Pony of Interest

"We were sent here by a superintelligent, benevolent..." Reese briefly considered how accurate to be here, eventually settling for a catchall term: "...magical device, which routinely provides us with sparse information on our task."

"Huh," said Rainbow Dash, "you too? Ours is a crystal table that projects a map."

I know I'm not the first one to see this similarity. I Googled this site. Hardly found anything in the way of stories, though among the idle speculation, there was this video.