Fallout Equestria: Rolling Bones: Audio Log 1

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… know what happened.

A number of us prepared, but too many didn’t.

It started because of Stable Tech. It took everypony a while to realize it, but the lottery wasn’t random. At first there were only minor complaints and grumbles, but things escalated quickly. Bar fights became a weekly affair.

The city began to segregate.

Then everything went to Tartarus.

Stable 100 called in the chosen, a drill, nonemergency. It almost turned into one though. If it hadn’t been for Shining Armor and his Royal Guards I believe there would have been blood. The entire city watched as three hundred unicorns descended into that steel bulwarked cave.

They’d never done one before, a drill, the stable was only just finished. Nopony questioned when the door began to close. No pony questioned when it sealed. We didn’t know any better.

Then… then we saw a second sun light up the sky.

Cloudsdayle… it had to have been Cloudsdayle.

The initial shock didn’t last long. Ponies panicked and began pounding on the door. I didn’t… I knew it would be a waste. I’d helped put the damned thing in, if a megaspell detonated right next to it might have dented it. Most of us knew better, or maybe they were just too scared…

Either way, everypony just crowded together, watching the sky, waiting for the missile we knew had Wellsprings’ name on it…

Then the sky closed…

I don’t know how many died in that press of bodies… 

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… curfew <cough> started I knew it was only going to get worse…

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… into the eastern blocks. We argued, but they wouldn’t listen. They had the numbers and the weapons. So we went, with our tails between our legs.

Our rations were barely enough to survive, and I lost twenty pounds in a month. We scraped by for a while though. <cough> Families were allowed to visit occasionally. When I realized what was happening I told Marble not to come back, I didn’t want Igneous to see me like that.

Windgate and I started to stock supplies in the second month, and we encouraged others to do the same. It was obvious to us what was coming, but we didn’t know how much time we had.

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It was two months later when Marble came back. She barely recognized me. Our conversation was being monitored like all the others, but she still managed to slip me a note.

We had two days.

How we managed to spread the word so <cough> so fast without the earth ponies finding out, I’ll never know.

Not everypony came; some didn’t believe us… couldn’t believe us. Others chose to stay… I think… <cough> <cough> I think they were the smart ones.

<sigh> Thirty or so didn’t make it out of the gate, Windgate among them.

That was… was… I’m not sure anymore. They didn’t follow us. Once we cleared the city limits they just let us go. Haha– <hack> why waste the bullets? This… this wasteland will do the job for them. We didn’t bring enough water… maybe if we weren’t <cough> weren’t half starved…

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<cough> <wheeze> The first signs of sickness showed up seven days ago, <cough> two days out of the city. Four days later we finally realized what was happening. <cough> Half our <cough> our water came from the rain. We didn’t clean it. <cough> <hack> Psyjic figured it out, realized what it was. Radiation. The bombs didn’t need to hit us <cough> I wonder, how the city is faring. Dear Celestia! <hack> <wheeze> My little gi– <cough>

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… burying them <wheeze> too many… <hack> too few. Just keep <wheeze> keep moving, keep <hack> moving. There’s a town, I know there is. <cough> <cough> They’ll have water and…

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So tired… the sun is setting <hack> <cough>

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