/pone/ - My Little Pony★

>>260843

>>260946

>>260843

>you should ask Marcus for help, you didn't know the first thing about boats

>you didn't even really know how they stayed afloat

>would that be considered cheating?

>you should ask somepony

>you shook your head

>let's just ask

>you walked up to the striped one with a missing leg

>"I have a plan."

>"Oh. Well, what is it, Aldreda?"

>"I want to pirate a ship."

>"Okay."

>"A big one."

>"Don't we all."

>"Yes."

>"So. What's your plan?"

>"Pirate a ship."

>"That's... A start. Do you want some help?"

>"I want to take the bats with me."

>"Think you'll need any help?"

>"No. I don't think so."

>way too proud for that

>"If you insist. So. what kinda goods are you looking to steal?"

>"What does the outlander need?"

>"Oh anything that'll make us bits. Spices, arms, fabrics.. You name it. Closest ship should do just fine for now."

>"Where is it? Closest ship?"

>"Not exactly sure, I could give you the job as lookout though, if you wanna have a better look for yourself, maybe those peepers of yours would have some luck."

>"Yes! I will take it!"

>you climbed the biggest tree trunk sticking out of the boat, and ended up in what looked to be the half of a big barrel

>looking around, you had quite a view of endless expansions of water

>better yet, a place to listen

>so that's what you did

>it was hard to listen at sea, the earth was stable and calm most of the time, the sea was constantly fighting with itself

>made a lot of noise

>it took you two days to pick something up

>it sounded big, and.. big

>you hurried down the trunk and told the striped pony

>"Marcus! There, that way. Big Big! We'll take it, go that way!"

>Marcus chuckled

>"Port side?"

>"Yes."

>"How far?"

>"Don't know. Not far. Go go go!"

>you were so happy!

>oh, oh! You were desperate to get into battle again!

>"If you say so."

>"Wait! We need a plan. Yes."

>"What did you have in mind?"

>"We attack at night."

>"And?"

>"Ehm."

>what do?

>>262016

Neat a new thread, let's see if we can send a bat to run some recon and then try to copy their flag so we can get closer to them on the attack run and catch them off guard.

>>262018

>>262016

>"We send a bat to scout. Smoker. He is fast."

>"That's your master plan?"

>"And copy their flag. To get close."

>"That's not a bad idea, actually. Perhaps we shou-"

>you turned around and called on Smoker

>"Smoker! Come here!"

>you heard shambles from under the deck floor, and a stressed out male bat came tumbling out of a hatch

>"Aldreda!"

>he gave a half-baked Germaneian salute to you

>"Do you want a job?"

>"What is it?"

>you paused, and stared him down

>"Do you want. A job?"

>a little louder this time

>"Yes, yes! Anything for you, Aldreda!"

>"Better. Fly that way. And do not return until you see another boat. Then copy the boat's flag in your head."

>he gave you a nervous smile

>"Only then may you return."

>"How far away is it?"

>"Does not matter. Do it. I am the strongest so I make the rules."

>"O-of course! I was just wondering…"

>"I do not know. But you can make it there and back. Most likely."

>"And if I don't find anything?"

>you raised an eyebrow

>"D-don't come back.. Got it."

>"Go. Eat first, but be quick about it. I am going to rest. When I wake up you better already be on your way."

>"No problem at all, S-Sentinel.. I won't fail."

>he better not

>you retreated back to the outlander's desk and sat down with a sigh

>it felt so good to be alive. The sensation of dreaming made the whole breathing thing worth wile.

>with that in mind, you closed your eyes upon the cold, hard surface, and wrapped yourself in with your wings

>apparently staying up in that boat trunk for two days had made you tired

>you didn't fully grasp why, you didn't do a lot of moving around up there

>regardless, you went to sleep, deciding to not wake up until Smoker had returned

>what do?

>>262026

See what dreams come to us I guess.

>>262007 (OP)

>vacation

This isn't what I wanted.

Also excellent op image. Pirate Red is bestest Red.

>>262026

After being dead for so long I suppose she forgot how to live.

>what do

Maybe she communes with the gods while sleeping?

>>262197

Let's try to find some cheese, since our mortal body needs fuel.

>>262207

bulimia that shit and eat more cheese tbh

>>262208

Maybe try to not eat a whole wheel this time maybe just a cut of one.

>>262208

>>262207

This. Throw up the cheese and eat moar. It's fine we have excellent healing, and besides it's not even the worst thing she's thrown up anyway. Afterwards see if Smoker is back yet. Also throw it up into the ocean wouldn't want to ruin bestest outlander's boat.

You know what I just remembered horses don't have a gag reflex.

HI i started reading this about 1 week ago and i just want to know what happens between

https://web.archive.org/web/20150805145649/http://8ch.net/pone/res/147475.html#163612 and https://web.archive.org/web/20151004215115/http://8ch.net/pone/res/181583.html#q181583

>>262221

Oh just meeting a god and stuff. http://pastebin.com/u/BabsZeeb Try going through this fam

Red is ugly and batponies are cancer

>>262245

then don't post in one of the longest running threads on this board faggot.

>>262245

not as ugly as ur mum m9

>>262399

Checked! And time to set a course and hoist the colors!

>>262407

>>262399

>with glee, you called a bat over, demanding they hoisted the flag over the bat boat

>after checking the directions with Marcus, you took off as acting overlord of this boat

>it was a few days of travel, but you were way too alert now to sleep

>finally you saw the boat

>it was easy to spot, as it had nic lanterns and it was in the dead of night

>it was at least twice as big as your own

>and going by the sheer amount of cannons, you knew that a traditional bat battle that Blitzen told you about would be impossible

>nay, you needed to board it somehow

>"Sentinel! They're sending a pegasus over!"

>"What? Why? Kill it."

>"it's probably here because of the similar flags. What should we do?"

>your primal instincts told you to rip it's wings off and use it as a figure head as you used your boat as a battering ram into the side of the enemy

>but that was maybe not the smartest way to move forwards

>either way, that pegasus was an enemy and had to be dealt with, one way or another

>what do?

>>262525

Let's see if we can get blitz up here to perhaps smooth talk our way into getting closer to the other ship, we might not be able to take them on head to head but with a knife in the back I'm sure we'd gain an upper hand.

>>262527

>>262525

>you needed a way to get closer without getting shredded by cannon fire

>if only you could get onbard, you bet you could take them all on at closer range

>the thought of sweet talking them using Blitzen's charms was an idea

''Blitzen. Blitzen?"

>the handsome pony walked up to you

>"Ja mein frau?"

>"Can you convince the pegasus to get us close to the ship?"

>"Probably. Every pony! cloak yourselves! do not show your vings or fangs. Ze rest hide underboard!"

>the bats scrambled on deck to get ready

>"Unt yoo. Play dead."

>"Dead?"

>"Ja. Me unt ze Germaneians vill pretend to have slayed eine sentinel. Thiz vill grab the attention of a"nypony vith a sense of history."

>you did as he said and laid down on the ground, lulling your tongue out and tried to play dead

>the pegasi landed on your boat and stomped over to Blitzen

>"Just what do you guys think you're doing flying our flag, mister?"

>Blitzen ignored her question with faked happiness

>"Ve did it! Ve defeated eine mighty sentinel of old. Juzt look at it"

>"Say what?"

>the mare paused her nagging

>"It vaz eine battle of attrition, but ve finally chased it out to sea were it colapsed from fatigue, ve managed to drag it up unt slay it in its weakened state."

>the mare looked you over

>"Oh boy. I thought these were just fiction. I also heard they were immortal."

>"Zey are pretty close, ja."

>the rest of the germanians laughed

>"But some of meine crew got injured during her thrashing, zo I ask of you to share zome of your medical supplies. Zis relic of ze past has taken enough lives."

>"Um. We could sell you some medical supplies, we're traders on our way to Equetria you see."

>"Ve would be happy to purchase for a reasonable price!"

>the two boats docked next to each other, as you were dragged around and displayed to the enemy like some sort of trophy

>this made your blood boil, but at least you were on the ship

>UrgeToMaimRising.txt

>what do?

>>262540

Time to test out that hive mind let's see if we can rally the bats to start sneaking on board and then once a sizable amount is on board or there is a chance to take a useful hostage we can make our move and seize the ship.

>>262542

>>262540

>you called upon the bats to infiltrate the big boat

>listening, you could hear their flapping as some of them crawled into the holes made for the boat's cannons

>though, you didn't know which ones to capture for leverage, so you told them to round up as many as possible in the lower levels, as fast as possible

>a couple of minutes passed until you heard cold sweated screaming come from the lower levels

>everypony on deck noticed, as you noticed the heart rate of most of them spiked

>"What was that?"`

>"You go investigate!"

>"Alert! Alert!"

>this was bad

>saliva built up in your mouth as your urge to fight rose to levels hard to handle

>your fighting instincts were going haywire

>you knew you couldn't play dead for long before you did something…

>what do?

Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>262525

>your primal instincts told you to rip it's wings off and use it as a figure head as you used your boat as a battering ram into the side of the enemy

>Rip and tear intensifies

>>262540

>"Just what do you guys think you're doing flying our flag, mister?"

kek

This escalated quickly. I guess a dice roll for whether we attack since we're close enough now. Even we drop the charade and attack, Odd we continue playing dead and see what happens.

If we attack the guards will most likely surround anyone important and try to escort them to a safer area so we might be able to pick them out that way. Since this is a merchant ship, merchants of higher class or importance might also be dressed better too.

>>262620

Even role so let's try to find the high priority targets in the way suggested.

>>262623

I'll get back to you, or maybe some anon can help, It's pretty late and my memory a shit.

>>262620

>>262886

>>262601

>yes yes!

>you quickly turned on the pony closest to you and bit into her spine

>a crowd of scared shrieks sent a sensation over you you hadn't felt for a long time

>you ripped the spinal cord out of the pony you were biting and threw it at the closest one, causing him to faint

>with a sound scream from your powerful lungs, the rest of the ponies on deck covered their ears and cowered in fear

>you scanned them quickly, and made a note of the ones with the prettiest clothing

>you charged a particularly wealthy looking stallion head first, and head butted him to the ground before dragging him to the center of the deck, using your teeth

>"Bring the captain or he die-dies!"

>as you spoke, a torrent of black spewed out of the lower sections of the boat as a flock of bats emerged, some carrying other rich looking ponies in a cacofony of 'EEEEEEeeee's'

>they were all dumped around you and the wounded stallion

>what followed was a bunch of ponies with swords spitting curses at your little horde as they escaped

>you charged the sword ponies, pummeling the first one to the ground and ripping his lower jaw out in one foul, flesh tearing bite

>a mare stabbed you in the side with her magically controlled daggers as the stallion you attacked was bleeding to death

>you bit into her front hoof and threw her against the railing of the boat, then hopped on top of her and embedded your thumb-claws into her eyeballs

>she screamed and writhed around in pain, making your attack even more effective

>turning around, you sneered at the rest of the sword wielding ponies, who all backed up into a huddle

>they were taken by surprise when some of your bats came swooping down with bucks

>"Surrender or die!"

>another dagger came hurling at you, this one slicing deep into your wither

>you ignored the pain and charged at them again, this time readying your claws

>as you hit the bundle of ponies, one claw hit a pony's throat, and another ripped a big bloody line through a pony's barrel coat

>the pony right in front of your maw got the worst of it though, as you sunk your teeth into his entire muzzle, and crushed it like a nut under the awesome power of your jaws

>as the stallion with the crushed muzzle spat out in-equine shrieks due to the lack of half his tongue and snout, the rest of the living bunch slowly lowered their weapons

>you knew no greater joy than the feeling of showing off your strength

>you felt so proud to be this powerful

>the captain was soon dragged out by the bats, as they proudly pryed her eyes open to the massacre that had just unfolded

>the acting captain of the ship looked visibly ill when confronted with the site, a mix between horror, hatred and unparalleled fear

>"I am taking all you have. Or all your lives."

>she only responded with dry heaving and pin sized pupils

>as your bats were transporting the goods on board there were still questions that lingered around in your head

>what should you do with the survivors?

>what should you do with the corpses? The bats did good, you could feed them the scraps as a reward, although you knew the Germaneians would be disgusted by the act

>you could also check out what kind of treasure you had obtained

>…or you could get some medical attention. The daggers were still stuck in you, and hurt like all Tartarus

>what do?

>>263365

Anon told us that cosumjng ponies is bad so we should honor his wish and give them a proper burial at sea, especially since they died honorably in combat. As for the survivors first tally up the loses on our side then give thwm two choices, either they take their chances in the life boats or they fill the now vacant slots in our crew, first come first serve. After giving the proper orders lets get our wounds taken care of.

>>263389

I should mention since we're not playing as Anon, our native character, there are some things Aldreda refuses to do. You could request a roll for something to try to get her to do stuff if you really want to though.

>>263365

>you listened in on the heart beats around your ship

>noone seemed to be missing or dead

>probably because you took all the abuse reserved for the bats yourself

>looking around, a mare had gotten a sword to the hoof during a bucking run, but nothing serious

>you walked around the enemy deck, looking for some smaller boats on the big boat to place the survivors in, but nothing came up

>could they really have no extra boats?

>strange custom

>you heard some strokes from the outside of the boat and took a curious look

>it was the bats desecrating the ship's exterior with red paint

>the somewhat regal looking wooden finish being painted over by what looked like Equestrian lettering

TEMPT NOT THE BLADE

>was scribbled in huge letters across the hull of the ship

>as you looked further down it continued

ALL FEAR THE SENTINEL!

>this made you smile

>they probably did it to create infamy, which was good. If somepony recognized you in a future raid, they might be more inclined to surrender sooner, rather than getting themselves killed

>which in turn would leave more merchants sailing the seas for future raiding

>it was pretty genius, actually. Sometimes you underestimated your bats

>But only sometimes

>now about the bodies

>seeing as you didn't want to step on any hooves by having them eaten, you guessed you should probably bury them

>but there was no soil to dig

>and a burial at sea was the ultimate insult to any once living creature

>no, you didn't want to do that, being used as bat snacks was a less degrading way to transition to the great beyond as far as you were concerned

>how could a spirit ever find peace in the violent sea that did nothing by splash and fight itself all the time?

>plus the bats would probably see you as some sort of psychotic monster if you went through with it

>no no no

>you would not be the one giving that order

>the corpses would stay on the enemy boat for now

>that left what to do with the enemy boat and her survivors, and medical attention

>walking made the dagger in your wither scrape the bone, it was extremely painful

>for you

>what do?

>>263397

Leave them there gaurded to attend to our wounds and then send a message to anon asking what we should do with the bodies and survivors

>>263365

I figured we would end up just beating them up and looting but I suppose disemboweling our first victims will send a clear message to surrender for everyone else we meet. I guess life in Equestria thousands of years ago was pretty hardcore.

>as you spoke, a torrent of black spewed out of the lower sections of the boat as a flock of bats emerged.

That's pretty fuckin metal.

>>263397

>and a burial at sea was the ultimate insult to any once living creature

I guess she really hated herself when she plopped into the ocean to an hero several threads ago.

>what do?

Tie them up, throw them into the cargo hold, and let them keep their boat. Mutilating their friends, and stealing their cargo is good enough. Dumping them on an island is practically the same as killing all of them anyway since we're in the middle of nowhere, and I don't think we have the resources to deal with prisoners and run three ships. Also ask Marcus or a shaman to take a look at our wounds, and make sure to disable their cannons before we leave just in case.

>>263435

M8 killing those who surrender has the opposite effect since it means they'll die either way. Letting them go without b3ing harmed further just missing their loot is far better since it shows you'll live if you give up

So what are gonna do? Roll or something else?

>>263440

Did you read it properly? I agreed in letting them live since Anon made it clear to keep as many as possible alive to spread the spooky stories.

>>263431

>>263449

>I suppose disemboweling our first victims will send a clear message to surrender for everyone else we meet

I mistook this as well.

>>263440

>>263449

>>263397

>you walked over to Blitzen

>"I need help."

>the stallion looked at the daggers sticking out of you

>he winched

>"I zuppose I could be of service."

>you laid down on a table as Blitzen strapped on a mask, hiding his muzzle

>"Now. Ich may not be eine doktor, but I am ze closest thing to one."

>he stretched some white footwear over his forehooves

>"Bezides. If you refused to succumb to those vounds, I am zure you are going to be fine. Now! Lay still."

>Blitzen laid his forehooves on you to push you down, as his magic slowly dragged the daggers out of you

>you felt something deflate and leak inside of you, bringing with it a lot of pain

>"Scheiße. It got into your stomach. I vill need to cloze ze hole."

>you gritted your teeth as he cut and sliced his way through your coat, and started sticking needles and threads through an organ of yours

>you didn't get a good look, but you only had to assume it was your gut

>"Do nicht worry, ze stitches will dissolve by themselves. We do nicht have to do this again."

>after finishing up, he folded your coat back and stitched it too, along with your two other wounds

>"Zo!. How are ve feeling?"

>"It hurt. A lot. But you are a good doctor."

>"Oh Ich am no doktor. Your body's allergic reaction to death is ze reason you are still here. Not me."

>You tried to get up, but Blitzen stopped you

>"Nein Nein. Your body needs time to heal, else you vill tear open your stitches unt all thiz pain would be for nothing."

>"Oh?"

>"Here, let me carry you to bed. "doktor's" orders."

>he lifted you up with his magic, it felt weird, like a constant freefall

>you didn't announce your concerns though

>Blitzen placed you in the bed next to the Outlanders office

>"Ehm. I like the desk better."

>"Really, unt why ist that?"

>"I feel comfortable on hard surfaces."

>"Oh ja? Vell your body does not. You need real rest."

>"Well. Well then I want you to write a letter to the Outlander."

>"Who?"

>"Anonymous."

>"Ah. Zure. I can take a letter. What do you want it to zay?"

>what do?

>>263449

Sorry fam didn't understand you correctly there

>>263462

>>263463

I guess I should have worded that clearer. I was just commenting on how Aldreda's killing methods would send a clear message to everyone else that hears about it later. Imb4 it attracts monster hunters instead. Aldreda vs Van Helsing when

>>263462

Tell Anon about the adventure and ask him what to do with the boat.

>>263512

>>263462

>"Tell the outlander about what we did here, and what to do with the survivors and boat."

>"Alright. They vill probably zee this tomorrow, as it is late at night."

>the stallion sat down to write as you made yourself comfortable in bed

>as comfortable as you could get in a warm, soft cushy bed

>still didn't feel remotely natural

>Blitzen finished up writing, and sent the letter

>he sighed as he leaned back in the chair and lit some smoking paper in his mouth

>"You are an excellent warrior you know. I saw you back there, ze fire in your eyes. You were molded to kill."

>you looked up at him from the bed

>"But zat makes you too reliant on your abilities. Were you like any other pony on this ship, you vould have died."

>"Probably."

>"We vill resume training ven you are healed. You must master dodging, you move to brazen. Daggers are one thing, bullets are quite something elze."

>"You can dodge bullets?"

>"Nein, but you can put yourself in a position vere you do not get shot by bullets."

>"Oh."

>you looked at the burning paper in his mouth again

>"What's that?"

>"Thiz?"

>he pointed to the item with a hoof

>"Ein cigarette. You smoke it. Helps you calm down."

>"Why do you need to calm down?"

>"Becauze your little stunt back there made mich worried about you."

>"You should not be. I have been through worse."

>"How much worse?"

>…

>"I don't want to talk about it."

>"Unterstandable. Want a cigarette?"

>"No. Smells like death."

>"It is."

>"Then why do you smoke it?"

>"We have to die sooner or later. Besides, I doubt cancer vill me mein way out of this life."

>"Oh…"

>"Anyzing wrong?"

>"I just remembered hos… Brief my friends will be around."

>"Ah. So even ze sands of time do nicht slow you down. I know it is rude to ask a mare but, how old are you?"

>oh no!

>maybe he wouldn't like you if he knew how old you were

>Red said that stallions didn't go for old 'hags'

>"A little older than you."

>"Just a little older?"

>"Yes. Only a little. I forget how little exactly."

>"Okay. A little older then."

>"A little older than Celest-"

>you covered your mouth with both forehooves

>"What?"

>"I'm sorry! I mean. ehm! Um… Eh-"

>"Aldreda! Relax. You vill rear ze stitches."

>he tapped his chin with a hoof

>"Zat if fascinating. I knew Sentinels were eine ancient race. But ze general thesis was zat you had offspring zat carried ze same traits."

>"I'm sorry."

>"Don't be. I appreciate your honesty. Honesty ist important if I am to train you."

>"So you don't think i'm an old hag?"

>"Aldreda. Never. You have lived a long life, but your youth never left you."

>youth, youth was good

>"Thank you."

>"Now, get some rest. If you do not mind, I want to sleep in this chair so that I am close by, should anything happen with ze stitches. Is this alright with you?"

>you could hear his heart rate quicken

>what do?

>>263757

Agree and thank him for his good bedside manner.

>>263889

>>263757

>you nodded your head with a smile

>Blitzen finished off his cigarette and kicked his hind legs up at the desk as he leaned into the chair, covering his eyes with his black hat

>you tried to relax and sleep in this too big, too soft bed

>you woke up to the sound of magic, this also startled your room-friend

>a scroll poofed into existence in front of him to his surprise

>"Morning."

>"Gut morgen. I see zey got our letter, ja?"

>"Read it."

>Blitzen rolled out the letter

>"Hi… Got ein little hammered last night unt crashed. Ze outlander ist very proud of you for taking eine ship single handedly."

>"Neat."

>"Tell Aldreda to let ze surviving ponies go, unt let zem tend to their own dead. Also. Red vants you to take anyzing of value, including their… candy?"

>Blitzen shrugged

>"Nein, Anonymous writes zat Red will become fat if she eats more candy. No more candy."

>"Was that all?"

>"He can't wait to see you again, unt tells you zat he has set up eine deal with ze griffin armorer zat Red knows. Everything haz been paid for, now all you vill need ist to get your designs to him."

>"Where is the griffin?"

>"Ze locations have been written down at the bottom of ze letter, including a 'Love, Anon unt Red.' signature."

>they liked you. You liked being liked

>"You should talk to ze crippled zebra about adjusting our kourse then."

>He hoofed you the letter

>"What are you going to do?"

>"Ich… Am going to brush meine teeth, taking eine cigarette before bedtime makes meine mouth taste like death."

>what do?

>>263906

>>263961

I say we talk to our nigger Marcus and adjust the course. Also /pone/ is getting kill for some reason.

>>263963

>>263906

>you got out of bed to find Marcus

>he was easy to sense as he had less blood pumping through his veins, due to his missing limb

>seemed like he was still sleeping

>you entered the sleepery without being detected with ease

>as you walked on the ceiling, you looked down upon Marcus, who was still sleeping

>using your hoof, you tried to rattle his hammoch a bit to wake him up

>it sucseeded, and he started rubbing his eyes

>"Aaah!"

>Marcus jumped upon seeing you

>"Aldreda, my dear. Are you trying to kill me with a scare?"

>"What?"

>he shook his head

>"Nothing I- What's up?"

>"Location."

>you used one of your long wings to lower the scroll onto his belly

>"We must go there."

>"What is this? And can you get down from there?"

>you dropped onto the plank-floor next to him

>"A griffin lives there, he will help us craft armors."

>"Oh. Well, planting their hooves on solid ground would do the crew some good I guess. Is the location written on this scroll?"

>"Yes."

>"Alright then. We'll head that direction after breakfast."

>"Good"

>you returned to Blitzen, confident that your wounds were healed

>"I am ready to train now."

>"Are you zure?"

>"Yes."

>"Nein really, It's only been a night."

>"I am fine. Feel fine. Am fine."

>"…If you say so. Come, let's begin training then."

>Blitzen brought you to the top roof of the ship, as he continues throwing things at you, telling you how to best move when dodging

>it's all in the hooves

>you also experimented with trying to grab some of the things he threw at you with your wings

>this inspired Blitzen for something he called a 'Shielded dagger' system. He promised you he'd look into designing a weapon suited for the bat wing, once he was back on land

>he told you he would love to be the first to design a bat weapon, as he had never heard of one before

>First Franziska and now Blitzen, it seemed like just about every Germaneian was a natural when it came to inventing

>this made you want to visit their nation, imagine all the neat stuff they've made throughout the years

>about a week passed as the ships made their way to a big island

>Marcus said this was the place

>as the ships docked, you were the first pony on land in the dead of night

>you had docked at a place much smaller than Horseshoe Bay, and more reminiscent of the smaller pony outposts of old, with very few tall buildings, instead opting for a lot of single story structures

>looking around you could see a lot of griffins

>from what you could recall, these were mighty warriors and an advanced species compared to ponies, due to their dexterous use of talons

>going by the look of this harbor, compared to Horseshoe bay though, things might have changed in the time you were buried

>no matter, you had to find the armorer, but the scroll gave no additional clues

>you could try asking around, or maybe… Well, you didn't rightfully know

>what do?

>>263971

Try to imagine what Red might do in this situation it might give us an idea of what to do.

>>264040

woops meant for >>263968

>>264040

>>263968

>you should do like Red does

>she was brave as a bull and got what she wanted

>time to emulate her

>now, what would Red do…

>ah! You knew it!

>you retreated to the ship, grabbed a pouch of bits and headed for the nearest place that sold booze

>entering the place that smelled like liquor, you were met with about half-a-full room of griffins

>every single one staring daggers at you

>you didn't want to kill now, their talons would mess up your coat

>slowly walking towards the bartender, you placed some bits on the counter

>"One booze please."

>the griffins behind you started laughing

>the griffin behind the counter tried to hold a serious demeanor but cracked up at your perfectly reasonable request

>"One booze, huh? Are you even old enough to drink?"

>another round of laughter filled the tavern

>this was good, better than having them mess up your coat

>"I am old enough. Give me one. Booze."

>the griffin chuckled as he poured you a drink

>"So. What brings your kind around these parts? I'm not exactly thrilled to have Sentinel plague spreaders in my tavern."

>"Need to find a griffin, an armorer. We have a deal."

>"Oh boy, really? I didn't know Greyscale did dealings with your ilk."

>"You just did."

>the griffin raised an eyebrow

>"…Fair point."

>you took another sip of your drink

>"You know, me and my patrons are a friendly bunch, as you can clearly tell."

>another round of laughter rolled over the tavern

>"And since we're so nice. We'll give you a choice! Either leave with your ship, or do me a favor, you know. To convince my friends that you and I are indeed on friendly terms."

>"Careful with your next words, kitten. I've wiped out bigger settlements than this."

>damn you and your foul tongue. This was not the time to get into a fight!

>"Hahaha! You hear that, fellas? This one got a fire in her belly already."

>he got down on all four and looked you in the eye

>"We's got a monster problem here. A young dragon has gotten too close recently, and it's currently looking for a place to nest on our beautiful island."

>"Want me to slay a dragon for you?"

>"Was it that obvious?"

>"Is your warriors too weak, cowardly and frail to defend their own city?"

>a couple of the patrons stood up from their stools in protest

>"You better watch your mouth, flying rat!"

>"I just want to see the armorer. No need to get yourself killed tonight because of your pigheadedness"

>you left your drink and walked out

>"I will find him myself. Follow me and I'll cook your eggs and feed them to you."

>you slammed the door behind you with a buck, knocking the thing off its hinges in the prosess

>to Tartarus with you, Aldreda. Always have to escalate things

>you needed to get out of this destructive frame of mind

>now you had to watch your back and boats for griffin hooligans

>what do ?

>>264067

Should probably let our crew know this isn't exactly a friendly port, but on the bright side our mission wasn't a complete wash we got a name out of it now we just need to find a friendlier place to ask around.

>>264118

This

>>264118

>>264121

>>264067

>you sneaked back to the boats and told the crew the griffins here were a bunch of cowards and hostile because of it

>with that knowledge, the Germaneians immediately took to arms, resting their explody guns and crossbows on the railing of the ship

>any griffin feeling brave this night would be skewered

>you easily lurked around without being noticed until daytime, still looking for a friendly face

>so much for griffins being eagle eyed

>as you sneaked around further and further from the harbor, you came upon a farm house all alone

>an older, sleeping griffin was resting at his porch in a rocking chair

>he seemed friendly enough, so you approached him

>"Hello?"

>"Well hello there. young'un."

>the bird looked at you before gazing back into nothingness while strumming an instrument

>"What is that?"

>"That's a banjo, can't you tell?"

>"Yep. Banjo."

>he continued playing without giving you eye contact, when suddenly he opened his mouth again

>"For what do I owe the pleasure of a pony entering my property? Didn't you see the sign?"

>you didn't

>"What sign?"

>"The old thing's probably rusted by now, pay it no mind."

>he stopped talking and continued strumming his banjo

>"I'm looking for Grayscale. Do you know him?"

>"Yep. You're talking to him. I figure you're here to whip up some armor then?"

>"Yes."

>"That's just dandy. All my talons do now-a-days is play. Make no mistake, it's good practice… But you wouldn't know anything about that, my apploegies, madam."

>you raised your wings and wiggled your fingers

>"I might have a clue."

>"Ah, you're a pegasus."

>"Not exactly."

>"My apologies, my sight ain't what it used to be. Well whatever you are, if you had read the sign, you'd know that i'm the town historian too. In that I tell a lot of stories. Ah yes, chicks all the way from Griffonstone used to come down here and listen to me talk back when my feathers weren't gray. Well, not as gray anyways, hehehe. So pull up a chair, or sit your haunches down if you wanna hear one'a my world famous stories."

>what do?

>>265327

Humor him. It'll be good to catch up on the events you missed out on while napping.

>>265329

>>265327

>you nodded your head in anticipation

>a couple of seconds went of him still strumming away at his banjo

>"Um. Yes."

>"Well. It all started a few decades ago, I was visiting the Minotaur king. I was there on the account of his birthday. As I walked in the temple I saw he had invited a bunch of prissy unicorns all wearing robes. I asked 'why did you invite a bunch of ponies?' He said 'Oh, you know special interest groups and politics.' Now I don't rightfully understand why you need a bunch of roped unicorns for politics, but i figured it was none of my business. Um. Are you still there?"

>"Yes."

>"Ah. Alright. It's just that people have a tenancy to leave as i'm telling my stories. You're either very polite, or very bored."

>"I think it's nice."

>"Well now, that's good to hear! So anyways. I told him off and took his crossbow to go out huntin' for some real food."

>"Why did you do that?"

>"Because the ol' fart only served vegan food at his birthday party! On the account of there being so many robed unicorns around."

>"Oh. Okay."

>"And there I was. Out in the King's garden, listening for critters and such, when suddenly, I heard some rattling in the tree branches. It was hard to see because it was night, and the fact that I was already colorblind back then. But I let the arrow go, and it hit target. A pegasus came tumbling down, cursing and yelling at me for shooting it in the ass. But I paid her no mind. I slung her over my back and hauled her over to the palace for some top cooking."

>"How does cooked pegasus taste?"

>"It's pretty good. Not worth all the tiny bones though."

>"I like the bones."

>"Yuck. But as I was saying. I dragged her kicking and screaming into the kitchen where even more robed unicorns were rummaging around, cooking. They looked at me with shock and disgust. But I simply pushed them away cause they're so tiny. hehe. As I shoved the pegasus into the oven the Minotaur King stopped me! He said "Now why would you go around, shooting my prized pegasus. I told him "Now why wouldn't you warn me about you owning a prized pegasus when you lent me your crossbow?" He said "you took my crossbow? Well. Coat's already ruined now. I guess you can just have it." So I did!"

>"And?"

>"It was delish. Only problem was that after I cooked her, chopped her into pieces and ate her, she was still wining and complaining in my belly. Now I don't understand how going through that wouldn't kill a mare, but that's not even the main part. What was. I was walking towards the entrance when all the robed unicorns game me the ol' stinkeye. But after they heard the complaining from my stomach, they all flocked around and worshiped me. I turned the the Minotaur King. He explained they were a cult that's been helping him out. So there I was, in the middle of a circle of crazed occultists, worshiping my meal. It was quite something."

>"What happened then?"

>"I punched two or three of them and got out of there. Told the Minotaur King to invite me back when he's having an actual party."

>"That was a nice story."

>"Why thank you miss. But it's getting late. You wanna come in for some pigs feet and possum boiled in grease? Your compadres told me you wanted to show me some armor designs to hammer out for ya."

>"Aren't you blind?"

>"Indeed I am. And I still make better armor than any dime-a-dozen "blacksmith" you'll find in Equestria."

>what do?

>gå til museet

>>266663

Hey if the blind guy wants to smith some armor, let him. Also do you think he'd notice if we stole shit?

>>266805

Episk.

>>266816

Probably not. He is blind, and Aldreda is a sneaky sneaky sneak sneak.

>>266816

Aldreada would probably be concerned about making anon look bad since that sort of stuff seems important to her.

>>266816

>>266663

>you walked inside with the griffin who cooked up some strong smelling food

>the kinda food that would make Red gag, but you very much enjoyed the taste of meat

>after feeding you, the two of you went over the armor designs

>it didn't take long for a bat to pick up that you wanted them to bring the materials over

they're gonna be working on those armors for quite some time. Ya'll wanna switch back to Anon now?

>>267000

with those trips sure

>>267000

Sure. We can even pop back to when we received Aldreda's message.

>>267235

have a flashback to the moment when we uploaded all the important shit from the laptop to the phone, followed by erasing the works we haven't directly shown franziska, followed by us filling the rest of the harddrive with crap data before deleting it so we are sure we are handing over just a piece of technology rather then a complete compendium of all things dangerous we humans have put to words.

Then, after we remembered we did indeed thoroughly clean the machine, tell her we'll get it and accompany her to wherever official looking she wants to drop it off. It'd be nice if there will be at least one official who knows about this deal of us which up to now has been only an oral agreement. Germanians should demand at least triplicate copies of a lengthy Liefervertragdokument.

A pirate with a paper that says Germania will hand him over an airship will probably be more of a problem for them in the long run then the same pirate in an actual airship. In the latter case they could sort of claim it was stolen.

>>267290

Here are a few questions: how could we copy laptop shit to the phone? Did we really have a phone at that moment? Plus, do we actually have the phone charger? I know that we do have laptop charger.

>>267235

I dunno if you'd get blamed, but you should put a zip labeled "DO NOT EXECUTE" in some obscure folder on your hard drive with a delete System32 batch file in it. Knowing these fucking Nazis, the first thing they'll do is run the program and you have plausible deniability about their new war machine breaking.

>>267294

>how could we copy laptop shit to the phone?

connect phone to laptop with usb cable, mount phone as usbstorage, go to data folder, control c, goto phone, control v

no usb cable? start laptop in wireless action point mode, connect phone to laptop action point, start iis or some other webserver on the laptop, surf there on phone. Or start filesharing on the laptop and then use a windows file sharing thingie app on the phone? still no? zip up everything into one zipfile, go powershell and creaste a webserver that serves that one file, do the websurf on the phone again. codin a http servers for a oneshot file transfer situation aint too hard. going http0.9 you basically get a request from the client, and then dump the file verbatim.

>Did we really have a phone at that moment?

we acquired one from one of our human companions. Iirc our cristfag.

>Plus, do we actually have the phone charger?

I'm gonna assume he also had a charger?

>>267295

fuck that; they'll know it was put there for this purpose. consider this instead: Create a startup script. This script ups a counter somewhere. If this counter is a certain value, say '3', nuke the system.

Next, let this startup script start an 'at' command to start a nuke script in about an hour.

end result, they'll have at most 3 hours of work on the laptop over three separate sessions before it gets corrupted and unusable data wise. Remember though that their primary interest (or at least as presemted) was the hardware, not the data; so this wouldn't put a stop on the technology gain they will get, just stunts it from having a great compendium of all human knowledge to probably enough building blocks to create computing devices, so even if it stops working software wise there may not be a problem (there wont be officially anyways; it isn't like we gave them a support contract or whatever

>>267297

>three hours

Uh-uh. We can't be out of the country in less than three hours. We'd need five days at the least. Especially since once the laptop breaks they're gonna hunt us down looking to get even.

>>267294

also, the charger is a handcrank which can possible be set to deliver 5v for the phone instead of 12v for the laptop. Don't mention this electricity thing to them germans. if they'll come after us at some point we can be super surprised about it and show them how electricity works so they can make their own crank. If it doesn't work; obviously them letting it run all out of juice is the main cause of data loss.

>>267298

I aint married to the numbers. make it 12 hours or 5 restarts or 23 hour and 4 restarts or something. impress on them it is very sensitive technology. There's a big chance that they'll destroy it if they start fucking around with it magically and stuff. With that regard, lets be extremely anal about unicorn magic being in proximity to the laptop. They start levitating a paper or pen near to it, actually duck down behind a desk. Its a very volatile machine and you (genuinely) have no idea what unicorn magic does to it.

Does it eventually run out? Which unicorn was too lazy to use his hooves to carry the laptop? Go punish that idiot

>>267290

>have a flashback to the moment when we uploaded all the important shit from the laptop to the phone, followed by erasing the works we haven't directly shown franziska, followed by us filling the rest of the harddrive with crap data before deleting it so we are sure we are handing over just a piece of technology

That's a stretch but i'll allow it. Also we're in the mouth of the beast now. If Franziska wanted to steal the laptop and have us shot on the spot, she would already have done so.

>>267294

Charles has a phone and a charger. Which you can use to transfer PDF files from computers.

>>267235

>your mind wandered back to the time where you and Charles transfered all the do/k/uments from the laptop to his phone, and copied everything you had in your Recycle Bin onto the desktop, several times over.

>how convenient

"Sure, let's go get it and drop it off to your official."

>"Ha! Ich am ze smartest pony scientist zat ever lived! Zat lappen toppen is going right to meine hooves."

"I still want to talk to the guy that gives you orders."

>"I take meine orders direktly from ze Reichstag. If you vant to talk to Ze Führer, tough luck. Ich vill not introduce petty pirates to ze leader of thiz great nation. You vill only make mich look bad."

"Then how can I be sure you won't screw us on this deal?"

>"Ze fact zat you are still breathing pirates in this war-harbor should be plenty reason enough. Ze fact zat I am not already fiddeling with ze lappen toppen over your dead bodies should be testament to meine loyalty to this deal."

>you sighed, you probably wouldn't get more out of Franziska

>she did have a point in not trying to kill you though, if she wanted you dead, being surrounded by germaneian soldiers and war machines was the place to do it

>you brought her the laptop, and in kind, she brought you half a suitcase full of documents

>"Theze are ze documents proving your ownership of eine germaneian airship, theze are licenses saying you are eligable to steer such a craft, unt these are papaers showing scavengers zat messing vith ze parts of this airship, should you be shot down, ist punishable by death or infinite torture."

"That's reassuring."

>"Worry not your simplistic mind about zuch things as dokuments, just keep thiz at hand in ze cockpit unt you vill be fine."

"Hey. Question."

>"Ja?"

"Why is it so cold in here? Wasn't like this a day ago."

>"Elementary, did yoo zee ze giant pylons when entering this harbor?"

"The giant crystal towers?"

>"Ja. Zey suck magic out of ze air unt places them in our machines."

"That's fucked up."

>"Don't vorry, ze magic gets released back into ze echo system once we fire our guns unt burn our fuel."

"Pah."

>"Aww Ze Dummkopf thought ve would permanently destroy our lands by exploiting it. Why don't you stick to farming unt kicking things, and let ze unicorns worry about magic?"

"Enough insults, when do we get our airship?"

>"Van telegram away."

>Franziska nodded to the second guard, who paused for a second

>Franziska nodded again to emphasize, the guard simply leaned in and whispered into her ear

>her face lit up, as she grabbed the guard's firearm with her magic and smacked his face with it

>"WHY VAS I NOT INFORMED ABOUT THIZ?!"

>Franziska kept beating the stallion with the butt of the gun, using it as a club towards his head

>"YOO SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME IMMEDIATELY! WHY DID YOU NICHT TELL ME IMMEDIATELY!?"

"Calm down you insane cunt. He's on your side!"

>the mare breathed heavily, but dropped the gun to recompose herself

>"Ahh. Nothing. Nothing. Ve simply have to set up eine extermination crew, unt you vill have your airship."

"What's going on?"

>"Zeems like some stoopid bats have been disturbed near the town zat develops ze airships. Ze whole town has fled as a result. Nothing ve can not fix though. Hehehe."

>Franziska got out of her seat, still giggling

>"Nothing Flammenwerfers can not fix."

"How long is this gonna take?"

>"Depends. Um. Here."

>Franziska opened a drawer and placed a sack full of bits on the table.

>"Go and play children, go and play while mamma Franziska clears thiz up. Ich need to take some telegrams, perhaps a meeting or two."

"Fuck yeah, bits. Let's go buy some real food, Anon."

>what do?

>>267295

>>267297

>>267298

>>267299

>>267300

Shit, didn't read these. It's not too late if you guys really want to fuck with the laptop though! But i'd have to roll to see if Anon is tech sawy enough to into scripts.

>>267302

I'm happy with just data destruction we've already done; I was just lending my expertise to the anon hivemind.

Lets see if we can find out which town it was and suggest we may take a looksie before going with Red.

I haven't read up on Aldreda's adventures but the presense of bats indicates it might have something to do with it. Unless it was already in a report (don't think so, i skimmed, but can be wrong), lets use our one way mind link with Aldreda to ask her whether there was something she did with a town and report back about it ASAP

>>267302

Welp its been a long trip eating nothing but rations so real food sounds good. Afterwards we could explore the immediate surroundings. Also kinda surprised they use bits here since this is a different country I figured they'd have their own currency.

"Dear Sentinel Aldreda,

A few moments ago I learnt there was a problem in a place named Scheißeville. Do not pay too much attention to the anvcient spelling of SS concerning batponies which resulted in complete evacuation of the town. I wouldn't think such a

situation would be forgotten in reports so I'm guessing you have nothing to do with it. Still, could you see if you can sense these other batponies and whether you have an idea what to do with them. The germanians are planning extermination but perhaps you had a better idea.

Your faithful captain

The Outlander

>>267377

Works for me

as for what to do we could show our human companions the papers we got and talk to them what they think is with the batpones

>>267377 checked!

>>267387

>>267524

>>267316

>you explained to Grace in detail what you wanted in the letter to Aldreda

>"Dear Sentinel Aldreda."

>"A few moments ago I learnt there was a problem in a place named Scheißeville."

>"(Do not pay too much attention to the ancient spelling of SS concerning batponies)"

>"which resulted in complete evacuation of the town. I wouldn't think such a situation would be forgotten in reports so I'm guessing you have nothing to do with it. Still, could you see if you can sense these other batponies and whether you have an idea what to do with them."

>"The germanians are planning extermination but perhaps you had a better idea?"

>"Your faithful captain"

>"The Outlander"

>Grace read the letter out loud

>"That good?"

"Perfect, send it."

>you took the time waiting for a reply to let everyone in on the airship documents

>unfortunately Red was the only one that knew a lick of Germaneian

"So, what do you guys think is up with the bats?"

>"Dunno, man."

>Rodgers uttered

>"Sounds to me something stirred them up. Who knows how long they've been chilling around in the forest."

>"I agree."

>Said Grace

>"Bat ponies do not leave their territory without a reason. They know they're not wanted anywhere else, and if I know Germaneians, they've been playing Wack-A-Bat with anypony who dares show their face. Maybe they're trying to retaliate?"

"That would require a leader."

>"Oh boy…"

>a couple more minutes passed as Charles arrived with food and blankets for everyone

>you filled him in on current events

"We'll need some warm clothing, or at least some scarves. Especially when the Zebras get here. This kind of weather will kill them."

"How many bits do we have left?"

"Not a lot."

"Shit."

>Grace's horn glowed with magic as a scroll poofed into existence right in front of her

"What does it say?"

>"Hold on, ehem. Dear Outlander. I have no knowledge of any bats outside of my horde. But if they were plentiful enough to take over a town the size of Scheißeville, it's most likely a legion. Blitz tells me it is his home town, and he is furious, but a bat-by-bat extermination is inefficient. As bats recognize strength as the highest authority. If I were to kill their leader, I could command them to retreat with ease. I ask you to wait for my arrival. And for the Germaneians to offer equipment and supplies, while still leaving me in charge of the attack. Are they arrogant enough to belive they know better than me how to deal with bats, they will suffer great losses on their path to victory. Feral bats are a nuisance, sane, organized bats are something else entirely. Blitzen asks that you deliver this message onwards to Franziska, or the nearest General. To ignore the aid of a Sentinel when it comes to bats is asking for trouble. -Signed Aldreda and Blitzen."

"Sounds like Aldreda really wants in on this thing."

"Yeah. Looks like she wants to get right down to business."

>what do?

>>267600 check'd!

Let's do what Aldreda and Blitzen said and notify Franziska of their master plan.

>>267600

Go to inform our friend Franziska since she's the one organizing this bout anyway. Personally I hope she's near a higher level officer so we can berate her for yet again not making good use of the means at her disposal and leave a bad impression of her. Though I'm probably the only one who still hates er fat ass that much

>>267600

Sounds cool we'll be able to see Aldreda participating in her favorite past-time. are we going to switch back to Aldreda now?

>>267601

>>267602

>>267607

>>267600

>you took the scroll over to the office where you last met Franziska

>while walking towards the building, you kept a keen eye for any pony that looked high ranking, but to no avail

"Um, Franziska?"

>"I'm busy, Dummkopf. Go play vith your genitalia or whatever you pirates do on your free time."

>she was dressed in a white scientist coat, behind a desk with a bunch of research papers, and a cup of what smelled like coca

"Blitzen wanted me to give you this. I asked Aldreda if she knew anything about the bats in scheisseville."

>"Vat? Let me zee dat."

>Franziska snagged the scroll out of your hands with her magic and looked it over.

>"Pah. Hmm. Hahaha! Oh!"

>a lot of noises stemming from mixed emotions came from the mare

>"How old is this Sentinel?"

"Four thousand years, give or take."

>"Ohh. I'll allow it!"

"Just like that?"

>"Just like that! I respect the abilities of an old mare, in a profession were ponies die young. Argh, vere vaz that book?!"

>Franziska left her desk and trotted over to some bookshelves

>"Ahh. Ancient Warriors of Equestria! I knew I've heard of Sentinels zomewhere."

>she flipped through the book

>"Pretty much immortal, rapid regeneration, can not fly, a living relic, beast of ze old gods, yadda yadda yadda. Ah! Specializes in exterminating bats: Ze main purpose of eine Sentinel ist to terrify unt eliminate bats. Though they might look the zame, ze Sentinels are physically bigger, haz eine nastier bite and can emit screams loud enough to deafen, or even kill. Ze strongest Sentinels can scream loud enough to cause explosions, ripping flesh off bone unt topple mountains. Eine specialized system of innate magickal vocal cords allow zem ze ability to direct their voice in certain directions or 'cones' zat leaves the un-targeted area relatively Unscathed, according to how loud the scream. Ze direct correlation between noise in 'cone' compared to noise outside of 'cone' ist not known, as Sentinels are either scarce, or downright extinct."

>Franziska beamed with joy

>"Vhy didn't you tell me zat fanged monzter vas capable of such gorgeous destruction? Oh ze tests I could take on her! Ve could disect her unt copy her vocal tubing to make weapons!"

"No dissecting. Period."

>Franziska looked disappointed

>"Bah, you have no passion for science. Regardless, if she wants to take care of mein bat problem, she is velkome to. I vill be able to offer transportation, weapons, armor, food, clothing unt ze original death squad to serve unter her command. Zounds gut?"

>what do?

>>267608

This might be the greatest opportunity to extract Blitzens' parents to render germanian threats to them ineffective, so the deathsquad would be counterproductive to that secondary goal and a squadron of bats will probably draw less unwanted attention in a batcave then a squadron of germanians.

Aldreda already asked for equipment and supplies in the letter so lets inform Franziska of that; saying she will get back to her with specifics. Lets inform aldreda via mindlink that she can send her orders directly to franziska.

Then, lets contact Marcus and ask him whether their last excursion was enough to turn our balance from 'not a whole lot' to 'at least enough to buy clothing for the ponies and zebras who need it in icy weather' and concequently to prepare for harsh weather

>>267610

I'd say we try not to make too much trouble and the extraction thing doesn't seem needed since Blitzen just needs to act like he probably would anyways, Why don't we ask him what he wants with regards to that since it does involve him?

>>267627

>the extraction thing doesn't seem needed since Blitzen just needs to act like he probably would anyways,

This is in response to franziskas remark about threatening his parents if he didnt want to come back after pirate duty or something like that. my assumption is this might be a problem earlier, should we decide to act against the germanian interests for some reason.

>Why don't we ask him what he wants with regards to that since it does involve him?

We should most definitely do this before 'kidnapping' his parents, since it is something we'd be doing for his benefit. In the mean time i think it makes sense to make the mission easier rather then more difficult by having a germanian squadron watching our asses. If it is just us, we could just drop by his folks and take them with us without raising too much suspicion.

>>267639

But I seriously doubt we'll be gong against their interests, I think we should leave this up to Blitzen to see what he wants us to do. He'd know what would be best.

>>267695

I aint planning to but lulz could lead us astray or we accidentally run into a some ponies we cross who turn out to have ties with the germanians later… I'd feel happier knowing my trusted officer is not a handgrab away from getting blackmailed by germanians

>>267770

Guess we've got some time to spend. Lets philosophise over with Grace about how our contact with Franziska and our deal may have shifted balances of power and whether and how we can or should do something about it.

>>267773

Nah fuck that, we're getting an airship no need to concern ourselves with political power struggles, plus the commies will probably get BTFO so sounds like an even better outcome to me. We should just go explore and not try to cause trouble where none is needed.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>267773

1-5 = philosophise with Grace

>>267779

6-10 = just go explore

>>267861

Boop her in the snoot and tell her to stop being a little shit and speak equestrian since she appears to understand us.

>>267875

>>267861

>you booped the pony on the snoot

>she crossed her eyes, looking at your invading hand in surprise

"Stop being a little shit and speak Equestrian, you understand us. That means you know Equestrian."

>"Hov did you find out?"

"What's going on here?"

>"Working on one of Franziska's dumb experiments again…"

"Oh, this sounds promising, what is it?"

>"An engine zat runs exclusively on commie-pony extract."

"Extract? You mean?"

>"Blot unt semen. Throw ze carcass down the shute, ze machine does the rest."

"That sounds unbelievably stupid and totally unpractical."

>"Finally, somevan who unterstands."

"Then why do you do it? Isn't this just a waste of resources? Franziska is supposed to be smart. right?"

>"She iz. Only problem is her hate for kommunists drive her to demand experimentations on stoopid things such as her rocket propelled 'Höllenboot', unt her 'railway artillery'. Nicht to mention eine panzer, zo big it was stationary, unt used mile long treadmills to get ze enemy panzer over to it. Thankfully zat one never made it into production,"

>the pony took a swing of a bottle of something good as she sighed

"Why do you even work with this madmare?"

>"She's clever, ever seen eine spider tank? Ze 'Vaters lange Beine' models are her design. Az vell as our battleships, unt armored zeppelins. She is eine genius."

"So. How did someone as young as you start working for Franziska?"

>"She reccognized mein talent with machinery, how did zome half breed unt her mary band of hairless apes start working for Franziska? Now zat is the real question."

"Hey, just because you're young, dosen't mean I won't buck your teeth out your pretty little mouth."

>"Zorry, Ich am not gut with ponies."

"Preach it, sis. Hey, you know anyplace we can rent a room for some nights?"

>"Zis isn't a tourist town you know. Hmm. But mein uncle does own a place you can rent out near the edge of town. Kome visit at ze end of mein shift unt I can take you there."

"Gotcha. And thank you."

>"No problem, now you should go, even if thiz technology ist retarded, it is still classified as military secrets. Yoo do not want to be seen in my workshop by soldiers."

"Alrighty then. And thanks… What was your name again?"

>"Leonie."

"Leonie. Thanks."

>what do?

>>267885

To answer her question 'because we already had some batponies', that should keep her wondering and still is technically true. When we get back we may want to recruit her for airship maintenance.

Then, since a '9' isn't even close to 1-5, lets find a Biergarten. If there isn't one, wake up first because this is obviously not real, get to Germania and then to the Biergarten

>>267892

While I wouldn't mind having her along it'll probably be a hard sell so let's have that on the back burner until it becomes more viable.

And yes let's go drink

>>267892

>>267919

>>267885

>"Now leave me alone. Work to do."

"Will do, and to answer your previous question, i'm working with her because I already have some bat ponies."

>the mare pondered on that, but didn't reply

>as you left, you announced to your group that you should find a beer garden

>Red valiantly agreed

>you and the gang picked up Rodgers as you all went looking for a beer garden

>it didn't take you long to find several, even if this was far away from a civilian harbor, it was still Germaneia

>entering, you did get some conservative looks from the soldiers and workers there

>the gang sat down, and were soon served by a friendly looking mare in a pony version of traditional German beer maiden clothes

>a couple of beers in, a few of the ponies around started warming up to you, some even came up and asked you questions

>the one who warmed up to you the most was a middle aged stallion who spoke Equestrian fluently, he had may questions about the outside world

>once you all finished up, you met with Leonie, to your surprise, the stallion who had taken interest in you were also her uncle

>no wonder she knew some Equestrian

>she lead you to his place, it was a nice big ressort, looked like it hadn't been open for quite some time

>the rooms were still nice and clean though, looked like the stallion took good care of it

>you also found out the stallion now made his living as a watchmaker

>he offered you and your friends a place to stay for pretty cheap

>what do?

This is gonna be pretty mundane until the bats arrive, want me to pass the time to that part?

>>268013

sure lets take the resort. And be very nice to the stallion; the use of parents in the convincing of their children is well documented.

Regarding the black text, it depends. There's a bunch of stuff we probably need to do in the mean time but it can be done narratively as far as I care.

My List Of Shit To Do:

- actually physically get the airship or at least read the documentation

- from the documentation above, learn what other crap the machine still needs to be useful and acquire that

- acquire a reserve power crystal thingie which is secretly really for reviving Hooflers floating junk. We're humans, if it flies, any part requires a backup. If it already has one, it requires at least two. If they're federation anal, fine we can use the third backup for Hooflers floating junk

- get *a* mechanic

- be sure our gold stash didn't go from 'more to ever care about money' to 'not enough to buy vital clothing' without warning and if so, demand Marcus is a tad more forthcoming when our finances take such a downward turn.

- get an idea what graces' view is of the distortion in power we've caused

- hear out the basics of aldredas plan and do whatever preparation we need to do here

- use the earth wine to bless the airship for its (or our, depending on what we get) maiden voyage

>>268019

The factories that produces them is in Sheiseville. This is why Franziska got so mad at one of her guards.

>>268013

>a couple of days passed by, mainly consisting of having dinner with Leonie's uncle, and visiting the beer garden

>during some of your excessive free time, you had the nice stallion help you translate the airship documents, given to you by Franziska

>it was mainly boring bits, documenting many of the parts of the airship, and even how to replace some of them

>you headed over to Franziska several times to ask for spare parts, should the need arise

>and every time she argued it was not part of the deal, and that Germaneian aircraft had lifespans that far exceeded that of lowly pirates

>when you argued things would break over time, should it see combat, Franziska argued again that it was not part of the deal, and that your simple mind couldn't comprehend where to begin fixing such a vessel

>she made it crystal clear that the parts most susceptible to damage, such as the hull, were repairable. And that the power core was over half the budget of the thing

>Franziska was a pain to argue with, and you didn't have much leverage, so you let it lie for now

>you also went through some discussions with Grace, regarding her thought on the power balance in Germaneia, comparing relationships with the Hoofiet Union

>she said she didn't care, as she wasn't a Germaneian, and that whatever they decide to do this far east has no impact on Equestria proper

>Leonie told you to leave her alone, as long as you didn't have an airship, she was not interested

>you soon got the news that a pair of wooden ships had been spotted near the harbor, and that they would arrive withing a few hours

>what do?

>>268033

mindlink to aldreda and tell her to get ready to give a report. warn the rest of the crew and see them get to shore. get marcus' and aldreda's report and her plan of attack for sheisseville and see what we think of it

then, we probably found a place there somewhere in our stay that has genuine bratwurst. Introduce this to Aldreda together with bier. goes good with kaser.

>>268034

we have no mind link with her though, we can send them a letter though. And let's give them a little R&R after the trip

>>268038

wasn't she supposed to be able to pick up our thoughts, but not the other way around? I seem to recall something like that.

>>268045

nah, she could probably hear us but no telepathy has been established. She has sine form of mental link to the bats though

>looking for proof

>thread ded

>archive ded

>pastebin entry missing

damnet… then lets not warn them, still greet them, and expect a report out of them out of the blue. And an attack plan from aldreda

>>268881

Woo

>>268941

Might as well go find her and see how her trip was

>>268943

and attack plan. Then lets examine how the germanians will react to sentinel troop movement. Start simple by going a tad out of the harbour; then walk some complicated path through town see if they follow; add a tad speed after that; go hang out in the church tower for a while and being bugs-bunny levels of annoying

>>268946

Why tho?

>>268947

To show franziska her defense is ineffectual. Not only will she have done a show of strength; it will turn out this show of strength was totally ineffectual if the target of this was actually up to something against the Germanians, and have the normal Germanians wonder why them troops keep running around in the city.

>>268943

>>268946

so do we roll?

>>268952

Works for me, or 644ab4 can have a reason why not to perform shananigans.,. Don't forget to ask about the trip and the attack plan regardless

>>268955

Mostly because it's pointless and only causing unneeded tension, they already think she's dangerous why make it look like we're up to something, plus why don't we let her relax and catch up a bit they are just comming off a pretty long journy on which they did some plundering why not let her have some r&r before she has to go fight some bats. If you haven't noticed causing trouble in a millitary port in Germainia is probably a very bad idea.

>>268965

Not trying to shut you down fam, just ssying maybe wait until we're out of the heavily militarized harbor and have access to the airship before fucking about too much

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>268987

Come on, kikewheels

>>268943

>>268941

>>268941

>you boarded the ship and looked up towards the crow's nest

"Hey Aldreda!"

>the mare gazed at you and quickly climbed down

>you hugged the pony, and she hugged you back

"How was your trip?"

>"Neat. We got a lot of good wares. And uniforms."

>Aldreda proudly showed off her suit of armor

>a long, black leather jacket, sporting studs, covering a layer of snake scale armor, double or even triple layered around the chest, neck and joints

"That's really cool. So that griffin wasn't kidding?"

>"Why would he kid?"

"He just seemed a little crazy. But anyway, it's good to have you back."

>"It is good to be back."

"I'll want a report from you and Marcus. I'm also curious of what your strategy for dealing with the bats will be."

>"We attack fast, and hard, in a compact group, preferably in open terrain, I doubt the Germaneians will see them coming from the trees. Avoid forests. Keep it up until they either submit, or goes running for their master. Then we take him or her out."

"Sounds like a plan."

>"Yes. Ehm. Outlander?"

"Yes?"

>"Can we go inside? I think my wings are frozen."

>what do?

>>268988

checked and heiled

>>268998

Let's go inside and warm her wings up

>>269008

agreed

>>269076

Unless he's already there, lets ask Franziska to be a dear and fetch Blitzen, a stenographer (for the Germanians to have paperworks of our meeting because its paperwork and they are Germanians) and possibly a map. Then, we can set up our meeting in ernest.

I say the following points need to be discussed:

- The location we are to to have the encounter,

- Intel that is available on the Enemy

- Forces at our disposal

- main battle plan

- go/nogo contingencies depending on the completeness of our information.

Afterwards, lets find an excuse to bring Blitzen along on our trip with Aldreda to the bratwurst place we scouted out so we can discuss the possibility of acquiring his parents for him so the Germanians do not have that bargaining chip available to tempt him back.

>>269079

The city is already evacuated. We don't know where his parents are.

>>269076

"Stay here, okay. I'll go fetch Franziska."

>Aldreda simply nodded as you placed her on the seat of the chair

>walking outside to the bitter cold, you called up Franziska and Blitzen, who were already on their way up

>the four of you sat around Franziska's desk, overlooking a very detailed, hand drawn map of Sheiseville

"So, first thing's first. Where are they in the city?"

>"Zey can be anywhere. But zeir main base of operations is in ze forests to ze east of Scheißeville. I can get yoo one last scouting run before deployment."

"Do you have any intel on these bats?"

>"Zey are zomewhat organized, which iz unuzual for ze local population. Zey usually stick to zemselves, deep in ze forest. Ve estimate eine hive of over a thousand."

"That's not a lot to go on… You said something about some backup?"

>"Of course. Vat is ze point of zis purging, if I have to zend another team? Zis is eine favorite of mine to orcistrate. Because our death squads usually consists of degenerate chriminals, who are destined for ze noose. If zey sucseed, zey vill be granted acess into our military, unt absolved of zeir crimes. I vill have zomepony bring you your enthusiastic recruits tomorrow."

"Thugs and low lives?"

>"Yoo vill be in gut company. haha!"

>"Do they have any training?"

>"Oh ja. Ze death squad program makes zure zey are in tip top shape to give zeir useless lives to ze fatherland."

"Christ… So what's our main battle plan?"

>"Honestly I intended to gear you up, unt drop you via storm pods. If yoo have eine better idea, feel free to take it up among yourselves."

"We'll think of something. Any no-go contingencies?"

>"Do nicht break any of ze machines! Especially nicht anyzing in ze airshipyard. Those are vorth more zan all of you combined. Ich also vant ze current leader of this bat horde dead. Vat you do vith ze bats, or how you dispose of zem ist up to you. Ich am personally a fan of fire, which is vhy I vill equip every criminal charged vith arson eine Flammenwerfe."

>Blitzen leaned over to you

>"Trust me, she is being generous."

"I also want Blitzen to come along."

>"Vat? Ich need Blitzen. Who elze is worthy of throwing logs in meine oven while I vork?"

>Blitzen sighed

>"With all due respect, Mein Frau. I vould be more useful to our friends here, zan doing… Zat.."

>Franziska huffed

>"I thought you liked being meine oven-boy."

>the mare played with a quil as she thought deeply

>"Buuut I guess zat ist not befitting to your rank. I vill have some Gefreiter do it."

>Franziska groaned

>"Maybe if I muzzle him. Theze low ranking colts are always so talkative. You know ven to shut up."

>"Thank you, Mein Frau."

>Franziska leaned over some papers and scribbled something down

>"I vill allow it. Just do not get bit. You're no good to ze fatherland dead, or crippled."

>after some minutes of writing notes, Franziska let you go, and told you to meet in her office tomorrow

>Blitzen stayed to propose his wing-dagger idea to her

>you could go back to the resort, owned by the old stallion to regroup with your crew

>or something else entirely

>what do?

>>269082

Let's grab a bite to eat with Aldreda she probably hasn't been eating much but cheese and it gives us a chance to talk more about her trip.

>>269082

To speed things up, tell franziska that blitzens' idea has been approved and he just needs some material for however many units aldreda deems necesary for this first mission; then introduce Aldreda to bratwurst

>>269125

>bratwurst

Wat

>>269127

Do you think ponies eat those?

>>269128

There's probably a vegan tofu version of bratwurst for ponies.

>>269132

It can't be a proper Germania without a Bratwurst. Sure, it will probably be a gryphon that sells it in a backalley restaurant away from ponies who have piglet friends, but there must be bratwurst somewhere and Aldreda has to experience it

Tell Red about that our neigh infinite pile of bits turned into a neigh nonexistent pile of bits earlier and how we need to keep a better eye on it.

If the bats are truly giddy it might be a good idea to send them out to "explore" the area between here and Scheißeville for the purpose of not being troublemakers in a military infested town; though we'd wanna run that past Aldreda first.

Then perhaps seek out Blitzen alone and see how he feels about taking his old folk with him on an extended vacation

>>270077

Agree and the dubs comfirm

>>270077 checked!

>>270138

>>270018

>Red lead you towards the resort

"So, what happened to all the bits we acquired, why were we broke for a time there?"

"Don't you remember how many bits we had to throw at that old fool of a griffin? Plus feeding a crew is expensive, so is paying them, they're not following us for fun, you know. Everypony gets their fair share. Money is constantly draining on crew expenses. The same goes for the bats. Even if we don't have to feed them, as they catch their own food at sea, they're still getting paid."

"What are they doing with the money?"

"As of now? They're mainly playing with the bits, building towers and paint them. I've seen some of them discussing how to make jewelry out of them."

"Why aren't they using them on normal stuff?"

"They grew up with bones and dead critters as a very simplistic means of trade. I don't think they've fully understood what money is for."

>Red sighed

"But it's their share, so I don't know what to tell ya."

>as you entered the resort, it was buzzing with life and activity

>the owner didn't seem to mind hosting zebras, and especially not bats, as they were swift in clearing his building of rats

>but you could tell they had a lot of pent up energy

>you looked towards Aldreda

"I think it's a good idea we let them do something other than sit around."

>Aldreda rolled her eyes at the comotion the bats were causing

>"Agreed."

"Maybe have them explore the area we'll have to pass to get to Sheiseville? Would give them something to do."

>"Yes. Don't need them messing around in this town."

>Aldreda barked at the bats to be quiet

>they all stopped, landed and sat down in front of her

>"You had your rest at the ship. Spread your wings and give me eyes and ears over the landscape between this town and Sheiseville. Move out!"

>the gang wildly flew out the door as a gust of wind, and soon enough, they were all gone

>an orchestra of shrieks towards the moon, heralded their exit

>"What do you expect them to find?"

"Not much, but at least it'll give them something to do, and an early warning if there's something we should look out for."

>"True. I will report back if they find anything worthy your attention."

>your thoughts shifted to Blitzen and his family

>but the stallion was with Franziska, proposing his idea of his wing-dagger weapon

>maybe you should gatecrash?

>what do?

>>270193

Iets, but if possible, lets hang back and wait for a moment when the idea gets attacked for either the price, the uselessness of it for a germania that has no batpons, or the supposed incompetence of the inventor. In that case, lets interject and declare ourselves the prime benefactor of said technology as the future captain of the inventor; so we could easily pay for it too. Come, Blitzen, let us discuss the details on the ship, and have a good excuse to steal him away.

ask if this one is ready for a test run. Lets see how Aldreda and the bats fare with our new experimental weaponry. Lets have the demonstration at the zebra ship and have them take back any volunteers for crafting duty.

ask Aldreda if she'd like to report herself and help out with finalizing the prototype. ask her when reports are supposed to roll in to see if it makes sense to wait for them and direct one to Aldreda when they arrive. Also, lets summon Marcus and show him the results of our weapon testing.

>>270588

>>270571

"Do you want to tell Blitzen yourself?"

>"I can if you want."

"Alright, and about that report of your last raid, when is it supposed to come in?"

>"Five enemies dead, maybe six. One was bleeding pretty badly. No permanent damage on any of us though."

"Is that your report?"

>"I don't know what else to tell you. Some bats painted a warning on the enemy ship."

"How much did you loot?"

>"All of it. Even the clothes of their backs. Marcus knows what it's worth. Said it was pretty good if we get a buyer."

"I guess that's cool."

>what do?

>>270588

Lets show marcus the results of our testing and discuss the financial matters with him. if we're lucky he already has a buyer in mind or something.

>>270726

>>270699 >checking own dubs… For shame.

>you soon followed Aldreda towards the Nazi workshop

>once you had arrived, the place was already filled with a dozen zebras, as well as Marcus looking over them

>Red was also there, looking over them, making sure no zebra fell into the machinery and killed themselves

"Hi Red."

"What's up, Anon?"

"Not much. You?"

"Just looking after these striped bastards. And I've been missing you."

"You have?"

"Don't act so coy, Anon. It's been a while~"

"This isn't really the time, Red, we got shit to do before we-"

"Eventually die? C'mon Anon. We should be doing it before every mission, as we don't know which will be our last."

"You think so?"

"Hey, you might be immune to bat bites, but one fang in me and i'm toast. Let's head back to the yacht. I want you to romance me good."

>what do?

>hug or fug?

>>270742

fug the pone

>>270742

both

>>270743

>>270768

>>270741

>you smiled as you picked Red up and cradled her in your hands

>after stealing a kiss, you headed towards the yacht

>the deck was snowy and slippery, but you somehow manadged to get Red into the bedroom without slipping

>after dropping Red onto the bed, you lit some candles

>it was cold as shit, and your Eskimo wiener reflected that

"I don't think we'll be able to-"

"What?"

"It's freaking cold, Red."

"C'mon, don't tell me you can't get the job done because of a little breeze."

"Nice, coming from the one with a built-in coat."

"At least try you pussy. It's been a while. Bring it here, i'll warm it up for ya to start."

>you could try to roll 50/50 to get the juices flowing below freezing

>or you could risk being disturbed at the hotel

>what do?

>>270935

freezing? iirc blood also freezes at zero so it'll be still then too. Even if not we still have other appendages to use for her satisfaction

mental note: get heater installed… fast

>>270936

well, it does if attached to a dead body. But unless that is the case, your body produces enough heat to counter it. This is also the reason humans and animals do not freeze in place, whenever the temperature reaches sub zero.

However, maintaining a boner in such a climate is difficult, which is why I want to roll for it.

>>270937

we'd then still have hands… roll away

>>270948

will do when I get home.

>>262623

>two months later

anyone?

>>263971

>>263971

>>271117

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>270948

>>270978

>>271117

>>271124

I'll roll you pussies

>>271468

Apologies. Writer's block is a bitch. Will update tomorrow.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>270948

1 = success

2 = fail

>>271987

>>270935

>you held your arms around Red and started kissing her neck passionately

>the erection wasn't coming in this cold, but you could stil have fun

>you wrapped both you and Red in the blanket as continued snuggling her

"Can't get it up?"

>you shushed her muzzle with your hand, while stroking her nethers with your other

"Hmmmm~"

>removing your hand you kissed her on the lips as you sneaked as you warmed your fingers in between her thighs

>Red pressed her mouth against yours as you moved your hand further up and played with her bits

"Ahm~ Like that yes."

>you continued letting the mare lavish in pleasure as you held her close with your free arm

>she warmed you up nicely, if only ponies were bigger

>as you fingered her, Red kept moaning into your mouth, you took this opportunity suck her tongue

>Red mushed her thighs together as her marehood contracted faster and faster

>the heat and the smell drove you wild

"Ahh~ Ohhha! Keep going~!"

>more and more, your bodies grinded together as enjoyed the intimacy with your mare

>coming closer and closer, Red threw her head back in bliss

>bringing her back with your free hand, you kissed her again, hard

>underneath the sheets, you were still fingering the mare, and she loved every second of it

>singing your fingers even deeper, Red flexed her thigh-muscles harder, damn near breaking your wrist

>holding on to the back of her head, you looked her in the eye as you continued pleasing her

>panting and moaning, Red had a hard time keeping eye contact with you, as her eyes started rolling to the the back of her skull

>in an instant, Red squeezed you like she never had before, she forced her way onto you as she orgasamed, divine marejuice running down your fingers like mana from the heavens

>grabbing you with her forehooves, Red held you tight as she rode out her orgasm, contracting and relaxing her thigh muscles in a hypnotizing fashion

>Red fell back onto the bed, a hot, sweaty mess

>you got down next to her and licked the lips of her soaking wet marehood

>Red patted your head with a hoof as she trusted her crotch in your face as you thoroughly licked, kissed ans sucked her nethers clean

you brought your head back to eye level to Red, she eagerly kissed you again, wasting no time lapping up her own mare cum

>finishing it all with an exaggerated gulp

>the two of you snuggled together as you fell asleep from exhaustion

>you woke up due to a knocking on the door

>you whiped your eyes and headed over to open it

>it was Aldreda, decked out in armor and wing claws

"Morning."

>"Morning. Franziska is ready to show us the ponies that will be joining us. Do you want to join?"

>what do?

>>271997

sure let's get ready, and see if Red wants to as well

get together with aldreda first (red included if she wants), get the intel they gathered and see if she thinks there's a chance the opposing bats may surrender to her.

>>272760

I can't really think of something to consider reasonable. Lets tell her not to worry about it and we'll keep it as a favour. Besides, this is to expediate the construction of said airship and might bolster our ranks a tad.

To that effect, lets ask Aldreda and the bats if there is perhaps the common method of taking over the clan by challenging the leader is something that would apply here. Anyway; lets give the floor to Aldreda so she can present her master plan

>>272777

We have batponies alive and fighting on our side, so if we extend the offer to take up surrendering batpons after the fight we may still have some new recruits whilst still being honerable. It was for aldreda to plan and it is for her to execute; so lets let the luitenant do her thing

>>272783

Don't we have like, money? We should go buy warm clothes. I'm pretty sure Franziska's disdain for plebs would make asking a favor from her be more trouble than it's worth. Unless we asked for something outrageous, like a flamethrower to keep us warm.

>>272811

We've already taken off. But if you don't want to ask Franziska, you could always do some hunting once deployed. Maybe hunt bears, or make a nice coat out of bats, whatever to keep warm, really. I want this CYOA to be as open as possible.

>>272850

We should probably have something warmish on the ship for our sake. As for the deathsquad, I think the best option is to return to Franny and inform her that the army assigned appears to be without suitable uniform. If she goes on about expendability we can argue they'd be more then useless when they die before reaching the battlefield due to our ponies then needing to carry their germanian weaponery back. For our own purposes we can probably take a detour by the ship.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/03/arbeit-macht-frei-sign-stolen-dachau-concentration-camp-found/

>>272777

>>272783

you know one thing that I've noticed as being odd is that the ponies talk about sentinels as if they're old, but still around. They recognize they're thousands of years old but act like one crops up every now and again. Kinda makes you wonder whether there's more of them than just Aldreda left, and she also might not be the only one with a bat pack either.

>>272901

>Get comfy with santa hats and hot coco

Yes please. Also maybe we should plan something for Christmas Hearth's Warming with Red.

>>272936

Not sure how much time has past since it in-game but we did promise to go visit her sister for heartswarming at some point. We probably need to get this bat issue in order first though

>>272948

There's nothing that really needs to be taken care of as far as I can think of so let's skip ahead unless someone thinks of something we're missing

>>273092

Make sure every pony is equipped; make sure every pony knows the plan; get a sense of the bats morale… thats about what i can think of

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>273092

>>273447

>>272948

>the days passed, and you made sure to check up on morale

>as you suspected, the bats were as ready to fight as Aldreda was, there was definitely a connection between them

>the dethrows… Not so much, but none dared look Aldreda or you in the eye, unless spoken too, so you didn't think they'd be any trouble

>but they did have their standard issue coats, weapons, not so much

>everything from bycycle pump flamethrowers, to claw hammers, to pikes, it was clear Franziska didn't consider their armaments to be of any particular priority

>still, Franziska gave you her word that they were fit for combat, no matter how expendable

>the morning finally came when Franziska ordered everyone to ready up for deployment

>you were all lead to what looked like giant steel bells, equipped with seats and seatbelts

>"Now!"

>Franziska exlaimed with joy

>"Due to weather, unt vinds, your chances of survival are 98 percent! Das ist ten percent better than last generation's shock pods!"

"Are you sure this glorified hollow anchor is safe?"

>"Vould I put you in them if they weren't safe?"

>Franziska snarked with a deliberately surprised tone of voice

"Yes, yes you would."

>"Vell it ist too late now! Gut luck!"

>the bell's iron door closed as the entire thing began to creak and groan

>it was being moved

>after a couple of minutes, a siren went off as you could feel the bell sway in the air

>something let go, and you were soon free falling

>someponies screamed, other ponies cried, while some payed

>it didn't take more than a couple of seconds, but it felt like minutes

>a thunderous crash, accompanied by a devastating bell ring

Are we on bump limit already?

>>273658

Oh, /pone/ is just fast today.

>>273657

Have to go with Aldreda on this one, the team in the forest might have been ambushed already we need to focus on the objective rather than deviate.

>>273657

This is Aldreda's attack so lets do it her way. Lets send Red out to see what happened to the excess convicts that franny sent with us and have her lead that as a backup squad.

let me post, fucker

Why won't you work

REEEEEEEEEEE

http://pastebin.com/vbJC4EV9

See if that works.

>>273812

Why not ask Aldreda what would be the best defensible position, she is the expert on fighting these things.

>>273812

What happened to the find the leader and thump him plan? Perhaps we should leave one bat less dead and order it to fetch this leaderbat.

http://pastebin.com/4WYS3Cdu

>>273905

see what they want, but guns at the ready just in case SHTF

8chan don't like my long posts: http://pastebin.com/SXtduA1B

>"You're not really planning to take that riff raff in, right?"

Of course we are. We already have some bats in the troop, we got some zebras… we even have Red!

But lets ask Aldreda her plan and see how the rest of the troop feels about 10 feet tall monster hunting.

>>274032

Let's ask Blitzen if he has any knowledge of creatures matching that description around here, would be nice to know what we're going up against.

>>273812

>>273905

>>273961

>>274032

I kinda figured these bats would be the feral variety but I guess there are other civilized groups of bats. We should probably tell Redheart the next time we see her.

>Ten foot tall! And it has great arms that smash and rip, and big teeth that bite and spit

so we hunting yeti now?

>>274057

I agree with asking Blitzen since this is his home.

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Post.

>>274120

Might as well go look

>>274121

http://pastebin.com/rKq582D8

>>274138

I kinda feel sorry for bat chief but such is the rules of nature or something like that.

I think the celebrating can wait till after we kill the yeti Menk.

>>274144

>>274138

Yeah, it's pretty much a dick waving contest, only less subtle.

>you figured there was no time to waste even if you would only get a few hours of sunshine

>it took you a minute before you slapped your forehead

>bats didn't need sunshine to hunt in the dark

>just because you and Red couldn't see shit, didn't mean Aldreda and the bats were blind as well

>you almost had to drag Red out of the burrow, as she was in a 'drinking and eating' mood and didn't want to 'go outside in that plowing cold' again

>the rest of the gang were easier to convince, but you knew this would guarantee to leave Red cranky

>oh well

>small sacrifice to get out of this frozen hellhole before pony Christmas

>as you walked around in the woods towards your location, the bats formed a loose circle around you, blitzen, Red and the deathrows, with Aldreda taking point

>this was Aldreda's idea, as they were the only ones able to see past their noses, or at least sense past their noses

>even most of the stars were blocked out thanks to the big trees

>it was because of these environments, Aldreda refused to let any bat fly off on their own

>the weather was fucking freezing, it made daytime wandering seem like Neighssau in comparison

>you could see it in all the ponies too, as well as some of the less insulated bats

>you quickly realized how compromised you'd all be if you were to be attacked righ now, thanks to the cold and piss poor visibility

>there was always an option to set up camp and work from there, you could set up a bonfire and get some light in, as well as warmth

>you could also set up some Yeti bait, if you knew what Yetis ate

>or continue through the woods and cover a bigger area

>what do?

>>274153

Oh hey, it seems to work now.

>>274155

Perhaps its an idea to spread out the bats to cover a wide area; have them look for the target. Not engage, but rather relay its location to us so we can engage it at our full strength. Have them use a buddy system and stay within sensing range of another group so they won't just disappear out of thin air. Lets light at least a torch. and maybe a full on campfire if the area we are examining is small enough

>>274157

Camp fire, if we're going to have a lightsource might as well get some warmth out of it, Also maybe pick out the sneakier bats to run recon and have the rest hang back and help fortify our position since we'll basically be sitting around a big beacon in the middle of the woods. The recon team will also probably benefit from being smaller since there will be less commotion to alert whatever is out there.

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>>274423

Well, bats are a bit stupid and they have said no one had actually seen the thing without coming back alive, We've cleared them out of the town and it does seem like there isn't anything out there considering that the unatural sounds might just be the machinery in town. Let's go back and ask how they actually know there's a beast out in the woods if no one that's seen it has returned.

Also fuck the cold, this isn't worth the trouble.

>>274661

couldn't hurt, since our attempt at a chance encounter didn't work we might as well ask around for the answer.

>>274749

End your shitty long ass story.

>>274749

Pass the back to Aldreda. If she still doesn't feel like taking them up now we could consider sending them to hooflers junk where the other bats are. They might need a little escort for that by way of the batship, but to just leave them to be bombed is not something I'd feel happy about.

>>274751

get stuffed

>>274753

>>274749

"I'll ask Aldreda if she wants them, if not, could you ask Franziska real nicely if we can just re-locate them? Wouldn't that be cheaper and more efficient than bombing them?"

>"Depends on ze method of transportation, but Frau Franziska does not care about cost. Ve vould have to spin this some other way if ve are to leave ze boarders with them alive."

"So there's no way to sneak out?"

>"Vith thiz amount of bats, and considering they are forest dwelling savages, nein. You could try your luck at jumping ze hoofiet boarder. But that vould be suicide. Convincing Franziska not to send these bats to their collective graves would be preferable. But a tough sell. She always was a fan of mass murder…"

>Poor Blitzen, you could only imagine the things he had to do for Franziska's sick amusement over the years

"I'll think of something if Aldreda says no."

>"Unt if she says yes?"

"Well, then she'll take them under her wing. Join her flock. And you know how subservient bats are to their leader."

>"Hmm. Considering we already killed ze city occupiers, that might vork."

"Goodie. I'll be right back after talking to Aldreda then."

>"All right."

>once more you approached Aldreda, who was once more stalked with the batty bat from before

>you could see from her expression she had completely blocked her out, not that the chatty bat had any issue holding a one way conversation

"Hey, can you give us a minute?"

>"Of course! I was just on the way to pick up some precious lard to cover the Sentinel's hooves with"

"Lard?"

>"It's a cultural thing."

"Well, anyways."

>the little bat left the two of you alone

"Aldreda, Franziska is going to bomb the forest, if you don't want to take them in, i'll find a way to get them out of here and relocate them."

>"Hmm. If their choices are relocating or death. I will pick some of them. Enough to total a horde. I don't want all of them. Just enough that it totals 99 bats, including myself. Can we fit that many ponies?"

"Once we get the airship, sure."

>"It's settled then. We'll lord over a total of 98 bat ponies. I'll go pick out some willing contenders."

"Alright. Wait, will you include the one that follows you all the time?"

>"Depends, do you like her?"

>what do?

>>274783

Seems alright, a bit on the clingy side but doesn't seem like she'll be fine.

Also maybe we can find a way for the bats to be of use to Franziska, they seem near the Hooviet boarder and knowing that she Hate commies more than other races maybe we can convince her to let them over the boarder since they're plague carriers. The idea of causing disease on her most hated enemies while also ridding her of the pest problem may get her to back down. But if she can't be I guess not letting them know what's coming is the only merciful thing. Considering that if we try getting them over the boarder she'll probably just bomb the Forrest with us in it then everyone will be dead.

>>274751

End your shitty long ass life

>>274795

Good idea. We can play it as our original plan as well and harp on about how when one gives a problem to someone else to solve it is bad form to then do it for them; especially if it is a solution to another problem; namely hooviet health.

>>274836

>>274795

>>274783

"Yeah, she's alright, bring her in."

>"Will do. Outlander. Gonna talk to her when I pick out the other bats."

"Good. I'll take care of the remainders."

>"That sounds ominous."

"It is."

>"I understand, whatever you're thinking of doing, it should be ominous after we've left. I do not need the new bats to harbor any overbearing ill will."

"Does it matter?"

>"Honestly? No, it does not. I'll make them follow orders either way. But it would save them a lot of mental suffering if they didn't know how ominous your care was."

"I'm thinking of telling them they can escape through Hoofiet boarders. They'll probably end up fighting the commies."

>"I've heard a lot of these Hoofiets, how powerful are they?"

"Powerful enough to not get completely steamrolled by the Germaneians, that's for sure."

>"They won't survive battling a real army."

"I know."

>"Well. As long as you're not planning to do anything with them later, because the clan will most likely be annihilated."

"At least they're bound to take a fair chunk of commies with them, after all they're plague carriers."

>"What do we have against the Hoofiets?"

"Nothing special. It just makes sense considering we're doing the Germaneians a favor."

>"I don't much care for these new nations to be honest. But they are benefiting us."

"Why, were things better before?"

>"No, it was a never-ending shrieking nightmare in comparison to today. I guess I still need to get used to it. Perhaps connect a bit more with today. We should visit a museum sometime."

"That would be nice."

>Aldreda left to recruit some lucky bats, you went to Blitzen to determine the fate for the rest of them

>you walked outside with the stallion to ensure some privacy, and Blitzen soon enough wrote out a letter to Franziska, teasing her with a happy surprise for when she'd come pick you up

>you told Red, and even if she disagreed, she didn't make too much of a fuzz about it

>meanwhile Aldreda had picked out her extra bats, including her fangirl who did nothing but hop around with glee

>now all that remained was telling the bat population the lie and make them move east, preferably before extraction

>what do?

>>274900

>now all that remained was telling the bat population the lie and make them move east, preferably before extraction

Nah; lets be truthful. If one of the new bats finds out we knew about how their numbers were to be eradicated AND didnt tell them about it would without a doubt cause more ill will then the other way around.

If they lay low over the border there _might_ be a possibility they can be picked up later and i dunno, relocated to the mountains or something? Who knows; maybe them Hoofiets have some sympathy for creatures expelled from Germanian territory and it will work out.

Still, I dont want to give them the wrong idea; lets be sure we paint the whole picture accurately.

>>274990

Trust me fam not telling them what happens if this doesn't appeal to franziska would be a mercy, having them move to the east might not be great for their survival but it's better than the bombs and if they know what's comming they'll either panic or worse try to fight and get slaughtered. This white lie is the only way these bats have a chance of survival

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>274990

1-50 Tell the truth

>>274994

51-100 White lie

>>275043

>>274990

>>274900

"You know what, Blitzen? I think the bats deserve the truth."

>"Vat do you mean, Anon?"

"We should tell them how dangerous the trip past Hoofiet land will be, maybe it'll give them a fighting chance."

>"Hmm. While Ich do not agree, you are ze boss."

"Why not?"

>"Zey might get mad, unt ve are in their territory. Ze heart of the swarm one could say."

"Yeah, but that's a risk i'm willing to make."

>Blitzen rumaged around in a few pockets in his uniform and produced a cigarette

>"You go ahead, I need a smoke."

>you made your way through the burrows and found Aldreda, thankfully without her fangirl attached to her hip

"Hey."

>"Hello."

"Look, i've been thinking, and we should tell the bats my plans."

>"And that is?"

"To get them to move to the Hoofiet boarder. If they try to sneak through a less populated area, they might escape with their life."

>"Yes. Perhaps."

"It beats being bombed right?"

>"Depends. Sometimes a quick death is preferable."

"Think they'll share the sentiment?"

>"No. They'll beg to join us. Could end up in a brawl. Unwise. We should tell them as we leave. Yes, We should do that. Yell at them as we leave."

"Wouldn't that count as cowardly?"

>"No. We're giving them information for free. Charitable is what I would call it. Besides, it's either this, fight them off, or watch them get bombed. Helplessly."

"You do have a point…"

>what do?

>>275045

Let's agree to that since it eliminates complications but let's have Aldreada do it since she'll be more clearly heard from a distance and probably understood better as well.

>>275056

>>275045

"Sounds good to me, can you be the one saying it? Once we announce it we'll probably be off the ground, and they'll have no problem hearing you."

>"That could be arranged."

"Great. I'll tell the others."

>and so you did

>the day after you, Aldreda, Blitzen and the rest of the bats were standing outside in the frozen tundra, waiting for Franziska's pickup

>the bat clan had left your crew with gifts, such as dried rats and sparkly sand

>their items held no value to to, but were clearly of importance to the clan, you had reluctantly accepted them

>after a couple of hours, you could see several airships sail over the horizon

>three to be exact

>two of them flew in low and dropped the same kinds of metal bells you used to get down, only this time they were attached to chains

>your crew walked in, as Aldreda ordered the newcomers inside a bell of their own

>as you accended, it struck you as odd as to why they wouldn't just drop you down here in the first place with a chain attached

>would save you a rocky landing, and most likely save half of the deathrows

>as you were raided back on board one of the airships, Aldreda barked at the new bats to stay in their bell, she also convinced a guard to lock the door to it

>Franziska came marching in as she shared a Heil Hoofler with Blitzen

>she then turned to you with a shit eating grin on her face

>"Zo! You did it! You deserve a parade, were it not for ze fact that you are eine wild card, vould probably say zomething stoopid during your speach."

"Stupid? Like what?"

>"Forgetting to heil, speak badly of my generous, generous treatment of you, or have your mutty mate exlaim how great she is. Nein nein, Ich do not need eine public relation issue on mein hooves. What I vill do though, ist something you might appriciate more!"

"Oh yeah, like what?"

>"Yoo vill see."

>she directed her attention to Aldreda

>"Are ze plauge carriers on their way to ze hoofiet boarders?"

>"They'll leave by the end of the week. I still need to tell them it will be dangerous."

>"Oh?"

>Franziska cocked her head

>"Unt why ist dat?"

>"The Outlander's wishes."

"I figuer it would give them a fighting chance to sneak past."

>"Ridiculous. Blitzen! Order ze fire bombings!"

>"But you promised, mein frau. Ze bats are no longer in ze city."

>"Ahh! You are correct! Blitzen! Do nicht order ze firebombings!"

>"Thank you, mein Frau."

>"Ich truly am ze most generous of ponies. Hehe. Now Aldreda. Now would be ze time to say what you want to say!"

>Aldreda turned to you

>"What do you want me to tell them exactly, Outlander?"

>what do?

>>275077

Checked and tell them the boarder crossing will be dangerous and to use caution making it across but it's still more survivable then the fire bombs that are comming if they don't head to the Hooviet Union.

>>275105

>>275077

"Tell them the boarder crossing will be dangerous and to use caution making it across but it's still more survivable then the fire bombs that are coming."

>"Got it. Franziska. Can you open a door?"

>"Of course meine little abomination. Vill you scream loudly?"

>"Loudly."

>"Let me get meine ear muffs."

>Franziska left with Aldreda to the front of the airship

>it didn't take long for Aldreda to blast hellishly loud noises, damn near deafening you

>you could tell you'd never get used to such a volume of sound, it was like a continuing shotgun blast going off right next to your head

>needless to say, you didn't understand a word of it, but perhaps the bats did

>once Aldreda returned she claimed such at least

>and so you headed back to Germaneia

>as you landed, Red snapped out of her tenseness and walked passed you with a comment

"Hold on, Anon, I have something to ask of Franziska."

"And what is that?"

"Heart's warming surprise!"

"Sounds good."

>"It's been a long time since I've experienced Heart's warming."

"Oh yes! We'll have ourselves a great Heart's Warming. I'll be right back."

>and so Red left, it didn't take her long to return though, along with Franziska

>"Zo I hear you could go for eine vacation! Ve have a Wunderbar military camp down in Zeveres where you'd be left alone unt could celebrate Heart's Warming!"

"Zeveres? Like the zebra homeland?"

>"Precisely!"

"I thought you guys hated zebras."

>"I do. But ze reich does not. Ve just belive everyone should know their own place. Plus ze bases keeps ze commies from trying to expand their poisonous ideology to ze zebras."

"But why would we want to go to Zeveres?"

>"Because it is beautiful, tropical, unt you could sell ze stolen wares your tree legged friend tried selling here. Plus Ich miiiight have another job for yoo in ze future. Vhy not take eine vacation, all expenses paid, you know. Relax a bit while ve get that airship into production, how does zat sound?"

"Think you can get us there in time? I mean, Zeveres is pretty far away."

>"Of course I can, unt in one piece too! That ist eine Franziska guarantee!"

>what do?

>>275200

checked again, and with dubs like those she can be believed.