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[Charcoal Embers 169]

Even though Charcoal was freezing, and maybe dieing he remembered something he always brought with him. With shaky hooves he removes his saddlebag and rummages trough it till she finds what she is looking for, her flint and steel. She looks over at Scribe, who seems to be doing alright. He reaches over to give her the flint and steel but he collapses and can't move. She could feel himself slipping away so with one last try he says. "Use... to... make... fire." Then he falls unconscious.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Charcoal Embers

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

"Oh buck..."

 

As she snatched at the flint and steel, she panicked - looking for something that they could burn. Without any other ideas, she decided to recreate something she had seen Cinder do when they were lost in the mountains: having not brought one of her own she snatched Charcoals saddlebag, tipped its contents onto the ground and struck the flint over the now-empty satchel.

 

"Sorry Charcoal... I'm not letting you go that easily." She muttered to herself as the sparks finally caught on her fourth attempt.

 

It was a pretty pathetic fire and no doubt the stallion wasn't going to be too happy about his bag: but it was better than nothing.

 

"Does anypony have anything else we can burn..?" She almost yelled through the creeping migraines caused by maintaining her spell. It proved too much: with a particularly angry sounding spark the magic gave way and the wind flared up again.

[Charcoal Embers 169]

"Oh buck..."

 

As she snatched at the flint and steel, she panicked - looking for something that they could burn. Without any other ideas, she decided to recreate something she had seen Cinder do when they were lost in the mountains: having not brought one of her own she snatched Charcoals saddlebag, tipped its contents onto the ground and struck the flint over the now-empty satchel.

 

"Sorry Charcoal... I'm not letting you go that easily." She muttered to herself as the sparks finally caught on her fourth attempt.

 

It was a pretty pathetic fire and no doubt the stallion wasn't going to be too happy about his bag: but it was better than nothing.

 

"Does anypony have anything else we can burn..?" She almost yelled through the creeping migraines caused by maintaining her spell. It proved too much: with a particularly angry sounding spark the magic gave way and the wind flared up again.

Charcoal started to feel, warmth. From where he wasn't sure, but he knew he felt something warm. Wait, how can I feel warmth? I thought I was dead. Slowly, and painfully, Charcoal opened his eyes. The first thing he sees is a small fire. Comforting, but he was still a cold. Slowly he sat up, the fire wasn't burning too well.

[Frosty V 309]

Frost felt some warmth and shot up to see a small fire in front of her she put her hoofs out and rubbed them together trying to get warm. She looked over at Scribe and smilied. "T-thank y-you Scrib-be." she said still shivering as she pulled some magazines from her saddlebags. "Here you can burn these." she said quietly.

[Charcoal Embers 169]

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Charcoal looks around to something he could add to the fire as well. While looking around he notices that his stuff is all in a pile not far from him. He finds that strange until he looks at the fire more closely and notices that his bag is what was burning. "I should be mad right now, but it saved my life so I can let it slide." Reaching over he grabs the clothes he had brought and hoofs them to Scribe. "Here we can burn these to."

[Skitter Run 44]

Skitter noticed that everyone had left and started going down the doorway with sunsets hoof in hoof.

@mintdrops

"hey do you think it's getting cold"

Skitter shivered and moved closer to sunset then looked at her and started blushing and moved away.

"sorry I didn't mean too if you mind"

[Charcoal Embers 169]

The fire was really helping but it wouldn't last forever. They had to find a way out of here. Looking around again he does see an indent, or the opposite of one, on the sealing. Following it he find a button, not having ouch else to lose he presses it. The door opens up and it is revealed that it is actually quite sunny outside. Though he couldn't see anything since he couldn't get up and walk to look.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@Charcoal Embers,
 
"I knew it was warm outside..." Muttered Scribe. "Think we can boost you up there? How are you feeling?"
 
Moving Charcoal wasn't going to be easy but there wasn't really any other choice - they needed to get him out of the cold before it was too late. Feeding the almost laughable fire with a couple of scraps of cloth torn from the clothes, the Unicorn clenched her eyes closed for a moment to try and shut out the rising migraines caused by maintaining the barrier.
 
@@Snowy Storm,
 
"Icy, cant you do anything about the cold?" She asked through clenched teeth.

[Charcoal Embers 169]

@@Charcoal Embers,

 

"I knew it was warm outside..." Muttered Scribe. "Think we can boost you up there? How are you feeling?"

 

Moving Charcoal wasn't going to be easy but there wasn't really any other choice - they needed to get him out of the cold before it was too late. Feeding the almost laughable fire with a couple of scraps of cloth torn from the clothes, the Unicorn clenched her eyes closed for a moment to try and shut out the rising migraines caused by maintaining the barrier.

 

@@Snowy Storm,

 

"Icy, cant you do anything about the cold?" She asked through clenched teeth.

"Cold and tired. Though losing a lot of blood will do that to you." Charcoal said as Scripe helped him up. "I just need to bandage this up if we can find a town. Once I do that and stop losing blood I just need to wait till I can walk on my own again. Though how long that will be I don't know."

[ActFast231 432]

@@Charcoal Embers,

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@@Frosty V,

@@Snowy Storm,  

 

Max found the room getting colder and colder, finding it quite odd.

 

"Icy, did you forget to turn the ice magic off?" Quickly the room got frigid, and if not for the coat and thick mane, Max would be too cold to function. He enters a separate room to find a fire started and several ponies trying to to find a way out.

 

"Luna's night, what the hell happened?" She looked up to see a door open to the outside.

 

"I can carry you guys one at a time through that opening. After that, somepony should take Charcoal to get medical attention while I check out the exterior and see what I can find along whoever decides to stay."

 

(I don't know if it just Charcoal getting cold or if everyone is, so I will fix the post if I'm wrong.)

[Charcoal Embers 169]

@@Charcoal Embers,

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@@Frosty V,

@@Snowy Storm,

 

Max found the room getting colder and colder, finding it quite odd.

 

"Icy, did you forget to turn the ice magic off?" Quickly the room got frigid, and if not for the coat and thick mane, Max would be too cold to function. He enters a separate room to find a fire started and several ponies trying to to find a way out.

 

"Luna's night, what the hell happened?" She looked up to see a door open to the outside.

 

"I can carry you guys one at a time through that opening. After that, somepony should take Charcoal to get medical attention while I check out the exterior and see what I can find along whoever decides to stay."

 

(I don't know if it just Charcoal getting cold or if everyone is, so I will fix the post if I'm wrong.)

((OOC: No, your fine.))

"I'll be ok, I just need to get bandaged up and... rest for a... bit and I... will be... just... fine." Charcoal said between deep breaths. "Hey, is it just me or is the room starting to become all wobbly?" He asks as he starts to get a little lightheaded from the lack of blood.

[ActFast231 432]

@@Charcoal Embers,

 

Max trotted over to Charcoal, and examined his leg. He was bleeding out, and would soon lose conciousness if it continued. And any more blood loss after that would mean death. Max looked for anything to wrap the wound in, but found nothing. She needed to get that wound treated immediately, but there was no cloth to be found, other than...

 

The green mare looked like she was having an internal battle, trying to decide something. In the end, she sighed heavily. She removed her concierge jacket, and wrapped it tightly around the wounded leg, making sure it was tight enough to stop blood flow.

 

"There, that should do it until we can get proper aid." She sounded and looked uncomfortable. Not because of the cold, but because she felt rather...naked without her coat. More so than the average pony.

 

"Alright, I can start lifting ponies up to that door." She said, getting her wings ready. 

[Charcoal Embers 169]

@@Charcoal Embers,

 

Max trotted over to Charcoal, and examined his leg. He was bleeding out, and would soon lose conciousness if it continued. And any more blood loss after that would mean death. Max looked for anything to wrap the wound in, but found nothing. She needed to get that wound treated immediately, but there was no cloth to be found, other than...

 

The green mare looked like she was having an internal battle, trying to decide something. In the end, she sighed heavily. She removed her concierge jacket, and wrapped it tightly around the wounded leg, making sure it was tight enough to stop blood flow.

 

"There, that should do it until we can get proper aid." She sounded and looked uncomfortable. Not because of the cold, but because she felt rather...naked without her coat. More so than the average pony.

 

"Alright, I can start lifting ponies up to that door." She said, getting her wings ready.

It took Charcoal a few seconds to notice the jacket around one of his legs, restricting the blood flow so it would slow his bleed out. "Thank you." Charcoal said. Was it getting darker out. "Maybe you... should get... me... first... it is... starting to get... dark in here." He said between really deep breaths.

[ActFast231 432]

@@Charcoal Embers,

 

Max nodded, and hovered in the air before descending down and and wrapping her forelegs around the colt. He was quite heavy, and the mare grunted from the exertion, but managed to fly up and get him through the door. She set him down on the roof, in a stable position, to let him warm up.

 

"Wait here, I'm going to go get the others, OK?" 

[Charcoal Embers 169]

@@Charcoal Embers,

 

Max nodded, and hovered in the air before descending down and and wrapping her forelegs around the colt. He was quite heavy, and the mare grunted from the exertion, but managed to fly up and get him through the door. She set him down on the roof, in a stable position, to let him warm up.

 

"Wait here, I'm going to go get the others, OK?"

"Ok." Charcoal said as Max flew off. Setting his head down on the roof he notices that he was quite tired. "Maybe I'll take a quick nap, I'm sure no one would mine." She said to himself as he sat his head down and simply passed out from the loss of blood over the course of a few minutes.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@ActFast231,

 

With Charcoal safely out of the cold, Scribe let out a gasp of relief. Colors and lights seemed to block her vision for a moment as the adrenalin faded and exhaustion kicked in for real before she shook her head and looked up at Max.
 
"Great, get Frost next: she's not looking so good either."

[ActFast231 432]

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@@Frosty V, 

 

Max flew in and was addressed by Scribe, who looked absolutely exhausted.

 

"Right. I suggest you start removing your armor again, as I will need to lift you up next, and I can't do so with your armor on." She said before flying over, wrapping her forelegs around and lifting Frost up to the roof. She set her down next to Charcoal, who was passed out. Max made a mental note to see about treating that soon.

 

"See what you can do for Charcoal while I get the others." She said to Frost.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@ActFast231,

 

"I'm fine, it's just a headache!" She responded sharply, removing the plates and throwing them up through the hole with considerably less argument that before. "Just give me a minute, grab Skitter if you want."

 

'You know, for all the complaining you do about Icy being stubborn, you're pretty good at it yourself...'

 

She winced at the voice in her head and hurled the last of the antique armor up into the open air, raising a hoof to massage her head slightly as the pressure slowly began to retreat.

[Frosty V 309]

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@@Frosty V,

 

Max flew in and was addressed by Scribe, who looked absolutely exhausted.

 

"Right. I suggest you start removing your armor again, as I will need to lift you up next, and I can't do so with your armor on." She said before flying over, wrapping her forelegs around and lifting Frost up to the roof. She set her down next to Charcoal, who was passed out. Max made a mental note to see about treating that soon.

 

"See what you can do for Charcoal while I get the others." She said to Frost.

Frost nodded still shivering from shock and the cold. "A-alright." she said quietly as she shook Charcoal. "G-get up C-charcoal we are l-leaving." she said into Charxoals ear still trying to wake her up, she wanted to be sure she wasn't in some sort of coma from his blood loss.

[ActFast231 432]

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@@Skitter Run, 

 

Max watched as the armor was thrown up the hole and landed on the roof. She was about to help Scribe up, when she said that she needed time. With a shrug, the pegasus hovered over to Skitter, and before argument could begin, she hoisted her up with her forelegs and flew her to the roof, plopping her down next to the others. She glided down the hole, flying over to Scribe.

 

"Ready to head up?"

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@ActFast231,

 

"Yeah, sure...thanks" She said, shaking her head again - the migraines were subsiding a little now, and maybe the fresh air would help. At the very least, she would be able to help keep an eye on Charcoal up there.

 

'When was the last time we slept? Did we sleep on the plane? Does being knocked out count as sleeping?'

[Snowy Storm 57]

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-And You thought I was bad- Icy thought to himself and giving Scribe a smile

"No not really, but if you want I can make it a lot colder" Icy walked around normally. Being raised in the cold this sorta felt good to him. He didn't so much as shiver

"I love the cold and it'll need to drop even more to make me even feel a little cold" 

@@ActFast231,

"this is none of my doing. I am innocent til proven guilty" 

Edited September 5, 2013 by Snowy Storm

[ActFast231 432]

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@@Snowy Storm, 

 

Max nodded and carried Scribe up to the roof, setting her down by her armor so that she could re-arm. 

 

"See if you can't help the others while I retrieve those that remain." She flew down and noticed Icy, and thought for a moment.

 

"You're fine going up last right? I mean, it's not like I don't WANT to carry you...no wait, that came out wrong, but I mean, well, you seem to enjoy coldness, so I should, you know, save the others first. That's cool right? Not like cool as in cold, I'm not trying to make fun of you, but, well....I'll be quiet."

[Snowy Storm 57]

@@ActFast231, 

Icy mentally sighed and looked up at her.

"Don't worry about it. I'm fine with being the last one up" 

"Save the others. It seems I am the only one who can stay down here" Sitting down he formed an Ice Shard before him. he began to crave a small sculpture.

"Hey when you were knocked out, you didn't hear anything did you?"

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

@@ActFast231,
 
"Yeah, In a minute, thanks." Scribe nodded, shielding her eyes against the daylight as she hastily strapped the armor back into position. Frost looked like she was taking care of Charcoal for the time being. Charcoal was...
 
'Asleep?'
 
That wasn't good: she stumbled over and started to try and figure out a way of keeping the Stallion alive long enough to find help - preferably without using more magic.