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[want_a_vacation]

*The unicorn stallion on the scrolls isn't anything special. In fact, he looks so generic you'd probably ignore him if you passed him on the street. Even the three sprawling lightning scars over his torso seem unremarkable at first glance.*

Right...seeing as the entire town is different and this isn't the usual cell phone, I'm going to take a wild guess and say this isn't a moon event. On another wild guess, I'm going to assume that I've been kidnapped to another world that isn't mine and doesn't like people that don't fit in with the natives.

So can anypony lend me a hoof and tell me where I am, who I should blame this time and anything relevant to the apparently never-ending quest to get back to where we belong? And anything else that might be important for a newcomer to know, like strange monsters that appear at midnight or headache-inducing changes happening on a monthly schedule, while you're at it.

And just in case anypony that already knows me is here, it's me, Allen Ridgeley. Apparently I'm a unicorn now, because why not.

*He rubs a hoof over his face and then rolls up the scroll.*

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[want_a_vacation]

I'll have to find a way to pay you back. Ah...as soon as I figure out how to actually do anything with hooves, anyway.

[appletastic]

You got hurt? Relearning how to walk?

Somepony should come help you!

[want_a_vacation]

I'm not hurt, I'm just...ah...this might sound a little crazy, but this isn't what I'm supposed to look like. I'm usually bipedal.

[appletastic]

Bi-what now?

[Now that's a word she doesn't use much, especially when all the farm critters are four-legged.]

[want_a_vacation]

I walk on two legs.

*He has a bad habit of using technical terminology when he shouldn't, anyway.*

[appletastic]

Oh! Well that's a problem.

And you don't know why you're suddenly a pony?

[want_a_vacation]

If I had to guess, it's the same reason I'm here. The last place I was turned all the new arrivals human if they weren't already, so there's probably something about these places that makes people look like a native species.

[appletastic]

Human? That one of those two-legged things?

[want_a_vacation]

Yeah. That was the only intelligent species back on Earth and is still the dominant species where I'm originally from.

[appletastic]

Never heard of 'em. Guess our worlds really must be different.

[want_a_vacation]

It happens. Would you believe me if I said you get used to the weirdness?

[appletastic]

I don't want to, but I guess I do. Wowee, what a nightmare, huh?

[want_a_vacation]

Actually, I'm pretty sure it could be worse.

[appletastic]

How much worse are you talking?

[want_a_vacation]

Well, the last place I was stripped us of all of our unique abilities and we had to deal with monsters showing up every night at midnight and a bigger monster messing with our heads every month around the full moon.

[appletastic]

...Yikes. Okay, I'm seeing how it could be worse.

The Ponyville I know should be safe if we all stick together when trouble hits.