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The park, Tuesday afternoon

Pinkie had received several large barrels stamped with apples on the side in the mail, today. Which meant two things: one, that it was apple buck season back in Equestria and even though their cider tended to sell out in the matter of a few hours in Ponyville, Apple Jack had still thought to send a bunch to Pinkie here in Fandom; and two, Pinkie now had several barrels of delicious, non-alcoholic* cider to share with all her friends in Fandom!

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS?

Pinkie had fully taken over one section of the park. There were picnic tables with festive, autumn leaf themed table clothes and picnicy flatware on them. There were vegetarian** snacks on offer. There was a giant banner reading "HAPPY IMPROMPTU OCTOBERFEST*** PARTY!" in extremely shaky English, with several pictograms, including a cider barrel, some pumpkins, and a grinning Pinkie, underneath.

And there was a line of tapped barrels with handy beersteins**** available to anyone who wanted any.

Which, considering Pinkie hadn't bothered to, say, send out emails or put up posters or make any other invites, might possibly be nopony in particular. But she was perfectly happy serving cider to the flamingoes and the teal deer that always liked to hang out with her when she was in a good***** mood, anyway.

* We're reasonably certain, anyway. Sure, it's carbonated enough to have a head on it, but the Flim-Flam brothers were making it fresh!

** Ponies don't eat meat. You're lucky it's not all made of flowers and hay.

*** Yes, it's still September. But human months don't make any sense to Pinkie, anyway. They barely even follow the moon!

**** But, you know, for non-alcoholic cider. Probably.

***** Babbling.

[ooc: Because Pinkie needs to throw more parties. And also has the attention span of a gnat crossed with a goldfish.]

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Boggle, even.

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Various, moddable, and entirely vegetarian!

Not guaranteed to be glitter free or not fired at some point from a cannon!

Edited 2014-09-30 20:08 (UTC)

Since Kitty didn't have to be at work for a while, she was able to stay for a while once she stumbled onto the scene in the park. And she could find food that wasn't covered in glitter, even!

"We should totally, totally do Oktoberfest. And we should totally, totally order cider from Pinkie's buddies," Kenzi said, approaching Kitty.

"From the sounds of it, that cider's gonna be hard to get," Kitty said. "I think an Oktoberfest should probably be a thing that happens, though. As long as we're not stealing Pinkie's thing, anyway."

"Noooo. Stealing from Pinkie would suck. But having banners and some more seasonal booze? Awesomecakes," Kenzi said, beaming, and taking another sip. "Is Pumpkin cider a real thing, or is that only in the Barry Plodder books?"

"Without even checking, given that pumpkin's in everything now, I can guarantee it's a real thing," Kitty said. "I'll put some on order. If everyone's not sick of pumpkin, it should work."

"And give it a few weeks, before we do that. Muahahahaaa." Kenzi's happy cackle was pretty close to an evil cackle. "I love October, all kinds of creepy fun. And masquerading fun. And CANDY fun."

"I'm tempted to give you some money for Halloween decorations for the bar when you say that," Kitty warned her.

Kenzi clasped her hands, delighted. "Can Tino be my minion while I do that?"

"Don't abuse him too badly and sure," Kitty said.

It's the most delicious cider in all of Equestria! The secret ingredient is love.

No, like, literally. Also, it's possibly addictive.

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After a hard day barely working, what did you need?

Well, whatever this stuff was, it was what Kenzi needed.

"This is niiiiiiice."

Edward~~'s mun was about to go to bed~~ was on his way back to the dorms and had no intention of staying long-- but the cider drew him right in.

He was only slightly disappointed that it wasn't alcoholic. After all, it tasted very, very good. He'd hang about ofr a while, then. Sitting on his bench, with a giant stein.

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She's got quite the audience of teal deer for her long, rambling story of the invention of zap apple jam.

Which she doesn't have any, today. But still! Storytime!

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"Where did you get this stuff?" Kenzi had to ask. She saw marketing opportunities here.

"Isn't it tasty? One of my very bestest pony friends from Ponyville makes it with her family! Accept no substitutes!"

"It's fizzy, but it's got a kick to it," Kenzi agreed, smacking her lips. "I bet the bars would be happy to stock it, you know?" Would Kitty give her a raise if she found a new supplier? She could hope, yes?

"Oh," Pinkie said. "Well, I know the Apple family sells it for a few bits a pint back home, but I don't know if I'm supposed to sell it here." Really, Pinkie's first instinct was almost never capitalistic. "I should check with Apple Jack! It's a very limited stock."

Even better! "Like limited time Pumpkin Spice Coffee," Kenzi said optimistically, then took another loooooong draft. "Ahhh. Smooth. Is it October already back in ... PonyLand?"

"The last letter I got from Spike said that it was almost time for the running of the leaves, which means that Nightmare Night is coming up, which is totally just like Hollerweenie, which is in Octoberfest," Pinkie explained. "We don't call it that back home, but I thought it'd be nice to embrace the local customs!"

Kenzi checked how much cider she'd had, 'cause she could've sworn Pinkie said 'running of the leaves.'

"...So what do you call it back home? Ooo, do you have Devil's Night?"

"Fall," Pinkie said. "Ooo, that sounds spooky!"

Yeah, Kenzi had lost track of questions. But she remembered the last thing she's said, so. "It's a really good excuse for bonfires, awesomeness, and some rampant property destruction, the night before Halloween. I'm thinking it should happen here, yup."

Bonfires and awesomeness sounded up Pinkie's alley, but that last bit -- "Why would you want to destroy things?"

"Why wouldn't you?" Kenzi asked, kinda puzzled. "...because they need destroying? Or, um. It's loud?"

Yes, Kenzi had been That Kid in Kindergarten.

"But somepony made those things," Pinkie pointed out. "And somepony probably cares about them. A lot of work goes into making things and caring about them."

"But mostly it's stuff ponies -- and people -- abandoned somewhere. I'm not talking about burning a theater or anything," Kenzi answered. "But, like. Oh." Park benches? Warehouse junk? "Garbage?"

"Ew." Pinkie wrinkled her nose. "Why would you want to go near garbage?"

"To burn it!" Kenzi paused, then admitted, "Fire is cooooool."

Pinkie studied her thoughtfully for a moment. "This is some weird human thing, like turning into a wolf or not liking glitter, isn't it?"

"Maybe? Although I really don't get that last one. Why would someone not like glitter?" Kenzi said aloud, mystified.

"So this is great," Kitty greeted her.

Pinkie grinned excitedly at her. "Isn't it neat? I haven't thrown a good party around here in forEVER." Seriously. It was weird. "But then I got the cider from Apple Jack and I just knew I had to have an impromptu Octoberfest party today!"

"And I've never been to an Octoberfest party before," Kitty said. "What's Apple Jack?"

"She's one of my very bestest pony friends back home! She works with her family on an apple farm in Ponyville. Her granny even actually founded Ponyville, isn't that just the neatest?"

Because Kitty had any context for any of that.

"That is!" Ponies working on apple farms, come on! That was adorable. "So you get just random cider delivered?"

She was sort of jealous of that part.

"Well, I did this time! I guess they had a super-whole-lot in Ponyville? It's really surprising 'cause it sells out superduper fast on the first day of the season every year. My friend Rainbow Dash almost never even gets to buy any, it goes so fast!"

And also because Pinkie always bought a hell of a lot of it before Rainbow Dash could get there.

"I'm imagining ponies lining up for it like it's an iPhone," Kitty said.

"Why would anypony line up to use a phone?" Pinkie asked. Yep, she'd been in the human world for years now, and still didn't bother to fully grasp their culture and technology.

"Not to use it, to buy one so you can keep it for yourself," Kitty said.

". . . That makes even less sense," Pinkie decided.

"Well, see, if I get one, then I can call someone from anywhere, and people can always reach me wherever I am," Kitty said. "So phones are pretty popular."

"Oh!" Pinkie said. "And there's only one place to get one?"

"No, but people like to get it as soon as possible, so they line up at the store to get it," Kitty explained.

She was sort of glad she didn't camp out for the iPhone 6. She might've if her schedule didn't suck these days.

Yeah, none of this was making any sense to Pinkie at all. "Well, I guess if it makes them happy," she said.

WTF, LJ, stop eating my icons!

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