open Tartarian Tours: Special Things

[Barpy 2,225]

@GoldieS @The Candlekeeper

Cutima squeaked everytime the wolf bit her hoof, once he bit her a little above her hoof, into the meat for a second, making blood come out, ''AAAHHH!'' She cried.

Then it happened and the unknown bigger wolf looked at her.

Cutima looked at him back, still scared, didn't know if she can trust him after all of this what just happened, but she had no choice. ''N-no, I'm not alright...'' She said innocently, still in shock and looked at her bloody hoof with tears in her eyes, snuggling in her cape to make herself feel at least a bit better. She saw how the wolves listened to all that he said. Cutima calmed down after a moment. ''Are you their owner or something? They did this disaster to me and my fr-...'' Cutima's eyes widened as she realized. ''Where's Morph?!'' She said loudly with shock and tried to stand up to look towards the hut, but her injury was preventing her from that.

[GoldieS 679]

@Maple Bat @Techno Universal

The bone guard didn't move, apparently trying to appear impressive and imposing as he stood before Techno. He looked the alicorn up and down, but it was impossible to read his thoughts without any skin or muscle. 

"Is it true then? Your with the captain as well?" He asked, skeptical in tone, exchanging glances between Maple and Techno. "If that's true, then why do you look so... beaten?"

The last was directed towards Techno. "And where's your escorts!? Or your retinue?"

The other guard rose a brow, or at least what part of his brow was still left. "Well, she is bat. And I think he's called a... what was it again? An alicorn I think. Those are pretty popular in Equestria I heard. I'm pretty sure alicorn's are like the Flash Golemns, it's just what's in style over there. I think the Countess had an alicorn once, but it broke down pretty quick."

"Oh..." The bone guard replied, staring closer at Techno, before the guard started poking the alicorn's chest. "Seem's pretty lifelike hu? Okay then, make sure you get it repaired ma'am. The twin tails from Tambelon are a twitchy lot, and superstitious as all Tartarus."

The rotting guard nodded in agreement, before pausing to point at Orange, who was still wheezing, and Gallifor who gave a polite bow to the undead guards. "These two with you as well? I can take you all to the castle, I'm sure she and the delegation will be delighted to hear of your arrival."

@Maple Bat

"What, you mean that mortal pet of yours? Oh she's fine." Salacious replied dismissively. "That deer you mentioned, I have him keeping an eye out for her. Plus, Shadows is watching over her as well."

"Oh relax, just sit back and enjoy the meal and pampering. Stop being so tense, she has a chaos god watching her every move, I doubt anything bad could possibly happen to her!" 

The ponies attendants were almost finished doing their jobs. They hadn't stopped the entire time, working around the little spat from earlier desperately trying not to fail at their assigned function. Woodland himself was as clean as ever! Fur softer than a snow rabbit, and main flowing like the wind. 

"I hope we get to do this every day! Share a meal, a nice grooming, maybe listen to my orchestra later? Or perhaps a rock band is more your type." She mused. "You don't know how long I've had to wait to find someone I could share my time with."

@Burpy @The Candlekeeper

"Oh, no no, I'm not their master, I'm their-" He paused mid sentence as he helped her up, noticing the bloodied hoof. "Good heavens! Did they do this to you!?"

With his head, he lifted her off the snow and rolled her onto his back. Quickly he pranced through the snow towards the hut, pausing momentarily to acknowledge Morph with the stick on fire. He shifted so Cutima could see him. 

"There, nothing to worry about, your friends safe too!" He said quickly, before pushing into the tent. 

There he layed her down on a large leather bedroll, removing the cape Techno had provided her. Without thought, he tore a strip of cloth off the cape with his powerful jaws. 

"Hey, pony!" He shouted over at Morph. "There's a box on a sled outside with a slug on it, bring it here!" 

The wolf looked back at Cutima, a mortified look across his face. "Look, I'm really sorry about all this, they can be real dense sometimes... that's putting it mildly... I've been trying to teach them to be more civilized, but you can guess how that's going..." He added sarcastically. 

[Maple Bat 3,568]

@GoldieS

"Yes they're with me all 4 are. Our ship was attacked by some sort of insects me and my Alicorn managed to take care of it." Maple nodded as she was rolling with what was going on. "I would appreciate escort as well will be easier than if I explained this to every guard I came across between here and there. I'm not sure they've heard of my presence yet but I'm sure they'll be glad I'm early. Thank you, both for helping me with this as I have never been here before."

@GoldieS

"Oh... Alright if you say so." Woody said scratching him, now incredibly soft, mane "Knowing she's safe's all I wanted. That's a lot off my chest I can just..." He paused for a second and then made Salacious' tub very cold with a soft melody, forgetting that there were servants in there. "Chill. For a while," He said laughing.

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@Burpy @GoldieS

Morph dropped the fire stick as Cutima was brought into the tent.

"Cutima! Are you okay?"

He ran by her side and looked aghast at her wounds. He ran out of the tend and pulled in the sled when he was instructed to, and then sat down near Cutima.

"Is there anything else you need to help her?"

Edited September 24, 2017 by The Candlekeeper
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[Techno Universal 2,575]

1 hour ago, GoldieS said:

@Maple Bat @Techno Universal

The bone guard didn't move, apparently trying to appear impressive and imposing as he stood before Techno. He looked the alicorn up and down, but it was impossible to read his thoughts without any skin or muscle. 

"Is it true then? Your with the captain as well?" He asked, skeptical in tone, exchanging glances between Maple and Techno. "If that's true, then why do you look so... beaten?"

The last was directed towards Techno. "And where's your escorts!? Or your retinue?"

The other guard rose a brow, or at least what part of his brow was still left. "Well, she is bat. And I think he's called a... what was it again? An alicorn I think. Those are pretty popular in Equestria I heard. I'm pretty sure alicorn's are like the Flash Golemns, it's just what's in style over there. I think the Countess had an alicorn once, but it broke down pretty quick."

"Oh..." The bone guard replied, staring closer at Techno, before the guard started poking the alicorn's chest. "Seem's pretty lifelike hu? Okay then, make sure you get it repaired ma'am. The twin tails from Tambelon are a twitchy lot, and superstitious as all Tartarus."

The rotting guard nodded in agreement, before pausing to point at Orange, who was still wheezing, and Gallifor who gave a polite bow to the undead guards. "These two with you as well? I can take you all to the castle, I'm sure she and the delegation will be delighted to hear of your arrival."

@Maple Bat

"What, you mean that mortal pet of yours? Oh she's fine." Salacious replied dismissively. "That deer you mentioned, I have him keeping an eye out for her. Plus, Shadows is watching over her as well."

"Oh relax, just sit back and enjoy the meal and pampering. Stop being so tense, she has a chaos god watching her every move, I doubt anything bad could possibly happen to her!" 

The ponies attendants were almost finished doing their jobs. They hadn't stopped the entire time, working around the little spat from earlier desperately trying not to fail at their assigned function. Woodland himself was as clean as ever! Fur softer than a snow rabbit, and main flowing like the wind. 

"I hope we get to do this every day! Share a meal, a nice grooming, maybe listen to my orchestra later? Or perhaps a rock band is more your type." She mused. "You don't know how long I've had to wait to find someone I could share my time with."

@Burpy @The Candlekeeper

"Oh, no no, I'm not their master, I'm their-" He paused mid sentence as he helped her up, noticing the bloodied hoof. "Good heavens! Did they do this to you!?"

With his head, he lifted her off the snow and rolled her onto his back. Quickly he pranced through the snow towards the hut, pausing momentarily to acknowledge Morph with the stick on fire. He shifted so Cutima could see him. 

"There, nothing to worry about, your friends safe too!" He said quickly, before pushing into the tent. 

There he layed her down on a large leather bedroll, removing the cape Techno had provided her. Without thought, he tore a strip of cloth off the cape with his powerful jaws. 

"Hey, pony!" He shouted over at Morph. "There's a box on a sled outside with a slug on it, bring it here!" 

The wolf looked back at Cutima, a mortified look across his face. "Look, I'm really sorry about all this, they can be real dense sometimes... that's putting it mildly... I've been trying to teach them to be more civilized, but you can guess how that's going..." He added sarcastically. 

Techno then looked at the guard...

 

TU: Well we were on a tour through this place from equestria until a group of changelings captured the caption and stuffed him into a barrel. They then changed their appearances to look like the missing crew members and passengers and the changelings convinced everyone on the ship to mis accuse us over a crime we never committed so they then threw us off the ship along with the barrel that had the caption in it. So the real captain is right here with us plus the changelings also cut open the anti-bug netting around the ship and we were all attacked by a swarm of giant bugs. The bugs pretty much ripped my external skin up so that's why I look quite damaged. Plus even though everything in me is usaly indescribable because of my inbuilt magic based shielding it's blocked from functioning down here because of shielding in the air.

 

Meanwhile...

 

Cutima's cape then automatically repaired itself after a few seconds and put itself back on Cutima...

 

CA: So dose he need to take me off for some reason? Really all you need to do is tell me to come off!

[GoldieS 679]

@Techno Universal @Maple Bat

The two guards nodded in agreement to Maples conclusion. They started to turn in order to lead the group of four, but gave pause when Techno began to explain their situation honestly, and in depth. Both turned back around, glaring at the group. Galifor smacked his forehead in dismay. 

"Tour? Wait, so you lot... aren't apart of any delegations?" The rotting guard asked, raising what little brow he had left. 

The bone guard snorted in anger, stomping his hoof on the ground. "They're trying to make fools of us!" He whipped around to snarl and tower aver Maple. "Well, I hope you lot have six thousand fangs between the lot of yah! That or we could happily take you to the castle dungeon!" 

Orange began caughing again, while Galifor rubbed his neck. 

"Si- six THOUSAND!?" Orange exclaimed in shock. "But- but- how could we even carry that much on us!?"

@Maple Bat

"Oh, little brother, you should know that I tend to take these things way to far..." Salacious replied with an evil grin. 

She leaned over to Woody's tub and dipped one of her talons in the water. It suddenly and instantaneously froze, turning into a giant ice cube. Fortunately, the attendants had finished with their work with him and had already climbed out. She giggled in delight, then glared at something past Woody. 

War snorted, letting off a small bit of smoke from her nostrils. Arms crossed, she stared down at the two draconequus enjoying their time together condescendingly. 

"You've had him long enough, it's my turn!" The wolf snapped at Salacious. 

Salacious scoffed at her sister, giving a smug look in return. "Actually, he's decided he wants to stay with me. Perhaps he yearns for the civilized side of the family... you can see where the problem lies, can't you? No hard feelings."

[Techno Universal 2,575]

11 minutes ago, GoldieS said:

@Techno Universal @Maple Bat

The two guards nodded in agreement to Maples conclusion. They started to turn in order to lead the group of four, but gave pause when Techno began to explain their situation honestly, and in depth. Both turned back around, glaring at the group. Galifor smacked his forehead in dismay. 

"Tour? Wait, so you lot... aren't apart of any delegations?" The rotting guard asked, raising what little brow he had left. 

The bone guard snorted in anger, stomping his hoof on the ground. "They're trying to make fools of us!" He whipped around to snarl and tower aver Maple. "Well, I hope you lot have six thousand fangs between the lot of yah! That or we could happily take you to the castle dungeon!" 

Orange began caughing again, while Galifor rubbed his neck. 

"Si- six THOUSAND!?" Orange exclaimed in shock. "But- but- how could we even carry that much on us!?"

@Maple Bat

"Oh, little brother, you should know that I tend to take these things way to far..." Salacious replied with an evil grin. 

She leaned over to Woody's tub and dipped one of her talons in the water. It suddenly and instantaneously froze, turning into a giant ice cube. Fortunately, the attendants had finished with their work with him and had already climbed out. She giggled in delight, then glared at something past Woody. 

War snorted, letting off a small bit of smoke from her nostrils. Arms crossed, she stared down at the two draconequus enjoying their time together condescendingly. 

"You've had him long enough, it's my turn!" The wolf snapped at Salacious. 

Salacious scoffed at her sister, giving a smug look in return. "Actually, he's decided he wants to stay with me. Perhaps he yearns for the civilized side of the family... you can see where the problem lies, can't you? No hard feelings."

Techno then quickly turned to the guards in a panic...

 

TU: Okay seriously you two maybe Maple and the others are a part of the delegations but I seriously don't know for sure if they are or not but Maple probably is a part of the delegations by who she is.

[Maple Bat 3,568]

@GoldieS

"Let me do the talking... your brain must be fired." Maple said as she hit Techno in the head. She then chuckled nervously, "Very sorry for the inconvenience you both. My alicorn here seems to be malfunctioning. The princess of the Moon did send me from Equestria in order to check on this place and potentially find allies for Equestria and that's the truth. The thing is the only way I could get here is via a tour ship which confused him. I am here as a delegate of Princess Luna." She said being straightforward and bowed lightly to the guards "Again very sorry about this thing being so broken not much I can do about it myself."

@GoldieS

Woody looked at War after he unfroze the water. He was shivering but not from the cold water "Y... Yea... No offense sister but I did say that I'd b... be staying with her overnight." His shivering was very visible he thought the other chaos gods couldn't get here "R...really sorry for the inconvenience." He didn't want to say 'sorry you scare me' because that would instill a pretty negative reaction.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

4 hours ago, Maple Bat said:

@GoldieS

"Let me do the talking... your brain must be fired." Maple said as she hit Techno in the head. She then chuckled nervously, "Very sorry for the inconvenience you both. My alicorn here seems to be malfunctioning. The princess of the Moon did send me from Equestria in order to check on this place and potentially find allies for Equestria and that's the truth. The thing is the only way I could get here is via a tour ship which confused him. I am here as a delegate of Princess Luna." She said being straightforward and bowed lightly to the guards "Again very sorry about this thing being so broken not much I can do about it myself."

@GoldieS

Woody looked at War after he unfroze the water. He was shivering but not from the cold water "Y... Yea... No offense sister but I did say that I'd b... be staying with her overnight." His shivering was very visible he thought the other chaos gods couldn't get here "R...really sorry for the inconvenience." He didn't want to say 'sorry you scare me' because that would instill a pretty negative reaction.

When Techno got hit in the head his eyes glitched out for a few seconds and he also made computer like sounds...

[GoldieS 679]

 

@Maple Bat @Techno Universal

The two guards looked at each other, before looking at the group, clearly skeptical now. They looked ready to do something aggressive, but a third guard swooped down from above and landed beside them, a much smaller bat pony. Both soldiers saluted the bat as she landed. 

"Why are we still out here!? Hurry up, the storms hitting shortly." She commanded. 

"Yes ma'am. These four claim to be some sort of missive from the Equestrian outerworld, but the golemn implicated them in a lie!" The bone guard replied smugly, gesturing to Techno. 

"But... Captain Maple states her golemn was merely malfunctioning." The rotting one added uncertainly. 

The bat rolled her eyes and scoffed. "You know the other officers laugh at me because of you two..." She said a little jokingly. 

"Alright," She looked at the group. "Simple enough, let me see your papers. Certainly your superiors wouldn't send you without some sort of proof."

The officer couldn't help but look Techno up and down. There was some sort of spark in here eye as she examined him, waiting for maple, or anyone, to provide some kind of proof. She even smiled at him, in a coy sort of way, flicking her mane. 

@Maple Bat

"See?" Salacious added, smugly of course. "And I told you before, you are not allowed here without my express consent! Speaking of which, how did you get in here!?"

War huffed, snorting a little bit more smoke. "Your magic is as weak as you are stupid. Now, I said it's my turn! Give him up!" 

Salacious began to rise out of her little bath, her size growing and expanding quite a bit. The servants still in the room didn't waste time cowering in fear or waiting to see things out. Apparently, they already knew what to do. All of them bolted out the door as quickly as their legs could take them, leaving the grooming supplies behind. 

"So then, we're doing this again hmm!?" Salacious growled. "In front of our newest brother too? Are you trying to make us look uncivilized!?"

Her form began to change, that beautifully and perfectly groomed form turning into something monstrous and feral. Teeth growing sharper and longer, mane disheveled, and about eight extra arms sprouting from her side. The corners of her mouth tore past her cheeks into a wicked smile. 

"Hmph, so be it!" War shouted, reaching behind her to draw a bastard sword almost as long as her own plate armored body, easily bigger than Woody. She twirled the giant weapon, causing it to sing as it cut through the air, before slamming it in the marble floor and resting both gauntleted paws on the pommel. 

 

[Maple Bat 3,568]

@GoldieS @Techno Universal

Maple was about to say 'Sure, not a problem' but there was one problem, a rather big problem she figured she'd run into, "I do... Have... Papers... They are still on the boat I arrived in..." She blinked "And... Something tells me you won't let me just go get them either..." Maple said, "Luna mentioned letters but I think she meant the ones I was supposed to bring." She gave an apologetic glance to Orange and Galifor. "These two are not with me, however, They were just kinda forced off the boat at the same time as I got off. I take full responsibility for this mistake." She looked at the officer worried about the punishment of this given the last thing was six thousand 'claws', which she still had no idea what those were.

@GoldieS

Woody wasn't sure what to do in this situation not wanting to support either one of them and have them turn against him "I... Think I'll go see Shadows now..." He said walking away from the two have no Idea where he was going but at least it would hopefully keep them from fighting and possibly killing each other He had another question but figured he'd ask it to the only Dragonequus that he considered friendly.

Edited September 21, 2017 by Maple Bat

[Barpy 2,225]

@The Candlekeeper @GoldieS

Cutima let him put her on his back, snuggled in her cape because it was getting colder by every second. Shocked Cutima sighed with relief, calmed down and relaxed her head when she saw that Morph is not injured and let him take her back to the hut.

She lay down on the bedroll and felt safe again, looked at her injury and shed a tear. ''I see, at least no enemy will steal anything from this hut hehe..'' She said with a small chuckle but then she felt a wave of pain in her wound that quickly got her smile off her face.

Cutima didn't even notice that he took off her cape and got a bit worried when she noticed that he started to tore it, she didn't have time to explain to him that it's not just a normal cape then the cape repaired itself and said something that she didn't understand clearly.

[GoldieS 679]

@Burpy @The Candlekeeper

"No no, merely stay out of my way." The wolf replied sharply, ripping open one of the crates in seconds. 

Inside, the wooden crate was packed with jars and vials, all varying shades of a sickly green. In fact, things were... floating inside some of them, and they didn't exactly look sanitary. in fact, there might have been a dead rat in one of them, though it was hard to tell as it had been turned mostly into mush. 

"Ugh, believe me, I wouldn't use this stuff if I could avoid it. As it stands, better safe than sorry, right?" He gave Cutima an apologetic grin as he poured a small vile out onto her injuries and rubbed it all across. 

He then used the torn strip of cloth from the robe and wrapped it around her injured arm. "There we are!" he sighed in delight, before standing up. 

"Now that those little... ah... unpleasantness are out of the way," He paused, looking away, before he whipped around at the two with a vicious look on his face. "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

@GoldieS @Burpy

Morph stumbled backwards in surprise.

"I, I fell off a tour ship... I think she did too... right?" 

He turned to Cutima and winced.

Edited September 24, 2017 by The Candlekeeper

[Barpy 2,225]

@GoldieS @The Candlekeeper

The vile felt cold, Cutima just bit her lip for a bit to overcome the small pain, didn't make a sound in the end and just watched him. 

Cutima got frightened and widened her eyes as she saw him raise his voice, looked at Morph and back at him. ''W-..we.. um..'' She stuttered in fear. ''W-we were on a tour ship and fell off.'' She calmed down a little. ''We wanted to spend night somewhere but your wolves took us here, then you came.'' She quickly explained to him with a scared smile.

Edited September 24, 2017 by Burpy

[GoldieS 679]

@Burpy @The Candlekeeper

"A... tour?" He tilted his head in confusion, the wolf's furious look diffused quite a bit. "What exactly is that supposed to mean?"

He then gave a bit of a sigh at Cutima's part of the explanation. "Oh yah... sorry about all that. Cousins are still learning how to act... politely. They can be a bit dense sometimes, but they're getting there!" 

"Well, at any rate, pleased to meet you two. I'm..." He paused, only to do a flourishing twirl and series of 'muscle man' poses. "SPARKSTAR THUNDERSTRIKE!!" 

He practically shouted the last bit at the top of his lungs, holding his sparkling runway model like pose. "And, you two?"

[CandleCandleCandles 2,012]

"G... good to meet you, Sparkstar. My name is Morph, Morph Objective."

Morph looks to the outside, where the vicious wolves and kobolds are.

"Will they, er, be less aggressive while you're here?"

[Barpy 2,225]

@GoldieS @Der Kerzenwachter

Cutima felt a bit uncomfortable and backed off a bit with a raised front hoof as he said his name loudly but slowly got more and more comfortable as she was able to know him more and more. 

''I.. I am Cutima, n-nice to meet you too..'' She smiled awkwardly and scratched her mane from nervosity, she wasn't a fan of telling her name to ponies, it always felt weird. 

She looked outside when Morph did, getting a bit scared again when she saw them, ''So, they're your cousins?... They seem to be much less intelligent than you, and you can talk and they can't?'' Cutima got curious, maybe too much.