Monday, August 22, 2011

Flash Event: Random Pony Extravaganza



>mfw Seth poked his head into my office last night and told me to do an event. So, here, have an event!

This event will last for ONE HOUR ONLY. Hence, a 'flash event'. That means if you see a post above this, time's up.

Here are your instructions:

  1. Go here, to General Zoi's pony generator.
  2. Hit 'Random' only once.
  3. Write a short bio for your generated pony. By short, I mean under 200 words.
  4. Send both things to CerealVelocity@equestriadaily.com with your name and the header 'OC PONY'! I don't need a Google Doc with your bio- just a paste into the email is fine.

I'll compile the results sometime tonight if I'm not too busy playing Human Revolution. That comes out today, by the way. Somepony lied to me.


Go.

110 comments:

ZAquanimus said...

Well this is interesting..

TGPFluttershy said...

You can still play Human Revolution today, Cereal. I've seen cases where Steam games become available to play a couple hours early.

I'm personally not into OCs, but good luck to everypony else!

Fifth Alicorn said...

An event that I actually caught early enough to be a part of? Yay~

Apocalyptic said...

Interesting. I'd do it,but I suck at writing of any kind.

Hellfish said...

lol mine looks like he has skin disease

Trollestia said...

Im not one for actually writing Bio's or anything like that, but will be interesting to see what the results of this are.

Octavia said...

Well, this is certainly an interesting little event. Kinda cool though.

Scootaloo said...

A flash event that requires flash which doesn't work on my phone.

pennieblack said...

This is going to be glorious. I can't wait to hear folks' explanations for broken horns and fillies with goatees.

Stephen Cawking said...
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Stephen Cawking said...

Equestria Daily has an office

wtf

mikey_the_fox said...

My pony looked like an abomination

so I named it Abomination :D

its so...cute....looking

ZettaLux said...

MINE LOOKS LIKE A SWAMP MONSTER! OH GOD

Noteperson said...

I hit the 'random' button, got a tie-dyed filly alicorn, and decided to up stumps and retire to the pavilion. Good luck to the rest of you, though!

dustykat said...

Done and sent, that was kinda cool actually!

tizee said...

I expect vast amounts of giggles when this is over.

Michelle said...

Mine is an alien pony, it looks kinda scary.

Ragona said...
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MuffinShy said...

Name as in MuffinShy(here and DA), right? :o

Lord Blaze said...

Of course this happens as my flight is boarding. I definately woulda participated too.

Michelle said...

@Ragona

Printscreen it, crop it in paint of something.. and save it from there.

Ekevoo said...

I got a monster too, but I MADE IT HAPPEN!

U.H. said...

Gametrailers throw you off too?

EonMaster said...

OCs everywhere!!!

Going to love to see how creative some people get with their random ponies.

Haybuck said...

Entered! This is actually a really cool idea.

GabuEx said...

@Michelle

You can actually just go to Pose and select Export Pony Image; no need for print-screening anymore.

Sent mine in! :D Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.

Unknown said...

Cool, very interesting.

John said...

Mine's is some tall, lime-green pony with a swept-back light blue mane that looks kinda like a hang glider. I think she (I think it's a she) kinda looks like a rock star, but I can't get anymore creative than that at the moment. So I'll sit this one out.

dipus said...

What will you do with these monsters and gibberish? 6_9

Corwyn said...

I clicked random.

I have a pink unicorn with green cloven hooves and a green sorta-beak muzzle, purple mane and tail, glitter-wings, and a purple mustache like the sports pony from Stalliongrad.

Trying to work up a post for this made my brain hurt.

Greenf0x said...

Was thinking about it, was like hmmm, if i get a good one ill try, hit random, got the most ugly looking pony all that came to mind was kill it with rainbows.

shibboleth said...

Damn, I am actually here for an event, and I've got to go to class soon. Well, at least I can see what my pony would be.

...Okay, screw class, my pony looks badass.

Fall Silently said...

I've entered! By the sounds of things, I think my pony was relatively straightforward, if rather psychadelic.

Athens said...

I know what you mean, those bastards lied to me too. I have to wait till TOMORROW to play Deus Ex.

229b250e-ccf6-11e0-8160-000bcdca4d7a said...

125K2S00100E0E8FEFFC495005010091FEU3L3I500011110L05F22BAFF7FFF0K117F3FCC004CB2

...I think I broke it.

ManestreamMMR said...

Damn this is pretty darn hard, i just want to ditch mine to the nearest waste disposal

BlueBreeze said...

I'm liking this idea.

Nymo said...

hmm, Sure. OK. I always liked that pony-creator. well, A while back, it's been a while-

*randomizes*

ZOMG

*randomizes again*

...Why'd they update it?! Every pony I generate looks HORRIBLE! D:

Fasaloft said...

My OC was actually really tame in comparison to what I was expecting. :P Hopefully it's alright for what I gave it though.

Firleycat said...

This is my first time entering an event here and my first time doing an OC. My pony looked like The Creature From the Black Lagoon, so I tried to do something with that. I think I did well for a first go.

Bligh said...

I'm...not sure what gender my pony is. o.O

Varanus said...

Mine looked like a fairy! XD That was fun!

M1Abrams said...

I was all for this...until I saw the monstrosity that was created when I hit the random button. It was as if Celestia herself coughed up a moldy hairball and then shaped it into a Pony. Who was Subsequently HORRIBLY burned and disfigured in a chemical fire then run over by a passing milk truck (Why milk? Cause I like cheese....)

So to avoid being struck down by the deity herself, I choose not to post that horror story. It's better for everyone...

Pony Corp - Ren said...

2S2S000010F5FE82FFC49D0030100BB96UN1837000000000G0FEA1C3FF7FFF0G117F3FCC004CB2

...what have I done?

Lori said...

Posted mine, then realized that I went slightly over the word limit.

FAIL

Sketchy said...

Wow mine is weird XD

Vegetalss4 said...

I am willing to bet that we are going to get an extremely large number of alicorns (as in about four times as many as all other kinds combined) due to the way the randomization works.

Fire.Esper said...

The rules said "only once", but even after a hundred tries it didn't come up with anything that could possibly be called a pony.

Bryan said...

Mine wound up being the worst sort of Mary Sue. Oh well, sent her in anyway. Don't blame me, the random number generator made me do it! :)

D. Shadows said...

Sent mine in, don't know if I did it right though.

But if it appears later you can bet the bio is interesting.

What would you get if you cross Rainbow Dash with Zecora?

Anonymous said...

2T4P0J5000244A3732B8C312900B30E27GN18370003110228118D21A0ADEFF2O01845AC9A3E180

I don't even know.

Laurence Brown said...

Sent mine in!

... and there is now another post above this one, even though the hour isn't up! Please say that it's the hour that is important, not the lack of post above this one!

Torchman said...

Ha ha! I am done! My purlish-green pegasus will rule over the OCs! Eh...it was a lot of fun though! Had to go through the process of exporting and cropping though.

FyreMedi said...

Gah! Missed it. :P

StarStep said...

@Laurence Brown

Yeah I was about to comment on the same thing. I think I got mine in a minute before that went up but lets hope its the hour.

Eddmario said...

When I hit random, I got Nyx from Past Sins, minus the wings and her hair and eyes like when she was in her disguise. True story. Here's the code for the pony: 13230011001A1A1AFFC49D0000100BB96UN1837000000000W157008900E4FF1X01573F8A004CB2
And the accessories I used to put her in her disguise: 066CC66152004B066CC66152004B066CC6604E8FBAFFFF8C752004B055004B655004B066CC6

DantE.MusT.DiE said...

I've just sent mine. He's a rather dashing stallion for a random agglutination of random pony parts.

And he's a Pegasus! It's as if the fates have all agreed to make my random pony my favorite race of Equine!

And... EqD has an office? You guys must be more legit than I thought in the first place.

lol

Interrobang Pie said...

Just sent.

I hope your body is ready.

MuffinShy said...

I received a frog turned into a pony...and made up a lovely little story for the creature.

Servicerevolver said...

Ah ummm, I accidently posted mine as 'WTF IS THAT?' Instead of OC pony, If you find it that ones mine and looks very odd.

Puzzle Plate said...

@Stephen Cawking i know rite, we have an office in Fillydephia and cloudsdale

generalzoi said...

@Vegetalss4
What happens is there's a 50% chance of getting a unicorn horn, and a 50% chance of getting wings, or a 25% of getting both at once.

Deathaura40s said...

THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!!

DantE.MusT.DiE said...

@Eddmario

THE FATES HAVE GIVEN YOU NYX?!?

That was... a little unexpected.

Dammit

Starbuck said...

Ill give it a shot.
Sent :P

Municipal Engines said...

I sent a really weird guy that just screamed 'Flamboyant, insane, constantly-failing villain of a children's show' to me.

shibboleth said...

Well, I sent it, and now I instantly regret it. Curse my hubris!

Laurence Brown said...

Also, did anypony else find it humorous that this was a flash event based on a flash based animation, with ponies created in a flash?

(Better that than us flashing other people, anyway! Nopony deserves to be subjected to that kind of horror from me!)

Select Few said...

I was going to enter, but I couldn't figure out how to send the picture from the game, and Photobucket didn't want to upload the screenshot.
Ah, well. Now I have a grey alicorn with metal things on its wings with yellow hair and Rainbow Dash's tail to use for a story or something.

Cony the Pony said...

Welp, I sent mine. Hope I wasn't too late.

pixelkitties said...

DONE! Complete with panicked edits and rampant misspellings!

thattagen said...

An alicorn. Dammit.
Celestia really gets around!

Atiarotias said...

Darn I never bothered to make my own..

Cereal Velocity said...

...

You're all insane.

I'm picking ten good ones. Is that okay?

shibboleth said...

@Cereal Velocity
I'll take that as a compliment and yes.

Eytan said...

Silly Cereal. Games don't come out on mondays. lol

Atiarotias said...

and looks like it's too late to start... damn you International time zones

Sumica said...

Mine almost looks normal....almost not sending it as it's well past the deadline at this point.

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Laurence Brown said...

@Cereal Velocity

1) What, you didn't learn anything from the speedfic challenge?!

2) Of course it is! As long as you don't mind us unlucky ones posting our pony codes in the comment section with our brief bios so that those who want to see them still can?

Cereal Velocity said...

@Laurence Brown

Apparently I learned nothing, no. I swear, I'm going to hunt down Calamari and get his code from the Training Grounds so I can do these properly.

Oh, and 150+ entries.

a12f0f98-ccfb-11e0-b0d6-000bcdcb471e said...

^What the heck happened to my name? See, this is what happens when you don't let me be anonymous! :P

Pony I wanted to be my random: 2Z1S0P41207CABDDFEC89E0000100FE08UN1837200000000O0A30000FF7FFF0M107F3FCC004CB2

pennieblack said...

@Cereal Velocity

Sweet Celestia, that's amazing..! And rather terrifying, actually.

Vegetalss4 said...

@Cereal Velocity
so on average more than one every 24 seconds.
wow, that's a lot of random ponies.

Akanov said...

Hope my email went through. It would be a shame for me. I hope using my Deviant Art account as my name is alright. Better than saying anomynous!

psmylie said...

This would have been a really Cool McAwesome event to participate in, had I not missed it :P

Alisa180 said...

I just read through the comments, and realized that I wasn't able to grab my pony's pose code before I close the tab. T_T Ah, well, I still have the picture, I'll hopefully be able to recreate it later.

Alisa180 said...

I also just realized that I forgot to include my name in the e-mail. I sent in the samurai pony.

Mint Julep said...

You should post ten normal ones, but then a gallery of all the horrible, disfigured ones (after getting a good one, I enjoyed green-nosed, bat-winged, unshorn-hooved, purple monstrosities.

Solar Flair said...

Ironically I missed this by playing at making my pony with said creator!

No lie.

Kein said...

Why would you do that? Only 20 days left till ponies, you could have survive without this cancer...

Sotha said...

Mine actually turned out pretty much normal looking. I didn't accessorise him or pose him, and I did not know about the code feature until it was too late, so I had to cap it, crop it, and put it on my photobucket to send him in, which took me past the deadline. (I did send in the first email before then though.) So I suppose it's okay if I'm already disqualified. The bio was pretty silly. I had fun with that one.

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq307/SothaSil156/Random/OCPONY.jpg

Lori said...

@Alisa180

CRAP! I knew I forgot something!!

Velvet said...

That's interesting... there's a virus on the Pony Creator page.

Velvet said...

It's called Win32/Pdfjsc.RF by the way.

Sumica said...

@Velvet

Might be coming from one of the advertisements. On the page I didn't get any warnings from the page but I have an ad blocker.

DeRockProject said...

@Cereal Velocity

So I think you should do this a few more times, for those of us who didn't get a chance. Yknow, busy, or was sleeping. For me, I had to do some college stuff. Application and shit yknow.

Atiarotias said...

It'll be heck a lot more Ponies submitted then.. too much to handle on your own

Gadvac said...

Aw, missed this one. Sounded fun, too.

John said...

Yay, I can't believe a picture from my blog was used in here! I feel so honored :).

Gilda said...

Why does it have to be random?

Michelle said...

Where will the results be? :P

Mahna said...

Aw man. *kicks a dirt clod* I just had a chance to check my backlogged rss and see this and I missed it.

I got an Alicorn too.

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