The Adventures of Emanon Reynawhe Season 1

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I - Minor Experimentation

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       Emanon, when he was still called Miles, loved computers. They could do so many amazing things, including, of course, games. As a pony, he found it quite difficult to operate a computer. Sure, he could press buttons and move things with telekinesis, but the agility that he had with his hands was gone. There had to be another way.

       And now that he has more free time on weekends, he was determined to find that method. Visits to Equestria had been fewer, and the novelty had worn off. Unless there was big news, he could just send his mail to Celestia through the portal.

       Now, he finally thought of Earth as home again. Those years took from him more than he thought.

       He started his computer, monitoring the complex electrical signals running down the wires. Pretty, but way too complicated for him to decipher. He decided running the whole computer was way too complex. He needed to isolate signals from objects like the mouse and keyboard.

       Once he logged on the tedious way, he began experimenting. He opened Notepad, and started simple. He pressed the letter Q. A certain signal ran down the USB cable. He recreated the small electrical charges. Another Q appeared. Success!

       He repeated this for all keys on the keyboard, learning the codes for both capital and lowercase letters.

       He began to practice typing. A bit awkward at first, and he kept forgetting letters, but eventually, he began to type relatively competently.

       The mouse, although there was less to memorize, was a lot harder. It was easier just to move it. The keyboard was the main problem anyway. He abandoned it.

         Now that he had conquered that, he was bored. The perfect time to get bad ideas.

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II - Virtual Reality

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       He thought about how My Little Pony was a show in his world, but also real in another universe. Was it possible that that applied to games as well? How would that even work?

       He loved a game called Robocraft. It was a block-based capture-the-flag type game. (It's free, you should check it out) If he could somehow play in first-person...

       How would he even travel there, anyway? How would he know what universe it was? Well, he would find out. Eventually. He would just have to keep searching until he found it.

       He spent several weeks searching in his spare time. It was great practice for his magic; he hadn't had a workout like this in a year. But other than that, it was almost useless. There were some interesting universes, and he bookmarked those by placing markers, but after three weeks, he gave up. There was no way he would find a specific universe, the odds were too small.

       He did learn something important; alternate universes were connected to each other. Universes that were created by "fiction" on Earth were connected to this universe. That is why is was so relatively "easy" for Emanon to return. When he was in other universes, he had access to a different set, plus the one he came from. "Fiction" that was well-known had a stronger connection; it was easier to travel. But there was no "parent" world. Some universes had tales of Earth. But it was clear: no video games.

       At least he got some practice from it.