DM: As you regroup outside the castle, you see the solar Princess's chariot flying down to greet you.
Fluttershy: I wave. Or should I bow?
Princess Celestia: I'm very glad to see that you're alright! I would've come sooner, but Spike and I ran into… trouble.
Rainbow Dash: I thought you were on mail duty, Spike.
Spike: I was! But I kept getting form-lettered, so I went to Canterlot and ran into… trouble.
Rainbow Dash: The fun kind of trouble?
Spike: You betcha!
Twilight Sparkle: What… exactly… happened to you two in Canterlot?
Princess Celestia: Oh, the temporal rift let out cyber-cockatrices into Canterlot. It took priority.
Spike: Man, you shoulda seen me! I got an eyepatch, a medal… I had a trident, but it broke.
Princess Celestia: We'll get a new one.
Twilight Sparkle: Are we… in the correct timeline?
Spike: What? I can't be a hero for a day?
Twilight Sparkle: Not at all. Nice work.
Spike: Heh.
SFX: (HOOF BUMP)
Princess Celestia: Sorry, I didn't mean to go on that tangent. I've come to help however you need me to. Is the changeling queen still a threat?
Twilight Sparkle: Well… Not for a while, at least. We've got ourselves some time.
Pinkie Pie: Haha! “Time!”
Disembodied Voice: Answer me these questions three! WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? WHAT is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Changeling 1: ...Drone 62B?
Changeling 2: Uh… Freedom?
Queen Chrysalis: NOBODY SAY A SINGLE BUZZING WORD.
Princess Luna: (thinking) Can I come back?
good mini-arc I liked it, though now I'm really curious what happened to Celestia and Spike in the original comic (no spoilers please , I plan on obtaining the comics and reading them myself)
Celestia's original line from panel 3 was "Oh, a horde of giant, magical cockatrice attacked Canterlot during the comet." Spike's original line was "I rode one into the center of town and saved the city! It was awesome. I had a trident!"
So no spoilers, it's just a noodle incident, and not much changed for the comic. Celestia mentions another event going on in Manehattan at the same time, but that panel isn't in this comic.
Monty Python? Wow, have I been served for one of last weekend's comments. (By the universe, that is. I'm sure the reference was scripted well before that.)
Now that he finish this mini-arc,
How did you like it?
And do you prefer Comic based, or snapshot based?
Me:It was good, but feels rushed. Don't know why, it just does. And I prefer the snapshot based. Gives him more creativity.
Part of this experiment was using the limitations to force myself to try out a faster pace of storytelling than my usual snail's crawl. So yeah, it's probably rushed.
Ah, not that much of a crawl. There's a balance between plot and detail. I know in some stories I've written, I crammed in the plot and people passed on them because I didn't have enough detail. So it is here, relative to your usual arcs.
Now to try to say what I'm... trying to say while... still mesmerized by it...
Will those guys ever be free... from the time rift thing, and will they ever... be able to return to some form of... society? I know I ask really weird questions, but... these are the questions I must ask because of... my attempts to practice immersion and because of a lack of sleep in general...
Welp, looks like I'm reading some Bogleech tonight.
I can't wait until the cleric learns True Seeing so I can justify siccing a Thought Eater on the party.
I take a peek from time to time. Especially when I want something to horrify or surprise my players, though I haven't run any fantasy games in a while.
So was it ever said how canon this is? Because I don't remember if it was ever said how canon this is. So I don't know how canon this is. How canon this is?
I get the feeling the 'rough patch' is interpersonal from the way it's written, but it could be general stress on any player/dm or an injury. Either way, I hope everything is okay with y'all. Best of luck!
I usually have fun running side adventures for PCs who fell behind in exp gains so they can catch up. Often life gets in the way and players can't make the session. Miss too many and they lag behind in levels. Not fun!
One of my favorite "catch-up" sessions was in shadowrun. Two players missed several games and to help them close the gap I ran a one-shot where they were hired to break into a lab and retrieve some data on the research done there. Little did they know that the research was in bug spirits and one had broken loose, killing everyone in the facility prior to the two getting there.
I was nice though and had the bug spirit start as critically injured for their encounter. Good thing too, they both got torn up from it still!
Never met anyone willing to do that with people. Then again, I've always leveled by way of arbitrary checkpoints instead of experience gained. Everyone was the same level and it didn't matter if you missed a few sessions since you were automatically leveled up to the same level as everyone else. Made for less drama that way...or at least less drama caused by level gaps. As I've probably made clear by now, my early DnD experiences were odd ones.
Now days, I'm finally having to deal with experience points and the implications of that. Like realizing that my cleric will end up being a higher level than everyone else soon enough. Pays to keep same character from beginning to end instead of swapping out every other session, it seems.
I enjoyed this particular chapter immensely. While I like the other style better because that was the first look I got at the ponies, I see nothing wrong with using this style when time demands.
No Fallout is Dragons this week. We've hit a rough patch and so we're taking a bit of a break. Hopefully not too long, though.