Catpone Cerberus

@Illiad Easle Ædriga though for a moment, but not because she didn't know the answer right away, she did, she just had to think how to say it, as the exact word was still missing from her and she felt taking the book and trying to find a fitting word would ruin the conversation "I want cave, or other where no dragon, pony or other animal or no-animal can hurt I." "Where I can sleep, eat and learn when and how I want, and no others come hurt I." she knew she technically said the same thing twice, but the meaning was bit different, since the first part meant safety and the latter was peace, and since friendly visits weren't really a thing for her kind, her assumption of course was that if anyone wanted to bother her in her own space, it was to steal from her or to attack her. She then hesitated a moment before continuing in slightly sad tone "And family." she had accepted a long time ago that it was most likely never to happen, she was too weak and small to be desirable by her kind, and she wouldn't have been able to protect her offspring against other dragons anyway, not to mention the fact that her weakness would most likely be shared by her offspring, and she didn't think it would be fair to doom someone like that.

Jenna let out an amused exhale "Too late for that, I became a nervous wreck before I even met you." she was mostly joking "In all seriousness, I have never been good with relaxing, that's why I took extra time to train, it's hard to act normal when you're nervous about failing." "And while there was good progress with that, there's still problems, that's what caused the eye thing that lead to you knowing." "And it of course doesn't help to have serious stakes like this."

"I believe so, think about it." Jenna said "In story-media a solo person with a dog is usually a lone hunter or a traveler, the character is clearly hiding in the picture among what looks like tree's roots." "Then there's you, you yourself have acknowledged that your power isn't that useful in a fight, but it would be if we needed to find something, or stay hidden." "Even my abilities are lot more useful in defensive use than in offensive use." "I don't like the idea either, but it would make sense, and really, the only way to stop this would be to close those things, if that's possible."

@Illiad Easle "I understand." Ædriga stated "And I like, more easy." "Where I from, I want, I hurt other." "Here, I want, no hurt, help, I help, other give what I want." working as a thing to her was a great thing, it was so easy to get what you wanted, all you needed to do is to do something they want you to do, there was no need to risk one's life for getting something. She also wasn't as greedy as many others of her kind, she just wanted to have a some amount of something in a place where she could be in peace.

@Blitz Boom Ruby just nodded in agreement, Leviathan's suggestion was about what she was going to do anyway, she was just someone who had been hired to do a thing, she didn't know, or care why someone talked a language and what it was, and so on, it helped that Charir looked different compared to the usual Equestrian dragons, since he wasn't one, because that gave more reason for why even other dragons wouldn't understand him. "It depends who you ask, there's no one meaning for Elder dragon." Ruby explained "But there is two more common uses, those who are past seven or so thousand years, older we get, less precisely we count our age, and those who lived during the time of the civilization." "Former does exist, deep in the inner parts of the homelands, older we get, harder we are to kill, so as you go deeper into the homelands,older the dragons you see will get , younger you are, closer to the edge of the homelands your territory will be." "But the latter, is a mystery." "It is known that there used to be a civilization before us, the evidence is plenty, but there is no known living dragons, or dead ones, that are that old." "It's almost like they just vanished." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "No worries, I don't get easily bored." Scarecrow said, before starting to move to somewhere where they would be out of sight, he didn't want outside ponies getting involved "As I said, it is something I wish to keep between us, thus my preference for place with visual privacy." "But shortly put, there's a certain undead wishing to move on, and they are hopeful that you could be some help with that." "Though don't feel bad if it turns out you can't, it has shown to be a....troublesome thing to get rid of." when they would be somewhere private enough, he wouldn't waste time and would tell Crow to separate "That undead is me" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm actually a tinkerer of sort myself too, but you are right, if anyone in this place knows about these..." Trox gestured at his cybernetics "...it would be a tinkerer." For the point regarding limitless magic, the siblings didn't comment anything, when they spoke of magic, they meant the types that any creature could use in one form or other, the magic of gods or god like beings were outside their understanding and capabilities, and the only ones they knew capable of using those were the two sisters, who in their world were pretty much gods themselves. "Since our injuries had healed during our time in the darkness, our biggest problems here were exhaustion and lack of food, and we have now rested and gotten food." Sheska pointed out "And while we are far from being at our best state, we are quite resistant little lizards, we are used to being in a weak state." it wasn't that they weren't still feeling weak, they just had learned to ignore and hide it "And while there is technology that can revitalize and while I would not be surprised by soul steal tech, mine are neither, but they do help, as they can be used even if my body is otherwise out of energy." they were also small, which had it's own advantages. To Onache's last point, the siblings looked at each other thoughtfully "You may actually be right, it could make sense...also, you mentioned Discord, he's a mystery where we come from, both sisters claim to have destroyed him, yet it is believed by most that he just left, some don't believe he ever even existed." "A weird story that one."

@Lucid_Nightlight Luna would quite rudely be told to leave Ruby alone, and that would be all the red dragon would say, and she wouldn't be afraid to get violent if need to be. She knew it was a dream, and she had no interest in dealing with ponies again, ponies had burned that bridge, and Ruby wasn't going to build it again, no matter how much they invaded her mind. The dream itself wasn't too interesting, it wasn't even really a dream, as she was simply laying down in a room mirroring the one they were sleeping in, the only difference being that things that didn't have movement, smell, or sound, or in other word the furniture, were featureless blobs of material roughly the shape of the thing, while things that did have those, things like Quasi, were more detailed. This what it looked like in her head when she slept 'one eye open', her dreams were just her senses telling her what was around. Luna would find that it was hard to read someone who didn't know themselves what they felt, but if she could get past the language difference, she would eventually find that while there wasn't strong certainty/proof that she cared about Quasi, since Ruby herself wasn't able to recognize it if there was, there was certain appreciation towards him that she felt towards nobody else. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ember wasn't a therapist, so she didn't know the correct way to do things, so she did the best things she could come up with, she took the pistol away from Sky "It wouldn't solve your problem, especially if you are one of those unlucky ones who become undead, miserable bunch those are." "You have someone who loves you, and there's those who look up to you to do the right thing, you want to be useful? Stop self-pitying and let that anger out, use that rage to go after those who deserve your wrath." "Stop trying to impress others and focus on satisfying yourself." (sry for delay, life happens)

"Nobody's luck is infinite, including ours." Jenna stated "That's why it's important to make sure we don't need luck." "Thus I don't let my guard down, only way to avoid danger is to see it before it sees you."

"Not quite." Jenna said "This situation won't be solved by destroying, there's too many of them, we can only fight to defend ourselves." "It's all about that symbolism, my guess is that whoever sent that picture is trying to say that we need to go behind the enemy." "In there." she pointed at the portal again.

@Lucid_Nightlight Ruby just rolled her eyes "As I said earlier, I acknowledge the potential of a trap." "I'm just not so simple minded, sometimes you need to take a step back to go three steps forward." she didn't care if Quasi listened or not, and after saying it she found a nice spot for herself and laid down there, she wasn't big on beds, she preferred the hard and cold floor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ember stayed quiet the whole time, not showing any reaction, but not in the cold way, rather, it was obvious she was purposefully hiding her reaction behind a serious neutrality. "You need a a therapist, that's for sure." she said after a moment of silence "And I don't say that to insult you, I say it because I want you to get help." she sat down next to him "I was barely old enough to be in school when I found my best friend's body, my only friend's, dragons weren't liked back then." "She had fled from home after a robbery gone wrong, timberwolfs got her, case closed, the house was gone next month, didn't even try to find the perpetrators, I don't think they even reported it correctly, there's no records of it." "I knew there was more to it, nobody listened, what would a half-dragon kid know?" "My adoptive parents were dismissed too." "Such experience had strange effects on my young mind, didn't help that I'm half predatory dragon and I was hitting puberty." "Violent clashes with bullies, fire, crow attacks, it's a miracle I didn't kill anyone, I had to be homeschooled for a while, didn't help." "I was the freak of the area, didn't help that crows followed me everywhere, more violent clashes, more crow attacks, I got my first taste of meat during this time, it was sickening to realize it tasted good" "I lost most fights, I didn't know how to fight, but I always got the sole blame every time, regardless of who did what, they sure liked to say how there was no special treatment and other such nonsense, but somehow it always came back to me being part dragon." "My father was later discharged for looking into my friend's fate, though they of course told fake reason for it." "After that my father took care of my education, also teaching me to fight in hopes to give me a way to let out my more....active side easier." "I ran away from home few times, I was disgusted by my own face, I hated everyone, I especially hated the dragon that was staring me from the mirror." "It took years to find a therapist willing to talk with me, it's not easy to deal with an angry dragon." she looked towards the sky and sighed "The anger never goes away, the pain never leaves, I only learned to redirect it." "Dad found lot things that didn't add up, corruption and criminal connections, so many of the so called 'morally good' ponies were everything but that, those who spoke about it most were the worst, it had managed to get so bad because Celestia was doing the job of two princesses alone, she hadn't noticed it being so busy." "He reported his findings straight to her, and the guard got cleaned up, but there was someone who didn't meet justice, few of them actually, those who had attacked my friends house,....my first kills...." she got up ".....since then I have focused my life on hunting those who are too well hidden or too powerful for the claws of the law...." she turned to Sky "...and as much as I don't like you and those you serve...." she offered her hoof to him "....I'll be damned if I don't help you kill those *********"

It's not necessarily that it needs to be dropped, the infrequent posts actually help it in that because I don't feel a constant pressure relating to it (but it could still be the correct thing to do). And yes, you have given things to do, like I said, there's nothing wrong in your posts themselves. The biggest problem is, a writers block, I just don't know what to do with the character in the situation, because like said, he's not really main character material, and when you add to that the fact that I'm not really good with action filled RPs like this one, and am more character based player, it makes it almost feel like a chore In conclusion, it would probably be better to just drop it, but I am willing try to go on further and see if I could at any point get more into it, but that would mean very low quality posts from me.

@Illiad Easle Ædriga nodded "Where I from, if you no strong, you dead." for them there wasn't really individual worth, you were either strong or weak, but other than that everyone is equally worthless, and while they hoarded treasure, it was less a show of worth or wealth, and more a way to say 'I have stolen this much and can defend it.', it was a good way to know who to not mess with because there was limited amount of treasure in the homelands, so if someone managed to gain a huge pile of it, it meant the were very dangerous opponent. "I like here, but you no can what you want here." she then said, challenging what Ætheron had said a bit "You no can eat what you want, take what you want, I know why, but not all free." "All no can what all want, no here, no there, is no possible." "one from two, strong say what can and no can, or others say what strong no can." she wasn't complaining really, she understood the need of limits, but she also wasn't naive enough to buy the 'you can do anything you want' thing,

@Lucid_Nightlight Ruby didn't really care for what she heard, she couldn't care less if 'few' creatures died, and the part about her kind's dna, she didn't know what dna was but if these creatures were smart enough to make armor out of her kind, good for them, they had more brain she had thought, still not much, but more. "You are simply wrong." she said, almost disturbingly calmly considering the context "Firstly the whole trying to kill me thing, to that I say, welcome to the club, did you forget who you are talking to? Also, it's not like I didn't kill many of them first, between me and them, it's me who started it, there's no denying that." she could have just stayed in Equestria and the Fironians wouldn't even know she existed "And the fear thing, since I don't remember anything, I can't be sure what exactly happened, but based on what I understood from you, yes, they managed to make me feel fear, but they didn't strike fear into me." "I never feared them at any point, I only relived fear I have felt before, fear that was caused by someone else than them, someone who is dead and has rotten away." She blatantly ignored the whole millions being killed thing, though was that really a surprise? from her point of view it was the same as bunch of ants in a different dimension dying. ------------------------------------------------------------- The use of 'many' was rather concerning to Ember, as it made her believe they were keeping the real number a secret, meaning it was a lot. For her reaction, it was sort of a sympathetic silence, she had no emotional bond to these creatures, in fact, she had never even seen them, she only knew that some amount of creatures somewhere died, so she didn't give any strong emotional reaction, but having empathy, she held a short moment of silence on her own, ending few enemies rather brutally after it as they had tried to take advantage of her momentary stop, she may have not known these creatures, but this was beyond even those she killed for living, and it was principles above all, she would personally make sure that Fironia would fall. What came to Sky, she kept her distance from him, because while she wanted to go and try to comfort him regardless of how much she disliked him, she didn't want get hit by a bullet, she still didn't trust him regarding that.

"What is magic but a force we don't currently understand." Jenna said "Not saying you're wrong, after all, our powers are what one may call magic." she pointed at the portal "That thing can't be easy to keep open, even if that place has different laws of physics, in this world nothing happens without energy, so what keeps it open." the military kept backing up, but it would still be a moment before they were overrun "We can't take down an army, that's impossible, but we can try to get past it." "A girl and a wolf, that came with the letter, they were seemingly hiding in the picture." "What if it's more literal than we first thought?" (the picture as reminder)

"Eventually yes, but never right away." Jenna pointed out "I had a bleeding wound from the first one, even if it didn't bleed much when I reached you, the second ****** broke my leg." she didn't curse much but felt that it was necessary in this context "And you got shot." "The only reason why we are fine now, is that each time only one of us got hit badly." again she didn't want to go against Oliver's optimism constantly, but it was important to remember the facts.

Well the character is a tinkerer actually I'll put more information on him for you if there is a spot where I think he could make his one time appearance (unlike with solar, he would have no reason to appear several times) and as long as there's electricity (more specifically, things that has circuit boards and such) everything else can be explained with magic but in short, he is the pony who first invented the type of cybernetic limbs that Trox has, this happened so long ago that in their world he's in history books (it is a mirroring world, but not everything happened at the same time, for example certain 'people' don't/haven't necessarily born at the same time in the relative timeline). in context of this RP, in this Equestria he would have gotten the idea for the first prototype but lacks technology and experience to make anything real yet. Basically if there's any moment where they are going around ponyville or any town really and there's nothing specific going on, they could come across one of his shops. (he sells decorative/small useful items with gimmicks, think for example that bird toy that keep "drinking" when you make it move, or a egg timer that instead of ringing let's out colorful lights like a disco ball. things like that)

@Blitz Boom onache's though about if someone could fix the thing brought up a question, what is the technological level of Equestria in the RP? I have a one character that could make a cameo at one point (he wouldn't be able to fix it, but it would bring up some more information about the kobold's world as the character's equivalent in their world is a personal hero of sorts for Trox) relating to his leg and arm, but he's kinda high tech (futuristic from real world's point of view, but with magic it could work to have him in if there's some modern technology in Equestria) this is of course just a hypothetical at this point since it's not known where the RP leads, but just a thought.

@Blitz Boom "He is clearly sensing something." Ruby said, before talking with Charir, and one didn't need to understand to figure out she asked him something, to which he of course replied, sounding bit unsure as he did. "As I thought, he can feel my presence, but not as well as usual, he can tell I'm somewhere around where I actually am, but wouldn't be able pinpoint the exact place if it wasn't for the fact that I'm right front of him." "Everything else about me is hidden as it should be, though he did say I smell like a threat, but he couldn't explain what exactly that means." She didn't waste time before going to the next topic "Now with that out of the way, we'll need to get the lies straight" "As you hopefully remember, you are my body guard, so try to act like one when others are around." "I'm a mare involved in business and other such dealings so there's lot of confidential things." "And Charir, he's a family member of a client I'm escorting to confidential location, the same client we were meeting during this time, and if anyone asks, the client is a big, easily irritated dragon who doesn't appreciate those intervening with their business." "Does that sound believable enough? I doubt I'll be able to keep Spicy fooled for long, she already thinks I'm a changeling, but as long as it keeps guards from putting their noses into my things it's good enough for me." (hope I remembered her name right) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "They are indeed gentle and peaceful creatures, one can only wonder how they survived the brutality of nature." Scarecrow mentioned, he did know that cows weren't originally like this, but it was still a thing to wonder, having seen the various predators of the forest, and that was just the Everfree, there was lot of creatures he had never seen nor will ever see in the world. "There is no need to bother more animals as this has answered my question, they even considering to taste me tells enough of this spell's effectiveness." even the friendliest of creatures wouldn't even think of tasting him if they knew what he was, until of course they ate carcasses, but that was besides the point. "So lead the way, but if you are running out of things to do, I'm willing to just wait until the pony is ready, time is meaningless to me after all." ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trox didn't say it out loud but he found the 'problem' of the new look rather stupid, mostly because in his eyes it was so easy to solve, Onache could take any form she wanted, so why didn't she just default to a different form? that was what his question had asked, to which he never got the answer, and even if she couldn't, if the fur was the worst part of the unarguably ridiculous look, why not to shave it off? "Illusion, though not only visual one, if it worked properly, you wouldn't be able to tell it was ever metal, I tried to fix it but needs very specific parts and these being an old models, those parts were hard to find." he then thought for a second how to explain the magic "Artificial magic, is created magic." "While the magic used in most things...or well, everything in case of this place probably, is natural magic, magic generated by creatures or plants or anything else that is part of nature and the world." "Artificial magic is created through technology, it is weaker than natural magic of equivalent energy, but its advantage is that in theory it has no limit." "But the exact science goes beyond even my understanding, the guard would probably know more." "One could call it fake-magic." "And since it came up, yes, these are lot better than anything one could carve from wood, but not necessarily because it's metal." "Without going in too much detail and complicated terms, they work exactly like my other arm and leg, better actually, as they have advantage over biological parts, one example being with the gems you mentioned, as while it is true that if we wanted to use them, tests would be necessary, if I were to use them only through my metal arm, I would be able to use almost anything without problem, the more corruptive ones may mess with the systems."

@Illiad Easle It wasn't that Ædriga had picked up the meaning for word 'soft' just like that, the word had floated in her mind for a while now, she just hadn't figured out to use it in this context before, as the examples had been with physical softness and hardness, but it didn't take genius to go through what it could mean in used context, assuming of course she had gotten the right meaning and not something that was close enough to seem like it. She shook her head "No, I maybe no soft like pony or other, but I soft dragon, small and soft dragon." "Big dragon soft too." "If no soft....strong?.." she waited a second hoping a nod or head shake from Ætheron to confirm if she had understood right, but regardless of if it came or not, she continued "...no here, ...strong?..dragon stay where I from." That was the truth, she was here because she was too weak to survive back in the homelands, both physically and mentally, and the other dragon they had met, she didn't know her, but she knew that she would not be here if she could make it in the homelands, she may be lot stronger than Ædriga, but she was weak somehwere, she wouldn't otherwise be here acting like a pony

"True, but nothing stops them from following us until there no longer is any risk of being exposed." Jenna pointed out "There's also ways to lure someone out of the crowd, or one could create so much chaos that nobody notices what happened." "I'm not trying to be downer, but the fact is that I can't let my guard down, not after two Vipers and you almost dying."

"I don't think that either." Jenna stated "Because if they wanted something from what is very tiny fraction of the human kind, they wouldn't send literal armies." she pointed out "Ultimately the why doesn't really matter, this is a military assault, why it happens is a mere footnote on the whole thing, because it happens regardless of the reason." "My question is, how they do it?"

@abrony-mouse @Blitz Boom already mentioned about it but You are mixing up characters, The cyborg pony is my character Solar Silver https://mlpforums.com/blogs/entry/25250-solar-silver-oc/ But since it seems to be the trend here, I'll also summarize my characters here (and link their pages if they have one.) kobolds https://mlpforums.com/blogs/entry/25677-sheska-and-trox-oc/ Kobold siblings from dystopian futuristic world who have been transported to this almost utopia-like world after getting imprisoned by Nightmare Moon's guard for being too rebellious (literally rebels) and are now trying to figure out how to exist in this new found peace and safety. Their arrival spot happened to be inside to be changeling hive ruled by Onace They are currently in a hospital...in Ponyville if my memory serves me right, Blitz can correct me if I'm wrong, and you already know what they are doing. Solar https://mlpforums.com/blogs/entry/25250-solar-silver-oc/ A super soldier from the same world as the kobolds, used to serve Daybreaker (corrupted Celestia) until he got transported 'here' under mysterious circumstances (year or two ago in the RPs timeline). He now serves Celestia as part of the Royal Guard, doing his best to atone the awful things he has done in his life, also working as the (currently) only defense against the threats his world may bring to the better Equestria. He's currently somewhere doing guard things waiting for a good moment to bother the trio again, next appearance most likely related to the kobolds' arrival place. Scarecrow https://buffy.mlpforums.com/monthly_2020_03/themonster.thumb.png.7dc94bbcd75d9d92634191ddff062496.png Undead and mutated pony who would give anything to get the "un" part away from his existence, he wants to die, that's what I'm saying. He isn't good per say but he has decided that doing good things instead of evil things is better for his changes to get what he wants. He's hanging around with Lyriel (who is almost the exact opposite of him, being a being of nature) and has a freak of a bird given by a draconequus that makes him look like a natural being called Evergrown when it lands on him. The bird that turns into a hawk when touching Scarecrow, is called Crow, because reasons. where and what you got already Ruby https://buffy.mlpforums.com/monthly_2018_08/dragon-pony.thumb.png.e89dbe4026e823d91b781c2116cdd601.png A young-adult dragon with the ability to turn into a specific pony, carrying a possibly cursed dragon eye on her neck hidden under/inside a necklace given by a zebra. She can also sense anything that shines with extra sense she has and she has fire magic that she has no idea how to control. She's a dragon with awful life, having been badly abused by her own mother until she was literally thrown out, she then fought a relative good life for herself, until an attack by her mother caused a chain reaction that lead to her hit the rock bottom, both figuratively, and literally, as she experienced the worst moments in her life at the bottom of a deep ravine. After few happenings and conveniently placed books, she had taught herself to read, an another language, magic and had learned about Equestria, She then with the ability to disguise as a pony came to Equestria to see what it was about and to prepare to kill her mother. So now this harder than steel dragon (both mentally and physically) is struggling with new feelings and thoughts as she's trying to act like she doesn't care for what basically are her surprisingly old girlfriend and adopted son (that happens to be her brother), but I don't think she's fooling anyone. They are currently in a forest near Canterlot and are heading there soon enough Charir Ruby's very young half-brother with quite a spark (he has electricity magic). Having same mother as Ruby, his time under her care was equally awful, if not worse, because males are seen as the inferior sex/gender in their culture (or lack of it) and thus they are treated as such. He's also stunted in growth, so that makes it even worse for him. Having gotten enough of the BS that was his home, he took flight in random direction and ended up in Equestria, then almost drowned, because he flew into a hunter's net and was too tired to get out of it as he landed into water. Luckily to him, and to everyone's surprise, Ruby saved her. But turns out that Ruby looks like her own mother (how unexpected :P) and poor Charir got scared...but he's better now (: Currently he's enjoying his existence with two mothers as they are heading to a city full of talking prey animals. I realize now that my OCs while not the stereotypical tragic backstory, really don't have good lives, or un-life poor fictional characters. If there's something specific you want to know about them, just ask

@Lucid_Nightlight Ruby just nodded and made her way to the barracks, she didn't find Quasi coming there weird though, for few reasons, the main one being that it only made sense they would be somewhere where it's easy to keep an eye on them, then there was also the fact that besides the friendship princess nobody actually slept in the library where they worked in, and it was unlikely Gladia would give what's basically a prisoner his own room, Quasi may not be in jail, but he most likely wouldn't be free to go anywhere he wants either. "nomeno goawy tepohaic thric charis ihk gahhr" [this place has no hope for survival] "gliiwr di malairi nomeno goawy" [full of morons/idiots this place] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ember pretty much ignored Sky, signaling one of the pegasi to come to her, she then asked them to get whoever was the highest ranking or most experienced from them. To that pegasus she then gave the authority to command over the others, telling this the others too, her last order being that they observe the situation and go help the others if it seems like that's necessary, or if anypony of rank told them to do something. For non-ponies like Sky, she said that she trusted the pegasus's own judgment on if they should follow them or not. She then turned to Sky, "Bit rusty with military talk, so you can repeat that to them, I'll go do what I know." she then took flight and started raining fire on the enemies, she may not be bullet proof, but it was very hard to hit a quickly moving small target, especially when she constantly sent out a thick layers of smoke and fire making spotting her almost if not impossible.