Psychoneights

Cardbo wrote:Dart goes up to the structure and asks one of the students climbing.

"Hey.  What's inside?"

At Dart's voice one of them, an orange unicorn, nearly fell off the wall, but the violet Pegasus beside him caught him. She spoke up in a raspy but feminine voice. "You're firsties right? Well, 'scept for the n-verb-l. Anyway, you probably shouldn't be here. This is where 'Bow herds all the Censors. We're just doing some target practice on the noisy buckers."

ZamuelNow wrote:"So...Miracle, you want to stay in here or do you want to head out?"

Miracle shrugged. "S'not too much different. Not to me. Not to Levia either I don't think."

Cloud follows Dart to the wall, and after the Pegasi's reply she says, "Censors?"

"And how do you do target practice anyway?"

The Unicorn sat up on the edge of the wall and looked down at the foals. "Censors are like...uh...your brains white blood cells. 'cept they grow back faster. They get ridda sick thoughts and keep ponies sane and keep out psychic invaders. Like...y'know, us."

The pegaus pulled herself a bit higher on the wall. "And we do target practice like THIS!"

A spinning ball of psychic energy appeared by her forehead and she blasted it into the enclosure. From inside, there is a dull blam and a strangled "Noooooo..."

Marsh cringed a little bit when the older student attacked the censor. "Are you sure you should be doing that? I mean, if they keep out sick thoughts."

The violet made didn't even look at the foals as she spoke to Marsh. "What? Oh, nah, don't worry about it. They multiply like shouty, asexual rabbits."

The colt, meanwhile, spoke to Dart. "Uh...you kinda...it's sort of like...uh. Magimind explains this really well. You just kinda take all of the pissedness in your brain, make it into like this little ball of screw you and shoot it?"

Pyro gave Featherbow a quiet nod. "Right. If that's taken care of, I suppose I should... Be..."

He stared off towards the Censor Pen. He could just make out several specks on top of the wall...

"...No. Nonono, don't tell me you foals are that dumb!!" he shouted in panic as he ran all out towards them. If one of them fell in..!

Athletics:

Pyro arrived in due time. Heads turned towards him. Those two! Figures that it would be Berry Blast and Orange Crush. And was that... What was his name. Dart? Without stopping to shout, Pyro's horn lit up as he focused on the ledge. More specifically, the hooves and claws that were holding the delinquents up to it, forcing a sort of bubble between them and the wall, hopefully pushing tem towards the outside...

Arcana:

Elacular wrote:

The colt, meanwhile, spoke to Dart. "Uh...you kinda...it's sort of like...uh. Magimind explains this really well. You just kinda take all of the pissedness in your brain, make it into like this little ball of screw you and shoot it?"

Crystalite wrote:

Pyro arrived in due time. Heads turned towards him. Those two! Figures that it would be Berry Blast and Orange Crush. And was that... What was his name. Dart? Without stopping to shout, Pyro's horn lit up as he focused on the ledge. More specifically, the hooves and claws that were holding the delinquents up to it, forcing a sort of bubble between them and the wall, hopefully pushing tem towards the outside...

Dart, not really paying attention to the two being telekinetically pulled off the wall. "Hey Sarge! Can you teach us to shoot things with our minds?"

Pyro's telekinesis easily knocked Orange Crush off the ledge, but Berry Blast just barely managed to hold on by frantically flapping her wings. When Crush tried to grab onto her, though, the weight was too much and they crashed to the ground. "Owwwww..." the Pegasus groaned. "Cruuuush, can you break your butt in a mindscape?"

Crush sat up and looked nervously up at Pyro, smiling weakly. "uh...I think we might find out real soon. Hi Sargent."

"Don't you 'Hi Sargeant' me!" the counselor barked at them, using his TK to right them onto their feet. "You nearly killed yourselves! Yeah, Censors are small and puny, but a swarm the big," he shouted as he pointed at the pen, "Will buck you out of existence before you can say 'NO'! You two get back to the Memory Farm before I buck you there!" he said, pointing again at the two interlopers.

Persuasion:

As soon as Pyro finishes his tirade, Crush hauls ass for the Emotional Baggage claim. Berry yelled after him: "What-no! Get back here, Crush! I...I, uh..." she glared up at Pyro, ruffling her feathers to look bigger, but her knees were visibly quaking. "Uh...I'm gonna leave now, but it's just to take care of my brother, okay? I'm not running from you!" she then ran after Crush as fast as her legs could move.

Looking at Pyro, Marsh asked "So, the censors are dangerous, aren't they Sergeant?"

Pyro turned to the trio on the ground. "You three didn't know any better, and at least you weren't on the wall. But yes, I am going to teach you something," he said in a less frightening tone. "Have any of you seen a swarm of ants overwhelming a larger creature? That's how Censors typically work. A Censor isn't a problem. Five Censors might not even be a problem if they're little ones. But there's never just a Censor. Or even just five. A group can overwhelm even a veteran. And if they need to they can replicate fast enough to put Parasprites to shame. So be wary of Censors," he said warningly. "Every healthy brain you enter will have them. The ones that don't have their own dangers. Featherbow pens them up here during mind dives like this one, but most of the rest of us will not. For now? Leave them alone, they're miserable enough without you sitting out here tormenting them."

Pyro seemed to consider that for a moment. "That's a good question! Sadly, Closure said I shouldn't talk to campers about the myriads of ways to kill a pony. I always end up just talking all day... But most of them work on Censors too. So tell you what, why don't you consider the issue a while and get back to me later. In the meanwhile, didn't I tell you to watch Miracle? Where has he got off to?"

"Wasn't Miracle just back there?" Dart turns around to look.

Perception:

Pyro:

Miracle is, in fact, behind you, as is Levia. He's been oddly quiet around here and he looks curiously up at Pyro. "M'okay. Levia is too. Who's the other one in there? I can feel her. Is she okay? I think I hurt her when I was screaming.

Cloud stares at the Sergeant for a moment, before half-asking half-stating-unbelievably, "You want us to think of ways to kill a pony?"

Pyro elected to answer Miracle first. Carefully. "Don't worry about it. Unlike then rest of you she's supposed to be there, where she's safer."

It was probably stretching it a bit, but he wasn't sure how much Featherbow wanted to share about "her". And Pyro had no desire to be hit by the Hoof of God.

He then turned to the pegasus. "...No. I want you to think of how you, Cloud Hopper, are going to kill a Censor the first time you get attacked by one. Censors aren't ponies. They're just vulnerable to some of the same things and live in the same brain. And they will kill you if you let them, so I hope you have a plan by the time you enter Magimind's 'scape."

Dart senses a grim mood and tries to change the subject. "Sarge, can you tell us about the spiderwebs?"