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legendaryspvcebro · 5 years

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( brie larson / 30 (physically) / she/her ) – hey, have you noticed [ CAPTAIN MARVEL ] around lately? rumor is they’re from [ NEW YORK CITY / OUTER SPACE ]. out of costume, i think they go by [ CAROL DANVERS ] !! their [ MASTER PILOT & COMBATANT / KREE PHYSIOLOGY, FLIGHT, AND ENERGY MANIPULATION ] make them a perfect fit for [ THE AVENGERS ]. // mipsy. 28. she/her.

hiyah dudes ! i’m mipsy, and tbh this my ump-tenth time coming back to rp after awhile. so i’m going to try to make this short and sweet with my girl carol, since i don’t really have much to say right now because, again, this is rough start. so look and listen and enjoy !

⭐~ carol will be primarily based on her comics, earth-616, headcanons, and inspired by the mcu’s captain marvel. there’s some from the comics i’ll use, some i won’t, because of the different timelines and versions. i’ll let everybody know when i set up a bio for her, but it’s gonna be awhile. but carol will not be / become binary in this rpg. i think things would get a little confusing and op if she was.

⭐~ chewie is carol’s flerken cat. it’s not really a cat, it’s an alien. she named her after the star wars character, chewbacca, because she loves star wars and chewie reminded carol of him.

⭐~ carol is half-kree by birth. her mother, mari-ell, was the champion or captain of the kree. though young carol hadn’t seemed to share her mother’s abilities, yet. the explosion of the kree psyche-magnitron, caused her body to absorb the cosmic energy within it, and instead of killing her, awakened her latent kree abilities. all of the powers she has are even more heightened now, because of her kree blood.

⭐~ car-ell is her birth name. means “champion” in kree language, but her parents changed it to “carol” so she could fit in on earth. carol has learned this by now.

⭐~ carol struggles with her kree lineage. she doesn’t agree with them and butts heads with them a lot, but her mother is kree. and she loves her mother, so she is the exception. very few others are too

⭐~ carol is a lesbian icon™️ because she’s been influenced by powerful women of all different types. women have only built her up, while men in her life have tried to tear her down. It all started from her sh*t dad. but she doesn’t hate men. she’s befriended some and isn’t afraid to befriend more, ex. nick fury. it’s men who believe she can’t do something because she’s a woman, that piss her off. ( i realize in the comics, carol’s not lesbian *shocker* so, at the same time, depending on who she really connects with, i’m not against making her bisexual. bisexual / lesbian, as long as she’s not straight. carol danvers is not 100% straight, fight me. )

⭐~ i love both marvel / dc, so i am here to mix carol with characters from both. plots and all. of coarse, she can have established relationships for some characters if they are a marvel character and are from the comics too, but that can be hashed out in plotting. enemies? she’s temperamental, perfect. friends? hell yeah. family like relationships? psh YES. broships? PSH bring it. ships? yeah. frienemies? let’s do it, man.

⭐~ i also love carol with short hair, so i imagine that’s how she looks, even tho i’ll be using brie gifs with longer hair. her hair is short like her comic icons i have ( avatar + sidebar icons )

⭐~ text for my replies will be normal size since my laptop doesn’t allow me to make my text small. but you are more than welcome to fix the size of my text after i reply! idm!

okay, that’s all i got, lovely stars. i cannot wait to rp with you all! i am excited to be here and pls, if you’d like to rp / plot with carol ms. temperament danvers, lmk in dms, discord, messages / asks, send a pigeon for all i care, i am here to rp and develop my bb. anyway don’t mind carol and her flerken cat.

#schqintro #//my link went bad on the discord rn so #//send an ask or dm if you'd like to plot / rp!

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kururuyakku · 5 years

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WARNING FOR USER @/twinkgenjii

newest problems: Openly shipping Incest, calling a minor a f*ggot, having underage p*rn and openly taking pride about drawing animal cr*ssing porn

(NSFW, bestiality/zoophilia, misogyny, lesbophobia, racism, ableism, transphobia/transmisogyny, suicide baiting, dub-con/non-con and underage/ped*ophilia warning)

Most links will be broken because I cleaned my blog of the posts. However I gathered everything (and more) here; @00tg00 please dont send more asks to my blog about Twink and send them to that blog instead.

TUMBLR: Twinkgenjii

TWITTER: TwinkGenjiTTV TWITCH: TwinkGallade FURAFFINITY: TwinkGenji

TAGS MASTERLIST: mis*gyny ; p*rn ; f*tish ; transph*bia ; z**philia ; underage ; r*cism ; ableis*

newly uncovered stuff is over read more, the rest is underneat. warning, its a lot.

NEW Openly ships shimadacest (genji x hanzo) and has been leaving kudo on RECENT shimadacest fanfics on AO3 [LINK]

NEW animal crossing inc*st because i guess thats where we’re at now [LINK]

NEW ships two of his OCs together where one is 18 and the other is 70 [LINK]

NEW used an asian gay slur as is username before being warned and as usual using his ‘’i didnt know’’ excuse [LINK] (newest posts)

NEW called a gay minor the F-slur after the minor was upset when accidentally seeing Twink draw zooph*lia on stream. [LINK] [LINK]. Says he can reclaim the slur, but reclaiming a slur means to use it on yourself, no... calling other people, especially minors, the slur. He later received anon hate and blamed it on said minor and told them to kill themselves. [LINK] ( If deleted, screenshot here > [LINK] )

- just straight up misogyny posts on his blog [LINK]

- His new 621 was leaked and contains even more zoophilia, transmisogyny and animal cr*ssing porn [LINK]

- has a fetish for pre-op trans women [LINK] as well as making gay men feminine in porn which is shady as shit

child porn [LINK]

Ships Genji x Hanzo, which is incest, and excuses it on ‘’they’re both hot so it doesn’t count’’. [LINK]

insults minors who are higher ranked than him [LINK]

Has a e621 account [LINK] provided by an Anon [LINK] that contains a LOT of Feral animals, Feral Pokemon, Asriel (Undertale), MLP and Animal crossing [LINK] (< examples)

- Draws and posts porn of Pokemon, he excuses it on ‘’they are pretty much anthros’’ but includes very feral animals such as Lapras, Litten, Quilava, Appletun and more. [LINK]

- Also posted dubcon (dubious-content) [LINK]

- Pretends he doesn’t want to fuck the MLP ponies [LINK] while posting porn of it, also includes feral Disney animals [LINK] and also has Asriel, the child in Undertale (couldn’t screenshot because it felt disgusting)

- Claims to hates feral porn [LINK 1] [LINK 2] but draws [LINK] and shares feral porn [LINK]

- Has ‘Intersex’ and ‘shemale’ (ew) tagged together [LINK] and also uses the term ‘femboy’ a lot in porn context [LINK]

- Draws [LINK] and shares [LINK] human x pokemon (aka human x animal)

- Everything is shared in a NSFW discord server that is linked on his Furaffinity with the same username and has zero checks on minors, basically anyone joins and nobody checks if they are above 18, tested by a willing minor friend [LINK] who went in and managed to stay for a weak before willingly leaving [LINK] Server includes REAL LIFE PORN AND SELFIES along fictional stuff and shared the link to multiple servers that included minors [LINK] Was also linked on his twitter but has since been removed

- Multiple talk of NSFW around minors in his MAIN server [LINK] and even talk of fucking a child/minor [LINK]

- Has a channel in his server called ‘waifu’ that has a bot where you can marry characters, including actual fucking children [LINK]

- Guilt tripped a minor after being called out for sharing porn to a minor [LINK 1] [LINK 2]

- Allows fujoshis (gay men fetish) in his server and when confronted about it by an asian server member, did absolutely fucking nothing [LINK] and the fujoshi is still in the server and active

- Has a history of being lesbophobic and misogynist (calls me a bitch all the time) + a lot of other stuff and a lot of it happened in his old server that I now own and I deleted the channels, but I witnessed a lot of it and multiple people have also testified to it [LINK 1] [LINK 2] [LINK 3], I also know people in his server who testified to it

- Testimonials that he was abusive to his now ex-boyfriend [LINK]

- Trashes low-tier players constantly and since it’s not as important I won’t dig so much but here’s one that he sent me personally [LINK] (entitled much?)

- Me and my friends reported a very bad post and he got suspended [LINK] and his response to it was to call me a bitch [LINK] and send me rude shit [LINK]

#txt #twink

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teddylawrence · 5 years

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task 001 baybee!

PREFERRED NAME — bri

PRONOUNS — she/they either work fr me tbh

AGE — 22

TIMEZONE — est

HOW OFTEN ARE YOU ONLINE? — literally too much.......... like if i’m not online on my laptop i’m lurking on mobile it’s a Problem

HOW DID YOU HEAR OF WATERSHED? — i’m friends w the asshole who Created It /:

DISCORD — chocalety milk#0458

OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE — uh my personal is here n my pinterest is here im always down to give out twitter n insta too if anyone wants it :B

MYER-BRIGGS — istp

HP HOUSE — slytherin

ZODIAC — gemini

DO YOU BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY? — like a lot yes an embarrassing amount i am, in fact, that white girl that asks what ur sign is like 3 minutes into meeting them im not PROUD of it its jst me this is real this is me

DO YOU ENJOY ASTROLOGY? — i have the gemini symbol tattooed on me.

HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED RPING ON TUMBLR — i think like 13?? or 12 i cant remember tbh

WHAT YEAR WAS IT? — 2011 or something i dnt wanna do math thts jst a random guess

NAME A RANDOM ROLEPLAY THAT STICKS OUT IN YOUR MEMORY — the magic returns, it was a next gen harry potter rp tht i was in fr im not kidding my entire high school career

WHAT WEIRD ANIMAL WOULD YOU HAVE AS A PET IF IT WAS REALISTIC — idk a kangaroo i think........ i kno they can actually b super aggressive and r jacked as fuck bt its rly cute when baby joey’s r in their mama’s pouches

WHAT PET DO YOU GENUINELY CONSIDER GETTING SOMEDAY? — i want another cat so bad and i’d like to have a dog again someday tbh

NAME THE FIRST SONG ON YOUR DISCOVER WEEKLY ON SPOTIFY OR THE FIRST SONG THAT COMES ON APPLE MUSIC / ITUNES SHUFFLE — the first song on my discover weekly is 2all by catfish and the bottlemen n i put my spotify on shuffle too n the first song that came up was imaginary parties by superfruit

NAME A BOOK THAT YOU READ IN SCHOOL THAT YOU SURPRISINGLY LIKED — i think besides to kill a mockingbird, brave new world by aldous huxley was my fave??

NAME A BOOK YOU HATED THAT MOST PEOPLE LIKED — i genuinely can’t even think of a book i hated......... maybe the great gatsby, its my english teacher’s fave n she was hyping it up sm but it jst kinda bored me??

WHAT TV SHOW DID YOU RECENTLY BINGE? WOULD YOU RECOMMEND IT? — i’m binging stranger things with my mom rn and shameless on my own, both r Dumb Good i’m quite obsessed.................

WHAT FILM DID YOU LAST WATCH? DID YOU LIKE IT? — i finished texas chainsaw massacre like the original with my bf and i thought it was rly boring NSDGLJSKDLGH film nerds everywhere b spitting on me rn /:

FAVOURITE QUOTE — i genuinely don’t think i even have one............ there’s been a few that’ve always Touched Me bt i can’t even think of one rn

LINK TO A VINE / TIK TOK / VIDEO THAT EXUDES YOUR ‘ENERGY’ — this bad boy right here

DO YOU WRITE OUTSIDE OF RP? WHAT DO YOU WRITE? — i’m attempting nanowrimo but it’s frankly not going well and other than that?? i haven’t in forever but should start again tbh

THREE YOUTUBERS YOU STILL LOVE & TRUST — noel miller, cody ko, chris klemens

A CELEBRITY CRUSH THAT JUST WON’T QUIT — harry styles until the day i die baybee!

EVER MEET A CELEBRITY? SHARE YOUR STORY — i met kurtis conner at the last 1975 concert i went to it was quite awkward i cld jst tell he did not want 2 take another picture LHSDGLKHSDG

WHAT’S YOUR PICTURE-PERFECT NIGHT? — tbh in the summer all my friends and i do is sit in my backyard drinking beers and playing card games so that

A CONSPIRACY THEORY YOU KINDA BELIEVE IN — the mandela effeect

ARE ALIENS REAL? — yes ofc u cannot look me in the eye and tell me we’re the only living species in the universe

PLAY ANY PHONE GAMES? WHICH ONES? — /: i have 4 diff versions of candy crush on my phone...............

PLAY ANY OTHER GAMES? WHICH ONES? — i was never allowed to play like any computer/video games growing up so i jst never did it was a sad childhood

WHAT’S A FILM YOU LOVED WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG AND RECENTLY WATCHED, ONLY TO FIND OUT YOU DON’T ANYMORE — i can’t think of one....... maybe surfs up i was obsessed with that when i was little bt i bet if i watched it now i wld hate it LSHDGKLHSDLKG

DO YOU COLLECT ANYTHING? — ticket stubs from the movies i go to, weird like vintage/homemade jewelry tht i never wear, old coins, etc.

WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BUT YOU’RE TOO LAZY? — politics tbh

THREE LANGUAGES YOU DON’T SPEAK, BUT WISH YOU COULD — spanish, latin, mandarin

MOVIE YOU’VE WATCHED MORE THAN 5 TIMES — tangled........ i went thru a phase fr 2 months where i watched it every day i was so obsessed...........

NAME A FICTIONAL CHARACTER FROM TV/FILM/MOVIE/GAME/BOOK THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF PROJECTING ON / YOU RELATE TO — rue from euphoria probs the most tbh

IS THERE ANY MEDIA (BOOK/MOVIE/GAME/TV SHOW) YOU FEEL CHANGED YOU IN SOME WAY? — maybe the harry potter series...... the biggest rp besides this one i was in was based off it n what not so

DO YOU FOLLOW ANY SPORTS? WHO DO YOU ROOT FOR? — like now tht i have a bf who likes sports kind of?? my whole family loves watched the blue jays baseball and maple leafs hockey games so i Sit There bt i dnt rly . care tht much JSDGKLHLDSG

HOBBIES BESIDES WASTING AWAY HERE? — /: reading?? fkin...... Drinking, i do some music stuff tht i need to . focus on again

PLUG A TV SHOW / MOVIE / BOOK / VIDEO GAME / ETC… YOU WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD CHECK OUT — uh?? watch chris klemens on youtube if u dont

TEAM EDWARD OR JACOB? (IF NOT APPLICABLE, WHO DO YOU LIKE MOST IN THE TWILIGHT SERIES) — i was jacob when i was younger now? alice and jasper........ the Real otp of twilight

LAST MOVIE SEEN IN THEATRE — the lighthouse

DO YOU STILL READ FOR FUN? — not as much as i wish i did /:

IF SO, WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? — the furies fr the watershed book club

ON A SCALE OF 1-10, HOW MUCH DID YOU HATE FILLING THIS OUT? – i didnt hate it rly i like talking abt myself quite a bit its jst the truth

#wshtask #wshtask001 #:B

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ask-de-writer · 6 years

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Daring Do and the Adventure of the X'ibian Vase : MLP Fan Fiction : Part 15 of 21

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Daring Do

and the Adventure of the X'ibian Vase!

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

And

Carmen Pondiego

Cover Art by

Doctor Dimension

52630 words

Writing begun 08/26/15

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Users of Tumblr.com are specifically granted the following rights. They may reblog the story. They may use the characters or original characters in my settings for fan fiction, fan art works, cosplay, or fan musical compositions, provided that such things are done without charge. I will allow those who do commission art works to charge for their images.

All sorts of fan art, cosplay, music or fictions is actively encouraged.

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Jeremy had Sehang Shu down and was expertly probing her wound. The big dromedary had craned her neck about and was watching him with interest. The others were crouched at a respectful distance, even Daring Do and Soree were staying back. It needed no expertise to see that he knew exactly what he was doing.

Sehang Shu offered, “Really, Jeremy, we could just leave it there. The musket ball stopped in muscle.”

Jeremy looked up and nodded. “We could do that. It is a very bad idea, but we could do that.”

Trying to hold still for him, Sehang asked, “Why is it a bad idea?”

Still working to get the ball out of his friend, Jeremy replied, “This ball is almost pure lead. Your kind are very long lived. For years, no harm would show, but it would be building. The lead of the ball will work into your system and very slowly poison you.

“It will lead to early senility first. If you have good care, the poisoning will progress to muscle weakness, loss of control, convulsions and death. That is why it is important to get this out now.”

“I see. Thank you, Jeremy. I did not know that.

“May I say that, though you had me stay back during the firefight, you handled that very professionally. I thought that you did not like military things.”

Jeremy gave a sort of sad, sideways grin as he replied, “I don’t. That does not mean that I am not good at them. Part of the reason that my family was so disappointed in me was that I turned down a fully paid Hurricane Fellowship to the Equestrian Military College to study Antiquities.”

Daring Do sucked in a surprised breath. “A Hurricane Fellowship? That means that if you graduated at all, you would have been a major, at least. I can understand their disappointment, if not their sabotage of your chosen studies.”

Jeremy, in the meanwhile, got forceps on the ball and pulled the bloody thing out of Sehang Shu’s shoulder. He mopped blood from the wound, examined it closely, and went in with a small needle and gut held in different forceps.

Finally, satisfied, with his work on the deeper part of the wound, he asked, “Sehang, do you want a scar that will show on your skin?”

“No, Jeremy, I do not. Why would you ask?”

“I am not familiar with the ways of your kind in regard to scars. A Diamond Dog would absolutely want a Scar of Honor. Some ponies in the Equestrian Military Services do and some don’t. I thought it polite to ask.”

He pulled the last of his stitches tight, bound up the wound and stepped back. He advised, “Hard as it is to keep up, I will walk for the next few days. You must allow the others to each take a share of your load for now. It is necessary after a deep penetrating wound like that one.”

Sehang Shu gave Jeremy the bow of lower station to higher. “It shall be so, Jeremy. Since you will walk with me, may we continue our Colloquium? If so, I would like to arrange one with you, as well.

“I saw how you managed that small battle. It was far superior to how we would have done it. I would like to cover the tactics and strategy of small engagements. When we have any problems, here in the desert, they are mostly small ones, like that one.”

Jeremy gave her a precise bow of equals and replied, “It would be my honor. I am glad of the opportunity to return knowledge of value for the knowledge that I am getting from you.”

The group settled down. Daring Do, Soree and Jeremy finished their interrupted dinner and everyone found comfortable spots for the night.

The first light of the next day showed Jeremy sleeping beside Sehang Shu.

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The three partners felt the impacts of multiple stones striking their truck. A wash of mud roaring down the slope caused the vehicle to sway and shift, though not far.

Robber was the first one out of their vehicle, even though the rain was still slashing down. Running back to where the other two trucks were now shoved far out of place. One had rolled over at least once. The other, seemed to be in fair shape.

Mixed with the still shifting mud, much of the expedition’s equipage was scattered from the wrecked vehicle. Ignoring the expedition’s damaged gear, Robber pried open a door of the wreck. He reached in and felt the desperate grasp of the Chineighese driver.

Over the din of wind driven rain, he called, “Can you free yourself?”

That was followed by the sound of things being shifted. He plainly heard the ripping of fabric, the creak of damaged seat parts being pressed and driven out of the way. At last, the driver, clearly severely bruised, at least, got his head out the door. Robber, without hesitation, began to work him free.

Overthrow joined him and they soon had the driver out. He was limping, but nothing seemed broken. Working together, they found heavy ropes among the scattered supplies.

They hitched the ropes to the remaining vehicle, trapped in mud, but not apparently harmed, and fastened them to the buffalo damaged truck that still worked. With Overthrow at the wheel, they managed to free the other slide trapped truck from the grasp of the mud.

Robber, Overthrow and the Chineighese drivers began to gather as much as they could find of the ruined truck’s load. It was a challenge, fitting it all into the remaining trucks. The wind whipping the canvas and lines about as they secured the loads did not help at all.

Neither did Tyranny. As they reentered the relative security of the cab of their damaged truck, he sulked, “Watch it! You are all wet! Muddy too!” He pulled back in distaste.

The other two looked at Tyranny in a distaste of their own. “We wouldn’t want to inconvenience so great a scholar as yourself.”

Overthrow said, “Imagine, Robber, doing a translation from X'ibian and not knowing that they consider the dromedary to be the embodiment of elegance and grace.”

Robber nodded, “I have been looking over some of the basic work that we have based this expedition on. Daring Do was right, back in our office. Tyranny was using pony based thinking to translate work that uses dromedary as an image or metaphor. And old X'ibian uses a lot of them.

“I have straightened out at least some of the worst errors. It still appears that Tyranny’s basic notion about using the Heart of Discord ought to work.”

Tyranny, to change the subject away from his many shortcomings, pointed out, “There was no real hurry about the damaged supplies. I bought us a full coverage insurance policy for the entire expedition. It is through Allstable Insurance, an Equestrian firm doing business in the Empire. They have an office in Cantrot. We should be able to reach there tomorrow.”

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Jeremy ignored Soree’s grin as she put away her sketchbook. He turned to Sehang Shu and asked, “How is your shoulder this morning? I am sure that it aches. Is there acute pain anywhere in the wound?”

She replied, “You are correct, Jeremy. It aches. Other than that, no. There is no sharp pain. I thank you for going to such trouble to get the ball out and fix the wound.”

Jeremy replied, “It was no trouble, Sehang. Now that it has had overnight to begin healing, you must begin to move it gently. Nothing faster than a slow walk at first. This will allow it to finish healing without scars binding muscles together. If that happens, it will always be painful to move. I do not want that for you.”

With a grin, Sehang Shu replied, “Neither do I, Jeremy. Please, though, call me Shu. That is my given name.”

She got up and walked slowly with Jeremy to where breakfast was being prepared. The rest of Sang He’s herd watched in amusement.

Jeremy was in time to make the tea. Soree already had the rice mixed with some dried vegetables on.

Breakfast past, whole group set out at a gentle walk for a dromedary. Jeremy only had to canter to keep up.

The whole herd was listening quietly as Jeremy began to explain, “For small engagements, there are four basic types of advance in force …”

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The remains of ROT’s expedition pulled up in front of an unimpressive brick building with a paned glass front window. The Allstable Insurance Group emblem was posted on a placard inside the dusty glass.

To the surprise of the partners, there was a pony standing outside waiting for them. He had a small skull cap and wore a orange and blue silken robe. He bowed to them the bow of equals as they dismounted from the bufallo damaged truck.

Speaking heavily accented but clear Equestrian, “Good day. Which of you is Mister Tyranny? He alone signed your policy, of which I do have a copy, should yours be lost or misplaced in the various accidents that I have heard of.”

Robber bowed in return and said, “He is Mister Tyranny. If it is permitted, I have a better grasp of custom and would speak for us all.”

“I see. It is often so with foreign parties. If he assents, it shall be so.”

Overthrow had to nudge the arrogant Tyranny to bow and say, “He does seem to get along better with you ponies.”

Nodding and bowing back, the Agent said, “I shall take that as assent.” Turning to Robber he continued, “I have only the official reports for a few events and it is clear that far more damage has occurred than is in them. May I first assess the present vehicles and ask what has happened to the other one?”

Robber bowed deeply and said, “It was a storm last night. We were parked in the hills to the south and east of here, on the Dunn See river road. A slide of mud and stone wrecked one truck completely and entrapped one. We were able to free the entrapped truck but the other was rolled over and its underworks broken by the stones to where it could not proceed.

“No pony was injured beyond a few bruises.” His bow was accompanied by the presentation of five golden cash.

The watching Tryanny nudged Overthrow and commented loudly, “We should get a good settlement now that the wheels are greased!” Overthrow just put his hoof over his eyes and groaned.

The Agent’s face froze. Bowing as one of high station to a lower, he said, “I see why you speak for that fool. I am sorry for you that you must put up with him.”

Turning to the lead truck, he pointed at the front end and side door. “Please tell me of these damages which are also not in the reports.”

Robber bowed deeply again and said, “Thank you for your sympathy. It is welcome.”

Tyranny ground his teeth in outrage but held his tongue now that the damage was already done.

Robber went on, “We were somewhat short of the hills where we were forced to stop for the night. There was a water buffalo on the road. We stopped as advised in the manual of driving. The water buffalo did not.”

The Agent smiled at the jest and replied with a bow of equals, “That is an all too common tale. It charged you twice?”

Robber, following the lead of the Agent bowed as an equal and agreed, “It did.”

Before Overthrow could shut him up, Tyranny grumped out loud, “All that I did was try to shoo the creature out of our way!”

The Agent overheard and turned to Robber with a severe glance. “Did that unworthy person indeed provoke the water buffalo?”

Glumly, Robber agreed, “He did. Both times. The owner came up with a long light switch or wand. He tapped the beast and started to direct it away. Mister Tyranny flapped a hoof at it and shouted to shoo it away. It charged at once, damaging our night driving lamps. The owner got its attention and was driving it off when our unwise leader foolishly did the same. Except that it hit the door, the result was identical.

“The beast was then driven off by light taps of the wand and a few flaps of the owner’s hat.”

“I see. You must all come inside. There we will consult the actual policy in both Equestrian and Chineighese. Your settlement will be determined by what is written in it. I do see that it is a custom policy drawn for this expedition.

“It is signed by Mister Tyranny and Senior Partner and Agent, Marehem.”

Overthrow’s jaw dropped. Barely remembering to bow, he exclaimed, “Marehem? Is that the same blue and orange maned pony in the Allstable advertising?”

The Agent bowed to Overthrow and replied, “He is indeed. Since his colors are thought by the superstitious to be a sign of bad fortune, and his parts in advertising connect him to disasters, it has a most favorable effect. Our Insurance is widely sought.”

Overthrow, under better control, pointed out, “As Senior Partner of Allstable, he owns more than half of the company. I wonder who owns the rest?”

The Agent, not even pausing in his search of the files for their policy, replied, “An Equestrian firm. Its initials are V.I.L.E.

“Here is the policy, in both languages. We shall be generous in allowing the Equestrian version to rule.”

As they were parking the trucks in a repair garage’s lot, Overthrow growled at Tyranny, “How could you possibly have signed that!? Didn’t you recognize those whole sections that might as well have been lifted directly from our expedition funding offer for Daring Do?”

Robber counting the cash on the string, snickered sadly, “Eighteen copper cash! I am amazed that we got this much!”

Shortly, the pony in the garage office presented his estimate. Robber read it to the other two. “Sadly, the details are right. So is the three hundred gold cash estimate. It may run a little more than that.”

(to be continued)

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internetdetectives · 5 years

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10/29/19 - Chat with Moonman and Greth

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:13 PM: "okay”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:13 PM: "still not sure i was added here but”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:13 PM: "hi scout”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:13 PM: "and liam since”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:13 PM: "i see you typing”

otherLiam 10:15 PM: "yeah heya.”

Xenquility 10:15 PM: "Yo”

otherLiam 10:16 PM: "this is a bit to ask but we’re kinda trying to figure out how you got added here, too. if you don’t mind, could you give a quick list of the currently-active ID’s?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:17 PM: "everybody except me as far as i am aware”

otherLiam 10:17 PM: "So, scout, Mugen, Yugi, IA, etc?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:18 PM: "Mhm”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:18 PM: "or as mugen would say”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:18 PM: "'waffle'”

otherLiam 10:20 PM: "Alright. And do you remember what day you played the Song of Healing? (no judgement, just tryin to get the timeline straight.)”

pциїsнёd gяєтн 10:20 PM: "it was around midnight”

pциїsнёd gяєтн 10:20 PM: "on uh”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:21 PM: "i think the 27th”

Dense 10:22 PM: "Hey greth”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:22 PM: "henlo”

otherLiam 10:22 PM: "Interesting. How are you feeling right now?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:23 PM: "honestly”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:23 PM: ((A photo of Jake the Snake Roberts is posted))

Xenquility 10:23 PM: "Relatable”

Dense 10:23 PM: "Tyler kissinda snake”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:23 PM: ((A photo of Jake the Snake Roberts is posted))

otherLiam 10:24 PM: "that’s a fuckin mood right there”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:24 PM: "sorry this is some group specific memeing”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:24 PM: "i have a tendency to post jake the snake”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:24 PM: "like wwf legend jake the snake roberts”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:24 PM: "i too am a snake on his redemption arc”

otherLiam 10:26 PM: "So Greth, what’s the purpose of this “circle” Jeremy/Jarilo wanted made?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:26 PM: "i dont know im not in it”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:26 PM: "i should make clear im not salty about that”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:26 PM: "i left skype shortly before that”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:26 PM: "i'm more salty about ID breaking down in skype drama over something dumb i did on the site”

ARGdov 10:27 PM: "yeah thats nothing new, sounds like it checks out”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:28 PM: "ID basically broke down into an ID controlled by Tyler”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:28 PM: "and an ID controlled by Mugen”

otherLiam 10:28 PM: "Holy yikes.”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:28 PM: "and then a third group with me a few boys”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:28 PM: "and i didnt like it”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:28 PM: "most of us were in all three”

otherLiam 10:28 PM: "Who are your boys?”

Xenquility 10:29 PM: "Who was with you?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:29 PM: "so me leaving seemed to bring the groups back into 1”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:29 PM: "i dont want to create further drama”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:29 PM: "i didnt even know there was a discord ultra secret group”

Xenquility 10:30 PM: "No worries about drama dudeski”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:30 PM: "well i know some people probably wont wanna be named but”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:30 PM: "Yugi was there everyone knew that”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:30 PM: "he was the only spanish memer and we clicked so he actively wasnt in the other two until i left”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:30 PM: "thats partly why i did”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:30 PM: "I didnt want Yugi to be deprived”

ARGdov 10:31 PM: "man I feel bad for those who were stuck with mugen”

ARGdov 10:31 PM: "interesting that Tyler apparently didnt lose his memory tho”

Xenquility 10:31 PM: "?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:32 PM: "a few people tried to not shitpost on him but most people did”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:32 PM: "but he was in the circle or whatever so some of them reasoned they needed to appease him”

otherLiam 10:33 PM: "sounds like this “circle” is doing more harm than good if it’s dividing everyone up”

ARGdov 10:33 PM: "yeah”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:33 PM: "that was my opinion but again i didnt even know until after we had splintered into three skype chats”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:33 PM: "so i just left”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:33 PM: "and apparently everything is somewhat normal”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:33 PM: "I know some new people joined who had gotten in through Mugen's skype link”

Dense 10:35 PM: "Hehe”

Xenquility 10:36 PM: "Hows Tyler? Haven't been keeping up in ages”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:36 PM: "no idea”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:36 PM: "not on skype”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:36 PM: "tyler wasnt around much”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:36 PM: "the group that tyler controlled wasnt really actively controlled by him”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:36 PM: "it was just the original skype chat”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:36 PM: "Mugen left that chat after i posted the song”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:36 PM: "and that's when it all went downhill”

Xenquility 10:38 PM: "Any clue what the song did?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:38 PM: "the site had been extremely active that night”

Dense 10:38 PM: "-king nothing plays in the background-”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:38 PM: "we had made a ton of progress and it was really late”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:38 PM: "and we probably coulda kept going but after the healing song”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:38 PM: "it went offline”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:38 PM: "as far as i know it might still be offline”

otherLiam 10:39 PM: "Earlier you mentioned that when you posted the SoH you “thought it was your idea” and you “felt different”. Can you go into any more detail on that?”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:39 PM: "you ever fap to some weird shit convinced this is your life now”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:39 PM: "and then right after you finish you have existential regret”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:39 PM: "it was like that”

otherLiam 10:40 PM: "So, utterly convinced it was a good idea then immediately aware that it was gross and bad.”

Dense 10:40 PM: "JKJS oh god”

ADULT_LINK 10:41 PM: "oh god that feeling sucks”

otherLiam 10:41 PM: "Actually, would you mind checking YSHDT? I would but I’m in the middle of the desert rn.”

ADULT_LINK 10:41 PM: "discords like barely chuggin along”

Xenquility 10:42 PM: "Aw shit. Web browser is screwing with me. Anyone able to remind me what happend last November 11? Kinda sped through my research”

Dense 10:43 PM: "Uhhh november 11”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:47 PM: "uhhh lemme get uhhh”

𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖍 10:47 PM: "nov 11”

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Daring Do

and the Adventure of the X'ibian Vase!

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

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Carmen Pondiego

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Writing begun 08/26/15

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Robber and Overthrow were scanning the two passes that the maps showed as the only approaches to ancient Hong Wa. ��Their binoculars showed only narrow, stony notches with no vegetation at all.

“Any luck, Robber?”

“No. It is hard to be sure of details with all the heat shimmering but nothing the size of a dromedary has showed up at all. I wonder if something has happened to them?”

Tyranny was crouched behind one of the MT81 quick fire cannon, pretending to aim and fire up the gorges.

Overthrow shook his head sadly. “He was a sharp and prudent lawyer before he got this obsession with the Heart of Discord and world domination. Look at him. He threw away the firm’s entire capital on this one throw of the dice.

“He does not even seem to understand that we need to capture them all ALIVE, if we can! Daring Do, especially. I overheard him last night. He was muttering to himself about torturing her to death. That is bad enough. He was not even thinking about the fact that only she has any actual chance of FINDING the Heart of Discord.”

Robber agreed glumly as he sweated under the merciless X'ibian sun. “I would have given up. I can’t. If this does not work, we are bankrupt. I don’t want to start over from nothing.”

Overthrow sat on a stone and asked, “Taken up mind reading, Robber? Those are my thoughts, exactly.”

Tyranny was laughing in a twisted fantasy. “Just wait until they show their heads! These guns will tear them to shreds!”

Robber stepped up behind Tyranny and pulled him away from the weapon. “Fine! Blow them to pieces! THEN HOW ARE WE GOING TO FIND THE TOMB?”

Tyranny blinked several times. In a puzzled voice he pointed out, “That nearest necropolis is the oldest of them. We just go down there and look for the marker. Im Farst was an emperor, so the marker on the grave must be huge.”

In the gentle voice reserved for trying to reason with a child, Robber suggested, “Think it through, Tyranny. If it was that simple, one of the many previous expeditions would have found it. Besides, IT IS NOT A GRAVE. It is a BIG tomb. Somehow, it was hidden so well that over the ages, MILLIONS have been spent trying to find it. NOPONY ever has.

“Daring Do must not be harmed. SHE it very sure that she has solved the problem. She is not the only one. BOTH Celestia and Luna are backing her expedition. THEY are sure that she is right.”

From the low stone ridge off to the left of them, a rifle boomed, echoes bouncing back from the ancient wall of Hong Wa. Dirt flew up about two feet from one of the ammunition boxes. A second shot blasted from a different part of the ridge. The bullet made a screaming whine as it ricocheted from a stone near the tripod of one of the guns.

Before either of the partners could stop him, Tyranny leaped to one of the MT81s and began to blast away along the ridge, swinging the weapon on its mount like a fire hose! The noise was a deafening, rolling thunder!

The bits and chunks of rock flying from the ridge told of bad aim. He was not even hitting near the crest where his opponents had to be.

Robber simply clubbed him down and hurled him away from the gun. Taking the handles, he waited until the next rifle shot’s noise and smoke revealed where to shoot. He sent an economical three round burst at the spot. It shattered stone and threw up dirt right on target. He waited quietly for the next shot to reveal the location of a shooter.

That shot came quickly, and Robber’s return fire splintered stone there too. Not hearing their other MT81, he spared a glance. Overthrow was bleeding from a leg but worse, the gun’s ammo box was a shattered ruin. Single shells were thrown about like nine-pins when a strike is rolled. Overthrow was attempting to clear the wreckage and feed the weapon single bullets.

There was another shot from the ridge! Robber aimed and fired. His gun blasted once and clicked. His ammunition box was empty. He raised his hooves and stood well back from the useless MT81.

He saw that Overthrow was following his example. Tyranny was frozen with terror. Dromedaries were coming across the ridge. Robber recognized the advance method and shook his head. Somepony had trained these fighters.

Seven dromedaries under arms, accompanied by two ponies with rifles and one horse with a wicked looking sword came up and seized the three.

A large dromedary bared a sword and held it in a threatening position. Robber had read enough to know that was a bad sign with X'ibians. The dromedary mare spoke mildly enough. “I am Sang He. This could have been an interesting fight if that idiot,” she pointed to Tyranny, “had not wasted your ammunition. You used what you had very well.”

Robber shrugged, “Not a lot that I could do to stop him, in time. He was 'playing’ gunner when the first shot was fired. I knocked him off the gun as swiftly as I could.

“This whole expedition has been his idea. He thought that we could just go to the necropolis and dig up relics of Im Farst.

“The whole expedition was not too bad, financially. He bankrupted us, buying old manuscripts of the earliest X'ibian Empire. He thought that those relics would be fabulously valuable and allow us to recover our huge expenses. There is only one problem. We made a foray into the nearby necropolis. It is the wrong age entirely.

“Then he thought that maybe we could force Daring Do to reveal the location of Im Farst’s tomb. That was another piece of stupidity on his part.

“Here at the last, Overthrow and I were following him because we had no other choice. I mentioned that we are bankrupt? If it helps any, I was shooting only in defense.”

Sang He regarded Robber with mild disdain. “You told us only some of the truth. You are after a single relic. The legendary Heart of Discord. Daring Do was dispatched, not to prevent you from it, but to study and preserve the rest of the tomb.”

“She wasn’t to prevent us from getting the Heart of Discord?”

Daring Do, a bit of wind whipping her mane impressively, inquired, “Do you have any idea at all how old the Princesses Luna and Celestia are? They KNEW Im Farst and the Dragon Queen. They do not want the tomb of a friend despoiled for a single relic.”

Tyranny leaped on what Daring Do had said. “So! They gave you a map to the tomb! If you don’t hand it over right now, I will …” He hit the ground with a thump and a cloud of dust flaring out in all directions! Overthrow, leg wound still bleeding a bit, knocked him down and was sitting on him.

From his perch on Tyranny, he offered, “Excuse this, please. Our senior partner is more than a tiny bit unhinged. It did not show until we were committed to this business.”

Jeremy giggled. “It sure showed when he was shooting! Are you SURE that he is on YOUR side?”

Daring Do glanced skeptically at the three. “I had in mind allowing you to help us to excavate the tomb entrance as soon as we find it. You must realize that any three thousand year old guide or map will not be too accurate today. Even some hills move in that span of time. We will have our work cut out for us, just to locate the tomb and determine the correct method of entry.”

Tyranny, from his place flat on the ground, demanded, “What is so complex about it? Once we find the tomb, we just dig in and get what we need!”

Daring Do looked down incredulously. With all seven dromedaries doubled up with laughter and Soree giggling, she pointed out, “In my career, I have opened thirty eight significant ancient tombs. Every one has had at least two lethal traps that still functioned.

“Now I am certain that it will be YOU digging in, when we find the entrance!”

Robber chuckled sourly, “Tyranny, are you even beginning to grasp how stupid you are sounding?”

Daring Do shrugged. “Let him up. I have had to deal with grave robbing idiots before. “Mister Tyranny, you will not be allowed to enter the tomb at all. When we locate the artifact or any complication connected with it, you will be informed. If you try to enter without our specific permission, Sang He and her Dromedaries will shoot to kill without warning, is that clear?”

Tyranny regained his feet, snarling, “How can we possibly trust YOU?”

That caused Daring Do to double up laughing. When she regained her composure, she replied, “Not only are you still alive when we could have easily killed you, we are allowing you to stay with us. Consider, you are bankrupt. You cannot buy enough of fuel or supplies to get home but we are taking you in.

“It is we who have no cause to trust you!”

Soree went to Kanya Ama and asked, “May I get out the stove and fuel? We are now past our noon meal, due the presence of certain venomous insects.”

Kanya Ama knelt and allowed Soree to open her big pack panniers. Soree got out the stove, charcoal, and rice with dried vegetables already chopped and mixed in, needing only cooking to make them a meal.

Jeremy and Sehang Shu joined her in preparing the meal. Sehang Shu quietly offered, “Jeremy, you were very courageous in this event. Without your lead, we could have been killed.

“My given name is Shu. I wish that you would use it from now on.”

Lifting his eyes from the task of measuring the noon rice, Jeremy questioned, “I have made many mistakes of understanding so far, due to both prejudice and not grasping what I have been presented to study. From my reading, that offer has more meaning than simply letting me call you by your given name. Is that correct?”

Shehang Shu nodded, her face serious. “That is true, Jeremy. It is an offer of more than simply friendship.”

Jeremy returned to her the bow of one of low station to one of high. “I would be most honored, Shu. If I may say so, I have rarely ever met one that I respect more.” He hesitated before giving her a gentle hug.

Her return hug lifted him a good half meter off the ground!

She let him down and suggested with a giggle, “We can follow this up later. Just now, your lunch needs to be fixed!”

Soree grinned ear to ear as she commented, “We had better give you seconds, Jeremy! You are going to need your strength!”

Tyranny wandered close and demanded, “Never mind messing with the servants! When will my noon meal be ready?”

Tyranny promptly discovered two things about dromedaries. The first was that they can deliver a full power kick from any angle, using any leg. The other was that full power for a dromedary is very powerful indeed!

He picked himself up, cautiously, checking for broken bones. He had landed two meters away from where Shehang Shu’s hoof caught him. He snarled, “That is it! You are fired! Get out of here!”

That was met by a sudden clacking sound as all seven of the large bore dromedary rifles that Daring Do gave the herd were brought to bear and cocked, safeties off. He was surrounded by a herd of grim faced dromedaries staring down the sights of their weapons.

Sang He said in such a gentle voice that it took a moment for the meaning to penetrate, “You will abase yourself. Grovel before Shehang Shu and beg her for your life. If you do not, we will destroy you.”

Tyranny turned to Daring Do, who was staring in consternation at a sheaf of papers, and demanded, “Do something! Your servants are in revolt!”

Daring Do gave him a pained look. She patiently explained, “There is nothing for me to do. They are being very forbearing in allowing this conversation before firing.”

She pointed sweepingly to the desert horizon about them. “If you examine your surroundings with the utmost care, you might notice a tiny detail. You are not in Equestria. Equestrian law does not run here. What Sang He’s herd is about to do is TOTALLY LEGAL HERE.”

Tyranny’s brows drew down in puzzled shock. “All of this over firing a servant?”

Daring Do pointed out, “In the first place, NOT YOUR SERVANT! In the second place, not my servant, either. Sang He’s herd was engaged for their known and proven expertise in all aspects of the documentation, conservation and proper handling of antiquities.

“They have worked with me before. They are partners splitting a twenty percent share of the value of the total find as assessed by consultation between my Royal backers and the X'ibian Provincial Department of Antiquities. If the expedition fails, they will receive an already agreed to per diem.”

He gestured at the herd, with unwavering guns aimed at him. “These crude beasts, expert at anything? Ridiculous.”

There was another clacking of a rifle being cocked and brought to bear. Jeremy had joined the herd in steady, utterly calm aim at Tyranny. Soree was off to one side, out of the line of fire, sketching the scene into her notebook!

Daring Do observed, “Your mouth is digging you a grave that you will not get. By custom, your body will be put into an exposed location for desert scavengers to eat.”

It slowly percolated through Tyranny’s consciousness that what he was hearing was perfectly serious. He got down to his belly, head extended toward Shehang Shu. “Please spare my life! I did not understand what I was doing.” He frowned in concentration and added, “I am not sure that I do now. I will do my best to understand and behave.

“I am a scholar of the ancient form of your language. Perhaps I can assist the work coming by that means.”

Shehang Shu gave a millimetric nod from the Bow of one of highest station and slung her rifle. She pulled her sword and held it in a low guard position, edge toward Tyranny.

In a voice so cold that it should have frozen him, she stated, “We are on the same road. We ask no thing of you and you, none from us. The path is all that is shared.”

She sheathed her sword and turned her back on him. The others all released the cock and slung their rifles too. Even Jeremy turned his back on the shivering Tyranny.

Soree and Jeremy returned to fixing their delayed noon meal.

Daring Do stirred the still shuddering Tyranny with her hoof. “We need to talk about this translation. I told you, back in your office in Canterlot, that your X'ibian translation was near hopeless. It does not seem to have improved.”

That got Tyranny’s attention. “Nonsense. I have even used your lexicon of X'ibian Ideograms! I got every one exactly right!”

Daring Do nodded briskly. “You did. You also totally missed the meaning! All references to Dromedary are superlatives. They are the epitome of beauty, grace, elegance and deep thought. They are NEVER negatives or symbols of clumsiness, stupidity or ugliness.”

Incredulous, Tyranny gestured at the herd and exclaimed, “Impossible! Just look at them!”

Jeremy had quietly joined them and said, “Yes, just look at them through THEIR EYES. Didn’t you know that the whole X'ibian first Empire was founded and carried on by dromedaries? Im Farst, whose tomb we are seeking, was a dromedary.

“His wife, the legendary Dragon Queen, named Wisdom, was actually a dragon, as the X'ibians understood such creatures. We hope to find out more about Wisdom herself, in the exploration of this tomb, assuming that we can find it.”

Tyranny, ears stinging from the multiple rebukes, snapped, “What about HER MAP? How could you fail to find it unless you are really stupid?” He pointed dramatically at Daring Do, who yawned.

Sehang Shu loftily informed him, “If you were a student, you would be removed from the class. I believe the term I want here is flunked.

“You were informed already that landmarks can change a great deal in three thousand years. You have failed to consider the information given you.”

Jeremy quietly added, “Besides, Doctor Do does not have a map. That was a conclusion that you jumped on and have accepted without question since. That is faulty reasoning that not even the military of any nation will accept. I am amazed that you, as a lawyer, would be guilty of such a basic failure of logic.”

Daring Do agreed, “I do not have a map. I do know how to find the tomb. It will not be easy. We must begin inside the Hong Wa.”

Overthrow cautiously inquired, “If the tomb is outside the city, why do we need to begin inside it?”

Robber acidly pointed out, “If Daring Do has no map, she has a chain of clues that begin inside the city somewhere, obviously.”

Sang He politely herded Daring Do away from the lawyers. “Doctor Do, your delayed noon meal is now ready. Why you would wish to associate with such low creatures as they is beyond me.”

Daring Do chided gently, “My friend, do not discriminate with them because they are ponies.”

“I did not. I have placed them in the station that they have earned by their behavior. We honor you and those you have brought, because you and they have earned our respect. Those back there have gone so far the other way that I am glad that we did not shoot.

“Scavengers are a needful part of the ecology of the desert. I would not wish to poison them with that creature’s carcass.”

(to be continued)

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