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fandomhigh2016-07-15 10:27 am
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Library, Friday
Today a dragon sat behind the desk, reading a novel. Given her current state Lucille felt she was excused from doing much work today, but at least the library was open. She did her best not to get chocolate and the remains of cotton candy clouds over the books. Trying out her wings had been a bad idea.
[Open!Wait for OCD. OCD is up for your library needs.]
[Open!
Re: Research.
That had turned out to take longer than anticipated, and she'd ended up actually having to cobble together a dedicated computer to do it, but that part was easy. Hacking her translator program to decipher a language it had no points of reference for whatsoever was a bit more demanding.
There'd been a lot of poking at the computer, and frantically typing in commands on her omni-tool, and muttered half-complaint half-encouragements of "Come on, you bosh'tet, you can do this!" at the translation computer. (She could have hacked the translator program code in her sleep, but adjusting it to something 21st-century human tech could handle took a bit more work. And frustration. Honestly, humans, get with the rest of the galaxy's times already.)
The one hitch in the plan: the only way she'd been able to get the program to work with the available processing power was to have it learn contextually. Which meant it might have to skip words or phrases and come back to fill in the blanks later, once it had learned some more.
She was sitting half slouched over at a table next to the computer, monitoring the translation progress, compiling the translated phrases into her omni-tool where she could organize them, and feeling like she'd give anything for a dextro triple espresso after being up all night.
"Hang on," she said, and then had to pause to yawn. "I think I've got something."
"There are six Elements of Harmony," she read out loud, "but only five are known: Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty and Loyalty. The sixth is a complete mystery. It is said, the last known location of the five elements was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters."
She tapped a few more commands into her omni-tool, made a curious noise, and reached for the book to take a look at it.
"And there's something else here, at the bottom of the page, that looks like it's handwritten . . . no, I guess it would be hoof-written, wouldn't it? "The sixth element is Magic, which ties the other five together and allows them to release their power. The Elements were rediscovered by Twilight Sparkle and her pony friends when Nightmare Moon escaped from exile and attempted to conquer Equestria. They are now safely locked away in the Canterlot Royal Treasury with the other crown jewels of Equestria."
Re: Research.
He already knew the answer was 'no'. He just had to sigh about it.
Re: Research.
Although...hmm. Maybe they didn't need them. Or, at least, not those things specifically...
Re: Research.
"Wait, you can read that?" Sorry, she was a Queen of a magic land, not a technological one. She had no idea what Tali was doing with her Omni-Tool there. "Hold on a second, let me write that down. What did you just say?"
Re: Research.
She used her omni-tool to project a copy of the text onto the table in front of her. "So the sixth element is Magic, but it's starting to look like we might have to break into the Equestrian royal treasury somehow?"
Re: Research.
Not that it mattered much, considering they were a world away. "I wonder if we can get a portal to Equestria. Make a request to borrow them. Or plan a heist to take them. Whichever seems easiest."
They'd return them, of course! Just after this Discord creature was dealt with.