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[genessee 535]

What are they even talking about? (OOC)

https://mlpforums.com/topic/163191-rift-rp/#entry4817310

 

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A small field, a few trees scattered across the landscape and bunnies hopping around. It's very peaceful, to be honest. Suddenly, as if on cue to disturb the peace, a ball of blue light appears on the ground. And another. And yet another. And a final one. They expand until they're about the size of a pony. Then, the spheres disappear, leaving a two stallions, a minotaur, and a changeling royal. Every creature is unconscious. Little do they know that they just entered the adventure of a lifetime-- actually, the adventure of an after-lifetime. But let's step back a bit. How did our heroes get here in the first place?

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Lance steps into his cottage, staggering under the weight of ten heavy scrolls. He quickly gets over to his study, and carefully places the scrolls on his desk. He smiles as he turns around to close the door to his cottage. He doesn't notice a lingering cider smell that wasn't there before. 

 

Earlier that day, he had bought the documents off of a traveling merchant. The merchant warned him that bad ponies were looking for these, but Lance brushed off the warning as an outdated legend. He purchases the entire set of 10 scrolls for quite a few bits, and quickly rushes home. Now, fast forward ahead.

 

A few hours later, Lance is at his desk, staring at a open scroll with ancient text and furiously scribbling his translations onto a notepad. He pauses and stares at the message he just wrote down. The following [scrolls?] hold secrets that no eyes before have seen. Proceed at your own risk.

 

"Oooh, boy. Uuh... I think I'm gonna be here a while."

 

He then hunkers down to spend the rest of the day translating. Little does he know, he's not alone in the cottage. An armed drunk waits in a nearby closet. He glances down at his mission. It reads: Kill this stallion who got the scrolls. If you can do it without arousing suspicion, your reward will be doubled. Do NOT let the scrolls out of your sight. ~G. The drunk chuckled quietly as he stares at Lance. He knew this would be an easy picking.

 

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It's midnight. Lance struggles to stay awake as he finishes up the last sentence of the 3rd scroll. Something felt off, however, and he kept mistranslating it. Finally, he gave up and stood up to leave. As he approaches the exit, a clicking sound catches his attention behind him. He whirls around, and finds himself staring down a barrel of a revolver, held by the drunk. The clicking noise was the drunk cocking the revolvers hammer into place.

 

"No! Don't sh--"

 

KAPOW!

 

What happened next was a blur. Lance could feel himself falling, falling... hitting the ground and a puddle of blood. Then fading out, slowly. A mist of darkness rimmed his vision, and it got wider and wider until he couldn't see. He didn't know what happened next.

 

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Now, he lay unconscious in the field with our other heroes. But, enough about Lance. Let's hear about our other creatures, shall we?

 

 

 

Edited March 11, 2017 by genessee

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King Transmutation was sitting on his throne. In the throne room of the Elak Hive. 2 changelings ran into his room. "Report!" he snaps from his throne, one of the changelings comes forward and reveals some sort of grenade like object. The King sits on his throne, bewildered to say anything, before he could react the 2 changelings darted from the room and it exploded, killing the king and destroying the throne room.

 

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His eyes darted open when he was in a field of sorts. Noticing the bodies of the other heroes. He sits there, stunned.

[FancyHorse 1,208]

Grip, Pull, Grip, Pull. 

 

A wall of mass stone and soil. A collection of dirt and mass of its everlong life span... Rocks don't have life span, the minotaur dismissed it from his head. 

 

Another step. Forward and up. With his massive hands held firm into the red formation- until a sudden slip. An immensity of panic and dread- he pressed himself to the wall his hind hooves struggling to hold with the sudden imbalance but it was a failing endeavor and gravity pulled the rest on his 30+ foot drop. Nothing could be done. 

 

Accidents happen.  His body was on fire- not literally but a surge of heat was felt until it was all just suddenly nonexistent.

 

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He felt the radiant heat- a brushing breeze and the rays of sun on his eyes. The sky was blue- strange... it was sunset when he was there? Was he-

 

He sat up rubbing onto his and noted his surroundings with the vast  field ahead of him.... And then to his guests. 

 

@@Moon Dancer., 

 

"... " He was unsure- this was... awkward. 

 

"Um.. Hello?" He spoke softly, his accent noteable in his speech. 

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@@FancyHorse,

 

The changeling royal turns towards the strange Minotaur. He hisses and stands up, pointing his horn at the minotaur but then quickly backed down. "Doesn't....make...sense....how...are...we alive?" he askes the minotaur, sounding insect like and raspy. He is tall and he has a scar across his cheek. He has a beard, with holes in it. 

Edited February 21, 2017 by Moon Dancer.

[genessee 535]

Lance gasped and his eyes popped open. His head was pounding, and his heart was racing. He was expecting to be tied to a chair, a bright light being shone in his face, gangsters aiming their weapons at him, but instead he was met with peaceful field. Blood stained his hoodie, but strangely, there were no wounds on his body. He got himself into a sitting position, and looked around. He immediately noticed the minotaur and changeling, and also noted the unconscious stallion. Upon seeing them, he just stared. He had never seen a changeling or a minotaur, and he had heard some pretty nasty things about them. So instead of confronting them, he proceeded to force himself up and slowly walk away, hoping not to attract attention. 

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@@genessee,

 

The changeling king glances over at lance. "Hey! Where you going?" he asks, beginning to float over the grass, his wings flapping and sounding very much like a bee's wings. He doesn't appear to be hostile. It has been a long time since he has seen a regular pony.  

[Lil' Lovebug 1,041]

Steady quietly moved through the trees, eyes darting back and forth, constantly watching the surrounding trees for signs of movement as he approached a clearing. He scanned the area, looking for his target. Two griffons, clad in full plate armor, sat watch next to a large tent, while another two sat around a fire, helmets off but just as heavily armored. Steady assumed two to three more would be asleep in the tent that sat across the camp from him. He muttered  a long string curses to himself, wondering why he'd gotten stuck with what appeared to be a small war party rather than basic scouts.

 

Horn silently flaring to life, Steady pulled his two daggers from their sheathes on his belt and started planning his attack. The two near the fire weren't as much of a problem as the two guarding the tent, but they all had sight of each other. He started quietly circling the camp, making his way to they sleep tent, eyes fixed intently on the griffons, which meant he didn't see the large set of branches in front of him. As he stepped down, the branches snapped and he watched all 4 of the guards' heads turn towards him. He cursed and tried to throw a sound towards the other side of the camp to distract the griffons, but to no avail. Then a shrill squawk filled the air as one of the guards tilted his head back, raising the alarm. A blade met his neck and the sound was cut short, but not before two griffons came rushing out of the tent.

 

'Time to run now, i guess,' Steady thought as he started to bolt towards the tent to try and take out the leader and make a getaway, but the griffons beat him there, blocking his path. He pulled his thirds blade from his back, a long shining rapier, and stood ready to fight. In a flash the griffons rushed towards him, and he responded, slicing into the two unarmored griffons easily with the rapier and one of his daggers and they fell to the ground with a thud. The other three, griffons continued rushing towards him, his attacks glancing off their armor. Steady's eyes went wide as he felt something stab into his neck. They'd closed the distance towards him faster than he'd anticipated, and one of the griffons had their talon through his windpipe.

 

The griffon smirked and Steady fell towards the ground. As he lay there dying and gasping for air, the griffons looked over his weapons before tossing them next to him. 'Guess they're not good enough for them.' He tried to chuckle at the thought, but found only pain. 'Curse being an "information specialist. Curse command for sending him to fight war griffons. Curse that blasted plate armor. And most assuredly, curse branches for being so... damned... loud...' 

 

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Steady's eyes opened wide as he gasped for breath. His hooves frantically searched for the puncture wound that should have been in his neck, and when he couldn't find it, he looked around, noticing a distinct lack of trees in the vicinity. He slowly leaned up and looked around the field he found himself in. As his eyes glanced over the changeling and minotaur, Steady bolted to his hooves, his magic reaching for his weapons. Upon not finding them where they should have been, his eyes grew wide as he searched the grass around him, the apparent threats forgotten. "Where? Where? WHERE!?!"

Edited February 21, 2017 by Lil' Lovebug

[genessee 535]

@@Moon Dancer.

 

As soon as the changeling spoke to him, Lance froze.  He figured he was done for at this point, might as well accept it, right? He quietly turns around to get a look at the changeling. To his surprise, it seems that the changeling wasn't planning on killing him.

 

"Uh... nowhere?" He answers meekly.

 

@@Lil' Lovebug

 

"...Hey!.. Uh.. what are you looking for?.."

 

Lance stared past the changeling towards the stallion, now awake, looking in the grass for something.

Edited February 21, 2017 by genessee

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@@genessee,

 

The changeling king approaches the pony. Looking him over. "Where are we? Some form of afterlife or something?" he asks. He walks towards this pony. He towers over him and then looks at the other pony, seems like he is looking for something but thats not his concern. 

[genessee 535]

@@Moon Dancer.

 

"H-How should I know?.."

 

Usually, Lance was very composed and didn't break easily. But the series of events that had literally just happened caused him to melt. Usually, if anypony else had asked that question at any other time, he would've answered either something snarky or would've started looking further for the answer. But right now, all he wanted to do was curl up in a ball and die yet again.

[FancyHorse 1,208]

@@Moon Dancer.,@@genessee, @@Moon Dancer.,  

 

Raising to his hooves, towering over the other ponies and scanning about the horizons. 

 

"It may be so?" He questioned listening in on the frantic conversation of the three. Awkward, unknowing, but its still a lovely view. He was still unsure what to say or do...

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Transmutation sighs. "I think its high time we introduce ourselves. I'll start first. My name is Transmutation. Former changeling King." he says in a royal tone and then frowns. He looks the minotaur over, doesn't seem to mind the fact that he is a minotaur.

[Lil' Lovebug 1,041]

Steady jumped as he heard someone call out to him. His eyes darted around, trying to find the the source of the voice, finally settling upon a stallion he'd apparently overlooked when he saw the other two, one of which looked to be confronting the poor stallion.

 

"Uh.... Nothing! Nothing important! Aheh heh...." Giving another glance through the grass and not finding his weapons, his shoulders slumped a little. He decided to walk over to the pony and changeling. "This guy giving you trouble?" he asked the stallion, pointing to the changeling. Upon hearing the changeling introduce himself, and seeing the minotaur casually walk over, Steady tried to calm himself down.

 

"The name's Steady Hoof." he said, deciding to introduce himself next. "Equestrian Special Operations... er... Intelligence Officer."

 

'Smooth. I don't think you could have convinced a foal, let alone a stallion, a changeling king (supposedly), and a minotaur," he thought to himself.

 

"Sorry about the display back there," he said, rubbing a hoof against his head and chuckling. "Thought i misplaced something. I guess it just didn't get brought with me to... wherever we are."

[FancyHorse 1,208]

@@Moon Dancer., @@Lil' Lovebug,  

 

He let a smile to the two. 

 

"Don't worry- I'm not going to rip off anyponies limbs." He kneeled down to meet their heights- a sorta assurance what not to not intimidate the three. 

 

"Srosh. I'm from the far east." He says, "Or... wherever east is now..." He says. 

 

"Its nice to meet you three." he says. 

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The changeling king gets a bit closer to Srosh and sits down. "Well. I'm from the Elak hive. You have probably never heard of it, since we are isolationist and stay out of everypony's business. " he says while looking at the others. "As to you, Steady hoof. I think it would be wise to put our differences aside...."  he says, glancing at Steady Hoof.
 

[genessee 535]

Lance stared at the group. Somehow, within a minute, they had built a small level of trust. This amazed Lance and all, but there was a few other things to clear up.

 

"Uhh... Okay, so it seems we're all cool here, and noponies killing anypony here, so I guess our next biggest problem is, uh, like... what are we going to do now?"

 

He thought of one of those sandbox board games. Breakbuild? No, that didn't sound right. never mind, he had to go see if he could find civilization. He could see trees ahead, so maybe somepony had a hut or something there.

 

"I'm gonna go look for anypony else. Can you guys try to find food or something?"

Edited February 21, 2017 by genessee

[FancyHorse 1,208]

@@genessee, 

 

"Food?... In the middle of nowhere? The best thing would be to look for someplace together." Srosh inputted, joining up to Lance before turning back. @@Moon Dancer.,@@Lil' Lovebug,

 

"Lets stick together for now... See whats going on." He says encouraging the other two to follow along. 

 

The woods maybe their best bet perhaps?

[Lil' Lovebug 1,041]

Steady looked at Lance. "I have to agree with the minotaur. Finding shelter would be the best course of action. Once we do that, we can find something to eat." As he mentioned eating, Steady gave a brief glare towards Transmutation, before looking back towards the other two. "Plus, I don't think we should split up in such a foreign environment. We don't know what kind of creatures may be waiting to eat us out there."

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"Yes. We need to stick together and you are right, Steady hoof." he advises. He began to follow the minotaur and hopes that Steady would follow as well along with the others. As they have really nothing better to do at this point. He doesn't know if this is all a test, a figment of his mind, or something else. 

[genessee 535]

@Everypony

 

A bit taken back by the sudden amount of teamwork, Lance stuttered for a second before regaining himself.

 

"Finding shelter. Okay. Yeah, the forest is probably the, uh, best way to not die."

 

He then began the trek to the forest, which may be a while on foot.

 

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@@Techno Universal

 

Meanwhile, back where our heroes began, on the patch of field, another burst of blue light appeared, this time leaving behind a male unicorn.

[Lil' Lovebug 1,041]

Steady followed behind, deciding to watch the rear. He didn't quite trust the changeling. Though he knew it was prejudiced, in his line of work, one couldn't be too careful. That hadn't stopped him from slipping up and getting himself killed though. Steady sighed, stopping for a second to check their surroundings before following again.

[FancyHorse 1,208]

Adjusting the bag on his back, that miraculously remained on his character he trudeged along side of Lance with the other two companions following about. 

Giving into panic wasn't the ideal thing. Might as well roll along, their will be time for questions when they figure out where they are... Maybe they were- No, he dismissed the questions. It would just give more then he needed right now. 

[genessee 535]

"How do you suppose we got here?"

 

Lance asked nothing in particular. He assumed nobody here knew the answer to his question. However, he had a few suspicions. One was that he was still unconscious, and this was a dreamland. But if he was dreaming, wouldn't the minotaur and changeling be trying to kill him? He would never have thought to make them kind. He also thought that maybe he had, like, stopped being alive? But this didn't seem like the afterlife. It seemed as if this place was just as real and alive as the real world. He shrugged off the thought. I'm sure we're fine. This is probably, like, uh... never mind. We're fine.

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The changeling king simply sighs. "I was going to ask the same thing. I don't know for sure." he says, shaking his head. He follows them as they walk. His eyes watching their every move, he doesn't plan on attacking them or draining them of their energy though.

[Lil' Lovebug 1,041]

Steady put a hoof up to his neck "I..." Steady stopped himself. 'I should figure out more about them before I divulge anything. Who knows what might happen eventually.'

 

"I don't know. Maybe we can find something that can give us a clue while we search for a place to set up camp." He looked around, trying to spot anythings but trees and the occasional large rock, while still keeping his eyes on the others in the group.