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this is pretty much how they each feel
Well...that room collapsing was just destined to happen, wasn't it? (An' if you can't see it from a mile away, buy some binoculars and laser eye surgery) Anyways, aside from that adventure contrivance, stereotype this is still going pretty well. The characterizations are all pretty good.
If I remember correctly, though, I wasn't/am not feeling a whole lot of drama in the story. The stakes typically feel pretty low. Sure, there's the danger of being stuck as stallions and of losing their memories (though I'm a bit fuzzy on how drastic/bad that would be...would it simply alter or completely destroy them?), but they feel a bit removed from those dangers.
Fun story, tho.
Strange
Nonsensical
Perfect
ladies... 
... I.... mean... sup dudes 
I have to say, that I like how you buck the trend, in stating that RD err ... RB is completely straight. No need to make wild assumptions that are completely baseless.
But maybe a one-off vinylblitz shipping tale could convince more ponies of the believability of a straight Rainbow. Dunno. 
Oh, is the arrow and the cross series yours too? With the transport spell gone wrong? I used the term colt-crudder in chapter 6 of my 'fic here because it seemed appropriate and I couldn't think of anything better for RD to blurt out.
so awesome! 
then i lol'd 
On a Cross and Arrow isn't mine, but I very highly advocate that it's a fantastic fanfic.
I don't even know how I thought of that combo. I just said to myself, "let me have somepony walk into the bar." It ended up being Octavia, and I just ran with it from there. I might write a side story solely about their little talk.
Would it hurt them? Yes, in a way. They would go on thinking they've been stallions and Ponyville loves them. I think in this case it's their families that talents that suffer most. For example, Blitz wouldn't be able to do a rainboom. In fact, that fact would confuse the heck out of them when they wondered how they got their cutie marks. And think of what Celestia would be going through; losing her prized pupil! Dusk wouldn't remember her at all. It'd be crazy, to say the least.
If I neglected your comment, don't fret. You have my thanks for commenting on the story and showing how you felt about it! It's great to receive feedback. 
If you're talking about On A Cross And Arrow, then yes, I used the same names. Both stories were based on Trotsworth's stallion designs, If I'm not mistaken.
As far as having the same storyline, Cross And Arrow has the mane six traveling into an alternate universe and meeting themselves, whereas in 63rd Rune, the mane six themselves change genders and have to try and undo it.
Also, you may have seen my story on DeviantArt, where I post as 'Gig-Mendecil.' If it's not one of those two, than someone is taking my work! 
Thanks for the comment!
Amazing story so far. I can't wait for the next chapter to be posted. At the rate it's going I wonder if they will be able to make it in time. Also wondering about the memory necklace...does it get weaker per use in general or does it get weaker per use based on the pony it's used on?
I am liking this so far. I am curious to see if there will be a bigger conflict between them getting more and more used to being their new selfs.(aka if you are planing to make them forget their old selfes, kinda like in the Discord episodes, but different ofcourse)
Uhhhhhhhhh... Great writing, but a few nitpicks:
1 shouldn't Tia have thought that they were always colts?
2 with their reactions, you list all of their reactions, which I find irritating. It kinda breaks the flow. It's good for the characters, but breaks the flow.
Still, great, absurd awesome fic. Poor spike!
Hunh... well, you've got the memory dangers seeming a bit more dangerous (though some parts of it confound me... Sweetie Belle didn't gender swap... but Celestia in memory did... I'm not sure why this is happening (and it's forcing me to consider this a minor cross with Cogwork's piece (i.e. they're gaining their male counterparts' memories or something))).
The apparent physical danger is still rather low... sure, Pinkie fell off a cloud, but I don't think it ever felt like Dash couldn't save her and the maze wasn't very threatening at all (nearly lampshaded with the 'just had to go left' line).
I dunno. The stakes still seem fairly low.
1) Only those at the epicenter of the spell gender swapped.
2) Their memories range from garbled to non-existent.
3) Yeah, that maze was more annoying than dangerous.
Pretty much, the risk right now is "lose your memories of everyone you love outside of Ponyville / lose your skills." This mostly affects Twilight, Dash and Rarity, because Twilight would lose Celestia, Dash would lose her signature trick (and possibly any chance of being in the wonderbolts - because hey, a blue mare saved them heroically, not a stallion), and Rarity would have to either learn to make suits or start making dresses again.
Meh. No, it's not very dangerous. It's annoying and a bit upsetting, though.
There is one thing I think you should clarify. If the gender-swap spell they're looking for is so old and is going to be so hard to set up, why can't they just re-do the spell that changed them in the first place. The spell was initially meant to change what type of ponies they were, but a typo caused it to shift to being a gender-swap spell, so why couldn't they just have gotten back into the circle of runes and done the spell again. If the typo had caused the runes to change from a species-swap to a gender-swap, wouldn't its effects have been able to work both ways, both transforming them and transforming them back?
The spell Twilight cast wasn't even finished, so the fact she was able to pull it off is astounding in itself. Because of that, replicating it would most likely make matters worse. As for the spell they're attempting find the reagents for right now, this is a more of a 'reset switch', using ingredients for their situation. If something different had happened, like they all lost their ability to talk or something, Celestia would've needed a different set of ingredients to fix it.
Situaaaattttiiiooonnsss!
Wait, but if On a Cross and Arrow isn't yours, but you're using the same names, that's not very creative. This is your chance to be really creative; you should use new gender-swap names, not just ones taken from another fic. Just to throw a few out there, I can think of: Nightfall (Twilight), Pinkie Guy, Rainboy Dash, and Rainbow Dude; with a little brainstorming I'm sure you would be able to come up with some really good ones, and show your readers that you don't need to take ideas from other fics in order to make yours creative
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Also, one thing that kind of bugs me about this part is it seems like a bit of a cliche; those pillars had been supporting the roof of that chasm for thousands of years and they just happened to pick that one particular day to come crashing down?
It's also not very creative for other fanfics to use the names of the main six, either? 
But I kid. I started writing this after seeing Trotsworth's Rule 63'd characters, an I thought they were really well done and wanted to incorporate them into a story. I even asked for his permission to use them! To be completely honest, Cross and Arrow took the names from the same place as me, although I think he switched "Bubble Berry" to "Berry Bubble". So, his names aren't exactly original either. 
Yes, the columns falling down was cliche, but it was expected from the second they were mentioned. Big columns? Large cracks? Group of important characters exploring? Yeah, that's bound to come down.
>>22561 The question in that case is why Celly gender-swapped in their memories... will Sweetie end up gender-swapped in memory as well? It would perhaps be more logical/consistent for that to happen (and a bit more screwed up as well). This is either one inconsistent spell or an overly intelligent one. Y'know, in case it has a whole script of screwing with memory based on a ponies proximity to the spell (i.e. Sweetie gets memory swapped herself so she stays the same in Rar's memory, but Celly isn't in range for her memories to be screwed with so she gets gender swapped in memory... so that would mean that Braeburn's now AJ's female cousin in her memory and Pinkie has brothers in hers but the Cakes will stay the same).
As for the dangerous/not so dangerous bit... well, I think it might be a matter of expectations. You label something adventure and my brain is going to go straight to thinking of your fic emulating the great adventures. I'm expecting danger, so it's a bit underwhelming to see the obstacles being so easily overcome. I might be pining for the expected... see Columns of Immaculate Timing.
And this has been another moment of overthinking ponies, brought to you by Gummy Cola. Stay thirsty, my friends.
The problem with this idea is that with magic, in most cases, practitioners know that doing something in a certain way gets certain results, but not why it gives those results. This contrasts science where the goal is to know exactly how something is done, so that the end result can be predicted with any particular setup, this is why magic is always causing headaches for scientists in stories. In this particular situation, they don't know how that particular alteration of the rune changed the spell, or even if it is the rune that caused the change, instead of mearly opening the spell up to outside influences. Far safer to use a particular known, if obscure, spell to directly change the symptoms to the desired result, then trust an unknown variable to act exactly the same way.
....hmm...maybe being able to see the underlying systems and logic behind fictional magic systems is a sign I really need to stop reading so much...
I like this story so far, though it does beg two questions.(one minor and one major)
After they found the feather, could'nt they just kick in one of the cloud walls/floors and leave that way?(And a maze to protect important artifacts is a bit odd considering the idead of 'go left'(or mor commenly 'stay at one wall') is very common, at least in our world.)
The other question is, why is neither Celestia not Luna taking a more active role in this if it is so dangerous? I know they normaly stay passive but they could at least have send some small group to fetch the artifact while the mane cast was in Cloudsdale/Old Canterlot.
Neither of those points are really major problems because this story is obviously more centered around character interactions and those things but just felt like mentioning them.(In the other part with Old Canterlot there also was the question of why RD can't just fly over the big gate thing and open it up instead of AJ trying to kick it in(Which I thought would cause the colapse of the cave))
Been a while since this got updated... Glad to see it's still alive :)
As for the story itself - I got mixed feelings.
At one point it's a great story that I really enjoy and look forward to every update.
However so far the later chapters have been a slight disappointment. I mean, the whole idea of the story was that they turned into colts and the first few chapters played very well on that topic, but at this point the only things that reminds me about them being colts are the names they use and the whole "if we don't turn back - bad things will happen" deal. Though maybe that's just my unjustified ranting because I wanted to see more of their awkward interactions with other characters...
Nevertheless - the story is a good read, so I'm eagerly waiting for the next update :)
Yeah, it's a bit of a cliche, but I guess you could hand-wave it by saying that they only really started to collapse when Luna opened the huge door, and when AppleJack bucked the gate open.
(The reply is 8 weeks late, but I don't really give a damn, so long as I get attention.
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Or they could turn back into mares with the minds of stallions and everyone in ponyville wondering why the hell they're all spontaneously female, including the mane 6 themselves and the spell spreads until eventually all the world thinks thats the way it should be. Also,Is spike stuck as a girl forever now?
a song for the end
FOOLY COOLY !
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"Ride on Shooting Star",.
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Slide of an orange reflects in the sky
Hanging the pride of a sponge
Spider
No need to hide
the premonition of life captured
it is like a colored dream
Ride on shooting star
I continued singing
like a shotgun with all my heart
A grunged hamster becomes more mature
and is accompanied by a lobster of revenge
Sniper
What do you say that
you can see in that framed world?
I want to touch it before you aim
Ride on shooting star
I'm looking for you and I'm having withdrawal symptoms
I lied to you
Ride on shooting star
I continued singing
like a shotgun with all my heart
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