I slowly entered the workshop/lab and looked around. It was always interesting to visit Midnight and Sparks labb, they always had something new going on. This time the center of the room was made up by a big obelisk, looking to be carved from grey stone, faint lines running through its surface and where it narrowed to a sharp tip, it glowed softly.
The rest looked familiar, bookshelves covered most of the walls, covered with books and scrolls and piles of paper. Something in a bulbous flask was boiling over a small flame on one of the desks, releasing a small amount of green steam.
"Hello?" I asked as I looked around, "Anypony here?"
"Oh, hey Page," Sparks said as she poked her head out from behind one of the machines, "One second."
I nodded and settled down to wait, knowing better than going poking around. Well, I did now anyway, last time I turned blue for a week... it even stayed like that in the dream realm unless I actively changed it.
Both Luna and Celestia laughed themselves silly over it.
"You're here," Midnight said as she trotted in from the other room, carrying what looked like a baking tray with a circle of much, much smaller obelisks on it, "Good... evening," she said and then frowned, "That still sounds so odd to say as a substitute to good morning."
"I know," Sparks agreed and scooted out from beneath the machine and rolled onto her hooves, "I say it wrong all the time."
"Well, if it fits," I said and shrugged my wings before looking at the floating baking tray, "Is that what you wanted to show me?"
Midnight glanced at it before she nodded, "Actually, yes," she said and put it down on the ground before moving around next to me and handing me a pebble, "Toss it into the circle."
I raised an eyebrow at her, "Iẗ́'s not going to shoot away and put a hole in something, will it?"
Midnight smiled, "Almost definitely not."
I gave her a wary look and Sparks moved around to my other side, poking me with her wing before brushing it against mine,
"Just toss it."
I took it in my magic and tossed it into the circle. Absolutely nothing happened, it flew through the air and bounced off the baking tray and then rolled onto the floor.
"Impressive," I said with a slow nod, "You seem to have removed any sort of disruptions to gravity."
It's rather funny, Sparks and Midnight's eyerolls are completely identical. And often in sync too!
Sparks gave me a firm push and I almost stumbled forward, putting my hoof into the circle. Or at least, that was what should have happened. Instead my hoof stopped in mid air and I could feel a solid shape beneath my hoof.
"What the buck..." I started and felt with my hoof. It slid smoothly without any real friction along what seemed to a dome that started just outside the tiny obelisks. I frowned and felt around it as I walked in a circle before I picked the pebble up in my magic again, floating it through the space beneath my hoof. No resistance, no different feeling of it at all even.
I quickly turned to the two alicorns, "You made a size permissible shield bubble?"
Midnight nodded, looking more than a little smug, "And the real deal would pull power from the closeby layline. One of the reasons Twi and I recommended we settle just here."
I quickly looked over at the big hunk of rock sitting in the middle of the room and then back to her, "It scales up? How big?"
Sparks shrugged her wings, "Math is a bit unclear on the maximum size," she admitted, "And it still needs to be tested against the magic negating properties of a Rexosaurus. But the bubble would cover the entire city. Maybe the entire valley. We’ll need several hundred at best, thousands at worst. Depends on how efficient we can get it."
"Not that it's perfect," Midnight admitted, "I would still not like to spend a lot of time on the ground here, there are a lot of nasty things small enough to pass through even if it works against larger predators like rexosauruses. But it would make it easier on the Guard."
"But if it works, it could be amazing," I said and looked at the circle again before I jumped up to stand on the sphere, "Now this is cool. How quickly can it get deployed?"
"They take a while to make," Sparks said as she looked up at me, "And they still needs to be tested against an actual Rexosaurus. They are magic resistant after all. But it should work."
"Oh! We can use it to trap one!" I said with a grin and jumped down to her, "I want to ride one into battle!"
Sparks twacked me with her wing, "No! Bad!"
"Okay okay!" I quickly said and retreated out of reach with a grin.
Never let me have any fun.
Keeping Fimfiction readers activ one chapter at a time every day
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I'm going to slow down to every 2 days after today, sadly. Vacation is over tomorrow.
I LOVE IT!!!
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Every second day is plenty
Rexosaurs, the ultimate pet.
lab
It's
I really missed Page humor
Bad Sparks never letting Page have any fun!
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but what about Fenn?
it's a man's right, NAY! obligation! to try and ride a t-rex into battle when the opportunity presents itself
Twilight: *eyeroll* Well at least "riding it" sounds slightly better than that silly containment device you insisted we make for you 5 months ago...
Midnight: OH YEAH! Fluttershy gave you such a stern talking to about how unnecessarily cruel it sounded! Not to mention you wanted every guard to carry six of them each for some reason...
Page: I just wanted to be the very best...LIKE NO PONY EVER WAS~! *Page plays air guitar at the end of sentence*
Midnight: Regardless we are NOT making you this "pokeball"!
Page: Once again...BEAUTIFUL SMART PONIES EQUALS NO FUN! *immature pout*
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What about
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Fern i think was a red herring i suspect, they played the pupper up a bit made us expect something to happen with it while developing other plot points along the way, at best Fern was forshadowing where page would eventualy end up, here in the jungle, like draws to like, one of the children of the wood can speak to another.
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So no remedy against tomorrow’s Monday blues?
But every two days is still great.
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I'm betting that Windy_Prance will soon begin Page-Angel shipping posts.
Fluttershy: " Can she do that!?"
Page: ""
Angel Bunny: ""
Windy_Page: "Whu--!?........Hmmmmmm....."
Page: ""
Angel Bunny: ""
that would be so awesome.
I am reminded of Doctor Dowson and Professor Rapson's operation over at St. Mary's. Given that I have the fourth wall to protect me, this is excellent news.
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....Nah. Angel is too much of a narcissist to be ship-worthy.
However...Angel might need a comical sidekick. A James to his Jessie! A Pinky to his Brain! A Discord to his Cadance!
But who??? *me side-eyes a particular timberwolf as a candidate*
...
That would be cool, but I can't help but draw comparisons to Jurassic Park.
Life will find a way out.
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worked fine for the aeldari exodites until the necrons showed up but that's a different universe, probably
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you realize the entirty of that post was meant to be funny right...pointing out flaws in the logic is like asking discord to explain why cotan candy clouds are funny...
i mean your right it is rather a stupid statement given the upload patern...but other then my opinion on hiver being truthfull the rest of that was just meant to get a giggle out of people...you wernt meant to take it seriously
I wonder if they will consider an attempt at a gateway
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Yes, I know it's supposed to be funny. But do understand, that my own comment was supposed to be a follow-up joke. Pointing out exactly, specifically, what made it ridiculous as the joke. Literally pointing out the obvious. It was also, in part, due to those tiny small majority that would've missed it.
Besides, text is hardly a good way at all to convert emotions and or tones online. Certainly the lack of any indications, i.e, italics, bold, enlarged/shrunk, and other such letters didn't make it any easier to convert a joking tone or other meaning behind it. I make a personal habit of making what I do/say as clear as possible whenever I can, as such arguments that rise from such is never fun.
And in a setting such as this, misinterpretation and or communication is commonplace, so it'd never hurt to have an explanation. It certainly helps keeps the flame wars and heated arguments down, at least in my experience thus far.
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in the words of mark hamil's joker from bat man the animated series.
"if you have to explain a joke, there is no joke!"
though i guess i could go meme heavy and write it out in elcor/hk-47 speek though only the scifi nerds would get that bit
querying statement: "and that would make the humor rather exclusive, would it not?"
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I did not get a single one of those references and this entire comment confuses me.
If sure plenty others get what your saying, but as some of my friends would say to me, “You uncultured swine!”
And to answer if that last bit is actually a question, then I would guess no I’m it being a rather exclusive joke. As it is, in the end, a follow up joke following yours, which has the side benefit of putting this into perspective l.
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Love your humor. Good to have you back
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All Hail the fluffy overlord (\(°-°)/)
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They should paint a wall with the image Better yet, Page and Fern hunting a running away Rex
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Purrrfect!
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Page tamed a Timberwolf pup. Next is a Rex hatchling
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Yeah. Just ask Harry Dresden.
...come to think of it, a little creatively applied necromancy could solve at least some of the issues involved in using the stock jungle rexosaur model...
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Necromancer are very versatile.
That more of a brute force approach,but indeed a possibility?
This has the side effect of the guards either getting better eye sight of letting the smaller predators through compounded by the fact they won't be able to deal with rexes as effectively
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Oh hey how’s it going
Bad Page! No donut
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Cupcake
Trapping it would probably be a good way to test the shield and study the Rexosaurus
It's
Are those random accent marks some sort of secret code or something?
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THEY CRACKED THE CODE!
ABORT MISSION!
RENDEZVOUS AT SAFE HOUSE WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT.
Years of entertainment in chapters and community comment section.
Hiver shows the best Fimfiction can bring ♡
2 years... we probably lost quite some opportunities for shenanigans, but we can get up to stuff now to make up time
Angel Bunny... that will be a fun comment section adventure 👍