Dear Princess Celestia,
I found the zombie deer again. My initial suspicion about it being an intentional creation has grown stronger, as I will explain below.
This encounter was similar to the first. I found the deer deep within the Everfree around midnight. It was standing motionless in a seemingly random spot. There were no timberwolf remains nearby, but there was most of a black bear corpse. The body was intact, the head was pulverized. Have you ever stepped on an acorn? It looked like that, only if you stomped on it repeatedly until every piece was driven an inch or more into the ground. Needless to say, the deer's legs were covered in blood.
I didn't want to provoke it again, so I chose to remain hidden and observe it as long as possible, which ended up being a little under six hours. Most of that time was spent completely motionless. The only time it moved was to attack something, after which it returned to standing in place. The attacks, while gruesome, allowed me a better understanding than what I would have gained otherwise.
To start, it possesses physical abilities far exceeding any living deer. There were very few injuries on it, and the ones I could see were only shallow cuts and some bite marks that barely broke the skin. This on its own is strong evidence that the magic preserving it must have come from a focused source rather than the weak but widespread magic of a curse.
In addition, there appears to be a set of criteria for what it will and won't attack. From what I was able to gather, it ignores any creature more than forty feet away, even if they are directly in its line of sight. It also ignores anything smaller than a cat, anything bipedal, and anything with more than four legs. Those last three build a disturbing framework where ponies are a prime candidate, if not the intended target.
I unfortunately made the mistake of trying to get closer shortly before sunrise. It attacked the moment I was in range, but I was ready with a shield spell. Just like in the first encounter, it immediately gave up the attack and fled. I was unable to follow it, but I marked the direction. In both instances, the deer fled southeast. I will angle my investigation in that direction and keep you appraised of any future discoveries.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
creepy and interesting
This seems strangely rational and well thought out coming from Twilight.
The mystery continues.....
This seems like a mini-arc in the making.
Hmm, Twilight is thinking like someone with actual sanity would. There's definitely some powerful magic at work here.
Did anybody else notice that Twilight said Zambie doesn't attack things that are bipedal, and she's the one writing the letter not Anon...
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Whenever it's Twilight writing the letter, I become fearful that something hideous and downright Purple has happened to poor Anon.
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Give her a target and she become a laser-guided autism bomb
If it is an some sort of"anti pony weapon" then it seems likely that its an anti earth pony weapon, what I mean by that is pegasi can just fly out of its range easily and while twilight is very powerful it didn't seem to have any anti magic offensive abilities so unicorn's would have a decent edge, but earth ponies are for the most part stuck at close melee when it comes to combat.
Yo congrats on 2 stories of yours being featured at the same time.
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Twilight wrote this, not Anon.
I wonder if T-06 had anything to do with Zambie. I think that larger soul piece is making her more purple.
But not by much... Judging by her lack of conscience towards sending Anon near an auto-pulverizing zombie deer and watching silently.
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Not without permission from the author
I recall 109 having a particularly good reply from Celly-Belly...
' If the Everfree wants to be on fire, it will set itself on fire. It has done so in the past. '
Ah yes, my favourite line from Celestia.
Doesn’t attack bipeds hmm? How did she find that out I wonder? Maybe she threw Anon at it something purple like that
Also do we know if anyone has picked up the Celestia side of things, I miss her reply’s (and flirting with Anon)
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Spike is bipedal as well.
This is threatening to turn into an actual story. I don't know how I feel about that.
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The guy who was writing that story is no longer doing it anymore
Twilight found a black magic hole for her purple peg. Let's just hope she's interested in Zambie out of concern for public safety in addition to wanting to take notes on the techniques involved.
(I'd say "rather than," but even I'm not that much of a hopeless optimist.)
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She's taking notes. She probably intends either to make one herself or some variation of it, or else write a research paper on it and become famous in the magical-nerd community. She's also noted how powerful it is. Any minor screw-up while studying it could get her non-self-inflicted killed, and might result in her becoming a mindless killing machine that isn't interested even slightly in books. She MUST take it professionally.
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Anon usually puts a spin on things for how they Actually happened with a bit of comedic flair.
Twilight is probably REALLY good at making her writings seem like nothing is wrong; when in actuality what really happened is that she probably brought Rarity's cat to test why
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Also how could a cat specifically get in the Forest if it is so dangerous.
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... Oh hell, that's not good
Definitely the work of one of her old clones.
Wow this ones some what serious
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Who?
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Hmm from what I remember Snow said that it was permissible to continue answering...
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/450190/154/to-anon-from-hrh-sunbutt/to-the-readers-and-anon
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On the other hand cats are QUITE variable in size...
You go from the smallish singapura cat that is a bit more than three pounds to the huge Maine Coons or Norwegian Forest cat that go for almost twenty five...
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Not snow. I commented there and snow said that it was fine, but to get permission from 2merr as well.
I had been wondering what happened to this deer...
Good to see it hasn't been forgotten.
Wait... Is Twilight showing competency her? Or she's walking into a trap.
So Anon could deal with this since it wouldn't attack him right?
Not saying he would though...