The Perk- Thursday afternoon

[throughaphase]

Kitty thought everything happening was a little overkill for a temporary "people turn into ponies" thing, but it hadn't bothered her. She was still human and could phase through both the rain and soap streets, no big.

She'd even gone into the hedge maze out of curiosity, and because she could phase through that too if it got scary. But then when she phased through a tricky wall it left a Kitty-shaped hole, which it shouldn't have done. And then it happened again. And then she phased through when she was trying to stay solid.

By the time she got out, she wasn't sure if it was the maze messing with her, or if her powers were on the fritz, or both.

She'd gotten to the Perk since she was already out, figuring she'd grab a seat and take a minute to calm down. Turns out the slid made better coffee than the baristas, in her opinion.

[Im around for a BDE, I'm playing in it, dammit. Open!]

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Hanna was growing increasingly unnerved by a) everyone turning into ponies while she had not (yet) , b) bunnies with giraffe legs, and c) teal deer with boutonnieres. What the heck.

And now there was an Alot of Polka-dots serving coffee.

She stared for a minute, then sighed. "One Mocha Latte Grande, please."

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The alot let out a loud groaning noise that might have been affirmation, and turned to go fuss with the coffee machines.

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"...and a donut with sprinkles," Hanna added, because the Alot's appearance had reminded her she was hungry.

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"Ooo, good choice," Tip said, trotting up. "I should get one of those, too." She gave Hanna a sheepish -- ponyish? -- wave with her wing. "Hi Hanna."

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"Hello, Tip." Hanna gave her roommate a rueful smile in answer. "I'm trying not to stare at him to see how he works the coffee maker. And trying not to be jealous that you're a pony." Hanna was feeling a bit left out, this time. Also, Tip's mane looked lovely.

[intotheout]

Tip could not even begin to say how glad she was she'd put her hair in braids before this happened. "I'm still figuring out how to pick things up," Tip said, fluttering her wings. "It's not really all it's cracked up to be."

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"I remember that from last time. If you do need help, I'm happy to do things to save time," Hanna added. The Alot returned with her mocha, and she took a sip, making a happy sound. "This seems to be more annoying than last time for everyone. I nearly knocked myself out on a light pole trying to walk down the street." All that soap!

[intotheout]

"I'd heard about weird weather and stuff, but no one warned me about the soap streets." Tip tried to wipe one of her hooves on the floor and ended up having to flail all four of her legs to keep her balance. After skidding back and forth across the Perk twice, she finally got her wings going and just kind of . . . hovered. "I'm not into the soap streets."

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"No one ever mentioned it to me, either. And it hasn't happened in the last year and a half," Hanna confirmed. "The maze in the park is new as well. And the deer have boutonnieres that squirt water in your face. Aggravating."

Hanna was not one much for physical comedy.

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"It's that kind of week," Kitty confirmed from her seat.

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Hanna turned around, startled, then smiled when she saw Kitty. "Hello! Yes. I am glad someone else is human, I was beginning to worry there was something wrong with me, to not be a pony or other creature yet." She bit her lip, and added, since she'd had Kitty as a teacher, and she'd been in Fandom much longer, "Do you know why things are like this? The last time we were ponies, it wasn't so frustrating."

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"Not really sure. I don't know if it has anything to do with the memory loss this weekend, or if Fandom's just throwing some kind of fit," Kitty frowned. "I'm sure it'll still be only a few days, though. These things have a shelf life."

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Hanna retrieved her coffee (and her donut) from the Alot, and asked, "Can I join you for a bit? I'm going to go to the Library soon, and see if they know anything else there, just to be sure."

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"Pull up a chair," Kitty said, pushing said chair out a little with her foot. "You think it's a bigger thing than Fandom freaking out?"

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Hanna turned pink, and admitted, "Mostly I want to be able to do something about it. Because it's -- gotten under my skin?" Her English was great now, but sometimes idioms still defeated her. "And because after the rabbits in the Preserve and the soap on the streets, I want to be somewhere that stays still and isn't about to jump on me." She tilted her head. "You don't think it's anything to worry about?"

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"I didn't think so," Kitty said, though she was kind of doubting that now. Especially given the maze thing that she'd thought was her fault. "What's this about rabbits?"

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"The rabbit have giraffe legs," Hanna told her, with a repressed shudder. They looked like science experiments. "And they're running all through the dorm grounds like that. And the teal deer in the Preserve are wearing boutonnieres. Somehow." Were they pinned on? Were they magnets? Was there a hidden ribbon that Hanna hadn't seen? She didn't know. She couldn't stop wondering. "That squirt water."

[intotheout]

Tip was a pony. A rather soapy pony. It'd taken a little while to get the hang of skating along on the soap streets. She'd made it as far as the Perk before giving up on getting to the post office. (Admittedly, the Perk wasn't quite on the way to the post office, but she'd had to dodge some weird pink low flying storm thing.)

All of this, she felt, meant she deserved a coffee. The biggest, froofiest, syrupiest coffee full of absolutely anything that wasn't chocolate. She'd had enough of that, already.

"The horned thingy behind the counter is . . . new, right?" she asked the room in general. "I'm pretty sure that's new."

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"It's alot," Kitty told her. "I'm not sure it really works here?"

[intotheout]

"A lot of what?" Tip hadn't been briefed on alots, just yet. She shook her head, wrapping her wings carefully around her frothy sugar drink so she could walk with it to a table. It was extremely awkward, but it beat out trying to hold it in her hooves and walk on her hind legs. "It's doing a pretty good job, at least."

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"Alot of polka dots," Kitty said, which probably didn't help a ton, really. "I like the wings."

She even meant that genuinely!

[intotheout]

"They're . . . occasionally useful," Tip said, a little grudgingly. "Thanks." She eyed the alot again. "This place is weird."

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"So weird," she agreed. "Are you newer here?"

[intotheout]

"Got here in May," Tip agreed. "This is my first time transforming."

[throughaphase]

"It's pretty much a rite of passage here," Kitty told her. "So, congratulations, and I promise it'll go away."