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Voyage to Tumulus isle December 10 [CLOSED]
Topic Started: Aug 8 2012, 05:08 PM (1,781 Views)
azamonra

Mist Haze stood happily on the prow of the ship, the wind billowing through her mane as waves crashed against the hull, "oh this is exhilarating! I can't believe more ponies don't travel this way" she said as she spread her wings and allowed the wind to sail over them. After a moment she turned away from the side and trotted off to speak with her companions. She had been concerned that that an archaeological expedition to a Dragon Graveyard would seem to boring to most ponies but apparently she wasn't the only pony excited about learning about other cultures.
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Well, this sure was different, wasn't it?

Jess, everypony's favorite Diamond Dog reject ((Yes, this is how I'm always going to introduce her into a thread)) sat by the edge of the ship, looking down at the salty waves crashing around everywhere. These waves were even cooler to watch than her often-creepy pot-induced hallucinations. They were so hypnotizing, especially for one who had never seen the ocean before. She saw a snakelike body slink across one of the waves and disappear under water.

As for why she was on the ship, Jess needed something to do, and she heard that there would be bones involved. She loved bones, all crunchy and white. Sometimes if a bone was crunched in just the right way, you could suck the marrow out...Now Jess was getting a case of the munchies.
Johnagold||Earth Pony||Stallion and daughter Ginger Gold//Unicorn//Filly
Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
The Colonel||Unicorn||Stallion
Jess//Diamond Dog//Female
Shikataro//Unikirin//Buck
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Twisted Vision sat on the boat with a few large books, with her daughter by her side with a quill and scrolls. They were looking through them and writing stuff down as they scoured the books. "Now Neapolitan, being a Kirin this should be a very interesting adventure for you! A Dragon Graveyard is quiet the experince!" She said happily. Neapolitan, being much like her mother was just as excited.

"So mother, how many types of dragons are there?" Neapolitan asked. Twisted Vision just laughed. "My dear we do not yet know! Anything and everything can be a dragon you just have to know what to look for and even then we do not know" She said as Neapolitan started to scribble on the scroll. "Now, where is your brother ad father?" Twisted asked. Neapolitan just shrugged and continued writing.
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Chronius laid on his back, lazily staring at the sky. The boat was quite a nice vessel, and he and Brimstone had just spent quite some time seeing as much of it as they could. Now he wished to simply laze about for a bit, enjoy the rocking of the ship on the sea, let himself just drift away. You never knew when moments such as this would come, or how long they would last, so it was best to take advantage of them. He had allowed Brimstone to continue wandering about for a bit.



Although the young buck's face didn't show it he was quite excited to go on such an expidition. After all they were going to a graveyard. Not just any boring old graveyard either. A graveyard for DRAGONS! what could possibly be cooler than that? Nothing, that's what. NOTHING! Brimstone walked along the deck examining everything that he could. He'd never been on a ship before, so this all seemed quite new and interesting to him. He kept away, however, from the sides of the ship. While the sight of the deep sea did have an entrancing beauty, the way the ship rocked to and fro made him feel that if he got too close to the edge he would be thrown into those waters, a thought that filled him with dread. Of course it wasn't like he would ever admit that to anypony, and as long as he stayed away from the sides he was more or less fine. He took up a similar little tune to amuse himself while he continued looking about.

"We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!"
Chronius||Arcane Kirin||Buck
Brimstone||Unikirin||Buck
Deep Impact||Pegasus||Stallion
Relucesco||Dragon||Male
Bloodbeak||Griffon||Female
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Mist Haze trotted up to the raised platform and cleared her throat, "testing, one, two, three" she said with a slight crack in her voice before trying again. After several tests Mist was reasonably satisfied that everypony would be able to hear her in the impromptu meeting area...well it was the hold but it was good enough.

After a moment a message rang out over the PA system.

To all passengers involved with the archaeological expedition please gather in the ships hold, thank you
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Twisted Vision and Neapolitan were shaking there heads at the boys as they did there own thing. "Mom why are they so weird?" Neapolitan asked. Twisted just laughed "Well honey your brother is weird cause your father is weird, and your father is weird because hes my husband. I think I broke him at some point" She laughed. However it was short lived when they heard of the meeting in the holding area.

"Alright Neapolitan, come with mommy" Twisted said putting there books and scrolls away. Her and Neapolitan walked right by Chronius and Brimstone, motioning them to follow along until they got into the holding area. "Well then, Small crowd today but what do you expect from a dragon graveyard" She chuckled as Neapolitan sat down politely. "So has anything changed in regards to the expedition?" She asked.
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Jess continued looking down at the waves, noticing the snakelike creature 's body slithering back up to the surface, then back under again. She blinked a few times to test that the snake wasn't a hallucination, but it turned out to be quite real. Jess decided that she would maybe discuss it with Mist later.

Mist's voice rung out from the PA system, the mare testing the system a bunch of times. Mist really seemed to like testing didn't she? Jess didn't like tests. Tests made her nervous; she would probably fill in all the bubbles on the sheet incorrectly, and then she'd have to go back to Puppy Kindergarten, and her short doggy attention span's really getting the best of her in this thread, isn't it?

Jess heard that she and the other adventurers were being called down to the hold. She made her way over to the door on all fours, then held it open for the pony behind her as she headed downstairs to the hold.
Johnagold||Earth Pony||Stallion and daughter Ginger Gold//Unicorn//Filly
Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
The Colonel||Unicorn||Stallion
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((Shenanigans Ho!))

Lantern Jack, in the form of a large pumpkin colored Cheshire Cat was basking in the sun up in the crows nest when the call came through the PA system. Taking advantage of the cover provided by the crows nest he shifts back to his pumpkin pony form and lightly jumps down to the deck. To Mist he was there officially as a member of the Guild of Archive and Records in order to officially record their expedition, to Noblesse he was there to gather any potentially useful information he could, personally though he was just there cause hey, free trip.
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1. Rook || Mountain Goat || Billy
2. Siggy || Unicorn || Male
3. Typhoon Mary || Pegasi || Mare
4. Captain Noblesse Oblige, Duke of Sleipnirheim || Earth Pony || Stallion
5. Vii || Flutterpony || Androgynous
6. Seraphina "Sera" English GENTLEMAN ADVENTUER!!! (in training) || Earth Kirin || Female (CURRENTLY UNDERGOING RETCON)
7. Echidna || Unicorn || Female
8. Lantern Jack || Changeling
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It had been some time since Swift Research had heard about the expedition of the dragon graveyard on Tumulus isle. At first, he had not payed any mind to it, as the unicorn did not wish to get involved with others. However, over the week, the thirst for knowledge ate away at him until he couldn't stand it. An opportunity to learn first hand about something was rare, and The Sleeping Dragon just couldn't pass it up. So here he was, in the ship with the motley assortment of ponies, dogs, and the like. He was staring out into the horizon from the side of the ship, thinking about how fruitful this endeavor would be. However, the PA system turned on, and the hermit heard the voice, telling those involved with the expedition to meet up in the ship's hold. As much as he didn't like it, he couldn't avoid being with others this time around.

He held the sincerest hopes that this would all be worth it as he walked into the hold. Looking around, he found a relatively secluded place to sit down in his attempts to stay out of the others' way.
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Penn looked up from the scroll he had been jotting story ideas down on, the numerous tests from the organizer of this expedition reverberating throughout the ship. When the actual announcement came, he sighed, stowing the scroll in his saddlebag, and made his way to the hold for the meeting.

As he trotted along, his mind drifted back to when he had heard about the expedition, and had joined without a second thought on the matter. WHile in hindsight, it would seem foolhardy, he relished the chance to go somewhere new, especially something like a dragon's graveyard. Perhaps he could even draw inspiration from the trip!

At least, that's what he hoped, as he finally made it to the hold, where the others were waiting.
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Chronius let out a yawn before leaping to his feet. Oddly enough the thought of stuffing himself below deck to attend a meeting on (he wasn't sure... safety procedures perhaps?) wasn't one he found all to appealing. Still, he had to set a good example, be an adult, blah, blah, bleh-bleh, blah.

"Alright Brim, lets go before your mother gets annoyed and does horrid things to the two of us shall we?"He said, walking backwards to keep an eye on his child. That was after all the only logical thing to do. "The hold awaits!" When the two and looked about before locating other half of their family and went to stand beside them.

Chronius||Arcane Kirin||Buck
Brimstone||Unikirin||Buck
Deep Impact||Pegasus||Stallion
Relucesco||Dragon||Male
Bloodbeak||Griffon||Female
Skeith||Flutter Pony||Androgynous
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azamonra

Mist Haze waited for everypony to gather and find a seat on one of the folding chairs provided before she spoke, "welcome everypony and thank you for coming. Now we all know why we are here and where we are going but I thought it best to elaborate on the expedition a bit and explain the rules" Mist explained as she took a moment to order her thoughts. She cleared her throat again and took a breath to insure everypony would be able to hear and understand her, "I'll begin by explaining what I know about the island and the grave sight itself. I the island was originally inhabited by a race of creatures that have since gone extinct, the exact case of this is unknown. Information is few and far between about the island's late inhabitants and sources differ on what information there is. It is believed by some scholars that the race's civilisation predates the Dragon Graveyard by about a century were as others believe the race settled on the island at the same time as the establishment of the graveyard" Mist paused and glanced around the room, noticing that most of the crowed wasn't really interested in the lengthy history lesion. She couldn't really blame them, there was technically no actual facts about the race and if not for the structures and such on the island ponies probably wouldn't even know they had ever existed.

Mist has coughed awkwardly before continuing, "anyway, this expedition was officially sanctioned by the Dragon Queen, Ishthakriot herself personally so please conduct yourselves to the highest degree possible, thank you. Know this is strictly a survey expedition, visual date gathering only. We don't have permission to disturb the sight and we can't collect samples either...actually Ishy said if we took anything she'd kill us so yeah, no souvenirs" Mist explained with a chuckle.

"So does anypony have any questions?" Mist Haze asked with a friendly smile.
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Jess didn't really have any questions about the trip, but the mention that this voyage was sanctioned by Ishtakhriot meant that this was some very serious business. There would be no screwing up here. No chewing on the bones, no matter how much she wanted to. No smuggling anything out of the island. And even more difficult for Jess, she figured it would be impolite to get distracted during the expedition. She was a member of the team, and if she let them down by falling victim to her short attention span, there would be problems.

Wait... she did have a question. She raised one of her paws in the air and asked it.

"Should I be concerned if I saw a weird snake-looking-sort-of-thing swimming next to the ship? I didn't really see much of it, to be honest, but it looked like it was big and that it was following us."
Johnagold||Earth Pony||Stallion and daughter Ginger Gold//Unicorn//Filly
Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
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“I wouldn’t,” Yawned Jack in reference to Jess’ question, “There’s all sorts of big nasties under the sea, mega-eels, sea serpents, etc and so on, and most of which are under the control of the Sea Ponies of Fuscus. Considering that tommorrow’s the date for the royal wedding to tie Equestria and Fuscus together, they’re prolly just keeping an eye on us. Ya know, make sure we ain’t planning on any treachery or any of that rot. Of course, really, before any of that, if it wanted to attack us, sink the ship, and send all those that can’t fly to a horrible, watery death, while those that can fly would be doomed to slowly tire until they fall prey to the same, then they would have already.”

He yawns again, “Hm? Sorry, was all that not obvious?”
Character slots 8/4

1. Rook || Mountain Goat || Billy
2. Siggy || Unicorn || Male
3. Typhoon Mary || Pegasi || Mare
4. Captain Noblesse Oblige, Duke of Sleipnirheim || Earth Pony || Stallion
5. Vii || Flutterpony || Androgynous
6. Seraphina "Sera" English GENTLEMAN ADVENTUER!!! (in training) || Earth Kirin || Female (CURRENTLY UNDERGOING RETCON)
7. Echidna || Unicorn || Female
8. Lantern Jack || Changeling
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Hex Mark


I'm so gonna be late!! Hex Mark thought in a panic as he was running down the route he had memorized. He was excited for this trip, which was strange considering he wasn't the type to go out and do this sort of thing. As he dashed passed some other ponies in the path he was galloping down, he had a tough time winding past them at top speed- even scaring a few with the after images that were left behind from his full sprint. However, he managed to get the ship within his sights and began breathing heavily as he panted. Managing to get on just in time, he stopped and began to catch his breath.

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As Mist Haze began to explain the rules, Swift Research listened silently as he learned more about how this trip was going to play out and what guidelines there were. A place with little to no agreed facts about it, with the majority of the sources conflicting. As this expedition was sanctioned by the Dragon Queen, Swift was able to assume that it was incredibly important rather than just a quest for knowledge. Still, he was disappointed that he couldn't bring a sample back for further study. Just visual observation alone was not sufficient for a real study on a subject, and this made the unicorn have a question in mind. However, while the diamond dog decided to ask her question first, the unicorn waited. Soon it occurred to him that there was another issue that had yet to be cleared up- potential dangers. When Jack answered Jess's question, Swift took the opportunity to ask his own to Mist.

"Yes...well, actually, I have two questions. First off- I would like to understand the reasoning behind the prohibition on bringing samples back. Do not get me wrong, I respect Queen Ishthakriot's decision and I have no intention to argue or disobey, but speaking from experience: It is very difficult to learn all the details of something through simple observation." he replied, his calm voice contrasting to the worried tone behind Jess's and the casual one behind Jack's. Taking a breath, the unicorn brushed his beard for a moment before speaking once again.

"Second: Should we be expecting any sort of dangers on the way to and more importantly on the island itself? If there have been as little facts as you have said, then it is safe to say that there is no telling what dangers await us. For all any of us know, there could be a creature that had wiped out the civilization." he let his second question out. "I apologize if that one made any of you worry, but it was best to put that into consideration." he apologized, having realized he could have frightened everyone in the hold.

It was then that the door to the hold opened again, as the white earth stallion walked in and Swift turned his head to see the late comer. "I was wondering what that noise was." Swift commented, and Hex Mark looked at the group and chuckled nervously. "Sorry...I overslept." the earth pony apologized before finding a seat next to the odd looking unicorn. "Did I miss anything?" he asked, and the unicorn chuckled softly. "You didn't miss much, but I'll sum it up for you: The dragon queen had sanctioned this expedition, next to nothing is known about the island itself, and we aren't allowed to take anything back with us." Swift Research replied.
Edited by Hex Mark, Aug 14 2012, 07:18 PM.
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