End of a journey?
The lamp illuminated the basement, creating a sparse sheen of light. The Shadowbolts quietly stared at the table with all the guides, dices, character sheets and the map, the girls bearing a somewhat dumbfounded expression.
“Um, what just happened?” Sour eventually asked, not quite comprehending the situation.
Being the first to compose herself again Sugarcoat adjusted her glasses. “We were all eliminated by the dragon’s fire breath” she replied.
Lemon tilted her head to the side. “Sooo… game over?” she asked.
“I guess” Sunny mumbled, scratching her head.
“Is there some kind of checkpoint?” Indigo asked, looking in desperate hope at the others. “Or do we have to start over?”
Opening the last page of the story book Sunny briefly read over it. “I’m afraid so” she sighed, closing the book again.
Lemon let her arms hang down, turning up her mouth. “This sucks” she mumbled.
“You’re the one who sucks!” Indigo snapped at her, scowling. “Getting goblins to join a flash mob is one thing, but a dragon?!”
“Come on Gogo, don’t be so hard on our little punk rebel” Sour gently tried to calm Indigo. A lot grumpier she mourned: “At least she didn’t waste her one-time invincibility on blocking a regular attack.”
“I only defended Sunny because her stealth check failed!” Indigo told her. “AGAIN!”
“Only because Sugarcoat keeps insisting on weird maluses for everything!” Sunny protested, angrily glaring at Sugarcoat. “I mean the lighting of the cave? Seriously?!
Sugarcoat crossed her arms. “I didn’t make the rules, I just follow them” she explained dryly, but in a slightly sharp tone. “And if any of you were doing the same you would have noticed the dragon was weak against archery attacks because he was on lower ground.”
“Why that’s very helpful, Sugarcoat” Sour complimented her, then mourned: “Especially because no one of us was an archer.”
With narrow eyes Sunny glanced towards Lemon. “Bards are usually archers…”
“Hey, you told me to get the dagger instead of the bow!” the green-haired girl yelled, pointing her finger at her.
“That’s a very interesting interpretation of changing your weapons so you can backstab me better!” Sunny responded resentfully.
“Excuse me, but rouges can be archers too” Sugarcoat chimed in.
Indigo rolled her eyes. “Yeah, yeah, everyone here could have gotten way more out of their classes – except for Miss ‘I’ve picked the most boring and useless class ever’.”
“I defeated the most monsters, and a lot more than you!” Sugarcoat reminded Indigo.
“I was the tank!” she blared at Sugarcoat.
”A great tank, who never protected the healer” Sour chirped, giving her a sarcastic thumbs-up.
“And a great healer who rather shreds golems than heal her teammates” Sunny remarked, putting her chin on her hand.
“That’s rich coming from the rogue who doesn’t know how to sneak” Sugarcoat stated.
Chuckling Lemon put an arm over her chair. “Yeah, you guys really sucked.”
“YOU WERE THE WORST!” everybody shouted in unison, making her wince.
Groaning Sour leaned back. “That’s it! I’ve had enough of this stupid nerd game for one Friday night! And on that matter, for every Friday night, or ANY OTHER kind of night ever!”
“Yeah!”
“Absolutely.”
“Agreed.”
“Let’s never do this again.”
The five girls sat around the table, arms folded as they silently stared at it. Pouting Sour looked over her character sheet, then at the map, before slowly moving her gaze towards the story book in front of Sunny.
“…One more go.”
“Yeah.”
“Absolutely.”
“Agreed.”
“Let’s do this!”
Standing up Sunny collected the character sheets. “I’ll go print new ones” she said, heading for the stairs.
“Bring some lemonade and chips while you’re at it!” Indigo called after her, rubbing her belly.
“Hey Sugar, can you help me set up my char this time?” Lemon asked as she grabbed the rule book from under her nose.
“If you help me come up with some interesting quirks for mine” she replied, looking over the class and race list again.
The girls busily prepared everything. Once they had sorted the sheets and guides, gotten some refreshments and filled out their new character sheets Sunny opened the story book on the first page again. “Is everybody ready?” she asked. As the others nodded in agreement she looked down on the book, clearing her throat.
“The moon shines down on you from the clear night sky…”
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That ending gave me flashbacks to no small number of games I've played: "This was the dumbest thing I've ever played!"
" Do you want to try again?"
"Yes I do!"
Nice fic, very telling on the abrasive attempts at Friendship...
That was awesome; the rampant idiocy was on-par with what my first AD&D group was like when I was a kid (ah, memories,
)
Also, I love how the way you write the Shadowbolts' relationship portrays them as 'anti-friends'; like they're an antithesis to the Humane 6 in almost every way. They're not trying to emulate the friendships that their rivals have: their forging their own kind of friendship,
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lol Amazing way to finish this, I've got to say. Loved it.:D
In truth, recently, my cousin told me of some hilarious stories involving him and his D&D campaigns that were downright hilarious. XD
Oh, and I think it was in the prior chapter, but there are parts where you changed the pattern as to which was using the italics in regards to Sour Sweet's personas. And even a part where you italicized the words outside of the text. Thankfully, fairly easy fixes. But, just thought I'd mention.
6763917 6765232 Thank you! My favorite scenes in MLP are when the mane 6 have humorous arguments, so I try to put a strong emphasize on that kind of banter into my Shadowbolt stories.
6765341 Oh you're right, I squeezed some text into a dialog line and forgot to italicize it
Thanks!
As for Sour Sweet's personas however, they are constant throughout the entire story
6765768 I meant, usually through this fic, you had the mean one italicized, but for one of the recent chapters, there was a part where the nice one was the one italicized. Easy mistake though, eh?
6766072 Sour Sweet's sweet remarks were, like in my previous fics, always italicized, while her sour remarks were left normal.
Look at the italicized parts again. Notice something?
6766413 I'm just guessing that you fixed it. But, in previous chapters for this particular fic, you kept making the mean side italicized.
Ah well. Regardless, still a great fic.^^
Oh, and just tell me whenever you feel up to that draft we discussed on PM. But for now, hope you're having a Merry Christmas.:D
6766421 As I said, just PM me next year and I'll see if we can work something out
About Sour Sweet's speech, there was never something to fix. Oh well, maybe you'll realize it sometime.
6766443 I'm just saying that there were parts where you swapped the pattern. I noticed it as I read. But, those parts may have already been fixed by the time we are currently talking about it. XD
And darn. Was hoping we could start whenever you've finished the next part of Cadance's reading of the friendship essays.^^
6766451 I'll be busy with other stuff, so sorry, but it'll have to wait
6766465 Darn. But, alright.^^
6766465 Well, maybe we can set up at least discussing it, so as to get a general idea for it ahead of time?
I've got the feeling that Sunny's parents are going to find the five of them passed out in the basement after trying to redo a few times.
Well, it isn't about the end but the journey and, through their games, I do think that the Shadowbolts are learning something that Cinch never allowed them to learn - teamwork!
6767730 I've only played "Dungeons & Dragons" once, but it was really fun. I can recommend to try it out
Buuut you should play it with people who don't get mad or insulted too easily
I like this. It's clear that they're very inexpereicned with being NICE or even just more than just barely civil, but, they're slowly forming their own type of friendship.
6842470 Actually, what she pulled off could be considered an "Anti-Leroy" (delayong the assault on the enemy)
Too bad they didn't beat the dragon, it would've been great if they did. But even first-timers don't win all the time, and they all did have their flaws that they could work on for the second time around, such as Lemon learning to pick more practical options for her character and Sugarcoat learning to use a little creativity.
I wonder how round two went for them. Onto Dear Dean's chapter!
That's one loooong session.
Meanwhile, for reasons mentioned earlier, I'm trying to reason out which classes (or combat archetypes, to be more general) each of the Shadowbolts themselves would be...
Turns on this music:
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This is ClayPigeon speaking on behalf of the Metatron, complimenting you on your exceptional taste in music.
Ah, a fellow noble one!
Yeah, that ending sounds about right.
Well in all honesty I didn't expect them to beat the dragon but that ending, yeah that a table top RPGs for ya, one run and you wanna do it again.