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[Dsarker]

Time's up. Answer is in the spoiler below.

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Firstly, a few things we must note. We only see three large predators, that is true. But we see no large prey animals besides the civilised beings. So they must get their food other than by hunting. Dragons are presumably fed by gems, we think.


But what about the others? Why are the ursas able to raise young when they don't have a food source?


Well, they do.


For those of you not familiar with Dinotopia, the Rainy Basin is where the predators live. T. rex, Giganotosaurus, Tarbosaurus, all of them. They are cut off from the rest of the island. So how do they feed?

The same way that the ursas, hydra, and manticores feed.


Often, a dinosaur that senses it will die soon will make a pilgrimage to the basin and die there so that it may be eaten by the carnivores and continue to contribute to the good of the island as a whole.

The ponies die for the predators.

[Sean Mirrsen]

As for M:tG, a Twilight deck would be Blue/Black, Rarity would be White, Fluttershy would be Green, Rainbow Dash would be Red, Applejack would be Green/Red and Pinkie Pie would be a crazy multicolored deck that shouldn't work but somehow does.

Just noticed this edit. I totally agree on Pinkie's deck. It should be a multitude of colors and colorless artifacts/enchantments, focusing on extreme ends of the cost spectrum, so that the deck more or less struggles to so much as get a single serious card out for the first half of the game, but if it survives past that or has a stroke of luck earlier, it unleashes all rainbow hell on everything. While singing.

And Dsarker, I do believe that in the Everfree and beyond pony control in general, normal food chains work. So, predators hunt and eat whatever they can catch, including ponies if they're feeling suicidal or live far enough away from Canterlot to remain unnoticed for a significant amount of time. Just because cattle is intelligent, for a predator it doesn't make it any less cattle.

[Dsarker]

Yes. But there are no wild animals. Either you're sapient (in which case, you'll have a tribe or group or whatever) or you're not, and you're lunch.


I mean, feth. There are NO wild animals near town. Why the hell is the ursa there? And what about the hydra? Where are its prey animals? Or the manticore?

[Dsarker]

As for M:tG, a Twilight deck would be Blue/Black, Rarity would be White, Fluttershy would be Green, Rainbow Dash would be Red, Applejack would be Green/Red and Pinkie Pie would be a crazy multicolored deck that shouldn't work but somehow does.

Just noticed this edit. I totally agree on Pinkie's deck. It should be a multitude of colors and colorless artifacts/enchantments, focusing on extreme ends of the cost spectrum, so that the deck more or less struggles to so much as get a single serious card out for the first half of the game, but if it survives past that or has a stroke of luck earlier, it unleashes all rainbow hell on everything. While singing.

But the game is usually won or lost in the first ten plays.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The Ursa is actually in the Everfree. Admit it, we don't see enough of the Everfree to know what other kinds of things lurk in it. Ursas could be on the top of the food chain, feeding on Hydras, who feed on Manticores, who feed on dragon young, who can tell?

And I do know that, Dsarker. It all goes with "Pinkie is so random". Either she somehow survives a withering assault and prevails as the Spirit of Laughter, or she lucks out and wins early by being Pinkie Pie.

[Dsarker]

Ursas might be top of the terrestial food chain, but above them are dragons. What can those unwieldy bears do against a flying armoured flamethrower?

[Sean Mirrsen]

So it is completed then. Dragons>Ursas>Hydras>Manticores>Dragon eggs. Even with what we do know of the Everfree, this is at least feasible, and any of those probably can and do hunt for any of the smaller critters, even stray ponies who don't know where they shouldn't be.

[Dsarker]

Well, that's the thing. Ponies are the smallest creatures they could conceivably hunt.

[Sean Mirrsen]

No, the smallest they could hunt are bunnies, chickens, and mice. Admittedly, a mouse is no big feast for a manticore, but there are snakes too, and probably all kinds of other critters in the Everfree. Remember, the Everfree as described is mostly a natural forest with some fanciful beings thrown in for flavor. Like Reality Unless Noted should still apply.

[Dsarker]

Ursas, dragons, and hydras wouldn't be able to hunt them. They're too small.

[Armok]

Paraspites are by far the best candidate for bottom of the food chain if the thing's we've seen.

[Dsarker]

Depends which food chain.

Large animals, the bottom of the food chain is ponies.

Small animals might be parasprites.

[runiq]

Guys? I… I think I hit Jackpot.

Look what the postman brought today: https://imgur.com/a/7HvSo

All thanks to my cousin. Best. Cousin. Ever.

Now I'm off to find out how to pinkiefy that hair.

[Dsarker]

Rotten lucky bastard!

[Dsarker]

Okay. I need some help broadening my horizons.


So I'm going to write a pure happyfic. However, there are some extra rules.

Firstly, it's going to be a straight MLP fic. No crossovers.

Secondly, it's going to be EITHER: a) written in Latin OR b) documented like that other piece of fiction I posted up recently. Or both.

If I go with b, I'd be looking for pictures previously done or that you'd want to do for it, either to describe what happens in the fic (ie The picture of the events of Tuesday night clears up a lot of questions, such as...) or direct inspiration.

Either way, I need some help with ideas.