Taste of the Taint

23 February 2014

00:16 EdenGM Next morning, with a light, cold mist floating around, our group awakens, though something seems off...

00:17 Smoldering_Ember groans as she stirs awake after fainting at the end of the fight to save Wicked.

00:18 Wicked wriggles out under the warm cover and quickly searches for his mantle, against the cold and to cover... parts. He tries not to wake Shaken_Cola.

00:18 Shaken_Cola yawns and streaches, only to realize he's still snuggled upto Wicked, the unicorn quickly wiggles his way out of the shared bed roll, and pulls his Armored Mesh Cloak tight around himself before noting that his bunk partner for the night is up and rolls up his bedroll

00:21 Smoldering_Ember blinks bleary eyes and shivers a little as she looks around. "What happened? Where are we?"

00:22 Ruzeth streches out as he wakes up with a large yawn, and slides out of his bedroll, and starts to roll it up.

00:23 < Shaken_Cola> "We bunked down near where those.....canibals were, it seemed like a safeish place, most of it was already cleared up....now....any one got some tools, if we took aprat that cage the parts may come in handy"

00:23 Shadelow wriggled around in her bedroll, taking it with her and flipping upside down, head covered by the part her had was laying on.

00:25 Wicked trots up to the fire and looks for hot coal he can use to start another. They had no goal he remembered, and there would be enough time for cooking.

00:26 Ruzeth goes to assist wicked with getting the fire back going.

00:26 < Shaken_Cola> "Heed a hand Wicked?" the unicorn asks, walking over before using the sorting spell in his pipbuck to float out his lighter to restart the fire

00:28 < Wicked> "Oh, thank you... erm, c-can I speak to you? For a minute?"

00:28 < Shaken_Cola> "Sure, don't see why not, is it about our talk last night?"

00:29 Smoldering_Ember blinks again at the striped presence in their midst and the lack of pink pegasus. "Wait, did Gildy get a sex change and some kind of dye job while I was asleep?"

00:29 < Wicked> "Y-yes..." The red stallion looks around shily before he leans over to Shaken_Cola.

00:29 < Shaken_Cola> "No, zebra showed up while you were passed out, just kinda....poof I'm here, but he seems friendly enough so no harm in him joinin' us, right?"

00:30 Wicked whispers nervously.

00:30 Ruzeth giggles "Oh, hi there, I'm Ruzeth."

00:31 < Ruzeth> "Now, I'm going to try and find us something fresh to eat, be back in a minute." Ruzeth looks for some fresh food along the outskirts of the campsite.

00:31 Shadelow wriggled around under her bedroll, squirming her head out from under it.

00:32 Shaken_Cola nods some and whispers back to the other stallion

00:33 < Shaken_Cola> "Uh....you do know I've got a decent amount of food on me at the moment, right Racer?"

00:33 Ruzeth comes back a little while later cursing under his breath. "Nothing good here, I suppose we'll have to make do with what we have."

00:34 Smoldering_Ember stands fully and gives herself a shake, fluffing her feathers in the process. "Pardon my manners. I'm terrible first thing in the morning." She offers the stranger a hoof. "Name's Smoldering Ember," she says smiling warmly. "I have a bit of a knack with tools except I wasn't able to bring any with me. So what do you do?"

00:35 Ruzeth takes the hoof and gives it a hearty shake. "I'm my tribes successor as a shamman, well...rather I will be as soon as I finish my Spirit quest..."

00:36 Shaken_Cola snickers some and ribs Wicked gently whispering "Watch this" to him "So, Smoldering_Ember, your looking rather....delectible this fiiiine morning, that color is quite tasty is it not"

00:38 Wicked observes worried.

00:38 Shaken_Cola face hoofs "I swear, you are all blind or something, she looks like an eggplant, just give her a green hat and boom, eggpony....or ponyplant....or something, I DON'T KNOW"

00:39 Shadelow rubbed her eyes tiredly and packed up her bedroll, plopping to a sit as she watched the others.

00:40 Shadelow giggled, "I always thought she was just as dark as me... Although I see the purple now."

00:40 Smoldering_Ember tilts her head curiously and starts to open her muzzle as a voice interrupts her. She turns to Shaken with a smile on her face and a swish to her tail. "Well, hello to you too. Are you saying you want to find out?"

00:41 Wicked turns around even more. "M-morning Miss Shades, did you rest well?" Then he turns to the pegasus mare. "Hello, Miss Ember? My name... call me Wicked Love. No good name, but the best I have." He smiles, blushing a bit.

00:41 Ruzeth looks at Shaken_Cola irritated. "The lady and I were speaking...you really don't need to go and intrupt us.

00:42 Shadelow nodded gently, "Yes I did."

00:43 Smoldering_Ember chuckles teasingly, "My, my, two handsome stallions fighting over me. Whatever is a mare to do?"

00:43 < Shaken_Cola> "Oh me oh my, perhaps I may, mayhaps that tonite I try!" he says with a broad, cheshirecat esq. grin and a wink at Smoldering_Ember "And calm down bub, it's early, and before you showed up the rest of us had a pretty damn rough time, and I think EVERYONE could use a laugh"

00:43 < Shaken_Cola> *at Ruzeth*

00:45 < Wicked> "No fight, please." The red stallion lifts his front hooves, sitting on his haunches. "It IS early. C-can we just have something and make a plan?"

00:46 Smoldering_Ember smiles and shakes her head at Shaken's antics before turning back to Ruzeth. "Don't let Cola get to you. He's got a bit of a bite and some bitterness, but mostly he's sweet."

00:46 Shadelow walked along over to them and looked around a little, "Um.. are we missing anypony?"

00:47 < Shaken_Cola> "I don't bite...unless you want me too~" he chuckles out waggling his eyebrows comically at Smoldering_Ember "Now that aside, I do have food so, who else has food"

00:47 Ruzeth rolls his eyes at Shaken_Cola but doesnt press any further. He turns back to Smoldering_Ember, still frowning, "Sure...I suppose. I thinkyou were about to say something before we were interupted Smoldering_Ember?"

00:47 Wicked feels ignored and trots to his saddle, packing out cooking gear.

00:50 < Wicked> "I only have tools... the rest those tribals stole, intending to... well, cook me with."

00:50 Smoldering_Ember laughs again and gives another swish of her tail at Cola's comment, but her answer is for the zebra. "I was just going to ask what you meant by a spirit quest? How does that work?" She does spare a moment to call back, "I'm down to my lack box of Dandy Buck Apples, so we need to find more food soon!"

00:51 Shaken_Cola nods some "Well, all I have is Aguave Fruit, enought for six pony's to eat for three days, but....we shouldn't go through it right away, let me see if I can sniff anything out"

00:52 < Wicked> "I am not good at cooking, but at least I can try, right?" The red stallion looks around hopefully.

00:53 Ruzeth lights up at the mention of his sprit quest, "Well, you see they send each of us out into the wilderness to commune with the spirits, sort of a comming of age thing." He bouces a littel as he gets to the next part, "And actually, I've been pretty lucky, they contacted me not more than a couple hours outside of my tribe."

00:55 < Shaken_Cola> "Well....if we're eating my fruit..." he trails off with a snicker "It's best to not cook 'em as they are rather....moist on the inside"

00:56 Smoldering_Ember perks up her ears at Ruzeth's comment. "Wait, are you saying we're not far from a zebra tribe?"

00:57 Ruzeth looks down at the ground, kicking at it with a forehoof. His ears flatten as well. "Well...the spirits kind of carried me away and dropped me here...I did not recognise the stars last night..."

00:59 EdenGM The mist seems to almost swirl around to Ruzeth at those words are spoken

01:00 Shadelow blinked a bit at Ruzeth and shook her head clear, trying to clear her head and focus.

01:00 < Shadelow> "What do you mean you couldn't recognize them?"

01:00 Shaken_Cola face hoofs "Not again.....looks like we may get either A) another zebra, or B) may loose the zebra, the mist swirlies brought him in last night, was rather.....weird"

01:01 < Ruzeth> "Well rather that these are not the constellations that should be out at this time of year. I know not where I am."

01:01 Smoldering_Ember raises her eyebrows. "So you're not from around here either? Does that hap[pen often? Seems kind of hazardous for a rite of adutlhood..."

01:01 Wicked takes his canteen, screws off the cup with his tail and pours water in it. "And he said we will *do something* for some ghost or spirit." He nickers, but smiles friendly.

01:03 < Ruzeth> "Well some do not make it back, but it is unusual for this to happen...Most of the time the other zebras are gone for only a couple of weeks." Ruzeth doesnt seem bothered by the mist at all, having experience it a couple of times.

01:06 EdenGM Shaken_Cola and Wicked notice a folded sheet of paper fluttering near the edge of their campsite

01:06 Smoldering_Ember turns to Wicked with a faint blush. "Oh, and pardon me earlier. As I told our new arrival, I'm Smoldering Ember. So you said your name was Wicked Love, or is that an advertisement of your intimate skills?"

01:07 < Shaken_Cola> "OOOH A PEICE OF SHINEY!" he shouts running over to snatch up the paper

01:07 Ruzeth snickers at Smoldering_Ember joke.

01:08 < Wicked> "Uh eh... erm..." The red stallion blushes. "N-n-no, that my name... actually." He looks up to her. "I..."

01:08 < Shadelow> "Well.. You ust have come a long way Ruzeth.. You have to go very far to get any change in the stars overnight."

01:09 EdenGM The paper was rather heavy duty with a thick wax seal on the folded pieces

01:10 < Shaken_Cola> "Ooooooooh this looks important!"

01:10 Ruzeth turns to watch Shaken_Cola dash off and asks the group, "Is he always liek this?"

01:10 Smoldering_Ember laughs but not unkindly. "Relax, Love. I was only teasing." She waves a hoof dismissively then returns her attention to Ruzeth. "So any plans on how you get home...or any plans in general?"

01:11 Ruzeth nods hesitantlyl at Smoldering_Ember, "Well...the spirit that wisked me away said that yall would show me the way.

01:12 Shadelow nodded gently, "Most likely.. We all could use finding somewhere with other, kinder ponies."

01:12 < Shaken_Cola> "HOLY BUCKING HORSE PIES!" he shouts running back over to the group "THIS HAS THE ENCLAVE SEAL!"

01:12 Wicked hides away but watches Smoldering_Ember, measuring the outmost handsome mare.

01:16 Shadelow seems fairly out of focus, looking like she was daydreaming or thinking about other stuff. She was trying to look some of the other's over, particularlly Wicked who was trying to hide.

01:16 Shaken_Cola sits down over where he'd slept the night before and opens the letter, no one else seems to care and he reads it out loud, in as comical a way as possible

01:17 Smoldering_Ember considers Ruzeth's words. "Us? I've nothing against any spirits that don't trouble innocent folk, but I've never had any dealings with them either. How are we supposed to show you anything?" She does nod at Shade's comment though and adds, "The horny mare is right. We're kind of on our own here." Cola's shout brings her full around though and she flits over to take a look at the page.

01:18 Ruzeth shrugs, but says confidently, "I trust the spirits...They sometimes know where you're headed before you do."

01:19 Shadelow blinked a bit at Ember as she got back her focus, whatever she has to give. She blushed, "H-Horny? H-Hu-.. Oh yeah..."

01:19 EdenGM The page is covered in military jargon, though words such as 'Dashite', 'Political Amenity', and 'Horizon company' are rather clear

01:20 < Shaken_Cola> "Well that solves that mystery children" he say handing the letter over to Smoldering_Ember, she's a pegasi after all, could make more sense of that "And if she's horny, we need some corks, don't want her to poke any one" he says sticking his tongue out at Shadelow

01:21 < Wicked> "I think she was joking about her race, but I am not sure..." the red stallion makes a pondering gesture and smirks.

01:22 Smoldering_Ember chuckles, "Yeah, we should probably foalproof our unicorn." XD

01:23 Shaken_Cola rolls his eyes and points to his marred horn "She's not the only unicorn around here, and I think I've done more of that line of talking than any one here. Then again....I can't do anything but sheilds....but then again the things I can do with those sheilds would make a sailor blush....IF I so chose"

01:23 Shadelow frowned a bit and lifted a hoof, giving her horn some defensive rubbing.

01:23 Ruzeth looks at Shaken_Cola confused, "What mystery? What does the paper say?"

01:24 < Shaken_Cola> "Something about a dashite getting amnesty to work for some company, if memory serves lil miss not here pegasus was a dashite I think, I don't know, and then suddenly this is here"

01:25 Smoldering_Ember peers at the document but isn't able to make any more heads or tails of it than Cola. Sadly pegasi lack a hive mind, so the military jargon means nothing to her. She does however manage to get the gist. "Looks like Gildy got called away on some kind of Enclave errand. Doesn't sound like she's expected back any time soon though."

01:25 < Ruzeth> "There was another pony in your group?"

01:27 Smoldering_Ember chuckles at Cola. "True enough. I'm sure we can find some cork for you too." Turning back to the zebra, she nods. "Yeah, you missed out on a cute mare there. Kinda snooty, but one hell of a shot with that energy pistol, so don't say it to her face if you see her!"

01:28 < Shaken_Cola> "Yup yup, another winged one. And if you cork me, how can I tell jokes" he says with a grin

01:28 < Wicked> "Oh dear. Well, Miss Ember, I wanted to thank you. You all. I was rescued and instantly welcomed here. Whatever I can do, just ask it." He looks around and begins to pack. "And I have an idea. There is a town on this island. Although I do not like it. Rising Tides."

01:29 < Shadelow> "Please no corks.. It'd look silly, and I might just shoot it off or something when i cast a spell..

01:31 Smoldering_Ember gives Cola a grin. "Well, I suppose your jokes *are* better when they get straight to the point." Facing Wicked, she sweeps a bow with her wings out and back. "Twas our pleasure, or at least pleasure could be involved at some point," she finishes with a wink.

01:32 Shadelow giggled a bit to herself at Cola, "Hehe.. Point."

01:32 Shaken_Cola goes over and sits by Shadelow with a nod "I second that motion of no corks" he says before nudging Shadelow in the ribs gently "So....what all spells can you cast?"

01:33 Wicked quickly winks bank and smirks. "Whatever you ask for..."

01:35 Shadelow flinched a bit at the colt suddenly sidling up by her and poking at her, "U-Uh.. I can bring small objects to life, phase through things, summon objects, teleport, summon a storm, or shoot damaging magic."

01:37 Ruzeth looks towards Shaken_Cola, "And what about the annoying one? What can he do?"

01:38 < Shadelow> "He can make sheilds."

01:38 Shadelow nodded, "And that's it.." She smiled cutely.

01:39 Smoldering_Ember grins wickedly at Wicked. "Oooh...I like those terms. Got any skill with full body massage?"

01:39 < Shaken_Cola> "That phase through thing could come in handy for things. And I can blow things up, make sheilds, work on machines, and hack terminals!"

01:39 < Wicked> "Actually..." He smiles. "Actually I am professional with massage."

01:40 Shadelow shook her head clear yet again and spoke up, "Um.. Shouldn't we be heading out somewhere? We'll have to stay here another night at this rate."

01:40 < Shaken_Cola> "Also" he say glaring at Shadelow "The only reason I can only make sheilds is because I was a unicorn born to earth pony's in an 'earth pony way only' stable so my parents tried to chop off my horn, if you hadn't noticed from the large chunk missing from it"

01:41 Smoldering_Ember perks up with genuine interest. "Wait, seriously? Like an actual for the love of Celestia professional masseur?"

01:43 < Wicked> "I learned this... yes. It has to do with my... profession." He looks away a bit, giving Smoldering_Ember a playfull shy look. "Also a manedresser."

01:43 Shadelow blinked and kicked her hoof, "I-I thought you said you wanted to joke a bit.."

01:45 < Shaken_Cola> "Sorry but....yeah, bit of a sore spot that" he says with a sigh "Sorry just yeah, not everything in the past is fireworks and bubblegum" he says pulling out two servings of the aguave fruit he has, offering one of them to Shadelow "Sorry for snapping"

01:45 Smoldering_Ember actually feels her jaw drop and picks it up with some difficulty. "Sweet Celestia send me to the moon, we have just saved a genuine treasure of the wasteland!" She darts over to Shadelow, staring her in the eyes. "Did you hear that? We must get this stallion back to civilization immediately!"

01:46 Shadelow gave a gentle smile and took it up, "Anyways though, we should at least try and get out of here."

01:47 Shadelow gave a few blinks and falls backward onto her back. Surprise isn't a easy emotion to take in one big burst.

01:47 Wicked looks suprised. He does not feel like a *genuine treasure*. But he takes the attention easily.

01:47 < Shaken_Cola> "I'd say wait on that one actually, I know him better than you and rushing around like that is bad. What do YOU want Wicked?"

01:49 Smoldering_Ember darts back to Wicked's side. "Fear not, for we shall personally see you to some place safe! We shall..." She blinks at Cola. "What? Oh...oh yeah, I guess...um...sorry, Love."

01:49 < Wicked> "Oh, erm... m-me? Erm..." He looks around, his gaze settling on Ruzeth. "When we have to help you, " he adresses the zebra. "Can you bring us to a village then? I am not familiar with pathfinding."

01:50 Shadelow meeped and clambered back to her hooves, fixing her robe around herself.

01:51 < Shaken_Cola> "You okay there Shadelow?"

01:51 Ruzeth lights up, "Well you said you came from there recently right? I'm sure I can find your trial then." He approaches wicked, "Do you know which direction those ponies took you from?"

01:53 Wicked smiles at Shaken_Cola, silently nodding thankfull and looks up to Smoldering_Ember. "Huh, that sounds... nice. But I am no fighter, not at all." Then he looks to the zebra with a warming smile. "No..." He shakes his head. "I guess I was beaten, I do not remember..."

01:53 < Shaken_Cola> "I....don't think we should go that way anyway, they were....pony eating ponies...."

01:54 < Ruzeth> "Well, their trail should lead us to Wickeds trail. Besides they started to cook him here, so its doubtful that they have a larger camp, or they'd of brought him back there."

01:55 < Shaken_Cola> "Unless they didn't want to share...he is rather attractive if you hadn't noticed...."

01:55 Smoldering_Ember is practically dancing in place with delight at what Wicked revealed. "Okay, how about I fly up near the cloud layer and see if I can spot anything that doesn't look like a bunch of cannibals?"

01:56 Wicked nods sadly. "A trait that got me in much trouble, and often." He looks to Smoldering_Ember. "You can do this?"

01:56 < Shaken_Cola> "Acutally.....Shadelow, if you can wrap me in a TK feild, Smoldering_Ember could lift me up, I've got the best eyes in the group it seems so that would make the odds of spotting something go up, yeah?"

01:57 Smoldering_Ember chuckles and flicks her wings up above her, wiggling the tips. "These aren't just for show, you know."

01:57 Ruzeth huffs, wanting to show off his tracking skills. "Well...I suppose that would work as well...but I'm sure I could find the trail." Ruzeth roots around the camp to try and find the trailhead.

01:58 Wicked whispers to himself,

02:00 Ruzeth returns to the group, scratching at his ear nervously, but he doesn't say anything.

02:01 Shadelow nodded, "I can still try and help." She took a breath and began to focus her magic around the other Unicorn.

02:02 Shaken_Cola eeps slightly as he feels himself grow lighter "I'll never get used to that...." he says some

02:03 Smoldering_Ember nods to Shade and Cola. "Sounds fine to me. An extra pair of eyes certainly couldn't hurt." She flutters over to Cola and grabs him around his barrel but waits for Shadelow's horn glow to envelop the stallion before she tries to lift him.

02:03 Shadelow nodded at them, eye's closed in focus, "H-He's good. Lift him on up."

02:04 < Shaken_Cola> "I'll make jokes about this, AFTER we're on the ground again"

02:04 Wicked watches in awe, for what might be the very first not painful magic he sees.

02:05 Smoldering_Ember nods and begins flapping hard, attempting to beat the air into submission, her own pegasus magic coming to bear.

02:05 < Shaken_Cola> "Oh...one second" he says pulling out the half empty bottle of antacid and drinking it all "Yeah, don't wanna get sick!"

02:07 Shadelow peeked open an eye, looking at Wicked, "H-Heya.. Didn't find any paths down here?

02:09 < Wicked> "I, um..." the stallion shakes his head and ooks at her. "I am no good for pathfinding, sadly."

02:10 Shadelow smiled over at the two new additions to the team, "I-It's okay guys. We'll find something with their help.." She took another deep breath, "Are you two good on weapons? It could be dangerous, and I know the other's are armed."

02:11 Ruzeth reaches back and brandishes his Zebra sword before stashing it back away, "I'm fairly handy with that if I do say so myself."

02:12 Wicked whinnies and crawls back. "N-no... I am no fighter." Although anypony could see his brasses horseshoes on his hindhooves.

02:12 Shaken_Cola points his right forehoof at the trail, as with the same motion he brings up his EFS and plops a marker down in it's direction "Okay, I've marked a direction to a path!" he calls up to Smoldering_Ember "We can go back down now...."

02:14 Shadelow nodded, "Don't worry Wicked. Just stick next to any of us and we'll be sure to keep you safe." She shifted her braced position, smiling caringly at the colts, "Got a few spells to attack, and I got weapons too."

02:15 Wicked nods thankfully. "I can be quiet, if that helps. And I can always help you with the medicine."

02:17 Smoldering_Ember carried Cola high into the air. As soon as he spots their destination and marks it, she nods then begins a nice, easy looping glide back to the ground. "Nice work on the lift assist, Shady. He barely weighed a thing, and I know he doesn't diet *that* much."

02:18 Ruzeth sees the two coming down, "Must of found something, I suppose, for them to be coming down so quickly," he observes

02:18 Shaken_Cola hurks some at the loop and groans

02:19 Shadelow giggled gently at Ember, "No problem. So which way?"

02:21 Smoldering_Ember smiles back and points. "Roughly that way. Cola has the direction marked on that piece of tech he's wearing, so we can't miss it."

02:21 Shaken_Cola groans "Give....five.....*urp* urgh...."

02:23 Wicked taps the small zebra stallion on his shoulder. "Uh, Mister Ruzeth? We have to count on you finding food and I thought, erm, could you... teach me cooking?"

02:23 Shadelow walked along over and stopped the spell, giving the colt some pats on his back with the magic to help the sickness subcide.

02:23 Smoldering_Ember eyes Cola oddly. "Geez, I figured an easy glide down would've avoided all that. I mean, I suppose I could've gone into a steep dive, but then we'd leave both our stomachs behind and yours would not be happy when it caught up."

02:25 Ruzeth flinches, slightly startled at the tap, and then turns to look at Wicked, "Sure, I suppose I can try show you what little I know about cooking."

02:26 Shaken_Cola groans some "You saw how bad it was on the boat"

02:27 < Shaken_Cola> "Anyway.....north east there is a path, leads to thinner jungle" he adds on standing shakily one hoof over his belly

02:28 < Wicked> "Y-yes." he nods happily. "It is all about helping another, right?" He smiles his friendliest smile an trots to the others. "As I am the biggest here, together with Shaken, I can carry a bit for you." He looks around by his offer, looking especially at Smoldering_Ember.

02:33 Smoldering_Ember shrugs feeling a bit guilty but not too much since it wasn't intentional. She does however smile at Wicked. "Why that's quite generous of you. Still, I pack light, so there's not much I own at the moment, and most I prefer to carry on me."

02:35 Shaken_Cola shakes his head clear and takes a sip from one of his canteens "Okay....I'm better now, we need to head that way" he says pointing a hoof in the direction of the now marked path "I'm....gonna be a bit slow to get that way"

02:35 Shadelow nodded, "Somepony go along ahead. I would, but I'm not much to see, or protect what's coming at us."

02:36 < Wicked> "O-okay. Anyone?" He now looks at Shadelow. "I could carry the medicine. Then we have it all at one place."

02:37 Wicked turns to Ruzeth. "Can you go forth? You seem to be least afraid of the jungle."

02:38 Shadelow shook her head, "We should keep it split between us both in case soething happened, but you should focus on keeping us healthy on this trip." She reached in her bag and floated him a bandage.

02:38 < Shaken_Cola> "I....not affraid...still quesy" he says indignantly "And..now I know....Smoldering_Ember....likes to be ontop...." he groans out with a weak smile

02:38 Ruzeth puffs out his chest. "Me? Afraid of the jungle? I live in it. Sure I'll take the lead, though..." he turns to Shaken_Cola, "make sure to keep us on the right path."

02:38 Smoldering_Ember proves she was listening when she asks Shade, "You said you can conjure up storms, right?"

02:39 Shadelow nodded, "A small cloud, why?

02:42 Ruzeth takes a couple steps into the forest before turning to look at the rest of the party, "Well...are yall coming?"

02:42 Wicked takes the bandage and looks at her. "Okay, but you don?t know how much I have. Oh, later." He trots up to the group, looking ready to set off.

02:42 Smoldering_Ember smiles and points to her cutie mark. "For one thing, I can hide well in clouds, get close to people without them realizing I'm right above them. For the other, well, while I can make a thin cloud of my own, it's not substantial enough for me to rest on. I wouldn't mind a real cloud bed tonight."

02:44 Shaken_Cola nods shakily at Ruzeth, wobble walking forward as he does so "It's....this way..."

02:45 Shadelow nodded, "I can do that Ember." She headed with the team, "We need to get moving, we'll split the supplies when we stop next."

02:47 Wicked tries to be a bit after the group but holds up his speed. He is a sturdy stallion and can work and walk for hours, as any real earth pony should be able to.

02:48 Ruzeth makes sure we have everyone is trailing and begins to head out into the forest, following the direction of Shaken_Cola, taking care to move slow enough for those less accustomed to traveling in the jungle. He keeps an ear out for trouble as he walks.

02:53 Smoldering_Ember takes to the air, flying high enough to see for a good distance but still within earshot of those below.

02:57 Shadelow trotted along with the team, trying her best not to stare at anypony's butt too long.

02:58 Shaken_Cola nudges Shadelow gently "Tonite....how about....you share a bedroll with me, see what happens"

03:03 Shadelow blinked and blushed quite deeply, pushing the colt away a little, "I-I uh.. I-I'm flattered but.. C-Could we talk about that later?"

03:04 Shaken_Cola oofs and falls over nodding some "Yeah...just....still off kilter from the....flying...."

03:06 Wicked shoots Shaken_Cola a glance from behind and keeps a hoofstep more distance, concentrating on moving his hooves instead.

03:07 Shaken_Cola sighs some as he shakily gets back up, trotting over to Wicked and whispering to him

03:08 Shadelow frowned a bit and sighed a little, "Uh.. Sorry.."

03:09 Shaken_Cola looks at Shadelow "Don't mention it"

03:10 Wicked whispers with Shaken_Cola, shaking his head.

03:11 Shadelow mentally grumbles. All these secret chats between the colts!

03:12 Shaken_Cola sighs heavily and whispers back

03:15 Smoldering_Ember flicks her ear at the comment about her flying but says nothing, just trying to watch the road ahead. Too bad that was so boring that her mind started wandering and she started imagining what it must feel like to be pampered by Wicked Love.

03:17 Ruzeth bounces energetically along the path keeping a lookout for any of the tale tell signs of those potent herbs that may lie just off the road.

03:17 Wicked suddenly walks a tad faster, looking nervous.

03:18 Shaken_Cola groands and trots faster to keep up, still having secretive whisper conversation

03:19 Wicked walks even faster now, looking unwell and really nervous.

03:23 Shaken_Cola suddenly runs infront of the other stallion and puts a hoof on his chest, still speaking in a whisper

03:25 < Wicked> "T-then... let me do it MY way. It?s the only way I know." He says loudly, near to tears. "It is MY life..."

03:26 < Shaken_Cola> "I know that Wicked, but that's not healthy, I'm trying to talk to you because I know your hurting inside and I'm trying to help you get past that hurdle"

03:28 Shadelow blinked and stopped by the colts, "W-What's wrong guys?"

03:29 < Shaken_Cola> "I....can't say without breaking a promise" he says simply giving Wicked a pointed look "But he should"

03:29 Ruzeth perks up at the comotion, coming to a stop. He turns to the two shouting with a quizical look.

03:30 Smoldering_Ember blinks down at the scene below, listening in but unsure what to say.

03:31 Wicked looks between the unicorns, his eyes filling with tears. He gulps down the pain but still looks shaky. His mouth opening and closing a few times.

03:31 < Shaken_Cola> "Wicked, we are your friends, if any one can help you through....things.....it's us"

03:33 < Shaken_Cola> "Just like how I have my own....things....to work through" he adds on, a deep sorrowful tone adding into his voice

03:36 Shadelow took a seat, "We're here to help Wicked.."

03:37 Wicked still doesnt speak. He lowers his muzzle, looking down on the ground. Tears drop from his face, awfully silent. Only a slight shiver can be see as he silently cries.

03:37 Shaken_Cola moves forward and hugs the stallion "Look, I know this stuff is hard, but, eventually all of this is going to have to come out, we can't afford to keep secrets from each other, if it helps....I'll share first"

03:38 < Wicked> "NO!"

03:39 Wicked pushes him, holding his shoulders and looks at the stallion panicking. "I, no. G-give it time. I-I-I don? r-relly know you..."

03:40 EdenGM A few drops of brightly rainbow-colored liquid drop onto each of the group

03:41 < Shaken_Cola> "We saved you life because it was right, I'm not a doctor, but, I do know holding onto something like that isn't good for you. I won't push this but, you do need to open up...to more than just me, the more that know, the more of us that can help you"

03:43 Smoldering_Ember frowns a little at the tussle between the stallions, but she can tell that it's already a complicated enough situation without her butting in, so she continues to fly in silence for now.

03:45 Wicked puts down his face and walk around Shaken_Cola, shivering but silent. "You promised..."

03:46 < Shadelow> "If he's not okay with telling us now, please, let him keep it.. But we shouldn't keep things secret that make us feel so terrible.."

03:47 < Shaken_Cola> "I never said anything specific Wicked, I will keep my promise, and you raised your voice at me, I'm sorry I responded in kind, but I only want to help you"

03:48 Ruzeth looks between the two stallions, unsure of what to say, though preparing to step in if it gets violent once again.

03:50 Wicked stops. Looking around, finding he had anyones attention now, he grins hurt. "You would not understand." he states, awfully quiet again.

03:51 < Shaken_Cola> "Wicked, I do in my own way" he replies leaning into whisper again

03:54 Wicked shakes his head sadly. "You do not see the problem. I like what I am, why are you so desperately trying to change me? WHY?!" the last word he asked him angrily. Seconds later he stepped back, whimpers, suprised about his own reaction.

03:56 Shadelow 's eyes suddenly got wide and she took a step back, looking at the rainbow colored goop, "How did that get here.. Oh.. No..."

03:56 Shaken_Cola sighs and turns away from Wicked "Because, your the first one I ever opened upto about what I told you last night, and I know you can be so much more" he says softly trotting forward a bit

03:58 Shaken_Cola sneezes as something drips on his nose and he doubles over screaming and writhing before groaning, the unicorn's shape significantly more curvy, and the voice, notivably higher in pitch "Wh...what the bloody fuck"

03:58 < Shadelow> "Everyone.. W-We need to move.. Like.. Now!" She squeaked out and grabbed Ruzeth in her magic, pushing Wicked with the non-pointy bits of her head. "Come on!"

04:00 Wicked stared frightened at Shaken_Cola, but starts running when Shadelow nudges him.

04:00 Ruzeth yelps in supprise as he was jerked away by Shade, following behind quickly. "What was that stuff? Is he...she going to be alright?"

04:01 Shadelow quickly tried helping Cola up onto his/her's hooves, "Come on, we need to get going!"

04:02 Shaken_Cola groans and leans heavily against Shadelow, the stalion turning mare still changing, as organs and bones move around "It....hurts....so bad....."

04:03 Wicked suddenly stops. He turns, diving under Shaken_Cola and lifting him/her up. The red made a decision, and carries the changing pony on his back.

04:03 < Shadelow> "I-I know.. But worse will happen if we stay.." If it wasn't awkward enough, Shady also seemed to get a little more cuter to him.. Attractive even. Whether this helped or not was hard to tell.

04:04 Smoldering_Ember didn't even notice the drop of rainbow goop hit and slide off her. She was too busy watching the soap opera below, partly enjoying it and partly worried by it. When Shaken Cola starts screaming though, that's when she dives from above and lands at his side. "What happened? What's going on?"

04:04 Shaken_Cola clings tight to the stallion while also trying to double over in pain, a rather oblivious to his....her...it's surroundings for the moment

04:05 < Wicked> "RUN!" The stallion preshes forward, aiming slightly the direction of the path.

04:07 Shaken_Cola weakly points it's hoof the direction of the path moving it to track the efs marker

04:07 Shadelow ran off along with the others, looking up to Ember, managing to pant out, "T-... T-Taint... Get out of here.."

04:07 Smoldering_Ember is trotting along with the others, confusion slowing her enough to catch a glimpse of...something entirely unnatural happening beneath Cola's tail. "What the holy buck!? Will someone tell me what's going on?"

04:07 Wicked runs as fast as he can through the jungle, making good effort from his long legs and pain resistance.

04:20 EdenGM The group crashes through the underbrush, smaller animals squealing and chittering angrily as the ponies flee from the strange falling liquid

04:26 EdenGM After a few minutes they find a clearing in the trees, though the underbrush is still thick

04:28 Shadelow squeaked and flopped into the clearing, landing herself onto an oversized leaf of some plant, laying on her side and panting, "B-Buck it's hot out here.."

04:29 Wicked searches for an open spot. As he does not find one he lifts Shaken, throws his mantle on the floor and lays his friend on the thick mantle, for minimum support. He also pulls his doctor kit out and prepares to check on Cole, as he suddenl stops.

04:31 Shaken_Cola curls up groaning "Make....pain stop.....hurts....stallion hood feels funny....what's....." she manages out before letting out a scream as she curls up even tighter holding her midsection

04:31 Smoldering_Ember is staring and swallowing a bit nervously as Cola is put on the ground. The others were just running, but from her position at the back of the group, she got to see nearly the whole process.

04:32 Shadelow gulped and quickly tried catching her breath, blushing as she pulled off her robes for the first time in front of the group to cool down. Nude and bare, she wandered to Cola, looking him.. Her over. "Yikes..."

04:32 Ruzeth pants heavily as they reach the clearing, finding a spot to set down for a moment. "Let me mix something up for that pain Shaken." Ruzeth begins to set up his alchemy set. As he works he speaks, "That was taint? I'd heard stories of it but never haves seen it before."

04:33 Wicked takes out a strynge, pits it and stings Shaken_Cola. "Sleep now," he purrs. "Shhh... sleep."

04:34 Shadelow nodded over at Ruzeth. "Y-Yes.. You should look yourself over for any of it if it's on you, or any changes.. It's unpredictable as it gets..."

04:34 Shaken_Cola flinches some "Wh....n...huh...."

04:36 < Wicked> "O-okay, Shadelow. He will sleep for an hour... well, she will. It... by the princesses."

04:36 Ruzeth hears Shaken begin to calm down and realizes that they have it covered and puts away his stuff before looking himself over. "What should I be looking for? I dont see anything?"

04:37 CentraBlu gently pats Cola as she looks him over, the little black mare looking overheated, sweaty, but focused for a change. "Just calm down.."

04:38 Shadelow gently pats Cola as she looks him over, the little black mare looking overheated, sweaty, but focused for a change. "Just calm down.."

04:38 < Wicked> "You are not well yourself, Shadelow. Let me check that later, okay?"

04:40 Shadelow waved it off, "Just the jungle air.. And I don't run around that much.. Just here, I think I know what.. She can have. Just try massaging out these spots where her muscles changed. It'll sooth the pain."

04:40 Smoldering_Ember blinks blankly at then shudders. "Taint? Wait...oh...oh, ew! That's what we were running from? I've never seen the stuff before, but if it can do that..." She gives Cola's new look a glance and reconsiders. "Though...I suppose it was horrific only while it was going on. The final result is...well, it's not bad."

04:40 Shaken_Cola looks around, her eyes dialating but the pain subsiding, causing her to uncurl some as she tries to get her bearings and put up a sheild at least for now, a giaaaant umbrella

04:40 < Wicked> "Will do, I ... have experience in the difference between colts and mares."

04:43 Wicked begins to rub hooves over Shaken_Cola her body before he works them into the muscles, feeling for tense parts and cramps. He works them out patiently.

04:43 < Shaken_Cola> "Wh...huh....wha..." she manages out as her eyes close a large bright orand umbrella shaped sheild forming a good 8 feet over her, and faning out to cover a 15' area, groaning as she's rubbed but not trying to push the stallion away

04:43 Ruzeth trots over to see what the others were getting on about. "Woah...what happend to him...or rather her?" The zebra seems quite confused by the effects.

04:43 Shadelow nodded and smiled, patting Cola softly, "Easy.. Easy.. Just relax.." She stood up and let out a breath, trotting to the other's, still hot and sweaty, and more body of her's showing then ever before.

04:44 Wicked nodded and smiled, patting Cola softly, "Easy.. Easy.. Just relax.." She stood up and let out a breath, trotting to the other's, still hot and sweaty, and more body of her's showing then ever since they met her.

04:45 < Wicked> "Shush, you relax now. Let me serve you, for once." the stallion giggles like about some joke. "Let me work my wonder, yes?"

04:45 Shaken_Cola shakes her head "Rain....can't keep....sheild for ever"

04:48 < Wicked> "The others will figure something. You told me to trust them, remember? They?re at it now, I am sure.=

04:49 Shaken_Cola nods weakly, her eyes still closed, almost afraid to move at this point

04:49 Shadelow walked over to the others, her black body cooling from the drizzle of rain, "Uh.. Ruzeth. Could you try and help build a shelter from the rain for us? I think Cola could use it."

04:51 Ruzeth seems a little bit shell shocked, but gives shadelow a nod, "Sure I'll see what I can whip up."

04:52 Wicked works only shortly on the limbs, but on the haunches, the ribcage and hips of Shaken_Cola. With outmost care and getleness he works through the major muscle zones, speaking softly to her.

04:52 Shadelow sighed and plopped to a sit by her robes, sighing and laying down, folding it up and looking to Ember, "Are you okay up there? Nothing wrong?"

04:52 Ruzeth heads back over to the treeline to collect branches in order to build a lean-to.

04:53 < Shaken_Cola> "I'm.....sorry...." she manages out to Wicked "I....guess this.....is karma...."

04:54 Smoldering_Ember blinks at Shady and gives a hesitant smile. "You feelin' okay there, sugar? I mean, you look fine, filly, but you seem a little overheated or something." She looks to the sky then frowns a moment. "And while you're at it, how about giving us a little cloud cover? That ought to help until Ruzeth's done anyway."

04:55 < Wicked> "Isn?t it ironic?" he asks gently while stretching one of her legs. "If it would not be so sad, we could surely make a joke of it." He smiles soothing.

04:56 Smoldering_Ember adds as she trots closer to Shady, "As for me, I'm just fine. Just...it was a bit odd seeing all that happen to hi- er, to Cola."

04:56 Shaken_Cola stop breathing for a moment "Seeing.....what....and...what would be a joke...."

04:57 Smoldering_Ember looks over and raises her eyebrows at Cola. "Um...aside from the pain, do you feel any different?"

04:58 < Wicked> "Shhh... relax. Muscles are not supposed to rearrange. We can manage, you will see." He tries to speak calmly, but a tad sadness creeps into his voice.

04:59 < Shaken_Cola> "Wh....what.....I don't.....everything is numb now.....I can feel.....weird things inside.....but not much.....wait....what about muscles rearanging.....what the buck...."

05:00 Shadelow nodded softly, "I-I'm okay.. Just running and all of that." She wandered back over to Cola and leaned in. "Well.. Could everypony give her a little space.." She sat by Cola, "I think that the taint we ran into... Turned you into a mare."

05:00 < Wicked> "*Buck*, is the wrong word here, Lemonade."

05:02 Smoldering_Ember coughs softly having been trying to break it to Cola easy...not that there was a really easy way to say it, she had to admit.

05:02 Wicked still massages Shaken_Cola. His gente hooves drive up and down her back, finding tenseíons and working them out. But also holding her down.

05:03 Shaken_Cola balks and tries to jump to her hooves in shock, only resulting in clumsily falling over onto her back, her legs all tangled up "This....this is payback for the jokes yesterday right....you....your fucking with me, playing a joke.....hahaha...."

05:05 Ruzeth comes back with a large bundle of sticks and some vines on his back. He trots wearily towards the group. "Yall wanna help me lash these together? And then we can throw some brush over it."

05:05 < Wicked> "Shhh... relax, Shaken. This is serious. Your whole body changed. If your muscles tense up now, they might rip."

05:07 Shaken_Cola stops moving after curling back up and whimpering "I....guess this....is....the univers getting back at me...."

05:07 Wicked leans down to Shakens ear, whispering a short sentence.

05:09 Shadelow gently patted him still, "You're the same pony you were before.. Just with a few changes in your body."

05:09 Shaken_Cola squeaks some and curls even tighter, her tail flicking up to cover herself

05:10 Smoldering_Ember had really been looking forward to feeling Wicked's hoof work, and from what she could see, it was everything she had hoped for. Of course, with everything she could see, she had to admit that Cola needed it and she didn't, and she certainly wasn't envying Cola the reason for that need! When Ruzeth returns, she welcomes the distraction. "Sure, I'll help. Just tell me what to do."

05:13 < Ruzeth> "We need to tie all these sticks into a long V and then afterwards we need to cover it in this underbrush to keep the rain out." He begins to work at it, demonstarting what needed to be done to Ember.

05:14 < Wicked> "Oh, come one, you look god as ever." He drives his hooves deeper into Shaken_Colas flanks, where the most muscles are. "I do still adore you. And between us, there doesn?t cahnge much that I can offer..." He smirks, bluhing himself, in an attemt to distract Shakens panicking mind.

05:15 < Shaken_Cola> "Hahaha...." she chuckles out dryly "Maybe so.....but...you know I can't be like that....not in that maner...."

05:16 Smoldering_Ember gives the zebra a nod, and as quickly as she can, she begins tying sticks together as described. When she's done, she calls out for Ruzeth to check her work while she gets the leaves and branches to cover them.

05:16 < Wicked> "Oh, trust me, there are tools for that..."

05:18 Ruzeth checks over the job, inspecting how the branches were all tied together. He adjusts a couple of binding and gives Smoldering_Ember a nod of approval as she returns. "A little sloppy, but not bad for a first one. I guess we've got a couple more to do if everyone's going to have something done this evening.

05:18 Shaken_Cola whimpers "Please....stop..." she says pulling away from the stallion some and wrapping her armored cloak over herself. That humming song from the night before starting to play again as she does so

05:20 < Wicked> "Shaken..." The stallion wraps his frontlegs around her. "Don?t be like that. Everything will be fine, please, what do I have to do?"

05:21 Shaken_Cola doesn't speak, but is humming along with the hum, rocking slightly

05:23 Shadelow looked over to the others, "I think we should stay here for now. We need to let Cola rest this off.."

05:25 Smoldering_Ember smiles back at Ruzeth. "Thanks. I'm not used to working with such raw materials. Give me a hammer and some nails, and I could build us a more permanent home." She goes back to work immediately, putting parts together until they have enough shelter.

05:25 < Wicked> "Is this revenge? You want me to tell them?" He grips Shaken_Cola tighter, rocking himself in tact with her. "I will do. P-p-pleasee, I don?t ant to loose my first friend like this..."

05:27 Shaken_Cola shudders noticably in that grip, the head area on the cloak shaking a silent no some before she curls even tighter

05:27 Ruzeth helps her cover the first shelter before going over to Shaken_Cola. "I think we ought to move you to the finished shelter. The rest of us can stand a little rain while we get it all together."

05:28 < Shaken_Cola> "I'm even more like you now....Humming Bird....." she says softly still curled tight and the cloak pulled tight overherself, little bundle of freaking out

05:30 Wicked stands up with tears in his eyes. He looks at the other, searching for help. Finally breaking his trance he nods at the zebra. "Oh, yes... Let me." He picks the now-mare up, with mantle, places her on his back and carries her to the over.

05:30 Ruzeth lets out a sad sigh and returns to helping ember get the rest of the shelters together.

05:33 Shaken_Cola doesn't resist or move much, Wicked is basicly carying a sack of potatos

05:33 Wicked comforts her as much as possible but gives up in the end. Then he simply sits himself at the door.

05:34 Shadelow took a deep breath and sat over beside Wicked, "We can only hope she'll get better overnight.."

05:35 < Wicked> "Poor Shaken..." The red stallion himself does not look much better. Without his mantle, his flankstamp is for all to see.

05:35 Smoldering_Ember isn't sure what to do, but putting shelters together means not having to think about that. In fact, she starts to put together one more shelter than they need.

05:36 Shaken_Cola openly starts to cry at this point, not trying to hide it any more "Why did this happen to me....did I really do anything to deserve this....is it because of the accident with Humming Bird...or for...." she asks herself, the music cutting out and she stops talking

05:36 Shadelow gently leaned on Wicked's shoulder, the little mare also wearing nothing, her own cutiemark in the open.

05:37 < Shadelow> "Heh.. It's almost symbolic for something.. Here we both are naked.."

05:37 Ruzeth catches her working on another one and puts a hoof on her shoulder. "Thats enough dear, we can use the rest of that wood for a fire this evening, as long as we can clear enough of a spot not to light the whole forest on fire."

05:40 < Wicked> "I feel so helpless again, Shade... Is there... something I can do." He leans a bit against Shadelow, giving her support.

05:41 Smoldering_Ember startles slightly at the touch, "What? Oh...oh, I...I guess so. Crazy day, huh? I would say something like 'At least there's not...' but I'm afraid if I finished that sentence, it or something worse would happen, and I don't think some of us are in any shape for that." She looks worriedly at Cola, Love, and Shadelow as she settles under cover near Ruzeth.

05:43 < Shadelow> "Well.. I-I think I could use a little company.. But I'll want to check that with another pony first.." She took a breath, "We should probably check eachother over for any changes.."

05:43 < Shaken_Cola> "Wicked....I'm sorry...." she says softly, barely audbily as she finally calms down some

05:43 Ruzeth takes the opportunity to add some more dirt from the campsite to his glass bottle. "Ya its been quite the crazy day. I never asked, are you alright?" He tries not to look over at the rest of the group.

05:45 Wicked trots over to Shaken_Cola nad nuzzles her. Gently he wraps his mantle over her so she can sleep and trots to the door again.

05:47 Shadelow looked over at him, "So.. Check eachother?"

05:48 Smoldering_Ember chuckles softly and shrugs. "Alright is such a slippery term these days, but overall? Yeah, I think I'm fine for the moment."

05:48 Shaken_Cola gets up, giving Wicked his mantle back, pulling out her bedroll, her sheild long since having colapsed, before she lays down and slides under the covers some

05:49 < Wicked> "You are the medic pony." he looks at Shaken a last time. "So, Miss Shadelow." Obediently he lays down. "How do you intend to... check?"

05:50 < Shadelow> "Um.. I-I'd just like us to both have a quick once over, so we're sure we don't have any extra limbs."

05:51 Shaken_Cola groans from under the cover of the bedroll, a loud smack heard as she facehooves

05:52 Smoldering_Ember belatedly looks the zebra over. "How about you? Everything more or less okay with you?"

05:52 < Wicked> "N-no limb I miss, neither too much..." The stallion wiggles around to look at himself. !You see anything?"

05:53 Shadelow tensed up a bit at the noise, but gave him a quick glance around, "Nothing either on you.. Normally it takes effects overnight.. So best of luck." She nodded and walked over into Cola's cover, "Um.. Shaken? It's me.."

05:53 Ruzeth gives her a weak smile. "I didn't notice anything strange anyways and if its a change like that," Ruzeth shudders, "I expect that it would be fairly apperent. Still...I wouldn't mind a second set of eyes."

05:56 < Shaken_Cola> "Hey...." she say simply from under the covers "Is....every one else....fine...."

05:57 Shadelow walked over and sat by her, "Yes.. As far as we know, no pony else has effects, but they tend to come either hidden or much slower then you had."

05:57 < Shaken_Cola> "Lucky me..." she says dryly

05:59 Smoldering_Ember nods and shifts a bit closer to give the zebra's body a more thorough examination. "I'm no expert on zebras, but if you're supposed to look like a striped pony, then I think you're fine. Odd cutie mark, but otherwise fine."

06:00 Shadelow rubbed the back of her neck, "Well.. I'm not sure if it helps.. But I was thinking about what you asked before.. About sleeping together tonight.."

06:01 Shaken_Cola flinches some "Look, your....nice and all...but...I'm not looking for a fuck.....cuddles, yes.....a relationship, sure, but a random fuck, no"

06:03 Ruzeth lets out a sigh of relief. He shifts himself closer to Smoldering_Ember, resting his body right up against hers. "What did you do before you ended up stranded out here? I never quite got the full story of what happened from the others."

06:06 < Wicked> "Shaken? I will tell them now." the stallion does not look up. His voice calm and centered. "If that is what you want."

06:06 Shadelow nodded, blushing, "I-I know, and I'm okay with that."

06:07 < Shaken_Cola> "It's....upto you Wicked...I won't push you to do so....nor will I stop you if you do..." she replies her head peeking up from under the bedroll now, her eyes bloodshot from crying, her face stained with tears, but, she's not crying any more now "I'm the worst virtue of laughter ever"

06:08 Shadelow took a deep breath and set it on his bedroll, "I-I'm okay with just laying with you for the night."

06:09 < Shadelow> set a hoof on her bedroll*

06:09 Shaken_Cola smiles weakly at the other unicorn mare "No....funny business....promise?"

06:10 Wicked looks at them, smilig generous. "Ill give you space then." He leaves the cover,

06:11 Shadelow nodded and made an X over her chest, "I-I won't do anything you don't want." She moved over a little closer.

06:11 Shaken_Cola smiles weakly and nods "This....is all confusing...."

06:11 Smoldering_Ember smiles at the smaller zebra, more than a colt but not quite full grown. "Who, me?" She shrugs as she stares out into the clearing. "Nothing too special. I helped out in the forge, learned some of what my father knew, but I was never officially one of his apprentices. I helped out with the town watch as well. Nothing ground breaking or exciting, I'm afraid."

06:13 Shadelow gently and quietly wriggled into the bedroll, "Well.. If you have any questions about being a mare, I could sure answer them.. But I suppose that's not what you want."

06:15 < Ruzeth> "What brings you out here then? Do you miss home at all?" There was a hint of a sad longing in the zebra's voice as he mentioned the word home.

06:17 < Shaken_Cola> "No...but it's what I need to know....hell...even as a stallion the only guiding I got was from some nice old squishies...." she says softly

06:19 Smoldering_Ember chuckles a bit darkly. "What's there to miss? An empty home, some markers in the ground? I had a few friends, yeah, but none that were really close, not for the past nine years."

06:22 Shadelow nodded, "Well.. It's not all different.. But in warmer seasons you'll go through heat and.. Simply as I can put it, it's an itch down there that only goes away from doing one thing.."

06:23 Shaken_Cola nods some "And....what about....what did they call it....Winking I think?"

06:24 Shadelow blushed deeply, "It's.. A think mares do in the height of heat. It's pulsing back there that's supposed to tell colts you're ready."

06:25 < Shaken_Cola> "Well....they said that it's not only from heat....but....arousal also...."

06:25 Ruzeth considers her words with a solemn frown on his face, "Back at home everone stays together and we're all fairly close...I couldn't imagine never returning to them."

06:26 < Shadelow> "Well.. Still the same idea. If you're aroused, you'll not be able to quite help but do it."

06:26 Smoldering_Ember shrugs trying to keep her town light. "Sounds great. Might be a nice place for me to live."

06:26 Shaken_Cola nods some "So.....it doesn't stop till you....tend your needs then...."

06:28 Shadelow nodded, "Think getting an erection. Unless you get at it, you need to wait it out."

06:29 Shaken_Cola nods some "Anything else I need to know along those lines...like...does it hurt, and such...."

06:31 < Shaken_Cola> "And uh....is it as loud as it is when....a squishie does it?

06:33 Shadelow shook her head, "Only the first time it'll sting for a bit your first time with a colt, but that's the only time it should." She blinked, "Um.. I-I'm loud myself.. But it shouldn't be too much.. Unless it's that good."

06:34 < Shaken_Cola> "I mean....does it make the weird squishy squelching sounds" she asks shuddering some

06:35 Shadelow blushed deeply, "V-Very little.. I-If any.. Sometimes it might be a little loud though.."

06:35 Ruzeth sighs again even deeper, "I already miss home a bit...still even if I was close enough, I can't go home yet..."

06:36 Shaken_Cola nods letting out a breath she didn't realize she was holding "Well.....that's a releif...." she says softly shuddering again "You have no idea how hard it is to sleep when squishies are going at it"

06:37 Shadelow smiled a bit, still blushing hard, "I-I didn't even know they did.."

06:37 Smoldering_Ember starts to nod then stops and turns her head to look at the zebra. "What do you mean you can't go back? Why not?"

06:38 < Shaken_Cola> "yeah......and....the girls there.....when there's a stallion that isn't with a half rotted shwang....I got alot of offers....they just didn't seem to get I wasn't like that, I wanted more than just....a quick lay"

06:40 < Ruzeth> "Well...remember that spirit quest I told you about? I have to commune with the spirits and do whatever task they set upon me...Until then, I'm considered exhiled from my tribe. Its the way that its done."

06:41 Shadelow nodded, "The wasteland is a tough place for a kid.. And more of us could do without going to base feelings and instincts.."

06:42 Shaken_Cola nods some "I wasn't born in the wastes though, but I still ended up growing up in them"

06:44 Shadelow nodded, "I had an.. Interesting life too, but I don't mind what I've gone though."

06:45 Shaken_Cola nods some and smiles sadly "Your lucky then"

06:45 Smoldering_Ember frowns at that reply and considers it. "Seems a bit harsh to me. I mean, griffons do something similar involving hunting, or at least the griffons I knew about did, but that kind of goes with what they are. You already communed with the spirits, but they didn't exactly hand you a straightforward task."

06:46 Shadelow gave a gentle nod and wriggled closer, "Right now, all that matters is being sure the team can still work."

06:50 Ruzeth gives an indifferent shrug, "Perhaps...but it is only by the bounties of the spirits that the tribe persists. It is for them to decide who has to prove more than others. And as the next shamman in the tribe I expected a difficult and unclear quest."

06:50 Shaken_Cola blushes some as the mare snuggles closer to her "H....hey....wh-why are you getting closer all of a s-sudden"

06:51 Shadelow blushed still with him, "I-It's getting a little cold.."

06:53 Smoldering_Ember shrugs that off. "Huh. Well, if you say so. I'll be the first to admit I haven't the slightest clue about spirits."

06:55 Shaken_Cola blushes even more "Um....out of curiosity....what's.....what's with the shift in weight...around...where my.....stallion hood used to be....it's....weird....lighter in some areas, but....heavier in others....I've....not had a chance to....examine myself...."

06:58 Shadelow looked around a bit, "Well.. Mare's have a little more body fat and wider hips.. And you don't have any colt parts there anymore."

07:00 < Shaken_Cola> "You don't say..." she says "No I mean....like...there's a heavier sway when I walk, like....if I were really really pent up or something but....it's in the wrong area..."

07:01 Ruzeth shuffles a little closer to Smoldering_Ember, leaning against her for comfort. He just lets the silence loom over them, thinking.

07:04 Smoldering_Ember smiles softly and extends a wing across Ruzeth's back, just enjoying sharing the warmth for the moment.

07:05 Shadelow looked around a bit, "Well.. Mare's have a little more body fat and wider hips.. And you don't have any colt parts there anymore."

07:06 < Shadelow> (Recall that post >.> )

07:07 < Shadelow> "Well.. With wider hips comes wider steps with your back legs.. But where exactly is it heavy?"

07:09 < Shaken_Cola> "Kind of, between them but further ahead than where my.....yanno....used to hang I guess" she replies, she's past the shock stage now....accepting the change, but, that's just left her with curiosity

07:10 Ruzeth takes a couple deep breath and closes his eyes, listening to the steady pitter patter of the rain as it hits the ground. He feels safe curled up under Embers wing.

07:14 Shadelow thought for a bit, "Could be the addition of ovaries inside of you.. You're probably feeling stuff that should come naturally."

07:15 Smoldering_Ember smiles softly and closes her eyes as well, letting the soft sounds of the rain relax her.

07:16 Ruzeth falls asleep in her embrace, snoring softly.

07:16 < Shaken_Cola> "No...it's not inside....oh...." she says as she shifts some "Right....haha...forgot about....yeah being around squishies since you were just a young one...you forget about certain...parts of the anatomy...."

07:17 Shadelow cocked her head, "What do you mean?"

07:18 < Shaken_Cola> "Well....uh...I forgot about certain things in the....crotch area....."

07:19 Shadelow nodded, "Yeah.. Right." She blushed and gently reached a hoof over her.

07:21 Shaken_Cola blushes some, but doesn't stop you, and snuggles back against the other unicorn mare

07:21 Smoldering_Ember slumps down with the zebra and isn't awake for long after.

07:25 Shadelow gently rested her head on her shoulder, "It's kinda obvious, but be careful about getting pregnant if you swing that way.. You have the long end of the stick now, so to speak."

07:27 Shaken_Cola chuckles some at that "Well....I kinda always swung both ways....." she admits "I've just...never done anything to be honest....it's....why I don't just want a quick thing...but something special.....something that will last...."

07:30 Shadelow nodded. "I get that too. Heck, I've worn that robe since I've started this trip to kinda avoid being seen that way, admittingly.. It can be bad in the wastes."

07:32 Shaken_Cola nods "You have no idea....especially when your in GhoulVille central, the only non ghoul, and one of the ghoulette's finds out one of the things you....really....like" she replies chuckling some, feeling a bit heated

07:33 Shadelow blushed, "I've never had much relationships at all.."

07:35 < Shaken_Cola> "Ditto, but, it's hard to hide that, when your just going through puberty and looking through old pre war porn mags"

07:35 < Shaken_Cola> "And the only people to teach you anything about that are ghouls"

07:36 Shadelow blushed a bit more, "Almost the same way I learned too.. You know, I heard pictures of porn were illegal.. But not realistic paintings of nudity."

07:37 < Shaken_Cola> "Oh, there was nothing illegal from what I heard, it was just illegal to sell it, sharing it for free, and giving donations to people who make it as a non profit though...that was legal...."

07:39 Shadelow nodded, "Interesting.." she blushed a little more.

07:40 Shaken_Cola rolls over gently to look at the other unicorn "So....uh....yeah....." she chuckles, blushing just as much and grinning "Perhaps....if you wanted...."

07:40 Shadelow gulped, "W..W-Wanted?"

07:42 < Shaken_Cola> "Maybe....you and I....could...maybe...."

07:42 < Shaken_Cola> "Yanno...."

07:42 Shadelow blinked, then began to blush furiously. "I-I.. Uh.. W-Well.." She gulped again, looking down a little.

07:43 < Shaken_Cola> "I don't mean....just tonite or anything...but....something more....enduring.....I mean...if you liked me also....maybe we could try to....make something like that...work..."

07:45 < Shadelow> "W-We.. We could try.."

07:46 Shaken_Cola smiles softly and hugs the other mare tight, gently nuzzling her neck "Thank you"

07:47 Shadelow returned the hugs and the nuzzles given to her, relaxing her body.

07:48 Shaken_Cola smiles and gently kisses the other mare on the lips, blushing hotly as she does so

07:48 Shadelow 's eyes almost snap right open, cheeks turning redder then any other time that night.

07:49 Shaken_Cola pulls away "S-sorry...was that wrong?"

07:50 Shadelow shook her head, "I... Never kissed a-anypony else before.."

07:50 < Shaken_Cola> "I did....once....when I was six...."

07:50 Shadelow smiled a bit under the huge blush, "You think it counts?"

07:51 < Shaken_Cola> "Not in the slightest, it was only on the nose...but....like I said...I've seen alot of old prewar smut" she chuckles pulling close to the other mare and kissing her again

07:51 Shadelow gave a gentle shiver, but let her have the kiss.

07:52 Shaken_Cola holds the kiss as long as the other allows, just, basking in the moment, holding the other mare tight

07:54 Shadelow held Cola with her, sighing gently into the kiss and drooping her eyes shut. She tried to take all of this in, but just couldn't muster enough focus to think things through, being too relaxed in her kiss.

07:55 Shaken_Cola smiles softly in the kiss, gently licking the other mare's lips without breaking the kiss and mree's softly into the kiss

07:56 Shadelow gave a gentle wriggle in his grasp, stretching out her hind legs in the bed as she leaned into the kiss a little more.

07:58 Shaken_Cola mmms softly and gently breaks the kiss, reluctantly, as she twines her legs with the other mare "Does...that feel good, I mean....the kissing....I'm still....new to this" she asks, blushing

07:58 Shadelow nodded and gently wet her lips,

07:59 < Shadelow> "Y-Yes it does.."

08:00 Shaken_Cola smiles, and licks the other mare's lips gently "I'm glad....I'm enjoying it too.....alot...." she admits blushing again as her hooves slide down to your lower back

08:02 Shadelow gave her hips a gentle wriggle as her hooves got closer to them. "I-I'm just wondering.. Y-You've kinda been closer and looking at me more then I let Wicked.. Do you see anything changes with me?" She cocked her head, taking a breath and pressing her lips to Cola's cheek.

08:03 Shaken_Cola blushes and sighs happily, her eyes fluttering some "Well...now that you mention it....after...whatever that was....I noticed the delicate sway in your hips with each step a bit more..."

08:05 Shadelow bit her lip a bit, "You.. Think it might have made me.. More attractive?"

08:07 Shaken_Cola nods some "You were attractive before, don't get me wrong, but, after, it added something else, then again, I was also in shock at the time, and even now I'm mostly numb"

08:08 Shadelow giggled softly, "He did a pretty good job massaging you.. Upset as you were, it's a good thing we came up with that idea of mine."

08:09 Shaken_Cola tilts her head some "Idea?"

08:12 Shadelow rubbed the back of her head, "Well.. It came to me that a lot of the pain we could help with might have been muscular.. So I told Wicked to massage any muscles that would have been changed with your transformation."

08:14 Shaken_Cola nods some "Thanks....I doubt, even with the painkillers, I'd be able to move decently without that" she says nuzzling under the other mare's chin gently "So.....we're special somepony's now.....how are we gonna explain this to every one else?" she asks with a soft giggle

08:16 Shadelow blushed deeply, "B-Be as blunt as I was telling you were a mare.. Or blushing to the side while you tell them excitedly.."

08:17 Shaken_Cola chuckles "So...loud and proud it is" she says kissing the other gently "So um...you've....pleasured yourself right....what does that feel like, I mean, I know what it feels like and what to do as a stallion but....no clue as a mare"

08:20 Shadelow went back to blushing and nodded, "O-Of course.. You.. Put your hoof down there and mostly rub it, fit in what you can manage.."

08:22 Shaken_Cola nods some and blushes kissing the other mare softly on the cheek "M...maybe you....could....maybe....show me..." she stammers out in a near whisper, flushing dark, and feeling rather hot against you

08:24 Shadelow tensed up a little, meeping quietly, "I... I-I could.. If you don't think it's too fast or anything.."

08:26 < Shaken_Cola> "Well....considering how things have gone for us so far....and....well....I've kind of had my eye on you since we we're on the ship to be honest I just...didn't think I had much of a shot, what with my wonky horn..."

08:29 < Shadelow> "J-Just be happy that it's still there.. While without it healing is a bit of an issue, horns are very hardy anyways." She took a deep breath, "I-I've admittingly looked at Ember mostly, but she's provacative. Wicked kinda shares my skill too."

08:32 Shaken_Cola nods and frowns some "He's....a good guy but.....he has issues, that...well...I can't help with...." she says softly "I can't say more than that without breaking my promise to him. So, uhm....yeah...." she say her hooves sliding down and gently rubbing over your plot as she pulls you closer still, her breasts pushing against yours as she does, making he blush all the more

08:36 Shadelow tensed up her rump, the mare seeming sensitive over the little butt on her. "U-Uh.. I-I could.. S-Show you how it's down.."

08:38 Shaken_Cola blushes and nods smiling some "Perhaps....we could....try on each other some" she says giggling some and pulling the bedroll up over both of us

08:39 Shadelow shuddered, "W-Well.. M-Maybe it's just a bit fast for that.."

08:42 < Shaken_Cola> "Sorry....I'm just.....excited....due to...something Red had....suggested earlier" she admits flushing against you again

08:45 Shadelow took another breath, "I-I'd like to show you still.. Y-You could join in on yourself if you wanted. I-I'd say give it more time before you share your new body like that.."

08:47 Shaken_Cola nods "I'll....leave myself in your....capable hooves then my dear?"

08:50 Shadelow gave a soft nod and wriggled around, fitting herself into the bedroll with her lower end nearest to Cola's head. She took a breath and hesitantly showed off her tiny mare parts.

08:53 Shaken_Cola blushes and smiles puffing cool air over the other mare's sex gently "Are....you okay....with me....returning the favor some...."

08:54 < Shadelow> "I-I'd prefer it to be mostly me.. But if you really wanted.." She shuffled herself around.

08:56 Shaken_Cola smiles and nods "I'll....follow your lead then...if I feel able to....okay?"

08:56 < Shadelow> "O-Okay.." She took another good deep breath and lowered her hooves down her her little snatch, tracing her hoof along it.

08:59 Shaken_Cola gasps and shudders, her legs kicking some at that first touch, she was, admittedly, wet down there already, and the touch slides smoothly over the slit like entrance to her sex

09:02 < Shaken_Cola> *Shaken Cola first mimics what the other mare is doing before she-<go to above post>

09:03 Shadelow took in another breath and sighed as she pressed her hoof against herself, "S-Sorry if I'm a little loud.. I can't help it..

09:06 Shaken_Cola nods gently, panting hotly against the other mare "I....do....don't th-think your...th-the only one" she manages to stammer out, rubbing this way and that, her eyes wrenched shut, and the scent of her arousal rather evident at this point, she's not freshly aroused but now, she's finally acting on it

09:08 Shadelow gasped out gently, beginning to start dragging her hoof against her slit, "Oooh.. Wow.."

09:11 Shaken_Cola gasps and moans softly, blushing as she leans up, her hooves rubbing clumsily over he own sex as she gently sneaks a lick along the other mare's sex, not only from arousal, but also curiosity as to the taste

09:12 Shadelow meeped out in surprise, shiverning and rubbing a little more against her snatch, leaking out more of her juices. "W-Whoa.."

09:15 < Shaken_Cola> "S-sorry....I...wanted to see...what you tasted like....it's....nice...." she stammers out embarased and pulling away from the other a little bit before her hoof catches a clit and she whinies loudly at the sudden stimulation

09:16 < Shadelow> "W-Well.. I-If you like it.. Y-You can keep going.. A-Ahn.."

09:18 Shaken_Cola blushes and nods gently her hooves moving away from her own sex to gently grip around your waist as she starts to lick over your entrance, moaning softly her self at the taste and the intimacy of such an act

09:18 Shadelow gasped loudly, shivering and moaning lewdly with pleasure.

09:20 Shaken_Cola smiles happily at that and gently starts to work her tongue inside the other mare, egged on by the pleasured sounds her lover is makeing

09:21 Shadelow tensed up a little more and squealed gently, panting and slowly moving her tender parts closer to her.

09:25 Shaken_Cola gently works her tongue the rest of the way in, until she's sucking on the other's nethers, he tongue fully inside and wiggling about, clumsily, but still oh so wonderfully, as she loudly slurps and sucks

09:27 Shadelow squeaked and moaned much more as she upped the pleasure, not needing to take much more before gasping louder, giving a small burst of her juices.

09:28 Shaken_Cola eeps and giggles as the other mare squirts of her face and pulls away "Is....was that good love?" she asks hesitantly

09:29 < Shadelow> "Y.. Yes.. V-Very very good.." She sighed happily and wriggled back face to face with her, panting softly still.

09:31 Shaken_Cola smiles happily and kisses the other mare happily on the lips "I'm glad...it's....nice to make other's feel good, and I'm glad it was you I got to experience a first time with" she says snuggling up close to the other mare

09:32 Shadelow took a breath and cuddled up with her, "Well.. I-I wasn't quite comfortable saying.. B-But I normally don't clop like that myself.."

09:34 Shaken_Cola nods some "Oh...s-sorry..."

09:35 < Shadelow> "Well.. I-It's just a little.. Less normal of a thing.." She looked away sheepishly, "I.. P-Prefer humping things to get it out of my system.."

09:36 < Shaken_Cola> "Oh" she says nodding and blushing some "Well....I think....well....we are together....so.....that shouldn't be a problem, should it?"

09:38 CentraBlu shook her head, "I-It shouldn't.. But it's just.. a little weird of a thing to do."

09:39 < Shaken_Cola> "What do you mean dear?" she asks confusedly

09:40 Shadelow kicked a hoof. "Well.. I-It's not exactly normal for mares to hump others.. But more so when it's inanimate objects.."

09:42 Shaken_Cola chuckles "Well...I don't mind, honest, we'll just need to get....things....to assist with that, and....you'll need to be gentle to start with" she says kissing you on the lips again, yawning some as she does "Oooh.....seems the day's finally catching up with me"

09:44 Shadelow nodded, "Me too.. We should sleep.."

09:45 Shaken_Cola nods some "And....maybe in the morning....you could have a nice Cola snack" she chuckles out teasingly, snuggling up tight to the other mare and laying her head on the other's neck