[video]

[alouderyay]

[The video opens to show a yellow pony with a pink mane adjusting the camera. It falls off the monitor and rolls over a bit more.]

Oops.

[She picks it up again in her hoof -- somehow -- and sets it back on top of her monitor. A small, white rabbit pushes her out of the way and finishes adjusting the camera himself.]

Thanks, Angel-bunny. Please tell me when it's recording, okay? Let's just get this over with.

[Angel, now standing next to the camera, makes some kind of motion only visible around the edges of the camera. His pony understood, though.]

(alarmed) What?! (hides under the computer table)

[Angel gives an annoyed look to the camera and hops down from the table. Slow, short scraping sounds can be heard. After a few seconds, the pony slowly becomes visible in the bottom of the screen, being pushed into view by a now exhausted Angel. He collapses, and his pony stands timidly.]

H-hello, um, Ducks? Are you Ducks? Please be Ducks... My friend Pinkie Pie (cupcakes_cupcakes) said I should look at least introduce myself and that it'd be "fun"... I'm not having any fun, so I'll just wrap this up and go, okay?

My name is Fluttershy. Um, bye?

Comments

[fightbymoonlight]

I'm sure. Most of us are pretty nice. Just ignore the ones that aren't.

[alouderyay]

I-I see...

[fightbymoonlight]

I realize you're going to get a lot of questions about this, but I can't contain my curiosity. Are you actually a talking pegasus?

[alouderyay]

Um, yes? (spreads her wings a little, then folds them)

[fightbymoonlight]

Amazing... Ah, sorry, but pegasi don't exist in my world except for folklore. I've never seen one before now.

[alouderyay]

I see... I don't mean to be rude, but what are you? I've never seen your species before...

[fightbymoonlight]

Ah.. I guess it makes sense you haven't if your world is inhabited by... other pegasi, I'm guessing? I'm what's called a human.

[alouderyay]

Well, pegasi and unicorns and earth ponies. But what are humans like? I've never heard of them -- you -- before.

[fightbymoonlight]

I see. That's a lot different from most world connected here. The majority of of worlds are populated by mostly humans.

Humans are... [...well damn this is kind of difficult.] Bipedal, mostly hairless animals. It's a little hard to describe.

[alouderyay]

[Accidental insult, away!]

Like monkeys?

[fightbymoonlight]

[Luckily Yuri doesn't mind much.]

Yes, actually. The mechanics are a little complex, but humans and apes evolved from the same type of animal.

Well, at least in a lot of worlds, not necessarily in all of them.

[alouderyay]

Evolved?

[fightbymoonlight]

Basically it means that a species changes slowly over time, to have the best chance at survival.

[alouderyay]

Oh, I think I've heard a bit about that. The Everfree Forest has a lot of animals that have to struggle to survive.

[fightbymoonlight]

So it only takes place there, then? It doesn't sound like it gets a lot of visitors.

[alouderyay]

No, I stay away from it. As much as I can for living right next to it...

[fightbymoonlight]

Is it very dangerous there?

[alouderyay]

Oh, yes. There are manticores and cockatrices and timberwolves in there... The girls are lucky they weren't eaten or turned to stone when they went looking for Elizabeak.

[fightbymoonlight]

Those sound very dangerous, especially if they're anything like they are in the myths here.

Who's Elizabeak?

[alouderyay]

She's a chicken.

[fightbymoonlight]

That's a cute name for a chicken. Do you take care of chickens?

[alouderyay]

Oh, yes. There's a coop just outside. (aims the camera at the chicken coop, then awkwardly puts it back atop the monitor... at an angle)