Point-And-Click Game P.2 · 2:05am Jul 13th, 2016
Several of you were interested in continuing last night's story, and I'm having major writer's block, so I figured we might as well continue!
I'll be posting the rules below, as well as every thing was written yesterday plus the new intro.
So, my idea is to imitate the old school point-and-click games, with a bit of Homestuck in the mix. Essentially, I will write a paragraph of story, and then you guys will have the option to:
A) enter a command, such as "=> Twilight: Ponder existance" , "=> Twilight: Leave the room", and etc etc. In this case, I'll randomly select one of the first 3-5 commands posted in reply to my latest story comment. It can add to the story, or follow the plot, or whatever. Have fun with it. EDIT: I'll also probably pick any choice that has the most upvotes.
or B) choose from one of three options I'll add in in certain comment/story fragments. In this case, you guys "vote" for the option you want, and the option with most votes from 4 to 10 comments after will be the chosen one.
Quick rules:
- No NSFW
- That's it until further notice
For those of you interested in reading the entire story thus far, go HERE!
For those who read yesterday, our story left off with our intrepid heroine exploring the quite literally frozen Ponyville. It's like she's been transported into a photograph, where no one else can move but her. After following a series of clues, she's led to Sugarcube Corner and the sole pony who, apparently, escaped whatever made all of Equestria come to a stop.
9. =>Rarity: knock and see if someone is home
Rarity decided that the polite thing to do was to knock. Sure, perhaps nopony would answer, but it didn't mean she couldn't try.
"Hello?" she called out, knocking three times on the door. "Missus and Mister Cake? Pinkie? Anypony home?"
She waited for a second, and just as she was about to knock again, a terrified and familiar voice inside the building called out, "Go away! Go away!" and moments later, Rarity heard a door inside the building slam shut.
"Wait! Pinkie Pie! It's me, Rarity!" she helplessly called out, knocking on the door several more times.
After at least five more minutes of pleading and knocking to no avail, Rarity resigned herself to the fact that nopony would be opening the door any time soon. What was she supposed to do now?
10. => Rarity: check the back door.
Wait a moment! Didn't Sugarcube Corner have a backdoor?
Rarity quickly trotted around the building, praying to Celestia, and Luna, and Cadance and even Twilight that her cloud-cuckoolander friend had miraculously forgotten to lock the backdoor. Upon finally reaching the wooden door representing her last hope, she took a deep breath, lifted her hoof, placed it on the doorknob and...
Click!
"It opened? It opened!" she exclaimed, watching as the door swung over, revealing the empty kitchen of the pastry shop.
Relief flooding her, she rushed into the building, eager to find out just what in Equestria had happened.
A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago.
B) Be Rarity five hours in the future.
C) Be Rainbow Dash four hours in the future.
==> B) ?????????
There is no option B, only Zuul.
==> C) Be Rarity five hours in the future.
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==> C) Be Rarity five hours in the future.
All things said and done, it was impossible to be Rarity five hours from the future, as having a protagonist who'd been frozen into stone in Princess Twilight's throne room would make for quite the... static story.
A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago.
B) Insist on being Rarity five hours in the future.
C) Be Rainbow Dash four hours in the future.
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==> B) Insist on being Rarity five hours in the future. It's actually an amazing and thrilling tale five hours from now, and the Narrator is clearly lying.
Otherwise: ==> C) Be Rainbow Dash.
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==> B) Insist on being Rarity five hours in the future.
B) Be Rarity five hours in the future.
This is her story after all. And whywe no get hher finding the panicked Pinkie?
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A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago.
A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago.
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In which it's shown beyond a shadow of a doubt Twilight has no responsibility in the current state of affairs
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==> B) Insist on being Rarity five hours in the future.
Heavens, you are persistant, aren't you? If Rarity weren't frozen like a popsicle, she would have taken this moment to feel flattered and tell you it's okay to just admit that she truly is best pony.
Alas, Rarity was very much statue-ified, iced, and if the author had a thesaurus, probably many more variations of frozen. Her face, usually decorated with a charming smile, was twisted into what could only be accurately described as an expression of unrelenting fury. It was certainly not becoming of a pony such as her, but luckily for her, nopony was there to see.
Save, of course, for the one that had frozen her.
A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago because she is getting tired of trotting aimlessly in Canterlot until her plot begins.
B) Insist on being Rarity five hours in the future.
C) Be Rainbow Dash four hours in the future because her ten hour nap has simply gone too far.
A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago because she is getting tired of trotting aimlessly in Canterlot until her plot begins.
Still wonder why we no get Rarity talking to Pinkie
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==> A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago because she is getting tired of trotting aimlessly in Canterlot until her plot begins.
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==> A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago because she is getting tired of trotting aimlessly in Canterlot until her plot begins.
Or, if Rarity is in Canterlot with Twilight at the time, D) Be Rarity two weeks ago.
Be Twilight
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A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago because she is getting tired of trotting aimlessly in Canterlot until her plot begins.
=>Be railroaded into picking the character the author obviously wants us to pick, even though all of us obviously want to be Rarity.
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=> A) Be Twilight Sparkle in Canterlot two weeks ago because she is getting tired of trotting aimlessly in Canterlot until her plot begins.
Twilight Sparkle, one of the greatest minds in Equestria, if she said so herself, nervously paced around her old bedroom in Canterlot Castle. In but a few hours, she'd be the center of Canterlot's Scientific Symposium, and though she'd prepared herself extensively, she still couldn't help but feel something would go wrong.
Relax, Twilight, she thought to herself, closing her eyes and rubbing her temples.
She still had a few hours before it all began, so she might as well try and distract herself for a while, right?
.... ==>
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==> Re-shelf the books. Again.
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twilight: takes a through the castle. she stumbled upon something
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=>Calm herself. Say by reading about and fangasming over some of Starswirl's theories.
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=>Be railroaded into picking the character the author obviously wants us to pick, even though all of us obviously want to be Rarity.
You are now the author. You are shy, prone to cranky fits, and you have the need to apologize for not being so good at point-and-click games. You'd have done a better job if you actually knew what you were doing, but really all you know is that you will try to not be a conductor of the train of choises and that sentence got away from you now.
Also, she agrees with wanting to be Rarity.
4087824 Oh damn, this. This so much.
=> Twilight: go have a short flight around the castle to clear your head and see what's going on, you could also use the practice flying.
4087832 ==> Write RariTwi shipfics for three solid days.
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==> Give author a hug
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Ooh! I take the oppprtunity to expertly spin a tale of mind-gooshingly cute RariTwi fiction while I have the author's boundless talent.
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==> Twilight:Re-shelf the books. Again.
Of course, before she could even think of leaving her room, there was another more pressing matter to attend to. Namely, the fact that all her books were in complete and utter disarray. She privately admitted that half of that mess was hers, but the other half certainly wasn't. She knew her messes, and those books had somepony else's messy ways written all over them.
Of course, that was completely impossible, as nopony had written anything, but she understood her logic and that's all that mattered.
By the time she finished organizing her books, a whole entire hour had gone by. It would soon be time for her moment of glory.
She hoped.
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==> Twilight: Exit castle.
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==> Twilight: Stop not being
Hearts BoxcarsRainbow Dash.4087860 => Twilight: Look over your notes and quadruple check everything is ready
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retrieve hoovesPonder your moment of glory with intense satisfaction and/or anxiety. EVERYTHING can go wrong. But it won't. BUT IT MIGHT. You aren't even sure what you're worried about anymore but it seems worth being worried about.If only your books loved you as much as you loved them. Surely they would be able to help. But they are books. Books cannot love.
Twilight: Show up to the symposium nerdily early.
4087817 Ponder the idea of the 'Alicorn Construct' in which an Alicorn continuously pumps magic into a magical intellectual construct with the base function to 'evolve' itself and help better the world, which some think could lead to the destruction of it if the construct believes it unable to be saved. Or if the construct surpasses all life what it do then, as it has reached the highest state conceivable and therefore completed its base function, but in attaining such a state become self aware with the idea of self preservation being a rather nice one, keep itself from disapassitating? Or maybe this is a waste of time as the Alicorn powering it would've run out mana decades ago.
Twilight: Go to symposium
(Hope it's a *traditional* symposium. Booze, arguing, and magic sounds like a wonderful combination.)
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14. ==> Twilight: Exit castle. / Show up to Symposium nerdily early.
Twilight decided that the best course of action was to exit the castle and get to the symposium early. She had the option of flying out the window, but Rarity had given her an earful for it once, so she decided instead on taking the appropriate way out.
Leaving behind her now perfectly organized room, she stepped out into the dark hallway, lit entirely by magic chandeliers. To her surprise, the guard usually posted by her door was nowhere to be seen! That was strange. He never left his post without telling her beforehand. Maybe he'd gone to the great hall to get some food?
Or had one of the princesses summoned him for some reason or other?
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Jinkies! Look for clues!
4087906 => Twilight: ponder why the guard is missing as you make your way to the exit and keep an eye out for another guard to ask what is going on as the organizer in you has to know why the guard isn't where he should be.
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==> Monochromatic: Stop story because of emergency.
I have to pause this unfortunately because of LIFE AND STUFF AND WORK too, and as a general advice, don't check your work emails when you're at home because damn it.
Thanks again for participating, and I'll probably continue this later this weekend though I might move it to a forum somewhere so IT'S MORE ORGANIZED.
4087924 Oof, good luck.
4087924 no problem.and a form would be nice so its easier to find and track as well.
Good lick with what ever ks happening hope its not so bad.
PS this point and Click adventure is going great and you are doing really well.
Night, Mono.
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==> Dramon Creator: Feels bad for showing up late. Wishes luck for emergency.
4087924 Uh oh, I wish you luck for whatever's come up.