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Agent 3_13 reporting:

[Day 4 of investigation: Ensuing the discovery of the Splendid Conspiracy (Also of writing, 4 conspirators, 6 suspects), this agent was given directive to proceed to the last known location of Splendid's "expedition crew" (Ponyville proper) and gather clues as to current location. After arriving in the small town, this agent was then assaulted by one of the then unknown elements of harmony. The pink mare's speech was near unintelligible, she was talking so rapidly. In her haste, she had mentioned something along the lines of "first I got to throw a party for a bunch of doctors and wizards at the Inn and now one for a super secret spy!"(This agent is pending a mole check be done within the agency), She then carried out the most chaotic exit this agent had ever seen, meanwhile declaring she needed to go ask for a few "party flavors." Never in this agent life, has it ever had to work so hard for one singular clue.]

[When entering the local Inn, this agent had asked to see Miss Minds Fire's room under the pretense of her being it's missing sister. The keeper explained that she had been there around two weeks ago, and that the keeper doubted there would be anything left. Nevertheless she offered this agent approval to search. This agent was able to probe her room under supervision and interrogate the Innkeeper, all valuable information is shown below.]

Item 14:
Dear, Minds Fire
Excellent! Write to me when you arrive at the structure. Take your time on the path now, I wouldn't want anything to go wrong on your quest. Fire, do you think me a liar? Of course, I've cleaned up that entire desk-fire my literary resources managed to cook up. You needn't worry of these petty things; you should worry about a cyst in the aether triangulated somewhere near a monolith in the middle of the Everfree forest we're paying you to investigate.
Don't mention it, Splendid Skies

Interrogation 5: Innkeeper, "I wasn't going to tell you this cause you're from out of town, but seeing what's on that note, I can't hold my tongue no more. [edit: Mister/Miss end edit], you can not go into that forest looking for her. I assume you've heard some of the infamous legends of the Everfree. I tried to tell your sister not to go, and it's only gotten worse since then. On a normal day in that cursed wood, the weather is uncontrollable, animals fend for themselves, and monsters crawl all about. Now, ever sense that second bunch of loonies when in going after whatever gots a shin in their eyes, things have only gotten more chaotic. At night there's been uh whole bunch of bangs and shouts like someponys been shooting fireworks off in the middle of the woods. Groups of small kidders running out of the forest like something scared them half-to-death. Finally, there've been big pillars of smoke that no pegasus can fly up and tell you where it's coming from; but maybe that's just them wizards making it hard to look for their camp so none of the monsters get em, actually really smart. Regardless, it's too dangerous, maybe you should ask the guard if they can help you find her.

[The knowledge the Ponyville Inn provided was helpful, but lacked precise coordinates on the "monolith." This agent then went to Ponyville town hall to attempt to organize a search party with the Mayor and the local Guard Captain; before discovering that the Mayor had placed a community order to stay out of the Everfree alongside a curfew. The Mayor refused to send anypony into the woods. This agent then revealed it was on royal business. Suddenly, all opposition halted. The Captain had "generously" provided two whole fliers for search and the Mayor offered a few volunteers as compensation. Two of the volunteers apparently had family that went missing after they had signed up as assistants for extra bits. Both volunteer's interrogations are below.]

Interrogation 6: Berry Shine, "Yeah, Ace said he always wanted more adventure in his life. So when a whole bunch of wacky scientists came trotting through Ponyville, I'm not surprised he asked to sign up as an assistant. I am surprised that Ace went into the Everfree forest of all bucking places to go running off on some great adventure. Now, there's who knows what running around in there with my brother probably lost and terrified. One of my buddies at the bar told me she had come home from a drink the other night and saw something tall peeking at her from the tree line. She said she was drunk off her haunches at the time, but I can't help but feel that somethings gone wrong. I... I can't think like that, everything is going to be fine.

Interrogation 7: Silver Tongue, "Why would you what to know about that? I guess it wouldn't hurt. Clever Sketch had a bit of trouble with some of his works, said he "lacked inspiration", he's an artist you see. One day, we were having lunch at Sugarcube Corner and he told me he found something that would fix his problem. He had met some athereologist named Wisdom Seeker who was preparing to leave on some expedition with her team. Seeker had told him what they expected to find and it got him hooked. Sketch told me they were looking for an ancient pre-sisters temple because of acclaimed magic potential, or something, I'm a little embarrassed to say I didn't really understand what he was talking about. They were looking for workers and assistants to help setup equipment and general labor. Sketch offered to draw whatever they found to add to they're reports. After that, he was onboard the next day. I can't say I anticipated him to take this long though, it's been two weeks."[Intermission], "Not you too. Look, I haven't seen anything of this-sort. No monsters, aliens, demons, or wisps looking for a tea party. Everypony just needs to stop spreading rumors and fear, before somepony does something ignorant. Mayor Mare has already set up a curfew, I wonder what's next.

[A few hours of prep and organizing later and we were off. This agent had requisitioned 2 royal guard pegasi, 4 civilian pegasi, 3 earth ponies, and 2 unicorns. We were one or two ponies under but we'd work it out. By the time we had entered the forest, the Elements were summoned by her royal highness to send them off on their pointless mission. Stars know if they could have made a difference.]

Author's Note

Sorry about that slip up with my chapter: escalation. I'm still a little new with the writers interface and I didn't mean to publish a plank piece of paper. You'd think that wouldn't have gotten past the bots, oh well, please do report he for it. My experience with the community of these types of websites weren't the best. By the by, I'm still in college. For the love of anything holly, DO NOT EXPECT CONSISTENCY!