Game Night With Trixie and Starlight
Dec. 7th, 2016 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyWell, I can't top the party Pinkie threw yesterday, but my friends and I thought a nice quiet game night with snacks together with Trixie and Starlight Glimmer would be a good way to say thanks for saving our hides. Pinkie said we had Trixie on board at "snacks" and Starlight thought it was a good idea too.
Spike and I picked up some peppermint sticks at the bazaar, along with a jar of apple butter and a few bunches of carrots. Back at the castle he baked a few dozen oatmeal cookies and two loaves of lemon poppy seed bread. I got a few flakes of third cut hay out of the larder and Starlight Glimmer set up the tables, the cushions and got out the games. By the time Applejack arrived, with a fresh apple pie, the bread was coming out of the oven, the carrots had been cut into sticks, the cookies were piled high on a platter and I was brewing a big pot of mint tea.
I helped Spike and Starlight Glimmer carry all the food down to the mane hall. Pinkie bounced in with eighteen muffins, then Rainbow Dash arrived with hay crackers and silage sesame seed paste dip. Starlight went out to get Trixie, and while she was gone Rarity arrived with a box of sesame seed snaps, accompanied by Fluttershy who was carrying a basket of dried apple slices. We piled all the food on the table and sat down on the cushions to wait. Trixie announced that she and Starlight had arrived by setting off a smoke bomb. I discretely blew the smoke out the door before we all choked, and we all went over to the food table to fill our plates with snacks.
Rainbow Dash and Applejack naturally gravitated to the Ring Fling game and soon they were groaning or nickering in turn as the sharp crack of colliding wooden rings meant somepony had been knocked off the target. I challenged Starlight Glimmer to a game of Bookchase. Meanwhile, Spike and Pinkie were playing the Rope Rings game and Trixie, Fluttershy and Rarity were testing their skills at Bundle of Sticks. Trixie is amazingly good at the steady eye, muzzle coordination needed for Bundle of Sticks! I think she won every round. It must be her traveling showmare magician skill that gives her the edge. I think she may even be good enough to beat Zecora.
Starlight Glimmer almost beat me at Bookchase. I caught her taking notes on which books to read... I might need to get an expanded edition with more obscure references to Starswirl's lesser known scrolls if I don't want to get pummeled next game.
We all had a good time. I even played a round of Ring Fling against Starlight Glimmer. We're both very bad at it. Then Trixie played against Dash. That was intense. Trixie beat Dash and Dash couldn't believe her eyes, Trixie's throws were always right on the money. She's really nimble with her hooves. But it was high time for everypony to turn in, we were all still a bit worn from yesterday's party, so Dash did not get her chance for a best two out of three series.
Starlight thankfully convinced Trixie to not set off another smoke bomb on her way out.
Spike and I picked up some peppermint sticks at the bazaar, along with a jar of apple butter and a few bunches of carrots. Back at the castle he baked a few dozen oatmeal cookies and two loaves of lemon poppy seed bread. I got a few flakes of third cut hay out of the larder and Starlight Glimmer set up the tables, the cushions and got out the games. By the time Applejack arrived, with a fresh apple pie, the bread was coming out of the oven, the carrots had been cut into sticks, the cookies were piled high on a platter and I was brewing a big pot of mint tea.
I helped Spike and Starlight Glimmer carry all the food down to the mane hall. Pinkie bounced in with eighteen muffins, then Rainbow Dash arrived with hay crackers and silage sesame seed paste dip. Starlight went out to get Trixie, and while she was gone Rarity arrived with a box of sesame seed snaps, accompanied by Fluttershy who was carrying a basket of dried apple slices. We piled all the food on the table and sat down on the cushions to wait. Trixie announced that she and Starlight had arrived by setting off a smoke bomb. I discretely blew the smoke out the door before we all choked, and we all went over to the food table to fill our plates with snacks.
Rainbow Dash and Applejack naturally gravitated to the Ring Fling game and soon they were groaning or nickering in turn as the sharp crack of colliding wooden rings meant somepony had been knocked off the target. I challenged Starlight Glimmer to a game of Bookchase. Meanwhile, Spike and Pinkie were playing the Rope Rings game and Trixie, Fluttershy and Rarity were testing their skills at Bundle of Sticks. Trixie is amazingly good at the steady eye, muzzle coordination needed for Bundle of Sticks! I think she won every round. It must be her traveling showmare magician skill that gives her the edge. I think she may even be good enough to beat Zecora.
Starlight Glimmer almost beat me at Bookchase. I caught her taking notes on which books to read... I might need to get an expanded edition with more obscure references to Starswirl's lesser known scrolls if I don't want to get pummeled next game.
We all had a good time. I even played a round of Ring Fling against Starlight Glimmer. We're both very bad at it. Then Trixie played against Dash. That was intense. Trixie beat Dash and Dash couldn't believe her eyes, Trixie's throws were always right on the money. She's really nimble with her hooves. But it was high time for everypony to turn in, we were all still a bit worn from yesterday's party, so Dash did not get her chance for a best two out of three series.
Starlight thankfully convinced Trixie to not set off another smoke bomb on her way out.
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Date: 2016-12-12 01:23 am (UTC)