Faculty Meeting (Friday after classes)

[bigdamnprincipal]

After the student council cleared out, Zoe got the council room set up for yet another meeting, hoping all the teachers had gotten her handwavey email. Sure, classes had only been in session for a week, but she figured it was a good idea to check the new teachers for shell shock early. There were warm food and drinks set out (not the leftovers from the student council... at least, not totally) but nothing alcoholic. If people wanted to go that route, they would have to bring their own this time.

"Hello there, come on in and have a seat if you'd like," she said. "I thought it might be good for everyone to have a chance to get together without students around, and be inside where it's warm. I hope everyone's had a good first week. If you haven't, well, now you have a room full of people to vent to." It was the little things that helped make this job better.

[Open to all staff and OCD free!]

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[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

"The school that I taught at previously was not unlike Fandom," Jones explained. "The forest outside of the Court contained several talking animals. Some of them even became part of the court as humans and attend school there."

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie gasped. "That sounds like the Everfree Forest! It's the woods around Ponyville back home in Equestria. Lots of different animals and creatures live there and some of them ponies make friends with. Some of them are sorta mean, though."

Dragons, for instance, were total dicks.

[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

"The forest at the Court was known as Gillitie," Jones responded. "And while there are certainly friendly folk who live there, there are definitely portions one should avoid if you are mortal. Where exactly is Equestria? Is it here on Earth?"

[locointhecoco]

"Yup!" Pinkie said. "Well, except for Cloudsdale. That's in the sky."

It was probable that Pinkie didn't understand the question.

[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

Jones was used to dealing with similar creatures and people with Pinkie's personality. She didn't even phase Jones. Not that anything could.

"Interesting," Jones said slowly. "Are there any types of humanoids on your world?"

[locointhecoco]

It took Pinkie a few moments to work out what "humanoid" meant. "I guess minotaurs are kiiiiiinda humany? And we have bears. I thought everypony here was a weird hairless bear when I first got here, isn't that silly?"

She giggled happily at her own foolishness.

[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

"Hmm. I would assume you would have equated us to hairless apes instead of bears," Jones said reflecting on her memories of watching humans evolve. "Do you have such animals? Or is your world apeless?"

[locointhecoco]

"Maybe where Zecora's from? There are lots of other places I haven't explored that much, yet," Pinkie admitted. "We used to be afraid of Zecora because she's the only zebra we've ever met and she does magic even though she's not a unicorn, but then we learned she's really super nice and now we're all friends!"

[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

"So you don't consider yourself at all magical," Jones commented. "For you seem to have abilities that a normal equine from my world would not."

Like sproinging with squeaky sounds for instance.

[locointhecoco]

"I know," Pinkie said. "Horses here are weird." They came in such limited colors! And they didn't even talk! "And so am I!" She giggled. "Even for Equestria. My friend Twilight tried to figure out how I can have my Pinkie sense but not be magic at all and she just finally had to admit it just kinda happened and not everything can be explained away."

Because that totally wasn't the definition of magic. Shut up.

[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

"In Gillitie wood, most of the community there seems to have a similar understanding of magic. Magic does what one does and there's no need for further research," Jones replied with a nod. "It's only the humans of Gunnerkrigg Court who seek to understand it better. Now if you don't mind me asking, what exactly is a 'Pinkie Sense'?"

[locointhecoco]

"Oh I don't mind at all!" Pinkie said. "When something's really about to happen I get little twitches in my body to let me know ahead of time! Like when something's going to fall, my tail twitches. I can't tell what's going to fall, but I sure tootin' know something's coming down!"

[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

"A limited form of precognition," Jones mused. "A handy trait to have. I assume it has been useful on this island?"

[locointhecoco]

"A little," Pinkie said modestly. "It'd be even better if I had a twitch for 'impending creepy invasion'."

[wandering-stone.livejournal.com]

"So your ability will tell you if something may fall but not necessarily for severe risk," Jones quantified. "Still. A useful ability. Do you have any others?"

Oh, Jones. You may not know what you're getting yourself into here.

[locointhecoco]

"I am the bestest party pony planner in all of Equestria!" That was totally what you meant, right Jones? "Other than that, nothing comes to mind."

Like, say, her occasionally prehensile mane and tail. Or the way her limbs sometimes turned to rubber. Or her "lucky guesses", filled with preposterous yet true information she couldn't possibly know. Or, well, any of the other "because it's funny" cartoon physics abilities she happened to sprout.

"How 'bout you? Do you have any neato abilities?"