DM: It only takes a few minutes for you to reach the source of the disturbance. It starts with a very large serpent tail smashing at the water. The tip of the tail is connected to a long, purple, snakelike body, creating more waves by rapidly undulating.
DM: Finally, you reach the front of the purple sea serpent. It’s sobbing loudly, holding its perfectly groomed head in its manicured hands and moaning:
Steven Magnet: What a world, what a WORLD!
Fluttershy: Oh. Not dangerous?
Rainbow Dash: Yeah, so “not dangerous” that I could probably scare it off with Intimidate.
Rarity: Chase away the only non-hostile entity we’ve encountered so far? If it’s all the same to you, I’d rather talk first.
Are you kidding? There is a great thing you can do with You Tube captions: write a script, film it, watch it with the captions on, use the captions as a new script, repeat until sufficiently silly.
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't expect a dragon with a perfectly groomed head and a manicure who is sobbing to be that dangerous. Unless you happen to somehow hurt it's feelings. Or you happen to be a crime against fabulousity.
NMM: "Argh! Why are none of my plans working? Ok, let's see what other spells I have... 'Summon Bigger Fish'? Oh well, it can't be any worse than the tree spell..."
Magnet: "Well hello there! Did you call for little old me?"
Oh, for--couldn't you have used awesome? That word at least is already beaten into the grave, we don't need to injure epic any more than it already has been.
There should be an episode where the teaser bit shows Rarity packing all these fashion supplies and tools, and when someone asks, she says, "It seems Steven had a run in with a dragon, and he needs expert care, now."
Later, in the episode, in the background, you see a sobbing Steven Magnet, being comforted and given a beauty treatment by her. With most of his hair singed off.
I never knew where it came from but that answer is no less silly than anything else here. I might be a brony but i'm still kinda coming to terms with the fact that I'm watching cartoon ponies and following their exploits in comic and fanfic form. Me from two years ago is making fun of me instead of looking forward to becoming me. Odd times we live in.
Beware the path of ponysonas and OCs. Much glory it holds, but pitfalls also.
My main unicorn, Burning Sword... well, he's old enough to have been in school when Luna was going all evil (he's spent a lot of time in magical stasis) and his special talent is War... in all its glory, and all its horror... interpreted very broadly (ie healing, battlefield strategy, loads of spells, etc. He's painfully overpowered even after being scaled back from Marty Stu status, and Celestia (who he DESPISES) help me, I love writing him anyway.
That's why I've switched recently to the suspiciously-similar, but far weaker, Garnet Shard.
And, being the altaholic gamer that I am, they and their associates are statted in D&D 3.5. Sorcerers FTW!
Hey newbiespud, I had a thought that might give you a little more freedom to do panel layouts and just more storytelling options, if you want to experiment with it. If you used different colors to indicate who was speaking in different speech bubbles (subtly, in the outline of the speech bubble, a shadow effect on the letters, a slight tint to the background, etc), it would make it easier for you to have ponies who aren't in the panel speaking and have us still know who is saying what. This gives you a lot more options to work with for flashbacks, banter overlaid on establishing shots, out of frame dialogue, and so on. It would also fit fairly well with the mane 6, who have quite unique colour themes. I'm sure I've seen another webcomic which does this for every character, but I can't find it now. Here's an example of 8-bit theater doing a similar (but quite overt) thing for a small selection of the characters: http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/02/26/episode-520-a-cave-inn/
True, the floating heads works better in this case. You don't really need to guess the feelings motivating the ponies with those shots. Rainbow Dash is clearly looking forward to scaring a giant sea serpent off with a loud "BOO!", which is harder to convey with just colored text.
If we're talking about a bit of color surrounding a speech bubble, white would probably work fine as long as the speech bubbles keep their normal black borders. Most places depicted in the series you would be able to notice a little halo of white around a speech bubble.
Also, the DM could be going off of their Passive Insight. But I agree that I hope someone rolls.
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Magnet: "Well hello there! Did you call for little old me?"
NMM: "... Me dang it."
Magnet: "What? Oh no darling, I can't do that. It would be sooo unfabulous. And violent, I don't like violent."
NMM: ".........YOU, ARE, A, SEA, SERPENT! How can you NOT be violent?"
Magnet: "Oh and racist to boot; this is just the WORST POSSIBLE THING!"
Later, in the episode, in the background, you see a sobbing Steven Magnet, being comforted and given a beauty treatment by her. With most of his hair singed off.
I never knew where it came from but that answer is no less silly than anything else here. I might be a brony but i'm still kinda coming to terms with the fact that I'm watching cartoon ponies and following their exploits in comic and fanfic form. Me from two years ago is making fun of me instead of looking forward to becoming me. Odd times we live in.
My main unicorn, Burning Sword... well, he's old enough to have been in school when Luna was going all evil (he's spent a lot of time in magical stasis) and his special talent is War... in all its glory, and all its horror... interpreted very broadly (ie healing, battlefield strategy, loads of spells, etc. He's painfully overpowered even after being scaled back from Marty Stu status, and Celestia (who he DESPISES) help me, I love writing him anyway.
That's why I've switched recently to the suspiciously-similar, but far weaker, Garnet Shard.
And, being the altaholic gamer that I am, they and their associates are statted in D&D 3.5. Sorcerers FTW!
Then i took a tacky little cloud of purple smoke to the mustache.
Anyway, just a thought.
Something for him to think about at least, but here I like the use of the 'floating heads' bit. ^^