Into The White - Survival CYOA

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>>29016798
This shit again?

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>>29016798

>There was a bright flash through the window, as little bits of hail and sleet began to patter on your windshield.
>A nearby rumble of thunder announced the presence of the storm you had just flown into.

>You tapped on the controls again in a hurry, fiddling with the radio and trying to get it to work.
>It was just a short while before you deduced once and for all that the radio was busted.

>The plane began to shake as the storm surrounded you, and high winds began to buffet your craft.
>You felt yourself jostle in your seat, as some shockingly heavy turbulence began to take hold, your poor little plane evidently being pushed and thrown about by the heavy storm.
>You buckled up, held on tight, and attempted to pull up and out of the storm.
>Another flash briefly blinded you, as a terrible roar and shake announced that your plane had just been struck by lightning.
>Another jostle and a sudden feeling of nausea announced that you were going down.
>Your reflexes kicked in, as you grabbed the radio once more, attempting to announce a mayday.
"Mayday mayday, this is Pine Boughs aboard the Sweet Pea, Last known co-ordinates North 71 degrees 42 minutes, West 120 degrees 2 minutes! Unknown heading, all instruments failing, lost in storm. Mayday mayday."
>The lights went dead in your cockpit, and you sighed, placing the radio back.
>You just hoped that somehow something had made it out.
>Your heart sank as you heard a loud bang followed by one of your engines sputtering out.
>T-This couldn't be happening.

>You gripped the control column forcefully, attempting to keep steady.
>Your mind raced for plans of action.

>>29016868
Couple options.

If letting go of the control stick makes the plane dive, then we can't really bail out and we'll have to ride the plane down to the ground. Keep it level as possible, try to find level, clear place to land.
However, if it can stay somewhat level, then bailing out is much safer and will decrease the possibility of initial injuries, which can be lethal in a survival situation. Grab any survival gear that I'm sure a prepared pony like Piney has closeby - such as a first aid kit - then grab the parachute and jump.

Bailing out is preferred, I think, but if it's not safe to do so, then don't.

>>29016868
Time to jump the fuck out of here

>>29016798
This a one shot or are you gonna put it on anonpone?

>>29016868
I don't see any wings or a horn on her, so she's a dirt muncher. Got any parachutes in that tin can you call a plane?

>>29017034
Use your eyes please, anon.

>>29016868
Try to safely land on a flat areas.

>>29016868
Stay in the plane and glide down to the flattest patch of earth we can find. We're going to need the plane for supplies in order to survive.

>>29016868

We're going to need the supplies. I'd say stay with the plane and attempt a soft flat landing.

>>29016868
>struck by lightning
You know planes usually are lightning proof right? And can at least glide with one less engine? Who built this thing?

Pull up hard and restart the engine, plan out the fastest way out if we get into an irrecoverable nosedive.

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>You release the controls, testing how stable the plane is.
>It continues careening down at a worrisome pace, but not unmanageable.
"Good enough! Time to go!"
>You stabilize it one last time, before leaping from your seat and opening the supply box.
>You grab the first aid kit and a survival bag, leaving whatever would be too heavy to carry behind, like pots and pans and what looks like a tent.
>You hesitate just a second longer, looking over all the things. There was no telling how many you might need and how many might be lost if the plane goes down.
>Your eyes glance back to the parachute and the cabinet it lives in. Then you look back to the instrument panel one last time, where you spy the altimeter letting you know you've dropped nearly a hundred feet in the second or two it took to check your stuff.
>There wasn't any time- You had to decide now!

>As if on cue, you find your self slipping on the floor as the plane begins to tilt.
>If this thing goes into any sort of dive or spin, there was no way you would make it out in one piece.
>You jump back to the controls, pulling yourself flat once more, thankful that one of your propeller engines was still working.
>You curse under your breath, as you glare down into the cloudy depths looking for a hopefully flat spot to land.
>You'd missed your chance to jump, but at least you still had the supplies with you.
>A looming grey mountain streaks past your window, and the simplest of details become discernible to you.
>Trees, rocks, jagged hills, and bushes all waited for you.
>Until finally you saw it, and nice flat clearing.
>You pushed the plane down, before pulling up gently, having misjudged the distance to the ground.
>A lush patch of snow lurches towards you-
>There is a scream of metal and sound, before you feel your head jerk forwards-
>For a brief moment, everything goes dark.

>>29017195
Fart yourself awake.

>>29017195
Wake the fuck up.

>>29017195
tense and stretch yourself out, making sure you werent injured

>>29017195
Screee loudly to echolocate in this dark place we find ourselves in.

>>29017195
Did you soil yourself?

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>You awake to a dull pounding in your head, completely dazed.
>Your ears seem to be ringing, and your limbs are heavy.
>Slowly, you open your eyes, feeling a deep ache through your spine.
>A cold bites at your nose, and you become aware that gentle snow flakes are now laying themselves down on your snoot.
>The windshield is gone. You notice glass across the front of the plane and scattered through out the cockpit.

>You feel like you take ages to come to your sense and finally check yourself over, tensing up and stretching out from your mangled chair.
>The side of your temple and your hoof were cut by glass in the crash, and your spine didn't agree very much with it.
>Aside from that, you don't find yourself to be too terribly injured.
>The cold bites at your front, but you can't help but feel a deep warmth setting it, heating your back.

>You glance to your left, and find yourself staring out at open landscape. The tip of the plane appeared to have torn off just a slight bit.
>The smell of smoke permeates through your nose, and you cough just a little bit.
>You're going to have to get yourself moving soon, but right now you just feel like laying there and resting. Who knew that crashing a plane could take so much out of you?
>How had the crash happened anyway? You thought for sure your angle had been fine.
>Several yards ahead of the plane, you see one of your landing pontoons embedded in the ground.
>It must have snapped on impact.

>You breathe out, finally starting to regain your senses.
>What now?

>>29017484
>heat at our back
ah, that must be the fire

First, we should unbuckle and try to secure exit from the plane.

Once we are outside, we can get a bearing of where we are, and let the fire burn out and salvage later.

>>29017484
>Warmth at your back

FIRE! FIRE! WE HAVE A FIRE!

GET OUT! ESCAPE!

>>29017484
Grab the survival pack and get out through the broken cockpit window.

>>29017484
remove glass in hoof

>>29017563
Not yet, we gotta grab our shit and escape first.

>>29017484
Quickly grab whatever's closeby and get out.

>>29017484
Try to see if the fire is managable. Put it out if possible. There could be some useful items on this plane that will help in our survival.

>>29017484
Is there a fire extinguisher on this plane?

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Why yal want to escape so bad? This planes not going to explode in a movie style explosion. It'll just start burning.

>>29017484
Shake all the glass shard off of yourself, and see if there's something you can use as a gas mask for the smoke.

>>29017484
>You're going to have to get yourself moving soon, but right now you just feel like laying there and resting.
Don't you dare. What will your family and friends do if you die in the middle of nowhere? What of your spouse? Your son?

>>29017484
Investigate the severity of the heat. Is it manageable or will you have to abandon the plan in favor of the cold?
Heh. It's either freezing or potentially burning to death.

>>29016798
Hey White, is this the first thread of your cyoa?

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>Your thoughts slowly click, as you reassemble your grasp on reality.
>You've just crashed in the north.
>Near as you know, your radio transmission never went through.
>You were alone, you were getting warmer by the minute, you didn't know where you were, and you didn't know if you were going to get home.
>But one thing at a time. Which problem was the biggest one that you could deal with this second?
>That would of course be the fact that you were getting warmer and warmer.

"Oh Celestia, this plane is on fire-"
>You realized, your adrenaline kicking back in.
>You look around for a fire extinguisher, but find none.
>You unbuckled yourself, and turned to face a growing orange glow, as the back half of the plane began to flicker and spit with a growing flame as the various parcels and letters lit up.
>It certainly didn't seem manageable, as the heat grew.

"My supplies! Hey! I need those!"
>You yelled your complaints at the fire, trotting over quickly and pulling the large metal case away from the flames, whilst staying ducked underneath the smoke.
>You got the full container of your supplies into the front cockpit, before giving a gargantuan effort and lifting the box onto the window's ledge.
>The heat was beginning to get unbearable already.
>You give a mighty push, and it slides out with a thunk, landing on it's side and spilling out the majority of it's contents.
>Better damp than burned.
>Just as the flames begin licking at your own coat, you hop onto the chair and out the window,flopping out onto the snow.
>You place snow against a singed piece of jacket, cooling it off.

>You were now standing outside a rather fiery plane, with a metal box and a variety of supplies strewn about.
>What is your next step?
>Th-This plane wasn't likely to explode, right? So you should be fine just collecting your thoughts?

>>29017927
Collect supplies, then move a little distance away where there's shelter from the wind but stay within sight. The plan won't explode unless the fire heats up the fuel and builds too much pressure. But since its crashed and all that the fuel tanks are probably broken in half. We could just wait for the fire to burn out.

Still we better gather firewood just in case.

>>29017927
Put items back in the trunk carry it away from the plane.

>>29017948
Belay the firewood

Focus on finding aid kits first and batch and clean our wounds. We need to avoid contracting an infection so we don't die from sepsis.

>>29017961
Dis.

>>29017927
Is there a part of the plane that's scavangabe and not on fire?

>>29017927
Aaaaaawwww crap. Let's hope that the Royal Equestrian mail service will waiver the damage. If this is our own personal plane the fuck, let's hope we paid for plane insurance.

>>29017927
Unless we were carrying packages explosives the plane won't explode.

>>29017927
The fuel tank could explode, but it's unlikely.

I say we forge a jetpack out of the scrap and fly to safety

>>29017927
I'm not sure how much carbon is inside the plane, but it'll take maybe an hour or so until the flames die out. This maybe too optimistic of me, but maybe when the fire dies down we can search for anything that didn't burn, like a metal container, or some tools.

>>29017927
Make a desperate and pointless effort to put out the fire with snow.

>>29017927
Cry

>>29017927
Collect your belongs and places them back into the trunk. Take the time to observe your surroundings.

Where are we?

>>29018037
Yes. Wait until it does die down. We have things we could be doing. Like cleaning our cuts.

>>29017927
salvage the radio

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>>29018315
These are both great ideas. We need to survive, and that won't happen if we do not fully utilize our assets. All that aluminum. We need it. Sleds and shelters and stuff.

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>You begin picking up the scattered supplies, and placing them back in their container.
>You then gazed up at the flaming wreck, shielding your eyes with one hoof.
>You throw a snowball or two at the plane hopelessly, your eyes tearing up.
>This was- This was a mess.
>It was a small relief considering your situation, but at least your plane was insured.
>Not that that would help if you couldn't make it back to civilization alive.

>You shook your head, trying to focus your thoughts on important matters. They say a pony can last without food for weeks, and without water for a few days. And without heat for only a few hours.
>But without hope, you'd only last a few minutes.
>You began pulling the box away from the fire, kicking yourself into gear.
>You were certain that the fuel tank wasn't at risk of exploding, but you weren't sure you wanted to risk that slim chance.
>There were lots of things you needed to be doing if you wanted to survive out here.
>First and foremost you'd need shelter. You could even scavenge the plane for spare parts, once it stopped burning.
>For now, the best thing you could do would be to clean out your cuts.

>You open up the box once again, and dig out the first aid kit.
>It contains several useful things, including gauze, bandages, disinfectant...
>You pluck that pesky piece of glass out of your hoof, and gently wipe it with a salve. Your hoof begins to sting, but you can't tell if it's from the cold or not.
>Shivering, you bandage up your hoof and your forehead.
>You sort of miss standing beside the giant fire, it was nice and warm.
>Glancing over, you see the fire still burning strong.
>Heavy flakes of snow pile around you.
>Judging by the light of the sky, you still had an hour or two until nightfall.

>What is your next step, now that your wounds are taken care of?

>>29018441
Make a shelter. the fire of the plane will last for a little while longer, so we can use that as heat to start our own fire once it begins to die down. How's our food looking? We might have to forage for berries or something,
Fill a bag with snow and leave it by the fire so it melts down into water.

>>29018441
Something important to keep in mind.
The Crystal empire is the source of the aurora borealis. Following it should lead us there.

Unless Piney knows any sources of civilization around the place she crashed.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Pausing here for tonight.
See you tomorrow.
Oh god how do I quest. I have forgotten.

Hope you are all enjoying so far. It's weird doing this again. Feel free to leave any comments/criticisms you may have. Mammoths next session.

>>29018486
I'm new to your cyoa's, but I'm having tons of fun!

>>29018441
Check our food and water supply. Do we have an isolated thermos to keep water from freezing?

>>29018441
We're an earth pony, with earth pony strengths dammit. Earth ponies have survived harsher conditions.

Use your superior earth pony strungth to make quick work of one of the tree's with the axe in the trunk. Use the tree to make firewood and a shelter.

>>29018441
Check our inventory. What do we have on our person, and what do we have in the trunk.

>>29018441
>Several yards ahead of the plane, you see one of your landing pontoons embedded in the ground
Drag the landing pontoon, or the the left wing of the plan that snapped off, and use the to help build an improvised shelter. Drag either (or both away if manageable) and lean it against a tree. Start using branches to make a hut against the tree.

>>29018441
Does it look like there any place suitable to start a camp?

>>29018441
Use a small plastic bag or a cloth as you go berry picking.

>>29018441
Make a quick prayer to the Alicorn sisters and hope you survive.

>>29018441
The fire will destroy paper, blankets, cloth, etc.. We can salvage anything that's secured in an isolated metal container, bits of metal. . . .

>>29018441
Salute your burning plane. Where others would have died if they were in v a similar situation, you had survived. She has served you well.

>>29018441
Hey are those sapling to Pine's left edible? Ponies eat hay, and she can't be picky with what she can eat.

>>29018441
Hey. Check if those trees still have any Moss on them. Dead or alive. Moss or bark that can easily be made into fine powder is a good indication of fire starters. If we have a piece of flint and metal in that trunk, our chances of survival will increase.

>>29018441
Pull up you hoodie so your ears don't freeze.

>>29018441
How much does Pine know about survival.

>>29018441
>And today was just another routine flight across the northern most reaches of Equestria.
How much do we know about the Northern reaches of Equestria? Any settlement around here?

>>29017927
Let's see. I see an axe, the med kit, I think a compass, a blanket, some small baggies of stuff. That's all I could Identify.

bep

>>29018441
Will Pine Bough live long enough to find her was out of these frozen wasteland? Or will she simple die like any other would be survivalist? Come back in six hours and you might just find out . . .
>too be continued
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M

>>29022012

don't die

>>29024074

Rip.

Well this quest was fun while it lasted. I'm kind of disappointed that it's already dead.

It was so you understand too . . . .

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>A number of ideas floated through your head at once.
>You had so many questions and so many things to do.
>Shelter was a high priority.
>But so was water and food.
>Could you eat those saplings over there?
>And getting out of here, finding your way back to civilization of any sort.
>You had gone off course, but you'd flown around enough to at least partially memorize the land.
>Did you perchance know where you were? Were there any towns or cities nearby?
>It was dark and cloudy in the sky, so you couldn't look around for any mountainous landmarks, or even the Aurora.

>You looked over to the still burning plane.
>There wouldn't be any cloth or papers that would survive the blaze, but you could probably get some metals once it was over.
>And the pontoon laying over in the snow! You could lay that against a tree and start building a shelter.
>A puddle of melted snow around the fire made you realize that you should be melting your own water.
>You went over to your metal supply box to check if you had a plastic baggy or thermos.
"Actually, I should just take a complete inventory, shouldn't I?"
>You asked yourself, muttering slightly.

>The box contained a treasure trove of useful things. A hatchet, your first aid kit, a flashlight with at least 24 hours worth of batteries.
>Various bags of dehydrated soup and a number of oat and granola bars, as well as 6 (currently frozen) bottles of water and a 1 litre thermos.
>A 12' by 9' blue tarp, which you were sure would come in handy. Along with it was a thick blanket, and a 30' rope.
>Various utensils and pots and pans, as well as a survival knife.
>A single magnesium stick and 24 waterproof matches.
>And one compass, with a mirror attached.

>You beamed happily.
>You had enough to last at least one week.
>Would that be enough?

>>29024601
We should save these for emergencies. Be heavier, but better walk slow than starve. Is there gonna be a storm?
If not we can melt some snow in the box itself for water, make a shelter from the tarp and blanket, ration out the soup and granola for morale

>>29024601
Good stuff. Let's start by making camp, then we can gather some wood for a fire, I think.

>>29024601
so first step in any survival situation, we need to get a look at our surroundings

are there any land marks?
is there a storm coming?
how is the plane fire looking?

if we need to move, let's keep the supplies within line of sight

can't afford to lose them if we get too far out

>>29024601
It's not going to be enough. It'll take at least a week for ponies to organize a search party and get out here. Don't set up a shelter yet, but instead trot around for a little bit and try to find a location with water at the least. On a hill would be preferable to block some wind, and if we can get some tree cover, we'd be living the luxury life. Spend at most an hour or two looking around, no longer. Don't want to be stuck out building the shelter in the middle of the night.

>>29024655
If you put snow it the box it'll make everything wet. Plus you need heat to melt anything. We would need to put a pot of snow in a fire.

>>29024662
I agree. Let's take a look at our surroundings, but let's not wander to far from the plane.

After scouting out the area let's build that camp with the pontoon or the severed plane wing.

>>29024670
Tree cover and a spot that blocks wind would be ideal. Yes. But a place with water? There is water all around us. It's just frozen. Just like our bottled of water in the trunk. Which are also frozen.

>>29024601
I think we should start building that shelter before it becomes to dark. Sure we could use the flash light, but that is too valuable of a luxury to waste.

By the time we're done scouting the area it will be darker and colder. We need that shelter to rest until morning. Then it will be safe enough to explore our surrounding.

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Why not make camp in the burnt out husk of the plane? It'll do a lot better of shielding us from the wind and snow than anything we could do out here.

>>29024797
if we do this, we should we should make a fire first to melt some water and get some soup going

Come to think of it...

we need a soup pot, huh?

>>29024797
Hmmmm. You make a good point. It would have walls to protect us from the cold, and we could use the tarp

>>29024853
We have pots

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>You put all the things back in the box.
>Leaving them all out in the snow would be silly after all.
>No telling what sort of wildlife might come along and borrow your stuff.

>You glance up to the sky, trying to gauge your situation.
>It was around 10 degrees, with a fairly consistent snowfall, and still an hour until you lost all your light.
>By now, the worst of the storm had seemingly passed, as there was only mild winds. You didn't even hear thunder anymore!
>A distant rumble proved you wrong.
>Well, whatever. As long as you weren't actively being struck by lightning you were probably going to be fine.

>Shivering in place, you shook off a small layer of snow, before trotting away from the smouldering blaze of your plane.
>You really had been lucky, hadn't you? A lot of ponies wouldn't have been able to walk away from that.
>You begin scouting about the area, making sure not to stray too far from the glow of the only source of heat and light for miles.
>If you got lost now, you'd be hopeless.
>Not that your situation wasn't already pretty bad entirely.

>Walking away from your cynical thoughts, you studied the shape of the landscape and the flora and fauna that decorated it.
>Well, the flora and fauna that wasn't hiding underneath nearly a foot of snow.
>Actually, the depth of the snow here surprised you, you had half expected the mountain snowfalls to be much deeper.
>Maybe you had landed in a valley?

>A short while later, you returned to your box, having found a nice depression beside a tree you thought might be good to establish yourself in. It was only 50 feet away from the plane too, so moving back and forth would be no challenge.
>You approached the pontoon and began dragging it towards your selected tree, a nice tall pine tree of some sort.

>How were you going to set this up? Would you use your ropes and tarp?
>Should you just set up shelter in the plane?

>>29024601
Scout out the area, then check to see if the plane is still burning.

>>29024982
Careful not to work up a sweat little pon, Les Stroud told me sweating in this environment is a huge mistake.

>>29024982
Plane. The metal will hold the heat for a long time and keep us toasty overnight.

>>29025042
Yes but there's the issue with the embers and ash. That plane might just burn through the whole night, and I rather not have Pine die of black lung.

>>29024982
It really depends on how long we think the plane will keep burning. If the fire is small enough we can fill the pots with snow and throw it on the fire. We just need a small section of the plane. Let the fire kill itself.

If it looks like it'll keep burning into the morning then we build the tree shelter with the pon.

>>29024982
Grab an empty pot and fill it with snow. Cover the pot then leave it near the fire to melt.

>>29024982
How are we going to keep the tarp from flying away? Search under the snow near the tree's for any branches.

>>29024982
Eat the saplings. Horses (probably ancient and primitive relatives of ponies) would graze and nibble on just about anything they could reach, so a sapling should be fain game. Veggies will make you big and stronk.

>>29024982
Depending on where Pine sleeps she should sweep away the soot or snow.

>>29024982
Do it pine. Eat the saplings! What if you never come across any more food out here? You know what happens? You die.

>>29024982
Use your earth pony magic to grow food!

>>29024982
Check the condition of the fire.

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>You finish leaning the pontoon against the tree, and wipe a trail of sweat from your forehead.
>Uh oh. You remembered reading a long time ago that sweating in a situation like this could be dangerous.
>You could end up dehydrated or worse.
>Your forehead was also feeling suspiciously warm, while your ears and snoot were still feeling the bite of the cold.

>Putting it out of your mind, you head back to your box, grabbing a lidded pot and filling it with untouched pristine snow.
>When you get over to the plane, you notice the flames had diminished to an impressive degree.
>Although the floor was still doused in flames it appeared the worst was over.
>The paint and even bits of metal had been melted away, leaving a blackened shell of the once beautiful steel bird.
>However, large columns of smoke still billowed out, blending with the darkening cloudy sky.
>Had it been a clear day, that smoke might have been useful in signalling for help.

>You began throwing hooffulls of snow onto the floor of the plane, testing the strength of the fire.
>Bursts of steam hiss back at you, as the fire continues burning.
>The wind is keeping most of the smoke away from you, but you can still smell the absolutely acrid fumes wafting up.
>At some point, the fuel tank may have burst from the pressure and begun leaking liquid fire over the floor of the craft.
>It certainly didn't seem to be going out no matter how much snow you threw.
>And even if it went out, it would still smoulder and smoke for quite while. And if you wanted to use this for shelter, you'd have to scrape away some of the charcoal. On top of that, the lower embers might still be hot.
>You sat your pan on it, beginning to melt some clean water.

>You walk back over to your box, snagging a bite of sapling on the way.
>It was horribly tough and chewy, and bitter as all tartarus.
>You shivered heavily in the cold, despite still sweating.

>>29025357
Okay, then instead of using the plane as our shelter, use one wall of it as our shelter and the pontoon and tarp as the other ones. That way we get the ambient heat from the plane to keep us warm, the grassy ground to sleep on instead of snow from where it melted the snow, but are outside of where the smoke is.

>>29025357
It looks like it is only burning in one half. Can we look in the other half to see what condition it is in?

>>29025357
Oi! I did mention pulling up her hoodie! Is roight here!
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>>29025357
I'm thinking we can make some soup to fill the thermos, or just pour the hot water into the thermos.

>>29025357
Drink some water to rehydrate.

>>29025357
While your near the almost shelter, cover the pontoon with the tarp, and tie the rope over the tarp to keep it from falling off and to secure the pontoon to the tree.

Then head back to the plane, break off one of the propellers on the plane to use as an improvised shovel to scoop out the snow in the depression in the ground.

Once the snow has been dug out and you have a nice empty depression, retrieve the most likely hot pot of water and put in in the depression. Throw the thermal blanket over that and you have yourself a Kotatsu.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu

Dangit. I'm too late.
>>29025357
Look at all that fuel going to waste. Anyway would would still salvage that?

>>29025599
Not really. It's kinda on fire.

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>>29025426
>>29025444
>>29025457
>>29025498
>>29025531

>You pull your hood up, enjoying the tickle of the fur rim around your face.

>You decide it's about time to drink something so you head back over to the plane.
>You open up the pan, and discover a piece of slush floating in a cold splash of water.
>You take a sip, hydrating yourself just a little bit.
>Despite the piece of ice, the water is slightly warm. It tastes nice and refreshing
>Having a fire sure is useful, you really should be starting one of your own soon. You put the pan back down for now, placing it closer to the flames. You have an idea for later.
>You look back into the front half of the plane.

>Your poor plane. It never deserved this.
>At least it was nice and warm.
>Even the burned out side might be a bit too hot and fiery for your liking still. It would be a perfect shelter if not for the prevalent choking smoke from the other half of the wreck.
>You think long and hard about whether or not you should try and clear out this half and use it as a shelter for the night, but the wind blowing hot embers about makes you reconsider. If any embers blew on you or your equipment it might spell disaster.
>The growing dimness of the sky tells you you are going to have to hurry up and decide how you want to build your shelter.
>Fortunately, you finally have an idea for how to set it up.

>You snag a broken chunk of propellor, your tarp, and head back to the depression.
>A few minutes later, you are able to shovel the depression free of snow, revealing a cold bed of grass underneath.
>You manage to thread the rope through the tarp, and hang it against the pontoon, fastening it around the tree on the other side. It conceals your hide away nicely. You also fasten the back end of the tarp around the tree with a little more rope.
>Finally, you push your box the rest of the way over, taking your hot pot of water with you.
>You place it inside, and lay the blanket over it.
"Success!"

>Should you call it a day?

>>29025609
;n;

>>29025624
Here's a morbid thought:
At least the old gal was warm for the rest of its life.

>>29025624
Momma needs to rest her hoovesies for the morning to come. Did the trunk come with a journal and pens? If not for the weather, then the boredom will eventually kill her. (Not really. Just being dramatic.)

>>29025624
We can leave the grass as it is. Maybe it could act as a weak insulator and bedding?

>>29025624
Keep the survival knife and the hatchet close to you. Never know when you will need to defend yourself from predator or curious animals.

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>>29025635
>>29025654
>>29025716
>>29025730

>You climb on in to the wind and snow free space, settling down with your back to the surprisingly comfortable tree and the blanket over the pot of hot water.
>You lie down and sit, trying to rest on the cold ground, while also thinking over your situation in depth.
>The more you think about it, the more distressing it becomes.

>You were alone in the cold cold North.
>It was storm season.
>There was a chance nobody knew you were here.
>And- And you might not survive this.
>That was a cold hard reality you were going to have to face.
>There was a chance you might never see your son's face again.
>Or hear his warm and cheery voice.
"E-Elm."
>You find yourself whispering in the silence.

>You go out again to briefly grab your knife and hatchet out of the box. You didn't want to have to deal with any surprises.
>When you enter the cocoon of your tarp once more, you are surprised by how warm it is.
>You were still shivering, but your body heat and the hot water were certainly having an effect.

>With the events of the day weighing you down, you found yourself drifting off.
>Sometime during the night, you pulled the blanket onto yourself, smiling at the warmth.

>Also sometime during the night, you decided you were going to try your absolute hardest to survive, strengthening your resolve.
>You were Pine Boughs, tough as nails survivalist pony.
>And you sure as heck weren't going to just give up.

>You refused to simply fade into the white.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Pausing for tonight.

Sleep well and warm.

>>29025624
Victory dance for completing the shelter!

>>29025829
Aw shoot. I was late again.

>>29025824
Night

b

So I guess it's safe to assume that the tent and the parachute didn't survive the fire even if parachutes are a bit fire resistant. That's a shame.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9LDUaEf3wJA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3o2cMGCMK2c

>>29028403

>>29029999
Holy shit, fucking checked.
From page 9, too.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Despite those nice digits, I'm finding myself unable to run today due to reasons. So sadly no Pine Horse today.

I-I'm not abandoning it, I swear.

>>29025824
Take a mornin piss.

>>29030199
You better not. Or I'll be . . . I'll be really sad.

>>29018478
I must have missed this before, but I endorse this as a good method of completing our long term goal of seeking rescue. Eventually we need to find civilization, but obviously that is priority two behind simply "survive".

>>29031677
You must have missed this but, >>29024601

Who know's how far the Crystal Empire is towards the north. Is it even back yet?

>>29031707
>is it back yet?
That seems like something we would know.

Could this be the dark and edgy lis quest I've always longed for bump?

>>29032442
Why would this quest be edgy?

>>29031707
>And today was just another routine flight across the northern most reaches of Equestria.
Maybe meta knowledge that we know of the Crystal Empire. It doesn't specify WHAT is in the northern mist reaches, just that we were flying across it.

>>29025824
Idea. Let's kill some animals and make coats out of their furs.

>>29032588
Maybe we can get the jump on some hibernating bears.

>>29025824
Hey QM? Can ponies eat meat?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQ7o-gWWng
Fucking ponies!?

>>29025824
Oh snap. Grass under the snow you say? Do you guys know what that means?
EMERGENCY FOOD EVERYWHERE!

Introducing Pine Boughs. Hardcore survivalist mare.

You know i'm kind of curious. How old is Pines son? Is he old enough to take care of hitself, or is he a little colt all on his loansome.

>>29025824
Check the pot of water and see if it froze.

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>>29031677
>>29031930
>>29032588
>>29032591
>>29032597
>>29035543
>>29035572

Clearly I need to have a little Q&A thing eventually.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>29036774

>Your first thoughts of the morning come with subconscious complaints from your body about how cold it is and how hungry you are.
>You blink slightly, and find your eyes being stabbed by a bright blue light enveloping your little shelter as the morning sun shines through your tarp.
>You lift your hoof over your eyes, trying to shield them from the light.
>Your mind slowly dragged itself over recent events, as you tried to remember why you were sitting under a blue tarp with your back to a tree.

>Oh right. You were screwed.
>You closed your eyes again, wanting to go back to sleep and wake up from this nightmare, but knowing you couldn't.
>You had too many things to do.

>You tap the pot of water, checking if it had frozen over in the night.
>It wobbles and sloshes audibly in response.
>You uncover yourself from the blanket, and lift the lid.
>A thin layer of ice had formed on top, but it had shattered when you tapped it just now.
>You lifted the pot to your mouth and took a long gulp of water.

>What was your first order of business today?
>Find out where you were? Pack everything up and begin heading South? Or you should head north, and see if you could spot the aurora that would lead you to the Crystal empire. Surely it couldn't be that far.
>A rumble of your stomach reminded you that you hadn't eaten anything yesterday.
>You were just about to leave the shelter and reach for your box when suddenly you heard the snap of a branch.
>Your ears swiveled to listen, as you suddenly found yourself frozen in more ways than one.

>There was something outside the shelter? W-What if it was a bear! Or worse!
>Your hooves found your hatchet, and clutched it tightly.
>What should you do?
>Take a peek? Run and scream? Stay quiet?
>There was no telling what things might be out in these mountains.

>>29037062
Be cautious. Try to peek around the corner to see what it might be, and head out to greet it if it's a friendly, retreat if it's hostile. If it isn't clear whether or not it's helpful or harmful, remain watching it to try and discern its behavioral patterns.

>>29037062
Try to remain as calm as possible, don't move a muscle and wait for it to leave.

>>29037062
Lets wait it out. If it gets closer we might have to scare it off, but that's our last resort.

>>29037062
It's time for you to go Rambo on this intruder. Weird the knife in your mouth and hold the hatched in a hoof. Take your time to steady your breathing, then take a peak out the tarp.

>>29037062
Take a moment to listen carefully, lean over and peek out if possible

>>29037062
Take your time to listen to whatever may be out there. Listen to the soft sound of snow crunching beneath them. If you see an outline outside the tarp, that means who or whatever is outside is relatively close.

All you know is that you heard a snap of a branch outside. Sure it might be an animal, but there could be a slight chance it was just some squirrel in the tree.

>>29037062
Take a moment to listen before you take a peak.

>>29037062
I really hope it's a fellow pony outside.

>>29037062
Whatever outside can probably smell fear.
Stop being afraid
Get angry
How dare they scare you like that!

>>29037380
Doesn't anger have a scent too? Maybe we try for confused, or bored. I bet those don't smell.

>>29037399
Oh! Let's pretend we're dead!

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>>29037090
>>29037135
>>29037164
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>>29037399

>You sit for a moment, hardly daring to even breathe.
>Your grip tightens on the handle of the hatchet.
>You ears swivel and rotate, listening for even the slightest of sounds.
>You swear you could even hear the flakes of snow landing.
>Your heart is beginning to beat in your ears.

>There is a quiet crunch in the snow, and your heart rate picks up even more.
>You lean forwards slowly, and then as quietly as you can you begin to peel back the tarp, peeking out at the world.
>Your other hoof still clasps the axe menacingly, as you raise it to strike or throw.
>W-What if whatever was out there could smell your fear?
>You tried to take control of your emotions and attempt to feel calm, at peace, and totally unsmelly

>You really weren't sure what you were expecting to see.
>Maybe a bear or wolf.
>Another pony would have been fantastic.
>Instead you were met with white snow, blue skies-
>And no perpetrator in sight.
>Hey! Blue skies, now you could go out and try to find out where you were-

>A flash of motion caught the corner of your eye, and you became dreadfully aware that there was in fact something out here.
>And it was camouflaged! Probably staring right at you!
>Panic flowed through you, and you began to take action as whatever was hiding in plain sight moved again.

"Don't eat meeeeee!"
>You whinnied loudly, pulling back the tarp and chucking your axe forcefully towards the movement.
>There was a horrid scream, and then several loud thumps as a small white object ran away from you.
>Your hatchet landed harmlessly nearby.

>You plucked up your knife and climbed out the shelter, your breathing still rapid and panicky, as you went to go and try to identify the tracks.
>Walking over cautiously, you picked up your axe too.
>You stood there, your breathing still frantic.
>Your stomach ached gently.
>What the heck was that?

>>29037567
a hare? Check our food stores, make sure they're still here.

>>29037567
Investigate the tracks!

>>29037567
Those tracks are weird. Is it a little bear?

>>29037567
The trunk was closed. And I think it was with us in the shelter

>>29037604
I don't know. It looks like there were two sets of tracks.

>>29037567
Those look a bit like rabbit tracks to me. Check our food.

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I think i know what those tracks belong too. Could be a rabbit or a Jackalope, or some other mammal.

>>29037567

The prints looks similar. Small front paw, and the larger tracks are their hind legs.

How's the integrity of the trunk? Still closed?

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>>29037592
>>29037597
>>29037604
>>29037620
>>29037630
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>>29037682

>It sort of looks like two sets of tracks
>Maybe it was a pair of small bears! Or other weird snow creature! Or maybe-
>You rubbed your tired eyes, trying to calm your panicky horse mind and actually think.
>You recognized these tracks from the large hind leg and small front paws. It was just a jackrabbit.
>You breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing the knife and hatchet you had been gripping fiercely.

>You had better check the box, and hope that the sanctity of it's contents hadn't been violated.
>You make your way over, and find the lid nice and solidly frozen on. You pry it open carefully, and double check your inventory just in case.
>No chewed packages, bottles, or survival gear.
>You still had roughly a weeks worth of prepared food.
>Nothing was missing.
>You sigh in relief a second time.
>You shut the box, before sitting on it and stretching.
>It must have been around nine in the morning, which was actually later than you usually got up.
>Even so, you felt like curling up and going back to bed.

>Your stomach ache worsens slightly, as your body tries to remind you that eating is important.
>But... Was it as important as getting a fire started?
>Or finally going and looking around the area to try and determine where you were?
>Which should you do first, now that you were awake?
>There wasn't any set schedule for you, nor was anyone rushing you to do anything.
>But nevertheless, you felt that time was of the essence.

>>29037949
Devour a granola bar. It'll give you the boost of energy you need.

>>29037949
Eat, then look around for a nice high point nearby we can get the lay of the land from. Fire can wait until we're not moving around anymore, otherwise it's wasted supplies and energy starting it.

>>29037949
If we are going to try and follow the aurora to the crystal empire, we should probably get some more sleep at some point before night, consider we are probably going to be staying up late to catch it.
Food is important, but it's only been a day since the last time we've eaten. Can we eat meat? If so, set up makeshift traps for catching animals. Try and forage around a bit to see if we can find berries or any other edibles. I doubt saplings will be edible, and the grass here probably wont provide much nutrition.
Try and find some dry wood to, and store it in the shelter in case we need a fire.

>>29037949
Find a snack, head back to the plane to see if we can salvage a map. We had our coordinates and heading when we started going down so we can extrapolate our position if we get one.

>>29037949
See if there is anything salvage able in the plane. Any heavy closed containers, check the dashboard of the plane, metal wires, tools, misc.

>>29037949
Use the hatchet to chop down the saplings. You can figure out a use for them later.

>>29037949
Well if we want to start a fire later we should gather some kindling to start the fire. I know moss is pretty hardy. Try looking for moss under the snow near the base of a tree. If grass can survive, then I see no reason why moss cant. From there you can use small sticks, then slightly larger, then logs . . . .

>>29037989
http://www.lrgaf.org/articles/maneater.htm
Don't you saidyou tl;Dr. This is actually pretty cool. Give it a read.

>>29038093
*Don't you say tl;dr before giving it a quick read.

>>29037975
>>29037984
>>29037989
>>29038008
>>29038012
>>29038026
>>29038056

>You get off the box and open it again, procuring a granola bar.
>It wasn't much, but it would have to be enough to get your day started.
>Maybe you could chew another one of those awfully bitter saplings again.
>You could of course clear the snow and eat the grass underneath, but a sturdy earth pony like yourself would have to eat an awful lot of grass to keep herself going in this kind of climate.
>You take your knife with you, and begin heading over to the plane.
>Before anything else, you were going to salvage some raw materials.
>You headed back to the charred fuselage, and climb aboard with a heavy heart.
>It really was a tragic thing, this plane had carried you aloft in the sky for so long. And now here it lay, destined to never fly again.
>But that wasn't to say it couldn't still help you out a little more.

>You began making a pile of things that you might be able to use.
>First, you attacked the control column and dashboard.
>It distressed you a little to see those sad, empty, dark holes where your readouts used to be.
>But you soon popped off the entire panel, revealing various wires and nuts and bolts sitting there waiting to be used.
>Almost all the plastic and glass was melted or cracked and broken, but the metal was still useable, if a little charred.
>Next was the wings. You already had one propellor, and you added another two to your collection. The rest were damaged beyond function. After a great deal of effort, you were able to pry apart the airfoil and obtain some decent sheets of metal and some more wires. What you were to do with them was a whole other story.
>The fuselage itself was burned and damaged. You pulled the charred remains of your parachute out of a melted box on the floor. The chute itself didn't actually seem to be in that bad of condition, you might still find a use for it.
>Your salvage complete, you carried your findings back to the box.
>Now what?

>>29038235
Let's get to a high place and see what we can see.

>>29038235
Parachutes are made with a thick canvas OT with silk. If anything it'Lloyd make an addition blanket of tent.

Make a tombstone or a cross out of some of the melted metal you didn't salvage. The old girl deserve at least that much.

>>29038294
You mean walk, or climb a tree?

>>29038303
Walk, of course.

>>29038310

Walk up a tree. Got it.

>>29038294
Agreed. A lay of the land will tell us how best to start our journey.

>>29038303
Climbing a tree would be dangerous. Not something to be done lightly.

>>29038235
Use a sheet of metal to make a sled for carrying supplies, then pull it with rope made from twisting together the charred remains of useless wires.

>>29038235
Hmmm. Use some sheet metals as a sled and use some of the metal wires to tie said metal sheets to the base of the trunk. So it can still be opened.

>>29038235
See if the survival knife can be used to carve the name of the plane into the improvised tombstone.

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>>29038294
>>29038295
>>29038303
>>29038310
>>29038313
>>29038315
>>29038336

>You drag your supplies back to your little shelter.
>You take a gander at your little pile of metal and wires, and notice something.
"Hey... If I was to set that out- And put wires through the rivet holes there- I could build a sled!"
>You pull out a particularly long and thick sheet of metal, one that seems to bend right at the edges. This was basically just a section of one of your wings.
>You thread some wires through, and tie them off with some careful knotting.
>You also create a long lead to pull it with, but that uses almost all of your wires.
>Oh well, you could always take them off later if you needed them for something else.
>It was time to put this sled to the test.
>You load up your remaining metal, and begin tugging it back over to the plane.
>It slides across the snow smoothly and nicely, despite the weight of the metal.
"Perfect!"
>You gave a little cheer.
>This would make moving a fair bit easier.
>You began trotting with it, towing it about in a large circle.
>When you reach the plane, you salvage just a little bit more metal- All the stuff you thought was iffy or too heavy and not worth carrying back on the first trip.
>You also pause, upon seeing a sort of cross shaped section of metal laying amongst the debris.

>M-Maybe you should make some sort of memorial for your plane? She did serve you well after all. And ponies often used cross shaped things for memorials, although you couldn't remember why.
>You set the metal up to lean against the plane, scraping an inscription into the metal.
"Here lies the Sweet Pea. An Otter class Cargo plane that served for ten years in ferrying about Equestria's cargo under the command of captain Pine Boughs."
>You may have made yourself sound a little more important than you actually were.

>After that, you took your sled over to a tree, and began studying the lay of the land in a bit more depth, searching for any landmarks.

>>29038548
What is that, a radio tower?

>>29038548
The mountains and - oh! What . . . That! Past the peak of that mountain (upper right of the picture)! Is that a transition tower!?

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Pausing for tonight!

I hope you've been enjoying the quest so far. There is a chance I may not be able to run tomorrow, due to both holidays/family/friends and also having an exam on Monday that I haven't studied for at all.

As per usual, feel free to leave any comments, criticisms, or critiques that you may have.
Thanks for playing.

What do you guys think? Continue with the sled looking for land marks, or head back to camp and pack up?

>>29038633
I love you.

>>29038640

Y-You too, Anon.

By the way, I mentioned doing a bit of a Q&A at the start of today's session, so if anyone had any questions they like to ask answered I may stick around for a bit to answer them. provided they spoil nothing.

>>29038633
>>29038649
Just started reading the quest. I'm liking what I'm seeing.

>>29038649
Is this your first cyoa?

>>29038649
I had posted some questions about Pine's son and made a query about her family.
-Is her son independent?
The original post mentioned the ">Your family and friends" and I was wonder, what was her family?

>>29038649
So this is the resurrection of a dead cyoa correct? What inspired you to revive it and where can one find the original cyoa?

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>>29038666

No, it is my second. Before this I ran Curse quest, then got destroyed by depression and schooling for a few months. I'm still not doing well and have no idea why I am running this.

>>29038674

I am not sure what the original authors ideals for Pine's family were, but my own personal head canon for this quest is that Pine's son, who was named Elm previously, is sort of on the young side, and is being looked after by his grandmother and Piney's own mother, an older mare named Cedar, whilst Piney is gone. There is a bit more of a family, such as a sister and a nephew and niece, but they have no business being in this cyoa.

>>29038681
Yes, I brought it back because I enjoyed the original premise and run, however short or deadly it was. The original can be found by searching on DesuArchive, like most everything else on /mlp/. The quest has always been known as simply Into the White.

>>29038633
Well I hope you've been enjoying your cyoa as much as I have!

>>29038783
How much have you been enjoying it? What do you like about it? I need at least a scale of 1 to 10 for enjoyment.

>>29038748
I'm not familiar with curse quest. Could I find this on anonpone, or is it in the archive?

>>29038795

It is in Anonpone. The first three or four posts are a different author.

>>29038789
Well if a 1 was 'total boredom' and a 10 for 'fantastic' I'd saaaay . . . . . a 9.

>>29038748
Would Pine have a spouse, or is that too irrelevant?

>>29038899

Previous iterations of the quest hinted at her being a single mother.

>>29038681
In case you don't wanna search.
That should be all the threads.
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/search/subject/Into%20the%20White%20%28CYOA%29/order/asc/

beb

>>29041090
Should we keep bumping or let the thead die?

>>29041090

>>29041808
>There is a chance I may not be able to run tomorrow
Let the thread die.

>>29042326

>>29042964

>>29042459
Never

>>29043482

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>>29038789
>>29038748
>>29038649
>writefagging +6
>writefagging well +2
>writefagging for a CYOA +1
>drawfagging also +2
>drawfagging pretty quickly +1
>qt hors +3.14
>taking time off of study time to run a quest +2

You sir are a true fag of the arts, solid 17.14/10 QM. How do you does it? Teach me senpai
Seriously tho mad respect for you. We only have one other writefag like you >>29005653 plz remember we love your work and some of us might be a little gay for you.

>>29045279
>some of us might be a little gay for you
>some

beb

>>29046022

>>29046859
9 bump

beb

Page 9 bump

>>29048283
Another 9

>>29049045

999999999

>>29046022
sleep well

Probably should let it die I guess.

>>29050665
cyoa's never die bump!

Don't you die on me

10 bump

>>29053274
10 bump. I don't know if I can go on anon.

>>29047849

>>29055195

>>29055799
this is over anon

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>>29055826
i refuse to let it die REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Return of Lis when?

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>>29038561
>>29038571

>You stare up and over across the snowy mountain range.
>As you'd previously expected, you were in a valley of sorts. But it wasn't as low of a valley as you had hoped.
>Nevertheless, you were still below the tree line, which was very fortunate for you.

>Your eyes went past a glowing red dot in the clouds, and you snapped your head to face that direction.
>Was that-
>It was! A radio tower!
>It was behind some mountains, so you couldn't tell how far away it was, but it looked to be reachable with only a few days of travel or less!
>You threw your hooves into the sky as a cheer.
"YES!"
>You couldn't help but burst out in joy.
>You found yourself on the verge of hopping and jumping.
>You may have lifted your hind legs up to kick at the air.
>Honestly, you had been expecting to spiral into depression and give up all hope today. Having had the nagging feeling all night that you would wake up and buried in snow or frozen in your sleep or that you would search for landmarks and find none, and have no idea where to go.
>But not a single one of those things had happened yet! You were unburied, warm enough, and you even knew where to go next! You had plenty of supplies and no serious injuries. In terms of survival situations, you were kicking butt!

>Now the only question was whether you wanted to settle down for the day, get something worth eating, and leave tomorrow-
>Or go back to shelter, pack everything away, and leave as soon as possible?
>You could wait till later in the day as well, but it would be getting dark in about 10 hours.
>You couldn't be sure, but you felt like the tower was at least 24 hours of travel.
>Your stomach still rumbled, not as satisfied as you would have liked from the singular granola bar.
>Your clothes felt heavy and wet too.

>What would you do?

>>29057623
Find some way to mark this area as a checkpoint so you can take this path? Carve some markings on trees with the survival knife maybe?

>>29057623
It would be nice if there was a way to start a fire, and for that we'll need fuel to burn. The only problem is that said fuel would cold and or damp. Try looking for a rock to strike on a piece of metal on the plane. If would be nice to that in the even we might run out of matches.

>>29057623
We can use bark for a fire, but that wont last long. Look for a fallen dead tree to cut with your hatchet. Also try to gather some pines, bark, and misc small burnable things. If you're going for bark, search for birch. it's easy to burn.

>>29057788

There was a magnesium stick in with the supplies. We can use that to start fires pretty easily.

>>29057847
You're right! Then there's no need to look for a rock.

>>29057623
Potential sourced of fuel: Bark, fallen trees, moss, fallen dead branches, pine cones, pines.

Most of those might be covered in a layer of snow.

>>29057623
I say we head on out to the radio tower tomorrow or the day after. Today we can make preparations to make the journey such as finding landmarks, scavenging for food and fuel, and maybe pick up a few tricks.

>>29057623
Gosh dangit mare! Look fer sommin ta eat! Chickweeds, pinecones, anythan!

>>29057623
Head back to the camp site.

When we head back to camp, we should try to strip any electronics we can out of the plane. Most are probably fried, but I imagine that there might be a few components or wires that survived, and we might need those for commandeering the radio tower and sending an S.O.S. signal.

>>29057623
Pine should set up a snare trap to catch a rabbit. Mare could use some more meat on her bones.

>>29058024
I believed we already did that. Most of the wires were used to pull the sled.

>>29057623
It doesn't appear to be snowing too heavily. We could afford to keep looking for anything interesting. We could always back track with our hoof prints or the sled marks.

>>29057623
When we get back let's put one of that water bottles in our pocket. Our body heat will hopefully thaw it out.

>>29057623
So what happened Lis?

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>You look around, and spot your plane and bright blue shelter someways away in the distance.
>It'd be really awful if you were to go back to your shelter for the day, and then it snowed in the night and didn't remember how to get back here.
>You take out your knife and cut several knotches into nearby trees
>It's slow going, and you have no idea if it will be neccesary for sure, but it's certainly better to be safe than sorry.
>You also take your hatchet and begin stripping some of the trees of their bark and branches.
>You were going to need to gather some firewood after all.
>Standing back, you observe your work-
"O-Oh. This is actually way more noticeable then little knife markings. I should have started with this."
>The trees that were stripped were very noticeable.

>You almost begin looking for rocks to attempt to create sparks, but fortunately remember that you still have a magnesium rod, which was far more efficient than looking for flint.
>You snag several dead frozen saplings, as well as whatever other clippings you could find for tinder and burning purposes.
>Little branches, bits of bark, pine shavings-
>You figure you might take your shovel propellor and dig for more fuel underneath the snow, but that could wait til once you got the fire started.

>Eventually, you make it back to your shelter, your sled piled high with all the dead and dry lumber you could find along the way.
>You clear a patch of snow, and get a little pit where you stack your tinder.
>Starting a fire takes a little bit of time, but you manage to spark it up.
>Soon a small wisp of smoke rises from the pile of wood, and a source of heat greets you.

>You have discovered fire! Your ancestors must be proud.
>Now what will you do with it first, besides enjoy the smoky heat that was building up?
>You figured you might get settled in a little before leaving either today or tomorrow.

>>29058088
We are Hunary, yes? We need to strip more trees for bark or else the fire will die soon, then comes food. Yes.
Step 1.) Gather more Tinder
Step 2.) Boil pot of water and make soup (also make sure to feed fire once in the while. Yes.)
Step 3.) Find more Tinder, firewood, or foraged food (some food will grow in ground, yes? Yes. Bring propeller to use as shovel if you find.)
Step 4.) Fill thermos with soup and eat remaining soup in pot, yes. Also stay close to fire to dry clothes.

>>29058148
Pinkie is proud of her step by step instructions. Yes. It is good Pine is not in the Chernobyl. Or else she would be dead and Pinkie could not help. Yes.

>>29058088
Did we overlook anything in the plane?

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>You stand up.
>The fire would grow on it's own, and it was surrounded by snow and distant enough from your shelter that you felt certain that nothing would burn down.
>Now was the time to go gather some more bark and tinder to keep it going.
>Maybe a few full sized branches or logs.

>You emptied your sled, and loaded up your shovel and hatchet.
>You also attempted to eat one of the pinecones that you had gathered earlier.
>A few bites and crunches in, you found yourself spitting it out.
"Aughhh! That was awful! Horses are for grains and grasses, not pinecones and wood!"
>What were you thinking! Sure you were in a survival situation but you still had standards.
>For now at least. You shuddered to think what you might be willing to eat if you were still out here when you ran out of food.
>You elected to eat another granola bar instead.
>You also took a frozen bottle of water and placed it in an internal pocket in your parka, hoping your body heat would thaw it.

>You begin exploring a bit, the lack of snowfall making it nice and easy to spot anything of interest.
>You manage to locate a dead tree, and dig up and around it.
>No use, it was positively soaked, having leeched the surrounding snow and rain from the area for who knows how long.
>You hacked into it with your axe and placed a few pieces on your sled anyway. It was better than nothing.
>You leaned against a nearby tree with a sigh.

>Heading back to your fire, you saw it had grown about a foot tall, happily melting a clearing around it.
>You placed some of the wet wood into it, splashing around a few embers and hearing an angry hiss.
>Next you check your box.
>You still had some wire and rope sitting about. You began to wonder whether or not you should set up a trap for that rabbit.
>Maybe you should do that after you have some soup.
>You look over your selections.
>Carrot Ginger? Cheddar broccoli? Potato leek? Tomato? Mushroom? Minestrone?

>>29058535
Go with the Mushroom soup. Sounds pretty good - what is it? Cream of mushroom with bits of dehydrated veggies?

>>29058535
>You manage to locate a dead tree, and dig up and around it.
>No use, it was positively soaked, having leeched the surrounding snow and rain from the area for who knows how long.
You could've used the hatchet to strip away the soap layers. That is unless it was soaked entirely through.

>>29058535
Tomato bisque ftw

>>29058535
Wait. Did we leave the box in or outside the shelter?

>>29058535
I think we should find a place to store some of the wood. Maybe in the shelter or in the trunk after a bit of organizing.

>>29058535
Find a larged slagged piece of metal to place on top of your trunk. Don't want any animals accidentally opening it now do we?

>>29058535
Set up a trap for a rabbit when it's a bit darker. Use your remain time till then to either gather raw material, scavanger for food, or make a menatal map.

>>29058535
What time is it now?

>>29058535
Next time you go exploring make sure to bring your compass. That might help you navigate to and from your camp site.

>>29058722
>>29058747
Food first bruh.
Any one of those would do (roll a digital dice for chance). Eat soup and warm yourself next to the fire.

>>29058535
Here's some food for thought for Pine.
Pre-unification Era I'm the land ponies resided in before Equestria was established, your ancestors had to deal with significantly more problems then her. Raging winter storms all year, failing crops, monster, beasts, sickness, diseases, famines, war with the other tribes. The list goes on. All in all they had a shitty time and less to work with then Pine.

>>29058535
I know if we can find a bunch of this we could scavange if we ever come across a creek. The stalks of the cat tails are edible, maybe find some clams.

>>29058535
Lewds?

>>29058535
Mushroom soup

How funny would it be if the radio tower couldn't be used to contact anyone? Ah ha ha ha ha - *despair ensues*

>>29058535
Whistle a song.

>>29058535
Soooo yeah. Pines are edible, but not in large quantities. They're poisonous to horses i.e. ponies if consumed in large amounts. A single sapling shouldn't be a problem.

>>29058535
I remember about two decades ago in a camping trip someone showed me how to make string out of some part of a tree. It's a little fuzzy. Anyways I think it was some bits of bRk or a sapling using to make it.

>>29058535
>attempted to eat one of the pinecones that you had gathered earlier.

Silly Piney, you pick out the seeds and eat those, not the whole thing!

Any soup will do, but we better not linger too long without moving on. If a storm blows in our shelter won't be able to take it.

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>>29059061
High altitude clams in glacial streams?
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>You began attempting to hold the pot over the fire, but it quickly became clear to you that this was not going to last.
>You pull back the pot, watching steam seep out of your damp parka.
>How were you supposed to boil this to put your soup on?
>You try to think back over your survival training.
>Your absent mind wanders over to ancient history, and wondering how the nomadic tribes or old nations would have survived like this.
>Well, they clearly would have had other ponies helping them.
>But they survived uncountable horrors, from famines to monsters to storms.
>And you still had more knowledge and supplies than they did. You were truly a fortunate pony to be living in the era of knowledge that you were.
>And you were certain that in the past your ancestors had learned to boil water. So how would they do it?

>A thought occurred to you, and you went to go grab a couple of strong thick branches.
>You stuck two pairs into the ground, crisscrossed with each other.
>You tied them together with a bit of wire, before stringing some more between them, threading it into the handles of your pot as you suspended it between the sticks.
>You released it, making sure that gravity didn't beat you, before heading back over to your box to grab your Mushroom soup packet.
>You poured it into the already warming water, giving it a good stir.
>A short while longer you were sipping a nice hot soup out of your thermos happily.

>Your box is sitting out beside the shelter, and you wonder if you shouldn't put it inside. Or perhaps you should put all your wood inside the shelter so it wouldn't become any wetter? Or maybe both at once.
>You suppose you'll put a metal wildlife blocker on top of the box.
>Right after you finish this soup of course.
>You still have 8 hours of daylight.

>>29059426
High altitude clams in glacial streams?
OK! Maybe I'm not all that familiar with Equestria. My bad.

>>29059426
Ssshhhhh! There's a rabbit behind you Pine. Use your earth floppers. To hear the bun bun. Maybe it could be your fwend.

>>29059426
Save your food and get to work.

>>29059426
it'll be worth it to make sure our clothes are somewhat drier before continuing.
Don't want to turn into a Lissicle

>>29059624
Boooooo. That was bad and you should feel bad.

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I'm a pilot and what is this?

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Pausing for tonight

S-Sorry for short and slow session.

Also sorry for being dead for the past few days.
I swear I'm going to get the hang of questing again.
Hopefully things will begin to pick up next session.
See you tomorrow.

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1>You flicked the radio on
2>A nearby rumble of thunder announced the presence of the storm you had just flown into
3>...realized in dismay that you were a few miles off course
4>You buckled up
5>It continues careening down at a worrisome pace
6>propeller engines

1>Not having the radio on already
2>Not continually checking your position
3>Not immediately turning around
4>Not wearing your harness at all times
5>Not checking your weight and balance
6>Wut

You fucked up, Pine. You have no one to blame but yourself.

>>29059723

I mixed up the 2's and 3's.

>>29059723

These are all fair points.
Except... What do you have against propeller engines?

>>29059735

A propeller is something you attach to an engine (directly or through a transmission) to push air. Engine types are radial, in-line, horizontally opposed, Vee, turbine, etc.

It's a nomenclature nit-pick.

Bep

>>29060732

>>29061896
fast board

>>29062294

>>29063422
Bump

>>29059426
SEDUCE THE RABBIT

>>29059426
Could this be the same rabbit from this morning? Maybe it wants to be friends . . . . Or maybe it's a monster encounter and the QM want to use RPG elements in this cyoa. I can dream can't I?

>>29065957
Pine bump

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>>29059710
Whereally were you ;n;

>>29067235

Snowshoe hare bump

I don't trust rabbits, I never have and I never will.

>>29069324
You can totally trust a rabbit. Besides, look at it's cute desperate eyes. It's probably partially starved and struggling to find a means to feed its family before a predator or starvation takes it. It's just the cutest little bugger!

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>>29069350
>desperate eyes

>>29069453
They are. Some say the eyes are the windows to the soul. What do the rabbits eyes tell you?

>>29069468
"I'll kill you without remorse if I need something from you"

>>29069562
You're a moron.

>>29069956
Oh, am I?

>>29070265
Yes. This is a blue board. I'm surprised the mods didn't ban you yet.

>>29070645
It's only one picture. I doubt the mods would ever notice it unless somebody reports him.

So as you may have noticed, I haven't really been here... I wish I had an excuse aside from lack of motivation and the last of my school exams stealing my only free time.
I wish I could promise a session sometime tomorrow or in the near future but to be entirely honest I don't really trust myself at this point. I'd reccomend letting the thread die.
I will attempt to beat myself into submission and get myself productive so the quest may run again in the near future.
Thank you to everyone who played and bumped this thread. S-sorry again.

At least no mammoths showed up this time.

>>29071916
that bunny was going to kill us for sure, it's better this way.

Hah. I knew Lis would abandon it, that lying sack of shit. This quest was doomed from the start, and I was the only one to see it. You all fell for his promises.
Go die in a hole like this stupid quest, he should have run Curse.

>>29074951
Wow, fuck off faggot. At least he actually tried, instead of waiting and doing nothing. You got more Lisquest out of this then you would've otherwise.

>>29073798

beb

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