The Influence

by GMBlackjack

XXII

Author's Note:

[IMPORTING…][Ponygood speaking. So... uh, has your Eye activated, Twilight? It doesn't say anything like that here, but I'm just going to assume GM didn't write it in. Anyway, three stories?! Eesh, talk about compensation, Mr. Four. Heh, I jest. Okay, so, you will obviously have to hurry to the altar as quickly as you can, to get both Alderaan and the new party member, whomever they are. You have two options: you could just hurry to the altar, get its things quickly, and leave just as fast. Or, you could lie in wait at the altar for Orchid to come, then knock her and Ruby out with your sleep spell and get Infinity and the die back. If you successfully pull of this sneak attack of Orchid and co, you could also steal their ship, or take a risk and capture them for interrogation. However, if you do that, you will probably have to leave the others somewhere else, so that Orchid can't detect them, or even fool her into thinking she got there first. And if dragons are resistant to magic, you will have some difficulty with Ruby, so please confirm if dragons have magic resistance. And as for getting people from the altar, I'd definitely recommend getting Alderaan first, in case Orchid conveniently shows up at around the same time that you do. Giant red starry and spirally eye? Sounds like the Dark Lord of Evil Stuff to me. Can't confirm, though. I'm planning on changing my avatar again. While having a giant mechanical doom machine is fine and dandy, I have realized it'll be more helpful to have a mode of transportation. I know that the altars ask you WHO to find, not WHAT, but it's a good thing there is such a thing as a sentient spaceship. Unfortunately, the only spaceships like that are either too small for your rapidly growing party, or mind-bogglingly large. I believe a ship known as Moya would be good enough for your whole party. She is a "living sentient bio-mechanical spaceship" with a formerly-on-the-run-from-an-evil-empire crew of assorted aliens that may or may not want to help you and a faster-than-light ability, but Moya herself doesn't have any weapons. On the other hand, there is another ship known as Aphelion, who also can go faster-than-light, has weapons, and a crew of an alien fox-thing and his robot that repeatedly saved the universe, but she is extremely small. And if you get one of these spaceships, I don't know if their crew will come with them or will be left where they were, especially since Moya's pilot was biologically welded to Moya. There is also a thing called the TARDIS, which can travel through time and space has spacial compression on its inside, but the only person who knows how to pilot it is a crazy immortal person that can only think under extreme stress, and Four won't be able to fit through its door. If you want me to change my avatar into any of these, I'll be happy to, but you will have to account for the possibility that only the ship, and none of her crew, may be brought through, and they would quickly die in the cold vacuum of space. But if you don't want me to change my avatar, I will keep my current one and continue recommending Mite, who'll be useful with the newfound problem of Fosis being re-taken over. And I just want to share a funny story with you real quick. In this one, Celestia wants you to do a controlled burning of the Everfree, and dictates a letter to her aid to send to you. However, her aid is lazy as hell, and interpreted Celestia's complex message as "Burn things." You follow the command of the letter, and end up burning the entirety of Equestria. Looper Twilight was also in that situation, but instead of just burning everything, she in her infinite trolly wisdom decided to verbally give everypony the sickest burns imaginable. Oh yeah, welcome, DeadLyokoBrony, to this crazy mess! That's all for now. Good luck, Twilight. Edit: Problem solved! GM has put in the statement notifying us of your Eye's activation. Edit 2: Got two more things to say. One: to get to the mountains as quickly as possible, and also allow you to rest, you could have Four carry you all. He's gotta have extremely long strides, right? Two: be sure to ask Four how fast he predicts Orchid will be, if she has access to the full might of Fosis… …Hhhhhhuuuuuuuu... I'm glad to hear you're alright, Twilight. I, I was worried about you when I saw you wake up and you were screaming. I...I'm glad Fluttershy is there. This is Creek, by the way. Cartridge says hi, by the way, a-also thank you, for wishing us well. Ah, if, I mean, he can't come into my work, but, I, I-I mean, um, I'll say hi to him for you? A-ah! I'm glad to hear Four is okay, even if he's suffering from a stuttering speech synthesizer. I wasn't away that he had an internal system built in, I thought he was wirelessly receiving a sentience signal and when he was disconnected from the transmitter he...well, I'm...I'm glad he's okay. I...um, I mean, I don't really... I still think you and Vriska should get to know each other more, b-but if she, she's getting along with Four, she can't be all, bad. I suppose she's just rough around the edges. So, ah, if you...um, if you need a new name, I can help. Ah, that is, for people where I'm from, when, well, when you become an adult you're allowed to change your name only once. Most people choose something they, um, some sort of thing, like an object that they think best fits them, or they associate with. I mean, I, my name wasn't always Creek it...I've just always liked the relaxing sound of running water in a river or creek. I grew up in the forest and would often go out to sit and read well I dipped my toes into the water. I-I, I mean, if, ah, i-if you wanted to, I mean, you don't have, I mean, if you're loking for a new name an-anyway, it, um, you could...what, ah, what do you like to do?… …DLB here Glad to see you all are alright, the foreign territory might be filled with ponies who might want to kill you or not. The adventure might get more interesting then people hating on flash sentry… …Akuma here. I'm guessing the Overlord-number thing is annoying you a bit.(shrug) Eh, I considering passing the options on to another Twilight. Anyway, thakns to you just picking 1-5, you picked your muscles being in peak condition(a lot considering you're an alicorn), a devoted cult, you are VERY indimidating for one reason or another, you ae a natural diplomat, and your already high studying skills are enhanced. And eight from Vriska gets you Necromancy. There's also the option of giving up one of those abilities to get immortality through becoming a Lich(must have necromancy) or through being Worship(need cult), but if the yo I give this too is an alicorn, they might not need that. The only thing left is picking subjects, but that'd be too long and complicated even at random. Anywway, thanks for playing. Also, Twilence sounds like either a license or a telescope, so I'd take Influlight. PS There is actually one more character I'd like to suggest: King Bullion from Discord's Rewrite, the father of Princess Platinum. He's about as powerful as you were without wing and actually more so if taken into account he is far well versed and experienced in combat magic, having been a rival for Sombra at his peak. He's also very kind and considerate, but can become serious and enter warrior-mode at the drop of a hat… …Josh here - guys we were pushing things to its braking point as it is by bringing Vriska here, I really doubt these things where meant bring someone from a different universe here, and you guys want to do that again? what I was saying before was that Aradia is already there somehow... actually I MIGHT know how she's here, but that's assuming this story has anything to do with the story GM recently made titled "The Handmaid", but that's a stretch… …Hey Twilight, Owleero here. Just picture me as a red tree. Also, "character" suggestions: Any one of the Knights from Knights of the Realm (You, AJ, RD, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie, Spike, Trixie, or Sunset). Knight!Trixie can make illusions she creates real, Knight!Sunset is ridiculously powerful, and Knight!Twilight uses chaos magic. An example of their shenanigans: Knight!Twilight managed (somehow) to lower an area's temperature to below Absolute Zero. Yes, really… …nickel here, i was beginning to think we had managed to sever the connection with the delay this time. good news and bad news about aradia, since blackjack controls both the equestria she is in and the one you are in it is likely that one of her paradox iterations is already present with you, its just a matter of finding her which is will happen when and if its meant to happen. as for the bad news, the version of equestria blackjack controls has a very fragile and extremely unstable temporal layer, this means your world is highly prone to temporal fratures and collapse, i have never found a satisfactory solution for this issue in a world and am typically forced to abandon such worlds to their fate, but i am more dimensional in ability than temporal where as aradia is a master of time so if anyone can hold your world together against this its her and she is already doing so, it is possible that she is of a completely different iteration and this doesn't affect you but the possibility is present and unfortunately probable. as for that vision after you blacked out, only one thing native to your world comes to mind when you add stars and a spiral, that sounds like an alternate form of something i once used to represent starswirl so while i cant tell you anything definitive its possible that he may be involved somehow. ®¥∂†¥ÏÁ‰‰Á¨¬ˆ∫∆¬∫¥††©¥ˆ¨ÓÚ ¨ø¥˙¨ˆ¬©ÓÎ∆©˙∆˚˜… ¥©¬ˆ¨…∆˜k¬©ˆ˙∆˚˝ÁÁˆ¨ØÔ˜ˇ¨ˆ›¨Á¥ˆøµ˚ˆ©¬˙¥˙˙Ô˝¬ˆ˙ˆÔ scratch that, thats just begging something to break again if i go any further down that road. really i've seen enough by now i should know better than to even try… …*Twilight suddenly feels as if the infinite-sided die rolled again. Instantly all traces of injuries the group had have vanished leaving only the ghost of pain remaining. Unfortunately, the side-effect of such a roll happens to make the team tired and exhausted as a result of their injuries healing.*… …Ponygood speaking, just some messages for various people here.I doubt anything from the die will happen to Twilight and co. unless they're the ones using it, but I really hope Orchid and co. can summon an annoying useless immortal being, like our Lord and Savior Butt the Cloud. Also, all hail our Lord and Saviour Butt the Cloud, God of Being Annoying and Useless! Hail! Hail! To whomever keeps liking everyone's comment: I can't really stop you from doing so, but liking everyone's comment might not be the best of ideas. For one thing, it suggests that you don't really like anyone's comments, and are only doing it to make yourself think you did something good. Also, liking everyone's comment can give some people hope that their comments are good and insightful/funny, and not just insane internet drivel, and inspire them to make more insane internet drivel. My advice is to only like the comments you truly like, dislike the comments you truly dislike, and neither like nor dislike the comments you honestly have no opinion of.Nothing you have to worry about, Twilight, just one person's insane internet drivel. That is all for now… …We all have some form of insane drivel, just that others are more pronounced. Hey, Listen! By the Decree of our lord and savior Butt the Cloud, all followers must have some way to annoy or otherwise be useless to those who are to save their respective worlds. We must be willing to have others who would like nothing more than for us to just go away. For that is the way to Immortality as our Lord has written in the book of Annoying… …[Oh heck no, not putting that entire conversation here, Twilight heard it, but…]… …josh here - GM... i'm begging you here; blocked these two… …[What are you even doing? Yes, Twilight heard ALLLLLLL that but… But… Guess you guys dig your own graves…]… …Josh here - just letting you know twi that I changed my avatar so that he now has a cutie mark, it is the heart aspect symbol from the homestuck multiverse; I won't go into why, but I think I'd make a great knight of heart; I mean using my own identity as a weapon almost makes too much scene to fit me, and I'm surprised I didn't come to this realization sooner…]

Twilight became aware of the real world again.

She twitched.

Vriska blinked. "...Woah..."

"What?" Fluttershy asked.

"That, Fluttershy, is the expression of someone trying not to explode in anger at a bunch of fucking idiots."

"Oh... But the Influence isn't that bad Vri-"

"Ohohohohohohoh!" Twilight started laughing. "Not that bad!? NOT THAT BAD!?"

Fluttershy took a step back in surprise. "Twilight-"

"Do you know how much important stuff was actually in that import? Almost none! Do you know what was in it!?"

"Uh..."

"A bunch of unintelligible dribble about clouds, butts, rear ends, saviors, usefulness, and the constant use of the phrase 'HEY! LISTEN!' alongside 'fairy' to no discernable purpose!"

Vriska scowled. "That's absolutely terrible."

"No? Really? Really? Hey! Ponygood! Afizah! I know you two were involved in this - not sure who else, but you know who you are! What do you have to say for yourselves huh? Why for the love of Celestia, Luna, Cadenza, myself, and my neice - and oh why not Discord - would you clog my mind with that? In case you didn't notice I have a broken wing, a broken leg, a high chance of a concussion, and a freaking eyeball embedded in my chest! I'd appreciate helpful advice instead of, oh, discussions of the divine nature of cloud-like-objects named after synonyms for butts!"

"Woo! Go Twilight! You tell them!" Vriska shouted.

"I know you guys can talk to each other out of my feed - you've mentioned messages before - why not take that there? I did not need to be privy to this it meant nothing! I'm usually fine and can ignore all the useless dribble you all insert like trying to affect reality, having fun at my expense, mocking everything that happens - but no, I couldn't ignore this, there's just too damn much of it!"

Fluttershy gasped. "Twilight!"

Twilight ignored her. "I bet you find this funny don't you? 'Oh look at little Twilight, throwing a little tantrum and screaming at us! Isn't that just cute and adorable and entertaining!?' Oh, I bet it is! I bet you're all getting a kick out of this! Cause that's all you want, isn't it, to just mess with me and try to change my world when I have friends that are captured, friends that have betrayed me, and friends that might die at any moment because there's danger around every turn!? Maybe this is all just some story to you, but, it's not to me! It's not to us!"

Fluttershy outstretched a hoof. "Twilight..."

"No," Vriska said, pulling Flutershy's hoof back. "This is good for her."

"What I wouldn't give for some silence around here - oh! Maybe that's what I'll call myself! Twilence! Twilight, Influence, and it sounds ironically like a word to describe something I can't have because of you all yammering in my brain every few hours for the sake of your own stupid amusement!"

"Fuck 'em!" Vriska shouted.

"YEAH! FUCK YOU!" Twilight screamed.

The entire desert around them fell dead silent. Fluttershy was blushing hard, hooves over her mouth. Vriska was looking at Twilight with an expression of pride. Four was... Four.

Vriska walked up to Twilight, extending a hand, saying nothing.

Twilight grabbed the hand and pulled herself up, breathing heavily.

Vriska turned it into a fistbump soon as she was up. "Nice."

"I... I've never done that before..."

"Feels good doesn't it?"

"I... Think so...?"

"Well, brave leader. What now?"

Twilight blinked. "Everyone, on Four's shoulders. He's taking us into the mountains. It'll be faster than walking. Four, how long until Orchid catches up with us?"

"ANY MOMENT. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW SOON SHE LEAVES FOSIS."

Twilight nodded. "Well, let's get going then. Four, pick us up."

He did so.

~~~

As Four ran as fast as he could across the landscape (sand quickly gave way to rocks) Fluttershy turned to Twilight. "So... Calling yourself Twilence now?"

"No. Yes. Maybe... I haven't decided. I was angry when I said that..." She sighed. "Don't get me wrong, Vriska was right, I needed to get that out..."

"Damn right," Vriska said. "I sense you've been keeping it bottled up for a while."

"I've blown up at them before... But not like that," Twilight said. "And... That was a while ago, back before we knew a lot of things... Back when I was still scared about what exactly I was..." She frowned. "Creek, Akuma, Nickel, Josh... You guys didn't deserve that. At least I don't think so, not entirely sure who was in there. DLB, Owleero, hope that didn't drive you off... just use that as an example of what not to do, okay? Okay..." She took a few deep breaths. "Okay. Calm now. I think I can respond. Nickel, what exactly did you try to do there? I just got a lot of garbled nonsense. Josh, care to elaborate about Vriska breaking reality?"

Vriska laughed at this.

"Right. Akuma, I... Thank you. Glad the random numbers are over. You weren't being bad, don't think that, never think that, you're one of the most helpful here. Just... it got a tad..."

"Boring?"

"Yeah. And I'm seriously considering the name Twilence unless you have any better ideas - speaking of, Creek, I'd love to hear your suggestions about the name I should take!"

"Should I take one too?" Fluttershy asked.

"I... If you think you need to," Twilight said. Fluttershy nodded in response.

Twilight continued on. "Anyway, DLB, why would people hate on Flash? Legitimately curious. I feel like it should be obvious... Owleero, what is this about the Knights of Equestria? And below absolute zero doesn't even make any sense... ...Right. Alternate universes. In a story. Of course..."

Vriska sighed. "The relation between stories and the worlds we live in is a confusing bitch."

"Oh?" Twilight asked.

"I don't know much. There's apparently this Tower in the center of everything that connects authors to worlds in such a way that the writers write the worlds into existence but also are influenced by the beings within the world and... It's just a paradoxical mess. My orange fuckface had to make it worse by inserting stories within stories where the flow went both ways it was just... Peachy..."

Twilight furrowed her brow. "Your world sounds complicated."

"Easy time travel and interface exploitation. Everything was overpowered and everything was a giant piece of self-fulfilling time bullshit. Helped save the multiverse from a time-hack demon and helped create a new, apparently awesome universe. Not that I ever get to see that place."

"Oh..." Twilight frowned. "Why?"

"Orange fuckface," Vriska muttered. "I got launched out into the multiverse and... I have no idea how long I've been out here trying to get home. All I know is that I've never even seen what I presume is called 'Earth C.' I left a lot of friends behind..."

Twilight smiled sadly. "I'm trying to get home too. Though... I think I'm only separated by time, not universes."

"Yeah. I'll help you get back, least I can do. Seem to be a bit of a 'traveling hero' lately. Though, if I'm being honest, 'hero' depends on who you're talking to at any given time."

"You seem to have your heart in the right place, if that means anything."

"Didn't used to... But that was a long time ago." She pulled an 8-ball out of her pocket and fell silent.

Twilight allowed herself to smile. "So... Tell me what your friends were like."

"Bunch of stupid assholes," Vriska laughed. "But they were my stupid assholes..."

Vriska began to regale tales of trolls, humans, ghosts, demons, and Horrorterrors...

~~~

"...Oh my fucking God I've been channeling her..."

"Who?" Fluttershy asked. She had been listening to the stories attentively.

"Aranea. That ancestor of mine. Sorta. Not getting into that. She did not know how to shut up when she started a story." Vriska laughed.

Twilight smirked. "She sounds like me."

"You know what, she is you, far as I can tell. Talky, nerdy, nice, accepting, but has a nice little burst of anger deep in there." Vriska smirked. "How 'bout you tell me about your friends now? Besides butterwings here, I got her down."

"Oh?" Fluttershy asked.

"Used to be shy but has recently come out of her shell to taking a bit of assertiveness."

"Oh."

"It's basically in your name."

Twilight laughed. "Well, I had a lot of friends... Perhaps it's best to start with..."

And then something exploded. Hot rocks flew into their path, interrupting all conversation. Four slowed himself down to keep from toppling over. "DANGER DETECTED."

"Oh it is on!" Vriska shouted, summoning her orange cloak and wings. "Who wants the beat down? Come on, I know you want the beat down!"

Twilight raised her wing. "Hold - talk first, Vriska."

"Aw, phooey."

Twilight surveyed the area. "Hello?" There were a lot of rocks in the mountainous scenery. They were on the outskirts of a forest, so they could see sparse evergreen trees around them, more visible in the distance. One large snowcapped mountain stood out from the rest of them in the far, far distance. "I'm... Twilight Sparkle, if anyone's here, we mean you no harm! We just wish to pass through!"

No response. A tumbleweed passed them, having traveled far from the desert for just this moment.

Twilight blinked. "Uh... Anyone seeing anything at all?"

Fluttershy and Vriska shook their heads.

"NEGATIVE," Four responded. "THOUGH MY INFRARED SENSORS ARE CURRENTLY SPOTTY."

"Huh..." Twilight frowned. "Take a step forward..."

Four did so. Something exploded beneath his feet - this time knocking him over. Vriska grabbed Twilight with her free hand while Fluttershy floated of her own power.

"OW."

"You okay?" Fluttershy asked.

"AFFIRMATIVE. DAMAGE WAS NEGLIGIBLE." He stood up. "WE APPEAR TO BE ON A MINEFIELD."

Vriska rolled her eyes. "Can you fly Four?"

"NEGATIVE."

"Well, now he is slowing us down..." Vriska muttered. "You know, it's times like this I wish I could give out luck, but sadly that's not how it works."

"NO MATTER. THIS MINEFIELD TELLS US THERE ARE DOGS NEARBY. THE DESERT-MOISSAN BORDER IS FAR TOO LARGE FOR US TO COME ACROSS SUCH A MINEFIELD BY CHANCE."

"...It was set for us?" Fluttershy asked.

"97% LIKELY."

"Hey!" Twilight yelled. "We know you're out there! Come on out!"

"They won't," a familiar voice said. They turned to see Alderan floating a fair ways away.

"Why not?" Twilight asked, narrowing her eyes.

"Under oath. To break an oath is a death sentence for them."

Fluttershy gasped. "Why?"

"They hold promises in high regard. They rarely make them. But it is required to get the credentials to create mines."

"Why are you here?" Vriska muttered. "You're one of those... Altar spirits, right? The one I hear is fucking with us?"

"Yes. Though I prefer the term 'observing', Serket. I am here because... Because I've been told to be here. You're wanted at the Mountain of Knowledge."

"Why would we go there?" Twilight asked.

"...It's where my altar is located."

"Oh. Okay." Twilight raised an eyebrow. "You going to help us get there?"

"Oh goodness me, no, you can just levitate Four over this thing, it's not that wide. I'm just here to tell you to stop trying to make friends with the dogs at this minefield. They are specifically chosen to make these things because they aren't friendly. They can do the job 'right'."

"A SENSICAL ARRANGEMENT."

"Yeah..." Alderan paused. "Twilight, I sense you want answers. I cannot answer them. You will have to come to the Mountain of Knowledge for them."

Twilight nodded slowly. "I'm looking forward to that."

"You won't like the answers."

"Since when does anybody?" Vriska asked.

Alderan glared at her. "...I've been watching you. You are a concern."

"Surprise, surprise. How about you do more than just talk ominously and watch us like a creep?"

Alderan vanished at that remark. Vriska shrugged. "Well, I see he chose to continue doing business as usual. He's still watching us like a creep isn't he?"

"No doubt," Twilight said. "It's what he does."

"What questions you going to ask him anyway?"

"Why did he summon me here?"

Vriska blinked. "Wait, he did that?"

"I think so. Or his master - whoever that is. We have no idea. Maybe some dog." She lit her horn, surrounding Four with telekinesis. It took some effort, but she could lift him above the ground. "Let's go."

Fluttershy flew as lead, Vriska tailing behind with Twilight in her arm. Four floated behind her.

"NO SIGN OF DOGS BESIDES RECENT TRACKS."

"Experienced soldiers..." Vriska murmured. "Disappointed we won't actually be fighting them. Such a shame, they should have their skills tested."

"MAY NOT BE SOLDIERS. MAY JUST BE TINKERS."

"How do you know so much about dog culture? Aren't you some kind of ancient robot?"

"AFFIRMATIVE. BUT THEY WERE IN CONTACT WITH FOSIS UNTIL RECENTLY. THERE WAS LIMITED TRADE."

Twilight furrowed her brow. "Why'd they stop coming?"

"UNKNOWN. THEY JUST DID."

"Huh," Twilight said. "Well I suppose-"

Then the Eye started glowing.

"Oh no, not now, Vriska I'm going to lose the hold I have on Four!"

"What!?" Vriska shouted, glancing down at the minefield below.

"Just do somethi-"

Comments

[Giginss]

Mined your step!

Aren't puns glorious?

In all seriousness here, you're now approaching the Mountian of Knowledge, which sounds like a giant library inside a carved out mountian. And also another altar. And possibly another encounter with Orchid.
Boy, some knowledge on Orchid might be very helpful right now, wouldn't it?

In any case, just mind (heh) where you put your hooves. I'm guessing you don't want them exploded, even though you could just use your wings.

-Giginss

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

*whimpers* S-sorry Twilight. D-didn’t mean to make you mad following what my dad was doing. M-My name isn’t Afizha though, Its Tarou. I... I never intended to make you explode. I j-just wanted to make you laugh. I.... I’m sorry. I-I'll just go.

[wizard0209]

Josh here - Oh boy can't say i didn't see that outburst coming, anyway I can confirm that all of that nonsense was Ponygood and Afizah and no one else, also it's nice to know that my begging was not a complete wast i did save you from a little bit more from ponygood. anyway what I was saying before was that we must of over-clocked our connection by bringing someone here that's not from your universe; their was a moment we stoped seeing you and that was when GM put in his two sense on what we were doing, at least that's what I got from what he was saying

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

8364511
In case you hadn’t realized she has a broken wing. I think. Twilight this is Afizha. Sorry, I haven’t spoken to you in a while, but I have been trying to find my sister, and after checking the recording device I set up to tell me when things had changed, I'm sorry I wasn’t here to try and put a stop to the insanity you just suffered through. As for advice; Don’t you have some sort of shield spell that you could put between four and the ground. Combine that with a sweep&search spell, and you could have a way to walk through the minefield on four’s shoulders.
Also hello again Tarou, Have your dreams been getting any better? I can only imagine the trauma you went through after losing your sister; Not to mention being held hostage at an old hospital, as a kid no less.

[Ponygood11]

Ponygood speaking.

I will keep my message short, since I feel you may still be partially upset. First, I'm sorry for getting carried away with my religious nonsense, but I was just really excited to participate in it once it was started. Seeing you blow up wasn't satisfying though; if anything, it brought me back to reality.

Second, my offers still stand. Both to educate you in Pinkie Pie, and to change my avatar from the Destroyer to any sentient spaceship. Reminder: Aphelion is a small armed spaceship, Moya is a really large bio-mechanical unarmed starship, and the Tardis can travel through time and has interior spacial compression, but there is the potential of their crew not being brought with them.

Third, going to get a bit metaphysical momentarily, so be prepared for confusion. Vriska's multiverse is not the Multiverse at large. If she says there is a Tower at the center with all the Authors, that's fine and dandy, but that is HER multiverse. Another story we have takes place in a multiverse, and it contains at the center a Dark Tower, unrelated to Vriska's Tower, that prevents demons from invading as long as it stands. There is the potential of an Omniverse, which holds the sum total of every singly possible multiverse variation, but that is too much extra-versal theory for the current situation.

That is all. I trust your... friends? Can they even be considered that? Will keep you safe during the input session.

[GamermanZendrelax]

This is Zen.

I'm not familiar with Vriska's powers, but luck manipulation would probably have some use in preventing catastrophe here, for whatever use that is.

Everyone, I think it would be best to keep our comments to a minimum, so that Twilight can get back into action as soon as possible. Time is not on her side.

[Keywii_Cookies55]

This is Creek, Twilight. Um...there's a tower? I, I mean, I knew that I'm a character, but, but ah...I didn't know we could...I mean, can we influence the story if we, um, if our wr-writer no longer writes for us? Can...can you ask Vriska what happens when the cre-creator doesn't, um, when it doesn't write for you anymore?

Oh, in case you get hurt from the fall, I...I *really* hope you're okay, You should already be resting your leg, you're in no shape to be adventuring after all. And if you're concussed you need to stay awake which...already isn't happening when yo-you get...information from us. Do you or Vri-iska know any healing magic?

Ah, um, and if you want me to suggest names for you I, I can, but, I mean, you're supposed to pick. If somebody else chooses for you it won't, I mean, it won't mean anything to, to you. If...well, if you want to pick a new name you need to think about yourself. What do you like to do? What, what's your favourite thing? What d-do you. Um, any favourite foods or pl-places? If you li-like reading, um, I mean, could you be Library? It...I mean, I like it... If, um, most people in, in my world usually take a few months t-to decide, so don't feel rushed. Ju-just think about it, okay? I believe in you.

And try not to let people's words get to you. If, if there's a group of pe-eople being loud and annoying you, I meran, you just have to put your eyes to the floor and walk past them. Which, ah, which reminds me, does...does Vriska know anthing a-about the, ah, just ask her, she doesn't think you're be-being stupid About the true walkers? I think that's what they-ey're called. They, um, they travel between worlds...maybe?

Please, um, if you ge-get the time, please ask her.

[Owleero]

Hey Twilight, Owleero here. Wasn't scared off by the outburst, I was actually expecting it to happen sooner. Also to elaborate on what I was talking about earlier, the whole below Absolute Zero thing is treated like a noodle incident, but here's what I THINK happened: Sunset provides the power with her Enhance ability, then Trixie casts an illusion designed to fool reality itself that there is a point below Absolute Zero, and then Twilight lowers the temperature to that point. And before you ask, yes, Trixie is capable of tricking reality into believing her illusions are real, hence the "illusory magic circle becomes a real magic circle" comment. No, none of the three are alicorns, just unicorns.

[Ponygood11]

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You can't really ignore the words of people when they're broadcast directly into your mind.

[Keywii_Cookies55]

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When yo-you're being confronted it...I mean, it doesn't really mat-matter if you're being talked down to or at i-in your head. It's only imposs-ossible to ignore until you force yourself to.

[wizard0209]

Josh here - 8364711 Vriska is light player, healing is more of a "life" player thing Creek

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

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Light and life magic are close to the same spectrum of magic in general that, although Vriska uses light to adjust the luck around her, it is not out of the realm of possibility that she can also cast a basic healing spell to fix a few of the minor injuries they have.

[wizard0209]

Josh here - 8365780 maybe in most in places where magics is real and what not but not where Vriska from; light and life players have been shown that their powers do not over-lap. in fact it has not been proven that their powers are even magic at all or something else altogether (although some have called it magic, but that's more like "I don't understand it so I'm just going to call it magic to make it easier on me").

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

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Ah, well I still think Vriska has some form of healing spell should it be required. I don't think she's using it because it either takes a while to cast or that the spell only targets herself.

[DeadLyokoBrony]

well twi, there are some of us who fell in love with you, and disliked flash because he stole you from them(That's what some think others hate him because he is boring, isn't interesting enough, and bland) but Flash started to grow on many others. There have been stories focused around him. Many of the stories are interesting.

[Ponygood11]

Ponygood again. Tarou asked me to say a few things to you, and I'm going to do that.

First, Tarou claims the whole thing involving butt cloud gods was meant to make you laugh, and is sorry you got so upset about it.

Second, Tarou asks what you think of the idea of you being part Pheonix and understanding their language. Would you do pranks with Philomena, or be more interested in learning of pheonix culture, family dynamics, etc?

[AkumaKami64]

Akumakami here- Hey, Twilight? Quick question? Is Tirek immortal somehow or does Tartarus just keep its prisoners from escaping, even in death?

Besides th*$^#$#&^$#*$$#$3

*Whirl*

RC: SYSTEMS REBOOTING. SCANNING. INTERDEMINSIONAL TRAVEL CAPABILITY DISRUPTED.

ALL OTHER SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL

CURRENT LOCATION: INTERFACE BETWEEN BEYOND-FOURTH-REALM AND WOLRD OF THE EQUESTRIAN MULTIVERSE.

SCANNING WORLD: DESIGNATED AS WORLD G36M95B93J. CLASSIFIED AS: PCF.

ON-WORLD INTERFACE RECIEVER FOUND. SPIECEMEN: A TWILIGHT SPARKLE, ALICORN VARIATY. STATUS: CURRENTLY SUBJECTED TO FRCED TIMETRAVEL AND EXPOSER TO THOSE FROM BEYOND-THE-FOURTH-REALM.

PERSONALITY THREAT LEVEL: UNDETERMINED, POSSIBLY INFLUX.

GREETINGS TWILIGHT SPARKLE G36M95B93J. I AM ROBOCORD OF SCUFFED DROSS.

[Keywii_Cookies55]

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This is Cr-Creek, Josh, what does that mean? Pl-players? what other kinds, ah, I mean, how many play-ayers are there?

[wizard0209]

Josh here - 8366848 it is impossible to know how many players there are; there's probably infinite when you take in that this "game" is Vriskas multiverses way of making a new universe, but per session the amount of players ranges from two (although that's risky to have so few teammates), to twelve, and can only have an even amount of players; each player is assigned a class and aspect; classes include thief, rogue, heir, maid, page, knight, seer, mage, sylph, witch, bard, prince (the destroyer class), and the muse and lord, but the last two are for a two player session, and aspects include time, space, void, light, mind, heart (or self), rage, hope, doom, life, blood, and breath; anyone could have any class and aspect as long as there is no over-lap between players from there session, and that someone has the time and space aspects

[Ponygood11]

There was a way to play single-player, though. The game would punish them severely for it, but would be given the ultimate reward if they won.

Also, the more players there are in a game, the more their ultimate enemy grows in strength, but so too does their ally.

[wizard0209]

8367614 yes a one player session is possible, but not only does the very nature of the game changes, but you're set up against impossible odds; you have to be the luckiest and the most ruthless person in the multiverse to get though that death trap

[nickle241]

nickel here, first off, am I the only one who is remembering what happened last time we went detailed and long winded when things were in the middle of something going on?... since we all know no one is going to stop anyway and either way the ultimate outcome of this particular gap is pretty much already set, to clarify what has already been stated, the aspect of light is theoretically capable of healing, there is a lot of overlap in the aspects, but its all in the class to tell how that works, thief of light cant heal anyone except possibly self, it takes not gives, so vriska has no healing abilities as far as the known rules are concerned. as for what i tried to do... its really better you just leave it alone, but i tried to access your worlds metafile, the metaphysical information storage, and see if i could get at currently unknown information about your world, but i had second thoughts on the wisdom of trying that and scrambled the log to prevent possible glitches. since the concept of a living ship keeps coming into play it may be worth looking into the cabbits of the tenchi muyo multiverse, they are an artificial species that are normally about the size of spike or smaller, but can shape shift into medium size spacecraft known to possess ludicrous combat capability and maneuverability and uses subspace to make the interior much larger than the outside. this coming from a universe where the focus household is home to five beings ranging from upper demi-god to full god, so its all a bit overpowered. oh and on the note of the one and two player sessions, they were the same session but it depended on how you considered it for what it could be called, that session was nasty and if you ever run into caliborne... i dont think he can be reformed and he is the most vulnerable component in the formation of the demon who caused everything that went wrong with the homestuck universe, i know its not in your nature, but he has to be destroyed, every other component was either indestructible or had to be destroyed for the fusion to occur. vriska being there means that its not entirely impossible for more leakage particularly since we dont know what exactly happened when the interface glitched.

[Ponygood11]

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I don't think we can just summon people from anywhere in the whole of existence. Characters from GM's stories are fine, since they share their creator with this one, and since we are connected using the comment section, I'm pretty sure Twilight can get our avatars. However, I'm already waiting for Twilight's confirmation to change my avatar, and what to change it to. Unless maybe you'd like to be the one doing the changing into whatever sentient ship Twilight chooses, and I can keep my Destroyer?

[nickle241]

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granted i wouldn't mind using ryo ohki as an avatar for awhile, but at the same time we also don't know what kind of limitations there are on this kind of thing, so i just offer advice and ideas when i can mostly. incidentally it wouldn't be that hard to set up either since her home dimension is plagued by minor instabilities that have caused stranger in the past.

[Ponygood11]

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Hey, the altars can pull GM's avatar from the completely mind-bogglingly confusing mess of a multiverse that is Homestuck. If they can do that, they can pull someone from the relatively stable universe you are describing.

[wizard0209]

8368265 I've already made my concerns clear about bringing someone from another universe to here ponygood don't make me repeat myself

[nickle241]

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fair points both, i'm going to leave it up to twilight's judgement and hope i don't inadvertently supply the idea that causes the second bug as well. twilight sorry about this, the timing is less than ideal i know, but we aren't being offered a better window right now and if we don't do something constructive with it then we'll end up with a senseless mess here again.

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

_{A-are you still mad at me Twilight? I’m sorry for going along with my dad's insanity and making you angry. i want to try and make up for it though. can you ask four if he has some form of detector or shield module that can help you across?}

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

To the others of the influence. I think I have found a pretty good representation of the eye that bonded to Twilight.
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hope that doesn’t scare anyone with the thought.

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

I think I have something you can try to summon, though I don’t know if he will listen to you as you aren’t his trainer, try and gather Charizard.
His trainer's name is Ash Ketchum, and Charizard is strong.
Ash caught it while it was still a Charmander, but it evolved into a disobedient yet powerful combatant. Sending it out was risky, however, as it would sometimes just snooze and ignore commands, causing Ash to waste a slot on his team in battles against rival Ritchie and Gym Leader Blaine.

However, over time, Charizard gained an appreciation for Ash and eventually began to obey his trainer, further boosting his combat prowess. Charizard was released to spend time training against fellow dragons, but Ash will still occasionally borrow its power for tough fights.

Charizard's most impressive victories:

1. Defeated the legendary Ice-type Articuno.
2. Won against Gary's Blastoise.
3. Also beat Tad's Water-type Poliwrath.
4. Dominated Iris's Dragonite before the match was called off.
5. Held its own against the Legendary Entei in the third Pokemon movie.

Charizard's training greatly increased its already formidable strength, and it has been seen to use more attacks than any other anime Pokémon. Win or lose (very probably win); you can count on Charizard to drastically weaken foes.

if that is within the range of those altars then I would try and get him.

[nickle241]

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not being a hypocrite and trying to shutdown ideas from other universe, but at least provide some context. while its quite obvious what you are talking about to me, twilight wasn't born on a standard variant earth and wont know what any of that means. you have to at least describe what you are referring to in more universal detail, for twilight, charizard is basically a large orange creature that is essentially a dragon much like those of equestria with a few relatively minor differences, think diet mostly.

[Ponygood11]

Everyone! I very highly doubt Twilight can just summon any entity from anywhere in the sum total of existence just willy nilly! WE are unable to be summoned, simply because our world is too far separated from Twilight's world, and I'm extremely confident other stories, being found IN our world, will be even more seperate. If you want Twilight to take your suggestions for characters, I strongly recommend changing your avatar to it. It worked for GM's avatar, and his status as the author should have absolutely no effect on this situation.

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The eye was more crystaline/metalic in nature. It could fit the evil red eye Twilight saw in her dream, though.

[Sonic Rainboom Dash]

Twilight, I have changed my Avatar to represent Charizard so that you might be able to summon it.
I’m not all that good at explaining what I look like, and the image to show what I look like is missing the tail, so I'll upload a picture of what I look like entirely to someone who honestly can explain it better.
However, if you do summon me, then I won’t be able to change it again until your adventure is complete as I don’t want to risk my avatar changing if you are in a dicey situation and you need the firepower I would possess.
I can use a wide variety of fire, (apparently), Dragon, (again Obviously), and Flying type moves. Though as a way not to be OP (Over Powered if you're wondering what that means) I will limit the number of moves I can use to four, for the moment. The moves I know right now will be,
1. Flamethrower.
2. Blast Burn.
3. Fly. (if that wasn't obvious enough.)
4. Dragon Claw.
I won't be able to add moves once summoned, so Blackjack would have to take over on that aspect, again if I'm summoned that is.
here is what i look like.
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