Post by Mal on Apr 9, 2016 19:39:15 GMT -5
This section is dedicated to a group nicknamed the 8-bit party for all plots retaining to them, along with a timeline to keep track of when roleplay events happen.
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PLOT IDEAS/PLANNED PLOTS
CURRENT PLOTS
Jungle Fever - Returning to Equestria, isn't to be easy. Walking back they must navigate the Forbidden Jungle.
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FINISHED PLOTS
Tourists - Everything goes wrong when the group go to the Academy to ask Falling Night if Lightning is approved for a visa. When he is not, Tarnished loses his temper and deals with the unicorn. Guards are summoned, killed, and the group are teleported to Lightning's rooftop by Tarnished. Explosions are set off around the city, and when more guards come, they escape on a hot air balloon.
Quest of the Assault on the Elderly - Dusk beat the others to Distant Lightning's mansion, where she fought and killed his grandfather, therefore making Lightning the new master of the house.
Home - Distant Lightning is home and his friends come to Saddle Arabia. They find him at his mansion where they stay for the duration of their visit.
Armoire of Invincibility - A cursed armoire, mistranslated as 'armor of invincibility' is sought out by the party, which turns three of them into the other sex upon being activated. With much research done by Lightning, a simple solution to breaking the curse is found and they are back to normal.
Waking Nightmare - After they arrive in Ponyville, the Nightmare Moon Cultists send the party into a shared nightmare where they make their way to the castle of the royal sisters and defeat a construct of Nightmare Moon, freeing them from the nightmare.
CURRENT PLOTS
Jungle Fever - Returning to Equestria, isn't to be easy. Walking back they must navigate the Forbidden Jungle.
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FINISHED PLOTS
Tourists - Everything goes wrong when the group go to the Academy to ask Falling Night if Lightning is approved for a visa. When he is not, Tarnished loses his temper and deals with the unicorn. Guards are summoned, killed, and the group are teleported to Lightning's rooftop by Tarnished. Explosions are set off around the city, and when more guards come, they escape on a hot air balloon.
Quest of the Assault on the Elderly - Dusk beat the others to Distant Lightning's mansion, where she fought and killed his grandfather, therefore making Lightning the new master of the house.
Home - Distant Lightning is home and his friends come to Saddle Arabia. They find him at his mansion where they stay for the duration of their visit.
Armoire of Invincibility - A cursed armoire, mistranslated as 'armor of invincibility' is sought out by the party, which turns three of them into the other sex upon being activated. With much research done by Lightning, a simple solution to breaking the curse is found and they are back to normal.
Waking Nightmare - After they arrive in Ponyville, the Nightmare Moon Cultists send the party into a shared nightmare where they make their way to the castle of the royal sisters and defeat a construct of Nightmare Moon, freeing them from the nightmare.
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TIMELINE
1/24/16 Yuna is captured/held prisoner by Nightmare Moon cultists, where she meets Gleaming Shield (later Gleaming Echo after split) for around a month and a half or more. They escape to freedom where they meet Silent Dusk and later Distant Lightning. They make to Yuna's wagon inside the barn to stay a night/heal Dusk.
1/28/16 On the road to Ponyville for safety from cultists, an encounter with Diamond Dogs.
2/14/16 Hearts and Hooves Day they arrive in Ponyville, get rooms at an inn where they bathe and stay. Yuna speaks to Tarnished Echo that night.
2/19/16 Cultists cast them into a shared Nightmare where they struggle with their fears, and go for their only known option: the old castle in the Everfree. There they meet a construct of Nightmare Moon and defeat her, therefore freeing themselves from the nightmare.
2/22/16 The next night, Yuna has another talk with Tarnished to soothe her fears of dealing with the possibility of another nightmare, which cannot happen due to the power required by the cultists to make another.
2/24/16 A couple of days later when out on a walk with Gleaming, Yuna is determined to let him know that they are still friends, and his vow to protect her with his life prompts her to kiss him. Cue Gleam breakage and a kiss from Tarnished. They retreat to the inn to cuddle, later of which are interrupted by Dusk who thinks they are 'up to something' and goes after Lightning to get the same.
2/29/16 The Armor of Invincibility is brought up by Lightning who found mention of it in books. Tarnished tries to turn him off of this while Gleam is excited, prompting Lightning to want to look for it for Gleam.
3/1/16 They take a trip to the library to do much studying and book retrievals.
* They all take a trip out to the Everfree and find an old cave at the base of a dried up lake, of which they look through for the armor. At one point, Lightning mixes up the directions but they find a trapped chest with jewels and a cloak inside. As well as many bats. Once they are back on course, they find a wardrobe that, upon being activated, pulls in three of the party members. Yuna is left outside it. After it fills up with water and teleports them above the now filled lake, they are freed to find themselves with a different sex than they were.
* Over the course of a few weeks, they struggle to adjust with their bodies and seek to undo the curse.
* After much research, Lightning finds the cure, a simple spell though he withheld the information, causing upset when he confesses. Yuna casts the spell to turn them back to normal.
* Later that day, Yuna and Lightning talk. Lightning asks Yuna to stay with her as he is used to sleeping beside somepony but she gently turns him down, afraid to upset Gleam/Tarnished.
* Lightning and Dusk go to purchase RD vestments and a shield.
* Lightning and Dusk go to Hollow Shades to meet Dusk's parents.
* Gleam shows Yuna a shared dream, of which Princess Luna soon crashes because of the dreamwalking and the presence of a pseudo-nightmare that is Tarnished.
* Lightning later asks Gleam on a date to tea upon returning to confess, but loses his nerve.
* Lightning's time in Equestria is short and he is scheduled to return home.
4/10/16 Lightning returns home, and Dusk leaves to join the guard for reasons she keeps to herself, leaving Gleam, Yuna, and Tarnished to deal with the loss. Tarnished, specifically, goes on a rampage through the Everfree and the distant flash of magic is seen from Ponyville early in the morning.
* Gleam and Yuna sign out of the inn to live in her cart a while until they can save up money for a house. Gleam gets the idea to do another shared dream, and to pull Lightning into it. When they receive vague accounts of what is going on, they resolve to go to Saddle Arabia for Lightning.
* Silent Dusk uses contacts to get to Saddle Arabia to find where the Storm family are living, and proceeds to fight with the grandfather. After scaring him off, she manages to strike a deal with Lightning's parents. The grandfather is stopped from dumping Lightning in the river by Dusk, who kills the old stallion and collapses of her wounds. Falling Night is called to do some healing on Dusk which is incomplete.
* Gleam and Yuna take an airship from Canterlot to Saddle Arabia, a trip that will take a couple of days; leaving them late behind Dusk.
4/15/16 Gleam and Yuna arrive in Saddle Arabia, looking for Distant Lightning by asking around the marketplace. They are soon approached by three earth pony guards who take them right to the mansion, where they finally meet up with Lightning and Dusk; the latter of which is properly healed of her wounds by Gleam.
4/17/16 Lightning works up the nerve to propose being a herd to the others, with help from Dusk.
* Lightning goes into town to deliver the last paper to prove who is the master of the house, and Yuna comes along; Lightning buys her a cloak so she can have a better chance to be out under the desert heat.
* Yuna decides the herd idea isn't for her some days later and calls it off.
* The group discover that Dusk is pregnant!
* Yuna and Lightning go out to the Academy for some research where Yuna discovers some of his students bullying him, and they retreat a short time later at his urging.
* Over the course of some days, the group spend time with each other in Lightning's manor.
* Lightning needs to go back to the academy to talk with its head, Falling Night, about the matter of his paper and whether or not he'll be granted to travel again. The group go with him for support. In Falling Night's office, Lightning talks to her, but she denies his request and puts down his paper on thestrals. Tarnished grows upset and assaults Falling Night, ripping off her horn and throwing her out the window. The guards come, but the nightmare deals with them and teleports the group to the roof of Lightning's manor, from where he proceeds to pick off guards and destroy part of the city. The others grab their things and make for a hot air balloon. Once Tarnished is on, they take off.
* The hot air balloon manages to make it as far as the Forbidden Jungle before it runs out of fuel and crashes, Lightning having forgot to pack the proper supplies. The group are then made to cope with surviving in the jungle and traveling through it.
* Without a map, they entirely overshoot their original destination and end up in Manehatten for a short time. Tarnished uses magic on Lightning to give him a 'spine' and later on, they all end up in the same nightclub and deal with an unpleasant pony from Yuna's hometown.
* The group later ends up in Fillydelphia for a short time as well and spend some time there. Lightning buys Yuna a pretty necklace at a street vendor after they spend time at a library.
* They eventually make their way back to Ponyville and camp out just inside the edge of the Everfree Forest with Yuna's retrieved cart. Yuna goes out to the market every day as a fortune teller to try to gain money for a place to live.
* At some point, Tarnished shoves Yuna into the armoire to change her sex to try 'something new.' Unknowingly, the dual pony is now pregnant.
* Yuna eventually runs into Discord, who is touched by her plight and offers the deed for a house if Yuna can answer his riddles. She gets one of two correct, but still receives the deed.
* After showing the group, they begin to move in and look into getting furnishings (once Gleam has successfully made sure the house was not trapped, that is).
1/24/16 Yuna is captured/held prisoner by Nightmare Moon cultists, where she meets Gleaming Shield (later Gleaming Echo after split) for around a month and a half or more. They escape to freedom where they meet Silent Dusk and later Distant Lightning. They make to Yuna's wagon inside the barn to stay a night/heal Dusk.
1/28/16 On the road to Ponyville for safety from cultists, an encounter with Diamond Dogs.
2/14/16 Hearts and Hooves Day they arrive in Ponyville, get rooms at an inn where they bathe and stay. Yuna speaks to Tarnished Echo that night.
2/19/16 Cultists cast them into a shared Nightmare where they struggle with their fears, and go for their only known option: the old castle in the Everfree. There they meet a construct of Nightmare Moon and defeat her, therefore freeing themselves from the nightmare.
2/22/16 The next night, Yuna has another talk with Tarnished to soothe her fears of dealing with the possibility of another nightmare, which cannot happen due to the power required by the cultists to make another.
2/24/16 A couple of days later when out on a walk with Gleaming, Yuna is determined to let him know that they are still friends, and his vow to protect her with his life prompts her to kiss him. Cue Gleam breakage and a kiss from Tarnished. They retreat to the inn to cuddle, later of which are interrupted by Dusk who thinks they are 'up to something' and goes after Lightning to get the same.
2/29/16 The Armor of Invincibility is brought up by Lightning who found mention of it in books. Tarnished tries to turn him off of this while Gleam is excited, prompting Lightning to want to look for it for Gleam.
3/1/16 They take a trip to the library to do much studying and book retrievals.
* They all take a trip out to the Everfree and find an old cave at the base of a dried up lake, of which they look through for the armor. At one point, Lightning mixes up the directions but they find a trapped chest with jewels and a cloak inside. As well as many bats. Once they are back on course, they find a wardrobe that, upon being activated, pulls in three of the party members. Yuna is left outside it. After it fills up with water and teleports them above the now filled lake, they are freed to find themselves with a different sex than they were.
* Over the course of a few weeks, they struggle to adjust with their bodies and seek to undo the curse.
* After much research, Lightning finds the cure, a simple spell though he withheld the information, causing upset when he confesses. Yuna casts the spell to turn them back to normal.
* Later that day, Yuna and Lightning talk. Lightning asks Yuna to stay with her as he is used to sleeping beside somepony but she gently turns him down, afraid to upset Gleam/Tarnished.
* Lightning and Dusk go to purchase RD vestments and a shield.
* Lightning and Dusk go to Hollow Shades to meet Dusk's parents.
* Gleam shows Yuna a shared dream, of which Princess Luna soon crashes because of the dreamwalking and the presence of a pseudo-nightmare that is Tarnished.
* Lightning later asks Gleam on a date to tea upon returning to confess, but loses his nerve.
* Lightning's time in Equestria is short and he is scheduled to return home.
4/10/16 Lightning returns home, and Dusk leaves to join the guard for reasons she keeps to herself, leaving Gleam, Yuna, and Tarnished to deal with the loss. Tarnished, specifically, goes on a rampage through the Everfree and the distant flash of magic is seen from Ponyville early in the morning.
* Gleam and Yuna sign out of the inn to live in her cart a while until they can save up money for a house. Gleam gets the idea to do another shared dream, and to pull Lightning into it. When they receive vague accounts of what is going on, they resolve to go to Saddle Arabia for Lightning.
* Silent Dusk uses contacts to get to Saddle Arabia to find where the Storm family are living, and proceeds to fight with the grandfather. After scaring him off, she manages to strike a deal with Lightning's parents. The grandfather is stopped from dumping Lightning in the river by Dusk, who kills the old stallion and collapses of her wounds. Falling Night is called to do some healing on Dusk which is incomplete.
* Gleam and Yuna take an airship from Canterlot to Saddle Arabia, a trip that will take a couple of days; leaving them late behind Dusk.
4/15/16 Gleam and Yuna arrive in Saddle Arabia, looking for Distant Lightning by asking around the marketplace. They are soon approached by three earth pony guards who take them right to the mansion, where they finally meet up with Lightning and Dusk; the latter of which is properly healed of her wounds by Gleam.
4/17/16 Lightning works up the nerve to propose being a herd to the others, with help from Dusk.
* Lightning goes into town to deliver the last paper to prove who is the master of the house, and Yuna comes along; Lightning buys her a cloak so she can have a better chance to be out under the desert heat.
* Yuna decides the herd idea isn't for her some days later and calls it off.
* The group discover that Dusk is pregnant!
* Yuna and Lightning go out to the Academy for some research where Yuna discovers some of his students bullying him, and they retreat a short time later at his urging.
* Over the course of some days, the group spend time with each other in Lightning's manor.
* Lightning needs to go back to the academy to talk with its head, Falling Night, about the matter of his paper and whether or not he'll be granted to travel again. The group go with him for support. In Falling Night's office, Lightning talks to her, but she denies his request and puts down his paper on thestrals. Tarnished grows upset and assaults Falling Night, ripping off her horn and throwing her out the window. The guards come, but the nightmare deals with them and teleports the group to the roof of Lightning's manor, from where he proceeds to pick off guards and destroy part of the city. The others grab their things and make for a hot air balloon. Once Tarnished is on, they take off.
* The hot air balloon manages to make it as far as the Forbidden Jungle before it runs out of fuel and crashes, Lightning having forgot to pack the proper supplies. The group are then made to cope with surviving in the jungle and traveling through it.
* Without a map, they entirely overshoot their original destination and end up in Manehatten for a short time. Tarnished uses magic on Lightning to give him a 'spine' and later on, they all end up in the same nightclub and deal with an unpleasant pony from Yuna's hometown.
* The group later ends up in Fillydelphia for a short time as well and spend some time there. Lightning buys Yuna a pretty necklace at a street vendor after they spend time at a library.
* They eventually make their way back to Ponyville and camp out just inside the edge of the Everfree Forest with Yuna's retrieved cart. Yuna goes out to the market every day as a fortune teller to try to gain money for a place to live.
* At some point, Tarnished shoves Yuna into the armoire to change her sex to try 'something new.' Unknowingly, the dual pony is now pregnant.
* Yuna eventually runs into Discord, who is touched by her plight and offers the deed for a house if Yuna can answer his riddles. She gets one of two correct, but still receives the deed.
* After showing the group, they begin to move in and look into getting furnishings (once Gleam has successfully made sure the house was not trapped, that is).