The Trotting Dead

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@@Lucid Dream, @,
up till now cresent still hadn't a clue, quest or any idea what to do but survival, and it was getting boring without compny, yes there were days of redoing traps after a trotter found them or scrapping said trotter of a trap but nothing for him to say 'today we yada yada'. He didn't have any pets yet, he'd been meaning to get one but his job always kept him busy. Now this and instead of avoiding ponys he now looked for them for the sake of company.....and sanity.......

 

Cresent got up from the fridge after being lost in thought for a bit, he had always wanted to stress test his traps, this would be a fun experiment to do. "I'm game, Iv'e been curious about ponyville now with all this going on, and iv been coped up in this tree for awhile now anyways"  

 

He looked back at his friends "if were going to ponyville id recommend tomorrow morning. that's when I know the trotter are less active as they are now" he said looking at the familiar pink of the sky fading to a blue glow...at least one thing everypony knows. The princess's are still alive to change the sun and moon. Looking Lucid now he said

 

"ether way its your call when we leave. just say when, ill set up the doors for traps and we'll be off" he glanced at the relaxing Emerald "probably after a nap"

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(DM: remember to follow both is topic and that of the OCC topic https://mlpforums.com/topic/138544-the-trotting-dead-actionsol/page-5 so you can stay up to date on developments and what direction people want to take the RP in. and a reminder to those who have not posted in a while (you know who you are) PLEASE continue... or write yourself out of the RP. I'd prefer you stay but please do one or the other.)

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It was still dark when SnowStream woke up.

She quickly ate her soup, and took a few swigs of her water bottle before heading outside. She looked around, the air was still and cool and she could hear or see no signs of additional trotters nearby, so she decided to take a quick look inside the nearby house for anything that might be useful, weapons, food, water anything that she might be able to use . And then she noticed a nearby cellar, Maybe there is still food or something down there, or someone. Her eyes widened in realization, I wonder what I will find, she thought. (dice roll)

Edited November 15, 2015 by Frostbyte

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Lucid sighed in relief. He didn't want to leave the company of the other survivors. He decided to lay down somewhere else, a nap would be good for now. "Okay, I guess we should leave early in the morning, like 3-4 AM. We'll have out strength and we can travel by the shadows. I just hope we meet someone living down there," he slowly dozed off into a nice, deep rest for a few hours. "Anypony. I want to find somepony... anypony would do," he thought as his eyes closed.

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Emerald woke from the her sleep on the couch got up and had a stretch, she felt her wing. A smile crossed her face nice to have it fixed now she thought. She had a look outside through a window, there wasn't much to look at just trees really. Something to do? She went over to her weapon and started to sharpen it again. I guess I'll wait for the others to wake up and then we can head to Ponyville.

 

@@Lucid Dream, @@cwhip9, 

(DM:

 

(dice roll)

your roll is a 11 not too shabby, and you find 2 non-perishable foodstuffs and 1 non-perishable liquid item and a Kitchen knife)

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Alright she thought as she looked through her bag I found water, a can of asparagus, and a box of "Corny Thins" cereal. Not to bad she thought Lets check that cellar now 

She forced the open doors to the basement, it was dark and musty, something smelled terrible down there. She could hear nothing, so she descended, the cellar was surprisingly small and empty except for a few scattered boxes and shelves.  The smell was much worse down here- Where is the smell coming from? She looked to her left, in one corner of of the small room was a sad looking half decomposed pony slumped in a corner, all but unrecognizable except for some key features. Next to this unfortunate soul lie a kitchen knife, upon closer inspection, she found the knife covered in some dried blood.

 

Did this pony commit suicide? the smell was near overwhelming now How long was he or she stranded down here, all alone with the threat of trotters looming right outside? She quickly grabbed the knife and cleaned it off outside No hope, little chance of help, just trapped without food, without water, just hopeless solitude Inspecting the blade against the rising sun, she observed that the edge of the knife was still sufficiently sharp. Hope she thought its such a fragile thing. With that thought she was off to ponyville, in search of answers, and perhaps see if anypony was still alive.

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Lucid got up and started to pack, he felt like he was forgetting something constantly and he kept checking around to see what else he could bring. He felt a sort of dread, and it was not the fault of his obsession over being prepared. He felt like every second, the probability of finding his family dead increased by an infinitely large number. None of his companions were waking up. He then had an idea, he was going insane from waiting and even if he woke them up it would take too long before his mind would shatter from the anticipation.

He tried to wake Crescent up and turned to Emerald. "Guys, guys, I need to get going. I was thinking, I could leave a little earlier than you do. I cant fly, I'd slow you down so I want to get a head start. Besides, at night (they agreed on 4 AM I believe but I guess Lucid would wake at 3 from all the anticipation) it's safer if it's only me, I can sneak around better. We could meet at that big treehouse in ponyville at 8 or 9. I just want to get a head start and look around. Would it be okay?"

Edited November 18, 2015 by Lucid Dream

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@@Lucid Dream,"no problem for me Lucid i'd get to Ponyville in 10 mins in the air I would assume that Crescent is in the same category, but be careful although we have found each other and it's been ok there will be ponies that will be opposite to us" Emerald continued to sharpen her halberd "when Cresent wakes @@cwhip9,  we'll catch up, good luck till then." Emerald puts her head down and focuses on the tip of the blade, sharper the better.

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cresent was still awake, well trying not to be. He knew he needed streght for the upcoming journey but nocturns just don't sleep at night well unless its a REALLY ruff night. Then again the two ponys staying with him he almost killed with his traps. Hearing some voices down stairs he decided to look for something to drink to help him sleep. He came down as Emerald finished her sentence @, @@Lucid Dream,

"heading out ahead of time,(yawn) actually makes sense. Best go through the front just give me one sec" he trotted over near the fridge which he was thankfull for the lever system he made. after moving a few levers he said "we'll meet you there bro just be carful" and with that cresent found some milk, gave himself a drink and went back to try to sleep.

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@@cwhip9, looking back towards lucid, @@Lucid Dream, "I guess we'll be a few hours yet best make off now. See you in Ponyville and take this" Emerald puts down her halberd and hands Lucid a potion. "it's a flare open it pointing it up and not indoors and not near anypony you don't want to see either it will shoot up roughly 100ft and explode so we can see it if you get into a real jam, otherwise shall we meet up at let's say Rarity's shop at noon?" Emerald now stated to fiddle with her armour.

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@@cwhip9,

 

 

"it's a flare open it pointing it up and not indoors and not near anypony you don't want to see either it will shoot up roughly 100ft and explode so we can see it if you get into a real jam, otherwise shall we meet up at let's say Rarity's shop at noon?"

"Rarity's Shop by noon? Alright they works. I'll meet you there," he shuffled through his stuff one more time, pocketing the flare, to check and make sure that he had everything. "Okay, see you soon."

 

He ran out of the tree house and climbed down to the forest floor. "Oh darn I forgot, it's the Everfree forest, at night. Nice going Lucid, you should have asked them to at least take me to the edge of this place." He started to walk through the cold, dark and endless maze. He got down a few times whenever he heard something, nothing seemed right at night. His imagination began to play with his mind as he thought of what might be out there.

 

Every once in awhile, Lucid thought of turning back and just ask to stay there, but he had no way of finding his way back. He wondered if there could be something that might be worse than a trotter. He continued to sneak through, not trying to think what a zombie bear might look like, or if he still needed to worry about ghosts. As he slowly headed towards the general direction of Ponyville, the sun began to rise.

 

((so who control's what he encounters and whatnot?))

Edited November 19, 2015 by Lucid Dream

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@@Lucid Dream,  (DM: i would either send specific people a PM to ask them and coordinate or just @ them to suggest you have seen them then go from there as I'm in charge of dice rolls that's it. it's an open RP. But otherwise just give others an opportunity so start interacting with you maybe @ them before you see them to give them prep time if you don't PM or post on the OCC )

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SnowStream had finally made it to ponyville, the sun was in full view now and if she had to guess it was about 7:30. It had taken her about three hours to get there, mainly because of her refusal to fly, Although her sight was not the greatest, her hearing was phenomenal allowing her to use sound as a form of echo location on anything within about a 20 yard radius, therefore she was able, without to much trouble, able to 'see' trotters coming from any direction.

 

On her way to ponyville she had several scattered encounters with trotters, seeing this as a great opportunity to hone her knife throwing and combat skills, naturally she could not pass up this opportunity. Unfortunately during one of these encounters she had sprained her back right leg while trying to fight 2 trotters head on. Other than the sprain she remained relatively unscathed, although the sprain was painful and she walked with a slight limp, the pain was far from unbearable. I need to be more careful, She thought,    that could have been serious. Slowly, she glided to the top of one of the nearby houses in ponyville taking a swig of her water, and a few scoops of her cereal, she looked around, Where is everypony? she thought.

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It was still dark when Lucid made it to town. Thankfully with no encounters, but he had a spooked feeling after walking through the forest and when he saw the exit he dashed out. "Okay great. Good, good, we made it. All in one piece." he thought excitedly. He looked at what seemed to be a barn. He concluded that he must have not navigated as well as he thought; however, he also saw a road next to the farm acres, he now had a path to go to town. Lucid began to sneak inside what seemed to be an apple orchard. The family that owned this must have been expecting a good harvest, the apples looked ripe. Lucid went up and picked 10 , placing them in his saddlebag. There were hundreds out here, enough to feed him and his allies for a few weeks.

 

"Note to self, come here later," he mumbled.

 

Lucid then crept up to the barn and proceeded to sneak inside. It appeared to be empty, but he didn't let his guard down, it was still dark enough to be considered night, so he stuck close to the windows to keep a good eye out for anything. 

((Dice roll))

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(DM: @@Lucid Dream, your dice roll is a 12 very nice so you can get a lot of food like a half-dozen (6) of the non-perishable food and water each. And those who are late with post hurry up! 

@@cwhip9, please post soon, personal

 

@@MidnightMadness1,  and @,  remember to post as well.

 

SAME GOES FOR OTHERS WHO ARE NOT POSTING YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!)

[cwhip9 1,078]

Cresent tossed and turn in his sleep but his mind couldn't rest, Finaly giving into his parnoia he decided to head back downstairs "something tells me we should head out sooner. I don't know how well Lucid will do out in the night" he looked at Emerald awaiting her response. call it parnoia or something else all his nervs said leave now 

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@@cwhip9, "I ready when you are just let me grab all my gear and some supplies may need them and we'll be off?" Emerald stood and then proceed to gather her stuff and replace her amour. she put her hoof to Cloudslicer's blade, that is bloody shape. She looked back at Crescent. "You gonna pack if that feeling is good them we must hurry!"

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@, Cresent quickly slipped on his harness from before with supply's and the like in it "Ready lets get going" He led Emerald to the door, pulled a lever herd a 3 clicks, he nodded at emerald to leve. Once out side the treehouse he looked back at the guard pony

"The place is riged nice and tight for intruders if we ever need to get back here, now then" he turned again listening for Lucids blood....It took a bit do to distance but after standing for a bit with his eyes closed he opend them again

 

"found him this way" The Thestreal spred his wings and took off in the direction the blood was singing, he hoped he was wrong on how he was hearing the blood beat

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@@cwhip9, Emerald watched as  Cresent picked up Lucid's trail with some amount of astonishment, wish I could do that. She took off after him, the bat pony was really quick when he wanted to be, she managed to keep pace, just. They both flew towards Ponyville and where Cresent thought Lucid was. "I hope your gut feeling is wrong Cresent."

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Midnight decides to go to the roof leaving the pony down stair and tries to scout out the place to see if she can get more food and not starve to death and sees two ponies flying through the air towards them and decides to wave at them to see how they respond @,@@cwhip9,

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@@MidnightMadness1, @, @@Lucid Dream, Cresent half focusing on homing in on Lucids blood saw a waving at them. He wondered if they were survivors himself his guard didn't go down but the curios side of him was pretty demanding he flew back a bit so he could talk to the mare mid flight and not yell at her "Emerald, recognize the pony waving at us it dosent seem like a trotter"

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As if on que, right after she had thought Where is everypony?  She soon spotted two flying ponies, live ponies, that were gliding in her general direction.

In a flash, she took cover inside the top level of the house she was sitting on, painfully landing on her strained leg. I knew there had to be someone alive here, but what should I do? I have no idea what there intentions are or if they are friendly or not.  After what seemed like an eternity, but was really only a few seconds of frantic thinking, she ran possible scenarios through her head. Quickly she concluded that the best possible option would be to wait, and see what they are doing and where they were going. If I wait, I don't lose or gain anything, and I might be able to get a glimpse as to if they are hostile. 

 

Carefully, Snowstream peaked back up the roof, I will have to be excruciatingly careful to keep out of sight, one simple glance I could be discovered. She twitched her ears.  Luckily the wind is blowing in my direction so keeping that in mind, I may not have to keep them within sight, as long as I keep absolute quiet and concentration,  She grinned to herself I could hear them out.

 

She discreetly proceeded to follow the pair keeping her distance and flying from house to house. 

Edited November 25, 2015 by Frostbyte

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@@cwhip9, Emerald stopped and hovered and looked at the pony in question, @@MidnightMadness1,  "yeah he's alive and I know him, really I know of him, of coarse he survived this." Crescent gave Emerald a confused look "he is an outlaw wanted by the crown, but considering the situation were in making friends with a mass murderer might not be a bad thing. But be careful this pony is no joke."

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@@cwhip9, Emerald stopped and hovered and looked at the pony in question, @@MidnightMadness1, "yeah he's alive and I know him, really I know of him, of coarse he survived this." Crescent gave Emerald a confused look "he is an outlaw wanted by the crown, but considering the situation were in making friends with a mass murderer might not be a bad thing. But be careful this pony is no joke."

cresent looked back at the pony waving at them. He didn't want to take a unessesary risk but then again having more Ally's in a lawless place could help longevity but they needed to respond in somway "they might help us answer questions on where everypony is and such." Cresent waved back at the pony "let's say hi"

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"Looks like whoever lived here moved out," he whispered as he crept out with the supplies. As he got closer to the door he began to get more worried and he picked up the speed more and more, eventually he ran at full speed out of he door and down the path. He thought he was calm, but staying in a dark house with potential trotters somewhere made him paranoid enough that he ran with no consideration for breath or stamina.

Pomyville was right up ahead, as light began to dawn. Some ponies were standing outside of the town, trotters. The way they moved and stumbled was a clear enough sign. "Okay, lets see if this works" he whispered as he levetated a throwing knife. He put the handle in his mouth and flung it with all his might.

"Fwoop"

It hit a trotter... A trotter that was 10 feet behind the ones he was aiming at, the knife had lost quite a bit of it's power and simply hit its flank. It stared at lucid and the other 3 trotters he planned on initially taking down stared as well.

"Crud" he mumbled.

Lucid began to gallop back into the woods, not taking a trail this time. He ran from tree to tree until he saw a small cave. He waited for a few minutes behind a large rock from within. Soon he heard the growls fade. His eyes darted around as he held his shovel. Every second was an agonizing eternity where it felt like the chances of him getting caught went up by ten percent at a time.

The growls and groans of his pursuers looking around for him didnt help his nerves either. After 10 minutes of waiting, he began to sneak out. He must of lost them. The animalistic trotters were doomed to roam in the forest for potentially ever, continuing to think that somewhere out there was a blue and tasty pony, and finding none. He almost felt sorry for them.

"Well, i guess I'm here officially now" he sighed as he eyed the town once again, this time with a good route.

Edited November 26, 2015 by Lucid Dream