Where I Talk About What Happened Yesterday, For A Second Time In A Row!
So Yesterday the first thing that I did when I woke up was I logged into Equestria online and found myself in my bedroom in Canterlot with Forest Trails sleeping across from me. I got out of bed and tried to work out what had happened. I hadn't made my pony go to bed, because I had been expecting to go back to it once I had finished moving.
After a bit of thinking I came to two possible conclusions; the first of which was that Equestria Online recognized that I had been away from the Pad for a while and had move my pony into bed as a way to represent that I was no longer playing. A visual way of showing that I was away from the pad. The other idea was that since I had logged in early in the morning it had decided that my pony would just be getting out of bed.
That answered what I had been doing in bed, but what was Forest Trails doing there? I decided to ask Forest Trails when she woke up and went to make her some coffee. Now I personally don't drink coffee but my father had so I had learned to make it growing up. I put some water on to boil in the kitchen area that connected to my bedroom, while I went about searching for some coffee.
I had never spent much time in the kitchen area, and hadn't even noticed it till a few days ago. I presumed that it had come into existence because Forest Trails spent so many evenings with me and had wanted a place to cook her own meals. I didn't mind, and I suddenly appreciated having it around. Moments like this were something I had missed ever since I had moved out on my own.
As I finished the coffee Forest Trails stumbled into the kitchen and made her way over to me. “Is that coffee I smell?” she asked me, perking up a little.
“Yes it is,” I confirmed pouring a her a cup and handing it to her.
She took a long drink and then gave me a hug, “My Treasure.”
I returned the hug, “So what is the plan for today?”
“I have would normally have a few patrols to do in the Forest of Light, but I've asked my parents to look after them for the next little while,” Forest Replied. “I'm taking some time off to be with you while you recover.”
“I don't want to cause you any trouble, you-” I started but forest trails stopped me.
“I want to be with you, my Treasure,” She said with a smile, “And as worried as I was for you, I know that this will be the most time we will have to spend together. You'll be spending most of your time visiting Equestria while your in the hospital won't you?”
“I suppose so,” I suddenly had an idea that made me smile, “Yeah, let's treat this like a vacation! Grab your stuff, we are going to take a road trip!” I paused thinking, “Of sorts anyway. Where we're going, we don't need roads.”
Trails laughed, “Sounds fun, but if you don't mind, I'm going to finish this coffee first.”
“Go ahead,” I said grinning, “I've got some pony to see and plans to make.”
Forest Trails gave me one last hug and I headed out. My first stop of the day was Free Breeze. His store was open and he was downstairs. I greeted him and then asked him if he had any recommendations on what I should take for a road trip where we would be planning to camp. I knew what I would have used on Earth, but not in Equestria and I wanted an experts advice.
It turned out a lot of stuff was the same; a tent, some type of sleeping bag, food, water, and all the rest of the basics. The really interesting thing was that there were a lot of little cheats that I could get away with. For instance when I asked him about toilet paper he just looked at me like I was confused. It turns out you don't need to... uh... Do 'that' in Equestria.
After I was done getting a list of things that I would need I asked him if he would be willing to use his spell that sent us to a random place on Forest and I. He agreed, and we discussed prices, I ended up agreeing to grab a camera and take pictures of some of the places that we passed, along with mark their locations on a map so that he could find the interesting ones and do more mapping of them.
We said our farewells and I went off to a store to get a pair of saddlebags, and the rest of the equipment that Forest and I would need. As I walked I took a moment to enjoy the surroundings, I had spent a lot of time in my room with Forest Trails recently, and had started to forget how beautiful Canterlot actually was. I even stopped to help a kid with a kite he was flying in the main plaza when it had nearly gotten away from him.
It took a while, but eventually I managed to get everything that we needed, and managed to stuff it all into my saddlebags. Now that was tricky, because there seemed to be a lot of ponies around and it was hard to find a spot where I could be on my own. I did find that I was getting faster at folding the items down so that they would fit though. It was really good practice.
I also decided that it might not be a bad idea to put some of the items such as food and water into my personal claudication just in case something happened because you never know. I suppose I should mention that the reason that I didn't just put everything in my personal claudication was because it wasn't big enough to hold everything especially the tents. It takes more talent to make the amount of room you have in a claudication bigger, and for now it's current size was the best I could do.
And in case you are wondering, a personal claudication is folded space that is attached to a pony. It is completely invisible, and has no weight, but it requires a bit of power to stay open leaving less for doing other things. It is also easier to pull thing out of saddlebags, than it is to pull them out of thin air when you are an earth pony. That said it is still incredibly useful.
After I had gotten everything together I went looking for Forest Trails, but was unable to find her. She wasn't in my room, or in the library. I even checked the restaurant where we normally eat before I finally realized that she might have headed home to talk with her parents or to the mayor of Canterlot to let her know that she wouldn't be around for the next few days. Rather than chase her down, I found a good back alley and folded myself across to the cave that Young Jim Hawkins was staying in.
It was massive, and I spotted Jim Hawkins relaxing in the nest he had made for himself. I was once again struck by how massive he was. He felt it across the link and was amused. He spent the next while showing me around his cave. I think the thing that impressed me the most about it was when he showed me that he had managed to carve out a tube with his claws and had managed to make a hots spring big enough for him to wash in.
It's a bit intimidating to thing that those claws of his can cut through stone. Just a little.
After he showed me around I told him about my plan and asked if he wanted to come along. I had been banking on him saying yes, and he did agree to come with Forest Trails and I. He thought that it sounded like fun. He even agreed to carry us on his back if we ended up too far away from Canterlot.
We agreed to meet when Forest Trails showed up and I folded myself back up to Canterlot. I didn't see Forest Trails around anywhere so I grabbed a seat at what I was starting to think of as our restaurant, and started eating lunch.
At this point I had to log off because my friend came back and he had brought me the cables for charging my phone and Pony Pad. He laughed at me a bit about wasting my time on a game for little girls, and I went along with it. We had lunch together, and soon enough he left and let me get back to Equestria.
I logged in and fond Treasure Island just finishing up his meal. As I finished eating (both in real life and in the game, though hospital food isn't the greatest), Forest Trails came trotting up, “There you are. I take it you've managed to get things ready on your end?”
I nodded, “I've got everything that we will need. How about you, did you let everyone know what was going on?”
“I did,” Trails confirmed, “So where are we going?”
I laughed and told her that I didn't know. She was a bit confused till I explained what my plan was. She seemed to like the idea, and we headed back to Free Breeze's shop and told him we were ready. I gave him the coordinates of Young Jim Hawkins cave and he teleported the three of us there. He got the three of us to gather in a group together, and then cast his spell.
A flash of light later and we were sitting in the middle of a desert. Forest Trails looked at me and raised an eyebrow. I shrugged, and walked to the top of the dune that was in front of us. I could see far below us down to a jungle far below. The jungle itself was surrounded an all sides by walls of sand, and I could see some sort of temple in the middle.
I beckoned Trails to come and see and we both stared down at it for a few moments before she turned to me with a grin, “Are you thinking what I'm thinking?”
“Let's do a little exploring before we start heading back!” I said. With that we headed down into the jungle, and towards the strange temple in the middle. Young Jim Hawkins took off behind us and flew out over the Jungle exploring the new area we had found ourselves in.
A Quick Wrap Up Of What Happened Yesterday
So that was pretty much it for major things that we did yesterday. We didn't make it all the way to the temple, but we are pretty close. We camped for the night and I wrote last nights post, and then this morning after spending time with the doctors I logged in and wrote this up. I'm going to go eat lunch, and then we are off to explore the temple itself.
And I'm just now realizing that I didn't get a picture from the top of the sand dunes. Oh well, I'll get it on the way out of this jungle. I wonder what is inside the temple, anything that I should watch out for? Actually never mind, but the time I get your messages I'll already be inside. I'm so excited.
Wish me luck!
I wonder what your friend would think of you dating an SI
Good to know you're doing ok.
next chapter title: Legends of the Hidden Temple!!!!
with your guide, Treasure Island!!!
And here he is now!
I wish you luck. Pick the good luck this time.
- Fatum Fortunatus
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They are signed, and when there is a quote I can touch it and the original post appears on the page as well. It's like a really cool looking browser. They are all on the same stationary, and all use the same style of writing, but each scroll also has the user name of the writer on the the outside as well as the time it was send so they are easy to tell apart.
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That would make sense. Though she didn't tell me to stop calling it a Let's Play so she probably doesn't think the term is bad.
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I'm not sure I want to get into discussions about religion. That said do keep in mind that I am a Christian myself, so I would be rather against anything that tried to destroy Christianity. I suspect several others would be the same.
I wonder what Celestia's thoughts on God are? Hmm...
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Well we did know they could access the internet. I mean when I was out claim staking a while back they could connect to the internet even when my Cell was unable to get a connection. Once they can connect to the internet, it wouldn't surprise me that Celestia could set up a system for internet browsing on them.
That said she seems to think that it would take away from the game in at least my case, and since I haven't seen anyone browsing the net on one, I would go even further and say that she wouldn't allow it in most cases.
On the up side I have my phone now, so I can browse the net on that.
A temple in the centre of a jungle surrounded by a desert? If there's no-one living there to take care of the weather, there's a decent chance it's a weird-weather area like the Everfree (you don't really get jungles pushing right up against arid deserts normally) or there's some kind of weather device or magic in the temple. Watch out for lightning, unless you really need 1.21 Jigawatts for something...
Wow didn't expect the post to be this soon oh well.
Anyway I'm looking foreword to whats in that jungle and the temple. Let's just hope theirs not some evil Aztec god in there or something
(please be an Aztec god please be an Aztec God)
And please let him be this guy
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uh I mean yep sure hope there isn't one and I sure hope he doesn't try to cut your heart out too
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Fair enough okay Susland I will make you a deal you promise not to discuss religion or try to proselytize me and I won't talk about Tia destroying religion and I won't discuss it either, Deal?
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Ah that brings back memories. I used to watch that show all the time. Now that I think of it the kids in that show were all dumb.
That Jungle sounds fun, but I like my series of caves, tunnels, and caverns under the everfree better, hay I think that the network might spread on for MILES! And Tidal Pool left me hanging so I'm on my own again... And who put me on the freaking HEAD-HUNTER LIST! AGAIN!!! Seriously, there's at least three dozen following me through the tunnels, and they killed my dragon familiar!
-Moonlight Shine, mourning, exploring, running for her life...
From Quick Search
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Good to know that I made the right decision.
Unfortunately I can't tell you too much about being a pegasus. At least not the in depth stuff like Jason does with earth pony magic. I mostly just enjoy flying, which is fairly simple to do. That said I could talk about how to find different shortcuts in the game. Shining Halo has been teaching me them and they are a lot of fun to look for and find.
If people would be interested in that I could take some time out of storytelling and talk about that instead. Would anyone enjoy that?
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Don't worry. I'm sorry for not being more open.
No chapter tonight. Sorry guys. I was sitting down to write up my chapter for the night when the girl in the bed next to mine asked what I was doing. I told her and offered to let her try out Equestria online, and now she's playing it and looking like she's having a lot of fun. I'll get tonight's post typed up tomorrow morning.
I will say that it was lots of fun, and that I hope everyone enjoys traps. As for me I'm about to fall asleep, I'll get back to everyone tomorrow.
Once again, sorry for the delay.
3311592 That's not a problem at all. If anything, it'll give you some time to focus on your recovery and get some rest. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that we can wait as long as necessary for your next update.
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That's how flying for me works as well, it's not nearly as complicated as the earth pony/unicorn magic systems I hear people talk about. Moving clouds around seems to be a skill in of itself though. It doesn't really have an interface but sorta just happens when you do normal interactions with clouds like you'd do with normal solid items, but some things like cloud sculpting or making weather other than rain seem to require a high degree of fine-tuning unrelated to in-game skill, but to your own skill at controlling your character.
I tried my hands (hooves?) at making a snowflake once, but it felt like I was trying to gently pick a single berry with a 30-foot pole. It's a cool system though, very realistic. It feels completely different from doing a high-level skill with a 3-second long animation in an MMO with a single button-press.
I don't bother too much with that though, I prefer regular flying and doing the occasional looping or barrel-roll, or smashing some clouds by flying through them at high speeds. But just gently flying around is the best - it's so relaxing. I could - and have - done so for well over an hour. Pegasi for the win!
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That's alright Susland I do hope that girl has fun with the game.
Whoa, whoa, hold the phone. I'm gone for a week for an expo trip and you go and get yourself stabbed?! And you're in the hospital?! I mean, sweet Jiminy Christmas! I like to make jokes about Internet meetings going wrong, but that's some ludicrous happenings there.
Just, jeez, man, take care of yourself first. Remember that out here in meatspace, we don't get Cure spells! Trails has my permission to smack you if you don't do your best to recover.
(Note to self: Update "Internet hookups are a bad idea" list with "may get stabbed".)
3316911 Well, it wasn't the person he went to meet that stabbed him, it was her ex-boyfriend who showed up uninvited to their date. The good news is that he was quickly located and arrested after the incident, and Susland looks like he's recovering well.
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Waaah, I had things to do IRL, I promise! Let me get on down to help fight off the bounty hunters. Again.
And then I am so totally bringing you to see some of those sand-dunes, because they're awesome. Seriously, you want to see if we can get Desert Sun to teach us how to make a tent, enchant it "Harry Potter"-style to be bigger on the inside, and we can have Izzy guard it outside? We can live in a big sietch-tent and go wherever we want!
-- Tidal Pool/Ben
Ok, confirmed, you said you got your phone now. So you've been posting updates from inside E:O? When C. doesn't let you access the internet?
She's been playing you. Flat out ask her what her plan and game here is.
... Or could you even trust that answer? Can you trust her?