The Trotting Dead RP

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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Stephan heard this and walked up to Grand. "Grand, of course you can do this. You're never going to learn anything in an instant." He knelt down to her so he was looking her in the eyes. "I'll bet learning all of the first-aid Josh knew took him a long time. If you set your mind to it, you can do almost anything." 

[The Ponyville Critic 304]

Starburst instead decided to use his wings to get him up. It worked. He used his wings to take him over to Ghost who was looking up at the night-sky.
"I like stars, Aunt Twilight was obsessed with them. She told me that that constellation up there is Canis Major. It represents a dog, Lapleus i think." Starburst said.

"Don't say that, i'm sure you'll understand it, i'll help you." Missy said. "I teach anyway so it'll be my pleasure."

Dammit, i got post ninja'd.

Edited August 31, 2013 by ILoveTheShy

[Grand_Finale 529]

Grand smiled faintly. "alright, ill keep working at it" she said, looking at the book intently. she listed all of the herbs and what they did on a seperate piece of paper. She would have to use a cheat sheet until further notice. She studied the pictures mostly, so she would be able to recognize them in case they would need some

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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"Just thought I'd give you a little food for thought, Grand. Just think about it." Stephan walks back outside and lies down next to Starburst. "Sorry, Starburst. I just had some issues to handle." He looked up into the sky to try to find Canis Major. "Oh! I see him!" He pointed to it. He even saw constellations Orion and Leo. "Sure haven't seen constellations like them in a while..."

[The Ponyville Critic 304]

"My mother really likes stars too, she taught me a lot of what i know of magic." Starburst said. "Josh was nice, he would've sacrificed himself for any of us... and he was cut down by bandits like an animal."

"That one is manue vitae, it is natively found in Bruchellia, it can revive a living being from the brink of death. It has blue tips, but when used right, it has explosive properties, very explosive." Missy said.

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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Stephan sighed as the memory re-entered his subconscious. "I'm trying not to think of it. When I do, I try to think of him being in another place. A place where he can be happy and away from all of this. And, while he's there, he's smiling down upon us." Stephan said, trying to make the situation less depressing. "Just like we would do for him."

[Grand_Finale 529]

Grand quickly wrote that down. "how can something be so helpful but so dangerous at the same time?" she asked curiously.Maybe she could learn to like this stuff after all. "I need as much information as possible, I want to help everyone rather than be the one causing problems" she said seriously

[The Ponyville Critic 304]

"I'm really not sure, but it's more beneficial to use as healing, it's one of the rarest plants imaginable" Missy said.

"Right." Starburst said, he continued to stare into the night sky, it's not very often that anypony can really appreciate the little things nowadays.

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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Stephan looked up into the sky and got a little drowsy. After a while, He saw something in the sky. A blue speck of a sort. After just a few seconds, he could see clearly what it was; his home of Earth. His eyes began to water when thoughts of home entered his mind.

[DustJacket 213]

((Just had a nightmare, not zombies -- I feel like my OC in this RP))

 

Somewhere in Baltimare, up in the hills with fertile soil where plant life could still grow. Ink Drop has just finished up burying the survivor's dead body, given that he had already stripped the brain of it's ability to reanimate; drenched in blood and sweat... he did not washed them off, instead using it as a disguise; making him virtually dead to the trotters as he navigated his way back to the docks. There, he got his eyes on several dead bandit that had become trotters themselves. But that did not worry him, the only thing that picked up his eyes were the two bolts sticking out of two dead bandits' cranium. Re-obtaining it quickly and doing it as subtle as he could, he walked with a slight of velocity increase towards a dry dock -- but it wouldn't be so dry as water has filled it up -- there he had been preparing to leave the dead town of Baltimare. That's why he ran in to the survivors fighting their way to one of the boats dock there^[1].

 

One boat, covered with a spread of gray sheet, Ink Drop uncovered it revealing the supplies which were an hoard of food and water along with a makeshift evaporation system^[2]. Ink Drop hopped inside carefully, not going for the ignition button nor the ropes acting as an anchor, however, he went for the radio^[3]which he has been tinkering for sometime. Luckily, it worked and used it immediately to make a repetitive voice message, "Baltimare is dead, there's no sanctuary, go far south or east as you can. There's nothing left here." he said in a quite dried tone and hoarse voice.

 

Ink Drop set the message on a loop and on an open channel, so that anypony that might come to the city would get their first warning. Finally, he flicked the switch of the ignition button and untied the knot of the rope security the marine vehicle. With the gate of the dock already opened, this saved him his strength. Without hesitation, he left the dead town. Destination, still unknown, simply 'get out of there quickly'.

 

Ink Drop realized something after he gained a few meters away from the docks, "Sure hope they don't run out of fuel." he said to himself, and given that he had an additional fuel reserve, he had to hurry to catch up with them.

 

 

[1] His first intention before meeting you guys

[2] Enables him to draw the evaporated sea water to drinkable water by using the vapors itself

[3] MacGuyver thing

* could I do a story like this, which tells a different set of event occurring in some place.

Edited September 1, 2013 by Ink Drop

[dashian500 194]

Steel sat off by himself and cleaned his blades ignoring the pain in his shoulder, when he finished e took flight and dived on the water letting te salt water clean his wound and washin th blood off his hooves he then flew back onto the boat and used an old rag in his bag to wrap his shoulder, he would survive h too his blades back out and sharpened them

 

(( sorry I haven't been postage should be getting wifi at my house soon))

[DustJacket 213]

Traveling in fifty miles per hour, the bilge of his speed boat sliced the surface of the sea water. He raised up a pair of binoculars and leveled it against his eye level; enabling him to look through while maintaining a tight grip over the steering wheel. Tilting his head and eyes, trying to find the yacht that the survivors took. 

 

Then, like a sight for sore eyes, he finally found them. Excited that he managed to find them after a while long, he could almost jump, "Alright, stay there, I'm coming..." he said as he lowered down the binoculars and put it on top of the deck.

 

Maneuvering to the side of the yacht, he tried to maintain a constant distance and speed to align his boat with the yacht. Fortunately for him, the yacht speed^[1] wasn't very fast hence this eased him on aligning the boat. 

 

Ink Drop yelled to the survivors, "Hey! Hey, guys! Over here!", yet he was only wasting his breath as the speech sound from his voice was disrupted by the water splashing and crashing with each other. 

 

[1] I've been doing some searching and found out from one source that an average yacht travels for 6 knots or 6.9 mph (1.15 * 6)

Edited September 1, 2013 by Ink Drop

[Grand_Finale 529]

Grand looked up from the book to see a speedboat. she ran over to see who it was and an unfamiliar colt was yelling. "Oh my goodness, take my hoof!" she yelled, extending her hoof out as far as she could. "Get up here, we can help you!: she said, wondering how this pony managed to find them

[Azura 1,107]

Azura noticed that the group was being attacked by bandits, so she retreated back to the boat and took cover. The other ponies got on as well but it felt like somepony was missing. In a matter of seconds, she knew it was Josh. He wasn't on the boat.

 

(OOC: You guys are going so fast, I'm completely lost. Josh died, everypony is now on a ship, but what sort of biome are we at anyway? A jungle island?)

[DustJacket 213]

Grand looked up from the book to see a speedboat. she ran over to see who it was and an unfamiliar colt was yelling. "Oh my goodness, take my hoof!" she yelled, extending her hoof out as far as she could. "Get up here, we can help you!: she said, wondering how this pony managed to find them

((speedboats travel a lot faster than the yacht, and my OC use his hunch)) 

 

"No, no, no, stop! Stop the boat..." Ink Drop had almost forgotten that if the yacht stopped, there would be a probable chance that the yacht wouldn't start again despite the old engines that he has inspected from all of the boats back at the docks.

 

He had only a brief moment to take action, either take all of the four jerrycans filled with fuel with him or take only one plus a small amount of food supply so he could leap over to the yacht from the moving speedboat. Risky as it was, he just went for it, forcing to leave the other three jerrycans of fuel and taking only one. Ink Drop took a leap of faith, but a misplaced footing he has made during take off caused him to slam his head against the broadside of the yacht rendering him almost unconscious and barely able to hold on. 

 

One hand holding on to the railing of the yacht and the other one holding the jerrycan; eyesight was blurry but he could still see clear enough that the speedboat had tumbled on top of the water chaotically and flung upwards. 

 

His hearing was muffled, thus he could not hear what the mare said, yet he could see that she had stretched out her hoof; lending aid for him.

Edited September 1, 2013 by Ink Drop

[Grand_Finale 529]

Grand grabbed the colt and pulled him to the yacht. "I'll help you, stay with us" she said, slightly panicked. She ran to grab first aid supplies and found some bandages, as well as painkillers. "Hopefully this will do for now" she said to herself before hobbling back to the colt. She wrapped the bandages around his head but decided to save the painkillers for when he was a little more aware

[Snowy Storm 57]

(OOC: Sorry was offline for most of the day. Are we still on the boat?)

Icy looked at the colt. Then a thought came to mind. She didn't know the names of the other ponies around her.

She only knew Grand, Zeta, and Steel.

"You know now that we have time away from the madness of the trotters we should try to get to know each other" She said trying to be polite.

[DustJacket 213]

Desperate to stay awake, Ink Drop was suffering from a minor head trauma and with a light intracranial hemorrhage. Not fatal but it would cause him to lose some of his ability that requires the use of the brain such as focusing and concentrating. The first symptoms were setting in, he was losing consciousness, concentration; he could barely keep his eyes opened and in addition, a ringing in his ears, making any audible sound around him nothing more but muffled nonsense.

 

After the mare provided medical attention, Ink Drop still had a handful of consciousness to stay awake and warned them of their yacht's engine state, luckily he could still speak clear enough but in an incomplete sentence, "Jerrycan..." he raised up his right front hoof and gasping for air, struggling to keep his brain active, he pointed at the jerrycan that he brought with him, "engine... too old... fuel gauge... check them... refill..." he said slowly getting quiet and calmer, slipping away to the state of complete unconscious.  

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

@@Azura, 

((OOC: Josh dropped off, so we killed off his character. We found a yacht and we're taking it east to find the cure for the outbreak.))

@@Ink Drop, 

Stephan saw the new stallion and he could make out what he was saying. Stephan jetted down to the engine room and checked the engine. "Huh. Looks like this hunk of junk won't last much longer. I'll need to inform Fire so he can check it out" Stephan ran up to the new stallion. "Thanks for the heads up. We'll refill it once...

Wait, how did you know about the engine?"

Edited September 1, 2013 by Stevenearthpony

[The Ponyville Critic 304]

"Stephan, i believe he's unconcious." Fire Horn said. "Anyway, i'll go down to the engine room and see what i can do about fixing it, but first someone needs to turn off the boat. Right, Stephan, you switch off the boat, Grand, you tend to the new guy. Steel, check out the wreckage of that boat, there might be something worth salvaging."
Fire Horn headed down below deck to the engine.

Edited September 1, 2013 by ILoveTheShy

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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(OOC: Reading the whole post? Pfft. What's that??)

"Whatever you say, Fire. I'll get it done." Stephan ran down to the control room, not regarding how fast he was going. He looked at all of the switches and such and he scratched his head. "If only Light were here right now..." Stephan found a certain switch that caught his eye. Without hesitating, he pulled the switch and the boat came to an immediate halt. "Heh. No problem."

[Grand_Finale 529]

Grand decided it was best to let him rest. She grabbed a blanket and draped it over top of him before resuming her spot seated next to him. "Once he wakes up we can do a bit more, but this poor colt looks exhausted" she said, sitting next to him. She reopened her book and read quietly to herself, making sure to keep her eye on the stallion

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

@@Grand_Finale,@@Ink Drop,

Once Stephan stopped the boat, he walked to the colt. Then, a memory from Baltimare sparked in his mind. "I think I know this stallion." Stephan said. "As we left, I looked back at the city and the bandits were dropping like flies. There was no physical being in sight, so he must've been a good marksman." Stephan assumed. "He's the one that saved us from the bandits!" 

[DustJacket 213]

Completely removed from the atmosphere that surrounded him, Ink Drop fell to a deep state of mind and brain recovery, causing him to have a dream; one particular dream. As he entered slowly to his subconscious, he repeated the past, all that had happened recently, and yet somehow... his dream aimed towards one event. Canterlot... his childhood home, where he lived with his single caring mother and the resting place of his father long ago before this outbreak. In his dream, the point of interest was his mother... a spirited mare and somewhere in her forties. Broken-white coat, buns hairstyle styled her mane, lively hazel eyes, and a luminous vivid cerulean complemented with several hair threads of pale cerulean highlight^[1]. 

 

All of that occurrence inside his mind caused him to immediately snapped back into reality, while his brain wasn't fully recovered from the concussion yet. "Mother?!" he spake ; awakened and arose from the place where he was lying down, the blanket slowly peeled over from his chest because of the gravity effect and vertical position, and afterwards, he shed one drop of tear. 

 

He closed his eyes shut, rubbed his head covered with bandage, in pain and confusion. As soon as his body stabilized to the pain -- getting numbed -- he realized the group of ponies around him. 

 

 

[1] Since Ink Drop's hair color and coat color is a very dark gray cobalt almost leading to black, majority inhereted characteristic genes are from his dad

Edited September 1, 2013 by Ink Drop

[The Ponyville Critic 304]

"Mother?!" he spake

 

You do realise that's not a real word, right? (Reference)

 

Fire Horn was examining the engine, it was barely being held together, it was rusty and the fuel caps were loose, it was basically leaking all the fuel out. "We won't be going anywhere any time soon guys." Fire Horn said. "I'll do my best to fix this, but we might be stranded out here."

Edited September 1, 2013 by ILoveTheShy