Game Night
Mar. 16th, 2015 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyWe got together for an impromptu supper and game night in our Friendship Treecastle. Spike and I threw together a big mixed hay salad and some hot sugar beet pulp soup, a big bowl of alfalfa cubes, a smaller bowl of peppermint sticks and sugar cubes, and a whole lot of mint tea, just in time for our friends to arrive.
I had the food and dishes displayed on one table and the games on another. We were going to have fun, fun, fun! By the book! I had Bookchase, Ring Fling, Bundle of Sticks, Tangle, Piaffle, Rope Rings and lots of quills, ink and scrolls for score keeping and for more games like Tic Tac Toe and Bulls and Cows.
The long smooth surface of the mane hallway is perfect for Ring Fling, and after wiping the tracked snow off the hard rock floor, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were already at it, with Spike waiting to challenge the winner. In Ring Fling, the object is to make flat wooden rings slide and stop as close as possible to a target 10 pony lengths away. Applejack had suggested horse shoes, but sand and dings from flying shoes in the hall, not a good idea. The wooden rings are propelled with a hoof-tip in the ring and a swing of the leg. A felt cushion makes them slide easily and they give a satisfying tok! sound when they knock other rings off the target. Rarity bought this set last time we were in Canterlot with just this in mind.
Everypony helped themselves to the food and we got down to gaming. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and I settled on the Bundle of Sticks game which we set up on a low table to one side. I'm useless at these skill games but Rarity and Fluttershy were really good at pulling out the colored sticks without letting the structure collapse. Mouths only, no wings or horns allowed! It was tough holding my head sideways to try and reach the white sticks without brushing against them with my mane.
Later Rarity and Spike were battling it out at the Ring Fling, I was dueling with Applejack over Bulls and Cows and the others had started a game of Rope Rings, with a bird bath as the target.
Everypony has gone home now but we had lots of fun. Game night was a success!
I had the food and dishes displayed on one table and the games on another. We were going to have fun, fun, fun! By the book! I had Bookchase, Ring Fling, Bundle of Sticks, Tangle, Piaffle, Rope Rings and lots of quills, ink and scrolls for score keeping and for more games like Tic Tac Toe and Bulls and Cows.
The long smooth surface of the mane hallway is perfect for Ring Fling, and after wiping the tracked snow off the hard rock floor, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were already at it, with Spike waiting to challenge the winner. In Ring Fling, the object is to make flat wooden rings slide and stop as close as possible to a target 10 pony lengths away. Applejack had suggested horse shoes, but sand and dings from flying shoes in the hall, not a good idea. The wooden rings are propelled with a hoof-tip in the ring and a swing of the leg. A felt cushion makes them slide easily and they give a satisfying tok! sound when they knock other rings off the target. Rarity bought this set last time we were in Canterlot with just this in mind.
Everypony helped themselves to the food and we got down to gaming. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and I settled on the Bundle of Sticks game which we set up on a low table to one side. I'm useless at these skill games but Rarity and Fluttershy were really good at pulling out the colored sticks without letting the structure collapse. Mouths only, no wings or horns allowed! It was tough holding my head sideways to try and reach the white sticks without brushing against them with my mane.
Later Rarity and Spike were battling it out at the Ring Fling, I was dueling with Applejack over Bulls and Cows and the others had started a game of Rope Rings, with a bird bath as the target.
Everypony has gone home now but we had lots of fun. Game night was a success!
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Date: 2015-03-17 02:50 am (UTC)And those sound like some fun games!
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Date: 2015-03-17 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-18 02:56 am (UTC)And maybe an exception to that would be she's only good with Daring Do triva.