The Trotting Dead - s0e000 - Prologue

[21:14]<EchoesOfDeath>	The Trotting Dead - Season 0 - Episode #000 - Prologue
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[21:18]<DontAskForCookies>	Swift Hurddle is preparing for a big track meet against the schools main rival. He soon begins a very harsh training regime to make sure and performe better than the year before which was a huge embarasment. Throwing himself into training he improves quickly but starts to overstrain himself, negativly effecting his health, social life, and grades.
[21:33]<NitoKa>	Star Spotter, the teacher for the Astrology course at Swift Hurddle's instutite of learning, notices he is skipping out on assignments, falling asleep in class, and sometimes skipping it altogether. Worried for the sake of her student, she sits him down one day after class and asks him about these behaviors, wondering if something is wrong in his life to make him unfocused on his studies
[21:47]<HectorSmash>	Swift takes the long way home after Star's intervention, cutting through a forest to try and clear his mind. He'd told Star he would take better care of himself - but in his heart, he wanted to succeed at his sport more than anything. Backlash spots him meandering through her remote glade and asks about what's on his mind. Startled, but grateful for the company, he tells her about the choice he has to make. She tells him to just
[21:47]<HectorSmash>	relax, and take things as they come - there's no need to make a choice here. He departs, unsure of how he's supposed to take major life decisions easy, but willing to give it a try if it means it'll put him more at ease.
[22:08]?	NitoKa had decided that for a couple of days, she would take her class out near night time to go and examine the stars in the forest's night sky, as a better hooves on learning experience that would be both fun and entertaining. She herself would easily be able to navigate through the stars, however, she hadn't accounted on her students ability to navigate
[22:28]<Tennisdude>	Cambiance, one of Star Spotter’s students, goes on with the astrology “field trips” with reluctance, not relishing the idea of going into a forest at night for several days.  A few days in, unused to the silence of the forest and on edge from the music gigs she has missed, Cambiance bolts after hearing a sudden sound in the forest.  Star Spotter, fortunately, spots Cambiance’s flight from the corner of her eye, and (of course)
[22:28]<Tennisdude>	After a tense chase, Star Spotter is able to get to her frazzled student, who, despite being a proud “good student”, resolves to skip out on the rest of these nighttime exercises.  Star Spotter is disappointed, but doesn’t judge her student too harshly, given her normally stellar track record.
[22:39]<HectorSmash>	Backlash watches the two chat from the shadows - any sort of foreign movement in her home is easily tracked - and approaches Star after Cambiance takes off. She approaches the teacher carefully, and after another short-lived start, suggests that Star try and communicate with her student. That is, figure out why she wants to skip out on the exercises, rather than try and persuade her not to. Taken a little off-guard, Star leaves t
[22:39]<HectorSmash>	he stranger with a polite but nervous goodbye.
[22:52]<HectorSmash>	While on one of her sporadic trips to town, Backlash stops into a small cafe near the school. The pony in front of her trots inside and lets the door shut right in her face. How rude! She barges in behind them and gets into a heated argument about basic courtesy.
[22:57]<NitoKa>	Star comes into the Cafe as the arguement is going on, moving and interupting it. She delagates between the two, telling both how they could have handled this better, telling Backlash that she herself should gain some basic courtesy to simply just tell the pony what she did was a bit rude, and she tells the pony that she should be more careful of the ponies around her and what she does. She leaves them after getting a pumpkin latte,
[23:02]?	DontAskForCookies is assamed for how rude he was and decides to try and be much more observant about his surroundings from that day forward and not risk the ire of hermit ponies or his teacher.