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2018-11-03, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2018-11-04, 03:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mirror seemed... more or less satisfied by Doc's answer. After a few moments of maneuvering, the unicorn sat down right next to Doc until what little space that existed between them was bridged, and Mirror, with a small blanket on her back, hovered it over towards Doc until it covered the two of them. Mirror didn't seem to find the situation to be extraordinary and now seemed more concerned with trying to block out the rest of her surroundings. She nudged Doc after a few seconds of quiet.
"Do you have a book I could read?" she asked, sounding rather like she would appreciate the distraction.
Strawberry noticed Moonshadow's approach rather quickly and she descended towards her with her front hooves crossed and with a rather silly scowl on her face. At least her flying form was good.
"Hey Enclaver, where'd you get the doombots?" she asked mockingly, jabbing a hoof repeatedly up towards Vaughn's big V-shaped form, her green eyes glittering with the sort of petty malice Moonshadow would've normally have associated with childish schoolyard jeering; on the other hoof, she sounded unphased about said giant robots, which certainly said... something. "You couldn't rent a Raptor or something?"Last edited by Dalinale; 2018-11-04 at 07:02 PM.
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2018-11-04, 09:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Yeah, I have a few." Doc carefully moves a saddlebag in front of him and opens it to retrieve his modest, but growing book collection; a book exploring zebra lands, novels, a four-volume set on Shakes Spear, a book about the upper kingdoms of the zebra lands... it's probably a lot to just list them all, but surely there is something in the collection Mirror could appreciate. He'll explain any book Mirror asks about.
Hmm, there are the six book on obscure foreign subjects he hadn't looked at. Maybe now's a good as any time to see what those are about.
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2018-11-05, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2018-11-05, 06:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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'Allusion and Advocacy in Media: Exploiting Inconsiderate Margins' seemed to be a bust, as the phrase 'camel media', while funny, didn't really seem relevant to anyone at all. 'The Astral Plane and You' seemed to be written by someone speculating about how magic worked despite that they had never seen anyone do magic before, while 'The Compass' seemed to be a treatise about a great system of magical clocks and charts that, when hooked up to a specific grand magical device, could allow for fullproof teleportation to any location on the planet in a method similar but entirely different to that of traditional unicorn teleportation magic. "The Shelf Dynasties' seemed to be about Equestria, for a audience who had never visited Equestria and had never seen a pony before, and was translated through about five different languages and edited by a lunatic (apparently 'HRM Jefferson Lunaris, Sovereign of Oινά C'ayyStia' was the Queen, who would've thought?) while 'Equestrian Empiricism in the Progress of Civilization' seemed to be dedicated to pushing said empiricism in opposition to the use of rationalism in the magical sciences. Finally, 'Syntactics' seemed to be about sound magic's applications in engineering, and half the words used in it looked like they were made up to be used by hardcore crossword puzzle manufacturers.
Strawberry scowled and replied like the words were being pulled out of her mouth with pliers.
"Yeah, **** you to." she grumbled, glancing back over to the bus, "I guess they fried your brain instead of your flank when you got kicked out, huh?"
Anyways, lets get going already. We've got a lot of flying to do today.
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2018-11-05, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Doc was hoping by 'obscure' these were books on niche historical topics or old fairy tales long forgotten. A math book on Differential Equations is pretty obscure if you're not a civil engineer... but these? They seem like nonsense topics or uninformed opinions.
He'll give The Compass a chance. It might at least make some sense.
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2018-11-05, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-06, 06:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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The intial few paragraphs seemed simple enough, although the rest of the text seemed to be in magical notation.
SpoilerStandardized some time around 900 by Her-Life-Was-Full-Of-Joy, court jester to queen Well Prepared, the Great Compass, the great scientific feat that reconnected the central world after the Age of Discord, designates North to be 'towards where the sun begins to rise it's skyward ascent'. For this very reason, the Great Compass is useless in today's modern world, for the land of Equestria certainly does not lie north. However, in the context of a more primitive age, one without the assistance of magical satellites or robotic assistance and where time and space were previously merely good suggestions, the creation of a dedicated magical nexus to allow for ease of travel for both those acquainted with minor magical and electrical currents was fundamental to the reorganizing process that occurred after the dissipation of many of the ancient kingdoms and empires that once occupied the ruined and chaotic lands. There are few points of order of this world, and the Great Compass was one of them; while it has since faded in it's potential and now serves as a secondary tourist attraction in Prance, it should be discussed and appreciated.
Actually it was a perfectly decent one, because neither Cassidy or River were around.
in the hopes that it might alleviate some of the tension in the air. "I don't think it is, but who knows when they're going to argue again?"Last edited by Dalinale; 2018-11-06 at 06:15 AM.
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2018-11-06, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-06, 05:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2018-11-06, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-06, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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'Farming for Idiots' wasn't... horrible. Actually, it seemed perfectly reasonable and seemed written for a audience who had literally never touched a plant before in their entire lives and... huh, there were different kinds of dirt? It looked like a decent read, and the guide to different pests in the back covered some natural insecticides, too, like hot sauce and plutonium.
['Farming for Idiots' is basically a plot item that can be used to properly work farm equipment without regular Mechanic and Survival rolls.]
Strawberry seemed stunned by Viridia's presence when she approached (alternately, she was stunned by the magnificence of Viridia's bling, or by the fact that her armor glittered and she was blinded for a few seconds), and it took a moment for the pink pegasus to blink and shake her head, and blinked again. She seemed to sober up from whatever ****-fit she was when she was talking to Moonshadow, as if the time for insults had passed, and she spoke like she and Viridia were simple acquaintances.
"Uhhh, I think we're going to need another pegasus to get this off the ground." Strawberry said, before straining her neck to look almost straight up at the circling robots above in a manner that looked quite painful; she spoke normally, though. "Unless we can hook one of those robots up to this thing. Yeah, even if we can get this up by ourselves and keep it up, I don't think we could land with just two pegasi. I mean, we could make it, easy, but everyone on the bus would get turned into chunky salsa. Can we get the one who kicked me and my sister's flanks up here, too?"Last edited by Dalinale; 2018-11-06 at 09:16 PM.
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2018-11-06, 09:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-06, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Huh, there's some neat info in here. Doc actually gets into the book, figuring he might be able to help get Cabbage town to produce again. The wasteland sure could use more farming.
Doc glances up and toward Stellar. He thought there were four available for this; Viridia, Moonshadow, Stellar, and Strawberry. Was he wrong?
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2018-11-07, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Viridia spotted Strawberry sneaking a mint while she turned her head (possibly a actual mint, instead of the special kind.)
It was sort of a shame that the other earth pony he knew who'd probably be up for hardcore farming was the one who nearly exploded from all the drugs she stuffed in her mouth about twelve hours ago.
Doc glances up and toward Stellar. He thought there were four available for this; Viridia, Moonshadow, Stellar, and Strawberry. Was he wrong?Last edited by Dalinale; 2018-11-07 at 06:24 AM.
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2018-11-07, 02:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-07, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm, actually, you know what? You guys can head straight to Last Stop if you want. I can handle what needs to be done at Cabbagetown by myself. Moonshadow offered.
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]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2018-11-07, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, that was a shame. At least Doc is happy that he saved her life from a fate of exploding. Livewire would feel better in a few days and as long as she learned her lesson about drug abuse, she should be alright. Hmm, maybe River would be up for farming? ...eh, while she probably could use a distraction after the earlier debate, it is doubtful she'd be up for digging around in the dirt. Hmm, Doc does have that damaged rifle that needs repairing. That right there is up River's alley. Doc will ask her later about that. Doing things related to your talent keeps you happy, right?
Stellar speaking up jostled his thoughts. Doc looked up and around. He hoped that the pegasi got things covered up front.
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2018-11-10, 11:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Strawberry seemed quite happy at Stellar's appearance (actually, she really seemed to like her mane) but she seemed quite ready to leave after she had strapped herself in. Actually, with a quick buck to the ground, she seemed entirely intent on leaving the ground as soon as possible, and the slight amount of lift she got off the ground was enough to be compounded by the natural instinct to fly. The bus was in the air, soon enough.
Moonshadow was 'answered' by the sight of the bus tilting off the ground rather abruptly, followed by the light scraping sound of it being slowly raised in the air and the sight of the two robots currently in the sky immediately making way for the newcomer with clear intent to flank it's ariel travels. As it so happened, the door was still open and it would've taken just a small leap foreward to make it inside, to get all her stuff.
Doc then learned what a bunch of ponies who had never experienced liftoff looked and sounded like.
It wasn't pretty. The brief chaos made everything a little unclear, but River was holding her brother's heads together while saying some things that she had probably picked up from sailors, Halva was saying some horse gibberish, Shade was holding on to Andante who was holding on to Northern Light who seemed to be silently disgruntled at being the anchor for two mares half his size, while Choro was holding some stuff from the party's junk pile in place with her magic and Madeline was now awake and seemed confused that Bertly was currently holding both her and the dog firmly in place by the back of their necks while doing his best to keep himself in about the same position relative to the bus, propulsion systems be damned, while Cassidy was staying rather steady but had a annoyed look on her face because she had somehow been roped into keeping the two ponies in Caesennia's party in place while she kept the two colts from tipping over, while the zebra shaman and Laupula were actually not struggling against anything at all but they were holding the same railings on their side of the bus and they didn't seem keen on looking each other in the eye for any reason and, in fact, seemed intent on doing anything but facing each other, which probably made liftoff harder for them than anyone else except for Mirror, who grabbed hold of Doc tightly and with great force.
After a few moments of chaos, the bus was entirely in the air and the little bout of instability passed. Doc would've noticed that Moonshadow had stepped inside at some point, which was good. Strata, who had somehow managed to get wedged between himself and Mirror, quickly muttered some apology and detached herself from himself and Mirror (there was now a yellow-green damp stain on his cloak from where the ghoul had touched him that was unpleasantly damp and had little bits of...well, he'd could find the time to do laundry at some point) only detached from him until everything was entirely stable.
Really, given that there were no death threats, the flight went well.
After the third or so unclearly directed death threat Strawberry muttered under her breath from caught in what counted as glare in the grey skys of Tauronto, the bus arrived to Cabbagetown.
Being roughly bowl-shaped and with a good array of light hills and small ditches around it's general area, it made for a clear and clean area in direct contrast to the urban sprawl surrounding it. Because of this, the giant robot army and the goat herds that took up about a tenth of the former parks area was clear from tens of minutes away.
The robots had arranged themselves in a rough square-shaped formation next to the building complex, itself nearly as large as the building itself. Nearby, but clearly separate from the robots, was a herd of goats perhaps two hundred in number and was a mix of browns and blacks and greys in contrast to the dead brown grass that dominated the area. There were clearly more goats surrounding the building then there was outside of Crunchmunch and a series of tents were clustered in the middle of the goat herd, which was, from the looks of it, being busy stripping the area of every dead shrub and malformed tree stump in sight.
There was much room to land and it looked like any ice that would've prevented a safe landing had recently melted or was slush. Strawberry seemed amazed and confused by the sight below and looked to Stellar and Viridia for possible answers.Last edited by Dalinale; 2018-11-11 at 02:25 AM.
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2018-11-11, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Whee! Okay, maybe that's slightly sarcastic, but it was kinda fun in it's own weird way. Doc remembered reading something called a roller-coaster in the old pre-bomb days on Poney Island. Well, He holds on to Mirror and the seat they're on to keep them both steady. Once the moment was gone and things calmed down, he glances at Strata with a look of 'sigh, really?'
He lets it go. Doc will ask Mirror to cast her cleaning spell on his poor cloak after arriving at their destination.
Seeing Cabbage town in sight, Doc will pack up and get ready for the landing. Hopefully it's smoother with the other passengers.
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2018-11-13, 02:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, that's a lot more goats then I was expecting. Hopefully that umm I think it was an Okapi? is around. The not talking thing is going to get old fast otherwise. Moonshadow said to Doc. Hey Choro, are you up for some programming when we get down there? I want to set some solid rules for these robots and put them to work.
Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2018-11-13, 06:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-13, 09:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Mirror, after looking at the stain for a few seconds, turned her head away from it and began to use her cleaning spell to rid Doc's cloak of it without looking at it.
Choro, looking dazed by the bizarre sight of Cabbagetown from a aerial perspective, quietly nodded in response. She briefly glanced behind her, apparently briefly checking on Madeline and Bertly, and then looked back at Moonshadow again, this time looking more determined.
Doc's view of Cabbagetown from the bus's windows was slightly interrupted by Halva sticking her big head between Moonshadow and Doc, apparently gauging the situation outside.
"If they were merchants, I imagine that the goats would have been dispersed by now." Halva said, sniffing slightly, "If they continue to linger like they are, they will utterly destroy the field around the main complex, you understand that, correct? It's fragile enough as it is without grazing creatures roaming about."
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2018-11-13, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-13, 10:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Thank you," Doc softly tells her, eternally grateful that she read doc's mind to clean up Strata's puke.
"If they were merchants, I imagine that the goats would have been dispersed by now." Halva said, sniffing slightly, "If they continue to linger like they are, they will utterly destroy the field around the main complex, you understand that, correct? It's fragile enough as it is without grazing creatures roaming about."
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2018-11-14, 09:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2018-11-15, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Strawberry's attention seemed to be focused almost entirely on Viridia while she replied, which was a interesting decision given that she was also slowly descending and accordingly wasn't looking down.
"So, are you single, or what?" she said, giving Viridia a bright smile while batting her eyes and doing a rather impressive hair-flip as she turned towards her.
Given that she was in between the two other pegasi, Stellar probably felt a few stray strands of Strawberry's mane touch her nose.
Mirror, having buisied herself going through the adventures of a half-zebra in zebra lands while giving the occasional glance at both the local okapi and the collection of zebras who mostly laid quite still and talk to each other, seemed pleased to be near Oakville, although it didn't seem clear that she understood what she was looking at, exactly, if at all.
"Well... dunno what's there, but I guess we'll find out soon as we land this sardine can."
The horse was almost immediately brought out of her sullen mood by Caesennia moving in between her and Moonshadow, the zebra clearly focused looking out the window to observe the scene below. The horse looked rather concerned at the presence of the slim zebra who had left about half a inch of space between the two, although Caesennia didn't seem concerned with the matter.
"There is about ten acres of clear land here." Caesennia said, after a few moments of glancing down at the sight below and sounding satisfied, "A start, I suppose. But you say that the entirety of the farming occurs inside?"
Halva looked like she was going to reply before she realized that the zebra wasn't talking to her, and then she just went back at looking distressed at the destruction of Cabbagetown's precious, lush grass cover.Last edited by Dalinale; 2018-11-15 at 08:53 AM.
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2018-11-15, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Doc lets her read and will wait for her to ask questions rather than prattle on what this place is about.
"Would you rather have a patch of frozen mud for a lawn? Keeping that building clean was hard enough without tracking in dirt." Halva replied, apparently most concerned with that issue entirely, "By Celestia, what if it rains?"
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2018-11-17, 01:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2018-11-17, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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