Greed

"Do not worry general, Sloth will come up with a workable plan, he may look dozy, but only because his mind works at least twice as fast as anypony i've ever met, leaves the poor gentlecolt exhausted." Greed left the planning tent before another word could be said on the matter. Wrath, who had thus far been silent, spoke up, "Hey don't you worry Haybrun, we sins might not be from your realm but believe me if it comes down to it we can handle a few wayward guards!" His mane spat a few embers to emphasise his point, one landed in Pride's hair, she calmly blew it out, "Yes, quite, and i'll be sure to give this plan a good going over before we finalise it." She gave a flick of her mane and left with Wrath and Gluttony, who gave lucky a warm smile before exiting, to get some rest before tomorrow's briefing. That left Haybrun, Bowie, Lust, Sloth (who was asleep), Lucky and Envy left in the tent to talk about their preferred roles in the plan, and what they hoped would transpire...

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After everyone had finished eating the, surprisingly good, meal...Greed was still studying the map, "Well, i'll put this over to my friend and planner, Sloth...what do you make of this?" Sloth, who was asleep, woke up suddenly, took a glance at the map, and spoke, "I agree with Lucky...changing of guard...sneak in...give me evening...will create plan for escape...zzzzzzzz" Sloth slumped back down on the desk, snoring quietly. Greed chuckled, "Do not worry about his apparent dozy nature, he'll be formulating a plan even as we speak." The other ponies didn't seem too confident, but they said nothing. "Now until Sloth is ready to brief us in the morning i suggest that we go back to our tents and get some sleep. And just so you know if we pool our resources and work together, if you'll excuse the cliche nature of this, we're certain to succeed!"...

Greed sniffed, "Well that was easier than anticipated..." He turned to gluttony, do you have anything to tell me? She shook her head, "Well then, i'll see you at dinner..." Greed said, disappearing through the tent flap leaving Gluttony and Bowie left in the tent...

Greed was disappointed in having to wait, but he was also anxious to meet with Lust, Envy and Sloth after their hike, and hearing what they had to report about the ponies recruited into this army branch. Before he could follow Haybrun though, he felt like speaking to this green unicorn who had appeared at the tent door, and perhaps overheard their conversation. he was also interested to ask Gluttony about her position, and findings...

(Darn me and my short memory of names )

(i mixed up the names of the generals)

Well either way, Gluttony walks in on you all, of course recognising Greed...

Greed rearranged Haybrun's desk, taking special care to get the pencils as straight as possible. "Now about blueprints?" Greed asked, slightly excited to view something as interesting as building blueprints, after all perhaps he'd get chance to copy them to his notepad? "Please do lead the way General..."

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Gluttony finished crushing the spices and carefully added them to the simmering pot, the contents of which actually smelt good, something that made Gluttony produce a slight smile, she was worried though, "Lucky sure has been gone for quite a while, maybe i should go look for him?" Leaving the soup to cook she left the kitchen tent and rounded a few dark corners before coming face to face with a stand off between Lucky and a few stallions she didn't know, "Lucky..what's...what's going on?"...

Greed studied Haybrun closely, absorbing the question and taking the time to formulate a proper answer. "General, i need you to hear me out before jumping in with the first thing that comes to mind," Haybrun nodded, Greed turned to Bowie, "That stands for you as well Sir Bowie," Bowie nodded as well. Greed took out his notepad and placed it cover down on the General's desk, he muttered a few words in an unknown script and the pages began to turn. Slowly the top of the desk turned transparent and an image began to form, and then, to move. "Gentlemen if you'd please gaze at the...wonder...of my homeland!" The image was now fully visble and each pony could make out the detail in extraordinary clarity. The land was black and cracked, the sky a mixture of purples, blacks and reds, the trees and other plant life was twisted and warped, appearing to ensnare and battle each other in a slow motion test of endurance, and from the heavens a light rain fell, though this rain brought no life, only desolation and despair. "This is where we Sins originate, the land of Altestria. It wasn't always like this, no this land used to resemble Equestria quite well, apart from the lack of pegusus and unicorns, only the Earth ponies could live here, though they too have evolved beyond your bondaries." As if to amplify his point the image shifted to a scene showing a small town not unlike Ponyville. "This is Pony Vile, this is our hometown." The images changed again to a tall castle like structure embeded in the crater of a volcano. "And this is the birthplace of Sheol..." The image suddenly froze, and the light from the table faded. "Unfortunately," Said greed, "That is all the information we have on Sheol's abode, but we do know how he came into being. All ponies have both negative and positive feelings, though in Equestria it is the positive that is multiplied, the opposite is true in Altestria, negative emotion is brought forth much easier than positive emotion, and is was here in Mount Psynei that the emotions pooled. It took centuries, millenia maybe, but eventually the fountain of negative feeling grew strong enough to have conciousness, and Sheol burst into life, erupting the volcano and drenching the land with his dark presence. We Sins are fragments of Sheol that were catapulted from the initial site and we represent the seven aspects of his personality, the seven negative emotions, the seven...sins..." Greed paused and looked away, before taking a deep breath and continuing on with his story, "We are here now because we need to fight and destroy Sheol, we ried once before when we realised that negative emotion is not all we are and all we will ever be, but that quest ended in failure and we were abished here, Sheol though that we would be destroyed by the positive energies that permeate this land, but our unwillingness to become what he represents saved use." Greed sighed, "We need an army, to help us rid Altestria of this blight, and to stop Sheol before all of Altestria is under his sway and he becomes powerful enough to break the dimensional gates and travel to other realms...even yours...now do you understand?"

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Gluttony took the spices that Lucky offered and slowly began to crush them in the pestle and mortar, "Ok Glut, don't mess this up, slowly, carefully, and with as few volatile ingredients as you can muster..." Her thoughts drifted back to the green unicorn, his hat sat gently on her head, she blushed, "No, this isn't the time...concentrate on the spices!!!" She shouted, then sighed, this wasn't meant to be part their mission here in Equestria, Gluttony hoped that her feelings wouldn't interrupt the goal, and that Lucky was strong enough of heart to deal with the reality of the situation when it was revealed...

"Hrumm..." sighed Greed, stopping the scralling of the pencil and retracting both the notepad and partner back inside his skull. "How...unfortunate..." There was perhaps a slight hint of anger in Greed's voice, but he hid it well. Greed stared at haybrun for just long enough to begin to creep him out, when without warning Greed, sat back and remained motion and even soundless for a full minute. When the minute was through greed sat back up and opened his mouth to speak, "Very well General, i am a fair pony, you answered my question to the...best...of your ability, so you may ask questions of me, though i warn you, this may be your only chance, fates being what they are."...

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Gluttony sniffed, her tears drying, "Ok..." she replied, and fetched all the spices she knew about from the kitchen stores, "How about these?" The young unicorn smiled, "They'll be fine." He said, Gluttony smiled back, feeling a sense of inner warmth that she'd never felt before, "But i do like explosions..." She added nervously, the unicorn laughed...

Just what it says on the tin, i'd really appreciate it if somepony could aid me with this pursuit.

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Gluttony watched with curiosity as the green pony, who had identified himself as Lucky Chance, attempted to swallow the mess of a soup that she'd been trying to fix. "It's ok," She said sadly, "You don't have to be all polite, i noticed your reaction as soon as it touched your lips..." She turned away, small tears beginning to crawl their way down her cheeks, dampening the fur there. "Ironic really, here i am, the sin of good food and over eating, and i can't cook to save my life...I'm...I'm..." She suddenly ran towards Luck Chance and buried her head into his shoulder, her sobs muffled but increased in intensity...

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Greed sat down in the proffered chair before taking out his notepad and pencil and arranging it, with almost OCD like precision, on Haybrun's desk. "Yes i did, thank you for taking the time to see me." A slight glow eminated from the eye sockets of Greed's skull and the pencil slowly rose from the desk, "Long story short, i want to know about YOU, i want to know about your history in the armed forces, indeed i want to know about the history of the armed forces themselves...it seems odd to me that a land so devoted to love and tolerance would have an army to begin with...don't you?" If Greed could smile, he'd by delivering a knowing smirk right now. "Something isn't right here, and as your...advisor...i'd like to know." The pencil made contact with the notepad, the anticipation of knowledge, making it slightly shake. Greed looked away for a breif second before adding, "And just so you don't think i'm being unfair to you, you may ask as may questions of me as you like, after you've answered mine of course..."...

Gluttony jumped as a voice she didn't recognise addressed her, "Hello miss i heard a explosion from here, might i ask your name? Was that your doing?" Turning rapidly she saw a Green pony with orange hair and a Fedora standing in the remains of the tent doorway. She blinked a few times before finding the courage to speak,, "Erm, hello...yes, my name is explosion and that Gluttony was my fault...i mean...oh sugar rush.." She looked away feeling her cheeks turning red, she really wasn't good with this whole talking to other ponies thing...

As he followed Haybrun, Greed also studied him closely. He was certainly an interesting pony, proud, powerful, yet also perhaps a little impatient. He didn't seem to appreciate the situation surround The Sins' appearance, but Greed was thankful that Haybrun had accepted them none the less. Greed hoped that when they returned to the command tent, he could have a proper conversation with Haybrun, as he was sure there'd be plenty of interesting things to note down and later archive. For now though Greed was happy to just follow Haybrun to whatever the larger stallion thought needed his attention the most, after all that in itself would be one of the keys to analysing what made Haybrun's mind tick...

Greed, being used to such disaster, waited to see how Haybrun would deal with this latest interruption...

Meanwhile,"Opsie, a little too much nitro glycerine?" Gluttony, a brown and white striped mare with an inexhaustable supply of sweets, asked the cook, "There's not suppost to be ANY AT ALL!!!" He shouted back, before leaving to cool his temper and his hat which was still slightly burning. Gluttony just ignored him, what did it matter really, following the recipe was just plain boring, and besides nopony was hurt, just a little blackened. "Huh, well it tasted fine to me!" She half heartedly replied. 'Maybe i need to reverse step two...' She mused, producing another lollipop from her belt...

Greed took the book and carefully placed it inside the brown leather satchel that was strapped to his side, "Thank you for the gift, I shall enjoy reading through that later when there is time." He quickly closed and reapplied the brass lock on the satchel, almost as if he didn't wish for anyone to see what was contained within. Then he addressed Bowie once more, "But we have not introduced ourselves formally, this is Haybrun, the General i am currently attached to as advisor, is there anything you wish to know Sir Bowie?"...

..."Please just call me Greed." The notepad reappeared from within Greed's skull and immediately began scribbling things down at such a rapid pace that the pencil itself was just a yellow blur. "That's extremely impressive Sir Bowie, where did you learn such skills? Or can everypony here do such a feat?" If Greed had eyes they'd have been flicking back and forth from Haybrun and Bowie, awaiting an answer...

Greed watched the recruits march off for their hike, and was interested to note that they seem to gather together into groups of around 4-5, 'probably friends' He mused to himself. The notepad made a quick note of this behaviour before floating back to Greed and depositing itself inside his skull for later. Greed sighed a contented sigh, and turned his head towards Haybrun."What now General?" He asked...

Good afternoon, and welcome.

Hello, a fine welcome to your from all of the Sins.

"Hmm you're very observant for a military type general," Greed mused, "You are correct up to a point. Me and my friends are from another realm, similar to your own yet different in many aspects. We do not have a military to speak of, let alone specialised branches or said military. Our land is ruled by an oppresive tyrant and his lackeys, we need this knowledge so that in time we can return and fight..." Greed turned away sadly, raised a hoof to massage his jawbone, and continued, "I turned down Sir Lancer's offer because we don't have the resourced for massed combat, what we need is a small specialised force, much like the recruits we will be training here for the next few months." Greed began to walk down the hill towards the front of the assembled recruits, he stopped and half turned his head back to General Haybrun, "Oh and by the by, this isn't a mask," He gestured towards his head, "Arcane powers did this, if you feel like it, when we have a moment, you may ask me about it..." And with that Greed started to tour the lines of ponies, a floating notepad following his every step...

"Are you the Egghea- errr Scholar doing the tests?" A grass green unicorn suddenly called out to Greed, who stopped and studied him intensely, paying perticular attention to his peculiar head gear. "Yeah i know sirs, the Fedora is not regulation, but its my lucky hat and i'm over 75% sure that luck is real!" "Interesting..." Greed muttered, his notepad scralled a few notes, and Greed continued walking without a another word.

"Oh don't mind him, he's just too into his study is all! You can talk to me instead!" Two new ponies now addressed Lucky, the sins of Lust and Envy...

Greed turned to the pony who had asked the question and studied him for a moment before answering, "I need this unit of ponies for reasons of study General, for the gaining of knowledge that i would otherwise be unable to possess." Greed stood and walked towards the stallion stopping less than a meter in front of his muzzle. "Do you know where i and my friends are from? Tell me, what have you heard?"...

so far what i can see is that the sins have a bad sided but they can also harness thier power to make good things as well is this true?

Yes pretty much, they have their flaws but then again we all do. They aren't evil per-say, they just have their personalities rooted in what sin they represent.

I wanted them to be more than one dimensional characters who behave according to their name. Each one of them has their own role in Pony Vile, and their own dreams, fears, etc...more interesting that way...