Sweet and Elite: Hide and Seek & Roleplay Meet and Greet

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday July 24th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Ponydale Gazebo Park
Style: Slice of Life
Host: Toot Sweet

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday August 7th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: The Frontier, Dodge Juncture
Style: Mystery
Host: Nightstalker

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday August 14th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: The Frontier, Dodge Juncture
Style: Mystery
Host: Nightstalker

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday August 21st, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: The Frontier, Dodge Juncture
Style: Mystery
Host: Nightstalker

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday August 28th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: The Frontier, Dodge Juncture
Style: Mystery
Host: Nightstalker

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday September 4th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: White Tail Park
Style: Slice of Life
Host: Toot Sweet

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday September 11th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Cantermore, Fountain Courtyard
Style: Slice of Life
Host: Toot Sweet

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday September 18th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Crystal Kingdom River Cave
Style: Adventure
Host: Sunlight

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday September 25th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Heartlands Castle Ruins
Style: Adventure
Host: Sunlight

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday October 2nd, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Cantermore, Gala Hall
Style: Adventure
Host: Sunlight

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday October 9th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Ponydale, Sweet Apple Orchard
Style: Slice of Life
Host: Toot Sweet

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday October 16th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Cantermore, Inside the Gala Hall
Style: Adventure
Host: Sunlight

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday October 30th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Heartlands Graveyard
Style: Spooky
Host: Nightstalker

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU

Bring a costume if you like.

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday November 6th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Cantermore Gala Hall
Style: 3rd Anniversary
Host: Toot Sweet

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

We have a group Discord. 
You can find it at https://discord.gg/mcQCnkU


This will be the Third Anniversary of the Meet and Greet role playing event. Anyone who has attended the event in the past is welcome to join in and remember the last year.

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The next four posts will sum up the four arcs that happened during the time from February 28, 2020 until October 30, 2020.

Thanks to Frisktaker for writing most of the session summaries that follow below.

You can find summaries of previous sessions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MV7LgmrAmc4jGEDsysdeQBo0k65Z8Fc4hx9YOCWdgqw/view?usp=drivesdk
 

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Throwing Shade (2/28/2020-5/15/2020)

Session Summary 2/28/2020

Take a Look in a Book

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Night Bloom, Silent Shade, Sorunome, Marc Moses, Orange Burst, Farsight, Tale Spinner

• It is the yearly library meetup in Ponydale. And the staff seem on edge, stationing a guard(Farsight)
• Toot falls asleep and Spring leaves a note complimenting her cooking.
• Bloom is being forced to study, and Spring finds out he has three new sisters
• It is revealed that Cantermore Library was broken into, and an ancient scroll was stolen
• Rosie freaks out about Soru's broken wing
• Tale discusses running away from home to Soru, eventually culminating in a serious discussion with Spring that never ended

Session Summary 3/6/2020

Misplaced Items

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Gabbro Ilmenite, Silent Shade, Sorunome, pony jack, Fire Blaster, Rosie Sunshine, Nightstalker, Silver Serenade, Aura Swirl, Cinnamon String, Nebenfigur, Sunlight, Farsight

• It is the last day of the year's W.A.R.M. event in Cantermore. A stage is set up for performers, and there is both ice carving and wood carving, and food and drinks
• Fire is scared off of a rock and loses a book. Rosie tends to their eye, which was burned by holy water(Fire is half-vampire, plot twist)
• Night buys a magic plant and some dark books for Silent, and Spring tells her that Gabbro was looking around the city
• Tale has changed her views from wanting to run away to wanting to save up money to move out the moment they are 18.
• Sunlight sells magic items
• Tale is shown sword moves by Silver Serenade, an orphaned filly who travels and helps ponies in need
• Fire realizes their book is missing and he and Spring frantically look for it to no avail

Session Summary 3/13/2020

Shadow Puppets

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Nightstalker, Scatty Clockwork, Thunder Shooter, Tale Spinner, pony jack, Sun Bubbles, Farsight
Following rumors of mysterious creatures appearing at the outskirts of the Crystal Kingdom between dusk and dawn, the group arrives to investigate.

• They discover shadow creatures abound, and Night realizes they're weak to light. A tree falls, forcing Scatty to face his fears of plantlife to rejoin the group.
• Far meets his nightmares, an army of shadow squirrels
• Thunder Shooter employs a myriad of Luigi's Mansion based gadgets.
• Sun, Far, and Scatty, combine their power to create a massive light source, and Gabbro and Tale work together, shield and sword, to reflect and focus that light directly on the shambling shadow creatures, vaporizing them just in time, with the sun taking care of the rest. However, the mysterious black stone found in a tent crumbles to dust as the sun rises. Gabbro suggests Night consult her father, and Tale vows to convince her parents to allow guard training, while meanwhile, a figure watches from above, concluding their first test a success

Session Summary 3/20/2020

Culprit Discovered

Players: Toot Sweet, Silent Shade, Gabbro Ilmenite, Thunder Shooter, Lady Lita Sparkle, Tale Spinner, Sunlight, Silver Serenade, Rosie Sunshine, Sun Bubbles

• It is a calm, pleasant day in the Heartlands. Spring is pushing back winter, but there is still a chill in the air. Sightings of shadow creatures have been spotted at Athmanes ruins, and several students have gone missing.
• Gabbro has brought several backup lanterns and tells the whole group what the shadows are weak to. Silent Shade has brought flash bombs made by Night.
• The group fights off some shadows and find three of the four students, with Sunlight opening a portal to get them to the surface.
• The group has to fight off several more shadows,with Silver being injured.
• They find the last student, but they are acting strange, pleading for help, being hurt by light, and having shadows pouring from their eyes.
• Silent has Sunlight portal them to the surface, where natural light cures them.
• They find Fading Light, the cause of all the shadows. She declares her intent to drown all of Equestria in darkness, and all the group's attacks are useless. They are forced to make a desperate escape, except for pony jack, who is left behind
• Gabbro tells the archeologists to get as far away as possible

Session Summary 3/27/2020

Ghost of the Past

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Silent Shade, Silver Serenade, Rusty Pipe Organ, Thunder Shooter, Sunlight, Sun Bubbles, Farsight, Gumdrop, Cinnamon String

• It is early in the morning the day after the previous events, and there is a commotion in the Cloudopolis museum. A theft has occurred from the artifact storage area
• Silent tells Gabbro that the object of the theft was a piece of the amulet the orange Mare held. Silent, Sunlight, and Silver head to the basement to research.
• Gabbro fills Farsight in on the situation and grows frustrated with their talk of squirrels. He reads a file Silent gave him detailing an incident involving the mare, Evening Sky, 30 years ago. She had gotten into a fight with another pony, ending with the pony being so injured they were never able to use magic again. The officers that responded were Nightstalker and...Lightning Strike, Gabbro's father.
• The Basement Trio discover the amulet was once used by a pony known as Azra the Terrible. It allowed the use of Shadow Magic.
• Farsight suggests checking the library for more texts, Gabbro suggests Investigating the incident 30 years ago as well as requests that Farsight ask the Princesses for anything  they might know(being 1000+ years old and all). And Sunlight mentions getting help 'from afar'...

Session Summary 4/3/2020

A Roc-y Situation

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Nightstalker, Thunder Shooter, Rosie Sunshine, pony jack, Sun Bubbles, Galene, Orange Burst, Tale Spinner, Sunlight, Wind Spray, Farsight

• Reports have come in from the Frontier that Shadows are causing trouble. The guard has evacuated the citizens and taken up residence in their place. These Shadows are especially powerful, traced back to their origin of Thunder Plateau. Using Dodge Juncture as a base, the settlement is surrounded in light magic and  in the middle of the day when the threat is minimal, the guards will head and investigate where they are coming from
• They are attacked by a shadow roc. They blind it, stab it, flash bomb it, strike it with lightning  but it keeps healing itself with dark energy. Sun distracts it with copies, Rosie heals and then gets blinded accidentally by a flash bang
• Gabbro finds an obsidian pillar where the energy is coming from. Sunlight snuffs it out but absorbing it into a crystal while the others distract the roc. Gabbro suggests possibly using it to track the shadows(we do have a magic radar, afterall) but Sunlight says they have their own plans...
• As the group leaves, they feel a dark presence watching.

Session Summary 4/10/2020

Seeking Answers

Players: Toot Sweet, Silent Shade, Aura Swirl, Gabbro Ilmenite, Thunder Shooter, Scatty Clockwork, Orange Burst, Tale Spinner, Sunlight, Sun Bubbles

• The day after the Frontier incident, security has been bumped up in Equestria, a curfew has been put in place, and the guard is busy trying to figure out the best way to combat the shadows. The group has arrived at Cantermore University, both to research Azra and to research into Evening Sky's past to see if anything useful can be learned
• Group b interviews Professor Shining Star, who tells them what he knows about the incident. Evening was passed over advancing to the high level course in favor of Mystic Heartstring, the niece of one of the board members. Evening attempted to contest, but Mystic and her uncle intervened, leading to a duel that ended horribly. When the flash of light faded, Evening had fled. Prior to the incident, Evening had been studying Azra and dark magic, and the professor gives Sunlight the research Evening had done
• Group A discovers that Azra was an evil king that five champions worked together to defeat and seal in an amulet using a spell that is unknown due to missing parts from the book, which they then broke into five pieces and hid. The last piece is within the Castle ruins in the Evershade.
• No sooner had the groups united and shared info, than Gabbro receives an urgent message from Night:large amounts of huge Shadow creatures have assembled within the Evershade. Ponydale has been evacuated, but the group is left with no choice but to rush to the scene(well, minus Thunder, who gets called by Fire)

Session Summary 4/17/2020

Too Late

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Galene, Eredar Omen, Nightstalker, Scatty Clockwork, Fire Blaster, Farsight, Cosmic Burst, Diamond Prince, Sunlight, Tale Spinner, Sun Bubbles

• The group arrives at the edge of the Evershade. A heavy cloud hangs ove Ponydale, blocking out daylight. Wards have been put up, but many shadows can be spotted within the forest
• The group fights shadow wolves, and Fire has called in a rather large team to help. The leader escapes and warns Evening.
• The group defeats the wolves and makes it to the Castle, confronting the big wolf, only for a flash of light to disable their magic.
• Evening comes back, declares her name to be Fading Light, and screams about justice incoherently before generating a vaporization shield. Sunlight opens a portal to escape, but just as they are about to be pulled through by Gabbro, an attack hits Sunlight, knocking them out and sending Gabbro through the closing portal
• The group mourns both the assumed loss and the possibility of Equestria being doomed

Session Summary 4/24/2020

A Glimmer of Hope

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Silent Shade, pony jack, Fire Blaster, Nightstalker, Nebenfigur, Tale Spinner, Cinnamon String, Scatty Clockwork, Sun Bubbles, Diamond

• Disheartened by their failure and the apparent demise of Sunlight, the group flees back to the University in order to race to find some way of stopping Fading's plan to plunge Equestria into darkness
• Silent mentions something about a King in Yellow
• The group investigates Fading's old form. Scatty finds a secret panel in the wardrobe and opens it with magic, finding a copy of the book with the spell that can stop the amulet, Fading's diary, and a stone.
• Silent and Scatty prepare the spell, which must be unleashed when Fading summons the King
• A rock flies out of a portal and bonks Fire in the head. A note attached requests help. It is signed Sunlight
• Shadows erupt throughout Cantermore, and a purple dome covers the castle. The final act has begun...

Session Summary 5/1/2020

Into the Heart of Darkness

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite,  Scatty Clockwork, Nightstalker, Fire Blaster, Diamond, Tale Spinner, Farsight, Sun Bubbles, Sunlight

• The group has fought its way to the Castle, meeting up with Farsight. Inside the purple haze a feeling of dread weighs, but curiously, no shadows appear.
• The heroes find their way into the caves below the Castle, where they find guards possessed by shadows(one named Bastion) that melt into the shadows
• They find a magical barrier that mysteriously opens, as if inviting them in, and discover Sunlight. The group is cautious, but Sunlight tells them Fading took the Professor and is gonna sacrifice him to the King.
• The group finds Fading about to complete the ritual, and she sics the giant shadow wolf on them

Session Summary 5/8/2020

Darkness Falls

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Fading Light, pony jack, Scatty Clockwork, Fire Blaster, Vanilla Star, Tale Spinner, Diamond, Sun Bubbles, Farsight

• Far throws a rock at Fading. It bounces off and whacks Sunlight in the head.
• The group fights the wolf while Farsight distracts(and basically trolls) Fading, but literally nothing(even Fire and Frost's special Freezerburn attack) makes much of an impact.
• Fading begins the ritual, and Scatty starts the spell, with everypony channeling power into it
• The spell forces the summon back into the rift, and then pulls Fading in
• A member of ESP comes and takes the amulet away, to the group's rage

Session Summary 5/15/2020

Award Ceremony

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Nightstalker, Tale Spinner, Rosie Sunshine, Sun Bubbles, Heart Spring, Silent Shade, Farsight, Sorunome, Sunlight

• A week after the events, everyone involved gets awarded and a ceremony happens
• Fire tells Gabbro that his friend Heart is a princess
• Gabbro give Sunlight a note telling him about what ESP did and asking if he still knew the coordinates.
• Gabbro asks Night about his father, and she tells him to check the Archives
• Tale has signed up for the Royal Guard. Gabbro believes in her, but Far snarks.
• Gabbro confronts Fire about his secrets and learns them:Fire and co are from another world
• Gabbro also learns a bit about the book Fire lost, and agrees to ask the Guard's help.

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A Paper Jam (5/22/2020-7/3/2020)

Session Summary 5/22/2020

Heads in the Clouds

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Nightstalker, Night Bloom, Rosie Sunshine, Marc Moses, Sorunome, Tale Spinner, Orange Burst, Farsight, Heart Spring, Sun Bubbles

• In the aftermath of the Shadow invasion, the Weather Factory had received damage, and temporary cloud-making machines were set up in towns. Mayor Copyright has made the act of cloud-making a community event
• Tale complains about Boot Camp and then falls off the treadmill.
• Spring expresses newfound fear of darkness and relief that nopony was hurt in the attack.
• Soru freaks out over the date, suddenly realizing two years have passed, having sudden amnesia
• Heart Spring skates on clouds
• Sun makes fake clouds
• Night falls out of a tree when Bloom wants to show her his Cloud sculptures
• Rosie, Sun and Spring run on the treadmills until the clouds are made, and Spring just about passes out
• Tale and Soru have a pillow fight and then Soru disguises themselves with a pillowcase

Session Summary 5/29/2020

Marketplace Shenanigans

Players: Knick Knack, Spring Strudel, Nightstalker, Mary Gold, Heart Spring, Azure Gloom, Tale Spinner, Diamond, Farsight

• The Crystal Kingdom Fair is being held. Along with the usual stuff, common items are also being sold to help ponies replace things lost in the near apocalypse
• Spring sells sweets, Knick Knack sells antiques, Night sells potions, Mary Gold sells flowers, and Tale just passes brochures for what I think is their third book
• Speaking of books, Heart Spring hopes to find Fire's to no avail
• Spring meets Mary and gives her daughter free chocolate
• Farsight wears a disguise and shops for his 'friend'.
• Heart feels like she's being watched.

Session Summary 6/5/2020

The Many Mysteries of Applewood

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Nightstalker, Thunder Shooter, Vala Vidalia, Sun Bubbles, Wind Spray, Azure Bloom, Rosie Sunshine, Sunlight, Janna, Sona Pona, Diamond

• Strange things have been happening in the Applewood Orchard. Odd  sounds at night, shadowy figures, and other spooky things. Ponies in town warn not to head there.
• In the end, it turns out to be three troublemaking kids, who Night drags back to their parents
• When they get back to town, Doctor Mysterious has arrived, and attempts to show off a Manticore, but it escapes
• Night and others chase after and restrain the manticore, only to find out it was all part of the show
• Spring mention being glad she doesn't live in Ponydale, where monster attacks basically happen all the time(usually on a Friday, hmm... )
• The other ponies play with Dexter the Manticore and Spring hires Sona Pona to help locate Fire's lost book, secretly containing another world within. They discuss some details of Fire's enemies and Spring tells Thunder they can pay her the hiring fee back some other time

Session Summary 6/12/2020

Flat-out Chaos

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Nightstalker, Marc Moses, Scatty Clockwork, Fire Blaster, Sunlight, Autumn Dawn, Sona Pona, Farsight, Thunder Shooter, Heart Spring, Sun Bubbles

• Everypony gets an invitation from Heart Spring to have a feast at Paso Fino. Fire and Thunder help prepare food. Suddenly, an explosion is heard and what looks like Paper is seen erupting from a house
• Paper versions of ponies fall down
• Fire explains that somepony has used his book to unleash the inhabitants of the universe inside.
• Farsight sets his counterpart on fire, but luckily Fire puts him out before the homicide...er...suicide takes place
• Gabbro learns that the home belongs to Astral Charm, and informs the Guard to look for her and keep her from leaving.
• Fire shows off what Paper ponies can do

Session Summary 6/19/2020

The Search for Astral

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Fire Blaster, Scatty Clockwork, Sona Pona, Diamond, Sun Bubbles

• A day has passed and Astral is nowhere to be seen. The ponies group back up at Paso Fino. Fire gives the 3D pones Gummiphones
• They split up and find clues. Sona finds notes at the University, and at Astral's house, Paper Gabbro has multiple existential crises, and they discover Paper Astral, who tells them where the normal Astral might be hiding:a cave behind a waterfall

6/26/2020 Session Canceled

Session Summary 7/3/2020

By the Book

Players: Fire Blaster, Diamond, Scatty Clockwork, Sona Pona, Sun Bubbles, Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite

• The ponies follow Paper Astral to the secret cave behind the waterfall under Cantermore where Astral is hiding.
• Astral demands to know why they are here; they say they are looking for the book. She is surprised to learn about the paper ponies, and see Paper Astral.
• She returns the book to Fire, and they head back to Paso Fino.
• Heart calls Fire on the Gummiphone, asking them to help round up the paper monsters in Ponydale.
• They go to Ponydale and herd the paper critters using tornados, rain illusions, throwing tomatoes, flattening them between wooden boards, etc. The book absorbs them back in.

Session Summary 7/10/2020

Fry in the Sky

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Fire Blaster, Silent Shade, Night Bloom, Jacky Diamonds, Diamond, Midnight Stormy, White Squirrel, Sunlight Glimmer, Farsight, Sunlight, Firewolfy, Tale Spinner

• It is a very hot day in Cloudopolis. Spring is running her store and getting a lot of ponies ordering ice cream
• Bloom and Silent discuss Bloom's plans for the future and a new museum exhibit
• Fire was acting really strange
• Far was stuck patrolling until his shift ended and he was replaced by Midnight Stormy
• Jacky Diamonds ordered a lot of sweets
• Tale complains about Boot Camp again and eventually is convinced to go with the help of some ice cream and a couple ice buckets
• Sunlight accuses Far of actually caring about Tale

Session Summary 7/17/2020

Factory Reset

Players: Toot Sweet, Sugar Cloud, Fire Blaster, Azure Gloom, Rosie Sunshine, Cloud Spinner, Farsight, Sun Bubbles, Pure

• The heat wave continues and the Weather Factory is currently still out of commission after the damage from the Shadow Invasion. And another problem has arisen while trying to get it back into commission:the scheduled water retrieval had to be skipped due to lack of available Pegasi, and it will be several days before they can reach the closest reservoir. Until then, the Factory is working on water reserves. Volunteers have been requested to assist in whatever ways they can while water is slowly brought in by airship
• Sugar Cloud works on the cloud machines while Sun and Rosie fetch water. Azure, Pure and Toot fix the main power while Fire and Thunder fix the pipes.
• Far notices Sun placing Safety stickers and writes up a search warrant for their home. He also mentions something about "a facility", which makes Sugar start to think Tale's book series are not quite as fictional as they pretend to be
• Sugar makes weather puns, to Endless Pie's delight and Cloud's annoyance. Cloud starts plugging Tale's book.
• Fire's book starts emitting a dark aura and ribbons cover it. Far escorts Fire out and confiscated the book, hoofing it to the local garrison and locking Fire up temporarily when he resists

Session Summary 7/24/2020

A Walk in the Park

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Blitz Striker, Snow Cutter, Magenta Vineyard, Rosie Sunshine, Sun Bubbles,  Sunlight, Farsight, Bubblegum Slash

• The heat wave has broken. The Weather Factory is up and running, and clouds dot the skies once more. Now ponies can enjoy the outdoors again
• Snow talks to pones and makes it awkward due to her lack of emotion
• Far gets hyped up on Coffee as part of a bet and starts acting ridiculously. He insults Blitz's speed and that earns his ire, leading to several attempts at a race and to steal his hat, the last of which leads him to falling into the river, where Far and Rosie save him from drowning.
• Sunlight talks about needing to see Night about some troubling reading, but Magenta explains Night has gone off to her family home and isn't making contact. Magenta says she will show the notes to her grandfather and Spring says she will tell Gabbro
• Blitz finds out about Fire's brief incarceration and resolves to get to the bottom of things. Far resolves to have a word with the Cloudopolis guard(not Gabbro, the normal guard) for not being very secretive

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Take a Look, We're in a Book! (7/31/2020-8/28/2020)

Session Summary 7/31/2020

When Get Caught Up In a Good Book

Players: Radiant Shores, Gabbro Ilmenite, Scatty Clockwork, Nightstalker, Blitz Striker, Farsight, Sun Bubbles, Sona Pona

• The day of the expo has arrived. The Crystal Library is unusually busy. Rare books are kept in a glass case guarded by Gabbro and his comrade, a dragon named Goji
• The library encourages looking at books and forbids taking them
• The guard keeps an eye out:the legendary thief Le Chat Noir has declared their intent to steal the rarest of the books
• Several suspicious ponies arrive. One is really nervous. Another is really klepto, and gets kicked out after setting loose a goo storm
• Sun Bubbles looks up safety while Scatty tries to find their calling
• Le Chat turns out to have been disguised as Night all along.
• They get away, but the book is dropped, and it sucks the group in...

Session Summary 8/7/2020

What a Story!

Players: Radiant Shores, Gabbro Ilmenite, Sheriff Winchester, Nightdancer, Quiet, Blitz Striker, Scatty Clockwork, Farsight, Diamond

• The group awakens to the sound of a train whistle, seeing the train pulling away. The group is no longer in Crystal Kingdom, but a small Frontier town, full of a few familiar faces. What seems to be the sheriff is standing in front of them
• The sheriff explains that bandits have been stealing cherries
• Far and Diamond talk to the farmer and find a feather inside the barn.
• Gabbro and Radiant talk to the town doctor, Quiet, and his daugher Nightdancer, and learn the attacks happen at night on days the stock is full, and strange howling and lights are seen on Mount Superstition.
• Scatty talks to Miss Marigold and learns she saw a wagon at the farm, then heard a zap(the sound of teleportation) and it was gone
• Blitz went to check out the surroundings. At a certain distance from the town everything becomes a white void. Then he checks the mountain and finds a lot of caves, convenient for hiding

Session Summary 8/14/2020

Stake-outs and Stealth

Players: Radiant Shores, Gabbro Ilmenite, Sheriff Winchester, Scatty Clockwork, Blitz Striker, Farsight, Sun Bubbles, Nightdancer, Sona Pona, Wine Plant, Mint Twist, Diamond, Sunlight

• At night, the group awakens and heads downstairs to prepare to stakeout
• Gabbro decides to split the team and check out Mount Superstition as well. He and Sunlight go, Sunlight preparing a portal circle if they need to get back in a hurry
• The rest stakeout the barn, arrest Marigold for showing up to steal cider, and a bandit shows up. Scatty slows him, blinds him, _and_ beats him over the head. He is arrested too.
• Gabbro and Sunlight are joined by Nightdancer, who takes them to the cave that glows on nights of the thefts. Sunlight detects something behind a wall with scratches, and Blitz follows behind secretly

Session Summary 8/21/2020

Dynamite and Dynamic Exits

Players: Radiant Shores Gabbro Ilmenite, Blitz Striker, Scatty Clockwork, Sheriff Winchester, Nightdancer, Sona Pona, Wine Plant, Sun Bubbles, Sunlight, Diamond, Farsight

• Farsight interrogates the captured bandit, threatening him with dynamite until he reveals someone lets then into the barn, and also reveals the boss is the Sheriff's brother, and said boss is the one who wants the cherries
• Gabbro and Sunlight teleport inside, with Nightdancer sorta glitching inside, and Blitz flies back and brings the others. They find where the cherries are kept, and send Nightdancer back to tell the deputy and Far.
• When the deputy leaves, a small explosion goes off, leaving a hole in the wall for the captured bandit to escape from. When Far attempts to block this hole with magic, the bandit kinda glitches, being both beyond and inside. Far chases them until they run into a cave, which Far prepares to collapse
• The group prepares to ambush the bandits, when the two bandits run in and tell the rest they've been found. The group is discovered...

Session Summary 8/28/2020

Roughhouse Roundup

Players: Radiant Shores, Gabbro Ilmenite, Blitz Striker, Sheriff Winchester, Sunlight, Sun Bubbles, Scatty Clockwork, Diamond, Sona Pona

• The group fights bandits, but realizing the bandits know the place better, they make a new plan. Blitz lures them into the Cherry room, Sun distracts them with illusions of the cherries being gone, most of the Unicorns seal the door, and Scatty alters the freezing charm to put the trapped bandits to sleep.
• Successful, the group returns to town and boards the train 'home'. As things fade to white and they return to their world, they spot Deputy Hoss with a devious expression...

[Noodle Script]

Fall to Darkness (started 9/3/2020, ongoing)

Session Summary 10/9/2020

In Medias Res

Remark: This session happened first in the order of events and is therefore listed before the other sessions despite happening later


Players: Toot Sweet, Silent Shade, Spring Strudel, Sona Pona, Marshmallow Cactus, Rosie Sunshine

• It is the cider festival on Sweet Apple Orchads. Apart from cider, there is apple bobbing, apple picking and other apple-related activities.
• Silent Shade sits down and starts drawing.
• Toot Sweet has been waiting for a stallion at Sweet Apple Orchads, but he didn't arrive. Toot tells Silent about her frustration and he suggests that she draws a picture. When Toot starts drawing the picture, she actually calms down. It becomes a picture of Sweet Apple Orchads. Toot compares drawing to baking and Silent says he's bad at baking.
• Spring, Rosie and Sona talk about the Western cherry mystery and later about Fire, who is missing. Sona asks if she can help with the missing Fire case, and Spring suggests she asks the Fire Brigade.

Session Summary 9/4/2020

Grudges

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Thunder Shooter, Sakura Chan, Mary Gold, Sunlight, Night Bloom, Cipher Decode, Nightstalker, Igneous Grey, Messy Shade

• It is a lovely summer day in White Tail Park. It is the day of the Summer S'more Share, hosted by Mayor Copyright. Ponies are welcome to bring their own creations
• Night is picking mushrooms and Spring tells her Gabbro's been busy lately and definitely takes his job seriously.
• Thunder reveals that his brother is missing, and the organization known as Blackout is involved. This organization had previously attempted to wipe out all existence, only stopped by Fire and Thunder's group.
• Spring takes Thunder to Night to inform her of all this. However, upon seeing Thunder, Night is hearing none of it, informs Thunder that if she sees his face again, she will END him. She then flies off in a rage
• Spring is similarly enraged, and declares in tears that if Night will let a petty grudge stop her from keeping the world safe...she knows somepony who won't. She tells Thunder to come to her bakery that night, and then flies off in tears while Sunlight is left asking Thunder(also enraged) questions. While he ultimately agrees to ask his 'friends' to look into this, he chastises Thunder's group calling them 'Clowns'. He then leaves

Session Summary 9/11/2020

Drowning Sorrows

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Blitz Striker, Silent Shade, Scatty Clockwork, Tale Spinner

• It is a lovely sunny day in Cantermore and Pumpkin Spice is available at the Cafe.
• Spring is drowning her sorrow in ice cream when the group shows up and asks what is wrong. Spring explains, and Silent advises her to talk to Night alone, giving her some cider to help persuade Night
• Blitz explains the truth about himself and what the artifact is. Tale(and Scatty?) resolves to help find Fire.

Session Summary 9/18/2020

A Rocky Start

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Nightstalker, Scatty Clockwork, Blitz Striker, Tale Spinner, Sun Bubbles, Farsight, Sunlight

• A chill hangs in the air, Gabbro and Night have tasked the group with finding Sunlight and his kidnappers
• Gabbro sneaks around to the cages, but the group starts chucking rocks and alerts the two guards.
• Guard 2 is fought bravely one-to-one by Gabbro, while Guard 1 is fought by literally everyone else.
• Blitz uses a sound wave attack but it has no effect...on the actual intended targets. Night is debilitated and Blitz has to swoop in before Guard 1 takes advantage of this.
• The rest of the group manage to dispatch Guard 1 while Gabbro frees the prisoners
• Sunlight explains that the 'Bishop' had used a crystal to drain the magic of the prisoners, leaving them all, including Sunlight, barely alive. Blitz passes out from headache
• Far calls a team to bring most of the prisoners to the hospital. Sunlight, however, asks to be taken home to speak to Sentinel. Gabbro agrees on the condition that guards are posted at Sunlight's home.

Session Summary 9/25/2020

War Crimes

Players: Toot Sweet, Gabbro Ilmenite, Nightstalker, Tale Spinner, Sakura Chan, Rusty Pipe Organ, Blitz Striker

• The group arrives at Heartland Ruins and sees guards. While one is distracted, Gabbro attempts to knock them out and capture them alive...only for Night to murder them while they were begging for mercy.
• Blitz fights one to the death over hurting his friends
• Tale injures the Bishop with a sword
• Blitz disarms one and they surrender...only for Night to stab them
• Sakura stabs the defeated Bishop despite Gabbro's desire to merely capture, and Night sucks his immortal soul into a Crystal.
• Gabbro, shaking, retrieves the crystal containing the pony magic. Night leaves, and Gabbro breaks down into tears over the brutality. He leaves, shaking, but returns later that night to bury the bodies...

Session Summary 10/2/2020

The Final Assault Begins

Players: Mint Medley, Gabbro Ilmenite, Blitz Striker, Sunlight, Fire Opal, Nightstalker, Farsight, Rusty Pipe Organ, Tale Spinner, Sunny Sparks

• It is a quiet evening near Cantermore. Sunlight, the leader of the team,  prepares to debrief the group
• Sunlight explains the goal of destroying the Warpgate and research
• Gabbro explains his worries about Night to Far
• They enter the portal and end up in the Castle. They debate how to deal with guards behind a door, but Sunlight waltzs in for them.
• They immobilize the guards with thorns, but Night kills two of them anyway. Far's threats of court-martial spare the last one, but they are left weeping. Night's antics also allow reinforcements to draw near...

Session Summary 10/16/2020

The Climactic Showdown

Players: Mint Medley, Gabbro Ilmenite, Sunlight, Nightstalker, Sun Bubbles, Rusty Pipe Organ, Tale Spinner

• At the top of the stairs, the group finds an enormous room, a Chapel of some kind, with the Warp Gate at the center, stained glass above
• Sunlight and Tale plant the explosives, and the rest fight off the first wave of Guards.
• Then Arch Bishop Lucian arrives, with his bodyguards. Gabbro and Sunlight deal with one, while Rusty stabs another. Sun creates illusions while Mint uses potions
• Night, meanwhile, is going more and more insane, charging blindly at Lucian, only to be batted away each time.
• Archers arrive. Gabbro disarms one, only for Sentinel and some other figure to arrive and kill them. They fight off Lucian while the group escapes via portal, then detonate the Warp Gate

Session Summary 10/23/2020

Pumpkin Carving in Ponydale

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Blitz Striker, Sunlight, Waldschrat, Strawberry Milk, Rosie Sunshine, Sun Bubbles, Azure Gloom

• It is a cool Autumn day in Ponydale  and a Pumpkin Carving event is being held by Mayor Copyright. Other activities include apple bobbing and seasonal treats from local vendors.
• Sunlight carves his family Crest, Sun carves "I heart Safety", Spring carves Gabbro's face. Azure carves a spooky tree, and Blitz carves Fire's symbol
• Spring gives Blitz Sona's card.
• Sunlight and Blitz talk, with Sunlight being pessimistic about Fire's survival at first
• Strawberry makes milkshakes that everypony loves and also I think flirts with Sun
• The awards were given out, but the winners were never knownä
• Spring takes her pumpkin home along with another one to add her own face so she can have them side-by-side

Session Summary 10/30/2020

A Spooky Hallowtide Party

Players: Toot Sweet, Spring Strudel, Silent Shade, Tale Spinner, Sunlight Fireblossom, Blitz Striker, Strawberry Milk, Sun Bubbles, Rosie Sunshine, Farsight

• A mysterious invitation invites ponies to the cemetery to party.
• Farsight is there to pick ingredients.
• Mysterious cards from the 'host' appear asking things like "you having g fun?" or "Is it good?"
• Spring realizes Silent has not received her letter, and tells him about Night's condition, with Sunlight vouching. When he is dismissive and in denial, she reveals she knows the truth.
• Blitz, apparently a wolf pony, sneaks up on ponies and scares them. When he does this to Spring, he gets punched in the face.
• The notes say the party is over, and sounds of chains and dark figures are seen. As the group leaves, they see the silhouette of a filly waving them goodbye...

[TwilightDog]

Next Sweet and Elite: Meet and Greet

Date: Friday November 13th, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM EST / 9:00 PM GMT
Server: Amareicas
Location: Ponydale, White Tail Park
Style: Slice of Life
Host: Toot Sweet

All ponies, old and new, welcome.

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