My story was met with a favorable response. I squee'd a little inside.
So, once I finally got settled back into the RP at LunasLoft, I discovered that a lot of events had been crammed into the past week, during my absence. First off, there are a lot more regulars to the channel now (though there is a large quantity of alts as well, for story purposes). I suppose that's a good thing, as it makes for more interesting interaction. I really don't know a lot of what is going on right now. There is some kind of (war?) going on. It's time-and shadow related. I tend to avoid it because it makes my head spin. All I have gathered is that somepony got dumped into a possible future where stuff has gone very wrong, and Luna is evil again. There was a lot of death and violence involved in this particular RP. At the current, everyone is back, but Luna is harboring a very large guilt for what she did in the future. It's putting a strain on several of the characters. As I've seen, over the few days I've been back, echoes of these shadows are slipping into the current and keep causing more strife. There was a full-on battle in the loft the other night, and it got kind of crazy. I had left to another room near the beginning of it, but I'd look back in occasionally and it was just...wow.
Luna's Loft Shipping co. ™ That's my opinion on the second set of events over the past couple weeks. This RP has spawned so many independent couplings, it's unreal. I honestly cannot keep track of who all is paired up with whom anymore, and don't even get me started on who's alt is paired up with whom. The very fact that the ponysouls involved can keep all their characters in their respective interactions warrants some serious respect from me. I don't think I want to do that, personally. I've done it playing tabletop and that's enough of a headache for me to keep track of and play multiple characters. I'll just stick with good ol' Moonlight and pour all of my soul through him. But... oh yeah, I guess I should also mention that some royal couple, who shall not be named, thought it would be cute to play match maker. So... Moonlight has been shipped as well, much to my surprise, when I returned from my hiatus. I think they made the perfect choice though; one of the newcomers, a post-relationship version of Lyra (yes, without the BonBon. Thank goodness, that ship always annoyed me.). Luna must have sugar coated her description of Moonlight like a candy apple, because Lyra has warmed up to him so quickly, and I'm quite sure, I'm okay with this. Pair of music ponies: it's a bit cliché I suppose, but it makes for beautiful role playing. I really like her personality a lot. It's so easy for me to lose myself, role playing, opposite her; All my actions come naturally.
All the stuff going on lately, has inspired me like mad. I've gotten so much from it, that I've actually decided to continue my story, using the logs I've started saving from the RP as story fuel. The only issue I am having is continuity. Lots of things seem to happen in bursts of time slips, like weeks worth of events wedge themselves into a couple nights of role play. The loft is full of children now, as a result of this. I wasn't expecting to see at least one of them introduced for a few more weeks, but that other RP has a tendency to force the clock. It's like a god-war in there. So much insanity, and over-the-top events colliding with that dark twist, and lots of godly interventions, I'm told. The anti-Sue mob would have a field day with it.
Emotional blender: the term I will use for the Loft, but sometimes I feel like even that isn't a strong enough description. I've seen it all in my short time there; new friendships, love, romance, passion, conflict, dark pasts for days, music, heartbreak and tears... LOTS of freaking tears, on and off the screen. We are a very passionately emotional lot, we are. I wonder if that's a brony trait... Last night's session was the pinnacle of these emotions. Where to begin... Luna had a major breakdown, still bothered by her apparent future fall to evil. This of course sent ripples of sad across everypony in the place, especially Shi. No sooner was that situation quelled, than PrimalMoon drops a bombshell on everything. In a giant tear jerking event, he announces that SteamKlunk would be leaving the loft, possibly forever, and chose to take one of his two children with him, leaving Twi to take care of the other. This escalated into a contest of wills, of everypony trying to convince him to stay. Some of them were upset, others angry, others confused. It was completely out of control. Ultimately, he left anyway, leaving a wake of shattered hearts behind him.
Shi and I once had a discussion OOC at length about the artifact that Moonlight is carrying, and what would happen if he suddenly was hit with an overwhelming force of emotion, while he was using it. We'd come up with an interesting theory, and I tucked it away, meaning to use it someday for an interesting twist of events. Unfortunately, for the room, the events of last night transcended that suppression, as I have never seen a more appropriate time to pull that card. What happens when you take a unicorn that can already use magic, add an artifact that enhances magic by emotion, channel it through a song that evokes more emotions, and then fuse it with a sudden anguished pain and a desire to shut out the world? Yeah, that happened. In short, Moonlight unwittingly created a massive mana storm inside the building, sealing himself inside a shell of apathy. If it weren't for the intervention of everyone there, he probably would have destroyed the whole loft. In the aftermath he was completely effed up, and were it not for another Deus Ex, by Fluttershi, I probably would have had him out of commission for weeks.
The events of the night caused a lot of the ponysouls to have to pull their trump cards. Primal set it off like a stack of dominoes, and it went from there. I'm not really sure how things are going to be in the aftermath of all this. It has changed the story in such a radical direction. On the upside, Lyra still seems to still deeply care about Moonlight, despite the fact that he almost killed her. Silver lining I suppose. I'm glad I didn't screw that up.
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