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one sentence: All gods and demigods vanish as an Ice Age comes, and ponies have to figure out how to fix it.

short: Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Twilight, Discord, and sentient god- or demigod-level creatures have mysteriously disappeared.  Meanwhile unstoppable blizzards suddenly take the world by storm without warning, plunging the entire land into subzero temperatures and blizzards that overwhelm even the united efforts of all the ponies of Equestria in an undending Winter.  You, and the other survivors, must figure out a way to solve this mystery and bring back the Spring, and Harmony itself.

long:
Spoiler: show
It began with a single snowflake that wasn't supposed to be there.  Then came news that the Princesses, the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony, the Tree of Harmony, and Discord had all vanished, everywhere.  After that came panic.  Ponies crowded the streets, the Guard standing helpless as the Sun and Moon once again hung still in the sky, and the snow kept falling.  Pegasi succeeded in pushing the first of the clouds back... but they couldn't hold the storms for long.  At first most ponies thought it only a temporary thing.  That thinking changed after the first year.  Then the second.  And the third.  The world was covered in ice all the way from deep within the Arctic North down to just before the tropics far to the south.  It wasn't Windigoes.  It was something... more sinister.  There was SOMETHING in the blinding snow, SOMETHING that survived the subzero temperatures with ease, consuming, devouring, and keeping this endless Winter in place.  Ponies went underground, or the wise ones did.  Almost anypony who came out of their shelters froze instantly.  Canterlot was a frozen monument to an empire long gone.  Ponyville was abandoned, then covered in snow, and forgotten.  The Everfree Forest shielded itself with its wild magic for a while, but soon it, too, was frozen.  Only a few communities survive now, most underground, besides the Crystal Empire far to the north, now cut off from the outside world without their princess to support them.  Some of you will lead these communities.  Others will come from them.  But there is a key, one last hope to saving the world, of bringing back Spring.  A letter found in Fluttershy's home.

From Oak to Holly, from Holly to Oak,
The tale we hide, The meaning cloak.
From Smooze of old, to great Tirek,
They ever come, the world to wreck.
A thousand years, ten thousand more,
The land was safe from shore to shore,
For Princesses and Elements,
Did grace us with benevolence.
But now the ancient curse is come,
Our bones to chill, our skin to numb.
To solve this ancient mystery,
Look back into your history.
No longer is it endless hate,
Nor arrogance, nor anger great,
But snow and ice are just the same.
Return to that from whence you came.


*****

Please see Sign-Up page for Rules and more information.

*****

Accepted characters:
Frostina "Frost" Nova (Omega_Khaos) - Factionless Wanderer
"Mr. Brown" (Bravo 539) - Farm Assistant, Duchy Fancy
Aldorn Ceraphil (Bane Emural) -  Factionless Wanderer
Asterian Élire (Asterian) - Noble, Duchy Fancy
Sandy Atoll (Coffee Rush) - Factionless Wanderer

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Factionless:
The snow is blinding, as usual, but overall it's what might be considered mild weather.  Mild enough that the winds only throw you about twenty lengths rather than over and across the mountain, and that's not an exaggeration, as you've come to realize during the span of your life.  Nopony knows how high the storms go; pegasi that went too far up never came back down, and the rest never saw even a glimpse of light up there, though presumably the Sun and Moon had to exist.

Most caves and shelters were, obviously, occupied and heavily fortified by surviving communities, and many were less than friendly to wanderers, since there was so little food and space to spare already.  The ones that weren't occupied by ponies were often occupied by all manner of creatures.  If you were lucky, you found an animal that only hurt you slightly before giving you what nutrients its body could provide.  If you were unlucky, well, you never lived to tell the tale.

Out in the cold, the few wanderers consisted mostly of ponies with some sort of personal heating device, strange ponies who actually weren't hurt by the cold, and of course all manner of monsters and creatures.  Star-creatures, like Ursae Majorae and Ursae Minorae, were fortunately rare, and mostly in their millennium-long hibernation cycles.  Unfortunately, Frost-Wolves, Ice-Drakes, Snow-Bears and White Lynx seemed to prowl in abundance.  One might find herds of Woolly Mammoths or Hoary Aurochs out here, but those were rare also, feeding on the rotting plants beneath the ice with gigantic tusks, or occasionally finding rare Snowberries and other plants that somehow adapted to the subzero temperatures and hundred-kilometer-per-hour winds.

The last pony you heard from, oh, maybe a month, maybe a year, maybe just a week ago (time was hard to keep track of without sun or moon or stars), probably mentioned a rumor about an unbelievably large underground CITY somewhere around here, with its symbol being the Triple Crown, mark of the legendary Lord Fancy Pants from an eternity ago, before the Ice.  "Look for the Mountain," they'd said.  "A mountain with doors, and a great stallion of stone clad in gold."  Most likely just a rumor... but at this point, it might be better than nothing, at least.

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Duchy Fancy, Orod Khazad:
It's mid-morning on a mild summer day down here in the stone cities, and somepony over at weather control decided to turn up the temperature and let the warm air from the Hall of Fire fill up the rest of the place.  It's pleasant, and there wasn't such a thing as "too warm" unless you were right next to a forge or kiln, or a magma river.  Birds were singing in the parks and gardens, little chicks, kids and foals going to and fro, playing hide-and-seek among the grand columns of the Merchant's Hall and trying to keep their mind off the fact that school starts again in a month.

Morning actually does shimmer, seeing as that the stored sunlight from the Sun-Crystals up in the far reaches of the massive cavern light up all the polished angles of the stone and crystal buildings, and the tiles underhoof.  In smaller places like Gemton and Rockton, you might see the mayor giving a speech, and everywhere you went you could always find merchants and artisans, street hawkers, street cleaners and errand-colts rushing past with "very important" messages.  The occasional odd pet.

Nobles were likely relaxing in their grand marble mansions, or surveying their vast estates while having tea and crumpets served to them on platinum platters.  Most other ponies had "real jobs" to do, but life was actually rather relaxed around here, with plenty of spare time for hobbies and the odd "adventure" through a park-forest.

Many citizens had completely forgotten that there ever was such a thing as "above-ground".  The foals, kids and chicks certainly had no comprehension of that place, only rumors of some sort of death world if you dug or wandered too far up or down, filled with either ice or magma.  The magma, at least, they could understand and see.  Nopony WANTED to see the Ice.  To them, this was the universe, an endless series of tunnels and caverns to explore, work, and live in, and occasionally discover and colonize when they grew up.  Equestria was an ancient civilization from what for all they knew was a million years ago, the sort of thing you read about in a boring history book and forgot.  Oceans, stars, grassland, beaches, deserts, all these were pretty pictures on a wall, or strange and exotic places you heard about in old stories and sad songs that always seemed to make the adults cry when they listened or sang.

But some ponies couldn't keep their minds off that world far above, and the ponies that might still be alive up there...
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Canterlot Archives / After Equestria (OOC)
2013 Dec 17, 12:47:03
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This is the After Equestria OOC.  Please keep all OOC comments here.
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RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9568
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9563

one sentence: All gods and demigods vanish as an Ice Age comes, and ponies have to figure out how to fix it.

short: Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Twilight, Discord, and sentient god- or demigod-level creatures have mysteriously disappeared.  Meanwhile unstoppable blizzards suddenly take the world by storm without warning, plunging the entire land into subzero temperatures and blizzards that overwhelm even the united efforts of all the ponies of Equestria in an undending Winter.  You, and the other survivors, must figure out a way to solve this mystery and bring back the Spring, and Harmony itself.

long:
Spoiler: show
It began with a single snowflake that wasn't supposed to be there.  Then came news that the Princesses, the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony, the Tree of Harmony, and Discord had all vanished, everywhere.  After that came panic.  Ponies crowded the streets, the Guard standing helpless as the Sun and Moon once again hung still in the sky, and the snow kept falling.  Pegasi succeeded in pushing the first of the clouds back... but they couldn't hold the storms for long.  At first most ponies thought it only a temporary thing.  That thinking changed after the first year.  Then the second.  And the third.  The world was covered in ice all the way from deep within the Arctic North down to just before the tropics far to the south.  It wasn't Windigoes.  It was something... more sinister.  There was SOMETHING in the blinding snow, SOMETHING that survived the subzero temperatures with ease, consuming, devouring, and keeping this endless Winter in place.  Ponies went underground, or the wise ones did.  Almost anypony who came out of their shelters froze instantly.  Canterlot was a frozen monument to an empire long gone.  Ponyville was abandoned, then covered in snow, and forgotten.  The Everfree Forest shielded itself with its wild magic for a while, but soon it, too, was frozen.  Only a few communities survive now, most underground, besides the Crystal Empire far to the north, now cut off from the outside world without their princess to support them.  Some of you will lead these communities.  Others will come from them.  But there is a key, one last hope to saving the world, of bringing back Spring.  A letter found in Fluttershy's home.

From Oak to Holly, from Holly to Oak,
The tale we hide, The meaning cloak.
From Smooze of old, to great Tirek,
They ever come, the world to wreck.
A thousand years, ten thousand more,
The land was safe from shore to shore,
For Princesses and Elements,
Did grace us with benevolence.
But now the ancient curse is come,
Our bones to chill, our skin to numb.
To solve this ancient mystery,
Look back into your history.
No longer is it endless hate,
Nor arrogance, nor anger great,
But snow and ice are just the same.
Return to that from whence you came.


*****

I'll let the first, say, five that want to do so, create factions of surviving communities.  Of course, I'll have to okay them.  Multiple ponies per player is fine.  Leaders can't join the adventure.  I'll make a "default" faction.

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Accepted characters:
Frostina "Frost" Nova (Omega_Khaos) - Factionless Wanderer
"Mr. Brown" (Bravo 539) - Farm Assistant, Duchy Fancy
Aldorn Ceraphil (Bane Emural) -  Factionless Wanderer
Asterian Élire (Asterian) - Noble, Duchy Fancy
Sandy Atoll (Coffee Rush) - Factionless Wanderer
Concorde Pear (Chirp) - Elected leader, Embers Rising

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Factions:
Duchy Fancy (Orod Khazad) - The Wandering Magus
Embers Rising (The Heart) - Chirp

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Rules:
Please post 10 or more sentences per post, with 10 or more words per sentence, and try to use proper grammar and spelling.
Keep OOC in OOC, Sign-ups in Sign-up, and RP in RP.
No graphically detailed violence.
No "inappropriate" or suggestive scenes.  Romance is all right, in moderation.
WAIT for others to post, and do NOT spam post.  If you are in a group with others, wait for them to have a turn.  This may take more than a full minute, for those of you who are accustomed to lightning RPs.  Yes, it is normal in MY RPs for posts to take almost an hour to respond to each other.  Apologies to those of you with short attention spans.
Please do not describe the environment beyond decorative embellishment of what I have already given you, unless you're a faction leader and inside your own faction area.  If you desire a particular type of building or object, simply have your character "look" for it, and if it is reasonable I will provide what you need.
All injuries stay with you, unless you have healing powers or healing tools.  The time it takes for injuries to heal, and how much the injury affects you, should be realistic
If you are unfamiliar with another player's tools and techniques, do feel free to ask in OOC before posting your response.
No real-world swearing.  Ponified swears are acceptable (buck, horseapples, feather, banish, Tartarus, gelding, etc)
No real-world politics/religion.
No powergaming.  This means no controlling another player's actions, consequences or character.  If you do something that would presumably affect another character (such as throwing a pie in their face), let THEM decide how it affects them (whether they dodge the pie, for instance).  If you choose NOT to be affected in an averse way, please keep the consequence realistic.  One does NOT dodge a laser beam if one is an "ordinary schoolfilly" (note the word "ordinary").
Factions must be signed up.
Faction leaders may not leave their faction.
Players may have multiple characters.
The answer to the last question in each sign-up form must be a red-colored yes in bold.
No demigod or god level characters.  Try your best to stick to canon "normal" abilities, and make a note of non-canon abilities in your sign-up if you have any.
No moving fortresses.
No portable doors back to your faction.
No demigod or god level pets either.
No summoning anything that's demigod or god level.
No using demigod or god level abilities.
Be considerate and respectful to other players.
I can and will change these rules at any time if I feel someone's trying to break them or bend them.

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Faction Sign-up:
Spoiler: show

Community Name: ______ ("survival team _")
Major settlements/villages/cities:
Community Leader:
Population: _____, ______ in regard to race or gender
Currency:
Strengths:
Default inventory:
Community Tech Level:
Community roles:
Special Community Abilities:
Community Weaknesses:
General Description & Backstory:
Spoiler: please spoiler • show

Community Symbol/Icon:
Have you read, and agreed to, all the rules?:
[/spoiler]
Faction Leader Sign-up:
Spoiler: show

Name:
Titles:
Faction:
Species:
Gender:
Age:
Physique:
Appearance (image or description):
Cutiemark:
Talent:
Abilities:
Background:
Have you read, and agreed to, all the rules?:

Character sign-up:
Spoiler: show

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Race:
Physique:
Appearance (image or description):
Cutie Mark:
Talent:
Abilities:
Place of birth/origin:
Current home:
Faction:
Occupation:
Personality:
Special powers:
Alignment (pacifist, chaotic, lawful, good, neutral, etc):
Brief bio:
Purpose/Mission:
Inventory: [Default inventory],
Have you read, and agreed to, all the rules?:

REMEMBER TO READ ALL THE RULES
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According to him, these are his problems:

Attempt to post: Your session timed out while posting. Please try to re-submit your message.
Attempt to logout: Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in then try again.

Could a programmer please help?
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Resolved Issues / main site?
2013 Nov 12, 19:21:00
is the main site being down just something that's gonna happen temporarily for each member until the web hosts are finished switching completely, or is it an actual problem?

http://legendsofequestria.com
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One sentence: Pony-themed Space Opera set in a distant future Equestria, with civil war on the horizon.

Story:
Five hundred years after the return of Princess Luna, the denizens of the planet have spread out among the stars.  Technology has advanced to amazing levels, and holographs, starships, repulsorlifts, gravity fields, androids, hyperspace travel and more are increasingly commonplace.  The common currency is still the bit, though mostly traded electronically.  Instant communication between star systems is cheap and widely available, and modern jumpsuits are fitted with life support systems, heads-up displays, holonet connection and translation interfaces, as well as interfaces with all the modern technology now available.

Many factions have sprung up as ponies, griffons, goats, and more explored and colonized the nearby star systems, though hyperspace lanes are constantly threatened by rogue Space Pirates, smugglers in blockade runners and other low-life undesirables.  Unfortunately, a few of these factions are becoming increasingly belligerent, and it is feared that war shall soon break out across the stars...

*****

Please see OOC and Sign-up pages for Faction information, rules and list of accepted players.

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On-planet, Homeworld Faction:
Another day arrived as Celestia's Sun rose on the horizon, as it always has since the dawn of time.  Hovercraft and sky-carts whizzed here and there between shining glass towers while businessponies, off-duty Starfleet soldiers and other folk milled about in the streets and on tall bridges connecting the buildings.  Stock prices appeared in midair as holograms changed from advertisement to news, and the sound of foals reciting the Citizen's Pledge could be heard through the windows of classrooms all about the planet.  A gentle breeze stirred the leaves of a tree in the rooftop garden of the Triple Crown Heavy Industries tower as a starship loomed overhead, preparing to make for deep space on another voyage.  Yet not all was peaceful; news articles all across the holonet speak of the Clockwork Empire attacking more and more ships, and of pirates and rogue extremists threatening hyperlanes.  And out of the mists of time, at least as ponies saw it, rumor came of the lost empire, the Black Rose...

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Off-planet/space, Homeworld Faction
Stars glittered everywhere the eye could see, except for that one pale blue-green sphere to the side as another twenty-four-hour cycle passed and "day" officially arrived.  Long trains of cargo held together by electromagnets trailed powerful ion thrusters as the transportation ships arrived at the spaceport or made for the rendezvous beacon to jump to hyperspace.  Sweet electronic notes floated over some intercoms, news commentary over others.  Space itself, of course, was silent as always.  A Starfleet cruiser floated by as it arrived at the beacon, then flashed suddenly before vanishing in a blur, jumping to the next star system to patrol.

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On-planet, Clockwork Empire
Ash.  Fire.  Brimstone.  The clanking of countless gears filled the toxic air of the lifeless world as mechanoids mindlessly attended forges, conveyor belts, hissing pipes and blazing caskets of slag.  Everything moved with a bewildering speed: bewildering, that is, for an organic mind.  In the mind of a machine, it was perfection.

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Off-planet/space, Clockwork Empire
The cold, dead stars gleamed everywhere in the endless expanse of Void.  Another ship arrived out of hyperspace with mechanical precision, quickly making turns and accelerations that would splatter organic lifeforms into their chemical components.  None of the machines within paid any heed.  Exactly three thousand six hundred second-cycles later, an identical ship jumped to hyperspace.

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On-planet, Nexus Empire
The light of Alpha Centauri rose over crystalline towers and straw-thatched roofs alike as peasants and nobles awoke to attend to their duties to the Empress.  Mares stayed at home and nursed the foals or cooked, stallions farmed the fields by hoof or practiced with crystal swords, bows and newly issued blaster rifles.  The distribution of holograms was somewhat unsuccessful, since most living citizens never used such technology before in their life and saw little need or use for the tool.  The view from the crystal castle was stunning, though the same as ever, as dragons flapped their wings over snow-clad mountains and unicorn guards came and went on their new hoverboards, still wearing their exquisitely engraved gold and platinum armor.  It was a perfect, lawful, orderly world, and they all obeyed their Empress.

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Off-planet/space, Nexus Empire
Starlight, that magical glimmer from the unknown voids beyond the protection of the Empress, could be seen all about as four starships and two sentry satellites orbited Proximus Centauri, eternally defending the system from those that would seek to oppose the will of her ruler.  There was no movement, no need for movement.  What creature would ever wish to leave the protection of the Empress?  This was the Nexus Empire, this was home.  May those that oppose it fall to the might of the Empress!
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RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9195
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9188

One sentence: Pony-themed Space Opera set in a distant future Equestria, with civil war on the horizon.

Story:
Five hundred years after the return of Princess Luna, the denizens of the planet have spread out among the stars.  Technology has advanced to amazing levels, and holographs, starships, repulsorlifts, gravity fields, androids, hyperspace travel and more are increasingly commonplace.  The common currency is still the bit, though mostly traded electronically.  Instant communication between star systems is cheap and widely available, and modern jumpsuits are fitted with life support systems, heads-up displays, holonet connection and translation interfaces, as well as interfaces with all the modern technology now available.

Many factions have sprung up as ponies, griffons, goats, and more explored and colonized the nearby star systems, though hyperspace lanes are constantly threatened by rogue Space Pirates, smugglers in blockade runners and other low-life undesirables.  Unfortunately, a few of these factions are becoming increasingly belligerent, and it is feared that war shall soon break out across the stars...

*****

There are 12 star systems.
Factions:

Spoiler: Homeworld • show
currently the most influential and oldest faction, Homeworld is based on the planet that most known sentient life originated from, and holds four star systems: Sol, Ursa 1, Canis 1, and Oblivion, their newest addition.  This faction is led by a federation of Sol leaders, including the Princesses (who are still very much alive) and several high-ranking political figures elected every eight standard cycles.  Homeworld planets place an emphasis on diversity and harmony between freedom and security, being quite ordered and lawful, with overall happiness levels generally high.  This faction's military is powerful but rarely acts, and has a pacifist policy which urges diplomacy as the most favored option, punishing trigger-happy Guards.  Armor and technological aesthetics are very antique, recalling the traditions of Ancient Equestria.  This faction rarely wears clothes on-planet, and only wears jumpsuits and armor out of necessity.


Spoiler: Remnants • show
Originally known as The Black Rose Empire, they are a splinter group from Homeworld that left to pursue their own technological dreams. After falling to a unknown army, they lost control of a vast empire, one that expanded many solar systems. Now living aboard their mothership, they still run the normal governmental system, two candidates are elected to run every 75 years, and who ever wins is elected emperor, which is really more of a president. Laws are loose, due to high happiness ratings from civilians. They are still militarily advanced, though are more of a pacifist empire, only having a strong military force to defend its self, and other allied nations. All civilians wear basic enhancer suits, to help with everyday life, and all study self defense classes every 5 years.


Spoiler: Pirates, Raiders, Solar Empire, and Lunar Republic • show
diametrically opposed groups of outlaw extremists who constantly try to take over Homeworld in the name of bits, power, or their chosen Princess.  These factions hold no star systems, but are based on rogue planets floating far off in the Void, where few travelers dare to go.  They are anarchic, often congregating around single outspoken leaders, attacking one another and then falling apart after a failed raid.  These factions' militias are relatively weak but act often, with aggressive policies that often contain orders to blast targets to pieces.  They prefer wearing scavenged armor and stolen jumpsuits, when they can get them.  They don't have a particular aesthetic, mixing and matching as pieces are found or lost.


Spoiler: Clockwork Empire • show
a rising militaristic group of mechanical beings dedicated to the eradication and enslavement of all organic life.  The Empire has taken over two star systems: Ares 1 and Ares 2.  This faction is ruled with a literal iron hoof by the Clockwork King.  Free will does not exist.  The Empire places an emphasis on mechanical efficiency, expansionism and eradication of organic life.  Empire planets are lifeless, barren spheres of metal and ash, with every square inch dedicated to the construction of more mechanoids to add to the ever-increasing military armada.  This faction's military never takes quarter, preferring to slag opposition and absorb the materials for recycling.  Survivors are forcibly converted into new additions to the ranks.  This faction's technology level is average due to lack of researchers and a rigid system which discourages thought and change, and a disdain for organic achievements.  The Empire's general aesthetic is Machine.


Spoiler: Bitopia • show
an economically powerful group of capitalists and merchants, holding two star systems: Bit 1 and Bit 2.  This faction is run like a corporation, with a board of executives overseeing all trade and commerce here.  Happiness level is below-average, highly dependent on the current flow of bits.  Bitopia places an emphasis on profit, profit and only profit, at any cost.  Bitopia planets are city-worlds of mile-high towers, corruption and crime, with every vice imaginable up for sale.  This faction's military is mainly used for protecting convoys and spice shipments against theft or attack, and will ask politely for opponents to cease and desist before opening fire.  Survivors are captured and, depending on the mood of the executive aboard, either taken to Homeworld for trial or enslaved and sold on the auctions, memories bottled and will thoroughly broken.  This faction's technology level is high due to available capital.  Bitopia's general aesthetic is Modern, with polished starships, sleek jumpsuits and the latest in fashions.


Spoiler: Harmonia • show
an isolationist and moderate group of ecology-lovers, holding one star system: Gaia 1.  This faction is run communally as a sort of half-democracy, with Elders training up apprentices in the ways of harmony with nature.  Happiness level is average to high.  Harmonia planets are "perfect" ecosystems, with pristine air and water untouched by pollution.  Buildings are all constructed of natural material and living plants, and emphasis is placed on protection of the environment foremost.  This faction's military is used exclusively for maintaining isolation from outsiders and "intruders", asking sternly for non-citizens to leave before disabling.  Prisoners are "reeducated" and integrated or, failing reeducation, forcibly expelled, executed, or enslaved.  This faction's technology is entirely organic, but can be considered somewhat on-par with the average.  Harmonia's aesthetic is Organic, with plant-based starships, clothing and tools.


Spoiler: Free Systems • show
a rag-tag group of colonists who don't want to align with any particular faction, holding two star systems: Ursa 2 and Canis 2.  This faction is run democratically, with elected representatives voting on issues.  Happiness level is average.  Free System planets are slightly undeveloped colonies, partially terraformed with cities located within forcefields, average crime rates and half-constructed extensions for future population rises.  This faction's military is used to defend the colonies and colonists traveling to and from the systems, asking firmly for attackers to cease and desist before opening fire.  Survivors are captured and put on trial, then imprisoned or heavily fined before being extradited to Homeworld.  This faction's technology level is average.  Free System aesthetics are utilitarian-modern, with the level of bells and whistles dependent on who you are and how many bits you have.


Spoiler: Nexus • show
A highly traditionalist and xenophobic dictatorship ruled by Empress Moonlight, holding one star system: Alpha Centauri.  This faction is a militaristic monarchy-dictatorship with royalty and nobility.  Happiness level is low-average.  Nexus planets are feudalistic, with thatched-roof villages and crystalline castles and cities holding the elite, rich and nobles.  Crime rates are low due to the constant presence of soldiers everywhere, although local propaganda claims that citizens are "free" as long as laws are followed to the letter.  This faction's military is highly traditionalist, with even holograms limited entirely to the elite branches.  Enemies are attacked on sight, and prisoners are interrogated extensively before being executed when all information needed has been acquired.  This faction's technology level is low-average, with hippogriffs used as mounts and transportation rather than conventional hovercraft, and the preferred method of combat is melee.  Nexus aesthetics are Ancient-Traditionalist, with armor being exquisitely engraved gold, silver, platinum and diamond studded with all manner of gems and jewels, enchanted with protective spells.  Nexus refuses to use conventional force fields and electricity, depending entirely upon magic for most technological needs.  It is unknown whether this faction even has access to hyperdrives, as they rarely exit their star system.


Rules:
GM has final say
Any rules can and will be changed if I catch somepony trying to twist them.
Follow all Forum Rules
This means no gore, sex, or other such things
No powerplaying.  This means no controlling another player's character in any way unless explicit permission is given.
No Godmodding.  This means no overly-powerful characters, gods, or any such beings, unless I give explicit permission (as with Clockwork King etc)
Equestrian swears only.  You know them from the show and fandom.
No real-world religion or politics.  In-universe equivalents are fine.
No personal attacks out-of-character.  In-character it's fine, but don't go overboard.
Try to post at LEAST a paragraph each post, as in any of my other games, and use correct spelling/grammar.
Sign up first before posting, of course.
Keep OOC in the OOC thread.
If you have "no alignment" then you're either Free System or Raider/Pirate/Outcast/etc.
Have fun!


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Current players:
Cosmic Starrunner (Omega_Khaos) - Freelance defender, Homeworld
Unit 390 (The Clockwork King) - Assassin targeting Asterian, Clockwork Empire
Yellow Light (Bravo 539) - Student/Intern/Pilot-in-Training, Homeworld
Buckeye Starwing (Bane Emural) - Sheriff, Free Systems
Silent Leaf (ArtVeigar) - Druid, Harmonia
Calamity (Somebeing) - Bounty Hunter, Remnants/Homeworld/Free Systems
Stardust (moonlight7starshine) - Sister of the Empress, Nexus
Night Shine (Night Pony) - Brigadier General, Homeworld
Nameless (Somebeing) - Mercenary, Clockwork Empire/Raiders
Rose Blackwing (Bane Emural) - Private 1st Class, Free Systems
>insert player here<

Faction Leaders:
Clockwork (The Clockwork King) - Emperor, Clockwork Empire
Moonlight (moonlight7starshine) - Empress, Nexus
Lord X (SuperNovaNightmare) - Emperor, Remnants
Teal (Teal Turken) - Herdfather, Harmonia
>insert leader here<

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Normal Sign-up form:

Name:
Gender:
Race (please try to stick with normal races. no humans please.):
Age:
Appearance (either description or image is fine):
Personality:
Inventory (tools, etc.  money and IDs are built into jumpsuits):
Motive:
Alignment:
Backstory:
Relationships (if any):
Special abilities:
Standings with current factions:
Place of origin:
Current home (could be just your ship or a random rogue planet in the Void):
Starship (if any):
Allegiance (if any):
"Callsign" (what you're called by traffic controllers when entering orbit, if any):

Spoiler: Leader sign-up form: (defunct, do not use unless you PM me and I give explicit permission) • show

Name:
Faction:
Titles, Role:
Gender:
Race (please try to stick with normal races or mechanoid. no humans please.):
Age:
Appearance (either description or image is fine):
Personality:
Inventory (tools, etc.  money and IDs are built into jumpsuits):
Motive:
Alignment:
Backstory:
Relationships (if any):
Special abilities:
Standings with current factions:
Place of origin:
Current home (could be just your ship or a random rogue planet in the Void):
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Starship crew count:
Starship inventory:
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Troops available for immediate deployment:
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Spoiler: Corporate leader form, please PM me if you want to use it • show

Name:
Company:
Titles, role:
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Appearance (either description or image is fine):
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Company and personal Alignment:
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RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9195
Sign-up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9190

One sentence: Pony-themed Space Opera set in a distant future Equestria, with civil war on the horizon.

Story:
Five hundred years after the return of Princess Luna, the denizens of the planet have spread out among the stars.  Technology has advanced to amazing levels, and holographs, starships, repulsorlifts, gravity fields, androids, hyperspace travel and more are increasingly commonplace.  The common currency is still the bit, though mostly traded electronically.  Instant communication between star systems is cheap and widely available, and modern jumpsuits are fitted with life support systems, heads-up displays, holonet connection and translation interfaces, as well as interfaces with all the modern technology now available.

Many factions have sprung up as ponies, griffons, goats, and more explored and colonized the nearby star systems, though hyperspace lanes are constantly threatened by rogue Space Pirates, smugglers in blockade runners and other low-life undesirables.  Unfortunately, a few of these factions are becoming increasingly belligerent, and it is feared that war shall soon break out across the stars...

*****

There are 12 star systems.
Factions:

Homeworld: currently the most influential and oldest faction, Homeworld is based on the planet that most known sentient life originated from, and holds four star systems: Sol, Ursa 1, Canis 1, and Oblivion, their newest addition.  This faction is led by a federation of Sol leaders, including the Princesses (who are still very much alive) and several high-ranking political figures elected every eight standard cycles.  Homeworld planets place an emphasis on diversity and harmony between freedom and security, being quite ordered and lawful, with overall happiness levels generally high.  This faction's military is powerful but rarely acts, and has a pacifist policy which urges diplomacy as the most favored option, punishing trigger-happy Guards.  Armor and technological aesthetics are very antique, recalling the traditions of Ancient Equestria.  This faction rarely wears clothes on-planet, and only wears jumpsuits and armor out of necessity.

Remnants: Originally known as The Black Rose Empire, they are a splinter group from Homeworld that left to pursue their own technological dreams. After falling to a unknown army, they lost control of a vast empire, one that expanded many solar systems. Now living aboard their mothership, they still run the normal governmental system, two candidates are elected to run every 75 years, and who ever wins is elected emperor, which is really more of a president. Laws are loose, due to high happiness ratings from civilians. They are still militarily advanced, though are more of a pacifist empire, only having a strong military force to defend its self, and other allied nations. All civilians wear basic enhancer suits, to help with everyday life, and all study self defense classes every 5 years.

Pirates, Raiders, Solar Empire, and Lunar Republic: diametrically opposed groups of outlaw extremists who constantly try to take over Homeworld in the name of bits, power, or their chosen Princess.  These factions hold no star systems, but are based on rogue planets floating far off in the Void, where few travelers dare to go.  They are anarchic, often congregating around single outspoken leaders, attacking one another and then falling apart after a failed raid.  These factions' militias are relatively weak but act often, with aggressive policies that often contain orders to blast targets to pieces.  They prefer wearing scavenged armor and stolen jumpsuits, when they can get them.  They don't have a particular aesthetic, mixing and matching as pieces are found or lost.

Clockwork Empire: a rising militaristic group of mechanical beings dedicated to the eradication and enslavement of all organic life.  The Empire has taken over two star systems: Ares 1 and Ares 2.  This faction is ruled with a literal iron hoof by the Clockwork King.  Free will does not exist.  The Empire places an emphasis on mechanical efficiency, expansionism and eradication of organic life.  Empire planets are lifeless, barren spheres of metal and ash, with every square inch dedicated to the construction of more mechanoids to add to the ever-increasing military armada.  This faction's military never takes quarter, preferring to slag opposition and absorb the materials for recycling.  Survivors are forcibly converted into new additions to the ranks.  This faction's technology level is average due to lack of researchers and a rigid system which discourages thought and change, and a disdain for organic achievements.  The Empire's general aesthetic is Machine.

Bitopia: an economically powerful group of capitalists and merchants, holding two star systems: Bit 1 and Bit 2.  This faction is run like a corporation, with a board of executives overseeing all trade and commerce here.  Happiness level is below-average, highly dependent on the current flow of bits.  Bitopia places an emphasis on profit, profit and only profit, at any cost.  Bitopia planets are city-worlds of mile-high towers, corruption and crime, with every vice imaginable up for sale.  This faction's military is mainly used for protecting convoys and spice shipments against theft or attack, and will ask politely for opponents to cease and desist before opening fire.  Survivors are captured and, depending on the mood of the executive aboard, either taken to Homeworld for trial or enslaved and sold on the auctions, memories bottled and will thoroughly broken.  This faction's technology level is high due to available capital.  Bitopia's general aesthetic is Modern, with polished starships, sleek jumpsuits and the latest in fashions.

Harmonia: an isolationist and moderate group of ecology-lovers, holding one star system: Gaia 1.  This faction is run communally as a sort of half-democracy, with Elders training up apprentices in the ways of harmony with nature.  Happiness level is average to high.  Harmonia planets are "perfect" ecosystems, with pristine air and water untouched by pollution.  Buildings are all constructed of natural material and living plants, and emphasis is placed on protection of the environment foremost.  This faction's military is used exclusively for maintaining isolation from outsiders and "intruders", asking sternly for non-citizens to leave before disabling.  Prisoners are "reeducated" and integrated or, failing reeducation, forcibly expelled, executed, or enslaved.  This faction's technology is entirely organic, but can be considered somewhat on-par with the average.  Harmonia's aesthetic is Organic, with plant-based starships, clothing and tools.

Free Systems: a rag-tag group of colonists who don't want to align with any particular faction, holding two star systems: Ursa 2 and Canis 2.  This faction is run democratically, with elected representatives voting on issues.  Happiness level is average.  Free System planets are slightly undeveloped colonies, partially terraformed with cities located within forcefields, average crime rates and half-constructed extensions for future population rises.  This faction's military is used to defend the colonies and colonists traveling to and from the systems, asking firmly for attackers to cease and desist before opening fire.  Survivors are captured and put on trial, then imprisoned or heavily fined before being extradited to Homeworld.  This faction's technology level is average.  Free System aesthetics are utilitarian-modern, with the level of bells and whistles dependent on who you are and how many bits you have.

Nexus: A highly traditionalist and xenophobic dictatorship ruled by Empress Moonlight, holding one star system: Alpha Centauri.  This faction is a militaristic monarchy-dictatorship with royalty and nobility.  Happiness level is low-average.  Nexus planets are feudalistic, with thatched-roof villages and crystalline castles and cities holding the elite, rich and nobles.  Crime rates are low due to the constant presence of soldiers everywhere, although local propaganda claims that citizens are "free" as long as laws are followed to the letter.  This faction's military is highly traditionalist, with even holograms limited entirely to the elite branches.  Enemies are attacked on sight, and prisoners are interrogated extensively before being executed when all information needed has been acquired.  This faction's technology level is low-average, with hippogriffs used as mounts and transportation rather than conventional hovercraft, and the preferred method of combat is melee.  Nexus aesthetics are Ancient-Traditionalist, with armor being exquisitely engraved gold, silver, platinum and diamond studded with all manner of gems and jewels, enchanted with protective spells.  Nexus refuses to use conventional force fields and electricity, depending entirely upon magic for most technological needs.  It is unknown whether this faction even has access to hyperdrives, as they rarely exit their star system.

*****
*****

This is now the OOC thread.  Please keep all OOC discussion and natter here.
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never saw this before, but:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE in /home/legendso/public_html/forum/cache/data_6f1beafcbaf950ff864394e66cd5eadd-SMF-modSettings.php on line 1

when I was quick-replying to the Travelers' Blessing RP
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When I go to the most recent post, here's the error code at the bottom after loading about half of it:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/legendso/public_html/forum/Sources/Load.php on line 2159

here's the link: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=3525.new#new
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Dear Mods,

In several of my RPs now, the problem of "speed posting" and "one-liner" posting has become an issue for myself and for other players who prefer slow, paragraph-based, turn-based roleplays.  For those who have played in my games before, I tend to wait for every player to have a turn before putting up a large post.

The issue comes when, during the night or the day, whenever I am not online to curb this behavior, I will often return to see three, four, even five pages of one-line, five-word, poorly-spelled posts, usually from two to three "problem" players.

I am not suggesting a board-wide minimum, but is it possible for thread starters, the "GMs", to institute a forum-based "minimum character limit"?  That is, if you try posting just "lol", the page returns (similar to how it returns when new posts have been added or your session timed out) with your text still in the box, but with the error/warning that "the thread starter has instituted Minimum Character Limit of 100"?

I don't know how difficult this might be, but I thought I might bring up the issue in case it was a relatively simple thing to do and some mod out there might be able to make the decision x3

Thank you for your help,

The Wandering Magus
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Canterlot Archives / World of Discord (RP)
2013 Sep 12, 13:00:56
Sign-up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9025
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=8960

Discord won, Twilight failed to go upstairs, never read the letters, never cured herself.  A thousand years later, the world is, quite literally, Tartarus.  Clouds rain exploding chocolate milk, knives, acid, nitroglycerin, giant squids, anything besides water.  The ground has been checkered purple and blue since anypony could remember, aside from within Avalon.  What's grass?  The Six Minions, especially Lady Cruelty, Angry Pie, Rarigreed and Twilight Tragedy, do Big Banana Discord's will, dealing with any magic users still alive and spreading the eternal chaos.  A grey pegasus with a blonde mane limps around the Castle of Chaos on broken legs, with a filly-shaped muffin on her back.  Crows claw at it.  She defends it.  The deal was seven quadrillion laps.  She's made one-point-three quadrillion.

Yet hope endures.  Unicorns that fled south to Zebraci mixed over the years, both species vanishing and melding into modern-day Virgacorns that do their best to survive in this world in secret.  Pegasi and Griffons no longer exist, having melded into hippogriffs, isolating themselves as best as they can in the cotton-candy clouds of ancient Cloudsdale.  Earth ponies and Donkeys long ago melded, but their strength and determination allows them to farm their stone bread and rock pies and survive in this world.

Saint Liarjack does her best, despite the Element of Deceit pulsating where her heart should have been, to be kind and help the suffering citizens of the Capitol of Chaos.  Traitor Dash is an enigma, but at the very least she helps about as often as she betrays.  The impossible choices thrown at her broke her will long ago, but perhaps there is hope left.

Queen Tiamat watches over Her brood, having gathered all dragons and ponies-turned-dragons to Her domain.  Changeling Queen Cadance, with her angelic feather-winged Changeling swarm, holds out in the hidden land of Avalon in the midst of the Everfree Forest, somehow using her harmony magic to prevent Chaos from spreading there.  The dragon-goddess and the Changeling Queen are the closest thing this world has to benevolent rulers, and many refugees have already fled to their respective lands.

Some time ago, the Valeyard personality was forcibly regenerated onto the Doctor, but surprisingly there has been little noticeable change.  Perhaps that is because the Time Lord already rewrote history so many times that there is no more change or contradiction.  Or the ponies have simply stopped trying to make sense of things, because... what fun is there in making sense?

There is another beacon of hope in the Capitol of Chaos itself: the Apple Pie farm.  Saint Applebloom the Heart-healer made it as much of a refuge as was possible in the first decades after having the Blank Curse forced upon her, and after three hundred years managed to bring peace to the denizens of Sunnytown.  Her descendants, and that of Octavia Pie, now farm the rock apples on Sweet Rock Acres in relative peace, mourning the relatives that pass when they can, stoically carrying on when they cannot, and leaving an empty space at the table for those they know have been taken despite not even remembering they ever existed.  There are many, many graves in the fields now.  After Liarjack gave her sister the kindest of lies to allow her to find her eternal rest, the family kept her ashes in a small urn buried somewhere on the farm.

Diamond King Barkintosh and his wife Winona continue to rule the now-crystalline and much, MUCH wiser Diamond Dogs in their underground kingdom, with Guru Fido trading with the Apple Pies now and then to exchange food for tools and necessary skills long-forgotten.

There is despair, but there is also hope.  It is not a world of perfection or harmony in any sense of the term, but perhaps, in time, a group of adventurers may show themselves worthy of the Elements of Harmony and convert the Elements of Chaos.

*****

Inspired by Alexwarlorn's Dark World fanfic.  As a Shadow Who Watches, I now become a Shadow Who Writes, bending one branch of that Heartworld to observe.  Whether good can come of this, who save Fauna Luster, The Father of Alicorns, Entropy, and Havoc, can say?  How this world progresses now lies in the hooves of the Shadows Who Play...

original fanfic: http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com

*****

Current adventurers:
Chrysteel Chrysalis (Omega_Khaos) - Angel-winged Changeling, Avalon
Bleyd (bleyd) - Pegasus, Everfree Forest
Shadechaser (Shadechaser) - Unicorn, unknown
Asterian Starfall (Asterian) - Unicorn, Everfree
Super Nova (SuperNovaNightmare) - Nightmare Unicorn, nowhere/unknown
Ilias Ligntbringer (ArtVeigar) - Hippogriff, Avalon




Ponyville, the Capital of Chaos:

Another knife-storm.  Actually having repetition is a first.  Then again, what's the fun in making sense?

The Mayor statue kept shouting its indifference about the suffering of Ponyville's denizens all through the storm, as it had since anyone could remember.  Grandpa Stone Pie over at the farm says she's been like that for a thousand years now.  Nobody knows whether she's still sentient at this point.

We had some giant squid to spice up the rock pies a few days ago.  Hey, meat-eating stopped being taboo centuries ago.  You live with what you can get.  That's what Ma always said before she got turned into a dragon and had to go to Queen Tiamat's place.  She also said never to get angry, because what can being angry do anyways?  Miss Angry Pie's always angry, but that's because Big Banana Discord made her that way.  When life gives you lemons, don't go burning down life's house with 'em, 'cause all you'll be left with is no lemons and a big skyscraper-sized Mommy Lemon squashing you.  When life gives you lemons, just thank life kindly and be on your way.  At least you've got lemons now.

Mah name's Apple Pie.  Yer always welcome to come over, so long as ya fit in the house an' ain't a danger to anybody.  Cream Pie's got a grenade launcher left over from those tripod things Big Banana Discord sent over that one time, though, so don't be comin' over if yer just lookin' to steal our stuff.  Not that there's much to steal.  If yer an orphan like the rest of us, we'll adopt you too!  We always can use a bit of help around here, and we promise to take good care of ya!  No matter what the others say, Saint Liarjack is right.  "There's always hope."  She might be the world's biggest liar since forever, but... well, Ah think it's better to believe that than just mope about.  Moping never gets anyone anywhere, right?  And one day... maybe... we'll never have to have empty spots at the table, ever again.  Oh!  You're an adventurer?  You said something about being able to help?  ...well... a-ah guess... yer welcome to stay, of course!

*****

Avalon:

Angelic wings fluttered in the shining light of the hidden land as water tinkled over little falls, making rainbows in the air.  In quiet halls, soft music can be heard floating from classrooms along with the laughter of little foals and chicks and kids too young to understand the cruelties of life.  Refugees, wearing the many-hued robes of silk secreted and woven here in Avalon, may often be found in courtyards or around hearths recounting the tale of their rescue and pilgrimage to this place.

Another golden plaque was added to the walls in the Hall of Remembrance today.  A changeling team had been sent to Queen Tiamat to discuss how to continue dealing with the ever-changing events, but they only made it one mile past the border of the Everfree.  Their swarm-mates have been notified.

Queen Cadance has been quiet these past few days, often visiting the refurbished ancient castle of the pony Sisters to think and meditate on harmony.  We have been told that today was the thousandth anniversary of the return of a pony named Luna, evidently someone very important to the Queen.  None of us had the heart to ask who she was.

There are those among the swarms who wish to fight openly against... the Enemy.  Yet what can we do against such power?  Only the Queen knows what would happen if HE found this refuge.  We... we shall continue serving the Queen however we can, welcoming in the refugees as they continue pouring over the borders.  Cadance forgive us for our cowardice...

*****

Everfree:

The wild wind howls as the sun and the moon switch places for the twentieth time since most creatures chose to awake.  The trees and plants are very different than they were a thousand years ago, having adapted to absorbing both moonlight and sunlight, and whatever chaotic substances are thrown at them from outside the magical border.  The animals would be almost as strange to a pony visiting from a thousand years ago, although in comparison to the creatures of Chaos, the wild animals are quite tame indeed.  The environment is uncannily self-sufficient, even more than it once was, generating its own atmosphere and nutrients and consuming whatever non-sentient materials and energy enter the border with impunity.  By the grace of Cadance, sentient beings not controlled by Chaos are left alone for the most part, and more often than not guided gently towards the Hidden Land.

It is an odd thing to say, but the Everfree is a haven now, rather than a place of terror and fear.  Perhaps it is due to its free nature, being predictable in a world where Chaos is now the norm.  If rumors are to believed, it has existed since the beginning of the world, and that at least may give some comfort to those who take refuge in it.  This is not to say, of course, that it is entirely "safe" or "tame" in any sense.  Timberwolves and hydras still await those idiotic enough to let down their guard fully, but at least they give warning and don't just appear out of nowhere to turn you into cotton candy.

Creatures of all sorts come here for rest every now and then, when unwilling or unwelcome to enter Avalon.  Most are crusaders or scouts or refugees.  Very few make this place their permanent home.  Yet... perhaps the adventurers who do make it their home... may one day free the world of its eternal chaos.
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RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9037
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=8960

Discord won, Twilight failed to go upstairs, never read the letters, never cured herself.  A thousand years later, the world is, quite literally, Tartarus.  Clouds rain exploding chocolate milk, knives, acid, nitroglycerin, giant squids, anything besides water.  The ground has been checkered purple and blue since anypony could remember, aside from within Avalon.  What's grass?  The Six Minions, especially Lady Cruelty, Angry Pie, Rarigreed and Twilight Tragedy, do Big Banana Discord's will, dealing with any magic users still alive and spreading the eternal chaos.  A grey pegasus with a blonde mane limps around the Castle of Chaos on broken legs, with a filly-shaped muffin on her back.  Crows claw at it.  She defends it.  The deal was seven quadrillion laps.  She's made one-point-three quadrillion.

Yet hope endures.  Unicorns that fled south to Zebraci mixed over the years, both species vanishing and melding into modern-day Virgacorns that do their best to survive in this world in secret.  Pegasi and Griffons no longer exist, having melded into hippogriffs, isolating themselves as best as they can in the cotton-candy clouds of ancient Cloudsdale.  Earth ponies and Donkeys long ago melded, but their strength and determination allows them to farm their stone bread and rock pies and survive in this world.

Saint Liarjack does her best, despite the Element of Deceit pulsating where her heart should have been, to be kind and help the suffering citizens of the Capitol of Chaos.  Traitor Dash is an enigma, but at the very least she helps about as often as she betrays.  The impossible choices thrown at her broke her will long ago, but perhaps there is hope left.

Queen Tiamat watches over Her brood, having gathered all dragons and ponies-turned-dragons to Her domain.  Changeling Queen Cadance, with her angelic feather-winged Changeling swarm, holds out in the hidden land of Avalon in the midst of the Everfree Forest, somehow using her harmony magic to prevent Chaos from spreading there.  The dragon-goddess and the Changeling Queen are the closest thing this world has to benevolent rulers, and many refugees have already fled to their respective lands.

Some time ago, the Valeyard personality was forcibly regenerated onto the Doctor, but surprisingly there has been little noticeable change.  Perhaps that is because the Time Lord already rewrote history so many times that there is no more change or contradiction.  Or the ponies have simply stopped trying to make sense of things, because... what fun is there in making sense?

There is another beacon of hope in the Capitol of Chaos itself: the Apple Pie farm.  Saint Applebloom the Heart-healer made it as much of a refuge as was possible in the first decades after having the Blank Curse forced upon her, and after three hundred years managed to bring peace to the denizens of Sunnytown.  Her descendants, and that of Octavia Pie, now farm the rock apples on Sweet Rock Acres in relative peace, mourning the relatives that pass when they can, stoically carrying on when they cannot, and leaving an empty space at the table for those they know have been taken despite not even remembering they ever existed.  There are many, many graves in the fields now.  After Liarjack gave her sister the kindest of lies to allow her to find her eternal rest, the family kept her ashes in a small urn buried somewhere on the farm.

Diamond King Barkintosh and his wife Winona continue to rule the now-crystalline and much, MUCH wiser Diamond Dogs in their underground kingdom, with Guru Fido trading with the Apple Pies now and then to exchange food for tools and necessary skills long-forgotten.

There is despair, but there is also hope.  It is not a world of perfection or harmony in any sense of the term, but perhaps, in time, a group of adventurers may show themselves worthy of the Elements of Harmony and convert the Elements of Chaos.

*****

Inspired by Alexwarlorn's Dark World fanfic.  As a Shadow Who Watches, I now become a Shadow Who Writes, bending one branch of that Heartworld to observe.  Whether good can come of this, who save Fauna Luster, The Father of Alicorns, Entropy, and Havoc, can say?  How this world progresses now lies in the hooves of the Shadows Who Play...

original fanfic: http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com

*****

Rules:

Please post 10 or more sentences per post, with 10 or more words per sentence, and try to use proper grammar and spelling.
No graphically detailed violence.
No "inappropriate" or suggestive scenes.  Romance is all right, in moderation.
WAIT for others to post, and do NOT spam post.  If you are in a group with others, wait for them to have a turn.  This may take more than a full minute, for those of you who are accustomed to lightning RPs.  Yes, it is normal in MY RPs for posts to take almost an hour to respond to each other.  Apologies to those of you with short attention spans.
Please do not describe the environment beyond decorative embellishment of what I have already given you.  If you desire a particular type of building or object, simply have your character "look" for it, and if it is reasonable I will provide what you need.
All injuries stay with you, unless you have healing powers or healing tools.  The time it takes for injuries to heal, and how much the injury affects you, should be realistic
If you are unfamiliar with another player's tools and techniques, do feel free to ask in OOC before posting your response.
No real-world swearing.  Ponified swears are acceptable (buck, horseapples, feather, banish, Tartarus, gelding, etc)
No real-world politics/religion.
No powergaming.  This means no controlling another player's actions, consequences or character.  If you do something that would presumably affect another character (such as throwing a pie in their face), let THEM decide how it affects them (whether they dodge the pie, for instance).  If you choose NOT to be affected in an averse way, please keep the consequence realistic.  One does NOT dodge a laser beam if one is an "ordinary schoolfilly" (note the word "ordinary").

*****

Current adventurers:
Chrysteel Chrysalis (Omega_Khaos) - Angel-winged Changeling, Avalon
Bleyd (bleyd) - Pegasus, Everfree Forest
Shadechaser (Shadechaser) - Unicorn, unknown
Asterian Starfall (Asterian) - Unicorn, Everfree
Super Nova (SuperNovaNightmare) - Nightmare Unicorn, nowhere/unknown
Ilias Ligntbringer (ArtVeigar) - Hippogriff, Avalon
Bane Emural (Bane Emural) - Earth Pony, Everfree
Koalemos (Chirp) - Earth Pony, Sweet Rock Acres/nowhere

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Sign-up form:
Name:
Gender:
Race (original):
Race (current):
Place of origin:
Current home:
Personality:
Special powers:
Alignment (pacifist, chaotic, lawful, good, neutral, etc):
Brief bio:
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*****

Note to all players:

You do NOT GM this game.  You do NOT get to decide what IS or is NOT in this world.

I will post a GM post when I am able to.  Let me be VERY CLEAR about this: you may NOT describe the scenery and location.  ONLY I CAN DO THAT.  Thank you for your cooperation.

If you cannot have the patience to wait for a GM post, please notify me by PM or in OOC and I will either assign a temporary GM during my multiple-hours-long absences OR tell you to wait.

I apologize if this RP seems slow to you.  My RPs are generally slow.  My RPs generally take about a day to cycle through responses.  This is normal with my games.  Please PM me if you have any issues with this.
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Canterlot Archives / World of Discord (OOC)
2013 Sep 01, 21:51:45
Sign-up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9025
RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=9037

Discord won, Twilight failed to go upstairs, never read the letters, never cured herself.  A thousand years later, the world is, quite literally, Tartarus.  Clouds rain exploding chocolate milk, knives, acid, nitroglycerin, giant squids, anything besides water.  The ground has been checkered purple and blue since anypony could remember, aside from within Avalon.  What's grass?  The Six Minions, especially Lady Cruelty, Angry Pie, Rarigreed and Twilight Tragedy, do Big Banana Discord's will, dealing with any magic users still alive and spreading the eternal chaos.  A grey pegasus with a blonde mane limps around the Castle of Chaos on broken legs, with a filly-shaped muffin on her back.  Crows claw at it.  She defends it.  The deal was seven quadrillion laps.  She's made one-point-three quadrillion.

Yet hope endures.  Unicorns that fled south to Zebraci mixed over the years, both species vanishing and melding into modern-day Virgacorns that do their best to survive in this world in secret.  Pegasi and Griffons no longer exist, having melded into hippogriffs, isolating themselves as best as they can in the cotton-candy clouds of ancient Cloudsdale.  Earth ponies and Donkeys long ago melded, but their strength and determination allows them to farm their stone bread and rock pies and survive in this world.

Saint Liarjack does her best, despite the Element of Deceit pulsating where her heart should have been, to be kind and help the suffering citizens of the Capitol of Chaos.  Traitor Dash is an enigma, but at the very least she helps about as often as she betrays.  The impossible choices thrown at her broke her will long ago, but perhaps there is hope left.

Queen Tiamat watches over Her brood, having gathered all dragons and ponies-turned-dragons to Her domain.  Changeling Queen Cadance, with her angelic feather-winged Changeling swarm, holds out in the hidden land of Avalon in the midst of the Everfree Forest, somehow using her harmony magic to prevent Chaos from spreading there.  The dragon-goddess and the Changeling Queen are the closest thing this world has to benevolent rulers, and many refugees have already fled to their respective lands.

Some time ago, the Valeyard personality was forcibly regenerated onto the Doctor, but surprisingly there has been little noticeable change.  Perhaps that is because the Time Lord already rewrote history so many times that there is no more change or contradiction.  Or the ponies have simply stopped trying to make sense of things, because... what fun is there in making sense?

There is another beacon of hope in the Capitol of Chaos itself: the Apple Pie farm.  Saint Applebloom the Heart-healer made it as much of a refuge as was possible in the first decades after having the Blank Curse forced upon her, and after three hundred years managed to bring peace to the denizens of Sunnytown.  Her descendants, and that of Octavia Pie, now farm the rock apples on Sweet Rock Acres in relative peace, mourning the relatives that pass when they can, stoically carrying on when they cannot, and leaving an empty space at the table for those they know have been taken despite not even remembering they ever existed.  There are many, many graves in the fields now.  After Liarjack gave her sister the kindest of lies to allow her to find her eternal rest, the family kept her ashes in a small urn buried somewhere on the farm.

Diamond King Barkintosh and his wife Winona continue to rule the now-crystalline and much, MUCH wiser Diamond Dogs in their underground kingdom, with Guru Fido trading with the Apple Pies now and then to exchange food for tools and necessary skills long-forgotten.

There is despair, but there is also hope.  It is not a world of perfection or harmony in any sense of the term, but perhaps, in time, a group of adventurers may show themselves worthy of the Elements of Harmony and convert the Elements of Chaos.

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Inspired by Alexwarlorn's Dark World fanfic.  As a Shadow Who Watches, I now become a Shadow Who Writes, bending one branch of that Heartworld to observe.  Whether good can come of this, who save Fauna Luster, The Father of Alicorns, Entropy, and Havoc, can say?  How this world progresses now lies in the hooves of the Shadows Who Play...

original fanfic: http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com

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This is now the OOC thread.  Please keep all OOC questions, comments, discussions etc here and NOT in the Sign-up or RP.
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The Parlour (RP): http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=8939
RSVP (Sign-Up) Form: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=8940

Lord Fancy Pants V has invited each one of you as guests to his estate for a semi-formal period of relaxation and discussion concerning the adventures you have shared with either himself or his good friend, the infamous Sir Green Strokes.  Attendance is presumably by invitation.  ((Out of character, you may PM either GalvinRoe or myself if you wish to join in.))

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This thread is for ooc comments, questions, complaints, discussions, etc to minimize natter on the main RP page.

Please do not post here until you have been accepted into the game.  Thank you for your cooperation.
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RSVP (Sign-Up) Form: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=8940
Private Quarters (OOC): http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=8941

Lord Fancy Pants V has invited each one of you as guests to his estate for a semi-formal period of relaxation and discussion concerning the adventures you have shared with either himself or his good friend, the infamous Sir Green Strokes.  Attendance is presumably by invitation.  ((Out of character, you may PM either GalvinRoe or myself if you wish to join in.))

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It is a gorgeous place, the Pants Family Estate.  Not quite as elaborate as the Royal Palace, of course, but impressive nonetheless.  The walkways paved with rare stones, the exotic plants blooming in the gardens, even the very gates through which arriving land-based carriages can enter is designed as if specifically to cater to those of expensive tastes.

The house is, if possible, even more impressive within than it is without.  A great painting of Lord Fancy Pants the First hangs above elegant blackwood stairs carpeted with velvet, and marble tiles inlay with rhodium sparkle on the floor.  Servants bustle to and fro cleaning various rooms or bringing supplies and materials to where they were needed.

There are visible guards to maintain order and protect the guests, of course, but they are friendly and polite, much unlike the cold, stone-faced ones serving the Royal Military.

In the Dining Hall, appetizers of all sorts are laid out elegantly, and a small symphony of classical musicians are quietly playing a calm piece over in the Ballroom.  The Library is open with helpful directories pointing to different subjects and sections, while the Gardens offer some cool respite to the business of the interior.  It is, of course, not large enough to be a Gala, or even what most elites would consider a "party", but in a way that made the event all the more exclusive and personal.  The estate had long been refurbished and re-fitted with extra security measures since the disaster of the previous meetings, as well as the frightening events of the Adventure of the Princess Conspiracy.  Tonight, however, it was hoped that peace and comfort would reign as the two old partners and their friends traded stories of adventures past and present.
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I typed five paragraphs of an RP response.  LoE automatically logged me out.  Going back to the previous page wiped my post.  Searching the cache couldn't find the post either.

*sigh*

can we please not have auto-logout? or somehow have the forums automatically cache your posts?  I've been on other forums where you can accidentally close the tab but the post is still there when you get back to the relevant page.
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Sign-up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=7415
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=7407

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Please see Sign-up for premise, important information and rules.
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world..."
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Fear.  It has always lain hidden in the hearts of ponies.  Some fears are lesser, others greater.  It is an instinct, a primordial quality ingrained within our very subconscious since birth.  For eons, fear remained dormant, as the gentle guidance of Sun and Moon washed away the shadows of darkness.  But as age-old evils return to the living world, defying the heavens, so also Fear is returning.

Only a few have ever seen this plane, the plane of abstracts, where ideas are made real.  Those that enter seldom return unchanged.  But whether we know of it or not, beyond the peaceful world of everyday struggles lies an invisible war for the hearts of Equestria.  Harmony has always been able to fight back the advances of darkness, but as they say...

It is always Darkest before the Dawn.

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You awaken to black night in an empty world, devoid of ponies.  Beyond the doors and windows of your dwelling-place, shadows move of their own will, and distances bend and stretch in impossible ways, as in a madmare's darkest nightmares.  Here within your hearth and home, your Loving Home, you are safe, surrounded by feelings of security and hope and familiarity.  But that, like many things, will change quickly...
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OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=7407
RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=7421

G-rated "horror"/suspense without violence, mostly mental/psychological.  Supernatural spirits/creatures of fear take over a shadow-world of Ponyville as the players wake up in an empty and dark replica of the village/world, and are forced to face their fears and take sides in a terrifying war for the hearts of Equestria.

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RULES:
Forum rules.
No powerplaying (no controlling other ponies' characters or the NPCs)
No godmodding (no invincibility, no instant-win abilities, no time travel, no unreasonably meta knowledge)
No swearing besides pony swears (buck, horseapples, banish, mule, etc)
No flaming, trolling, personal attacks, or anything else of the matter, you will be reported and banned from the game.
No using "real" weapons, as per forum rules.  This includes "real" projectile and melee weapons.
No gore
No sex, drugs or anything that would be inappropriate for minors.
Violation of any of the above or any of the Forum Rules will result in being reported and banned from the game.

Only the GM and assistant GMs can run the game.  If you think you are qualified to help out, please PM me or assistants.
Please sign up before playing.
Keep OOC in the OOC thread.
All rules and conditions subject to change at any time by GM and assistants.

All players will start by waking up in wherever you consider "home" or "safe".  This will be your "base" and personal "safe spot".
NOPONY can EVER ally with or befriend the Antagonists or the Neutral party.  They are out for your soul, and cannot be reasoned or bargained with.
you will occasionally find Corrupted/controlled ponies.  These are their soul-shadows, their subconscious, and they do not act like this consciously.  The solution is to purify them or run, not to destroy them.
this is meant to be an entirely violence-free game on the player side.  That means that physical fighting will only make things worse for YOU and your teammates.  Remember that the enemies are manifestations of ideas, not actual physical beings.

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Antagonists:
Judge: It Which Sees All, the All-Seeing Eye, the manifestation of paranoia and the fear of being judged
Choir: manifestation of the fear of being manipulated by others, the feeling that everypony is lying to you
Embryo: manifestation of the fear of novelity, fear of foals, the "butterflies in your stomach"
Nemesis: manifestation of your darkest self, your subconscious, every evil thought you've ever had
Rake: the monster under your bed and in your closet, fear of animals.
Wooden Mare: manifestation of the fear of being controlled and not being able to make decisions, of being trapped
Plague: fear of illness and disease
It: fear of water, fear of drowning
Nothing: the fear of emptyness, of The End, of silence, of the Void, of the dark

Possible allies:
Blind Stallion: manifestation of the fear of strangers, fear of elders, fear of disability, fear of forgetfulness
Cold Foal: manifestation of the fear of death, fear of alienation, fear of what you find if look at somepony's face
Swarm: manifestation of the fear of swarms, flocks, the feeling of a hive mind, the crowd, the masses, the government
Xanadu: manifestation of the fear of doors, fear of what you will find on the other side, fear of being lost

Neutral parties:
Slenderpony: unknown

Celestia and Luna manifest as beings of purity, hope, and Harmony.  The Mane Six, if present, manifest as representations of their respective Element.

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Mission: free the world and overcome Equestria's Fears

Side Quests: purify important places and homes of Fears

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Places of interest:
Safe Spots:
Loving Homes - homes full of harmony and trust.  Enemy Fears stay outside.
Hope Beacons - gathering places that the ponies of Equestria have come to trust, and any place close to Beings of Hope

Dangerous:
Basements outside of Loving Homes
Hospital
Sewers
Everfree
Circus
Colgate's office

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Important objects:
Hope Orbs: used to restore Hope points, drive away Fears, and as light sources.  gathered during quests.
Notes: lost memories and notes from previous ponies who had found this place.  gathered during quests.
Flashlight: very useful tool for fighting Fears and restoring Hope points to allies, recharged with Hope Orbs.  default.
Hope Charms: used to nullify Hope-sapping environmental effects.  earned from and traded by quest givers.

end-game items, earned from Beings of Hope:
Embracing Shawl: Fluttershy's security blanket, protects one individual from Fears when used in kindness.  lasts as long as the target is wearing it.
Gift Box: Rarity's birthday present; if offered to another pony, will give them what they need most. vanishes on use.
Truth Chord: a strand from Applejack's lasso; when used on another pony, removes all Fear effects and restores all Hope points.  once per encounter.
Balloon: one of Pinkie's balloons; when given to another pony, restores half of Hope points to entire party.  can be used once per threatening encounter.
Torn Page: a priceless page from Rainbow's Daring Do book; when used on another pony, removes all Fear effects and restores all Hope points to entire group, but vanishes.
BFF Card: a letter from Twilight Sparkle reminding everypony that we are all friends together.  when used, drives away all nearby Fears.  only usable once every two encounters, and not on bosses.


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interested ponies:
Flame (FlameandIce)
Arty and Tian (ArtVeigar)
Majem (Chirp)
Misty Moon (Dark Hooves)
Farsight (Seriack)
Confetty and Wavelength (Bravo 539)
JT (Agent: Everfree)
Super Nova (SuperNovaNightmare)
Hatsune Miku (narwhaliagames)
Laserbolt (bauccgia0)
Stardust (moonlight7starshine)
Bright Pen (Lucien)

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Sign-up:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race (only canon races, please):
Appearance:
Talent:
Personality and description:
Backstory:
Other information of importance:
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Sign-up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=7415.new#new
RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=7421

basic idea:
G-rated "horror"/suspense without violence, mostly mental/psychological.  Supernatural spirits/creatures of fear take over a shadow-world of Ponyville as the players wake up in an empty and dark replica of the village/world, and are forced to face their fears and take sides in a terrifying war for the hearts of Equestria.

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RULES:
Forum rules.
No powerplaying (no controlling other ponies' characters or the NPCs)
No godmodding (no invincibility, no instant-win abilities, no time travel, no unreasonably meta knowledge)
No swearing besides pony swears (buck, horseapples, banish, mule, etc)
No flaming, trolling, personal attacks, or anything else of the matter, you will be reported and banned from the game.
No using "real" weapons, as per forum rules.  This includes "real" projectile and melee weapons.
No gore
No sex, drugs or anything that would be inappropriate for minors.
Violation of any of the above or any of the Forum Rules will result in being reported and banned from the game.

Only the GM and assistant GMs can run the game.  If you think you are qualified to help out, please PM me or assistants.
Please sign up before playing.
Keep OOC in the OOC thread.
All rules and conditions subject to change at any time by GM and assistants.

All players will start by waking up in wherever you consider "home" or "safe".  This will be your "base" and personal "safe spot".
NOPONY can EVER ally with or befriend the Antagonists or the Neutral party.  They are out for your soul, and cannot be reasoned or bargained with.
you will occasionally find Corrupted/controlled ponies.  These are their soul-shadows, their subconscious, and they do not act like this consciously.  The solution is to purify them or run, not to destroy them.
this is meant to be an entirely violence-free game on the player side.  That means that physical fighting will only make things worse for YOU and your teammates.  Remember that the enemies are manifestations of ideas, not actual physical beings.

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Antagonists:
Judge: It Which Sees All, the All-Seeing Eye, the manifestation of paranoia and the fear of being judged
Choir: manifestation of the fear of being manipulated by others, the feeling that everypony is lying to you
Embryo: manifestation of the fear of novelity, fear of foals, the "butterflies in your stomach"
Nemesis: manifestation of your darkest self, your subconscious, every evil thought you've ever had
Rake: the monster under your bed and in your closet, fear of animals.
Wooden Mare: manifestation of the fear of being controlled and not being able to make decisions, of being trapped
Plague: fear of illness and disease
It: fear of water, fear of drowning
Nothing: the fear of emptyness, of The End, of silence, of the Void, of the dark

Possible allies:
Blind Stallion: manifestation of the fear of strangers, fear of elders, fear of disability, fear of forgetfulness
Cold Foal: manifestation of the fear of death, fear of alienation, fear of what you find if look at somepony's face
Swarm: manifestation of the fear of swarms, flocks, the feeling of a hive mind, the crowd, the masses, the government
Xanadu: manifestation of the fear of doors, fear of what you will find on the other side, fear of being lost

Neutral parties:
Slenderpony: unknown

Celestia and Luna manifest as beings of purity, hope, and Harmony.  The Mane Six, if present, manifest as representations of their respective Element.

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Mission: free the world and overcome Equestria's Fears

Side Quests: purify important places and homes of Fears

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Places of interest:
Safe Spots:
Loving Homes - homes full of harmony and trust.  Enemy Fears stay outside.
Hope Beacons - gathering places that the ponies of Equestria have come to trust, and any place close to Beings of Hope

Dangerous:
Basements outside of Loving Homes
Hospital
Sewers
Everfree
Circus
Colgate's office

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Important objects:
Hope Orbs: used to restore Hope points, drive away Fears, and as light sources.  gathered during quests.
Notes: lost memories and notes from previous ponies who had found this place.  gathered during quests.
Flashlight: very useful tool for fighting Fears and restoring Hope points to allies, recharged with Hope Orbs.  default.
Hope Charms: used to nullify Hope-sapping environmental effects.  earned from and traded by quest givers.

end-game items, earned from Beings of Hope:
Embracing Shawl: Fluttershy's security blanket, protects one individual from Fears when used in kindness.  lasts as long as the target is wearing it.
Gift Box: Rarity's birthday present; if offered to another pony, will give them what they need most. vanishes on use.
Truth Chord: a strand from Applejack's lasso; when used on another pony, removes all Fear effects and restores all Hope points.  once per encounter.
Balloon: one of Pinkie's balloons; when given to another pony, restores half of Hope points to entire party.  can be used once per threatening encounter.
Torn Page: a priceless page from Rainbow's Daring Do book; when used on another pony, removes all Fear effects and restores all Hope points to entire group, but vanishes.
BFF Card: a letter from Twilight Sparkle reminding everypony that we are all friends together.  when used, drives away all nearby Fears.  only usable once every two encounters, and not on bosses.


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interested ponies:
FlameandIce
Arty and Tian (ArtVeigar)
Majem (Chirp)
Misty Moon (Dark Hooves)
Farsight (Seriack)
Confetty and Wavelength (Bravo 539)
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Sign-up and OOC here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6782

Rules:

Forum Rules
No Swearing (besides Pony swears like Buck or Ponyfeathers)
No godmodding
No powerplaying
If you destroy the city, try to repair it.
No magical/spiritual/technological/etc apocalypses outside of backstories
No Instrumentality.
No Pony Transumation unless by consent (can be in a backstory though)
No starting wars
No high-level permanent mind control, unless by consent
No Naughty Tentacles.  Ever.  Normal tentacles are fine.
No using Death Notes.  Showing one off is fine.

You can have as many OCs as you want; you can use Anime characters if you want as well, though at least try to keep the character's emotions and personality in place if you do.  This is the players' game, and for your collective enjoyment and entertainment  ^-^

By request, this game will be "alternate-universe" and whatever happens here mostly stays here.  Additionally, this is a "less-formal sign-up", meaning that I will try to be more forgiving and less strict as to who gets to come in.  Please still stick to the rules, of course.

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Sakura, sakura,
Noyama mo sato mo,
Mi-watasu kagiri.
Kasumi ka, kumo ka?
Asahi ni niou.
Sakura, sakura,
Hana zakari...


There is a land far to the East in the world, populated by ponies, and goats, and spirits and gods.  Shrines and gates are houses of real spirits which walk among the ponies; dragons ripple without wings through the sky, cherry blossoms flutter gently through the breeze, and the smell of tea and calligraphy ink drifts like mist.

Skyscrapers of strange shapes soar in the sky with holograms and long, silver monorails hovering silently; neon lights illuminate streets of giant robot transports and the sailor uniforms of magical students flying here and there.  A cat-bus stretches lazily as it watches monks float in midair to the beat of Neighponies' modern music.

A samurai police officer in a mecha smiles at a foal as he makes his rounds just outside a police box, and a Totoro grins with a smile as wide as its face when a Shinigami member of the Yakuza begins complaining about the latest radioactive dinosaur not getting fair treatment by the Emperor's Self-Defense Force.  A card game is being played in an arena with giant aliens fighting each other while the crowd cheers them on; a smaller stadium holds a similar crowd cheering as red and white globes open and pony-sized creatures appear from within.

An empty room is suddenly filled with broken bricks and sliced paper; there is a disapproving yell from an instructor as a sheepish young ninja-in-training appears before vanishing again.

Some of you are here on vacation, others for particular purposes, and some of you are just born here.  However it goes, you know that here, at least, there's never a dull moment in Neighpon!
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Sign-Up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6316.0
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6112

Assistant GMs: Silver Snake, Rundo

Theme: Adventure
One sentence summary: "Infiltrate the forgotten city and adventure, try not to get 'defeated', and stop the demon army with Celly's help."

Summary story:
Spoiler: show
There were a lot more Alicorns and Draconequui back in the day, but their civilization fell to corruption despite their power and knowledge, ultimately being destroyed when a mysterious creature called Sam-Uzu (aka Smooze) wiped out their civilization, leaving only a few survivors, including Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord, as well as a mysterious Prince.  Now, however, relics and items are being discovered such as the Alicorn Amulet dating back to that time, and a portal has been discovered holding an ancient army of these Antedeluvian monsters and threatening to open at any time.  At the same time, news of a protectorate ruled by an insane Prince in the long-forgotten city of Pandaemonium has reached Equestria, worrying those in authority still further.  As Discord is cured of his madness and volunteers to help the Three Princesses keep back the hordes, you and your friends/partners are assigned or volunteered to help unearth and enter the long-buried ruins of the city of Pandemonium in order to find a way to stop the corrupted alicorns and draconequui, and their chaos, from escaping.  You should also look into this "Protectorate" and the mad Prince, and see if you can do something about it before he tries doing something he'll really, really regret.  You get special tools and can find new tools as you adventure.  There's also "stations" to trade in or fix old tools.


Long story:
Spoiler: show
"Long ago, long before the continents were divided, or the mountains raised, Ponykind was a great and powerful civilization.  In those times, there were no pegasi, or unicorns, or earth ponies, but only alicorns, and draconequi.  Yes, thousands, millions, billions of them, each godlike in power.  Their cities reached to the heavens, their wisdom surpassed that of any alive today save the Sisters.

"They grew proud.  These gods were not content with what power their Parents, the All-Makers, blessed them with.  They wanted more.  They wanted everything.

"In those days, child, they went whithersoever they pleased, to the farthest star and back.  They were powerful, and cruel.  Simple art and philosophy no longer satisfied their thirst; they delved into dark arts, terrible arts.  Do you wonder at the cruelty of the Alicorn Amulet?  Or at the wretchedness of the Diamond Dogs and their ancestors, the Grundles?  That was not by chance.  In their pride, these gods of old grew proud.  They sought to supplant the All-Makers, to bring their evil to all the universe and beyond.

"Such could not stand forever.

"The first sound was a roar unlike anything you or I could ever hope to imagine.  A roar that tore at the very fabric of reality.  They say it was as if the very sky were rolled back like a scroll, as though the stars were blotted out one by one.  In a single day and night, it is said, all the majesty, the power, the glory, the wisdom of those days, all the cruelty and malice, was swept away by a living flood- Sam-Uzu, the God-Bane.  In latter days when those of lesser races grew up to fill the void left behind by the deluge, this creature of destruction would be called the Smooze, and became a foal's tale to laugh and jest at.  It was not at that time.

"But the All-Makers were merciful.  A few were spared the destruction.  Among them were three Sisters, one Brother, and a Prince.

"Yes, my child.  The very Sisters that rule us today were among the sole survivors of that great calamity.  And with them was a fair and beautiful spirit of creativity and invention, of newness and innovation: Anelkisteras was his name.  He was a Draconequus, young and bold and wise, though cunning and mischievous.  There was also a great Prince who once ruled over a vast domain in the time before the Deluge.

"But in the hearts of those that come from such a past ever lay a seed of the malice of that time...

"The first to fall was Anelkisteras the Fair.  Even as he helped to rebuild and repopulate the devestated world, his jests became crueler, his tricks ever more malicious.  Soon he abandoned all civility altogether, and made war upon the Sisters, saying: "The world has ended, and this world is ours to control.  Yet what is life without a bit of Chaos?"

"And they cursed him, and called him Discord, for that was what he brought everywhere he went.  Soon, Luna Herself fell to jealousy, and Cadance to infatuation.  The Prince fell to a madness akin to that of Discord, and went far into the North to the lost city of Pandemonium with his servants, with the intent of unearthing and ruling over the ruins as a god.  But not all was lost.  The Elements of Harmony were forged in the Fires of Friendship, and our ancestors helped Celestia to banish all three of Her Siblings and seal the Prince deep within the lost city.  In time, Each Sibling,, as you know, were cured of Their madness.  Anelkisteras was the most recent to be cured by the Element of Kindness, though he keeps the name of Discord.

"Yet with the curing of Their minds came the trouble you discovered.  A gateway was found, an ancient holding cell.  Tartarus it was called in ages past, but even now the seals are breaking.  Soon it shall break completely, and not even Cerberus will be able to hold back the demons within, the ones who called themselves gods, the ones who sought to supplant the All-Makers.  At the same time, rumor came of the mad Prince, now even farther from the grips of reality, leading an army of ponies empowered by the dark power of the city he found, seeking to break free of the darkness and take over all the land.

"Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord will hold back Their fellows as long as They can, along with the Elements of Harmony and the Crystal Heart.  Your task is to find a way in the deadly city of Pandemonium to stop the door from opening, or if that is impossible, to stop the hordes that come out, and to stop the mad Prince.  It will not be easy.  Who knows what Nameless things dwell in the darkness, long bereft of the light of the world, gnawing themselves in the shadows and growing in strange ways.  You will come to the uttermost Foundations of Stone and face terrors beyond your worst nightmares, but you will prevail.

"Take these swords and spears and bows.  They were forged by Their Majesties and borne by Them before the Deluge.  No other weapon will suffice in the Depths.  As you go, you may find ever stronger Legendary Weapons of Ages past.  I suggest that you use them as best as you can.  We have already sent scouting parties before you into the Depths.  They will do what they can to assist you.

Good luck.


Starting tools:
Legendary Armor: defense against Legendary Damage
Spoiler: defensive tools, choose at most two • show
Legendary Bow: infinite Legendary Damage arrows, up to 3 shot at a time.
Legendary Staff: changes spell and summon/pet damage to Legendary
Legendary Spear: mid-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Hammer: short-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Sword: mid-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Claws: very short-range Legendary Damage

Communication device, indestructible, unlootable, allows sight/smell/sound/taste/touch/etc with team-mates.
A copy of the Records of Nameless, ask in OOC when consulting or feel free to make up descriptions.
Any personal items you think will be useful.

Note: All environments and creatures within Pandemonium are Immune to non-Legendary Damage types and deal Legendary Damage themselves, which bypasses normal defenses and armors.  They are susceptible to Debuffs, Roots, Mesmerize, and other such non-Damage effects, however.

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Links:

See OOC or Sign-Up pages

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**Scene: The Castle of Canterlot, where the adventurers and gods are gathered**

The arguments raged back and forth between the three groups.  Yang Shi, the goat-headed draconequus from the East, wanted to know more about the long-lost Prince before making what he considered unnecessary sacrifices.  Med-we-kan-ka-tonk-a disapproved of the entire scenario; the buffalo-headed, eagle-winged draconequus advised weathering the storm, as his followers have always done.  The zebra-alicorns from the South, as expected, refused to come at all, and in any case were mostly secure in their desert homeland.

Yet in any case, in the end Anelkisteras convinced all of them to agree to at least send in scouting parties and these brave adventurers.  The Royal Sisters and the newly-redeemed Draconequus offered Their old Legendary Weapons to the adventurers to help in their travels, and the Council was disbanded.

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**Scene: the Gates of Pandemonium**

The door into the mountains was almost as tall as an Ursa Major, and was wondrously and terrifyingly beautiful in its construction.  It seemed carved from the very mountain itself, which was indeed quite possible.  Some ancient spell kept it silent on its hinges when the Princesses had spoken the pass-word, and the interior carvings still glowed with an eldritch light.

Of course, all this was irrelevant to the long, dark journey ahead.  A few buffalo and goats and ponies were going to and fro at the entrance setting up a retreat station, and some were bringing in supplies.  A few scouting parties had already been sent into the Depths, and at least most of those had sent back messengers, though a few were missing and some of the messages were rather terrifying in the descriptions they gave of the deeper sections:

Dragons and strange, burrowing creatures with skin like stone had taken residence in the ancient ruins.  A few new creatures had come up from below as well, though a few were more or less "normal" creatures, meaning that they attacked only if provoked or hungry and were not altogether too dangerous to those who kept their cool.

There were active reptiles with ridges of sharp horn spiraling all the way around their bodies which the scouts called Toves; they excreted a caustic slime that helped them bore through the solid stone.  They seemed to feed chiefly on the soft, porous fungus that thrived in the warm, moist regions of the ruins.  Naturally, they sought out places where these fungi were most concentrated, and were seen practically swarming about certain structures that could have been clocks or sundials at one point long ago.  There were also carnivorous, bipedal bird-like creatures without wings, with shovel-like beaks the scouts took to calling called Borogroves; they hunted in packs and were best avoided.  A few omnivorous albino mammals with long hind legs and horns, affectionately called Raths because of their comically serious-looking expression, prowled here and there, bellowing their strange cry every now and then.

Then there were the more dangerous creatures, at least the ones that were given names.  There was a flying creature, probably blind, that kept giving out a desperate-sounding "JUB JUB JUB JUB" sound whenever it moved for echolocation; it attacked ferociously and was only kept at bay with much difficulty.  It plagued the large, cavernous chambers and preferred swooping in from above.  Scouts called it the Jubjub bird, and warned that it was no easy fight keeping it away; whether it could be even defeated was another matter entirely.  Then there were the swift, furious monster called the Bandersnatch; it had an extendable neck that it used to strike over a surprisingly long distance, and seemed always to go for the leader of any defending group first.

Occasionally, there were terrified rumors of even worse creatures in the Depths, and the worst place by far were the Foundations of Stone, where there were creatures so horrifying that the scouts didn't even bother giving them names; one would know as soon as one saw one.

Such were the reports from within the ruins of Pandemonium.  Nobody had found the Protectorate just yet, but it was suspected that it lay somewhere in the Foundations of Stone, and that the Nameless Creatures might be the accursed slaves of the Prince.  Such were just rumors and speculation, though.

The stone doors stood wide, and the daylight filtered through the dust of the entrance-hall.  Many, many steps descended into the shadows below, though the hall was lit with glowing crystal lanterns.
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RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6332
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6112

Assistant GMs: Silver Snake, Rundo

Theme: Adventure
One sentence summary: "Infiltrate the forgotten city and adventure, try not to get 'defeated', and stop the demon army with Celly's help."

Summary story:
Spoiler: show
There were a lot more Alicorns and Draconequui back in the day, but their civilization fell to corruption despite their power and knowledge, ultimately being destroyed when a mysterious creature called Sam-Uzu (aka Smooze) wiped out their civilization, leaving only a few survivors, including Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord, as well as a mysterious Prince.  Now, however, relics and items are being discovered such as the Alicorn Amulet dating back to that time, and a portal has been discovered holding an ancient army of these Antedeluvian monsters and threatening to open at any time.  At the same time, news of a protectorate ruled by an insane Prince in the long-forgotten city of Pandaemonium has reached Equestria, worrying those in authority still further.  As Discord is cured of his madness and volunteers to help the Three Princesses keep back the hordes, you and your friends/partners are assigned or volunteered to help unearth and enter the long-buried ruins of the city of Pandemonium in order to find a way to stop the corrupted alicorns and draconequui, and their chaos, from escaping.  You should also look into this "Protectorate" and the mad Prince, and see if you can do something about it before he tries doing something he'll really, really regret.  You get special tools and can find new tools as you adventure.  There's also "stations" to trade in or fix old tools.


Long story:
Spoiler: show
"Long ago, long before the continents were divided, or the mountains raised, Ponykind was a great and powerful civilization.  In those times, there were no pegasi, or unicorns, or earth ponies, but only alicorns, and draconequi.  Yes, thousands, millions, billions of them, each godlike in power.  Their cities reached to the heavens, their wisdom surpassed that of any alive today save the Sisters.

"They grew proud.  These gods were not content with what power their Parents, the All-Makers, blessed them with.  They wanted more.  They wanted everything.

"In those days, child, they went whithersoever they pleased, to the farthest star and back.  They were powerful, and cruel.  Simple art and philosophy no longer satisfied their thirst; they delved into dark arts, terrible arts.  Do you wonder at the cruelty of the Alicorn Amulet?  Or at the wretchedness of the Diamond Dogs and their ancestors, the Grundles?  That was not by chance.  In their pride, these gods of old grew proud.  They sought to supplant the All-Makers, to bring their evil to all the universe and beyond.

"Such could not stand forever.

"The first sound was a roar unlike anything you or I could ever hope to imagine.  A roar that tore at the very fabric of reality.  They say it was as if the very sky were rolled back like a scroll, as though the stars were blotted out one by one.  In a single day and night, it is said, all the majesty, the power, the glory, the wisdom of those days, all the cruelty and malice, was swept away by a living flood- Sam-Uzu, the God-Bane.  In latter days when those of lesser races grew up to fill the void left behind by the deluge, this creature of destruction would be called the Smooze, and became a foal's tale to laugh and jest at.  It was not at that time.

"But the All-Makers were merciful.  A few were spared the destruction.  Among them were three Sisters, one Brother, and a Prince.

"Yes, my child.  The very Sisters that rule us today were among the sole survivors of that great calamity.  And with them was a fair and beautiful spirit of creativity and invention, of newness and innovation: Anelkisteras was his name.  He was a Draconequus, young and bold and wise, though cunning and mischievous.  There was also a great Prince who once ruled over a vast domain in the time before the Deluge.

"But in the hearts of those that come from such a past ever lay a seed of the malice of that time...

"The first to fall was Anelkisteras the Fair.  Even as he helped to rebuild and repopulate the devestated world, his jests became crueler, his tricks ever more malicious.  Soon he abandoned all civility altogether, and made war upon the Sisters, saying: "The world has ended, and this world is ours to control.  Yet what is life without a bit of Chaos?"

"And they cursed him, and called him Discord, for that was what he brought everywhere he went.  Soon, Luna Herself fell to jealousy, and Cadance to infatuation.  The Prince fell to a madness akin to that of Discord, and went far into the North to the lost city of Pandemonium with his servants, with the intent of unearthing and ruling over the ruins as a god.  But not all was lost.  The Elements of Harmony were forged in the Fires of Friendship, and our ancestors helped Celestia to banish all three of Her Siblings and seal the Prince deep within the lost city.  In time, Each Sibling,, as you know, were cured of Their madness.  Anelkisteras was the most recent to be cured by the Element of Kindness, though he keeps the name of Discord.

"Yet with the curing of Their minds came the trouble you discovered.  A gateway was found, an ancient holding cell.  Tartarus it was called in ages past, but even now the seals are breaking.  Soon it shall break completely, and not even Cerberus will be able to hold back the demons within, the ones who called themselves gods, the ones who sought to supplant the All-Makers.  At the same time, rumor came of the mad Prince, now even farther from the grips of reality, leading an army of ponies empowered by the dark power of the city he found, seeking to break free of the darkness and take over all the land.

"Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord will hold back Their fellows as long as They can, along with the Elements of Harmony and the Crystal Heart.  Your task is to find a way in the deadly city of Pandemonium to stop the door from opening, or if that is impossible, to stop the hordes that come out, and to stop the mad Prince.  It will not be easy.  Who knows what Nameless things dwell in the darkness, long bereft of the light of the world, gnawing themselves in the shadows and growing in strange ways.  You will come to the uttermost Foundations of Stone and face terrors beyond your worst nightmares, but you will prevail.

"Take these swords and spears and bows.  They were forged by Their Majesties and borne by Them before the Deluge.  No other weapon will suffice in the Depths.  As you go, you may find ever stronger Legendary Weapons of Ages past.  I suggest that you use them as best as you can.  We have already sent scouting parties before you into the Depths.  They will do what they can to assist you.

Good luck.


Starting tools:
Legendary Armor: defense against Legendary Damage
Spoiler: defensive tools, choose at most two • show
Legendary Bow: infinite Legendary Damage arrows, up to 3 shot at a time.
Legendary Staff: changes spell and summon/pet damage to Legendary
Legendary Spear: mid-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Hammer: short-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Sword: mid-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Claws: very short-range Legendary Damage

Communication device, indestructible, unlootable, allows sight/smell/sound/taste/touch/etc with team-mates.
A copy of the Records of Nameless, ask in OOC when consulting or feel free to make up descriptions.
Any personal items you think will be useful.

Note: All environments and creatures within Pandemonium are Immune to non-Legendary Damage types and deal Legendary Damage themselves, which bypasses normal defenses and armors.  They are susceptible to Debuffs, Roots, Mesmerize, and other such non-Damage effects, however.

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Links:

Shop
Loot ((this is just a quick reference of things ponies have collected of late))

Spoiler: Adventurers (Username) - Intended Role - Boost ((links are updated, not necessarily what's written)) • show


Tian Long (ArtVeigar) - Melee DPS - Sword, Spear (+Fire) - Strength, Power, Agility - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Solar Stab 20% damage + 10%/turn Fire-buffed wound, Lunar Slash 20% damage + 5%/turn wound, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE, Aurora AoE 10% stun ranged
Range Conjure (The Stars) - Constructor/Summoner - Staff - Wisdom, Defense - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Crimson Blood (The Stars) - Berserker - Staff - Wisdom, Attack - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Price (The Stars) - Spy - Sword x2 - Agility, Speed - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE
Noy Gazer (Rundo) - Overseer - Staff (+Buff), Spider's Silk - Knowledge, Wisdom - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Majem (Chirp) - Scout/Strategist - Bow, Sword - Agility, Wisdom, Speed, Accuracy - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Quad Shot, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE
Aubade "Sunny" Trek (Silver Snake) - Ranger/Summoner - Bow, Staff - Agility, Accuracy, Wisdom - Lightning Wave AoE stun, Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Quad Shot, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Bleyd Master (bleyd) - Assassin - Claws (+Venom) - Strength, DoT - Slashing Claws triple attack, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Snatching Claws Stun/Attack, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
>unnamed< (Somebeing) - Engineer/Researcher - Hammer - Strength, Crafting - Fix It temporary one-turn repair, Strike Ground 10% stun melee AoE
Glimmering "Glimmer" Health (super_chris85) - Healer - Staff - Wisdom, Knowledge, Healing - Healing Wave (1/fight) AoE 20% heal, Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Improved Beacon of Hope continuous 10% group heal, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Leafa Whitewood (Ryo_D_Disk) - Mid-range Duellist - 2 Sword - Speed, Power, Agility - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE
Stanzi (GalvinRoe) - Quest PC, Enchanter/Artificer/Puppeteer - Staff, Shillelagh, Band of Sustenance - Knowledge - Immune to Starvation, Fix It: temporary one-turn repair, Puppeteer: create three strong golems from any non-Legendary inanimate material (removes other spellcasting abilities as puppeteer must focus will to direct Instant Golems; golems fall apart on Interrupt, Stun, Cancel, Defeat or voluntary cessation of spell), Puppet Strings: control one non-boss non-Adventurer non-Camp-member creature which has directed its Aggression towards you and is attacking for 1 turn (cannot command it to harm itself)
Night Wing (darkstar1105) - Rogue - Legendary Bow, Legendary Claws - Strength, Agility - None
Coppershine (Morning Glory) - Tank - Legendary Shield, Weighted Horseshoes - Defense, Stamina, Power, Health, Healing - Shield Strike: Interrupt/Stun/Damage, Empathy: take somepony else's damage for them, Always Faithful: 1/fight self-heal 20%, Turtle Stance: temporarily Immune to damage (but unable to attack), Encouragement: health exchange giving up to 50% of one's own health to another pony
Clouded Mind (cloudandis) - Scout/Ranger - Legendary Bow - Agility, Accuracy - Quad Shot, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Trick Shot obstacle-skirting attack, Snare Trap light Root, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE
Rhyme Writer (rhyme writer) - Party Defense/Summoner/Bard - Legendary Staff - Wisdom, Defense - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Ink Barrier, Minor Ink Creature: create one weak Ink Creature to aid in battle (removes other spellcasting abilities as summoner must focus will to direct summon; Creature falls apart on Interrupt, Stun, Cancel, Defeat or voluntary cessation of spell), Slashing Tentacles triple attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Oblivion Alexander Swords (Haned tom.) - Mimic - Legendary Claws - Strength - Slashing Claws triple attack, Mimic: attempt to copy the DNA of another creature (non-Legendary only, 3 turn induction, cannot perform any other action during induction and is Stunned for 1 turn if Interrupted), Snatching Claws Stun/Attack, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
Laebenal (Laebenal) - Sneak/Rogue - Legendary Dagger, Legendary Cloak - Stealth - Blinding Flash stun, Plain Sight instant Legendary Stealth (breaks on outgoing or incoming damage), Backstab 20% damage + 10%/turn wound (breaks stealth, can only be done from stealth), Dagger Slash 10% normal damage, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
Pale Flare (Laebenal) - DoT/pyromancer - Legendary Staff - Burning Embers 5%/turn fire debuff, Firewall halves damage and reflects half damage to attackers (stationary, breaks on movement), Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Bulger (Mr.Fox) - Assassin - Legendary Claws - Strength - Slashing Claws triple attack, Snatching Claws Stun/Attack, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
Techno "Tech" Blitz (Omega_Khaos) - scout/engineer/technician/aerial fighter - Wing-Blade - +Mobility, +Attack, -Health, -Critical - Lightning strike 10% single range, Feather Darts x6 1% rage (stun if Lightning buff), Fly-by Strike 10% melee (prereq: speed), Slashing Wind 10% AoE melee, Air Slash 10% single / 5% multiple melee
"TC" (Omega_Khaos) - summon - "Bow" - Wisdom - Quad Shot, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE
Tezaku Blues (Tezaku) - Tank - Wing-Blade - none - Lightning strike 10% single range, Feather Darts x6 1% rage (stun if Lightning buff), Fly-by Strike 10% melee (prereq: speed), Slashing Wind 10% AoE melee, Air Slash 10% single / 5% multiple melee
Farsight (Seriack) - Support/Ranged DPS(Mostly DoTs and minion damage) - Staff - Attack - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE, Healing Dream restore 20% health (Mesmerizes target for one turn since it's a dream), Living Nightmare weak summon (continuous Mesmerize on one target, ends if target awakes, goes unconscious or is defeated, or caster is incapacitated in any way.  One target/summon at a time.)

Villain:
Prince Impera Caeterus: Arch-Nemesis - Strength, Speed, Accuracy, Agility, Power, Stealth, Power, Healing


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Sign-up:
Name:
Age:
Race:
Useful Skills:
Summon/Pet (optional):
Desired role (tank/healer/leader/nuker/etc) (optional):
Legendary Weapon (optional but recommended for fighters):
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Canterlot Archives / Metagame! (sign-up)
2013 Jan 03, 17:55:11
Assistant GM: Majem

RP/OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6137

The metagame:
simple dungeon crawl
any and all metagaming allowed.
No powerplaying
no godmodding
everypony starts out with nothing but the fur on their flank
No summoning items from home
One pet of a strength less than or equal to AJ maximum
No IC/OOC differentiation necessary if pertinent to the game
No "pointless/off-topic" chat in the game
Full map provided, but you'll have to put the markers in yourself as you go along
Cooperation encouraged but not required
Looting of enemies and chests encouraged
Final boss can be reached immediately but invincible until you get the necessary items.  Long way around ovO

The Dungeon map:


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Backstory:

Long: You are gathered here from all walks of life, warriors, artisans, shopkeepers, yet all of you have chosen to come to this dungeon of your own free will.  Each of you have been given communication devices which allow free communication, as well as information about just about anything you will encounter in the area.  It is known that at the end of the dark prison there waits a powerful creature of hideous strength and skill, such as only can be beaten by the bravest, strongest of adventurers, and who threatens the well-being of all of Equestria.  He is ancient and evil and cannot be bargained with or redeemed.  Within this prison, his prison, he was long held captive, but now the madpony runs the madhouse and the place has become a fortress, filled with deadly enemies and the looted treasures of numerous cities.  Once you enter, there is no hope of escape save by the exit door guarded by this most powerful of enemies.  There does exist a door directly to this ancient evil, but you have been strongly advised not to attempt it before first gaining experience and better equipment than the fur on your flanks.  It is said that there will be stations here and there where tools may be found for repairing items, should you find any.

TL;DR: Dungeon crawl metagame!

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Adventurers (Username) - Intended Role - Boost:
Majem (Chirp) - Scout, Strategist - Stealth
Haned Tom (Haned tom.) - Nuker - None
Arty Brightshadow (ArtVeigar) - Support: Debuffer/Pet - None
Bleyd Master (bleyd) - DPS - Strength
Lightshine (Pinkielover123) - Healer - Healing
Farsight (Seriack) - Support and damage / Battle Mage - Offense
Chrysteel (Omega_Khaos) - Dark Mage/Nuker - Offense
Quick Draw (Link) - Nuker/Assassin - Offense
Nightly Moon (NightlyMoon) - Assassin/Scout - Offense
Blazing Slash (narwhaliagames) - Summoner/Blood Knight - Offense
>insert adventurer here<

*****

Sign-up:
Name:
Age:
Race:
Useful Skills:
Summon/Pet (optional):
Desired role (tank/healer/leader/nuker/etc) (optional):
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Assistant GM: Majem

Sign-up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6138.new

Dungeon Map:


Simple Rules:

Forum Rules (excluding metagaming and game-related OOC rules)
The metagame:
simple dungeon crawl
any and all metagaming allowed.
No powerplaying
no godmodding
everypony starts out with nothing but the fur on their flank
No summoning items from home
One pet of a strength less than or equal to AJ maximum
No IC/OOC differentiation necessary if pertinent to the game
No "pointless/off-topic" chat in the game
Full map provided, but you'll have to put the markers in yourself as you go along
Cooperation encouraged but not required
Looting of enemies and chests encouraged
Final boss can be reached immediately but invincible until you get the necessary items.  Long way around ovO

*****

Backstory:

Long: You are gathered here from all walks of life, warriors, artisans, shopkeepers, yet all of you have chosen to come to this dungeon of your own free will.  Each of you have been given communication devices which allow free communication, as well as information about just about anything you will encounter in the area.  It is known that at the end of the dark prison there waits a powerful creature of hideous strength and skill, such as only can be beaten by the bravest, strongest of adventurers, and who threatens the well-being of all of Equestria.  He is ancient and evil and cannot be bargained with or redeemed.  Within this prison, his prison, he was long held captive, but now the madpony runs the madhouse and the place has become a fortress, filled with deadly enemies and the looted treasures of numerous cities.  Once you enter, there is no hope of escape save by the exit door guarded by this most powerful of enemies.  There does exist a door directly to this ancient evil, but you have been strongly advised not to attempt it before first gaining experience and better equipment than the fur on your flanks.  It is said that there will be stations here and there where tools may be found for repairing items, should you find any.

TL;DR: Dungeon crawl metagame!

*****

Adventurers (Username) - Intended Role - Boost:
Majem (Chirp) - Scout, Strategist - Stealth
Haned Tom (Haned tom.) - Nuker - None
Arty Brightshadow (ArtVeigar) - Support: Debuffer/Pet - None
Bleyd Master (bleyd) - DPS - Strength
Lightshine (Pinkielover123) - Healer - Healing
Farsight (Seriack) - Support and damage / Battle Mage - Offense
Chrysteel (Omega_Khaos) - Dark Mage/Nuker - Offense
Quick Draw (Link) - Nuker/Assassin - Offense
Nightly Moon (NightlyMoon) - Assassin/Scout - Offense
Blazing Slash (narwhaliagames) - Summoner/Blood Knight - Offense
>insert adventurer here<

*****

You and your fellows stand before the enormous, gaping doors of adamant, long shut.  A fear and a terror flows like water from the darkness within.
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RP: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6332
Sign-up: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=6316.new#new

Assistant GMs: Silver Snake, Rundo

Theme: Adventure
One sentence summary: "Infiltrate the forgotten city and adventure, try not to get 'defeated', and stop the demon army with Celly's help."

Summary story:
Spoiler: show
There were a lot more Alicorns and Draconequui back in the day, but their civilization fell to corruption despite their power and knowledge, ultimately being destroyed when a mysterious creature called Sam-Uzu (aka Smooze) wiped out their civilization, leaving only a few survivors, including Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord, as well as a mysterious Prince.  Now, however, relics and items are being discovered such as the Alicorn Amulet dating back to that time, and a portal has been discovered holding an ancient army of these Antedeluvian monsters and threatening to open at any time.  At the same time, news of a protectorate ruled by an insane Prince in the long-forgotten city of Pandaemonium has reached Equestria, worrying those in authority still further.  As Discord is cured of his madness and volunteers to help the Three Princesses keep back the hordes, you and your friends/partners are assigned or volunteered to help unearth and enter the long-buried ruins of the city of Pandemonium in order to find a way to stop the corrupted alicorns and draconequui, and their chaos, from escaping.  You should also look into this "Protectorate" and the mad Prince, and see if you can do something about it before he tries doing something he'll really, really regret.  You get special tools and can find new tools as you adventure.  There's also "stations" to trade in or fix old tools.


Long story:
Spoiler: show
"Long ago, long before the continents were divided, or the mountains raised, Ponykind was a great and powerful civilization.  In those times, there were no pegasi, or unicorns, or earth ponies, but only alicorns, and draconequi.  Yes, thousands, millions, billions of them, each godlike in power.  Their cities reached to the heavens, their wisdom surpassed that of any alive today save the Sisters.

"They grew proud.  These gods were not content with what power their Parents, the All-Makers, blessed them with.  They wanted more.  They wanted everything.

"In those days, child, they went whithersoever they pleased, to the farthest star and back.  They were powerful, and cruel.  Simple art and philosophy no longer satisfied their thirst; they delved into dark arts, terrible arts.  Do you wonder at the cruelty of the Alicorn Amulet?  Or at the wretchedness of the Diamond Dogs and their ancestors, the Grundles?  That was not by chance.  In their pride, these gods of old grew proud.  They sought to supplant the All-Makers, to bring their evil to all the universe and beyond.

"Such could not stand forever.

"The first sound was a roar unlike anything you or I could ever hope to imagine.  A roar that tore at the very fabric of reality.  They say it was as if the very sky were rolled back like a scroll, as though the stars were blotted out one by one.  In a single day and night, it is said, all the majesty, the power, the glory, the wisdom of those days, all the cruelty and malice, was swept away by a living flood- Sam-Uzu, the God-Bane.  In latter days when those of lesser races grew up to fill the void left behind by the deluge, this creature of destruction would be called the Smooze, and became a foal's tale to laugh and jest at.  It was not at that time.

"But the All-Makers were merciful.  A few were spared the destruction.  Among them were three Sisters, one Brother, and a Prince.

"Yes, my child.  The very Sisters that rule us today were among the sole survivors of that great calamity.  And with them was a fair and beautiful spirit of creativity and invention, of newness and innovation: Anelkisteras was his name.  He was a Draconequus, young and bold and wise, though cunning and mischievous.  There was also a great Prince who once ruled over a vast domain in the time before the Deluge.

"But in the hearts of those that come from such a past ever lay a seed of the malice of that time...

"The first to fall was Anelkisteras the Fair.  Even as he helped to rebuild and repopulate the devestated world, his jests became crueler, his tricks ever more malicious.  Soon he abandoned all civility altogether, and made war upon the Sisters, saying: "The world has ended, and this world is ours to control.  Yet what is life without a bit of Chaos?"

"And they cursed him, and called him Discord, for that was what he brought everywhere he went.  Soon, Luna Herself fell to jealousy, and Cadance to infatuation.  The Prince fell to a madness akin to that of Discord, and went far into the North to the lost city of Pandemonium with his servants, with the intent of unearthing and ruling over the ruins as a god.  But not all was lost.  The Elements of Harmony were forged in the Fires of Friendship, and our ancestors helped Celestia to banish all three of Her Siblings and seal the Prince deep within the lost city.  In time, Each Sibling,, as you know, were cured of Their madness.  Anelkisteras was the most recent to be cured by the Element of Kindness, though he keeps the name of Discord.

"Yet with the curing of Their minds came the trouble you discovered.  A gateway was found, an ancient holding cell.  Tartarus it was called in ages past, but even now the seals are breaking.  Soon it shall break completely, and not even Cerberus will be able to hold back the demons within, the ones who called themselves gods, the ones who sought to supplant the All-Makers.  At the same time, rumor came of the mad Prince, now even farther from the grips of reality, leading an army of ponies empowered by the dark power of the city he found, seeking to break free of the darkness and take over all the land.

"Celestia, Luna, Cadance and Discord will hold back Their fellows as long as They can, along with the Elements of Harmony and the Crystal Heart.  Your task is to find a way in the deadly city of Pandemonium to stop the door from opening, or if that is impossible, to stop the hordes that come out, and to stop the mad Prince.  It will not be easy.  Who knows what Nameless things dwell in the darkness, long bereft of the light of the world, gnawing themselves in the shadows and growing in strange ways.  You will come to the uttermost Foundations of Stone and face terrors beyond your worst nightmares, but you will prevail.

"Take these swords and spears and bows.  They were forged by Their Majesties and borne by Them before the Deluge.  No other weapon will suffice in the Depths.  As you go, you may find ever stronger Legendary Weapons of Ages past.  I suggest that you use them as best as you can.  We have already sent scouting parties before you into the Depths.  They will do what they can to assist you.

Good luck.


Starting tools:
Legendary Armor: defense against Legendary Damage
Spoiler: defensive tools, choose at most two • show
Legendary Bow: infinite Legendary Damage arrows, up to 3 shot at a time.
Legendary Staff: changes spell and summon/pet damage to Legendary
Legendary Spear: mid-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Hammer: short-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Sword: mid-range Legendary Damage
Legendary Claws: very short-range Legendary Damage

Communication device, indestructible, unlootable, allows sight/smell/sound/taste/touch/etc with team-mates.
A copy of the Records of Nameless, ask in OOC when consulting or feel free to make up descriptions.
Any personal items you think will be useful.

Note: All environments and creatures within Pandemonium are Immune to non-Legendary Damage types and deal Legendary Damage themselves, which bypasses normal defenses and armors.  They are susceptible to Debuffs, Roots, Mesmerize, and other such non-Damage effects, however.

*****
Links:

Shop
Loot ((this is just a quick reference of things ponies have collected of late))

Spoiler: Adventurers (Username) - Intended Role - Boost ((links are updated, not necessarily what's written)) • show


Tian Long (ArtVeigar) - Melee DPS - Sword, Spear (+Fire) - Strength, Power, Agility - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Solar Stab 20% damage + 10%/turn Fire-buffed wound, Lunar Slash 20% damage + 5%/turn wound, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE, Aurora AoE 10% stun ranged
Range Conjure (The Stars) - Constructor/Summoner - Staff - Wisdom, Defense - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Crimson Blood (The Stars) - Berserker - Staff - Wisdom, Attack - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Price (The Stars) - Spy - Sword x2 - Agility, Speed - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE
Noy Gazer (Rundo) - Overseer - Staff (+Buff), Spider's Silk - Knowledge, Wisdom - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Majem (Chirp) - Scout/Strategist - Bow, Sword - Agility, Wisdom, Speed, Accuracy - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Quad Shot, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE
Aubade "Sunny" Trek (Silver Snake) - Ranger/Summoner - Bow, Staff - Agility, Accuracy, Wisdom - Lightning Wave AoE stun, Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Quad Shot, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Bleyd Master (bleyd) - Assassin - Claws (+Venom) - Strength, DoT - Slashing Claws triple attack, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Snatching Claws Stun/Attack, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
>unnamed< (Somebeing) - Engineer/Researcher - Hammer - Strength, Crafting - Fix It temporary one-turn repair, Strike Ground 10% stun melee AoE
Glimmering "Glimmer" Health (super_chris85) - Healer - Staff - Wisdom, Knowledge, Healing - Healing Wave (1/fight) AoE 20% heal, Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Improved Beacon of Hope continuous 10% group heal, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Leafa Whitewood (Ryo_D_Disk) - Mid-range Duellist - 2 Sword - Speed, Power, Agility - Sword Sweep stun/damage/+wound, Swirling Blade multiple-target single 10% attack, Sword Hedge reflect 50% and reduce incoming damage by 50% while disabling all outgoing attacks, Slicing Wind 10%/wound ranged AoE
Stanzi (GalvinRoe) - Quest PC, Enchanter/Artificer/Puppeteer - Staff, Shillelagh, Band of Sustenance - Knowledge - Immune to Starvation, Fix It: temporary one-turn repair, Puppeteer: create three strong golems from any non-Legendary inanimate material (removes other spellcasting abilities as puppeteer must focus will to direct Instant Golems; golems fall apart on Interrupt, Stun, Cancel, Defeat or voluntary cessation of spell), Puppet Strings: control one non-boss non-Adventurer non-Camp-member creature which has directed its Aggression towards you and is attacking for 1 turn (cannot command it to harm itself)
Night Wing (darkstar1105) - Rogue - Legendary Bow, Legendary Claws - Strength, Agility - None
Coppershine (Morning Glory) - Tank - Legendary Shield, Weighted Horseshoes - Defense, Stamina, Power, Health, Healing - Shield Strike: Interrupt/Stun/Damage, Empathy: take somepony else's damage for them, Always Faithful: 1/fight self-heal 20%, Turtle Stance: temporarily Immune to damage (but unable to attack), Encouragement: health exchange giving up to 50% of one's own health to another pony
Clouded Mind (cloudandis) - Scout/Ranger - Legendary Bow - Agility, Accuracy - Quad Shot, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Trick Shot obstacle-skirting attack, Snare Trap light Root, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE
Rhyme Writer (rhyme writer) - Party Defense/Summoner/Bard - Legendary Staff - Wisdom, Defense - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Ink Barrier, Minor Ink Creature: create one weak Ink Creature to aid in battle (removes other spellcasting abilities as summoner must focus will to direct summon; Creature falls apart on Interrupt, Stun, Cancel, Defeat or voluntary cessation of spell), Slashing Tentacles triple attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Oblivion Alexander Swords (Haned tom.) - Mimic - Legendary Claws - Strength - Slashing Claws triple attack, Mimic: attempt to copy the DNA of another creature (non-Legendary only, 3 turn induction, cannot perform any other action during induction and is Stunned for 1 turn if Interrupted), Snatching Claws Stun/Attack, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
Laebenal (Laebenal) - Sneak/Rogue - Legendary Dagger, Legendary Cloak - Stealth - Blinding Flash stun, Plain Sight instant Legendary Stealth (breaks on outgoing or incoming damage), Backstab 20% damage + 10%/turn wound (breaks stealth, can only be done from stealth), Dagger Slash 10% normal damage, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
Pale Flare (Laebenal) - DoT/pyromancer - Legendary Staff - Burning Embers 5%/turn fire debuff, Firewall halves damage and reflects half damage to attackers (stationary, breaks on movement), Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE
Bulger (Mr.Fox) - Assassin - Legendary Claws - Strength - Slashing Claws triple attack, Snatching Claws Stun/Attack, Silent Defeat 1/encounter non-boss ranged one-hit-defeat
Techno "Tech" Blitz (Omega_Khaos) - scout/engineer/technician/aerial fighter - Wing-Blade - +Mobility, +Attack, -Health, -Critical - Lightning strike 10% single range, Feather Darts x6 1% rage (stun if Lightning buff), Fly-by Strike 10% melee (prereq: speed), Slashing Wind 10% AoE melee, Air Slash 10% single / 5% multiple melee
"TC" (Omega_Khaos) - summon - "Bow" - Wisdom - Quad Shot, Piercing Shot 5%/turn wound/10% attack, Fire Storm AoE 10%/wound ranged AoE
Tezaku Blues (Tezaku) - Tank - Wing-Blade - none - Lightning strike 10% single range, Feather Darts x6 1% rage (stun if Lightning buff), Fly-by Strike 10% melee (prereq: speed), Slashing Wind 10% AoE melee, Air Slash 10% single / 5% multiple melee
Farsight (Seriack) - Support/Ranged DPS(Mostly DoTs and minion damage) - Staff - Attack - Biting Shadows multiple-target DoT, Test of Will single-target stun/10% attack, Blinding Flash AoE Mesmerize, Cratered Earth root/stun/10% AoE, Healing Dream restore 20% health (Mesmerizes target for one turn since it's a dream), Living Nightmare weak summon (continuous Mesmerize on one target, ends if target awakes, goes unconscious or is defeated, or caster is incapacitated in any way.  One target/summon at a time.)

Villain:
Prince Impera Caeterus: Arch-Nemesis - Strength, Speed, Accuracy, Agility, Power, Stealth, Power, Healing


*****

This is now the OOC :3
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Any thoughts, opinions, reviews, discussions, etc etc?  Also tips for other players either new or experienced, easter eggs, etc.

((and no, I did do a search for it on this board and the only thing that came up was a suggestion by lurk to meet up in it))
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Off-Topic Archive / 4ever alone
2012 Nov 16, 12:52:29
I like how there's only 7 members online at the moment, and has been that way for the past two hours... :c
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I find more and more that things happen when I'm not around and very little happens when I'm around, so I'll just ask: when are you usually around? x3 According to GMT, that is.  Personally, I'm often on around 14:00 GMT till about 16:00, then I try to be on from 18:00 to 22:00.  That would be on weekdays.  On weekends I'm usually on from around 2:00 to 3:00 GMT.
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I know Thread Games and Jump-Ins are awesomely active, they usually are.  My question is, whatever happened to the rest of the forum?  Used to be there were hundreds of hundreds of posts and active threads, now it's like everypony just... isn't really posting all that much.  Maybe it's just me?
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As some of you may know, we currently have a Notable Pony system set up for community vote.  After a short break, the higher-ups are reinstating a vote this month, reviving the questions concerning whether to have titles at all, what sorts of titles, and what to name said titles.  What is the community's opinion on this?  Anypony is welcome to agree, disagree, or give their opinion, and feel free to say the same thing as the pony above you if you really agree.
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The Retirement Home / OC making game
2012 Sep 05, 03:07:59
Here's a game for all those ponies who want to try making new OCs or just want a bit of practice :)

Name:
Gender:
Race (pegasus, unicorn, etc):
Talent:
Personality:
Physical Description:
Equipment, if any (trident, etc):
Important info/background:

*****

Name: Sandy Shells
Gender: Mare
Race (pegasus, unicorn, etc): Pegasus
Talent: Tides
Personality: Dreamy, occasionally tempermental
Physical Description: Fit, thin, agile
Equipment, if any (trident, etc): plastic bucket
Important info/background: grew up near the seashore

Yours can be more detailed or less detailed, whatever you choose!

Idea for thread courtesy Itty Bit, Pinkie Pie and the other Pony Princesses
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OOC here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=4340.new#new

The Royal Academy of Magic is the continuation for the School for Gifted Unicorns, comprising six ivory towers in a star shape, one for each Element of Harmony.  Equestria's best and brightest (cough cough) come here for education in all manner of arcane sciences, and the professors all are masters of their field.

Let's step into the fun and wacky world of the brightest (or maybe just the richest) ponies in Equestria as Professors and Students!

Rules:
a) Forum Rules
b) No destruction of the towers (knocking out a wall or roof, however, can happen!)
c) No forced transformations
d) No mind control or manipulation
e) No necromancy
f) No paradoxes in time magic
g) No major crimes, you are all respectable ponies, not rabble.
h) have fun! ^-^
i) OOC in OOC, here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=4340.new#new

Current Players!: ( Name, Forum name, Occupation, Subject)

Students:
Cloudy Zenith (Voidwalker)
EagleBlade (Wolfblade)
Insanistis (SapphirePony)
Nala Valor (Nala Valor)
Nightmares (ShadowHeart)
Parchemin (Stitchin Time)
Pyro ( Stitchin Time)
Skyler (Stitchin Time)
ThunderFlame (wolfblade)

Teacher/Faculty/Staff:
Emerald Crescent (The Wandering Magus) , Headmaster
Feather Scroll (The Wandering Magus) , Inter-Magical Forces and Magitronics Research
Glacial Shard (PPBG) , Dragonology and Other Beasts
Lusterless Nova (Lusterless Nova) , Illusion and Summoning
Raven (BlackVortex) , Biology

Teal (Teal Turken), Swimming
The Doctor ( Dreadnaught 308) , Time Magic
Dodger (Lui) , Spatial Magic

Iron Hoof and Driftless Night (Driftless Night) - Music
Regeal (Driftless Night) - Space and Flying Studies
Noy Gazer (Rundo) - Practical Applications of Magic
Jenzy (Jenzy) - Magical Items
Rhyme Writer (rhyme writer) - Runeology, Magic Glyphs, Magic Drawings
Farsight (Seriack) - Dream Magic
Shadechaser (Shadechaser) - Shadow Magic
Bane Emural (Bane Emural) - Ancient Magic
Bacon (blobking156) - Biology
Flame D'Autriche Lucifenia (FlameandIce) - Ancient Runes/Runeology
Nightstar Dreams (Winds) - Ancient Magic
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Sort of like Pony High, but more a university than a high school, and magic-based.  Maybe more focused on professors?  Or not, idk.  What do you all think?

Edit: RP is up! http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=4341.0
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Resolved Issues / Sweet and Elite
2012 Jul 15, 17:37:50
so, this was supposed to be the reference precursor for P&S Adventures.  Is that... gone, now? :c  I can't find it in either the RP Retirement Home OR the regular Retirement Home.

My references for creating/restoring RPs are usually as follows:
S&E
P&S Adventures
Pony Cosmology

but seeing as that all of the Sign-Ups, Information threads and Rules threads for those seem to be just gone, no retirement or anything, I'm sort of stuck unless somepony could helpfully point me in the right direction for rediscovering said references. x3

:c silly me for forgetting the forums couldn't be reliably used to store stuff.  Imma start making backups of the backups from now on...
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Bleyd is BANNED from this RP, and will be reported to the mods if he attempts to post here again until further notice.  Moonlight has been permanently depowered, and shall never again enter into this game as a Goddess or God.

Please see this page for the start of Re-Creation: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=1216.11475

Roleplay here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=1216
OOC thread here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=1217
Rules and Information thread here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=3524


based off the dreamworld idea by Vick McBread over in OOC, but in a somewhat more serious manner, as shall be noted in the rest of the post.


Setting:
Celestia and Luna have granted certain ponies powers unimaginable to shape reality itself, and have ordered them to work with a pocket dimension to create a peaceful world that can coexist with ponykind.

In the beginning, there was boring nothingness.

Game Moderators:
GalvinRoe
The Wandering Magus
Rundo
Night Pony
Night Sight
Ethereal Nebula

Existing Gods: (note to self: asterisk * means that the player has confirmed that they wish to retain their realm)
Spoiler: Before Ragnarok • show
Shadow Shimmer (ShadowHeart) - Darkness
Etherial Nebula (Ethereal Nebula) - Dreams
Dark Chaos (chaos79) - Fire
Achrome Magic (The Stars) - Arcane
Tumble (Tumble) - Sound
Thunder Arrowhead Jet (Thunder Jet) - Technology
Zaner (Zaner-Boy) - Air
Majem (Chirp) - Water
Night Shine (Night Pony) - Soul and Undeath
Sahara (Sahara) - Earth
Night Sight (Night Sight) - Insanity
Tator (Teal Turken) - Nature (Animals and Plants)
Sonya Blademaster (sonyablademaster) - Judgement
Griffy (Griffy) - "Help" (sounds kind of like visualization and foresight and vision combined into one.)
Stormy Sparkler (graywhoof) - Youthfulness/Innocence/Childishness
Velvet Desires (Fluttershy) - Love and Beauty
Noy Gazer (Ründo) - Gathering  (gravity/unity)
Skyler (Crystal Chaos) - Music
Turbo McCloud (Flighty McCloud) - Courage
Willowchess (Willowchess) - War
Moonlight Paradise (Moonlight Paradise) - Nighttime
Pinkie Pie (Pinkie Pie) - Celebration
Cobalt "Nostro" Lazuli (Teal Turken) - Wisdom and Respect
Quantum the Unlikely (Limey-Boy) - Luck/Fortune/or as he likes to call it "Probability"
Wolfblade (Wolfblade) - Wolves
Minaco (Minaco) - Fear
Rylo Revally (Rylo Revally) - The Moon
Michaele (FlameandIce) - Fate
Blaze (Blaze) - Hope
Link (Link) - Time
Alanca (KoalaLover99) - Protection/Peace
Barlot (Blues-Music) - Imagination
Beyond Bored (byndbored) - Light
Rainboom (Rainboom) - Color
Jack Noir aka Spades Slick (FlameandIce) - Disease
Icicle Hammer (Icicle Hammer) - Dry Ice (frozen carbon dioxide)
Mr. fract_11 (Emotional Koncept) - Paradoxes (four sided triangles, etc)

After Ragnarok:
Spoiler: Currently inactive • show

Skyler (Crystal Chaos) - Music
Nala Valor (Nala Valor) - Air
Beyond Bored (byndbored) - Light
Quantum the Unlikely (Limey-Boy) - Luck/Fortune/or as he likes to call it "Probability"
Silver (StarSong) - Value
Blue Blur (Silver Snake) - Law and Order (Order not only dealing with peace and harmony, but social order and hierarchy)
Starless (Night Sight) - Nature
Morgan Sententia (Morgan Sententia) - Purpose and Vengeance
Arca Rela (Coffee Rush) - Arcane
Alkaid (Silverweed) - Knowledge/Memory
Bubbles (CupQuake) - Force
Light Fire (Doctor Light) - Sound
Sotark (Blues-Music) - Strength
Loophole (hyliawisdom) - Paradoxes
Alanca (KoalaLover99) - Protection/Peace
Tessy Young (Enstramentall) - Youth
Heaven's Ray (Dark Hooves) - Dark
Issachar (Dark Hooves) - Dark
Blaze (Chirp) - Fire

Currently active:
*Link (Link) - Time
*Noy Gazer (Ründo) - Gathering  (gravity/unity)
*Night Shine (Night Pony) - Soul and Undeath
*Voidwalker (Voidwalker) - Food and Drink
*Etherial Nebula (Ethereal Nebula) - Dreams
*Zeth (Ründo) - Earth
*Flame (FlameandIce) - Judgement
*Laserbolt (bauccgia0) - Technology
*Moonlight Starshine (moonlight7starshine) - Plague
*Night Sight (Night Sight) - Architecture
*Blobking (blobking156) - Imagination
*Teal (Teal) - Water
*Ah Muzen Cab (SuperNovaNightmare) - Bees, Honey, and closely bee-related things
((please say in OOC if you're still with us so I can add you to this list.))

Tips:
If you work together with other gods, you can get things done faster and probably better.
Infighting just wrecks reality.
Moving those stars like that can wreck stuff up.
Black holes generally do bad things to everything around them except gods.
Yes, you can create servant spirits/etc.

I'll be introducing fluctuations your actions might have caused that you didn't notice, and eventually if you get to it the living things you create with a will.  I'll mostly just be watching it unfold, though.

Sign-up:

Name:
Gender:
Race (pegasus, unicorn, etc):
Realm (fire, light, gravitation, dreams, etc):
Personality:
Description/image:
Equipment, if any (trident, etc):
Important info/background:

Edit: important info means anything you think other ponies should know about your god/goddess besides what has been described, whether that be specific powers or some sort of traumatic background, etc.

Edit: you can have more than one god, just put in the same info for that one too.  He/She/It will have to be accepted by me to RP as usual.  No more than probably 3 gods though, and I HIGHLY recommend playing every one in order to advance the gameplay.

EDIT: READ RULES AND INFORMATION THREAD BEFORE SIGNING UP.

No violence
No power-playing (taking control of somepony else's OC), unless EXPLICIT permission is given, by one of the GM's.
NO Game Moderating unless you are on the Game Moderating list! (Down below)
If you must swear, do it in Equestrian swears. (dang -> banish, etc)
If you're speaking in a foreign language, give a translation ooc.
No real-world politics or religion.
Please write more than just one or two words per post.
Please PARTICIPATE.  If you cannot participate, tell me and I will remove your name from the list.
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Bleyd is BANNED from this RP, and will be reported to the mods if he attempts to post here again until further notice.  Moonlight has been permanently depowered, and shall never again enter into this game as a Goddess or God.

Please see this page for the start of Re-Creation: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=1216.11475


Roleplay here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=1216
OOC thread here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=1217
Sign-up here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=3525

based off the dreamworld idea by Vick McBread over in OOC, but in a somewhat more serious manner, as shall be noted in the rest of the post.


Setting:
Celestia and Luna have granted certain ponies powers unimaginable to shape reality itself, and have ordered them to work with a pocket dimension to create a peaceful world that can coexist with ponykind.

In the beginning, there was boring nothingness.

Map:
Spoiler: show
Quote from: Ründo on 2013 Feb 27, 15:23:09
Map Key:


Local area around the portal:


Quote from: Night Pony on 2012 Jun 04, 05:46:43
MAJOR EVENTS
Spoiler: show
-Night Sight brainwashed Zaner to believe that all other gods wanted to use him.This made him to remove all the atmosphere from the planets but after some time he was convinced to return with the other gods and to help and make life possible.

-Zaner assisted Thunder for blowing up the core of the planet with hollow core.(Zaner filled it with air and Thunder used some machine to detonate it.)This angered Sahara,the earth god, because there he was sleeping.His rage caused massive earthquakes on Zeth causing the fire elementals to exit their territory which led to massive fires and many casualties that included plants and animals.They were driven back by Night Shine and the fires and tornadoes were stopped.

-After extensive search Majem did not found the fire god which led him to sadness(or rage i don't really remember).This led to massive floods and rain all over Zeth.The fire elementals once again were angered since it was raining on their territory as well.They began to destroy the planet in an attempt to dry out and survive to massive floods.They were stopped by Gathering and Majem.Then the water god found the fire god and they created the magma fish.

-Tator cursed a group of mortals because they didn't respected his rules when they were visiting his temple.That was the last straw for Tator.He went rogue and turned every plant and animal on the planet into creature of rage under his command.Night Shine went to war with him in a attempt to stop Tator.That was after all negotiations have failed.As the battle between the two gods raged on,a small group of mortals made it's way to the heart of the temple of nature.There they fought Tator's guardian which was guarding the staff of nature.The mortals defeated the guardian and Noy took the staff.He then made all wildlife like it was before.Tator realized that the others actually cared for his realm and he returned to normal.Night Shine and Gathering then resurrected the fallen animals from the battle.A huge party was held for Tator in Tasty Trees.

-The earth dragon appeared near Tasty Trees.His behaviour led to believe that he was hostile and that he was going to attack the mortals.Link,the time god,froze him in time until he decided what to do with him.That didn't go well with the earth elementals which started to harass the mortals in a attempt to learn link's location.Then Link showed himself and they had a nice conversation that ended in releasing the Earth Dragon and the earth elementals to hate the mortals.After hearing this Link and Teal started to visit every other elemental in a attempt to fix the relation between the mortals and the earth elementals.In the end Teal made a huge monument in the town which was dedicated to the earth.The elementals then decided to make peace with the mortals.

-A huge storm was heading towards Tasty Trees.Only Teal saw it coming and he tried to stop it by seeking aid from the air elementals.Unfortunately the storm was too massive for the elementals to stop and it was closing on the town fast.The town started evacuating.The earth elementals made a wall that shielded the town from the wind and the air elementals slowed down the storm.Most of the ponies evacuated when the storm hit.Several ponies took shelter in the Night Owl.They were caught in the storm and were carried for several miles until the storm died down.The town was in ruin.After hearing this,Link reversed time and repaired all the damage that was caused by the storm.The town returned to it's normal look and the mortals came back to the town once again.

-Strange machine appeared on Zeth.It asked the location of the Ice planet and after short conversation with Majem it disappears.Then asteroids appeared on the ice planet which led Majem to believe it was by the machine.The god of water now hated the machines.That rage made him destroy the machine that appeared on Zeth and took it's parts to the planet with hollow core.There he found only ruins of a instillation.When Majem left the installation rebuilt itself into Installation 3.It launched full scale war on the Ice planet with several ships named "Planet Crackers" and "Fire Interceptor"(? not sure for the name of the 2nd class ships.)The war raged between the ships,Majem and the ice elementals.In the end majem destroyed the ships and made a shield around the Ice planet that restricted access to the planet except for the elementals and Majem himself.
Later there were several ships that were attacking Zeth.They were stopped by Link,God of Time.

-Celestia and Luna appeared in the pocket dimension upon hearing that somepony has broken the rules.They punished the responsible pony and Luna then created a constellation and a planet Luna.Their voices were broadcasted everywhere including the Soul realm.When Night heard about that somepony broke the rules she assumed that it was for her.She thought that she had failed in being a good go.She stopped maintaining the flow of souls which resulted in wandering souls on Zeth and then later in demons.She created a soul dragon named Legion that began to gather all souls from Zeth,including the soul of Zeth.((If anypony has read my OC thread he/she would know that Night's fear is failure.))Tator saw what the dragon was doing and he tried to stop it but witouth great success.So after some progress the soul dragon was halted by the joined efforts of gathering,Pinkie Pie and Majem.Gathering tried several times to call Night out of her realm but without success.After hearing that the dragon was stopped,Night exited the realm disguised as a Alicorn air elemental near the Soul dragon.Gathering found her and launched the soul,earth,wind dragon into the atmosphere.(they had formed after Pinkie's mind control.)After that Gathering and Link convinced Night that she hadn't done anything at all.Majem was enjoying the sight as the conversation unfolded.After that Night Shine returned the souls to their places and the dragons returned to their places as well.


Quote from: Night Pony on 2012 Jun 04, 12:32:15
Spoiler: Creation • show

First there was nothing.Then Majem and the goddess of darkness combined their powers created the Ice planet.The brainwashing was at this point somewhere.The star was created with Zaner and the fire god.First one before the brainwashing and then another one after Zaner became normal(because he undid everything he did prior the brainwashing).We were on the ice planet until Sahara the earth god made Zeth and the planet with hollow core.Naturally the fire god also played part in Zeth's creation.After that Night Shine gave Zeth a soul and caused earthquake to make gaps in the surface so Majem could fill them with water.Zaner made the atmosphere.And so on.With more gods signing up we made different things such as nature,animals etc.The hollow core planet is largely ignored by everypony except Thunder who made the machines.Etherial,the goddess of dreams, hypnotized the elementals to create various things.The air elementals made the cloud fortress(thought originaly it was cloud cities but it got mixed up in the process of the RP).The earth elementals made the various landscape and the water elementals made underwater cities.When everything was enough to support life Zaner opened the portal to equestria(there was no god for the task so Zaner opened it.)
Eventually Majem made the Ice castle on the ice planet where the Ice elementals reside.Mountains were erected at the location of the fire elementals.Also Gathering made the terrain even more variable by creating different landmasses.He lifted several big sized chunks from the ground and left them at random locations.Sahara filled the holes that Gathering made.Also Gathering was the one who gave Zeth his intelligence.

The elementals were created when the element was present.Earth-when there was actual ground,Fire-from the star,Water-when water was present,Ice-they were created around when Zeth was created on the Ice planet(why? I don't know.)

Quote from: Night Pony on 2012 Jul 13, 16:11:19

Spoiler: show
-Night Sight brainwashed Zaner to believe that all other gods wanted to use him.This made him to remove all the atmosphere from the planets but after some time he was convinced to return with the other gods and to help and make life possible.

-Zaner assisted Thunder for blowing up the core of the planet with hollow core.(Zaner filled it with air and Thunder used some machine to detonate it.)This angered Sahara,the earth god, because there he was sleeping.His rage caused massive earthquakes on Zeth causing the fire elementals to exit their territory which led to massive fires and many casualties that included plants and animals.They were driven back by Night Shine and the fires and tornadoes were stopped.

-After extensive search Majem did not found the fire god which led him to sadness(or rage i don't really remember).This led to massive floods and rain all over Zeth.The fire elementals once again were angered since it was raining on their territory as well.They began to destroy the planet in an attempt to dry out and survive to massive floods.They were stopped by Gathering and Majem.Then the water god found the fire god and they created the magma fish.

-Tator cursed a group of mortals because they didn't respected his rules when they were visiting his temple.That was the last straw for Tator.He went rogue and turned every plant and animal on the planet into creature of rage under his command.Night Shine went to war with him in a attempt to stop Tator.That was after all negotiations have failed.As the battle between the two gods raged on,a small group of mortals made it's way to the heart of the temple of nature.There they fought Tator's guardian which was guarding the staff of nature.The mortals defeated the guardian and Noy took the staff.He then made all wildlife like it was before.Tator realized that the others actually cared for his realm and he returned to normal.Night Shine and Gathering then resurrected the fallen animals from the battle.A huge party was held for Tator in Tasty Trees.

-The earth dragon appeared near Tasty Trees.His behaviour led to believe that he was hostile and that he was going to attack the mortals.Link,the time god,froze him in time until he decided what to do with him.That didn't go well with the earth elementals which started to harass the mortals in a attempt to learn link's location.Then Link showed himself and they had a nice conversation that ended in releasing the Earth Dragon and the earth elementals to hate the mortals.After hearing this Link and Teal started to visit every other elemental in a attempt to fix the relation between the mortals and the earth elementals.In the end Teal made a huge monument in the town which was dedicated to the earth.The elementals then decided to make peace with the mortals.

-A huge storm was heading towards Tasty Trees.Only Teal saw it coming and he tried to stop it by seeking aid from the air elementals.Unfortunately the storm was too massive for the elementals to stop and it was closing on the town fast.The town started evacuating.The earth elementals made a wall that shielded the town from the wind and the air elementals slowed down the storm.Most of the ponies evacuated when the storm hit.Several ponies took shelter in the Night Owl.They were caught in the storm and were carried for several miles until the storm died down.The town was in ruin.After hearing this,Link reversed time and repaired all the damage that was caused by the storm.The town returned to it's normal look and the mortals came back to the town once again.

-Strange machine appeared on Zeth.It asked the location of the Ice planet and after short conversation with Majem it disappears.Then asteroids appeared on the ice planet which led Majem to believe it was by the machine.The god of water now hated the machines.That rage made him destroy the machine that appeared on Zeth and took it's parts to the planet with hollow core.There he found only ruins of a instillation.When Majem left the installation rebuilt itself into Installation 3.It launched full scale war on the Ice planet with several ships named "Planet Crackers" and "Fire Interceptor"(? not sure for the name of the 2nd class ships.)The war raged between the ships,Majem and the ice elementals.In the end majem destroyed the ships and made a shield around the Ice planet that restricted access to the planet except for the elementals and Majem himself.
Later there were several ships that were attacking Zeth.They were stopped by Link,God of Time.

-Celestia and Luna appeared in the pocket dimension upon hearing that somepony has broken the rules.They punished the responsible pony and Luna then created a constellation and a planet Luna.Their voices were broadcasted everywhere including the Soul realm.When Night heard about that somepony broke the rules she assumed that it was for her.She thought that she had failed in being a good go.She stopped maintaining the flow of souls which resulted in wandering souls on Zeth and then later in demons.She created a soul dragon named Legion that began to gather all souls from Zeth,including the soul of Zeth.((If anypony has read my OC thread he/she would know that Night's fear is failure.))Tator saw what the dragon was doing and he tried to stop it but witouth great success.So after some progress the soul dragon was halted by the joined efforts of gathering,Pinkie Pie and Majem.Gathering tried several times to call Night out of her realm but without success.After hearing that the dragon was stopped,Night exited the realm disguised as a Alicorn air elemental near the Soul dragon.Gathering found her and launched the soul,earth,wind dragon into the atmosphere.(they had formed after Pinkie's mind control.)After that Gathering and Link convinced Night that she hadn't done anything at all.Majem was enjoying the sight as the conversation unfolded.After that Night Shine returned the souls to their places and the dragons returned to their places as well.


Spoiler: show
First there was nothing.Then Majem and the goddess of darkness combined their powers created the Ice planet.The brainwashing was at this point somewhere.The star was created with Zaner and the fire god.First one before the brainwashing and then another one after Zaner became normal(because he undid everything he did prior the brainwashing).We were on the ice planet until Sahara the earth god made Zeth and the planet with hollow core.Naturally the fire god also played part in Zeth's creation.After that Night Shine gave Zeth a soul and caused earthquake to make gaps in the surface so Majem could fill them with water.Zaner made the atmosphere.And so on.With more gods signing up we made different things such as nature,animals etc.The hollow core planet is largely ignored by everypony except Thunder who made the machines.Etherial,the goddess of dreams, hypnotized the elementals to create various things.The air elementals made the cloud fortress(thought originaly it was cloud cities but it got mixed up in the process of the RP).The earth elementals made the various landscape and the water elementals made underwater cities.When everything was enough to support life Zaner opened the portal to equestria(there was no god for the task so Zaner opened it.)
Eventually Majem made the Ice castle on the ice planet where the Ice elementals reside.Mountains were erected at the location of the fire elementals.Also Gathering made the terrain even more variable by creating different landmasses.He lifted several big sized chunks from the ground and left them at random locations.Sahara filled the holes that Gathering made.Also Gathering was the one who gave Zeth his intelligence.

The elementals were created when the element was present.Earth-when there was actual ground,Fire-from the star,Water-when water was present,Ice-they were created around when Zeth was created on the Ice planet(why? I don't know.)



Section I - Created Things

Section II - Rules and Abilities

  • Rules

    • Universal Rules, Meta

    • Specific Rules, Gods

    • Specific Rules, Mortals
      • The Five Commandments of Blue Blur

      • The Three Laws of Blue Blur

    • Specific Rules, Ragnarok
      • Ragnarok Rules, Mortals

      • Ragnarok Rules, Gods



  • Abilities
    • Specific Abilities, Gods

    • Clarification, Mortal Subservience

    • Clarification, Smiting Ability


Section III - Meta Lists

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IF, and by Celestia I truly hope this will be the case, IF Pony Cosmology makes it through inspection, would it be possible to somehow restore the Rules & Information thread for it?  The R&I thread is crucial to making sure the RP stays not only within forum, but also game rules, preventing confusion, making sure players don't accidentally step on others' toes, etc.
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PINKIE GETS FIRST POST AFTER ME.
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=3062
Signup: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=3091

Current GMs:
Pinkie Pie - rule, NPC moderation
Ryo_D_Disk - story, PC moderation
GalvinRoe - rule, consulting moderation
Lusterless Nova - story, NPC, PC and rule moderation
Wandering Magus (myself) - Game Master, GM moderation


Rules:
Spoiler: show
(Rules):
Despite the backstory being essentially about war, this is not a fighting game.  It is a DIPLOMACY game.  Fighting the various factions isn't going to be earning you friendship/kindness/loyalty/generosity/honesty/hope points, which you desperately need in order to find the Shards.
Breezies don't CARE about the war.  So asking them for help, unless you are VERY charismatic/persuasive, probably won't work.
Since it's not a fighting game, there will be no violence of any kind.  Weapons will not be used either (although they can be displayed or described as set pieces) (example of set-piece weapon: the beautiful sword was engraved with golden writing of a strange tongue, and upon its hilt were set gems of many colors.  It was the ancestral sword of the Griffons, the last remnant of their glorious days before the rise of Discord.  Now, lying here in the dusty halls of the mausoleum, it seemed the moisture upon its blade were like teardrops of its former bearer weeping for the fading of the world.)
There will be no real-world swearing.  Equestrian swears won't be gaining you friendship points, but you can use them.
There will be no "adult" themes.
There will be no discussion of religion, although you can use the names of various Alicorns/Draconequui in your "Equestrian swears" if you wish.  Not that they'd appreciate it.
There will be an OOC.  Please keep OOC there.


Story:
Spoiler: show
Set in one of the Three Ages, maybe the Fourth Age's beginning.  War and chaos, the Alicorns and th Draconequui fight in the heavens while the Diamond Kingdom (ancient diamond dogs before their downfall into the state they are today), Unicornia, Pegasopolis and the Gaia Republic war with one another, the Griffons taking whatever is left over from war and the Zebras fighting amongst themselves.

Discord is still a handsom, beautiful, deadly trickster in his disguised form (still a draconequus), leading many to rally to his cause.

The Land For Ever Free is a neutral territory held by the Breezies, who wish to bring nothing but peace.

Mankind has decided to cut their ties, and King Arthur Pendragon uses Excalibur to shatter the Rainbow Bridge to avoid bringing even more war to Earth.

Discord is winning, and exiles the Sea Ponies by turning their oceans into a desert, which would one day be called Appleloosa.  The Sea Ponies are forced to find other bodies of water to live in.

Lady Abigail Jacqueline, called Applejack, and Starswirl the Bearded consult with Luna and Celestia.  At this point Celestia is much more harsh than today, having much yet to learn.  The counsil sends the Rainbow of light to try to end the wars, but Discord and Tirak shatter the Rainbow into six pieces.

Discord then turns traitor and reveals his true form, betraying Tirak and beginning to warp the entire world into his "kingdom of chaos".

The Diamond Kingdom goes underground, seeking to build their fortresses in the caves of gemstones.

The breezies fade, and begin their final journeys to Flutter Valley.

Their magic, however, lived on in the Fortress of Peace, where Luna, Celestia and Cadance create their castle.

The story will follow their search for the scattered shards of the Rainbow of Light, Discord's fall, and his omnious last words:

"One thousand years hence, and the moon will fall.  Two thousand years hence, and i shall once again call!"

Factions (yes, I am basing them off LOTR):
Unicornia - A proud kingdom of unicorns ruled by one of the wisest and most powerful sorceresses in the world, Princess Platinum.
Pegasopolis - A mighty land of warrior pegasi led by the iron hooves of Commander Hurricane
Gaia Republic - A coalition of earth pony farming fiefs and villages overseen by the elected Chancellor Puddinghead, who is growing senile with age.
Griffon Kingdom - A tribe of powerful griffons who feed off the conquered and the weakened.
Zebra Kingdom - Warring tribes of alchemist Zebras corrupted by disharmony and the influence of Discord.
Diamond Kingdom - An ancient and wealthy kingdom of Diamond Dogs, grown complacent on the wealth of the tunnels under the mountains filled with shining gold and gems.  But they delved too greedily, and too deep...
Flutter Valley - The ancient and mystical paradise home of the Breezies, who no longer care for the things of this world, having grown tired of temporal things.  Though they are unmatched in their powers of magic, however, the journey home will be long and beset with dangers.
Land For Ever Free - The neutral territory created by the Breezies, guarded by strange magics from any cosmic influence, entirely self-sustaining and self-renewing.  It is the home to those who wish to end the war rather than participate in it.
The Heavens - The battlefield of the immortals, the Creators and Destroyers, the Draconequui and the Alicorns.  The skies flash with great bursts of magic every moment, the stars dying and being quickly reborn, the Sun and Moon sometimes here, sometimes there, never settling.
The Capital of Chaos - The area under the dominion of Discord, and formerly Tirak the Centaur.  None who enter ever return.  It is guarded by more than just the allies and servants of Discord, and one does not simply walk into the Capital.

QuoteLet's start over all the way from the beginning.

You're all from different lands.  The Races have been separated into various nations since the First Age.  Breezies, long the guardians of The World, have grown indifferent about the things of this world and are leaving for their home in the world beyond the world, a utopia called Flutter Valley.

As they leave and their protective powers go with them, Discord begins to stir up chaos and disharmony throughout the world, leading to the current situation.

War flashes in the skies above as Immortals battle one another.  Zebraci tribes fight one another over water.  All three pony races make war on one another.  Griffons prey on those who are defeated.

Only the Land For Ever Free, the last gift of the Breezies to this world, remains a bastion of peace and harmony in the roiling turmoil of war.  Earth, under the direction of King Arthur and Merlin, have already shattered the Rainbow Bridge, severing the only path between the world of ponies and the world of humans.

Celestia and Luna, along with others loyal to the cause of peace, have rallied to the Land For Ever Free, seeking a way to end the war.  Their efforts, however, have only resulted so far in shattering the Rainbow of Light, which is now irreplacable.  To remedy this situation, Celestia, Luna, Starswirl and Abigail Jacqueline have summoned the few ponies of the world still willing to seek out peace to come to the Fortress of Peace.

YOUR jobs are to first get to the Fortress of Peace, and then after getting your assignment to seek out the Shards of the Rainbow of Light.  And remember, the Elements will only appear when they are exemplified.  Only a Loyal pony will find the Element of Loyalty, for instance.
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OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=3062
Roleplay: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=3141

Current GMs:
Pinkie Pie - rule, NPC moderation
Ryo_D_Disk - story, PC moderation
GalvinRoe - rule, consulting moderation
Lusterless Nova - story, NPC, PC and rule moderation
Wandering Magus (myself) - Game Master, GM moderation


Because nopony ever asked what happened between hearth's warming and discord's freezing.

Play as the unsung heroes who helped discover, gather and reforge the shards of the Rainbow of Light into the Elements of Harmony, while avoiding the chaos of the lands outside the Forever Free Kingdom.  Fly with the Breezies as they make their final journey to their valley.  Help the Diamond Kingdom build their great underground cities which would one day house the most precious gems in the world.

Backstory:
Spoiler: show
The truth of the Everfree

Set in one of the Three Ages, maybe the Fourth Age's beginning.  War and chaos, the Alicorns and th Draconequui fight in the heavens while the Diamond Kingdom (ancient diamond dogs before their downfall into the state they are today), Unicornia, Pegasopolis and the Gaia Republic war with one another, the Griffons taking whatever is left over from war and the Zebras fighting amongst themselves.

Discord is still a handsom, beautiful, deadly trickster in his disguised form (still a draconequus), leading many to rally to his cause.

The Land For Ever Free is a neutral territory held by the Breezies, who wish to bring nothing but peace.

Mankind has decided to cut their ties, and King Arthur Pendragon uses Excalibur to shatter the Rainbow Bridge to avoid bringing even more war to Earth.

Discord is winning, and exiles the Sea Ponies by turning their oceans into a desert, which would one day be called Appleloosa.  The Sea Ponies are forced to find other bodies of water to live in.

Lady Abigail Jacqueline, called Applejack, and Starswirl the Bearded consult with Luna and Celestia.  At this point Celestia is much more harsh than today, having much yet to learn.  The counsil sends the Rainbow of light to try to end the wars, but Discord and Tirak shatter the Rainbow into six pieces.

Discord then turns traitor and reveals his true form, betraying Tirak and beginning to warp the entire world into his "kingdom of chaos".

The Diamond Kingdom goes underground, seeking to build their fortresses in the caves of gemstones.

The breezies fade, and begin their final journeys to Flutter Valley.

Their magic, however, lived on in the Fortress of Peace, where Luna, Celestia and Cadance create their castle.

The story will follow their search for the scattered shards of the Rainbow of Light, Discord's fall, and his omnious last words:

"One thousand years hence, and the moon will fall.  Two thousand years hence, and i shall once again call!"


Sign-up Sheet:
Name:
Gender:
Race (pegasus, unicorn, etc):
Alliance:
Role:
Personality:
Description/image:
Equipment, if any (trident, etc):
Important info/background:

Edit: important info means anything you think other ponies should know about your character besides what has been described, whether that be specific powers or some sort of traumatic background, etc.

Edit: you can have more than one character, just put in the same info for that one too.  He/She/It will have to be accepted by me to RP as usual.  No more than probably 3 chars though, and I HIGHLY recommend playing every one in order to advance the gameplay.

Edit: alliance means which faction in the war; Discord vs Zebra vs Diamond Kingdom vs Breezies vs For Ever Free Kingdom vs Pegasopolis vs Unicornia vs Gaia Republic etc etc etc

Edit (important):

I will be on hiatus from July 2 to July 21, and as such will not be able to GM this game.  However, this is the story I had in mind, in case anypony wants to GM the game:

Spoiler: would-be GMs • show

Breezies caught by Discord will be transformed into Changelings a la Orcs and Elves.
The Diamond Kingdom will eventually fall to their greed; whether the fall is sooner or later rests on the players.

The Shards are located in the following places:
Honesty: Griffon Kingdom
Loyalty: Pegasopolis
Generosity: Gaia Republic
Kindness: Flutter Valley
Laughter (hope): Diamond Kingdom
Friendship: Land For Ever Free (doesn't appear until all the others are united)

And finally, you must seek out Discord to freeze him.  It should be a difficult task, with only the Princesses' help enabling you to succeed.

Starswirl will not allow the use of time spells.
The Land For Ever Free is literally free of any and all influence from Discord's Chaos magic.
Luna doesn't fall for another thousand years, so no Nightmare just yet.

Gathering all the Elements is one thing, forging will require the Fires of Friendship.  Enemies must become friends, bonds restored, old grievances forgiven, hate turned to love.

Then, somepony must exhibit the Elements in order for them to function.  One must be loyal to use Loyalty, for example.

Edit (Rules):
Despite the backstory being essentially about war, this is not a fighting game.  It is a DIPLOMACY game.  Fighting the various factions isn't going to be earning you friendship/kindness/loyalty/generosity/honesty/hope points, which you desperately need in order to find the Shards.
Breezies don't CARE about the war.  So asking them for help, unless you are VERY charismatic/persuasive, probably won't work.
Since it's not a fighting game, there will be no violence of any kind.  Weapons will not be used either (although they can be displayed or described as set pieces) (example of set-piece weapon: the beautiful sword was engraved with golden writing of a strange tongue, and upon its hilt were set gems of many colors.  It was the ancestral sword of the Griffons, the last remnant of their glorious days before the rise of Discord.  Now, lying here in the dusty halls of the mausoleum, it seemed the moisture upon its blade were like teardrops of its former bearer weeping for the fading of the world.)
There will be no real-world swearing.  Equestrian swears won't be gaining you friendship points, but you can use them.
There will be no "adult" themes.
There will be no discussion of religion, although you can use the names of various Alicorns/Draconequui in your "Equestrian swears" if you wish.  Not that they'd appreciate it.
There will be an OOC.  Please keep OOC there.

Factions (yes, I am basing them off LOTR):
Unicornia - A proud kingdom of unicorns ruled by one of the wisest and most powerful sorceresses in the world, Princess Platinum.
Pegasopolis - A mighty land of warrior pegasi led by the iron hooves of Commander Hurricane
Gaia Republic - A coalition of earth pony farming fiefs and villages overseen by the elected Chancellor Puddinghead, who is growing senile with age.
Griffon Kingdom - A tribe of powerful griffons who feed off the conquered and the weakened.
Zebra Kingdom - Warring tribes of alchemist Zebras corrupted by disharmony and the influence of Discord.
Diamond Kingdom - An ancient and wealthy kingdom of Diamond Dogs, grown complacent on the wealth of the tunnels under the mountains filled with shining gold and gems.  But they delved too greedily, and too deep...
Flutter Valley - The ancient and mystical paradise home of the Breezies, who no longer care for the things of this world, having grown tired of temporal things.  Though they are unmatched in their powers of magic, however, the journey home will be long and beset with dangers.
Land For Ever Free - The neutral territory created by the Breezies, guarded by strange magics from any cosmic influence, entirely self-sustaining and self-renewing.  It is the home to those who wish to end the war rather than participate in it.
The Heavens - The battlefield of the immortals, the Creators and Destroyers, the Draconequui and the Alicorns.  The skies flash with great bursts of magic every moment, the stars dying and being quickly reborn, the Sun and Moon sometimes here, sometimes there, never settling.
The Capital of Chaos - The area under the dominion of Discord, and formerly Tirak the Centaur.  None who enter ever return.  It is guarded by more than just the allies and servants of Discord, and one does not simply walk into the Capital.

QuoteLet's start over all the way from the beginning.

You're all from different lands.  The Races have been separated into various nations since the First Age.  Breezies, long the guardians of The World, have grown indifferent about the things of this world and are leaving for their home in the world beyond the world, a utopia called Flutter Valley.

As they leave and their protective powers go with them, Discord begins to stir up chaos and disharmony throughout the world, leading to the current situation.

War flashes in the skies above as Immortals battle one another.  Zebraci tribes fight one another over water.  All three pony races make war on one another.  Griffons prey on those who are defeated.

Only the Land For Ever Free, the last gift of the Breezies to this world, remains a bastion of peace and harmony in the roiling turmoil of war.  Earth, under the direction of King Arthur and Merlin, have already shattered the Rainbow Bridge, severing the only path between the world of ponies and the world of humans.

Celestia and Luna, along with others loyal to the cause of peace, have rallied to the Land For Ever Free, seeking a way to end the war.  Their efforts, however, have only resulted so far in shattering the Rainbow of Light, which is now irreplacable.  To remedy this situation, Celestia, Luna, Starswirl and Abigail Jacqueline have summoned the few ponies of the world still willing to seek out peace to come to the Fortress of Peace.

YOUR jobs are to first get to the Fortress of Peace, and then after getting your assignment to seek out the Shards of the Rainbow of Light.  And remember, the Elements will only appear when they are exemplified.  Only a Loyal pony will find the Element of Loyalty, for instance.