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Ceres watched as Veertus magicked his way from place to place, stopping only to open two portals. She was astounded by how quickly everypony seemed to accept the situation. 'Veertus is obviously pulling the strings here, what are these ponies thinking? They're playing right into his... claw things...' Each pony had chosen a portal. Sighing, Ceres came to a conclusion. 'Well, I guess I'll have to play along for now. But the first chance I get, I'm going to turn this sick twisted game back on this freak.' She looked to each portal, mentally weighing her options. While she was familiar with the city, something about the way Veertus had mentioned it caused her to give pause to the idea of going to the city. It was almost as if he were trying to lull them into a sense of false security. 'Well, wouldn't want that to happen would we?' Ceres stood up, a determined look on her face as she walked towards the portal that led to the jungle. She took a deep breath and exhaled, stepping through the portal.

@@Nomadic, "No, the closest thing was when I would run away as a child and find an alley to sleep in. I've just always been in Canterlot for my whole life. Can't say I've gone travelling the world or anything like that." Ceres sighed, looking just past Monkshood's head. "While I would love to have a good adventure once in a while, my babies can't go long without me. My passion in life is making more 'children' and taking care of the ones I have." Ceres smirked, looking back at Monkshood. "Oh, don't you worry. When I say 'children' I mean my wonderful creations, whether they be crops or plants or something else entirely. I practically live in my greenhouse." "And to answer your second question, I really am on a forced vacation. I have a feeling that if I didn't go quietly that there would be a royal guard escort with me right now. They insisted that I go and experience 'natural' nature, and observe how nature 'is supposed to work'. I don't get it, but I'll go on my little 'vacation' like they want me to and then just go back to doing what I do best. Creating things that ponies can't even dream of."

@@Nomadic, Ceres raised an eyebrow, "I never said it wasn't useful for things other than weapons. Just that the experiments I used it in ended up that way." She licked her lips, smiling as she crooned. "It's all in the details, Monkshood. It's always in the details." Ceres smiled, speaking in a teasing voice. "So why don't you tell me why you're really out here? Looking for a change of pace? An apothecary doesn't need to sign up for a camping trip to go and visit the 'local fauna'."

@@Nomadic, Ceres laughed, playfully batting aimlessly in the air at Monkshood. "Oh, aren't you a charmer? Naming me something so graceful and beautiful. But no, my name is Ceres." Ceres grinned widely, looking Monkshood straight in his eyes. "So I take it you're familiar with herbs then? After all, not many ponies know the scientific name for nightshade is Atropa Belladonna. Although your own name is quite the delicious ingredient, I've had a few experiments with Monkshood here and there. Never got anything useful out of it so far, unless you wanted a weapon. But weapons are boring. Let the royal guard make the weapons."

@@Nomadic, *Pffft* Ceres laughed, playfully punching the stallion's shoulder. "Valerian? You can't put a manticore to sleep with Valerian! No, what I cross bred it with was some grade-A, 100% pure, nightshade. I filtered out the deadly poison of the herb by cross breeding it with corn and then taking that cross breed with another batch of regular corn and repeating the process for four times. Then it was just a powerful sedative." Ceres tapped a hoof to her chin, "Although... if you like that, then you'd probably love my greenhouse. I got all kinds of things in there, a flying turnip, an upside-down tree that pushes it's fruit up through it's roots, and... well you might not like that one." Ceres' mind trailed off as she remembered her first great creation, the pony eating cabbage. Shaking her head, she focused back on the stallion, "So what's your name? Or am I just gonna make a name for you?" Ceres cracked a smirk, "Oh, please tell me I get to name you. I'll make it such a wonderful name, I'm sure you'll never forget it."

@@Nomadic, Ceres cracked a wicked smile at the stallion's nervousness, 'Oh, I'm going to have fun with this one.' That was it, this stallion was now her target. What she intended to do with him, well she didn't even know that much. But Ceres always found a purpose for her targets. The bus started moving, sending vibrations through Ceres' seat. Ceres shrugged at the question, waiving arbitrarily with her hoof in a random direction in the air. "Oh, you know... a bit of a forced vacation is all. You make one 'abomination' of a crop and all of a sudden it's a threat to Equestrian national security. I mean c'mon! Sedative corn has plenty of uses! You can use it to keep all of the creatures from the Everfree from getting into your good crops!" Ceres' voice had grown exasperated, she had even rolled her eyes during the speech, giving air quotes when she said 'abomination'. She turned her attention back to the stallion, "But it's all in good measure I suppose. The director just seemed a little... distraught that I put a sedative in the corn that incidentally made the testing crew pass out for a couple of days straight." Ending her monologue, Ceres looked right into the stallion's coral colored eyes. "But I'm not sure that most ponies would say they were here to look at the local fauna. Do you have an interest in plants?"

@@Nomadic, Ceres perked up at the new pony walking on the bus. His mane and coat were unkempt and matted, and he kept his saddlebags on him. She raised an eyebrow, her curiosity getting the better of her. 'Interesting, not many ponies go against the norm. It should be fun to see what makes him tic.' The sandy colored pony sat in the seat directly opposite from the aisle from her. 'Oh, what luck!' Ceres smiled deviously, turning her head to the new stallion. "So what brings a Pony such as yourself on a camping trip such as this?"

@, FYI only 7/13 people have posted in the RP so far, so you might want to hold off on moving the story further... unless you plan on leaving them behind to catch another bus XD

As every pony vacated the curb and loaded onto the bus, Ceres decided to make her way onto the bus as well. She stepped on and chose am aisle seat towards the back. She looked back and saw two ponies running into each other. Ceres giggled and watched as the rest of the ponies filed onto the bus.

@@Darkshift, Waiting on you buddy. The RP has started and my character can't really make any moves until everyone has posted at least once (it would be unfair to move forward faster).

Ceres had signed in at the table, placing her luggage in the designated area. 'Why did I sign up for this again? Oh right, because I was forced to take a vacation after the incident... right, well let's make the most of this.' Ceres walked over to the group of ponies, three of them standing around aimlessly. Ceres walked over and took a seat on the rim of the group, a few paces out, observing the ponies.

Might want to change the tag from "searching" to "OOC"

Update to "Gears of Romance" has been posted on FimFiction! I would gladly welcome any critical reviews on what people think of this story and what they do/don't like about it, what can be improved, etc.

I can't find it in the RP section. I would suggest the OP make a thread when he/she's ready so that we can post at our own pace from there. Trust me, getting 13 people to post will be daunting enough XD

So, I'm not ignoring this RP. I'm just waiting for Firesharp, Roulette, and Darkshift to make their moves. My character has moved twice so it doesn't make sense for her to move again before those three make their first move.

Ceres' eyes went wide and her face paled, a shiver rolled up her spine. She could feel the claw scraping across the underside of her chin, where her sensitive skin was. This was no dream. Her mind raced a million miles a minute, but one question persisted above all others in her mind. She placed her fore hooves down and steadied herself with deep breathing exercises. "What.. who are you?" She said in a shaky, but determined voice. Her eyes had regained their dimensions and observed the creature extremely carefully.

Without getting into the RP there's no telling what will happen. I mean, all the stallions COULD just decide to have a stallion only orgy... (although that would be quite rare XD) Don't worry about the whole "filly fooling" thing, just RP and let it go. I might make a suggestion though... make it so that there's only two cabins for each gender. Trust me, 12 people trying to RP in one thread is chaotic enough

Ceres slowly opened her eyes as she groaned, the splitting headache slowly receding from her awareness. "What in Tartarus did I drink last night to deserve this..." Her eyes fully open, Ceres stopped and stood up in shock. Something was very wrong. This was not her room, and this was certainly not anywhere she had ever been. As the strange blob of grey moved and sounds made their way to her ears, Ceres stared in disbelief. Looking around, she could see six other ponies in various stages of disarray, some still struggling to get up while others were complaining about the situation already. Looking around, Ceres could find no indications of a door. It appeared as if they were on a floating disk of grey among the endless white expanse. Upon further inspection, Ceres eyes widened and her jaw went slack as she realized that she was standing on nothing but smoke. 'But I'm an Earth Pony...' Testing the ground, Ceres felt somewhat satisfied that it could hold her weight. Ceres braved the area, making a few passes around the floating disk of the somehow solid grey smoke. The blob in the center worried Ceres the most, she found herself staring at it for long periods on end, trying to discover the face in the smoke only to be thwarted whenever she was about to come close. Shaking her head, her black mane sweeping side to side, she took a seat and rubbed both of her hooves to her forehead in an attempt to relieve her of the oncoming migraine of trying to make sense of this nonsensical situation. "Ok, lets go over what we know." Ceres mumbled to herself. "Last night I was out drinking with the new crew, I went home and passed out. I woke up in this place, I can somehow walk on smoke, there doesn't appear to be an entrance or an exit, and there's a talking floating blob of glowing smoke in the center of it all. Yup, I must be dreaming."

It's a Romance/Slice of Life. Not every mare has to be paired up with one stallion. There could be two mares to one stallion (or vice versa), or whatever pony can decide that they don't want a "love interest" if their character doesn't see anything they like.

In cabin number 4, Darkshift (stallion) is assigned along with cabin number 1. Is he a cross-dresser? Or was that supposed to be for my character?

That is one way of doing it. It puts it in the "open world" section. I've run RPs before as well, and if you want to control a story line the best way is to control a player character and most NPC's the players encounter. This allows you to naturally (without divine intervention) direct the flow of the RP and guide it. Anyways... so this really tells me that it's more of: do I want to RP with these individuals? Eh, I'll give it a shot. If I'm horribly unimpressed, you'll know it. If I'm interested my RP submissions are a good paragraph at the very least. Here's my character I plan on using: http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/ceres-r4359

Just out of curiosity, is this an open-world RP or do you have some sort of story line in mind for this? I may or may not join this (on the fence).

OH! I so want to join this RP! I haven't RP'd in quite a while and it's been too long since I've seen a good one! Alright... off to make an OC now... EDIT: Here she is! http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/ceres-r4359