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Also known as "TtheWriter" on youtube, if you're into Dungeons and Dragons stuff. :3

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Aug
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2013

Let's Chat, Everpony! (closed!!!) · 2:21am Aug 31st, 2013

So yah, marefriend is out with girlfriends tonight-- so its just me here by my lonesome. Chat me up, everypony!


I finished Paper Mario Thousand Year Door three days ago, pretty fun I gotta say. I'm not usually into to such candy-colored stuff, but I'll admit I beat the final boss by the skin of my nose. I would'a died on the next turn, so mission accomplished. Fun game. I've been diving back into Civilization 5 and considering some of the expansion packs like "Brave New World" and "Gods and Kings"--- the Celtic leader is HOT, holy crap...

My youtube show "D&D Stories" is approaching its 50th episode, which is super cool. You can see it here if you're curious or if you're into tabletop games at all. I'm putting together a big project for the 50th episode, but I still have to do episode 49, so one thing at a time, right? Can't eat the elephant whole.

If you remember I managed to land a job at last. I'm working at a little hardware store. The money's not great, but with this town being sandwiched between two colleges jobs are very scarce for people in my age group. So anything is better than nothing, right? Right. The people there are nice, the store is clean, and people from MN are unusually perky and happy to see each other. It must be a cultural thing. I'm from KY, where people are private and kind of crabby most of the time. Minnesotans are happy to see the person pumping gas next to them, hahaha! It's a friendly neighborhood.

The marefriend and I are doing very well together. I'm still not used to living in close quarters with a female, but she is more than sweet and loving towards me. And, now that I'm employed things will go even better. She's addicted to Skylanders, so I'm always on the lookout for a rare or oddly-colored Skylander in the stores for her. (I got a black Tree Rex the other day, its friggin' cool!)


What's up with you guys? I'll be here for the evening, so chat me up!

Nurse Bandaid: Us too! I-I'm here if you ponies wanna chat with me.
Princess Nightmare Moon: Verily! Ourself as well! We know we art intimidating, but those brave enough may approach us!


Er... yah... them too. >__>;

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So, what ever happened to Spartan?

OK. We can chat. What do you want to talk about?

Ugh, I finally get in on the ground floor on one of these, and I have nothing to actually say.:derpytongue2:


Um...Ponies in Civilization! It's awesome!:rainbowdetermined2:

I'm fine and how are you?

1318711 Hiya! :twilightsmile:

1318712 He lived happily ever after. :twilightsmile:

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1.My head canon that Time Turner owns a clock shop where he also makes keys and cute little music boxes.
2. Fluttershy's sexual frustration.
3. Twilight Sparkle's flying lessons where she lands on her face a lot and/or flies with her butt in the air constantly. XD

1318714 I've not gone looking for mods yet, but I hear there's a Solar Empire where your citizens get extra happiness, and your special unit is the Wonderbolt, hahaha!

Not much, stated school and listening to another friend from Minnesota complain about the heat.

"Concordia, do you really want me to do this?"

Yes Sirocco.

"Sigh, alright I'm High Captain Sirocco Highwind, retired, and I've been asked to 'chat' with you by Lady Ink Scratch the Secretary of State for Equestria."

I'm from KY, where people are private and kind of crabby most of the time.

That sounds like where I live

Have you considered using Livestream to hold a chat with multiple people? Like people ask questions in the comment section and you answer verbally.

1318719 My legs ache from being at work all day.

1318725 :ajsmug:

1318722 Ha, I would love to see Twilight's attempts at flying :rainbowlaugh:

Nothing much has been up with me. I just started my first year of college this past week, and I find it rather enjoyable. I've been editing for a couple of authors recently, and I find that quite prosperous. And I'm glad to see that you're enjoying Minnesota. I've been living here my entire 18 year long life. Hockey, snow, and friendly people. That is Minnesota for ya. Maybe I'll see you around sometime.

Hey all.
Glad you're life's going well Aegis.
So Nightmare, how are you adjusting to modern life?

Any chance you're going to make a D&D X MLP crossover story?

Edit: Where did you get the inspiration of Pinkie's Pinkie sense in Seeing the Pattern?

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Oh the mods. So many mods. The Equestrian Civ does not give extra happiness since God's and Kings. Instead you get +1 happiness, faith, culture, and science for every City State you are allied with when you enter into a declaration of friendship with another civ. It's Unique Building replaces the factory, and adds +1 food to every farm, but you lose the production. (Hyzaku tweaked his version, and gave me the tweak, which restores the production boost) and it's unit is the Wonderbolt, which replaces the Great War Fighter, and requires a horse instead of oil. Hyz's tweak gives it a strength boost as well, so it's more on par with a fighter.
Luna gives a +1 to naval movement, and +1 to food from sea resources. And gets you a hovertank, which ignores terrain movement costs, and an observatory replacement that can be built anywhere, for half the science boost. 25% science in all cities. It's awesome.
Nightmare Moon has the Iroquios forest trick, but no longhouse. Shadowbolts are basically a stealth bomber. Hyz has tweaked her as well, to make her more competitive. As is, she really isn't all that good. There are more than that too, by a lot, but those seem like the ones you would be most interested in. :ajsmug:

1318734 Yeah though I've been to KY once only because its not a far drive for me

I freakin loved the Thousand Year-Door! Best Mario game in my opinion, well...there was also Sunshine

1318733 Never tried it. It sounds hard. :fluttershysad:

1318736 I always visualize it like when discord turned Rainbow's wings upside down. I can just see her being upside down and backward about the whole thing. Meanwhile the Royal Guard has to help her every step of the way and not laugh at their new Princess.

1318738 I'm looking forward to the snow most of all. I haven't seen snow in KY in 6 years, and even then it wasn't enough to cover the grass. Its so hot here right now though, I say bring on this winter I keep hearing about! XD

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Princess Nightmare Moon: It's PRINCESS to thou, peasant! Thou would do well to understand station and etiquette! But on that note, things are certainly more convenient than they used to be. A stallion once told me that laziness is the mother of invention, not necessity. I tend to agree, hahaha! Also, somepony has finally decided to cover cherries with chocolate and sell them as a common treat-- marvelous!

Good to hear about the job.

The shop I work in (jewelery repair) is having a hard time hiring people. Be glad to have a polisher and a clerical again.

Congrats on beating TTYD! Now go beat the Pit of 100 Trials.

Oh you're chatting in the comments how nice. sound s like you've got things in order. all I can remmeber is act like a kid get treated like a kid and all that jazz. Minnesota, naturally It makes sense the people are different in attitudes with that big of a difference in distance. small towns are actually pretty interesting to say the least.

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Yeah, just make sure you've got a shovel in the back of your vehicle and jumper cables and the works. Winter is my favorite time of the year. I hate the heat. I'll wear shorts until it's 20 degrees out. Get a snowmobile and go wild next to highway 65 or something.

1318750 That would be hard for me to do, since I would have to make a pretend world within a pretend world. Its like fan-fiction-ception!

The inspiration for Seeing the Pattern's Pinkie Sense was a combination of the Sonic Rainboom episode, as well as close study of straight-haired Pinkamina. She's not a serial killer or a psychopath or a murderer like our fandom seems to think. If you treat her as a second character she's just... crabby, and she needs some love. The Pinkie Sense was the forest, and Pinkamina couldn't see it for the trees. Pinkie Pie could see the trees, but not the forest. That's the best metaphor I can come up with, haha.

1318752 Cool! :twilightoops: Who else is there? I would so rule the world with Fluttershy...

1318770 I liked Sinshine, I played it through to the end, but it just... didn't feel like a mario game to me. I miss Super Mario All Stars, but that's just my childhood talking. XD

1318773 Jewelry repair is a pretty specific skill, I imagine it is pretty hard to hire for...

Thousand Year Door, huh? Reminds me that I could never beat the final boss. I no longer have that game; I have the one with the Pixls I finished several times--Super Paper Mario, but not the newest one. I liked that one a lot, because there was a cute story in the midst of it. But like I said, the final boss always made me lose in TYD, so I stopped playing it, so even though I don't have it, how did you barely just beat it? I can't help but ask. :P

I see you still have not mastered modern equestrian Princess :ajsmug:

1318785 I got to lvl66, which got me the big bag so I could carry more items. That was really all I wanted out of the place. :pinkiesad2:

1318796 Well I was down to 6hp and my partner had 8hp. I gave it my all with one last attack for a total of 15 damage between the two of us, and the boss went down. :rainbowdetermined2:

Sounds a bit dull, being left alone that is. Is it a good thing? Congrats on beating your game! :pinkiehappy: I'm not aware of it and I don't really play any console games and haven't "finished" a PC game in years, probably never. Oh well... Glad to hear your daily life is working out well. :twilightsmile:

* I did play through DLC Quest (at least the first "original" bit), a really silly indie game.

Is the bird still the word?

Aegis: what are your thoughts about the MLP CCG coming out in a few months?

Bandaid: have you given any thought to becoming Doctor Bandaid?

Princess Nightmare: Have thee heard for thine former personal guards since their eloping?

1318796
Heh... I remember playing Paper Mario on the N64. That was pretty fun. Only game system I ever really played much. I played a lot less with the GameCube and I hardly touch my Wii (my parents use it to watch Netflix...)

Princess Nightmare Moon,
Hast thou heard of artemis, a moon goddess that wants to overthrow you and rule the moon in two worlds?

1318795 It's the entry level stuff. Anyone intelligent can get trained up to polish in a week. Clerical is just sectary work.

Now as for hiring jewelers, yea that's a nightmare. I could count one one hand the number of jewelers in my state that are younger than me or less than 10 years older. We've had an empty jewelers bench for over three years. Were up to 5 empty benches at one point, down to one now.

To the Princess,

Did You find my letter to be helpful at all?

*Gives a wink at Bandaid*

1318795 Yeah, Sunshine did feel a bit weird. Not like the old Mario games. I guess they tried something new.

Got several questions unfortanetly.

1. Will we see the PNM-version of Discord out of his prison?

2. Will we see the Elements of Harmony? And if so, will the heralds be different in terms of the roster?

3. What was home like for young Bandaid?

4. Will we see the return of some of stories that were taken down?

If any of these questions were repeated or if you already answered the, apologies. Just envy you because you write better than me. :twilightblush:

1318771 …Uh-huh, sorry Princess.
With respect, I am a student, not a peasant. It's…easier to befriend other ponies if you stopped calling them "Peasants."
Anyways, it's nice to see you enjoying yourself…and chocolate. Is that a favorite food of yours, Princess? Like how Princess Celestia enjoys cake?

1318795
Alas, Twilight is the only one of the mane 6 to specifically have a civ. There is also Trixie (with the Alicorn Amulet. Her Civ is another one where the maker tried to keep things thematic, and it resulted in a subpar civ. I am talking with Hyz on possibly retooling her as a faith/culture based civ. All shall worship the Great and Conquering Trixie!) Chrysalis, Discord, Cadance (once she hits Industrial, she gets expansion happy), Sombra (who is a real production whore. His AI likes to wonder spam too.) Saddle Arabia, and one for Pegusi, Earth Ponies, and Unicorns. Those last three are also supposed to be a bit weak. But I haven't tried them.

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Princess Nightmare Moon: We speak the language of the gods, my little pony! We need not deviate from perfection!

1318809 It's not "good", but its nice to have the place to myself now and then. :twilightsmile:

1318811 Neigh.

1318818 As far as the CCG goes, I think it would've been better left in the hands of the fans. Hasbro is jailed by the G-rating, and personally MLP makes for some handsome Magic: The Gathering cards as well as other fighting-style card games. Fighting is Magic suffered much the same fate. There's no such thing as a "good" game with MLP and Hasbro spoken in the same breath. I'm not really following the card game since, well, I don't expect much out of it.

Bandaid: W-well, that would be an interesting thought. But if I did that, I would have to go to school for a long time more, get further into student loan debt, and I'd have to move out of the palace to go away to school. Since Nightmare and I are... uhm... w-well, kind of a thing, I don't want to wander away from her.

That and doctors are more for leading ponies. I feel more content being a follower, y'know? Leave it up to smarter ponies to direct the team, and stuff like that. I'm perfectly content to follow orders and be a part of something bigger than myself, but I don't wanna be the team captain.

Princess Nightmare Moon: We have not, no. But, if they vanished in pursuit of love I cannot fault them for it. Blueblood and myself both have been making less forward journeys. We would be interested to know how they've been doing, since we never took off the "bat-pony" costume we put on them on Nightmare Night. They probably still look like that! Hah!

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Princess Nightmare Moon: He was a good lay, but not up to my stamina. If he tried to sway my moon Luna to his whims, I would simply imply romantic intentions from him to my sister Chrysalis. *chuckle*

Hey Aegis! Glad to hear you got a job. Congrats.

I myself am on a week long paid vacation from my retail job, and I plan to go to Dragoncon (which is the largest scifi and fantasy convention on the east coast right here in Atlanta) on Sunday. Sit in on a few panels (one being for the FiM comics), buy some merchandise, and just have fun getting drunk with a bunch of cosplaying geeks and nerds! :pinkiehappy:

I have YET to beat The 1000 Year Door, so don't ruin the endin please. I don't play too many sim games like Civ, mostly action oriented games are my thing; Saints Row IV (which is one of the most over-the-top and humorous games I have played) and The Bureau: Xcom Declassified (the firefights I get into in this squad based tactical shooter have kept me on edge) have occupied my time as of late.

Anyways, hope you have a great night and I look forward to future chapters of your stories (especially Under The Bed).

Now to Princess Nightmare Moon... thank you for this lovely evening, I am enjoying it. :twilightsmile: Since you've been to a play and a carnival with Bandaid, have you thought about takin him to the movies? Maybe a superhero action flick, a spooky horror film, or even a romantic comedy? Just imagine all the nuzzling/cuddling opportunities!

And finally to Bandaid... hmmm... well, not sure what to ask ya bro, but I do wish ya the best of luck in life and love!

I've had Thousand Year door forever, but i have yet to finish it. I really need to get around to that. :twilightblush:

1318836 Princess Nightmare Moon: Aye, but I cannot find a zebra warrior priestess cosplay that fits me. Mine legs are much too long!

1318843
1. Will we see the PNM-version of Discord out of his prison? Not sure, leaning towards no. I don't enjoy Discord as a character, and I have never actually written him into any of my stories other than a mention of him or the placement of his statue.
2. Will we see the Elements of Harmony? And if so, will the heralds be different in terms of the roster? Nah. This universe's canon is so radically altered there's been no reason to bring them into play. Nightmare Moon didn't need to be blasted, Discord never broke free, and Twilight has already achieved her destiny-- not as an alicorn Princess, but as an adopted Princess and court vizier.
3. What was home like for young Bandaid? Lots and lots of noogies. :pinkiesad2:
4. Will we see the return of some of stories that were taken down? I'm just trying to catch up with what I have right now, there's no telling what'll pop up or need to be written next!

1318847Princess Nightmare Moon: Oh yes! And chocolate has been refined as well. Its not used as an aphrodesiac anymore, either, now its merely a treat! How times have changed!

1318855 Hm, maybe they're more balanced if pitted against each other instead of the normal Civs. Who knows. I've only been playing up to Prince difficulty thus far. XD

1318881
Not really. HaraldBs Civs are tend to be very well balanced, (Equestria, Luna) while Starman's focus too much on remaining thematically appropriate, at the expense of balance. That is not to say his mods suck by any means, but some of them need tweaking. And yeah, I have been to scared to play above Prince myself. :twilightblush:

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Princess Nightmare Moon: Hmm! We have been using movies for research thus far. Perhaps we will find one to Bandaid's liking in the near future!

Bandaid: Eheh, thanks... :pinkiesad2:

I know this might bring back unwanted memories of people being stupid but, if you for what ever reason decide to do another ponies and castles/D&D thing again this might help

1318881

Far be it from me to imply inability, but would not the Princess simply be capable of using Her transformation magics for this particular application? Might make for a decent other kind of role play, if the You catch my meaning. It might even make things more interesting at the castle if You were to pull this on your Sister unexpectedly. You will have this Admiral's full support.

1318929
"I am sorry but my name is not Concordia, that is the name of Angel of Harmony that we ponies worship. I'm Sirocco, Sirocco Highwind."

To Aegis:
Hey, man, how you been?
I've been lurking around, and haven't seen much new coming from you, but I may have simply not been looking hard enough.
You say your girl's great, so I have to ask: if she's so great, what's her highest leveled Skylander?

To Bandaid:
Hello sir! I have to say, you seem to be a decent Dungeon Master. Do you have a balanced party yet, or do you need a good NPC to act as a filler? I'm pretty good with that sort of thing.
In a more general bit, how are you doing.

To Princess Moon:
Greeting Princess.
I hail from another reality similar to this one (though that is not the one from which I first came) but have been thinking about immigrating to your lovely realm. I was wondering if you would be willing to expedite me and my family through customs, that we might be able to return to a more normal life as soon as possible.

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What Kind of Angle? Is it Obtuse?

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Princess Nightmare Moon: Hast thou ever tried orgasming while holding a constistant five-senses illusion? Tiz next to impossible, we tell thee. We would be better off visiting a tailor! Besides, we would not sink to painting stripes on ourselves to look like a zebra! Bandaid likes us the way we are... we hope.

1318901 I've only just started playing as someone other than the Egyptians. I love ancient Egypt stuff, so it was a big step for me to try the Japanese, the British, and the Americans.

1318911 I should. I really should. I just find it so hard to trust in the word of strangers over the internet after that fateful night. :fluttershbad:

1318948
*points to other post* I don't see what you mean

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