Dec 28, 2019
Do you need a resurrection spell, son?
No no, we’ve nearly finished our Long Rest :)
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Do you need a resurrection spell, son?
No no, we’ve nearly finished our Long Rest :)
ask-lofty-dreams replied to your photo:Decided to take another stab at Inktober! Last...
How about a gem that uses disco dancing as a fusion dance?
Sorry, I should have clarified - please DO send me the NAME of the gem. I want to have a specific gem to work with, not necessarily just a concept of a fusion.
I am so excited to play Majora's Mask again! The game looks so good!
Yes me too!!! Being waiting this since that April Fool's video a fan made, now that is a real thing, I must have it.
Part Six
“I will give you a test run, but first I want to inspect the mine,” said Earthbound as he and Lofty Dreams left the office.
From the small office, the two stallions went to the mouth of the mine. Two tracks of rails were going into the hole in the mountain, and many more ponies. A miner pushing an empty minecart sarcastically greeted his colleague pushing one loaded to the brim. A whole group of miners entered the mine loudly talking about the trials and gifts life gives to ponies. Among them were two mares, both miners by the look of their equipment. It surprised Lofty, who saw this line of work as stallion exclusive.
Earthbound ambled to a shed, disappearing into it. A moment later he came out with two hardhats and a pickaxe. “I am going to assume you got in your little head you wanted to be a hewer or a collier. You are not build to be a hurrier and I am most certainly not going to let you be the driller.”
Lofty wondered what those words meant but refrained from asking. The guy seemed irritated enough, and asking him would not convince him to give Lofty the job. As he accepted the hardhat and the pickaxe, he decided it would be better to not say anything at all. Not that Earthbound was waiting for an answer. The old stallion stove off, into the mine. Lofty quickly put on the hardhat and after a quick bout of panic about how to carry the tool, decided to carry the pickaxe in his mouth before chasing after Earthbound.
The inside of the mine was not what he expected. It looked more like a cave with all the stalactites hanging from the ceiling and stalagmites rising from the floor. To add to that in the electric lighting he saw crude images on the wall. At first glance Lofty thought a toddler had been drawing on the cavern walls, but a closer look revealed it to be cavepony drawings. At least that was what he thought they were, he never had seen any before.
“Are you coming?” growled Earthbound.
The earth pony had entered a large, hewn out space. Several ponies hauled equipment to storage spaces, some of them being old tunnels. Other tunnels were just sealed off with a simple fence. But the centerpiece of the place, although it stood against the backwall, was a large elevator. Earthbound placed himself before the fence that prevented any pony from tumbling down the shaft.
Lofty opened his wings and took off, quickly correcting his posture now he had the pickaxe in his mouth. Just hovering a few feet above the ground, he noticed how low the ceiling really was. Several stalactites of varying size blocked his way of going higher. Too cramped to fly. He landed and went to Earthbound on hoof, only to be reminded of the words he said back at the office. He gritted his teeth in annoyance.
Deep in the depths of the shaft, he heard rattling of metal and voices talking casually. Slowly the elevator came to a stop on their floor. The metal barrier was lifted up and the miners stepped off. Several of them greeted their boss, who greeted back with a smile. Two minecarts standing on rails in the elevator were pushed off, rolling further on the rails in the cavern. Earthbound stepped on the elevator with Lofty following after him. He felt, despite having carried a bunch of ponies, that it looked small.
With a shock the elevator rattled downward. Every few meters Lofty saw a new set of tunnels stretching out as far as the lights on the elevator reached. The tunnels were pitchblack and smaller than two ponies. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and tried swallowing the lump that formed in his throat. Moments turned into minutes as the elevator kept descending. Each floor showed a plaza with pitchblack tunnels. Sometimes Lofty thought he could hear a rock falling from the ceiling. He began to wonder how many cave-ins there have been. And how many died due them.
The lights on the elevator flickered, Lofty shifted his eyes left and right worried it indicated breaking powerlines. Suddenly the lights went off while the elevator kept rattling downward. Earthbound mumbled something under his breath. Softly Lofty heard murmurs in the depths, both voices and unnatural sounds. His breath ran ragged and his heart wanted to burst out of his chest.
He remembered a time when it was dark, and couldn’t move. Shouting didn’t help.
Then a clump of dirt fell down on the elevator floor and spat to pieces.
The elevator slowly came to a halt. The barrier that separated it from the plaza rised up. Miners who were waiting greeted their boss, but all Earthbound did was looking up as a red feather floated down.
“What a waste of my time.”
End of Part Six
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Is there something you find yourself not confident in, but still want to draw?
There's plenty of things I still find myself unable to draw. I had this thought on Sunday of Pinkie Pie dressed as Rorschach of Watchmen, kneeling down with the air gun or whatever he has in one hood and the sort. I tried, but pony joints don't quite work the same. Also the perspective I envisioned, for me is hard to draw that, so yeah, my brain produces many things that I am unable to draw.
I also want to draw some OCs loving each other, regardless of gender, while still keeping it clean, but I need to find the time and permissions to do those.
OMG, a person I have been following for ages is now following me! Thanks Twixie!