A Quick Note On How I Am Posting This
So I don't have internet. I do however have a signal on my Pony Pad. I hope I don't rack up massive charges for this, but I'm going to try posting this from inside Equestria Online. If it works than I guess as they say; “Have pony, will travel.” Thankfully the game didn't censor anything I was writing. I suspect that Celestia figured that posting this satisfies my values.
I am still sick, and today was rough so this post is probably going to be shorter than usual.
Another thing to note is that Forest Trails is leaning over my shoulder as I write this. This means that I can't actually fill you in on my entire session today because it isn't over yet. Just a fair warning that the post today might not contain everything that has happened, and that Forest Trails is aware of everything I say in it. She's currently asking me about what I mean when I say 'massive charges' for instance.
Oh boy.
In Which We Finally Leave The Table
I logged in and found myself sitting at the same restaurant yet again. Forest Trails sitting across from me again as well. I suppressed an urge to flip the table out of seeing it yet again, and stood up instead. Forest Trails stood as well.
“Is something the matter?” She asked, a bit of worry in her voice.
I shook my head, “No, I just realized that I have sitting at this table for the last three days and needed a change of scenery.”
“That's fair I guess. Nothing else?” She said sounding a bit concerned.
I blushed a bit, “Well, back where I come from there is a running joke about flipping tables.”
She stared at me, “What.”
“It was a neat bit of art that got circulated around and caught on.” I shrugged, “For a second I was tempted.”
“That's just weird,” She said shaking her head. She turned and started walking, and I fell into step beside her, “Anyway, if you are done fooling around I think that it's time that we finally paid Free Breeze a visit don't you think? I ran into him at noon and he was wondering why you never went to see him like you promised.”
“Oops,” I said, remembering back to our meeting, “Yeah, I'd better go see him and apologize.”
Leaving the Open Air Restaurant behind
We walked over to Free Breezes shop. It was a two story affair, and from what I had heard, he and his wife lived upstairs. On the front of the Shop hung a sign that showed a map with the words 'Maps To Adventure.' Through the window I could see several scrolls on racks that I assumed were maps.
We stepped inside and a bell above the door jingled causing Free Breeze to look up from where he was sitting behind a counter with a book. Seeing us he put down his book. “Welcome My Boy, I was starting to wonder if you had gotten sent to the moon!”
I grinned, “Sorry about that. Several things came up that I had to deal with.” I picked up a scroll and opened it to see that it was indeed a map, “I actually have a proper name now,” I set the scroll back down, “Treasure Island at your service!”
“That's a good name,” he said, “So have you given any thought to working with me doing some freelance exploration?”
I nodded, “It does sound fun. When is the soonest I could start?”
“He glanced at a calendar on the wall,” Tomorrow would be probably the best time. “My wife Travelling Breeze should be back later tonight and she can watch the store while we're out.”
I nodded, “That would work for me.” I turned to Forest Trails, “Would that be fine with you?”
She nodded, “Yeah. I'll have to let my family know that I'll be gone for a while so they can pick up the slack while I am gone, but this seems pretty interesting.”
“Looks like you have a deal Mr. Breeze” I said, giving a joking salute. “Anything that we should do to prepare?”
“Naw,” he shook his head. “For this first time I'll handle supplies and whatnot. How good are you with distances?”
“Pretty good,” I said, “I'm used to walking specific distances in the bush anyway.”
“Than that should be fine. Though I would suggest looking up a few books on earth pony navigation magic. I hear it's pretty useful,” He chuckled, “Not that I would know having this horn. It's useful, don't get me wrong, but it will be nice to have an earth pony along for a change.”
“I'll see what I can find,” I turned to go then paused, “I don't suppose you know which way the library is do you?”
The gave us directions and we left. Forest Trails turned out to actually know quite a bit about navigation magic, and could teach me directly, which made a lot of sense. There were some other cool things that I found too that I didn't know existed. For example; earth ponies can actually pull of a form of teleportation by bending space around them when they walk. It can't be done while they are being watched, but they can walk behind a tree, and appear miles away.
That actually makes the episode where pinky is chasing Rainbow Dash make a lot more sense now that I think about it. Pinky is just really good at earth pony magic. Probably Twilight has never studied earth pony magic because she focuses so much on her study of unicorn magic. This is just a random thought though.
Anyway, I'm sitting here with Forest Trails over my shoulder writing this down and hoping it will send properly. We are in the library sitting with books stacked around us with the warm glow of the firelight enveloping us. There are a few candles providing extra light, and if I look over my shoulder I can see rows upon rows of bookcases. Forest Trails brought us both hot chocolate we are sitting drinking it. It looks really good.
I want to taste the hot chocolate!
Anyway, I'm off to field some more of Forest Trails questions. I hope you don't mind, but she's asking me a bit about the readers, so I'm telling her about you guys. We might be hear for another hour yet with how interested she seems. Just one last thing befo
Hey! Quit that!
Hey, maybe Trails can send her own paragraph to us next time? Might be interesting to hear what she has to say
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A shame she can't read this, otherwise I'd definitely encourage her to do so.
I have encountered that bit about earth pony teleportation. I then immediately embarrassed myself by going on about "Heisenberg* bloat" and "probability clouds condensing around a point of intent" until I noticed everyone else was shaking their heads and going "typical unicorn." What can I say? Trying to figure out the fluff is fun!
I'm still wondering how the UI works for that ability. Maybe it's NPC only? No, then you wouldn't be able to learn about it. Or would you? Almost makes me regret going horn-pony. Almost.
In any case, hope you get well soon. Heh, if all else fails, you could ask Forest to write a post from her perspective!
*Haysenberg, actually. Truly, the pony puns are relentless.
It is a shame that Forest can't read our comments. But tell her I said she's cute!
But yeah. We still haven't left Bacon yet, so if you find yourself headed in that direction with your mapping (assuming we're even in the same or similar shards,) we'd be happy to buy a map out to where we're heading, or even bring you along if there isn't one yet.
So, I just started playing, and I got lost in the mountains and can't even see canterlot, I'm a unicorn by the way.
You two are adorable together.
Huh, more earth pony magic. Now that I think of it, I have seen several instances of it while playing. I always thought those were just some kind of rubber-banding to make the gameplay smooth. I was mainly relying on my own sense of direction when exploring the landscape. That was, until I came upon a cave, that was most certainly non-euclidean. That took me for a loop. Deep Cave was accompanying me and couldn't stop laughing everytime I stood around confused.
So, thanks for pointing me to more stuff I can find out in this game. If you ever want to visit other shards, I hear Celestia can something about it and I just got show somepony this awesome semi-active volcano I found. Don't worry, I know a recipe for brewing Dragon Skin Potion.
I was going to contest the canonicity of the Earth Pony Teleportation, but then I realized the source of that information is someone who's been an Equestrian Earth Pony his entire life. Lauren Faust, eat your heart out.
On a barely related note, have there been any comments on the game by Faust? I haven't seen any on EqD.
I may have had the most... Well, a significantly amazing idea that it is making me obsess over it. CelestA.I. trying to ponify Milo from HP and the Natural Twenty... I may have to optimize my writing schedule. I wonder whether his Genre Savvy ranks could outweigh hers Magnificent Bastard/Chessmistress/Manipulative Old Wizard if she gave him enough chances to get xp..?
Yes Pinky Pie is. Alot. Better to be her friend on her good side than her enemy on her bad side. You watch her to learn much about way of the earth pony. Jakinbandw, since you have been studying Pie-Fu moves, you can also fold yourself flat when large object smash you or fall on top of you. Works for landing from long distances too. Saves you a trip to the hospital (or jail) but takes awhile to learn.
Forest Trails looks like she always plotting something. Look at her (blue) eyes. They seem to be focused on some cunning plan. Her smile just screams I know what I want and I am going to get it. The hair or mane says practical and the color tells the world that she is subtle. If you get some free time away from her, read up on some pony body language. It's going to help in the long run with everything.
Last question: What happen in library?
you might need an editor because i found some errors, nothing huge just a bunch of small things like spelling Pinkie pinky instead of Pinkie