DM: I assume you want to bring everypony back to the ground?
Twilight Sparkle: Yes, please.
Discord: Well, well, well...! Got yourself a new pair of accessories, have you... *Princess* Twilight Sparkle?
Rainbow Dash: You bet she has! And now we're gonna kick your butt!
Applejack: Feelin' lucky?
Pinkie Pie: We lost the Element of Surprise, but we've got six more!
Twilight Sparkle: Yes, I may have discovered a secret of the alicorns... But that's not the most important thing I learned, Discord. I learned what it means to embody the true nature of Harmony. The secret of unbreakable friendship!
Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity: *YEAH!*
Discord: *UGGGH!* And people complain about *villainous* monologues! How about we cut to the chase? Since you all seem so confident in your "unbreakable friendship"... let's see if you've got what it takes to turn me back into stone.
Fluttershy: Just like that, huh...?
Rarity: Are... you certain about taking that gamble? Wouldn't you rather, you know, fight for your freedom first?
Discord: It's the only part of this that truly matters. Either you succeed and petrify me... or you fail and I get to enjoy some *lovely* flying pig ballet.
Applejack: Yer up to somethin'. An' you want us to walk right into it.
Discord: I'm glad we're getting to know each other so *well.*
"But Spud, why didn't you just photoshop some wings onto Twilight in these screencaps?"
"Because I couldn't find clean vectors of just Twilight's wings at enough angles that I was confident it would look good shrunk down and in so many different poses I didn't waaannaaaaaa."
Discord in the last panel reminds me of a time I almost got one up on my Dad in something we were doing, it was either a one on one debate or a chess game. I was at an advantage, but he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat at the last moment, then he looked at me and smiled as he said, "You're better at this than I was at your age...but I'm still *my* age."
The party was stuck in a nightmarish dream, and at one point my character and another PC escaped some Silent Hill inspired creatures into a hole in the wall. On the other side we met a pink pony in a dark hoodie that went by Laughter (we both aren't familiar with Pinkie Pie, so her similarity doesn't raise a flag). She treated us to some hot cocoa and a few helpful hints on how we might escape the dream.
Much later the party regrouped together and confronted Nightmare Moon to get her to let us out. After my first confrontation ended poorly, I thought to try a more diplomatic approach. I even offered NMM some of the hot cocoa I had gotten earlier from Laughter. My thought process was that the cocoa seemed to cheer one up and put them in a better mood after a few sips. NMM took one sip and spat out blood, collapsing momentarily from the drink infused with an element of harmony. Whoops! The diplomacy went downhill from there. ^^
All sometimes a hero monologue makes the villain do a save toll versus nausea...
And so the chess game continues as the surprise element is lost and now DM Discord is challenge a all or nothing attack...
Calling it now: What Discord is up to is tricking them into *not* trying the Elements of Harmony right away, when he actually has nothing to stop them from working. It's a colossal bluff, built on the reputation he established with them by out maneuvering them so thoroughly in his first session, and Applejack's suspicion is going to make her walk right into it by trying to avoid walking into whatever trap she suspects he might have.
"Because
I couldn't find clean vectors of just Twilight's wings at enough angles that I was confident it would look good shrunk down and in so many different posesI didn't waaannaaaaaa."