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Offline Ivory Star

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #75 on: September 21, 2014, 02:58:18 pm »
Ivory tilted her head slightly, her ears pinning back a little out of curiosity as the Gryphoness spoke. "Teasing? Me? You know I'm awful at that sort of thing..." It was hard to tell if the mare was being sarcastic or not, but she seemed to be totally clueless. Kit's attempt to ruffle the Noctral's mane was met with a soft whine as Ivory reached up in an effort to lazily swat her away, only to start grinning sheepishly at her compliment. "Ya know, Kit, I just fixed my mane. But you probably already knew that, you 'loon. At this rate, don't be surprised if you wind up finding one of your brushes missing."

The mare would proceed to straighten out her mane again, which was truly difficult with clumsy hooves. After a few moments, Ivory would sigh, leaving her mane however messy it might be as she shifted her attention back to Schwambart, who was now hiding his face behind one of his wings. The Noctral blinked, scanning his form with prying, golden eyes. "Aw! Come out of there, silly! Am I truly being that much of a-" Schwambart passed her another card with a rather amusing message. "Tease...?" Ivory blinked again, flipping the card over as she simply stared at the second message, earning an amusing smile after a few moments. "However," she replies after a time, "Can Badger's badgers badgers Badger's badgers?"

It was at this moment that Ivory was caught off-guard as Kit bumped into her. While it wasn't uncommon for Ivory and Kit to surprise and 1-up each other, the Noctral wasn't prepared for a sudden counter-attack as she simply flopped to the side... Right on top of Schwambart... While the mare's short fall didn't nearly constitute a diving save from the green Peagsus, Ivory didn't want to move, or even comment after the fact. Instead, she seemed to blush profusely, giggling quietly as she wrapped her hooves around her 'hero's' neck for a small hug, still laying on top of him. "Now that was unexpected... Thank you, Schwambart.~" She'd stick her tongue out playfully at the Gryphoness, but otherwise makes very little effort to move as she was quite comfortable in her position... Or embarrassed... Or both.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #76 on: September 24, 2014, 01:12:25 pm »
Kit grinned as she looked down at Ivory, her head tilting to the side as she placed her clawed forelimbs on  the noctrels stomach. "Hah. I have conquered the great and mighty Ivory -and- her little schwambart!" SHe said triumphantly before backing off and looking over the two shaking her head. "Hey Ivory, I'll catch up with you later, I'm going to get some sleep, listen, I'm going to be opening up a shop here soon, I demand that you visit at least once a week." She said with a fluff of her wings, and then cast her eyes down to Schwambart. "And you, come visit, maybe I can get you some glasses that will magically stay attached to that big pony nose of yours." She said with a wink before she began to leave, tail swishing from side to side.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #77 on: September 24, 2014, 04:30:54 pm »
 Lamplight sits back and watches the exchange between Schwambart and Ivory, a knowing smile spreading on her face as Schwambart gets redder and redder. She has to suppress a giggle when Ivory looks her way, asking if she'd missed something. She certainly had, seemingly having completely missed Schwambarts obvious infatuation for her. Saying it now would likely only embarrass Schwambart further and possibly make things awkward, so she merely shrugs at Ivory. She'd tell Ivory later if she got the chance. That is unless the griffon who seems to know her doesn't do it first. She gives Kit a wave in answer of the griffon's own, and moves a bit closer to get a better look at the cards when Schwambart takes them out. This time she can't help but giggle, Schwambart was just so awkward and Ivory still doesn't seem to get it. It was really quite cute. She giggles again when Kit bumps int Ivory and Schwambart dives where she's falling, as if he's saving her from a terrible fall. The two just lay there in a pile, and Lamplight gives another wave to Kit as the griffon turns to leave. "You two having fun?" She asks teasingly and takes a couple steps closer.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #78 on: September 24, 2014, 11:33:02 pm »
It strikes Schwambart half a second after Ivory has already fallen on him how much of an overreaction it was for him to dive to catch her.  The ground was grassy and soft already, and not very far at all to fall, but he had been running by instinct when he was high-strung.  Yeah.  That sounds like a pretty good excuse.  Who knows?  Maybe it's even accurate.  Whatever it is, though, he's certainly glad she doesn't take it the wrong way.  Her laugh is highly gratifying for him, and even loosens him up a smidge.  Well, enough to talk...very, very quietly.  "Welcome," he squeaks out, not making much in the way of movement to stand or anything.

He squints at Kit as she proclaims her victory over the two of them.  Victory, huh?  She hadn't conquered him at all!  He'd have to correct her thinking...except that she's already leaving.  Maybe if he'd started thinking faster.  Wait, she's leaving?  Without her glasses?  He'd love to say something, but finds himself distracted by the Noctral on top of him.  Well...she said she'd be opening a shop up nearby.  And she knows Ivory, right?  He could return them tomorrow or sometime soon after that, once he got his glasses back from repairs.

"...having fun?"  Lamplight's question brings him back to the present, and additionally restores his sense of propriety.  "I, uh, *ahem*, uh, hm, I, *ahem*," he postulates with much stuttering, blushing, averting of his eyes, and clearing of his throat.  With a quick, practiced motion, he slides out from under Ivory without displacing her except to gently lower her to the ground (a maneuver he learned wrestling with his older and twin brothers...though the reaching the ground didn't tend to be so gentle with them) before putting out his hoof to help her to hers.  "Llllllll..." he intones, looking about to say something for a moment before he remembers the cards he scattered when he dove as well as the glasses.  He quickly sets to gathering those, starting with the glasses.  Wouldn't do to let those get broken like his, right?

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #79 on: September 25, 2014, 08:40:51 pm »
The flustered Noctral could only manage to avert her eyes from Kit as the Gryphon quite shamelessly 'claimed' her victory over the mare. "Careful there, Kit-Kat. You might wake up with a new coat color and painted talons one of these days. Just you wait. And when you find me, I'll be sitting there eating your most favorite wheel of cheese." The mare trailed off as Kit began leave, nodding in affirmation about coming to visit her shop every so often. "I'll be sure to do that, Kit. My offer is still open to model for your lines if you still need one."

Ivory nestled herself a bit atop of the green Pegasus, only to pout playfully as Schwambart somehow maneuvered himself out from underneath her. "Aww! And I was starting to get comfy.~" The mare accepted Schwambart's helping hoof, slowly standing up as she proceeded to brush herself off, stretching her wings a little before they settled back in place. "This whole night has been rather fun," Ivory replied with a smile towards Lamplight. "I really appreciate you coming out again. It's always a challenge to come up with something a little bit different for the regulars to enjoy, so I decided that it was your turn for a little impromptu dance. I hope you didn't mind, haha."

The mare giggled to herself for a moment as she went about to help Schwambart pick up his belongings, imitating a sort of whirling dance as she cheerfully bumped into the two with hopes they would join along in her antics.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #80 on: September 26, 2014, 01:07:27 pm »
Lamplight raises an eyebrow, impressed at Schwambart's ability to squirm out from under Ivory so easily. She watches him make an attempt to say... something, and then give up and try to gather up the things that had gotten scattered when he dove to catch Ivory. The orange mare looks over at the noctral with a laugh. "It was a lot of fun Ivory, the show was great as always." She gives another laugh as Ivory goes to help Schwambart pick things up and starts doing a little dance. The orange mare grins when Ivory bumps her, and joins in the silly little dance, trying to bump the noctral back.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #81 on: September 26, 2014, 11:45:21 pm »
If Schwambart is amused by Ivory's new whirling antics, he does a remarkable job of masking it behind his obviously vital task of gathering his communique cards...though a small laugh does mysteriously escape somewhere in his general vicinity when she first bumps him.  He wasn't prepared for it, though, and the cards drop from his hoof, so he sets about it again.  The next time she tries to bump him, though, he steps deftly out of the way, participating in her little dance only to avoid her steps and swings.  He certainly is not having fun with it, though.  Certainly not.

As soon as he has all his cards together, he shuffles through them once more, selecting two from the stack.  The first one, on the side that he hoofs face-up, states rather simply, Fifty-two pickup has never been one of my favorite games...  On the other side it bears the message: This card intentionally left blank.

The other, though, drops from his hoof while it's on its way over.  "Oh, sorry," he says, apparently less tongue-tied than he had been previously, but still insistent on passing the card.  He dips down to pick it up and hoofs it over...wrong-side up.  It would do me an immense amount of pleasure of you would deign to allow me to escort you on an evening of romance and fancihood.  The whole sentence takes up enough of the card that it's only written in cursive.  The other side says, I certainly have enjoyed this evening, but I'm afraid I should be heading back.  Not realizing his mistake, Schwambart adjusts Kit's glasses on his face and considers tucking his cards back into his pocket.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #82 on: September 29, 2014, 07:37:03 pm »
Ivory would eventually slow down after some time, ultimately stopping all together as she took a few moments to catch her breath while giggling like a school girl. "Oh my... That was fun," she mused to herself, swaying back and forth as she attempted to regain her balance. "I've always wondered why I would get so dizzy doing that, considering how many loops and twirls I do in the air... Perhaps I'm an air pirate!" The Noctral would cover one of her eyes with some of the cards she picked up and reared up on her hind legs. "Yarr! I've not got me groundlegs yet, landlubber!" Needless to say, Ivory wouldn't make a very convincing pirate... After another short laugh, Ivory regained her footing and passed the few cards back to Schwambart, reading the one the green Pegasus gave in return.

"Ah... I apologize, Schwambart. I'll make it up to you. How about-" The mare stopped short as the stallion actually spoke, however brief, before insisting on offering the mare a second card. "So you do have a voice tonight!~ Wouldn't that be easier than... well... this?" Ivory would glance down at the card and start to read. "Besides, I like your voice. Why try to-" She blinked, her eyes flying over the note again. "-hide it...?" It was the Noctral's turn to go silent as she rolled the message around in her mind, her cheeks visibly flaring up a bit before flipping the card over. Her expression suddenly changed from flattered to confused as she flipped the card over again to re-read its first message, ears drooping in momentary sadness. The sides conflicted with one another, so... Which one did he want her to see? The side the Pegasus had given her, of course!

Ivory chuckled softly as she trotted up to Schwambart and sat next to him, casually throwing a hoof around his neck before showing him the first message. "I, Ivory Adagio Star, would be more than flattered to bequeath thee this fine opportunity thou hast surely proposed. 'Twould be a delightful evening, indeed!~" The mare inched her head a bit closer, dropping her terrible forced accent as her voice barely rose above a whisper as she flipped the card over to its other message. "That is, unless you really do have to head back... It is late, so I understand, but... We could plan for later... Right?"

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #83 on: October 01, 2014, 04:36:52 pm »
Lamplight twirls around one final time before sitting down with a breathy laugh. She hadn't been able to quite keep up with Ivory, the innkeeper being kind of out of shape despite her midnight walks. Still, it had been fun. She needs a moment to catch her breath before offering the cards she'd gathered to Schwambart, happy that he seems to have loosened up at least a little bit. She doesn't get a good look at the cards he hoofs over to Ivory, not having a good angle to read what's on them. She figures it's just something saying he'd had fun though. It seems her guess is wrong though, when Ivory seems surprised by what was written on the card he passes to her. It was hard to guess what the card could have said, as Ivory cycles through several emotions in a short time. Whatever it was, the noctral seems to make up her mind about it quickly, going back to her normal self and putting a foreleg around Schwambart's shoulder. Lamplight giggles softly at the silly accent Ivory adopts, accepting what sounds like it was the offer of a date. She looks at Schwambart curiously. That's not something she would have expected from the pegasus, given how nervous he'd been acting. Good for him though.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #84 on: October 05, 2014, 11:51:00 pm »
"O-oh, it's just..." Schwambart begins to respond, quietly, to Ivory's question regarding his voice.  Well...he guesses he *could* start talking again, since, y'know...he apparently had.  But he'd gone through the trouble to make all those cards, way more than he believed he'd ever have reason to use.  Seriously?  One of his cards reads No, I have never been taken hostage, but thanks for asking!  What had he been thinking?

Wait.  Why are her cheeks getting red?  He thinks over the wording of his farewell note.  Afraid?  Did she misread it and think he was afraid of her?  That can't be right, she's far too bright to think that.  He assumes.  Heading?  Did she think he was going to headbutt her?  Agh!  He's probably overthinking this.  He could just ask...no, he can't do that.  He can barely talk to her sometimes, let alone ask her if she's embarrassed about something.
And then it's even worse!  Her poor little ears with the extra floofy bits on the end, they're down!  But...that happened after she flipped the card over.  What had she read that brought that up?  But she seems to get over that plenty quickly, so maybe she realizes that wasn't what he meant for her to see, whatever it was that was on the other side.

When she walks towards him, he figures she's just going to maybe give him another hug (that's something he'd like) and they'd have a farewell, certainly nothing big there.  Maybe talk a little bit more about the possibility of practicing for the next performance.  What he doesn't expect is the stream of high-falutin' sounding language coming from her mouth and-
No!  Why had he shown her that one!?  He'd really just written that as a joke, he certainly didn't mean to show that to her!  Oh goodness, if he was ever going to die from embarrassment, it was going to be from that.  His face lights up a brighter red than that one time he'd accidentally set his eyebrows on fire when he'd been playing with matches (don't do it, kids).  How would he ever get out of this one?

Oh!  An out!  It *was* the card he'd meant to show her, just on the other side!  Yeah, he'd just talk it down as an accident (which it was), no big deal.  "Oh, uh, sorry, um, I, uh, you see, um..."  Yeah, keep moving your mouth until something smart pops in.  Great idea.  Once he's finished berating himself on his articulation, though, he does start phrasing a little joke he could say that would hopefully ease the tension.  Something involving poker, diamonds, and...

But then it falls short when he makes a realization.  She'd accepted.  She'd said yes.  Well, not in that exact word, but the sentiment was the same.  In a heartbeat (which his is doing a rather loud job of, drumming way better than he'd ever learned to) his demeanor changes from ohmygoshwhatdidIdo to ohmygoshwhatdidIdoright with no middle ground, a huge grin splitting his face nearly in two.  "I!!!  Yes!  This, uh, you!  We!  Uh..."  It's practically visible on his face the amount of effort it takes for his brain to rein in his mouth.  Calm down, calm down.  When he does, his mouth remains open and motionless for a full 4 seconds before he makes another sound.
"'Course!  Uh...later, I...stuff!" he says, motioning to his pile of things he brought, the bag, blanket, violin, and cookies heaped on the ground next to them.  "Get...home!  For...home!"

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #85 on: October 19, 2014, 09:03:46 pm »
Ivory blinks slowly as Schwambart cycles through a variety of emotions, waiting patiently for something solid to respond to. For a brief moment, the mare removed her hoof from Schwmbart's shoulder in an effort to find herself again, blushing every bit as furiously as the green stallion was. The prospect of dating had never really crossed her mind before... She had certainly been hit on in various ways by other ponies, but her mind had always made her work the priority, much to any suitor's disappointment. And yet, Schwambart was a different case; regardless of his true intentions written on that card, Ivory had accepted his proposal without a second thought.

Perhaps it was the green stallion's unique charm? Ivory mused to herself, only to have her thought process derailed when Schwambart grinned from ear to ear, causing the Noctral to smile sheepishly in return. She draped her hoof around his shoulder again, pulling him a bit closer as he began to speak. Well, halfway speak, at least. Ivory glanced at the miscellaneous items that littered the ground, attempting to decipher what the stallion was trying to say. "Would you like some help carrying your stuff back home? I'd be more than happy to escort you." Ivory's tone of voice changed slightly, returning to its more melodious and soothing inflection the mare had used when she first met the Pegasus. "We can always plan for tomorrow... But I would at least like to see you off before you retire for the night. That was a very brave thing, Schwambart..." Without warning, Ivory pulls him into a tight hug, leaving a gentle kiss on his cheek before releasing him. The Noctral immediately goes to work packing and picking up his various belongings, knowing full well that her small act of affection would probably cause him to go giddy again.

"Hey Lamplight," she calls over her shoulder, nomming on one of Schwambart's home-made sweets before stuffing its container into the bag. "Thank you sooooooooooooo so so much for coming out again. I'll be working on something special for the next one, so don't miss out! It just might blow all my other performances away.~"

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #86 on: October 25, 2014, 11:16:53 pm »
Lamplight, for the most part, sits back and just gazes at the night sky as Ivory and Schwambart talk, not wanting to appear like she's listening in on their conversation. She can't help but smile at their awkwardness, though. It was obviously the first time Schwambart at least had done anything like this, and she hopes he can get over his nerves being around the noctral. They already seem pretty cute together, and she'd hate for something like that to ruin it for them. When Ivory calls her name, she returns her attention to the white coated mare, giving a bright smile. "You know I wouldn't miss these shows, especially one like tonight!" She says, standing up and suppressing a yawn. She glances up at the moon, noting that it's starting to get quite late. "If it's even better than tonight's was, I can't wait to see it!" She's tempted to ask what Ivory has planned, but she doesn't really want to ruin the surprise.

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Re: A Ponyville Lunar Festival
« Reply #87 on: December 13, 2014, 06:10:16 pm »
Giddy is certainly one word for what Ivory's kiss makes Schwambart.  In an understatement-y sort of way.  Saying that he becomes giddy when she does that would be like saying that a Redwood tree is a bit tall, or that the trek he'd made from his previous home to Ponyville was a bit of a walk.  He certainly isn't in a shape to think of a better word to use, though.  He's busy being it.  It was one thing when she'd planted her lips on his nose as part of her performance, entirely another when shed kissed his cheek, outside of performance, completely voluntarily, and directly after accepting a date proposal from him.  This is better than that time that he...uh...got excited about...that...one thing?  Whatever it is, it's completely overshadowed by the night's events.

As she pulls out of the hug and starts helping him gather his things, he starts giggling under his breath, face absolutely torn asunder by his smile.  He can't concentrate.  He can't pack up his things.  He tries, oh goodness he tries, but he's almost literally walking on air, his wings deciding at inopportune times that this is not the moment to be stuck down to the ground, for he'd transcended his lowly terrestrial existence and would have to ascend to the heavens to match his spirits.  Generally this translates into him attempting to pick something up just to leap into the air with a bit of a louder giggle and hover back down to the ground, looking sheepishly at everything before repeating the whole process.

Needless to say, he wasn't an extreme amount of help in gathering his belongings.

 


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