Bramble Rose

Purple Haze Purple Haze's quiet scolding was just working its way up to its hissed creshendo when Apple Bloom's compliment came zinging in to shatter its momentum. Purple perked up eagerly, her ears lifting and her head coming around. "Oooo, ye loik it?!" she cried happily. "It's me birthday gift tae ye! Oi've been guardin' it alla this toim! It's all ready tae go, soon as ye want a slice! Special carrot family recipe, it is! Moi ma shared it wi' me! Nae wi' me big brae, 'course, on accounta he burns water!" ​

Silver Flash gave a big grin and waggled her eyebrows, looking out over the crowd. "You see, kids?" she asked playfully, despite most the audience not being kids. "Dreams do come true!" She turned back to Merlot with a grin. "It's too bad we don't have a convenient dig site here with us today, so you could show us your fine falling-rock dodging and trap-disarming skills, eh Doc?" She gave a wink to the audience on that one ... "I'm sure you'd like to impress us all! But before I ask any more questions, because two ponies talking is a bit boring, are there any questions from the audience about Doctor Merlot's impressive work?" She looked out over the audience, and her eyes settled on Pathfinder. "How about you! The slightly less dashing and more trail-worn version of me! Love the authenticity by the way - I'd be wearing something more like that if the PR ponies didn't want me all shiny and new-looking. You look like you've been holding it in - have any questions for the good Doctor?"​

Rainbow Dash Rainbow Dash gave a small glare at Carrot as he jabbed at her, but then laughed and punched him in the shoulder. "Good one!" she snickered. "Nice comeback!" She smiled happily as Apple Bloom opened the gift. "Ha! Knew ya'd like it, kid!" She said cheerfully as she hugged the yellow filly back, not really noticing nor caring about the dirty hooves that left smudges on the white gown. She lacked Rarity's sixth sense in that area. Yet... uuuuuugh... being dressed up was boooooring. It was like, all you were here to do was stand around and let ponies look at you. Not that she minded being looked at - but she liked to do stuff while being looked at! But as the cake slices hit, at least the party was looking up! She laughed merrily, shaking her head. "Wow, what is *with* this party, amiright?" she snickered. "It's like there's some sort of mini-Discord running around - and I mean other than just Pinkie Pie!" She rubbed thoughtfully under her chin. "I wonder if those gremlins in Daring Do and the Furthest Shore are real critters or just made-up... Twilight would know... Are we done with the presents, then? Is it cake-and-dancing time? Well, the cake went dancing!" She laughed again.​ Sweetie Belle Sweetie ooooed softly over the very nice compass, then bit her lower lip. Oh dear ... now her own gift of a compass looked ... much less special. Miss Cheerilee's compass was *so much nicer* than her own! Still, she needed to be polite! "Ah, it's nice!" she said brightly to Apple Bloom. "I really like its case ... it's a really pretty compass!" She let out a squeak and ducked as cake slices flew over the lil' white filly, and turned around to see where they'd landed. "Oh *no*!" she cried in surprise, her voice cracking, jaw dropping, and a lil' spark flying out of her horn tip. "Oh, Applejack, all over your new playset! Oh, I mean ... Apple Bloom's new playset!" She patted Applejack on the shoulder gently, considering the mess. "Should we get some towels and water?" she asked, "I'm really good at cleaning! Just ask my sister!"​ Purple Haze Purple let out faint little pained noises, watching that single slice of cake crash down ... she didn't really care what it'd hit, but ... that was her CAKE! Her special gift to Apple Bloom! Her gaze slowly swiveled back to where the cake had come from, the sheepish looking and clumsy Carrot Fields. Her big brae. After protecting it from ALL the chaos, two slice of cake had been tossed... by her own big brae. While she was busy cleaning up the mess, he was making more! She took a deep breath, and walked across the intervening space till the lil filly was glaring up at her big brae. Then, under her breath and with an almost completely incoherent accent that was FAR beyond the usual careful accent she used to try to let ponies understand her, she started quietly berating him for being the clumsiest big brae she'd ever had!​

Rainbow Dash's eyes lit up at the challenge, and a big, eager grin spread across her face. "Only two? Try four each!" The situation escalated out of control rather rapidly, and it wasn't long before the two ponies were sitting across the table from each other, tears streaming down their reddened faces as they each reached for another pepper from the plate between them, and several of the food vendors were blatantly ignoring other customers as they watched the show in intense amusement. "Y'really think you can latht?" Dash asked, then blinked as her tongue refused to make the 's' sound, it felt so numb...​

Wait, what? ... I just looked for those the other day and they weren't there. YAY! No, wait ... they're still not in my history ... ... I'm confused... ... Oh my gosh. I would never accept these as applications, these days... how embarrassing.

Urgh. I hope it gets fixed, there's a lot of old threads I like going back to look at. I'd have copy/pasted them to a text file if I'd known there was a chance of losing them, and the thought of hunting through google archives isn't appealing... And my Doctor Whooves and Sweetie Belle apps were the oldest active cast apps on the board! Ah well... que sera sera.

Is there any chance these will all be restored? Or are all these threads lost forever?

That's a level 1 Rogue, level 3 Druid! And I approve of my character's use in this background.

Silver Flash grinned. "All right. Standard procedure, then..." She looked over to the others. "OK, so first rule of playing these games... all the NPC merchants and whatnot can travel all over Equestria all year long without getting in trouble, but adventurers can't go a week without getting jumped by bandits, attacked by monsters, or some other thing. All the other merchants walk by these areas all the time without problems, but as soon as we show up, everything goes to tartarus. I always explain it away in my head that adventurers are snags in the tapestry of fate." She leaned over the map. "All right, soooo... going in character..."​ Snicker Snack kept alternating between walking and floating along, bored bored BORED by how slowly everypony was traveling! Was this how it was for earth ponies and unicorn ponies all the time? Slow and everything in the right order? Not just jumping from interesting place to interesting place with everything in-between just a brief backdrop to a quick flight? Blaaaaaaaaah. Then the broken tops of walls reached over the greenery, and Snicker perked up. Perfect! Finally! Something to do! "All right!" she cried eagerly, trying to tone down the lisp a little. "Thith is it! Now, there's a lot of guards walking these roads, tho there's probably a bandit troop somewhere around here... an' those ruinth are a great place for a hideout! So let'th approach cautiously. Anyone mind if I do thome scouting ahead to make sure it's thafe?"​

Is this also why 'My Content' is missing so many entries?

Silver Flash leans over, looking at the scrawled map laid out on the table, grinning eagerly. Ah, the adventure begins properly! "OK, are we just now approaching from one side, or have we already been walking all through this, and thus know there's no bandits or traps just at the moment?"​

Purple Haze Purple looked up at Lux's question, a curious look on her face as she put yet another present into the 'present' pile. She also kept going at Lux's 'not present' pile and sorting it into smaller piles - the garbage pile, the repairable pile, the still-good pile, stuff like that. "Ach, aye!" she said, holding the small giftbox in her mouth, dangling by the ribbons. She looked over to Cheerilee. "Whad it 'ook 'ike, again?" she asked brightly.​ Rainbow Dash Dash looked at Pinkie Pie uncertainly ... Pinkie had already done a pretty good job of wrecking the party, which was really unlike her. She seemed ... off, today. Then again, the fabulously done-up Rainbow Dash and the filthy Rarity had little to say about someone acting differently than usual! "All right," she said, with a little laugh. At least Applejack was here - the mare was always on top of everything, very responsible and adult and - She came out into the main room to find Applejack hunkered down on her belly, giggling like a little foal as she played with a great big dollhouse. Rainbow Dash stopped and stared in surprise. What the hay was going on with this party?! She shook her head. Well, this dress wasn't her fault, and she still had an awesome, radical gift to give to Apple Bloom! She grinned broadly and trotted over to where her rainbow-paper-wrapped hoofball was sitting in the pile and flicked it into the air with her wing, balancing it there for a moment before rolling it across her back to her other wing, and then setting the distinctively shaped package down in front of Apple Bloom. "Bet ya can't guess what I got you!" she chirped proudly, her long shimmering mane and gorgeous gown shining as she stood tall, waiting for the filly to open the gift.​