Lyra: Bon-Bon, I’m sorry!

Bon-Bon: No, you had every right to be upset. I let my emotions get pent up and I took it out on you.

Lyra: No! I was so used to having full control of my tumblr that you posting in my absence scared me. Plus I was a little embarrassed…

Bon-Bon: What I said was deliberately in attempt to make you feel guilty, and it was wrong.

Lyra: And I was trying to make you feel bad! I was wrong too!

Minuette: Hey! That’s great! You were both wrong! Super! But can you do this somewhere else? I’m kinda with a patient right now.

Rose: Yeah! I don’t have all day!

Lyra: Sorry. Let’s go home.

Bon-Bon: Of course. Thank you, Minuette, for letting me spend the night.

Minuette: Sure thing, Bon-Bon! But no seriously, I have other patients after this.

Bon-Bon: Right, leaving now.

Rose: Finally.

Minuette: Now where were we?

[Drill revving up]

Rose: The horror!

Lyra: -ied to me! Lied to my face!

Bon-Bon: I know! I’m-!

Lyra: It’s a breech of trust!

Bon-Bon: I’m sorry!

Lyra: Sorry about what, Bon-Bon?! There’s so much! Sorry about what?! You lied! You withheld information-! All that wasted effort trying to act civil to that polished turd! The next time I see your sister I’m going to tell her exactly where where she can shove it!

Bon-Bon: Lyra no!

Lyra: You told the whole [omitted] internet-!

Bon-Bon: I’m sorry!

Lyra: -Told in confidence! Taken out of context!

Bon-Bon: I didn’t mean to!

Lyra: And then-! And then you tried to cover it up by hacking my XKit blocker! You blocked one of my own tags! Then you blocked somepony else’s! Were they trying to tell me the truth, Bon-Bon?! Huh?!

Bon-Bon: I was just-!

Lyra: How many times did somepony send a message and you intercepted it before I could see?!

Bon-Bon: I-

Lyra: What’s wrong?! Nothing to say?! You just couldn’t stop yourself before!

Bon-Bon: Why don’t you just come out and say it?! You mentioned everything else! Why don’t you just say what you’re really so upset about?!

Lyra: What?

Bon-Bon: You don’t like me! You can’t stand that I still have feelings for you!

Lyra: That has nothing to-!

Bon-Bon: Yes it does! You said you’d date Gilda! You know what that means?! [Sniff] It means you’re not into older guys! You’re not into guys at all! You just don’t like me!

Lyra: That’s because you’re like-!

Bon-Bon: I don’t want to be like a sister to you! [Sob] I never wanted to be your sister! Why can’t you just love me?! What’s wrong with me?! … [Sniff] You went out of your way-… Out of your way to never give me a chance! [Sob] And now it’s too late! [Sobbing]

Lyra: … Bon-Bon, I-…

Bon-Bon: Don’t touch me! Keep your stupid website!

Lyra: Bon-Bon, wait!

[BLAM!]

Lyra: Bon-Bon!

[Rushed door opening] [Fading hoofsteps]

1) I did get it, but thanks for letting me know anyway!

2) Lyra: NotCarlton.

Bon-Bon: Not- Shoot.

3) B: I don’t know what this means or why you would think I would. What are the numbers even supposed to be? A date? A combination? You said book. Is it an edition?

Sorry, Strawberry. I hope you’re okay!

4) I thought it might be boring, but really it seems more… lonely. I mean, you can find ways to pass the time, but there’s only one pony working at the counter during a shift. And depending on the time of day it might be an hour or more before anypony comes to buy a ticket.

And yes. They have a shift that just goes around relieving others so they can go on break. If I ever need to go, I can just send a message and they’ll send somepony to cover for me. But the ticket booth itself only closes for four hours a day, between two and six in the morning.

1) Hmm… You could try pyromancy to supplement without putting any points into intelligence. If you haven’t yet, you’d just need to clear No-Man’s Wharf to gain access to the catalyst for the spells. Not that the boss there is a pushover, but you can have Lucatiel help you.

2) Well, because the game has cooperative elements, it was affecting other players. Several times I’d summon some back up for a boss fight only for them to both be faith builds and they’d drop the boss in seconds; little to no contribution from me. Compare that to no faith builds and it becomes a regular fight that lasts two to three times longer.

I understand your position, and for you playing offline it’s unfortunate that it was one way and then it changed mid game, breaking your build. But as this is meant to be an online game, global balancing is important to maintain the validity of other play-styles, both in PvP and PvE.

3) Well, I’ve only just started. But it’s going great so far! Thanks for asking! Great to hear from you, Star!

4) Yes? You’re clearly wanting me to say yes.

If I was a colt it wouldn’t matter if she was straight or not. We’d have never been roommates.

5) Bon-Bon: Yes.

Lyra: Snooping through my inbox, huh?

Bon-Bon: W-well…

Lyra: Bbz, I’ve told you like five times. I have no known relatives. Colgate is just a mare with a similar mane/tail-style. Now about snooping through my inbox.

Bon-Bon: Excuse me? You said when I agreed to this that I could answer asks while you were away!

Lyra: Of course I did, Bon-Bon. And I’m not complaining about it or anything. You did nothing wrong.

Bon-Bon: I-I know I didn’t!

Lyra: So where are they?

Bon-Bon: What?

Lyra: The asks you answered. Where are they?

Bon-Bon: I… uh… I private replied.

Lyra: I see.

1) Believe it or not, I’ve heard that story before. As for educational, imagine playing that with only cursory knowledge of the world it’s describing.

2) That is silly! This is much less silly (Warning: Disturbing lyrics).

3) Bon-Bon: Thank you, dear. I hope you’re happy too!

Lyra: A~nd no explanation.

Bon-Bon: Such a curious filly you are.

4) Ouch. Also sorry for the delay. Has it been resolved yet?

5) B: I don’t have normal days. I haven’t had a normal day in over five years. There’s always things to do. At the moment I’m still trying to find this pony. I had a decent lead for a while, but it led nowhere.

2) Bon-Bon: Not oooooohhh! Sssshhhhhh! I never should have started responding to these!

3) Bon-Bon: Stop it! I want her to be happy! He makes her happy!

4) Bon-Bon: If you asked her, she’d say no. But I also heard her say once when she was drunk that she used to have a crush on Gilda.

Bon-Bon: And don’t repeat any of this to her! Please!

1) Bon-Bon: She didn’t used to be… She was a dreamer. Then when her dreams came true she just assumed that’s how life is supposed to be. And that we all have the same dreams.

2) Bon-Bon: Of course I do. She knows I do. But she doesn’t feel the same way… And as long as she’s in a relationship, there’s no way that will change.

???: Bonnie! Sister! Good afternoon! Good to see you!

Bon-Bon: Hello, Ribbon. Why the fanfare? Liza! Your mom’s here!

Ribbon: What? Can a mare not be pleased to see her sister well?

Bon-Bon: Not usually, no.

Ribbon: I’m sorry. Is this not a good time? I thought we might speak for a bit since…

Bon-Bon: Since Lyra went to Canterlot for the weekend. But you already knew that, didn’t you.

Ribbon: Guilty as charged! Ah haha! Hello Tootsie! MmmMM! Go wait in the carriage please. Such a good filly! Ah ha… [Clearing throat] Yes, well. Since I knew you’d be alone this weekend, I thought “What an excellent time this would be for my dear, dear sister to make a new friend!”

Bon-Bon: You didn’t.

Ribbon: They’re waiting behind the carriage!

Bon-Bon: Rebecca! You brought some stranger to my house?! Get rid of him!

Ribbon: Her! It’s a her! I know you like mares so it’s a filly this time!

Bon-Bon: Get rid of them!

Ribbon: Bonnie, if you’d just-

Bon-Bon: NOW!

Ribbon: [Sigh] Very well, Bonnie. As you wish.

Bon-Bon: [Incomprehensible muttering] Don’t believe this…

Ribbon: There. I hope you’re pleased with yourself. She wasn’t exactly easy to find. Somepony, a single mare your age no less, willing to come all this way for somepony she’s never met.

Bon-Bon: That’s because it’s ludicrous! What’s wrong with you?!

Ribbon: Wrong with me? I have a ten-year old daughter and my big sister has yet to be in a serious relationship! A mare of your stature living with a-a roommate! All that I can do to dance around the subject in conversation!

Bon-Bon: Excuse me?! I work forty-plus hours a week and still spend more time with your daughter than you do!

Ribbon: Exactly! You could be the name in confections for all of Equestria! Instead you waste away in this-this three bedroom/two bath outhouse with that-that vagabond, gypsy… Drifter!

Bon-Bon: … What did you say?

Ribbon: She won’t stay here, Bonnie. It doesn’t matter how you feel about her! She won’t stay here forever! It’s not in her nature. Not in her lower-class upbringing! She’s a-

Bon-Bon: I swear to Celestia-if you call her a street urchin one more time.

Ribbon: You’re better than this! Better than her!

Bon-Bon: Get out of my house!

Ribbon: Does she even love you back-?

Bon-Bon: I SAID GET OUT!

[BLAM!] [Locking mechanism]

Bon-Bon: … [Sniff] … [Sob] … [Sniff]…

1) I have not! But it does sound interesting! I don’t suppose you could provide a link in a submission of a recording you feel they did really well, could you?

2) It’s absolutely acceptable to look at the visuals and say, “What did you do?!” Plus, some of the stuff they’re reconning is just… you’re an idiot, aren’t you? You’re changing things for the sake of changing them and are an idiot for doing so.

I hope parents don’t take their children to see it. Because apart from reviewers, I can’t imagine anypony else that would willingly go.

3) Bon-Bon: And there’s some pretty good pony authors that have wrote some pretty good books. I’m not going to lie, it’s a conscious decision and chosen for a number of reasons. Would the average human read a book wrote by a pony? Would I really be able to relate to characters and/or settings created by an author aiming at a demographic located in an entirely different world? And most importantly, as a local business owner, when I spend my bits I’d rather they go towards local authors. And you can’t get more foreign than living on another plane of existence.

I don’t know that the story was deliberately aiming at anything in particular, so much as the general idea of not sacrificing one’s own convictions to justify a lofty concept. Yes, solving world hunger is a great thing to shoot for, but they knew at the start that this stuff was making the ponies working with it sick. But it wasn’t fatal. It didn’t have any long-term effects in small doses. So even though it was clearly harmful to work with, they just decided to rotate workers. Things snowballed from there.

1) Of course you’d win. There’s more humans that play video games than ponies. In fact, there’s probably more humans than ponies period.

2) Bon-Bon: I’ve never read a book by a human author. Though that does remind me.

Bon-Bon: Actually, no. It turned out to be about elevating an ideology above the sacrifices needed to make it reality. In this case they solved world hunger, but by the end of the story they had made so many sacrifices that they rendered the entire world’s population sickly and spread an incurable disease that cut their average global life-expectancy in half. And they created an evasive species of fern that had strangled a massive portion of the world’s plant life.

3) Sorry for the late reply. Sort of been busy the last few days.

It was just a small celebration here in Ponyville. This year the big show was held in Las Pegasus. I heard it was loud and with lots of fanfare. Floats, fireworks; that sort of thing.

Lyra: Exactly! I have no idea if it’s still happening or not! I have no asks! But do I have no asks because no pony has anything to send me or are none of the messages getting through?! It’s maddening and-!

Tootsie: Excuse me! I have an announcement to make.

Lyra: Oh…?

Bon-Bon: Of course, dear. What is it?

Tootsie: From now on I will be going by the name, Liza Doolots. I will not be answering to Toosie Flute. So if you could please refer to me as Liza Doolots I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Lyra: … Wha-?

Bon-Bon: Of course, Liza! I think that sounds splendid!

Lyra: Uh… Yeah, Too-… Liza! That’s, uh, ballin’! Crackerjack. Cool…

Liza: Thank you!

Bon-Bon: … I blame you for this.

Lyra: What?! I didn’t even do anything!

Bon-Bon: Can’t wait to have this conversation with my sister.

Lyra: It’s not my fault this time!

1) Code Name: STEAM sounds interesting. Having played Sanctum 2 I can tell you that placing yourself down on the field of a strategy game can really mix things up.

I’d say the biggest problem with the network was the move away from computerized technology. It didn’t need to be a network just about games.

2) Lyra: All of Bon-Bon’s food is awesome!

Bon-Bon: Thank you, Lyra. And I suppose everypony has a few stories to tell. But I’m not a very good writer.

3) Woo! Let’s go! But after I finish answering these.

4) I don’t get the appeal of Reggie Fils-Aime. All he works in is marketing and company image. Hidetaka Suehiro works heavily on the development of games. Now you know me- I love me some content. But theatrics…? Really, the question answers itself. At least in my book.

5) I don’t fully understand what’s happening. I tried looking it up, but it doesn’t make sense. Can you help me out?

1) Wow. So I’m a little behind here, huh? What was that, a week ago?

2) I missed it. Bon-Bon got some, but she ate them at work.

3) That was with milk! You effectively created a milk-activated cereal cement! You also effectively destroyed my spoon.

4) … Uh… I mean, there is so much I don’t understand about this message that I don’t even know where to start.

5) Bon-Bon: As a businessmare I’ve long-since learned to cut my loses. The one I’ve started now is about a politician lobbying to legalize some newly discovered substance that, if produced in mass, could solve world hunger. But, considering the tagline on the back is, “The end to hunger, but at what cost?” I’m assuming things are not as they seem.

1) Depending on the grade it can be hard to tell sometimes what subject the concept is being dragged into. Kindergartner social studies is a mess. And yeah, considering my cutie mark I’ve spent most of my life watching others excel when I couldn’t. You’d think I’d be used to it by now.

2) Well heck, I still hate reading books. I wanted to do it, and once I got there it really wasn’t all that. But that doesn’t mean I don’t read. I read all day! But most of what I read concerns my personal interests. Dialogs, interactions- sociology. It’s not so much the books that are important, just the action of reading and any road that leads to it.

3) Lyra: I am not Bubble Mare.

Bon-Bon: Quiet down, Sickly Sue. The adults are talking.

Lyra: I’m barely even sick anymore!

Bon-Bon: I haven’t read Harry Potter, but I understand the concept. As for the book I was reading, they tried to pull this “Oh! It was all right there from the start!” kind of thing. Only none of it was ever mentioned! It was all there in the world, I guess, but there’s no way the reader would know about it! So while the characters were like “How could we have not seen this coming?!” I’m sitting there going “How could I have possibly seen this coming?! This is all out of left field!”

Lyra: So five-out-of-five?

Bon-Bon: Morbid curiosity wasn’t enough to get me to finish reading that wreckage.