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- > The moon has begun its descent by the time you reach ponyville.
- > Few ponies are on the streets, most of them flee when they see you running into town.
- > One particular cyan pegasus who you recognize does not.
- > You call out to her.
- "Rainbow Dash, I need your help with something."
- > In the blink of an eye shes hovering in front of you.
- > "What's up Anon?"
- > You quickly present her with the note you found.
- "I need you to read this."
- > She looks at you with an arched eyebrow.
- > "O-kay...?"
- > She takes one quick look at the note then looks back at you, her expression deadpan.
- > "This some kinda weird joke?"
- > You look at the note.
- > It looks exactly the same as when you picked it up.
- "This is written in Equestrian, is it not?"
- > She snatches the note from your hand and looks at it.
- > Her brow furrows and she looks frustrated.
- > "No dude, that's nothing like Equestrian."
- > You think for a moment.
- > You drop to your knees and quickly scrawl your name in the dirt.
- "Does it look anything like that?"
- > She drops to the ground and circles to look at it from different angles.
- > "Yeah, some of those are defiantly on there."
- > Great, the letter is enchanted.
- "Rainbow Dash, which way is the library, Twilight may be able to help."
- > She takes off down the road shouting back.
- > "Follow me!"
- > Not wanting to lose her you take off running behind her.
- > In a short while you reach the Library.
- > The lights are off, but the door is unlocked and the windows are open, so you can see easily in the darkness.
- > You unceremoniously enter the building and call out.
- "Twilight!"
- > "Dude, maybe you should just wait till morning."
- > You ignore her and run up the stairs.
- > The door to Twilights room isn't locked either and you barge in.
- > As you do you see Twilight jump back against the wall and squeaks in fright.
- > She stares at you in the door for a minute.
- > "A-Anonymous?"
- "Yes."
- > She lets out a sigh of relief.
- > "You scared me. What the heck are you doing barging into my room this late at night?!"
- > You quickly explain to her what happened on the road.
- > She slumps back down into her bed, pulls a blanket over herself and grumbles.
- > "This couldn't wait until morning?"
- "I usually try to find out about mysterious vanishing things and notes that I can not read as soon as possible."
- > She sighs.
- > "Fine, give me the note."
- > You realize that Rainbow Dash still has it.
- "Rainbow Dash!"
- > A second later she pokes her head through the door.
- > "Yeah?"
- "The note."
- > She pulls the note out from under a wing and walks over to you with it in her mouth.
- > Ignoring that, you take the note and hand it to Twilight."
- > She takes the note with her magic and unfurls it in front of her.
- > Her horn starts to glow and she takes a moment to look it over.
- > "So this is what your written language looks like?"
- "Yes."
- > She stares at the page for a moment longer before looking up at you again.
- > "So what exactly do you want me to do?"
- > You don't really know so you just say the first thing that comes to mind.
- "Do you have some way of removing the enchantment?"
- > She runs a hoof along her chin and stares off into space for a minute.
- > "If I knew what the enchantment was I could, but as is I run the risk of just making it unreadable."
- > Another idea comes to mind.
- "Could you copy what it says on the note onto something else.?"
- > She nods.
- > "Yes, but it can wait until morning."
- > She plows her face into the pillow and lets out a muffled 'goodnight.'
- > The note drops to the floor as the room goes dark again.
- > You pick up the note and walk out of the room, Rainbow Dash trailing behind you.
- > You make your way back downstairs, Rainbow dash just flies down the air gap and lands in the center of the room.
- > She turns to you as you reach the bottom of the stairs.
- > "So now what?"
- > You contemplate that for a moment.
- "Would you be able to help me?"
- > She shakes her head
- > "Still got some things to do tonight, then I gotta get to work early."
- > You nod to yourself.
- "Than I shall wait for morning."
- > She begins to make her way to the door way but stops in front of it.
- > She turns to face you again.
- > "Um, hey Anon..."
- > You stare at her, waiting for her to continue.
- > When she doesn't you speak.
- "Yes?"
- > She stares back at you for a minute.
- > "Uh, nothing, never mind."
- > With that she quickly makes herself scarce.
- > Odd, but you had other things on your mind, so for now you decide to ignore it.
- > At the moment you are trying to recall whatever you can about the incident.
- > Maybe come up with some answers while you wait.
- > The strange thing is, you can't.
- > The harder you try to recall the details of the events, the harder it is to remember them.
- > You started by trying to remember what the...
- > Was it a unicorn or a pegasus?
- > He was on top of the...
- > Was he on top or inside the carriage?
- > Could he have ...
- > Was it a mare or stallion?
- > Gods, why can't you remember?
- > Maybe the note would have some kind of clue?
- > Maybe the bag?
- > Oh right the bag!
- > You frantically look around for it.
- > When you notice that it is tied to the same clasp that holds your cloak to you.
- > When did you tie that on?
- > ...
- > You didn't.
- > What in the name of all things divine is going on?
- > You attempt to untie the knot binding the bag to you only to find, you can't.
- > You give it a slightly harder tug and again, nothing happens.
- > The string moved, but as soon as you tried to undo the knot, it may as well have turned into a solid adamantine ball.
- > You feel your frustration building rapidly.
- > You can't read the note.
- > You can't open the bag.
- > You can't remember...
- > ...Anything of use really...
- > You don't even have something else to do to occupy your time.
- > All you can do is wait.
- > You hate how time is simply wasting away, but this is all you can do.
- > So you wait patiently, staring out the window, waiting for the signs of dawn.
- > Eventually the dawns light comes and not long later the sound of steps and morning routine can be faintly heard.
- > In the almost total silence of the library, you can hear water running, even through the doors and walls.
- > When the sound of water stop, it is replaced once more by hoof steps on wood.
- > There is a click as the door at the top of the stairs opens.
- > You turn your head to see a rather tired looking Twilight coming down the stairs.
- > She walks right past you into the kitchen and as she does she says.
- > "Breakfast first, note after."
- > So you sit patiently waiting for her to cook...
- > And eat...
- > And clean up...
- > Why in Kyhber do fleshlings take so long to do things!?
- > She does eventually come out of the kitchen, carrying an ink well, a quill and some parchement.
- > She walks up in front of you, still looking tired, and sits down.
- > She yawns before speaking.
- > "Note."
- > So you unfurl and show her it.
- > She immediatly looks perplexed.
- > "Are you sure this is the note from last night?"
- > You look at the note yourself and it looks exactly the same.
- "Yes."
- > You turn the note back to her.
- > "Anonymous, this is blank."
- > You look at the note again and sure enough, the script is all still there.
- > A plan quickly forms in your head.
- > If Twilight can't see the note, you can just write the script you see.
- > You don't know why you didn't think of that before.
- > You point at the writing utensils.
- "I need to borrow those for a moment."
- > She floats them over to a small table in the center of the room.
- > "Be my guest."
- > You quickly walk over and kneel in front of the table.
- > Taking the quill and dipping it in ink, you quickly begin to copy down the script you see from one sheet to the other.
- > As soon as you finish copying down line-by-line what you see you call out for Twilight, not taking your eyes off the note for a second.
- > You hear her walk up beside you.
- > The paper lifts up, surrounded by a faint purple glow, and floats over to her.
- > You look to see Twilight reading the paper, a look of confusion on her face.
- > "No cheating?"
- > There's no way what you just wrote could be two words.
- > You snatch the note back from Twilights magical grasp and look at it.
- "What the -!"
- > Every bird within ten miles is sent flying for a new place to roost, as you shout one of the few profanities you know at the top of your none-existant lungs.
- > Meanwhile in the library, Twilight is busy re-arranging her hair.
- > Spike is now fully awake and beginning to re-shelf the books that were knocked loose.
- > You?
- > You're just staring at the parchment gripped tightly in your hands, attempting to comprehend how...
- > HOW...
- > Could the note have changed, into both plain common script and equestrian script, reading the simple message...
- > No cheating.
- > You BOTH had eyes on the paper.
- > The paper wasn't enchanted.
- > The ink wasn't enchanted.
- > You place the note down in front of you, get up, and walk out the door.
- > You ignore Twilight calling out, asking you where you're going.
- > Everything can wait, right now, you need to break something.
- > So, your maul secure on your shoulder, you walk off towards the everfree forest.
- > You're sure nobody will miss a few trees.
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