#cloudhoppinggriffon

[themaneevent]

A Chat with Ra

@cloudhoppinggriffon

Well, two days was up. Everything was ready... except, perhaps, Celestia herself. In one of the more secluded sitting rooms in Canterlot’s palace, everything had been cleared away for Gordon’s rites. An altar had been brought in from one of the chapels in the city, as best as anyone she had could tell it was unaligned. Incense burners had been brought in from Celestia’s own secret rooms, hidden deep below the castle. The room had been specially enchanted as well to make it soundproof, a requirement to speak of the things she hoped to hear new information on.

Everything was perfect. So why couldn’t she stop pacing? She could learn nothing from this encounter and it would be fine, but it was less the knowledge or lack of that bothered her, and more the mouth it would be coming from.

Long had she wondered just what the gods of old had thought of her, particularly ones that were supposedly governing the sun; but today she was to speak to one of them directly. Would he be angry at her perceived taking of his place, or dismissive of what everyone called the sun these days? It could go many, many ways, and Celestia simply had no way of telling which it would go.

Taking deep breaths, and trying to settle down with a cup of tea, she waited. She was just a little nervous, that was all. It would pass. Hopefully.

[feelinsheepish]

@cloudhoppinggriffon liked for a starter

  Terrance had been up very late attempting to practice his reading and study the books that Gordon had given to him, who know that using magic was so... Hard?! Eventually though, exhaustion had caught up with the young taur and he fell asleep face down and drooling over the papers.

[twibthegryphon]

"So, what was that about an expedition?"

"Oh you saw my poster? I found a ruin that I was looking to explore but I wanted to make a thing of it. Bring a friend or two you know?"

The gryphon pulled some photos of the outside of the ruins out and set then on the table. "If you're interested I'd still love to go but we'd need to do some prepping and talk safty."

[timorrex]

[To Sombra (Reformation-Verse - Gordon] "From your experience of dark magic, where do you fall under the opinion of it being considered 'evil'? Is it truly 'evil', or is it only the ponies who use it and not know the limits of their power 'evil'?"

| ♔ }  ❝It’s, uh... complicated, I suppose.  Dark magic is a strange force, something that dabbles in things not well... natural.  Hence its name: Dark magic.  Necromancy, mind control, anything deemed, well, not morally correct often falls under the category.❞

He paused for a moment, tapping his chin softly.

“I suppose it deals with more how corrupt the being is at first.”

[horsapalooza]

[Gordon] "Vinyl, has it been hard working on material recently?"

          Vinyl gleefully shook her head, cartwheeling over to her setup and swinging one of the new vinyl records onto the player. Loud dubstep started to play from the speakers, with a certain familiar voice accompanying it - she’d gotten Tavi to do the lyrics, and Vinyl personally loved the track. But it was one that hadn’t been publicly released yet, and the engraving in the top of the vinyl record made that clear.

         Looking to Gordon, she lowered her shades to look at him over them, giving him a broad grin. Her horn lit up, and, in rather slack writing, words appeared in the air:

         What’d’ya think, birdie?

[twxlightbeforedawn]

@cloudhoppinggriffon​ / (x.)

“But it’s essentially the equivalent of military training. You shouldn’t have to run these children through metaphorical boot camp for them to learn from you all.” Gordon countered, obviously taking his place at the purple mare’s side; finding his gaze where hers would be going down. Those six students had grown famous for their exploits, just the original six had many years ago; before the griffon had found his way into this country.“I know things have been..tense for you lately, but gods above.”

             °☆.。 the  alicorn  was  quiet  for  a  long  moment.  she  of  course  knew  that  gordon  was  RIGHT.  his  words  echoed  her  own  reservations.  after  all  ,  these  children  were  just  that:  CHILDREN.  all  of  them  were  still  so  pure  ,  and  good.  they  still  retained  LIGHT  inside  of  them.  °☆.。

             °☆.。 ❛  i  think  you  misunderstand  me.  if  there’s  one  thing  that  i  don’t  ever  intend  to  be  ,  it’s  cruel.  especially  not  to  them. ❜  a  beat. ❛  but  you’re  right.  i  should  go  easier  on  them.  but  they’ve  saved  the  world  once  already.  i  can’t  help  but  worry  ,  knowing  what  that  entails.  ❜  °☆.。

[heart-tips]

@cloudhoppinggriffon

“Hmm..” Gordon cocked his head to the side. “I’m not too big on royal balls up in Canterlot, but something tells me this sounds like a thing someone made up, just to bait you into something less than savory.”

Was it instinct that told him this? Or the history that whenever Silver and Heart hung out, often it not, it involved something bad happening.

Gordon was always one for keen insight and a clever wit for the world around him; if perception was a skill then he was always rolling twenties.

“It’s... a known event. It’s happened, more than once. With that in mind... it’s probably going to be better if I do attend. At the very least... I’ll attend prepared.” It went without saying that Heart was going to ‘re-borrow’ the Armour of the Crystal Champion and the Power of Love sword as his ‘formal’ outfit.

He was naive, and a sucker for love; he was by no means an idiot. 

[glorifiedxchaos-moved]

[Gordon to Discord] "And what brings you out here in this neck of the woods?"

“Couldn’t it be that it’s a mere innocent walk that happenstance been the same location of your home?” 

⋘✥≫▻Happenstance? Was that even likely for someone like Discord? Not really.