/mlp/ - Clopper's Closet

Can you absorb the fire?

>>10143301
Like convert its energy into magic?

>>10143301
((Ponies do not naturally absorb fire and I'm pretty sure they never did. Unless you mean with magic, like >>10143394 said. In which case it would be a possibility))

Cast Mass Teleport

((Ok, that's one vote for mass teleport and one for trying to absorb the fire. Any other ideas or votes?))

>>10143690
I suppose if we could get close enough ourselves to teleport all three of us away at once, that would be best.

Perhaps a fallback plan would be in order too, anyone else have ideas? I haven't read this since the first three sessions so a little lost on our situation.

>>10143837
((I'm terrible at pacing so virtually all thats transpired
>Party planing
>Dash pandering
>Horrible explosion
>Mystery pony
>Try to save Ponyville
>Here we are))

>>10143915
Ah alright.
What about a nearby source of water to douse the fire? If that might work, we could put up a barrier around Fluttershy and filly to prevent the excess force from the water collapsing the structure, or it expanding the wood.

>>10144128
((You know there's a river that runs through town not too far away and that must be where everyone else is getting water to fight the fire. But that would mean trying to magic it all the way over here, which would be daunting under the best of circumstance or risk leaving these two here to get closer))

>>10144194
Oh, hmm. Perhaps then, we can try our multiple teleport spell but make the direction of the river our destination. If it works, grand, if not, we can skedaddle with that water back to the building. Granted that it's not too magically taxing on our feeble alicorn body.
Any objections (or anyone at all?)

"Ok, everyone just keep still! I'm going to get us out of here!"

"Twilight, what are you doing?" Fluttershy says, still kicking. "I can't see!"

You gather up the energy in your horn to teleport you, Fluttershy and the third pony away from here. Not too far, just a bit down the street out of danger. The spell is complicated enough with all the debris interfering and the fire.

And in a blink, you are some place else. The crumbled house is still in front of you, but smaller, further away. And just in time too: the whole thing crashes down in a big smoking heap a second later, as does Fluttershy who appeared mid air and fell onto the road face first.

>>10144432
uhoh. Give a quick once-over of Fluttershy to see if she's okay, look around if the filly landed anywhere.

"Are you ok?" You ask Fluttershy, help her up.

"I think so...." Fluttershy says, spitting a little pebble out of her mouth. She makes eye contact with you for an instant, but then quickly looks back at the ground. "...thank you."

"Good. And how are you...I didn't really catch your name uh....." You look around. The little filly isnt there. "What the,,,,no, I was sure I got her too."

You and Fluttershy are alone in the middle of the street. The little filly SHOULD be here, just were she was in relation to Fluttershy and you a moment ago. There aren't any hiding spots or things to obscure your vision. You're closer to the fire and the ponies and animals trying to put it out, but you're hardly crowded enough to lose sight of anyone.

She's just....gone.

Just got here, let me catch up....

>>10144882
Well, I suppose let's try to get some water.
Remember in the first Trixie episode where we filled the silo or whatever it was with milk for the Ursa Minor?
Let's try something like that, except scooping up water from the river. We can probably get more, since we must be stronger than we were in what was one of the first episodes.

>>10144882
I don't really like leaving her for dead without being sure, so let's go back to helping douse the flames in town starting with that house/area and check if she isn't trapped underneath rubble like before.

>>10145510
Oh, fuck, I was thinking she ran away or something.
You're right, she might not have made the transfer.

"Where...where did she go?" Fluttershy says, noticing the filly is missing too.

"I don't know! I was sure I had her with us when we teleported!"

"You don't think that...."

The two of you look back at the destroyed house, now little more then a hot mess of burst bricks and burnt beams. You've done teleports a hundred times before. You know what it feels like when someone is along for the ride and you know there were three of you just now. There's no way you could have just....left her there.

But she's not here and there's not a lot of other places she could be given the circumstances. You gallop back over to the burnt down house. It's piled on thicker then before, completely covering where the filly was.

"Maybe she could have....run off, maybe?" Fluttershy mumbles behind you. She doesn't sound at all convinced.

You're supposed to be a princess and look after these ponies. And you couldn't this time, you weren't able to.....no.

"No."

"But she might have when we weren't looking and-"

"No!"

The magic swells up around you like you emotions. With unseen force on a scale you haven't done since you first showed up Trixie, you reach out toe the river and diver the entire flow into the sky at a near right angle. The river defies gravity in a straight line up to the clouds, before making a u turn and splashing down directly on the destroyed house.

A knee high flood sweeps across the area and dousing the fire. Fluttershy squeaks and curls up defensively, letting the tide carry her a few feet down the road. As you release the magic and start to calm down, you see the fire is take care of in this area and a good deal beyond. The force of the water has also cleared away a good amount of the rubble, but there is still no sign of the missing filly. You feel very very tired, both physically and emotionally.

>>10145924
Tracking spell?
Second sight?
Is there any way we can expand our five senses, magically, to look for her?

"Come on, Twilight, think" You chide yourself, trying to come up with a spell to help.

"Tracking spell!" You try to focus in on finding the pony, but it just fizzles and sparks. "I don't have anything to track."

"Second sight!" You look past the mundane and try to see through your horn. "But I don't see anything."

"Enhanced hearing!" You use magic to amplify your ears. A fly buzzes part and it sounded as loud as a train. "Not helping!"

You run through a gambit of magic, with everything from signal flairs to remote perspective to upheaving the mess, becoming increasingly more and more frustrated as you do. Eventualy, the combined magical, physical and emotional strain becomes too great even for you, especailly after the river trick. Gasping for breath and still looking in every direction for any sign of the filly, you fall over and everything goes dark.

____________

When you wake up again, you find yourself in one of the patient rooms in the hospital. Your head hurts and the light stings your eyes a little, but you can move. Someone also undressed and cleaned you up a little, you stuff tucked away neatly on the bedside table. No one is in the room with you, but these plenty of activity sounding from outside.

>>10146494
See if there's a way to signal a nurse, like a button.

>>10146494
Get our shit together, assess how much time has passed. If possible find a pony nearby to ask what's happened overall and while we were out.

There's a call button on the wall beside the bed, so you hit it hoping for a nurse to come in and tell you what's happened. Nothing happens for a while, but some commotion happens behind the door. The whole thing bangs a few times in the frame and you can hear shouting. Familiar shouting.

>>10146706
Say "HELLO?" like an idiot.

>>10146706
How familiar are we talkin'? Hopefully not another mob.

"Hello?" You say, creeping over to the door, making you remember some really cheesy horror novels you've read. You shouldn't be sacred, its only the hospital.....but then where is everyone?

"He-hello?" You say again, more shakily, and reach for the door, opening it to find......Rainbow Dash, with a freshly bandaged head....holding down one of the nurses in a choke hold.

"Get off of me, you psycho!" The nurse pony spits, trying to peel Rainbow's grip off of her to no avail.

"Na uh!" Dash shouts, leaning on her harder. "No one's getting into see the princess while she's hurt!"

"I'm the nurse! She called me!"

"A likely story, assassin!"

The entire hallway is blocked, none of the other patients or hospital staff wanting to get any where near this situation.

>>10147032
Exasperatingly ask Rainbow Dash to please put the nurse down, you did in fact call her.
Ask if Dash is feeling better and what exactly has happened, mainly if the fire has been put out around town yet.

>>10147159
NO! Instead of exasperatingly, say it like a military officer.
Like: "BODY GUARD: STAND DOWN. THAT IS A DIRECT ORDER"

>>10147310
Rainbow Dash would prefer it that way, considering Spitfire

>>10147310
Well I was taking into account that Twilight DID just wake up from passing out due to exhaustion and is not really in the mind for fooling around.

"Dash! Stop!" You rush to pry them apart, Dash turns to fight you, but stop and relaxes when she sees its you. "STAND DOWN! DASH, THAT IS A DIRECT ORDER!"

"Hmph!" The nurse says, tearing Dash off of her and stomping off in a huff, Dash giving her a squinty look as she goes. Everyone else in the hall looks away and pretends nothing happened.

"What was all that about?"

"Twilight, I'm so glad you're ok!" Dash shouts and gives you a crisp salute. "Gotta make sure you're safe when you're recovering!"

"Why are you shouting? I'm right in front of you."

"What? You'll need to speak up, your highness! The fire spread into the barn where they were keeping all the cider! The fire LOVED that stuff, though that's not surprising how good it is! Wasn't counting on it all to explode, though! That's why I crashed!"

"Goodness Dash, are you ok?"

"What?"

"ARE YOU OK?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Dash says, tapping her head bandages. "I just got ringing in my ears! Doctor said it should go away eventually.....at least I think he said that!"

"What about....WHAT ABOUT THE FIRE?"

"Oh the fire's been out for hours! You did a lot of it from what I hear, with that water trick! Fluttershy's animals really helped too, so things aren't as bad as it could have been! A lot of ponies did get hurt, though, tough you can probably see that! We're in the hospital, by the way!"

>>10147567
Yeah we gathered we're in the hospital. Did any of them happen to find a lost filly of whatever description? (I don't know what she looks like but Twilight obviously does)

>>10147567
Ask who got hurt and to what degree.

"How bad is everyone hurt?" You shout.

"Oh nothing too serious! Nearly everyone has some scrapes and burns, but nothing a band aid wont fix. Heck, I got blown up and I feel right as rain! The worst of it took itself out on the town, though that's also not so bad! Applejack's farm is a real mess, though!"

"So...there wasn't like any..."Your struggling to both keep quiet about the little filly and shout loud enough for Dash to hear you at the same time. "....is anyone missing?"

"Not as far as I know....actually now that you mention it, you reminded me there was one pony beat up pretty bad! That unicorn you found at Applejack's has some serious burns all over! The doctor wanted me to tell you to go see him!"

"Me? Why?"

"I think he said he was asking for you or something! You know him?"

"Not really. I've never met him before, though something about him seemed....odd."

"You don't know the half of it!"

>>10148006
Ask what she means by that.

"What do you mean by that?"

"C'mon, I'll show you! Besides the fire, he's all everyone's talking about!"

Dash leads you down the hall and up a few floors. Along the say you see a great number of injured ponies with an array of burns and bruises. It's horrible, but as you walk by, they see you and instantly lite up with smiles, pleasant conversation following in your wake. Eventually Dash stops at another room.

"I should probably come in with you! Just to be safe!'

"Dash, we've been over this. Everything is fine. Relax."

You open the door just in time to see an entire bed, frame and all, thrown through a window. At one end of the room is a doctor, steadily and calmly trying to walk over to your mysterious pony on the other side of the room. The mysterious unicorn is nearly completely covered in bandages and clearly does not look happy to be here.

"Sir, please," The doctor say with a appeasing voice, walking closer. "I'm just trying to change your bandages."

"I know EXACTLY what you're up to!" The mysterious unicorn hacks with a heavy hint of phlegm, back up again the wall. "I've seen your kind. Get one drop of my precious blood and WHAM there goes the flesh! I've seen it all before!"

"Sir, please, I'm not going to hurt you."

The doctor gets closer and closer, the other pony seemingly unwilling to inch away now that he's at the wall. The doctor, just about there, jumps to the patient, only for the unicorn to leap straight up and land with his hooves on the ceiling. He stays like that, horn glowing and blows a wet raspberry at the doctor.

>>10148609
Oh sheesh.
Prepare for battle.

>>10148609
I'm not really sure the state in which we found him at first and questions asked so I'll just go with the basics.

Assure him that if he really doesn't want infected wounds he should let the doctors look at them. Ask his name and for him to stop his gravity spell to get back on the floor.

>>10148609
Ask Rainbow Dash to come in with you, just in case he gets rough then

>>10148971

"Told ya!" Dash says, making a swirly gesture around her head. "He's completely nuts!"

"Who said what?!" The old unicorn says, eye darting around the room from his vantage point above. "I HATE nuts! Disgusting little shriveled pho seeds not fit for pony consumption, full of arsenic and....and..."

His ramblings train off as she sees you can Dash at the door, visibly becoming much more calm. Seeing a chance to avoid confrontation, you step forward, though not directly under him.

"Uh, excuses me, sir," You say up to him tentively as he stairs down at you upside down. "I'm sure you're probably in a lot of pain and really tired after everything that's happened, but the doctor is just trying to make you better. So could you please just come down....stop throwing things?"

He just looks down with a kind of inquisitive expression, but then walk to the wall, down it and coming right side up again on the floor beside you and the doctor. Dash takes a protective step forward, but you hold out your hoof to stop her.

"The doctor is going to change your bandages now, is that ok?"

He grumbles something you don't wuite catch, but nods. The doctor comes over and starts to undo, the old unicorn no longer giving him any more trouble.

"I can't believe that worked!" Dash shouts. You shush her.

"Sir, can you tell us your name?" You ask him, trying to keep his attention unless he lapses back on the doctor again. "I found you in the fire and no one know who are you are. We want to know who you are."

"Name. My name...." He repeats himself, as if you just asked him an exceedingly hard problem. Brow furrowed and lips moving, he sorta stairs off into space as the doctor finishes putting on new bandages. You and Dash exchange looks.

"Wait a second..." He touches the bandages on his head as the doctor finishes, looking very annoyed. "This isn't my hat!"

>>10149382
Oh boy, here we go...
Amnesia.

>>10149382
Ask the doctor if he had a hat when they took him in, worst case scenario, you have a friend who will make him a new one

"Well, sir, I didn't see a hat when I found you. But if it's really lost I know a friend who could make you a new one a-"

"Uggggh!" The unicorn groans and slinks over to the hole in the wall he made. With a flick of his horn the bed crashes back through, the damage to the wall completely reversing itself as if nothing had ever happened. He climbs under the bed and lays on his side facing away from all of you with a huff.

"Is.....is he sulking?" Dash shouts.

"Shh! But yeah, I think he is." You confirm.

"Well, your highness, if you don't mind I have a lot of other injured ponies to look after," The doctor says, going to the door, pointedly stay away from the pony under the bed. "Thank you for your assistance."

"Wait, what about him?"

"Him? He's free to go."

"What? Already?"

"I know its strange. When you brought him in yesterday he had sever burns all over his entire body. Now they're nearly healed. Those are the last bandages he'll need. I can't explain it."

>>10149716
Plead with him to come back to the library with you, try to hide the fact that you want to learn more about him.

>>10149797
Oh and if you go this route, make sure to keep your bodyguard with you incase he acts up

((Actually you know what I think I'll stop here for tonight. Thanks for playing everyone! Things are picking up again and progressing. Bit of a roller coaster with me it seems.

Whats the deal with weird old unicorn? Whatever happened to that little lost filly? Are the rest of your friends alright? And will you still be able to get the party ready by tonight? We'll find out next time on Pretty Princess Quest! Next Friday))

>>10149797
I'm not sure if pleading would really work on someone like that. Bit crazy.
For now I'd ask if he had anywhere to stay outside the hospital, and suggest that he can stay in the library. I do agree we might want to conceal our curiosities about him judging by his reaction to the doctors will probably think we're experimenting on him (which isn't too far fetched).

>>10149892
See you then!

>>10149892
Oh, well thanks for this, liked being able to do it again.