DM: So once Shining Armor and Princess Cadance–
Shining Armor: I think that's /Prince/ Shining Armor now.
DM: Right. Once the Prince and Princess are done with their royal waving at the crowd... That's Dash's cue.
Rainbow Dash: Huh? To do what?
DM: Your thing?
Rainbow Dash: Oh, RIGHT!
SFX: (ZOOM!)
Rainbow Dash: And I can just do it? No rolls or anything this time?
DM: Unless you want to. You've been training and practicing the last few days anyway.
Rainbow Dash: Sweet!! So I take off into the sky above the city, accelerating towards the sound barrier, and:
SFX: (BOOOOOM!!)
Rainbow Dash: A HUGE shockwave of rainbow light bursts through the sky – a Sonic Rainboom! And with the contrail following behind me, I draw a big bright rainbow over the entire capital!
Princess Cadance: Oh my gosh!
Shining Armor: All that for OUR wedding? Thank you so much!
Rainbow Dash: Proving that I am STILL the most AWESOME rainbow-colored horse EVER!
Rainbow Dash's player has easily come the furthest in terms of buying into the premises of the game. Although that is, in all fairness, because she had the furthest to go.
Hah.... My mom thinks contrails are made up and don't actually exist, so they can cover up CHEMtrails... Which is a conspiracy I think only exists b cause someone decades ago misheard the word Contail and, ironically much like my mom does, brainlessly try to fit it into words/things they already know, rather then ask anyone about it...
When I was young, a teacher I respected said that it was actually large planes dumping fuel when they landed so they weren't landing full of dangerous jet fuel, special fuel that dissipated harmlessly into the atmosphere.
It just never made sense to me, and it was one of the first times I can remember that I realized that a teacher can simply be *wrong* about something.
I mean, TECHnically they were right. The planes ARE dumping fuel... into their reaction chambers... And if they're doing it right, when they land they'll be fairly empty... because if they've 'landed' while still full, that means that something's gone wrong...
In emergencies planes WILL dump fuel before landing because A) it's easier to land a lighter plane, and B) if you're riding the ragged edge of not crashing into the ground, less fuel in the plane means less flame if you crash and burn.
That doesn't mean that the jettisoned fuel dissipates harmlessly, it's a nasty pollutant, both in the air, and if/when it condenses on the ground.
Who says she has to practice over Ponyville? There's lots of open terrain to the east or west. Ghastly Gorge might actually be perfect.
Besides, Ponyville already suffers enough catastrophes just by being close to the Everfree. Entirely avoidable noise complaints would not be tolerated for long.
I had a second shapeshifter race and had it so they could change shape, but not color. So you could probably tell what they are if you knew about them and that animal didn't have a darkgrey coat, some kind of grey mane, and gold eyes motif (their normal colors), but they could still use it for practical beast forms.
...That would probably be too nice to them, but as ones who are used to shapechanging to infiltrate, they would hate being able to shapechange to anything BUT infiltrators.
Good thing for the happy couple that they can get a sonic rainboom for their in-game fantasy pony wedding. Don't want to think about how much it would cost setting that up for the real thing. :)
That's RD for you. AJ might, later, suggest that she could have better put it, "For you, nothing less than the full awesome of the awesomest rainbow-colored horse EVER!"