private An Unexpected Trip to the Human World (Closed!)

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Pinkie was disappointed with the way that Rainbow Dash had reacted, but then, she could fully understand. Pinkie heaved a sigh; she wanted to go home, too. But her natural optimism buoyed her up; there was no use in being all miserable over it, just enjoy everything here til they found out a way to go home.

 

"Okie dokie!" Pinkie chirped. "We can get out the kareoke machine tomorrow, and everypony can cheer up."

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"Mmmmph....whasssit..." Rainbow Dash managed to sit up with a slightly grumpy sigh, blinking at the faces encroaching on her. Fluttershy sat on the couch beside her and patted her shoulder, at a loss what else to do for her. "Come on, Rainbow. I'll..." she turned color breifly. "I'll drink it with you."
She had no real idea if this would make Rainbow feel better, but it was worth a try, wasn't it?
Rainbow Dash grabbed the grass and eyed it enterprisingly--then Fluttershy. " 'Kay, where's yours?" she chuckled dryly. "Weddings? I love weddings. Drink all around..."

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@@Dawn Stripes, "Maybe if the rest want i can offer them... doubt it will be enough for the party... but it should make a good contribution. Maybe you'll have another chance for the party... "

 

Rainbow Dash grabbed the grass

((OOC:How one letter can change the whole sentence and make it funny... LOL!)) He didn't understand the last part that Rainbow Dash said... but maybe he didn't have to... "Remember that wine i told you from my grandfather? Well... this is it... have a taste and tell me how it feels."

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Rainbow Dash eyed it with some continued suspicion. "Alright, alright...I've never downed this stuff before you know, I'll get to it...you seem kinda' eager to get some booze into me, you know..." With a black chuckle, she glanced around at her two companions. "Not like I don't recognize a 'tonic' when I see it." She was still the only one with a glass. "Am I drinkin' alone here? Oh...what the heck...hrm..."

 

With rapt attention from Fluttershy, she squinted and tipped the glass back, licking her lips for some time while screwing up her face. After a few minutes, she looked with furrowed brows at Fluttershy. "Heyu...sorrry. Looks like I drank yours."

"Oh--th-that's okay--" Fluttershy started.

"No, no, I don't wanna' drink alone anyway. Not on my first time. Dennis, you got a couple more glasses?"

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@@Dawn Stripes, "Hey i just thought it'd make you wake up that's all... Plus i wanted your opinion on this. As for the glasses i have a few more... but since we opened for ourselves why deny the rest right?"

@Fireblaze @Pripyat Pony @Ryuuguu Rena @00Pony @Hypn0ticD "Hey guys have a drink before you go? Come on honor my grandfather's wine please!" He said as he started getting glasses out of his backpack, the plastic party kind... He hoped that they would apreciate the gesture, and maybe tell him their opinion of it.

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"Thank you, but I don't want any." Colette said. "Anyone who wants some should have a glass, though."

 

She wanted to tell Dennis not to give anypony any alcohol, Dash especially, but like she'd listen!

 

"I'll have one," Shawn said, reaching for a glass. "One fer the road an' all, right?"

 

 

Isn't Dennis like 16/17? He's gonna be a junior in high school, right?

 

Edited October 3, 2013 by Hypn0ticD

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(OOC: Remember....his player doesn't come from America. In Germany they drink beer as teens all the time and think nothing of it. Greece might be the same way.)

 

"Sure, 'one for the road'." Dash clinked her glass with Shawn's. The way she figured she had a lot of street cred to make up for--so much that it didn't even bear thinking about--and drinking a round with the guys, like one of the guys, like it was no big deal, was a good way to start.

Fluttershy hovered between Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, nervously eyeing her own glass for some time before surreptitiously--with no facial signs whatever--passing it in between Rainbow Dash's hands where she would find it. "So, um, Pinkie Pie." She turned to the cotton-headed wonder as she poured another. "Where are you going to have your party? I do hope you're not planning to have it in Colette's house."

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"No thank you, I got to head home anyway so I will see you tomorrow Pinky Pie and uncle will see you guys tomorrow too." Nick saying as he was heading out, then put his Guitar in his Ford Focus ZXR then he got into his car and began to start it. Then putting his seat belt on and then drove off to his home for the night.

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It felt good to finally be outside in a relatively familiar, open environment, rather than cooped up in a vehicle. It was only made better given the company he was in. Logan felt his mind was actually able to think and process his thoughts properly out here. As they went, Applejack was eagerly taking in their surroundings, running her hand along the long hair of Ulysses' back, to which the canine's tail wagged emphatically.

 

The Equestrian began to speak, starting a conversation after the semi awkward silence that had prevailed on the ride here. Applejack spoke on the forest, making a question statement about it being nice. Logan hummed in acknowledgement, before vocally replying, "Oh yeah, definitely nice out here. Growing up there was a relatively thick patch of woods behind my house where I spent a lot of time. I've always felt better in this kind of surrounding."

 

Probably more dialogue than was called for, but hey. Conversation provided a temporary distraction to the thoughts plaguing his mind. And while those thoughts were ones he was desperate to answer and resolve, every battle requires a respite once in a while.

 

 

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(Legal age in Germany for consuming alcohol is 16. Greece is 18. I know for a fact America is 21, seeing as I live there. I did find this through Google, so correct me if I'm wrong.)

 

 

Wine? Angie raised an eyebrow at that. But all the same, she reached for a cup herself, making the comment, "Kinda funny considering there's only three or four of us technically the legal age for this stuff.... Probably a good thing Logan isn't here, now I think about it, huh?"

 

All the same, she took a sip herself. She held it in her mouth for a second before swallowing, "Isn't bad. Prefer it were it not watered down, but that's my personal opinion, y'know?"

 

 

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"You guys are the best of friends. You'll figure something out. I've known people in the past who did not approve of my preferences, and I still managed to remain friends with some of them. You guys will figure it out, should it come to pass." Was Catherine's response to Twilight's worries. 

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Dennis started pouring to those who wanted a glass, and filled his up. He drunk his a bit slower than the others, he wasn't an amateur in drinking but not a big fan of it either or he just hadn't ever been drunk to know. Regardless he wasn't the one to be any sort of smoke, weed, or alchohol addict. His brother smoked and he hated it during the times he started because he kept coughing, his sister started a few years later. She and his brother were closer as brothers, he didn't feel that much connected to them though. He and his brother had many differencies, eventually they came to terms with them but never truly opened one to the other, mostly because of those differencies and because of their different way of thinking. Back to reality Angie gave her "aproval" of the wine though would want it not watered.

"Sure if you want some un-watered i can pour you another glass... Plus... even if you're not of legal age is it so bad to actually drink "one" glass? Do not worry... i have no intention of getting any of you drunk.

No matter what he was proud of the wine "I've shed my sweat for this thing... trust me... it's of the finest. I wish i had gone by the store to get you some "Raki" it's distilled wine... very strong... and very hot. A simple shot of it works perfectly for coughs and common cold in the winters, at least for me..."

But then again the ponies should stay sober and he agreed with that. "Say... i have a book for recipes about fruit punch in my home. That and we could just looks some up on the Internet. I could help you guys get the stuff to make some for the party... if you want to that is."
 

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Angie nodded, holding out her emptied cup to be refilled with the pure, undiluted liquid. Dennis made the excuse of, even if you're not legal age, is it really that bad to drink just one glass? Angie chuckled at that, "Dennis, when your best friend is a guy who wanted to be a cop since his first year of high school, not to mention kinda being raised against underage drinking, you tend to start thinking that way yourself. Even 'one glass' is something of a taboo."

 

She gestured to her the back of her shoulder, where were she wearing an open back shirt a medical tattoo would be found, "Not to mention being an EMT, I've seen some nasty things come about from people who couldn't regulate themselves."

 

Dennis went on to mention possessing recipes for things such as fruit punch, and suggested even being able to look up some of the recipes online. The woman shrugged, stating, "I don't see why not, personally." Before focusing on the drink before her.

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@@00Pony, "To be fair... we didn't have much chance to get to know each other guys... I don't know if it's MY fault or anything really, probably it is... But anyways... sorry if i did something wrong. I..." He sighed and raised his hands up basicaly just shrugging surrendering to the fact that he just fucked things up. "I never drink too much... i hate smoking too. Ahhh what am i even saying! I am sorry. So you're a cop huh? Been through some rough stuff i guess?"

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Angie waved her free hand in the air, "Aaah, no need to apologize. You needn't worry about it. If I think deep enough about it, I can just not give a damn about it, and then all's well that ends well. It's just Logan you really have to watch for on that."

 

Dennis seemed to have gathered that she herself was the cop, and ask/stated if/that she'd been through rough situations. Angelica laughed shortly at that, "Oh no, I'm not the officer. My buddy Logan, the one who's out with AJ, is the cop. I'm just an Emergency Medical Technician; EMT. But yeah, I've seen some pretty serious shit on a number of calls."

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@@00Pony, "Alright... sorry... So you're essentially a field doctor? My best friend Themis is studying to become a doctor! Heh... wish he were here right now. He decided to move here in America too... for "post-university" studies. Incidentaly his name has some relation with "Justice" and "Law" in Greek mythology. You could say my name is fitting of this moment... Dennis come from Dionysios-Dionysos another greek myth related with wine and revelry." ((OOC:http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Themis-104332818 Themis is sort of the "Godess of Justice" which is kinda funny... http://www.timothybanks.com/illusblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dionysus.jpg)) There he was again being the geek he was... "And by now you must have realised that if there's one thing i like besides computer games and stuff... is Greek Mythology. Alas! I admit it! I am a mythology geek! Well... the show from which our guests come from bears many myths that come from ancient Greece. I kinda feel honored by that... don't know why..." he says shrugging.

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Pinkie Pie laughed at Fluttershy's question. "Of course not!" she replied. "There wouldn't be room for everypony I've invited, silly! Nick says that he can get us a warehouse to have the party in." She took a glass of watered down wine and had an experimental sip. Pinkie made a face and handed the glass back. "Not my drink," she said. "I'd far rather have some of Fluttershy's super duper fruit punch! Maybe you could tell Dennis how to make it, Flutters!"

 

Clare took a glass of wine, and sipped it. "Nice," she said. "Of course, I normally like to drink beer, but wine's good, sometimes."

 

Cicada also took a glass, but of the watered down wine. She glanced at Diliges. "If you want some, you can have some," she said. "It's quite nice, actually."

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(My posting has slowed to a crawl due to the fact that I have been overwhelmed with shit these past few days, and I've had difficulty incorporating my characters. It's all just a jumble of random activities. Say, are we gonna skip to the party, or does Pinkie still have things to do for that?)

 

Twilight felt comfort in Catherine's response.

"You're right," Twilight responded, finding herself worried for nothing, "We're all friends, and no matter what happens, we'll see everything through to the end!"

 

Jack, on the other hand, had somehow fallen asleep on the couch. He was certainly worn out from everything that happened that day, from the tire testing, to the ranting, to trying to make amends with Rainbow Dash. Perhaps a little nap would rejuvenate him... or leave him vulnerable to hazing...

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It felt good to finally be outside in a relatively familiar, open environment, rather than cooped up in a vehicle. It was only made better given the company he was in. Logan felt his mind was actually able to think and process his thoughts properly out here. As they went, Applejack was eagerly taking in their surroundings, running her hand along the long hair of Ulysses' back, to which the canine's tail wagged emphatically. The Equestrian began to speak, starting a conversation after the semi awkward silence that had prevailed on the ride here. Applejack spoke on the forest, making a question statement about it being nice. Logan hummed in acknowledgement, before vocally replying, "Oh yeah, definitely nice out here. Growing up there was a relatively thick patch of woods behind my house where I spent a lot of time. I've always felt better in this kind of surrounding." Probably more dialogue than was called for, but hey. Conversation provided a temporary distraction to the thoughts plaguing his mind. And while those thoughts were ones he was desperate to answer and resolve, every battle requires a respite once in a while.

Applejack hummed along with Logan, a faint smile across her face as a cool breeze wafted passed them. "Yeah, ah feel so much better out here. It's so natural. Ah was always out in the orchard or out in the woods, playin' and workin' when ah was young. Ah got a bit more glued to the farm the past few years though, havin' to watch over Applebloom. Ah still like to get out in nature sometimes though, and o' course ah find time for my friends. It's so peaceful..."

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Logan nodded in agreement to her, "Seems we both had similar hobbies growing up ten, huh?"

 

He gestures to the woods around them, shifting the pack on his shoulder as he did, "Nature's just so much greater than most everything that is 'in' these days. I cannot begin to tell you just how much I would love to see what all of this, even just a fraction of this country looked like before it was settled. Before all of the cities sprang up and back when it was just natural."

 

He shrugs, chuckling slightly. Kneeling briefly, he picks up a dry stick and tosses it horizontally ahead, prompting Ulysses to chase it up the small incline. Logan glances over to Applejack, his curiosity taking control, "So, what's your family like then?"

 

 

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Angie waved her free hand in an almost spastic manner, "No need to be sorry! You apologize to much!"

 

Regaining control, she nods, "But yeah, I'm essentially a field medic. That makes it sound a lot cooler than it really is though. I could be called a first responder. If I'm there when an accidet or something happens, it's my duty as a med-tech to take care of the patient until the actual paramedics get there. That, or I run with an ambulance and go out on their calls and such."

 

Dennis went on to mention that one of his friends, a fellow by the name of Themis, had moved to America, studying to be a doctor himself. He also went so far as to mention the meaning of his friend's and his own name in Greek mythology.

 

The myths from Greece were something that had intrigued Angie, but she knew really nothing much more than Cerberus was the guardian of the underworld, and that Equestria's inhabitants took a lot from it. Something that brought Dennis pride, he mentioned. Angie chuckled, "Aah, being a geek for something's always cool. Some may not think it to look at me, but you start a conversation on something I like, and I'll turn into an all out nerd queen. But furthermore, it's actually pretty cool to know the meanings and origins behind names. Especially when they end up applying to things we do or enjoy. For instance; my name, Angelica, means 'Like an Angel' or, 'Angelic'. Sometimes Angels are likened with healing: kinda fitting considering I'm a medic. Or my middle name, 'Serenity', which means 'at peace' or 'serene'. Put them together and it's sorta like 'peaceful Angel'..."

 

She takes another sip from her glass and laughs, "Yeah, names and their meanings are something that interest me greatly."

 

 

 

(That is actually an interest of mine; names and their meanings. When I create a new character I tend to give them a name whose meaning likens to their personality, or in the case of ponies, their appearance (I named a character Dodger because her coat is dodger blue for instance). When I named Logan I just took one of my names and went with it. Logan means 'hollow', like a hollow in a tree. When giving him his middle name I searched for names that mean 'guardian' or 'protector', and came up with Alexander, which means 'Protector of Humanity' or something along those lines (plus Logan Alexander just flows really well). In delving into what hollows can be used as, shelter in this case, and taking the 'protector' bit from Alexander, and I came up with a 'protective shelter'.

 

I will admit though that I did choose Bowen's name just because Bowen sounds cool. It's meanings are either 'light haired', which Bowen is not, or 'Son of Owen', which I suppose Bowen could be if I felt like naming his dad Owen. In using the meanings of his names as his names instead, his full name would be 'Light-haired Eagle Warlord'.

 

And then I already explained Angelica's names, minus her surname, considering that was just supposed to be an RvB joke.

 

Yeah, names are an awesome thing.

Wow... This might as well be a post in the OOC thread. Geez

 

 

 

 

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Angie turned her attention to Clare upon her comment on preferring beer, "Yeah, the wine's good, and beer's ok, but my personal taste is a good shot of whiskey!"

 

 

Diliges wrinkled his nose slightly at the liquid, the scent not really coming off to the Changeling's taste, but all the same he reached out for it slightly, "Pardon my lapse of an oblivious nature Commander, but am I to retrieve my own? Or are you offering I sample yours?

 

 

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Catherine smiled, giving Twilight a firm pat on the shoulder, "That's the spirit!"

(Short reply is short)

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HE appreciated how understanding Angie was... Angie... Angelica? But he thought this was...

"The more you speak, the more interesting it gets. Did you know you have the same name as my mother? And now that we're speaking of names... my own father's name means "Shining", and the word for "Greek" in my language actually means "The bright one" bringer of light or something like that."

He leaned back trying to remember about the old days when he used to scour the Internet and books for myths

"Oh i remember the poems of Homer about Ulysses and the Odyssey, and the Illiad too. Well i am not really surprised that nowadays holywood takes a lot of them and rips them of for their money. I am really very dissapointed however by the results... Have you seen "Persey Jackson" or "Wrath of the Titans"?"

He says placing his palm upon his face shaking his head dissapointed at what he remembered.

"Those movies were just CGI effects and meant to rip off the world of their money. I seriously remember few things memorable from those movies, no story, no nothing! Now the God of War series on the other hand..."

One of the games with the most gore ever, Dennis had played through it all "Almost every possible monster in the greek mythological menagerie is present there... from Cerberus, to Harpies, to Manticores, Centaurs, Hydra, Phoenix... all of them... and it isn't over YET!!! I mean it they're not done squeezing every bit of their money out of the series... they even made a prequel recently! Anyways... if you played that game you will have a good look of how those creatures looked like... which in most cases is accurate. But historicaly whether it's movies or games... i haven't seen much good work."

Oh the flavor of the wine... maybe he'd like more but on the other hand he didn't want to get drunk or show the wrong impression on the others. It was nice to finally be open and able to share the... geekness with the others, Unleash the madness boys! The nerdhouse is open WOOOHOOO!!!
 

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((Well, Jack and Twilight are missing Dennis offering drinks-- as well as Rainbow getting her hands on some alcohol as well!))

 

Colette giggled a little at the sight of Pinkie taking a taste of the wine and making a face. It was kind of nice to know that the party Pony won't be the one getting drunk - Brash, on the other hand was already on her third glass… "Uh, Dash? Don't you think that's enough?" Colette asked as she went over to the Pegasus, attempting to take the cup from her…

 

((Sorry for the short post, but I SOOO wanna see how this plays out!))

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((Well, Jack and Twilight are missing Dennis offering drinks-- as well as Rainbow getting her hands on some alcohol as well!))

Colette giggled a little at the sight of Pinkie taking a taste of the wine and making a face. It was kind of nice to know that the party Pony won't be the one getting drunk - Brash, on the other hand was already on her third glass… "Uh, Dash? Don't you think that's enough?" Colette asked as she went over to the Pegasus, attempting to take the cup from her…

((Sorry for the short post, but I SOOO wanna see how this plays out!))

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(Lol. Maybe I guess we could have Twilight and Jack the only sober ones in the room? We don't want everybody in the room wasted beyond belief. Jack's asleep, though, but when he wakes up to a bunch of drunken bozos, I'm sure he'll be like "the fuck happened here?")

 

Jack continued to sleep on the sofa, snoring loudly: something he rarely ever did. Twilight Sparkle walked into the living room, surrounded by everybody drinking Dennis' tonic.

"Say... what's in there?" she asked. However, Twilight noticed Jack knocked out cold on the sofa, and jumped to conclusions.

"Is that... an evil, enchanted... potion?!" Twilight nearly shouted, "Dennis! What did you do to him?! How do you reverse the potion?! What's going on with everypony?! It's taking them over!!!!!!! Oh no... this is not good... no no no no no..."

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Logan nodded in agreement to her, "Seems we both had similar hobbies growing up ten, huh?" He gestures to the woods around them, shifting the pack on his shoulder as he did, "Nature's just so much greater than most everything that is 'in' these days. I cannot begin to tell you just how much I would love to see what all of this, even just a fraction of this country looked like before it was settled. Before all of the cities sprang up and back when it was just natural." He shrugs, chuckling slightly. Kneeling briefly, he picks up a dry stick and tosses it horizontally ahead, prompting Ulysses to chase it up the small incline. Logan glances over to Applejack, his curiosity taking control, "So, what's your family like then?"

Applejack chuckled as Ulysses ran forward to fetch the stick. "Ah know what ya mean..." she said, responding to Logan's observations about nature. When he asked about her family, she thought for a minute, walking slowly along side him. "Well," she began, "my little sis', Applebloom is a crazy little filly. She's always gettin' into trouble with her friends. She can give me a headache sometimes, but ah understand what it's like when you're little. My big brother, Big McIntosh, isn't much of a talker. He mostly stays on the farm. Ah wish ah knew what he was thinkin' about all o' the time. He's a good big brother to me though. Granny Smith is a sweet old mare. She's a great cook too! Ah learned a lot from her. She's kinda slow, but she'll amaze ya! That's all the family ah live with, but ah like to keep in touch with my cousins and stuff too. They usually work on farms in other towns. We have reunions every once in awhile, and ah love to see all my family again! It's great! I love my family. I don't know what I'd do without 'em."

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(OOC: Keep a hold on your horses...hey look I'm on the sidebars!)

 

Rainbow Dash frowned at Colette. "Hey, I can hold my liquor as well as anybody!" she said, a little irked at Colette treating her like a child. "Don't baby me around."

Fluttershy gently but firmly poked Rainbow Dash in the side. Rainbow Dash blinked, looked into the communicative blue eyes of her couchmate, and and sighed after a couple seconds. She put a hand on Colette's shoulder.

"Look, I appreciate ya' lookin' out for me, but I'm fine. I'm just appreciating Dennis' gift here!" She gave Dennis a tap on the shoulder. "Eh? Good stuff, bro." She leaned back on the couch, hoisting her glass to the host. "So, anyway...tell me some more about these monsters you got..."

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"Chill Twilight relax... it's family-made wine from my mother's father. He has grape vineyards in Greece... having worked myself on them i can guarantee you that it is safe to drink. This is definately no "evil potion", as far as i know the worse thing that can happen to wine is for it to turn to vinegar..." Dennis felt indeed a bit shocked you could say? Slightly annoyed that Twilight would suggest that he deliberately cast a spell, or give something bad to Dashie for which he had told her he cared much about...

"I'd never do something bad to Rainbow Twilight..." He sighed a bit, grabbing the chance to perhaps entertain a bit Rainbow with stories of myths and beasts of legend that he knew about he started thinking of a story... Maybe this would interest Twilight too...

"Well you know about the cockatrice right? Well there is the human counterpart of it... the Medusa. A mythological beast... she was a beautiful woman but equally as terrifying... instead of hair she had snakes coming out of her head! And everyone who looked at her... was turned to stone. She was said to be slain by the hero Perseus... he took a shield with a reflective cover and let the beast aproach him and when she came closer the hero looked at her reflection in his shield. When she came close enough..." he made a fluid move with his palm straightened over his neck and made a silly grimace of surprise death "He cut her head off... slaying the evil beast."

 

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"No shit." Rainbow sunk deeper into the couch, setting her glass down. Another glass nudged away from Fluttershy sat next to it, but Rainbow ignored it for now.

 

"That's messed up, man..." she shivered and stuck out her tongue. "You...human myths, pfft..." She held up a hand. "I'm not so freaked out, though." She sighed heavily, then grinned wan. "Kinda' feel a little warmer. Buzzy, I dunno'. Not bad, Denny, not bad." She propped an elbow on his shoulder with a wink. "I dunno', you look better too...maybe Colette's right about this stuff..."

 

Fluttershy, after a half-minute of pushing fingers together, sat up and froze. As soon as she broke free of her unnoticed, self-imposed cage, she rang into Colette's arms half in tears. "I'm sorry!" She wailed at a half-dozen decibels up Colette's nape to her ears, clinging tightly to her neck as though she needed an anchor to keep her from being washed away.

 

(OOC: Lest me imagery be misinterpreted as 'loud', 6 decibels is below the human range of hearing)