((Hmm, I assumed that when we went into the second room, we stepped just within range of the aura again, since we were: (superficially) closer to the palace; and Cedeus mentioned Candle being unable to cast any spell other than light. The indication that she could still use very weak spells supported the theory, assuming that the aura was weaker at the edges.)) ((Also, bio time! ...and mythology time...)) Spoiler ((Earth ponies can store large amounts of energy, but are only very efficient at using it in a physical sense. On the other hoof, unicorns can also store masses of energy, but are more efficient at using it for magic. This is why unicorns are typically thought of as being physically weaker than earth ponies. How efficiently a pony can use and manage their energy determines things such as stamina and power.)) ((Pegasi are okay at using their energy for either purpose, but cannot control magic at range due to having no horn. The horn acts as an antenna. Gears uses the pendant as a prosthetic horn, but is not as efficient at using his energy as a unicorn would be. Even though he is named Flywheel for more than just a familial tie (he can store and quickly use MUCH more energy than the average pony, which is good for long slogs and rapid speed bursts), in his current state, he cannot afford to use up any more energy or he will collapse.)) ((HOWEVER, there is another branch of magic in common lore that allows (and often requires) the user to utilise vast amounts of energy, far more that any normal pony could store. This... is druidism and/or necromancy.)) ((This type of magic uses energy directly from the environment. Take too much away from the environment and you will kill it. Unicorns, and to some extent pegasi, can do this unconsciously to regain some of their stamina, but it's very slow. Any conscious attempt to do this almost always results in too much being taken away.)) ((This affects Gears' situation in that him trying to perform magic by draining the surroundings' energy would put the health of all present at risk, including himself. Therefore, he cannot do magic till he gets his stamina up by eating and resting.)) ((Yes, I try to explain magic with science, and no, I don't have a life. ))
((I like the way you think Gears. I wonder if that also means that I do not have a life as well :derpe: . That reminds me of Eragon... And you forgot posting your action. Or we'll just wait for Caberea's now? In that case, I won't post mine too.)) ((Interesting fact: both our ponies are in a library.))
((Yeah, my last post requested information that only the GM knows (the contents of the next room), so my character is currently in stasis till Caberea continues the story.))
((So it is agreed we wait for what cabe gives us now, therefore cabe should get typing so we can do something outside the castle and exchange stories and the like))
((Reading through these posts, we appear to be very impatient. I just want to the clarify that this isn't the case. :derpe)
((Got room for another?)) Name:Nightshift Age:Adult Gender:Male Type:Unicorn Special talent/Cutie mark:Hammer striking sparks from an anvil - Instinctively knows the weak point of any metal object he looks upon. Appearance: Dark Blue with Silver mane Full details - http://www.everypony.com/forums/showthread.php?1062-OC-Pony-Database/page8
((I'll get to you as soon as this "Arc" is completed Nightshift)) Somewhere in Equestra-Tekkie, Gears, StormBlitz, Brave cape (Any i missed) As Gear's poke's his head out he shuts his eyes as a searing light enters them. A massive gap in the wall is missing and light spills out of it, temporarily blinding each pony in turn as their eyes adjust to it. Stormblitz breaths a sigh of relief before becoming rigid as Solace's voice echoes around the room. "Very well done. But don't think you could defeat the leader of the Sol Assasins that easily. However, I'm afraid we will not be having our fight today. I have done my duty, and your freedom shall be your reward for mastering my traps." A pause hung in the air. None of the ponies willing to believe it to be true for fear it prove false, and unfortunately, as a dark and imposing figure stepped into the room from the light outside, it proved to just that. "So this is the best my "Sister" has to send against me?" Celestia stands in between the group and freedom. Her mane now a dark mass of black, her coat varying from a darkest grey to blackest night. Celestia's cutie mark was gone too, and her body brimmed with a dark power. "You are all fools for standing against me" ((Give it the best you've got guys))
((You missed the NPCs.)) Brave "You've got to be kidding me. After years spent in that prison with that idiot that calls himself an assassin, my whole body broken to its maximum extent, I've got to face the all-powerful empress of our enemies?" The other ponies, including Celestia, look at him confused for a moment. He stares back. Brave "What? I had to snap out at SOME time, don't you think? Either way..." Brave Cape grins. Brave "... This gave me time to think." He turns to the rest of his companions. Brave "You all know how Unicorns can't cast magic if they're distracted, right? Well, I believe this applies to Celestia. So, here it is..." He rapidly pass his instructions to each pony separately, and wait for them to agree. ((I did something... Interesting. I hope you don't mind, Caberea. And I hope you guys get what I'm doing.))
Gears "Just one thing. Don't turn your back on her. Midnight, all courses of action are folly now, so give Celestia a good greeting for me." Midnight "You're the boss! Maybe you should stay back a little, you look like you're gonna faint." Gears "None of us can afford to sit this one out, Midnight. However, you are right, I do feel exhausted..." Gears tightens his hold on Stormblitz and retreats a little way back and sets her down. His wings droop at his sides as he lands, rather than tucking against his sides. Gears "There's no sense in a pegasus fighting with a broken wing. If Brave Cape has in mind what I think he does, then we'll need someone else to coordinate us. I don't know you, but you look like a good leader. But stay at least a few metres away from me; I need to do something quite dangerous." He rubs some weariness from his eyes, sighs, and lays down a little way away from the . Gears Empty all thoughts and feel past the air... Gears feels a coolness around him. It is not cool like a breeze on fur; it is felt with his mind. He sinks into a deeply meditative state. Around him, a patch of grass turns to brown. A little youth returns to him for a second as his weariness drops away, but he seems to grow older at the same time. ((When I posted about druidic magic, I didn't think I'd ever have to actually incorporate it into the roleplay. However, I see no other way I could possibly be useful in my current state.))
Brave Cape felt... Something. Suddenly, he was a little more weaker. And yet he knew. He witnessed that before. Brave "You might as well as teach me that. That seems useful, and as you may discover soon enough... I am a fast learner." ((Thanks to Caberea, Brave has been so freaking hardened that standing, without moving at all, is enough rest for him. Grizzly veteran. May remind you of Bear Grylls :derpe)
I whimpered as Celestia glered at me clearing know who I am and vengefulness filled her eyes, the cloud i was perched upon quickly disappated and i slumped to the floor. I slowly got back up with new resolve about me it was tmie to fight i decided. I went and sttod next to Gears and gave a short sharp nod to him as i formed lighting clouds behind Celestia and created a lighting attack. it just seemed to irritate her and make her more angry. I fogged her vision with the same clouds and looked to gears and said, "Uh-oh". ))
Brave "NOW!" After focusing all the while Celestia mindlessly attacked Gears, Brave Cape used Candle's magic and his own to hold the enemy alicorn in place and then try to sling her the farthest as possible, giving them enough time to escape and rest. He knew they weren't ready for a serious fight, and everypony was way too weary to put up a match, specially himself. He was aching to be able to fly and cast spells normally again, and to free himself of the ever-present pain. Besides, Gears was dying... Brave would not let a pony die in his legs. Not again. ((Mind the word TRY. I prefer to let Caberea decide if I actually succeeded or not.))
Somwhere in Equestria- Brave Cape, Stormblitz, Tekkie, Gears (Midnight, Candle, Cinammon) "Enough!" Celestia breaks free of the combined magic of Brave Cape and Candle, the magical energy shattering visably before her. Celestia advances on gears, flinging spells towards the group with each word, all of them being absorbed into gear's pendant. "You...will...not...defeat...ME!" Celestia's horn glows a dark red and fires an array of twenty dark red bolts of energy, each larger than Celestia herself. The bolts trying to diverge off and target the other group members, but still being absorbed into the pendant. "Absorb THIS!!!" Celestia fires a pinpoint of red energy towards the pendant. For a moment nothing happened, then pendant glowed a bright red. Six pinpoints of light shot out, targetting each member of the group except Midnight. A red circle appears where each pony is hit by the light, inside each circle appears a different symbol. (To clear up any confusion about this part, it follows the format Name-Where the circle has appeared-The symbol inside the circle) Gears-Forehead-Star Stormblitz-Left Wing-X Candle-Left Forehoof-Flame Tekkie-Right Forehoof-Hourglass Brave Cape-Right Wing-Skull Cinammon-Chest-Dagger "Now get out of my sight" With a flash of light the group of you find yourselves lying on the floor of The Lunar Republic, all of you minus Midnight...
I woke feeling very groggy and slowly opening my eyes I tried to look around but i could see nothing i thought i was blind and then my eyes began to adjust and i saw Gears and all the other ponies i was with except for midnight. I walked grogily over and woke up my companians hoping they would know where we were and so i could finally explain my story. ((time for story exchanging... fun))
Gears is barely aware. His concentration is broken when a sharp tug around his abdomen pulls him through the fabric of space, dumping him on a dirt floor. Gears Flywheel I feel... tired... and... cold... and yet he can tell that his entire body is overheated, humming with life and raw energy. Despite all this power, he cannot even muster up the strength to lift his head, which was partially a good thing, for if he had seen his own body at that point, his heart would have given up there and then. He is horribly emaciated, with bones showing through in places nopony would have thought possible. Gears Flywheel Can't... move... sleep... yes... ... no? A small thought lingers at the back of his mind. A memory, maybe. Perhaps something she had said to him in a similar situation. ??? Gears!? Please don't be dead! Wake up! Gears Flywheel Lilac... Twi? But you're too young... Twi isn't a foal any more... Gears tries to focus on the memory. Other voices, other memories, add in their pleas, building up into a cacophony inside his brain, all with one unanimous message. Twilight Get up, Gears. And it was her face. Smiling at him. He latches onto that image and starts to work. Gears Flywheel It might take me weeks, but this energy is not going to waste. On the outside, a little colour flushes back into his face, and he smiles too. ((This isn't some miraculous recovery thing. I'm trying to reconstruct my body from scratch, but I'm still dying. We all need instant medical attention. For now, Gears is not functional. He wasn't kidding about the "it might take me weeks" bit.)) ((Also: Midnight?! NOOOOOOO!))
Brave Cape open his eyes. Brave "Finally... I'm back." And he falls to the floor, finally able to rest. He didn't rest for so long... So long, ever since... Brave "Come on Aloe, we're almost out..." The memories. They came back, as sharp as knifes. Aloe "I won't make it. You know that." Not again... Brave "I'm not losing you. I won't! I can't... How will I ever live again?" Yet, there he was. He felt guilty. Aloe "You must do it. For the Republic." As naive as she could be... Brave "Maybe in the beginning, but now... I did it all for you. I can't..." Aloe... Solace "You cannot escape me you two! I will get you! For Celestia, I'm goint to torture you all to death!" He should have killed the assassin when he had the chance. Aloe "Brave..." She was fading away... Aloe! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Brave Cape suffered and twisted, moving while he slept and dreamt. A sleep nopony knew if he could recover from... Now that his mission was finally complete. Was it? ((Me and Gears are in the worse state. Now that Brave's body was finally released from its "Emergency" state it has been on years, well... Anyone with enough knowledge in biology knows how *squee!*ed up that is.)) ((Midnight seems treacherous to me... Either that, or being interrogated and tortured by death.))
Tekkie groaned and stood up quietly rubbing his head with his hoof, looking over at the only other pony who seemed to be awake at this point he approached her and looked at her wing "We should probably get a cast on that" he suggested quietly, his eyes quickly scanning the room to make sure the others hadn't disappeared somewhere else, he then quickly looked himself over making sure that whatever happened hadn't left a permanent burn on his body. Tekkie looked around curiously, trying to figure out where they were "Anypony got any idea where we are?" he asked ((sorry for the short post, don't really know what to put here right now 3: ))
"Now is still not the time for my wing and my injuries Tekkie," even though it was casuing me a lot of gref still and directed him over to where Brave cape and gears lay. I began to think out loud,"why weren't we injured this badly the spell had hit us to hadn't it." Continuing to think aloud," maybe it didn't affect me because I had no memories that it could affect but i dont know about you Tekkie." I rummaged through gears's ((lol grammer)) labyrinth of pockets until i had found what i needed to attempt to repair some of the wounds or at least allow them to heal and relised that Candle could probably heal them. When I eventually located Candle nearby i woke her and to my relief she was also spared from horrible injury unlike gears and brave cape. With candles magic and gears's suplies and some of Tekkies knowladg we were able to patch up some of the injuries that had been sustained. ((Well i have no idea what to do now.. so random fun time away))
((It's probably best to assume for now that Celestia somehow managed to also teleport my vest out of its hiding place in the tree.)) ((Btw, something that's been bugging me: if Celestia was able to teleport us back here, doesn't that mean that she knows the location of the Lunar Republic's secret hideout?)) ((Also, I think I'm still wearing socks on my head and tail... XD))
