To: Anon, From HRH Sunbutt.

by Snow

From HRH Heliophile, RE: Letter 69

Author's Note:

Letter 69: Here.

To my most faithful student, Twilight Sparkle,

While your objective is sound in theory generally speaking you don't want to analyze it in great detail, and remember that most ponies prefer being spontanious. Especially since many ponies are not always in the mood, and a rigid schedule can create a feeling of pressure or distress which is undesired.

So rather than an itenerary you should perhaps consider an ordered checklist for your own records.

Your loving mentor,
Princess Celestia

Comments

[FanficReader920]

*Looks at word count*

I am slightly disappointed.

[Snow]

9891698
Eh, I didn't really want to go through that much effort for a half-amused whuff of air.

[FanficReader920]

9891703
Respect. Celestia is above such humor.... I think.

[Snow]

9891719
She's the sort to laugh that somepony would even make that kind of joke, not at the joke itself.

[Forestor]

Thanks for the chapter.

[artofwar77]

spontanious

*spontaneous*

Sorry to be that guy.
THIS MESSAGE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN 10 SECONDS AFTER THE CORRECTION

[Distressing Prose]

9891698
9891703
Hey, so I just got here but here's a 69 word version. I counted them myself. The message is unchanged, and I even fixed some things.

To my most faithful student, Twilight Sparkle,

While your objective is sound in theory, generally speaking you don't want to analyze it in great detail. Most ponies prefer being spontaneous, especially since they aren’t always in the mood, and a rigid schedule can create an undesirable feeling of pressure or distress.

Rather than an itinerary, perhaps consider an ordered checklist for your own records.

Your loving mentor,
Princess Celestia

[Golden_Reflection]

9892439
nice

[TheDino27]

Nice

Both for the joke and the letter itself

[WorldWalker128]

9892302
In DnD there are some locations (or circumstances that have the same effect) referred to as Dead Magic zones. Kind of like taking a cell phone into an underground cave complex and failing to get a signal. No magic can be cast there, and magical items won't work either (at DM's discretion. They might decide it affects only a person and not items.) There are also Wild Magic zones that cause things cast to sometimes go lipty. Far as I know there's nothing preventing this from also being the case in the MLP world.
In some fantasy worlds, magic is a "tool of the living" and in "the afterlife" magic cannot be cast, exception given to certain undead, such as liches.

[8bitmadness]

9892760
IIRC in dead magic zones you can still cast spells, it's just REALLY, REALLY tough. There's two things I know of in the crunch that let you do it. The Initiate of Mystra feat lets you make a caster level check vs a DC 20 + level of spell you want to cast for dead magic zones. it's DC 11 + level of spell you want to cast for antimagic field. Secondly, shadow weave users are completely unaffected by dead magic zones. There is also the spell Invoke Magic, though that's a 9th level spell on the sorcerer and wizard spell lists and it limits you to casting a spell of 4th level or lower. Another thing is that dead magic zones say they operate just like an antimagic field. Thing is, nowhere in the text of that spell does it say that spellcasting is PREVENTED. It is only SUPPRESSED. Dead magic zones just have all magical effects that aren't related to the shadow weave be suppressed. This means spellcasting doesn't do anything as any effects are suppressed. Interestingly enough, instantaneous effects are only "entirely suppressed" if its point of origin is within the AMF or dead magic zone, and instantaneous effects can only be negated if they're entirely suppressed. Usually you can't cast into them because an AMF is impermeable to magic but there are ways to do it. However, due to instantaneous duration spells not being suppressed unless entirely suppressed, this means you could bring animated undead into a dead magic zone. Because of this, it's not that magic doesn't work in a dead magic zone. In reality, magic still works, and magic that can be suppressed is suppressed. You can totally cast a spell in a dead magic zone by RAW but it just is instantly suppressed unless otherwise able to be cast as I have outlined above.

[WorldWalker128]

9894197
So then, a Dead Magic zone is just an area where some age-old wizard left an anti-magic spell and didn't tell anybody, so others decided it was just A Thing at a later date? Hm. You know, that could make for a plot-idea for a campaign that takes place several hundred-thousand years after what most consider the modern age to be for DnD history. After constant "Dead Zones" being left all over the place, people in the more civilized regions that would have otherwise had the ability to learn magic simply believe that magic doesn't exist due to most people being unable to learn or use the simplest of spells. You can still find people who live in the middle of nowhere who use magic on a daily basis so you as a group know that magic isn't simply gone, and your party, being from the past, and KNOWING that magic was very much so used at one time, goes about trying to undo those zones to make the world magical again.

Hm. You know, assuming magic is real, that might be what happened to our world. We have legends going back thousands of years of people using magic, yet for some reason, if it is a real thing, few if anyone uses it today, and most that claim it is in their abilities are either stage-magicians, or simply nuts.

[8bitmadness]

9894613
the dead zones are actually areas where the weave has sorta fallen apart or doesn't work when it comes to the forgotten realms, but that concept you gave is a great idea too.

[ROBCakeran53]

9892439
Nice.

[The Mechanic]

9929597
Nice.