private Whisper: The City of Darkness (DEAD)

[RoseBud 26]

Paratyl was pretty upset about this whole thing, Going to a random place on a random day with random ponies on a random bus in a random world. Nothing made sense anymore, But he was quite fine keeping it like that. Paratyl stayed close to Gen, His wings were ruffled up alot, 'We can be scared together' Paratyl decided, Giving a small nod to himself and Gen. As they approached the bus the air seemed to get thicker with caution, They still didn't know where they we going and they still didn't really know why either; Paratyl sighed, at least he could die knowing it was for.. You know what, Nevermind, It was too hard to finish that sentence.

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Edited February 18, 2013 by RoseBud

[MaleTrixie 14]

Gen looked at the dark scared pegasus beside him, He smiled at him though his fluffly feathers, Atleast he knew someone else was scared, It was even more touching that he chose him instead of anypony else, Gen knew it shouldn't be much of a big deal, But Meh; In is siduation, Anything goes down. He looked around at everypony else, So many different types of ponies, But such a strong connection between them, Gen was sure he could trust all of them - Execpt maybe the Scorpio Pony, He'd have to keep an eye out for him.

[Imagine 284]

But something was interesting, not knowing where they were going, it was probably dangerous if they could bring a weapon. Aquarius immediately nodded, it was somewhere dangerous. She thought about what she would bring, weapons, for sure. But she somehow couldn't think of anything else.

[Psych Ward 377]

Arianna sat at the first empty seat she had found, wishinng she had thought to grab more books to get her through he ride.  She smiled, preforming a simple summoning spell.  She relaxed as she felt the comfortable weight in her bag telling her that she would have all the books she needed for the trip.  She pulled out the one she had been reading since lunch only to find her bookmark missing.  She groaned, opening to the chapter she at least knew she was on.

[Galvin Starlight 16]

Pisces raced to the back of the bus a grabbed a seat next to Midnight, making sure he could sit as close as possible to one of the back wheels. This way, Pisces could attain maximum bus bounceification when they went over a pot hole or any bumps in the room.

 

Bouncefication? Was that a word? It should be a word Pisces decided, and any who disagreed simply had not been exposed the joys of bouncing in the back of a bus. It had been rumored, that there was one pony who managed to time a jump just right, so that he hit the roof of the bus and was forced to wear a neck cast for three whole months. Pisces could only hope to aspire to such lofty heights one day.

Edited February 18, 2013 by Galvin Starlight

[Prince Midnight 817]

Midnight looked over at picies nodded a hello then opened his saddlebag, and pulled out his bow to make sure he was ready for anything, at least he could protect himself then the others as much as he could.

his bow was a special one, having won it in a compitition from the king himself, even if he never saw the king he loved this bow and took care of it, when he first got it, there was really nothing special about it, until he realized it was enchanted, it could fold it and hide it in his saddlebag. 

he looked the black crystal over, running his hoof across the intracate carvings, "id hate to see what happens to a physical target with this thing....even i dont know what it does to ponies, but i do know it has some kind of power in it."

Edited February 18, 2013 by King_Sombrero

[BlackShardNixium 277]

Libra looked around, seeing everypony seated on the bus. The Assistant looked..... It was hard to tell for sure, really.

Smug? Happy?..... Relieved?

The Assistant stepped back to let another figure pass in front of her. The bus driver, of course... The assistant turned back to look at them one last time, seeming to nod in satisfaction to herself, before exiting.

All eleven were there. The doors slammed shut and the finality of it frightened Libra. Her brows furrowed and her heart sped up. She glanced at the bus driver and the already frantic pounding in her chest came to a screaming halt.

He was putting on a gas mask.

Libra opened her mouth to yell out, but was subsequently silenced when noxious, cloyingly sweet gas filtered through the built-in AC system.

Oh Buck.

((When we awake, we'll be in Delvia!!))

Edited February 18, 2013 by BlackShardNixium

[White Out 36]

Aaaaaand Sagittarius sat at the front. Why the front? Because nopony sat at the front. That little nook behind the driver's seat was his only safe haven against the onslaught of distractions. 'Distractions' being a subjective term, of course.

Also, sitting behind the driver meant he could see that little mirror they used to see everypony in the bus, which meant he could draw ponies in peace without looking like those creepy colts that stared at everypony else from across the room. Not that anypony would notice this particular colt, but the point still stood.

The abnormous acrasia Sagittarius experienced with is 'work' was really only hidden by years of argute ascesis of arrant accismus.

But enough abundant alliteration of abstract adages.

Sagittarius opened his book-bag and -OH HEY THERE GOES THE MUSCLE CONTROL.

Sonofabitch.

Edited February 18, 2013 by White Out

[Psych Ward 377]

Arianna let out a gasp as suddenly she felt almost choked by the gas that was quickly filling the air.  She felt her head that wsas supposrted by her hooves fall.  The last thing she heard before she slipped into the dark haze was her beautiful book hitting the ground.  Another book slipped out of her open sack.  Combative Spells for Gifted Unicorns

[Budding Night 1,043]

Tlalli Amithi - Taurus

Tlalli had only just moved like, seven steps when everpony started gasping for air and collasping, She was near the back of the bus, She looked at the collasped and gasping ponies then at Midnight and Pieces who didn't seem to be intoxicated yet, She opened her mouth to yell 'What the fu-' she stopped, Oh Hell. She could feel it slithering down her throat and into her lungs, Tlallia fell to her knees as it spread in her lungs, She didn't know what was happening, This wasn't like a normal Black-Out, Everypony else was having it too; Tlalli started to panic and tried to think of lullabys

'Stars in the sky, Sleep tonig-'

Too Late, She was already asleep

(WE SHALL BE THERE SOON EVERYONE, DON'T WORRY. OKAY I WAS SAYING THAT TO MYSELF BUT WHATEVER)

[Galvin Starlight 16]

Tlalli Amithi - Taurus

Tlalli had only just moved like, seven steps when everpony started gasping for air and collasping, She was near the back of the bus, She looked at the collasped and gasping ponies then at Midnight and Pieces who didn't seem to be intoxicated yet, She opened her mouth to yell 'What the fu-' she stopped, Oh Hell. She could feel it slithering down her throat and into her lungs, Tlallia fell to her knees as it spread in her lungs, She didn't know what was happening, This wasn't like a normal Black-Out, Everypony else was having it too; Tlalli started to panic and tried to think of lullabys

'Stars in the sky, Sleep tonig-'

Too Late, She was already asleep

(WE SHALL BE THERE SOON EVERYONE, DON'T WORRY. OKAY I WAS SAYING THAT TO MYSELF BUT WHATEVER)

What was going on? What was wrong with everypony? Was that gas? Why did it suddenly smell minty? Pisces hated minty! Why would anypo- and sleepy.

 

No. No sleep now. Pisces couldn't sleep now! He would miss all the bouncing of the bus' back seat! It wasn't fair! It isn't fair! It-

 

Pisces then presumed to pass out all over Midnight, his tongue lolling out of his mouth as he began to snore obnoxiously.

[Imagine 284]

Aquarius walked on the bus and sat in the middle seats, she looked around, a bunch others were there. She tapped her hoof, like usual, and felt something come out of the AC, it was a sweet-smelling gas, she felt very woozy, her head bobbled back and forth, " Who....in the hell......put this gas......in......" she said, slowly passing out. She passed out over her seat, covering it up completely.

[Prince Midnight 817]

Midnight frowned and pushed picies off of him, looking around at the others all of them were asleep, "oh buck oh buck."

he spread his wings and started to flutter them, trying to get the gas away from him.

he heard another slew of voices "damnit arent you EVER going to leave me alone?"

"schlafen, deine Zeit wird kommen. die Toten von den Schatten zu warten."

 

midnight swallowed as his eyes felt heavy then finally fell unconsious, the shadows surrounding him, before dissappearing as midnights vision faded.

[SurfSkateSoar 13]

Leon was already down, the gas seemed to get to him first which was totally unfair, It made him feel drunk like an old geeser that went to some random ponies 21st birthday, But Leon was pretty sure he was dead

 

'Am I dead? I think I'm dead.'

 

Did the crazy assistiant lady kill him and everypony else? Thats messed up man. Woman. Pony. Whatever. Leon just needed to figure out if he was breathing or not..

[BlackShardNixium 277]

The first signs Libra could feel of her return to consciousness was the wretched scrape of gravel and grit against her body, the aching of her stiff, cramped muscles....

And the awful stench of death.

All at once, her eyes snap open. This awakening isn't calm and gradual, like she'd always seen in films, it is a wild jolt of panic electrifying her nerves and sending waves of adrenaline into her body. She lurches unsteadily into sitting position, craning to take in all her surroundings at once, eyes darting, mind racing to catch up with her body's movements.

She was not alone, her classmates were all with her, as well as a few travel bags that looked to be stuffed with items Libra didn't even want to begin to sort through. The overall landscape was dark. Of course, she was used to darkness and lack of sunlight...but this darkness was different. The clouds, black like soot, like smoke, roiled ominously, swirling in a spiral pattern, like it would often do in times of the rare freak tornados. Thunder could be heard, frequently rolling in the distance, but the sky shown no signs of breaking anytime soon.

She observed her more immediate surroundings. She was in a town...or was it a city? It looked too big to be a town, but not yet big enough to be appropriately given the status of "city". She shrugged, automatically writing if off as a town that had been undergoing growth and expansion...

Key word being had.

The place was a ghost town, smashed windows and rundown buildings and all! Some parts of the road were gravel, other parts, the newer looking ones, were coblestone and posh. There was at least three layers of grime settled over everything, anything wooden was decaying under the duel team of termite rot and time itself...

The buildings themselves were generic. Shops and apartments and boutiqs and small cottages. Half quaint, half sophisticated. Some had collapsed into themselves, standing at jagged , unstable angles. Some had fallen to rubble all together.. The signs on and above the buildings were so worn, she wouldn't have a prayer at deciphering their meanings.

The street went in winding angles, and there seemed to be only one path through the city itself, but it branched off in different directions, leading Celestia-knew-where outside the city. It was all so dark. Libra sighed, attempting to snuff out her fear as one would a candle. She simply stood and waited for the others to wake.....

[Galvin Starlight 16]

Pisces yawned calmly as he stretched his legs. Sleep was good he decided, and anypony who disagreed deserved to be knocked unconscious. For the sole purpose of experiencing sleep that is, not for expressing violence or anything horrible like that. Pisces spied Libra sitting a ways away as he rose from the ground. “Hey Libra, whaaaaaa…”

Pisces had finally decided to actually look around and, well, Pisces reaction could be summed up in one word.

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

 

To say that Pisces was a bit confused would an understatement. The pink earth pony looked around and noticed the bodies of the others from the bus, all sleeping on the ground. Maybe sleep wasn't as awesome as Pisces previously thought. Pisces turned back to Libra, the only who seems to be awake at the moment.

"Where are we?”

Edited February 24, 2013 by Galvin Starlight

[White Out 36]

Somepony, somewhere, somehow, pressed the wrong bucking button.

That was the only logical explanation for this bullshit.

 

To put it simply, Sagittarius awoke. He didn't want to wake up, but reality wasn't the nicest mare, so awake is what he was, and awake is what he stayed.

However, this did not mean he was willing to open his eyes. Not for all of the bits in the world. He felt gravel, and he felt cold. He felt like he had been drugged and dragged and drudged and drained, and he was downright disturbed at the dire development. He was not a happy pony. He was not a content pony. He was not even the slightest bit humored. In fact, his apparent anabiosis only served to feed the growing agowilt in his gut.

Gravel. Movement. Other ponies were around, judging by the sound. By his guess, it was the entire lot of them. No, he was not going to open his eyes. This was all going to go away like a bad dream.

He was beginning to worry that it wasn't.

The bluish colt put a hoof over his head, and rolled over. Today was a bad day.

Edited February 24, 2013 by White Out

[rolle 320]

Scorpiok awake within a blink of an eye as he smelled the scent of death lurking nearby his sleeping body, he quickly stood up looking around seeing the others just made him think more of what have happend, but then he looked aroun seeing it was a town or something next to him 'there is something here i know it... It just must be something here... Except the termites.' he thought as he looked analyzing it.

[BlackShardNixium 277]

Pisces yawned calmly as he stretched his legs. Sleep was good he decided, and anypony who disagreed deserved to be knocked unconscious. For the sole purpose of experiencing sleep that is, not for expressing violence or anything horrible like that. Pisces spied Libra sitting a ways away as he rose from the ground. “Hey Libra, whaaaaaa…”

 

Pisces had finally decided to actually look around and, well, Pisces reaction could be summed up in one word.

 

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

 

To say that Pisces was a bit confused would an understatement. The pink earth pony looked around and noticed the bodies of the others from the bus, all sleeping on the ground. Maybe sleep wasn't as awesome as Pisces previously thought. Pisces turned back to Libra, the only who seems to be awake at the moment.

 

"Where are we?”

Libra felt better now that she was no longer the only one awake. Three others had joined her in the world of the conscious.

"I've no idea.." She rasped a quiet answer to Pisces, throat dry and a bit sore, "It would seem we've been simply dropped in the middle of a city......or, what used to be a city...."

Edited February 24, 2013 by BlackShardNixium

[Imagine 284]

Aquarius woke up with an uneasy feeling, she felt nauseous, and her stomach churned. She groaned and eventually got herself up, she looked out the bus window, she had to know where she was, and it was absolutely hideous. She felt even more sick due to the looks of the place. It was dark, like, REALLY DARK. The clouds looked like smoke, plunging through the air. It was also shack central. It had shacks everywhere, the town was definitely abandoned. Aquarius grew paler by the moment.

[White Out 36]

He wasn't going to open his eyes he wasn't going to open his eyes he wasn't going to open his eyes he wasn't going to open his eyes.

Maybe if Sagittarius thought it enough, it would come true. Then again, if wishing for something really hard made it true, his toaster would be working and he wouldn't be on the ground surrounded by ten other pastel ponies. Or what he assumed to be ten, at least. One of the side effects of keeping your eyes stapled shut is the crippling inability to see, as surprising as that may sound, so he wasn't too sure who was actually near him. There were voices, though. Two voices; one male and the other female. The voices did nothing to assuage his fears of being dropped off in the middle of unknown, dangerous territory. In fact, the female one confirmed them.

Now all he had to worry about was being stuck in the middle of murder-town with Stabby the unicorn. The only way to check, unfortunately, was to open his eyes, and Sagittarius still wasn't sure whether or not it would be worth it. On one hoof, if he didn't see what was around him, he could philosophically debate with himself whether or not any of this was actually happening, which was a welcome distraction from the gnawing fear in his gut.

On the other hoof, Stabby was bona-fide crazy, and not opening his eyes was a welcome way to get stabbed by crazy unicorns.

And on hoof number three, not opening his eyes meant he could pretend crazy unicorns like Stabby didn't exist.

And, of course, the fourth hoof was the logical one, saying that if he opened his eyes he might get a better grasp on the situation, and maybe work out a solution for the mess he was in.

Hooves one and three were very tempting, but unfortunately, logic tended to win out more times than not.

Slowly but surely, Sagittarius took his hoof from his face, and his eyes followed the gravel road he laid on to the hooves of a pony. It was whatsherface, the light-blue one. Er, Libra. And she was talking to Pisces. And there was a smorgasbord fit for a family of buzzards laying around. There was the one with the Aquarius symbol too, but she looked more scared than talkative. And Stabby was there, of course, because Sagittarius wasn't allowed to have nice things. Still looking broody and mysterious as ever.

And buildings. Oh, there were buildings. Small buildings, shacks, shops, structures, the works. Some were broken, some were half-collapsed, and some looked like somepony decided that piles of two-by-fours made for great modern art.

And the eyes went closed again.

Why couldn't he have just picked hooves one and three?

[Galvin Starlight 16]

Libra felt better now that she was no longer the only one awake. Three others had joined her in the world of the conscious.

"I've no idea.." She rasped a quiet answer to Pisces, throat dry and a bit sore, "It would seem we've been simply dropped in the middle of a city......or, what used to be a city...."

"Yeah, no kidding," Pisces said, his voice high and quiet. 

 

Okay, so, list of things that were going on right now. Pisces and ten other ponies had been gassed into unconsciousness, by their own school no less, dropped off in a unknown location, meaning that it had to be some distance away from Canterlot, and now they were completely alone in the ruins of some village with nowhere to go.

 

And some ponies complained about the educational system of Equestria.

 

Pisces took a deep breath as he tried to calm himself down. 'All right, we need to keep calm, get our bearings, and find out what we need to do. This is no time for panicking.'

 

'What are you talking about?! This is the absolutely perfect time for panicking!!! When else is there a better time to panic than now?!'

 

'WELL PANICKING ISN'T GOING TO SOLVE ANYTHING?' Pisces screamed in his head.

 

'Oh, we're worried about solving things now are we?' Pisces retorted to...himself.

 

'YES!! We can't start panicking now!'

 

'Well it sure sounds like we're panicking!'

 

Faced with the fact that his mind had tricked itself into doing exactly what it didn't want to do, Pisces closed his eyes and took a deep breath in an attempt to calm himself down. "Okay," he said as he looked back at Libra, "I think the first thing we should do is try to find out where we are." Pisces turned and began to scour the horizon. "Can you see any signs of Canterlot from here?" he asked Libra.

Edited February 25, 2013 by Galvin Starlight

[Budding Night 1,043]

Tlalli Amithi - Taurus
The last thing Tlalli remembered was running as fast as she could, She felt terrible since she collasped, she didn't know what was happening, But she felt like she was running hard, but all she saw was darkness, Tlalli suddently heard a voice,

'Can you see any signs of Canterlot from here?'

 

Tlalli woke with a snap, She lifted herself from the aisle to see the ground littered with bodies, They looked dead but you could see them breathing, Tlalli looked around abit to see the Pieces, Libra and Sagittarius seemed to be awake so far, They seemed about as creeped out as Tlalli was, It was darker than usual and it smelled.. absolutely horrible and utterly disturbing, It was abit hard for Tlalli to process how it smelled disturbing, But she was distraced but the scence: It seemed like to be an old city, abandonded and broken, she could see fainted pools of blood on the ground from who knows how long ago, This place screamed one word: Death.

Tlalli looked at Pieces and Libra, Who seemed to be chatting, She opened her mouth to ramble a bunch of question, But only manganged a murmer that included things like 'Where the hell are we?' 'Are we dead?' 'Whats up with all the whatchemacallits?'

Tlalli sighed at her misfunction of words, She looked out the window again; Yup, One word: Death.

[BlackShardNixium 277]

She was about to respond to Pisces when she saw that Tlalli had awoken.

"No, we're not dead, thank Celestia, but...." She stopped, not really knowing how to explain the situation farther then what all of them could clearly see for themselves...

She glanced around once more, this time scanning for some sort of hint as to where they were. A billboard, a poster, a-

Ah! A town-limits sign! They were quite literally abandoned on the doorstep of the city!

She squinted, just barely able to decipher the words on the sign:

"Delvia..."

[Imagine 284]

Aquarius collapsed back in her seat, feeling so queasy that she almost passed out, She got back up, her hooves were clammy, and she looked back out the window, she managed to read the sign, Delvia. Aquarius knew she was brave, so she took a deep breath, and calmed down, well, tried her best to. 

(oops, were not on the bus anymore, so.......actually cut out the bus window and seat parts. God, this is embarrassing, never really did a roleplay here, so it's obvious. especially in this type of roleplay, So uh yeah, just pretend i never said the bus window and seat parts.)