Authetius

Aria had pulled out the Wasteland Survival Guide and was flipping through the pages frantically, figuring Greytail's Anatomy might be a bit dated. "I don't know what we should look for out here. The only herbs and supplies I know were already stocked in the stable or grown in the farm down there. Wasn't like I had to go into the woods to get somethings. Not to mention that poison and venom were unheard of in the stable. I've only read about these medical situations. The best I can offer is to keep moving and get back to Appleoosa. The butcher said they have a cure." She started to walk at a brisk pace back towards the town as she skimmed the pages. ((Still looking into getting new people into this game - I had a way to get new people in around here, but if their characters don't get ready soon enough I'll just move this forward beyond this point and find a new way in.))

"We don't need the library, you're the only one who knows what's in it anyways - we can just ask you." Not that there is anything else to do with the absurd amount of memory on pipbucks. Aria reached into her saddle bag and pulled out two healing potions. "Drink this. You too Strong. It will close up the bite and the magic in it will also slow the poison a bit. Let's get going right now, the longer we wait the more screwed we are." A group of ponies clad in shoddy armor stood on top of one of the hills further north looking down on the scene. They held their position for the moment. They would prefer not to be seen for the moment.

"I-I believe so... Gizmo - we need to get him back to the town. The poison... Strong can you-" Aria looked over at Strong and stopped. "Oh god, you've been bitten too haven't you?" ((Linguz - you want to pick up Strong? I don't feel like talking to myself right now.))

(If you really want him gone, fine. I'll give you the option to survive if you change your mind.) The shotgun ripped a chunk of flesh off the gecko's back and severing its spinal cord, rendering it's hind legs immobile. The gecko was close enough, however, and had enough momentom to cross the remaining area between itself and Autumn, sinking its teeth into his lef just above the hoof. It died there shortly after biting down. Aria grimaced as she watched the gecko bite down on Autumn and finally slid the clip into the pistol and unloaded the gun into the gecko's back. "I can't believe you just did that," she said with a shaking voice.

"Three I think. One is hurt." The three geckos, now spread out around the hill relatively close, dashed out of cover and sprinted right towards Strong from different sides. Aria started unloading her clip towards the nearest gecko to Strong's left, most bullets missing but two knee capping it and sending it back to the ground where it got on all fours. It hissed and started sprinting towards Aria as she struggled to reload the unfamiliar device. Strongs battle saddle tore one in half and he started to turn to the next a moment to late as it sunk it's teeth into his shoulder. Strong shouted and shook it off, his massive strength sending it several feet away to the ground where he filled it with lead.

The first grenade detonated at the feet of a gecko. As the second blew up, the remaining three hissed and rrcognized the threat rolling at their feet and tried avoiding them. The had trouble recognizing grenade from stone and one of the explosions sent another to the ground in pain. It struggled to its feet and started back towards the target with another hiss. Aria picked up a stone and started hammering at the jammed shell, frustrated by the stubborn round. She dropped the rifle after a few swings and pulled the 10 millimeter pistol Strong had given her from her saddlebag. She held it up in her magic grasp and waited for one to get closer for her inaccurate aim.

Aria let loose another bullet, but it went wild and whem she went to remove the bullet from the breach it had gotten stuck somehow. She started the process of removing the shell unhappily. As the bullets from Strong's battle saddle were let loose, three of the eight remaining geckos spewed blood and hit the ground. The remaining five scattered in different directions heading for boulders for cover and darting back and forth to make more difficult targets of themselves. The one wounded gecko got up and started to stumble towards a boulder. The five remaining geckos were starting to get dangerously close.

"Instead of my word, follow my shot." Aria slowed her breath over a few seconds, took a deep breath and held it. She settled the crosshairs on a gecko at the pump that was on all fours drinking from a puddle. With a telekinetic squeeze the gun cracked and planted the bullet into the gecko's head. She took a deep breath and settled onto another as three more geckos darted out of the house and started to look around. All of them were on their hind legs at this point, looking for the shooter. Within a few seconds they were spotted by one with a hiss and they began quickly darting towards the group. Aria took another shot and crippled a second gecko, sending it sprawling to the ground. (I decided to kick it forward a bit Evil. Glad to see you're back, I don't want control of Lunar and I haven't seen him round in a while. Anyone who wants Lunar can have him after tonight. If he's not back tonight then I don't want to wait any longer for him.)

(Slender, if you don't think you can play often enough and don't wish to deal with trying to catch up or anything like that I can easily kill your character. Same goes for you Lunar, wherever you are. As of now I see SupertheAwesome as inactive and his character is simply going to be left behind. Provide a long enough period of disappearance and inactivity and Lunar will be killed off. There is a fight or two coming up that characters can be killed off in and we will be waiting after this fight until we get new people in.) The group minus Lunar (We need a name for our group...) continued out of the town and into the wastes. They traveled north as the butcher had said over hills for a few minutes until they came to the top of a hill which overlooked a small ruin of a home with a pump next to it. Several large geckos could be seen wandering around the outside, walking oddly on two legs rather than all four. They were a little taller than a pony and when seen up close or through a scope, as Aria is currently doing, rows of jagged teeth could be seen in their open mouths. "I see nine of them." Aria peered down at the geckos through her rifle scope, freshly replaced and crack free thanks to Ditzy, from a prone position on the ground. "Just try to shoot them from here or another plan?"

(I'm so sorry to hear this Strong. Wish I hadn't gone awol so often and had played more with you. You seem to be a decent guy and a good rper. Wish I had gotten to know you better. I feel with the loss of Strong and the less activity of autumn (whatever his account name is, sorry - bad memory), we'll be needing one or two more members added to this RP. I will open up to public until we get some new people then back to private for population control. I hope to find active players as those unactive will be left behind.)

Aria started following Gizmo and Strong. She had to quicken her pace to keep up with Strong's longer ones and subconciously chose to walk next to Gizmo over Strong. "Dream leaf? I remember it being some sort of sleep assisting drug that can be used as a heavy sedative. Extremely addictive according to text books and therefore not commonly used with a medical purpose. Should we be leaving without Sigh and Lunar? I mean, I could do without Sigh, but Lunar - we should stick with our fellow stable dwellers."

(Um. I think evil said he might not be back? I guess whoever wants to take control of Sigh does so. If no one else does, I'll take him. If evil comes back then you relinquish control to him. Try to keep him the same drug addicted wasteland ass hole.) "I didn't exactly plan on running off to explore without you. I'm ready to go." Aria looked around for a moment. "Where is Lunar and Sigh?"

Aria nodded. "Yes. You're the only ponies I can really trust." *And I don't wish to leave Gizmo, even if he wont have me.* "Besides, who else has my level of medical expertise? You may need me."

Aria thought for a moment and then nodded. "Geckos - doesn't sound like it could be too bad. Easy money. Let's get to it then." The butcher looked over at Aria. "If it was easy and not dangerous then someone else going to get water would do it lass. Get bitten by one of those fast little buggers and you're as good as dead. Only Candi here in town can keep ya alive after a good bite and most wont make the trip back."

(Sigh. Back. Raged after losing a big post here on my mobile when it crashed then forgot about it for a bit. Still on my mobile, so posting is a pain and it's particularly glitchy on this forum. For this reason I don't wish to use a second ooc thread as it would be a pain to switch back and forth for me. Will miss evil =( *sigh* Whatever.) The butcher frowned. "I already said they be to the north - past a few of them hills. There be a well where we draw fresh water with fewer radiation. The geckos tend stick round it for the water and make it a bit of trouble to get some." He cleared his throat for a moment. "Bring a bit o' ammo with ya. These geckos have mutated a bit and gotten a wee bit bigger over the years and a hella lot more poisonous." Aria caught up with the rest of them after sticking back with Ditzy to try and get a few more medical supplies.. "Poisonous geckos? What are we doing now?"

Lunar escapes detection and leaves with the stolen supplies without getting caught. Ditzy took the books and set them on the counter with the medical supplies and started pulling out weapons from the original pile to add to the new one accordingly. After doing that quickly, she stuck her head under the counter and came up with the Wasteland Survival Guide and placed it on the counter, pushing it forward. Free of charge, she wrote. Looking over at Sigh, she erased the last sentence and wrote Yes, but I keep them behind the counter. You know how far addicts will go to get some of the stuff. Aria wandered the aisles looking at the odd part of the store. Seemingly random items were kept on the shelves, from empty cans to a stick coated with green goo.

Rather than write more, Ditzy separated some guns from the pile, indicating those would be fair trade for the supplies. (Too damn lazy to make any sort of detailed economy here. It's stuff within reason people, so I won't give you infinite healing potions or just a stupid amount of them for this load of guns. If you've played fallout, this is a couple hundred caps worth.)

(You have a knack for being ninjaed good sir, not Linguz for ninjaing). *As a friend,* she thought. "Thanks," Aria whispered to Gizmo. Ditzy erased the board once more and wrote 'Look around and bring stuff you want over here. I'd rather not list everything. Over there is food.' She pointed over to a long shelf of pre-war food, the shelf bellow it containing healing potions, bandages, syringes and other items that may be needed for medical use. (Basically, everything is in Absolutely Everything within reason. You won't find a anti-material rifle here or a balefire bomb - be reasonable. Low level stuff, ammo isn't left out in open and is sold behind the counter).

Ditzy looked at Strong with shock and erased what was one her board. 'Yes, of course! It's the only money worth anything in the wasteland. You just out of the stable?' she wrote. "I didn't realize I was the one who decided these things. Sure, that'll work. There has to be some things in here that are worth trading for."

*To live with you!* was what her heart shouted, but she her mind had already given up on that goal and chose something else to dedicate her life to. "To do whatever I can to make it better." Ditzy finished taking an inventory of the items and grabbed a second chalkboard and walked up to Strong and wrote 'Trade or bottle caps?'

Aria followed the others in, not wanting to be the only stable dweller outside alone. Still, she kept her distance from Ditzy wondering how such a thing could happen to a pony. What if it was contagious. Ditzy came up with a small collection of tools and then started digging through the weapons, inspecting each one in turn and taking pieces off to get a better look at the mechanisms inside and then reassembling them. She put down the chalkboard and started keeping inventory of all the items and their conditions.

OOC Thread Ditzy Doo cantered up to Gizmo and Strong and glanced at the weapons, smiling. She turned and waved a hoof towards the store as if to say 'Come on in!' She opened the door and ran in, dodging shelves of almost any item one could need on the wasteland minus ammo. She stopped behind a counter and started digging into a toolbox.

((move this game to rp area.))

Ditzy Doo turned, a chalkboard slung around her neck swingjng into view, and looked at Autumn with her eyes for a moment when her right eye slowly rolled in a different direction. She gave a rather gruesome, yet honest, smile and pointed towards a sign attatched to the two welded together engines that composed the building behind her. Absolutely Everything! proclaimed the somewhat sloppy sign. A smaller sign advertised The Wasteland Survival Guide just bellow the first. Ditzy picked up a bit of chalk with her teeth and wrote I'm Ditzy Doo on the board. Aria regarded the zombiepony with both fear and a medical curiosity. She stayed towards the back of the group and watched Ditzy from a distance of sure how to react.

((Was kinda waiting for an evilshy post since I gave him permission for that, buuuut. If that doesn't happen by the time I get home (give me 30 mins) then I'll just keep it trucking)).