private Camp Equestria (Romance/SoL)

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Ceres smirked.  It seemed that Pelate and her could at least be tolerable of eachother.  And Monkshood was, as before, deflecting any attempts at praise.  Looking around, Ceres talked to herself.  "I wonder where those two went... oh well, I'm sure they're fine.  There aren't any animals in these woods, my babies would have told me by now."

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Parso wondered where Wish went and decided to head out into the forest, eventually after about a couple minutes running around, he found her

"there y'are Wish. I was lookin' for ya"

he then took not of the other pony she was talking to

"oh, hi, I don't think I've seen you around. I'm Parso"

'she must've been late, and judging by the dirt in her coat, she walked all the way here'

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"Oh, we'll its nice to meet you Eve!" Wish declared: not quite certain what to make of the newcomer - she certainty didn't seem particularly arrogant or self serving.

 

"We should... Oh, hey Parso!" She said brightly as the Pegasus arrived on their location as well. "Eve, this is Parso. Parso, this is Eve."

 

The mare squinted back through the trees.

 

"I guess we should head back, yeah."

Edited September 16, 2013 by Cinderscribe

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Parso wondered where Wish went and decided to head out into the forest, eventually after about a couple minutes running around, he found her

"there y'are Wish. I was lookin' for ya"

he then took not of the other pony she was talking to

"oh, hi, I don't think I've seen you around. I'm Parso"

'she must've been late, and judging by the dirt in her coat, she walked all the way here'

 

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@@ParsoOfEquestria,

 

"Oh, we'll its nice to meet you Eve!" Wish declared: not quite certain what to make of the newcomer - she certainty didn't seem particularly arrogant or self serving.

 

"We should... Oh, hey Parso!" She said brightly as the Pegasus arrived on their location as well. "Eve, this is Parso. Parso, this is Eve."

 

The mare squinted back through the trees.

 

"I guess we should head back, yeah."

 

Eve gave Parso a shy smile, then basically just stepped to one side and allowed Wish to introduce them to each other for her. Parso, huh?

 

"Yeah, let's head back," Eve said. "They're probably still waiting on us." She mumbled to herself something that sounded like, "Hope we don't have to stay around the fire the whole time," and turned to lead those two back to everypony else.

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Ceres smirked. It seemed that Pelate and her could at least be tolerable of eachother. And Monkshood was, as before, deflecting any attempts at praise. Looking around, Ceres talked to herself. "I wonder where those two went... oh well, I'm sure they're fine. There aren't any animals in these woods, my babies would have told me by now."

Pelate shrugged "they'll find their way back, the trails are intertwined after all." Pelate says remembering that no matter what they'd end up on the main trail no madder what. Pelate sits back, well everypony should be gathering up soon it's like 7:45 about..."

 

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Then they ring the bell and the intercom says

"All campers please regroup at the campfire outside the lodge."

Edited September 17, 2013 by PelateOvercast

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Then they ring the bell and the intercom says

"All campers please regroup at the campfire outside the lodge."

(You keep forgetting to mention me)

Blazing sighed and started coming down, not wanting to leave the spot he was in. He had no choice, seeing as they were supposed to regroup by the campfire. "Whoever said I had to follow the rules?" He asked himself. He shook his head and kept walking, deciding to just follow the rules for a little while longer.

Edited September 17, 2013 by Blazing Hoof

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((I was gonna wait for @ParsoOfEquestria and/or to post before I announced us getting back to the fire, but I'm impatient, and I've waited a whole day, so...))

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Evergreen re-emerged from the brush back around the campfire, and assuming that those other two had been close behind her, trotted around the fire to where Ceres was sitting, with a pony she recognized from just earlier around the fire and one she had never seen before. The new colt looked rather earthy, having leaves caught in his mane. Realizing she'd been looking at him a bit longer than the other two, she looked away quickly, to Ceres, whom she actually knew. 
 

"Hello again," she mumbled.

Edited September 17, 2013 by Descant

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Following Eve back into the clearing, Wish waved a hoof vaguely towards the other ponies, only just realising that despite being told that the whole thing was a prank she didn't actually know who by.

 

"Hey!" She said in a happy, if still slightly disappointed voice - still a little put out that there hadn't been a creature to discover - before sitting down and looking around at the now-sizeable group that had formed. "Oh hey Ceres, did you meet Eve? She's really nice!"

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Ceres smiled at the arriving ponies.  "Hey Evergreen, I see you met Wish.  She's our cabin mate actually."

 

"And yes, I have met Evergreen."  Ceres strolled over and bopped Wish on the nose, grinning playfully.  "You're fun.  I wanted to get everyone with my prank, but apparently they didn't get fazed by it."

 

Ceres cocked her head over at Evergreen.  "Before you left, you said you could hear my babies... how can you hear them?"

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Ceres smiled at the arriving ponies.  "Hey Evergreen, I see you met Wish.  She's our cabin mate actually."

 

Eve nodded wordlessly, merely turning to give Wish a curious glance. 

 

"And yes, I have met Evergreen."  Ceres strolled over and bopped Wish on the nose, grinning playfully.  "You're fun.  I wanted to get everyone with my prank, but apparently they didn't get fazed by it."

 

Ceres cocked her head over at Evergreen.  "Before you left, you said you could hear my babies... how can you hear them?"

 

 

Eve shrugged. "They all have something to say. You just need to learn to listen." Her ears flicked again, but she shook her head, as if the movement annoyed her. 

 

"I've never heard anything like them before, though. What are they? I've been foraging, looking for new breeds for forever. But they're... something different..."

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Ceres smiled at the arriving ponies.  "Hey Evergreen, I see you met Wish.  She's our cabin mate actually."

 

Eve nodded wordlessly, merely turning to give Wish a curious glance. 

 

"And yes, I have met Evergreen."  Ceres strolled over and bopped Wish on the nose, grinning playfully.  "You're fun.  I wanted to get everyone with my prank, but apparently they didn't get fazed by it."

 

Ceres cocked her head over at Evergreen.  "Before you left, you said you could hear my babies... how can you hear them?"

 

 

Eve shrugged. "They all have something to say. You just need to learn to listen." Her ears flicked again, but she shook her head, as if the movement annoyed her. 

 

"I've never heard anything like them before, though. What are they? I've been foraging, looking for new breeds for forever. But they're... something different..."

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Eve shrugged. "They all have something to say. You just need to learn to listen." Her ears flicked again, but she shook her head, as if the movement annoyed her.  "I've never heard anything like them before, though. What are they? I've been foraging, looking for new breeds for forever. But they're... something different..."

 

"Really?  I guess that kind of makes sense, I can pretty much feel what my babies are saying to me.  But I can't actually hear them audibly."  Ceres scratched her chin in thought for a moment, contemplating how to go about listening to her plants.  Ceres grinned widely at Evergreen's last statement.  "They're my babies!"

 

She declared this as if this was enough.  Thinking twice about that, she added, "I cross-breed plants for a living.  Karen, the smoke popper you just saw, had about five generations before she was perfect.  But once I got the breeds and mixes right, she turned out just great!  The 'smoke' Karen produces is actually a mist-like spore that is in abundance when they bloom.  Which happens in about five minutes due to my accelerated growth breeding"

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"Really?  I guess that kind of makes sense, I can pretty much feel what my babies are saying to me.  But I can't actually hear them audibly."  Ceres scratched her chin in thought for a moment, contemplating how to go about listening to her plants.  Ceres grinned widely at Evergreen's last statement.  "They're my babies!"

 

She declared this as if this was enough.  Thinking twice about that, she added, "I cross-breed plants for a living.  Karen, the smoke popper you just saw, had about five generations before she was perfect.  But once I got the breeds and mixes right, she turned out just great!  The 'smoke' Karen produces is actually a mist-like spore that is in abundance when they bloom.  Which happens in about five minutes due to my accelerated growth breeding"

Eve raised a thin eyebrow. "That's why their song was so discordant, then." She peered at Ceres with a surprising intensity. "You know that accelerated growth leads to distress, right? And distress leads to adaptation and mutation." Eve wore an expression of ill-disguised distaste as her eyes pierced the mare. "They're not happy. It's bad for them."

 

The flower behind Eve's ear, the crystalline rose, seemed puffed up in indignance.

Edited September 18, 2013 by Descant

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Monkshood stared into the fire as it gracefully danced around. Thinking merely of his travels. As he began more and more lost in thought, a small triad of ponies emerged from the bush. Ceres piped up and began talking with them. "Ceres must have already met them, but with the way she acts she probably has already met everypony here", Monkshood speculated. 

 

Turning around, Monkshood bore a disinterested look for the newly arrived ponies, yet listened intently at the conversation unfolding. "This is quite intriguing, the mossy-haired mare seems discouraged by the methods of Ceres. I should see how this ends before I add my commentary", he thought, yet his eyes began to wander towards the mossy-haired mare. He began staring at the delicate rose in her hair.

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Eve raised a thin eyebrow. "That's why their song was so discordant, then." She peered at Ceres with a surprising intensity. "You know that accelerated growth leads to distress, right? And distress leads to adaptation and mutation." Eve wore an expression of ill-disguised distaste as her eyes pierced the mare. "They're not happy. It's bad for them."

 

The flower behind Eve's ear, the crystalline rose, seemed puffed up in indignance.

 

"Yes, and?"  Ceres cocked an eyebrow, clearly not fazed in the least.  "How many failures did you think I had to go through to get a success?  Advancing the growth of plants can lead to problems, but that will be a thing of the past when I finish my research.  I've already made great strides in that area.  The plants you see before you can last up to one year if left alone, where any other plant breeder can only make their own advanced growth plants last a maximum of a week."

 

Ceres sighed, rubbing her temples.  "I thought you would understand the beauty of advancing nature, but I suppose that I was wrong on that front."

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Parso was looking in between Ceres and the new mare, Eve, come to recall. not wanting their argument to break out in hostility, he quickly got an idea. he quickly ran back to the cabins and grabbed something from his bag, running back, he came back to the fire with a bag of marshmallows hanging from his teeth

"hrrr errypoy hoo wass marfmawos"

he muffled, trying to talk with the bag still in his teeth 

[Descant 1,898]

Turning around, Monkshood bore a disinterested look for the newly arrived ponies, yet listened intently at the conversation unfolding. "This is quite intriguing, the mossy-haired mare seems discouraged by the methods of Ceres. I should see how this ends before I add my commentary", he thought, yet his eyes began to wander towards the mossy-haired mare. He began staring at the delicate rose in her hair.

Eve noticed that colt examining her rose out of the corner of her eye, and was privately thankful that there was so much dirt on her face - it obscured the fact that she was blushing faintly. No one would have been able to tell.

 

"Yes, and?"  Ceres cocked an eyebrow, clearly not fazed in the least.  "How many failures did you think I had to go through to get a success?  Advancing the growth of plants can lead to problems, but that will be a thing of the past when I finish my research.  I've already made great strides in that area.  The plants you see before you can last up to one year if left alone, where any other plant breeder can only make their own advanced growth plants last a maximum of a week."

 

Ceres sighed, rubbing her temples.  "I thought you would understand the beauty of advancing nature, but I suppose that I was wrong on that front."

Eve nodded, as if thinking. "Will they stay as they are, or will they mutate due to the fact that they were forced to grow faster than is natural?" She sat, staring forlornly into the fire. "Advancing nature, you call it?" she asked. "Natural, is it? It looks more like cheap flower manufacturing to me." She looked away from the fire, and directly at Ceres. "I do care about nature. I do care about advancing nature. But I also care about the specific plants in my care, too, even the ones I bred myself. They're less volatile, and are consistently more potent if allowed to grow at their normal pace, and especially if prodded and encouraged to blossom with the soft touch of magic."

 

"What's the point of advancing nature through such blatantly artificial means?" She asked the fire, turning away from Ceres.

 

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Parso was looking in between Ceres and the new mare, Eve, come to recall. not wanting their argument to break out in hostility, he quickly got an idea. he quickly ran back to the cabins and grabbed something from his bag, running back, he came back to the fire with a bag of marshmallows hanging from his teeth

"hrrr errypoy hoo wass marfmawos"

he muffled, trying to talk with the bag still in his teeth 

Eve spared this pony half a glance, before shuffling in her bag and pulling out a dry, bitter-looking leaf. "Chew on this. It's for the cavities those are sure to give you."

Edited September 18, 2013 by Descant

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Eve nodded, as if thinking. "Will they stay as they are, or will they mutate due to the fact that they were forced to grow faster than is natural?" She sat, staring forlornly into the fire. "Advancing nature, you call it?" she asked. "Natural, is it? It looks more like cheap flower manufacturing to me." She looked away from the fire, and directly at Ceres. "I do care about nature. I care about advancing it. But I also care about the plants in my care, too, even the ones I bred myself. They're less volatile, and are consistently more potent if allowed to grow at their normal pace, and especially if prodded and encouraged to blossom with the soft touch of magic."

 

"They will stay as they are,"  Ceres remarked sharply.   'Yet another pony who just can't understand my methods.  I suppose the world is full of them after all.  My greenhouse is my only safe-haven in all of this.'

 

 

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Parso was looking in between Ceres and the new mare, Eve, come to recall. not wanting their argument to break out in hostility, he quickly got an idea. he quickly ran back to the cabins and grabbed something from his bag, running back, he came back to the fire with a bag of marshmallows hanging from his teeth

"hrrr errypoy hoo wass marfmawos"

he muffled, trying to talk with the bag still in his teeth 

 

Glad to have a distraction, Ceres smiled at Parso.  "That's a great idea!  We can roast some marshmellows at the fire!"

 

 

 

Eve spared this pony half a glance, before shuffling in her bag and pulling out a dry-looking leaf. "Chew on this. It's for the cavities those are sure to give you."

 

Ceres rolled her eyes.  'Up-tight pony.  She really needs to loosen up.'  Deciding to just drop it, Ceres decided to gather some sticks from fallen branches nearby, luckily they were still a bit wet so they wouldn't burn as easily.  She returned and smiled at Parso.  "Want to help me sterilize these?"

 

Ceres laid a few of the sticks on the ground and began to run a few of the stick ends over the fire, letting them char before blowing out the flames that lept up onto the sticks.

Edited September 18, 2013 by Phoenix999

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Seeing Ceres back down, Monkshood approached the mare with a sense of caution. Unsure what to say, words began to spill from his mouth, "I'm rather enthralled by the rose in your hair. It appears to be crafted to resemble the rosa chinensis species, yet the fluidity of skill required to assemble such a work is beyond that of an ordinary pony".

Edited September 18, 2013 by Nomadic

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Seeing Ceres back down, Monkshood approached the mare with a sense of caution. Unsure what to say, words began to spill from his mouth, "I'm rather enthralled by the rose in your hair. It appears to be crafted to resemble the rosa chinensis species, yet the fluidity of skill required to assemble such a work is beyond that of an ordinary pony".

The petals of the rose seemed to shift, as if to seem slightly more friendly, as Eve looked around to see that rugged colt standing before her, having just spoken. She pulled it out from behind her ear - the Star Rose - and examined it fondly. "Crafted? Don't be silly. This rose is alive as any other flower. Taken from the breathing crystals in the Crystal Empire..." Her voice caught, and she contented herself by gazing at it fondly, and maybe a little sadly, as memories flooded back to her from when she had first received the flower... In her hooves, the petals closed, as if they were in sync with her emotions. She sighed, and placed it back in her mane, holding a thoughtful silence.

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Wish simply watched the back and forth between Eve and Ceres: she didn't really understand what was going on. Something about plants.

 

'Huh. Scribe was right - Unicorns are all haughty...' She thought upon hearing the reactions to Parso's clear attempts to simply calm the situation.

 

"I think it was a really good idea..." She mumbled to him as she sat beside the fire and watched Ceres work with the sticks that she had gathered.

Edited September 18, 2013 by Cinderscribe

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Her response only provided more questions than answers. "Intriguing, yet something still perplexes me on that rose. If it was not crafted, but born of the ground, as you claim, would it not require the sustenance that all other life requires? Does it not feed nor grow?", Monkshood questioned her with an increasing curiosity as he began to pace back and forth. 

 

The fire crackled in the background as Monkshood's mind began to wander into a state of self inquiry. "I have yet to have seen the fruits of the Crystal Empire. This flower appears to be a creation of beauty, but could they be truly exempt from the laws that govern the rest of the natural world"?

Edited September 18, 2013 by Nomadic

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Blazing walked up to the campfire, seeing everypony else there. "I don't think I've met any of you... Except Eve, have I?" He asked. It wasn't the best first thing to say, but he still had to ask, seeing as he needed to get to know everypony at least. As long as I look like I'm fitting in, nopony will suspect that I'm gonna run away... He thought.

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Blazing walked up to the campfire, seeing everypony else there. "I don't think I've met any of you... Except Eve, have I?" He asked. It wasn't the best first thing to say, but he still had to ask, seeing as he needed to get to know everypony at least. As long as I look like I'm fitting in, nopony will suspect that I'm gonna run away... He thought.

Pelate stood silent when an unknown voice sounds. "Oh, I never saw you before. I'm Pelate." The gray Pegasus says in a welcoming tone "just sit whereever you like." He offers the stallion, something about this stallion makes me feel off, he doesn't look too happy Pelate thought.

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Her response only provided more questions than answers. "Intriguing, yet something still perplexes me on that rose. If it was not crafted, but born of the ground, as you claim, would it not require the sustenance that all other life requires? Does it not feed nor grow?", Monkshood questioned her with an increasing curiosity as he began to pace back and forth. 

 

The fire crackled in the background as Monkshood's mind began to wander into a state of self inquiry. "I have yet to have seen the fruits of the Crystal Empire. This flower appears to be a creation of beauty, but could they be truly exempt from the laws that govern the rest of the natural world"?

Eve shrugged. "There are times I don't really understand it myself, to be honest. It seems to survive off of light, just like any other flower would, although it strengthens beyond compare when it's touched by magic." She sighed, and looked at the colt. "I've been trying to breed from it, but I've not had any luck so far. The seeds are there, they're just stubborn." She paused, deep in thought for several moments, before asking softly,  "What's your name?"

Edited September 18, 2013 by Descant

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He hesitated, unsure what to say next. Finally with a puff of pride, he replied, "My name is Monkshood". It was odd, often he had refused to bandy his name around with such frequency, yet one question still remained. "I've told you my name miss, but you have yet to to tell me yours", he said with an ever curious look upon about his face.