Tigertin's Travels

Mom may have swapped out the teddy bears in her room for the bunnies, chicks, and lambs, but it still feels like winter here. *Sighs* 

Winter is totally over in Star Stable, though: ever since the calendar turned to March, no more snow toggle. Fortunately, our winter welcome terrier did not disappear like the snow (or Frostflight's polo wraps). We had a moment of panic when we took the saddle and bridle off Frostflight and he disappeared. To our relief, we discovered that he and the saddlebag were still equipped on Frostflight - just presumably invisible due to the lack of saddle. They've now been safely transferred over to Tigertin.

Here they all are hanging out with the rehabilitating Welshie foal. 

He was quite a needy little guy.

Mom showed up right on cue once he'd fully recovered.

Happy trails! No more eating poisonous plants, either of you.

Clara may not have a foal to take care of anymore, but she's stayed busy. Here she is herding a horse back to the stables at Silverglade Manor. (Not sure why none of the communal stables have doors on the stalls...)

Here they are rescuing one of several ducks from the Silverglade Village fountain that ended up at the GED oil drilling site covered in oil.

With help from various NPC's, Clara could eventually return pristine ducks to the fountain.

And here they are searching Fort Pinta for kittens that escaped from the pet shop.

All the equines on this game ascend and descend staircases with ease. =)

Clara's progressed a little in the main quest line as well. We've wondered for some time about the imposing black horse that was in the Silverglade Manor stable, as well as the buff chick who was striding purposefully around the area. They are the same bad-news horse and rider from earlier in the story, who galloped off with stolen documents.

Bad news, clearly.

Then she made an attempt to start over with Clara and wheedled her into delivering a letter for her.

Justin Moorland freaked out, said he had to leave, and mentioned his grandfather...

Clara met up with Alex and her pony Tin-Can again. (Alex and her now-missing friend Linda blew Clara off earlier by some glowing rocks.) As predicted, Sabine is bad news.

They followed Khaan's flaming hoof prints down to the beach...

...just in time to see Justin, Sabine, and Khaan departing on an ugly steamer. 

Alex was not pleased and seems to know more than what she's telling Clara.

The investigation continued. Clara eventually found marriage documents in building ruins possibly linking the Moorlands biologically to the Baroness (the snooty old rich lady who owns Silverglade Manor.) Seems plausible, but it's still just a theory, and nobody knows yet how Sabine fits into everything.

Meanwhile, Linda is missing and possibly being held hostage in the Silverglade castle? So much drama!

All of Clara's efforts questing, training, and doing stable chores have been paying off - we've been able to shell out big virtual bucks on tack. The brown starter set didn't do a whole lot for Tigertin, so we tried to find an inexpensive matching black saddle and bridle.

We perused the global store, found a fairly basic black bridle, and bought that first. Then we bought a mid-priced "pitch black" saddle... but immediately regretted it. It appears dark brown compared to the bridle, and we also had silver vs. gold metal hardware mismatch. (You can sort-of try on tack before buying it, but it's in such a small window it's hard to tell, and we haven't been able to make the rotate feature work on our laptop...)

So, we continued saving until we had enough for one of the expensive black jumping saddles. We had a choice of what appeared to be "black shiny" and "black matte" for the same steep price. For better or for worse, we chose "black shiny." That really cleaned us out last weekend, but we think it was worth it. No more distracting "the blacks don't match" issues when already none of our pinks and purples are perfect matches, ha ha.

As you can see, we have also since splurged on some polo wraps. Again, not a perfect color match, but oh well. Tigertin might end up with multiple sets of polos to alternate between, the lucky pony.

And maybe we'll get some blue ones for Frostflight too... <3