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// 37.  #Joke'sonYou 
// Story: Ciderfest BOAS APP Stories: 86?! 
// by Janicethelight 
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Story
You and Deep Dish find yourselves in front of a sign welcoming you to Ponyville. You can no longer read the sign, however, due to it being covered in blue flowers. You both walk carefully around the sign. To your shock, the blue flowers are everywhere. Ponies everywhere have blue spots on them. Golden Harvest is completely green. Lyra has hands for hooves. Bon Bon is garishly noticeable with a neon colored mane and tail. Vinyl’' records only sound like polka when she plays them. Octavia has a thick Russian accent. Derpy is gigantic, bumping into buildings with every step. Every pony in town has something strange about them! Zecora comes up to you, gasping:

"It's a disaster
Blue flowers found magic page
My friend, we are doomed!"

Deep Dish blinks, "Oh so she doesn't talk in rhyme with-wait-was that a hiaku?!" You slowly nod before Deep Dish continues, "Zecora, can you show us where the page is?"

"Everfree Forest
Resting among flowers blue
Magic page glows on"

"Sounds like we're going to the Everfree Forest!" Deep Dish nods, "lead the way, Zecora!"

Zecora leads the way through the deep dark wood. Howls erupt around you. Zecora warns:

"Close are Timberwolves
Fearsome predators to us
Run to flowers fast"

"You don't need to tell us twice!" Deep Dish nods, taking you and rushing after Zecora. You see the Timberwolves as they try to approach you, only to trip over their blue spotted feet every few steps or so. Deep Dish snickers despite herself. "That certainly puts the timber in Timberwolves!"

Zecora stops suddenly. In front of you is a patch of Poison Joke the size of a football field. You make out the glow of the page in the middle of the flowers.

"Go in to get pranked
Flowers joke for each entry
What is the best plan?"

"I think Zecora says that the Poison joke gives pranks every time you walk through it now because of the page, and she wants to know what we should do. Honestly, I'm wondering the same?"


[CHOICE] 
How do you plan on getting the page back?

> Try to get it on your own. (Chaos)

> Find a way to work together. (Hero)

[ENDING A: CHAOS]
"I'll get it!" You proclaim and try to simply walk through the flowers. "They don't usually affect you right away, so it's fine, right?"

Suddenly, you find yourself walking backwards out of the patch. You look down to see your feet are now backwards. "Well…let's try again." The more you try, the stranger you look, and the less steps you get into the patch until you can't take a step at all. 

Deep Dish coughs, "Let's go look for an antidote for you…the page can stay there for now." Deep Dish and Zecora take you to find antidote ingredients instead.

(+1 page for Chaos)

[ENDING B: HERO]
"I'm not sure." You admit, "but one thing I know for sure is that we should work together."

"Maybe we should think of what the Poison joke makes us do. It made Zecora speak in Haiku so I guess it's what they think is funny…that's why it changed everypony in town the way it did." Deep Dish explains.

"Wait. Say that again." You respond.

"It's what they think is funny?"

"No. The last part, Dish!"

"Oh how it changed everypony in town?"

"Yes!" You cheer "I was right. We need to work together! All of us. We're going back to town!"

After some convincing, everypony in ponyville filters to the giant patch, working together, the earth ponies dig a trench to make sure the flowers don't spread more. The unicorns use their magic to shield the pegasi and the pegasi carefully fly down to grab the page. They give it to you as an orange glow erupts around everypony and everything is back to normal.

(+1 page for Heroes)