Seventh Starfall: Beyond the Pale [Visual, postdated for after the Closing Ceremonies]

[stormbroken]

[It's about two hours after the appearance of the Pale Pony, and everything that came with it. You might think that things would calm down again, but no.

This time, Flare Star fires up a scroll that she basically pulled straight away from Dust and starts talking, about as seriously as many ponies have ever heard out of her - the exceptions being Queen Chrysalis (who got to hear the tone when she was attacking the pegasus) and Zecora (whom she helped during Nightmare Night).]

The cards've been played. I don't know what kind of feeling that was that I felt back there, but I know it is evil. No more playing around, no more wasting time trying to understand.

I'm not saying that we don't still need to research this nag, far from it. In fact, we need to centralize our research, so that everypony has the same access to it. It's only right in times of war to allow your soldiers to know of the enemy they fight.

She pulls us all in at random, focusing on those with powers, and then every month, she culls. A few more get drawn into her, possibly for keeps. By standing before us today, by proving that she exists, she has declared war. Not on Equestria, but on every last one of our worlds.

Buck compassion, and buck caring for a pony so far gone that she'll steal souls for her own gain.

She needs to die.

Who's with me?

Comments

[neighfeni]

As much as Ah'd like nothin' better, if what Miss Applejack saw is any sign, that might kill more than jus' her.

[misplacedxsheath]

Given her apparent nature, it's entirely possible that removing the souls she's absorbed may already be necessary to harm her in the first place.

At the very least, it would certainly be part of any intelligent plan to defeat her, even if there weren't lives at stake.

[neighfeni]

That's why we can't rush into this all haphazard. We hafta figure out what the hay we're doin' first. Ah'm angry too; that thing's taken some of family, an' now yet another friend. Ya know warfare, Sir Margulis. None of our plans are gonna be smart if we act rashly. It isn't jus' for us we gotta be careful for...research, plannin', an' a cool head are gonna be needed for this, to rescue our friends an' everyone else in there.

[misplacedxsheath]

I've already stated that our first priority should be research. At our current state of understanding, we couldn't even hope to overcome her.