It's a candyland of flavors and displays. You cross a chocolate bridge, descend licorice stairs, past a lollypop column, a glass ceiling covered with peppermints, a river of bubblegum and licorice, and eventually reach the bottom where you find a dolled-up princess pony with coiffed blue and purple hair.

"Hello," she says.

"Hi," you say.

"Could you come over here and be my friend?" She pats a tuffet adjacent to her throne, a block of chocolate.

"Don't do it!" the narrator warns.

"Tee-hee-hee" the other voice laughs.

"Would you kindly be quiet?" the narrator asks the other voice.

"Nope!"

"What voice are you?" You ask, your eyes never leaving the princess' wide--ultra wide--almost grotesquely wide orbs. They're bigger than does' eyes. So cute.

"I'm the boss, dear," the voice says.

"But she's the boss..." you muse.

"Indeed we are."

"But you're in my head."

"Funny, isn't it?"

"Pardon?" The princess asks. "Were you speaking to me?"

"I apologize!" you blurt.

"Never apologize! Never surrender!" the narrator urges.

"I've been ever so lonely," the princess says. "No one wants to be my friend unless I doll myself up like this."

"Don't say that," you say.

"No, really," she pouts. "When I look ugly and horsey, no one wants to be with me. To be my friend. That must be why I was here in this prison. So, I have to take drastic actions."

"Like what?"

"Like making ponies be my friend."

"Oh,"

"Being a friend isn't enough. It's too passive. But making a friend--that's what I'm doing here--is something active--heroic. You're my friend, right?"

"Right," you say, breathless.

"Yes. I'm a friendmaker," she nods, bewitching you with her look... her magic. Her horn's glistening with magic. She's making you her friend.

That's fine though, you think.

"No it isn't," the narrator says.

"Boo-hoo-hoo," the boss mocks.

You lay your head in the Princess' lap.

"So wonderful," the Princess says. "The power of your friendship made my chains disappear." She kisses your forehead. "And now..."

The two of you teleport to the top of the stairs, and the door opens after merely a thought from you. Before leaving the prison, however, the princess concentrates, casts her magic and shatters the glass landing beneath her, over-saturates a river of candy to pop and fizz and explode, and melts chocolates with her heat.

"You don't like chocolate?" you ask.

"It was a gilded cage," she explains. She slams the door closed, the last chocolate bridge burning behind her.

You're in the cabin. There's one last door to pass.

"Be a friend dear, and open the door, please," she asks.

"Don't do it!" the narrator warns.

You open the door.

"I'm so glad," the princess steps forward. "You remind me so much of a little friend I once used to know," she feels your scales. "This little friend had a real obsession about a pony. He believed she was his best friend--she had to be his best friend--she would always be his best friend--his rarity of a friend. She liked his help, the gems he helped her gather, his company. She had him do all sorts of things for her."

"Tee-hee-hee."

"She made him her friend..." the princess' voice lost its saccharine property. "And just like her. Now... I can MAKE EVERYPONY MY FRIEND."

"Nothing can stop us!" The boss concurs.

"EVERYONE WILL BE MY FRIEND!"

You feel magic sting you.

"AND THEY'LL ALL BE PONIES. I'LL CHANGE THEM TO BE LIKE ME FOR ONCE."

"That's how we do it," the boss agrees. "Any lie is fine if it's to someone with infidelity! And everyone not us is an infidel."

"But I--But--"

"But you came downstairs with a dagger... the first time."

"You remember!"

"I remember everything."

"You fool!" the narrator shrieks.

"And now," the princess smiles. "I've shattered the glass ceiling. I've burned my bridges. I'm self-actualized. I'm going to fix everything. I AM FRIENDMAKER! HEAR ME ROAR!"

The princess steps outside.

And the world ends.

And... you're on a path in the woods... again... for a third time?

Author's Note

You reached an Act 2 Ending and information for it is below... but there is also an Act 3 ending... Travel down the path again here!

Ending Type B: Free the Princess.
Specific Ending: "The Simp"

Some key questions:
1. Why is the princess developing the way she is developing?
2. Why can't the princess leave the cabin... except when she can?
3. Why seemingly can't you stay dead?
4. What does the narrator really want? (Ending Ds give some insight into the narrator and its goals.)
5. Is there only one or are there multiple universes?

Act 2 Ending Types:
A. Slay the Princess
B. Free the Princess
C. Failure
D. Stasis