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Probably most of y’all who read these things know about Business Trip and Mr. Jones Goes to Equestria, and if you were waiting for another installment about the ponies of the Mareiott, good news!

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AlwaysDressesInStyle has begun the backstory we all knew we needed.

E16

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

Five years ago, sixteen mares founded a hotel in New Jersey called the Mareiott. These are their stories.

• Human
• Other

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Following one of my own formulas of finding obscure ponies and writing stories about them, AlwaysDressesInStyle has come out the gate with a pony so obscure there was only a toy of her, and you can count the number of Derpibooru hits for art of her on less than two hands (seven total, by my count, if we discount pictures of the action figure and associated packaging).

Which is a shame; even the action figure has a certain je ne sais quoi about it.

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I’ll be honest, the part I’m most looking forward to is the explanation of the Checkers. I’m calling it right now, that was Flitterheart’s idea.

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She’s the one on the left

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[Admiral Biscuit]

Also, this is sadly not the sixteenth story to go into the not-a-contest bookshelf, which is kind of a shame. Still, only missed by one.

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[LotusTeaDragon]

YAY!

*pushes nun out of the way*

[Reese]

Already on it, but thanks. :)

5188965
Ah, oh well. :D

[KMCA]

5188965
That picture looks like she's trying to hide being a unicorn

[Herald of Opera]

a certain je ne sais quoi

I'm reminded of something that happened to me in real life because I'm only kept from Aragon levels of "my life is a sitcom" by mostly staying away from people. Anyway, because I don't actually speak French despite living in Canada for my entire life, I had to ask someone what this meant after they used it... and my followup question of "no seriously, what does it mean" was legitimate even if it's also a classic joke in this sort of context.

[Admiral Biscuit]

5188968

YAY!
*pushes nun out of the way*

[Admiral Biscuit]

5188991

Already on it, but thanks. :)

I figured by the time I posted, most people who were interested would have already seen it was up, but for anyone who came in late. . .

[Admiral Biscuit]

5189023

That picture looks like she's trying to hide being a unicorn

Maybe she is. The only two official arts of her have her with Twilight’s manestyle or with Rarity’s.

[Admiral Biscuit]

5189218

I had to ask someone what this meant after they used it... and my followup question of "no seriously, what does it mean" was legitimate even if it's also a classic joke in this sort of context.

As used, it means that the pony has an indescribable quality about her.

[Herald of Opera]

5189410
But the literal translation is closer to "I don't know" or "I can't say" and that's the response I got. Needless to say, he was better at communicating things than Abbott or Costello so things were cleared up fairly quickly.

[Admiral Biscuit]

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Yes, that’s true, and I’ll be honest, I doubt it’s got the same meaning in English writing that it does in actual French. Although I could be wrong about that, I can’t say.