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

Blitz Boom · February 5, 2020

I'll add this one in tomorrows post then.

As for how she'd find out, I'd say the easiest route is the best: That necklace that Ruby's so fond off? Sure looks like a nice personal item to have. A real shame if say, someone were to try and lure that away from her, it opened up, and the truth were revealed, even if briefly. :3

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@Pastel-chan

Looks good. Can't wait to see where this is going to go.

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@Widdershins

I'm not a native English speaker no, but I use most of my time communicating in English due to forum RP's, and games like WoW, so English comes fairly easy to me (except for punctuation. That messes up at times). Fire off as long winded posts as you'd like.

Catpone Cerberus · February 5, 2020

4 minutes ago, Blitz Boom said:

As for how she'd find out, I'd say the easiest route is the best: That necklace that Ruby's so fond off? Sure looks like a nice personal item to have. A real shame if say, someone were to try and lure that away from her, it opened up, and the truth were revealed, even if briefly. :3

I didn't actually even think of that, yes, I agree, that's a good way to do that.

Widdershins · February 6, 2020

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?!

Catpone Cerberus · February 6, 2020

5 hours ago, Widdershins said:

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?!

I'm not the best explainer but...

The most obvious solution would be having questions or dialogue that naturally leads to conversation, and also to not have too many unrelated things is same post (If the topic changes in middle of the dialogue, the other, most likely former dialogue will get igjnored because there's no natural feeling way to respond to both)

Other thing is that when you have something that isn't dialogue, like your character doing something, it needs to be something worth reacting to so to speak. To explain it with an example, if you're having an conversation with someone who randomly does a backflip now and then while you talk to them, the first few times you are probably confused or surprised or something, but after they have done it 10 times, you start to ignore it because you accept it's just something they do.

So one way to get reactions would be things happen that actually affect my character, because while Widdershins doing his weird things is interesting sight, Cerberus has no reason to react to it because he knows it's something Widdershins does normally.

Widdershins · February 11, 2020

So, for @Pastel-chan & @Blitz Boom's parts:

I'll come in much later. There's not much I can do until the both of you get into the Everfree. I'm sure the older Slimpsy will be such a good impression to these foals!

… I'm being facetious. (That's our Secret Word for the day! We just looked it up again!) As much as a total coward Slimpsy is, it'll take two foals to re-re-retell him what he doesn't have to fear.

Oh, and Blitz? Think I worry we might've lost @Pinkfire by this point. Should we carry on Flit's leg of things and keep it open enough for her to wander back in to? It kind of was my ideal to get several posters in to all witness the same event To witness our clever writing, that is?! Nyo, shaddup! - to provide a wider array of responses what basically amounts to a boss encounter.

And, as further to that;

I feel I have to apologize for several things with the Cephalli family members to you and @Sekel.

Yellow text doesn't show up quite as well, and I wish all the good luck to Dji in wading through the dense Scottish accent

But these are things I cannot change.

All integral to the character! Lol! Unless there's somehow another yellow text option... but I got a way in my head for how the brothers sound. Like SS is Scots to Flit's Irish accent since I see that as a duality somehow.

Seamore Sandwich · February 12, 2020

@Blitz Boom

I know I haven’t been on here in months. For that I apologize again. I keep disappearing for months at a time. When bad things happen in my life, I retract into my shell, and then I keep finding reasons not to come out of it. When that happens I really need to push myself to get back to doing things that I love. Hopefully I’ll get back to posting soon. This post is an important part of my way of pushing myself: telling people I’ll do something. I don’t want to discuss the reasons I stopped posting yet, because there’s a lot of things that happened around the same time (a lot of which happened in the same week as my birthday). There’s also some changes happening with the schedules at work again, so hopefully I can have a regular day off early in the week and I’ll try to get more posts done at once, possibly on Tuesdays. I’ll reread some of the posts throughout the next couple weeks to catch myself back up, and I’ll most likely type up some posts the Tuesday after next, sooner if I get any good (or possibly even bad) ideas.

Widdershins · February 17, 2020

I am thinking here, maybe, @Blitz Boom that eventually your Officer is gonna have to get between Shortstack and @Sekel's Dazzle Gleam. So, what I'm thinking here is your officer gets in there first, then Scarcity comes to spectate with Sunny Flush in tow. Then Sunny can take care of Shortstack… Because who knows how to better take care of their siblings then the other ones who had to live with their shenanigans?

Also, we're gonna have to work on Flit since I don't think she's coming back...

Blitz Boom · February 17, 2020

@Widdershins

I don't know who Flit is. Do you mean Pinkfire? Yeah, been almost three weeks, so you might be right. I dunno, just put the char you had in mind with her out there and just... See what happens? Might be some folks (or the group) more or less crosses paths with your char eventually.

As for the group with the current siblings, I figured I'd let you two fight it out, but alright, I'll get some folks that way. Sounds like you two are having a noisy fight too, so honestly, either he hears them, or someone comes running for him, since he's basically the only guard they know of in town. We'll see.

As for Scarcity... Oh, I do have plans regarding her, but you'll see in due time.

Speaking of which...

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@Rising Dusk

Sometime, we should really have Scarcity and Setting Dawn meet up. Considering they're both *fixers* (with one being more... Morally flexible than the other) They likely know of one another already, and it could be rather fun. Though one thing here: Scarcity does not leave evidence of her deeds behind, so she's not someone you just have something on, besides rumors and potentially some testimonies who won't go anywhere. Setting more than likely knows what sort of thing she does, but since it's both impossible to prove (and she holds some higher ranking ones in her pocket to ensure some things does not ever get near a court house, just in case) and that she does in her own, twisted way provide a service to Equestria, by ensuring the most dangerous items or beings of the Black Market circuit gets rerouted to more fitting authorities, it's one of the situations where her operating unobstructed is the lesser evil.

From what I've gathered about Sitting so far, through the references in the RP and what you mentioned some time ago, she seems to be somewhat in the same situation. A necessary evil, with more uses than reasons to try and get to her.

Honestly, I just thought it could be fun. Especially now I've seen her more in action. She's great.

Ionic Sunset · February 18, 2020

Question, is it fine if I come in from the cold? (You'd get the joke if you know my OC. Which you don't.)

No, seriously though, can I join please?

Edited February 18, 2020 by Blue Midnight

Blitz Boom · February 18, 2020

@Blue Midnight

More than likely you can, but I'd need some info on your OC first to make a decision. So please, could you post what you can of him/her/it? General stuff like a bit of backstory if possible, a physical description, and if the one in question have special powers, some sort of description of that too please.

Ionic Sunset · February 18, 2020

4 hours ago, Blitz Boom said:

@Blue Midnight

More than likely you can, but I'd need some info on your OC first to make a decision. So please, could you post what you can of him/her/it? General stuff like a bit of backstory if possible, a physical description, and if the one in question have special powers, some sort of description of that too please.

Alright, here she is. Though I don't know if the link will work, since it's still awaiting approval. If not, then I could copy-paste.

Blitz Boom · February 18, 2020

@Blue Midnight

Sadly the link isn't working. A copy and paste here would be appreciated.

Ionic Sunset · February 18, 2020

2 hours ago, Blitz Boom said:

@Blue Midnight

Sadly the link isn't working. A copy and paste here would be appreciated.

Alright, here you go. Let me know if you need more. As for the background, I was a bit too lazy to type it, but just know that I know her entire backstory (Minus details like names or dates or timeframes) by memory.

Species: Unicorn-Windigo Hybrid

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Residence: Ponyville

Hometown: ~=[Redacted By Order Of Princess Celestia]=~

Occupation: Inventor And Item Repairer

Personality:

Icy is typically calm, but fun. When she gets really quiet, then you need to watch what you say and do. She will always help somepony she knows, or somepony she dosen't. She likes to talk to new ponies, or talk to ponies in general, and she likes having friends, but not so much that she can't live without them. And while she would accept somepony getting closer than that, she wouldn't like it, because she would be scared. Not for herself, but for their safety.

When somepony is harassing her friends, she can become a bit mischevious. For example, freezing a bathroom door shut as the pony is trying to get in (Discreetly), or freezing the pony's hoof to the ground while they are walking. Or making it snow on them for a few hours.

She is very inventive, always coming up with new ideas. Although not all of them are always practical.

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Ice Storm dosen't really have a personality. All Ice Storm can think about is absorbing more warmth.

Physical Description:

Her fur feels soft, but cold. The "feathers" of her wings feel hard and mettalic, but as flexible as an actual feather, and as light too. Her wings are even colder than her fur.

Likes: Inventing, her inventions turning out right, the cold, snow, ice, snowball fights, making snowponies, ice skating, flying, improving her inventions, helping ponies, meeting new ponies, doing new things, exploring, milkshakes (She REALLY likes milkshakes), shaved ice, snow cones.

Dislikes: Hot weather, her inventions turning out horribly, idiots, warm foods (Though she actually does like to eat some warm foods, she just freezes them and then waits for them to thaw.), not having anything to do, Ice Storm, blankets.

Magic Spells: Icy Creation - Ice Focused Or Cold Focused Magic In General, Shield Spells, Firebolt, Other General Magic Spells (Though nowhere near as many as Twilight), Levitation.

Magic Spells: Ice Storm - Icening (Ice Lightning, turns things into pure ice, which spreads through organics. If it strikes a pony, they are an ice sculpture within a single second.)

Widdershins · February 19, 2020

On 2/18/2020 at 6:12 AM, Blitz Boom said:

I dunno, just put the char you had in mind with her out there and just... See what happens? Might be some folks (or the group) more or less crosses paths with your char eventually.

Already did! Several weeks ago...

Have I, uhh…. am I being too ambitious? Expecting several other players to cooperate while I play simultaneously... what, eight characters? Heh, you know how it is trying to get schedules to align!

On 2/18/2020 at 2:01 PM, Blue Midnight said:

Question, is it fine if I come in from the cold? (You'd get the joke if you know my OC. Which you don't.)

I already got the joke and I hadn't even seen your OC yet.

Now I have.

Let the Sass begin.

I guess her full name is.... */Drumroll*… Icy Ice?!!? But props on a dual-form character. It's not quite clear why she is what she is aside from giving her a host of powers, but I can't say no to Ice elemental magics. Though I do have a few issues. One among them is...

*Cue Valley Girl Accent* Uhm? Like? WindaGAH? That's, like, a SPIRIT? Pretty sure thah don' DO thait.

Who are we kidding. WE technically count as a spirit!

But I'm playing the Snob. Don't ruin my snobbery, Me.

It would stand to reason a very particular set of circumstances to have a corporeal Windigo (Oh, just noticed that again. We don't have wEndigos in Equestria. As that's a vampiric, cannibal yeti monster. ...yes, kind of lost a bit of epic in the Kids' Show translation, yes?) that would be an interesting tale!

As for another thing... purely on a design side of things.... yeah, that Venus Symbol is extremely obvious. Thinking myself over now, think that's why symbols don't look good on cutie marks because it looks a little more like an actual Branding Iron mark rather than a symbol. Not to mention the symbol doesn't seem to have anything else to do with the character and works much more as just a Human symbol rather than a pony concept. But that's not really anything that effects anything in the long run.

As for her personality.... hmm, reading more that she's defensive of friends, willing but perhaps a bit stubborn to be talked into new things, a real kind of Low-Temperature gal ... guess you could say her personality is quite...

Cooooold!

Yes, this entire post has been building to that.

Yes, a pretty bad joke there I must admit. I'll try to curb myselfs.

Ah ahm afraid yor pleas fall upon deaf ears, mah hot-blooded frand. For such tactics don't work... Upon dah Cold-Hearted!

Enough already, I've got to stop this.

What keeled dah Dinosaurs? … MAH PUUUUNS!!!

Seriously though, I've caused at least one Mass Extinction event by bombing that hard at a Comedy Club.

Blitz Boom · February 19, 2020

@Blue Midnight

Well... It's an interesting character, but I do have some questions that I think is important to get answered regarding her.

1. You mention that she have no personality, and only think about absorbing warmth, but that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, considering you also write she thinks of friends, can get scared, likes inventing, that sort. That isn't possible if she have a one-track mind and no personality. This is a minor inconsistency perhaps, but it does stand out to me.

2. There does need to be some history behind how a special hybrid like that came to pass. Especially since the Windigo's are described as non-physical, ghostlike ponies. It seems odd that one were able to materialize long enough, unless magic in some fashion were involved, though in any case, I can't imagine it ended in a joyful union. Just throw it out there, and we'll see if it can work.

3. Redacted by Princess Celestia? So... That means that the princess are aware of this one, who (as you write it) can turn another into solid ice in a single second? I have a hard time believing that she princess would openly allow any creature who could do that, and which you describe as being only after warmth. There's some backstory here that might be best explained I think, though most can be explained if she's reeled in some from the more... Destructive side that's presented here.

4- Which brings me to the magic. Overall it seems fine (though I would ditch the mention of a fireball. If you want to go ice themed, it just doesn't work well), though I'd strongly recommend that perhaps the organic life turned into ice is instead more like a cocoon? So not turning the living creature into literal ice, but deep freezing them in place in a block of ice, which will spread by touch and engulf them within says, 5-10 seconds instead of 1, as that seems somewhat excessive. Having a timer on it before they naturally thaw might be a smart move too, or if not that, then simply make it so that they're fine in there due to the magic of the ice, and can be broken out by a proper smashing or with fire magic.

The major thing is just that turning organic life into pure ice is essentially killing them, without any sort of counterplay, which is far, far too dangerous of a thing to be allowed living in the world. It might be functional if you were going for a villain, but even then I'd suggest some sort of leash on that. It seems completely fine if it insta-freezes non-organic life though, and that would have some usage for self defense for example, or to get out of things.

As a trade off, perhaps go that she can pass through solid ice like it were air, and then use a combination of freezing non-organic life and this ability to make it rather difficult to trap her?

5. Beyond the cold, I don't see much of a connection to windigo's, so as a suggestion (this is not a forced one, but I would advise thinking about it at least) why not have her magic be affected by the emotions around her? Windigo's feed on hatred and fighting, so when there is more of that, she would become stronger, yet at the same time, if she seeks friends, or at least to be seen as not a monster, she wouldn't want there to be much of that, which in turn would weaken her magic. It would cause a sort of balancing act that she'd be struggling with, and could both reel in the magic (Say, the insta-freeze of organisms could be something only functional at a high influx of power, as say an open battlefield) and it would explain why Celestia would allow her to be around. If Icy would not appear to be one who wanted to be a conqueror, it stands to reason that much like with Discord, she'd send her under observation, to live in a regular society with a more calm atmosphere, and well, Ponyville mostly have that, as well as Twilight and the others to help out if the worst happened.

It would entail Twilight being informed of her presence for the record, and Icy having an assigned guardian of sorts, but I can work with that. Wouldn't be too hard making up a guard decked in some anti-magic rings and cold resistant armor (or some other clothing. Depends on if it's a guard) to keep an eye out, and be ready if something does happen. It'd be up to you whatever the one in question would be friends with Icy, or more of a parole officer, or starting out as the later, but going the former. Or something else really, I dunno. Just trying to make a scenario where you can still get what you want, but with a bit of logical restrictions and story help.

As a suggestion for a guardian/parole officer/whatever, I do have a dragon working for the royal guards, who's fire related, which would mean better cold resistance in general, as well as being a very friendly one with connections to Ponyville, so that could well function. Also, he's rather small, about pony-size, so it wouldn't be much of a difference.

Anyway, I'm rambling. We have a few points to get sorted, but this ain't so bad honestly. I'm sure we can get everything sorted soon enough, and get you right into the action.

Widdershins · February 20, 2020

12 hours ago, Blitz Boom said:

The major thing is just that turning organic life into pure ice is essentially killing them, without any sort of counterplay, which is far, far too dangerous of a thing to be allowed living in the world. It might be functional if you were going for a villain, but even then I'd suggest some sort of leash on that

I do feel the urge to remind you about severity of magic in Equestria. Need I bring up the fact that Twilight Sparkle, a leading member of society, has a spell which transforms field mice into what is essentially Semi-Sentient Functioning Members of their Society. Sure, Cinderella reference and all but turning animals into horses carries a bit of a dark side in this world. Oh, and not to mention Starlight Glimmer has a legitimate Full Mind Control that she's used numerous times on the show. Like, fully overwriting her friends personality to her will.

It's important to keep in mind that this world hinges upon the premise of "Everything is all better by the end of the episode, no matter how bad things get." Discord can bend reality to his whims. If he wants to go bad, not a thing could stop him.... apart from his wanting a true friendship now.

I do believe we have seen full calcification into solid stone in the show. Long as there's a more powerful reversal spell, it's all good. Think the important thing to keep in mind is that you can't have a character in this world with a power that's just "the best at doing it." Automatic Death isn't as permanent or as dramatic as it should be. And I say this as a roleplay who adores collateral damage.

Though.... I do acquiesce that something like this is antithetical to roleplay. Flashfreezing somebody may be possible... but then we'd have to go on a side story to cure said victim and the results of said action ontop of kinda removing a character instantly without them a chance to react.... so, no. Not good in roleplay.

I can see a bit of separate characters in here that would explain the prevalent contradictions B.B mentioned. I feel there's a sort of Nightmare Moon-esque thing going on here. A sort of possession if you will. I feel its not so much important HOW a character got to be what they are, but how that impacts how they interact with others.

Think a lot of OC creators kind of forget, is that they get caught up in making their characters combat capable... then forgetting that roleplaying requires more talking and social interaction than fighting.

Ionic Sunset · February 20, 2020

15 hours ago, Widdershins said:

Already did! Several weeks ago...

Have I, uhh…. am I being too ambitious? Expecting several other players to cooperate while I play simultaneously... what, eight characters? Heh, you know how it is trying to get schedules to align!

I already got the joke and I hadn't even seen your OC yet.

Now I have.

Let the Sass begin.

I guess her full name is.... */Drumroll*… Icy Ice?!!? But props on a dual-form character. It's not quite clear why she is what she is aside from giving her a host of powers, but I can't say no to Ice elemental magics. Though I do have a few issues. One among them is...

*Cue Valley Girl Accent* Uhm? Like? WindaGAH? That's, like, a SPIRIT? Pretty sure thah don' DO thait.

Who are we kidding. WE technically count as a spirit!

But I'm playing the Snob. Don't ruin my snobbery, Me.

It would stand to reason a very particular set of circumstances to have a corporeal Windigo (Oh, just noticed that again. We don't have wEndigos in Equestria. As that's a vampiric, cannibal yeti monster. ...yes, kind of lost a bit of epic in the Kids' Show translation, yes?) that would be an interesting tale!

As for another thing... purely on a design side of things.... yeah, that Venus Symbol is extremely obvious. Thinking myself over now, think that's why symbols don't look good on cutie marks because it looks a little more like an actual Branding Iron mark rather than a symbol. Not to mention the symbol doesn't seem to have anything else to do with the character and works much more as just a Human symbol rather than a pony concept. But that's not really anything that effects anything in the long run.

As for her personality.... hmm, reading more that she's defensive of friends, willing but perhaps a bit stubborn to be talked into new things, a real kind of Low-Temperature gal ... guess you could say her personality is quite...

Cooooold!

Yes, this entire post has been building to that.

Yes, a pretty bad joke there I must admit. I'll try to curb myselfs.

Ah ahm afraid yor pleas fall upon deaf ears, mah hot-blooded frand. For such tactics don't work... Upon dah Cold-Hearted!

Enough already, I've got to stop this.What keeled dah Dinosaurs? … MAH PUUUUNS!!!

Seriously though, I've caused at least one Mass Extinction event by bombing that hard at a Comedy Club.

Venus symbol? What is that? Her mark (No way I'm calling it by what it's supposed to be called) is the alchemical symbol for mercury (Which represents the mind part of the tria prima) over top of a snowflake. Representing her proficiency with anything cold, as well as her talent for inventing and inventive thinking (Alchemy and the mind).

Also, people are okay with having two speakers (One real, one created) in posts here? Or at least semi-okay? Because if so then I would like to introduce my narrator, Enter the Void.

[=~ I can come in? About ****ing time you let me back into your normal postings. It gets boring out there in the Between, you know. ~=]

I don't know yet, Void. I'll let you narrate if you can't.

[=~ **** you Midnight. Don't introduce me if you don't ****ing know if I can come in yet or not. I'll see you next time you need me. ~=]

Fine then. Anyway, moving on. As for the windigo part, I'll answer that when I'm answering BB's question about it. Oh, and after looking up the venus symbol, I see how you might have gotten the two confused. But the symbol for Venus dosen't have the top half circle on it.

As for her being stubborn... Where exactly did I say she was stubborn? I don't remember ever saying anything of the sort, and even if I did, I said it mistakenly. I mean, she can be a bit stubborn on occasions, but never when it comes to trying something new.

Now, onto BB.

13 hours ago, Blitz Boom said:

@Blue Midnight

Well... It's an interesting character, but I do have some questions that I think is important to get answered regarding her.

1. You mention that she have no personality, and only think about absorbing warmth, but that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, considering you also write she thinks of friends, can get scared, likes inventing, that sort. That isn't possible if she have a one-track mind and no personality. This is a minor inconsistency perhaps, but it does stand out to me.

2. There does need to be some history behind how a special hybrid like that came to pass. Especially since the Windigo's are described as non-physical, ghostlike ponies. It seems odd that one were able to materialize long enough, unless magic in some fashion were involved, though in any case, I can't imagine it ended in a joyful union. Just throw it out there, and we'll see if it can work.

3. Redacted by Princess Celestia? So... That means that the princess are aware of this one, who (as you write it) can turn another into solid ice in a single second? I have a hard time believing that she princess would openly allow any creature who could do that, and which you describe as being only after warmth. There's some backstory here that might be best explained I think, though most can be explained if she's reeled in some from the more... Destructive side that's presented here.

4- Which brings me to the magic. Overall it seems fine (though I would ditch the mention of a fireball. If you want to go ice themed, it just doesn't work well), though I'd strongly recommend that perhaps the organic life turned into ice is instead more like a cocoon? So not turning the living creature into literal ice, but deep freezing them in place in a block of ice, which will spread by touch and engulf them within says, 5-10 seconds instead of 1, as that seems somewhat excessive. Having a timer on it before they naturally thaw might be a smart move too, or if not that, then simply make it so that they're fine in there due to the magic of the ice, and can be broken out by a proper smashing or with fire magic.

The major thing is just that turning organic life into pure ice is essentially killing them, without any sort of counterplay, which is far, far too dangerous of a thing to be allowed living in the world. It might be functional if you were going for a villain, but even then I'd suggest some sort of leash on that. It seems completely fine if it insta-freezes non-organic life though, and that would have some usage for self defense for example, or to get out of things.

As a trade off, perhaps go that she can pass through solid ice like it were air, and then use a combination of freezing non-organic life and this ability to make it rather difficult to trap her?

5. Beyond the cold, I don't see much of a connection to windigo's, so as a suggestion (this is not a forced one, but I would advise thinking about it at least) why not have her magic be affected by the emotions around her? Windigo's feed on hatred and fighting, so when there is more of that, she would become stronger, yet at the same time, if she seeks friends, or at least to be seen as not a monster, she wouldn't want there to be much of that, which in turn would weaken her magic. It would cause a sort of balancing act that she'd be struggling with, and could both reel in the magic (Say, the insta-freeze of organisms could be something only functional at a high influx of power, as say an open battlefield) and it would explain why Celestia would allow her to be around. If Icy would not appear to be one who wanted to be a conqueror, it stands to reason that much like with Discord, she'd send her under observation, to live in a regular society with a more calm atmosphere, and well, Ponyville mostly have that, as well as Twilight and the others to help out if the worst happened.

It would entail Twilight being informed of her presence for the record, and Icy having an assigned guardian of sorts, but I can work with that. Wouldn't be too hard making up a guard decked in some anti-magic rings and cold resistant armor (or some other clothing. Depends on if it's a guard) to keep an eye out, and be ready if something does happen. It'd be up to you whatever the one in question would be friends with Icy, or more of a parole officer, or starting out as the later, but going the former. Or something else really, I dunno. Just trying to make a scenario where you can still get what you want, but with a bit of logical restrictions and story help.

As a suggestion for a guardian/parole officer/whatever, I do have a dragon working for the royal guards, who's fire related, which would mean better cold resistance in general, as well as being a very friendly one with connections to Ponyville, so that could well function. Also, he's rather small, about pony-size, so it wouldn't be much of a difference.

Anyway, I'm rambling. We have a few points to get sorted, but this ain't so bad honestly. I'm sure we can get everything sorted soon enough, and get you right into the action.

1: It's not an inconsistency, because they are two different personalities. That's why there is the huge clump of dashes there. Perhaps I could have made it a bit clearer, but oh well. So yeah, the personality on the top is Icy's personality, the one on the bottom is Ice's personality. Oh? I... I did mention it. How did you get the idea that they were the same personality, then? Ice Storm overrides Icy Creation, but they are never both the active personality (I use personality loosely in Ice Storm's case) at the same time. Well, I mean, not fully. She can resist Ice Storm, but only barely. I think the longest she's managed was seven minutes.

2: I'll answer this after I answer the other three questions.

3: Umm... See above? I plan on answering both of these by typing down her backstory, so be prepared for that after the next two.

4: This ties into her history, but I can't have Ice Storm's Icening not kill ponies, because if it didn't then Icy wouldn't have had any reason to leave her home town. Because Ice Storm fades on it's own after a period of time. That period of time depends on how much warmth is absorbed, with more warmth absorbed proloning Ice Storm's period of control.

As for how fast Icening freezes organics, now that you mentioned the idea, yeah, I do think I am going to slow that down from instant to maybe, I don't know, five seconds. Maybe have it depend on whether they have magic, how much warmth they have, and how large they are. Actually, perhaps it could take longer the more hatred or anger that the organic had. The idea being it would be taking longer to absorb their warmth, because it isn't absorbing their warmth, it would be absorbing their emotional "fire." It just thinks it is absorbing their warmth, because that is how it understands it. Thank you for the idea. That is how it works now. It takes five seconds to freeze an organic with absolutely no hate or anger, and it takes longer the more of those two the organic has.

Plus, Ice Storm might as well be a villian. Although not exactly one that knows what they are doing in any way whatsoever. Also, I guess I am answering five right now as well, so, although it probably wouldn't happen, no armor is going to stop Icening. It dosen't work by temparture manipulation, it works by material conversion. And it converts anything, not just living things. It only keeps spreading with organic things, but with non organic things it still spreads enough that if it strikes the ground (when it strikes the ground, which is what happens with many of the bolts), it will leave a half-sphere of clear ice about a foot and a half in diameter. Same thing with where she steps on the ground. In fact, Ice Storm's touch has the exact same effect as the Icening (Which, if I didn't explain it already, is lightning that is really cold instead of really hot, and does what I've already described.).

2-3: Here comes the story. This will make up most of the length of this post.

About twenty years after Equestria was founded, an unknown unicorn saw a windigo fly past his town and decided to follow. Before he saw it, he had been working on a spell that would allow one to fuse two or more creatures or plants together to form a new organism with properties of all the things fused. Similiar to genetic splicing, but magic, and with an instant result. And with much higher success rates. Now, this unicorn wasn't what one would call sane, exactly. It wasn't genetic, though. Anyway, as he saw the windigo, he had the idea to attempt to fuse it to itself. As he followed it, it took him farther and farther away from Equestria. It is unknown what occured during his time outside of Equestria, but what is known is that he must have succeeded, as far to the east, on the other side of Equis, reports of similiar occurences as the events before Equestria, came in, but these times there was always a unicorn present, and always the same one.

What I can tell you, however, is that he had children. These children were of many different mothers. Almost none of them knew about him being their father, and not even the mothers knew of the windigo portion of him. However, some of these children found each other and breeded more hybrids. The portion that is windigo is recessive, so not every generation of the hybrids showed their hybridness, and it was never a visible trait. Over time, the windigo part got diluted to the point where even as an active part, it might not ever show itself.

Those incidents back when the windigo part was at full strength, however, were inevitably covered up as either a magical experiment gone wrong or as a weather accident. These were ordered by the Sisters, not wanting the public to panic. However, as it got diluted, those who used to cover such things up began to be assigned to other tasks, and the knowledge that these incidents ever occured, at all, was lost to all but the Sisters. None of the hybrids ever discovered by the Sisters had retained any semblance of sapience. Consumed by their hunger for hatred (I'm sorry, it was too good an opportunity to pass up.), they were reduced to nothing more than hate powered snow machines. And so, every hybrid discovered by the Sisters was treated as if they were an existential danger to the whole of Equestria.

That was true until the day that Icy Creation woke up to find herself staring into the face of an ice sculpture.

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Icy Creation was born to two unicorns, Snowfall and Lactose Shaker. Snowfall was her mother, working with the weather pegasi to help begin the winter seasons whenever there wasn't enough snow made. Which was essentially every winter. She was the more boring of Icy's two parents. Shaker, however, was not boring. He worked in what he called a "milkshake workshop," where ponies could come in and request whatever flavor combination they wanted, and he would make them a milkshake of that combination (He didn't give refunds to unsatisfied customers due to them being liable in the event of making an awful combination. They asked for it, after all.). He would often let Icy come in and help him where she could, and even learn how to make the milkshakes. Her favorite was a combination of chocalate, pepppermint, and marshmellow. She got so good at making that specific kind, that she ended up taking over any orders for that combination (Though by the end of the day the supplies needed for that combination were supsiciously much lower than what they should have been. And there were often far more milkshake cups in the trash can than there had been customers in the day.).

As she got into school and started learning about what things were, she started to develop her obsession with innovation that still drives many of the things she does today. Every time she saw something new, she would ask the teacher how it worked. Or ask her parents. Or she would ask random strangers. And if no one answered her, she would take it (Not always with permission) home and study it. Taking it apart and then trying to put it back together again right. And then when she as first able to do a levitation spell, studying turned into modifying. For example, the teachers desk suddenly self-generated the ability to roll across the floor when needed (Or when uneeded, but everyone has to start somewhere, right?). As she got into second grade, she still didn't have her mark yet. But one day, a pegasus fell from the sky.

Everyone in the class heard the scream and ran outside, seeing the mailpony falling, one wing seemingly broken. From the height he was falling from, the sound would be splat instead of a simple crunch of bone.

Up to that point, Icy had only ever frozen water slowly, using contact with her horn. But as everyone else backed away, she decided to try something new. As her horn glowed, the nearby water fountain's tubing cracked as it froze, water spurting out. The water was levitated into a form of a slide, leading into a pool (Cube of water at this point). As the pegasus got closer to the ground, the water started freezing. He started sliding along the slide just slower than it was freezing. As he went flying over the pool, she quickly finished the walls and floor of the pool, letting go with her magic, dizzy. The pegasus climbed out, safe, thanked her, and flew off to finish what he was doing. As he flew off, her mark appeared. The alchemical symbol for mercury, mercury, and the mind, over top of a snowflake. Representing her innovative thinking and her proficiency with ice magic.

As she got older and closer to graduating from school, she got the feeling that something awful was going to happen. A few days before she was supposed to graduate, she began feeling much, much colder than she usually did (Temparture wise). A day later, she began craving warmer foods and drinks. Another day closer, she found herself wanting something, but she didn't know what. The next day she was purposefully getting dangerously close to fires, active stoves, any significant source of heat.

Then she passed out, from her perspective.

When she woke up, she was standing in front of a very realistic ice sculpture of a pony. All the strange feelings and cravings were gone. She just smiled at the "sculpture," not knowing what it used to be, only thinking it looked vaguely familiar. She started walking over to the milkshake workshop, noticing that it was around the time her dad would be there. As she walked, she noticed a strange lack of anypony, and an abundance of sculptures. Alongside circles of ice replacing spots on the ground. At this point she was getting confused, and a bit worried. When she got to the workshop, nobody was there. At this point she was starting to realize something was very wrong. She noticed one of the sculptures was looking at their back legs, and she recognized the face, a tear goiing down her face.

It was her teacher.

She immediately started running back home, trying to ignore all the faces she recognised as she passed them, trying to focus only on her parents. She reached her house, opening the door. She wished she hadn't. On the sofa was a sculpture, a milkshake made out of ice in his hand, staring up the stairs in fear. Coming out of her parents room was another sculpture, staring in front of her as if she had just been stabbed in the heart, emotionally speaking. Icy backed up, looking around the town, wishing that what she knew had to have happened hadn't.

She had iced the town.

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A patrolling guard had flown over the town and seen the sculptures, noticing how lifelike they were. He reported what he saw up the chain, and no one knew what to do. Celestia heard, and erased the memories (Because I have no doubt in my mind that she knows how.), before going herself. She didn't want to risk a cover up failing due to inexperience with cover ups in the recent centuries. What she saw when she arrived was exactly what she remembered, who she saw alive, was not. She had never seen a hybrid have remorse, which signified to her that either this wasn't a hybrid, or that this hybrid was simply different. Realising that she had stumbled upon the opportunity to, for the first time, help a hybrid become able to integrate with society, instead of murdering it, she took the opportunity. This mare, crying in the center of the town, horrified by the fact that she had just murdered every single pony she had ever known, would soon become sort of a project of Celestia's.

The first thing they established was that Icy was to, in no way, ever tell anybody what happened there. She was given an area deep inside the Everfree to live in, far away from any other ponies. Every few weeks, Celestia would come and give her a goal, or teach her a few more things, or ask something about what it felt like when Ice was about to emerge, or to keep her content with what she had until Celestia was ready to let her leave. Eventually, about three quarters of a year later, Celestia came one final time to tell her that she was allowed to leave, and gave her some bits.

She wound up in an obscure city near the forest, making money as an item repairer, while also inventing alongside that. She began work on the wings that are now a part of her just a week after she got there. She was working on it for an entire year and a half, before something happened. She was messing around, having pretty much given up. The spell she was in the process of binding would have never worked had it not been for the peculiar circumstances of the day.

For, you see, that day, a certain cyan pegasus broke the sound barrier. (You can decide which time it was.)

Now, the theory is that a rainboom contains traces of the pegasus' magic. Um. That's it, thats the theory, run with it, have fun with it, just don't ask me to explain it or I'll be here all day writing up a page long explanation for a theory about a fictional stunt in a fictional universe preformed by a fictional creature.

Anyway, the pegasus magic integrated with the spell, and caused it to actually work.

And that is where I am stopping because I am starting to get lazy with the writing, and I'm pretty sure I've answered all your questions.

Oh, and also,

1 hour ago, Widdershins said:

then forgetting that roleplaying requires more talking and social interaction than fighting.

I actually dislike combat when roleplaying with most people, because they simply don't put enough detail into the character's actions. I much prefer the social side of an RP, even though that completely contradicts my personality in real life (I am more shy than Fluttershy, almost.). That's probably why I've always had a tendancy to make my characters OP but make them absolutely refuse to kill, so that I can just kind of skip the combat when people let me and go straight back to talking. Of course, that isn't how I designed Icy (I hope), but that was what my characters were like in the past.

Edited February 20, 2020 by Blue Midnight

Widdershins · February 20, 2020

@Blue Midnight

So, ah, you want fully unresistable, unlimited power... to the point where she has the death of hundreds of innocents on her hooves from a young, impressionable age... and you still want her to be functioning member of society despite the capacity to lose full control of herself, be a hazard to life as a whole... and not be a drooling basket case? Because I think most beings have their minds collapse from far less than seeing their parents die by their will.

Backstory a little too unnecessarily dark. You can ask Blitz Boom, I kinda have a thing against that, lol

You mentioned not knowing how to have her backstory without giving her Lethal? Simple. We've seen in the show that infants have the capacity to shoot magic wildly, Twilight herself forced her own parents to turn into cacti... which I imagine is a painful process, then having to live with the fact your child can do that to you. We had here, in your example a young filly past the culturally accepted age of wild, dangerous magic shooting off ice beams that, while not fatal still hurt a ton and took a long time to heal from. The town was rightfully wary, but not hateful and she found it hard to live in her parents town with the rightful doubt from the rest of the town that she might hit them at any time and moved away from her still-living parents eventually.

Not every backstory has to involve parent death and being a social pariah.

Her having a second, murderous form doesn't seem to impact or change anything. As I can hardly tell the two apart, since you initially didn't label them with different names. I wouldn't tell you what to do, but she doesn't have to be a Windigo. She could just be an ice-based unicorn and all that still work.

Cover-ups don't happen in Equestria. Sure, we DO have a canonical secret shadow government agency of Super Spy Ponies, but.... yeah, towns get wrecked all the time in Equestria and no one gives it a second thought. When the parasprites left Ponyville they destroyed the next town over. Pretty sure I've seen the Main Six pull the rug out from the only economy source in a town and ponies went on living and just found new places to live. One can't underestimate the importance of widescale drama happening in Equestria.

Like, one of the ruling queens of this government went mad, they formed a holiday in rememberence and she's right back in power now days like her takeover totally didn't cause countless deaths back then.

But I digress. It just seems a lot just happened to your character to make them a Ticking Timebomb. Way she is, I dunno if she can go into town and have a nice chat without narration of how she's having a mental breakdown about what to do when she inevitably murders this next town.

Which is doubly ironic, because that's basically what I'm roleplaying right now!!

Oh, and if the Sonic Rainboom had special effects on ponies, it would happen a lot more then since RD has done that several more times by now and no ponies have shown up saying her race at the Flyer's Competition completely rewrote their lives.

Oh, and P.S. I'm not actually a deciding factor here. Blitz Boom makes the decisions around here. I just like to talk!

Ionic Sunset · February 20, 2020

21 minutes ago, Widdershins said:

@Blue Midnight

So, ah, you want fully unresistable, unlimited power... to the point where she has the death of hundreds of innocents on her hooves from a young, impressionable age... and you still want her to be functioning member of society despite the capacity to lose full control of herself, be a hazard to life as a whole... and not be a drooling basket case? Because I think most beings have their minds collapse from far less than seeing their parents die by their will.

Backstory a little too unnecessarily dark. You can ask Blitz Boom, I kinda have a thing against that, lol

You mentioned not knowing how to have her backstory without giving her Lethal? Simple. We've seen in the show that infants have the capacity to shoot magic wildly, Twilight herself forced her own parents to turn into cacti... which I imagine is a painful process, then having to live with the fact your child can do that to you. We had here, in your example a young filly past the culturally accepted age of wild, dangerous magic shooting off ice beams that, while not fatal still hurt a ton and took a long time to heal from. The town was rightfully wary, but not hateful and she found it hard to live in her parents town with the rightful doubt from the rest of the town that she might hit them at any time and moved away from her still-living parents eventually.

Not every backstory has to involve parent death and being a social pariah.

Her having a second, murderous form doesn't seem to impact or change anything. As I can hardly tell the two apart, since you initially didn't label them with different names. I wouldn't tell you what to do, but she doesn't have to be a Windigo. She could just be an ice-based unicorn and all that still work.

Cover-ups don't happen in Equestria. Sure, we DO have a canonical secret shadow government agency of Super Spy Ponies, but.... yeah, towns get wrecked all the time in Equestria and no one gives it a second thought. When the parasprites left Ponyville they destroyed the next town over. Pretty sure I've seen the Main Six pull the rug out from the only economy source in a town and ponies went on living and just found new places to live. One can't underestimate the importance of widescale drama happening in Equestria.

Like, one of the ruling queens of this government went mad, they formed a holiday in rememberence and she's right back in power now days like her takeover totally didn't cause countless deaths back then.

But I digress. It just seems a lot just happened to your character to make them a Ticking Timebomb. Way she is, I dunno if she can go into town and have a nice chat without narration of how she's having a mental breakdown about what to do when she inevitably murders this next town.

Which is doubly ironic, because that's basically what I'm roleplaying right now!!

Oh, and if the Sonic Rainboom had special effects on ponies, it would happen a lot more then since RD has done that several more times by now and no ponies have shown up saying her race at the Flyer's Competition completely rewrote their lives.

Oh, and P.S. I'm not actually a deciding factor here. Blitz Boom makes the decisions around here. I just like to talk!

My theory actually goes off the idea that the magic in the very first rainboom embedded itself within the elment bearers, and due to magic wanting to be in a whole state, and it having not been an intentional transfer, brought them together. This based on the fact that that level of conincidence just dosen't happen. And it dosen't really do anything when magic isn't being used in any kind of special circumstance (Like gaining a mark). As for the wings, the rainboom didn't make it work entirely on it's own, it just added the pegasus magic that the wings needed to work. That is the only reason it did anything with the wings.

Also, cover ups are never stated to happen. Are they ever stated to specifically not happen? And as far as I can tell typically said devestation leaves very few fatalities.

The windigo part was basically because... Well... I didn't really think that a normal unicorn would have something like Ice Storm. (Although I'm not sure why I gave him a name when he dosen't really have a personality other than thinking about consuming the nearby warmth.)

She didn't see her parents die. In fact, she dosen't remember any of what she did during that portion of time. That is one of the few things keeping her sane, the loss of memory. Also, it isn't hundreds, it was a very small town. Maybe twenty houses, a school, some stores, the milkshake workshop, and a post office.

Yes, she loses control. Does she have warning days in advance which allow her to prepare for it by going to an uninhabited area? Yes. Does this mean that the first time was the only time she has ever killed anything sapient? Yes.

Remember, she was close to graduating school when this happened. She wasn't quite as young and impressionable as you seem to think. Edit: Though still impressionable. Plus, different people handle trauma differently. For example, my dad is dead. He died when I was... I don't know, somewhere between six and eight. Or four and eight. Anyway, even in memories he should be in, my mind has completely erased him from them. Changed them in some cases. I imagine that this way of dealing with trauma is in play as well.

Didn't Luna get banished pretty much as soon as she got possesed? I didn't think that she had any time to actually do any taking over, and especially not if her sister didn't let her.

Edited February 20, 2020 by Blue Midnight

Blitz Boom · February 20, 2020

@Blue Midnight

Huh, I must have misread something somewhere. I did honestly wonder why there were two pictures, and figured she were just called Icy Ice.

Looking over the story things makes a good deal more sense now, and I can't really judge on you having a murderer, as I have some too. So you know, can't be a hypocrite here.

But yeah, with all of this in mind, I have no issue giving you a pass, though I am going to insist that if you do plan on murdering, you keep it to non-important NPC's. I really don't want to tell any RP'er that they can't play anymore, since their char have been made into a glorified popsickle.

If you do have the craving, I can offer you a char. She can't truly die, even if her body gets destroyed, so there's a loophole. Oh, I also got a ghost. Good luck freezing her.

APPROVED!

So then, how would you like to start the RP? You have a solid grasp on things, but before I can potentially offer you some to play off from, I need to know what sort of angle you'd like to begin with.

Ah yes, and before I forget, you can have the narrator over this if you'd like, just as Widder's does. Just please keep the implied swearing down a little please. I don't want the moderators to shut us down.

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Just saw that you and @Widdershins kept on, so I will add a bit more.

1. Coverups do happen, actually. At least in this RP. We have some players who have wanted to be part of more covert operations, and we do have spies, so... Some coverups are likely there, but just not any mass scale ones. A town getting iced over would likely be more of a situation where it would remain open for all sorts of magical testers and outside scientists to try and find a way to revert the process, and keeping the town constantly cooled down with magic to ensure nopony melts, but it wouldn't be publicly acknowledged what actually happened. Just a mysterious incident.

As for Luna killing anyone, she uhm.. Sorta did in this RP too. One of my chars called Zhu, had his family rest beneath the shadow of the castle when the sisters fought, and the falling debris from some of their attacks crushed his family. Accident that no one would know of though, including Luna. Beyond that, both here and in cannon, I don't think she killed anyone. Banishment seemed to be pretty quick after transformation.

Widders brings up some good worries here by the way, and it will be taken into consideration here, but I think the char as it stands can work, with the setup and additional information we have been given. If not, folks can always bring up concerns here in the OOC, or via PM's.

Edited February 20, 2020 by Blitz Boom

Ionic Sunset · February 20, 2020

@Blitz Boom

Yay, and don't worry. I wasn't planning on Ice Storm ever killing anybody that was important. If I wouldn't do it in a story I write on my own, I wouldn't do it in an RP.

Als-

[=~ Yay! I finally have something to **- I mean... er... I'll try to. Perhaps I can replace it with more sarcasm... Er... Perhaps not, I'm already sarcastic enough... Eh, like I said, I'll try. Especially if it means interacting with the RealityVerse more. Well, until you need me Midnight, I'll be over in the FactoryVerse watching ponies get turned into rainbows. Always fun. I mean, not for them obviously, but it's fun to watch them begin to realise th... I'm probably not making a good first impression, am I. Oh well, too bad. I really don't care. Honestly. See you next time I see you. ~=]

Well than. Anyways... I can't really blame him, but that reasoning just seems a tad... Nevermind... Yeah, well, anyways, onto my plans. They are very simple.

Icy is walking down the road to Ponyville, bored, and also a bit dissappointed. Being almost completely broke at this point, because of reasons that are part of the parts of the backstory I didn't tell. Of course, she does have many things with her, but, um, I forgot to mention a certain spell that she has. It is essentially a spell that gives her an infinite storage space, and access to it as long as she has magic (Not because I'm lazy, but for reasons of I don't want her to have to limit her inventions to what she can carry or what she has space for wherever she ends up living.). Yeah, but anyway, nearly everything she has in the spell is an invention of hers of somekind (Including a flying, auto-brushing toothbrush. Sorry, that was irrelevant.). All she is really looking for as she enters town is a cloud that isn't scheduled to be cleared for a bit, though she isn't entirely focused on that. Oh, and she has a chocalate-peppermint-marshmellow milkshake levitating with her.

Is that enough?

Edit: Note, I tend not to plan things, so that is pretty much as far as I've planned.

Edited February 20, 2020 by Blue Midnight

Blitz Boom · February 20, 2020

@Blue Midnight

Broke? Inventive? Quite an unusual being whose existence would be a tightly guarded secret to make sure someone shady didn't find a way to take advantage of her? My my my, I think I see a golden opportunity here... You see, I do have a pony with quite a lot of means, currently wandering through Ponyville. One who is more than willing to invest in promising individuals. Especially some who are special.

I'd like you to meet Scarcity. A wealthy antique store owner from Canterlot. Or well, that's her public front. Mostly she functions as a highly efficient fixer for the black market. She takes care of issues such as troubling evidence, individuals, setting up untraceable auctions, bribes the right folks to ensure her clients gets through legal trouble, etc. If there is a problem, it is likely that she can fix it for the right price.

As she enjoys having a lot of information on things - especially that which are not supposed to be known - she could have some information on Ice, but had no idea where she were, making this a most fortunate turn of events. Or she could find out later, which is fine too. Either way, she'd be quite interested in getting your char into her fold of associates, due to her special abilities having useful properties, if applied correctly.

Be advised, she isn't malevolent, nor unfair. She would never use Ice to openly try and kill a village, though certain... Problematic individuals for her business, as well as Equestria, is fair game. Though otherwise, the way you described it, she can also be useful for big time devastation of an entire area for example, long as one prepares properly, no?

As said, she's fair to those who works for her, long as they remain loyal. She'd pay for the work, ensure proper financing of her inventions (with a stipulation that she gets included in the patent of course) and to sweeten the deal, might offer to send some help towards those investigating her original town, to see if they can find a way to revert the process that froze the entire towns population. Even if it wouldn't lead to anything, she could - and would - send somepony to help out that she thinks might be able to do something. She's an honest mare. You are fair to her, then so will she be to you. Trust me, you do not wish to know what happens to those who tries to betray her. And you can be assured, she have contacts in many places. She will hear of it.

This is just a suggestion that would work of the issue of Ice being broke, and likely looking for financial support. I can offer others too. In fact, giving another one below this.

This here's Benny, the dragon I talked about. He's about a half head taller than a regular pony, about about twice as long, tail tip to snout. He works at the forge in the Canterlot Armory, and are generally the most nonthreatening dragon you could meet. He's very jovial, friendly, does what he can to integrate into pony culture, and can usually be found in towns wandering from stall to stall, buying local foods to try. Stuff like caramelized apples and the likes.

He'd be going to Ponyville soon anyway to spend some sick days with his marefriend (Yes, he's dating a pony) and could well run into Ice there, where he'd then try to strike up a conversation, and things could go from there. Might be she'd find him interesting, though since he's also a fire dragon, it might also be an issue, seeing what you've put up about her and heat. I am a bit tired right now as I write this, so I can't remember all of it to be honest. Wouldn't be able to help with finances, but if that is the top priority, I do have a few more ponies that are of good wealth I can make use of, but it'd require more honest to semi-honest/dangerous work to score there, with one being the owner of a building company, and the other an adventurer. Honestly just throwing suggestions out there now.

@Widdershins might also have someone you can interact with. He's is introducing a new set now, and could perhaps use you to communicate with one of those he haven't gotten in yet? One part of that troupe runs with Scarcity currently, so it could be a fine angle for them to meet too if it were. Again, just throwing ideas out there.

Ionic Sunset · February 20, 2020

3 minutes ago, Blitz Boom said:

@Blue Midnight

Broke? Inventive? Quite an unusual being whose existence would be a tightly guarded secret to make sure someone shady didn't find a way to take advantage of her? My my my, I think I see a golden opportunity here... You see, I do have a pony with quite a lot of means, currently wandering through Ponyville. One who is more than willing to invest in promising individuals. Especially some who are special.

I'd like you to meet Scarcity. A wealthy antique store owner from Canterlot. Or well, that's her public front. Mostly she functions as a highly efficient fixer for the black market. She takes care of issues such as troubling evidence, individuals, setting up untraceable auctions, bribes the right folks to ensure her clients gets through legal trouble, etc. If there is a problem, it is likely that she can fix it for the right price.

As she enjoys having a lot of information on things - especially that which are not supposed to be known - she could have some information on Ice, but had no idea where she were, making this a most fortunate turn of events. Or she could find out later, which is fine too. Either way, she'd be quite interested in getting your char into her fold of associates, due to her special abilities having useful properties, if applied correctly.

Be advised, she isn't malevolent, nor unfair. She would never use Ice to openly try and kill a village, though certain... Problematic individuals for her business, as well as Equestria, is fair game. Though otherwise, the way you described it, she can also be useful for big time devastation of an entire area for example, long as one prepares properly, no?

As said, she's fair to those who works for her, long as they remain loyal. She'd pay for the work, ensure proper financing of her inventions (with a stipulation that she gets included in the patent of course) and to sweeten the deal, might offer to send some help towards those investigating her original town, to see if they can find a way to revert the process that froze the entire towns population. Even if it wouldn't lead to anything, she could - and would - send somepony to help out that she thinks might be able to do something. She's an honest mare. You are fair to her, then so will she be to you. Trust me, you do not wish to know what happens to those who tries to betray her. And you can be assured, she have contacts in many places. She will hear of it.

This is just a suggestion that would work of the issue of Ice being broke, and likely looking for financial support. I can offer others too. In fact, giving another one below this.

This here's Benny, the dragon I talked about. He's about a half head taller than a regular pony, about about twice as long, tail tip to snout. He works at the forge in the Canterlot Armory, and are generally the most nonthreatening dragon you could meet. He's very jovial, friendly, does what he can to integrate into pony culture, and can usually be found in towns wandering from stall to stall, buying local foods to try. Stuff like caramelized apples and the likes.

He'd be going to Ponyville soon anyway to spend some sick days with his marefriend (Yes, he's dating a pony) and could well run into Ice there, where he'd then try to strike up a conversation, and things could go from there. Might be she'd find him interesting, though since he's also a fire dragon, it might also be an issue, seeing what you've put up about her and heat. I am a bit tired right now as I write this, so I can't remember all of it to be honest. Wouldn't be able to help with finances, but if that is the top priority, I do have a few more ponies that are of good wealth I can make use of, but it'd require more honest to semi-honest/dangerous work to score there, with one being the owner of a building company, and the other an adventurer. Honestly just throwing suggestions out there now.

@Widdershins might also have someone you can interact with. He's is introducing a new set now, and could perhaps use you to communicate with one of those he haven't gotten in yet? One part of that troupe runs with Scarcity currently, so it could be a fine angle for them to meet too if it were. Again, just throwing ideas out there.

For Scarcity, I could see her getting into that. And then once she hears of the idea of patenting her inventions, she would get worried (She hates the idea of selling her inventions for profits. The reason she has so many with her in the spell is because she makes them and then keeps them until she finds someone who needs them, or who could put them to better use. Inventing has never really been something she wanted to make money on, she just wanted to do it.

And then she hears that they want Ice Storm, and she would run for the Everfree. She is, well, she has nightmares of Ice Storm. Every time it gets colder than usual, she gets paranoid that Ice Storm is coming. She would rather never invent again than let Ice Storm do what it wants to do. Also, I'm not entirely sure whether Scarcity could actually control Ice Storm enough to have it kill individuals who aren't isolated by a few miles. As for the devestation, Ice Storm dosen't destroy things. At all. She turns them into ice. Windigo ice, at that, so it dosen't really melt from normal heat (It can still melt from the kind of heat that fire magic can bring, but it won't melt below the maximum safe temperature for a pony. Otherwise, I doubt that some special fire would have been needed to stop the windigos when Equestria was founded.). So no, if you mean destruction, Ice Storm won't be able to do that. If you mean making spots where the ground has turned into ice, then yes.

Plus, Icy dosen't really care that much about being broke. Remember, she spent a year and a half in the Everfree, alone. That, alongside the fact that her wings let her fly and cloudwalk, means that she knows how to live without money. As for inventing, she can just ask for any scrap that a pony (Or other species) might have in exchange for her services (Fixing things).

As for Benny, the heat is fine. It's only when she tries to cast fire magic herself that she has problems. Although she might try and avoid him due to him being a fire dragon, as while she can handle heat, she really dosen't like it.

Blitz Boom · February 20, 2020

@Blue Midnight

I thought Ice were the good one. My bad.

Scarcity is a high functional opportunist, who sees how to take advantage of anything that others might perceive as bad. She wouldn't as much want to force Ice out in the open, as much as make logical arguments for *If it happens anyway, why not ensure that she does something useful for you for a change?". She is a very patient mare, and wouldn't mind taking a step back if she sees it does not fall in good grace to suggest this. It doesn't have to at first. It just have to be put out there, as a festering little thought, growing as time goes by, and then eventually, it might result in Icy (the good one then I think) thinking that yes, there are risks involved, but she might consider taking that risk if she could be convinced it were safe, wouldn't hurt anyone innocent (or at all) and that the gains she'd get (for example the mentioned extra specialized help on researching a reversion of the freezing process on her still frozen friends and family) were tantalizing enough.

It might never come to that, but even then, the inventions she could make might be worth a lot, and Scarcity could talk a good case for why it would be wise of her to write patnets. If not to earn incredible amounts of riches, then to protect her integrity, and not have others openly steal her work, and for example make less safe versions that might end up hurting others. Something which might also not pay off, but every investment is risky. Sometimes you gain a profit, other times you lose a bunch of bits and time. At worst, it would be a teachable moment.

And yes, I did mean more along the lines of freezing areas solid. The ice are more sturdy than expected, but that could also make it valuable in its own right. Potentially something worth selling for tourist attractions such as skating rings, or nature preservation for animals needing a colder climate, which she would most certainly be interested in. I do have her as one who finances quite the amount of animal sanctuaries through varied money laundering schemes, as she doesn't want to see extinct species. A soft spot of hers if you will.

As for how to control Ice, it would require a lot of setup, but I could see there being ways to protect oneself via keeping a high distance from her, making sure there were adequate heat sources for both consumption and distraction within the large area, strong protective wards outside of the area, making sure all participants had strong fire magic wards to both work as distractions before the teleport away and as blockage for the ice blast thing you mentioned, etc. Potentially run an even safer route and make use of non-organic life, such as golems, though I think the most obvious one is just to as you say, keep a very long distance, and then if some monster is needed to get handled, transport them into the unsafe zone via teleports.

Why, she might even be able to offer a safe area for Icy to go to when she feels the situation is happening. A desolate place, with a two way teleportation beacon requiring some sort code, along with a timer for example to ensure that Ice could not go back through, might be something she'd like to keep herself more from harming others. This option would likely entail Icy being very clear that there would be no victims, or the deal were off, but a high risk thing like this too, Scarcity could be willing to accept that. There is a certain point where something is more trouble than it is worth, and the inventor part could still be a profitable and expansive field that's more worth it.

Regarding being able to live broke, it'd good that she can manage, but it wouldn't be hard to make a convincing argument for why she could be able to do so much more, were she not limited by dealing with table scraps and garbage. What ideas could not be realized after all, if only she had access to proper materials?

Again, all just suggestions. I just like to throw it out there and see if it interest folks.

And regarding Benny, he's a fire affiliated dragon, which means that his natural fire breath is a little stronger, he's basically immune to heat or fire of any kind, and he has a tendency to lay out on a big warm rock on a sunny day and just soak in the rays like a lizard. He isn't one of the dragons with access to actual magic. I have other dragons for that.

Ionic Sunset · February 21, 2020

2 minutes ago, Blitz Boom said:

@Blue Midnight

I thought Ice were the good one. My bad.

Scarcity is a high functional opportunist, who sees how to take advantage of anything that others might perceive as bad. She wouldn't as much want to force Ice out in the open, as much as make logical arguments for *If it happens anyway, why not ensure that she does something useful for you for a change?". She is a very patient mare, and wouldn't mind taking a step back if she sees it does not fall in good grace to suggest this. It doesn't have to at first. It just have to be put out there, as a festering little thought, growing as time goes by, and then eventually, it might result in Icy (the good one then I think) thinking that yes, there are risks involved, but she might consider taking that risk if she could be convinced it were safe, wouldn't hurt anyone innocent (or at all) and that the gains she'd get (for example the mentioned extra specialized help on researching a reversion of the freezing process on her still frozen friends and family) were tantalizing enough.

It might never come to that, but even then, the inventions she could make might be worth a lot, and Scarcity could talk a good case for why it would be wise of her to write patnets. If not to earn incredible amounts of riches, then to protect her integrity, and not have others openly steal her work, and for example make less safe versions that might end up hurting others. Something which might also not pay off, but every investment is risky. Sometimes you gain a profit, other times you lose a bunch of bits and time. At worst, it would be a teachable moment.

And yes, I did mean more along the lines of freezing areas solid. The ice are more sturdy than expected, but that could also make it valuable in its own right. Potentially something worth selling for tourist attractions such as skating rings, or nature preservation for animals needing a colder climate, which she would most certainly be interested in. I do have her as one who finances quite the amount of animal sanctuaries through varied money laundering schemes, as she doesn't want to see extinct species. A soft spot of hers if you will.

As for how to control Ice, it would require a lot of setup, but I could see there being ways to protect oneself via keeping a high distance from her, making sure there were adequate heat sources for both consumption and distraction within the large area, strong protective wards outside of the area, making sure all participants had strong fire magic wards to both work as distractions before the teleport away and as blockage for the ice blast thing you mentioned, etc. Potentially run an even safer route and make use of non-organic life, such as golems, though I think the most obvious one is just to as you say, keep a very long distance, and then if some monster is needed to get handled, transport them into the unsafe zone via teleports.

Why, she might even be able to offer a safe area for Icy to go to when she feels the situation is happening. A desolate place, with a two way teleportation beacon requiring some sort code, along with a timer for example to ensure that Ice could not go back through, might be something she'd like to keep herself more from harming others. This option would likely entail Icy being very clear that there would be no victims, or the deal were off, but a high risk thing like this too, Scarcity could be willing to accept that. There is a certain point where something is more trouble than it is worth, and the inventor part could still be a profitable and expansive field that's more worth it.

Regarding being able to live broke, it'd good that she can manage, but it wouldn't be hard to make a convincing argument for why she could be able to do so much more, were she not limited by dealing with table scraps and garbage. What ideas could not be realized after all, if only she had access to proper materials?

Again, all just suggestions. I just like to throw it out there and see if it interest folks.

And regarding Benny, he's a fire affiliated dragon, which means that his natural fire breath is a little stronger, he's basically immune to heat or fire of any kind, and he has a tendency to lay out on a big warm rock on a sunny day and just soak in the rays like a lizard. He isn't one of the dragons with access to actual magic. I have other dragons for that.

Okay, well, none of this changes what I said.

Icy, well, the fear of hurting people isn't exactly the only thing that she is worried about when it comes to Ice Storm. Celestia told her about what the hybrids before her were like. She knows that, until her, no hybrid had ever came out of an Ice Storm. Now, consider this. She knows that history says Ice Storm is supposed to be permanant. She knows that she has no memory of her times during Ice Storms. She is worried, that one of these times, it won't end. And for good reason.

That seed? That seed would grow in reverse. And as for the benefits, she already wrote off everyone as dead. She has absolutely no hope in her that they can be restored to their former states, save for, maybe, a localized time reversal spell. And as far as I know, time is one of those things that magic tends not to mess with, or at least tends not to mess with succesfully. Both times that I know of where time travel has been shown in the show, it didn't end up working. Though the second time was due to a fault in the user not a property of time. Although, then again, those were time travel, not a localised time reversal.

As for the patents, she really dosen't care if anyone claims that they invented it, as long as she knows who really made it. And her inventions would never be used for dangerous reasons unless they were stolen, because she chooses carefully who needs and deserves the invention. And typically, she keeps the bigger stuff, like the wings or the freeze cutter, to herself. Although then again, she keeps the wings to herself because they are attached to her and she can't make more. The freeze cutter on the other hand, is a good example. Essentially what it does is it cools something to the point where it is so brittle that its own weight is enough to make it shatter.

As for the ice being able to be put to good use, that is a good point. But then again, her normal ice does that too, just with a little more effort from her. And really, as far as I'm concerned, it isn't that much of a stretch to assume that a spell to create non-melting ice already exists otherwise, which would make it significantly less interesting.

As for having additional warmth sources to distract her, the more warmth she absorbs the longer Ice Storm lasts. So really, all that would be doing is extending it.

Fire dosen't really work against the icening. On one occasion, when she regained control, she was looking at a sculpture in the shape of a flame. It is matter conversion. It dosen't matter what state the matter is in. Though the water in the air turns into snow, not solid ice. As for golems, they could still be frozen, though it wouldn't be killing something.

As for the place to go, she already has one. The same place she stayed while Celestia was teaching her. It's deep in the Everfree, easy to find for her (Most of the things there have been turned to ice already with how many times Ice Storm came while she stayed there. And by most things, I don't just mean inanimate objects. There are plenty of manticore sculptures, cockatrice sculptures, timberwolf sculptures, theres even a few hydra sculptures. And, its far enough away that she can't walk back anywhere before Ice Storm loses control. As for her wings, she can turn them off. Ice Storm isn't smart enough to know how to turn them back on.

The scraps would only be for the lesser materials. She could still ask for bits most of the time, and since she isn't spending anything on living accomidations, or on food or drinks (Aside from milkshakes. Milkshakes are for Icy what muffins are for Derpy.), she could pretty much spend it all on whatever she wanted to get. Or save it for when she had enough to get what she wanted to get.

As for Benny, the reason I said she would likely avoid him is because I imagine dragons, specifically fire dragons, as having a much higher average body temperature. And she would feel that, and instinctively avoid it.

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