Chromatophage

I think I’m gonna be sick.

In fact, I’ve already thrown up three times.

so...I read through the Pegasus Device manual. It’s actually a very interesting piece of equipment. It was developed over 2000 years ago to help with Rainbow Production. Which makes the swirling rainbow fluid make sense now.

The process was surprisingly simple and straightforward. They would take the raw resources, throw them into the hopper at the top, and the machine would produce Spectra. I read the whole manual and there is so much technical information given, that I could build a Pegasus Device right now, if I wanted to. Full on schematics were provided along with all maintenance requirements for the machine. It was at the end that it finally revealed what the resources were that it needed:

Failures.

I didn’t believe it. It couldn’t have been talking about what I thought it was talking about. But then it was confirmed by the “List of Alternative Resources” which included:

Those wishing to sacrifice themselves
Ponies that were to be terminated
Enemies of Cloudsdale

Oh. And it also stipulated that any ponies could provide Spectra. It didn’t have to be just pegasi.

I would say that the worst part of this was the fact that the Pegasus Device manual was the newest document out of all of them, implying that all this other stuff had happened and they still wanted to know how to replicate it. But that’s not it.

The worst part was that, as soon as I figured out that Sprectra came from killing ponies, I realized I already drank over 75% of the Spectra in that damn jar. I threw the jar with what was left out the window into the crags where no pony goes. I’m done with this.

I’ve spent the past few hours alternating between vomiting and crying. Pipp came to check on me once, but I couldn’t face her. Not after what I’ve been doing the past week. I’m burning all of that documentation tomorrow.

I’m sorry, Cloud Crusher. I want to restore our magic, but the cost of this method is too high.