The unfortunate consequences of a reserve...

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

I thought a game would be a delight,
But am I pleased? No. Not quite.
Could you take a moment and answer why
You think that I deserve to die?

And even if perhaps once more I can again live
That is a gift nopony should be able to give.
To chase it feels somehow all wrong
My life was full, even if not long.
But my other option is to harass and attack
The others who chose to run that track?
This choice is terrible, only picking my doom.
In your heart, for kindness, is there no room?

Comments

[doingthemistything]

... Is this about the place where I got reserved too? I'm... sorry that you'll end up going to such a place... [His mun's even having second thoughts on that reserve, since another game caught her eye...]

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

The place is indeed the same.
My mun loves the video game.

[doingthemistything]

My mun does, too... She's having a difficult time making decisions about what will happen to me there, or if I'm even going.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

The one little comfort to me in the end
Is that better it happen to me, than a friend.

[doingthemistything]

Yeah... I'd rather not have any of my teammates go through something like that at all... It's awful.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Worse if a friend with ambitions had died
Than a simple zebra content to in the forest abide.

[suicidoll]

Ah, it's the game based on that one video game, isn't it? My mun loves that game and sees it fit to send me there as a reaper. I can only hope things will make a turn for the better, but one can never tell with mundanes...

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

That is the one of which I speak
That will send me to a fate I do not seek.
I do not think I could be a reaper
But the other role is also not a keeper.

[suicidoll]

Both roles are quite tragic, unfortunately...though I don't suppose being an "RGer" would be a considerable option, would it? From what I understand, you're mostly excluded from their Reaper's Game, but it does allow you to keep your life

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Considering what gives this adventure its fame,
The mundane wishes me to deal with the Reapers' Game.

[suicidoll]

Quite unfortunate, then; this means that not only will you be forced to take part in the game, your mun will also have to plan out your death.

...should your mun decide to make you a player, it will be most unfortunate to have to oppose you.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Each of us will play our role
But I shan't fall so easy, little foal.

[suicidoll]

(Kreutzer giggles at that.)

Excellent; you'll do best to hold on to that confidence. There's no telling what will happen, but that's all part of the fun, isn't it?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

All we can do is our best
And not worry about the rest!

[suicidoll]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

All the same, I wish you the best in your endeavors.

[wise_lil_wolf]

Whoa! A talking...rhyming zebra!

Awesome!

Are you an EVO?

That game sounds scary. I'm glad my Mun doesn't want to send me there.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Your first line described me quite well.
What is an EVO? If you can tell?

[wise_lil_wolf]

This is so awesome.

An EVO is what happens when the nanites, little machines inside your body, decide to make you something other than what you already are.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

A zebra is what I am and should be.
Why would a machine make a change to me?

[wise_lil_wolf]

Ahh, I dunno.

Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.

Weird, right?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

'Weird' is a word that's much too mild.
For strangeness atop of strangeness piled.

[tinybookworm]

Wow~! A zebra! I've onwly seen you books.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Have I hit my head, and knocked myself silly
Or is Twilight suddenly a little filly?
This place is strange, and strange things abound
But I expected nothing so close to home to come round.

[tinybookworm]

[Wait did she just...?]

How do you know my name?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Twilight Sparkle, I know you well
But this is a strange tale I must tell.
The Twilight I know is full-grown.
To me, as an adult you are known.

[tinybookworm]

So you know me...as a grown up?

...Are you from the future?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

I did not travel through time by spell
But here, stranger things happen as well.
Your question I can't answer easily,
but that is how it seems to me.