Argue La Roux

by Vanil on August 17, 2024

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Sign flip. "OPEN"

Amidst all the hustle and bustle of the smorgasbord of other stalls offering its various...interesting services, stood what appears to be a hastily modified lemonade stand. Etched and painted over its prior name, "Argue La Roux". Seems odd, but innocent enough, until one sees the Manehattan city night background that was *not taken from Conan O'Brien's late night set when his show ended. Microphones, lights, camera! All of questionable functionality.

Here you shall present a topic of discussion and the host, of whose name seem to change on a dime, will debate it with you.

*added for legal purposes

#CanterlotCarnival

Post in: Lore, Misc.

Topics: debate, canterlotcarnival, stand

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Cotton-Tail

//Actually might join in. "Ok Heres a Topic, Princess sunbutt being a queen yet... SHE BARELY DOES ANYTHING!. Or if that's too spicy...Is a Bamboodog a Haywich ?"

Like 1 August 17, 2024

Cotton-Tail

//Forgot bout this. :C "But then is once of those Quesadilla thingys a Sandwich then ?"

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Vanil

"If it is 'sandwiched' between two separate pieces of tortilla, yes. If it is a single piece, folded onto the filling, no it is not"

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Cotton-Tail

"Who uses one Tortilla!?"

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Tality

Tality gives this some honest thought. A topic to debate. Hm. She slaps a solid gold ingot on the table, two kilograms. Holy. "Keep the change. You'll probably deserve it. A topic, huh?" She thinks to herself. "Well, sometimes I want to take over Equestria and rule it with an iron hoof, make everyp... View More

Like 2 August 18, 2024

Tality

((Oh my god, it was just a metaphor! But it's hard to tell with this mare, yeah? Wait, actually, hold on, I think I was cool with it no matter which way you took it. Yeah, yeah, now that I think about it, I did notice the ambiguity and just decided to see how you ran with it! Yeah, I look for that s... View More((Oh my god, it was just a metaphor! But it's hard to tell with this mare, yeah? Wait, actually, hold on, I think I was cool with it no matter which way you took it. Yeah, yeah, now that I think about it, I did notice the ambiguity and just decided to see how you ran with it! Yeah, I look for that stuff before I submit. Every time. I always reread everything I write at least once.)) Tality nods, expecting that would be about as much as most ponies retain. It takes repetition for words to sink in, "Admittedly," she admits, "the source of magic thing is," then thinks better of it, "you know on second thought ... never mind. Go on." She listens to her advice and ruminates on that. "Moving forward, yeah. That's what I'm doin'. Always movin' forward. I actually don't know how to stop. You realized I have built a self-expanding planetary defense logistics network because I was paranoid about my daughter's safety from alien invasion? Personally, I think staying right where I am for a while is a fine thing to do every once in a while, too. 'Cept I can't seem to do it as long as I want to." Tality took the eyedrops and sunglasses, confused, but decided to use them. She first use the eye drops, but got confused when she didn't feel anything. "Huh? Is there anything in this? ... Well that's weird." She then put on the sunglasses, which, viewed through the sunglasses, made her eyes reappear. After about 13 seconds, the glasses were suddenly sucked into the voids in her eyes. At which point she blinked and said, quote, "Oh. That." Her non-eyes darted around a bit as she tried to recall how this particular problem was solved, her brow advertising where she was looking for her in the absence of pupils. Suddenly, she remembered, and then said, "Oh right, when that happens, it means Zalgo's about to invade the universe somewhere. Hold on one second." She taps a device hidden in her mane and an electronic chirp answers. "Mezli, Take care of the Outsider Invasion, would you please?" A cute little dragon/gargoyle thing appeared in front of Tality with a poof and said, "In a flash, Miss Tality!" Tality stared for a moment and then flatly said, "You're ... supposed to look like a hologram ... because that's what you are, a hologram." Mezli looked frustrated and a bit flustured, "we-well, I just ... didn't have to! And after the way that cat-dragon-thing attacked me and then committed hari-kari with the bottle of dragon-drunk-enating that I made for ya ... I didn't want that to happen again, ya know? Besides, what's the point of having projectors so good nobody can tell they're not real magic if you can't use 'em at full fidelity." Tality sighs, exasperated but pleased, "Well all right then, Mezli, you do you, cute thing. Maaaan I'm so glad you're online now. Dealing with Illune all the time was such a PAIN. Ya know?" Mezli smiles and then scolds Tality, "Awww! Shucks, mom. But also, that might be because, you know ... she wanted to die for a thousand years before she met you and then you turned her into your personal computer and kept her alive for another three-hundred and eighty-six billion years! Ya ain't gonna do that to me, are ya?" Tality growled back, "I can't do anything about that! She's literally a part of me! If she gets destroyed, she regenerates with the rest of me! What am I supposed to do!" Mezli harrumphs, "Well obviously you make a clone and kill y--" she trails off, then reconsiders. "Ohh ... right that wouldn't work for you." Tality stares in shock, then anger, "Mezli. You can't just drop a suicide joke like that. It's poor taste." Mezli blows a raspberry, "Fuck you, mom!" And then vanishes in a poof. Tality smiles warmly, smile that keeps growing over the next fifteen seconds before she sighs happily and remarks, "Always a pleasure to talk to her. I don't know why, but that cyclical personality thing really just tickles the adorable checkbox for me." Tality's eyes then return to normal suddenly. No like magical transformation or anything. Just one second they're black pits to the antithesis of existence, then the next moment they're completely ordinary. Mezli reappears in a poof. "All done, Mom! Now let's go F*@$ a gator!" She pumps her arms for emphasis. Tality laughs and says, "After you eat your dinner, honey." Mezli is then forces to ask, "Ohhhh? So what's for dinner, momma?" Tality grins, "Your butt, now get outta here, I'm in the middle of something." Mezli giggles before spinning magically and saying, "k bye now!" Tality sighs, pauses a few seconds and remarks, "Okay, I think I'm done with that personality setting for now. Mezli, cut that out." A beep comes from Tality's mane, where the device is apparently hidden. Tality nodded, "Okay. So. Right. Taking over the world. Well see, it all starts really simply. I get pissed out, then I try to fix what pissed me off, end up having to fix everything else I run into, and then before I even fix that first problem, suddenly I'm in charge of everything. I have become mayor before without realizing I've done it. I'm serious! There's an election and everything, and I campaign, and then suddenly it's like I wake up one day and I'm like, 'hold on, wait. Didn't i just go to the store for bread? Oh shit, Rob and the kids must be so worried."

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Like 1 August 31, 2024 Edited

Vanil

//I'm gonna keep it real with you. That post is a little overwhelming, if not confusing. Vanil slumped into her seat, bottle of whiskey on hoof, ready to uncork and end the day as if it were a dream. She was as lost as a guest in an Eric Andre 'interview', and she was supposed to be the host! As mo... View More

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Tality

((Haha! Yeah, that's kinda the point actually. *irl cringe and grimace* But yeah, I probably crossed a few lines there that I shouldn't have. Tality is insane, however, and she doesn't think anyone can actually help her, so she doesn't put in the effort to make herself comprehensible. She just dunks... View More

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