After leaving Hitch with the new information about his egg, Flurry Heart made her way further downtown towards the Canterlogic factory, by far the largest structure in town. Built on top of the tallest hill on what could loosely be considered the 'back' of Maretime Bay, the window offices no doubt provided stunning views of the surrounding area; downtown, the coast, even all the way to the lighthouse.
She entered through the main doors, and was immediately reminded of that time Pinkie Pie told her about her husband's Joke Factory that he has passed down to a colleague a couple years before the two of them began to travel across Equestria and beyond, eventually starting a family.
"Hello, welcome to Canterlogic. Ah, it's the new alicorn in town. Again, welcome. My name is Sweets. How may we help you today, miss?" the receptionist greeted her.
"Hello. I understand Sunny Starscout is preparing to go back up to the Crystal Empire. I was told to come here to get fitted for cold weather gear," Flurry told her.
Sweets nodded understandingly.
"I'm pretty sure our tailor can get something put together for you before Sunny's ready to head up. Right this way," she told her, getting up from her seat, passing the alicorn a lanyard with a visitor pass to put around her neck. With that, she stepped from around her station and lead Flurry down the left hall while an assistant took her place at the desk. After a series of turns, she opened a door, and Flurry saw a lone earth pony siting at a desk, in front of rack after rack after rack of clothes hanging up. Most of them were Canterlogic uniforms; most of them on the left rack looked like they needed to be cleaned, while the rack on the right looked downright pristine. Then the bit dropped; this was the factory's dry cleaning service.
"Hey there, Sweets. Another newbie to be fitted?" the tailor asked.
"Nope. Miss Flurry Heart, the alicorn that Sunny arrived with a couple nights ago. She needs to be fitted for cold weather gear, because they're going back up there," Sweets answered.
The tailor, a light magenta earth stallion with a white, purple-streaked mane took notice of Flurry's wings and horn, then took note of her considerable height, standing nearly a full head taller than Sweets.
"Ah, fairly understandable that they would cut their trip up north short after they found you. Nice to meet you, Flurry Heart. My name is Ivory Cedar, and while I've never considered myself a miracle worker, but I'm sure I can get something effective put together by the time they're ready to leave. Let me just... Where did I put it now...?"
Ivory opened several drawers and rummaging around, he eventually came out with a measuring tape.
"So what sort of things does this factory make?" Flurry asked.
"Currently, we're coordinating with Zephyr Heights to increase their phone production and coverage," Sweets explained while Ivory began to take measurements and write them down on a clipboard. "We've been going through a major rebranding ever since Reunification Day. Before that, we made a bunch of devices meant to ward off unicorns and pegasi. Anti-mind reading caps, splata-pults, though I think Ivory's favorite one was the Balloon Escape Pack."
"Not funny," Ivory replied, his cheeks tinting at the unpleasant memory.
"Balloon Escape Pack?" Flurry asked.
"During our last Annual Product Presentation, that was one of the hare-brained ideas R&D thought up at the last minute. Ivory here was selected for the demonstration, and was assured that it had been tested and it was perfectly safe. I even slipped him ten bits if he did the whole thing with glitter makeup. He got out on stage, activated it, and then realized that going up and away was what worked perfectly. What we were still working the kinks out of was coming back down safely, which he was able to do... Three days later..."
"I ate and drank more than my fill after that harrowing escapade, let me tell you," Ivory chimed in as he continued his measurements. "I go up, everything's normal, a few days later I come back down, and Maretime Bay was full of unicorns and pegasi. To say I freaked out would be a... Bit of an understatement."
With that, Ivory took down the last information he needed, then tossed his measuring tape on the desk.
"Alright, Miss Flurry Heart. Just in case I can't get a complete set of cold weather gear completed in time, I'll start with the extremities and work my way in," Ivory told the alicorn.
"No worries if you can't. I've got a few alteration spells that will be quite some help up there," Flurry told him.
"Well, whatever I do manage to get done will be on board the Scouticus when you all are ready to leave."
Have you tried cleaning the keyboard? Could be something in there. This definitely is a short chapter since lately it seems like you could put them all together I think, unless you didn’t want to.
Sorry for have a bit of complaint. Maybe my expectations for this story is a little off
Oh yea, forgot the balloon guy had make up on. Lol stuck up there 3 days
I can C the issue with something like that happening
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Yes, cleaning did no good. Q-tips, can of air, no good.
And some chapters will be short like this.
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I just realized something… have you read the G5 comics with Discord? No wait… you had him passed away that’s right… unless… well… he is Discord. It would be cool if Flurry helped G5 fight Discord to keep magic.
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...Okay this joke was in complete poor taste and you should be ashamed of yourself for making it.
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I'm falling behind in the comics, still on issue 5.
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Got to catch up before the 10th issue comes this week. Discord story about to end
Thank goodness they did, those things were a waste of money and time spent on them imo.
Yep...
Yeah pretty understatement
So it looks like flurry heart went to the Canterlogic to meet up with sunny but once she got there she met up with sweets and even having her to measure her body for the suit by the name of a pony ivory and he explained about his interesting experience I mean poor guy must have really been stuck up there for a long time with the balloons I wonder what else could happen guess we'll find out next time
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I Can't be Certain that I Could Contemplate feeling C-dy when it Comes to C related Comedy
Control your Combatativeness, else you will be left with Contrition, and I dare say a little bit of Constipation, if you're not Careful
hummm wonder who or what will be found on this trip north.
Hey there. Thanks very much for getting this next chapter up. Definitely appreciate you going to the effort. Again, the exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up are all well done in all the right places. Definitely liked Flurry Heart's dialogue with Ivory concerning the latter's experiences with the balloon pack during the dialogue concerning winter gear for the return trip to the Crystal Empire and the re-tooling of Canterlogic's work.
REALLY looking forward to more of this.
After binging a bunch of Star Trek Deep Space 9, all I can hear from any tailor right now is Garak’s voice 😂
Pfff-poor Ivory! And sucks to hear about the computer trouble, hope the key gets fixed soon!
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I've swapped out to an older keyboard. I have no idea how to fix keyboards. The key actuates fine as far as I can tell, except the PC doesn't register the press half the time. That's unacceptable when it comes to writing and entering passwords and such.
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Ah. Mine does that sometimes but it's usually just the key being stuck. Sorry to hear about that
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We hear this. On our favorite keyboard the O key is become sporadic, which is not so great. Low profile ones are nearly impossible to repair without specialty tools depending on what's wrong, and short of a literal light rinse in water it sounds like you've already tried your best. Good luck!
I do think some of the stuff could be reused for modern times
Especially the balloon escape pack
You add some way to inflate and deflate, a way of steering and propulsion and you could call it a BALLOON SCOUT PACK!
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Hey a keyboard is a keyboard
If it works it works!
But i get it