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Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, Nighttime
Where: The clearing, now no longer a beach

[ The beach fades away, leaving everyone back in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of the clearing and their-- beloved?-- train. There are some new stars in the sky, twinkling in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple, senna terracotta, jasmine blue, and clover pink.

The sound of a giggle fills the air and leaves behind bubbles-- touching one will give the uncontrollable urge to hug the nearest person. They will persist throughout the night. ]

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[Someone is going for her memories!]

[And well, at least she's not crazy when she says she's a unicorn. There is so much pastel, bouncy, magical ponyness going on right now. Also going to the Restricted Section for some kind of Problem and the Princesses are involved????]

[Which just makes her next memory weirder because she sure is a high schooler taking a driver's test?????]

[And everyone is indeed all the colors of the rainbow.]

Edited 2019-10-15 07:22 (UTC)

[Look, Pen can empathize with Twilight Sparkle, though he is more restrained. (Slightly, says Des.)]

This suggests your transformation might pre-date your arrival here.

[because one sure is full of equines and one is not... though the one with the ponies makes more sense to Penric. What is an automobile?]

[Sunset appreciates the power of a library and can research like nobody's business, she just prefers doing over reading. But her nergasm was absolutely adorable.]

[But yeah, that. Sudden change is REAL weird. Because like she knows what a car is. She knows how to DRIVE a car. She knows it's function in a society. It just also clashes with what she thinks society is and it's a weird headtrip.]

Well.

At least it's not a conspiracy from the Conductor.

Those....those places are really different.

Yes, they are. And I have to say that the one with the ponies was more like my own home than the one with the humans.

[even setting aside skin colors]

Ignoring the degree of moving objects with magic.

Edited 2019-10-17 00:30 (UTC)

Levitation is the one spell all unicorns put in the effort to learn. It'd be real easy for an alicorn to nail down.

But not something most humans have access to. I don't even think those of us with unusual gifts can manage it.

.....so you have chaos and destruction, but not levitation?

Yes. And the reverse. Uphill magic instead of downhill. That's harder, since Des needs something to balance the scales, or I overheat.

The scales?

To make Des's magic go uphill, I need to send something downhill to compensate, or that something is me. We can hold it back for a short time, or build up reserves, but that's about it. And it's only because Des is a very old demon; she has a lot of learned control.

But she doesn't need to for sending things downhill?

Less so, since she generates the chaos on her own, and downhill magic is mostly helping things that happen on their own.

Well, at least there's that. Your chaos is still weirdly rule following for chaos. [It's downright odd.]

So is uphill hard for you because she's around or is that just an always thing?

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Wow, your pony friend loves books. Like I thought Eliza studying. No, this girl's got her beat.

Twilight is pretty adorable. If excited by some questionable literature. [Canterlot Cannibals, really Twilight.]

But I'm kind of confused how your world works. And how you go from ponies in a library to needing to take a driver's test.

[ Why do ponies need to drive? ]

Not to mention, the... colors.

Yeah. Yeah, I have those questions too. Because maybe humans could make sense as some small hidden part of the world and that's why I couldn't recognize them, but that makes a lot less sense with stuff like cars and a world like that and why I am one and why I was one BEFORE.

[SO MANY QUESTIONS????]

What about the colors?

Well, you see the people here. There's a few differences. It's almost like your human selves just look like anthromorphisized versions of your pony selves.

Anthromorphisized? And there's a lot different. Yeah, I have the same coloring and voice, but everything else is different.

And so far, looks like I'm the only one who made the change.

Yeah, given human characteristics. Maybe that has something to do with your amulet.

Gosh, pony turned into a human, such a shock she's anthromorphisized. [Raising an eyebrow at him.]

That's a stretch. I've taken this off and nothing's changed. and those girls had necklaces too and there's no evidence they're not human.

I guess I just wasn't expecting your pony selves to be so colorful. Our ponies don't come in so many bright colors. Mostly browns, whites, blacks and yellows. Definitely not purple and pink. So when you take that sort of color palette and go from cute pony to cute ladies is kind of surprising.

And maybe their necklace isn't the same as yours.

Pony self. We don't know if any other ponies are in the pony land yet. Considering the level of assimilation, at least some of them have to be native humans.

The necklaces are all the same size and we're all wearing them. It's likely it's some kind of group thing with personalized styles. Or a fashion statement.

Your colors also sound....dull to look at.

Well, in comparison, definitely. But they're still really pretty. Horses look a lot better than our ponies though. They're majestic.

I'm just tossing ideas out there since I can't think of any other explanation for why a pony would need to be a human.

If they're anything like what Eliza described, they sound horrifying and extremely limited in what they're capable of. [Listen. Eliza described breaking legs and organs crashing into each other. It was horrible.]

That is the million bit question. There's a good chance it's a freak accident.

I was talking to the princesses. That was Princess Celestia. The immortal ruler of Equestria. Literally one of the most powerful and oldest creatures in the world. Her alone is one thing, but there were two other princesses too. That might literally be the only alicorns in existence and they were helping me with a problem.

That says I'm horn deep in some wild things.

Edited 2019-10-21 10:02 (UTC)