The Apartment of Miss Pinkie Pie, MCA #7, Thursday Afternoon. [Post Town Hall Meeting]
Minako looked at the slip with the address she'd been assigned, looked at the door, then sighed and shoved the paper in her pocket. If the...thumping? coming from inside was any indication, at least it sounded like Pinkie Pie was at home?
"Miss Pie-sama?" she called, rapping on the door. "Can I come in? It's, uh, Aino Minako -- Minako, from the school? Can I talk to you for a second?"
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie looked up from her pacing. She'd managed to worry a rut in the floor over whether or not to trade her Element of Harmony for the little toy pony at Leland's store, and now she was -- well, she was pacing over what to do about that rut in the floor.
It was a never ending cycle. Probably for the best that she was interrupted.
She opened the door and tilted her head at the girl on the other side. "What's a sama?" she asked.
Minako Aino
(Smooth Talker)
"It's an honorific. It's, like, respect," she said, giving a grin and a little wave. "I mean, normally it would be 'sensei,' but you're not my teacher right NOW, so, um, I figured 'sama' worked just fine, and how are you doing?"
Smooth, Minako, real smooth.
Pinkie Pie
"I'm okay," Pinkie said. Normally that would be 'I'm great!' or something, but, you know, pensive Pinkie was pensive. She opened the door a little wider and trotted away from it, waving Minako in with a hoof. "Do you know anything about flooring?"
Minako Aino
"Uh, I know we walk on it?" Minkao offered, following Pinkie into the apartment. "...but I don't think it's supposed to have grooves like that. Unless you're gonna fill it with water and make a moat? That would be fun!"
Pinkie Pie
"Ooo, that does sound like fun!" Pinkie cheered. "But no, I was trying to decide something and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing. And I accidentally broke my apartment!"
Minako Aino
"I don't think you broke it," she said reassuringly. "Just, um, dented? I bet someone handy can fix it right up for you!"
And if not, well, Pinkie got a moat. So, win-win.
"You must have been thinking really hard, though," Minako continued. "It seems like this was a lot of pacing! I mean, I talk to my cat when I'm thinking, or go for a run," or fight crime, "--but did you manage to make a decision about your thing?"
Pinkie Pie
>"Yuppers! It turned out to be really silly. I don't know why it got me all worked up like that!" Really, who would trade a magic amulet of friendship for a toy? Come on, now!
Minako Aino
She sounded cheerful and not, well, evil or obsessed, so that had to be a good thing, right? And Minako wasn't getting any evil-vibes or Dark Kingdom magic off her, which was a relief.
"What was it, anyway?" she asked. "I mean, if you don't mind my asking. 'Cause you did a LOT of thinking for something minor."
Pinkie Pie
"You know that funny shop in town?" Pinkie said. "The one with the new owner and lots of different stuff for sale? I found this really neat little toy pony there and I really wanted it, but the price Mr. Gaunt set was wayyyyyy too high." She shook her head sadly. "And he gave me such a good deal on my fun lamp, too."
Three bits and some novelty balloons. Can't beat that.
Minako Aino
Guardian of Love, Justice, and FRIENDSHIP
Well, okay, that was ONE cursed item Miss Pie hadn't bought...but that left the others.
"Miss Pinkie? I'm really sorry to tell you this, but, well, Mr. Gaunt? He's been doing bad stuff and selling things to people that make them really sick, and it's really bad magic," Minako explained, wincing. "He's hurting customers that that trusted him, and is just plain Not A Nice Person."
Pinkie could probably HEAR the Capital Letters in that sentence.
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie absolutely heard those caps. Her jaw dropped and she stared at Minako in shock for a few beats. Then her face flushed from pink to fire engine red and steam started to seep out of her ears.
"That -- that -- NO GOOD NASTY BACK END OF A BASILISK!" And she'd thought he was so nice, too! Well, until she realized that he was trying to rip her off on that toy pony deal. But still! "Why I oughta --" She didn't say out loud what she oughta, but the hoof-gestures were telling.
It wasn't a nice thing that she oughta.
Minako Aino
Oh goodness, that was actual steam coming out of her ears, wasn't it? But it was totally a good sign that she was mad and not in denial! KATHY.
"I know, right?" Minako said, waving her own arms animatedly. "He totally lied to people! Fandom is all about making friends and finding family and being happy, and he is lying liar that gives people cursed stuff!"
"Which, I'm really really sorry, but, that means you gotta break everything you got from him, in case any of it is Bad Magic." Minako looked really super apologetic. "Everyone's gotta do it, or we're not gonna be able to stop him."
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie nodded very seriously and saluted with one hoof. "On it!" she declared. She grabbed the leg lamp, the leg flatware, and the chicken leg phone case, which had all been hanging out in a little leg-themed party corner, and brought them to the middle of the room. ". . . Do you have a really big mallet I can borrow?"
Minako Aino
"I didn't bring a mallet, but I can stomp with the best of them!" she enthused, giving Pinkie a V-for-Victory sign. "Let's do this, and then we'll go get ice cream!"
First victim? Minako was gonna bring her foot down on the chicken leg phone case. It was kinda creeping her out.
Pinkie "The So Not Cursed" Pie
"Ice cream!" Pinkie cheered, hooves up in her own little V. She cheerfully trampled the leg flatware to itty bitty bits, then raised her hoof over the thigh of the leg lamp. "Together?"
Minako Aino
"It's so big!" Minako was a little in awe (terror) at your taste, Pinkie. "SURE!"
It might not be a cursed-item, but the smashing was surprisingly cathartic.
Pinkie Pie
"It was a thing of beauty," Pinkie said wistfully, as she looked at the shattered bits of lamp on her floor. "Oh well! No more maybe-evil in here!"
Minako Aino
"Maybe we throw a wake for it?" Minako suggested. "Toast it with root beef floats and have cake? 'Cause I know I just worked-up an appetite."
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie gave her a very approving nod. "I like the way you think. Just let me go get Gummy, he won't want to miss this!"
Hopefully Minako would have no objections to a dead eyed baby alligator sipping a rootbeer float with them.
[OOC: Preplayed with the amazing
locointhecoco! NFI, OOC = Love!]
"Miss Pie-sama?" she called, rapping on the door. "Can I come in? It's, uh, Aino Minako -- Minako, from the school? Can I talk to you for a second?"
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie looked up from her pacing. She'd managed to worry a rut in the floor over whether or not to trade her Element of Harmony for the little toy pony at Leland's store, and now she was -- well, she was pacing over what to do about that rut in the floor.
It was a never ending cycle. Probably for the best that she was interrupted.
She opened the door and tilted her head at the girl on the other side. "What's a sama?" she asked.
Minako Aino
(Smooth Talker)
"It's an honorific. It's, like, respect," she said, giving a grin and a little wave. "I mean, normally it would be 'sensei,' but you're not my teacher right NOW, so, um, I figured 'sama' worked just fine, and how are you doing?"
Smooth, Minako, real smooth.
Pinkie Pie
"I'm okay," Pinkie said. Normally that would be 'I'm great!' or something, but, you know, pensive Pinkie was pensive. She opened the door a little wider and trotted away from it, waving Minako in with a hoof. "Do you know anything about flooring?"
Minako Aino
"Uh, I know we walk on it?" Minkao offered, following Pinkie into the apartment. "...but I don't think it's supposed to have grooves like that. Unless you're gonna fill it with water and make a moat? That would be fun!"
Pinkie Pie
"Ooo, that does sound like fun!" Pinkie cheered. "But no, I was trying to decide something and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing and pacing. And I accidentally broke my apartment!"
Minako Aino
"I don't think you broke it," she said reassuringly. "Just, um, dented? I bet someone handy can fix it right up for you!"
And if not, well, Pinkie got a moat. So, win-win.
"You must have been thinking really hard, though," Minako continued. "It seems like this was a lot of pacing! I mean, I talk to my cat when I'm thinking, or go for a run," or fight crime, "--but did you manage to make a decision about your thing?"
Pinkie Pie
>"Yuppers! It turned out to be really silly. I don't know why it got me all worked up like that!" Really, who would trade a magic amulet of friendship for a toy? Come on, now!
Minako Aino
She sounded cheerful and not, well, evil or obsessed, so that had to be a good thing, right? And Minako wasn't getting any evil-vibes or Dark Kingdom magic off her, which was a relief.
"What was it, anyway?" she asked. "I mean, if you don't mind my asking. 'Cause you did a LOT of thinking for something minor."
Pinkie Pie
"You know that funny shop in town?" Pinkie said. "The one with the new owner and lots of different stuff for sale? I found this really neat little toy pony there and I really wanted it, but the price Mr. Gaunt set was wayyyyyy too high." She shook her head sadly. "And he gave me such a good deal on my fun lamp, too."
Three bits and some novelty balloons. Can't beat that.
Minako Aino
Guardian of Love, Justice, and FRIENDSHIP
Well, okay, that was ONE cursed item Miss Pie hadn't bought...but that left the others.
"Miss Pinkie? I'm really sorry to tell you this, but, well, Mr. Gaunt? He's been doing bad stuff and selling things to people that make them really sick, and it's really bad magic," Minako explained, wincing. "He's hurting customers that that trusted him, and is just plain Not A Nice Person."
Pinkie could probably HEAR the Capital Letters in that sentence.
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie absolutely heard those caps. Her jaw dropped and she stared at Minako in shock for a few beats. Then her face flushed from pink to fire engine red and steam started to seep out of her ears.
"That -- that -- NO GOOD NASTY BACK END OF A BASILISK!" And she'd thought he was so nice, too! Well, until she realized that he was trying to rip her off on that toy pony deal. But still! "Why I oughta --" She didn't say out loud what she oughta, but the hoof-gestures were telling.
It wasn't a nice thing that she oughta.
Minako Aino
Oh goodness, that was actual steam coming out of her ears, wasn't it? But it was totally a good sign that she was mad and not in denial! KATHY.
"I know, right?" Minako said, waving her own arms animatedly. "He totally lied to people! Fandom is all about making friends and finding family and being happy, and he is lying liar that gives people cursed stuff!"
"Which, I'm really really sorry, but, that means you gotta break everything you got from him, in case any of it is Bad Magic." Minako looked really super apologetic. "Everyone's gotta do it, or we're not gonna be able to stop him."
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie nodded very seriously and saluted with one hoof. "On it!" she declared. She grabbed the leg lamp, the leg flatware, and the chicken leg phone case, which had all been hanging out in a little leg-themed party corner, and brought them to the middle of the room. ". . . Do you have a really big mallet I can borrow?"
Minako Aino
"I didn't bring a mallet, but I can stomp with the best of them!" she enthused, giving Pinkie a V-for-Victory sign. "Let's do this, and then we'll go get ice cream!"
First victim? Minako was gonna bring her foot down on the chicken leg phone case. It was kinda creeping her out.
Pinkie "The So Not Cursed" Pie
"Ice cream!" Pinkie cheered, hooves up in her own little V. She cheerfully trampled the leg flatware to itty bitty bits, then raised her hoof over the thigh of the leg lamp. "Together?"
Minako Aino
"It's so big!" Minako was a little in awe (terror) at your taste, Pinkie. "SURE!"
It might not be a cursed-item, but the smashing was surprisingly cathartic.
Pinkie Pie
"It was a thing of beauty," Pinkie said wistfully, as she looked at the shattered bits of lamp on her floor. "Oh well! No more maybe-evil in here!"
Minako Aino
"Maybe we throw a wake for it?" Minako suggested. "Toast it with root beef floats and have cake? 'Cause I know I just worked-up an appetite."
Pinkie Pie
Pinkie gave her a very approving nod. "I like the way you think. Just let me go get Gummy, he won't want to miss this!"
Hopefully Minako would have no objections to a dead eyed baby alligator sipping a rootbeer float with them.
[OOC: Preplayed with the amazing
locointhecoco! NFI, OOC = Love!]