Odyssey of the Heart
Chapter 13: Into the Deep End
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The first thing she felt was a soreness in her groin, along with a… fullness? Forcing her eyes open and propping herself up on an elbow, the unicorn took stock of the situation. Her stealth suit had been torn open; the broken zipper having failed its task in obscuring her chest. The cloth covering her crotch was also missing, exposing her marehood for the world to see. Said marehood was splattered with and leaking cum, while her breasts were wet with milk.
Looking around, she saw her companions were in a similar state. Zap’s wings had returned to normal, yet the pegasus’ clothes were undone, her hands resting limply in her lap. Starlight also noticed a dream amulet had been placed around Zap’s neck. The zipper of Vinyl’s pants had been undone and the crotch stained as her lower lips were also drenched with semen, as were her upper ones too. Bonbon’s body may have returned to its’ original form, but her lower half was practically naked, with her green panties hanging a little loose over her hips. She was also doused in cum, though hers was leaking from her back door rather than her foal-maker. But there was one thing above all else that stuck out to the mage, that planted a vice over her heart.
Flurry Heart was nowhere to be seen.
Grunting, Starlight forced herself to her feet. Her chest felt lighter, and a brief touch revealed it was smaller than before. More than that, the churning, the milk production, she had struggled to resist earlier had lessened back to where it was a few days ago. But she shook off the weariness and quickly woke the others.
“Wh-What happened?” Zap groaned as she came to, rubbing her head as she propped herself up.
“Rarity.” Starlight explained as she helped Bonbon to her feet, while Vinyl also roused herself from slumber. “She got to you two, and then…”
“We got fucked. Literally.”
“Vinyl!” Starlight snapped, wheeling on the DJ with a glare.
“What? It’s what happened. There’s no point denying it when we all look like this.” She gestured to the torn and cum-stained clothes they all wore. “What matters now is we get over it and move on. Right, Princess?” Vinyl looked around, but the fight in her voice died out as she saw no alicorn to validate her claim.
“W-Wait… Where’s Flurry?” Zap murmured, her shock and sorrow at their previous ordeal now morphing into fear for her apparently missing friend.
“Found something,” Bonbon called out near the long-doused campfire. She handed a note to Starlight, who instantly recognized Flurry’s writing.
Starlight.
Please calm down. I’m fine.
I know we promised to look after each other, but I’m not leaving you four behind. You needed your rest after what happened. I healed you all as much as was needed, and have gone on ahead to scout out the farm. I promise once I’ve sussed it out, I’ll fly straight back to you and we can tackle this thing together.
Love,
Flurry Heart.
“She can’t be serious.” Bonbon muttered, reading over Starlight’s shoulder, as were Vinyl and Zap.
“W-We need ta get to her. Now.” Zap was in a flustered panic, quickly fixing her clothes and gathering her equipment. She was about to soar off into the distance before Starlight’s aqua aura stopped her with a firm hold on her chromatic tail.
“We’re not splitting up.” Starlight declared firmly, levitating her supplies to her while Bonbon and Vinyl rushed to gather their own. “If we separate while searching for Flurry, then we’ll be easy prey to pick off.” She held up a hand, predicting and stopping the pegasus’ retort as she released her magic grip on the mare. “Which is why we’re going to find her as one.”
“Yeah, but will we know where to look?” Vinyl asked.
“Like this.” Starlight’s horn lit up once more, her arms raised wide before her as she focused her thoughts on Flurry. Dozens of memories of the alicorn’s life, both long past and more recent, flooded her mind. Using the emotions, the feelings, from these memories, Starlight extended her magical senses. She mental spread the gaze of her scrying spell out as far as it could go, and her fears lessened a fraction when she felt a familiar pinprick of golden light somewhere south-south east.
“W-Well?” Zap asked nervously as she fluttered nearby. “Did ya find her?”
“I think so,” she replied, cancelling the spell and looking back up at the other three. “She’s hidden on the outskirts of the rock farm. It’ll take too long to get to her by foot and I don’t want to leave her alone any longer than we’re forced to. Gather ‘round everypony. We’re teleporting to her.”
“Starlight, think about this.” Bonbon cautioned as the four closed in on the unicorn. “Long distance teleporting is dangerous here. You’ve said so yourself. I know we need to find Flurry, but there’s every chance we’ll end up falling into the gorge or straight into the enemy’s hands.”
“I know the risks, but we don’t have the time to wait. Everypony ready?” The other three mares gave each other a worried glance, but all nodded to the mage. “Alright. Three… two… one…” Starlight lit her horn, focused on Flurry’s position, and cast.
The pain once more spiked through Starlight’s skull, as it did for her companions. The eternal second lit every nerve of her body, especially those in her horn and head, on fire. But she didn’t, couldn’t waver. Her will would not break. Not now. As she channeled her focus, the skilled unicorn found a path through the miasma; one that felt less intense, if only slightly. Bringing her magical might to bare, she guided the four of them through. As soon as it felt like the spell began, it ended, and the four ponies were unceremoniously dumped onto the dirt. Starlight instantly brought her hands to her horn, tenderly holding it and her forehead as the pain ebbed into a dull ache.
“Girls?”
“Flurry!”
A thud followed, and the unicorn looked up to see them in the bushes just outside the desolate rock farm. As Bonbon and Vinyl both recovered from the trip, the three older mares looked to see Zap had tackle-hugged Flurry Heart to the ground. Not only was the princess safe, but her bosom had seemingly shrunk so as to hang down only to her navel; making them actually able to hide beneath her poncho to some degree.
“Zap, what’re you-”
“No! Yer gonna explain yerself right now. What made ya think goin’ alone was the right thing ta do?”
“She’s right Flurry.” Starlight spoke up, levelling a well-practiced parental glare at the alicorn. “I thought you learned not to go off on your own back in Ponyville.”
“I was only scouting.” Flurry countered, standing up once Zap gave her some space so she could match Starlight’s stance. “I was just about to turn back and return when your four teleported in. And what about you?” She said, poking a finger into her aunt’s shoulder. “You know better than anypony how dangerous teleporting here is, and you did it anyway?”
“Uh, girls?” Vinyl spoke up, but her voice went unheard by all save Bonbon.
“We still thought your chest was bigger. We wanted to make sure you were okay.”
“Girls!” Bonbon spoke up sternly, earning the attention of both alicorn and unicorn. She answered their annoyed glances by pointing out into the distance. All five mares now looked in that direction, and Flurry and Starlight’s argument died in their throats.
Slowly stumbling out from the hole that led down into the mines beneath was a mare. At least, Flurry thought it was a mare. The head of the grey earth pony was adorned with long hair of a darker shade of grey, the bangs hiding one of her eyes. Below her shoulders, however, is where things stopped looking normal. Her breasts were massive. Like two grey boulders of pliant flesh. The way they hung proved the mare was holding what little of them she could, proof of her apparent strength. Only her legs from the knees down reappeared beneath the curve of her underboob.
“Who is that?” Flurry asked, looking back to see a dawning expression on Starlight’s face.
“I… I think that’s one of Pinkie’s sisters… Marble, or was it Limestone? I’m not sure.” As they pondered this, the grey earth pony’s met those of the alicorn princess, widening in recognition… Or was it fear? She dug one of her arms out from underneath her breast, the monstrous mound passing her knees, to reach out for the party.
They were too slow to respond. A large, bright pink tendril slithered up from behind and coiled itself around the Pie mare, pinning her arms to her sides. She let out a soundless scream as the limb dragged her back down into the mining pit and out of sight.
“After her!” At Flurry’s command, all five mares rushed out of their cover to dash after the captured pony. They crested the slope down towards the mine entrance and followed after the bound Pie, her busty form disappearing into the entrance to the mines. The party crossed the threshold, but something felt wrong to Flurry. She turned around and there, at the entrance wearing an expression of apprehension, was Zap Apple. As the princess approached, her up-coming question died in her throat as her memories flared up. The cave outside Appleloosa. The orange pegasus’ all-encompassing fear.
“Flurry! Zap! Hurry up!” Vinyl’s shout roused Flurry from her memories, and she grasped the pegasus by the shoulders.
“Zap…” The young flier didn’t respond, still looking up at the cave mouth as her breath came out in panicked shortness. “Zap, look at me.” Flurry shook Zap by the shoulders until she looked the alicorn in the eye. “I need you to be brave for me, okay? I promise, I’ll be with you the entire time, so please… I need your help.” For a moment, Zap simply stared at her, and Flurry wasn’t sure, but she swore the pegasus was blushing. But she shook off whatever stupor plagued her and then nodded, her determination strengthening that little bit.
With that, the two fliers took off and soared through the tunnel to catch up with the others. Flurry had intended to illuminate their path with her magic, but there was no need as there were glowing pink crystals scattered indiscriminately around. There were also large pink cobwebs, which unnerved Flurry in a manner she wasn’t sure she understood, or wanted to for that matter. After a few minutes of flying through the tunnel, they came upon a large chamber, where the other three members of their party were thankfully waiting for them. Flurry took stock of this new chamber as they landed. It was circular in nature, roughly eighty feet in diameter and in the wall on the far side were three additional tunnels. The central one seemed to curve upwards nearly nighty degrees, while the other two curved downwards in a gradual slope. But the most surprising aspect of this cavern was its ceiling. It was completely covered in brightly colored balloons. Upon seeing this, Flurry also noticed various party effects strewn across the rocky floor.
“What took you two so long?” Vinyl asked, an unimpressed eyebrow raised and hands on her hips. Zap looked away guiltily, but a hand on her shoulder and a smile from Flurry helped raise her spirits.
“We needed a minute.” Flurry answered before turning to Starlight. “Where’s that mare?”
“We weren’t fast enough to keep up,” the unicorn explained. “I wanted us together before going any further.”
“Well, let’s not waste any more time then.”
As the last words escaped Flurry’s lips, movement from above caught the mares by surprise. In the split second they had to react, both Zap and Vinyl rolled out of the way, while Starlight raised a teal wall of magic to shield herself. Panicked squeals tugged at the unicorn’s heartstrings, as she looked and saw both Flurry and Bonbon being lifted into the air. Their limbs were bound by numerous maroon tentacles, holding them tightly to avoid escape. Flurry’s horn began to glow a golden hue, but something flew down as fast as lightning and attached itself to her horn. When her spell fired, the thing merely expanded with a glow emanating from within, revealing itself to be a smaller balloon.
Looking up as she backed up to group together with Zap and Vinyl, the three free ponies saw a horde of balloons descending from the covered ceiling, somewhere around eighty of them if the unicorn had to guess. Each rubbery decoration had a tendril emerging from it in place of a string. The fear and desperation upon Flurry and Bonbon grew as more limbs tossed their equipment down to the ground below, and tore all of their clothing off to leave them as naked as the day they were born.
“Flurry!” Both Starlight and Zap called out as they and Vinyl drew their weapons and charged into battle. Starlight was a force to be reckoned with; swatting aside any attempts to ensnare her with her staff while slicing up three balloons with a slash of teal magic. As the rubbery corpse fell to the ground, the mage noticed the fleshy insides of these beasts. Zap and Vinyl were struggling a little bit more, though. The bobbing movements of the balloons made it difficult for Zap to land a blow with her punches and kicks, while they floated over and around Vinyl's attempts to hit them with sonic magic attacks.
Above, Bonbon squirmed and struggled, as did Flurry, trying to free themselves and join the fight. As one tendril began feeling up her flanks near the base of her tail, the earth pony agent wrapped it around the length and dragged it, and the balloon attached to it, into one of the monsters holding one of her legs. Pulling her leg in the other direction, she managed to free her limb, and quickly kicked the balloon holding her other leg. With both legs free, she swung herself to build momentum, then slammed the two holding her arms together and kicked them to pull herself free. With practiced ease, she rolled onto the ground upon landing and took up her short sword and grappling hook to lend her aid in the battle.
Flurry wasn’t as lucky in her escape attempts. The balloon on her horn kept her magic from playing any part in securing her freedom, and any thoughts on how to free herself were interrupted when one tentacle circled around and squeezed both breasts together, only for another to slide in-between them like they were a vagina.
“What? No! Stop i-MMMPH!” The princess’ protests were silenced as the limb currently giving itself a titfuck with her chest entered her mouth. Though no milk churned within her bountiful chest, Flurry couldn’t help feel the pleasurable sensation sweeping out from them.
Below, the four mares had regrouped and were now on the offensive. While Starlight only managed to slay one beast with her magic, partially due to keeping a concerned eye on Flurry for any opening to save her, the other three began tearing through their opposition. Balloons popped from the vibrations of Vinyl’s sonic magic blasts. Zap dashed through the air, kicking balloons to the side and smashing through them with her brass knuckles.
“That was my favorite coat, you bastards!” Bonbon’s rage over the loss of her duster coat, a relic of her former profession, spilled over; slashing apart well over half a dozen of the rubbery monsters before falling back. Another balloon made an attempt to grab her, but the agent flawlessly backflipped out of its reach to go back-to-back with Starlight.
“HMPH!”
Flurry’s muffled cry caught the unicorn’s attention. The balloon fucking her bosom and mouth was joined by another now pushing itself into her folds. Her limbs spasmed pleasurable agony, but it was for naught as the limb down below plunged further into her depths. The one above pulsed for a moment before a bulge travelled down the tendrils’ length and into the alicorn’s mouth. Her eyes went wide in shock as rope after rope of monster cum cascaded down her throat. The balloon pulled out, only to shower her muzzle and breasts in more monster jizz. As it floated away, two more approached said breasts. The tentacle holding them together released its grip, only for these two newcomers to take one mound each. One spiraled up and around the breast before coiling around and caressing the rock-hard nub at its peak, while the other attached itself directly to her other nipple and pulled the tit taut. A pained squeal escaped Flurry’s gritted teeth; a blush partially hidden beneath the cum that stained her face.
"Hold on Flurry! We’re coming!” Starlight shouted, as she led the adventuring party in another charge towards her. Though many balloons were rent asunder by the unicorn’s magic and pummeled to pieces by the speedy pegasus, Bonbon and Vinyl were having difficulty landing any attacks at the groups’ edges. The balloons seemingly sensed a weakness within the group and lashed out them.
Though Vinyl was able to swat them away with her steel bat, Bonbon wasn’t so lucky and was once again captured and floated up near the roof. Apparently understanding she had escaped before, the balloons wasted no time on Bonbon, spreading her legs wide while pinning her arms to her sides. A tentacle came down at blinding speed, whipping her flanks and drawing out a gasp of pain. As more strikes came down and tanned her beige backside red, her cries of pain gained a small trace of pleasurable undertones with each blow. These pants were drowned out by Flurry, who was now being thoroughly railed by her balloons. Her massive breasts flopped about crazily despite the tendrils constricting them. A bulge could be seen in her belly with each thrust. The blush across her cum-stained face had grown in intensity, her eyes rolling up and her mouth agape in pleasure.
“Hah! Hah! I-GAH! I, I can’t, mmmf! H-Hold, on… Can’t… C-cum… Cumming. I’m cumming! Cumming! CummiIIIIIINNNNNGGGG!”
Flurry’s mind blanked as she was finally pushed over the edge. Her limbs spasmed withing the grasp of the tentacles, her femcum squirting out of her pussy and onto the intruder within as every nerve of her body felt like a surge of electricity was coursing through her. The balloon, clamped down on by the alicorn’s tight passage, swiftly followed suit. Bursts of monster seed flooded inside of Flurry, surging deeper and entering her womb; the first time such an event had occurred. It swelled as each spurt of semen added another inch of girth to the princess’ growing belly. Finally, the balloon pulled out, allowing the escape of some of the spunk as it dribbled out of the freshly defiled pussy. A light shone bright blue above Flurry’s marehood, the spell Sunburst had cast activating to protect her from such depravity. Within moments, the spell forcefully expelled all the sperm that had been pumped inside of Flurry’s body, shooting out like a fire hose of semen. This had the unintended effect, however, of triggering another orgasm that dunked the princess’ mind back below the waves of pleasure.
“Flurry, NO!” Starlight called out, finally noticing what had befallen her niece. The balloons surrounding the alicorn drifted away, only for a larger balloon to impossibly emerge from the colorful canopy above. Its larger limb wrapped around Flurry’s midsection as her limbs were released and flopped down limply, and the bottom of the balloon opened up.
In one swift motion, it swallowed Flurry Heart whole.
“FLURRY!” Zap shouted, but she was blocked by balloons that taunted her as they avoided her attacks yet still impeded her path. The large balloon, within its blue skin one could see the shadow of Flurry’s unconscious form, turned and began floating towards one of the tunnels on the far side of the chamber.
“Oh no you don’t!” Vinyl shouted, her horn glowing pink before unleashing a blast of sonic energy at the balloon. Sadly, the monster twirled out of the way at the last possible second. Starlight, her horn alight with her own magic, fired a beam to desperately save her niece. It looked like it would hit, but again the beast ducked out of the way at the last second. As the blast hit the wall above the tunnel, the balloon disappeared down into the darkness, spiriting Flurry Heart along with it.
The shock froze everypony. Flurry was the heart and soul of the mission. It’s shining light. Hope was quickly vanishing as she had without her there, and the balloons jumped on the opportunity. Vinyl, the swiftest to regain awareness of where they were, summoned a sphere of sonic energy to encompass herself. Any attempts from the monsters to claim her were battered back.
Starlight and Zap were not so prepared. Feeling the capture of Flurry the most, they didn’t realize the balloons were advancing until they were surrounded and ensnared in their tendrils. Zap squirmed and fought, drawing on every once of earth pony strength inherited from Applejack to fight back against her captors. With her wings, she flew as hard and she could, dragging those attached to her behind before she spun around, using the momentum to swing a massive punch into them. Multiple balloons popped and she was able to glide back down to the ground. Starlight wasn’t as quick to act, with another smaller balloon swallowing her horn as had happened to Flurry. With access to her magic cut off, the unicorn was disarmed, stripped naked and groped all over. Special attention was being given to her breasts. Though smaller than in previous days, the churning of milk within still made them feel full, and Starlight couldn’t help but feel all of the sensations her bosom provided when two more balloons latched onto her nipples and began sucking. Her cry of agony and growing arousal was muffled when a third balloon encompassed her muzzle, its tendril invading her mouth and proceeding to fuck her throat. Any breaths Starlight had were short, and filled with whatever sweet scent these beasts were giving off. Whatever it was, it was making her lower lips slick, and fast.
As this occurred, she glanced down to see Zap and Vinyl back-to-back. They were focused exclusively on defense; Vinyl’s sonic barriers and Zap’s counterattacks failing to slay any of the beasts, but preventing them from joining her and Bonbon. Looking over, she saw the earth pony was flushed with arousal. Her reddened ass cheeks continued to be whipped, even as tentacles now filled both her ass and vagina. Her gasps had grown more whorish, and it was clear she was losing her will to resist.
Her anger swelling, Starlight decided on a gamble. While Flurry may’ve had more innate magical power, spell craft was Starlight’s special talent. Doing her best to ignore the pleasure from the limbs fondling her breasts, she poured all her magical power and focus around her horn, then released it all at once. The balloon blocking her horn grew rapidly until it could hold no more, then tore apart in a magical shockwave that knocked her free from those holding her limbs and suckling upon or fucking her. Upon her rough landing, Starlight levitated her staff back into her grasp and reunited with Zap and Vinyl.
A carnal scream tore through the cavern as the three mares left standing saw Bonbon’s belly balloon out. The tentacles were pumping liters of monster sperm into both her pussy and anus, and her mind was breaking from the sensation of being filled and stretched to such a degree. The earth pony’s contraception spell fired, burning the tentacle still in her snatch and ejecting any monstrous seed within, but her belly decreased in size only slightly as her stomach remained full. As that tentacle pulled out and cum oozed out of her ass, another large balloon appeared to swallow her and float away as had happened previously. Starlight was still a little weary from releasing such a large blast of magic earlier, and thus her interception spell missed, while the captor balloon danced out of the way of Vinyl’s attack. Bonbon’s balloon disappeared down the tunnel, leaving the three ponies alone, and surrounded by a horde of balloons still about half the number that had begun this battle.
Seeing the earth pony disappear, something snapped inside Starlight. Her shoulders shaking, her power began rising once more. Her horn lit up, regaining strength as she let her wellspring feed off her emotions, her hatred of this situation. Looking to her comrades, she saw her growing rage mirrored in the eyes of Zap Apple and Vinyl Scratch. Zap’s eyes were watering as she raised shaking fists, looking ready to punch a hole through a dragon. Vinyl was as angry as Starlight could ever remember seeing the DJ, the frustration bubbling over as her horn also lit up and she pulled out her steel bat. Looking back to the horde of balloons circling them, Starlight didn’t care whether or not these things were intelligent enough to understand speech. She just needed to vent.
“You’ve just made the biggest mistake of your lives, as well as your last.”
The next twenty minutes would have fit in as part of any epic about grand battles of Equestria’s ancient past. The three mares fought ferociously, tearing through their rubber-skinned opponents. Starlight’s magic tore through the hordes, Zap moved like lightning as she punched and kicked the balloons into smithereens, and Vinyl swung for the fences with her bat and ruptured the skin of the balloons with her sonic blasts. There were a few moments where the tide turned against them, with Vinyl nearly being captured, only to free herself to re-join the fight. By the end of it, only about seven balloons remained. Seeing their numerical advantage vanish, they floated back up and disappeared into the ceiling covered in real balloons. Starlight, ensuring they wouldn’t come back, channeled her magic upwards. Vinyl followed suit and the two popped every balloon they could see. No monster corpses fell to the ground amidst the rubbery remains, meaning they must have teleported somehow.
Safe, if only for the moment, all three mares fell to their knees or sat down. Their exhaustion from the whole ordeal had finally caught up with them, as had the emotional ramifications of Flurry and Bonbon’s capture. Starlight broke out into open weeping, while Zap fought hard to wipe her eyes clean of any tears. Vinyl kept a watch for any new threats, but she did shuffle over to offer a shoulder for her fellow unicorn to lean on, one she instantly accepted.
After a few minutes of this, it was Zap who stood and steeled herself. Walking with purpose, she moved over to Flurry’s equipment and gathered it together. Vinyl and Starlight only noticed when she threw the buckler shield to land at her feet, and they looked up to see her now pocketing all of Flurry’s rations, gems and crystals before examining the crystal sword in her hands. Her magenta eyes were fixed on the orange jewel embedded in the blade of the weapon; a power her mother once wielded.
She then noticed Starlight and Vinyl staring at her. “What? Ah’m only takin’ these until we save Flurry an’ Bonbon. No mare left behind, right?”
“Heck yeah.” Vinyl said after a pause, a smirk adorning her muzzle as she shed her silver jacket and passed it to the nude mage before picking up the shield and Bonbon’s short sword. Starlight quickly put on the offered clothing before levitating over Bonbon’s grappling hook and her other gear and placed them in her own back. As the party was about to move out, Starlight walked over and placed a hand on Zap’s shoulder.
“Are you sure you’re going to be okay down here?” She asked, Zap immediately understanding she meant her fears of being below ground. For a moment or two, those fears flashed across the rainbow-maned fliers’ face, but one thought of what fate Flurry would face if she were left down here banished any doubt from her mind.
“An Apple never backs down from a fight. An’ besides, what kinda friend would Ah be if Ah turned tail and ran when Flurry needed me most?”
A small smile grew upon the unicorn’s face. “Your mom would be proud.” Seeing that smile returned, and that Vinyl was ready to go, Starlight nodded. “Now, let’s save our friends.”
They moved into the tunnel, but did so with weapons raised and at a cautious pace. Their eyes scanned every surface, every nook and cranny as they proceeded down the tunnel. It began spiraling downward, like a natural staircase, but pink webbing adorned the ceiling and walls. There were even patches of it on the ground, which both unicorns had to avoid as Zap had chosen to remain airborne.
For the better part of an hour things continued like this until, finally, they entered another cavern. This one appeared smaller than the one before; only around forty to fifty feet in diameter, but there were no balloons. There were also four separate tunnels, each labelled. The one to their left was apparently the kitchen, to the right was the nursery, straight ahead led to the bedroom, and there was a hole going straight down in the center of the floor that was labelled timeout.
Before anypony could say anything, an eerie laugh echoed up through all the tunnels. A chill ran down the spine of the unicorns as they looked to one another, recognizing who it belonged to.
“Oh wow, you three sure took your time, huh?” It asked with giddy joy, though the tone had the opposite effect and only put the three mares even more on edge. “Time’s the one thing you don’t have, by the way. A week in Equestria does strange things to a mare. Now stop dithering up there and come find us. We’ve been waiting forever for this, you know?”
Author's Note
Flurry Heart Stats:
Purity: 3/3
Will: +3
Strength: +3
Defense: +3
Speed: +1*
Magic: +4
Items:
Dream Amulet: Automatically pass Will Checks in regards to dreams
Corruptions:
Expanded Breasts (I cup): -4 on Speed Checks
Starlight Glimmer Stats:
Purity: 3/3
Will: +2
Strength: +2
Defense: +2
Speed: +2
Magic: +5*
Items:
Crystal Staff: +1 to Magic
Dream Amulet: Automatically pass Will Checks in regards to dreams
Reformation Gems x6
Teleportation Crystals x3
Food Rations x4
Corruptions:
Expanded Breasts (CC cup)
Lactation (1/3)
Bonbon Stats:
Purity: 3/3
Will: +3
Strength: +2
Defense: +2
Speed: +3
Magic: +0
Items:
None
Corruptions:
None
Zap Apple Stats:
Purity: 3/3
Will: +4
Strength: +6*
Defence: +1*
Speed: +4*
Magic: +1
Items:
Crystal Sword: +1 to Strength
- Element of Honesty: +1 to Strength
Flying Goggles: Advantage on Speed Checks
Brass Knuckles: +1 to Strength Checks
Rope Lasso: Advantage on Strength and Defence Checks
Dream Amulet: Automatically pass Will Checks in regards to dreams
Reformation Gems x6
Teleportation Crystals x2
Food Rations x5
Corruptions:
None
Vinyl Scratch Stats:
Purity: 4/4
Will: +3
Strength: +4*
Defence: +2
Speed: +2
Magic: +3*
Items:
Steel Bat: +1 to Strength Checks
Crystal Short Sword: +1 to Strength Checks
Horn Ring: +1 to Magic Checks
Crystal Buckler Shield: Advantage on Strength Checks
Reformation Gems x2
Teleportation Crystals x3
Food Rations x2
Corruptions:
None
Apologies for the long wait. Long story short, life has been pretty rough these last couple of months and I lost a lot of motivation to write stuff down. It's taken a while to get that mojo back and it felt imposing writing this chapter for some reason, but reading previous comments has helped spark the motivation back up again. But again, sorry for the wait. Also, if there seems to be a dip in quality, like one of the earlier chapters, I was just really frustrated it had taken this long and wanted it done.
Things aren't looking good for the party as we descend into the mines. I've been looking forward to writing this section of the quest. There is the definite possibility one or more of our party won't make it out of this area with their sanity intact. Also, something I didn't think of doing when the party approached Bad Apple (not that it mattered in the end) was giving the Mane 6 their own stat modifiers. I'll reveal the stats once they're defeated, but this'll make it a more interesting encounter having to roll against something that has stats like the party does.
On to the votes from the previous poll. It's been too long for me to remember the way the voting process broke down, but most of you figured the risk of teleporting was worth it. I'll reveal the DC for that roll was decently high (18), but Starlight actually managed a Nat20 on it.
Action 1:
Investigate the House: 6
Investigate the Mine: 14
Wait for the others: 9
Action 2:
Fly/Levitate to catch up: 10
Risk a teleport: 19
Reformation Gems:
Yes (If so, on who and how many): 7: FH1: 7, SG1: 4
No: 22
And now for the new options. Careful consideration is required in this one. The future of the mission hangs in the balance.
Action:
Kitchen
Bedroom
Nursery
Timeout
Character:
Request another party member (Choose ONE from the following)
- Pound Cake
- Pumpkin Cake
- Sparkler
- Rumble
Not right now
As always, thank you for reading, and happy voting!
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