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[wittybanter]

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[ Danny is flying around looking down at the letter that he had received just a few moments ago. Okay so... by some work of some powerful sorceress he's been brought here to be in this military school as a cadet? It sounds sort of like one of those dreams that are really actually nightmares. Except you can't wake up from it. And the things about powers. Okay, maybe he should be flying around--

CRASH.

Okay where did this tree come from.

He collides right into the tree, falls down a few branches, and eventually hits the ground. On his face. Okay. If he wasn't half-ghost that could have reaaally hurt. Moreso than it did. ]

[ BBS ]

Can anyone here explain this place? At all?

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[wittybanter]

Ponies are a type of animal on my world. And... wait? Humans don't exists at all where you're from?

[elementofloyalty]

Nope. Never seen anything like any of you guys before till I came here.

[wittybanter]

Soo... what did you think of us when you first got here?

[elementofloyalty]

[She gives him a wry look.]

Not so great, considering most people kept running or hiding or shooting at me. Kinda gets a pony angry.

[wittybanter]

[ He rubs the back of his head ]

Y-yeah. I completely understand. There are some humans that hunt ghosts as well as some ghosts that hunt other ghosts.

[elementofloyalty]

Aren't you a ghost that hunts other ghosts?

[wittybanter]

[ Danny rubs the back of his head ]

Not exactly. I'm a ghost that finds other ghosts that fled from the Ghost Zone and are causing trouble. I go and put them back into the Ghost Zone where they belong.

[elementofloyalty]

But that's not hunting them?

[You're confusing her on the fine distinctions, in large part because 'hunting' is just a little different in meaning to a herbivorous creature.]

[wittybanter]

No. Hunting them would be putting them in a cage or mounting them on a wall.

[ Much like what Skulker wants to do with him. ]

[elementofloyalty]

...but couldn't they just go through the bars of the cage, or pull themselves off the wall?

[Rainbow, are you really going to nitpick everything about ghosts?]

[wittybanter]

[ THAT'S OKAY because he actually knows the answers to these questions! ]

Not if the cage is designed by a ghost, or is made out of special energy that ghosts can't phase through. Also, in the ghost zone ghosts are like human. But on the other hand, the humans are the ghosts in the Ghost Zone.

[elementofloyalty]

How would a human even get to where ghosts go without...

You know. [She draws a hoof across her throat with a dramatic noise.]

[wittybanter]

There are portals that ghost can use in order to come to the human world, and vice versa.

[ Yeah Danny wouldn't want to go through. It already sort of did if you think about it. ]

[elementofloyalty]

I never knew ghosts were so complicated. This spoils a lot of late-night stories...

[wittybanter]

Heh. Yeah. But it if helps, some of the ghost were actually humans. Like uhh... this ghost named Desiree!

[elementofloyalty]

Wait. Were they humans who became ghosts, or ghosts who are also human?

[wittybanter]

They were humans who became ghosts. Though. Uh. There are ghost who are also human too.

[ In fact you're talking to one. ]

[elementofloyalty]

But... don't you have to, you know.

[She draws a hoof across her throat.]

To be a ghost?

[wittybanter]

[ Danny rubs the back of his head ]

Uhh... Yeah. For humans that turn into ghosts. I think they have to have some sort of resentment when they die to turn into one. But some ghosts are actually born from other ghosts.

[ Like Boxed Lunch. Ew. ]

[elementofloyalty]

[Boxed Lunch is this close to a pony name, y'know.]

But how do you get to be both at once?

[wittybanter]

[ that would be an interesting pony ]

Uh well.. [ rubbing back of head. what do. ] There are several ways.

[elementofloyalty]

...Several? Wow. What are they?

[GO ON. TELL HER.]

[wittybanter]

[ WELL. UH. ]

M-Most... of them happen from accidents. I heard one guy because half-ghost because he was infected with some disease.

[ aka his arch-rival ]

[elementofloyalty]

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

[She drops down to put her hooves on both his shoulders and pull him in closer with every word.]

There's a disease. That turns people. Into half-ghosts.

[wittybanter]

[ WOAH THERE. Little close for comfort. ]

Yes. Well.... sort of. Not really. He got into an accident and it causes the disease! So uh, it wasn't contagious or anything. [ Leaaast... he doesn't think it could be contagious. Maybe if he touched someone? Ew.. ]