NovaWhooves

As the professor came into the class, Nova ended his attempts to contact Blazing.  Huh...Did I piss that dude off that much? He thought, slightly down that he may have succeeded in pissing off the first pony he met.  He shuck it off, and took a notepad and ink and quill out, just in the even that something happened.

((OOC:  Damn school and bowling, got me way behind in the RP...))

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Nova smiles and nods to Cinder.  "Alrighty.  See ya in class!" He says to the mare, acknowledging Pixie as well, but not seeing Blazing...UNTIL he gets into class.  When Nova sees Blazing, he smiles and waves a little to him.  "Hey ya blaze!"  

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@@Bronyette

Nova finally catches up with Cinder and sees her with the other mare, and looks to her. "Woah, what happened here Cinder?" He asks, using his magic to diagnose the injured mare. "Huh... A mild concussion.. That's not good. " He looks to her and asks, "have you been treated yet for this?"

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"Okay, let's go!" Cinder hopped up and was about to set off when she remembered that the two of them hadn't been sat alone. "Uhm, see you later!" She added with a wave before trotting away down the hall.

 

'That guy I'm hanging around with, Nova? He keeps acting kind of weird. A little bit like Silver did a little bit, minus the flying and the singing and generally being him... Oh that was stupid! Why did I have to bring up Silver? Now I'm going to be sat moping around like a filly when I should be working! Buck up Cinderblock, you're not just an inventor: your an adventurer! You don't need other ponies, you just need yourself! Wait... what was I thinking about again? Ooh! Look at that!'

 

Distracting her internal monologue by examining a notice board, she waited for Nova to catch up.

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Nova is about to starts trotting after Cinder, but looks back to the ponies that had accompanied them at the table.  "See ya later Doug.  Pleasure meeting you." He says to the stallion, and trots off, eventually catching up to cinder and the notice board.  "Hey ya."  He says, and looks to the board also.  "Hmm...something catch your eye, Cinder?" He asks, stopping his trot close to her.

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"Sure, why not?" The dusty mare said. "I'm fine for unpacking, but we could walk there together - I might not get lost do easily then." She added with a smile.

 

It was nice, having a friend so early on. She normally struggled - not because ponies tended to not want to be friends but instead because she usually missed what they were trying to say. She didn't understand subtlety or body language well and it confused other ponies when she got the completely wrong idea about what they were trying to say.

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Nova smiled and stands up, holding a hoof out to the mare as a semi-chivalrous way of helping her out of her chair. "Sweet! That'll be nice."  He is excited, even though it may not seem like a huge occurrence. He loved being in the company of Cinder, and the longer he could spend with her, well, the better. "Shall we be off then?" He asks, still holding his hoof out.

@@NovaWhooves,

 

"Yeah, I've unpacked... kind of. I left my stuff in my room anyway, if that counts." Cinder grinned. "My room's in a good place, we've gt a good view over the courtyard and stuff. My roommate didn't seem very talkative but maybe she was just shy or something."

 

It occurred to Cinder that she had never set up her chemicals or her workstation. She leaned over the map and pointed out her dorm for Nova to see.

 

"Thats the one. Maybe I should see to getting everything set up soon. When the lessons start I bet I'll have even less time to work..."

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Nova looks at the map and puts a quick circle on the room.  "Hmm.. I got it.  Well... would you like me to accompany you to your dorm, maybe help out a bit?  It's the least I can do for you." He asks, bowing his head slightly.  "My room, I believe, is on the way there as well, so it'd be a win-win, not to mention, I still need to drop my stuff off, and un pack."

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Nova nods to Cinder.  "Okay.  Sorry if I had been over the top with the compliments.. my apologies.  I was simply stating what I believe is the truth Ma'am."  He smiles to her once more, then leans his head back, shifting the pack still on him.  "Hmm.. Say.  Have you got unpacked and such?  Found your room and what-not?" He asks, pulling his map out of the pack.

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Nova looks down a little, but looks back up again.  He was slightly disappointed, but it's fine for him.  "It's fine, I understand.  Whatever it is though, I'm sure it's great.  Especially from such a creative and innovative mare like yourself."  He said, still smiling..  Wow..I am sure going a tad over the top with the compliments.  Eh, oh well. He chuckled at his thoughts.  

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Nova smiles and puts away the trash from his lunch back into his pack, then looks back to Cinder.  "Hmm.. Interesting. It does add quite an intriguing...and...well, cute character to you Cinder."  He smiles to the mare, looking calmly to her mane, then back to her eyes.  Okay...hopefully this won't screw anything up now.  That would blow. He thought.  "Maybe I could help you with a project of yours here and there?  Tinkering is always fun. " Nova says, chuckling.

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Snapping back to reality, Cinder rejoined the conversation.

 

"I'm an inventor, I make things!" She said proudly. "And, uh, a chemist too, apparently."

 

Grinning obliviously, Cinder suddenly sneezed - sending another cloud of ash radiating from her permanently matted mane and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry!" She quickly apologized.

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"An inventor, eh?  Hmm... What kind of things do you make, Cinder?"  Nova asks the mare, then sees her sneeze.  "Oh,  hahah, blessh you." He wipes some of the dust that landed on the table, off of it.  He tilts his head slightly again.  "If you don't mind me asking, but, how come dust clouds from your mane here and there?"

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"Hey, I was paying attention!" Cinder exclaimed with mock seriousness.

"Always aware, that's me! Can't afford to get distracted for even a minute."

 

She thought about the speech: the lights had been less efficient than they could have been and the acoustics if the room were all wrong for that kind of...

 

She gazed off into space as she became distracted by her own thoughts.

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Nova chuckled.  "Well, I wasn't paying attention too much."  He smiled and kept looking at the mare, making sure to not stare....TOO much.  " Most I can remember is the dismissal for lunch, and the word, 'Dorm'. "

"Yea I wasn't really paying attention either.... But I still know what he said." Doug replied shrugging. "We'll it's nice meet new ponies. So what do you two like to do @

Nova and Cinder?" Doug asked to get to know the two ponies he just met.

"I like to draw, do architecture, and engineering." Doug said with a small grin.

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Nova looks back from Cinder, and to Doug.  "Well, personally, I enjoy the study and practice of different sciences and magics.  Other than that... just hanging around and occasional parties."

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Doug sits down. placing his food in front of himself "Thanks, cool" and then he begins eating "So glad I'm finally eating. thought is die from that speech the principal made. its not like we heard the same thing in different words in the beginning every year of school we had. right?" he says with a chuckle and continues eating. he swollows. "oops where are my manners. I'm Dougla-a, i mean Doug just Doug. heh" Doug was a bit embarrassed by his full name he doesnt like saying it all willy nilley .

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Nova chuckles when Doug brings up the speech again, but extends a hoof to Doug.  "Pleasure to meet you Doug.  My name is Nova.  And my lovely accomplice over here is Miss Cinder."  Nova looks over to Cinder, and smiles.  "I...don't really think Cinder and I really payed much attention to the Speech, and the part, that I at least remember, is the 'you're excused for lunch' part. " He says, laughing a bit.

@@NovaWhooves,

 

Looking at the cookie in front of her, Cinder smiled softly. "Thanks..." She managed to say quietly before busying herself returning the black labeled vial back to its place and took another one instead: this time filled with a blue-gray liquid. Sniffing it experimentally just to be certain, she nodded to herself and drunk it, shuddering and shaking her head.

 

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"Oh, hey there. Uhm, sure, is that okay Nova?" She asked as the pegasus addressed her.

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Nova smiles to Cinder and nods.  "You're always welcome.  The least I can do the first day, eh?"  He chuckles then looks over to Pegasus that had just came to the table and nods.  "Sure, I'm alright with that.  The more the merrier, eh?" He chuckles some more, drinks some soda, and slides a cookie to each of the ponies who just came to sit down.   "Cookies for all!" He says with playful glee.  

(OOC:  Two ponies did just come to sit down, correct?)

@@NovaWhooves,

 

"Huh? Oh! We could... uh..." She thought for a moment - the smokescreen potions had come in useful for getting out of trouble, saved her life a good number of times and had even been instrumental in the redecoration or her room at one point, but she couldn't think of anything it they could be useful for in a university. "... what could we do?"

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He laughs, then shakes his head, no longer laughing.  "Um...hmm.. well.. since there are a lot of ponies here, and that is a smoke device... " He shakes his head again.  "Nah...If we were to ever use that device for a prank like that, we'd have to save it for a while later.  No use in getting kicked out instantly, eh?"  He chuckles and pulls a lunch from his pack, and slides a cookie over to Cinder, smiling.

@@NovaWhooves,

 

"Oh no! I love it that way! Things are supposed to go wrong, thats the fun part! Like this..."

 

Cinder pulled a vial with a black label from the belt and waved it around enthusiastically in her hoof.

 

"Smoke! The glass breaks and its like, 'Whoosh!' Instant smokescreen! Discovered that one by accident when I was a filly - my parents weren't impressed..." She grinned, but faltered as her mind caught up with the social situation.

 

"Uhm, are you okay? For a second there you looked kind of... sick?" She ventured, not really good at reading body language in any way.

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Nova smiles and looks back up to the mare, eyeing the vial, just in case it was to accidentally slip out of her hoof. "Yeah, I am okay.  Just a small twinge of past.  But Im fine." He chuckles and smiles, looking into the mare's eyes.  "So...a smoke screen huh?"  He looks around the semi crowded cafeteria, and grins semi evilly. "Sayy... You know what we could do with said vial of smoke... Hahahah." He keeps chuckling a little.

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@@NovaWhooves,

 

"Oh nothing dangerous!" She explained hurriedly. "At least, I don't think so anyway. Sometimes the things I make are a tiny bit... unstable. It's nothing really, never really caused any serious harm."

 

She rambled on in what she thought might be a reassuring manner.

 

"It's not my fault! Things just... they work! They always work! They just tend to get a little..." Unsure how to finish the sentence, she cut herself off on a tangent. "You cant let two or three hundred explosions stand in the way of progress!"

Nova chuckles, and slides a bit closer to the mare.  "Well, you definitely have the determination, and I like that in mare.  As for the unstable compounds....was...it just a slight miscalculation here and there and there?"  He asked, seeing if any of his knowledge of chemistry could come into play now to possibly help her out.    "I  understand how things can be, not going right." He looks down..but quickly looks back up.  "But as long as you know what to do.  "

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"Thanks!" Cinder smiled cautiously as she sat down. "My friends don't usually do stuff like that for me. I think they expect me to blow up or something..." She snorted. 

 

To be fair, it wouldn't be the first time. Symphony usually got well clear but Scribe had a habit of getting a face full of smoke whenever any of her inventions or potions went off unexpectedly. Still, we wasn't going to let anything like that happen to Nova - she was being especially careful to keep everything secure.

 

Sort of...

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Nova smiles and sits next to Cinder, tilting his head in slight confusion.  "They expect you too...explode?  What do you mean?"  He could kind of assume that it had to with the various concoctions she had been carrying around, but he still had to inquire about it.  He was always interested in all the chemical mixes he's stumbled upon in his life, and seeing such a nice mare whom seemed to know what she was doing...kinda... in the science was a very pleasant surprise.

@@NovaWhooves,

 

Cinder considered the offer for a moment: really she should be working on her project... but on the other hoof, she was hungry and this way she could actually make friends instead of shutting herself away and working all of the time.

 

"Sure, why not? That sounds great." She smiled. Her work could wait, at least while she got to know Nova a little better.

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Nova exhaled one huge internal sigh of relief.  Sweet... didn't creep out Cinder.  Level up. He chuckled at the thought, and smiled.  "Sweet!  I'm glad to have you join me."  He says, smiling warmly to the mare.  He starts to trot to the cafeteria, waiting and trotting with Cinder to grab some chow.  He finds a table for them, and pulls out a chair for the mare.  

Nova looks up from Cinder, and notices all the other ponies leaving for lunch. He stands up and looks down to the mare, and extends his hoof again. "Cinder, would you like to accompany me for lunch today?" He smile, nervous, but never letting that show. "It would be nice to share the afternoon with you."

Hmm.. I'd say the luckiest time for me was back in 4th (ish) grade.  I was biking (fast) around my neighborhood, and took a turn too fast, too sharp, on sand, and flung over my handle bars, passing out after I hit the ground.  When I came to, my chest was ripped open, and my head was right next to a large light post.  At the speed I was going, and how hard the post was, if I was no more than a few inches to my right, I would have hit head first, dying.
But, obviously, I am still alive, thankfully.

@@NovaWhooves,

 

"True! So, is this your first time here? I guess it is, or you wouldn't be in here with me..." Cinder speculated.

 

"Hopefully nothing will happen badly enough for me to have to drop out or anything this time... I'm running out of universities!" She said with a determined tone.

 

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Nova smiles to her.  "Yeah, this is my first time here.  And I don't see why I wouldn't be around such a fun mare. " He says, smiling, trying not to say anything that might creep out this mare.  "And I sure hope nothing bad happens!  Such a loss it would be if you were to drop out or...Dunno, something. " 

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"But he didn't say anything... I'm so confused. I'm not even going to try and pretend to understand how ponies heads work... I'll leave that to my sister."

 

It was disappointing, seeing Blaze leave. Still, at least she still had one friend to talk to while she waited for whatever was going to happen, to happen.

 

"They're taking a long time to set up..." She observed.

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"That is true... I.. Like I said.. I'll see if I can figure this out.  Don't worry about it." Nova says to the mare, smiling, even though deep down.. he's still wary of the situation.  It does suck to see Blaze leave... but at least one friend is still around.  Nova looks around, and sees it also. "You're right.. it is taking quite a while for this thing to set up.  Um...oh well?  Gives us more time to chat, eh?" He smiles warmly to the mare.

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"Uh... Okay." The dusty mare said to Blaze uneasily, not quite certain what was wrong but sure that it was something to do with her.

 

"Was it something I said? I've messed up already haven't I? I'm no good to this 'socialising' thing!" She added to the colt still say with her.

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Nova looks at Blazing as he storms off, and looks down, then looks back to the mare. "No...no, Cinder, you're fine... I think it may be my fault.  I think... Blazing wanted to be part of our conversations, but..I allocated most of my attention to you..  I mean.. you are quite the mare to talk to..but it was a wrong of me to not include him.." He says... slight sorrow in his voice, and a sigh.  "But... I can sort it out later.. Im sure I can talk to him about it, and find out what's wrong.."

He looks to where Blazing went one more time, and sighs, before returning back to Cinder.

"Does it matter? Apparently you two are just fine without me." Blazing said. Normally nopony noticed him when he was slowly leaving like that, so he hadn't really had a better response to it. Well that was pretty straightforward... I'm gonna have to work on that... He told himself.

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I knew it... he thought to him self.  He had a feeling something would happen as he started getting closer and closer to Cinder, but he shrugged off the feeling, and sighed.  "Well...So be it then Blaze..." He says, and looks back to Cinder, but looks down.  Great...first day, and one of the ponies I wanted to befriend, is pissed at me...I guess the only plus is the cute mare to my front.

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"Uh, I guess... I've never really called myself either of those things." Cinder responded thoughtfully. "I make things, all kinds of things. My mother was a doctor and dad was an engineer so I kind of picked up on both sides." She explained. "Potions and compounds are just easier to carry around than machines."

 

She plucked one of the bottles from the belt wrapped around her body and squinted at the unlabeled liquid inside. Uncorking it, she sniffed the mixture tentatively before shrugging and drinking it.

 

"Nope, still no idea. I should really start labeling these... I mean, what about you? What do you do?"

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Nova's jaw drops a little as he sees Cinder down at concoction without even know what it was.  "Um.. woah.  That's cool, that you're parents were in such accomplished professions.  Being a doctor is quite a feat, and an engineer is extremely handy.  Um, as for me... I'm kind-of-a science nut.  I love the studies of science and magic, and have become...'okay' in an array of magics, and such."  He sniffs the air, seeing...or, more, smelling to see how the potion Cinder just chugged smelt.  

Nova notices Blazing slide away, and looks to him.  "Hey?  Blazing, where ya going man?"