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[Denim&Venöm 18,701]

@Blitz Boom

 

Priestess could sense it. Ashes. Complex starches. Glucose. The wafting aromas of chemical reactions. Surrounded by the unmistakable scent of smoke.

 

"Oh somepony is doing some old school camping. Now I'm hungry!" 

 

It was right in the direction of where they were going anyways. 

[Melke 160]

@@Seamore Sandwich, 

 

Syo was hiding among the trees as she observed the group from afar. She had her key staff out just in case they were hostile and need a quick escape. Then she overheard an interesting topic.

 

 

 

The spider has Dimonds growing out of its skin, venom imbued with chaos based magic, and webbing with regenerative properties. In fact, a certain pink pony I know had an accident, she was hit in the jaw while she had her tongue out. Needless to say she lost a good portion of her tongue. Anyway, a unicorn tried to help her grow back her tongue using Diamond Spider Silk. It worked, but because she wasn't well versed in chaos based magics there were side effects, her coat grew uncontrollably and she now looks like a giant ball of cotton candy. She's since tried cutting it but it just grows right back

 

"My point is the Diamond spider is worth something too, if you can kill it. However, the webbing may be hard to sell because you would have to find a buyer with an interest in chaos magic."

 

 

"Do you really have to kill it?" Syo commented as she emerged from her hiding place and teleported to the ground, walking towards the group. She slid her goggles up to her forehead as she approached them, holding her key staff with her two paws in front of her in case of a sudden retaliation. "Are you willing to risk someone getting injured like that pink pony you mentioned?"

 

@, 

 

"I guess... if you don't mind, I can be a bit heavy." Melke said as he got closer and eventually was on your back. "Maybe, I can help you look for your ink afterward.

[Randimaxis 8,652]

"It's not good enough yet. I still have to make it show Pinkie's face and the wheels."

 

"Pinkie?  I guess that's another pony in town?  Well, I suppose anypony would LOVE to see themselves in fireworks, so I'll take it as read this one's special?  Okay, well... I guess that's something we could work on..."

 

Dax had never met Pinkie Pie; he'd never been to Ponyville before, due to his ties to the rather notorious Blackwater family.  He didn't know of anypony except his family, a few of the staff at the mines, and these two.  But he had heard a few things in passing, which he was thinking about right now...

 

"Oh, and the ones who says I can't blow up things anymore just say I can't do it in town, and they come around for fireworks now and again so I don't think they're mad. Not even at the confetti bomb, even though It took a while to clean up. But hey, my own fault for not testing it more.  Anyway, things to make less time and stuff. I think I got most things to make some fun stuff with, but I could use ideas, themes, and then see help finding more things if I don't have it. Just hope there's enough Timberwolf bark, but I Did get more after that pony came around yesterday so... Yeah,  should be enough. But I ramble ramble ramble! We should start and, and..."

 

It was good to hear nopony was actively upset with Blitz... in fact, as kind and 'zippy' as she was, he couldn't fathom how anypony could be upset with her.  Of course, he couldn't think any ill of her - or little Angel, for that matter.

 

Angel actually was rather adorable, and not at all like his bratty brother.  He was beginning to see that not all ponies were created equal - and that not all ponies were angry with him, either.  He was so happy to have found acceptance at last.

 

"Ideas! Anypony have any? And I swear, I won't tell anypony about this Angel. Not that I have many to tell it too after getting kicked from school, but still counts."

 

Dax's thoughts finally began to crystallize, and he had an idea after all...

 

"Hey, I got one... I heard once or twice about something called the 'elements of harmony', and it seemed like everypony knew what they were..."  Everypony but me, he thought.  "Maybe, since so many ponies know about 'em, you could make a display based on that?  Does that sound good to the two of you?"

 

He really hoped Blitz or Angel knew what he was talking about; he sure didn't.

Edited August 27, 2015 by Randimaxis

[cwhip9 1,078]

@@Seamore Sandwich, 

 

Syo was hiding among the trees as she observed the group from afar. She had her key staff out just in case they were hostile and need a quick escape. Then she overheard an interesting topic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Do you really have to kill it?" Syo commented as she emerged from her hiding place and teleported to the ground, walking towards the group. She slid her goggles up to her forehead as she approached them, holding her key staff with her two paws in front of her in case of a sudden retaliation. "Are you willing to risk someone getting injured like that pink pony you mentioned?"

 

@, 

 

"I guess... if you don't mind, I can be a bit heavy." Melke said as he got closer and eventually was on your back. "Maybe, I can help you look for your ink afterward.

Cresent just about jumped out of his coat when the cat appered. Having not seen one like this, at all for that matter but the cat did rasie an good point of warning of this spider. Cresent saw he could make double the bits he lost more on the crystals the spider had, but was it worth killing it? he had to sit and watch to get the full story

 

@ everyone

 

"Yes," Seamore said having forgotten that this is what he was talking about before he had begun to sing. "As I was telling these other ponies before you arrived, I have a permit to cut down one Everwood tree. These trees are highly valued and receiving one of these permits is incredibly rare. However, a giant Diamond Spider, about three or four times as tall as me, has moved into the section of forest they grow in," he said, his estimation being in an unsure tone as Seamore was never good at estimating. "The spider has Dimonds growing out of its skin, venom imbued with chaos based magic, and webbing with regenerative properties. In fact, a certain pink pony I know had an accident, she was hit in the jaw while she had her tongue out. Needless to say she lost a good portion of her tongue. Anyway, a unicorn tried to help her grow back her tongue using Diamond Spider Silk. It worked, but because she wasn't well versed in chaos based magics there were side effects, her coat grew uncontrollably and she now looks like a giant ball of cotton candy. She's since tried cutting it but it just grows right back." Seamore then realized he had gone off on a tangent as he usually does, so he concluded, "My point is the Diamond spider is worth something too, if you can kill it. However, the webbing may be hard to sell because you would have to find a buyer with an interest in chaos magic."

Cresent had seen some bits of chaos magic, he had an hunch an zebra neighbor or one of his griffon friends might know the cure, pluse it sounded pretty neat honestly to test his blade against something that wasn't an practice dummy for once.

 

@@Melke, 

 

rune smiled sheepishly. "yeah, i kinda got that." he said, with a slight chuckle. "you want a ride? you dont look like your up for a long walk, anyways."

 

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zenru arrived at the edge of the town. yes, as celestia said, the next tournaments being held here. he looked to his right, where a filly was trotting. "are you ready?" he asked gently.

 

the filly replied with wide eyes, "yeah! i cant wait to fight caliber again!"

 

zenru chuckled. "who knows, maybe you'll go up from fifth to fourth, this year."

 

the two walked into the town. Zenru, the strongest swordpony, and little Yrel the fifth strongest. the two family members wondered where to go.

 

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@@Blitz Boom, 

 

caliber heard his name, and he turned to lok at vivid. "oh, hey, there, you!" he said, forcing a smile. "wow, i havent seen you...in...um..."

 

"...i...dont know you, do it?"

Cresent just realized who was among the group on seeing this pony, he made an mentel note to see if he could learn something from this sword pony he's herd about how would he raise the question tho without sounding threating? he mulled it over as the conversation in the group continued

[Blitz Boom 4,620]

@,

 

"No, you don't. Perhaps that will change later, but you never know what time will bring after all."

 

The tip of her long horn glowed the deep purple as a sealed scroll with the tournaments logo on floated from under her cape and towards Cubus, avoiding the fire and placing itself next to him.

 

"A scroll to each of the five from the tournament. I don't know what it says, but I doubt it is something awe-inspiring as Cubus and the third did not react much upon it."

 

Reminding herself of her task once more she looked around at all the gathered ponies and the talking, magical cat before giving a small smirk and locking her eyes on Caliber again.

 

"In any case, you seem to have an adequate gathering for dealing with an animal here, so I might as well go on with my task and see if I can find the siblings. Perhaps I will check in later and see who was the victor of your fight."

 

Vivid took a step back and dissipated into purple smoke that vanished shortly thereafter, teleported in her own way towards Ponyville to see if he could find any trace that Zenru and the small one had come to town yet. If there wasn't, she could return to these and help them perhaps. It would be an interesting thing to watch, and the chance to tear a giant beast into shreds? Now, who could resist such a thing?

 

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@@Melke,

@@Denim&Venom,

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@cwhip9,

 

Last Stand returned to watching the off pony closely once her horn started to glow and the scroll floated towards Caliber. It wouldn't stop until she had vanished, but after that she just shrugged it off and made a mental note to raw a blade the next time this one was around. Dang weird one hadn't even given them a name.

 

Taking the sane things to speak off first she nodded towards Crescent to sort of acknowledge he was there. She'd share her name later, but for now, something Seamore had said made her want to say something first, and the talking cat.. Well, one oddity at a time.

 

"Y'know, you keep mentioning that permit of yours. Mind if we had a look at it?"

 

She wasn't anypony who was good with law, but somepony else here might be that could make some sense in it if it was a confusing piece of paper. Besides, she just wanted to see if he actually had it at this point. The weird one had made her paranoia flare a bit, so it was more or less just to calm things down in her head.

 

After that, she turned towards the talking cat with the staff in it's paws  - a sentence she had never thought she would actually have to think - and just addressed what the cat had said rather than the 30 other questions she had towards the unusual feline.

 

"He isn't making us go into combat though, he's asking. And frankly if I have to go down, then let it be in battle."

 

"An admirable sentence, but should life not be more precious than that?"

 

The voice came just before Briar slowly walked out from the trees near where Syo was standing currently.

 

He had been close enough to hear most of the words that Seamore had mentioned about the spider and the other things said by the group of attendees with him, as the wind had carried them well in his direction, but he hadn't been able to get up to them much faster than this. Not after he took his vines back to avoid accidentally hitting somepony. It would have made him slower to the *finish line* and he knew that Priestess had either ran along or were watching this whole scene unfold somewhere, but for now, he would try and keep his focus more on this rather than were his conversation partner had run off too exactly.

 

"My most profound apologies for interrupt your conversation, but I would agree with the voice near me. It could be dangerous, and though some might be willing to toss themselves into battle,- a choice that is their own to make of course - perhaps something that would result in no casualties would be a good approach if such a thing is possible?"

 

After that, he faced his closed *eyes* towards each being he could hear, or feel the wind flow around, then tried to make it so that he faced towards the general middle area of them and gave them a big, friendly (but toothy) smile.

 

"And before I forget my manner: Good evening to you all. Briar Trapjaw, at your service."

 

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@,

 

A low chuckle could be heard nearby the two ponies.

 

"And here I thought looking in town to find you would be pointless."

 

Suddenly, purple smoke started to gather a few meters in front of the two tournament ponies and soon a pony stood there to accompany the disembodied voice that was heard just before.

 

"It must be my lucky day. After all, you are not an easy pony to find Zenru."

 

She acknowledged there was the fifth there as well, but Zenru was her main concern, and the reason she kept a good distance for now. How strong he was she had no idea, but he was the top of the Equestrian swordsponies, and had been for a while now according to the tournament ponies she had spoken to. It made him an unknown quantity of sorts, and when around the filly... Well, protective manners could bring ponies to drastic and instinctive behaviour that could end with her with a blade pressed against her throat, and that wasn't something she was interested in.

[cwhip9 1,078]

@,

 

"No, you don't. Perhaps that will change later, but you never know what time will bring after all."

 

The tip of her long horn glowed the deep purple as a sealed scroll with the tournaments logo on floated from under her cape and towards Cubus, avoiding the fire and placing itself next to him.

 

"A scroll to each of the five from the tournament. I don't know what it says, but I doubt it is something awe-inspiring as Cubus and the third did not react much upon it."

 

Reminding herself of her task once more she looked around at all the gathered ponies and the talking, magical cat before giving a small smirk and locking her eyes on Caliber again.

 

"In any case, you seem to have an adequate gathering for dealing with an animal here, so I might as well go on with my task and see if I can find the siblings. Perhaps I will check in later and see who was the victor of your fight."

 

Vivid took a step back and dissipated into purple smoke that vanished shortly thereafter, teleported in her own way towards Ponyville to see if he could find any trace that Zenru and the small one had come to town yet. If there wasn't, she could return to these and help them perhaps. It would be an interesting thing to watch, and the chance to tear a giant beast into shreds? Now, who could resist such a thing?

 

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@@Melke,

@@Denim&Venom,

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@cwhip9,

 

Last Stand returned to watching the off pony closely once her horn started to glow and the scroll floated towards Caliber. It wouldn't stop until she had vanished, but after that she just shrugged it off and made a mental note to raw a blade the next time this one was around. Dang weird one hadn't even given them a name.

 

Taking the sane things to speak off first she nodded towards Crescent to sort of acknowledge he was there. She'd share her name later, but for now, something Seamore had said made her want to say something first, and the talking cat.. Well, one oddity at a time.

 

"Y'know, you keep mentioning that permit of yours. Mind if we had a look at it?"

 

She wasn't anypony who was good with law, but somepony else here might be that could make some sense in it if it was a confusing piece of paper. Besides, she just wanted to see if he actually had it at this point. The weird one had made her paranoia flare a bit, so it was more or less just to calm things down in her head.

 

After that, she turned towards the talking cat with the staff in it's paws  - a sentence she had never thought she would actually have to think - and just addressed what the cat had said rather than the 30 other questions she had towards the unusual feline.

 

"He isn't making us go into combat though, he's asking. And frankly if I have to go down, then let it be in battle."

 

"An admirable sentence, but should life not be more precious than that?"

 

The voice came just before Briar slowly walked out from the trees near where Syo was standing currently.

 

He had been close enough to hear most of the words that Seamore had mentioned about the spider and the other things said by the group of attendees with him, as the wind had carried them well in his direction, but he hadn't been able to get up to them much faster than this. Not after he took his vines back to avoid accidentally hitting somepony. It would have made him slower to the *finish line* and he knew that Priestess had either ran along or were watching this whole scene unfold somewhere, but for now, he would try and keep his focus more on this rather than were his conversation partner had run off too exactly.

 

"My most profound apologies for interrupt your conversation, but I would agree with the voice near me. It could be dangerous, and though some might be willing to toss themselves into battle,- a choice that is their own to make of course - perhaps something that would result in no casualties would be a good approach if such a thing is possible?"

 

After that, he faced his closed *eyes* towards each being he could hear, or feel the wind flow around, then tried to make it so that he faced towards the general middle area of them and gave them a big, friendly (but toothy) smile.

 

"And before I forget my manner: Good evening to you all. Briar Trapjaw, at your service."

 

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@,

 

A low chuckle could be heard nearby the two ponies.

 

"And here I thought looking in town to find you would be pointless."

 

Suddenly, purple smoke started to gather a few meters in front of the two tournament ponies and soon a pony stood there to accompany the disembodied voice that was heard just before.

 

"It must be my lucky day. After all, you are not an easy pony to find Zenru."

 

She acknowledged there was the fifth there as well, but Zenru was her main concern, and the reason she kept a good distance for now. How strong he was she had no idea, but he was the top of the Equestrian swordsponies, and had been for a while now according to the tournament ponies she had spoken to. It made him an unknown quantity of sorts, and when around the filly... Well, protective manners could bring ponies to drastic and instinctive behaviour that could end with her with a blade pressed against her throat, and that wasn't something she was interested in.

Cresent nodded back at the dark pony in a grin, listening to her blood beat she seemed more carfule then her face showed based of how slow her blood was moving in the body save her head which seemed to be more rapid. Then he noticed she had one eye open, multiple questions sprang up but he kicked them for a latter day.

Then this green pony showed up, the more cresent sat through this the more he realized this might be something bigger then an simple hunt, as the two ponys spoke he was slowly begging to connect the dots, he then focused his blood hearing on Seamore, what else was he saying, and was he hiding something more?

[Melke 160]

@@cwhip9,

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@Blitz Boom,  

 

 

 

"He isn't making us go into combat though, he's asking. And frankly if I have to go down, then let it be in battle."   "An admirable sentence, but should life not be more precious than that?"

 

 

"NYA?!"

 

The sudden appearance of another "pony" by her side scared Syo out of her wits that she literally jumped and landed on her bum on the ground, dropping her staff. She took her time to get back up and pick up her key staff as the "pony" spoke again. 

 

 

 

"My most profound apologies for interrupt your conversation, but I would agree with the voice near me. It could be dangerous, and though some might be willing to toss themselves into battle,- a choice that is their own to make of course - perhaps something that would result in no casualties would be a good approach if such a thing is possible?"

 

 

Woah~ this... "guy"... he smells really different but... wait, he smells like this forest. I... can't tell what is his magical signature at all, that is weird.

 

 

 

"And before I forget my manner: Good evening to you all. Briar Trapjaw, at your service."

 

Syo realized that she had not introduced herself and this strange "pony" has beaten her to it. Syo's ear drooped as she dusted herself off and regained composure.

 

"Nya... you really know how to make a cat feel bad." Syo commented as she turned to the rest "My name is Syo."

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

@ everypony

 

Seamore gets up again and starts heading toward his cart. "To answer the question about killing it, it's an invasive species and it's hunting the local wildlife. It's a disruption to the ecosystem and where it came from is unknown. What we know about it comes from first hoof accounts, as it has been attacking anypony who goes into that area. The first step in this sort of situation is for the locals to deal with the problem, then if they can't handle it, the government gets involved." At the cart Seamore takes the rolled up permit out of his saddlebag, he walks back over to Last giving her the permit to examine. "Here's that permit if you wanted to look it over."

 

"My name is Seamore by the way," he said to the two new guests. "And this is Dusk, Last Stand, Excaliber, and Crescent,"pointing at each pony as he said each of their names, although he got Caliber's name wrong. "If either of you would like to have a S'more or an apple cider, you're welcome to," he offered. Then looking at Briar he says, "I believe I've met one of your kind before. Would you happen to be an Evergrown?"

[Blitz Boom 4,620]

@@Melke,

@@Denim&Venom,

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@cwhip9,

 

Briar focused on the voice who had successfully called him out on what he was with a raised eyebrow.

 

"Very well seen. Most ponies tend to either mistake me for a regular pony until they get near enough or ask. To meet a pony who have met with with my kind before and does not need that part of the introduction however is a rather rare situation. Perhaps when the current endeavour is over I might inquire a bit further on how you know my kind?"

 

With what was told it did not sound like a situation where he could stand around and chat all the night. Not if they truly wished to go in and hunt the spider they spoke of. Yet, it would also present him with an interesting choice he might ponder himself whilst things progressed: If he would stick around and help so that he might be near when the time for action had passed and words could be a focus. Something to think about for certain.

 

"I can baseline it for those who doesn't know for now and say that in a sense you can consider me a plant of sorts."

 

Crescent would be able to hear there were more to it than a simple plant. Because whilst Briar was technically fauna and no blood pumped through him, he still had another liquid that pumped through his veins and a heart beating calmly in his chest. He might not be of flesh and blood, but it didn't mean he was massively different from the regular ponies and bat ponies.

 

Crescent might also be able to hear something else, that being Last reaching the slab of paper towards Caliber with a nudge and saying to him, somewhat low:

 

"Either I need glasses or he does, cause that ain't saying one tree in my book."

 

Meanwhile, over with the others, Briar turned around and *looked* towards where Syo were.

 

"Perhaps I could also inquire about you at a point when there is time for it? I have never heard a cat talk before and I must admit, it is quite intriguing."

 

Briar figured that perhaps the cat was magically infused, or a race he had not heard of before. But he weren't good at judging either really, and especially not magic. That kind took specific kinds of magic to feel out, and there might be some parts of nature magic that could do so, but not his. No, his nature magic was more directed at letting him control his currently hidden vines and his telekinesis via the flower on his head (the source of most Evergrown magic). More than that, at least amongst his kind, would likely have required a Lotus elder or somepony similar.

[Fire Lily 86]

Angel stopped dead in her tracks when Blitz started staring at her, the look in her eyes scared Angel slightly. "Umm...ideas...well, what kind of stuff have you made before? I mean you're pretty good with ponies, you could do us, or mom, or even him!" She said while staring over at Dax excitedly. 

 

"Aww why were you kicked out of school? Is it because you make cool things and they just didn't like it? Well I like you anyway, even if you did get kicked out" Angel said while quickly giving her new friend a reassuring hug. Angel still wasn't used to the whole hugging random ponies thing but this one had hugged her a few times already so she figured she might as well go for it herself. 

 

"About this Pinkie Pie..I've seen posters for parties and stuff around town with her name on it. Maybe that's what she does?" She said turning back over to Dax. She hoped she wasn't giving too much away about seeing the posters, normally they were placed only in areas where big ponies could see them. But she had wings and could fly up there so as far as she was concerned she was a big pony, just not quite sized right. 

 

"All I know about the elements is that one time Princess Twilight was in town eating a hayburger and this one filly said something about going to meet her and maybe getting my cutie mark. So I went out there with some of my friends and all I saw was exactly that, a pony eating a burger. Really boring in my opinion, she didn't even say hi or anything. I think that pink one you two were talking about was there too. We learned in school that Princess Twilight holds the element of magic, we haven't talked about anything else yet though..." Angel said looking down sheepishly. When she got exciting she tended to talk and talk and talk and a lot of ponies found it extremely annoying. She was hoping she wasn't making her new friends mad. 

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber absentmindedly walked behind the others, looking at the scroll. this new pony certainly seemed new, as he had never seen her before.

 

and from what he heard, sparren and cubus both didnt react, so she must be friendly.

 

...weird...

 

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@@Blitz Boom, 

 

zenru made a pleasant smile, moving gently in front of Yrel. "can i ask as to why you were looking for me?" he asked. there was a chilling air to him, even though he was being 'friendly'.

 

"although i have a good thought as to why. your here to give us the tournament scrolls, yes?"

 

yrel was trying to peek around zenru, to get a better look at vivid. 

 

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rune grinned. "dont worry about it." he said, setting off at a brisk trot out the forest. 

[Randimaxis 8,652]

"All I know about the elements is that one time Princess Twilight was in town eating a hayburger and this one filly said something about going to meet her and maybe getting my cutie mark. So I went out there with some of my friends and all I saw was exactly that, a pony eating a burger. Really boring in my opinion, she didn't even say hi or anything. I think that pink one you two were talking about was there too. We learned in school that Princess Twilight holds the element of magic, we haven't talked about anything else yet though..."

 

"Element of... Magic.  Yeah.  Those things."  Dax felt extremely embarrassed.  He had heard the term in passing, and here was Angel already having learned more about it than Dax even knew.  He hoped he didn't sound as lost as he felt.

 

Face facts, Daxter... these two already know more than you do because they have actually been in Ponyville.  They see things.  They know things.  They do things.  Well, maybe you should start asking questions, right?  I mean, you'll never learn if you don't ask.

 

"Okay, uhm... let's say we do decide to set up something for the 'Elements of Harmony', right?  What would we need, and how would Angel and I go about getting them?"  Dax didn't think twice about Angel being a little filly; she seemed capable enough on her own, and he knew that children were able to accomplish things adults couldn't often do.  It felt right - being together with these three made it seem as if everything was going to be just fine.

 

"Angel, Blitz... uhm, I... I wanted to... well, just..."  He took a deep breath.  "Look, I wanted to thank you two for... well, for letting me in on this.  ALL of this.  I haven't known either one of you for long, but... but I'm really glad to have met you.  Both of you."  He gave them a sheepish smile, then cleared his throat.  "Okay, well - so what's the plan?"

 

At this very moment, he hoped they'd be friends forever.

[cwhip9 1,078]

@ everypony

 

Seamore gets up again and starts heading toward his cart. "To answer the question about killing it, it's an invasive species and it's hunting the local wildlife. It's a disruption to the ecosystem and where it came from is unknown. What we know about it comes from first hoof accounts, as it has been attacking anypony who goes into that area. The first step in this sort of situation is for the locals to deal with the problem, then if they can't handle it, the government gets involved." At the cart Seamore takes the rolled up permit out of his saddlebag, he walks back over to Last giving her the permit to examine. "Here's that permit if you wanted to look it over."

 

"My name is Seamore by the way," he said to the two new guests. "And this is Dusk, Last Stand, Excaliber, and Crescent,"pointing at each pony as he said each of their names, although he got Caliber's name wrong. "If either of you would like to have a S'more or an apple cider, you're welcome to," he offered. Then looking at Briar he says, "I believe I've met one of your kind before. Would you happen to be an Evergrown?"

Cresent noded after being introduced

@@Melke,

@@Denim&Venom,

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@cwhip9,

 

Briar focused on the voice who had successfully called him out on what he was with a raised eyebrow.

 

"Very well seen. Most ponies tend to either mistake me for a regular pony until they get near enough or ask. To meet a pony who have met with with my kind before and does not need that part of the introduction however is a rather rare situation. Perhaps when the current endeavour is over I might inquire a bit further on how you know my kind?"

 

With what was told it did not sound like a situation where he could stand around and chat all the night. Not if they truly wished to go in and hunt the spider they spoke of. Yet, it would also present him with an interesting choice he might ponder himself whilst things progressed: If he would stick around and help so that he might be near when the time for action had passed and words could be a focus. Something to think about for certain.

 

"I can baseline it for those who doesn't know for now and say that in a sense you can consider me a plant of sorts."

 

Crescent would be able to hear there were more to it than a simple plant. Because whilst Briar was technically fauna and no blood pumped through him, he still had another liquid that pumped through his veins and a heart beating calmly in his chest. He might not be of flesh and blood, but it didn't mean he was massively different from the regular ponies and bat ponies.

 

Crescent might also be able to hear something else, that being Last reaching the slab of paper towards Caliber with a nudge and saying to him, somewhat low:

 

"Either I need glasses or he does, cause that ain't saying one tree in my book."

 

Meanwhile, over with the others, Briar turned around and *looked* towards where Syo were.

 

"Perhaps I could also inquire about you at a point when there is time for it? I have never heard a cat talk before and I must admit, it is quite intriguing."

For the green pony saying he's an plant choked on his cider he started drinking. After he recovered knowing he got everyponys focus. He wiped his muzzle, "sorry, drank to fast" he smiled sheepishly trying to hide his white lie.   

The more of this group that seem to assemble out of the wood work the more he realized he needed to do one of two things  

1.adress trapjaw openly in the group of his half truth or

 2 keep the secret and talk to him privately for the whole story.

 

Cresent made up his mind to go along on the quest hopping to get back some of the bits he lost to the vendor and all else fails make friends along for the venture or at the inevitable hospital 

  

  For the cat, Cresent assumed an experiment involving magic for the cat, or not an cat at all weather a-

he stooped himself in that train of thought,

No unicorn would be that clumsy with magic.

Unlucky possibly but clumsy and wizard don't go hoof in hoof unless the punch line involved discord or trixe in some shape or form. 

 

His thoughts went back towards Seamore and listened to what last was reading silently. Then he herd the catch about the 3 trees being abele to cut down instead of one. Did the pony intentionally leave this fact out? He doubted it but just to make sure if it was intentional or just the smors this pony sang about that was kicking in him

 

 The bat pony said 

"1 tree for such a bad spider, covered in jewls, and we could split the tree up in" he counted the group again to make sure he did this right "6 ways to make bits of the wood of the tree but would the spiders nest be built around one tree instead of say, 3?" he finished   

Edited August 28, 2015 by cwhip9

[Denim&Venöm 18,701]

@Blitz Boom, @Seamore Sandwich, @cwhip9, @Melke, 

 

Priestess had already been listening for a while, several minutes before Briar showed up, and a few minutes more before he revealed himself. But the best way to get info, and potentially introduce oneself, eventually, would be up close and personal. 

 

And what better way to that than by being invisible?

 

She focused and activated her "Gifts." The first was "Scent of running water." With the Nekojin making a grand entrance out of nowhere, she'd need to keep her scent nonexistent, and this would do just that.

 

The second would be "Blur of the milky eye." To say it would make her invisible would be inaccurate. What it did was make herself appear visually uninteresting to the brain. She would be filtered out by the brain and the eye would piece together a more engaging picture, like the ground around her. The eye of the viewer would just slide off Priestess. Even the sounds of her movements & breathing would be effected by the magic and disregarded by the brain. 

 

The only way she could be seen, is if they were already looking at her when the gift was activated, or if she did something really distracting to give herself away. 

 

It took a little more focus, managing the gifts as well as the Equine guise provided by the blood talisman on her forehead. But as long as that wasn't interrupted, she could continue wondering the camp, face to face with those present, and she would never be noticed. 

 

So far there was the Nekojin: Syo, the Bat pony: Cresent, the lumberjack: Seamore, the smoke pony: who left... uhh... someponies named Caliber, Last Stand and Dusk? She did not know which was which. She was terrible with names. She even forgot the name of the philosophical plant horse whom she was leading. He only mentioned his name once during their entire dialogue together. That's not enough times to register.  

 

Whatever the case, she would learn more as she entered the camp proper. Discussion about offing a spider, gave her a little pause for concern. 

 

"A diamond coated chaos spider? Could it be a member of the Anansi? Possibly even an agent of the Weaver herself? Here in Equestria!? Ugh... why do they have to be spiders? Kitsune do not like spiders! "

 

Priestess continued weaving in and out between the campers, taking notes on each one and what they were saying. 

[reader8363 1,281]

@Blitz Boom

 

Feeder opened his eyes, took a deep breath then turned towards Brittle and said, 

 

"Yes, I am a doctor, but I go to ponies' houses to help, or wherever they are. So, I don't stay in one place for to long. I take it your friend's name is Briar, is that correct?"

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

@everypony

@@cwhip9

 

Seamore was unsure of what Crescent meant, being unaware that his permit allowed for three Everwood logs, and not having heard Last Stand's comment about the permit. "One Everwood log is worth 2,000 bits on average. Divided between the seven of us, if everypony decides to go that is, would be 285 bits each. That isn't even taking into account the Spider's Diamonds." He was of course referring to Last Stand, Caliber, Dusk, Crescent, Syo, Briar, and himself, not knowing who the bat pony left out. After a short pause while trying to remember the question he continued, "And the Diamond Spider has laid claim to an area where many Everwood trees grow. Why do you ask?"

Edited August 28, 2015 by Seamore Sandwich

[Melke 160]

@,

 

 

 

rune grinned. "dont worry about it." he said, setting off at a brisk trot out the forest. 

 

Melke didn't say much as Rune trotted out of the forest. He was silently scanning Rune with his magical gem and getting a rough indication of his magical level. As he did, he noticed his gem was particularly stained with a dark magical residue.

 

He's magical signature is rather strong but... I am getting a combined signal for some reason, could it be these runes? My gem... the taint is building up already... it won't be long until I have to release it and find a way to deal with...

 

After a while, Melke started to realized that he would be entering Ponyville for the first time. And that is not an option that he likes.

 

"Erm... Rune? Can I just stay in the forest? I don't want the entire town to see me..." Melke said, panicking at the realization. 

 

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@reader8363,

@@cwhip9,

@@Denim&Venom,  

@,

 

 

After the introduction, Syo's eyes fell on the pony with patches as he stood up and started to trot over to a nearby cart.

 

"To answer the question about killing it, it's an invasive species and it's hunting the local wildlife. It's a disruption to the ecosystem and where it came from is unknown. What we know about it comes from first hoof accounts, as it has been attacking anypony who goes into that area. The first step in this sort of situation is for the locals to deal with the problem, then if they can't handle it, the government gets involved." 

 

Syo was about to argue when she reminded herself that she was not in her home world and these ponies do not just teleport or lure the invasive species out of a healthy ecosystem.

 

"My name is Seamore by the way, And this is Dusk, Last Stand, Excaliber, and Crescent,"

 

Darn... a barrage of names... I can't remember them that quickly.

 

While in her own thoughts, she had totally phased out when Seamore was point to the respective ponies. 

 

"If either of you would like to have a S'more or an apple cider, you're welcome to,"

 

Syo's ears perked up and eyes widened as she heard the offer and then her mind can't think of anything else but food.

 

"Then... DON'T MIND IF I DO!" Syo exclaimed in delight as she teleported over to get herself a handful of s'mores. "But I will skip the cider, I can get drunk off of that." 

 

After a short while, Syo was happily eating the s'mores and had totally shut off whatever happened prior. She was holding the s'mores in her two paws while sitting on her key staff, her tail swaying lightly. As she started to come back into the conversation, she then heard Briar said:

 

"I can baseline it for those who doesn't know for now and say that in a sense you can consider me a plant of sorts."

 

A plant?!... Oh~ no wonder I had problems feeling where he was before I came into the group. His magical signature and power is the same as this very forest.... That means I can't get any more information on him magically, how I wish Dyr was here, she knows how to talk to plants.

 

Syo decided not to say anything about the plant thing though she did visibly wore a face of shock for a few second prior. Then suddenly, the avatar turned and faced her all of sudden.

 

"Perhaps I could also inquire about you at a point when there is time for it? I have never heard a cat talk before and I must admit, it is quite intriguing."

 

"Er... sure? If you can stop freaking me out..." Syo commented as she got the chills after thinking about how a plant can "see" her and how creepy the "pony" form looks.

 

Afterwards, the conversations seems to be steering into something about bits. Syo did not know or even cared what bits are and just remained silent while enjoying her s'more. However, as Syo was enjoying her s'more, she could not help but feel that something was near just now, right before she joined the group. She took a look over to the gemstone orb that was fixed to the top of her key staff, she can see that it was glowing but Syo disregarded it as it could be just indicating that someone else in the group here has strong magical powers.

[Blitz Boom 4,620]

@@Fire Lily,

@@Randimaxis,

 

"When they found me out here, they figured it good I got in there, and to the orphanage, but you know how it goes. You make One tiny little bomb out of things you dig out of the trash and tries to learn others how to do it too and then suddenly they stop trying to keep you around. I don't mind really, it was so Boring both places. Out here is where all the fun is."

 

Blitz answered Angel's question whilst the rest of things seeped into her head and she tried to think over things. The current suggestion seemed to go with some of the Elements of Harmony, something she hadn't seen before or heard of really either. It rang a vague bell, but not enough to make anything guaranteed in her head regarding it currently. Sides, they would need some things if it was like a lot of things anyway and it was getting sorta late. They could ask Twilight tomorrow or something perhaps and then get some stuff tonight.

 

Anyway, Dax had said something too that... What was it... Oh! Right.

 

"And I bet you'd like Pinkie, Dax. She's the most awesome, fantastic pony Ever! She defies logic, rules and does it with a huge smile and loots of fun. She can't be explained and she makes everypony happy, and one day, I'm gonna be Just like her. Just less pink."

 

For now anyway...

 

"Anyway, things to find, things to make. I bet we can ask in town tomorrow about the elements and what they look like from Twilight. Or Pinkie might know if she's not there? Or Applejack? Twilight have a lot of friends that I bet knows, but most ponies sleep by now or are getting ready for it, so for tonight, we get to collect some fun stuff."

 

The grin on her face grew wider and a low giggle almost echoed out of her very being.

 

"We're gonna need a looooot of color I bet, and I wanna use the best of the best for my friends. It's some fun leaves I sometimes find when I get Timberwolf bark. Not sure what it's called, but it's really good and very colourful, so it'd be perfect."

 

She turned a bit around herself then stopped and pointed in a direction leading further into the forest.

 

"They usually came from there when it was, before they didn't want to play anymore. I bet if we go that way we will find a lot of the leaves, and we're gonna need as many as we can get."

 

A single leaf here and there barely gave her enough to really test it, and she hadn't had any of them at all for over a week now, No, she was gonna need more, and hopefully some bigger and fresher ones too.

 

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@,

 

Vivid gave a sly smile towards Zenru at the mention of the scrolls before the tip of her long horn glowed and the two remaining scrolls floated towards the two ponies,

 

"Well guessed. And here I thought it would take as long as the others before you would realise it."

 

Her eyes wandered towards the one behind Zenru as the scrolls reached their targets. She frankly was still amazed that this was one of the five, but you never could judge a book by its cover after all, and as she spoke again she kept her eyes on this one, trying to see if she could see what was special about Yrel. The tournament ponies had been very vague with this one, so she was rather curious.

 

Though, she needed to keep some focus on Zenru as well. Some might call it paranoia, but she was not too trusty that her focusing on a family member of the top swordspony in Equestria couldn't lead to something rather... Regrettable. Sure, the pony would not be able to do her much permanent damage unless he had access to some strong sealing magic and a dummy vessel, but that didn't mean that he couldn't potentially bring a world of pain upon her head.

 

"With this, all five of you are informed, and all but Sparren are within or near this very town. Though I do wonder what you all rush here for considering how far away the tournament is, Perhaps you expect trouble will find this little town before it even begins?"

 

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@@reader8363,

 

"Y-yes... He helped me, and I... I looked... For a l-long time for him... He was uhm... The only one who e-ever cared..."

 

Her words were slowly starting to run more fluently, though she still had the general demeanour and heart rate of somepony being send to the principals office without knowing why, but knowing they were going to get punished.

 

"I-I tried to find h-him again now, but... Hard to find."

 

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@@Melke,

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@Denim&Venom,

@@cwhip9,

@,

 

"Oh, my apologies miss Syo. I did not intend to make you uncomfortable. If it have something to with the predatory sides to my being though, I can assure you that I do not eat higher sentient beings such as cats, regular or of your kind. I generally stick with fish and bugs instead of barbaric methods such as that."

 

"Y'know, before this starts to go into theatre, I'm gonna cut it short and give folks a heads up here: We ain't talking about one tree. Like Crescent here seemed to have caught on to, we're talking three."

 

Last didn't really fancy sticking around here and having their mixed, ragtag group stagnant in cider and cookies for the rest of the evening when there was something worth a fight out there. So she had interrupted, and whilst at it gone over to Seamore, held up the paper in front of him and pointed with the tip of her hoof at a section of the paper.

 

"You missed a piece of the fine print, so frankly-"

 

She gave a quick glance towards his wagon.

 

"-you might need a bigger cart."

[Denim&Venöm 18,701]

@Melke,@Seamore Sandwich,@cwhip9,@PeytonJay,

 

"Nice to know Euqestria's conservation efforts are in full effects. I'd love to just ridicule them on going through this trouble just for some wood. But the old U~eponsumisu would craft weapons and armor from the enchanted wood. These artifacts would prove just as effective, if not more so, than their steel counterparts.

 

Even Neighpon's forests have some of these enchanted timbers. Many a shrine have been built around such great trees.  So yes, to get the opportunity to harness enchanted lumber in measured amounts is indeed a worthwhile business venture."

 

She weaved in and out between each member encircled around the campfire. She took a look at Seamore's wagon. "Yeah, that thing's gonna barley hold one tree." She made her way over to the cat, Syo. "You. I should probably investigate you a little more." She approached to where Syo was seated. Right as she was close enough to smell her-

 

"If either of you would like to have a S'more or an apple cider, you're welcome to,"   Syo's ears perked up and eyes widened as she heard the offer and then her mind can't think of anything else but food.   "Then... DON'T MIND IF I DO!" Syo exclaimed in delight as she teleported over to get herself a handful of s'mores.  

 

 

She was gone. "Ugh." Priestess began to trot over to where Syo was. She was gonna get a good whiff of her this time-

 

"But I will skip the cider, I can get drunk off of that." 

 

Then she teleported back to where she was.  "Grugh!" This time she leapt and bound over there. And then got a nice strong whiff of her scent. 

 

"Hmm. Interesting. You don't smell like anywhere I've been, and I've been to alot of places." She then focused her aromatic analysis on the staff. "I can't seem to get a make of what this staff is constructed of either." Then she noticed the orb. As she got closer, she noticed it began to react. Priestess quickly backed off and eyed the feline. The further back she stepped, the more the orb subsided. "Y'know, you must not be a very good magic user if you're not paying very much attention to your own wards." 

 

She looked around the camp to see whom she should investigate further, until she noticed the bat pony. She cocked her head. "Now what they hay are you looking at?"

 

 

 

 

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

@@Denim&Venom

@@Blitz Boom

@@Fire Lily

@@cwhip9

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"Really? Let me see," he said as he got up and went over to take a look at the permit. He took a closer look at the part she was pointing to and it quite clearly said three where it would usually say one, he was in total shock. "In that case it'll be about a 6,000 bit profit to split evenly between those who go, more if we can find some good size trees. Well, it looks like I'll have to make room in my cart." He went over to his cart and started moving the pine logs out to where the other one was, climbing up into the cart and pushing them out fairly quick for their size. "As soon as I finish with this we should get going, so if anypony wants one last s'more, now's the time." The deal had been changed significantly. Who wouldn't want a share of such a large profit? Well if anypony was unsure before, they now had a serious decision to make, so he decided not to ask who was going just yet.

[cwhip9 1,078]

 

 

@@Denim&Venom
@@Blitz Boom
@@Fire Lily
@@cwhip9
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"Really? Let me see," he said as he got up and went over to take a look at the permit. He took a closer look at the part she was pointing to and it quite clearly said three where it would usually say one, he was in total shock. "In that case it'll be about a 6,000 bit profit to split evenly between those who go, more if we can find some good size trees. Well, it looks like I'll have to make room in my cart." He went over to his cart and started moving the pine logs out to where the other one was, climbing up into the cart and pushing them out fairly quick for their size. "As soon as I finish with this we should get going, so if anypony wants one last s'more, now's the time." The deal had been changed significantly. Who wouldn't want a share of such a large profit? Well if anypony was unsure before, they now had a serious decision to make, so he decided not to ask who was going just yet.

Cresent smiled listening the ponys blood go to the beat of surprise and confusion, to understanding. The pony generly didn't know the full details. Which made cresent relax really, the poor pony was just hyper active and was one on details which nearly made him an enemy to the whole group he invited to eat with. He made an mental note to let this Seamore know how not to get himself hurt when presenting things

@Denim&Venom
Cresent trotted over towards Last to talk to her when he felt Pristess bump into him as she was backing up. So it wasn't his paranoia, He looked to his left trying not to look like he was talking to whoever this was but speaking low enough to have the clocked mare hear him

"your not as sneaky as you think ether follow me behind the tree so we could talk or show yourself now. Unless you want me to force your hoof in front of everypony"
He began to walk behind the fallen tree again. He knew he was game he just needed to answer questions about the group, pulse get everyone on the same page, last thing he needed was doing something harmful to the team based of paranoia.

 

or if this pony was hostel, at least from the sound of the blood he was hearing he hoped it was an pony. If it wasn't then this needed to be handle on the spot before this turned too deadly
 

Edited August 29, 2015 by cwhip9

[P-Jay 1,987]

Melke didn't say much as Rune trotted out of the forest. He was silently scanning Rune with his magical gem and getting a rough indication of his magical level. As he did, he noticed his gem was particularly stained with a dark magical residue.

 

He's magical signature is rather strong but... I am getting a combined signal for some reason, could it be these runes? My gem... the taint is building up already... it won't be long until I have to release it and find a way to deal with...

 

After a while, Melke started to realized that he would be entering Ponyville for the first time. And that is not an option that he likes.

 

"Erm... Rune? Can I just stay in the forest? I don't want the entire town to see me..." Melke said, panicking at the realization. 

 

"huh? oh...sure." rune stopped for a moment. "but im sure no one would give you any funny looks....you are just a cat, after all."

 

he looked over his book for a second. "although there are other ways of being undetected. invisibility...maybe hide you under a cloak...?"

 

 

Vivid gave a sly smile towards Zenru at the mention of the scrolls before the tip of her long horn glowed and the two remaining scrolls floated towards the two ponies,

 

"Well guessed. And here I thought it would take as long as the others before you would realise it."

 

Her eyes wandered towards the one behind Zenru as the scrolls reached their targets. She frankly was still amazed that this was one of the five, but you never could judge a book by its cover after all, and as she spoke again she kept her eyes on this one, trying to see if she could see what was special about Yrel. The tournament ponies had been very vague with this one, so she was rather curious.

 

Though, she needed to keep some focus on Zenru as well. Some might call it paranoia, but she was not too trusty that her focusing on a family member of the top swordspony in Equestria couldn't lead to something rather... Regrettable. Sure, the pony would not be able to do her much permanent damage unless he had access to some strong sealing magic and a dummy vessel, but that didn't mean that he couldn't potentially bring a world of pain upon her head.

 

"With this, all five of you are informed, and all but Sparren are within or near this very town. Though I do wonder what you all rush here for considering how far away the tournament is, Perhaps you expect trouble will find this little town before it even begins?"

 

zenru smiled, as he accepted the scroll. he gave one to yrel, who started reading it. "well, i came here because yrel here wanted to meet some fillies her age. and you cant exactly do that in bangcolt..."

 

yrel nodded with a toothy grin. 

 

zenru continued. "although im not sure as to why sparren or cubus is here. caliber is expected, as the 'wanderer' normally makes his way back here every tournament. could it be the tournaments being held here?"

 

he smiled a little wider at her last bit. "if trouble brews here, it'd be wise to leave as soon as it possibly could. after all...the top five swordsponies in the land makes for a formidable force."

[Fire Lily 86]

Angel looks sheepishly between Dax and Blitz. "I think I should be thanking you two if anything...for not kicking me out. Most ponies just tell me to get out and go away when they see me somewhere they wern't expecting me to be, or that I'm not really supposed to be. You two are the first ones that caught me and didn't yell, or treat me like just a little filly." 

 

 

She looked back at Blitz "I'm not so sure about asking around the big ponies, at least for that being my job anyway. LIke I said most of them know what I get up to and they don't really care for me poking around in their business even if I don't mean to do any harm, I just like exploring." she said slightly blushing. 

 

She looked over to where Blitz was pointing. "I've never seen one of those timberthingys before. But if they're scared of you I'm sure it can't be too dangerous though...right?" Angel was trying her absolute hardest not to look afraid in front of her new...Friends? She didn't have many of those but these certain seemed like some, and they seemed to consider her one. 

 

"It looks like it's getting kind of dark out, are you sure we're going to go chase them tonight instead of in the morning. Mom knows I like to be out late but I do need to be home before it gets too dark." 

Edited August 30, 2015 by Fire Lily

[Randimaxis 8,652]

Dax looked at the sky, and gauged that Angel was probably right... plus, the idea of trying to face timberwolves at night?  Brrrrrrr...

 

"Well, we could always meet here tomorrow - that way, I'd have some time to gather up a few supplies from the quarry, and I'll have 'em here for you... us... to use.  That'd be great, huh?"

 

He grinned, looking at his friends.  One was a little filly with some gumption, the other was kindly crazy - and he wouldn't have given either of them up for the entire world.

 

"Whaddya say, Blitz?  Bright and early tomorrow?"

[Blitz Boom 4,620]

@@Melke,

@@Seamore Sandwich,

@@Denim&Venom,

@@cwhip9,

@@P-Jay,

 

Last followed when Seamore went over to his cart and started to help him clearing some space there. Far as she was concerned, there wasn't any point in getting all up in a tiff over this whole "three times as much wood" thing as it wasn't like Seamore could've gone anywhere without them noticing three dang big pieces of wood dangling in his cart. It didn't really scream that he was trying to scam them y'know? More like he could use a good pair of bifocals to get his noggin on the wording.

 

"So, any policy of what we're gonna do with the rest of the nest of those things or do we have free hooves to crush 'em all? Can't really call it an invasive anything if it's lurking around alone."

 

Spiders also had a pretty bad habit of reproducing at a rate that made rats seem chastise, which just added to her point here: That they might be facing one, giant spider, but they weren't gonna get away without facing some sort of offspring from that thing, though how big they were was gonna be the interesting part. Who knew? Perhaps today could end up less boring than she had thought at first after all.

 

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@@Randimaxis,

@@Fire Lily,

 

Blitz looked at them, tilting her head from side to side then gave them both a big grin.

 

"Hehe, okay, sure. You get home and sleep, I'll be here ready for a day of fun when it is, okay?"

 

She'd be there alright, but she wasn't going to spend her night sleeping. She would grab the small bag of *repellents* (explosives) from her shack along with the lantern, then go look for some leaves herself. She had slept like... 30 hours or so ago anyway, so she didn't need a nap right now and they had a Lot of things to get through so... Well, she might as well try to find some leaves, right? If she didn't find any, then oh well, try again tomorrow. But she'd rather spend her time now and then see if she could get things ready than trying to catch some sleep and failing at that.

 

She'd wait until the others had gone though. Didn't want them to worry about her after all.

 

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@@P-Jay,

 

"Sparren is not here to my knowledge, but Caliber wanders the woods seeking a fight, and Cubus I would wager might be resting after our little spar. Not a bad fighter, but I would expect nothing less from any of you, even though-"

 

Vivid kept her eyes on the little one again before reverting her eyes back to Zenru.

 

"-She confuses me. In my days fighters started young to be able to make it, so I have seen young talent before, but in these times? I frankly didn't believe them when they described Yrel, vague as they made it."

 

She was baiting them somewhat to tell something about Yrel, but she'd see if anything would be told, or if she would have to wait until the tournament and then see what she could there. That is, unless something happened, but she doubted it could be severe enough to stop the pieces from falling together.

Edited August 30, 2015 by Blitz Boom