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Post by Becka *Pone* on Apr 13, 2005 16:13:19 GMT -5
Spooky and I spent a good hour or so this afternoon storylinin' and we have an idea that came out from tweaking her poor brain If your name happens to be ESHU, WHISPERWIND, ANY CHAMPIONS, ANY OTHER OLD GODS, MOON GUARDIANS (from Xanadia), ANYONE WHO NEEDS TO DIE, or ANYONE WHO NEEDS TO LIVE you should be reading this ;D This one is going to work with and after the pirates storyline and can potentially cover any and all sister sites. Its gonna effect all of Ponyland, so mods its your choice if you want to keep up with it in your own game. To begin, Eshu (and any other old gods who choose to help, or just anyone evilish in general) will be setting loose a plagueish virus type thing, very slow working but deadly. It's gonna sweep through Ponyville first, be taken with the Champions to DV and then Course, and from there spread to all the other lands through shipping routes and general travel. The virus will lie dormant (but contagious) in each pony for a few weeks, giving plenty of time to be spread all over before its noticed and they try to quarantine it (think SK's The Stand). During those weeks ponies will start to develope cold-like symptoms, nothing to big to worry about, and eventually will be bed ridden and terribly sick. If you wish to kill of any charries, this will be the perfect time. Once the virus is found, a vaccine can't be mass-produced in time and technology having failed them, ponies start seeking other methods of healing. Healers in the games can start helping out with this, but the demand will be much too large, and the virus so strong that even the best healers will start getting symptoms. The Champions can't do anything, cause only one of them is a healer anyways, and so the Rainbow has to find some other means of saving its pony population (cause otherwise who is going to worship it?). And who are the only ponies not sick? Why that would be the Rainbow-disliking Xanadians. And who are the most powerful of them? The Moon Guardians. And how many Guardians are there? I do believe there are seven. And how many stripes of the Rainbow are there? I do believe there are also seven. And do you see where this is going? If not you will just have to wait while I talk to Whis and make sure this will work Anywho, if you have any input on this, let me know. Right now its a rough sketch.
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Post by WingSong on Apr 13, 2005 18:32:04 GMT -5
Wow this is awesome. But since you want it widespread and as far as I know not all characters here have a death wish, some will live, right? So will some have to wait until the end of the storyline to get it, so their charries will get the cure before it's too late? Or will some be able to fight it off? Or(yah, I've always got too many questions about everything ) will it just take way longer to totally effect some ponies? Cause then some charries could get it at the beginning and still be out and about, fighting for survival throughout the whole thing. *looks at characters* Hmm...at least one of you'll have to get it...Mesmira hasn't really done anything interesting yet... Meers: *backs away* No! I'll be interesting! I'll run away and join the circus! I'll do anything! SPARE MEEEE! *flies away* Anyhow, do you know what this virus is going to be called? Or its origin? Is it like a mutated virus originated from Smooze? Cause that'd be kinda cool.
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Post by rainbowglitter on Apr 13, 2005 18:40:10 GMT -5
Rainbow Glitter cood have it but she's not a pirate!
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Post by WingSong on Apr 13, 2005 18:47:57 GMT -5
...That doesn't matter. And remember the whole Solarvoid thing - you have to be very careful when you give up a character, because I won't always know someone who can go and delete the posts for you.
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Post by rainbowglitter on Apr 13, 2005 18:51:41 GMT -5
I know and now i have MoonLight!
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Post by WingSong on Apr 13, 2005 18:53:55 GMT -5
That's what you said last time. And then you asked for her soul back. Sorry, it's just a little frustrating. You said you were positive, then you changed your mind after it was done. You have to be totally sure before you kill a charrie - treat them like real living beings, don't just throw them away.
We can continue this by private messaging. I don't want to clog up this thread.
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Post by rainbowglitter on Apr 13, 2005 19:07:05 GMT -5
I'm posittif and i want to have Rainbow Glitter to have it!
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Post by Becka *Pone* on Apr 13, 2005 20:43:43 GMT -5
Most of the characters (even the healers - Kail's gonna get it) will get sick. Some of them will take longer to show symptoms, some of them may never show symptoms but be carriers, and some of them may die, but that will be very very few. The whole point of it will be to bring Xanadia into common knowledge in Ponyland by them helping to cure everyone else. (Questions are good, they make me think and help me to concrete ideas in my mind. Always ask questions) We're not sure yet what its name will be, but it will probably come about in gameplay much like Champions did (they were called the good stripes until I think Silverfall called them the Champions). Because Tink is banished from the internet for a while (ie. grounded) Eshu isn't actually in gameplay, so I'm gonna NPC him through Loha-P to get the virus out in the world. I actually like a modified smooze idea... anyone know the physics of the smooze? I've not seen that movie (I'm such a horrible Hasbro historian )
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Post by WingSong on Apr 13, 2005 21:05:23 GMT -5
I've never seen the movie, but I've actually been desperate and pathetic enough to read the script online. I kinda skimmed the smooze part(bumbling, stupid, non-threatening villains...*shudders*), but the gist of it is that the flutter ponies used "utter flutter" in the end to get rif of it. But it must have been lying dormant somewhere all these years. So maybe it got disrupted or something, and got rubbed off on a little squirley critter at some point, and has been out there mutating up till this point. Then eventually it would reach civilization...and the ponies...MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ...*clears throat* Sorry. I'm fine now. Anyhow, tell me what you think.
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Marshmallow Cocoa
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Marshmallow Cocoa, Medley, (Baby) Sparkleberry Swirl, and Vineyard
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Post by Marshmallow Cocoa on Apr 13, 2005 21:30:28 GMT -5
You could call it "Flukemia" (pronounced floo-keemee-a, rhymes with "Leukemia"). I made up that name for a disease I made up that's a mix of leukemia, influenza, and epilepsy. Just thought I'd throw out a suggestion.
It sounds like an interesting storyline. I'm willing to have Medley get the illness, but I do not want her to die. I still really like her. I like her so much that I want her to get sick (I love it when my favourite character becomes ill or dies, don't ask why).
I've seen the MLP Movie many times, if you need any help with that, just ask. But I'm not quite sure what you mean about the "physics of the smooze."
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Post by WingSong on Apr 13, 2005 21:34:44 GMT -5
I think she means she wants to know what goes into it, what could stop it, how it could have changed/made it back, how it could have mutated, etc.
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Post by Angel624 on Apr 13, 2005 23:11:48 GMT -5
Hmm, I have been thinking of having Mainsail die. I just don't have anything for her to really do. And if she dies, Baby Sea Spray could have a bigger storyline. And a more interesting life. But I'm still not sure, since I looove Mainsail. ^^ Though since she had Baby Sea Spray, she hasn't been doing much since she now has a daughter to take care of. And then maybe Baby Sea Spray could live on her own. But then again, she's only a baby. Maybe someone's character wouldn't mind adopting her! ^^ Baby Sea Spray: Come and get me! *laughs*
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Post by Whispering Wind on Apr 14, 2005 9:01:12 GMT -5
Yayness! This will be amazing! I did not have a big role in the Gods storyline. Besides, I showed up at the end. But this will be totally awesome, perfect... Some questions: So, the stripes will leave the champion´s bodies when the illness strikes? Does that mean that all Champions will get sick? What are the Moon Guardians going to do when the stripes reaches them? Will they get the message? And we do have to decide wich one gets wich stripe... Where´s LNS? Is BI going to be affected? Oh, the smooze! Let´s discuss it further, 'cause I like the idea... Eshu must have been getting the manipulated, elvolved smooze poison from somewhere... Besides, the orginal smooze was a lilac, stiky thing (like mud-cake ). It got eyes and made strange sounds. The Flutter ponies´Utter flutter and the Rainbow of Light was the only thing that were able to defeat it. The whole thing ended up with the Rainbow throwing it back into the Volcano of Darkness, where the witches once created it. Lets see... Dasher will probobly suffer from illness. Supersonic? Nah...no clue. Honulu Loo? Aww...yes...
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Post by Crescent on Apr 14, 2005 11:33:45 GMT -5
Whee, this is going to get real interesting. I've got a character that will definitely be getting ill - and it's Tramp. And I'm not going to tell you if he survives or not. As for the sickness affecting all of Ponyland, I'm willing to have my Highlands somehow affected as well. But since it's an island, I might have the god Moonmist coming back and closing all ports to put the entire island under quarantine as well. Hmm. Well, have to think it through. As of the Smooze, I do own the movie in fact, and yeah, it was thrown back into the Volcano of Gloom and we can only guess what happened to it afterwards. I see no reason why it couldn't have found a way out somehow, though, for example through digging through the mountain under the surface so no one would know it coming until it emerged somewhere, for example into a lake, where it could have lived and mutated later into something nastier - and something more transparent and more liquid. Hnh, well, I'm just throwing in an idea. Don't have to mind me.
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Post by WingSong on Apr 14, 2005 11:49:34 GMT -5
Ooooh! Maybe it kinda turned into a gas over time? And then it could get up in the sky and mix with the clouds, and rain down on Ponyville! Like how the only reason you can't catch rain and drink it is because of the air pollution it meets on the way down! Possible for it to turn into gas? Probably not. I have no clue really - science is fascinating, but my worst subject! Or it could get ground into powder and drift around with the pollen and such - ponies could think they were just having allergy problems or something at first... I'm glad y'all like the mutated smooze idea. So however this stuff gets spread and however it changed, is the smooze thing what we'll be sticking with?
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