I know you said Krastos doesn’t live with you, but I made him anyways because I wanted to try to figure out what a human version of him would look like, besides the Raincoat Killer look-alike.

On a side note, I’m not very satisfied with the personality traits I gave you guys, so I might edit them later. For instance, all of you are friendly and vegetarian, to the point of it being a bit of a cop-out.

I’m really unsatisfied with Bon-Bon’s design, since I currently don’t have access to curly hair and her outfit feels very generic.

I’ll be honest, I don’t know anything about Tootsie, and because the family tree only lets you pick direct relationships (siblings, parent and child, dating, married; In order to make Tootsie her niece, I would have to make Bonbon a sibling and make him/her Tootsie’s parent), I made her Bon-Bon’s sister.

The whole family. I put it under Bon-Bon’s name since she’d probably be the one who put the most money into it.

Here is your house. I loosely modeled it after the houses I’ve seen in pictures and videos of Ponyville, and the pictures of it in Fuselight’s blog.

While you’re not the main household, because of the Story Progression mod I installed, non-active sims can do all sorts of crazy things. To wit, since the time I installed the mod, you and Krastos had a baby named Scotty, and Bonbon married Arino from Gamecenter CX, which incidentally makes her the stepmother of Link & Aryll from Wind Waker. Neither has yet to move in with the other, on account of inadequete housing. I think I might take control of one so I can edit Arino’s home to be more suitable for Bon-Bon to move in. I think I’ll also try looking for mods that give me more hairstyles.

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Lyra: This is pretty cool! Krastos looks great! I don’t like my nose, though. I like Bon-Bon’s nose. Ha! Scotty! What a silly name!

Bon-Bon: I married a guy? Certainly is fantasy. Also, what the heck? You’re going to make me move out of my own home?

Lyra: Yeah, this is Bon-Bon’s house. Tootsie looks good, though!

Bon-Bon: And I like that lipstick color.

Lyra: Gee, this is kinda old too. All kinds of weird stuff could have happened by now.

1) I was looking back and I’m not sure I ever explained, but the pictures I’ve been uploading one at a time were from a different pony’s house. The pony I was house-sitting for came back a day early and I showed her the pictures I’d been taking of her flowers. So she had us swing by her friend’s house to pick something up, or drop something off I forget which. Basically an excuse for me to go take pictures of her friend’s flowers.

If I did say that already, she, the pony my friend and I visited, doesn’t live in Canterlot. She lives off of Canterlot. She lives on more than just a city-style plot of land. But yeah, she’s got a lot of flowers. They don’t cover the ground, but they’re all over the place! She and her husband are both retired so I think she spends a fair deal of time on them. Her husband is a carriage collector. He has this big ol’ garage with, like, 4 old models he’s fixed up like new. The garage is filled with period decorations, like old flyers and an antique, earth pony fire extinguisher. But from what I remember, he hasn’t worked on any of that stuff in a while because he’s been busy helping with the landscaping.

2) Yes it is a pool. I didn’t get to swim or anything. My taking pictures was the only reason we stayed as long as we did. They were very nice about it, though!

3) I’m not listening! La-la-la! Can’t hear you over the sound of devil-buzzing! La-la-la!

1) No. I’m pretty sure any real photographer or editor would look at my manedroid pictures and go, “What did you do? Take these with a phone?”

2) No. At least, not that I know of. She has a sister. That’s Tootsie’s Mom.

3) … No, really. I don’t know how to respond to these anymore. I get one like every couple of months. I have for the last two years.

4) Ha. Sounds kinda like the Front Mission Translation Project. I mean, their work with Front Mission 5 is mentioned on the official wikipedia page.

Sometimes folks can be cool like that.

5) I mostly just read Sinfest, Baby Blues, and Scary-Go-Round (whichever specific comic the author happens to be working on at the time).

I used to read other things. I can’t remember much. I remember reading Bob and George. What a waste of time that turned out to be. Completely pointless ending.

I see xkcd and Penny Arcade sometimes. Don’t check them all the time, though. Oh! And there’s the comics I follow on Tumblr. Tall Penguin is fun!

agentcoffeeseer:

Ok then, Zach.

Let’s go back over our progress.

This investigation began when Lyra posted something strange and suspicious. We rushed over to make sure nothing rash had happen. When we got there, we met B, a pony we couldn’t even remember the appearance of, and found out what Lyra had. Do you remember what it was?

A letter

That’s right. She had received a letter recording the incident that led to her mother abandoning her. It was at that point we learned that there was a group after Lyra, trying to kill her. She wouldn’t reveal much about them. Determined to not let any further harm to come to her, I began to do whatever I could to help. With B’s help, we were able to figure out who sent it. Do you remember, who, Zach?

Princess Celestia.

That’s right, Zach. She had sent Lyra the letter in an attempt to prepare for something, but that’s all we could figure out. That’s why we’re here in Canterlot. B said he would meet us here. I’m not sure how we’ll find him, but  We didn’t use traditional methods to make our discoveries, but we’re getting closer regardless.

….

You know, Zach, I have to say I’m curious about B. Why can’t I remember what he looks like? Why does he care so much about Lyra? We might be entering deep territory, Zach. I’m not sure whether telling the director would be good or bad. I’ll just let him know I’m making progress with the investigation.

Good luck with your investigation! Sorry I can’t be there.

1) I had heard the name but I didn’t know anything about the game. Sounds interesting!

2) You might say that.

3) Bon-Bon: That’s the name of my shop. I’ll answer to it if somepony calls me that, but usually it’s just fillies or colts that don’t know my name.

4) Obviously; that’s where the phrase came from.

… How did it wind up being called that by humans?

5) Alright, Strawberry.

6) Not for the ones that already existed, from I’ve seen. There’s a bunch of new weapons; every one of the 77 characters have their own weapon now. So any character that’s had their weapon changed has a different EX combo. Most of the changes are more broad. You can store your Musou now so they’ll have up to 3 charges. They added something called rage where you get faster and can use a new special Musou attack. There’s a rock-paper-sissors mechanic to weapons so the switch system has more use for casual players. Switch counters. I think whirlwind was in 7, but there’s 3 other mechanics depending on the weapon; Dash, Dive, and Shadow Strike. The graphics and environments are way better and as best I can remember attacks are sped up compared to 7. Oh! And if you press guard just as you hit the ground from being knocked back, you’ll land on your feet and skid backwards instead of always doing that air-flip.

7) That’s actually a tree. I made sure my shadow wasn’t in any of them by holding the phone down and off to the side if I had to. I figured everypony would think that was me when I was taking it, though.

But thanks! I’m glad you like the composition!

Lyra: I would love to see a celebrity gossip spot with Krastos. Overall, though, I find it highly suspect that a show called Bon-Bon and Lyra seems to have neither of us in it. Unless one of us is dressed up as that one fat guy behind the dumpster.

Bon-Bon: … What are you talking about? What is this?

Lyra: Oh, that’s right. This is your first time seeing One Lyra to Live, isn’t it?

Bon-Bon: What?

Lyra: What was the Gilda version called again? As the Griffon Flies? Days of our Gilda?

Bon-Bon: What?

Edit: Lyra: Found it! It was As the Griffon Flies!

I just got Dynasty Warriors 8 yesterday and… It is way more awesome than I thought it would be. But… Gotta do somethin’.

1) Yeah! Gotta let it go! Not like we didn’t pay for it! Although that scorch mark did take a while to grow back.

Not in Ponyville. And Canterlot doesn’t need anything like that. They just use magic. Places like Trottingham and Manehatten probably use snow blowers.

2) It was some third party thing that had partitioned save slots you could switch around by pressing buttons on the device itself. When it corrupted the data it erased everything, but it happened while I was playing Legend of Mana so I at least resaved that. Small consolation. I played the original Digimon World. That game was so crazy. Eating porta-potties.

And yeah. I don’t like hardcore games. EVE was a nightmare. My gaming buddy has a huge story she could tell you that basically ends with her quitting because she inadvertently started a war between two corporations and one of them had a silent hit on her.

But that’s entirely the point. No death runs aren’t much of an accomplishment. It just took practice and learning the appropriate sequence. Most of the trouble you have in Contra is when you stop moving. Once you know where everything is the boss fights are all you have to worry about. And I had a good sequence for X2, but all I can remember right now is to start with Wheel Gator. Hardest part was getting the secret weapon, because if you mistime either slide you hit a spike and insta-die. That’s a painful way to end a run. Still managed to do it twice, though.

I don’t really do stuff like that anymore. There’s so much to play; not much point in wasting time on pretend limitations and replaying identical content.

3) Sure. Sure. Have Redbox too, but good luck finding any in Ponyville.

Yar har fiddle-dee-dee. Should it still be considered piracy when it can’t be found any other way?