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You are Twilight Sparkle, newly crowned alicorn princess and overall a nice pony and friend.

Currently, you are with your friend Rainbow Dash in a field under her house. She's set up an obstacle course here to help you train your wings some, but you declined, still super busy. You have to get ready for a big important function coming up with visiting dignitaries from all over Equestria and the griffon kingdoms! However you were able to get Dash to have the weather clear for the next few days, giving you one less thing to worry about.

Of course, you agreed to let her be your personal body guard, so that kinda cancels things out.

"So what are you doing now, Twilight?" Dash says, flapping above you eagerly. "Some kind of important mission of political espionage?"

"Nothing that exciting..." You say, taking out your list of things to do. According to your notes you still need to decide on a location for the party, who to invite, send invitations, scrounge up some kind of entertainment, not to mention getting back to Applejack and Rarity to inform them where to go with their stuff.

What do you do?

((If you want to know things such as INVENTORY, INFO or GAME HELP, simply ask and I will do my best to help))

>>9676147
go find rarity or applejack

>>9676147
Why aren't we still with Applejack?

>>9676599
"I want to go check up on Applejack and Rarity. They agreed to help me, but they do have a lot to do and want to make sure everything is ok."

"Sounds fun." Dash says dead pan, slacking from her wings a little.

"I told you Dash. I may be a princess, but not all that much has changed. It's not like all sorts of crazy things are going to happen to me n-"

You are suddenly cut of by the strangest sensation; the air all around you seems to briefly pull you just a little to one direction, like some kind of vacuum. You also see Dash, still in mid air, like wise affected, as well as Tank floating nearby. Even the clouds above seem to be drawn in towards the same point towards Ponyville. And in an instant, its gone, stopping as suddenly as it started.

"Huh..." You say, looking around but seeing no cause for the phenomena. "That was st-"

A explosions sounds, as if a thunder head broke apart inside Ponyville. You are knocked in the opposite direction of the gentle suction before, sprawling to the ground from a powerful gust of hot air, Dash landing on top of you a half second later.

>>9676659
((You left after getting her to agree to stop treating you like a princess and to help you cater for the upcoming event))

>>9676147
Suspiciously decent writing for one of these OP. What are you hiding?

Asking about GAME HELP since this is the first Episode of this I've seen.

that was strange
get up, make sure we aren't hurt, and try to figure out what happened

Your taste dirt, the air around you seems hotter and you have a strange ringing in your ears. Rainbow Dash is saying something that you can't understand, the vibrations of her voice rumbling off of her on top of you. After a few panicky, dazed seconds reality snaps back into focus like a hammer in the eye.

"Are you ok?!" Dash says, shaking you by the shoulders. "Say something!"

"I'm ok! I'm...ok." You reassure her. Dash visibly relaxes and lets go. Nothing seems broken, though you might need to was hyour face a little later. "What happened?"

"I dunno! I think it was some kind of explosion!" Dash zips around, looking every direction for further danger, freezing as she turns towards Ponyville. "Twilight! Look! Fire!"


Sure enough, following Dash's indication you see a angry glowing blaze on the horizon just off to the side of Ponyville....in the vague direction of Sweet Apple Acres.

>>9677099
((>decent writing
>me

Hilarious. But yeah GAME HELP: This is a quest! You play as Twilight Sparkle just after the events of season 3. Feel free to join in and/or ask any more questions))

well fuck, we should probably go investigate the fire and see if we can't help put it out.

>>9677408
My standards may have been lowered by other threads like this. But yeah, you write decent dialog and the plot actual has a direction - that's more than you can say for some stuff on /mlp/. Anyway:

Obviously we're going to get check it out, but while we fly over tell Rainbow Dash to go get clouds for a rainstorm to put out the blaze.

>>9677408
Teleport Dash and yourself closer to the fire.

>>9677632
Ourselves? Sure. Dash? Maybe not a good idea to teleport other ponies close to an inferno.

>>9677747
I guess you're right. Dash can fly.

>>9677632
>>9677747
>>9677809

"Applejack!" You and Dash say at once, coming to the same conclusion.

"We have to go help them!" Dash exclaims.

"There's not a moment to lose! I'll teleport there and you fly there as quick as you can!"

"But Tw-!"


From your perspective you are standing in the field with Dash in mid sentence on one side of town...and in a blink you're now surrounded by burning apple trees. The sudden heat is nearly overwhelming, making your eyes water and throat dry instantly. Your wings also feel funny, so you tuck them in reflexively.

You cough and stumble through the smokey heat. The apples burning actually smell deceptively pleasant despite the situation, but you ignore it, finding the dirt road to the farmhouse. All around it tree's are starting to catch the encroaching flames. You immediately find Applejack, on the front porch ringing a large metal.


"Twilight?!" She says through the slapper clenched in her teeth, her eyes wide. "What are you doing here? What's happening?!"

>>9678213
You mean you don't know what's happening applejack? It would appear that your farm is on fire.

>>9678213
>a large metal
A large metal what?

Tell Applejack that the trees are on fire. Summon a bunch of clouds like Rarity did in Magical Mystery Cure

>>9678472
Presumably bell.

>>9678213
Didn't go with the raincloud thing, huh? Fix the problem first, worry about the explanations later. (There's a life lesson) Magic up some water or rainclouds or something!

"Your farm is one fire, Applejack!"

"I can SEE that, Twilight!" Applejack shouts over the inferno, not exactly happy with your answer. She spits out the clapper and pick up a near by bucket. "Never mind! We got to stop this blaze from reaching the house!"


"Don't worry, I have an idea!"

You've done weather magic before, though never anything like this. Channeling certain magical energies through your horn, you try to coalesce the moisture in the air above into clouds. It's not easy: the fire has dried up the air to an extreme, giving you little to work with. But you are able to reach out a great distance, pulling in all available moisture into one simple grey cloud squat above the house. With a final release of magic, it starts to rain, dousing most of the farmstead with a steady stream of rainwater.

"Thank you, Twilight," Applejack says relived, gripping you around the side, but quickly becomes very serious and paces as she talks aloud. "Ok, the house is safe for now. Applebloom with with her friends in town, so she should be ok. That just leaves Big Macintosh in the barn and....and....oh no."

"What is it?"

"I..."Applejack looks like she's about to have an attack. "I don't know where Granny Smith is!"

>>9678472
((Fuck sorry. I meant to say she's ringing a large metal triangle, with the clapper in her teeth)

we don't have time to look for granny smith, tell rainbow dash to look for her instead.
Let applejack know what we need her to do and go look for Rarity.

>>9679237
We ALWAYS have time to help our friends and their family (and any other pony, for that matter).

Scrying spell to see where Granny Smith is?

>>9679237
>Let applejack know what we need her to do
What do we need her to do?

>>9679382
I don't actually remember. let's check the list.

>>9679463
So how's this work OP? We ask about INFO or something?

>>9679463
Are you talking about the food?

We should probably worry about putting out the fire in the orchard and finding Granny Smith first.

>>9679625
but we could just make rainbow dash do that. our friends don't need us for everything

>>9679673
But Granny Smith could be burning alive.

And I'm not sure about Big Mac. Are we close enough to the barn to see if it's on fire?

The rain continues to stream down on the house, though the still considerable heat of the fire encroaching from the fields is making thins steam and sputter. Applejack is beside herself, muttering aloud as she's trying to think of where Granny Smith could have gone off to. A rainbow streaks through the burning tree tops and solidifies into Dash besides you, hack and coughing smoke.

You pull out your to do list and check something.

"Oh Dash, thank Celestia you're here!" Appleajck says.

"Twilight!" Dash shouts between fits of coughing, ignoring her. "That was dangerous! We should have gone together!"

"What? Sorry, I just thought th-"

"Please!" Applejack gets between the two of you. "Everything is dryer then paper with the lack of rain! The house should be ok for now, but it's going to spread across the whole farm at this rate! We need to find my family!"

>>9679901
Someone as smart as Twilight understand the concept of a PRIORITY QUEUE. If we can't use magic to find Big Mac and Granny Smith, tell Rainbow Dash to look for Big Mac and go with Applejack to find Granny Smith.

>>9679983
We already know where Big Mac is. He's in the barn.

>>9679901
Ask Dash where the clouds for the planned rainstorm are being kept. If they're within reach gather them over the whole farm and douse everything.

Otherwise take the cloud to the barn. Have Rainbow Dash and Applejack go look for Granny Smith.

>>9679901
help look for applejack's family and put out the fire.
once it's under control and we know applejack's family is safe we can probably leave Rainbow dash in charge

>>9680151
Rainbow Dash can check and make sure the big guy's not on fire, at least. And presumably extinguish the barn with rain/wind if it is.

((So whats the course of action? Who goes where to do what? This may be very important))

>>9680382
panic

>>9680382
Dash goes to save Big Mac. She can demolish a barn if she needs to.

We go look for put out fires and look for Granny Smith with Applejack.

>>9680557
Seconding this! Use flight to get a better viewpoint or magic because it's freaking magic!

"Alright, Rainbow Dash!" You point to her, taking action. "You go to the barn and find Big Mac, make sure he's ok."

"But I-"

"No, you're the fastest and we know where he is. You're our best bet."

"Alright!" Dash says with a serious nod and leaves so fast an image of her lags behind for a split second.

"Applejack, you're with me. We'll try to find Granny Smith."

"Right!"

"But you have to have SOME idea where she could be!"

"Normally around this time she'd be inspecting the apples to best make cider, but that means she could be anywhere in the southern orchard! And that's assuming she didn't get sidetracked with something else and wandered off!"

"Well that's our best bet! Come on!"

Two two of you high tail it south. The fire is most intense here, raging from tree to tree. Apples explode in super heated bursts of mush with hissing sounds. The heat and the smoke are unbearable, but the two of you push on, scouring everywhere for hide or hair of Granny Smith.

"Granny!" Applejack calls out in the burning haze, stopping periodicly to hack and cough from the smoke. "Granny Smith!"

"Applejack, we can hardly see in all of this!"

"We have to keep looking!" She snaps back at you, continuing her calls.

"Wait, I have an idea!" You tentatively stretch your wings out. "I'll try to see if I can spot her from above!"

You launch off the ground, which is easy enough. But thermals seems to stream up you wings like a torrent, shooting you up way faster then you are comfortable with. Try to keep aloft, you wildly flap your wings to keep balanced. Applejack's calling quickly dwindles into the distance as you soar up over the crackling fire. In nearly all directions, your spinning perspective sees the fire accelerating everywhere. Sweet Apple Acres is completely on fire, with only the farmhouse as an island in the burning sea. Even further away, you can just barely make out Ponyville and the bustle of activity of everyone reacting to the fire.

(cont)

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Steadying yourself as you are buffed all around by the wild thermals, you scour the ground for sings of life. Directly below you can just barely make out Applejack, still desperately calling out on foot, her orange coat acting almost like camouflage wit the flames. The heat rising to meat you is intense, making it painful to look directly down.

But you sport something in the watery sides of your vision, a brief sudden movement. Following where you saw it last, it shows up again: a definite sign someone is down there!

"Applejack!" You shout down. She looks up and you point where you saw it, before flying down towards it.

The fire has eaten away at most of this are already, though its still burning hot. You touch down and are surprised at the CLINK CLINK as your hoof hit solid glass.

"What the...." In a small area around you the very ground has been glassed in the heat. "That shouldn't be po-"

"Help!" Granny Smith's familiar voice calls out somewhere around the brurning trees, bringing you back to the moment. You rush over to the source and find her crouched by the smoldering apple tree that's split in two and fallen over.

>>9681394
Help granny smith.
teleport her to safety?

>>9681394
Check her and see if she's hurt. If not bring her to AJ and teleport all three of us to safety.

>smoldering apple tree that's split in two
Lightning?

You quickly rush to her side, looking her over for injury.

"I'm here, Granny Smith! Everything is going to be alright now, let me just get you up and-"

"No, not me, yad dern young whatsits," She says grumplily, whacking you with her hoof and pointing to one of the tree limbs smoldering near by. "Help him!"

Trapped under the piece of three Granny Smith is indicating is another pony; a stallion, one nearly as old looking as Granny Smith. You can't make much out, but it's very clear the burning tree is pinning him down and parts of his mane and tail are one fire.

"Oh my gosh!" You quick throw the tree off him with magic and snuff out the flames.

Check quickly if the stallion is okay, and make sure there aren't any other ponies you need to worry about.

>>9681820
Where is AJ?

"Oh no, oh no," You fret over this new pony. He's clearly very hurt: bad burns run up and down his body. His mane and tail have burnt away in places, leaving black ends here and there. He's a unicorn and even his horn has carbon scoring from the fire. He isn't moving, but you see that he's breathing.

"Granny!" Applejack shouts, bursting through the burning brush and rushing over to embrace Granny Smith. "You're ok!"

"'Course I'm ok."

"Uhh...Twilight, who's he?" Applejack says, letting go of Granny Smith and noticing the smoldering pony on the ground at your hooves.

"I don't know. Who is this, Granny Smith?"

"How in the blazes should I know?" She says, sitting on the ground. It sizzles. "Checkin apples for cider and there's a hoopin and hollarin all around and some scoundrel stuck under a log, how am I suppose to know who's what."

"I just thought you might kno-"

"Course nothin I could do, my old bones you know, hardly lift a busshle of apples let along a burning tree." She spits again and starts walking to the direction of the house at her own elderly pace, heedless of the bruning fire all around. "But y'all came when you did and that's all that matters."

abandon all hope
or try getting the stallion somewhere safe, like a doctors office

"Can you two make it back on your own?"

"On our own? You're not staying behind in this heat, are you Twilight?"

"Just a little bit. I'll teleport myself and this guy with me back to Ponyville and a doctor right away!"

"Well....alright, if you're sure. C'mon Granny." Applejack says, only to find that Granny Smith has already walked off on her own quite a bit and rushes to catch up with her.

You turn your attention back to your new friend, only to come eye to eye with him staring straight up at you. You're too suprised and taken aback that you don't know what to say, looking in his eyes as they reflect the still raging fire all around, curious, alert and intelligent. But then his eye lids quickly start to droop and he sheepishly plops his head face forward into the dirt.

Still off put by the whole scene, you gather him up as best you can, ready your spell and transport the two of you into the heart of Ponyville.

((And with that I think I will leave off for tonight. Thanks for playing everyone! I'll stay on for a bit for questions or comments. Next session should be sometime this week. I'll let the general know at the very least an hour before hand if not a day ahead, but it will always be around the same time))