gem to you.
Under White Waves supervision you test the abilities of the gem.
Luckily, thanks to your digging, there are enough rocks to experiment on.
You glue together stone per stone, trying to stack them.
It works quite well, until you accidentally touch one of the sticky made gems.
The stone immediately adheres to your hoof.
You try to get it off, but it sticks very tight to your skin.
>White Wave:”Now you will have to find a way to cancel the magic.”
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>>27241527
So how do we do that? I know that human dew eats magic. Does anything else? Can we draw a circle and disenchant the rock?
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>>27241527
use subtraction on the rock? Maybe it works the same way? Push your magic towards it. If that doesn't work we can have a rock on our hoof for awhile.
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>>27241527
nice job speed
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>>27241565
>>27241577
"Right, but how would I do that?"
Maybe If you used your alchemy…
Is there a way to use subtraction? You’d need to use the rock in a combination first to subtract it…
You try to push the magic against the rock, just like how you would activate a circle… Nothing.
Maybe if you’d try to transmute this rock into another substance, the rock should contain some faint traces of humus, you might be able to transmute that, but being so close to a transmutation circle might hurt your hoof.
Sako breaks your thinking progress.
>Sachiko:”What about that magic cleaner we bought from the shaman? Wouldn’t this exactly what it was made for?”
“I thought it was something on the lines of magical bleach, but you might be right.”
>Sachiko:”Just don’t drink it, ”
Both the transmutation and the magic cleaner seem like plausible plans.
You’ll need aether for the one thing and the cleaner is in your box at the inn, anyway.
>Sand Swirl:”Maybe if we smashed the rock!”
“I’m afraid that wouldn’t work, sweety. Smashing it would break it apart, but not get it off.”
>Sand Swirl:”Can’t you just stick more rocks to you and make an armor out of it? Wait, no don’t do that daddy, that way your hugs would all be hard and rocky.”
“Alright Swirl. I think it would be best to return to the inn for now.”
>White Wave:”I’m sorry Speed I should have told you to be more careful.”
“Oh that wasn’t your fault, don’t stress yourself.”
You arrive back at the inn, how do you want to remove the rock?
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>>27242251
maybe we'd be fine as long as our hoof wasn't inside the circle? I'd still try it. But let's try the bleach first since that's the safer looking option.
After that we can head to the forest and make this tooth exchange happen.
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>>27242251
Use alchemy. The rock is humus and we'd be destroying it with ventus, right? A pegasus is naturally full of ventus, so we should be fine.
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>>27242300
Pluck a hair. Pegasus hair is ventus.
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>>27242289
>>27242300
>>27242662
Oh you could of course try to combine it together to create aether.
As pegasus your body contains ventus, and ventus cancels humus, this means you only have to break down the structure of the rock till the humus can be fully accessed.
Your natural magic potential should be enough to cancel the humus, that will make the rock grumble and fully break it down.
The problem with this is that by using your own magic for a combination will cause whatever you put on the circle to be broken down, just like the rock.
That’s thanks to the way the circle works.
Sadly you don’t know how to bring the two magical aspects together without using a circle.
You could however use your hair, just plucking out some wisps should work.
You use a hoof of your mane’s hair, the rock glued to your hoof, and a combination circle to create a piece of aether.
The rock breaks down to gray dust that just falls of form your hoof.
Nice, that worked.
The sun seems to set, but you think you still got time to visit the sea serpent.
You tell the two fillies that they should stay here with Platinum and leave together with Sako.
A short fly later, you arrive back at the river.
It looks like the serpent is washing it’s hair.
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>>27242975
Greet the serpent. Should you wait till he's done bathing? You're here to get his tooth, you think you have a proper replacement to offer.
Ask if you can have a tooth now so you can make a good copy of it and give it proper scale.
After that make a glass tooth and coat it in the food spray, then show him the gems and we can make a design together like arts and crafts.
We can make a letter? A heart shape? if we have the right colors then his face.
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>>27243055
“Hello! I’m here for our tooth deal. Do you want to finish bathing?”
>Serpent:”I’m a sea serpent, I’m never finished with bathing!”
He dives underwater and appears closer to you, the water washing the shampoo out of his hair.
“I think I have a proper replacement to offer.”
>Serpent:”Oh where is it?”
“I still have to make it. I was thinking about a glass tooth, covered in golden food paint. We can even decorate it with gems.”
>Serpent:”Sounds nice.”
“So can I get the tooth, so that I can shape it right?”
He pulls out his own tooth, it’s painful to watch and gives you the shivers.
>Serpent:”Here you go.”
Time to craft a tooth out of glass!
You draw your circle and transmute some of the river sand into a tooth.
After that you apply a coat of food paint spray, it takes a whole can, which leaves you with four.
Guess you have to find some use for that in the future.
“So this would be the base, and now we can add some gems!”
You drop the gems you brought on the ground.
>Serpent:”Oh it’s very shiny!”
“We could make a letter, a heart shape, or even a little portrait of you.”
>Serpent:”I’d like the portrait idea!”
You begin to assemble some gems on the tooth.
It takes all of them but you manage to make a pretty decent face, well at least for your standards.
“So what do you think?”
>Serpent:”It’s… uh… unique. Thank you.”
He stuffs the tooth back into his mouth, another shiver goes down your spine.
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>>27244219
think we have enough time to go to the castle, get the books, call out to hekate and then go to ponyville, get our wagon and then load up everything on there?
we can also just do it later, we really need to get that magic glass book though. The sooner the better.
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>>27244321
Without knowing what time of day it is there's no way to know how much of that we have time for, but there's no harm in trying for as much as we can.
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>>27244321
>>27244569
You decide to pay the castle a short visit.
After another short flight, you arrive there.
You walk into the library and pull the secret switch White Wave showed you.
One of the bookcases slides to the side and reveals a hidden part of the library.
You walk back to the mirror in the main hall and call out for Hekate.
It takes a bit but she appears through the mirror.
>Hekate:”Hi Speed, another trip with the Hekate travel agency?”
“Agency? You charging now?”
>Hekate:”I’m always charging, it’s just that you already paid for it.”
“The liquid? I thought that was for just the flowers.”
>Hekate:”Yes, but I guessed I could give you some bonus miles for that. Wouldn’t want my boss to hire a new pilot.”
She laughs.
With the help of Hekate you travel back to outskirts of ponyville
From there you walk back to the inn.
Oh the night guard is here.
A female and male bat pony are talking to Platinum.stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27245425
say hi. ask if they're the guards sent by luna.
ask if we can talk for a bit inside. Why does luna want cinny anyway? also whatever you to don't return her to her parents.
the pony said she was sold by them and he drank a truth potion a few minutes before so it wasn't a lie.
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board is pretty shit post heavy at the moment.
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>>27246390
might be worth investigating in case they're part of a bigger chain
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>>27245425
“Hello, are you the guards send by princess Luna?”
The female one answers.
>?:”Yes, we are here to get the fillies, I think the princess told you about us?.”
“Fillies? It’s just one, please can we talk for a moment, inside the inn?”
>?:”I guess. Dusk, please check the instructions again.”
The male bat pony answers.
>Dusk:”I’m pretty sure it was fillies, let me check on it.”
If he’s going to try to take Swirl away, you’ll have to slap a guard and give a special princess a very harsh talk.
You lead both of them inside.
“So, what do your orders say?”
>Dusk:”Oh right, it says something about an earth filly. Ah here it is, it reads to not take the bat. All I could remember was earth and bat filly. My fault”
“Good. Now that this is cleared, why does Luna want the filly anyway?”
The female answers.
>?:”The princess gets worried whenever she loses the ability to visit young ponies’ dreams. I guess she is just concerned about them and wants to make sure they have a good live.”
“Just make sure to never give her back to her parents, the guy I freed her from admitted under the influence of a truth serum that her parents sold her.”
>?:”I will report this to the princess, she will ensure that everything works out. Take your time to say goodbye.”
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>>27251838
Well cinny it looks like our time together is up. We're really going to miss you.
You have nothing to be afraid of because the princess herself will make sure that you have everything you need.
I will visit you in the future to see how you're doing. I'll ask luna to tell me where you are.
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>>27251880
You walk back outside and begin talking with Cinny.
“Well Cinny it looks like our time together is up. I gonna miss you. Don’t worry princess Luna will personally make sure that you have everything you need.”
>Cinnamon Sweets:”Thanks uncle Speed, at first I was scared, but the last day was a lot of fun.”
She gives you a hug.
Damn this is harder than you thought.
“I will visit you in the future to see how you’re doing. Don’t worry I will ask Luna to tell me where you are.”
>Sand Swirl:”Does Cinnamon really have to leave already?”
“I’m afraid yes.”
>Sand Swirl:”Oh, that’s bad, but don’t worry Cinnamon. This is the night guard, they work for princess Luna, and she is the best princess!”
>?:”I like that kid.”
>Cinnamon Sweets:”Thank you Swirl, just in the short time we were together you became my best friend.”
The fillies hug each other.
Looks like everything is said, everyone hugged.
>?:”Good you are done?”
“Yes.”
You wave goodbye as the two bats carry Cinny away.
Platinum and Hekate have stepped aside.
>Hekate:"Emotional, you'll need a moment?"
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>>27252340
Nah, we know she'll be ok and is in good hooves. We'll see her again someday.
Let's get that little wagon and take it to the mirror.
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>>27252340
it was good to see her, we'll check up how she's doing later
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>>27252403
>>27252753
“No, I know that she’ll be okay and is in good hooves. I’ll see her again someday. Let’s continue where we left.”
You pick up your wagon and head back to the castle.
It’s pretty heavy with all the stuff you have in there, and you can hear your inventory clank with every little hump on the road.
In the library you just toss the books on the wagon.
You’ll have time to read them later.
After your wagon is full, you make your way back to the inn, you managed to grab most of the books.
Only half a wagon remains.
Back at mirror close to ponyville, Hekate says her goodbyes and leaves.
At the inn your realize that you can’t just let the books lie around on the outside.
Half of them would get destroyed if it started to rain.
Maybe some of your friends could help you.
You grab some books and move in, the innkeeper stops you on the stairs.
>Innkeeper:”Sorry, Mister, but I still need 20 bits for the room, as long you want to stay for the night again. Your friends already payed for theirs.”
“Sure thing.”
You hoof her the bits and move on, shouldn’t you also give Platinum her share of the expedition at some point?
You manage to convince Swirl and Jitter to help you, well there wasn’t that much of convincing, they just instantly agreed to help you.
With the help of your family you manage to move the book in only three goes.
Bad news, your room now looks and especially smells like a library.
You are okay with that.stopping for now, will continue tomorrow.
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>>27252941
Someday when we have a house I hope we have a room dedicated to this many books.
Let's go give platinum her share of the money and the good news that we'll be able to give her crystal magical glass. Hopefully one of these books has the secret to magical wood as well.
Let's also give her a cupcake. Give one to numb as well.
Then we can head for lanika.
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>>27255394
It's always some downtime reading
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Sorry won't update today, work is kinda keeping me busy this week.
Maybe I'll find some time tomorrow morning.
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>>27260707
See you
>Tomorrow
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>>27260707work's important
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>>27255394
Ah, the smell of old paper, once you settled down you have to get yourself a reading room, with lots of old books in it.
A little house, with laboratory room for your studies and alchemy, a garden for Swirl and her future siblings, a room for Sako, a room for Platinum...
Oh right, Platinum, you still have give her the bits.
Enough of dreaming about the future, you have to stay focused on the presence.
You walk to Platinums room.
At the door you can hear Numb telling his Sister the story of what happened at the castle.
You enter.
“Hey Platinum, as you see they left from the castle earlier. The guy gave me your share of the pay. I also got the books from the hidden library, they are in my room. Feel free to look for anything that catches your interest..”
You give her 100 bits.
>Platinum Nut:”Thank you very much. So Speed do you have any plans this evening?”
“Uh I wanted to spend some time with Lanika, since I didn’t have much chance to do while she was at the castle.”
>Platinum Nut:”Mind if I join?”
“I still don’t know what we should do, but I don’t mind.”
>Sachiko:”Not much to do today, we already had a good dinner. I mean we could go watch another movie at the theater, or play some board game?”
“As long it’s not the stick game...”
Platinum joins you and together you walk to Lanika’s and Lollipop’s room.
Only Lollipop is in here.
“Hey Lollipop, where is Lanika?”
>Lollipop Azure:”She and Masquerade left to go to some bar.”
Oh right.Gotta head out to work in 20 minutes. I'll give you a heads up later today.
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>>27265887
part of seeing lanika was to explain the whole cinny situation. I thought they'd be back by now. Oh well. Let's hang out with lollipop then.
Return platinums glue gem and thank her for letting you borrow it.
Movies might be fun, we can play board games later. We can watch lathy moniker or maybe some other movies that are playing.
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Okay, got some bad news.
I will take a longer pause till Monday in two weeks. That's the 16the.
The reason for this is with the long mothers day weekend I won't be able to run till Sunday this week anyway, and I had plans to take a week long break at the end of this thread.
You might just let the thread die.
Have a nice week, and see you in 12 days
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>>27268021
Ah, really? Sort of a bummer, but I'll look forward to it, then! Have a good break, Alchemy~
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>>27268021
good luck
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