[Exploration] Trailblazer's Cutie Mark (+5) affects your roll. You roll a 3 +5 (10 required). Partial success.

Before leaving, you ask Honourshine if she's tried showing the bell to Twilight Sparkle. As a princess and a librarian, there's a chance she might catch something other ponies have missed.

Honourshine: "I did when I applied for a sponsorship yesterday. She said she could sense something magical about it, but couldn't figure out what kind of magic it was. Nothing our eyes and ears couldn't already tell, really."

If not even the magically talented alicorn could help, then you hope that the Kirin and their magic will be able to provide a new perspective on this mystery. But until then, you have the whole day to yourselves!

You suggest taking a stroll through town, and keeping an eye out for a place to further catch up over a meal later. Your party agrees, and you exit the guild hall together.

The outside air has since been warmed by rays of bright sunshine. All around Ponyville, trees with leaves of burning colours contrast beautifully with the deep blue sky, and swirling white clouds drift along a gentle, aromatic breeze.

You begin your walk headed southwest, down the road from which you came earlier. To the south is an antique store — much larger than the one you visited in Coltswell, by the looks of it —, and just around the corner is a modest thrift shop.

Honourshine: "That's a rare sight: a thrift shop that isn't a Trading Post."

You nod, and figure that Ponyville is a large enough community for a local thrift shop to be successful.

Honourshine: "Large and generous enough. The Canterlot elite don't donate their secondhoof goods so much as they auction them off."

As you continue westward through a mostly residential area, you pass by a garden centre. Hundreds of colourful pots and seasonal plants decorate the shop's outdoor front, while carts stand ready to be loaded with bags of soil along the far fence.

Moonflower: "Oooh! Gotta check this place out when we got more time."

Further west is a barbershop — the closest to your home, as far as you know, should you ever need a new hairstyle. And across the street, you recognize the road to Sunny Smiles's house, where you delivered a package from Roseforge a while back.

Moonflower: "Ooh, I remember that!"

Honourshine: "A delivery? You really do take every odd job you can find, don't you?"

You grin, and tell Honourshine that helping everyone you can is a great way to meet new ponies and make new friends. And besides, aren't most jobs about delivering something or other?

Honourshine: "Hmm... I... I'll tell you that you are wrong as soon as I think of a refutation."

Moonflower: "Heehee..."

You circle back to the northeast, and pass by a large three-storey building — Ponyville's inn. You ask Honourshine if this is where she is staying.

Honourshine: "It is. Not as quiet as I'd like, but at least I get my own room."

You'd offer her to stay at your place for now, but having only one bedroom — let alone one bed —, you know better than to try that one again.

Finally, you find a small roadside café with a terrace nearby. While it doesn't seem too busy for now, you remember Honourshine's aversion to public eateries all too well; specifically the public part. For her to be comfortable enough to eat, you'll have to think of something more private.

You have explored Northern Ponyville! While in the area, your mental map will be displayed on the Map screen unless you find a better one.