Rainbow Dash: <roll> So does a 25 do it?
DM: Just barely. The clouds seemed to actively avoid you, but you fly so fast that they all get grouped together. But they threaten to break apart at any moment.
Twilight Sparkle: Excellent! Now, Applejack, lasso them!
Applejack: Um.
Twilight Sparkle: They're more corporeal than regular clouds. We can trap them!
Applejack: With a lasso, she says… Fine. Straight Dex? <roll>
DM: 20? Good enough! The clouds are merged and bound.
Applejack: ...And why did I do that?
Pinkie Pie: So we can squeeze them and take the BIGGEST GULP OF CHOCOLATE MILK EVER!!
Applejack: …
Rarity: No snarky quip for that?
Applejack: Nope. Ah am defeated.
DM: You realize that's gonna taste like chocolate syrup and rainwater, right?
Pinkie Pie: DO YOU HATE FUN?! IS THAT IT?!
So when I wrote the last Author's Note, I genuinely had no plans for April Fools' shenaniganery. And that remained true for the site. But over in video game stream land, I did pull a little con involving Pokemon White. (Though I might actually end up playing through that.)
I managed to pull off a Schroedinger's Fool. I'm a well-known trickster. I told everyone I wasn't going to do anything for April Fools' Day. They spent the entire day wondering what in the world I was going to pull.
Anyway, mine wasn't all that impressive. I was asked a couple of weeks ago to write a story for a contest a friend was having. Since my FoE story is almost done (just have a couple of parts left to do that need to be rewritten so they make sense with everything else) and since my other friends didn't know anything about the contest, I kept my mouth shut and worked to finish the contest story in time for April First. Then I just was vague about which story I had just finished and watched as one of them realized the trick. He took it well enough, though he refuses to read it for fear that he'll spoil something about my "epic" FoE story he's been waiting this whole time for.
Yeah, I know, it's not as impressive or creative as an April Fools joke, but when life gives you lemons and all that.
I am too Lawful usually for making up jokes...Though I am good at retelling ones I know.
Though it is tradition in my family to call my grandma and tell her we left a salami on her porch... So this year we told her 'The Lord has Risen and he left you a salami'.
Clouds as a transmission vehicle for disease? I like that world-building idea. The Equestrian CDC has to round up infection-carrying clouds to have destroyed. The Weather Factory issuing recalls on tainted clouds...
