//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Play With Me // by Draconaes //------------------------------// Play With Me Chapter 4 You are now a devilishly handsome tetrahedron. I mean, look at you! Such angles! You pity anyone that doesn't have faces like yours! Don't you listen to the cranky unicorn, either. You aren't stupid at all! In fact, you are pretty clever if I do say so myself! Piece of junk, bah! Would a piece of junk have a swanky spirograph carved into them like I do? Who does she think she is, personal protege to the Princess? Oh, that's right, she is, isn't she! Stupid, no good alicorns! It's all their fault! Okay... calm down... pretend that you are capable of breathing and pretend that you are breathing slowly and deeply. Good. You need to decide what you are going to do with these ponies. Sure, you've been running them through some generic challenges already, but these are just to warm them up. They need to be properly prepared for the real game. They need to be pliable, unquestioning of certain assumptions. When you finally let them into the real you, you need them to behave perfectly. You can't risk them screwing everything up where you don't have full control of the environment. They need to be paranoid. They need to trust nothing you say, but trust that you are actually in full control. They need to think they are doing what they want when they are really doing what you want. They need to believe that they are breaking the game against your will. The yellow pegasus is fairly useless. You should probably just use her to manipulate the other two. They seem to care a great deal about her well-being, after all. The blue pegasus, on the other hand, must be groomed carefully. She's a wild one with a rebellious attitude. If she was alone, it would be simple to influence her. The purple unicorn, however, presents a challenge. She might also be easy to manipulate, were she alone. But together, the pegasus and unicorn are unlikely to be guided to the same action. You think that you might have to goad the blue one into action, probably through the yellow one. The purple one with attempt to restrain the blue one from doing anything rash. At that point, you will strike at her ego instead! Or something like that. You'll have to see how they react to more of these pointless tests first. Why are you talking to yourself in the second person? Why, because I'm an insane tetrahedron that's been alone for a few thousand years, why else?! Hahahaha! Oh, that one never gets old! You crack you up!