Casual Stroll - An Introductionary RP mainly around Equestria OOC [Open Entry For All]

[Moonlit 593]

@Blitz Boom Snakes won't be a problem...Bears on the hand...might be a problem, also the dreaded Northern Venomous Balsam Fir. 

[dragon4111 914]

@Blitz Boom

Ha no just a gentle dragon giving her compliments.

[dragon4111 914]

@Blitz Boom

And ugh freaking puns.

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

@Blitz Boom  

I am back, so I am able to post now.

 

[Widdershins 9,959]

 Seems like they've done a bit of reformatting! There's no longer that weird grey bar to the right that blocks the words you type! Mentions seem a bit easier too.

 @Blitz Boom

  Let's see, wanted to say...

   Ah, Well first, In all that rigamarole I was intending to say that Anomaly is now in an area that doesn't really have much of any rules. Feel free to let her change her form regardless of being "spread thin." Oh, and left a few things open if you wanted to pursue more things to do. You could ask about that thing from earlier or prod that goo. In fact, kind of want to ask. I seem to have a huge supply of beasties in case you wanted something to work with, like say Anomaly summoned or lured in something out of the Everfree while she's with somepony else. Both of those prior two are OCs of mine, admittedly ones that can't speak much, but nevertheless, I do digress. If you want, you can have Anomaly poke her head through a portal & see how many times I can set you up with a completely contextless scene before she gets pulled back. Maybe we'll have to talk about where you want her to wind up after my room and leave behind Widdershins's little hobby-butler.

  Oh, one more thing too, B.B. How did you do that separate page thing for your OCs? I've got a ton to keep track of myself!

 

   Also, your tree puns are terrible, Blitz. Sappy, Even!  Maple you better leaf that to the experts. I loam to see you set down roots with something bad enough to branch out & cause others to suffer.  ...from Dutch Elm Disease.

  You're being a Little Birch!        Okay... okay, that's enough now!

 

Edited July 24, 2017 by Widdershins
Came up with another question!

[dragon4111 914]

@Widdershins

Do you watch RWBY and also do you play Hearthstone?

[Blitz Boom 4,627]

@Widdershins

I just used a google doc, then posted the link to that under my siggy. I had to since I ran out of place for character links.

Also pine, you win with the tree puns. I will nut try to fight it, since it still seems fruitless to do anything but leaf it alone.

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@Foxy Socks

Sweet. ^^ welcome back.

[Widdershins 9,959]

  Alrighty, @Blitz Boom! Most of that was just pointless scenarios I wanted to paint for little to no reason! Don't wish to elaborate on them any further with context because, frankly, kind of sort of involves continuity from other franchises. Won't be doing that again! Or at least so directly!

  Seemed like we were done with Vivid, eh? Since she seems to be wandering off now.The whole gist of that was basically saying that, yeah, she still is a demon, but not irredeemable. 

  So where's Last Stand now? Kind of lost track there with her & I do feel someone indebted to touch base with her again. Mostly because I want to show that Widdershins does aim to help & be ultimately good, if chaotic. 

  But, as I say, Ambie is my focus. The one I'm trying to practice RP with. After all, I can't have him poof in & out like a draconequus does. I do feel a little bit out of sorts when a conversation just drops dead with a party just walking off like your sisters did. Don't suppose you have any tips? Like, how am I doing? ...besides being wordy like I am?

  Heehee! Fourteen thousand & sixty characters!

Oh, and that reminds me. @dragon4111? Why do you keep mentioning me? Yeah, I know, kind of just left Kozaky by the wayside there, but as of now, I can't see much of any way of how I could involve myself in what you're doing short of just exploding onto the scene and making everything about me. Oh, and somehow I didn't get your mention here! Did answer you in the PMs though!

 

    Also....Google Docs? There's a way to type without downloading Microsoft Word or something? 

[Blitz Boom 4,627]

@Widdershins

Google docs is simple. All you need is a gmail, then google Google Docs and have fun from there. Like creating a word document, but online. Remember to set it so others can't edit it though.

As for the references, apart from the one with the snake, I got them. Solid bunch there mate. Also, seems like you're comfortable playing with Bonbon and Lyra, so in case they come up again, I know where to turn. :3

Vivid have gone her own way to do her thing, resentful of Widdershins and even more set in her mind about what she feels about draconequui. Something tells me they will never be the best of friends. But for now, they seem out of eachothers hair.

As for Last Stand. She got focused around Ancalagon, then got put in a sleeper spell. If you want to toy with her, you'd have to switch to morning. She's currently wandering around and trying to get order on the workers. Not too many issues right now, but she's a micro-manager sort, so she'll make triply sure first.

And Ambie is doing fine. Trying to push him towards going home, sleep, and then wake up the next day so the parent visit thing can undergo. Seems like it could be interesting. And we comes off well as confused, unknowing about anything changeling related, and still a good deal in denial. ^^ It's going great.

As a side note, the sisters wandering off was fitting for the RP at the time. @genessee were interacting, and I figured it made sense for them to move ahead to other places. They may yet meet again.

[Widdershins 9,959]

 @Blitz Boom  (actually, thought just occured to me. You following this thread so that I don't need to actually name-link you here? Because if you are that's probably double-notificationing you & can probably be annoying.)

   Hoo.  Oh, I don't know about rping show characters! I do have my own headcannons for Lyra & Bon-Bon's personalities after all. The latter mare being perhaps the more aggressive & outgoing one where Lyra is more of the "normal" nerd. 

   ...though... I dare say, darling, there might be one particular mare of renown that might well suit my own flourish & pizzazz as one might say! Quite a Rrrrrrrarity of a mare, I should say! 

   Hah, a wonderful sequence of ponimoticons, I must say!

  Wouldn't something like that take some coaching though? Feels important.

 

   ...Snake?... Let's see... there was Bon n' Ly... Warcraft dimension...twice actually, hearthstone reference there...  Wait, you didn't catch the Doctor Who one? The Self-Insert?

Woosh! Over-the-Head basket! Five points! Widdy wins the Reference Game! Woooh! Widdy wins! Crowd goes wild!!  *chirping crickets* Dang sarcastic authors!

That, my dear, was a Time Tunnel and the famous Blue Box? Eh wut? I seem to remember there being some point where the Doctor had some interdimensional hitchhiker he had to shake off when he was doing all the wooshy time travelly stuff. So, I take bait. Widdershins has spent an awful lot of time in between worlds after all. Well, good thing I didn't put in the giant golden DeathStar or...  Well, even I'm glad we didn't put in the rapping Schnauzer from the animated Titanic movie. *shudder*

  But, I suppose that's alright. I guess it can be said there really isn't all that many rules to roleplaying. I'm still kind of wary since it kind of seemed like @Seamore Sandwich dropped that line with the Kitsune like my shtick shooed him off. I don't know what he intended to do there. Also... do hope he's alright, haven't heard from him in a long while.

6 hours ago, Blitz Boom said:

so the parent visit thing can undergo.

    Ooooh! You're really pressing for it aintcha?  Well, that's a can of worms there. I do have full characters ascribed to Victoria Vector Valence & Quantum Query (Quark) the parenthesis there being his changeling name. (Why yes, I do love alliteration!) But that's what my idea was, that Ambie mostly inherited his father's klutzy shtick. That Quark is famous among Chrysalis minions for being basically a Mr. Bean or Mr. Magoo their much better off without anyway. Like, Victoria does love him, but back when changelings still needed to hide, Quark would just forget his disguise and start walking out into the street for work as a changeling before his wife has to yank him back in, kick him into a broom closet at work real quick. And considering how bumbling his is already, don't think most would question why buckets would suddenly appear on his head.

   I'm more of a comedy fellow than a subterfuge & espionage sort. Bringing in the parents to role play as well would just complicate matters already when I'm already working some good four characters as it is. An' maaan, yer really tempting me!

 What I always say! Walk sillilily & carry a Big Shtick!

 I have given it thought of course. Victoria being called out there & she arrives all snobbish and intimidating... while her hubby gets tossed off the train a few yards away admist screaming, an open suitcase, some other mare's panties on his head and him actually accusing the other mare of stealing his luggage... despite him not having brought any.

  I can only fit in so much shtick in a day, man! Lol!

           Like... at this rate... I'll never get around to the Hydra! 

                                            Which reminds me, Anomaly is carrying around another OC and we can always tag back in my Tatzelpony that wandered through.

[Moonlit 593]

@Blitz Boom I return, we had to cut our trip short. Our usual camping spot turned into a swamp and the mosquito's became thick enough to walk on. 

[Tilgoreth 1,915]

This seems a bit involved now. Have no idea what is going on. But here: 

https://mlpforums.com/roleplay-characters/t-sparks-r10035/

 

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

@Widdershins and everyone else for that matter.

 

The scene with the Kitsune was mostly to get the ball rolling.  The character served his purpose (at least for the time being) and that story evolved to join other characters, which meant my presence there was no longer required.  Lately I've had a lot of early morning shifts at work, which leaves me too exhausted to post when I get home.  I'll be trying to work my way back into the RP, but my posts may be a bit slow for a while.  

 

@ the group as a whole 

 

If anyone wants to play the parts of the ponies from what I call, "The Cult of the Hero," I could use some help with that.  I feel I wouldn't be able to create enough independent thoughts within a group like that if I controlled them all.  Their purpose is to assist the Hero who had returned with the defeat of The Forgotten One.  Tales would have been passed down through their families of his heroic acts, some of which may have changed as the stories were retold many times (basically, you can make up your own stories about the Hero, but wether or not they're "true" will be determined in the RP).  I could also use some Heroes for him to join, and missions for them to accomplish.  I will however have to "godmod" in some of these scenarios, the full details of which will be revealed in the RP when the time comes.  For the sake of simplifying the scene where the Hero returns, which I have already posted, any cultists you choose to play as will not have been there to witness his return, but will be informed of his return.  

 

I'll try to post tomorrow if I can.

[Tilgoreth 1,915]

4 minutes ago, Seamore Sandwich said:

@Widdershins and everyone else for that matter.

 

The scene with the Kitsune was mostly to get the ball rolling.  The character served his purpose (at least for the time being) and that story evolved to join other characters, which meant my presence there was no longer required.  Lately I've had a lot of early morning shifts at work, which leaves me too exhausted to post when I get home.  I'll be trying to work my way back into the RP, but my posts may be a bit slow for a while.  

 

@ the group as a whole 

 

If anyone wants to play the parts of the ponies from what I call, "The Cult of the Hero," I could use some help with that.  I feel I wouldn't be able to create enough independent thoughts within a group like that if I controlled them all.  Their purpose is to assist the Hero who had returned with the defeat of The Forgotten One.  Tales would have been passed down through their families of his heroic acts, some of which may have changed as the stories were retold many times (basically, you can make up your own stories about the Hero, but wether or not they're "true" will be determined in the RP).  I could also use some Heroes for him to join, and missions for them to accomplish.  I will however have to "godmod" in some of these scenarios, the full details of which will be revealed in the RP when the time comes.  For the sake of simplifying the scene where the Hero returns, which I have already posted, any cultists you choose to play as will not have been there to witness his return, but will be informed of his return.  

 

I'll try to post tomorrow if I can.

Uhh can I join?

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

6 minutes ago, Tilgoreth said:

Uhh can I join?

I'm not in charge here, @Blitz Boom is.  If he allows you to join the RP as a whole, I'm sure we can work something out for you to join my storyline (we have a few separate stories going that occasionally intersect), however, the characters that are needed for that particular storyline are cultists devoted to an ancient hero, and other heroes, so I'm not sure how T-Sparks would fit in there...

Edited July 27, 2017 by Seamore Sandwich

[Tilgoreth 1,915]

4 minutes ago, Seamore Sandwich said:

I'm not in charge here, @Blitz Boom is.  If he allows you to join the RP as a whole, I'm sure we can work something out for you to join my storyline (we have a few separate stories going that occasionally intersect), however, the characters that are needed for that particular storyline are cultists devoted to an ancient hero, and other heroes, so I'm not sure how T-Sparks would fit in there...

Oh okay,

[Blitz Boom 4,627]

@Tilgoreth

Hello there.  let's see if we can't get you sorted first.

Character seems fine, so I'll give you a ticket to the RP. Good luck trying to out-sarcasm me though.

As for placement, it seems you have some interest in what Seamore have set up, so that's an option if you can set it up, but otherwise do know that you don't have to be part of the continuity if you don't want to. You could have something set on tge side that can then be tangled into the main story later, or not at all, if you'd prefer that.

Still, I'd like to try and help, so... @Seamore Sandwich? Perhaps I can help both you and the new face.

It will be late tonight I can get to create one, but I could make a fanatic to the cult, who have lured Silga in with the promise of power, under the banner of a great hero.

He/she will have had a family in service for generations, awaiting the hero to return, and now that he is, this pony will do everything he can to add to his followers and follow his words.

I still need to work out some details, but it's a raw idea. Could also be separated with just the cultost for you Seampre, and another of my current OC's for a separate endeavor for you Tilgoreth. Lemme know the thoughts of you both and we can proceed with things from there.

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@Moonlit

Sorry to hear that.  Gotta be annoying to say the least.

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@Widdershins

I'm gonna keep poking you about it in the RP until I eventually see them, or you find some way to distract Happy from the subject. He's persistent like that. ^^ Heh.

I think you did well with Bonbon and Lyra to be honest. At least what little I know of them, and we all have some head cannons here and there. Long as it ain't disruptive to things (and doesn't go against Fluttercord) I see no issue. Adding a bit of personal touch can be good after all.

Still, if you prefer Rarity, you can go ahead and take her. I only used her for a short while, so give her a rinse and she should be fresh.

As for the referrences, it was the Dr. Who I missed it seems. I'm not British, so I haven't grown up with it, so that sort of thing was an easy one to miss for me. Whoops.

[Midnight_Aurora 571]

@Blitz Boom,

Sorry about the no reply. I haven't been able to get on for a while. I won't be on long enough to make a post so please bare with me and put my characters' stuff on hold for a moment.

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

@Blitz Boom

 

I think that could work.  T-Sparks doesn't seem like a character that would stick around long in the cult, but as a new initiate it might make a bit more sense, so it's up to @Tilgorethwether or not they'll join that way.  I'll give you control over how the millennia will have warped the cult's practices.  The beginnings of the cult would involve knowledge of healing magics as well as power restoration and the transference of magic.  There would also be some magic involved in preparing weapons and other gear to face certain types of enemies.  Merely polishing his armor would have been considered an honor.  The cult however would have always stayed away from combat.  They mostly prepared him for his travels and were there to help him recover when he returned.  An important part of all of this would be passing down the stories of his heroics.  He would usually travel with other accomplished heroes.  He almost always escaped nearly unscathed.  Many of the heroes he fought alongside who were injured would have been brought back to the sanctuary to be healed, and would tell tales of how he had saved their lives, vanquishing their enemies in the process.  It would often be recorded which Hero told the tale (not any canon heroes because the time he is from doesn't line up with any that have been mentioned).

I've decided to wait until tomorrow to post.  Maybe then I'll be able to post for the Hero as well (I haven't come up with a name yet, so I'll properly introduce him in the next post).

[Blitz Boom 4,627]

@Midnight_Aurora

Take the time you need my friend. Just good to hear from you.

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@Seamore Sandwich

So no combat, the cult generally have a healing and protective perspective with magic befitting of it... Okay, idea slung out here.

After how long the cult have gone, the initial magic that were left in their care have diminished over time. Gone are the years when they could simply whip up a healing spell or give energy without consequence, as the diminishing energy more and more got used to keep the armor and trinkets of their fabled hero ready for his arrival. It leaves his gear prepared for his coming, but the cult with diminished power, leaving them to use alternative methods to get the power needed for their vigil.

The ones who are proven to be devoted, will have a trinket forged with a special set of tools, linking this object with their body. It allows them healing and protective magic to some extend, but it comes at the price of themselves. Fatigue is common with those who use this magic often, and short lives follows, as the trinkets transfers the energy of the bearer into raw, magical energy.

The cultists believes it to be a high honor to use this to protect and serve those that carries their mark, or whom might be worthy to join them, and welcomes the inevitable end that it entails. In part because they believe that doing so is doing the will of their hero, who would wish for the cult to stay prosperous and strong for his arrival, and because their final breath fuels a spell in the trinket, returning a portion of the energy it have filtered trough it to their main power source, making sure there is still a source of magic ready for when the hero comes back.

It is a perversion of the olden ways born of desperation, when they found their magic source wouldn't last forever, but they believe they are doing exactly what needs to be done, and that those who give up their life in this way will receive the hero's blessing in the great beyond. I could imagine he would have reservations against these practices when he returned, as well as other things regarding their practices that have gone from prayers and preparation, to indoctrination and preservation. If he will understand I don't know, but I could imagine that he might attempt to change this. Help refuel the magical source they nearly lost, and find a way to shatter the bond with the current true cultists and their trinkets, but that's your character and I have no idea how he'd react to these subservient beings who have lost the sight of how they were supposed to only save, and not on sacrificing themselves in his name like fanatics.

As for unicorns in the group, they are still either initiates, or cultists, and the cultists gladly still carry the trinkets. It's seen as more noble with them as they already have energy, and therefore much more they can eventually give to the cause.

Anyway, raw idea, but refusal or approval of this sort of thing will help me understand what you're aiming for Seamore. I just tried to keep the focus on the transfer, and what time, crazed preachers blind to the whole truth, and desperate measures might have caused.

I don't have a name for him yet,  but I started of wanting one called Pale Horse. After fiddling around however, I liked this better and have reeled the name back to a maybe because this shows what I meant with their methods draining them. He's been with the cult since he were born, his family having served for five generations and none of the last three generations living past age 40 since taking up the draining methods. He's around his late twenties, and he shows clear markings that even if he's at good health, the trinket takes of him.

Draining him of color slowly, the lime (think it's lime, not entirely sure) have drained out over the years, leaving only parts of it left on his hooves, legs, tail, back, inside feathers and mane. In time, it will drain too, leaving him entirely pale. His eyesight is unrelated to this, as I think making him blind over time was too much, though these fitted him. :3 So short sighted he is, in several ways. Zing.

He is one of the more likeable and charismatic of the cultists, and is often tasked with recruitment because of that. It can be a while between them getting a new member, but he haves a knack of finding the lost looking for a meaning in their life, criminals desperate for a chance to redeem themselves, those who wishes to protect, but lacks the courage to take the jump, etc. Basically anypony who is vulnerable, and whom he thinks can be saved under the hero's guidelines.

He doesn't see anything wrong in the teachings he have grown up with, nor how he will not be making it to old age unless something changes, and he have lived most of his life devoted without fault.

However, after having a son and a daughter last year, he have found himself with doubts in the ways. Not many, and he dismisses them mostly, but thoughts about how the purpose might have been polluted, and how he could be leading his foals into a life of pointlessness surfaces now and again, though he dares not speak it to anypony. He doesn't want to be marked a heretic and be punished, or have his foals and wife - also a cultist - feeling the backlash of his actions.

Punishment like this is one of the reasons he is having doubts, since he is starting to wonder how this can be okay, when they are supposed to be serving as squires for a great, noble hero of old. Yet indoctrination and slight fear means his mind constantly battles these worries, and keeps him in line. At least for now. What might happen when the hero returns though, is anypony's guess, and his actions will be formed from what he sees then.

Again, raw sketch, but I think this is a suitable base for a character. Thoughts?

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

@Blitz Boom

I like the idea, and my character's reaction will depend on how it's presented in the RP.  I finally came up with a name:  Marcus Silvermane.

[Blitz Boom 4,627]

@Seamore Sandwich

Nice name, and yey for getting accepted with the idea.

I have a bit more on my char now too to add to things. His name is... Off the top of my head as I write this as I go... Sugar Lime. Yeah, I like that one. Bit of sweet, bit of sour, more than you expect when you take him in.

Anyway, his cutie mark required me to make a small edit, but here goes.

Pale music nodes. He will tell that it represents his talent for singing and cheering up those around him - I think we have a bard for your hero here too, thinking about it - but it actually is more historical, like the one who lured the rats out of town with his flute. It shows his talent to lure others with him, and he got it after getting his first initiate back to the cultists lair.

I also have a familiar tie with another of my chars.

Belladonna, his elder sister. I always had a hard time thinking about why she were so secretive about her past and why she were a mess getting to Canterlot, now I can use this to explain it. She's a heretic that tried to escape after she realized the truth, got caught by changelings, recaptured later on, and punished until she made an escape five years ago. Sugar doesn't know that she is still alive, as he have been told that she died with remorse to her actions to spare his family the humiliation of being related to a heretic, but she is secretively looking for him, and wants to get him out of there before he dies. By force if needed.

Might come in handy later on to have this, in case something needs to go wrong or I'm bored and wants to poison my own character.

[Widdershins 9,959]

   Well, that's why I'm cautious to do that, B.B. Kind of feel like it would require a concentrated effort, big enough to detract from what else I would be doing in the thread. I can't help but think that would require several other characters and even perhaps the Apple family if Ambie is living with them. Heck, way I imagine Victoria, she's likely to march straight up to the 50-foot dragon & demand he sit down and behave "like a proper Gentlecolt!"  

  I don't want to tax myself. As it stands, I don't have much getting in the way of being on this thread full-time, but somedays are taken up entirely by just checking notifications! 

  I suppose though, that Lyra, Bonny & Rarity would kind of work on an as-needed basis, should anybrony ask for such. Though... tacking onto that, I kind of want to say that Sweetie Drops has a bit of a history with trying to contain Widdershins back when he stumbled on this dimension once before. (and yes, Bon Bon kind of is my favorite of the three!)

 Oh, which reminds me. You want the Anomaly V. 2.3 to eventually meet up with the Anomaly V. 2.0 that's guiding Shineling around so you can fuse back together?

 

    Also, Fluttercord is tol' bunk, you know that?! A guy can just roomie with a mare without it being a thing, ya know?! That is, if we can even say that Discord is male enough to even consider a relationship that in depth. Fluttershy is likely the only friend he's had in some several thousand years, gettin' hitched seems a bit fast for him.

  ...yes, I know we're talkin' Discord here....

  "S why ya don't see much shipping for Luna or Celestia. Kinda hard to pair up somebeing that's Immortal!

[Tilgoreth 1,915]

@Blitz Boom @Seamore Sandwich

Hold on did I miss it? So from what I understand my oc SIlga would be lured by a cult memebr into getting great power? But would then just be a servant?

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

@Blitz Boom

Capture and punishment seems a bit too dark for the cult.  In order for the story I have planned to work, the cultists need to be good ponies, trustworthy and kind, even if their methods seem a little extreme.  The idea that they would give everything and would encourage others to do the same may be dark in its own way, but it's also noble.  It would still make sense for Belladonna to have left and to not want to talk about the cult, and even wanting to get her brother out of it.  I realize that defining it as a cult may seem like a negative term, but it's not meant in a negative way.  I probably should have clarified that earlier.  I feel like a strong focus on the tales and legends would help sway newcomers, especially if they're constantly being shared, even while working.  The work would go much faster that way, and seem less like work.  The tales would include a combination of powerful battle magic, hoof to hoof combat, and strategic planning.  If it's easier to base the stories in mythology, be my guest.  If you want to start off with a post showing the new initiates around, I feel it would be a good way to start.  It'll give @Tilgoreth a chance to join in if the situation is suitable.  What do you think @Tilgoreth, will this idea work for you?