"So, you two." Face began. The group chat consisted of the human, Princess Luna, and Princess Twilight, the latter two of which had ended up really drunk the night before. "You're really planning to go ahead with this?"
"Yes," Luna groaned, "And not so loudly, please. Twilight and I are still hungover."
"Alright, sorry. So, do you plan to have Steam Workshop access?"
"Steam Work-what what-what?" Twilight asked, sipping more coffee out of her third mug. Her assistant, Crimson Quill, hadn't received much rest since the night before, so the maroon, grey maned unicorn had a tired look in his eyes.
"Workshop access." Face repeated, for Twilight's sake. "It basically means that Steam users can create their own items, and then allow them to be used in game. For example: say...I wanted a model of a car that I could use in game, rather than the ones already in it. I could go onto the Workshop, look for a car I wanted, then click 'Subscribe'. When I next loaded up Luna's Mod, the car would download, and I could use it as an addon. You understand now?"
"Mmm...sort of." Luna replied. "So, it's sort of like the Skyrim workshop, but for my game?"
"Yeah, like that!" Face encouraged. The sound of female groaning was heard over the microphone. "Right...sorry. But yeah, there's already a Workshop for Garry's Mod on Earth, and I've personally downloaded a few add-ons that have been pretty useful. By the way, how far have you got with designing and programming the game so far? There isn't really a deadline, so it's no big deal, plus, we only came up with the idea yesterday."
"Well..." Luna's face felt hot all of a sudden. "We...haven't started?"
"Yeaaahhh..." Twilight sighed. "We got sidetracked by a few bottles of beer...each..."
"Well, as long as you don't end up like Demoman." Face laughed, encouraging more pained groans from the girls. "Again, sorry. Hmm...I just thought of something, but it slipped my mind..." There was a few moments of silence, as the two mares listened.
"What?" Luna asked. "Will it help development?"
"Hold on...yeah, idea." Face chuckled. "Why don't you ask The Almighty Gaben for help?" Luna and Twilight went into shocked silence. Ask...Gaben? I didn't know Face took drugs.
"Y-You're kidding, right?" Luna stuttered. Her hangover cleared almost instantly. "A-Ask GABEN?"
"Luna, you realise he's probably a bit drunk?" Twilight asked. She seemed to sober up even faster than her fellow Princess. Face groaned down the microphone.
"Twilight, you of all the...10 people and ponies on my friends list should know I don't drink." he scoffed. "You know that bottle of Griffonian Vodka you decided to send me through dimensions?"
"Well, no, I was probably drunk." Twilight muttered, hanging her head slightly.
"Well, I had it looked at by a Government lab, saying that I'd destroyed the bottle and kept a sample, and two weeks later they warned me that it, and I quote, 'might as well have been a bottle of paint stripper'. You threw me off drinking for life, you lavender minx."
"And what about the cigars you traded me for Deus Ex: Human Revolution?" Luna asked, smirking at the small tale.
"Smoked 'em. Wait, how does this relate to the conversation?" Face asked.
"Erm, I don't know." Twilight replied. "But anyway, you want us to ask Gabe Newell? How can we do that?"
"Well, you could E-Mail him, because that's how the world works..." Face trailed off. "Just listen to some of the things he said about Half-Life 2. He practically tells the internet how to ask him when Episode 3 comes out."
"Face..." Luna sighed. "Are you just trying to lead this up to you being able to visit us in Equestria?"
"What? No."
Y-TRUTH
B-DOUBT
A-LIE
"OK, I'm gonna go for 'lie'." Twilight giggled.
"Seriously, I am definitely not trying to visit you." Face lied. "I can just send you parts of the maps, ragdolls, and scripting over E-Mail. So, I definitely don't need to visit when we have le internetz."
"I suppose." Luna chuckled, tapping a hoof to her chin. "When the game's reaching the final phases of development, we could probably pull you up here to help with Beta-testing, debugging, and press-conferences."
"Wait, why press-conferences?" Face groaned. "You realise I suck at speeches..."
"Well, it'd be good for publicity." Twilight replied. "Practically nopony in Equestria knows that the games they play involving the Mythical Humans are actually MADE by humans, so how would they react to see a human endorsing a game? Positively."
"You hope." Face muttered. "But, we'll set that bomb when we need to. Otherwise, I think you two are just being slightly delirious from your hangover."
"Why?" Twilight snorted, raising her snout.
"Because you're asking me to endorse a game. Get, like, Will Smith to do it. Or Gordon Freeman's voice actor."
"We're not asking," Luna corrected. "We're bribing."
"Oh, OK, little miss Will-Bender. What do you offer?" Face laughed.
"Whatever pleases you..." Luna said in a sultry tone. Twilight was stifling laughs with a hoof, but it wasn't working.
"NO." Face said firmly.
"Please?" Luna changed her tone. "I'll be your best fri-wait, hold on. I'll...erm..."
"Yes?"
"Errr..." Luna was struggling. Despite her having a vast expanse of knowledge, her hungover brain couldn't come up with anything. "We'll think of something. For now, we need to assign jobs. Twilight, what do you want to do?"
"I could do model design, animations, and game engine work?" the lavender alicorn replied. "Crimson! Take a note, please!" The sound of a male cough, and a magical levitation spell using a quill was heard.
"Done." came the quiet voice of the stallion.
"Good boy." Twilight giggled. "You go take a break, I'll be fine." Hoofsteps were faintly heard over headsets, before Twilight coughed. "So, yes. I'll do that. Face, what're you going to do?"
"Legal things." replied the human. "Effectively, we're plagiarizing a game that's already been made. I'll need to convince Garry Newman, if I can contact him, that this won't outsell Garry's Mod on Earth. Then, I can get to work on Steam Workshop capabilities, advertising, etcetera. Sound good?"
"Yeah, of course." Luna smiled. "Finally, I can work on major scripting, map design, and a unique menu system."
"Well, that's all of us with jobs." Face sighed happily. "Oh, important thing, do you two have the SDK application?" The answer was a joint 'no' from the Princesses. "OK, just look it up. It's a sort of menu that lets you access the Hammer map editor, Source Film-Maker if we need it, and a ragdoll viewer. Once you have that, we have what we need to get started."
"Agreed." Luna nodded, though neither of the two could see her. "So, you two ready for this?"
"Yep." Twilight said bravely.
"Damn right I am." Face added.
"Well? Shall we begin?" Luna asked.
"Yep."
Ka-Klick.