Post by Solar Solstice on Jul 6, 2013 18:50:12 GMT -5
OOC Date: June 17, 2013
Characters: Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Derpy, Dynamite Rave, Fluttershy, Applejack (player by Starlight)
Setting: One strange night, local seamstress Rarity stumbles about town in a very compromising state, driving her friends nuts
It's an odd sight- oh, goodness, yes. This evening, while most of Equestria seems to be preparing for bed, Lady Rarity is stumbling rather slowly along the market's routes- bumping into ponies on lazy evening walks home and offering a charming, if not slightly slurred giggle and apology. ...How...peculiar...?"
Rainbow_Dash isn't too sure why, but lately she's been staying up much later than she usually would. Maybe she's anxious about the upcoming battle with Discord, or maybe she's just generally restless thanks to the ennui of summer weather. As it is, she's gliding along above the rooftops of Ponyville, letting the cool night breeze caress her sun-seasoned wings. Wait, is that /Rarity/ down there? "Whoa, hold up!" she cries out, swirling around and down before coming to a hover by her friend. "Hey Rarity! Didn't expect to see you...out?" She tilts her head, noticing Rarity's very peculiar disposition. "Uh...Rarity...?"
Rarity stumbles forward with a sway in her hips, and a bobble in her tail, and her ears flicker towards the voice that calls her name with a lazy little tweak. "...HMmmmmm? Who's there?" She canters, peering to her left, and then her right, and th- EEEK! " Y, YOU! It's...it's um........Raaaaaaainbow Dash!" She says, and then bursts into quiet giggles, reaching a hoof out to bat at the hovering pony. "Heeheeheeheeeee*Snort* Tee heeeee, Rainbow Dash, *snicker* What are you DOING out here, darling? It's...It's ...well...we're outside, aren't we?" She bursts into giggles again.
Rainbow_Dash frowns. Did Rarity let herself go in one of those fancy parties? Whatever the case, she's gotta help her out. "Look, uh, Rarity, whhyyy don't I help you get home, eh?" She guilty-grins and lands right beside her friend, leaning in close to provide support (she makes a silent 'blegh' expression at the smell of alcohol). "So...where you been?"
Rarity wobbles there for a moment, peering at the flying pony before her expression turns to curiosity and she slowly shakes her head. "I...Oh, no, no, no, darling, I mustn't! I've a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery important deed to deed, you seed. See, ahem. Oh. My. "She grins and straights her posture (although she's still quite wobbily.) Y, you see IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII am......." She trails off, looking dreadfully confused before her eyes light up. "I wash, I, Y, you see...I...Oh, no, no, I wash working, very very, VEEEERY hard on a number of those things I make. And, I have...haff...HAD darling, a DREADFUL cold! I couldn't get ...um...I couldn't fishes the projectsh coughing and sneeshing, so, I...erm, talked to ...erh...nurse....um..." She trails off, waving a hoof to try and place then name before she finally shakes her head. "The nurse, who gave me shome cough syrup. "She explains, and reaches over to wrap an arm around Rainbow Dash, and offers the pegasus a hushed whisper. "...I...I think there was some........alcohol in it, dear."
Rainbow_Dash gawks as Rarity makes a complete fool of herself. Good thing it's late at night! "What, did you, like, drink a whole /tub/ of cough syrup?" she says, incredulous. "I mean, sheesh Rarity, I thought you had a bit more, you know, self-control?" She's not impressed, not impressed at all. In Weather Patrol camp, this would've earned you some time squeezing old storm clouds dry!
Rarity looks utterly insulted and HUMPHS, standing up straight as she can. "I...I know what you're thinking, Dainbow Rash, and I am NOT drunk! HUMPH! I am a pony of...importance! EVERYPONY lovesh MY dressesh! If I haff a DEADLINE to meet, I can't go lashing about until the last minute and do it all in ten sexons flat! "She snorts. "SOME of us don't haff SUPER SPEED and SOME of us haff to budget, our, commitments." She grumbles, launching herself up and off of Rainbow Dash to stagger towards a nearby house. She peers at the address on the mail box for a few moments, blinks, peers, blinks peers, blinks, peers, and then blinks, peers, blinks, peers, blinks and peers. "I drank ash much ash I needed to, to fishes my customers orders. I get my work done on time! No excheptions! E, even when you've...running...a dreadful fever and can't...hold onto your lunch...But I'm FINE darling. I jush made shome deliveriesh, and, now I'm...double checksings before heading home. "She stammers, and then peers at the Address again. "Can you read thish for me?" She cooes. It is a fire hydrant.
Rainbow_Dash quickly sidles over and gently, gently nudges Rarity in the right direction towards the Carousel Boutique. "Uh...Rarity, that's a fire hydrant," she points out facetiously, struck with an awful dread that this isn't going to be the first infraction of social norms that she'll witness tonight.
Rarity stares at the hydrant for a few seconds along and then turns towards Rainbow Dash. "...So it is. Well! Rrrrrrrainbow Dash. It's...It's been awfully lovely t, talking wiff you. But I REALLY mush be getting home, darling. After my deliveriesh, of course." She insists, and gives a quiet giggle. "To think, Nurse.....nurse........nurse Nurse wanted me to take the rest of the evening off! O, observeded! ...ab...absorbed. ...HUMPH. "She snorts and staggers off down the street, pauses, looking up at one street sign, peers at it, blinks, peers at it, blinks, peers at it, blinks, and then twists around and starts in the opposite direction.
<OOC> Starlight wows and starts looking up treatments for acute alcohol poisoning. In her sleep, because little fillies are in bed at this hour...
<OOC> Bardigan totally did not come here to point and laugh.
Rainbow_Dash furrows her brow in acute disapproval, wondering just what she did to deserve this. She has half the mind to let Rarity stumble around all night; that'll teach her to get stupid-drunk on cough syrup! But, of course, being a Loyal friend she must oblige herself to keeping Rarity out of harm's way. "How about I help you with that delivery stuff, like...later, after you've slept this off?" She continues to nudge Rarity along the correct path, even using her hoof to tap Rarity on the shoulder so that she unconsciously tuns in the right direction. Yeesh, what is this, leading barn animals?
<OOC> Rainbow_Dash shoves Bardy :u
Rarity giggles quietly and turns towards Rainbow Dash. "Awww, t, th, thats sho sweet. That is sho sweet. Awwww, W, well then, Rainbow...Dash. Yoooooou, can help me. "She says as-a-matter-of-factly. "But the orders were due tonight. I fishesed all of them, but I'm afraid Deeeerpy may have messehed up my orderies. ...So I haff to check. "She explains, pauses and hacks hard enough that she might cough up a lung. Dear Celestia, does she have horn rot or something?! "...I need more cough syrup. "She mumbles, and stumbles towards the closest of stable objects- which happens to be a gate. "Ahhh, um...Dish is ...124...Seed street, right? ...Sure. Rainbow, there shoooould be a box there that readsh 124 sheed street, isn't there? On, on there...on door...step...thingie...?"
<OOC> Starlight agrees. Rainbow Dash has half a mind.
<OOC> Starlight dodges pre-emptively.
<OOC> Rarity bursts into giggles
<OOC> Rainbow_Dash ADCPKTGb
<OOC> Starlight assumes that was a noise of terrible indignation. Sometimes it's so very hard to tell, dear. ._.
"Trust me, whatever, uh, /issues/ Derpy has, mail isn't one of them." Sure, they had to instruct the apparent dim pegamare with pictographs, but hey, she got things done! Rainbow Dash reels back as Rarity suddenly hacks and coughs, for a moment pondering the possibility that the unicorn might've caught something from one of the hospital patients. "Rarity...we're still on the main road," she observes, blandness concealing her frustration.
Rarity blinks again and shakes her head, suddenly bursting into tears. "I...I don't feel sho good, Rainbow Dash. Darling...I, I think I need jor help. "She laments, shakes her head and blinks her eyes. "I haff a most...most expenshive record to upholds. It is very, very, VERY, very important that I keep my cushtomers happy. Can't...can't...musn't be late with the um....thingsh. "She says quietly. "Wouldja go to my boutique, and get the lisht, and make SHOOR the packagesh got to the right houshes? I'm...I can trusht you, right? Right? Rainbow? Right? Y, you're the element of....of um....uh....
<OOC> Bardigan says, "Blark."
<OOC> Bardigan says, "She is the Element of Blark."
<OOC> Starlight says, "She's the one who says whatever comes to mind and wears her hear ton her sleeve. So, Loyalty."
<OOC> Starlight oh right, blarkium. Right after manganese, how could she forget?
<OOC> Bardigan says, "It's why she makes so many funny noises."
<OOC> Starlight says, "Radium indium boron oxygen tungsten deuterium arsenic hydrogen."
<OOC> Rarity says, "speak of the dreamy eyed mare..."
"Right now I'm the Element of Gets Your Flanks Back Home," Rainbow Dash quips. "Steady, now, OK? We're almost there." She guides Rarity around the curve, and sure enough the Carousel Boutique is right there at the end of the path. "Look, the list is right there! I can see it!" Well, if that gets her moving faster then it can't be a stupid idea!
Rarity grumbles as she stumbles along. "Y, you promish me, Rainbow Dash! I, I won't get any rest until I know t, the boxhesesesh are at the right addresshesh. I, I mean I don't mistrusht Derpy, darling. I really don't! B, but I've been w, waiting for my copies of Shensual Stallionsh for MONTHS and I haven't rechieved them! What if she STOLE them? J, jusht double check, Dashie...pleashe? For me? I promish I'll...I'll go straight home...y, you're the fashtest pony I know, I, I really s, should have ashked you firsht...
<OOC> Derpy says, "How is go?"
<OOC> Starlight sidles up to Derpy. "Did you steal her sensual stallion serial, seriously?"
<OOC> Derpy looks almost sly as she draws closer and eventually answers: "Sometimes!"
<OOC> Starlight says, "Is go wobble bobble whoopsie or home-arghing!"
<OOC> Starlight says, "Sneaky!"
<OOC> Derpy looks around in confusion.
Rainbow_Dash: blushes deeply. "Sensual WHAT!?" she exclaims, so alarmed that a few of the scattered ponies about town peer at her strangely. Oops! "Uh, I mean...right, right, I get ya. I don't Derpy's the, uh, type for that." She grimaces as she places a foreleg on Rarity's withers, using her own wings to support her weight as she guides Rarity closer to home. "Hey, we're almost there; maybe you can check yourself!"
Rarity shakes her head. "N, no darling, Senshual Stallionsh isn't there. It hasn't been for Monthsh. "She pouts. "B, but you MUSHT get the lisht and check that each boxes wash sent where it wash supposed to go! You MUSHT! YOU MUSHT!! YOU! MUSHT!! Darling, I, I BEG of you!!" She sputters
<OOC> Starlight says, "Ohs and noes! Incoming twelves at Derpy o'clock!"
Derpy happens to amble by at that moment, catching the wind for only a second at a time, wings outstretched but mostly only trotting. She has on her little green postal cap, but isn't carrying her mailbags at the moment. Now and then she sings a few notes that one might recognize as being from the "Pony of Steel" theme song.
<OOC> Starlight o/` The hero of Canton, the pony called Jayne... o/`
"Don't worry, we'll figure out this list of yours in a jiff," says Rainbow Dash, exerting more effort to keep Rarity steady. "Hey...hey YOU!" she shouts at Derpy, pointing at her in an almost accusative fashion. "Help me out will ya?"
Derpy looks astonished, opening her mouth in an "o" shape. She points questioningly with a forehoof at her own chest. Mee??
Rarity stands wobbling for a moment before she turns, and marches over towards Derpy, at least she tries, stumbling forward and tripping over her own hooves. "YOU...YOU stole my Magazines y, y, you bubbleheaded..."She trails off in the middle of her sentence to SLuuuuuuuuuuuurp at a hovering bottle of cough syrup that's suddenly floating next to her.
There has been a few murmurs going through town and it finally reached the ears of Dynamite Rave. Frowning visibly as he heads into the market, the young royal guard looks none too pleased. It's far, far too late to have ponies banging on the door, complaining about this racket. There is a burst of light from his horn as it sizzles with his natural magic, followed by a loud clear of the throat as he looks from the inebriated Rarity, to Derpy, then finally to Rainbow Dash.
Derpy looks rather affronted at Rarity's demeanor. She leans back... way back. "Raare-ty?" she asks. The pegasus dinks a hoof at the floating cough syrup. -Tink!- "~Never~ stolen!" she objects. She flinches at the sudden arrival of another unicorn, but then stares at the guard in wonder.
Rainbow_Dash's eyes snap open wide and she quickly lunges for the bottle, snatching it from Rarity's hooves before she delves in to deep. "Whoa, heya, look at that, it's Derpy!" she distracts, hoofing the bottle over to the mailmare. "It's a /great/ night isn't it, Derps?" She quickly whispers something about 'help me lug her home!' And then Dynamite Rave arrives. Oh boy. "Whoa, hey there Dynamite! A /great/ night, isn't it?" Rainbow_Dash guilty-grins.
Rarity does NOT relinquish her cough syrup! "NO! Itsh mine! You aren't even shick!" She whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiines, clinging tightly to the bottle with her magical embrace while trying to climb up straight enough to drink from the straw out of the top.
Derpy clambers on top of Rarity to try to weigh her down, also going for the cough syrup.
Narrowing his eyes slightly, Dynamite Rave says, "Rainbow Dash, may.. I have a word with you please?" He says in a calm demeanor as he settles himself back upon his haunches. Moonlight gleams off the gold and purple armor that he wears, causing it to twinkle in a few places. With a soft sigh, he lifts a golden shoed hoof up to rub at his eyes. ".. too damn late for this." He mutters under his breath.
Rainbow_Dash yelps in alarm as Rarity magicks the bottle out of her grasp. "A...great...night!" she grunts, flailing about. "A little busy here, Dynamite!" she yelps, trying to shove Rarity's head away from the straw. At that point she gets desperate: time to try out that new trick she's been working out. Lifting her wings up, she slowly undulates them, trying to generate a vortex to suck the bottle out of Rarity's grasp.
Derpy licks her lips while she stretches out a foreleg and reeeaches for the bottle, extended on Rarity's back. She's almost got it...!
Rarity sniffles, and tries to burst into a trot and into her home! She's on the doorstep after all, but she tumbles forward, tripping over the front step and lands in a heap on the floor- the bottle of cough syrup hovering upright still. She more than likely stumbled into Derpy at the sametime. "I'm SHICK! You ponies shall be the deaf of me!"
Somewhere off in the back of the market, Fluttershy rolls by on a quartet of hoof-tailored roller skates. "I-I don't know, Ms. Ladybug," she says, apparently talking to herself. "I think if you really love somepony, you should set them..." She rolls out of view...then backwards, staring at the scene in progress. "Rarity?"
<OOC> Bardigan says, "Applejack should be all "You got drunk and it wasn't even on MY CIDER? How dare you!""
There is a wrap of magic around the bottle as Dynamite Rave yanks it over to him in midair, then stuffs it into his saddlebag. He has a look in his eyes, firm, unamused. "Rainbow Dash, it is almost midnight. If you're Rarity's designated.. flier.. I'm not sure if this is considered a success. If she is that sick, she should be at the hospital. Do I need to wake the Doc?" He asks as he trots over to try and help the cyan colored pegasus in surely helping Rarity up to her hooves.
It's a nice night. Calm, twinkling stars speckle the velvet sky and a gentle breeze blows. So it make no sense that Applejack couldn't sleep, but not everything always makes sense. Idly walking into town to see if she could tire herself out, she noticed that there seemed to be a bit of a stir building itself up in the marketplace. A stir centered on a familiar white form. "What in tarnation...?" she mutters to herself, then breaks into a canter and runs up to the others. "Rarity? Rainbow! What the hay's goin' on? Are y'all okay?" in her haste she doesn't even NOTICE the guardspony, and accidentally flankbumps him hard on her way through!
Derpy collapses to the ground once Rarity makes it home and the bottle is snatched by the guard. She looks sad--she almost had it!
Rainbow_Dash reels back and almost trips when Rarity breaks through her formative vortex and rushes into the Boutique. "Don't look at me, Dynamite, I found her like this!" she declares. "Plus...I think she just /came/ from the hospital." She takes a good look at Applejack, breathing a sigh of relief. "AJ, you gotta help me put Rarity in bed before she wrecks...something!"
Rarity climbs her to hooves and wobbles a moment. "I shall go to bed, p, promptly, once you've returned teeling me my packeries are delivered to the right owners. "She stammers, and reaches forward the bottle of cough syrup again, falling over once more, trying to grasp it back to her!
"I am sure if she just came from the hospital, there is no way she'd be this drunk off of.. what was that? Cough syrup? And also no way Doctor Rising Dawn if he was on duty would allow her to be in such a state." Dynamite frowns visibly before he is knocked off course by the charging bull that is Apple Jack. Frustration wells up within him. With a glow of his magic once again, he looks to open the door of the boutique. "Rainbow, I'm serious here.. she may need her stomach pumped if she tried to down the entire bottle. That's not safe for her. I mean.. the freaking hospital isn't even that far away. What'd she do? Take two steps out and shotgun it like a bottle of water?"
"Oh, Rarity." Flutters trots across the square, having apparently taken her skates off at some point; a small red speck can be seen departing her mane. "Are you okay? You seem a little...um--off-balance."
Derpy goes to Rarity, chin raised with professional pride, eyes only momentarily derpy. She places a fetlock solemnly against her chest. "Ev-e-ry package? Is correct add-e-ress," she assures the designer.
Applejack looks bewildered for a moment, then remembers herself enough to half-turn for a second and apologize to Dynamite. "Uh, sorry 'bout that, there." Then she turns back and looks to Rainbow. A dozen questions flit through her mind, but the one she actually asks is, "Right. Can y'all push her onto m' back?" AJ hunkers down near Rarity and tries to tug the unicorn onto her back. "Ah gotta say, if'n that's what happened here, th' guard's makin' a heap o' sense. Y'all SURE we shouldn't take her t' th' hospital?"
Rarity wobbles faintly and peers at Derpy...and then Dynamite, Rainbow, Fluttershy and bites along her lower lip. "I...I guess I, I got a little wounded up. I, I'm sorry everypony. "She stammers. "I wash so upshet I might break my record of getting my dresshesh to the cushtomers, I, I overworked myshelf. I...I should shend a little to princessh Cheslestia to tell her what I've learned today. Dear Princessh Chesleshtia..."And with that- Rarity face plants the floor- and snores quietly.
Rainbow_Dash stares as Rarity finally, /finally/ collapses. Well. "She'll be totally fine, honest!" says Rainbow Dash, who is not really so sure herself. "Look, I'm sure all she needs is some good R&R and she'll be totally fine in the morning! Now...we gotta get her into her bedroom upstairs." She does as AJ suggests, helping to load Rarity's delicate unicorn frame onto the earth-mare's back.
Derpy smiles at Rarity's letter and lies down next to her, snoring likewise. She's still awake, probably.
"I could just.. float her upstairs you know.. I mean.. unicorn? Hello.. I'm kinda useful here." Dynamite Rave says as he pushes the door open wider and holds it open for the mares. "Hi Fluttershy." He acknowledges the shy pony amidst all of the cacophony. "I'm still going to contact the Doc on duty and have them come over here." )
"Um." Fluttershy is a doctor, you know. "I-I could help look after her for a little while. I mean, Rarity is my friend, and...I-I just really feel like I should. ...if it's okay with Rarity."
Rarity says Zzzzzzzzzz
Applejack grunts - "Oof!" as Rarity faceplants. The farm pony's back might not be the softest of landings, but it's a darn sight better than the cobblestones. She shifts about, getting herself properly situated under Rarity as Rainbow levers her ito place. She slowly stands up, saying "Shh now, sugarcube. Just relax yerself." - despite the fact that Rarity is clearly beyond listening. She addresses Dynamite: "Beggin' yer pardon, but Ah think Ah'd rather trust m'own hooves than risk magic with mah friend. But that sounded like a dang fine idea, we'd be much obliged if'n y'all could send th' doc over this way. C'mon, Fluttershy, Ah'm sure she'd be fine with it."
"Yeah, well, I 'begging yah' pardon', but I am also Twilight Sparkle's Personal guard and Personal student. I'm pretty sure you can trust my magic. I'm only.. you know.. I'm not even gonna get into it." Dynamite Rave tries his best not to get frustrated, but he also knows Apple Jack. She's as stubborn as a hangnail on a griffon claw. "I'm at least staying here to help watch over her so that if I have to get the Doc I can. Part of my royal duties from Celestia is making sure the six of you don't.. you know.. blow up Ponyville, again." Babysitter of the Mane 6. Add that to his ever growing resume of grunt work that the Princesses have assigned to him.
Derpy continues to snooze blithely on the ground, her snoring exaggerated just a titch.
Rainbow_Dash blinks at Dynamite. "Oh! Uh, right..." She turns and finally notices Fluttershy. "Yo Flutters! Uh...some night this turned out to be, huh?" She turns to Dynamite next. "Uh, yeah, sorry about that, I don't think I've seen her like this before." And then finally Derpy. "Hey, Derps, thanks for-" And she's asleep too. Great. Rainbow yawns herself; she's /way/ too tired to really absorb the situation. She feels as if she's a distant participant in a remote scene. "Guys, I'll let you figure this out; I think Rarity's in safe hooves with you, uh...night!" She salutes weakly and ambles out the door, taking a deep breath from the clean night air. Some ponies are crazy!
Derpy isn't actually asleep. She thinks she's helping.
<OOC> You say, "LOL"
<OOC> Dynamite_Rave says, "XDD"
Aaaand down goes Rarity, right at Fluttershy's feet. "...oh my. I, um...oh dear. I wish Angel was here to help move her..." Flutters gently places a hoof over Rarity's forehead. "At least she doesn't feel...too feverish."
Applejack gives Dyamite a wry look. "Thank y'all so very, *very* kindly. Ah promise not t' blow up any buildin's on m'way t' Rarity's bedroom." So saying, she turns around and, good as her word, carries poor Rarity upstairs and tucks her into bed. She was about to ask Rainbow something - but FOOM, feathers and colors and no more pegasus! She sits there, concerned, looking between comatose Rarity and hovering Fluttershy. "Um. Flutters? Ah don't s'pose y'all might be able t'tell me... just what the hay's goin' on??"
Characters: Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Derpy, Dynamite Rave, Fluttershy, Applejack (player by Starlight)
Setting: One strange night, local seamstress Rarity stumbles about town in a very compromising state, driving her friends nuts
It's an odd sight- oh, goodness, yes. This evening, while most of Equestria seems to be preparing for bed, Lady Rarity is stumbling rather slowly along the market's routes- bumping into ponies on lazy evening walks home and offering a charming, if not slightly slurred giggle and apology. ...How...peculiar...?"
Rainbow_Dash isn't too sure why, but lately she's been staying up much later than she usually would. Maybe she's anxious about the upcoming battle with Discord, or maybe she's just generally restless thanks to the ennui of summer weather. As it is, she's gliding along above the rooftops of Ponyville, letting the cool night breeze caress her sun-seasoned wings. Wait, is that /Rarity/ down there? "Whoa, hold up!" she cries out, swirling around and down before coming to a hover by her friend. "Hey Rarity! Didn't expect to see you...out?" She tilts her head, noticing Rarity's very peculiar disposition. "Uh...Rarity...?"
Rarity stumbles forward with a sway in her hips, and a bobble in her tail, and her ears flicker towards the voice that calls her name with a lazy little tweak. "...HMmmmmm? Who's there?" She canters, peering to her left, and then her right, and th- EEEK! " Y, YOU! It's...it's um........Raaaaaaainbow Dash!" She says, and then bursts into quiet giggles, reaching a hoof out to bat at the hovering pony. "Heeheeheeheeeee*Snort* Tee heeeee, Rainbow Dash, *snicker* What are you DOING out here, darling? It's...It's ...well...we're outside, aren't we?" She bursts into giggles again.
Rainbow_Dash frowns. Did Rarity let herself go in one of those fancy parties? Whatever the case, she's gotta help her out. "Look, uh, Rarity, whhyyy don't I help you get home, eh?" She guilty-grins and lands right beside her friend, leaning in close to provide support (she makes a silent 'blegh' expression at the smell of alcohol). "So...where you been?"
Rarity wobbles there for a moment, peering at the flying pony before her expression turns to curiosity and she slowly shakes her head. "I...Oh, no, no, no, darling, I mustn't! I've a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery important deed to deed, you seed. See, ahem. Oh. My. "She grins and straights her posture (although she's still quite wobbily.) Y, you see IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII am......." She trails off, looking dreadfully confused before her eyes light up. "I wash, I, Y, you see...I...Oh, no, no, I wash working, very very, VEEEERY hard on a number of those things I make. And, I have...haff...HAD darling, a DREADFUL cold! I couldn't get ...um...I couldn't fishes the projectsh coughing and sneeshing, so, I...erm, talked to ...erh...nurse....um..." She trails off, waving a hoof to try and place then name before she finally shakes her head. "The nurse, who gave me shome cough syrup. "She explains, and reaches over to wrap an arm around Rainbow Dash, and offers the pegasus a hushed whisper. "...I...I think there was some........alcohol in it, dear."
Rainbow_Dash gawks as Rarity makes a complete fool of herself. Good thing it's late at night! "What, did you, like, drink a whole /tub/ of cough syrup?" she says, incredulous. "I mean, sheesh Rarity, I thought you had a bit more, you know, self-control?" She's not impressed, not impressed at all. In Weather Patrol camp, this would've earned you some time squeezing old storm clouds dry!
Rarity looks utterly insulted and HUMPHS, standing up straight as she can. "I...I know what you're thinking, Dainbow Rash, and I am NOT drunk! HUMPH! I am a pony of...importance! EVERYPONY lovesh MY dressesh! If I haff a DEADLINE to meet, I can't go lashing about until the last minute and do it all in ten sexons flat! "She snorts. "SOME of us don't haff SUPER SPEED and SOME of us haff to budget, our, commitments." She grumbles, launching herself up and off of Rainbow Dash to stagger towards a nearby house. She peers at the address on the mail box for a few moments, blinks, peers, blinks peers, blinks, peers, and then blinks, peers, blinks, peers, blinks and peers. "I drank ash much ash I needed to, to fishes my customers orders. I get my work done on time! No excheptions! E, even when you've...running...a dreadful fever and can't...hold onto your lunch...But I'm FINE darling. I jush made shome deliveriesh, and, now I'm...double checksings before heading home. "She stammers, and then peers at the Address again. "Can you read thish for me?" She cooes. It is a fire hydrant.
Rainbow_Dash quickly sidles over and gently, gently nudges Rarity in the right direction towards the Carousel Boutique. "Uh...Rarity, that's a fire hydrant," she points out facetiously, struck with an awful dread that this isn't going to be the first infraction of social norms that she'll witness tonight.
Rarity stares at the hydrant for a few seconds along and then turns towards Rainbow Dash. "...So it is. Well! Rrrrrrrainbow Dash. It's...It's been awfully lovely t, talking wiff you. But I REALLY mush be getting home, darling. After my deliveriesh, of course." She insists, and gives a quiet giggle. "To think, Nurse.....nurse........nurse Nurse wanted me to take the rest of the evening off! O, observeded! ...ab...absorbed. ...HUMPH. "She snorts and staggers off down the street, pauses, looking up at one street sign, peers at it, blinks, peers at it, blinks, peers at it, blinks, and then twists around and starts in the opposite direction.
<OOC> Starlight wows and starts looking up treatments for acute alcohol poisoning. In her sleep, because little fillies are in bed at this hour...
<OOC> Bardigan totally did not come here to point and laugh.
Rainbow_Dash furrows her brow in acute disapproval, wondering just what she did to deserve this. She has half the mind to let Rarity stumble around all night; that'll teach her to get stupid-drunk on cough syrup! But, of course, being a Loyal friend she must oblige herself to keeping Rarity out of harm's way. "How about I help you with that delivery stuff, like...later, after you've slept this off?" She continues to nudge Rarity along the correct path, even using her hoof to tap Rarity on the shoulder so that she unconsciously tuns in the right direction. Yeesh, what is this, leading barn animals?
<OOC> Rainbow_Dash shoves Bardy :u
Rarity giggles quietly and turns towards Rainbow Dash. "Awww, t, th, thats sho sweet. That is sho sweet. Awwww, W, well then, Rainbow...Dash. Yoooooou, can help me. "She says as-a-matter-of-factly. "But the orders were due tonight. I fishesed all of them, but I'm afraid Deeeerpy may have messehed up my orderies. ...So I haff to check. "She explains, pauses and hacks hard enough that she might cough up a lung. Dear Celestia, does she have horn rot or something?! "...I need more cough syrup. "She mumbles, and stumbles towards the closest of stable objects- which happens to be a gate. "Ahhh, um...Dish is ...124...Seed street, right? ...Sure. Rainbow, there shoooould be a box there that readsh 124 sheed street, isn't there? On, on there...on door...step...thingie...?"
<OOC> Starlight agrees. Rainbow Dash has half a mind.
<OOC> Starlight dodges pre-emptively.
<OOC> Rarity bursts into giggles
<OOC> Rainbow_Dash ADCPKTGb
<OOC> Starlight assumes that was a noise of terrible indignation. Sometimes it's so very hard to tell, dear. ._.
"Trust me, whatever, uh, /issues/ Derpy has, mail isn't one of them." Sure, they had to instruct the apparent dim pegamare with pictographs, but hey, she got things done! Rainbow Dash reels back as Rarity suddenly hacks and coughs, for a moment pondering the possibility that the unicorn might've caught something from one of the hospital patients. "Rarity...we're still on the main road," she observes, blandness concealing her frustration.
Rarity blinks again and shakes her head, suddenly bursting into tears. "I...I don't feel sho good, Rainbow Dash. Darling...I, I think I need jor help. "She laments, shakes her head and blinks her eyes. "I haff a most...most expenshive record to upholds. It is very, very, VERY, very important that I keep my cushtomers happy. Can't...can't...musn't be late with the um....thingsh. "She says quietly. "Wouldja go to my boutique, and get the lisht, and make SHOOR the packagesh got to the right houshes? I'm...I can trusht you, right? Right? Rainbow? Right? Y, you're the element of....of um....uh....
<OOC> Bardigan says, "Blark."
<OOC> Bardigan says, "She is the Element of Blark."
<OOC> Starlight says, "She's the one who says whatever comes to mind and wears her hear ton her sleeve. So, Loyalty."
<OOC> Starlight oh right, blarkium. Right after manganese, how could she forget?
<OOC> Bardigan says, "It's why she makes so many funny noises."
<OOC> Starlight says, "Radium indium boron oxygen tungsten deuterium arsenic hydrogen."
<OOC> Rarity says, "speak of the dreamy eyed mare..."
"Right now I'm the Element of Gets Your Flanks Back Home," Rainbow Dash quips. "Steady, now, OK? We're almost there." She guides Rarity around the curve, and sure enough the Carousel Boutique is right there at the end of the path. "Look, the list is right there! I can see it!" Well, if that gets her moving faster then it can't be a stupid idea!
Rarity grumbles as she stumbles along. "Y, you promish me, Rainbow Dash! I, I won't get any rest until I know t, the boxhesesesh are at the right addresshesh. I, I mean I don't mistrusht Derpy, darling. I really don't! B, but I've been w, waiting for my copies of Shensual Stallionsh for MONTHS and I haven't rechieved them! What if she STOLE them? J, jusht double check, Dashie...pleashe? For me? I promish I'll...I'll go straight home...y, you're the fashtest pony I know, I, I really s, should have ashked you firsht...
<OOC> Derpy says, "How is go?"
<OOC> Starlight sidles up to Derpy. "Did you steal her sensual stallion serial, seriously?"
<OOC> Derpy looks almost sly as she draws closer and eventually answers: "Sometimes!"
<OOC> Starlight says, "Is go wobble bobble whoopsie or home-arghing!"
<OOC> Starlight says, "Sneaky!"
<OOC> Derpy looks around in confusion.
Rainbow_Dash: blushes deeply. "Sensual WHAT!?" she exclaims, so alarmed that a few of the scattered ponies about town peer at her strangely. Oops! "Uh, I mean...right, right, I get ya. I don't Derpy's the, uh, type for that." She grimaces as she places a foreleg on Rarity's withers, using her own wings to support her weight as she guides Rarity closer to home. "Hey, we're almost there; maybe you can check yourself!"
Rarity shakes her head. "N, no darling, Senshual Stallionsh isn't there. It hasn't been for Monthsh. "She pouts. "B, but you MUSHT get the lisht and check that each boxes wash sent where it wash supposed to go! You MUSHT! YOU MUSHT!! YOU! MUSHT!! Darling, I, I BEG of you!!" She sputters
<OOC> Starlight says, "Ohs and noes! Incoming twelves at Derpy o'clock!"
Derpy happens to amble by at that moment, catching the wind for only a second at a time, wings outstretched but mostly only trotting. She has on her little green postal cap, but isn't carrying her mailbags at the moment. Now and then she sings a few notes that one might recognize as being from the "Pony of Steel" theme song.
<OOC> Starlight o/` The hero of Canton, the pony called Jayne... o/`
"Don't worry, we'll figure out this list of yours in a jiff," says Rainbow Dash, exerting more effort to keep Rarity steady. "Hey...hey YOU!" she shouts at Derpy, pointing at her in an almost accusative fashion. "Help me out will ya?"
Derpy looks astonished, opening her mouth in an "o" shape. She points questioningly with a forehoof at her own chest. Mee??
Rarity stands wobbling for a moment before she turns, and marches over towards Derpy, at least she tries, stumbling forward and tripping over her own hooves. "YOU...YOU stole my Magazines y, y, you bubbleheaded..."She trails off in the middle of her sentence to SLuuuuuuuuuuuurp at a hovering bottle of cough syrup that's suddenly floating next to her.
There has been a few murmurs going through town and it finally reached the ears of Dynamite Rave. Frowning visibly as he heads into the market, the young royal guard looks none too pleased. It's far, far too late to have ponies banging on the door, complaining about this racket. There is a burst of light from his horn as it sizzles with his natural magic, followed by a loud clear of the throat as he looks from the inebriated Rarity, to Derpy, then finally to Rainbow Dash.
Derpy looks rather affronted at Rarity's demeanor. She leans back... way back. "Raare-ty?" she asks. The pegasus dinks a hoof at the floating cough syrup. -Tink!- "~Never~ stolen!" she objects. She flinches at the sudden arrival of another unicorn, but then stares at the guard in wonder.
Rainbow_Dash's eyes snap open wide and she quickly lunges for the bottle, snatching it from Rarity's hooves before she delves in to deep. "Whoa, heya, look at that, it's Derpy!" she distracts, hoofing the bottle over to the mailmare. "It's a /great/ night isn't it, Derps?" She quickly whispers something about 'help me lug her home!' And then Dynamite Rave arrives. Oh boy. "Whoa, hey there Dynamite! A /great/ night, isn't it?" Rainbow_Dash guilty-grins.
Rarity does NOT relinquish her cough syrup! "NO! Itsh mine! You aren't even shick!" She whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiines, clinging tightly to the bottle with her magical embrace while trying to climb up straight enough to drink from the straw out of the top.
Derpy clambers on top of Rarity to try to weigh her down, also going for the cough syrup.
Narrowing his eyes slightly, Dynamite Rave says, "Rainbow Dash, may.. I have a word with you please?" He says in a calm demeanor as he settles himself back upon his haunches. Moonlight gleams off the gold and purple armor that he wears, causing it to twinkle in a few places. With a soft sigh, he lifts a golden shoed hoof up to rub at his eyes. ".. too damn late for this." He mutters under his breath.
Rainbow_Dash yelps in alarm as Rarity magicks the bottle out of her grasp. "A...great...night!" she grunts, flailing about. "A little busy here, Dynamite!" she yelps, trying to shove Rarity's head away from the straw. At that point she gets desperate: time to try out that new trick she's been working out. Lifting her wings up, she slowly undulates them, trying to generate a vortex to suck the bottle out of Rarity's grasp.
Derpy licks her lips while she stretches out a foreleg and reeeaches for the bottle, extended on Rarity's back. She's almost got it...!
Rarity sniffles, and tries to burst into a trot and into her home! She's on the doorstep after all, but she tumbles forward, tripping over the front step and lands in a heap on the floor- the bottle of cough syrup hovering upright still. She more than likely stumbled into Derpy at the sametime. "I'm SHICK! You ponies shall be the deaf of me!"
Somewhere off in the back of the market, Fluttershy rolls by on a quartet of hoof-tailored roller skates. "I-I don't know, Ms. Ladybug," she says, apparently talking to herself. "I think if you really love somepony, you should set them..." She rolls out of view...then backwards, staring at the scene in progress. "Rarity?"
<OOC> Bardigan says, "Applejack should be all "You got drunk and it wasn't even on MY CIDER? How dare you!""
There is a wrap of magic around the bottle as Dynamite Rave yanks it over to him in midair, then stuffs it into his saddlebag. He has a look in his eyes, firm, unamused. "Rainbow Dash, it is almost midnight. If you're Rarity's designated.. flier.. I'm not sure if this is considered a success. If she is that sick, she should be at the hospital. Do I need to wake the Doc?" He asks as he trots over to try and help the cyan colored pegasus in surely helping Rarity up to her hooves.
It's a nice night. Calm, twinkling stars speckle the velvet sky and a gentle breeze blows. So it make no sense that Applejack couldn't sleep, but not everything always makes sense. Idly walking into town to see if she could tire herself out, she noticed that there seemed to be a bit of a stir building itself up in the marketplace. A stir centered on a familiar white form. "What in tarnation...?" she mutters to herself, then breaks into a canter and runs up to the others. "Rarity? Rainbow! What the hay's goin' on? Are y'all okay?" in her haste she doesn't even NOTICE the guardspony, and accidentally flankbumps him hard on her way through!
Derpy collapses to the ground once Rarity makes it home and the bottle is snatched by the guard. She looks sad--she almost had it!
Rainbow_Dash reels back and almost trips when Rarity breaks through her formative vortex and rushes into the Boutique. "Don't look at me, Dynamite, I found her like this!" she declares. "Plus...I think she just /came/ from the hospital." She takes a good look at Applejack, breathing a sigh of relief. "AJ, you gotta help me put Rarity in bed before she wrecks...something!"
Rarity climbs her to hooves and wobbles a moment. "I shall go to bed, p, promptly, once you've returned teeling me my packeries are delivered to the right owners. "She stammers, and reaches forward the bottle of cough syrup again, falling over once more, trying to grasp it back to her!
"I am sure if she just came from the hospital, there is no way she'd be this drunk off of.. what was that? Cough syrup? And also no way Doctor Rising Dawn if he was on duty would allow her to be in such a state." Dynamite frowns visibly before he is knocked off course by the charging bull that is Apple Jack. Frustration wells up within him. With a glow of his magic once again, he looks to open the door of the boutique. "Rainbow, I'm serious here.. she may need her stomach pumped if she tried to down the entire bottle. That's not safe for her. I mean.. the freaking hospital isn't even that far away. What'd she do? Take two steps out and shotgun it like a bottle of water?"
"Oh, Rarity." Flutters trots across the square, having apparently taken her skates off at some point; a small red speck can be seen departing her mane. "Are you okay? You seem a little...um--off-balance."
Derpy goes to Rarity, chin raised with professional pride, eyes only momentarily derpy. She places a fetlock solemnly against her chest. "Ev-e-ry package? Is correct add-e-ress," she assures the designer.
Applejack looks bewildered for a moment, then remembers herself enough to half-turn for a second and apologize to Dynamite. "Uh, sorry 'bout that, there." Then she turns back and looks to Rainbow. A dozen questions flit through her mind, but the one she actually asks is, "Right. Can y'all push her onto m' back?" AJ hunkers down near Rarity and tries to tug the unicorn onto her back. "Ah gotta say, if'n that's what happened here, th' guard's makin' a heap o' sense. Y'all SURE we shouldn't take her t' th' hospital?"
Rarity wobbles faintly and peers at Derpy...and then Dynamite, Rainbow, Fluttershy and bites along her lower lip. "I...I guess I, I got a little wounded up. I, I'm sorry everypony. "She stammers. "I wash so upshet I might break my record of getting my dresshesh to the cushtomers, I, I overworked myshelf. I...I should shend a little to princessh Cheslestia to tell her what I've learned today. Dear Princessh Chesleshtia..."And with that- Rarity face plants the floor- and snores quietly.
Rainbow_Dash stares as Rarity finally, /finally/ collapses. Well. "She'll be totally fine, honest!" says Rainbow Dash, who is not really so sure herself. "Look, I'm sure all she needs is some good R&R and she'll be totally fine in the morning! Now...we gotta get her into her bedroom upstairs." She does as AJ suggests, helping to load Rarity's delicate unicorn frame onto the earth-mare's back.
Derpy smiles at Rarity's letter and lies down next to her, snoring likewise. She's still awake, probably.
"I could just.. float her upstairs you know.. I mean.. unicorn? Hello.. I'm kinda useful here." Dynamite Rave says as he pushes the door open wider and holds it open for the mares. "Hi Fluttershy." He acknowledges the shy pony amidst all of the cacophony. "I'm still going to contact the Doc on duty and have them come over here." )
"Um." Fluttershy is a doctor, you know. "I-I could help look after her for a little while. I mean, Rarity is my friend, and...I-I just really feel like I should. ...if it's okay with Rarity."
Rarity says Zzzzzzzzzz
Applejack grunts - "Oof!" as Rarity faceplants. The farm pony's back might not be the softest of landings, but it's a darn sight better than the cobblestones. She shifts about, getting herself properly situated under Rarity as Rainbow levers her ito place. She slowly stands up, saying "Shh now, sugarcube. Just relax yerself." - despite the fact that Rarity is clearly beyond listening. She addresses Dynamite: "Beggin' yer pardon, but Ah think Ah'd rather trust m'own hooves than risk magic with mah friend. But that sounded like a dang fine idea, we'd be much obliged if'n y'all could send th' doc over this way. C'mon, Fluttershy, Ah'm sure she'd be fine with it."
"Yeah, well, I 'begging yah' pardon', but I am also Twilight Sparkle's Personal guard and Personal student. I'm pretty sure you can trust my magic. I'm only.. you know.. I'm not even gonna get into it." Dynamite Rave tries his best not to get frustrated, but he also knows Apple Jack. She's as stubborn as a hangnail on a griffon claw. "I'm at least staying here to help watch over her so that if I have to get the Doc I can. Part of my royal duties from Celestia is making sure the six of you don't.. you know.. blow up Ponyville, again." Babysitter of the Mane 6. Add that to his ever growing resume of grunt work that the Princesses have assigned to him.
Derpy continues to snooze blithely on the ground, her snoring exaggerated just a titch.
Rainbow_Dash blinks at Dynamite. "Oh! Uh, right..." She turns and finally notices Fluttershy. "Yo Flutters! Uh...some night this turned out to be, huh?" She turns to Dynamite next. "Uh, yeah, sorry about that, I don't think I've seen her like this before." And then finally Derpy. "Hey, Derps, thanks for-" And she's asleep too. Great. Rainbow yawns herself; she's /way/ too tired to really absorb the situation. She feels as if she's a distant participant in a remote scene. "Guys, I'll let you figure this out; I think Rarity's in safe hooves with you, uh...night!" She salutes weakly and ambles out the door, taking a deep breath from the clean night air. Some ponies are crazy!
Derpy isn't actually asleep. She thinks she's helping.
<OOC> You say, "LOL"
<OOC> Dynamite_Rave says, "XDD"
Aaaand down goes Rarity, right at Fluttershy's feet. "...oh my. I, um...oh dear. I wish Angel was here to help move her..." Flutters gently places a hoof over Rarity's forehead. "At least she doesn't feel...too feverish."
Applejack gives Dyamite a wry look. "Thank y'all so very, *very* kindly. Ah promise not t' blow up any buildin's on m'way t' Rarity's bedroom." So saying, she turns around and, good as her word, carries poor Rarity upstairs and tucks her into bed. She was about to ask Rainbow something - but FOOM, feathers and colors and no more pegasus! She sits there, concerned, looking between comatose Rarity and hovering Fluttershy. "Um. Flutters? Ah don't s'pose y'all might be able t'tell me... just what the hay's goin' on??"