BUT WHERE ARE THEY [Open]

[unrecovered]

Who: Anyone who wants to look for keyholes
What: Time to split up and find the mysterious migrating keyholes.
Where: Every World
When: Half an hour after this post
Warnings: Depends on who shows up and what goes down.

[We're gonna skip the meeting; for now, each world has its own subthread. The mods will keep an eye on them and let you know if you find the keyhole and/or drop hints as to its location. No tagging order.]

[A note: Wash will probably have recommended that people stick to searching the worlds they know best. Feel free to utterly disregard his advice.]

Comments

[letteropener]

If Celestia noticed the clumsiness, she made no comment at all about it.

"I see no signs of the Keyhole or any tampering, magical or mundane." Celestia shook her head. Well, she hadn't expected it to be that easy, but there had always been hope.

"If we had access to further in, I would say the old castle would be the next logical step. But lacking that, I am inclined to say we should return to Ponyville and check the buildings of note there, starting with the library."

[fatemeter]

Damn. That meant her initial hunch had been mistaken. "No signs of tampering either... I see," said Naoto, careful not to sound as put out as she felt. The less she gave away, the better. "I do recall being pointed toward the library during an earlier investigation. It was linked to the so-called Elements of Harmony in its original location, yes?"

She hovered just above the ground for a pensive second, reluctant to land.

"Under more normal circumstances," she said eventually, "I might suggest splitting up and reporting back here in order to cover more ground, but that seems unwise before we know the nature of our foe." In any case, she wouldn't get away with it - thank goodness she had such trustworthy friends. "Shall we?"

[realmenknitplushies]

Ah, well. No getting through to some people. Kanji smiled back.

The library, though? "Yeah, that'd make sense. We're wastin' time hanging around here, then - let's go." He started to move off, but keeping an eye on the flyers as he did so. Dammit, they'd better not leave him down here!

[letteropener]

No need to worry; Celestia set off at a walk, mindful that her companions seemed more comfortable on the ground and in the air. "I was the one who thought the library would be a place worth checking. It is the home of my dear student Twilight Sparkle, and thus has been the resting place of the Elements of Harmony for some time."

[fatemeter]

"It was in your reality, you mean," Naoto pointed out, not trying to be pedantic. If she was still a little annoyed that poking around the library last time had led to her missing the biggest lead of all, she wasn't conscious of it.

For now, she more or less kept pace with Kanji, fluttering a little ways overhead and doing her best not to think too hard about it. The latter was easier said than done.

"May I ask how you determined the absence of tampering?" she added.