02 Apple Fritters | Stage 4? | Backdated to 2 or 3 days after the event started

[downtoearthpony]

[With all the supposed fear and panic that the town has tried to recently instill on the residents, such matters actually don't affect a new arrival. Especially one who doesn't watch TV or recieve mail yet. Which is why you'll find someone trotting down the street.

Yes, trotting.

Applejack has decided that if she's stuck here, she might as well be neighborly and introduce herself. So she borrowed her house's kitchen and supplies to make a couple of homemade apple pies. Using years of practice, she keeps them balanced on her back as she moves from house to house, knocking on each door and calling out:]

"Hello? Anypony in there? It's your new neighbor Applejack being friendly and bringing some pie for ya!"

[And no, unless you're a drone who treats her like a dog, or keep her from seeing you in there, she is not leaving until you do answer. Though once answered, she will offer you a nice slice of some delicious smelling apple pie! She'll introduce herself as well, offer to help out if you need it because you're neighbors after all, and she'll also pepper you with questions about the town as she tries to find out more information about Mayfield. She's not being subtle about the questions, but not forceful either, she is genuinely trying to get information in a way she knows how and being sincere in her offers of help and pie.]

((OOC: Applejack is literally going door to door to offer slices of pie and get some answers, as such she's pretty much breathing in massive truth gas. But this is Applejack, who's pretty honest to begin with so it really won't affect her unless she hits Stage 5. So folks who want to respond can just sit back and chat with AJ or try and figure out how to get an orange talking pony off their front porch.))

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[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

[Applejack is pulling another pie out of the oven, there's a pot holder in her mouth as she uses it to daintily set the latest pie on the counter. She sets the holder down afterwards to talk to Theo.]

'Cause Ah'm going to visit the neighbors and say hello. You might not like being neighborly but Granny Smith didn't raise this filly to be rude. You're welcome to come along if you'd like, though, who knows, you might make some friends.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[Oh you are just

God he doesn't even know

Where does Mayfield find you people. Ponies. Whatever.]

Yeah, I think I'll pass. I just didn't know ponies baked pies.

[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

[Applejack sets one of the bowls she's down with in the sink before looking over the pies she's made.]

Suit yourself, but Ah don't know why you'd think that. Ah mean, how else we'd get pies for dessert if we didn't bake 'em?

Oh, there's one for you and them 'drones' too. Just because they think Ah'm a dog is no reason to hold it against them.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Where I'm from, ponies just kinda... eat grass or hay. Not bake. Or talk.

Hnn. I wonder what the drones think of the dog baking.

[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

[She reaches over and turns on the sink before grabbing a nearby washcloth with her teeth and tossing it onto a free hoof, which she then uses to clean out the bowl.]

Sounds a mite boring, no offence to your ponies. But Ah mean how do they get anything done if that's all they do?

And it doesn't matter too much what they think as long as they try the pie. Ah made it for them to enjoy, after all.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

I dunno, they're ponies. They... pull carts or kids ride them at fairs. Little different where I'm from, in that they don't really have independent thought and all.

[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

[Applejack continues cleaning up the cooking materials but looks back at Theo a little surprised.]

Really? That sounds a little strange compared to where Ah from. Most animals are pretty intelligent even if they can't talk in Equestria.

There a chance folks where you're from just not really notice them being smart?

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

...It doesn't work like that. It's just how they are. Obviously we come from pretty different places.

[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

[Applejack gives a slight shrug with the shoulders of her forelegs as she puts the cooking implements away using a step stool in some cases.]

If'n you say so. Ah was just curious and wondering is all.

[She walks back over to the pies and picks up a knife she set aside in her mouth to cut them into equal slices before setting the knife back down.]

Sure you don't want to come visit some houses with me? You'd get to share in more pie that why, you know.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

I'll pass. I don't have anything to say to these people.

[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

Well, honestly, neither do Ah other than asking about this town or if they have some ideas how to get out. But that's really what the pies are for, folks enjoy talking over a meal more than just a sudden interrogation, after all.

Plus it's just simple hospitality to bring a gift or food when you go and introduce yourself to the neighbors.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

You probably won't learn much of anything, but I guess you're free to do whatever you want.

[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

Maybe not right away, but it seems time is something we all have a lot of here, isn't it? Ah'm sure if Ah ask enough different people, Ah'll find some sort of clue to help us out.

And at the same time, Ah'll be meeting new folks and making new friends, which is always a good thing.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

[Flatly:] Yeah. Well. Tell me how it goes.

[downtoearthpony.livejournal.com]

[Applejack merely gets everything ready before giving him a look.]

You know, one of these days you should really try meeting your neighbors. With that kinda attitude, it seems like you would need to be threaten with death before going next door.