DAY ONE OPEN POST

[ino]

[Welcome to the beautiful village of Konoha!



How about you spend some time looking around?]

[ ACADEMY | 44TH TRAINING GROUND | HOKAGE MONUMENT | ICHIRAKU RAMEN | KONOHA HOT SPRINGS | YAMANAKA FLOWER SHOP

For more information on the village and its locations, check out Narutopedia, or feel free to PM/IM (terraqueous orb)/Plurk (chomesuke) me for questions! There will be no plot NPCs in this post (other than Ino, I guess, but she's not really an NPC), but feel free to NPC any town people you want/need, civilian or ninja. ]

Comments

[loveisabattlefield]

(Oh, so it's not a person. The real answer is stranger than that, but Cadence actually seems pretty receptive of it.)

Oh, that sounds wonderful! I would love to help raise a child!

[doublethefun]

[there's just an impassive look]

They are here for nary a week and then are gone.

[also Shining Armor sort of had two foals with Fluttershy, but she's not going to mention that]

[loveisabattlefield]

(Good call. Considering she still doesn't know Shining was here, that'd be a little too much to handle.)

Where do they go afterwards?

[doublethefun]

[...yup. She's totally delegating that task to Twilight.]

To their homes, presumably. I can only hope 'tis an...alternate reality of some sort, rather than a simple deceit of the castle.

[loveisabattlefield]

...I hope so, too. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to those who take care of them and to the children themselves.

(Then again, fairness isn't usually a thing here. She smiles a bit.)

I think I'll worry more about that when the time comes. In the mean time, we have enough children to handle.

(Because there's still that group and one of them was playing with Cadence's tail. Silly kids.)

[doublethefun]

[a sigh. Well, whatever. Just don't get too attached, niece.

And here, one of the downfalls of having extremely interesting, gravity defying, hair presents itself. Emboldened by the other kid's success, one of the kids reaches forward to tug on Luna's tail.

She takes a step back, smiling awkwardly. If her royal dignity allowed for it, one might say she's attempting to hide behind the smaller mare.

To the kids:] Do you not have lessons or some such activities?

[there's a hearty chorus of 'no's.]

[loveisabattlefield]

(No promises, auntie.

...sadly, this is what happened when you stick something (or in this case, somepony) interesting in a middle of a group of kids. Kids with grabby hands. Foals tend to do that, too.

But at the very least, it does remind Cadence of why she jumped down towards Luna and her entourage.)

That's okay; I know something that'll be fun! Why don't we go over there and try it out!

(To Luna:)I can take over if you want to sneak away.

[doublethefun]

[yup. Her esteem of you just went up. There's a grateful smile before she manages to escape the circle, turns the corner at a quick trot, and...disappears into the shadows.]