Illustrated version: Google Docs
Interlude: Midnight’s letters
Fluttershy,
Our trip into the mountains thus far has been an... interesting one, to say the least. Since my last correspondence We’ve come across a diminutive gryphon who is apparently the son of a wealthy militant commander or some such, and were stopped by a border gate asking us for our papers.
I also now realise I’ve been writing this letter as if it were a report... My apologies, The last night has been... stressful. After what almost started a war (or at least felt like it would) at the gates, we were shown the entrance to a trading village of the gryphons. Now, when I say Trading village, I say it only because that’s how William, the young gryphon, described it.
When I imagine a village, I think maybe ten families, and a few local businesses. What we found there was nothing short of a full interracial city. There were hundreds of gryphons, dozens of ponies, and countless other species that I have no name for. There were many stalls just out in the open, that traded for anything from finely crafted jewelry, to various magical reagents, to common food stuffs.
Not to mention the location of this marvelous ‘village’. It was underground. There was a tunnel wide enough to fit two carriages side by side for caravans, and then once we cleared that, we entered what we at first thought was the village. That turned out to just be the antechamber. From there, we entered the ‘village’ proper. Clawttowa, which was the name of the village (I wish you could hear the way they say it, their accents are so very odd), was a cavern that went on for as far as the eye could see in every direction but down.
The sights, the smells, and the atmosphere were overwhelming. Eventually, it turned out that young master William had a rather large purse after he ran away from his family, the poor dear; they had been pressuring him to enlist in the Gryphon National Army. We, on the other hoof, didn’t bother to bring any real amount of gold... I mean, it seems silly now, but we just never thought we’d need any bits out in the wilderness. I have seven to my name, and the funny thing is, everytime I try to spend them on something, nopony will let me.
So, on the condition that some of the men buy William alcohol (which none of us were pleased with, but the laws in this land are far different than our own, and it was the only way we were legally getting funding for our voyage.), we all split up to go about getting what we needed.
The human officers, Stivers and Taylor, went to go and purchase some dried meat for the rest of the humans. As disgusting as the prospect of eating meat is, I feel that we are slowly getting used to the humans omnivorous ways. All of our NCMs went to a local pub to relieve some tension, and give the gryphon his requested beverage, while myself and Golden went to purchase supplies for the rest of our trip. Admittedly, I got sidetracked by the aforementioned jewelry stand, much to my embarrassment, while Golden was picking up some apples (which were delicious, by the way).
NCMs are non-commissioned officers, sergeants and corporals. I keep forgetting this isn’t an after-action report. I bet you’re laughing while you read this bit, too...
While perusing the jewels (window shopping is free), I ran into one of the last ponies I expected to see. Princess Cadence. Turns out that her and Golden Sword went to school together. It also turns out that she is dating General Armour, and has been for some time now. How I never noticed this, I will never know. Don’t you dare tell anyone, either! That I didn’t know, I mean.
Anyway, after grabbing something for herself, Golden, Charlie, and George found their way back to the table, and The Princess called Golden out by some pet name she gave him in school (Goldie, can you believe it? When I heard that I could have just died laughing, but he was right there), and hugged him in public. She is most definitely not Princess Luna nor Celestia.Not that there’s anything wrong with hugging in public or anything like that
Anyway, when we tried to get away from The Princess to go and check on what trouble the others had got into (yes, they’d gotten into trouble, I’ll get to that in a minute), she stopped us, and said that were weren’t leaving without me getting something from the jewelry stand. She also said that she would pay for it, since we wouldn’t be able to afford anything luxury wise due to a very strict budget of whatever we could scrounge up.
I ended up with a rather nice set of sapphire earrings, which Taylor thought were quite fetching, but I don’t get what everyone was going on about. I think Princess Cadence was hitting on me at one point too. Wait... I probably shouldn’t wr Anyway, When we reached the tavern, low and behold, there is a bar fight in the making and our boys are in the middle of it. Turns out that one gryphon thought little William was a thief, and his brother was there, and his friends were there, so they all decide to gang up on the poor little gryphon. Good thing all of our NCMs were there to stand in the way, drink alcohol on duty, and probably escalate the fight.
When we arrived, the scene was a mess, the bartender was hiding behind the counter, saying ‘No blades’, while the large group of gryphons drew knives, and ours drew swords. Luckily The Princess was there, or else someone probably would have died been seriously wounded.
After the fight was resolved, The Princess left to head back to Canterlot, and we decided it was time for rest, and I just looked at the clock in the room I’m boarded in for the evening, sweet Celestia, it’s almost two in the morning...it’s eerie how you lose track of time when you’re underground like this. And by ‘We’ I of course mean ‘Me’. Some of the boys are still down in the bar, drinking. I just decided that now would be a good time to write this stuff, while it’s fresh on the mind. Also, I think I’m going to tell Charlie soon. See what he thinks about all of this.
Have a pleasant night, and remember, the south is bucking cold.
~Midnight.
As always, comment, critique, and... something else that starts with C.
Seriously though, any and all comments are appreciated, so long as they aren't something like 'hey, yer story are dumb'.
Please comment
Good chapter but I have to ask, what is Midnight's deal with Fluttershy? Are they shipping or what? Secret sibling? TELL ME!
Also, if you don't mind some critique, you used village quite a bit in that first part of the letter. Sorry, I'm kinda OCD for repetition.
Okay, that's all. Like I said though, good chapter and cant wait for MOAR!!!
1715453 HEY YER STORY ARE DUMB
Had to get it out of the way, sorry.
If I may ask, what exactly is the point of these letters? Is it that important for Midnight to tell us her point of view, when we could see it pretty easily already?
I do like Midnight, she is really one of my favorite OCs at the moment.
1716087 I did? Shit.
1716189 Yes.
1716504 Wow, high praise
Taylor X Midnight
1717243 You know, I think you're the first person who ever actually just said it. Others have implied it, sure, but you are the first to say it.
1717362>>1717243
It does seem that way, they gravitate to each other's personalities quite well.
My guess is that Fluttershy knows her from flight school or Cloudsdale; likely stood up for Fluttershy similairly to Rainbow Dash and became her friend briefly before leaving to become a soldier. Then after no contact with one another years due to Fluttershy leaving Cloudsdale without her kowing, they bumped back into each other now that Fluttershy has been to Canterlot multiple times and is likely well-known at least in the Royal Guard due to her being friends with the Princess's student. (Elements of Harmony, not so sure.) They decided to write back and forth to catch up in each other's lives and now just write letters habitually to one another.
1715453
I am quite enjoying the story as a whole, and the letters add a lot extra flavor. It's wonderful to see the prior chapter from a ponies perspective! Add to the fact that Midnight is one of the best OCs, though I like most of them. In any event, I wait with baited breath for more to read, I mean who wouldn't want to read more about humans and how they can screw up next!!!
1716308
STOP WHAT?
1720613 Do you really have to do that?
1720613 Oh, I'm sorry, do I have the power to delete your comments? Oh, I do! Funny that.
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1725573 Sorry, just don't feel like dealing with shit today. Way to fucking tired.
Although, the very large and red words are very annoying. Just a heads up.
1717362
What, saying "Taylor and Midnight sitting in a tree" wasn't clear enough? 1593114
A few corrections:
-May just be me (again), but I see the title as "Midnight�s letters"
> Since my last correspondence We’ve come across a diminutive gryphon
Errant capital letter on "We’ve"
> that traded for anything
Shouldn't that just be "that traded anything"? "for" implies they take any of the mentioned things as payment.
> everytime I try to spend them on something
"every time" is two words ;)
> we were legally getting funding for our voyage.),
Seems odd; I'd remove the period inside the brackets.
> it’s almost two in the morning...it’s eerie how you lose track of time
Small hint: you should always put a space behind "...". Text editors and viewers, and html renderers, don't split on ".", to prevent the period from the end of a sentence from appearing on a next line. This means you combined "morning...it’s" to one unsplittable 'word'. Though, you may be aware of this and it may just be a typo, since all other occurrences of "..." have this correctly.
1726796 Please note, this chapter is a journal. Why would she proof it after every entry?
1726796 Also, the title bug is because of fimfiction and apostrophise.
1728599
I know. I never saw any reason not to use simple " and ' as quotes and apostrophes, personally
1730175 you mean, as the same thing? so saying 'That's' would be 'That"s'?
1730332
No, I mean using " " and ' instead of “ ” and ’. Respectively.
If you don't see the difference, zoom in. Hint: the first set are pure and simple UTF-7 range ascii characters
1730857 Mmmm.... I think you can only get that last one in rich text documents.... no?
The automatic adjusting from typing "" and ' to getting “ ” and ’ is done by a lot of word processors (most notably, MS Word), but normal text files that are saved in ANSI (default encoding for Notepad in WinXP) or UTF-8 (FINALLY default in Win7) can perfectly save them.
Me, I write in WinXP Wordpad, which doesn't do such replacements, so I can perfectly choose what to use.
1732657 Huh. I am far to tired to understand that...
1732673
Long story short... when typing normal quotes and stuff, text editors tend to make them into fancy quotes and stuff. These, being special characters that are saved in different ways depending on what text encoding the document is saved in, sometimes mess up when copied to web pages.
For more explanation on that, I dunno, go wiki "text encoding" or something. I am far too tired to explain
As I said, personally, I write in Wordpad, which doesn't do any of the fancy quote replacing stuff.
1733973 Huh... See, I knew all of that... huh.
Beginning the last bit of the next chapter, I'm gonna try to have it finished this evening. And then I'm buckling in and bracing for impact. Hehehe.
1726796
Just as a note on this, this is Midnight Arrow's personal journal. I'm pretty OCD as far as making sure my grammar/punctuation is as good as I can in the main text body, but I honestly don't worry too much about weeding it out of Midnight's letters. I try to make sure the spelling is okay (she's not dumb, after all), but little punctuation and spelling oddities I just tend to leave alone, as long as they're not too vulgar...we all have our little idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing freehand, and I tend to forgive the ones that creep into her personal writing.
Besides, she took my red pen away from me and threatened to do something horrid with it if I tried to edit her again. Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off mare...
1735459 That was me Dave, not her. I took your pen away. Mostly because Midnight now owes me a favour, but you know.
1735459
True, but I must disagree when it comes to mid-sentence capital letters:
> My apologies, The last night has been... stressful.
> Since my last correspondence We’ve come across
Both of these are typical computer text processing errors. The first part has been added later, and the capital letter of the original sentence was forgotten. The reason this looks weird is because you simply don't have that kind of errors when writing on paper, since then you'd rewrite the whole thing on a new paper. It looks even weirder to see that kind of thing 'in writing' in the GDocs version
Of course, I have a sneaky suspicion you guys are partly just making up excuses so you won't have to redo the images for the GDocs version
1737315 I'll let you in on a little secret: That's actually how I write. Sometimes I'll just add random capitols to the middle of sentences completely by accident. It is true though, that we care much less about grammar and such during the letters, but we should probably take special care to catch that stuff.
I apologize for being silly when I type. I honestly have no idea why do it. (Whenever I add something to the beginning of a sentence, I erase the first letter of the original sentence that way I don't do what you described.
1739186
Huh. I see. In my defense, it was a pretty reasonable assumption
1739283
And definitely a fair one to make. There's a line between a deliberate stylistic glitch in first person writing and an actual error, and we do try to weed out the honest goofs. With the volume of text we have, on occasion we do miss one (or several....), and it IS appreciated when this is pointed out.
I myself have a bad habit of using the same descriptive word over again too many times in a short amount of space, and I don't always see it...until a reader points it out to me, and then I feel like an amateur chump. This eggs me on to be better at what I do, however, so it's never unwelcome. Thank you for caring enough to point things like this out to us.
1739283 That is was. Although, in our defence, the rest of those were just excuses to not have to remake the images.
1740281
Well, generally, I care about the stories I follow, and when I spot errors, I just think helping to improve them is the right thing to do
1740340
I knew it!
1743492 dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/lolface_Celestia.png
Golden was picking up some apples (which were delicious
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1747170 or do you?
Ummmm im in the army and im not exactly sure what an NCM is...maybe shed some light on this. Maybe you ment NCO which is correct being that i am one. Still good job and keep it up
PS if you need advice on anything military just send me a pm i make it an effort to log in at least once a day
1766249 NCM: Non commission member, anything lower than a sergeant. Which military are you in? Because everything in my knowledge base belongs to the Canadian Armed Forces.
Edit: NCM also includes military trades.
Sorry, my editing head is prodding me about a line in there where you said: somepony would have died gotten seriously injured.
Not sure if you meant to cross one of those out, or just meant to take if out altogether.
Its been a while since I read Flight 19, so excuse my ignorance, but who is Charlie?... Is that a stupid question?
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Charlie Taylor. :)