Fantasy Dons Pan-Dimensional Diner [reboot]

[Sara Sidereal]

"Wait, really?" Dosey blurted out, rudely talking over Kia (she shortens everyone's name in her head). Immediately she bolted over the back of the booth - looking a lot like a dog who had just heard somebody walking in the front door - and through the revolving door.

A few seconds later, she timidly re-entered. Crept back to where she was sitting before. "Shoulda known it wouldn't be that easy."

A few seconds pass, then she realizes: "Oh gosh, sorry Kia! I totally interrupted you. Ponyville's great!"

She describes her hometown, with its rolling fields and untouched, pristine, picturesque forests; quaint quasi-Dutch medieval architecture; the spa (her favorite place!); the ice cream shop (her other favorite place); Sugar Cube Corner (her other other favorite place); the town square and how it turns into a market / fair on the weekends, bustling with everypony (her word) selling food, hand-crafted works of all kinds, balloon animals, taffy, and many other things besides; her dance classes and how much fun dancing is (this takes up like, two and a half hours by itself); her friends Cherry Berry and Cheerilee; her flower garden; and on and on, each insignificant detail more boring than the last. She talks about their holidays and traditions: Winter Wrap Up (a kind of ritual where they manually change the seasons (?), Hearth's Warming Eve (obvious Christmas ripoff), and Nightmare Night (Halloween ripoff).

It all sounds highly implausible and sickeningly sweet to the point that if you had diabetes, you would be cured of it, and then come down with a different, worse type of diabetes.

[There's an actual reason dimensional travel isn't working for her, not just hand-waving it]

Midnightchan123

 

[Midnightchan123]

"Your land sounds so interesting! I'll have to come see it during nightmare night, I love halloween style activities! Why was it created? Who is nightmare moon?" *she seemed enraptured with the story* Sara Sidereal

 

[Sara Sidereal]

Dosey tells her the original tale of the Mare in the Moon: how Luna's jealousy and loneliness turned her into Nightmare Moon, and how Celestia banished her to the moon for a thousand years. At some point in those thousand years, the ponies had come up with the idea of, once a year, disguising themselves to avoid being gobbled up by Nightmare Moon, and offering enough candy and other treats to the Princess of the Night to placate her for another year.

"But a few years ago, during the Summer Sun Celebration, she came back for real!" Dosey continued, growing more excited. "She almost took the day away forever, but Twilight and her friends defeated her, and rescued Luna from the darkness. Now, Nightmare Night is a celebration of Luna's return and redemption; it's the biggest party of the year!"

Midnightchan123

 

[Midnightchan123]

"Oh man! I am so coming to this! Might have to find a dimension hopper but it would be worth it...would people freak out if they saw me?"

Sara Sidereal

 

[Sara Sidereal]

Dosey has to think about this.

"Well, there are lots of weird - uh, I mean, interesting - creatures in Equestria." By way of example, she took a moment to describe the bugbear: literally a giant insect/bear hybrid. "I mean, I did kind of faint back there, but that wasn't just you." Throughout the conversation, she had been quite intentionally not looking around at the other patrons, for fear of another "incident".

"But you seem nice. I'm sure you'd get along with everypony just fine?" she says, with an awkward grin - that disappears after a moment. "Um, but, that thing you said before didn't work for me," she says, sighing. Doing her best to stay cheerful: "I'm sure my friends are looking for me though! I bet they'd love to meet you!"

Seconds pass.

"So, um, what about you? Where are you from? And... like... what are you?"

Webster's Unabridged, 2017
tact, (n) : See Dosey Doe.

Midnightchan123

 

[fuil]

Tod nodded to Don as he continued to wait. "Hey newcomer I'm Tod, your friendly neighborhood Dark Wizard." He nodded towards the glowing guy. "The guy with the horns is Don." He then noticed a blobey girl. "And I have no idea who this is."
Vagabond Spectre MrMopp Calcifus

 

[Midnightchan123]

*She sits back and thinks to herself about her past, her eyes gazing upwards* "I come from a place called the Bazaar, a kind of small, dead planet that's still "supporting" life, the diva, the people who live there originally became very technologically advanced for their time and it started killing off their planet, but there was one thing they perfected....dimension hopping, their economy was collapsing so they used their dimension hopping and magical abilities to go to other dimensions and brought whatever they could back to their home world, they helped other races get set up and they saved their people by becoming the trade capital in all the dimensions, if you cant find it in your home world, it's at the Bazaar, my dad works as a guard there and my mother cooks in a diner, as for what I am? I'm a furry."

Sara Sidereal

 

[Sara Sidereal]

Most of it went over Dosey's head. She was just a simple pony after all.

"Other worlds? Dimensions?" she whispered to herself. She thought about how she ended up here. She had still secretly been hoping that this was a dream, but it wasn't looking good for that hypothesis. So was that what had happened to her? Had she traveled to another world? Surely only the enchanted mirror at Canterlot could allow a pony to do that, like what happened with Twilight? And there were creatures who did stuff like this all the time? Whenever they wanted?

It was too much, too many questions, and she had trouble concentrating. But she heard Kia's last remark loud and clear. She looked down at her foreleg and blinked once or twice.

"Well, I have fur too. I don't think I'm like you, though."

 

[Calcifus]

"Pan-dimensional what now? Last I checked, people didn't start saloons out in the middle o' nowhere and last long. First time for everythin', I suppose." Ward replied to the woman. She looked like a human, but those ears of hers suggested otherwise. He quickly moved out of the way when the colorful steed hustled out briefly. Then some human came along and gave him a quick explanation of the place. Good. Ward liked quick. So, the bartender was Don himself, then?

"Thanks, partner!" He replied to Tom before shaking his hand somewhat vigorously (Despite Ward's appearance, Tom did not get burned). Well, as long as he was here, he could at least have a drink. Ward walked up to the bar itself.

"Hey, Mister Don, you got any dandelion root pop?"

Midnightchan123 MrMopp fuil

 

[Vagabond Spectre]

The amoeba turned their huge head towards the one who mentioned them. She just stared down to the to figure and didn't say anything or even bother to say anything. She just smiled gently looked at them as they wait for nothing. As far her forgotten education goes, she knows that she must reply and not be shy so she replied back with a small wave indicating she said hello. fuil

 

[fuil]

Tod looked at the girl and smiled. "Well hello little one may I get your name." He looked at the sweet looking creature. "Ummm Don theres a kid thingy in your bar." He pointed at the blobe girl. "Ummm you see her parents any where?"
MrMopp Vagabond Spectre

 

[Midnightchan123]

"think of it like this...." she grabbed random things on the table and puts one down, a salt shaker is the first item* "this is your home world and one day you wake up and see three options for breakfast, you choose one option and that is your world...but lets say that by choosing that one option you create a parallel universe where you decide on something different for the other two options" *she placed another two items down, pepper shaker and a sugar packet* "so that's an alternate dimension. now for different worlds you have your solar system" *she took those items and placed them in a circle around another item* "and then outside of your solar system, theres another solar system" *she makes more of the rings, using everything on the table and spreading them around* "some of these solar systems may have another planet that can sustain sentient life, some are just floating balls of gasses and some are dead and are about to become...food for lack of a better term and when the food bursts it sends out whatever was inside them and has the potential to make more galaxies, worlds etcetera...any questions?" Sara Sidereal (sorry if I get this wrong, homeschooled and some things might have been out of date)

 

[Sara Sidereal]

Kia's explanation vaguely reminded Dosey of something from one of Twilight's lectures - a theory about the Canterlot mirror and how it worked.

As Kia spoke, she could only stare at the condiments, as her imagination went into overdrive.

"So it's true," she said after Kia had finished, in an almost reverent tone. "These - dimensions? - it's not just the one, with the school and the strange two-legged people. And you've seen them..."

She looked around again, seeing the diner in a whole new light. All these strange beings, the windows showing wildly different views: the evidence was all around her.

"It's all real," she said at length, leaning back in her seat once again. "I... think I might be here a while."

[Don't worry, I get what your character's trying to say, and doing an astrophysics lecture with condiments isn't the easiest thing; besides, given that Dosey effectively has NO education in this area, it's not like she's going to argue]

Midnightchan123

 

[Vagabond Spectre]

The amoeba girl just stared and smiled at the tall figure innocently with her jelly like hands held together in the front. Surely she doesn't know how to respond to that question for she has never been officially addressed with any name. But she does know how to reply to the second question. She never seems to know what "parents" for she is just kept as a specimen. She shake her head left and right like a baby indicating she said no. fuil

 

[Midnightchan123]

"they can be particularly interesting, theres one where a giant turtle flies through the galaxy with four giant elephants on the back and on their backs is the disc, a world that's completely flat! then there is one called earth, they have terrible politicians but some pretty cool games, I have one called cards against humanity which is interesting though I don't think I have seen the world you mentioned..." *she has become very animated as she talked, her hands waving about excitedly trying to encompass everything she talked about* Sara Sidereal

 

[fuil]

"You have no parents?" Tod said as he looked at the blobe girl. "I bet you don't have a name then either." He thought about it then a kind smile played on his lips. "Then I'll call you Annet, you okay with that little one?" He gave the girl a soft kind smile.
Vagabond Spectre

 

[Sara Sidereal]

"Card games?" Dosey said, brightening again. "I like card games!" She failed to explain how she could possibly manage the fine manipulation necessary to play card games of any kind with hooves.

[Fair warning in case she actually has a CAH deck on her: the worst swear word known to ponies is "peeved". Should be hilarious.]

Midnightchan123

 

[Vagabond Spectre]

(This is what Tod calls her right? okay. But others may address with a different name if they are not fond of calling her that way. But she will come to Tod once the name "Annet" is mentioned.)

She didn't really have much action to project on the "No parents" part but she does how ever have actions on the next statement. The amoeba gave the same smile in return. It seems like the name he gave was unique and cool ash she smile nodded.. "Anett" seems to be very fond of smiling. fuil

 

[fuil]

(yep, by the way Tod has no experience dealing with kids, he's more used to corpses.)
Tod nodded and patted Anett on the head. 'Kids like teddy bears right?' He snaps his finger and a two foot tall red and black patch work teddy bear appears in a cloud of green smoke. It just sat there ready to be picked up. Tod picked it up and whispered to it "Protect her." He the presented it to the little girl. "His name is patchy." He hoped the things creepy smile or hyper-realistic eyes didn't creep her out.
Vagabond Spectre

 

[Midnightchan123]

*she pulls out a giant box with the words the bigger blacker box imprinted on it as she stands up, shouting* "DOES ANYONE WANT TO JOIN A CARD GAME?!" MrMopp Calcifus CrimsonEclipse fuil Vagabond Spectre WordArtist Sara Sidereal

 

[Vagabond Spectre]

(Alrighty then. She won't cause that much trouble anyway fuil )
"Annet" was a bit surprised when he just made a fluffed up stuff toy out of nowhere by snapping fingers. "Annet was curious for a brief moment. She didn't chase over and touch it just yet until he was done talking to it for some reason. As the bear was presented to her she hugged it tightly like a child never touched a toy before. The bears odd look didn't bother her one bit. For she is used on seeing surreal things like aliens of her own kind. She kept hugging the newly given stuff toy and playfully swinged it in her arms. "Annet" bowed slightly in front of the one who gave her the newly-secretly enchanted toy to her like some kind of Asian monk.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

"Ha! Foolish move!" The cat as it succeed backflipping over the fireball. While it looked cool, it was totally by accident. The cat freaked out when the fireball was shot, accidentally activating its telekinesisas it jumped out of the way. Had it been human it would no doubt be sweating profusely from the close call, good thing cats don't sweat obviously. "Yep, part of my plan."

The foxgirl called out if anyone wanted to play cards, and the cat decided to jkin. What? The cat was getting bored and antsy, so it decided to play. "Hmph, let me show you just how superior I am compared to you lower existences." The cat said as it leaped onto the table. "So, how do play this cards you speak of?"

fuil Midnightchan123

 

[fuil]

Fuil looked coldly at the cat but then shook his head and turned back to Anett. He saw her hold the demon teddy tightly and smiled. 'Now why is it kids scream when I do this, she loves the bear?' he thought to himself befor he heard the fox girl ask if anyone wanted to play cards. "You want to go see what there playing?" He asked the kid with a warm smile.
Vagabond Spectre

 

[Vagabond Spectre]

"Anett" nodded to him once indicating she said yes. She looked back up to him with the same positive facial expression from earlier. To her he seems to visioned as an older brother figure. Providing good attention to everyone inside the diner and sharing times with them. That's how she visioned him. "Anett" aligned to his back ready to follow him. fuil

 

[fuil]

Tod walked over to the fox girl and said. "I'd like to join, also this little one with the bear is Anett." He then saw the box and gave a chuckle. "I'v done many things against humanity but not cards, how do you play." He sat down and pulled up a chair for Anett to sit in.
Vagabond Spectre CrimsonEclipse Midnightchan123