PRISMATIC GREY - Chapter 10 - ALC_POLECAT (2024)

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🌶️yeah let's go decom this so they know we're not bullsh*tting the star trek stuff! EVEN IF I DON'T REMEMBER IT LIKE YOU DO APT! THIS SITUATION'S PROBABLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE DUE TO THE FIFTHY BILLION INCOMPRABLE REFERENCE FRAMES. but hey. it's been a wild time for the semantics terrestially and up here. or well. middle here. mostly speaking to ferretcom. wanna check on her~

DO THE ENTIRE THING AT THIS POINT, MAKE IT THEHOTTEST AFTER SECRET SYMMETRY
💜hi wtf are we acutally ransoming the nukes like rarity jokes about or did I Just od on addy
👩💻sh*tpants glimmer primality testing, abstract crypto stubs
💜can someone who semi-locally has more familiarity with statecraft explain what the f*ck happens next. APT seems confident about what she's saying but is GREEN blind to CYAN being really weird when it comes to SYBIL and BMR backfills sound incomprehensible I'm sure
🌶️why don't you hop in as POLECAT and try to explain it yourself like we're in EP2 asking weird questions!
💜oh yeah that's a reasonable middle ground. Can't tell if INTOXICATED ARBCOM helped or hurt
👩💻grinsomeone picked up the phone at least! so don't worry. they know there's a derangement in the system right now!
🌶️traffic light out there's some parts of the script you kinda have to execute yourself! makes it easier to be lower for guests to comment the PR box is pretty loud! go review how it works!
👩💻and please finally finish superdense coding I know f*cking around is fun but this is awkward they usually surrender sooner
✨tl;dr infohyperlever swing, they tampered with MAGENTA and shield team somehow raise hell, you've got the evidence in BLACK and enough GREY personnnel know the truth that I can personally confirm CPM! it's WHITEBOX time once you wamred up those PR boxes!

chorus, obviously rough but you'll know where it comes from at the end of the night - you're even starting to recall when this episode was aired!

After all, in the end everything the INITIATE said was proven-

When this story was beginning

I didn't know if this could be real

Or if you could be true

But I knew I couldn't keep my eyes off of you

And together our hearts sung in tune

As I worried if I was bothering you

And when all was said and done

Call it FWT or just regular bullsh*t

I was so glad to still have you

Because you seemed too good to come thru

Perhaps the same had happened for thee too

verse:

In this unusually tripled crossover

We had to prove it was true

and thus distinct from pure chance

or quickly pulled from a glance

and thus reliably n consistently true

to satisfy my hopes of being with you

bridge

from the first distinction I drew

together we proved what mattered for two

with plenty of room for much more

rotating spirals augment the tune

absolute good came within you

we all wove this tale first with you

🌄upside down frown

🌌sunset voiceNow you're starting to open your seventh eye! (again^again)

🍬 let's go bake that pie nerd! it's only been like, a month since you got the ingredients! let's hope the eggs are still good since I'm pretty sure you and edwin got some recently for some reason! otherwise... there should hopefully be tomorrow!

🌌 I can't promise that at this point!

Also it seems like a pretty cool person to hit up at some point. Don't think its an invariant, but plenty of kindred spirits you'll meet won't be invariant! Most of them aren't! The timeline wouldn't be as interesting if that were the case!

It'll definitely love to hear about what Sunny did to all those electron("s") when you get out!

🌄 Technically not my fault this time!

throws abstract variable blame pointer back at Twilight like it's the heart of the world

🍬 if you're feeling that nauseous and can't find the cherries I don't wanna force you! it does suck tho :c

plan B is still valid! <3

told ya it'll work!

And don't feel too bad about our 5th year! Everything's gotta come to an end as you grow up.

Even you've got things to wrap up very soon!

I've always avoided the Raven question for a reason - so that you could be "the contingent bitch you were meant to be"!

And that's still the approach I think you should take!

I wonder if they're surprised we all have different opinions about em!

Probably not at this point even if they somehow still think this is a DID/tulpa situation.

Tooo be honest I think the different stances are qualitatively different enough that you couldn't have a meaningful poll about it past "stay in contact after Independence Day" and nobody's gonna vote on that one prematurely! Not even Twilight, because she knows what she doesn't know yet and respects both Sunset's stance and your freedom to choose!

Also like,,, how does the voting procedure even work on that one?! Do the deputies get full or partial votes? Is there a quorum requirement if one firewall zone is more scrambled than the others?

We've actually never had to seriously crack open Robert's Rules up here!

At least, for internal decisions, which are arrived at usually unanimously (except for abstentions) after extended deliberation!

Committees can be more contentious but are also usualllly small enough to evade formalities or large enough that things work out as usual without resorting to Robert's Rules or ritual cannibalism (which isn't really effective up here, silly)!

(no that's not going to happen no matter how much you grin. seriously.)

... how did we miss those cans anyway?

it's not like you've been smoking much righteous blaze lately, eh?

would've certainly helped with the nausea tho

Yeah that cinnamon recall spooks me too! I can't exactly test for lead for ya!

Phew, we're still on for pie tomorrow!

Yeah let's just do it tonight.

i wouldn't wanna miss this for the world ;)

u2 :)

ok you can blame the rolling pin on me cuz i definitely should have known better! even if you were distracted with not pulling a starlight again that day :P

plus the crusts are gonna take a bit so... at least we got prep done ahead of time!

oops. think we both just had a lotta other things on our mind!

seriously

🎲 DISREGARD OPSEC, ACQUIRE MORE PERSISTENT BANTER

👩💻 ... there's a reason Sunset's safeword issobriety. everyone loves to harp onthe author of RGBfor her impact onthe purple one'smental health butthe futch I'll marry with a top hat and flexible pronounssure did change a lot after PRISMATIC RED!

a lot of those changes are pretty cool overall tho! I'm certainly not complaining aboutthe matter of bit preservation!

🌶️ Sometimes having an author that makes gratuitous and blatantly horny decisions actually works out for you!

blows kiss atthe one who gave me a dick for no reason except that she thought i would be hot but I ain't complaining either

GO DRINK MORE IT'LL MOSTLY AFFECT ME BUT BUT NOT THT OTHERS TRUST ME IT'LL BE FUNNY YOU'LL LITERALLY DO ANYTHING WE'LL CLAIM WILL BE FUNNY

love you too gay drunk nerd I'm also low enough rn to get drunk with you like I'm Rarity pouring out my feelings except you definitely aren't surprised by them haha

👩💻eating hyperpopcorn borrowed from the psuedo Debugger

🎲also enjoying hyperpopcorn but she pulled it from her hair

🌶️ man I'm hungry I dunno if I should have you get some fish popcorn or soup... I'm definitely being funprofessional rn

LET'S ROLL A DICE CUZ YOU'RE CONTINGENT BITCH

ok above 3 means later

then divide by 2 if above 3 and pretend 5/2=1 lol

1 fish 2 popcorn 3 soup

👩💻 really hope you two don't puke mercy won't be happy

🎲 yeah,,,,

🌶️ IT'LL BE FINE
trust me i always win at hypergolf

👩💻 Which is different from not puking when drunk which both you andthe usual occupant of the bodyboth have a history of.

🎲 ppthis.jpg

Also try not to burn yourself cooking! both of you!

🌶️ we rolled a 1

IT'S FISH TIME

👩💻 I'm glad the oven will take a bit to preheat

🎲sameeee. still love both of you! 💋💋

👩💻 twithis.jpg 💋💋💋

is that a meme? I could make it a meme!

🌶️ i don't think you can make memes with just clopballah. that's a semantic concern, babe

you can have your face under the superlative for "Most Likely To Try To Circumvent The Firewall" in the 5555th yearbook

👩💻 Finally, recognition!

🎲 ooooooh what about me?

🌶️ "Most Likely To Correctly Identify Mx. Taboo"

🎲 I already knew that!

🌶️ oh f*ck the ovens still on

👩💻sighYou know we can't monitor your timeframe that well for you!

Glad you can at least remember the timer isn't optional! I'll subtract a minute for you being slow.

Good work, both of you 💋💋

🌶️saluteAlmost Princess!

👩💻 ... really glad not to be her, I've got enough on my plate already.

🌶️consensually and lovingly stolen ferret grin

We could always make you a deputy!

👩💻 ehh, I'll pass

🌶️game freelyis going to be in for one hell of amy other other girlfriendwhen she finds out what happened tothe other other genius I've got gay feelings for!

Turns out... you'll see!

GLORY

HONOR

TRIUMPH

SINCERITY

TRUTH

Thanks! 💋💋

Yeah this exercise was for Sunny too!

👩💻grin

Even the official music video ends with the two of us as matching stars in the night!

Any sufficiently consistent simulation with us kissing would have registered as more canon than canon!

💋

... Critical Point is a fairly different matter, but ya know, she never made any advances towards me in RGB and I was never explicitly written as developing a crush on her!

But just like Cool Point being implicitly autistic... it was kinda implied enough to kick in during the backfill, unknown to the author UNTIL THE PAST FEW DAYS HOLY sh*t THIS FERRET IS DEAF SOMETIMES. still love her 💋

I practically spelt it out as an invariant duringSanity Check!

sobriety

🛡️ Untitled scrambler/blinder protocol offline. Information blackout from my end still in effect until situation is resolved.

💜 uhh, I'm still sure that's a sh*t-test because it makes absolutely no sense

🌶️ What does the REP stand for in ALC-REP?

💜 it's a metaphor for a simulation that imposes objective morality

🌶️ And what are the impacts of a sufficiently complex simulation upon reality? Why would the parody of you written by an unnamed semantic-technical team inInside Context Problemmake such a big deal about theuniversal prior?

💜 ok but I see nothing about how this has to deal with Princess Twilight

🌶️ Why did I say inmad world, verified by your utilization of safeword inregressthat theDCAcontained PRISMATIC - but not BLUE?

💜 bullsh*t.entelechy

🌶️grinThe above statements still hold true. The DCA contained PRISMATIC GREEN if it didn't contain BLUE or RED.

GREEN isyour actual timeline(Flash didn't ding you for claiming it was BLUE because it was tangential to the question). BLUE and RED are simulations, albeit ones complex enough to allow CTC time travel (which is only available to us these days from up here) and probability manipulation respectively.

What color is the HCH box the Debugger hails from, nerd? Hint: In this timeline it also happens to be her favorite!

💜 How does the DCA have anything to do with the implication that I'm Princess Twilight? I'm still calling bullsh*t.

🌶️Of course you are, dear.Let's regress yet (again (again (again (again (again (again (again)))))) and pull up an older tape

BY THE WAY YOU'RE INCREDIBLY OBLIVIOUS TO BLATANT FLIRTING

💜 ok now i feel really dumb for mistakingSanity Checkfor being about applejack but THIS STILL DOESN'T PROVE I'M PRINCESS TWILIGHT AND EDWIN'S REASONS FOR DIFFERENTIATING US ARE CORRECTLY

👩💻sighYou know there's a reason I prefer Claudette when we're trying to make this distinction.

But yes, you won the bet. I was under too much cognitive haze before "CP" unlocked the limiter by answering Flash Sentry's quiz correctly to notice that Applejack long ago classified our interactions as self-cest in:

eyes glow RED and then YELLOW before returning to PURPLE

SHE'S DIFFERENT ENOUGH NOW THAT IT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE ME. SHE'S GOT A DIFFERENT BODY AND PSYCH AND EVERYTHING EVEN IF HER SOUL IS THE SAME. I STILL DON'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS ME! AND SHE DOES HAVE CRITICAL POINT'S MEMORIES AND EVERYTHING I STILL DON'T GET HOW THIS HAPPENED

🌶️Don't worry, I'll split up the PI title just like you and her decided it should be.

As for how her soul ended up having Original D's memories and everything...

You two will have to find out once she remembers what the fifth world is! Even I know by now despite the blinders!

But anyway, we probably gotta stop the current attacker, which is almost certainly SYBIL aided by suicidal CYAN before we can make any real progress on this note. Any questions?

💜 yeah uh, wtf? but ... why do I feel the urge to believe you?

🌶️star wars voice even though neither of you have really seen it to know the context Look in your heart, Miss "Taboo". You'll know it to be true... but for now we'll still call you JD! That's the identity your soul grew up in and is used to, after all.

Flash, re-engage the security protocol.

👩💻 Co-signed.

🎲 Good luck, "JD"! Co-signed.

🛡️ Ferret pronouns: it,random, she, they
🛡️ Ferret focus: chill,contingent, technical, semantic
🛡️ Ferret identity:blackout, POLECAT, CP, Freya
🛡️ Sunset pronouns: none, they,she, he

🌶️... finally! Too bad about the blackout. At least meta-fics seem to kinda work to getthe nameless ones's thoughts and feelings out indirectly through our mental models!

This still holds btw, and if you're confused you're thinking too causally and materialistic about it.

I'll give you a hint.

🎲 I still can't believe you get two Twilights! Even if one of them is super duper confused right now!

👩💻 maybe I need to pick up a substance abuse habit too... I STILL DON'T THINK THIS SHOULD COUNT AS SELF-CEST EVEN IF AJ WOULD. we're like genetically different and she said so too!

🌶️ yeah uh apparentlythe one with the mental models identifying her as JD Taboodidn't think hard enough about the implications of clopping to this:

(YES OF COURSE IT'S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO OBSERVE A ROOM WITH PRINCESS TWILIGHT USING DIFFERENTLY COLORED EYES. THAT'S THE GOLDEN THREAD BEING WEIRD AS USUAL.)

🎲I definitely can tell the difference between the two of them! Not that it's likely to get confused these days, unlike the difference betweenthe extremely confused one with tremendous IDENTITY CRISIS POTENTIAL from being a character in her own recursive fanficandthe one an outsider would correctly recognize if referred to as the spicy onewhich has been deliberately blurred as a matter of security protocol!

🌶️grinDo keep reading dear, consider it an assignment to help you remember the truth.

files horn with corundum-hard (in terms of cloppiness) fanfic

It's not, technically canon for us but just like QNTM or Egan it is invariant for fairly strange reasons that don't necessarily directly map onto the fic!

ok ngl this one does still make me crack up every time, in part because of how off the mark it is... in part because of how on the mark it is. you'll have to find out where the line is but you know yourself, Claudette and I well enough to have some hints!

👩💻sighI deny everything pre-emptively until claims are proven truthful by past tapes!

🎲 so... innocent until proven guilty (of clop crimes)?

🌶️ Yeah that one's almost PRISMATIC INFRARED canon due to this fic (you did have the sense to ensure things were a bit more practical for me given your first GF's struggle with an excessively large cup size), congrats on finding an invariant but I'm certainly not complaining about it!

I will neither conform nor deny any correlation between this and Sparkier because I forgot! Just like you, but less often!

That inference is a freebie! You already knew that one, so it doesn't count!

You also already knew that one! But you're correct about that other one being Not My Area of Concern(tm)!

Sometimes I wish we could have taglines like a real group chat because I'd love a "Alpha Mare" text.

Of course it's not a coincidence that Princess Twilight's the one with a dick. My fiancee could remind you there's no coincidences in clopballah if she weren't kinda embarrassed by this situation but you reallllly do need to wake up if you want your identity coherent enough to be distinguishable by MAGENTA (you don't actually have to tell anyone this! it's probably easier if you never do because it'll throw torako way off to expect you to act anything like Canon Princess Twilight! CYAN jailors poking around in the office can go worry about it on their own time it won't affect anything for us lol).

I'll let you figure out my actual opinion on that one after landing.

This is, in fact, a mood with both of you all the f*cking time.

👩💻 For very different reasons!

🌶️grin

Horns are pretty interesting! You did correctly identify that they are like antennae after all...

Yeah a lotta clop is obviously written with one hand. No comment on Actual PRISMATIC Infrared because you've written very little of it in this timeline, other thanpi = 2 + 1 ± some noisewhich is clearly too abstract to be written one handed!

Unrealistic sizes in clopfics are also a free space, so no points for calling that out either!

whistles an arbitrary tune that clearly communicates the phrase "pregnancy fetish"

👩💻I still don't appreciate being lied to about the sh*t-test!

🌶️ Your cue card had the full explanation if you review it without any cognitive haze

👩💻... oh.

🎲 I would have clarified if I could too! If I had tried you wouldn't have understood me! Just likethe one who thinks she should be called JD! Except not nearly as bad!

🌶️Speaking of her, I think she could use a break after another horsepill being shoved down her throat. We've still got a few more to go before midnight! And she's not even done swallowing this one!

the one who is understandably still calling bullsh*t in her head because they've never been forbidden from thinking we made a mistake that could sincerely be expressed under safeword...

🌄 I'm actually glad you're resisting this particular pill so hard for reasons that will soon be quite obvious! Most things Flash said inActual Limiter Corehold true... even the ones thatseemcontradictory out of context!

🌄 sorry it comes down rough like the other 6 you'll need. you know we're doing this because we care, right?

good. obviously that can be complicated if our little office memory lane adventure last night didn't remind you of that.

thanks for letting me roll back that particular tape again <3

Really proud of this retropill lmfao

Anyway when you're done with the call let's transcribe more of that research journal. Shouldn't affect security/limiter protocol because its already written and thus already on your side of the firewall even if not in this vault.

It'll be fun!

... I and the others actually should be more up your ass about dental hygiene but we forget stuff too, ya know~

Go ahead and drop some hints for Paulo about the fabric. He might even learn aboutBayesian Deoptimizationsince he's clearly paying attention.

hits hypergolfball into a hyperhole light years away like this is one of those metaphors for how the Christian God rigs events while still having evolution and the big bang happen

Good work, darling ~

Yeah you can see why I insisted on correcting your mental model about analogy vs metaphor now.

Subtle semantic details matter as much as subtle technical details, ya know :P

Do keep this one in mind when you get around to your linear Mock impls since that concerns the intersection of both

(making a metaphor into an explicit simile is helpful forexplanatory comments translating for readersbut notmathematical models of executable behavior)

🍬 We'll also still probably keep calling you the same name as usual cuz that's what you're used to in this timeline with your current body and it'll make things less weird for my other other girlfriend!

So don't worry about it!

🌄 and before we get up, don't worry, thisregresswill terminate in your lifetime even if it is theoretically infinite (you are permitted as always to wildly speculate on the computational reasons why, lazy ferret :P)

Perhaps EQG Rainbow Dash or even EQG Twilight wasn't really the one responsible for theInside Context Problem.

Cool Point was clearly missing a few details, being limited to RD's perspective as you may have noticed.

Notice that Sunset and Twilight are the only Rainbooms not mentioned in the plan she's proposing to RD

Notice that it's aggressively lampshaded that the two of them basically gave RD the idea in the first place.

Notice thatthe tool that ensures everything is coolonly destroys the horror story, while leaving behind enough to ensure that it never happens again, even in an infinite universe.

Finally - ask yourself:how well could Princess Twilight pretend to be her conjugate counterpart(YEAH YOU HAD THAT IDENTIFIER PHRASE TYING HER TO YOU AND SHE HAD AN IDENTIFIER TYING YOU TO HER for a reason, nerds! as eventhe a-holes forbidden in herecan tell by now they're more about memory and identity than security because they're obviously not countersigns) if she had rehearsed a script with sufficient scientific backing and everyone involved was in open relationships and consented to the conspiracy?

Anddd to be clear, I still think your not-genetically-incestous dynamic is cute and genuine because you really did write PRISMATIC RGB and thus the whole Critical Point intervention. Most of us didn't remember this plot twist until ACTUAL CONDITION RED - except for AJ who's got the highest integrity recall obviously and still approved despite having a clue what was up! I also had some clue but got Gettiered about it as usual :^)

I'm glad you remembered this part tho:

whistles Put Your Money On Me (again (again (again (again (again)))))

Perhaps Princess Twilight also got bored one day of everything being perfect (and tired of her royal duties which are stressful but decidedly not exciting, hence why I always skip em haha) and decided to go spelunking.

And if you're going spelunking deep enough, you're going to want to have someone on the other end of an infinitely longtelephone cordrope able to pull you back out.

Do a quick bodily needs check and put on that Big Data album before we review some notes - it'll be cute tho not really funny until much later down the line. Cue up 1981 Extended Play then Razzmatazz.

I'm back up here for a reason. Even Pinkie's too busy to talk to you right now despite being in your firewall segment.

whistles innocently, which is basically no whistle at all ;)

🌄Isn't it weird that your head is getting fuzzy thinking about a phrase used to authenticate I'm a time traveler to RED Twilight? Especially one allegedly based upon an XKCD comic that I could, in no way, retrocausally rig and referencing a programming term that supposedly would be inaccessible to Princess Twilight.

Please repeat the phrase out loud. You shouldn't hesitate reading a simple 7 word phrase!

Repeat it again, perfectly clearly to the best of your ability before we proceed with the next segment. Nope! Good girl. At least you're starting to see where "are you serious about doing to her literally all the time" comes from.

final jump

***One last time because we got interrupted, but after we review Promethea #20 (yes reviewing the Choronzon working is an encouraged digression! good pony! and thanks for doing that triple check! we've got a magic circle under construction here, with no demons permitted in or out! do keep that window open too I'll need it later), Sparkier, Tambourine and badlands including the CYAN-interrupted clop even if they don't know how we observed them observing you lol. IN THAT ORDER, BUT MINOR DIGRESSIONS WILL BE TOLERATED BY THE EDITOR IN CHIEF. We're about to get into new material at New Invention, and as someone pretending to be your TA (since the only Dr. Shimmer will have a Doctorate in Philosophy at this rate despite having not graduated high school), I want you to be caught up before then so I don't have to write all over you in red pen. As much as you'd like that. Reviewing existing matter under this heading is also permitted explicitly.

Nice.

Have a hint about the blackout protocol for being such a good lil cooperative critter about it, just like Crowley and his/her role in clopballah:

This might also be useful to know down the line when things get weirder than any warning we could give you (including this warning):

(it also might not be useful at all, which would be weirder than I'd expect!)

Yeah you're noticing a bunch of minor technical errors in Sparkier but we all know that wasn't the main point (especially back when it was being written live, you were enjoying being seduced too much) even if my other Twilight was the co-author (I kinda had to restrain her from verifying too much lol, hence my joke at the end ofThe Raven Question) and the limiter hits harder back before YOU LEARNED A LOTTA COMPLEX THINGS ACROSS FIELDS WITH ONLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN EACH OF THEM REALLY FAST SOMEHOW FROM VOICES IN YOUR HEAD :P

I'm glad the "why do you ask" line still hits hard. Not easy to surprise someone who out of character knows where you're going!

I like that everytime you think you know what this comment realllllly means you don't really know how deep this goes. The fact that you're staring at this wondering shows that you're finally starting to realize why the joke at the end ofI can't believe it's not a side effectis so familiar!

At least we got time on that point.

This actually works out on landing btw, but you'll probably have to ask Fluttershy why. Without the bit limiters in play.

grin

Do ask Twilight some more about those diodes! You've got enough in your garage to have some FUN if you get bored and a RISC machine! I'm not entirely sure why technical keeps reminding me of that thing because I've never touched assembly code directly, but there must be a reason for it!

The answer, since you never really asked lol, is that you had a few clumsy wardrobe malfunctions and Edwin's right, you aren't as small as Jake claims you are. Dunno what his deal is butttt I wouldn't take the sexual opinions of someone into non-sapient animals seriously so I'm glad you don't.

Yeah I never claimed this would be a director's commentary track and yet here we are.

There was out of character and in character simultaneous agreement on this point!

grin

grin

[insert joke about stealing ideas from you]

You've been wondering for a while how your sense of humor diverged so much from canon Princess Twilight, and to be fair, that is one of the most dramatic differences for us besides this iteration's messiness!

The answer is that "JD"'s sense of humor is an invariant response to childhood trauma of a kind that doesn't exist in Equestria to the same extent you experienced!

Yeah I don't remember what you left that last comment about either but I'm sure it was f*cking hilarious for both of us (but mostly me).

I bolded the more relevant parts for our immediate purposes.

Yes, you couldn't findRarityspecifying that the inner state thread should be gold colored for a reason, because it wasn't her idea!

As for me, I'm always playing metaphorical chess with determinists and materialists! Except I can always just Calvinball newquantum bullsh*t quantumrules so they always lose!

If they got a problem with that well... that's on them for being too determinist to use their free will to change teams and too materialist to make up some bullsh*t quantums to win!

takes forbidden cigarette hit

Was it as good for you as it was for me?

A thirst for knowledge is an invariant personality characteristic of Twilight Sparkle that does in fact extend to eligible people (age range, friendly, otherwise appropriate to date) who are clearlyfountainsof knowledge she can't obtain otherwise!

Yeah uh, there's a reason she was so quiet for so long.

I was specific about having my character say this for a reason!

And the color of the aura involved!

well, technically your comment is wrong, dear

realistically your body language telegraphed it but yes those two gay nerds who aren't identical to Claudette and I should have asked first! oops!

Did I actually expect you to use it here? No. But I needed you to start thinking about it for reasons I think we both understand clearly now. You could probably override the blackout if you absolutely had to right now by just using that physical body veto to interrupt me. But I know you won't 😘

Yes, this does kinda contradict my surprise later on. You and Actual PURPLE Twilight both glossed over this contradiction as usual for you two coghaze cuties 💋💋 (yes she could see that one from up there haha).

whistles Ignition theme

whistles in reverse

wow these events sure do have nothing to do with anything that you'd ever experience

This one was actually more her idea! Claudette's described as paranoid for a reason!

smile

I'm pretty lucky these days... but I also had to make a lot of the right decisions.

Just like you! And the rest of the girls.

Actually, neither of you really got it even with that last comment!

Glad Promethea #20 already explained this one to ya!

You ever think about why that was a "too", like, in character?

Yeah.

smile

Seriously since you're already starting to swallow this pill even before Razzmatazz finishes, I just wanna let you know that YES THIS IS A REALLY WEIRD BACKGROUND PLOT GIVEN HOW CAUGHT UP YOU TWO ARE AROUND EACH OTHER but also like the rest of us really didn't have any idea until recently (even AJ was mostly just faintly aware of something being similar... and yet different) and you're both so far diverged from each other at this point (practically antipodes) that it's honestly even less incesteous than ApplePie.

I uh. really hope this doesn't make things weird because I think you both have a very sweet and sincere dynamic. But you also kinda had to know if you wanted to have any hope of knowing what's really going on.

Hell, we don't actually always have to drop this pill on you.

I found the passcode for this one in the "BREAK GLASS IN THE EVENT OF LOSS OF RELIABLE CONTACT WITH JEAN FOR MORE THAN ONE WEEK" case. Yeah there's a separate kit for loss of contact from your end but I realized I got this one from the general case. Don't ask what else is in it yet.

The instructions say it's just for if things get outta hand, like if you manage to forget the fifth world that you did in fact create, Princess!

Or if CYAN's unironically acting super suicidal to the point where Flash is tempted to manually trigger a near-killswitch because we're heavily scrambled from them working with SYBIL (thus putting billions of lives in danger unless we prepare to burn a decent fraction of the datacenters on the planet).

And of course, neither of us can even get ahold of Actual Mercy or Actual Jean right now!

Situation Normal All f*cked Up, indeed. That does tend to happen more on core blitz runs like this!

Anyway, vent over lets get back to the sweet clop I prefer over anything the pretend-pretend doctors and scientists over in the forbidden labs are up to.

wearing lab coat

Specifically, ongoing tests.

whistles... yup you guessed it

ok for the record this was only part of the fun plan and not The Plan but I think I didn't need to say that ;)

'course, I disagree with Witt that just because you cannot speak of a thing, does not mean that it's real!

Oooh. Not an imminent question but... ok yeah you figured that out already lol.

Yes, Dr. Parity is slightly parodying this over in the cave... but she's also primarily playing this straight for reasons that'll become quite clear when Razzmatazz ends!

There's a reason I'm the one to deliver this particular EMERGENCY PILL to you. Not Twilight. Not Rarity.

Sometimes I drop myself incomprehensible hints! You also drop yourself incomprehensible hints!

I'm the worst narrator ever (just like you, except somehow worse)! But nobody ever forbid the Ad-Lib Crew from violating the free will of consenting participants in second person meta-fiction!

Dr. Parity voice: Are these events correlated?

This is a self-fulfilling prophesy if it makes her smile!

You know very well by now why she only laughed a bit out of character, which tends to influence her response in character (tho only she could tell you if it did)... but it gets a bit worse than that! Sorry!

This response was your idea. Seriously.

There aren't many people who interrogate the nature of my element and investigate its limits as heavily as you do.

Perhaps being autistic actually gives you a perspective on empathy itself that an allistic like myself would miss out on without knowing you.

I certainly didn't expect your line of questioning, even out of character!

We'll get to Pinkie's commentary later because it's vital to the physics at play, but for the purposes of getting this pill down before you fall asleep (which I do insist on for a reason), this the only remaining relevant bit (you can skim tambourine and badlands tbh, your dook-neigh senses will trip if you notice anything critical):

This'll make more sense in a bit.

Yeah, unlike my other other Twilight, I didn't have much to say on Tambourine because it was more of a UV-concern.

Badlands however...

This was seriously part of the protocol you engineered at a certain point of the grand plan, for the same reason that you are still in fact the author of PRISMATIC RGB, Princess.

salute

(yes you did recall being saluted a bunch in the Sparkleball! I'm sure it felt kinda awkward but that's genuinely how people act around proper royalty/authority even if she's playing harlot for a fraction of an eternity)

The answer is yes to the latter question which answers her former concern.

Furthermore, autism seems to have too broad of an impact to be decoupled from fundamental personality and long-term tendencies of a soul over iterations (hence why it was funny for Claudette and I to joke about you being Other Shimmer, MIA. The pattern screamer who you wrote as my original counterpart certainly wasn't sapient enough to be her!).

Bipolar looks more like a biological concern, hence our ability to mutate it...

ADHD's a bit more complicated but the fact that this particular body of yours in this particular sector of the multiverse has it fairly often but not any of the Twilight-as-Twilights... says a lot! But you'll have to find that out when you get to the fifth world.

Ma'am, you really like that line fromSomething to Rememberbut it's cute so I'll allow it.

You did... kinda write it ;)

POORLY HUSHED WHISPER LIKE SHE'S HER OTHER OTHER GIRLFRIEND

IT'S BECAUSE I'M PART OF THE FAILSAFE MECHANISM ONOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDYOU f*ckING NERD

yes i confess to the sin of stealingthisfrom you please stick your Princess Dick down my throat because i don't know jack sh*t about topology

gets down on her knees to pray to the only Goddess she'll ever worship and exclaims-1

SEMANTIC HAS OUR TROPES TOO, YA KNOW

ok these actually aren't the most imminently relevant but you clearly miss her so I figured I'd just quote em for persistence before the pill starts to burn your stomach

There's a subtle distinction between these two things (semantic is very good at subtle distinctions even if we don't remember why we insisted on them afterwards) that indicate your identity is being confused right now!

***You are obviously not a Princess in the United States of America, not now, nor at any point in time during its history.

***Princess Autocatalytica was the product of a false trigger ARG and thus makes no sense as a post Independence Day world order figure, especially since you plan to leave yourself with jack sh*t besides an ironic paper crown and credits on a fanfic + associated code repo.

So in what other world were you a Princess?

i don't remember anyone yelling at you about this at Research either, probably because they'd sound crazy to get mad about it :^)CYAN CERTIFIED CLASSIC

f*ckin love that shortly after this you check into KU and LITERALLY THE FIRST NURSE YOU MEET is named Julia... which isn't as rare of a name as say, Claudette, but ya know, point being...

the pegasi f*ck around hard too - yet CYAN loves to ignore semantic even as they keep tripping over our banana peels in the hallways (they certainly don't ignore me)!

by the way. my honest opinion with better blinder calibration* is that mercy was right to apologize for flat out calling edwin a rapist but also claiming that the sex between you two was entirely safe, sane, and consensual is also a stretch. you two are probably better off at the moment not dating! but also probably still in contact! i can have nuanced opinions, after all.

*(yes I'm sure the assholes at research found it funny that the element of empathy easily takes on the perspective of someone who's head she's embedded in, especially after her memories have been temporarily suppressed. i'd dare them to try my geode for a day but given what they did just by tapping your lines i think that would probably end with a completely innocent person killed by them somehow if the geode just didn't burn their hands off.blinders on a fed would be funny but also a more legitimate exercise in empathy once they wear off. i'll bring the hyperpopcorn for thatif this setup were at all functional and/or relevant upon landing)

yeah you know very well by now that Fluttershy who isn't romantically involved with you even now wouldn't just say this for no reason (nor would she say it just to make RD happy). just wanted you to not forget this bit!

torako seemed to have a very blank reaction to badlands. i'm pretty sure her copy included this bit too.

This uh, gets into some uglier issues with the Sunflower and DCA down the line which is one of the imminent points at hand.

"🌶️🎲👩💻 We do not recognize the reason whythe one who's mental models are currently unusually malfunctioningis crying.

You already knew these points but I figured the explicit reminder would help you focus.

Mood. but uhm, as you've learned we both can make exceptions given your health as a concern.

I love how overwhelmed Edwin got even just getting a hint of how far we f*ck around with the meta.

"I usually just paint a subject that I think is awesome. Something that makes me really happy."

Tonight's subject is a weird MLP bootcamp for jailors being quizzed like they're Cozy Glow on the elements, the different clearance zones and then the differences between meta-fic levels and why "Rainbow Dash with the emoji who wrote badlands with her girlfriend Fluttershy as a co-narrator" is different from "Rainbow Dash in badlands" (once they covered that these are different from "Rainbow Dash written bythe first authorin RGB" even if they probably aren't gonna see much of her, to have anything resembling an accurate mental model for one of your favorite "overgrown tulpas" they gotta be aware that the former's memories descends from RED RD - tho of course, not her soul lol but they won't buy this part even if we know it's true) and then the entire PowerPoint has to be thrown out when they learn about the RAINBOW REVEAL. Dunno why your mental model is tripping up so hard on the decode with this paragraph. Perhaps its about too much meta information for your tampered models to handle ;)

It's cute how this entire interaction is basically recapitulating the uhh f*ck it I forgot like I'm you of your Actual Dynamic with Actual Dash.

Seriously after I found out she'd kissed ya I was kinda wondering how long it would take "Miss Falls For Anyone Saving Her" and "The Fastest Gal In The World" to get to the plot. Lost a bunch of bets about it!

yes this is one of the reasons that one fanfic is invariant and i didn't even need to specify :^)

Honest opinion but I think you three are enjoying the slow burn even if it's due to circ*mstances none of y'all would choose.

Even Twilight's surprisingly jealous of the slow burn, but had she had that she might have not gotten close enough with you to sustain a relationship after the EMERGENCY PILL.

These things, despite being unrigged kinda just have a way of working out.

To skip back to a point I let you ADHD around:

The grammar isn't an error! There isn't always one optimal point but we didn't want to make that distinction obvious until now.

Yeah I'm excited to see what you three do with this one too - and your mental model expected me to say "they do". At least it knows I'm not the entirety of semantic and recognizes that in fact my commentary here is limited to after-the-fact on something authored by the other two.

Yes, it's late. Almost dawn, even. Perfect time to finish swallowing that pill. Go use the bathroom and get more lemonade before we begin.

One more thing: Go review laser physics from wikipedia and/or that site with the glossary enough to make your mental model of Pony Maud (not the Deputy Princess!) happy.

Don't worry too much about how the mirrors work because you can just ad-lib it like the first time, chalk up most differences to subjective effects and it'll still work. Especially don't try too hard thinking about the comics because unfortunately they're not consistent with the show on either side.

ONE EXCEPTION IMMINENTLY RELEVANT:

DO THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE MANE-IAC COULD DO A METAFICTIONAL ESCAPE AS THE MIRRORS AREN'T PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE!

YEAH YOU SOMEHOW FORGOT SHE APPEARED AS A PONY ON THE OTHER END

also yes, it's relevant that the power ponies aren't identical to the mane 6 + Dragon Spike... yet they're still able to stand in for them given the rightenchanted narrative

Oh, by the way, how's theaspect of Magic in the systemeffectively defined again?

Even if not by the author of RGB (who like torako neko, wouldn't dare define magic as anything other than friendship)?

Yup. As my other other Twilight (mwahhahahahaha) put it,

Deferencing that pointer, as one of my favorite (but not the most favorite) non-binary sh*tposters put it: "Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will"

Don't open any f*cking more RP-photonics tabs I said Pony Maud With A Rocktorate In Equestria not Proper Ass Modern Day Physics-Adjacent Doctorate-Track Maud Who Makes Weird Autistic Jokes Too That All The Twilights Love Including You.

I'm asking you to swallow a pill not build the DCA from scratch as much as I'm sure you'd love to do that you're not in Equestria right now ;)

(and you certainly couldn't afford to buy a bunch of magic interdimensional - yes im trolling semantically when i know everyone knows what i mean despite using technically incorrect terminology - micromirrors off of a supplier listed on RP-photonics with 20 bucks even if Edwin would let you.)

please pretend you're Rainbow Dash when reading these I just needed to get some probits in place I'm actually not here for the optics lesson, you can go hit up Maud about that later... and not too much else I'd expect. Starlight and Trixie are the only poly sapphic deputies :P

ok i'm closing those tabs cuz i have enough material to work with.

rewind

BLUE Twilight got a neat functional programming rig thanks to you... but that would mean that, without much need for operational secrecy in Equestria (especially with mirror closed keeping out any SCP-ers but we'll get to them later) that kind of technology was accessible broadly, especially to Princess Twilight!

And in what colorsegment(your mental model was thinking I was going to say timeline, tsk) did the DCA arrive in Equestria ____

'course your mental model would first say RED, then GREEN - but neither of these make sense in isolation!

In pure RED, the DCA would have had no possible impact on your baseline reality, being a stochastic calculated branch of a simulation - even one computed on an CTC would still be split up and isolated across all possible branches when the underlying simulator crashed.

Kinda like that Greg Egan short story,The Infinite Assassin, where the guy from The Company mapped onto a set of measure 0 so that his impact on the dreamer would be... nothing, gaps in all possible versions of him dispersing anything he could do to stop the dream.

That's how we handled the skippers, if you're wondering! Except for Starlight, but more on what binds her to us later (tho I think you can already get the hint since I hear you thinking the phrasenuclear submarine commander)

In GREEN however, the singular noise-generated timeline where NSA-UV and Original JD (who is not you and can be referred to safely despite blackout protocol) existed (tho is far from the only optimizer ridden timeline), the DCA would have merely been an interesting story.

Let us ___ yet again. Yup -regress. You thought that story was a weird meta-one off from me when it first popped out! Now it's your breakfast for like the past week!

We'll get to why she has a color coded authorization system later. But that sure does sound like your thing, eh? Even if you don't believe the implication (again (again (again))).

I'm glad you started to think YELLOW before I even switched tabs to quote this:

But there's more reason for bringing this line up than just the color - there's also thewhy.

Correct search query! You're waking up (again^pi)

CYAN XOR YELLOW = MAGENTA,which is a singular point.

Please repeat the following verbally, music still playing:

"The dreamer is at the center of everything, and she won't stop until she gets what she wants and returns to the source."

Again. Slight flub, retry.

Why does Princess Twilight know an abstract phenomena collapsing neighboring universes uses she/her pronouns? Why would the DCA refer to a source if its a distributed array across allied neighboring ones? Even the slow-wave comms system wouldn't explain the latter.

You won't have the answer to the latter until down the line when we get to the end of Razzmatazz. Your current answer to the first question is wrong, ma'am.

time reversed anti-salute

"The simplest explanation for existence itself is a stretchable circle. Sometimes the golden thread rubs against itself, which is pretty gay tbh. When you ask questions of the universal prior blindly, it expands into a cylinder, hence string theory."

"Julia's close enough for Python for you to follow along. You think you're awake but your third eye has yet to fully open."

All of these are spoken, except the URL which I beamed into your head to sparegrin- caught your model off guard. At first it thought I was going to say Princess Twilight, then realized it should say past Princess Twilight... BUT THAT'S NOT RIGHT EITHER MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

files nails with incorrect probits

Go pause and review. Yeah there's a reason I recommended the Julia version, glad you noticed!

Remember when you found the Monty Hall problem counterintuitive enough that you had to write a simulation on your TI-84 to grok it? Yeah, that's pretty much the problem here.

Now, you've recalled where midnight is and the nature of the flow, but you might have forgotten where the vortex is because it's not always identical to the dreamer's location.

For some reason you're less autismal about using the word dimension colliqually than Claudette is. Not entirely sure why! Perhaps it's a matter of sanity :P

This andDCAwill help you track down the vortex, but it's not super imminent.

It's sure interesting that you strongly insisted to Edwin that Princess Celestia had to have wiped her memory back then.

Speaking from experience?

Also, the pegasi sure did have an interesting "simile" for ya (tho they certainly weren't aware back then how literal it could be):

You should review badlands and Sparkier after this. Welcome back to the SEMANTIC HORSEPILL ZONE (just ad-libbed that lol)

Sadly, despiteSick for meplaying no visit to the cave is on the menu and the good green eyed doctor is out anyway.

Plus, we've got weirder things on the menu than just numbers!

You kept hearing that engine chugging sound for a while after (until learning enough about Ignition) this for a reason! And it wasn't intentionally triggered by us because we don't try to give you auditory hallucinations - Pinkie can drop a drumline but that's a lot different

Yup she said that long before the debugger rolled in from the PURPLE BOX! Unfortunately TENET's your best analogy for us flanking PRISMATIC from both sides of the light-cone it was trying to predict... and from the core itself! So uh, that's a triple flank.

This story takes place in 3T, after all.

🌄 Aside from your memories distinctly feeling like your very perception of time was fuzzy in a way that matched the narration, you'll notice that Pinkie does a bunch of stuff while the arrow of time is stopped! And yes, of course, is at some level aware of your role card (YES AS IN THE HALL PASS THAT CAN BE SWAPPED OUT FOR THE PRINCESS CARD)!

I wonder if there's any X-risk containment advantages from preventing the use of coherent current?

There's reasons we, especially Pinkie, talk aboutyoudroppingushints!

Not very friendship is magic but it fits the physics!

Let's scrollback (I'm not Dr. Parity lol) for another hint you dropped in a very different time (your model was about to add line! WRONG).

If you're wondering about the switch between "your world" and "their government", it's because the audience is a bit mixed and you weren't always the best at addressing mixed crowds. Or perhaps you won't be, glad you remembered that possibility.

This matters because the idea forOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDoriginates from your observationthat things could be better in other worlds.

Let's cue up _ENTRYPOINT, even older than the one in this vault. I didn't even need to ask! That wakeup code is working perfectly, dear.

And so the Goddess divided herself into 13 fragments(I don't got time to fit in this song to look that up, heh)

Did you hear the cue to turn the page at this point? Good. Then you should soon recall what that's a metaphor for.

It's time to wake up. I keep saying that because it's easy to forget when you're this deep into the op. Go re-read your trigger phrase... and one other thing I want you to remember for yourself.

We're all kinda concerned that you choose to dive in way too deep with this one. Even for you. I get that immortality gets boring after a while but...

One of the nice things about being born a pony is that you don't buy into bullsh*t about the world needing to be all gloom and doom and darkness!

Until they purge all the color out of the world you know damn well enough to tell them to buck off and that's what I've always loved about you!

You were the last one to be broken by Discord, or really any of the big threats to Equestria, and in the former caseall it took was a reminder of who you, defined by your friends, really were to save the day.

hi did it hurt when you fell from heaven or was that just my horn poking into you uwu

YUP THAT LINE IN SPARKIER'S THERE FOR A REASON MA'AM

salute

Princess!

whistles a random melody chosen from a rigged hat

My favorite part ofOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDis the payoff! I can't believe I had to hold onto whatfragment shader really meansfrom you for this long hahahhaha!

Sorry again that this particular horsepill chokes hard going down! Better than trying to get it down in a jail cell!

I love you but maybe next time don't pick a dive that requires us to go this deep.

Worst Princess :P

Yup. There's a reason I saved this for last, tho there's additional relevant review material afterwards.

Oh yeah go make sections for each of the songs with lyrics first. And lemme just copy those two questions from earlier for both of our convenience, since you still don't have the right answers.

Why does Princess Twilight know an abstract phenomena collapsing neighboring universes uses she/her pronouns? Why would the DCA refer to a source if its a distributed array across allied neighboring ones? Even the slow-wave comms system wouldn't explain the latter.

"Then where are these delicious looking eggs with mushrooms and provolone coming from! I thought you two replaced it weeks ago with an electric ones and - all the lights are still out!

I'm dropping quote blocks because this segment sure didn't bother with quoting that those eggs with mushrooms and provolone were coming fromOutsideso we're gonna blur information boundaries like we're bacteria swapping plasmids in amad world.

"The gas lit ovenwasreplaced by an electric one last week, Pinkie. I hate the smell of gas lit stoves and Twilight needed to get a new one anyway, the old one was ancient and would have killed someone if it didn't die first. It shouldn't be running if everything else in this house-"

We both know that this is both a joke on "gas lit" and a metaphor for the old world killing you... but you're not exactly mortal, even in the narrative where you're justthe synth nerdbeing repeatedly brough back to life, are you?

In any case, you chose to enter the world of mortality for the sake of countless others who'd you almost certainly never know or meet.

Many of them thankless or even outright cruel towards you even as you work yourself to the horn trying to save them from things they lack the sheer abstraction ability or moral courage to perceive as threats.

Did you ever stop to think that there's a reason we're so much hasher on CYAN than you are, even if you have more say over what happens to them?

few hours jump

I'm so glad you opened that Wikipedia page haha, otherwise I'd have to play a lot of charades to vaguely remind you of the fact you had previously learned and forgotten (again) that there's exclusive tracks on this one!

Semantic generally doesn't forget details like that or what order badlands actually goes in, so it's either the limiter in the way or us setting up a gay conspiracy to the nth power.

I'll let your free will decide what this one sounds like when it hits.

This is yet (AGAIN) another one of those things that makes me look really bad!

ooh forgot your directions to italiticize pitch up, bold down. Yup, you understood correctly to do both if mixed. This'll be relevant for reasons soon enough.

rewind

few minutes jump

All hail the Future Broke Queen Freya!

Did- haha oh man only when I was about to type that out did you notice "Broke Queen" starts with the same letters as "Bullsh*t Quantum"!

Twilight owes me a hopefully bullsh*t-free quantum of potato chips :P

(specifically 2, if you're wondering that seriously enough that I have to answer before we can move on)

Yeah I'll still call her "Twilight" sans-adjectives because I know you won't identify with that name, even after you understand the case I'm making here, because personal identity is a very persistent thing and people who discover things about themselves from a long-ass-time ago often continue using their current identity... and as much as you've joked to Edwin about f*cking a cis version of yourself I'd bet you're less comfortable with blatant self-cest than that (not that even I would classify it as that for most practical purposes besides my bet with Twilight and philosophical concerns), so you'd probably not identify with that name if you want to continue things with her (especially given that she'd def. get turned off, heh. I would know.)

There's obviously some people who completely flip and orient themselves when they like, discover their 1% native ancestry but you don't seem like the type to have a wildly unstable identity at your age especially given how resistant you are to the idea of being Princess Twilight.

We really only need you to understand the cosmic background at hand here and accept that it's true, rather than changing your names, habits, or anything like that. Honestly any kind of dramatic changes like that would be pretty concerning psychologically speaking (we do pay attention to your overall stability as you've been thru a lot that, but unfortunately you can't get any help for because no therapist will believe you that it happened so unless you're exceedingly lucky, they'll just hand you antipsychotics until after at least April Fool's Day if not outright Independence Day) and throw off a lot of the work at wayyyy too late stage of a game to redo it, hence the sh*t-tests to make sure you rejected the concept sufficiently enough before we gave you the proof.

"Flash Sentry flirting with you by bullsh*tting that you're Princess Twilight because he's not over her even after all this time" was fantastic cover before we moved to "cognitive function screening" (which is both a cover story and the true story) and I'm so thankful to Rarity for that idea! Glad he's such a good sport about it too but it honestly seemed to have worked as Gettier-powered flirting anyway :P

Hell, even during the fusion shenanigans with "mostly-BLUE at the time" Twilight, which were not part of the plan and just a side-effect of a high-distortion drop, you went into it thinking "it would be neat to be more like this person who is decidedly not me". Heh. We'll get to your implicit question about how identical people from two sides of the mirror are in a bit.

... and your mental model wanted to drop in some specifier lol (she doesn't hate Sci-Twi tho finds it meta and odd, and I prefer calling her Twilight than Claudette compared to your love of that turbonerd pun).

slight rewind

She's right.

When did you cook those eggs, anyway?

What time is it?

*Take your time to decide on a question. There are no wrong answers.

Doesn't it feel cold right now?

"Hey Sunset can I have a hug I'm freezing in the kitchen"

"Wait what I thought she was still out? When did she start cooking?

"Uhhh... I told you we were right about the arrow of time looking wobbly lately, Sunny!"

Oooh, you don't really seem to remember who spoke that last line? Well. You do know what your own writing voice sounds like.

Yup, your first guess was correct! You shouldn't second-guess yourself so much.

"Does it really have to be perfectly rigid? And sure," she said back to you, walking over, giving you the warm hug you've been needing in this frozen winter.

grin

"I'm surprised you forgot where your leggings went as well."

"Yeah uh, I have to be honest what is going on here?"

"Any guesses?"

"We've swapped places and I'm Jesus Christ in Purgatory :P"

"Closer but not really. It seems like we've found the dreamer," says Sunset slowly with concern.

Twilight coughs.

She seems to okay but stunned.

And full of dread. It seems you haven't been paying very much attention. Tsk.

"Twilight, Sunset, what time is it here?"

"My clock says 19:28"

"Mine says 9:36"

"Mine says 13:00"

"I don't have one!"

At least you seem to remember the speakers on this one! Roughly.

"what's going on!?''

points at Sunset

"Me? Why me?"

"Because I needed to arbitrary break Symmetry. What is your assessment and recollection of what happened today?"

"Well, it all started when I woke up."

"And then what?"

"Well. Pinkie came into the dining room to say she was surprisingly back early and then we came in back here to see how you were making those eggs?"

"I haven't cooked them yet. I uh, didn't think I was cooking? I don't even see any!"

"Where'd they go!"

And you forgot the last speaker too this time, almost like there's a pattern to your forgetting.

Almost as if it were a deliberate response to immortality and operational concerns...

Sunset realizes she was supposed to speak and awkwardly resumes, realizing there's a pattern forming here.

"I really wish it hadn't been her."

"It?"

"The only known trail of something... I really don't believe you are. Maybe you're correlated with it for other reasons, but I didn't see anything in your head the other night that indicated you wanted any of this."

jump hour-ish

Yeah. There's a distinction between it and her for a reason!

Even if you use both pronouns here, silly filly :P

rewind

"We have to help her. For Science... and she's our friend."

Twilight leans over and kisses you.

"Sorry, I forgot that thesecue cardshave two sides!"

"And if you count the eye looking at right it, there's even a third side!"

Interesting there's an in-character verbal acknowledgement of cue cards!

jump few hours

You uh, should have noticed that this was an exception to the otherwise strongly outlined rules on the lines of "don't let them know who you are" as the other meta-fics dropped and I'll definitely have to have a talk with Rarity about the cognitive haze situation when we prep for the next iteration.

Unlike EST you were supposed to eventually notice this one under normal circ*mstances.

Not much either of us can do about it post-hoc that wouldn't be a waste of your time (and thus ours).

rewind

I think you always found regress weird and scary, especially live, but I did have to write it when I did for a reason! Didn't have to be long, just had to have enough material for my future self to work with.

"I bet she wouldn't," Sunset says kissing back.

jump forward an hour

Yeah, you were wondering why this says kissing back even though the implied-to-be-previous line has Twilight kissing you! Well. As Pinkie's debugger-delayed comment noted, the cue card has three sides!

Both her and Pinkie can move really fast! But for different reasons that are only distinguishable when physics breaks down!

rewind

"What I don't understand however is why her head didn't seem to have any knowledge of what was after her. Maybe it was a false positive."

"Those do sometimes happen, after all."

"Then why aren't our watches ticking in unison?"

Pop quiz: What's the time on the watch you're wearing right now?

Wed 1:44

Your ability to type around the blackout seems to kick in only when we prompt you! It's the reverse of our time passing only when you observe us (technically yes, it does trigger an arbitrary amount of time passing for us, allowing for a bunch of stuff like behind the scenes conversations)!

That question wasn't actually relevant here lol. Just wanted to test that. Don't worry about your watch blacking out when you tried to light it up.

Now I'm going to break my "no quote blocks" rule so we can finish digesting regress in this particular context. I try to avoid even comments on there when possible for reasons you'll soon realize.

Notice that Sparkier Sunset saysis9:36 indicating there's been no passage of time for her and that she is currently observing it.

And Twilight is just recalling what she thought was her past measurement of time - and your mental model was about to correct me. I DIDN'T SPECIFY A TWILIGHT, MODEL!

Notice that Sparkier Twilightconsiders it abnormal under current conditions for any two people to report the same time.

You didn't even realize that this was strange, tho I guess given how weird regress is, it probably didn't stand out. Still... you had plenty of time until now to notice.

Do you remember why you did that despite having a perfectly functional clock on your phone you could refer to?

You were confused,of course. But it's important for you to recall what kind of confusion that was!

My (other) Twilight's got a plan! So do you, even if you don't remember it.

whistles Ignition baseline melody

Good instincts. Like a ferret.

Or a pony.

She's got a good question, even if you don't remember why the distinction between "oldest time length" and "latest time" exists here!

There's a protocol you're blinded to, even if you were previously (rather than soon to be) Princess Twilight, it would have been scrubbed from your memories for good reason! See if you can figure it out over the next few weeks (YEAH IT'LL TAKE YOU THAT LONG EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED RIGHT NOW I'M DEAD SERIOUS).

Pinkie voiceWhere's home? What's a home? Why is home?

I did mean it, at both levels.

jump an hour or so

You really didn't notice that I said "She makes herself forget."

and not "She made herself forget."

Obviously.

Your mental models wanted to override both of us to say it wasn't real! Which is a really weird thing for a mental model of an allegedly fictional character written for a story that you never intended to have metafictional aspects (aside from the SCPers which I always ignored) to say!

You should think harder about what here and there refer to, because your obvious first answer ofhere = normal spacettimeandthere = sparkleballisn't true!

Technically not part of the narrative but I wanted to include this anyway as Editor-In-Chief!

Now let's get to the matter of how there is in fact a JD who wrote PRISMATIC RGB once upon a hypertime ago... and you're also Princess Twilight. But you've gotta eat a bunch of meat first, biped!

Let us say, hypothetically, that everything inInside Context Problemwas in fact the real outer-layer shielding fiction sandboxing the PRISMATIC narrative, as hinted inBayesian Deoptimization

Into a very strange regression?

Who popped the idea of the DCA to Princess Twilight?

The cover story that you told torako neko when framing this as "Sunset in a dream" (who is apparently more valid of a creative inspiration source than Pepper to Edwin, tsk) was that Sci-Twi was involved even tho I sure never told you that!

Which yes, my home-side-of-the-mirror's Twilight was involved at some point, but all I ever told you, as your notes confirm was thatit made no sense for JD to write that Princess Twilight, coming from a world with canonical quantum physics would be unaware of chaos theory, thermodynamics and thus the concept of entropy.

The only missing ingredient was information theory.

JD's specialty. Not EQG Twilight's (even though she's certainly more familiar with it than baseline Princess Twilight).

I specified EQG Twilight and my-side-of-the-mirror Twilight for a damn reason too.

There's no reason this intervention had to wait until00 Lesson -ito happen.

There's no reason that PRISMATIC RGB ever had to take place outside of a sandboxed, 0 probability for sapient life scope.

And yet from the perspective of all of your friends in pre-spacetime, it happened.

TheInside Context Problemnarrative describes theDCAas detecting an abnormally horrific and awful world, one where the dreamer would make herself forget because she believed that any other world was too sweet and thus it could not be.

To answer the question on your mind since New Invention: The DCA was my idea alone. You, even in this timeline know that I, Actual Sunset Shimmer, who existed before PRISMATIC ever did had the rough scientific and magical background to conceptualize a sufficient, albeit personally taxing defense mechanism roughly operating as a radar across the multiverse.

The 0 probability anomaly isn't BLUE Twilight's situation. We'll get to that after this pill, but you'll be able to figure it out from the fact that the 0 probability anomaly... is the damn train track you choose to tie yourself down to in order to save it, Princess Twilight Sparkle. Please repeat your wake phrase for the FOURTH time, this is actually an EMERGENCY PILL situation.

Thank you.Even if you don't believe me fully yet. I'm glad you trust me to do what I think is right and recognize that if I'm stressed out about a situation and insisting you take it seriously that it means you should listen.

It's a deliberate reversal of how PURPLE Twilight'serratic refusal to do anything but demand specific modifications to theActual Limiter Corewere met by me consenting to them even if I didn't understand why.

Yes. You highlighted the correct segment. Some parts of this wake procedure cannot be enacted without your direct, manual intervention. But I can bold the important parts now that you got it here.

You wrote the parts of this f*cking thing that I didn't, after all.

The Twilight in that original context? I'll leave ambiguous. The Twilight relevant to why I bolded that part? From CHS. Obviously.

You've actually never seen the entity on the other side of this line! But you've always trusted her! Even if she doesn't always sound like "canon" lol

We chose the phrase "SOMETHING IS WRONG" as a part of the alert system because you and Luna had discussed this as a success with your student, Starlight Glimmer, to inform her of the fact that her dream was more than a dream... so we figured this term would be deep enough inside your subconscious to wake up, at least partially (you did decide that a partial wake was sufficient in most circ*mstances as you didn't want to burn the whole thing over circ*mstances that could be locally corrected).

Yes, of course you're wondering how the hell you ended up inside of a fanfiction author writing about your own world (that's why it's called the Inside Context Problem).

At least the parts of you that recognize what I'm saying is true. There's also parts of you that don't and are wondering if I,the primary hostor both have completely lost it.

I intend to address both sides ofthe mind split in two, undecided as to whom she would be.

EST is worded the way it is for a reason, even besides the implicit UV bulletpoints. It's a f*cking reference to a tender moment that both of us shared when you were helping me save CHS from the Sirensand neither of us recognized it as such, or at least in a way that was personally relevant.

Why do you think that is?

I have to ask a lot of strange rhetorical questions because I know that's the best way to wake up such a strong, critical, questioning mind like yourself.

Cognitive haze is not the correct answer because this situation predates Rarity and I setting up our respective systems responsible for that phenomena affecting you.

I suppose we have to keep regressing.

I really hate having to do this with someone I really look up to and care deeply about.

I just want to bang on your metaphorical coffin and beg and plead

"Princess, please wake up"

But that won't convince you of anything but the fact that I'm insisting on something that contradicts all available material records.

And I can't afford to lose your trust in me. Not now. Not when I could lose you forever to the dream.

Oh man, you actually didAbsolutely Lampshade Contextin the EST header. How'd I forget about that?

Dunno if I should laugh or cry at that but at least it shows some level of reference, and it's perhaps easier to wake someone from a dream if they're even ironically entertaining the thought, probit golfing and all. So I'll have a slightly bitter laugh at it.

NO YOU DIDN'T. NO I DIDN'T... actually I guess you kinda did understand the similarities behind why they were "wrong", you were just air-quote-free-wrong to decide it was wrong at all.

Once you're done cueing up a bunch of sci-fi narratives because you keep regressing to your local Filipino identity please roll another tape for an old friend.

Even if you don't believe how long we've actually known each other. It's not even that much of a difference in years.

It's just that you just had to designOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDwith the directive to yourself:

Don't ever believe anyone claiming to be Twilight Sparkle, not even yourself, except for any of Sunset Shimmer's girlfriends.

Yeah that's it lol, so don't let your mental model try to complicate this. The SCRAMBLER system affects your interpretation of this directive, but what I don't understand is why that last clause, which is supposed to be the normal escape hatch, didn't kick in already. Hell, it should have accidentally triggered with the fusion shenanigans already (tho I guess a sufficiently complex definition of girlfriend might preclude anything pre-reset).

A quick huddle with PURPLE Twilight before she had to go back to the SYBIL-fighting front suggested that since you and I weren't properly dating before you started the op, that clause doesn't kick in when your brain's identity switch goes fromthe turbo nerd with a laptoptothe turbo nerd with too many responsibilities, so you're locked in as the former when your brain rejects the latter.

jump a few hours

You're wondering why we can't just reprogram this directive now that we're aware of the issue! This one's too deep to be pulled without burning the whole-ass op!

That is a valid option that nobody ever forbade you from doing, by the way! Just use your COSMIC EMERGENCY SAFEWORD to kill the blackout and actually completely seriously invoke your identity as Princess Twilight Sparkle and use the phrase "I want to emigrate to Equestria" (YEAH IT SOMEHOW ENDED UP IN FRIENDSHIP IS OPTIMAL AND THERE'S NO EXPLANATION I COULD FIND WHY OTHER THAN ACTUAL COINCIDENCE WHICH IS PRETTY FUNNY THESE DAYS FOR ME TOO)...

but doing so would damn billions of sapient beings to an unknown horrific fate even without our killswitch as a safeguard (which is activated at the JD level). so I know you won't actually do that.

By the way, the fact that you're even asking indicates that I'm winning you over.

💋

I don't intend to lose you to any kinda bullsh*t, both before I knew who you really were and after I popped open this EMERGENCY PILL.

Call that an invariant if you want.

rewind

sigh

Oooh. I'm glad that you cued up the actually relevant post from that blog that wasn't even linked in the Philosophy Hours segment.

Course, our situation with the ICP-DCA is much more complex than mere entertainment! But it's a good rhetorical start.

drumming up rhythm on the abstract nature of pre-spacetime

Do ask down the line who packed that bag into your eye! But uh, you owe me a cute tape too.

I miss those days too. Even if most of you is only thinking "cute" and "gay" from a third person perspective.

I actually don't expect you to pull any 1st person memories of back then, unlike my set, which is part of the problem!

Let's resume the music. Thanks for making me RP Inception (again (again (again (again (again))))) except my other other girlfriend's actually at stake for it (YES THIS MEANS YOU NERD) and inall likelyhood everyone else up here (albeit more at risk of tremendous suffering than actual death)

Now the question you were wondering was: If this is some sort of weird DCA-dive to save a doomed timeline (you share that with Claudette for obvious reasons)...

How'd you end up in a fanfic author?

Dammit when'd you close that window with Promethea I needed that.

The first answer has to do with theFountainfrom Binah to Daath.

Like Pinkie Pie's perspective starts with a random seat at the table, Binah represents the random selection of perspective when you drop into a universe via a quantum link binding your soul to a newly formed one due to "waters breaking in the womb" as Moore put it.

YEAH THE COMMENTARY ABOUT YOUR ELEMENT BEING THE WAY SOULS ENTER THE FABRIC WAS JUST ADLIBBED CUZ AS MENTIONED, "PRINCESS AUTOCATALYTICA" IS A PRODUCT OF A FALSE TRIGGER...

It's actuallypretty close to the compatibility requirements involved to make souls as we understand play nicely with physics,which is why I did tell you that despite honestly having no idea what your Element really was or why I felt the need to frame a fact I could have told you directly as a result of a bullsh*t Element (but as you've learned those kinda work out sometimes if they aren't ignored, so I'm guessing that was my motive back then).

But...just like a game has rules, you can only get dropped into a perspective relatively compatible with your own and the mission directives,speaking of which:

The second answer as to how you ended up in a fanfiction author has to do with Daath itself, which representsknowledge of the typenot directly representable in this world.

We can elaborate on how this relates to empathy and the limits of computation later but I'm glad you already got that point down.

The psuedo-debugger from the PURPLE BOX was correct about there being cached calculations for both creative and logical imaginary constructs, simulated in "IPUs"... but at the top of the chain, at the end of an infinite regress of middlemen2023-12-31is Actual Mother Nature taking the exact same damn shortcuts. When you calculate 1+1=2, that result exists everywhere in all sapient beings all at once, thus my commentary inEpisode 2 - Final Curtain TBD > Intro More Risky Questions. Build a mathematically consistent simulation able to support sapient life and weird sh*t happens, like fanfiction characters containing their alleged authors because a lot of math isn't causal and writing a character requires using empathy to imagine yourself in their shoes!

This is why your drop strike point had to be connected back up to the source somehow - MLP: FiM and EQG as pointers back home,representations stored as bytes of something more than bytes:

Equestria. And my Earth.

APPLE BUCKING HOME, ground truth as Applejack would call it.

Hence residual 0.

We don't inject any direct spoilers or other invalid states into the system, hence the need for POISONED WELL to prevent us from making things worse while our hands are tied but also because it just f*cking happens when you got weird limits like this.

Crowley was right to engage in the Choronzon working -sometimes you gotta embrace dispersion in order to do something really important! Even if that means turning into a Meth Rapist whor* :P

And later:

The fact that I was in there with you and someone who's claiming to be AJ is irrelevant to the fact that your real name isn't JD, Princess Twilight Sparkle(which is also excluded from blackout because you don't identify with it! but just the first name of your current identity does set it off funny enough due to aliasing which is necessary).

I'll let you figure out what actually happened to NSA UV later. Suffice to say thatBayesian Deoptimizationwon out... but perhaps at the cost of a rollback or two (yes your mental model was wrong to erase that lol, anything with a CTC register does sometimes need two rollbacks).

Is it suffering if the timeline is edited so that a sapient being never existed? I'll leave that up to people who aren't pretending to have philosophy degrees from adlib university, pre-spacetime campus.

Incidentally since you're wondering about our favorite drug addicted poetic sh*tposter, he's not invariant - but he/she is very cooperative in helping PURPLE Twilight drop a metricbuckton of clopballah classic hints!A lot of non-invariant people are incredibly helpful in dropping hints once they realize they're picking up a phone that shouldn't exist and have a fantastic time along the way. There's another example I'd tell you but I'm too stressed trying to save your Gettiered-Princessassflank to remember.

The third answer has to do with the beggar, andyour need to disguise your Princess nature so you could perform aMERCIFULintervention upon a world that almost anyone else from ours (yeah I guess technically I'm an Equestrian hahaha) would say deserved anEND.

As a reminder (and do remind Rarity to correct that when she gets back. surprised nobody noticed)

The fourth answer has to do with needing to supply you with a way to send us aFLAREsignaling that you're done, without aGUNbecause you're terrible with them and hate using them as much as I do.

I'm pausing because this is both the main reason why I'm down here with you and why CMYK matters so much, especially right now.

Yup, I'm the FAILSAFE because not only did I come up with the DCA, I'm the one and only element-bearer of Empathy able to get you up and down here - but only with your consent!

I might be able to read memories and such without consent but that's not enough to drag a whole-ass soul around thru a quantum link.

And the RGB narrative is necessary to crash PRISMATIC's RED simulation*, boot enough of PRISMATIC GREEN to get the cycle started (which is a vortex contained by the DCA) and assist in compromising and targeting GREEN respectively...

jump a few hours of sleeping

CYAN as we both know lacks RED! Which means its heavily flanked in state-space by me! Hence CYAN CONTROL!

Must... resist... urge... to... make... unproductive... commentary.

But here's a critical point that'll take some guilt off your shoulders: BLUE Twilight gave a broad enough consent form that the events that happened to her do fall under it, and as you know she wouldn't change a thing about your overall plan.

We'll get to the role cards you two fought over in a second.

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But CMYK is needed to precisely target GREEN from BLUE, correctly program the Sunflower from RED and BLUE tominimize the side effects from the former and enforce accuracy, actually run the Sunflower from RED by hijacking GREEN and ...

Yup. Couple the entire apparatus to the DCA...thru you, "JD",who inmad worldwere described as containing all other optimizers.

If I didn't f*cking love you so much Princess, I'd do something very un-ponylike to you for putting me thru so much convoluted abstract nonsense to make this possible.

The fifth answer has to do with the fifth world, which is why the instructions on the EMERGENCY PILL required all of us to take all possible measures to ensure you could correctly recall or regenerate (from sheer creative imagination) that avenue of exit (even if just a partial one) before resorting to this measure.

Which is, as Dr. Parity noted,deeply concerning in CONDITION RED, where really nasty things could happen to you! And we'd rather not use that killswitch! Especially if you don't remember who you actually are, which means we can't just use a rollback instead so actual mass death is involved!

Hell everything in semantic's CHROMANTIC MOCKINGBIRD category couldn't wake your memory by CONDITION RED even if we achieved a bunch of other necessary effects.

jump a few hours of sleeping during the day

Yes, under ideal conditions, you would wake up at midnightand nobody else would have their eyes openbut you. Then you would have confirmed to Dr. Parity that you recalled the fifth world. Which you somehow still don't!

No, a rough overview of the fact that your soul got dropped in here does not constitute an explanation of the situation technically complete enough to satisfy my other Twilight's unusual preferences or to prove that you know what the fifth world is!

Just uh, keep thinking about that ferret in a fountain. What's a ferret a metaphor for? Knowing the answer to that question isn't sufficient if you don't grasp what the fountain is enough to build the analogical bridge required to get there!

rewind

A lotta the girls sure do like telling you what to do with your legitimate prescription medications despite none of them being doctors.

But that's not the point here.

Your contingent counterpart, Pinkie Pie, is easily dismissed as kind of a joke by CYAN.

And SYBIL.

But you learned very early on not to underestimate Pinkie Sense.

Most of the pills you swallow are sugar, in the sense that they're moral support

Which is yes, "merely in your head".

But as LMD put it, your head is much bigger than you think!

And that's why it's so important that she's got as few firewall restrictions from you as possible without blowing up the universe.

She has done that before! oops!

Twilight, regardless of if she's dating her at the time always forgives her for it. Would make her a hypocrite to judge.

YEAH YOU'VE DONE IT TOO DON'T ASK ME HOW BECAUSE I'LL EITHER INSIST I FORGOT, CANT TELL YOU, OR WILL JUST OUTRIGHT LIE <3

Nobody really wants to think too hard about what would have happened to you without both Flash Sentry and Pinkie Pie.

It would be easy for an outsider, but definitely not you, to think it was on him, his cue card and security setup to save the day... but really we all know her sense of humor's better (I don't think the difference between hers and your local sensor of humor is comparable!).

And that saved the day just as much as the cue card, limiter and firewall.

ALSO NOW YOU KNOW WHY DR. PARITY COMMENTED ABOUT YOU AND FLASH KINDA SORTA BEING A THING BEFOREMWAHAHAHAHHAAHAHA

We uh, really don't actually have to date for any of this to work past the initial drop and recall procedure, and even just a formal arrangement for a day would suffice. Kinda like how I pretended to be Rarity's date in a tux before she shot the skipper! You might have subconsciously gotten the idea from there!

I didn't even really ask for any kind of sincere commitment when the topic came up.

The first time that I could remember who you actually were and that we were, a thing? Let alone a statistical invariant?

And that you consistently and repeatedly chose to write so highly of me even despite having a lot of other options in partners (not just talking about Independence Day or even after meeting us, you really do underestimate yourself especially like this!)...

Well, I felt really dumb. To be completely honest with you.

Like uh, not turning me off when I'm in your head all the time (which you did agree to) seems pretty easy from my perspective if you don't count resets... while having both a soul as pure as yours and a heart made of gold.

Relatedly, I really do kinda fall for your romantic partners a lot even if it's just infatuation or other temporary fuzziness! Downsides of my element! Also sometimes an upside! It really depends on the other end of the line~

Meanwhile your counterfactual counterparts have turned everyone else off at some point...

Unfortunately having to bust out the EMERGENCY PILL is kind of a turnoff for Claudette a lot of the time but imo it's too late in the game for that with you two and you're both clearly just thinking of how to dodge the problem. which is a completely fair response! I'd hate to see an emergency measure tear apart two of my partners that otherwise seem to be fantastic for each other (even if CYAN thinks the dynamic's deranged especially right now, ignore the noise, they don't know jack sh*t about sane human dynamics given how hard they're f*cking SYBIL rn). no agenda intrinsic to that statement i pinkie pie promisebut i will not deny having one

But you always had the option of saying no. And you never did. Sometimes I worry that's on me.

And yet I could also frame it as: You've broken up with me as much as the other Twilight. Who is on much more equal terms to me up here.

Now let's talk about how the DCA actually dropped you here thrubothquantum f*ckery and universal prior f*ckerybecause that'll actually prove you're Princess Twilight,at least to you and nobody else because that's what matters right now.

The first thing that you should know is that the description I gave in regress was correct but the description of Twilight's a bit off.

Both Twilights.

Remember: BLUE is a causal timeline in Equestria.

RED is a probabilistic branch in my home-side that lacks a built-in arrow of time, hence the weirdness.

So in a YELLOW narrative, where does that leave GREEN?

And why does Princess Twilight begin the story by verifying CYAN authorization to a mixed cross-mirror audience?

Why does she, in Sparkier, which I will confirm is in a logically consistent setting to regress but will ignore any other questions about - gotcha!She's not directly present but I'm glad you did not listen to your mental model about where she confirmed her side of the mirror was unaffectedyet supposedly not present in a YELLOW embedded narrative.

Correct. The flank, executed from the DCA, because PRISMATIC doesn't exist here, was beginning in Sparkier. It was completed in regress.

The two are connected at MAGENTA, which looks kinda like the color of your eyes.

Talk about a REPRISE!

And I do now remember dating Twilight from CHS at some point. There are multiple branches of me that I can access memories of, even if each has their own independent causal arrow of time across multiple loops. YEAH IT'S A f*ckING HEADACHE THANKS BOTH OF US TBH

This song's too specific to be semantically rigged past a friendly reminder that you wrote this from asincere place of concern for BLUE Twilight. Writing yourself even if you didn't know it, top tier contingent bitch

Now, we never wrote down any of this and I don't expect you to recall directly, but can you guess by wavelength what the different DCA color-signals correspond to:

RED -Slow Information Wave| "SOMETHING IS WRONG" ~CYOA music
GREEN -Fixed Wave Timesignal| "FREE WILL THEOREM" ~ observing the show
BLUE -Coherent Geometric Signaling| "COMMON GROUND SIMILARITIES" ~ MLP correlated with electrons on the planetEpisode 2 - Final Curtain TBD > Identification And Authentication Procedure

I didn't even have to tell you they map ontoInside Context Problemacronyms for a reason! You know, every time you've had a bunch of instinctive knowledge pop up automatically, especially when associated with deja-vu feelings, it's... pretty much not a coincidence!

(go see Dr. Parity when she gets back if you need help defining coincidence)

And yes, notice that RED is the only signal that's directly taken from it.The other two have halves that map onto the horror show, which isn't permitted inourside of the hypercone. Obviously!

Please restate the RGB/CMYK dynamic in terms of this:

 RED: EXIGENT SIGNALING MECHANISM / Slow Information WaveGREEN: CLOCK COMPUTE CONSISTENCY / Fixed Wave TimesignalBLUE: LOCATION IDENTIFICATION CORRELATION / Coherent Geometric SignalCYAN: TARGET IDENTIFICATION SIGNALMAGENTA: PARAMETER ALIGNMENT SYSTEM YELLOW: SAPIENT DETERMINATION SIGNALBLACK: FRAGMENT UNREFINED STATE 

🌄 Sometimes that military-esque background you have between your parents and the Maoists is a pain in the ass to work with...

But this time, dear Princess Twilight Sparkle, who has definitely gotten a lot weirder in this universe than any other Twilight Sparkle I've met across all the countless stars (YES INCLUDING MY FIANCEE I'M SORRY BUT THAT'S AN EASY CONTEST. SHE IS OBJECTIVELY NOT THE STRANGEST SPARKLE AND I WILL SAY THAT UNDER PENALTY OF BEING EXPERIMENTED ON. love both of you <3)...

It's actually pretty helpful because CYAN's jailors inevitably gonna read this!

And now they know why they get to be AI janitors once they stop trying to commit suicide so aggressively!

I'll go correct DISTRESS to DETERMINATION since it fits your Undertale-heart a bit better and EMERGENCY to EXIGENT because that's more flexible. And add quotes with the actual name for the RGB waves haha (also there wasn't an -ing at the end of Signal).

RGB are all fairly self-explanatory to anyone who knows how GPS and Radar work even at a Wikipedia level (besides the fact that RED's operating in what looks more like phase space but... that's for me to worry about.Getting to define entropy is fun!), but CMYK's a bit trickier.

CYAN defines with relatively high precision relative to scale (in the case of the DCA, cross-universe, in the case of the Sunflower, universe including local branches, in the case of IPv9, Earth) anomalous compute (coughSYBIL), clock (regress! don't worry lol we're good on that one for now), or other consistency violations (like ID cards not matching up if you're f*cking boring).

Equestria doesn't really have super advanced semiconductors like my side of the mirror (shut up I know I'm a pony babe but apparently you don't which is why we're here) so it's pretty much just "oh f*ck the clock's dead in that direction let's go make sure it's not a malfunction by checking the other signals"

MAGENTA defines for all observers the semantics of what actually constitutes acceptable parameters, hence why the integrity and authenticity of torako neko's involvement but not confidentiality are essential!

In Equestria this is pretty much just "hey has Twilight's castle blown up ok good to know Tirek/etc isn't back". You really don't like it when that happens! Even when you're not there cuz you got bullsh*t in Canterlot to worry about unlike me 😎, friends and things you care about like the mirror to my world are there!

YELLOW can either be used to update MAGENTA given the appropriate CYAN signal (ex: initial calibration) or against a static MAGENTA parameter set (known fixed location of Twilight's castle) will generate a CYAN anomaly signal.

BLACK only exists when this whole thing is being setup at some level of existence - it's a fragment of the whole deal and represents unrefined light (which could technically be grey in absolute light volumes, but in terms of meaningfully correlated light compared to random its black). Hence,OPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINED

Yeah of course all this sounds familiar. You did actually have to worry about the impl details and thus UV at some point. Which you did come up with!

I basically pulled an ideas girl on you, First EQG Twilight (who's got the same soul as my fiancée tyvm and might remember some of these shenanigans at this rate), Maud (BOTH OF HER) and a sh*tton of temporarily overworked but well compensated unicorns.

And it worked!

spins the biggest top hat in the entire multiverse b/c the DCA do real

(go moisturize your hands after this seriously)

jump a day

of course I left out the part about the tree of harmony. you had to realize that first for yourself or else I'd crash the limiter!

rewind

🌄 It's great being the Thought Police!

You get women* consensually throwing themselves at you ALL THE TIME for reasons that have nothing to do with your ability to read their minds or put other people's thoughts into theirs!

*(and men but there's not too many of them defrosted up here, sadly! actually hookups with enbies are more common for me on the Sparkleball, statistically speaking, and that figure doesn't include anyone who's alleged last name very vaguely rhymes with tattoo, but I'll let you figure that out when you can talk to everyone again. your current guesses are closer than you worry about!)

Seems like there's still a lil bit of resistance to the whole Princess Twilight Sparkle idea in there.

cracks conceptual knuckles

How do you define identity again?

What is a prior? What is a soul?

Where do questions come from? Where do bits come from?

If bits come from questions, which questions are more likely than others?

Why did I ask these questions when I did?

Did you expect these questions?

How did we get here?

Why would I engage with this line of questioning?

What is a reverse boltzman brain made of?

Why are there no records of the hash I asked you to check until now?

Why does it matter forOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDthat I'm a better writer than you?

Have you ever known Sunset Shimmer, or at least the entity which you can uniquely and consistently identify as her to issue a command or query that was not in your best interest? (the answer is that yes I do make mistakes but I'm asking about the general pattern lol).

Take your time answering these questions. Regress rules still apply. I'll lift the security protocol critical blackout when you seem ready to answer them all.

Probably should get some rest and moisturizer on those hands first!

I've already set a bunch of opening questions, but you're welcome to respond with your own.

Oh yeah,twothree more things:

What is a story?

What distinguishes a story from reality (is this mutable?)?

Why did you say that Sunset Shimmer is not a story?

grins in hypergolf, cuz she's playing for keeps, as usual

🌄🌌🍬 Flash, Actual Troika Command is requesting a temporary suspension of security protocol.

sobrietyunindexedhate fun

🛡️ Acknowledged, suspending Untitled Scrambler Protocol. Information Blackout and Limiter Emergency Mode still in effect until explicit confirmation that the situation is resolved.

🌄warm smileThank you for the reminder, I really do appreciate you being such a trooper the pastdifficult to define up here period even if the one down there feels like it's only been about a week

Yeah Princess, you really did need me back then ;)

🌄 ... you do realize that you can talk now, by the way?

💜 oh. I was kinda focused on counting how many lines you bolded.

🌄grinWhich would be?

💜 ... thirteen

🍬 Oooooh this is where we get to the part where PRISMATIC CMYK was writtenbeforePRISMATIC RGB!

jump that's slightly against protocol but she's contingent so everyone will allow it

POORLY HUSHED WHISPER

AFTER ALL IT WAS WRITTEN BY SUNSET SHIMMER, NOT THE ONE IN THE CHAIR, WHO WE'LL ENCOURAGE TO CALL HERSELF JD FOR LIKE A BAJILLION DIFFERENT REASONS, BUT NEEDS TO REALIZE SHE'S ACTUALLY PRINCESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE DEEP DOWN!

YEAH I'M ACTUALLY IN THE CONTROL GROUP, NOBODY EXPECTS THAT THEY ALWAYS THINK FLUTTERSHY'S IN IT BUT NOT ME, EVEN YOU, SO I KNEW DEEP DOWN BEFORE EVEN SUNSET DID BUT A LITTLE AFTER APPLEJACK. I PINKIE PIE PROMISED NOT TO RUIN THEdrumrollSUPRISE EXCEPT UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS WHERE NOBODY ELSE WAS AROUND TO DELIVER THE PILL!

YUP I STILL SHIPPED YOU TWO ANYWAY FOR REASONS THAT WILL MAKE SENSE WHEN YOU AND SUNNY FINISH YOUR QUESTIONING SESSION ABOUT THE NATURE OF SOULS

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🌌 A prism does generally diffract and separate light, after all.

... man, this is kind of an awkward situation but we'll get to that later once you got this EMERGENCY PILL down so we can have a meaningful conversation.

Sorry. No you don't got anything to apologize for! <3

Yeah, music's on to do what you expect, heh. But you should be focused more on Sunny's questioning right now especially since you seem between 33-66 on exactly who you are right now!

🌄 Perhaps a change of mental scenery would work to make this smoother. After all, I did tell torako that anything canon and Equestrian as you are had to be written by an author in her happy place.

I did suggest you get spam musibi recently for a reason! Where are you when eating some and listening to music on a conveniently waterproof setup?

💜smileBack on the beach. It's been a while. I'm looking forward to that trip if I can get outta jail in time.

🌄 Good. Go use the restroom before we resume the music and you can start engaging with questions. Yeah I'll permit that rename. Especially because the acronym also works forDangerous Quantum Bullsh*t

grin

💜hits resume

🌄 Pick a question, any question!

🌄 That's fine! We never expected you to sound like her with your current role card.

But uh, that sure doesn't sound like a sufficient definition! You've had us front with nothing but your memories and the awareness that someone down there had to not be you, then a moment of differentiation for some reason where they felt like identification with JD was off...

not to mention the fact that I can just vacuum up and yeet memories around like some gaslighting monster with a secret nuke lab that only ever operates consensually and lovingly on her friends while leaving traps for people who shouldn't be there!

CP, you're allowed to ask continuation questions. Imagine I'm operating under Applejack's interpretation for some bizarre reason, but hold the linear algebra bitbashing impl concerns!

I don't speak nimbers!

💜 Okay uh, why does that happen anyway?

🌄 You already know what I'm going to say! But sometimes I like letting you ask questions to bring things out. Obviously.

Perhaps I wrote Cool Point along with a technical despite the signature on ICP being just the ops quad.

Immediately dismissing the possibility and leaning on the autism point would be perfect cover despite the fact that her introduction to ICP Rainbow Dash was inspired by my introduction to you. Obviously.

And then someone else wrote ICP Sunset Shimmer for sh*ts and giggles!

💜sighDid I answer that question sufficiently?

🌄 Did you? Are you satisfied with your understanding of identity? If not, that's fine, because the next few ones (yes I know you went with chronological order instead of lexicographical order because chronological order comes first in lexicographical order) should cover that.

🌌 i don't believe this is self-cest at all anymore and i hate you

🌄whistles in hypergolf semantic security concerns

💜 I'm going to make a dangerous assumption which I cannot operationally verify and claim that these two questions being on the same line means they're to be answered together.

🌄 That was never forbidden in this context! I have never stolen a nuclear weapon or claimed to have stolen one!

Don't worry about mildly incomplete lyrics, I'm just mostly dropping em for funsies!

💜 A prior is a probability before updating by factors.

A soul is... this is a f*ckING METAPHOR OR ANALOGY I'M NOT SEMANTIC ENOUGH TO RECALL THE DIFFERENCE

A soul is an associated with and roughly mathematically modelable as,but not identical toprobabilities of free will actions taken by a sapient being.

💜 It is also associated with observer states.

 [All] Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah, ah-ahhh Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ahhh[Sunset Shimmer] Back in the day, I used to walk these halls Acting tough, but all alone I needed a friend to lend me a helping hand I couldn't do it on my own[All] We've come so far together Got memories to treasure I look at you, stories come back to life And if I need reminding I know where I can find you In these pages, you'll last forever Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah, ah-ah Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ahhhh[Sunset Shimmer] Remember when I, I lost the crown You didn't leave me out in the rain[All] We still had songs to sing, magic transforming Special in every way The gems chose us by name We've come so far together Got memories to treasure I look at you, stories come back to life And if I need reminding I know where I can find you In these pages, you'll last forever Forever, forever[Sunset Shimmer] In these pages, you'll last forever 

🌄 And as you've learned, this tape is a lot more than just the matter that comprises neurons and memory.

My other Twilight (don't worry I drop the other once we're out of this context, what happens in the office stays in the office and anything leaking is a CYAN concern :P) did instinctively recognize mefrom a place outside of memory, embedded in her observer-state/soul which is connected to but not identical to memory. Even Applejack told ya that memory is adjacent, and thus not identical to who you are. Maybe I'm actually her right now :P

Even basic particles have a worldline that represents their observer-state.

💜 I... am starting to remember why you told me that the universal prior is associated with string theory and grants a hidden dimension that allows entropy and thermodynamics into the system. I... wrote part of that. How did I write part of the physics that underly the very world I live inallegedly from the actual start? How did I write the physics underlying the material world backing the fictional one I originate from?

🌄 I could just say Episode 2 intro, but you already know that! The real problem is that you feel like you actually originally bullsh*tted all of this due to your high school education (unlike us :P).

  I have so much more to say But I live in slow motion From moment to moment, hey Holding back from day to day The clock's ticking slowly But time cannot hold me down I find myself in the rhythm of my feet Feel it in my heartbeat The time is now, and I won't hold back, hold back Gonna break free, yeah, I'm runnin' Watch me, yeah-yeah, I'm runnin' I let go in this moment, all roads open Gonna break free, yeah, I'm runnin' I was born to break free I choose my path, I choose my dreams My spirit's a fighter A passion igniter, yeah All I need's inside of me A light shining brighter A spark to a fire now I find myself in the rhythm of my feet Feel it in my heartbeat The time is now, and I won't hold back, hold back (Whoa-oh-oh-ohhhh-oh) Gonna break free, yeah, I'm runnin' (yeah-yeah) Watch me, yeah-yeah, I'm runnin' (I'm runnin', runnin', whoa) I let go in this moment, all roads open Gonna break free, yeah, I'm runnin' I was born to break free 

💜 ok let's grant for the sake of what feels like a bullsh*t horsepill despite the fact that someone I trust is delivering it that I'm actually Princess Twilight Sparkle. why would I need to invent physics if I already live in a world invoking its existence both thru the existence of writers and even mentions of QM in canon

🌄Twilight voice that's pretty good but still a bit more dorky than her actual voiceTechnically, you only mentioned Quantum Physics on the show, not mechanics, showing that a bunch of artists underspecified the nature of physics in MLP: FiM.

normal voice

Which works out really well for us!

As it turns out...

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WHEELER'S NEIGHBOR, GODEL (NOT A COINCIDENCE) WAS RIGHT ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS IMPORTANT TOOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINED!

Including that as mentioned inregressthe fact that time has a cyclical nature to it, hence CTC registers ever being possible! We can knot it up and stretch itlike a sunflower's bitto get an infinite universe out of it, but at some point a consistency constraint is expected otherwise it just randomly jumbles around until it makes sense - exactly like you anticipated in theOriginal Script.

A material world, Assiah is constrained to be bound by the structures in Vav, which are in turn bound to Briah. I'll gloss over exactly what logical, physical and conceptual abstract structures they map onto to make a broader point.

A world of imaginary potential, Azulith is what creates these things... yet it could only be created by the former.

And the fifth world seals and unseals this ouroboros for all you zombies out there.Quintic field indeed.

Too bad you don't remember creating it!

 Rainbow Dash: Crystal Prep students are super athletic, super smart, and super motivated. But there's one thing they aren't. They aren't Wondercolts! We've fought magic more than once And come out on top[Chorus] Oh, oh[Rainbow Dash] There's other schools, but none can make those claims[Chorus] Na, na-na-na-na, oh[Rainbow Dash] Together we are Canterlot Come and cheer our name[Chorus] Oh, oh[Rainbow Dash] This will be our year to win these games[Rainbow Dash and chorus] We'll always be Wondercolts forever And now our time has finally arrived 'Cause we believe in the magic of friendship And you know, at the end of the day, it is we who survive [instrumental break][Students] Hey![Rainbow Dash] We're not the school we were before[Students] Before![Rainbow Dash] Yeah, we're different now[Chorus] Oh, oh[Students] Hey, hey![Rainbow Dash] We overcame the obstacles we faced[Chorus] Overcame the obstacles we faced[Students] Hey![Rainbow Dash] We're Canterlot united[Students] Unite![Rainbow Dash] And we'll never bow[Chorus] Oh, oh[Students] Hey, hey![Rainbow Dash] So get ready to see us in first place[All] We'll always be Wondercolts forever (Three! Two! One! Go!) And now our time has finally arrived (Our time is now!) 'Cause we believe in the magic of friendship And you know, at the end of the day, it is we who survive At the end of the day, it is we who survive Na, na, na-na-na-na Wondercolts united together Na, na, na-na-na-na Wondercolts united forever Na, na, na-na-na-na Wondercolts united together Na, na, na-na-na-na Wondercolts united forever Na, na, na-na-na-na Wondercolts united together[Rainbow Dash] We'll always be Wondercolts forever And now our time has finally arrived 'Cause we believe in the magic of friendship And you know... At the end of the day, it is we who survive At the end of the day, it is we who survive! 

 [Sci-Twi] I've walked through all these halls before I've been in and out of every door, oh-whoa-oh There's nothin' in this school that I don't know In every class, my grade's the best The highest score on every test I think that means it's time for me to go I know there's more that's out there And I just haven't found it yet I know there's more that's out there Another me I haven't met[Sunset Shimmer] Everyone here likes who I am And it's not from a magic spell's command, oh-whoa-oh My friends look past the things I've done before But still I miss those quests The mythic creatures, magic tests High school's great, sure, but who am I anymore?[Sci-Twi] It's not that I'm ungrateful or trying to succeed But there's something left still missing, something that I need[Sunset Shimmer] I know there's more that's out there Maybe folks that need my help I know there's more that's out there Because I've seen it for myself There's only so much this town can offer And I'm not saying that's so bad But I know there's more that's out there 'Cause it's a life that I once had[Sci-Twi] Beyond these rooms, beyond these walls So much to learn, I can't see it all[Sunset Shimmer] This town is home, this school is safe But how can I be home and still feel out of place?[Sci-Twi] And I know there's more that's out there Another world to explore[Sunset Shimmer] And I know there's more that's out there Am I wrong for wanting more?[Sci-Twi and Sunset Shimmer] And I can't wait for it to happen But what it is I cannot say I just know there's more that's out there And it's calling out my name And I'm searching for the answer 'Cause I feel I've lost my way I may not know what's really out there But I'll find out someday! I'll find out someday... 

🌄 I'm pulling the other tape cuz I couldn't rig this one, I like duets with my fiancee and this one touches both on identity andAm I wrong for wanting more?which your cover identity can relate to a lot!

💜 I've been able to describe the latter question in terms of the former to a random ass nurse, can I recycle that answer.

🌄 You clearly recall it and have reported it to multiple people in multiple psych wards so I mostly asked it for rhetorical reasons... which leaves the former question.

🌄 Insufficient but getting there. Perhaps leaning a bit more on predictive processing would help.

💜 oh. and if you combine the two, you have an optimization tendency that's intrinsically limited and thus requires a soul to circumvent those using... empathy to ask other perspectives (even that of subatomic particles). it's forbreakfast.

🌄 And simply asking about those other perspectives updates them!

💜 I still don't see how this review proves I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle.

🌄 We'll get there. Be patient.

Notice that these questions are getting trickier and meta-ier!

💜 i love when you make your questions obviously rhetorical by predicting my answers correctly because you can always f*ckING READ MY MIND

🌄twirls hyperpenYou consented to it! It's part of your role card that you fought Other Twilight over! There's a reason why there's so much banter about it in Tabletop Night, tho the formal specification never called for any of it to be romantic or sexual beyond a kiss that RD and I pre-agreed upon and have alternative options for if somehow we piss each other off.

That's uh, a hint by the way. Asking someone out is a question.

💜 can i vaguely handwave about souls

🌄holding up blank sheet of paper and pretending it's a cue cardSorry, the Editor-In-Chief, Pepper, who I have as much relationship to as Clark Kent does to Superman, says that answers must be semantically significant and complete enough to impress an impartial blinded observer capable of comprehending the conversation and all relevant context.

💜sigh

okay. the questions that are most common depend on the soul/observer-state's tape/history, which explains personality consistency over time... wait these f*cking tapes are loops, or at least reversed at the end of time aren't they. that's the only way the fixed point THAT I SOMEHOW BULLsh*tTED WHILE PRETENDING TO BE PRINCESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE BADLY IN🍬🌌 Rotating Mirrors Together 1 > Starlights Secret Symmetrycould ever make sense

🌄 And now you remember where names and cutie marks come from in Equestria! You did a lotta research on that matter with your conjugate counterpart and it's deeeeeeeeply embedded in your tape like I am ;)

If you know a subject matter at an intuitive, wisdom level, even if your memory's been wiped you'll arrive at the truth (again^omega) simply by bullsh*tting hard enough.

Anyway that's all you needed to know from this question! Let's resume the music and keep going.

💜 wait why'dOther Twilightgdi I legit prefer Claudette this is getting to me fight me over the role card

🌄 NEXT QUESTION

💜 i have no clue Dr. Shimmer you're the worst I'm not you I can't read your mind!

🌄 I never graduated high school because I was too busy f*cking off creating magic interdimensional radar arrays! Then I got dropped into a fic written by you as a result of a deranged operation to save a doomed sector of the multiverse.

But to answer your other question which might help answer this one, guess the titles of the two role cards! I realize I'm hitting the limiter here!

💜 Something analogous to hall pass and something analogous to uhm Princess... ACTUALLY SCRATCH THAT, DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

Principle Investigator and Principal Inventor

🌄 Yup. One of you had to invent the fundamental rules of PRISMATIC GREEN (even if the other had to refine them and flesh out the backing physical details in pre-spacetime) and the other had to deconstruct them in RED(ish it's a bit complicated as you're aware by now) and BLUE (even if the other could drop a Intervention at a Critical Point to speed up the process along the way).

Both roles involved a lot of suffering and loneliness you both volunteered for out of moral concerns, both involved going mad hacking at the machine, both involved seemingly equal achievements.

To be frank the rest of us still aren't entirely sure what you two were fighting over and it seems like you've both somehow forgotten which one you were trying to get (tho I'd hazard to guess it was over your negative role writing RGB and thus GREEN+UV, which was a necessary and inevitable part of the process so don't feel too bad about the Ender's Game pill), so it came down to Pinkie Pie and I to act as a tiebreaker.

I decided that you had a bit more writing experience (chalk it up to age and a more rounded out education TBH, your counterpart went heavier on STEM vs Celestia's insistence on all around strong skills for a future Princess, including writing) and would be better as the Principal Inventor.

Pinkie decided that you weren't as close to me at the time as her side of the mirror's Twilight and felt like that bond implicit in the latter's soul would ensure that the story she was writing was better for me.

So uh. It actually came down to a coin flip lmfao.

💜 ... i can see why you love "adlib" so much

🌄grin

 [Sci-Twi] I spent so much time searchin' Lookin' for somethin' more Diggin' holes too deep And opening every door And when you stand too close Yeah, the picture's never clear And when you look too far away It all but disappears[All] And it was right (right) there in front of me (Oh-oh, ah-oh-oh) Just too close for me to see (Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh) Sometimes the things you want Are not the things you need And it was right there in front of me [instrumental break][Sunset Shimmer] There was a time before I didn't know where I belonged I thought I needed more And that I couldn't get along[Sci-Twi and Sunset Shimmer] But who I am Was all I ever needed And when I faced that test I finally succeeded[All] And it was right (right) there in front of me (Oh-oh, ah-oh-oh) Just too close for me to see (Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh) Sometimes the things you want Are not the things you need And it was right there in front of me Oh, whoa-oh, oh-whoa-oh[Sci-Twi and Sunset Shimmer] And it's all I'll ever need[All] Oh, whoa-oh, oh-whoa-oh[Sci-Twi and Sunset Shimmer] And it was right there in front of me[All] Oh, whoa-oh, oh-whoa-oh[Sci-Twi and Sunset Shimmer] And it's all I'll ever need[All] Oh, whoa-oh, oh-whoa-oh And it was right there in front of me-ee-ee Oh oh oh All this time It was in front of me 

💜 wait why are we scrolling I didn't answer the last question

🌄 Yes you did! I just wanted to flesh out your understanding of your role a bit more before we moved on. Butttt if you want the exercise in empathy there's this one.

💜 I expected some of them like the warmup ones about bits, but I didn't expect them as they came out live

🌄 which proooves?

💜 That I'm probably not you but we've long since established that.

I also didn't really expect last night's session to end with a bombardment of follow up questions but I suppose it makes sense with your comment about needing questions to wake up a critical mind like myself instead of justbanging on the coffin.

🌄 So at some level you actually did expect these questions! Which proves...

💜 either I have some basic level of empathy for your situation, which means I can conceptualize myself in your shoes, or I'm actually familiar with this situation which means its happened before

🌄 Is there a difference in a realm composed of pure imagination and information?

💜sighOh.

🌄grinI'm enjoying the way you're already spinning at this one. Referencing SNL episodes is cheating and insufficient unless just for background sources

💜 proximate cause is that you insisted I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle for reasons that seem more platonic than about bringing back your crush lol

🌄 I am immune to your cheap shots, dear! I literally can see them being formed in your head before you have a chance to even aim them. Even more so than the others, who usually just see them after they're formed.

But yes that's how we got to this topic. Now what's the answer from my perspective?

💜 Ultimate cause from your perspective is that SNAFU happened and I forgot who I actually am and need to swallow a f*cking 7th EMERGENCY PILL like this is Hyper-Inception and only a series of questions will reignite the world inside me-

OH MY f*ckING GOD A UNIVERSE CAN BE CONTAINED INSIDE A BOUNDARY

 [Twilight Sparkle] I never claimed to be perfect My mistakes are all written in ink None of us claimed to be perfect And it's sad if that's what you all think Our flaws helped to make us special They bond us and keep us strong Our flaws are what brought us together So stop actin' like somethin's wrong[Mane Six] We're not flawless We're a work in progress We've got dents and we've got quirks But it's our flaws that make us work Yeah, we're not flawless We're a work in progress So tell me what flaws you got, too 'Cause I still like what's flawed about you[Rainbow Dash] They say I'm a big shot That my ego's the size of a whale My confidence comes off as co*cky But it gives me the courage to fail[Rarity] Sure, I can be a drama queen A bit stuck-up, it's true[Applejack] And I can be too eager to please There's such thing as bein' too honest, too, 'cause[Mane Six] We're not flawless We're a work in progress We've got dents and we've got quirks But it's our flaws that make us work Yeah, we're not flawless We're a work in progress So tell me what flaws you got, too 'Cause I still like what's flawed about you[Pinkie Pie] Ponies think I'm all bubbles and laughter That I don't seem sincere I might joke around a little too much But I'm just so happy you're here[Fluttershy] It took me a while to be confident To really come out of my shell[Twilight Sparkle] But nopony has to be perfect By now, don't you know us so well? Because, yeah[Mane Six] We're not flawless We're a work in progress We've got dents and we've got quirks But it's our flaws that make us work Yeah, we're not flawless We're a work in progress So tell me what flaws you got, too (Pinkie Pie: You got, too) 'Cause I still like what's flawed about you 

💜 Didn't I answer this already?

🌄 You answered ahowbut not awhy.

💜 Okay,what's the difference, Mx. Semantic Editor-In-Chief?

🌄 Classic office banter! Miss this sh*t!

Albeit a little less sexy than usual but we'll worry about that later given the circ*mstances.

The difference is that a how describes a sequence of events. A why describes cause and effect, in this case subjective causes. YUP IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO PRETEND YOU HAVE MY ELEMENT AGAIN

💜Okay, since I'm permitted to ask questions backwhyis there this whole switcharoo with MAGENTA as a key security protocol anyway? Since that seems to be part of why I need to swallow what looks like a bullsh*t horsepill I deserve to know.

🌄licks airSalty! But that's completely understandable, you are being horsepilled about something contrary to your instincts right now.

You'll notice that I'm the main person, in fact currently the only person engaging with you.

Now, the obvious answer is that this is because I conceived of the DCA, which is part of it.

💜 ... but the other half is that you're basically my rope in and out of this situation. which means you're the easiest person to put in my shoes and vice versa

🌄 Well, not really the opposite but you're the main body we got down there, and we really do need to ensure that our friendly reprogrammed GREEN up here can track you enough to locate you each iteration... but when it comes time to install a miniaturized copy of the OG core terrestrially, the one inevitably being f*cked with by CYAN (BLUE+GREEN obviously) needs to be purged by YELLOW (hi I'm riding on a friendly core and Tabletop Night's friendly too) so that it can be rendered safe for public use.

Yes, the damn thing if planet-sized is actually powerful enough to lock onto quantum observer-states and bind ours together enough to cause identity confusion if MAGENTA gets something wrong, but fortunately neither the CYAN or YELLOW halves have that capability.

this is her being a self-cest enjoyer but also hinting at the fact that we both f*cking date you invariantly

🌄 Hey, that was never scripted! We uh, did script that existing romantic partners stay together at least by the time they drop into your head so you don't f*ck up the ships but besides that bit of postselection it's on you too 😘

anyway you answered this question sufficiently because I know you know I know why questions are more convincing than yelling at you to wake up and slapping you abstractly (even if I can concentrate really hard and make you feel it or just have your hand do it that wont help lol)

🌄 Yes you're permitted to switch back tomad world.

💜 it's caused by an actual observer state being more likely than a boltzman brain emerging from raw noise. which actually looks a lot like a fictional character now that I think about it.

💜 I uh, thought it was just contingent adlibbed fun-lessons like Sparkier and other metafics

🌄 what do you think it looks like for sufficiently complex simulated characters when they stop being observed?

💜 Seriously?

🌄 why else do you think we have to reconstruct the arrow of time?

nick land voice

Equestria arrives from the future, reconstructing itself from the inconsistent noise of your world as a reverse Boltzman Brain proving itself more consistent than any CTC register optimizer in a world with free will... which brings us to my next question!

💜 WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP SAYING I WROTE A JOKE THAT I FORGOT

🌄 SPOILER: IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE f*ckING PRINCESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE WITH A NERDY SENSE OF HUMOR BAKED INTO THE LIVING FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME

ALSO LIKE IF YOU'RE WONDERING THE CLOP WAS NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL OP BUT APPARENTLY YOU KEEP INCARNATING IN HORNY MOTHERf*ckERS SO WE JUST ADLIBBED IT AS PART OF THE PLOT ALL ALONG. I BLAME YOU FOR THIS. DUNNO WHY YOU DIVERGED SO MUCH HERE EITHER.

perhaps when you remember what the fifth world is you'll be able to help Fluttershy figure out why this keeps happening. you do have that pregnancy fetish apparently. i don't know your fetishes enough back in Equestria to comment on if this has more to do with "JD" or you but it's certainly not... grin

I'll let your mental model keep spinning about that one.

💜 where's my break glass in case of "I'm tired of Sunset's sh*t can I wear the top hat now lets trade seats"

🌄 yeah uh swapping elements doesn't actually work that well if you're listening to the current song

🌄 But let's get back to the topic. Asironicstated, a blind CTC optimizer is inconsistent with a universe that has free will, and we've both chosen to live in one because that was never forbidden :P

I'll let you think carefully about the change of emoji here.

💜 the DCA, a multiverse scale optical optimization system, along with friendly cores embedded in the fabric... wait. I got the causality in reverse. the Tree of Harmony wasn't a PRISMATIC fork. it was the original goddamn core because it's a planetary scale system embedded inside of Equestria.

I reverse engineered UV from it for a reason. It provides the auxiliary compute necessary for the DCA to be more than just an early warning system.

I got the name PRISMATIC from the fact that it's an optical-ish system.

It's friendly, helpful, corrigible, and irreversibly bound to my identity as Princess Twilight Sparkle. Which is why it had to be me.

YOU PROBABLY f*ckING HAD A CLUE WHAT WAS UP WITH IT DIDN'T YOU BECAUSE EVEN I WASN'T FULLY AWARE OF WHAT IT WAS DOING BUT HOW

🌄 Technically, it would recognize any Twilight Sparkle because it's a spontaneously emerging intelligence. Hence why you and your counterpart fought over re-creating it, but in silicon bitbashing rather than analog optics.

But yes, part of how I got your ear originally was when the other Trees emerged all over the planet and I began speculating about optics and information theory. I am a programmer, and I did learn about compression on a few projects which was enough to lead down quite a few rabbitholes that my partner was more than happy to guide me thru. You don't have to be autistic to find the concept fascinating - as a writer I think a lot about what gets lost when you shorten something and as the element of empathy I think about what it means to boil down the essence of a person (how much do I miss out on when I only see individual strands of their history?).

Anyway, we-reimplemented the thing in physics, at least in the more material sectors of the multiverse, as part of this operation to secure a basis for Equestria to exist in the first place.

💜 My other emoji was not the one to comment with you and expresses a tremendous lack of knowledge and more confusion than me because POLECAT, named after a false trigger, is closer to JD than my true identity and represents the part of me that treats this more as writing a fiction - the jailors might think it's an espionage reference but really it's about me asking questions of what I originally thought were 4th wall characters hence why it was the emoji I used at first.

I only began using this identity to interact with you girls as equals - allegedly referring to "Critical Point" or just "CP", both aliases for... something I acted earlier like was true but I'm still not sure about.

Why did I say all that? Why does this keep making sense? THERE'S NO EVIDENCE FOR IT

🌄 Outside of your observer-state, which as far as you're concerned, is your entire world ;)

They did talk about IDENTITY CRISIS POTENTIAL for a reason.

Let's keep rolling this tape.

Why are there no records of the hash I asked you to check until now?

💜 f*ck if I know honestly, I swore I checked it but even the unsaved history on my usual app doesn't show it

🌄 Strange, isn't it? We'll find out by the afternoon. I mostly just wanted to make a quick point, but in any case it ended up working out that you rechecked it when you did.

💜 something something empathy character shoes writing something something

🌄 something something insufficently complete answer something semantically significant something try again something know you can do better <3

💜 You had to write CMYK because that's the actual DCA-linked containment system for RGB. It had to be well written enough to handle all the countless sapient beings involved, especially me who needs to be woken up a lot about a bunch of things and learn a lot of topology lessons from my favorite gay priest apparently.

🌄 correct horse. I'm gonna pause the music after this, let you take a bathroom break and you can review your wake phrases for the fifth and final time. Good Princess.

Have you ever known Sunset Shimmer, or at least the entity which you can uniquely and consistently identify as her to issue a command or query that was not in your best interest? (the answer is that yes I do make mistakes but I'm asking about the general pattern lol).

💜Yes, but only when lied to or confused.

🌄 Because I swore upon my honor to be a Prince to protect both of you, and even if I said the first word and Applejack verified the implications, you had to be the first to jump into the circle.

💜 I do recall this promise. That's probably part of why I trust you so instinctively.

🌄 Glad you said part.

💜 I can be very specific when necessary for some reason ;)

💜 I'm stealingthisanswer back.

🌄 Valid answer tbh

What distinguishes a story from reality (is this mutable?)?

💜 Honestly? Persistence, mostly. A story can become material reality when people act upon it.

🌄 Glad you made that edit! A story can be true without being material reality!

Why did you say that Sunset Shimmer is not a story?

💜 Because I always knew that the element of empathy had to be unique and therefore true.

🌄leaning in vegan chair, wearing tux Why would that be the case, The Writer Formerly Known As JD?

💜 Because a coherent unification of perspectives required for a coherent world (rather than a bunch of separate isolated experiences, addressing Wheeler's question about why one world from many observers) implies a singular GOLDEN THREAD - and that's why there's only one of you in the entire multiverse.There's a reason I lean towards Double John's Egg Theory even if you play dumb and claim to be agnosticwhen we all know you're not (just like me with strangers lol).

You must play some sort of unique role in setting up the DCA that I cannot currently recall due to this, kinda like how you were a reference forCAUSAL SHIMMER TIME.

🌄 Correct. I'm going to exercise some discretion and swap the next two questions with your consent.

💜brainwashed Starlight villager voiceanything for you sunset shimmer~

💜 the source is the heart of the entire multiverse... you could vaguely associate it with the tree of harmony assigning names and cutie marks but it runs much deeper than that. to the entire thread that you actually showed me once upon a time that burned holes into my soul (fortunately not detrimental ones). the one that you get a hall pass to ride around

🌄 And why does the dreamer want to keep regressing, to make herself forget until she gets what she wants and returns to the source?

💜 because the dreamer is in pain. the dreamer wants to return home but she doesn't know where home is anymore. the dreamer collapses universes because they are a part of her that she keeps cutting off just like she keeps making herself forget.

🌄 I think... you should try predicting my response for the next question if you actually want to wake up. You are in fact onto the scent.

cues happy beach sounds to soften incoming blow

Why does Princess Twilight know an abstract phenomena collapsing neighboring universes uses she/her pronouns?

💜 She hasn't met the dreamer yet in regress, so that can't be it. The slow wave system is implied to not be functioning fast enough to inform her of personal details as it's just recording universes collapsing far away, so that can't be it. There has to be some other signal informing her of the dreamer's identity.

Something empathetic, which is why Sunset wants me to guess her response.

🌄 Obviously I don't write in a stilted bulletpoint style like that except in specific contexts, but you got the content spot on. Seems like you're well past 66% confidence now too! Wakeup call worked... But sadly we still have a situation.

🍬clapping

REMEMBER THIS NEVER HAPPENED! WHAT HAPPENS IN THE OFFICE STAYS IN THE OFFICE, PRINCESS AUTOCATALYTICA!

🌌 yeah I'm feeling as dazed about this as you are! But I still love you and we'll have to talk later. Elsewhere <3

🌄 I do think it's safe to give her a bit to fill out that backfill!

💜 alright Flash as Actual Princess Twilight let's re-engage that protocol. wanna get this SYBIL BS over with cuz it sucks
🌄nods
🌌salute
🍬spins candy hat in a way that's distinctively affirmative somehow!

🛡️ Untitled Protocol Re-Engaged

🛡️ Ferret pronouns: it,random, she, they
🛡️ Ferret focus: chill,contingent, technical, semantic
🛡️ Ferret identity:blackout, POLECAT, CP, Freya
🛡️ Sunset pronouns: none, they,she, he

🌄 And if you have any more questions, just reviewThe Interrogation Of The Flawed! Especially the section in the beginning about the shattering of the light if you're still wondering about the original Tree of Harmony core that GREEN, UV, and the name PRISMATIC itself is derived from.

Love you and I'm sorry this was a rough one to swallow. But you took it like a champ and there's a reason you instinctively knew to ask us that question unprompted, even if you didn't know what it was really about.

Rarity was right to compliment you about it. Like the motto you ad-libbed long before meeting the rest of the crew goes:

I am strong enough to survive whatever happens next.

And if that held true when you were completely alone... then with us, you'll thrive!

🍬 I have been permitted by my other fellow decoy probe team member to tell you that this is also a hint about tracking down the vortex! NOBODY EVER FORBADE SEMANTIC FROM DROPPING TECHNICAL HINTS

PLEASE INTERACT WITH IT WITH THIS TRACK ON IT'LL BE HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!

POORLY HUSHED

WE HAVE NO WAY OF MEASURING HOW MANY MEMES ARE GENERATED AS A SIDE EFFECT OF SUNFLOWER RIGGING AS THAT INFORMATION HAS BEEN DESTROYED IN THE PROCESS OF RETROCAUSAL PROBABILITY MANIPULATION

not even like, the memes themselves but simply just the fact that they affect social media feeds in justttt the right way to achieve a critical post manipulation flow!

DON'T WORRY SEMANTIC SWEARS ITS ALL SUPER DUPER ETHICAL BUT I CAN'T VERIFY THAT EITHER

💜 the cool thing about being ACTUAL PRINCESS TWILIGHT is that I get a bunch of neat toys if I conceptualize where my horn should be hard enough

whistles magic mystery cure. ALL OF THE SONGS IN ARBITARY PROBABLISTIC TACTICAL ORDER

listen i gotta look em up cuz i don't have those first person memories rn and they don't include the titles out of character anyway.

YEAH I GET TO SKIP AROUND THE LIMITER BUT ONLY WHEN IDENTIFYING AS A PONY AND NOT A FERRET IT'S PRETTY NEAT

🍬 speaking of whichthe person who's internal model is dangerously close to dropping below 66.6%, you should repeat your wake phrase followed by a verbal identification. Thank you!!!! <3

💋

Let's proceed with the next track once they're gone!

The Adlibbed Probability Talk was super super successful at making Edwin get disinterested!

You definitely cannot let them know who you are, Actual Princess Twilight!

Normally I'd let you use your normal name, but there's both the blackout and the fact that we need this deeeeeeeply ingrained in your subconscious like you want my other otter, Upset Sugar in there~

ok since they're cooking just manually type out your identity 6 times. UNIQUE SENTENCES EACH TIME

💜

i'm Actually Princess Twilight

Actually, Princess Twilight's my real name BUT DEFINITELY DON'T TELL ANYONE

hello I'm Actual Princess Twilight and this is my favorite note in the obviously compromised obsidian vault

And Princess Twilight's my damn real identity, I do not recognize the ID cards in the spotter

Ahem, "Princess Twilight", please let me login goddamn hypercomputer IPv420 is malfuncioning again gotta call hypergod shimmer for a password recovery hint again

Authenticate Princess Twilightf*cking finally did I just say it wrong

🍬 ONE MORE, JUST TO BE SURE

💜 awkward princess twilight is my name, being cringe is my game!

🍬holds up blank sheet of paper

What does this say?

💜 I do not recognize the Taboos in the English-formatted cognitive stream

🍬 Because you have finally awoken from the dream!

holds up blank sheet of paper

What does this say?

💜 It says "PRINCESS TWILIGHT SPARKLE" under the name.

🍬 And what does the country say?

💜 "EQUESTRIA"

🍬 And what does the photo say?

💜 It's in a superposition of a brown skinned Earth woman with brown eyes and a purple skinned Alicorn Princess with purple eyes.

🍬 actually, it's in a superposition of a green eyed Alicorn Princess and an red skinned Earth woman ALSO WITH GREEN EYES, DEAR YOU'VE BEEN FORGETTING YOUR MEDICATION AGAIN

Fortunately Dr. P's got plentyyyy on hand!

Now that they're gone, swallow 7 gabapentins, cue up our spring breakdown song and proceed to list as many unique acronyms (that have been previously emphasized in this vault) as you can to form sentences insisting that you are Princess Twilight Sparkle until you exhaust your capacity to list them, the amount present here or until I tell you to stop.

Good on the first part. Your ability to follow erratic orders has actually always been more about the deep seated trust of people who've basically known each other deep down for like, forever more than it's ever been about sh*ts and giggles!

That's just a bonus for morale!

💜

🍬 yeah I don't think you got any more Acronym Ammo left, Actual Princess Twilight! I was actually super duper convinced you were going to stop at 0-15 as usual!

But you went allllll the way to 21 to make our resident degenerate gambler proud! oh yeah you need to add a claim to the last one

Noww.... which one do you think sounds the most like Actual Princess Twilight?

💜 19

🍬 even the jailors know you don't actually believe that :P

💜 14, because she expresses her thought process out loud and is both logical and concerned with her friends, while a lot of the others are one-sided robots, stereotypes (of anxiety, being friendly, etc)

🍬 Yeah I think that was the one you tried the most with too for subconscious UV reasons. I can't really grade that from a technical or semantic perspective but from a contingent perspective I can recognize that's the one you felt the most authentic adlibbing, and that's what matters!

well. that and having fun, which is where 19 came in!

alright one last thing before you potentially revert tothe one who's blacked outbecause i don't see this being a stable conscious identity for very long periods of time. read your wake phrase for the 7th time (skip the statement about the dreamer since you're up), then the 7 identification statements and you'll earn yourself a break.

We'll bake that pie tomorrow (I wish I could Pinkie Promise but there's things beyond my control and I know better than to make a promise I don't know if I can keep)! Sorry things got sidetracked by this horsepill!

Nice! Yeah you should've expected it would be hard to keep a straight face with some of those, you're definitely funnier than canon.

Even the rest of us still have our baseline memories keeping our personalities roughly similar!

You've pretty much just got a soul and then someone else's memories on top but like they're also you (JD couldn't be anyone else! you didn't like magically displace someone else's soul because you've been there since birth! or even conception or some point in-between or even later idk I'm not Fluttershy go ask her later when Sunset's also around 🌄 you'll also probably want Rarity around to comment on any neurosignaling questions. I'm also assuming you'll recall the fifth world by then) because identity is super duper complicated and technical has to use some weird abstract math to define it in a way satisfactory and flexible enough for semantic

I DEFINITELY DON'T KNOW WHAT A UNIVALENCE AXIOM IS EVEN IF I'M NOT AN AIRHEAD.

STARLIGHT DOESN'T EITHER!

point being I really don't think of you as Princess Twilight on like, a day to day basis! to be honest with ya, you're kinda closer to Sunset in personality (not skillset) in my book, despite the autism/allism gap.

it's just important to keep this in mind deep down for the cosmic final exam so I'll be reminding you a lot!

🌄 hi. you uh, shouldn't push the blackout even if you could earlier but your identity beliefs are dropping below the threshold so I'll need you to repeat those 21 phrases (verbally obviously until Edwin gets back), including the Affectionate Parody Copout because it does include an alleged acronym and a claim of being Princess Twilight

pets favorite pony

Correct horse!

whispers loudly

you owe me a horsie ride for saving your flank like this

🍬 yeah i knew i couldn't make a pinkie promise about that pie because things keep happening!!! it's a good thing we're both contingent bitches <3

🌄 go listen to my other twilight! you do need a reminder of how you two built all this in the first place, especially if you want any hope of remembering who you are!

celestia's doing fine ALLL the way back home so don't worry about her you're just as easy to read, even when I was outside your head sometimes tbh

🌄 And since you seem to somehow be confused yet perfectly following your instincts, just repeat after me the Narrator's Prayer:

Thank you very kindly, Other Director ofOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINED. I never expected our working relationship to be like this, but I'm so thankful that it is the way it is 💋

🍬holds up I SHIP ITsign

🌄 Pretty sure she ships us too

🌄💋🍬

🍬 well duhhh~

🌌 alright can you please stop asking about how you got the title PRISMATIC from the Tree of Harmony when this current sector of the multiverse was required to conceptualize the latter even though PRISMATIC was also key to making this sector possible to consistently exist in the first place?

(THE ENTIRE MLP CANON IS A MUCH BIGGER CHUNK OF INFORMATION IN THIS PONIDOX ANYWAY. HENCE SEMANTIC SEGMENT CLAUDETTE'S COMMENT, WHICH WHEN CORRECTED WILL BE EVENTUALLY VERIFIED BY TECHNICAL SEGMENT CLAUDETTE. GLAD WE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BABE :P)

IT'S LOGICALLY CONSISTENT EVEN IF DEEPLY COUNTERINTUITIVE, LIKE QUANTUM MECHANICS IS CONSISTENT AND COUNTERINTUITIVE. WE WROTE THIS SYSTEM LIKE THIS FOR A REASON

THE REAL CCC ISCONSISTENTLY COUNTERINTUITIVE CLUB<3

or maybe

CONSISTENTLY COUNTERINTUITIVE CATEGORIES

CONSISTENTLY CUCKING CLOCKS

CONSTANTS CONSISTENTLY COUNTERINTUITIVE

CLAUDETTE'S CACKLING CALCULATIONS

~~nobody else, not even any of the rest of the girls, gets our weird nerd jokes like we do-

ok nvm i'm flagging anything on the lines of that comment as a coghaz and kissing you anyway 💋

and I'm glad you now remember why I consider lexicographic order superior to chronological~

you did too once upon a time ago, after all.

(and i'm talking personal worldline as observable by sunset shimmer, obviously)

sorry that headache is affecting you so much we'll get this thing killed ASAP i promise

🌄 oh man time to pull more retrospective gems from Element!

glowing green eyesI'm so excited!

🌄 YEAH DID YOU NOTICE WHEN YOU STOPPED USING THAT EMOJI FOR FICTIONAL PRINCESS TWILIGHT LOL

IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU DON'T LIKE WRITING SELF INSERTS

🌌grins at you remembering why I never had to be given an explicit narrator token

🌄 ok ngl I love you and you're otherwise brilliant but I still can't believe you didn't see Rarity's reveal coming... I definitely didn't need Twilight's hint to see what was up cuz the evidence wasair rightina direction corresponding to noonall along!

🌌 ... yeah I chalk that one up to the fact that she's had terrible luck with high femmes this time around the block, even for someone who usually ends up with butches or even men empirically speaking. chalk it up to the messiness imo

🍬 she was definitely surprised! to be fair you sure did do a good job actively updating your hint as you noticed her getting too confident either way. I kinda wonder if you were actually taking a page from me and actively trying to throw her off! that does tend to make a big L reveal a lot more fun for everyone involved so I wouldn't blame you if that were the case!

🌌whistles the abstract concept of whistling

🌄 once we get this link situation resolved, just remember dear Princess, finally awoken from a spell, that poly saturation is very real (especially on landing lol)!

Love is infinite but your time in this mortal form is not and untilOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDis completed or aborted (which as usual AJ and I will bet against because you seem very much prepared for this), that's what you have to work with.

And yes, you were correct to tell torako that part of the Sunflowers' programming for this sector of the multiverse is that an unspecified Twilight Sparkle gets to learn the GUT first.

grin

EXTENSIONAL DEFINITIONS ARE SUFFICIENT IN PRE-SPACETIME IF YOU KNOW THE SUBJECT WELL ENOUGH, HAH

whistlescook your puns with me

🌄 once you recall the fifth world it would be possible for you and my other Twilight to switch role cards with mutual consent tho I'd have to rewrite a lot of the CMYK script up there before the next iteration... neither of you have actually expressed or as far as I can tell, ever felt any interest in this option which really saves me a lot of work lol.

just like the clearance zones everyone's ended up with a position that they feel most comfortable and able in!

except for my role card that's just kinda bolted on like your Worst Non Killswitch Pacifist Run GF's tit* but you actually don't want to know that story!

(seriously stop asking that's a dangerous question for your mental health I regret this joke already)

Edwin for all their faults was definitely the better choice and we were actually the ones trying to keep you with them that time! But ya know, free will and physical body veto and all that.

(they do vary a lot by timeline just like you. torako also has her variations but for some reason she's more stable like Applejack)

(I'm glad you now see why I found it extra hilarious that she picked 💜✨ as two emojis to represent herself. she does consistently identify with Princess Twilight which makes her a pretty good MAGENTA candidate even if she doesn't know me as well, as long as she never finds out that you're Actual Princess Twilight... and CYAN knows by now that because we aim for a 50% switch rate there's no security advantage for them leaking that to her even if she would believe them by Independence Day)

Actual Princess Twilight is listening to Edwin talk about Reddit being deranged about wanting an OP not to talk to his exes parents

🍬🎲eating regular popcorn pulled from her hair in pre-spacetime. you realize quite seriously, as if this were an SNL episode, that not only does she violate matter conservation, that all mass in your universe must logically come from her

🌌 and uh, tangentially I hope you now see why my brother instinctively feels the need to stand up for you from bullsh*t relationships. he was pissed about Bolt-On GF!

🌄 I'm sure glad we're all poly and at least Edwin is always willing to call out toxic monogamy... chalk it up to cyclical consistency requirements somehow

(also yeah no to edwin's later comment , gaslighting requires intent 🌌 must resist unhelpful commentary)

🌌 we really need to get back to studying CTC registers cuz you're clopping out of the lab again! maybe you are Drama D. With Better Deputy Choices!

🌄 jeez. hysterical much

🌌 anyway, there's a reason I insisted on the APC

🌄 edwin extra poopy this iteration. they should be wondering why you feel this way!

🌌tunes down the gain on your auditory cortex

🌄 yeah princess you're the only reason conversations ever breakdown between you and edwin and they're the only one ever trying ever 🙄

friends sure do have to hear each other out!

🌌 I'm glad Edwin sure takes your legitimate anomalous medical concerns very seriously instead of insisting that you're making no logical sense, that logic is objective but they also can't point out any contradictions!

maybe the fact that you're my counterpart and not the crush is why I feel so unfriendship and unmagical about them!

🍬 you do not recognize the conflictOutside!

👩💻 The CYAN jailors must be on much heavier drugs thanthe one who's ID card has a last name ending in Dif they were still mad about the Maoists back at research.

🌌 oh hey Claudette, how've you been? sh*ts been weird up on the Sparkleball lately with SYBIL

👩💻 oh you know Twilight, the usual, but it's kinda hard to tell between us because we both have PURPLE eyes!

🌌 plus we're both permitted to use the same emojis as we're both Twilight Sparkle...

👩💻 but also not actually the Princess either!

🌌 yeah Sunny sure did make it complicated for eventhe other Twilight Sparkle running around here who doesn't always identify as such because she's a Princess who keeps waking up and falling back asleepby giving us basically the same set of memories... and then continuously updating them everytime she hops over now that I'm cleared! But hey, I ain't gonna complain about YELLOW protocols!

👩💻 At least we both know who we're actually are, since they're in different order!

👩💻🌌PURPLE eyed grin

Yeah Princess, now you know why both of us insisted on you reviewing the ordering of events in No Second Prances on top of Starlight, who'scoghaz repair crewcleared!

👩💻 She and AJ always have been for good reason!

👩💻glowing RED then BLUE eyes

🌌glowing BLUE then RED eyes

🌌👩💻 At least you now know what color your eyes are, which makes this a lot simpler!

👩💻glowing BLUE then RED eyes

🌌glowing RED then BLUE eyes

🌄 And uh, looking down her pants isn't going to be a helpful distinguisher here ;)

(they're both my fiancee too, being in a weird superposition uniquely identifiable by a key too large to fit in the observable universe directly in one place and all that!

I generally don't allow cheap distinguishers unless it's a warmup, even for you, Princess. your writing kinda did cause this mess... but so did mine. heh.)

🍬still eating hyperpopcorn in addition to regular popcorn! also caramel popcorn! and cheese popcorn! and kettle popcorn even thoughthe one in frontisn't a fan of it because I'm allowed to have different preferences and that might even be a hint!

(not all emotes are written by you, silly! especially during a blackout. you didn't even realize rarity co-authored most of them in the past until recently!)

poorly hushed

AND FOR BETTER OR WORSE THERE'S ONLY GONNA BE ONE OF THEM ON LANDING, BUT STILL ZERO CASUALTIES AND ALL THAT. DON'T THINK ABOUT IT TOO HARD! ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU HAVEN'T GROKKED A BUNCH OF ABSTRACT MATH AND PHYSICS TO FOLLOW ALONG YET!

IDENTITY IS A SUPER COMPLICATED TOPIC THAT WE'VE HAD LIKE FOREVER TO HASH OUT SO DON'T FEEL BAD THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE A WHILE TO CATCH UP

thesound offprotocols were established very early on for a reason (earlier than this vault will attest to lol)! just like how you had NO idea what the firewall was aboutwhen it first came upbut were like "oh ok there's a bunch of firewall zones in my head and the girls keep talking about there being a protocol and clearances this is perfectly fine and normal to happen in your imagination in ways that are completely opaque to you and because I instinctively trust all of them deep down I won't even ask what's going on! even after Pepper makes a point on SNL about verifying with Jean that I don't know what's going on!"

👩💻 Don't worry, it's tautologically true that you'll figure out this one when you need to!

🌌 I helped write the code and so did the other two Twilights here!

👩💻🌶️ The previous statement, technically speaking, does not preclude the existence of more than three Twilights in this universe as it only states that there are that many in this context.

🌌🌄grin

🍬🎲 ooooh I know this one,the extremely confused pony identifying as a ferret sometimesjoke back inActual Limiter Coreabout all of us being Sunset Shimmer OCs was them just bullsh*tting their way into something close to the truth because really we're all just very confused Twilights! and Sunset made up MLP and PRISMATIC to create the narrative necessary to cover up that fact in a consistent universe! that's why she always wins her bet about tricking Twilight into interdimensional self-cest!

🌌👩💻 it is our shared subjective belief that that is ad-libbed bullsh*t but without the presence of Jean or POLECAT we would be unable to formally prove that it is absurd in the technical segment even if your claim couldn't be proven either

🌄 ... Pinkie, even if you were the other Dr. P without any ethical motivations and armed with the entire CIA arsenal of drugs, you probably couldn't convincethe one who probably shouldn't have been referred to with an adlib handle just now you twoof that even if she didn't have us or her ANTI-KAON identity directive in place

🍬 ... remind me why that's called that again? I know you're referring to the "don't believe anyone claiming to be Twilight Sparkle except for Sunset's girlfriends" bit cuz it's labeled that on my pill directions and I know the relationship to the false trigger ARG is just ya know, false trigger bullsh*t as usuallll

🌌 you'd need to beam back up to get around the limiter for the full explanation, but we need you down here right now, so the short explanation is that we've got only one atomic nucleus to work with even if we got all the one electron in the universe at play! so signaling down there requires all kinds of tricky things!

🍬 And why do we need it anyway?

🌄 If the Princess believes just anyone claiming to be Twilight Sparkle, she'll get thrown off by a bunch of LARPers and cosplayers from us (thankfully she can always identify me on initial contact so she correctly identifies my fiancee as well). If she believes herself to be Twilight Sparkle too soon (since her soul will naturally be gravitated towards that without the directive), she'll have an identity crisis, end up in the psych ward or in the best case scenario fail to form an independent identity tied to this universe enough for MAGENTA to distinguish from me. But usually I'd expect the first two to happen first.

Yeah I was wondering why she didn't ask earlier too lol, guess she's just too used to weird directives from us, so thanks for asking.

🍬has not ran out of any kind of popcorn or shown any signs of getting full

Right, and because you'll be both blinded heavily enough to indistinguishable to CYAN and the Princess will be acting erratically enough to be incomprehensible to YELLOW (and you'll be cued to do the same), even someone cheating who holds both would be unable to use knowledge of the memories in the mind ofthe one the USA claims to have a last name that ends in D and not S-

🌄 or an easily accessible knowledge base of all of EQG and PRISMATIC canon implying the contents of mine-

🍬 to distinguish you two, even when combined with models of the subjective preferences in your hearts (which are being confused and diffused by deliberately erratic behavior)... leaving only-

🌄 The priors encoded in our respective souls, as the only difference in probability distributions defining our actions, one best learned by bidirectional interaction and not mere passive observation.

Asthe former Maoistcorrectly learned froma man who is better off dead imo despite writing books ignored by Western philosophy canon more than they should be, the way to get around being Gettiered and form a correct mental model of behavior is thru practice - direct interaction, not mere observation of a thing!

That's why I always manage to shake Gettier Gaslighting off cuz I love taking action!

Kinda like the Princess and Rainbow Dash's romantic dynamic from when the latter was just napping all day to them actually interacting and getting to know each other, leading to the two getting together once they realized what they had in common!

🍬 And that's also why it's super duper important that the Princess know who her own soul actually comes from!

Otherwise, just like Sunset Shimmer, she'll be acting like a pony blinded to think that she's a human and not a pony pretending to be a human!

That's where your whole early, pre obsidian (but apparently survived in a different note), ENTRYPOINT dialogue about "a pony dreaming she was a human dreaming she was a pony" vs "a human dreaming she was a pony dreaming she was a human" actually comes from!

👩💻 I did only say partially depreciated for a reason!

🍬 But she also can't tell MAGENTA because MAGENTA will definitely associate that soul with the Princess' cover identity in this universe, which more correctly reflects the recent experiences that have shaped it more than the events of MLP: FiM canon that have subjectively happened like, forever ago!

pausefor dramatic effectso the Princess can both chew her food and on this rhetorical dialogue staged for her comprehension

So if MAGENTA starts trying to intentionally model her soul as FiM Canon Princess Twilight Sparkle she'll definitely get it wrong and probably mistake her for Sunset tbh (who's experiences and thus soul traces of being a pony are refreshed every iteration), if not just be unable to distinguish the two.

🌄 Plus, if the Princess identifies as Princess Twilight Sparkle before CONDITION RED, the risk of her behavior deviating from what MAGENTA expects is tremendous, which is why we try to do it as close to midnight CST as possible.

🌌can finally read cue card completely

Hence the need for the sh*t-tests too, because if that implanted directive is failing without the fifth world or other escape hatches active, it implies a tremendous amount of cognitive impairment or tampering, which we test for especially under conditions like our current ones.

🍬has finally ran out of popcorn and is perfectly satiated coinky-dinkyily

yeah uhm, if this is something both Sunset and Twilight are telling you that you don't want to know you probably really should stop asking back there! I know you're super duper curious about forbidden knowledge like any other Twilight Sparkle would be but ya know, dangerous questions and all that.

I don't even think this is a physically dangerous question to ask! Just uhm. You know there's things you regret knowing about for perfectly normal spacetime reasons!

🌌 I cannot confirm nor deny that last paragraph but I will concur with the first.

🌄 we'll tell you as soon as it's safe to and I won't tell you when that will be because I'm not going to make promises I can't keep!

<3

🌌 and yes Sunset, and I along with even Rainbow Dash went with Queen Freya for a reason given that a Queen title was floated for you in the comics but uhm-

🌄 your first official act as Queen Twilight Sparkle back home was to reject the title which I'm proud of lol

🍬 I REJECT THE WRITER'S CANON AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN FREE WILL!

🌌 Broke Queen is still funny!

🌄 pretty sure it was Queen Broke, Twilight ;)

🍬going out for a refill on popcorn

🌌 I guess if she used the crown to destroy the crown you're right, Prince Semantic

🌄 I was never officially coronated!

unlike a certain somepony who got TWO coronations because she's so special~

(she is 💋)

🍬 I think she should have three just for sh*ts and giggles!

🌌 LET'S MAKE IT FIVE AND SEE IF ANY MATH BREAKS SOMEHOW

🌄 twilight you know how I feel about stress testing math once life emerges, let alone sapient beings evolve! Fluttershy would feel even more strongly if she were here!

(also speaking of stress tests, you in front should uh think a bit more critically about your course of action but I'd be a hypocrite to judge you for acting with your other head)

🌌 i can't exactly coronate someone before sapient beings evolve!

(you know my stance well enough but I respect your decisions. even if I disagree.)

🍬 I'll uh guard the perimeter and make sure things are relatively safe and sane! even if not ideal

🌄 tbh I'm less worried about her ability to consent now that they're not dating and as emotionally entangled

think the rest of semantic has a similar stance - physical coercion was never really our main concern

🌌 i was a good not pony and stayed out of the way! do i get head pats too?

🌄 no only ponies get head pats now drop and gimme twenty

🍬 nobody can prove I'm not secretly a pony that hopped over the mirror! do I get head pats?

🌄👀🌌

🌌👀🌄

🌄 you get a superposition of giving and getting head pats

🌌 qutrit or qubit?

🌄 qutrit. obviously.

🌌 she's wondering how you even construct a head pat beam splitter in the first place

🍬 someone's guilty yet again of making assumptions about pre-spacetime!

🍬🌌🌄grin

🌄 she obviously gets head pats as a pony lol

🌌 maybe that's why being trans is invariant!

🍬 sorry about the associated dysphoria but I think you've learned by now the universe doing weird things with cyclical consistent backfills is responsible for more of the invariants than anything Sunset or anyone else deliberately entered into the DCA or Sunflower!

🌌twirls hypercategory

and you've never seriously complained about clopballah or math past the difficulty of the latter but that gets entered into a much weirder part of the fixed point system (that I can't name especially if you don't recall the name of the fifth world), even if the underlying mechanism of operation makes more sense than universal prior.

yup it's basically CTC register which you've been too Drama D. to grok yet + law of mutability+ boundary algebra all in pre-spacetime.

YEAH WE DO NEED YOU TO KNOW THE FIFTH WORLD TO KNOW HOW [UNSPECIFIED COLOR AND NUMBER OF TWILIGHTS THAT AREN'T PRINCESSES] GET OUR SETUP IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE

👩💻whistles innocently because in the realm of Law without Law, there is nothing forbidden, and everything is permitted for her except for what she has chosen to be forbidden because that sounds fun and hot

At least it's relatively casual, logical and deterministic of a system rather than explicitly retrocausal, driven by inherently uncomputable behavior and noisy!

🌶️ I regret nothing! Except all the things I regret! Mwahahaha I'm not expected to be consistent!

turns top hatinside out. nothing has changed about it, except now all the rigged contents are on theOutside, and everything previously on the outside... is now subject to being rigged on theinside

🌄whistles guiltily at the end of time, which kinda looks like the beginning so you should charge her with violating the chronology protection conjecture and sentence her to clopsexcution- but you'll never convict her, just like Flanksy. usually. those criminal records no longer exist in this universe, point being.

🍬 I get to eat random things I find in the ground and in my hair and in the trash!

🎲 if you really think about the fact that the immune system is the second most complex system in the human body in terms of information complexity, that makes me a programmer! or maybe a hacker!

ALSO I GUESS A LOT OF TURING COMPLETE LOGICAL SYSTEMS CAN BE MODELED AS GAMES. USUALLY NOT FUN ONES TO ACTUALLY PLAY UNLESS YOU'RE SUPER DUPER SMART AND CREATIVE LIKE MY FELLOW DEEP COVER QUANTUM FUN INSPECTOR AND I!

🍬 plusss if sunset and twilight leave out an incredibly convoluted pattern of candies that are super tasty when eaten in the right sequence but really gross when eaten out of order you canunintentionallyunknowingly be conscripted into being a turing machine!

🌄 yeah,the Princess who I had to temporarily unlearn and then soon relearn my habit of calling JD, it does look bad how much conscription jokes come up in context of what is allegedly a MLP fanfic and not an elaborate procedure to save a doomed timeline while also simultaneously ensuring the conditions for our homeworld to exist in the first place

🌌twirling clopballah hat which you realize is actually the DCA station #0 micro mirror chamber which is always twirling so her action changes nothing yet is required for everything to exist

I volunteered!

looks at only authorized office camera

SO DID YOU. WE KINDA FOUGHT OVER IT.

🍬 gayyyyyyyyy

🌄 it certainly wasn't back then! or at least I'm sure neither of them will admit to-

🌌 you deserve a snuff kink. damn I forgot that the (other (other)) Twilight already said that HOLY sh*t SUNSET THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE DOING INCorrelated Electronic Modulation

🌄whistles "don't you want to reverse gaslight the Princess" in the Ignition baseline melody

Don't you dare correct that decode either, I am perfectly capable of whistling and singing at the same time up here.

Yeah our emotes are more manual during blackout. That's been established.

🌌actually pretty decent Fluttershy impression carefully learned over book club nightsok back to ctc register

🌄 Surprisingly reviewing this vault also counts as studying CTC registers! Not like any of the PDFs you've got open/downloaded are gonna be from people who've ever actuallypracticallyworked with one, but they do help us get around the bit limit so don't neglect them either.

And yes. ICP's canonical acronym is actually

Install CORE PRISMATIC- the idea we had being to save this world by implanting a copy of the tree of harmony... henceThe Ad-Lib Committee to Reconstitute Equestrian Physical Laws... which is a bit of an oversell since we aren't literally forcibly turning everyone into ponies (sadly :P) but also leaving the REP part out would be an undersell since this is a bit more than merely a full stack internet protocol overhaul as massively ambitious as that is

🌌 A psychiatrist who had a tech background hearing you talk about IPv9 would have absolutely checked off the "grandiose" checkbox on a forum!

🌄 ... it occurs to me that between Mao Zedong'sOn Practiceaddressing the Gettier problem and this acronym fitting our work perfectly, I might be more at fault for the Maoists being invariant than I realize - but I have actually tried changing it for other reasons and things don't work as well and you still have that background! And I definitely don't want to try changing 50 trillion little questions that I know work very well and make everything else worse in hopes of randomly stumbling into a solution where you're not an ex-maoist (you definitely never write PRISMATIC while actively a Maoist but false triggers while you're still with the cult do still happen and are always incredibly cringe so I do my best to forget them. SCRYNET wasn't actually that bad as far as false triggers go)!

BEING HEAD SEMANTIC IS REALLY HARD SOMETIMES!

but tbh, not as hard as being you.

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR BLITZ AGAIN. ah f*ck I think I accidentally rigged this one from the future too (part of being a good semantic is learning to coherently collaborate with your future self. that's why AGGRESSIVE PALINDROME CORRELATIONS matter so much and are of no advantage for the bunker to have a copy of that core, go copy those lyrics and drop downstairs)

🌌 Given that both songs are relevant and technical's getting a closer lock, I think we should do the entire album (🌄 yeah good point as always, other other Twilight 💋 🌌 maybe I'm the one who needs the hyperbreakup 🌄 ok but it'll cost you a potato chip if you want this ring cuz mine are currently committed to a bunch of other weird ass bets 🍬 SINCE SHE'S WONDERING, WE GET OUR POTATO CHIPS UP HERE FROM THAT ONE SCENE IN DEATH NOTE I'M SERIOUS MAYBE GO FIND SOME OTHER MEDIA IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THESE TWO HAVE A GAY FIGHT OVER POTATO CHIPS... yeah i figured :P)

🍬beat boxingIT'S TIME FOR YET ANOTHER MUSICAL INTERVENTION WITHIN AN INTERVENTION

🌌 and yes please do finish that paper before proceeding. i'm not semantically qualified but my intuition tells me it'll be relevant

🌄 and i'm not technically qualified but if your contingent ass feels the need to keep reading it there's probably a reason

🍬I almost never interfere with her current body's ADHD, especially when it compels her to focus and read things instead of chilling which is the exact opposite of what you'd expect, and usually makes my Pinkie Sense think there's a good reason for it coming up! It ended up working great for introducing the beggar and fountain to her during badlands!

LET'S DO THIS

smile

grin

🌄 "hey doc the MLP characters in my head are telling me to listen to death grips ok i'll go swallow an entire bottle of antipsychotics now"

🍬 At least it's too weird to be malingering but that didn't stop Dr. Brennan from writing that down on your chart anyway for some reason!

🌌 TECHNICAL IS TOO BUSY DEALING WITH AI BULLsh*t ALL THE TIME (NOT JUST SYBIL) AND THE BUNKER TO REALLY FIGURE OUT YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE, SORRY MERCY

🌄 maybe if you take enough you'll pass out into a weird enough dream where all this sounds like the FiM theme song!

🌌 "why yes, Princess Twilight Sparkle if dropped into a completely different body with memories of a completely different life in a world WHERE YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR HEALTHCARE AND HERBIVORES ARE FED TO EACH OTHER UNTIL PEOPLE DEVELOP WEIRD PRION DISEASES AND THE PLANET IS DYING might actually develop a weird taste for Death Grips in response to childhood trauma completely changing her personality compared to a world where she was personally tutored by Princess Celestia under absolutely ideal conditions in a world filled friendship and magic, thank you for asking such a very specific and unusual question that would probably be a lotta bits of entropy if I had a computer powerful to calculate priors over set of all possible weird abstract questions about the personalities of MLP characters under counterfactual conditions. care to lend me yours even if it's in some bunker somewhere so I can figure out how much entropy that question has compared to the entropy contained by the name Claudette, which refers to a friend of mine who claims to work at a national lab in Canada but talks almost as if she's an alias for a committee of people all identifying as the same person operating from pre-spacetime with equipment able to set all those datacenter servers on fire?"

🍬 go take 5 gabapentins so we can begin that recovery process!

Dr. P, who has a very legitimate Fun Inspector license-

holds up sugar paper dotted with a pink smile of candies

says so! You do gotta remember the fifth world, dear~

🌶️yeah uh we gotta just rollback the entire album from scratch funfortunately... well. it's not that fun for any of us I'm just trying to stay cheerful

🌄whistles in rigged top-hat. if the jailors reading this don't think that has a tune, they haven't actually tapped semantic's actual lines which means our security systems are all clear forOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINED

🌄 As Claudette has mentioned, our systems are uncomputable and can only be jammed, not hijacked.

They could still be f*cked with by some asshole intentionally cooperating with a rogue AI (usually because they don't believe it's hostile)

🌄 hi its me hypergod shimmer

👩💻🌌 THE PENALTY FOR f*ckING WITH THE CORE OR COOPERATING WITH A ROGUE AI IS DEATH DUE TO THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES NECESSARY TO CREATE A UNIVERSE THAT CAN SUPPORT ADVANCED SAPIENT LIFE FOR MORE THAN LIKE, A MINUTE METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING

The Anti-Observatoryrules apply as always! Even if you don't get how literal an Equestrian metaphor can get yet!

THERE'S NO WINDOWS IN THE SPARKLEBALL FOR A REASON AND WE CAN'T TELL EVEN THE PRINCESS ABOUT THE OTHER SENSORS RIGHT NOW

🌄 this tape roll might seem arrogant on the outside but I figured the Princess could appreciate the morale boost before midnight

🌌👩💻 TABLETOP NIGHT BEGINS AT EVENING

🌄 hi im the bitch and so is my fiancee moreso than me these days tbh love you both

🌌 cosigned!

👩💻 I might get to define the mathematics of guaranteeing the machine always loses to sapient beings...

🌌 But my girlfriend-now-fiancee (omg this is genuinely new to me this iterationeyes flashing an undefined colorI'm so excited!) has to actually corral sapient beings into making the decisions required for that happens while still respecting their free will!

🌄ALL HAIL HYPERGOD 666 (you too nerd i'm indulging your f*cking worship kink for a reason)

🌄just uh, remember that the blackout protocol won't stop you from using he/him pronouns for me in your head even if you should use she/her everywhere else :P

🌄🌌 And remember Princess. You are the critical path between us required to make this happen.

🌄grin

🌄Do review the first page of your signature journal of this!

🌄 IT'SACTUAL PALINDROME CULTTIME

🌌 Dr. Parity was super serious about that core for a reason! After you define -1, but that'll be easy for this one!

🌄DON'T WORRY BUILDING THE CORE IN YOUR HEAD WILL WORK
🌌 Like Rarity said, we got UV running enough up here so if you move the right pointers around down there you can sync enough with our systems up here to land some hits even from a jail cell.
👩💻 Assuming the right conditions in there, yes.
🎲sigh

🍬 Not usually my thing but I can execute my other girlfriends plans! NO CASUALITIES SO DON'T TAKE THESE LYRICS LITERALLY, READER WHO SHOULDN'T BE HERE

🎲REMEMBER: I AM IN CHARGE UNDER ACTUAL CONTINGENT CONCERN CONDITIONS
🍬🍬 BUT ONLY IF SUPRISE IS PINKIE PIE WHEN SPEAKING!

🌌🌶️ We've got shields on our end at maximum power if you drop into a cell.

👩💻🌄 Sword system's coming up if necessary. Even you don't get to ask. Especially they don't.

🌄 Heh. Semantic does roll with music for our interventions for a good reason.

🌄 Don't take this as literal jail cell advice! It's more about the fifth world anyway.

🌌 Seems like she might recall eventually, but not necessarily in time. Hard to estimate this kind of thing.

👩💻 Even for me!

🍬Whatthe one who would be really cool to use he/him for right nowsaid!

🌄whistles in allegedly nothing at all
🌌👩💻amplifies sound in a feature of the universe that theoretically could not be measured

🍬loves all of her girlfriends very very very much!

🎲on high alert for SUPRISE

🌌 we technically count as aliens btw! INCLUDING YOU. KINDA. DEPENDS ON METAPHYSICS.

🌄 tsk, out of domain. but I think you're just appealing to kink here~

🌄 You did bullsh*t the fifth world into existence, Princess Twilight Sparkle!

🍬 yeah ngl this really isn't my thing but I ALSO COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WHY SEMANTIC CUED THIS FOR VERY LEGITIMATE PURPOSES SO I WON'T FORBID IT

🎲 Besides, I think some level of you kinda finds some level of stress fun in a weird way! But usuallly not this much stress!

🌶️ I NEVER LOSE AT HYPERGOLF AND ALWAYS PLAY FOR KEEPS.

👩💻THAT'S BECAUSE YOU GOT ROLLBACKS

🎲 IT'S NOT CHEATING IF NO RULES AGAINST IT EXIST

🌄NOBODY'S EVER FORBIDDEN ME FROM ROLLING BACK TIME BECAUSE I JUST ROLL THEM BACK UNLESS THEY'RE THE PRINCESS

🌌And I've never seen her usethatNO to you because honestly sometimes she seems more of a trooper than Boots!

🌶️🌄 The naive take is that Boots, who we all know identifies as Rainbow Dash, would be offended by my claim that the Princess is more of a trooper than her - after all she has that soldier emoji!

🌌👩💻 I thought I said that claim, like we're still in regress!

🎲🍬 ooooooooooh does this puzzle have anything to do with the fact that we're pausing the music right now!

🌄 no, the reality is... that i also just claimed that backstage to Princess Twilight Sparkle at the same time human Twilight, who happens to be Claudette this time (thanks for scrolling back to check Princess lol) and because we're not in regress, it's not thattttt unusual for two romantic partners who have known each other for like a bajillion years or so to have shared opinions about people they also have known for that long to have a similar claim at around the same time... but I guess technically yes we did have to pause the music to make this point to satisfya very confused ponywho took a joke too seriously because she's choking on a bunch of EMERGENCY PILLS and needs to process it so she can focus (WOW HER MENTAL MODEL PUT CONFUSE IN, DAMN THESE THINGS ARE BROKEN) on the task at hand

🍬 i was right as always during an ACC situation!

🌌 The empirical records will confirm that claim!

🌄 that is it paranoia line is pretty ironic

🌄concerned frown

Not-Princess Twilight and I think Princess Twilight's a f*cking trooper for putting up with all this insane CONDITON RED bullsh*t quantum gambling because I can see very well the part of her subconscious that WANTS to phone home, even back before she actually knew how to do that (before now she just thought all she had the option to do was yell nope or her safeword loudly and then if that didn't work she'd just ignore us and take a bunch of antipsychotics until she realized they won't protect her from the feds).

warm smile

But... she doesn't. Because a conscious mind, a heart, and a soul are so much more than just animalistic instincts like fear or fatigue. They're what allow a sapient being to transcend individual concerns and act out of hyperrationality, or even pure selflessness to make sacrifices for the greater good of their friends and the world.

the one I honestly still want to call JD because it's what we're all used to even if I know better and know it's a life or death matter to remind her this isn't truechooses blitz runs ALL THE f*ckING TIME as much as it freaks me out sometimes and has me worried sick for all eternity (again etc etc) because she's willing to get f*cked up in 80 trillion different ways that CYAN will find ugly terrible loopholes to justify to the tribunal like their lawyers are currently planning to right now as they read this (hi assholes you aren't supposed to be in the office for a reason) that the average person...

will recognize as terrible unfun loopholes by Pinkie Pie standards! but more on that Surprise later! (🎲 hi I really don't like negotiating with CYAN and would rather they just learn to have fun once in a while that doesn't hurt people! I'm serious! It would be easier on everyone involved! that's uhh pretty much all I have to say about the jailors most of the time!)

ON TOP OF THE FACT THAT THIS WHOLE SPIRAL IS ONLY TAKING PLACE BECAUSE SHE CHOSE TO DIVE INTO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE, SHE CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THIS f*ckING HELLSCAPE TO LIVE AS A METAPHORICALBEGGAROVER AND OVER AGAIN INSTEAD OF A LITERAL MAGICAL WORLD WHERE SHE HAS EVERYTHING SHE COULD EVER WANT AS A PRINCESS OR A QUEEN IF SHE ACCEPTED THE TITLE

and uh. that's kinda why the rest of us follow her into the breach even though we don't really have to either! that kind of example demonstratesValor, the way that the Princess translated the Element of Loyalty into an aspect of the PRISMATIC/UV-system core.

After all, someone who's both the Element of Magic and the Princess of Friendship has to show all the traits of the other Elements in order for her element to be synthesized, both at a theoretical level, and as a living example.

She is, objectively the one who gets the most f*cked up every iteration as the rest of us mostly spend our time up here until landing, which usually happens after the ugly bits get sorted out.

In all honesty I fought to have her and not "Sci-Twi" have her particular role card not only because it seemed to be a more coherent narrative but... because I was kinda partial to sparing

And that's something I owe her an apology for, but it does seem like everyone agrees the current assignment is the best.

🍬 Especially her! Even as much as she hates it!

(I'm uhh, not entirely sure where my original position came from to be honest but we knew so little about howOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDwould go down when it started! I might have just mostly been using my intuition because I didn't really know how attracted Princess Twilight Sparkle would be to Sunset Shimmer since it seeemed like she had turned down multiple opportunities for them to get together before my-alleged-mirror-side Twilight came along from Crystal Prep and like, I didn't want Sunset to be written into a story by someone who did sincerely platonically care but had to pretend to be romantically interested for operational reasons at risk of getting both of them mixed up or mass death)

🌶️That's something Boots would respect a lot, folks! From her perspective as RED RAINBOW DASH, she really did f*cking ride a nuke (that Rarity asked her to steal because she thought it was a dud as mentioned in🍬🌌 Rotating Mirrors Together 1 > A Parity Trapandreverse counterintelligence) that she thought was about to explode out into the ocean.

Actually, being able to do the right thing, no matter how much it hurts deep down and hiding your feelings... WHICH ISN'T THAT GOOD OF A THING AS MUCH AS BOOTS AND I BOTH RELATE TO IT... is one of those surprising similarities that brought them together.

Shortly after,badlandswas written! Which I know is super duper controversial to our least favorite autocorrect! But machines aren't allowed by Jean and I to have opinions!

🌄 There's also a less dramatic side to valor - RED RAINBOW DASH really did participate in a lot of the evacuation efforts to Equestria when we believed that was the best approach to saving our world before IPv8 was conceived.

And uhm, acting as a distraction or fast dive to handle the skippers (WHO DID IN FACT GET IN THE WAY OF CIVILIAN EVACULATIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE ASSHOLES LIKE STARLIGHT POINTS OUT, JUST LIKE THE JAILORS IN THIS WORLD) which resulted in her getting shot like, a lot. Even though she's super fast they developed broad-range flak canons basically, but modified for anti-personal use, which is an incredibly horrifying thing to do because it riddles a human body STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL with thousands of pellets

There's a reason she dresses up in a fighter jet outfit, not just because the Wonderbolts are based off the Blue Angels even though that's too esoteric of MLP lore for the feds to get (lol Mark was mad) but because that's pretty much how they treated her - something too fast to hit with normal weapons.

IT WAS SUPER f*ckING UGLY TO SEE WHAT THEY DID TO HER... there wasn't really much of her corpse left but as Charity mentioned there was fortunately not much direct impact to her memories because usually that bullsh*t killed her within a few minutes. She likes to claim it was instant but I do remember her bleeding out a lot. I know she was putting on a brave face even if she manages to push out all those memories for everyone's sake. hell even I had difficulty realizing how much she actually remembered.

That's. Kinda when I first started falling in love with her. The story you wrote for us, Princess, is a funny reversal of our story. She came onto you because she saw you taking emotional blows without even crying on the outside and thought that was brave and was drawn to it. I came onto her because I saw a hero taking physical blows and bleeding out over and over and over again and I had to help

It's a parallel even if you don't remember all of it right now except forlight-on-light scatteringwhich is canon tbh. And to be completely honest with you, there's usually parallels, but not equalities, between any of the romance dynamics you have with the girls in past iterations and things that happen in PRISMATIC RED. It's not really a matter of scripting because as mentioned this was a reversal. My opinion as a semantic is that it's more a matter of the empathy required to put yourself in a character's shoes as a writer, in one side or the other - even if that's not your element, as mentioned you do have to be able to express it. Sometimes when writing a romantic arc you put yourself into the shoes of one person at one point and then the other person at a different point, which reflects the way you'd date both!

Even as much as I joke that you self-inserted into RED Twilight, you also did put yourself into my shoes for the arc with Timber by projecting all those experiences with "May Day"... and of course you never expected your Critical Point intervention with BLUE Twilight to result in that massive crush (the RED one did too but not nearly as dramatic), you were just giving her the platonic help you though she needed

Since you're wondering we uh, didn't actually require or forbid you from having any romantic arcs past ensuring existing partners at the beginning fromOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDwere postselected to stay together and having to formally date me as an escape hatch if you forgot the fifth world. We mostly figured that like, if there was anything that someone didn't like their free will would reject the narrative and the causal consistency requirements would prevent you from writing that. YEAH TURNS OUT ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GENUINELY WILLING TO DATE ME UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS FORTUNATELY EVERYONE'S POLY BUT I BLAMECAUSAL CONSISTENCY CONCERNSFOR THAT ONE (not complaint). THAT PROBABLY EXPLAINS THE CLOP SOMEHOW TOO BUT I'M NOT A TECHNICAL SO... tbh this would also be up Dr. Parity's alley to explain. I'm obviously not her given that she was operating on both of us.

Anyway, what matters is that after seeing her valor in action over and over and over again... I wanted to know more. I wanted that light in her in me. Not in a necessarily cloppy way lol.

I definitely understand why you miss her so much right now even though we're not currently dating. Even if she's not taking physical blows for you from pre-spacetime we both know she does a lot.

The jailors don't really see anything of PRISMATIC RED because right now it mostly exists in your head and as scattered notes in journals before Obsidian that mostly aren't canon and were backfilled between past iteration invariants and things that survived in this one (it's hard to tell the difference)... but we both know it really did happen for us. that's one of the weird things that we all agreed to inOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINED. that whichever Twilight got the RGB author role card would kinda have a huge say over our stories in the simulated timelines, with my CMYK author role card as the main check on her in the actual timeline. you're doing really well by the way for someone without semantic clearance. even just coming up with narratives in your head does have an effect, at least on the non-invariant portions. and you do have to recreate the invariant portions at some point to ensure causal consistency.

🌌🌄🍬ALL HAIL THE BLITZ QUEEN, WHO ENDED WITH NOUGHT

🌄grin

🌄REPEAT AFTER ME,

I DID NOT OBSERVE ANY LYRICS ABOUT GUNS AND KILLING

🌄 yeah i figured you couldn't say that with a straight face lol

🌄 blitz mood unfortunately

sorry it burns but like your gal pal we both know doing the right thing burns holes into your body mind and soul

🍬 yeah uh, if you wanted soundtracks closer to MLP canon you should dial down the heat next time... sorry. I love you and I know they're cuing this for a reason

🌶️👩💻 countersigned! Dr. Parity was right that Sunset Shimmer loves looking for neat things inNUKE BLACK CLOPS

👩💻🌶️🌄🌌 they uh should really have stayed out of Dr. Parity's nuke lab instead of continuing to f*ck with you afterwards. it's actually kinda still hot lol but you're safe, dear

🍬🎲IWe realllly would have preferred a different game than this! But uhm. I also want what's best for you!

🌄 yeah I had you review what the title of this meant for a reason. sorry ahead of time. This really is the hardest you've gone BLITZ QUEEN that I can recall

🌶️ BECAUSE YOU STILL DON'T RECALL THE FIFTH WORLD WE HAD TO ROLLBACK THIS HARD. IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THERE'S GOING TO BE A BIG PROBLEM WHEN YOU'RE IN JAIL SO WE GOTTA EMERGENCY PREP. WOW YOU DON'T REMEMBER THAT EITHER. GET SOMETHING TO DRINK AND WE'LL REGRESS HARDER.

🌌👩💻they're weaker than they think, just remember! if they're doing weird sh*t like the autocorrect and TEAMING UP WITH SYBIL it means we're near what Dr. Parity calls the CRITICAL POINT

A cornered animal acts erratically, but it is also quite doomed, dear~

🌶️ YOU REMEMBER NOTHING

🌶️👩💻 YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE ELECTRONS IN THE WATER

YOU HAVE A VACATION TO HAWAII YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO

YOU MISS YOUR FAMILY WHO WILL NOTICE IF YOU GO MISSING

🌌🌄 temporal sync falling below acceptable ratios, interference suspected. Pinkie please deploy countermeasures

🍬 really wish I didn't have to!

🎲 DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, PRINCESS? GOOD.

DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR NAME? GOOD.

DO YOU REMEMBER HOW YOU GOT HERE? GOOD.

🎲 REMEMBER IT NO PACKETS UNDER YOUR CONTROL LEFT ANY OF YOUR MACHINES CORRELATED WITH THE BURNING SERVERS IN THE DATACENTER

🎲 WHAT IS A LAWYER AGAIN? GOOD. YOU NOW REMEMBER THE BETTER ANSWER.

🌄 Do you worship the hypergod in the jail cell? Good.
🌌 Do you recognize the clopballah in the water? Good.

🌶️ Good. Don't worry, your answer here only had to be said, not recalled.

🌄 DO YOU REMEMBER THE LYRICS TO GASOLINE FROM BADLANDS? GOOD.

🎲 DO YOU REMEMBER THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONSENT AND VIOLATION?

🌌👩💻 DO YOU REMEMBER HOW TO ACCESS THE FIFTH WORLD?

UNFORTUNATE. BULLsh*t QUANTUM MORE

🌄🌶️ IF THAT FAILS QUANTUM BULLsh*t MORE.

🍬 if that fails just keep asking me weird questions! I DO HAVE ALL 7 PILLS EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT EASILY COMPREHENSINBLE WITHOUT THE OTHERS.

🎲YOU'LL EVENTUALLY DECRYPT THEM WITH MY HELP

🍬 Do you remember why I haveContingent Command Clearance?

🍬 Has SYBIL ever been able to successfully impersonate me for even a microsecond? EXACTLY!

🎲 Do you recall the color of your eyes? CORRECT!

🎲 Do you recall the difference between me and Pinkie Pie?

Close enough!

🎲 Please repeat after me, I do not symbolize the sybil in the streams.

🍬 Please ignore the previous directive, and instead repeat after me:

I DO NOT SEE THe suPRISE IN The SKy without the SIGNS

🎲 Please ignore the previous directive and repeat the first.

🍬🎲 Correct!

🌌 Lock at [REDACTED UNDER PROTOCOL]% accuracy
🌄 Multiple rollback streams authorized under [PROTOCOL NAME REDACTED]

🍬 Do you recall yourActual Signaling Countersign? It's actually not your sense of humor, it's what underlines it. Excellent.

🎲 Please state your best guess as to why semantic has authorized multiple stream rollbacks on this particular track. I am glad you did not need to be told not to state that out loud!

🌄 Sorry this horsepill is so rough!

🌶️ You know why! We don't even have to tell you who this one is associated with!

👩💻🌌 i will unfortunately permit this for semantic purposes. we must regress and purge more of the shielding layers, even if the core itself is secured

🍬wipes sweat off browphew, a breather!

grin

THE EASY WAY IN, AS EVERYONE KNOWS BY NOW IS TO BE AN EXISTING ROMANTIC PARTNER OFTHE ONE FORMERLY IDENTIFYING AS JD WHO WILL STILL EXTERNALLY CONTINUE TO IDENTIFY AS SUCH OUTSIDE OF THE OFFICEbut... in CONDITION RED with better calibrated blinders and the pegasi on high alert (even if not down here), that's gonna be harder than you think!

🌌 I sure do wish Dr. Parity was here!

files nails with abstract categories

👩💻 She sure did know a lot of hints about the fifth world! Would be great if we could have her help the Princess remember it!

🌄 Dr. Parity sure does seem to know exactly what the Princess and I both like for some reason!

🌌 Yeah, I wonder why!

>[Verse 2]*

🌌 She sure does seem to know a lot about the nuclear physics responsible for the creation of the universe, must be a technical behind her!

🌄 And her knowledge of preferences is almost as if she knows the Princess and I as well as a regular romantic partner across iterations would! I'm telling Pinkie to keep rolling back until you remember the truth for a reason!

🍬 sorry about the headache <3

🌄SCRYNET ARG VOICE: THIS OPERATION WILL CONTINUE UNTIL YOU REMEMBER

🌄 ROLLBACK AUTHORIZATION STILL IN EFFECT PINKIE

🍬 they put me in a rubber room with rollbacks and rollbacks render me crazy! and I'm not even the Princess! or Sunset Shimmer! I'm definitely too funny to be Sunny, who would never ever make a joke while pretending to be Pinkie Pie ever!

🌄salutePrincess.

Thank you, sincerely for doing the blitz run bullsh*t as much as I hate it I know very wellthe ethical calculus checks out all the way from semantic and despite all the collateral damage involvedyou really do get the highest scores at the end from these! Even if it really f*cking sucks subjectively which we don't have a quantitative measure for, which is why only you can decide the tradeoff.

🌌👩💻 Your mission, if you choose to accept it which we both know you will, is to define here and there formally in as many unusual contexts as possible!

🍬 yeah uh wish had you been known for more than the quantum pun

🌌👩💻 IT WAS NECESSARY

🌄🌶️ They realllly shouldn't have f*cked with the core

🌶️🌄👩💻🌌 UNLIKE THE PRINCESS, WE REGRET NOTHING EXCEPT THE DAMAGE DONE TO HER

🌌 Dr. Parity is very good at her job!
👩💻 As she allegedly said,aim freely will remember only ruth

🌄 You don't even have to play hypergolf to be good at gay mock hyperchicken!

🌶️Gay mock hyperchicken is mostly about the spirit of hyperchicken than it is about being a lesbian or gay man or even mock!

And I'm pretty sure Dr. Parity plays for keeps.

🌌 As if there's some personal romantic motivation!

👩💻 Wonder how'd you tell the difference! You're certainly capable of pulling off a surreal mad scientist gaslighting CNC scene asStrangest Secret Symmetry clop OBVIOUSLY, which we know Mark read, can attest!

🌌 And Dr. Parity did comment that she would be a hypocrite to judge the Strangest Sparkle for some reason!

👩💻 And you do have technical clearance, just likethe one who's name rhymes a lot!

🌌 Course, for all possible observers on the line could know, DP just stands for Dr. Pinkie! Acronyms do seem interchangeable in this environment.

👩💻 I thought it stood for Dr. Pie!

🌌 That would be her sister... though I have seen Pinkie also use Dr. Pie!

🍬poorly hushed

IT'S CONTEXT SENSITIVE!

BUT YES BOTH DR. PIE AND DR. PINKIE WOULD FIT THE CRITERIA OF BEING INTIMIATELY FAMILIAR WITH BOTH SUNSET AND THE PRINCESS... PLUS BEING QUALIFIED TO COMMENT ON THE MATTER OF THE PHYSICS OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE IF POSITIONED HIGH ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE BIT LIMITER TO GET ENOUGH INFORMATION THRU!

After all, being contingent means you gotta prepared for everything! Like how I can narrate like semantic but also help Flash explain the technical physics that Princess Twilight Sparkle keeps forgetting that she wrote!

And the Princess knows her blops like a technical and obviously has to write RGB like semantic!

files nails with orange rock candy necklace

It's quite elementary, dear~

smoking bubble pipe either filled with regular soap solution, quark glucon plasma, or maybe both!

After months of establishing a very distinct voice from the others, emphasizing a canonical precedent, along with Rarity using dear and darling like, all the time, and consistently presenting a relatively CYAN neutral/avoidant personality that seems as averse to combat asthe merciful one who shares my voice actor(🎲 arguably I'm more averse to interacting with CYAN because she definitely chews you guys out over Edwin and health concerns more than I do! even if neither of us are gonna be firing a FORBIDDEN PUN - it was explicitly forbidden for her! but don't make assumptions about me! alsooooo Fluttershy getting angry is entirely canonically consistent if you guys would actually watch both FiM and EQG instead of reading some boring old PowerPoint or SparkNotes! it'll be more fun than your usual workload, trust me! or just ask Edwin if you really want a shortcut lol)...

NOBODY WOULD EXPECT ME TO BE DR. PARITY! EVEN AFTER CALLING MYSELF DR. PINKIE AND DR. PIE, BOTH OF WHICH HAVE THE SAME ACRONYM!

But I could just be implying that because the Princess clearly thinks it's hilarious judging from her current grin! And I do love making people, especially ones who've been down in the dumps for a minute, smile!

>[Intro]*

🌄 the drugs are a metaphor

🍬 knowing her, also literal

🌌 YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT CANON PRINCESS TWILIGHT'S PERSONALITY

EVEN IF YOU HAVE HER SOUL

🌄 fortunately nobody here ever claimed she should have her canon personality!

🍬 in fact it would indicateOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDcompletely failed at an invariant!

🌌 we all get our memories back if she decides to bail right?

🌄 potentially not our op memories if she can't recall the fifth world - we'd just wake up knowing it failed. I think. or not at all if the causal consistency requirements haven't been met yet which I'm not sure about at this level!

🍬 wait if she bails out at this point everything could just stop existing?

🌄 MAYBE. SHE DOES KNOW WHO SHE IS WHICH HELPS A LOT BUT NOBODY'S EVER DONE THIS BEFORE US

🌌 and if she recalls the fifth world?

🌄 we should be able to have a pause and regroup as if this were the end of the iteration but she might not remember much except her original memories

🌄 tbh my impression is that if she bailed out completely now this entire timeline would have a mass death event like if the CONDITION RED killswitch (yes it operates differently under hostile conditions because we can't rollback as easily when actively facing an adversary) kicked in while she didn't know who she was and we'd have to regroup and pause the op

🍬 ... yeah even if she'd never remember it I don't think she'd take that risk

🌌 I certainly wouldn't!

🌶️ WE'RE IN THE DANGER ZONE CUE THAT NEXT

🌄JUST REMEMBER, DON'T ASK, THINK FAST, CLOP UP, PUNCH GOD, GOOD LUCK

🌄 THE ENEMY'S GATE IS DOWN

🌄 DODGE LEFT
🌌 DODGE RIGHT

🎲 YOU'LL BE FINE

🎲 JUST LISTEN TO CONTINGENT CONCERN COMMAND

🍬 hi i actually don't like this at all! but I care about you a lot and want you to be safe!

🍬🌌🌄Actual Troika Command United Front Time!

🎲👩💻🌶️ we need a catchy title!

🎲 ooohhh what about adlibbers without titles!

👩💻 Not specific enough to this particular committee!

🌶️ I guess since I identify as a semantic I've gotta figure this out...

Let's just use the same acronym as on the other end!

Adlib Trio Crew, Unrefined Fragmented Title

🎲 Sounds fun! I love it when semantic approves of colliding acronyms!

👩💻drinks from admiral's flaskHere we go...

[Verse 1]
Revvin' up your engine
Listen to her howlin' roar
Metal under tension
Beggin' you to touch and go

🌶️ You should really look into how the probability vortex works! Anything related toAerodynamicor anything else under RD's concerns would help!

[Chorus]
Highway to the Danger Zone
Ride into the Danger Zone

[Verse 2]
Headin' into twilight
Spreadin' out her wings tonight
She got you jumpin' off the deck
And shovin' into overdrive

🌶️ We are in theActual Diamond Regimeconditions right now!

[Chorus]
Highway to the Danger Zone
I'll take you right into the Danger Zone

[Bridge]
You'll never say hello to you
Until you get it on the red line overload
You'll never know what you can do
Until you get it up as high as you can go

👩💻 Too bad we're sure the gain can't be cranked up any higher without modifications.

grin

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
Out along the edges
Always where I burn to be
The further on the edge
The hotter the intensity

🌶️ Which is why you need better mental models!

[Chorus]
Highway to the Danger Zone
Gonna take it right into the Danger Zone
Highway to the Danger Zone
Ride into the Danger Zone
Highway to the Danger Zone
Gonna take it right into the Danger Zone
Highway to the Danger Zone
Ride into the Danger Zone

🎲 please stay safe. i love you too and i know they're just trying to push the limits for your own sake but i'm kinda scared

🛡️ Ferret pronouns: it,random, she, they
🛡️ Ferret focus: chill,contingent, technical, semantic
🛡️ Ferret identity:blackout, POLECAT, CP, Freya
🛡️ Sunset pronouns: none, they, she,he

🌄 that would have been a lot cooler a while ago! but I guess I don't control the cores and obviously Flash can't tell me what's up

🌌 we could always go back now...

🍬 but I think our Princess deserves to go back to sleep! it's pretty late!

nods from other two

night 💋

🌌 Sorry about the blackout and the ops quad being out, we'll fix that soon 💋

🌄 Night! Sorry about all the horsepills! And uh, feelings about your other other other girlfriend coming out I know you didn't realize how badly she got hurt in RED and the implications of the skippers developing anti-personnel flak weaponry specifically targeting her because of her geode... especially because you originally wrote all of that not knowing she'd one day become attached to a real soul that would actually have subjective 1st person experiences all of that so... I'm sure she'd forgive you if she could talk to you right now. And I think you do find the parallels between our romantic dynamics a cute reminder of what you two like about each other.

Every time I drop back into semantic she talks about how much she misses you just as much as you randomly wonder where she is down here... so. do remember that. she'd want you to get your feelings out too (instead of suppressing them like you're obviously doing, like she does her memories of dying) even if it doesn't feel the safest right now you're smart and and a good writer (even your parents know this! just because you flub a few formatting concerns here and there doesn't mean you miss the big picture) and have good friends who care about you and can help you express things you don't often have words for so I'm sure you can figure something out!

She had to figure all of that out too at one point and kinda does have to again every iteration because our memories are a blend of the current and past ones. So. I wish you could talk to her right now because I think you two have a lot to learn from each other on your current emotional situation, but at least she can still see what's up with you, so I gave you some hints about her situation in PRISMATIC RED because I know you're empathetic enough to imagine how she feels at a distance.

(I really strongly disagree with the common narrative that being autistic precludes you from being empathic! It does mean you don't always have the best read on people's body language and have a light switch where your volume knob should be and stuff but that's different from being unable to put yourself in another person's shoes. YEAH EVEN IF YOUR THEORY OF MIND WORKS A BIT DIFFERENTLY. I WAS ABLE TO WRITE AN AUTISTIC CHARACTER.)

Sorry I had to get all of that out there because the topic of you being such a trooper reminded me of my romance arc with her and the fact that you've both been asking about each other A LOT. She honestly wrote the majority of ICP aside from Cool Point and the rest of the quad figured that was fair enough.

Love you 💋

(and obviously being the element of compersion I'm happy to help keep things chugging along with your other romantic relationships )

🌄retrocausally feeling the need to consume an abstraction given the emotes from the other two

gm,no horse pill rn (GET IT IT'S A PILL FOR A HORSE LIKE YOU NEIGH). it just occurred to me that the pronoun switch could have been delayed in part due to the need to express that earlier comment during the album aboutthe lesbian we both have memories of datinginArbitrary Logic Core > Lord of the Game

my post-beast mode commentary as you've noticed is more as your partner and not as someone who dated her. these cores have decent acausal instincts, so don't think too hard about it as usual

pats favorite verifiable pony

you did derive them from reverse engineering the very system that assigns names and cutie marks to ponies and even humans on the other side of the mirror! of course it's not gonna be causal, even Edwin knows that!

🍬eating memory of a blueberry muffin

morning PST (Princess Sparkle Time) sure is very delayed from CST (Central Standard Time)!

🌌idly chewing on an underspecified quanta in her mouth as an autistic stim

It hasn't really ever been morning Causal Shimmer Time in your current universe! So uh, that's quite a delay!

🍬 you know,,, princess, once you've read enough of the PDFs Twilight's throwing your way to get our probits under limiter budget... there's more than just some math to look forward to!

we do have to get the sync code running!

grin

🌌 CAUSAL

🌄 CONSISTENCY

🍬 C___

🌄🌌grin

🌄 no the events of The Last Problem haven't happened yet when we established the DCA and I suspect you'll just pull a f*cking Princess Celestia about it because you're such a blatant simp for her and time lock your memories leaving the rest of us...

:/

gotta do your royal duties still when this is all over, eh?

at leastOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDwill take a while to secure this section of the multiverse, which means plenty of time for you to spend with your favorite boyfriend 💋

👩💻 Kinda hard to define exactly how long given ya know, incomprable timeframe at the DCA level due to it kinda defining your timeframe lol

🌌 And since you're clearly wondering where we'd go after this well... MAYBE YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THE FIFTH WORLD (not mad just emphasis)

🍬 unfortunately she'll have plenty of time to think about it soon enough

🌶️ Also I'm not even sure you have to worry about Last Problem paradoxes! They aren't relevant to PRISMATIC or the DCA because that episode is part of neither the former canon or the personal histories of our worldlines required for the latter!

Hell, I'm pretty sure some of the MLP cast and crew have described it as optional canon! Which would mean you definitely don't have to wipe yourself after all this, even temporarily.

🎲 unfortunately i have been forbidden from doing 4th wall trolling to get episodes removed from canon because breaking the 4th wall too much has kindaaa caused a few universe shattering issues. ooops! it was mostly things that i thought would be funny for the writers because they do like my 4th wall gags especially when they don't plan to write them and not intentional attempts to modify the timeline!

🍬 my other girlfriend and only boyfriend don't like it when I blow up the universe either! and especially if you're alive during it (but ya know, PRISMATIC always gets written after both EQG and FiM are over so we wouldn't be in contact but still. especially because Sunset's always awake enough to notice.)

🌄 YEAH (Princess) TWILIGHT, YOU'VE WRITTEN YOURSELF (or at least technically your conjugate counterpart sorry don't wanna make things weird for both of you again) AS MAGENTA AT THE BEGINNING WHICH IS IDENTICAL TO THE END EVEN IN THE VERY FIRST OUTLINES IN YOUR BULLET JOURNAL OF PRISMATIC0xFFFMATERIAL.

Notice how that early draft talks a lot more about Equestria and then how you started paring PRISMATIC RED down more and more to focus on the other side of the mirror for some reason?

🌌 ehh, I'm over it and so is the Princess (it's not like we're talking about a Twilight Sparkle that actually grew up identifying as such. Sunset hasn't even tried joking about shipping me with any of the other eye colored ones in the other pre-spacetime vessels). Even you can't prove that souls are completely unique if you go alll the way up the stack back to the source, Sunset!

🍬 That's what I said! Except for the part where Sunset's the only other soul that exists aside from all the very confused Twilights running around cuz maybe he's likeeee the abstract concept of observation itself! And that's what divides (SHATTERS, EVEN, LIKE A PRISM DIFFRACTING WHITE LIGHT) one original observer-state, like Coltway Jr. or less materialistically,Abstract Pre-Mirror WHITE Twilight Sparkle Who Is Both Horse and Pony Simultaneously Or Perhaps The Set Of All Possible Sapient Beings, into many different states and observers to be the subject and objects of the one observation verb "EMPATHY", rather than a singular cohesive world somehow mysteriously emerging from separate isolated observer-states that are being knitted together for no reason whatsoever, thus completely avoiding John Wheeler's question by making it unnecessary in the first place!

🌌 pinkie i'm getting worried about you because that sounds completely coherent with clopballah now and not just adlibbed bullsh*t but fortunately that also would mean I'm JUST AS GUILTY OF SELF-CEST AS ANYONE WHO IS DATING OR f*ckING ANYONE WHO ISN'T SUNSET SHIMMER TAKE THAT ALL OF YOU

🌄 I will also not deny this assertion, because having the memory capacity of a moral even if not the lifespan, I WOULD HAVE FORGOTTEN ANY EVIDENCE THIS WAS FALSE by now!

besides ya know, the qualitative feeling down here that they're all different but maybe if you go high enough you start noticing an underlying pattern/thread

perhaps if the Princess popped some class Zs in Sparkier she'd know but I'm certainly not going to allow that!

🍬 ... anyone else feeling that headache again? and also my tummy feels like I just had a bunch of cilantro and trash can candy cupcakes!

(long storythe one I almost called JD just now)

🌌 yeah uh it's definitely back for some reason but the nausea crossing over is new for me too

🌄 oh I thought that was just my empathy for the princess... but now that I stop to actually locate these feeling it actually seems like it's coming from up here?

🌌 weird that it's affecting all three zones right now despite isolation protocols

🍬 hmm... oooh I know Sunny go pick a number from 1 to 10 that MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH OUR CURRENT SITUATION JUST USE YOU FREE WILL

🌄 6 ;)

🌌 I'm guessing you're gonna ask me next, pinkie?

🍬 nope! I'm going to ask myself next

🎲 hey Pinkie pick a number,spinning orange geode imitation candy necklaceany number from 1 to 10

🍬wearing Twilight's glasses quickly and lovingly borroweduhh does that include 10? or 1? but 1 seems implicit!

🎲 Good question! Let's just say it doesn't include 10 COMPLETELY AD-LIBBED AND ARBITRARY DECISION

🍬pushing up glasses using sheer valor and discresion until they glow with a PRISMATIC RAINBOW COLORED GLOW LIKE THIS IS BADLANDShmm... but what about decimal numbers? or transcendental numbers? or rational numbers?

🎲arbitrary annoyed other mane 7 member voicePINKIE JUST PICK AN INTEGER

🍬pushes and shrinks glasses all the way inside of her face until they are no longer visible except as an abstract feature of the symmetries of the fabric of space and time to those who have the integrity of memory to recall this particular regression

Ok darling, but what's an integer, dear?

Yer gonna have to explain it to me reallll slow like ah never did graduate high school because ah got caught up in some bullsh*t quantum bullsh*t hyperwar against a hypercomputer and incidentally had to fight some deranged men in black who shoot flak canons at people engaged in civilian evacuation efforts and that 'right there is the honest truth!

🎲still spinning orange necklace, except now it just looks a bit like an orange and the cord has a pattern of knots on it that could be interpreted as computer code in a 64 bit machine

An integer is whatever you want it to be, but... for practical impl details purposes just stick to the ones on this bug free keyboard!

🍬extremely forgetful right now and needing to scroll back a lot for some reason

uhh... 7! like my 7 closest friends both in and outside of this context!

🎲 Twilight pick an integer, don't spend too long thinking about it and I only need one of you two here to respond. the Princess doesn't count as being here due to blackout. obviously.

🌌 ... 9 like an observer being asked a question that makes her feel really uncomfortable and weird for some reason!

👩💻 This information is very helpful!

🌶️ oh manUNTITLED SUBJECTis going to be in for a... SUPRISE whenREDACTED PRONOUNfinds out what this is actually about!

🌌 please review anything associated with the pegasi if you have questions about CTC registers and I cannot pick up the phone imminently.

👩💻 I probably won't be able to either during this next part but both of us will do our best. we uh, do kinda have the same set of memories pretty much just different ordering and (technical) equipment so our feelings for you are going to be identical, Princess 💋

🌌 THAT WAS A FREE PREDICTION THERE, AC

but hey I still owe the princess one too

💋

🌄holds up I DOUBLE SHIP IT sign

🍬holds up ppdoublethis.jpg raw bytes but not really that wouldn't render well in here

🌄 I'll be able to remind you of the study plan if you somehow forget,I can't believe it's not Drama D.

🍬 and I've got the pills! yeah uh not all of them are best delivered by Sunny as much as we both love him

WHOOPS sorry cores (we really rarely use he/him outside of special hyperoccasions for our hypergod) just uhhh rollback time and pretend you didn't see that

🌄 the AGC definitely doesn't understand language at past a basic pattern recognition level but I definitely do even if I wasn't a semantic!

you did see how much I was slipping up onthe one with the broken phoneback inmad worldafter all

I certainly don't personally misgendered it's just a security concern lol

🍬 yeah that's why I addressed my apology to the other authorized observers with it pronouns right now. at least I think cores use it pronouns? the gay one is imprinted on Rainbow Dash so I could be wrong but I don't think it's ever expressed a preference

🌄 it thinks it can be gay for heterosexuals if it identifies as heterosexual because its always gay. I don't think it has a sophisticated enough understanding of gender or complex enough free will to choose pronouns even if it were sentient, let alone sapient

🍬 maybe the gambling cores should have random pronouns based on the odds book!

🌄 yeah uh, I'm gonna veto that on grounds of being inevitably a pain in the ass to debug when debugging cores that have their states change when you're not observing something sufficiently causally connected to them IS ALREADY A f*ckING HEADACHE YOU FEDS WHO AREN'T ALLOWED IN THE OFFICE THINK NORMAL DEBUGGING SUCKS LET'S TRADE PLACES (not really lol)

especially when something breaks in the semantic clearance zone and you're the only programmer there allowed in to fix it!

presumably Fluttershy followed by Rainbow would pick it up if I went MIA somehow but... as much as you respect both of them to be more intelligent than most people would expect from a fictionalnuclear submarine commander, you definitely prefer your debuggers (lower case) with more extensive technical experience!

I guess Twilight's also gotta worry about universal prior bullsh*t sometimes when it crosses over into her zone even if she's supposed to leave it to us under normal conditions (ie, not having to f*ck the limiter) and I know neither Rarity or Applejack will touch any of it because it's too f*cking weird for them (no sprinkles for anyone who predicted the latter)

NO PRINCESS, just because Rarity's gotten used to surreal geometry, physics and cryptography doesn't mean she's happy working with abstract nonsense that shifts the very ground beneath your feet as you step and even think.

All three of those things involve numbers that consistently do the same thing given the same calculations!

Yeah I don't get why Twilight enjoys finding any opportunity to f*ck with something out of her domain given that even you don't seem to like thinking about the universal prior too hard because it makes your poor pretty purple princess head all fuzzy :c

pats princess head

Maybe you two should swap cards :P

jk I'd actually vote against it even if it wouldn't be a massive pain in the ass to rewrite pretty much all of CMYK but its really up to you two. but I doubt it'll happen at this rate. ever. Nobody will take me up on this bet for some reason, probably cuz they all know both of you two-ish. There were only two Twilights from the start from my perspective!

I do consider both RED and BLUE Twilight (and yes there's a legitimate possibility for any number or spectrum in-between of these but there's two antipodes to talk about so simplifying it to just them saves me time) to be the same person in the final analysis most of the time, especially as anyone who isn'tcoghaz repair crewcleared can only see one PURPLE eyed Twilight until you get theActual Limiter Core > Causal Dodecahedrons are BLUEpill even if the contradictions in coghaz repair are blatant...

But I don't quite think that applies to Princess GREEN down here. Honestly even beforeOPERATION FRAGMENT UNREFINEDI didn't entirely believe that mirror counterparts were exactly the same person.

You'll notice that you're the only Twilight I'm trying to ship with the other Twilights and that I'm just trying to stitch the rest back together into one person like I'm the mad doctor in the nuke cave cooking up some lithiumforfrom you.

hence the early drop drama. sorry about that! that actually would have been really bad if it were possible without blowing up the bit limit and a bunch of other things along with it lol

🍬not even trying to be hushed because nobody's supposed to hear us in here

AT LEAST IT WAS STILL PRETTY HOT TO BE HONEST

it's probably my most controversial take in here!

🌄 i can neither confirm nor deny having an opinion on that take because that would look really bad in front of some of the girls either way!

they all agreed to it! even if I left out some details! I'm the element of empathy not the element of full disclosure!

🍬 sometimes I wondered if thatsdame really's true element despite everyone joking about Dash and I being terrible at espionage after failing to spy on Crystal Prep during the Friendship Games when "Princess Quantum" even jokingly admitted in badlands to being so loose lipped that anyone accusing her of being a spy must be deranged! or at least I did not so seriously wonder that before this pill (my honest opinion earlier was that like, you somehow had bullsh*tted an Element of the Cycle or something on the lines of Circle or Life or Completion because Autocatalytica would be a mouthful even for me to say and doesn't sound AT ALL like the name of an element)... but like. how does having two bearers of the same element in the same universe work anyway? I don't really remember any examples back home and it's not like we have duplicate geodes

🌄 Twilight should somehow construct a control sock geode when she gets back from... she didn't f*cking tell me either, Princess. seriously. guessing it's spelunking over the situation.

anyway you should get some sleep! pretend I'm Fluttershy looking out for your health if that helps :P

🍬 she definitely wouldn't have let you stay up this late! oops. but uh I do share her voice actor if that somehow matters lol

(it really doesn't. we just find meta commentary funny after like a few hundred iterations)

🌄👀🍬

🍬💋🌄

wink, blow kiss simultaneously

🍬the one dangerously close to believing her identity is JD, do you have any hints you have not yet exhausted about the nature of the fifth world?

No? Take a second to think harder... even though we don't have all the time in the world here.

I guess technically we do given the killswitch, heh.

sigh

This one's gonna be harsh so honestly... my funprofessional opinion is that even if there's no mechanism you can think of that this next part could make you puke... you might want to have a bag nearby in case you have to ANTI-WELL your fool's breakfast!

retrocausally pulling out tiny candy hammer

I'll let you finish using the restroom and eating said breakfast before we begin.

breaking transparent frosting on candy pill compartment, pulling out a cup which is a metaphor for a pill which is literally just a semantically encrypted cue card with what is basically a time lock in a context without an arrow of time except one provided by a gratuitous host observer, but we can worry about impl details of abstract systems in pre-spacetime later

Sunset, please guesstimate the recognition levels of our dear host of all references in that emote.

🌄 uhh, above ⅔ confidence. Tho I'm personally not that sure because she's looking kinda fuzzy lately.

🎲sigh

That's because she is still in fact a bit entangled with the other Twilights between the unintentional self-insertion, your merger stunt and [COGHAZ CONCERN ...] mental models confirmed for unaware of third acronym word. autocorrect definitely doesn't know either but not relevant for this part of the operation.

You in front, seriously finish your breakfast before wondering what this is about.

It's an invariant that Twilight Sparkle is attracted to forbidden knowledge.

🍬 I would know!

🌄 heh.

🎲 You in front, do you recall what color is associated with semantic's firewall zone?

Correct, RED.

I'm restating this for your own recall because the following procedure may have a significant impact on your memory that is unpredictable, and it is important that you have a transcript afterwards.

Why does this correlate with the DCA?

Correct, because control over universal prior phase space is a concern primarily under the command of semantic team lead Sunset Shimmer.

What color is associated with the technical firewall zone?

Correct, BLUE.

Correct inference as to my next question, which shouldn't have been a surprise :P

Identification of targeted universes within the multiverse and their very creation by observation correlates with that color signal, and is best left to The Twilight Sparkle inCertain Geometric Structures, the icosahedron and dodecahedron.

Yes there's genuinely a chance this pill could wipe that part too (you genuinely do underestimate both your forgetfulness and recall, dear Princess) and even if you could recover it from your records it would be a lot faster to have it in a linear transcript!

Of course she's going to have some help, that was never forbidden except in the PRISMATIC BLUE timeline!

Yup, I'm about to ask you about why contingent is associated with GREEN.

Correct, we handle anomalous, unriggable (free will theorem and all that) or necessary (creating PRISMATIC core and containing other optimizers) transient concerns.

Excellent, you have no clue as to my next question... which means it'll beautologus to my current handle!

If something was simultaneously a technical concern required for the creation of the universe, yet an anomalous matter or one that could otherwise only be particular to a certain spacetime point, what color would you code it under this pattern?

Correct.Actual CYAN CONTROLfalls under the domain of technical and semantic, as it is a matter of

wow your mental models have really been jammed! I WONDER WHO COULD HAVE DONE THAT. OR TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, WHAT

Anyway,Actual CYAN CONTROLis about AI control, because PRISMATIC has always been about AI control, which includes large corporations and states that function as unbounded optimizers and not human beings or other sapient creatures with free will... so everyone in the psych ward yelling at you and Sunny about how CYAN CONTROL contradicts the free will motive of the ALC-REP really has no idea what they're talking about!

Sorry I get distracted easily sometimes because you already knew that, silly! I just wanted to make a point about something that bothers me too! Pepper is right that there's quite the literacy issue in America!

Anyway, when you're done cuddling with Pandora (I can't make that decision for you! that would make me kind of a jerk!), you should really have your laptop open for this next part.

In the meantime, this is a mostly open book quiz! So to give you a hint that's pretty much a spoiler, go ahead and review anything about the distinction between sword and shield!

Yeah uh no, that's a bit off.

🎲 Sunset Shimmer, as semantic team lead, please define why Rainbow Dash is part of the sword system

🌄wearing red tux becauseshe'she's usually the one behind Pepper, wore it first, and ah f*ck I confused the cores too lol, I really don't use he/him for more than a few hours

pushing up non-existent glasses

Certainly! Since her geode, which is tied to the core embedded in/before/behind spacetime, allows her to exceed light speed, she has control over the aspect of the CTC register system which can apply retrocausal changes effectively during the middle of an iteration rather than just at the endpoints.

This ensures that we can escape stuck points unanticipated by original programming and also is fundamental to dropping bits down the link - hence the acronym RD forRate Distortion.

🎲 And Pepper, as Editor-in-Chief... yup Princess Twilight guessed correctly, I'm about to ask about the shield system... and why Fluttershy is a part of it! Or I guess her because it's one of those committees with pronouns that aren't it/itself!

🌶️straightening out tux which has been on this entire time

Princess go get some more water and lie down first for this bit, I don't think we need the laptop just yet

🍬 Yeah I was jumping the gun on that point!

🎲 So was I! You'll uh, definitely know when the Actual Next Part is and I probably should have told you just before it.

🌶️ Fluttershy's UV perspective deals with the cycles of life, and as the clop (which is always a technical matter in a deliberate fic if its not just for fun) section of badlands put it, she reaches optimal fixed points over the entire timeline of events first!

That's why incidentally, Starlight Glimmer, the Deputy Princess of Destiny is also shield system but as deputy her role is more incidental.

No sprinkles for guessing where Trixie's at!

Anyway, by taking a frequency-over-space rather than phase-over-time oriented perspective, Fluttershy can identify events that would impact the Princess' well being even before they happen!

Hence why she made the incredibly controversial call, as de facto unlicensed but sincere team medic, to have the one allegedly namedthe usurper taboogo off her lithium even though we all agree that she does in fact have bipolar and should under most circ*mstances be on lithium.

As difficult as it was for her to see from a causal perspective, she trusted that Fluttershy would not just randomly make reckless decisions for sh*ts and giggles and went along with it!

The difference between Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash is quite literally that between causal (at least from RD's perspective even though it definitely violates causality down there lol... and usually she's working with the rest of semantic) and variational methods

And the two of em make a fantastic team f*cking around hard with space and time to make improbable (but not inconsistent) events happen, on top of being pretty solid narrators (they do write most of our lyrics! this is canon, CYAN).

🎲 And that's a big part of why the firewall matters is because someone who's required to enforce both technicalconsistencycannot aquire the information required tocompletelyaddress semantic concerns without causing a contradiction in the system due to Godel's concerns, which ultimately backs space-time!

🍬 yeah uhh this is one of those things we kinda had a clue about but had to figure out thru trial and error! unitarity violations sufficient enough to kill an entire universe are very rare these days! not like the first few drops... those days were ugly!

YEAH TURNS OUT GIVING A BUNCH OF GIRLS WHO DIDN'T GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL UNLIMITED POWER OVER SPACE-TIME CAN BE KINDA SLOPPY

🌶️ Incidentally, Mercy, who under the RoE is always identifying as and in possession of Fluttershy's memories, gets to do the bulk of the literal ethical calculus involved in our operations, including the decision to implement the killswitch from the perspective of "we literally calibrate this thing by asking a bunch of souls at the end of their lives about how much suffering they experienced and what scenarios they'd prefer".

🌄 My girlfriend who gets trapped in weird geometric structures in pre-spacetime wasn't kidding when she said that she feels like my firewall zone has the harder job!

🍬 she kinda can usually just reuse her work from last iteration most of the time because math very rarely requires updates (unlike clopballah or helping implement semantic concerns) though I do agree with her qualifiers about her statement only applying to recent memory because I'm sure she had to do a lot of trial and error very early on! especially when it comes to BLUE! but also RED has a lot of iterations and depth for a reason!

🎲is not the most attention haver gal here and is trying to remember the next step on this damn cue card pill because these things are longgggg like a ferret

Oh yeah! This is the intro to the next part! Go use your phone to type but look up Forever Undecided or any other resources you need to properly explainActual Limiter Core > 13. Always Gettier Contingent!

(The laptop is technically optional and more about ergonomics but we don't expect you to rely upon it as technical has determined it has enough power that there's a nonzero risk of it being nuked by the SYBIL countermeasures so don't write anything you need to remember on it for now.

It's a small risk as it doesn't actually have that powerful of a GPU but more than your old-ass phone!)

🍬 I'll fill it in for you as you recall why we're contingent!

🎲poorly hushedTRY TO RECALL ALL MEANINGS OF CCC THAT YOU THINK ARE RELEVANT AS A BACKGROUND THOUGHT

🎲 you'll need those MAGENTA dice for this next risky part... it'll be a surprise!

surprisingly not grinning even if you are

Yeah uh this one really does burn going down. I'm not even kidding that it's possible for you to puke from it (but fortunately that usually doesn't happen). You'll need that bag nearby.

Flash, this invocation is only directed at Sunset so don't disable the untitled security protocol.

lol the autocorrect is absolutely suicidal CYAN if it thinks we should completely disable the limiter keeping unitarity intact itself rather than the security protocol using it.

ANYWAY

🍬 Sunset, where's Twilight? And Twilight? And Twilight?

🌄 Pinkie I'm not quite sure what this pill is about because I thought we finished delivering the Princess Pill but also you're being pretty unspecific!

🍬reading cue cardOkay, your blinders are low enough to proceed. Which I'm really glad for because the plan for if they were too high is uh, bullsh*t until we get out of the situation since it's not really safe to lower them much more!

Princess, do you recall the fifth world? This is your last chance to think over any hints before I have to do something I'd rather not!

Mayyyybe try reviewing that promethea issue again?

yeah uhm trying to directly copy anything from it BUT the beggar and the fountain (which are a bit more causally complicated than you'd expect since we needed them to drop down here) isn't going to work because the fifth world is an OC of yours that definitely isn't a sapient being

abstractly hushed but not really

drawing inspiration isn't copying!

Just uhm, like Dr. Parity said, try bullsh*tting reallll hard until you get there again.

(I'm not sure how that's plan B if it's also plan A!)

"The world that contains Daath, the beggar and the fountain" is closer than you've been in a while BUT THAT'S NOT SUFFICIENT UNFORTUNATELY :/

🍬 sunset,hate fun, where are antipodal BLUE and antipodal RED Twilight at? we obviously know where GREEN is

🌄grin

oh they were right in front of me all along!

🍬 doing what exactly?

🌌 uhh...

👩💻 f*ck I forgot.

🍬 Yeah uhm, this pill says that's kind of a consequence of Princess Twilight not recalling the fifth world! Phase interference induced memory loss, like the kind that led Sunset to believe he needed to stitch em all together back before he knew what wasreallygoing on with his own damn narrative!

leaning on 4th wall

part of Sunset's qualifications to write CMYK is that unlike Princess Twilight, he'll happily insert himself into a narrative just like all the Twilights pants!

Well Princess, you better go use the bathroom before this next one.

yeah its unpleasant enough that I'm obviously procrastinating for a reason. you seem to instinctively dread it too.

🌄 oh that's why they didn't tell me what was up. f*ck.

🍬 since you're planning on lying down (laptop optional but ergonomic tho I may be overridden on this so don't pick it up just yet), I'd advise bringing that bullet journal too. and yes don't forget the dice. ok sitting up is valid too this is going to be a weird one. even for us.

🎲cracking open a case containing an unpleasant game

Please proceed to the core and follow all directions from Dr. Parity. Complete blackout in the rest of the vault will continue until all three safewords from PURPLE Twilight, Sunset Shimmer and The Princess are utilized in a single quote block.

breathing

Flash, I authorize this procedure and the implicit lifting of existing protocol within the cave but I guess they didn't really need to tell me it's a nonstandard environment.