site event 🍃The Running of the Leaves (2025) Race Event!

[Shiny Silvermoon]

49 minutes ago, Dynamo Pad said:

"Hmmm...it seems our competitors have stayed strong through the trials of the forest. Yet this race is far from over. They may have gotten through just fine, so far, but the race has yet to be completed." The mysterious figure spoke, keeping their attention to the race. Despite the thick, dense fog, the cloaked figure had kept their gaze upon the forest.

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Obstacle Number 5

The rest of the runners are free, and you can continue making your way through the forest. As you go, the leaves and clouds above create a shadow so dark, that you can barely see your own hooves. Unicorns' light also doesn't help much, because the path of Pinkie's cupcakes is nowhere to be seen. You can, however, see a mysterious light in the distance. What could it be? Is it sunlight? A firefly? A monster?

Use the light to guide you out of the dark forest! Any participant may see a different light, with a different source, tied to a different obstacle, or you can follow the same light with your group.

Next obstacle on October 13th.

@Silverspark184 @Samurai Equine @Iridescent Edge @PrincessPriscillaPT @TheRockARockster @Nitobit @Wizard

*As the participants (and Shiny) finally pierced an hole big enough for a pony to fit, into the wall of vines, she saw a light on the other side. The light was at a certain distance away on the track. Strangely, it was nearly impossible to see the path on the other side and her horn wasn't working anymore, for unknown reasons. This meant that all the participants would have to slowly make their way toward the light.*

*Before anypony could rush to the other side of the hole, which excluded @Dusk Haven, Shiny yelled to warn everypony about the danger.* "GUYS!!! I have a good news and a bad news! The good news is that we can now reach the other side of the wall and so the race is up again! The bad news is that the race is down because some dark magic is making everything well… dark… and my horn doesn't make light anymore!"

"Fortunately, there's an eerie light that I 100% trust for no particular reason, at a certain distance! We should all hold hooves to form a line, in order to not get lost in the obscurity, while we make our way to the light!" *The mare then extended her hoof toward the rest of the group, waiting for somepony to take it.*

Edited 1 hour ago by Shiny Silvermoon

[Iridescent Edge]

*Iridescent was still at the vines. He was still wobbling his horn around, chopping vines and freeing ponies. Until his horn eventually shrank down to its normal size. Iridescent took another one of those berries and ate it. He felt bile rising in his throat. He tried to hold it back to no avail as a strange liquid spewed from his mouth. All the vines in his proximity then withered away and died.*