First Checklist Item [Misc Journal Shenanigans / Action]

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ In the middle of the day, Luceti is treated to the following eloquent series of letters: ]

DDDDD

[ So this is what happens when a hoof gets ahold of a drawing-to-text synthesizer. This is followed by a voice post about three minutes later: ]

... triangle, a couple of straight lines, and a square have to do with...

[ Several minutes pass, and then a video materializes. The viewer may be greeted with a pair of huge, intense violet eyes. ]

A-ha!

[ The sight of this particular creature might seem out of place to anyone who doesn't know Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash. You can now see a purple pony with a horn protruding from her mane. The horn is bathed in a magenta glow, as is a pointy stick that is way too close to the camera. Like mankind before her, Twilight is learning how to use tools. ]

Hi, um... anypony who's watching this! I'm Twilight Sparkle, and... I don't recognize these woods at all. [ She looks around, probably for the umpteenth time. Twilight's found herself deep within the forest, to the southeast. Not that she knows this. ] It doesn't look like any part of the Everfree Forest I've been to. [ A cloud parts and the sun shines in her face through the unseen treetops. Twilight shields her face with a hoof. ] Oh. Actually, I guess I could...

[ She looks back at herself and spreads her wings. Not her small Luceti wings, though. A huge pair of alicorn wings, of the same purple as her fur. She prepares to take off, then remembers the journal and hits it again with the stick. Video feed switches off. ]

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[ Following this recording, the population of Luceti may witness a purple shape flying around the sky, observing the village from above. She'll circle a few times, trying to orient herself, before deciding to alight in the fountain square.

Two areas will grab Twilight's interest fairly quickly. First, she'll see her coronation outfit in the window of the clothing shop. She'll find this strange enough to go inside and consider buying it.

The other building she'll notice is the library (with a squee of excitement). Good luck extracting her from perusing the many, many, many tomes that now litter the floor. This is why Twilight needs an assistant librarian. What she wouldn't give for Spike right about now.

Feel free to interact with her in the square, at the clothing store, in the library, or in the air: she's several yards up but not out of shouting distance. ]

Comments

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Twilight continues marking; there's a fair amount of space beyond Robert's height, so she goes as far as she can. ] Hmm. Beast was pretty tall. I'd better make this two at least. What's the measuring unit you humans use?

[semper_cogitans]

It... d-depends on the object being measured... the standard m-measurement of length is the metre, but further measurements exist in e-exponents of ten, such as the c-centimetre, which is a factor of zero decimal zero o-one as compared to the m-metre.

For instance, my h-height is expressed as one decimal six four four metres, as I i-informed you earlier, but... it can also be expressed as one hundred sixty four decimal f-four centimetres. The two measurements are... e-equivalent, but it is... g-generally preferable to use metres in the c-case of height, as most humans... f-fall within this range.

[fourthgenerationprincess]

[ Twilight notes all of this - measurements, equivalencies - and then gets up and levitates the measuring tape next to her. She marks where she comes up to on the tape and then examines it. ] Hmm. I'm a little tall for a pony now, but not by much. Celestia would probably be closer to your height, though.

[semper_cogitans]

[That's quite the height variety.]

Is there a r-reason that... your species varies such in h-height? I had not heard of there being... s-strong variation prior, and... other individuals I have seen are not n-nearly so differently-sized...

[fourthgenerationprincess]

Most of us aren't! I think Celestia's a special case. I was about average height before, perhaps a little shorter, but I noticed I gained a few inches when I became an alicorn. Not that you could probably tell the difference from when I was here last time!

[semper_cogitans]

Ah... n-no, I never... met your former iteration f-face-to-face... [They just talked nerdishly over the journals.]

The little I know i-indicated that your species is divisible into three main s-sub-species, referred to as earth ponies, pegasus ponies and unicorns r-respectively... and then this new group, a-alicorn, stands... alone from these others? You... largely look the same...

[Except for the wings. Or rather, the quadruple-set, because the one is Luceti's fault.]

[fourthgenerationprincess]

That's right. From what I can tell, alicorns are an equal mix of each of the three types of ponies. Celestia's particularly tall, but Luna and Cadance are closer to my height.

I don't think there's anything different besides those... well, Celestia can raise and lower the sun, and Luna the moon, but I don't know if that's because they're alicorns, or because of some other reason.