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[TheZoomZoll]

^{(WHY DOES THIS THREAD EXIST?!?!!!)}

[Dsarker]

^{(WHY DOES THIS THREAD EXIST?!?!!!)}

((Perhaps a better question is why are the longest community games and stories threads pony forts.))

[TheZoomZoll]

^{(WHY DOES THIS THREAD EXIST?!?!!!)}

((Perhaps a better question is why are the longest community games and stories threads pony forts.))

(WE HAVE A CONSPIRACY THEORY IN DF Community Games & Stories CALL IN THE BATMOBILE!)

[Khenal]

^{(WHY DOES THIS THREAD EXIST?!?!!!)}

(Because Pony)

[bayar]

^{(WHY DOES THIS THREAD EXIST?!?!!!)}

((Perhaps a better question is why are the longest community games and stories threads pony forts.))

(it probably has something to do with roleplaying)

[TheZoomZoll]

(it probably has something to do with roleplaying)

(WE HAVE A CONSPIRACY THEORY IN DF Community Games & Stories CALL IN THE BATMOBILE!)

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[bayar]

Written on a different scroll:

25th Malachite
Saw a group of migrants heading towards the fort today while out hunting. Hope there are enough empty rooms for them.

17th Galena
We had our first invader. A blind cave bear thought this place would be an easy target but he didn't anticipate the ferocity of the mares tasked with defending it. I swear, that Breccia might have made a fine shadowbolt, what with all the biting and blood and all that. The grey old mare, she ain't what she used to be...

6th Limestone
There's talk about a trial for Fimbulwinter, the pony that flooded the food stockpile. I'm surprised about the rumors that he deliberately tried to sabotage the fortress. Why would he do that ? There's nothing to gain if a settlement that's been around for barely a year would fall. More likely he didn't realize where he was digging until it was too late. Now that's no reason to go around talking about the possibility of seeing the first public execution in Tacticssmile. Hopefully the amount of time spent chained since the incident has occurred will be enough of a punishment.

Should buy a proper tome the next time traders decide to visit, these scrolls are not practical.

[bayar]

((Accidental double post))

[DVNO]

((Claiming Safah Thefanaesel - Stream - Pegasus Pony))

(( Intro music ))

  A rather overdressed pony's ruby eyes set on Tacticsmile with with a bit of wonder and a sense of forlorn. His left eye was dilated at a 0.32 millimeters larger of a diameter than his right eye , for his condition of anisocoria was being lax that day.  The cornflower blue pegasus whipped back his blanched almond and bleu ciel mane as he walked into the fort with the other migrants. How long has he been on the road to get to this perfect little piece of nowhere to lay low in? Days? Weeks? Months? He couldn't honestly remember.

“Mister Artimus Penstroke - Writer, Poet, Play Wright, Composer , Call Caster, Producer, Propcrafter, Philosopher, Patron of the arts, Mister Stage-show, Mister Theater - ” he monologues at himself as he walked through the gates.

“How just did you fall so low?” he said with a mix of curiosity, animosity and pity as he eyed a mud covered tentacle pony mare carrying a fagot of sticks to her workshop.

“What is that? What the hells is that?” he said, squinting his eyes in disgust, watching the prehensile appendage on the mare’s forehead slither.

She looked a him and frowned, turned her nose up at him.

It bounced off him, It didn't even register, too many other detractors in his head to pay notice. He took a glance at the buildings looking words like “customs” “Immigration” “Luxury vacation hotel” or “Part of town that is not a scummy mud pit.” Alas, he found none.

“And what did you expect, exactly, Artie? A skycastle?” he counters, taking all of Tacticsmile’s . . . quaintness in.

“After the incident at the capitol, you had to absquatulate, and had very few places to absquatulate into! Be glad this place was as close as it was!” He shouted in the town center, turning a few heads.

“You are an ant, running from a boiling kettle, on a spiny, spiny world that will never be right and proper clockwise. Never forget that.” he mumbled with a paranoid caution. 

He strode into the most Official looking, most decorated building.

“Hellooo!? Very important pony here, are there any semi-livable shacks in your backwards hillbilly shack town for rental or purchase?” He asked  the mayor with a casual matter of fact tone. “I’m willing to pay in song.”

[DVNO]

To Artie's dismay, he found the Mayor's office empty.

"What a surprise, no one wants to take charge and be responsible for this disaster."

Artie's eyes dart left and right with an air of mischief. He helps himself and sits down on the mayor's luxurious office chair.

"Hey, peasants! look at me! Look at me! I'm an aristocrat! I'm an important busybody! Do this, do that! Up the taxation rate so I can fund a more elaborate party than that highbrow knuckle jaw a county over! My shacks my rules!" He said with a bad posh accent imitation. Artie was easily amused.

[Dsarker]

((Sorry, DVNO. Will get to that (after we get everything caught up)))

7th Limestone

Pertegah, the bowyer that was stuck on the wall, has started acting strangely. Kat will keep an eye on him. Hopefully nothing to get alarmed over. We've still got to drain the flooded area. Having to deal with a death, or anything else untoward would put unnecessary stress on the ponies.



8th Limestone

He's taken over the bowyer's workshop, and he's started gathering logs... lots of logs. I don't know what he's working on, but I hope it doesn't use up all the wood.

We've still got to finish up the keep and secure it from the outside. And we still need to deal with Fimbulwinter. Soon.



11th Limestone

Pertegah has started work. It was with a bit of relief I let Kat go back from watching over him to guarding Fimbulwinter, though I
have a bit of unease at their being together. Kat's very protective of the ponies here.



14th Limestone

Pertegah's finished his work...It's a very fancy...blowpipe.

It seems to be made of wood, with little flakes of the wood sprinkled all over it. He claims they're images, but...Well, whatever he thinks. He's clearly at least a very good...bowyer? Blowpipeyer?








20th Limestone

More Migrants. 3 Ranger caste - Rewshenafafa, female draltha, Rewshenafafa, male draltha, and Aberfashemfa, male shadowbolt.

Two Stream Caste - Kheplh (a slippy mare) and Kheplh (a shadowbolt mare)

The rest were Ashler - Zeghal (Gorlak Stallion), Tewrefa (Unicorn Mare), Aewed (Earth pony mare), Gerg (keshi stallion), Lewkes (Keshi mare), Qetrh (Earth pony stallion)

Well, I think we've got a large enough group of Ranger Caste to defend us now. Kat has been assigned duties of selecting a second squad.

After she's back, we will begin this trial. Time to deal with Fimbulwinter once and for all.


((OOC note - the Trial will NOT TAKE PLACE IN THIS THREAD. Check your PMs!))

[GoombaGeek]

^{(WHY DOES THIS THREAD EXIST?!?!!!)}

((Perhaps a better question is why are the longest community games and stories threads pony forts.))

They aren't, though, the top pony ones top out at like 50 pages (not 300). The longest threads are usually the most compelling to normal people. And the walls of ((subtle enbracketed roleplaying)) and lack of pictures makes this one really long boring story, and yet you keep describing the fortress without showing it...

[Telgin]

They aren't, though, the top pony ones top out at like 50 pages (not 300).

((At how many posts per page?  Glitterglen is 664 pages at the default posts per page.  Dawnpick is only 238 pages at the default posts per page, but many of its posts are enormous so I'd wager one of the two are the longest by word count anyway.  If there's a community fort with 6x Glitterglen's post count, I'd like to see it.  ))

And since I'm posting anyway, might as well toss in a short diary.

Lodestone's Journal - 7th Limestone

Apparently Pertegah is the next pony to be consumed by the insatiable desire to make something.  I've long wondered what drives ponies to do this, since it's never happened to me or Breccia, and I'm starting to woder if maybe it's related to traumatic experiences somehow.  That's the poor stallion who got caught on the wall, and I'm sure for a pegasus or darkbolt that's traumatic.  Well, maybe that's not the whole story.  It couldn't be that simple, but may bit has something to do with it.  In any case, I'm interested to see what he makes.  If it's a nice crossbow I have no doubt Kat's mares will put it to good use.  Or Kat, most likely.

14th Limestone

A blowpipe.  That's what Pertegah made.  We really have no use for such a thing, so I guess it will just be taking up space somewhere unless Miss Patience lets him keep it.  I haven't seen it myself, but I hear it was very well made.  Not that I doubt it, such things are always amazingly well made.  It's just mostly useless.  You can't bring a blowpipe to a battlefield with crossbows.  Here I was hoping it would be something to help keep Breccia safe, but I guess not.

I'd best stop writing before I get too worked up.  My back has been giving me trouble again lately and that hasn't put me in much of a good mood.  I talked with Dr. Clever Cleaver again today about it, but he said there wasn't a lot he could do.  I probably should have expected that, the last three doctors I've asked about it told me basically the same thing.


Breccia's Journal -20th Limestone

We had a few new faces show up this morning.  Among them were a number of rangers who will apparently be joining us in the militia, probably as a second squad.  The more of us there are, the safer I feel, but I still dread the day we see another fight.  The funny looks and gossip about me seem to have finally died down, but if something like that happens again I'll never live it down so long as I live.  Or worse, if something happens to one of the ponies here in Tacticssmile I'll never forget it, even if I could forgive myself.

I heard that Fimbulwinter will finally be tried today for his accident.  We're still reeling from that and I can understand why Patience is upset, but I hope she goes easy on him.  Ponies make mistakes, sometimes really big ones.

I also hope that having a trial on the day that they arrive doesn't put a sour taste in the mouths of our new citizens.

[vkiNm]

[I think the fort is dead. :< ]

[Pokon]

[ I think mostly everyone is still in. Depends on who's willing to start it up again.]