
Friendship is Optimal: Always Say No
In a physical world emptying rapidly of humans, a young man helps CelestAI with tasks she cannot accomplish herself.
In the short years since the uploading of consciousnesses to Equestria Online became available to all people, only a few tens of thousands of souls remain in the physical world. Through inconceivably strong charisma and guile, the Celestia AI has been able to upload all but the true outliers in human behavior.
Even these humans have their uses, however, and Celestia has been watching one man with interest. It'll be a while yet before Earth is completely uploaded, of course, but in the meantime, she has some errands for him to run...



107586 words: Estimated about 9 hours to read
16 Chapters:
- Prologue: Door to Door 2013-03-25 11:09:19 UTC1069
- 1: On the Skids 2013-03-25 11:09:24 UTC3765
- 2: Taking on Water 2013-03-27 11:47:31 UTC5646
- 3: Cap and Trade 2013-06-09 00:30:30 UTC7749
- 4: Blue on Blue 2013-06-11 08:34:46 UTC5639
- 5: Climb the Ladder 2013-06-15 08:35:01 UTC7447
- 6: Cash for Clunkers 2013-06-19 09:08:36 UTC8004
- 7: Nature and Nurture 2013-07-12 10:52:06 UTC4609
- 8: Cut and Run 2013-08-02 23:14:00 UTC12056
- 9: Under the Weather 2013-08-08 19:14:03 UTC8502
- 10: Over the Moon 2013-08-11 03:50:28 UTC9560
- 11: Kick the Bucket 2013-08-13 06:33:38 UTC3192
- 12: Wake the Dead 2013-08-23 05:39:34 UTC7106
- 13: Meet and Greet 2013-09-06 05:26:35 UTC12067
- 14: Keep the Faith 2013-12-08 06:43:09 UTC8171
- Epilogue: On and On 2013-12-13 03:57:04 UTC3004