“You there… yes, you. You certainly seem like an interesting one. Perhaps you will provide me with some entertainment after all.
“You seek the truth… but the truth is a fickle and dangerous thing. When you reach inside and tear out the guts, you see all there is to see, in all of its terrible and ugly glory.
“Can you prevail against all odds? Will you reach your desired happy ending? Truly, it would take a miracle. If you find the answers you seek, will you be happy with them? Or will it only cause you pain?
“I am Infinite Miracle. As long as the probability of something happening is greater than zero, I can make it happen without fail.
“I’ve decided to lend you my aid. It looks like your future will be very entertaining, and boredom is poison to someone like me. So try your best to weave a compelling narrative, okay? I can become quite cruel if you bore me.
“If you want to succeed, keep digging and digging. Dismantle this story to the very atom, tear out its insides and analyze them harshly. If you hold back for the sake of kindness, the pain endured will only magnify. Harsh truths should bathe in harsh sunlight.
“As a token of my good faith, I will lend you a fraction of my power. These formidable weapons will help you in what will come.
“PZ1.K775 Bd”
Aww 2 weeks?! They're going to be a LONG two weeks...
And now, I think, the real fun begins. So, bets on which one of them gets murdered for real first?
Five quatloos on Fluttershy.
A code? That's going to bug me. A lot. I guess I'll just have to solve it. I mean, how many kinds of ciphers could there possibly be?
That is all.
4098699
Good luck. There isn't enough cipher there to accurately decipher unless it's a really common one (which I doubt).
4097684
4098699
So there isn't enough there for most ciphers to work. The only one I could think of to try would be a book cipher if each letter was replaced with it's corresponding number.
So PZ1 K775 Bd became 16261 11775 and 24.
So I put the first few chapters in a word document and hunted down the corresponding words. Assuming I did it right... well...
down grateful her.
So that's a bust.
I figured it would be, because book code wouldn't explain the lower case letter.
I have a feeling we aren't meant to solve this until we get more of the code.
4099720
4098699
4097684
Turn the chessboard around!
Perhaps the code is in a format that would be familiar to Twilight?
Edit: Ah bollocks. I made a mistake, the code is actually supposed to be PZ1.K775 Bd
Minor difference, but eh. Sorry about that folks!
4100848
4099720
4098699
It's apparently a Library of Congress classification: PZ1 is the classification for English Fiction, and the rest of it matches in format at least. However, I'm not having much luck finding the resources online to determine more of it.
Edit: PZ1.K775 Bd leads to "The best detective stories of the year 1928" in the Library of Congress online catalog.
I really enjoyed the story up until this complete break in format... I suppose I will wait and see what the continuation of it looks like.
Hmmm... On investigation, that publication apparently included Ronald Knox's "10 Commandments of Detective Fiction", one of which (VII) was pointed out to Luna during the Tea Party:
I. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow;
II. All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course;
III. No more than one secret room or passage is allowable. I would add that a secret passage should not be brought in at all unless the action takes place in the kind of house where such devices might be expected;
IV. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end;
V. No Chinaman must figure into the story*;
VI. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right;
VII. The detective must not, himself, commit the crime;
VIII. The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader;
IX. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but only very slightly, below that of the average reader;
X. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them
Dammit... I was counting on a Chinaman being to blame.
4139391 :3
Infinite Miracle, and, what, Absolute Certainty?
Get out, you bloody cat fanatics.
"...I think I am abbout to throw a thantrum...
I... I have no idea...
I can't continue without solving this...
I... I can't... No... time."
"That is no excuse."
"It is almost 2am, on a thurstday, with school!"
"I guess you will have to figure it out when you sleep, in your nightmares..."
"NO!"
"Or in school?"
"...what did you say about in my nightmares?"
Princess Celestia!
Is it Princess Celestia that is it? I don't know the motive except for Twilight to find the truth, but please tell me it is her! I want to continue the reading!
Sorry for my last comment, I sure was tiered whenI got idea of an answer to the mystery in my head... jusr wish I could figure out tge motive now. One thing makes me sure it is not Fluttershy, the shed was locked from the inside, if she was hiding in it to fake her own murder, I can't figur out a time for her to get out of it before the sield went up so she culd get ready for the next target.
Edit:
Wait... did the shed door actually have a chain lock? If not, then...
This chapter was Japanese as fuck!
I'm not sure that's a bad thing . . .
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This is some visual novel shit, it really is Japanese as fuck, some Brave Story/Kafka on the Shore/Little Busters/Higurashi/Paprika tomfoolery. Mostly it's Corpse Party Pony Edition with More Twists. Nice.
5934652 Bernkastel has entered the fray is what happened, or her pony equivalent. Bernkastel
Fluttershy has peeled back the celluloid wall and realized she and everything she knows is a work of fiction and this story is get attempt to get Twilight to realize this as well.
Celestia and Luna already know this fact hence willing to teach Twilight the TRUTH in the story
On a scale of -1 to -10 of I know things. I'm at like a -12.
I. Am. So. Confused! We're only one third of the way through the story! What the hay!?
I don't know what's going on anymore.