Foggy Business (4 people is enough! thank you for joining!)

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It was a beautiful day in ponyville, sun was shining, the weather was tolerable, and grass slowly waved in the wind.

However, a decent hour's walk away from ponyville, barely close enough to the park to still count as part of it, was a strange, low-hanging cloud. Under it, were two tables, set up with bottles and strange flasks, connected. A mix of plants, mortar, pestle and a heater were all present as well. At the side of these tables stood a somewhat dissatisfied looking young pegasus, Wings nimbly grabbing hold of flasks and carefully moving them around. Cloud Drop would usually rather do his alchemy up in the clouds by his home village of cloudsdale, but he decided to take a week to redo some of his experiments on ground level altitude to see if that changed the results. Air pressure management systems were too expensive for him, so he had to make do with transporting a portable laboratory to an environ like this.

The cloud that flew only a few yards overhead was to provide shade, so the work was more comparable with working inside. he had carefully constructed the potion which created it as to be completely and absolutely sure it does not affect humidity on a scientifically relevant level. He placed a with a completely clear yet thick fluid inside, under a tube which had a light blue and seemingly thinner fluid inside. He dripped a bit of the blue fluid down into the clear fluid, noting down what happened in a hardcover notebook by his side.

Cloud Drop's eyes stared through his plastic glasses with a steely gaze, mouth worked into a frown as he jotted down his notes on his experiment. However, somepony coming close would catch his eye. He turned to the pony coming close, and directly said. "Come no closer, please. I'm working with Chemical and Alchemical reagents and require utmost concentration and carefulness, to follow proper safety procedures." He said, his tone sharp, instantly berating whomever it was that came closer, feeling they likely wouldn't understand...


((OOC: EDIT. for your convenience, i will quickly note the new Posting order here. the current posting order is Fantasy Flicker --> Zap4th --> Myriad --> GamingMusic101 --> Fantasy Flicker --> Etc.

EDIT 2: i am hereby Instating a '3-day waiting period' Rule. This rule goes in on 21st of Febuary, and what it means is that if the person before you is taking more than 3 days to post, you may post in his stead. The post order WILL BE ADJUSTED accordingly. If you would like to post but it might take you longer than 3 days, please note the person next, if you are noted that the one before you will be taking longer, respect his or her request and wait your turn. If it takes far longer, i might see to logically removing the 'offending' player and their character from the roleplay in a logical, albeit slightly god-moddy manner.))

[GamingMusic101]

"Ah! I'm so sorry, did I ruin your concentration?" Sweet Supreme kindly asked, cocking her head at the pegasus. Noticing that asking might ruin his concentration even more, Supreme quickly took it back. "I-I mean, sorry! I-I'll be leaving." She quietly whispered as she slowly, and ever so silently trotted away.

But, Supreme did have to pick some berries today, and those could only be found here. If she doesn't come the next day, they'd rot, as they were very special berries. Except, Supreme didn't really want to interrupt somepony. And even if the pony did let her, Supreme would be too clumsy not to mess up his....potion making? "Well.....good luck.....with whatever you're doing.." She whispered, just in case the pony didn't want to hear it.

Just as she was about to leave, Supreme spotted a tree with the berries she was looking for. However, it was so foggy she could barely see. Looking back at the pony, Supreme frowned. She could just use her magic, but the berries needed 'love and care' to pick. Sweet sighed as she trotted towards the tree and used her magic to try to pick the berry. It shook a few times before falling onto the floor. "....great." She muttered. Now it was dirty.

Supreme turned to the pony, who was probably still working, and then back to the tree. Perhaps she could just stay without making a sound, right? She put on a determined face and tried to pick another berry high up in the tree. They say the higher, the better the taste. As it almost fell, Supreme flinched in fear and let go before it fell right next to her basket.

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Cloud Drop was thankful she was shy and not to bull-headed. His concentration wasn't easily ruined, so he simply continued on his work. he noticed however that she seemed intent on staying around. He looked at his potions, having already noted the results. Well. Perhaps it was about time that he packed up anyway. Too much work meant messier notations and less reliable results. And he wanted his results to be -perfect-. He finished up his potion, as he had written down all the unexpected occurrences which had any semblance of logic anyway. He poured the final mixture with care, watching the potion form. He corked it, shook it, and placed it down, starting to clean up some of his stuff. He stored it all away in a... Cloud? Grabbing a potion with blue and violet swirly texture, opening the cork, and pouring the potion into the air, he made another small cloud come into existence by his side. He started putting his alchemy reagents inside of it, which remained in the Curious cloud. He grabbed a few other potions and by pouring them and shaping the clouds, molding them with his hooves, he created what could only be described as a 'cloudship'. The cloud that flew over him had vanished and on his Cloudship he had all the other clouds, from Dark yellow to a funky teal. The small pegasus did not seem intent on leaving yet though.

He grabbed his recently made potion, one which was a clear pink. "I'm done. You're free to relax and not worry too much about bothering me." he said in a much much calmer voice, approaching Sweet Supreme. As he walked, it became evident on how obscenely short he was, especially for a stallion. And how insanely long his thick tail was, as it dragged behind him a good bit. "Mind trying to use this potion for me? It should make a cloud you can stand on, if you pour it into the air." he said, holding the potion with his wing, offering it to Sweet Supreme.

[zap4th]

Tel was walking around the park, looking to see if he could find the low-hanging cumulus cloud that was said to be there, as no one put in a request for a cloud at this time. he hated this part of the job and, since he couldn't truly fly, it made up most of what he did. he saw a white male Pegasus and female pink unicorn in the distance and, thinking that maybe the pegasus got the cloud for the unicorn, the teleported near them. "would either of you like to explain the cloud here? No one requested to put a low-hanging cumulus cloud at this time for this long".

[Myriad]

As usual, it was another glorious day in Ponyville. The weather Pegasi really did a good job at keeping everything around here running smoothly for all the ponies on the ground. It had taken a lot of begging, and pleading, and whining, and groaning, and sighing from the twins before their mother finally caved into their request to go for a picnic in the park. Myriad helped to make the daisy and daffodil sandwiches, while her sister made the cucumber sandwiches, and their mother packed up everything else they would need such as the blanket, the plates, the napkins, the cups, the tea and the juice boxes, not to mention cutting up the vegetables for both the sandwiches and snacks to go with them. Once everything was prepared, Picture Perfect loaded everything into a basket and carried it while leading the twins to the park.

Myriad practically bounced with joy once they got outside and started to make their way to their destination. Of course she was immediately reminded by her mother that she should cease such behavior if she wished to avoid the consequences. Upon hearing that, Myriad stopped very suddenly with a sad look on her face before sighing and resigning to walking next to her sister. Since Mosaic was so weak, they literally had to stop and rest every five minutes to give her a short break and a couple sips from one of the juice boxes. Mother was always prepared. So it may have taken the group a little longer to reach the park than it normally would have any other, but the wait was worth it as there seemed to be only a hoof ful of ponies out today. Myriad supposed that most of the foals were at school, yet another activity she had been begging her parents to allow her to do, but so far her arguments had been invalidated, so she just needed to come up with a better argument.

As soon as they picked out their spot, Myriad turned to her mother. "I'm gonna go play while you get this all set up." she stated matter-of-factly before taking off to explore the park before waiting on her mother's response. She knew if she had asked the answer was going to be 'no,' so she had recently gotten into the habit of telling her mother what she was doing and just doing it. There was also the fact that she knew Mosaic not only wouldn't be able to keep up, but wouldn't be interested in exploring, especially since she had seen her younger sister tuck a book away in the basket before they'd left. As she trotted around the park, Myriad occasionally stopped to inspect the local flowers. They were quite colorful, and smelled divine, although one of them did make her sneeze, so she figured she should stay away from that one.

Eventually, she came upon an odd sight. A pegasus with a bunch of vials and flasks was making clouds. Sure there was another unicorn picking berries, but this pegasus was also building things out of the clouds he was making. They were all different colors, and Myriad's eyes went wide with excitement when he made a ship! Completely ignoring the other two unicorns, now that a second had shown up, Myriad spread her wings and rushed over to the pegasus stallion and began bombarding him with her foalish curiosity.

"OHMYGOSH THAT WAS THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!" she began excitedly as she flew as fast as she could, despite the fact that it really wasn't all that fast at all. "I've never seen clouds being made before! Can you do it again? And all the colors! And the shapes! Can you teach me how to make a ship out of clouds! That was definitely the best! I didn't know you could just stick them together like that! And why is there a bigger cloud just sitting here this low to the ground? I thought clouds were supposed to be up in the sky. That is just so cool! Wait, is that fog?! I remember reading in a weather book that fog was lazy culumus . . . cululumus . . . ugh *pttth*, cloud." she finished rambling and blew a raspberry with her tongue as she couldn't quite pronounce the word that one of the unicorns had just mentioned moments before.

[GamingMusic101]

Sweet Supreme turned around to face the pegasus and smiled. "Oh, alright!" She said, relieved that she didn't have to be careful in making any distractions. She looked down and noticed the potion on the pony's wings. "Thank you! Oh, but, are you sure? It's not rare for me to make mistakes. Besides, us unicorns can't stand on clouds." Sweet sighed, hoping that there was any other way she could pick those fruits. She'd normally get help from one of her friends, but today everypony was conveniently busy.

Before she could continue speaking, a voice came from behind her. Supreme turned around to face the pony and said, "I don't really know, it was here when I came." She explained. Suddenly, another voice came. Supreme barely turned, her body tired from turning 'round and 'round. Good thing the pony's praise wasn't pointed at her. Supreme smiled as she then turned to the tree she was previously looking at. She used her magic to try and shake another one off, but then she stopped, thinking that she won't have any hope in just this.

She then turned to the two pegasi she was talking to. "So....you two are pegasi, right? What's.....this? You know, the clouds?" Supreme asked, looking around the foggy area. "I don't remember anypony saying there'd be fog today. N-not that it's bad or anything, just curious." She added hastily.

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Sweet Surprise seemed happy that Cloud Drop wasn't busy anymore. He couldn't explain it, but the way her relieved voice sounded was pleasant to his ears. he wondered what she was doing quickly, before she continued about the potion. Cloud Drop lowered his wing while holding the potion a bit, listening attentively and nodding as sweet supreme explained that she wouldn't be able to stand on a cloud. The whole trick was that he wanted to test if she could stand on it, due to it's magical properties. "oh, don't worr-" He started, before being interrupted by a weather pony. He turned to the weather pony with irritation and placed down his potion by the unicorn, in case she'd like to try it anyway.

The short gray pegasus let a drawn out, bothered sigh. His already diminutive body slumped down slightly in annoyance, Rolling his eyes, he replied to the weather unicorn. "It's not a standard cumulus, it's an alchemical creation, i have a pe-" He continued, explaining the situation to the weather pony, slowly walking over to his cloud to grab his permit. His gait was intercepted by a rush of energy which startled him and opened his eyes wide, as his eyes followed an energetic young female foal bombarding him with questions of his methods and techniques.

Before making any further replies, Cloud Drop took a moment to internally scream, his eyes staring off in space. After that short pause, he looked to the other pegasus from his short frame. "It's Alchemy. I can tell you a little about it in a bit, but i need to do some grown-up things first, alright?" He said, putting one hoof to his forehead and slowly sliding it down over his cheek. It had gotten busy and energetic here, and FAST. He turned his head to Trik Port again. "Please give me a moment to grab my permit, in case you don't believe me. Do not dispel the cloud, for it might explode" he continued, quickly whispering "although scientifically very unlikely" under his voice, "And all my alchemy equipment will hit the floor and i can't guarantee anypony's safety if that happens." He went around the little foal and walked to his large cloudship. For some reason, he didn't fly onto it, but physically climbed it, getting to the top clouds and messing with his hooves in one of the deeper coloured clouds, looking around for his documents...

[zap4th]

Trik was suddenly interested. "alchemy, huh? I'm more of a technological person myself. even made a pair of artificial wings to fly, although all I am able to do at the moment is glide." he said, starting to like the white Pegasus. "the name's Trik Port, but my friends call me Tel." he said and teleported. "for obvious reasons. I was actually born in cloudsdale, which, as you can imagine, was problematic. I have almost fell to my death multiple times there" he said, shivering. "anyway enough about me, who are you?"

[Myriad]

"Okay!" Myriad replied to the pegasus when he told her that he would explain, but that she'd have to wait for him to finish grown-up stuff. As such, she plopped her flank on the ground right where she had been standing moments before in order to wait. However, the moment she did, her restlessness kicked in and her tail started twitching. She never had been very good at sitting still for long periods of time with nothing to do.

Still a young filly, naive in the ways of adults and their personality quirks, and unfamiliar with talking to any pony other than her immediate family, Myriad didn't catch the irritation in Cloud Drop's voice, or what his hoof on his face meant. She merely tilted her head to the side in curiosity at his actions and snickered as he turned to get something from his much larger cloud ship that the young foal hadn't noticed before. A shiver of excitement ran over her coat at the thought of playing on it. She hadn't played in clouds since her family had moved to Ponyville from Stratusburg, and being unable to fly up to Cloudsdale meant she could only play with clouds if either of her parents brought them down for her.

'Ugh, adult stuff is boring.' Myriad thought to herself as her eyes began to wander along with her attention. This was the first time she had been to the park, so there was plenty more she wanted to see and do, especially before her mother came in and interrupted her adventure. As she turned her head so she could take in more of the scenery, her eyes fell upon the two unicorns. She had hear the one talking about having been born in Cloudsdale, which meant his parents were pegasi like her. He had also said something about having made a flying machine and then showed off that he could teleport. So when she took that in, and added it to the other unicorn that was trying to reach berries on the top of a nearby tree, the wheels in her mind started turning. Myriad adored puzzles, and figuring out solutions to problems, and she just came up with a doozy.

"HEY!" she shouted at the teleporting unicorn as she couldn't sit still any longer. "If you teleport to the top of that tree, then you could get the hard to reach berries on top!" the filly exclaimed as her shrill voice squeaked from her excitement as she practically pushed him towards the tree, or at least tried to. After all, she wasn't all that strong, so if he moved, it would be of his own free will. "DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!" she chanted, trying to get him to help out. "I'm not the best flier and I don't think my wings will get me up that high, otherwise I'd do it. OH! Unless you teleport me up there then I could pick the berries!" she beamed, absolutely thrilled at her own brilliance. As usual, she didn't think about the consequences of what would happen if she fell or got hurt, she just wanted to do something nice to help out somepony else.

[GamingMusic101]

Sweet Supreme chuckled a little bit as she turned to glance at the little blue filly. She reminds her of Supreme's younger sister. They were both so energetic. But then Supreme saddened as she remembered her sister was home sick again. Supreme shook the thought off and looked up at the berries. She sighed, knowing she couldn't do this alone and would soon have to ask for help. Looking around her, there were literally three ponies she could ask...but, she barely knew any of them.

Supreme jumped as the filly from before started to give them the idea to teleport. Teleportation? That never ended well for Sweet Supreme. She'd thought of it before, too, and all it did was teleport her onto a branch and gave her a splinter. But noticing the young foal was talking to the other unicorn, she then turned to him. "Oh...you don't have to help, really!" She said, since they were merely strangers to each other. "I don't want you going through all that trouble for me. You might even get hurt...."

Supreme trailed off as the filly started to push the unicorn with a sudden hint of excitement in her behavior. "Ah, wait-" She said, reaching her hoof out. Supreme sighed, knowing that won't do her any good. She set her hoof down and giggled at her energy. "Uhh...I don't think that's a very good idea....if you fall, we'll be held responsible." She said with her ever-so-quiet and soft voice and trotted towards the filly. She leaned down to match her height and smiled. "You don't want to get hurt, now do you? Well, if you really want to, then I guess both of you can help me!" Supreme said before heaving a sigh. She couldn't get out of this.

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As Cloud Drop went to get his permit, he noticed everypony got distracted, although it seemed that the male unicorn tried to keep with Cloud Drop, due to a common scientific interest. Cloud Drop clambered through more cloud before getting out a document, finally having retrieved it. he heard the discussion of going up to pick the berries. "Hey, The potion i gave you should be a special cloud that anyone can sit on! try pouring one for yourself! you'll be able to reach the berries better if you stand on it!" He yelled from his personal cloud ship, as he smiled back and made his way to move off of it. He bumbled a bit while getting off the cloud, and tripped! Normally, a pegasus would simply stretch their wings and slow their fall, but for Cloud Drop, only one wing stretched out, leaving his panicked face to fall directly to the ground. He managed to slow himself a little, and fall on his hooves, but he tripped afterwards, his face still making contact with the ground. He huffed as he got up and wiped some dirt off of his chin, shaking his head. His right wing raised itself and folded itself back noticeably slower. He slowly trotted back over to the Tree where the others stood.

"Would you still like to see my permit?" he asked the unicorn, which would undoubtedly be busy dealing with the energetic child, just like everypony else, soon enough. He watched the foal spazz out over trying to help. Her wings gave him a simple idea, and the mix of sunlight, a happy day, successful science, and the joy of an innocent soul just flared up in him.

"Oh don't you worry about your flight, Just be patient and hold on Tight~! For an alchemist has many miracles..." he started while grabbing a potion from a saddlebag, nimbly pouring it between Myriad's four legs "If he has the right chemicals! Oh yes, a Science pony is who i am, you need not worry for i'm no shaaam~" he continued as a happy cloud formed directly under myriad and he paced around her like a joyous child himself, happy to show his miracles to those interested. "For my intellect is very True, and with it there's not a day i rue. For my flightless wing hasn't stopped me siiiince iiiii've gone further than common sense~!" he bragged in song as he grabbed another potion and added it to the cloud, it became large, as large as a bed, supporting the young myriad and floating her a small distance up. He smiled, he did and grabbed the same two potions, pouring it in front of himself and hopping on the very cloud as it formed, Showing the qualities of his alchemy.

He floated up next to the cloud myriad sat on, and looked down to the two unicorns. "The weather up here is greeeeeaaaaaaat" He teasingly chuckled and leaned over the edge of his cloud, smiling at the unicorns. "What'cha picking berries for, ma'am?" He asked sweet supreme, suddenly having a much more relaxed and carefree attitude, pulling a complete 180 from how he was acting just a small while ago.

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Alas, to the misfortune of the merry band, one would have to leave soon. Another weather pony, a flying pegasus, swooped down from the side, looking around the strange situation. She didn't let herself get too bothered with the situation though. She alarmed the Weather Unicorn that they had some strange clouds over on the other side of town, with a quick look at the strange clouds here. Cloud Drop quickly reassured her that these clouds are under control and within his capability to make sure they don't drift off. She nodded and continued to Trik Port, informing him they wanted the unicorns willing to help around, see if they can help the pegasi deal with this strange cloud.

And with that, the female weather pegasus and Trik Port had to leave.

(Trik Port/Zap4th has been TEMPOARILY removed from the roleplay. He is free to join at his next given oppurtunity, and the turn order will be adjusted once he rejoins. For now, his turn is going to be removed from the turn order. Happy posting!)

[Myriad]

"Come on, be nice, help out." Myriad prodded as she continued to try and get the boy unicorn to help the girl unicorn. She huffed and puffed and struggled as she pushed against him to no avail until she just tuckered out. Then the girl unicorn said something about getting hurt, and the gray filly just raised a brow at the older mare. "But he had magic. You can't get hurt with magic." she said matter of factly, as she truly believed that magic was the most amazing thing ever and protected every pony from harm. "Besides, there's all these clouds around here too!" she finished happily confident in both the unicorn's magic as well as the alchemic clouds that were floating around.

Just about then, the other pegasus came back from his cloud ship and tripped on his way out, however he immediately broke into song about clouds and alchemy and science. As if the young filly wasn't excitable enough, the addition of a song just piqued her interest even more, then add in the fact that she was now standing on a cloud as big as a bed and she began bouncing for joy, giggling all the while. It was so soft and fluffy, not to mention bouncy. Knowing full well that any cloud would support her as a pegasus, she began jumping as high as she could, attempting to do a mid air somersault. Of course she had to imitate the other pegasus as he attempted to tempt the other two to join them. "Yeeeeeah!" she squealed "The weather up higher is greeeeeaaaaat!" Myriad finished with a giggle.

However, the combination of her expending so much energy and now being at a higher altitude, even if it wasn't much of a difference, Myriad began to feel the consequences of her actions. It started out dull, and barely noticeable, but there was a painful pressure slowly growing in her chest as it became increasingly harder for her to breathe. It started with her breathing a little bit faster to keep up, but the faster her breaths, the more it hurt. The problem was that the more it hurt, the shallower her breathing became as well, thus requiring her to breathe faster. It was a snowball effect, and as the cycle continued, her energy level went down more and more until she could no longer even stand on the cloud. All she could do was just lay there trying to catch her breath as her body temperature skyrocketed as well.

[GamingMusic101]

Sweet Supreme stared blankly at the little grey filly. She was just a foal, so she wouldn't know, but magic could be quite dangerous. No, not quite, very. She knew from experience. Supreme sighed as she was about to give in before the other unicorn had to leave. Saved by the weatherponies. She didn't know what she would've done if they actually did get injured. Just then, the filly had mentioned something about the clouds. "Ah, yes! The clouds!" Supreme looked around her at the clouds and smiled. The clouds could help. It wasn't her doing the magic, so it wouldn't hurt to try, right?

But before she could say yes to the foal, the pegasus from before started to sing. That was quite random, as if they were in some kind of musical. His singing caught her attention as he started to make clouds appear, and she could actually stand on them. Getting back to her senses, Supreme panicked and tried her best to retain balance, not paying attention to the other ponies. Was this how pegasi felt? Soon, she could finally stand still without having to be afraid of heights. A small smile spread across Supreme's face as she started enjoying being on a cloud for the first time ever.

Supreme grew concerned for the filly, though. She knew that look. The look of being tired. Supreme was about to ask what was wrong before the other pegasus questioned her. She jumped a little before turning to him. "Oh, uh, well," She stammered. She took a deep breath and prepared to not humiliate herself. "Well, I run my family's bakery, and next week we're supposed to have a sale on berry flavored sweets." Supreme turned around and pointed her hoof at the berry trees. "I was trying to get those berries, since they're very special and only show up once a year. I'd have somepony to help me every year but...." She trailed off. She didn't want to be a downer and explain her younger sister was very sick and her parents had to stay home, whereas all her friends were very busy. ".....everypony's busy."

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Cloud Drop chuckled, enjoying the presence that Myriad had given him. As they floated up on two parallel clouds, he noticed sweet supreme trying out the power of his unique brand of clouds and alchemy, making her way somewhat up and closer to the tree. The wheezing of the young child was very concerning though. Cloud Drop let Sweet Supreme finish talking and gave her a short gaze before returning to Myriad. "Hey, you alright?" he carefully grabbed some other potions and casually poured them to steer his cloud towards the cloud myriad was on. He estimated how she looked, and decided to push her cloud down. He pushed it into the shade of the tree, just under the berries, so she could stay nice and cool, relatively close to the ground. and if she wanted to help picking berries, she could do so.

He then moved his own cloud to a similar location, but in such a way that he wouldn't be in the way of either of them. "So you're working hard here? Well, i definitely won't say no to helping someone in their work." He smiled to her. He really valued someone who knew to work hard, and as far as he was concerned, Sweet supreme was here on SERIOUS BUSINESS. Because all business is SERIOUS BUSINESS. "I'll help you out. and maybe if the filly gets a little better in the shade of the tree, she can help out as well." He said, looking to her.

He had positioned himself and myriad so the three formed a triangle around the tree. with the strange cloud which unicorns could stand on supporting Sweet Supreme, lifting her a good pony higher in height, he hoped she would be able to pick the berries. He mentally noted that she actually stood on it, however the cloud seemed somewhat less... Floaty. It probably wouldn't let a unicorn or earth pony actually get off the ground, more functioning as a temporary ladder, since the special 'non-pegasus' cloud had to touch the ground. Mental notations outside, The diminutive Cloud Drop looked to the berries. He tried to pick one and hold it in his other arm. "Is there any trick to these berries?" He asked Sweet supreme, before unfolding his wings, which moved like hooves unto themselves, and plucked an extra berry with surprising care and dexterity.