30^th Dec session

Doctor Caramel ministers to the wounded ponies.

The other ponies don nurse uniforms and assist with fur-cleaning. Skylight looks particularly fetching as she goes around serving baked goods to everypony.

Wielding her stethoscope expertly, Caramel cures Mango. Mango hugs her.

Dyny tries to heal Forest Storm but gets distracted by Skylight and accidentally bandages his own hoof.

Tired from playing doctors and nurses, everypony sleeps with Forest unhealed.

In the morning, Forest feels invigorated and snatches Caramel’s doctor uniform and picks up a cane. “Call me Dr Storm,” he says snarkily as he snatches up a cane and diagnosis and treats himself in seconds. He goes on to run Ponyville hospital in a sassy manner. He is known for saying sassy things like: "It's a basic truth of the pony condition that everybody’s made of marshmallows. The only variable is what flavour."

 

Skylight went to bed pretty early but she likes her sleep so she silly buzzword up late. She gets to work baking her tools of diplomacy right after she wakes up.

 

Mango woofs at the Timberwolf pony

Frostbite:Frostbite rolls his eyes. For a pony named after cold, he can certainly deliver a burn

 

 

Hello Alchemist Wolf.

Mango gets an idea and decides to engage with the wolf pony after the poor start - "Say, you don't fancy accompanying us do you? I bet you could do a lot of damage with those big wooden fangs," she eyes the fearsome teeth warily.

Talk? Yes. Join us? No. Brew potions only. Avoid danger? Yes – look at map. Observe red zone of mantis death. School of friendship red zone.

 

Cake shop – closed.

Boutique – open for chic business.

Library – no.

 

Ponies go missing near school.

 

Starlight head mare?

Skylight.

 

Ponyville not totally overrun. Its populace are not all giant nightmare insects.

Carousel Boutique looks almost as fetching as Skylight. Good as new, unlike everything else.

 

 

 

 

 

Mango smiles at the friendly attitude and sits down. "It was tough, but we're tougher!" she says spunkily, trying to buck everypony up.

 

We explain our mission.

Small argument upstairs. Rarity dragging Sweetie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rarity wants to pack Sweetie off to Canterlot. “Take her off my hooves? She’s in a slump and keeps trying to make me breakfast.”

 

Why? Music.

 

Mango says that Spike would appreciate a visit from Rarity also, if she could accompany them also.

Mango mentions Spike and Sweetie brightens up a little.

 

AJ and Apple acres problem. AA has shrunk. Huspony + kids.

10 years since Rarity as been to Canterlot. Rarity says she’s old and Mango refutes.

 

Frostbite says Sweetiebelle is mediocre.

Mango and others criticise Frostbite - "don't worry, he's all bark. He should be a Timberwolf."

 

Rock museum. Lair of Maud.

 

 

Applegreen – AB’s daughter.

 

AB with AJ's hat passed down the generations

 

 

Applegreen challenges Frostbite to put her down.

 

Mango's ears perk up and she flaps over, concerned

"Is everything all right. Did the mean Kirin shout at you?"

 

At this rate, Skylight looks over to se what the commotion is about. "What's going on?" she asks.

"That's not how phyisics works! You can't push yourself because every action has an equal and opposite reaction. You would end up just booping yourself!" Skylight explains.

 

Frostbite vs foal. Foal pretended Frostbite attacked her.

"Sory ma'am. He's a good Kirin deep down and I'm sure he didn't mean any harm," she vouches for him (still unaware of the rotten core of the evil apple filly)

 

 

AB “Stop fighting my foal.”

 

Caramel. Foal = naughty.

AB grounds foal.

Mango and Frostbite bicker

"I will defeat you in painful combat," Frostbite tells Mango.

"Oh really, you just got defeated by a foal!" Mango teases, although she is a bit mollified by learning that the filly was naughty and that Frostbite was trying to do the right thing.

 

AB – AJ adored RD and followed.

 

RD left. She got upset and left for forest. AJ did not return.

 

Help with wood? Yes.

 

Timberwolf incident – teacher at school = wolf.

 

Helping with wood problem help figure out.

 

Will Flutter first. Fire has reduced much of Ponyville. Cottage has been burned.

 

 

Alt notes by cagey

 

The team receives a map of Ponyville. Lots of areas are marked unsafe. The School of Friendship is marked Do Not Enter; ponies have a habit of going missing near there.

Ponyville is a surprisingly bustling, still operating town, despite everything. The team heads to Carousel Boutique where Rarity asks them to take Sweetie Belle with them on their way back to Canterlot. The team does not make a decision about that yet. 

They go to Sweet Apple Acres and meet Apple Bloom and her daughter. Shenanigans ensue; Frostbite gains a level in empathy, as well as an enemy in the form of an eight-year-old. 

Apple Bloom tells them that years ago, RD and AJ went into the forest, but AJ never returned. (It was at this point that my note-taking skills disappeared as well. Maybe, like my concentration, AJ vanished when pizza arrived. :rariysmile: ) 

Apple Bloom wants the team’s help with farm work. The team decides to visit Fluttershy’s cottage first.

The ground is burnt here.