Peach's summary in your face!

A bunch of us decided we were going to Peach's and a Facebook event was made. Then more people began to RSVP and we began to wonder if Peach's will be accommodating.

We found out they were more than accommodating and they were such lovely folks for allowing us to take up eight tables worth of space. All chairs were taken. Shams joined the party in spirit with his name hastily written on a napkin since he couldn't make it. People ordered food, and a random Red Velvet cake was being passed around. Because nobody had a plate, but plenty of knives and forks, a good percentage just ate it straight off the plate, and a few people forewent the knives and forks. And yes, there were more than a few Portal jokes being tossed around. It's inevitable.

After much cake consumption and many had paid for their bills, a few of us that were more claustrophobic decided going to the park was our next venture. However the lull of a comic shop was much stronger. After loitering and ransacking the establishment's Pony merch, we decide to follow the rest of the people to the park.

The park, was more or less a skate park, and a few decided parkour was the mane event, including Kanke's epic fail with heelies. Razor pulled up Gangnam Style on his laptop and people danced to that. People were declared OTPs of each other, and random spooning (for warmth, they said!) on cold concrete was had.

It was decided a warmer establishment was needed since the sun had gone down officially and winter decided it wanted to join in on our fun. A few people tried to navigate sites that weren't meant for mobile use to find a nearby hotel that would at least fit our needs. Barring that, they decided that a Walmart was the next best thing. Since apparently all hotels were booked for some random hotel thing that was never advertised anywhere, a bunch went to Walmart because what else is there to do at 8 at night?

(The next bit is written by TwilightZora as some of us had decided going home at a reasonable hour since 6 AM happens. According to Zora:)

On the way, we missed Walmart. It was hilarious. I walked in, only girl surrounded by guys (later the others came up). We met in the little girls isle, observed ponies, then odd girls toys. Continued by taking pictures, going around... walking. Played (find Zora) no one found me, got bored.. Found them. sat at Subway in Walmart till it closed at 11 PM, THEN we stood next to subway till midnight, then jumped Brick's car, and went home.

— chaoticpix93 and TwilightZora

Cedar Point Summary

This weekend, we got to meet some of our neighbors from the north. Hello, Michigan Bronies! You guys are always welcome in our shed. We had about 30 people in our group at Cedar Point, and many of us were brohoofed by others at the park. The whole weekend was tremendous fun, and we'll definitely be doing this sort of thing again at some point.

Along with this writeup, here's some more photos. The platefics will be posted on this blog separately once they're transcribed.

Notable Quotes:

“I’ll acquire your satellites!” – Edinpony
“Are you bronies? What’s your favorite brony, uh, horse?” – Random Cedar Point girl
“I have a Vegeta forehead.” – DashAttack
“Oh wow, REAL BRONIES!” – Another random person

Dayton Meetup Summary

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Nightmare Night Party Writeup

Nightmare Night, a time of candy, fear, and hoping that Nightmare Moon won't gobble you up. But in a small house in Springfield OH, Nightmare Moon dare not enter. For in this very house Pinkamena Diane Pie and her young apprentice Scootaloo gathered several unsuspecting Bronies. They hired a member of the New Lunar Republic to aid them in their endeavors. His code name in the NLR is Loki, but the Bronies know him simply as Kilt. He arrived Wednesday morning and from there they planned the demise of several Bronies. The rest of the Bronies arrived on Friday expecting to be enjoying a “party”, but in reality they were going to be poisoned by a slew of alcoholic beverages. Some mixed drinks known as the “Derpy”, “Spike”, and even one known as a “Pinkie Pie” were a part of the menu. Edin Pony and Vinyl Scratch took to these drinks greedily and they were defeated immediately. Vinyl Scratch lay on the ground and slept, Kilt took care to make sure he remained alive... for now. Edin Pony, realizing that this was a trap, began to fight back. He threw various F-bombs and began chanting the call of “Who is best pony”.  Discord almost fell victim to the drinks as well, but he grew wise of the other Chaos God's ploys and stopped himself before he lost his wits. Octavia was skeptical at first, but he soon joined in the “fun and games” and became intoxicated as well. In order to remain inconspicuous Scootaloo also accepted a mixed drink from Kilt.

Season premiere party writeup

sweepover by seniorpony

[Argembarger kindly composed this nice writeup for the premiere party. I think it's a fair representation of all of the fun events that transpired during the weekend. Apologies for the delay in posting it!]

tl;dr:
Friday - Youtube Poops; Fanfic Readings; a wild Kilt appeared; Grilling; and TROLL 2
Saturday - New Pony Ep THREE TIMES! (YAY and NOOO when we first started with laggy stream); Olive Garden; Pony Shopping; Singing; Cupcake Vodka!!
Sunday - Steak and Shake; Halloween Store

Stuff happened.

Until we finally get the writeups for the last two meetups written, I guess this will do.

The season premiere party turned out great, and about 20 people came to it. We watched the first episode a bunch of times, despite many technical challenges of the stream cutting out and being all derpy. We also had a singalong of pretty much every song, and went on a couple of adventures. All in all, it was a great weekend.

The RenFest meetup was also a lot of fun. Peanut Bucker got a ton of attention and comments. Our group also got some notice and after the village closed, we ended up getting our own private show, which was pretty awesome. After that we went to Cincinnati, got free parking because of Obama, watched the second episode (which is the best episode) and tried to meet with Prison the next day which didn't work so great. But it's all good because we walked all the way to Kentucky to hear him read us a story.

After that, we drove to a grocery store and walked around for a couple hours, because grocery stores are cool.

August meetup summary

It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining and the birds singing from the top of the sky as varying bands of wannabe ponies migrated their way towards a shimmering mirage upon a glistening field of dihydrogen monoxide. The temperature was perfect, the air pure, the very fiber of reality itself vibrating with infinite potential. It was in this setting, a very odd setting indeed for a state known for its general depressing character and large quantities of rust, that the Cleveland meetup of the Ohio Bronies group took place.

July meetup summary

So~! Before we have this meetup in Cleveland, perhaps I ought to take a moment and write a bit about the last meetup we had back in July.

The officially announced meetup time and place was July 23, 3:00 PM, at Momo2 in Columbus. For those who don't know what this place is (probably everyone who wasn't at this meetup), it's mostly a big building with some pool tables, a few rooms for Japanese-style karaoke, and a couple of bowling lanes. They serve food and drinks, including remarkably bubbly bubble tea, there's a couple televisions here and there, and they play chill-out music. It worked out great for us because they have a lot of empty space and can easily handle a big group, and there was a fairly open area toward the back with couches where we could all gather, with a decent-sized blank wall to project onto, and a couple of tables to spread stuff out.