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Who: Princess Celestia, and whoever comes to greet a pony.
Where: Isla Empieza, the statue.
When: October 6th.
What: Advised to read the fountain, Celestia just does that.
Warnings: Only what you bring. She's a pony princess, c'mon.
Style: I'll match your responses.
Status: Incredibly open.



Some days just don't go quite right.

In the Town Square, regarding the statue with its prophetic writings, stood an alicorn. She held her wings half-spread in a regal display state, and her horn shone with a golden light that mirrors the orb she's conjured to better throw the faded words on the statue into relief.

Between this and the journal, she could only guess what was afoot...

"...Have I stumbled into a Daring Do novel somehow?"

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the magic winged unicorn could talk. And did, to herself, it seemed.

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WHAT'S A PALADIN?

[no_souls_here]

Admittedly, formalities could get in the way at times but he saw no reason to avoid them at present.

He returned the bow with one of his own grateful that no one he knew was here to witness the odd little exchange. "It's a pleasure to meet you." Now that that was out of the way he was more inclined to comply with her wishes to dispense with the usual protocol.

"What do you make of all this?" He gestured to the writing on the fountain but it seemed straightforward enough.. at least on the surface.

A DEATH KNIGHT WAITING TO HAPPEN

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"The obvious," she said, turning back to face the writing. Her horn shone again, the better to cast the letters into relief. "That we are being manipulated as pawns in some grand game, and that setting us on this quest serves some greater purpose to whatever power brought us here. That so little is explicitly spelled out that the truth of the matter could be anything, and yet that some truth is likely to be in the words, since it is so deliberately being obscured."

The lesson here was that Celestia put a great deal of thought into things -- since that, after all, was just what she considered obvious.

LET ME GET IN THE SPACE SHUTTLE I GOT FROM THE BLACKSMITH

[no_souls_here]

Impressive. The unicorn/pegasus had arrived at the same conclusion as the young Earl. She had better reasoning skills than most humans he'd encountered. All appearances aside perhaps Celestia was a person.... individual that he might want to keep tabs on in the future. "Pawns? Are you much of a chess player, Celestia?" It was a game that Ciel fancied a great deal, and one it could be argued that he played all the time.

But in all seriousness,"That is what I gathered from it as well."

"If there really is a gem that can grant you whatever you wish.. and I must say I'm dubious of that notion to begin with, then it wouldn't be a leap to assume that whoever is behind this intends to use it for their own purposes. If their desire is nefarious in nature, it might be more prudent to prevent the item's completion than to act as a catalyst."

"I also wonder... why they are unable to collect the shards without need of our aide"

LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN

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"I've dabbled in the game here and there over the years." This understated even as it was true; Celestia had so many years that her dabbling added up to quite a bit of study. "We certainly have been set upon a task to recover a gem, but whether it is the gem that grants the wish is unclear, as is the number of wishes granted, or potential uses of the gem once it is collected. But if the basic presumption is true, that we may have any wish... it is a simple matter for us to make a combined wish of returning home while this land suffers nothing from our presence here."

Of course, the prospect of a double-bluff had occurred to her, an endless change of 'I know you know I know' should the instigator have acted under the assumption that the displacees would have thought along these lines, but planning for such higher levels of deception at this stage was imprudent.