GMBlackjack:
>Players: Achievement get.

+ Beggers Conspire to trigger a running gag three times.

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Golden 123123123:
> seems like the perfect time to have a picnic

Yes, it does, doesn't it? You fold out the map and sit on it, pleased with yourself. It's a great time to sit, relax, and enjoy yourself. Definitely no Searching for the Search or any marble nonsense. Nope. Nosireebob.

Now if only you had food...

>Notice the huge feast just offscreen and don't question it at all.

>Order pizza on the screeching static.

> consider the nearby gemstones that have totally always been a thing consider that you might be part dragon because of your fire aesthetic

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>Fail to notice the burlap tarp underneath the sprawling feast. Definitely not a trap.

>Locate Moon Cheese.

Masterweaver:
>Notice the huge feast just offscreen and don't question it at all.

You look upon a massive feast off to the side, set upon a large marble table. All the chairs are empty, but one of them happens to have your cutie mark on it. Cool!

Nothing amiss about a feast in the middle of nowhere next to a pit full of carnivorous marbles. Nothing at all. You walk to the feast.

"Wait a minute. This isn't..."

You sit down, delighted to find a bunch of moon cheese on a plate in front of you.

"Something's wrong here. I'm not eating that."

It smells really, really good...

>Hire your origami hunger marble as a taste-tester. Only the best for you!

>Of course! Who could have cheese without crackers? That would be silly.

>Realize that Ka is making the adventure, not you

>have the sudden epiphany that you're probably being influenced by ka. Shrug and start eating

>Hear a beeping from your communicator.

>Look for the pony behind the curtain.

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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PONY BEHIND THE CURTAIN

>Hold a picnic on the ERS Lulu.

OmnipresentMIcroorganism:
>Look for the pony behind the curtain.

There really must be something going on here. Putting the moon cheese down, you scan the area carefully. You see the pit of marbles, the marble table, the map you laid out as a picnic blanket, the chairs - each of which are adorned with a cutie mark you recognize, and a mysterious white mistyness all around.

Someone has to be responsible to this. You promise yourself you will find the pony (or person) putting you through all this. Folding your map into a Cartographer's Cutlass, you take full advantage of the oddity of your situation and march forward into the mist. A shape begins to take for-

Golden 123123123:
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PONY BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Looks like there's nothing here.

"Get ahold of yourself, Cinder!"

Everything's fine, just a bunch of mist. Nothing here at all.

"Come on... come on..."

You feel the need to stop straining yourself so much.

>Alright, time to cut the mysterious voice crap. CINDER GET OUT OF THERE YES I’M TALKING TO YOU

>So there's nothing there, right?
Yes.
And since there's nothing, there's no reason to be concerned about it.
Yes, exactly right, now move alo-
Which means there's no reason not to host an impromptu dance party here!
No, don't do that, go somewhere-
Dance partyyy! The wildest, cutlass-flailiest party ever to grace this side of the moon!

>stumble across a completely unimportant Rock

>Cinder, can you hear me! If so there is someone or something hiding nearby. You should set your entire surroundings on fire to flush them out.

Golden 123123123
>stumble across a completely unimportant Rock

As you stumble through the mist, you trip over a rock. Having learned your lesson from tripping on the marble earlier, you manage to keep your footing.

You look down. It's a completely normal, unimportant rock.

You frown.

>Use the moon cheese on the unimportant rock.

>Better pick it up just in case.

Science lune> execute science on the rock

>Three out of Four unimportant rocks recommend you push them.

>Refold your map into Cartographer's Pickaxe and mine the rock

>ask the rock where you are and what is happening, hoping for an answer

>Discover an important clue.

>Focus so much on the rock that you miss the Incredibly Important Plot Happening right behind you.

Keywii_Cookies55:
>Three out of Four unimportant rocks recommend you push them.

Gingerly, you use your Cartographer's Cutlass to push the rock.

"Hey! Watch it!"

You back up in alarm - talking rock? That's... while not exactly the most outlandish and ridiculous thing you've seen, it is pretty shocking since you weren't expecting it.

Golden 123123123
Science lune> execute science on the rock

It's a rock. It can talk. There's nothing out of the ordinary here.

>Apologize to the rock for your brash actions.

>Burn the rock! Then turn it into a button.

> politely ask it to hold down the other rocks well giving it the cutest look that you can

OmnipresentMicroorganism:
>Apologize to the rock for your brash actions.

"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't kn-"

"Did you just assume rocks couldn't talk? Cheese Louise..."

"I've never met a talking rock before!"

"Oh, sure, likely story. Everypony's met a talking rock! The rock just didn't talk back! Some ponies, I swear..."

"I still didn't know they talked! I never formally met them!" Thinking it over, you extend a hoof. "Hi, I'm Cinder, what's your name?"

"Oh for the... I'M A ROCK! What makes you think I have a name!?"

This isn't going well.

>Ask the rock if it would like a name.

>Use the golden necklace on the rock.

>This is a grumpy rock. You should make a rock pun to cheer him up.

> this is a bit of a Rocky situation you should take some time to sandstone things over granite
You had no way of knowing this would offend him ask him how you can make it up to him

>Point out that all the talking rocks you've ever met have a hard-light body.

Masterweaver:
>Point out that all the talking rocks you've ever met have a hard-light body.

"Actually... come to think of it, I did know a talking 'rock'."

"Oh sure, now you think about it."

"Her name is Celia and she has a hard-light body projected from a crystal in her forehead!"

"...That's not a rock. That's a magic weirdo thing. Don't you dare compare us."

"Well, I was trying to empathize. Find some common ground...?"

"We're standing on the same ground right now."

"Heh. Nice."

"That wasn't a joke."

"Oh..."

> well if he can resort to bad jokes we can to Cinder use Rock puns on Talking Rock

if the rock isn’t going to be civil about this, then you will just have to pick it up in your levitation and throw it in the hunger marble pit, aren’t you?

>Take the rock hostage.

>He seems grumpy, and not just because of your treatment of him. Ask him what’s wrong.

>Ask the rock about the mysterious mist.

>Become the Rock.

SgtSarge_51:
>Ask the rock about the mysterious mist.

"So, do you happen to know anything about this mist then?"

"I'm not telling you anything about the Fog of Exegesis!"

"Oh."

Masterweaver:
>Take the rock hostage.

You pick up the rock.

"PUT ME DOWN!"

You don't feel all that inclined too.

>Make terrible puns at the rock until it answers the question!

>Fold your not-all-that-trusty map into a Cartographer’s Life-Size Pony Dummy, and play good cop bad cop with the rock.

>Throw the rock at something.