Whoever wants to play: It's character creation time.
You're gonna play as a teenage pone on a field trip for school.
No lewds in this quest.23:20Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:20
aw
But gimme the character's gender/race.23:21Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:21
lets be a lil punk
attack helicopter/attack helicopter
...23:21Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:21
male, pegasus
Alright.
We could compromise on the helicopter thing and name him 'chopper'.23:21Snowglobe
y/n?23:22Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:22
oh man this sounds cool
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:23
Why not
Also, done with vidya for now, so I'm down for a bit
Alright, seems like Chopper is a go.23:23Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:24
he's gonna be so cool
kek23:24Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:24
i vote he has a pompadour and a sweet jacket
Hell yeah.23:25Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:25
I was thinking mohawk and a sweet jacket
because you said lil punk
either way, sweet jacket is a go
We can do mohawk.
I got another idea for pompadour.
You guys wanna pick colors or get to it?23:25Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:26
Green mane if we're going with mohawk, black mane if pompadour
Your thoughts, Jarg?
JargonScottJargonScott23:26
fine by me
Coat color then?23:27Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:28
howsabout a nice beige
JargonScottJargonScott23:28
yeah
Alright then.
>You are the pegasus colt named 'Chopper'.23:28Snowglobe
>And you're bored out of your sundamned skull on this stupid field trip to the museum in the town over from yours.23:29Snowglobe
>You're barely keeping up with the rest of your class, lagging behind the group by a considerable margin of white, marble floorspace.23:30Snowglobe
>Your teacher, Mr. Paper Push, doesn't seem to care; it's hard to tell if that's cause of his usual 'too tired to put in the effort' shpiel, or if he's just relieved you're not actively causing trouble.
>Being one of the two trouble students in the class has set the bar low for your behavior23:31Snowglobe
>Mr. Push stops the class at an exhibit of some kind of big, gold coffin behind glass, and that's talking about ancient Zebrica or something. Who cares?23:32Snowglobe
>Very few of your classmates seem to, most just staring in random directions, or quietly talking to one another.23:33Snowglobe
>Glancing around the open room of the surprisingly gigantic museum, you feel a familiar itch in your wings - covered though they are by your sweet leather jacket - the urge to fucking DO something.
>So what do?23:34Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:34
lets go find our troublemaking friend
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:34
That works
>You decide to find your partner in livening up this lame class - Under Tow - and see if he can't think of something to do.23:36Snowglobe
>Glancing through the crowd of students you were barely following, you can't help but notice a distinctive lack of his instantly-identifiable red pompadour.23:37Snowglobe
>You don't see that sweet lettercolt jacket he stole from the other school in town either - and he always wears that beat-up thing.
>Where the hell is-
>"duuuuuuuuuude"
>There.
>You turn towards that familiar whisper, and spot him hanging out down one of the many corridors the group skipped for whatever reason.23:38Snowglobe
>"dude, c'mere, you're not gonna believe it."
>What do?23:39Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:39
"Try me"
>You say that.23:41Snowglobe
>Tow looks at you wide-eyed for a second before checking make sure Mr. Push isn't looking this way and trotting over to you, his hooves somehow barely making noise on the floor despite Tow's big, blue, unicorn body.
>Course, you're used to how quiet he can be. That's how he always manages to slip away from teachers and crap.23:42Snowglobe
>When he gets next to you, he whispers at you, "dude, i think glittergold and diggit are totally gonna makin out by the dinosaurs."
*are totally makin out
>Glitter and Dig are of course two of your classmates...and you don't really see them in the group. Huh. They're not usually ones to misbehave I MEAN BE COOL like you.23:43Snowglobe
>Tow follows up by adding, "we should go over there and prank them or something, dude, come on."
>What do?23:44Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:45
lets prank
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:45
Make a pun about bones while tagging along
JargonScottJargonScott23:46
yes, bone puns
>You quietly nod and Tow leads you down the hall he just came from - your teacher either not seeing or not caring as you two ditch.23:47Snowglobe
>You travel down a path of strange artifacts from some ancient country no one cares about anymore - trotting past masks and figurines and...weird shit you don't know the names of.
>Once you're clear of the group's earshot, Tow starts talking normally.23:48Snowglobe
>"so, um, i was thinking we could, like, mess with the skeletons so they collapse and totally bury glitter and diggit under them or something."23:49Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:49
grab a mask, it's prime for spooking
>You don't miss a beat.23:49Snowglobe
>"Heh. They're gonna get *boned*."
>"duuuuuuuuuuuude that's so smart" says Tow throwing his head back for emphasis as you grab a random tribal mask off the wall - ugly thing with huge dark circles for eyes and weird little spikes all around it.23:50Snowglobe
>It's pretty much your style actually. Weird.23:51Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty23:51
I was expecting more along the lines of them boning
that works too
>Tow slows down and signals you to be quiet as you come to another large chamber, this one filled with, well, bigass dino skellingtons.
>It'd be pretty rad if it wasn't a museum.
>On the far side of the empty room - they shut it down to the public while your class is here - you can see two figures.
>One's yellow, and one's brown. Definitely Glittergold and Diggit.23:52Snowglobe
>...Though you also notice a definite space between them, and that they both have their backs turned to your location.
>There's no way they're making out.
>what do?23:53Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott23:54
wait and see what they do, see if we can hear them talking or somethign
>You edge closer to the not-mackin-it ponies and try to figure out what they're up to.23:55Snowglobe
>You manage to hear a few sentences.
>First is Glitter in an uncharacteristic whine.
>"Come onnnnn, you can totes help me out here. I know it."23:56Snowglobe
>And then Dig's mellow sound, much quieter and almost impossible to hear. You only make out a few words.23:57Snowglobe
>"...not even...really exists..."
>Enlightening.
>Glitter picks her shrill sound back up.23:58Snowglobe
>"I just want more ponies to, like, look at me and stuff! Don't be a loser."
>Dig cranes his head at the exhibit they're standing in front of and you hear him say "...loud and shiny?".23:59Snowglobe
>"I already do that!" comes her borderline-shouted response.
>Tow helpfully chimes in.
>"dude, i don't think they're makin' out."
>What do?00:00Snowglobe
Also in case it is not clear, Tow is based in part on Joseph from King of the Hill.00:02Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:03
keek
also, let's ooga booga them
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:03
ooga booga
for sure
>You silently motion for Tow to stay behind - you only got the one spoopy mask - as you creep up to the pair, hiding carefully behind displays of roped-off dinosaur bones as you go.00:05Snowglobe
>You manage to silently get to juuuuuust behind the other two ditchers, put the mask on, and patiently wait for them to look away from the prehistoric sea slug exhibit in front of them.00:06Snowglobe
>You would be able to hear Diggit talk better from here, if he were talking.
>Instead, Glitter is launching into a rant about how great she is and why she should the center of everypony's attention.00:07Snowglobe
>Frankly, you stopped listening to those partway through the 10th one she did, back in the beginning of the school year.
>Instead, you just loom for a moment, face all spoopy, ready to shout 'Ooga booga!' the moment they start to face you.00:08Snowglobe
>And sure enough, you hear a loud, hollow thump from near where you left Tow, and the two start turning to face the noise.
>what do?00:10Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:10
OOGA
BOOGA
JargonScottJargonScott00:11
ooga booga at it
At them or the noise?00:11Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:11
at noise
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:11
Yes
>Jumpy and easily-distracted, you forgot to prank the two you came here to prank and instead shout your most curmudgeony "Ooga booga booga!" at whatever just made that noise-- which appears to be part of a skeleton that just collapsed.00:13Snowglobe
*forget to prank00:14Snowglobe
>"What the- Chopper? Are you for real?" says Glitter when she sees you trying to scare a noise.00:15Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:15
gg Jarg
>"Oh, love the mask, brother." says Diggit in his mellifluous, beatnik voice.00:15Snowglobe
>Friggin space case.
>"It is yours?"
>You see Tow poke his blue head out from around the corner of the previous hallway.00:16Snowglobe
>"duuuuude!"
>What do?00:17Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:17
ooga booga at them
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:19
kek
yeah, let's go for broke
At the pair?00:19Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:19
yep
Well alright.00:19Snowglobe
>Suddenly remembering what you came here to do, you whip around at the group and give them another "Oooooooga boogabooga!".
>Glitter scoffs.00:20Snowglobe
>"What-EVER. You totally grabbed that off the wall and your stupid friend fucked up the fossils!" she says, pointing at the collapsed bones with a hoof.00:21Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:21
fuck
>"dude. i didn't do that i swear." says Tow.00:21Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:21
but who was phone?
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:22
shit's getting spoopy
>Meanwhile, Diggit wasn't even looking at your awesome ooga booga, as he is now heavily invested in a display of...fossilized dinosaur poop. What a loser."
Ignore the quote there.
>What do?00:22Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:22
ask him why is he looking at the dino poop
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:22
Try and figure out what knocked over the skellington if not Tow
>You take the mask off in exasperation at that hipster weirdo, and trot over to him.
"Yo, why are you looking at the dinosaur poop?"00:23Snowglobe
>Without even looking at you, preferring instead to begin examining the case that contains it, Diggit responds, "Why does anyone do anything? It seemed cool for a second, and now it's boring."
>?00:24Snowglobe
>"Like I was just telling Glittergold, there is no one 'cool' that really exists, you know? It's all...transitory. Like all this old stuff."
>He takes another step to one side and begins examining some kind of ancient stingray-like creature.
>Whatever. Enough with him.
>You fly over to Tow.00:25Snowglobe
"The hell you mean 'you didn't do that'?" you ask him, pointing one hoof at the collapsed bones.
"You *wanted* to do that?"
*that."00:26Snowglobe
>He actually looks a little perturbed. It's not a look you see on him alot.
>"i don't know, dude! one of the bones had like a yellow circle around it for a second and then it shook out from the rest of it!"00:27Snowglobe
>Glitter trots up behind you.
>"You can't expect anypony to believe that, Under. It's not even a good lie! I mean, like, *your* magic is yellow! Come. On."00:28Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:28
wait a sec waht makes yellow circles
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:29
A coffee mug full of piss?
This is the mystery.
also kek00:29Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:29
afk for a minute
(And at that moment my youtube playlist goes full spoop)00:29Snowglobe
(Well, spoop it is, youtube)00:30Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:30
Hmm, red mane, blue coat, and yellow eyes are implied
this nigga has all the primary colors going on
>Tow opens his mouth to defend himself when you hear a strange buzzing noise, followed by Diggit saying "Whoa! Killer." a little louder than he normally talks.00:30Snowglobe
>A quick glance over to him reveals...the lights in the ceiling flickering with an eerie buzz.
>Dig is staring, at the ceiling, mouth agape.
>What do?00:31Snowglobe
(seriously, this started playing right as i got to that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptP8kcUWKGM )00:32Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:33
spoopy
Told ya.00:33Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:33
Anyway, it can't be all that bad. Probably just the stoner overreacting. Look up.
also afk real quick00:34Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:34
k
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:35
probably not gonna make it to the end of this one tho
gotta go in like 25 minutes
aw
also back
And in the interest of moving forward at a good pace, I'm just gonna accept that command.
>You look up at the offending light fixture.00:38Snowglobe
>It's a pretty standard circular light bulb, recessed into the ceiling.
>...But for just a teeny tiny fraction of a second it looks like it...has a big dark circle in the middle of it or something?00:39Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:39
oh no
>And, perfectly on time as if reacting to you looking at it, it stops buzzing and flickering.00:39Snowglobe
>"Aw, it stopped. Lame."
>"Tell me you saw it, dude." Dig says, looking at you, genuinely enthused.00:40Snowglobe
>Glitter approaches, eagerly sticking her flank into every opportunity she has to talk, as usual.
>"We've all seen screwed-up lightbulbs, Diggit. Gosh!"
>He just giggles.
>"Nah, man. It was blinkin' at me."00:41Snowglobe
>What do?00:42Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:42
we're part bird, let's go look at it
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:42
Good ide
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:43
Also, tell him that it's probably just the filament burning out.
"It's probably just burning out, Diggit." you say flatly, before taking to the air.00:44Snowglobe
>The ceilings in this place are remarkably high off the ground for the museum of such an unimportant little town as Verdam. But then the whole building is way too big for what a pissant, out-in-the-boonies community you live in.00:45Snowglobe
>You get up to the bulb after a gaining height for a few seconds.00:46Snowglobe
>An examination of it reveals...something not even Tow would mistake for a normal lightbulb.
>Sure, it's got the glass dome, the little wire and crap running through it, and, it's emitting light that's swiftly hurting your eyes, but...00:47Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:48
OH SHIT
HABBENING
>There's this weird, uneven ridge of plastic around it that's all colored funny.00:48Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:48
we shoulda had cool dude shades
kek00:48Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:48
double kek
JargonScottJargonScott00:48
i'm srs
>If you were a loser prone to panicking, you'd probably get scared and say it reminded you of flesh.
>But you're not, so you ignore that thought.00:49Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:49
touch it
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:49
yes
touch it
like the idiotic horror protagonist we are
>...What you don't ignore is the two row of tiny hairs sitting along the edge of the bulb.
>You don't wanna say 'eyelashes', so you won't.00:50Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:50
oh no
>Instead you reach out and touch the bulb like a badass.
>It's...it's a glass bulb. It's kinda hot, like most incandescent lightbulbs.00:50Snowglobe
>The plastic ridge is just as hard as any other plastic that gets used to build stuff, and the hairs come right off.
>They weren't growing out of it. Just kinda...sitting on it.
>Still weird.00:51Snowglobe
>"duuuude! do you see anything?!" shouts Tow.00:52Snowglobe
>"Dude, can ceilings be cyclopses?" queries Dig, sounding baffled.
>What do?00:53Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott00:53
can they be cyclopses?
you should know this one jarg00:53Snowglobe
you should have learned the answer to that in your time on this earth00:54Snowglobe
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:54
"What are you smoking, and where can I get some?"
JargonScottJargonScott00:54
^
>You shout that down to him.
>"I don't smoke anything, colt. Or, like, snort pills or...stuff." he meanders off.
>Glitter somehow rolls her eyes loud enough that you can hear it from all the way up here.00:55Snowglobe
>"It's true." she says. "I spent the night as his place once. Totally. Dry. He's just a fuckin weirdo."00:56Snowglobe
>"oh, really?" says Tow, before he catches Glitter's yellow coat being overcome with a blush.
>"wait, you spent the night at his house?! oh wow, i...did you guys make out?! i bet you did, cause...ponies do that."
>"Oh. My sun." is her response.00:57Snowglobe
>"You can't just like...ask ponies that!"
>what do?
 
JargonScott00:58
be cool tow
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:58
Somehow work as many mean girls references as possible
anyway
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:59
gotta go
later guys
JargonScottJargonScott00:59
ok c ya cows
CowsRTastyCowsRTasty00:59
update me on how this played out later
Bye coooooows00:59Snowglobe
So what do?01:00Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:01
let's make mean girls references in memeory of cows
I know nothing about mean girls
also this would not really advance the plot.01:01Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:02
ok just ignore tow for now and advance plot
Well how?01:03Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:03
ok i guess tell them the light looked normal
>You land back down on the ground.
"It's just a light. I'm sure the filament was just burning out." you say, calmly.01:06Snowglobe
>You expect Dig to object to this, but he's already looking at that bone that fell down from the rest of the exhibit just a minute ago.01:07Snowglobe
>"I knew it~" says Glittergold, putting a prance in her step as she walks over to the sea slug exhibit you first saw her examining.01:08Snowglobe
>...Tow is badgering Dig for details on what happened that night with Glitter.
>Sigh.
>Despite the filly and uni moving right back on to their usual bullshit, you can't help but feel disturbed.01:09Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:10
look at bone
>Diggit said that light *blinked* at him, and it sure looked like an eye when you examined it. A fake one made of plastic and crap, sure, but...01:10Snowglobe
>You push that thought away and march over to the other two stallions, trying to get a good look at that bone without making any 'boner' jokes in your head.
>You push past Tow, ignoring a 'duuude', and join Dig in examining the item.01:11Snowglobe
>It...it's a bone. A large bone. You're not some kind of...bone doctor.
>It's white, it's solid, it's not moving around or doing anything a bone shouldn't do.
>What do?01:12Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:13
we should maybe book it so we dont' get accused of messing with any stuff
"You know, guys, we should probably just get out of here. Somepony's gonna find us and we're gonna get in trouble."
>"oh." says Tow.
>Glitter says and gives a "Yeah..." before pulling herself away from those slugs.
*sighs and gives01:14Snowglobe
>Diggit on the other hoof, is prodding at the still-standing fossil, eyes narrowed, and not acknowledging what you said.
>What do?01:15Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:15
perfect scapegoat. leave him
I did not think I was being subtle. He is onto something about what just happened.01:16Snowglobe
RockTheFeelmancerModeratorRockTheFeelmancer01:17
I was just gonna say >tap Dig on the shoulder and tell him, clearly, we g2g
But if he's onto something, I... still say that
I figure Diggit will tell us the deal
hooray rock is here01:17Snowglobe
RockTheFeelmancerModeratorRockTheFeelmancer01:17
Hey
but alright, sure.01:17Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:17
ayyy rock
>You tap Diggit on his shoulder.
"For real, dude. We need to leave."01:18Snowglobe
>Sounding lucid for the first time in...ever. He says, "Yeah." and backs away from the display.
>"Where's the rest of the class?" he asks.01:19Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:19
oh no the spook is in diggit
>Tow responds, "oh, it's, i mean, they're down this way." and he quietly marches on over to the hallway you two got here from.
>"we should, probably, uh, not get in trouble and stuff. come on."01:20Snowglobe
>Like that, he begins walking back down the hall, Glittergold following, then you, then Diggit.
>After a few moments he says, "Um, Chopper, before I forget to tell somepony..."01:21Snowglobe
>"What I was looking at with that display...the bone that fell down actually a bone."
*was actually a bone
"Okay?" you say, not impressed.01:22Snowglobe
>"No, I mean...all the rest were plastic, and that one was real. I don't know what that means. All the exhibits of once-living things are made out of fake stuff. Everything but that one bone."01:23Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:23
oh
snap
>Tow actually turns back and adds something kind of helpful.01:24Snowglobe
>"oh yeah, i think i read that in a magazine in my dad's garage once. all that old stuff rots away because it's buried, um...forever. so they just make new ones out of plastic and stuff based on the...the imprints they left in the rocks and crap."
>Glitter is not impressed.01:25Snowglobe
>"It probably just got preserved by some kind of magic or something, you foals. I bet if we go look at the plaque under it, it'll say 'one bone here is the actual bone cause it got preserved by magic or some junk'."01:26Snowglobe
>You're coming up on where you broke off from the group.
>What do?01:27Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:28
nonchalantly join backc with group we didnt' see shit happen don't know a damn thing that's going on
>You'd sure love to do that.01:28Snowglobe
>If the group wasn't long gone from here since you spent like ten-minutes fucking around with masks and dinosaur bones and a light bulb.
>All that remains is that initial gold coffin display from the start of the quest.01:29Snowglobe
>Though you're pretty sure you remember what direction the group was heading in.
>And, you know, nopony's really here but the group, so if you hear anything or something, it's gotta be them.
>"oh they're gone." says Tow.
>He looks to you, since you always were the smart one.
>"what do we do, dude?"01:30Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:33
head in general direction fo group
>You head up the hall the class was heading, your group continuing in silence for a few minutes.01:35Snowglobe
>You arrive at a large chamber full of replicas of ancient plants, and no students, teachers, or museum staff.
>...Predictably, the room has three exits besides the one you came in.01:36Snowglobe
>As you deliberate which way they would have gone, Glittergold bumps into you from behind.
>"Watch it! Oh, uh, I mean, 'my bad'. Reflex. Why did you stop though?"01:37Snowglobe
>Diggit characteristically ignores this and trots over to a plant in front of you, and begins oohing and ahhing at it.01:38Snowglobe
>Tow is just standing in place, gazing around, no doubt searching for any sign of the group.
>what do?01:39Snowglobe
come on think of some way to track a class through a museum i dare you01:41Snowglobe
JargonScottJargonScott01:42
listen for them?
Rock?01:43Snowglobe
RockTheFeelmancerModeratorRockTheFeelmancer01:51
>ways to track a class through a Museum
RockTheFeelmancerModeratorRockTheFeelmancer01:52
Look for a trail of exhibits that have been subtly fucked with
>You shut your eyes and think for a few seconds.01:53Snowglobe
>Mr. Push knows at least one of you ditched, but knowing him, he's not gonna care unless you manage to not get back to the class before they leave the building.01:54Snowglobe
>Glitter realizes what's going on before you come up with a plan.
>"...Oh. My sun. You have no idea where everypony else is, do you?"
"...No." you say, being honest.01:55Snowglobe
"But I be we can track them. We should hear Push's voice if we get close, and I bet there's some kind of trail. Like...we just look for anything exhibits that are messed with somehow, and go from there."
>"That's a good plan, yeah." says Dig.01:57Snowglobe
>"We're supposed to be the only one's here all day, so anything that isn't perfect was one of us, you know?