Bartending

[crabbycustomer]

Karkat comes downstairs with a small heap of notes and a room key in his hands. He knows several of these people will be (rightfully) pissed at him for slumping off without telling them face-to-face, but he can't

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[no_vampires_plz]

crepuscularScintillation [CS] started horsing around with carcinoGeneticist [CG]

CS: Hey, Karkat?
CS: You wouldn't happen to have seen one or more gray pegasi around, would you?

[crabbycustomer]

CG: YEAH ACTUALLY
CG: I RAN INTO ONE WITH A FAIRY ON HER ASS YESTERDAY
CG: ONE OF YOUR PALS?

[no_vampires_plz]

CS: You mean Fluttershy? Oh, thank Celestia, I was starting to think we'd never find her!
CS: I'm coming to Milliways. If you see her again, make sure she stays put. The fate of Equestria depends on it.

[crabbycustomer]

CG: UH OKAY
CG: SOUNDS PRETTY DRAMATIC
CG: BUT SURE, WHATEVER
CG: NO, PROBLEM, SHE WAS PRETTY COOL

[no_vampires_plz]

CS: It's not dramatic!
CS: Well, it is, but it's also true. It's kind of a long story.

[crabbycustomer]

CG: CALM YOUR
CG: WHATEVER HORSES HAVE TO CALM, I DON'T KNOW
CG: I AM FAMILIAR WITH THINGS THAT ARE BOTH DRAMATIC AND TRUE MYSELF
CG: I'M JUST SAYING
CG: HOW MUCH SHIT ARE YOU IN, EXACTLY?

[no_vampires_plz]

CS: You want the long version or the short?

[crabbycustomer]

CG: I AM SITTING HERE TENDING BAR AT AN HOUR WHEN ANY RESPECTABLE TROLL SHOULD BE CURLED UP IN A THICK PUDDLE OF SLIME AND ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WANTS TO BUY SHIT
CG: I HAVE NOTHING BUT TIME

[no_vampires_plz]

CS: I told you about Princesses Celestia and Luna, right? Well, they weren't always the rulers of Equestria.
CS: They first came to power when they overthrew a spirit named Discord and imprisoned him in stone.
CS: And he just got loose.

[crabbycustomer]

CG: OKAY...
CG: HOW POWERFUL ARE WE TALKING?
CG: I NEED A SENSE OF SCALE HERE
CG: IS HE LIKE A GOD?
CG: OR WORSE?
CG: OR HE IS ONLY LIKE A THIRTY FUCKING STORY TWO-HEADED KING?

[no_vampires_plz]

CS: I... *think* he's a god? He's on that same level, anyway.
CS: Ponies don't really have a word for that concept.
CS: He's the spirit of chaos and disharmony, and he's been turning Ponyville upside down. Literally, in some cases.

[crabbycustomer]

CG: OKAY
CG: THAT'S PRETTY GODDAMN POWERFUL
CG: SEE HOW IMPORTANT THAT CONTEXTUALIZATION WAS, NOW I KNOW HOW FUCKING IMPRESSED I SHOULD BE.
CG: I MEAN HOPY SHIT, THAT'S RIDICULOUS

[no_vampires_plz]

CS: To say the least.
CS: And my friends and I are the only ones who can defeat him, because we're the ones who control the Elements of Harmony.

[crabbycustomer]

CG: GOT IT
CG: CONSIDER ME FULLY BRIEFED ON THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF BEING THE YOUNGSTERS CHARGED WITH SPECIAL ELEMENTAL POWERS
CG: WHO ARE SOMEHOW THE ONLY ONES ABLE TO STOP THE GOD-KING-MONSTER FROM TERRORIZING ALL THE PEASANT IN THEIR THATCHED ROOF COTTAGES
CG: AND ALSO ON HAVING YOUR FRIENDS GO BUGSHIT RIGHT WHEN YOU NEED THEM MOST
CG: THAT IS WHAT'S GOING ON, RIGHT?

[no_vampires_plz]

CS: Exactly.
CS: Discord has been--
CS: Manipulating our minds somehow--
CS: Making us turn against each other.
CS: I can stop it--
CS: But I need to--
CS: Be in direct contact--
CS: To cast the spell.

[crabbycustomer]

CG: GOT IT
CG: HE'S LIKE
CG: HOLY GRUBFUCKING HELL
CG: I THINK YOU JUST MADE ME REALIZE SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT MY OWN PROBLEMS
CG: BUT STICK A PIN IN THAT FOR NOW, THE POINT IS I GET IT
CG: YOU ARE GETTING PRETTY CHOPPY, ARE YOU IN A FIGHT?

It wouldn't be the first conversation he's had like that over Trollian, Grub knows.