It seems like long time since our last post! Here it is September already, and we are enjoying some of the most pleasant weather of the year. My sisters, Felicity especially, do not appreciate anybody rushing fall's entrance, so I'll keep it down. But still, I can't help be excited for all that's ahead: fire pit gatherings, ArtPrize, apple cider, changing leaves, my birthday, Halloween...
My sisters are way more excited currently about recent events on HI3. As you've probably guessed, it has to do with amassing even more equines at an alarming rate.
Blue made his grand entrance on the 14th, and so I rather foolishly thought that between him, and crafting all sorts of dyes and tack thanks to the awesome dye guide link Gem sent, we'd be set for a while. But no.
In the game, our buddy Gem breeds cool horses, including jumbo-sized horses in fun colors and patterns. She sometimes has extra foals that don't make the cut in furthering her breeding programs, which go up for sale. My sisters are usually pretty good about not getting attached to any horses they may see for sale on HI3. (One small improvement from HI2.) They've admired Gem's adorable crops of foals frequently without incident. Not sure what changed this time, but they started checking in on a particular batch of her young for sale horses almost every time they'd go online: watching them grow and waiting to see if they'd be sold. When their favorite two turned four, and Gem and Pepsi were online at the same time, they just couldn't resist any longer and asked Gem about them. A few short minutes later, after awkwardly having to ask how to quick travel to the Mane Event to meet her avatar (you can tell how frequently we compete, ha ha) the two enormous brindle drafties were ours.
It was late on a weeknight for us when this whole thing went down, so we didn't have time to take screenshots of their profiles as we would've otherwise done, but here is the look back on them at exactly 4 years old.
The first, "Lena's foal," is technically a Grade Warm-blooded Horse. And yes, in frame he does look like a warmblood, albeit an exceptionally big one. =)
He's huge, alright - makes Pepsi look like a kid. =)
For such a big guy, he's so graceful, and that coloring... wow!
We tried to think of an appropriate name for him that started with L, since his mom's name is Lena, but nothing we came across seemed right. In the end we went a different direction and decided to call him Botticino, after a cool kind of marble he resembles.
The second, "Mae's foal," is a Grade Cold-blooded Horse. His build is definitely more draft-like, but he still maneuvers quite well for his size.
While Pepsi was still at the Mane Event with Gem, we stood "Mae's foal" with his grandpa Ham, one of Gem's first and most special horses. <3 We think it's adorable how much our new stallion resembles him!
We were tempted to name him "Hamlet" and Lena's foal "Horatio," but we couldn't quite pull the trigger on that. XD We also tried out "Culatello" for a while after a fancy Italian ham, but we thought it might cause too much snickering if anybody translated it into English. So we went for Prosciutto instead, even if it is a bit tricky to spell.
Well, I suppose if my sisters had to go rouge, at least it was for horses as cool as these. But this had better be a one-time thing, guys.
Of course, we didn't stop lassoing horses just because we'd now committed to adding 3 horses in August. The first wild to tempt us was this one, a curvy-eared pony found hanging out near our ranch:
His stats and personality were solid, but his build was decidedly on the small, delicate side. (Such tiny legs and hooves!)
I succeeded in talking my sisters out of keeping him. He was quite a cute pony, though - I don't think I'd have been able to convince them if he'd been bigger.
Just when I was thinking we might actually make it through August without adding any grade wilds to the herd, on the 30th, we found this one. *Sighs*
It's like the game went, "Oh, Pepsi, you really like brindle pintos, then? Okay, here you go!"
You're too kind, HI3. Like my sisters could ever resist this.
She didn't really look like an Angel to us, so we have renamed her Jaunty, mostly because of her happy little tail. =)
That truly was the end of the tempting August horses. Good thing, because we have run out of mobia for purchasing infinitum amulets. Mobia prices in-game keep going up so much that those amulets are getting as hard to come by as we feared when we initially joined the game. I fear we will be relying on Mom to fund infinitum amulets going forward, which means the days of my sisters going hog wild with expanding the herd will (hopefully?) now be over. We'll see!
