MLPFEMTORPG: It's Over Isn't It Edition

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>>27962840
>Don't sweat it, I'll hang around a few millennia then be on my way. That's the great thing about eternity: it's eternal.

Please post your sheets for session 81

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>>27962840
http://pastebin.com/uMeKkzmM

>>27962936
http://pastebin.com/zfGK7ALa

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>>27962936
http://pastebin.com/ken587Xq

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>>27962936
http://pastebin.com/0DRyArfZ

>YEAR: 1501 AE
>>27962963
>Blasters Compound
Last game, Honey had made it into the compound of the reclusive Blasters group, rockets still trained on her even after she agreed to help them with their thievery problem pro bono with the Elder, and learned a few details about the thieving group.

You make it to the express elevator, Lead Head and Jet (the latter having at least lowered his rocket launcher at you), give you a brief explanation as it hits the surface.

"After we found out they were making off with our goods, we chased them towards Silo B. It's an empty silo that used to hold one hell of a bomb back in the day, we're actually trying to re-construct one but I don't think we'll ever get all the parts needed." Lead Head explains, "We thought we had them trapped: all three of the silo's are just dead ends. But when we got down deep in there, they had vanished with everything. We didn't kill a single one of the bastards."

Jet leads on back outside of the tower, on the military compound of the Blasters. "We didn't see HOW they disappeared. And we've checked out the last room in the Silo we saw them in inside and out. It was like it hadn't been touch, save for one piece of scrap they left behind that we can't even recognize anymore. It's melted, practically fused together."

>>27963119
>>27962979
>>27963014
>Ruins of Everfree City
Last game, Onyxia and Southern had taken the Metro to the ruins of Everfree City, having changed since their last visit, in search of the Danger Dogs following Glitch's tip they were acting odd. Searching the ruins, they had found one of the dogs Onyxia met before, Red, the blind mongrel fleeing a terrifying mutant he calls a Grabber.

>"Sorta. We heard your group was acting up lately."
"Big reasons for that, trail be almost done! Big loud dome pay soon, VERY soon, we find solutions to Danger Dogz problems!"

The tendrils wrap around tighter as you fail to break through their grasp, continuing to squeeze the life out of you. Steel's blade pierces through the Grabber on the right side, causing it to roar in pain as another tendril wraps around his sword as well, coiling around him. "What... IS this thing?!"

"It calleds a Grabbers! They mutant ponies, grab things, choke things, pop ponies like squishies!" Red shouts, "Get aways Onyxia!"

>Southern is still hidden, but a turn has passed since the trap she set up was broken through by the Grabber: hence, Unseen Foe has recharged and can be used again
>Onyxia is currently helpless at 0/4

>>27963131
>>27962987
>Dome C-545
>http://pastebin.com/PEkNUzJb
Nero bid his farewells to his family back in the Modern era, and left with Twilight to arrive at Dome C-545. Upon arrival, the saw the denizens of the dome working hard to clean up the iron-hoof coming from the ceiling, Glitch and Closed Circuit meeting them out front to help explain the situation.

"They're pretty deep underground for now but, they get closer towards the Dome on the surface every day, about half a mile by the Alicron's estimates. And we don't know: the Dome's sensors could have never picked this up without the Alicron's enhancements."

Closed smiles widely, "The orb you got out of the Overseer... the robot one, I mean... has improved this Dome in countless ways. Everything from laser-turrets to waste management is performing more than twice as good as before. "

"But point is, *COUGH*, they could have been getting closer for years and we'd never know. We only started seeing it this past week since the Alicron was installed."

>>27963058
>Dome E-220
After being sent on your own to a side-track by Onyxia, you arrived at a neighbor dome to C-545, searching around for booze when you were attacked by a bizarre puddy sliding around on the floor. As you continue to fire at it and try to capture it with Boo and Screech, a mare's voice spoke out to you.

Boo growls as he feels his singed hair, glaring at you, "Dude, it's not funny! My mane was my thing back in the Shadowbolts."
"No, your eating half your weight a day was your thing in the Shadowbolts..." Screech growled, looking around in shock as the mare's voice springs out.

The little booger slips between one of the pews, and the voice says, "I-I'm looking for medicine, if I find some I'll share it! Just please don't shoot... that hurt!"

>>27963131
She sets up another area-wide trap.
[1d10+3]

>>27963131
"Gkhhh..."

Onyxia struggles against the Grabber's tendrils, legs kicking as she tries to break free. Her hooves flash green, returning back to normal as they pull and tug on the appendages so she can breathe.
>Recover [1d10]

>>27963119
Honey processes all of this new information as best as she could. She didn't for long, though; she could already feel a headache beginning to form.
"Get me into the damn silo. I wanna see this piece of metal," Crumple says and awaits to be escorted there.
"Especially that last room."

>>27963138
>"No, your eating half your weight a day was your thing in the Shadowbolts..."
"That explains why you have an ass like a mare. Gotta say I'm not gay or anything, but I'd let you sit on my face Boo. Like thats not gay, no dicks are touching. But after seeing you guys in tights for some days now, I get it now. Y'know."

Luke remarks, after hearing the voice again "Yeah, yeah sure I won't shoot you or whatever. Now where'd that goo go? It had a little kick but I think I could hoff it down this time."
Luke crawl between the pews and grabs for the slime again to try drinking [1d10]

>>27963138
"I think I might have an idea on what is causing your tremors, and its the same thing we think is causing the sunfall. I'll tell you more about it when I return. In the meanwhile, I want you to take the time machine and hide it. If any of us comes here trying to use it, even Me, ask the alicron to confirm our identities. And if someone you do not know comes for it, I want you to take the machine to Lukewarm's era, and bring the alicron with you. I'll find a way to contact you there. Many of the men responsible for the Sunfall are in your era, which is why we're back in the first place, so you cannot be too careful."

"In the meanwhile, I need to know where this 'Blaster' base is, as well as what it is the danger dogs are so excited about."

>>27963181
The wires string up around the area as the Grabber moves his tendrils to ensnare Steel as well, tightening around him as he charges at Steel. The wires trap him just as he is about to lash down on his iron arm, and the Grabber howls as it struggles in the thin coils.
>Minion acquired for the strings

It lets go of Onyxia as she pulls on the appendages, freeing herself and allowing her to rise (3/4 for two turns spent in its grip) and get away from it, while Steel readies his sword and slashes at the tendrils
[1d10+1] / [1d10+1]

Red runs up to Onyxia, pulling on your hoof, "Yous okay?!"

>>27963213
Lead Head gives a crack of her neck, "As you wish, just follow me."

Lead Head takes the lead, moving past Jet onwards towards a large, miniature dome that waits in the heat outside within the confines. As you walk, you can see a couple of child Blasters running by, pretending to shoot each other down with fake lasers. The dome you approach is one of six, and Lead Head quickly opens up a large electronic hatch on the exterior to take you within. The hatch opens up to total darkness at first, but then as a few lights flip on Crumple sees a massive, empty cylinder of a room, reaching down several dozen meters to the ground deep below. "They ran in here and went all the way down. There shouldn't have been any way out..."

Going down a looong ass flight of stairs (or, flying down if preferred), they show you to a sort of cooling room at the very bottom, countless pipes that seem functional but likely haven't been used in decades filling up a large chamber. A few scorch marks remain from previous fire-fights, but besides a ton of forensic equipment left by other blasters, the only noticeable piece of tech in the room waits in the very center, Lead Head reaching down to pick it up. "All we found after they disappeared was this..." she holds up a large lump of fused metal, clearly some other piece of tech that was melted down.

>>27963402
>>27963244
Boo blushes, "Woah... do, do you really think so? I mean, I'm not like, trying to make it hot or nothing but..."
Screech groans, "Luke, please, for the love of Nightmares don't tease him. I'll never hear the end of it."

Reaching into the pews, you manage to find the goo once again, the yellow puddle sliding away but not avoiding your grasp, your hoof wrangling its seemingly solid piece by its 'tail' as it tries to skitter away. It fights hard enough you can't pull it all the way into your mouth though. "I-I said get away, go! Go!" the mare's voice reverberates throughout the room again.

"Lady, chill! You can come out," Screech shouts.

>>27963313
Glitch pops up his eyebrows, jaw slightly agape. "You know what's causing the Sunfall? No shit...."
Closed Circuit gasps, "That's.. that's terrific! I just knew they would do it, didn't I tell you?"
Glitch groans, "Yeah, yeah, well, I'll need to hear what it is formyself, first. Don't like to get my hopes up TOO high, in this era that'll just get them shot down quicker." He turns to you, "As for my baby, well, I think we have a safe-room here in the Dome: the Overseer's old chamber should do the trick with its security systems back online. Even IF something snuck in again, we'll get a chance to protect it." He nods his head, "Hrrmph, right, drunk fella's time era."
Closed Circuit moves over towards Twilight, gratefully taking the Time Machine to take to the chamber, "I'll watch it with my life, I promise. No one in the Dome's quicker or better with a rifle than me."

Glitch moves his device closer over to Nero to see, expanding it out to show a circular shape representing the Shade, on top of some geographical features resembling the mountain ranges and valleys within, "See here? They're all the way to the North-east, here: wedged right up against the edge of the Shade. The direct sunlight covering their backs mean *COUGH* they only need to aim at targets coming from the front."

>>27963412
>Forgot to answer "what it is the danger dogs are so excited about."

Glitch shakes his head, "Can't help you there: Danger Dogs aren't really the conversationalist type, last time I tried it ended in me just taking a few pot-shots to see if I could take parts of my car back. All I can tell is they're definitely acting more excited about something."

>>27963402
She has the Grabber remain inert this turn.
Then she destroys it.
[1d10] Backstab

>>27963402
Onyxia collapses on the ground as she's freed, gasping as her throat is released and air can flow once again.

"*Gasp*... Guh... I-I've been better..."
Onyxia says between breaths as Red runs to her aid.

She props herself up on her forehooves shakily, looking up at the Grabber. Her eyes bore into the beast, her poor mood prior fueling the need to lash back. But terror from being choked out shakes her body. She steadies a hoof, doing her best to focus as black crystal spreads on the ground towards the Grabber. She attempts to split open the floor under it, dropping it into the basement and hopefully out of commission long enough to not bother them, and closing the floor back up after.
>Transmute [1d10]

>>27963412
"I know WHO is causing the Sunfall. And its very important they do not get your time machine. I don't have time to tell you all the details now, simply follow My instructions. Confirm the identities of anypony who tries to use it, and if anyone reaches it take the machine to Lukewarm's era immediately, and bring the alicron."

As Circuit takes the time machine, Nero looks to her sharply.

"No. The Dome is not a safe place for it. Glitch must have it with him at all times, so if anything comes for it, he can flee immediately. Do not fool yourselves into thinking this Dome, even repaired, can stop them. I only leave the machine here because it is too risky to take it with Me."

Nero nods as Glitch explains where Crumple is, before a small portal opens above His hoof, dropping out two radios. He passes one to Glitch.

"Keep this with you-"

Before calling Luke.

>"Lukewarm. Its Me, Nero. Where are you?"

>>27963454
>forgot my own dialog: he mentioned the shiny trail before to the others after all
>" last time I tried it ended in me just taking a few pot-shots to see if I could take parts of my car back. But I can tell you they dug deeper into the caverns, you seen that 'shiny trail' they've been putting together? From what I *HACK* put together those idiots think they have it close to done, but that's all news I have on them."

>>27963402
Crumple opts to fly down, but waits for Lead Head to catch up.

"Any idea what is used to be? Not sure they'd wanna leave this behind. Also, stand back, gonna try some shit," Crumple says, and fires up a simple eye laser. It harmlessly goes around the room as Crumple tries to see if there was a portal used to escape.

>using Portal Crowbar to scan around the room until something pings
[1d10+1]

>>27963412
"Oh yeah definitely, I'd hot dog those cheeks til sundown. Y'know in a not totally gay way, Like there be no eye contact, just quiet, I'd be pretending its a mare ass and you could pretend its a mare's dick and-" Luke seems really enthused about this and then stops himself "uhh y'know what nevermind I said any of that, I think thats just the sobriety talking,"

>"I-I said get away, go! Go!"
"Yeah, Chill out for a moment, whats wrong with having a little drink." Luke drops the goo into his mouth and focuses on his cat's teaching to swallow the thing.
[1d10]

Jean says
>"Verily you are valiant soul my Lord. Remember my instruction!"

>>27963563
Luke speaks into his walky talkie before swallowing the goo
>"Oh hay Nero, Onyxia sticked me in tram that went back to that one place I got hired to be a killer robot. I've just been walking around for a while now, aye could you call back later I'm kinda in the middle of something"

>>27963679
>"Are you under attack?" Nero questions.

>>27963725
"Only from a killer headache."

>>27963507
>>27963462
The wires tighten stiffly around the Grabber's body, the flailing tentacles waving about as the monster roars and drools across the floor, incoherent in its ramblings. Steel slashes off two more of its tendrils, but as it's kept still by the wires Southern leaps at the throat of the large mutant, destroying it at the neck with a clean cut as it gives a loud howl. As it begins to bleed out, the coup-de-grace is delivered by Onyxia as she transmutes the ground beneath the monstrosity, sending it flying down to the floor below as it crashes, the floor closing up behind it.

Steel removes the tentacles surrounding him that he cut off, and Red jumps up as he looks at the ponies, clapping his hooves, "AAAH! Itz dead, itz deads! Hahahahah! That teach you for messing with Danger Dog, stupid!! Hehehhehe..." he pounces forwards, scrounging about in a nearby pile of rubble, "Thank yous, Onyxia. And new ponies, but we shouldn't sticks arounds. Grabbers like to move in groups."

Steel grunts, "Then why are you not running?"
"Came in for shinies, only needs a few mores for trail... smell them here, somewheres." He turns towards Steel, smiling widely, "Hmmm. Smells them on yous too. You BIG shiny."

>>27963563
Glitch waves about a hoof, coughing, "Alright, alright, *COUGH* I heard ya the first time. Sheesh, like I can't protect my own invention. Trust me, will ya?"

Closed Circuit freezes as you command her, "Oh... well, alright. We'll keep it in the lab while he works, if anyone comes, I'll make sure he gets through the portal."

Glitch looks at the radio as you pass it to him, staring at it, "Ah, sweet. Looks brand new. Everyone has one I assume?"

>>27963750
>"Alright. I'll start heading that way with Twilight. Stay put."

>>27963767
>>27963625
Lead Head runs a hoof through her mohawk, "It definitely used to be something advance. There's still remains of a tech-crystal hook-up, so the egg-heads say. But we can't be sure what it was with it all melted like this. Can't even tell if we have anything like it, but anything using tech-crystals is usually top of the line. If only the serial numbers weren't melted off, we'd look it up in our catalogs..."

Crumple's eye goes into scanning mode, searching through the room with the magitech you had set up last game to search for energy signatures resembling portals. You pass around the room a few times, before you see there is something resembling warped-space right up against the wall at the far side, like a portal was opened right up against the pipes and cement.

>>27963629
Boo rubs the back of his neck, "Well, jeez, thanks man. I don't usually get complimented on that, I guess..." he freezes up and his mane stands on end as you mention mare's dicks. "Wooooah. Went too far man, not touching that. No way."

The voice continues to wail as you grab at the large pile of goo, and shrug off the sense of it wiggling around in your mouth as you take your cats teachings to force it down. It feels bigger than you'd expect, almost like swallowing a whole keg all at once, and you feel it fighting and clinging against your esophagus and stomach every step of the way as it writhes around. It tastes oddly enough like lemon and vodka.
>Please make another roll not to hock it back up with your post

The voice screams, "AAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEE!" as you drink the puddle, and this time, you feel like it's sounding out through your very throat as it vibrates.

>>27963779
The Mare's screams excite Lukewarm as his tongue tussel with the gelatin throbbing in his throat only makes him more steadfast in the challenge.
[1d10] to swallow.

>>27963770
You hear nothing but gagging noises from the other side of the walkie talkie
>oooaagck gaawk mrrrooowww gawk gawk mrrrrr gawkgawkgawkgawkgawk

>>27963810
also
Luke's necklace glows faintly as his love for beverage overtakes him.

>>27963779
"Well hang onto it," Crumple says as it walks closer to where the device pinged a portal.
"I might know someone who could take a look at that shit later, but for now...."

Crumple's eye beam charges up power in preparation for the device's intended use.
"I think I might've found where the party has gone."
The beam then fires out, looking to rip the portal back open with sheer, magical brute force.

>Portal Crowbar: force open the portal and make it travelable
[1d10+1]

>>27963810
>>27963779
Nero holds the radio away from His head at the sound of a mare screaming and Luke gagging, before turning to Glitch.
>>27963767
"Luke, Twilight, Onyxia, and Myself have one, and they are compatible with Crumple's as well. They have a limited range however, so by the time I reach Crumple, you will probably be out of range."

"Twilight, lets go. We're going to find Lukewarm."

Nero heads to the metroline, summons His chariot, and starts heading towards Dome E-220.
>driving, not flying if possible, and not at full speeds due to the cramped quarters and risk of oncoming trains.

>>27963767
Onyxia sighs in relief as the Grabber is dealt with, standing back up in full now that they're clear of trouble.

As Red eyes Steel, Onyxia quickly steps in between them.
"Don't get any ideas, he's MY shiny," Onyxia says sternly, but her strong stance quickly falls with a throat clear, "Er, I mean, he's a living pony, you can't just take him."
Onyxia looks around the room.
"I can make you plenty of shines, how about we get out of here fast before more of those show up?"

>>27963767
She makes a personal-radius trap.

[1d10+3]

She also grabs whatever "shiny" happens to be nearby to get a better idea of what it is that the doggo is referring to.

>>27963875
Lead Head and Jet both back off as the beam fires out towards the wall, not leaving scorch marks but still alarming the two. "What are you doing?!"

As the beam connects with where the energy shows up on your scans, and you see a thin red-tear appear on the wall as you force it open. As it tears apart, you see inside a very, very light stream of brownish-green fluid rolling down a large, darkened tunnel, extending on in either direction.

Jet rubs his eyes, looking through it. "I... what? What did you do?"
Lead Head shakes her head, "That looks like a sewer tunnel. There was a system of them nearby and some went under the compound, but we blasted them out YEARS ago so that no pony could sneak in through them. Did we fuckin' miss one..?"

>>27963810
You fight down the resistance of the puddle as your necklace glows lightly, successfully swallowing the solid yellow slime as it rests in your stomach, now slightly expanded like you've put on almost half your weight. Boo and Screech stare on at you, giving their hooves a slow clap.
"Dude... impressive." Boo compliments
"Yeah, Merc had the record back in our timeline for chugging but I don't think even he could manage that."

Your stomach starts to vibrate wildly, thrashing about as you feel something tearing you from the inside. The voice sounds from within your head
"L-l-let me out! It's dark, I can't see! Heeeeeellp!"
[1d10]

>>27963918
Steel looks down at you as you step in between them, smirking as Red growls. "Grrrr. Onyxia greedy with her shinies. And him don't smell like live pony, him not robot?"
"It's a long story..."

As you offer to make him shinies, he perks his ears up, smiling, "You... you cans MAKE them? How?! Show RED!" He jumps up at you, grabbing you by your shoulders and hopping, "Show hims now, trail is SO close to being done, the loud noises finally stop hurting dogs when it done!"

>>27964084
>>27963933
You move over to the pile Red is digging through, and as you dig through you see what 'shinies' he's referring to: numerous reflective objects like unfamiliar metal gadgets fallen behind rubble or broken desks, silver-ware, a few long thin chains attacked to a broken antique watch. As you dig through, Red cries out, swiping at your hoof with his claw,

"Hey! You pony, leave those alone! Red found them first, they're the Danger Dogs!" He barks at you, his breath smelling particularly foul. He sniffs you, and grins, "Oooh... you got shinies on you too?" He points at where you hold your bits.

>>27963892
Twilight nods her head, flapping her wings up, "Right, that sounded bad. Leave it to Luke to get in trouble the first thing upon arrival..."

The alicorn follows you down to the tunnel, Glitch and Closed Circuit returning to work in the hall as you descend the hallway. You see the same sight of several broken bots scattered about on the floor, and Twilight gazes at them scattered about as you approach the empty access tunnel for the Metro. "Ooooh... look at all these robots! I didn't get to see these last time I was here. I would love to study them given the chance." She hops onto your chariot as you materialize it on the rails, asking, "Are these sub-way stations are abandoned?

You set out on the tracks, making for Dome E-220 according to the order you went here before. Moving at a half-decent pace along the tracks, the distance to E-220 is covered quickly before you see the metro on the other side of the tunnel. At its station, you see a train stopped on the tracks in front of you, but it's outside of the tunnel and doesn't block you getting off at this stop to go into the station.

>>27964084
"He's not a robot, you don't need to worry there."

As Red jumps up at her offer, Onyxia holds up her hooves to pry free from the grip.
"Wh-Whoa, c-calm do-wn!" She stutters through the shaking.

Holding her head, rapid shaking not helping the bit of lightheadedness from the Grabber encounter, Onyxia looks around the room. She grabs anything that looks like its made of metal or glass that's dull and would be overlooked by Red.
"Give me a second here, still recovering... This is just a sample though, lead us out of here so we don't need to worry about Grabbers and I can do more."
She focuses on the ball of materials, crystal growing over them as she melds as much together as she can. She tries to take out any rust, dust,and other debris that would have come from being in a ruined building, as well making t as smooth as possible for that distinctive shine.
>Transmute [To see how much shiny material she can make] [1d10]

"Loud noises? What loud noises?"
She asks as she works.

>>27964084
"Isn't it fucking obvious? I found their escape plan," Crumple replies to Jet as it stomps up closer during Leadhead's explanation.
"Looks like it. And these guys found it. But I'm about to find them now!"

Crumple looks back at Jet and Lead.
"I don't have a damn clue how long this'll stay open, but if you want some payback as well, better keep the fuck up!"
And with that, Crumple charges headlong through the portal and into the sewer.


Once inside, Crumple begins to look around for any signs/clues that could tip off which way the escapees went.
[1d10]

As Honey awaits results, she decides to take a quick moment to do some quick repairs to Crumple from within. If she's gonna get into a fight, better not let the missile from earlier end up slowing her down.
>Repairing the wound lost
>DC -1
[1d10]

>>27964084
>"Most admirable effort my Lord. Like a true cat" Jean comments

"Thank you, thank you" Lukewarm takes a bow as Boo and Screech applaud him.

Lukewarm looks around for the mare and then idly says "What is up with that mare, lets beat it guys."
Luke's headache subsides just enough for him to douse for alcohol. His horn lights up and he starts following his horn
[1d10] douse for alcohol.

>>27964205
gonna move things along here
Lukewarm's Necklace glows brighter after Luke wets his tongue for alcohol
>Necklace of Persistence: Instant, Automatic: Recharge 2, on a failed action (including critfail), you can give up 3 hits to make the action automatic.

>>27964087
>actually summoned the chariot a bit before the rails.

Nero rides along the rails, heading down the tunnel, holding to the reins.

"No. There's more robots everywhere, and trains sometimes come through, so keep an eye out."

When they arrive, Nero has the chariot take flight so it can clear the tracks, before landing, the wheels turning across the ancient floor as He sees Luke, Boo, and Screech.
>>27964205
Luke sees Nero and Twilight pulling up in Nero's chariot, rolling along the ground before stopping near them.

"Lukewarm!" he calls out as He pulls to a stop.

>>27964224
>>27964084
Luke turns to the both of them as they pull up "That was quick. Whats up Crystal king."

>>27964087
Seeing as it is just drunk, she drops it.

"Tell us about this loud noise thing, that sounds a bit like something weird, I guess?"

>>27964178
"We're looking for something weird, right?"

>>27964241
"I came out here to help the Danger Dogs with whatever was having them riled up. I guess this sound must be it."

>>27964188
Jet, warily, leans his head on through the portal, growling as he takes in the scent. "Ugggh... yeah. This is definitely a sewer..."
"But none of the stuff they had could make a portal like this! At least, not that we know... I guess to be honest, we don't really pay much attention to what all we have can actually do. Unless it's explosive or laser based."

As you charge on ahead into the portal, Lead and Jet look at each other before Lead Head follows after you, "Jet, go grab everyone you can and tell them to come down here before this thing closes!" She sticks close to you, still carrying her rocket launcher from before tightly around her chest. As you investigate, you don't see any signs of which way they might have gone, left or right: not much trail was left behind. You do get down to work successfully repairing Crumple though, fixing up yourself back to 7/7 from the previous barrage. Lead Head turns around, "Should we split up? That doesn't sound like a good idea down here..."

>>27964205
>>27964212
Your necklace glows with a soft light, lowering you down to 2/4 as its light allows you more effectively locate booze hidden around this metro. Your search springs up a miraculous success: hidden underneath a pile of rubble what used to be a counter, you find two un-opened bottles of unfamiliar liquor bottles, one dated 1160, the other 1148. Both of a deep golden color, called 'Luminesque'

However, you feel your stomach still churning and thrashing, your added weight making it difficult to walk as you feel like something's tearing at your insides.
"LET! ME! GOOO!" the mare's voice screams in your head again.

>>27964224
Twilight looks around, suddenly put on edge, "O-oh... well, if there's a train coming, I'll keep my teleport spell handy. Hehe..." As you arrive at the station, she hangs on tightly to the chariot as you clear the tracks and land on the floor of the metro, gripping for dear life. "These robots aren't ALL like Crumple, right?!"

>>27964380
>>27964224
>>27964212
As Twilight and Nero arrives, she looks at Luke, who's gut has noticeably expanded and is shaking violently, the sounds of screaming emanating from him. "Luke! What the hay happened to you?"

Boo picks up a hoof, "Oh, he just drank some nasty goo thing that was skulking around here. And then this mare started yelling at us from out of nowhere, and she won't FUCKING stop!" He shouts back at the metro as if speaking to the disembodied mare.
Screech clears his throat, "Um, speaking of, Luke: how'd it taste?"

>>27964178
Red jumps for joy after you pull out of his grip, licking his lips at your promise as you get started with a few of the loose glass/dull metals around the room. There isn't a lot that hasn't been picked over, but you do manage to spread your crystal over a small amount to show him what you mean. Impressed, he grins widely, lowering his sunglasses at you to gaze at his grey eyes. "Hehehehe! Not bads... you no tell Red or other Dogs you could do this last time you here." He moves for the stair-way after he collects his prize, "Okay, we leave building! Know where other dogs are, me take you."

>>27964391
>>27964241
>>27964178
As you ask about the noise thing, Red looks between the two of you, growling, as he descends the stairs. He points out of the window of the building they're on, hopping over to the side. "Grrrrrrr. Not just noises: shakings. From no good Dome dwellers... you not get to see thems last time you here. You wents other way to other stinking pony Dome, far away on train..."

He looks down, taking off his shades, revealing two grey, blind eyes. "We am Danger Dogs. We dig Danger Tunnels for other dogs to move through, work in tunnels, live in tunnels. But Dome nearby, they always making these great shakings, great rumblings, sounds of explosions. It shake rock loose, COLLAPSE Danger Tunnels. Hurt dogs. KILL dogs." He spits out that last line, looking out towards the city again.

Steels asks, "Then make them stop."

"We try. We know where Dome is. We attack dome, but dome too strong. We get killed." He grins, grabbing at the shinies he pulled from the pile, "But trail fix that. Trail fix dome. Trail KILL dome."

>>27964380
"Like Crumple in what respect?"
>>27964240
>>27964391
Nero looks at Luke in surprise as they explain Luke drinking a 'nasty goo thing', and the sounds of a mare screaming to be let go comes out of Luke's stomach.

Nero lets out a long sigh as He slowly pieces together the mystery in His head.

"Luke spit up whatever you just ate."

>>27964391
After Boo responds to Twilight Luke says "Yup, that about sums that up. Real bitch of a narrator putting the captions to our every action. Except instead of captions their screams and instead of narration its mortal terror. But damn that bitch won't shut up."

>Screech clears his throat, "Um, speaking of, Luke: how'd it taste?
"eh, like vodka surprisingly with a hint of lemon"

Luke grabs and his stomach and then his head "aagchk! Fuck. something might of been up with that slime I ate from the ground, who could of known. And my head! I swear if I have parasites again I'm just ending it."
Luke jumps into the pile, within a cartoonish dive into the rubble and promptly pops out with two golden bottles of hooch in his hooves "Alas! Sweet soporific. Take away the pain of modest living."

Luke takes a long, refreshing drink of one of the bottles.
>Natural Remedy [1d10]

>>27964380
"Hell no, you're sticking with me. Your old geezer will throw a fucking shitfit at me if something happens to you," Crumple says, giving a slight growl at no trail to go off of.

"Fuck it, let's try this way."
Crumple then proceeds to head down the left passage, the gatling gun unfolding and winding up in case somepony, or something, decides to attack.
"Any idea where the hell this goes? If you guys blew them up, you must some idea where they go and shit, right?"

>>27964450
"No way, I put a lot of effort into swallow whatever I just swallowed."

Jean meows at Nero
>"The sweetest of fruits come from our own labor. You would deny my lord the nectar he so deserves."

>>27964398
>>27964271
"We could just go back to the dome and ask them to stop, right?"

>>27964476
"That's because whatever you just ate is still alive, you imbecile. Now vomit it up!"

>>27964501
"ha ha ha Nero Nero Nero, once again your age old wisdom shows its ignorance to modern convention. Goo isn't alive. If it was hookers would be genocidal"

>>27964391
"I couldn't do this before. It's, something that I learned recently."
Onyxia says, coat lightening up a little at the praise, but still dull.

>>27964398
"Another Dome? Did you try talking to them?"
She questions.

As Red explains the situation further, Onyxia is shocked silent.
"They... They just destroy your home, just like that?"
She looks over at the pile of shinys.
"Don't worry, we'll help you stop this dome. But, how is a trail going to kill anything?"
She asks with equal curiosity and apprehension as she follows Red to the other dogs.

>>27964497
"That should work, but if they're causing explosions that frequently... I don't know if they would listen unfortunately."

>>27964450
Twilight carefully steps out of the chariot, "Well, at first I MEANT just in terms of strength and firepower but, now that I think about it.. I mean in the, erratic, trigger-happy sense too."

>>27964464
You hear a deep intake, and the wailing starts anew, "STOP CALLING ME NAMES AND HELP ME!"
>[1d10]

Boo looks around, shouting, "If you just told us where you were we MIGHT! Yeessh..."

As you suck up the sweet, alcoholic Luminesque, you feel the strong, bitter taste wash over your tongue as it slides down your throat, filling you with precious sustenance as your stomach continues to rage. Looking down, you can see your tongue is glowing a light gold in the dim light.
>Oddly enough, though, you don't feel like you're drunker as you heal to 5/5

>>27964476
>>27964450
Twilight stares down at Luke as they hear Boo's explanations, herself slowly piecing together the pieces too.

"Luuuuuuuuuuuke...your habit of just lapping up whatever you find is disgusting as it is, but this takes the cake. You have no idea what it was you could have eaten! It could have been poisonous, or radioactive, for all you know!"

The mare screams from within Luke's body again, wiggling to get out as Twilight looks at Luke, dumbfounded, "I mean, do you HEAR where it's coming from, right?"

>>27964629
>>27964465
Lead lets out a sigh, "Oh, thank the fuckin' Moon, good. Yeah, I'm goin' with you, screw splitting up." She says as she chases after you down the left path, no noticeable trail yet distinguishing itself. You hear her priming her rocket launcher as you head down.

"Yeah, we still have all the maps from before we blew up the tunnels! I know Jet will bring it down with him when he brings back the reinforcements. But every tunnel on our map, we made sure we blew to the sun and back. So if we missed one, it probably ISN'T on the map. That makes sense, right?"

As you race down the path, you find the portal behind you going deeper and deeper, and lights need to be turned on to be able to see. You feel the tunnel turning to the right.
[1d10]

>>27964497
>>27964562
>>27964600
Red growls as he leads you guys out of the dangerous building, back into the empty and ruined city streets. "We try talking! They still shoot at us! Dogs are left with option for WAR!" He pounds at the dirt around him, cracking it slightly.
Steel coughs, "Given your... conversational skills, I'm dubious to just how HARD you tried..."

Red looks back up at Onyxia, nodding his head, "They no care! No one cares for dogs. That why dogs steal whatever they want, Danger Dogs don't care for ponies either." As you agree to help him stop it, he jumps, clapping his paws, "Hehehehe! You make more shinies, shinies help finish trail!"

As you ask about the trail, though, he falls silent, his glasses slightly drooping and his ears lowering. "Hrrrrm... It BIG secret for Dogs. Our biggest secret. Me not sure can trust ponies." He growls.

>>27964629
>>27964519
Nero growls.

"Spit it out, or I'm pulling it out!" Nero commands, ignoring Twilight's robot question to focus on this.

>>27964645
"Hell if I know. So much shit and only so little time before it all just fucking burns up," Crumple remarks, following with the instincts of turning right.

"Sit tight a sec."
Crumple's mouth plate opens and the jaws open. Soon after, a gout of napalm flies out and ignites, sticking to what Crumple hopes is the wall, to act as an intimidating light source.
"Gonna have to mark up like this every so often."
And mark it up Crumple does, taking a quick moment every so often to spit out another flaming wad to light the way.

"We're probably gonna land into deep shit. Like drown in it deep. Sure you're up for the level of ass-blasting I'm looking to open?"

>>27964645
"Then don't share it if you can't trust it, and go to war, and pitifully lose a battle, countless resources and many forces against whatever it is that they are using to create that shaking," she states plainly.

>>27964629
> "If you just told us where you were we MIGHT! Yeessh..."
"You tell her Boo"

Twilgiht points out the obvious cries for helping are resounding from Luke's stomach "Only thing I hear is a lot of bitching. And it just got three times as loud once you two showed up." Luke says curtly, with a new vigor

>>27964696
"You're gonna have to pull it out my ass cuz that's the only way it's coming." Luke says as he takes another drink.

>>27964629
That last swig Luke takes from the Luminesque does it and begins to feel sick "Oh -oh wait. Hurmp Hurmp" He holds his mouth "This stuff isn't even that strong, oh shit-" Luke keels over and begins vomiting out the contents of his stomach.
[1d10] if needed

>>27964645
"You shouldn't say that. We care about you guys to come out here to help you, so you shouldn't lump everypony together because of this one dome."

As Red says the trail is a secret, Onyxia quiets her questions for a second.
"I *am* helping you finish it, so I'll see it sooner or later. And I am a smith, so I can help with any last touch ups you'd need."

>>27964730
Lead grunts to herself, "Eh. I'll just say it does make sense. But still might be useful."

As you head down the tunnels, you fire out your napalm blasts to hit the wall, illuminating the dark tunnels as Lead nods her head, "Pleeeease, Crumple, we were blasting ass years before your metal butt showed up in the Shade. It's in my blood, I'll be fine." She says as she keeps her hoof steady on the trigger.

You make your way down the dark-tunnel until you arrive at a massive sewage chamber, dozens of feet in diameter taking up two levels of pipes leading off in four different directions on each level, dry to the bone of any liquid it might have once held as you spit out a napalm blast to light it. Peering through the darkness, Lead whispers, "Okay, I am officially embarrassed. We COULDN'T have missed this... but I think I see some of the tunnels in here have been collapsed..."

>Besides the one you left from, there's 3 others that aren't collapsed.
[1d10]

>>27964696
>>27964762
Twilight mumbles, "Need me to hold him down?" as Luke comments on her bitching. "Or I could see if I can teleport things OUT of a pony gullet. Haven't tried that before."

As Luke swigs down the Luminesque, and feels no alcoholic effect, Twilight bleches and covers her eyes with her wings as the bats look on as he throws up the yellow goop he found before on the floor, the shouting audibly growing in volume as it falls out. It quivers and shakes as it's laying there on the ground, slowly crawling away from Luke as the effort leaves him drained.

"Oooh... ooooooh... uggh... I-I don't feel so good. Where am I...? A-am I still at the dome..?" the voice says loudly for all to hear

>>27964841
>>27964753
>>27964768
Red holds up a claw in protest to Southern, "W-we not lose war! What we have, no Dome could beats, no matter how strongs their defenses! Lasers, bombs, forgets it all!"

He stammers. "Erm. Rights? I means, Dogs thinked this through for long times... er, for dogs."

Red grumbles at Onyxia's comment, "Feh. You know Red did not mean you shiny ponies. Yous okay. Dogs got big shiny car out of you ponies. You just save Red. But rest of all ponies bad for Danger Dogs."

As you admit to helping him finish it, he grumbles. "Hmmm... good points, I guess. You probably see what trail is doing eventually... but it goes deep. Deeeeeeep in Danger Tunnels, miles even. And it dangers. You sure want to come see what trail does?" He glares through his shades, "And you swear not to STOP dogs when you see what trail does? No. Matter. What?"

>>27964762
>>27964841
Nero looks at the goop as it falls to the floor, mingled with alcohol and vomit, making no effort to hide His disgust.

"What in the name of Tophet is that?" the king asks as the 'mare' crawls across the floor.

>>27964852
"Not all of them can be bad, but I guess there's not too many good examples around here..."

Onyxia pauses for a moment at Red's deal, how stern he is gives her some worry. But hearing what the dome has done, stopping them is a priority. If they're breaking tunnels, they could bring down the entire caverns.
"I swear, I came here to help, and that's what I'm going to do. I won't stop the trail."
She says, pausing to hold up a hoof in oath, before continuing to follow.

>>27964841
Luke is kneeling, fatigued from having wrechted out the mass of goo he manages to utter a quip "You- you can get back in my dome *heavy exhale*."

>>27964841
"Either you missed some or," Crumple looks at the options present, "somepony has been busy digging out what you all blew the fuck up."

Crumple gives a mechanical hum before speaking again.
"Alright, time to bust out my number one tool for shit like this."
Crumple raises a hoof at a tunnel, and then....
"Eenie," the hoof moves to another tunnel, "meenie," then again, "miney," the hoof cycles back, "moe."

"Shoot its head for a damn good show.
If it hollars, the the mag flow
Eenie meenie miney...MOE!"

>which tunnel do we go down?!
[1d3]

>>27964852
"God, not particularly but I guess I have to as a hero of time while everyone else is gallivanting elsewhere."

>>27964902
>>27964950
Twilight leans down, her eyes twitching as she observes it. The bats nearby gather around, and Boo asks Nero, "Anyone got a stick?"

The goop begins quiver, taking along the shape of 6 limbs sticking out of its epicenter as it starts to form an equine shape, including the four limbs, a tail, and a head slowly forming out of the front. It turns its, still very bulbous, 'head' around, the rough shapes of eyes and nostrils appearing on it. "I-I'm not... please, I-I'm just looking for supplies, for my friends. I'm not a threat! I-I mean, I know I'm a Gooze, but, I swear I can't hurt anything..." the voice emerges from the bubbling muzzle, the other ponies around still a bit awe-struck.

"A Gooze...?" Twilight asks aloud,
"Y-yes... you know, a m-mutant?" the voice responds, its form taking on that more accurate of a mare's with time.

>>27964939
Red stares at your hoof, thinking about it for a few minutes as he blankly looks at Onyxia, occasionally giving a sniff of the air around her as he takes his time thinking.
After a full minute passes, Steel groans. "Today?"

Red grunts, tapping his claw against his head. "Hrrmph. Okay. I take chance. You all alright as far as ponies go, and making more shinies always helpful. Sound like you have good reason stopping them too," he waves a claw, "Just follow Red, we meet up with Pink and others by the trail edge."

>>27965061
>>27964991
"Hmmmm, well, that good enough as excuses for Red as any! You help Danger Dogs, maybe Danger dogs help you too?! Danger Dogs would never do works without getting somethings good in returns."

Steel humms. "Hmm. Well, there is going along with this plan of theirs... or trying our own hooves at the Dome they're talking about. A more direct approach."

>>27964974
"Digging it out...? But, the tunnel we went through was still intact. Even if they dug it out, it'd be more earth than concrete like this."

As you look through the tunnels, Lead Head seems to resolve herself to your method of choosing, nodding her head as you pick the tunnel to your left on the bottom-floor of this cistern. You head in towards it, moving down a fair ways until you hear a few droplets fall behind you, and a shifting shadow from the edge of the new tunnel you chose moving.

As she hears the drops, Lead turns around, itching her trigger hoof, "W-what the hell was that?"

>>27965061
Onyxia nods and follows as Red gives in and agrees to show the trail.
"How many more shinies do you need, do you think?"

After Red mentions Pink, she follows with a second question.
"You said you live in the tunnels here. I'm just curious, but how many of you are there?"

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>>27965066
"I mean get rid of the fucking rubble blocking it or whatever, maybe even patch it up."

Crumple stops, considering it might be a certain mutant. But considering how she got to where she is, and who she is going after, Honey isn't going to take that chance and get shot in the back or something. All Lead sees out of Crumple is the red lines of lights glowing...
>Honey Special
...before Crumple charges the shadow and pins it to the wall.
>Pinned against wall; automatic

All Crumple does is give a loud, mechanical roar with its metal maw wide open, flames welling up to better illuminate who, or what, Crumple just pinned.

>>27965061
>>27964950
Nero looks to the mutant, before turning to Lukewarm and Twilight.

"As much as I'd like to know how Lukewarm managed to swallow such a creature without realizing it was alive, I think we all have better things to do right now. Crumple Zone went on ahead, alone, and beyond that we still have to find Eo Naxx Claw."

"So, if Luke is done terrorizing this creature, I think we should move on."

>>27965066
>>27965114
She tries to think on which would be a better approach. [1d10]

>>27965139
"Yeah I'm good with terrorizing for now. Lets check out what Crumps is up to."

>>27965061
Luke appears grossed out by the goo pony taking shape and the thought of it having been in his belly. "Oh crap, I had a mare inside of me. Does that count as cheating? I'm sure some folk are into that. eeehh" Luke scratches the back of his head
before awkwardly ambling up to the goo pony. "Hay, uhh sorry about swallowing you up'n stuff. I was really sober. er.. here have one of these" Luke hoofs her a bottle of Luminesque, the one he already opened. Luke's sorry but not that sorry.

>>27965146
You take a moment to reflect:
>One one hoof, the Dogs seem to have a plan they've been working on for some time. And they claim that any attempt to reason with has been met with violence, the danger is quickening with every day. The Dome they speak of is an unknown element.
>On the other, the Dogs are clearly lacking in brainpower. The plan they could have might well be dangerous, even to themselves, and no telling if the Dome is truly as bad as they claim.
>It mostly comes down to trust between these Dogs and the mysterious Dome, but there are more known quantities for the dogs at the moment.

>>27965114
Red snickers, "Barely any more, you not need to do LOTS, Onyxias. We have most finished, would have been okay without, but this gets it done much quicker than the shiny runs, hehehehe...." As he bounces along the trail, he grins and gives a thumbs up

"There LOTS of dogs in my gang! Too many for Red to count. There more than... 100. 100 is high as most Dogs know." The hairless dog states, as he leads you on a route through the twisting streets of Everfree.

>>27965146
>>27965114
You are lead to the outskirts of the city, towards a far standing cavern: the one where you see the trail leading down into from where you arrived. The trail of shiny objects, all manner of speaking as though they looted the entire city, falls in as three more dogs approach. The youngest look one (Onyxia recognizes this one as Pink), shoots up towards Red, angrily throwing his fists around, "RED! You late! We been waiting forever!"

Red growls, "Shutup, Pink! I gots held up by mutant. They moving deeper into city. Almost gots me, but its okay. We gots aaaall we needs for the trails, now. Remember shiny pony? She back, with MORE shiny ponies."

He sniffs the air around Onyxia, moving in close, "She lived?"

>>27965225
>>27965132
You quickly spring to life against the shadow, Lead Head barely calling out, "What the hell are you doing?!" Before you find your hoof pounding into the wall. You hear a crunching of bone, and as your mouth opens wide and the flames light up your prey, you see what it is you've caught.

You see the face of a pony, its skin camouflaged to match that of the cement, opening its maw wide at you as it writhes in your hooves, teeth gnashing as its strength pushes against Crumple's hoof, a curdling scream released as you begin seeing four other shifting blobs around the tunnel, all of them moving on you.

As the fire illuminates its face, Lead Head scowls, "O-oh, fuck!!" And readies her rocket launcher to fire. "Crumple, move!"

>>27965139
>>27965171
The Gooze finally finishes taking its form: the mare stands slightly shorter than Twilight, and as its goo takes on an actual pony shape you see its 'mane' cuts short, just above the neckline. It seems to manifest clothes out of its goop, sporting a jacket and loose slacks as it keeps its liquidy ears kept flat, staring around at her visitors. "Y-yes, I think I'm totally done being terrorized myself... oww...." she cracks her neck, "That laser really hurt..."

Twilight stares at Luke, "He SHOT you, too?"

"I probably shouldn't have been skulking around so much." She stares at Luke, glaring at him as well as she's past one of the bottles of Luminesque. "Uh... I don't really need this, thanks." She says, putting it down on the floor next to you. "Thanks for, at least spitting me back up, I guess... I really wish you would have just listened to me earlier, though..."

Twilight sighs, "I'm really sorry for that, too... I never imagined I'd have to reprimand Luke for eating a pony." She turns to Nero, "We're going to catch up with Crumple?"

>Pause