//------------------------------// // Entry 2: Break-It-Down! // Story: A Very Happy and Sunny Life // by Wearin Hat //------------------------------// Remember when I said that I would probably not be doing an entry before I went to bed? Yeah, I lied. Cause I'm totally doing another entry for today. Here’s an interesting detail that I failed to tell you in the prior entry. You see, my job as a street cleaner entails that I patrol Ponyville during the night. In my patrols I am tasked with picking up any trash I see. Though the majority of my finds are organic in nature and thus go in Carty, I do find a good number of other things that also go in Carty. These things include jewelry, gems, metal stuff, broken pieces of wood, wooden stuff, and the occasional piece of cloth or something. That stuff belongs to me when I find it. I usually bring in at least three or four valuables that I can sell for some food money. Tonight was no different. My haul included a cowpony hat, what appears to be a violin bow, a pair of reddish glasses, a locket of some sort, a pocket watch, a button, this weird jewel encrusted bowtie, and this awesome length of rope. Let’s do the Break-it-Down game…HOLY CRAP! This will be the first time you get to play the Break-it-Down game! How exciting! Alright, you play this game by listing out my finds for the night and I examine them closely and determine their value and what it is I want to do with the item. Sounds fun, right? Don’t answer that, you’re a book, just keep your opinion to yourself until I get more used to having a new book around the house. Let’s kick this into gear by starting with the pocket watch. It’s an older design from what I can tell and is engraved with the likeness of Princess Loopty-Spooker (I have long since forgotten her name.). What made it stand out so well in the dim light my lantern provides is the fact that it’s made out of silver or something like that, which means this one will bring in a pretty bit baby! It’d be worth more if it worked, but I’m not a clock master. Maybe there’s somepony here in town that can look into that for me? I think I can recall that Mayor Mare having some nerd like that as her little butt-buddy or something. Perceived value: forty bits in the current condition and maybe seventy bits if it works. Next on the docket are the glasses. These things are ridiculous and make me look feminine. That being such, I can safely say these belonged to a mare. They’re nice too, not prescription so that means that other ponies can see through them just fine. It’s unfortunate that I found them caked in mud (At least I hope it was mud...) and all dirty. They cleaned right up though. Nice and shiny! Shiny sells, it sells big time. Perceived value: thirty bits. Now for one of the more exciting finds of the night; the button! This thing is super sweet! All blue and stuff! It’s going straight into my button collection. Perceived value: priceless…to me at least. I’d like to maintain this high I’m on right now, so the rope is next! It is not very often I find awesome stuff like this. What makes it so…stunning is that it’s all blue and stuff! Not in the way the button was blue and stuff, but this rope glows in the dark. That’s how I found it. Quite the find if I must say so myself. Not sure what to do with it though. There’s not much of the rope and it surely wouldn’t be of any practical use besides being all glowing and stuff. I suppose that Twilight could find something like this interesting. Perceived value: five bits. The most disappointing object tonight is the hat. I recognized this thing the second I saw it. You see, this hat appears to belong to Applejack. I have no use for this stupid thing and thus I only have the option of selling it. Making this worse is that the Apples don’t have the kind of spending money I think this thing is worth. It really is a nice hat and was stitched together carefully and was made to withstand constant use. It’s so freaking unfortunate is that I can’t get what I want for it. However, I can’t let it lay around in my house because I do not want it lying around. Perceived value: twenty bits, but I suppose I’ll sell it back to the Apples at about…fifteen bits. On the subject of expensive cloth, the bow tie looks to be the most promising of the items I found…disregarding that awesome button. It’s a red tie that has a great many of gems sewn into it. This gaudy thing is clearly the property of Ponyville’s very own Rarity. Figures I’d find something of hers lying in the filth. Seems fitting really, such an ornately designed thing covered in muck and grime after spending a day getting trampled on by ponies. Did I mention that I don’t like her at all? Like, even when I compare her to other mares (None of whom I trust.) I still can’t help but feel like she sticks out for being so worthless. I mean, how is being a fashion designer even worth anything to the world in proper? It’s not like she could use her sewing skills to stitch up wounds or anything like that. Anyway, back to the item. Perceived value: seventy bits, but I’ll mark it up to one hundred just for giggles. The locket seems pretty interesting. It’s an old looking thing, the kind you have to pry for hours to open up. The picture inside is an old one that appears to be of a couple with a little unicorn filly. Meh, it’s always something mushy like that. I found this thing trampled deep into the ground with a lot of broken wood and torn fabric that’s of no use. There seems to an engraving of sorts or something like that, can’t read it though. Not like I care. It’s probably some sort of loving family heirloom or something similar to that. Perceived value: forty-five bits. What’s left…no, I already did the button…hm…OH YEAH! I found this violin bow or something like that. Another nice find if I must say so. This thing was clearly made in Canterlot, as indicated by the ‘Made in Canterlot’ inscription, and is nicely crafted out of some weird wood I’ve never felt before. It seems to be custom made due to the gold lettering on the side spelling out the name Octopus or something to that effect. I can’t really tell due to the dried mud that won’t come off. Perceived value: thirty bits dirty, fifty if Twilight can clean it. I love that game so much. Most of my income comes from this crap and most of the fun comes from me pricing it. The best part is that I only have to deal with one pony in the entire transaction; Twilight the Nerd. My effort goes into finding this stuff and then pricing. What I do is I take all of my finds over to Twilight Sparkle, you know…the nerd at the library that acts as Mayor Mare’s proxy, and then I sell them to her and she does whatever she wants at that point. It’s a great deal I've got worked out. You know, for all her smarts she can be really stupid and naive about stuff. As much as I’d like to continue going on and on about how awesome I am, sleep awaits me and I’ve got to hurry as the birds have already begun to chirp. I’ll start thinking of a name for you and I’ll let you know what I come up with.