So this happened at a Brony Meetup:
Well, a Brony meetup, shoot, as well as a dance/hot tub/movie party. There were 46 Bronies attending, plus the host and a few organizers.
It started out as Brony Shoot: Friendship is Range, then ended up transitioning into SpicerCon.
This is what I saw when I pulled up to the house in Virginia:
Big ass house
(The image was taken later, I got there around 12)
After arriving I had to turn over my .22 to one of the designated range officers. Then we had a lunch of 5 3' subs, then we all just kinda hung out. I ended up bringing a Nala plushie because there was a girl who asked me to. Just establishing context for why the Nala plushie will come back up later in the story. So anyway, after we all talked and hung out and stuff we ended up grabbing all the guns from the garage and carrying them down to the range. We had to cut out 2/3 of the guns because there were too many for us to get to use in the 6 hours we were shooting. This photo was taken after we'd already gotten rid of most of them, and there are two being used on the range:
Weapons Bench
Bronies packin' some serious damn heat. And this is just the guns. The crossbow and recurve bow were going on around the massive bonfire.
Brony Shoot: Friendship is Range(Recurve Bow vs Crossbow)
And then a bit later they decided to put on a little show:
Brony Shoot: Friendship is R̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ Full Auto
You might have heard the words "Party Cannon" at the end of the video. Well, this is the party cannon:
Brony Shoot: Friendship is Range - Party Cannon(Shots 1&2)
Then not long after we finished with all of this stuff the sun set and the party started. Basically this:
SpicerCon: Dem Glowsticks
For nearly 4 hours. I was standing kinda to the side moving a little bit when the girl I mentioned early grabbed my arm and pulled me out to the center, started putting glowsticks all over me and eventually I just started moving with it. She was one of those people who's running around trying to make sure everyone is having a good time. By the end of the night I ended up cutting almost completely loose, holding a Nala plushie decked out in more glowsticks than I was, dancing like I've never done before.
Then some of us jumped in the massive hot tub around 11:30 and were in it until 2:30AM. We mostly just spent the rest of the night chilling, but a few times we ended up cold/hot dipping into the pool. The cold/hot dipping was fun all 3 times, but when the sun rose in the morning the pool water was green, so I'm probably going to regret that.
Then everything ended like this around 4AM:
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Bronies crash as hard as they party.
After we woke up we walked into his enormous theater room. Super cushy couches, and a badass audio system. His right center channel was probably more expensive than any of the set ups I've ever had combined. Studio quality stuff in there. And the sub was a monster, too. 8 of us spent 6 hours watching all 3 Lion King movies in a row before we had to leave to get ahead of the bad weather.
I'm probably leaving some stuff out because so much happened in the space of 2 days that I've never even had happen within the same month, and some stuff I've never had happen in my life.
And most of you don't know me too well, but actually joining in on the fun in a party like this is so unlike me I almost felt like an entirely different person afterwards, and I loved every second of it. And as you can see from the videos it was a beautiful day. Glad it wasn't a day later or it would've been snow everywhere.
