All That Glitters
By the Ministry of Practical Chaos' Monster Hunters (yay!)
Aug 24th 2013, south bound to Ponyville.
Wordsmith smiled at his work, tilted his head a few times to make sure it was alright, then passed it off to the pony to his left, and into the hooves of Random Thought. "BY CELESTIA Your writing's hard to read!" He then read the page, and flipped to a fresh one. "I don't have to write that much, do I?"
"Just write what you want, as much as you want and pass it on." Wordsmith replied with a smirk. "And sorry for any misspellings, I don't have my dictionary with me."
Random Thought grumbled something under his breath as he took the quill in his magic and began writing.
"Oh no, I ran out of paper... Can I use another sheet?"
"No way." Discord said with a frown. "Screwball is next, and I'm after her, and you took long enough as it is! Now pass the paper."
Random glared at his disguised boss and passed the pad, quill and ink to Screwball. She read the sheet that Random Thought had written on and started to giggle. "What's so funny?"
"For a pony named Random Thought, this is pretty straight forward, I mean. It's really short!"
"THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!" Almost everypony in the car shouted back at Screwball, making her blush hard.
"What I meant was, you didn't leave much to offer."
"THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!"
"Okay, that joke is old, and overused." She then quickly began to scribble down her part of the story.
"Alright, I'm outta room." Screwball said with a smile.
"Gimme that paper already!" Discord said as he tried to grab the paper with his hoof, only for everything to fall to the ground. "Ugh... really? Stupid hooves, they're an inconvenient way to end any limb, let alone all four of them."
"Hey, hooves are perfectly convenient," Random Thought said with a frown.
"Hmm, tell you what my little underling." He then reached into his saddle bags and pulled out a revolver. "If you can fire this without using magic, I'll believe you."
Random quickly snatched the gun out of Discord's magic and tried to force his hoof into the small trigger guard designed for a gryphon to grip with it's talons. "I'll figure this out!"
"Mhmm, you have fun with that." Discord muttered as he picked up everything with his magic and started his page.
Discord put the final words on paper and began to pass it back to Wordsmith. "Here, I ran out of room so, I think that we have to go around again."
"Oh no you don't, you forgot about me!"
The rest of the ponies looked around, and spotted Hearth Stone was sitting in a chair across the aisle. "OH It's you, I forgot you were there." Discord mumbled to himself.
"I didn't reconize you without your uniform." Screwball commented.
"Seriously? I'm the only pony on this train with bat wings, and you forget I'm here?"
"Alright, I get it, sorry." Discord said as he passed the notepad to Hearth Stone. "But make it quick, I want to see what we came up with."
Hearth stone grabbed the quill in his teeth and spoke around it, "I'll do my besht but you gotta be pashent okay?"
"There, hope you like it."
Wordsmith quickly snatched the story away from the guard, and began to read it aloud. Soon enough, the group was laughing at some of the randomness, and silly mistakes like changing Applejack to Pinkie mid story, and the absurdity of a ninja squirrel, and Popsicle house. Then they got to the last page.
"-The end... Wow, what a downer ending. Way to go Hearth Stone." The rest of the group nodded and mumbled something along the lines in agreement as Random kept fiddling with the gun. "Well, we could always try again, only one paragraph per pony."
"NO!" The rest of the group shouted at him before tossing the used notes out the window of the train.
"Well, you can't blame me for trying." Wordsmith muttered under his breath. As he did, he went back to staring out the window, when he noticed a group of ponies running alongside the train. "Hey, what do you think those ponies are doing wearing bandannas over their faces?"
Hmm. Can you post the 'story' they wrote? I really want to read it.
I think the images are broken.
Brutha, your links are broken.
You can just use the quote feature and type the page in there. I actually find it works pretty well for in-story text.
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That's strange, it worked for me...
Give me a moment and the images should be working.
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I love how everyone credits Discord for these ideas.
I must be doing something right!
That has to be the most "Pinkie-Random' story I've ever read, as well as a Hansel & Gretel Reference. WELL DONE, HEARTH STONE! (Is that a reference to WoW? I use my Hearthstone at least 7 times a day...)
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No actually, I never played even a second of WoW. My PC won't run it!
Discord's writing was the worst to read, ugh, took me the longest time.
But random stories are fun
It was too hard to read Discords part :( I still didn´t got everything but the Idea is awesome :D
I can barely read Discord's! It pretty much just ooks like waves!
By the way, are these all you or did you get help?
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its all me. I am having someone go over earlier chapters at this time to help prepare it for eqd, but everything you have read is all me. No help at all.
3103618 An impressive array of handwriting! Which is closest to your normal one?
I can't read Discord's part. Help please?
Otherwise, very funny
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Was it actually a Hansel & Gretel reference? You never said. So, have you been playing Hearthstone, then? I hear that it's a lot like MtG, just with WoW monsters instead.
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The closest to my own is a combination between Wordsmith's and Screwballs. I tend to fluctuate in my handwriting. Discord's (Sealed Scroll's) Is most like my signature when I sign official papers. However, none of these were done by my hand, but rather a few clever typefaces that I have on my PC. I only picked them if I was able to write like it in real life, and so used them.
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It's actually a reference to my childhood. When I was young, we lived in Tehachapi, there it snows every winter. I was trying to come up with a name for this guard that sounded strong, and yet something a parent would name a colt foal. I remembered the warmth of the fire coming from a stone fireplace when I was a child, how a Hearth of Stone kept the room warm with a fire in it's heart. It protects the fire from the elements outside, but it also protects us from the fire coming into the rest of the house. That is why I used the name Hearth Stone for the pony, a strong character with a heart of fire that protects anyone or anything weaker than him.
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I meant, was the ending to their 'story' a Hansel and Gretel reference?
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Oh, yeah it is.
Ya i gave up trying to read sealed scrolls part as soon as i started, I'm not good with cursive
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It seems to be becoming a lost art. I'll send you a link to all parts just typed, and will post it in my blog with just regular type.
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much appreciated
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Not at all! I shall give no clues as to whom or what it is, other than that it's a reference to a great animated show from the 90s
My first impression was that Discord's writing wasn't even supposed to be read, and the next pony would write something completely different because Discord's handwriting couldn't be read.
But then I tried harder, and I realized that there were actually real words there. Whoah.
Also, I seemed to have missed the ship in this story. Was there one?
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Not this time, being that this isn't an actual Discord story.
Oi, I could only read the first two sentences of Discord's story, and I thought "targets" was "tragedies".
My favorite sentence, I literally broke out laughing at that.
My second favorite. The writing in this chapter was so random and hilarious!
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Why, yes. Yes it is.
I actually managed to read most of it somehow. But I lol'd when I read the plain text version. When I read it I thought it said "Winnona was BIRTHING". Like, giving birth to puppies, right there. Then I read the actual thing and saw it said BARKING.
...And then they died.
Oh Gods, MY SIDES!!! Best idea EVER!!! Freaking laughed so hard I start coughing, amazing, amazing job, loved it!
4533852 Just follow the links to find the hand written parts in regular print