1) Historically? Hair. Easy to replace, abundant, and cost efficient! Mine are metal, though. Not too expensive and very durable, but Luna help you if it breaks and flings the wrong way. Cut my foreleg once. No scar or anything, but a lot of blood and it hurt like crazy! Whole thing scared the crap out of me!
Megaman Legends is my favorite series. I loved it. Loved it. I gave up on there ever being a sequel, though.
I didn’t care for Battle Network, but I don’t know anything about Star Force. I played Network Transmission. It wasn’t bad; it was just… More like okay in spite of it’s mechanics instead of because of them.
2) The gang lifestyle arose from the emergence of a now extinguished drug trade. Upper class has always existed in Canterlot, as far as I know. In fact, some families were ruined from the break-ins.
But there’s an upper Canterlot and a lower Canterlot. Lower Canterlot isn’t visible from the skyline. That’s where ponies with less bits lived and that’s where gangs festered until the source was tracked and eliminated.
3) I don’t mean for a public library. I mean colleges! Scholars! Historians! Why are you being so difficult about this?
4) Hello! Fantastically well I am; certainly not fine by far, but you could say I’m close to spectacular.
You seem to have caught Fluttershy since last we spoke. Is it contagious?
5) You gotta remember that unicorn magic beyond the basics is, for the most part, pretty rare anyway. Most of what I know came as secondary education.
Amplification won’t make any noticeable changes to a body’s natural healing process. At least, nothing that’s yet been accomplished has. It’s just not focused enough. There are healing magics, though.
Well me, Bon-Bon, and Krastos all went out to look for the planetary alignment tonight, but it was too cloudy to see anything. We saw an older pony out there looking too, but we didn’t disturb him.
Krastos was pretty disappointed.
1) Lyra: That’s fantastic! I’ve always been interested in floorplans and layouts but I’m not very good at designing them.
Bon-Bon: I think he was talking to me.
2) Too many to count. Some I knew; some I didn’t.
The assailants were thugs, criminals. Insensitive and hateful. Not incapable of being civilized, but they found instant gratification and had no desire to change. As the gang tides rose and fell many would wind up died at the hooves of one another.
Not a very bright point in Canterlot’s history, but it’s changed since then.
3) Strawberry, if you copied all the [omitted] books for yourself, then why can’t you just copy all the copies?
4) I do not. Pianos are large, heavy, and expensive.
5) Both. Manipulation subtly alters string density and amplification shifts the sound traveling in the air before it reaches your ear (or a recording device). What you don’t want to do is rapidly shift the lyre’s pitch by it’s tuning pin or by applying improper pressure. That’s damaging to the strings.
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1) Bon-Bon: Infamous? Like… bad? I don’t think so.
2) Afraid? Afraid?! I ain’t scared for [omitted]! But I’ve seen it happening and I-…
I don’t… I don’t know…
3) Ah yes; self-defense applications. Amplification to boost muscle mass and manipulation to shield your body from the adverse effects.
There is a certain level of control required, but you’d start to feel pain if you pushed yourself beyond what you’re capable of. If that’s not a good incentive to stop, it’s hard to maintain a spell when your concentration is compromised.
As for casting it on somepony else, yes it’s possible. And I imagine the results could be fairly gruesome. But amplification spells become weaker the further away they’re projected. Substantially weaker. You’d pretty much have to be touching the subject for about a full second for it to even start taking effect. For that matter, amplification spells would be considered a lot more expensive than most other options. It’s just not terribly efficient.
I’ll get to the lyre part later.
4) Bon-Bon: I’ve seen that one too! I like what he does! Just the act of going around and fixing fraudulent or inept work is fantastic!
Bon-Bon: Hey! Have you heard about this new show that’s starting soon? It’s called Renovation Raiders. They do huge renovations, like the ones that take a few days or more, but they do it in only a few hours while the homeowner is out. I can’t wait!
5) Unless you plan to give copies of those books away, that doesn’t amount to anything. Knowledge you possess doesn’t help anypony else.
And while I’m sure you were only joking, a spell like that would require knowledge of the subject’s presence. B is effectively invisible to scrying, even to seers. You’ve never even met.
B: Well… He’s never been aware of it.
Back to the wasteland we go!
1) Bon-Bon: Squid ink? Really? I’ll have to look that one up. I didn’t know squid ink was edible!
Bon-Bon: A lot of the shows I watch do both. Seems to be more popular than the simple redecorating shows from not long ago. There’s this one called Love It or List it? That one’s pretty cool. You get to see a lot of houses and they renovate the owner’s house. Then they choose if they want to stay in their newly renovated house or move to a new house.
2) Strawberry! There could be important, valuable information you’re locking away! B, help me out here!
B: I deal with immediate threats to Equestria. What some selfish waste does with his ill-gotten gain is none of my concern.
U~gh!
3) Yeah. I guess. I always found their flavor to be subtle, though.
Tron Bonne Bon
It’s… It’s beautiful…
Well, I’ve mentioned them on more than a few occasions. Might have even explained it. But if I did, I never tagged the posts.
Amplification is a collection of spells loosely grouped around the notion of taking something in it’s current state, and boosting it to a greater degree without sacrificing it’s form. I got into amplification when studying music; same reason why most non-combatants would. In particular a lyre, which has very few strings, can have it’s frequency amplified or reduced using magic to gain access to a wider range of available notes. However, for a unicorn of my limited magical ability, it’s a very difficult process to do rapid-fire beyond just shifting octaves.
Manipulation is more of a catchall than a legitimate pool of magic. Pretty much anything that doesn’t fit anywhere else winds up being classified as some form of manipulation. I mean, technically all magic is manipulation so it’s really a misnomer, but eh. I began studying a little bit of manipulation in order to learn how to change the sounds notes make. Unlike amplification, which maneuvers best off of set intervals (like a 4C to a 5C), manipulation works best by traveling to adjacent notes (4C, 4C♯ 4D, and so forth). The closer the desired note is to the source, the better.
I play by weaving the two concepts together; using whichever method more easily reaches the note I need.
That’s my favorite kind!
1) I’m not “lots of people in your world.” I’m just… I’m not strong enough for that. I’ve been through a lot; but that’s too much.
2) Bon-Bon: Great! Yeah, I don’t really make any effort to watch all the episodes of any of those shows. Add in the home decorating shows and there’s just so many. I’ve seen Chopped too! I don’t see Bizarre Foods too much, but that’s probably because I don’t normally watch the Travel Channel. It’s interesting, though!
3) Oh… Well, and this might sound crazy, what if you contacted Canterlot instead and informed them of the location so they can transport and take care of the books? Wouldn’t want some vandal to come along at a later date and steal/destroy them.
4) I got commissioned once and made a little money, but he doesn’t even have an account anymore. Everything else I’ve just done to do them. At one point I considered it the x-factor for my tumblr, but I don’t even do them enough anymore for it to matter.
I’ll answer the second part of your ask in another post. It’s getting kind of late for me to be working tomorrow.
1) Bon-Bon: Oh! It’s no trouble! Just wasn’t expecting so many questions all in one message. The only reason I didn’t mention a few of the shows I watch is that they’re Equestrian shows.
Lyra: Drama shows. You know, the ones with the two-hour season premiers? Who has time for that?
Bon-Bon: Anyway. I watch entertainment-style cooking shows. I already know what I’m doing; I don’t need anypony teaching me. Sounds like it would be a good instructional tool though!
Lyra: I watched Iron Chef with Bon-Bon a few hours ago, and they forced the contestants to put peanut butter and jelly in their dishes. It was so stupid I couldn’t look away.
Bon-Bon: You were invested because it was interesting. They came up with some really creative stuff! I plan to try making strawberry jelly noodles myself sometime soon. It could be the next big thing!
2) A library? That’s interesting. Certainly not what I would have expected. What are you going to do with it?
3) A little. Applejack dated him for a while. Not sure what happened but I haven’t seen him around lately.
4) That’s probably why I like it. I don’t care for Friendship is Witchcraft. I do have to admit to not liking the new updated art-style, though. It’s a case of artistic direction perverting the environment. You can obviously tell she’s a robot now. Regardless of her not knowing she’s a robot, how has she not been arrested by the robot police if that’s what she really looked like?
5) Once again.
I don’t want to think about the latter, but it ran a sizable gambit.
1) It could. The only reason I stopped was from inactivity. Things were about to get more complicated (psychologically), so I waited for more messages. Only ever got a second one four months later. Took that as a sign there wasn’t enough activity to continue, and no pony would want to go back and read through all the updates. I could write a summery, but there would be a lot of subtle nuances left out that would impact things later on.
But yeah, I could pick it back up again, if I had a reason to believe anypony would care.
2) Huh? Why would you have been talking about me?
… Meta powers says, “No apology necessary.”
3) Playing by ear is a really hard skill. It’s not as common as some think. But I do several recordings of parts or sections, timing and counting out beats if it’s really hard, then overlay them. Factor in my field of magic and in theory, I could record just about anything as long as I had the sheets for it. Takes a lo~ng time, though. Lot of prep work.
4) I can understand that position; I’ve thought it myself for others before. Trouble is, I can just play simple things on my lyre and enjoy it. But the stuff I upload is work. I don’t enjoy doing them. I can enjoy the finished product. I can enjoy others enjoying it! But it’s work. Work is work. It’s exacerbating and exhausting and if nopony is going to listen to it, I’d rather just screw around and enjoy myself.
5) Bon-Bon: Goodness, you ask a lot at once! Well, I like Big Bang Theory and-
Lyra: That show sucks.
Bon-Bon: Hush. I watch Equestria’s Got Talent and Equestrian Idol. There’s all sorts of really great home decorating shows. Cooking shows like Bizarre Foods and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I’ve watched a few cooking competition shows too. A few other shows here and there but nothing you’d recognize.
Lyra: We used to watch Stable MD together before it ended. A few CSI-style shows too.
Bon-Bon: I work professionally on candy; like I said I own my own business. But I find it’s helpful to the creative process to experiment with all types of food. The Cakes and I collaborate a little. Share a few secrets, combine a few things; you know.
Captain $ingin’ $wingin’ $aber! Pop Star Pirate of the seven seas, five skies and two to three mountains (depending on the season)!
OC made during a stream a ways back~ (( credits to Avengie, Lyra, Tr-908,and Gunny ))
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