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Pinkie Pie ([personal profile] locointhecoco) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2012-05-17 05:03 am

Adventures Through History, Thursday, period 2

"Welcome, welcome," Pinkie said, greeting the students by the door as they entered. "Quick, come in, it's freezing out there!"

No. No it really, really wasn't. But then, Pinkie was wearing what looked like a giant pudding cup on her head, so she really couldn't be considered an authority.

The Danger Shop had been set up to resemble the interior of a medieval town hall, this time, with wooden galleries lining the tall stone walls, filled with what looked like colorful medieval pony serfs arranged in three sections: unicorns, behind a banner displaying an elegant unicorn profile; pegasi, behind a banner of a dramatic white pegasus on a blue field; and earth ponies, behind a banner decorated in images of a peaceful farm field all set for the planting season. As the students gathered, Pinkie handed some of them unicorn horns attached to headbands, some of them pegasus wings on backpack straps, and some of them . . . nothing at all. A gaping, old-timey costume chest was overflowing with an odd assortment of regal cloaks, Roman centurian armor, and Elizabethan collars, and Pinkie encouraged all the students to raid it before she finally got things started.

"Welcome," she said again, "to the Great Pony Summit!

"Okay, so it wasn't really that great. It wasn't even called a Great Pony Summit. You see, way back in the olden olden olden times, before Equestria was ever founded, the ponies of my world were divided into three tribes: the unicorns, the pegasuseseseses, and the earth ponies. The earth ponies were the only ponies who knew how to grow all the food, the pegasooses were in charge of the weather, and the unicorns used their magic to raise the sun and the moon each day, so they were all super important, but they all thought they were totally more important than any of the others, and well, that never goes well.

"It got so bad that a bunch of wintery windy-goes, who feed on mean thoughts and anger, showed up to drown the whole place in blizardy snow! So the ponies all gathered together to work out their differences and come to an agreement! Isn't that great?" Pinkie grinned. The ponies in the galleries booed. "It totally didn't work. The ponies didn't figure out the magic of harmony until later, but it was a really important first step, and I thought maybe all of you would like to give it a shot, today!" She trotted up to a table in the center of the room and rested her . . . elbows . . . on it, propping her face up with her hooves. "Today, you all get to be unicorns and earth ponies and pegasissies! There's a raging blizzard outside that's all set to blow your whole civilization away if you can't figure out a solution! See if you can find a way to use a unicorn's magic, a pegasus' wings, and an earth pony's good old fashioned hard work to find a way to make it to spring!"
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Re: Sign in [5/17]

[personal profile] walkswithcoyote 2012-05-17 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Mercy wasn't sure how she felt about the wings on backpack straps, but she had to admit that the idea of being able to fly would be kind of cool.
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Re: Sign in [5/17]

[personal profile] wasthecuteone 2012-05-18 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Petra guessed she could be a unicorn. That was kind of like a Sparkle Pony, right?

Re: Sign in [5/17]

[identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com 2012-05-18 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Being from the old fashioned, hard working American Midwest, Dave figured he was pretty much an earth pony already. So that was easy.
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Re: Sign in [5/17]

[personal profile] notagoose 2012-05-18 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Goose thought he could be a pegasus, there ws really no particular reason why.
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Re: Attain world peace! [5/17]

[personal profile] walkswithcoyote 2012-05-17 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Mercy was more than willing to try and settle differences, if only she understood what they were.
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Re: Talk to the TAs [5/17]

[personal profile] wrongkindofsith 2012-05-17 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Cara's hints involved staying indoors in the first place and sharing body heat.
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Re: Talk to the TAs [5/17]

[personal profile] walkswithcoyote 2012-05-17 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Mercy, personally, would just shift into a coyote and burrow in, but she wasn't about to tell people that.