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[onlyanapple]

Who: Crowley and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Málum
When: Right now!

Well, as pleasant as this star system is, and as much as I don't want to say the 'B' word and incite horrible things upon us, I feel the need to fill my time a little bit. So I've decided to stretch your minds a little bit with some riddles. Because why the hell not. Answer as many or as few as you like.

RIDDLE THE FIRST:

There was once a wealthy old man with three sons. He was coming to the end of his life and instead of dividing his money up equally amongst them like a normal person would, he decided to set his sons a task. He gave them each a paltry sum of coins, and told them to buy something to fill a room with. (Before you ask, the room is the same one each time)

The first son bought some bales of hay, but he didn't have enough to fill the room with. The second bought a bunch of rock, but these, too, failed to fill the room. The third son bought two things with his coins, and together, they filled the room and he inherited his father's fortune.

What did he buy?

RIDDLE THE SECOND:

There is a dead man in the centre of a field. He carried with him an unopened package. Before he got into the field, he knew he was going to die. How?

RIDDLE THE THIRD (spoilers: this one is the easy one):

I'm at the end of time and space, at the beginning of the end, and at the end of life. What am I?

Comments

[onlyanapple]

Oh yeah there were a few of them over time. Rarely all together, mind.

Uh. No. She was a unicorn. No wings. Was she supposed to have wings? That could have been her loss.

[spontaneouscombustion]

MORE ponies?! Who?!

Okay so that was BEFORE she became a princess. ... Which means she didn't remember anything when she came pack home.

[And honestly? She's not sure if that's a good thing or not.]

[onlyanapple]

Probably not, that's how it usually works.

There was a moon one for a while? And a pink one that did something with love?? I don't know, they all kind of blended into one after a while.

[Crowley, that's racist. ]

[spontaneouscombustion]

OH MY GOSH THEY TOOK PRINCESS LUNA AND PRINCESS CADANCE TOO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[onlyanapple]

If that's what they're called then yeah.

The castle could take whoever it damn well wanted, and mostly did.

[spontaneouscombustion]

I know THAT much; my special somepony was there for WAY too long. I didn't know it took MORE people from my world!

[onlyanapple]

I have no idea what that is and I don't really want to ask.

Anyway, yeah. Lots of tiny pastel horses. It must have had a fetish or something.

[spontaneouscombustion]

They didn't remember it at all when they got home.

[Which is VERY good in that case, but... it just strengthened the fear that SHE would forget if and when the Atroma sent her back.]

[onlyanapple]

Trust me, that's probably for the better.

[spontaneouscombustion]

I know.

But that means I probably won't remember anything about HERE either.

[onlyanapple]

Unfortunately true.

Not much you can do about that one.

[spontaneouscombustion]

But I have friends here! Cheese and I are special someponies now, I don't want that to just go away when I go home!

[onlyanapple]

I'm not particularly thrilled with the idea of going back either.

You never know, you might be like me and a couple people I know. Just be stuck in places like these for years and years and years.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Now you'd THINK this would drop Pinkie into a pit of despair and she'd spend the next couple of hours holed up in her room and fretting, because that is a big, scary, heartbreaking thing to think about. And the thought does tempt her.

For a few seconds. Because this is Pinkie Pie, and if her fears conquered her so easily, she wouldn't have become the Element of Laughter in the first place. So after a brief pause, this is what she sends back.]

Or I could find a way to remember everything when I DO go home.

[onlyanapple]

[Ugh. He can almost TASTE the saccharine sweetness of it all. ]

You'd be the first one ever but sure if you say so.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Warning: Pinkie Pies may cause immediate-onset Type II diabetes.]

I do say so! And I'll make sure to tell you too once I do!

[onlyanapple]

[Crowley is far too cynical for this. Sweet Someone, he needs a stiff drink. ]

Uh huh.

You do that.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Oh don't worry, I will!

Thanks for the riddles and the encouragement, I'll try to think of some riddles to send YOU next time!

[onlyanapple]

What encouragement? There was no encouragement there.

...Yeah, okay. I'm vaguely interested to see what you come up with.