Equestria gets hit with a curfew. Do you stay or leave?

[KillerKingBakudan 702]

Celestia declares a state of emergency, and mandates that all ponies and other citizens stay home between specified hours. She doesn't say what the emergency exactly is, and you don't see anything remotely disastrous going on outside. No monsters terrorizing innocent ponies, no diseases spreading, no harsh weather conditions, nothing. All you know are the punishments that will come to ponies who don't remain indoors.

First time offenders will get slapped with a fine: a large sum of bits equal to no less than $1000 in USD.
Repeated offenses will result in double the amount for each subsequent fine, and an increase in curfew time for the offenders' household.

In addition to all this, Luna will take note of whoever is missing from the dream realm every night. If she can't peer into subjects' dreams because they're awake, they should expect the royal guard to come and investigate. If they have reason to believe that the subjects in question are planning to leave their residence, they'll be authorized to issue a smaller fine AND ransack the place until the funds can be extracted. Any objections to their actions will be considered a direct threat, from which they'll respond with a severe beating. Repeated offenses will result in a beating and prison time.

On one morning, you begin to notice an increase of ponies panhandling near business establishments, the town hall and Twilight's castle. Other ponies are walking around with broken bones, bruises and bloodied muzzles; all they can talk about is how the guards broke into their houses, took their money and beat the shit out of them. And other ponies are crying because their friends were apprehended, and they have no idea when they'll be released from prison. Or if they'll be released at all.

Do you stay in Equestria and adhere to the curfew, or do you get the hell out of there?

Edited August 20, 2018 by KillerKingBakudan

[Iam 525]

When I was reading the text, thru my images went images like this (but instead people there were ponies), some of them exaggerated, but still:

   

   

   

 

But it's a total regime, like: hey, III Reich, Soviet Union... I don't know what I would do, since I've never been experienced with such bastard things.

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I deeply believe that this emergency state wouldn't be stated, ponies would make a rebel, since they are very conscious, right?

Edited August 20, 2018 by Iam

[Props Valroa 26,093]

I would do neither. I would plot for a downfall of the Equestrian government if this happened and stage a revolution, I may leave Equestria though and come back in a few years to take power over canterlot and stop this madness. I'll probably contact Discord, the Mane 6 and others and lure them onto my side. I would promise Discord to have his own area of Equestria of chaotic madness so he can help me take down the princesses and their rude plan.

I would silently spread my words across the land, Equestria, the yaks, the griffons, dragons. If Equestria is being like this to their own kind, what will they be like to them?

And then of course it seems like the royal guard and the princesses are trying to get money for themselves, I could get Flim and Flam on my side by offering them to have some of the funds to start up a casino somewhere and they can use their advertising to spread my message. I can use Neighsay's ties to ponies in the Equestrian government to get spies. I can lure the changelings onto my side, have them become royal guard and sneak in and capture the Princesses.

Edited August 20, 2018 by Califorum

[Kevin Tang 2,422]

 Wat? 

 

2 hours ago, KillerKingBakudan said:

She doesn't say what the emergency exactly is, and you don't see anything remotely disastrous going on outside.

Especially with this kind of statement. Plus this kind of punishment.

2 hours ago, KillerKingBakudan said:

First time offenders will get slapped with a fine: a large sum of bits equal to no less than $1000 in USD.
Repeated offenses will result in double the amount for each subsequent fine, and an increase in curfew time for the offenders' household.

In addition to all this, Luna will take note of whoever is missing from the dream realm every night. If she can't peer into subjects' dreams because they're awake, they should expect the royal guard to come and investigate. If they have reason to believe that the subjects in question are planning to leave their residence, they'll be authorized to issue a smaller fine AND ransack the place until the funds can be extracted. Any objections to their actions will be considered a direct threat, from which they'll respond with a severe beating. Repeated offenses will result in a beating and prison time.

Just feels strange

2 hours ago, KillerKingBakudan said:

Do you stay in Equestria and adhere to the curfew, or do you get the hell out of there?

On May 1998, my country was on an unstable state with many riots and such, so if you could leave, leave immediately while you could.

Same goes with this one.

Equestria is supposed to be a land with peace, something we can't get in our world, so I better leave because there is no reason to stay anymore.

[Monsoon 1,648]

I would most likely leave town and live in the everfree forest and live off a diet of manticore stew

[The Kaeya Simp 13,983]

I think I'd probably be forced to leave, but I'd probably not leave the world, I'd probably be forced to leave Equestria for maybe the Hippogriff or Changeling Empires until it's safer to go back to Equestria unless I was high-up in Equestrian Governing (marrying princess or mane 6, oops, sorry, I meant Mane7, etc) then I'd probably be safe and the royal guard would probably give more leeway if you were slightly later than you should have been

Edited August 20, 2018 by Sherbert Music-Guard
Forced by the fear of the Royal Guard possibly arresting me or beating me in the street or ransack my house and beating me! I probably wouldn't leave at first, I would only leave eventually if I was forced by the fear of being killed by the royal guard

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

With the weird stuff that randomly goes on with magical enemies, I might not assume the worst right away. There MIGHT be a very good reason for it, and thinking back on things I've written I could almost see this actually having happened if I'd written the Princesses as being a bit more aggressive. My second though though would probably be, "Is it really even them? Changelings? Mind control? Curse?" On Earth, it sounds like phase 1 of who knows what kind of transition, but this is Equestria. But even then, no, I wouldn't run. I couldn't abandon the citizens coming under this kind of tyranny and I'd start asking myself if I'd need to fashion the pony equivalent of a Guy Fawkes mask.

Edited August 20, 2018 by bornAgainEquestrian

[TBD 17,228]

I would just leave..and DEMAND an answer.

[Goat-kun 2,500]

 I take my deadly potato peeler from the secret drawer and don my dark attire. The guards shall not come home tonight.

[Longhaul 6,470]

... and go where, exactly?

[Denim&Venöm 16,574]

Leave. It'll be up to the ponies if they want change. They'll decide if this fascist regime collapses like Mussolini's or last over a century like the house of Saud. It won't be easy trying to topple rulers of the night/day cycle. First I'd ask Twi to see her stance. If she side's with them then I'll collect my things and take her mirror portal to the EQG verse. Barring that, I'll travel during the day to the nearest foreign power seeking asylum. Cause I doubt any Yaks, Changelings, Dragons, Griffons or Hippogrifs are gonna appreciate being bossed around by a pair of dictators, let alone getting assaulted and arrested. 

[Ganondorf8 11,120]

Even though I'm not a night person, I'd choose to leave as the idea of being placed under a curfew doesn't settle with me.

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

59 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

... and go where, exactly?

Crystal Empire? 1.5 Alicorns there that probably weren't corrupted, so likely the safest place the world starts to go mad. Though I wonder what Princess Twilight has to say about all of this. If she rejects what is happening, might she try to secede Ponyville or evacuate as many ponies as she can? Hmm... I think the Fallout: Equestria war just started.

Edited August 20, 2018 by bornAgainEquestrian

[RDDash 18,877]

Its not that bad actually, I'll stay as long as other ponies are wiling to live by the same rules

[Phosphor 11,522]

I would travel somewhere rural where it is difficult to enforce things like curfews. Yakyakistan might work and I think it's outside of Equestria's jurisdiction. 

[EpicEnergy 22,173]

I'd stay and hope the curfew ends soon.

[Splashee 28,537]

I would leave... If the curfew permits that? 

[Flying Pencil 3,023]

I'd stay until the curfew ends