The Nineteenth Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, evening
Where: The Mermaid's Beach

Come on, come on heroes...! Come hither!

[ There's a playful giggle and the sound of splashing as the Mermaid's beach appears in the clearing. ]

Let's play a game...!

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[time5kip]

Dark blue, actually. But gray and black work just as fine.

[ He's not like. Excited about the idea of getting any kind of massages, but again - collaboration is needed for this ]

You can do your massage too.

[daydreamshimmer]

Dark blue is a good color, but I prefer black myself. Or red.

[Collaboration is hard. Mostly she just wants to know how to not fuck up a muscle somehow.]

Thanks. Is harder or gentler better for human bodies?

[time5kip]

For human bodies? Thought you were one too.

[ you know, despite the skin color and magical hair ]

[daydreamshimmer]

That's what I am right now.

But considering I couldn't even recognize what I was when I woke up, and the number of civilized species I could recall, humans aren't exactly a popular species on Equestria.

[time5kip]

You're a horse.

[ just. Not even a question. Looking at her ]

[daydreamshimmer]

Pony. Unicorn specifically.

Kudos to you on figuring out the natural pony love of puns for our names.

[time5kip]

[ He has a goddamn unicorn onesie and he's now speaking to an actual unicorn this is not what he thought his life would ever be like ]

I'm too sober for this.

[daydreamshimmer]

[She has no idea what a human child looks like, so not even gonna question that.]

Wait, do they actually have alcohol here?

[Because hey, she is an adult by pony standards.]

[time5kip]

You can get some with sparks. Or leech it off of someone who has them.

[ He takes his hands off of her by now though, and gives her space to get up if she wants to ]

Gentle is fine.

[daydreamshimmer]

....I might have to look into that.

[Because she's been having a time.]

Got it. [Will turn towards him.] Sit down. Let's give this a shot.

[time5kip]

[ He's going to sigh and sit down, definitely not happy with this, but going along it regardless ]

Should be fine as long as you don't break anything.

[daydreamshimmer]

No risk of that. Pretty sure such thin bones can really break something on accident.

[But then hands on his shoulders and she's going to be mimicking his movements for the most part.]

[time5kip]

[ He's only getting more tense the moment he fees her hands on him but he'll play nice and not, like, bolt away. He obviously doesn't like touch either though ]

You know. How come you've become a human if you're a horse?

[daydreamshimmer]

[She is definitely getting that impression, but she won't ask. She can get it's a bad time to ask when need to do the thing.]

That is the million bit question. I have theories from magical accidents to conspiracy theories.

[time5kip]

We got time to waste, so. Let's hear them.

[daydreamshimmer]

Magical transmutation accident, some kind of monkey curse since humans most closely resemble them from what I recall, kidnapped by aliens who are humans who do weird body exchange experiments, magical dimension hopping accident with world laws taking precedent to inhabiting a parallel me, someone deliberately changed me into a form whose power conduits I don't know so I can't use my magic, the prince of this place is a filthy liar and he wanted to take away my powers because I have a solid clue on how harmony magic functions.

Really, I could go on.

[But now she's done with the massaging.]

[time5kip]

Just out of curiousity, do any of those have any basis or are you just shooting possibilities until one sticks out ...?

[ getting up the moment she's done and the relief is just like ALL OVER HIS FACE ]

[daydreamshimmer]

I know an assortment of shape changing spells, the only sticking point is where does human even come from implying some extra weird thing happened.

And the fact I've been put into a form without easy access to magic I still have according to Eliza is very suspicious especially with my spell knowledge base would imply me being a fairly powerful unicorn. At least I don't think I'd have learned all those spells if I couldn't use most of them. That stuff takes years and I'm not in the business of learning that much without some kinda pay off.

[time5kip]

Which one have you lost? Powers of memories?

[ going to take a look at his card to see what he's still missing. Serenade. That makes him cringe a little, honestly ]

[daydreamshimmer]

Memories.

All the things I 'remember' are general culture or are for 'skills.' Unicorn magic is mostly knowledge based. No knowledge, can't use it.

Of course, no horn, can't use either. [Grumble, grumble.]

But I'm really not in the mood to talk about that, I finally manage to break through that rage a few hours ago.

[time5kip]

Sounds like a total load of bullshit. I've lost my powers so, I guess I can find that relatable enough.

Would you like a serenade to soothe the anger?

[daydreamshimmer]

It really is. It leaves me pretty peeved. [Peeved is said with far more venom than that word usually warrants.]

[She huffs.]

[She looks over her bingo card.] I do need to do it. Might as well.

[Standing up, brushing the sand off her skirt.]

[time5kip]

[ He's giving her time to adjust before he starts singing some romantic 90's song that i am too lazy to google up. But he's singing it. And Aidan Gallagher's an actual singer so I guess he's pretty good at it too.

HERE YOU GO, HE'S SERENADING HER ]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Cute Five.]

[She will listen politely, closing her eyes and swaying a bit side to side. She's certainly has Thoughts about singing's place in the world, but now getting to hear it, she really does like it.]

[Will even clap politely when he's done.]

[time5kip]

Glad to see I've got a fan.

Your turn next.