Twilight was now organizing her library, how had her other self managed only to mess up select sections of the library while making the rest even more organized? How that was even possible was beyond her, especially since the one responsible was supposed to be another her. “Well, better get started,” said Twilight with a hint of annoyance.

Almost two hours later, Twilight had her library back to its neat and orderly state, and soon after finishing was going through the stacks get every book she could on the relation between magic and transdimensional theory. “Hey Twi,” said Spike as he entered the library, “lunch will be ready in a half-hour or so, need me to handle anything while you work things out here?”

“Oh, Spike, thanks for the reminder, I need you to get in contact with Starswirl and set up a meeting with him, tell him it has to do with proper testing of some of his spells.”

“What should I tell him if he asks why you are setting up this meeting?”

“Because testing of his ‘clairvoyance’ spell in a magically shielded area is what led to that whole debacle with Pinkie and me from an alternate reality inhabiting our bodies for an extended period of time.”

“Oh, that will definitely get his attention. When I’m done with that, I’ll take care of the rest of my errands.” With that, Spike left the room.

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Meanwhile, at Rarity’s place, Rarity was giving a very fussy Rainbow a measuring session.

Rainbow was fidgeting as Rarity measured her out, much to Rarity’s chagrin. “This would go faster if you just stayed still, if you hadn’t spent so much time fidgeting you would have been out of here by now,” said Rarity with a huff of annoyance.

“I still don’t see why we need to dress up for a game like Ogres and Oubliettes,” said Rainbow as she stopped moving about in her birthday suit for the seventeenth time that session, but only for a small handful of seconds.

“I thought it would help get us into character; Spike said everyone has their own way of playing and I thought it would be nice try dressing up as our characters to help get into their headspace.”

“But won’t Discord’s magic take care that for us? Last I checked he’s kind of obsessed with that game and will take any excuse to play it,” said Rainbow as she started to fidget again.

“While normally that would be true,” said Rarity with a tone and look that actually managed to make Rainbow freeze for the remainder of the session, 5 minutes, with a look of shocked fear, she had forgotten Rarity could be scary like that at times. “Sugar Belle will actually be running the game, and it’s just for us girls this time around, the boys will be doing an entirely separate game, and the two campaigns will meet up after a few sessions. She took to memorizing the source material quite well.”

“I almost forgot she and Mac got married last month,” said Rainbow, “even though we were all there. Remind me, will Twilight be there?”

“Yes, and this will only be her third campaign, as opposed to being your eighth and my fifth.”

“Yeah, but she’s probably spent more time memorizing the source material, player notes, and campaign notes. In other words, classic Twi. Didn’t we put in a special rule for her this time around?”

“No, that’s what we’ll be doing to her with the campaign after this coming one. She’s just cycling through the spellcasting classes at this point; Twilight’s already been a Wizard, Sorcerer, and Warlock, she’s going to be a Cleric this time around, she wants to see how different arcane and divine spellcasters work.”

“She’s probably going to start writing a paper on it after the third or fourth session. Want to start a betting pool for how long it takes her to start writing the academic report? The winner gets to decide what class Twilight’s next character is going to be.”

“While I usually don’t condone such things,” said Rarity with a thoughtful look as she wrapped up her measuring of Rainbow, “I think that in this case, it could be a fun group activity, I’ll see to Spike getting out word to the rest of the group at the proper moment.”

“So, how long will it be before I get my outfit for the game?”

“If nothing pressing or important comes up,” said Rarity tapping her chin in thought, “more than enough time for the game and you to add input for any extra flourishes you might have, just remember to be much more specific with what you say, I’ll tell you if you are being too vague, again.”

“Okay, thanks, Rares,” after making sure her clothes were all on Rainbow made her way out of the boutique.

Rarity lit up her magic and brought over her memo pad. “Pinkie: Bard, again, we probably should give her the same rule as we do for Twilight at the next opportunity; Rainbow: Rogue, Scout variant; Twilight: Cleric, Arcana domain; Starlight: Wizard, Divination specialization; Ember: Paladin, Dragon Oath (custom variant made with Spike’s help); Rarity: Warlock, Fey pact; Fluttershy: Druid (first time as, 6th campaign), Forest variant, Applejack: Monk, has yet to share what variant (still deciding?), Sugar Bell: Gamemaster, 9th time in position and has warned in advance there are quite a few house rules; might be Ocellus’s first campaign, still waiting to hear back from her” after reading over the note Rarity returned the note back to where she had placed it. Things were much quieter around her place, and the town in general, since Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo had left town to pursue the beginnings of their careers in a more active manner. Sweetie had gone to learn from veteran musicians, starting with Rara and Sapphire Shores. As for Scootaloo, Rarity really hadn’t been keeping up with that sort of thing, maybe Rainbow kept atop of things like that, considering how close the two tended to be over the years.

Six years, that’s how long it had been since Twilight first arrived in Ponyville, quite a few things had changed since then. The mayor slowly being fazed out due to Twilight being the resident princess was just the most recent of significant changes, the former mayor still served as a political aid, mostly because she had more experience with politics than Twilight, Rarity, and the rest of their little group.

Rarity got to work on the outfits for the characters everyone would be playing, remembering to send a request to Applejack as to what sort of Monk she would be playing as. She also remembered to make them have their form follow the function, while the game was for fun some of the players had said they might make the outfits part of their regular rotation once the game had reached its end.

Author's Note

And here we have the end for this story, and a bit of setup for the next

And there was also a poll I had going on to decide what the follow-up would be, the poll’s winner says the follow-up story will be a sexy (in all likelihood erotic) RPG world with Rainbow and Rarity as the main protagonists.