Week seven

[letsplayamod]

After that particularly hectic trial, if it could even be called that, you were free to go your own way. The sun had set on Ferdinand and Omega's attempt to enact vengeance upon Typhon, and while your combined efforts were clearly enough to damage him, he managed to slink off with both of your former companions. No doubt, probably licking his wounds, or whatever the Titan plans to do in his refuge between the realms.

It's another new week on the island. Outside, things have continued to change - standing by the cliffs will reveal that not only has the water against the rocks receded further, but the entire ocean has as well. You hear birdsong in the distance, and even the plants have turned greener despite the drawbacks from Typhon's trickery. No matter the horrors everyone's experienced, it seems the island continues to grow healthier.

There's still time to enjoy the benefits that provides. Down on the deepest level, the stairs to... How odd. The stairs still refuse you passage. Looks like there's no new floor to investigate this week!

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Comments

[raisethemoon]

Oh - yes, of course.

[ She'll just take a random piece of fruit? There, done! ]

[sweetsynergy]

[Oh that feels like a mood.]

By the way, I got something out of the horn I'm pretty sure is yours. Big storybook of pony tales?

[this will definitely help right]

You wanna burn it or something? It's talking some crazy shit about you, feels very flammable.

[raisethemoon]

Oh - wait, what?

[ Luna blinks. That doesn't sound like a personal possession of hers, but she can certainly believe such a thing exists... ]

May I see it?

[sweetsynergy]

Sure, one minute.

[Unless Luna just. Follows? But she heads back to her room. And whether it's in the kitchen or by the dorms, holds out The Mare in the Moon for Luna to inspect.]

More or less matches up with what you've said. But definitely skewed towards a certain narrative, you know.

[raisethemoon]

[ Luna isn't really sure if she's supposed to follow or not, and ends up sort of...awkwardly standing in the hallway? But, ah, here we go. She lifts it with her magic, scanning quickly through the contents - it's not very long or complex, a legend presented for foals. ]

Ah. No, I would say that is accurate...?

[ What are you even talking about ]

[sweetsynergy]

Okay. And? Still acts like you were being unreasonable.

[A little eternal night builds character, probably.]

[raisethemoon]

....is eternal night not unreasonable?

[sweetsynergy]

I mostly lived in space before we got here, technically that's nothing BUT night.

[Ignore the artificial day/night cycles on ships and stations, it's fine, it's friendly.]

Point is sounds like you were pushed around and then spanked for finally pushing back. That sucks.

[raisethemoon]

...well...

[ This is quite obviously the first time she's ever heard anything remotely similar! Luna is not quite sure what to do with it. ]

Well, it was...still disproportionate.

[sweetsynergy]

Yuh-huh.

[She believes you. Really. Look at her believing face.]

So you wanna burn it? We can roast marshmallows or something.

[raisethemoon]

The book...?

[ Luna considers the book. It doesn't look all that special or old. Probably not mass-printed, considering several things, but does it belong to someone in particular...?

Would burning it change anything? ]

...I...suppose we could. If you...wished to?

[sweetsynergy]

[She shrugs.]

It's your catharsis, maybe. Do you wish?

[It'd be fuuuuuuun]

[let's go to candy mountain Lunaaaaaaaaa]

[raisethemoon]

[ DOES SHE..................... ]

...very well, I suppose.

[ She feels immediately guilty though! ]

Though - it's rather odd, actually. The vast majority of surviving accounts did not actually include the part about my coming back.

[sweetsynergy]

Cause it's propaganda.

[She doesn't wanna accuse Luna's sister directly, except for how she really, really does.]

You make a really convenient boogey-man.

[raisethemoon]

Wouldn't a convenient boogey-mare be the one that does come back from the moon?

[ She has given the whole thing some thought! ]

To eat one up or something like that? That is what all the foals say about Nightmare Night.

[sweetsynergy]

...Nightmare Night.

[Hm. Huh. Okay.]

This being- some kind of especially spooky night about your- I'm gonna call it a legend, I guess? The story as understood by the masses.

[raisethemoon]

That seems to be the thrust of it. Naturally I was not around when it began...but foals dress up in costumes and are given candy, which is then...sacrificed to Nightmare Moon so that she will not eat them? I don't know why.

[ Luna's not in the habit of defending her actions anymore, but cannibalism was never actually on the table! ]