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"Interesting, you companion seems to be afraid of me." He said chuckling quietly into a hoof. He looked around Silvan to the pony cowering behind Silvertongue. Soul stepped from beside the prince and trotted up to the older stallion. "Sirs," he said as he entered into a deep bow. "I am Soul Slasher, I'll be accompanying you on this trip." He said as he extended a hoof out to Silvertongue and Gallows.

So what you all think of the Golgari and Izzet decks coming out? Dredge is an awesome mechanic and overload looks like it could get crazy if they make more cards with it. The decklists

I really like the cover art for the unexpected love of Dusk Shine

"...When...step through...gravity...reversed...careful." He said as he slowly made his way into the portal with the support of Wrenchy and Faithful. Silver was too drained to argue with Shadowcloaks antic's, but it wasn't necessary, his company said all that could be said.

GearShift stood there and listened to Celestia basically plead to her and the others for their help. Cults,far off lands, infiltrate? GearShift had been cooped up for far to long, this was exactly what the mare needed, a need adventure. She longed to get out there in the danger again and learn things that no unicorn before her had learned and go where no Equestrian had gone before. "Ok." She said simply. "If my home is in danger and I can help, then i'll do everything I can."

Soul Slasher watched the party from the shadows as they prepared for their trip. This Silvan seemed to have gathered a group of attentive ponies, this was good for the young princes goal. The old man was a hardened warrior, the way he carried himself and the pride put he put behind each step told of years of service. The dirty pony seemed quite useless to Soul, but he did have an eye. Soul noticed when he looked at Sweet Taffy as if trying to point out a flaw where ever it maybe. Finally there was the Unicorn, he had seen Sweet Taffy flip the letter to Silvan, that was not expected, one would have to have very trained eyes to notice such an effortless move. Silvan didn't drag fools along with him, no. That, however, made Soul's job much more difficult. He would have to be careful with his moves around these ponies one slip up and he would be outed, ruining any chance of him leaving this crappy place. Hopefully he won't have to do anything though. The group started to converge at the dirt road out side of town. Might as well meet everypony now. Soul stepped out of seemingly nowhere right at Silvan's side, like the first time when he confronted the exiled prince. "I trust that you are prepared for this journey, Silvan." He said calmly as if he'd been there the entire time.

"Okay," He sighs. As he walks to the wall where the portal was opened. And presses a hoof onto the wall reopening the void, expending all of his mana and tapping into Azumeril's mana stores. The void he opens doesn't lead to the alleyway, but to his workshop. He trots up to Faithful and whispers into her ear. "I trust you to clear this up clean." "Wrenchy, Faithful," Silver said panting heavily. "I'm heading back to my workshop, you two are free to follow me. From there I can you back to Sunhome Faithful, and Wrenchy, you're free to go anywhere, just don't leave Nivix."

Luna took the book in her magic and held it in front of her. She started at it like it might explode in her face, this book it held the answers she's searched for since before her banishment. Everything she ever wanted to know was right there in her face. Too much has happened today. The moon princess' knees wobbled slightly. "Celestia-" She swallowed hard as she tucked the book under her wing. "I will read it at every chance I get." She pawed at the ground for a moment. "Sister, T-thank you." Luna leaned into her sister for an affectionate nuzzle, and whispered into her ear. "So, when do we talk to those two about all of this?"

"I'm not going to lie to you, there's a good chance we could die." He said to his fellow Izzet. "I guess you would've found out eventually Wrenchy, I'm a saboteur for Niv-Mizzet." He said facing away from Wrenchy. "I'm going to put it like this Shadowcloak, you can stay here and worry, or you can make that portal to my completely hidden underground workshop, that just so happens to be the second largest logistics hub in all of Ravnica complete with a 3-d map of the city and controls for several key district systems like...hmm, the heating shafts that lead into Sunhome." Silver's face remained stoic during the entire speech. "We are perfectly safe at my workshop, bring everything you need. That way both of can prepare and we can act tomorrow night." He said placing a hoof on Shadowcloak's shoulder.

Luna contemplated the question for a while. Celestia was right, though the elements would be useful, Twilight and her friends especially Fluttershy probably just wouldn't be able to handle the things to come. The last thing Luna wanted to do was break six young mares. They needed ponies, the likes of which none had seen, ponies who would be able to handle stress and stay calm in the face of dangers far above and beyond anything Equestria has ever seen. They'd have to ask much of these ponies, ask them to sacrifice more than they may be able to repay. With heavy breaths and a determined gaze she turned to Celestia with her answer. "Well, I do believe we have two perfectly good candidates here with us. Miss Do's problem solving and survival skills are of the highest calibur, I've also heard her lectures in flight theory. She would be invaluable to our effort." She chanced a glance at Daring. "I can tell she want's to get back out there Sister." She looked back at Celestia. "And Gear Shift, I've met nopony with a sharper analytic mind and engineering skill. Gear Shift's ability to breakdown and understand almost anything will be a great help. Not to mention her skill in magic is phenomenal." She stopped talking for a moment, but then she remembered something. "Oh, I have also heard of an extraordinary metalworker in Ponyville, could their skills be useful?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Forerunners? You mean that alleged cult or whatever that has been, causing all these recent problems?" Gear Shift asked in a hushed tone. "I assume it is quite bad-why are the princesses looking at us?"

Luna levitated the letter over to her sister. She shuffled uneasily from side to side at Celestia's question. "The evidence Shining Armor presented to me...Makes it almost a certainty." She said solemnly. "What actions are we to take?" GearShift stood next to Daring with an expression of utter confusion on her face. "What do you think they're talking about that's so urgent?" She whispered to Daring.

High Noon, 3 hours. Taffy thought. She took a deep breath to calm herself and walked out of the room. With eyed the kitchen hands sadly and walked over to them. She gathered all of them together in a large hug and explained that her time with them was up. Once back in her roomTaffy summoned her Aishanidari and used its magic to revert her back to her normal form. Male once again, Soul Slasher let out a deep sigh and began packing his saddle bags with everything that he would need for a prolonged trip. Saddle bags full, Soul lazily flopped onto his and buried his head into his pillows. He let his thoughts wander to the dark places of his mind that were usually fought off by the bubblely personality of Sweet Taffy or the thrill of combat when he was Soul Slasher. I hate this place. My father, and the Empire have basically ruined me. I'm spending more and more time as Sweet Taffy and enjoying every minute of it. Who the hell am I and what do I even want in life? F***! He started to yell into the pillow. As he drifted off into sleep his senses were bombarded with the same information that has followed him for years. "Meet my new little sister..." Cried a young filly and the blood drained from her neck and the light faded from her eyes. "She's dead because of you!" A powerful looking pegasus stallion said as a coffin was lowered into the ground. "Promise you'll never leave me." Cooed a beatiful mare while her house and fleshed burned brightly against the night sky. "I brought you into battle to DIE!" Screamed a stallion as he slit the throat of his only son. Blood hitting the cobble stone is all that could be heard. "If this is life, then it's not worth living." A filly whimpers out as she falls neck first on a curved blade. The sound of slicing muscle and sinew rings out infinitely. "H-his...name...Crystal Cove..." Cried a mare as she choked to dead on her own blood in a hospital bed. These dreams were frequent but it didn't lessen their impact. It reinforced them, to be reminded everyday of what he lost, what he thought he had, and where he messed up was just so much...sometimes too much. He thought about calling it off and just staying here as Sweet Taffy and never venturing out into the world again, but he knew that wouldn't work. As long as he was in this land he would never be right, leaving was his best option. He raised his head up from the pillows and rubbed his head. The fur around his eyes was matted down from tears and his breaths were heavy and labored. He walked over to the vanity mirror and cleaned himself up, he removed the eye-shadow and rustled up his mane with his hooves. Once done Soul changed out from his dress and into a skin tight black leather body suit and donned his gold trimmed beige cloak. The pegasus folded up the dress and placed it into his saddle bags. Ready to go, he fluttered out of his window and waited next to the entrance of the inn with his hood up. Silvan and his group should be ready soon.

"Yo Akali, over here!" he said running over to her. He looked her character up and down and gave his friend a smile "Nice job in character creation, what class are you?" Kasimir's armor was black and gold. The metal gleamed in the sun, and rattled slightly which each step he took. He was ecstatic to have Silvia playing the game with him, since he was pretty much a noob as well there wasn't much he could do for her. Then an Idea hit him, she probably didn't know the controls very well so a little hands on combat training maybe in order. But he should probably show her around town and tell her about some stuff before they try that. "So, how about I teach you about the town?" he said smiling.

Gildroy sat down at his desktop after a hardy dinner of coleslaw with a side of. He pressed his hoof up against the power button of the tower. The machine came to life with a low hum and a burst of air. Once the computer was all booted up Gildroy double clicked The World R:2 icon. He'd been spending a bit of time on the game and even had a single friend! The game booted up and from the pregame interface he could see his friend was online, he sent a message asking if he/she wanted to play and to meet him in Mac Anu. He selected his character, Kasimir, a griffon blade punisher, and logged into The World and awaited a reply.

"No, not yet at least, but if we leave this alone it probably will come to that." He shook his head at Wrenchy. "I'm part of the Firemind Wrenchy, Niv-Mizzet already knows everything that's happening right now." He was dropped his head sadly. "With how is right now, Rakdos and Izzet will become open targets for the Boros Legion." He pawed at the ground. He looked over to Faithful "Yeah, I have an idea, but you wont like it." "Assass-No, I mean Shadowcloak...Everyone is in this together so we need to collaborate for this." He looked over to the assassin and used his gauntlet to create a small projection of a map on the wall. He called Shadowcloak's attention to Nivix. "Can you make a portal from here to 345 meters below and 200 meters to the east of the main tower of Nivix?" He said to him. "I'll have to feed you mana or else the portal wont work." "If we are to survive this and stop an all out war we need to go to my workshop." He said turning to everyone. [OOC: Once everyone decides to leave I suggest we create a thread specifically for this whole ordeal.]

"I'll assist you in you on this," She took a deep breath. "I could use a change of scenery." He'd also need to meet up with these Forerunners and this Black Moon, if he was an Envoy of the Empresss Soul would have to see if she could assist him in anyway and keep Silvan out of his hair. Dammit. She spat mentally. Will there be a time when her honor is allowed to recover? Though blood bond to serve the Specter, Silvan was a pony he thought could take him to a world he could truly forget himself in. One would burn everything he hated. The other would liberate him from it.

Well i use the story somewhat, lilpip screwing arbu, red eye dead and the his griffons hold on new appleloosa gone...etc.

"This needs to be nipped in the bud." He rustled his mane. "Niv-Mizzet is going to enjoy this."

"Dammit, I was hoping they didn't see her face." He said stomping his front hooves. "I could just as easily make copies of both of you to feed to the Boros but the aren't that stupid." "This makes it so much worse, and those legionnaires still live." He snorted. "By now they've already told their higher up what you look like. No amount of false information will deter them. You think they follow the law? They are the law, it curves for them." "No, this is probably the first time you've bucked up like this...and by the looks of your organization and how you talk of connections you've been at this for a while. Boros is likely tired of you and if you use banking connections to arrest two ponies that don't match the descriptions and Boros will have Orzhov's head. Orzhov depend on Boros for defense so they will track that tip, and they will point Boros back at you and Wrenchy." "Faithful, how are the Boros handling assassins undermining them as of late?" He asked with his head down. "Everything we do will only delay them." he said sadly. "I was hoping to avoid this, but I have to go to Sunhome." He stated dryly.

"Sorry but I can't change back at the moment, I can only do it twice a day, so I'll have to change back after I tell Orion I'm leaving." Soul Slasher studied the map with eyes trained to pick-out details and listened with ears capable of hearing a pin drop on a hay stack from down the road. She had absorbed all or the information, it wasn't complicated. But one thing nagged at her mind. "Two," she said casually "One, when do we leave? I have a few things to take care of. Two, you don't have to tell me, but what do you plan on doing in this other land?"

"NO assassin, I have not only considered the short term. Though my solution is fast it in fact answers the problem the legion believes a cloaked pony is the assassin, they know nothing more! They will keep up the hunt until the cloaked pony is captured. Boros acts fast and with ruthless justice, while you attempt to formulate a shadowy espionage plan to manipulate them, they are increasing the number of legionnaires patrolling the streets, they are invading the homes of ponies, looking for a cloaked assassin, and even holding innocents in an attempt to intimidate information out of them." He said challenging the assassin's plan. "We give them what they want and this ends." "Tell me i'm wrong in my assessment." He dared. "Besides, The Firemind enjoys a little rowdy behavior from his League every so often." He said with a smirk. Silver turned to the mare and met her hoof with his in a shake. "Ah, You must be Boros if you can bring in an assassin." He said as a half question half statement. "anyway on topic, yes I accept the offer." "I can have a dead copy of Wrenchy ready in about twenty minutes." He looked at the mare in front of him and realized that they haven't exchanged names yet. "I'm Silver Charger by the way."

"Pfft! Can we do it, do you even have to ask?" he said as he put a hoof on her shoulder. "Best engineer i've seen in Izzet plus a master of energy flow and elemental research...how could we not figure this out?" He said beaming with confidence, he needed a good project. How long has it been since he actually did regular Izzet work, one, two years? I didn't matter, all that mattered was that the thought of this project lit a fire inside of him that had lain dormant for far too long. "Yea, actually I do have a better idea, one that's much faster and less likely to blow up in somepony's face," He said rolling his eyes. "I replicate Wrenchy, you give the copy your cloak, the copy goes out and roams the city, it gets killed. Problem Solved" he shrugged.

Sweet Taffy strolled into the kitchen with her eyes closed and a wide grin plastered across her face, she had every intent on bringing Gallows that last pint of cider, then she felt it. The righteous soul she-no, that Soul Slasher had felt last night. She looked around until she Still holding her smile she trotted over to Silvan and lightly tapped him on the shoulder. "I'm sorry sir, but you aren't allowed to be back here," She motion for him to follow her to a back room. "If you would, follow me please." The two headed into the back room of the kitchen, the looks and reactions from the on duty staff ranged from a silent smirk to obvious cheering. "I always knew you were a cute one Taffy, but he's quite the catch!" Said a mare beating eggs. "Whoohoo Taffy," Called the stallion grilling vegetables. "Don't break anything you two." Teased a mare mixing pancake batter. Once the reached the oak door to the room Taffy opened the door and motioned for Silvan to go in ahead of her. He closed them in, muffling the sounds of the outside world. "What do you need of me?" Soul Slasher asked.

Upon seeing the note Luna's face immediately caved into a frown. Her eye's scanned the parchment over and over again, but her mind could not believe what her eyes were registering. She knew better than to jump to conclusions, after all the chances of what she was thinking of were slim to none. Still though, it beat at her from the back of her mind, constantly clawing at her. It couldn't be. She thought to herself. Luna's distress didn't go unnoticed though. The night princess' eyes had a far off look to them, but GearShift stayed by her side the entire time. When Shining Armor mentioned something about a cult Luna nearly tripped and face-planted into the pristine marble floors of the castle hallways. GearShift helped Luna regain her balance, but she also turned her head attention to the Captain. "Magical manipulation seems highly unlikely, Even when Queen Chrysalis had enough power to out duel Celestia she could only mind control you...The power required to influence any significant amount of ponies would be pretty immense." She guessed as Luna steadied herself with her help. They turned the final corner and now stood face to face with a massive gold plated titanite door. Luna, legs shaking and breathing labored raised a hoof and knocked three times. "Sister, we need to speak." She said shakily.

Taffy hadn't felt this alive in a good while. She bounced gracefully from table to table, earning smiles and open admiration from many stallions (much to the chagrin of many mares). Her entire form glowed with an exuberance that just isn't seen anymore, like she just belonged here. The mare floated from to and fro depositing orders and picking up dishes in a smooth fashion, her movements were effortless, like silk gliding across fur. With a back load of dishes she disappeared into the Kitchen, moments later she walked back out into the lobby free of any load. Her ears twitched when she picked up Gallow's cat call. Taffy turned her head and saw the pony who whistled her over sitting with Silvan and his guard, she trotted over to their table with a hope in her step and gave the three stallions one of her brightest smiles. "Hi, what can I get you?" She asked Gallows. The gravedigger asked if they had any hot cider. "We are almost out, but for you I think I can snag the last lil bit." She blew Gallows and Silvertongue a sweet little kiss and sashayed away towards the kitchen.