Title: GoldenTouch's noncannon quest logs Author: White_light Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/Pj56zpyP First Edit: Saturday 18th of April 2015 02:56:40 PM CDT Last Edit: Last edit on: Wednesday 22nd of April 2015 09:51:43 AM CDT Noncannon adventure: Soon™ The Quest   Prologue:  The safest of sea crossings.   "I blame everything but myself! I regret nothing! I was groggy and I'm sticking to that excuse."     <>  Good evening ladies and gentlecolts, I bring you tonights act of wild and whimsy, tears, and happyness, good, and. not as good! We join our fellow adventurers on the planet Namik- What the fuck? who put these que cards here. AH yes. Tiss the time of knighthood in equestria, where steel ment more than gold. Lured by the idea of treasure and glory, you all agreed to serve as mercenaries aboard the littlehoof, a small ship with a captain claiming to have a map to untold riches, and powers that could make you king or queen~ of equestria~.    You hear a bang on the door before a gruff looking gray pony wearing an eyepatch and gay little beads in his mane "Aye, the captain wants you in his room..." [Begin]    You're currently on the open sea, you feel the boat rocking with every wave, In the corner, vanilla has a bucket on his head, the seasickness to much for her, the gruff pony rolls his eyes "Landlubbers..." and closes the door   "Right! Lets get a move on then ponies!" Winter declare before trotting into the cabin door thanks to the gruff pony closing it on her, "Ouch...".   -*- Winterspring rubs her head a bit before opening the door, "Meant to do that! So wheres the cap'n?!"   -*- Summer_Breeze follows Winterspring   -*- Vanilla_Skies looks up, bucket on head. "I'm glad I didn't have to use this...but I should probably still keep it with me" following the rest out   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] is actually a bit sea sick and rushes out ahead everyone to barf off the side of the ship.   -*- Comet_Dust was laid down at the nearest corner of the room seemingly asleep until now, with his feathery auburn wings sprawled outwards and a forehooves over his face, he woke up with the grace of a slumbering dragon after that stallion had knocked to awaken them, stretching his limbs and wings with a mighty groan "Waaagh!" he rolled on his side, "Back paaains... Sea sick... Help." he grumbled, still reluctant to stand up "Stupid Boat!"    Nova does in deed puke out of the porthole, Winter can see a clearly more dignified door while under the ship, you see other various sea fearing ponies looking at you all with resentments, getting your own room while the crew sleeps in their uncomfortable hammocks,  A few ponies snear at the seasick landponies, "not so hot now are they" he chuckles   -*- Winterspring is hovering so she doesn't have to worry about getting seasick thankfully! Upon spotting the ornate door the mare contniues towards the door and gives it a polite trio of knocks, "Ey Capn' you alive in there?"   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] wiping away what was on her chin, she makes her way back to the room, "So... We going to go see the captain?"   The umptempth motion to and fro of the ship making him bang his head against the wall as he attempts to pull himself up, wincing and pinning his ears as he looked around his room, jaded by the body aches, sea sickness and post-nap groggyness... Only after a few minues he managed to stand up, flapping and dusting his wings off before tucking them against his leather armor, unceremoniously making his way out of the room after the other ponies.   -*- Winterspring looks back at Nova and nods, "That we are!"   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] nods and follows the group   -*- Vanilla_Skies looks around, the slightly heavy wooden bucket serving as a helmet of sorts. "to the captain I guess."   "Ah she'll be fine, just have to....well actually that is interesting how do you see through that?"   -*- Vanilla_Skies looks at summer "I'm not looking through the bucket, the rim is just above my eyes. Kinda hard to see through my mane though.."    The mares get a few whistles from the crew workers  One of them pipes up in responce to winter "Aye captain be alive in there, but why don't ye join me instead, could offer you a much better ride than he could" he chuckles, the other stallions in the hold joining in  "Bring the tiny one over here!~" screams out one eyed willy. But he's a pedophile, so everyone kinda shoots him down "aw...."   "Yeah yeah boys save the charm for back at port ya salty dogs!" Winter replies in kind before trying the door knob, "Oi Capn' you were wanting to see us?"   -*- Vanilla_Skies pushes the bucket a little higher up and brushes her mane out of the way. " there...that's better."   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] stares at the one eyed willy, like a stallion having to tell his filly that her childhood star is not 10 but actually 21   -*- Comet_Dust groggily made his way thought the corridor, not even casting a glance towards the sailors as he unceremoniosuly stepped right behind the other mares still grumbling over the boat and all his pains, while he quickly adjusted the sheath over his side and started undoing all the knots in his plain brown mane...   "Buncha rude sailors in here as expected, pay no mind to them ma'am..."   The door doesn't budge when the knob is tried  You hear a large stomp from the groups behind, as you turn around you see a massive stallion, not very bright looking, but your generic strongbad pony "And what If we don't wanna wait for the port?"  A general murmer of agreemence rings out through the crowd, more ponies sit up from their hammocks, some getting up    One eye'd willy winks at nova, or blinks. you're not sure.   obligitory music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRh-dzrI4Z4   *Inyanga recoils at the sight of the stallion, not merely due to his imposing size, but the sickening odor lingering on his frame and tattered clothes. He shuffles in at the back of the group.   -*- Vanilla_Skies adjusts her diamond but actually cubic zirconia sword in its sheath and pulls a bagel out of a saddle bag, looking at it quizzically.   -*- Comet_Dust sniffles, stepping back to lean on the wall behind him with with a face that denoted that he was barely awake right now, stifling a yawn behind one of his forehooves as he waits for the door to open, or something interesting to happen in the background, eyeing the sailor ponies with concealed amusment behind his jaded mask.   "I don't remember packing bagels..."   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] pulls out her dagger and gives it a sexual lick on its broad side. She then proceeds to stab the air towards the one eyed willy    The bagels are actually cubic zirconium   -*- Winterspring gets a rather manic grin on her face as she looks at the big bruiser fella and hovers in front of his face, "Well then big fella I'd have only one thing to say...." Winter quickly slips her dagger out and presses it against the bruiser's neck right where the juglar would be abouts. "Now we could be all nice upstanding folk and just let by gones be by gones, or we can have a nice   -*- Winterspring big brawl here and you get to be the first to meet Davy Jones!" Winter looks at the others with a happy smile, "So chaps what'll it be?"   [YOLO]   -*- Vanilla_Skies proceeds to rummage through her saddlebags. "What the fuck, why is everything cubic zirconia?" Pulling out a rope that was somehow flexible but still made of the zirconia.   -*- Comet_Dust 's expressionless gaze shifts towards Nova as she begins to tease... Eliciting a chuckle from the stallion who gladly stayins quiet in the sidelines beside the group of mostly all mares. Though when Winterspring literally outright says that the stallion drops his smile and stares at her as if something bad was about to happen, "Yo... Lady what are you doing?"   "This isn't the time to mess around remember why we are here."   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] shrugs, waiting for the captain, also these stallions dont look like they could handle me anyway.   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] giggles    Nova's stab makes some of the ponies think about their actions, some'd rather not be gelded by the loli... When winter pulls out her dagger, she doesn't even have the chance to put it to his jugular before the sounds of unsheathing swords echo from everywhere around them, not letting winter get an inch closer to the bruiser,   A voice echos from the stairs to the top deck   [I call shenagins! Gm no funigami! kekke]   -*- Comet_Dust tightens his lips "Whyyyy? Why a group of crazy mares?!" he vigorously shakes his head in dissapproval and facehooves, sighing as he halfheartedly and tiredly holds his hoof over the handle of his longsword  "Cool." is his only comment to the mess begging to happen.   -*- Winterspring looks at the others in the hold and takes note of Comet "Ey they started it first is all, not my fault I was just intending to finish it."    "Ye friend be right, be ye be no lady, stupid be ya, but probably a bigger set of balls then are good for ya, PUT YE WEAPONS AWAY OR I'LL FLOG YOU ALL" the voice commands, the pony steps down into the light, a surprisingly young green earth pony, clearly captain material by the wild streak in his eyes.  The seaponies all reluctantly sheath their weapons and go back to what they were doing   -*- Vanilla_Skies looks at comet, "I'm not crazy!" The bucket still tilted on her head.    One eyed' willy winks at nova once more  "It's nice to see the ones i hired can at least have a backbone" he smirks at the group, he trots toward the group, taking out a key from his saddlebag "Now why dont' you join me in the captains quarters and we can discuss while you're here"   -*- Winterspring watches as the others put away their blades and gives her a small toss into the air before holding her sheath under the blade to slip in with a click. "Neat! Can't wait to figure out why we're here!" Winter says quite happily following into the capn's quarters   -*- Summer_Breeze calmly says "Okay" acting like she was not involved in anything.   -*- Comet_Dust visibly twitches at the stament, almost glaring to the mare and about to rebut rather harshly even gesturing the hoof previously about to draw his sword, but the entrance of the presumed captain makes him shut his mouth and move his eyes to him, his ears perking up to listen closely until he nods to his last stement ".... Sure. Lets actually do things now other than being sea sick and having permanent back pains."   *Inyanga gaze follows the captain. He leans towards Comet and whispers, "I am glad this did not end with a fight. In here it would have been such a bloody sight."*   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] shrugs and follows the captain.    The stallion walks across the deck like he owns the place [because he does] opening the door to his cabin and leading the others inside     -*- Vanilla_Skies sighs and places the zirconia bagel and rope back in her bag before following the group.   -*- Comet_Dust raises an eyebrow at the whisper, his eyes not drifting away from the captain as he leans his head closer to the zebra to listen... "Indeed... And we didn't even get to step into the wilderness yet." He said, repying with a nod of his head as he quickly follows the captain in the cabin "Lets go zebra friend who seems slightly more sane than the others." he said with quite a bit of sarcasm in his tone, his voice sounding somewhat snidy in nature even if he isn't trying to be.    The captain takes them into his private room, a nice solid bed takes up part of the room, but what dominates the room mostly is a large table, a map covering almost all of it, held down by books, lanterns, ext "This be why i brought you here, my men are fine people...but they aint no adventurers i'll tell ye what."   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] walks to the side of the table and stares at the map. "So what exactly?"   "Oh wow, so we're looking for a treasure then?" Winter asks excitedly but in a whisper excited as she doesn't want to make the crew get any ideas even if they have a thick door tween them and the rest.   -*- Comet_Dust casts a quick apologetic glance back to Inyanga as he enters the cabin, smiling a bit to the zebra as he beckons him to come in along with him, "I didn't mean to offend by the way." he added with his tone lowering into a more polite one as he steps up beside Winterspring silently listening to echanges...   -*- Vanilla_Skies mostly just stands with the rest of the group, rummaging through her saddlebags, looking at stuff.    The captain coughs, his voice now sounding significiantly less salty sea dog "Oh my, goodness it hurts the voice to talk like that for so long" he gestures to the map  The map itself shows an island that looks like a large infinity symbol with an X in the very center of it, why is it piriates are always symetrical  "Treasure yes, this x marks the spot of an ancient ruin, it's been in my family for generations, this map is... Goddesses know how old it is, but i believe i've finally tracked down the island it belongs to, I don't know what awaits us when we get there though, thats where you all come in, when we get there, you'd be coming into the ruins with me, as protection, and of course, you'd be rewarded handsomly for your help" he says with a crooked smile "Isn't that why you're here?".   -*- Inyanga gives a faint nod and reasuring smile back at Comet. As they enter the room, his eyes move about in the room, looking over the finer knick-knackery. Once everyone was around the table, he looked at it, deep in thought, scratching the scruff underneath his chin.*   -*- Comet_Dust idly extended his wings for a second for the sake of stretching them as he peered over to the map "Well we didn't exactly board a ship to trek across the sea to just explore a possibly deadly environment."  he murmured mostly to himself almost next to the mare's ear as he nodded in response to the captain.   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] smiles, "You're damn right we are here for the reward. Now how close are we to this island?"   "Well, good sir, if you could start by giving us an estimate for how high our chances of possibly dying horribly are that would be nice."   "Ah come on now Comet, where's that sense of adventure?"   "How much of a challenge is this going to be?"    "Well...I don't know, could be 0, could be 100 percent chance of certain death, really up to fate at this point" he says with a chuckle "We should be there within the nightfall.".   -*- Comet_Dust furrows his brows as she hears Winterspring, casting a sidelong glance back to her as he quickly rebuts "Well i do like adventuring for the sake of it yes but... I don't go on boats for nothing."   -*- Vanilla_Skies pulls out a zirconia spork and grumbles to herself "Seriously, what was a thinking when I packed this bag..and why is it all zirconia?"   "Boats are my most pronounced weakness."   "Only way to really beat your own weakness is to face it and move on with it!" Winter counters before shrugging, "So we wait for night fall then off to the ruins we go sounds good! Everyone better get ready for it and rest up, as for me I'm gonna take a nap to pass the time."   -*- Summer_Breeze looks at Vanilla Skies and says "You should be the one with the answer to that."   -*- Comet_Dust can't help but smirk a little to her as he returns his gaze to the map, giving another nod to the stallion across from them with his smirk growing into a grin "Sounds... Perfect, we don't know what we are going to meet, traps, wildlife. What could possibly go wrong i say."   -*- Inyanga chimes in afterwards, "Now Captain, as you say there is peril and seeing that there are many dangerous things, is our cut substantial enough to have us taste the live of princes or even kings?"   -*- Vanilla_Skies shrugs at summer "I don't know why I'm here really, someone asked me if I wanted loot and I threw stuff in a bag..."   -*- Comet_Dust has to very quickly lift a hoof over to his muzzle to sneeze back a laugh at Vanilla_Skie's comment, though still  keeping his eyes on the captain as he swallows his lips for a second.   "hmm, are we taking the short way or the long way?"   -*- Vanilla_Skies shrugs, closing her saddlebags back up.    "I'm sorry I can't answer most of your questions, so please pardon that. But as you say, I will be able to reward you like kings-"  The door to the captains quarters booms as it's knocked down by sheer strength "And leave us living like peasents" the beforementioned beast of a stallion says, clearly not as stupid as he looks, the other pirates flanking his side as he stands in the doorway,   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] combat rolls away from the door and next to the captain   -*- Comet_Dust blinks as his ears perk up to the door getting nearly knocked off its frame, not even jolting or anything, nor moving his gaze from the captain as his ears just pin against his head looking unamused...   -*- Vanilla_Skies looks over to the door. "I bet that's not cheap to replace...."   "You know..." Winter says as she draws her dagger and short sword, "I ha the feeling you were going to be trouble later down the road...guess we get to take care of the problem before it gets too big!"   "Look, maybe we can work something out with all of you, though it depends."   "What are you doing!? I'll have ye- " the sound of a crossbow firing interupts the captains monologue as it burrows itself in its brain cavity  "Oh, the problem is already as big as it's gonna be" he says with a evil grin, congratz, you're surrounded by pirates wanting to kill you, you can roll to look around and find something to help you.   d20 !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 18     -*- Nova_Flux[FU] looks around for something as the cap is now kill   !roll 1d20 Nova_Flux[FU] rolled 1d20: 12   !roll 1d20 Inyanga rolled 1d20: 4     "Trying to reason with you..."   "but you lead me to do this."   !roll 1d20 Winterspring rolled 1d20: 9     "Well, sort of unfair if i may say to not give anything to the fine gentleponies who may or may not have navigated us to here." he doesn't even get the time to rolls his eyes or anything that the captian is killed infront of him, his eyes promttly narrowing in alarm as every single joint tenses up but he remains stoic, glancing around the place as he quickly turns around with his hoof already on his longsword, "Well then...".   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 11   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 1     "Let's get it on!" Winter shouts with glee and battle frenzy as she darts headon at the bruiser pone with a wild cry!   "You-- crazy mare stop acting all berserk on your own at the very least!"    The pirates outnumber you almost 20-1 to charge into there would be certain death, Comets quick thinking and battle awareness notices a small indentation in the back wall, the map still sits on the table, while nova and summer see the bed is directly in line with the doorframe, the rocking of the boat giving it the perfect oppurtunity to push it and force the door closed before more pirates come in.    There are 4 in the room including the bruiser   -*- Inyanga jostles back as he sees the captain slump to the floor. "Oh my... I guess my questions and scrutiny, will not help me aid this captain midst this mutiny!" He looks around for anything to defend himself, but finds nothing of aid.   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] uses her magic to snatch the map and then shove the bed.    Vanilla's nat 1 will not go unpunished though, she isn't ready for the rocking, of the ship, throiwng her off balance and into the tables corner, -1hp   -*- Summer_Breeze attempts to push the bed in front of the doorframe.   summer and nova roll   !roll 1d20 Nova_Flux[FU] rolled 1d20: 2     -*- Comet_Dust 's eyes shift around the place as he thinks of something that does not include fighting and the FIRST thing he does is lunge in to catch the chargin mare by the tail and pulling her back with his mouth "Listehnf yuh!" She quickly drags her back, giving a quick nod towards Nova_Flux wo gets the right idea.   your cobined numbers must be 13   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 19     -*- Vanilla_Skies yelps as she's tossed into the corner of the desk by a shifting of the ship she wasn't expecting. "Fuck shit piss ass dammit."    The heavy bed is pushed into place against the door, summer is packing some much bigger guns than expected.    4 pirates are in the room already, they're unable to move the bed, you're saved from new pirates entering for 6 turns, you must deal with the ones in here in in that time. IF YOU'RE GOING TO INGAGE IN COMBAT, ROLL A 1D20 FOR INIT   -*- Comet_Dust , as he also drags Winterspring away from the door in the hopes of preventing to kill herself,  begins to look around the place for a possible escape route, the map, which was already been taken... "Guff... Puah!" He spits the tail and begins to shakes his tongue free of the hair, "WE FIGHT TOGETHER YOU FOOL!"   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 12   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 9     -*- Comet_Dust promtly drags his stalwart longsword, the edges cleanly sharpened and the metal cleaned to a mirror, as he swiftly brings it out infront of him pointing it towards his first target "Lets finish this quickly and fly out of here."   !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 7   !roll 1d20 Inyanga rolled 1d20: 1     -*- Nova_Flux[FU] walks back to the furthest end of the room and takes out her bow and loading an iron arrow.   !roll 1d20 Nova_Flux[FU] rolled 1d20: 14   let me roll inits !roll 4d20 GoldenGM rolled 4d20: 4 4 16 12     Here are the ponies   Pirate one- pegasi. Piratre 2. Earth. Pirate 3. Pegasi   Pirate 4, just call him bruiser   Waiting on wintersprings init   "Winterspring! Do something!"   NOW pirate 3 the blond pegasi goes in for a slash with his cutlass   !roll 1d6   GoldenGM rolled 1d6: 3      He aims his slash at summer!   !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 12   !roll 1d6 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d6: 6   ?    He misses summer barely, i'll prompt you when to roll   wait, I was not supposed to do that?    NOVA'S TURN TO ATTACK, nope     [My minions will have 3 rolls who they attack, next roll is if they hit, and if they do manage to hit, they'll roll for damage]   yes 1d20 !roll 1d20 Nova_Flux[FU] rolled 1d20: 1     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WZha_LHVS8    Due to the rocking of the ship, the arrow finds itself in   !roll 1d6 GoldenGM rolled 1d6: 1     Nova's own hoof, ricosheing off a metal plate, comic honestly   !roll 1d3 GoldenGM rolled 1d3: 1     nova takes only 1 damage though    The bruiser laughs realizing how easy this would be and takes a wide swing with his sword   !roll 2d6   GoldenGM rolled 2d6: 4 6     -*- Summer_Breeze attacks with her sword.   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] yelps as she leans back and grabs her hoof, leting out a groan   wait    The bruiser's attack is geared at comet and winter who are both still togeather from pulling her back   !roll 2d20   GoldenGM rolled 2d20: 15 10      His slash only manages to hit comet before he can dodge out of the way   !roll 1d4 GoldenGM rolled 1d4: 2     Cutting his forleg, dealing 2 damage. Now it's summers roll.   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 5      Summers attack misses to much hilarity   Commet your attack next good sir   -*- Comet_Dust  barely has the time to react or parry with her sword as the sword hits the side of his foreleg giving it a nasty cut but nothing else, still, he groans, taking a step back from his position and hunching over almost loosing his balance, he doesn't take her eyes off the bruiser with his gaze filling with hatred for the pony "MAY THE PRINCESSES CURSE YOU TO THE MOON YOU SCOUNDREL!!" he curses as he promtly lunges his sword forth!   !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 19     !roll 1d6 Comet_Dust rolled 1d6: 6      The sword finds its' mark. making the bruiser recoil, the ponies set their sights on comet now, seeing as he's the only one whos capable   The first pirate leaps into action after his new captains been attacked   !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 18   !roll 1d4 GoldenGM rolled 1d4: 2   the Pegasi makes a speedy cut at comets hoof while he brings the sword back from stabbing position Pirate 2 goes on the offensive now !roll 1d6 GoldenGM rolled 1d6: 5     -*- Comet_Dust seeming quite dexterious as he hops forward and swings at the pony's side hitting leaving a nasty cut as the sword cuts clean off his skin and lands gracefully back at his side, but befor ehe can get inot position he is hit again! Once agian his poor hoof taking a hit, he sets his gaze over him for a second, but he still aims his attack to the bigger guy "A little assistance please!!"   He notices the sneaky little zebra trying to get out of the combat, and aims for him. Inyanga, your nat one for init lowers your AC by one   !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 17     -*- Summer_Breeze runs next to Comet. "I got you back!"   he still would hit regardless   !roll 1d4 GoldenGM rolled 1d4: 1     But very weakly, the rocking of the ship is getting intense now, making it hard for anyone to land serious blows.   Inyanga, your turn to roll   !roll 1d20 Inyanga rolled 1d20: 2     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcWR-N59unk   !roll 1d4 Inyanga rolled 1d4: 4      Inyanga's dirk does little to nothing, you don't even hit bud   -*- Inyanga gets knocked off balance, and in a wild attempt to keep the pirate at bay, makes a wild swing, merely slashing the air*   -*- Winterspring tries to take a double swing attack at the bruiser with short sword and dagger in a combo attack!   !roll 2d20-4 Winterspring rolled 2d20: 10 16     your sword manages to hit him while the dagger throws him off! roll 1d6   !roll 1d6 Winterspring rolled 1d6: 2      The bruiser has taken significant damage    Turn 1 over, EVERYONE ROLL INITS   !ROLL 4d20 GoldenGM rolled 4d20: 15 9 3 8     "You scared yet tough guy?" Winter taunts at the bruiser   !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 3   !roll 1d20 Winterspring rolled 1d20: 4     did you not :O [she actually didn't i forgot...]    I'm so sorry, vanilla, you may attack    bad GMing on my part   [hey golden, sorry for like afking but i have to go.] [:<]   -*- Nova_Flux[FU] teleports out due to reasons   -*- Vanilla_Skies draws her totally diamond and not zirconia sword and attacks the bruiser, because decisions are hard.   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 4      Its okay, another miss, its hard to aim on the ship anyway,  NOW IF YOU HAVN'T ROLLED INIT DO IT   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 17   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 10   !roll 1d20 Inyanga rolled 1d20: 6       Summer breeze attacks first   -*- Summer_Breeze pulls out her bow and an arrow and aims at the bruiser.   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 11     It hits! Roll damage!   Arrows left: 14 roll 1d6 !roll 1d6 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d6: 3      The arrow does a good amount of damage to the bruiser, the first pirate goes in to attack !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 3     Comet cant seem to get a break   !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 20     !roll 1d4 GoldenGM rolled 1d4: 3      The pirate lands a perfect hit, bringing comet down to 0/10 HP. Someone with medical items can use their turn to bring him back up   Vanilla, your turn [back :I] -*- Comet_Dust was just about to switch target since the bruiser was being ganked by several ponies, though just as he turns his gaze towards the next pirate he is greeted by the sight of a sword coming down on him unexpectantly, he doesn't even see it coming as it cuts a clean gash across his side through his leather armor, the pony almost screaming in pain as her falls to his side dropping the sword from his hoof, "G-Graahh! Y-you-- *Cough cough* Ack! Accursed pirates!" he still cursed them even being so close to death.   "Comet! Shit, someone get himup I don't have anything to revive him with!"   -*- Comet_Dust has a face of pure contained agony as he tried to speak, but only stifled groans come out as he clutches his side, having to raise his wing slightly reach the spot, glaring up at the stallion as his hoof scrambles for his sword quickly, "T-the back wall! Hngh!  I-Its dented See if it can be knocked down parhaps?! We cannot afford to stay here to v-very longahh!"   -*- Vanilla_Skies attacks whichever pone attacked comet.   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 8     Inyanga your turn   -*- Inyanga notices the devastating blow against his ally. "Comet, today you shall not die. Hold fast!, so that your death I may deny."   -*- Inyanga fishes out the supplies of my medical bag, and attempt to revive Comet   !roll 1d20+2 Inyanga rolled 1d20: 17     Your revive chance is extreamly successful roll 1d8+2   !roll 1d6 Inyanga rolled 1d6: 6     [+2 that's 8]   YEP   -*- Inyanga staunches the flow of blood from Comet with vigorous bandaging, and helps him up on his hooves. "Back on your hooves with you, no go, cleave and hew!"   Whatever the zebra does, it works, well, Comets pain seems to disapear, 8/10 HP now   Comets turn   "Hngh! And cleave a hew i shall!" He exclaims, the pain stll plagueing him but he doesn't falter as he quickly advances towards the pony that previousy attacked him with his sword back in his hoof, he lowers himself slightly to bring his sword at his left ready to plunge! "Come here you!"   !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 19   !roll 1d6 Comet_Dust rolled 1d6: 3     [Which one was the poor fool who almost killed me?] The first pirate, pegasi one   Winterspring   your turn!   -*- Comet_Dust thrusts his sword forward swiftly leaving little time for the pegasus to dodge in anyways or even lift his sword to parry, His sword going true at swings from the side with a audible whistle and cuts through the pony's side! Returning it back to his swing in the same swift motion as before "This party is going to land on that island and then AFTER WE TOOK WHAT WE CAME FOR  we go home to have tea and cider!"   -*- Winterspring lets a loud shout to try and draw the attention to herself to keep the enemies busy. "Come at me ya silly wankers!" Winter goes on another all out attack on the pegasi that attacked Comet! "Ain't that the truth Comet!"   !roll 2d20-4 Winterspring rolled 2d20: 3 8     both misses >:)   !roll 1d20 divine interfierence Syntax: XdY [ {-|+|*|/} Z ] !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 14     The table in the room, starts to slide, making pirate 2 and 3 dive out of the way using their turn, the bruiser still goes to attack though   !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 4     [based table]    Notcing what that little zigger can do with a bandage, he decides he's the one they need to put down first   !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 12   !roll 1d8 GoldenGM rolled 1d8: 6      He takes a big swing, slicing across inyangas chest for 6 damage   [5/12 hp]    ROLL INITS   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 4   !roll 1d20 Inyanga rolled 1d20: 18   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 13   !roll 1d20 Winterspring rolled 1d20: 13   !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 16   !ROLL 4D20 GoldenGM rolled 4d20: 14 16 16 5     Inyanga goes first!   -*- Inyanga staggers, and grips his chest in agony where the gash got bloodied. "Bah! Enough of you!" He reaches in his back pocket and retrieves his blinding gas grenade and lobs it at the bruiser and pegasi pirate   !roll 1d20+2   Inyanga rolled 1d20: 6     The gas has its desired effect, making the bruiser and pegasi have -2 to rolls   but it also does the same with your whole party   Comets turn :D -2 to roll   -*- Comet_Dust quickly turns his attention back towards the zebra as he hears a groan coming from behind him, the big guy was still alive and messing with their medic! "Oi! You there dickhead! How about you pick a fight with someone who can put up a fight?!" He taunted the stallion as, with a quick pivot of his hooves he turns towards him, and charges forth wanting to finish this guy off quickly!   !roll 2d20-4 Comet_Dust rolled 2d20: 5 2     -*- Comet_Dust , in his hurried attempt to support his ally swings his sword wildly and horribly misses his target as the boat rocks around and he trips RIGHT infront of the guy giving him his side, "Ahh buck, this was not part of the plan..." He murmures as he stared up a him slieghtly fearfully as the pirate towered over him.   Pegasi 3 attacks !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 1     He attacks vanilla!   !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 6   he misses! "Damn it Comet now is not the time!" Earth pony pirate 2 attacks !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 4     "Fuck shit piss goddammit!"   he goes for Inyanga   !roll 1d20+2 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 20   HAHAHAHAHHAH   !roll 1d4   GoldenGM rolled 1d4: 4     [0_0]    Theres no god for you now    The earth pony gets on bruisers wavelength, striking down the zebra to -3HP   He's down for the count   -*- Inyanga gets struck down by a mighty blow, sending his body sprawling across the room. Death looms heavily   "Crap!" Winter darts over to Inyanga and ramuages around in his packs for bandages to try and heal him! "Nilla Cover me!"   -*- Vanilla_Skies stamps a hoof "ARRGHHH"   -*- GoldenGM waits for the rolls   -*- Vanilla_Skies attacks the one who crit'ed inya.   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 19   !roll 1d20 Winterspring rolled 1d20: 17     Winter, you attacking the bruiser   bc vanilla is attacking earthpony   !roll 1d6+2 GoldenGM rolled 1d6: 5   !roll 1d6+2 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d6: 4     NOW WE JUST NEED WINTERSPRING TO ROLL   oops   all caps   !roll 1d6+2 Winterspring rolled 1d6: 6     You attacking bruiser?   um no i thouth i was heaing the zzebgar?   zebra   [!0/10 spelling]   Thought I was healing the zebra   sorry   Inyanga is healed back to 5HP but cannot continue in the fight, he will live due to winters quick thinking [Even when I'm at death's door you still be a racist!] [your name is a pain in the ass to type]   [ikr]   Its now pegafucker 1's turn!!   !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 3     He goes for summer!   !roll 1d20-2   GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 7     He misses!   Now finally bruiser~   !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 5     He wants a piece of winters ass~   !roll 1d20-2 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 15     [B-But bruiser I'm right here :<]   !Roll 1d6 GoldenGM rolled 1d6: 4     bruiser says fuck you   [Y u not notice me sempai]   Bruiser deals 4 damage to winter 6/10   -*- Summer_Breeze charges toward bruiser with her sword, shouting "???????????????!"   !roll 1d20-2 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 11     "Neighpone...ughn...please..." Winter grunts through the pain of being bloodied by the blade.   Summers valiant charge ends with a miss   roll inits~   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 16   !roll 1d20 Winterspring rolled 1d20: 1   !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 7   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 6   !roll 1d20 Inyanga rolled 1d20: 16   !roll 4d20 GoldenGM rolled 4d20: 2 19 8 2     The earth pony gets to go first~   !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 4     He goes for vanilla~   !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 11     HE MISSES pegasi stronk   Inyangas roll is forfit for this turn while he recovers still   Summer breeze   you're up   -*- Summer_Breeze attacks earth pony with sword. !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 13   !roll 1d6 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d6: 1   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksR0wDS-L_c the earthpony pirate takes 1 damage It's now time for pirate 3's attack !roll 1d5 GoldenGM rolled 1d5: 5   The pegasi goes for winterspring! !roll 1d20 GoldenGM rolled 1d20: 16   Its a hit! !roll 1d4 GoldenGM rolled 1d4: 1   i light one! winter is down to 5 hp   Commets turn~   -*- Comet_Dust gulps as this was not going well at all, the stallion was only a touch worried but, luckily for him, her was being ignored COMPLETELY while he was siting there on the ground totally not cowering his face behind his hooves in anticipation of an attack that never came, and... When he notices that he was just sitting there there like a dumbass,  he scrambled to his hooves only stopping for a split second due to the pain which makes him wince,in response to that he puts the sword's handle in his jaws and clenches his teeth around it, biting the bullet, as he bolts towards the dented back wall, giving him a quick look over to see how likely it would be if she tried to kick it down "Hmph...!"  Or anything that could help there had to be... Something!   -*- Comet_Dust pretty much spends his turn trying to find a way out at this point.    Commet could easily kick open the wall, through a crack he looks like he could see almost like a back room -*- Comet_Dust 's eyes immediately widen as he can clearly look through the crack "Byhf the princhesshess why didnff i do dish befor'..." He wastes NO time and promptly turns so his rear would be facing the wall and rears his hind legs up to prepare a kick--! no need to roll   [OH, OH OK THEN.]   [/me flips a desk]   Comet kicks open a hole in the wall This room has a small dingy in it, as well as a balcony to the sea, its an escape option the captain unfortunatly didn't get to use!    WHAT WILL COMET DO   WILL OUR HEROS ESCAPE NAMIK?   -*- Comet_Dust was visibly surprised by how easily the wall gives in, and as she turns around to check what he just kicked into... His expression softens into a thoroughly unamused one... Stanind there for a second and promptly face hoofing before galloping off to pull the zigger over his back.   "Comhn ohn! Lish git ouff!"    The ponies in combat are having a hard time notcing what comet is doing in all the ruckus, if its going to happen, it needs to happen now   -*- Comet_Dust IS NOT leaving without his comrades his code of honor demands it, he rushes towards Inyanga regardless of if there is a pirate in the way and if there is he shoulders him out of the way to rescue the zebra pone and grabs himlowers him himself for him "COME ONNN!" [have to roll?]   -*- Vanilla_Skies has a wooden bucket on her head still!   ^   !roll 1d20 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 19     Commet gets the zebra into the boat, now it's just up to the others to get in   -*- Comet_Dust quickly spits his sword down into his hoof as he quickly returns back to the cabin agan guarding the entrance to the escape route as he shouts out to the others "Come on come on adventurers! Fun time i sover lets get out of here!" -*- Inyanga sputters, dazed, he gives a bloody smile to Comet, "Thanks to you my friend, my thread winds on."   -*- Winterspring blinks in surprise as Comet barrels back over and with Zebra pone seeing the dingy the mare lets out a shout, "Chance!" Leaping towards the dingy in a rush, "Lets go!" urn] [Well this should end the conflict]  Does everyone get into the dingy? -*- Summer_Breeze notices the escape route, sighs, and says??????????????????????she attempts to fly past the enemy and escape.   -*- Summer_Breeze flies away from the enemy and into the boat.   -*- Comet_Dust continues to guard the entrance from the pirates until every single party member has escaped to the dingy, the pirates barely getting the time to catch up as everyone boards the escape boat and he does as well, starting to lower the thing into the water, cutting the ropes holding it up if necessary.   "This was SOOOO unnecessary next time we see a cracked up wall we are going to go kick it instead of fighting everything!" "Only when its needed is all!" Winter chirps back wincing at the cut on her side    The pirates catch up with the boat as it touches down in the water...bruiser looks down into the water "THE WATER WILL KILL YOU FIRST" He laughs maniacly as you suddenly realize, with all the rocking in the ship....you're sailing directly into a storm....the waves only look larger in the distance, you all are in for a rough time....    Stay tuned for the next episode of GoldenTouches noncannon palooza   "Shiiiiieeeeeet!"   ^perfect ending   -*- Vanilla_Skies nods "that was pretty shitty...."     -*- Comet_Dust tightens his lips as she hears the bruiser say that, his ears pinning as, at the same time, he turns his head to notice the storm they were sailing into with their tiny ass dingy... He doesn't even look back to the others as his gaze grows tense and thoughtful, "Well i think we might need to get airborne in a minute... Carry everyone above the clouds..." He said slowly lifting his bloddy sword to put it back into the sheath again... As the curtains drop and so part 1 ends...   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Chapter 1: Out of the frying pan then straight to the fire. Just how every adventure should start.   "Lets just fly through it they said! What could possibly go wrong they said!"    ON THE LAST EPISODE OF PONYBALL Z, The crew was hired by a pirate captain to serve as mercenaries aboard the littlehoof! But things went wrong, mutuny struck the ship, their captain oddly familiar to greenhoof was killed! The group then found their way in a battle to the death, Narrowly escaping on a small dingy. We join them at on the high seas,   [continued for inky, sunbather]    Aboard the Littlehoof, were three other non background ponies, The loyal sailor Inkwell, and Explorer group of Direct Current and Sunbather, both of which were stowayays in the ships hull, after the mutuny, their presence was discovered, with the only option they had, Direct Current flew off with sunbather off the ship, with no land in sight, the only saftety they find is the small dingy in the Middle of the sea.   "Welp....This is a fine mess we're in....I could blow us a breeze maybe get us going in a direction towards...somewhere?"   -*- Inyanga wheezes, the aftermath of the prior battle taken it's toll.    Inkwell, once you realized the ship was going to be taken control of, you followed the same idea as direct and sunbather, having no other choice but to fly toward the dingy. [People who were origonally on the boat, you reamin there, direct, sun, and inkwell, you need to rp your approach]    BEGIN   -*- Vanilla_Skies shrugs   "....This is the part when someone pipes up with an idea on where to go mateys other wise we're gonna be marroned and I don't know about you, but I don't wanna be a bit of nibble and kip for the fishies!"   -*- Inkwell promptly does as her pa always told her to do in situations you got no control of. She makes like the western wind and blows outta Dodge. The pegasus leaps after the dingy with a little cry, "Wait fer meeeee!"   -*- Sunbather looked about the largely empty deck of the Littlehoof. She hadn't enjoyed being a stowaway but it was a lot cheaper than taking some liner! The mutiny wasn't something she was expecting but it provided a change of pace at least. And now her only opportunity to escape was about to set sail. Rushing to the railing she let of a loud, harmless burst of magic from her horn. "Hey! Is there room on there for one more?"   -*- Vanilla_Skies sighs "I don't know" pulling out a zirconium bagel to inspect.   -*- Comet_Dust slowly leans back on the side of the little boat, resting her hindlegs on the other side of the dingy and letting out a sigh of relief... Looking up towards the sky with his eyes closing to try to relax again "Well... We do have the map with us yes and... If someone had a compass maybe we could start heaidng that way, otherwise... I'm going to sit here for a second while i think." "Oh hey new guys...wait you the heck are you three?" Winter asks seeing the ponies come closer twards the boat  Sunbathers burst of magic alerts her specific location to the rest of the pirate crew, they slowly begin to form an arc around her not wanting her to escape "Aye lassy, why don't you just stay here with us~" one of them comments as they slowly move closer, she's going to have to jump if she wants to make it out of here.   Her choice was clear. Another loud burst to set them aback and then a madcap dive off the Littlefoot. Hitting the water with a solid splash she started swimming with all her might, making a beeline for the dingy. -*- Direct_Current was right next to sunbather when she released the majiks and now he might have small case of tinnitus, but he still notices the approaching pirates with no good intentions. he gives small scowl towards sunbather but she is not next to him anymore. "huh?"   "oh right, pirates."   -*- Inyanga gives a racking cough, before uttering between groans. "We've got the destination in mind, though common sense we should not leave behind." Propping himself up, he continues, "We need to protect ourselves from the elements, and take stock of water and rations till we find more." He looks back over the edge of the raft and notices the looming ship, "...and lose the pirates too..."   -*- Direct_Current jumps right after sunbather, but also uses his pegasus cheats to glide   While sunbather swims her little flank off, direct glides over to the dingy, both are still unsure if they'll even stop for them   -*- Vanilla_Skies drops the bagel back into her bag, looking across the water "Look! They're coming to finish us off! They're truly mad!"   -*- Inkwell calls out to the dingy, "Don't leave us fer em, they'll tear us to shreds!" She looks rather frightened, looking back constantly to make sure she's not being followed, and seeing Direct makes her panic, "Help!"   "OH for the love of..."   -*- Winterspring flaps her wings and goes over to pcik up Sunbather. "Let em on hurry!"   -*- Vanilla_Skies shrugs. "Oorrr, not. Huh."   -*- Sunbather doesn't complain as she's snatched up by a mysterious pegasus. "Hey! Thanks for uh, picking me up. I'm Sunbather."   "Nice to meet ya names Winter, welcome aboard, I take it your a stowaway by chance?"   -*- Direct_Current have no idea why this mare seems to be panicing, but he continues to glide towards the boat and his partner   -*- Inkwell lands in the boat and adjusts her hat, "I go by Inkwell, and as it were I happened ta be unlucky enough ta be one a few loyal sailors left aboard the Littlehoof... or... used to be..."   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WPsHkuEQ30   Direct might have an idea why the mare might be panicing, along the horizon you can see the stormy clouds grow nearer and nearer, this dingy will offer little protection [you don't need to wait for me to post guys]   [Edit: This the part where i was too busy to even pay attention to what was going on, yeah...]   -*- Sunbather rummages through her luggage once they touch down, checking to make sure everything's present. "Likewise, Winter. And yeah, stowaway. I'm lucky to have gotten out when I did! What exactly happened?"   -*- Direct_Current shouts at the dingy. "got a room for one cast away more?"   "Fug...ok listen up introdcutions later we got a storm, everypony needs to buckle down and hang tight pegasi with me, help me make a wind to try to out run these things quick."   -*- Vanilla_Skies looks over the side of the boat, noticing the rapidly approaching storm clouds. "That doesn't look good."  Inyanga looks through his saddlebags, wondering if anything fell out, when the pony known as nova telelported away, his bags somehow ended up with the map and compass.   "This should be most useful. Comet! Come hither, hand me the map so that I can orient this biscuit of a boat towards the island"   -*- Sunbather hunkers down as instructed, preparing for the gust of wind the pegasi were sure to unleash.   -*- Inkwell rolls her eyes and takes wing, "Come now maties! Let's show this 'ere storm some real wing power!"   -*- Inyanga looks up at the preparing pegasi, and duck against the side, bracing himself   -*- Winterspring hovers around with the sail facing ahead of her and starts to beat her wings   -*- Vanilla_Skies stretches her wings, readying to help push the boat    The waves grow in size and strength, the pegasi prepare their wing assult, meanwhile, comet_dust and inyanga look at the map and realize some horrible news...there is no land around here, the closest island is in the direction of the storm, they'll have to sail into the heart of it to get anywhere.   -*- Direct_Current follows Inkwell, deciding to help her because the storm would also endager him   -*- Comet_Dust has been taking these minues to clear his mind and stop being so tense with adrenaline, (and got other things done) Not listening or paying much attention to anything as he seemingly stays dormant for a while... Until his name is mentioned, his ears perking up as one of his eyes peeks through his brown mane over to the zebra "Hm, Oh, sure..." he says, lifting his legs from the side of the dingy to fetch the map from the zebra's bags and holding it out infront of him, so he can check the direction, "Right, where should we be heading?"   "Comet where are we doing?"   "We are heading there..." Inyanga point's towards the looming tempest. "Into the fray. May whomever's watching us guide our souls" he added with grim expression   dramatic music here we come   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlZvM8XAvp8   -*- Comet_Dust slowly tiltis his head to the side as if trying to look at what the stallion beside her was looking, he double checks the compass and the map to REALLY make sure as a worried look begins to loom over his expression... Finally he lowers the map as Inyanga also acknowledges it, "indeed... Into the storm, we might have to do some good old fahsioned pegasus work here... Or fly over it."   -*- Sunbather overhears their intended direction and snatches the chalk and a couple of crystals out of her bag. Drawing a quick circle and casting a few stones, she mutters a plea to the sea spirits for safe passage.   -*- Inkwell shakes her head and yars, "If my pa saw me doin this here nonsense, he'd turn over in his watery grave..."   -*- Comet_Dust hummed, narrowing his eyes and tapping his chin with a hoof as he looked back towards Inyanga "Would you mind flying with me? I'm pretty sure i can carry you even with my equipment..." He whispered to him, a small sympathetic smile appearing on his face.   "Cooooooment! The stomrs gettign awfully close where are we going!?'    While sunbather says her prayers, the sea spirits have already casted their judgement, weather its in their favor, time will tell, will the crew decide to carry the ponies and supplies, or will they paddle their way through it   Snatching up her things she waves her front hooves. "Let's fly! There's no way this thing is going to make it through that storm!"   "If I refuse I might as well etch my name into the ship as my final resting place. If you can, I'd appreciate the lift."   "Alrighty!~" Winter goes over and grabs Sunbather and takes off with her.     -*- Inkwell looks as ponies start to fly up, "Better struck by lightning then drown eh?" She soars off after them.  The GM hangs over the edge of the cliff...."Fly you fools" as he decends into the darkness below  The crew quickly grabs every non flying pony and begins preperations for takeoff, [summer you were] IF YOU'RE CARRYING A PONY, YOU'LL HAVE A -4 TO ROLLS >comet and wintersping   And with a quick nod, he quickly folds the map again and stashes it in the zebra's saddlebags along with the compass before lowering himself slightly beside Inyanga, his wings spreading slightly as he waits for him to get on him "Hop on the Comet Express, [Edit: >]So far snobody has complained! Except for... Maybe a few friends."   -*- Sunbather clutches a small chunk of aquamarine to her chest as she's spirited into the air. "See y'all on the other side!"   "Hang on tight!'   "Is there still someone who needs lift?"    In a beautiful scene, our heros take off into the storm, it's quite a large one at that, the wind whipping like a southern white plantation owner, With great haste they fly their way into the storm.   -*- Direct_Current might be slowpoke today, but he follows others and hopes for the best   -*- Comet_Dust with a swift and mighty flap of his wings which rocked the both to and fro at first, he goes airborne and with a bit of effort the pony and his combat medic companion were in the air flying right towards that raging storm along with the others, "Make sure to stay close! This might be a doozy of a flight!" He called back to the others while he got beside Winterspring.     All pegasi roll 1d20 to brace against the wind, you must pass 10 to continue , ponies carrying others only suffer -2 for this roll   !roll 1d20-2 Winterspring rolled 1d20: 2   !roll 1d20-4 Comet_Dust rolled 1d20: 2   !roll 1d20 Direct_Current rolled 1d20: 18   !roll 1d20 Inkwell rolled 1d20: 18   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 10   !roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 11      The golden GM in the sky kekkles as Commet Dust and Winterspring hit a bump of turbulence, sending them and their passangers into the sea [your adventure is over for now, please wait until i adress you]   -*- Comet_Dust was pretty confident he could do this, confident that he was going to fly this zebra through a storm and to the island BUT... He remained confident until the winds started hitting him with a lot more force than he had anticipated around his sides, the pony having quite a bit of diffculty flying straight and eventually, one of the gusts of wind makes him rolls over all of a sudden "WA-UGH!... Well!! This is embarrassing...! Well, I guess someone is going to be complaining now!! Damn." And with that said, he lands almost chest first into the water, in between all the high waves, with a zebra still holding onto him... He may or may not sink like a brick with all his gear on...      The clearly stonger and superior pegasi that passed the roll such as vanilla, summer, inkwell, and direct will get to roll another fight against the wind roll as they watch their friends sink into the water Roll again, the Pass roll has been elevated to 15 with the dangerous winds   !roll 1d20 Direct_Current rolled 1d20: 16   !roll 1d20 Inkwell rolled 1d20: 19     -*- Winterspring waughes outloud as she is sent tumbling down into the sea with a splash.   -*- Inkwell is glad that her mother raised her on clouds, she's flown through rough weather before, but this stuff was trying...   !Roll 1d20 Summer_Breeze rolled 1d20: 9   !roll 1d20 Vanilla_Skies rolled 1d20: 9     -*- Sunbather curses her luck and hopes for either a swift death by drowning or something a little less terrible than that. The sea wasn't making it very easy to stay afloat, unfortunately.    Summer Breeze and vanilla skies, power levels are not over 9000, and plumit into the drink with the rest, all thats left is inkwell and direct current, as they power through, they see a ray of light slip through the storm, a small eye, they'll need a serious power to get there though, LAST ROLL,  16 OR HIGHER TO PASS   !roll 1d20 Direct_Current rolled 1d20: 19   !roll 1d20 Inkwell rolled 1d20: 4     -*- Inyanga ponders aloud thinking about the situation they were in. "water up to their necks, very unimportant little people where doing the best they could with an idea and that’s about all they had and I don’t know maybe that night these three people were making history but anyway what I’m telling to tell you folks is: here we are"    Inkwells wings finally give out, she had a hard flight and got further than most, but its Direct Current who will make it to the eye of the storm, and fly high above the clouds, Direct....direct sees a figure on the clouds? Does he fly and investigate?   -*- Direct_Current barely managed to survive the storm. he patiently waits for other survivors, but as seconds turn to minutes he realized that he might be the only one to survive. he would grief more if he would have known others better.   -*- Direct_Current he sees the figure on the clouds, and being one with curious mind, he investigates it.    At first...direct sees what looks like..a very shiny thing, and a tall white figure, does he move closer?   -*- Direct_Current had a point where he needed to stop and he have clearly passed it, but let's keep going and see what happens.    Direct current sees where the shiny object was, is actually a very shiny necklace....a small saphire sits inside of it, the robed figure seems to walk across the clouds like he'd walk across water, proforming mircicles after another, dying for sins... he picks up the necklace and moves toward the pony known as direct current, his face clearly covered.   -*- Direct_Current can also into cloudwalking, so he lands some distance away from the suspicious pone   "...hello?"   [Just ask him for the Dragon Balls and wish us back to life already] [^]    The figure seems to bend the fabric of time, moving almost instantaniously, what is he...? He closes the gap in seconds, before direct can react, placing the necklace around him "You've done well my son..." the figure removes his hood https://s.yimg.com/sr/img/2/5b9ed806-503a-3977-b063-ddf63075ab70   this is what you see.    Bill Murray whispers "Nobody will ever believe you" and headbutts direct, knocking him out, and sending him through the clouds into the ocean below, when direct wakes up, he'll think it was all an amazing dream.    Last I checked the whole party was trapped in the sea, we can fastfoward that.  The group of you feel the soft lapping of waves against your hoovsies, the sun beats down on you from the heavens above, "Father over here!!!" You hear a young voice call out, everyones eyes begin to open, the blue sky above, make your next moves accordingly, [Everyone is back, and Direct Current still has the necklace on]   -*- Winterspring rolls over the waves crashing into her frame making the poor mare cough at the satly water that makes her splutter in distress. Groaning the mare clambers up the beach head sand getting in her fur making the poor mare nearly pass out again from how exhausting it is...   -*- Direct_Current wakes up in cold sweat, wondering what in the name of seven seas did he witnessed in his dream   -*- Summer_Breeze jumps up when she hears the voice. She coughs and says "Who's there?!"   -*- Vanilla_Skies groans, wings fluttering weakly, coughing up water   -*- Inyanga drags himself onto the beach, the sand sticking to his fur as he squints from the glaring light, trying to make out whom called out   -*- Inkwell bolts upright, cutlass drawn! One doesn't wake up half drowned and not panic!   -*- Comet_Dust jolts in his comatose state as the voice echoes in his head... Taking him a  while to tiredly flutter his eyes open as he almost immediately begins to cough out water as one of the waves washed over him, laying him gently on the shore of... Where ever he was. Gasping and holding his temple with a grimace, as he stand up again... Silently inspecting the area and his companion who were coincidentally all here with him, "Where...? Hm..."   -*- Sunbather struggles to her hooves, spending a moment to get the water out of her system. She casts her gaze around, amazed to find everypony still in one piece. "So... Did we make it?"   -*- Inkwell growls at nothing in particular and sheathes her sword, "Well... suppose me luck had to run out sometime."   -*- Comet_Dust contiued to rub his temple for a while, still coughing and spitting on the sand before him, his everything literally soaked to the bone, clothes, mane and tail... Everything was wet and dripping it would take ages to fix this, "... Maybe... Depends on your definition of 'making it'." He casually replied to Sunbather, walking right past him before once again collapsing ton his haunches on the dry sand.   "Also... Better question, were are we now?"   -*- Winterspring doesn't even want to move at this point but she stands up on her shaky legs and looks around to see who called out like that maybe there were nearby...Coughing the mare calls, "We allaright?"   -*- Sunbather inspects her gear and appendages to find that everything is still present. "Well, we aren't dead! Maybe introductions are in order? And honestly I don't know."   -*- Vanilla_Skies drags herself further up the bank, wings spread, hanging at her sides.  As the group of you look around, you do notice everyone in your party seemed to make it, and the odd necklace around direct, as well as a villager pony dressed in rags, holding a spear in your direction from inkwells appropriate reaction with a cutlass "Stay back you folk! Tulip get back here" you catch a quick sight of a small pink mare running back behind her fathers legs.   "L-look fella, we don't want no trouble or anything...we got ship wrecked..."   "Ok OK! Lets calm down lets not start another fight here!"   -*- Comet_Dust sighs, his tone definetily far from cheery and jolly now, holding his hoof out towards the spear bearing ponies as he quickly flaps his wings under his cloak to dry them slightly, "Ok, no fighting, where on the moon are we?"   "Now mister, we don't mean trouble, we're just a randon group of innocent ponies... with weapons."    The stallion gives a big sigh of relief, "thank goodness... I'd probably do nothing with this thing anyway" he lowers his spear, then realizes how gullible he is, maybe they thought he was stupid! "Ha! Well, you're on Eternity Island, if you really don't mean any harm, you'll come back with me to castle Ever" he clearly looks like he has no idea how to weild a weapon, simple farmer type pone.   -*- Direct_Current slowly stands up, and pops his joints before looking around. It seems that they somehow survived the storm somehow, as he can't quite remember what happened.   -*- Vanilla_Skies stands up slowly, shaking off a bit, almost falling over.   -*- Sunbather figures the best option would be to follow the spear-wielding pony to the castle. "What's your name, good sir?"   -*- Summer_Breeze thinks about the name of the island. She quickly asks, "Say, what is this island shaped like?"   -*- Inyanga tries to stand, but feeling a bit unsure of his footing, he finds a piece of junk flotzam and uses it as a makeshift crutch. Adjusting his satchel and scabbard, he limps after the party.   -*- Comet_Dust gives a few nods of agreement with Summer_Breeze, lifting his hooves to start drying up his mane and also tossing it bakc behind his head with a quick side jerk of the head, "We are just adventurers who have gone through a bit of trouble while flying through a storm." He utters, followed by a brief laugh and a groan as he slowly stands up again, shaking his hooves free of the annoying water staining his auburn fur, "Say you... Don't know where we can find a place to dry up first right...?"   -*- Inkwell blinks, "Castle? Eternity Island? Gah, why is it I can never land somewhere I know?"   "I'd love to /not/ show up in a castle while looking like this."   "Just how it is I suppose, cmon all lets go ahead and get to this castle place..."   -*- Vanilla_Skies groans and follows after the rest of the group, leaving diplomacy and stuffs up to them.    The farmer kinda blinks at summers comment "Its shaped like an island...." he rolls his eyes...finally someone he deems stupider than himself, "I am Wheat Grass, just a simple farmer, I-i guess i can help you guys dry off, just don't tell nobody i did okay?"   "Our lips are sealed, Wheat Grass! I'm Sunbather, by the way. Awful nice of you to help us."   -*- Comet_Dust takes the time to quickly check the straps on his scabbard, and saddlebags, adjusting them a tad more tightly around him as he narrowed his eyes to Wheat Grass, giving her a wooly look, "Why...? What are you going to do that doesn't need to be told to anyone..."   -*- Inkwell stands near the back of the group. She ain't much for talkin, and parley ain't the first word she shouts when someone pulls a sword...    "W-well, if they heard i was helpin visitors without the lords approval, and yall turn out to be someone they dont like....I-i dont wanna think about it" he directs them to move toward the land.   -*- Comet_Dust casts a dielong glance towards Inyanga in the meantime, starting to walk back to him to give him a hand with thr ardous task of walking after having got out of the water, while also quickly turning his attention over to him to address him "May i borrow the map if it isn't too wet? I need to make sure of something..."   "Just on the off chance we are in the right place, maybe they can even point us in the right direction?"   -*- Inyanga halts as he fished in his bag for the map, plucking out the folded papers and passes it to Comet. "Be my guest. Best we have our own intuition along, rather than this Wheat Grass's word alone."   -*- Direct_Current is not fond of talking either so he stays at the back of the group along inkwell, but after he took couple of steps he hear small clinking sound and notices the odd necklade and he is pretty sure he did not have it before. he takes the necklade off and tucks it inside his saddlepack    "Come along now...go ahead tulip, and go get towels ready" he says to the little mare, he leads the group further inland, for an island, it's rather big   -*- Comet_Dust manages to smile a little as the map is held out to him, murmuring a simple "Thank you." As he gladly takes it and hastily trots over to the farmer, "I'll make sure to keep in mind to not tell anyone you helped us then [Edit: This is me being blind. >]ma'am. Don't worry about that." He said with a more calm and polite tone in his voice, quickly stoppinf infront of the two as he unfolds the map "Now, the shape of this island..." He stops as he quicly shows them the map "Was it... This? Perhaps?""    As you unfold the map, they look at you oddly "Uh..this is a blank piece of paper..." Wheat grass says, as you take another look, you notice the exact same thing, the map has been completely wiped.   [GGG]   -*- Inkwell nudges Direct and gives him a smirk, "Where'd ya get the necklace pretty boy? Swear I've seen the same thing on a whorse or two in Trotuga." She cackles and pats his shoulder.   -*- Comet_Dust has to practically hold it with his mouth on one edge and  the hoof on the other... Smiling a little but after that response... He immediately drops the smile and works to turn the map around "Oh this is amazing! Well then not only we managed to almost drown but our map got..." He growls, his amused tone turning into anger for a moment...   -*- Summer_Breeze tries to shake the sand off of her wings and mane. She proceeds to follow right behind Wheat Grass. "Oh, and my name's Summer Breeze, and you still have not answered my question specifically. I know it's an island, but is there any other map anywhere?"    On the bright side, a cute ladybug lands on comets snout!    "I'm sure there's one in the castle you could use mrs summer breeze- that is, if they let you in"   -*- Inyanga looks stoicly onward, a little bit inside of him dying after reminicing over the difficulty in getting that map in the first place from the late captain's quarters.   -*- Comet_Dust scrunches his snout at the ladybut but hes not in the mood for cute bugs, angrily shaking it away as he turns to swear "Son of a... OK! Sorry i should've checked it earler my bad..." He folds the soggy piece of paper... Actually he just crumples the useless map and simply tosses it aside before retreating back to Inyanga "There goes that.."   -*- Sunbather follows the group, refraining from commenting as the situation progresses. Things were awful strange around here.   -*- Direct_Current uses siphoon spaghetti! it is not very effective... he stumbles a little but manages to catch himself before falling on his face. "I'm not sure actually. I woke up with it, and maybe it have some value"   "Mrs Wheat Grass...? May i ask another question?"   "How far is it to the castle im soaaaaked@!"    Wheat Grass turns and looks at comet "Do i look like some sort of mrs, to you...." clearly a stallion, and mentioned as one on previous occasions   -*- Inkwell cackles some more and gives him a rather forceful rump bump, "Yer a hoot! Well, if ya need somethin hawked, just send it over yonder, I can find a buyer for any old piece of scrap you get your hands on!" She looks around for a second then scrunchies, spitting on the ground, "Oh right, we ain't on some charted island, don't even know how we got here really..."   "Perhaps androgyny is a common trait on the island?" Inyanga wonders aloud   -*- Comet_Dust swallows his lips and takes a deeeep breath, the awkwardness starting to trigger him as he glares to the stallion, "Sorry, /Mr/ Wheat Grass, i... I have no excuse for that mistake, but i just wanted to ask about a bunch of things, mainly who is the ruler of this here island, what the town is like... Those kinds of things."   -*- Vanilla_Skies stumbles a bit, her waterlogged brain processing very slowly.    "We're almost ther" you notice, yourself walking toward a woods of beautiful maple trees "Lord Everton is the ruler here, he's a bit of a paranoid pony, but a good one all the while...keeps all of commoners well fed and safe"   "Paranoid Ruler... Whats his opinion on outsiders like us again?"   "Generally."    "Uh...I can't say i've heard of him meeting many outsiders, depends on the day or whats going on..." he leads them up to a house on the outside of some farms, opening the door and making sure nobody is watching   -*- Comet_Dust grunts quietly in response... Pursing his lip as his gaze drifts off towards his comrades slightly bittered... He feels the urge to apoligize about this but simply ends up sighing and pinning his ears against his soaked mane, kicking a pebble as he silently tagged along and hasitly entering the abode.   -*- Inkwell looks back at the stumbling brown pega and moves to her side, "You okay there mate? Yer lookin a little soggy."   -*- Summer_Breeze enters the house, then says out loud, "If I am correct, the island should be shaped like some infinity symbol."   -*- Inyanga enters afterwards, his makeshift crutch knocking on the aged wooden flooring of the cottage. He finds a nearby stool, and takes a seat, resting his crutch by his side as his gaze explores the room.   "... Or a sideways 8."   -*- Sunbather shuffles in and takes stock of the rough crew of go-getters around her.    The pony known as Wheat grass shrugs at summers comment "I don't know what that looks like" he gets the group some towels. "You'll need to hurry and go, i'm sure word has already spread of you being here, if you go yourself, then i'm sure you'll have a better chance of getting whatever you folk need..."   "Lets get a move on then!"   -*- Inyanga gets up once more with a dissatisfied grunt, following the party outside once more   -*- Comet_Dust raises an eyebrow  as he catches Inkwell's comment but doesn't really turn around to reply mostly unsure on if it was directed to him... Though still eliciting a chuckle from him as he quickly looks around for some kind of seat, "Well... While we are here we might as well start to get some presentation going between eachother." He quietly waited a second after the two were done talking, turning around as he rubs a large towel, more like a big cloth rag along his mane "Since i don't think I've catched any of your names..."    Wheat grass points you along the path to the castle, as you walk toward it, you hear a small filly waving for you "Bye adventurers!!!!!" the pink mare waves with a big grin   -*- Sunbather waves back to the little filly as they depart. "Take care! It's Tulip, right? See ya later!"   -*- Inyanga wonders why the filly isn't hiding herself and locking their windows as he walks on   -*- Summer_Breeze turns herself around and waves back.   because fuck the police   -*- Comet_Dust hurries to trot back outside of the house along with everybody else, quickly putting himself beside Inyanga to let the zebra lean on him if he needs to, whiile, in the meantime, he turns his attention back to the house after she hears the voice of a filly, "See ya you three!" He gives a polite wave to them as he moves on down the road...    As the group of you continue to walk foward, introductions would be nice to make, you see the walls of the castle along the horizion   -*- Comet_Dust actually, may or may not have counted the ponies back at the house a few times to make sure he isn't adding or subtracting one... NOPE all good! Merrily turning his head around to look ahead whole the walk, "Righty, i hope no more problems show up now..."   "So! I've heard a few names here and there but I figured I'd take the liberty of saying mine. I'm Sunbather! Thanks for not killing me or anything like that."   "*Cough* BACK to the introductions." he pauses to quickly eye all the ponies as if trying to curiously look them all over before uttering the rest, seeing as... Nobody else wants ot start "Very well i guess I can start this, *Ahem* My name is Comet Dust, adventurer... Trouble magnet and... Other things!"   -*- Direct_Current , slightly more dry, follows the main group while trying to air-dry his wings more, those things are nuisance to dry   -*- Comet_Dust pfffft's at Sunbather's comment, "As if... The more members we have the better... Or not... Well there's a big enough of a reward for everyone I'm sure."   -*- Inyanga limps quickly forward, clearing his throat. "Name's Inyanga, a doc that got in over his head. Pleasure to meet you, though wishing under better circumstances"   "Nice to meet you Comet! And same to you, Inyanga. Figure that these are the best circumstances at hoof so I can't complain."    The GM inside can't helkp but hue at comets comment about problems   -*- Comet_Dust laughed heartly again, sideglancing the limping zebra with a smirk as he remarks, "What better circumstances to meet a comrade than after valiantly battling pirates, almost drowing and then waking up Goddesses knows where!"   "Eh...Winterspring more or less a blade for hire hoping to find some gold!"   "I say this is the best way of meeting a friend." He adds on a slightly more cheeky note, still looking down at Inyanga looking more and more bittered the more he looked at him, "Also uh, Inyanga? I'm sorry for this... I'm sure there could have been another way of dealing with the storm but..."   "Eh..."   -*- Direct_Current pipes up from behind. "Direct Current, Explorer of the seas and part-time stowaway"   -*- Inyanga gives a chuckle as he gives Comet a reassuring smile, "Don't vex your spirit at the course of things, for they heed not your vexation. Valiant times indeed saved my life more than once on your part."   "Yeah the Comet express has never been a reliable ride not even in normal circumstances, should ask all my friends who constantly ask for rides!" He chuckles out, casting his gaze back towards Direct_Current while mumbling soemthing about Earth ponies... openinghis mouth to address him but Inyanga's words make him turns his attention back to him once more, "Hmm~ And you saved my skin once as well so we ar enice and even too~"   -*- Comet_Dust gives the zebra a playful nuzzle on the side, careful to not push him while doing so, "Also! Mr Direct_Current! Part-time Stowaway!" he glances back to him again finally,still donnig a broad smirk on his face as he led the group ahead, close and close to their destination, "Does... That mean you go on boat rides often? Lucky you..."    The group finally makes it to the castle, impressive stone walls block their paths as well as a wooden gate, when the group arrives, they hear a stallion on the top yell "LET THEM THROUGH" the gates quickly rising for the group...their arrival was clearly one they prepared for   "I'm still curious on one thing: How DID we survive?"   "nope. most of the times I cannot afford to pay so I have to sneak my way inside"   "Oh sooo you were on our little pirate ship with us when we nearly got diced to pieces? How many bloddy ponies chose to come with on this quest...?" He asks, genuinely curious about that, quickly turning his eyes back to the walls, now only a mere few meters infront of them and before he can adress the guards he had already given the signal to open the gates, "... Interesting."   "And also, I'm not one ot question how i get out of tight spots like this one, we just kinda did, there's no...  Reson behind it."   "How can you explain not drowning while in the middle of a storm, sinking under like a brick and then SOMEHOW ending on a island called infinity or something."   -*- Comet_Dust sighed, giving a dismissive nod towards the now open gates and trotting on ahead infront of the group, "Lets go see if we are in the right place first." he said, his eyes quickly starting to scour the environment for a nearby guard...    As you walk through the town, you notice....there are no guards present, just villagers miandering about inside the walls, some stopping to stare at you, as you walk through   -*- Inkwell is still quiet and just follows along with the group, on edge at being at a new place, with unfamiliar ponies, with no assured methods of getting alcohol established.   -*- Comet_Dust pouts a little as his gaze wanders around for a good 4 seconds looking for someone wearing something befitting of a guard, but only seeing paesants giving them looks... The stallion grumbles softly under his breath as he gives a quick wave to the few ponies stopping to look at them... "Uhm, excuse me...?" He quickly approaches one of them beaming up a smile to him/her "Where could i find a map...?"   "Or someone who can tell me ruflly where we are other than giving a name of the place."   -*- Inyanga waits up for Comet. These stares were not unfamiliar, vacant some, lingering dread in others.    "WELCOME" a loud voice booms, "Well I can do all that for you and more my boy!" from the courtyard walks an almost viking of a pony, large, strapping and handsome, you clearly realize why there'd be no need for guards around "Welcome to castle ever! We'd heard from some of the villagers about your arrival" he trots up to the group looming over them "I'm Lord Everton"   "Lands sakes your freaking huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!"   -*- Comet_Dust actually jumps in fright right infront of the pony he was previously addressing him, blinking as he stared openly to the ruler of the castle coming to meet them so soon... Only now the stallion closes him mouth, exchanging a look with his friends first  "That was... Fast, very."   -*- Inkwell smiles up at the huge pony, "Ruled by a Lord like this'n? I might've been wrong about this place bein dull!"   -*- Comet_Dust sniffs, furrowing his brows as he stands almost at attention while addressing the pony smiling weakly to the big friendly pony "Pleased to meet you Lord Everton! Wasn't expecting to meet you so soon actually, this is a... Peculiar place, not in a bad way! But uh... We were looking for a map of the are we are a little lost..."   -*- Direct_Current is slightly intimidated by the pony who could almost fill the requirements to be addressed as horse rather than pony   -*- Summer_Breeze tries to an uncomfortable look on her face. She takes a deep breath and says. "Well, this is a surprise." She says to herself, ???????????    He can't help but laugh, "Very huge!, but thats besides the point, you say you're looking for a map.... I can't say we have one! BUT i do know where you could find one! Come inside and i'll explain myself to you, you all must be famished"   "Food?" Winter perks up at that looking quite eager as she trots after the big guy 3 me    "Doric! Bring these fine adventurers inside the castle and get therm all rooms and get a good meal cooking!" he says to an average sized pony you almost didn't notice behind him, a very unhappy look on his face "Right away sir...."   -*- Comet_Dust doesn't respond, actually looking a little uneasy for some reason... The pagasus idly stretched his soggy wings under the wet, dark black cloak, and rubbing a hoof over the back of his mane while he looked back to the rest of the party memebers awaiting their imput on this.   -*- Direct_Current 's fear have been overwritten by stomach. Storms and close survives can make anyone hungry   "Foooooood!'   -*- WinterRain aint got no fucks aside from getting based food   -*- Inyanga is satisfied with any offer of respite. Paranoia wouldn't make him recover faster, but lodging and food might.    The golden GM in the sky can't help but just giggle away   -*- Comet_Dust 's silence doesn't last too long however, as his stomach suddenly begins to rumble in protest just at the mere mention of food. Making him slowly return his gaze back to the massive pony, "Well i think i can safely say we would certainly appreciate a feast, uh... Thank you kindly M'lord glad to see we are having some luck here at the very least." He said, grinning as he eagerly trots ahead towards the sad looking pony.   [welcome to my world Whitelight, make sure you know who you can trust~] [*Ahem*]   So i can safely say this is where we'll end it for tonight, You're all shown to your room and will be notified when the fiest does in fact begin. giving you time to freshen up and change, and me time to play league and go out for the night :D