Dawn and Dusk - a My Little Pony Roleplay (Sign up and OOC thread)

[Waaaghpower]

Well, depending on the chemistry of Equestria, fertilizer can function as a powerful explosive. Or we can go it the old fashioned way and hit up every retailer in town, one at a time, at marked intervals throughout the day, to all buy a little bit at once. After all, if we each only get sold a little bit but there are five of us, and, say, five places that sell whatever explosive we want, that's 25 little pieces. Possibly more since, considering in-world physics, paper-thin disguises tend to work, and we could hit up the same places two or three times.
Barring that, I could go all ninja and steal everything. Those are my ideas.

[HectorSmash]

I was gonna go with 'retrieve explosives from hammerspace,' but Waaagh's idea sounds a lot more plausible.

Jokes aside, would the Royal Guard keep a stock of explosives around that Lash could 'borrow' from? Obviously she'd have to 'borrow' them, because if they were requisitioned, somepony might catch on.

[Walrus Man]

Are there an active mines in the area that would be active? We could swipe a sizeable amount from there and no one would be any wiser.

[Mabbz]

Well, depending on the chemistry of Equestria, fertilizer can function as a powerful explosive. Or we can go it the old fashioned way and hit up every retailer in town, one at a time, at marked intervals throughout the day, to all buy a little bit at once. After all, if we each only get sold a little bit but there are five of us, and, say, five places that sell whatever explosive we want, that's 25 little pieces. Possibly more since, considering in-world physics, paper-thin disguises tend to work, and we could hit up the same places two or three times.
Barring that, I could go all ninja and steal everything. Those are my ideas.

Real world chemistry applies unless otherwise stated, but I really doubt any of your characters would know about fertiliser bombs. The other idea would probably work though. You'd most likely be buying fireworks, and Equestria has complicated rules that would prevent individuals buying lots in one go. Five ponies buying separately from as many shops as they could find would probably go unnoticed, at least for a few weeks.

The disguise thing would of course require some luck.

I was gonna go with 'retrieve explosives from hammerspace,' but Waaagh's idea sounds a lot more plausible.

Jokes aside, would the Royal Guard keep a stock of explosives around that Lash could 'borrow' from? Obviously she'd have to 'borrow' them, because if they were requisitioned, somepony might catch on.

So... your idea to get the explosives you need in order to get past some heavily armoured guards is to steal them from some other heavily armoured guards?

Are there an active mines in the area that would be active? We could swipe a sizeable amount from there and no one would be any wiser.

The only mines around Canterlot are the crystal mines you were just in. Some parts are still active, but they don't use explosives since they're under a major city.

[HectorSmash]

So... your idea to get the explosives you need in order to get past some heavily armoured guards is to steal them from some other heavily armoured guards?

...fuck. 


As an aside, there was a moment in the S4 premiere that made me squee with self-important excitement (SPOILER I guess if you haven't seen it):

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When the moon eclipsed the sun in Twilight's little trip to the past, Luna was shrouded in orange and black and transformed into Nightmare Moon for revenge against Celestia. I know the writers are almost surely both unaware and uncaring of Lashy's existence, but I still felt a nice little twinge of familiarity.

Have you guys seen the premiere yet?

[Mabbz]

Of course I have. To save time, I'll just quote the post I made in the Enclave.

Well, I guess it's that time again. I've just finished watching a low quality version of the premiere here. Good episode I thought. Now on to the spoilers:

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I only found out about this by reading the comments, but pause the theme music on Fluttershy's bit. Discord is in her cottage.

The dark magic from Sombra's episode is... Alicorn magic? Intriguing.

Celestia and Luna's big fight flashback was pretty damn epic. Tree of Harmony aside, this episode fairly accurately agrees with my headcanon on that fight.

Sadly though, the episode also pretty thoroughly destroys my idea on the origins of Celestia, Luna and the Elements. Ah well, I can adapt it.

Final point. About 14 minutes in Spike is complaining about Twilight's flying skills, leading to her saying exasperatedly "Ok, I get it. I need to work on my flying". I had to laugh at that incredibly subtle jab at the number of bronies that complained about Twilight flying at the end of S3. I refuse to believe it wasn't deliberate.

[Waaaghpower]

I didn't bother reading what the spoiler was for and opened it.
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuu........
I. Will. Stab. Everything.

[HectorSmash]

Like Radiohead said, "You do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts..."

Anyway, MORE S4 SPOILAHS:

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I think when Zecora said 'alicorn magic,' she really meant 'dark magic,' and was just saying 'alicorn magic' to spare Twilight and her friends some stress. It kinda makes sense that a zebra would know of ancient or occult magics like that, anyway.

[Waaaghpower]

I finally caught up! No spoiler worries!
The battle during the flashback was awesome.

[Mabbz]

Yeah, the flashback battle was the best part of the episode if you ask me. It was pretty much exactly how I pictured it.

[Waaaghpower]

I'm catching up on my fanfic, apparently. Who's seen the Button Mash mini episode?

[Mabbz]

For the time being, it's safe to assume that I've seen everything popular enough to show up on EQG, as well as a very large number of fanfics  . So yes, I have seen the Button Mash thing.

[HectorSmash]

I too have seen the beast that spawned Button's Mom.

[Waaaghpower]

SOMEPONY POST!
In about an hour or less I'll have something fun up.

[Mabbz]

I'm the GM. I encourage fun posts.