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Offline Hawkson Heartfixer

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #15 on: May 27, 2014, 09:24:43 pm »
Hawk winces as the snake just about horribly murders the blue unicorn. He keeps his eyes locked on the snake as it wraps around the magenta colored one. It would probably have murdered them all by now if the magenta unicorn hadn't obviously cast some sort of taming spell on it or something like that. Otherwise it would have horribly ripped them into pieces by now.

Hawkson listens to the magenta one use the sarcasm that defined him against him. He suddenly adjusts himself to be sitting on the branch with his back legs hanging off, which was an admittedly uncomfortable condition, and raises his front legs in a sort of X  and then motions the X shape towards her, his own little motion for "!@#$ you you stupid little !@#$!" But as he does the branch makes another "SNAP!" and breaks, making Hawkson fall with a line of curse words that would immediately kill a foal's innocence if they heard it. 

He lands directly in front of the blue unicorn with another curse word rhyming with "bunt" as the blue one finishes saying how Hawk should get down before the branch breaks. Idiot.
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Re: Premonition
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2014, 07:26:43 pm »
Ruby watched from her little view of the scene as the stallion fell from the broken branch and out of the tree, trying to count how many branches he hit on the way down. This was so much fun to watch, for the brief amount of time that he had been falling, especially considering the rather rude gesture and expletives he had been shouting at her just before he fell. It was like a sort of karmic justice, and she was okay with it. She sat where she said she would stay, because Celestia knows she didn't want to go through the trouble of getting him back out of the same tree again, but that didn't mean she didn't want to take advantage of the situation.

"What was that? I couldn't hear you. Your voice was sort of drowned out by the sound of you falling." Now if you could please be on your way, I would like to get back to the books that are now absolutely covered in leaves and find a new spot to sit in. As she waited in her spot, she once again began petting Pharasma, just watching the other two for now.

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2014, 11:35:20 pm »
(I totally swear I didn't get my usual email telling me somebody had posted that time - sorry that I keep getting this wrong!)

Dais was caught completely off-guard by the falling tree branch. Even though he'd been looking at it intently, readying himself to catch it with a levitation spell zap, the crack was loud enough to actually stun him for a moment. Shaking his head, he looked in shock at the empty sky where the tree branch used to be, and reflexively fired the powerful levitation spell he had prepared, which soared into the open sky like a blue bolt of lightning, a random pegasus nimbly darting out of the way. By that time, the pony who had been stuck in the tree was already down on the ground and cursing something, but thankfully a flock of birds in a nearby tree flew away chirping at just that moment, startled by the sound of the falling tree branch, and also the clocktower rang, as the bell was being tuned. Together the branch, birds and bell drowned out the sound of any continued cursing in the air.

Which was just as well, because as the spell missed, Dais had let slip a curse of his own that was so bad, it was actually illegal to say.

A little dazed, Dais heard the young mare, who had been quite peacefully reading, call something over. He assumed it was related to the fact that her little spot now had an angry pony and a tree branch on it, but he wasn't sure. The combination of his previous feelings of inadequacy, his need to be professional at this time, and his immediate problem with the branch were all doing his head in. Taking a deep breath, Dais needed a moment to compose himself. He blinked a few times, looked around, shuffled his hooves, and finished.

"Don't you all worry, citizens..." announced Dais Clash "I can see exactly what the problem is here. Not only that, but I have the perfect plan for dealing with it... listen carefully, this plan is important..."

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2014, 02:32:07 am »
Hawkson gets up up and brushes himself off as Ruby calls over to him. He mutters something along the lines of "Stupid !@#$%^, such an @!#hole..." with the strongly worded insults directed at Ruby, in case you couldn't tell. Hawkson is slightly surprised that Dais would let such a beautiful cuss word slip like that, but thinks nothing of it.

Hawkson narrows his eyes at Dais as he begins explaining another one of his absolutely brilliant plans. "Wait a second, you do realize that whatever it is you're going to say won't work and even if it does we'll just ignore you because, frankly, nopony gives two !@#$s right?" Hawkson says, turning to Dais and interrupting him before he can finish suggesting they all go on a canoe ride to bond as friends or whatever. Hawkson then notices that Ruby's snake is still around. his eyes  widen and he hides behind Dais, exclaiming "Unless, of course, your plan involves brutally murdering the serpent over there ans, in which case, feel free to kill the !@#$ing thing." He then proceeds to cower behind Dais like a 3 year old.
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Re: Premonition
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2014, 05:51:18 am »
Carri, following instructions given to her by Brash, slowly scans the ground in search of Dais whilst holding onto a very large boulder. She found it strange that Brash wanted to give Dais two dozen boulders and that they were to be delivered as close to Dais as possible, but a job's a job.

Presuming he may still be at the park Carri quickly finds Dais and excitedly advances over him, releasing the boulder as she gets near. The boulder crashes into the park grounds and destroys everything under it, landing only close enough to Dais and Hawkson that they're merely sprayed with a light amount of dirt. Carri panics and lands on the boulder and looks about to make sure everypony is alright, then quickly retrieves a note form her jacket and reviews it.

Muttering to herself as she goes over the note, "Find minimum one ton boulder... do not call out intention to drop... release from at least a dozen feet... do not engage in conversation at any time..." Carri's mutterings grow quieter and she stands there for a while, only now questioning if this sort of thing is really safe.

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2014, 02:26:33 pm »
Rolling her eyes at Hawkson as he continued to curse her out, Ruby stood up and wandered back towards the tree that had her books under it. Now she would have to relocate, which was absolutely fantastic, and it wasn't even because of the fact that the place was now a tad messy, what with the broken tree branch and the scattered leaves, no, it was because of the two ponies who had invaded the general area with their shenanigans. Taking care to pass by as slowly as possible when she walked past Dais, giving Hawkson an amused and cheeky smirk in the process as she said, "Aww, someone's just a tad sore about their little embarassing fall, aren't they? What do you think, Pharasma?" The snake flicked its tongue at the pair disinterestedly, clearly having no opinion about the situation other than maybe how good the two of them smelled, but nevertheless, Ruby giggled and said, "Oh is that right? Well maybe we should..." she trailed off a little, her tone dropping into silence as she stared off to the side for a few seconds. A funny feeling came over her all of a sudden, sort of like the feeling of the aftermath of eating something that her stomach didn't agree with. She felt uncomfortable where she was, she had to move right now. Right now.

She just kept walking, one hoof in front of the other as she kept staring off to the side, looking as though she was off in her own little world as the python once more began to hiss lowly. A few seconds later after leaving the spot that she had deemed too unbearable to even consider standing in, a large boulder hit the ground with a thud, embedding itself into the dirt and showering the nearby ponies with speckles of soil. Slowly turning to look at the place that she had decided to abdicate at the last second, Ruby swallowed slowly as she paled, her heart beating at what felt like a million miles a minute, only picking up pace as she came to terms with what just about happened. Her silence continued to persist as the pegasus that had been carrying the boulder landed upon it, retrieving and reading a note while she muttered to herself. "Oh..." Ruby began, beginning to tremble as shock started to set in, "that was... oh dear, that almost..." That was almost murder is what that was. Wham-splat, almost turned into a fine red paste under a heavy rock, a quick death. Would it have been painful? Would I have felt each and every bone in my body splinter and break as my soft organs were crushed?

Things were just going wrong.

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2014, 05:18:42 pm »
With a gigantic flinch and a whinny, Dais did what he could to get away from the boulder before his shiny blue coat was covered with dull brown dust. At first Dais was a little shocked at the threat to his personal safety, but as soon as he could get his thoughts in order, the first thing that came to mind was establishing some priorities. As a good friend and town bureaucrat, Dais felt a certain degree of responsibility for resolving this particular crisis. He always had a plan on hand for dealing with various situations, but this time, he realized that he probably had to prioritize. The three ponies around him seemed to be each having their own unique problems, and dealing with them was just too much. As such, Dais reasoned that the first concern had to be fixing up the tree, since nopony else seemed to care about that. It made sense for the few shock-filled seconds his brain had to evaluate the situation.

"Alright" coughed Dais, while walking around dizzily "All part of the... plan... now there's a huge rock between you and the snake... you can... thank me later... and you can calm down, young mare, you're ok... and uh, Carri?... This your boulder? I think you've got to be a bit more careful when you're flying over the park... so anyway..."

Dais' limping dizzy walk sent him careening face-first straight into the boulder. After shaking his head, he composed himself back to normal. "I need to rescue some very important tree branches from under this rock. Who's keen to help out a friend, huh?"

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #22 on: July 06, 2014, 05:14:21 pm »
Carri rereads her note, confused as to what exactly to do. Deciding the note reiterates not talking multiple time she simply nods to Dais and lifts the boulder just high enough for a pony to walk under. Due to its weight she can't spare a hoof to recheck the note, and she becomes too curious, "Uh, well, you were expecting Brash to give you these right? Something about using them to obliterate something? I found ten more, I couldn't hold them all at once though."

Carri then snaps her muzzle shut, hoping the disregard for orders wouldn't lessen her pay.

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2014, 12:42:12 am »
Hawkson is about to yell more obscene cuss words at Ruby, but the giant boulder lands directly in front of him, spraying him with dirt. He’s about to shout even MORE cuss words before he notices the filly standing on the boulder. Hawkson is probably the biggest A-hole in Ponyville and usually has no problems about saying curse words and yelling at anypony that rubs him the wrong way, but hes still got standards. And one of those happens to be to be nice to foals. Especially the adorable ones, like the one on the boulder.

Hawkson temporarily ignores the whole snake thing and brushes himself off. He’s about to ask why a filly that looked like she just got out of school was carrying a boulder that almost horribly murdered him before her and Dais start talking. Wait why did he need boulders? What was he, Daring Do? Did he like to run from them with catchy music playing in the background?

Hawkson is just left there with a confused look on his face as Carri lifts the boulder and Dais says something about a tree branch.
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Re: Premonition
« Reply #24 on: July 13, 2014, 03:47:24 pm »
Ruby started feeling a slight bit queasy at this point. The more that she thought about what could have happened had she not had the desire to move all of a sudden, the more she felt that she would be sick. Stumbling off to the side, by the tree that she had sat under for the past few hours, she began trying to do something else that would hopefully occupy her thoughts: brushing the leaves off of the books that she had left open, and placing them back in the bag that she brought them in. Thankfully the books were not too damaged given the circumstances, and the librarian was not going to pitch a fit this time around. After the last book had been placed in the bag alongside the box that held her tarot cards, she buckled it back up, taking care not to crush her python as she placed it back over her back. She was done with this place, with these ponies, with today altogether for that matter. She was nearly killed, surely that was reason enough to believe that she could call it quits for today.

Just as she was considering where she was going to go next, she was compelled to look back up to the Everfree Forest, perhaps to give it one last regarding glance before returning to downtown Ponyville, and caught sight of a pony walking into the woods. Squinting her eyes, Ruby tried to catch some sort of identifying feature of this pony to see if it looked any bit familiar to her. It looked familiar alright, too familiar. She knew she had seen this pony before, back on the night that she decided to wait for the witching hour, the night that horribly thick fog rolled into the town, the night that she had to stay at Lamplight's inn. It was the strange pony with the same magenta coat and the same deep-red mane as Ruby herself. Realization of this did not come fast enough though, for the stranger turned her head, looking directly at the bewildered mare, and bared the same wicked smile that she had seen before. A new wave of nausea overcame Ruby, and she immediately stumbled up against the tree, leaned over as she coughed at the ground, a few dry heaves emerging from her throat before she spat on the ground.

She was now truly exhausted, as one would feel if they had just finished vomiting. A light breeze picked up from the forest, and risking another glance up, Ruby saw the same pony still standing where it was, staring at Ruby. After a moment of calm, it mouthed something: two simple words that she could not make out, until their meaning was stated plainly as though they had been whispered in her ear. You're welcome. It was not a particularly emotion-filled statement, but more one filled with bitter disdain, as though whatever it had done had inconvenienced it in some inconceivable way. As she watched the doppelganger turn and finally disappear into the forest, Ruby had to ask herself what the pony could have done that elicited such a response? Did it have something to do with the events that just took place. No, surely the fact that the boulder was dropped was purely equine error, but perhaps it was something else...?

Her thoughts drifted off as she looked back to the boulder, and the tree branch that Dais was looking to rescue. It was certainly beyond any sort of repair, surely. It was detached, on the ground, likely to die soon enough. Who really cared about it? Certainly not Ruby, nor did she care for the struggle to save this bit of tree. In fact, she was getting a bit angry now, that such a thing could afford to be such a waste of attention. She walked past the three ponies that had now gathered to deal with issues regarding the boulder, watching them discuss issues as she did so, before sniffling and adjusting the pack on her back. She had nothing else to say, she just wanted to leave and go back home. Leave and not think about what all happened today, not even about the fact that the thing she had come here to research about had just appeared once again. Whatever its intentions were, they couldn't have been malevolent, but that just left more questions. Why was it here, and why was it bothering Ruby? She could ponder and research as much as she wanted, but she had a feeling she already knew what she would have to do in order to get a conclusive answer. She would have to follow it into the forest.

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2014, 06:11:33 pm »
Dais tapped his chin lightly with his hoof, as he often did when trying to remember something.

"Uhh... not from Brash" he thought aloud "I did order a five-ton wrecking ball to help me obliterate Brash's house, but I ordered it from a mare I know called Wily Miley, and I asked for it to be delivered as close to Brash's house as possible. Apparently it helps save on shipping. Matter of fact, it should be arriving in about ten minutes. I suppose there must have been a mistake on the order, but that's ok. As always, I know exactly how to handle this. I'll return the boulder to Brash for a refund later - and I think I'll bring it to her... personally. But first I really need to get these tree branches. So anyway, Carri, could you spare a minute to help my two awesome new frie..."

Dais stopped abruptly, as he suddenly noticed the young mare with the snake had already wandered off.

"Oh, I mean, my one awesome new friend to move this boulder? Mister Greenhooves really doesn't like it when other ponies do his pruning for him, and this giant boulder is one hazardous park ornament anyway."

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2014, 01:54:02 am »
"Wherever you need it!" Carri announces, still trying to register where an order of so many boulders could've gotten mixed up with an order of a single wrecking ball. As her face scrunches in thought she concludes that maybe the boulders were to be tied together to form a giant wrecking boulder, although this still left the question as to why Brash was now aiding the destruction of their new home.

Carri hovers with the boulder, ready to move.

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« Reply #27 on: July 21, 2014, 10:38:05 pm »
Hawkson watches Ruby head off into the Everfree, not really caring why she left, just that the snake was gone. Then, Hawkson realizes something. The entire situation he just went through could have easily been avoided if he had just left instead of freaking out when he saw the snake. It was rather shameful that someone like him, a rather well known detective,  hadn't realized this before but, as always, fear overcomes logic.

And frankly, now that the snake was gone, he should probably be on his way. He had important things to do, very important things, that would probably affect the rest of his life. So, he stood there for just a moment, considering whether he should stay and help the two ponies with the boulder and branches, then thought “!@#$ no.” and went on his way to the train station, leaving Dais with no awesome new friends to help him.
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Re: Premonition
« Reply #28 on: July 22, 2014, 07:22:41 am »
Dais wasted no time, dashing right underneath the massive hovering boulder and grabbing at any branches (which were now more like crushed twigs and broken leaves) he could find. After a very quick scramble, however, he had a sudden brainwave.

"Oh yeah" he said as he remembered he had a horn for this kind of thing. I really need to get my memory checked, he thought to himself as he recalled having forgotten that exact same thing earlier that day. After briefly considering it, he refocused on the task at hand. His horn activated, and one by one the little pieces levitated and began reassembling themselves on the tree as if they were a giant 3d puzzle. When they were all up, the tree looked precisely as it had before it had been climbed on.

"Good thing I read that book once about giant 3d puzzles" he mused softly as he began to crawl underneath the boulder to get out "I wonder what's new in crosswords these day..."

Dais paused, realizing that he wasn't actually moving anywhere. Indeed, in his haste to get under the low-hovering boulder and grab at everything, his left forehoof had become stuck. Initially, he did consider teleporting, but for some strange reason he'd always found it really hard to teleport when his forehoof was stuck somewhere. He never really understood it either. Thankfully he could just move his head far enough to realize that his other awesome new friend had just also totally ditched him.

"Hello? Awesome new friend?" he called out, not really expecting an answer. His ears drooped and his eyes turned towards the ground. First Brash, then the mare with the snake, and finally the stallion on the tree had all run away from him. What was he doing wrong?

"Umm - Carri? You're still there, right?" called out Dais hopefully, not really bothering to consider why the rock would be hovering if she wasn't, but he'd seen stranger things happen anyway "I'm sort of stuck here, so uh - if you don't mind - do you think you could lift the rock a bit higher? Just so long as you can handle it. Whatever you do, DO NOT drop it. You hear me? DO NOT drop it."

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Re: Premonition
« Reply #29 on: July 23, 2014, 12:10:41 am »
Carri considered for a moment that when she heard the words "Drop it" coming from directly below the boulder, which broke he out of a sudden daydream she'd slipped into, that maybe he needed her help with something else. Not bothering to think anymore on that matter she glides forward and sets the boulder down away from anypony and returns to Dais. "Did you need something?"

Noticing his struggle to move from where he stood she attempts to formulate a plan in her head on how to proceed and still accomplish her Brash-given duties in one swift move, but ends up daydreaming again, though she simply looks like she's waiting for a response.

 


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