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2017-10-31, 01:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Stellar flexes her regrown wing reflexively.
"No. Which is something I intend to correct the next time we meet," she says acidly.
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2017-10-31, 01:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Cool. Hey we're those goats still hanging around? I wanted to dump that Brahim calf on them. Moonshadow said.
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]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
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Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-10-31, 05:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Uh oh, this is a lot more critters than Doc expected. The Overseer was busy brewing up these things, wasn't it?
Doc patted the original purple one one that came up to him. "I'll name you Brighteyes. Wow, there sure are a lot of you in here. Didn't expect so many. Alright, well, I got some friends with me. We'll figure out something with y'all."
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2017-10-31, 09:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-10-31, 05:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Fan Knife glanced at Stellar's oddly brand new looking wing, nodded, and continued speaking.
"Did it use any magic? If it could rub two spells together, then it was probably a guild mage. You haven't talked to any of them, have you?"
"Yeah, they're outside." the filly replied, before yawning and adjusting her posture before settling back down on her stomach.
Fan Knife's ear twitched. Then she frowned.
"I'm guessing Thanatos is some guy you found here? Where's he from? Reavers?"
'Cutie hab name!' said Brighteyes, who's eyes did seemingly shine with newfound enthusiasm for existing. Doc was then immediately met with a new wave of cuties that outright surrounded him, with barely a place to move that wasn't occupied by a foal-sized toy-pony-thing.
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2017-10-31, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-11-01, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-11-02, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Doc's calm and reasonable statement was met by the crowd of cuties continuing to swarm him, asking for names and hugs and, while not obstructing him entirely, seemed more concerned with the possibility of having attention towards them then anything else.
Given that he was a pony and the critters couldn't be more then six pounds each, it wasn't too hard to walk past them towards the door, though some of the cuties started to cry out when he turned away from them, their high-pitched voices a chorus of ear-pain.
Fan Knife made a face of disgust, as if she caught a whiff of dung in the room, which was impressive given that she lacked a nose.
"Is it a mercenary, or a family member?" the filly replied, sounding rather grumpy, now, "Or some merc who married into it? Because if it's a merc, then I guess that letting them live would be normal, but if there's a actual member of the Olive family down there, I'm going to grab that eyeglass Moonshadow has and start checking for changelings."
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2017-11-02, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
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]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-11-02, 06:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Well this was a fine pickle. With the cacophony going on, Doc wondered how no one just two rooms over hadn't heard this yet. He turned back to the sea of tiny fuzzy ponies. They demanded names and attention, so Doc figured he ought to sate that appetite.
"Alright, everyone calm down. Y'all want names, so, give me a moment to come up with something. Hmm, okay, everyone form up two lines here on this side." He moved Brighteyes up to his shoulder. Doc pulled out paper and a pencil. He started a cheat-sheet with cutie names and their description/type. "Pay attention cause I don't want to have to repeat names here."
He picked up one and gave it a little hug. "I'll name you Chip." He put the cutie down on the other side and picked up the next one. With a hug he said, "Your name is Dale." He wrote down the names so he wouldn't repeat any. Giving out 50 of them wasn't too hard when he had a system in place. He named a bunch of them after friends he grew up with in Manehatten because their colors reminded him of old friends. One got the name Jackie, after its fur coat being a shade that reminded him of Applejack. He continued to hand out 50 names with 50 hugs.
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2017-11-02, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"Family member," Stellar confirms. "But he's been slightly useful and doesn't seem hostile. I'm beginning to think that every faction in this city has members we won't like, and if we write off all of them based on those then we're going to be desperately short of allies. Thanatos doesn't seem like a bad Olive."
"Although... He was a little unimpressed by the idea that you came along and might have been collecting biotech data for your sister. Please try not to murder each other."
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2017-11-02, 05:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"Stellar's a big fan of monopolization, murder through destitution and for political gain, as long as it's done with nice words." Viridia snarked.
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2017-11-02, 09:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Brighteyes seemed estatic at being lifted up on Doc's shoulder; while the creature lacked the dextarity to grab on Doc and hold on with it's stumpy hooves, it was able to lay on it's stomach while it's hooves were hanging mostly useless.
Each of the cuties repeated it's name when Doc gave it one; some of the adults were clearly crying in joy, while some of the smaller ones required some butchered repetition from their parents in order for the name to stick, although when it did they reacted by standing up on their hind legs and wiggling around in a sort of dancing motion. Each hug Doc gave out resulted in a 'Luv new daddah.' and a childlike giggle, and by the time he was done he was surrounded by tiny faces looking up at him in adoration. What he was getting right now was probably close to what the alicorn's got when they wandered out in front of their subjects, or something close to it.
Fan Knife sniffled.
Anyways, I don't like killing ponies if I don't have to. Plus I thought he'd be useful in fighting the robots. Not that he was, but he did at least give me a bunch of explosives to blow up a generator.
"Although... He was a little unimpressed by the idea that you came along and might have been collecting biotech data for your sister. Please try not to murder each other."
"If my sister wanted biotech from here, she'd get it from you after you're done here. A antidote, a blood sample, a live rat in the food stores; there's nothing in here that you aren't here to get already. If he's here to exploit this place, then we're already here to destroy it; if there's nothing here of value, then nothing will be lost when it's entirely destroyed. If I want to take anything from here, though, I'm going to."
Fan Knife looked at Viridia with apparent confusion for a few moments, but then she just shrugged.
"Honestly, that's a Equestrian tradition, so I can't really comment." she replied, "They're also a big criminal syndicate based on blood ties and money-grubbing, which is a little more familiar to me. Let's say every single one dropped dead because a deadly virus broke out in their compound. Have you seen anything that could replace them before thousands of ponies starved? You could shoot Last Stop's parliament and no one would care, or kill every single water merchant and claim the Stable for yourself and rule like a king, or kill off the Guild wizards and do whatever you want after that, but the Olive's don't have that many ponies against them because they sell food for cheap and they're not exploitative; there's no hard evidence that they trade in slaves, and the workers they have can afford to feed themselves off their own labor. In a city with as many ponies as this one, that's a deal you can't find anywhere else."
Fan Knife was quite for a few moments, and then a few moments more.
"So, you know anyone who hates them enough and has money?" she commented, suddenly smiling.Last edited by Dalinale; 2017-11-02 at 09:37 PM.
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2017-11-02, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
While the adoration is nice and all, all he did was give them names. Well, maybe he rescued them. Who knows. Doc carefully moves ahead and leads the little cuties out of the room. He walks slow, since they have a slower pace than he does. "Everyone stick together. Field trip time. My friends and I were shutting this place down, so y'all probably don't want to get left behind. We should take you someplace you can do some good."
What that is exactly... um... well these critters were made to be intelligent pets and emotional support right? Maybe Stitchheart would be curious in a few to calm her patients? Pet therapy was something he remembered reading in an old medical journal back home. Course, maybe Stitch would want to open one up and see how its genetic code worked for her own weird chimera pets. Hmm, have to discuss that with the others. There was no plan for this, other than Choro wanted them rescued. Well, that step was done. Sorta.
"Choro, Bertly Strata, and Thanatos, y'all still in the office?" Doc calls out as he gets out of the room. Their reactions ought to be priceless. Choro would squeal in delight. The others... probably somewhere between confused curiosity and 'why did you name them?' Well, it was that or get smothered in Lilliputian fuzzballs.
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2017-11-02, 11:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Considering we can't get Choro to agree to killing the abominations towards pony life and the pony killing robots, I can safely say we aren't planning on killing him. Moonshadow said, shrugging. Besides, like I said, I don't like killing ponies. I won't show him any mercy if he tries anything, but I'm willing to let him walk.
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]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-11-03, 11:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-11-03, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Doc was met by a flurry of adoring cries, and the group moved along with him at the pace of a slow waddle.
"Choro, Bertly Strata, and Thanatos, y'all still in the office?" Doc calls out as he gets out of the room. Their reactions ought to be priceless. Choro would squeal in delight. The others... probably somewhere between confused curiosity and 'why did you name them?' Well, it was that or get smothered in Lilliputian fuzzballs.
Strata, on the other hand, poked her head out of the office; the ghoul rubbed her eyes for a few moments, remained silent for a few moments, and coughed.
"Alright, I miss the shoggoth." the ghoul eventually settled on saying.
"Eh, you guys are new here. After the first hundred, it starts to blur together; ponies only have so many different color combinations." Fan Knife casually replied, "Anyway, I don't have any investment in if he leave's here alive or not, but if the Olives get five thousand ponies addicted to their food, I'm not the one who opted to let him live. I read a few files upstairs, and I'm pretty sure that there's absolutely nothing in this place that can be trusted to them unless you're absolutely sure about letting him go."
Fan Knife seemed mildly interested in Viridia's first answer.
"What money or favors do you have, though? I mean, I'v snuck into their compound before, but unless you have a plan after you kill them off, you're just killing farmers. They're big enough that they care about politics; do you know anyone with clout that could challenge them if they were alerted about this? "Last edited by Dalinale; 2017-11-03 at 09:29 PM.
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2017-11-03, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
I'm not suggesting we keep him around. In fact, I kinda insist we don't. Like you said, he's not trustworthy. But if he doesn't backstab us between now and burning the factory down, then he can walk away and hopefully we'll never see him again.
Destroying those files is next on the agenda, we're just letting Doc and Choro look through them first.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-11-03, 10:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Doc looked at his tiny army of cuties and then back at Strata. He shrugged. "I don't. Weird as these critters are, they're the first oddity in this place that hasn't tried to shoot me or eat me on sight. Sides, Choro said she wanted to save these critters, so I just saved her a step."
He picks up a small pink cutie and holds it out to Strata. "This one is named Rose. Want to hold her?"
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2017-11-04, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"Let's say he's the best Olive ever; he's still the Olive the family trusted to go here after losing contact with some pretty expensive mercenaries. That means that, at the very least, him being here was approved by both the Olive's business leaders and the Olive's own family council. If you're having Olive trouble, then there's no way he won't mention you all if he get's back to their compound." Fan Knife dryly replied, "Do they know that two are you are cyberponies yet? He probably does by now, right?"
Destroying those files is next on the agenda, we're just letting Doc and Choro look through them first.
"So, you sent the doctor and the magic user with the unicorn who can't fight with the Olive, while you guys are chatting around and waiting for them to get back here." Fan Knife replied, voice flat, "You know, out of a group of six ponies, the three who I wouldn't pick to be alone with a dangerous pony and get a first glance at advanced biotech are currently the ones actually doing that exact same thing. If I didn't know better, you're trying to get them killed."
In Doc's hooves, the cutie was squishy and made a giggling noise when Doc picked it up.
"Yay upsies! Rose luv daddeh." said Rose, the cutie being perfectly calm as it was presented to Strata.
The ghoul took a moment, lips pursed, and looked the roughly potato-sized pink thing in Doc's hooves, horn alight and with a look of repressed enthusiasm on her face.
Rose, however, stilled slowly in Doc's hooves, and continued to look at Strata with slowly growing concern.
"...Munsta?" squeaked the cutie, looking back at Doc with obvious concern and with no-little fright.
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2017-11-04, 03:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
I actually don't know if we're still having Olive problems or not. They didn't seem to care about us back in Oakville. And I don't know. It might've been mentioned at some point between me fighting the Overbot and everyone else catching up. But none of that really matters. I can't see Stellar, Doc, or Choro, especially Choro, being willing to kill somepony that wasn't offering them violence first. No matter how evil their family might be.
Moonshadow snorted. Sent nothing, those two insisted. And with how Choro was acting after the last fight it wouldn't surprise me if she was trying to get herself killed.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2017-11-04, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"No, she is not a monster. This is Strata," Doc explains to the cutie. "She is a type of pony called a ghoul. Her skin looks like this because radiation magic burned her. However, she is a very nice mare. You don't have to be afraid.
He looks over at Thanatos. "How about you, want to hold one?"
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2017-11-05, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"And this is why nothing is simple," Stellar says, sitting by the table with the cybercorpse on it. "Wiping out all the olives wouldn't make things any better for the citizens of Tauronto. We need to offer a genuine alternative before we can make that sort of judgement. When we eliminated the source of the contagion I had hoped that with this facility we could provide meat for all of Tauronto's meat eaters, but again we aren't in any position to hold it and the tech here can't be allowed into anypony else's hooves. I'm beginning to think we need to destroy the labs at the very least."
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2017-11-05, 06:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Ooawh." said Rose, which was followed by a good deal of the other cuties sighing in relief en mass, "Rose wan help! Rose wil help wit hurties."
Strata, eyes narrowed and her lips pursed, hovered the chubby critter in the air with her magic until it was close to her face.
Rose looked at the ghoul, eyes wide and possibly coherent, and prodded the ghoul's leathery chest.
Strata, while still looking conflicted, started to smile slightly, and lowered to cutie into her grasp until she was cradling it.
He looks over at Thanatos. "How about you, want to hold one?"
"Interesting. These creatures have instincts for consoling injured ponies." he muttered, "Perhaps they could be used in therapy?"
Thanatos continued to scratch at the cutie's ear, which it continued to appreciate. Quite quickly, however, he moved on to scratching another's ear, regardless of it's slightly dirty appearance.
"Any that's worked out so far?" Fan Knife asked.
Moonshadow snorted. Sent nothing, those two insisted. And with how Choro was acting after the last fight it wouldn't surprise me if she was trying to get herself killed.
"I don't have any investment in that, but if you want me to sneak some stuff from here into the Olive's hospice or something, I'm right here." Fan Knife said, "The thing about this place is that the Olives and at least one other group that sent the unicorn knows about this place, and the front defenses were able to be bypassed by you guys. Is there anyone in this city you would trust with control of the robots, or anyone that you can mostly trust? Because the labs can be blown up, but, from what I saw, you could make some decent industry here, even if it's not meat. If you don't blow them up, anyone who knows about this place would try and backtrack towards it just because it has some untouched moving parts with robot workers."Last edited by Dalinale; 2017-11-05 at 06:53 PM.
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2017-11-05, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
Doc smiled at Strata cradling Rose. He then nodded to Thanatos. "I was pondering a discussion with Dr. Stitchheart if she wanted a few for her patients. Could help some of the injured chill out a bit."
"Did anyone find anything useful in the records or is this a dead end so far?"
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2017-11-06, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"These creatures are... pure of heart." Thanatos confessed, "Artificially so, but pure regardless. I must question how they are to be moved out of here, however, if you intend on taking them all."
"Did anyone find anything useful in the records or is this a dead end so far?"
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2017-11-07, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"Well, I suppose I should clarify myself in meaning of 'dead end' to be if we had found any actual documented blueprints on how either the feed or the cuties were made," Doc said, "Of only so that no one need reverse engineer one by the very messy and questionable methods. But I reckon at least what we got is a start. And I agree, if there are other warehouses out there with feed, we got to torch them."
He then glanced down at the sea of fuzballs around himself. "And no, I'm not sure how to get all these cuties out of here. I don't think they'd survive on their own now that we shut down this place. Maybe Choro can come up with an idea. Double level bus or something."
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2017-11-07, 12:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Honestly, this place is a big corporate dead end." Strata said, rubbing Rose's head for a few moments, smiling at the giggle that produced, and continuing, "If this place's main concern was with the cuties, then it might not have had any real information about the feed; about half the logs that have mentioned it ended with uncertain conclusions about it, so I'm starting to doubt if the ponies here knew much about it at all. If we get some of the tainted feed and bring some cuties to Stitchheart, I doubt that whatever genetic secrets they have will remain secret for long."
He then glanced down at the sea of fuzballs around himself. "And no, I'm not sure how to get all these cuties out of here. I don't think they'd survive on their own now that we shut down this place. Maybe Choro can come up with an idea. Double level bus or something."
"If I am not correct, the wizard of Oakville can teleport." Thanatos replied carefully, sounding as if he was mentally double-checking every word he said, "Do you happen to know and trust them? Contacting them after arriving there and informing her of the situation might be reasonable way of transporting these creatures out."
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2017-11-07, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Fallout Equestria: Tarts and Tribulations
"It would be good to find a counteract recipe should someone accidentally eat the feed elsewhere. As one of the reports mentioned, a mare worker exploded because she couldn't stop eating it."
Doc gently rubs a few cuties behind the ear. This was pretty therapudic, yeah. "But yeah, I think I know of the wizard of Oakville. In fact, I think her guild knows of this place already. I'm sure they'd be all too happy to wait for us to finish any security remaining so they can poke their noses inside."
"...or maybe they already are here." Doc thinks back to the armored lancer they fought earlier. The one that attempted to kill them. Who else would know the party is here? Besides a couple ponies at the hospital they befriended, the guild knew.
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2017-11-07, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Strata suddenly looked queasy, and Thanatos spoke after a brief pause, possibly to insure that the ghoul wasn't about to vomit near his hooves.
"I have seen no indication in any of the files that anyone here took any measures to study the feed; given that it was a drug of some kind and not a disease, our best option might very well be to drop off a supply of the feed to Stitchheart and allow her to inoculate her patients herself once she has created a cure, as much as I hate to admit it."
Doc gently rubs a few cuties behind the ear. This was pretty therapudic, yeah. "But yeah, I think I know of the wizard of Oakville. In fact, I think her guild knows of this place already. I'm sure they'd be all too happy to wait for us to finish any security remaining so they can poke their noses inside."
"...or maybe they already are here." Doc thinks back to the armored lancer they fought earlier. The one that attempted to kill them. Who else would know the party is here? Besides a couple ponies at the hospital they befriended, the guild knew.
"The Guild is not a united force. It does not matter if they know about this place, but who among them knows about it. They are divided into numerous factions and have a internal structure steeped in obscurity and vagueness; most who are not tied down to the Lodge itself are mostly semi-independent at best. If the Guild knows of this place, I would not be surprised, but what matters at this stage is to secure the cuties."
Thanatos paused, glanced around the room, looked at Strata, who was continuing to massage Rose, and then at Doc.
"I have a plan of sorts; we leave here, leaving the robots to guard the facility, and travel to Oakville, where I will have my family's troops pull out from there. I will take a small amount of the cuties and a copy of the information regarding them, and will assess the Guild situation; in return, I will confirm that the problem here has been handled to my family and that the labs here have been destroyed, and will leave out the details of the artificial intelligence that you have befriended. I know of no other individual other than Stitchheart in this city who can synthesize and distribute a cure, and as such I will leave the remainder to your group. "