Pretend you're writing to your parents or something, stupid ponies and their stupid relationships, they'll fall for it.

"That's... actually genius. You're literally my mother, so it's not even a lie. I can rebuff any further questions about the contents by telling them that I'm not comfortable sharing what was intended to be a private communication, and that won't be a lie either."

Onto the choices:

• Definitely stick around. You're clearly not framing this as a real choice, so I'm not going to treat it as one.
• Roseluck. As tempting as it is to have a priority target fall into our lap this early, we can't afford the risk just yet. Go for the one who's weak-willed enough to faint in the streets at what wasn't a sign of trouble by any sane definition.
• Again, she's famously skittish. We're a new hire specializing in "relaxation spells" so all we have to do is let her realize how exhausting being herself really is, by way of showing her the alternative.
• Aloe and Lotus can pretty much keep doing what they've been doing and be just as effective for us as anything else they could possibly have done. We can't afford to draw too much attention, after all.
• We're going to want another upgrade or two before we start on our true targets; "measure twice, cut once" is all the more applicable when a bad cut wastes months of effort.

1. Stay to work the morning shift, if possible lay some enchantments into the equipment you work on to ease the relaxation and contentment of the client.

2. Work with Roseluck. Start off business-like and after awhile ease into a friendly, easy-to -talk-to manner and start to gossip and talk about things because as the saying goes 'if you want the best information, talk to the lunch-staff they always know whats going on'.

3. During the afternoon, get to know your co-workers/bosses more. Get details on any others workers there wether they be full or part-time. If not agreeable to living together further, look around for lodging.

4. Become friends with the spa twins while slowly manipulating them into loving you that way you have a steady income of love, affection, and lust to support a stronger body. Once enough love is collected enhance physical attributes(strength, agility, reflexes/dexterity) and sexual appeal(curves, bust, feminine appearance) this should'nt take as much love as enhancing your magical abilities. Act protective of the sisters, after all they gave you a job, their friendship(and maybe love and a home).

5. Study in the library about different social customs and societal norms(including pony) and if Twilight Twiggle asks about it, it's for ensuring no social faux pas or misunderstandings occur while working with a client.

6. Once sufficient supply of love or affection is secured, enhance mental/magical abilities and entrench yourself into the twins minds where they could not imagine their lives without you, and do not care what you do or say(or even show them) and will never spill your secrets.

7. Entrench yourself slowly in the minds of your clients, placing yourself as a great friend they can trust with their deepest secrets and concerns because after all you are alone nopony else can hear them and you'd never tell their secrets to anyone.

These can be done in any particular order besides the first three as they are the asked requirements. I think that's enough for now.

An interesting idea. You now have my attention.

Go in the morning, we could use bits later on and this is a fantastic place to start working over ponies with hypnosis.
Also go for Thunderlane, having him under our hoof would be useful we might be able to have him spread word of our massages to ponies who don't normally go for them.

Go for a double shift if we can. Proving we're a hard worker right off the bat only stands to improve our situation. If not try find someone we can 'practice' on outside of work.

Try to use our session to try learn massaging better and improve our skills, only using a little magic to try and guarantee we'll have a repeat customer.

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I can see why your previous votes had priority. As such, I'm casting my vote for everything you just said.

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Stay and help
Thunderlane
charm him, have him become attracted, this adds cover, and a reliable informant for weather and its movement for the area.
Spend any additional time trying to garner more control/trust of our lovely hosts, Aloe and Lotus.

Reasoning
It is good to help in the morning, build your base, before branching out. It is likely Rarity will have someone with her, such as Fluttershy, and Roseluck is panicky and sensitive, she may scutter and bug out, heck there may be one of the sisters nearby incase you need help with someone so insanely afraid, and that leaves Thunderlane who is a proper balance, and may lead to better possibilities, he'll also be a good informant for coming weather, and maybe a good "colt friend" should we need to deepen our hidden nature.
Aloe and Lotus must be fully under our sway before we can get our base strong, so that must be the work of the spare time we get.

• Assuming you don't make the stupid choice and actually work instead of fucking around town, which client will you work on of the three?
• How will you approach your session with them?
• In general, how will you try to develop your control over Aloe and Lotus, and how will you act towards them?
• Any other thing in particular that you feel should be relevant to your future actions, it's never to early to start planning ahead if you account for how future event might derail those plans.

I would choose to work with rarity. While not the most creative choice, it is useful to built up a rapor with Rarity. That is useful for a multitude of reasons, from our main objective, to the fact that we need underwear and better looking clothes.

I would aproch it as a nervice new staff member, with very minor hypnosis so to make rarity like it. Nothing to enact even mild control yet as it would be a bit too suspicious, specially if Twilight ever does a magic scan at any point for any reason.

For the twins I would then, after the work day, offer the other twin a massage so to switch between each twin, taking over both at equal rates.

Finally we should start to lay the foundations for our plans and make a home base, fortify it in some way, and plan either it be a eventual userp of Chrysalis, or be a loyal drone.

• Will you stay and help out during the morning or will you go out in town? In case you pick the latter, how will you spend the morning? Note that not showing up on your first day on the job might make you lose the trust you have gained so far, the two of them are nowhere near as under your control as Shining was under Chrysalis's during the wedding.

Stay and Help of course. Our position is too precarious atm to fuck around.

Similarly, what will you do in the afternoon?

Again, work. Double shift will do wonders for showing the sisters how "invested and responsible" we are.

Assuming you don't make the stupid choice and actually work instead of fucking around town, which client will you work on of the three?

Rarity. It's a good idea to begin sowing the seeds so to speak.

How will you approach your session with them?

Don't rush it. Too risky to fully target the Element Bearers at this point. Just do subtle applications of magic and suggestions to make her feel at ease, make her believe this was the best massage she's had in ages, and plant the suggestion to ask for us in the future.

In general, how will you try to develop your control over Aloe and Lotus, and how will you act towards them?

Make slow but steady progress on them. Act helpful and friendly to them to earn their trust, while doing subtle applications of magic to convince them to trust and confide in us. Eventually get them to "fall" for us and get carnal in the relationship once they're sufficiently enthralled, and begin training them as the sex slaves they're meant to be. Eventually they could aid in taking down/training further targets once our control is secured over them.

Any other thing in particular that you feel should be relevant to your future actions, it's never to early to start planning ahead if you account for how future event might derail those plans.

First we should secure out position/residence, focusing our magic on enslaving the Spa sisters. Meanwhile lay small, subtle suggestions on our clients about how much they enjoyed their sessions and to look upon us favorably. As our energy reserves rise invest some of it in enhancing our body (chiefly breast and ass, maybe cock a bit) and our mind-control magic. Physical enhancement can come later but we should try and avoid the more physical ponies (particularly Applejack) until we're more secure. Eventually either look to set up our own base of operations, or, once our control of the Spa ponies is secure and we've become the owners of the spa in all but name, do some "remodelling" and start building a basement dungeon, both to have fun and train our new slaves.

Go to work and familiarise your self with the work place.

Showing your employers you dedication to the job. Also allows you nodes any particulars of the work place with out rasing alarms.

How my I help you, and my I help, is more pliable and more acceptable then, a stand off attitude.

Roseluck would be an ideal first target. Cautiousness will still need to be a top priority for now, until your back round and documentation can be verified.

Additional Information will be needed for the area.

Magical traits: suddal mine manipulation.

Level: basic

Changelings are taught this spell at a early age of development do to the low cost it's a entry level spell and a early foot step to more complex spells.

Affects: worm happy feelings to out right fear. The caster is able to move the positive an negative emotions for a more beneficial out come.

Positives: Able to cast in front of another pony with out being detected. Not as strong as the normal mind altering spell but fare less detectable from none unicorns an even some unicorns. Leaves now magical trace low cost to the caster but it's not perfect.

Floss: abel to be detected by any magically gifted unicorn, all Alicorn, other changelings, some dragons, discord, pinky sense, and any mage of the none pony family.

Note: may cause growing suspicion with unicorn, and some earth pony's with excessive you's. If Kasted correctly the target will never be the wiser.

Onistly I would use part of the first two suggestions. You also need to billed a net work. That involves money, intelligents, contacts, secrecy, and to deliver seed information safely.

If dun correctly, that one changeling alone can be more devastating to a country then a entire army. Just reed up on double agent's, spies, D-day, and The Tet Offensive.

Like this story and can't wait for more. Good things take time, all be right here for the next chapter.

Fill free to that this spell and change it how ever you won't. Give it a new name. You do you. :)

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These four are the ones that I agree with the most, the one thing I would change is what MosAnted suggested with Rarity.

While she is a high priority target going for her this soon would not be to safe. And like Rozen Knight said

It is likely Rarity will have someone with her, such as Fluttershy,

Which would make manipulating her harder to do, but could lead us to having access to two high priority targets right off the bat.

And while Rose luck is a safer target the way her and her sisters are(panicky and easily scarred), Thunder Lane may be the safest option.(see Rozen Knight's comment for explanation)

Aside from this I have nothing to add except, Make sure that you have fun writing.

Bye

The spa is our cover. If we blow it with Aloe and Lotus, we're putting our name out there as being unreliable and suspicious - we don't want that. So, we faithfully show up to work, on time. Maybe a little early so we can give Aloe a "friendly" massage - mask it as needing a little practice.

I think Roseluck should be our first target outside of the Spa Duo. She's kind of a "canary in the coal mine" - one of the flower-trio, who famously panic at a lot of incidents. Getting to her in a friendly, not-very-suspicious manner (say, with a massage, kind words and a subtle spell) would ultimately give us an "in" with the rest of the Flower Trio, which knocks out a potential source of trouble.

We *can* swing the Rarity angle if we get Aloe or Lotus (whomever takes care of Rarity) to vouch for us a few times, but we do need to be cautious and bide our time with it.

With Thunderlane, I'm too wary of Rainbow Dash becoming suspicious. Being that they're both in the weather team, Rainbow Dash would likely notice if he acted oddly at all. He is a tempting target, but I figure we should wait until later.

"Trying to imitate perfection, I see," she says, noticing how your build mirrors hers. She presses herself against you, staring down at you, her heavier breasts and longer cock pushing against your smaller assets. "But there is only one Queen," she hisses, almost hysterically, a glimpse of emotion in her eyes you can't quite make out the meaning of. "Don't forget that," she snaps as she walks away from you.

Elytra: "At least for now, my Queen..."
Chrysalis: "What was that?"
Elytra: *eeep* "Nothing!"

We can't communicate telepathically while you're there, so you'll have to write if some important developments arise, I taught you how to magically send letters to me already. Pretend you're writing to your parents or something, stupid ponies and their stupid relationships, they'll fall for it.

Technically that wouldn't even be a lie.

Oh, you would force the pathetic thing to start choking on your cock right here and now if you could. But that would break her out of her trance, you sadly cannot go too far just yet.

Talking about cock, did Elytra tell them about having one?
And how common are mares with cocks in this universe?

About the choices:

She should stay in the spa, both morning and afternoon, for obvious reasons: making an reliable impression and don't draw attention by others who you might met outside. The less ponies are aware of her the less possible problems, at least for now.

As for the client, she should go with Roseluck.
Rarity is out, because her connection with the elements and knowledge about changelings may make her more attentive torwards changeling magic. Also influencing her too early might draw even more attention.
Thunderlane is an better choice, but he is part of the wonderbolts who are also probably more attentive for changelings; he is also quite popular, so sudden changes in behavior would be noticed quicker. Also he is male and Elytra doesn't have experience yet with those. Better play it safe.
Roseluck is the best target, because she is more of an background pony without direct ties to goverment or mythical artifacts. If she enjoys the show she might even tell her friends, the other flower mares (is that an official term?); this might attract more customers.

During the session sshe shouldn't do anything funny (yet).
Do an good job and make the customers happy, but for the moment not more. Doing too much magic too quickly will draw attention; the one thing she doesn't want at all.

About Aloe and Lotus, she should try to get an magical grip on them, but without changing the outwards behavior. Again, don't draw attention, but ensure to keep the job. Make also sure they don't have suspicious feelings about her.

Regarding the future actions, not many ideas here beyond establishing an stable base (supply on food, money and influence).
Also try to get additional intel and grow your abilities.

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Elytra didn't tell them, and by the time it becomes relevant to them they'll hopefully already be under her control. Mares with both fully functioning male and female genitals (Elytra's are only debatably functioning in terms of reproduction with other ponies, but they would look as such under medical examination) are not a thing that happens naturally in this universe, if someone finds out Elytra will say that it's complicated, act a little embarrassed and hint at some magical accident in her past. Rarity will likely be the first to find out if you go get new clothes, since she needs to take measurements and you literally only have top layer clothes (Chrysalis doesn't really get clothes, she thinks it's something ponies need to wear because they are an inferior race who can't just magically alter themselves like changelings, to her there was no point in giving you underwear because she thinks the only situation in which you'll be taking off your clothes in front of someone is if you're about to fuck them).

I believe it is wise to build a reputation inside the spa first. Becoming familiar with all of it as well is a good thing too. We shouldn't rush things. Thats why doing chores inside the spa will be good as it allows you to wander around and maybe even find things you weren't supposed to about our twin employers.

The afternoon we have three targets. Thunderlane is strong, fast, and basically a great bodyguard. Rarity is... rarity. And roseluck basically has nothing going for her so she might have something hidden that could really help. We shouldn't rush things. Going to fast with our approach will get us killed. So no rarity right now. Not to mention rarity is a creature of renoun. Once we gain a reputation in the spa she might come ask specifically for us on her own without any need on intervention. That is when we strike. Roseluck is too much of a gamble at this early stage without anything to really fall back on. So thunderlane is the way to go. He may be even easier to control as he works himself to death and thus is very tense, allowing for a more relaxing and suggestible experience for him.

Aloe and lotus are top priority but inseparable. The best idea with dealing with them is supply runs. As one goes out for supplies than you can take the other. Until those times act like a nervous pony needing affirmation that you did a good job. They will want to see you grow because of that and know you already have the skills to do so meaning they are more invested in your wellbeing.

Finally future plans. Learn botany. Plants are very useful as incents and potions for a lack of a better word. They calm a person down and make it easier to manipulate them. Convince aloe and lotus to give you a room just to smoke up the place with these incents. In order to do this you probably need to ask around to see who is a good botanist and learn from them. Meeting zecora and learning from her is also a good idea but should come later down the road when you have atleast the basics down.

i would say going to work at the spa is the smartest choice by far.

the ultimate best move would be roseluck as a client as she is low key but getting her means taking her sisters in turn, they own a business with a large clientele but one that doesn't constantly interact with targets she's not ready for yet.

rarity is too high profile, best not to take one element until plans are in place for all six, once one falls the others well clue in quickly so thats a time sensitive one.

thunderlane is not as high profile a target but he is in constant contact with rainbow dash and the wonder bolts both of whom could be dangerous at this time.

as for aloe and lotus, the smart move seems to be continuing to manipulate them slowly, implanting the impulse to get a massage or possibly arranging the three of you to enjoy some other situation that leaves them open. it would be wise to also start adding infatuation and sexual attraction to the hypnotic suggestions over time to corrode there will faster.

future actions, begin working on a plan for false information to feed chrysalis.

I say we should focus on working and building our reputation with them so that we can work towards having more freedom in the future. We should find an opportunity to get some actual massage lessons from Aloe to strengthen our cover at some point. I'd vote for either option besides Rarity to start off with since going after the Mane 6 right off the bat is dangerous. We'll also have plenty of opportunities with her since she's a regular. Our approach should play off the fact that we're new here. For Aloe and Lotus, we should start by building a friendship with them while slowly corrupting them.

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Really sound planning I like the botany idea.

Start with Roseluck, the trio are weak willed even among the ponies. I have no plans for how to conduct the “massage” but discussing relaxing/inhibition lowering plants with her may help. Adjusting the scent of the house + spa will weaken the inhibitions of even other clients in the future. The trio would also be useful in collecting ingredients while chrysalis may help in procuring special parts.

Although learning these recipes will be needed. Perhaps adjusting spike. Pent up, surrounded by females, and without any way to blow off steam. As an ally or informant he has use

Ps(using a low risk/medium/high risk variable like a certain story will add a factor of unpredictability to the story and increase the possibility of failures/setbacks due to foolish choices) Just a thought

I hope I am not late to the party for this but here is my advise for how to procede either way.

Firstly, I think it is already decided that we are going to work as there is dimply no reason to go and ruin our reputation the day we arrive in town.

Secondly our target at work, I think like some others that Rarity is too risky a target and should be avoided for now.
In regards to Thunderlane, he is mustle that we will probably not find particularly useful with pur current setup. I think most of us want to go a bit of a stealthy route where we van still use magic in the open. Given the fact that our disguise is a unicorn and we picked intellegence and mindcontrol abilities. Even if this gets us acces to his friends if we get him to recommend our services we can do that with any customer and he provides little else than that.
That leaves Roseluck as the one I want to target. She works in a shop with two close friends this gives multiple uses to us. Firstly, because she owns a store she can easely start idle chatter with just about anypony as long as they enter the store. Plus she has some loyal customers. This gives us a large network of potential targets we can work with. We aren't just looking at just a friend group but potentially everypony in town. At least we can easely start a good few useful roomers about the new unicorn in town that works at the spa and is realy good at her job. Another plus point is that we can get acces to her flowershop, don't know how useful that is but it might be.

Then in regards as to how to do the massage, regardless of the target. Just keep it simple. A good massage alone goes a long way. Then add some sugestions to her mind using magic to make the experiance as enjoyable as possible. With as the final nail a simple sugestion at the end 'I should do this again'. We can take our time right now so slowly adding sugestions and simply starting with a desire to go again should be more than enough. If posible I want nopony to know we are here untill it is far too late.

Lastly the spa twins, I think keeping things simple here should be best as well. No need to rush thing just get them to become friends. Maybe sugest practicing new massaging techniques on eachother both to actually learn how to massage and to get them in a position where we can add further sugestions. Just get them comfertable around us. We need them to trust us after all. As trust will get us closer to being able to make them ours.
Something that might be important to note is that we might now want to use our mental influence on every customer that comes to us. Focusing on specific is probably preferable as it will be easier to keep a low profile, we don't know exactly how our sugestions might influence ponies in the long term in more subtle ways. We also don't wamt to become suspect of the suden changes in the town. Something that would happen if all our customers show certain changes. Learning to properly do our new job without relying on our changeling abilities is thus imperitive if we want to not rouse suspicion too early.

I put this here as a seperate comment as this only concers musings for the long term and no immediate plans for the next chapter yet I still think it is important to give some thought.

Changelings have already been beaten a good few times and as such we can assume that we may need some form of backup plan. As such I came up with something people might find interesting.

What I want to do is plan for the possibility that our mind control is broken for whatever reason.

What I suggest we do is pick a few targets we deem suitable for this and make them actually fall in love with our changeling. Or at least convince them that what we do, we do because we want others to be happy.
The point here is to convince them with as little use of hypnosis and mind control as possible. Put symply I want a handful of ponies who will help us of their own free will even after we loose control over them. This would make it so that if we ever get discovered we can simply say 'I just wanted to make ponies happy' if possible with actual tears in our eyes if the situation calls for it and then also guarentee some support for our claim.

How I want do this is simple. We would take the standard steps of planting certain thoughts into their minds at first. When after a certain point we can start going further with them we will want to only use our abilities as far as needed to maintain control. Here we will need to do quite a bit of acting. We would need to make the target actually take the last few steps into our service. We need to reward any good behaviour with minor mental rewards at first. Mental conditioning such as, it feels good to be near me, it feels good to obey and it feels good to be touched. Can be used to push things along but the more it seems like the target made their own decisions ,even after control is broken, the better.
After we get the terget to fall for us and comes deeper under our thumb we need to start telling them a more rosy version of our plans. How we 'just want to make everypony happy' and 'can't do this in the open because they wouldn't understand'.
With as final nail in the coffin, showing them just how happy we make all our costomers with our magic. Even if we use mind control so we can stay hidden. After that they should be ours forever. Mind contol or not.

Maybe I am making plans we will never use here but I think it is not unreasonable to assume that as we move to high priority targets we will get into positions where mind control can and will be removed from our pets.
Worst case we will just be punnished for our methods in that case and will be forced to start over. Best case our pet will defend us like their live depends on it.

But either way I would like to hear how others feel about this particular topic and my plan in case the worst comes to pass.

I upvoted Herald of Opera and zoruatrainer66's comments as I agree with them most. Stay at the spa, go for Roseluck and consolidate control over the spa Twins.
One suggestion I'll add, I would love to see that futa cock put to use. Addictive cum and things like that should definitely become an upgrade in the future.

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You might want to put some answers to questions like this in the chapter after the question was asked.
Not everyone reads all the comments or even if they do, keep up with new comments for a few days to weeks afterwards. Not to mention readers that come across the story at later points in time.

Even if right now the topic is just not wearing underwear. People will assume certain things to be true if not told otherwise. This might cause unpleasent surprises at later points in time.
I would certainly not have known our little changeling doesn't wear underwear if I hadn't ead this comment.

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Then I just read over that, to be fair I was a bit sleep deprived when I found this story yesterday so it may just not have registered. (I found it after re-reading the chapter)

Either way I am rather hyped about how things are going to progress. After another one of these stories was discontinued I found myself hungering for more. I realy missed this and already saw a few fomiliar faces who probably feel the same.

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Honestly felt the clothing situation can wait a day, we'd need a full day I think to go into that as well as a bit of an income to be secure, as moving too quickly to that with no clear income is rather odd. Also to fully explain our 'situation' to Rarity namely our lower issues, and making sure our story is airtight before our advancement to that subject, is wise. That is what I'd suggest once we established ourselves.

I like planning ahead, I won't mention much of it due to this being many peoples mashing ideas together, so I don't wish to push too far ahead, but like life, plans must change as soon as the situation changes. It's why I find these so enjoyable.
(Edit) I just felt the need clarify that since the issue was brought up.

any idea when we can expect an update and new chapter?

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Sadly, no. Unless a bout of inspiration comes and I have the free time for it, it's unlikely anything will come out this month, since I'll be busy with other stuff.

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Work has maybe hopefully began on the next chapter, so no more comments here I guess. Fingers crossed I actually write the damned thing.