My Little Pony D10 International Relations Group B

Cardicia shivered at the mere mention of the word "authority".

"If the authorities were in any way useful, we wouldn't be in this situation of having to fight a foreign infiltrator all by ourselves. I say we continue this chat."

"Well, what are we supposed to do with him, then? Keep him in somepony's basement?" Madcap rolls his eyes. "I say we tie him up and dump him in front of the Town Hall. This is somepony else's problem."

"Somepony else?", Cardicia bursted. "Nopony is going to take my... our glory! This is our job and we're going to finish it!"

Madcap rolls his eyes. "Then you try to get him to talk. I'm going to go get some rope." He walks to his house, and just before going in, turned back to the others. "If it turns out we get a reward for this, I want my share."

"'Glory'? Chains o' Tartarus, would you listen to yourself? This isn't some old field of war, and the fight's over anyway. If he is a spy from Neighpon, then this is already bigger than us. But, hey, if you can find out something important before someone takes him off our backs, more power to you. I'll just stay here until we get our rope."

Madcap returns with some high-strength rope from his basement and begins to tie up the donkey using his TK.

What should I roll to determine how good the knots are?

edited 26th Jun '14 6:15:09 AM by JapaneseTeeth

@JT: That would be good. Craft + dexterity please.

The Mayor walks over. "This ... This is all your fault!" She glares at Cardicia. "You're working with these donkeys to discredit our town, aren't you!? You had better get that chariot back, or I'm reporting your crime to the guards!"

Craft (3) + Dexterity (3) = One... somehow. Man, that was a terrible roll.

Also, where did the Mayor come from?

The Mayor's been there the whole time. She's the one who shouted, "Stop them!" before you joined the fight (yes, she didn't actually help you).

For those wondering how effective JT's rope skills were:

Fairly bad. He doesn't know how badly he's done though, so he'll only lose sanity if he finds out.

Okay, I had assumed the Mayor stayed behind at the town square as everyone else chased the donkey to the plantation.

"Uh, Ma'am?" Madcap says. "We captured the donkey. What do you want us to do with him?"

edited 27th Jun '14 12:33:06 PM by JapaneseTeeth

"MY fault?!" Cardicia shouted at the top of her lungs. "You... you..."

Then something in the mayor's words clicked.

"Wait... they stole Princess Celestia's chariot? How in Tartarus would they know she'd be here at this exact..."

She pointed her hoof at the mayor.

"My fault, huh. How about YOU? Who else knew about Princess Celestia's visit?!"

edited 27th Jun '14 12:33:52 PM by Luminosity

Madcap sighs. If the Mayor gets pissed off at them, any hopes of getting reimbursed for his troubles go right down the drain. "Calm down. If we want to know who the donkey is working for, why don't we question him? Or search him or something. Maybe he has a letter or contract."

edited 27th Jun '14 1:12:52 PM by JapaneseTeeth

"Celestia's visit was public knowledge. YOU are an outsider though. YOU came here with your fancy getup to distract us while your accomplices stole the princesses chariot! Didn't you!" She turns to Marvin. "You're accomplices, aren't you!"

Marvin replies, "It would be dishonourable to reveal my allies. I only say that I performed my duty as assigned by the contracts given to my Lord. I will not betray my Lord and my country by undermining their authority. If you want to find out more, you will have to speak to the highest authorities of Neighpon."

Unfortunately for anypony rational such as Madcap, Cardicia was far too consumed in anger for mere reason to handle.

"Public knowledge? I saw you announce it hours before the event, the entire town did! You prepared nothing! Maybe because you were actually busy planning this theft on Neighpon's behalf? How about this? You look just as guilty as anypony else!"

"Will everypony just stop accusing each other? W-we don't know anything, and I don't want to hear everypony keep fighting over it!" Hobble cradled her head in her hooves, like she had some kind of headache. "I know there's good in everypony. Can't you two just be nice?"

Madcap facehooves. "It's the mayor's job to know when the princess is coming to visit. How else was she supposed to plan it?" He groans. "And why assume that this donkey has an accomplice in town anyway? It's not like he needed an informant to know that the Princess would be visiting. That's a matter of public record. And you're forgetting that we already know he has an accomplice: that other donkey who was with him who got away and is probably plotting to help him escape!"

presentation + socialise from Hobble and Madcap, please. I'm giving you a die bonus each for supporting each other.

Presentation (2) + socialize (1) + bonus (1) = zero, apparently.

edited 30th Jun '14 12:03:07 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Judge(2+1(Resist Influence)) + Wisdom(1) - Sanity(1) = (4,1,3)

this is not good.

Yeah, I'm not stopping this.

The Mayor says, "If you're really innocent, why don't you go out and PROVE it by catching the one behind this! If you stay, I'm having you arrested for trespassing!"

Who is she saying this to?

She's saying it to Cardicia.

Constant pleas to stop mindless arguing and accusing hit Cardicia at last, though her opinion of the Mayor remained the same.

"Well, time to solve a foreign conspiracy all by myself then." she said to nopony in particular in a defeated and bitter tone.

Then she approached the donkey.

"What's it gonna be, Marvin? You can get into my wagon or stay with these ponies here. I promise tasty cupcakes if you join me on my quest. You're a prisoner regardless of the outcome. It's just a matter of whose."

I have no idea why I even bothered to help up to this point. If he agrees I'll just drop him off somewhere and if anypony asks I'll claim he escaped in a valiant fight or something. I've had enough of these problems.