Something nudged at Nexus side leaving a cold wet sensation where it pushed against her coat. She moaned softly and rolled over, pressing herself tightly against the wall. It was to early, her head was thick and her stomach burned. Nope, whatever it was could wait. As long as she refused to acknowledge the world it would leave her alone.
Her theory was immediately shattered by the return of the wet nudge at her side. She slapped a hoof out hoping to deter whatever was bothering her but hit only the damp wooden floor.
The nudging persisted a little longer, before something soft, wet and cloth-like slapped across her face.
With a barely audible squeal she grabbed hold of her suffocating attacker and wrestled it from her muzzle before flinging whatever it was across the room and rolling upright.
It took a few moments for her eyes to adjust to the surrounding room but when they did she was surprised to find herself in the bar from the night before. Her attacker lay on the far side of the room, alone and unmoving, for it is rare a mop moves without somepony holding it.
“I think you got it” the bartender dead panned from beside her, his face barely concealed the amusement at her reaction to his wake up call.
“Right… yeah” Nexus muttered in response, her head still thick from the previous night's drinking. She levitated the mop back across the room and propped it against the bar.
“Hope the floor was to your liking? Personally I would have rented a room for the night but that’s just me” The stallion snorted “You’re still paying for a one night stay, not letting you off easy. Oh you owe me a glass as well”
Nexus groaned “But I didn’t even want to stay here last night” she protested weakly.
“Well you did” retorted the bartender “Just as well really, you were in a right state”
Not wanting to discuss the subject of her missing friends with this stranger, Nexus began to search her saddlebags for whatever caps she had left over from the night before.
“Huh” She said after rooting around for a while “I don’t suppose I could open a tab”
she offered an innocent, pleading smile but was met with a familiar flat expression.
“Ugh, I’m sorry! I really wasn’t planning to spend the night here! ...Or drink as much as I did!”
“Or smash that glass” the bartender added with a roll of his eyes “Alright, I’ll cut you some slack Sob Story, but don’t think I won’t remember you next time. Your tabs open and you owe me.”
“Thank you!” Nexus clapped her hooves together, happy to have found someone in the wasteland not a total ass. “I promise to pay you back next time I’m in town!”
“Sure” the barpony grumbled, once again picking up his mop and dunking it in the bucket at his side “Now scram before I change my mind”
There was no sense staying in town now that she had no money, not that there were many buildings to spend it in anyway. Instead Nexus made for the thin dirt path that snaked up a short incline before joining a cracked concrete road. Looking left she could make out the distant shape of mountains far away, their white snow peaks merging in with the bleak horizon. To her right, the road stretched off into the wastes, to the unknown.
What should she do now?
The question hung in the air around her. This wasn’t how things were suppose to be. She was suppose to have met up with her friends, they were suppose to be together, free at last! Instead she was alone. Her ears drooped and she lowered her head to look at the floor.
“What am I going to do” she whispered.
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It sure does make it a strange story xD
The barponies speech at the end of my post sounds amazing after gizoogle.
Anyway, looks like it's just the four of us ^^
The barponies speech at the end of my post sounds amazing after gizoogle.
Anyway, looks like it's just the four of us ^^
“Another Wild Pegasus… easy on the pegasus” Nexus slurred, slamming the her glass telekinetically on the counter to get the bar ponies attention.
The pony cast her a disapproving look as he fetched another bottle and slowly worked the cork out.
“Wild Pegasus is just whisky, there’s no ‘easy on the pegasus’” he pointed out as he topped off her glass. There was always one pony who couldn't handle their drink and this young unicorn had been drinking all night, alone. In fact, if she wasn't the only customer he’d probably have barred her after her third glass when she’d butchered some classic Sweetie Belle that’d been playing on the radio.
“That’ll be 5 caps”
Nexus blinked, blank faced “5 caps for what?”
The barpony fixed her with a face devoid of amusement then rolled his eyes as the unicorn began to crack up and tossed the caps on the counter.
“I’m just messing with you!” the laugh was strained. The kind of laugh somepony uses when their determined not to let their true emotions show.
The barpony grit his teeth as he scooped up the caps and deposited them in the ancient pre-war register
“Very funny miss”
“I know right! You should have seen the look on your face!” She slammed the bar top with a hoof causing the bottles and glasses on the bar to jump “Priceless!”
“Uh huh, it sure was” the barponies face remained as flat and unamused as it had the first three times she’d made that joke.
“Awh, you sure are one grumpy pony” the mare said having finally stopped snickering. She paused “Hey maybe that’s why this place is so empty. You should smile more! Ponies’ll find that more inviting than the stone face you have now!”
“Excuse me miss but I’m not one for façades. If i’m bored, I look bored, If i’m happy, I look happy. No sense covering up your feelings” He fixed her with another disapproving look as he said this, trying to convey that he’d rather hear whatever sob story she had then listen to her make another joke or worse, he shuddered, butcher another song.
Nexus looked down at the bar, the false smile gone from her face and replaced with one of sorrow instead.
“One month we said” she sniffed as her bloodshot eyes suddenly bulged with tears.
“Here we go” the barpony muttered. He’d worked this bar for many years and could spot a sob story a mile off. The wasteland was a cruel and unforgiving place. Loss was common and many ponies would seek solace in alcohol when they couldn't cope with it. Still, it kept the caps flowing and the bar in business.
“I was just so sure that they’d make it” Nexus said, her voice cracking as she buried her face in her hooves on the bar top. “After all we’d been through, the ponies we lost along the way…”
The barpony cast a steady glance over the mare taking her in fully for the first time. She was thin, like most in the wasteland who didn't have access to proper food. The scars and burns on her coat indicated a hard life of fighting or something similar but it was the sore around her neck and distinctive lack of muscle mass that gave it away for sure.
“Slave?” he enquired casually.
“Uh huh” came the muffled reply from the bar top followed by a hiccup.
“Mmm, a cruel life for sure” the barpony commented dryly “Still, you're free now so what’s to be sad about? Shouldn’t you be drinking in celebration.
Nexus lifted her puffy red face from her hooves and fixed him with a blurred stare.
“There were three of us” she sniffed again. We managed to escape Steelworks together when we’d been only hours from death. Once we got outside we agreed we’d all meet up here in a month if we were still free.” She hiccuped again before breaking into another round of sobs and face planting the bar “And I’m the only one here!”
The barpony awkwardly extended a hood and patted her on the shoulder.
“Hey now. just because they aren’t here doesn’t mean they’ve been captured. Maybe they just got delayed… or had other reasons they couldn’t make it.”
Nexus raised her head from the counter again.
“You think?”
“Sure” he shrugged, “There’s hundreds of other reasons they might not have made it.”
He mentally counted a few of them off. Raiders, mines, disease, starvation, rad-scorpions…
“They’ll probably turn up somewhere eventually.”
Nexus nodded drunkenly.
“Maybe…”
“Besides, even if the worst has happened to them. Do you think they’d want you to be sad? You have your life back. Your freedom! They’d want you to see the world! Make it a better place. Enjoy yourself, have fun. Drink, party, get laid, do some drugs! Hell, you’re a free pony they’d want you to make it count! They wouldn’t want you to spend your time in some backwater town drinking your life away. What kind of existence is that? You should be out there making a difference!”
There was a soft thud, the shattering of glass and the sound of light snoring.
Looking up, the barpony saw Nexus had fallen asleep in her hooves on the counter, knocking the still full glass of Wild Pegasus off the counter and onto the floor.
He sighed, rolling his eyes.
“Well if all it took was an inspiring speech to shut her up I would have done that hours ago” he grumbled, fetching a mop from the store cupboard.
The pony cast her a disapproving look as he fetched another bottle and slowly worked the cork out.
“Wild Pegasus is just whisky, there’s no ‘easy on the pegasus’” he pointed out as he topped off her glass. There was always one pony who couldn't handle their drink and this young unicorn had been drinking all night, alone. In fact, if she wasn't the only customer he’d probably have barred her after her third glass when she’d butchered some classic Sweetie Belle that’d been playing on the radio.
“That’ll be 5 caps”
Nexus blinked, blank faced “5 caps for what?”
The barpony fixed her with a face devoid of amusement then rolled his eyes as the unicorn began to crack up and tossed the caps on the counter.
“I’m just messing with you!” the laugh was strained. The kind of laugh somepony uses when their determined not to let their true emotions show.
The barpony grit his teeth as he scooped up the caps and deposited them in the ancient pre-war register
“Very funny miss”
“I know right! You should have seen the look on your face!” She slammed the bar top with a hoof causing the bottles and glasses on the bar to jump “Priceless!”
“Uh huh, it sure was” the barponies face remained as flat and unamused as it had the first three times she’d made that joke.
“Awh, you sure are one grumpy pony” the mare said having finally stopped snickering. She paused “Hey maybe that’s why this place is so empty. You should smile more! Ponies’ll find that more inviting than the stone face you have now!”
“Excuse me miss but I’m not one for façades. If i’m bored, I look bored, If i’m happy, I look happy. No sense covering up your feelings” He fixed her with another disapproving look as he said this, trying to convey that he’d rather hear whatever sob story she had then listen to her make another joke or worse, he shuddered, butcher another song.
Nexus looked down at the bar, the false smile gone from her face and replaced with one of sorrow instead.
“One month we said” she sniffed as her bloodshot eyes suddenly bulged with tears.
“Here we go” the barpony muttered. He’d worked this bar for many years and could spot a sob story a mile off. The wasteland was a cruel and unforgiving place. Loss was common and many ponies would seek solace in alcohol when they couldn't cope with it. Still, it kept the caps flowing and the bar in business.
“I was just so sure that they’d make it” Nexus said, her voice cracking as she buried her face in her hooves on the bar top. “After all we’d been through, the ponies we lost along the way…”
The barpony cast a steady glance over the mare taking her in fully for the first time. She was thin, like most in the wasteland who didn't have access to proper food. The scars and burns on her coat indicated a hard life of fighting or something similar but it was the sore around her neck and distinctive lack of muscle mass that gave it away for sure.
“Slave?” he enquired casually.
“Uh huh” came the muffled reply from the bar top followed by a hiccup.
“Mmm, a cruel life for sure” the barpony commented dryly “Still, you're free now so what’s to be sad about? Shouldn’t you be drinking in celebration.
Nexus lifted her puffy red face from her hooves and fixed him with a blurred stare.
“There were three of us” she sniffed again. We managed to escape Steelworks together when we’d been only hours from death. Once we got outside we agreed we’d all meet up here in a month if we were still free.” She hiccuped again before breaking into another round of sobs and face planting the bar “And I’m the only one here!”
The barpony awkwardly extended a hood and patted her on the shoulder.
“Hey now. just because they aren’t here doesn’t mean they’ve been captured. Maybe they just got delayed… or had other reasons they couldn’t make it.”
Nexus raised her head from the counter again.
“You think?”
“Sure” he shrugged, “There’s hundreds of other reasons they might not have made it.”
He mentally counted a few of them off. Raiders, mines, disease, starvation, rad-scorpions…
“They’ll probably turn up somewhere eventually.”
Nexus nodded drunkenly.
“Maybe…”
“Besides, even if the worst has happened to them. Do you think they’d want you to be sad? You have your life back. Your freedom! They’d want you to see the world! Make it a better place. Enjoy yourself, have fun. Drink, party, get laid, do some drugs! Hell, you’re a free pony they’d want you to make it count! They wouldn’t want you to spend your time in some backwater town drinking your life away. What kind of existence is that? You should be out there making a difference!”
There was a soft thud, the shattering of glass and the sound of light snoring.
Looking up, the barpony saw Nexus had fallen asleep in her hooves on the counter, knocking the still full glass of Wild Pegasus off the counter and onto the floor.
He sighed, rolling his eyes.
“Well if all it took was an inspiring speech to shut her up I would have done that hours ago” he grumbled, fetching a mop from the store cupboard.
Hm, I'm not really sure where to start off ^^;
Thanks Raddum!
I did update the picture with some better shading ^^
Soooooooon
I did update the picture with some better shading ^^
Soooooooon
Name: Nexus
Race: Unicorn
Backstory: Having been born in a stable Nexus missed what most people would describe as the wasteland at its worst. When her stable did finally open however, those who stepped outside were swiftly picked up by a band of slavers and dragged off to a life of hard labour. Unfortunately Nexus was among those taken and over the next few months witnessed as those around her were worked to death or sold to equally cruel masters.
For the next few years she remained a slave, passed on from one master to the next until she was finally put to work in one of the last remaining slaver strongholds, the steel works. This heavily fortified pre-war facility has once been used by Equestria in the manufacture of Steel Ranger armament. As such, the slavers who now ran it had far more defence than the average rag tag wasteland group with capacity to make more of whatever they used.
It seemed to Nexus that this would be the end for her. The flat featureless landscape around Steelworks made escape impossible as anypony who by some miracle made it past the wall would quickly be spotted. So she continued on as ever, working the factories along with the other unfortunates around her.
After what felt like months trapped in Steelworks, Nexus stumbled across the formation of a slave uprising. Figuring that she had literally nothing to lose, she worked with the other slaves to gather what they could. They hoped to catch their masters off guard and some how rally the other slaves together.
Ultimately their plan failed when one of their own confessed to the slavers the plan in hope of bargaining for their own freedom. Nexus and the other conspirators were rounded up to be executed as an example to the other slaves. Just when it seemed like the end, Steelworks came under attack from an army of raiders hoping to take the stronghold for themselves. The slavers with their far superior defences easily dispatched their attackers but the distraction was enough for a risky escape. Of their original group only Nexus and a couple of others made it beyond the wall and under the limited cover of the ongoing fire fight and darkness they made their bid for freedom.
After reaching a safe distance they decided to split up, the firefight was over and the slavers knew they has escaped. Deciding that alone they stood a better chance each of them went their own way with a promise to one day meet up again should they remain free.
Other:
Karma: +250 Good
Freedom Fighter
Traits:
Art of Evasion - You’re life as a slave has required a higher understanding of subtly and sneakiness to stay beneath the radar.
+5 Sneak +5 Lockpicking
Ex-Slave - You’ve been through some of the worst things life could possibly throw at you yet you made it out alive. While the physical damage may never heal their are few things that you aren’t prepared for.
-1 Strength +1 Toughness
Race: Unicorn
Backstory: Having been born in a stable Nexus missed what most people would describe as the wasteland at its worst. When her stable did finally open however, those who stepped outside were swiftly picked up by a band of slavers and dragged off to a life of hard labour. Unfortunately Nexus was among those taken and over the next few months witnessed as those around her were worked to death or sold to equally cruel masters.
For the next few years she remained a slave, passed on from one master to the next until she was finally put to work in one of the last remaining slaver strongholds, the steel works. This heavily fortified pre-war facility has once been used by Equestria in the manufacture of Steel Ranger armament. As such, the slavers who now ran it had far more defence than the average rag tag wasteland group with capacity to make more of whatever they used.
It seemed to Nexus that this would be the end for her. The flat featureless landscape around Steelworks made escape impossible as anypony who by some miracle made it past the wall would quickly be spotted. So she continued on as ever, working the factories along with the other unfortunates around her.
After what felt like months trapped in Steelworks, Nexus stumbled across the formation of a slave uprising. Figuring that she had literally nothing to lose, she worked with the other slaves to gather what they could. They hoped to catch their masters off guard and some how rally the other slaves together.
Ultimately their plan failed when one of their own confessed to the slavers the plan in hope of bargaining for their own freedom. Nexus and the other conspirators were rounded up to be executed as an example to the other slaves. Just when it seemed like the end, Steelworks came under attack from an army of raiders hoping to take the stronghold for themselves. The slavers with their far superior defences easily dispatched their attackers but the distraction was enough for a risky escape. Of their original group only Nexus and a couple of others made it beyond the wall and under the limited cover of the ongoing fire fight and darkness they made their bid for freedom.
After reaching a safe distance they decided to split up, the firefight was over and the slavers knew they has escaped. Deciding that alone they stood a better chance each of them went their own way with a promise to one day meet up again should they remain free.
Other:
Karma: +250 Good
Freedom Fighter
Traits:
Art of Evasion - You’re life as a slave has required a higher understanding of subtly and sneakiness to stay beneath the radar.
+5 Sneak +5 Lockpicking
Ex-Slave - You’ve been through some of the worst things life could possibly throw at you yet you made it out alive. While the physical damage may never heal their are few things that you aren’t prepared for.
-1 Strength +1 Toughness
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So far I have this picture:
(I'm still new to drawing clothes and my ponies are medicore ^^; )
I'll work on the rest!
So if we're setting the RP after the events of the original what are we going to do? I know it's sandbox but I'm just a little worried that we lose radiation and taint as well as some of the major 'evil' forces.
(I'm still new to drawing clothes and my ponies are medicore ^^; )
I'll work on the rest!
So if we're setting the RP after the events of the original what are we going to do? I know it's sandbox but I'm just a little worried that we lose radiation and taint as well as some of the major 'evil' forces.
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I'm using my mediocre drawing skills still ^^; I'll hopefully be finished soon.
You shouldn't worry about using the official map of Equestria =P FO:E and a lot of the side fics were started before it was released so they won't match up
You shouldn't worry about using the official map of Equestria =P FO:E and a lot of the side fics were started before it was released so they won't match up
Yup, I was enjoying it and I'll definitely join again ^^
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It's fine! I mean, I don't mind things not being exactly as it'd be almost impossible ^^;
I just brought it up because the Seahorse carries Blackjack and the others to Hoofington after the events on the Celestia.
I just brought it up because the Seahorse carries Blackjack and the others to Hoofington after the events on the Celestia.
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