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[Illiad Easle 2,968]

(Approach the bars to the front of my cell. I look around, feeling the new rush of emotional energy previously blocked by the walls)

(I look in the direction of a familiar emotional strain. Adjusting head angle for a better view through the bars...)

(@@clockwork24)"Clockwork? Is that you?"

Edited September 22, 2014 by Illiad Easle

[Quintara HiveHagfish 243]

I was trying to remember when was the last time i was around somepony,anypony, i turned my head as the wall came down revealing the iron bars.

I stood and moved to the bars. As i looked around i noticed a creature, in another cage, it looks like a monkey, i decide to talk to it..... 

Hay!

I started waving trying to get its attention.

Hay can you understand me?

Edited September 22, 2014 by BackSlash2554

[MisterRe 21]

Humbug Chasity Lime woke up, her legs and hooves ached from the approximate twenty-four hour slumber. The last thing she remembered was partying too hard and ending up on the floor passed out. She felt, heard and smelt an indistinguishable background. She was popular with the stallions so she was used to waking up in strange places.

 

@,@@Illiad Easle,

 

"Keep it quiet you stallions! I'm trying to wake up!" The sleeping green mare opened her eyes to iron bars. "What the...?" 

[clockwork24 103]

@@Illiad Easle

 

I slowly stalked down the dirt hallway, my hooves kicking up small plumes of dust as I moved into an arena. After looking up at the silent crowd, I made my way over to a weapons rack, levitating my preferred twin cutlasses into my front hooves.  I mentally turned on the device implanted in my back and heaved myself upwards, transforming myself from a quadruped stance into a bipedal one. Swinging the two swords back and forth, I readied myself for my opponent by turning to face the gate on the opposite side of the arena.

 

The huge wooden gate slowly moved upwards, but something was wrong. As the heavy wood moved, it let out a metallic screech, as if it was metal on metal.My dreamscape faded, and I was faced with my harsh reality once again. 

 

I was imprisoned, trapped by four blank metal walls that seemed to close in on me day after day.

 

This however, was completely new to me. My four walls slowly slid upwards, revealing closely-spaced metal bars. I quickly shut my eyes as they were intruded upon by harsh sunlight that was far brighter than the pony-made light that filled my room.

 

After giving myself a moment to adjust, I opened my eyes again and looked around. A huge number of other inmates like myself stood trapped in other cells, with no freedom...

 

I tried to move, to go to interact with other life in what seemed like years, but the way I was chained left no movement. I was spread eagle on the wall, each hoof securely fasted by metal cuffs. My spine felt fused to the wall as well, as the prison guards had obviously tried to neutralize my spinal enhancement.

 

Soon, a cacophony of voices filled the air, as prisoners tried to communicate with the others. Through the wave of noise, I felt a familiar pony speaking.

 

"Illiad...?"

Edited September 22, 2014 by clockwork24

[Illiad Easle 2,968]

@@MisterRe

(I turn around to face the, mare? I think? Probably. Who has only become more and more fearful since she woke up, she is also somewhat tired.)

"Oh, sorry about that. Here, let me help you."

[Emotion pull, tired/fear]

(I feel a bit of the fear to abate. That done I turn back to @@clockwork24)

"It is you, but you're not empathic, are you? You could be a clockwork from another dimension, I'll believe anything at this point."

[ReverieRiver 525]

Ariel didn't know how long she had been trapped in this void. She still remembered how she ended up here... well, kind of. It was during a mental break, an episode of psychosis. Now, she typically still had a vague sense of self in these episodes - she could somewhat recall what had happened - but this time, she had ended up blacking out completely for some reason.

 

Then when she came to, she was in nothingness. Four walls, ceiling and floor too, of sheer blackness surrounded her. At first she panicked, crying and begging and screaming for someone to help her until she lost her voice. Being alone terrified her. The only contact she ever had with another living being in this place was that with those who tested on her; and even then, it was only for a few brief moments before she would fall asleep.

 

But as time went on (or at least, the illusion of it), the young unicorn mare slowly resigned herself to her fate. Soon she couldn't tell the days from weeks or even months. She laid numbly in her prison, simply waiting for something to happen. Waiting for the day she would be freed, a day she felt would never come.

 

Then, the darkness suddenly fell away. Ariel sat up, startled as the walls of black were replaced with iron bars. What came as even further surprise to her was the other ponies (and one strange-looking creature among them) that apparently resided here. She had thought that she was alone here, she'd been so isolated.

 

Yet, were they actually there? Was this all some strange hallucination, or a dream? She approached the bars of her cage, staring wide-eyed at the others.

 

"H-Hello?!" she called out to them. "Are... Are you real?"

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[Illiad Easle 2,968]

@@Miss Reaper

(I look over to see another mare, frankly she's quite terrified)

"I'm real, well, probably."

(Her terror is slightly contagious, I can't help but share in her fear)

"Here, this should help."

(I walk over to the bars separating the two of us.)

[Empathic push: Optimism]

(Her terror takes a firmer seat in my mind as it is reduced in hers. I can't help but look around again with this new fear, just now noticing how evil this place actually looks.)

[MisterRe 21]

@@Illiad Easle, 

 

The exhaustion from Humbug's eyes receded and she became aware of her situation. Not only was she angry, she was down right pissed. Not again She thought. The bars of steel seemed strong enough to hold her but she tried to break it anyways.

 

@,

 

"Hey pony! PONY! I don't know why I'm here but you've made a huge mistake. A huge one! Now let me out before I break out my self and shatter you spinal cord." The green hooded figure was unresponsive. "Didn't hear me, eh?"

 

Behind her she had found the Megaphone from the night of question. She turned on the megaphone with disregard of the echoes and other ponies. "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? LET ME OUT!" 

 

The sound resonated in packets

[ReverieRiver 525]

@@Illiad Easle,

 

Ariel kept her gaze fixed on this other pony as he approached the bars separating them. Her eyes - or rather, eye, for only one was visible (the other hidden behind her mane) - betrayed the fear that clenched her heart. This new development, with virtually a new environment and other ponies to interact with, was more than a little unsettling to her.

 

Yet, somehow... she wasn't afraid. Just like that, the fear was gone, as if it were pulled out of her, and replaced with another feeling. For all the time she'd been here, the black walls had never fallen like that. So why now? Perhaps it was a sign somehow? Maybe, just maybe, it was a good sign. A sign for what, she didn't know, but surely she could dare to have some hope now.

 

She then looked to the other pony again, her gaze having wandered briefly, and she noticed that he seemed different now in a way. He looked far more afraid than she. "H-Hey... I can't say I know exactly what's going, on, but... M-Maybe this is a good thing somehow? They're... letting us see each other now, when it was just loneliness before... And I-"

 

@@MisterRe,

 

The unicorn mare fell over on her side with a tiny startled squeal as another mare's voice boomed through the area, her eardrums all but blown. Ariel laid there dazed, and would probably stay that way for a few minutes or so until she recovered from the assault on her ears.

[Illiad Easle 2,968]

@@MisterRe

the incredible volume of noise produced by that microphone was nearly deafening, once I pick myself back off the floor I move over to the bars connecting to the mare with the microphone.

"Hey! Do you mind?"

Looking back over @@Miss Reaper I can feel that she is more terrified than before, I move back to the bars separating us and begin again.

[Empathic pull: Terror]

I begin to shiver from the cold terror, I think about sending it to @@MisterRe for causing it, but if the last battle with Discord taught me anything it is that we shouldn't make enemies of potential allies.

I lay down on the floor, leaning on the bars, still shivering from the terror I took.

[Shift 4,269]

(OOC: ... her name is Timeshift, not Time Shield. Her weapon is a 'time' shield that controls her time magic. Just wanted to clarify.)

 

Timeshift grunted in her cage as she noticed the black wall retreating. She sighed and huffed. She'd been in this facility for exactly 5 years today, and everything was just as gloomy as it was before. She somehow had a gift for keeping time.. and seeing things, anyway. A few of her visions had showed her that she was getting knocked out and then brought somewhere, but before she had been able to deduce just where they were taking her or the strange figure's motives or looks, her vision stopped. Unluckily the guards had caught on just when she was ten seconds or so from seeing what was going on and now she had these black gloves on that prevented her from having any more visions.

 

She groggily walked up to the bars of her cage. A loud noise screeched across the cell via a microphone, but she just regarded it impassibly as it passed by her. She stood up straight, adjusted her reading glasses and started scanning her surroundings.

 

"...well, this is interesting. I have roommates. Lovely." Timeshift muttered. She started to use her aching magic to attempt to shift time, but of course, something was blocking her. Stupid idea anyway. She might have gone into overdrive again. That didn't end well. She used her normal and patetically weak magic to test the bars, but they wouldn't budge. She gave up and started to scan her surroundings with her eyes, taking note inside her head and looking for possible weaknesses and exits, and began to deduce why the black wall was gone. She passivly took note of her other captives and a weird creature.

 

"Alright, folks," Time began in a voice that demanded attention. "Since we can all talk to one another, let's do that and introduce ourselves to the party, shall we? I'm Timeshift, age... whatever, and i'm a unicorn. My special talent is time magic. Does anybody wish to also man up and introduce themselves and not stay silent like a coward?"

Edited September 22, 2014 by Shift

[Illiad Easle 2,968]

Still shivering I pick myself off of the floor, I turn towards @@Shift her rudeness replacing some of the terror with irritation.

"That was rude."

But she did have a point.

"I am consul Illiad Easle of Troy, 25ish, I am Empathic and specialize in art and strategy, and I will not be called a coward."

Much of the terror has dissipated, the shivering has stopped but left me drained, I lay back down where I was laying before.

Edited September 22, 2014 by Illiad Easle

[MisterRe 21]

"Well that didn't work... Damn and damnation. I guess I'll be stuck here." She put her megaphone away and waited for something to happen, like she always did. Something was bound to happen. There was always something bound to happen. Humbug hummed 'Oh he's a jolly good fellow' to herself listening in on the conversations that were presented before her.

 

"Prison folks..." She started humming again.

[Shift 4,269]

@@Illiad Easle,
 
"Well, it appears you're the only one that isn't a coward." Timeshift shot back Easle. "So, Troy, mind using your strategy to maybe, I don't know, break out? I'm sure a talented mind like you will be able to get us out in a jiffy!" Most of Timeshift's last sentence was laced with sarcasm as she cocked a disapproving eyebrow at Easle.

@@MisterRe,

 

Timeshift turned to Humbug after 'insulting' Easle. "So... do you mind telling the party what your name is and not use that Celestia-forsaken megaphone again? Nobody likes it. You caused quite a disturbance, i'll be lucky if I don't get hearing aids."

[ReverieRiver 525]

@@Illiad Easle, @@Illiad Easle,

 

Ariel groaned, her ears still ringing somewhat as she slowly sat up. Whoever wanted to blast out everypony's eardrums with that megaphone stunt, they sure had been close to succeeding. She shook her head as if to shake out the headache starting to form, before one ear flicked up to the sound of another voice.

 

She listened to the other mare speak, that authoritative tone commanding Ariel's attention. Her gaze briefly moved to the stallion that had first approached her as he introduced himself as Illiad. So, Timeshift and Illiad... The young mare supposed she should introduce herself as well.

 

"U-Um... I'm Ariel. 19 years old... last time I checked, and I'm a unicorn, too... My talent is, uh, magical constructs." And of course, that particular ability was blocked, just as Timeshift's time abilities were. They certainly wouldn't allow their occupants to practice any useful magic that might aid in escape.

[Quintara HiveHagfish 243]

I put my hooves to my ears as someponys voice boomed through my cell,

 

"Ahhhhh!!!  Jeeze.........well that........was unplesent. Its no wonder i have no friends, everypony is Buckin crazy! "

I sat back down and sighed, "Buck it, im gonna do what i always do, keep to myself."

 

i wish i had the Masamune, I wouldn't even be here.

[MisterRe 21]

@@Shift, 

 

"The mouth on this one... What did you get locked up for: bad attitude? If you really want to know my name you ask nicer next time. But anyway My name is Chasity Lime but that's short for my first name Humbug. If that doesn't make sense, you should see your face!"

 

Humbug didn't get along with the other mares, neither did she try.

Edited September 22, 2014 by MisterRe

[Illiad Easle 2,968]

@@MisterRe

"If my ears didn't still hurt from that megaphone I would applaud you."

@@Shift

I sigh at Shift's comments, the sarcasm was literally dipping off the words. Not even bothering to get up I look in her General direction.

"I do have a plan actually, and if I didn't need this terror I've saved up I would have given it to you by now"

 

@@Miss Reaper

I turn to look at Ariel,

"Magical constructs you say? Like what?"

"Also, do you know what is dampening your abilities?"

[Shift 4,269]

@@MisterRe,

 

"...Humbug Chasity Lime?" Timeshift sneered. "What were your parents on when they named you? And as for what I got locked up for... i'll be honest, I have no clue. I've been here for five years and the only thing I can remember besides this cell and this party of horrendous faces is my office in Canterlot. I'm a lawyer; in the middle... well, was in the middle of defending somepony in a murder case. I wonder what happened to the guy. I suppose he got the death penalty. Not my problem, though..." 

 

@@Illiad Easle,

 

"Well do tell, what is this oh-so brilliant plan that a brilliant tactician like yours came up with?" Timeshift asked with a challenging grin.

 

@@Miss Reaper,

 

Timeshift turned to Ariel, her sneer disappearing and replaced with fascination. "Magical constructs? That sounds... well, fascinating, really. Do tell, what types of constructs can you make? Are they useful?" 

Edited September 22, 2014 by Shift

[Illiad Easle 2,968]

@@Shift

I roll my eyes at shift.

[Empathic pull:sarcastic from:shift]

[Empathic return:sarcasm to:shift]

"If I told you whomever is controlling this prison would likely hear, rendering my plan useless. I'm sure you, as a lawyer, would understand the need for confidentiality."

I think she looked surprised to see her own sarcasm used against her.

@@Miss Reaper

"If you want to know the plan, I could whisper it to you if you come over here by me. You seem like the kind of pony who could keep a secret, unlike shift over there."

Edited September 22, 2014 by Illiad Easle

[MisterRe 21]

@@Shift, @@Illiad Easle,

 

"Thank you, stallion... Its nice to see someone being courteous" 

 

"Acid... They were on acid, hence the HCL initial. I'm not going to shed my whole back story here. But I got this here megaphone from the party before I woke up in this place. And I'd gladly show you all what I can do... You should all cover your ears and close your eyes soon."

 

Humbug too the batteries off her megaphone to put them in the corner.

[ReverieRiver 525]

@@Illiad Easle, @@Shift,

 

Ariel didn't exactly expect to have such attention on her for when she stated her ability. Perhaps she should have expected it; it was indeed a useful ability, after all. All the same, her ears folded flat against the sides of her head, her timidity trying to take hold of her.

 

"W-Well, um... Theoretically, I could make anything that I can imagine. But, uh, the more complex it is, the harder it is for me to get right... I wish I could use it right now, but I'm not sure what's blocking it."

 

Her flattened ears perked when she heard Illiad speak once more. She seemed hesitant, yet she stepped closer to him; whether anyone would admit it or not, there always was an innate curiosity in the notion of a secret.