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Welcome to Serendiponies, home of the wee little equines that live in your garden!

Table of Contents

1. Welcome & News
2. Guidelines & FAQ
3. Once Upon a Time... (the story!)
4. Sales
5. Events
6. Breedings
7. Items
8. Custom Ponies
9. Flowerlings & Friends
10. RP Guidelines
11. Immortals
12. The Blessed (and not)
13. Affiliates
14. Staff
15. Pony Types
16. Gifts
17. Owners


We are in the process of revamping and working towards reopening the shop. All the lineart is being scrutinzed. Some of it is being scrapped, some is being tweaked and some is being redone. All of it is being reinked and shaded. There will be changes - 3 stages instead of 5 for example. Hopefully ya'll will bear with us as we try to get this place rolling again!
If you have growings that are needed, PM the mule with a link to the pony. We also need to know if you want it done now in the old style or if you are willing to wait until we get the new stuff ready. I cannot say for sure how long it will take for us to get it all ready - it may be a month or more. I am working on getting the art we are keeping up to speed as quickly as I can around RL and my other shop commitments.

"This place is perfect! Are you sure you want to let me have it, Mrs. Wells?" I stood in amazement as I looked over the grounds of what could soon be my new home. The elderly woman next to me smiled and chuckled softly.
"Yes, my dear. I am sure.Serendipity brought you back here just as I came to realize I can't keep this place up on my own. I can see you have a good heart and take care of the old house. Not to mention that I know from your grandmother, rest her soul, just how much you love this place."
"Yeah, we talked a lot about this place and the memories here," I said to one of my oldest friends. Some of my earliest memories were here, playing in the garden while my grandmother visited. I remembered long evenings watching the fireflies chase the falling stars as we listened to my grandfather play his beat up guitar on the back porch. "I'll never forget the time Scooter found that rabbit and brought it inside!"
"Yes, that blasted coon hound wasn't good for much but trouble, was he!" she joined me in laughing as we walked back up the path to the house.

****

"That's the last of it!" I sat back on my heels and looked at my handiwork. Ever since moving in last fall I had looked forward to the spring planting. Mrs. Wells herself had started the seedlings I had just planted, not long before the stroke that had taken her to join my grandmother and her husband in the Otherworld. I smiled as I looked around, there were neat rows of vegetables and herbs in a small area to one side, a newly whitewashed picket fence surrounding them cheerfully. Beds of various flowers surrounded the trees and were scattered throughout the yard. At the edge of the woods that marked the end of the "tamed" land I had scattered wildflowers, and there were alreacy blooms coming up from last year's plants.
Standing up, I dudted off my hands and walked over to the small stone bench in the shade of the large oak that stood sentinel over the yard. Resting on it I let my mind wander through the memories of that which once was.

****

"Well, Red, what has been getting into these veggies?" I asked my fuzzy red (of course) mutt. Spring had moved to summer, and autimn soon followed with the anticipated crop of squash and other vegetables. Unfortunately it seemed that something else had found my vegetables as well!
"Not rabbits, they would leave more obvious damage," I muttered to myself.
"Grroof!" Casifer answered happily.
"Nope, not gophers either!" I played along. "Wait a minute, what is this?"
I got down on my hands and knees and lifted a large squash leaf out of the way. Looking closely at the ground I could see tiny little...hoofprints? Yes, they were definitly little hoofprints leading under the plants and through the fence where they were lost in the soft grass.
Well, what do you know," I said to Cas, "looks like I have just sprained my sense of disbelief because I think we have tiny little horses living in the garden!"
*****

Wild whinnies echoed across the garden, carried on the chilled wind. The sound was eerie, coming from within the forest to float across the hollows and flowers where the sleeping ponies lay. Beneath the whinnies could be heard the faint thunder of hoofbeats, oddly muffled as if the ponies that made them were not quite touching the ground as they ran...

Deep within her stronghold, Thana watched as they ran. The Angel of Death smiled enigmatically to herself.
"Looks like I may be visiting my dear friend Galaen and his family sooner than I thought," she said to her fae friends. "The Lost Ones seem to be headed his way."

****

Goliath stood in the shadows of the thick briars, his mottled coat hiding him as well as it ever had in life. Herd leader for the Lost Ones, he was the first to find the gardens where the ponies lived. He shook his head, his black mane cascading down his neck to blend with the dark markings there. :Such a bright place: he thought to himself. :Such innocent lives they lead, all unknowing: He watched the ponies going about their lives in the garden for a few moments more, then turned and faded back into the forest leaving behind only one softly glowing hoofprint to show he had ever been there.

Ooohh...SHOPPING! xd
Flowers

Freeze Flower: Stops your pony's growth until removed COST: Free!

Growth Flower: Grows your flatsale or multi-stage pony to the next stage! Cannot be used on single staged edited ponies COST: 1200g

Special Grow Flower: Grows your single stage custom pony to the next stage! COST: 5k

Elder Flower: Grows your adult pony to the elder stage! COST: 5k

Fertility Flower: Allows for the arrival of one extra foal from a breeding. Only one can be used per breeding. Cannot be used in a God breeding. If both parents are owned by the same owner, one foal from the breeding must be given away.COST: 3k

Super Flower: Opens up the breeding grove even if there are no spots open! This cost is in addition to the regular breeding fee.COST: 10k

Magic Flower: When a pony eats this flower, they get a special gift. Each pony can only have one gift! Sometimes this flower will show up in the thread. When that happens, the first pony who is RPd eating it gets the gift for free! COST: 3k

Decorations!
The striking teen is showing off some of the items now available for ponies to wear! If you have an idea for an item - PM me! smile

Earring with optional gem drop: 50g (choose ring color and gem color)
Horn ring: 50g (choose 1 color for ring)
Hair Braid with Feather or Beads: 150g (chose colors for 3 beads and feather)
Dyed Braid with Feather or Beads: 200g (chose colors for braid, 3 beads and feather)
Feather or Beads in Hair (no braid): 100g
Neckband: 200g (choose up to 3 colors for band, charm colors & charm design - diamond, oval, heart, star or none)
Braided Leg Band: 100g (plain) 150g (with feather)
Simple Leg Band (shown with optional drops): 100g
Hoof decorations: 10g per hoof (tell me what you want - elaborate designs may cost more)
To order an item for your pony, PM what you want with color choices and location then start the trade. Hair items can be in the mane or tail. Be sure to tell me which pony! Items will grow with the pony.

Plushies
Occasionally there will be a plushie or two here to buy. They are 250g each and can be bought by non-pony owners. Demon plushies are 300g. To purchase, just post that you want it in the thread and send trade. There are also some careless folks who will rarely drop one in the thread - post that you pick it up and it is yours for free! xd

Rarely there will be an all grey plushie with sparkles. It is 500g and you get to pick the colors for it! (in other words, it is a custom plushie!) To order a custom plushie, PM Serendiponies with the color/pattern you want on it and start the trade!

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Flowerlings

The flowerlings are small humanoid creatures who live in the garden and woods. They are the quentissental free spirits, but will sometimes attach thmselves to a pony either as a friend or as an annoyance! They are the source of the items that the ponies get to wear.
Flowerlings have two stages.
Bud

and Bloom

Flowerlings can fall in love and have buds of their own. There are always two when this happens.

Friends
Serendiponies have lots of friends, and since they are so small their friends are too! So far we have met
Manylegs

Sillyface


Flowerlings and Friends will occasionally be offered for sale.

Among the Serendiponies there are those who walk a different path, they are beings that have travelled a little further along the Spiral set forth by the Mother and thus have a little more about them than the ponies of the mortal coil. This is where you can learn about them.

Angels & Demons
Perhaps immortal is a bit misleading, for these ponies can die to be reborn again as the Mother wills. Some of them seem to have been gifted with knowledge and wisdom, others with a touch of maliciousness. Each type has their own abilities which grow as they gain in years.

Both Angels & Demons have the ability to walk unseen among the mortals. Unlike the mortal ponies they can truely fly - distance and height are not a problem for them, though they will eventually tire if in corporal form.

Angels
*Healing ~ this ability grows as the Angel ages. By the time they are elder they can heal major wounds, but they cannot bring back the dead nor can they save one who's time has come
*Weather ~ Angels have a slight ability to affect the weather wherever they are
*Telepathy ~ Angels can communicate silently with other immortals across distance. They can also communicate with mortals that they have formed very close bonds with


Demons
*Healing ~ Demons have only a minor ability to heal, no matter what their age
*Fire control ~ true to their nature, demons can control flame and fire. This ability grows as they mature, starting out as tiny little bursts and by the time they are elder they can cause large flames to appear with the stamp of a hoof.
*Telepathy ~ Demons can communicate silently with other immortals across distance. They can also communicate with mortals that they have formed very close bonds with

Gods & Goddesses


Here are the Gods so far!
Deth - the God of Samhain
Fancy - the Autumn Goddess
Rin - the Kirin Goddess
Silvanus - the Forest Lord
Aisling - God of Daydreams and Nightmares (he has 2 certs!)

The Mother of All



She is the First, the Creatrix of the Serendipony universe and thus the highest of their gods. She embodies the timelessness of the Universe and the warmth of the Earth. In her voice you can hear eternity and in her eyes you can see both the future and the past in an endless field of stars. It is said She was formed when One Over All laughed into a field of wildflowers and so her children carry all the colors of the flowers and are part of nature. The Mother will sometimes appear to the ponies to grant gifts or warnings.

Want to affiliate and have a shop of similar quality? Just PM me with a link and we can talk!

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