1) Lyra: I don’t know about all that, but I use heavily salted water to help treat these mouth ulcers I get every so often. One or two times and it’ll clear up in only a couple of days. Can last a week or more if I do nothing. Only seem to get them if I eat too much salt. Like too many packs of Ritz crackers.

Bon-Bon: I suppose I’m pretty healthy. More importantly, I rarely get sick. Sorry about your headaches, though.

Lyra: I don’t get sick that often, but working with foals it’s sort of hard to resist. You’d be surprised what parents will send their kids in with. You’d have to have the immune system of a machine to not catch anything.

2) Lyra: The games. I can adapt pretty well to any controller, but if there isn’t anything memorable to play there’s no point.

Bon-Bon: I like this one. Everypony loves Lyra, but no pony ever seems to notice poor ol’ Bon-Bon.

3) Now that sounds more like it. And proper explanations are a must. When armed with appropriate knowledge and support, the only “weapon” the opposition have is being too lazy to change. And ponies like that aren’t worth wasting the time.

4) Friendship is built, not requested. We could potentially be friends, but it takes time, communication; things like that.

1) Lyra: I personally just forget that I’m chewing it. That’s why I don’t chew gum very often.

Bon-Bon: Salt water is bad for you. That’s why you’re not supposed to drink it. Salt Water Taffy is made using both salt and water, but not salt water.

2) Bon-Bon: “Haughty fat lady?!” Well I never! You’re clearly just jealous of my incredible vocal ra~nge!

Lyra: What’s haughty mean?

Bon-Bon: I don’t know, but it sounded like an insult.

3) Bon-Bon: Hate? Parish the thought!

Lyra: To be honest, I didn’t care for her at first. But she’s super nice and funny! Witty too! We’ve been friends for close to two years now. She recently came back to tumblr, too!

4) Yeah… Awesome… Except that I don’t know a whole lot of unmarried teachers that don’t take jobs over the summer just to make ends meet. I fully expected to be subbing this summer, but I never got a call. Really need to start working right away once school starts back up. Hoping for that full-time job.

1) I’m glad you like it!

2) Lyra: Pastel you say… Hmm… Maybe ponies did come first and they’re supposed to represent pony eggs…

Bon-Bon: Lyra, ponies don’t lay eggs.

Lyra: Not yet they don’t.

3) I would assume he was strict and solitary, considering he evidently knew about friendship magic but couldn’t ever get it to work. But your way is pretty awesome! I’d hang around a kookie little gnome.

4 & 5) I’m glad you both think so! The game’s perspective shifting was based on Final Fantasy 6, since I’ve never played Live-a-Live. Whole game took place on a physical representation of an internet forum. Less Tron (though there are elements of that) and more real world (later in the timeline things start to go World of Ruin as the code gets messed up).

And now that I think about it, I think I posted the screenplay… or maybe it was a different thing I wrote…

Either way I must have not tagged it very well. I can’t find it.

Bon-Bon: Goodness gracious! I’m good, but I’m only a pony!

Lyra: Hilariously enough, judging by past experiences, I don’t think B-Cov would mind a bag of spiders in his bed.

Bon-Bon: But if Spike fell down a well, who would tell Twilight?

Lyra: What…?

Bon-Bon: You know, ‘cause of the movie. The one with the high school, and Spike is a-

Lyra: Oh Cels [omitted], Bon-Bon!

Bon-Bon: Oh-ho, did I strike a nerve? So this is what it feels like to make somepony storm off in rage and disgust. Hmhm… I should try it more often.

1) Lyra: I’m… not sure what… Could you elaborate?

Bon-Bon: Wait up. Was that when she dumped a wagon full of garbage on my head?

Lyra: I-ah… Wouldn’t presume to know-Next question!

2) Lyra: You lost me. What else would you call Europe other than Europe?

Bon-Bon: Did you know it took me 4 days to get the smell out of my mane? I guarantee you I lost business over that.

Lyra: Let it go.

3) Lyra: I’d still say you’re looking for hugs for the wrong reason, but close enough. Apology accepted, right Bon-Bon?

Bon-Bon: I mean, it was just a motivational speaker! You listen to a few things his says, “Yeah, sure, alright. Be more assertive. Whatever.” Who actually follows through with all that crap?!

Lyra: Bon-Bon!

4) Lyra: Well, there are a ton of different branches of the guard. Some of them are just personal bodyguards. But you do whatever. Let your creativity flow!

Bon-Bon: And to think I wanted her autograph once! After the way she treated-!

Lyra: Bon-Bon! For the love of Celestia shut up about it!

1) Hey! I remember this tumblr! You were looking for somepony, or something.

I like that idea! Not sure how well the two mesh but I feel like there’s a lot of energy going on! As for the meat tree, I’d go with something sillier personally. Like milk that’s been genetically altered to have the same nutrients that meat has, and call it Meaty Milk! And in stores it’s always sold in these baby formula bottles. Very silly. Also very punk rock/counterculture.

2) Bon-Bon: What kind of hidden gags?

Lyra: Like those things during or after the credits.

Bon-Bon: You mean a stinger?

Lyra: Bad example. Like a Transformer toy in the background of a scifi movie about giant robots.

Bon-Bon: That’s funny? Sounds like a nod-to-the-fans.

Lyra: Ugh. You asked it anon; help me out here.

3) You know, when I saw this message I was going to argue it, but to do so I was going to bring up the exact pony the article’s about! He’s great! I love his music! I’ve even linked to a few of his tracks before! I love his Flamenco track!

And having read the article and now seen a few episodes of Gravity Falls, I’m upset by the decision against the artist. Though to be honest, not terribly surprised. He only did the intro song better than the original! That show would be so much more popular, and be worth more money, if Disney didn’t smother it ever chance they got.

4) Why yes, I believe I would. One of my favorite factions in City of Heroes were the Freakshow. And they weren’t the “pretty” cyberpunk you see in Deus Ex or even Shadowrun either.

1) Well sure, I’ve always wanted to make a game. Just as visual medium has it’s limitations, so does writing. I’ve messed with RPG Maker tons of times. I had a really cool project I was working on once but my computer fried and I lost around 6 months of work. Heavy work. Tried starting back up on it, but motivation was just gone. It was one of those multiple perspective things where you don’t really know what’s going on until you play as everypony. The cool part (at least I thought it was cool) was that each team was going to play differently. Oh well, I swept that under the rug long ago.

Hey! I just remembered I wrote a screenplay for an original series once! Takes place on human earth in modern times, but there’s magic, but magic only started to really proliferate when the internet arose and information about how to do it became easy to access. So the dynamic is law enforcement agencies struggling to keep up order in a world where all sorts of forces, or even random civilians (both criminal and non), are racing to become “all powerful” or at least to get away with whatever they want.

Got an A on the assignment.

2) I’ve touched on this before; it’s basically a cultural thing. Know what to look for. Learn how to spot refrains. Somepony will climb a building slow enough that others can see and they’ll climb up too and we’ll all go jumping from rooftop-to-rooftop.

Don’t try that at home, fillies and colts.

3) Bon-Bon: Sure I’d count mints as candy! Unless they’re mint leaves. But I don’t count cocoa beans as candy either. I don’t think anypony does.

Lyra: I always chew gum for too long and then my jaw gets tired.

4) Yeah, it wasn’t as good as the comics, but I still liked it. And that’s awful sweet of you. I was thinking of maybe trying it out while playing either Super Mario Kart or maybe Shadowrun Return’s starter campaign again. I’m kinda curious how awful I’d do at Mario Kart these days.

1) Doing nothin’ can be pretty cool. I’m still waiting for the school year to start back up and hopefully get a full time aid position.

2) Pretty low, only slightly lower, and statistically insignificant.

3) No. To be honest, Strawberry, I don’t really appreciate your dream as my part in it would be one of two mares and nothing more. Hugs are special and I don’t want mine to be trivialized.

4) Bon-Bon: I even thought I gave a pretty detailed answer… Guess I was wrong.

Lyra: I liked the little human silhouettes better. The gray balls are dumb. Almost every anonymous question I get is from a human anyway. Also, I miss the flower in the background.

Lyra: What would being a secret madame connote? Also, I had to look up 1 Direction. Which makes me feel bad considering they’re evidently a pretty big deal.

Bon-Bon: Now I know I’ve heard of Faberge Eggs before…

Lyra: I… I am that one fat guy behind the dumpster!

Bon-Bon: [Audible gasp]

Lyra: Testing out deodorants sounds like a long process. And I don’t think Twilight would make a very successful movie.

Bon-Bon: What are Easter Eggs?

Lyra: Woo! Willie!

Bon-Bon: Woo! Potato!

Lyra: Now wasn’t this fun?

Bon-Bon: Eh.

Lyra: Oh- you suck.

1) Oh no. I was just taking the pictures. But thanks! Glad you like them!

2) Maybe. Could you link one you liked or something?

3) Bon-Bon: Bon-Bon. With the hyphen. And no. I have one sister. She’s Tootsie’s mom-and didn’t I already answer this?

Lyra: You know, I’m not sure. I thought I remembered getting a question that just said “Hi” a while ago, but I never answered it and now it’s gone. No telling how many times that’s happened.

Bon-Bon: Well, that’s not fair.

4) It certainly has! I figured you were okay. At least I hoped so. What have you been doing?

5) Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! Unfortunately tomorrow is my last one. Was fun having a steady morning queue for a while!

1) Lyra: Sometimes I wonder if scrunch battle was worth tasting a book over.

Bon-Bon: Just be glad it didn’t go up the other end.

2) Bon-Bon: That’s happened all of, what, twice? Usually I’m the one that’s gone. I have a full time job and a business to run.

3) About one-and-a-half times bigger in overall size. He’s only about a head taller than me standing, though. Most of his size is in his body mass. He’s actually small for a bear. Having seen his family I think it’s hereditary.

The banner on my page is pretty good. His head is a little bigger. Sort of makes it look like my head is bigger/same size as his.

4) I’m pretty sure I’d have one pony that would watch for like five minutes and then go “boooooriiiiiiing” and disconnect. I mean, the only thing I’m really playing on my computer right now is Warframe. Although I do have this one really cool automatic shotgun I’ve modded so that it fires like a machine gun. It’s pretty fun.

5) Hey! That’s pretty cool! I like hearing stuff like that, where the team put some real thought into even the simple things.

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 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!

Bon-Bon: Oh, you know, she only ran around with the thing for half an hour. Blowing leaves everywhere. Leaves from our yard. The neighbors’ yards. Then when the battery ran down, like anypony could have guessed it would, she tried to recharge it with her magic. Did that break it, Lyra?

…

Bon-Bon: It exploded- Oh yes it did! Huge scorch mark on who’s lawn?

…

Bon-Bon: Same pony that let you borrow it? Why I believe it was. Had to pay for the leaf blower and the damages. She won’t talk to us anymore. Her son, who’s a pegasus, actually flipped me off once. Little colt- gave me the bird! And you know, in the end, somehow you managed to wiggle your way out of explaining what in Celestia’s grace was going through your mind at the time. I don’t suppose you’d care to take this time to enlighten us, would you?

Lyra: … I like Play-Doh?

…

Lyra: Oh come on Bon-Bon, it was funny! Bon-Bon!

…

Lyra: She’s just mad she never got their family’s secret recipe. She never liked them.

1) Yes. EVE Online. Sorry. I did like Parasite Eve, though. I was all set to finish the Chrysler Building when my memory card reset and I lost everything except my Legend of Mana data. This is why I avoid third party products.

The fundamental idea behind hardcore is that your reward for doing well is nothing special; it’s just the ability to play the game. Your punishment for doing bad is taking that way. I’ll give you a perfect example: XCOM Enemy Unknown’s hardcore mode removes the ability to load and saves everything you do. If somepony dies, they die. If you fail a mission, you fail. If you lose all support, you start over. You could lose some thirty hours or more of work and have nothing to show for it. EVE isn’t a textbook example, but it is very much hardcore in the scale of how much you can lose.

“Nintendo hard” isn’t really hardcore. I’m not all that at video games, but I’ve beat Contra without dying. All it takes is practice and memorization. That conditioning, basically.

[omitted], I beat Megaman X2 without dying and getting the secret upgrade; and that took 3 hours! 3 hours of not dying once!

2) Bon-Bon: We don’t even have a leaf blower. And last time she used one she-

Lyra: Oh! Hamtaro and Bijou were my favorite! I liked Oxnard too! Cels, I want to watch it again! I wish it still aired…

3) No! That’s not me! That’s not who I am! [/Chowder]