Re: Investigators of the Odd

Brony 7 of 9 Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:41 pm

"Our learning is the whole point of the tour," pointed out Zebulon.

The Warrior of Many Faces Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:42 pm

A for Appkes wrote:"Cherries to Cherries, dust to dust, why're we learning 'bout cherries, let's get moving fast."

The guide gives the minotaur an odd look. "We... the whole point of this tour is to learn about cherries. What did you think it was for?"

Appkes Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:43 pm

"Who cares what I thought? This cherry-mad posse dragged me along. Nice tree though."

The Warrior of Many Faces Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:46 pm

A for Appkes wrote:"Who cares what I thought? This cherry-mad posse dragged me along. Nice tree though."

"Oh," the guide says, looking rather bewildered. "O... kay? Let's... move on... then? I guess?" She leads the group out the other side of the building and starts heading towards another building that's about 100 feet away.

Brony 7 of 9 Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:48 pm

Zebulon just stares at Barabas for a few seconds before shaking his head and following the guide along.

Quietkal Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:50 pm

A for Appkes wrote:"Who cares what I thought? This cherry-mad posse dragged me along. Nice tree though."

Kal gives the minotaur a questioning look before following the group.
And you're telling me not to blow our cover. Pbft. Amatuers.

Cardbo Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:42 pm

Cheese whispers to Barabus. "Nice bit of acting there. Very natural. Acting like you don't like the orchards. I could almost swear thats the way you really feel."

Appkes Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:10 pm

Barabus sighed. "You can be just so oblivious at times, can't you?"

Cardbo Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:10 pm

A for Appkes wrote:Barabus sighed. "You can be just so oblivious at times, can't you?"

Cheese grins.

Cardbo Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:45 pm

[quote="The Warrior of Many Faces"

"This is our quality check station," the guide announces. "Here we have our best eyes examining the cherries for imperfections. Only the best are allowed into our finished products." She gestures to another part of the room. "Once sorted, the cherries go to the next station where they are sorted by color. At that point, we have pegasi fly the cherries to our other buildings."[/quote]

"I'm just curious. Has anypony thought to apply some automation to this process? There must be spells that quality check as well"

The Warrior of Many Faces Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:11 pm

Cardbo wrote:
The Warrior of Many Faces wrote:

"This is our quality check station," the guide announces. "Here we have our best eyes examining the cherries for imperfections. Only the best are allowed into our finished products." She gestures to another part of the room. "Once sorted, the cherries go to the next station where they are sorted by color. At that point, we have pegasi fly the cherries to our other buildings."

"I'm just curious. Has anypony thought to apply some automation to this process? There must be spells that quality check as well"

"Automated spells tend to go... awry too often for us to rely on them," explains the guide. "We also tried Flimflam's Magitech once... that didn't go very well either."

Appkes Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:07 pm

"Flim & Flam? Those mad twins are still peddling their ridiculous wares? I hears they got arrested after trying to sell phoney changeling-detectors in Canterlot."

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And by 'heard' I mean 'led the SWAT team that went in after the devices started identifying everything as changelings and attacked the city'

The Warrior of Many Faces Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:15 pm

A for Appkes wrote:"Flim & Flam? Those mad twins are still peddling their ridiculous wares? I hears they got arrested after trying to sell phoney changeling-detectors in Canterlot."

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And by 'heard' I mean 'led the SWAT team that went in after the devices started identifying everything as changelings and attacked the city'

"No, this was before that," explains the guide. "It was about four months ago."

Headcanon accepted and has become canon.

Appkes Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:24 pm

"oh, okay. I thought it was more recently." He hummed for a moment, then said "What exactly went wrong with the cherry-sorter, may I inquire?

Shoulder mounted are far superior to head-cannons

Firing Main Canon

The Warrior of Many Faces Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:42 pm

A for Appkes wrote:"oh, okay. I thought it was more recently." He hummed for a moment, then said "What exactly went wrong with the cherry-sorter, may I inquire?
Shoulder mounted are far superior to head-cannons
Firing Main Canon

"Somehow it turned all the cherries that went in into noodles," the guide says flatly. "Needless to say, we got our money back."

Forcefield deployed.

Cardbo Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:24 pm

The Warrior of Many Faces wrote:
A for Appkes wrote:"oh, okay. I thought it was more recently." He hummed for a moment, then said "What exactly went wrong with the cherry-sorter, may I inquire?
Shoulder mounted are far superior to head-cannons
Firing Main Canon

"Somehow it turned all the cherries that went in into noodles," the guide says flatly. "Needless to say, we got our money back."

Forcefield deployed.

"Should've kept it. A good noodle maker is hard to find."

The Warrior of Many Faces Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:43 pm

Cardbo wrote:"Should've kept it. A good noodle maker is hard to find."

The guide gives him an odd look. "We're a cherry corporation. Why would we want to sell noodles? Cherries are generally more liked. ...besides, the noodles tasted like cherries, and that was disgusting on a number of levels."

Cardbo Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:04 pm

The Warrior of Many Faces wrote:
Cardbo wrote:"Should've kept it. A good noodle maker is hard to find."

The guide gives him an odd look. "We're a cherry corporation. Why would we want to sell noodles? Cherries are generally more liked. ...besides, the noodles tasted like cherries, and that was disgusting on a number of levels."

"I don't know. You could've now been selling Cherry flavored noodles by now. I'm sure there's a market for it somewhere." Cheese waves his hoof lackdaisically when mentioning 'somewhere'.

The Warrior of Many Faces Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:36 pm

Cardbo wrote:
The Warrior of Many Faces wrote:
Cardbo wrote:"Should've kept it. A good noodle maker is hard to find."

The guide gives him an odd look. "We're a cherry corporation. Why would we want to sell noodles? Cherries are generally more liked. ...besides, the noodles tasted like cherries, and that was disgusting on a number of levels."

"I don't know. You could've now been selling Cherry flavored noodles by now. I'm sure there's a market for it somewhere." Cheese waves his hoof lackdaisically when mentioning 'somewhere'.

"There might be a market," replies the guide in a slightly annoyed tone. "Might. As opposed to the normal cherry market that we know exists."

Brony 7 of 9 Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:40 pm

"If you could still make your normal cherries," interjected Zebulon. "Might you be able to sell the noodles?"

The Warrior of Many Faces Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:53 pm

Brony 7 of 9 wrote:"If you could still make your normal cherries," interjected Zebulon. "Might you be able to sell the noodles?"

"We'd be able to," says the guide, rolling her eyes, "but we'd lose money doing it. Far more ponies want cherries than cherry-noodles."

Appkes Thu Nov 15, 2012 5:04 pm

"Wait, the noodles were cherry flavoured?"

The Warrior of Many Faces Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:08 pm

A for Appkes wrote:"Wait, the noodles were cherry flavoured?"

"I... just... said... that..." the guide stammers, her eye twitching.

Quietkal Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:44 pm

Kal looks about and points at something mildly interesting, attempting to get the tour back on track. "Uh...Hey what's that thing happening over there?!"
((Perception to find something interesting that hasn't already been talked about: 23 (11+12) ))

Brony 7 of 9 Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:53 pm

"Tis a magnificent thing over there!" offered Zebulon, trying to diffuse the situation.

Persuasion to assist: 1d20 (13) + 8 = 21

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