I've been crazy all my life, it's kept me from going insane.
Twilight finds a perfectly preserved book locked away in Celestia and Luna's old castle. The sign says "Do Not Read - EVER", but books are made to be read. Besides, what harm ever came from reading a book?
Just a random concept that sprang into my mind fully formed and demanded to be written down. Don't take it too seriously.
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I knew something's off about those numbers she said.
Haha, yes. Guessed the twist the second I read the first few lines.
Brilliantly done.
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Yeah, I felt that Twilight would be subconsciously aware something was off with it too, but she never took the time to analyze it because of everything else going on.
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Glad you liked it, and thanks for the fav. I was hoping that it would be obvious enough that some people would get it (immediately or along the way), but subtle enough that others would get to the end and go 'What?'
Most of the story ends up as essentially filler content around the main point, but I tried to keep it consistent. It's also a topic (Gilda as ambassador) that I think I'd like to try writing in more detail someday.
The ultimate 'oops' moment.
That was fun. I'm not a huge fan of oneshots or short fics in general but this one left me giggling. Well done, sir. Have a hurrah!
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Thanks. Considering it was just a bit of totally random nonsense that popped in my head, I think it turned out fairly well.
Hahaha this is just evil. I love it.
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Evil isn't a term I ever expected to be used to describe this one, but thanks.
Might be too cerebral for some ponies but I enjoyed it. Thumbs up!
Wait, how would Celestia know to not let anyone read it? This couldn't have happened before, since then this could bit have taken place.
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There's a number of reasons Celestia could know the danger without the end result we saw here occurring before. I'll not list them up here, though if you're really interested you can PM me.
Also, consider that if a caster died without finishing countdown then it would effectively be aborted. (Not that I'm saying you would have to out-and-out kill said individual, but rendering them mute for the remainder of their life could work.)
At about "eleven", I think, I realized there was a countdown. Then I realized that the countdown only appeared in dialogue, and then that it was specifically Twilight's dialogue. Very ominous, very well done.
Two alternate possibilities that came to mind:
1. Twilight: "Well, that was disappointing. There were a billion possibilities for what that could have been, and all of them were more interesting than this."
2. Twilight: "This book was of precisely zero-"