Quotable Trick Contest № 37!

Congratulations to Fillyfoolish for winning the last contest!

EThe Sound of One Hoof Clopping

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life
• Anthology

Classic zen koans, with ponies.

• Death
• Spike
• Celestia
• Luna
• Main 6
• CMCs

Trick Question · 14k words  ·  55  10 · 722 views

Story: The Sound of One Hoof Clopping
Chapter: Koan 2: Death of a Cup
Quote: Celestia was certain this would be the pony to return the Elements of Harmony to life.

Nopony has been making use of the Trick-Store, so I'm not sure why people play this game. It's not like you actually enjoy my stories or something, that would just be weird.

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THE LEADERBOARD (Unspent/Total Trick Points)

mishun: 12/12 TP
Fylifa: 7/7 TP
BezierBallad: 6/6 TP
FanOfMostEverything: 5/5 TP
Light Striker: 5/5 TP
Fillyfoolish: 2/2 TP *

(* = Winner of last round! But they can't participate this time.)

You can spend Trick Points in the Trick-Store to get all sorts of cool stuff!

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A rules refresher (click here for the full list):

• You may only look at the stories via Fimfiction (no searching local storage, using the book, etc).
• Using "find in page" in your browser is fine (but might not work due to how I'll post the quotes).
• You are not permitted to search multiple pages at once via browser history, Google, plugins, etc.
• You may post only one guess. Editing your comment after posting it disqualifies you.
• Whenever you win a contest you have to sit out the next contest.

First comment with the correct story and chapter (for chaptered stories) wins the Trick Point!

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This week's quote:

"I think this cushion on my chair is wet," complained Rainbow Dash.

Good luck, everypony!

Comments

[Light Striker]

Polyphileos, eponymous chapter.

[Fillyfoolish]

Congratulations to Fillyfoolish for winning the last contest!

literally who

[Light Striker]

Nopony has been making use of the Trick-Store, so I'm not sure why people play this game. It's not like you actually enjoy my stories or something, that would just be weird.

A list of maybe-true maybe-false maybe-chaff ideas:

1. Maybe we mainly wanted access to the Discord chat so we could linger in, mostly, hazy silence there instead of somewhere else.
2. Maybe we have Backloggeries full of games already.
3. Maybe we worry about the impact of commission-like requests given unclear queue visibility and/or unclear total capacity.
4. Maybe we try to come up with cameo-able characters or desired story ideas only to have them either turn out to be dissatisfying and weak or evolve into their own work that completely distracts from the original impetus before it either gets published or gets moved to the infinite folder of backlog ideas never to be seen again.
5. Maybe we're waiting to get to 15 so we can call you Faust. Or just to send a large blocker even when our teammates are begging us to bank.
6. Maybe it's the same phenomenon that results in bludgeoning the final boss of an RPG with a wooden sword for nine hours rather than using any of your eighty-three attack buff potions or any of the magic arrows of boss slaying that have a random break percentage.
7. Maybe being able to Scrooge-dive into a pool of points feels more like what we deserve than any meaningful and complex interaction that would require people to deal with our horrible actual selves.
8. Maybe we get distracted by making sure to be the fastest to get the point and then get distracted reading the actual stories because they're generally good ones and can be hard to put down and then get distracted by writing about getting distracted and then get distracted by writing about writing about getting distracted and

[Trick Question]

5662481
Literally you?

[Trick Question]

5662473

[Fillyfoolish]

5662609
(Dr. Hooves voice) Who is this you spoken of anyway?