open Omnipotence: MoonLock's Heartache.

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric woke up instilled with a purpose... and fear... Not hearing his new companions song, he quickly rushed outside , grabbing some sort of defensive object before he went out

 

Peering cautiously and frantically he hoped he hadn't already lost his friend to some strange horror in the night

THe morning brought nothing new, but as he rushed outside, he passed the creature, still laying where left and it curiously looked at its companion, questioning with a chime. It was quite clear it hadn't moved once over the night.

This day was fairly brighter than most, the skies taking on a silver tint and not a single black cloud in sight, the sun in the horizon eclipsed by the black mass known as the beast. It curled, letting out a roar that filled the entirety of Antethica. If sound could travel through space. But it seemed to roar from the planet itself. The creature didn't seem to mind.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric let the odd celestial occurrence pass over him like someone would if they found out it was going to drizzle out. Looking at the creature with a smile he said "ready to go find your patron mother?, well saddle up, while I get ready and we'll head out"  he trotted inside, bandaged and cleaned his wound on the advice form Moonlock and hitched his cart with supplies once more

 

"Alright, lets move on out, hopefully today will be better then yesterday" 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric let the odd celestial occurrence pass over him like someone would if they found out it was going to drizzle out. Looking at the creature with a smile he said "ready to go find your patron mother?, well saddle up, while I get ready and we'll head out" he trotted inside, bandaged and cleaned his wound on the advice form Moonlock and hitched his cart with supplies once more

 

"Alright, lets move on out, hopefully today will be better then yesterday"

The creature didn't move in response only chiming again. But by the time Rhetoric returned from getting ready, from which he would've found his wound was beginning to look pretty bad, but not unsalvagable, he found the creature five meters away, digging into the dirt curiously with its pointed legs.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

rhetoric walked over to the creature 'What you found there girl?" he peered into the hole she was digging into

 

secretly hoping it was something of use and not some decade corpse of some sad former creature wandering the lands much like himself. One could only hope  

Edited March 6, 2016 by The Down Trotten

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

rhetoric walked over to the creature 'What you found there girl?" he peered into the hole she was digging into

 

secretly hoping it was something of use and not some decade corpse of some sad former creature wandering the lands much like himself. One could only hope

The creature turned and cooed at him in response to his question and then reared it's impale es in the air, bringing them down into the small hole in one crack. A blood like igor splashed out from the earth and onto its legs, which it immediately backed up from, did its version of a whinny, which was just a more cheerful cry, and buried it's head into the now oozing liquid.

It was under for only a minute before it pulled it's head out, oozing with it and kicking it's legs out in joy. Apparently now ready to be off.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric smiled and took off on a slowish trot, trying to give his front leg a break. Heading in the oppoaite direction that he had gone yesterday in hopes that it would be safer then yesterday

 

"...Do you think we'll come across anything insane today girl?.." he asked knowing there would be no answer, but it was still nice to ask when he could  

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric smiled and took off on a slowish trot, trying to give his front leg a break. Heading in the oppoaite direction that he had gone yesterday in hopes that it would be safer then yesterday

 

"...Do you think we'll come across anything insane today girl?.." he asked knowing there would be no answer, but it was still nice to ask when he could

It cooed again and the two were off. The geography was that of a rocky steppe. Not too bad, but still difficult to traverse. The creature began to gesture to the cart and nudging you. While the myriad of different monsters were well defined and easy to spot, they ones that were smaller than the creatures, while tempted, failed to gain the courage to attack. The larger ones the creature would lead you around.

Within a couple days time and no difficulties you came across a empty flatland, and upon a foundation of boulders stood a fairly large, if not decrepit house. There was a flash of movement across one window.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Getting the hint the creature wanted to pull the cart, Rhetoric gladly obliged. And at the end of each night, he would clean out his wound, even resorting to one of the medical kits he had to do so, he rather liked his leg and he wanted to keep it if he could

 

When he came to the house... he was of course intrigued, but hesitant as always. I hopes of some sort of sane being. Rhetoric walked towards it, and stadning maybe ten feet away from the door raised his voice to be heard "hello? Anyone in there? We don't mean you any harm and are willing to share some food and drink if you need it!" 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Getting the hint the creature wanted to pull the cart, Rhetoric gladly obliged. And at the end of each night, he would clean out his wound, even resorting to one of the medical kits he had to do so, he rather liked his leg and he wanted to keep it if he could

 

When he came to the house... he was of course intrigued, but hesitant as always. I hopes of some sort of sane being. Rhetoric walked towards it, and stadning maybe ten feet away from the door raised his voice to be heard "hello? Anyone in there? We don't mean you any harm and are willing to share some food and drink if you need it!"

The creature happily took the cart, and you both were able to move faster given its size. When you reached the house, the creature refused to approach, and when you did it called out in worry. But once you spoke, it was followed by a piercing scream, coming from the second story.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric gasped and took a few steps back. Instictvely he wanted to rush in and see what the problem was... but that was how he felt in the forest... If the scream had been caused by him he would have to convince the being inside he was safe and not a threat, otherwise he would have to move on, as sad as that may be

 

"I'm sorry, but please I promise we will not hurt you! But I can't help you if you do not promise us the same thing"  

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric gasped and took a few steps back. Instictvely he wanted to rush in and see what the problem was... but that was how he felt in the forest... If the scream had been caused by him he would have to convince the being inside he was safe and not a threat, otherwise he would have to move on, as sad as that may be

 

"I'm sorry, but please I promise we will not hurt you! But I can't help you if you do not promise us the same thing"

The screaming stopped suddenly and became a sigh. The front door snapped open and a mare trotted down the strps, looking down at her hooves, "Well you've been here long enough to not fall for the most obvious of traps, but not long enough to realize that helping others is condemning yourself." Her voice was cool and collected. Her fur was grey, her mane and tail waved, long, straight and a deep blue, held together in black clips. Her legs were covered in bandaged wraps. The center of her torso was covered likewise. Her eyes were a striking yellow. They spoke volumes of trouble. Her cutie mark was a red x mark behind a circle of bladed points. When she reached the floor, she stepped aside and offered, "Would you like some tea"

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric looked perplexed "... Didn't you just admit you were going to trap me in some way?... While tea sounds lovely, how can I know you won't just kill me once we're inside?" it depressed him the first pony he had seen and he had to act extremely cautious towards them 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric looked perplexed "... Didn't you just admit you were going to trap me in some way?... While tea sounds lovely, how can I know you won't just kill me once we're inside?" it depressed him the first pony he had seen and he had to act extremely cautious towards them

She sighed in frustration and rubbed between her eyes with her hoof. "Well yes, but to be honest I'm just running short on supplies. I can get water from my foundation, and nopony realizes all the things you can boil into tea, but food is hard to come across. A liquid diet sucks" Now that she mentioned it, she was just a little thin, "I ran out a couple of moons ago.."

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers, 

 

Rhetoric frowned and fetched her a crate of rations "Here... as a sign of no hard feelings take this, and I'll come in for tea thank you." he accepted the mares offer, still wary, but willing to try to trust her, if only for the sake of his own sanity 

 

"...I honestly can't tell you how good it is to be able to actually talk to someone" 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric frowned and fetched her a crate of rations "Here... as a sign of no hard feelings take this, and I'll come in for tea thank you." he accepted the mares offer, still wary, but willing to try to trust her, if only for the sake of his own sanity

 

"...I honestly can't tell you how good it is to be able to actually talk to someone"

She took the box and pushed it to the side with a thank you. She began to look through it as you spoke, and she answered with a disinterested, " Uh huh. Yeeahh." When he entered, she quickly closed the door behind him and trotted into what would have been the kitchen, saying impatiently, "in here. Teas in here."

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

"In where?... Oh I never caught your name by the way, what is it? I'm Rhetoric Rash." he held out his none bandaged hoof with a smile trying to be friendly and polite regardless of the fact the world had gone to the crapper

 

"...Could you leave the door open please its rather hot in here."  

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

"In where?... Oh I never caught your name by the way, what is it? I'm Rhetoric Rash." he held out his none bandaged hoof with a smile trying to be friendly and polite regardless of the fact the world had gone to the crapper

 

"...Could you leave the door open please its rather hot in here."

She rolled her eyes, put on a pleasent smile and trotted back into the entry, stepping between him and the door, facing him and commenting sweetly, "Yes, a breeze would feel quite nice," She looked away, blushing and added nervously, "but I would like to feel it on my legs." She lifted one of her hooves and asked, "Would you mind... maybe helping me..." He could hear his creature calling from outside.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric nodded "Of course! You know you still haven't told me your name..." he heard his loyal companion outside

 

"Would you hold on a moment, my um pet? yeah pet is calling me and ignoring her would be unwise" he smiled and tried to get to the door to open it and see what his companion was calling about  

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric nodded "Of course! You know you still haven't told me your name..." he heard his loyal companion outside

 

"Would you hold on a moment, my um pet? yeah pet is calling me and ignoring her would be unwise" he smiled and tried to get to the door to open it and see what his companion was calling about

She stepped aside as you went to check with an innocent expression, "Well, in that case" She lifted her hoof and a lengthy and rather threatening curved edge slid out of her foreleg from halfway up her leg. It effortlessly cut through the bandages, which fell off. The blade actually came out from her actual leg, which was otherwise normal. She smirked and added cooly, "it's EdgeWise."she turned the business end of the blade towards you and aimed for your throat with a horizontal slash. It was not close enough to behead, but would still be lethal if the blade was as sharp and we'll mantained as it looked.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric's klutzy-ness saved him as he fell backwards in fright and scrambled backwards for the door

"So you still trying to kill me? What on earth for?" he asked desperately "Is it just easier to kill everything and slip into madness then to try to survive with others?" 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric's klutzy-ness saved him as he fell backwards in fright and scrambled backwards for the door

 

"So you still trying to kill me? What on earth for?" he asked desperately "Is it just easier to kill everything and slip into madness then to try to survive with others?"

She looked tilted her head as she stepped towards him. Her blade effortlessly slicing through the floorboards. She answered, "I am working with another." He could hear a steady chinking noise coming closer from the outside, she added as she loomed over, "But he gets hungry, and when he's hungry, well I don't get to eat e-" She was interrupted by a crashing sound on her porch before two lance like legs punched through the door and tore it off its hinges. Her focus on Rhetoric had been obliterated, the creature was now the one looming. It had heard your clumsiness.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Taking the opportunity Rhetoric tried to tackle her to the ground pinning the arms that had the dangerous blades on them. If he succeeded he spoke to her as calmly as he could

 

"Attempted murder aside... Who are you working with and is there any freaking way I can help you... preferably alive. this doesn't have to end with either you or I dieing some bloody death. I want to help you" he said honestly if tense   

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Taking the opportunity Rhetoric tried to tackle her to the ground pinning the arms that had the dangerous blades on them. If he succeeded he spoke to her as calmly as he could

 

"Attempted murder aside... Who are you working with and is there any freaking way I can help you... preferably alive. this doesn't have to end with either you or I dieing some bloody death. I want to help you" he said honestly if tense

She was pushed backwards and pinned down under his weight, unable to even think to move him, but still struggled. Your friend roared a more unusual roar at her from behind him. She shouted as he held her down, "Not all of us get to live. Your weak so stop being selfish before all of us die." The house began to creak, crack and shift, and your companion began to loose it's cool behind you, wailing.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric had a realization and with an act of desperation picked the mare up and dashed out of the house, hoping that whatever this other thing was wasn't as big as he thought it was.

 

"damn it!... you try helping a pony out and all you get is cryptic answers!"  

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric had a realization and with an act of desperation picked the mare up and dashed out of the house, hoping that whatever this other thing was wasn't as big as he thought it was.

 

"damn it!... you try helping a pony out and all you get is cryptic answers!"

You companion ran next to you as you carried EdgeWise out of the house and off of the Boulder foundation. When Rhetoric picked her up, she seemed quite offended and confused, more stating than asking, "What in all hell!!" But as she noticed her home growing farther, it finally registered in her mind what he was doing. That is when her eyes grew wide and she screamed with pure terror and flailed to the best of her ability.