Day 96.
Three months on this world. Almost a hundred days... and I think I'm starting to acclimatize. Walking on four hooves, lifting things with my mind and front hooves.
Even then, Equestria is rather strange.
For one thing, I have had a Princess drop by in my dreams a couple of times.
First she was curious. Then I showed her some of Earth and experimented a bit. As it turns out, as long as she is in my head, it's a very lucid dream rather than the normal nonsense.
Which meant that I could actually 'show' her Star Wars than simply give her a poorly told verbal story.
I think I remembered the entire thing. It's funny, I would never be able to tell you on which side of Luke Leia stood during the escape from the Death Star in that corridor, but on the TV in my dreams, it played out perfectly.
No, really.
As Luna said, the memory is a funny thing. No, seriously, I couldn't remember what I had for breakfast some days.
But apparently I could remember every single button on a console of the Galactica. Well, in a dream state with Luna's help at least.
She makes really good popcorn, by the way, and I just realized I hang out what is effectively a goddess. Perhaps not with a capital G, but still.
I'm pretty sure she would outrank the greek guys on Olymp-
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“Your tea, Page.” Silver Leaf said as she put the tray down on the table before using a hoof to put the cup down in front of me.
I couldn't help but smile as I put the quill down and closed the journal. “Thank you, Silver.” I said before I raised an eyebrow at her expectant look.
What exactly was she up to? That's not what I ordered.
I took a sip and then blinked down at the tea in surprise. “...Cinnamon... cardamom... ginger? Is that clove? Mixed in with the black tea?”
She nodded. “I looked into the blend you described to me... like a month ago? This is the best I came up with. What do you think, we might add it to the collection.”
I took another sip. “It's nice. A bit strong... could do with milk and sugar. Or honey..”
It helped if you didn't think about where they got their milk from. Here, cows were... employees.
...Crap, I'm thinking about it.
Silver Leaf nodded slowly. “Yeah... I think I can see that. Want me to get a new one?”
“No, no this is good. I'll just have some sugar. It's good as it is.”
“I'll be right back!”
Smiling, I shook my head and picked the quill back up, reopening the journal. That's one of the reasons I keep coming here that didn't involve their brilliant tea.
Silver Leaf was always so cheerful... to basically everyone. It really lifted my mood.
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-os.
Still, she seemed to enjoy herself. It's nice to have somepony else to talk to who isn't completely comfortable with this world.
From what I gather of what she has said, the world now is almost as different from what she is used to as it is from my own.
Her world... much less advanced and more full of conflicts. Apparently this is a time of peace that has lasted for a long time.
She is nice... if a bit loud and, well, royal at times. Lots of loud proclamations and a lot of 'We' instead of I.
I actually have a real world meeting with her tomorrow, something about wanting to show me the royal archives?
Luna had found what I managed to show her of Earth interesting. It was harder to do than I expected but I did manage some things. A city street, people and cars everywhere. An airshow. She really liked that one.
As a sidenote, according to Luna, humans look really strange, especially the way we move. A kind of... flowing motion that makes it look like we are about to tip over at any moment.
In any case, I have both today and tomorrow fr-
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“Here you go.” Silver Leaf said and put the bowl down in the middle of the table. “Please enjoy.”
“Thank you, Silver. You're a star.” I answered with a smile before turning back to the journal.
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-ee. Quill is heading off to meet family and is closing the store during that time. I offered to keep it open for him, I do after all handle most of the work and customer contact, but he just shook his head with a chuckle and told me to find a mare and relax for a couple of days.
In a way, I'm actually going to take his advice, funnily enough. Going to be interesting to see what Luna wants to show me.
Page, signing off.
PS: Ponies control the weather. Because of course they do. Pegasi push clouds around by hoof to where they need to be. They manufacture clouds in Cloudsdale. I don't know why I keep being surprised by these things.
Cool Story
Your in an entirely new word. Finding things to be surprised over is half the fun.
6384921 Heh! Yeah! And the other half is trying not to get killed by those surprises--*hint, hint, wink, nudge*
But having a story where the OC can relax and enjoy the wonders...it's a nice change of pace
6394377 no hints, winks, or, or nudges here. Please move along, and no collecting 200$ for passing by go.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h7l8rWfLAus
I don't know why it took you 96 days to notice the pegasi pushing clouds around...
7913322 Books.
And lots of them.
7913322 Well, it was summer! How often do you need clouds in a mountaintop city in the summer?
Now you've reminded me. As an aside, depending on how much you know about exactly how we get milk... It gets even more disturbing when you think about it. Really, really squicky levels of disturbing.
If he doesn't show her the prequels, then the archives MUST be incomplete.
I loved the prequels before it was cool.
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Might not be as obvious in Canterlot as it would be in Ponyville.
I wonder when he will talk about human wars... And give them a warning at the beginning of what atrocities humans are capable of...
Basically, humans are Space Orcs:
>We get to space by strapping into a metal pod pushed along by a finely controlled, prolonged explosion. We go on to land on the moon with this technique.
>We tested nuclear devices capable of making it look like the sun was on the planet for a brief moment... and then used it on ourselves. Twice. And then made enough of them to wipe us out several times on end. And pointed it at each other so that the others won't get any bright ideas to start.
>We go on to make a device so powerful, scientists thought it would light the atmosphere on fire. We tested it ANYWAY.
>Speaking of finely tuned explosions and nuclear devices, we conceived the most ludicrous method of travel by detonating nukes, one at a time, behind a massive pusher plate.
>There were two wars that involved the entire world, and there are still countless smaller wars that follow.
>Remember the nuclear devices? I'm not done with that. We use controlled nuclear reactions to make usable power... at the slight risk of it spewing radioactive, cancer-inducing, deadly material into the environment, but that's only happened, like, three times. Only one of them was so deadly that it rendered a giant patch of land uninhabitable except for a bunch of horrifically mutated animals.
>We evolved around persistence hunting. We follow our prey to death at a walking pace or even maybe a light jog. Do you know how terrifying that would be to equines?!
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Hmmmm. Humans are terrifying. Think about all of the conceivable torture methods for a moment. Now toss them all out of a window for these two:
Back when native Americans were still doing their own thing, one tribe had squaws that had devised one of the most fucked up torture methods ever. You think branding with hot metal and cutting body parts off is the way to do it? They didn't. Instead, they would make incisions in the prisoner's skin and stick live coals in them. Yea. And then when they were near death, they would nurse them back.to health, only to repeat the process.
There is one that involves less physical harm and more driving the prisoner insane. Have you ever heard of Chinese water torture? Well, if you haven't, here is how it works. They strap the prisoner to a table, and they start slowly dripping water on their forehead. This would slowly drive the prisoner insane. Humans are very fucking scary.
Everyday a littel adventure
Hard to spot with the way you cut it, but you spelled it Olympos, instead of Olympus. Wikipedia shows that as a correct spelling, but everywhere else I look says that is incorrect (and that Olympos is both a sci-fi novel, and a town in Turkey)
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Dude, do you have any idea how many Greek gods love in that small Turkish town?
I just though about it, but pegasus would be amazing in war, just create a freake storm ove an enemy city and watch them drwon in their sorrow. No need to fight directly.
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Land locked? Away from rivers and relying on wells for water... stop the rain for a year or two.
Make the battlefield into a muddy pit, harrass supply lines etc etc its a lot they could do that would make them nightmares to combat. Prolly why they handled protection in the pre equestria era.
The sudden switches between writing and reality is a bit jarring, but I also understand it makes sense to be jarring when interruptions happen. :P
Nothing impossible if you lack there common sence
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen."
-Albert Einstein
Luna is making a stallion friend?
Will Celestia tease her about it? 👍
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Damn... That a pretty good line!
Bro compares the princess with the Greek Gods💀
I could probably do the same thing on the Engineering console on the Enterprise-D, or the bridge of Serenity.