TheInvisiblePony

Well, actually, dear old Celestia might be able to beat her star pupil (scratch that - probably would), it wouldn't be quite as easy as forcing a Neil Armstrong on her. She only was able to banish Nightmare Moon because she had the elements of harmony. She no longer possesses said elements, ergo the moon will have to be a bit dull without its Sparkle. That's it, the only pun. I promise.

So, just saw this movie today, and it was a LOT better than I thought it would be. Seriously, this movie is fantastic, but I am a bit curious. It's still fairly new, so has anypony else seen it yet? If so, what did y'all think of it?

Well, just watched the time travel episode, and I must say, they have VERY creative writing. This has potential, if it continues to be as great as the first few episodes.

Well, glad to here a yay, but one question still remains. Who should start off? I'd be happy either way, so its up to you.

Well, so far so good. Or, it at least seemed good. It was hard to tell, with little to compare the scenario with. Of course, maybe thinking of any situation she could compare this one too was beggining to over think things, which rarely turned out well. At least Soft Treble smiled. That had to be a good sign? Hard to go wrong from here, she reasoned. "I don't suppose you-" Fantasy was interuppted mid-sentence when she heard a thud ill timed with the music. She had little to know idea about what this type of music was supposed to sound like, but from what she had heard so far, it did have some sort of rhythm to it. Glancing over her shoulder, she gasped just barely under her breath. "Oh dear..." What she had spotted was that stallion from before, only he was lying on the floor, presumably unconscious. What really seemed concerning was the lack of ponies that noticed him. Fantasy guessed they assumed the thud was part of the music, like she initially did. Perhaps checking if he was okay would be a sound plan. Turning back to the two mares, she gave a brief excuse. "Erm, I hate to cut things off early, but I just remembered I need to attend to something at the moment..." Okay, so it was a bad excuse, what else could she possible attend to? She just didn't really want to draw a lot of attention to the stallion. That seemed a bit like something that would ruin the party, and she just wanted to see if the Stallion was okay. Trotting off, she headed towards the dance floor. Once she reached the somewhat large group of mares on the dance floor, she began to think she had made a slight mistake. Swallowing her worry, she nervously began winding through the crowd, wincing every time a pony bumped into her. Eventually, she did find the stallion with the owl still by his side, but he seemed to have gotten back on his own four hooves rather quickly it seemed. Still, she had come this far, perhaps just a quick chat to make sure he was fine. Fantasy had read at least one book about concussions, so she was still a little worried. Approaching him, she realized she had no idea what she was going to say, so she just let loose a nervous ramble, most of which was drowned out by the music. "Oh, hello there! I had... well, I saw you unconscious, and well, I didn't see you actually fall unconscious, but I heard it sort of off in the distance and a thud seemed weird for this type of music, and I saw you lying on the floor, but now I guess you aren't but really I just wanted to make sure you weren't injured or anything serious. That probably wouldn't be good, and it would certainly not bode very well for the rest of the night..." Fantasy took a breath. Once it occurred to her how little of what she said got across and how odd it must have sounded, she lowered her head embarrassed. Perhaps it would have been better to go in with some sort of plan...

Silver watched the events with a bit of curiosity. So the green one was Hopesong, and the blue one was Penumbra. With any luck, she wouldn't forget their names. Silver had certainly been caught in situations that had played out badly because of simply slips of the mind like that. Anyways, she regarded Penumbra's comment regarding her cloud gathering somewhat solemnly before giving a light grin. "If I had a bit for every time somepony tried to get on my case... Well, let's just say this wouldn't be the first time a weather pony wouldn't be quite fond of my work." It was true, to a certain degree. In the absence of unaccounted clouds, Silver had on at least a few occasions been forced to gather a few clouds from a building here and there. Course, unless one of the patrol happened to be watching, few ever really noticed. She made sure never to take too much. Then Penumbra asked for a name. Silver blinked. Had she not introduced herself yet? Apparently not, as the greetings were skipped over somewhere along the lines. "My name? I suppose that's reasonable enough. I'm Silver Lining, and I must say, it is nice too meet the two of you. Formally, that is." After that transpired, she watched Penumbra ask about flight camp. Perhaps she would have interjected, but it seemed a bit rude to say anything before... Hopesong, was it? Before Hopesong got a chance to answer the question herself.

Oh why not? I'd be happy to help you out here! I did notice Monsieur Darkness seems to enjoy a bit of nature sight seeing. It just so happens that one of my OC's, Fantasy Trope, fancies herself as an adventurer so I can see that playing out realistically. Not only that, but I see at least one thing the two have in common, that is too say, a relative shyness. Sooo, yay or nay?

Perhaps, but that would be rather easy... what if we took candy from EVERY baby? You know, just to show people we aren't to be messed with. Plus, all that candy could then be used for evil. Somehow.

Oh, I apologize, I didn't quite catch your drift there. In that case, you wouldn't be familiar with Anansi the spider would you? He has a whole bunch of African legends, and while he isn't technically good per say, he does play a protagonist role.

But that's just it, we aren't the government. Sure, there are a few 'life sentences' (trivial really, everyone knows its easy to break out) if you get caught, but isn't that the beauty of it? An actually clear cut, do or die, pass-fail test of villainy. Perhaps any common crook can rob a bank, but why just rob it? What we need is style. When I think of a villain, I picture a mad scientist behind the wheel of a giant robot. A gentleman thief so polite that people don't even seem to realize they're being held at gunpoint until later. A clown burning money because sending a message is more important. I believe we want the public to know we're evil, simply so they can know we are awesome because of it. The people know its us, the police know its us, the entire population of the planet knows its use, and yet they can't touch us, because we are just too good at getting away with the crime! Even if we fail, they remember it, and we still win!

I found this quote to be highly relevant to the currant situation: "Those who fear the dark have never seen what the light can do."

...Actually, Derpy did cause lasting on screen injuries to another pony (As shown by Twilight's casts in Feeling Pinkie Keen), and that was just by accident. Not to mention surviving a lightning strike and being able to cause large amounts of vandalism to the town hall with unintentional ease. Imagine how terrifying it would if she ever used her derps on purpose. Nopony would be safe. NOPONY!

Thank you! Now I certainly have a few books I can add to the ol' reading list. Oh, and I never did mind wordy and round authors. If anything, it just gives me more words that I can use in public, so I can fancier than I actually am. Well, in modern fiction and fantasy alone there is a HUGE basis on bugs and bug related creatures. I don't think I've played an rpg yet that didn't have some sort of giant spider. In any case, I wish you luck if you decide to research it.

Silver Lining blinked. What- what just happened? It wasn't exactly like she didn't make her cloud ponies often... but then again, she rarely came to this side of Cloudsdale. On top of that, it was fairly busy, so her clouds would be considered stray and handled accordingly fairly quickly. Or maybe she just didn't make anything in the middle of crowds often enough. Silver was considering this, when she realized that answering the ponies that approached her was probably a good idea. Okay, first up was the strikingly dark blue pegasus. Gesturing towards the cloud she was standing on, she spoke "I gathered it from this, oh what would you call it? Walkway? Yes, I gathered some clouds from the walkway." Silver still felt like she had forgotten to say something. Oh, right, a greeting! The blue pony said hello, that should be responded to. "Oh, and hello." Silver then turned to the light green pony, who had apparently examined the cloud pegasus a little too closely. "Don't worry about it! Cloud art isn't really meant to stay put for very long anyways. Even the cloudiest skies are cleared eventually." Silver flashed a brief smile, hoping that would suffice as an apology accepted sentence. At this point, Silver's ears perked up. Normally she missed out on background voices, but seeing as she was already trying to listen to two different pegasi, it wasn't difficult to hear a third voice, albeit a farther off one. Silver wasn't quite sure how to respond to the foal she assumed had spoken, so she decided to take an exercise in anonymity, by which she meant she wouldn't reply to the stray comment simply because it sounded more like a spoken thought than anything directed towards the group.

Oh, clouds were a marvelous thing! So very easy to work with, and none of the mess you'd get from clay, or the chips you'd get from stone. Just a simple puffy white mass waiting to be forged into something. Well, maybe not forged. More like molded, but that's besides the point. A good distance away from the visitors tower, a specific yellow coated Pegasus was remarking on how fun cloud shaping was. The mare in question was a bit of a idealist named Silver Lining. Adequate enough of a name, given her silver hair and choice of hobby. Anyways, next to her was a cloud that was starting to look a little something like a manticore that she had seen trying to get some clouds over the Everfree (a bit of a mistake, but a story for a different time). Anyways, the unfinished cloud was being carefully attended to by the hooves of Silver as she patted down most of the imperfections. Pausing, she spoke aloud to nopony in particular "I've run out of cloud for the tail." And without so much as a second pause for thought, the pegasus flew off in search of more material. This proved to be surprisingly difficult in a city clouds, mainly because pretty much every other cloud was being used, either as part of a building, or just being used by another pegasus. After circling around for a few minutes, Silver decided perhaps she needed to rethink a way to get a cloud. Flapping down to a walkway, she sat down and looked around. From what it looked like, she was at the tourist center. It was fairly interesting just watching everypony else fly about. Course, there was also another pony just sitting around watching the crowds as well. Silver wondered if she knew her. She blinked. Nope, didn't seem to ring any bells. Must be one of those faces. Silver Lining sighed. Now what to do? She didn't see any vacant clouds (Why would she in one of the busiest parts of Cloudsdale?) and sitting around was only interesting for a short while. She stretched her hooves and gathered up a small pile of clouds. Within a few moments, she had shaped into a rough pegasus (simple hoof-sized things were rather easy to make) and she gave it a gentle push, if only to watch float away. If only she could find enough of those to finish her original sculpture...

I'm game for an rp. a cloudsdale one should be pretty fun, really.

Ah yes, the famed eldritch horrors. I should really read some of Mr. Lovecrafts books, seeing as how little I know of them. Yog-Sothoth does seem pretty interesting though. I wonder, is he something of a guardian of time and space? Probably not I suppose, most of the Lovecraft beings seem somewhat malevolent or at least difficult to label with terms like guardian. Not to mention his title is the all in one; that alone sounds pretty cool, and at the same time it sounds like a bundled package deal.

I have to agree with the kitsunes, the idea of fox spirits is kind of hard not to like... Interesting favorite. I don't think I've ever met anyone with that kind of taste, but I can certainly see where you're coming from. I don't suppose you'd be fond of sea serpents? Along the same lines, I'd think.

Why would he ask anyone else?