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>>29604447
>In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

Calling sheets for Session 103 of Timequest

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>>29604447
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>>29604466
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>>29604466
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>>29604466
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>Onyxia: 5/4
>autumn will post soon
Everyone else is at full health
Previous session: >>29503302

>YEAR: 1501 AE
>Evolution Chamber, Dome G-777
Last time, the battle continued to rage against the Master of the Dome, Eo-Naxx Claw, and our heroes Onyxia and Southern. Steel managed to break free of Claw's control, and Onyxia was able to close off the entrance to the Lab using her transmute. Plasm, Southern's former escort, managed to use his mutation to phase in through the wall of metal however, and joined the fight as Claw began to take damage from the heroes' attacks. He last opened a portal into the Shadowscape located in his lab, allowing Plasm to return after being banished and Echo had broken free of Southern's strings.

>Breezie City
>Chieftain Gale Monsoon's home
Meanwhile, Nero and Luke had been invited to come into Honey's parents, happening to be the Chieftain of all Breezies in this hollow, and were treated to the pairs' hospitality as Honey realized a new Breezie magic manifested itself in her mother's time of need.

>Shroom Bar
Luke had declined the visit himself and, seeking to drown the stress and woes he'd been accumulating from a few fateful encounters in the Future era so far, went to the local watering hole.

>>29604533
The two nearby breezies turn to look at you as you flip out over the lack of booze being provided unto you, moving up to get closer in fear of you making a scene as the bartender stares at you. "Alcohol... soa, I sawa right outa there. You ARE froma outside." He puts a hoof on the counter. "Fella, I'ma sorry toa dissapoint ya, but I ain'ta got any alchohol."

One of the breezies speak up, "We cana barely make enough food to EATA, leta lone toa ferment. Ita just doesn'ta havea time toa get made. Any boozea we have we hava to find."

The bartender lowers his voice, "Though uh.. ifa it'sa just buzz you'rea looking for, I doa have OTHER shroom juices. Do nota know howa they affect a outsider, though."

>>29604466
http://pastebin.com/c0qR20xb

>>29604552
>>29604481
>>29604516
Gale's eyes open widely as he contemplates what you just say. "Riiight... righta, Honey said you were all a lotta bigger thana this normally. The fooda would do wonders, thougha I don'ta know we coulda offer in trade. I kinda agree on thea wine too but, for fuck's sake, sometimes the City justa needs a win."

He takes the glass you pour for himself and his wife, but also notices the flash from the kitchen as the lot of you get off the couch and make for it.

>>29604481
She smiles, looking up at you as tears begin to form in the corner of her eyes. ["W-when you left, you couldn't do magic like your father and I at all, and now... oh Honey,"] she grabs you tightly, almost forgetting her own wellness ["Y-you just grew up so fast out there..."]

As you two embrace, Rose tickles your head with her antennae, ["I-I said I forgive you, my Honey Bunch. I know... I know you only did what you thought was best for the City. I-I never blamed you for this, ever... illnesses happen."]

>>29604481
>>29604516
As Nero shouts out to the kitchen, Gale turns and spots the light, taking the drinks with him and leaving their guests momentarily to investigate the scene.

As Gale enters the kitchen, Rose suddenly turns to him, "Shea knowsa magic! Shea cured my sick, Gale, I-I'm nota tired anymore!"
"What?! But, the doc... the radiation..." Gale asks in confusion.

>>29604554
>>29604495
Steel's blow slams down from above, Claw staring up at it with a twitch of his mustache before the shield shimmers and pops with the downward swing of his blade, causing him to create a double gash in Claw's chest as machinery and sparks, mixed with a small amount of green blood, begins to tear out of Claw's chest. The aging griffon almost keels over, shaking it off as he warily stands up again and avoids Steel's next attack only to be met with a wailing Echo in his face.
>"%$@F0RG1v3 M3!#$"
The barrier reacts to the sonic blast, and to another attack coming from behind, Steel aiming to take the griffon's head off.
>Steel's Slam: [1d10+1: 4 + 1 = 5] Crits on 7+, DC 5
>The shield [1d10+1: 5 + 1 = 6] Echo / [1d10+1: 10 + 1 = 11] Steel
>Protect
Echo breaks free of Southern's grips once more, and tries to freeze Gigant, Onyxia, and Steel in a single swoop with vocal chains/irons
[1d10+2: 9 + 2 = 11] Terrify

As Onyxia runs up to the machine, Gigant is captured by Southern's wires, preventing it from attacking Onyxia and providing Southern with it as a minion as Claw looks over, vexed and angry.
>"Right... duly noted. Seems Sight's perfect warrior is still in there somewhere."
"*cough*"
>"Perhaps a change of strategy is in order..."
[1d10+3: 4 + 3 = 7] Claw Engineers on a nearby pod

>>29604564
>>29604495
As Onyxia tries to forcibly transmute the gate, she finds her powers not working as Claw gives a snicker.
>"Another specialty of mine, my dear. Genetic manipulation. I took away your ability to transmute. Not permanently but, long enough."
>Transmute still disabled for two more turns
You fail to figure out the gate's mechanisms fast enough, and Plasm comes leaping out of it as it's opened up once more, shaking his head in confusion as he looks around the green mist. "Master? Are you alright!? Two Eo-Roks are right behind me, they'll.."
He spots you right next to the gate as you attempt to dismantle it, and he takes in a deep inhale through his nostrils.
"You. Alright, I tried to be nice... now we do this the hard way." He dives at you with his hoof, glowing slightly red along its edges as he pushes it into you
>Ethereal Weapon, instant automatic
>Slam [1d10+2: 6 + 2 = 8]

>>29604558
["Heheh. Yeah, it's been very interesting out there,"] she replies, hugging her mother a bit tighter as the reaffirmation about her decision all those years ago was...an okay one.

>>29604558
"I don'ta know too well myself, but I thoughta about seeing Mum wella and shit and...well, thisa happened," she says with a proud grin.

>>29604552
In a sudden response Luke grabs the bartender by the collar bringing him over the counter just a few centimeters from touching faces. Luke's eyes lock with the bartender's and threaten to jump out from their twitching. "Give Them to Me"

>>29604564
Gigant stabs through the head of the griffon inside the pod that Claw's going for. [1d10+2]

>>29604569
"Y-You what?!"
Onyxia stammers in shock at the one thing she was able to rely on having been stolen. She looks to the gate with fear as Plasm announces reinforcements, turning to him as he draws out his hoof and thrusts at her.
She shuts her eyes, pushing out those bits of terror, she can't afford to get distracted now. She won't let more of the Order's dirty tricks continue to get in her way. She turns sideways, slamming her left hoof against the Zero-Gate, black crystal spreading slightly and digging into the metal. She swings up her right shield-hoof to catch Plasm's hoof before it can touch her, glaring him down as the metal of the gate's base tarts to be pulled into her form.
>Fusion [Zero-Gate]
>Block [1d10+1]

>>29604558
Nero turns back from the kitchen back to Twilight and Bulldozer, taking a long sip from His wine. He sets it down, resting His hoof under His chin.

"I've been thinking about what Caduceus said."

>>29604592
Gale runs a hoof through his pink mane, shaking his head in confusion as Rose continues to stand positively perky compared to how the Breezie was looking moments before. She grabs on tighter to her daughter, tickling your antennae with her own as she revels in her new found wellness.

"That's... that'sa never happened toa me before." Gale comments, looking at Honey curiously. "Ita takes me YEARS toa geta new spella down. You just thoughta that onea up?"
Rose shakes her head, "You sounda worried, whata is there to bea worried about?"
"It's justa... odd. Very odd. Youa sure you feela alright, Honey?""

>>29604664
As you sip at your wine, Twilight's ears perk up as she stops trying to get a look into what's happening in the kitchen herself, and then turns to you with a quizzical look.

"About which part? The Order, their plans?"

>>29604593
As you pull the Breezie from across the counter, he counter-grabs onto your own hoofs, pulling at your tight grip to free himself forcibly. "Geta offa me you piecea radroach puss!" He curses before dusting himself off, looking at you with a great deal more apprehension and concern.

"Alrighta, you wanta it, you gota it." He says with a huff as he pulls out a smaller shroom from behind the bar, cutting a small indent into its top cap and squeezing it into a fresh glass for you, pushing it back to you. "Justa don'ta say I didn't warna you. I only givea this out toa Breezies usually... itsa strong stuff."

>>29604743
>>29604611
With your strings pulling it along, the staff unwillingly stabs directly into the barely visible 'head' of the griffon that lies inside the green pod Claw works his techno-magic upon, striking through the glass to embed itself into something solid before pulling out, the pod opening up and lighting with a green glow as you get a better look at the creature within. It appears to be an extremely large, muscular griffon with the same features as a strong and healthy Claw, down to his two long mustaches trailing off the side. You see that the staff has stabbed this familiar griffon in the eyes, and he stumbles out of the pod and falls to his knees in the middle of the room as Claw redirects his talons towards Gigant, trying to free it from your grasp
>Engineering on the strings controlling Gigant: [1d10+3]

The newly hatched griffon from the pod, despite his eyes being stabbed, begins to stir, slowly picking himself up.
"Where... where am I?" He asks in a voice similar to the Master's.

>>29604630
Steel's sword swing only bounces harmlessly off of Claw's barrier. Plasm's softly glowing hoof slams to the right of your shield-hoof, deflecting the attack off to the side as you see it slip into the ground, Plasm grunting quite loudly as you avoid his attack. He grunts, sliding around slightly through the ground to twist and come back at you. "I said, stand, down!" He shouts with authority.

With your ability to transmute having been cut off, Claw can only look on as you stick your hooves upon the sleek, purplish metal of the Zero Gate as it begins to disappear. His eyes open wide,
>"Incredible... what are you doing to it?! I had not had time to observe this yet, it must be catalogued...!"
(1/2)

>>29604751
To his bemusement, the Zero-Gate is pulled entirely into you, and as a result the Shadows Cape of Steel is purged out of a shoulder onto the floor of the Evolution Chamber, making way as your body accepts the new material. Your body turns as hard as steel as you see your skin turning into the same purple metal that made up the gate, and violet sparks of power creak out of your new spiky joints. You feel yourself bulking up due to the size, looking a bit like you did as Onyxia save for the leaks of necrotic, inter-dimensional energy seeping out of your sockets. A light purple glow resembling a portal appears in the center of your chest, and the Zero Gate is fully absorbed.
>Lost effects of the Cape fusion, DC at 6 again
>Automatic: may either open OR close a wide portal into the Zero Zone / Shadowscape.
>Gain Huge racial

>>29604630
>>29604611
Onyxia's transformation is short-lived however before Echo's loud cries begin to take form, and suddenly Gigant, Steel, and Onyxia all feel as though they have huge, impossibly heavy chains wrapped up around their necks and legs that pull them down to the ground, forcibly bound as Echo creates invisible prisons from sound for the two of them.
>Onxyia and Gigant are both treated as Helpless
>[1d10] Steel tries to stand up

"Well done, Echo! Now let's go!"
[1d10+2] Plasm grabbing at Steel, trying to phase him.
[1d10+2] Echo fires out a barrage of invisible bullet sounds at Steel and Onyxia (Cleave 2)

>>29604751
Gigant spins rapidly in place to break the griffon's neck. [1d10+2]

Wires circle around Plasm. [1d10+3] Trap

>>29604743
["Well yeah, of course. A lot happier than I have been in...well, a really long time. But its just sometimes, when I really put my mind to it, I just get this...burst of energy. And next thing I know, I'm doing the thing exactly as I thought it to be,"] she replies to her father, giggling a bit as the antennae tickle her.
["Like having Crumple burst out of the ground to impale something, or making an entirely new Crumple from a bunch of stuff laying around, and now I guess...making somebreezie better just by thinking it."]

>>29604751
>>29604760
>Huge [1d10]

>>29604743
"About anuthrite, and the alicorns. I think I've figured out their connection."

"Before I begin, can you tell Me how it is that you came to be a god? You mentioned earlier it involved the Elements of Harmony."

>>29604760
>>29604824
Onyxia's body shakes and jerks as the gate is pulled into her body, flowing cloth skin hardening into rigid metal. Her head and body lowers once the change is complete, breathing heavy as shadows leak from her mouth as they do her joint, lending her new image to appear as an exhausted, wild animal. She steps forward slowly, metal hoof creaking against the floor and one hoof trampling over the cape as it lays limp and free on the floor from her body.

Her body tightens as creaks further as Echo's invisible chains bind her, eyes glowing like bright lights of an overexerted machine under the stain. She stands up, breaking through the bonds with a primal shout, gaze drawing to the false-speaking mare. Onyxia stomps with growing speed to Echo, her body becoming more accustomed to her new size. The portal in her body opens, arcs of energy latching as she drops her gunlance back to the real realm into her hoof.
"Shut up."
Her voice lowly rumbles, pointing the barrel into the mare's face as she pulls the trigger.
>Overload [1d10+4]

>>29604743
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I
LukeWarm sits there on his bar stool, an ample glass of shrooms juice inbetween his hooves. His elbows leaning on the counter. His eyes fixed on the beverage in deep, clenched contemplation.

"What am I doing here.. In THEIR LAIR.." Luke's voice echoes in his mind, even his internal monologue comes out with a desperate rasping tone. "Crawly told me never to fraternize with the kind of insects. He TOLD me what would come.. The fall of civilization, the dissemination of soulless drones into our community as they integrate us into their hivemind. A step at a time he said, a step at a time. I didn't see the SLOPE Dammit Honey! Now I'm having a drink at the epicenter of your MESS. The world is dieing but Ohh they won't care, NO they'll suck it up of every last scrap because they can return to ground whenever they please in their shabby hobbles they call home." A bead of sweat drops from Luke's brow and into his glass. What remain of his pores seep cold sweat from him as he takes his first sip. "That one looks like a firegnat.. And that bartender, definitely some diverge of pugilipede. That chick's butt by the post office, no mistake, she's a dungbelcher. That one why roadside he was a spinecrawler, and that one, blood fisher, that one magemangler, steeltick, acidAnts, flying scorpion, burnmites, Theres so many, how could I get myself into this mess. I've been too nice,Tooooo Permissable. Just a little bit more sober than I've should've been and it made me slip up. OH! did it make me slip!" He drinks some more of shroom juice and Luke dives further into his mind. "They're all looking at me I can feel it, they're eyes are like needlemoths burrowing into me soul. They know who I am. They know I'm not one of them."

1/2

>>29605048
Luke lifts his cup draining the final gulps of his beverage down his gizzard. Lifting his head and cup higher before plummeting onto counter, surrounded by hysteria "Somewhere in this hobble there's a stained glass of me wreaving genocide from slimmy renstaurant to gutterstudios and evre corner of Manehatten. They know, THEY KNOW!" Gruesome images of butcherous breezies flash through Luke's mind.

>>29605048
You take your sip of the spiked drink as your inner thoughts warn you of the various dangers that come with being in this close to the territory of yours and Creepy Crawly's greatest enemy. The Breezie bartender merely gives you an apprehensive look as the two other bar-goers begin to turn their attention away from you.

As you down the last drop, the Bartender raises an eyebrow. "Well? How area youa feeling?"

At first, your appearance would seem nominal. Same hole in the wall you walked into. Everything in its place. Except for the floor, which is slowly dropping away bit by bit all over the bar rapidly as it falls into a black, bottomless void below. Your ball stool trembles, and you feel it slipping into the abyss.

>>29604823
Rose turns to her stove, moving a hoof to turn down the heat as her stew nears completion, but Gale can only nod and look at your antennae with a wary look, putting his hoof up to his chin and giving it a steely, observant stare like you'd seen him do before when organizing new plans or patrols for the guard.

["That is unusual. No Breezie just makes up new spells on the fly like that. I might be the strongest Breezie here when it comes to magic and it still takes me years to figure these out. What you're doing... it sounds like what they said the old world used to be like."]
Rose rolls her eyes, ["You're making this seem like a bad thing, Gale."]
["I'm just trying to analyze the situation, Rose."]

>>29605099
>>29604856
Twilight looks down at her wings, giving them a slightly uneasy flap as she recollects how she earned them.
"I'll never forget it for as long as I live. I don't think it's even been quite a year, yet." She takes a quick breath. "I was just organizing the books in the library... I used to live in a library before I got my castle... when I had received a package from Celestia. It turned out to be a long unfinished spell by Starswirl the Bearded himself. I wasn't at all aware what it was for or what it would do, but the chance to finish one of the greatest unicorn wizard EVER spells? I jumped into it right away!"

Twilight blushes, "Buuuut it was a bit more complicated than I took it for. Long story short, it switched around the cutie marks of all five of my friends, altering their very destinies, and I had to help them reclaim the right ones. After that, I realized our friendship was the key to controlling the destiny magic that the spell weaved. I finished Starswirl's incantation with one of my own making, and the moment I casted it again, all of the Elements shined upon me and I was transported to this... weird, big open blue void where Celestia greeted me. I'm not sure where or what it was, but, it showed me visions of all my past accomplishments and it just felt so... amazing. Like a place above any other I'd been. When I was covered by a ball of light, the next thing I remember was waking up in Ponyville with..." she expands her wings for emphasis.

>>29605106
>>29604900
As you take the form of the purple metal behemoth, you turn and charge at the extremely surprised looking Echo, her barrage of sound bullets deflecting off of your metal chassis harmlessly and taking the brunt of those meant for Steel as well. You charge directly at the mutant with your newly summoned gunlance from the portal, pointing it directly into her face as the mare's goggles slide off of her face, showing a pair of bulging, red-eyes looking at the barrel in fear.
>"@H $H17."

The blast goes off, sending her spiraling away from you into the wall as she slams hard against the side of the chamber, Steel struggling to stand up still as he looks on at you in surprise.
"Onyxia?" [1d10: 1] for him to get up.
Claw stares at you with wonder in his eyes.
>"Glorious... between the three of you, perhaps this debacle will prove beneficial in the long run after all."

>>29605114
>>29604782
Gigant wiggles around and constricts the griffon's neck, but as he tries to pull it taut and snap it like a twig you find it difficult to budge: the griffon that just fell out of the pod has surprising strength, and deals enough damage for him to reach up and claw at the staff around his neck. Gigant frees itself from your wirey prison, sliding along back to Claw as Claw begins to climb inside the pod himself, his staff reaching up to close the hatch as his claw extends outwards towards Gigant, twisting his claws around with a yellow glow that surrounds the griffon.
>"Who you are does not matter yet. What matters is your enemy... the ponies you see when you close your eyes, THESE are your enemy. Your enemy must be removed..."
[1d10+2]
Meanwhile, Gigant works his own golden magic on the pod that Claw has just climbed into
[1d10+3]

You send up a new series of wires around Plasm, who is taken off guard by Onyxia's charge and finds himself trapped in the strings, struggling to pull against them as you find him in your grasp entirely. "GAH! What the... something... pulling me... when I get out of this..."
[1d10+2] Plasm attempts to phase out of the wires before they control him.
>"Plasm, once you've stopped playing with the puppetmaster, make yourself useful: you must get me and Echo out of here. Plan B will take care of our guests."

>>29605099
> "Well? How area youa feeling?"
Luke hears in Creepy Crawly ask him from a fuzzy apparition of his visage. Trembling, Luke cannot speak over the depth of his breathing. He watches Crawly run past into a non-existant corridor. Luke looks behind himself and sits agog to the blanket of horrors that await him. "OH DEAR CELESTIA! IT'S THE WEEKDAY!" Luke manages to blurt out as he reels back in his stool. He crawls backward over the counter, his hooves crawling along the surface and anything ahead as he continues backing up on what seems like the longest stretch of porcelain he's ever had to crawl over without vomiting. Luke finally worms his arms around the Bartender's neck and hangs in abject terror of his most obsessive nightmares.

>>29605114
>>29605123
Onyxia drops the smoking gunlance, following after the mare as she's blasted away, metal clanking against metal as she trails Echo's trajectory like prey. Steel's cry falls upon deaf ears in her march, no turn of head or pausing of pace as her name is said.
She stops before the mute-pegasus, shadows swirling in her chest as she glares down at the annoyance.
"Leave."
She states flatly, grabbing the mare by the neck and forcing her through the shadows to remove her from this realm.
>Shadow Eject [1d10]

>>29605123
Plasm is forced to jam his ethereal weapon through Claw's guts and twist. [1d10+2]

Afterward, Southern casually tosses him into Onyxia's gate.

>>29605099
Honey's stare follows Gale's, making her uneasy enough to run a hoof over one as if she's trying to clean it of something.

["What do you mean by the old world? I did visit some breezies in the past, but none of them really taught me magic. Some words of advice and similar things, but otherwise, nothing like what you tried with me. And that's what I've been doing; just going out there and doing. Even when I'm not in Crumple, and everything is bigger than me at that point, I still just keep going."]
She laughs a bit.
["Wouldn't be here right now if I just rolled over on everything."]

>>29605106
Nero listens to the entire story, hooves folded in front of His face.

"First of all, I am obligated to remind you that Starswirl the Bearded is not worthy to sit in the shadow of my brother. That said, I am surprised he even half-finished a spell for achieving divinity."

"Second of all, there is no such thing as destiny."

"Lastly, this is the third time I have heard of this void. Cadence spoke of the same thing, and I visited a similar place when I became a god. Though unlike the two of you, I entered it alone, and saw no visions."

"The important part, the part I wanted confirmation on, was that anuthrite was the driving factor in your becoming a goddess."

>>29605249
["Honey... I hadn't had much reason to tell you about this stuff. The present was way more important than the past ever was. But, one of the things I gathered from training my magic was that Breezies have fallen quite a bit."] He flattens his antennae, ["It's said that we used to be able to use our magic more spontaneously, develop new powers when it was needed. Like what it seems you just did."] He sparks a little bit of magic between his antennae, ["But that was ancient history. The world's full of less life, less food, and more fucking radiation and sickness now. Somewhere along the shitty road our kind has been one for the last couple centuries, we lost that trait. Until you, that is..."]
Gale chuckles lightly. ["Fuck it, maybe I am taking thinking this over too much. Could be just a mutation of your own or whatever but the point is... your mother really is well again?"]
Rose nods, ["I haven't felt like this since... my Moon, I think since before Honey left in the first place."]

>>29605359
Twilight scrunches her muzzle. "Is that so? Well, I'm obligated to point out I was able to stop Sombra BEFORE I turned into a goddess, and I doubt my magic compared to Starswirl's back then."

Turning back to the subject of the void, Twilight nods her head, "Yeah, definitely. The spell was meant to be cast on the Elements, and the Elements formed the catalyst for my transformation... and I do see how that ties into what Caduceus said, doesn't it?"

>>29605441
>>29605194
As you grab onto the bartender, the entirety of the porcelain bar begins to melt into nothingness, and the bartender warps into the appearance of a mandible'd monstrous bug that slightly reminds you of Chitus in appearance, clicking his teeth together in a various sounds of taps and clicks that you can make no heads or tails of. Your apparition of Creepy Crawly disappears into the void below, and soon the bartender fades into nothing, letting you into the dark abyss that had made up the floor.

You fall into darkness, flipping over and dropping through the dark as you see various familiar sights. Your first date back in high school, old pets, scenes of your parents from childhood, but it all stops violently as you slam into a hard, unforgiving piece of earth yet feel none of your bones crack through the pain. Looking up and around, you see an empty, abandoned version of Ponyville, dark and foreboding like something from a monster horror film collection.

>>29605200
Steel struggles to stand back up again ([1d10]), feeling the weights of Echo's voice still keeping him down as you pick up the mare by the scruff. Your attack blew off both her muzzle, her glasses, and her ear muffs, revealing her mouth being fused together with a stitchjob. As you hold her up, she turns and looks at you with tremendous fear in her eyes, her mouth mumbling but unable to say anything due to their lips being joined. As you are about to force her into the shadow, you feel something slam HARD into your iron side, a dent making itself well known.

Echo is dropped and you see the large, hulky griffon that dropped out of the pod Claw opened looking around blindly with his eyes scratched, rubbing his knuckles gingerly as he moves around the bottom floor of the lab. "Enemy! He sees you! He will smite you with his mighty fists of cold and merciless iron..." he shouts blindly as the mustachioed warrior fumbles around.
>Echo and Onyxia are dropped, Onyxia at 0/3

>>29605454
>>29605202
Plasm is sprung towards the Master, his ethereal hoof moments away from slicing into Claw's chest and right through his barrier, Plasm grits his teeth but manages to have his blow deflected by a side-sweep from Claw's staff, sparing him the attack to his chest as Plasm lands besides the pod. He huffs, "Who's doing this, Master?! I don't want to fight you!"
>"Then DON'T. I taught you to use your mutation. Use it."

Plasm is moments away from activating his phase shift, but before he can you forcibly direct him towards the portal opened by Onyxia's chest, sending him back to the Zero Zone as Claw shakes his head, Gigant reaching up to grab the top of the pod he had climbed into. The golden light from the staff appears to repair the earlier damage done to it, and the elderly griffon has his staff begin to close it shut.
>"Or you could let her send you back, I suppose. I do wonder if you two are off your beat..."
[1d10+3] Engineering the Pod from the inside

>Note for Onyxia/Southern: the gate is still open and Plasm will return through in two turns unless Onxyia can get up and close the gate.

>>29605454
Onyxia stumbles and falls against he wall, eyes jumping from Echo to the new gryphon. An upset, metallic growl escapes her lips as she struggles to stand back up so she can remove the new intruder as well.
>Recover [1d10]

>>29605462
The wires grab Echo and jam her body under the shutting pod door so as to keep it from closing.

[1d10+3] bonuses permitted, using Unseen Foe as usual

>>29605454
Lukewarm huddles himself in the cold, body tumbling through absent space like in that one pink floyd music video he liked so much "They're everywhere" He shivers "Buggy there, Buggy here... The bugs.." The words echo in his mind. Luke tears himself off the ground to a feeble standstill. He stares at Cityhall as the moon hangs over it. Luke's eyes sink into his head, pupils shrinking as the horror wraps his tighter. "No! Not here, Manehatten was fine, Roaches belong in the gutter. But why here!"

Lost in in his bewilderment Luke huddles behind what he thinks is an artillery store left by Creepy Crawly but is really the bar ingredient racks. "You won't win over my hometown Changeling scum! Not today!" Luke begins assaulting the bartender and bar patrons with a barrage of miscellaneous items. "AHAHAHA Not TODAY!"

[1d10] for maximum annoyance

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>>29605441
"I will give you credit for defeating my brother, but you did not use magic. You used the elements, your vassals, and-"

Here Nero 'hoof-quotes'

"Spike the Brave and Glorious. By the gods, your teacher is terrible at titles. But I digress, to answer your question, yes but that's not the entire story."

"Let us consider the gods. Celestia and Luna are alicorns, and descended from alicorns. Caduceus claims these alicorns have anuthrite as the source of their power. Celestia told me that the alicorns were the first tribal ponies, the 'progenitors' of the three tribes. In other words, the alicorns come first, and they come from anuthrite."

"In my own pantheon, Anunoth arrived from the west with the Crystal Heart before transforming early equines into the Crystal Ponies, Isha came down from the heavens, Bamman dwelled in the north carrying his Gem, and Lamashtu was here before all of them. Tophet, Enlil, Asclepius, and Caduceus are all the children of existing gods. In other words, with the possible exception of Ninurta, every god we know of, from both our peoples, is either the offspring of an existing god, or has some tie to anuthrite.

Nero holds His hoof out, and the Gem of Bamman is dropped out of a portal into His hoof.

"I now believe that every god, of every people, comes from these divine stones, and that furthermore, from those gods have come most of the mortal races we know of."

>>29605598
>Isha

Inanna*

>>29605441
["A bit? Aside from the whole plant situation, their wings were way bigger, too. Like bigger and rounder and slightly more colorful,"] she adds on, but then listens more intently as he keeps going. She stares at him oddly before the chuckling, joining in with him a bit.
["Well, I've only been outside for a good few years, so maybe."]

Honey looks to Rose.
["Mum looks a lot better than when I first came by, so I believe hat she just said."]

She looks down a bit, face turning serious and seemingly thinking about something.
["But back on what you said, about lost traits and stuff...this was the first time I ever tried something spontaneous that didn't involve tinkering on Crumple. And...its also sort of the first time I did something that wasn't either shooting a big bullet or blocking someones eyes. So...I guess what I'm trying to say is......you think you could try and maybe teach me magic again, Dad? Not right now of course, but, ya know, somewhere down the line."]
She looks up at him with a seemingly determined look.
["All these years I was away, I always relied on a robot I controlled to keep me safe. But ever since I started traveling to all these times, I feel like I can do more than just hide and take small potshots. Hell, I've even jumped out and stabbed full-sized ponies with a spear, something I'd never do way back when. But...I want to see what more I can do myself. And maybe...maybe I won't need Crumple anymore, but I know I'm nowhere near that point yet. So...could you help me get there, Dad? Mum?"]

>>29605534
>>29605534
Onyxia manages to pull herself up off of the ground, standing tall (with the portal still open that Plasm was tossed through) but as she turns around she sees a large lion's paw from the newly released, bulky griffon stepping on Steel's back, keeping him forcibly pinned as he sniffs around the air, growling and shaking his head as he tries to sense out where his opponents are.

Meanwhile, Echo is wrapped up once more in the wires of Southern, and forcibly pushed into the bottom of the shutting pod door, keeping it open with the mutant acting as blockage as the mutant writhes in pain, trying to struggle out from not one but two things keeping her pinned down. The inside of the pod is murky, more so with the mist that was released earlier, but you can still see a pair of golden eyes looking out at the mutant mare as he raises his claws outwards at Steel, laying under the pod griffon's heel.
[1d10+3] Engineering on Steel
[1d10+2] Gigant pushing at Echo to force her out of the door
>"Damn it all... you will NOT stop me from leaving my own lab! I have too much work and too much at stake for all the cosmos to let you extract... what? 'Justice' of some sort or another on me, I presume? I did not get a full look inside your head earlier, Southern Point, but I could sense Sanctuary... those small-minded, pitiable excuses for domestic terrorists are have sent you to do their dirty work."

The cloned griffon makes a completely blind, running charge like a locomotive at the nearest thing he can sense
[1d10+2] / [1d10+2] DC 8 at Onyxia
[1d10] Steel tries to get up

>>29605692
>>29605536
As you take hold in the imaginary Ponyville, secretly driving other bar patrons completely insane with your antics that you only see as other, more grotesque changelings fumbling out of the wood-works of the dilapidated buildings, you see them scatter and surround you, Creepy Crawly's artillery store swiftly being assailed from all sides as you hear your mentor's voice whispering in your ear, offering advice you can't understand due to its softness. Looking around, you can't see his body, but you soon feel a great quake and dust falls from the cieling above.

The roof of the artillery story is suddenly lifted up and above by the hoof of a great, monstrous creature. It isn't a changeling, but a Breezie, towering several stories tall over the shop as she non-nonchalantly holds the roof in her hoof, looking down at you below as though you are now the tiny bug. You see her appearance looks a lot like Honey's.
>"AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" she scream incoherently, raising a hoof high, "AAAAAA BUUUUUUUUUUUG!" she slowly sounds out as her colossal hoof swings at you in an ironic twist.

>>29605606
Gale nods his head, ["Yeah, I read they looked way different too... not sure if that ties in or not."]
Rose smiles, ["Well, whatever it is... I'm grateful for it. Not as much as Honey herself but, still. Grateful."] She leans in to give a nuzzle to Honey's cheek.

As you turn more serious, Gale turns his head in confusion, listening as you explain how this was your first recorded non-hostile, non-Crumple use of the magic. ["Really...? I guess seeing your old home again must have done SOMETHING to change that."] He shakes his head, ["I'd sure as Sun would try, Honey. I don't know what more I can teach you that you can't figure out on your own from what I've seen... but I was fixin' to teach you more magic as you got older to take over as Chieftain. You might still need it."]
(1/2)

>>29605697
Rose smiles, ["Like I said: I don't care what it is you had to do out there to survive in your travels, but, if you mean you think you can do more in the world without setting off in a giant death machine... I'd be honored to help you."]
Gale nods his head as well. ["Never did put too much faith in machines. Even one as monstrous as yours."] He steps forward, putting his hoof on your chest, ["It never has and never will be about the metal you drive, Honey... it's about the Breezie inside of it."]

>>29605598
Twilight huffs, "What's wrong with it?" she asks in reference to the name.

As you give your brief primer on the history of gods and mortals, Twilight gives a light gasp in surprise, "All... all ponies came from alicorns? Celestia never told me THAT." She halts her interruption to let you continue the tale, and Twilight listens with deep intent as you offer your theory to her. She looks down at the gem of Bamman, contemplating the meaning of it all.
"I think I understand... your gods either came from per-existing gods, or from contact with dreamstone. Celestia and Luna's ancestors are the same, and of course, if they're really the progenitor of ALL ponies... that means, in a way, every pony in the world, god or mortal, stems from it." Her wings sink to her side, "It all comes from dreamstone, every bit... this is an incredible discovery!" She stands up on the couch, excited and giddy, "Common origin for almost every magical creature?! It's like... it's like we discovered the atom all over again."

Bulldozer, who had only been paying slight attention thus far, mostly just leaning on the couch out of boredom, reaches out to forcibly grab the Gem from Nero, "So, what, you're saying this stuff created the universe or something?"

>>29605692
Onyxia pushes herself up from the wall, standing back on her own hooves with stomp. She glares at the gryphon as it steps down on Steel, nostrils flaring and energy arcing more violently from her joints.
As it turns to charge at her wildly, she stands her ground. Onyxia moves to rise up, letting the beast charging headfirst into the portal, but she can sense Plasm too near for comfort in escaping. She lowers herself, the shadows dispersing as the gate shuts, hoof raising up to catch the gryphon as best she can.
>Shadow Gate [Close] [Automatic]
>Shield Passive: Lowers all damage taken by 1

>>29605697
"So this was it all along! Yeah, Honey Bunch!? Just to get me back for trying to squash ya in that other food shaped bar! Well the joke's on you! I don't even understand Irony!" Luke shouts to the mushroom pub ceiling as he dangles from the spice rack. "I have to find higher ground, before Honey has a chance to teach me a lesson." Luke tells himself.

He hops off the the spice and makes a dash for the out of the bar but not before pushing over the standing spice rack just to be a jerk. The sounds of breaking wood and shattered glass is quite satisfying. Outside Lukewarm runs uphill seeking ever higher ground.

>>29605692
Southern's wires force Echo into the pod so that it can shut normally. [1d10+3]
Echo's forced to open her mouth and scream at full volume once the pod's shut. [1d10+1]

Southern covers her ears.

>>29605697
>>29605703
["Take over?"] she asks, sounding very surprised, ["well, I doubt that'll happen since I've been away for so long and all, but considering what I've been going up against, I'd be grateful for anything you can show me."]

Honey looks to Rose smiling, then to Gale as he also says his thoughts. She visibly swells with pride.
["Thanks. I've...missed you both. I'm glad I finally worked the nerve to come home, even if only for a bit."]

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>>29605703
"All ponies of YOUR people come from the alicorns. Those of mine were transformed by the Crystal Heart into what they are now. But you're right. If I am correct, every modern equine race did not evolve naturally, as Charles Darwinney suspected, but rather was transformed by sorcery by the first gods, either from primitives like Ug, or even from the beasts themselves."

"If it is the latter, then anuthrite is not just the wellspring of the gods, but of Equinekind itself. This would also explain why the Changlings, and the Breezies only come into being centuries after Equestria begins. They were created by newer gods, rising from newer anuthrite. The so-called Changling 'Queens' are powerful as the alicorns, and immortal also, and therefore are likely their gods."

As Bulldozer lazily asks and tries to take His gem, Nero withdraws His hoof.

"The next time you try and grab something of Mine without asking I'm cutting off your hand, and you're payment is being reduced to My giving it back. Do I make Myself clear?"

>>29605723
You close off the portal, hearing a forceful shout from within as Plasm misses his entrance, and you steel yourself and tank the charge of the massive griffon head on. Due to his being blind, he doesn't nail you directly on the mark, and your sturdiness deflects him off to the side into the wall where he creates an impressively large dent in the solid metal, pulling out as he grumbles, "Aaaah.... he feels no pain. He feels no fear. He is your lord and master..." the creature rabbles on incoherently, before turning about to take yet another charge, "He is your superior! He is perfection!"
>4/3
The griffon's attack [1d10+2] / [1d10+2] DC 8

Steel manages to successfully stand again, finding himself trapped once more in a golden glow as he winces, pulling his sword up at the pod,
"No-no... damn it, he's got me again...!"
[1d10+1] vs [1d10+3]

>>29605747
The wires turn towards helping the Pod shut close, but not before ripping off Echo's fused mouth stitches. As they're pulled loose by the wires keeping her trapped, Echo's eyes burst open wide in fear as a force begins to tear through the fused lips, rendering them apart as a deep and bellowing voice begins to come out from within, reality warping slightly around the pod from Southern's vision as unrestrained sound-objects begin to shape out of her.
>"Captain Echo..."
He says with pity at first, the true appearance of his facial features hidden beneath the pod. If he shouts his mental commands out after that, you do not hear them, the pod cutting off any physical sound with in...
Eo-Naxx Claw's shield quickly steps in to cover him while he's in the barrier, trying to take the full brunt of the blast as it occurs (will describe effects following post)
>Protect
[1d10+1] / [1d10+1] The shield resonating to Echo's explosive voice
As Gigant lashes out at Echo's face, biting into it like a three-jawed snake and inserting a poison into her
[1d10+3] Gene Venom: rank 3

>>29605876
>>29605728
["Of course, take over. You're the chieftain's daughter, AND you've done what no other Breezie in history has done: come back after being out there that long. I don't know a Breezie in the city who wouldn't follow you after that."] He smiles, ["What, too good to take after your father?"] he accuses jokingly, clearly tongue in cheek.

After you confess how much you've missed them both, the two wrap you up in another hug, Rose commenting, ["Well, with any luck, we can at least get you for a night... oh, my goodness"] she turns to look at the stew, "It'sa been a ready for a while now. Don'ta want it gettinga cold, do we?" Rose says as she makes for the stew, stirring it, "Honeya, you go sita down and tella your friendsa dinner's almost serveda."

>>29605728
You tear your way out of the mushroom bar leaving damages in your wake as the Honey fist slams down into the artillery in your hazy hallucination, creating a satisfying rumble that shakes your hooves
"SMASH PATRIARCHY... STALLIONS MUST DIE"

She bellows in an odd choice of specific threats as you take out towards the streets of Breezie City, various monstrous changelings giving him odd looks in the real world, but in his fantasy bare their fangs and whisper secrets of plotting Equestria's downfall through integration and subterfuge of their values. A ways away as you ascend to higher ground in the town, you see your mother, hanging on the arms of a changeling who's face you are unable to see. She nuzzles against the changeling, making lovey dovey noises audible from where you stand.

>>29605882
>>29605800
Bulldozer smirks, reaching his hand behind his back as he chuckles, "Hey, you're the ones going ooooon and oooon about how awesome it is. Alright, fine, I'll ask nicely Goldilocks: MAY I see your pretty little rock, please?"

Twilight nods, "I bet if we dug even deeper, maybe it's the cause for non pony based races as well... maybe the griffons, the minotaurs, the dogs, maybe everything stemmed from it or gods made by it." She stares at the Gem, tapping her hoof. "Though then, that just raises the next logical question... WHERE does anuthrite come from? If it forms naturally, why hasn't its raw state been discovered more, and if it was created by something else... what could that thing possibly be?" She pauses, "

>>29605889
PAUSED