Twilight was next to enter the game.
Twilight messaged Pinkie, asking if she was ready. She gave the A-OK and giggled happily. Games were fun. And even if there was a lot of sadness, she wasn't going to be down about this. You had to be positive and accept what you couldn't change. She had learned that, and went on smiling anyway, leaving the grieving for a proper time and keeping the pity out of her way. She'd go far.
Ying was ready too, giving Pinkie good placement locations for all the items. Twilight was thinking about what to put in the kernelsprite when she spotted a snake. She cried out, dancing on her hoofsies and screamed to get rid of it. The snake wasn't going anywhere near her, and Phy crossed her arms over her chest and told her to calm down. Owlowicious however had other plans. He swooped down and picked the snake up into his beak, and cracked the snake's neck. Twilight had a looked appalled and relieved at the same time. It was a weird expression. The kernelsprite was gravitating towards Owlowicious, and Phy saw this, before yanking the snake out and throwing it into the kernelsprite before Owlowicious could be considered doomed. It was a reflex really. And Twilight gasped and started crying when she realized what this prototyping meant. Snake enemies, and a snake sprite. She laid down and buried her eyes with her hooves, trying to will it away. But it wouldn't. Phy could tell how upset this made her and made a note to try and help Twilight with her phobia later - it seemed like one of the few things that made her irrational. Phy would have to help her with that. She tried to quiet her down, letting her know that she would be close by at all times, and to try and think of a way to make this better.
Twilight thought for a few minutes, glad there was no countdown, and decided to prototype Smarty Pants, her old plushie. It'd be a weird combination, but maybe it'd help. Phynicxs liked Smarty Pants' mane.
When she put it in, the change was fascinating for her - which was good because she'd soon end up having to have a small breakdown when things weren't making sense. Smarty Pants talked, but hissed a lot. His lower body was covered with a pant leg, and a snake's tail came out of it. Smarty Pants' button eyes now had yellow inside the horizontal holes, but in the vertical hole was a slitted pupil. Twilight studied it from all angles, Phy deciding not to tamper with it right now and made her entry item.
Twilight Sparkle was confused. It was a list of things she had to do. And oddly enough, all of the things listed were things she had yesterday decided to do for today. She was confused, but Pinkie seemed to get it right away, texting her. Phy saw it and drew Twilight's attention to the text.
"Silly filly Twilight, this is a symbol of your growth. You need to learn to listen to your emotions sometimes. You have to learn to do what your heart says. Twilight considered this, and realized what she had to do, and would have been a bit curious had she not known Pinkie for her occasional wise insights. She picked the page up with her magic and tore it to shreds, a part of her dying inside. She had to close her eyes, but when it was over, she felt relieved, and oddly free.
Land of Homework and Horns.
Twilight was speechless as she came out of her tree house, Phynicxs following soon after. it was kind of amazing. There were so many materials and equipment, all of which exuded homework and practice. Physical, mental, and spiritual. Strangely, there were mushroom-like horns growing everywhere and on everything. Her eyes widened and she felt really excited, but Phynicxs told her to calm down for a bit. The worlds were a big part of the game, but they weren't the main thing. Phy told Twilight she could go through it later.
One of the more curious things, other than the tons of unicorn horns (which as she thought about it, upset Twilight greatly,) was that there were tons of stopped clocks around the area - possibly more clocks than practice things. And in the distance, despite the fog that she figured would end up becoming important later. She had a feeling she knew what it was, and it was giant. It looked completely flat though, like a cone. She realized though that it looked a lot like Celestia's horn. She asked Phynicxs about this and she shrugged, figuring since she was most likely a time player that it would be the beat mesa; although she mentioned it wasn't like one she had ever heard about or seen. But the size of it reminded her a lot of a beat mesa.
Twilight was going to have a field day, but first she needed to check on Spike as Owlowicious went flying around the area.
After checking on Spike and building RD's house a little with grist Spike was starting to collect, and seemed to need Gia there with him at all times to help keep his greed from growing. Gia was aware that soon he would need to learn to control his greed on his own if he was to ever master his classpect, and use his hidden potential to its fullest. She had learned from shadowTanksprite, who wandered around the house, desperately wanting RD to come home, that Spike was the Page of Light. It was suitable seeing as fortune made him stronger and made him grow more. But Spike had a long ways to go before he could handle himself, and Gia felt like that was why she was there. To help him and teach him and make him more powerful than Spike could ever imagine.
Twilight was getting giddy and hadn't checked the are around them much. She asked Phynicxs if she could fly her up a ways and use her telekinesis to hold and use her telescope. Phynicxs said that was something she couldn't do, after trying. The game was making her get to where she needed to go on her own, even if she had help and protection in case things went south. Twilight was disappointed, but brought her telescope out anyway, and looked at the black expanse around them. Looking up she saw Skaia above her and was captivated by its beauty, having not woken up yet on Prospit. She could feel so much powerful potential hidden deep within Skaia, but at the same time, as she looked at the clouds, she had a very ominous feeling that something was deeply wrong, but she didn't know what. And then she saw that there was no orbitting. Things were pretty much in the same place all the time. Twilight Sparkle was confused at first, then started to panic, being at the right angle to see Spike's planet. She started to get more and more panicked. Phynicxs was quick to come over, and used her blood powers to strengthen their bond so that she could help Twilight more easily. And she did, telling her calmly how things worked differently here, and instead of thinking of it as her world, she should try to think of it as a completely new experience and universe that, over time, she would need to catalogue. Twilight nodded and started to grow a smile, but Phynicxs stopped her, telling her now wasn't the time.
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During the time the others were starting to enter their sessions, Machine was working with Typo, asking him about the medium and if the ponynet would be able to cross dimensional boundaries. Typo face-palmed and rolled his eyes to the right. Machine wasn't aware there were ponies already talking through the chat system he had developed - Neighcamaraderie. Typo thought it was a stupid name, crossing his arms over his chest. Typo felt this would probably take awhile.