Letter to Letter
Code Word: #YouGotMail
You wander through Ponyville, looking for one of the pages. A source tipped you off that one was seen in the small town. As you are walking around the town, you stop by the Ponyville Postal Office, figuring that a good place to get information is with the mail carriers of the town.
You’re just about to enter when the door opens up and a crying gray pegasus followed by a gray and white griffon exits the office.
“Derpy! Wait up, it’s okay!” the griffon shouts, but the pegasus is simply too fast for her. She stops to catch her breath.
“Is everything alright?” you ask.
The griffon looks up at you and smiles softly. “It’s my friend, Derpy. She’s one of the mail carriers here, or well… she was. She was just fired.”
“What, why?” you ask.
“The boss claimed he saw Derpy messing with the mail in the backroom, but there’s no way that was possible. Derpy’s maybe a little klutzy, but she’s not an outright liar. She said she saw some sort of glowing page back there,” the griffon says. “But now she’s upset, and I need to find her to cheer her up.”
“A glowing page?” you ask. “That sounds like something I’ve been looking for.”
“Maybe you can help me then? If we can convince Derpy to stand up for herself, then we can show the boss there this page and get Derpy her job back! My name’s Gabby, by the way. I’m a courier from Griffonstone,” the griffon says, extending a claw. “What do ya say?”
[CHOICE]
What do you do?
> Help the griffon and her friend. (Hero)
> Get the page for yourself. (Villain)
[ENDING A: HERO]
You nod in reply. “I’m [USERNAME]. Let’s go help your friend and then we can make sure the page is safe,” you say.
Gabby smiles and you follow her into town. It takes a better part of the next half hour, but you finally find the gray pegasus sitting on a park bench overseeing the lake at the edge of town.
“Go away, Gabby,” the pegasus says upon realizing you’re there. “I don’t want to talk about it.”
“But Derpy, you know it wasn’t your fault. In fact, [USERNAME] here believes your story. They said they’ve been looking for this glowing page you saw,” Gabby says, resting next to her friend. She tilts her head at you.
“Oh, yes. I came to town actually because I heard one of the pages might be here. The pages belong to a really powerful book and some of us are doing our part to secure them for Princess Twilight and her friends,” you say. “Left unchecked, they could be dangerous artifacts in the wrong hooves.”
“You… you really believe me?” Derpy says, wiping her tears. “I wasn’t trying to mess up the mail, but that thing… it felt unnatural in there and I just knew I had to get it out of there.”
“What happened to it?” you ask.
“It’s probably still there now,” Derpy says. “The boss walked in before I could snatch it out of the air.”
You share a glance with Gabby and nod. “Let’s go get it then,” you say.
A short jaunt back to the Ponyville Postal Office and you find yourself face to face with the manager of the office. Before he can say a word to Derpy you lift a hoof.
“I’m here on official authority by Princess Twilight Sparkle and the Council of Friendship,” you say. “You wrongly fired this mare for wrong-doing. She was simply trying to do her part to keep Equestria safe.”
“But I…” the manager starts to say.
“No, sir. Please, let me show you,” you say, pulling him along to the back room before he can finish his statement.
In the center of the back room is a floating page. It’s glowing a light blue and it appears to be ancient. You take a step inside and suddenly a pile of mail appears to block you.
“You see? That thing is what’s causing all of this, not Derpy,” you say.
“I just assumed she was the culprit because she was in here when all the weird stuff started happening,” the manager says, gulping loudly. “I’m really sorry, Derpy. You can have your job back if you want it, but how are you going to get that thing out of here? We have mail to sort!”
You smile at Derpy. “I think Derpy can get it out there,” you say.
“I can?” Derpy says. “You really think so?”
“I know so,” you say. “A mare who has friends like Gabby has gotta be fearless. I bet you can easily fly in and grab it.”
“But I’m a klutzy flier,” Derpy says.
“Try anyways,” you say.
Derpy nods and floats into the room. Before a mail pile can stack up on her, however, she flips about with graceful ease, her unpredictable patterns making it hard to keep track of. Eventually, she nabs the page and the entire room goes silent. Derpy lands and smiles as she hands you the page.
“See Derpy? You can do anything you set your mind to!” you say happily.
(+1 pages for Heroes)
[ENDING B: VILLAIN]
You scowl. “I’m sorry, but I don’t have time for this. I came to town for the page,” you say, walking off before the griffon can say anything.
So, the page is in the back room of the Postal Office, you think to yourself. I bet there’s a back entrance I can use to get in and get it out of there before nopony else notices. Then I’ll have all the power in the world.
You silently scoot around the rear of the building, finding what looks to be an open window. Creeping up into it after checking around to see if anypony else is watching, you find yourself on top of a shelf inside a packed mail room. The only difference is the floating page in the middle of the room, glowing a light blue.
You let yourself down to the floor before immediately pulling yourself back up due to a pile of mail suddenly appearing in front of you. It seems the page is somehow protecting itself magically!
You glance about and notice that the rows of shelving units could get you close enough to leap off and grab the page. You begin to scoot across as the shelf behind you is torn down due to a massive pile of mail landing on it. You move faster and faster, losing ground behind you as you leap off and reach out for the page, just barely grabbing it out of the air.
The room goes silent and you land in a pile of mail, holding the page. With an evil grin, you climb back up into the window and out, while you hear behind you the grumblings and muttering of Ponyville’s Postal Manager.
(+1 pages for Villains)