[001] - Visual

[saint_sami]

[AAAAAH! BIG EYE! IT'S A GIANT! Oh, no, wait, it's just somepony looking up close into a scroll. If anything, you can probably just tell that it's a pink eye.]

Oh, wow... it's magic! This is very different from what Hayate used...!

[And the eye pulls back to show a light blue filly wait, those things exist? with her dark blue mane done up in large twintails. The only other noticeable marking on her are the two triangles on her forehead.]

This is so neat - it's an entire town filled with ponies! We can't do that back in that not-really-Mayfield town...

[Now she realizes it.]

...I'm not in Mayfield anymore! A-Am I alive? Is this just another program?

...

Can I stay here?

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[blamemysister]

You may stay! Tis a happy place.

[saint_sami]

Really? Oh, that's great! Hopefully, it'll be a whole lot more fun...!

[blamemysister]

Tis a good thing then that you came when you did! There hath been many a wonderful event lately, despite a few hiccups.

[saint_sami]

Aw, I wish I came sooner, then...!

[blamemysister]

There is plenty of time to enjoy Equestria. Tis a place where one may travel well.

[etranger]

Mako's attention is abruptly commanded by the use of the word 'Mayfield'.

"Um, excuse me...you're from Mayfield?"

[saint_sami]

"Ah... yes, yes, I am!" Sasami said, surprised someone else noticed the name.

"Were you from there?"

[etranger]

Mako shakes her head.

"No, but several of my friends are. Do you know Twilight Sparkle or Nozomi Yumehara?"

Slight pause.

"Or, um, Ako Shirabe-Marvelous?"

[saint_sami]

Sasami's eyes light up at that. "Yes, yes, I do! I especially know those last two..."

Wait a sec...

"...are they here?!"

[etranger]

"Ako took advantage of a dimensional crossrip to return to her original world, but Nozomi is still here."

Slight pause.

"As for your other questions...you're alive and organic, and yes, you can stay here."

[magicalrealist]

It's definitely not Mayfield anymore; I can attest to that.

[saint_sami]

It doesn't feel like it... Wait, you're from there, too?

[magicalrealist]

Mhm. Twilight Sparkle.

[saint_sami]

I... Think I remember you. Though, I "arrived" there a little too late to know everyone.

I'm Sasami.

[magicalrealist]

Things were very crazy near the end, so I understand.

I...guess you know how things ended, right?

[wizardofharmony]

...I see that you've already met Twilight. That's good. I wouldn't wish that prison on anyone.

Hail and well met, newcomer. Be ye human?

[saint_sami]

It wasn't the best of places at all.

Be ye...? Ah... yes? At least I was?

[wizardofharmony]

As was I. A wizard errant. Hence the convenient built-in wand.

(She gestures to her horn and smiles.)

And it seems you are of the earth - and unmarked!?

(Welp. So much for her smile.)

They would jail a CHILD there!?

[saint_sami]

Yeah, they would... There were plenty of kids there, really. But, there were also a lot of adults who would help protect us, too!

[She looks confused, though.]

...what do you mean that I'm of the earth and unmarked?

[wizardofharmony]

[yes good distract her from her anger with a chance to tl;dr]

The ponies that are people here are of three kinds; those of the Earth, who work magic through skill and craft; the Pegasi, those of the air, with wings and magic enough to catch the wind with them; and unicorns, those of fire, who work wizardry with their horns as natural implements of power. I've heard tales of ponies of the water, hippocampi, but not seen them.

[Shoo-be-doo, whoop-oop-a-doo! Ahem.]

Look upon my hip. Do you see the pentacle, the star-in-the-circle? That is my Mark. "Cutie" mark, to be precise. It is a sign both of maturity and of... one's PURPOSE, one's talent or arete. What your skill and will is naturally inclined to do. Mine represents wizardry itself.

[poolicide]

...I'm supposed to be worrying if I'm in a computer now?

[saint_sami]

Wha...? N-No! Just me, really!

[poolicide]

Ok so...you came out a computer? Is that it?

Cause that'd be great, really. Just. Great.

[saint_sami]

It's... kind of a long story, but... yeah?

[poolicide]

Jeeze...they must be the size of Minneapolis to keep people!

[The eighties culture shock speaking here.]