Communication is the key to any relationship, even friendships! Griffaltar might be closed to visitors, but there is still mail that passes between Equestria and the Griffon stronghold. No one is silly enough to try to stop that. Anything you'd like to touch base on?

[[OOC: This is a catch-all log for those who wish to exchange letter correspondence with the Cloudy With a Chance of Griffon NPCs. You may have your character send a letter to any of the griffons, though letters addressed to Ironclaw or Stormy Skies will receive replies your characters may not like. The time for these correspondences is nebulous. These can be back-dated, in the present, or in the future. Whatever would be most convenient for your character.

Please put the name of the griffon (Ironclaw, Sunshine, Stormy Skies, or Cerulean) your character is addressing in the subject line of your post. If it is multiple griffons, please put all of their names.

You may also even address a letter to Easy Lift if you want to break the monotony of her prison life!]]

[The angle is bad but there's Lyra talking to Carrot Top at her door.]

Yeah sorry for being all sad and not myself. And thanks for hauling me back home too Carrot.

[Carrot Top's reply was indistinct and muffled from the partially rolled up scroll but there's no mistaking the fact that Lyra plated a mutually long kiss good night.]

See you later Carrot Top! I'll send over Derpy for muffins later, and Bon Bon owes you a bag of chocolate.

[As she trots away, she sighs happily.] So glad to have friends like that. I wonder if I should invite Carrot Top for another get together with Bon Bon later on...

The scroll resolves into the spiky-maned countenance of an extremely confused pegasus.

"Um...uh...can someone explain me a thing? I was out patrolling the Night Market earlier - since, you know, it's my job and all - and, uh...I saw a couple necking behind one of the buildings? Only...only they were both girls."

Pause to nervously adjust her wings.

"Is that...possible? Like...physically? What do you even call it? Is there a word for it?"

And she ends on a distressed plea.

"What is even happening anymore?"

*The background of this post is definitely Alastor's castle, but all that's visible in the shot is a strange creature that's oddly blood colored. Hanging around its neck is a sign that reads in type-printed font,

Hi, I'm one of Alastor's bloodgoyles.
I'm harmless, please do not shoot me.
(Ps. Blood given willingly.)

It waves a claw at the screen, gives a brief screech like a predatory bird, and the feed cuts out. So yeah, that's a thing.*

[Well, lookie there, Ponyville. A red-coated unicorn is staring down at the scroll and not looking too happy.]

So this must be how it felt when you first woke up here, Dante and Alastor. Man. This is not what I expected when I managed to get back home.

[The unicorn tosses her mane for a moment as she lifts a hoof. The coat she’s wearing is torn at the knee, right where her elbow would be if she was a human.]

At least Lady got her gun back.

[She stretches out a bit and glances around.]

So…either one of you guys got a place for a girl to stay? I’m going to need somewhere to crash while I try to figure out how to use this thing.

[She lifts a hoof to prod at her horn.]

I don’t know anything about magic.

[Sometime after the ponies wake up, scrolls and quills suddenly start raining from the sky. Don't worry, its not the ponypocalypse, its just a squadron of flying white ponies dropping them from above.

Once everyone receives one, the scrolls suddenly glow and come to life, its surface revealing the visage of a large white alicorn with rainbow hair and a golden crown, sitting on a large, velvet-upholstered throne. She has a calm, reassuring, regal smile on her face as she speaks, though those who know her better can see the light of worry and concern in her eyes.]

Good afternoon, newponies! I am Princess Celestia.

I've heard of your arrival in Ponyville and of some of the more interesting stories that have come from it. We're...not certain how this phenomenon has occurred, but we here at the royal castle will put our efforts into solving this mystery, and I hope you will help us out as we wish to help you out!

Rest assured, no harm will come to you. Nor, as some of you have worried, are we holding you against your will. On the contrary, you're free to move about Equestria as you please, be it through Ponyville, Los Pegasus or anywhere in between. I only request that you use the scrolls we have provided you to check in from time to time, so that we know where you might be when we figure out the solution to this current situation.

If you have any questions, you are free to ask them of me. If I am not available - and, I will admit, there are times when I can be quite busy - there are many other ponies willing to help you, including the other princesses of Equestria. We are all in this together, after all.

[And then she smiles a little more. Its a much more relaxed smile. The concern is still there, of course.]

But, in the meantime, I'd also like to get to know all of you! I always like to meet new people, after all. I hear we even have a dragon?