Boss_Hoss1

Looking good! I hope the mods agree. ^_^

(OOC: While the adventure starts out in Canterlot, it will end up in the Everfree and be mainly in that area)

Candy Catch-em finally got out of the spa after a full body cleaning that morning.

She was glad she would never have a unicorn foal after Pumpkin Cake made a gooey mess of her wings. It was a mystery to her how an Earth mare had twins that were a Unicorn and a Pegasus -Until she had heard they were from Ponyville. Since that was the epicenter of the Discord attack and Mrs. Cake would have been pregnant at the time, the case was solved in her mind.

Getting her mind back on the special event she had planned that day, she tipped her bush hat back and streetched her wings "Ah Much better!"

The pegasus mare then checked on the nearest poster she had put up several days before.

She read over the poster tacked on a wall post, asking for volenteers or other help for the chance to help move a rescue Manticore who promised to not hurt a pony. A ride in an air yacht and free food was guaranteed by her today.

"I hope I get enough help today. It would make things much easier."

Madam Bistro gave her body a stretch as she stood up with Drowsy's help.

She then followed Drowsy Feather over to the wooden frame with the ropes hanging down.

The mocha mare ulped and looked the rope up and down, then reared up to grab it in her fetlocks.

She grunted and pulled, then grabbed the rope in her teeth to hold on while she reached higher on the rope.

her back legs scrambled for purchase until she managed to grip her hocks against the rope, the ankle joints making a rope sandwich as she inched her way up the line.

Bistro looked around with her amber eyes to see what her progress was.

The mare sighed as she found she had only gotten equal to one body length off the ground

I think it's been long enough. I will start the thread today before work.

This post will be editied when I do.

Here we go, the thread is up and running here;

Amber gasped as the zebra jumped over her after unmasking and blocked the way.

Amber raced over while Rainbow Dash was yelling at the zebra "Oh Yeah!? She aint here stripy! Are you blind as well as dumb?"

Her guard hurriedly put a wing over her mouth.

Amber nodded thanks and raised her wand "She is not here so I suggest you leave peacefully! Guard! Go with the Doctor! Get them to the Tardis! I'll hold this... this... Minion at bay!"

Seeing the bright colored unicorn racing over to challenge the zebra, Spike broke free of the guard and ran to the Doctor and whispered "I last saw Twilight near the refugee camp outside of town! Hurry!" The guards now galloped toward the Doctor "Hurry, Sir. lead the way!"

(OOC; waiting for the Dr to respond, might as well pad the scene a bit more...)

Amber cast a shield spell in the form of a yard wide orange disk and pushed it forward toward the hooded figure to make it back up "If you dont remove that hood, so help me I will! Guards! Get Miss Dash and the dragon out NOW!"

Spike yelled "What?!" as he was scooped up, while the other swept a wing around RD and ran forward with the blue pegasus mare, both headed for the portal...

(OOC: up to mojo on if Jubilee was flying or riding...)

The twins flapped their way toward Canterlot, having finished their observations for the night.

Hoss was quite excited since he had brought his Special Somepony , the singing and dancing sensation, Jubilee.

Since it was a special night..err, morning, and they would be coming to Canterlot, it was decided to try out the teahouse Marsala Chai ran.

She had given them the business card the other day while waiting at a jewlers.

Shanna scanned the street markers inlaid in tile on the rooftop street corners. "Here we are, lets hover to a landing."

The yellow cart was levitated to a landing as the twins slowed their wingbeats and parked neatly.

Hoss unhitched and looked to Jubilee "We are here hon, ready for breakfast?"

Shanna trotted up and opened the door "Good morning Miss Chai, We thought we would try your shop after the other day, and we just got off our Starwatch duties."

Hoss entered, holding the door for Jubilee, when he spotted Duke Polaris. "Oh! Good morning, your Grace. How nice to meet you here."

I can see how the sea-horse seaponies coud be scary to the target age group, but I'm guessing they havent even tried Canterlot.com style hippocampus ponies either. * Sigh... *

Sounds like we have a good number of players ready then. Should we decide what everypony's role or reason is for being there before I start the thread?

Candy Catch-em is there of course as the naturalist who talked one of her exotic collector customers into letting her use the sky yacht, and I'll also run the Manticore and various crew.

Putting up posters for helpers and/or volenteers that day is a good idea and I'll include it in the first post. Thanks Dunder.

Reasons for being there can include being part of the crew, or as ponies who showed up because of the poster, or bored posh ponies along for the excitement.

Do we have to have been in the other thread you mentioned to join? Willow would love an adventure like that~ And so would I!

Not at all, Candy Catch-em only stopped in that thread for breakfast so it's not neccessary to have played there.

If you like, you can read it here to get some of the backstory on the manticore before this RP starts.

Candy will be retelling it anyway but it would be a handy head start to read.

Snails pranced in place as he waited for Snips to get his badge from a different pony than the famous Pathfinder.

He ulped as Snips suddenly pointed out that he was still not yet in costume.

"Oh gee! Ah didnt have m'costume on so's ya could see me in this crowd! Juuuust a second here."

Snails pulled his vampire mosquito costume out of his saddlebag and wiggled into it, not seeing Pathfinder close the door on the others in line.

The orange foal pulled out a set of deelybobber antennae covered in glitter and plopped them on his head. All as he bumped his way through the crowd behind the already-costumed Snips. "A-almost..there...."

He found himself in the auditorium, only even he could not see over the adult Darie fans closest to the Auditorium door. He saw folding chairs and tables stacked against the wall, with some foals already perched on top "Hay Snips! There's some seats we can see from!"

The lanky foal found the chair the other foals had used for a ladder and clambered up onto the nest of stacked tables and reached down a hoof "Come on up, Snips! Ah'll help ya!"

If he got a chance to look out the window now at his level behind him, he would see Rainbow Dash and Carrot Fields looking for a way in...

Amber wheeled around again in surprise, seeing a cloaked figure in the doorway. She got herself in front of Rainbow Dash protectively. "Guards, get her in the portal, just in case."

RD snorted "I can take care of myself. 'Sides, that sounds like a lost foal, right? Come here little fella..."

Amber motioned to the guards to get RD moving. "Ponyville is Discorded again, nothing is as it seems Miss Dash...Please hurry with these guards so you can get your wing fixed." She lifted her wand defensively "You! Remove your hood slowly."

RD was hustled toward the portal as the pegasus kept looking over her shoulder at the scene. "Okay, okay, i got the picture. I'm a famous VIP now, huh."...

Amber gasped as the library door swung open behind her, a dark shilohette standing there. after a moment, Amber ahemed when a familiar voice called from the door. "Doctor! I am glad its you. We thought it was Discord's minions."

Rainbow Dash bounced on her hooves "Did it work?!" and looked a her back, seeing one of her wings was normal, but the other was still backwards. "Oh Ponyfeathers!"

One of the guards motioned to the door "Please, Miss Wands, Doctor, lets get her back to Skyhaven before something happens."

Chatted with Dunder and found out more details needed to be posted on the general plot.

Along the way, the airship will be forced down by a wild Everfree storm before the pegasi aboard can deal with it, and the Manticore will get out in an area too dangerous for it.

Manticore Roundup ahoy!

In the Pony Joe thread, I iannounced that my critter wrangler pegasus, Candy Catch-em was going to be taking a manticore she had been nursing back to health back to the wild, via an air yacht she convinced a customer to let her use for the day.

Anypony interested in joining a trip by airship to the Everfree to release a critter the size of a 1979 chevy van?

(OOC: Sorry delays. Just remembered that one of the other players was running a human and twilight both in this thread. Is that player still around? Untill I hear one way or the other, I've found Rainbow Dash instead. )

Amber Wands looked around the Library in growing panic "Miss Sparkle! Its an emergency! DIscord is rampaging again! Where are you?!"

A baby dragon poked his head out from the stairwell to the second floor, then looked back up the stairs "Come on out Rainbow Dash! Its two royal guardsponies and a unicorn!"

Amber gasped as the cyan pony came out, her wings on backwards. She was on the verge of tears "Tell me you can undo this? I came here hoping Twi was around."

The mare gulped "I can try. if not, Fireheart at Skyhaven can! That's where we are meeting up with the Elements!"

RD sighed "Right, lay it on me egghead. Lets see what ya got."

Amber closed her eyes and tapped her new wand on Dash's forehead... "Dispell!"

Thorn watched in surprise as a dead ringer for Daring Do lined up for her kiss and suddenly launched into a monologue on the glories of the Daring Do series, her excitement rising by the moment to the point Applejack swapped in the filly, Applebloom.

If this was an attempt to wear the mare out, it seemed to be of limited success as she wanted to include the filly in an adventure tomorrow.

She wondered what the older Apple Heroine would think of that idea...

Yes, he would definitely mention to Applebloom the financial and entertainment possibilities of selling tickets to watch the line next time...

Let me know if I can lend a hoof in brainstorming.

(OOC: sorry for the short post this time. )

Madam Bistro giggled "So you stay up all night?" She waved a hoof "I may end up seeing Stalliongrad someday if the railroad becomes a reality, so that will be interesting I think."

Her eyes went wide "Climb a rope? I have never done that before. Is that hard? Can you teach me?"

The mare was excited. She had read of Daring Do having done so before but since she found the series after foalhood, she had never tried it.

Thorn was finally feeling better as the metal cooled, the forced hopping ending quickly. "It is *pant* quite all right Miss Gale. -And before, I was annoyed and helping protect my neighbor's stocks."

The buffalo calf ahead was coming to the end of the alley and the T intersection there.

Gale suddenly spoke at a lower voice, apparently catching her mistake from before, and Thorn responded in kind. "Brilliant idea, Miss Gale. I'll keep on his tail and you can take the other way and head him off since you are so very speedy! Keep your ears open. The bottles may yet pop from the shaking."

Ahead, Honovi had nearly hit the wall at the end of the alley and went left. Thorn followed through several turns, but lost him for the moment at another T intersection. "Blast it.."

He suddenly heard the hiss and pop of a bottle somewhere nearby.

He took a deep sniff, "Aha..root beer..." and began following the sharp smell...

Madam Caramel Bistro smiled brightly and clopped her hooftips together "Wonderful! I shall write up the agreement immediately, Mr. Geary! While you take care of your other customers, I shall celebrate and have Double M here do my shoes."

She looked to MM "Colors? Umm, can you do a set in burgundy, one set in black, and one in gold? Will the coloring really be in the metal itself? I have tried gold plated shoes and they look tacky when the plating wears off, and actual gold is too soft to do well as hoofwear."

The mocha mare got out a quill and scroll as she thought out the wording of the agreement, planning on writing it out while her hooves were worked on.

Madam Bistro was only mildly surprised when Maximilian actually got flustered at her words. So she was right after all about her guess he never had much personal contact in his life. Her success had not left her much opportunity for personal contact as it was until she came to Appleoosa, and he was raised in that environment of success.

This would definitely be a learning experience for both ponies.

It was her turn to blush when he said ponies like her should have a place in the history books for what they do for Equestia.

She was considering telling him not to sell himself short since he was actually doing something and not being a useless fop like a certain Prince, when he seemed to get even more flustered as they walked along.

Bistro held her tongue, waiting for him to speak. It had to be very emotional for him to mull it over so strongly...

Madam Bistro earperked as he finally came out in a rush, then smiled brightly and gave a small curtsy to the unicorn.

"I would be honored, sir. That it's my establishment just makes me a victim of my own success, I suppose." She winks in amusement.

"I do promise that Thorn has been an apt student in the making of my coffee, Maximilian, so the coffee will still be first rate."

Candy Catch-em smiled and waved a hoof "Oh they are relatively shy critters, so it would be rare for one to come into town. If any do come into town though, I can be here in a jiffy."

She got a serious look on her face for a moment. "However, if you see any bugs that look like brightly colored golf balls, get rid of them immediately and dont let them eat! Parasprites would be a deadly danger to a town in the desert if they eat all the food."

She peered over at Louise. "Hmmm that is a good question from Dan, do you have a preference for mane style?" She winked ".. or are you feeling adventurous?"

Amber bowed "I shall take the one to Twilight, the bearer of Magic then. Magic is my specialty as well..."

She reared and galloped forward into the portal, guided by the escorting guards.

In moments she found herself in a library made from a tree...

The twins gasped at hearing Doc Holly Day's tale.

Shanna fluttered her wings in surprise "That is amazing! Appleoosa must be spectacular to attract unicorns who went to that school!"

Hoss nodded agreement "Yes, Our immediate superior in the Observatory is another graduate of that school, Professor Stargazer. Have you heard of him? Midnight blue body, white mane and tail streaked with black, telescope and star cutie mark?"

Shanna added "...Grumpy as the day is long and afraid to fly..."

Both twins laughed at that one.

Meanwhile, the tall unicorn Flim cast an eye at the increasingly impatient townspones as they looked at the brothers expectantly "In the interests of our continued good health, I think we had better sell them as fast as we make them, my Dear Brother Flam. In fact, We had best make the first one a peace offering to Granny Smith or we might find ourselves riding out of town upon a rail, covered in molasses and chicken feathers and wondering what just happened..."