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| Tweet Topic Started: May 28 2012, 04:31 PM (418 Views) | |
| SaintAbsol | May 28 2012, 04:31 PM Post #1 |
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Tomes and scrolls were strewn about with little care for what they were or represented. Books that hadn't seen the light of day in longer than most ponies had been alive were laying open with, of all things, a half eaten Horesey's candy bar laying open on one of them and a Daring Do bookmark holding a place in another. On some level, Steel was amused by the whole thing; the unicorn that ran this place would have a full on seizure if he say the state it was in right now; to say nothing about the librarian. By the sun, he didn't hate unicorns- his best friend being one- but they could be so frustrating some times. The fact that so many of them had rules upon rules upon rules upon rules for everything and anything under the sun and moon and stars just so many sub-rules for each one of them. The guard shook his head to stop that line of thought; it was prejudice and it was just mean. That said, he was also only here with as much freedom as he was thanks to the fact that pretty much every unicorn ignored this place. The archive of pegasus history; it held just about every relevant bit of information on his species that could be found outside of Cloudsdale. Not that the fact was advertised; as outright racist as it was, unicorns didn't really seem to care all that much about things that they didn't achieve. But he was curious. Apollo was another pegasus archer, like he had been; something that just didn't happen normally. To be honest, something about the stallion resonated with him; and his missing bow most of all. He's managed to get that far from the archives already; his bow had been lost, sometime after his death, and nopony seemed to have the vaguest clue where. Steel Wing wanted to find the weapon. Apollo was all but forgotten, and he didn't deserve that; his weapon was the one thing that could be used to remember him. It needed to be found, good ponies like him needed to be remembered. |
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| yew | May 28 2012, 05:31 PM Post #2 |
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A mail pony padded in, carrying a brown standard package on his back. The pony who had given this to him had paid extra to find out where this Steel Wing was. There was no forwarding adreess, or an address to send it back to. But seriously, the pony had given him enough to pay off the debts he had. So, here he was after some asking around and such, delivering the package to Steel Wing directly. The NPC mailpony looked at the picture of Steel Wing at then at Steel Wing himself. "I brought a package for you from Ms. Star Swirl." He put the package down before The Guard and started walking away. He wanted to enjoy some of this money. |
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| Icefox | May 28 2012, 07:21 PM Post #3 |
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Some days, I really wonder about Steel Wing. Today, for example, I found him completely trashing the royal archives, and even came across a chocolate bar in a book worth more than I made in a year. I tossed it aside into an open patch of floor, before looking over the pegasus' shoulder at the book he was studying. "Apollo, eh? You seem to have taken a liking to the guy. What's all this mess about?" |
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| yew | May 28 2012, 07:35 PM Post #4 |
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"By the way, stir, I have something for you as well." He reached into his saddle bag and gave him a box, handling it delicately. She wanted me to tell you to never break this. Ever. Like seriously, never ever. This fire can't be extinguished." The Mail pony didn't know what fire Star Swirl had been talking abut, but he handled the package with care nonetheless. |
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| SaintAbsol | May 28 2012, 08:21 PM Post #5 |
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"Hey; wai-!" And the pony was gone. "Oh for the love of Cadence...." He sighed and looked down at box between his hooves; something that he was legitimately hesitant to open. Sure, he wasn't important, and none of the Cloudbankers, Ivories or Harvest Lords had degenerated into random bombings; least of all inside the palace. But it was still a random package that he'd never been expecting to get. With a sigh, he turned to Blackflame. "Do me a favor and cast a containment spell around me? In the event this is some sort of bomb, or delayed spell, or some other thing designed to kill me, I'd rather not destroy something that isn't replaceable." That said, he set about the task of, very slowly, opening the box. |
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| Icefox | May 28 2012, 08:32 PM Post #6 |
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I shrugged and took the box from him. "Here, let me." I wasn't great at shields, but I did know how a magic circle worked. I drew one on the ground, a purely physical one. Sure, it wouldn't do a thing against magic, but until I broke the circle nothing from the material world would be able to breach it. Besides, I wouldn't be able to open it if I blocked it off from magic, seeing as the circle blocks incoming energy as well. I flipped it open, pulling out the thing within. Given the lack of wanton destruction, I smudged the circle and released my will, dispelling it into the air, before taking the package and giving it back to Steel. "Seems inert enough to me." I took the second package from the messenger colt, and repeated the ritual, with no more destruction. Inside the box was a small crystal, with an ebony flicker of fire within. Heh, black flame. Cute. And if what the colt had said was true, it would never go out if I broke the crystal, so I placed it back inside the padded box and inside my saddlebag, figuring I could find a use for it later. If nothing else, it'd make a great mantlepiece. |
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| SaintAbsol | May 28 2012, 09:32 PM Post #7 |
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Steel didn't bother glancing at what his friend had gotten, more interested in what he had received from whomever had sent these strange packages. He slowly finished the unwrapping job that his unicorn friend had started; still moving with measured care. It might have been declared safe by Blackflame, but he was still going to take it slow. However, once he had finally finished it, the monochrome pegasus actually balked. "A box?" And it was, a box wrought of iron; a locked box no less, and without a key on top of everything else. However, there was something on it, a symbol on the lid of the box. "Wait a second..." That symbol, the hammer hitting an anvil made of cloud. "I KNOW THAT SYMBOL!" And he was flying, up and down and sideways; looking through the shelves in the archives. "It's here, I know it's here; I put it back because it didn't help me. Where is it!?" |
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| Icefox | May 29 2012, 06:12 PM Post #8 |
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I glanced up from the crystal at the shelves, looking across them for the book Steel wanted. A few passes over with my eyes and I pulled down the book, dropping it into Steel's hooves. That done, I went back to studying the flame. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Not just the enchantment over the flame, but the crystal itself. I was without blemish, and didn't even have a seam where it had been opened to carve out the center, which indicated that the entire thing had been done magically. I didn't know anypony that had that kind of fine control with the power it'd take to do this, but if I ever found them I'd be sure to thank them. |
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| SaintAbsol | May 29 2012, 08:47 PM Post #9 |
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There, the symbol; one of many on the book as it turned out, but the only one that mattered right now. Slamming the surprisingly thick 'Fortresses of the Pegasus Empire' onto the table, Steel Wing opened the book to the halfway point and started flipping though it. "I know this, I know this; come on, where are you?" A minute later, he screamed out a victorious 'Ha!'; had anypony else actually been in this wing of the library, they probably would be exceedingly annoyed with his loudness. Right now, however, he didn't care about that; for his hoof was resting right on the page that sported that same symbol as the box. "Weatherforge! That's the insignia for Weatherforge!" |
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| Icefox | Jun 3 2012, 08:13 PM Post #10 |
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Erm...What? Never mind, let him do his thing. Celestia knows everypony in this town is crazy. Admittedly, I'm probably the same, but I try to stay in denial. Now, for this flame. I'm still not entirely sure what spells it had on it, but after a few quick tests the messenger seemed to be right; I couldn't get it to go out at all. I grinned, thinking up a few new applications for it, while Steel did...whatever it is he was doing. |
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| SaintAbsol | Jun 3 2012, 08:45 PM Post #11 |
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Steel's face fell as Blackflame continued to fuss about his crystal. Yes, he could tell there was a spell attached to the thing, but- partially thanks to his strangely adverse reaction to large amounts of it- the pegasus couldn't understand what was so interesting about a fire that never went out. Seemed more dangerous than anything else as far as he was concerned; nothing compared to what he was talking about right now. "Uh, hello?" He tapped the book again, looking and sounding annoyed that he wasn't giving him much of a reaction. "Are you listening? Artifact from Weatherforge over here; lost cloud fortress of the old pegasus empire that was around before the sisters were on the thrones; not been found for centuries; mentioned in manuscripts fr-" Steel abruptly paused as he made a connection. "From 700 years ago... when Apollo was alive!" |
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| Icefox | Jun 3 2012, 08:51 PM Post #12 |
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Okay, now that's interesting. I looked up from the crystal, before looking at the book over Steel's shoulder. "I don't suppose this book tells you where to find it, does it?" It wouldn't, of course, that would be mildly easy. We would probably have to go out and search out the ten crystals or something similar. Normal day at the office, right? |
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| SaintAbsol | Jun 3 2012, 09:41 PM Post #13 |
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"'Lost fortress, remember?" Steel Wing sighed, looking at what amount to an artist's rendition of the cloud fortress would have looked like in it heyday. Though clearly meant for war, it was still quite beautiful to look at; pegasi had a certain amount of pride that even rivaled unicorns at times, and that showed itself most in their architecture. "And even if it did tell use where to find it, this book is older than my family's service in the guard. Cloud structures aren't stationary, they drift about the same as any other cloud; I doubt even the sister's know where this thing is now." He glanced at the box again. "So, looks like I'm going to have to track down Glamour and ask her where she found this, see if I can't get a lead on something. It's a long shot, but I'm pretty famous for those." |
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| Icefox | Jun 6 2012, 10:20 AM Post #14 |
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Looks like we get another adventure, woo. I swear, we're the only guards in the entire system that do our own thing this often. Most of our comrades just stood around and looked menacing, and according to my title that's all I was supposed to do. I slid my bags on, before turning to Steel with a grin on my face. "Time for an adventure?" |
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| SaintAbsol | Jun 6 2012, 07:30 PM Post #15 |
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Steel, ever one for the thrill of adventure himself, couldn't help his mouth from running. "You could at least, I dunno, pretend to have a sense of duty to the guard. I know the princess isn't exactly a stickler for rules and all, but come on." The fact that he was grinning madly probably blunted whatever point he'd been trying to make; and his next words pretty much destroyed any chance of it ever being there. "Get your swords and my bow and quiver, make sure it's loaded with every arrow in my room; I'm going to grab that mailpony before he can get out of the castle and get a message to Glamour to tell us where she found that little box of hers." And he was off like one of his own projectiles, a grey-gold streak zipping through the halls of the Canterlot palace. |
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