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[Denim&Venöm 19,230]

@Seamore Sandwich@cwhip9@Magos Amphrose@Missklang @Melke @Blitz Boom 

 

"Mm hmm." They both went. "But it's alright." Shaman said afterwords. He was enjoying the unconditional affection he was getting at the moment. Oddly enough, it felt somewhat familiar familiar.  "Didn't know you were capable of that Chuck. Shouldn't be surprised, considering you're a disembodied spirit. It's still cute though, getting hugged by a horse shaped tree ghost hovering off my impaled carcass."  

 

Suddenly there was a crackling of purple static, across the face of where Charlie was hugging Shaman. This did not go unnoticed by him. "Um, Priestess?" 

 

"Uh, yeah Bae?" she said as she noticed the static too, and how it was seeming to get worse. 

 

"What kind of tree is Charlie here from, and what kind of tree is currently impaling you?" 

 

"Everwood rainbow tree. On both counts.... why?" she sounded a tiny bit worried worried. 

 

​"Oh nothing to worry about, except that Everwood wrecks havoc on our magic. It screws with my guise... like it's doing now." 

 

"Oh. Buck." She said as her ears slayed back. She looked behind to the group. Then she looked back to Shaman. A few glimpses of dark grey were starting to make themselves known through the fur. "Um, Chuck, I think you may wanna stop hugging my Bae. Like now."

Edited October 23, 2015 by Denim&Venom

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@Seamore Sandwich@cwhip9@Magos Amphrose@Missklang @Melke @Blitz Boom 

"Oh is that right?" Shaman said after Crescent responded to Priestess. "Yeah, she does have a problem with shadowing. I'd say ti was her being shy, but her ego pretty much lays that claim dead." 

 

"Hey bruh, it's called reconnaissance." she on so mater of factly replied. "I wasn't going to introduce myself until I had everything scouted out. Plus, I got to wait int he wings in case there was an ambush. Most of them are still alive, so it obviously worked out." 

 

"Admit it, you just wanted to set up a grand entrance. And you like stalking. Such a voyeur Priestess." 

 

"And why can I not do all of those things? Seriously, aim for grander things bruh!" She said as she waved a paw across the air. 

 

 

Priestess then heard Charlies comments. "Well duh. I did say- 

 

didn't I?" she then jumped up a little and nuzzled Shamans face as she came down. "That automatically implies a few things." 

 

Shaman enjoyed that display of affection... in more ways than one. 

 

cresent busted out laughing at priestess and almost felt bad for shaman but he decide to keep things easy. He was trying to calm down after all. "well then after answering a lot of questions I think I'll be with Seamore no pony left behand and all" said cresent realizing the new door and followed the pony out it into the castel grounds

[A Canadian Fritter 187]

Midnight tried to tighten his mask so no kind of spray could get through. the older pony made sure he had his on properly, then looked over to make sure the second pony (whom midnight hadn't noticed before) was there and hadn't tried to run away from his job of transporting the best out of the attic. He then got to work, he pulled out the sprayer thingy (yes, that's what I'm calling it) and began filling the attic with a green tinted mist, he could see most of the wasps suddenly freeze midair and fall the ground. He heard several little thuds as they fell to the ground, he wasn't sure if this part was done so he just looked back and fourth at the two exterminators, waiting for one to do something

[Moonlit 593]

@@Blitz Boom, "I'd like to avoid the Everfree. So Ponyville sounds like the better option." She grabs her saddle-bags, packs up her telescope and papers, then flings them onto her back, stands up and falls in behind the other two. "But, I will defer to you. I am sorta finished for the night"

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When Charlie heard Priestess, he immediately let go of Shaman. "Wait a minute, are you" his voice dropped down to a whisper, "a changeling?" He was a bit excited when he said it, and Shaman would definitely be able to hear the excitement in his voice.

 

"Here we are, the castle of the two sisters. Luna built the portal right inside the castle so they could safely travel straight to the Grove without being bothered. It also would act as an escape route in the event of an attack." Seamore pulled the cart off to the side, then disconnected himself from it.

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Whilst Vivid had wandered near the front with Seamore and couldn't see what went on further behind, Last didn't miss was what going on with Priestess since Princess Luna had after al asked her to watch both her and Missklang. Or well, it was not Priestess herself that was the issue, her friend were. The static, or whatever you could all it, made her suspicious about Shaman, and she made a mental note that during this travel she'd have to keep a better eye on him, just in case. Anything or anypony that travelled hidden tended to be bad news after all.

 

Perhaps she wouldn't have been so keen to just watch and instead demanded answers if she had heard what Briar did though. He had kept somewhat near them, and this combined with his better hearing, made him vaguely hearing what was whispered from Charlie. The word Changeling.

 

He wasn't mentioning it, or doing anything about it. Both because it wasn't his place to judge considering his talk with Void Stalker a few days prior and his guardian role around Brittle, and because he was not 100% certain that it was what he heard. The word had been low, and others were talking after all, so it might be that he had simply misheard things, and considering what Void had learned him of other ponies normal attitude towards Changelings, it wasn't a good accusation to be slinging around in case it wasn't true. And even if it were, what right had he to spill the beans on that?

 

No, it was better to just ignore that and move past it, though by the hoof that was suddenly put in front of him to make him stop walking, it wouldn't be literally walking past things.

 

"Our road stops where theirs continue."

 

They were near the portal that would lead them out of this dream, and she could see Seamore clearly from here after he had exited as the first one of them, yet her, Briar and Charlie had things to do in the dream world so they couldn't move past. Not to mention that they might quite literally couldn't move past it, as the dream world was likely the only thing that made sure they had a workable form and trying to exit would just end with them vanishing and their bodies in a coma.

 

She hadn't been in a situation like this before, so what would happen she wasn't sure about. She was just sure that trying to leave would more than likely be a horribly stupid move for her and Briar.

 

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@@A Canadian Fritter,

 

"Alright, seems like the first stage's done then. I'll get the the critter-hive."

 

The stallion took a better grip in the net and went over to ne nest, rocking it a bit back and forth with the edges before it got loose and plunged safely down into the net. So the first step of not getting it cracking on his person this time was done at least, the rest was ease works. Or well, of this part anyway. There might be more things they had to slam down on in his house, but he had to go outside and put the hive into the box they had for this kind of thing. Likely had to go get a broom after that to get the ones who hadn't been in there up too he guessed.

 

He took a good grip in the net and started to walk outside, turning his head briefly to Midnight and saying a few words before being on his way.

 

"Try t' not step on 'em, alright? Little buzzers still got their dang stingers on the ready. I'll be in with a broom to gather the stragglers in a bit."

 

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@@Moonlit,

 

"Yey, to Ponyville then!"

 

Before either could react, Ziggy had zoomed off towards Ponyville, forgetting that those she were with couldn't follow her with the same degree of speed, and only one of them could fly.

 

Omen just stood and watched after her as a hole between the worlds opened in front of her, then she turned to Serenade.

 

"Shortcut?"

 

She were part of the shadowy realm in there, and she could guide Serenade through a short, brief travel that would get them to roughly where Ziggy would end up if it were. Or that is, if a pink zig-zagged, uneven line started to come towards them again and Ziggy landed with a giggle next to them.

 

"Hehe, whoops. Sorry about that. Sometimes I react before I think. Wanna walk there instead? Looked a bit empty in town from what i could see, but I bet there's some night ponies somewhere."

[Denim&Venöm 19,230]

@Seamore Sandwich@cwhip9@Magos Amphrose@Missklang @Melke @Blitz Boom 

"Chuck there are such things as dumb questions. That was one of them. It was dumb and you should feel dumb." Priestess stated bluntly. She then began affectionately nuzzling around the crackling Shaman. "Now there there Bae, nothing to worry about. I know you're tired and your Everwood allergies aren't helping, but we'll be alright once we get through the gate. We just take it slowly, not exert ourselves we'll be fine."  she nibbled a bit at his ear, before whispering "Take as much as you need from me." 

[Moonlit 593]

@@Blitz Boom, "I think walking will be my best choice." She shakes her head, and starts to slowly walk toward Ponyville. The telescope and her saddlebags are slowing her down, and she constantly has to shift to keep them on her back. "Did you notice if there was any open restaurants? I'm a little peckish" As she says that, her stomach growls loudly.

[Melke 160]

@@~Sole~,

 

"Many teachers, huh?" Dyr said as she walked, she was walking down a dense forest but the foliage seems to be making way for her and you by bending itself out of your path. "That explains why your style of fighting seems more comfortable to you. I have seen my share of people who learns but never experiments and end up being good at imitation."

 

"So, Sole Heart. I am... well, I can't really mention my full name so just call me Dyr."

 

"As for me, I did not start out with a huge scythe... I mean look at it." Dyr said. Her scythe is made entirely of wood and its blade seems to be more like a sort metallic material. It had a huge rose on the top with its stem running along the shaft. "For my build, it is really big and bulky, it nullifies my lightweight and speedy form. I started with twin sickles before but now, I love this weapon as it gives me more power and just adjusted to combat situations. We, Faelius, learn our choice weapons as part of our development but only the basics, the mastery is up to us."

 

"So what about your magic? It's chaos based, is it not?"

[Seamore Sandwich 471]

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"I didn't think it was all that obvious. I mean, that's the point of the disguise, isn't it? I've never met any of your kind before," Charlie said quietly. Then, starting to get a little louder, he said, "I've only heard ponies talking about them as they walked through the forest. Three hundred years as a tree isn't exactly a long enough time to learn much. All that can be learned that way is whatever somepony happens to be talking about when they're nearby. Even then, you can't ask for more information and you can't even be sure about the information you're getting." Having brought his volume up to his normal speaking voice, he continued, "That reminds me, I heard something before from two young ponies talking about somepony called 'Trixie the Great and Powerful.' They were talking about how she defeated something called an Ursa Major, then later, they ran by again while being followed by something rather large. I wonder what happened, and I would like a chance to meet her one day."

Edited October 24, 2015 by Seamore Sandwich

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Gold stops and looks at the forest in the pale moon light. His curiosity was picking at his brain. "Um well want to check it out. my head is feeling better." he asked looking back at the forest hearing another boom maybe it was a fallen tree or some beast. he wasn't much of a fighter but still he was awake still why go home.

[~Sole~ 852]

@@Melke

 

Sole nodded in confirmation "yep. My mother was a griffin, and my father is a draconequus. After my mother died, I tracked down my father, and he became my first mentor. He taught me how to control my powers" he explained, as they walked through the forest "though my own version of chaos magic is a bit more focused on combat then causing mischief" he admitted.

 

"And what about you?" He asked "I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you prefer nature magic, right?"

Edited October 25, 2015 by ~Sole~

[Denim&Venöm 19,230]

@Seamore Sandwich@cwhip9@Magos Amphrose@Missklang @Melke @Blitz Boom 

"Did he not get that that was a question that shouldn't have been asked, especially in Equine company? So much for trying to handle things subtly." 

 

Priestess massaged her forehead with a paw."Yes, Chuck, I know about that. Trixie was a stage performer who pretended to be an Ursa slayer. Key word being pretended. When she got exposed, she conquered Ponyville with a cursed relic. I almost had to intervene in that mess. Haven't heard from her since." Shaman's crackling sparks were starting to get worse, she noticed.

 

"Hey Bae, maybe I should carry the precious cargo out of here, y'know just to make it easier on ya?" Shaman looked over to the wooden saddlebags on the sides. He solemnly nodded and lowered himself to the ground. Priestess the came up from behind, got her muzzle underneath the wooden mesh that connected the two crates, then stood her forepaws on Shamans back to allow the pack to slide onto her own back. 

 

Once she was done with that, she wondered over to face Shaman. She pressed her forehead to his. She whispered "Do it." Shaman closed his eyes and focused. Priestess felt herself grow weaker, and her breath become shallower. When Shaman heard Priestess stumble to adjust her footing, he stopped. The crackling subsided, but only a little bit. 

 

"Now come on. It's not much farther. Once get you into the castle, we can both rest up." 

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The more she saw, the more Last felt like she should intervene and do something about about Shaman. The flickering had been one thing, but right now it seemed as if he were draining Priestess, and no matter if that was voluntary it still made her suspicious about things.

 

However, it still wasn't the time. None of them had done anything that would require her to intervene properly just yet, though she got the feeling that if this kept going on down the road it was now, it wouldn't take all that long before she would have to.

 

Last sped up, wandered past everypony without saying a word and out of the portal, over to Seamore and greeted him with a small nod before she turned around, getting a better overview of things. She'd figured that she might as well be prepared for them out here, as well as making sure that if something was around that wasn't supposed too outside, Seamore wouldn't have to deal with it alone.

 

Fro what she could see, Vivid and Briar had stopped up a meter or two from the exit, with vivid looking over towards Priestess and Shaman. It was likely to wait for them to go outside so that Charlie wouldn't be stuck to the stick for much longer, but she wasn't a shrink. Might be that Vivid had just found the magic drain interesting. Hard to tell with... Whatever she was.

 

Priestess had said the word Shinigami about her before, but Last'd be damned if she knew what that was. Some kind of demon was her best bet, but she wasn't sure that was true since her majesty had not asked her to watch out for this one too. She would have asked her to do that to a demon if that was, right? Demons were bad news for all she knew at least, so if this one had been... Bah, not worth thinking about. She had her orders, and it didn't include this one. Odd as she were, there wasn't a point for her to worry about at this point, so she'd rather keep her eye on those that were.

 

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@@Moonlit,

 

"Hehe, not sure, didn't get a good look, but I can check! You two just walk on and I'll meet you there."

 

With that, Ziggy rose into the air and zoomed off again, though this time she wasn't gonna come back.

 

Meanwhile, Omen had closed the portal again and began to walk forward, following the path leading them towards town in Serenade's pace. After a little while in silence, Omen turned her head towards the weighed down pony Siren again with her eyes wandering between both her and the items she was carrying.

 

"Do you need help?"

 

At Ponyville, Ziggy got into sight in the sky and looked down at the few lights here and there in town. Night was not normally when a lot of ponies was up and around, and a smallish town like this likely didn't have a lot of waking ones that made for late night things being open, but... Ooh, That looked promising.

 

She saw someplace where a few ponies had just wandered out from holding something they were chewing on. It didn't look like restaurant food or something alike that, but hey, even fast food or snacks was something, right? Might as well check it out and be sure.

 

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@@BlinkZ,

 

Sanctus wasn't much for wandering towards the forest, and especially not at this time of the night, but she was a bit curious and to be fair, as long as somepony kept an eye on Gold for a bit longer it should be okay after all. It was still a bit of time before she had to be to work, if at all (depended on night injuries) and as long as they didn't hear any howling...

 

She heard something above them and looked up, seeing that not far from where they had been a few minutes before, a large, pink pony was swooping down in a weird pattern towards... Oh, she couldn't remember the name. Some fast food place that sometimes was open at odd hours, but the name escaped her right now.

 

Perhaps she could see as they wandered past. Her and Gold would have to walk roughly the same way back they had just come from to get to the forest where the odd sound from before had been, so she could have a glance when it were, and perhaps see who the weird flier were. She couldn't remember Ponyville having any pink Pegasi that flew like that, and if it was a tourist then this was really a weird time of day to visit.

[Denim&Venöm 19,230]

@Seamore Sandwich@cwhip9@Magos Amphrose@Missklang @Melke @Blitz Boom 

 

"It's just up ahead Bae. See no need to worry!" Priestess said, even though she herself was stumbling a little from side to side while carrying the wooden saddle bag set. She noticed Vivid & Briar waiting by the gate. "Any reason why you two haven't gone though yet?"

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"Yeah, um, that would kind of be impossible. They're asleep right now and therefore aren't physically here. I kind of dragged them here not realizing what was happening when I was being pulled in by my branch. As you may have noticed, the portal wouldn't let the other Everspirits through it, and I guess the same thing would happen to them." Charlie then remembered that Priestess had questions earlier about his life as a tree. "When you sleep tonight, if you remain in contact with this branch, it should help you find me. I will be traveling with them, so i might not get a chance to visit you in your dream to answer the questions you had earlier. So, if you wish to meet up with us later, in your dreams, just focus your thoughts on me and imagine a door to where I am, the branch should do the rest."

Edited October 26, 2015 by Seamore Sandwich

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cresent looked back at the portal behind him waiting for the others, he was getting restless again the new comer did sound odd to him in terms of blood beat "anypony know what's keeping them?" he asked out loud now looking over his shoulder waiting for somepony, or fox, or another cat, to pop out behind them 

[Denim&Venöm 19,230]

@Seamore Sandwich@cwhip9@Magos Amphrose@Missklang @Melke @Blitz Boom

"Hmm." She nodded to herself. "Ballin. That would make an interesting conversation. Lean more form you than moon butt coming in unannounced." Priestess looked to the nearby portal. "Welp, it's been fun. Even if you opened your big mouth a little bit back there. See you whenever Chuck!" She saluted up to him, then got down on her forepaws, as if priming herself for a pounce.

 

"BANZAI!" she hollered out as she bolted off to the portal, with the still crackling Shaman walking in stride behind her. 

Edited October 27, 2015 by Denim&Venom

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Ah, so That's why Vivid had stopped him.

 

Briar had been focused on other things, such as Priestess' friend and the potential *what ifs* that were associated with him, and had forgotten the part about him and Vivid dreaming, not actually being there. It was a new experience to try this dream-walking for him and it could be seen as details that he couldn't have been aware of, sure, but still it made logical sense now that he had a chance to think about it.

 

The thoughts about what could have happened if he had tried to leave the gate came afterwards, ranging from simply being repelled to him evaporating, though he shook them off when he heard Priestess going into a run. Though she'd likely not notice, he turned towards where he could hear her galloping away and raised a hoof, waving towards her with a smile.

 

Outside the portal, Last hadn't answered Crescent right away when he asked what was keeping the others, but soon after, when priestess went into her gallop, she opened her mouth and gave a reply to that whilst narrowing her open eye, prepared for whatever would happen when the fox came charging at them.

 

"Can't say what kept 'em, but here's two of them rushing through at least."

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@@~Sole~,

 

"Oh, that's rather interesting... to think that a bird like you have such diversity." Dyr said in a sort of respectful way. "I was conceived by two parents, one got herself mangled and killed and the other left me to die, only for me to find him and reunite him with his lover."

 

Dyr was almost laughing at the second one. "I would call him a pathetic excuse but I am no different."

 

 

 

"And what about you?" He asked "I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you prefer nature magic, right?"

 

"Nature magic is the one that chose me, unlike how we choose our weapons." Dyr explained simply. "I do like the adaptability it gives me as I needed all the help I can get with a huge scythe."

 

Dyr felt a surge of power somewhere then she looked in the direction of the castle. Her eyes narrowed then she turned to you."Hey bird, how good are those wings of yours? I am not getting a good vibe from what I felt."

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Syo had been having the time of her life looking through the castle and then she stumbled upon a room with an organ. She was curious and approached it.

 

"Hm, why am I getting some sense of magic in this?" Syo muttered to herself as she sat down on the seat and then press down on two of the keys. A loud sound came out and Syo had to cover her eyes in shock. "Ow, that really hurt my ears..."

 

Syo got up and then she felt a faint sense of a portal and she quickly made her way to the place it is opening. "It must be them, what took them so long?"

 

Unknown to everyone who is entering the castle, there was a new presence and he was lying in wait among the darkness and was using a sort refraction magic to deflect sensors. At the highest point, the ruined tower to the East side. He looked through his crystal ball with a dark smile.

 

"Soon... I will fulfill what she once set out to do." this solemn creature muttered to himself. "Eternal night for her and eternal glory and magic to me..."

[Moonlit 593]

@@Blitz Boom, Serenade slowly lets the telescope case drop off her back, "Please. It's usually not that heavy, but I guess I'm just more tired then usual." Her stomach audibly rumbles, disturbing the night air, "And I'm more hungry then I realized. Whoops?" She sits down, and rearranges the contents of her saddle bags.

[Denim&Venöm 19,230]

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Priestess came bounding out of the portal with the wooden saddle bags Shaman was carrying, getting down on the ground and skidding a ways on the dirt. "And she slides to home plate! What'd we miss?""

 

After about half a minute, Shaman made his way out of the portal, still crackling, though a little less than earlier.

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As Vivid jumped through the portal, it separated Charlie from the branch. "That was interesting. Well, we should get back to our adventure now," he said as he changed his shape back into a pony-like form that looked much more like a light blue version of the Tantabus. Then, directing his attention toward Missklang, "Aren't you going to join your friends?"

 

On the other side of the portal, Seamore pulls a rolled up sleeping bag out of the box on the side of his cart and throws it onto his back to carry it. "You haven't missed much really. We need to decide what room we're staying in tonight. By the way, where's Missklang?"

Edited October 28, 2015 by Seamore Sandwich

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@@Melke

 

Sole was about to open his beak to ask her a question about her nature magic, before he felt the surge of energy. "I'm faster then the average griffin, and I can fly even faster with magic" he said, in reply to her question "It's only a few miles away, I could be there in no time" he assured her, before spreading his wings, ready to take off. Dyr definitely wasn't joking when she said she felt a bad vibe coming from it.

Edited October 28, 2015 by ~Sole~

[Denim&Venöm 19,230]

@Seamore Sandwich@cwhip9@Magos Amphrose@Missklang @Melke @Blitz Boom

"Hmm, now that you mention it, I haven't heard from him in a while. To feels like a whole week has passed since he last spoke. But last I checked he was talking to shinigami & ... plant dude(?)... those guys, whatever, he was talking to them and Chuck."

 

She looked up at the castle of the two sisters. "Huh, this place has certainly improved since the last time I dropped by. By the looks of things the local restoration is coming along nicely. Hey Bae, you had some friends who stayed here recently, or are still here maybe(?), whatever, what did they say were the best rooms?"

 

"Hmmm, well they-" Shaman stopped himself. *Cough cough cough* he started coughing into his paw. The voice that came out wasn't quite masculine. 

 

"Hayzus buck dude. Those Everwood allergies are that bad?"

 

She noticed. Hopefully nopony else did. 

 

 

((OOC: Woo Hoo! I am the 2000th post! Worship me as if I were a god!))

Edited October 28, 2015 by Denim&Venom