Aincrad Excerpt - Castle Mania! · 9:38pm Mar 22nd, 2020
Excerpt From Episode Episode 34 - Coming Tuesday!
They were trekking through the Gnarled Forest, trying to find the ruins of the Castle of the Two Kings. Inside were the Star Spiders. Diemond was the only Wondercolt not with them. She was still training as an apprentice. After one attempted murder and an attempted armed robbery, there was no way for Bladescape to do it alone. The others wouldn’t let it happen. She had gone home to their Headquarters. If she hadn’t, then it would have been a different situation.
Their info said they would have to kill the spiders, which would drop the silk gland. There was no other way to get the silk gland. Doombunny wasn’t happy about that. She couldn’t do anything about it except help harvest them. Ashley would then carefully extract the silk from the gland in a way that she could spin it into thread.
They finally broke through the forest’s branches and snares to find themselves facing a ruined castle with two spires; one in the east and one in the west. A sharp ravine split the ground between them and the front gate. The fall was enough that they wouldn’t want to test if they could survive it. Stretched across it was an old rope bridge with sketchy wooden boards to walk across.
“I feel like I have been here before,” Bladescape said.
“Duh,” AFCK said. “You have. Or maybe you haven’t? We have though. This is almost exactly like our trip to find Nightmare Moon. Wow, that was a really long time ago.”
“Nightmare Moon?” Thunderborne asked. “Uh, we never did that.”
“Yes you have!” AFCK asserted. “I was there with you.”
Bladescape had recollections of a Nightmare Moon. A fairy tale from Equestria, and a holiday that surrounded it; Nightmare Night. Here that holiday was known as Halloween.
“Nightmare Moon?” Bladescape said. “AFCK, as in our Out of Town Friend’s Nightmare Moon? A legend from there?”
“Duh,” AFCK said again. “Why can’t you keep up? Yes, there. All of us, except for you Bladescape, went on an epic adventure there. And we have visited more often too! I found out I can play the pipe organ in the Castle of the Two Sisters.”
“AFCK,” Backbreaker said, trying to sort her out. “If we didn’t do it, but that is from that er...town. Then our friends did it, not us.”
“No,” AFCK chuckled. “We did it. If we go there, then you wouldn’t be able to tell a difference. We are them and they are us. They did it, so we did it. Like two sides of the same coin! I really hope they weren't doing anything important when we all got trapped in here.”
“AFCK,” Bladescape groaned. “No, Pinkie Pie. I mean Pinkie Pie. Pinkie, they are from another dimension. Di-men-sion. Not virtual reality. The NerveGear exists in our dimension and it can’t cross into their dimension.”
AFCK rolled her eyes. “You just don’t get it because both sides of your coin are with us, not split between Equestria and CHS.”
“Let’s just drop this,” Knightstar said, trying to fix her glasses. That nervous habit still happened. “This won’t get us anywhere.”
“I’ll go first!” Thunderborne declared. “To make sure it's safe.”
No one argued against that and Thunderborne made it across without any incident. The bridge was solid. It just looked worse than it was.
Damnit Pinkie, they aren't supposed to know!
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That entire engagement was so much fun to write. lol
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Oh I know. I've done several myself, and they are always super fun to write.
When did twilight get glasses in the game? I thought this whole time she wasnt wearing them since the beginning when it was stated. Also loved the conversation very funny and I'm believing more and more this is pony pinkie
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I'll clear that up. I should have added "non-existent."
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Thank you