Duel: Nightmare Moon
Twilight was significantly faster than Nightmare Moon, but had less HP and power behind her attacks. Therefore, she had to avoid getting hit as much as possible while hitting her opponent as often and hard as she could. It was a good thing that her fighting style centered around the former. Talking certainly wasn't going to work, but she really only had to incapacitate Nightmare Moon long enough to do her thing with the elements and let the girls get here so that they could use the elements to restore Luna.
She used Fireball a dozen times in quick succession as a second blow against Nightmare Moon. It had that useful auto-target sub-directive that was augmented by her high Combat skill, which would be useful for making sure that her opponent was actually hit by them. Beam was fast, but only traveled in a straight line. Fireball was much slower, but could curve in it's path if necessary.
Nightmare Moon tried to dodge, but was unprepared for their ability to adjust their trajectories to such a great degree. She took direct hits, but was still 9000+. Twilight needed to use a massive damage-dealing spell in case of fights like this in the future. She felt held back by the lack of spells designed with killing intent for the first time.
She'd had trouble making a spell that was higher power, but not going to blow up the whole room, so she had failed to make one herself so far, but maybe an overpowered Beam...
She dodged several Beams from Nightmare Moon, before a more powerful ray was fired, essentially just a continuous Beam. Twilight teleported behind Nightmare Moon and did a short continuous Beam. It was a bad move, that was stupidly draining.
She regenerated almost at a rate of 1MP per second, but she wasn't without a limit. She dodged the flurries of attacks, still taking some damage, but not an overwhelming amount as she retaliated. She was still over 700 HP when Nightmare Moon dropped below 7000 HP.
"Well, you're doing better than I expected, so I suppose I should take this seriously." Nightmare Moon said.
'Boss is now Taking Opponent Seriously. Slight reduction to attack power, large increase speed and defense.'
Well crud. She was dead if she couldn't hit Nightmare Moon, but Nightmare Moon could hit her. Getting an idea, Twilight switched to Pegasi magic momentarily to speed in close, then switched to Earth pony magic, smashed her hoof into Nightmare Moon as hard as her Str Stat would allow, then insta-grew a tree that smashed Nightmare Moon into the ceiling hard enough to crack it, dropping her to below 5000 HP.
Her eyes widened, that combo had done roughly 2000 damage. She was making that a finishing move. Anyway, now that she was bound, Nightmare Moon wouldn't be able to stop her from activating the elements. Twilight hurried over to the elements and infused them with a large amount of magic, only to be blown back by Nightmare Moon. Oh right, she could teleport. The sparking between the elements started, then faded away, leaving the elements only half-activated.
"Well, you certainly put up a good fight, I can understand why my sister made you her student. However, you were foolish to challenge me. You wouldn't have stood a chance had I gone all-out, and now your only real hope of defeating me is about to be crushed." Nightmare Moon crushed the elements with a single stomp.
"Check that, was just crushed." Nightmare Moon said smirking
Twilight got ready to try outdueling Nightmare Moon again, when her friends voices became audible. Right, now to prove her wrong.
"You can't destroy the elements of harmony just like that, Nightmare Moon. Those were just their physical forms, their spirits are right here!" she called as her friends came up behind her, not asking questions about the signs of combat. The elements' shards began to float and gained a color, either the coat or mane of their bearer.
"What!?" Nightmare cried out in surprise, and a hint of fear.
"Applejack, who reassured my doubts, represents the spirit of honesty." Twilight said, causing the three orange shards to circle Applejack, who glanced at them curiously.
"Fluttershy, who was more concerned with the health and safety of an animal she'd never met before than her own, represents the spirit of kindness." Twilight said, causing the three yellow shards to circle Fluttershy, who was a bit nervous about all this.
"Pinkie Pie, who laughed danger in the face, represents the spirit of laughter." Twilight said, causing the three pink shards to circle Pinkie, who bounced excitedly.
"Rarity, who gave a sorrowful serpent a meaningful gift, represents the spirit of generosity." the trio of purple shards encircled Rarity at Twilight's words, Rarity looked at them with a calm acceptance.
"And Rainbow Dash, who refused to abandon her friends for her heart's desire, represents the spirit of loyalty." the trio of blue shards was circling Rainbow Dash before she was finished.
"The spirits of these five ponies got us through every challenge that was thrown at us." Twilight explained.
"The sixth element is still missing, the spark didn't work!" Nightmare Moon said, grasping at straws.
"Wrong again, that wasn't the right spark earlier. The spark was the realization that the five of you..." Twilight turned to her friends. "...are my friends!" she said. A final orb appeared in a flash of light, and continued to glow. This one was engraved with a star. Twilight turned back to Nightmare Moon.
"You see Nightmare Moon, when these elements are ignited by the spark, that resides in the heart of each and every one of us, it creates the sixth element. The element that represents friendship itself, the element of magic!" Twilight called, as the shards circling her friends joined together and formed their necklaces, while hers shed the stone and became her crown.
She and her friends floated as the elements charged up and fired a rainbow at Nightmare Moon with the intent of removing the corruption.
"Nooooo!" Nightmare Moon screamed. She tried to resist the elements, but between the infusion Twilight had given the elements to wake them up and the duel which had weakened her, she stood even less of a chance of it than the first time. She noticed that the elements registered as infinite damage.
When the light from the element's faded, they found themselves on the ground. The others seemed to have slight headaches.
'+100 Exp/Bits. + 20 skill points.'
"Oh, my goodness!" Rarity called, upon discovering that the elements had been kind enough to restore her mane and tail.
"Oh Rarity, it's lovely." Fluttershy said.
"'It's'? You mean they're." Rarity said, confused.
"No, I meant your necklace. It looks just like your cutie mark." Fluttershy replied.
Rarity compared the two, then said. "So does yours!"
Fluttershy compared hers as well, noticing that they were the same with a gasp.
"Look at mine! Look at mine!" Pinkie said, bouncing over.
"Aw yeah!" Rainbow seemed to like having a lightning bolt necklace.
"It makes sense, we're the spirits of the elements, and our cutie marks, which represent our special talents, are closely tied to our souls. So they took form as our cutie marks." Twilight said.
"Gee Twilight, I thought you were spouting a lot of hooey, but you were right, we really do represent the elements of friendship." Applejack said.
"Indeed you do." Celestia said, appearing in a ball of light as the sun rose.
"Princess Celestia!" Twilight said, going over and nuzzling her mentor.
"Twilight Sparkle, I knew you could stop Nightmare Moon, and free my little sister from her corruption, because you had the magic inside to do so, and now you have friends to help you unleash it. Now I can only hope that she will accept friendship as well." Celestia said.
Luna had reverted to an alicorn of roughly the size of a normal pony. She became nervous as her elder sister approached.
"Luna, I'm sorry I didn't see how you felt, but we were meant to rule together little sister. Will you accept my friendship?" Celestia asked.
Luna was silent for a few seconds that passed anxiously for everypony but Twilight. Pinkie actually fell over.
"I'm so sorry! I missed you so much big sister!" Luna said, crying. Twilight hadn't had the normal Luna to compare it to before, but Luna's voice was quite a bit higher in this state. She seemed to be younger or something along those lines, perhaps Luna was actually made younger by the elements as a side effect, and had used an age spell to turn herself back to normal. That, or her current state was a side effect that wore off later once Luna had recovered from having a chunk of her magic stripped.
"I missed you too." Celestia said, also tearing up.
Pinkie started to bawl her eyes out, then stopped abruptly and asked. "Hey, you know what this calls for?" They were suddenly back in town. "A party!" she yelled, confetti sprayed out of nowhere as Celestia and Luna rode through town on a chariot. Some pegasi foals put a wreath of flowers around Luna's neck. Twilight was reunited with Spike and he was given a summarized version of what transpired.
'Quest Complete! +200 Exp/Bits. +10 skill points.'
"Some day I'll understand how you do that." Twilight told Pinkie, glancing around their surroundings. "Not today though."
"Sure, your Int is more than three times the average, so you understand a lot of stuff the rest of us don't." Pinkie said smiling.
"Wait, are you saying you don't understand how you do this stuff?" Twilight asked, flabbergasted. She was sure that Pinkie had at least some idea of how she did what she did before now.
Celestia approached the group as the others were chuckling at her expression.
"Well, are you ready to go?" Celestia asked.
"To be honest, no. I have friends now, and I don't want to leave them." Twilight responded.
"Well, in that case, I decree that the unicorn Twilight Sparkle will henceforth study the magic of friendship. She will report her findings to me, from her new home in Ponyville!" Celestia said. There was cheering at the announcement.
"Thank you, I'll study harder than ever." Twilight smiled gratefully.
"Before we leave, we should talk." Celestia suggested.
"Right, the library should work." Twilight said, her smile replaced by a more neutral, buisness-like, expression and tone.
*** 25 minutes later ***
"So, you knew about Nightmare Moon beforehoof?" Luna asked.
"Yes, an advantage of living through your life once before." Twilight answered. Luna was an alicorn with centuries of experience, Twilight had explained her situation to Luna at Celestia's behest. She had pointed out that her sister could be a valuable adviser like Celestia herself. Not in so many words, but that was what it boiled down to.
"Well, I'm curious as to how you moved that quickly at the end, hit so hard, and then made that tree grow." Luna said, taking the fact that their lives were a game fairly well since her sister and one of her saviors was already dealing with it.
"Well, I explained the other Avatars right? I spent a few decades as the others and figured out how to use the other types of pony magic. The difference between my magic and alicorn magic is that I can only use one of the different types at a time."
"Really... interesting, can you teach that to others?" Luna asked, a look that hinted at a plan.
"Well, yes. However it's very hard to learn. It was hard making it possible, I'm still working on simple and it's slow going." Twilight responded.
"Hm, well there goes that idea for the moment. By the way, what happens when your skills hit 1000?" Luna asked.
Twilight considered it. "Well, I haven't even gotten a tenth of the way there, but I think that would mean nopony could defeat me in that. If I got Blade-wielding to 1000/1000, I'd probably be able to use any thing with an edge, which is to say just about everything, as a weapon with enough skill to overcome a master with a legendary sword." Twilight hypothesized.
"Hm, well, we could see if the points you got from stopping me make a noticeable improvement." Luna suggested.
Twilight nodded, raising Combat, Resilience, and Blade-wielding to 61/1000, and Positive Magic to 70/100. For Combat,
'At 60/1000 or more, you are more skilled than anypony in the royal guard, and nearly all in the mercenary field.'
For Resilience,
'At 60 or more, falling from the third story of a building won't hurt you.'
For Blade-wielding,
'At 60 or more, you can out-duel even a skilled swordsman with an inferior blade.'
For Positive Magic,
'At 70 or more, you are more than two-thirds of the way to the level of understanding required of an Archmage.'
"Hm, since you raised Combat, Resilience and Blade-wielding by more than 10%, they should have improved by more than 10%. Frankly, I don't like the idea of fighting you even more skilled than before." Luna said, analyzing the situation.
"I kind of only won because of the elements." Twilight said.
"Perhaps, but you certainly put up an impressive fight before. More than 10% improved..." Luna trailed off, the conclusion of her sentence self-explanatory. Twilight might be able to beat Nightmare Moon herself now.
"Huh, now I'm tempted to go through that again just to see if I could, but I'm not going to. I didn't exactly enjoy beating up a future friend." Twilight said.
"Anyway, I'll be using my foreknowledge to make the events that I'll be going through run more smoothly, but I can't change anything too much, or I'll mess up the timeline to the point where my foreknowledge isn't of any use." Twilight explained.
"That makes sense." the royal sisters said at the same time.
"You're not going to do the twins thing all the time are you? Because not only would that not make sense since you're not twins, but it's creepy no matter what." Twilight said, a little weirded out.
"No, that was a freak accident." Celestia said.
"Alright, is there anything else you two think we should go over?" Twilight asked
They shook their heads, and left a few minutes later. Twilight helped Spike organize the books. The library hadn't had a librarian in three years before she arrived. She was finally back in Ponyville to stay, and the ticket incident would be in a week. She had a plan for that though. All in all, today had gone very well. She yawned suddenly. Oh yeah, she hadn't slept in over 24 hours. It could wait until the book sorting was done though.
'1 quest completed. 0 stars found. 100 exp to next level.'
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I think you meant to type Luna there.
Heuheuheuheuheu.
I got this EPIC mental image in my head when Twilight used an insta-grow tree. It was kinda like a finishing move in Marvel Vs. Capcom. If I could draw, I'd show you, but I can't, so you have to imagine it yourself.
Love it
Nice chapter really enjoying this fic more and more with each update. Keep up the good work.
....Moar
>Ecocat<
you did get this out pretty quick so apology accepted.
can't wait until this fight with chrysalis.
Then they get to Discord, and he reveals the sinister super beings controlling everything...
"Twilight, the Maretrix has you..."
And then Neo Twilight must battle the evil computer programs in a simultaneous crossover of "The Matrix", "Tron", and ".hack//sign".
Eventually, she wakes up in the real world, only to discover that her real self is a 36 year old unemployed morbidly obese guy who lives in his white trash parent's basement in Cleveland, Ohio.
He immediately begs the evil video game to suck him back in again.
I can't stop starring at that number...
Oh my gosh I love this so much!!! Although... Twilight seems more cold than usual... but I suppose that that's due to Politically Savvy's influence. But does her time spent as Pegasus mean that when she's a unicorn, she can cloudwalk by using pegasus magic?
4623166 I think she should have reacted somehow too... but in general i think she just rolled with it and dealth with it. Again there's nothing more to analyze than that because all this is just the cause of the lack of extreme reaction. It would have been a total turn-off in the fic if it continued like that all the time.
And for the last part yea it is a little strange... Is it possible that ponies grow faster than people?
4623247 'Rolling with it and dealing with it' for such an extreme thing is poor characterization. She doesn't need to be moping about her life for the whole fic, but she can't take that in stride. If she does, she's not Twilight. And we don't see her deal with it at all; she accepts it like she'd accept Rarity telling her that blue looks good on her. "Oh, okay, I'll go do that."
It's bad writing, and it's holding back something has the potential to be much better than it currently is. There are several important elements to a story; characterization, plot, pacing, and consistency immediately come to mind. The plot is progressing well enough, but characterization is shot, the pace is terrible in that the author skips over everything they don't feel like fleshing out and doesn't wait for events to make sense with the timeline. Consistency... apart from the variance in how Filly Twilight is treated, it's all right, I guess.
But this story has issues. If you like it as it is, that's fine, and I envy your ability to overlook the things I used to be able to. But don't deny that they exist, because they do, and the author can't improve if everyone just tells him the story's great as it is. Because it's not. It's okay as it is. It's good enough for me to think salvation is possible, because I don't bother if I think the author doesn't have the skill necessary to make their story readable (and this is the case with 80% of everything I read, with 15% being great as it is and the other 5% being like this.)
4623440 Can you tell me why you are downvoting every of my comments just because i am trying to talk with you? Is it because of my inexistant disagreement with you? What the hell do you want me to say? You know what? Sure it needs some touches here and there but so far as i see this is the general flavor of the fic. If you just stay here to whine on how bad it is i am sorry but you seriously need to get out of here.
Nevertheless you are free to voice your concerns. However multiple posts about it are really nag-ish and get on my nerves.
If you really need an answer to your arguement though yes characterisation is needed. But the way i see it you can just say it and not be a total douche about it... I've seen fics in my life that made no fucking sense yet got featured... I am glad to say that despite the ways this fic has turned it is far more worthy of being out there in the stupid popular box than other fics i've seen.
I never denied what it needed... i just disagreed with the way you nagged the writer about it. If you wish to you may ask for a chance to talk this out personally with him. But in general i don't find this enjoyable for you to be spending tons of time bothering others about it when they probably understood what you meant in the first place.
Yes "dealing" with it is bad but i didn't say it was good. I just said what happened. The story does have the ability but i don't feel like saying it's terrible at every comment i put in...
4623440 Also may i ask you to notice that the guy/girl is 15 and may not actually be the best writer ever?
moar
i want gamer twi now.
anyways keep up the good work. I have enjoyed this story.
*new avatar unlocked: Digital Twilight unlocked for receiving a fan of the story*
Have fun and just keep writing.
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Hm. I did downvote your first comment, it seems, but it wasn't me that did the second. I literally posted that last comment, went out for ice cream with my mom, and just got back. It's somebody else. I've already voiced everything I intended to say, and I haven't got any quarrel with you. Here, I'll upvote your comment to prove I haven't made a vote yet.
Multiple posts; I was reading by chapter and voicing my thoughts when I reached the end. While it comes off as rant-ish in retrospect, I like to think they do contain valid points about events that occurred in that particular chapter.
re:age, I wasn't the best writer at that age either. I like to think I did a better job with characterization, because that has always been my shtick, but my pacing was abysmal, I was a total sucker for angst, and I would throw weird plot curveballs all over the place. Also, I wrote a Twilight crossover that was not a parody. (I'm twenty now, and a bit more experienced. I'd consider myself above average. And unfortunately, I've got a much higher bar as a result. I can't even read my own work without feeling the need to edit it.) But, the reason I grew in skill between that age and now is because I read stories that were better than mine and picked up on why they were better, and because people would comment on my fics saying "I think x could have been handled better, and y is why", and the like. I also got a lot of blind praise telling me I was amazing. It's encouraging, but it's not particularly useful other than motivation. I still get a lot of that, and I still get people telling me that x feels wrong, but it's more shifted to the left now.
And frankly, speaking as an author; it's much, much more useful to get a comment explaining why the reader thinks something is wrong than it is to get one that just said 'meh, this sucks, bye' or a faceless downvote. To me, that's being a total douche on a story. It leaves the author confused and upset and wondering what they did to drive a reader away. So I endeavor to explain my opinion, and I get longwinded about things. It results in stuff like this. Really, I don't intend for it to be meanspirited. And this is one of the most brilliant ideas for a story I've seen in a long time. It's a new premise, and there's so much that can be done with it! I guess that's why I want to see it so badly.
I wouldn't bother commenting at all if I didn't see potential. I do, and I'm sorry my comments come off more negative than positive. It's, unfortunately, the nature of feedback; it's easier to point out what somebody did wrong as opposed to what somebody did right. But really, I wouldn't be bothering to analyze the story as much as I am if I didn't care.
Mayhew's Log: Duel: Nightmare Moon... Well I'm hooked, I wish to see more. However, I am still disappointed in how many stars Twilight is missing. There had to be at least four in the Castle of the Two Sisters. Well You get the Gold star of friendship, so until the next chapter... Allons y!
4623202 Sort of. She now can use each of the three pony races magics, but it would be better to just use the cloudwalking spell, since she can't use more than one at once.
4624366 Awesome!! Haha I can't wait for the next chapter :) No rush, though. Is this based on a particular game, or just games in general? Also, I caught the Kingdom Hearts and Fullmetal Alchemist references, but what was the other anime reference? The Kuroshiro family or something like that, that is...
4623166 Well, she realizes freaking about it won't turn her life back to normal. Also, there's the whole telling Celestia about it. Twilight's being a sociopath because her family and friends were the only ones who didn't either tease her, act cold to her, etc.
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You do realize that anyone can up/down vote comments even if the comments have nothing to do with them, right? You shouldn't just assume the person you're talking to is the one doing it. Now, they might be behind it, but there's just as good a chance that they aren't. Just wanted to point that out.
4624397 Kurosaki, from Bleach.
4624435 Oh, okay :) Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions! :D And thanks for sharing the story with us ^U^
one
Unnecessary apostrophe here.
Love the idea and the feel of this of this story. I excitedly await the next chapter.
This seems, to me, to be not only awkward but unnecessary, since she's had some experience with the two and never encountered that before. I guess it would be more understandable if she said something more like, "That was weird. How often are you two likely to do that?"
Come on, Twilight. Think of all that delicious EXP and skill points you'll get.
You might even get another avatar out of it!
4624421 This might be the case but bear in mind that he did one of them so i am not so guilty to assume he did the second too. Because this was so fast and followed according to me a wee bit after he commented.... well you get my point.
You know... I've read a lot of different stories... but I never expected a Gamer Twi story. I just never once imagined!
MOOOOORRRRRRREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
4625784 I'm a she, and I already told you what I did. If you don't believe me, fine, but frankly it's not worth it to get in a slappy fight over likes. I disliked your first comment not because I have anything against you, but because I didn't agree with what you were saying. Whoever's continuing to downvote either also doesn't agree with you, or is just trying to start drama.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with the story itself. If you really want to continue this, let's take it up over PM.
4624398 Even so, there should really be a struggle where she comes to that conclusion. As it is, it's a jump, and it feels like her personality was just turned off. Even if you add a scene or a few paragraphs to the first chapter where she's coming to terms with the truth and tentatively exploring her new options, it'll give this story a lot more character.
4626625 Sorry about the gender. In any case i don't understand the general notion of disliking a comment here simply because we disagree.
4626649 It's fine; I get that a lot. Think it has to do with the Prototype avatar. As for upvoting/downvoting, well, that's the purpose of the function, isn't it? Somebody posts something, and you can either give anonymous support or antipathy to it. In your case, I really didn't agree with the idea that Twilight should just roll with what happened to her, and that the fic would be made worse if she had the time to think about it and come to terms with it. I didn't continue to dislike your posts because we then entered an argument of sorts, and downvoting somebody you're arguing with is rude unless they're being a complete jerk.
With stories, I usually don't downvote unless they're filled with SURPRISE RAEP or are terribly-written alicorn OC fics, or the like. Comments are just that - comments. A story is something somebody puts a lot of work and effort into, and as I've said, I don't believe in blind criticism.
4626676 That's where you are mistaken... well on both things. First of all i tend to say he not just because of the Prototype Avatar but also because i use "he" as a default sometimes. In the second case i didn't say Twilight should just roll with it... i said that Twilight rolled with it. I stated what she did... not what she should have done.
4623047 You know, I didn't really think anything of it until you mentioned it. That's pretty funny.
Warning: There's a swear word in this video.
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New Avatar unlocked: God-Killer Twilight Sparkle
Famed world-wide for being the Unicorn that slew Nightmare Moon in single combat, God-Killer Twilight is both loved and feared by many, including Princess Celestia, who resents her former student for killing her sister when both of them knew that she could have been saved using the Elements of Harmony. The citizens consider her a Hero save for a large cult of Night Worshipers who are working to avenge the death of their would-have-been ruler.
4624435 did you get this idea from sword art online or something similar?
4624435 New Avatar Unlocked: Prototype Twilight mutated by the blacklight virus she has inpony abilities that can easily kill others however deciding to keep her identity secret as Proto and help others with her new powers. Despite the fact the celestial sisters and her friends hunting down "Proto" believing him to be a creature of destruction Twilight must fake her help and keep herself from being uncovered.
Unlocked By: Leap of Faith
4638777 If she changes things too much her foreknowledge will be useless, because the timeline will change.
well i got ideas for avatars that Twilight may enjoy or get freaked out lol and since there are some cameos like Kurosaki Twilight (Bleach) then how about one from One Piece?
like Flower Flower Devil Fruit Twilight (the one Nico Robin has)
lets say its unlocked by befriending Zecora and finding an odd fruit.
*sigh* Twilight is too overpowered.... nerf please.
4662879 Is there such a thing?
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I agree that Twilight is getting much too powerful much too quickly but, unfortunately, nerfing without a full rewrite is pretty much a sure-fire way to ruin the story because it's 99% guaranteed to come across as some form of kicking the character when they're down. It's easier by far to just rework the story.
(Trust me on that. I've been reading fanfiction for 15 years across over a dozen different fandoms. I archive every story I read and when I last checked years ago, I'd archived well over a gigabyte of text. If an author at this skill level has ever succeeded in nerfing a character without scrapping the story and restarting with the nerfed power curve, I've never seen it.)
I feel like Twilight's not even giving Charisma and Luck a chance here. In the right hands, in the right situations they can be incredibly powerful. If the Luck system in this game works out the same way as it does in Fallout 4, when you've invested enough points into it, you begin to see the latent manifestations of Luck itself. You are capable of finding absolutely anything you want without spending much time at all, and you earn vast amounts more money than you could understand. Given Twilight's propensity for trying to find new books, having a higher Luck skill would allow her to find more uncommon books that could enhance her overall powers as a whole.
And Charisma should go without saying. In the right hands, she could gain practically anything she could ever want; avoid fights, gain new and surprising allies. She could probably become leader of all of Equestria with a high enough skill! And she's just letting both of these fabulous skills just plunder. It's terrible, really.
The Star Hunt begins...
Seriously, Twilight. It's Pinkie Pie. You'll only give yourself a headache. And you still won't understand.
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Maybe not completely, but the fact that Pinkie can see her stats and clearly understands the game mechanics in play - I'd say it's more than likely that she's either a Companion NPC (which would give her some upgradeable stats of her own), or that she's the random Avatar of Game Mechanics, meaning: an NPC with a special skill that makes them channel the Virtual Game Master - not enough to influence anything big, but more than enough to have basic awareness, as well as the ability to summon and/or alter on a tiny scale.
My money's on the latter, too - it's the only way she'd be able to, without having actual understanding of the situation (she doesn't understand enough of the underlying rules to actually comprehend that that's what is happening).
Well - either that, or I go back to my original proposition: Highlander Pinkie Pie, except instead of there being "only one", the different versions of Pinkie from all playthroughs have limited mental/psychic contact with each other, making it more of a network of Pinkie Pies, sharing knowledge and experience.
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No, She's just Pinkie Pie
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Either that or she's hoarding a player's handbook :p