site event The Running of the Leaves (2024) Race Event!

[Moonlight Wane]

"What the hay is going on?" Moonlight's breath comes out in cold wisps of steam. @Shiny Silvermoon just passes him as she dashes towards Titanium, leaving a trail of ice behind her. Moonlight steps onto the slippery path and tries to get some speed by ice-skating.

11 hours ago, Discord said:

With the snap of his fingers, Discord summoned multiple signs pointing in different directions, all reading the same thing. North, south, east, west, backwards, forwards, shortways and longways, every which way he could think of

With his bat eyes, even at night, Moonlight has no problem seeing all the signs pointing in different directions. He hesitates for a moment, trying to remember the layout of Ponyville, before following the one he thinks is correct.

(steps: 160)

[Roswell]

*Roswell looked at the leaves falling as he kept running and he was admiring the view as he continued the race*

 

These are the days I missed.

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Running : 60

Leaves : 45

 

Total Running : 81

Total Leaves : 70

[Silverspark184 1,368]

Silverspark:finally trying to catch up with everypony but stopped when she sees @Discord "ah My Prank Rival "she said checking out every sign that's been messed up on where to really go "hm not falling for these weird sign you old Noodle "she called up to the balloon 

 

Brightspark:cruising on the back of @Ice Princess Silky <3 while looking around

[Shiny Silvermoon 3,765]

21 hours ago, Ice Princess Silky <3 said:

OOC: “break the ice” with Wizard of my gosh, Shiny - THAT IS NOT HOW YOU DO IT. 

OOC : What? You don't like my Mr Freeze puns? I thought that they were nICE! 

Edited November 30 by Shiny Silvermoon

[Shiny Silvermoon]

*As Shiny Silvermoon was quickly skating her way back to her friends by following the icy path she left on her trail, she was confident that she made another good action by stoping Titanium @Wizard from killing herself by exhaustion.*

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" *The mare happily beamed, as she was innocently sliding on the ice. But, all of a sudden, she gasped and her eyes widened. She had just realized that hypothermia existed and that Titanium wouldn't last long with her hooves frozen. She was preparing herself to skate back to the overly competitive pony, in order to rescue her, when she noticed that @Samurai Equine already saved her. The unicorn was so relieved that she didn't even wonder how Samurai made his way to Titanium so quickly.*

"Freezing somepony's hooves wasn't a morally acceptable thing to do! @Ice Princess Silky <3 has been so competitive toward @Sir Hugsalot with this race thing that it influenced me and I forgot the essential : having fun! So, if dying from exhaustion is Titanium's definition of fun, I shouldn't try to stop her!" *With a messed up friendship lesson learned, Shiny realized that her cold aura caused snow to start falling from the clouds. Snow began to gently fall on the ground and onto the participants of the race, making the scene look magical. It was as if Shiny's powers helped the transition between the autumn and the winter. With snow now available, she decided to stop herself from skating in order to build a snowpony on the side of the path. She tried to convince all of her friends that went past her to take a short break in order to help her accomplish her new goal, by singing.*

Do you wanna build a snowpony?

Come on let's go and play!

Come out the door!

We used to be best buddies!

Do you wanna build a snowpony?

It doesn't have to be a snowpony!

It could be a snowkirin!

Let's use some leaves for scales!

We could make an horn with a stick!

Come on let's go and play!
 

Leaves : 18

Total steps : 116

Total leaves : 99

Edited November 30 by Shiny Silvermoon

[Rethajni 2,654]

Spoiler

 14 Steps for Chatterbox = 166

 

 12 Steps Kramathia: 147 

*Chatterbox was able to run just a bit faster than Kramathia and smiled seeing her behind*

 

 

*Kramathia was focused on racing to surpass the blue mare*

[Samurai Equine 51,245]

15 hours ago, Wizard said:

 

Titanium begins to run after flinging the rabbits back in Discords direction, however, after a short few steps, she is accosted by a familiar face. "A-are you skating?!" she exclaims, looking at the bright silver mare, she looks up and notices an incredibly bright moon like nothing she had ever seen before. "...Magic..." She mutters, before suddenly being blasted by a cone of ice by @Shiny Silvermoon, screaming in surprise, her legs are instantly frozen to the ground. "Hey! Stop!" She exclaims, the sudden shock of the cold making her gasp for air. "Sudden temperature drops CAUSE heart attacks! Freezing me ISN'T HELPING ME!" She screams as the unicorn slides away. Titanium immediately begins to struggle and attempt to pull her hoofs out from the ice.

 

 

As she continues to struggle, a Stallion runs up to her and begins to blast fire at her legs. "W-whoa! I hope you can control that!" She says with a tremble in her voice, looking away until she begins to feel warmth run through her legs. The cold to hot causes her legs to sting with pain and a sensation of static running through her veins. She pulls out what little strength she can to break free. The ice cracks and melts under the heat and strain, until she is finally free again. "Wh- Y- Oh- Okay. Oh that's cold, that's so weird. Th-thank you. I need to get the blood pumping again and warm up!" Titanium starts to trot, eventually trying to get into a gallop, but finding it difficult to move with numb legs.

(Total: 246)

Samurai smiles when Titanium is set free. "Be sure to rub and massage your hooves to help get rid of any feelings of numbness!" Samurai waves, happy to have saved a pony.

4 hours ago, Shiny Silvermoon said:

*As Shiny Silvermoon was quickly skating her way back to her friends by following the icy path she left on her trail, she was confident that she made another good action by stoping Titanium @Wizard from killing herself by exhaustion.*

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" *The mare happily beamed, as she was innocently sliding on the ice. But, all of a sudden, she gasped and her eyes widened. She had just realized that hypothermia existed and that Titanium wouldn't last long with her hooves frozen. She was preparing herself to skate back to the overly competitive pony, in order to rescue her, when she noticed that @Samurai Equine already saved her. The unicorn was so relieved that she didn't even wonder how Samurai made his way to Titanium so quickly.*

"Freezing somepony's hooves wasn't a morally acceptable thing to do! @Ice Princess Silky <3 has been so competitive toward @Sir Hugsalot with this race thing that it influenced me and I forgot the essential : having fun! So, if dying from exhaustion is Titanium's definition of fun, I shouldn't try to stop her!" *With a messed up friendship lesson learned, Shiny realized that her cold aura caused snow to start falling from the clouds. Snow began to gently fall on the ground and onto the participants of the race, making the scene look magical. It was as if Shiny's powers helped the transition between the autumn and the winter. With snow now available, she decided to stop herself from skating in order to build a snowpony on the side of the path. She tried to convince all of her friends that went past her to take a short break in order to help her accomplish her new goal, by singing.*

Do you wanna build a snowpony?

Come on let's go and play!

Come out the door!

We used to be best buddies!

Do you wanna build a snowpony?

It doesn't have to be a snowpony!

It could be a snowkirin!

Let's use some leaves for scales!

We could make an horn with a stick!

Come on let's go and play!
 

Leaves : 18

Total steps : 116

Total leaves : 99

Samurai blinks, surprised. "...Not evil? Okay! That sounds like... fun?" Samurai is about to join, when he notices the snow falling. It's getting all over him. "Uh oh..." Samurai tries to activate his fire magic, but as snow lands on his horn and body, it starts to extinguish it, making it harder and harder for Samurai to summon his fire magic. With a shake of his head, he magically makes his armor disappear and returns to his regular outfit. "Come on, come on! Fire ike!" But the more he finds himself becoming covered in snow, the harder it is to bring about the flames. Feeling his magic extinguish, Samurai quickly becomes exhausted, and falls over in the snow. "L-let... it.... go." Samurai reaches out, shivering and shaking, before passing out.

The brave fire pony has met his match, and it's frosty.

[Felis Amafeles Catus]

STEPS

Total Steps: 94 + 18 =112
Total Leaves: 17

'Hello @Shiny Silvermoon !
I finally caught up with you. Let's build a snowpony or a snowkirin.' Felis states...
She is so happy, she wouldn't pass up an opportunity to be creative, and she wanted to play with her friends so badly!

[Anarchylight]

Steps +19

(Total steps completed: 170)
(Total leaves knocked down: 31)

Steps +9

(Total steps completed: 179)
(Total leaves knocked down: 31)

OOC: The day Discord stopped time and the topic was closed for replies I didn't have time to roll the dice so I'm doing it now.

[Rethajni 2,654]

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 Chatterbox = 173

 Kramathia: 148

*Chatterbox snaped and turn around to see @Samurai Equine she stopped causing a cloud of dust  and ran back to Samurai, there was a lot of snow and Chatterbox was shivering, she held Samurai*

 Samurai! Please! Is me! Chatterbox! wake up!

 

 

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Kramathia saw a message in her eye/interface : LOW BATTERY, she frozed in place and the last message she received was "SOLAR PANELS ON, RECHARGING" but in the meantime she just froze in place while she received energy from the sun

 

 

[Nitobit 1,814]

8 hours ago, Samurai Equine said:

Samurai smiles when Titanium is set free. "Be sure to rub and massage your hooves to help get rid of any feelings of numbness!" Samurai waves, happy to have saved a pony.

Samurai blinks, surprised. "...Not evil? Okay! That sounds like... fun?" Samurai is about to join, when he notices the snow falling. It's getting all over him. "Uh oh..." Samurai tries to activate his fire magic, but as snow lands on his horn and body, it starts to extinguish it, making it harder and harder for Samurai to summon his fire magic. With a shake of his head, he magically makes his armor disappear and returns to his regular outfit. "Come on, come on! Fire ike!" But the more he finds himself becoming covered in snow, the harder it is to bring about the flames. Feeling his magic extinguish, Samurai quickly becomes exhausted, and falls over in the snow. "L-let... it.... go." Samurai reaches out, shivering and shaking, before passing out.

The brave fire pony has met his match, and it's frosty.

Moonlight approaches Samurai and Chatterbox, thinking about the time when the stallion wanted to help him.

On 2024-11-22 at 10:20 AM, Samurai Equine said:

Samurai notices what appears to be another racer tripping and falling. He builds up as much speed as he can...

It's not a lot of speed, probably won't break too far from last place, but maybe he can at least get in shouting distance. "Hey!! Are you okay over there?! Need any help?!"

"Hey. Are you alright?" He uses his wing to clear some snow off of Samurai. If he's dreaming, Moonlight closes his eyes and uses his dreamwalking ability to visit Samurai's dream and create a campfire inside to warm him up.

(steps: 175)

[Rethajni 2,654]

1 minute ago, Nitobit said:

Moonlight approaches Samurai and Chatterbox, thinking about the time when the stallion wanted to help him.

"Hey. Are you alright?" He uses his wing to clear some snow off of Samurai. If he's dreaming, Moonlight closes his eyes and uses his dreamwalking ability to visit Samurai's dream and create a campfire inside to warm him up.

(steps: 175)

 Mr. Bat! You got to help us please! I don't know where this snow came from! *she closes her eyes and lay her head on Samurai's chest hugging him, not caring about the cold, she would try to use her warm*

 

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Kramathia remains frozen in place, although some soft machine sounds were begining to be present, weak sounds

[Samurai Equine 51,245]

2 hours ago, Rethajni said:

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 Chatterbox = 173

 Kramathia: 148

*Chatterbox snaped and turn around to see @Samurai Equine she stopped causing a cloud of dust  and ran back to Samurai, there was a lot of snow and Chatterbox was shivering, she held Samurai*

 Samurai! Please! Is me! Chatterbox! wake up!

 

 

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Kramathia saw a message in her eye/interface : LOW BATTERY, she frozed in place and the last message she received was "SOLAR PANELS ON, RECHARGING" but in the meantime she just froze in place while she received energy from the sun

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Nitobit said:

Moonlight approaches Samurai and Chatterbox, thinking about the time when the stallion wanted to help him.

"Hey. Are you alright?" He uses his wing to clear some snow off of Samurai. If he's dreaming, Moonlight closes his eyes and uses his dreamwalking ability to visit Samurai's dream and create a campfire inside to warm him up.

(steps: 175)

 

2 hours ago, Rethajni said:

 Mr. Bat! You got to help us please! I don't know where this snow came from! *she closes her eyes and lay her head on Samurai's chest hugging him, not caring about the cold, she would try to use her warm*

 

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Kramathia remains frozen in place, although some soft machine sounds were begining to be present, weak sounds

Samurai shivers in Chatterbox's arms and looks up at her, feeling very weak. "I'll--I'll be okay, Chat-chan. You--You can't stop racing just for me." Samurai says.

However, he soon notices Moonlight. He's not really asleep, but that dreamwalking ability does help. Creating a campfire in his mind, oddly enough, helps warms him up. Samurai manages to sit up, his shivering has stopped. "Hay, that really worked~! The cold doesn't weight me down as much."

Samurai manages to stand up again and shake off the snow. "I think it's best if I just stay under a tree or something. Avoid as much of this snow as I can."

[Rethajni 2,654]

8 hours ago, Samurai Equine said:

 

 

Samurai shivers in Chatterbox's arms and looks up at her, feeling very weak. "I'll--I'll be okay, Chat-chan. You--You can't stop racing just for me." Samurai says.

However, he soon notices Moonlight. He's not really asleep, but that dreamwalking ability does help. Creating a campfire in his mind, oddly enough, helps warms him up. Samurai manages to sit up, his shivering has stopped. "Hay, that really worked~! The cold doesn't weight me down as much."

Samurai manages to stand up again and shake off the snow. "I think it's best if I just stay under a tree or something. Avoid as much of this snow as I can."

 But Darling I ... Im worries, I will return to the race, just promise me you are going to be alright honeybun? please *puppy eyes*

*Regardless of the response @Samurai Equine can do she kisses his cheek staring at his eyes lovingly, she fell in love with him, and seeing him having a weakness, made her too protective on him, he probably is a powerful warrior with lot of experiences, she felt safe in his hooves but at the same time she could give her life for his well being if necesary, Chatterbox's first love and she was too passionate, too emotional and caring for a lot of things.. careful Chatterbox.

 

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While Kramathia was recharging her battery there was a strange "song" comming out of her as a faint purple light was blinking in her eyes

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Kramathia would also say very quietly nonsensical things in a distorted text to speech voice like: "Enter debug mode: Day 4452252: a mechanized truth grimly blast the theorys. The Ponies pilot below a being.... ask ask ask ask... It is a spirit outside a product! ....tsk tsk tsk, is a feeling far beyond microcosm. The alicorn witness a theory near the product-sustenance..". it was clear Kramathia was trying to debug her information files as she recharges her batteries

Edited December 1 by Rethajni

[Moonlight Wane]

15 hours ago, Samurai Equine said:

However, he soon notices Moonlight. He's not really asleep, but that dreamwalking ability does help. Creating a campfire in his mind, oddly enough, helps warms him up. Samurai manages to sit up, his shivering has stopped. "Hay, that really worked~! The cold doesn't weight me down as much."

Samurai manages to stand up again and shake off the snow. "I think it's best if I just stay under a tree or something. Avoid as much of this snow as I can."

Moonlight smiles. "Glad I could help. Good idea. Get under a tree, maybe make a real campfire, try to get warm. For now, I have to get back to the race. I have somepony I want to catch."

He waves his wing and joins the other runners.

(steps: 189)

[Roswell]

*Roswell sees some ponies ahead of him and some he knows and some he's unfamiliar with*

This is for the roll I missed on the first day.

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Running : 12

Leaves : 15

Total Running : 93

Total Leaves : 85

[Anarchylight]

Steps +19

(Total steps completed: 198)
(Total leaves knocked down: 31)

[Vibrant Grove]

OOC: Catching up on missed days, courtesy of work taking up all my time D:

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Total: 136

Vibrant would continue his decisive race, doing what he can to at least keep up with @Ice Princess Silky <3. The sudden erratic behavior of sun and moon caught him off guard, but when Vibrant is fixed on a specific goal few things can distract him. 

Total: 155

[Shiny Silvermoon]

On 2024-11-30 at 6:30 AM, Felis Amafeles Catus said:

STEPS

Total Steps: 94 + 18 =112
Total Leaves: 17

'Hello @Shiny Silvermoon !
I finally caught up with you. Let's build a snowpony or a snowkirin.' Felis states...
She is so happy, she wouldn't pass up an opportunity to be creative, and she wanted to play with her friends so badly!

*Shiny Silvermoon was having so much fun building a snowpony, or rather kirin, with @Felis Amafeles that she didn't realize that some of her friends were starting to suffer from the frostbite of the snow and the coldness of the night. They used leaves for the scales so they had to knock a few leaves. Shiny was simply too happy to enjoy a precious moment with her friend to notice anything else, as if time had stopped. However, time didn't stop and, after putting the final touch to her snowkirin which was a stick for the horn, the unicorn realized that she has been missing a lot of things. One of those things being the race that kept going. Determined to catch up with her other friends, the mare returned to her fast leaps.*

 

 

Steps : 17 (Yesterday + Today)

Leaves : 12 (Yesterday + Today)

Total steps : 133

Total leaves : 111

[Silver Slate]

(OOC: Missed rolls and today's here)

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Silver continued along the path, doing his best to keep a steady pace, whilst dodging rabbits and whatever else Discord threw his way. When the draconequus made the light of the sun go off and on, he would create a small flame in front of him with his magic, enabling him to see where he was going. He would extinguish it when the light came back again. He also saw a sign denoting a shortcut, but slowed down once Discord replicated it several times and had the copies pointing in various directions. The kirin elected to continue following the others along the same path.

[Rethajni 2,654]

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 Chatterbox: 12 = 187

Kramathia : 165

 

 

 

 *With that final gesture towards Samurai, Chatterbox would begin to run fast as possible, she was hopefully in some good place after the effort 

Chatterbox: I miss to talk to my friend @Shiny Silvermoon and my beloved @Samurai Equine hopefully we can meet at some point

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 Kramathia received enough battery from the sun to continue and she begin to run making robotic noise

[Lucky Fire]

I don't even know what's going on any more. I'm just doing what I can now.

leaves: 9 (i really don't want to go back and add up. let's say i have like, 57 or something with this roll)

steps: 2 XD (same with steps, though i know i don't have much, so maybe.... 11?)

total leaves: 57

total steps: 11

[Wizard 1,304]

(I've missed a few days, so I'm catching up)

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(Total: 280)

[Samurai Equine 51,245]

On 2024-11-30 at 8:52 PM, Rethajni said:

 But Darling I ... Im worries, I will return to the race, just promise me you are going to be alright honeybun? please *puppy eyes*

*Regardless of the response @Samurai Equine can do she kisses his cheek staring at his eyes lovingly, she fell in love with him, and seeing him having a weakness, made her too protective on him, he probably is a powerful warrior with lot of experiences, she felt safe in his hooves but at the same time she could give her life for his well being if necesary, Chatterbox's first love and she was too passionate, too emotional and caring for a lot of things.. careful Chatterbox.

 

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While Kramathia was recharging her battery there was a strange "song" comming out of her as a faint purple light was blinking in her eyes

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Kramathia would also say very quietly nonsensical things in a distorted text to speech voice like: "Enter debug mode: Day 4452252: a mechanized truth grimly blast the theorys. The Ponies pilot below a being.... ask ask ask ask... It is a spirit outside a product! ....tsk tsk tsk, is a feeling far beyond microcosm. The alicorn witness a theory near the product-sustenance..". it was clear Kramathia was trying to debug her information files as she recharges her batteries

 

7 hours ago, Rethajni said:

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 Chatterbox: 12 = 187

Kramathia : 165

 

 

 

 *With that final gesture towards Samurai, Chatterbox would begin to run fast as possible, she was hopefully in some good place after the effort 

Chatterbox: I miss to talk to my friend @Shiny Silvermoon and my beloved @Samurai Equine hopefully we can meet at some point

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 Kramathia received enough battery from the sun to continue and she begin to run making robotic noise

Samurai nods. "I'll be okay. You go on ahead, kanojo." Samurai blushes. The kiss on the cheek should keep him warm for a good while! He gives her a hug and waves, watching her run off.

Samurai gets under the shade of a tree and kicks it, knocking down some leaves. He also collects random pieces of lumber to start a campfire.

STEPS: 0
LEAVES: 5

22 hours ago, Moonlight Wane said:

Moonlight smiles. "Glad I could help. Good idea. Get under a tree, maybe make a real campfire, try to get warm. For now, I have to get back to the race. I have somepony I want to catch."

He waves his wing and joins the other runners.

(steps: 189)

Samurai waves at Moonlight. "Good luck in the race! And thank you for caring." Samurai watches him run off.

9 hours ago, Shiny Silvermoon said:

*Shiny Silvermoon was having so much fun building a snowpony, or rather kirin, with @Felis Amafeles that she didn't realize that some of her friends were starting to suffer from the frostbite of the snow and the coldness of the night. They used leaves for the scales so they had to knock a few leaves. Shiny was simply too happy to enjoy a precious moment with her friend to notice anything else, as if time had stopped. However, time didn't stop and, after putting the final touch to her snowkirin which was a stick for the horn, the unicorn realized that she has been missing a lot of things. One of those things being the race that kept going. Determined to catch up with her other friends, the mare returned to her fast leaps.*

 

 

Steps : 17 (Yesterday + Today)

Leaves : 12 (Yesterday + Today)

Total steps : 133

Total leaves : 111

...Completely caught off guard, Samurai then watches Shiny pass, completely confused. "Is it still snowing?" Samurai checks the weather to see if that's still the case. He even steps away from his tree to double check.

[Roswell]

*Roswell runs past some ponies that he recognises and he gives them a small smile and continues running*

@Ice Princess Silky <3 @Sir Hugsalot

Running : 13

Leaves : 0

Total Running : 106

Total Leaves : 85

 

OOC : I'm focusing on running now in this race.