Widdershins

Personally, I quantify anything launched from the mouth as puke. Mouth full of the milk they were drinking? Counts in my book. The brilliant catch there though is the frequency! Two times is hardly a pattern, YAIS? Like, you can sit there and think how odd this is without being aware that it happened the previous day and maybe only well after the advent could you sit there and notice it was the same time or struck you as somehow planned. Because that's where your Limit of Disbelief kicks in! Chances are, if you're friends, you probably sit next to each other at around the same points of your days. And as far as I know about puking, you hit everything around you when you do so you're, like, a Puke Bomb goin' off. And if you gonna be hangin' out wit' somebody they probably gonna hit you wit' the Puke Ray at some point, realistically. Once is just a darn shame, incontrollable really and you gotta forgive for a thing like that, right? Twice, that's just bad luck, really. Not like they can help it or anything! Three times has gotta be stretching it, but really they couldn't possibly....

Aye, that be the trouble with English. Like, different eras have language so far different that its barely the same language anymore! I myself straddle the line between Archaic and Slang, hee! That be what I try to do, paint a picture & a scene give you something entertaining to read! But I get what you mean, that it can be hard to respond to just description? So then, how best to put it, @Catpone Cerberus? How do I wiggle the string to get you to pounce, lol?!

Was gonna say too, forgot if I done brought this up already, but @Catpone Cerberus? I notice you say alot of picking and choosing what to respond to with my draconequus. Have to wonder if I'm losing you in my being overly descriptive and shtick-y. Like, there's alot there that's conversational fluff, but still tied to what's going on. Because that's the thing, both me, and the character i'm playing are both overacting and I have to worry if I'm losing you? Haven't caught up on responses yet, but we been goading you into a hunt for finding some Parasprites! That's another thing too I worry about, I'm rather long-winded & wordy and that's also a habit of my characters too in a way I use to parody myself. So I dunno if alot of my words work if i'm rping with somebeing who isn't a native english speaker. Think @Blitz Boom has english second too? I been too wordy to either of you? Oh, and still waiting on @Pinkfire who hasn't been around in a while since work troubles. I hope she's doing okay! Getting worried there too! ... yeah, having health & job issues myself. Worry is skin deep here too.

Was having a weird problem there not being able to post reply for the excuse of being "below content length" despite having 300+ characters over the twenty minimum. Anybeing else having an issue with that?

@Randimaxis Clod Hopper obediently fell into step behind the new mare allowing her to lead the way. He grew slightly more concerned over her half heard mumblings as they walked ahead in silence for a while. "...I miss sum'thin'? Dunno how it'd help any but I reckon jumpin off a hill isn't all that hard ta do." (Way above content length yet it's still somehow balking at letting me post this with that excuse of being "below content length.") Don't know what else I can do here, don't know why it's being such a fussbucket today.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Howdy Kiddos! We're starting a new topic around here! Because If I keep these rants in, they'll become a hernia. So. Incoming Rant here. Do help me understand. For those of you who don't know, Hearthstone is a virtual cardgame! See, while back they thought "Well, maybe just having the one function of having a card match and just playing cards that do an effect and then get done wit' isn't really that much to do." Y'know, just pressing a button then lights & sounds going off for a few seconds. Pretty bare minimum effort put in, eh? … Why yes, I am seething with rage right now. But I am an intelligent, so I make wit' the narrative 'ere. So Blizzard company done thought they'd make these "Adventures." A sort of series of card matches with a goal to accomplish like "There's some Baddie over in this swamp that hasn't existed in anywhere else before, but they're totally evil." Or just, y'know, a series of bosses to fight. And then, after about an hour or two you get one third of a reward. Sacks of some currency that, if you pile up after weeks you can use to make something else that's non-existent and offers nothing more than another button to press for sounds & lights to go off during. But see, there's this bigger plan they got goin' now wit' tha "New Story." They done figure, we need characters ta follow, so we'll create some sos we got faces for this here game specifically. They need a gimmick, of course to separate them from what's preexisting so they're between the preexisting classifications. They are, as follows: Team E.VI.L Yes, I don't think they ever express what the acronym is for. Acronyms are cool. If you have to use more than two brain cells to recognize a fact, it stops being marketable Totally Rad. Sqampqueen Hagatha: She is an orc. From a place that doesn't have orcs. She's magical! She uses Swamp Magic! Which is just green and does whatever new card she's on does. She evil because she like making others do things they otherwise wouldn't do. Despite the fact that this entire game centers around having effects that destroy other stuff. Fortuneteller Lazul: She a troll. She tells fortunes despite never actually been shown doing that ever. Well, I tell a lie, she introduced a block of stuff way back when... which had tentacles and these things called "Old Gods" so... we're going with that's why she's on the side of Evil. She does have an adorable pet snake, so point there. Kobold King Togwaggle: He was the fat greedy ratman king that was the head honcho in a previous block... but he never really fought but he described things a lot. Loudly. The man likes his candles. A lot. So much so that now he has a Dragon-Candle that may very well be both at the same time. (My personal favorite.) He is evil, of course, because he takes things that don't belong to him. ...despite that also being a thing done in every match you do as a natural cause of gameplay. Then, of course, the "Leader" of this team, Supreme Archaeologist Rafaam!: No. He doesn't do anything with archaeology. Unless you count following those who do and take their archaeology stuff. But that's why he's different from Togwaggle's greedy thievery. He likes to CALL things evil! That makes him the best at it! He makes these plans, which must be good at being evil because he described them as such and doesn't that so make you relate to him enough to both want to stop him but also help him enough so that you get loot too? Rafaam gathered everyone because he had this mysterious plan that started with the conquest of the magical city of Dalaran! That plan was as follows: Step 1. Go to Dalaran! Step 2. Pick fights! Fighting is evil! Supposedly! Step 3. … ….Have Dalaran, I guess. They did nothing with Dalaran. Nothing specific from Dalaran was used, brought up or mentioned. Because... well, shiny stuff was there. Rafaam is a Ethereal for reasons, and he's shiny. So it must be an adventure if there's just a shiny dude taking people of unindentified qualities to a shiny place where you can then use shiny things. Oh, then there's the side of good, of course! The Explorer's League! See, to oppose the league of evil, we need good guys! Who ALSO take stuff without asking first! Oh, there's just so many, constant, repeated jokes about overdue library books, things they've stolen from others for the purpose of putting up in their own building to talk about how it supposedly has historical significance despite the fact they only show up as even more showy, loud card effects and so many traps, holes to fall into, countless other beings slain because adventure & being heroic means constantly getting into fights! Despite how we just described EVIL as being the side that picks fights! But, I mean, gotta be heroic to pick fights and win, right? This game would be boring if we didn't constantly berate the audience with yet more fights! The founder is Brann Bronzebeard!: Despite the fact he never says that at any point so you would never know that unless you knew the supplementary context. He's a dwarven hunter! That means he goes into the wild! He likes dinosaurs! So he talks about them when they show up! … That's it! ...Oh, and his brother led a major city of his race and got turned into solid diamond against his will, but let's make a joke about that because I'm sure he has no emotional baggage about the death of his estranged relative and last tie to any family at all! But see, that's why He's here. He must be Good & Brave because he goes places and sees things and fights fights we never see him actually fight. Then there's the brains of the operation, Elise Starseeker: You can tell she's a smart elf because she wears glasses, a vest and doesn't immediately fire off every mystical object she finds until numerous people are killed! She A Smart because everything she's involved in means she can just immediately summon up the best option to any situation instead of using what's around her and knowing more detail about what she IS doing. Because deeper thought would require staying in place for long enough to NOT get into a fight! No, much better to have the one woman on the team be constantly being sassy about how the MEN are all impulsive while just whipping up fresh nonsense that doesn't follow any logical sense! Elise's machete summons treants! Because she's an Elf and ALL elves are just so much a nature freak they can cause trees to get up and punch things! Elise can just pull spells she doesn't know or entire creatures out of her satchel because that's totally something that can be done in this world since predescribed because that makes the fight more showy! CAN'T LET THE AUDIENCE STOP LONG ENOUGH TO BREATHE! IF THEY BREATHE, THAT'S TIME THEY COULD BE USING TO THROW CASH AT YOU!!! *Cough* Excuse me. This brings us to Sir Finely: He is a very polite gentleman, he prefers non-combat solutions, tea, the furtherment of his kind and the causes of others. He doesn't get much screen time. He helps fight, says posh things. Oh, and he's a fishy, toadlike creature when most of his race don't talk as eloquently as he does. Because we needed one character to just constantly make fish/frog puns at because LOOK at the funny frogman! THAT doesn't usually happen! Let's all draw attention to the character's species and only involve him in things related to the puns we can make about him! LAUGH! THAT'S ENDEARING, ISN'T IT? PAY ATTENTION TO THE WEIRDO WHO DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN! PAY US!!! Then there's Reno: Think his last name is Nevada. Or I dunno, could be wrong, it's been a while since he went by anything other than "The Amazing." He's a human, of course, because we needed a big-chined, muscley handsome dude to be the stereotypical Hero. So we could make jokes about that, right? So we've made him a massive Man-Child that just steals magic things then shoots them off without any training or aforethought. So any fight he's in, anything he has to depend on, its just randomly firing off card effects he doesn't even have at his disposal. Just Automatic Fire from a Magic Gun. Because just GIVING powers to a character is really all you need to make a spectacle worth your audience spending money on. More so than anything else in this game, Reno has to be told to NOT do things. Don't portal on ahead, don't wander off and poke sticks at big things with teeth, don't gape, open mouthed at a giant machine swooping down on you to abduct you. Reno has the mind of a child despite being the biggest and strongest! He just wins by throwing out whatever he has access to without any strategy at all! Gad, I hate him! And because of that, I love him! I hate loving him and I love hating him! I'm too confused to sort myself out on this matter! Because that's what Hearthstone has come down to! And, I fear, what all games have come down to! Not story, but just constant rewards! Use a buncha cards to get more cards that have an effect of allowing you to use more cards in the game! There's no strategy to this blasted cardgame, just HAVE more cards than your opponent. Use cards to put things on the field, destroy your opponents' stuff, then they take their turn to destroy your stuff and put down some stuff for you to destroy. Then repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat!! And That's what I need help understanding! That's the "Story" they're going for for years now. People show up to DO stuff. They have fights where THINGS HAPPEN. Things blow up. We do it all over again. It's just fighting. Just more turns tossing stuff out without attention to why, how or when... just more noise, more sound effects, more rewards that only have enough purpose to earn more pointless points of data. There's no STORY anymore! I don't know why I play when all I get is regret how nothing was advanced & frustration over trying to accomplish yet more prattling, noisy fights! ...wish I could go back to reading books. Where the next thing to happen has some connection with what just happened.

Technically, everything a Hydra does is Scale Devastation.~ That was horrible, even by our standards. Because dey has scales! Yes, we get it. And I was planning on demolishing Town Hall. Had my hearthole set on it, I was. We really like the word "demolish", don't we? You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. I like that idea that came up of throwing them all in a cell earlier, @Blitz Boom. I've designed each head to be an unpredictable, cartoonish personality element in and of themselves. Sunny & Shortstack don't care much for the effects of Recombining as that's all Blither's "Magicky Hoohah." Flit mostly doesn't care about most things. So if the other three happen to already been in a room and just one of those happen to charge in with reckless abandon... See, that's what I'm aiming for. To get my Hydrasona in the middle of town ranting about how its all coming to a head yet again. That they're stuck in a town too small for them to move in without crashing a wall down, that they're going to take the blame again, get a mob or beastslayer adventurer to cut them down again, and they'll have to flee back into the Wilds yet again. And no head, stuck in their own obscured, catastrophic thinking & personality, will listen to any one pony's reassurance or even each other until they're fully subdued. S'like, symbolic, Yo. ...Did you have to throw the "Get Your Game On!" hand signal? Yes. Most needed. I assume this process will be accomplished by knocking my heads together until simultaneous unconsciousness happens. Or talking down, that's the fun of it! Leaving the situation to each player when we get there! Have each player pick the head they've had the most interaction with to try and calm down from bickering with the rest of the hydra. It also helps that I have this mental image that a hydra head is the perfect size for a pony to ride right on top of its forehead. It's just too adorable to resist!

@Blitz Boom “Blitz” I am inclined to think Collateral Damage counts as a crime. And in that regard, I’m no saint myself! Speaking of which, I intend to explode at LEAST one building. It’s written into the spell that gave them the horse bodies that when all six are in close proximity they are forced, against their will, to recombine into their natural hydra form. That form is, of course, around thirty feet tall. Most buildings cannot accommodate the sudden presence of a being like that. When Blither asks for help, he implies that to mean all six knowing where the rest are. Not being confined together in the same cell due to rightful imprisonment; that would cause Sudden Mass Reaccumulation. And, the cherry on top here is, this hydra has social issues with trusting ponies. All of them want to have friends... its just hard to do that when you out-eat entire towns regularly and can rip a wall of a building as easily as opening a door. Sunny sees ponies as friends & toys. Monolith sees ponies as subjects of study. Blither sees ponies as superiors. Slimpsy sees ponies as danger. Shortstack sees ponies as competition. Flit sees ponies as opportunities. Solumn sees ponies as FOOD. ... Wait. Solumn isn’t part of continuity yet. Ignore that last part. Ignore the Edgelord!!!

“You know what I like about you cats? You don’t ask questions. Darn humans and their constant questions. Oh! It’s burning.” No. I expectorate you to die! I’m gonna learn a teach. ”Speed isn’t my strength. Neither is Strength.”

"Are you mad?" No. … I'm INSAAAAANE!!! *Cue jazzhands*

So, ah, not to judge or anything Dear @Blitz Boom. I am aware that you've stated before that you have more of a background in more combative environments of roleplay where such things are far more likely. It explains a lot of capability in combat or past experiences... But when your Chief of Police also has a criminal history, Ees a bit much! Lol! You are capable of writing a character that hasn't mugged somepony at some point, right? I kid! Lol! I think you got a bit of Edginess that kinda creeps in from time to time, lol! Like, I find it funny how often Happy Hour seems to come back around to "Oh, by the way, Have I mentioned I used to be human?" But no matter! I can get trying to get across the right spirit of the character you're trying to portray! ...so, like with Sunny Flush... heh! I figure she's twice the height and width of your average mare, like the Main Six as base example. And workhorse-frame like Big Mac would be two-thirds her size. So pretty much feel that she fills up most city streets she walks in. Kinda felt like maybe I mislead you a bit while intentionally being grandiose. … Would I be remiss in trying to loop in @Pastel-chan to my overarching plot too? If she fits the "adventurous filly" type, I can see you and her going off into the Everfree as a test of courage and I got another brother stuck deep in the woods there too that would play well against that being a more cowardly stallion. Slimpsy's cowardly dashing doesn't lend itself to finding his way out of the woods so much as richocheting off trees and getting further lost. Could be a neat adventure to get him to focus long enough to actually get out of the forest and find his family! Though that being said.... Sorry if I'ce been short with replies or unreliable. Been having a real bad Cold this past week and taking a lot of time off work. I may not meet the next time posts go up, but I'll try, heeheh!

@Blitz Boom Nah! Nothing needs to be fixed! I figure cartoon physics is integral to the realm of Equestria! Big Macintosh can haul an entire house behind him while skipping merrily... yet struggle under a seven tier cake. I figure ponies is stronger than they think especially when they’re Earth Ponies and ESPECIALLY by accident or comedic effect! I play Sunny Flush as litterally larger than life. The sorta hugger you can’t do much about once she starts! I figure she can buck a tree out of the ground without trying and causes tremors whenever she pounces from excitement. She’s only a Comedic Bonecrusher!

@Blitz Boom Officer Stargazer likely didn't get to his position without a good deal more common sense than your average pony on the street. Any guard and upholder of the law would know when a pony brought in for questioning was hiding something and Blither's dancing around the "Details" would likely sit with the stallion. In spite of the smaller blue stallion's habit of being specific with wording on everything else he kept referring to his siblings by more comparative terms. Rather than any numbers or ages he would keep describing them as "younger than", "smaller than the last sibling" or in other "about" vague terms. The trouble with a rehearsed story was it often sounded like one more than the truth did. Going about being honest and telling others they all happened to be the exact same age, physically, and at hundred year increments... well, ponies might live a long while, but there was a point in telling the truth where the torches in pitchforks came out. And they had eaten their fill of pitchforks already. Stargazer would walk away with a report filled with "Abouts" and measured in "heads" rather than inches and years. If he couldn't smell a story of magical interference, then he hadn't been in Ponyville for long. When he was finally excused, he went out to Mayor Mare still with breath in him despite the long-winded, clearly dodging the facts, story he had been going over with the officer. "Well... Madam Magistrate? If you have heard the tales of Tavern Brawls? Things nicked, accusations tossed... some ponies thrown through closed doors, broken furniture. It's... like that. But on a more townwide scale. If... heh, any houses get torn from their foundations, I'll do my best to help reattach them..." Blither sweated apologetically. "As I told Officer Stargazer, Shortstack's probably already in a fight by now.... Flit will take the first opportunity he gets to steal something and get somepony to chase him. I'm-... We're Hungry sort. Comes from having to live on our own, I guess. Heh... speaking of which, hope Alonsus comes back with those snacks; I'll have to think of when I last ate!" &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Despite being twice the size of the older mare, Sunny Flush followed dutifully behind her in short little steps with her face gazing around her through the open air like a boat plowing through the sea of the street. She prefered the longer strides but she was used to keeping a much slower pace to keep up with her much smaller brothers, especially since only one of them really flew all that much. "What you mean? You the older, Oldie mare, right? I still got LOOOAAADS AH GROWIN' ta do! Like, an older horsie got, like.... they been around for more so they know how they stand? I couldn't step on you, because your Older and that means you're Bigger! That's why all my Big Brothers be bigger even if they not bigger! ...besides, how could a hug hurt, right?!" The larger mare bubbled. Size was not something that clicked well in Sunny Flush's head. Maybe it was the internal self-refusal to admit her beloved brothers could have anything less than her even if she tended to put them in their place alot more than was fair. To her, the reason they got kicked out of towns so often was because her brothers had to be the "Meanies" again and pick fights like they always did. And Meanies got cured by Hugs and that was that. Life was lead by simple means for Sunny, any deeper thinking made her start wondering why they didn't have parents or friends or why the world saw them as a mega-predator when all she ever wanted was a friend to hug... those were corners of her mind she prefered to be kept lit with bright thoughts instead. At Scarcity's question, she giggled again and started up a little cheer she had thought up once. "One's a Red! One's an Orange! One's a Yellow! One's Green! One's a Blue! One's a... uh, Indigo or something! Yaay! We're a Raaainbooow! Heehee! ...Blither says that's just a co-inci-dence though!" &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& @Sekel "STAHP CALLIN' MEH SHORT!" Short was a hot word for him. Short meant you lacked something others had and pointing that out had to stop. Besides, bringing that up made you sound like Flit and that was a punishable crime in itself. To punctuate his demand, Shortstack stomps his front hooves in to the street and crumples the paving stones. Shaking his head through the rubble and shedding cobblestone fragments in an arch around him, slowly marching forward he sprays stones like this towards Dazzle. This wasn't aimed at anyone, but this destruction did give him something to do. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& From where he still lay, unmoved, Kaltrop groans in a voice not bothering to keep low and undirected at the mare that had left. "...Nnnh... how do you sleep on all this... softness. I can't... needs to be more like my stone cavefloor." &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& @Catpone Cerberus Whaat? Nooo... They're harmless, I assure you! You'd have to cast some spell on them to make them hostile! They're not supposed to eat! Who would see a little orb of flutteryness and offer it food?! Like anything that small and round would even be able to eat food! I went out of my way to design them to be easy to pop in the mouth! They're little living candies! They couldn't be any problem! What say we go and find some then? They're delicious!

@Sekel Well, I, uh mean that... Like, you spent less time saying what she did or does with her days and more of on how her parents nearly thought of her as a freak of nature. And I saying that freaks o' nature ain't as rare as all that. Nearly every one in my family has a ear off a few inches or some such that always gets brought up in conversation. Granted, my family was always critical and that's likely where I get it from but... I digress! I liked how you said that they had to uniquely baby-proof the house for her for a while. I think, maybe, sometimes too much focus is put on trying to make your OC have remarkably unique physical qualities to the point of pretty much mutating them. And that's something I happen to lean on heavily too! There be a differentiation between What They Are and How They Live With What They Are, if you get me? Like, case in point, Spike doesn't have usual firebreath for a dragon either. The show hasn't made any further clarification as to how its different and other wild dragons would more than take a chance to point out its strangeness but... he also didn't have any parents, per se. No doubt Twilight has tweaked his firebreath and walked him through it even if he hasn't, until now, had another dragon to compare it to. In your case, if she has the capacity to do so at all, its likely her father can breath fire and has enough experience to know its slightly different where her mother would be more lost on such technicalities. (Gosh, Is it just me or is the father always the more outlandish parent in cases of hybrids? Like, every half-orc just happens to have the mother be the elf!) Oh, and was wondering if you wanted a size comparison @Blitz Boom? You know me enough that I'm libel to exaggerate, and to be fair cartoonish impacts are a rule in Equestria. It certainly can't be just Pinkie Pie to fall seven stories and bounce like she's rubber, right? As much chaos that goes on in Ponyville, I'm sure broken bones aren't all that common! We've had Dash faceplant a mountainside several dozen times... and she only gets hospitalized when its needed for the plot! Hee! Anyway! While maybe, sometimes, I roleplay Sunny Flush as if she's the size of a house... I am trying my best to keep her at Celestia-as-an-Earth-Pony size. Tia is pretty much twice the size of anypony and even a head taller than her sister, but she still does have decidedly Unicorn physique. So technically, I would say that the average pony, Scarcity in this case, comes up to her chest. I am kind of going for the "spell backfire" of hydra traits coming across a little in the makeshift forms of the horseforms. Like how Shortstack has way out of proportion strength, as if he was still the size he was when part of the hydra. Any spell, no matter how strong, should take any chance to revert back to natural order. Do wish any to point out if any part of what holds Gallimaufry together doesn't quite logically work.