Lektra Bolt

I would first of all follow what @Denim&Venomsaid and put 10% in a savings account to live off the interest afterwards, hire a team to keep track of it, and also make sure I could not be robbed. Wealthy individuals often get their family or themselves put up for ransom, so I want to make sure even if this happens there's no way the money could be accessed so they'd have to let me go After this it's quite simple, for me at least. I would buy one of the most plastic bodies in existence and become fabulous

This is actually real? I thought the Dora movie trailer was a parody or a fan made thing that won't actually have a real movie attached I did see a clip about getting into the temple with shapes and a guy losing both his arms in the escape where it seemed to be a parody, but it might actually be real since the actors looked the same. Or it was a very convincing parody Is this already out? If it's not there's people out there who have been spoiled and are making videos about it that look convincing

This is extremely good! You should open a commission shop or a request thread if you are feeling generous

If this was the only thing I could do when I died in the real world, I would totally be fine with this kind of 'utopia' even if it isn't perfect

Did he misunderstand, or did I say it incorrectly? Let's try this again........ "Me too what? Its possible my meaning was misunderstood in the way I framed it. I will try to convey what I believe. You are not wrong, no apology to the rude couple was necessary, and I will reiterate that you should stand by your principles. Standing up to bullies is not wrong." I paused to let that sink in "The only thing wrong was not letting Cocoa handle it as well as just all of us causing an upsetting situation, and we're wrong in that. She is staff and it's not our jurisdiction. That is the only thing we did wrong, and have apologized for that." I took a long sip from my enormous levitating coffee canteen at this point, just giving him time to think "So of course you and I are still friends. We just have to give Cocoa a bit of time, but I believe she is still our friend too." I tried to smile, but all that happened was I let out an involuntary nervous laugh. "Twilight and her friends had many many arguments and way more awkward moments, but they were still friends. Friendships don't end from one misunderstanding, even if we did all meet each other within the span of 24 hours." "Was that more clear? Sorry, I sometimes have trouble explaining my thoughts clearly." I took a sip from the canteen again, floating it back into storage as I looked around to see where we actually were in relation to our destination

I nodded and didn't say anything, giving her a warm smile. She was right and this is her place, and I felt really apologetic about being out of line, but I felt that the rude ponies were treated appropriately regardless. I didn't want to say this and escalate the awkwardness, so I just shut up and enjoyed my coffee. She really did make it the best. I tried to get some work done, making a couple of repairs that Speed had brought in and calling her back to send the finished orders back. This happened in quick succession in the span of about a couple of minutes, as these were minor issues that didn't need much to fix "Oh buck, our day has soured." I quickly finished my coffee as I saw Dynamo leaving and Aerion as well, placed the cup down gently and followed Dynamo. I didn't need to leave any bits, as I settled my tab on a weekly basis. Aeiron was a bit more out of line, and I felt he needed to cool off. If he wanted to come with I wouldn't object, but I wasn't going to press him further I didn't want to bother Cocoa right now either, she was probably still upset with me. We needed to cool off and I'd see her again later. Coffee Mix had a huge pitcher of my coffee exactly as I liked it and I poured it out into a large canteen, placing that in Sparky's storage compartment as I finished the leftover from the pitcher. Comparing what I remembered, Cocoa made it better. In my haste I made a bit of a mess on the floor. "Sorry, I must follow him. Please tell Cocoa again I'm sorry, and I do understand I was out of line. I have to catch up with Dynamo." All this took mere moments, I was fast when I needed to be "Don't do anything stupid, don't do anything stupid." I muttered to myself as I followed him, overhearing what he said. He had already done something stupid as I caught up finally "You should not have done that in my opinion." I said as I made sure the rude couple was out of earshot. "You should stand by your principles. Cocoa was very right that it was out of line and it was her, Coffee Mix, and her parents jurisdiction to chastise them or not, and they should definitely be the ones to handle it. Regardless, I don't believe standing up for a friend is wrong." "I uh, was hoping we could still visit the arcade together?" I kinda looked down and avoided his gaze at the moment. "I was wondering if they had reconsidered my offer and would make a commission."

Can we have a nervous laugh Starlight emote please? Any of these will do. I know there's an angry Starlight one, but how about a nervous laugh one? Any of these will do as long as it can look nervous, which is the intent with this request

I've missed a couple of friends birthdays, and I was wondering if there's a way to have the forum notify a user that it's a birthday of one of the people they follow? And if not, I'd like to request the feature please Besides just looking at the bottom, cause it's a ways down and I don't feel like scrolling that much every single day to check due to laziness heh

Never. No plans to. I don't want to own a disaster wagon. I value my life very much I agree with Justin earlier that it's not really about hating cars or anything like that. I just don't want to deal with the possibility of stupidity of other people. I may be the best driver in the world, but someone will come along who is either a stupid driver or stupid pedestrian. I'll either be in a disaster due to another car or a pedestrian If I need to be in a car I'll order a ride service, taxi, car service, or have someone shuttle me. There are also busses in many places, which are technically large cars. I will never drive myself That said, I did have plans to buy a micro car that seats 2 people. I just decided that I'd still rather not deal with the possibility of stupid people If my eventual significant other has a car, I'll actually be pretty happy with that

They were welcome back? Really? Okay..... I felt like my face was burning to a crisp. I was so embarrassed. "I'm sorry. Really I am. You're right and this was uncalled for." I had to tell this story and I hoped she would listen. "You see, my sister was bullied in school when she was younger. She's a teenager now, but when she was very little other foals made fun of her for the way she talked. She talks hyper quickly, and unless one has trained to listen to her and hear what she says, they can't understand her. No pony in school could understand her, and she was bullied basically constantly. The bullies did not leave her alone when talked to, and I had to come to her school often to handle them when our parents were busy. The only thing they responded to were threats and actions, so this is how I respond when someone is mean since those days. I really am sorry my friend, and I just hope I can get some of my usual order to calm down a little?" I didn't want to trouble her though, so I went back and sat down, trying to get some work done

"No problem, you've done enough." I sighed a bit as I headed over. I was pretty guilty of being a bit violent myself, but maybe a stallion's presence wouldn't help right now @Emerald<3 "Cocoa are you going to be okay?" I reached out to hug her to make sure she was alright. I'd be there as long as it takes. "Shh, it'll be alright. We don't think any less of you for having no tail. I'd offer to try to build something for you as I do for others with a disability, but you've managed all your life just fine. You're stronger than this, please don't cry." I hugged her tight

I lowered my ears to the sides of my head. "Aerion please, if you would be so kind as to lower your voice, that would be lovely." I then moved a sharp fork behind the rude mare and poked her behind to make her get up and leave. It's just a fork, an extremely sharp and painful one, but still a simple fork. I would keep doing this until she was out of the vicinity. "Yes yes, just go and follow your boyfriend. If you decide to come back here you will treat everyone with respect, or Cocoa will probably ask her parents to make sure no pony here ever serves you again. Even if her parents didn't own this lovely establishment."

I placed all the utensils back in their proper places, still sharp enough to cut things to ribbons. "You wouldn't?" I looked out and saw a back road littered with rejected coffee and other drinks with coffee in them. The small of decomposition and rot filled my nose. "You would, and I approve. Way better than my solution, and not as murdery." I used my magic to swing the larger window open, undoing the locks

I closed my eyes and sighed, focusing my magic. Every utensil in the cafe immediately floated up, sharpened itself, and began to rotate with dangerous intent inches above the couple. I calmly trotted up from my sitting position. I narrowed my eyes at them, completely calm and methodical. "You two will apologize to my friend and treat her with the respect she deserves. This is not a request, and I may just decide to impale you both into pincushions right here. If you refuse, you will leave and never return to this place. You will also be banned from services by Bolt Solutions, and any commission with my company you have will hereby be immediately terminated."

I nodded and shook his hoof with both of my front ones. I actually wanted to hug him, but thought it would be a bit much. Dodged something dangerous there, telling him exactly how dangerous my place could be I patted Dynamo on the back with a fore hoof. "Don't be so hard on yourself. You're slightly different, but I believe everyone has the potential with study, encouragement, and practice. If not, well that won't stop you either. Magitek is usable by Earth Ponies and other non magical species, even. Useful for those with disabilities." I remembered we actually had quite a couple of customers who had disabilities, and were quite grateful for my help. "My customers who are somehow disabled enjoy a huge discount on Bolt Solutions services and products. They are never turned away if they can't afford even the discounted price, and no pony abuses it. If they can pay they do, if they can't that's fine too." I said this matter of factly, as I was rather proud of this fact "As for video games, I just naturally follow developments so I'm aware. I don't engage due to being busy, just aware. I consider those who work in this field as a type of rival. A very archaic and low power option. Why no pony besides Bolt Solutions has ever considered just enchanting the arcade machines to function better or using illusion spells for virtual reality games where you are just there inside the game, I'll never know." I sighed, adjusting my goggles on my head. "Its just out of the scope of what I do directly. Let me explain the barriers. There are barriers for entry." "First of all Magitek has very broad applications. Bolt Solutions just never really has time to focus on specific fields and products on our own, and we're accused of dominating some markets already. In order to curb these rumors, we just deliberately don't enter some types of development." I looked at him to see if he was still following, then continued. "We don't do anything unless asked. We are a commission and service company. We are commissioned to provide a service or product, so we do. When we're not, we don't. A lot of business is just repair and maintenance of existing Magitek, like the orders Speed dropped off recently." "There are also the licensing fees, or purchase fees. It's way more money than we would choose to spend on our own without being somehow asked to by some pony else." I gave a nervous chuckle again I then levitated a chart out of Sparky's storage compartment. "Generally speaking, no pony has asked for Magitek enhanced video games. This chart shows our customers and the development we engage in." The chart showed that a very very small percentage of commissions have been video game related. This had probably already become too detailed of an explanation, and I still haven't had my coffee today "Did that sound like gibberish to you?" I looked around for a server to see if I could place an order for my usual @reader8363 "Hmm that new mare seems busy, and Cocoa did say my usual table isn't usually her area. Didn't you say you knew the new mare, Dynamo?" I looked around for the one who had been doing something odd with her shadow

I chuckled dryly. "Looks like Dynamo agrees. I love sweets and candy as well, though I don't get a sugar rush or coffee rush. I've always attributed that to my being weird. It just helps me focus and get down to business, as I'm focused when relaxed. Just don't give me too much or I'll probably fall asleep, heh." (do these exist here? I'll ponyfy them and we'll go from here) "I don't have time to play myself, but I have heard of these. Ponymon and the Mareia Sisters games are rather fun games, I'm told." "I really could go into game design and just make boat load of bits with virtual reality games. You'd never know that Discord didn't create them, and could just leave at any time." I pondered this for a moment. "Nah! I have too much work to do, but it can be an interesting diversion to make games once I obtain the correct license, huh?" I shrugged, a bit conflicted on how to respond to this. "Well........." I mean he did open that can of worms "You're fine, and I'm usually just naturally nice to others like this. Just promise to never break and enter my place again ok? I usually lock the door and my security system is built with electric shocks as well as pointy spikes. Obviously it won't dissuade everyone and teleportation is a thing, but let's just say doing that again might be dangerous to your health." I gave a dry and deadpan smile, but also a bit of a nervous laugh. "I say this as a suggestion now, for the benefit of you as, potentially, my new friend. I like my friends alive, not hurt, and healthy." I gave another nervous laugh and tried to smile afterwards. "That explanation is always awkward......." I sighed and wondered when I could have some coffee. "So yeah, now that this awkwardness is out of the way, we are friends right?" I had a very nervous looking smile on my face, at least I felt like I did. I also felt hot in the face Great, I threatened a very nice stallion with possible death or bodily harm by telling him my hut can actually be dangerous. Does he still want to be my friend? Did he ever? Did I misread his intentions? Did I over analyze and give too much information?

I shrugged. "To be honest, I don't practice teleportation either. Speed is just naturally good at it, even if it takes practice to actually communicate with her. Though I can make a Magitek that will absorb and transport the entirety of your form somewhere else, but I don't personally practice the spell myself." I really felt like a coffee right now, as I didn't feel motivated or relaxed enough to get these orders done. Most of them were maintenence or questions, and rightfully easy to fill Not at all serious, I give him a frown as I was trying to to be sarcastic. "I beg your pardon sir, my hut is plenty peaceful, when I and ponies I meet aren't having a horrendous dream together." Sparky looked at me like 'too soon' and I shrugged. "What, I have to try to get over that somehow." I tried to brighten up though. "Sorry about that. It's nice to actually like for real meet you and you were in fact extremely helpful, all of you were." I sighed. "I'm Lektra Bolt and I run Bolt Solutions here in Ponyville. We're originally from Manehattan. I was born and grew up there, and you might notice my accent a bit. Or a fair bit." I shrugged. "Our slogan is inventive magical solutions to improve everyone's lives. I'm an enchanter and I work with metallic substances. I've been called the Mistress of Metal." I really tried to smile when meeting a new friend, but it usually came out as a half smile, given that I've been extremely depressed lately. My ears piped up when I heard about drinking. "Cider, or coffee? Both? Both is good too. I mean cider is okay, but I've basically been inhaling coffee lately. I'm quite partial to it, and sweets."

"Yeah the dream was pretty good, you know, after it stopped being a nightmare." I sighed, trying to put that part out of my mind. "My love will always be in my heart, and she won't ever be forgotten, but I at least have my happy place where she can be alive." I felt my face get hot and checked for tears, yup I wiped my face with a fore hoof. "As for time passing, that's because of the nightmare portion. That was still basically a regular dream, even though for you guys it was a waking dream." I blinked my eyes and shook my head, really trying to just put the time in the nightmare and what was said by my projection out of thought. "All good ideas, I'll call my sister in a moment to take us to town. We'll see what happens after." I then turned to the Pegasus "Aerion is it?" I smiled a little. "Let's discuss your breaking and entering over coffee as we also get to know each other." I chuckled at this as I looked at Sparky, who sent the signal to Speed A couple of moments later the filly who looked like me in miniature appeared in front of us with a pop and a crackle. 'Goingtotownfinallysis?" I nodded, wondering how much work I'd missed. "Holdontoyourlunch!" She pressed us together around her with a light telekinetic grip, and I had just enough time to lock the door from the inside with my own telekinesis as she, myself, Sparky, and my two friends vanished with another pop and a crackle ~*~*~ @Emerald<3 @reader8363 We appeared at the cafe, near my usual table with a pop and a crackle. "Ok, byeeeeeeee." Speed Bolt disappeared the same way she came in, leaving a stack of work orders for me on the table and a burn mark on the floor. I sighed as I sat down, wondering how long it would take for anyone to notice our sudden entry. The other patrons didn't seem to be bothered

"I'll never really be alright, but if you are asking if we're OK after the dream sequence? I guess I'm alright for the most part." I got up off the couch and stretched, turning to Dynamo. "How about you? I assume the question applies to both of us." "So anyone have work or anything? It's going to take an hour something walking or flying back to town. I can have my sister teleport us back. I have to get to work myself, and I work from the cafe." I grabbed my notes and a refill of reagents, putting it in Sparky's storage container "How about we head there and have a proper introduction?" I really did feel kinda weird this Pegasus has had an adventure with us, but he and I weren't property acquainted. "Or you could tell me your name now, but I'd rather also know more about as well, and that's best done over a cup of coffee." I chuckled a bit at this

I just barely saw Cocoa for a moment in a groggy state as she left. I tried to speak as quickly as possible, but not as quick as my sister and it was probably in futility anyway. Still I had something to say, at least to give her an idea to think about. "Cocoa were about a mile away from what's considered the town, Ponyville adjacent, you'd take about an hour to get back on your own, and please be safe. Ok bye!" this all in like of a couple of seconds or less, she probably didn't even really hear me Must have been really needing to go to work that badly I turned to Dynamo, just trying to get my bearings. I clapped my hooves and thought of a grilled cheese sandwich, actually relieved that nothing happened. "Okay good, we're really up." I posed my metallic plush back into a standing position as there was a pop and a crackle of Speed Bolt leaving for work "Yup it was pretty fun, but I don't remember all of it. I'm still kinda processing what happened before. As I said earlier I'm not really fully ok, I'm just better. I don't think I'll ever reach acceptance, as I just flat out refuse to believe Twilight is gone. Out of sight, out of mind. Keep myself busy." I turned to Sparky who was just staying by the door. "Sparky says only a couple of hours have passed since you all entered my dream. It's still morning. I guess we could get on with our day? I could have Sparky call my sister to take us back to town rather than walking or flying." That reminded me of something..... @Sherem The Pegasus still hadn't woken up. I poked him with a hoof, trying help him wake up. "Hey are you okay? What's your name again? We haven't been formally introduced yet. Also did I actually leave my door unlocked? How did you get in?"

We had spent a couple of additional hours just wandering around going to panels and listening to speakers talk about Twilight. There was also merchandise being sold, but as this was a dream and we couldn't take it with us anyway, I didn't think it was a good idea to purchase anything. The Twilight and Spike that was in my dream just kinda wandered around with us for moral support. No one in the dream town thought it all that weird that she seemed to be fine when she's supposed to be not alive. I mean it's my dream, and my subconscious created everyone else in town except for my friends. Of course it would all seem normal to them, cause I made it so. Finally we ran out of things to do We all gathered in the center of town, seemed like a good place as any. "Well, time to wake up. You all may feel some mild discomfort. I've never done this before, and usually my dreams aren't lucid that I have this level of control over them. So uh......." I clapped my hooves together and lost my field of vision, only seeing a bright flash. *~*~* I woke up in my living room hugging my metallic Twilight Sparkle plushie. I stretched and yawned, hoping everyone else made the trip back alright as well. It was still early in the morning, like we didn't just spend at least six hours doing things